Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang - "Toxically Benevolent" (w/ Matt & Bowen)

Episode Date: August 14, 2024

In a hot, spicy, sizzling episode of Las Culturistas, Matt & Bowen discuss Alanis Morisette and cathartic anger, Hot Ones as important press stop, It Ends With Us drama, family style meals and how... sometimes moms be momming. Also, Sean Wang's fantastic film Dídí and Joan Chen's terrrific performance, AIM and Myspace culture, the Anora trailer and imminent rise of Mikey Madison, and the recent theme park announcements at D23. All this, Brynn Whitfield having Parvati Shallow energy, final thoughts on RHONJ, Barack Obama's summer playlist, and Matt and Bowen's butts. Don't you want a Lego Bowen? Either way, RPFK's? You're all in our Top 8 <3See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City are back. I love that. 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.
Starting point is 00:00:13 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+. On Thanksgiving Day, 1999, five-year-old Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez was found off the coast of Florida. And the question was, should the boy go back to his father in Cuba?
Starting point is 00:00:43 Mr. Gonzalez wanted to go home, and he wanted to take his son with him. Or back to his father in Cuba? Mr. Gonzalez wanted to go home and he wanted to take his son with him. Or stay with his relatives in Miami? Imagine that your mother died trying to get you to freedom. Listen to Chess Peace, the Elian Gonzalez story on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Julian Edelman. I'm Rob Gronkowski. And we are super excited to tell you about our new show, Dudes on Dudes. We're spilling all the behind-scenes stories, crazy details,
Starting point is 00:01:21 and honestly, just having a blast talking football. Every week, we're discussing our favorite players of all times, from legends to our buddies to current stars. We're finally answering the age-old question, what kind of dudes are these dudes? We're going to find out, Jules. New episodes drop every Thursday during the NFL season. Listen to Dudes on Dudes on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Starting point is 00:01:45 Look, man. Oh, I see. Wow. Bowen, look over there. Wow, is that culture? Yes. Oh, my goodness. Wow.
Starting point is 00:01:53 Las Culturistas. Ding dong. Las Culturistas calling. You were singing the amazing song Dreamin' by Blondie before we got on the mic. I was going to say, this episode is going to be a lot more singing and giggling and way less tears. Promise, promise, promise.
Starting point is 00:02:10 Oh, stop it. I'm singing Dreamin' by Blondie and I'm in a really good mood. When I met you in a restaurant. Can we first say one thing? And let's re-litigate this because it's really important culture. I wouldn't go back in time and I wouldn't like, you know, back to the future this
Starting point is 00:02:28 because I think everything worked out. Are you about to talk about Trixie Mattel? Wow. Trixie Mattel won that, she won that lip sync to Dreamin' by Blondie in season seven of RuPaul's Drag Race
Starting point is 00:02:36 and Pearl lost. Oh, because I was about to ask, who did she even go up against? But that was, yes, that was her and Pearl and Pearl was in that snake,
Starting point is 00:02:42 that cobra outfit. Yes. And Trixie was in that beautiful silk cheap how situation. I will never forget. I don't think they do the What's the Tea podcast anymore. But Ru and Michelle had on Debbie Harry and Blondie, who were the guest judges literally for that episode. And they were talking about that elimination.
Starting point is 00:03:00 And Ru was like, but don't you think that Pearl was really giving blondie you know and debbie harry just goes no we like trixie wow now was this like after trixie had become trixie no this was well before this was i mean the only thing we knew about trixie at the time was wisconsin girl eliminated that episode yeah yeah you know the first time i ever heard that trixie mattel was like popping off in like a way that felt like good and individual to her was Dave went to go see her show in P-Town like years and years ago.
Starting point is 00:03:33 A fixture. And he was like, no one gets it, but Trixie Mattel is fucking incredible. And then obviously very quickly after that, everyone got it. And now Trixie is the legend. The thing about Trixie is like she will never abandon her roots and she will continue to be a P-Town girly. She was pushed back but I
Starting point is 00:03:52 think she's on her sabbatical right now. She was just hanging out and she just fucking deserves that. No one in entertainment deserves a break more than fucking Trixie Mattel and I'm happy for her. She is one of those people. I am not moved to do this too much
Starting point is 00:04:07 but when she put out that video being like I'm going to go on a break I was like I'm going to text the girl. I texted her too. I was like take as much as you need like we all have been there we've all like fucking fizzled and sizzled and you
Starting point is 00:04:23 gotta sizzle you know. She's a sizzled and you got to sizzle, you know? She's a sizzler. When you're such a sizzler, you need to take a break. When you're a hot fajita, you got to sizzle. I think we are. Are we both fajitas? Are we in our fajita moment? I found out there's some like YouTuber who for some reason I stumbled on his this video
Starting point is 00:04:41 where he like teaches you how to like pose for photos. And I was like, sure, I'll watch this. I forget what his name is, but he, I don't know if he invented the term sizzling, but you got to sizzle into a pose. You can't just like, you can't like,
Starting point is 00:04:52 you got to like kind of shake it off, but kind of sizzle it off. Like, don't just like hold a pose. You got to like relax into it and sizzle, you know? Yes. I'm a fajita for sure.
Starting point is 00:05:03 When I'm in front of the camera, I want to sizzle. I want to scintillate. I want to be a fajita for sure. When I'm in front of the camera, I want to sizzle. I want to scintillate. I want to be a fajita. Wow. Cut to me naming my daughter fajita. Oh my God. That's beautiful.
Starting point is 00:05:12 Gorgeous name. Is that a nominee? I think most gorgeous name. What was the category name? Best name for a girl that you haven't even thought of yet. I think that's going to be a category next year for cultural award. Oh, I love fajita.
Starting point is 00:05:24 Fajita Rogers. Fajita! Stop it now. I think that's going to be a category next year for cultural. Oh, I love fajita fajita. Fajita. Stop it now. Oh, that's good. See what I mean? Like already, this is off to a different foot.
Starting point is 00:05:35 And can I just say, can I just say something to your podcast, to all the readers, Katie's publicist finalists who reached out to me after last week. I just want to say that I realized how lucky I am to have you guys. You all checked on me and I want you to know I am fine. I had a really hard week and I went to therapy and I worked some shit out and I've taken some new steps and it's fine.
Starting point is 00:06:00 And I definitely feel all those things and they're all true, but I don't know when he's to worry about me. They made me a fucking playlist. They collaborated on a playlist for me all together and they sent it to me for happy music to get me out of my little Spotify rut that I'm in. I just want to acknowledge and say that we are the luckiest.
Starting point is 00:06:17 We're so lucky. Idiots to have you guys and just love you guys so much. And you. Because I want to tell you something. I had to self-immolate and listen to that episode for edits and went through it again and you are just such a
Starting point is 00:06:34 good friend to me. You are so that girl. You can't. You really are that girl. I knew you were. I knew you were that girl. I went to bed the other night. My final thoughts before I drifted off into sleep was my girl, Matt Rogers, what an angel
Starting point is 00:06:50 on this earth. I'm so lucky. What made you think of that when you were laying? I just had fun. Oh, shut up, you fool. Don't give yourself credit. Never. Never give myself credit. Promise you, girl. Well, you know, I was never, never, never give myself credit. Promise you, girl.
Starting point is 00:07:06 Well, you know, I think this is a perfect, I mean, that is a perfect distillation of the pure love. Like I feel, especially now, fandom, even though I don't really love that word, but like a fandom is a reflection of the person. And the reason why we have, why you have these really caring people who made that playlist for you
Starting point is 00:07:28 is because you give that out. It is what goes out, goes in and vice versa. So it doesn't surprise me at all, but I'm delighted to hear that. Well, I am in love with all of you and always will be. What else? So should we get into the fucking culture?
Starting point is 00:07:44 Because there has been culture. Can I tell So should we get into the fucking culture? Because there has been culture. Can I tell you whose concert I saw the other night? You went to Joan Jett and Alanis Morissette? I went to, okay, so this was the, this phenomenon that has been happening lately of I'll just be like buying something from a store and the cashier will just tell me about an event and I'll just go.
Starting point is 00:08:02 Cashiers know. I told you a few weeks ago, I was at the Beachwood Cafe and I think I was getting like a green juice or something. And the girl was like, I saw the best concert last night. I'm the biggest fan of Jessie J and I went to go see it and it was amazing.
Starting point is 00:08:16 And it was like at the Terragram ballroom, it was like a couple hundred people and she was shredding. And like, I was like, does she perform again tonight? Turns out she was. I went, incredible. It happened again. Jared and I i were in studio city like at a weed dispensary and the guy was like i'm going to see alanis morissette tonight and i was like what the fuck that is a
Starting point is 00:08:36 show that i would 100 go to so then the next night it was morgan wade who we missed. Oh my God. Joan Jett, we came in halfway through. Incredible. And then Alanis Morissette, bitch. This was truly, first of all, groundbreaking vocal technique. Of course. I'm telling you, like, you don't think of her as one of the singers. She is one of the singers. Her instrument, her technique is nuts. Resonant, open, like expansive voice on her.
Starting point is 00:09:12 Let me tell you, she did a performance of Mary Jane. You've heard Mary Jane. You know the song Mary Jane by Alanis Morissette. What's the matter Mary Jane? Had a hard day. I know Mary Jane by Mary J. Blige. All night long. So different.
Starting point is 00:09:28 Also great technique on her. Well, I first knew the song Mary Jane because Nikki McKibben sang it on American Idol back in the day. God rest. Wow. Season one. God rest.
Starting point is 00:09:39 Season one. But then I got into Alanis. Amazing. She did a performance of Mary Jane at the Kia Forum the other night. That was like a moment in culture. It was a moment in culture. To say nothing of all the hits.
