Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang - “Loud American Whore” (w/ Greta Titelman)

Episode Date: August 16, 2023

RPKFs, Las Cultch favorite Greta Titelman returns to the pod and joins us from Scotland with Matt, who has gone through one of the most harrowing travel experiences in recent personal memory. All this... as Bowen has a terrible fever? It’s giving I DON’T Think So, Honey. Find out what on earth the Witches Well is and whether or not Edinburgh has amazing food options (it doesn’t). Noomi Rapace, early memories of curse words and the plausibility of “And Just Like That” pave the way for emphatic discussions on Vitamin Water stepping onto the world stage, the glory of multicam, and bands you would have wanted to “be” in the aughts. It’s JUST close, proud Americans this week, and you can check out Greta’s critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe Festival show “Exquisite Lies,” playing until August 27. @gertiebird @Gertie_Bird  Tix here: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/greta-titelman-s-exquisite-lies Bonus episodes are available early for subscribers to Big Money Players Diamond on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/lasculturistasSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:01:56 words, and I know he means storytelling when he says a story like mine has never been told. He's about to spin a yarn on us. Okay. Picture this. I'm spending 90 minutes packing, roughly,
Starting point is 00:02:11 for what I'm calling my big August. So I was going to Scotland to see the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. More on that in a bit. Then I was going straight to Las Vegas, Nevada to see Kelly Clarkson. Then I'm going straight to Las Vegas, Nevada to see Kelly Clarkson. Then I'm going to Orlando, Florida to hang out with my sister and dear friends.
Starting point is 00:02:34 After that, I was to go to the Fire Island Pines. So I was going to spend all of August away. So I needed to pack a ton of things. So I spent about 90 minutes packing. I go to throw out the garbage in my New York apartment. It's always the garbage. It's always the garbage that gets you. I leave the apartment.
Starting point is 00:02:54 The door closes behind me. Oh my god. All my bags and my keys are in the goddamn room. So I'm like, oh my god, my passport is in there. Just kidding. No, it's not. I have on my person, I have my passport, my wallet, my phone, and my AirPods. So I had a choice to make. Do I just straight up go to the airport with nothing but the clothes on my back and none
Starting point is 00:03:17 of the things I packed? The answer was yes. I got on a plane to Edinburgh, Scotland, where I currently am, with nothing. And did a shop in Supriya! Blue Crantrell style. Crantrell. In the JFK. I said I bought all the basics and some bags.
Starting point is 00:03:38 Yeah. So then I get here with truly nothing but the basics. And here we are. I'm here in Edinburgh Fringe. I'm seeing amazing shows. I'm doing amazing culture here. And I did that. I committed to the culture that I said I was going to see,
Starting point is 00:03:54 but even without all my things. What did it feel like to walk through security with nothing? Honestly, I was like, do I look suspicious? Mmm, interesting. Nobody stopped me, but I was like, I know I look suspicious, just breezing through to an international flight. It's a white privilege.
Starting point is 00:04:14 Honestly, and I'm ready to talk about that. And I want this episode to be called White Privilege. This episode is about white privilege. We've got three white women on the podcast today. Bowen Yang, white women on the podcast today. Bowen Yang, Matt Rogers, and the guest. But first, before we get to the guest, who actually has a show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival,
Starting point is 00:04:34 I want to know how you're feeling. I'm feeling really bad. I feel sick. What's going on, Queenie? I just woke up with a sore throat and a fever. It's not COVID yet, but I'm going, she's back. No matter
Starting point is 00:04:52 what this is, the virus is back. And I have a bone to pick with Peggy Lee, Miss Thing who sang the song Fever. Well, she might have passed, but she glamorized illness with the song Fever. Well, she might have passed, but she glamorized illness with the song Fever.
Starting point is 00:05:07 Fever all through the night. That's not good. That is not sexy. Are you experiencing symptoms throughout the night? I was waking up every hour on the hour to pee and then fall back asleep.
Starting point is 00:05:19 Was having the most intense dreams. This is no joke. Fevers? What is going on there? I think there's something magical about fevers. It's not just the symptom of fever. It's what it does to you sort of psychoactively. There's a psychoactive element to fever. Describe your dreams. And by this sentence, I mean, describe the dreams you had last night during a fever, not your big dreams in the macro sense right I don't I'm not someone who remembers them very well
Starting point is 00:05:48 but I think I was with a lover or something likely story oh my god fever dream high in the quiet of the night you know that caught it and I think I might have even had some I think Jessel Tank might have been in my dream
Starting point is 00:06:04 because I just finished watching Roni. And that's about all I can remember. Jessel saying that Tribeca is an up and coming neighborhood is why Roni is good. I showed that to our guest and she couldn't believe it. She couldn't let it go. She's not stopped talking about it.
Starting point is 00:06:20 Or our guest just made a face. This is iconic at first, by the way, we have our guest with Matt on the Zoom box in a different country in Macbeth country. Oh my God. We've all been talking about
Starting point is 00:06:33 how you can't say it. Did I ever tell you about the time I said it? You can't say it in the theater. That's the only place you can't say it. Well, I feel like, okay, so we were having
Starting point is 00:06:41 some cocktails last night with some of the girls, Patty Harrison, Ruby McAllister, et al. And we were all talking about, and if you're a real reader, you can look back to Ruby McAllister's episode, Dark Gay Culture, when she talked about being raised in an LA theater. It was the Coronet, it became the Largo.
Starting point is 00:06:57 So I looked at her and I said, I am not going to say the name of the Scottish play in her presence at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. I'm just not doing it. So we all had a conversation about how, what exactly happens when you do say it and the curse of the play. And it's a very cursed town.
Starting point is 00:07:13 Before, we were at the Witch's Well. Oh my God, describe it. Well, I want to bring our guest in. I want to hear about the Witch's Well from our guest. She can really describe the Witch's Well better than I can because she's sort of so smart and so gorgeous and so funny. And so many things. And I will say I did see her show Exquisite Lies last night at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Starting point is 00:07:36 I think I've seen the show more than anyone else because I open up for the guests when she does the show live. I'm so proud of her. She's killing it up here in Edinburgh. She just got another five-star review. And'm so proud of her. She's killing it up here in Edinburgh. She just got another five-star review, and the reviews have been good. The city of Edinburgh is buzzing about Exquisite Lies, and I'm having the best time with her. It's her day
Starting point is 00:07:54 off today, and we're having an amazing time. We're going to go see Monet X Change. Oh my god, she's in town. She's doing a show. And now, it's very hard to impress a foreign audience when you know this. And she's going to tell you all about that. But you know her, you love her.
Starting point is 00:08:10 You got to see her show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival if you're here. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Greta Teitelman! You're here, you're right next to me. Oh my God. Every single time I get the chance to come on Lost Cult, I'm so honored.
Starting point is 00:08:25 I really am. And what bigger honor than to be doing it here in my absolutely shitty flat. Oh, yeah. Describe the flat. It's really not good. Well, where can we start? Stained wall-to-wall carpet, for starters.
Starting point is 00:08:42 The lap of luxury. That's always moist you know the kind of wall-to-wall that's always wet and you don't really know what from but there's a little bit of moisture everywhere we absolutely have a shit closet yeah i was just in there where this used to be this is a very old building and the poop stall was its own little literal closet where you would go and shit. Europe doesn't get it. Europe putting the toilet in its own room
Starting point is 00:09:16 is disgusting. Also, they have not gotten on board with a comfortable toilet seat. It's possible. Period. It is possible.
Starting point is 00:09:28 I'll tell you what, too. Everywhere you go, and I hate this, and my I don't think so, honey, today, actually, I didn't tell Greta what it is, but we were walking earlier, and it is related to this. But this is not it. But this is something I don't think so, honey. Why are the lights to the bathrooms on the outside of the room? The switch. The switch that turns on the lights. It's on the outside of the room. I don't like that.
Starting point is 00:09:52 Also, the buttons on these toilets in the UK just... Oh, you don't even know the trick about my toilet. What's the trick? My toilet, if you so decide to go number two, you have to run the sink on top of my toilet. Yes, there is
Starting point is 00:10:14 a sink on top of the toilet. Yeah, there is. I will be providing a photo. You have to run the sink on top of the toilet in order to get enough water to flush your turd down the fence. Oh, my God. We're in old town Scotland.
Starting point is 00:10:29 We really are. Yeah. Title of app. Title of app. Describe The Witch's Well. What was it like? What's so amazing about it? The Witch's Well.
Starting point is 00:10:40 We were so excited to go. We are winding up Potter's Way. We are winding up the gorgeous cobblestone streets of the ancient city. Ancient. Ancient. I'm a little ancient. Yeah. Ancient.
Starting point is 00:10:55 Some might say the 16th century streets of Edinburgh. And what do we stumble upon? The Witch's well. Now, this well is where all of the witches would go and drink in the 15th and 16th century before they all got persecuted and hung. So basically, it was like... It's to commemorate them in many ways. To commemorate them.
Starting point is 00:11:23 Was it to be like, here, drink from here before we kill you Yeah Why don't you moisten that mouth Before we hang you from it Yeah, slag They would say slag You dumb slags I do have
Starting point is 00:11:40 My eyes have fallen on a Sexual Hot Scottish barista so it's the one place in scotland where you can get cold brew batch brew as they call it here batch brew and there is one barista who's just got it you ask him for ice he doesn't look at you like you're a fucking fool tell bowen what i said i said i'm so happy you have cold brew he was like oh he's like oh yeah i was like i'll be coming here every day and he said and i look forward to serving no he said i love to serve you he said well i love to serve you that's hot i said do you
Starting point is 00:12:18 want me to throw it back papa what's going on papa turn around. I said, you want to split me muff? Yeah. Split me muff? Split me muff. I said, split me muff. You want to split me muff? I used the expression, you want to split me muff the other day to Greta, and she had a negative reaction to it. Well, that's accurate. The muff is split.
