
Kym Whitley, Shannon Beador, Michael Beck, & Shane Douglas join Jeff Lewis in Los Angeles.
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Jeff Lewis
Stop fucking apologizing. You're not making it any better. You're just reminding me how late we are. I know I'm specific. I know I'm a little high maintenance, which is why I tip really fucking well. I don't want to start shit, but.
Kim Whitley
No, really. Don't you really?
Jeff Lewis
Okay, really.
Shannon Beador
Jeff Lewis has Issues.
Jeff Lewis
Hey, welcome to Jeff Lewis has Issues. In today's episode, Kim Whitley, Shannon Beador and Michael Beck join the show. We talk about gay holiday decorations and waiters with ulterior plus. We force the chumps to complete end of year weigh ins. Good morning, Kim.
Kim Whitley
Good morning. I thought you forgot about me. I am so excited to be here. Everybody wake on me.
Jeff Lewis
We did not forget about you at all. In fact, the second you left, I said rebook her. And what's.
Michael Beck
We've been pursuing you.
Kim Whitley
Oh, my goodness. But vagina is tight.
Michael Beck
They said that you were filming something in the fall.
Jeff Lewis
So was it her team?
Michael Beck
Yeah, they said that you were. Were you filming in the fall?
Kim Whitley
Yes, yes. I filmed a couple movies. I was very busy. And of course, on New Year's Eve, of course, Jeff. Oh my God, do I love Jeff. Everybody. You know, because I came in here not really knowing who you were. But baby, I say your name and people turn. I was like, you know, he's my cousin.
Jeff Lewis
Now. Kim, I have to comment. You look gorgeous today. Very well put together. I asked. Your makeup is too good for you to have done it yourself, right?
Kim Whitley
No, when I do it, I look like a Prostitute, Bad makeup? No, Eileen Gamma. She did it for me. She was with me on Daily Pop and she works for E. But she's great. Shannon, you got. She. She. I wear this for three days, honey.
Jeff Lewis
Really?
Kim Whitley
Oh, yes. She's that good. And I spray it and I. Baby, I wear it for three days. I go to sleep, I wake up looking just like this.
Shannon Beador
Wow.
Jeff Lewis
Now, I heard that your makeup artist is Filipino.
Kim Whitley
She is.
Jeff Lewis
We love Filipinos here at Jeff Lewis Live.
Kim Whitley
First of all, they are the nicest people.
Jeff Lewis
Nicest people.
Kim Whitley
And they laugh alight. And they're great singers.
Michael Beck
Great singers.
Jeff Lewis
Great. That's what David Archuleta told me.
Michael Beck
They were so good at karaoke.
Kim Whitley
It is ridiculous.
Jeff Lewis
What is it that Filipinos are so good at? Karaoke.
Kim Whitley
I have no idea how it is, but they're blessed. They can sing. And it was interesting. You know, she told me this morning that I forgot the name of the Tuktuk. Whatever the name of the language is. Also like Spanish, she said, because I guess something would.
Jeff Lewis
What is the name? What's the language they speak?
Kim Whitley
Filipino language. Tagalog. Look at you.
Jeff Lewis
Holy shit.
Michael Beck
Oh, my God. You're a smarty.
Jeff Lewis
Wow.
Kim Whitley
Woman of the world. What can I say? You.
Jeff Lewis
Wait, what is it again?
Kim Whitley
Tagalog.
Jeff Lewis
Tagalog.
Kim Whitley
Tagalog. She said she understands Spanish.
Jeff Lewis
We should know Talaq.
Michael Beck
We should.
Kim Whitley
Talag. Tagalog.
Michael Beck
Tagalongs.
Kim Whitley
You know what?
Jeff Lewis
Why are you here, Shannon? Repeat it.
Shannon Beador
Tagala.
Jeff Lewis
Oh, look at you.
Shannon Beador
Tagalog.
Michael Beck
Here's a drink for you, Kim.
Jeff Lewis
So we had. I had a Filipino employee, and he was just the sweetest, most nurturing, gentle guy. Yes, I fired him.
Kim Whitley
Why? Cause he was so true.
Jeff Lewis
Oh, actually, he quit.
Michael Beck
He didn't fit the company culture.
Jeff Lewis
He was too nice.
Kim Whitley
I get his tonight. Oh, you want a Filipino nurse? Let me tell you something.
Jeff Lewis
I know a caretaker.
Kim Whitley
Caretaker. You want a Filipino? Yes, you do.
Jeff Lewis
I mean, Shannon, you taking notes?
Kim Whitley
Nothing. I like. I like the Haitians in my black people too.
Shannon Beador
I. I'm.
Jeff Lewis
But what about a Filipino makeup artist?
Kim Whitley
Sciatica.
Jeff Lewis
Shots fired.
Shannon Beador
I work with Nicole Ray now, and she's an I. I met her on the Love Hotel.
Jeff Lewis
Fine, but what's her ethnicity?
Shannon Beador
Hair and makeup. She's from Sweden.
Kim Whitley
Hey, Morda bra.
Michael Beck
Swedish.
Kim Whitley
Nobody heard me speak Swedish. You heard that? Hey, hey. Mortar. Mortar.
Jeff Lewis
Oh, okay. Were you hitting on Ty there?
Kim Whitley
Woo. Let's talk about Ty. I mean, is this something we can talk about on air?
Jeff Lewis
Sure.
Kim Whitley
Whoa. Let me tell you something.
Shannon Beador
I'm just getting ready.
Kim Whitley
Did you see Ty?
Shannon Beador
I know Ty.
Kim Whitley
I walked into the green room and I said, good Lord. Merry Christmas to me. I said, who? I said, who are you? What's your. He was tall. He was chiseled. He has dimples. I said, you have everything. You have a great smile. And then the personality came out and almost passed out. And he said. He said, yes. You know, he told me that Jeff is his boyfriend. I said, how did you meet? I swear, I interviewed him. I was like, I am not going into there. They were like, you got four minutes. I said, I'm not finished talking to Ty. The story how they met. And he saw him at the bar. He saw you from behind, and that's how fine you were. He was. Wow. The bbl.
Jeff Lewis
It was. The BBL paid off. Those injections paid off.
Kim Whitley
Okay, I can't. I'm not dealing with you this morning. You know? And he just. You know, And I just love the story. I love love. And I talked about his past loves. Oh, I was into it.
Jeff Lewis
I had to know every love.
Michael Beck
What did he say about his past loves?
Jeff Lewis
I don't know anything about past loves.
Kim Whitley
Okay. I'm waiting for y' all to have a conversation. And, I mean, I did ask him. It was just interesting because, you know, he's from Germany. And I said, were you always gay? It was a crazy question because I.
Jeff Lewis
I've never asked him any of these questions.
Kim Whitley
Okay, I'm coming home with y'. All. It was just interesting. Cause I said. Cause, you know.
Michael Beck
Do you know his last name?
Jeff Lewis
Yes.
Kim Whitley
Good. That was a good answer.
Michael Beck
Good.
Shannon Beador
There's a bit of a delay.
Kim Whitley
It is.
Michael Beck
Think about it.
Kim Whitley
Are you gay? Me? Yes.
Michael Beck
Yeah.
Kim Whitley
How long you been gay?
Michael Beck
Wait, baby. For a while.
Kim Whitley
See, that's what happens.
Jeff Lewis
You ask questions.
Michael Beck
Are you gay?
Jeff Lewis
Did you have changed?
Kim Whitley
You have. You cannot assume.
Jeff Lewis
You're right.
Michael Beck
Everybody's gay.
Kim Whitley
Well, I think they're gay, but they're like, oh, no. And I'm like, but you have sex everywhere.
Shannon Beador
I'm not. I'm not gay.
Kim Whitley
I am gay adjacent, baby.
Jeff Lewis
Oh. So actually, the story before we went to the break includes Kim Whitley.
Kim Whitley
Uh. Oh.
Jeff Lewis
Because there's three and apparently three infractions that my boss has to discuss with me when he gets back from vacation. One is when I stormed in on you during your live interview with Lunel.
Kim Whitley
Is that an infraction?
Jeff Lewis
Yeah. Not allowed to do that.
Kim Whitley
Oh, I didn't know that.
Jeff Lewis
So they might interview you.
