Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang - "Vibey Good Actor" (w/ Ramy Youssef)

Episode Date: August 12, 2026

Ramy Youssef joins Las Culturistas to try Celsius for the first time, and also re-connect with his old pals Matt + Bowen, the HOSTS of the Las Culturistas podcast. The full-blown vibe discusses inspiring his dad to take an acting class and walks us through his feelings about going to get a coffee with Dianne Weist (which happened right after this episode was recorded). Also, felony torrenting on Napster and the likelihood that Ramy will still be going to prison for illegally downloading Eminem in 1999. All this, the sad way that Hunchback ends, the potential value of a used Bowen Yang hoodie, Chinamaxxing, dogs in restaurants, spinach at the store, and shit-talk on the streets. Listen to this episode to find out how well Ramy knows Zohran AND the exciting reveal of “how all gay people are”! Ramy’s new special, In Love, is streaming on HBO now!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Yes. Oh, goodness. Wow. Las cultureistas. Ding dong. Las cultureistas calling. Story time. You have a story to tell.

I went home, drunk, and ordered McDonald's for the first time in, I think, almost two years. It was 2.30 in the morning. By the time I ordered it, because you know what happened is I went. home. I smoked weed. I watched the real house as of Rhode Island reunion and it was raining. Right. So then I ordered McDonald's. I said we're going to go for it. We'll see what happens. My body is letting me know today. This is not in the cards for us. No. It is not. My body's calling me in to let me know never again. It has been a day. I'm wearing sunglasses today hung over from the McDonald's, not the alcohol. Wake that up. Wake that up. Wake that.

What did you order? Number two, it's not a number two anymore. It used to be... Two cheeseburgers. Yes, but because I'm bigger now and older now, I do two double cheeseburgers, a large fry, and a 10-piece McNugget with spicy buffalo sauce. Wow. I already have the Coke Zero's at home, so I don't need to order it.

Anyways. Anyways, this is what our life is like in our mid-30s. Speaking of someone in their mid-30s. And speaking of someone who we might watch consume something live on. the episode because they have not yet tried it. We have a grape Celsius in the green room. Can we bring in a grape Celsius from the green room please? Our guest has never tried Celsius.

So we're gonna see how his body reacts to introducing this. I'm excited. This is one of the great talents, great minds, great friends, great New Yorkers, great New Jerseyans. His special in love has been out. It's, you can watch it. Phenomenal. Sort of that vibe of like,

oh, we see Rami all the time, and then you turn around, became a generational comedian, became a generational talent. And we're flying in the Celsius. I saw you two duke it out at a backyard brawl in 2010. Wow, we got to get into backyard brawl. And we'll get into that.

He's shaking like a leaf. I don't know if I'm on. Ready, three, two, one. Please welcome Romney Yusuf. Now you can speak. You're here. I realized really quickly. that I've seen so many clips of this show,

but I didn't realize that there's a part where I'm just watching you guys talk about your night. And then you guys always, yeah, okay. It's always that. Yeah, okay. I had no idea, so I was like, I don't know if I, and then I was trying to pour a water, and it was kind of a mess.

I don't know if you saw, but I was putting... I saw it out of my product. There's like a lot of stuff, like, hidden under the table because the water had a straw that still had the paper on it, and I don't realize. Yeah. Yeah. How are you doing? I'm excited.

I mentioned that I hadn't drank a Celsius, and it feels like this is kind of like a hot ones kind of thing right now. Yes. It's a lot like that. To start, you think? So if you want to sort of have the vibe and the energy catch the vibe for the episode. You should do it now to start. And make sure that for the ASMR girlies that you open it on the mic, yeah.

Go ahead. Give it clean. There you go. Oh, yeah. That's good stuff right there. This is really bad, yeah? Yeah. It's so crazy because it's like no higher.

I think fructose corn syrup. You have no aspiratame, no artificial colors. And I'm like, maybe those are all the things I like. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You think it's going to add up to something like really exciting. This is really awful. Wow. And seven essential vitamins. But look what happened.