Starting point is 00:12:39 The muff splitter. They call me the muff splitter. I mean, when I tell you there are crazy things happening on the stages in Edinburgh, I was at a bar the other day with Patty, woman on stage, fully spreading open her vagina, explaining
Starting point is 00:12:56 what a labia is to a packed bar of people. I've never been to Edinburgh. What is the culture, the energy? Is it like chaos? What is your experience as someone who has an acclaimed show
Starting point is 00:13:12 there? That is the dream. Is it acclaimed? Dretta, yes. You just got a five-star review. You just got a five-star review. I know. Look, would I love to sell it out? I would. I would love to sell it out. But the reality is this festival has over 3,200 shows playing here. And it's everything.
Starting point is 00:13:34 It's theater. It's comedy. It's clown. It's circus. It's dance. It's magic. It's literally like any kind of performance you can think of. It's giving streaming boom. It's giving like any kind of performance giving streaming boom it's giving like
Starting point is 00:13:46 yes the bubbles should be bursting soon yes it is and it's like the biggest gripe with the way the fringe has changed is that it's just become so expensive that like young people really can't afford to attend it in the same way that used to you you know? So now it's like, you get a lot of like middle to older age people attending it. And you know, when I'm busting my fucking muff on stage, talking about things that are potentially more topical to us, it's kind of like, where are the girls? You know what I mean? Right. You need the girls who understand what busting a muff even means. Exactly. And, you know, I'm targeting the girls.
Starting point is 00:14:28 I did look at an 83-year-old woman on the brink of death the other night in my show and said that I swallowed to her looking directly in her eyes. And she laughed. She loved it and laughed. And I said, doll, I said, I know. She wanted to look at me and be like, I've been swallowing for 70 years. I've been swallowing since the Great War. Exactly. There were a couple old gays that came up to Greta last night and were like, you're the most talented person in the festival.
Starting point is 00:15:00 Yes, yes. And the old gays see it all. They're like, you're the most talented actor I've ever seen here. No, what was that? Yeah, that's Scottish. I mean, who am I to speak? You really need to be rolling your words. They're always talking like this.
Starting point is 00:15:16 Rolling their tongues like this. Oh, Matt has also been very bombarded with us college fans. Really? Girls shaking in their boots, being like, is that... Local girls?
Starting point is 00:15:29 Yes, the dolls. Oh my God, I didn't know the reach. I love local girls, man. Ew. Love local girls. Can I tell you something? Nothing like local girls.
Starting point is 00:15:38 Local girls, they love a big star rolling through. But I will say, to just... Bowen is so shocked. To just finish sort of explaining the energy of Edinburgh. Oh, the energy, yes.
Starting point is 00:15:52 You're stuck on which as well. I'm stuck on which as well. It's winter here is what I think people also don't get. It is fully freezing your tits off. No, it's not freezing. It's 60 degrees. I love getting it to be able to wear a sweatshirt,
Starting point is 00:16:07 which, by the way, we had to buy all new clothes. I will reiterate for me. But it is really nice because it's been so goddamn hot. We've all said it, global boiling and all. But it's been so lovely to be here. We looked at some castles. I will say this. The people are so nice.
Starting point is 00:16:24 So nice. The city is so excited about the festival, and you can see why. I will say this. The people are so nice. So nice. The city is so excited about the festival, and you can see why. It's really cool. Just like the history. It's gorgeous. It's beautiful here. It's like Harry Potter. It's crazy. So literally, my hotel is, I learned, it's on the street that
Starting point is 00:16:37 inspired Diagon Alley. But it's very, very, very, like, it's just amazing. What is really tough is the food. Okay. And I'm sure you're not the first people to say this. So I think it's a conversation that we can have constructively. What are the delicacies?
Starting point is 00:16:55 Well, the delicacies are haggis. Which I had to ask what that was. Didn't like the answer at all. Didn't like the answer. Yeah. Do you know about Haggis? You asking what Haggis is? We both spent time in London.
Starting point is 00:17:08 Yeah. You asking what Haggis is, is like me asking what the horses drama was with the owners of horses. Matt and Matt Whitaker were like, it's too bad to say at dinner. We can't tell you at dinner. Right.
Starting point is 00:17:20 And I was like, oh, is it that bad? Like, God, did someone die? Truly shocking once I found out. Are we allowed to talk about this and bring this up? Everyone can just look it up. I think that they've since rectified. Do you know about what's going down in horses? She doesn't want to comment.
Starting point is 00:17:33 Greta and I went one time. We can cut this out. Oh, we haven't been to horses with Greta. No, Bowen and I. We haven't been to LA. We should absolutely keep it in. Bowen and I had a gorgeous meal at horses with Abe. It was delectable.
Starting point is 00:17:45 Delectable. And I think that from what I've heard, and this could be totally false information. I think both of the chefs are now out of the picture. I think they're not at the, both of them are not at the restaurant anymore from what I glean. And by the way, it's still a tough reservation to get your little paws on and yeah so i don't think i don't think that the whole you know meow meow kitty cat of it
Starting point is 00:18:13 all kind of deterred their business well so and literally we're not gonna get into it on the pod because it really is it's so bad it's giving, like if you want to find out what happened with horses, which by the way, I think it is rectified now, look it up on your own T-I-M-E. But you know what I've really discovered, especially in LA, controversy around restaurants
Starting point is 00:18:35 where people are like, we're not going there anymore, does not stop business because I'll tell you what, we, was it like, it must've been like two months ago at the height of the scandal all we were looking we were looking for a place to get drinks and have some noshes and we ended up at schwartz
Starting point is 00:18:52 and sandys no so basically what happened was we were around that area and i of course refused to step foot in schwartz and sandys i won't do And I was like, let's just fucking go to Schwartz and Sandy's. Who cares? And Matt was like, I can't be seen there. No, I was like, I'm not being seen there. I can't be seen. No, because I support and respect Ariana. So then you guys drove past it and saw that it was packed?
Starting point is 00:19:18 So then I was like, let me just go and see because no place around there had room. And I was like, let me just go and see if we can just get a drink while we wait for a table somewhere else. Walk in packed, packed gills. They were like,
Starting point is 00:19:31 honey, if you don't have a reservation at all this weekend, you're not getting in. Oh my God. But I did buy Matt a little present from there. She got me a coast. She got me an ashtray. And I felt good about having a Schwartz and Sandy's ashtray.
Starting point is 00:19:48 Cause I can be like lighten up my little one on it. My little duber. I mean, Chick-fil-A is a perfect example. You know, I've stopped eating it. I really have. You need to walk that back, honey. You're telling me to stand down? You need to back off.
Starting point is 00:20:05 I just love it. There was a time when Bowen and I would go downtown LA to record old episodes of Lost Couch when we were still over at Forever Dog and they had an office down there. And Bowen would get a devilish, little feverish look in his eye and he would say, let's go to Chick-fil-A. And I would say,
Starting point is 00:20:21 get out of here. We would have a tussle in the street. We would get physical with each other. I was really fighting. Chick-fil-A. And I would say, get out of here. We would have a tussle in the street. We would get physical with each other. I would be fighting. Chick-fil-A is, like, unfortunately, very good. It wouldn't be in the conversation if it was bad. Do you know what I'm saying? A hundred percent. And they say that about a lot of things.
Starting point is 00:20:40 But you know what's weird that I still have never been able to get behind? Yeah, what? The square burger patties at Wendy's. I just think that's a nice little novelty. It's a way to distinguish the brand. But how do you feel about a square burger? Honey, it's more
Starting point is 00:20:57 surface area. It's more beef. I guess that's true. Oh, I didn't think about it like that. Do you feel that it should be on sand on a bun also square? No. Because the shape of a burger is round. Just like how Charlie Bardet tweeted, when people put soup in a square Tupperware,
Starting point is 00:21:13 that is not right. It should be round. It should be a circle, which is the shape of soup. Yeah, soup is a circle. Soup is a circle. And that's actually real culture number 83. Soup is a circle. Soup is a circle. I agree with that. Co- 83. Soup is a circle. Soup is a circle. I agree with that. Co-credit to Charlie Bardet. You know,
Starting point is 00:21:27 we walked past Nando's earlier. I thought Nando's was great cuisine. It depends. You like Nando's though. You've had Nando's in London. I went, Matt Whitaker and I went
Starting point is 00:21:37 when we were in London and the way he was acting about it was like, well, we have to go to Nando's if we want quality chicken. And so then we sat down and ate it and I thought it was great. to go to Nando's if we want quality chicken. And so then we sat down and ate it and I thought it was great. I walked by Nando's
Starting point is 00:21:48 earlier with Greta because we're literally searching far and wide for literally one bite of decent food. Literally searching, searching. It's that bad. Like, it was like looking for fucking the Scientology
Starting point is 00:22:02 woman trying to find a vegetable in this goddamn town. Looking for a pot of vegetables. Shelly Miskovich. You can find Shelly Miskovich easier in this town than a fucking piece of broccoli. I'll tell you that right now. So we're walking past Nando's and I go, oh my God, Nando's. That's really good.
Starting point is 00:22:17 And Greta looks at me and goes, yeah, if you like 7-Eleven. Greta. She's such a bitch. She's a slag. Oh my god, I am such a slag bitch. She's a bitchy slag. I'm a bitchy slag. And honestly, put that on my fucking tombstone. I am a bitchy
Starting point is 00:22:36 slag. Bitchy slag. I think people in the UK have better... Love Nando's. They love Nando's, but I'm saying they have better curses. Oh yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, absolutely. They call each other a cunt. And it's sort of like so playful.
Starting point is 00:22:49 Well, I say cunt in my show. And my producer out here was like, you know, we actually say cunt all the time. They do. They do. I know. And they know that Americans hate it. Why do Americans hate it? I wonder.
Starting point is 00:23:03 Because Americans are fucking prude they're so uptight actually i will say this is going to be really controversial what i'm about to say good say it here we need the clicks i i will say being and i felt this way even when i i love london okay i love the city yes love the town but i felt this way even when I was there for like January and February. And I really feel this way being in Scotland. I am proud to be an American. Europe has a thing about it. And I think every other continent in a way where after a while you go, take me back to the States.
Starting point is 00:23:42 You know, and I'm just like, I'm like, yeah, I'm a loud American whore. Greta was screaming on the streets earlier, where's ketchup? I want ketchup! I'm such a whore for this stuff. I'm a whore! I'm a fucking
Starting point is 00:24:02 whore! Fuck you! I want some ketchup for my french fries. No, no, no. For my freedom fries. Freedom fries. Where's the ketchup for my freedom fries, bitch? Yeah. Right.
