Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang - “I Feel So WILD!” (w/ Hannah Solow)

Episode Date: October 1, 2025

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on the IHeart Radio app or wherever you listen to podcasts. Sponsored by Jasper, AI, build for marketers. Look, man. Where? Oh, I see. Wow. Bowen, look over there. Wow, is that culture. Yes. Oh, goodness. Wow. Las Culturistas.

Ding dong. Las Culturistas calling. We're in a different room today, recording. Because we were booted for Malawesi. Yeah, that's true. That's too. Malala is upstairs in our regular studio. And yeah, you got to respect it.

You got to respect it. You know, if it's, sometimes in life, you're given a choice between Malala and Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang and you pick Malala. And that's actually really good at your number 10. Sometimes in life, you're given a choice between Malala and Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang and you pick Malala. If it were like a fifth grade PE class and people were picking kickball teams. you would get picked. I was going to say Malala. You think Malala would better kickball in you?

Malala grew up in the expansive fields of her home. You're not thinking about winning the game. You're thinking about, okay, it'd be cool to hang out with Malala on my team. You're not thinking about who's going to kick the ball and get around the base as quickest. You. I'm saying Malala had like more space growing up just to run around and be athletic. I certainly didn't. I don't know.

I take one look at your big old games. I'm always looking at your legs. Because you're always walking in front of me at the speed of life. Well, we haven't seen Malala's legs, have we? Should we go up there? What if Malala was yoked in the bottom half? Like Malala upstairs, looking like Malala from the waist up, but the legs are like... Sinuey, wow.

Sinuey, big fat calves like me. Yeah. Damn. Thick. Thick. Mala's upstairs all thick. We're down here with our guest. I would pick our guest in every situation,

especially for between the two of us, especially for between her and Malala. No, I pick our guest over Malala every day of the week. I think our guest is nominee for Best Vibh Hands Down. Best Vime Hands Down. Oh, my God, next year. Her, Seth Myers, Malala. Sipa.

I don't know. I have no idea what Malala's vibe is. I think she's only five floors above us giving, giving whatever that vibe is. Giving shows.

Malala's giving thick shows upstairs. You show up to pieces one night and you're like Malala's giving shows tonight. Yeah, I heard it's I heard the lineup tonight is it's Brita filter.

Isia uncut. It's Izzy uncut. It's Yon Cut hosting and Malala's coming out to do shows. She's coming at every 15, 20 minutes to give What do they call it? Not a combo.

Like drag. A mix. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Malala mix. If you could see Malala lip sync to four songs, what would they be? Well, okay. And then we'll bring in the guest. I think it's my own worst enemy.

I wanted to do like a fun like Otts rock moment. Yeah, what about this? Good for you. Coffee, healthy, mommy. God, what are we talking about? I don't know. Our guest is one of our dearest friends since college. She is on the boards as Mary Todd Lincoln, on O'Mary, in O'Mary, I should say.

Excuse me, September 30th, October 12th. Get thee to the Lyceum. I'll never forget going to the Lyceum when our guest got to step onto the boards for the first time as Mary Todd Lincoln. I'm currently wearing, and Bowen is wearing the O'Hanna sweatshirt that everyone. So I've known the guest since we were literally on the same floor freshman year. I think our guest tonight, did we, I think we might have been in the same audition for a comedy group. Oh. Damn.

And then she's giving me the eye going, well. I think we could give you similar eyes because me and the guest both didn't make it because of your imperious ways. I didn't, I wasn't, I wasn't up to me. You're imperial. You're imperial. Our guest is one of the greats. You can catch her as Mary Todd Lincoln right now. Until the day of October 12th.

October 12th. I said the dates. No, all good. All good. Please, welcome to your ears. Hannah Solo. Oh, my gosh. And we have a whole crew of people here watching you. The audience.

You have an audience. Hi, audience. How does it feel to be a Broadway superstar? Oh, my gosh. I feel insane. It's actually insane that we're all here together on these couches. On these couches? We're in a spinning chair.

That's true. That's true. I knocked the whole mic over. Okay, well. What were your first impressions of the big city when you moved to New York? That's a really good question, Matt.

Thank you for asking. Did you have to learn the subways? Had to learn the subway. So many sounds. The ways of the sub. The ways of the sub. Remember our first, remember our freshman year in NYU?

It was a thing where like you had the little card map in your wallet. Like I had the card map in my wallet. This is pre-app. And you didn't have cell phone service when you were on the subway. So you'd just be like, bye, hope we make it there.

I'll talk to you in 35 minutes. Right. On Euclid Avenue. Oh, God. When you'd end up like on the sea, like truly in no man's land. Yeah. That was so scary as in NYU student.

It was one of the scariest things. You could ever see. Haunted by the memory. Just to like sort of fall asleep on the subway, wake up in Euclid. Oh my God. Very season two finale of girls. Very much that.

Yes. You loved girls. Listen. Which one were you? Terry, Samantha, Hannah, or Marnie? Well, one time I was walking down the street when we were in college and a man went, Lina Dunham!

Did you, I mean, you were like, yes? I guess, yeah. Not not. Pretty much. You felt seen by girls. You know what? I did feel seen by girls at the time. Which part was reflective of you?

Just sort of like, blah, blah, blah. flopping around in New York the way those girls all four of them had one thing in common they flopped around here that's actually a culture number 50 all four of those girls had one thing in common

they flopped around New York am I wrong and we're still doing it and here's a question would you rather flip or flop oh yeah flip

flip yeah flip would you rather flip flop or flu. You just wanted to say fluke because it rhymes with boop and you want us to talk about your viral moment. No, you wanted to talk about the viral moment.

You were the one that made the connection between poop and flupe. I want to say third option, fourth option, flap, my gums. Yeah, exactly. On this podcast with y'all. I love that. Also, a tap dance, a soft shoe. Sure. So you were in Cap 21 musical theater, which means you had to be excellent at singing,

dancing, and acting. Which of the three do you love the most? These questions. I want to get to know you better. I'm going to know you better. Okay, you're so right. And this is insight into me. I, what was the question?

You were at Cap 21, which means you had to be excellent at musical theater. So which should you love most? Singing, dancing, or acting? Okay, this is really professional. Yeah, we came with questions to say. I love this. Okay, I am not the best dancer, but I love dancing. Yeah, I'm the same.

Like, it feels so good to dance, but my brain isn't keeping up with what. my body is doing. No, totally. All the best dancers are the same way. It's true. I don't know anything. Like Fred's dancers. Ginger Rogers. Of course. Twilah Thar.

Twyla. Twyla. Our girl. Our girl, Twyla. Moving out. Moving into this love for Twyla. Absolutely. So I take singing. I love to sing.

You are one of the great singers. Now, is the infamous improv group Rumpeltees are still performing? Please talk about this. I was going to advertise the Rumble Teaser. Thank you. I don't really get to perform with them anymore because of Broadway. Yeah.

The greatest excuse in the world. But they are still performing. Do you want a shirt that says, I can't. I have Broadway. Yes, absolutely. I have a blanket in my dresser room that I got off of Amazon that is theater sayings blanket. What's on them? It's all like, lights up.

It's me. And like all of the feet are like, I can't. I have rehearsed. I cannot have a rehearsal, play day, or we'll do it on the day. Oh. I love we'll do it on the day. That's good. And it's best to say it when it's the same day.

Yeah. So on the day, I think I'll be over here. You mean in two seconds? It never ceases to be a brain teaser when that happens. How do you stay agile intellectually? I do a lot of crossword puzzles. Do you actually? I do.

I'm hoping that that will stave off some sort of dementia. Yeah. Do you do it all the way up to Saturday, Sunday? I've been trying to get better. started the new Pips. Yeah, what's Pips? It's like sort of a domino puzzle. Okay.

I'm into it. That's wonderful. And as long as my memory stays sharp, I'll do anything. Anything's possible. Anything's possible. I got to be, you know, I'm not going to age into the roles that I'm supposed to play for another 25 years. So I got to stay sharp, remember those lyrics.

Right. If I want to play Dolly in Hello Dolly, you know? Oh, Hannah. Oh, Hannah. that's going to be, that's going to be amazing. But who cares? I think like, I think we should all just do it. I think so too.

I want to play 50 now. Absolutely. You both could. And we will. Okay. Tevia, Golda. Hello. See, we're waiting.

