Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang - "Blonde Ambition" (w/ Dave Mizzoni)

Episode Date: May 9, 2018

It’s FAMILY in the studio today!Fresh off getting his vocal polyps seared off and not speaking for 35 days, the incomparable Dave Mizzoni has returned to Las Culturistas to reveal his newly transformed voice. Spoiler alert: it's richer & smoother than you could ever imagine. And thank god, because the cultural discussions on today's docket deserve a voice like that. What's on the docket you ask? How 'bout Drag Race eliminations, Dua Lipa, Universal/Disney park developments, Handmaid’s Tale, sneak peaks at upcoming LIVE SHOWS with Matt, Bowen, and Dave...and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Plus, Sudi Green (or “friend that’s in the industry") phones in with some career advice on this week’s "Voice Mem-OH-you-bitch."---LAS CULTURISTAS HAS A PATREON! For $5/month, you get exclusive access to WEEKLY Patreon-ONLY Las Culturistas content!!https://www.patreon.com/lasculturistasSUBSCRIBE ON APPLE PODCASTS TODAY!CONNECT W/ LAS CULTURISTAS ON FACEBOOK & TWITTER for the best in "I Don't Think So, Honey" action, updates on live shows, conversations with the Las Culturistas community, and behind-the scenes photos/videos:www.facebook.com/lasculturistastwitter.com/lasculturistasLAS CULTURISTAS IS A FOREVER DOG PODCASTforeverdogpodcasts.com/las-culturistas  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Family In the studio Tonight it's just girls Tonight it's just Us girls Is what I meant to say Just us girls Just family

Um But here's the thing Mmm You may be shocked When you hear this episode Sonically There's a difference About our guest

He had his polyps chopped Polyps seared off baby She was working with nodes She was working with nodes for several years Grading those vocal cords together When we were finally shown Photos of throat, honey, it looked like a dangerous place. I never saw photos of the throat. But look, you know what?

For a period of time, I loved the rasp. But I mean, the rasp was part of the whole vibe. Right. But I'm happy for our guest because now they have a pure, clean tone. The glottals are glistened. The glottals are clear aftered. The glottals are clear after many weeks of vocal rest, honey. And that was

a true gag to hear our guests silent for several weeks. Oh no. I'm not reading you. I'm just saying you love to talk. And that must have been a struggle, you bitch. Yeah, so what? Character building. Okay, let's go through the credits. I am proud to go through the credits

because we share many credits together and I am very excited about the next few months with me and our guest. On May 11th, the return of our show Game Show to a new space, Caveat in the East Village, which we're so excited about.

This is going to be on May 11th. The doors are going to be on may 11th um the doors are going to be open at 11 we have amazing amazing guests at game show which is our show where we take two straight contestants and put them to the test to see who can um win our game of pop culture trivia so fun there's physical challenges emotional challenges honey you gotta come we'll talk more about that later um also on july 18th and i know this is a ways away but we're just so excited it's it's one of the things we've been we're so excited about for so long yes our new show called the list is going to be at the public

hotel and we are so excited about it we're going to talk about that july 18th yes and uh what else do we have here oh of course we are well well aware of this person from pop roulette a figure in our history our good judy and our uh compatriot on our orlando trips as well the storied orlando trips which we've just taken a new one as of late so there's plenty of tea to spill absolutely yes please welcome and he's newly blonde and newly blonde Please welcome our guest. And he's newly blonde. And newly blonde. Please welcome our guest. Dave Mazzone. Oh my god. Wow. What a drag through the mud.

What are you talking about? I think it's amazing that you vocally transformed. Oh my god bitch. Like that was a drag through the mud and then you just hoisted me up high at the last second. This is a roller coaster. You know how I do. She tears you down she builds you back up. Well I'm living and I'm here with my new voice. Yes.

Listen to that. I'm just saying, in 2013, that would never have happened. Absolutely not, girl. The chords missed each other every time. Oh, my God. You know, there was a lot of air. Can you explain what happened and then what was done? Okay, so basically, long story short, I did something to my vocal cords at like probably like a stupid

concert in like 2010 and had been compensating for the damage I did that one day whatever that was for a long time so these two polyps were small and then over time they grew and it got to a point you guys remember I couldn't even you could not phone it I could not phone it I could

wake up and like I could not answer the phone like it was terrible like I just could not speak and I had a month left on my could wake up and like, I could not answer the phone. Like it was terrible. Like I just could not speak. And I had a month left on my insurance. And like literally like, I remember this, I think three weeks after we recorded my first episode, like I went in, I went under the knife.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The guy was like, um, so this guy had done many, many surgeries. There were many assigned headshot in his,

um, in his office. Let me just say it was me just say, to the Broadway masses. So I felt comfortable and he was like, well, there's two ways we can do it. We can either use a cold serrated knife or we can

laser it off. And I was like, okay. What would you choose? I guess the laser because I don't like the idea of, I don't know the vocabulary he was cold serrated knife it was just like it sounded hostile why would he call it cold serrated see but here's the twist so then i was like well which one are you more comfortable with yeah how about that he was like i use the knife oh shit and i was like oh and i said yeah i want

the doctor to use whatever the doctor feels most comfortable with okay don't you agree i agree i know i do agree he so i was like whatever you prefer to do this with and and he was like usually when i when i scope a throat and i see something like this we recommend like six to twenty weeks of vocal therapy which is what um our friend is going through right now oh yeah yeah um so i was like well i don't have that time i drop off my insurance in two weeks and he was was like, I think I can pencil you in. And I like literally, Oh, this guy,

like my life, like he squeezed me in. I went from diagnosis to surgery in two weeks. They chopped him off. I was completely loony. Ariel, Ariel, my boyfriend and I had been dating for like maybe eight months.

And he like woke me up out of anesthesia and was, I couldn't speak for 30, 35 days. I did not wait. That's how long it was. It was 35 days. I'm telling you, it was a retreat. I didn't speak for 30 35 days I did not wait that's how long it was 35 days I'm telling you it was a retreat I didn't I actually did pay for but like

I mean like it was the retreat I didn't ask for like I had a marker board and I was coloring and I was like writing and this bitch talks yeah I mean I'm a talker like and that was a problem towards the end of him like I couldn't talk but I wanted to because like I would sometimes you accidentally do it like somebody bumps into you on the subway and you go Sorry, and then I would be like I would like feel my throat like shake and but I could also hear like every now and then

I would be like Just like test the waters And I would be like, oh my god, I can just do it if I want to yeah, but no baby That's it was a rebirth and like it just like you know When when you're a comedian you want to. Yeah. But no, baby, that's a temptation. It was a rebirth. And like, it just like, you know, when you're a comedian, you want to have cadence in your voice. You want to be able

to tell a story with like, you know, like your full range of- And also, you studied musical theater. Yeah, like having my voice and like not being able

to sing it was this weird, it's what pushed me in the comedy direction. But ultimately, I think it was for the best. But like, it just, it really changed

how I entered New York City. Like what I was doing and like where i was at it was it just was like i can't do this anymore yeah in my memory it flew by but 30 fucking days is a long i was off the grid man i was like not and my my boyfriend was so like that we were like so new in a relationship and the way that he was there for me was just like so had you guys been living together at that point um he'd been staying over like five nights a week so yeah i mean i loved him you know what happens when you fucking he's staying over a lot

oh my god yeah that shit was too much but let me just say it was hard to keep my mouth i'm not even gonna say it okay Okay. It was okay, bitch. I was making noises. Yeah, listen. The safest thing you could do during sex was No. Like you were Diana Ross herself. He would call me Michael Jackson because all I would do around the house would be like

This is, okay, everyone, mime just like, just without phonating. This is just, what would you look like if you were getting fucked? But you couldn't make any noise The crazy thing is you can't stop from making a noise. No you listen you make noise Oh my god, but sex noises we're open should be saying well, I'm saying We are Cameroon. Can I tell you why we're so open?

Matt, we're supposed to harmonize, you bitch. Cameroon. No, fuck it. The moment's over. Continue. What were you going to say? I'm just saying that Dave and I at my apartment were just watching old, old, old videos of Miss Kelly Clarkson on American Idol.

She's just in such a good place now. I was pandering to Matt. You were. I was like... He literally goes place now. I was pandering to Matt. You were. I was like, he literally goes to me, we're over in my apartment, we're having glass of wine before this,

and he goes to me, pull up a video of Kelly Clarkson that's new. Oh, so this was your idea. Well, we started by watching other videos of a different celebrity on a show, which we should talk about, which is Katy Perry on American Idol.

We watched Katy Perry on American Idol, and I was just showing him Ada Vox, the drag queen that actually sadly just got eliminated on american idol yes i heard the vocal wasn't great but it's still sad that you don't see the continue but then we crossed over into the voice videos and he said show me a recent video of kelly singing has she sung on the show and i was like is this bitch trying to pander to me right now why is he being nice to me he's never positive about kelly clarkson you always have something sharp to say i it wasn't just i guess i just the way that the way you like

get emotional about her sort of makes me sick in a way that i i make myself sick sometimes with the way in which i speak about these gaga and about these pop stars like sometimes i'm like oh dave you don't know that you got to take a step back but But I get it. It's easy to make fun of Kelly. Yeah, no. Well, sometimes she's just a hootin' hollerin' she wants a glass of wine. She's just very, it's funny. It's funny.

She's funny. But now that she's filtering that personality into the voice, it works. Like, I love her as a judge. I'm watching the voice. Yes. She looks happy.

