Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang - “Doyenne” (w/ Ira Madison III)

Episode Date: June 14, 2018

Ira Madison III is The Doyenne. The Doyenne is Ira Madison III. And The Doyenne (Ira Madison III) is here! We are honored that the beloved host of Keep It! on Crooked Media is bringing his trove of cultural knowledge to the Las Culturistas table. Topics? What we like about Rihanna, Jennifer Aniston, the “Nap Episode” of Friends, Oceans 8, Pose (the Dynasty reboot WE DESERVE), the savageness of the Wendy’s Twitter account, the defense of Selena Gomez, and MORE. Plus, Ira reveals the name of his fragrance and describes his extremely modern interaction with Sarah Michelle Gellar back when he was a barista. ---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:twitter.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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Oh, I see. Bowen, look over there. Is that culture? Las Culturistas Ding dong, Las Culturistas calling. And this lifestyle isn't for dong. Las Culturistas calling. And this lifestyle isn't for me. Okay.

And we were just literally talking about this before we hit record. We've both decided that there's too much space in between things here in LA. Literally, figuratively, chronologically, yes. Yes. Chronologically, there's too much space. I can't do conversations with Lyft drivers here's what you do

as soon as you sit down do you mind if I put my headphones in and they have no choice but to say and I'm sure the listeners would think I would be the one who's like much more direct and I would think that they think you're the nicer one out of the two of us but apparently that's not true

actually rule of culture number 50 apparently that's not true. Actually, rule of culture number 50. Bowen is not as nice as Matt. Okay. We'll contest that. Okay, so we have an amazing guest with us today. Amazing. Amazing.

Truly, truly a tastemaker. Truly an arbiter of the culture. An arbitreuse. We're dilettantes. We are not the Doyens, shall we say. Wow. I don't know what one of the words means, but I'm happy to pretend. Sure. Okay.

So he is a writer, critic at the Daily Beast. You've seen his work on MTV News Buzzfeed. He's also the host of the amazing podcast on Crooked Media, Keep It. He's an icon. Here we have Ira Madison III. Yes. Hi. III. Yes. Hi. Welcome.

Hello. You know I love the word doyenne. Doyenne, yeah. Okay, great. What is it? It's like the highest at what they do. Yes. Okay.

The empress. Yes. Okay. Sure, but just in terms of skill, there's no like... Like Cate Blanchett. Is the doyenne of acting. Oh my God. And also Australian theater because she bought her husband just in terms of skill. There's no like, like Cate Blanchett is the doyenne of acting.

Oh my God. And also Australian theater because she bought her husband a company. Unbelievable. Did we see Ocean's 8? I did. Okay. And did you believe

that she was the doyenne of the group? Uh, no. Who was the doyenne? She was the fashion doyenne of the group. She certainly was.

Yes. The suits, the track jacket. Yeah. It was all there the boots the grunt bang yeah the lesbian cut

you got it she was giving me lesbian energy I thought she and Sandra were former lovers that could have been a good plot point they did not

there weren't any plot points in the movie no actually very very few my favorite part was Rihanna's sister yeah she was cute she turned it yeah she was cute.

She turned it. She was great. And you believed that they were siblings. And that is a testament to Rihanna. Rihanna is a natural actress. We want to see more Rihanna performances. I want to know, can she do more than smoke a blunt on screen? I mean, have we seen Battleship?

She punches the buttons. Did you see Bates Motel? Okay, wait. Apparently she really was good in Bates Motel. Yeah. What did she do? She plays the... She plays Marion Crane. Oh, okay, cool.

The Janet Leigh role. She does not die. No, there's a twist. She realizes this Norman Bates is creepy as creepy as fuck yeah so she gets out of there and she literally says something like fuck this yes great great there's always but this is what we like about rihanna is she she brings to the role each role some layer of herself some some some dosage of her she's an Aniston-esque actress. Oh. She's not a Blanchette.

You know, I think that's very fair. I think Kate brings Kate to some rules. You know what? I do not see it for the white Halle Berry. Oh. Is that what you think? Jennifer Aniston is the white Halle Berry? I'm tired of her. Keep it.

Are we all? I'm tired of her being in the papers no get out of the papers um like first of all we're also always being like oh my god i love jennifer aniston i wish she could like you know find a man because like i feel like people think that she's like a surrogate for them yeah like if she can find a man i can find find a man. It's like, you had Brad Pitt, you had Justin Theroux, you had friends, all three of them are over.

She couldn't keep a man or a project. Just like Halle Berry. Here's the thing, I don't believe that Halle Berry and Jennifer Aniston are comparable because I do think that Halle Berry has quite the range. Right? I just mean in terms of

the public persona. Losing things. Oh, sure. What can we say that Halle Berry is lost? Also, Jennifer Aniston has been walking around with what we call the Rachel. Yeah, for a long time. The Rachel,

first of all, is a is a black girl wig that's been around for decades and it's and it's and it's black girl's quick drag too it's quick drag it is like shake and go you would not come out the house in that way it's shake and go white people walking around with the rachel you look whack i will say i think yeah no for sure for sure i think the iconic... Get some bangs. Yeah, no, for sure. For sure. I think the iconic hairstyle in Friends was actually Monica's hairstyle or when

Phoebe would put her hair up and use like the pencils. Like cute little... Yeah. She had cute updos. This was back when they would do like little... They would wear like a cheap howl. They would do like an appropriately Asian bun and like do the top stick. Do you feel that it was appropriately Asian? I mean, a little.

I'm not going to say. I will say that Friends with an all white cast. I love getting the chopsticks. Put it in my bun just to pop shit. There you go. Just to pop shit. I think, look, it's fine for Nikki to use that because anti-Asian. Why is it fine? I think, look, it's fine for Nikki to use that because anti-Asian.

Why is it fine? Because Asians have profited off anti-blackness, but black people have not necessarily profited off anti-Asianness, right? But Friends with an all-white cast does profit off anti-Asianness. They also, were you a Friends fan? Yeah, I watched Friends. But you weren't standing for Friends. I look back back and i'm like i don't fucking care really yes i i watched every episode um at some point and i don't watch it on netflix though no sure yeah well the other day i saw someone shared like a

quiz like these uh you're a real fan if you know this, whatever, in Friends. I was like, are we still talking about this damn show? People can't let it go. When Frasier is streaming. Yeah. When Cheers is on. Where's Spin City? No, where is Spin City?

I love Spin City. Where's News Radio? Where's Caroline in the City? Oh, I didn't watch that. Muted, I bet. We were A to C-ing seeing but i will say friends she doesn't hold up she doesn't hold up she is as an entity no because commonly commonly a large plot point and most episodes will be that they are panicked over like the gay panic type of comedy

yes like the three of them like oh like oh like like one time they woke up in a bed together and it was hilarity honey you could the audience was decked oh the nap you mean the nap episode well yeah sure there was a nap together there was a nap episode where joey and i think ross were like napping together yeah and then they realized they really enjoyed it and then they were like is this gay what if in the last episode like

Rachel had run in and said I got off the plane and Ross was like actually this is the real thing fucking a dude oh yeah

I'm gay with Joey with Joey that would have been hot I loved Joey I loved Joey too did you think that Joey was the comedic

energy of the show no he should not have gotten a spinoff no so stupid I mean RIP Drea DeMatteo though oh my god

and also Jennifer Coolidge there for Hot Sack right they gave it their all as they always do yeah but no

if anyone should have gotten a spinoff it should have been Phoebe should have been Phoebe right right right but I believe that we are Phoebe and Ursula a spinoff, it should have been Phoebe. Right, right, right. But I believe that we are- Phoebe and Ursula, a spinoff. Yes!