Who's the young one? You can be like modeled the tailor. Never seen Fiddler. You've never seen it? No. No, I'm so sorry. The vibes are, well, in the beginning, they're fun. And at the end, it's bad.

Yeah. Because what happens to the characters? I can't quite remember, but it's something bad. You know, what happens to the characters in Fiddler? Does anyone know? Raise your hand if you know. Yes, thank you. There's a diaspora.

They have to leave their home. Yes, good. Okay, good. You used diaspora correctly. So what? Far from the home I love. Far from the home I love. So one of the big narratives on this podcast has been,

are we using the word diaspora, right? but now I do mean me. Yeah, yeah. Someone always uses every word right. No, it was good. No, it was good. That time. You describing Fiddler as it starts, the vibes start out great, but then the, then the vibes end up bad. That I think accurately describes a lot of shows.

That's true. Wicked. Cabaret. Yeah. Sound of music. Redwood. Redwood. Did you end up getting to go see Redwood?

I did get to go see it. What did you think? I thought. You can save it right now. But your review. Bring it back. Bring it back. Why didn't you go,

We could see Redwood. Yeah. Could it really say that. Listen, I did have some offers. Oh, of course you did. Not specifically from Redwood, but there were other offers of people being like, well, you could be able to go see our show.

So basically for those who don't know out there, Hannah Solo basically was the one who said, we could go see. Can you do it because I'm doing it wrong? No. I feel like you have the right. essence. Well, we could see boop. Was that what it was?

Like, it feels like the character is right in front of me. I try to remember it was oh, well, we could see boop. Oh. The O is really important. We could see boop. And this was at TKTS. Yes, I was walking by the red steps. Why? Because, honey, when you're on Broadway, you're just

circling, haunting a halls of Midtown Manhattan. I forgot where Broadway is for a second, right by the steps. Sorry, continue. We're right next to the steps. We are right next to the steps. Now I remember. And I heard a man, which then I got a lot of DMs from people being like, it was me. You heard me.

And it was a lot of men. A lot of men being like, I'm the one who said it. It was me. It was me. Men be claiming. Truly. And I was like, I don't know you. Men be claiming.

So what, who do you, did you get a sense that one was the actual guy? The energy that I was feeling was that this man, he's not on Instagram. Yeah. He's not DMing me a Broadway person. He seemed like a tourist. He seemed like a tourist. Yeah. I thought he's a tourist.

Yeah. Oh, so a tourist. A tourist, tourist, hard-headed. Oh, tourist, the worst kind. Such a real culture number 17. Taurus, Taurus, the worst kind. Because they're so hard-headed about what they want to do where they want to go, how they want to do it. It's New York.

You have to be malleable. I'm sorry. No, you're so right. You have to go with the flow. You have to. You can have a plan in New York City. abandon it throw it out the window

throw it at the window so you so there were other approaches there were other approaches interesting and I wish I could have helped many shows

but I don't I'm not count like I'm not saying I was the one I wish I could have many shows because you famously kept poop is still

this is what people were saying but I didn't see the ledgers I don't know and I actually I'm the one responsible for putting that idea out there in this conversation because I said you could have saved Redwood and you didn't even, I did not mean, I apologize. Thank you for your apology.

I have to come out and say if Redwood was going to be saved, it needed to be during the writing and development process. Okay. And that I don't think happened. Big tree religion. Big tree religion. Remember big tree religion? It was a full song on the show. Hey, I worship big tree religion.

Oh, okay. Now I'm remembering it. I just remember so many screens. Yeah, that was actually one of the exciting parts of it. Jamie Lloyd. It was, but it was very, I felt a little bit soren over California, if you will. I love soren. Can I tell you that's what I loved about the show.

Of course. Was the theme park nature of it. Yeah, that's why you loved it. The fact that I felt like when there was a point where like Edina was probably singing this note. And like at one point, like everything was moving around her. And I was like, I feel like I am in the avatar. flight of passage, right? And it's to say nothing against Soren.

I just felt like, because of all the trees. It felt like Avatar. I love that. Hi there. This is Josh Clark from the Stuff You Should Know podcast. If you've been thinking, man alive, I could go for some good true crime podcast episodes, then if we got good news for you, stuff you should know just released a playlist of 12 of our best true crime episodes of all time.

There's a shootout in broad daylight. people using axes in really terrible ways, disappearances, legendary heists, the whole nine yards. So check out the stuff you should know true crime playlist on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and on the new season of heavyweight, I help a centenarian mend a broken heart. How can a 101-year-old woman fall in love again? And I help a man atone For an armed robbery he committed at 14 years old And so I

Pointed the gun at him and said this isn't a joke And he got down And I remember feeling kind of a surge of like Okay, this is power Plus my old friend Gregor and his brother Try to solve my problems Through hypnotism We could give you a whole brand new thing

Where you're like super charming all the time Being more able to look people in the eye Not always hide behind a microphone Listen to Heavyweight on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, and I'm the host of the on-purpose podcast. Recently, I had a conversation with the one and only Madonna. When I was broke and I had no friends, nowhere to live,

I was held up at gunpoint, I was robbed, all these horrendous things happened to me. I had such an unhappy childhood that, whatever happened to me in New York. It's better than what my life was, so I'm not going back. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. People called them murderers. Ten years later, they were gods.

Today, no one knows their names. A group of maverick surgeons who took on the medical establishment who risked everything to invent open heart surgery. Welcome to the Wild West of American Medicine. Chris Pine, and this is Cardiac Cowboys. If you like medical dramas, if you like heart-pounding thrillers, you will love cardiac cowboys. Listen on the IHeart Radio

app or wherever you listen to podcasts. Sponsored by Jasper, AI, build for marketers. Thoughts on Adina Menzo. You love her. Love the gal. Yeah. Never met her in every show she's ever done. Love the gal. We saw her in the

off-Broadway play Skin-tight. Skin-tight. Never even heard of it. There was a staircase. in that. Broadway loves staircases. What's the best staircase of theater? Well, recently, did you see the hills of California? Yes.

The staircases, my God. Kay says, did you see that? No, I did not see. Oh, we really like that. On purpose had a great staircase. Great staircase. That becomes her obviously. Hello, Dolly.

Great staircase moment. Big staircase. That's so true. Theater's just like, let's put a staircase in. You know, there's also an not-offed remembered staircase from Death Becomes her that's the other staircase which is the one

that Michelle Williams is supposed to be descending down that goes that like comically goes up the middle really good that one had two staircases which is probably why

it was double the fun put that on the building yeah anyways what's your best memory of being an R.A. with me at Coral Towers at NYU

you guys were RAs together I forget absolutely so first answer this question and then we'll go back in time to see what you remembered about me from freshman year. And I'll say what I remembered about you. Okay, I have a memory.

Well, when we were RAs together, we were, I'd say we were cool RAs. We were like, if you were always joking in the corner. They're joking. Yeah. We were like, if we don't hear you or see you, then we're going to let you do your thing. Yeah.

But if you're in the hallway with your whipits, then I'm going to write you up. What was your most difficult thing to confront as an R.A at NYU? Well, do you remember that a girl went missing? Oh. And you kidnapped her, okay? Spoiler, we found her.

She's okay now. And they finally found her in my room. Uh-oh. Well, her roommates came and were like, she's gone. We checked her computer. She had gone to meet a guy. She had been gone. So she was a straight woman.

I can't assume her sexual identity. She might not have gone to meet the man for sex. Well, she did Because they called her parents And then she came back And she had been tied up for two days In a way she enjoyed I believe it was consensual

But Can you enjoy being tied up for two days? Is this Mr. Beast? Oh my God What is this Mr. Beast? She getting 100K Yeah, she getting 100K For this fervor

For this grandeur So they found her tied up They well I think she Untied herself came back and then everyone was like where were you and her parents were there

like you've been missing and she had to be like sorry I was tied up literally I'm just gonna ask like how did you save her well I didn't save her at all

because when your shift ended even though she had been missing when your shift ended you were like I gotta go like my shift's over my shift's over this is Eva she's the next RA

literally That's what it was. You turned in the cell phone and you're like, here, I guess I'll fill out the paper from and had to type. Remember, it was like, don't use emotion. You know, I don't remember because I didn't do any of it. That's true. I got fired.