She looks happy. That's great. That's all that matters. Yeah, it just seems like the vibes are good. She looks healthier, too. And they're's great. That's all that matters. Yeah, it just seems like the vibes are good. She looks healthier, too, and they're dressing her better. Good. It seems like we're in a Kelly renaissance in a way that I'm obsessed with.

River Rose is on set. She's on the- And Remy. She's on the Universal lot every day. Well, Matt also showed me this video of Kelly in the first season of American Idol when they go back home with a contestant. Oh, yeah. In this very first promo package.

When she came out, I was about to sing the very first like clip they showed before she sang. Yes. Yes. Was she's literally in the river. She's throwing a Nerf football in the river in Burleson, Texas. And I'm like,

yeah, this girl was country country, man. Yeah. And, but also like the voice, the voice of like Whitney, like crazy.

Even then, even then I, i i swear to god i did not care for the first season of american idol until like until um nicole mckibben whatever nicky mckibben nicky mckibben got eliminated i was like oh and and then i heard all this and then like by the final three i was like oh whoa yeah see i got on late i happened to catch on to it very early. Yes. But as someone who's often late on these big water cooler shows, I identify with what you're saying. Thank you.

That one I happened to be in from the beginning, and it was true. It was Kelly Clarkson and Tamira Gray, who coincidentally- You saw last night. We- You saw last night. Tell me about it. We went to go see Once on this Island last night on Broadway, and I'm so happy that we get to tell all the listeners. It is so good.

And you've seen it too. I saw it like maybe two months ago. And it was, first of all, I love Circle in the Square. Yeah. It is so good. It's so immersive. Not a bad seat. No, not a bad seat in the house.

And like, truly, you mean that. Yeah. And like, oh my God, the chicken. The chicken and the goat. And the goat, the animals. But also like just the performances. Like Norm Lewis was. Well, just the performances. Norm Lewis was... Well, we didn't see Norm Lewis.

Oh, so you didn't see Norm Lewis. We got Hayley Kilgore. We got Hayley Kilgore, who is stunning. To Miss Tamira Gray, who I have been a fan of hers for 16 years. And I have to say, shout out. She has become such an amazing, stunning artist. The way she uses her body on stage. She is a theatrical artist. Skilled theatrical artist. Yes, and she was amazing in stunning artist. The way she uses her body on stage, she is a theatrical artist.

A skilled theatrical artist. Yes, and she was amazing in the show. I saw her as Mimi and Ren, I told you earlier. She was also good in that. Absolutely. I'm telling you, Out Tonight was like,

you wanted it to be three acts. It was so good. It was so good. And also the emotional stuff that Mimi gets to do at the end of Rent, she nailed all of that. I mean, yeah, when she comes back from the gets to do at the end of Rent. Like she nailed all of that. I mean, yeah.

When she like comes back from the dead. I hate the end of Rent. Well, I'm talking about, I just came to say goodbye. I love. Also, without you is a special song. Without you is so beautiful. Without you is beautiful. Just Rosario Dawson in the tub was tough.

But the song on Broadway live on stage is amazing. I should tell you it's good, too. I should tell you it's amazing. We're just saying Tamira Gray was amazing in Once on this Island, and the real discovery for me was the lead girl, Hayley Kilgore. Hayley Kilgore, amazing.

This girl, she's really good, and she came out and stood up in her first position, and everyone applauded as if she was a big star, but no one knows her. She just commanded your attention. Yes. And also, for people who know the show, you know what she's coming out to sing.

Yeah, you know she's Timon. It's her entrance song. I said to Matt, it's the song that really carries out of that musical. It's the one that's in everyone's book. It's so good. I was trying to learn it today. I was like, yes, God,

I'm going to sing this at the next Cabernet Cabaret. Yes, waiting for life to begin. It's so good. We didn't get learn it today. I was like, yes, God, I'm going to sing this at the next Cabernet Cabaret. Yes. Waiting for life to begin. It's so good. We didn't get Alex Newell, which was a bummer. But the understudy was amazing. She was fabulous. Understudies are fantastic. Our own Amanda Sheckman, an understudy, and one of the most iconic singers I could know.

Yes. Yes. So give it up for understudies out there. When you see a Broadway show, you're going to get something amazing unless it's stunt casting. Oh, sure. Like, that's rule of culture number 14. When you see a Broadway show, you're going to get something amazing unless it's stunt casting. I held my breath during that.

You were like, are they going to get there? That was a long sentence, Bowen. How are you? I don't know how I got through that. Lea Salonga was gorgeous. Queen. Queen. I mean. You said she had an easy job, but she executed. I said through that. Leah Salonga was gorgeous. Queen. Queen. I mean.

You said she had an easy job, but she executed. I said, that bitch comes in there and collects a check. Yes, yes. She's fluent. Collects the check on her. You know she's the first one out of costume out the door in the taxi, 1115. But even Alex Newell, even the understudy barely put any effort into hitting all these crazy, amazing notes.

They just can do it, man. They can do it. And then like, like yep clock out absolutely clock out bitch she's on her way she's gonna stop at somewhere get a nice little piece

of cheesecake head home somewhere yeah go to Sardi's later why not stop in quick they know my name she's not having a martini tonight

no not never not never but also the thing is I just wanted to let everyone know Tamara Grace Slang yes at this point in her career

16 years later like in a different space than Kelly but they were the iconic two and we were also watching her videos before and she's always been a slave you know what's a travesty what i know this isn't like a bad this is a bad metric but tamira gray only has 8 000 twitter followers i know i saw that she should have hundreds upon hundreds of thousands i you know it's a it's a disappointing thing it's it's well it's more than we have. Yeah, I mean, of course. That's why I'm making a joke.

But she's also been famous for 16 years. That's true. That's true. That's true. But the thing is... I just got my blonde hair. I've only been famous for three days. And also, we were just watching The Voice.

Yes. And Adam Levine popped up on the screen and Dave saw Adam Levine and goes, oh, okay, I really do have his hair. I didn't know. I just thought like, because I always imagined him as having short hair I guess like that's how I always imagined we have the same haircut so when I saw him blonde I was like

oh that's why my mom said that she was like you look like Adam Levine and I was like why is my mom accepting this blonde hair like what has predisposed her to this and I was like oh it's Adam Levine and it's Adam Levine because it's literally my hairstyle so like Adam Levine warmed her's Adam Levine because it's literally my hairstyle.

Wow. Thank you, Adam. So, like, Adam Levine warmed her up to the gayness of your hairstyle. But you'd had this before. Well, I did like this. Honestly, the way I did it before, it wasn't like this and I regret it. It was like just the top and I had these frosty tips forever. But, oh my God, guys, does bleaching hurt? It hurts.

It hurts to bleach your hair. It's painful. When my mom was going to do it for us, she was like, I can dye your hair black, but I'm not really comfortable doing Dave's hair blonde because it's not really what I do. And also just let him know it fucking hurts. Oh my God. No, my scalp was throbbing. Try having like thick, thick Asian hair and having to go through like three rounds of

it before they can even begin toning. It's terrible. They put you under heat too, right? Yeah. I was sitting for a long time. Oh, bitch. I was like, I had the back of the comb. I was just poking my scalp because it was so itchy.

But honestly, when she washed it out and after my scalp finished throbbing, I looked in the mirror and I said, oh my God, I look like a porn star. This is all worth it. And it was all worth it. God bless. God bless. Why not? You look like one of Tampa's finest.

A Tampa. Honestly, I could only hope. That's the title of that a Tampa's finest A Tampa Honestly I could only hope That's the title of that Tampa's finest No bitch I refuse Okay we gotta talk Veto

Tampa's finest With Dave Mazzone What do we have to talk about I veto that too Okay fine We gotta talk about Katie on Idol Okay yeah

Like I mean I wanna get there later on Yeah Okay okay If you get our drift He wants to get there later Oh he wants to I've got. Oh, he wants to. I've got something to say about her.

Okay. Okay. But I will say we watched American Idol and like, it just like, I mean, the stage is crooked. Disney night. It was Disney night. It was corporate USA. The corporate retreat of American Idol. It was disgusting.

It was a billboard. It was Pepsi ad. They're leaning into the network. I mean, it's Buena Vista. You know what? They really are. And I'm sure there's a lot of people at home that enjoy it it's just tough just to see someone like katie perry who

you know used to be doing unplugged and like yeah her first album was so felt authentically her to see her come out in a snow white costume and be like disney presents katie perry it's a little tough because you're like oh man like we're going to see like what's really going on with you again. Like you are this kind of like sold out commercial pop star, which is, you know, fun to have. Like, it's fine. But the thing is, like, you know, there's parts of her. I'm keeping my lips closed. OK, because he has a whole.

She's going to address that later. I'm not into it. It's crazy. OK, well, and I'm sorry that I prematurely brought this up. Should we talk about the list? OK, let's talk about the list, i i want to talk about the list okay let's talk about the chat about the list the list like i mentioned in the little intro is going to be our new show we've this has been sort of percolating percolating in our head since january

yeah it's at do you want to explain to the audience i mean just i was going to talk about the space public hotel oh yeah it's their public arts space there is just luxe that's gonna be cool guys they've got a lower east side a spiral stairwell that i'm gonna die on yeah it's just really cool and the show's gonna be about like um like nightlife the nightlife nightmare it's going to clubs getting in the lines the door culture like the coat check the drink minimums the the bottle service. It's all just like bullshit. And like I've been dragging guys to these events for years.