Shannon Beador
But why did you storm in? Like, storm angry?
Jeff Lewis
Lunel and I had this idea we wanted. She was in the middle of a live interview. Kim Whitley. And Lunel loves Kim. And so we went in together to. And we interrupted the live interview. Now, Lou, you don't care.
Kim Whitley
No, it's fantastic.
Jeff Lewis
The hosts don't appreciate.
Kim Whitley
How do you. Did they say that? Did the host say that?
Jeff Lewis
That. He did not say that.
Kim Whitley
Okay.
Jeff Lewis
It's just an issue because then makes it. But then, Kim, I want you. And I was going to tell you that, Shannon, because, you know, we tend to. We get emotional sometimes, we don't think things through and we react. Right. So I had found out live on this radio that SiriusXM had a holiday party and didn't invite me. And I got very upset, so I stormed next door. Sarah, you were there. You witnessed it.
Michael Beck
I did, yes.
Jeff Lewis
They were live. And I said, julia, were you invited to Christmas party? And this. She was live. And she goes, yeah. And I go, motherfuckers. And then I stormed out. So that was second. And then the third, Kim is again. I was heated that day, and I think Jamie Kennedy was here in Crystal Minkoff. I said, come with me, I need backup. And I knocked on the door, but then opened it at hr, and it turned out she was on a zoom with six other people. And then I stormed in and I said, why was I not invited to the SiriusXM Christmas party?
Michael Beck
And recorded it.
Kim Whitley
No, no.
Michael Beck
Yeah, recorded it.
Kim Whitley
This was full on Aries.
Shannon Beador
Jeff, let them.
Kim Whitley
You better read that book, girl.
Shannon Beador
I'm reading it right now.
Jeff Lewis
Let them. I just said, look, just give me the drink tickets and we'll call. And we'll call it even. And we'll call it even because they were giving out. Danica had two drinks. They gave her.
Kim Whitley
But I don't. You have to take a look inside. Why do you think you were not invited? Was it oversight?
Jeff Lewis
Sarah, do you think it was on purpose?
Kim Whitley
I mean, a little.
Jeff Lewis
See, I'm just kidding. No, no. They thought I was going to start trouble.
Shannon Beador
That would have added a lot of additional.
Michael Beck
More color to some guess. Well, they probably didn't have enough drink tickets because Jeff has a tendency to come places or invite multiple people with. He'll come with a whole entr.
Kim Whitley
Oh, you're Jamie Fox.
Jeff Lewis
Got it.
Michael Beck
A whole entr.
Jeff Lewis
Yeah.
Kim Whitley
Okay.
Jeff Lewis
Which we would have need. Plus, they're all drinkers, so it would have been five times. Nine.
Shannon Beador
Just me to Andy Cohen's party in New York. I was your guest a lot.
Jeff Lewis
Yeah.
Kim Whitley
Oh, you.
Shannon Beador
You dragged. Or I mean, not dragged me. I was very excited to go.
Jeff Lewis
I dragged you. It's okay.
Shannon Beador
But we all. We were all there together. You did have an entourage, so.
Jeff Lewis
Fortunately, my boss is gone until the 5th, so hopefully he's got time to cool down.
Michael Beck
That's why we're drinking.
Jeff Lewis
Yeah.
Kim Whitley
Okay, to the point.
Shannon Beador
Maybe you could leave those bottles by his drink.
Kim Whitley
You know what?
Jeff Lewis
Oh, can I take that kettle one? Has it been opened yet?
Michael Beck
No, that's mine.
Jeff Lewis
Oh, I was gonna say we could send it to him. We could send it to him.
Kim Whitley
You know what? Keep your numbers up and keep doing who you are. And guess what?
Jeff Lewis
I know they tend to kind of just slap me on the wrist.
Kim Whitley
Yeah.
Jeff Lewis
Because until your numbers go down and.
Kim Whitley
Then they fire you when your numbers go down, it's over. I need you to come over to my house and I'll set up a little podcast or something for you to thank you.
Jeff Lewis
And I love all your holiday decor.
Kim Whitley
Oh, you did.
Jeff Lewis
I saw it on Instagram. You went all out. Who did all that shit? Filipinos?
Kim Whitley
No, actually a Puerto Rican.
Jeff Lewis
Oh, just as good. I love Puerto Ricans, too.
Kim Whitley
Nivez. Ramon. Ramon and Floyd. Nivez.
Jeff Lewis
Ramon and Floyd did all of that and.
Kim Whitley
Yeah, and let me tell you something. They did it used to do in Palm Springs. And they are so good.
Jeff Lewis
Are they gay?
Kim Whitley
How did you know?
Michael Beck
I knew Ramon and Floyd.
Kim Whitley
Stop it stopped. Call them. I've been calling them for years. Rainbow and Butterfly. That's what I call them.
Michael Beck
Sounds about right.
Kim Whitley
When they come to my house, I was like, oh, yeah, the rainbows and the butterflies were here because it's always fantastic. And you're absolutely right. And Mike, the Christmas tree. And everyone was like, who did that? Ramon, NZ and Floyd. Thank you. I love y'. All.
Jeff Lewis
Rainbow.
Michael Beck
Butterflies.
Kim Whitley
Rainbow and butterflies.
Jeff Lewis
Which. So was it Rainbow's idea or Butterflies idea to do the mural on the gate with Santa?
Kim Whitley
Oh, that was Rainbow. Or was that Butterfly? Wait, hold on. That was Butterfly. That was Ramon Butterfly. He said that because my gate was. Sit down. And he did. He said, you know what? We need a thing. Oh, a garage. He said, a garage. I was like, what? I have a gate. He said, we're gonna get a garage cover. He looked it up, put it, and just boom. I was like, rainbows and butterflies.
Jeff Lewis
Can we. Is there any way we could just reach out to you direct? Do we have to go through all your people every time we wanna book you on the show?
Kim Whitley
Why don't you have my number?
Jeff Lewis
I'm gonna get your number. Cause I have to tell you, I have to now join Mulholland Hills Country Club.
Kim Whitley
Yes, it's right down the street.
Jeff Lewis
Right. But I want to use your tennis court.
Kim Whitley
Okay? You can use my. Let me tell you something, honey. We black people, we don't play tennis. We over there roller skating on it. I got a pickleball net, I got a volleyball net all on the court and a basketball court, all on the tennis court.
Michael Beck
We're gonna come use your court.
Kim Whitley
Oh, no. I gave another friend of mine. I do have a lot of gays in my life. I'm like, jesus. Another gay girl, and I gave her. And she came over in the morning. I just give her the gate code, she'll come and play.
Michael Beck
What's your gate code?
Kim Whitley
I'm not giving it on the air.
Michael Beck
Okay.
Jeff Lewis
Okay.
Michael Beck
Are you serious?
Kim Whitley
No.
Jeff Lewis
Do you have a dog or anything?
Kim Whitley
I have two dogs.
Jeff Lewis
But are they friendly?
Kim Whitley
They're very friendly.
Jeff Lewis
So if I open the gate.
Kim Whitley
That's a lie. One is vicious. He will kill you.
Jeff Lewis
Which one? Rainbow or a butterfly?
Kim Whitley
My dog Dorito will bite you.
Jeff Lewis
Dorito.
Kim Whitley
And Dexter, Dexter's little one, he's vicious. But that big one has been trained to bite your balls.
Jeff Lewis
Okay.
Shannon Beador
I want to see the Christmas decorations.
Kim Whitley
I'm gonna have to show it to you. We're gonna follow each other. Shannon. Are we friends now?
Jeff Lewis
Do you know Steve Guttenberg by chance?
Shannon Beador
Okay, you need to stop.
Kim Whitley
Do I supposed to?
Jeff Lewis
No, he's an actor. I know. You would know him. What are some of the movies he's been in? Police Academy. What was the big movie he did?
Kim Whitley
Are you praying, Shannon? Yeah.
Jeff Lewis
Like, what are Steve Guggens?
Kim Whitley
You're horrified that I don't know about you.
Michael Beck
Three Men and a Baby.
Kim Whitley
If he's not on bet, if he's.
Jeff Lewis
Not on bet, I'm Three Men and a Baby. Did you see that?
Kim Whitley
Yes, I saw it.
Jeff Lewis
Okay, what else?