You kept going. You kept going. You will drink the whole thing. Trust us. No one. I think so. We don't have a gun to your head or anything. You don't have to.

We don't believe in guns. We don't believe in guns. So we wouldn't have one here today. You don't believe in guns. They don't know. I guess I believe in them. I don't. You would never run one.

have one in the studio, no matter what. Matt is about to, and people can know this. Yeah. He is, he is in Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Whoa. And we went to a range, we went to a shooting range. Dude, let's freaking go, man. That's so exciting.

We can't say much more than that. Okay. But that's really exciting. Yeah, I am excited because I, we went to a bachelor party and actually handled guns. Wow. Have you held a gun? Have you? I have.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You love it. You like it. Look, you lit up. Yeah, yeah. You lit up. Describe the feelings. Um.

It's just like fun. It's like a movie, I guess. Oh, yeah. But I've only done it in a range and one time in the woods with cans and stuff like that. Oh, that's really cool. Yeah. There was one, they have various, you know, targets at the gun range. A lot of them from early a lot of them having a guy holding a girl with chunky highlights at gunpoint. You're supposed to shoot the guy and not her. a lot of what a lot of people who are supposed to be like I don't know

like Al-Qaeda essentially where you're like let's just it didn't feel good it didn't feel great I get on that side of the target like I'm kind of like next to the boys and I'm like all right guys like you've been shot at for too long

let's see how good you're really are up there that's really amazing that's brave I think speaking of bravery what's your memory of back yard brawl Oh, so yeah, Backyard Brawl, 2010. This was back in the day. We did a sketch competition.

And it was me and Jonathan Braylock. You and Braylock. Against all of NYU. Against all of NYU. It was truly this like underdog. It was kind of like the Knicks championship. It was sort of like that. I had a little bit of those vibes.

Yeah. I had a Jalen Brunson thing happening short yet still comedic. I would say it was like when the Knicks won in that everyone involved was in New York and Wayson. them. I honestly, by the way, I think that Jonathan and I only won because we were sober.

There was this feeling where I was like, I don't know if we're funnier, but we're certainly more lucid. And that is definitely helping our comedic timing. I think it was just impressive, it was really just impressive that like two people could deliver wonderful sketch comedy in a way that

95 NYU students try. But can I say, can I just stick up for us for a second? We had quite a run. So for those of you don't know, Backyard Brawl was, it was at, what was it, like, Saturday night once a month at midnight. Yes. Like, it would be two. I hardly think it was on a Saturday.

It was like on a Thursday night. It was an off night, for sure. Yeah. Let's call it Monday then. Let's just have a lot of fun with it. Off night. Let's just say it was Monday. Yeah.

So it's Monday. It's midnight on Monday. Packed, though. Packed. To the gills. And it's two sketch comedy groups going head to head and you'd go sketch for sketch for three rounds. Yeah. And then.

The audience voted, right? It was like cage match. And you guys, I think we had walked in. You guys were on a crazy streak. We were on a crazy streak. We were on like a nine-month winning streak. And then there you came in and took us out. And then you guys had a good run.

I think we had a streak. Really good streak. Do you remember the streak? How long was that? I don't remember how long. No, but I remember it ended gracefully. I remember feeling like it was time. You were like, you shook their hands.

It wasn't. Oh, no, no. Yeah. At a certain point, you're like, I want my Monday midnight's back. Yeah. Yeah, I did just say it wasn't animonious, and I just want to say on the mic, I know the word is acrimonious. I just, it wasn't animonious or acrimonious. I thought your preface earlier was so that you could just do all these kinds of things.

You're still drunk from backyard brawl. I mean, it's been like, it's been very long time. The way we drank back then? Yeah, I might be. Good for you for abstaining. And keeping the eyes on the prize, your amazing career. And you've been sober ever since. I've never, I've never drank.

You never did it. And so since. I've done shrooms a few times. That's like the most, that and this and Celsius. I bet you have amazing ideas on shrooms. Shrooms, you know, I kind of, like, every time I do it, I'm like, I'm going to be doing this all the time. It's amazing. And then, like, a year goes by.

