Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang - On The Third Day of Culture... June 10th, 1752: Ben Franklin Flies The Kite, and Girl, Makes A Shocking Discovery

Episode Date: December 14, 2020

The 3rd Day of Culture has arrived and we are celebrating that day when Ben Franklin, whilst flying a kite, discovered electricity. Chaotic good, much?! Bowen walks Matt through the fascinating timeline of Benj Frank's life, and the girls spin off based on one of his other inventions (bifocals!) into a conversation about Bowen and Matt's respective lifetime eye struggles. It gets really, really emotional as Matt accuses Bowen of being a "Tina Fey about glasses" (lying about needing them), but the two immediately reconcile. All this, the boys choose their favorite founding fathers, the "beauty myth" during the American Revolution is explored, and a brief word on how poop can sometimes get in your eye during lovemaking. Have you checked in on your girls? They doing crazy shit like flying a kite during a storm? Ever seen a straight guy's ass up close? Anyways, we'll see y'all again tomorrow! xo! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Oh, we did. We did create a catchphrase, didn't we? Listeners, readers, we're recording these sort of spread out and these insanely concentrated sessions. We were supposed to say on the third day of culture, the gift that the day they gave it was on the third day of culture it was yes that's right let's and even if it was slightly different from what we originally said that is from now on yeah just before we get into you have a sty don't you know it's not that i have a sty it's just that i have an eye problem and i need to ask you the doctor in my life about it yes every day i wake up and only my one eye just no just my one eye can you see it looks weird well i can't you need to come up

closer to the lens i'm getting up see how red it looks what makes you think it's not a sty because the sty happens below your eyeball. Like, okay, so just readers. Not always. Can I just describe what's happening? I don't think that's true. When I wake up in the morning, for some reason, my one eye, the eyelid, is a little, sorry, I know you guys see me as like this sort of dainty, hot little twink, but my one eyelid is crusty.

It is. Like something is going on with my one eyelid eyelid and I don't know what it is. Is it contact dermatitis? Can you tell I've looked something up? I can tell you have not looked up, which is styes. And all of the images that are popping up are on the top eyelid.

Oh, shit. All right. So maybe I have a stye. But girl, I don't know. Warm compress. Here's what you do. Do you have like dry rice or something in the house? You don't cook. Do you think I have a sty. But girl, I don't know. Warm compress. Here's what you do. Do you have like dry rice or something in the house? You don't cook.

Do you think I have dry rice? You're supposed to put like rice in a saw, tie it, microwave it for 35 seconds. And then just whatever hot compress you can reheat. Doug says pink eye. I can see it from here. I certainly don't have pink eye. If that's some sort of anal sex joke it really isn't it's not acceptable we don't use eyes with anal sex doug we don't put our eyes in the butt i'm not i'm not 19 years old

putting my eyes in butts i've learned since then just kidding never once did that i have many times you just accidentally had sex with your eye you fucker you sick fucker while i've been down there and then i just kind of i kind of brushed past it with my my little my eyelash gives it a little butterfly kiss your little fecals got in your eye his fecals dear darling i don't really know you to be some sort of hole muncher. I just don't talk about it. It's not a theme in my conversation. Yeah, you really don't talk about it. You don't talk about it enough.

Talk about it. What? Having sex or? Have you eaten a butthole? Have I ever? You've done it and you like it? Yes, of course. What about you?

What about you? I'm on the record that I am a fan of it. But you never really, you always seem to be, you know, more the receiver. But that's something that's like very easily, very easily reciprocable. Really? Because I meet some gay men and they're like, no way. Okay, but you won't do it. So are you like a DJ Khaled?