I was going to say like you have the most experience with these kind of events. Yeah. I mean, you know, I like to get I get in there on the promoting side because I feel like at the end of the day, all these promoters want is for people to come to their events. They want to have a successful event. It's the same as a comedy show in an abstract sense abstract sense yeah like they just want butts in seats right and so like if you have a good crew who doesn't like die and who isn't like wasted all the time and like isn't is like socialites and and people who are working in the community they're like yes please bring your friends yeah you can have a good time right and exactly and if i can negotiate a situation where

we can spend like an amount of money that i can tell you on venmo beforehand rather than going there and like god knows how much is on your card at the bar and you're like it's it's just a whole mess so if i can like make it so that we can go out and have these experiences about the bullshit of these events which i had first in experiencing for five years at nyu when we were twinks oh yeah 100 those days like those days yeah when we were like going to those places when we were young like you know those parties but i was there but i was never are you talking about like splashash and shit like that? I was never a Splash queen. I never went to, I actually never went to Splash.

But I did. Rest in peace. Rest in peace. But I did go to like these gay events that like targeted young students. Yeah. Like, and we all know. There was like Facebook groups where they would come. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

They would like message you randomly. Ugh. I mean, like, yeah, that brings back weird memories. It doesn't hold up these days. It does not hold up at all. So basically that's really what the show is. It's mocking that word. What we're satirizing is the kind of exclusivity of door culture and club culture and nightlife

and how it can kind of feel like you could never possibly be good enough for this space or famous enough or rich enough for this space. So basically, we're going to play these three characters who are all in the same house. And we're basically going to run the show. We're going to have a fucking... If you're in the audience, you are on the list. Yes, mama.

All the performers are on the list. If you bought a ticket to the show, honey, you are on the list. You made it on the list. Congratulations. And basically, it's going to be very fun, kind of like not take yourself seriously at all we're gonna have great guests what i love what i love personally is making fun of stuff that takes itself super seriously absolutely so for me this is going to be that to the nth degree and this space you guys oh my god it's so cool it is so cool and the people who run it there are so great like meeting with will and

like just seeing the whole layout of how they do things there like it's such a chill vibe I think we're gonna have a really fun party there and the three of us just hosted a show we did the exhibition with Michael Caine oh my god so fun heartthrob yeah the heartthrob Michael Caine you gotta go to the show guys it's the exhibition I believe it's monthly at

Pebbles Hotel Michael Caine and Mary Beth Barone hosted and we just kind of stepped in and hosted while Mary Beth was away we had Janine Garofalo on the show Sasheer Matteo Lane there was a mentalist performing Christy Cello of course unbelievable

and so basically that's another thing we're excited about with our show is it's going to feature not just comedy but also like some drag some burlesque performers just mix it up a little bit we have so many just amazing people in this community right now and they're the people that go to those events like you know i may drag you out to the club but you know britta filter's up there like that's what we're just saying yeah britta if you also don't know britta filter she's the preeminent drag queen of new york city i will

absolutely we can talk as long about this as we want i want to promote britta filter as much as possible she is yeah see it now before you can't see it absolutely britta's also booking gigs queen of New York City. I will absolutely, we can talk as long about this as we want. I want to promote Britta Filter as much as possible. She is queen. See it now before you can't see it now. Absolutely. Britta's also booking gigs. 100%. But I'm saying

she's booking gigs and she's also doing comedy shows. She's always been interested in comedy and doing comedy stuff because Oscar and I booked her years ago.

Remember that? Yes, of course I did. I had a thick realness for a show at the pit years ago. Yes, bitch. Bibliography. Thank you. I have the receipts. Historical. Historian. I have Nick Rilliness. Your show at the pit years ago. Yes, bitch. Bibliography. Thank you.

I have the receipts. Historical. Historian. I have the bibliography on Bowen. She's got the bib. Yeah. I feel like it's just, you know, it's a fun, it's still a fun opportunity to include people in that world, but also make fun of it in this fun way.

Yeah. And it's going to be so fun. So July 18th. We took some crazy photos, which maybe by, I don't know if we can hold on to any longer. I'm blue balling myself. You are very antsy with it. So we took fun, fun, fun promo photos as the characters, you guys, with the photographer extraordinaire, Alex Schaefer. Who, you know, if you see any good picture of any Brooklyn comedian in the studio, you know it was Alex Schaefer.

Like, seriously. So good. The nicest guy the so talented and like supported the craziness that we brought there like we came in with bags honey like workroom bags yeah yeah tons of costumes and so the fun the photos are very pic very fun um but bowen is very traditionally very antsy about the promotional materials honey and he was supposed to get them out there. Yes. It was the impetus for my blonde hair. It truly like. It triggered it.

I'm saying there's just so much surrounding like the lead up to the shoot. And then now that we're in the post phase. Right. I'm just like. You want it to pay off. I want it to pay off. I want people to see it. I'm just like.

Anytime I make something. Fuss with something on Photoshop. I'm always like, anytime I make something futz with something on Photoshop, I'm always like, okay, I want to share this right now. And it's a bad quality. I've been clocking the tweaks you've been making. I'm not even judging them per se.

I'm just watching your mental process. I'm like, actually, no, I don't like the underline. You're like, no, I want to do a bold here. Yeah, it's very interesting. I see you tweak, and I love,

I see the mental, I see the arc, and that's why we support Bone. Do the listeners know that you are a full-time graphic designer? Do they know that I think some of them do. Well anyway. He's a talent. I mean it's just all it's yeah he's amazing like almost like like tons of the designs you've seen that are promoting shows around New York City. Bowen has been responsible for all the graphic material for Las Culturistas and all of our shows. He does all of it.

My sisters. He is available for hire, by the way. I'll say that for him. I mean, she's out here. Get her to do your stuff. Oh, my God. I mean, for a price, honey. Actually, do you want, can I confess something?

Yes. When I do other people's stuff, it's so much harder. When I do my own stuff, it's so much easier because I can just tell immediately. What you want. Feedback is immediate where I'm just like okay I like this no I don't like that and then like for me to design something for someone else it's always this thing of like me

conceding to what they want which is how it should be but I have a harder time like with the patience of just like okay I'm gonna do this I'm gonna try these options I'm gonna send these three options out and I guess I gotta wait for the next like day or hour or so until I hear back and so and I don't like that I don't like that process and it sounds very selfish but I like to work for myself more no I

know what you mean it's the same thing like when we would make a popper lead video and we would get all the footage and I would like come home with the card and it would be 11 at night and we had worked all day and bitch I would sit down upload that footage you want to watch it and crack i would be sending you guys a cut by like 3 a.m yeah you want to watch it because i was so excited yeah i'm the same way like when we got the photos back from the shoot i looked through them like right away because i was like i want to see what we have yes matt you look like nobody else i love the way that you look at photos well i'm just saying you know what's so funny sudi recently read me for this For what Like cause I was talking About the photo shoot

And she's like You know I hope you're this excited About the work And I was like She was teasing Yeah But I was kinda just like

The picture and the visual And all of that It's part of the work It is part of it And I do believe that Well that's why Sudi's dad She's checking you Yeah

That's why she's dad She's coming She's gonna come in And she's gonna check your ass Sudi is my daddy She's checking you. Yeah. That's why she's dad. She's coming. She's going to come in and she's going to check your ass. Sudi is my daddy. She's always making sure that we're focused. And the thing is, she knows that you guys are both very visual people. Oh, my God. And so you guys, especially you guys, like even when we were shot.

So what does that mean? That sometimes it's like, you know, you can get carried away with like, and I'm not saying you. Yeah. But she wants to make sure that someone's always just like, and she was like this in Popper Lett. You remember. She was always the one that was like, okay, guys, it's cool that the songs sound great,

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That was just like, um like um girl cut through the bullshit and find the funny part what is the game no that's why she has her job she has now i'm sooty green queen our daddy our zaddy yes daddy sued zaddy sued i mean i just couldn't love anyone more in fact you might hear uh some more from sooty green later on in today's show what could you possibly be talking about i don't know what i could be what i could be referencing but anyway you guys yes the list it. We're so excited about it. I've been dying to have a show with my sisters and we all are constantly on each

other's shows. We are now grasping hands around the table. Yeah, we are in a prayer circle right now, but I would just say I'm just so excited for us to share a show together. We've just been working together for so long. This is our moment in the sun. And we also have, even sooner than that, Dave and I are remounting our game show, which is one of the our moment in the sun. And we also have, even sooner than that, Dave and I are remounting

our game show, which is one of the best shows in the city. It's so fun. We have been doing it for almost a year at UCB East, and we had a really great run there.

Oh, so fun. And so now we are going to Caveat, which is one of the coolest new spaces in the world. It's the ooh-ah-ah sensation. It's the ooh-ah-ah sensation. It's the ooh-ah-ah sensation. We have to talk about that too, ooh sensation we have to talk

to it so wait so wait sorry we were all together when this happened we were all together when this happened

so I'm in the back Bowen is on stage doing his bit at the exhibition at Public Hotel and I'm in the back and I'm standing with this bitch

Corey Campercholi and Erica Burrow all our friends are there they came to support so we're standing in the back I look down at my phone

and I see that I'm being followed by I am Monique Hart and I said to myself is this a situation where it's one of those fools that have the name of a celebrity

yes yes and then they follow you and you think it's the real thing I am the Monique Hart one yeah exactly but then I looked and it was Monique Hart

and not only that but she had tweeted and responded to a tweet that I tweeted earlier in the day. Yes, God. Tweet, tweet, tweet. I said,

and this was before Snatch Game, the episode here. By the time this comes out, Snatch Game will have aired. But I said, and this is the same day that all this Joy Reid nonsense came out.

