Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang - "The Bowen Yang Pokémon Experience" (w/ Matt & Bowen)
Episode Date: June 14, 2023Edgelords, you will NEVER win. And Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang will NEVER stop talking about pop culture! In fact, this is an episode chock full o' pop cultch talk. The Tony Awards are (sort of) recap...ped! Tears of the Kingdom is reviewed (no spoilers though)! Matt and Bowen get into Pokémon for some reason! Tina Turner is remembered! Mariah at LA Pride is discussed! So, yeah... you could say this episode of Las Cultch is giving EPISODE OF LAS CULTCH. All this, Past Lives, Pink catapulting into the sky, I Love That For You's cancellation and Akbar's carpeting. This episode will make you HARDEN. See you all at the Las Culturistas Culture Awards this Saturday! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Look, man.
Oh, I see.
Bowen, look over there.
Is that culture?
Yes.
Las Culturistas.
Ding dong. Las Culturistas
calling. We're edging
ever closer to the big night.
This is that week between award shows.
Between awards night.
How are you feeling?
We're half in Tony's mode, half in the Las Culturistas culture awards mode.
You know what I'm saying?
So many friends of the show were honored.
I am very, very, very ecstatic for them.
I will say I was bad last night
and I skipped out on watching the writerless Tonys
to instead go see a film.
Oh, and I can't wait to hear all about the film.
I will talk about it.
Oh, this is an anticipated film.
Very much so.
Now, will you tell everyone
the honorable people who
took home Tony's
hardware last week? I think the very
first thing we have to do is shout out
Miss Bonnie Milligan,
a Tony Award
winner, a friend of the show,
a performer on last year's Lost Culture
Resource Culture Awards.
She tore down the house
with Natalie Walker
to All I Want for Christmas Is You.
Stay tuned on a performance
of that tune
at this year's ceremony
because it has a repeat nominee.
That's true.
She was on the show this year.
We saw Kimberly Akimbo.
It's so incredible.
It deserved everything it got,
including you, Vicky Clark.
Vicky Clark.
Janine, David,
everyone at Kimberly and Kimbo.
Congratulations.
I think this has to solidify its status as a frontrunner
for best indoor performance,
live performance.
I don't know.
Is it nominated?
It's definitely nominated,
but there's tough competition.
I don't know.
I think, wait, let me just check.
It is not nominated.
It has the title for the award.
It is not nominated for...
Kimberly Akimbo is not nominated for its own award.
But that's, in some ways, that's even more iconic.
It's almost like I forgot.
Wow, that is crazy.
Rosalia is nominated for the Rosalia Award.
Oh, okay.
But Kimberly Akimbo did not score a nomination
for Best Indoor Live Performance.
Wow.
But I think the real prize there
isn't the award itself. It's
the namesake. Absolutely.
Well, suffice it to say, whether
they take home the award this week or not,
they did certainly last weekend.
And congrats to all
the cast and crew of Kimberly at Kimbo.
All the house down. Also
Parade. Parade. Michael Arden
who said the words
I'm a faggot with the Tony I saw.
I'm a faggot with the Tony.
And that's a rule of culture. That's a rule of culture
number 12. I'm a faggot with the
Tony. One better than
faggot who sees Adele. Faggot with the
Tony. Faggot with the Tony. This was one of the
biggest nights of his life. I'm sure
faggot with the Tony. Faggot with
the Tony is such a huge night in your life. I think you're going to be faggot with the Tony someday, I'm sure. Faggot with a Tony? Faggot with a Tony is such a huge night
in your life. I think you're going to be
faggot with a Tony someday. I really do.
You just touched my
heart. You just reached
out and touched my heart, Queen.
Preston Burke style.
I cut you open and touched your heart.
How, Derek, you bring
Preston Burke into this?
Grace is back in the zeitgeist. Do we need to talk about this Grace is back
in the zeitgeist
Ellen Pompeo
let's get into it
Ellen Pompeo
so the biggest cultural news item of the week
and by the way we are on yet again
indictment watch
we're recording this on Monday
June 12th
he has to go
to the authorities,
the Floridian authorities tomorrow.
Got him! We got him!
He's got to go into the authorities. We got him!
The Katie's Readers Publicist finalists
who just came to you screaming, got him again.
They didn't know you were edging them.
Oh my God.
Well, edging is something I love to do.
Just kidding. I absolutely have to come all the time.
But it's interesting we're even discussing all this.
Because speaking of being all the way locked up in jail,
and I did smoke a whole blunt of reefer before I got on this episode,
but I absolutely am imprisoned by the charm of Miss Ariana DeBose
in this scriptless Tony Awards.
So she didn't say a literal word
the whole night?
No.
She said words,
but she sort of used her effortless charm
to improvise her way through.
She even turned to the prompters, Bowen,
and the prompters were blank.
That is theater.
There was theater right there.
You can have theater with a teleprompter.
You really can.
And cameras.
With no prompter?
I mean, with or without a prompter, you can still have theater.
That's what I'm saying.
Well, yes, absolutely.
And also, you know what you got was actors improvising during their presenter copy.
Marsha Gay Harden got up there
and she said this,
Hello, my name is Marsha, and it doesn't matter
where we are, we can always say
Gay Harden.
And I thought
she really left no crumbs with that one.
That's really good.
When Marsha Gay Harden said you can say gay.
Gay Harden.
I mean, Harden is the gayest word, I think, besides gay. Harden said you can say gay? Gay Harden? I mean, Harden is the gayest
word, I think, besides gay.
Harden, my favorite
Pokemon move. Oh my god,
Metapod. My Metapod ass.
I love to click button Harden.
Me as a little one.
Harden is kind of annoying.
The one time I go, don't.
Stay soft, mama. Period.
What's the Pokemon that can do Harden?
It's two.
It's Metapod and Kakuna.
And then a handful of others.
Kakuna!
There's Cascoon.
