Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang - "I Don't Give a Rip!" (w/ Amber Ruffin)

Episode Date: November 25, 2020

Matt and Bow say "What!" Because the star of her own show on Peacock and all-around comedy savior Amber Ruffin is on the pod this week! Listen in as they share their near-closing thoughts on the latest episode of "The Undoing," as well as the ins and outs of Amber managing her writer's room from coast to coast. There are then deep cultural observations around coming up in comedy in Amsterdam, Denver and Chicago, followed by Amber's wonderful culture that made her say culture was for her! A surprise gift delivery also delights the three before Amber inadvertently becomes yet another "Grey's Anatomy" correspondent for Matt and Bowen as she helps navigate where people can jump back into the show if they've fallen off. It's all capped off by scorching IDTSHs and a resounding endorsement for EVERYONE to watch "The Amber Ruffin Show," every Friday on Peacock! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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and it is becoming a ripple effect energetically in my life and that's why I feel so safe now. Listen to The Bright Side from Hello Sunshine on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Is that culture? Yes. Oh, my goodness. Wow. Las Culturistas. Ding dong. Las Culturistas calling. Sorry. Bowen is feeling absolutely frisca-lisca today. He started the countdown at five.

It was so shocking. So, reader, I usually start the countdown at three. I think something, the energy is shifting in the world. The poles have flipped. Something is going on. We're living in, as Jasmine and Aladdin once said, a whole new world. Something is shifting with the poles. Something's going on with the poles. Yes.

And, well, oh, my God, I just said poles, and the trigger word that poles is. Sorry, not to take a hard ride into hell, but that's the way I felt when I said you're right that's hell and we're going there okay speaking of absolutely in hell nicole on the undoing she's in hell oh my god this woman is she's in hell on the undoing her husband is a killer i know it or maybe her son for that matter uh she some someone in her life is an absolute killer and maybe it's lily rabe is the killer i think well you know that's pronounced lily rob lily rob is the killer broccoli like broccoli

rob it's so that's actually real culture it's it's a real culture number 50 what bow i forget nine 59 i was gonna say 59 literally sister life hashtag um wait so it's it's real culture number 59 it's lily rob like broccoli spelled like rabe and that's tell you not for me go this is this is my uncle this is my blind spot is that i this is my blind spot. This is my first encounter with Lily Robbins in a meaningful cultural setting. Where else would I have known her from? She's sort of been like the white lady on all the Ryan Murphy shows. You know what I mean?

Our guest is giving us a look. She's going to look it up. She's going to look it up. Okay, so literally, the hijinks that are going on on the on the undoing we'll have to talk more about it next week but can we also talk about the hijinks on potomac we can talk about the hijinks on potomac absolutely look i'm on no one's side i think i'm on no one's side anymore um except for i mean the only person who's just like hanging back is Robin. No, but even Robin is being really, really mean. Robin is not hanging back and she doesn't hang back because Robin is

Giselle Light and that's actually rule of culture number 70. Robin is Giselle Light. Not including Karen in the photos, really, really mean, unnecessary. Treacherous. Treacherous. And notice that Karen was completely unbothered about it, and when

she said thank you next and threw that hat on the floor, I said, you better create that meme. Oh my God. She did it. I think there's a reason why. Was this the first season in a while where Karen was at the center in the title card, in the tableau? No, I think she

and Giselle are pretty much the stars of the show, but I don't know for sure. I let it hit me this episode i was like you know what she was the star of the season i know the whole i know the whole season sort of centers around like the inflection point is the barn the wine barn fight but i care and comes out looking the most pristine but you're saying you're not even on her side after this she's so switzerland yeah that it's like it's a little weird but the fact here's here's my like take on the whole thing yeah was monique wrong for literally dragging candace yes yes candace filing charges and saying she wants it pursued to the full extent of the law she wants monique in prison this woman has children like on. They had a moment in a wine bar, and who of us hasn't?

Who of us hasn't had a moment in a wine bar, really? We shouldn't go to jail for it. At the end of the day, Candace Dillard Bassett supports the carceral state. I'm so sorry to say this. And you said it. And I said it, and I have, as an NBC employee, I feel like I have something to lose by saying that you know the housewives are all over the

streaming platform Peacock and we love Peacock and you want to know something I sprung for the premium no ads subscription because you know what I want to watch Peacock no ads no nothing I just want to watch you know uninterrupted

raw content raw. Peacock raw. You just want it. You want it delivered right to ya. You know, I feel like my one little quibble with Peacock, and as an NBC employee, I feel like I've... How dare you say quibble? Again, another

trigger word for me after the fall of Quibi. Wow, I'm being triggered left and right by polls, by quibbles. Go on, though. We're just owned by these entertainment companies. Some more than others. The Apple TV remote. Maybe this is on the Apple TV remote, but the responsiveness. Talking about her?

Talking about her. She's holding it up. The Apple TV remote is all over the damn place on Peacock. Oh, yeah. I don't know. I think it's both hardware and software issue where they're not talking to each other. They're both acting crazy. I find the Apple remote to be very overly sensitive.

You feel this way? So I feel this way. But then the Peacock, if you scrub across the bar, also exponentially, like the two sort of like enable each other to be very sensitive. Right, right.

And, you know, I've been watching some old Dirty Rock episodes and I'll jump from one scene to the next. Right, right. And, you know, I've been watching some old Dirty Rock episodes, and I and I'll jump from one scene to the next. Like you do. It'll go from act one into the damn tag after I just, you know. Oh, that's filthy. Can't have that. But here's the thing,

because I know what's going to happen with you, Bowen, and I'm holding myself back. We'll say, you know, who's on Peacock, and then we'll transition into the guest. But before we do that, I just want to address a really important item of business. Yes. Do you want to take this opportunity to apologize to Doja Cat? Absolutely.

I apologize to Doja Cat for riling up her base. Although the stan culture around Doja Cat is fucking wild. And I will not ever apologize to those people does that make sense i'm separating the artist from the stand-up which is different from art from the artist at this point i'm coupling the art with the artist okay for sure i'm really interested in i'm really interested in everything you're saying but also i'm very interested in the two gallons of water that our guest just took to the head yes hydration having Hydration. Having worked with our guest very briefly, I feel like I've seen her with,

she's a very hydrated person. I love that. I think it's so important to be hydrated. Babe, I don't do it enough. I don't, babe, I don't stay hydrated. If you stay hydrated, you don't need to get hydrated. And that's my Real Housewives tagline and no one knows why uh because

you you hope you have a plumbing empire yeah right wait just kidding do you actually know my real tagline i know or no no no remind me remind me sorry it's this i am a triple threat i'm coming to your house i'm fucking your husband and i'm eating your snacks. So you know what Peacock reminds me of? Peacock reminds me of our guest. Our guest, frankly, is the star of Peacock. Quite frankly. Look, I mean, I feel like you go to Peacock and the thing that draws you in is... That's why you go.

Our guest's beaming face. You're not going for season two of Housewives of Dallas. I'll tell you that's why you go our guests beaming face you're not going for season two of housewives of dallas i'll tell you that you're going for the very much on right now amber ruffin show or the amber ruffin show as stylized capitalized first letter in every word of that now i don't mean to sort of give away the guest's identity because you know we love to keep that on lock but bo before we sort of bring the guests into much pomp and circumstance and great fanfare as they would sort of if she were part of the royal family yes um just describe sort of the guest's impact on the culture what are the credits the guest's impact on the culture is truly huge a truly huge you know her as a writer on Late Night with

Seth Meyers. You sure do. As an iconic narrator on Drunk History. Say that. Writer on Detroiters. Black Lady Sketch Show. Say this. Yes. Hello, Robin. She don't listen to this. Robin will listen to this. I asked her to come on. She was like, everyone's asking me to come on their podcast. I'm like, you're coming on my podcast.

Look, Robin, she might do it. She might do it. Don't rule it out. I'll text her.'re coming on my podcast. Look, Robin, she might do it. She might do it. Don't rule it out. I'll text her. She's a good texter. We're not talking about Robin. But we're not talking about her. Robin did recently tag on to our guest's show. She did a quick little greeting

at the end of an episode of our guest's show. And we love that. And also, this actually reminds me about our guest. Iconic Watch What Happens Live bartender. Oh, yes. The poses. She was on the episode with Issa and the aforementioned Robin. But listen, I feel like we've talked just too much.

And we need to bring the guest in because it's just too exciting. It's just too exciting. We're so excited to have her. We love her so much. Everyone, welcome. Amber Ruffin. Yay. Hi hi you guys all right hi it's such a hooray moment it's such a hooray moment do you have any thoughts to um contribute to the undoing to potomac i saw you nodding very uh very enthusiastically my husband and i are watching the undoing we call it the undoing the undoing undoing undoing and i do think the

little baby did it it's crazy that that's where we're at i called it ever since the beginning my husband's shaking his head no right now ever since the beginning my husband said um that nicole kidman did it but i will tell you this, after two episodes ago, I think my husband and I get really, really close to each other's face and we go, I create mock. That's what I do. Noma is killing it.