Did you guys hear about this? Yes, I did. And so I said, I want at Monique Hart, I tagged her, thank God. I said, I want at Monique Hart, i am monique hart to play joy read for snatch game and she responded omg that would be hilarious also ding dong les colterista's calling she responded and told us that she was a fan of the show and which to us is i mean that's a super gag the ooh ah ah sensation she's fabulous she's the ooh ah ah sensation

from the second I saw her I was like that's her that's the one for me Ariel and I when we're watching it we're always like she slays this confessional

she's got but you know she's got catchphrases sure but this they're flying out of her mouth like it's the way she is you feel like she's being the way she is

and also her story and where she comes from all I want is success for her yeah her on fucking Untucked this past week where she was talking about going to seminary school. Did you catch that? Yeah, I did. I was like, that is such

an interesting story. And why didn't they put that in the actual episode? There is a deep well of stuff with Monique that I think we are just grazing the surface. It's exciting, you know, and like you said, like we were talking earlier about like who's going to win, who's going to win. And it's not even about the winner. It's about the impression you leave. Yes's nice like when you could

see Asia O'Hara give us runways that we've never seen and we can be so excited for her and know that she made a mark and she's here to stay in that way like at least I'm so excited to reference like those moments on Drag Race whether they win or lose yes like I think Monique is just one of those

indelible queens who no matter how she does I think just leaves such just one of those indelible queens who, no matter how she does, I think just leaves such a good impression. I'm excited. I'm ready for the new app. She came. I don't say anything. Oh my God, I want it.

I can never wait. That's the thing. It's like Bowen earlier in the year when we were watching All Stars, and All Stars was only fine. He was like, are we going to be like, is there going to be too much Drag Race at two hours a week? And then we're going to be writing about it. I was like, I don't think so.

And you know what? What a foolish question I asked back then, because I totally see that. No, I told you, I was like, yes to drag. Yes.

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Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. so but i've reminded you every year when drag races on like bone always says like i live for only this time of year like yeah i light up seriously it makes me happy to be alive when drag race is on oh that's so sad um but anyway we were so gagged during the back and forth we had on twitter with monique and then i saidique Hart, if you're listening right now.

And then she said that she plays I Don't Think So Honey at Sunday brunch with her girls. I saw that tweet. Oh, my God. We are so gagged. You don't understand, Monique. We love you. I love you so much. And the invitation to come on this show.

The invitation to come on this show is wide open. Anytime you are in New York City, mama. Let us take you out. Yes. Be on the list. Oh, my God. And can I tell you, yes, the moment that I saw her on Meet the Queens

when she said, my name is Monique Hart. I'm from Kansas City, Missouri, known for barbecue, theme parks, jazz, and me. I was like, sold. Thank you. Absolutely, bitch.

Judy and I had to rewind her entrance three times because we were enjoying it so much. Because it was the ooh-ah-ah sensation. The ooh-ah-ah sensation? Yes. Absolutely. I feel very seen by that. America. I feel every time, I'm glowing right now. I feel good. Well, because, and here's why. Because

Monique Hart, and here's the thing I like about Monique too. She is extremely competitive in the competition. She wants to win and she wants, she came to play, but also she leads with her heart and she leads with joy and the love for what she does. Positivity. Yes.

That is above all else. She's positive. It's a fun show. Drag is on TV. It's bigger than it's ever been. Hip, hip, hooray. Thank you. And that's, I think, the difference between a queen like that who's so obviously being edited as a fan favorite and as someone we love than some other queens I think that come

in with some negative attitudes. And it's not even that she has a negative attitude. it's just that she has a certain way of doing things and so when the edit rolls around yeah and you look a certain way and also you can say this for other ones too like for example cameron being boring right it's like you know these things end up the way they end up for a reason i do not believe that vixen is actually mean and i do not believe that cameron is actually boring no but i do believe that that isixen is actually mean. And I do not believe that Cameron is actually boring. But I do believe that that is the television show that they're creating. And you can't be mad at the result.

Absolutely not. And like, I mean, we villains get the Twitter followers too, girl. It's all coming around. But Vixen is doing something that like hasn't really ever been done on Drag Race, which is like this, like this aggression that is like completely warranted in a lot of ways. And it's like, and it's forcing these conversations that should be had. I love Vixen.

But you wish she could speak calmly. But I, but I also, I love that. It's like, it's filled with passion and I understand it. I mean, I don't claim to understand it.

However, I see where it's coming from. But I just wish that she could explain it in a way that didn't involve making me wonder, is she going to hit her? Is there going to be physical violence? Because that is like that's not the world of drag. I kind of live for the moment, though, when she and Eureka were fighting where she was like, I've never liked you. I saw you in season one. I was like, this is great.

With her, it always great. I laughed. With her, it always goes to that level. And it's pretty funny. I mean, the thing is, whenever now there's any comment, which is just like, she could take the wrong way, I'm always like, well, this is probably, almost definitely going to be a full-out fight. And I kind of live.

I live, but I just. When she gets voted out, we're going to miss a full out fight. And I live for it. And I kind of live. I live, but I just. Like when she gets voted out, we're going to miss her. We are. Or if she makes it all the way to the top, who knows? I have nothing to say. I am exhausted on the Vixen topic. No, I get it. I get it, babe.

I just feel like, you know, like I just don't think there's a place in that. She's smart. So smart. She's so smart. She's got good stuff to say. She also brings good drag to the table. So I want her to get out of this whole competition staring people down in the mirror and focus on her drag because the runways aren't the best. No, yeah, they could be better. I want better drag from her.

Although the past couple weeks she's been better. I mean, I don't think she's bad, but I'm saying Asia O'Hara swiping the floor with you over here. Yeah, that's true. She's running circles around you, so get your mind off of Aquaria and let's look yourself in the mirror and beat your own face. Yeah, that's true. Beat your own face. That is true. But Vixen and Aquaria are sort of doing similar things with their drag where it's like, a lot of body,

honey. Certainly a lot of body. Yeah. Which I'm into. And I don't think either of them have crossed over into Courtney Act territory of it's like, uh, so we know what you're doing. The worst one-man drag show I've ever seen. Courtney Hecht?

Oh my God, P-Town, tired, asleep. I was literally asleep. She's a star now, though. She's a star. She won Celebrity Big Brother. That's true, she won that Celebrity Big Brother title. Good for her, girl. I mean, the tuck, we all saw it. It was iconic.

When her outfit got revealed. Oh my God, I showed Matt that image. I was like, look at this tucked penis. It's so funny, just really quickly, at this tucked penis. It's so funny. Just really quickly, I want to say, it's so funny that Kourtney was clocked for being like leaning too much on body and pretty, but like no one batted an eye for Valentina.

Do you know what I'm saying? Valentina literally walked out with two fucking like black rectangles. Yes, but she wasn't doing that every time. I kind of think she was. I don't know. She came out in that wedding dress, which was stunning. Yeah, but it like stuck to her body. Whatever.

What? You know. No. No more talk about Valentina. You know. Well, anyway, I'm gagged for this season. I'm very gagged for this season. Listen to more.

Matt and I do in-depth recaps every week on Patreon. Yes. I've listened they are great give us that coin also y'all we're very excited to say that we're gonna be moderating

at Vulture Fest the Drag Race panel yes Bowen and I are gonna be moderating that panel we have our own show at Vulture Fest as well so that'll be very fun

and I'm gonna be getting water for everyone I'll be getting water and Dave I'll be coffee and water water boy over here and Dave's gonna show everyone his throat, but not a polyp in sight.

Not a polyp in sight. I'm going to be in short shorts. I will say this. It has been really nice to hear you be able to, you know, use your voice the way that you always wanted to because like that was a big, singing was a big thing for you. Absolutely.

It was definitely like an emotional thing that I sort of went through, but it steered me in a direction that now that I'm fixed, I just sort of like I'm happy to have it. I've got a new lease on life a couple years ago. I really felt that way. When I got my voice back, I felt like I can do anything now. Let me get right back in the game. And also like just in performing stand-up a lot, like I've been doing a ton of stand-up lately

and people are in the game for years. And to get really good at it, you really got to like figure out your cadence, your pacing, your character, who you are, what you're bringing that's new. And not having my voice was a huge hindrance. I felt like I couldn't be myself. I couldn't emote in the way that I wanted to.

I couldn't say, ooh, ah, ah, sensation. No, without being like, ow. Yeah, and it really did hurt. And it was embarrassing because I don't emote in the way that I wanted to I couldn't say Without being like oh, yeah and it really did hurt and it was embarrassing because I don't know I like literally the voice doctor was like He was like this could have happened at like at a crazy night at a club You know you ever lose your voice at a club and I was like in my mind. I was like, um Yeah There was a time in my life where I used to like losing my voice. I liked the way that I sounded. Right. Oh, remember that?

That time in my life where I was like, I have a raspy voice. My voice is different. Ooh. And that was in my youth for sure. But vocal damage, your chords are very fragile. And once you do something, then you have to compensate for it. It can get really aggravated over time. Also, not for nothing, like the kind of music that was

sort of popular when we were in high school and the way people sang like remember when that kind of screamo emo stuff was popular and also even the girls like the pop stars like ashley simpson the way she would shout like absolutely all these kind of ways yeah and like like like when you listen to the kids on the floor like i flower He approached me Like try singing that safely Try But anyway Oh my god Like even like her sister Jessica

The way she would scream Shout her shit Like all the girls The pop stars Like We're laughing about The idea of la la But that's true

No I know We came of age during that time And it was like How the fuck did we Ever expect to learn How to sing correctly? No, you're listening to Yellow Card on the way to camp like, if I could find you now. Oh my God, yeah.