There's Silcoon.
So in the other generations, they have new Kakuna Pokemon.
So Kakuna.
Can we just get into Kakuna for a second?
What was the risks and rewards of being Kakuna as a fighting Pokemon?
Kakuna and Metapod are very similar in that they don't really have a lot of attack moves.
Right.
If you're seeing a Kakuna or a Metapod in the wild, their only move they know is Harden.
But if you evolved a Metapod from a Caterpie or a Kakuna from a Weedle, they can at least know String Shot and Tackle.
Oh my god.
It may be a Poison Sting if you're lucky. Does the Kakuna eventually become the bee? can at least know string shot and tackle. Oh my god. And maybe a poison sting
if you're lucky. Does the Kakuna eventually
become the bee? Yes, Beedrill.
Beedrill. Okay, so that's why
you want to stick with being Kakuna for a while.
So you can eventually become Beedrill and then
probably everyone is like
totally powerless. Absolutely.
But like, this is how you knew
you were gay in the 90s.
Tell us about this.
If you were like, no, I want Butterfree.
I don't want Beedrill.
Guess what? 30 years from now,
you're going to Horsemeat Disco.
100%. Wow.
That's the pipeline.
Did I ever tell you?
I think I've told you this,
but one time I absolutely dominated a
game of Yellow Version with a Prime
Ape. Oh, that is so you.
I don't know how I ended
up with this Prime Ape, but
I fucking killed
the girls dead
with Prime Ape. It was unbelievable.
It didn't matter where
Pikachu was. No, she got
tossed along the way. i don't know how
i'm sorry to say pikachu's weakest moment was pokemon yellow because it was a little piece
of shit from the beginning it paid you dust he she they paid you dust in the beginning it was
like i don't want to be with you and you're like okay then don't then go yeah i wanted to tell that
because you off the entire time.
Here's what I'm saying to anyone that wants to be in my life.
If it's not a fuck yes to hanging out with me, if it's not a absolutely I'm going to be there, I don't need you.
Period.
This is how we are moving forward.
Okay.
If you could take or leave me, I could only leave you.
And that goes to everyone.
Show me
how important I am to you.
I
am looking at you and going,
who could ever
leave you, darling? And who couldn't
stay? Who couldn't
stay?
The Archer is one of the greatest songs
in Taylor Swift's discography.
Discuss.
1,000%.
She was giving you mid to late aughts.
She nailed it.
And you needed The Archer to sort of bridge.
You couldn't have had The Archer on 1989.
You couldn't have had it on Reputation.
It could have only worked on Lover.
This was a Lover song.
The Archer paved a lot of roads to get to Midnight.
That's tea.
Also, I'm going to say this.
Even back in the day when I first heard it,
I said, this song in a stadium in a big concert is going to slap.
And did it not?
It did. And then
some, especially this
little move she does on all the shows.
But the camera pans
in the most perfect way.
Okay, I'm about to do the move. You know the move I'm
going to do? I've been the
archer. Yep.
I've been the prey. She pulls a bow.
So Bowen just basically was giving
centaur. Sagittarius.
Sagittarian.
I might be Sagittarian.
No, I might be an Aquarian.
I might be an Aquarian.
Now,
not Sagittaria.
Can I quickly, before we move on,
because we were kind of hovering over video
games for a second. I want you to discuss
primate more a little bit.
So you caught a manky and then you evolved it?
At some point, I got a manky.
And I think I must have just been impressed
with something about what he could do.
There must have been something about that girl
that I chose to invest in her emotionally.
Like I was Alyssa Edwards
and she was one of my girls, my dancers.
Your dancers.
You are giving,
I know your water signed down.
If you were a gym leader,
do you think your type
would be water?
Because I'm not sure.
No, I think I'm a fighter,
a rock type trainer.
Because look at my hair.
You know what I mean?
If you put me in one of-
You're wearing a gray sweater.
I really feel like
I could give you a Brock.
Like if they did want to resurrect Pokemon and do a live action film,
I actually think I could give you a Brock.
I would love to tape for Brock.
I really would.
Maybe I'll even write the Brock biopic.
Brock is actually gay.
He lives in Rocktown.
Rocktown.
What's the name of the-
Pewter City.
Pewter City.
Wow, you really are that girl.
Honey,
it plays my ass.
I can give it to you, Encyclopedia Brown town down. I think Aaron Jackson
claims... Didn't he tell us this?
We were talking, because Pokemon came up
also when we were in London. Who said
they think they could name every Pokemon in order?
At least the 151.
The original.
The OG girls.
In order?
The Ninnies.
I'm sure.
I'm sure.
The Kyles.
The Ninnies.
The Kyles.
The Vanderpumps.
The Vickys.
The trees.
I'm sure it was Aaron.
The trees.
The Caroline Manzos.
Oh, my God.
I'm sure it was Aaron.
I couldn't name them in order, but I could name all 150.
I could do sections of the Poker Rap rap and it would give you a boner.
Wow.
Electrode, Nidoran, Minky, Vanessa, Protector, Fero, Pidgey, Sea Game,
Dolce & Gabbana, Dragonite, Gasly.
Like, look, it's deep.
You really are one of the leading artists of our generation.
You really are.
I look at you and the way you performed the poker rap and I was like,
this is really a star.
To be a Pokemon master is my destiny.
The one man concert I am getting right now
of Bowen performing poker rap.
This should be worth Aris Tor money.
You could charge dollars and dollars for this.
People would come to see you do poker rap.
Should I do a Pokémon show?
Yes. A live Pokémon show?
100%.
Your live show should be
Bowen Yang Pokémon Experience.
Bowen Yang Pokémon Experience. Or what if
it was like the Bowen Yang
Crossover Spectacular?
And it's me talking to Goku,
talking to Ash, talking to Sailor Moon,
talking to all the girls. You need to do
a reunion with the girl Pokemons.
Okay.
That is inspired.
That is...