But you're a gay DJ Khaled? No, I didn't. No, I'm not. First of all of all i'm not talking about me i'm talking about other people and other people who who are like no i will never eat someone's ass but i demand you eat mine that's not who i'm that's not the type of girl i'm talking about i'm talking about these type of girls who are just completely just sort of like no the butthole's off the table. They'll have anal sex, but when it comes to, you know, the shit getting, you know,

let's say a mouth on it, people are, you know, feeling a little bit dainty about it. They feel a little bit Victorian about it. They feel a little chaste. They feel like a Victorian woman. I don't understand that. I feel these men need to discover their buttholes. And I wish that straight men would discover their buttholes and I wish that

straight men would discover their buttholes I really do God bless the ones who have who understand they're out there who have seen God the way that we have oh hun and I actually spoke to a straight woman recently who said she has eaten butthole and then i thought to myself man's butthole a straight man's butthole and i thought to myself wow that must be a true m night shamalan horror movie that must be truly that because but when you when you pull down the pants you know there's going to be a twist and the twist is it's dirty in a way you can't imagine straight men i know they don't take care of their buttholes i know and let's just say this for our straight engineer to be telling me accusing me of pink eye it's really gross really gross he would get pink eye if he even looked if he even looked at his butthole

in a mirror that's that's that is cold matt wow you really smoked him out speaking of which he said ouch i said smoked him out no doug said ouch he's hurt by it he's hurt by what i said we're hurt by what he said um it's the third day of culture i'm sorry about your sty i i don't think i don't think it's this it's just i i think i just have to moisturize more i don't know what it is. But maybe it is a stye. But do styes last weeks? This is tough. Sometimes if you don't conjunctivitis, which is-

That is pink eye. He's saying the fancy word for pink eye now. Oh, see. Because he thinks we're stupid. This is why you can't trust me. Because I thought that was something different. I'm not a doctor. I'm not a doctor.

And that's how you know I have been looking all of this up, girl. Because I knew the word conjunctivitis. And then Doug says, I have had it many times. Well, that's something he's revealing about himself. I guess you've looked

at your butt in the mirror. If you've had it. It's the third day of culture. It's the third day of culture, man. I'm so excited to keep discovering these days. Well, you know,

today actually is one of Bowen's picks. And I think that when he said this one, I said, absolutely. This was one of the most important days of culture that I can think of. And if to think that it might've missed the list of days of culture, it would just be, I wouldn't be able to forgive ourselves because we have to take it all the way back to the beginning. And this really

does, Bo, an amazing pick. Thank you so much. And this is the beginning. I mean, this is the beginning of the rest of our lives. Our lives. Over and over. over and over just think about how often you use the thing that was discovered on this day you ready yeah it's a discovery here we go on the third day of culture okay so i'm gonna say the date and then we say the thing together That's what we do. This third day of culture is June 10th, 1752. Ben Franklin flies the kite and girl makes a shocking discovery. I, what do you think? Wish I could have been there that day. I really do.

Because that would have been just, can you imagine if your girl, your, your, your good girl, if your good girl just said, I'm going to fly the kite today. And you were like, yes, sister, we'll be here and we'll watch you fly the kite. We love when you fly it high. And your girl's name is Ben. And he's sort of known for being a crazy person in government. I don't know. 1752, he wasn't really in government at the time maybe he was a great mind he was a leader he was a leader you're telling me that well i actually

never even thought about this his discovery of electricity was before america was before he was such a mover and shaker in the government? Yes. What an amazing man. Amazing man. Invented bifocals. Ben Franklin is that girl. He is that girl. That's rule of culture number 10.

Ben Franklin is that girl. Whoa. Can you imagine? I can't imagine a life without glasses. They're part of my look. No, they're a part of your look. Most crucially, they're a part of your look. And then secondarily, you need them to see.

I need them to see. Now I don't need them anymore. I have contacts. But, you know, do you think, wait, what? I just thought about something with you. What did you think? You could be a Tina Fey. And I don't even know.

What does that mean? A liar about glasses. No, I'm not. Everyone, no, you are. And actually I'm realizing it. It's all flashing back to me now. It's like the end of a classic thriller where you see a montage and it all makes sense.

You're a liar. You're a Tina Fey about glasses. What are the scenes in the flashback? Like when did i ever lie to you just like me turning around and you sort of taking off your glasses and looking at them like i don't need these like you you putting glasses away like on a trip because you don't need them you see that i'm asleep and then you take off your glasses and like all of a sudden you can see better. You're a bitch. That's what a Tina Fey is?