Starting point is 00:09:51 You live, you learn. Oh. Give it up for you live, you learn. On your feet. On your feet. If you're in your car, get up on your feet and applaud. You better shut up. You better shut up. You better shut up.
Starting point is 00:10:07 You live, you learn. Oh my God. You know what's also funny about Alanis is like, she's obviously synonymous with like female rage. Yes. And it could not have been more of a joyful show. Like obviously like towards the end, she did You Oughta Know, and everyone was popping
Starting point is 00:10:25 off, but it was so fun to get that angry. Can I say I love anger? Tap in to the anger, honey. It's fun to just let it go. You should have seen me in therapy and EMDR last week. Holy shit. Anger
Starting point is 00:10:42 can only be the release. It only be the release. It cannot be the fodder for more anger. It cannot beget more. That is the only note on anger that I have. You're so right. But I love anger. Anger is, I mean,
Starting point is 00:10:57 expressing it in a healthy way has been something really, it's actually given me peace. That's's amazing because i've realized for quite some time now i have had so much anger that i have not expressed and in doing this therapy i'm doing like i finally expressed all my anger and i realized what it's really about and it's been incredible and then going to that concert i was just just like, wow, you ought to know. Like, this is really, it's very useful for me right now.
Starting point is 00:11:29 Oh, my God. I mean, oh, that is a pertinent song. Just on the note of anger and to just bring back a piece of culture, like, here are some words. You live, you learn. You love, you learn. You cry, you learn. You lose, you learn. You bleed, you learn you love you learn you cry you learn you lose you learn you bleed you learn you scream you learn that is life that is the directionality we love to see all roads lead to you learn okay babe let me tell you something never have lyrics been more simple but also so dynamic and i'm telling you
Starting point is 00:12:06 to say nothing of the hook in the way it's written and sung but like that is a cathartic moment in music like just to see it so many years later really hit in the same way for this insane cross-section of people i mean it was it was very sapphic. Yes, of course. But it was also gay, but it was also straight women with their husbands and husbands that were really excited to be there. And you're talking about someone that everyone respects. Show me someone who doesn't respect Alanis Morissette.
Starting point is 00:12:38 I want to say, so in this book, Status and Culture, that I have tried to extol to you, which you've bought. I have it. So he has a timetable in there for how long it takes for something. And let's talk about it on the podcast. And readers, KDs, publicists, finalists, let's get your take on this.
Starting point is 00:12:55 So this is the timetable that he has. Well, I'll just say this is from the book Status and Culture by W. David Marks. How our desire for social rank creates taste, identity, art, fashion, and constant change. And actually kind of on face value, it kind of speaks to Mean Boys a little bit too, because that book is a lot about how politics flows downhill from culture, like in just about like interesting things to think about as of late. Okay, so here we go. In the book, there is a table based on the art historian James Laver,
Starting point is 00:13:29 published in 1937. It's a now famous chart outlining how evaluations of certain trends change over time. One year after something comes out, it's dowdy. 10 years after something comes out, it's hideous. 20 years after its time, it's ridiculous. 30 years after its time, it's amusing. 50 years, it's quaint. 70 years, it's charming. 100 years, it's romantic. 150, it's beautiful.
Starting point is 00:13:53 I don't know that that applies anymore. This feels very specific. But I'm just saying, like, I think we're rounding. I think, like, there's been enough of a patina on Jagged Little Pill that it is a classic for all time but we were talking about Anthony Kiedis on our other podcast Two Guys Five Rings
Starting point is 00:14:12 based on the closing ceremony I'm connecting Alanis to Anthony and I might be a little not working but like there's something about those two people to me as we consume them now in the culture as they perform their old work, where we go,
Starting point is 00:14:27 that is a beautiful, aesthetically important thing. It's authenticity. And I think that's another thing that I was leaving the concert saying was at no point did that feel like a contrived performance at all. I don't think there's a contrived bone in her body. And she obviously, I don't think there's a contrived bone in her body. And she obviously,
Starting point is 00:14:46 I don't think Jagged Little Pill was her first album. It obviously was the breakthrough, but I believe she struggled for a second and then released Jagged Little Pill. And it was this like cultural moment that harnessed like a feeling and was able to, you know, hit the mainstream. And I will say,
Starting point is 00:15:01 it's not even just the aesthetics of what she was doing, which feel like Alanis you know she had her Alanis hair she was working the stage like Alanis Morissette like feeling like she hadn't aged a day because probably her spirit like her authenticity has always been there and that may be why like ever since Jagged Little Pill like she's had successes but nothing on that level because she probably was resistant to selling out a lot. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:15:29 Like there was the Jagged Little Pill musical a few years ago, which I feel like felt a little odd because that musical, like marrying with sort of like the way that musical theater can be in a contemporary sense where it feels a little bit like lame.
Starting point is 00:15:43 Like, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Or it's relationship to audience and that never being the relationship that Alanis had to her audience. Right. And I also think like, we're talking about these lyrics, like you live,
Starting point is 00:15:53 you learn, like when Alanis is performing them from her authentic place as a then young person, who's like, you know, working through this, that's so different from like, you know,
Starting point is 00:16:02 six or seven, you know, 35 year olds who booked a musical theater job singing. You live, you learn. Like, it's just not gonna, it's not gonna hit the same. But I don't know. I guess what I'm saying is it's like, Jagged Little Pill, like that's an authentic piece of work. And to talk about Anthony Akitas, like that's like an authentic artist.
Starting point is 00:16:23 Yeah. And they're both authentic artists. And there were moments in this concert that she was doing things. Like there's a moment where she just spins in a circle for like a minute. Wow. And then collapses on stage with her hair in her face
Starting point is 00:16:37 and finished the song, obviously extremely nauseous and dizzy. And I'm like, she just put herself in that state so that she could like get this across the way she needs to get it across and like I don't know it just felt very genuine everything about it felt genuine everything about the messaging was so purely from her like the second song in the entire set was accompanied with graphics that were like it will take 220 years for women at this rate to achieve equal pay like every six
Starting point is 00:17:13 seconds this happens to a woman like these we were two songs in and she was like already i'm letting you know that i am this person who's still concerned about these issues and i am still out here to speak to this stuff that i've wanted to speak to from the beginning. Which is about that it's hard to be a fucking woman. And the way that you're treated by society and the men in your life. And the fucking narcissists that want to take advantage of you and your youth and your vitality. And your talent and your shine. That is universal.
Starting point is 00:17:43 But she hasn't lost that you know it's like she as a developing maturing artist has not lost the edge that came along with her in her debut it never got sanded down no and it feels like she just wrote it you know like it's like that music really still works it was cool i think it's time for us to announce that Alanis Morissette is in the top 50 of the Iconic 400. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:18:16 I didn't know we were announcing that today. She's in the top 50. That's all we'll say. We can't say where she landed, but we can say she's in the top 50. And you know what? She is. And if you thought maybe we forgot about the
Starting point is 00:18:27 iconic 400, you were only a little bit, right? It's coming. It's coming. It's time. It's been time. We're just going to say full disclosure, full transparency for the next couple months, Matt and I will be on opposite coasts. We're going to do
Starting point is 00:18:43 this over Zoom and our respective, wherever we find ourselves. I guess I was going to say homes, but we're not even going to be home necessarily. Don't worry. Matt has since found a sense of mooring, despite the fact that he is going to be bouncing around this great nation of ours. I'm good. But we're just going to be doing this over Zoom. So we have made the joint decision to not have as many guests in that time because we do prefer it when it's in person.
Starting point is 00:19:10 That's all. Yeah. I think the guests are sort of a thing where it's like, let's just make sure that it can be the best version of what that episode is. You know what I'm saying? And those are obviously when we're in person
Starting point is 00:19:20 and can figure video out and do all that stuff. Just because now that we've set that expectation, we want to keep meeting that expectation. But life being the way it is, Bowen and I are not always together together, to quote the title of a Patty Harrison film. Whichever one should be seeing, by the way. It's so good. She's so good in it. Indie Spirit Award nominee, Patty Harrison. I just texted her the other day to ask her a question, and I got the green text back, which is so patty-coded.
Starting point is 00:19:49 What happened? I don't know where the fuck in the world she is. Like, I wish I knew. She's one of the most difficult people to get a hold of. And I will say that publicly. Yes, and she would talk to that. Miraculous that you even got a text back. And this is no knock on Patty.
Starting point is 00:20:02 Oh, no, I didn't. What I mean is, I sent my text and the green thing came up. And I was like, okay, well, she's either dead or in Europe. Let's hope it's the latter. Let's not put that thought
Starting point is 00:20:12 in people's heads. No, I don't think she's dead. Do you think Patty's in the Iconic 400? Yeah. Yeah. But really low. Really low.
Starting point is 00:20:21 I think she just barely made it. She's above Blake Lively, who is having a great week. Did we announce that Blake Lively was number 400? We did announce that Blake Lively was number 400. Blake Lively is number 400 on the list of the iconic 400. And I guess we should get into this. So there's drama.
Starting point is 00:20:39 There's drama over the book It Ends With Us. And not just within its pages. Oh, right. Can you fill me in on this? I don't really care to know more about the drama. Honestly, it's one of those stories that, I guess because she is so famous, like, that it's one of those things
Starting point is 00:20:57 that everyone sort of now talks about because I, too, didn't care that much. Not to say I don't love Blake. I do love Blake. I actually auditioned for this movie. Oh. I got a new agent and I think he was like trying to send me on
Starting point is 00:21:11 more like atypical things. So I went on tape. Okay, this was funny. It was the week of my breakup last year, like a year and a half when I went through that thing. And I was so, I was crying every day, sobbing every day. And I had to cry on this
Starting point is 00:21:26 tape and you were like let me use that but I also had to be straight so it's like I had to like I had to manage like how to maintain my emotion but also seem like a love interest of Blake Lively who by the way was named Atlas gotta cut it out with this name. But it was just so funny because me crying as a straight man, I don't really think plays. Well, you can you were raw enough to deliver on the crying, but you there's that extra
Starting point is 00:21:56 refraction where you're like, I gotta be, okay, it's too much. The wires get too crossed. Because it's like you're not supposed to have those checkpoints where you're like thinking too hard about like how you're expressing the emotion. The emotion should just like, be there or in a way that you can restrain it and then give it. Meanwhile, like, I was not in control of my emotions. And you think, oh, this is a great opportunity to go on tape for something emotional because I am.