This is actually a major moment.
This is an unbreaking of something.
An unbreaking of something. And I don't mean
disrespect to the podcast, Lost Culture
Recess, which we've hosted for close to eight
years. Moments like this I go
well Lost Culture is just a stepping stone to
something else. To the Bo and Yang Pokemon
experience. Which is the title of
the app.
Well wait. Okay so first
of all I want to be like at a restaurant
in LA and I want to hear the table
next to me or table
like four tables down from me.
They don't clock that I'm there
but I want to hear two fucking agents
go well I heard Matt Rogers
is reading for Brock
I'm manifesting that
and you know what I heard is really
going to shake the table
the Bo and Yang Pokemon experience
I heard that this is a
hot live show this is a hot show
well he's been sitting on this idea for like, what, seven years?
And he hasn't really done anything with it.
This is a huge hit.
And also, by the way, producer Anna agrees.
Producer Anna agrees.
Okay, really quickly, before we move on,
we have huge things to talk about.
Matt, we need to sort of take a little bit of time
to acknowledge how 2023,
one of the biggest
if not the biggest year
in video games ever.
You've defeated the game and
I want to know what the experience
was. And by the game we of course
mean Tears of the Kingdom. Tears of the Kingdom.
Yes. Nominated for the
Betty Gilpin Award for Big Sleigh again.
I think it might win.
I think it might win. I think it might win.
We'll see.
I'm excited to see on Saturday night what happens.
Let's just say that.
Me too.
Let's just say that.
Hands down the best game I've ever played.
The best game anyone will ever play.
I was in.
Wow, you're saying that.
You're saying that.
Confidently, I've had conversations with Raiders,
Katie's publicist, finalists.
We're all in agreement.
The ending is 35 years.
In the making.
In the making.
It's earned by 35 years of groundwork.
And I cannot believe,
I thought I was dead inside.
I really did for the last several months,
Matt,
think I'm not consuming art.
That's like moving me.
And that all changed this week, by the way. But I'm going, Matt, think I'm not consuming art that's moving me. And that all changed
this week, by the way. But I'm going,
God, I want to feel something again.
There is a fire in you.
Well, because, can I share something? Yes.
I celebrate that you smoked a little.
You consumed a little marijuana.
Just a little bit. Just a little bit. Normally,
you know I like to be on my girl's level.
But I also have shared with my girl
that I need to take a little bit of a break.
Love that.
Because it just really kind of throws me off.
I have taken breaks
and they've been hugely beneficial.
I am in support.
And so have I in the past.
And this is just my new cadence with it.
Anyway, I took an edible in London.
And I took myself to go see Spider-Man.
Spider-Verse.
And when, you know, I walked out
because I go, I'm too stoned for this there's a lot happening
and so far i think this is worse than the first one and i cannot think that and no you had a
complete come to jesus moment where you were like this is my mindset i'm removing myself from the
situation i have to give this a chance and i'm not in the position to give this a chance because
it looks visually stimulating as fuck.
Probably overload when you're that high.
It's visual overload.
It's informational overload.
I mean, the movie opens on Haley Steinfeld's when Stacy world and it is a feast for the fucking senses.
But it's all in watercolor and you're like, oh my God god what the fuck am i watching in the best way but
when you're stoned when you're a little bit stoned you're like this is i have to remove myself and i
made it past that i was like 45 minutes in and i was like i don't understand a single thing that's
happening and normally i do kind of follow this in a decent way and And I was just like, I got to recuse. I left the theater.
But anyway,
back to Zelda,
this ending, Matt,
it is one of the most beautiful things
I've ever seen.
There is a moment
that is full circle.
I can't even talk about it
because it would spoil
and you're being a good friend
by engaging with me and reacting.
No, but I'm wondering,
is it something you are able to spoil?
Can you talk about it?
Have enough people gotten to this point yet
where you feel like you could share it on this podcast?
No, because this is the kind of game
that is completely your own adventure.
It is a game unlike any other.
That sounds incredible.
It really is.
It really is the best game ever made.
And people are saying this about Breath of the Wild.
But it makes Breath of the Wild seem like a proof of concept.
Oh.
And this game is out of control.
And the ending is a visual unlike anything I've seen in film, TV, video games, anything.
And there's just something that happens in the end
where you have to do something.
You have to make up for a failure
in the beginning of the game.
Link fails in the beginning of the game.
That's all I'll say.
And the final moment is not necessarily
about beating the bad guy,
but it's about redeeming that failure.
And that's all I'll say. It's done in the most
impactful, epic,
beautiful, touching way.
I will never get over it.
I will never stop thinking about this
moment for the rest of my life.
And it's how the game ends.
It's how the game ends. It's the last thing
you, it's the last button you have to press.
It's the most important button
you've ever pressed in your life.
I'm telling you. Anyway,
so we're doing that. Now I'm thinking
about all the important buttons I've
pushed. Think about all the buttons you've pushed.
Think about all the buttons you've pushed.
This is the most important button.
Oh my god. When I got into
the elevator at NYU,
I pushed up.
And girl, that's where I went.
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City are back.
I love that.
Oh my gosh.
Welcome.
And last season's drama 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,
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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 had me in a lot of trouble. I encourage delusional dreamers. body image and huge life transformations. 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.
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I'm Cheryl Swoops, WNBA champ, three-time Olympian, and basketball hall
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basketball analyst, 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.
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On Thanksgiving Day, 1999, a five-year-old boy floated alone in the ocean.
He had lost his mother trying to reach Florida from Cuba.
He looked like a little angel.
I mean, he looked so fresh.
And his name, Elian Gonzalez, will make headlines everywhere.
Elian Gonzalez.
Elian.
Elian.
Elian. Elian. Elian. Elian Gonzalez. Elian Gonzalez. Elian.
Elian.
Elian Gonzalez.
At the heart of the story is a young boy
and the question of who he belongs with.