Tina Fey famously doesn't really need those glasses. She wears them as an aesthetic choice. Image. Well, for me, first of all, my first glasses were very ugly. And so it became a functional, it was a functional thing that became aesthetic. Why you had ugly glasses. All I was able to choose from were the Costco frames.

That's all you could get. All I could get. For how long? For like, until I was like in the eighth grade, I want to say, or no, like in high school until I was,

I got to high school. Like we got, cause my prescription, I would always get my eye exam at the Costco. Shout out to the Costco eye care centers. We love you. But the selections, especially back then, were not so great, especially if you were just going, you know,

to the brick and mortar to shop for your glasses instead of buying them online these like we do these days. But I went and girl, slim pickings. I have never even thought about your sort of journey journey through the trauma that was having to wear eyewear that you didn't like it is a trauma it is a trauma honestly girl i have thought to myself that from the beginning at least when they tell little kids they need glasses which has got to be a tough thing to hear, that at least they say, but you can have the most amazing pair. But no. You think every kid who, you think it's part of the...

That's why I have a lot of unlearning to do. You have a lot of unlearning to do. And think about the ways that that disinformation has served you in the past. It served me. It certainly has. And it served me in negative ways because it set me on a course where I did not know anything about my sister's real pain, which was that you didn't have the glasses that you liked. And you are such an aesthetic person. You are such a person that is in touch with your image and you love your sort of things.

And for you through middle school, which is such a hard, difficult time, wouldn't you say? Yes, I would say so. So much bullying, so much bad language. You know? I'm crying. Oh my God, I'm crying. You are crying really hard right now.

And to think that you had no control over the aesthetic on your very face, that really breaks my heart for you because I know it probably trapped a young Bowen's ass. And I, you know, I like to think of you as being indignant as a child in a state of sort of upset. But this is like a sort of, you know, sadness. I don't want to think about you ever going through. Thank you. What was something that you struggled with in middle school? My colorblindness. Oh my God. And while, first of all, while my sister- This became such an emotional episode of Lost College. It's crazy. It's one of the most-

It's one of the top four most emotional episodes of all time. I was listening to you. I was receiving what you were sending me just now. Your empathy, your understanding, your love, your care. I was in full consumption mode. I did not even think about the way my sister, to this day, cannot see colors the way that they are. It's going to be a chapter in my book, actually. world cannot see colors the way that they are. It's going to be a chapter in my book, actually.

I cannot see colors. I can't wait to really get into that. But I just want to say that my narrative with colorblindness has really taken over the conversation of our friendship for the past decade. And so we have not had this conversation. I feel that you are well aware of my colorblindness, whereas I was not aware of the sort of pain that came with not being able to choose your glasses

that you liked until a certain age. That is truly... And you would say that those are on the same level, those pains? I would say one is a real handicap and one is a temporary but debililitating setback a thing to overcome yeah because i don't know that i'm sorry i don't know that you will ever overcome your colorblindness no i may not live with it you will live with it but i don't know if it'll be no i'm living with colorblindness i'm living with colorblindness yeah yeah and i've i i've

actually received in the past gifts in fact last year last year, I got a Secret Santa gift from Chris Schleicher. And he got me a pair of glasses that were for colorblind people. Oh my goodness. And yes. And by the way, he's also a reader. He's a reader of the pot. He also got me a lighter that says Adina is a base. Amazing.

Because it was famously one of the rules of culture that resonated with him and he got me this pair of glasses that's really good that were supposed to correct my vision and it became that moment that you see like when a woman hears for the first time like she hears her own voice like that those videos those heartwarming videos i was like oh my god are we gonna have that moment but then turns out they were just shitty glasses. And I saw like what you'd see if you wanted to like a fun house. And here's the thing. I can choose to either believe that that's true. And you're all seeing a true fun house.