Matt was fired. You didn't do your bulletin board. Was the bulletin board like, I'm, this is what's happening this week like that? It was sort of an opportunity to be creative or at least I found it to be. I had some fun things on my bulletin board. I feel like you sort of slapped a paper. on there and said, like, good luck. I'm not good with, like, visual

aides. Yeah, you know what I mean? Yeah. Also, we weren't a freshman dorm. It was an upper class person. So we were literally like juniors, and everyone in our, in our dorm was like, a sophomore, a junior, or a senior. Yeah.

And so it kind of was just like, no one, okay. Everyone, everyone knew. We had to share a suite with them. Like, other RAs got their own suites. And so we were living with people on our floor that we had to be like, okay, don't bring wine into my room that we share.

Right. Can I ask what the vibe of Coral Towers was because it was sort of like a, it was kind of like an under, it was kind of like an undersung dorm. Yeah. The name, Coral Tower sounds like a Golden Girl spinoff. It sounds so Floridian. It sounds so like chic and like. I would have done a really good bulletin board for that.

Yes. Gorgeous. But I don't think I ever set foot in Coral Towers. I don't think you did either because there would be no reason to it. Like we were, it was on the corner. It is on the court. It's a 14th and third. It's above the Dwayne Reed.

You can still go there. You go see it's a, it's a Hannah Solo and Matt Rogers and Sudy Green, honestly, landmark. We all live there. They should. They should. They should put up a plaque.

And so basically, like, it was just like, it was bad. I mean, when we got the assignment that we were there, we were like, oh, we didn't get one of the good ones. Oh, man. And I also was an alternate to be the R.A. I think I might have been too.

I think maybe, We were. Because they would very rarely put people as RAs who were in Tish because they knew that historically Tisch kids get busy. Like they want to do shows. They want to do whatever. They have like community outside of the residence hall. Right.

Because the residence hall thing, it was so much more of being an R.A. was build community in these cases. Hang out with these kids. I couldn't do that. I had pizza night for the Oscars. I think once one year they made me cook a turkey. What? me what does that mean it means kids are getting sick that's what it means it means I

you know take the bird out the oven and go well case are ah okay sirrah let me let me put this meat thermometer in there 75 degrees 75 degrees sounds like a good temperature to me is that right warm 164 169 is optimal 169 is optimal okay 169 is optimal okay 169 is optimal okay 169 Remember that. Depends on the polter. It depends on the bullsru. Suddenly the whole room is activated. Everybody's chiming in.

We're all Martha Stewart. No, we usually don't get the, we don't get the girls in the studio with us. We're kind of sequestered. I was fired from being an RA because I forgot to pick up the... You were to? You were fired? No.

I thought you said, same. You said, say it. Say it. I was not fired. How could you ever? No, you were a great employee and lovely to be around. You know what happened was... Why were you fired?

Well, I don't think our boss liked my sense of humor. Okay. He's more of a keep it guy. Topical. He was more of a keep it guy. He would prefer I was Lewis Fertel. No, don't you remember that? Like our residence, like, director didn't let my sense of humor.

Well, there was a changeover in leadership. Oh, that's tough. Well, don't we all know? Don't you understand? That is really tough when there's a changeover in leadership. Everything changes. The jokes just weren't hitting the same. We had a woman named DeNaris the first year.

Of course, I'll never forget her. The first DeNaris I ever met. Like literally, but a kind person who loved my humor. And then she at the end of the year said, I have some news. I'll never forget. She said, I have news. And then she told us, I will be leaving. And we were like, DeNaris.

And then she left. And this other guy came in, his, I won't say his name. But he was not having it. Not the way DeNaris was. Can I ask, were the residents, directors also students? No, they were adults who lived in the building with us. So then these were adult people that had to like sign in their guests and like dates. It must be so strange to do that.

So I feel for him in that way. Yeah, yeah. Must be must maybe he doesn't love the fact that he's living with a bunch of 20-year-olds. Right. Right. And we were annoying. I think looking back, there's a high probability I was annoying because I did think that my role in the residence hall community was to.

sort of provide vibes. Yeah. And it was. Because I wasn't doing the bulletin board. I wasn't picking up the phone. But I do think I provided vibes and laughs.

And then he didn't really want that. But we thank you for the vibes and laughs. We had fun. We had so much fun. How many people did you guys write up? Oh God. I never did that.

What would that involve? Like, well, Stacey was smoking crack. And I guess, and she's... Crack. I walked in and Stacey was smoking crack. I have to run you up, Stacy. Because you're smoking crack in the residence halls. And we're very clear that happens out on the streets.

No crack in the residence hall. Crack is whack. And that's you have to write up a little report. But no emotion. So it had to be just factual. I walked in. Stacey was smoking crack. I grabbed the crack.

I said no more crack. I said no more. I'm so angry with you about the crack. No emotion. I'm just quoting myself. I'm just quoting what I said in the room. I walked out. I took the crack in a bag.

I don't really know. It's crack loose? I think crack can be all sorts of forms. That's beautiful. Especially local culture number 79. I think crack can be all sorts of forms. And that's beautiful. What is your favorite part of playing Mary?

Oh my gosh. I'd say my favorite part of playing Mary is the moment before the doors open. Mm-hmm. And just. Bursting out. Myself up and bursting through those doors. I can't wait to see. I still have not had the joy and pleasure of seeing you.

Oh my gosh. I think you'll like it. I think so. You know I love a Hannah Solo moment. I would go to the musical improv show back in the day. And there was my favorite feature of a Hannah Solo performance is anytime. And is it fair to please deny this if it's not true. I can't wait to hear what you're going to say.

There's a phrase. I'm not saying you're a catchphrase comedian, but there's a phrase that I I think I've heard you say at least twice, and it always destroys me. Ready? Okay. I feel so wild. And I kind of knew. I was like, it's going to be about being a horny teeth.

But I feel so wild. Or bummed for Malala. Bummed for Malala. Really sort of both. And they're related. What do you make of that wild? Is there something wild within you that must, that you're subconsciously sort of like masking?

I think it really is this thing of like the music starts and I just feel something inside. What animal are you saying now? Okay, immediately I'm thinking a snake. You're not a snake at all. Iguana. I love iguana. Me too.

You do? Yes. You were in there in Miami when one fell out of the tree when I was tying my shoe and almost hit me in the head. You wouldn't like him so much. And then what? It hits you in the head and what happens? Excuse me? You know they're upwards of 50 pounds.

At least the way this one hit the ground with a thud. Did you know they were in trees? I did not know they were in trees. They're climbing. Get to Miami. Honey. Get to the Lyceum first. Get to the Lyceum, then Miami.

Oh, that would be an amazing vacation. Oh, my gosh. Well, we're going, we're spending a week. We're going to do three days at the Lyceum. And we're going to head down to Miami. We're going to look at the urinals at the Lyceum and see all the pictures of coal. And then we're going to go down. It's art.

What is it like knowing that you'll fill the shoes of coal? It's really sort of. And so many talents before you. So many talents before me. And who is the best? Don't. Don't. Don't.

Well, okay. So unfair. It's so unfair. When a friend comes on the show, it's like we're so unkind to that. It's not true. Why didn't you've been really kind? I feel wild. Um, uh, I, I, I love doing the play.

I'm honored. to follow in Cole's footsteps. And technically it was the first person to do it after Cole, which was truly scary. Of course. But it happened. It went well even.

Was that the night we were all there? Yes. That was that very night. The very first time. And I think everyone was a little bit like, what if the play doesn't work without Cole? Oh, God. But the play is so good.