His father in Cuba.
Mr. Gonzalez wanted to go home
and he wanted to take his son with him.
Or his relatives in Miami.
Imagine that your mother died
trying to get you to freedom. At the heart of it all is
still this painful family separation. Something that as a Cuban, I know all too well. Listen to
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And we're going to welcome you guys all to Dudes on Dudes.
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I pushed an elevator up at University Hall
and that's where I met you
no I think we met in the lobby
I don't think so
we met in the elevator bank
were you on the 8th floor?
do you remember what floor you were on?
darling I was on the 7th floor
and then the 17th floor
and so that would have been the 7th floor
I was room 707
at U-Haul?
yes
darling
I remember going
it was going to a hammer cat show
I was going to meet
Shermung
and then she was like
my formate Matt wants to come
and I had seen you post
a video to her Facebook wall
and you thought who the fuck is this
I was like this man
is going after the girl I love
and I was like,
you must stop.
She was the coolest girl.
She was...
Effortless.
Effortless.
Beautiful.
She, I remember,
so this is the girl that me and Bowen met through
in freshman year.
Her roommate and I would watch,
sometimes watch The Hills together.
And I remember,
can we say her name?
I don't want to say her name just because i don't know
how much she'd want to be talked about on the podcast but she and i were like sort of like
trying out being friends and we would like crack up watching the hills but sheer mung would be
in the other room and she'd sort of be like over it that we were watching the hills yeah i was like
who's this girl and then a few times we interacted and she did have a very sarcastic sense of humor
and she i just trusted what she would think was funny because she would also like nag me a lot and
she was like i'm going to see the sketch group and my friend bowen is going he's in the improv
group and i was just like in the back of my mind i was like i want to figure out what this is because
i might want to do that and then we went and i remember and i remember you giving me a little
bit of the stink eye girl because of shermongmung. You were crushing on Shermung.
We haven't really fully unpacked this.
I don't know how comfortable Shermung would be to hear us talking about her.
But she's, look, she's living a groovy life right now.
First of all, I think she is the person that brought together Bo and Yang and Matt Rogers.
And I think she's an icon.
And for other reasons as well.
She's a genius engineer.
Yes.
She's wonderful. She was the person genius engineer. Yes. She's wonderful.
She was the person who brought us together.
She definitely did.
That is the person who brought us together.
She invited us to the same thing.
We went together in a group of four, I think.
Yeah.
And we watched the Hammercat show.
And I do remember you gave me a little bit of stink eye
because later you would tell me
that you had a quote-unquote crush on Chermong.
It was a full-fledged crush.
And it wasn't like that for me and Chermong. That wasnged crush. I was. And it wasn't like that
for me and Sherman.
I wasn't a threat to you.
It just wasn't like that.
You were.
I thought you were.
No, I was fully like
giving straight drag.
But I think Sherman and I
were always friends.
And I also think she is
smart enough to look right
through me and be like
this faggot.
I think.
Yes, she knew we were
gay.
Come on.
Yeah, probably.
She was too smart for that
shit. She knew we were right. Right. Anyway, how do we talk about. Come on. Yeah, probably. She was too smart for that shit.
She knew we were gay.
Right, right.
Anyway, how do we talk about your mom?
Oh, the elevator, the button I pressed.
Yeah, exactly.
But that is where we met.
And then we didn't really hang out again,
ever again until I auditioned for the group.
And you famously said,
hey, mama, heard you're auditioning
and you're super funny.
Can't wait to see how this one turns out.
Cut first round.
I'll never stop talking about it.
Hey, mama.
I opened with hey, mama.
I don't think so.
I think I was doing a colloquialism there.
We need to get to the bottom.
We have not resolved, reconciled
these two accounts.
This is the truth of it.
And I'm ready to say the truth.
I'm ready to say the truth of Bowen and I's first interaction. Honesty Zone. This is Honesty Zone. This is the truth of it. And I'm ready to say the truth. I'm ready to say the truth of Bowen and I's first interaction.
This is honesty. This is honesty zone.
You came over. I think
you probably genuinely were rooting for
me and like genuinely were like
this would be so fun probably to have another
gay in the group. Maybe
Matt is actually funny. We don't know.
We weren't out of the closet at the time. No.
And so then I was like,
when you left, I was like a little bit nervous because I was like,
oh, Bowen's on the group.
Like you had a little bit of status over me there.
So then when I got cut the first round by, I'm going to say it, Emily Schmidt and Aheli
Hepworth, and we love them, but they cut my ass.
And I believe Anna Dresden may have been involved.
I think Anna wanted to keep you.
Then you weren't in my room.
And I remember you told me later like, oh, I was so
disappointed, but I had literally no say
because I wasn't in your audition, and you were just cut.
Cut to the next day. The sketch
audition went totally different. But the truth
is, Bo and Yang was not rude.
I just play into that
because I am being honesty
zone right now when I say I just like to tease my
sister. Okay?
But sometimes... There, the truth.
And I never want to keep you from teasing your sister.
But some people really do take that narrative and run with that.
That they think that you were actually a cunt to me on the day I auditioned for this improv group?
Yes.
That is not true.
People are like, why were you mean to Matt when you met him?
That is not true.
I promise you I wasn't i know he came
over of his own accord he said this is he may have said some some variation of one thing i won't back
down on okay you may have said some variation of i heard you're really funny you may have said some
variation of that sure and like me at 18, 19 years old. Yeah. Fuck
me. That sucks. But
whatever. That is the truth. Okay.
That is the truth. Bowen was actually
a sweetheart. The truth is Bowen
Yang is a sweetheart. And that's actually
really culture number 30. The truth
is Bowen Yang is a sweetheart.
Well, now you're like
overcorrecting into irony and it
sounds like. No, no, no, you guys. He's actually
so nice.
Stupid.
Stupid girl. Anyway.
So just to put a cap on it,
Zelda, best gaming experience
ever, maybe for the rest of my life.