Starting point is 00:24:13 Matt, do you agree with this? I'm so proud to be an American, man. Yeah. Let me tell you something. Patriotism is back and it's not just for the right. I think the left should embrace patriotism. Really reclaim it. I think that if the left embraced patriotism, we'd be in a better place.
Starting point is 00:24:30 I agree. Look, we're fucked up. We are fucked up. And what family isn't? And what family isn't? And what family isn't? That's a rule of culture. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:24:39 Number 57. America, we're fucked up. We're fucked up. But what family isn't? But what family isn't? Now That's really good. The Real Housewives of New York City are back for another bite
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Starting point is 00:27:07 And T and I, well, we have no problem going there. Listen to Levels to This with Cheryl Swoops and Tarika Foster-Brasby, an iHeart Women's Sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. You can find us on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Now, I remember the day, just to go back to cunt, I remember the day. Just to go back to cunt. It was the sixth grade, and at lunch, it was like, somehow the word had gotten in, had broken in to the other kids at lunch. And they were like, we just found out about the worst word you can possibly say.
Starting point is 00:27:51 And I was like, what? Is it the F word? They go, it's worse than the F word. I go, really? What? What could it be? They're like, if you call someone this, you're dead. You go to jail.
Starting point is 00:28:03 Yeah. Well, they were like, they have the right to fucking beat the shit out of you if you call them if you call them this i was like oh my god tell me i need to know now yeah and then when i found out what it was i said that's just a sound not not to reduce it to that you know but it's like i was like cunt i guess it does linguistically have a tough it's like, I was like, cunt? I guess it does linguistically have a tough, it's fricative, it starts on a cut, it ends on a tuh. Like it does sound weird coming out the mouth,
Starting point is 00:28:31 but why do Americans have an issue with it and not Brits? And Aussies, I would assume. Well, I genuinely have no idea. I'm sorry. Well, I just wanted to put it to the group. Here's my question. Do you remember, obviously both of you
Starting point is 00:28:46 when you first started incorporating curse words into your vocabulary i got in trouble for it in kindergarten really oh my god i got in trouble for it um the first month of school in america really wait hold on i need to know what you said and I need to know both of you. Matt, you go first. So I was in kindergarten, which means I was five. And for some reason, I became fixated on using three words and doing one hand gesture. The words were damn, hell, and ass. What was the hand gesture? It was the middle finger.
Starting point is 00:29:26 Oh my god. I couldn't wrap my head around stopping doing it. Someone would act out to me in kindergarten. We'd get into a squabble or something. I don't know. We both wanted to use the fucking blue crayon or something.
Starting point is 00:29:42 And I would just go and stick my middle finger right in the face. And then, of course, they all tattled on me. They all ran to Mrs. Smith, my ancient teacher. And she was like, Matthew, you have to stop doing that. And I would say, damn you. Damn, damn, damn. And I would say, hell, hell.
Starting point is 00:30:01 This is hell. And I would say, my ass. Like, this hurts my ass. Like, kiss my ass. I would just say things like that at five years old. Terrifying. I could find pictures of me at five. Just imagine this little boy just like fusing profane language. I bet it was
Starting point is 00:30:15 hilarious. I bet it was so funny. So then my teacher fucking nailed me with this one. She wrote a note and she said matthew this is a note about how good you're doing in class give this to your parents when you get home oh i didn't even read it i gave it i literally handed my own like fucking death certificate to my parents who read it back to me i'll never forget my stay set.
Starting point is 00:30:45 It's one of my earliest memories. They sat me down on the bed in my room and they looked at me and they were so disappointed and they read the note. And I remember my dad goes, Matthew has been using the words, damn hell and a S S couldn't even say it. He spelled out S. And then he goes, and he has been using the middle finger.
Starting point is 00:31:12 And you know I was in trouble. You want to know what my punishment was? My mother said, you know what? You're punished. That was the punishment. I wasn't allowed to turn on the radio for a week. Wow. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:31:26 That's intense. You know, I carried on. I said, well, where the fuck do you think I learned it, you slags? Yeah. And they said, you better watch your tone, mister. Yes. I said, you bitches better beware. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:31:43 Bowen, what happened when you were an eight-year-old trans plant? Immigrant, really. Immigrant. Well, it's not really quite as dramatic, but it was a recess. We were playing four square. I think a ball was, does four square have balls in it?
Starting point is 00:32:01 Yes. So then like someone, one ball, someone like tossed or you know slapped the ball in my direction and it hit me in the rear in the rear and i said you hit my ass and i was just being anatomically dramatic no i well i was being anatomically correct but and then of course these fucking kids like tattled what is with oh i the psychology of a tattling i never got it i never never got it it doesn't make you look cool no and honestly it makes you look lame to your teachers like if I was a teacher and a tattle came up to me
Starting point is 00:32:46 I would be like honey you look bad you are a fucking narc you little bitch get out my face get up out my face I would actually call a parent I would call a parent and I would say
Starting point is 00:33:02 hey guess what you have a kid that's a tattle. So, what happened then? Did they tattle on you, though, and what happens? I went to the principal's office. Not the principal. And what did they do? It was just the principal was, I didn't realize what a big deal this was.
Starting point is 00:33:18 In Canada, no one really went to the principal's office, I guess. But I went to the principal's office and then she was just like, you can't be saying these words and we're gonna have to i think that i my parents also got a note but then my parents my parents were like what like they like didn't really care didn't really get it um but it was a rude awakening i said oh america america has a problem i was eight years old and i thought. You knew that our culture was stunted. Yes.
Starting point is 00:33:49 Yes. Well, you have to understand, and I keep saying this, like I moved to Colorado right after Monica Lewinsky, JonBenet Ramsey, and Columbine. So I'm over here as a child going, America is fucked up. And where I'm going is the state where people get killed. I'm not even joking. Like, I was like, this is a bad place.
Starting point is 00:34:13 I, last night at my show. Yeah, this was wild. My show, well, wait, really quickly, not that anyone asked, but the first time I got busted doing anything person-adjacent, I was flicking off my French au pair. And I would... Whenever she
Starting point is 00:34:33 would turn her back to me, I would just go both. I would do both. And I hated her. Her name was Olivia, and I fucking hated her. It's not even a French name. I know, and I would do double flips and I would cross them like an X. Why don't people do that?
Starting point is 00:34:50 That looks chic. Crossing the middle finger. There's nothing like just giving up. It's so good. My mom loved to give people the finger. Like when we were in the car always giving people the finger. I love giving the finger too. It's powerful.
Starting point is 00:35:07 I'll never forget the first time I heard my mom say fuck. It was because we were in the car and there was like a traffic thing. And it was like involuntary. She was like, what the fuck? And I was just like, and I remember I got all right just about it. I was like, I can't believe you would use that language. And I remember I was like seven. And I was just use that language and i remember i i was like seven and i was just like i was probably just like trying out being dramatic but i was like right
Starting point is 00:35:30 we got home i slammed the door i was like i don't want to talk to you you are marred in my eyes like you forget it mom like i thought you were one person and you are not and then i remember one time we were out to dinner at tgi fridays my dad my dad my mom my sister i and two other families and the guys were like you know knocking back beers at tgi fridays like you do in the suburbs and they said fuck a lot loud at the dinner table and i called a family meeting when i got home i called a family meeting with the four of us i sat everyone down. I said it was so disgusting, the language that was used tonight at TGI Fridays. What I saw tonight was not my family. And I don't want to be associated with that type of language.
Starting point is 00:36:14 And I know what it is. It's Uncle George. He's a bad influence on you. And I see you going down the drain. I see you dwindling. And if I hear the word. The behavior that I witnessed was Uncle George-like.
Starting point is 00:36:27 Was Uncle George-like. The Uncle George jumped out. And then I jumped back in. Again. That is so dramatic. I just wanted to run the show. I just wanted to call a meeting, set everyone down, and be like, look at me when I talk.
Starting point is 00:36:44 I mean, I used to hold my parents' friends hostage after dinner parties and make them watch me dance in our living room back in the USSR by the Beatles. Oh my god. Bo was a performer.
Starting point is 00:36:59 I'm not really. Was Yang performing? And were you the special sidekick? What I remember is one day we had a video cassette recorder. And Yang would just like improvise little sketches and talk shows. And we would just record each other on the cassette player. And we would like speed it up and give ourselves chipmunk voice. Cute. And she really like ran the show in that way.
Starting point is 00:37:25 But we were more about, it's so funny. We were only about the audio and not necessarily about the visual. Very podcast-y. Very. That was when, we should have known then you'd be a podcaster. That's right.
Starting point is 00:37:36 Critically acclaimed. Critically acclaimed. Wait, last night at my show, at the very end of my show, my tech got on the microphone and was like I'm so sorry to abruptly end the show like this but it's been an emergency evacuation
Starting point is 00:37:52 and we all need to evacuate the building now. Literally she had just finished her last song that was probably two and a half minutes after the show and he was like we have to evacuate and me and American both of us for sure a gun. Active shooter. Get your stuff. Be leisurely about it.
Starting point is 00:38:07 This is when it happens. But when we were walking out, I overheard someone being like, I wonder what happened. Somebody probably got sick. And I was like, wow. We're like, we're all getting gunned down. Yeah. Our mind
Starting point is 00:38:23 immediately was like, oh, that's it. The Scottish women were like, someone's probably sick. Someone's probably a little sick. Someone probably fell ill. Yeah, someone probably fell ill and got over-eated during the show. Oh, you know,
Starting point is 00:38:33 there's some drunk people outside. Someone probably spilled a beverage. Yeah. Evacuate the premises. Oh, yeah. Out. Out. Wow.