I love that lady. She is, and let me tell you, she is taking it the most seriously like you need to. And Nicole too, they're taking it so seriously and meanwhile the it's a drag show and that's why i like it it's a drag event like drag race is not on so we have the undoing the wigs the coats at all the courtroom scenes are chaos everything is

so big yeah any one of those people could be on a comedy and you'd be like, yeah, it's big. I love it. If it had the 30 Rock soundtrack, it would just be 30 Rock. Yes. Yes. It's just like, there's Nicole. I'm telling you, the finale is going to be the equivalent of a death drop. It is going to be.

But you think the sun, you think the sun as a result of the sort of reveal thought the sun for quite some time my husband holds fast on the wife i think it's that little boy sorry i've been saying it's the kid all along little noah you think that it's as simple as spoiler alert y'all the murder weapon has been found by Nicole in the little boy's violin case. And you think it's that simple. He did it. Well, no.

We're on the 50th episode. Somebody better do something. It's time. It's the baby. It's time. I've had it. Or the husband just hit her once with a hammer. He fucked her.

He hit her once. He put it down. She's kind of fine. And the wife goes up. She picked up the hammer. She hit her once with a hammer. He fucked her. He hit her once. He put it down. She's kind of fine. And the wife goes up. She picked up the hammer. She hit her again. Okay, now she's hurting. Okay, then the little boy came and he finished her off.

Yep. Sort of a murder on the Orient Express moment where everyone's the killer. Everybody killed her a little bit. I like that theory. So, because, you know if well i'll say this if they cut to one more shot out of nowhere of her smushed head i'm out i know too much too damn much i'm out it's gratuitous amber talk about because you just took a swag talk about your hydration situation hi i like to drink out of a giant jug of water at all times.

At work, it's a smaller jug of water. At home, it's one of these big things. And I like to pretend that I am a bodybuilder. Don't they have to drink a gallon of water a day? Something like that. An absolute ton. I'm a real strong guy. You're a real strong guy.

Why is it different at work than at home? Is it sort of like at home home there's no rules for you? You set your own rules so you can drink as big a jug as you like? Yes. At home, I'm not worried about looking like a fool. Also, at work, they have that super cold, really nice water. So you got to put it in your little cuppy thing. Yeah.

So I do that. You're talking about the Saratoga? What are you talking about? The Saratoga Springs water? Oh, no, no, no, no. You're just talking about the water that comes out of the fountains. That machine thing. That's in the kitchens.

Yeah. I gotcha. Yes, yes, yes. I love that thing. Bowen and his brand name water. DNC fool. You are a centrist. You really are.

You're a centrist. Amber and I work on the same floor. Yeah. We do. Do you ever run into one another? We do. Or sort of the pandemic making that crazy? No.

We've had a couple run-ins this year, haven't we? Really? Yes. And now we took over NBC Sports. Oh, great. They'll never come back. Fuck NBC Sports. Oh, great. They'll never come back. Fuck NBC Sports. They shouldn't be in 30 Rock.

They have no business there. There's like two people in that entire office all of the time. Now, it's full of folks, and it's a pandemic. And it's a pandemic. We have enough people. You do. Is it on theth, the 8th floor? Yeah.

It's in between Seth Meyers and SNL is NBC Sports. So that should be all Seth Meyers and Ruffin Show. Anyway. You're coming in hot with this, I hope NBC Sports withers and dies. I am not saying that. I hope they die. I'm saying ain't nobody ever in that building. They all work at, there's a Connecticut office.

So no one comes down here. They live in Connecticut. They should be making people come down here anyway. That's not nice. You're right. Thank you for clarifying. Thank you. Okay.

I wish I could run into you guys in the hallway. Maybe one of these days I'll get a job as a janitor. This is the ultimate hallway run-in. So I have a question. Sort of, because it's such a wacky floor, you know, everyone there is so wacky, do sketch

variety, etc. Is there sort of pranks going on? Like, is there the old banana peel slip like i so i'm i'm sort of i'm sort of curious like the sort of wacky antics that happens yeah yeah and especially now with the pandemic it's like the stakes are even higher so like sometimes i'll pick up a handful of almonds from one crafty table and then sort of sprinkle it on the South Myers crafty table. I've been eating those almonds. You touched them?

Oh no. Now you have Hep C. Like it's that kind of prank. Yeah. Cause I thought it was going to be COVID, but it's Hep C. No, see that's,

that's the bait and switch. That's the sort of what they call the bait and switch. You understand. I have to say, your show is really fucking good, Amber. It is so, so funny. It's so smart. It's so saying it. You know what I mean?

Like what I appreciate about it, Bowen and I were talking about it the other day. Like it's really just, it's not just like a show that like has perspective it's a show that has perspective and it's saying what it is and you know we're in this we're in a sort of era right now where I'm just gonna say you know there's a lot of late night shows that are pretty toothless and this is just like and you got incredible writers i mean who we know all of them but we love it it's so good thank you it's very very very fun i mean nuts it looks fun i'm by myself ain't nobody even here i'm having i'm making you and tarik you and tarik

what about tarik me and tarik are a party and have always been. But there are no writers. Jenny doesn't come. And then we've got Dwayne Perkins, Shantira Jackson, Demi and Tuipe. And they're in LA. Oh my gosh. They truly are. Demi was dancing on cars in LA and became like a little meme. Did you see him?

Yes. Mariah Carey retweeted it. Oh my God. I did see that. Oh, because they did All I Want for Christmas. Yes. Okay, Demi is absolutely iconic. Demi, I just want to say, is a queen of the straights.

And he reigns as honorarily gay as fuck because he won my show game show on Quibi plug. Before they take it off the damn air. Demi also has like really like fun queer adjacent tastes too. Like he likes the stuff that you would think is just for the gays, but he has such a broad sort of palette for that kind of thing. Yeah. You can't threaten Demi's masculinity.

He doesn't give a rip. Demi's going to do what Demi feels like doing. I love it. You filled that room with queers and queer adjacents. I mean, yeah. That's Jenny, Shantira, and Dwayne. Mm-hmm. And as we've said, Demi is basically an honorary gay icon.

He is the queen of the straights. Mm-hmm. We have had Dwayne on, and Dwayne's culture that made him say culture was for him was the Power Rangers. And we realized that this is actually a very gay thing. Oh, yeah. Love for the Power Rangers? Like to sort of announce your metamorphosis. You know what I mean?

Like, I'm a color. Now I'm a color. You know what I mean? Like, that's very like sort of gay. Absolutely. I love it. So very like sort of gay. Absolutely. I love it. So I did watch that movie. Yeah.

I love an action movie. I don't care what it is. Listen. I don't care. I'm watching it. Did you blow something up? I'm in. The highlight of the year is usually when that big old action movie comes out.

You can even see me buying a ticket to a Transformer. Yeah. Oh my God. I'll go. i'll very much go yeah definitely i want to see it i'm playing the spider-man game right now and it's just so fun because it's a movie that you get to sort of like control isn't that cool and yeah it's that's what's so fun it does sound it does sound so fun i want to get back to this. Because Matt put out something very interesting, saying a lot of these late night shows are toothless. We're not going to name names. But I feel like you are aware of this, Amber,

because I think you've said in interviews that other late night shows seem to just replay what's happened in some way. And I don't think you're... You're not even like playing clips of like a press conference or anything. You're just, I mean, the things that punch the most,

that hit the hardest are like things where you're just addressing the camera. And it feels very Seth too. Yeah, I want to talk about who said what crazy thing. I want to call the crazy thing they said crazy. And then I want to say it made me feel bad. Yeah. And no one is doing that.

Yeah. They can say this made me feel bad, but you're not of this marginalized group, are you? So how bad do you feel? Right. And I think it's healthy and I think it's good for us to be like, I feel like shit because this guy in charge doesn't think anything of me. Like, I think it's okay to say that. A hundred percent. For sure.

And then, and then on the flip side, it's like when the race was called, like the whole episode after that was just you guys just being so joyful about it and be like, we're so happy. But then like, we're really seeing other late night shows do that. Is it because,

and like, maybe it is because, you know, they're white dudes who were like, are able to be passively observing of what's going on and be like oh cool like this is what happened today and we're not gonna layer on top any sort of commentary i think that that is absolutely true i also think that people, I'm just starting to get hate. And I think those people receive hate 24-7 their whole careers and have for years and years. And they're a little bit sensitive to it.