Diablo 4 came out. It's a little
tough. It's a weird game. The reviews
are okay. Blizzard, the company, Activision
Blizzard, the company that has made these games since the 90s
has been in a lot of weird
shit and like the culture
there was, you know, very toxic
and people left and people did
all these shitty things there. And then
you have Final Fantasy 16 coming
out Pride Week, which is cruel because that is
a fucking faggot game. Yeah.
And then Spider-Man
2 comes out in the fall,
which is going to be a slay
because the first one was huge.
Huge, huge, huge, huge game.
This is a great rundown.
I have to ask you,
did you get back to the theater
to see Multiverse?
I did not.
I planned to.
This is my week
of Matt Rogers living
where I'm going to watch
as much theater as I can.
I'm going to watch as much movies as I can. I'm going to watch as much movies
as I can. And oh,
guess what? We can announce that we're going to be on Watch What Happens
Live. Yes. So excited. On Monday
the 19th. A lot happening the next
week for your old friends, Matt
and Bowen. You have to
tell me about past lives.
Okay. It is
a debut
from Celine Song who wrote and directed
Korean Canadian American
playwright
a lot of parallels
to you know
like the narrative
from like moving
to like Canada
and then to the US
well I don't know
like not parallel
but just I'm just saying
like it's a film
that is
and I know like
you know
the specific is universal
whatever
but like
it's a film that
without you knowing or realizing,
by the end, you're like, wow,
that evoked something so deep within my own past history
of thinking of like the person who like slipped away, you know?
It's like, it is, by the the end it is thick wow there are these shots that like you're not
gonna believe it man and all the listeners wait it's just a really spare elegant simple
straightforward it's not like a film that like works within like surprise necessarily but it's just like really lovely,
delicately handled thing.
That's telling a story that like any single person who's like experienced
love and maybe has seen it kind of like drift away is going to be affected
by.
Oh,
I'm so excited and happy to hear this.
And Greta Lee. Greta Lee. Oh, I'm so excited and happy to hear this. And Greta Lee.
Greta Lee.
Yeah.
I love this.
I mean, this woman is a fucking force.
Like, from high maintenance to, like, Russia.
She's, like, done...
I think her, like, selection of projects
and, like, her range and, like, her whole resume that she's building now
and that she's like... She's on my favorite show.
She's on The Morning Show.
You gotta catch up. I looked into
my sister's eyes in London and I said,
I'm gonna catch up. I'm gonna watch it with my
sister this season. I believe you're gonna get there.
Especially now with the added impetus of
the Greta Lee
sort of reconnaissance that we're gonna be entering.
What a stacked cast. What a stacked cast.
Truly a
stacked cast. Of the morning show?
Yes, yes, yes.
I mean, I'm excited for it to come back.
Now wait, who's the big get this
season? Is there a big get this season? John Hamm
himself. That's right, John.
Oh my God. John Hamm.
Of course, Julianna Margulies will be returning to
the cast. It's such,
I cannot wait.
I cannot wait.
Now,
is this the first season after COVID?
So last season,
it ended with her basically dying and becoming Joe Rogan.
She's dying of COVID and she gets a streaming show and she becomes like a radicalized,
you know,
talking head and not a newswoman anymore.
Jennifer Aniston,
this is of course.
And so that's sort of where we left it
was like COVID was very much
killing the girls.
Now we're going to come back and I think it's going to be more
in the review mirror if I had to guess.
Yes.
You don't think the showrunners are like
let's just keep COVID in the atmosphere.
Now looking back
the way people decided to deal with COVID and just like that think like the showrunners are like let's just keep covet in the atmosphere now looking back like
the way people decided to deal with covet like and just like that basically being like yeah and
it's over remember that well that was crazy anyway um yeah i saw bird runching and all sitting here
it's not a big deal at all well anyway uh what should we talk about you know that's not covet
because it's over but you know you know, I respect that in hindsight
because the New York that Sex and the City
has always presented has been a fantasy.
And that is the version of In Just Like That
that is like this perfectly idealized version of New York.
It's a Sheena Shea of New York City.
A Sheena Shea.
Good as gold.
Good as gold. Good as gold.
I'm literally,
well,
and I just turned off the episode
because you were talking about it
the other day
and I had never seen it,
but the episode of Sheena's wedding.
Can you freak bitch?
Oh,
the wedding,
the first wedding.
The wedding.
Wow.
That wedding planner really was
when you said she was a mess,
you did not lie.
That was so bad.
She is,
we must find her
because she will, she, she deserves we must find her because she will
she deserves an award actually she deserves
a culture award speaking of the
awards most incompetent person yeah what
Tina Shay is nominated for the Tina Turner Legend
Award which by the way was
also named that last year okay
we've always had a category called the
Tina Turner Legend Award and that just
goes to show what a legend she was
talk about the legend because we have not touched on a legend she was. Talk about the legend.
Because we have not touched on this podcast that she has gone.
The legend that is Tina.
Rest in peace.
I mean, every thread of music that is still woven into everyone today
is fucking made by her.
She was at the fucking spinning wheel.
Whatever.
This metaphor is so... She was at the spinning wheel. Tina was at the fucking spinning wheel, whatever. This metaphor is so...
She was at the spinning wheel. Tina was at
the spinning wheel, and that's what she looked like culture number five.
Tina was at the spinning wheel.
You know,
Beyonce, you watch her, you watch old
Tina, it's like, you wouldn't have
Beyonce without Tina. Tina...
I mean, if you
watch the Tina documentary,
I did an episode of my HBO Max movie podcast about Tina.
That woman was really, that was like,
that was a total, I was at rock bottom reinvention
that she needed to do.