I love it, I love it. Parent trap that show. Let her act. But I would say that we are more thankful that we had the comeback. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. I don't believe we would have had both. Sure.

Are we thankful- I don't know the timeline there, though. Here's how I know that Emmy, it's for your consideration season here. It is. Because you see Megan Amram posters everywhere. Yes, we see Megan Amram posters everywhere on Hollywood and Milton.

And just a reminder for everyone that's maybe an Emmy voter that listens to the show, you can vote for Megan Amram, an outstanding actress in a short form web series. A short form comedy or drama series. Unfortunately, I am not in the series enough to be nominated. Really? Oh, you only are in the one episode.

But if the series wins, you can go to the ceremony. I'm going to tell people I'm in an Emmy-nominated series. There you go. And you are in a pivotal episode where she finds out she is Korean. And you give her the permission to um position yourself but we should say that um if that becomes a problem it was lena dunham's idea yes and that is those are iris words right okay but i want to say that speaking of her yes let's go i just watched finally watched drag because i was in bonnaroo okay yeah yeah yeah talk about what we

felt about lena on uh drag race you know what i am i try not to be one of those people who's on finally watched Drag Race because I was in Bonnaroo this week. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Talk about what we felt about Lena on Drag Race. You know what? I try not to be one of those people who's like mean to her. Mostly because she follows me on Twitter

and I find it hard to be mean to my Twitter followers. Right, right, right. I find that hard too. Noble of you. Celebrities, there is my kryptonite,

all right? Follow me on Twitter and I might not be mean to you. I'd be nice. I don't know. Try it, Trump. But she seems all right yeah follow me on twitter and i might not be mean to you i don't know uh try it trump but she seemed so uncomfortable on the show very uncomfortable yeah and she also just seemed like she was paid to be there to stan eureka yeah oh my god you're so right you're doing it original

and you're doing because she's a big girl yeah honestly it really was too much for me well and during Untucked she goes back into the Untucked room

and she's like she goes up to Eureka she's literally like I knew last season that you were gonna come back and take this whole thing and other contestants

are like oh my fuck Lena we wrote in our recap for Vulture that Lena probably went on set and went up to the sound mixer

and was like, I'm such a fan of your work. I worked with her before on one thing and she came up and she was like, I'm such a fan. I was like, what have you seen me do? She listens to La Cultista. Yeah, please.

She can't wait to be on it. And then she followed me on Instagram. And then unfollowed. And then unfollowed. No, we get to shit talk. I don't know why. It can't be my oppressive Instagram stories. Who cares? As if hers

isn't oppressive. They're a lot, but you know what? They are a lot. Thank you for bringing the truth. As long as Jim Henson is off the air, I can get my daily dose of Muppets from you. Do you feel that I give Muppets?

Yeah. I am very honored to hear that. You've got a wide mouth. You've got a long face. I am constantly like, who has their hand up now? I'm constantly like that too. Sometimes I don't even know.

I'm like, who has their hands on me tonight? Okay. So listen, I just want to say really quickly before we ask Ira the question. It's for your consideration season. I feel like,

oh my God, where was I going with this? Nevermind. What the fuck was that? If you remember it, spring it up later. Yeah. Or it's not appropriate. In the theater,

when we have a note, we take that note and then we implement it in the next performance. That's great. Because you can't go back. I was going to drag some TV show

for not being Emmy worthy. Suits. Suits. Oh my God, suits. Yeah, cancel it. Not without Meghan Markle. Exactly. Did you know Meghan Markle

was in the pilot of 90210, the reboot? Oh, from ZW? Giving a character head in a Jeep. Oh my God. She gave head in a Jeep and now she's royalty? The Duchess of Sussex? I remember literally zero things from that 90210 pilot. Oh.

I'll watch this the whole season. I did tune in because I wanted to see Shannon Doherty slay. Yeah, but she did not. Really, I don't think the material. I'll watch this I did tune in because I wanted to see like Shannon Doherty slay yeah but she did not really I don't think the material you can't actually this is

rule of culture number 58 you can't slay if the material doesn't allow you to slay if it ain't on the page but also that's not

always true sometimes I think someone takes something unslay worthy and they slay the cast of Ocean's 8 the cast of

Ocean's 8 there you go. Yeah, but the script was bad. Did you think the script was bad? The director was bad. Really? Gary Ross? Gary Ross is a bad director.

No, girl. You don't like the Hunger Games, the first two? No. They're pretty good. They're fine, but like the real Hunger Games is three part one. Sure, sure, sure, sure. Give me like 70s psycho thriller it's okay that's what

you like i thought catching fire was legit good i think it was just because of the material yeah actors and it's hard to fuck up like a movie like that this was just like this needed to be a heist it needed to be sexy yeah yeah it was just there was also no plot there was there was very little plot there was that's true and also i very little plot. That's true. And also I thought it could have gotten interesting there at the end with James Corden coming in but then I don't think

James Corden is going to come in and make anything more interesting. I don't even want to think about James Corden. Honestly, yeah. I thought, why wasn't that character a woman? Yeah.

And also, why is it Corden? Also, where was the Andy Garcia character? There was no villain. There was no villain trying to catch Sandra woman yeah why are and also why is it cordon oh so where was the andy garcia character where there was no villain and yes there was no villain trying to catch sandra like this any uh james gordon should have been a woman and she should have been like waiting for her outside the prison like i'm gonna get you and just so yeah and she should have been played by penelope cruz no i think for the sequel there okay penelope would great. I'm thinking Angelina comes in for nine.

I would die. That'd be a gag. I guess I would die too. Oh, Michelle. See, I'm always down for Michelle. Oh, yes. We used to say the children have forgotten Michelle, but this year I feel like the children remembered Michelle.

I love Michelle. She is a white auntie. But I would also support Angelina. Yes. I guess. A fucking bad bitch. Black people love Angelina Jolie. Why do you think that is?

She is, well, first of all, she is a light-skinned white woman of color. Yeah. And we just. I don't know why I laughed. We love. Black people watch watch action movies. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so white people are always confused about what white stars we love.

Yes. It's just like I grew up watching my mom and my grandmother and my aunts and stuff. They will love them some Angelina Jolie. Okay. A friend asked me last night, is is jennifer garner a white gay thing oh and i was like currently yeah yes she used to be coming soon but we love alias we love alias and also did you see the trailer for her new movie i know but she's just like shooting up mexicans and i don't think we can i don't think we can support that we can can't abide that, no.

We don't know. We don't know. I think that it looks- It's like these Mexicans kill her family, and then she's like, I'm gonna go kill the cartel, okay? I'm gonna go get some guasados and shoot up every Mexican I see.

