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Vic Michaelis on Their WILDEST Celebrity Encounter & Winning Worst Russian Accent on "Ponies"

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Vic Michaelis on Their WILDEST Celebrity Encounter & Winning Worst Russian Accent on "Ponies"", an episode of Lovett or Leave It published February 1, 2026 (26 min, about 5,211 words). It mentions 9 people, works and ideas, including Andy Richtor, Vic, Dropout, Angelina Diana, Elton John.

What this episode is about

Vic Michaelis shares a memorable story about a surprising connection between their families, revealing that Andy Richter's mother once redesigned Vic's father's kitchen, showcasing an unexpected intersection of their personal lives. The discussion highlights the light-hearted camaraderie between the two, alongside anecdotes about their experiences on "Ponies" and their celebrity encounters.

Key takeaways

  • Andy Richter's fridge pullouts: a kitchen revolution that turns buyer skepticism into selling gold.
  • The 'People's Princess' reigns on reality TV, proving fame can flourish beyond tragic narratives.
  • Fat kid programming lingers like a ghost, haunting confidence despite all personal growth and adjustment.
  • Serendipity strikes: kitchen design fates intertwine through podcasts and family connections, proving life's small twists matter.
  • In the world of beanie babies and Elton John, even a joke can carry the weight of legacy.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 5:00: Andy Richtor, Vic, Angelina Diana, Crocodile Rock
  2. – 10:00: Angelina Diana
  3. – 15:00: Vic, Helix, Stamps.com, Dropout
  4. – 20:00: Stamps.com, Built

Notable quotes from "Vic Michaelis on Their WILDEST Celebrity Encounter & Winning Worst Russian Accent on "Ponies""

  • Please, please put your hooves together for Vicas and Andy Richtor.
    about Vic · at
  • Now, did your time as People's Princess end better than it did for the last one?
    about Angelina Diana · at
  • Doing it I started to think about myself more in terms of my physical limitations and it turned out too that like I needed a hip replacement which I just got three weeks ago. and so I was messed up. Like I had all these issues with my left.
    about Andy Richtor · at
  • Winter when you want to just kind of be in bed and be comfortable. It's It's the best. Helix offers a variety of mattresses designed to fit your sleep needs. How will you know…
    about Helix · at
  • To leave your home or office. Why wouldn't you do it right now? You can try stamps.com risk-free for 60 days. Go to stamps.com and use code love it to get 60 days risk-free. 60…
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Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Andy Richtor — Person · Main guest · 4 mentions · first at
    Co-guest interviewed about his podcast, his 'People's Princess' internet nickname tied to Dancing with the Stars, and personal topics like body image and a recent hip replacement.
  • Vic — Person · Main guest · 4 mentions · first at
    Co-guest discussing appearing on Andy's podcast, his work as an interviewer/host on Dropout’s 'Very Important People,' and acting details (speaking Russian on a show).
  • Angelina Diana — Person · Referenced public figure (comparison point) · 2 mentions · first at
    Used as the cultural reference behind the 'People’s Princess' nickname; her death is invoked in a joke contrasting outcomes.
  • Elton John — Person · Referenced celebrity (joke premise) · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as a comedic exaggeration that he’s 'retooling Crocodile Rock' into a song for Andy, riffing on celebrity tribute culture.
    Elton John's writing a song. Well, he's retooling Crocodile Rock for me.

Books & papers

  • Crocodile Rock — Book · Referenced work · 1 mention · first at
    Referenced humorously as a song being retooled about Andy Richtor.
    Elton John's writing a song. Well, he's retooling Crocodile Rock for me.

Companies & orgs

  • Dropout — Company · Business focus · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as a streaming service that evolved from College Humor, hosting improv content.
    And then turned into this streaming service called Dropout. And so it's like to be able to get paid to do improv is incredible. It's a dream. I never would have even thought that was possible like 5 years ago.