And it was like, to watch her create who she was,
she created her own stardom and then occupied that and like it was just
unbelievable what she was able to do rewrote the in terms of how low she was right just rewrote
the whole like dark past of it like what a what a reclamation what a fucking like i i'm at a loss
of what to say just because it's like she seemed so like yeah like someone that would never die
I know I know and yet it's like
besides the actual tragedy
of like her life like yeah
what I loved about the documentary was that like by the
end she just seemed like happy and
right she was in a loving marriage
and like you know yeah
she earned that I always say
like um yeah I would have
really wished to have seen her in concert,
one of those last tours that she did,
because one of the things I'm always trying to remind myself is
you have to, like, see these icons while you still can.
Like, that's why I'm seeing so many shows this year.
I have the time. I'm able to go.
This fall on Bravo.
It's time to turn up. Think you've seen it all? I don't think you've been a good friend to me lately. We're friends right back. Salt Lake City. We don't wear costumes, we wear fashion. And below deck sailing. You broke the rules and now you're here getting upset.
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Hey, I'm Jay Shetty and I'm the host of On Purpose.
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On Thanksgiving Day, 1999, a five-year-old boy floated alone in the ocean.
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He looked like a little angel.
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I'm Julian Edelman.
I'm Rob Gronkowski.
Guess what, folks? We're teammates again.
And we're going to welcome you guys all to Dudes on Dudes.
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let's just get something out of the way because there are these rumors right that that Beyonce
had like broken her ankle six months ago or like she sustained some injury so that in the beginning
of the renaissance tour it looked like to some people like it was a little marked or that it was pulled back
which by the way would be fine totally because it's still at such a high level but people were
saying it looked like there was an issue i didn't fucking notice any encumberment when I was there live in the flesh. I'll say that it felt like a fucking Beyonce show.
It's also a party.
So you're not like necessarily needing her to be breaking her ass in half.
Like,
like just giving you Beyonce 2004 at all times,
like firing off like a machine gun.
Like she's got a lot of incredible dancers. Like the visuals are unbelievable.
The music is a party.
Like get out of here with,
she's not giving out of here.
Like get out of here.
And like,
I broke this down and I know people can disagree with me and I'm going to
bring in people where it feels very transparent,
but I'm like,
people are still asking me like,
oh, between like eras and renaissance,
like which one was better?
I'm like, this is the thing.
And then I brought in Gaga into this
and then I brought in Ariana
because I'm like,
it's okay to get different verticals
or different like things
out of these different people.
Like for Beyonce,
she's so clearly influenced by Prince, by Tina, by like these different people. Like, for Beyonce, she's so clearly influenced
by Prince, by Tina, by, like,
all these people. So, like, I feel like
Beyonce is a student of
performance.
Fucking galvanized in this. Yes.
Taylor is a student of songwriting.
Gaga is a student
of pop culture. She's giving you
jazz standards. She's giving you fucking, like,
dance. She's giving you fucking power ballads. Like, she's giving you jazz standards. She's giving you fucking like dance.
She's giving you fucking power ballads.
Like she's giving you every little facet of the,
of the crystal of pop culture.
And then like,
if someone like Ariana,
who like,
she's a student of vocals and she's like,
I learned how to riff from Mariah and Whitney and Beyonce.
Like that is how I learned to sing.
That is how we learned to perform.
It's like any single person is going to have their one beam of light that they like transmit.
And that is,
I love that.
I love that about like the landscape right now.
It's actually great that one person isn't everything to everyone.
Yeah.
Anyway,
I mean,
there was this video that I sent you just to speak about like what people do.
I sent Bo in a video of Pink is on tour.
Okay.
Yes.
So Pink during So What in her like arena tour gets, I really don't know how to describe it other than to say she gets catapulted into the sky, spinning, twirling, and flying, doing flips successively
to the back of the stadium.
From the front,
from the stage, to the
back of the damn
arena. And I'm telling you,
it's the rig they put the camera on
so they can take aerial
videos of the
fucking football game, like the
kicks and everything. They put pink in that contraption and shot her into the air.
Mama.
Katie,
can you believe this?
Katie,
put the baby down.
I said,
do I have to see pink?
Because if that's happening during,
so what?
Why is that happening during? So what's happening during so what? Why is that happening during so what's happening during who knew?
What's happening during just give me the reason.
Just like a pill.
Stupid girls.
Stupid girls.
That is stupid in the best way.
Her fucking trebuchet into the audience and the audience going a little bit silent, being like, oh, is this going to be okay?
The person that posted it with the caption,
this has me crying and a bunch of consonants.
That really added a lot.
Some of the replies were like,
Pink has no songs in her catalog that would warrant this.
Not one.
And I disagree.
How do I feel this good sober?
Catapulted into the air.
If she did that during Razorglass,
I would fucking explode.
I'd be like,
right, right, turn off the light.
We're gonna lose our minds tonight.
Why so serious?
And then she launches into you yeah like i'm so raise
your glass while that plays she's spinning through the skies like i love it oh i'm telling you i need
that i mean you but here's the thing you have to imagine that if so what she gets catapulted into
the air and i'm saying it again what happens during those other songs? You know what I mean?
Like, what happens during Don't Let Me Get Me?
This woman
has been on the silts
swinging around the vines
of every stadium
in this country and world of ours.
I trust her. She knows what she's
doing. She's doing things.
I read an article after watching that video
where she said that aerial stunts keep her
humble and said, quote,
why would I stay on the ground if I don't have to?
That is an amazing
question, Pink. Why would I
stay on the ground if I don't have to?
That's actually rollercoaster number 88.
Why would I stay
on the ground if I don't have to?
That's an amazing question, Pink.
I don't disagree.
This woman wants to feel
weightless.
She wants us to feel weightless.
The reason that video is getting so much play
of her being rocketed into the audience
is because not a single
singer
is going to do that.
Can I be honest with you?
I'm going to be really honest with you.
I can see one doing it.
And her name is Halsey.
I can see Halsey getting into an era
where she's shooting through the air.
Right.
But Halsey certainly doesn't have songs
that warrant that either.
