38: Melissa Etheridge & Tammy Lynn Michaels

DUNZO!

Cloud10 and Troy McEady

Society & Culture

4.6 • 959 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode of The Smush Room features one of the most hilariously fascinating and messiest divorces in celebrity history between Hollywood’s very first openly gay couple; Melissa Etheridge and Tammy Lynn Michaels. Troy is joined by friend, Leslie Lefkowitz, on a journey through outlandish court demands, clap backs in the form of beat poetry, and an accidental shipment of sex toys (otherwise known as the Box Full Of Dicks) that lit the match on this entire ordeal. Extended episodes are always available on the Solid Listen Patreon page (https://patreon.com/solidlisten) under the $1/month reward level - become a supporter today to ensure you never miss a moment of The Smush Room! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You guys welcome to episode 37 of the Smush Room, the podcast of Deep Dives on the well-known and more importantly not so well-known hookups of your favorite reality TV stars. I'm your
0:13.9	host Troy McIni and if you are like a functioning member of our Facebook
0:18.4	group and also just like listen to emotionally broken cycles you probably know my friend that I'm recording
0:24.3	with here today Leslie.
0:25.7	Um, Leslie introduce yourself.
0:29.6	Hi, I'm Nestle left of it.
0:31.4	How did that go? That was probably, I mean I couldn't have done it better myself, really.
0:37.6	Thanks, thanks. So you brought up a couple to me that like I would have never
0:45.2	It's weird because I would have never like thought really to record anything about them and then I don't know this is kind of a blind spot for me like I knew that they had a really
0:53.8	tumultuous relationship and or more so just like a tumultuous divorce but I didn't know
0:58.9	the levels of it and like I'm so happy that you introduced me to this my entire life is
1:04.8	different oh I'm so glad I could rock your world as one was wrong because I was
1:09.8	following this as it was happening and now we get to relive it together and I learned a lot of other
1:14.9	things as I was researching this as well so yeah so lesbian drama.
1:20.3	Well we're gonna be talking today about Melissa Etheridge and her now ex-wife
1:26.0	Tamulen Michaels. I mean here's the facts when it comes down to it for what I need for this podcast, the lesbians just tend to bring it.
1:36.7	Yes, I mean I honestly was texting me about this the other way.
1:39.7	I kind of feel like Alice Pizaki and were like recording an episode of the chart.
1:45.0	Did you ever watch L word?
1:47.0	Yeah.
1:48.0	Because as I was researching this, I was like, oh wait and this person started dating and then they had kids with this person it was it just like it's it's so good it's so good it's so good.
1:58.8	It's so good. There's a lot of like immediate marriages which I love you know like that is like one of the things I support about the lesbian community 100% just
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