It's racist. Okay. Oh my God, fine. Jennifer. Jennifer. What are you doing? Don't we respect that she's been able to combine her brands of doing like a kickflip with a gun and also mom because she's taking her entire brand from her early career and her

entire brand from the last 10 years and combining them to make something super Jennifer Garner. Yes. You know, but black people don't respect that. Every black person has to multitask. There you go. There you go. I don't know if I understand the Angelina Jolie thing. Angelina Jolie?

I mean, now she does. First of all, she owns like several countries. Yeah, she owns them. She Pied Piper multiple children. I didn't know the pied piper bitch salt

salt changeling she managed to make people still like her after making out with her brother yes bitch

she fully did mouth on mouth this bitch used to carry blood around on red carpets on a vial bitch oh my god and then she went

to glam like like amfam or whatever that place is that gives food to kids and then she went to glam like AmFam or whatever that place is that gives food to kids glam fam she went out to a glam fam

category is she is walking in every category category is international savior Oscar winner honestly I'm very up and down with Angelina Jolie because, and it's interesting, we talk about Angelina Jolie after discussing Jennifer Aniston earlier. They are often discussed side by side.

And this podcast is no exception. We know whose side I'm on. Yes, you're on Angelina's side. Well, that's okay. So that's been declared. I have always identified as more of an Aniston than an Angelina because I feel that if I become successful in an acting capacity, it will be because- You're going to pretend to drink smart water too? Yes, 100%. Because I don't think they'll give me the fragrance and fashion.

Do you know the only time I drink smart water is when i buy a bottle of water before i get on an airplane yeah this is the only water that's the only option i get it but you understand that like these actresses in order to make their supplemental income they can either decide to do the shitty romantic comedies and the product placements or they can become fashion icon of the world and not everyone can become fashion icon of the world because they don't have the bone structure, honey. And so I feel that- And they're walking around with a bad haircut.

Yes. And so I feel that if I were to become successful, I would unfortunately go the route of product placement and dumb ass movies and not fashion, fashion, fashion, fragrance, fragrance, fragrance, even though I would love to have a fragrance. Mine will be called Gay Son.

Gay, S-U-N, S-U-N? S-O-N. S-O-N. S-O-N, okay. This is new. You keep changing the fragrance name. What was my last fragrance? I was going to have one called Bold. You were going to?

I can't keep track of them. I'm sorry. That's your job is to keep track of my products. Sure. What would your fragrance be called? Three. I love that. Three.

Mine might be called Basique. Basique. That's what it was. That's what the last one was, Basique. Basique. Yeah. Well, last night we were on Pop Rock and he said

what would your house be called if you had a house like in Pose and I said House of Basic House of Basic are we watching Pose

of course okay great what do we think what do we think what do we really think I live for it okay great how you do it

well we live for it we live for it too the writing is like very classic Ryan Murphy writing could you believe yeah I mean

it's I call it the Dynasty reboot we deserve yeah that's good writing is very original version is like very classic Ryan Murphy writing. Could you believe? Yeah, I mean, I call it the Dynasty reboot we deserve. Yeah, that's good. Because the writing is very original

version of Dynasty. I mean, I'm living, but I'm also like, I mean, okay. Sure. Original version of Dynasty. Oh, right.

As opposed to the reboot. I think it depends on whose mouth it's coming out of whether the dialogue works. Like, we were pretty iffy on Dominique Jackson in the first episode, but then I looked back and I

loved when Blanca was leaving the house and what's her name? Electra. Electra just tosses her head back over her shoulder and goes, you'll be back. And I was like, no, that's good. No, it's good. It's good writing. When they show up at the museum? Jack pot. Yes.

I look too good not to be seen I mean yeah it's pretty great and also of course the famous mini monologue she gave I can walk into any restaurant I pass gorgeous this is on her

and then in the second episode oh my god oh yes this is on her. It's on the house. Love it. And then she has another, you missed this, but after she bails Blanca out of jail,

she goes, Blanca's like, are you going uptown? They're getting in the car. She goes, yes. The subway is that way. Oh yeah. And she gets in her car

and drives off, bitch. Gorgeous. I love it. Sure. I mean, okay. That's a great way to put it though it's it's the dynasty reboot we deserve it is like so like and as as in dynasty the writing works sink swims depending on who is delivering the line right it's true it is like you either have your dying carols or you have your whoever that bitch was who played crystal carrington like

wow that's shady crystal was always like boring as hell you were always on alexis's side always always yes i mean they tried to make alexis the villain and it was like yeah that's true she was boring that's who it was yeah we did a show called night so we were both in full drag performing an episode of an episode of like a soap that we wrote and now I'm feeling the shade from you because you told me that I was the Linda Evans and you were the... No, I've always said that I was the Linda Evans. Out of the two of us?

Guy Branum has said that you are the Alexis, I am the Crystal. I trust Guy Branum, man. Another arbiter of taste. I guess I'm Dominique. You are Dominique the champagne it's burnt the La Croix

the La Croix it's burnt burnt in a can it must have been frozen in the can at some point you know you've seen the same clip as us

okay bitch god bless I've watched every episode have you okay bitch are you a like big fan yes yeah I guess

you must be one of my favorite shows okay well this is where we ask you you did not follow me on Instagram until after, but last year, I watched the entire series of Dynasty, and my Instagram stories were just clips from nine seasons. You were doing what Phoebe Robinson did with Game of Thrones there for quite a minute.

She's going through it. Okay, this is where we ask you the question we ask all of our guests, which is, what is the culture that made you say culture is for me? Made you step in a cultural direction. It was like that moment in Pocahontas when she rolls up

to the two paths, and one path was the culture, and one path was a life you'll never know. My father wasn't a part of my family life for much of my childhood. And I remember visiting him in New York and the streets were bright and they were sunny. But just down the corner, you could see the decadence of New York and the pain. And, you know, he took me to a museum. And there, of course, were the luminaries, Andy Warhol, Basquiat.

There you go. And we all hung out. And, you know know I became part of Andy Warhol's factory and you know I've become famous ever since then and you know Gretchen Maul played me in that movie

no we are looking at culture herself what really got me in the culture it was probably just like Buffy the Vicar. I think that's a good answer. Honestly, yeah. So Sarah Michelle Gellar is someone that you love.

I love her. Yeah. I'll never forget her. I helped her once. What? To what? I used to be a barista, you know, before my come up. Yeah, of course.

Before the glow. And she came up to me once when I was a barista at this place coffee commissary in burbank and this was when she was on the crazy ones with robin williams r.i.p she came over to me with her ipad i don't know how to get on the wi-fi could you help me and you were like she gave me her ipad and i'm like a part of me wanted to be like scrolling me i'm like but i logged her onto the wi-fi oh my god thank you so much and you sent her on her way yeah did you tell her that you were a huge fan and then one day you'd answer with her name as to what culture influenced you no but then i met her again when i was at buzzfeed um after the glow

after the glow and um did not get to interview her i remember being really pissed that uh the people who ran the parent section at buzzfeed had her come in and talk about like mom stuff and i was like bitch reductive we could have talked about buffy yeah um but so i have a lot of like graphic t-shirts yes i was wearing a buffy shirt that day by accident yeah but it was the christy swanson 92 okay original movie and she saw it and said that's not me did you really yeah i can't but i was able to tell her she stopped over and talked to me and uh lewis pitesman who So that's not me. Did you really? Yeah. Iconic. But I was able to tell her. She stopped over and talked to me and Louis Pitesman, who worked with me.