Yeah. That's the genius of the play is that anyone can do it. Yes, exactly. Well, that is really nice. to hear. It's the best play in the world. Honestly, like you, we were talking about with Jinks last week, the Great Day monologue, and you actually have one of my favorite performances of that. And that was such a, it's such a beautiful, important monologue and obviously such a, you know, like, zany, like hysterical show. But it's this

moment where you, I think, really understand Mary's anxieties. Like, Jinks was talking about how the way that she was playing, Mary was as if it was someone with ADHD. Like, in a way where it's like, obviously it's, it's, oh, Mary, and you're going out there and you're going for the joke. But in a grounded way for you, like, how are you thinking about her? I think I really am not going for the jokes. I'm really thinking of her as, like, this woman who has big dreams. And there's just everyone in her life is trying to stop her from doing them and is telling her she sucks and is annoying. and all she wants to do is sing,

which, like, I really understand that. And people are like, no, you can't. You're annoying. So it's like action, action, action, action, and everyone is wrong and they don't know it. Yeah. Yeah, that's really. I feel like the trap of the show

is to, like, look to the audience and be like, he-he-he-he. But that's when you, like, actually ultimately ruin what is so beautiful about the show that everyone does have heart And like these characters have really big wants And it's just the highest stakes of these wants Yeah

I wonder too like when you're doing that monologue And you're obviously having a moment like Where you know that like as an understudy You're there all the time and you might get the chance to do it But might probably not And then finally it's there And you know that like so many people are coming out To support you and then you have to do this monologue

About having a great day Like that probably was really emotional Oh my gosh. I cry like every time because it really is like I'm going to cry thinking about it like I am like living my dream and saying like these lines about how oh my gosh like I've wanted to have this great day for so long and then I'm like in the midst of the great day as it's ending and which is like also what the monologue is about right you don't want it to be over right exactly and because I am an understudy it is like this is in the moment I don't know when I'm going to do it again is this going to be the last time I do the show. or is this, like, am I going to wait a few months? So it really does feel like this moment of like so in sync with the show. I mean, I want you to give a primary account. I know that this is like widely known, especially like through like the like stages out of COVID.

But like talk about like, I just really want us to give like a moment for this like understudies. Sure. Like talk about that experience. Give us, like, like, it's the hardest thing I could, every time I see a show on Broadway, I'm, like, thinking about, like, two of these fucking people on stage or back, backstage, know, like, four of these parts left to me and know all these tracks. That's crazy. It's crazy. When I saw stranger things, I was, the whole time, I was only thinking about, like, how in the world? Are you an understudy being like, well, okay, I guess I'm going to go out there and hopefully the thing works and I fly across the room, right?

Right. Because if they added a harness and flying to O'Mary, it would be much harder. Yes. Although I do, I have asked if they could. We have a lot of fly space up there that we're not utilizing. You're like, I want to go more vertical. Yeah. More vertical.

Exactly. You should always go more vertical. How high do you think you could jump? If you had the harness, have you had the wire on you? Yeah. Am I on a trampoline? Or is this jumping off of the ground? Certainly not.

We can't afford it. And then we can't insure it. I can't jump high at all. Well, shit. I just going to be a big problem for the vertical, oh, Mary. But in a real way, like, you know both of these bars. You know not just Mary but Louise. Yes.

And you're back, you're backstage with other people knowing the same thing. Like, that's a lot to learn. It's a lot to learn. It's, I like to say it's almost like 75% mental actually is what I've learned. It's like the learning of the lines and where to go and all the blocking and stuff is actually not as hard as I thought it was going to be but for me it's really the mental work of being like okay I'm gonna go out there

and it's okay and I'm having to psych myself up and having to understudy being fortunate enough to understudy these big big names that you know people are of course disappointed when the person that they came to see isn't in so really just like giving myself the mental headspace of like you're good you can do this You're fine.

Go out there and just do the show. Yeah, don't pick up on any nasty energy from like whoever the fuck is in the sixth row being like, which is how they talk. That's how they talk. Hey. Hey.

I can't say that's my son's son. Titles bird is what I paid for. I don't want to see her. That's what they were like. And then at the end they're like, I loved it. She was pretty good. She was decent.

I can really, like, hear people. This is the thing. People don't understand. We can hear you from the stage. And I have heard people, like, scene three, be like, okay, she's good. Fuck. Seriously, from the audience? Yes.

We are so close to the audience. I'm like, I can see you. I can hear you. You are not being quiet. Can I ask? Please. Coughing. He has a real sensitivity to this.

I think, look, I'm not, like, out here. saying like, fuck you if you're coughing in the theater, but there is a point where it starts to, on a collective level, it's, it's, it's panoramic coughs and then it starts to affect the show, certainly on an audience level, I'm sorry, and I'm sure on a performer level. Well, the coughing thing is like, if you have a wet cough and you're going to the theater, you You knew you had the cough when you came. Bring a Ricola. Bring a something with you.

Why are you letting this loose? I don't know. I don't have a solution. I think you got to go. Yeah. I think honestly, like if you start having a coughing attack, you know when it's the kind of thing that's not going to stop. Unfortunately, you got to go. It's like a walk on out.

Walk on out. It's like a crying baby. Yeah. What would you do with a crying baby? You wouldn't let the baby cry during Mamma Mia, super trooper. You'd leave a super Trooper And during the play

It's like you can't get away from it We went to go see Purpose It was the worst People were dying all around us It was coughs and phones going on It was It was more That's why I got to me

I was like Wait everything is out of control Well we were in the West End Seeing Titanique And we were in I think I believe the fourth row And like you are so aware That they can see you

Like and this woman next to us Was double fisting wine with her phone out in front of her with a spreadsheet on the phone. She was doing Google Sheets. She had a Google sheet out. She was like, and she was like doing this. And Bowen just over me goes to her.

You're at live theater. I said you're at the theater. Good for you. I don't care. I don't fucking care. He doesn't. Disrespectful. When people leave right before bow start.

Oh. Honey, the lights are up. We can see you. You got to get to the parking garage. Please. Please. It's so crazy to me. Oh, my God.

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AI, build for marketers. Speaking of engaging with patrons of the arts in odd places, this sort of connects us to your culture. So, Hannah Solo, what was the culture that made you say culture was for you? culture that made me say culture was for me was dinner theater. Let's go.

When I was a kid doing it, I was too afraid to go to sleep away camp. And so my parents put me in a, thank you, I was in a day camp called swing kids. Oh my God. Swing kids preparing to be swings. Kids are, for a second, it all came together. We're going to make this generation of talent ready to be swings. And I learned. So this was the thing.

It was a cabaret space connected. to a Cocos. Did y'all ever have Cocos? It was like a California like sort of diner type bakery these old pies. Really cute. Great chicken tenders.

Love from there. So we would do like medleys of like old timey songs but before the shows we would be the waiters. So we would take our family's orders which I fucking loved. I was full like, what do you want?

Okay. Going back to the kitchen like I need two chicken tenders and then you deliver the food. Who's so thuttering too? She's just saying Two orders Matt You haven't been in the restaurant biz in a while

We deliver the food And then I'd be like Be right back Hop on stage Sing like I'm going back Someday It was

Blue Bye You know that Honestly that pull out of nowhere Means you probably did sing Blue By you every day That one. It was so powerful. I loved it. And I was like,

this is the life. This is the life. So many things about this are perfect. Well, difference between panorama coughs and phones versus clink-clink, like all that, you know,

like that, but that's an agreed-upon premise of dinner. We've agreed upon this. There's sort of a base level of chewing, clinking, clanking, clanking. You're going to be eating. accept it. And you'll be eating on stage. Yes, a mutual agreement to eat.

To have a 10. I mean, what was what was the thing that was like what was the thing that prepared you the most do you think? Like what did you like did you think you like got you had a better experience than than sleepaway camp? I bet you did. I feel like I did. I mean, I was so scared to go to sleep away camp. I wouldn't have been able to really be present. I mean, I think I was like nine or ten. Oh, my God. Were you anxious? As a kid?

No, I was anxious. Like, I was like, they're going to drop me off and my parents are going to die. No, really? I had that fear. Yeah. So it was having to do not exactly with being at the camp. It was just like being, is a separation thing. Yes.

Yes. But I'm okay now. Swing Kids is the perfect name. It's like as if you made it up. Right? And also, the woman who was in charge of it was called Darla Dry. Where's she at? I don't know, Darla, if you're listening.

Thank you for your service. She ran it. She ran it. Oh, that's so beautiful. I'm Darla Dreyer. I run swing kids. Hannah has been incredible. She's really fast on the floor and her blue bayou.

The way she slides up to that last note, it's always clean, resonant. We love her. And she's great with the fingers. She's great with the fingers. She never dropped. We had other kids who are always dropping the fingers. Three eight, not me. They're dropping on the floor, flop it up on stage, but not Hannah, not your daughter.

Happy you didn't send her to camp. The reviews are in. The reviews are in. Your daughter's a sleigh. How many kids was it? Oh my God, it was just like a rag tag group of 10 kids. Selective. Selective, okay.

It's like all ages, you know, where it's just like a little tiny kid who's scared to go on stage. Did y'all ever sing Hard Knock Life? I'm not sure. You should have. Two on the nose. Two on the nose. Great number for a bunch of kids. I feel like Darla was really looking for interesting.

