Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang - "I Bought A Ticket To Wifi!" (w/ Tim Platt)

Episode Date: January 23, 2017

In this week’s MONUMENTAL episode of Las Culturistas, your Culture Maestros Matt & Bowen are joined by their first straight male guest, “Best Boy” Tim Platt (@TimothyPlatt)! From the moment they DING DONG, these prodigies DOUSE themselves with hot flammable culture and light the damn MATCH. They talk comic books, jazz band, Dane Cook, Margaret Cho, Backstreet Boys, Jane Austin, Oberlin, Moana & Frozen, and over 100 more carefully CURATED topics, honey. Pop your Apple Airpods into your skull and turn it UP.LAS CULTURISTAS HAS A PATREON! For $5/month, you get exclusive access to WEEKLY Patreon-ONLY Las Culturistas content!!https://www.patreon.com/lasculturistasCONNECT 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 PODCASThttp://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/las-culturistas/ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And if you're a listener of the podcast, you'll know that Bowen and I are in a little bit of an argument right now. One would call it a feud starring Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange. Now, Bowen came for me on the podcast. Rightfully so. The segment, I Don't Think So, Honey. And both Bowen and our guest, Chrissy Shackelford, said, I Don't Think So, Honey, Matt fucking Rogers. You say this as if there is no precedent for it. And you, historically on, I believe it was Sam Taggart's episode, came for me in an I Don't Think So, Honey.

So it's not like this hasn't been done before. You know know what i'm saying i'm just saying like are we on good terms or not well i don't know matt it seems like we're on great terms but then as soon as as soon as our producer alex hits record you know are you saying i'm playing a role on this podcast are you saying i'm not being my real ground itself are you saying and i'm not bringing the t100 you're you're not bringing the t100 you're you're putting on a mask i am bringing the t100 arnold schwarzenegger and the first film of terminator honey that's me always well girl i you know what i'm i'm willing to just keep this ball in the air while we're recording and if you want to if you want to come for me bitch then stay then stay for me okay stay for a while and you the listeners stay for a while you better stay for our guest

oh i love such an amazing guest. And it's a first for us. A huge first. We'll get to that in a moment. You know our guest from Cartoon Monsoon. Unbelievable, incredible show here in New York. And also his work with Mo Fry Pasik in the group Pasik and Platt. All around the city doing amazing work.

One of my favorite duos. I think you guys are incredible. Microphone scenes, honey. He also is a known renowned for his gift cards and greeting cards. You can find them at, I love gift cards. Tomber.com or on his Instagram at I am King Bozo.

And you might also have seen him on the special without Brett Davis as a frequent guest. He, um, gosh, is he has the, Brett Davis as a frequent guest. He, um, gosh, is he has the, this one has a screen presence. He's all over the place.

And let me tell you something. He jumps off the screen. He jumps off the stage and he's jumping into your ears right now. Everybody, please, please welcome. Wonderful. Lovely boy.

Tim. Oh my gosh. Oh my God. Wonderful. Lovely boy. Wonderful. Lovely boy. I think that's you.

I'll take a, I'll take lovely boy. You don't. I think that's you. I'll take lovely boy. You don't want to be wonderful? Tim has been the self-labeled best boy. Best boy. I don't know if that was self-labeled. Maybe not. Who called you the best boy? I know Anna calls me best boy.

I've called you best boy many times. Maybe it's like a story parrots thing, but it's been hurled at me and I've accepted it with open arms. I think you are the best boy. In fact, I think you're the best boy many times. Maybe it's like a story parrots thing, but it's been hurled at me and I've accepted it with open arms. I think you are the best boy. In fact, I think you're the best boy so much that I'm ready to announce it. Announce. Tim Platt is the first straight man to guest on Las Cotrisas.

Congratulations. Oh, thank you so much. This is unprecedented, honey. I mean, don't ever say Las Cotrisas didn't give you diversity. No. Finally, we are giving you color and life finally and spice with tim platt well i'm incredibly happy to be here i'm incredibly honored to be here and i very much appreciate everything that you all do oh that's

such a real thing though what it's like it uh when i was growing up like the the straight the when i was trying to be straight yeah school's cool and i uh talk like this like i dropped my voice down like this like yeah it's really spoken like a voice is like a little bit lower yeah no and i heard recently heard my like 11 year old cousin doing it and i was like i wanted to get down on his level and be like don't do it it's like a young boy thing it's like the talk lower than you usually than you you're supposed to talk or like the idea that you can like fool someone by talking like this it sounds incredibly

forced. Yeah. And like young, I love young boys. I think they're the funniest in the world. Because they like have such goofy gay little instincts. Yeah. But they mask them. They get to a certain point and it's like no i like guns

and stuff they they make a decision that intimacy is like a problem they make it that's what it is it's an active decision i think young boys make and then like and then it will come out and they'll be like oh no we can't be like we can't love each other we can't love each other we can't touch each other but little boys are always on top of each other what you two specifically do matt and tim you guys will choose to pull out the you know the gravelly gruff lower timbre voice and viscerally when either of you do it specifically it's for you to viscerally it's just painful for me to listen to because it's i don't know why if it takes me back somewhere if it takes me back to a certain person. Honestly, I don't really know. For real,

if that sounds like you're insured. Disgusting. I very much appreciate that. No. But I have to say that your pain is not my fault. Quite honestly, not my problem. Literally.

And honestly, if you were in this school right now, people would come at you if you came at me in public. Seriously, for real, you don you came at me in public. Seriously, for real, you don't want to, like,

honestly do this. I, yeah, oh my God. Imagine, imagine, imagine living like that. Disgusting.

That's Long Island though. Wow. Long Island. My dad, like, he like, he like wants me to like, be like a business major

and like, I, I kind of think I want to major in English. But I don't know. It's like gay. So now that we're talking and we're living in the past, I think this is a great opportunity. Yes. To ask Tim Platt the question.

I love this question so much. This is an essential question. It's what culture shaped you, Tim? Tell us a little bit about your upbringing. What made you decide that culture was for you? What made you say, culture, I accept this. I want to pursue it. Can I first say that before I answer this question,

I want to say that as a listener of this podcast, I love this question so much. It's a good one. The first time I heard it, I was a little startled because it's so vast but so specific yeah it's an incredible way to open a conversation it's just like I I really think that what what culture is for you it's like it's so uh and everybody answers it differently yeah we've had people talk about where they grew up and just talk about that and then some people go

directly to like a movie or a television show. Yeah. So it's very open-ended. I used to follow up and qualify that question by saying, what movies, books, TV would you watch that shaped you? But I feel like that's even then too specific. And the beauty of the question is that it's so broad and open-ended. Yes. Answer this beautiful question.

I will answer this question. I think the X-Men were super huge for me. Comic books and comic strips in general, and then X-Men specifically as a superhero team, were really big for me. And one of the first things I remember being like, I have to know everything about this. You read the comic books?

Yeah. And you watched the television show? Yeah. And then you got into the movies when they came out, for sure. I did like the movies. I mean, Nightcrawler was my favorite,

so like X2, I was like, that opening scene, I feel like it's been said before. It has been said before and it bothered me because I haven't seen X2.

I've seen all the X-Men's except X2 and I feel like that's the one. Watch like the first 15 minutes and then like, that's...

It's an incredible sequence. Yeah, the sequence of Nightcrawler teleporting is super cool. Everything else is fine. I think the ending is really great. What happens in the end again? I mean, I don't want to spoil it. Oh, everyone knows. Jean basically dies.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And she comes back in the next one as the Phoenix, right? You know what? Here's my thing. I love Jean Grey. I love the Phoenix saga. I love it. But I think it takes over too many narratives in the X-Men universe.

In the comics. In the whole universe, yeah. In the whole, every X-Men property, there'll be a Phoenix storyline and just consumes every other story. Right. Which is, it's not that it's a bad story, just like... It's weird that it's the one that they chose. Yes.

It takes up real estate. That's kind of like when you hear that when there's a big superhero movie coming out and you finally hear the announcement of who the villain is going to be you're like okay okay cool that's what we're getting like when spider man 3 came out with the last one with toby mcguire and they were like it's going to be sandman and venom and or not sandman it was sandman and venomom. And Venom. Or not Sandman. It was Sandman and Venom. And the Lizard. Was the Lizard?

No, Lizard was Spider-Man 2. No, no, no. Okay, it was Sandman and Venom. And I was like, Sandman and Venom? Yeah. Really? That was one of the worst movies I ever saw. Terrible.