And he and I were both like, we love you. Oh, my God. I mean, I love telling someone that. Yeah, it has to be the right moment. But you got it. I feel like you got to get that out there. For certain people, yeah. Yeah.

I did it to Eileen Davidson. You did? Yeah. Because I've watched Days of Our Lives. For certain people, yeah. Yeah. I did it to Eileen Davidson. You did? Yeah, because I've watched Days of Our Lives. Wow. So you're a stan in the correct way. Yeah.

She's an Emmy winner two times. Oh, that's right. Yeah, she's serving it to you on Days of Our Lives. Yeah. I told her, I interviewed her

when she was on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Then I also saw her at the like Days of Our Lives 50th anniversary party that's a ticket to score

yeah that is beautiful also Deidre Hall Marlena came over to me and was like excuse me could you take a photo

of me and oh my god I was like okay sure wow and there was that that's a truly after the glow moment.

After the glow. Where you feel that someone coming to you and being like, excuse me, could mean that you are being recognized in your moment of glow. She was like, no. The Real Housewives of New York City are back for another bite of the Big Apple. Look who it is. Joined by elite new friends. Rebecca Minkoff.

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I'm going to throw Bone under the bus. We recently were at a party for Vulture Festival, the opening party, and someone was like, hi, can we get a picture? And Bone was like, yeah, and put his arm around me and like posed. And I did too.

And then she goes, oh no, I meant could you take one and we literally scream we were like oh my god we've never felt worse sure and it was just like such a snap into it moment oh my god oh my god culture number four you're Sally field I'm Sally at the mall oh my god yeah yeah hold on sally is slaying what is she doing when she said on twitter um the thing about um oh yeah yeah samantha b was wrong to call ivanka a cunt cunts are powerful loving beautiful gorgeous queens or something like that and i was just like yes sally. So you know what shocked me?

What was shocking? Some of you black people love Sally Field. They love Sally Field? Not an action star. After that, you know, we love like- Decidedly not.

I know, I know. Yeah, you know. Not all action stars. I'm being reductive. I'm being, yeah. Listen, bitch. Don't you be reductive here. I am.

I can walk into any store in front of Los Angeles and be like, Sleha, Elektra! Sleha! be reductive here i am i can walk into any storefront in los angeles so sally field just because after that tweet like so many different black people kept being like sally is a savage yes she always loved miss field i'm like okay i've always loved miss field it's actually rule of culture number 88. I've always loved Miss Field. People are loving, you know who's like killing it on Twitter right now?

Who? It's the Wendy's Twitter account. The Wendy's? Because, oh my God, yes. Wendy's the restaurant. Wendy's the restaurant is killing it on Twitter

as being savage. And it's inspiring. We won't get into it. No, but because we have to say now, why? Because IHOP changed to IHOB in the stupidest fucking move I've ever heard in my life.

It's like the International House of Burgers. Of Burgers. And somebody was like, ooh, Wendy's, are you shook that IHOB is now a thing? And they were like, we're not scared of a chain that figured out that pancakes was too hard for them. Oh, my. It's great. Wendy's. Wendy was feeling some kind of way. Wendy's was out. I feel like I was

for a while I was like who is running the Wendy's account? And I feel like it's some white girl in Des Moines. Probably. Just feeling herself. Watching old episodes of Noah's Ark. Yeah. And she will move to LA or Nework at one point and get a few general meetings and be like and they'll be like so tell us about you and they'll be like well

i ran the wendy's twitter and they'll be like yes i like it honestly she's got but not but not you we're gonna call wendy's yeah get that ip and make a show yes bye girl Bye, girl. Called Wendy Takes Hollywood. Honestly, I see it. Speaking of Hollywood. Okay, bitch. You introduced me as a Daily Beast writer, and I am no longer as a friend. I'm so... Oh, okay, yes.

Congratulations. We have a new gig announcement. New gig alert. New gig alert. You know this, and I don't. I know this, bitch. Come on, I'm so this bitch Coachella gotta rename itself Irachella

New name alert Ira takes on Hollywood Oh my god What's the gig? What are we doing? I am writing on a Netflix Untitled teen sci-fi drama Oh my god, yeah

I said to Ira, I was like, I love a good teen In sci-fi peril I'm saying, like, that is the, like Perfect convergence of genres that we need Or, I mean, whatever, like Age genre, whatever, that's amazing That's so cool I'm very excited

I just left my job of five years two weeks ago Before I flew out to the west coast Oh my god, you're leaving this show? Yeah, he's leaving the show. Oh my God, can you imagine? I'm replacing him with you, Ira! New giggler. I feel like, I have a little panic about it.

I'm just like, what's going to happen? How long are you a Daily Beast? Just like a year. Just like a year. Okay, but there's no real emotion. I'm a year girl. You're a year girl. So how long is Keeppa gonna live?

Do Kara and Lewis know about this? Uh-oh, honestly, Kara and Lewis keep it. Matt and Bowen, we're in. Ah, we're coming in. We're coming in. We fill those roles. No, we don't. I think we do.

They're both so smart. I can compete. We're idiots. I just crave shakeups, you know? Yeah, same. So it's like, you know, after a year, something needs to happen to shake it up. Yeah can compete. We're idiots. I just crave shakeups, you know? Yeah. Same. Shake up the whole thing. After a year, something needs to happen to shake it up. Yeah, I agree.

I agree. I'm Zendaya. Shake it up. No. Zendaya and Bella Thorne. Shake it up. Okay, what's a verdict on Zendaya? You know what?

Do we like? I do like, but does anybody remember that that bitch used to be a singer? Yeah. No. I saw She's the Greatest Showman and cried. And she had an album when she was at Disney. I'm like, where is the music? Stop being in these little roles.

Stop being in these little roles. Being some fashion icon. I want some bops. Okay, but she can give you the bop in The Greatest Showman. The Greatest Showman. How can we rewrite the stars? Here's the thing, though. I would rather have a...

Zendaya, I can admire her focus on her, on whatever vertical of a career she wants to focus on. Bitch. But you compare her to Selena, who is all over the fucking place. It's not really even doing movies anymore. But I'm saying I would rather have a Zendaya who is... No, she's just giving away kidneys.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, wait, she got a kidney that was rude she received a kidney she received a kidney and also a huge check from those pantene commercials girl yes yeah and our friend pat regan says no one slays a hair commercial like selena gomez you know what i will i will actually always stand selena Selena Gomez because I watch every episode of Wizards of Waverly Place. Got it. Okay. And it was good. I was more a, oh my God, I almost just called myself.

She should act again. She should. That's what I'm saying. I believe that she is a more powerful actress than she is a singer, but I think the money is in her being a pop star. I mean, she sounds like a whispering reed when she sings. Guy Brandon last night was like... It's like a fucking branch from the willow tree in Pocahontas.

Yeah, no. He was like, you didn't like Bad Liar? I was like, I mean, it's fine. I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying. Like, it's... What? It's... Yeah, I don't know.

Do we care? It's... If you can't sing, at least do us the yeah, I don't know. Do we care? It's, it is a- If you can't sing, at least do us the courtesy of knowing how to dance. Yeah, there you go. And she can't do my hair. Okay, Brittany? No, she tries to give you a little bit of hairography.