Michael Beck
Diner. Cocoon.
Jeff Lewis
Cocoon.
Kim Whitley
Oh, I love him. I love him.
Michael Beck
The bed. Yeah. So does Shannon.
Jeff Lewis
So does Shannon. She's been liking all of his pictures on Instagram. Wait a minute.
Kim Whitley
Are you trying to. You're not married.
Michael Beck
She's trying to slide in. She's got chinks.
Kim Whitley
Shannon, I got you, girl. Really? What you need, baby? I got a police. You like black in. You got to tell me what your problems are.
Jeff Lewis
She does.
Kim Whitley
I got a police officer right now looking for a woman.
Jeff Lewis
Shannon.
Kim Whitley
Shannon, you got to tell me. Do you want to hit or you want it forever? What do you want to know?
Jeff Lewis
Both.
Kim Whitley
You can't do both.
Shannon Beador
I'm very traditional. I'm not a one night stand type of girl.
Jeff Lewis
Okay. She wants it forever.
Kim Whitley
You Want it forever. Let me dig deeper. She told me.
Jeff Lewis
Why does the police guy just want to hit it?
Kim Whitley
No, he wants. He wants children. Do you have children? You want children?
Jeff Lewis
She already has three girls.
Kim Whitley
You're done. You don't. You look like. Not a day over 45. So.
Jeff Lewis
So we need someone a little older. We need someone older now.
Kim Whitley
How much money? What's the money range?
Jeff Lewis
That would be nice if they had money.
Shannon Beador
No, my, my, my saying is I can contribute to her decorations. I just can't take on new bodies.
Kim Whitley
Oh, you can't take on new bodies.
Shannon Beador
Okay. That is beautiful.
Jeff Lewis
Outside the game, if people want to see it.
Kim Whitley
Oh, yes. Kim Whitley. K Y M W H I T L E Y On my Instagram. That's in the yard after you come through the gate. That's the little they put up. The little. The rainbows and butterflies came back.
Jeff Lewis
Those gays went all out.
Kim Whitley
Baby, this ain't nothing. You should have seen what they did.
Jeff Lewis
Can they do other houses?
Kim Whitley
That's what they do.
Michael Beck
Kim, you are rich.
Kim Whitley
But they don't. Okay, does that. Does it look rich?
Michael Beck
I want to look rich.
Jeff Lewis
Look how. Look at that tree.
Kim Whitley
I want to move the gate. Here's the.
Michael Beck
Oh, my God.
Kim Whitley
I want it to look like a thousand heir. Look at me.
Jeff Lewis
Wow.
Michael Beck
Look at that.
Kim Whitley
Because I live near Candy Cane Lane.
Jeff Lewis
What does all of that shit cost.
Kim Whitley
When they drop now? I'm not giving out prices, but it's not as much as you think.
Jeff Lewis
Because I bet. I bet they'll charge me. They're gonna charge me.
Kim Whitley
No, you're gonna take all my decorations. I have boxes they have left me with. I've had it for years. All the Christmas decorations are back in my storage.
Jeff Lewis
See, I don't have shit. I have to buy decorations.
Kim Whitley
No, they'll take them. Bring them over to your house.
Jeff Lewis
They will.
Kim Whitley
Yes, they will bring them. They have all the decorations. They'll bring them to you and they'll buy a couple things.
Michael Beck
But do you have a Christmas party?
Kim Whitley
I did because of the decorations.
Jeff Lewis
Oh, you have to. You have to.
Kim Whitley
I was like, let me show the people I'm a thousand.
Jeff Lewis
Did you offer her champagne? Do you not recognize that?
Kim Whitley
Oh, no. Because I don't want you to get a. I don't want you to get a fourth strike. So I didn't drink at all.
Jeff Lewis
Oh, no, you can really.
Michael Beck
No, drink up.
Jeff Lewis
That's the least of my problems.
Kim Whitley
Was Ty. Is it Ty?
Jeff Lewis
Yeah.
Kim Whitley
He has my number, so you can call me. Oh, you guys. Did Ty get her number?
Jeff Lewis
Really?
Kim Whitley
Oh, God. That's my place. Please follow me, y'. All.
Jeff Lewis
Kym, do you have a ball machine?
Kim Whitley
I do.
Jeff Lewis
Great.
Kim Whitley
Oh, my God. It's never used. I just got it fixed because we don't use it. I have a ball machine. I got balls. I got rackets.
Jeff Lewis
Okay.
Kim Whitley
And I have a picker upper to pick the ball. Oh, I love that.
Jeff Lewis
I love that. Well, you've got it all. You are rich, Kim.
Kim Whitley
No, no, no, no, no, no. The man I bought the house from was rich. He had all the stuff. I didn't buy any of this. And he is a giant ass generator.
Jeff Lewis
You have a generator?
Kim Whitley
Oh, it's the biggest. This damn room. This man. And he had a water tank. I had to finally sell that in the back. He was a survivalist. Because you see my gate? You can't walk in the gate. You can't get into this bad boy. It's just that gate.
Jeff Lewis
So the generator, does it power the whole house?
Kim Whitley
It powers. Guess what? Soon as electricity goes off, all you hear is this. Everything's everything.
Jeff Lewis
Wait, what does it sound like again?
Kim Whitley
And then you got. My neighbor. Can I put an extension cord over your fence? My neighbor, it will be black in the neighborhood one time for two days. And I called the owner. LT Generators. He's the one. Shout out lt. Lt.
Jeff Lewis
I want a generator.
Michael Beck
Call lt.
Kim Whitley
Call LT Ask for Lenny. He's the owner.
Jeff Lewis
He owns the house. Oh, lt. Lenny.
Kim Whitley
Lenny owned the house.
Jeff Lewis
Who's T?
Kim Whitley
So he.
Jeff Lewis
Who's the T, though? I mean, obviously.
Kim Whitley
Oh, that's his last name. Like Taroski or Taroski. Oh, okay. Lt. Yeah.
Jeff Lewis
Will you write that down, please?
Kim Whitley
Because if you Google my address, well, I'm not gonna get it. Comes up as lt. Cause business was there, but he made so much money in generation. We bought another house, sold me the house and you something. I said, this man is not playing that generator. I said, how long do I have? How long does it run? Yeah, he said as long as you have natural gas, it's going to run, like, for weeks. Weeks.
Jeff Lewis
Months.
Michael Beck
What does that cost you?
Kim Whitley
Running expensive.
Jeff Lewis
Gas is cheap.
Kim Whitley
Yeah. Never paid.
Jeff Lewis
Gas is cheap.
Kim Whitley
Yeah.
Shannon Beador
Cheaper than electricity.
Jeff Lewis
What is your DWP bill at that mansion?
Kim Whitley
This is going to be ignorant, and I'm embarrassed to say you don't know.
Michael Beck
Oh, that's rich.
Jeff Lewis
You're not even looking at the details.
Michael Beck
Wait a minute.
Kim Whitley
Is it rich or you have a business manager? Which is it?
Michael Beck
Having a business manager is rich.
Kim Whitley
I have a business manager.
Jeff Lewis
That's rich.
Michael Beck
That makes you rich.
Kim Whitley
I'M not. I don't want to put that.
Jeff Lewis
I bet you don't even know what you're so. You don't even know what you're paying a month.
Kim Whitley
You know what? Let's. What's Ty. What's his name? Tyson? Ty Little. He's so handsome. You know, I'm gonna get better in 2006. I really said so. I'm taking off the monster.
Michael Beck
Good night.
Kim Whitley
2026. Thank you. I'm taking off the month of February to get my life together. I said no, I gotta just sit. I gotta look at my bills, look at my life.
Shannon Beador
Yes, I need to do that.
Kim Whitley
Yeah, yeah, you can do it with me. Just pick a month and say, I don't wanna book for anything. I don't wanna do anything. I don't even wanna go on vacation. Like go somewhere, because that's not it. I wanna sit at home, focus on my 14 year old, focus on my dogs, focus on my life. Do you wanna get here? What's next? I will come here though. So I think that just to reset because I. You're right. I have worked so much like a Sagittarius out there. He's a Sagittarius. Did you know that Ty was a Sagittarius?
Michael Beck
No, he didn't.
Kim Whitley
Okay.
Jeff Lewis
He's a Sagittarius. Yeah, sure.