I remember singing Johnny Angel. Rock and Robin was a real hit. Rock and rock. Think about the residents also of kids. Yeah. Wow. Resident kids. Resident kids.

That's our theater. True. Resident kids. You know, one of my favorite compliments I ever received was you when we were 20 saying that I had resonance. You really do. You do. I often describe you as someone who has residence. Not as kind.

He's very playful. He's a generous person. He's very resonant. For sure. Well, now were there all races in this? Was it a melting pot? Was it melting pot of color, of culture, and nationality? In my memory, it was.

You can say no is all one. Honestly, don't quite remember. But maybe that's because I was very focused on myself and my performance. And you didn't see race. Exactly. Right. I saw a sort of vocal part. I don't see race only voice type.

Metsos. And then you're incredibly discriminatory based on those. You don't even see bases. All control toes go to jail. Jail. Jail. Lock them out. Which you're always saying.

Well, that's kind of my catch race. as a catchphrase comedian. Thank you. Lock him up. I feel wild. Lock him up. I feel wild. You can kind of combine it too.

Wait, I did not mean to say you were a catchphrase comedian. I've just heard you say I feel wild. When you said that, I was like, wow, Bowen really sees me. Because the amount of times that I have played a teen discovering herself. Are you kidding? We all have our type. I'm not saying that's even your type. I have my type.

Yeah. Bit, bitch. Bitch, bitch. Bitch. My type is also bitch, bitch. You're competing. You see me in anything? I'm a bitch.

I'm a bit. I'm literally like, hey. Like, you know what I mean? Like, you can count on me to come in and deliver a bitchy line raid. Hey. Wait, I finished the hunting wives. Oh my God. Just in time.

I want to say that Matt threatened me. Yeah. And said, if you don't finish, we will walk out on air. Like this. This is what I. This is what I would have experienced. But thank goodness, I watched. Oh my God.

The fucking resonance. Didn't even need the mic. Didn't even need the mic. I'm not even warmed up. I've been drinking a Coke Zero and huffing crack. You can huff it too. It's loose. Now, what did you think of hunting wives?

Well, I did sort of have a thought because I was watching it backstage. And everyone was like, what are you watching in there? And it was like, it's porn. Yeah. You're like, I'm watching Mollin Hickerman's erect nipple get sucked by Britney Smell. The door was closed and everyone was just hearing. And the gunshot. I was like, you made me do this.

Are you so happy? I mean, wow, the twists and turns. They're not even turns. They're torns. Twor. The twists and tours. I did audition to play. Yes.

Who? Chrissy Metz's part. Oh, wow. Was her name Darla Dreyer? She kind of had the Darla Dreyer energy. What was her name? Can you show your tape? I could show it to you.

Actually, I watched it. I sent it to Melissa. And I was like, this is pretty good. Yeah, of course it was. Being like, y'all need to get back in there and find who killed my daughter. Holy shit. Could have been. What could have been?

Rebecca Cutter. Y'all need to get back in. And find my fucking daughter. Okay, okay, here you go, you go do one more time. Y'all need to get back in there and find my fucking daughter. My turn? Yeah. Okay.

Here we go. Y'all need to get back in there and find my fucking daughter. Daughter. Daughter. I have chills. Yeah. I mean, Hannah. It just goes to show that it can be done four different ways.

Chrissy, Bowen, Matt, or Hannah. It's very like the girls' girls. It's like, are you a Chrissy Mat Rogers, a Bowen Yang, or a Hannah Solo? Tell us at home. Make sure you comment in the comments. Hey, make sure you comment in the comments. Which one of us you are. Are you team Bowen?

Team Chrissy Mets. Team Matt. Or team Hannah. Hashtag drag race. Which is what that show is. Which is what that show is. Now, how long did you do swing kids to bring it back? I think I did it like multiple summers.

Well, I hope. Beautiful. I hope they invited you back I was invited back I was a good performer organized on top of my lives and good on the floor great on the floor

now when you think about waiting tables how did it change you listen I think everyone should wait tables you have that opinion I do like it should be like everyone has to do two years in restaurant yeah I think so

I feel like you can always tell when someone has never worked in a restaurant when they go out to dinner because they're being an absolute bitch. Why were you looking at me? I never worked in a restaurant. I worked service. See, that counts. I worked at my first job was at an ice cream store.

Oh, so I dealt with people. You have to deal with people. Yes, yes. Wait, correct me if I'm wrong. You didn't work with your sister. No. Why did I make that up? You worked with a female friend. Sure.

Another girl worked there. A girl worked there. A girl was working there? A girl was working there. One girl and one woman were there for sure. Maggie Moos Creamery Wait, where is that? I've been there. Maggie Mooh and Darla Dreyer? Maggie Moose was kind of...

I've been there. The more kid-friendly version of Coldstone. Oh. So the mascot is this cunty cow with eyelashes and lips. I'm seeing her. I'm picturing her.

Maggie Mo. She wears like a polka dot or no, a cow print dress. Of course. And she is stunning. Are you going to go? Oh my God. Maggie.

It's me. you take off your wig to reveal the hunting wife's wig you take off your hair to reveal Malin's wig Mullin's back here and it's just like it's me Maggie Mooh

I'm Maggie I love Margo Morgas Margo Mug Stop Bring it in Fly it in

She's kind of perfect I'm sort of channeling Maggie moo Mooh Show us the picture Melissa I know Oh my God It's you today.

It's you today. I'm actually freaking out. Are you getting this? Nick's getting it. That's me. That was my first job. Does she ever come in? I don't think I ever had to.

I was the only employee who did not have to get in the costume. I don't think I ever had the pleasure. I don't think I had the pleasure. Did you say you didn't want to or they were like, you don't have to? Because you were so good at serving ice cream? Because I was really good at serving ice cream. And we had the very first cotton candy flavored ice cream.

Oh, that changed my life. Yeah. I love cotton candy ice cream. I do too. I don't think so many people who shit on. Yeah, it's chemicals. So is everything fucking else. Yeah, I don't understand what you think you're eating when you eat vanilla.

It's chemicals. Chemicals. You're eating chemicals. You're eating chemicals. So restaurants taught you. Patience. Servitude. Servitude.

Focus. I did work in a restaurant after college and I was bad at it. In a city? Yeah. Does it still exist? I don't think so. Brother Jimmy's. Thank you so much.

That's an honor. But no, I didn't work at Brother Jimmy's. A lot of people we knew did. That's true. I worked at another one that someone else got me a job at. And it was a disaster.

Oh, no. They would have put like one person on shift and it'd be like brunch and then they'd be like, Hannah, can you bartend? And I'd be like, no. I don't know how. Remember when we used to think

Max Brenner was a normal restaurant. Well, I thought it was the fanciest restaurant. It's still there. It's a chocolate by the bald man. What? Why? Why?

Why? Why chocolate by the bald man? And that little like, line drawing of the guy? I made my parents take me there because I was like, you're coming to New York. I'm going to show you the best restaurant.

You know how many dates I went on there? What did you order? Bleep this out. I went on my first date there with... What was up to? Married and he was at the Betty Who concert. Oh, that's fine. He was.

Oh, my God. He and I went to Max Brenner's, went across the street, and saw the film 9. Oh, my God. Can you imagine a gayer date in the year of our Lord? What was it? 2009. That's a gay union. Square a date.

Very much hitting up Union Square to be gay. Yeah. I miss Union Square. Me too. It used to be fun. Now, now I don't know, not anymore, right? The cozy is gone. Cozy!

You know what else has gone, Vapiano? Barpiano. It's horrible. It's a very special place for me and my sister. It's where we had lunch. Of course. The pasta selection. It's where we had lunch in where I said to Boniang,

he can't go back to Denver. He has to stay. And he has to be in Populet. Vapiano is actually such an important. important place. Like, it was a life-changing place for me. That lunch changed the course of my stay in New York. What do you think it is now? P.F. Changs.

It's a P. F. Changs. I think it is a P.F. Changs. I picture the horse outside. Which is great. You guys don't have to say that because I'm... Excuse you. I wasn't even thinking about that. I don't see race. And we love that. I see your voice type. Yeah. What is that?

Tanner? Tenor. No. Despite the fact, despite your cries, you are a tenor. I'm not a tenor. Can you just settle this for us once in Should we get the keyboard out? Yeah. Do you bring it? I got it in my bag.