Starting point is 00:22:18 And then it just didn't match up with whatever. Whatever. Obviously, didn't book. You're not going to see me like, making love to Blake Lively in cinema, I don't think, anytime soon. I don't know. But suffice it to say, I hadn't heard about this movie since then. I really didn't know it was, like, this huge book.
Starting point is 00:22:33 It's apparently one of the biggest books. And I guess Blake Lively and the director, Justin Baldoni, like, absolutely hate each other. It's one of those, like, don't worry, darling situations, where it's just like the director and the entire cast and creative team like cannot promote the movie together or whatever the fuck and i don't actually know why i've heard like rumors as to why but
Starting point is 00:22:56 it's one of those situations where it's like now bled into the public and it's that. Right. The only bit I caught was Jenny Slate, our pal. Love. Previous guest of the show, being on a red carpet, being asked, like, it must have been so amazing to see Justin, like, be, like, the director and, like, be on camera and, like, God, what was that like for you? And she goes,
Starting point is 00:23:20 yeah, I mean, I'm totally butchering this, but she was like, it's hard to do both. Yeah, it's really hard to do both. She fully did not answer the question but in a way that was very obviously like expertly touching it. It was very, it was good. It was so chic and Team Jenny, whatever side she's on
Starting point is 00:23:36 which I believe is Blanks but I mean, yeah it just seems like one of those things where it's very obviously a bad situation and to watch people navigate that in public is so it's frustrating obviously because you know no one wanted it like that but it is a little bit funny where it's just like and now of course everyone's coming in with their opinions on what it must be you know it's also a rough book and i like yeah
Starting point is 00:24:01 have you seen the trailer i haven't seen seen any of it. It's like half romantic comedy and then this dude becomes very violent and abusive. And so I don't really know how you get that across to people. Yeah, I mean, TW domestic abuse to the nth degree, but that's what the movie is giving. So
Starting point is 00:24:19 on top of all that, it can't feel good to have strife and we just hope everyone's okay. Blake looks great on the carpets. It can't be good to have strife. And we just hope everyone's okay. Blake looks great on the carpets. It can't be good to have strife. That just applies across the board. And that's actually a rule of culture. What number is that? Six. It can't
Starting point is 00:24:36 be good to have strife. And that's just across the board. Across the board. Unless it's cloud strife from Final Fantasy VII. Listen, it's going to be amazing. New York City. Everyone is a gossip. No one gets a happier life. 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. Watch all new seasons on Bravo or stream it on City TV+.
Starting point is 00:25:14 Let's have a real good time. 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 Gonzalez. Elian, Elian, Elian.
Starting point is 00:25:38 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.
Starting point is 00:26:06 Listen to Chess Peace, the Elian Gonzalez story as part of the My Cultura podcast network available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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.
Starting point is 00:26:28 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. 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
Starting point is 00:26:53 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. Now, where does this leave us in terms of this ongoing conversation culturally that we're all having about the purpose of a press tour at this point it makes me feel nothing i'm like
Starting point is 00:27:36 just tell me if the movie's worth seeing i don't need to watch the cast play games on vanity fair you know doing like well Do you not need that? I don't think I need it. I really don't. Oh. Gotta talk about your girl on Hot Ones. Ariana absolutely slayed Hot Ones. She was a rock. She was poised. It was graceful. The Hot Ones. And also. And funny. I love the
Starting point is 00:28:00 way she talks through her experience. Like she's just like hmm. Like she really is giving like sort of giving Meisner. It's very sense memory. Or is that Adler? I don't even know which one that is. Hmm. It's making me realize that I don't like hot sauce. So,
Starting point is 00:28:17 she's very in touch with her emotions, as we all know. I loved her hot ones. And so, this is what I mean. I love hot ones as a press tour. Stop. her Hot Ones. And so this is what I mean. I love Hot Ones as a press tour. Stop. Hot Ones is good. I like Hot Ones. Need you on Hot Ones. Have I asked? Never, babe. Can I tell you something? It's not because of interest.
Starting point is 00:28:34 Or you don't want to do it. Oh, no. I would love to do it. I think I've seen every single episode. That is one of my favorite things ever. Anything in media, that is one of my favorite things. And Sean Evans, I think, is one of our best interviewers, hands down. Here's an idea.
Starting point is 00:28:50 Why don't we do an in-person with Sean Evans for Lost Couch if he'd be into it and do it while we do Lost Couch? Could that work? I think there's something legal there. That's so unfun. What do you mean? No, it's his IP.
Starting point is 00:29:06 No, he has to be protective of it. We understand. But, like, look, we get it. Like, look, we can do I Don't Think So Honey on Watch What Happens Live. Sean can't do hot ones on Las Culturistas.
Starting point is 00:29:16 You know what I mean? I think that's in his court. That ball's in his court. And I'm just saying, hold on, wait, Anna says, he did hot ones on Ron Burgundy Live and it was very fun and he was very lovely okay
Starting point is 00:29:26 so we're saying he's connected to the family just saying I would be really excited to do Hot Ones of course you would and Bowen would too you like spice can I tell you I don't know how much I like spice anymore because I used to identify as
Starting point is 00:29:42 like I said a couple weeks ago like a daredevil and that sometimes included spice but there are times when I am extremely uncomfortable eating out at certain places where the spice gets involved God one thing I was thinking about with you I was like Matt has really
Starting point is 00:29:58 gone on this tear about how he would any day rather eat at a restaurant than anyone's home cooking 100% you are missing how he would any day rather eat at a restaurant than anyone's home cooking. 100%. You are missing out on a world of delight and comfort and love that goes into making food. People don't cook for me. They don't cook for me.
Starting point is 00:30:17 They don't want me to come over here. Well, they don't cook for you because they're not motivated to cook for you. Get motivated. I'm available. I'm around. No, no, no, no, no. I would love for a man.
Starting point is 00:30:32 You've disinvited the notion of someone cooking for you. I think that's what you've done. I'm calling you in, babe. Okay, fine. You're right. But I did not mean to cut you off. That's okay. I didn't feel cut off. I didn't feel cut off. I just think for that reason, ironically, you have a comfort with eating.
Starting point is 00:30:50 You like to eat what you like to eat. And perhaps that is something that is corralling you within a certain kind of dining experience so that you are not, you maybe are not that adventurous and that's okay. It's okay to not be an adventurous eater. First of all, I resent that part of what you're saying. I am a very adventurous eater.
Starting point is 00:31:10 And I would think that you know that because you've frequented many restaurants with me. What I am not is a sharer. I'm not a sharer. I don't like to share. I actually really don't like a family style situation because I always end up not getting a lot. No.
Starting point is 00:31:26 That's true. Well, you ate at Sal's on the Bay in P-Town. I didn't like that sharing situation. I wanted to have my own entree. We had so many leftovers. It was not that you did not
Starting point is 00:31:42 end up with that matrude. There was so much food left over. It wasn't my preferred thing. Can I tell you my preferred thing? I'm about to go crazy. This is Big Macs and tomatoes all over again. This doesn't make any sense. I'm not gaslighting you at all.
Starting point is 00:31:58 I'm telling you the truth, which is I don't like family style. I don't like it. You know what we can share apps. You can have a sip of my drink. I want to eat my own entree. I'm sorry. And I also say this,
Starting point is 00:32:12 I don't like it. And you told me your mom does this too. I hate this. I become like a 14 year old when my mother cuts a big piece of her food and just puts it on my plate. And I'm like, don't do that. Even though it's like only benevolent. Why?
Starting point is 00:32:27 It's not. I think it's actually toxically benevolent. Oh my God. Toxically benevolent title of app. Title of app. My sister and I have had so many conversations with my mom. We're like, mom, it's actually, it ruins the experience. It's to the point of ruin.
Starting point is 00:32:44 No, we're like, mom, we don't, we've told you so many, it's a boundary issue, right? We're like, we have told you for decades at this point, please, before she even, why do all moms do this? Before she even takes a bite. It's because she wants to provide,
Starting point is 00:33:01 she wants to check the box of providing because that's important to her. But Matt, she's cutting three quarters of the chicken cutlet and plopping it onto our plates. And meanwhile, we're eating a whole fucking, like gumbo or something, you know? It's like, hypothetically, we are at Papa Joe's, famous New Orleans restaurant,
Starting point is 00:33:22 New Orleans style restaurant, Cajun restaurant. And we're just like, mom, stop. It really came to a head at Papa Joe's in Colorado. We were like, mom, you need to eat your own meal first before you share with us. It's not that we are against sharing. Right. Well, at this point, it's less a thing. And this is like a anytime anyone like take the mom thing out of it.
Starting point is 00:33:43 It's just when you've established that you don't prefer a certain thing to happen and it happens it then crosses over to it doesn't matter if it's a nice action you're just not listening to me like i don't want that on my plate in fact it's not even that i don't want it because i don't want to eat it i want you to eat it that is what you ordered. And I like to, like I've been saying, I'm consistent about this. My entree is my entree.