Kim Whitley
Workaholic. Workaholic. So what happens is you work, work, work, work, work and you don't enjoy life. So sometimes you have to tell people, get a work life balance.
Jeff Lewis
I. I have that. I had that problem. I had that problem.
Kim Whitley
You fixed it.
Jeff Lewis
I'm fixing it. Yes.
Michael Beck
He took a lot of time, but.
Jeff Lewis
My kid helped me. My kid helped me with that.
Kim Whitley
Right? We talked about the kid. How old is the baby now?
Jeff Lewis
9. Can I ask you this? Cause I really want you. Your story of how you adopted your son is truly one of the most touching things I've ever heard. You have to hear the Shannon.
Shannon Beador
Okay.
Jeff Lewis
Will you let her know what happened exactly?
Kim Whitley
If Shannon promises to be my new friend.
Shannon Beador
Of course.
Kim Whitley
So we gonna get you a man. Okay.
Shannon Beador
Okay.
Kim Whitley
I'm gonna meet your three kids. No, don't be nervous, Shannon. We're gonna go out. We gonna go somewhere rich. We gonna go in Beverly Hills. Cause that's what you look like you like to do when you go down to Orange County. But we're only going to the wealthy places.
Jeff Lewis
Newport Beach.
Kim Whitley
We'll go to Newport Beach.
Jeff Lewis
That's where she lives.
Kim Whitley
Just drive around in a golf cart. Okay. We'll go to. I don't play golf, but we're going to pretend like we do, okay? And we're going to get you somebody. So I always wanted to have kids, but work, work, work, work, work. And God said, you know what? Let me give this child a baby. I'd been mentoring girls, and this one girl in particular, she gets pregnant and she literally has the baby. Leaves the baby at the hospital with my name on and phone number.
Jeff Lewis
And phone number on the baby.
Kim Whitley
On the baby. I swear on the baby.
Jeff Lewis
She actually wrote it on the baby.
Michael Beck
What?
Kim Whitley
Yeah. She was out of control. Yes, she was out of control. Probably on his arm. She was out of control. And the hospital was like, yeah, we got a baby here for you. She left your name and number and not, you know, being a comedian. I was like, ha, ha. Thought it was one of my friends. I was like, ah, you got me a baby. The fries come with that baby. And I was like, I ain't got time for this. Bye. You know, Bye, girl. I thought I was more friends. Hung up. The lady called back, you know, these social workers are not nice. She was like, ma', am, this is serious. You know. You know, this house was from Kaiser. You know, we got this baby and she left it. And your name is on it. Now, do you want the baby or not? And let me tell you something. Do you know how something hits you and you don't understand and your body goes cold? It's that kind of thing. Like when they didn't invite you to.
Jeff Lewis
The Christmas party, you get, my body went cold.
Kim Whitley
You're like, I can't. Wait, hold up. Give me a second. And that's when my mother, Praise God, was there. And I was like, wait a minute. What do you mean? She said, now, listen, you got 20 minutes. You can. I said, I gotta call you back. She said, you got 20 minutes because you can either come get this baby or we're going to put it in the system. First of all, I was like, what the hell is the system? It sound like the Matrix. What are you talking about? So my mother was there because if not, the baby would have been in the system. Because I was like, forget that. I'm still in these streets. I'm outside. So I said. I said, I told my mother, and I'm telling you, God bless my mama. Mama looked at me because sometimes we don't realize where we are in life. I'm thinking I'm tilting 27. She said, Kim, come on, baby. She said, you like 99 years old. You ain't got no kids. You got One egg left and you ain't got no man. Go get that baby. That's what my mother said to me. I was like this, first of all, I'm appalled. And she put a reality check. She was like, what are you doing? What are you doing? Comedy running around? What is your life? What are you doing? Go get that baby. Called the lady back, she said, good, we'll be there in two hours. I need you to have a car se seat and a, a bassinet or a little crib or something. I was like, what? So me, my mom and dad, we run out now. First of all, my parents are old. We in the store looking for a bassinet, one of those wicker white ones from the 60s. My dad, my daddy walking around, he said, they don't have none of them bassinets now. These play yards are there, all the cribs, everything. We get all the stuff, run back, they bring the baby to me. He's four days old. And it was. We had it like, we just videotaped it. Like, look, we got a baby. Woo woo. I swear they had a giant plastic bag. There were diapers in it and little bottles of formula and some ointment. And the social worker lady who dropped off said, hey, here you go. She said, feed them every two hours. I said, is it a puppy? What are we doing here? I was like, there's no paper. What are you doing? They're like, hey, this is dropped off a human being to my house. Umbilical cord still on. She said, put that ointment on that umbilical cord. Here's some diapers. My mother and father had left the house because they were like, we don't want to, you know, mess it up or something. They got people in the house and they come back. And my mother immediately took the baby from me because she saw that I had already taken off the diaper and was sitting there looking like, I have no idea. Even though I've taken care of babies with nothing that small that needs your every second to survive. So his name is Joshua Samuel Whitley Johnson. That's a lot of names. But I opened this, I opened the Bible. I don't know who's believers, but I had no idea. How do you name a person for the rest of their life? I had seconds. They were like, we need to put a name on the birth certificate. And I just prayed and I said, lord, give me a name. And in my right ear I heard the word Joshua. I have never liked that name. I know that sounds crazy. I just never have been a. I'm gonna name. His name would have been Tariq Kyle or something. And I heard Joshua and Samuel's my mother's father's name. Whitley is my name. And Johnson we just added to it is the man who raised him. My friend was like, I didn't have a father. Can I be his father? So now that's his.
Jeff Lewis
Isn't that a beautiful story?
Kim Whitley
And then Oprah made a whole show about it. Cause Oprah loved it because I couldn't raise the baby by myself. So I asked all made him sign a contract that you were not a babysitter. You will help me raise his baby for the rest of his life. All my friends did. They are still in his life, except two on the show. So we had a show called raising Whitley on own for two seasons.
Michael Beck
That's amazing.
Jeff Lewis
So Joshua, is he 14 or 15?
Kim Whitley
He'll be 15 next week.
Jeff Lewis
Next week's his birthday.
Kim Whitley
Next week. Grown man got hair under his arm. He shows me all the time. Okay, what's he like? Joshua is. He's a regular teenager. Okay. Because he smells and he's mean and all that. But to his core, he is empathetic. He's kind and he's fun. So I'm very.
Jeff Lewis
Does he have your sense of humor?
Kim Whitley
He tries. I'm funnier. But, yes, he does have my sense of humor. You know, they say nurture nature and nurture. Even though he didn't come, you know, through me, he came to me, and I have put much. But it's very hard, like raising your child. Jeff, let me tell you something. You think every day, how am I molding this human being? I talked to a girl friends. Oh, my God, these men here in la, the. The Filipino, she needs a boyfriend. Find her one and very pretty girl. And she said, these men are horrible here. Blah, blah, blah. And I said, what I don't want anyone to say about my son is that he's a horrible person. He might not be, you know, your relationship might not work out, but I want him to be known with a woman that he was kind and he was honest. I don't want to hear like, she was talking about guy was mean. I don't want my son to be mean. So it's a. How do you. This is gonna sound crazy. Everyone follow me. How do you raise the man that you would want to date?
Michael Beck
It's true.
Kim Whitley
Put that on the table.
Michael Beck
It's good to hear, especially as, like a gay person. Like, I want kids. And society tells you, like, a child needs A mother and a father, but really they don't, you know, and they just need a whole village of people around them. And so it's like, actually, it's very sweet to hear.
Kim Whitley
Good, I hope that you do that. Bring everyone in. Because what I learned is my son, even now as a baby, I never held him. He went to every. So he has never been afraid of people, which is kind of bad because one day I saw him go over my brother's house. He was over the neighbor's house, sitting down their backyard, eating. And they're Indian. And I was like, you know, the communication. He was over there with them, came back, he had some Indian food. He was five years old. So his fear and peace.
Jeff Lewis
There's no stranger danger.
Kim Whitley
There's no stranger nothing. He just found out that his uncle was gay. Even though he's been wearing bling bling and long hair and everything. He literally said to me, he's gay too. That's what I was like, Yep, got too many gay people in my life.
Michael Beck
His gay art's just as bad as yours.
Kim Whitley
No, he doesn't know Rainbow is gay.
Jeff Lewis
Sunshine are gay.
Shannon Beador
Butterfly.
Michael Beck
Rainbow.
Shannon Beador
Butterfly.
Jeff Lewis
No.
Kim Whitley
This is what's so crazy. I don't think he knows what the word. He knows gay, but he doesn't put a. A thing on it. Like, he's not a. They're humans. This is his uncle. This is his.
Jeff Lewis
Did Rainbow and Butterfly sign a contract to help raise him too?
Kim Whitley
No, they weren't around at that time.
Jeff Lewis
It's not too late.
Kim Whitley
That's a good idea.
Jeff Lewis
Maybe they could sign the contract. I'll sign it. I'll sign it.
Kim Whitley
Will you sign? Be his uncle because you got money. My friends, I need him to be in your will. I mean, that's the thing. Now your daughter is daughter, right?
Jeff Lewis
Yes.
Kim Whitley
Are you gonna raise her to be the woman that somebody would want to date? The woman, the mother, the wife.
Jeff Lewis
She's already a little high maintenance, Kim. Because I spoil her. And I don't do it.
Kim Whitley
Don't do it, don't do it.
Jeff Lewis
But it's not just like spoiling her with material things. It is like I make sure she has fresh flowers in her room every week and her bathroom. Like, I do little things for her. Do you know what I'm saying? So if I bathe her, it's a whole spa thing with the music and the bath salts and hand foot massages. So I spoil her. Not just materially, but I very much spoil her. So somebody. It's a high bar. It is a Very high bar.
Kim Whitley
So how do you balance that? And I say that even with my son. How do we let them see normal, be with normal people, like in the hood, like the food bank. How do we let them go to a. Not public school? But you gotta. How are you going to balance that?
Jeff Lewis
That needs to happen. Kim, that needs. She's got, she does not have perspective.
Shannon Beador
I have three daughters, and so they, when I raised them, they were involved in charity work and giving back. And I used to say to them all the time, I told you, you say if you do drugs, you die. It could be the first time I'm.
Jeff Lewis
Going to do it. You were telling me that last night.
Shannon Beador
But if you do drugs, you die. So they, they've tried marijuana before, but they've done zero drugs. And then I also say you need to be the girls that boys want to bring home to mom and dad. You're not the easy, fast girls. You want to be the girl that gets taken home. So. And I think I have, I've raised three pretty good kids.
Jeff Lewis
Yes, they are great kids.
Kim Whitley
I know. Are they balanced? Because I'm going to be honest, my son is not the perspective that you're talking about. How do you do that when you live a life as we live, not wealthy and all that, but how do you balance that when this is what we do? How do we look at that and say, hey, I know the charity work, but bringing like in my house, of course I have black, white, everybody's in my house, all kind of people. So I made sure my son understood the world. But when he goes to a school that doesn't look like him and his friends don't look like him, and your children might, but how do you bring them into. And I'm saying this as a black woman, and for you guys, how do you bring your children into. Be empathetic to different societies and communities such as my community, even for my.
Jeff Lewis
Son, I think there's a lot of diversity in my home. But I think where the issue is is I think it's more income and financial. I want her to be able to understand because she does just expect things and she doesn't really understand what things cost and how other kids. Although she has been pretty good about, I've talked to her about giving to people in need. And so she's been very good about going through with her toys and let's give away this and let's give away that. And I try to explain that a lot of. I try to explain all of that to her. But until you see it?
Michael Beck
That's her currency. That's what she knows. But now that she's becoming more like financially aware, I think she has gotten a little more. A little more aware. Like now that she has her own bank account and her own money, like she can at least kind of. Cuz but before then, if something cost $50, she's like, she does. Has no concept of what that means to the world.
Kim Whitley
How does she ever own bank account? Is she earning the money and putting it in there?
Jeff Lewis
No. See, because that doesn't help the case.
Shannon Beador
What about when you do chores?
Kim Whitley
Does she have. What's it called, the allowance?
Shannon Beador
Right. I used to get paid $3 an hour and I had to haul logs in the wheelbarrow and clean out the horse stalls. And I did that too.
Kim Whitley
It does make a difference, I know.
Shannon Beador
To learn the value of the dog.
Jeff Lewis
We talked about that for like two years with chores.
Kim Whitley
Does she have a phone yet?
Jeff Lewis
No.
Kim Whitley
Oh, good.
Jeff Lewis
I don't want her to have a phone.
Kim Whitley
First phone, if she ever gets it, you have to make her buy it. You cannot buy her that phone. My son saved.
Jeff Lewis
That's what she's saving for. But I keep telling her I'm like, I'm not paying the monthly plan. Not now. She's too young. She's not.
Kim Whitley
No. Yeah, you can't give her a phone now.
Michael Beck
I think it's also important that you take her to. To give back. Like not just taking her Barbies and saying, oh, I'm gonna give these Barbies away, but actually going and showing her the people that are in need and.
Jeff Lewis
Are gonna take Jamie's house.
Michael Beck
We need to bring Oscar the Barbies.
Jeff Lewis
I had that dream again.
Kim Whitley
My small business needs to hire, but.
Jeff Lewis
I don't use LinkedIn and I hire wrong.
Kim Whitley
So then I'm doing it. And when I go to plug the servers in, they become sentient and they won't let us access our network unless.
Jeff Lewis
We forward their chain emails and memes.
Kim Whitley
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Michael Beck
He's so handsome.
Kim Whitley
Oh. I mean, how long y' all been together before you just move in?
Jeff Lewis
He can't go to the country club.
Kim Whitley
You are silly. Yes. That's what they want. They want more inclusive, though.
Michael Beck
This is the time he'd like to join.
Kim Whitley
Yes.
Jeff Lewis
Okay. So we were talking at the break about the country club that I'm interested in joining, and they had to change the name because they were reinventing themselves, Correct?
Kim Whitley
Yeah, absolutely right. And they have the new restaurant. And I went up there for the first time because I was like, I'm not going up there. But Kenny Lofton, baseball player for the Dodgers back in the day, he invited me there. And it was lovely. It was lovely.
Jeff Lewis
Well, it's very close to your home. It's right there, so you can meet me.
Kim Whitley
I will meet you for lunch.
Jeff Lewis
While Monroe takes her tennis lessons, you and I can eat in the new restaurant.
Kim Whitley
I was gonna say, but she can take her. I have actually a great tennis coach that does come to my house. Caroline, Ray's coach. And then I forgot it and didn't get Joshua tennis lessons, and now he's 14, so I messed up. But she has a great tennis coach that can come to the house. He knows exactly where it is.
Jeff Lewis
I think at the country club, you have to use their pros. And I asked them, I said, do you have any female pros? And they said they had.
Kim Whitley
So.
Jeff Lewis
Yeah.
Michael Beck
Okay. Or if there's a gay, she would like that.
Jeff Lewis
She loves gays. You're right. She loves. She's like, kim loves the gays.
Kim Whitley
She loves the gays. Let's see. Do I know gay? Probably.
Shannon Beador
But then there's play. Like, she.
Jeff Lewis
She has taken some lessons already. Now, there is a restaurant that we've been talking about. Kim, have you heard of Tam o'? Shanter?
Shannon Beador
I have.
Jeff Lewis
You have?
Shannon Beador
Like, when I grew. I grew up here in la.
Jeff Lewis
You've been there.
Shannon Beador
Wait, where is it?
Michael Beck
It's like an iconic place.
Jeff Lewis
Wait, but isn't it, like Silver Lake? Los Feliz?
Shannon Beador
Are you sure there wasn't another one before? More on the west side?
Jeff Lewis
There could have been.
Michael Beck
It's part of the. Oh, it's a Scottish steakhouse, I think Lowry's.
Kim Whitley
Oh, nice.
Michael Beck
I think. Same owners. Is Lowry. Over a hundred years old?
Kim Whitley
It's over a hundred years old.
Jeff Lewis
So, wow, Listen to this.
Kim Whitley
I'm listening.
Jeff Lewis
Michael takes his handsome boyfriend Austin, and they have a nice date night out.
Michael Beck
Throughout because they go crazy for Christmas there. Like, this is their whole thing, like you do.
Jeff Lewis
But honestly, I bet the decorations aren't even as good as Kim's because she's got rainbow and butterfly.
Kim Whitley
I have rainbow and butterfly.
Michael Beck
They have carolers that come to your table and you pay them.
Jeff Lewis
That's annoying. That's annoying. I don't want that.
Shannon Beador
I do stare at them the whole time.
Jeff Lewis
Oh, yeah.
Michael Beck
I love it.
Shannon Beador
It's so cute.
Jeff Lewis
All right, so what happened? You had a beautiful dinner. What did you order?
Michael Beck
This is such a weird coincidence.
Shannon Beador
I've seen that sign before.
Kim Whitley
Look at that.
Jeff Lewis
How many entrees did you have?
Michael Beck
Well, I had the prime rib and it was very bitter and so good. But no, look at this. It's such a coincidence that Jameson was talking about this yesterday because I had talked to Kian earlier in the day, not knowing I hadn't listened to radio until later. And I had. I always wanted to warn Jameson.
Jeff Lewis
Listen to this shit. What went down.
Michael Beck
So my boyfriend is the. He's like Ty. He's like the sweetest guy in the world. Like, just friendly to everyone.
Kim Whitley
Love it.
Michael Beck
Just very kind and almost a little, like, so kind. He's just oblivious to the craziness of the outside world. So we have a waiter who is clearly gay, very gay.
Jeff Lewis
And he's being very like, Shane gay.
Michael Beck
Or keen shout out waiter.
Kim Whitley
Yeah, or the little redhead gay.
Jeff Lewis
No, that's very gay.
Kim Whitley
He's a different gay. Yeah.
Michael Beck
Like Shane gay. Like a swish. And you know what's a swish? You know, like when you walk just that little swish.
Kim Whitley
Yeah, you got a swish. I like the swish.
Michael Beck
I like that one. Yeah. So he's clearly gay. He's being very friendly, and Austin's being very friendly, as he always is. And he's telling us he just moved to town. He's new here. He just. His first job in town, and he's, like, looking for new friends. And Austin, being the sweet boy that he is, is like, oh, my gosh, we'll be your friends. Like, you know, we. We're always making new friends and, like. And so Austin, at the end of the dinner, Austin tells me I'm gonna ask him for his number so that we can, like, reach out to him.
Kim Whitley
Oh, Austin is the best.
Michael Beck
Red flag number one. When he brought us our bill, he had already written his phone number with a little smiley face on it before we even asked. I was like, oh, okay, that's interesting. I guess he does want to be friends. So then we get home, Austin sends him a text, and it's like, was nice meeting you, thank you for dinner. He gave us a free dessert. Very sweet. His response? Hey, stud.
Kim Whitley
Wait, wait, Isn't that a. Wait, wait, hold up. Wait. I know what stud is. It's not a man.
Michael Beck
Well, okay, I'm confused.
Kim Whitley
Okay, sorry.
Michael Beck
Two versions of stud is a butch lesbian.
Kim Whitley
Right?
Michael Beck
But also, stud is like a term of endearment, like, for somebody that's.
Jeff Lewis
Oh, I didn't know that. I didn't know a stud was a butch lesbian.
Shannon Beador
I didn't either.
Kim Whitley
Yes, that's the only word you know for sure. I didn't even know that. Oh, I got a lot of stud friends.
Michael Beck
Like Niecy Nash's wife is a stud is a stud.
Kim Whitley
Yes.
Jeff Lewis
I've never even heard of this before. God, and I thought I was down with all the lesbians.
Kim Whitley
No, no, stud is a big thing. Like, a stud would make me attracted to them. That's what a stud is. Okay, go ahead.
Michael Beck
It's also more so in the black community. Like a stud female lesbian stud. Yeah.
Jeff Lewis
Okay, so.
Kim Whitley
So go ahead, go ahead.
Michael Beck
Hey, stud Z.
Shannon Beador
That's better.
Michael Beck
Was so nice meeting you guys. Would love to hang out. By the way, you guys are really sexy.
Jeff Lewis
You guys were some sexy men. That's what he said.
Michael Beck
Yes, some sexy.
Kim Whitley
Okay, that's good. That's a compliment. I would have said that.
Jeff Lewis
No, he wants a threesome, Kim.
Michael Beck
Yeah.
Jeff Lewis
No, no, we don't get with my man solicitation. Oh, my God, he's a prostitute.
Kim Whitley
No, this is not. Listen here, little skinny, show your waistline girl over there. Let me give you a rule, young lady. Anytime a big girl comes in, you hide your little stomach. Messing with my self esteem. I say my contract. Okay, go ahead now tell the story.
Jeff Lewis
Cover up, Annie.
Kim Whitley
Cover up Annie. Need to hear you see her little belly button. Go ahead.
Michael Beck
I feel seen.
Kim Whitley
So. I don't believe this.
Michael Beck
He was hitting on absolutely us.
Kim Whitley
No, no, no, no, no.
Jeff Lewis
You just.
Shannon Beador
After that.
Michael Beck
No, Austin was like, what does this mean? And I was like, he's hitting on us. He wants to have a threesome with us. He does not want to be friends.
Kim Whitley
No, no, no. I do not believe. I gotta. I gotta disagree, because it could be a little like, oh, let me see. Where you all gonna go? If he would have said it was a little tap tap. If he would have said, what are you guys doing tonight? Then he's hitting on you if he just says you're sexy. Guys, you're. I'm looking at you. I want to lick your teeth. Your teeth are beautiful. She wants a threesome tomorrow. Okay, see, that's the.
Jeff Lewis
What do you think?
Michael Beck
She.
Shannon Beador
I think that I agree. Like, you don't know.
Jeff Lewis
I don't know.
Shannon Beador
He wants to try to be nice.
Michael Beck
Okay, let's reframe it.
Kim Whitley
Okay.
Michael Beck
You go to dinner with your man, you'd be nice. And the waitress. The waitress asks for your man's phone number and then text him, hey, sexy.
Jeff Lewis
You're a sexy couple.
Michael Beck
Yeah, you're a sexy couple. So you don't think they're trying to have a threesome?
Jeff Lewis
He is. No, I think he went on to sleep with Austin. And maybe he'll let you watch.
Kim Whitley
I have been hit on.
Shannon Beador
Did you block the number?
Michael Beck
I was hoping he was like a little chubby chaser and he was thinking I was cute.
Kim Whitley
He does think you're cute. You're very cute.
Jeff Lewis
No, he doesn't. He was flirting with Austin.
Kim Whitley
No, don't agree. Cause you are handsome. You're tripping. Get your self esteem together. If you were straight, I would be winking at you right now.
Jeff Lewis
Yeah, well, the problem is he comes in here and again, her little. Her little tummy makes him feel fat.
Michael Beck
I'll tell you after. You telling him he's fat makes you're not fat.
Jeff Lewis
I also tell him he's fat. Do you?
Kim Whitley
Oh, I'm done. I'm done.
Michael Beck
Chef Reed, the last two times I've been here, they made me get on a scale live on the reservoir.
Kim Whitley
What are you doing?
Michael Beck
Yes.
Kim Whitley
You need therapy now.
Michael Beck
He got fat last summer.
Kim Whitley
You are gorgeous.
Michael Beck
He got fat last summer.
Jeff Lewis
He does have a pretty face.
Kim Whitley
You gained some weight last summer.
Michael Beck
Yeah, I gained a little weight.
Shannon Beador
Yeah, you wear it well.
Michael Beck
But I'm losing it. I'm on my way down. 2026, new year, new meat.
Jeff Lewis
Oh, really? Where are you today?
Kim Whitley
I got some zest meat.
Jeff Lewis
Go get the scale. We're not doing this again.
Michael Beck
Not in front of Kim.
Jeff Lewis
No, because you lost weight.
Michael Beck
We have a guest here.
Jeff Lewis
What are you worried about?
Michael Beck
You lost. No, no.
Jeff Lewis
Get the scales.
Kim Whitley
Your face is a God. You're chiseled.
Michael Beck
Thank you. After seeing your house, I am straight and I think we should get a lavender.
Kim Whitley
Can we have a lavender?
Jeff Lewis
Oh, my God. You could have tennis people over for tennis parties.
Michael Beck
I love tennis. Tennis lessons, pickleball.