You know the vocal type. I'm like a baritone bass one. Speaking. No, singing. I've never heard higher singing. What, what, Melissa? No. You guys are projecting down.

The way you sang those high harmonies on I don't want to miss a thing, a bass. In my falsetto. That doesn't mean that it's not, what would you say? Well, I feel like however you want to identify, you're allowed to. What, you're a tenor. Yeah, I'd say. I think also, give us a little show. Tenor two.

Bowen, tenor two? Sure. That means super high tenor. Bear a tenor one is super. My tenor one's very high. No. Maybe I used to be. I think you're a tenor one.

Maybe I used to be. Back before the years. Well, I think it sounds like we're going to sound great together. It does. I agree. Our chorus You are. I would say a mezzo-soprano with belt. Yeah. What did you sing at Pop Rock Night for Cap-21, which was the big show at musical theater Cap-21 where each and every person got to sing a pop rock song.

What did you sing? Do you know? Does anyone remember? I probably blocked it out. Fiona Apple. That feels kind of right for me. I'm sure that I was like... I know what you sang, River by Joni Mitchell. Wait, how did you know that? I know a lot of things about you guys.

I did say that. Because you know that back in the day, when we weren't doing performance, really, I was just a fan of you guys. Oh. That's crazy. It was so fun for me to be on all of your floor freshman year because you guys were always singing. And everyone was always like, I hate being around the cab kids because they're always singing. And I was like, I think it's great. You're so talented.

I was like I just wanted to go sit in the room because you were down the hall from me and I remember like it was like it was a whole corner of musical theater girls Yes y'all were always singing Always singing Well you asked earlier what my One of my first memories of you was

Of me? Yeah We slept out to wait for tickets for S&L Yes we did And I believe at the time you were straight And I just have a memory of you talking about titties. Like, I just remember being like,

he's really talking about titties a lot. Matt Rogers is a boob gay, like me. I'm really processing this. Take it in. That one of your first memories of me was this a straight guy talking about tits? Outside of S&L. Outside of S&L.

Outside of S&L. But, like, using that word, tities. And you were turned off. You didn't like it. No, I was like, what an interesting. character

you wrote in your journal later I'm the most interesting character tonight clearly gay guy sitting outside ass and I'll talk me about titties earmarking this for later we'll come back to this they return to this thought

we didn't get tickets I did that's what I thought you were going to say because we all waited and they were going to let one of our group in and something took over inside me and I turned to everyone

because it was my number. It was 39. Because they were taking 39 people. I was number 39. And then you guys were all behind me. And I thought I can go with my floor back to the dorms and do whatever. Or I can go in. And I felt very compelled to go in.

And thank God I did because that ended up being a turning point for me to decide to literally come out of the closet, stop talking about tities and take a UCB class and then try to audition for the groups. But that was like a fateful night for me. Holy shit. You witnessed him. him on the precipice. This is actually crazy because also my memory of it was that we all went in and then the cast of

gossip girl got into the elevator before us and they went, it's full. Yeah. They let one person in and it was me. They said, okay, we can take one more. There's one more seat. But the universe said it needs to be you. I remember I looked around at you guys and I was like, I think I want to go. And they were like, and a couple people were like, go.

Yeah. And then a couple of people were like, and I was just like, I'm going to go. And I walked in and the elevator doors closed and I was like, I can't believe I just did that. Wow. Okay.

So were you in the elevator with like Leighton Meester? I don't remember the Gossip Girlcast. I do remember sitting two or three seats away from Emma Stone and her partner at the time, Teddy Geiger. Wow. Sure? Just for it to be very 2008 for everyone. Wow.

Yeah. first memories of me yeah well as we said before we all auditioned for the same improv team together and bowen did get in you made it pretty far though in the audition right i believe i made it to the finals with you yes yes you did you beat me out no he's vicious when it comes to final rounds oh yeah you want to see boi yang in the final round i remember thinking you were so funny i remember thinking you were so I was like this girl is fucking funny that's probably probably would have been the best idea for you guys to just go off and create your own group your own queer group too late too little too late I guess you guys had investments in in traditions you know what I mean

feels like you guys were putting all your yeah in institutions instead of creating your own we've since learned yeah yeah to create your own work you have to create your own work exactly. I remember you being shy. Oh my gosh. You were kind of shy freshman year. Yeah, I was. I was like so overwhelmed, I think. With NYU and the city. Oh my gosh. Freshman year. It was like, what is going on? And also I wasn't like a big star at my high school. So I didn't come in being like, oh my God. Like I'm the most talented person here. I was a little bit like they're going to find out that I snuck in and be like, you have to leave. Fuck. That's sort of an info in my mental state. No, I get it, though. Similar feeling to like being, hypothetically being dropped off at sleepaway camp. Yes, exactly. I was just like, what am I doing here?

Where did everyone go? Yep. Oh, that you're so tough. My roommate was this girl that was like pledging a sorority. And we weren't sure, but we were pretty certain that she had given her a chicken that she had to take care of. How did you not know? How did you not know? Because we were like, it's in her bag.

The chicken is in the bag. She just to carry the chicken around. Never once clucked. Never once saw the chicken. But she was really wild. Yeah. Who do you look up to? That's a really great question, Matt.

Who do I look up to? Really. Burned at Peters. Mertender answering him for me. asking an insane question. Seriously, who do I look up to? Who's your hero? Who's my hero?

Is that a different question? I feel like it is sort of a different question. I mean, you know, I've had the opportunity to work with so many amazing people at O'Mary. And like, Cole is, of course, one of my heroes. It's kind of boring. We talk about Cole a lot. Well, shut the fuck up then. Just saying.

It could be boring. Okay, changing my answer to someone, no one's ever said before. Jane Goodall. Do you look up to her? I actually, when I was a kid, I loved Jane Goodall. She is like an iconic. Yeah. I was like, I should help save the monkeys.

Is that what she does or are the gorillas? Whatever. I think she does them all. Have you ever seen gorillas in the mist? No. That doesn't end as happy. Okay. That's what we said.

Starts on the roof. Bad. Yeah. Well, Girl's in the Miss is about Diane Fossey. Oh. She was killed by poachers.

Please. Watch the movie. And I will. And I will. Tonight? My assignment for tonight, Gorilla's in the Miss. I'm done with the hunting wives.

It's time to move off. Or we walk. Or we walk. I'll come back and I'll have watched Gorillas in the Miss. Okay. And you'll be better for it. And I will.

I'll know what it's about. What's next for you? Well, right now I'm really just trying to hunker down and do these weeks on Broadway. Weeks on Broadway. That is going to be a fully different feeling for you. Just to like go on stage and not have to hear the fucking guy be like, oh, she's good. Truly, I'm like, I don't know what's going to happen. I've never done it more than five times in a row.

Yeah, so I guess, yeah, it's going to be tea and honey for you. Tea and honey. Nobody talked to me, vocal rest. Yeah. Broadway's a prison. You do get that sense. You do. Like, it's a beautiful and a wonderful prison I'm so grateful to be a part of.

Right. But it's so hard. Did you read that Megan Hilty New York Times diary where she was like, I don't eat after 4 p.m. I don't speak to anyone after the show. She's just like going to physical. therapy going to the show it's it's so hard she's a fucking queen absolutely i met her after death becomes her and i was like god you're the coolest most beautiful chillest motherfucker on the planet so cool but yeah like the discipline that but she's she's used to it but then this is what you want to

like i don't know like we're not complaining obviously about our lives like we're obviously so grateful but it is like the thing that they don't like tell you about there's no way to extrapolate how you are going to be feeling and living as like a 30, 40, 50 something, 60 something, however long you want to work to balance like your actual life with like, oh God, I got to like do eight shows a week and night and suck on Greathers past deals all day. I'd be sucking on the brothers past. I'd be sucking on brothers. And what's weird too is like to have a job that isolates the area of your life that is like

six to 10 p.m. Yeah. It's just such a bizarre part of your day to be when you work. And at around 2 p.m., I'm like, hey, anybody free? Anybody out here? And everyone's like, no. Anybody want to have dinner? It's two.

I'm thinking about having pasta. A little spaghetti. But no. So then I'm eating a full meal at 11 p.m. But sleeping until when? You must be sleeping in these days. Well, recently I've been unable to sleep in, which is concerning. Why?

I don't know. My body just says, it's 9.55. which I know isn't super early. No, but when your schedule is shifted later, it's like, I do, yeah, it's hard. When you're going to bed at like two or three, 955, you're like, okay, but I could have used a little bit more. Let me have a little bit more.