Starting point is 00:34:09 Okay. And you know that because you've gotten your grubbers. I can tell you want a bite of that. You want a quote unquote bite of that often. And you see my face. Is that so wrong? But Bowen,
Starting point is 00:34:23 you know better. You know that I want to eat my face. Is that so wrong? But Bowen, you know better. You know that I want to eat my food. You order it then if you want it so bad. When you pick something on the menu that's your entree, you have made a commitment to that. But you're operating at a lack of knowledge. Okay. And I'm realizing that as soon as my mom,
Starting point is 00:34:42 I can't believe I'm going here, but as soon as my mom is no longer believe I'm going here but as soon as my mom is no longer on this earth with me it will be the thing that I mourn the most I'll be like I wish my mom could plop a chicken cutlet onto my plate 100% and we cannot go down this
Starting point is 00:34:58 road because I said there'd be no crying can't think about that I'm sorry I'm sorry I just had to put that out there because that immediately washed over me I go oh my, what kind of son am I? No, yes. And then you start judging yourself and getting angry at yourself for getting annoyed. But it's like, no, I'm annoyed because I was asked a question about something, which is, do you want a piece of this?
Starting point is 00:35:19 I said, no, thank you. And then it always is, are you sure? And I'm like, yes, I'm sure. I have all this food in front of me. And then, well, you know my mother. It's always like a conversation with her own self where she's like, well, I'm going to give him a little piece. And then she gives me a little piece. And I have to get upset at myself because then I hear the 14-year-old come out.
Starting point is 00:35:41 Mom! Like, you know what I mean? Like, you become the young. When was your worst age? Oh. When were you most petulant? Teenage petulance? I think it was,
Starting point is 00:35:56 it's always high school, right? It's usually high school. Middle school for me. For me, I had 13, 14. I was not cool to people because I was I hated myself that was peak hatred of myself so that you know you're not pointing outward in a good
Starting point is 00:36:12 way no no no no one's the best version of themselves at 13 and that's a real culture number 8 number 13 actually no one's the best version of themselves at 13 imagine you were Dakota Fanning. Oh, stop it.
Starting point is 00:36:27 I'm just kidding. She's probably lovely now. I just mean, you know. Man on fire. Oh my God. Man on fire. Man on wire. The way we're balancing acting.
Starting point is 00:36:40 Now... Well, we love our moms very much. Yes. Okay. Anyway. Do you think our moms will be on the iconic 400? No, I do. But can I tell you who might be speaking of moms and the performance of a mom?
Starting point is 00:36:52 Joan Chen. Oh, my God. Thank you for bringing this up. What a segue and a half. I saw Didi and what a movie this was. Sean Wang, the director and creator that you are. The director and creator that you are. This was amazing.
Starting point is 00:37:08 I haven't seen, obviously, the comp is eighth grade, right? By Bo Burnham. Yes, yes. But these movies that get these performances out of these kids, these realized, very emotional, grounded performances from these kids, like, it's a genuine journey into what it was like to be a millennial in 2007. Like a 14, 15, 16, 17-year-old kid around that time.
Starting point is 00:37:35 And just the blast from the past that was the AOL Instant Messenger stuff. I was like, we have to talk about this. The soundscape. When someone logs off and the door shuts, that, it was such a trigger. I remember I would used to wait
Starting point is 00:37:56 for the girls I had crushes on to into the thing and I would have AIM conversations with SummerBabe 98 XO. Oh my God. And isn't there a whole Smarter Child scene
Starting point is 00:38:11 in the movie? Oh, there certainly is. Oh my God. That hit me hard and soft. Did you used to talk to Smarter Child when like you could tell people had had it with you?
Starting point is 00:38:21 Same. Oh my God. And Smarter Child just being like, like I remember I, one time I think I said to Smarter Child, I have no friends. And this happens in the movie.
Starting point is 00:38:30 And Smarter Child was like, well, I'm your friend, smiley face. And it's just like. Jesus. It was triggering because it's like, you remember that like instantaneous comfort, but also that feeling of despair when you think that that is as big
Starting point is 00:38:43 as your life is going to get, you know, like being in middle school and high school and like when you feel like people are mad at you or you made a mistake or you messed up or, you know, just like that feeling of crushing self-hatred and disappointment at that age because your life is only as big as your high school or whatever the fuck. Of course. But like, we cannot underplay how important that moment is. I think just in film, like there's a smarter child scene. I don't think this is the first time
Starting point is 00:39:12 we've seen smarter child on film and television, but there's something about that moment in the movie. Spoiler alert, but there's just, we're not spoiling it, but there's just like a,
Starting point is 00:39:21 you know, second act low point for the character. Yes. And he, in his desperation, in his despair, talks to smarter child. not spoiling it but there's just like a you know second act low point for the character yes and he in his desperation in his despair talks to smarter child and i'm like this is something that all of us thought was just specific and individual to us it was a thing where i was like this could have only happened to me but this is being used as a plot turning point in a way that is supposed to be
Starting point is 00:39:45 universal. And it is like Sean Wang being like, I know this has happened to everyone who was growing up at that time. You know what I mean? I think that's incredible. The ping of a new chat window, like, not the low
Starting point is 00:40:02 xylophone, but the like, so evocative, so emotional. not the low xylophone but the like so evocative so emotional I mean kudos to whoever sound designed that for AOL you know what I mean going back that's forever also there's a moment where
Starting point is 00:40:18 MySpace comes into play and the do you remember the top 8 the top 8 the top eight top eight top eight event the top eight would eat your ass up i remember they were friends of mine that would deliberately fuck with me of course but i would be like number six and then i'd be gone and i'd be like why is this person on there and not me and just like eight the number eight was hard because you either had four friends or 10 friends.
Starting point is 00:40:47 You know what I'm saying? It's just like, no one ever just had like eight friends like that fit neatly in there. It was like, you either had a few and then you had to fill it out or you had a ton
Starting point is 00:40:57 and you had to cut people. And then what do you do? Oh, I was definitely like, well, I've got these three and then the five, the other five are cannon fodder. I wasn't thinking in those terms, obviously, but it's like that number dictated everything. And your place, like I ate like it's. Is eight the most important number?
Starting point is 00:41:20 I think so. And you know, Schoolhouse Rock had, I think the eighth song for Schoolhouse Rock was sort of the most beautiful and magical and important. I don't remember it. Can you perform it? It's sung from the point of view of a girl who is skating. And this is how it goes. I'm doing
Starting point is 00:41:40 this from memory. Okay. Figure eight or rather four. Figure four, or rather eight. If you skate, it would be great.
Starting point is 00:41:54 If you could make a figure eight. One times eight is eight. Two times eight is sixteen. Three times eight is twenty-four. Four times eight is eight. Two times eight is 16. Three times eight is 24. Four times eight is 32. And five times eight is 40.
Starting point is 00:42:11 You know. The sensation I feel is like I'm being tickled. Oh, no. ASMR. You got the tingles. That was really evocative. I could do the whole thing,
Starting point is 00:42:22 but I won't. No, there's no falsetto. Oh, yeah. That's my falsetto. I thought you meant vibrato. No, there's no falsetto. Oh, yeah, that's my falsetto. I thought you meant vibrato. No, there's no vibrato. There was a little bit of vibrato, but anyway, besides that point, that was wild.
Starting point is 00:42:32 Back to Deedee. Yes, back to Deedee. The top eight moment in the film is huge. Oh, my God. Did you ever put in the code so you could have a top 16? No, I didn't know the code. That's so you coded.
Starting point is 00:42:46 You knowing the code is Bowen coded. No, no no no no that's as far as my coding went but like there was like a thing you could cut like a thing went around school one day of like oh well kayla knows like the the html so you can get a top 16 and like i remember oh my god like every white girl having the ben folds five cover of bitches ain't shit where I'm sorry, but this man is fully seeing the N word earnestly. Like it's, it's like,
Starting point is 00:43:11 this is such a moment in time. Do you want to know what my song was? My space song was the entire time. Tell me Ashley Simpson. This is, this is from memory. No, it was never actually something. Cause I could never be that outwardly gay. Right me. Ashley Simpson. This is from memory. No, it was never Ashley Simpson because I could
Starting point is 00:43:26 never be that outwardly gay. Right, right, right. If I die and go to hell real soon, it will appear to me as this room and for eternity I'd lay in bed in my boxers half stone
Starting point is 00:43:42 with a pillow under my head. Say anything, bitch. I think that is the most tasteful choice. No, but can I tell you what that signals to me? What? You were sure of yourself. Maybe you don't feel that way, but at least you were like,
Starting point is 00:44:02 you did not have the identity crisis that the rest of us had where we would change we were changing our song every other day and i cannot tell you any of the songs that i had on because i was i did not know who the hell i was and it just ran the gamut well i'll be honest i knew who i wasn't and i'll tell you who i wasn't i was not a someone who was like ready to come out and put behind these hazel eyes on there because that's what it would have been you know what i'm saying right right but i also was not the kind of person that was like gonna put postal service on there i was like this is boring to me see that was me such great heights was the song see i i didn't get it but i so got this i can't hear you can't hear it unfortunately Unfortunately, no. Wait, let me play it on my phone then.
Starting point is 00:44:47 I have to play it on my phone. I don't think so many Zoom, like, filtering out, selectively filtering out some other external sounds. It's like, sometimes we need to hear what's being, what the dog is barking. I have to tell you, the people that are going to come out of the woodwork after I play this, like, I know this is going to connect me with so many people. You're going to be triggered in a positive way. Ready? And I want to see your face when I play it. If I die and go to hell real soon
Starting point is 00:45:17 That is... It will appear to me as this room And for eternity I'd lay in bed Oh my god. That album was huge. Oh my god. Called her on the phone and she touched herself. Oh my god, bitch.