And I don't, and I just don't, like, I forget to do it. It's kind of like the gun thing. I shoot a gun, I go, I got to buy a gun. I got to have one. It's my American right. Yeah. And I never get around to getting a gun. And I don't think I will.

You need to do both. Next time you do mushrooms, that's when you should have to go around. These are bad ideas. Yes, I'm just messing with you. Shroom gummy on a Monday the other week just because I could and all I did was just lay in bed and stare at the ceiling.

That's okay. So I'm not produced, I have great thoughts but I never think to capture them like in writing or anything like that. I haven't done shrooms since Claude. Like I wonder what it would be like to just do shrooms, have all these ideas and then just kind of tell chat GPT to do them.

Oh, okay. You know, and just be like, yo, I'm thinking about all this. Because before, what are you gonna put in a notebook? But what if you're like, and then you kind of like go to sleep and then I wake up and I just have a company. Yeah. Or an app. Can they, can they do this?

We're gonna have to find out. I keep reading things where people like are making so much money, making Claude. Yeah. Claude chat GPT, whatever. Every time I use it, it can't even tell me where the restaurant. No, no. Like it's literally like, here's the restaurant.

and it's not, you go there and it's not even a real place. No, but people are making a lot of money. I'm one of those people that's very fearful of it, so I don't have Claude, but what I will do is I'll do the Google AI sometimes, and I'll just ask Google AI a question I know empirically the answer to. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I, when it's wrong, I just say back, that's not true.

And they're like, you know what, you're right. And I made a mistake. It's this, but I guess that's not good, right? because then you've told it the right answer, so the next time. Exactly. I don't know. No, I mean, there's no way around it. Or there's no solution.

No solution. Yeah, don't say there's no way around it because then you'll be one of the celebrities that gets canceled for it. It's inevitable. It's here and it's coming and it's inevitable. Yeah, I don't really use it that. I kind of tried a couple times just to know what everyone was talking about and then I was betrayed. And then, but now I'm like, oh, maybe the case use for me would be shrooms. Yeah.

I think so. I don't know. I never even had this thought before. This is like all post-Celsius clarity. Yeah. How do you feel so far? Zubin? I'm here.

I'm present. Yeah, I definitely am locked in in a way I didn't know. Are you, you're feeling your feet? Are you grounded? Yeah. Whoa. Oh my God. Whoa.

I feel that. I know, I know. No, I felt the too, like the way I said, yeah, was like. Wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I have to say, back in the, the day, I would describe you as a, I would describe you now as a full

vibe, but back in the day, you weren't such a vibe. I wasn't. What was that I mean? Because you were like a comedy friend, and then all of a sudden, you became like a vibe. Like, I saw you at JFL a few years later. I'm like, Rami's a vibe now. Like, you did. You started dripping swagoo. They taught you this at Esper, to

become a vibe. At the William Esper Studio? The William Esper Studio changed my life. People, people, people, the children have forgotten William Esper Studio. It's incredible. Yes. Tell us. You come out kind of fearless, I think, because you get so humiliated in class. So it's an active studio where they break you down.

They break you down. Yeah, it's Meisner. You know, and Esper, who has now passed, he studied with Sanford Meisner for 20 years. So he had the source, and then he kind of made the school, which was perfect for me. So I had so many friends in NYU. People thought I went to NYU and never went to NYU. Oh, yeah. But I was doing like, I basically dropped out of Rutgers.

But I went to Esper. And the whole design of the school was, hey, you. You know, you can come and you can have a full-time job. You don't have to pay all this tuition. And so whatever, whatever. Wow. And so that's, you know, I was like, all right, I'll do that. And then I didn't expect it to help me with comedy so much.

And life, actually. Like, I think everyone, my dad went. Oh, did he? Yeah, my dad did the six weeks summer program. Like after you? Like two years ago. Oh, wow. Oh, I love that.

Yeah, yeah. How is he? Dude, he's a vibe. He's ripped out. That's the OG vibe. I mean, he was a vibe before, you know? So my dad, it was a classic dad. So now he's like a vibe be good actor.