Well, you're up at night smoking weed. How dare you? Jacking off. You're up at like smoking weed, jacking off. Gambling. Well, I got to get into my gambling fix. On my horses. Which one's going to win, Lucky Seven.

Big Blue. I got 10 on Big Blue. Me too. I hope we win. We win. Can we talk about Aaron Jackson? Wait, I wanted to bring Aaron up too

because you guys are spirits. You guys are kindred spirits. Oh, 100%. Talk about the, because the vibe is like, we are devil may care. In a way, you guys are like, yeah, whatever. It's just, but it flows out of you like magic. The humor.

The humor. You guys have the same. I'm really honored that you would say that. You have a very similar stylings. Well, I learned a lot from Aaron. When I started Rumpel Teaser, it was like Aaron and Josh Sharp and Jeff Hiller. Yep. And for like months, I was so panicked like on the back wall being like, just walk out and just do the scene.

You're going to be fine. But I learned so much by like literally performing with them weekly for years. So you were on stage with Hiller all the time. Yeah. We did a show the night after Trump was elected for the first time. And I'll never forget it. Like, Jeff led us like a song about how like gender is a river or something. And like all of us were crying.

I mean, the things that we have said and done, Aaron and I have played sisters who've fucked like probably multiple times. Can I say that? You can say sisters who fucked But don't say brothers who fuck Because that's not through the male gays We can talk about sisters who fucked Because the men

This is a Manosphere podcast So the men that listen to us Can see two women fucking And they get it But if you talk about two gay guys They don't have an entry point That's disgusting So just to maintain our manosphere presence

Okay I got you Sisters We're fucking Just sisters But yeah I really feel the spirit Of Aaron lives within me of just like,

that is Aaron. What did you feel when Hiller won the Emmy? Oh my gosh. I truly wept. I wept. I mean, obviously you are a star

and I would have loved if you won as well. Not true. No, he says. Untrue. Okay. With his legs crossed. No.

But I mean, like, wow. I had seen Jeff like a week prior and he was like, I'm not going to win. I know I'm not going to win. It's just so beautiful. I he's so beautiful on that show the euphoria that I felt

oh my god and this is someone who like to see hundreds of people on Instagram being like this is the kindest person they work so hard like I was just so moved by the amount of people that felt like

oh this was a win for us you know yeah so huge like when does that happen no no don't please no I was just gonna say I feel that way too like just with me being in the show sometimes where I'm like it's not just me like making it to broadway it's like all of our friends and like the people that we came up with i'm like yeah we're doing it we did that yeah it did feel like that like i i

will say like earnest moment oh it was like so overwhelming and so emotional and felt so good for it to be you that we were all going to see because i feel like you're one of the people that like universally everyone that's in your life like loves you and roots for you and knows that you deserve it because you are so special and so the fact that you're going to get this like hunk of time to do it I'm so happy they gave it to you because a you deserve it and be it's going to be fucking phenomenal because you're so good at it and especially the mad cat medley which is when I feel you can be the most wildest up most I feel so wild you get to feel so wild the last time I did the show I was like I need to stop sticking my tongue out no that's your take my take

is tongue out yes it's like you know like a sexy little devil like what do you call it like what about

Cupid doll but a devil just like I love someone who thinks that they're cute face that they're making

as an aside is like someone whose cute little thing is who me like whose cute little thing

is the worst face they can make but sometimes you do want to do that you do But you have to let it out And you have to let it out on stage Exactly, my medium

You should throw, I know like Mary's in distress For most of the show But I think in one of the scenes You should be like during the great day monol You should go at some point Direct like to an audience member Make an eye contact Well, you'll have to find out if she does it

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cause. We're going to move into, I don't think so, honey. This is our 60 second segment where we take exactly that amount of time. Okay, I'm going to rent real and rage and not retreat. The opposite of retreat. Absolutely tear apart something in culture that gets to us and I have something. Okay. Yeah.

This is Matt Rogers is I don't think so many. It's time starts now. I don't think so, honey. still using a towel that has a brown stain even if it's clean. Okay, so who is doing that? One thing that happens is like you wash towels

they come out of the dryer, they're clean, but they still have a brown stain on it. And people are like, well, it's just the stain from what was there. It's not currently soiled. I don't think so, honey. I think once a towel has a brown stain, look, we're in entertainment.

It could be makeup. It could be poop. We don't know 30 seconds. Because it could be poop. I don't think so, honey. Any, and poop touches so many more things that I think we could even understand. But the fact that this is a towel, a thing expressly used to, you know, comfort oneself after a shower, comfort meaning dry. Like, to me, it's just like, if it could be poop, for me it is, because especially because the towel is in the bathroom as well.

Sometimes what happens is you get a towel. It's a little bit fucked up. I don't think so, honey, rolling the dice. Throw it away. Get a new towel. I don't think so, honey. And that's one minute. It could be poop.

It could be poop. Oh, well, it could be poop. It could be poop. I'm just saying like today, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You had to. I had to. And I sort of saw the towel and there was like a little bit of a stain on it.

And I'm like, I should just get rid of this. And then I thought, okay, I did use that towel when I took makeup off my face. And only people who work in entertainment, by the way, he used makeup. I mean boys. Sorry, I'm very binary today, apparently. Anyway, I just think if your towel is covered in stains, you got to do it out. Okay. I support this.

I think we're all in agreement. Yeah. All right. Well, I'm glad I said it. What's the peanut gallery saying? Black towels. Oh. So then you can have whatever stains you want.

Black towels and brown flowers. Please. Please, stop at once. You came in and I knew that it would be a goofy dad. Goofy, goof. Do you have something to say? I have something, it's, I'm gonna go for it. Okay.

And it's an important part of the community, but there's something about it that is fundamentally really devastating to what we do in our time, and I have to call this out. And I love this place dearly. And this is Boneyang's. I don't think so honey, his time starts now. I don't think so honey that there are not one, not two,

but three locations of Ripley Greer Studios that I spent at least 45 minutes trying to get to the right one because it was not specified clearly to me which one I was supposed to be at this morning. And so, of course, I had a lovely time in a yellow cab because that's what was available on 8,000. Avenue in 36th, but I went to the 36th Street location, didn't see anything on the board,

went to the 38th street location, realized I was at the wrong one, then had to go all the way up, 8th Avenue to the 55th street location. And you guys, I think we have to figure out a naming convention so that it's SEO friendly so that if I type it in Google Maps, I'm at the right place. So you can have a shorthand say, I'm at Ripley 55th. I'm at Greer 38. I'm being very calm about this because I say this with love. But I think it would be, it would eliminate so much consternation and strife

in the theater and dance and performer community who are rehearsing. And that's one minute. Well, I'm so, I'm so sorry. I did, I did fuck up my day a little bit. I think it needs to be raised to the ground and rebuilt.

Or that. It's not, it's not ethical. It's not ethical. You're talking about Ripley Greer specifically. It's unethical. The way it's laid out is unethical. I'm not saying that. About ethics.

I'm not, and I obviously love everybody who works there as a decades-long patron of that place. I say this with love, but this is not the first time I've been to the wrong Ripley.

Mm-hmm. Do you know what you need to do once you get into one of those studios? Spray-air-a-salt? Spray-air-sall. Well, it's always like so thick and sweaty in there. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, you know, but we can put up with that.

I can put up with that. Okay. I cannot put up with multiple locations and being very hard to specify which one, you know, you're already stressed. You're probably already late. You're already in a I can't I have rehearsal mentality. And you're already a little stressed out

because you know you're going to go dance. Exactly. Like I've never once gone to Ripley Greer or really any rehearsal studio like that and been like, I'm excited to be here. It's always I'm going to do something that I'm going to be bad at first and scary. Yeah.

And then we lost. you have to show your ID the panic of getting to the elevator the police state of that building the police state of 520 8th Avenue it's a police state Hannah you don't have your idea good luck good luck you're not getting into rehearsal

oh okay Christy Gnome I guess this is fucking this is the airport at the gate by the way I did go to the airport and start all those Christie Nome videos like it was fucking you know a pre-show for a Disney ride I was like this is crazy shit She's B.D. Wong at the Jurassic Park ride. She really thinks she's Beattie Wong. She's deeply mistaken.