I think the list should release a single before the first rap. Oh, there's music coming from the list. I feel it. I think there's music. There's an EP to be dropped. These boys release remixes. No, it should be one song and then 14 remixes after of just that one song that we made i think it should be like well welcome to us finding our idea live on the podcast no i love it we can

document this and like laugh about it like years from now that's really funny just like a million remixes like read that remix like beyond like blind blind pig remix it should be it should literally be like a cameroon a cameroon-esque single where it's one word repeated over and over again. And then like seven years later, we remake, we remix it like fucking. I love it. That's great.

That's here to stay. We won't, I don't have to write it in my phone because it's, we have it here. We have it. Also, I think I floated this by you guys last night. I think our characters should be like devout Christians.

Yeah, that's funny. Cause I said the, the, the font that you use that is giving me real Christianity. If be like devout Christians. Yeah, that's funny. Because I said the font that you used is giving me real Christianity. Yeah, the T. If we're devout Christians, that's very funny. It is fun. I moved the crossbar up a little bit

because I didn't want it to look like, I didn't want people to read it and be like, plus he list. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a little confusing. Look at that, a glimpse into the mind of a graphic designer. She makes adjustments.

Yes, honey. Yeah, she knows. There you go. She absolutely knows. I'm like totally down, but you guys can say no. I'm totally down to just have us like keep brainstorming stuff, but no, let's do that on our own time. No, I don't want to give away the secret.

I don't want to give it away because I feel like we'll end up talking about some of the stuff we already have in place, and I really want to save that for the people who come. And be a surprise. You guys, the show's going to be great. I really mean, this isn't like a shameless plug. Like, we're really so excited. It's going to be so much fun. Well, here's the thing.

Like, the three of us, I'm speaking for you guys. I haven't been this excited about an idea in a very long time. Yeah. I got to say. Absolutely.

And the three of us have just kept this ball going in the air for all these months and we're just like throwing in new ideas, taking out old ones. Like this has been

a living project for a long time. We can't wait to make it real. I mean, you know me, bitch. I get excited about any immersive experience. Like what's going to be fun about the show is the doors are going to open at 7.30, but

the show actually begins at the same time. Yes. Because, like, you know, it's going to be, you're in this bar atmosphere, and so we're going to have, you know, people that are performers on the show performing and being in character the whole time. Yes. Speaking of immersive experiences, we did just enjoy a recent trip to the orlando florida and our first episode was called orlando realness oh wow it was it was i mean that was 2016 honey oh i was i was 26

a good year but we just came back and do we have any thoughts on the trip it was um it was a gauntlet it was it was we was. We ran. We did all four Disney parks. Oh, my God. And universe. Through the help of many friends, some Las Culturistas listeners. We should definitely, absolutely. Todd, thank you so much. Yeah.

Shout out. That was so much fun. And RJ. Yes, and RJ. Yes, RJ. The parks that we did were like, you know, Matt is just like, it's about speed and efficiency in these parks. Can I defend myself?

We're not attacking you. I know you're not attacking me, but I just want to say, all the listeners out there, you know that I'm passionate about the Orlando theme parks. We only had it allotted a certain amount of time, and I just wanted to make sure that we were able to do everything. Yes. No, you made it happen, girl. And so we were at a certain clip.

And you both know, do we ever leave those parks saying, oh, wish we woulda? No. No, no, no. We did it all. No, bitch. And we really do have to thank all of our friends who pulled in really, really nice favors for us. Todd Davis.

We had so much fun. So much fun. Todd, who works at IT at Disney, gave us a free ticket to Animal Kingdom. Oh, sorry. And RJ Silva and Adam Noker, who gave us free fast passes at Epcot, and it was amazing. Oh my God, Pandora. You guys hooked us up,

and we had the best time of our lives, and also that first day we were at Disney, and we went to Pandora. Pandora. You, like, listen, Last Cultureist listeners, hear my call. You don't believe the gag

that happens on the Pandora flight of Passage Ride and Animal Kingdom. You cannot believe the gag. I mean the Pandora Flight of Passage ride in Animal Kingdom. You cannot believe the gag. I mean, talk. So I actually mentioned the. HBJ is laughing. The immersive experience on the way in. Yes.

Honey. Trees, honey, blue. Honey, there are trees. There are tombs. There are like computers, a fritz. There are. A fritz. I don't know.

There's foliage, mama. It is immersive. Yes yes they're giving you the whole you feel the beast breathe the sensation it was cameroon it was it was cameroon didn't you feel it was cameroon i felt that it was cameroon and also that was sudi's first we should say it was sudi's first ever time doing a theme park ride at all and we not that but we were at universal the day before and we took her on the Transformers ride. So everyone who's been to Orlando or is in LA that's

gone to Universal Studios and has done the Transformers ride, you know it's like an intense experience. It really got the fuck off that ride. I was like, what the hell was that? I was like, that's what we're going to do for three days. I got emotional. I got emotional. It's like you really do feel like you can fly

you feel like you're being and also we were very high I mean yeah just higher than you could be but we on the flight of passage that was the fucking surreal shit that was surreal

that was really good that was crazy that was we were on the backs of the banshee honey yeah ooh and that moment when you're just in that cave and it's quiet

and then those little fucking jellyfish things float in the air you gotta go do it. You gotta go. It was worth it. It was worth the wait. You do have to wait.

We waited. Yeah, you gotta wait. Like, I think we got there fucking first thing in the morning. We still waited 90 minutes. But there's a lagoon. There's a lagoon. There's a lagoon with a swan, a Disney swan. Yeah.

The town there, the town is called Harambe, which is sad. Yeah, it hurts. But that was before the gorilla um so you know there's that too yeah so what did we do okay so we pandora was amazing the expedition everest oh my god the expedition everest oh my god we were gooping goop-de-doop when we went back and you know because that was so fun having sudi there because she'd never experienced any of it before yeah and so like when we went when you you know because that was so fun having Sudi there because she'd never experienced any of it before yeah and so like when we went

when you go backwards like to see Sudi's face like literally like a child like oh my god we're going backwards like it was just the Yeti makes an appearance honey

the Yeti then the dinosaur ride we did with Felicia Rashad in the preview yes love that you loved that I love

that was beautiful to be chased by dinosaurs dinosaurs a little too rocky you know rocky roll I get a little critics notebook over here you know it's a it's an outdated property and you know what I gotta say

and I know you're gonna disagree with me on this E.T.'s gotta go E.T.'s a tired old bitch I think E.T. is definitely a tired old bitch and should probably go. But the thing is, it's so charming. It's like the last ride that's there from the beginning. The animatronics are so bad. Oh, yeah.

Half of them, their mouths don't even move anymore. They're just like, oh, no. And then you realize over the course of the movie that the the plot of E.T. is like you know I and like there's all this stuff about like E.T.'s home world and like all of his friends like three rooms in that ride are about his friends and we're like we don't know any of this this is all like extrapolated beyond the movie

it's stupid and all those aliens are like Jim Henson fucking average ass well not Jim Henson like fucking on his worst day just being like alright here's the yeah they paid him 300 bucks

to do it yeah like it was really him finish the sketch I'm just saying he got he got an email that said

we can pay 300 yeah and he was like okay finish the sketch on the toilet yeah and he did it

he submitted baby he filed knock it down is all I have to say about that it smells like old plastic Revenge of the Mummy

is always the gag oh my god so the fire. Revenge of the Mummy is always the gag. Oh, my God. So, the fire. The fire. Gringotts is always a gag. A gaggery. And here's some revealing tea. Well, I don't know.

Maybe I've said this on the podcast, but you know that there's going to be a new Harry Potter roller coaster. And the spot where Dueling Dragons was, or the Dragon Challenge was, there's going to be a whole new brand new ride. And there's lots of rumors about potentially them opening their third theme park soon nintendo uh well who knows if it's going to be a nintendo part of the new theme park right now nintendo is supposed to replace like the kid zone which is over by et right but um there's lots of interesting things that could happen cool and also marvel is going to be a whole disney thing oh they're making there probably is gonna be a whole Disney thing. Oh, bitch. They're probably going to be a whole theme park about just Marvel stuff at Disney.

I'm looking forward to our next trip, which I'm sure will be soon. There's a lot of gaggeries coming in. Star Wars, when that comes into Hollywood studios, that's going to be something we have to do. Cannot wait. We were trying to do our series, but we were just so tired.

Oh, Four Nights in Orlando? Yeah, no. Sorry for everyone who paid attention. You can't force it. All five of you. You can't force it. No, Joey. It's sad that we had all the right pieces, you know? Listen, we were just not clocked in.

Nobody clocked in. We were clocked out on vacation, girl. I don't know. I wanted to enjoy it. And also, I didn't want to feel like we were forcing anything. It was tough for us. We had issues with casting and with availability. And there was production issues.

Creative differences. There were production issues it was just the team when you get that big with a project there are a lot of moving pieces it was a lot of pressure I mean we had a lot of pressure to follow up with the sequel it was a very like Jaws 2 moment absolutely and like all three you know Aaron and

Josh and Joel I think were really like looking forward to it so I'm all three of our fans all three of them all three people watched but look we got we got network notes and studio notes and and park notes and the fucking mayor of Orlando sent us notes

we were like it was really too many too much too many cooks but you know there were fun easter eggs for people who have followed the series like for example all the cult fans us being at the Garden of Allah and then having Matt come out and say, well, well, well.