Yeah. But I haven't had enough hate for it to color what I choose to say and not say. I was like, let's dance on his grave. I don't give a rip. I don't give a rip. I don't give a rip might be a frontrunner for title of app. I also think there might be something to when I was watching and I was just like,

yeah, we're just jumping in with this is garbage. And I love when you said you don't have to accept this. You don't have to make room for these people that have believed in and supported this harmful toxic racist fill in the blank words here um and i also think i was wondering to myself like i wonder if there's just something to the fact that a lot of these white dudes who have been on the air for years and years are just like too desensitized to what's happening to be able to

call this out anymore like it's like they have to do these shows on many of them every day or every weekday to be fair um and they they just can't really like just all of a sudden jump in with like wait wait wait no this is insane because they have to like keep up this decorum or they just actually aren't able to process the immediacy of what's happening because they're not starting like right now, like you, and they also don't have your perspective. Yeah. And I think there's a lot of, I think that's true. And I think a certain behavior is expected of them. I think they're, a lot of times they're expected to take the high road. They are under the thumb of the network a lot of times,

whereas no one cares what I do or say. Is that true? Like at Peacock, are they kind of just like, do you? Well, because I got the show after saying all kinds of crazy stuff, I think that was what they wanted.

And they're like, say that. So I get to really, I really get to go in on it. They looked at the menu and said, we're ordering Amber Ruffin for the entree. They went to Peacock Restaurant. They got the special. They got the special. They got the special. Oh, yikes.

Yeah, I am waiting for them to be like, you can't be acting like this. But I did say on the last episode, I said, no, I'm not saying burn it all down. Yet. Yeah. And they didn't let me say that. So we'll see if I ever get in trouble. If I do, I'll text you guys. Because maybe they agree.

Text us. You should text us. I'll text you guys. Because maybe they agree. Text us. You should text us. I'll text you the line. Text us every day with an update, whether they've said it or not. And also, okay, can I also say one of my favorite bits that you did, because it really, not to say I was triggered again, but when you did your bit on PT Cruisers, I was like, it's true. This car's crazy.

And I have to come out as being someone who, as a little boy, collected little collectibles of PT Cruisers. I had like 30. I don't know. I just thought they were like a cute car. Who was making them? I am't know. I just thought they were like a cute car. Who was making them? I am without answers. I'm W-A without answers. Oh my gosh.

But when you were doing that PT Cruiser content, I was like, you're right. This car's crazy. I think that was your sensing that this shouldn't be. And then you liked it. Like, this isn't right. Like, if a bear could fly, you'd be like, I'm obsessed with this bear because it shouldn't be able to fly.

I guess PT Cruiser, as far as automobiles go, is kind of a queer car because it's like, there's something different about this. It's like, it's sort of personality first. Personality first. Personality first. Yeah. It sort of got its own vibe. And the personality is

Goofaloofa! Goofaloofa. I was gonna say, I feel like there's something hostile about BT Cruisers. Snowflake. No, no. I feel like, remember those feel like remember those scion those scion cars exactly what it makes me think of yes scion the kia soul yes the kia soul pt cruisers seem like aggressive to me whereas the scions were like harmless and like quirky i don't know that's

maybe the word cruiser was going a long way with me i was like of course it's a car cruiser you know what i mean like that to me make a lot of sense i just i just said the sentence that to me make a lot of sense that to me make a lot of sense that to me make a lot of sense that to me make a lot of sense um so you're having a fucking blast doing the show? It's the best. It's so much fun. I do keep looking to ask for permission, you know, or to find out if this is okay. And I'm like, ooh, I have to stop doing this. Right.

Yeah, I have to kill this instinct in me. Because it's like no one else would do that, I guess. Not no one else, but it's like, that's not necessarily a part of the power breakdown of places like that, right? Well, because it's the Amber Ruffin Show. What I say goes. It's hard to get used to that. I love the bit about the names. Like when the conservatives can't say the fucking names

and you were like, this is the Amber Refn show. Don't forget it. I just liked it. I was like, absolutely 100%. So when you are like doing the show and there's no audience right now, obviously because of the pandemic, I would imagine that there was the idea of having an audience and guests, I would imagine, or was it always going to be no guests? Because I have to say, I love that you have no guests. I love no guests. Oh, good.

There's never going to be any guests. There shouldn't be. There was never going to be any guests. Our goal was always to make a variety show and then call it a late night show. Do a little monologue. Yeah. And then just do a bunch of sketches. Do a little monologue. Yeah. And then just do a bunch of sketches.

Yes. No, I love that. And I genuinely feel like, not to say, well, Bowen Yang is here. Where are the sketch shows? But I wish that there were more of them. You know what I mean? Yeah. Because I love that I never really know where it's going to go.

Because it feels brand new. Everything you're doing feels brand new in the way that I love. Oh, thank you. I'm trying. It should feel brand old. It ain't nothing but a variety show. And yeah, there's like a novelty to it, you know? We are little showmen, me and Tarek.

And we will get crazy presentational on a person we love it and this is when I guess we talk about the vocals girl you got them and don't think that we didn't notice that you got these vocals and we are noticing the breath control cause some of these

some of these notes are in the basement and you are finding them with precision. People have known. You've seen her play a damn mermaid on Seth Meyers and literally give you operatic shit. But the general audience is now finding the vocals. I know, I know. Yes, that's true.

You guys are really spoiling me. I can sing just fine. I think it's more that I don't give a fart because I'm singing this song. I love to sing this song. It cannot be stopped. So I'm singing it no matter what. And sometimes it'll sound, I think they feel unrehearsed and slightly sloppy and that is because i am not very concerned you know hey i'm getting the point across i'm having a good time check who cares i feel they

don't they i don't think they sound unrehearsed at all. I think they sound fun and like they are happening because of joy. Like, for example, can I ask you a question? Are you a story pirate? Yes. I knew it. I knew you had story pirate energy because I was like, because they always say, and this doesn't apply to you because you actually can sing. But in story pirates, they say it's not because we're both story pirates. And like they say, it's not about how much you can sing but in story parts they say it's not because we're both story parts and like

they say it's not about how much you can sing it's about how much you want to sing and that's I always feel like it's the spirit of I'm singing this because it should be sung I feel pressed into the music you know what I mean

that at Boom Chicago we would always have to do musical improv and our director would say, technically, these people paid money to hear you sing. And buddy,

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Can you tell the readers about what Boom Chicago is? Boom Chicago is a Second City-esque theater located in amsterdam um they come to america and they audition in la chicago and new york and they take a couple actors every year and you do home shows at the theater and you also do corporate shows all over the world. And it's mostly short form improv and it's a lot of sketch writing and stuff. And it is the hardest, craziest job in the entire world. It's the best. It's like comedy, basic training. And I did it with Tarek Davis. With Tarek Davis. There was a whole piece in it that there was a whole piece on it that came out today in New York Magazine about it just being this like comedy factory that like is sort of

has sort of just been like underground even still like culturally like people think I was second city UCB and by the way I just I should just really quickly point out that Amber I think has checked so many of these like comedy group boxes I feel like you got Second City. You did Second City in Denver, which I want to talk to you about as a Denver, as a Denver, a former Denver resident. And then,

and then Boom Chicago and then like Story Pirates. Like, I feel like this is, this all sort of fits into the narrative of Amber Ruffin's show person. And so anyway,

okay, Boom Chicago, like talk about the crazy cultural things you would probably have to deal with living in freaking Amsterdam. Amsterdam was the best because I have a lot of friends who, and there aren't a lot of people like this in comedy, who will be like, oh oh what a dumb shirt you know like people like that who just don't have a filter and will just say the thing and that's every dutch person yeah they don't um in that article i think it's seth who says no dutch person has ever laughed out of politeness. They don't have that. They don't do that. It's just like, I loved that because you don't have to, and because I spent so many years in Amsterdam, I don't have, like socially, I think I'm a little behind because I spent

so much time. You know how people like try to dress up the fact that what you just did was bad whatever people do that to me i don't i don't know that that's what they're doing and i think oh man i'm the shit look at how nice this person is you must be giving me the honest truth yes yes yeah also i like that though because why why waste energy not saying what you feel? Just say it. You think you can hurt my feelings? Good luck.

You have a show. You can hurt my feelings. I'm good for life. I'm a black lady in America. You want to try to hurt my feelings? Good luck. Watch me drink out of a gallon jug of water. So how long did you do Boom?

I did Boom for two years. And then I did it later for three years. Oh, so I did Boom Chicago. Then I did Second City, Denver, Second City, Chicago. And then I went back to Boom Chicago for three years. This is, I mean, this is like a true, I don't know. I think it's like someone who's like been a completist, completionist or whatever, in terms of like coming up in comedy with like groups of people,

which I think like, that's the thing that bums me out in some ways about like people coming up now, especially with pandemic going on. It's like, oh, like you're not, there's just fewer chances to like get together with like sometimes strangers and like doing some shared comedy goal together you know i don't know how they are surviving it would have been so i think about that now like because this has been this is probably going to ultimately be like a two-year period that's been at least different than it would have been and i just think like I think about when we were coming up and everything and

Bowen I can pretty confidently say that like if there was no live performance what will we have done you know like I just it's so crazy but people are being crafty there's a lot of people popping off on the TikTok it's true

it's true and I'm watching the TikTok folks and I true. It's true. And I'm watching the TikTok folks and I'm like, oh my God, this is incredible. They're doing good work. Talk about Denver. What was your Denver experience like? Second City Denver was the best time.