Starting point is 00:38:42 I mean, that sounds nice. I would trade that for anything in America. 100%. But I think it was just our ingrained feeling of being like the second we hear emergency evacuation, it's like either truly like, you know, airborne chemical warfare in my mind,
Starting point is 00:39:02 or like a gun. Airborne chemical warfare. Airborne chemical warfare in my mind or like a gun airborne chemical warfare don't even get me started honey i have i have been so low i've had so many highs and lows here and in my lows because there is no like you know we we have netflix and then like amazon and you know what I've started watching and I'm on season two already Jack Ryan okay starring John Krasinski that's barely culture it's not culture I would say I would say it's not culture
Starting point is 00:39:35 except for what's her face Numi Rapage Numi Rapage Numi Rapage because in every single thing Numi Rapage. Numi Rapage. Yeah, I'm obsessed. Because in every single thing Numi Rapage is in, it's always like, John Pruszynski
Starting point is 00:39:50 hits on her in this way of being like, he's like, hey, I overheard you speaking English, French, and Italian. And she just looks at him and she goes, I'm Swedish. I mean, come on on she's cracking up at that i'm just like what is this what is this writing she brings it up out of nowhere yes
Starting point is 00:40:14 she goes you know who's such a weird actress noomi i was like okay i didn't say i said you said interesting interesting interesting well I think we're the first people to talk about Numi in decades. Yeah. Because she had a moment when she was Girl with a Dragon Tattoo. And don't forget, she was the star of Prometheus,
Starting point is 00:40:36 one of my... No one knows this, but it's one of my favorite films. Is that culture? 100% culture. Prometheus is culture. Absolutely. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:40:44 Anything where Charlize Theron has like like a cunty haircut and she's the villain and she gets to run away from a crashing building and gets crushed by a building that's culture to me well is culture not John Krasinski playing a very questionable
Starting point is 00:41:00 CIA agent fucking Abby Cornish who is Abby Cornish. Who is Abby Cornish? That is D-list city. Oh, no. Oh, no. I'll tell you who Abby Cornish is. Abby Cornish is allegedly
Starting point is 00:41:14 the girl that Ryan Phillippe left Reese Witherspoon for. Yeah. That's probably her biggest claim to fame. She was in the Bright Star movie. Sad. It's sad to have your fame be
Starting point is 00:41:27 two degrees away from Reese still. And Ryan, we love Ryan, obviously, but he really did Reese dirty. He did, but Ryan, I love Ryan. I don't know. Did they do each other dirty?
Starting point is 00:41:43 I don't know if it was confirmed that there was a cheating thing. I feel like they were so young. I think they just didn't work out because they were so young. We were very young. They were like six and seven when they had their first. Yeah, they were so young. I mean, Reese was pregnant in Cruel Intentions. What?
Starting point is 00:41:57 I think they met on Cruel Intentions. Yes, she was pregnant in the scene in the pool with his baby. She is pregnant in the scene in the pool with his baby. She is pregnant in the scene in the pool with his baby. She is in a one piece and she is pregnant in that movie. Reese Witherspoon in a pool is powerful. It's in Legally Blonde too.
Starting point is 00:42:15 During the admissions video. It's so good. They're saying that had she gotten in the pool in Morning Show Season 2, that would have been her Emmy. By the way, did you see the trailer for Morning Show Season 2, that would have been her Emmy. By the way, did you see the trailer for Morning Show Season 3? I did not. Should I watch it now?
Starting point is 00:42:30 I didn't. Yeah, why don't you watch it right now? Okay, okay, okay. Okay, so Bowen is going to pull up the trailer for Morning Show Season 3. I have not seen a full episode of this program. That's okay. And I want you to know,
Starting point is 00:42:42 it's two people's favorite show. Me and Greta's husband, Abe Schwartz. This it's it's two people's favorite show me and greta's husband abe schwartz and it's our favorite show and the readers know that i come on this podcast every week and i give a morning show update and i don't know if the show is as good as my updates but it's at least close and i always tell people so much better please give this show a chance. Like, is it a comedy? Is it drama? The answer is no. It exists in its own tone. It exists in its own
Starting point is 00:43:11 like sort of genre. It's really wild. They gave Greta Lee a terrible haircut. They gave her a terrible haircut. Everyone has a bad haircut. Okay, I'm going to watch. And if you can play it out loud, play it out loud.
Starting point is 00:43:28 Can you hear it? No. It's okay. All right. So while he's watching. I found this at a charity shop here. What? And get this.
Starting point is 00:43:36 I'm reading it. It's so funny. Oh, my God. Did she sign this? Oh, my God. Okay. So while Bowen is watching the Morning Show season three trailer, I'm going to tell you,
Starting point is 00:43:48 Greta just pulled out this, what is this? Joan Rivers' autobiography? One of Joan Rivers' books. One of Joan Rivers' books. And she found it at what? A charity shop here in Edinburgh? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:43:59 Open up the front cover. Signed. Signed to Lorraine from the Botox clinic staff love joan wow cracking jokes here in edinburgh she is so funny this first chapter is so deeply funny and this is just something you can buy like something that's signed by joan like how much was this three pounds read this sentence every 10 seconds in America, someone turns 50, and too many of these people think it is time to call Dr.
Starting point is 00:44:29 Dvorkian, the only doctor who still makes house calls. I don't actually get it. What do you guys looking at? Showbiz. Okay, so I was at a charity shop with Ruby, and we found this Joan Rivers book.
Starting point is 00:44:45 Don't count the candles. Don't count the candles. Just keep the fire lit. Okay. Oh my God. A signed book. It says to Lorraine from the Botox Clinic staff. Joan.
Starting point is 00:45:00 And it is really laugh out loud funny. This bitch is so... Let me read you the first sentence. Are you ready? Let me say straight off. Aging sucks. I'm hooked. Hilarious. I'm hooked. I'm in. I don't understand the Dr. Kevorkian joke.
Starting point is 00:45:20 What's the Dr. Kevorkian thing? Well, Dr. Kevorkian he makes house calls. If you Dr. Kevorkian thing? Well, Dr. Kevorkian, he makes like he would, if you wanted to, he would come to your house. He kills you? Yes, at your home. I don't know if that was part of it. I thought he did it at the hospital. Who is Dr. Kevorkian? What? We don't know! Dr. Kevorkian
Starting point is 00:45:37 was dubbed, quote, Dr. Death, okay? My mom had a stalker when she was working in the Pennsylvania government and he wrote up a fake Dr. Kevorkian death certificate for my mom. Isn't that fucked up? Anyway. Oh, that's scary. Dr. Kevorkian was like, he was way ahead of his time.
Starting point is 00:45:54 Euthanasia. Euthanasia. If you were dying, if you had a terminal illness, degenerative disease, whatever, you could call him and he would come take care of it. Correct. Okay, so what she's saying is when people turn 50, they think their life is over. Yeah. Okay, great.
Starting point is 00:46:09 There were a couple Grey's Anatomy quotes where someone, you know, like George just killed someone in the OR. They'd be like, paging Dr. Kevorkian and then they'd laugh. Got it, got it, got it. Okay, so now that you've made it a George O'Malley thing, I can understand it. What is your review of the Morning Show Season 3 trailer? Um, I'm intrigued. What is your review of the Morning Show season 3 trailer? Um, I'm
Starting point is 00:46:25 intrigued. What is Jon Hamm's role? No one knows yet. Oh, okay. They make a big deal out of him being interviewed. And, it's what is the last show that depicted New York City in an accurate, honest way?
Starting point is 00:46:42 Because it's like, and just like that is pure fantasy at this point. I feel like this is also a fantasy version of New York. I'm trying to think of the last show to really show New York. I mean, that's really tough. Was it Girls?
Starting point is 00:46:57 Yeah. Girls or... I think, well... By the way, I do just want to say I actually stopped watching it just like that I can't do it I can't even do it as like it's not fun enough
Starting point is 00:47:14 you missed Rosemary Duet it is tough like the show is tough but when you watch it from just when you watch it and you're like okay I'm watching something that's purely camp that's purely camp. Like, that's kind of the only way you can get through it. I don't, because I watched the first season like that, and I don't think it's good. I think it's bad.
Starting point is 00:47:33 These people are even looking at the shot. I mean, the city view outside is clearly a backdrop, no problem, right? But it literally, you see it hit the floor of the soundstage. And then the- Is that true yes yes and i implore all readers katie's publicist finalists watch the most recent episode where you know aiden and carrie are like in chaise apartment just like flirting or whatever there you if you look at the city view it hits the floor and you see gray concrete i I'm going, the people who make the show don't give a fuck.
Starting point is 00:48:06 No, that's very clear. You know what? Nothing grinds my gears more than the fact that Charlotte and Harry sleep in a full-size bed. Is that true? Yes. Their bed is small. To me, that is the most unbelievable thing about the show. I'm saying, hold the horn. You're telling me that Charlotte, who is supposed to live in a massive Upper East Side luxury apartment, is in a full with her husband?
Starting point is 00:48:43 You're smoking crack crack you're smoking crack really is what you're on you're on reefer and crack because that is just not true and also you know what else isn't
Starting point is 00:49:01 true Miranda sleeping in like a twin xl sound booth at her friend's house i say girl get it together you're embarrassing what are they trying to do i think they're trying to do something there by putting all of like by putting miranda carrie and charlotte in like small beds because carrie's back in the old apartment in her old bed, which is also full of them. Don't believe it for a second.
Starting point is 00:49:28 Do not believe it for a second. These women have tasted the highest heights and the most rarefied air. They would not put up with this. Also, this show is supposed to be aspirational. Show me a bed I long for show me a bed show me a hastings mattress with frette sheets frette give us frette what's going on you are giving you are the duvet and carrie's apartment is actually from Anthropology Home. It's college. It's giving dorm. It's giving Anthropology Home and dorm.
Starting point is 00:50:07 Anthropology Home. It's Anthropology Home and it's offensive. I had better taste in my studio on 23rd and 7th Avenue in 2009. Okay? Okay. Well, here's the thing. I don't see a world in which it gets renewed. And I think this is really the last. I don't think so either in which it gets renewed. And I think this is really the last.
Starting point is 00:50:26 I don't think so either. This is the last of these women we're ever going to get, which is really sad to me. I agree because I don't think that they would have brought in Samantha for this, you know, 30 second phone call that we're going to see. Because they can't,
Starting point is 00:50:43 they cannot tease us with the notion of samantha and then have us not get her for a third season like if there is going to be a third season i actually need kim cattrall to i actually just want it to be about her in london honestly if we're supposed to believe that's what her life is. Oh my God. Loud American whore. Slag in London. Yeah, exactly. Publicist energy. You know what though?