Same. It's a callback to season, to the Gagos season. For the true fans. For the true fans. I think Four Nights in Orlando, I will say, is part of my proudest work.

How did we end it? What was Matt's line? It was like, I gotta kill that version so I can live forever. And that was the last line of the whole series. I gotta kill that version so I can live forever and that was the last line of the whole series and we never touched it again i think that we were going in a good narrative direction but we just we

just we really i'm gonna i think it was finally clear what was going on which is that my character had to kill that virgin so we can live forever and i feel like we we could have kept going but we just didn't no i just can't. We were like, pull it. Pull it. Pull it. But the first, the original series is some of my best work. It's good. Why don't you say just some of your best work?

And our best work. No, you said some of my best work. No, I said as a collective unit, it's our best work. What do you feel? I feel that it was a collaborative project. Bowen took a lot of the editing on. I did take a lot of the editing on. I did take a lot of the editing. And you kept being like, Bowen, get off your phone.

And I was like, he's literally editing your fucking content. So let's take a breather. I'm in post bed. Why don't you sit this Gatorade? I'm in post. Always going hard. Yes, Bowen, you were in post. Hard at work.

He's very much responsible for all the sound effects. Actually, every sound effect. responsible for all the sound effects. Actually, every sound effect. Were those all stock sound effects on that app? Yeah. What is this app? VideoShop. VideoShop. It's great.

They used to have this thing where you could speed up the talking speed a little bit. But then now they pitch up. And they used to not pitch up. And it sounded really funny when you spoke at the same pitch. But you just talk really fast like that. But now it's like they pitch you up when you speed it. Yeah. So, you know, it's really they pitch you up like, like when you speed it. Yeah.

So, you know, it's, it's really not lived up to its, we'll return and maybe we'll get around to an episode. I know that. I don't know because I feel like now we should go somewhere else. Like maybe like,

Oh, you know what? Now that we know we're all going to be in LA. Oh, I can't wait. Oh, we should do this. So game show is coming to LA.

We are going to be doing it on June 11th at UCB sunset you guys got your date we got our date yes June 11th at UCB sunset we're going to be at 1030

line up TBA but line up TBA it is going to be so fun but we are coming to do it in Los Angeles and then the next day Bowen and I have

I don't think so honey live at Echoplex yes oh my god so fun which is going to be we're going to probably already have announced the lineup by the time this episode is out. But if we haven't,

know that it will be very soon and it will be very fun. And Dave Mazzone is on the lineup. It is a hot ticket. It's like in New York, these shows go, people go crazy. You're going to love. It's such a fun time.

It's so much fun. And you can buy tickets now. Yeah, you can. The link in buy. Link in buy. But yeah, no,

honestly, this show is so much fun, guys. People love it. Because we're all going to be out there. Maybe we should go to Disneyland. Should we? Do we dare? Well, we did.

We skipped that last time we went to Universal, right? We did. Which was kind of a letdown. Well, it's a fucking escalator palace. It is an escalator. The Universal Studios Hollywood is you spend most of the day

on the escalators, honey. That's true. Have you been there, HPJ? It's a lot of walking around. Casey Masks was just at Disneyland for the first time. She loved it, and it made me want to go.

We should go to Disneyland. It's the antique original, or we could drive out to Six Flags Magic Mountain and do roller coasters. I'm not a coaster queen. I love coasters, but you know what I say?

Follow your arrow wherever it points. I'll follow your arrow wherever it points. I'll follow your arrow wherever it points. Oh, my God. For the listeners, I'm so sorry. I'm sorry about that. Oof, it hurt me. I'm a coaster queen.

We have some listeners who are coaster queens who are out there in L.A. Big and fast. Who go with me to Six Flags Magic Mountain. Do we dare do one last hurrah at Disneyland for a night's inn? I don't know. I am never forcing a night's inn location again. I'm never going to force it.

If it happens naturally and organically, I think yes. I don't know. The disappointment in your face right now. I don't agree. I adhere to schedules,

but I think we should wait a little while for new rides to come. There's going to be good shit. I want new rides because you know new guardians of the galaxy right in Disneyland which we can do see but yeah you'd go back to the park for one new ride I would like like maybe four or five we've never been to oh yeah that's true in LA so okay I'm down different I'm down well we're gonna be out there and our shows will be there and it's gonna be a blast yeah have a great time yes oh can't wait We're coming. I just think the reason why all these series have been in developmental hell is because.

Back to it. No, no. Explain. Explain. Explain. Back in. Either we spend too much time before breaking story, planning out the themes, planning out the motifs, or we do it two in the moment.

And I think what was perfect about the original series was that the day before we would talk about it on a very thin, shallow level. That was when Ryan Murphy was just happening. That was when American Horror Story was really happening. It was like Coven was just happening. That's what I'm saying. Maybe it was a moment in time. Maybe we should move on to other projects like The List. No, there are no other projects.

We're going to beat this one until it's on HBO. I want a Westworld one. Oh, my are no other projects that are going to beat this one until it's on HBO. I want a Westworld one. Oh, my God. Oh, that would be fun. Oh, wow. I'm just halfway through the most recent episode, and the new season, she's got it. Really? Oh, I haven't watched it yet.

It's good. Really? Yeah, of course. I love Miss Evan Rachel. They're moving it along, and also they gave us good recaps. Low key, she smokes too much. She needs a recap. She needs a good, strong recap.

I'm with you. I watch too much TV. I just can't remember. So they gave me everything I needed to know to dive right back in. And I was really... Also, Handmaid's Tale. I watched the most recent episode of Handmaid's Tale. Girl, they drop you in first scene.

Matt, you should not watch it. I heard that first scene is like... Oh my God. What happens in the first scene? Spoiler alert for the first scene of Handmaid's Tale. Spoiler alert. But essentially all of the handmaids, like where we last left them off,

like they all resisted throwing the stones at, I don't recall the name of the character, but they were supposed to stone one of the handmaids who had like betrayed them to death. And they all dropped the stones and said, I'm sorry, I can't do it. And they were all brought into like ambulances and taken away. And that was how it ended.

They were all brought to Gillette Stadium, which is now like this like post-apocalyptic like shadow world. And it's like a Ann Dowd, Queen Mother Ann Dowd is there. And they all get like pushed in and like they're being like cattle prodded into the center of the circle. And they all have these muzzles on like and the costume designer just it's so effective what they put on them it's truly a muzzle it like covers their mouth and it's brown and it's leather and it's strapped around them and

you know like just act girl they're acting through their eyeballs and it's so captivating and they take them all up on the thing and there's and you see they finally cut to the shot and it's all there's all nooses there to have them hanged. Like there's like 40 ropes hanging and they take them there and they put it on them

and the music is playing and it's building. And Handmaid's Tale has this weird, bizarre way of choosing current music or making sort of song choices that are a little bit modern. I don't know the name of the song, but it was sort of like a current song. It felt like sort of poppy in a way.

One Kiss by Dua Lipa. It was one. One kiss is all it takes. I watched her perform that live on some show. Am I really going to take this fucking avenue off of this story? I was just building it up so hard. Go to Dua. No, finish the story and then talk about Dua.

Shout out to Dua Lipa, though. So anyway. One. Shut up. Stop. Finish the Henry Sill story. I can't believe either of you. They put the news on their story

and they're all looking at each other and their eyes are swollen. They're all like, we're going to die. And you see them go through, oh my God, I'm going to die. And then, oh my God, this is going to end for me.

And they're all looking at each other. And obviously as a viewer, I'm like, they're not going to kill the whole cast. So I'm like, what are they going to do? And out is like like drop it screaming my old teacher the kindest woman i've ever known is like literally like gives the call oh yeah you had end out and out was a teacher of mine iconic well let's get to her after this but anyway she drops it and they drop like a centimeter to scare them. And then she's just like, the Lord is your savior.

He has given you life. You will obey him. And like they're all crying because it changed. They thought they were going to die. It changes because you see them go through the emotions of, I wanted to die. Oh. And I'm not I'm not I'm alive. And this is worse. And it's fucking sick and captivating television. You could have heard a pin drop in my apartment.

Like, I mean, I was like, oh, my God. And it was just and then and then the credits roll, bitch. And you go get a nice tea because you can't breathe and then the credits you go get a Corona because you just had a heart attack and it's three in the morning this is me like two nights ago

it's captivating television I watched it on the subway that's how much I wanted to watch episode two I was watching and I saw this girl clock me on the subway like being like what is this dude watching and he's like he's watching Handmaid's Tale

like oh my god it's so heavy it's noon oh my god and this is the It's, it's noon. Oh my God. And this is the theme song. One guess is all it takes to fall in love with me. Guys. Talk about Andowd.

Can I just say, wait, just quickly, Dua Lipa is the biggest bit gays have ever decided to do. She is just, it's, it's exactly what happens

whenever all the gays come together and agree to do something. Oh my God. That's so true. You know what would be funny? If Dua was huge. Dua.

I remember when we used to be able to, now she's famous, but we used to be able to make the joke at game show. We used to be like, we used to ask the straight guys, what is Dua Lipa? And then watch them just be like, it's a vacuum.