And I was at Boom Chicago and I called Second City and I asked for a job. And they said, yes, I asked for a job. And they said, yes, you can have a job. Second City, Denver. So then I moved from Amsterdam to Denver. And we took whatever the Chicago main stage show was at that time. We took that to Denver.

Then they were like, if this goes well, we can write. And then we will be Second City Denver and we'll write Denver's own show. So we went there. It did well. And then we wrote our own show. So the theater we were at was that downtown theater complex in Denver. We were one of those or not dt yeah yeah dtf and dtf and they same we we did that show and at first it was just people

who knew what second city was but then it was people who had subscribed to that theater complex so it was all people who want to see Cats and Forever Plaid and stuff. So they came to see our show and they felt differently about it, I think. Really? Than people who knew what Second City was. You know, this was like the oldest people I've ever seen in my life. Coming to watch a Second City show, I was like, ooh, this isn't right. So then, yeah.

What year was this? This had to be 2006 or 2007. Okay. Wow. Because I was, because then that must have meant Bowen was a junior in high school

and maybe he would have moseyed on over. But for some reason, it was hard to get tickets, though. I remember Second City being in Denver, and then everyone being like, and then at least people, like my little nerdy high school group was like, oh, I wish we could go see Second City. But for some reason, that wasn't available to us. Maybe I'm like I believe it

at the beginning we were hot shit and then when they opened it up to subscribers it was something different the Denver Center of the Performing Arts yeah DPCA whatever

it's this huge giant, like, yeah, complex that has like four different theaters. And then one, you can see like, um, like I get,

I guess like in recent years, like a Shen Yun performance. And then another, and another stage you could see like return of the phantom, like the phantom of the opera sequel. And then like, yeah, it was,

it was just this crazy Frankenstein's monster kind of a building. Um, but the Opera sequel. And then like, yeah, it was just this crazy Frankenstein's monster kind of a building. But then would you ever go see like the Impulse Theater at Wincoop or anything? Like these other little shows? Yes, we saw the two improv groups and one was really nice and really fun. And one were just fucking pieces of shit

and these motherfuckers came to see the show and we're like the entire show ew and they were mad that we were there and then like at the in the at the end song of the show, they like clapped off beat. We're like, why the hate? Why did you come here to hate us to our faces? Also, the show is over. Where are you? I see you went home. Theater Wars. You're not that mad.

Stay here. Let me have a word. I have no idea which theater is the theater. But like, what a shitty thing for improv. That's not what improv is. No. And it's like weird scarcity, like, bullshit. Like, I guess at the time, too, where improv was like relatively popping i guess i don't know like i felt like

such hot shit being 15 years old and going downtown to the bovine metropolis theater and doing shows when on all these 30 year olds being like who the hell are these teenagers bovine those are the good people those are the good people okay so those were the fun people i think so the impulse theater must have been the shitty people and that kind of tracks just because at the time i was a high school student my calculus teacher was also my theory of knowledge teacher for ib he was also my improv coach because he was the assistant director of the impulse theater he was a great he's great i love him adrian he and I still keep in touch to this day. But it seems like so many of the actors at that theater were is all this is all just catty and toxic and mean and i don't i have no reason to like uncover any of this for you guys or for the listeners

but i was just like oh my god i guess people in improv are just like really really mean and not nice so that it just colored my perception of like comedy communities for years and years and years that's why i love chicago those people are untouchable. There is no like ego because you're in Chicago. Because you're in Chicago. You're doing it because you think it's the most fun. It is the most fun. While we're sort of existing in the past, I think we should ask the question. Yes. Now, this is the central question of Las Culturistas. It is the question that really all the guests get asked. All the guests except Margaret Cho because we got too scared. Now we're going to ask you the question.

Now the question, Amber, is what was the culture that made you say culture was for you? So this is the defining definitive pop culture in your life or culture around you that now that you look back at your life, Amber Ruffin's life, that is, you're kind of like, oh, that made me me in a way. I think what made me me was the culture of IO. Mm-hmm. Improvolithic, where it was just, we are out all night long. First of all, I was an intern there and it was the most fun and then we go there it's it's 6 p.m show start we go there we sit there until 1 a.m

and we drink all night and we laugh and then eventually someone kicks us out and we go to someone else's house and we laugh all night that was i was like oh i can do this for forever and i almost did yeah we we sort of had an experience like that with ucb that was kind of that was kind of our version of that but chicago does it differently what is that yeah it's the doorbell that's my doorbell it is my doorbell this is how hollywood my building is the doorbell is la vie en rose i don't know what that is but we're gonna we're just gonna wait um it's edith singing la vie en rose it's edith piaf singing la vie en rose and it was like a selling point for me i was like i like that and now i gotta say i hate it um well it's just like too long

it's like a whole thing yeah Talk about what you're talking about. I'll be right back. Okay. Go, go, go, go, go. I feel like this is a Chicago-specific thing in not even just the comedy culture there, but it's like, oh, it's a vibe for people to just drink all night at one place and stay there for the entire night. For the whole night.

We shut it down. I don't think I've ever really done that in New York. I don't think I've ever done that in New York City. Or, I know, I'm just, I feel like such a square. Okay, Matt just got a beautifully wrapped gift. Matt, what is it? Well, it's a present from Hulu,

The Happiest Season. Oh my God. It's a present from the Hulu original film, The Happiest Season. Starring Kristen Stewart. Written by Mary Holland. season oh my god it's a present from the hulu original film the happiest season starring christian stewart written by mary holland we absolutely stan how in the world do you get on that list i don't know um because neither of us are on it well listen i'm sure you guys could get a damn box from any you wanted to, you network stars. We'll see.

We'll see. Okay, fill me in. What were we chatting about? I just commented on the fact that, and then I had a sad admission, but I was like, it's a Chicago-specific thing. Not even just in the comedy culture there, but it's a Chicago-specific thing to drink all night, stay in one place, and then shut it down. But I, because i'm like i don't think i ever really did that in new york oh i did i've never drank more than when i was like coming up in comedy needing to hang out like there was times when back back when i was doing like

four or five shows a week it was like normal for me to have three drinks at because they give you the two to two tickets usually when you're doing the show so you use both of those and at this is like you know my early mid-20s so i was like still like probably i like ipas so you're drinking like heavier things and then you're you're passed out maybe you go somewhere you get another drink after oh yeah that was the heaviest drinking of my life was being in those spaces yeah but i but it's a chicago thing to like maybe it's because of the weather i don't know but people there just like stay put gather well they gather and they all stay in one place i don't think that's like i don't think that happens in new York. Sorry. I didn't know about going, let's have a drink here and then go to the,

that blew my mind. We didn't bar hop. Why would we do that? Yeah, no. Drinks here are free. Yeah. Why are we leaving? But it's only because of being at theaters and stuff.

If I had to pay, I'd run around too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Talk about IO being like specifically eye-opening for you. I.O. was, like, this very cool, like, there was a group of improvisers who were just, like, the coolest people on the planet. You know, the cool guys. Yeah, man. We know them, we love them. Yeah.

And I just thought, oh, man, i'll never be as cool as the cool guys and it was like the like high school but fun and like also the cool guys weren't really aware that they were the cool guys they were having fun and you were allowed to have fun with them and there was no like i'm sure people were shitty to people yeah yeah but no one was shitty to me right yeah and people were like hey you come play this game with us or whatever and it was just so insufferable there is no way you could have been there and and not been an improviser. You would have punched everyone in the mouth because it was all like, let's play Would You Rather.

Let's play Murder and all these doofy improv games that we loved so much. I just can't believe we spent so many years doing the same thing. It's like a decade I spent wow playing games with people this is pre this is pre-boom chicago this is pre like pre-boom chicago and post-boom chicago how's that i own yeah because i ended up back in chicago i did everything twice when did you and that's really how you master you got to do it all twice. When did you move to New York? Was it when you got work or did you move to New York and then the work began? The great work began, as they say in Angels America. I moved to New York. Okay. So I

grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, and then I moved to Chicago to learn how to improvise. And then I got boom Chicago and Amsterdam. After Amsterdam, I called Denver and I lived in Denver. After Denver, I got main stage in Chicago. So I lived in Chicago. After that, I went back to Amsterdam and then moved to LA to make it. So I moved to LA and it was just, I didn't make shit. And I mean, it was fun because I became a story pirate and I did a lot of theater. There was so much theater to do in LA and that was the shit. And I was a part of this theater. This is so not

what you asked me, but here we are. I was a part of this theater this is so not what you asked me but here we are um i was a part of this theater called um sacred fools theater and what we did was we it was like a theater of writers and so all the shows at that theater someone wrote it your little friend wrote it and then they would do this thing called serial killers where five shows enter and three shows leave so you write 10 minutes and you do it and then that saturday you find out if you write the next 10 minutes and then if you playwright survivor oh yes playwright survivor is the best way to say that and it was the most fun we did me and my friend la friend Lauren did King of Kong, the musical. Do you know the documentary King of Kong?