Starting point is 00:51:12 You know what's one thing? It's like, thank God Samantha isn't on and just like that, because what would they do to her? What would they, if they've ruined all these characters this much, and I hate saying it but like yeah what would they have done to samantha i guess we'll find out i wonder if in the 30 second phone call they're able to desecrate samantha jones i'm sure don't put it past them i mean don't put it past them there's something cuckoo crazy about I'm bummed out
Starting point is 00:51:45 talking about this no that's the thing is it's like even the first season wasn't like it wasn't sex in the city but at least you could talk about it in like insane ways now it's just like even the Carrie and Aiden stuff it's like I just
Starting point is 00:52:02 what exactly are they saying about Carrie? Like, I don't know. Is it that, like, she's falling back into another fantasy? Is it, like, are we supposed to think, like, that Big was actually this, like, thing that she made a mistake about years ago? Like, or is she about to learn a new lesson? It's unclear. Theoretically, I just can't find it.
Starting point is 00:52:24 Right. I also don't understand how she can, like, verbalize out loud, was Big a big mistake? And then, like, we just never investigate that further. Yeah. Well, I feel like what's being telegraphed so clearly and obviously
Starting point is 00:52:39 is that, like, something goes wrong between her and Aiden. Because so far, there's been no conflict. There's been no hardship. Or maybe they are just ending the show and we are just ending the show with oh, now Carrie and Aiden move in together and that's it.
Starting point is 00:52:58 Doesn't that feel sacrilegious though? Yes, it feels sacrilegious. The whole thing feels sacrilegious. Also like since when has Carrie, I mean, I know that Carrie was always a prude,ious the whole thing feels sacrilegious also like since when has carrie i mean i know that carrie was always a prude but her whole thing was writing about sex and love and romance and stuff and her now being like don't talk about it oh god don't tell me like i was like what but then she was at lunch and said the word come i was was like, you guys are crazy. I was like, make a decision about who this woman is. She's either the woman that can no longer talk about anything sexual.
Starting point is 00:53:31 She can't even talk about a vagina. I'm sorry, but make a decision about who she is. She's one of the most well-defined characters in the pop culture lexicon. She's an icon. Why are we even having this conversation? Like, it's one thing for characters to, like, morph and change over time, but, like, she doesn't, none of them seem like themselves. Except, I guess, Charlotte. But no, she's not sleeping in a full.
Starting point is 00:53:57 Charlotte's not sleeping in a full. Charlotte wouldn't have fucked a guy in a full. Period. Let alone, like, let that be her wedding bed you're so you guys are so right like these women would not tolerate a full-size bed or a twin in a fucking recording studio room also you know what honey please like show me the hamptons house like one of you has to have one. One of you has to have one. And by the way, I don't want to see Seema and
Starting point is 00:54:29 Carrie doing a timeshare. Well, you're not going to now. Okay, that was one thing I liked. One thing I liked was Seema being like, I need space from you because you make me feel bad. I loved that. Loved that scene. But I'm also going,
Starting point is 00:54:46 because literally Carrie's like, this the episode two episodes ago the episode ends on carrie like leaving her apartment and going and just like that i went to meet you know aiden's kids or whatever the fuck in virginia cut to the next episode we're back in new york which maybe it's like a new york show and that's why we don't see it but But I'm like, take us somewhere a little bit more provincial. Like, why not? Or pastoral or whatever. One of the most iconic episodes was LA. And also her going to Aiden's City Girl in the woods.
Starting point is 00:55:16 Yes, yes, yes. She goes to his cabin and she freaks out. And Samantha fucks like the... Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is it just a budget thing? Do we think it's just budget? How can it possibly be, right?
Starting point is 00:55:31 Like, I mean... I just don't know. I mean, I feel like they blow a lot of the budget on the fashion. Uh-huh. What fashion? Well, I mean... Hmm.
Starting point is 00:55:42 Who? Which character's wearing fashion? LTW? I have news for you. Who? Which character's wearing fashion? LTW? I have news for you. There's difference between costume and fashion. My girl is still living on Sesame Street. Yeah, it's... It's still Sesame Street. Big Bird come out in things that could be the Met Gala compared to what LTW looks like.
Starting point is 00:56:03 Wow. was just the tip of the iceberg. You're recording us? I am disgusted. Never in a million years after everything we've been through did I think that you would reach out to our sworn enemy. We were friends. How could you do this to me? I don't trust her. The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, Wednesdays at 9 on Bravo, or stream it on City TV+.
Starting point is 00:56:41 Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, and I'm the host of On Purpose. My latest episode is with Jelly Roll. This episode is one of the most honest and raw interviews TV Plus. body image, and huge life transformations. I was a desperate, delusional dreamer, and the desperate part got me in a lot of trouble. I encourage delusional dreamers. Be a delusional dreamer. Just don't be a desperate, delusional dreamer. I just had such an anger. I was just so mad at life.
Starting point is 00:57:14 Everything that wasn't right was everybody's fault but mine. I had such a victim mentality. I took zero accountability for anything in my life. I was the kid that if you asked what happened, I immediately started with everything but me. It took years for me to break that, like years of work. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Trust me, you won't want to miss this one. I'm Cheryl Swoops, WNBA champ, three-time Olympian, and basketball hall of famer. I'm a mom and I'm a woman. I'm Tarika Foster-Brasby, journalist, sports reporter, basketball analyst,
Starting point is 00:57:55 a wife, and I'm also a woman. And on our new podcast, we're talking about the real obstacles women face day to day. See, athlete or not, we all know it takes a lot as women to be at the top of our game. We want to share those stories about balancing work and relationships, motherhood, career shifts, you know, just all the s*** we go through. Because no matter who you are, there are levels to what we experience as women. And T and I, well, we have no problem going there. Listen to Levels to This with Cheryl Swoops and Tarika Foster-Brasby,
Starting point is 00:58:29 an iHeart Women's Sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. You can find us on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Wait, Bowen, are you drinking one of my all-time top five favorite beverages, Triple X Vitamin Water? I asked my sister if she had Gatorade because I need electrolytes,
Starting point is 00:58:57 I need hydration. She said, I have Triple X Vitamin Water. Yes, she does. Dragon fruit, dragon fruit. I haven't had this since high school and I'm loving it. It is a treat and a half. Vitamin water goes down as one of my most favorite inventions. I liked the dragon fruit a lot. Yeah. I have a joke in my show about vitamin water. Oh my God. Let's talk about vitamin water for a second because do y'all remember, do y'all remember when vitamin Water stepped onto the world stage? Because it was a moment. Yes. It honestly
Starting point is 00:59:29 changed culture. Vitamin Water, I will say, changed culture. Because guess what? You're reading the labels, you're laughing out loud going, who did this? This is so funny. I think Tina Fey. Tina Fey. I think Tina Fey did the copy for vitamin i think 50 cent
Starting point is 00:59:47 reached out to ms fey and said hey mama love your jokes does 50 cent own vitamin water yeah it was his i think he he was an investor in vitamin water it was like oh my god he was He was... Curtis. Curtis. Curtis. Hmm. Curtis. Now, what really rocked my world was the lemonade. Oh, everyone freaked it for the lemonade. Everyone freaked it for the lemonade, too, because you could... It was delicious with a splash of, one might say, very inexpensive vodka. You're so right. Oh, my God. We grew up in a really interesting time. Oh, so right. Oh my God.
Starting point is 01:00:25 We grew up in a really interesting time. We really did. Sorry, Greta. Were you going to say something? No, I was just going to say 2005, kind of the year of vitamin water in many ways. The year of vitamin water, the year of Mike's Hard Lemonade,
Starting point is 01:00:41 the year of... Smirnoff Ice. Smirnoff Ice. That Four Loko was 2010. I would say Sparks. of Mike's Hard Lemonade, the year of... I mean... Smearing off ice? Smearing off ice? That Four Loko was 2010. I would say Sparks. Remember Sparks? That was out in 2004. Hey, I just want to say, forget what I said about the Four Loko
Starting point is 01:00:55 because that was later. That was in 2010. So I was wrong. Well, we had to correct you. What is Sparks? Sparks was... I think Sparks is illegal. It is. I think Four Loko's illegal. Sparks is legal now. What is Sparks? Sparks was a... I think Sparks is illegal. It is. I think For Loco's illegal. Sparks is legal. For Loco, their new iteration is legal.
Starting point is 01:01:11 Their new formulation is different. Sparks was literally a Red Bull mixed with malt liquor. And it was crazy. And I used to hide... What is? I used to hide cans... I had a hat box in my room growing up. And I used to hide I had a hat box in my
Starting point is 01:01:26 room growing up and I used to hide cans of sparks in my hat box. Wait Greta showed me the most fucked up stupid picture of her with four Modellos taped to her body under a maxi dress so she could
Starting point is 01:01:42 sneak into Madison Square Garden to see what artist I think I was going to under a maxi dress so she could sneak into Madison Square Garden to see what artist. I think I was going to, no, I think I was actually going to a hockey game at the time. Jesus. So you snuggled in the Modelo?
Starting point is 01:01:55 I did. I can show you the pic. I'll send it to you. Honestly, that should be the photo for the episode this week. I'll send it to you. It's really good.
Starting point is 01:02:03 Yeah, we need it. Yeah. I remember my mom found my sparks. My mom takes it out. My mom just goes, what the fuck is this? And I explained it to her and she looked at me and she
Starting point is 01:02:17 was like, there's something really wrong with you. And then just put it back in the hat box. Oh my God. Do you think she should have punished you more? No. She was over it. She was just like, I was telling Matt, we were talking about things
Starting point is 01:02:34 our moms would say this morning and my mom would always just be like, enough with me. Enough. Greta said that basically Maria's, I don't think so honey, would be y'all with all your milks explain this
Starting point is 01:02:50 she would not tolerate the milks no she would just be like this is enough this is so fucking crazy drink skim milk like a lady or don't have any milk at all take it black I think we are at critical match with milk.