But anyway, I'll talk about Ann Dowd for a second because she is fantastic her and her husband Larry Arancio who was also an acting teacher of mine they used to work at CAP 21 which was where I studied musical theater at Tisch at NYU and it was a wonderful school

it has since kind of changed a lot and moved around and discontinued from what it sort of used to be but at the time it was a really nice place to foster people who loved to sing and loved musical theater in an honest way. And they taught you to, and Larry specifically, they taught to teach from an acting point first. When you go into song, it's because you can't speak these words anymore.

You have to sing them. That music and dance is that heightened place in musical theater where the emotion is so strong it is the impetus to sing it is what you begin on and that's like

what musical theater is founded on and that's why when I go see Spongebob the musical which I saw last night I had my own night at the theater

you did it was very good it was fun super campy it was good it was what these musicals should be we need to go

I enjoyed it really much and shout out to Steph Shue and Alex Gibson and Alex Gibson good friends from NYU and they were fantastic in the show

but like Broadway if you can submit to it if you can like put your guard down for once and let yourself have fun you can really go

on a journey and especially some of the voices oh my god this girl who plays Pearl so Pearl in Spongebob is like you know

Mr. Crab's daughter who's the whale she's got these big platform shoes on which is the costume is very suggestive like you know she's not a whale costume

she just has these big shoes and gives the essence of the big whale her voice is face melting and like literally she's only there

she'd come on like halfway through numbers it was very choral it was very like I'm this character and I have a line I'm this character and I have a line. I'm this character and I have a line. You know, and she would just come on and be like, yeah.

Like just blow the house. It's rule number 77 of culture. She just came out there and went, yeah. Girl, and every time I was like, I was yes bitch take the stage this is only for me this is just straight up belting head not even a lyric just grew and i knew you guys were watching once on this island at the same time literally you were watching your show i was watching mine we were both you're watching oh my god well he's just like you're gonna get a problem

he's shot backwards yeah be careful protect protect protect that's why you hear it up in the nose but anyway I was talking about and out and I'll just quickly wrap that up that she's wonderful she is one of the kindest people I've ever known she amazing has an amazing actress like all over the place in Masters of that she's wonderful. She is one of the kindest people I've ever known. She has an amazing actress

like all over the place in Masters of Sex. She's phenomenal. Like in The Leftovers, she is phenomenal. Like she just- And of course, Handmaid's Tale.

Her Emmy winning role. I mean, Hulu. How could you forget what she was doing? What was it like to watch her win an Emmy? It, you know,

it made me feel like this woman, and you know, she was in Garden State. She had a career, but when we met her, she was like very much much it felt like she was still out there auditioning. And she was still out there like waiting for the role that was going to bust her into like sort of that world. And she had the brightest spirit.

She was so kind. You couldn't say a bad word about her. And I felt like I was inspired by that I said I want to be somebody that people like that people want to that people think of with fondness and know that they're out there putting their time in and they're not worried about comparing themselves to other people they're doing their time and ready to bloom when they want to bloom

truly deserving of the moment I mean and I'm coming right from the heart right now I mean it sounds like I'm being mushy or whatever but it really comes from the heart I genuinely think this person inspired me to be like oh wow good people get rewarded yeah and good people like um when you when you just stay on it and and don't speak ill of other people you really can get there um and also just just speaking alone to her acting ability yeah she is an incredible she used to give us notes and be like she would just like like somebody doing

from Ragtime I buried my heart in the ground when she's when she's burying her child like this is big oh my god neither of you know Ragtime

and now I'm alone here and all the musical theater boys at home are like you idiot I'll remember it but essentially the big number in Ragtime one of my classmates was performing it,

and she's on her knees being like, bury him! Bury him! Oh my god. And just going through the motions with you, on her knees taking you there. And also, if it's a love song, if it's West Side Story, she's like, you're in love. She just had a way of making you-

Grounding the emotion. Grounding you. a way of making you grounding the grounding you. And, and you know, some of these songs are, I feel pretty. She's like, you, you're looking at yourself in the mirror and you're feeling confident for the

first time you've ever felt, you know, pulling away. I feel pretty like, and it's this bouncy number where you just want to do like kicks and wear a dress and taking you out of that high school mentality and find the raw emotion, find the person inside.

What is she seeing? Why is she singing? And maybe I'm falling back in love with musical theater right here live on Las Culturistas. But I'm just- No, I agree with you. Last night was really important because it made me, it was good.

And it made me realize why this art form is so good. Absolutely. And you know, like Hamilton, obviously like there's good theater out there. I have a love, a love hate relationship with it theater out there. I have a love-hate relationship with it. I just – I don't love the stunt casting and I don't love all of the – The commercialization. The commercialization.

The attitude around like the audition process. Yes. And the culture around it. Exactly. It's just – it doesn't always feel great. And also like the more and more you go into Times Square, the more and more it's just like – it feels like a section of Six Flags. Right. But the art form is beautiful. Right, but the art form is beautiful. Yeah, but the art form is beautiful.

So I had a nice night at the theater last night. Even though it was silly and it was SpongeBob the Musical, he was very talented. And also it was a very athletic show. He was bouncing around. There was some flying. Yeah, they were doing things.

Yeah, I just gotta say. So shout out to Ann Dowd. She's a rock star. Shout out to Ann. Oh yeah, Ann Dowd. Just seeing, when I. Shout out to Ann. Oh, yeah, Ann Dowd. Just seeing... When I bought myself a ticket, an orchestra seat for Hello, Dolly!

Tell me, we actually didn't talk about this. Did we not talk about this? No. Truly? I think I've talked about it on the pod, but like... Well, yeah, it's always time. One of the best things I've done for myself was after a long week,

and I went and just, like, seeing Bernadette, like, be well just this this song Hello Dolly like a triumphant moment and it's I was getting emotion I was crying and like I never cry at theater I never cried at the movies but I was crying because it's a song about being it's a song about being loved yeah and um god it was so fun and so joyful. And it wasn't even like a dramatic, it's not even a dramatic emotional show, but like that groundswell of a number I was like, oh my God, this is

the best thing I've seen ever. Yeah. It's those shivers. Those shivers you only get from live singing. Yeah. From musical theater. Absolutely. And that's why people should, like I should underperform every now and then but it's like, it's good when it's good. When it's good, it's great. Yeah, but when it, yeah exactly. When it's good, it's good. It's bad, it's bad. When it's good, it's great. Yeah, exactly. When it's good, it's good. When it's bad, it's bad.

Sudi, who actually we're about to hear from, just recently went to go see Mean Girls. Oh, yeah. And when she comes back on the show, I want her to talk about it, but very positive reviews from her. That's great. She said that the show is funny,

like it feels like a fresh, new Tina Fey piece. It was well adapted to this time. She said some of the performances are amazing, specifically Barrett Wilbert-Weed as Janice, who I've seen several times and it always blows me away. Special talent. And also Taylor Louderman, who plays Regina George, who

apparently is a lead actress of the show. They beefed that part up. It's incredible. And Gray Henson. Yeah, you gotta humanize the bully. We want to see a fully textured Regina George. So you saying there's like really well updated scenes that um sort of even though that was that movie was it wasn't anti-feminist like it doesn't need to be updated it's you know it's now you know 13 14 years ago crazy so so it doesn't need to be updated for the times and that they did that well for the modern era. That movie, though, still, I think.

Iconic for the ages, man. But I'm saying, like, ahead of its time. Absolutely. It's like how people say, like, network is ahead of its time. So I still think Mean Girls, like, some of, like, just the way that the dialogue pops. I'm like, oh, my God. Wow. And you know what Suti said?

Actually, it was very. I've heard two reviews of this movie from people that I, like, super respect that have seen it. And one of them was not so good. And I won't say who said it, but it was not a good review. And then Sui was like, it was amazing. So I think that it might be one of those things where if you go in with a certain mentality, expecting a certain thing, you might be disappointed. But Sui seemed to really like it. And she said that like a lot of the classic lines are there, but it didn't feel like a jukebox.

We're relying on the movie type thing. It felt like its own fresh thing, which I'm excited about. I'm picturing like sort of a cross, I'm picturing like a Legally Blonde, which I think was a good musical. It is good. I thought it was great. It was snappy as shit.

It could have been way fucking worse. Absolutely. I mean like her big note and like watching her try to hit it every time was like the takeaway. This hook, oh my God, oh my God,

you guys. Come on, that's good. No, it was all about baby fuck. Yeah, of course. Come on, that's good. No, it was all about Vandiver! Yeah, of course. Vandiver! There it is.

It was honestly, but it was a good musical. So I'm sort of expecting that, which I thought was snappy and fun. Well, yeah. I mean, I definitely want to go see it. Absolutely. Maybe we should make a date to go see it.

I would love to. Let's buy tickets. Especially before the Tony nominations because once those come out, it's impossible. I remember when you were able to see Dear Evan Hansen. Then, when all that nonsense went down, forget it.

So, actually, for today's voice, ma'am, oh, you bitch, we have a message from Sudi Green, who actually, this is Sudi Green, who is our friend who's in the industry, quote-unquote. Okay, ready? Thank you so much for

taking the time to hop on the phone with me um it's me sudi um a long time friend short time fan um i am so excited for everything that lost culture east is is doing you know cluster fest and the like um and i just feel that as your friend it would be honestly shitty of me to not really try and develop you guys and really get you at least a web series you know and um things are opening up in the quarter hour space, you know, before the paywall, after the paywall. You know, the form is going out the window. And, you know, if we can really capitalize on what you guys are doing, I think we could get you, you know, $5,000 to split. So I have a couple of pitches here for you.