I remember seeing it in theaters in college and being really excited. That was when I was still excited about comic book movies. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I went to see it with my friends. I made my friends go see it i remember being theater being in the theater and like being so pissed yeah the energy just dropping yeah like slowly through the movie i'm like oh no yeah i think there's there's one good scene in it and it's the last scene when kirsten dunst is singing i'm through with love don't let it start again and she's singing in the bar because she like her career

hasn't worked out that well and like then uh what's that toby mcguire walks in and they see each other and they just start to slow dance and i did think that was a really nice pretty scene and i actually think it's a very fitting nice way for that canon of yes of that toby mcguire kirsten dunn spider-man movie trilogy to end wasn't he in wasn't she in in that movie she was in what play was she in

she was in oh she was in Oscar Wilde yeah The Importance of Being Earth which I love I love that play and she's in that I was like

why is this play in this movie it just smelled like a weird play his voice alone inspires one with absolute credulity oh my god Matt I think

I think Kirsten Dunst is sort of the unsung... I'm really proud of myself. ...is the unsung hero of that trilogy. Oh, 100%. Kirsten Dunst is one of my favorite actresses ever.

Full stop. Full stop. Were you a Kirsten Dunst boy? You're either a Kirsten Dunst boy or... Or you're not. Yeah. It's the dichotomy.

I don't have a problem with her. But you just don't care either way i guess you know what i can't i you know what i guess she always does a good job i can't think of a movie i've seen her anywhere i've been like fuck her she sucked yeah no yeah she yeah i'm a cure i'm a wow i'm a kirsten dunst boy wow that's the title of the episode wait i have a question okay so this is my roommate mike spence good friend of the pod listener of the pod. Wait, I have a question. Okay, so this is my roommate, Mike Spence, good friend of the pod, listener of the pod, also really grew up on comic books. And this is something that I, as a kid, wished I could access, wished I could be, because

love just the artwork in general. But I feel like I just didn't know where to go. I'm surprised about that with you. I would imagine that because you're so visual. I was definitely, yeah, I loved to draw. I loved anime shows, which it's its own little sort of different subculture, but separate from comic books, like American comic books. But I never knew where to go.

I still feel like I don't. Where do you go? How often did you go? When I was a kid, so, okay. Well, I will say that when I was a kid So Okay Well I will say that When I was a kid Like with X-Men Like those types of comic books

I didn't know how to get there There used to be like A mailing service Where they would mail you stuff Yeah I had that And like I guess I would go to like

Bookstores And then But finally a comic book shop Was like When I was in high school And I was like Oh wow There's all this other stuff

But I remember I read more strips Like my dad had Had these old Like old Calvin Hobbes And Peanuts And like Doonesbury and Bloom County and like all that. Like I always loved those because those were just like around. But like to go to a comic shop is like – I don't know. I feel like it's kind of like going to a record shop for the first time where you're like – you like enter a world of knowledge.

It's too esoteric. Right. It's incredibly esoteric right it's incredibly esoteric and also the people that are into comic books are so like i'm into comic books and like it's kind of like when someone's like into jazz music it's like you can't be half into it and expect to talk to people that are like in comics they're like they know everything and it's like an intimidating world for me almost did you know that i was a very serious jazz guitar player in my past when you don't know about this no okay as he's unbuttoning his shirt a little sexy boy i'm getting excited so i just felt like

yummy um uh so when i was in uh when i was in like uh middle school i started playing guitar and like the jazz band was like the cool yeah for me, it was the coolest thing in our school. It was like high schoolers, the jazz band, they were so cool. I'm sure they were. Yeah, I believe you. Well, actually, did you ever see Dear Evan Hansen? No, I haven't seen it yet. Oh, I want to see it so badly.

This isn't a spoiler. You've seen it? I have seen it. Oh, wow. So the writer was the older brother of one of my best friends in high school. Oh. And so a lot of the stuff in that show, I felt very much was like, oh, there's reference points I see here.

And there's a moment where he's like, oh, hey, I like you in jazz band. I love jazz. Well, not jazz, but jazz band jazz. Where it's just like, I know what you're talking about. Oh, I saw a clip of this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's in the waiting through the window yes conversation i've been listening to that non-stop on spotify it was that good huh um i really liked it i really liked it and uh generally if it hooks me i'll like listen to it a lot and the music's really sticky i can really

sticky music yeah that's good but but but i bring that up to say that like that was like the i like jazz but jazz band jazz which is saying like you like sort of like pseudo jam band stuff that like has a jazz anyways i was really obsessed with that um and like i became a very into jazz person but and then when they played a lot and practiced all the time and then i went to college where there was a music conservatory that i did not wasn't a part of but i was like oh here's what i'm gonna do i'm gonna like go to the college and i'm gonna practice a lot and be in the conservatory too yeah that's what we do um but then i got really intimidated because of all these people i was like

oh you are all true serious musicians and i am not and then i broke my finger so i couldn't practice it for like a year oh And then I was like, well, I'm really out. That's really interesting. But that's very similar to the comic book thing, I think. I think so too. Any obsessive culture. It's if you can name one thing and then someone's like, oh, if you like that, then how about that?

And if you know that, then you're like in. And if you don't know that, they're like, oh, right. It's like the way people feel about improv. It's the way people feel about anything. It's the way people feel about sports or like guys asking girls like, oh, if you really't know that they're like oh right it's like the way people feel about improv it's the way people feel about anything about sports or like like guys asking girls like oh if you really love football the name like the yeah team and this year it's like that kind of thing right yeah i just did the low voice thing by the way oh wait that was my paltry attempt at it but what's up i just do think it's funny that if you really like football i but guys really do ask that, just try to test you on that stuff. To women specifically who say,

I like football. I feel like that's a thing. That's true. I think that is a thing. No, this is, but Tim's intimidation of this, what he thought was more legitimate, is sort of like,

maybe, Matt, do you feel this way about how you ended up sort of going into, and sorry, this is getting very inside baseball with our pasts, but did you feel that way going into things like NYE Reality Show, where it was like, I'm not a real actor? So, yeah. So I went to school and wasn't studying acting or writing at all.

I wanted to be a journalism major. Oh, I didn't know that. I was like, basically I was accepted into the school, and I was going to be a journalism oh i made i was i was like basically i was accepted into the school um and i was gonna be a journalism major and then yeah just honestly being around people that were passionate about something made me realize oh my god wait i've been passionate about this all along and that's what i wanted to do all along yeah and then it is really hard to get over that thing of like, but I'm not as good as them. It's imposter syndrome. Or I feel like just because I like something doesn't mean I should do it.

And also, even if I am good enough, how would you go about getting into that position? And it gets really hard to ingratiate yourself in something that you love and might have a passion for, but just other people have already – you feel like they have a head start on you. Yeah. Which is, I think, a lot of college kids out there that... And that's what college is for, is to find what you want to do and, like, really get into it. But a lot of people think,

well, that's not my major. I can't do that. Or they think, it's my second year or third year or fourth year of college and I haven't done that. That means it's over for me. Or even the idea that, like,

you have to enjoy something, you have to be a master at it right something you have to like you have to judge your connection with it competence competency in it with other people's view of it's like i don't know there's like so few things i feel like i like just because i like to do them right or like devoid of value judgment and comparison it's all about faking your way into everything anyway. Right. Because you have to realize those people that you're thinking about and talking about, most of them just faked their way in

and just believed and believed and believed hard enough. I mean, the way I got into shows at NYU, because I really wanted to perform, was just convincing myself that I could do it. And maybe that's not for everybody but i think so much of it you can achieve so much by like just visualizing i think yeah i don't know but then there's that lingering thing of once you've like uh overcome that like first a little mental barrier of entry to say like i can do this i'm gonna do it like i

felt like that as like a chemistry major doing being in the improv group and saying well everyone else is in film or in drama yeah i don't know and therefore there's a ceiling for me yeah but you know what so i was a latin major in the improv right yeah and i remember being like oh like maybe i want to do you know like, like you've always wanted to act. Like you know that. You've set up. You just didn't do it in high school. Like you've always wanted to.

Now like these people kind of are and like you're liking this. So like why don't you try? Why don't you go for it? Like go for it. And then like I met people who were actors like at my school, like in the acting program. And I was like, I just hate them. Yeah. Oh, wow.

I didn't want to. I was like, I don't. I kind of regret that because I was being judgmental. And I could have done plays. It would have been fun. But I was straight up like, I had that imposter syndrome. Then I saw performance. And I was like, I don't like this feeling.

The thing is, it's like, yeah. I mean, and that's another thing. It's like, you're not really in the community you want to be in. Or like, you don't really do it yet. And so you dip your toe in it and the very first person you meet or the very first experience you have can be like a defining experience. Yeah. And that's with everything. I mean that's why I think when people – some people anyway, when they attempt to do something and they fail the first time, it's like, well, I'm bad. Well, I can't do that.

And I feel like that's like – it's insane to believe that you could just succeed on your first time doing anything anyway right it's how I feel about push-ups because I used to be so bad at them and then I just started being like Tim like you can do push-ups and yeah now I do like now I do push-ups every single morning and no and then you really do get better at them you you yeah you do get better at push-ups and I know I know you're I know you were saying that as a bit but like that's true everyone i appreciate how that that you i appreciate how you responded and also i think that brings health and fitness into las culturas and i really hope that everyone listening right now just gets down

right now while you're listening even while i'm saying this right now just get down and do 10 do 100 push-ups just knock 10 out them up into fifths so you 20 20 20, 20, 20. You know what? Throughout the rest of the podcast, I'll remind you that it's time to do another 10, and by the end of the podcast, you'll have done 100, guys. And then you can say you did 100 push-ups today. No one ever said you had to do them all at once. It's a common misconception. I'm a fitness guru now.