And I would rather prefer my vision or the glasses were bad. And I'm inclined to believe the glasses were bad. What a fucked up life. What way of? vision or the glasses were bad and i'm inclined to believe the glasses were bad what as what a fucked up life what way of no but well yes but just that the label the packaging whatever would give off that these were colorblind like glasses for colorblind people oh yeah experiencing colorblindness you put them on like, the anticipation of touching one with your fingers about to put them on for the first time thinking, will this be, it feels like a scam. This is how I can describe the trauma of that situation. When I put those glasses in my hand,

I heard the most beautiful music. Like I felt like it was the scoring of my life was swelling. I was like, this is going to be a moment of all time. And then I was just disappointed. So I don't think I will ever really truly see, you know, I'll never truly see. You won't. And I'm sorry, as a friend, I have to be honest with you and say you won't. That's okay. I think the way you've seen the world so far all your life. Whoa, now I'm emotional. And then the way you've

interpreted that world and then the way you've told us about it, like reflected it back. It's just beautiful. Because I think about the young kids.

I think about young colorblind kids. I think about them every day when I wake up. I think there's a lot of young colorblind kids out there who can see me now. You are representation. You really are. I'm not joking. I know. And if you were to joke, that would be the

cruelest thing you've ever done to me, was to be joking right now about how I represent and inspire colorblind children across the country. You are Joe Biden. For you to take that from me? What? You are Joe Biden with the stuttering. See, I didn't know if you were saying I was Joe Biden in a negative way because I never really

know. No, I'm a centrist. I love Joe Biden. You as a centrist, your king is Joe Biden. My king is Joe Biden and Neera. Now, I think, what does it say that the two of us, lifelong friends or friends for life, hosts, co-hosts of a podcast. Most importantly, most crucially, co-hosts.

Co-hosts. And co-hosts know everything about each Co-hosts. Most importantly, most crucially, co-hosts. Co-hosts. And co-hosts know everything about each other. Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest. They text all day. Savannah Guthrie and... Hoda. Al Roker. Al Roker...

What? Is the godfather to Savannah's youngest. Is this true? Yes, it is. Yes, it is. Yes. No. What does it say that is. Yes, it is. Yes. No. What does it say

that two of us, two friends, two co-hosts, both have our vision dysfunctions. We can't, but our eyeballs

are fucked up. But whose eyeball is normal? And you know what I say to that? Define normal. Define normal. That's what I always

go out into the streets and scream with my arms out like this like i spin around in a crowded street and i just say the words define normal define normal if anyone's like stop no one can i just say define normal and do they give you an answer no no one can no one knows what to say to me when I tell them, when I put it to them. Define normal. Normal. I don't have to act like that. You know who didn't define normal?

You know who stepped outside the boxes and as a result was an inventor and politician? Benjamin Franklin. We've been calling him Ben Franklin this whole time and then you decided to add the German. I respect that. I love that. Benjamin Franklin. And you know what? The decided to add the German. I respect that. I love that. Benjamin Franklin. And you know what? They,

that's the man is on the hundred dollar bill. He's a discoverer of electricity. And I, I can't imagine what it was like to have been there. Was he electrocuted that girl? That girl was a little, um, zapped. Was she fried?

Oh my God. You know, the legend has it that he maybe almost died? Gay? I don't really know. Gay? Oh, sorry. No. Almost died, right? Maybe he was gay. Maybe almost died. And I'm sure he was gay. He probably thought about it.

Now, I think that Oh my god, Anna. How does it feel, Anna? Just, Matt, read this note. Franklin's experiment demonstrated the connection between lightning and electricity. To dispel another myth, Franklin's kite was not struck by lightning.

Oh my God. If it had been, he probably would have been electrocuted, experts say. Instead, the kite picked up the ambient electrical charge from the storm. So I guess what we're sort of understanding from what Anna has said to us is he wasn't just flying a kite like as a hobby and then got struck by lightning and said Eureka, as it were. He sort of went out there with intent and wasn't even electrocuted

and struck by lightning like we all think, like myth would have it. Who's your favorite founding father and there's a correct answer i would say my favorite founding father would be john hancock because he absolutely took his space on that document and he said i'm the greatest diva of all. I will take the quill, please. Mama, watch me write. And he slapped his huge slapper on there and said, find room elsewhere. Fags. And then he stomped off.