Starting point is 01:03:06 Like there's no need for a new kind of milk. I think there's, there's a milk for every occasion. It also, it gets embarrassing. Like imagine, I mean, they make it,
Starting point is 01:03:14 but it's like going out being like, can I get the, can I get a pistachio almond milk latte? Like grow up, grow up. Although Starbucks matcha latte with coconut milk is heaven you feel like you're on an island he wants an endorsement no no no i'm just saying i love it i would like to say coconut milk has been around for a very very very very very long time coconut
Starting point is 01:03:42 milk is not new you're saying the newer girls. I'm saying the newer girls. I'm saying the macadamia nut girls. I'm saying hemp seed girls. I'm saying pumpkin seed milk. I'm saying pistachio milk. I'm saying, it's like, come on. Pumpkin seed?
Starting point is 01:03:57 I've never heard of that before. They had it at Irving. Irving Plaza? No, the Irving Farm. Irving Farm. Irving Farm. Yeah, they had it there. That sounds like it takes a million
Starting point is 01:04:10 dollars to make. To fucking condense the pumpkin seed into milk. Worse than almond milk. The energy expenditure is probably crazy. You're right. Maria is right. You guys really are my two chic friends. You can talk about such interesting milks.
Starting point is 01:04:31 I do have a question for the choir. Since this show is about culture, do you feel that Likely story? Likely story. Do you feel that there is a perfect television show that didn't ever go wrong in seasons and seasons and seasons?
Starting point is 01:04:49 Um, yeah. I think that pretty unimpeachable. I mean, for me, Mad Men was pretty unimpeachable. Mad Men, I'm going to say something kind of sure, like eye roll. But I have been getting back into Seinfeld, and I'm like, God, this works. It's timeless. Yeah, it really is timeless.
Starting point is 01:05:12 More recently, I don't know. Everything either goes on too long or ruins itself. I didn't know that the four of them blocked themselves on Seinfeld. Oh, I love that. They would all walk on. They'd walk into Jerry's apartment and be like, that the four of them blocked themselves on Seinfeld. Oh, I love that. They would all walk on, they'd walk into Jerry's apartment and be like, okay, I think George would go here and eat some cereal over here.
Starting point is 01:05:32 Or he's just talking to Elaine. Elaine's sitting down on the couch. They were all just like, so we got this. Well, that's what makes it so magical. I know, I know. And then the fact that the four of them are all from different backgrounds, Jerry from stand-up, Julia from sketch, Jason
Starting point is 01:05:50 from theater, and I guess like Michael from... He's stand-up. Character actor? Oh, he's a stand-up? He was, yeah. He was. Okay, great, great. But it's like they had such... It's so... It's such... That is like when casting was, ooh, perfect.
Starting point is 01:06:06 Like you've got, you got these four people exactly right. And they carry the show together equally. And it's like, it's never one person over the other. Even like, well, back in the day, like the multi-cam of it all, when some of those shows would really work, they would really work. Like Cheers, have you ever watched old Cheers? Like Cheers, like really worked. Like say ever watch old cheers like cheers like really worked like say what you will about friends friends really work i mean will and grace will and grace really worked will and grace really worked just shoot me i loved and me too freaking um but with
Starting point is 01:06:38 friends it is like yeah say what you will it is like they found six hot people who all were so fucking funny. And believably friends. Like, no problem. I'm watching. That's why it's a cultural phenomenon. I really feel like, sometimes I do feel like I missed my calling, my era for multicam.
Starting point is 01:06:59 Oh, you would have been great. I feel like I would have loved to do multicam. You could have been like Joey. Maybe. I think so. We would have all nailed do multi-cam. You could have been like Joey. Maybe. I think so. We would have all nailed. I'm sorry to say this, and this sounds so fucking stupid and masturbatory.
Starting point is 01:07:11 We would have all nailed multi-cam. You nail multi-cam now, queen. Yeah, you do. You are Emmy-nominated multi-cam performer. No, no, no. It's different. You are noted multi-Emmy-nominated multi-cam performer, Bowen Yang.
Starting point is 01:07:24 I want multi-cam where I'm playing a character. We can do that. Let's do it. Let's pitch a show. Two guys and a girl above a pizza parlor. Yes! If the three of us rebooted Two Guys and a Girl
Starting point is 01:07:39 and you don't think it would go in a second, you're deeply mistaken. Bidding war down. I mean, I always wanted to be on Boy Meets World. You don't think it would go in a second. You're deeply mistaken. Bidding war down. Yeah, period. I mean, I always wanted to be on Boy Meets World. Like, I always wanted to be on that show. Oh, my God. Loved it. Loved it.
Starting point is 01:07:52 And, of course, I wanted to be Lizzie McGuire, but who didn't? Everyone wanted to be Lizzie. Everyone wanted to be Lizzie. I was Team Lizzie. Not that Lizzie was ever in the, you know, sitcom space, but... It was the may he rest. It was the Aaron Carter kind of controversy between
Starting point is 01:08:07 Hillary and Lindsay. Oh, right. You know, I do have some piping hot TTT on the teens of that time. What? We can't share on the pod, I don't think.
Starting point is 01:08:22 Oh my god. It's like a horse scandal. Wait, can I ask one more question? Now I'm in control of the podcast now. Yes. Me and Ruby have been talking about this a lot. Ruby's my roommate here. Happy birthday, Ruby McAllister.
Starting point is 01:08:37 We love you, Ruby. An iconic Leo woman. A lioness. She is one of the best we have. See her show Tragedy at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Sorry, your question. Well, Ruby and I have been going back and forth on this. And these are like really dumb, big questions.
Starting point is 01:08:54 But when we're trying to get our mind off of spiraling into extreme existentialism, we are just like, whatever. If you had to pick a band, I mean, we're doing it by decade. So I'm going to ask you, in a band from 2000 to 2010, a band, a singer, whatever, that you could be. But I don't mean just on stage. I meant be in their life. Who would you have chosen from that time? If I could be someone that was in a band during that time, 2000 to
Starting point is 01:09:28 2010. You mean like if you could hang out with the band? No, like I am I am Christina Aguilera. Who? Switchfoot. I was obsessed with Switchfoot.
Starting point is 01:09:44 Aren't they Christian? Yeah, they are Christian. Yeah. Tell you to move. But it was a walk to remember. It hooked me. And I was like, who is this singer? Beautiful voice.
Starting point is 01:09:55 Beautiful voice. Truly. Gorgeous. I actually, I think I have my answer. Okay. So 2000 to 2010. Yeah. During this time, a band that was cool and had a lot of potential.
Starting point is 01:10:09 Mermaid Five. And would, yeah, I would be Adam Levine. Because also in Adam Levine's straight body, guarantee he was fucking models. He was just like. He's still fucking a model. Well, yes. But at the time, when he was like a single guy yeah he probably was like but remember the ad and i remember the first time i ever saw him the first
Starting point is 01:10:31 time i ever saw adam levine i think i was like 12 or 13 when i first heard harder to breathe and i said who is singing this i have to find out right now i loved his voice i thought it was justin timberlake and then i come to find out it was Adam Levine. Then I watched the This Love music video. I thought he is so fucking hot. I was so into him. I would be him if I could go back. Yes, that is the perfect answer for Matt. Wasn't he like wearing suits back in the day?
Starting point is 01:10:59 Like that era? He was. So their first album, Songs About Jane, which is so good. I would say one of the best albums from that decade. A hundred percent. It was so good. It won't be soon before long. Their second, they had a great sophomore album too. Yes, they did. It had that song.
Starting point is 01:11:16 I won't go home without you. The really good, and I loved that and I loved them. And then they, I think they just went like pop cringe, which like, say what you want. Like they, they, they cashed in on the ability to do that. And I loved them. And then they, I think they just went like pop cringe, which like, say what you want. Like they, they, they cashed in on the ability to do that.
Starting point is 01:11:30 Coldplay did that. Such a pop sound. Yeah. They all did it, but they fully did it and then became, you know, Maroon 5. But back in the day,
Starting point is 01:11:38 they really actually were cool. And he was so hot to me. I loved everything about him. I literally couldn't control myself when I saw him. I was like, that guy is my crush. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:11:49 They did SNL. They, and they sang, that was the first time I heard this love. And I was like, this song was amazing. Who is that guy in a, in a fucking suit?
Starting point is 01:11:57 It was so funny. Unrecognizable. That was the time when like a lot of those bands were doing this suit thing. Like, remember like the vines. Remember The Vines? Remember that whole genre of indie rock? That was also Justin Timberlake doing suit and tie. Literally suit and tie branding himself what it was.
Starting point is 01:12:16 But yeah, that was like, guys were cool. Guys were cool. I would have also been, I don't know if this counts, Greta, and we need to hear your answer. Okay. But I would have loved to be like Sufjan Stevens in that era. Oh, no, that counts.
Starting point is 01:12:32 Like, my pick is Karen O. I would have loved to have been Karen O, 2000 to 2010. Didn't we think we saw her? We did. Wait, where were we? Oh, my God. She was my gorgeous.
Starting point is 01:12:47 And Matt kept on, I was freaking out. And Matt was being insane she got up we were we were at the table next to next to you were i have to tell you you were being crazy she gets up at the table and stands she stands staring at this woman and i that's one cool thing about me is i'm so uncool i don't know who karen o is so greta is staring at this woman and i thought do you have like a vendetta against this family it was giving psycho killer and then i'm like let's go i drag her out and she goes that was karen o i was like oh yeah i was like karen o mean, still is, but of that time was no one was cooler than Karen O. No one was cooler than Karen O. I 100% agree.
Starting point is 01:13:35 No one was her stage presence. She kind of just like weird, like Bowie, like Artie, like, I don't know, kind of Bjork-y vibe happening. It's just like she was so many things in one body. And I love the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I love their music so much. And I just like, they're so good live. I mean, they still are, but you know. That's a perfect answer.