Alright. Wow. This is a bold new direction. Hey, get down and do 10, guys. This is one. Okay, so you're pulsing this out. You're doing tenths. So you're going to have to do this nine more times. I would say don't worry about me, Bowen. I would say don't worry about me at all, ever. Wow. Wow. Okay, there's a lot of tension. Culture.

Okay, so comic books. And then would you say that that's like i mean it's hard to pin down one thing there were a few things i mean i feel like comic books and comic strips i feel like um my parents would play musicals in like uh like car rides um and that was a big thing like singing along to musicals and car rides uh so i like musicals i'm not like obsessed but like the older i get the more i'm like no i really like this um i also like loved to musicals and car rides. So I like musicals. I'm not obsessed, but the older I get, the more I'm like, no, I really like this.

I also loved comedy albums. I'd go to sleep listening to... The albums I listened to going to sleep were a lot of Bill Cosby albums, a lot of the 20,000-year-old man, the Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner thing. Margaret Cho. Oh my God god i used to love margaret cho in high school i loved her i loved i listened to dave berry tapes do you

remember dave berry no i don't know oh he was like a dad who like wrote like a comedy column for like the washington post magazine or something oh cool cool cool i probably read an interview of his or something it was it was a book but so i feel so I feel like listening to stuff was really big for him. Yeah, yep, yep. I definitely, Margaret Cho was a big one for me. And also I listened to I'm Still Here, Damn It by Sandra Bernhardt. Oh, cool. You ever listen to that album?

I haven't. You ever listen to any Sandra Bernhardt? No, I'm not. She was, Tim, I think you would really like her. She was like real performance art. Like, she was like... It wasn't stand-up. It was like...

Sometimes she would just break out into a song. Oh, I love that. You should listen to that. And also, everyone at home, like... That's a fun little throwback comedy performance album that you should check out is Sandra Bernhardt. I'm still here, damn it. Was she in the Larry Sanders show a lot? Yeah. Okay okay then i think i'm thinking of the right person no she was

big she was big time like a long time ago i think she did a couple square sazy movies um and she had like a she played herself on will and grace oh wow years later they were like because will and grace were like looking at sandra bernhardt. They were like, we can't believe it's Sandra Bernhardt's apartment. And then hilarity ensued. Oh. If you can believe it. I want to see that. I feel like comedy albums were like a big blind spot for me.

It was just, I, yeah, like I'm ashamed to say the first like full length album I listened to is, can you guess it? Dane Cook? Yeah. You know what? You know what? I, I, I liked him. I guess it? Dane Cook? Yeah. You know what? I liked him. I mean, I was like 14 or 15. I loved him.

BK Lounge. That snake bit. He has a snake bit that really connected to me where he pretends to be a snake and then he just goes like, oh yeah, you know what? That's my Dane Cook. Yeah, you know what? And his teeth are out and they're big. I want that. And him saying, I want what a snake has. I remember that being a big moment're big. I want that. And him saying, I want what a snake has.

I remember that being a big moment for me. I was like, oh, fuck. Dane Cook never had jokes. He just had little snippets of phrases that somehow he would deliver and land and it would be successful. And he was actually very skilled in that regard. Somebody shitting the coats is still hilarious to me.

He also was an amazing performer yeah he was a great live performer like he was like you can hear in his voice when you're listening to him on an album that he's just killing the audience i remember that was like all we listened to in high school and then um when he started to do his more his like he had like a couple movies uh employee of the month oh god which i saw good luck chuck good luck chuck um but also the last i heard from dane cook he was talking about like how he was absolutely killing the game in terms of like he fucked a lot of groupies on the road like he he was like he was talking about how like that's how the reason good luck chuck was a thing because he was just getting so much ass like he like he just like talked about and i was

fascinating to me i'm like apparently just like every single new city just fucking fucking fucking fucking fucking fucking and then i'm thinking is that how it is like for these people that are on the road like i mean i don't know he like had stadiums like he yeah he was like doing wasn't he right he had stadiums for sure like he was kind of like a little rock star there well no it's like yeah early days tim i just like you know like i like that snake bit and like i i'll give it to him that he's like a talented performer but like i don't, I don't like his legacy is not his legacy is a, is a, I guess a shameful one would be not fair. Right.

That wouldn't be fair. It's not. Yeah. Well, no shameful wouldn't, wouldn't be unfair to me, but it's also probably like not the right, it's like shameful is also being too generous with his legacy. It's just like looking back and remembering that ashley simpson was a huge pop star it's like oh that's that's where we were in terms of like uh mass appeal bad taste at that point it was just like we all accepted something at that time we all left to something at that time which now we're

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have you seen the backstreet boys documentary? I just talked about this the other day off the air with Chrissy. You have, you seen it. Um, I have seen bits and pieces of it, but the bits and pieces I've seen were not fun to watch. They were sad.

And you have not seen it? I have not, but I've heard snippets of it. You should really see it. It's really cool. Yeah. It's really cool. And into what we're talking about, they're pretty open about it. They're like, we were the biggest band in the world, and then we weren't.

And now we're adults. I mean, they were adults then. Some of them were, but some of them weren't. It's like them reckoning with that idea that we're talking about, that they could have been this monumental thing in culture, and then they are just not. And I think they come off looking very good in that. Oh, do they? I think so. I think they come off looking very good in that oh do they I think so

I think like they they clearly have like issues they clearly have you can't be not emotionally go through the emotional ringer doing that kind of experience especially at that age

Howie D I think is a psychopath yeah but like oh god Backstreet Boys I mean come on I think AJ was like a sex addict and also an alcoholic

and I think Nick Carter was molested by their manager. Nice. Yeah, I mean, don't they cover that? Do they allude to it? They allude. They make – I think they were not allowed to talk about stuff. I think they are contractually not allowed to talk about stuff because they will say some very, like, political things where they go,

yeah, and you do some things that make us very uncomfortable. And there's one moment where Kevin's just like, he allowed me to quit my three jobs and uh follow my dreams and for that i'll always be grateful wow like a very sort of like they have to walk it back see oh we got it so i just i don't think they walked it back but they just said they were they were it was clear that that shit went down but they were just like we we're not going to talk about it because he was also he was also the manager of i think in sync and i think he discovered britney spears yeah what was his name just louis perlman yeah that lou perlman uh and he passed away a couple years ago yeah he's not here i think he's not around anymore but he was also in prison for a long time that's right embezzlement so this was

like not a good guy um and the story goes that he molested the carter kids and that the mother found out about it. And then it was like, it was a whole. Yes. I remember these headlines. Um, he was like a sicko.

That's really unfortunate. Um, but speaking of, it's so funny. Backstreet boys are just sort of like creeping back into the consciousness today. I just saw a headline that was talking about how Brian wanted to, wanted to perform at the inauguration. What?

Um, and then, and then, oh my God. And then Matt and I were in Philly a weekend ago, and then there was this club where there was this giant screen and they played Backstreet's Back, the video,

and then I was drunk, so I might have just, like, been very... Am I sexual? Remember that line? Yeah, but I was just so receptive to this video again, and I was like, you know what, this is a... I was like, this is one of those first music... like, one of those first modern pop videos yeah post 90s that was just like very stylized yeah that was a cool video it was ridiculous it was stupid it was stupid now

but like what is it he was like oh he's a wolf why was he's. That's why it's fun. He's a thing. Like, I don't get that. None of them were like sexy fucking, like sexy monsters. Like he was a mummy. Like he looked like a mummy. No, I think. Total. I don't get it. I think that they were sexy, Tim. But I don't.

Wait, Tim just blasted through the ceiling. I was going to say. No. Okay. This is Backstreet Boys have this very special Personal meaning to me And this is why I sent my very first email To the Backstreet Boys fan

Like fan page You had never sent an email before? I never sent an email before For those of you at home, Bowen does send a lot of emails now So this is like the beginning of something And I've been told I'm very good at sending them Anyway But it was just like my first email just typing this out and being like wait this this goes to them like through through this thing called the internet did they respond

it was an automated response but i as a kid thought it was like them actually reading my thing and being like hey thanks so much for reaching out to us yeah like wow like nick carter saw my message which is so funny and insane and why did no one clock that then and there to be like that kid that six-year-old is gay um or you know eight-year-old who would be clocking that well i don't know things happen when you're young and then you look back and you're like holy shit yeah when i was 10 for my 10th birthday my parents gave me tickets to the first concert I was ever going to go to, and it was Mariah Carey. And I screamed, I think, for like 45 minutes.

That's a long time to scream. And was like jumping for joy. Wow. Because I was going to see Mariah Carey in Madison Square Garden. You guys have talked about Mariah. I don't know. Actually, you know what?