Though he's great, dude. Oh my God, Vibe Good Actor title of that. He's title of up. Yeah, he's, he's, it was really funny though because it was the classic dad thing where he was like, yeah, it was good. You know, I helped them a lot. Like, a lot of people had questions for me. Oh.

Because they were curious about his life. Like, what's the craziest thing you've like seen in New York or whatever? I don't know. Yeah. Because he's seen crazy shit. My dad? Yeah, yeah. At the plaza?

Oh, yeah, dude. He was there. Yeah, he was for years just, oh, the thing, too, that I've been thinking about because he went from, like, a bell boy to managing the plaza. Wow. A span of, you know, I don't know, a decade or something.

When did he start working there? Early 80s, I think. Early 80s, I've seen it all. Yeah, seen it all. Yeah, yeah. And so, actually, I texted him because I was like, hey, have you seen this movie with Whoopi Goldberg

at the Plaza Hotel? Do you ever see that movie? It's like Whoopi Goldberg and Diane Weist. Ah, wait, what's it called? It's called the, oh my God, I'm blanking. If we can't find it, we'll just refer to it. I was going to say we refer to it as Dunstan Chexon. And later we could just be like, okay, so every time you hear Dunstan checks in, we met the associate.

But now we know the associate. No, my dad know everything. I'll be like, have you, I was like, do you remember that? And he'll go, yes, 1994. Whoa. Three weeks after Home Alone. Like he'll just like know everything. He's super locked in.

But it's kind of a rare. It's the thing that doesn't exist anymore. Like there's no central hotel that everyone from athletes and aristocrats and celebrities and government would go to the same place. And so imagine you're kind of an immigrant fresh off the boat and you just show up at the most pop in place in the city. Yeah. And you work there and you know everybody and you like getting people's cars and you get them what they need. And so he, yeah, he was very anything I know about show business from my dad. Because he knows how to treat people.

You know, that was the whole thing. He was like, this is how you talk to people. This is how you make people feel good. Hospitality is an incredibly, like, it's a really useful thing just for navigating any industry to have been in that business. You have passive contacts is what they're called. Passive. Passive contacts or just like faces you see like without like effort. You know what I mean?

It's like, yeah. Anyway, I'm just, that's, I'm probably misusing like a sociological term. It sounded right to me. It's a head. Yeah, you said it twice. I don't know, but it feels good. Thank you. It's almost as if you said it once to explore whether or not, like, it felt good.

And I had to define it for myself. Yeah. And here we are. But then when do you want to go to Esper? Because he was curious, he was like, I'm proud of my son. I want to see what he did. Yeah, I think he was just excited to, my dad's just in kind of like, fuck it, retirement mode.

Yeah. He's like, I'll do that. It's really good. Yeah, it's really cool. And so at the end of the six week program, is there like a scene? You know, I think there is, I didn't get to go. You didn't get to go. No, but he did tell me that on the last day, he revealed the class that he was my father.

Uh-huh. And then what was there, what did they say? Well, now I got to get lunch with like nine people. Yeah. Wait, so your parents, like, for lack of a better term, I hate this term. They, like, they, like, pimpe you out for lunch just because my parents are doing this, especially now that I don't really, like, have, like, a steady job. They're like you're not there anymore.

You can. Exactly. And this is, they probably kept the backlog from like eight years ago. They have. Yeah, yeah. They're like, okay, great.

Now that, you know, now that you're free. There's Maria's cousin who wants to start out in New York City. Yeah. She doesn't know what she wants to do yet, but her name is Kirsten and she's very nice. And I told her that you'd have a long meal with her.

Yeah. And it's never like that specific. It's like she wants to know what improv is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just what it is. She might want to do. She might want to try cheerleading again. It's like, what?

How? I love that there's, where? I love that in this world, there's a Chinese girl named Kirsten. Well, I was saying from my experience. Oh, I'm sorry. I was speaking from my lived experience. No, I was, your parents only know Chinese people is what you've just affirmed. There's no chance.