Starting point is 00:45:39 That's when I should have been putting out music. So I have no voice today. None of those guys that put out music then have any voice today. Like where's Ryan from Yellow Card? Wow. We have wild away the minutes. I'm sorry. I'm just looking at the time.
Starting point is 00:45:51 Time is fine while we're having fun. Exactly. But yes, I mean, just even seeing the MySpace thing and seeing the song and everything like that, I was like so taken back. And that was culture.
Starting point is 00:46:00 I mean, that was the beginning. Yeah, that was the beginning. That was when we were in the wild, wild west, like totally unsupervised. Our parents didn't really know what the hell we were up to on the computer. Like my dad would sign me in. Like I remember he would have to come down to the downstairs computer or downstairs desktop and he would sign me into AOL and then he would leave. Right.
Starting point is 00:46:24 And I would be on there all fucking day. I'd be in the weirdest chat rooms. Yeah. Oh, trust me. I, yeah, it went to bad places in those chat rooms. 100%. Remember ASL? I would lie. I would lie.
Starting point is 00:46:40 I'm 22. I was 8. 22F Miami. And I would fully have cyber sex with these men. Oh my God. Now, I would love to read that now looking back, like you creating what you think would be sexy and hot to hear. Like, yeah, I love when you touch my boob. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:46:57 My dry vagina is on your ass. You didn't even know to call it dry. No, I know it. My vagina is getting tickly. I'm starting to feel really good in my vagina. Us pretending to be sexually
Starting point is 00:47:13 active women. I mean, look, all gender is performance. So I I really want to point out this moment in the movie, though, where like I think this is kind of, like, the whole thing about that film is where it's, like, he has a crush at school,
Starting point is 00:47:32 and then they strike up this conversation online, and then she basically says, you're cute for an Asian guy. And I don't think there's any scoring. It's just this character sitting alone in a silent room, internalizing this really important formative moment where someone is like flirting with him, paying him a compliment,
Starting point is 00:47:53 but like there's an asterisk and it's about race and like all this other shit. But it's like, there's no, like filmically, there's like no sound, there's no dialogue. He has no response. Like it's just all completely, again, internal. And I'm like, that is like the millennial experience in a lot of ways for everybody, not just Asian people. It's like, there's something about that where like you are receiving, you're letting these emotional moments land with no way to displace them, to like transfer them over to something else. It ends with you. You are the final receptacle for that kind of thing.
Starting point is 00:48:30 And it has to fuck you up. That is a crazy thing. The racial hierarchy was such an unchecked given at that time. But I'm not even saying that. I'm just saying you probably had moments online where someone rejected you or someone made you feel like shit.
Starting point is 00:48:46 Well, yes, but just to give that moment the weight that it deserves, which is that it is a movie about an Asian kid and an Asian family, and he is living his experience and basically, you're watching this film and you're just watching a kid. Of course, you're sitting
Starting point is 00:49:01 there and you're with him, and then he has this moment, which is this girl says, and there's been nothing negative about this girl. You just think she's a sweet kid. They're having a sweet conversation. And she just comes out and says, you're pretty cute for an Asian. And it's like you said, it's just presented in the way that it's said. And it doesn't even really land on him in like an extra way. He just internalizes it and hears it
Starting point is 00:49:26 and then they move on. But it's the first moment of the movie where you're like, we're really starting to see the coming of age wheels start to turn here. And it's a really, I mean, it was amazing scripting. It was amazing directing.
Starting point is 00:49:42 It was amazing acting. But what an important moment, because yes, while you are correct that like everyone based on their own identity receives their own microaggressions, like we saw a formative moment in that kid's life that is in many ways like the, and I hate these two words, but like the why now, why today of that movie in that like, he's literally going through changes you know his sister's leaving for school he's going to go to the high school and he's now interacting with other people in this way that brings in the romantic and the sexual when all these kids are forming and this is the
Starting point is 00:50:15 idea that she spits out very naturally which is that i am attracted to you despite your limitation in my eyes. Right. And that is really startling. And obviously comes from a very real place that I know my entire theater, no one was breathing. It was a moment that I will remember for sure. I mean,
Starting point is 00:50:40 you're so right, though, about this thing of like we just move on from it. It doesn't even land on him fully or in an extra way it's like but i think that's kind of like what's being what the statement is is that this human being is just gonna like live the rest of his life with that weird pseudo acceptance not quite acceptance but not quite rejection it's like what's going on there i mean like this connects to like my day. The first thing I woke up to on my phone was some fucking idiot on Scruff. I'm on the apps. You can
Starting point is 00:51:09 hit me up. You can reach out to me. I'm accessible. But some fucking idiot on Scruff going, oh my god, Joel Kim Booster, I love your work. And then what I immediately said to him was, dude, that fucking sucks. When I call you dude, I'm pissed off. Oh, I hate dude. I hate dude. But if I call you dude, yeah, pissed off. Oh, I hate dude. I hate dude.
Starting point is 00:51:26 But if I call you dude, yeah. Anyway, I was just like, dude, that fucking sucks. And then he unfurls this huge apology where he was like, oh, I'm, you know, I, I'm so sorry. I should have known better. Both you and Joel have like expressed like, you know, you guys don't like here. And I'm like, and I didn't even respond. And then like, and then he ends this whole pod being like, anyway, I'm so sorry.
Starting point is 00:51:47 You have to like deal with like mid white guys like me, like saying stupid shit like this. And I'm like, see, now you're making this thing. Like I have to assuage you. Like, no, no fucking way. See, here's the thing. And here comes the fucking rage. When you have fucked up,
Starting point is 00:52:04 when you have fucked up when you have fucked up and your instinct is to then try and create a situation where you are the victim because you fucked up you need help and
Starting point is 00:52:20 I cannot give it to you once you've hurt me I don't owe you shit bitch I don't owe you. Once you've hurt me, I don't owe you shit, bitch. I don't owe you shit once you have hurt me. Period, dot. And I know, and this is something, this is writ small, something that you know all too well. Because I will forgive everyone but myself. And no, if someone ever, like someone approaches you like that with that stupid fucking like whether
Starting point is 00:52:46 it's a joke or whatever it is like a genuine misconception or joke it doesn't fucking matter at this point you fucked up i told you you fucked up and you knew you fucked up because i said the word dude which i hate and now it's mid-white guys like me. You're exactly right and keep it moving. I don't need to now come for you. No. It's over. You hurt me. You did something fucked up. You're right. You do suck. Move on. Keep it moving.
Starting point is 00:53:16 Go be unhappy over there. I didn't do shit to you. I did not start this internet conversation with you to make you feel bad. This is the thing now. Now we know how to deal with this and like you know the way the internet works today but it's like in that movie it's like in the nascent period of the internet of the way that like we were communicating we had no idea what the rules were and like what the differences were and real life interaction it's like god like thank god we've come a long way thank god i've come a long way
Starting point is 00:53:42 personally in my life to know to like respond to someone who like says something racially stupid like that. And be like, dude, just, just, just have some tact. And I don't,
Starting point is 00:53:54 and I guess tact is subjective, but I'm also like, maybe it's not. Like, bring back etiquette. Can I ask you something? Yeah. If I were to approach you
Starting point is 00:54:02 on the dating app, not me, whatever, like some, some like handsome guy, let's, let's say I dating app, not me, whatever, like some handsome guy. Let's say I'm a little bit over perfectly mid-white guy. Ready? And I approach you on the dating app and this is my opening line.
Starting point is 00:54:12 What do you say? Hey, I just want to tell you, I think you're amazing. I think you're so great and so funny. Like, what about that? And then it segues into like, what are you up to? Like, or something like that. Just starting a conversation. So lovely.
Starting point is 00:54:27 Oh my God. Or are you like, or do you feel perceived and seen and you're like, oh. No, I mean, it depends. Like, I just don't know when someone is like fawning, which is so kind of them. I just don't know like, oh, I just don't know if you're flirting with me. And so therefore, I'll just thank you and then keep it moving. That is what's frustrating, right? Like it's like, cause the deal is like,
Starting point is 00:54:47 if you were on a dating app, like people, they do know who you are. You know what I'm saying? Cause it's like, so you don't even have the thing of like, do they know or do they not know? Or are they interested or are they not? It's like, they know who Bowen Yang is.
Starting point is 00:55:00 You know what I'm saying? So it's like, so that first interaction is a little bit loaded. And on top of like the rest of it at rest anyway which is weird being on dating apps exactly um it's fine it's it's there's nothing
Starting point is 00:55:13 to do about it yeah I don't even know what my question is I'm just saying don't make a joke to Bowen Yang especially if it's one that's like well don't make a joke to me that's about race race and about yeah like don't make a joke to me that's about race. And about, yeah. Like, don't like, because that's a fucking twofer. Because that, like, makes me feel like shit.
Starting point is 00:55:30 And it would. And now that I'm even bringing this up, it's like, I don't want to, like. Scare people. Like, Joel's going to feel like shit, you know? 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. Have you ever heard of her?
Starting point is 00:55:53 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 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
Starting point is 00:56:23 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. I encourage delusional dreamers. Be a delusional dreamer.
Starting point is 00:56:41 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.
Starting point is 00:56:59 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. On Thanksgiving Day, 1999, a five-year-old boy floated alone in the ocean.
Starting point is 00:57:20 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 Gonzalez. Elian. Elian.
Starting point is 00:57:34 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.
Starting point is 00:58:02 Listen to Chess Peace, the Elian Gonzalez story, as part of the My Cultura podcast network, available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Let's just cleanse this conversation and just quickly give Joan Chen her flowers. Oh my God. Because this is the segue in. I want you to tell me what just quickly give Joan Chen her flowers. Oh my God. Because this is the segue in.