John Hancock. What about you? This is the correct answer. None of them because they were slave owners, honey. You got me, didn't you? You've been waiting to... That's why you brought this up. That's why you brought this whole Ben Franklin thing up.

So you could ask me who my favorite founding father was so you could say the right answer was none of them because they were all slave owners. Bitch. You know what? How does that feel? What? could say the right answer was none of them because they were all slave owners bitch you know what what it feels really fucking like a good opportunity for me to learn the real housewives of new york city are back for another bite of the big apple look who it is joined by elite new friends. Rebecca Minkoff.

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You have such grace today. Yeah, well, that's because the thing is, I sort of have had the time, the space with the quarantine to really sit with myself. And it's been a really inspiring time and very creative. Every day I'm getting up and I'm just creating so much. And it's like, if I, it's like, this is how it is as an artist, right? It's like every single day I have to do something with all this energy. You know what I mean? Or

else the energy will turn against me. So I have to be super productive every single day. And when I wake up in the morning at seven 45, I get my coffee, which I make for myself here at my apartment. And then I sit down and I'm in my chair after just some like, just, you know, I run a couple miles. And then I sit down in my chair at 9 a.m. I make sure that the latest I'll do is 903. And then I just start writing and I don't judge myself. You know what I mean? I just write.

And usually I have a few really solid completed works by four. Completed works. Yes. And that's when I'm ready to sort of unwind by watching film television. I'll maybe have a glass of wine, Chardonnay. And then I'm in bed. I'm in bed by seven, seven television. I'll maybe have a glass of wine, Chardonnay, and then I'm in bed by 7, 7.15. My God.

So during that time, it's been really, in my discoveries and in my work, I've really discovered this compassion that I didn't have before. So the quarantine's been incredible. It's been an incredible time. That is, yeah.

That's so beautiful. Yeah, and I'm inventing things too. Like Ben Franklin did? What are you inventing? Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, that's, that's so beautiful. Yeah. And I'm inventing things too. Like Ben Franklin did. What are you? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah, definitely. Definitely exercising my inner Ben Franklin while I'm, while I'm in quarantine.

Wait, you didn't answer the question. What are you inventing? Oh, okay. So I invented it. So you know how plants have pots? This is a bowl for a plant. Oh my God. A plant bowl?

It's a plant bowl. It's basically like, you know how you would, if you were eating like spaghetti or soup, you'd eat it out of a bowl. Yeah. So this is, you take that same kind of bowl fill it with um fucking dirt and then you just put you plant a plant in there and if you water it and put it in the sun you will get a plant plant yeah i plan to like doesn't it need a hole to sort of lol for for moisture to sorry moisture or something to to escape like it needs sort of, the system can't be completely closed.

Do you know what I mean? Well, um, I guess TBD because that was just one of today's inventions. Oh, right. And then completed works, I assume means an invention.

He said, you have four comic book series, just like, um, calendar ideas. And I'll draw out a cap full calendar. Um, I have, um, so basically, um, I have have a calendar idea which is the chickens of the midwest and it's basically it's a picture of a chicken in

every midwest state and there's 12 the 12 midwest states of course you know them yeah so this is sort of to appeal to like young farmers young girls that are sort of um you know in the midwest themselves they're teachers for classrooms this is a chickens of the midwest calendar So like young farmers, young girls that are sort of, you know, in the Midwest have fun in themselves there. Teachers for classrooms. This is a chickens of the Midwest calendar. And it's really, really fun. And it has all the Midwest states, all 12. I think that Ben Franklin was such an amazing person.

Yeah, probably gay. Who do you think he, what do you, what do you think his type would have been? I think that he was like really fixated on a type that was like sort of unattainable at the time because i think he was like i think he was like this is this sort of sucks to say but i think that ben franklin was like addicted to these guys that would become president you know what i mean and they were like the hotter guys oh yeah like these guys that they like you know like hamilton that was like hot hotter were they younger there's a difference both i mean like at the time it was like at the time

when you were 35 you were elderly yeah so like these guys like they were like young tighter just like a little bit more good looking a little bit more charismatic i think like ben franklin like helped him out and put so much energy and investment into them that he, he could never settle down enough to, to sort of find his own attainable love. Cause these guys, nothing was ever good enough. Yeah.