Sponsors

  • Helix — Product · Sponsor · 1 mention · first at
    Promoted as a comfortable mattress option with a sleep quiz to match personal preferences.
  • Stamps.com — Product · Sponsor · 3 mentions · first at
    Presented as a solution for small business owners to save time and money on mailing and shipping.
  • Built — Product · Sponsor · 1 mention · first at
    Advertised as a loyalty program for renters that rewards points for rent payments.
    Built. It's 2026 and if you're still paying rent without Built, it's time for a change. Built is a loyalty program for renters that rewards you for your biggest monthly…

Full transcript with timestamps

Oh, say can you see by the dawn early I think we got to leave it there because I really want people to get to the next ad. Uh

what so proudly we h I I saw your monologue. You're an anti-American. Tonight, my guests tonight are one of the stars of Peacock's Ponies and a man who moves as beautifully as one on the dance floor.

Please, please put your hooves together for Vicas and Andy Richtor. Hi. Hi. Thanks for being here. Come on in. Hi to you both. Thanks for being here. Now, Andy and Vic, you were both on a podcast together this week. You were on Andy's podcast.

Yeah. Andy said he'd never talk to me again and then here we are. It was too pleasant.

Now that's This is Three Questions with Andy Richtor. I've been a guest of that podcast. Vic, your dad listened to the episode and realized that the woman who redid his kitchen years ago was

Andy's mother. My mother. So your mother redid your dad's kitchen. My dad text me at 4:00 in the morning and he just says Andy Richtor exclamation point. And I said, "Okay, I'll bite. Dads do that all the time.

He is in Florida, so it was a little bit more of a reasonable time. And then he's like, I think his mom did our kitchen unless there's another Andy Richtor on TV.

And there isn't. There sure isn't. I made sure of that. But um is is your mother an interior decorator or designer?

She was a she was a kitchen designer. Yeah, she's she's retired now. Um but yeah, she was a kitchen designer. She designed kitchens and and was very good at it and also kind of like did enough that she also was kind of a subcontractor and started to do bigger projects, but usually renovations and cabinetry, but like big big like, you know, 20 years ago jobs that were like $200,000 in cabinets, you know,

that's a lot of cabinets. It's Yeah, it was like there cuz it's a lot of fancy places in Chicago. Yeah.

For the big thing in the kitchen was my dad. I remember the only thing I remember from that time cuz it was 2003. And

how old were you then? One. Oh wow. I was a baby. I was so tiny. So tiny. But my skin looked exactly the same.

Same skin. Exactly like it. Perfect. Beautiful skin but smaller. Smaller you but same skin. Stretch. Maybe better now cuz stretch now.

Only 4 in smaller though. Huh? I just had the odd like you just be always being sort of this hype.

I love that. I'm such a fan, Andy. Thank you for letting me sit next to you. But it it there was these like

That's the coolest thing anyone's ever said to me. That's the coolest thing anyone's ever said to you.

Acid in that. Such a fan. So glad you let me. Thank you so much for letting me be next to you. When I was on the podcast, I was in another room.

Oh, you were in a different room during the podcast. He said you can call in. That's not true.

That is not true. one of those. You become one of those. Yes, there was a window he put up the blind and said, "I don't want to see you while we're doing this."

And that's right. I'm a germ freak. Yeah, I love him. Now, Andy, speaking of you,

we didn't finish it. Oh, it's fine. Nobody wants Nobody wants to hear about it.

Pull outs. My mother talked him into fridge pullouts. Did you get the fridge pull out?

Pull out fridges. What? My dad was so mad about it. He went, "We spent so much more money than I was planning on spending on these pullout fridges." And then when he went to sell the house, it was the selling point. It was all people were interested.

You made the money back. What? I'm sorry. Fridge. Yeah. Yeah. You pull it out. The whole shelf comes out so that there's no digging in the back. You pull out the whole

Wow. A shelf. Cold. Cold fridge. Shelf. Pull it out. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Andy. Yes. Speaking of

Speaking of, the internet dubbed you the people's princess. They did during your recent turn on Dancing with the Stars.