No. I'm more familiar with King Kong. You know, that sort of creature of film and television. You guys, King of Kong, the documentary is about two, it's easily the best documentary ever. Easily. You'll be so entertained it's two men one is inherently evil like a real life evil guy and he looks at and he talks and it's crazy and then one guy is like so kind and sweet and he's scared and he doesn't think he could do it it's like you cast it so it's just a

documentary about these guys and they're vying to see who can get the top uh arcade score in donkey oh got it i've heard of this i thought it was like the the making of king kong or whatever no it's this video game thing oh i love that that that. That is great. Best documentary. Can you give a spoiler? Does Good Triumph Over Evil? Or should everyone just watch? You cannot. Don't Google it. You have to just watch it. It's so many feelings.

It's more feelings than you would think. It's just one movie. It's not a series. Thank God. This was back in the day where things were just one movie. Now you have these things. They're eight, nine know that you don't just have one movie anymore undoing is i'm undone watching all these it's sick oh my god i'm going on the vow could have been a commercial girl oh you stressed it out the way that the vow was a cult in and of itself watching it really proved a lot.

There's such a weird meta narrative around it. Now that we're, it's like, Oh, well, um, seduced. Is that what it is?

Yes. The, the other one, the other, it's like, Oh, that one's the one you should actually watch. But it's like,

well, no, I already like gave away all my brain cells to this other, to the first one. Unlike the fire documentaries documentaries which were great love both great they were both great they're both great yeah they got to the point this vow crap i'm sorry it was so like if the three of us went to the mall and had the best time but also at the mall um was a performance of bts that's the documentary you show the performance exactly when we were trying on hats you have to

leave that out that can't be part of the documentary we didn't need to see me asking the person at the sunglass hut where the bathroom was but it was so funny he did an accent it made me laugh so hard leave it but we need to we need to cut it because bts you know what i mean i couldn't agree with you more i couldn't have cared less by the time it was over and i was like i know i should be caring whole people came and went that nothing happened to yeah yeah yeah i was like one of these motherfuckers better die because i mean this is taking up a lot of my time and when i'm on the couch saying one of these real people need to die for my narrative enjoyment honey you got a documentary issue yeah that's a flaw that was you got a doc

issue i mean look ultimately there is a full-ass second season that's the biggest crime of all that's the mystery i want solved is what the fuck the biggest crime is that they got a second season. I agree. The biggest crime relative to everything else that has happened around that cult. No, I'm just kidding. No, it's crazy. We're going to jail for 140 years for even bringing it up again. I just got it. That's what's in the box. They said it's a jail sentence from the happiest season.

They're saying, oh my God, wait, you guys. That's a chicly wrapped box. It actually really is. I mean, so here's a question for you guys for the holiday season. Gift wrapping skills. Do you have them? Do you have them? As they said on Guts.

Are you good gift wrappers? I got to Google a how-to video every December 21st. I got to look up a video every single year oh i love gift wrapping and i am maybe not good at it but i absolutely love doing it no i bet you i bet you are good at it though you know you're not good at it i don't think you're bad at things what are you bad at see the back of my head right now, you'd be like, Ooh, the front looks like you did your hair,

but the back, I don't think you did a very good job. And I'd be like, you're right. I don't think anyone does the back of their hair, but you're so good at us. We would never know that. So that's good.

Okay. But if something happens behind me, I just have to let it happen. I can't turn around. I'm bad at math, science, remembering some details about, okay, you know what I never can do? Whenever I'm on a date, I never remember where the person is from. It's hard. It's a hard thing to store and or you're saying like

second date like they've told you in the past it doesn't really matter like the thing is i like i i'm just bad at retaining some like i just realized this about myself because i went on a date which now is not going to happen in los angeles because they're shutting it all down but um i i was like afterwards i was like okay personal flaw i am not good at like um retaining information about someone's um up like of course one of the questions you ask is gonna be where are you from and then i realized that i'm not good at keeping that information jobs i'll keep your friends i'll I'll keep. But your basic upbringing, for some reason, I never remember it. Hmm.

Interesting. What does that mean? What does that say about you? I don't know. Maybe it just means I'm obsessed with my own past. I also have a horrible memory. It's very bad. Is it bad short term?

Is it because of all that time in Denver? You weed addict. Do you mean Amsterdam? And I don't like weed. You don't like weed? You lived in Amsterdam and you don't like marijuana? No, but I liked E. She's a drinker.

You liked E. So you were a little raver. A little bit. We had probably three times a year where we'd be like, hey, we get to do E. Yeah, that's actually a very fun thing. That's so fun. Oh, they do it in Amsterdam too? Because then you know the guy who cooked it.

And then all your friends have already taken it. So it doesn't feel scary. It feels fine. Yeah. That's like the difference in the drug culture there anyway it's like oh it's not a whole to do it's just there what we have on our hands here is an upper not a downer and yeah that's that's wonderful sometimes i feel like uppers for me make me a full crazy person because I'm already naturally at a 10

and I feel I need a downer to sort of get myself down to a socially acceptable 7.5 I'll be a 14 yes let's get to 14 we are in Amsterdam after all but

yeah I mean I just want to go to i just want to go to amsterdam now to one like responsibly do drugs and two to like eat the reichstaffel the reichstaffel stuff the indonesian like dutch fusion have you ever been bowen to amsterdam we did a date this is this is the twisted thing do you want to listen i can't wait to hear this sick story this is the twisted thing. Do you want to listen? I can't wait to hear this sick story. This is the story. We went to Europe after I graduated college. My sister planned the whole trip.

She did a great job. The one flaw in that trip planning was we stayed for a night in Brussels where there's literally three things to see. And then for whatever reason, on the second day, we took a train to do a day trip in Amsterdam. And we're only there for like 12 hours. No, you got to stay in Amsterdam. See, when I went to Europe, we stayed in Amsterdam and that was the move.

And we'd made a stop in Brussels and made a stop in Bruges. And our stupid thing was we only had three hours in paris we were driving from amsterdam to paris i'm gonna like tag the eiffel tower and come back it was like like it was a child's game and um we were there just long enough in paris to be like sort of chastised by a waitress and feel very hot and like i was like oh paris reminds me of new york city and i don't like it we gotta get out of here paris is the funnest that's the best but they don't care for you no they don't want to be giving you shit or talking to you or helping you in any way but other than that and that. And it's like in Amsterdam,

you can like start speaking English and they're like, cool. Yeah, we, us too, girl. And then in Paris, they're like, no, no, bitch. You come here and we're not going to cater to your dumb ass, your dumb American ass. And then you're kind of just like sitting there with the menu, like all i want is soup and

they're like well learn the word for soup yeah it's pretty bad i've loved paris i've got to paris once i maybe i've been through two or three times and when my girlfriend and i first got to paris a man we first of all we got off the plane and the TSA guys were like, oh, bonjour. I don't like them. Oh, you are so like, so hitting on us so fucking hard. We laughed and laughed. We loved it. And then we went to wherever we were staying and we were like, okay, let's go get into some trouble.

And when we left the hotel first of all every guy we saw was like oh baby and we were like is this real so then we go for a walk and we see a tall skinny gray-haired man in a pinstriped suit with a pencil mustache with curls on the end, a pink ascot, and he was walking his fluffy, fluffy poodle. And we laughed so fucking hard. We were like, this is what you think of when you think of Paris. You're doing it.

You're doing the thing. And that's how you met your husband, who's in the room with you now. My husband went to go get Sprite and vodka. Oh, that's going to be a fun Monday night. Yay. Vodka and Sprite. Come on.

He's back and he's back. Oh, he's back with the vodka and the Sprite. He's back with the vodka and Sprite. What are you guys making? He got himself some food. But what's most important is vodka and Sprite vodka

do you drink a vodka Sprite? I will drink a vodka Sprite usually I drink um Paloma and I make it with lime and

grapefruit that's usually what I drink but I've had too many Palomas today? in front of you this whole time? yeah I love that it's that fly yeah the fruit made the But I've had too many Palomas. Today? That's been in front of you this whole time? Yeah. I love that. It's that fly.

Yeah, the fly was interested. You know, whenever I see a bowl full of limes, I'm taken back to my youth on Long Island when we would make what's called a gin bucket. Have you had this? Oh, no. It's really exactly what it sounds like. You fill a bucket full of gin,

and you put some 7-Up in there, and you cut up some limes, and then you get a turkey baster, get some, and you squirt it in each other's mouths. Great. Oh, my God. It does exactly what you think it's going to do.

Because can I tell you guys something? And this is a secret. Gin is sin. That's true. I'm concerned about the base don't say that and then lean back like you said something sit up straight i'm shaking my shoulders because gin will make you sinful and i actually i actually just got a whole bunch of gin and i feel that i'm that's what i'm missing you know i'm missing going out and having some gin. That's another thing about drinking throughout your 20s is you discover gin. And it sort of gets you frisky.