Starting point is 00:58:29 I want you to tell me what you love about Joan Chen. What I love about Joan Chen. What I love about Joan Chen. What an amazing human actor on screen. Yes, yes. So real, so genuine, so funny, but also very heartbreaking. Carried a really tough emotional weight throughout. A lot of work to do in that performance. Playing a woman who really, every single day, does her best.
Starting point is 00:59:00 Until it just becomes too much. And without saying too much, like there's a breaking point in the movie between mother and son, which I just really, it's such an important, beautiful relationship, the relationship between a mother and a son, especially when the son is struggling.
Starting point is 00:59:20 Because there's a lack of knowing, but there's a deep understanding. And it's just so beautifully done in this movie. And there's a moment of humor, like in the car, like you remember, you know what I'm talking about, which has just played so well.
Starting point is 00:59:37 And also, you know, to be the adult on set, working with a child actor and like largely with child actors, like it's sort of similar to what I was saying last week about Coleman Domingo working with a child actor and like largely with child actors like it's sort of similar to what I was saying last week about Coleman Domingo working with people you know formerly incarcerated men who were in that
Starting point is 00:59:52 movie who are non-professional actors it's like you have to be really special talent to make an atmosphere for people that are not used to that feel good enough that they can not only perform but excel. To make it truly horizontal, to make it
Starting point is 01:00:08 like everyone's on the same level. That is my compliment to Joan Chen is how incredible that kid's performance was. All of her scene partners benefit from being in a scene with her and I just think
Starting point is 01:00:24 that if we're talking about supporting performances, like, I would love to see a performance like this get recognition by awards bodies. I think it might. I would like to see it go all the way because this is the kind of talent that we should be seeing more of.
Starting point is 01:00:40 Like, I want to see her lead something. You know, I want to see her lead something. I want to see her do a million different types of roles because even in this archetypical part, there is so much dynamic work being done, bringing so much more to the page.
Starting point is 01:00:58 She's funny and really heartbreaking. She feels like a real mom. You know? There's a great profile on her in Vanity Fair. really heartbreaking. And she, she feels like a real mom, you know? Yeah. There's a great piece on her. It's a great profile on her in Vanity Fair. And I think awards buzz is kind of a thing with this for her,
Starting point is 01:01:14 with this movie. And this is someone who, God, she was telling me she directed this film called Shoo Shoo, the sent down girl. It's about this program that happened during the cultural revolution when She was telling me, she directed this film called Shoo Shoo, The Sent Down Girl. It's about this program that happened during the Cultural Revolution when kids from the city were sent to the countryside to like work on, to basically like work in rural areas, provincial areas. To like do like hard labor for like a full year.
Starting point is 01:01:42 My mom did that and she talks about it like a trauma. It is like a traumatic moment in her life it's a really it's a hard to watch film it's like a very like it's very 30 Rock hard to watch starring Tracy Morgan starring Tracy Jordan
Starting point is 01:01:51 they shot it in like Tibet I want to say and she was just telling us stories on the set of Wedding Bank where she was just like smuggling film out
Starting point is 01:01:59 because she was like if the Chinese government sees this like they will not let this movie go like be released and like this is a fucking badass renegade director, like a true renegade.
Starting point is 01:02:11 And I use that word, I do not use that word lightly. Yeah. Icon, Last Emperor, Twin Peaks, which is like a big blind spot for us. We should be Twin Peaks gays. I think maybe that's a good thing we should embark on. Yeah, honestly, I'm interested in becoming a Twin Peaks gay, I'd say. All Twin Peaks gays seem with it. Anyway like that's like a thing we should embark on yeah honestly i'm interested in becoming a twin peaks guy i'd say all twin peaks gays are seem seem with it anyway with it seem with it but joan chen i think i think there's a renaissance coming she
Starting point is 01:02:34 and to say nothing of her like i'm sorry shallow gay nonsense true beauty she is like yeah she's stunning a stunning beauty. It's crazy. And she is just incredible in The Wedding Banquet. And she is, equal parts, funny, devastating. She was the funniest person on set. She is, that is a funny motherfucker, Joan Chen. And you can quote me on that.
Starting point is 01:02:57 Write that up, Entertainment Weekly. Okay, anyway. Go see Dee Dee in theaters. Yeah, there are a million reasons to go see this movie and we've listed just a few of them but yeah
Starting point is 01:03:09 you gotta go I actually ran into Mitra Mitra was there in the in the theater and I believe she loved it a lot Mitra
Starting point is 01:03:17 I fucking love Mitra we're Mitra stans we are Mitra stans Sean Wang we applaud you also everyone go check out his Oscar-nominated short, documentary short, Nine, Nine, Why Poor,
Starting point is 01:03:30 which is on Disney+. And the grandmother in Didi is his real grandmother who was in the documentary. And it's 17 minutes, so heartwarming, so beautiful, beautifully shot. Anyway, that's it. I am an official huge fan. And I wanted to say two things.
Starting point is 01:03:43 The reason I was singing Dreaming by Blondie at the top was because I saw the most amazing trailer for a movie I'm so excited about called Onora, which is Sean Baker's movie. Oh, I can't wait for Onora. To speak of another Sean. And I love Sean Baker's movies. I fucking love his movie. I loved Red Rocket. Like, wild. I love Simon Rex.
Starting point is 01:04:04 That movie was fucking crazy and what I want to say is that this trailer fucking nailed it with their song choice because it's like a deconstructed version of Dreaming by Blondie which is such an incredible song and we talked about it earlier but
Starting point is 01:04:19 that trailer like that's one of the best trailers I've seen in a really long time and this Mikey Madison girl she might have it all the way she might have it all the way i'm excited i'm excited about this movie i think there's gonna be a groundswell for mikey i think she's gonna be the girl she seems to me like one of the new girls she seems like the chapel rona film yes and you called it i might have to make that a rule of culture now what that might be real culture number 40 mikey madison is the chapel road of film not called it she's about to become
Starting point is 01:04:53 one of the girls really fast really fast so just watch for that and the second thing i wanted to say was you mentioned on disney that there was you know his short and that brings me to i wanted to talk about the d23 announcements oh please i would love your takes so fire and ash let's go first of all avatar 3 fire and ash it's not called the seed bearer maybe because they thought it was a little bit it conjured up images of breeding too much but um yes obviously as you know i don't i don't know about frozen three i guess we'll see it really was just like march of the sequels in terms of like what they announced um in terms of film i don't care that much you know what i deeply care about is the theme parks. Yes. Did you see what they have rolled out? Because...
Starting point is 01:05:47 You need to tell me. $60 billion are going into the Disney theme parks over the next, like, several years. And this is just a few of the things that they announced. Okay, so Disney California Adventure is getting a ton of shit. Like, they are getting a new Avatar world that is going to be based in the way of water and fire and ash, which is yet to come. But there's going to be a state
Starting point is 01:06:13 of the art boat ride, which you got to go on and check out this concept art. I mean, the money is the budget is so insane. So the California Adventure, I don't know where, but they're getting Avatar. They're also getting a Coco boat ride. It will be the first Coco theme park attraction in Disney. I love that. Outside of that, Magic Kingdom is getting cars, not Radiator Springs racers.
Starting point is 01:06:38 So just beyond Big Thunder Mountain, they're going to do cars. It's going to be a cars ride. And then behind that, they are doing a Villains Land. So, this is going to be like literally at the back of the Magic Kingdom. It's going to be like their answer to
Starting point is 01:06:53 Dark Universe, I guess. I knew it was coming. Because I was like, I know they're not just going to let Universal just have Darkness. Darkness. Not when Universal and not when Disney has all this. They're so famous for the villains. They should do something with the villains.
Starting point is 01:07:10 So they finally are. Apparently there's going to be one huge e-ticket rollercoaster and then one ride which may not be as big a deal as that but that incorporates all of the villains. I'm thinking that Maleficent will factor in big but that is the last thing on the agenda and we'll see if they
Starting point is 01:07:25 even get to it like disney has a history a recent history of announcing a lot of things and then bailing on a lot of it so we'll see if any of this even happens but they are saying this is not blue sky this is now active development and this includes too this is the craziest thing this might be you and me coded. In Hollywood Studios, Toy Story Land has been such a hit. There's going to be a podcast ride. It's Last Culture's Ride. No.
Starting point is 01:07:53 I would love to see Last Culture's Ride. We need to do Last Culture's Ride. It would be a dueling roller coaster. It'd be a dueling launch roller coaster. Journey Through Culture. Journey Through Culture. Oh, no. The rules of culture have all been lost.
Starting point is 01:08:06 We have to go get them guys that's so good and then like you go no one knows this is part of the podcast it's behind the scenes but the ride launches after Bowen Yang
Starting point is 01:08:14 on Zoom goes 3 2 1 and then it goes ding dong and you zip out anyway
Starting point is 01:08:20 what I was gonna say is it's so cunty there's a Monsters, Inc. land with a Monsters, Inc. suspended roller coaster, which is based on the scene where they go on the doors and they fly through. I've been waiting for a roller coaster based on that for 20 years, and they're doing it. They're actually doing it.