They did that. Thank you. Yeah, that was a surprise. Uh that's me. Um that's me in my Target lemon blouse that I wore once and my wife said, "Never wear that again."

Now, did your time as People's Princess end better than it did for the last one?

It did. It really did. It really did. I'm talking about Princess Diana dying in a horrible car wreck.

I was gonna say I never let Frenchmen drive me anywhere. Then they maybe would have

They're making a really expensive beanie baby of you though, aren't they? I hope so.

Oh, I see. There we go. Cut that. No, we can cut that. I can leave. I'll leave.

Elton John's writing a song. Well, he's retooling Crocodile Rock for me. Is that about Princess Diana? Crocodile Rock is about Princess Diana.

It's about me now though. Yeah. Well, it wasn't origin. It was originally Yeah. Now it's about Andy. It was Yeah. It sort of can be. It sort of adjusts.

Yeah. You know, so I want to ask you about this because one thing you've said is that you had to get over what you have described as fat kid programming to be on the show.

Yes. What is that? What? Uh, well, fat kid stuff is um just being a fat kid and uh getting like a sort of like a canker of shame that just becomes like a cyst in the center of your be of your person and you carry it around forever and you can become like a very welladjusted person and everything but it's always there and because like I I like it the pres like to me I was I felt like going on Dancing with the Stars would be similar to like doing the president's physical fitness test which we used to have to do

and it was like like I could not do a pull-up. I could not and and then and then there was some sort of I don't know how much of a run it was like a long to me it seemed like forever.

There were pull-ups on the test for you pull-ups. Yeah, they cut them. Well, they the test went everything

test the test went woke. Yeah. Um, but there was some kind of longer run and there was I was, you know, I wasn't even like the fat kid in our school and in that run the fat kid would beat me in the in the thing which is, you know, I mean, I'm I have the the poisonousness in me too. uh the you know and saying the be fat kid. But I just thought I'm gonna be on this dancing show and all these people are going to see me and like this you know this horrible thing that I am because of my my weakness and my you know lack of willpower and and you know and like I say this is all this is one little chunk of me and there's a whole bunch of like there's a [ __ ] egoomaniac wandering around in the outside of that self-loathing. Um, but I was really

like a candy shell in a sense. Yes, precisely. Yeah. The thing that really draws people in. Egooomaniac.

No, for sure. Yeah. But I just really felt like, oh, this is, you know, I felt like it was the president's physical fitness test and I was going to be like not be able to do it and everyone would just see me and be like, uh, that slob. And of course, no one really was going to do that. And then I started doing it and I could do it and and it really sort of like adjusted my view of myself and and I had also too started to just I I wasn't I wasn't exercising enough. I had gotten too heavy and um I in doing it before doing it I started to think about myself more in terms of my physical limitations and it turned out too that like I needed a hip replacement which I just got three weeks ago. Uh, and um, so I was I was messed up. Like I had had all these issues with my left leg. I you know, just different things.

And when I started doing the dancing, I was like, "Oh, I can rehearse dancing four hours a day for seven days a week. I'm not limited. Like I can do whatever I want if I, you know, if I choose to go on a strenuous hike, I could do that. I could, you know, I'm certainly not running. Uh but but I could if I wanted to.

You could if you who would want to. Oh my god. Why would they if not being chased?

Did they let you keep the hip? Do you get the hip in a jar? No. And it's just it's just the knob of the femur.

But that's cool. Wouldn't you want that? I Well, just to maybe make a stock to put in some red beans, you know, surprise the kids.

Yeah. Cuz collagen is so important. Everything's about collagen these days. Yeah. gives a body to the broth.

Yeah. It's a sort of a savory quality, too, right? Yeah. You can't put your finger on it, but that's it's a bone broth.

No, they just they kn they lop off the the knob of the femur, the ball of the ball inside.