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We help food service workers. Everyone has their danger alcohol bowen what's your danger alcohol my danger alcohol is this i sound like a damn gray's anatomy character but it's tequila and i sound like meredith gray herself but it's tequila do an impression of meredith gray being like don't don't. But it's tequila. Do an impression of Meredith Grey being like, don't, I can't drink tequila. It's the tequila. She's always like, it's men and tequila.

Or whatever. And then here's me as Sandra Oh agreeing, it's men and tequila. Well, this is such an inversion. Usually I'm the Christina to your Meredith and it's not racial well that's actually really you racialized that and I'm really disappointed

too late it's racial I have to be Bailey too late no you're Karev oh my thank you you're actually literally inside Karev you're like I'm Amber Ruffin and karev's like i'm karev oh i'm probably izzy i died no she actually is very much alive and there's rumors that

she'll return for the season there is wait did do you guys really watch crazy anatomy we are we actually wait all right wait so the answer to this is yes but not currently do you watch it now i watch it now i've always watched it i am up to date i whenever i meet someone who's up to date on gray's anatomy i know they're like in a past life we were like you know twins because i feel sisterhood with everyone despite not being currently up to date with Grace, I feel sisterhood with those that are. But do you know, I'm on the cusp of like fully diving back in. And I think Grace is in the conversation in a huge way right now.

It always is. I've had, but I haven't, no, but I'm saying something is going on with like four different people texting me being like, hey, so if I fell off of Grace after the plane crash, where plane crash where should i start i'm like i fell off before the plane crash and i don't know what to tell you but everyone there's like an i made it further than you that's crazy but there's a groundswell of people what was the shooting after the the plane crash the shooting was yeah the shooting was the last straw for me actually i love the shooting episode actually it was well it was very well written the shooting episode was where i screamed and i screamed so loudly

that my husband had to come see he got up and came was like oh my god i'm crying doubled over just crying it was so much the best episode of television and And I wanted April Koechner to die and hit her stupid guts. I was like, I was so glad. And she didn't even die. She just got to have more annoying moments in that episode. When she was like, there's so much blood. You never think there's going to be that much blood. And then, you know, even when you're a doctor and you know there's that much blood.

And you do work. And you do. You do. You go to school. And you know how much blood there is. But you never know there's going to be that much blood. Reed's dead. She's dead.

And they're like, that was really the monologue. That was very good. Oh my God. That was very good. I mean, literally the way I want. Okay, so here's some tea. I got to audition for the new Shonda show, which is an Anna Delvey show.

So she's doing an Anna Delvey show for Netflix and I got to audition for it. I can say, which is an Anna Delvey show. So she's doing an Anna Delvey show for Netflix and I got to audition for it. I can say now because I almost definitely didn't get it. I haven't heard back, but it was truly pages and pages and pages of Shonda dialogue. And I was like, oh my God, that I just get to do this one time. And you know, the role was like a gay guy

who's a stylist who knows it all. And I was like, yes! I was like, oh my God, I got to say so much good, ridiculous, like never-ending Shonda stuff. And it was the highlight of my career as an actor. I was like, this is so good. And sometimes I'll just watch my own self-tape. Oh, a startling admission.

I love it. I love it it because it's so delish like it's so unhinged wait here's a good thing what's all yours favorite shonda monologue this is for gray's anatomy scholars this is huge i think i know bowens i uh do you though because I have one all time yours is can I guess yours and you can guess mine yeah yeah yeah yours I'm gonna guess is gonna be Sandra

and it's it's not difficult it's unbearable that's not the one what it's a Sandra one but it's the one oh it's

that will never no happen again I love that one but it's actually... That's yours? Yeah.

That's iconic. That's a good choice, Amber. Mine is from... Because I memorized this and I used it. I've never told this to anybody before. What? I memorized this one and I used it as an audition monologue for this play. Please perform it.

My junior year... No, I don't remember it anymore, but it's the one where the chief is questioning all the interns about who cut the LVAD wire. When it gets to Yang, she goes, And Izzy goes, I'm a pretty girl. Oh my god. She was insufferable, but we loved it.

Crazy. We loved it. But Christina's was, how did it start? It's just like, how do you do it, sir? Oh yeah, your edge. The edge monologue. Because I see you and you're, like, that one. And then that was the first, I think, single teardrop where her face stays still, but the tear just falls.

Unbelievable. Unbelievable. See, and now I'm realizing that, like, all my favorites are not actually monologues, but they're sort of moments like I quit as all that wire I did it I didn't know what help meant I thought I was a surgeon

but I can't I thought I was a surgeon but I'm not so I quit oh I quit I mean that's a pretty incredible one that's a very good one I like the one where Sandra O has to get out of her wedding dress. Were you guys watching that?

Oh, yeah. We are. Trust me. But Grey's Anatomy is huge for Bowen and I. We used to do we used to have a two man improv group called Grey's Anatomy Drag, which we did, I think, three times because it was so bad. And it was all terrible. It was terrible.

We would get no laughs. There was a show that we did at the duplex where it was the gay and it was all it was terrible we would get no laughs there was a show that we did at the duplex where it was a gay show for all people and it was we were awful and we got no laughs

but we were in full scrubs and I was Izzy and Bowen was Christina Yang and we would just get a suggestion and we would do a scene

that took place at Seattle Grace and it was horrible it was horrible terrible but we did do it I think one of the biggest bumps of my life no no no Amber it was such a true bomb in every sense anyway um but no no this is what I'm saying it Grace is coming back and and I feel like people like Amber have some high ground to be like, I've been staying with it the whole time. But I think everyone is like, wait a minute. Grey's has been such a constant throughout the years.

And wouldn't it be so comforting to watch something like Grey's? And I kind of feel that same way. Yep. It feels freaking great. And because everyone fell off, you can now pick up way a million years ago, and it's quarantine.

You don't have anything to do. Sit down and watch a bunch of greys. It feels great. You're talking to someone who watched 30 seasons of Survivor in the first month of the quarantine 30 3-0 so yeah there's nothing there's not there's not much stopping me from plunking it down and watching all that but wait so what's your sort of read on what's happening now which is like there's a return

of mcdreamy uh meredith is seeing him i guess in like a covid fugue state what's happening when you say it out loud it sounds crazy but that is what's happening how can you stand to know what's happening without watching it how are you gonna watch it now that you know that i can stand that's why i watch it yeah i can stand i don't know just because there's so many characters now that I'm like who is that

like and honestly I'll tell you what I am kind of a purist and like I don't know this is a word like an originalist

like and when they started when they started to okay what is that Scalia no nothing okay shut up

I hate you anyway so he doesn't hate you i know i love him more than life i just don't like being compared to scalia another trigger word um but anyway um uh wait now when they started to get rid of the original five like when they killed george and izzy like was literally dying of cancer and almost died. And then they ended up firing her. I was like, see, I feel my chain has been jerked too hard.

And I was already in a certain way with the show. And then they killed, um, miss Kyler Lee, Lexi and, um, McSteamy at the same time. And all of a sudden,

I just felt like everyone was falling off in ways I no longer believed. And I feel that the sort of drama with a soap edge that it was in the first few seasons became a full-blown soap. And ordinarily, I love that shit. But with this, I was like,

ugh, I miss my people. Like, I didn't really want it to turn into er that it would just go on and on and on and on and on and then it did and so now i don't know who any of these young girls are on the show each of them is more special than the last okay really perfect yes i love them and you'll love them too they're flawed oh my god oh oh i i want to ruin it but i can't you can you can you can you can you can i don't want to ruin it for you you'll feel i swear to you we're not going back but and that's okay and that's okay no i i'm considering it but i still want amber to tell us but he doesn't care i don't want you to i don't know i don't know okay dear reader plug your

loves them that when um uh derrick's sister yes was one of the newer women is this too old this might be old amelia shepherd when amelia shepherd had the baby. Do you remember that? Amelia Shepard had a baby. And the baby, Amelia Shepard is a brain surgeon. And her baby had no brain. She had the baby. He had no brain. She had to go donate his body. So she got to hold him for like 10 minutes.

And the baby went like this oh he was he was alive he was alive he just he was alive with no brain he was okay so the essentially it was just like a body with like blood coursing through its veins but it had no brain and so i guess it would have been out of the question for any of the medical professionals in the year i'm gonna guess 2015 that this happened to sort of know beforehand the baby was not gonna have a brain i just i just feel like someone has to ask the hard questions but i don't know if they bumped on that in the writer's room like then who am i but i mean to look at the baby because it wasn't like he had an empty head. It was like where the brain should be.

There was nothing. There was nothing. So I do feel like maybe they could have known this. So she probably thought like, well, we're not going to do the typical brain check we do on any old baby because I'm a brain surgeon. Of course, my baby's going to have a brain. Think of the big, beautiful one that I have. So this actually makes a lot of interesting sense, and that's actually pathos.