I don't want to enter the Mariah Carey conversation. No, no. I want to hear this. What is it, Tim? Because I know you all have all come out to say that you are... We're Mariah apologists. You're apologists for that moment. I will say I'm in neutral.

I'm basically based on zero. I got angry texts about that. About who? I got a text from a couple listeners saying, no, Mariah was wrong. Oh, no. I just... Here we go. Well, I'll say it.

Come on, Tim. Say it. Start the fire. You know what? If you don't go to soundcheck, then like... No. If you don't go to soundcheck, then like... Allegedly, she did.

That's not... She did, and she went to... No, here's what happened. She went to soundcheck. The producers kept pushing back the soundcheck, and she had to be somewhere else. No. Her soundcheck was for 3.30. The producers kept her in a waiting area, and she didn't go on until 5 o'clock, and

she only had 15 minutes to do shit. And then they were like, okay, we gotta move on. It's 6 o'clock. See, I heard she didn't even go to the soundcheck. That's what I heard. I think two things. One, there's a lot of explanations from a lot of different sources. And the second thing I think is, don't fucking care because it was funny.

Okay. I'll – It was funny. Can I tell you that my – one of my favorite like line – like argument lines is I don't care. I like it. Because I feel like there's such an impulse to just – like okay. It usually comes down to this we're like so like i don't eat meat right now i don't call myself a vegetarian because like if

it's free i'll eat it you know if someone's giving me leftovers i'll eat it like cool i like it um why why people why people normally don't eat meat you know whatever and in my mind like you it's hard to argue against the idea that like the culture of meat is bad for the world. And bad for your body. But that's a different argument. But the idea that, oh yeah, it's bad. It's bad. Environmentally, it's bad.

I think it's hard to argue against that. And I always think it's interesting where people are like, well, I'm not going to argue against that. But I'm going to say, fuck you, rather than, you're right, but I don't care. I eat meat because I like it. I think that is a fine stance. Yeah, you don't care. I eat meat because I like it. Like, I think that is, like, a fine, I think it's a fine stance. Yeah, you don't need to win. Yeah, just to say.

I'm fine being wrong and also, like, enjoying it. I don't care. I'm going to do this. Yeah. Not to say that this argument is a kid. No, no, no, no. I 100% agree with you. It's like, you know what it is?

It's like Facebook culture and comment culture. It's like, ooh, like, we're all lawyers on the internet now. It's like, where do you? We are lawyers. It's like, I feel we're all lawyers on the internet now. It's interesting, maybe. It's like, where do you... We are lawyers. It's like, I feel like that is a great argument and a great sort of relinquishment of argument, I guess. But I feel like that has to match in severity. It's like, okay, well, if I still eat meat, despite all horrible things like surrounding food culture, then, and I don't care,

then that's fine. But also then it's like, well, what if you like want to like, what if you want to fucking like choke a dog in the street? I think that that's just like decorum and knowing that that's not, that's different. You know what I mean?

Like, I also think I'm really intrigued by this now because it's a really fun way to get back at the person who's yelling at you for eating meat. Yeah. It's like, well, like, I also think I'm really intrigued by this now because it's a really fun way to get back at the person who's yelling at you for eating meat. Yeah. It's like, well, just so you know, I don't do this because of the, you know, environmental things, blah, blah, blah, blah. And you just say, I'm like, okay, yes, I totally understand. I still definitely am going to do it. Because I like cheeseburgers and that's something I was raised with.

And I'm not going to change my diet. But thank you for what you've said. They'll just be like. Yeah. But you know what? The thing is, I appreciate that more than the attitude of being like,

well, I'm going to eat two for you then. Yeah. That sort of spiteful comeback of like, well, you don't? Well, I'm going to eat so much now. It's like, I don't know. It does remind me of a great Margaret Cho though

from one of her albums. Which one? Which is, vegetarians are so mean because they're hungry! I love it. She, again, another stand-up

who is just an incredible performer and you could tell because there would just be these long silences and the audience is dying and me at home listening off my, like, I don't know,

what was it at the time? Like, Kazaa. Like, I would just die as well laughing imagining whatever she was doing i feel like my parents took me to see her at some point oh well those are cool but you know what i don't remember i don't like i feel like i have a glimpse of a member because i was like i was very young when i was listening to these comedy albums i was like i was sleepless in them so they knew i liked them maybe i don I don't know. I have a glimpse. Maybe they took me to a different show.

But I feel like I saw a modern show. You felt so connected to the material that you felt like you were in the room. Maybe. Yeah. Maybe. I mean, her Carnegie Hall album is truly just one of the best. I think my favorite one is I'm the One That I Want. And then there's also Notorious CHO.

Which is the one with Carnegie Hall. Really? Oh, that's the one with Carnegie Hall? Yeah. It's really good it's just all of carnegie hall silent listening to this one asian queer woman on stage that's crazy um and just the whole the whole the whole visual of stand-up is in like in like those giant theaters is sort of has is still still amazes me it's like oh everyone's just listening to one person talk which is pretty

cool it's unnatural yeah that's what i'm yeah that's why i think it's unnatural it's something i think about when doing stand-up where i'm like uh like like why do you why is it like equated to like going to the gym people talk about you go in the mics you gotta get up there you know like why is there that sort of like rep you gotta get your reps in and i think it's because like it is an unnatural state like you having all the attention of people around you unless like you have great like like historically actually i'm not gonna go historically because that's like that's me waxing poetic but i think it's unnatural yeah and so like you have to build up a tolerance to that form of attention i think right to have i mean same thing as acting i suppose but it's a but it's something we've

found out you know putting someone in front of everyone else is something we've found out it's not something we naturally yeah yeah oh i love or something we found out or is it because we found it out you know what i mean you have to wonder is it part of human nature to entertain each other um to tell stories because we because we've been doing it for hundreds and thousands of years. Oh, we're getting real Neil Gaiman right now. Come on, baby. Oh, I don't read no Neil Gaiman. Love your Neil Gaiman on my tiny heart. Okay. Yeah?

I don't know where that came from. Should our listeners be doing push-ups right now, man? Oh, yeah. You should probably drop down for another 10, guys. So we're at 20. Yeah. Oh, this actually made me think think you know what's even more fucking unnatural which every time i do it i come out of the room and i'm like that was garbage and

everyone knows it's garbage is auditioning oh yeah auditioning is the most unnatural thing the stupidest social transaction it's so insane and just also like just as a human thing and i think about this more than anything else i never think about performing as like an unnatural human thing. But whenever I audition, I'm always like, we shouldn't do that because we aren't supposed to do that as humans. Like it's so bizarre to me. I think that about,

I think that about flying on a plane. Yeah. Well, we're not supposed to be up there. We're not, you're not supposed to be up there. Sorry. I guess I'll be up there sorry shouldn't be up there

I guess that's why all those bits became a hack because it was a thing where it was like oh well we had to explore this thing

where we shouldn't be you know it was like a common a common insanity you don't see me in the core of the earth you don't see me pitching a tent

in the core of the earth okay what are you thank you Matt you don't see me doing that what bits are you talking about you never will you know like airplane bits.

Oh, sure, sure, sure. That's exactly why. Yeah, that's why you saw a real dip in airplane bits in the past 10 years. This reminds me, because last time I was on an airplane, Love and Friendship was one of the movies that we had the option of watching. This reminds me of my first Las Culturistas beef. Oh, wow. I feel like I have to bring it to the table right now.

Bring it forth. Come forth, come forth. Matt, you do not like Colin Firth. I never understood this. I think he's a fucking piece of poster board. What? Sorry about it. He is Mr. Darcy.

Give me Colin Farrell every time. Give me Hugh Grant shivering and shaking. Give me Hugh Grant drenched, wet, and cold doing anything over Colin Firth fully dry in front of a camera. Okay, so let me first make this personal for a second. I'm going to make this emotional and personal. My mom would make me and my brothers watch these Pride and Prejudice movies. Yeah, sure.

I hear he's the defendant of Mr. Darcy. Mr. Darcy. He's the defendant of Mr. Darcy, yes. He's the defendant of Fitzwilliam. Yes. And we watched them all because our mom made us, and then we grew to become obsessed with these Pride and Prejudice movies. And Colin Firth is just like, he's electric in that.

He's so good. He's like, when he comes out of the pool and he's like, his shirt's off, he's all like, he's nervous. I believe it. Maybe it is the fact that I haven't seen those movies. You got it. They're so good. I haven't seen the Pride and Prejudice movies, and apparently that's Colin for his like hallmark and like his legacy project is those pride and prejudice movies i haven't seen

them he's just very just classically british yeah i guess can i tell you something i don't really respond to the british sensibility sensibility in that regard the period british thing i'm never gonna go out of my way. Oh, see, I love that. Like the crown. I couldn't give a fuck. That like Jane Austen style, like proper. Like if I breathe too hot, I faint.