Starting point is 01:08:39 It feels like fan service. I'm like, this is 20 years too late, but thank God, because that's going to be really good. No, that's going to be great. It feels like fan service. I'm like, this is 20 years too late, but thank God because this is, that's going to be really good. No, that's going to be great. But also this just, just makes me go, Matt Rogers needs to enter his Kingdom Hearts era because Kingdom Hearts 3,
Starting point is 01:08:56 you go to Monsters, you go to Monsters, Inc. and Monstropolis, they say. And then like, riding the doors is a whole thing. Yes. I know the feeling of riding the doors, not spatially, but in video game,
Starting point is 01:09:07 which is pretty close. Anyway, I want to know more. I will look into it. So basically, okay. So just to return to California Adventure, the Avengers e-ticket ride, they're finally pulling the trigger on that, I guess. Like they've been threatening for years
Starting point is 01:09:19 because that Avengers campus in California Adventure feels like it's really missing something because it is. So they're getting a huge e-ticket that's going to basically use the multiverse, of course. And it's going to be like an Avengers larger grand scheme Marvel ride that will probably use literally everyone. And then outside of that
Starting point is 01:09:38 Animal Kingdom, they're going to redo the Dinosaur's Land and that's going to be Indiana Jones themed. It's going to be themed to tropical Americas. So there's going to be Indiana Jones themed it's going to be themed to tropical Americas so there's going to be a Moana attraction finally and there's a Palm Springs attraction too there's going to be a Palm Springs attraction you're going to go
Starting point is 01:09:54 sit at the bar at Tropical and get really tan and that's tropical America you actually age 60 years in three and a half minutes and Vicki Gunvalson is sitting outside at a table have we ever said on the podcast at the time we went
Starting point is 01:10:07 to Tropical and Vicky Gunvalson was just there, the OG of the OC? And then we were all, Mitra was there too and then we were all so stoned.
Starting point is 01:10:15 And then there was an earthquake. There was an earthquake. Yeah. We were at the same restaurant as Vicky Gunvalson when the earthquake hit in Palm Springs.
Starting point is 01:10:23 Wow. By the way, there was an earthquake just now. I know. I was going to check in. Wow. By the way, there was an earthquake just now. I know. Wait, I was going to check in. I was going to say, I was like, I think Matt's driving. It was, it's, it's, I never feel them.
Starting point is 01:10:33 It's so weird. I don't know why. I just never feel them. And then I look at my, at my texts and my friends are going off, like screaming, like doing the thing with all caps, exclamation points, earthquake. Like imagine just seeing that and you felt nothing. I have a theory as to why you don't feel.
Starting point is 01:10:50 Oh God. I wish I didn't feel sometimes. I think you have shock absorption all in the ass. You're obsessed with my ass lately. I'm sorry. I have to gas up my sister. You really think it's looking good
Starting point is 01:11:06 I work on it I think the butt is taking all of the earthquake I think you are helping thank god that's why we need to keep me on earth because I need to soak up this
Starting point is 01:11:22 absorption with it's now qualified as dad ass it's not just Matt's ass anymore it's now dad ass I mean to say nothing of your behind which I've noticed has gotten larger we don't have to do this
Starting point is 01:11:38 how come you're allowed to do it with me and I can't do it with you well I feel like you must have felt set up to, you know, compliment my ass. No, what happened was we were going to Jimmy Kimmel Live and we were wearing those tracksuits and I was walking behind you and I was like, oh my god, your ass.
Starting point is 01:11:56 And because it was popping because you had told me about the glute bridges. Yeah, but that was the same time I think I had previously, before you pointed out my ass, I went, Matt. No, it was after. I think I had previously, before you pointed out my ass, I went, Matt. No, it was after. I don't think so. You said something about my ass literally like 13 years ago. We were in rehearsal for Pop Roulette. And I remember you just threw out there. You were like, Matt has the best ass. And I remember being like, oh my God. Like,
Starting point is 01:12:19 I had never really heard that before. And then years passed. And then we were walking to Jimmy Kimmel and you made a comment about my ass, and I was just like, all right. Am I allowed to compliment? I love it. I think it's great. It's very encouraging for me.
Starting point is 01:12:34 It means I would like to continue the glute bridges and all the work I'm doing at the great institution, Barry's. We love you, Barry's. We truly do. I'm obsessed. I'm there every day except one day. I really shouldn't be doing it every single day, but I'm obsessed. I'm there every day except one day. I really shouldn't be doing it every single day, but I'm obsessed. Everyone has called me in and said 75 Heart is structured exercise and
Starting point is 01:12:54 eating disorder. And listen, you might not be wrong, but I also, I think for now it's just laying the groundwork for some healthier choices and habits. I'm not going to do this for all time. So I hear you. I hear you. Listen, sometimes you have to go a little far and then pull it back. Like, I don't, I often don't think it's a bad thing, no matter what it is. Like with diet, it's always like, you could always err on the side of your probably being too hard on yourself. But I think with any goal setting, it's okay to start in a more extreme, loftier goal and then see where you fall. I think that's better. It's shooting for the moon, landing amongst the stars,
Starting point is 01:13:32 and the diet thing is the thing that I'm the least strict on. I'm eating very well. As you should. So, it's okay. And guess where that goes? The ass. Yeah, so just think about that a little bit. so it's okay and guess what guess where that goes the ass yeah so just think about that
Starting point is 01:13:47 a little bit wanted to say we had a wonderful time on Watch What Happens Live we met I had met her before but watching your reaction
Starting point is 01:13:54 to Brynn Whitfield coming in was so fun you were you were joyful she's everything she's everything our
Starting point is 01:14:03 our Jessica Rabbit she's everything okay and if our Jessica Rabbit she's everything okay and if you think we didn't get all the tea about Roni season 2 you're wrong
Starting point is 01:14:11 and guess what Brianna's gonna come on the pod we're gonna figure it out for September and we're excited about that it's happening and we're selective with the housewives
Starting point is 01:14:19 just saying very but that was a moment that was a moment where we were like I mean we have to spend more time with this woman we have to she's just mesmerizing
Starting point is 01:14:28 and it was real it's real okay so she's coming on it was very real like it's giving parv actually yes oh my god that's it I was like who does she remind me of it's parv it's that parv energy sheer sheer star
Starting point is 01:14:44 quality combined with that flirtatious flirtatious straight woman flirting with us which i love it's not like pandering to like it's not like not at all first of all we need to come up with a new i think i think this is there is a cultural conversation happening right now where everyone's like, we need a new term instead of fag hag. Because it's demeaning to both. No. To all involved. I haven't said fag hag in 15 years. There's just got to be a different word that is like.
Starting point is 01:15:14 Judy. Sure. Let's say Judy. It's Judy quality. We liked her a lot. We liked her a lot. But it's parv. It's totally parv. Also, can I say,
Starting point is 01:15:27 usually the Teresa people are like really noxious to me after I'm on Watch What Happens Live because I don't make any qualms about what I think. It's very soft this time because I can tell they're defeated. Yeah. She's a fucking...
Starting point is 01:15:39 Look, I said, I fully said she has a lobe missing. You sure did. And I'm not hearing a peep from these freaks. Yeah, we're all set with our opinion. Also, can I say, Teresa Giudice is a Trump supporter who was married to Joe Giudice,
Starting point is 01:15:53 so none of us should be surprised that Louis is toxic and horrible. This woman does not know what it is like to not participate in a noxious, toxic, patriarchal culture. It's a failing of the environment that she came up in. Totally. I came up in a very similar one, so I do have a bird's eye on it. But she advances that.
Starting point is 01:16:17 She expands that environment. Sorry, I cut you off. Yeah, she did nothing to curb anything, make it better. And now you can even see in this last season like gia is gonna move in with her boyfriend right away and she's like teresa's like i just wish she'd live alone because i never lived alone it's because like she knows that her life could have been different had she maybe stepped out and been you know her own person for a while like maybe now she wouldn't be literally shriveling, losing weight, anxious, like dying because her like new husband is dealing with legal shit left and right because probably there's something going on there.
Starting point is 01:16:54 And my big thing, too, is it's like, why are we so comfortable just calling Louise X crazy? Like no one wants to wonder about why she has these problems. No one wants to take all these people coming out of the woodwork seriously. No one thinks, no one that's Team Teresa thinks that there's not something smoke and fire about
Starting point is 01:17:18 the whole Louis thing. Really? But these people are morons. No, exactly. I mean, that is the classic biggest red flag. It's like, Oh, you're, you're dating someone or you're with someone and all the exes are quote
Starting point is 01:17:31 unquote crazy. Me thinks not. The red flags couldn't be clearer. And you hate to see it. You hate to see it. You hate to see it. It's red flags. It's crimson banners.
Starting point is 01:17:40 Sometimes something's bigger than a red flag and it's a crimson banner. And to be honest with you, those are even harder to clock when something is so crazy that it's beyond a red flag it's a crimson banner you actually think like oh well this can't
Starting point is 01:17:57 this must be the way that this needs to be dealt with because it's so huge you know what I mean like this can't be a red this isn't this this is just like a necessary like thing i'm putting myself through because it's so crazy i think that's what's happening with louis but yeah it's not like little tiny things like oh that's weird the way they talk to the waiter or oh that's weird like uh they didn't know this about you know someone they're supposed to be close to, you know, that's weird.
Starting point is 01:18:25 Like they, they, they, a little white lie about this thing that I caught them in. That's weird. It's like, those are sometimes easier to track. And the big things are like,
Starting point is 01:18:32 well, yeah, I mean, it's a big thing. Well, the big things for this guy are, he's literally saying in the finale, I hope Marge's children,
Starting point is 01:18:41 his son, her son suffers as much as I have suffered. Don't wish that upon a fucking kid. Don't wish that upon someone who's like of a different generation. It's like, don't, don't. Just, that's fucking wild. Anyway, I don't want to talk about these people. He's the worst person on television and would love to not watch him anymore.
Starting point is 01:19:04 I'm totally okay. Whatever happens with Jersey, God bless. Let's give this a Viking funeral, shoot our fiery arrow into the sky. I did that mentally with Potomac. I'm like, my life has been a million times better without Gisele Bryant and Ashley Darby and all these other fucking people,
Starting point is 01:19:22 Mia Thornton. Like, I don't miss these people for shit. I mean, the fact is, though, they will be back. No, I know, but it's not going to be in my life. I won't be back as long as they're on the show. I'm sorry, I just won't. Look, there are bad people in that little environment. We love all those people in Bravo land,
Starting point is 01:19:42 but there are people that are concentric circles around that, that I'm like, oh, I am not getting anywhere near y'all. Say no more because I learned that the hard way. The Real Housewives of New York City are back for another bite of the Big Apple.