Starting point is 01:14:03 Yeah, that is my 2000 to 2010 answer obviously i i would not want to be this person but of course we're so curious what was it like to be a pop girly at that time i don't want to know because it was awful and i would never want to be in that body oh yeah terrible no terrible to be picked apart as much as they were. It's just crazy. Well, you have no autonomy. You have no control over your life, period. But you know who really took
Starting point is 01:14:34 the reins? I'm not even joking. Mandy Moore. Mandy Moore really was like, I'm not doing all this. Let me switch to acting. And let me release a covers album for my third album she went I'm already gonna like pivot change direction I'm already gonna do
Starting point is 01:14:50 like covers like I'm not gonna be a pop star I'm gonna do like can we still be friends I'm like that is a choice and she picked cool music too like not one of those covers was like a one to one this is what Mandy Moore at the time would be singing it was like a one-to-one, this is what Mandy Moore at the time would be singing.
Starting point is 01:15:05 It was like, Have a little faith in me. Can I just say... She has such a good voice. She has such a good voice. She's a good one. She's important. Oh, no.
Starting point is 01:15:15 She's respected. She's an Emmy-nominated actress. Who, by the way, walk to remember, as Bowen mentioned, but a few moments ago, breathtaking performance in said film. You gotta rewatch Saved. Saved. That came up on my
Starting point is 01:15:32 Instagram. Her layered haircut in Saved is crazy. The scene where she's emphatically praying is like, oh my god. She really went there. Mandy Moore was a devout actress. She was a
Starting point is 01:15:48 Christian, devout icon. That cast in that film is amazing. Jenna Malone, right? Jenna Malone, Macaulay Culkin, Susan Sarandon's daughter with the huge tits, Patrick
Starting point is 01:16:03 Fugit. Oh, wow. Just to go really quickly back to A Walk to Remember, we don't talk about the iconography of this exchange. Shane West, I want to kiss you. Mandy, I think I might be bad at it. Shane, that's
Starting point is 01:16:20 not possible. Not possible. Just promise not to fall in love with me oh my god okay what the way that I sobbed and sobbed by the way shout out to Adam Shankman the director
Starting point is 01:16:37 shout out we love you Adam so at the end of the movie when you hear her iconic, I'll always remember. And then her love is like the wind. I can't see it. But I can feel it. But I can feel it.
Starting point is 01:16:55 Yeah. Shane was, I was like whacking. See, him, another one. He was a constant. I was whacking. He was a constant cum. Involuntary cum. You know what I will say? Shane West.
Starting point is 01:17:09 The one good thing about 20... Oh, wait, I saw... Hands-free anal orgasm. I'm psyched for Shane West. I can feel my... Anal orgasm. Oh, my God. 8.3 Richter scale rattle when I saw Shane West and his weird little voice.
Starting point is 01:17:27 I saw Shane West. Were you with me when I saw him at El Compadre in LA, like over during peak COVID eating outside? No, but do you want to... I'm going to whisper in her ear. Do you want to tell your story about... No.
Starting point is 01:17:42 Oh my God. Greta has so many stories. Greta hooked up with a teen idol one time and it's my favorite story I've ever heard, but none of you will ever know. None of you will ever know. I did hook up with a teen idol one time and I did, yeah,
Starting point is 01:17:55 there was a fingering situation happening. You know, I told that to a bunch of my gay friends and it's the most iconic thing they've ever heard getting fingered at laundromat getting fig no wasn't it at drop-off or drop-off service yeah she got fingered at drop-off service by i'm not kidding you one of the hottest teen idols second episode in a row second episode in a row where we're fingering has entered the chat i literally i've been thinking about it so much i i'm so horny lately i don't know what's going on and i haven't had sex in a while so i'm just like i just want to finger in there so bad well the thing is we can definitely
Starting point is 01:18:37 get you definitely get you fingered we can get you some like porky scottish fingers oh my god i think yeah cupping my hand scottish fingers yeah we can i kind of had a crush on one of the bus boys wait oh i wanted to say something you know what's the best thing about 2023 the resurrection of josh hartnett He was aging like Richard Gere. Yeah. Like a fine piece of wine. Yeah. I mean, just delectable, that man. And look, Oppenheimer, I was happy to see Olivia Thoreau be working again. She who fucked Elliot Page on the set of Juno constantly. That is tea.
Starting point is 01:19:21 That is a really iconic story. Elliot's book. I need to read it. His book is steaming hot tea. That is a really iconic story. That, Elliot's book. I need to read it. His book is steaming hot tea. Hmm. Well, we might need one from Greta about all this fingering. Your book is going to be good.
Starting point is 01:19:34 I will say, sadly, it was just fingering. So no one started any rumors. Not sadly. Oh, nothing sad about that. Nothing sad. No, sometimes all it takes is two fingers. Definitely not one. I'm good with two.
Starting point is 01:19:44 I'm good with two. I'm good with two. I need five. The way it's so big and soggy down there. Oh, honey. The Real Housewives of New York City are back for another bite of the Big Apple. Look who it is. Joined by elite new friends. Rebecca Minkoff.
Starting point is 01:20:07 Have you ever heard of her? But things could change in a New York Minute. She had this wild night and ended up getting pregnant by some other guy. What? You told her? Not today, Satan. Not today. The Real Housewives of New York City. All new
Starting point is 01:20:23 Tuesdays at 9 on Bravo or stream it on City TV+. Hey, I'm Jay Shetty and I'm the host of On Purpose. My latest episode is with Jelly Roll. This episode is one of the most honest and raw interviews I've ever had. We go deep into Jelly Roll's life story from being in and out of prison from the age of 13 to being one of today's biggest artists. We talk about guilt, shame, body image, and huge life transformations. I was a desperate, delusional dreamer, and the desperate part got me in a lot of trouble.
Starting point is 01:20:54 I encourage delusional dreamers. Be a delusional dreamer. Just don't be a desperate, delusional dreamer. I just had such an anger. I was just so mad at life. Everything that wasn't right was everybody's fault but mine. I had such a victim mentality. I took zero accountability for anything in my life. I was the kid that if you asked what happened, I immediately started with everything but me. It took years for me to break that, like years of work. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Trust me, you won't want to miss this one. I'm Cheryl Swoops, WNBA champ,
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Starting point is 01:22:28 of iHeart Women's Sports. It's time for I Don't Think So, Honey. This is our 60-second segment that we do on every episode of Lost Culture Recess. Today is no different.
Starting point is 01:22:39 I'm going to be returning to the top, the themes of the top. Yes. Themes of the top, aka my look. Just kidding. More reverse bottom these days for the old age uh age okay i'm ready something this is matt rogers i don't think so many as time starts now i don't think so honey calling them toilets
Starting point is 01:22:58 all over europe it's like where's the toilet signs that say toilet toilet is a disgusting word that i don't think so honey about they're called restrooms they're called bathrooms if we're in europe capitalize on your language and call it the loo toilet this is a disgusting hard word to wrap my head around when i go to the toilet that is the literal toilet itself not the room that it's in can we have some goddamn mystery for once in my life when you say toilet i'm thinking of i can they can basically taste it and smell it the poop and 15 seconds when you say restroom i think a place you go to relieve yourself fine that. That's couth. Aren't we supposed to have some taste here in Europe? Isn't it supposed to be
Starting point is 01:23:47 refined? Isn't it supposed to be the pinnacle of culture? Then how come over in America they're slaying it by calling it a bathroom? I don't think it's the only toilet. And that's one minute. Now, I don't disagree with you. I don't disagree with you, but bathroom is not even that accurate either, right?
Starting point is 01:24:04 You're not taking baths in there. No, you're not taking a bath. Listen, all this, I'm waving my hand at it. I say this. Two things. One, put it all in one room. I don't want to have to take a shit and then leave. I agree.
Starting point is 01:24:18 The toilet closet. Is that what they call it? The water closet. The water closet. No. These are also two weird words together. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:24:26 Those are my notes. I don't know. Okay. That is very, very brave. People don't talk about this enough. I just love the way he said that. That is a very,
Starting point is 01:24:37 very, very brave. That is very, very brave. He's proud of me. Okay. Well, this is Bowen Yang's.
Starting point is 01:24:44 I don't think so, honey. And his time starts now. I don't think so honey and his time starts now i don't think so honey unicorns my nieces love unicorns and i went you know what it's disgusting how come most of them are white it's giving supremacy period it has it has a horn that's disgusting i don't a horse should not have a horn that's dangerous that could really hurt someone and these unicorns are not real so why are these kids obsessed with a fake animal they should be worshiping dolphins get unicorns out of the pantheon of animals that kids 30 seconds they should just worship a horse like we all did growing up I don't think unicorns I think unicorns are
Starting point is 01:25:22 really invading the culture of kids now. And I don't like it because guess what? It sets up unreal expectations. They're going to grow up and find out they're not real. And then they're going to be crushed. That's their first trauma. Okay. And I'm not going to be the one to pick up the pieces
Starting point is 01:25:37 for this generation. They're going to have to do it themselves. Unicorns, you are ruining a whole, you are cratering a whole generation of children. And that's one minute. The amount of kids who believe that dragons are real because of Game of Thrones,
Starting point is 01:25:54 they really think this. They really do. They think it and they're not gonna not think it because they don't have you. Add it to the list of things that we have to just tell kids about. Eventually we tell them Santa isn't real. Unicorns aren't real.
Starting point is 01:26:09 Dragons aren't real. It is too much. It is too much. And you know what probably smells terrible? A unicorn's horn. Why do you think it smells terrible? People touch it. It's disgusting.
Starting point is 01:26:24 It's essentially like, it's an exposed bone. Ew. Do you think that an elephant's tusks smell bad? Yes. I don't know. Probably. Probably smells like manure. Probably smells like dirty elephant poo.
Starting point is 01:26:40 Smells like poo, water. Horrible. I just can't with these unicorns and here's the thing you know what's better in theory than a practice a horse i'm way better in theory than practice i know i know a horse is spun in a picture but not in real life i took a picture with one the other day you guys guys. Did I want to kiss it? No. No. Also, I don't think so many. Bone was almost killed by a horse.
Starting point is 01:27:09 Why did that story get so much pickup, by the way? Because I think that people were trying to make something out of nothing with you shading the crew. I wasn't shading the crew. Wait, what was the story? Tell the story. The crew was, the story is that the you know and our first AD Adam Ascoff who I love
Starting point is 01:27:27 texted me and apologized and I said Adam it's not it's no problem oh my god the crew in Iceland decided to film
Starting point is 01:27:34 a shot with a drone of me and Nora on horses and of course the drone freaked out the horses and I almost got
Starting point is 01:27:41 fucking thrown off yeah you almost got buck thrown off. Yeah. And you know what? You know what would have been a crazy headline? Bowen Yang, 32. Promising Emmy nominated multi-cam actor. Thrown from horse.