Like Ben, not even Ben was good enough for them. And they just wanted to fuck because they were like, that's Ben Franklin. Like clout goes up. Like, wow. If I fuck him. Oh yeah. Yeah. Clout goes up like, wow. If I fuck him.

Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like basically like just being around Ben was like enough. Cause he, he, maybe he was going to invent something really good. So you want it to be fucking him.

Well, Ben like held court. Ben would be in the back of back of the, you know, the bar just like having people gather around him and he would just like, yeah, he was a great storyteller you know crack wise or whatever so it's he was amazing improviser too amazing improviser and like at the time it was hot like even hotter than it is now and so oh and it's really hot now

well i but i feel like ben probably saw himself a little desexualized because he was misinterpreting what signals of desire he was getting from men. Yeah. And I also just think he wasn't as traditionally hot as the rest of them. And these guys were narcissists. Okay. They call themselves the founding fathers. Crazy. It's like, I mean, like, Ben, it's like the wigs are there.

Like, the men are wearing the wigs yeah you know you could you could have worn one yeah but instead he was like i feel strong powerful with my fully bald head but i mean at a certain point you have to acknowledge the beauty standard and you know there is the beauty myth but i think things are governed by it doesn't mean it's, it's like saying, it's like me being like, I don't believe in money. It's like, you can't say that. You can't say that. Or no ethical consumption under capitalism. It's like, true, so let's just kind of do our thing.

You know what I mean? Like, yes, we'll do that. We'll do the ad for Alexa. You know what I mean? We'll do the ad for Alexa. You know what I mean? So much in the same way, Ben Franklin probably was like, I'm smarter than the system, but he really wasn't. You cannot pace it.

I hope that he was a content person. You know what I mean? I hope that he was able to, at the end of his life, look at all the things he did and say, you know what? Maybe I didn't slay it relationship wise. Maybe I couldn't get these guys to fuck me like in, in a locked down way. Maybe, maybe I never did like, you know, hook up with and keep Thomas Jefferson, which is really what he wanted.

It's what they all wanted to fuck Thomas. Yeah, I think so. They let him write the declaration of independence. It's like that. He was like the golden boy, you think? And he had that red hair,

which made him stand out he was married to deborah reed for many years deborah reed you know you know all about what she did what did she do she was a big murderer killer yeah she's big killer she was a major killer i think ben franklin was gay i think that that's why he was married to a killer is because he was like let's make the come make it have a conversation based on something else because i don't want them talking about how i'm gay so i'm gonna marry this crazy killer taking the scent off himself that's smart he's so smart he was one of the smartest before we move on what's your number one electrical um invention thing a router router is important router is

really good i would say clock i'd say clock that's so important and fun to tell time and i really i loved learning how to tell time and so that was one of the highlights of i think how long did it take for you to i mean i just i truly like it probably took like all of two days to learn how to tell time from an analog clock. But I felt like my brain was reorganizing itself so profoundly that it took maybe five years for me to learn how clocks worked. Yeah, yeah. It was crazy for me

because I actually learned how in 45 minutes. But then I got, so I knew how to tell time for like six years. And then I got really sick. I got scarlet fever and I forgot i knew how to tell time for like six years and then i got really sick i got scarlet fever and i forgot how to walk and tell time so i had to relearn how to walk and use a clock so that's why my situation is a little bit more different i i kind of assumed it didn't exist this is i'm sorry i keep doing this like with the colorblind thing and um i have i have a lot to learn i have a lot to learn learning and unlearning and

um you know who didn't have anything else to learn was ben and we want to thank him he had he had it all we want to thank him thank you ben for risking your life to give bowen a router and me a clock which we take for granted well that's june 10th 1752 ben franklin flies the kite and girl makes a shocking discovery that's day three of our days of culture and what we say is and I want to thank you for giving us

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