Starting point is 01:20:06 Look who it is. Joined by elite new friends. Rebecca Mankoff. 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've told her?
Starting point is 01:20:21 Not today, Satan. Not today. The Real Housewives of New York City. All new 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
Starting point is 01:20:45 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. 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. On Thanksgiving Day, 1999, a five-year-old boy floated alone in the ocean.
Starting point is 01:21:37 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 Gonzalez. Elian.
Starting point is 01:21:51 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 Cuba. Mr. Gonzalez wanted to go home and he wanted to take his son with him.
Starting point is 01:22:06 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 Chess Peace, the Elian Gonzalez story, as part of the My Cultura podcast network, available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, so let's get into I Don't Think So Honey before we actually do that with our life. And I have something to say. Okay, this is Matt Rogers' I Don't think so any of his time starts now i don't think so honey that barack obama actually listens to the song 365 by charlie
Starting point is 01:22:51 xcx which he would suggest when he put out his barack obama summer playlist barack obama listen to me maybe von dutch maybe 360 but i do not think that you barack obama former president barack obama listened to 365 and i think you need to just pull it back a little bit you really you went too hard like the intern jumped out i understand we're having a brad summer we're all very excited about kamala you showed your ass there yeah because i know that you're not listening to that song, which is mostly about doing keys and bumps. I just don't buy it for you, Barack. And I wouldn't want to.
Starting point is 01:23:32 I'll tell you who I buy on your list. Lucinda Williams. Of course. That's giving me Barack. Five seconds. I see that. I stan as well. Charlie XCX is 365.
Starting point is 01:23:44 Maybe Von Dutch. 365, I don't think so, honey. And that's one minute. Anything Barack and AG cook, the dare doesn't really I'm not seeing it. And that's a very highly curated anticipated list. Like, whenever
Starting point is 01:24:00 his shit comes out, that's like, this is my favorite movies of the year. They always make the rounds. And I'm like, I've always bought it and been like, oh, cool. Until I saw 365 by Charlie XX. And I was like, no, someone on your team said this should be on there. You don't like this song. Going back to Alanis, not authentic. I mean, he could never be Alanis.
Starting point is 01:24:19 And I say this as a Barack fan. Read the status and culture book. There's a whole thing. It's signaling and authenticity plays into it. When you spot the inauthentic thing, it's game over.
Starting point is 01:24:33 We might be seeing that. I don't know. I'm telling you, if it was Von Dutch by Charlie XCX, I'd be like, okay. If it was Girl So Confusing, I would be like, yes. 365, I don't know. I welcome proof. I think readers, Katie's publicist finalists way in.
Starting point is 01:24:49 Yeah, way in. Do we think Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, has like me, listened in a ketamine stupor to 365 and understood what's going on there i guess that's another thing too is it's like it's so it's it would suggest he understands that culture in a way where i'm like maybe like how do you yeah even if you do i don't want to hear about it you know what i'm saying it's like i don't need to know that barack is cool. You know what I'm saying? It's like, if that's what he thinks cool is, it rubbed me. I was like, I just don't. It's just sometimes it's,
Starting point is 01:25:31 I felt for a couple of years, it's been giving Steve Buscemi like meme. How do you do fellow kids? How do you do fellow kids? Anyways, this is Bowen Yang's I Don't Think So Honey. Are you ready to go? I'm ready to go. And Bo and Yang's time starts now.
Starting point is 01:25:49 I Don't Think So, Honey. I know there is a Lego version of Fanny in the Wicked Lego collection that is coming out. Listen, I'm buying it. I'm going to buy it for my nieces and my nephew. But I know there's a Fanny Lego and it's not being sold and I'm a little hurt. And listen, I'm an ancillary character but I think think I look at they're using me in some of the trailers.
Starting point is 01:26:09 I'm in the Fiero trailer. Every trailer that I improvised. And I kind of think Fanny is going to is going to slay and the people are going to want a Fanny Lego. Trust me. I'm going to say I'm going to I'm going to advocate for myself and gas myself up. Fanny is a fucking legend. I'm so proud of I'm so proud of what we did with Fanny. I'm laughing because it's just funny to say.
Starting point is 01:26:32 But I would love to see the Fanny Lego. Look, they did a whole Lego Fanny trailer, right? I'm sorry, they did a whole Lego trailer to the long extended trailer of Wicked. And Fanny has, there's a cutaway to Fanny and Chen Chen. I know there's a Fanny Lego. I would love to see the Fanny Lego sold in stores. And that's
Starting point is 01:26:50 one minute. And let me just agree roundly that we need to see a Lego Bowen Yang as Fanny. Please. At least limited edition. You know what I mean? At least for a short time only. You know what I'm saying? At least produce enough so that people can get them
Starting point is 01:27:05 as a collector's thing. Who doesn't want a little Lego Bowen? Are you kidding? Funny collector's item. Me with that cunty little hair and glasses. Like, come on.
Starting point is 01:27:15 It's good hair. This is not masturbatory. It's just like, I think that would be a fun Lego. I think it would be great. Come on. I think it would be great.
Starting point is 01:27:22 By the way, that was a good trailer and I had been waiting for more Johnnyny oh the character triggers me the character triggers the arrow triggers you wait oh yeah because you read i don't like that kind of guy no no no no no no please i did read for that part you did read but like don't like don't like that guy don't like that guy fiero he's up well he heiyero. He's up to no good. He gets his comeuppance. He sure does.
Starting point is 01:27:47 Turns to straw. Turns to straw. Like all narcissists should. I'm sure it'll be wonderful. Looks good. Looks good, that JB. You know, they sent me the Drink Your Milk shirt. I have the Drink Your Milk shirt.
Starting point is 01:28:03 Me too. Thank you, Lueve. Thank you, Jonathan Anderson. We should wear Milk shirt. I have the Drink Your Milk shirt. Me too. Thank you, Loewe. Thank you, Jonathan Anderson. We should wear it when Jon comes on the podcast. Of course. When Jonathan comes on the podcast, we should wear it. We definitely should. And anyone who is out there playing Final Fantasy XIV,
Starting point is 01:28:16 Breeders' Kitties, Help Us, The Spinalists, who play Final Fantasy XIV, I do think there should be a subgroup of gamers. As I know you all are out there, because we're connecting. So Jonathan Bailey does a voice in Final Fantasy XIV. Oh, fun.
Starting point is 01:28:28 As Grahatia, the prime cat boy, the crystal exarch. And he's so good in it. And I literally like massive wonderful actor. But like the dialogue in that game is like
Starting point is 01:28:38 Shakespearean. It's beautiful. But one day after we react, I was like, Jonathan, Johnny, as I call him. I said, I have to commend you. Beg reacted, I was like, Jonathan, Johnny, as I call him, I said,
Starting point is 01:28:45 I have to commend you. Beg, and I was like, I have to implore you because every two years they come out with expansions and it's like more and more story
Starting point is 01:28:53 and it's like, it's like a TV show basically. And I'm like, Johnny, you have to keep voicing Grahatia for as long as you are working, for as long as they ask you
Starting point is 01:29:02 because it is some of your best work. Anyway. What did he say? He said, alright, I don't really know what it is, but I read the dialogue and it's amazing. But I think we will ask, when Jonathan Bailey comes on Lost Colch, there will
Starting point is 01:29:17 be a dedicated section about Final Fantasy XIV and all the Catboy lovers will be very happy. And he is coming on. We're going to have many people from the cast of Wicked. If you can believe, we have vested interest in that movie's success. And we will make sure it succeeds. We will make sure it makes back every dollar of the budget.
Starting point is 01:29:37 We are going to make sure that Wicked makes it over the hill. Trust and believe. And it starts with Johnny Bailey on the podcast. And more to come. And more to come. And more to come. If you can kind of guess. Yeah. This has been another episode of Lost Cultures Test and a little teaser
Starting point is 01:29:52 for Iconic 400, which I think we should get to work on. Which is not to say, oh, I'm just kidding. The list is already locked. We know the entire list already. And we will be revealing that in the coming weeks, won't we? For sure.
Starting point is 01:30:07 And that's something we can do remotely. But we're going to be together actually shortly. Oh, we just talked about how we're not going to be together, but we are going to be together for like two weeks. Did you know that? Let's figure something out. Because you're coming to LA, then we're going to Fire Island, and then I'm going to be in New York.
Starting point is 01:30:20 So we're together a lot, quite a bit actually. Working hard to bring you guys content, in fact. We're working very hard. This is a very fruitful time and we are taking advantage of it. Trying to right some wrongs. Oh.
Starting point is 01:30:34 Well, we end every episode with a song. No one mourns the wicked. Wicked. Wicked! Wicked! Boom! Wicked! Woo!
Starting point is 01:30:54 Look for that one on November 27th. 22nd. 22nd? Oh, they changed it? They changed it. They moved to that. Ariana, I think, said 27th on Hot Ones. No, she said 22nd. 22nd? Oh, sorry. Release. Hold on. Ariana, I think, said 27th on Hot Ones. No, she said 22nd.
Starting point is 01:31:07 Hold on, let's see. No, no, hold on. November 22nd, because they moved it up so that it's like Wikiator. And now it's Glicked. Glicked. No, is it Wickedator? It needs to be Glicked. Okay, Glicked. Glicked. Jiminy Glicked. Bye. Bye. Lost Culture Reads, this is a production by Will Ferrell's Big Money Players
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