You know, just to throw some things out there um and before i pitch this i just i think it's important to state that i'm a straight white presenting woman okay so the first pitch that i have for you guys is girl snatch that wig um bowen and matt uh visit republican women and introduce them to weaves and falls and clip-ins to make their hair fuller and their lives more interesting. This has legs. It's funny, but ultimately

heartwarming and profound. I like it. My next idea, you know, just throwing things out there, is Straight Boy Gay Body. Oh, cool. Where Bowen and matt make um one of their girlfriends boyfriends go to a beyonce soul cycle class with them and it's very funny but ultimately heartwarming and profound um then there's this idea that I have.

Tentative title is Can I Borrow That? It's For a Show. Where you two boys come over to me or Mo or even Amanda, one of our apartments, and you raid our

closets. And Matt, you tell me that everything is too big for you um and then i don't see it for six months oh um so that's fun matt you have my made well overalls i haven't forgotten and then um you know it's funny sorry but ultimately um i get my made well overalls back. Yes, get the overalls to her. And then I guess just my last idea. You know, we've been talking about this for a while.

I think it's finally time that we do it. Wrinkle in Time, the musical, with the title track. Sing it with me. Only you can wrinkle time. Written on the toilet. So I guess we'll just, you know,

circle back about those and what you guys feel most passionate about. And I'm really excited for the future. That was

City Green, our friend who's in the industry. Oh my God, give it up. She's crazy. Trying to develop us. No, she's got good ideas. She's smart. Oh my God, give it up. She's crazy. Trying to develop us. No, she's got good ideas.

She's smart. She's the smartest girl I know. She's certainly got plenty of good ideas there. I don't know about us going and introducing women to weaves. I don't know about that. I'm going to say pull it. But a couple of the other ones I think had some legs. Straight Boy Gay Body.

Straight Boy Gay Body, I believe, is a whole series. Oh my god And it's ultimately Heartwarming and profound Yes So we've come to that time In the show Where it is time to play

I don't think so honey Even if you are out to brunch And playing it with your girls Monique Monique Oh my god Alright so All of you out there

All you ooh ah ah sensations This is the part of the show where you take one minute to rail against something in pop culture that you're not feeling right now in a certain type of way. Yeah. And I think that actually I know that we both have pre selected topics. I have one. So let's go with Bowen first.

Okay, here we go. This is Bowen Yang's I don't think so, honey. And his time starts now. I don't think so. Honey, people who joke casually about suicide like oh go kill yourself oh I'm gonna kill myself oh shoot me in the fucking face oh hey

suicides are a real fucking thing I don't mean to be like virtue signally here but honestly like come up with a better joke I know it's an extreme image but you can do better girl read them like listen I'm guilty of this too I've like casually thrown it out there but then I was like wait I heard it and I was i heard someone else do it recently and i was like wait a minute no we can do better than this we should expect better of ourselves 30 seconds maybe joke about how you

would rather you know read a book in a quiet room for hours because that's torture to you or you know like fall down the stairs intentionally. Like, that's a less severe, less intense example of that. So, you know what? I don't think there's many people who want to joke about suicide casually. Like, I know it's an easy go-to,

but find something better. I beg of you. You are a better person and conversationalist and comedian for that if you can make something else work. And that's one minute. That is one minute. Amazing.

I have to agree. I also think it'd be funnier instead of saying oh I'm gonna kill myself to be like oh I'm gonna throw myself down the stairs it's just more visual it's more active it's funnier I get more recover from that it paints a picture I'm gonna throw myself off a cruise liner oh I love it I see

you on the cruise well I think it's more fun yeah okay so I'm ready to go. Okay. This is Matt Rodgers as I Don't Think So Honey. His time starts now. I Don't Think So Honey

live voting on these reality competition shows with singing. Okay, because let me tell you something. I Don't Think So Honey, the deck being stacked for people that have cable in middle America.

I Don't Think So Honey on American Idol when the entire top four is all people of color and women, including a drag performer who was great on American Idol, that they are all on the bottom and then get eliminated because the deck is stacked for the white people in middle America who still have cable, who are fucking watching Roseanne. Glued to the sofa.

And when you make it a live voting thing that they can only vote that night, that means people that stream who can't watch it night later, cool people, cannot vote. And I don't like it. I don't want to have to center my week

around American Idol Wednesday, whatever fucking night it's on, to make sure I can vote. But I want to have a voice because I'm American as well. Five seconds. So stop stacking the deck for all these country blonde singers even if they're good american idol we see you i don't think so and that's one minute and the voice also does it to live voting and it results

in bad people continuing and good people getting voted out i agree though and it's racially i think like questionable sure that the bottom four is all people of color and like everyone in the top is white. Absolutely. Every time that happens, I'm like, I'm sorry, but I noticed this. I would be interested in the demographics of who's voting. It's the same reason why like, you know, like white queens on Drag Race get more Instagram followers than black ones. Right.

And it's just like, I'm so happy there's no voting element with Drag Race because like that would make it truly insane. And I definitely feel like I get it. It's American Idol like sure the voice like they decide but that's a problem I have with the voice like it can matter so much what the judges say and then all of a sudden it doesn't at all right and like it's really not about the voice because America's calling judging on however many subjective opinions yeah so American Idol I get the public vote 100 but the voice can do better and figure out how their system would make

more sense for what it's about I don't like relying on the live vote was X Factor always relying on the vote too? is X Factor still on? no not in America the judges decided based on the voting

the judges ultimately made decisions but the public voted and then later on in ultimately made decisions, but the public voted, and then later on in the competition, it was just the public. But I like the X Factor as a model. It just didn't work in America because I think Simon Cowell is toxic. But the thing is, there's a way to figure

out these reality shows so that they're almost there, so that the ones, like the voice that are almost there can just be fully there. If the voice just a little bit, the rules don't make sense. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I hear that. That's what I feel. That's good. That's good commentary. Okay. Thank you, bitch. All righty. So this is Dave Mazzoni's

I Don't Think So Honey. I know we alluded to it earlier in the show, but it's coming at you right now. Yeah, I'm here to talk about it. And it's I Don't Think So Honey, Dave Mazzoni. And remember, he is a finalist at Coach War.

This is someone who knows what the fuck he is doing. I made it pretty far. Absolutely, you did. You made it very far. You were a runner-up. Yes, I was. You were the Alaska of that competition for season five. Thank you.

All-stars, bring it back. And your time starts now. I don't think so, honey. Katy Perry right here, right now, in this day. Oh! I don't think so with your Aaron Carter looking ass. I'm not here for it. Like, I mean,

this is all coming from American Idol today. I watched Katy Perry enter the set of American Idol in a full snow white costume. Lionel Richie. Who's the other judge? I don't even know. Luke Bryant.

Luke Bryant. Luke Bryant. They're just in regular suits. Katy Perry comes in in Snow White garb. I don't think so, bitch. You are a billboard. You are a Pepsi ad. You are Burger King. What happened to thinking of you?

What happened to acoustic? Give me your voice. I saw you at Highline Ballroom for $15 in 2009, girl. You are a Burger King. You are the Panera Bread of pop stars. I don't think so, honey. You sold out for American Idol. I don't care if that check is huge.

You suck. Wow. That was one. That one's going to have a lot of fans. That was one minute. Exactly. I want to let you guys, the viewers, know that it hit one minute and I was perfectly finished. He was.

You took a goddamn breath at the end. And also, guess what? So concise. It's amazing that after that, because I thought, but right before I hit the button, I was like, oh, we just pumped him up by saying he was a finalist in culture. I hope the bitch brings it. And the bitch brought it. She brought it.

She's blonde now. She's got a lot of confidence. Blonde Ambition. That's what that was called. Blonde Ambition. That's the lot of confidence. Blonde Ambition. That's what that was called. Blonde Ambition. Blonde Ambition. That's the title of that. Blonde Ambition.

Blonde Ambition. Blonde Ambition, bitch. Guys, and I'm also trying out this fake earring. Write that down. HPJ. I fucking am obsessed with the fake earring. I don't love it. I don't think I would ever get my ear pierced because I'm purely afraid of the pain.

But I'm trying it out on one side and I'm kind of into it. I think it's really good. I don't love the earring but also you're entitled. I respect you. It feels very like Helix Studios for those of you out there. And many of you

probably do understand. Why don't we leave it at that? Let's leave it at that. Guys, if you're... This has been so much fun. I love my sisters. Oh, my sisters. We always have a good time.

We're embracing again in a sort of a chanting type formation. In a cult. In a cult formation. In a cult formation. In a cult formation. So let's just have a little rundown, shall we? So May 11th

is game show. Yes. I'll be there with bells on my head. Yes, Bo and Yang has a running bit in our show. He keeps our score. Yes. He is there to... Serving. Serving. Crunch the numbers. And like I said, Sashir is going to be on the show. We're going to be announcing the rest of it very soon. Probably very likely by the time this is out, we'll have announced it. Yes. And like I said, Sashir is going to be on the show. We're going to be announcing the rest of it very soon. Probably very likely

by the time this is out, we'll have announced it. Also, you guys, in June, bitch, we're going to be in LA. We're going to be in LA. We're going to do a game show on June 11th. Then Adam thinks of hunting on June 12th. And then, the list!

In July. And I think you'll hear more about it on the podcast, I can safely say. Yes, absolutely. Of course, guys. This has been so fun. So fun. Now we got to close out with a song. I think I know.

Because when I'm with him, I am thinking of you. Thinking of you. Thinking of you. What do you want to do? Thinking of you What you would do If you were the one Who was spending the night That I was looking into your Eyes Bye.

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