I would say so what?
Hey, listen, Queen.
Not yet.
Not yet?
Oh, no.
Halsey is coming back hard.
Oh, the last Halsey album was a fucking work of art.
You know that her country song is one of the songs that gets the most play.
You should be sad.
Yeah, so good.
I'm not a woman, I'm a god.
So, so, so, so good.
But anyway, Pink is back.
And the last album got a lot of play
I mean
Pink never really left here's the thing
Pink is back but she never
really left
that's a real culture number 50
Pink is back but she never really left
wait did Pink win the Tricon award
no Pink won Video Vanguard
what's a Tricon
Tricon is me on Fire Island.
Honey, what does that mean?
I don't know.
I was just doing like an old gay joke.
Tricon.
Tricon.
Sounds like me on the springs.
Yeah, yeah.
In the springs.
You know, the springs.
Yeah.
Disney Springs.
Oh my God.
Patrick got back from Iceland and said that everywhere is a sauna there.
The vibe is sauna.
Oh my God.
They said they had the most incredible time
and then I thought we must return
because you also are one with Iceland.
Oh, I love it there. I love it there
so much.
Should we do Iceland New Year's?
1,000%.
I would fucking love that.
Would it be absolutely freezing?
Yes, but we'll be fun. They know
how to keep... And those people
can drink.
Yes, bro. This is what I want to do.
We could get people on board to do this.
We really could.
The hotels are really nice.
The spas are stunning.
Oh my God.
We have to go.
We have to go.
I mean, I'm so attracted to the idea of constant daylight,
but I guess by that time it'll be constant darkness.
It'll be constant darkness, but that's kind of a vibe.
It's kind of a vibe.
For New Year's Eve, not no, not no.
The way we're thinking about it now.
We weren't thinking about it before,
but we are thinking about it now.
Ooh.
I would say Matt Rogers is a student of,
if any one person is going to occupy everything,
it's Matt Rogers.
What are you talking about, occupy everything?
You are
vocals,
performance, comedy,
absurdity, stupidity,
intelligence, Christmas
every other day of the year.
You are everything. Mama,
girl, I worship you.
You are the star of my world.
No, I would kill for you
pointing at you diva
pointing at you get this screenshot
this is the goddamn cover
art this time
okay they got it
I mean if they didn't get it they're fucking fired
can I say if they didn't get that
they are so fired
Anna says got it yeah
by the skin of your teeth
damn right fucking A right
fucking A right
anything else we have to discuss
girl I guess I'll just briefly touch on this
or should I do I don't think so honey
maybe I'll do I don't think so honey the big news
I don't
know what you're referring to but
well you'll know the second I start saying it
this is I don't think so. This is our 60 second segment
where we drag, read, go off, and
more in culture.
This is Matt Rogers. I don't think
Sony's time starts now. I don't think
So Honey That I Love That For You is cancelled.
This sucks. Bring
it back. Someone bring
it back. Fucking show time.
This deserves a second season.
And I'm not just being selfish about it. It deserves a second season. And I'm not just being selfish about it.
No!
It deserves a second season because
I need it!
We love the show.
It deserves to go on.
This is stupid.
It was warmly received
and got a lot more fans as it went.
We need revival
for I Love That For You.
I am calling for it.
I am on the show.
Publicist now.
I'm getting loud.
I've been quiet. I'm getting loud. I've been quiet. I'm getting
loud. We need this
show still on the
air. Do it.
Put it on Netflix. Peacock,
where are you now?
After all the support that I've given you.
Peacock. Oh,
don't make me storm the halls.
Somebody better get to
it.
Keep me working.
Keep Vanessa slaying.
Keep Molly slaying.
Keep Jennifer Lewis slaying.
I love that for you.
I don't think so, honey.
That's one minute.
I need to say something right now.
Peacock, if you don't pick up, I love that you, I'm never ever, ever shilling for you again.
I'm never saying one nice thing about you.
You better get it together. Somebody better
get it together. Look, if it's not them, I won't be
angry at them, but I'm saying somebody
better scoop it up
or else it's going to be war.
Let me tell you something right now.
I am ready to fight. It's war
at this point.
This is war.
And the roots of the grass are firmly planted in this movement.
Okay?
Do you hear me?
Make noise.
Get to the streets.
Get your pitchforks lit.
Okay?
My girl giving you iconography week after week, dressed in the tightest, most well-fitted suits you can possibly see on television.
I'm not even going to say no.
You're fucking right.
Murray Bartlett found dead.
I was iconic in that show.
You really were.
Look at me.
You were iconic on that show.
I was iconic in that show.
I deserve to do more.
Bring it back.
You hear my voice?
Don't laugh.
Don't laugh.
You do deserve to do more.
Bring it back.
Producer Anastasios, the discourse is toxic.
Oh, no, no, no.
The discourse isn't toxic enough.
We need to make it.
We need to add poison to the well.
Because we need to scare these people.
Light your pitchfork.
You want to cancel I love that
for you this is war this
is war I'm not taking
this one laying down I'm
not taking this one
laying down I'm not
taking this one laying
down like I took game
show I'm not taking this
one laying down like I
took hot dog I'm not
taking this one lying
down I'm dying for this
one I am throwing myself
on the tracks I'm going
down with the ship
revive it now. Revive it now.
Okay, well.
Okay, Queen, are you ready?
I'm ready.
This is the moment you've been waiting for.
This is the moment when Bowen Yang does his
I Don't Think So, Honey, and his time starts now.
I Don't Think So, Honey carpeted gay clubs. What are you now. I don't think so, honey. Carpeted gay clubs.
What are you doing?
I had to think to myself.
I went, I haven't been back to L.A. in like a year.
I wonder why.
I guess it's because I've been working in other places.
I guess it's because, you know, my best friend is bi-coastal right now.
But then I went, oh, no, I know why.
It's because fucking Akbar has carpet.
I say no.