That's what you want out of Shonda. Any plot point of Grey's Anatomy out loud sounds crazy. Oh, there was a... So get this. In college, when I was studying writing, I was at NYU doing dramatic writing, and I was a television concentrator,

so we had to do a spec script in one-hour drama. And my class was insane, because they were like, I'm doing a Breaking Bad. These 20-year-olds being like, I'm doing Mad Men. I'm doing Breaking Bad. All shows no one had any business writing. And I was like, bitch, I'm doing a Grey gray's anatomy and a lion gets loose in seattle grace and that's my episode i'm writing a sweeps episode where a lion eats let's say keppner and that's going to be something

i want to see because if it's just about the form then we let's get goofy and that is that is the form did you get an a plus i got an a plus plus plus plus and and a job they took me out of school they said he's a genius and they put me in hollywood um no but it's just so it's so funny what goes down i can't believe she's having COVID flashes of McDreamy. That's so fun. It was real. I sat down to be like, yay, Grey's Anatomy, an escape. I didn't escape shit. COVID, COVID, COVID. No.

COVID, COVID. I was like, ooh, I don't like this. I need this to be separate. Here's what I think. I think that whenever Grey's is going to end if it is this season we need to know we need to know in advance because I would like to have an Emmy push for

Ellen Pompeo for the last season because Ellen does underrated work as Meredith Grey and I've said it since the beginning she makes it look super easy and she always has and she's so talented she's such a good center of that show and she said she's pretty much on the record saying she's never acting after this she's

gonna just do more behind the camera stuff and so then give a career i mean i said i say nominator because let and let's let's see her off because yeah she has she makes that show and it's it's easy to say the best part is Sandra or the highlight of the show was the Izzy of it all the Elvad Wire, those iconic moments Meredith has always been the glue

and it's basic to say that because she is Grey of Grey's Anatomy but she gets paid dust Ellen Pompeo, she really does what? no, she doesn't literally get paid dust well, not literally Paid dust, Ellen Pompeo. She really does. What? And? No, she doesn't literally get paid dust. Well, not literally. She gets paid millions. Oh, okay.

The highest paid actress in TV. No, no, no. When I say she gets paid dust, I just mean like she does not get the... Flowers. She needs her flowers. Yeah. She needs her flowers.

The fact that Grace is still in the conversation as a network drama, like in the year 2020 is remarkable. Yeah. And we love that. And we celebrate that. And we celebrate the Amber Ruffin show. Truly wonderful. I think it's time to move on to,

I don't think so. I think it actually is time to sort of, as they say, move on. And I'm putting move on in quotes. It's just sort of a, you know, colloquialism for to continue um so we're going to sort of move on to the last section of the episode of

last cultural recess that we're currently recording uh with amber ruffin which um has a title i believe we said um i don't give a i don't give a rep yeah um and that's i don't think so honey so i don't think so honey is our one minute don't think so, honey, is our one minute segment. 60 second segment is another way you can say that. And it's where we take something in culture and we absolutely rant, rave,

harass the topic because it deserves it. It really deserves it. In many ways, and I don't think so, honey, is an opposite of and I don't give a rip because I don't give a rip.

You're indifferent. But I don't think so, honey. You are impassionately against something oh you care very much you care very much care very much now I usually traditionally

go first but I want to say one thing before I go which is it was almost I don't think so honey and it's ultimately not but I do want to have said this y'all if you are not going home for Thanksgiving and Christmas, be nice to your parents on the phone. Don't be giving them the attitude you might historically be giving them

or classically be giving them on the phone because they're without their children this holiday season. And so if you are usually the kind of person who is like, oh, it's my mom calling, be fucking nice because your mom does not have their child this holiday season and this is not my i don't think so honey but it nearly was i have a much more important one but i just want to say that because i heard someone on the phone in passing the other day and i was like how dare this person speak this way to their to their parent who's going to be

missing them this holiday and they're going to be thinking about it a lot more than you because your parents love you anyway oh so i just wanted to get that out there it's true it's true okay well this is matt rogers i don't think so honey and i just want to hold on before we start i have to really sincerely apologize i said the word impassionately earlier i don't think that's a word i i think we forget it i think we forget about it but's a word. I think we forget it. I think we forget about it. But I just wanted to, before we forget about it, I just wanted to apologize for it. Wait, I'm sorry.

Okay. Okay. All right. Okay. If you're good about that. Yeah. This is Matt Rogers. I don't think so, honey.

Time starts now. I don't think so, honey. You saying you want to fuck Steve Kornacki. Let me tell you something, bitch. You don't. It's okay. You don't want to fuck Steve Kornacki. Let me tell you something, bitch. You don't. It's okay. You don't want to fuck Steve Kornacki. You like Steve Kornacki.

You maybe even love Steve Kornacki. You appreciate Steve Kornacki. You think he's wonderful at his job. You want to fuck Steve Kornacki? I don't think so, honey. If you do want to fuck Steve Kornacki, that's your business. I'm talking about the royal audience here. All of us saying we all want to fuck Steve Kornacki.

Leave that man alone. Stop sexually objectifying him. He came in here in his Kornacki khakis and did his thing on that board. And he didn't deserve to be objectified by all of y'all. 15 seconds. He's so tired. He doesn't have the time, energy, space, moment to deal with you and your bullshit. And your tweeting about how you want to fuck this man.

Leave him alone. Let him do his thing. And actually let him rest. I don't think so, honey. And that's one minute. You don't want to fuck Steve Kornacki. And you're not impressing anyone by saying you want to. You think it's one minute. You don't want to fuck Steve Kornacki, and you're not impressing anyone by saying you want to. You think it's to impress.

You think it's for people to be like, I'm secretly sapiosexual. It's this sort of trademark Bowen Yang sensationalism. People sort of want to get online and stir the pot, so they say nasty things about Doja Cat to sort of get the sort of, you know, furore happening around them and then say, what me? But guess what, honey?

It's not flying with me on this one on tonight, as they say, not on tonight. It is not going to work with me. You say you want to fuck Steve Kornacki because guess what, gays? I see who you follow on Instagram and it's not steve kornacki types okay it's the same white insta gay with a shirt off being like might make bread tonight it's not steve kornacki man certainly with a doctorate and if he doesn't he has doctorate energy and he doesn't need to be part of your fucking mess so you take it somewhere else this ended up being a two minute i don't think so honey because i see this steve kornacki thirst ongoing leave him alone he's almost certainly as children

or he has the energy of having children and he they don't want to hear about how you want to fuck their father who simply wants to point to a board and say the word philadelphia and then some facts about it so leave him the goddamn alone. I'm through. Look, we should all be grateful that we know the nuances in the population of Maricopa County because of that man. And that's different than wanting to get carnal with him. Exactly. So different.

And it's actually rule of culture number 99. Knowing all about Maricopa County is different. It's so different than wanting to fuck Steve Kornack. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. And so now would be time, I guess, for really Bowen Yangs. I don't think so, honey.

And we both sort of, you know, got a little saucy before our respective ones. But this is the main event. Okay. So are you ready, Bow? I think so. Bow Shmo. Bow Shmo. I'm ready.

Because so many people think that Bowen sort of lives like this, like, extravagant lifestyle, being a huge celebrity. But he's really just Bow Shmo. people think that Bowen sort of lives like this like extravagant lifestyle being a huge celebrity but he's really just Bo Schmo alright Bowen Yang you're in time this is your

I don't think so honey your time starts now I don't think so honey why is everyone sleeping on Kim's convenience okay wow

it is one of the most bingeable shows that's out there especially especially in quarantine. It's so wonderful. Such a wholesome family comedy, but that also has jokes. And for some reason,

lately that hasn't been, that's been like a rarity. It feels like, it makes me feel like I'm watching old episodes of Family Matters. But it's like, oh, but wait, the cameras are nice. And it's all happening in different sets and all this stuff. The reason why we're not all losing our minds over Kim's convenience the way we do for other Canadian family sitcoms, I'm going to say, is. Say that.

There's some obvious reasons, and I'll leave it at that. But everyone get on board. I feel like I'm so late say is, say that there's some, there's some obvious reasons and I'll leave it at that, but everyone get on board. I feel like I'm so late to the damn party, like four years later, four seasons later, but look, I am loving it now and you should too. And you will too.

And that's one minute. So basically the thesis of Bowens, I don't think so, honey, is I just discovered this show, but it's bad that you haven't yet discovered the show. So I have to say, I, I kind of this

is so characteristic of bowen yang's i don't think so honey is this he'll go 50 seconds and be crushing and then the last 10 he'll say but also it's okay it's all right and i i love you and he sort of then he says i'm actually the problem and then it ends he's too sweet. That's my style. No, it's not that I'm sweet. Okay, I have to say, honestly, I do blame the mainstream media about this, but I didn't know what Kim's Convenience was until very recently. And where can I watch it?