It's sort of like, well, the master did speak tenderly upon brows. Yeah. His voice alone inspires him with absolute. Yeah, exactly. There's this one line from the Pride and Prejudice series. I get like loops in my brain. It's this, Mr. Darcy. No, no, no, no.

It's, okay, so Elizabeth is with the Bingleys and Miss Bingley goes, Miss Elizabeth Bennet is a great reader and she enjoys nothing else. And Elizabeth goes, I deserve neither such praise nor such censure. I am not a great reader, and I enjoy many things. Oh, that's pretty good. That exchange will get, like, looped in my head.

That's very Tim Platt. Wait, can we say Elizabeth's response? Just word for word. I just want to internalize this. I deserve neither such praise nor such censure. I am not a great reader and i enjoy many things that's pretty good neither such praise nor such censure beautiful i mean come on the language mama matt you need to appreciate language you're a writer i appreciate jane austen

i think she's wonderful i i get the stories. I understand. I just would never seek those things out. I really tried to watch The Crown because everyone's talking about it. And I was like, if I have to watch another fucking movie watching an old British man cough, I'm gonna fucking lose it.

I get it, Matt. They're all sick. Well, it's the same man. They're all sick. I is... Well, it's the same man. They're all sick. You need to watch... I get it. Wait, Matt, you need to watch Fleabag. Have you seen Fleabag yet, Tim? I have not seen Fleabag.

Is it... It's an Amazon show? It's on Amazon. Yeah, I haven't seen any Amazon thing. I don't have Amazon. I haven't... I don't have Amazon. I've never seen any Amazon thing.

You can reference an Amazon thing. I haven't seen it. Okay, and I won't see it. All right, Tim. Okay. Hey, everyone, it's time to drop down and do another 10 um pause five five five I think you've I think you've earned five this time you've been doing such a good job so we're just do five well let's just say five is the requirement if you want to do five more and push yourself that's fine but also listen to your

this throws off this throws out absolutely this throws off the count by a lot, I'm just saying. What? We're either at 25 or we're at 30. Well, I think that we should do 10. I think 5. Okay. All right. Well, then do between 5 and 10, bringing it up to 25 or 30. If you're only going to do 5 now, you've got to do 15 later. I just want to say one thing, Matt.

I think it's patently unfair for you to sweep an entire nation's culture. We're talking about culture. You're willing to throw an entire nation's culture under the bus because you don't like Colin Firth. That is unfair. You need to give Fleabag a chance? Oh, this is getting me fired up. It's not that I don't like British things in general. It's that the kind of period British stuff I don't care for, okay?

Except Downton Abbey because it was soapy in a modern way. Yeah, I gave up on that show. I fucking loved it. I liked it. Know where I gave up on that show? When everyone died? When 28-year-olds were dropping like flies? I gave up on the moment when, what's her name?

Mary. The rape moment. The rape moment is when I gave's her name? Fuck. Mary. The rape moment. The rape moment is when. Oh, Edith. Because I felt like. Ew, yeah. I just felt like this is not the. It felt like.

This was. Gratuitous. There's an article about this recently. Oh, no, not Edith. It was. What's her name? Yeah. The blonde.

Anna. Anna, yeah, yeah, yeah. It felt like a moment where it was like, this doesn't feel like it was meant for any reason than to throw something. It felt cheap, and it felt bad. And I was like, I don't want to... You know, we talked to Beth and Sarah from Reductress about this when they were on, about Westworld.

About the... And I talked to a lot of people that are like, you know, Westworld, I'm not going to watch it because it feels a little rapey to me. And we were talking to them about how, you know, that kind of thinking, it's like, well, then what are you going to do? Not tell stories about people that are raped

and like rape as a thing in the world because rape happens in the world. And I think what was kind of not nice or cool or interesting, I guess, yeah, what was interesting about the choice to have a rape storyline on downton abbey is because you're in that world and you don't think about rape as a thing that happens in a place like downton abbey you know what i mean like i think it showed and and this is kind of interesting to me it was like you know you never would have thought you'd get the storyline on this show but rape is a part of you know this kind of toxic masculine culture that definitely exists on Downton Abbey and therefore I was like you know it's an interesting thing and I remember

she won some awards for performing that storyline and she said in her speeches like it's really important to me to tell the story because this happens to women. It has happened to women for many centuries. So I think another thing is that at that time I was watching Sons of Anarchy, which is a show I also gave up on because it was silly. But I just watched a season where Katie Segal's character, it was a season-long arc about her like dealing with the rape and it was like really i thought they handle i thought she was incredible in that in that show and i thought that was a very like that put me it was it was shocking it was like and i felt like it dealt with relationships well and i really believe everything she was going through which is really scary and then that i watched Downton Abbey and it was happening. I was like, I can't.

And you think it just wasn't. I was like, I can't go. And this is like, I'm saying this and I'm admitting this is like privileged and fucking shit. But I was like, I can't go through that as a viewer again. Which, you know what? The moment I say that, I think I should get. I'll take criticism for that take.

No, because it's if that's privileged of you. No, because if you didn't feel like it was being dealt with sensitively, and also you can choose what you watch. Also, it does not make you privileged to say, I don't want, as a viewer, to experience this sort of amplifying this thing that I'm already sort of processing. Because it does feel like sometimes it's on every fucking show yeah and then you think to yourself like all right you have to ask the question like are we doing this to inform and expose are we doing this to fucking

entertain people and if i'm watching a rape storyline to be entertained which at the end which a lot of times that is why you watch television shows is to be entertained and if you're finding that that's part of your entertainment there's nothing wrong with removing yourself from that like like there was an art was it emily nussbaum that was talking about there i feel like i read some article about this recently about uh oh gosh love nussbaum i just want to say what was the article dealing with you know i think it was actually i don't remember what i feel like it was interviewing some female showrunners saying like we get so many um uh spec scripts that like from men that uh are are there are rape scripts and then we get so many and so like a rule of ours is that we just and if that's any of them we just don't we don't look at

it anymore wow that's that it's like a trend it's become a trend if like screenwriters it's the same thing with like it's now and this is scary like what like like soaps were doing in the 2000s with cancer where it just felt like a matter of fucking time until there was like going to be like a cancer storyline we were going to go through that for 18 episodes it's like now it's moved on to they're doing that with rape. And it's like not the same fucking thing. People even write in like casual jokes about this meta story. Like in the outs, this in the outs, the show,

um, one character, one character has this line that goes, um, so what'd you do last night? Oh, I was just watching that show on HBO where they're terrible to women. Oh,

a true detective. No, the jinx. No game of Thrones. No, True Detective? No. The Jinx? No. Game of Thrones? No. Just listing basically every HBO show and it applied and it worked as a joke and it was just awful and whatever. It's pretty rough.

It is like... It's everywhere and I don't blame Tim for wanting to disengage from Downton just because it was so much to process. Saying I don't blame tim is huge it's my wait it's my red bull it's giving me wings okay i will say this i think my red bull i've told you this but um this was like fresh after the election oh yeah i think this was the weekend of i was

doing this show at uh over the eight rest in Peace. Mitra and I were doing this show there. Man. It was so sad. A bunch of great people were there, but we were just all so sad, and none of us were funny. I was like, Anna Fabrega was there. Elise Morales was there. Everyone was great, but we were just not delivering. So anyway, Mitra and I are walking home, and this was right after the whole debate about the safety pins was happening.

It was like, should people be wearing them shouldn't they and then mitra and i were both like it's such a stupid bullshit nonsense discussion that's happening yeah blah blah blah and like eventually and like forgive me for for saying this but eventually like we were just like you know what the only people who are having this argument who are saying that you shouldn't wear safety pins are white people and then we just like had this whole run about how white people are terrible blah blah blah and then we ran into tim and then we said oh tim you're one of the good ones and then we and then we we split off until we had this beautiful conversation and then mitra just goes i just fucking love that we have that power to say who's good and who's not. It was kind of a, I mean, it's a monstrous yet funny moment to me.

I don't know. Tim is one of the good ones. I have to say, I can't accept. You cannot accept. It cannot accept. If you accept, if you accept. If you accept, then you are. Am I one of the good ones?

Matt, I think if we're going to bury the hatchet then yes you are i can't accept ah that's right you can't it can't accept tim is so right it can't accept otherwise it is part of the problem because i remember you guys said that to me and i was like if this is a test if you said that to any moment if you said to any person from my college everyone that's like everyone's everyone dream my college is wet dream oberlin by the way yeah oberlin baby which can i just say right now first of all i'll say this probably the fucking stud of oberlin uh oh yeah he told me he told me he almost hooked up with his ra oh tim come on no we don't have to do this don't make him do this we might have to cut this out here's what i'll say here's what I'll say. Here's what I'll say.