Not dancing. No. Do you remember her era where she was wearing like the bendy? Oh, yeah. Come and get it. Come and get it. Come and get it. They like, I'm just like Middle Eastern.

And I was like, what are you doing girl? All the pop girls were trying to be Middle Eastern. There was a three year period. Gaga was doing like a burka shit. Like she was, it was wild.

Katy Perry was an Egyptian woman. Oh my God. She was an Egyptian woman. Gaga literally has a song where she wails about underneath the burka. Yep. Underneath the burka.. Yep, underneath the burqa. And like, but nobody called that bitch out on that.

You're Lebanese, you're Orient. I mean, people did call her. Never forget. I don't know. Chola descent. Chola descent. Chola descent. Oh my God.

I'm not going to get into this with Matt. Matt loves the word chola. No, don't do this to me. Matt, I always thought that you were ethnic too. And I was shocked to find out that you were just some Staten Island gay. I am not a Staten Island gay. I am a Long Island gay. I am a Long Island white gay.

And that is my minority. Thank you. I stand with my sisters. I asked Ray Saudi. I was like, is Matt ethnic? And she was like, no. And I literally, she was like, is Matt ethnic? And she was like, no! What? She was like, absolutely not.

Wait, but what did you think I was? I thought you were just like... Some sort of Latino mix. The olive tone. I'm very happy about this. I'm Greek, so that's where this comes from. Yes, yes. And we've now been in the West Coast, so we've been in the sun. So the Greek nature is coming out.

The Greek melanin is engaged. The Greek melanin is roaring. Yes. You know, Bowen, there's no one on the planet like me. Bowen. Yeah? I'm talking to you. Sorry.

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2012. Yes. Yes. We went to school together. But you were in the- I was in grad school. Yes. You were in the master's program.

From 2009 to 2011. Were you in dramatic writing? I was. Oh my God. Hello. And now it's all coming back to me now. Oh my God. This isn't the first time all coming back to me now. Oh my God. This isn't the first time.

This is your life. Because you, weren't you, you. I worked in the video. Oh my God, you worked there. I worked in the front office as my, you know, student work. This is crazy. Literally on the seventh floor of Tisch. Yeah.

Oh my God. I handed out the cameras too in that little camera office. This is so funny. And made copies for people. I worked there with Liam Dempsey. Oh my God, this is funny. He's not dead. But he moved to San Jose, so might as well be.

This is so funny because now it really is all coming back to me now. Honestly, I felt like I was very transient in that department. I really wasn't ever in it. I was off doing my sketch comedy thing and really wasn't very present. How'd that work out for you? It worked out quite well, actually. We have a podcast now. Wait, I want, I could go on any podcast and pass.

I pass. I pass as someone who knows anything about culture I can be up there with the Cara Browns the Louis Vertels and be treated just like any Louis Vertel

I'm sorry they don't treat me the same way they treat them make that the callback I need that two more times the rule of fours

okay this is such a no this is huge yes that is so funny and why you bitches she's got a gal listen bitch times the rule of fours okay um this is such a no this is huge yes because oh because yeah that is so funny why you bitches she's gonna go listen bitch okay we're gonna we're gonna get into it okay so unfortunately it's gonna be a little bit of a truncated episode today but we have to we must do i don't think so we must do i don't think so honey now um listen this is coming out just after our la i don't think so honey at echo place We want to thank you guys all for coming out. It was so much fun.

It was so fun. We're just going to assume that it was. I was there. And this is our segment where we take one minute to rail against something in culture that's fucking pissing us off. So, Bo and Yang, do you have something that you'd like to talk about? I do. This is going to be very specific to where the city we're in. But, yeah, we're going to do it.

Okay. And this is Bowen Yang's I Don't Think So Honey. And his time starts now. I Don't Think So Honey, the Starbucks on Grand Avenue and 6th Street here in downtown Los Angeles, bitch. I had to wait 25 minutes for this goddamn iced coffee. Tall iced coffee, unsweetened, and a fucking banana. Do any of those things take more than two

minutes to put together to assemble? No, bitch. And I don't think so, honey. I think his name was Richard someone over there is managing this very poorly. You had a whole line of fucking suits and the fucking

dredged up filth of the city waiting in line with me and I don't think so honey that it took me so long to get this and I know it's very well-trod territory to complain and shit on Starbucks especially one in an urban center like Los Angeles like DTLA but

I was truly shook by the incompetence the mismanagement of this Starbucks you know Starbucks maybe you should close your stores for one day shook by the incompetence, the mismanagement of the Starbucks. You know, Starbucks, maybe you should close your stores for one day after the racism seminar to also teach your fucking employees how to run a goddamn business.

And that's one minute. So that's why you were 25 minutes late. Exactly. Because you were waiting for a coffee. Yes. An iced coffee. As if my time isn't valuable as a goddamn queen.

I don't respect it. You don't a goddamn queen. I don't respect it. You don't respect my time. I don't. Okay. Matt, this is your turn. Well, hold on. Wait, let me just make sure I want to do this one. Okay.

I want to do this one. You want to do it. Okay, okay. And this is Matt Rogers' I Don't Think So Honey. His time starts now. I don't think so honey people who are not rooting for Lady Gaga to be a slay in a Star Is Born. This woman is literally shaking on the couch, bitch,

because her body hurts from giving you entertainment. She wakes up every goddamn day of her life and tries to slay you, and you're gonna see this trailer and be like, mm, that'll be pulpy and bullshit. No, bitch, it's gonna be good, and she will win the awards. I am rooting for her,

and I want her to succeed, because I believe in rewarding extremely talented people who work extremely hard. My dad always said, hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. And guess what? When you have the talent and you have the drive, boom, bitch.

And she's out there slaying it. The trailer looks great. Her and Bradley Cooper have the chemistry. There's a scene with a single tear. She is going to uniquely slay you in terms of the live vocals. And then if you really pause the trailer when there's the montage at the end, there looks to be some fierce acting. So I don't think so, honey, if you don't want to have joy in your life and watch Lady Gaga slay in a star's horn.

And that's one minute. I just think that it is ridiculous that you wouldn't want something to be good. Who is rooting against her, though? I feel that there are people who are watching the trailer, and then they're saying, hmm, Lady Gaga trying to act. Or there's people that are like, oh. Katy Perry outsold. Yeah.

Well, it's like, people who are like, people who say, how dare Lady Gaga come in here and think she can win an acting Oscar and take it from Glenn Close. The gays are out there saying it. They think it's Glenn Close's year. Well, maybe it's not. Let's watch all the performances. I think Glenn Close has probably depleted all her goodwill

ever since Albert Noms with the queer community. This is a hot take, but everyone, if you're supposed to have an Oscar, you'll get one. Okay, whatever that means. All right. You'll get one. And if you don't have one, you're get one. Okay, whatever that means. You'll get one.

And if you don't have one, you're not paying the right people. This is Hollywood, bitch. Payola scheme. Okay, well, we can talk about this some other time. Let's table that. Now we have to go to Ira Madison III. I don't think so, honey. Are you ready? I'm ready.