You can't have
a party called
Bears in Space
and then also have carpet. It's too much
quirky on quirky.
You can't
do it. I can't
handle it. What is this?
Who do you think you are? The Tower of Terror?
Get the carpet out.
15 seconds.
The only reason you should have carpet is if...
You're a grandmother.
You're a grandmother.
There's neighbors downstairs.
Five seconds.
Who don't want to hear the footsteps.
You know, if you're the Tower of Terror.
Which, by the way, is at risk for being destroyed.
And that's what...
Is it actually at risk for being destroyed, you that's what... Is it actually at risk
for being destroyed, you feel?
I feel like it is.
I feel like there are movements happening
to make sure that it is preserved in Orlando.
Listen.
I really think it's on the chopping block
and some people out there will not have it,
including me and you.
We will fight.
Like, you're going to cancel the Tower of Terror?
Like, you cancel...
I love that for you.
This is war.
This is war. It's actually war.
Am I fair
on this? No, here's the thing.
I love Ackbar. I actually love Ackbar.
Can I just be clear to everyone who
has a stake in that place, loves going
there, I'm with you. But I go,
sometimes I go, why is there carpet?
I had so much fun there this weekend
and I just have to say that LA
Pride weekend at Ackbar was a moment.
Bears in Space was a lot of fun.
I love.
And I went there after Saturday's LA Pride to debrief Mariah.
And that was really fun.
The dance floor was actually going off.
And that is the part of the place that's not carpeted.
So, you know, here's the thing.
I do think that the carpeting at Ackbar adds to its charm.
It's sort of like
den feel. I feel like
the carpeting, it's really helping me
with that. I think it's like
take one thing off before you leave the house.
I think the lighting
is A+. The decor
on the wall, A+.
Everything about it is perfect.
There are things that cling.
Cling on the rugs
on the carpets
it's just a little bit more hygienic of an experience
if you just take it out
I hear you
that's why I kind of like going during the week sometimes
because then it's like
we're cozy vibes and we're not noticing that
things are spilling
but things spill
but you notice that things are spilling on the weekend because it happens.
It's a rug.
When I was growing up, my sister and I thought our heads would get cut off because she was painting her toenails in the bathroom.
And I knocked over the nail polish and it went on the rug.
And we had to take bleach and scrub it away before our parents got home.
And they still noticed.
It is the most stressful situation in the world to have liquid on carpet.
And you're inviting that to happen every two minutes.
I mean, literally, mother, where I sit and where I look at you week in and week out on this podcast is also where I sit and work.
And I am sitting on a couch that is placed on a carpet.
Is your apartment a gay bar? No,
I'm not saying that. But I'm saying I'm identifying with the spills on carpets because I have to tell
you, I sit here and I sometimes drink coffee. And there was a day I did spill a hot coffee
all over this carpet. So I'm sitting on top of a very stained carpet. And I don't like it one bit.
Unseemly.
Unseemly.
And I hope you never have
every king
in the east side
scene
of gay nightlife
at your apartment.
Because guess what?
They're all there at Ackbar
looking at stains.
So true.
I didn't feel at home here.
This is an invitation
to all the East Gays
of LA.
Come over.
See my stain.
No, I do love Ackbar
very dearly.
It was so fun this weekend.
I had a blast LA Pride
except for having an STI
that I'm recovering from.
And we need to call them STIs.
We need to call them STIs,
but I think this is a great outcome
because you were worried for a second
that you weren't going to be able to go
and partake in the festivities.
And I'm really happy that you did.
Because I saw in stories,
I was like, Matt's out.
Good for him.
It took me a while to get there,
but I got there.
And I'm in treatment.
I'm in treatment.
I had to enter treatment
as a result of my STI.
In treatment.
Sorry, Uzo. Okay, well. Was I too hard on the Mariah thing of it STI. In treatment. Starring Uzo.
Okay.
Well.
Was I too hard on the Mariah thing of it all?
No.
I just wanted to be honest.
Good.
We need to be honest on the.
Yeah.
Just looked like she looked nervous.
People on the Reddit were commenting on us not commenting on the Maddie Healy of it all.
Oh, I'm happy they broke up.
Well, now people are saying that they might not have.
And they just kind of tree pain.
Just kind of put that out there
in order to keep it underground
so that people could stop
making a big fuss out of it.
Hmm.
I mean, I gotta say
I don't enjoy him.
I just
I'm disappointed that like
edgelords are winning
with this one.
You know?
Hmm.
Edgelords
you'll never win
because I have to come.
Okay?
I'm saying it again. Edgelords will never win because I have to come okay I'm saying it again
edgelords will never win because I have
to come that's my rule of culture number
two edgelords
will never win
because I have to come
underline the have to
also I'm sorry
it doesn't matter who you are what gender you are
what your occupation is
if your thing is like you stick your tongue down people's throats, like strangers, you're fucking corny.
That's so stupid.
I did that when I was four.
Yeah, it's kind of like loser behavior.
You know what I mean?
It's kind of like, it's my least favorite sense of humor, which is, you know what I mean?
I hate
or her, her, her, her
humor. Like some some people
on Twitter get corny and they
get her with their jokes. And I'm just
I'm saying like
easy jokes like a stupid
shit like, oh, we kissed and it's funny.
I mean, it's not or her
her more like shut up,
shut up, shut up, shut up.
Exactly that four times.
Guys,
we're so excited for this
weekend's Culture Awards.
As you can see, we are in
dropped-in rare form,
ready to host.
We're hosting. Lost Coach? We can host.
That's not
easy humor.
That's as high concept as we can host. That's not easy humor. No.
That's as high concept as you can get.
And there's more of that coming this weekend.
See you there.
See you there.
And maybe to do our song that we go out with,
which we go out with a song every week,
we should practice for the opening number.
Remember, you have to all get off book
seven days and seven nights
yeah
see you there
See you Saturday
It'll be a night to remember
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