I went to Oberlin. I enjoy Oberlin. This is like a school that does not deserve national attention. I don't think any of them do. I don't think any of them do. And so here's the thing. I feel like it's become, maybe it was before I wasn't aware of it, but I feel like Oberlin has become like a sort uh a part of the culture wars in a way like a part of like an example of college students gone awry or example of college has gone awry and

there's many examples of that which i will be like yeah that's i think that's ridiculous oh yeah i think that stuff but like it's a school of 3 000 people like in ohio um which by the way i like i i i have very fun i have a connection to ohio yeah i'm not not saying fuck Ohio, but it's like a small school in isolation of a lot of things. It shouldn't be a national story. Things that are going on in Oberlin should not be in the New York Times. And that's more than any other school. Because I feel like the stuff that's happening there is happening at, I don't know Bates or like you know like yeah yeah and so it does make me feel weird

when that that school has become this like maybe I'm you know maybe I'm just more sensitive to it because I went there but like

you're always gonna feel a connection to whatever anyone says about the school that you went to yeah it is a little personal am I wrong to say that it is

no not at all it's become one of those like yeah it's become one of those like buzz not buzzwords but like a a label it's like one of those things buzz not buzzwords but like a a late it's become a late sure it's in a post you know lena dunham world i think where did you go makes a lot of sense like overland carries a lot of this weird stigma that's probably

not deserved yeah or or it's just yeah it's just become this pincushion yeah i mean bowen and i went to nyu and i think that's the school with the a biggest target on its back and b it's just become this pincushion. Yeah. I mean, Bowen and I went to NYU and I think that's the school with the a biggest target on its back and B it's on the biggest pedestal. It's like, it's like both. And honestly, whenever anyone talks about NYU, I do,

I, I only am down to fucking make cracks and jokes about NYU. I'm not interested in defending it anymore. I really don't feel connected to it. I never felt like I defended it really. I never, I did because like But then

I did but without knowing what I was talking about Like when people were coming for like John Sexton For You know Buying the whole city Misusing money Yeah yeah yeah

And like I was like No no no he's actually a nice guy Oh because you had a You worked with him I worked with him And he was a nice guy He is a nice guy And he

He really He was very generous But that doesn't mean. And he was a nice guy. He is a nice guy. And he really, he was very generous. But that doesn't mean that what he was doing wasn't fucked up. I mean, I went to one of those houses that allegedly was like, they used school money for. And looking back on what that was, it's crazy. It's insane. And then he resigned and he should have. You know what I mean? Yeah.

So whenever anyone talks about NYU, I'm just like, yeah. I mean, I'm not going to feel bad about going there. Yeah, yeah. Because I wanted to go there and what we got out of it, which I think was great, which was the connections and being in the city. What's great about NYU, man, is the connections. Oh, okay. I mean, hey, I'll say that.

When I moved here, I had a chip in my shoulder of people I met through NYU yeah I know you did I talked about it I don't have a problem talking about it here's where I'm a hypocrite come for me you bitch you guys all knew each other you knew what the institutions were you knew what was happening you were able to see younger comedians and older comedians

figuring themselves out before anyone else did and then I got here and I was like, what's going on? And all these people knew what was going on. I was like, fuck.

They had friends? It was definitely cool to be close to like... Yeah, I will say this. I still felt like... Hold on. This does not absolve me of anything,

but I still felt like I was in my NYU bubble right after. I didn't take my first UCB class. For at least two and a half years. Yeah, I didn't... You stay in the NYU bubble. I didn't take my first UCB class. For at least two and a half years. Yeah, I didn't...

You stay in the NYU public, yeah. I didn't take my first UCB class until the summer after college. It was like, oh, finally I'll break out of the Washington Square Park area, you know? And also, sometimes I wonder, like, what it would have been like to actually go to a school that wasn't in New York

and then have moved to New York. Because that's like going to college again. You know what I mean? But this time, you don't have the built-in community. You do have to fucking figure it out. How did you meet people when you moved here? Story Pirates. Yeah.

Story Pirates. Story Pirates. That was huge even for us too. Yeah, huge for me too. I will say it is the most positive comedy community in New York. Yeah, definitely. And I feel like I've dipped toes in many different comedy communities. think story pirates is the most positive if you don't know what story pirates is you should log on to storypirates.org or look up the story pirates on youtube and just watch some

of the videos it's uh like an arts education collective and uh it's based in new york and los angeles and basically we take stories that are written by children, elementary school age kids, and make them into sketch shows and musical numbers and stuff and perform them for the kids. And it's really motivating and it's great. And I met Tim and fell in love with him instantly when I met him because he did object work digging. And I was like, that's him. Tim, when I first met tim was also he was a penguin that had to go across the ocean i first met tim through story pirates too and just seeing him as one of he was a year older than my class yeah but he was art at that at that point

that i was already in the cast he was so sharp and good and just yeah you're a good story pirate and i was like wow that guy is really fucking funny and i wasn't and i've said this to tim before was very intimidated by him yeah same yeah that's so funny to me because you guys were so good see because i like i know i felt like it's a very specific performance though because you have to perform for kids so it's very like you're like a flat character you know you have a living cartoon yes and i feel like both of you were like so uh instantly perfect at it that's because we are living cartoons yeah well you know if we want to talk about what if we want to talk about culture we're going to talk about what culture inspired you what about cartoons oh there you go i'm gonna go all the way back to uh the mask the mask that movie changed my life yes jim carrey is a beast

and i saw it and i was like, I want to be an actor because I saw that movie and I was like, oh, a human can be a cartoon? Yes. Oh, what's he doing? Oh, he's acting? Okay. People don't count that as acting. That is exactly right because Tim and I have had lengthy conversations about Jim Carrey

specifically and about just as a kid, you watch him in Ace Ventura and I, as a kid, was like, he's the funniest person in the world. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. Him in Ace Ventura. Him in, I mean, my favorite one.

And this is like grounded for him, but was Liar Liar. Oh, yeah. To me, Liar Liar is one of the best performances ever. And I think it's the first hint you get that he's actually a great dramatic actor. The pen scene. The pen scene is unbelievable. Just what happens the entire movie?

And then the moment when he's like, I'm not a good father. And he realizes that he said it. That to me was the first hint that what actually is there under Jim Carrey is actually an iconic level of talent. You know what?

My parents knew I loved Jim Carrey, and so they took me to see Man on the Moon in theaters, which was like, I don't know who Andy Kaufman was. Who was this dude? They just knew I loved Jim Carrey, and that movie also changed my life. I was introduced by this dude who's now one one of my, you know, inspirations. Yeah. And did you ever saw that movie? I haven't seen that on the run.

So the opening of it is him as Andy doing the credits and he goes like, I'm not, I can't do his voice, but he goes like, oh,

usually you see credits in the beginning of, in the end of the movie, but they're always boring. So now we're going to do it at the beginning. And then he like puts on a record and the credits go in the beginning.

And from then I was like, wow, like you can like fuck it at the beginning. And then he puts on a record, and the credits go in the beginning. And from then on, I was like, wow, you can fuck with the form. Yeah, no, I mean, which as a kid is really important to see exemplified. That is huge. I love that. I'm so happy that we haven't talked about Jim Carrey on the podcast, have we? Jim Carrey is truly one of the first inspirations. Oh, yeah. Just watching him in interviews where he

would just like make these fucking crazy faces and i would be like the best and do you see like old videos of him when he's just an impression not but like before he was even a stand-up he's just an impressionist and before he would do an impression he would like wrinkle his face do you know i'm talking about he would like wrinkle his face so just like to get into it it was and it's sort of like him like flexing a little because it was like showing how much control he had yeah i think i could read some article where he like when i was a kid maybe in the disney adventure magazine or something like that where he was like oh yeah i'd make i'd make faces in the mirror as a kid i was like all right then i'm gonna do that too yeah he to me is the epitome of commitment and energy yeah you know what i mean he's unrivaled

in those two areas like even when you see him come on like a like an award show now and he has to like do a bit he kills he kills it he kills he kills and no one is like that no i think he he will be very very his legacy will be a very good one i mean even now it's like you look back at his career i mean like truman yeah truman show and like eternal sunshine came out. I was just like, this guy is fucking just like amazing performances. Truman show man on the moon.

I assume he, the movie is the Grinch. I never saw the Grinch. Amazing performance. We have talked about the Grinch on Sudi's episode. We talked about, we talked about Faith Hill. We did not talk about Jim Carrey.

The page me. Press the star key. Okay, I'll see the Grinch. What will I wear? Oh, we've quoted that line before. What will I wear? You gotta see the Grinch. I'll see the Grinch.

You gotta see the Grinch because not only is he giving an amazing performance, but also like a lot of people are. Okay. It's like Bill Irwin is in it. He's so good. And then Mayor of Who Will Christine Baranski is the next. Oh, Christine Baranski.

Putting up her lights. And Cindy Lou, Cindy Lou, who's that? Taylor Momsen. Taylor Momsen. I'll see the Grinch. See the Grinch.

I'll see the Grinch. Seasonally, it's not appropriate anymore, but still see it. Yeah. Seasonally. Culturally, it's important.