This is Ira Madison III. Yeah, really unprecedented. His time starts now. I don't think so honey neil patrick all right first of all he is out here tweeting about i don't know who rachel bloom is at the tony awards and then tony uh and then rachel had to respond like you know me my husband wrote on your show you've met me and it seemed like he was tweeting while high and he was also like Gideon was like talking to me

I was like Gideon Glick that bitch should know who the fuck she is too this is ridiculous I don't think so honey to Neil Patrick Harris tweeting in general last time he went viral for a tweet

is when he tried to drag Wesley Morris for saying that black people did not like um that fucking

billboards movie the movie was racist we didn't like it sorry you liked it five seconds you probably don't even have any black friends no not one

not a single one you and your white chorus dancers need to watch Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Thank you. And that's one minute. And guess what? You did the one I was gonna do tonight at the live show. And now I have to do another one.

Or fucking- Thievery. Okay, thievery and trickery and tomfoolery at the ball. I have to say- Oh, thank you. I'll be right there. Okay, Ira has to go. He just took a work to go my Uber is here

bitch she ordered the Uber before she walked out the door Ira Madison III everyone he's gonna be on our live show tonight this is so we're gonna keep recording

because you have time to film we have time to film love you all love you this is so fun and he looks fierce and you'll see photos of it at I Don't Think So Honey

let's grasp him oh yeah should we take our fake photo at I Don't Think So Honey okay let's take our fake photo at I Don't Think So Honey yes yes yes let's do it there.

Unless you want to do a live photo right now. I just grabbed one. Okay, but we'll see you. Bye, Doyen. We love you. Bye, Doyen. Everyone give it up for the Doyen. Okay, listen. Can we spill a little bit of tea about No Petric Harris? Let's spill some tea. Because I was going to do that as my I Don't Think So Honey tune.

By the way, that was lovely. And this is very new for us to have a guest. You know what? Let's start drama. Iron Madison storm, that was lovely. And this is very new for us to have a guest. A post show. You know what? Let's start drama. Iron Madison stormed out of here. He stormed out. That bitch.

Anyway. No, there's no drama. It was fucking amazing. And also he's wearing a gray jacket with a Beyonce shirt underneath it. And the nails are painted. The nails are painted. He looks amazing. Glossed. The top coat is Electra worthy.

Okay. You go. Here's what I have to say about Neil Patrick Harrisrick harris okay neil patrick harris is a fucking board game why are his kids named gideon and what was the other one harper are they for sale are they um fucking pre and are they fucking antebellum slave owners i shouldn't say that no listen i support you saying that and also producer brett is like hates this we should mention hot producer brett because we're I shouldn't say that. No, listen. I support you saying that. And also- Hot producer Brett is like, hates this. We should mention hot producer Brett.

Hot producer Brett is engaged. Okay, I literally just walked in. And it's going to be a long engagement. A long engagement. That's beautiful. They're thinking end of the year 2019. Amazing. I love it.

Make it, draw it out like a fucking Pixar movie. I said yes. Have a long engagement, honey. It's a Pixar movie engagement. Yes, honey. Yes. Make sure we are anticipating it as much as we are anticipating Incredibles 2. Yes.

Okay. So, Neil Patrick Harris. I mean, just, I called him on Twitter, hello, m'lady gay. He is a hello, m'lady gay. Hello, m'lady. Fuck you. Fuck you. Also, bitch, magic isn't real.

Magic sucks. Magic is not real. I'm sorry. Magic doesn't suck. Magic is great. No. But Neil Patrick Harris doing magic sucks. Magic is not real. I'm sorry. Magic doesn't suck. Magic is great. No. But Neil Patrick Harris doing magic sucks.

Magic does suck. Also, that variety show he tried to have. Oh, right. Here's what's wrong with that. How dare you as a gay man

get on the same stage as Nicole Scherzinger and say, go stand on the side and comment on what I do. Every gay man worth their salt knows that

when you are in the same room as Nicole, you lift her up you lift her up because guess what she fights tooth and nail she is a gaga type where she has the talent and the hard work and people still are like eh no you do not do that ever neil patrick harris like no even fucking him on how i met your mother is just such like a i'll tell you what's fucked up bad bad performance here's what's fucked up about Neil Patrick Harris and How I Met Your Mother. That was misogyny, honey.

Yes. And they were able to get away with it as intensely as they did because he was a gay man and he is party to that. Oh, he's a womanizer. Let's make him a reprehensible character on TV that we will allow. Because he's gay in real life.

Because he's gay in real life. Also, like, I'm trying to be, I'm sort of backing up a little bit with my sort of vitriol for white gayness. Wow. But with Neil,

like Neil is just emblematic of all of that. No, no, no, no, no, no. I think he's exactly right. He does not have one POC friend. No, absolutely not. Maybe BD Wong. He's been invited to one of the parties.

Yeah. But then he's like, Oh yeah, BD makes congee and BD makes porridge. And you get, I learned, I learned how to use chopsticks at BD's parties. Fuck you.

I am no longer a fan. And I honestly, I haven't Rachel, Rachel, Rachel's family. I haven't even, Rachel is family. And I haven't even mentioned the Rachel's family. Rachel is family. And I haven't even mentioned the garbage that was this tweet.

Why are you sitting at home? And also, this is punching down, which you know I hate. Yes. Why are you sitting at home? With your shitty ass kids. Your stupid fucking kids. Bitch, you are trying too hard on Halloween, okay? Look, I get it too hard on Halloween. Okay. Look,

I get it. You were gay. Um, like, but it doesn't have to be, you have a publicist for your children. Fuck you. When he sits there and tweets,

who is this woman hosting backstage in the top hat? Gideon says, she says like, and oh my God, a lot. I'm confused. Dot, dot,

dot. So what are you suggesting that she shouldn't have the job? Also, why don't you know who rachel bloom is also why like stop letting your child like dictate a woman's words honestly the whole stop letting it's actually rule of culture number 43 stop letting your child dictate a woman's words i couldn't believe he had like just like the like self-assurance to tweet something like that i was like this is so stupid obviously this person is like having fun doing it their way like

trying to spice up the tonys which god knows and needs i really didn't like that really didn't like it neil always had a bad taste in my mouth always i always had a weird feeling about neil and he's canceled for me yeah and then i had people to coming for me on Twitter being like, why are we deciding? Oh, is Neil Patrick Harris, the new celebrity we're all deciding to hate for no reason. And I'm like,

honestly, why we all, why not? We all decided to hate and Hathaway and she's half as annoying as him. There you go. Half has always been half as annoying as Neil Patrick Harris, about three times as talented. I'm going to say,

Oh, more than that by, by fucking orders of magnitude honey i just feel like it is this thing where we decided like let's have no petra caris beloved and like i guess yes it must have been hard to be the first like well you know super openly out you know male gay celebrity in a while or one that was like successful in a mainstream way and like I did love him for so long but here's the real tea. I would have kept loving him if he hadn't shown that his

personality was so shitty. Also, I don't know. I'm about to say something weird. Oh my god. Are you sure you want to say it? Yes. I think everyone should stay in the closet for as long as they need to for whatever reasons they need to. But Neil, I mean

Perez Hilton, piece of shit outed him publicly and that sort of like threw Neil Patrick Harris' life into tumult and he had to deal with that sucks, no one should go through that but I can imagine a world where he just would have stayed in the closet the whole time

and not been a Halloween gay dad parading his kids around in like like little baker costumes like that's i i can imagine but that's not fair for me to say he would have come out at some point and been the halloween gay sure but i'm saying let's not like but okay no this is the thing this is why i bring it up because when you're like because when you say things like he was one of the the the few gay men at the time. You're right. Out there, like, is that, that's not, that wasn't on his terms. You're right, you're right, it wasn't. He wasn't brave in doing, you know.