They lop off the ball. Well, I imagine they saw it. You know, it's like that and you're out. You're out. And then the um the implant looks so much like a uh Hitachi magic wand that it's it's it's kind of sexy in a way, but it is a spike. It's a titanium spike. And I my wife said, "This is terrible of me, but I showed our soon to be six-year-old daughter. She was asking me about it, and I said, "Well, let's see if you know we can see video of what the surgery dad's going to get." And and it's like that that's that thing. It's like I said, it's a big titanium spike and there's no screws. They just go kang and just hammer it into your femur

and it just gets lodged in there and then eventually the bone grows around it. And my wife was like, "What are you showing?" I was like, she didn't mind. And my daughter was like, "I don't mind."

I like that. I like that you're talking about it. Yeah. I think that's a beautiful thing. Don't you, Vic? Bone grows around it.

Around it. Yeah. Yeah. Like ivy. Yeah. Right. I love it. Yeah. I like it. Yeah. Bone grows around anything.

Grows around anything. Are fingernails bones? No. I don't know. I don't think so.

No. Fingernails are modified hair follicles. Hair follicles. That's what I meant.

And are hair bones? Hair is bones. Teeth not bones. Teeth are not bones. Teeth are bones.

Teeth are not bones bones. Hair is fish. Fishbones. Super thin. Mhm. Hey, Vic. Yes.

On the show, you speak Russian. Sure. Uh, are do you think you're as good as that hot guy from that other show?

No. Connor Story? Absolutely not. I um I legitimately was we Fabian, who was our wonderful uh uh dialect coach, I kind of sort of bullied into at the end of shooting telling me that I was the worst Russian speaker he'd ever uh worked with.

Wow. I just I don't know. I think if I wasn't going to be the best, I really needed to be the best at something and I was the best at being the worst at it.

I feel like there are like carrot people and stick people. Sure. And like if I'm getting negative feedback, I'm getting worse and worse till I'm the worst. But if I'm getting good feedback, I'm like I'm a puppy. Like if you tell me I'm doing a great job, I'm going to I want that that that approval.

But do you have that like internal metronome of being like I know this isn't going well. We know that this is like this is tough. You know what I mean? Like I feel like I like when I'm playing games and stuff like that, even if I'm like kind of like I could still be be in like winning Monopoly or something like that, if it looks like it's taking a turn, I'm like we're just I need to be the worst then. I need to lose big.

Yeah. Yeah. No, I get that. I feel that. So Vic, yes. You also are a veteran interviewer.

Sure. As host of the dropouts, very important people in which you interview uh comedians, but they are hidden from you.

Yeah. Um and I just uh want to show people a clip of what this looks like. Oh, gorgeous. First wish.

Candy bar. Biggest candy bar. Biggest candy bar. Yeah. A butter finger. I was only able to eat like like two bites of it

and then it started to melt. It was crazy. You got a second wish? Yeah. Second wish. I wish for my brother to come back from the army.

I'm a professional. Okay. So, what's that about? Sort of the show in general. Uh, listen, this it really is the most fun thing in the world. I started doing improv. Have you done any improv?

Just whatever is happening now. Yeah. Great. I love that. It And like you you this scene work right here.

You like you spend so long in improv doing it for like five people at a theater at like 11:00 p.m. at night just begging people to come and watch. And so I uh I ended up getting sort of swooped up into like a a group of us that started doing stuff over at College Humor. Uh that then uh ceased to exist uh and then turned into uh this streaming service called Dropout. And so it's like to be able to get paid to do improv is incredible. It's a dream. I never would have even thought that that was possible like 5 years ago.

It's Have you seen much of Very Important People? Yeah, I've seen some of it. Oh, it's hilarious.

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So, here's how interview roulette works. We are going to spin the interview roulette wheel.

Uh, which will choose both the question and the person who will ask it. To up the ante, you might get to ask the other two a fun, fluffy softball question or be tasked with throwing us a hard ball. I genuinely do not know the questions. I am in it with the two of you that is real. Uh, are you both ready?