I haven't seen these videos. Go to the airport. Okay. Get on a flight tonight. After this. Hurry. I'm going to Florida. Call back.

That's improv. I need to go to Florida for an improv callback. I'm doing a three days at the Lyceum and then I'm going to Florida for my callback. Headed to Orlando tonight for my improv callback. I see Christy on the screen. They want me to be one of the, one of the fountains, the voice of a fountain. I sit in a small room that's too hot. I have a little microphone and a tiny, tiny screen.

I can see who walks up to a fountain, and I play a fountain that talks. Okay, what's your fountain voice? This one. That's good. Comforting. Kind of similar to there. I, I, I, I, who's here to show me? I'm a fountain.

Well, come on, kids. still a coin in me. Make a wish, why don't you? This is a good character. Of old fountain. Hold on, I'll be right there. Just kidding. I can't move.

I'm a big hole in the ground. Go have fun. Is someone writing this down? Hurry. We have producers for this. Are you writing down what I'm saying? For my fountain bit? Okay.

Die. Oh. Okay. Yeah. This is important. I'm sweating. You've done this before. I have done it before. I don't think so, Honey Live. I believe I was at the first ever one with the hat.

You were. You were. You had the hat. We had the culturalistas hats. Oh my God. Remember those? It used to be culture crusaders. It doesn't really fit with the hat, but whatever.

I don't think most of the things we've done have like fit in with the hat. But it was a gorgeous hat. It was. You're sort of pirate-esque. Pirate-ass. You ready? Okay. Do you have a topic?

Yeah. This is Hannah Solo's. I don't think so, honey. Her time starts now. I don't think so, honey, cooking a meal for yourself and then it turns out bad. Oh, no. I just spent 26 whole ass dollars and three hours of my one wild and precious life on a goddamn stew. And now I'm either going to throw it in the garbage or eat it for the next two weeks because I don't want to waste it.

Scalions, gone. carrots gone can of tomatoes are gone and people are you trying to put new ingredients in to fix it I don't think so honey you can't fix it she is who she is

walk away and you're thinking well oh you made the stew it's your fault I don't think so honey it's the stew's fault yeah blame the stew 15 seconds

and I should have just maybe ordered delivery like I wanted to in the first place and it would have spent $52 and 86 five seconds

single chicken wrap but now I'm having toast for dinner again toast dinner I don't think so honey toast dinner look you can't be a hero in the kitchen no me crying over a bowl that I worked on so hard it tastes horrible oh my god gagging it down gagging it down why don't you text Dave and ask what happened Dave I don't know and you buy all these ingredients where you have to use a single table spoon? Oh, I hate that. He's grimacing at you. You buy all the ingredients and then you get home and they're like a dash of it. I spent $30 on this oil. Now I got seven cinnamon sticks sitting in my pantry for the next eight years. Exactly. And you're Googling, what can I do with

cinnamon sticks? Oh, shut up. You can make a winter sangria. I actually see the thing is this is why you text your friends in your community. Had you done that, you would have been able to hear from me. I've been inspired. That's what to do with the cinnamon sticks. Okay, well, now I know. I was in full shame mode, you know, when you go, I have to just be by myself

eating this bowl of slop. Right, but it is just tough to go, do I throw it out? Exactly. Because that sucks. Toast dinner again is such a hard image for me. Like you saying, I'm eating a toast dinner again.

Toaster dinner. Just like you. It's like 11.30 p.m. You didn't get to go on because no one was sick. That sucks. You get home. You're fucking flopping in the kitchen. I guess I got to pop that Ryan.

Hit hit heavy. And I burn it. Every time I burn it. Ryan heavy toast. You burn the toast every time. I don't have a toaster. I don't have a microwave. Oh, well.

I'm just out here in this world. Lost. I hope with the money you make from being Oh, Hannah. you bye That's her biggest laugh of the episode You're hilarious You're hilarious That's rich

I'm like me A swing I see it sounds similar to the fountain These are all really different I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry Excuse you Excuse you And it's been like that since the beginning

Excuse you That's really been the vibe Excuse you You come in here Maggie moo Maybe I'm gonna walk out now No, don't walk. We're all going to walk you out together.

Was it in hand? Maggie moo or Mona Mae? Okay. Mona Mae. Maggie moo. Mona Mae. Darlet Dreyer. The cast of Hunting Wives season two, if they're lucky.

Because they're all dead. They're all dead. Sorry, spoiler. They're all dead. So many of them are dead. When it kept happening, I was astounded. You could tell they were writing with abandon. Click, cluck, cluck, clack.

You cunts. You're dead. You're dead. I really thought that red-headed Callie. Yeah, yeah, I con. Yes. I was so good. She begs her husband.

Yes. And then start to get a new show. And now she's like, she has her own Nancy Grace show. To get the real Nancy Grace. Nancy Grace flying into guest start and be like, you need a show. You got a future. You got a store. You need to really think about what's next.

She had a great day. on set. No, she did. You could tell everyone's like, Nancy, thank you so much for doing this. Now, if I'm to be correct, if I'm looking at what I'm looking at, it looks like a lot of people are dying in your town. What is happening in this crunching? What is happening in this town? Do you think she improvised? I feel like she was like, I have some ideas for the script. Let me just, let me just do a fun one. I bet Nancy Grace knows what a fun run is. Yeah. Do a fun run. Now, what about one for me? I got to do a take.

Can I do this one for me? For me, y'all. Let me just, let me just do one for me. I'll be quick. I got a pitch. I got a pitch. Meanwhile, she goes, it tears. Everyone, everyone's like dying, moved, crying, laughing, in suspense.

Sort of like watching you do. Oh, Mary. Oh, you have to. September 30th, October 12th. I cannot wait. It will be a grand old time. I am proud of you. Please, I'm gonna cry.

You're such a star. I've always known. You just rock and we're so happy that you're here. I'm so proud of you both. It truly really means so much to be here with you both. Love you. Love you down. Do you, are you grateful to Malala

that we actually got to have a great time in this room? I feel like I'm loving the vibes of this room. I was trying to set us up. Now better than I did coming in. That's true. You came in with a different energy. And now it's sort of our room. I don't know what's going on up there.

Oh, she's crushing. She's tearing it up. She's got really good material. Well, we end every episode with the song, and I know it with a perfect one. It's coming on Christmas. They're cutting down trees. They're putting up rain in a song of joy and peace. I wish I had a river.

I could skate away on. Wow, you guys, the voices are lower. Voices are like a river. Oh, nice. Teach my feet to fly. Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on. Listen to that song? Stream Blue by Joni Mitchell.

Or so many albums. Everyone's covering that. People love River. Why. Gender is a river. River. Las Culturacist is the production by Will Ferrell's Big Money Players and IHeartRadio podcasts. Created and hosted by Matt Rogers and Bowen-Yag.

Executive produced by Anna Hosnier and produced by Decker Ramos. Edited and next by Duck Bame. And our music is by Henry Keperski. Hi there, this is Josh Clark from the Stuff You Should Know podcast. If you've been thinking, man alive, If I could go for some good true crime podcast episodes, then if we got good news for you. Stuff You Should Know just released a playlist of 12 of our best true crime episodes of all time. There's a shootout in broad daylight.

People using axes in really terrible ways, disappearances, legendary heists, the whole nine yards. So check out the Stuff You Should Know true crime playlist on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and on the new season of heavyweight. And so I pointed the gun at him and said this isn't a joke. A man who robbed a bank when he was 14 years old. And a centenarian rediscovers a love lost 80 years ago. How can a 101-year-old woman fall in love again? Listen to heavyweight on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

People called them murderers. Ten years later, they were gods. Today, no one knows their names. A group of maverick surgeons who took on the medical establishment who risked everything to invent open heart surgery. Welcome to the Wild West of American Medicine. I'm Chris Pine, and this is Cardiac Cowboys. If you like medical dramas, if you like heart-pounding thrillers,

you will love Cardiac Cowboys. Listen on the iHeart Radio app or wherever you listen to podcasts. Sponsored by Jasper, AI, Build For marketers. Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, and I'm the host of the On Purpose podcast. Recently, I had a conversation with the one and only, Madonna. When I was broke and I had no friends, nowhere to live, I was held up at gunpoint. I was robbed.

All these horrendous things happened to me. I had such an unhappy childhood that whatever happened to me in New York is better than what my life was, so I'm not going back. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you Get your podcasts. This is an IHeart podcast.