But he did meet that head on. He did, he did. That situation itself, he did meet head on and like that is admirable. But like to say like, well, he was a pioneer. It's like, yeah, but he like, if he had his way, he would not have been visible. Yeah.

It's a Roseanne getting canceled type situation where it's like, had literally not everyone quit, maybe the show wouldn't have been canceled. There you go. Well, I don't know. I'm literally just going off like his behavior in the last several years. I'm like, God, you are, you love yourself. Like, and yeah, go ahead and love yourself.

Everyone go love yourself. But like, he ahead and love yourself. Everyone go love yourself. But like, he's arrogant to me. Like to, to sit there and feel like you could say that about like. On Twitter. And also you have met her and you worked with her husband for years. Yeah.

Anyone who I don't think so. People have, I don't think so. Honey, before people being like, we've met, I mean, Rachel did that in a way that was like,

actually no, fuck you. This is fucked up. Also, it's a different situation when you're tweeting it to your millions of followers. You have to respond to that. And also, Rachel Bloom is a celebrity.

Yes. She is the star and writer and EP of her critically acclaimed show that's going to be in its fourth season. Golden Globe winner. Well, I loved Ira. That was wonderful. Let's recap the ep. Well, I loved Ira. Let's just recap. That was wonderful.

Let's recap the ep. Well, I mean, like, Ira is just one of those people, you know, who just has such a fun, like, trove of cultural knowledge. Yeah. Can just, like,

can whip it out, can measure it. We have to get her back when she is in LA, or New York. When she's in New York, we'll get her back. But now with the new gig.

With the new gig. Also, keep it. Like, what an elevated discussion. Like, we kiki over here and we're just like little dummies. No, honey, I pass. I pass. I can march into keep it. I could stare Cara Brown right in her eyes and I could intellectually match her.

I could look Louis Vertel in his face and he would turn to sand. I could look, I could walk into the crooked media offices and Sarah John love it in the eye and say, bitch, bitch, I'll be treated like any love it or leave it. Love it or leave it.

I say, leave it. The subway's over there. I say, leave it. Keep it. I don't think so, honey.

All gays are just using different words to say the same thing, which is we don't like things, which is we don't like things which is we don't like things but but no we love we love everyone over at Keep It brilliant show

so I feel so close to them so close to them just kidding I haven't met Kara Kara I love Kara has a great podcast voice gorgeous

gorgeous timbre gorgeous girl and they took some fierce pictures at Bonnaroo too we didn't get to ask Ira about Bonnaroo Ira did mention to us before we had recorded that they Gorgeous girl. And they took some fierce pictures of Bonnaroo too. We didn't get to ask Ira about Bonnaroo. Ira did mention to us before we hit record that the Southern humidity did wonders for his skin.

I love that. Which I don't think applies to me when I'm down there. But I love that for him. I love that. You know what I'm saying? And they did. They turned out some looks for those pictures. Oh, yeah.

Featuring Jill Kim Booster booster who i said is giving you arms and also is giving you a face that he was trying to pass he was pay he was passing he was passing in the picture as what as a straight young man joel kim booster joel kim booster not not queer joel kim says, I can walk into any straight event and pass and be treated like any other white straight man in there. They sit me down. I could look, um, I almost said Jonathan Groff as an example of a straight man.

Yeah, Jonathan Groff, perennial straight man. I could look Dermot Mulroney in the face and he'll turn to sand, honey. I'm treated like any Dermot Mulroney, Dylan McDermott. These are white actors. In this town. Yes. Yes, Joel can pass.

Well, anyway, we're sure there's a lot, there's plenty of overlap. Girl, you just slurped into that mic. I'm dealing with post-nasal drip. It's bad. But we're sure there's plenty of overlap between our audiences

and Keep It's audiences. I would like to storm the Keep It offices. Oh, we'll stomp the runway at Keep It. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If they'll have us. Anyway. If they want their discussion knocked down eight or nine intelligence levels.

Eight or nine intelligence levels. I shouldn't say that. I shouldn't keep you back because you could go in there and have a beautiful intellectual discussion. No, literally, I feel that we were at Pop Rocket yesterday. I was like,

I do not have anything valuable to say. And meanwhile, you were getting in there with some opinions and some well-thought opinions. Were you surprised that I was able to?

I'm never surprised. Listeners, if you're still listening at this point, post Ira leaving, I always say this to Matt and he never chooses to accept it.

Matt is one of the smartest people I know. That's very nice of you to say. And no, it never surprises me that you have the intelligence quotient. I don't have the critical brain. Like, you're able to watch something and be like, okay, here's

what I'm noticing. This is something that should be discussed. I'm always like, yeah, MJ Rodriguez was really good. Like, I'm just like. Oh, my God. I feel that. I see myself in you.

So I don't have the critical brain. I have the analytical brain. But no. I think those are the same thing. No, I mean, I have the computational brain. Can I tell you what I think? Yes. I think when it comes to intelligence, you're either an SAT bitch or an ACT bitch,

which is capacity. I scored very well at both. Yes, I'm sure you fucking did, you bitch. Which is the capacity to learn and the access to your knowledge already. Okay, so you're an ACT bitch? I am an ACT bitch, but there is a ceiling.

Well, I don't know. I did better on the ACTs than I did the SATs. Should we bravely share our scores? Okay. What'd you get on the ACT? A 31. Okay, and then what'd you get on the SAT?

Out of 2,400? Yeah. 2010. Oh, that's great. Those are good scores. I did better when they added in the writing. Great. I had to take the SAT twice,

but combined my best scores from all three, I got 2200. Wow, bitch. Perfect 800 on math. Wow, bitch. Oh my God. And then for my ACT,

I got a 34. Fuck you. Oh my God. How could you ever say I'm smart? Because you are, bitch. You sit here on the pedestal. You sit here and you have ACT and SAT

learned experience. You were able to slay them both. Um... you are bitch you sit here on the pedestal you sit here and you have ACT and SAT learned experience you were able to slay them both um I oh no I'm sorry

I have to correct myself what I got a 35 and I was pissed because oh my god this stupid bitch the people

the students the people at our school who got a 36 a perfect 36 um were able to get dinner at the governor's house and I was so mad

that I you went to the governor's house for dinner for dinner and I was so mad that I didn't get I was one point away get dinner at the governor's house and I was so mad that I they went to the governor's house for dinner for dinner and I was so mad that I didn't get I was one point away from going to the governor's house

you know who I have the same exact SAT score as who Sudi Green really Sudi the same exact SAT score oh my god

which I think she might have had a bad day because I think she's incredibly oh she's she's smarter than both of us she could defeat us in the

challenge of wits. In the challenge of wits, she would rise as the superior. She would slay us both dead as the victor. She would stand above our bodies as the smartest of the three. This is, I guess,

like some sort of fucked up Alyssa Edwards, like if she melted into goop impression. Yeah. Hey, excuse me. Brett, can you come over here? No. Brett, do you want to talk?