I'll see a Christmas movie in the summer. Dude, you're honestly wild. I like actually don't give a fuck oh my god disgusting oh shit um time to drop into 10 guys at this time time to drop into 10 so um guys um listen i want to know tim what have you seen this year? What's coming up for the Oscars that you're like, hell yeah? Have you tuned in? Because I want to keep this a part of the podcast because they're coming up. Okay, okay. I feel like I haven't really seen that much, that many movies recently. What are the best pictures?

I mean, you know what? The last movie I saw was Moana. If we want to get into it. Oh, I don't think so. No. I don't know. Moana's a trigger word for me. I don't want to get into it. I don't want to get into it oh i don't think no i don't know moana's a trigger word for me i don't want

to get into it i don't want to get into it i will say i will say i i did you like it i did like it i loved it we talked about this actually we talked about this you know i was very bored by moana and that's this that's just the reason why i didn't like it very much is because it bored me i thought i i thought that it could have been better based on the standards of other Disney movies I've seen and just been swept away by. That's my only problem with it. Matt and I, we watched, we saw it together, and the reprise of How Far I'll Go was so moving and so beautiful. It just lifted us up, and then it just sort of left us hanging for the rest of the movie. I think that was my issue.

It's frustrating when you see a movie that's capable of so much. It could, oh yeah. And then like, it just doesn't deliver that throughout. I, so, I see that. I see that. For me, I was with it the whole time. I thought it looked beautiful. I thought all the music was great. I was like, I was laughing that, I was laughing that damn ass rooster. I love that little thing.

But I, I've come around on the rooster. No, it should have been the pig. No, but that's the, this is the thing. I. No, it should have been the pig. No, but this is the thing. I used to say it should have been the pig, but the fact that it should have been the pig and it was the rooster is what's so great. And that's the subversion that I was looking for in the movie because I was like, where was the subversion,

which was a dumb thing to say looking back. No, no, I think it's fine. I just didn't like the movie. I think it's so funny that up top, this cute pig has made such a big part of it, and you're like, oh, I'm so ready for this pig sidekick. I know, he was cracking me up.

And then it's like, oh, who's in here with me? It's gotta be the pig. And then it's like the dumbass rooster. Okay. I will say this, because I said this in the thread, the thread about Moana,

because I think the first song in that movie is so wonderful, and I haven't seen a song in that movie is so wonderful, and I haven't seen a song like that in a Disney movie where it's like, oh, I love where I'm from. I want to have more, but I still love where I'm from. And Tushy, this little town sucks. No, and I love how that song, you're right, Tim, I completely agree.

I love how that song frames responsibility in a very positive way and she as a protagonist is receiving them saying yes i am going to be a leader this is what i have to do and she's not like it's not a spiteful thing at all yeah and no one leaves that's right we stay i liked so much of the music i liked your welcome your welcome was great um and i really liked um the when the grandmother returns as a spirit spoiler and she's like uh you remember what i must what i have told you she's like i am the daughter of the island and then she the last thing is i am i also love uh like well tom Tewa hasn't always been this glam

I know can I tell you something I hated that song I know I think you have a good point like that is like why is it happening why

that it doesn't need it's like it's a screenplay moment you know what I mean like it doesn't need to be there but I think that song and that vocal performance is like fucking cool

from Jermaine and also like it's up my alley. You know, it's that. Yeah, it's such it was such a Tim Platt moment. I saw it. I was like, this is Tim. Don't give me the Juana.

Don't give me the how far I'll go reprise and then give me that crab singing. Look, look, look. I think I think it's what Matt Matt has this relationship with Frozen where we saw it together in the theater. Didn't love it. But then you saw it again with kids or in another context. Got board with i think i will give moana another shot it's not that i love frozen and therefore everything else is disqualified i just think no but that is like that is like a feeling that is out there you know what i mean it's like well it wasn't as good as frozen it's like it's like that's like a sentiment which is like you gotta choose either tangled or

frozen which is like a fun conversation to have, but like not want to actually believe. But I do think there's this thing out there, which is like, oh, the people that like Frozen, the people that don't like Frozen and the people that like Frozen, like people assume that we think it's the best fucking thing ever because it did do so unbelievably well. I just think Frozen is great because it, it took a step forward for me in terms of what those disney movies could be and it eventually ended up being a love story between the sisters i get if like the movie bored you and like you know the let it go sequence is the only good sequence i understand people saying that i just you know preferred the the creative innovative way that the storytelling went okay as someone who doesn't care for frozen or moana i just want to say one of the best movies full stop is wreck it ralph everyone must see it you said

this i didn't see this you haven't seen it yet i haven't i want to see it tim i think it's gonna blow your mind okay i also want to see uh jo Joel posted about Storks being better than Zootopia. And I don't know if that was a joke or not. I think it must have. I don't believe him. Do you want to see Sing? Because I've heard great things about Sing. I want to see Sing too because there's music in it.

Because I'm allergic to any anime, any movies that doesn't have any music except Monsters, Inc. I love Monsters, Inc. I just saw Zootopia. I think it's allergic. I saw Zootopia and I thought thatootopia, and I thought that was good. I thought that was a good movie. I liked the movie, but people were really just... It didn't hit the heights that people would tell me about it.

That's what I was expecting a lot of. But I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it as well. So Joel was joking about Storks? No, I think he must generally... We'll follow up with Joel. I don't know. I'm going gonna ask him i was really excited by that take because i was like oh i guess i'll watch storks

like i wouldn't have watched because it's a movie that i feel like i would not have watched and then it got this glowing response from out of nowhere and so i was excited i was excited to be like oh i'm gonna jump into this thing you know what three of us can go see Storks together. I would like that. I would like that. I would like that. I would like that. Do another 10? It's time to do another 10.

And while you're doing that 10, it's time for everyone to get ready for the signature, the signature, honey. Oh, I'm not ready. Moment. Taking off my glasses. In every Lost Cultures episode,

it's I don't think so, honey. And this is our opportunity here on last culture is to take that one thing that's really been pushing our proverbial buttons and rail against it for one minute on the clock now both our guests tim and bowen have their heads in their hands and their their stress what's going on i just don't know. This is truly the most unprepared. Like, even off the cuff. Because you're just so happy in your life? No.

It's just that I feel like I've really just directed my frustration and my I don't think so honey-ness at a lot of different things. And I don't know if I'm running out. You know what I'm saying? Well. How about you start, Matt? I would like to start because I do have one. Okay. Okay.

Great. So I'll set the clock for you. And I'd like to start because I do have one. Okay. Great. So I'll set the clock for you. And I'd like open hearts and open minds if that's okay. Depends. It depends. I grant you that. But that's a loan. Here we go. Okay.

This is Matt Rogers. I don't think so, honey. Time starts now. I don't think so, honey. The Starbucks that are popping up all over the city that put a lot of their money into their aesthetic and not on more seats. Come on. We need more seats, come on, we need more seats in Starbucks,

if I go to a Starbucks, or if I live near a Starbucks, I want to be able to sit down bitch, I want to be able to go there, and use the wifi, hello bitch, I just moved into an apartment, with my boyfriend Henry,

who's a lovely amazing person, but you know what, sometimes he's teaching a lesson, and needs to be on the keys, tinkling, tinkling away, he's a musician, he's loud, and I would like to go to a Starbucks and be able to sit down, but no, you put

your budget into the fucking walls being made out of, like, like, like, oak, I don't think so, honey, I need a fucking seat, how come there's four seats in here and fucking eight lamps, I don't need more lamps, bitch, I need somewhere to sit, also, make it easier for me to log into your Wi-Fi. God damn it. How come it takes me like no time to fucking get my venti drink, but 15, 20 minutes to stand into the Wi-Fi? If you know anything, Starbucks, you know that people use you to sit down and hang out as much as they do for drinks. I don't think so, honey. Change.

Okay. And that's one minute. That was one of my best ones ever. That was really good. That was really good. You covered a lot of it. Because I feel like I made made my point and i feel like now there'll be a change that's i measure my i don't think so honey and do i think after the fact that something will change yes and i think i this is what matt this is what matt does to enact and uh you know affect change

in lieu of having senators uh who are opposition of him. Is that right? You know what? Yes. I am from New York, born and raised, and therefore I call my senators and they're like, yeah, I know. Yeah, I also am outraged. It's the same. But now you have a place to... I have a place to put my anger and it's Starbucks. That said, it's important to call senators about specifics. Yes. We were just joking. Yeah. Because I want to say that.

It's also nice to say thank you. I tweeted at Kirsten Gillibrand and I said thank you because I thank her. I think she's the fucking best. She's a rock star. And Tim. And Schumer too. Tim, we finished that thought. Because with

all the stuff that's happening, it's very easy to call and just be like, protect us from Trump. It's so much helpful to be like, through it. Saying all the people that you have a problem with, the specific bills you have a problem with,

I think it's good for you and it's good for the for the for them yes every time i talk about this stuff i feel like i'm just like reciting things i've read but then you eventually you amass your you you get your own vocabulary for it and that's when that's when you break through because i feel like i haven't been emotional i've heard you talk about being emotional on the phone with your with your senators and representatives and i feel like i'm still very much like uh i i'm gonna read this script thank I've heard you talk about being emotional on the phone with your senators and representatives. And I feel like I'm still very much like, I'm going to read this script.