Starting point is 01:27:59 In ice flames. You know, if unicorns weren't real, you could have been killed. Had that been a unicorn and not a horse real you could have been killed had that been a unicorn and not a horse you would have been impaled you would have been impaled by the horn I would have died
Starting point is 01:28:12 a smelly horn a stinky poop horn I can't imagine a worse headline than Bowen Yang thrown from a horse he passed away being sabred he passed away. Being sabered. He passed away.
Starting point is 01:28:28 Bowen Yang passed. If I had gotten a call, we have some bad news, Matt. Don't. Don't, Matt. What happened? This is going to make me cry. Bowen. I'm going to cry.
Starting point is 01:28:36 I said, what? He's gone. They said, he's gone. I said, how? They said, he was doing an episode of Nora. I said, what happened?
Starting point is 01:28:53 Look at me crying. Look at me. Oh my god. Get close. Get close. They said, he didn't make it. I said, what? They said, he was riding a horse. I said, what episode was this? They said, what? They said he was riding a horse. I said, what episode was this? They said, well, they went to Iceland.
Starting point is 01:29:15 They were doing a really funny story. Finally, Bowen's character got explored. In a deeper than surface way. And he was riding a horse. It was such a funny scene on paper. He didn't make it when he was thrown from the horse. He just
Starting point is 01:29:33 he was killed. I said, well, we have to have an episode this week of Lost Gulch. They said, can you get Suti? I said, probably. I said, let me text her. I said, wait, hold on.
Starting point is 01:29:52 Is there going to be a funeral? Like, what the fuck? They were like, probably. You have to talk to the family. I was like, oh my God, Jesus Christ. And then finally, this is the kicker. They go, we need you to come down to identify the body.
Starting point is 01:30:07 Oh my God, they made me come all the way to Iceland to identify the body. He was mauled. I can barely see his face. He had the elephant. I mean, the horse. The horse stomped his face out. I said, my sister.
Starting point is 01:30:23 Not my girl. Not like this. They said, oh, sir. They said, oh, sir. This is why you would soar in multicam. That's really good, Matthew. One take. I think it's time for Greta's I Don't Think So Honey.
Starting point is 01:30:40 Okay. Wait, do you want to time me? Bowen's going to time you so you can see on the screen okay okay this is greta teilman's i don't think so honey her time starts now i don't think so honey military time okay because here's my thing if you have it on your screen what do you think you're better than me that you're looking at your time in some european code honey you're not in the military okay and also if i'm meeting up with you and you have military time on your phone you better say we're meeting at 22
Starting point is 01:31:12 30 honey because unless you're using my time which is you know 8 30 p.m 30 seconds people that use military time you're not saying let's meet up at zero o'clock. You're not saying, oh, I was out until 004. Oh, we had dinner last night at 2145. No, bitch. 15 seconds. You are saying it in the 12-hour clock. So I'm done.
Starting point is 01:31:39 Military time, we have it in the title. It's for the military, the militia, the Navy, the army men, the fighters, the firemen, the military, period. And I'm proud to be an American. And I'm proud to be an American with my 12 hour clock. Nice try
Starting point is 01:31:58 Lieutenant Dan. How about you tell me we're meeting at 830? Yeah. This actually is a good segue. Bowen, Greta and I were having a conversation just now at lunch,30. Yeah. This actually is a good segue. Bowen, Greta and I were having a conversation just now at lunch, like we do.
Starting point is 01:32:09 Greta says, and Bowen is one of this actress's foremost fans, did Natalie Portman serve in the Israeli military for two years? No, not two.
Starting point is 01:32:20 She was a... No. I told you she didn't. No, what did I say? She grew up on Long Island. That's what I said! What did I say I was going to tell Bowen? What?
Starting point is 01:32:36 Oh, that you think it's funny that Gal Gadot was in the Israeli military? And Gal Gadot. She was the one who served. I think I'm going to start a rumor that Natalie Portman served in the military and was a drone operator.
Starting point is 01:32:55 That's a nasty rumor. I did an impression of Natalie Portman driving a drone. It was like this. Don't my tail! And then I said, what if she was like rehearsing her Jackie accent
Starting point is 01:33:09 while she was doing the... Like, they're on my tail. They're on my tail. They're on my tail. I'm on the joystick. I'm on the... Joystick. Look at my grip.
Starting point is 01:33:20 I can't do it. I think you can. Look at my grip. Look at my grip. Look at my grip. Jack. They're on my grip. I can't do it. I think you can. Look at my grip. Look at my grip. They're on my tip. Look at my grip, Jack. It's me and Orna operating the drones.
Starting point is 01:33:39 Operating. I can't do it. I need to learn that accent. It's just Great Gardens. It's just Great Gardens. Operating the drone. No, with Atlantic. I can't do it. I need to learn that accent. It's like the mid-Atlantic. It's just Grey Gardens. Operating the draw. No, mid-Atlantic. I can't do it. I can't.
Starting point is 01:33:50 I used to be so good at... It's like Laura McCall. It's like talking, like... I think the three of us are so good at accents in moments. But something about today in this episode, I'll speak for myself. I'm so sorry to bring you guys into this. I feel like I have not really stepped up to my accent game.
Starting point is 01:34:06 No, we've been doing awful accent work today. I mean, my Scottish accent, terrible. What are you talking about? I think you've been amazing. I think we've done a good job. Just do Alan Cumming if you're going to do Scottish. Oh, well, I love Serving You. Oh, I love Serving You.
Starting point is 01:34:24 I mean, to quote my most favorite movie of all time, coming if you're going to do Scottish. Oh, I love Slovenia. I love Slovenia. I mean, to quote my most favorite movie of all time, and I'm going to say it, and I'll see if you two know what it's from, I could eat this for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Yeah, the Colin Farrell sex tape. I'm eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Starting point is 01:34:40 I fucking hear. That is the hottest sex tape ever of all time. Ever of all time, yes. in her right fucking ear. Mm-hmm. That is the hottest sex tape ever. Ever of all time. Ever of all time, yes. I know. I love Sharon Osbourne. Do you ever hear
Starting point is 01:34:49 Sharon Osbourne's review of that sex tape? No. She goes, he's got a dick like a salami. And we're back. We're back to the accents
Starting point is 01:34:58 being on point. He's got a dick like a salami. He's got a dick like a salami. She said it on the talk. Oh, I wish it was a show that I do miss, or the Osbournes.
Starting point is 01:35:10 Well, what do you miss about it? Hold on, here's my thing. I'm feeling really not seen in my culture this episode. I bring up, God forbid, I bring up Jack Ryan and the Osbournes. I was affirming you. I've been affirming you this whole episode. Do you see his energy to me?
Starting point is 01:35:26 He's sitting reclined in a chair like he wants me to pass him a fucking four-foot Ildalf bong, okay? And, you know, I'm over here... Just doing your best. We're all literally
Starting point is 01:35:42 just doing our best, aren't we? That's the thing. That's nice. We are. Well, if you are in Edinburgh, Scotland, you've got to go see Exquisite Lies. Yes, please go to my show. And there's also tons of other amazing
Starting point is 01:35:57 shows. I'm excited because well, by the time this episode is out, she'll be gone. But Patty Harrison's My Huge Tits Huge Because Infected Not Fake has been a real barn burner here. Hit, hit, hit. Reuben McAllister's Tragedy. Tragedy.
Starting point is 01:36:14 Megan Salter's Night of Mayhem. And many others. And many others. And many, many more. And we're going to see them in exchange later. I love it. It is literally culture. I will say one final, I don't think so, honey thought is that, you know,
Starting point is 01:36:31 reviewing is a huge part of the culture out here. I'm getting reviews, getting written up. And thankfully, knock on wood, I've gotten some very nice reviews, but I did get one not so nice review. And here's my thing. If you want, if you are a reviewer or someone that's interested in that give a pov don't just summarize what happens in a show oh and then at the end this person said uh after summarizing my show basically using my words that I have written about my show. She said, there are some laughs, but
Starting point is 01:37:09 Greta is so unlikable on stage that if there's one thing I know for certain, Titleman won't be leaving Edinburgh with any new friends. That's just crazy. That is the most ad hominem bullshit. That is just crazy. That is the most
Starting point is 01:37:25 ad hominem bullshit. That is so personal. That is so like, this person What does that have anything to do with the fucking show, you fucking idiot? Also, honey, I'm here for work. You think I'm here? I mean, and by the way, I am making absolutely fabulous, lovely friends. Thank you very much.
Starting point is 01:37:41 Literally, you're not there to make friends. No. Period. That's stupid as hell. I know. Dumb as shit. Dumb as a unicorn's shit tusk. Ew. Bowen, are you feeling better?
Starting point is 01:37:54 I don't know. I think the Tylenol is kicking in. I think my hope is that I broke my fever last night and I'm on the up and up. If I miss Vegas, I will never forgive myself. You're not going to. No, I don't want to even talk about that. Can you go and get a vitamin infusion? Can you go and get a shot of B12, vitamin D?
Starting point is 01:38:10 You need a prescription. No, you don't. You need a prescription for that. Call the IV people. Yeah, you don't need a prescription. Get the IV doctor to come over. They'll come to your house. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:38:20 Hmm. I'm going to look into it then. And you can also just go and get a shot, like a vitamin shot in your ass take it in the butt boat I love them I miss getting those shots in my ass we have to end this episode
Starting point is 01:38:34 with a song because that's what we do every single time I'll always remember it was late afternoon it lasted forever And ended so soon Yeah You were all by yourself Staring out at the dark, dark, gray sky
Starting point is 01:39:01 I was changed In places no one will find All the feelings so deep inside Deep inside Was there that I realized That forever was in your eyes The moment I saw you cry. Cry.
Starting point is 01:39:30 The moment that I saw you cry. Oh, no, no. I wanted to hold you. I wanted to make it go away. I wanted to know you. I wanted to make it go away. I wanted to know you. I wanted to make you everything. Alright!
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