They could set you up on a lunch with a white girl. There's just no chance. There's no chance. There's no. Her name was Kirsten Wu. No, my, I love Kirsten Wu. Kirsten Wu is so fun. I just, I'm here to say,

when I really love about my parents and they don't know what. What's amazing at the jimmies? She was tanked. What song would Kirsten Wills have performed at the jimmies and say it the way you say? What do you mean say it the way you say? Performing something from Lissist Strata Jones.

All the gay men gasp as if they know Lissistrata Jones like the back of their hand. That was my favorite part, my favorite bit of the whole night. His bone was like, performing. song here from show here every gay man in the audience performatively is like oh oh this is gonna be good

and like you don't know this song from Lissa Strata Jones fagg but at one point I did say performing Amaya Washington phenomenal I said performing your daddy's son from ragtime and the whole audience went Oh would you know any of these songs I have no idea what the fuck you guys are talking about

They didn't say they didn't say they didn't do any musical theater at I'm on another planet right now. Because of the three sips. It's pretty, it's like the mix of the Celsius and references that I don't understand. That's amazing. Well, I think you have some,

you're like one of, we can count on two hands, I think, at this point, the straight man who've been on the show. You have much to teach us. Oh, wow. Is it, okay, it is kind of a limited scope. Wow.

Yeah. Thank you. What do you want to tell us about your life? Don't come out of the closet. Don't come out of the closet now. Don't. No, I mean, I don't know. I feel like...

No. Outside of what you guys just said, I feel like we're on the same page. You're the one getting a coffee with Diane Weist after this. I did. Are we allowed to talk about this? I mean, of course. Excuse me. We didn't break news on deadline.

We just said there's going to be a coffee between Rami and Diane Weist, and we said that could lead to amazing things. Amazing things. Because think about it. The generational comedian and legendary actress pipeline has... It is one, that is so beautiful. That's so amazing. I love her so much. And we were talking about Bullets Over Broadway.

But which Bellin hasn't seen. Yeah, that's, she is turning quite the performance. Of course she is. And that is to me the definitive Diane Weiss performance. For me, Bullets Over Broadway. Yeah. Well, it's like she's doing so much. Like even like in Hannah and her sisters,

it's like she's super incredible. But in Bullitts or Broadway, you're like, whoa, this woman is a powerhouse, you know? Comedy Queen. Comedy Queen. Academy Award winner. And I was saying that we owe a lot of this podcast to Diane Weiss because Ding Dong Lost Culture Reist's calling is a reference to Ding Dong.

Avon calling from Edward Cisorhands. So cool. And she, that's so excited. Are you nervous? I'm getting coffee with her, yeah. Are you nervous? No. Oh.

You don't get nervous. I'm not nervous. You don't get nervous. There are things that make me nervous. Like what? Like, um. Special taping? No.

Like when my accountant calls, I get very nervous. Well, it's so scary. Because I just go, oh, it's, it's bad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I, like, I just, because sometimes I'll buy, like, it's like three days in a row, sweater, green juice, sushi. You're a counting calls. And then a call comes, and I go, it's a lot of sushi cake.

I go, it's fucking over. It's like this our legacy sweater has destroyed me. And like everything, like my family, like everything. Yeah. That's the thing that scares me. Sugarfish again? No, like, no, he goes, please. go to Sugarfish because I'm doing all this other stuff.

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Oh, gotcha. I call, I don't, I never looked up if she was in this, but I call him Leachie Sobiesky. Yeah, I don't think she was an American Pie, but I still like that. Haven't looked it up. She was prominent around the same time. Yeah. Then Mary Steenbergin. Why are you guys talking to me?

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Yeah. Because they have the best. Like that's, I just am always online like eBay, vintage camera Japan. Wow. I just go every night and then I kind of wait for a moment where I go

I could reward myself with this. Oh, that's beautiful. That's really cool. That's kind of, you know. And you have yet to do this. Oh no, I've done it a lot. Yeah. And you just want to keep doing it.