Come over here. Come over here. Hi, Brett. This is a glimpse inside Forever Dog LA. Forever Dog LA. Now, this is beautiful. This is Brett,

Brett Boehm, who is one of the producers of Forever Dog. We just want to say a quick hello. Oh, thanks, guys. And how does it feel to see the rise of Lost Culture East? Shut up.

I mean, it is truly a sight to behold. It has been amazing. Honestly, the three of us, Joe, Alex, and I, just bask in your resplendent glory. Oh, my God. It is one of the great honors of our lives. Wow, you are going through too much. This is over-correcting for something, I think.

Tell us about your beautiful bride-to-be. Amy. Amy. Yeah, so Amy and I, we got engaged when we were on vacation in Italy. Oh my God. Where were you, like Como? Amalfi Coast. Amalfi.

So farther south. Oh my god. Doing it right. It was wonderful. It was a very nice location but it was also very private kind of engagement.

We found a nice little moment to ourselves and we were there in the off season which I kind of like better. There wasn't a lot going on.

It was a little colder but there's you have the place to yourself a little bit more and it was wonderful. I'm going to get engaged underneath the incredible Hulk coaster

at Alta Ventura. That's beautiful. I'm going to get down on one knee and there'll be no one there. I'll just hold up a ring and there'll be no one there. It'll just be me under the coaster. But that's great that you did it in a way that works for you.

Thank you so much. That's beautiful, Brett. We're so excited for you. We're so much. That's beautiful, Brett. Thank you. We're so excited for you. We're so excited. And look, what I want to say is I'll come to the wedding. Okay. I will not invite myself.

No, I will. Per se. I mean, we are looking for an officiant still. Wait, okay. How hard is it to get an officiant? I don get efficient? I'm sort of informal competition here. No, because I don't think Bowen, I don't think you have the desire to get on there and want to become an officiant.

Oh, I fucking love weddings. Now that you don't have a day job, you have the time to get on. Absolutely. Weddings are like where I thrive. I know it's very cliche for gay people to be like, I'm great at weddings, but it's... Well, you always turn a look. It's not even even about the look it's like my sister's wedding was

one of the weddings my sister's wedding was a moment for me that I was like I that I thought to myself oh wow I'm I'm I'm like I'm I'm worth it I I like oh my god like this sounds so dumb but like my brother-in-law's side of the family, I gave a toast at the rehearsal dinner and worked in some jokes, of course, as you do. You gotta, yeah. They expected that from you, so you delivered. Well, they didn't know who I was. The rehearsal dinner was at this fancy Chinese restaurant. They didn't know you were one of Comedy Central's Up Next?

Shut up. The rehearsal dinner was at this fancy Chinese restaurant in Cleveland. And literally, all these fucking Jewish people thought I was the goddamn help shut up the rehearsal dinner was at this fancy Chinese restaurant in Cleveland and literally all these fucking Jewish people thought I was the goddamn help because I was

serving I was like helping open bottles of beer and they were like this one fucking idiot his name is

Uncle Harvey oh my god Yang is listening that's her uncle now too her uncle Uncle Yang Uncle Yang Yang loves this

Yang text me when you hear this because Yang is texting me like anytime she finishes an episode, it's truly like a beautiful moment in our sibling ship. I love that. My sister listens too. So this guy comes up and he's like,

hey, by the way, you guys shouldn't keep these beers at room temperature. You should put these on ice because it's beer. And I was like, okay, yeah, I'll do that next time. Oh my god, you didn't look him in the eyes and be like, I actually don't work here, you fucking asshole.

Because I knew I was going to go up later, and I was like, he's going to feel like a fucking idiot in about 45 minutes. Did you check in with him later? No, because he came up to me after my toast, and he was like, he didn't after my toast and he was like, that was one like he didn't even apologize. He was just like that was a really great toast and I was like

mm-hmm. Oh my god, I would have gotten so messy. Oh no, no, no, it's fine. Oh my god, I would have been such a bitch. Not my style, but the wedding, that wedding was a moment. I'm sorry, Brett, we're just taking up all this time. But that wedding was a moment where I was like, Brett. We're just taking up all this time. But that wedding was a moment where I was like, oh, yeah, okay.

These strangers, this general audience is into this. Great. I can pursue this still. It was an affirming moment. But, Brett, this is just to say I think it would be a fun forever dog challenge to see who between the two of us might get. We don't have to necessarily be the winners and be efficient, the actual officiant.

Sure. Make that decision between you and Amy. But whoever gets further along in the selection process. I mean, she is a big fan of the podcast. It is something that we share. So I mean, I can't imagine that she would be opposed to this. I mean, I could see a sort of. Or, here's what we could do.

One of us could be the officiant, and one of us could perform at the reception you would rather perform instead of officiate yeah I have several songs that I could really do really very well

I could give you everything you want at a wedding like you know your sign's still delivered I could give you a slow song like all by myself

from Celine Dion and I can hit the notes in the original key so just think about that okay I actually really like that because I really like like the engagement

I like having sort of private moments in a public space so if you could sort of take maybe the attention away from us a little bit so we can kind of enjoy

okay alright you know what song I like to open up every wedding I do with Ghostbusters fun interesting yeah it gets people up and dancing I like that a lot yeah wedding I do with Ghostbusters. Fun. Yeah.

It gets people up and dancing. I like that a lot. It gets people shaking their ass. Yeah. I love to shake my ass to the Ghostbusters theme. It's actually rule of culture number 17. I like to shake my ass to the Ghostbusters theme. Okay, Brett, we're so sorry.

We're taking up all this time. Oh, no, no. Thank you for joining us, Brett, on Las Culturistas. And just know that we've never done this for Joe Zillio. Guys, thank you. Yes, of course. And for people who listen to the whole Forever Dog catalog,

you are very familiar with Brett. Brett's work just producing all the LA stuff, but this is a moment where the Las Culturistas fans who maybe aren't as familiar get to they can get to know HPB HPB

Worlds have collided I appreciate it HPB don't be scared of it everyone has it everyone has it thank you so much guys it's treatable

thank you Brad okay I think I think this is what a historic episode this is a historic episode the form has been broken bitch we're excited

we're feeling feeling a little giddy because tonight we're gonna to go do I Don't Think So Honey Live LA. And it'll already have happened when you guys listen to this. But the anticipation is thick. It's thick in the air.

And we hope you enjoyed it. It will be coming out very soon on the pod and the release schedule. And Ira Madison III will be there rocking the jacket look we just saw, which was fierce. And we'll take our photo much later. But anyway, we'll see you next time.

On Las Culturistas. Wait, hold on. We're not signing off this, but we've got to sing. Oh, yeah, we have to sing. Okay. What do you want to do? Oh, no.

Oh, my God. I know what we have to do. Okay. Did you watch the Tonys? No. Did you watch the Tonys? No. Did you watch the performance of The Band's Visit? No. You don't know that song?

No. Oh, my Sharif. No. Okay, never mind. What should we sing? Um. I'm in the deep end. Watch as I dive in the deep end Watch as I dive in

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