Yes. Yes. All right, let's spin the interview roulette wheel. See if this segment turns into something.

Oh, I wish it was a real wheel. All right, Andy, you have to choose from the softball pile here. We'll hand that to Andy.

Just Yeah, hand me a softball. And who? Just to both of us or one of us? you choose.

What's the weirdest thing you've ever seen a famous person do? This could be really hard, Paulo.

H That is true. Cuz the first one that came to mind I absolutely cannot share. Well, why don't you just share it by but anonymize the celebrity?

Okay. I had a celebrity and this is kind of weird but mostly kind of mean. I had a celebrity I for a survival job I worked um uh doing like a brand ambassadoring and a lot of sort of like catering which was mostly just sort of like walking around in tiny dresses handing out ordurves to people and um there was a party where a celebrity asked if uh it was like a waffle cone with mac and cheese in it and they were like is there gluten in this? And I was like, "Yeah, probably, but I can like double check." And she was like, "You don't know already?" And I was like, "No." And she goes, "Let me talk to your boss." And I know. And then she called my boss over. And my boss was like, "You have to go home. We're still going to pay you for the night, but this person has complained enough about you not understanding the menu, so you have to go home."

So that's kind of weird. Oh, I want to know who it is. I'll tell you off mic. I'm so sorry. And it's a good one, too. It's honestly kind of exactly who you'd think.

I have Wow. Wait, is it exactly who we think? Probably. Cool. I wonder who we think it is. So, I'll do this is mine is So, I'm also going to not say who it is, but I will only say that it is someone who has been on this show.

Wow. Did it happen backstage? Did it happen? Was it something did not happen here? And it's I'm going to anonymize it. You will not know who I'm talking about.

Did this thing happen and then you invited them on the show? I you will I will explain what happened.

Okay. I don't want to be so quiet. I was at an event and uh there was a celebrity there who was going to be on this show in a couple of weeks and I had already known that and we had talked about that and this person was excited to come on the show. I'm was and still excited to have them on would have them on again. I consider this a story I'm telling with love. And so I went up and I said, "Hi celebrity. I'm John Love. It's so nice to meet you. I'm so excited. You're going to be on the show next week. We talked and like they introduced themselves back. We talked for a few minutes. It was actually an event where I had to like go speak and so I went and I like go did did a thing on stage, came back off, got a drink, then I saw them again and I walked up to them and they said, "Hi, I'm soando. I'm going to be on your show in a few weeks." I was like, "What's happening?" And I was like, "Oh, hi. Yeah, it's right. They

did it again from the top. The whole interaction like the first one hadn't happened. Like they reintroduced themselves like we hadn't had the conversation already. It was

genuinely one of the strangest thing. It wasn't good or bad. It was just truly one of the weirdest things that's ever happened to me.

Did a part of you chalk it up to your forgettability? Let's spin the wheel. I changed it. Kind of soft. It was a hard ball at the end of my softball.

Oh, Vic, you have a hard ball question. Thank god. I said I only want a hard one. Okay. Oh, I'm so glad that I'm asking this and not answering.

What is We'll start with Andy because you didn't get to answer one last time. That's fair. What is a weakness in your talent that limits your success? and oh no I'm dyslexic and okay hold on right and which stop pause pause and rewind and which you avoid thinking about because it doesn't feel flexible so to repeat that what is a weakness and so we'll take it clean this is film a weakness so what is a weakness in your talent you can't look at this I changed the word uh that limits your success and which you avoid thinking about because it doesn't feel flexible so like not something fixable

wow oh wow wow wow Oh. Um well I mean I uh I have sang in public but I am not a good singer and I have been

give us a note. There's no I can I can only sing like I can only imitate people. That's like how

that's how I have to sing too. That's why like I can't sing but I can do Hugh Jackman in Miz and then I can and then I can do Russell Cro. You know, I can kind of do it. Can I go back? There it is. That's it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, singing is would be one.