Thank you. Right, right, right. I feel like I don't know. I feel like I'm talking to my teacher's mom or something like that. It feels like that. If this helps, I usually don't read from a script, but I will pour over some, get a sense of what I want to say. And then I will physically this is this sounds weird but it's just because it's like the only place at work where i can do this in privacy

is that we'll go to the back and just go into the darkest corner and feel physically sort of just like i have to really just surround myself with what like i don't know with something that matches the sentiment or whatever and then i'll just go into i never angry i just get i'm never emotional i should say i get just a little snippy but appropriately and politely so like today i called um famously my representative walked snuck out of a town hall meeting that was your representative that was my representative from my district and i called his office today and one of his staffers, very nice guy, took a message for me. And I said, hi, I just want to say that I think it's unfortunate that Congressman Kaufman left his own town hall meeting. But if he is, but if he's afraid of a hostile reception, I just think he needs to see that as a way of his constituents um holding him accountable so um i would encourage

him to really um have more face time with his with with the people he represents and that's all i have to say like that was just yeah a more tame way of me to just be like hey that was fucking stupid why did you do that yeah you know there's always like a positive way to frame that okay do you need more time or should tim go no um i i can go okay okay i have one but i don't like want to do that one sure no oh it doesn't matter i i just just came up with mine and this is the beauty of i don't think so honey i told tim this um you know the the the the the less significant sometimes it's nice to and we whip out our improv backgrounds and bone yangs i don't think so honey starts right now i don't think so honey Honey Uber drivers who do not stop at

where the designated place marker on your map is. There is a reason that the user is able to designate the pickup spot. And I will do my best. My best. And Matt can vouch for this. And Tim can vouch for this. I will do my best to go to the exact spot where the pin is dropped. And honey, these drivers

don't know their way around city blocks and cities they're supposed to be familiar with. They're being paid to be familiar with. And honey, they ask me what routes to go. And honey, these drivers don't know they're way around city blocks and cities are supposed to be familiar with it. They're being paid to be familiar with. And honey, they ask me what routes to go. And oh, don't even get me started. I don't think so, honey. On drivers, taxi drivers, Uber drivers, whatever, who ask you to navigate for them. Oh, that is unacceptable.

Download Waze for your phone. Download any app for your phone. This is unacceptable. I don't think so, honey. Drivers who are not good at their jobs, I will give you a two-star rating. I will never give you a one-star rating unless you slap me in the fucking face, but I don't think so, honey.

Drivers who do not, do not respect this transaction of them knowing their way around the goddamn city, bitch. I don't think so, honey. Uber drivers named Jordan or whatever or Greg. I've had bad Gregs

and they are bad drivers. That's one minute gregs are bad drivers i think this is the first time in the podcast history that matt hasn't interrupted bowens i don't think so honey yes you know he's like really shady of you to say it's him especially in lieu of um recent conflicts well it might be i just feel like last episode i mean you were that's because i would that's because my personality and character was being attacked live it was just really nice to see you hold's because my personality and character was being attacked live. It was just really nice to see you hold your tongue for once.

And that was really... I hope you'll take that one forward. Well, I hope that I continue to do that throughout this podcast. His behavior is corrected. I hope that I do that today. His behavior is corrected. I don't think so, honey. I don't feel the need to jump in.

You know, I think you're going to do fine. Five more push-ups. I think you're going to do fine. I think you're going to do such a good job. You do ten push-ups. Or else you're going to be fucked up. All right? Your arms are going to be uneven and fucked up. more push-ups um i think i do fine i think you do such a good job you do 10 push-ups or else you're gonna be fucked up all right your arms are gonna be uneven and fucked up i i have i have one that i'm happy with okay great okay i wasn't all the you can't just say i wasn't all the way happy

with mine that's fine bowen uh i don't think so honey tim platt starts right now i don't think so honey coffee shops when when i ask you if there's wi-fi and you say yes there's wi-fi and i get a coffee and i get a pastry and i sit down and i open up my laptop and there's no wi-fi and i go up and i say there's no wi-fi they go yeah well i guess it's not working why did you tell me there was wi-fi when i bought with my own money coffee and i set up a space i could get coffee and pastry anywhere with Wi-Fi. I hate that, too. That's why I bought the coffee.

I bought a ticket to Wi-Fi, and you said your ticket is accepted. And then I got to the fucking sign, and it turns out it was a steel ticket. You couldn't rip it in half. I gave you my half back. Now I'm stuck there. What am I going to do? Free write on a fucking Word document? No.

I want to do writer duet. No. I want to do writer duet. No. I want to use Spotify. No. I want to Facebook when I get a little bit bored of writing. And you betrayed me. And I should get my money back. And you should give me a free pastry next time.

One minute. That was the most monstrous. I don't think so, honey. Yes. I loved it. I loved that you took it in a whole new direction. Every part of That was the most monstrous. I don't think so, honey. Yes. I loved it. I loved that you took it in a whole new direction. Every part of that was Tim Platt. It has been rebranded.

That was amazing. You know what? You're absolutely right. You're absolutely right. It does drive me insane. It happens all the time. And it's a thing where it's like, yeah, of course. It's like one of those true, what am I going to do?

If I complain about this, I would be a monster. But also, that's why you spent the money there. Exactly. like what am I gonna if I complain about this I would be a monster you know if I was like but also but also that's why you spent the money there exactly oh it's a con it's insane that's yeah

that is that's part of the deal and that's a problem I have with Starbucks too why when I go in there do I have to answer a goddamn questionnaire when I get

to get into your wifi you don't have to well Matt that's cause you don't have to answer the question no I think you have to fill out a test okay you have to. Well, Matt, that's because you don't have to answer the question. No, I think you have to fill out a test. Okay.

You have to do a test. Five more push-ups. Guys, ten more push-ups as we sail out here. Guys, Tim, we're going to be on your show. Yes. Yes. Sloop Jumbly. Sloop Jumbly on Wednesday the 25th at the Brick Theater at 8 p.m.

Peter Mills Weiss and Lorelei Ramirez and I are hosting Sloop Jumbly. And it's a great show because we like to bring performers from different performance worlds. Like we have like a writer and playwright who's reading. We have a comedian. Oh, fuck. We also have Cocoon Dance. Dance. Yes.

We have we have we have people from different performance worlds, and it's very exciting. And Sluck is going to be there. Of course. Mary Faustine. Bowen and I will be performing as Sluck at Sloop Jumbo. And we have not performed as Sluck in a minute. In some time.

So you know what? The kids are thirsty for Sluck. And, oh, God, I just want to say I love that name, Sloop Jumbly. Sloop Jumbly. I get my life. I love the life boy song yes so uh the uh peter and lorelei and i were meeting and uh we were like on the kick of like

doing songs with reference that like slanted and i said oh sloop jumbly and we laughed and then i was like there's no way and both that's how nona were like, no, we're doing Sloop. That's how Las Culturistas got its name. I was like, what if it's called Las Culturistas? And Boehm was like, that's so stupid. And just laughed. And then I was like, well, we have to do it. And then that was how we knew. So that's an origin story for it.

If you laugh at it, you should marry it. All right, guys. I want to tell one quick story before we go. Okay. So me and my high school best friend, Ken, were playing volleyball in the backyard. And his little sister, Kathleen, who was five, was in the garden with her dad. And Kathleen was very, very, like, gregarious. And she said, I love tomatoes.

And the dad said, well, if you love tomatoes so much, why don't you marry it? Because he had like a goofy sense of humor. And Kathleen said, well, because you know you can't dance with it. And that's why I love kids. I won't look up story parents. Guys, our thanks to Tim Platt. Tim, they can find you on social media, on Instagram, at IamKingBozo. On Twitter?

Twitter is just Timothy Platt. Timothy Platt. I'm on Facebook at Tim Platt, but I took Facebook off my phone, so I won't be the most responsive to the boy. That's very good. Tumblr, ilovegiftcards.tumblr.com. Tim, we love you so much. Thank you so much for coming on.

We're going to kiss you, Tim. This is Bowen Yang. This is Matt Rogers. This is the Last Culture East podcast. Thanks, Forever Dog, and thank you. Bye. Bye, Tim. Forever Dog.

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with his relatives in Miami. Imagine that your mother died trying to get you to freedom. Listen to Chess Peace, the Elian Gonzalez story on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Cheryl Swoops. And I'm Tarika Foster-Brasby. And on our new podcast, we're talking about the real obstacles women face day to day. Because no matter who you are, there are levels to what we experience as women. And T and I have no problem going there. Listen to Levels to This with Cheryl Swoops and Tarika Foster-Brasby, an iHeart Women's Sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment.

You can find us on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports.