Melissa Rivers joins Trending to chat about her 'Group Text' podcast, her favorite emoji, and so much more. 

Melissa Rivers joins Trending to chat about her 'Group Text' podcast, her favorite emoji, and so much more.&nbsp;

Podcast Host Melissa Rivers Talks 'Group Text'

so melissa. Good to have you here. Thanks so much for joining us. Let's talk about your podcast. Group Text. You started this three years ago, so I'm curious what have you learned about the podcasting world in those three years, and especially about the people on this show. Um you know, we started out very slowly and then we got hit by Covid, so it was just beginning when Covid started. Um so three years sounds like a lot, but you know, it was obviously very stop and start. What have I learned that it's fun, or at least I try and keep my podcast fun. Um you know, you learned so much about people. I try and at least for me, and it's something I've always done is keep conversations, keep the interviews very conversational and be prepared for it to go all different directions. I know when I'm being interviewed, I hate when it feels like someone's not listening or that it's repetitive and yeah, of course, there's questions we all have to ask. Like everyone's promoting something, but that's really boring. The point where I say to my guests, I'm like, okay, let's get the plug in, we'll do it at the top, we'll do it at the bottom. Now let's have a conversation, Yes. Tell us about your partnership with this battery company. By the way, let's talk about the important stuff and you have some amazing guests on this. I mean, you had your most recent episode, you had chris dancing on there. You have the great british bake off judges who I'm obsessed with paul Hollywood. So obsessed with them? I mean by the way, the sweetest, nicest, kindest people on the planet, but really a very eclectic group of people. So how do you sort of decide on who you want to be on the show and what direction to go on the show? Or do you kind of just let them do it? Oh, for the guests and I have to be interested in them. I have to think that I have something that I would be interested to talk to them about and if I don't, I'm kind of like, you know, I'm not sure I want them as a guest. But sometimes the people who booked the show for me or with me, I shall should say they're like, trust us, you're gonna have fun. And there they, you know, I do take their word for it. There's people that you have on that you expect like, oh my God, I can't wait. There's gonna be a blast and you're like boring. Yeah, someone that I find interesting. Yes. You know, it's like, you want to I always think about it as would I have been sitting next to this person at a dinner party. Well, I want to talk about your book. You recently released your book Lies My mother told me and I want to talk about your mom because I had worked at the network when you and your mom were both on fashion police And I still remember what it was like coming to work that that day. Why was it so important to sort of tell the story about the lies that your mom who was an icon of epic proportions. What she used to tell you? Well, people have to remember on the cover. It also says a work of nonfiction with the word non crossed out. So this kind of all its start my writing partner who's been my writing partner for years, who I think is hilarious. Um It started because everyone kept saying to me, what would your mom be saying right now? What would your mom have to say? And so it started out as writing an op pet answering that question. Then I got about halfway through that and I sent it to him and we're like what if we rewrote the history of the world according to my mother. Oh my God, I love that. Then we went well we actually to be honest and everyone gets sick of hearing this, we got stuck on Elba with napoleon. And we were trying to say that the real torture was it wasn't a Starbucks just couldn't make it work. So then we're like, well these are all lies. So what if it's about lives that my mother told me? So we just, you know, made up these outrageous stories and what I'm finding fascinating is people think their true, let's quickly go back melissa to your podcast. I have some group text inspired questions I really want to ask you really quickly. What's your go to emoji, Which one do you use the most often? Um laughing face or the little vomiting face coming? I use that. All my friends are like, you know, you okay? No, I'm always vomiting because everything is always making me sick. It's like something's upsetting you, you're like, how many people are in the biggest group text you're in right now? 16, Wow, that is a big one. Are you do you ever get annoyed by all the notifications in that all the freaking time? Okay. And I'll say I'll say and I have another one, that's the main one, that's eight and we have one friend that keeps trying to get out of it and we just keep re adding. Okay, does this group chat have a name, if not, what would you name any of them? Or do you name them at all? Um I didn't name, I can look right now. I didn't name this one and that's my main one. It's called only the best people who and who's in that one, anybody big in that one? No, no, but that's only the best people that Mhm