And where can the readers watch it, Bowen? Tell them all instead of just yelling. Season five is about to come out. All the first four seasons are all on Netflix. Yes, but, okay, 13 episodes a season, 20-minute episodes. You fly through it. So nice to watch. I'm not saying five, like, that's too much.

I'm saying five, like, why aren't more people talking about it? It's obviously a successful sitcom, and I've never even... And I did not just discover it. I just, like, gave it a rest, and, like, I was watching it, like, years ago, and I was like, okay, this is something that I have to like just like put off for later. But then like, damn, we're in second lockdown. So I'm just like, okay, let me find

a show to watch. And it's hitting the spot. Ooh, so, so, so good. Love that. Love that. Great. Okay. I think it's time for Amber Ruffin. I love that it's time for Amber Ruffin. I don't think so, honey. What did you not think you had to do one? I didn't think I had to do one.

Are you crazy? Okay, great. Okay, listen. No, that's unacceptable. We are going to give you the moment you need to think of one. I know you've got a head full of I Don't Think So Honey. She's a master improviser and writer. No matter what gear she ends up being in she will succeed

yeah we got just getting something that's getting on your damn nerves right now anything at all anything anything okay anything and we're we're gonna let matt call the time but then don't don't tell us what it is until until we say it. Okay? Okay. Are you ready? Only one thing is getting on my nerves now. All right. All right. Good. I want to know. It's not a good one, but these are my feelings.

All right. We want your feelings. We want your Amber Ruffin feelings. This is what we want. This is Amber Ruffin's I Don't Think So, Honey. And her time starts now. I realize this is unorthodox, but we've been in quarantine for months and months now and i have to live in this house with all this fucking shit i don't think so honey everything in my goddamn

house is a piece of hot shit i'm like i'm not a kid anymore i have like a real job and shit but i do not have the time to be taking care of myself like an adult everything in here is hot garbage and yes maybe it's because i've been looking at it for eight months straight or maybe maybe it's maybe i'm 100 right because maybe my couch is being held up by a can of beans because everything in my house is fucking a broken piece of shit look at oh my god we're mobile oh my god we're mobile no it's a can of beans oh my god it really is the couch because everything in this house is a piece of shit and that's one minute oh my god wait i want to let the readers know there's a serious, real can of beans holding up that couch.

Girl. But Adam Savage of Mythbusters made that can of beans for you. That's right. That's true. He did. Wow. But I think that's a beautiful thing now, though,

because the couch has some personality. It also has, like, a lot of danger because i and you like to live on the edge several ways oh my gosh wait do you feel this way about my apartment doesn't everyone right now uh i hate it in here i have to tell you i i just ordered a uh a bookcase and here's the thing you never think i'm to have to put this together in any substantial way. They make you put all this shit together. And that's what chaps my ass is like the manual labor I have to do to make things. You have to do it.

See, that's the thing. And that's why ordinarily I would say to you, just order some new stuff. But then you got to put it together. And also, what do you do with the things you already have? Amber, did you reward yourself with like, oh my God, I have my own show gift. Yeah, what'd you get yourself? Nothing. I mean.

What? Oh my God. I'll get something. I respect that. I respect the hell out of you even more than I already did. Because I am someone who just rewards myself with bullshit all the time and then and then at one point in the summer i hung a damn tv up in my room i have a tv on my room and i have a gumball machine yeah you guys are doing it right but you need that

you need you need a thing look i don't like stuff not even if it's a good stuff i can't be having just stuff sitting in the house i don't like it but it's not it's not about if it's a good stuff i can't be having just stuff sitting in the house i don't like it but it's not it's not about stuff it's about making a nice experience like i i don't mean for this to be like a one like a cure-all for everybody but would you consider having a tv in your bedroom do you have one already there's a tv in there i don't watch it i feel like that has fixed all my problems see you, you got to watch it. That's the thing. You put it up there and it doesn't get watched.

The living room one gets watched. I can't. Because I got to sleep when it's time to sleep. That's true. No screens. I'm not getting around enough already. I'm not making good choices. So I can't start the habit of watching TV before bed.

Because then I'll go to bed even later than I do. I need an adult yeah there's just so much there's so much content to watch too i mean we talked about the undoing and we we discussed potomac in the beginning and there's just and of course there's the amber ruffin show yeah what might what might happen is if you put a tv up in your bedroom you could be watching the amber Ruffin show all night. You don't even get any sleep. And then you're just like, what have I done? But the thing is, you did something

good. Because the Amber Ruffin show is the best late night show out. It's the best late night show out there. And how many more episodes do we have this limited season? This season. And how many more episodes do we have this limited season? This season, there are two more episodes. Oh.

So that means you readers. Streaming you readers. And then we'll hear about more potentially. Then maybe we'll get renewed. We hope so. We hope so. I will be so. I will burn down and you said

to wait but this is what I'm waiting for if I don't get the result that I want out of the Amber Ruffin renewal for season 2 I will burn it down burn it down I will did you tape no you haven't taped them yet obviously nope

we're off this week. We're off next week. And then we're back to work. Wow, wow, wow. Pretty cool. For some Christmas episodes, I suppose. I know. What am I going to do?

What am I going to do? I love not going. It's crazy. Can I give you a pitch? Yeah. Wrap yourself up like a gift. Burst out of it. Oh, my God. That would be funny. That's a good skit. That's what my dad would say. You're right. wrap yourself up like a gift burst out of it oh my god

that would be funny that's a good skit that's what my dad would say you're right I should wrap myself up what's your pitch Bowen for the Amber Ruffin show holiday

my pitch for the Amber Ruffin show she's been doing a lot of some segments where she and Tarek are sort of at odds with each other I think maybe I think maybe and I know you're married. I don't know what Tarek's situation is,

but maybe you two sort of reconcile by having full on penetrative sex with each other. I think you should be open to it. That's her friend. That's her friend. You're so sick, Bowen. You're very sick.

You're very sick disposition. It's really off putting. you are shaming me he said full penetrative sex he did he said that he really really went there i was gonna say pass that and i think you guys should just do a divorce storyline so i don't know if you watch the crown the crown has a divorce storyline and everyone's really talking about it the charles and diana of it. And I think that that could be really fun for you guys. I mean, that's not a crazy idea. To give ourselves a big fat history would be fun. You also have brilliant writers such as Jenny Hagel, Shantara Jackson,

Dwayne Perkins, and Demi Adjuibe who could probably write circles around us. Just write circles around our dumb asses while we sort of sit here and have a podcast. Hey, don't you snore at my friends. My man Bowen are my friends. They do a good job. Thank you. Thank you literally so much. Literally.

It's been so fun to have you when you said you want when we emailed and we were like, you know, so probably be busy. And then you said you would come on and we said we we have you. When we emailed and we were like, you know, this will probably be busy. And then you said you would come on and we said, we squealed is what we did. We squealed. We really did. It's nice to hang out with people on their podcasts. Yeah. Because it's the only time you get to hang out with people now.

I know. Oh, my God. You've got to do a podcast now or else you're not going to see any of your little friends. Well, someday in the future. Oh, yeah. Someday in the future. Lights at the end of the tunnel. The cavalry is coming, sweetie.

And you got three options so far. Yay! Hey, Matt, I want to ask you a question. What's Amber Ruffin's hometown? Her hometown. Jesus Christ. Did you say it? She said it.

Did you say it? Omaha, Nebraska. Oh, Omaha, Nebraska. No, I did. I did know that oh my god wow you just like sort of really can but everyone i weren't on a date we weren't on a date i don't think at least i don't think full penetrative sex i'm so sorry amber please accept my apology that was vulgar i liked it you're so vulgar and think that Bowen, we should sing a sort of, well,

the thing is we do end every episode with a song and Bowen, I think we should sing a sexy song to end this episode. Cause it's been so charged. Um, what sort of, um, sexy, you know,

songs do you want to sing? We'll do it all. Everything. Tempo is down. On our own. Straight to the chorus. If I lay here. I should just lay here.

It's the soul version. Would you lie with me and just forget the world Why do you know the words to that song? Forget what we're told It was a chart topper. Before we get to old It topped the charts. Show me a car

and that bursting into life okay cool if you want to hear more of that song listen to Grace's Anatomy bye

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, fam. I'm Simone Boyce. I'm Danielle Robay. And we're the hosts of The Bright Side, the podcast from Hello Sunshine that's guaranteed to light up your day. Check out our recent episode with dancer, actress, and host of Dancing with the Stars, Julianne Hough, revealing the healing journey behind her new novel, Everything We Never Knew.

I am showing up for my younger self, and it is becoming a ripple effect energetically in my life, and that's why I feel so safe now. Listen to The Bright Side from Hello Sunshine on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. that might make you question whether you really locked the door before getting into bed. So cancel your lame Halloween plans. Haunted houses? Overdone. Candy corn? Honestly, who eats that? Your new tradition? Listening to me. Listen to Haunting starting on October 22nd on the iHeartRadio app,

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