Jeff Lewis
Pickleball, basketball. What else?
Kim Whitley
I have pickleball, basketball, volleyball, roller skating, and roller Skating.
Jeff Lewis
Oh, you love that.
Michael Beck
I'm gonna help you raise Joshua.
Kim Whitley
Oh, I got another villager.
Jeff Lewis
We're gonna take a break. Cause you're gonna go get on that scale.
Kim Whitley
No, you'.
Michael Beck
We're not going into the new year like this.
Jeff Lewis
Yes, we are.
Michael Beck
Last weigh in of the year. I'm going to do it. If Jeff does it, Jeff's going to do it today, too.
Kim Whitley
Now what?
Jeff Lewis
All right, but I have some very heavy boots on. Just keep that in mind.
Michael Beck
And a bbl.
Jeff Lewis
But I'll get on the scale.
Kim Whitley
Do you really have a bbl?
Jeff Lewis
I had some injections, too.
Kim Whitley
Can I touch it?
Jeff Lewis
Oh, totally. I'll show it to you.
Kim Whitley
Oh, my God. I got to see it. It's going to be interesting. Fantastic. Shannon, you got to see this. They are making Jeff get on the scale.
Shannon Beador
No, he's taking off the heavy boot.
Kim Whitley
And what's the cute. The cute man?
Shannon Beador
Michael.
Kim Whitley
Michael and Michael. He's so cute. They are actually getting on the scale. But this is good because it's the end of the year, so we're gonna start the new year. Is Jeff big? Is he big? Come on in there, big bitch.
Shannon Beador
Oh, but he took. We'll take the boots off, right?
Kim Whitley
He took the boots off.
Michael Beck
This is the most he's ever weighed. What was you, Michael?
Kim Whitley
Jeff. Michael's 201. What were you this summer in October, August?
Michael Beck
212 When I came out.
Jeff Lewis
Okay.
Michael Beck
Look at you. You're already 212. All right. No, no, he was 200. 200.
Kim Whitley
That's good. He's seven feet tall.
Michael Beck
That's the most he's ever been on this scale. You're 200.
Jeff Lewis
Was 199.8.
Kim Whitley
But get closer to the mic, please. I need you closer to the mic.
Michael Beck
At his best, he is 190.
Kim Whitley
But you know what? This is the thing. You. I'm looking at you, Jeff, and you have good man weight. You don't. Don't get too thin. This is good for you. It's something my boy Ty told me. He needs something to hold on to.
Jeff Lewis
Well, okay, so as you age, and.
Shannon Beador
If you're too thick, you don't want to be gaunt when you get older.
Michael Beck
Old man.
Jeff Lewis
Okay, When I weighed myself this morning, it was 194.8. But I've had two bit. I've had two.
Michael Beck
You did not gain six.
Shannon Beador
You had a Pop Tart. I left my clothes on a Pop Tartar.
Jeff Lewis
All right? So I gained another pound. So Now I'm at 1-7893lbs of clothes. It totally makes sense. No, but I'm still, you know, I still need to lose £5.
Kim Whitley
No, you don't. What? What is the need? Okay, let me understand everything. Why?
Jeff Lewis
I just want good naked weight. I have good clothes.
Shannon Beador
It's not the number. It's not the number. It's how you look in your clothes.
Kim Whitley
And how you look at your clothes and how you feel. Naked weight means if so you took £5 off. You're chiseled. I mean, what is this naked weight?
Jeff Lewis
I want naked weight.
Michael Beck
He's added some weight with his fake ass, though. So, like, he's had some injections. So I think that's it.
Shannon Beador
Filler. They put filler in your fanny?
Jeff Lewis
It's.
Kim Whitley
Pretty much bad. Or is it? Is it?
Jeff Lewis
No, it's actually what it does, is your body absorbs it and creates collagen. So when you feel it, it feels like. It feels like a normal ass.
Kim Whitley
Oh, I'm going to feel it.
Jeff Lewis
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Kim Whitley
Don't worry.
Jeff Lewis
Are you. But just don't go between the cheeks.
Kim Whitley
Why not? That's one of the best parts. Are you kidding me?
Michael Beck
You don't know what's in there, girl.
Kim Whitley
Oh, Lord. Okay, okay, let me feel this.
Michael Beck
He's got filler in his fanny.
Kim Whitley
Wait, wait, let me see. It's a new brand. I need a beforehand.
Michael Beck
Look at that thing. Oh, he has pictures before and after. Give it a squeeze. Oh, oh, oh, no, no.
Kim Whitley
It's soft on the bottom. Like, the underneath part is gray. Shane is saying pull your pants down. It's a muscle on the top.
Michael Beck
No, baby, that's collagen. The collagen buildup around the top.
Kim Whitley
So listen, so if I grabbed you, if I reached under, give it a big squat. Oh, my God.
Michael Beck
Be careful, though.
Kim Whitley
I just got moist. Get away from me. That is nice.
Shannon Beador
That was worth the money.
Kim Whitley
Girl, you gotta feel that. Get under. No, go under the cup. Get your fingers under there.
Jeff Lewis
Be careful.
Michael Beck
Watch your. Watch your hand. Cause that thing's hungry.
Kim Whitley
It's hungry.
Michael Beck
That thing is hungry.
Kim Whitley
That was worth it. You know what I like? It's just a regular, nice little. Just a nice.
Jeff Lewis
Jeff.
Shannon Beador
You, like, pushed my hand.
Kim Whitley
I need to see the. Before pushing.
Michael Beck
Told you. It's hungry.
Kim Whitley
It was no booty at all.
Michael Beck
Ties in town.
Kim Whitley
That's nice. Then. You did a good job.
Jeff Lewis
Thank you.
Kim Whitley
Would have been worth it.
Michael Beck
Thank you, doctor. Curves.
Jeff Lewis
Yeah, it's a nice little. Yeah, it's a nice little.
Kim Whitley
Yeah.
Jeff Lewis
Thank you, Kim. I'll let you know. I mean, if you don't need It.
Kim Whitley
I need it. No, no, no. I have a lot of European in my family.
Jeff Lewis
I wonder if Steve Gutenberg has a nice ass.
Kim Whitley
Okay, can we call.
Michael Beck
We just got divorced this year.
Kim Whitley
Okay, wait, that's too soon. How long ago?
Michael Beck
This year.
Jeff Lewis
This year.
Kim Whitley
Oh, no, you got to. Well, this year, like six months ago. He's fine. He's.
Jeff Lewis
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Kim Whitley
He's a man. Women got to take all the time. He's great. Yes. It's time. He is primed.
Shannon Beador
Okay.
Kim Whitley
Did you DM him?
Jeff Lewis
No, I DM'd him.
Shannon Beador
I'm not a pursuer.
Kim Whitley
I. Oh, you gonna be by your damn self.
Shannon Beador
Traditional.
Kim Whitley
So you want somebody to see you walk over.
Shannon Beador
Well, I mean, I want. I'm the woman, so I want to be the woman in the relationship. Like I.
Kim Whitley
Okay, okay.
Shannon Beador
Now, what is that at my bottom?
Jeff Lewis
No, don't. Don't even say that.
Kim Whitley
No, no. I am going to D him my damn self. I'm your representative. How about that?
Shannon Beador
Hey, well, by the way, Jeff did DM him. And get this. He read the message 15 hours ago and he. Yet he did not respond.
Michael Beck
Can we check?
Jeff Lewis
I asked. We need to DM a picture. I said I'm a fan. I'd love to have him on the radio show.
Michael Beck
Let's DM a picture of Shannon.
Jeff Lewis
No, I thought we would bring him on the show and have Shannon on.
Kim Whitley
Boom. Smart, smart.
Jeff Lewis
Oh, also, you should have your wing woman here.
Kim Whitley
Wing woman in his house?
Jeff Lewis
Yes.
Kim Whitley
Let's put it on the book. I'm not gonna be regular. But what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna ask all the questions that you wanna know so you look like the woman you wanna be like.
Jeff Lewis
The same questions you did to Ty.
Kim Whitley
Oh, yeah. I know all his information. I know about his sister. I know everything about the sister.
Shannon Beador
Passed.
Kim Whitley
Love.
Michael Beck
Those are just normal questions you ask somebody you're dating.