Can I ask a follow-up question then? Of course you may. Will you sing the Star Spangle Banner like you're about to throw out a pitch at a baseball game

right now? Yeah. Okay. At least part of it. Well, but I mean you you don't get to do both. You don't get to do both.

You don't get to sing and throw out a pitch. It's either or. This is a triple A game, so they're asking you to.

Okay. Okay. You're a huge guest. They're they're psyched. Okay. Here we go. Oh, say can you see by the dawn early

I think we got to leave it there because I really want people to get to the next ad. Uh

what so proudly we hailed I I saw your monologue. You're an anti-American. I That's right. So now do I I have to answer that question. You have to answer what you want it one more time. It's a blonde mind talent that I don't like to think about because it's not fixable. Like I can't address it. So why dwell on it?

Oh my god, that's such a hard thing to think about. Should we bring one of your employees out here and ask them?

I don't know if you can hear them. This is a good question for Harley. Howie uh hie keeper. Everybody after you hie um the hard ball question is what is a flaw in my talent that we don't

that we don't like to that I don't like to dwell on because it's not fixable so why think about it too much

I think I believe the question was you think it's not fixable first of all I would say this whole show is like being inside your psyche so I would say I I think it's standup I think that there is you know what I we do the show. I think there's a lot there's something in you that that needs to be on stage. Um I think that there is I think that you think it's like a skill that you can't gain, but really it's just reps, but you have decided I can't be I can't I don't know whether it's like doing a a oneman show. There's something else on stage for you, but you have decided that it can't happen. And that's as far as my insight has gotten.

Does that make sense? Keper, everybody. Absolutely. All right. There's a line forming backstage of people that want to turn.

Who else has a follow? I have some friends here. They could go. All right, let's spin it again.

Pick me. Pick me. All right. Hard ball for me. All right, let's see what we have.

Hard ball. Uh, all right. Vic, what's a lie you recently told? Pass. What's a lie I recently told? I um I feel like often it is funnier to be honest about something. And also, it's just like I don't know. I think I'm a pretty honest person except if I think it's going to hurt somebody's feelings and it's something that they can't change about themselves. You know what I mean?

Then there's no point in telling the truth right? So, probably something about somebody somebody asked about something about their appearance or something like that and asked just sort of a question and I think I just sort of was like well how do you feel about it? And they were like great and then I go then me too.

Kind of a non-answer answer that then though feels like it admits something. If you feel great about then I do too but that's not how your feelings actually work. Andy when is it time that you've lied recently? What's the lie you've recently told?

Uh the last one would be I was asked if I could do a voiceover session for commercial uh on Friday and because of the general strike I said I was unavailable, but I did not say why. I think I said like I I have something to do with my kid. Um because I just I didn't want to like get into for some reason, you know, like I'm I'm I'm a dirty commie to these captains of industry. Yeah. And that's interview roulette.

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Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Vic Michaelis on Their WILDEST Celebrity Encounter & Winning Worst Russian Accent on "Ponies""?

John Lovett (Host), Andy Richter (Guest), Vic Michaelis (Guest).

What is "Vic Michaelis on Their WILDEST Celebrity Encounter & Winning Worst Russian Accent on "Ponies"" about?

Vic Michaelis shares a memorable story about a surprising connection between their families, revealing that Andy Richter's mother once redesigned Vic's father's kitchen, showcasing an unexpected intersection of their personal lives. The discussion highlights the light-hearted camaraderie between the two, alongside anecdotes about their experiences on "Ponies" and their celebrity encounters.

What is mentioned in this Lovett or Leave It episode?

9 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Andy Richtor, Vic, Dropout, Angelina Diana, Elton John, Crocodile Rock. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Vic Michaelis on Their WILDEST Celebrity Encounter & Winning Worst Russian Accent on "Ponies""?

The episode runs 26 min; the transcript is about 5,211 words in 115 timestamped sections.

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