Amelia Lester
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Podcast Appearances
Fourth appearance starts to slur her words.
Fifth appearance gets worse and then there's the sixth appearance.
And, by the way, she was going to be on for a seventh appearance, it's speculated, but they pulled her from that one.
So let's have a listen to the particular clip which went viral because I'm going to tell you some more context about that that's going to change how you think about it.
I don't watch morning TV and I came across this exact clip and I thought, oh no, why is she talking about the price of coffee in the US?
Why is she talking about iguanas?
And the reason is very sensible.
In her previous five or six appearances on the Today Show, Karl Stefanovic,
had been talking to her about the fact that she's soon about to go to Vegas for the NRL's games there.
So she was referring back to their previous five conversations about her upcoming US trip.
And then the iguana bit, which I think everyone around the world just thought was so surreal and off the wall, is because literally throwing to her, Carl compares her
to an iguana, which, by the way, makes no sense.
He was, by all accounts, sober, but in his throwing to her on air, he compares her to an iguana.
She's naturally very confused by the comparison.
So it was just a reminder that nothing on the internet is as it seems.
Like when he first, when this happened, his immediate reaction was to say,
oh, it's very cold there and when I was reporting from Washington, D.C., my mouth didn't move properly because it was too cold.
Carl, of course, has been drunk on air himself and it was arguably the making of him.