Kim Whitley
I know his mother passed. His daddy. They were in the army. I know everything. So what I'm gonna do for you is we're gonna play. You're gonna be sweet and cute. Let me see your cute face. Blink and just look over.
Jeff Lewis
Isn't she pretty bashful?
Kim Whitley
So look over and be bashful. Like, hi. That's cute. See, she got it together.
Jeff Lewis
That's cute.
Kim Whitley
So you're gonna do that. And I'm.
Jeff Lewis
She can flirt.
Michael Beck
She's sweating.
Shannon Beador
Gotcha.
Kim Whitley
She's nervous and I just wanna say, how you doing after your divorce? Really great. Great.
Michael Beck
She wants to be the first lady.
Kim Whitley
See, I'm gonna do all that.
Michael Beck
Why'd you break up?
Kim Whitley
Yeah. Why did you break up? You don't mind sharing with us?
Jeff Lewis
You're charitable too. He'. Activist. But you work at the church boutique.
Shannon Beador
I do. I volunteer at my church.
Kim Whitley
Do you love animals?
Shannon Beador
Yes. And I'm having an auction of when in February of my clothes that I've worn on the show, and I'm donating it to the Southern California golden retriever rescue. I just rescued a dog from there.
Kim Whitley
Steve's gonna love that. No, he's gonna love the clothes.
Michael Beck
Yes, Kelsey, that.
Kim Whitley
He's gonna go crazy.
Michael Beck
She's so forgiving.
Kim Whitley
And every now and then just go, arf, arf. I just. Everybody, you're the dog.
Michael Beck
No, she's first lady in the street.
Kim Whitley
What?
Michael Beck
And double penetration in the sheets. Is that right? Double penetration.
Kim Whitley
Hold up. Dual action. Dual action. She's a lady. She's a virgin. Malefaction. Dual action.
Michael Beck
I forgot, this is not your servant.
Jeff Lewis
What are you.
Kim Whitley
You cannot be on the show when.
Michael Beck
He comes somewhere else.
Kim Whitley
No, he cannot, buddy.
Michael Beck
You still have me at Tam o'. Shanter.
Kim Whitley
What?
Jeff Lewis
So listen to this.
Michael Beck
Dual action. She's a dual action.
Kim Whitley
She's two hands. Praise the Lord.
Jeff Lewis
Coincidentally.
Kim Whitley
Look, she's meditating again.
Jeff Lewis
You know the little redhead?
Kim Whitley
Little redhead?
Jeff Lewis
He and his boyfriend, they have reservations this weekend at Tam o'. Shanter's.
Kim Whitley
No. So we're gonna set them up, tell him how he looks, and I want them to sit and see what happens. Put them at the same table.
Jeff Lewis
Hey, sexy guys.
Shannon Beador
Well, you know his name, right? So you can. They can request him.
Kim Whitley
Request him?
Shannon Beador
Station.
Jeff Lewis
Don't say his name. We don't want him to get fired. Don't say.
Michael Beck
No, I gotta ask Austin what his name is.
Kim Whitley
No, no, not on here. But you can tell.
Shannon Beador
Yeah, tell Jameson.
Kim Whitley
Yeah, tell Jameson to ask for his.
Michael Beck
Jason. Also, Jameson also has a sexy chocolate man. So I think that's what. It's his type.
Jeff Lewis
Yeah, yeah, see, I do think it's his type. I think he's. I think he's going. I think he was not interested in you. Sorry. I think that. I think that he's going to be very interested in Frank. Not Jameson. I don't think Jameson is his type.
Michael Beck
Is the server white or black? White. And so he let.
Kim Whitley
Yeah, y' all are killing me. I cannot be here.
Michael Beck
But the problem is that this server also has a gay swish and he's just like Jameson. So he's not going to be interested. Frank might be into it. Frank might Take the bait. Take the bait.
Shannon Beador
They've been together now how long?
Jeff Lewis
Two years.
Michael Beck
Yeah, that's perfect. Time to open up.
Shannon Beador
Uhuh.
Kim Whitley
Not two years. No opening up. No opening up.
Jeff Lewis
Does anyone else want to feel my ass before we go?
Michael Beck
Okay, this show has gone off the rails.
Kim Whitley
I want to. I want to take a picture of your ass. Take it to a doctor and say, give me the same ass.
Jeff Lewis
Oh, give me a picture.
Kim Whitley
Happy Happy New Year.
Michael Beck
Happy New Year.
Kim Whitley
Happy Happy New Year.
Jeff Lewis
Thanks for listening. If you want more of this, listen to Jeff Lewis Lad every weekday on SiriusXM as well as the Jeff Lewis Channel, exclusively on the SiriusXM app.
Kim Whitley
We've all been there. You hold on to a coupon, hoping to cash it in at the store, but then you forget about it and suddenly you've got a mountain of useless expired coupons.
Jeff Lewis
Do you think this one's still good? Free milk?
Kim Whitley
Oh, mate, that expired in 1993. Dang it. Fortunately, there are better ways to save money. Like by switching to Geico, you could save about $900 on car insurance without ever touching a coupon. Ooh, how about this one? Half off floppy disks. Now you should try a bit of spring cleaning.
Jeff Lewis
It feels good to save big.
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Episode: Kym Whitley, Shannon Beador, & Michael Beck: Rainbow & Butterfly
Date: January 9, 2026
Host: Jeff Lewis
Guests: Kym Whitley, Shannon Beador, Michael Beck
This lively episode brings together comedian Kym Whitley, “Real Housewives of Orange County” star Shannon Beador, and regular “Chump” Michael Beck for a spirited, unfiltered conversation. The group takes listeners on a hilarious ride through stories of holiday décor by "the gays," country club drama, raising empathetic (and high-maintenance) kids, awkward encounters with overly friendly waiters, and weight anxieties fresh into 2026. As always, Jeff weaves his personal drama and sharp wit into every subject.
On Filipino Karaoke Talent:
“First of all, they are the nicest people. ... And they laugh a lot. And they're great singers.”
— Kym Whitley (02:57)
On Adoption Shock:
“She literally has the baby. Leaves the baby at the hospital with my name and phone number.”
— Kym Whitley (20:19)
On Parental Reality:
“You got one egg left and you ain't got no man. Go get that baby!”
— Kim’s mother, relayed by Kym (21:42)
On Sexual Innuendo:
“You got to tell me. Do you want to hit or you want it forever? What do you want to know?”
— Kym Whitley to Shannon (13:44)
On Diversity & Parenting:
“How do we let them see normal, be with normal people, like in the hood, like the food bank…?”
— Kim Whitley (28:58)
On Wait Staff Flirting:
“When he brought us our bill, he had already written his phone number with a little smiley face on it...”
— Michael Beck (40:09)
On Body Image Ritual:
“I just want good naked weight. I have good clothes… I want naked weight.”
— Jeff Lewis (46:44)
Matchmaking, Blunt Approach:
“I am going to D him my damn self. I'm your representative. How about that?”
— Kym Whitley (49:22)
Physical Comedy:
“No, go under the cup. Get your fingers under there.”
— Kym Whitley, encouraging Shannon to test Jeff’s butt filler (47:59)
| Segment | Timestamp | |-------------------------------------------|-------------| | Kym references Filipino makeup artists | 02:29–03:54 | | Jeff recounts office party snub | 07:56–09:34 | | Kim’s “Rainbow & Butterfly” decorators | 10:55–14:40 | | Kym’s adoption story | 20:19–24:46 | | Parenting & teaching kids empathy | 28:58–32:03 | | Flirty waiter at Tam O'Shanter | 39:03–42:20 | | Weigh-ins and butt filler banter | 43:47–48:15 | | Dual action jokes, Shannon matchmaking | 51:11–52:15 |
The episode is unscripted, raucous, and rooted in the candid, fast-paced, shade-throwing style Jeff Lewis is known for. The group bounces between zinging one-liners, genuine personal stories, and affectionate ribbing, with colorful language and no shortage of playful (and bawdy) digs.
This episode exemplifies why “Jeff Lewis Has Issues” is beloved: outrageous storytelling, heart (especially in Kym’s adoption tale), and no shortage of unfiltered, irreverent banter. For those new to the show, expect laughter, some shock, and even some real warmth beneath the snark.