I have like two boxes of cameras. Yeah. That you bought physically from Japan. Either there in person or online. Thank God for you because I can't. This is not my. I don't think so honey, but it's like enough with the bad PR spin of guys who like going to Japan.

It's, it's. Oh. Who's been doing that? I think there's like there's a swing back to like just like making fun of those people. Sure. And I get it. I totally get it. Where are I supposed to go?

Where am I supposed to go? Literally. What am I supposed to go that's blameless? Where is it okay? I don't know. What am I supposed to do? What am I supposed to do? I mean, I do, I do want to go, I want to do a Southern China trip bad.

Yeah. Well, that's, I think the biggest censorship is how incredible China is. Really? I don't think it's censored anymore. No, it's censored, dude. I don't think the average American understands how incredible China is. Yeah. Just from like a tech, I'm not going to talk about the government or whatever.

No, no, no, just like, if people saw, I just think the things Americans actually care about on the baseline level, like fast Wi-Fi and shit. They got it on. Cool cars, tech, air-conditioned streets, amazing infrastructure. Like, it's like, there are things happening that are unbelievable. You know, probably got to listen to what the government says.

It's time to ask you the central question of our podcast. Yeah. What was the culture, Rami, that made you say culture was for you? This is formative films, television series, music, atmospheric stuff, relationships in your life, anything. Okay. This is, I don't,

this is gonna be a weird one. But for me, when I was a kid, the thing that really made me feel a part of culture was Napster and Torrent websites. Yeah. That made me feel like I could seek out whatever I wanted.

Because it was all in there. All in there. Yeah. And, you know, there was kind of a cap as to what movies could come into the house and then all of a sudden, the whole world was at my fingertips. I felt like a hacker because I'd go to Napster.

Then I'd go to the Torrance site. Then I had lime wire because I had every single app. I had multi-screen. I'm 12. And I'm in the Matrix. And I've seen the Matrix. Yeah. Oh, that's me.

I'm like the only guy that can see the truth in this house. 100%. I've got it all in front of me. And so that was my entry point into just everything I love. This is an incredible answer. It's really good. Because it's really like it's such a gateway into everything. Because you know what was still implicit and all that was like some friction or some like challenge around like procuring the thing.

Yeah, you had to seek it. And so if you get this album and it's the actual album that they said it was. Because sometimes you'd get it and it's not. Yeah. The amount of times that I'm going like, okay, I'm trying to get this like neutral milk hotel record. And then you download it and it's like the thong song or whatever. It's like a lot of thing. You know what I mean?

Or it's just like a bunch of static. Yeah. Right. And also waiting for them to download was such a pain on the ass up the time. It's how I learned patience. Yeah, that is so real. That's how you learned patience.

That's how I found, take a breath. Yeah, that's why you're not nervous. Let it download. Yeah. Everything's in the air. And like the up torrent rate, the downtorn rate. Absolutely, and that's like, that's how I learned sharing. Oh my God, you learn to share.

I'm gonna keep seating, you know, for everybody. You know what I mean? Community building. Community building. Government evasion. You go, am I gonna get the email from the government Because that was always, remember those stories? They'd go like, dude, this kid went to jail.

Yeah. We had that at our school. They, I think, called a meeting at our school. We thought there was a kid, you know, we were, because I, so I grew up, like, I was living in Queens. I was like six or something, seven, and then we went to Jersey. And we would, there would be these rumors, you know, that kids in New York were getting arrested for downloading like M&M and stuff. Yeah. And then I would be so, I would like, thank my parents.

I'd be, thank you so much for taking me away from New York. Yeah. Oh no, it may do fear New York. Because I would have been, yeah, because I would have been arrested. Yeah, yeah. Certainly with the amount you were downloading. No, no, without a doubt. And so I thought I was like in this like sovereign land of New Jersey where they weren't doing that stuff.

Yeah. Yeah. No crime in New Jersey. That's actually real culture number six. No crime in New Jersey. Only green spaces and good public schools. Yeah. I think those were all urban legends.

Yeah. You think so? I think like they had to because I know what you're talking about. It's always like, oh my God. Like, there's some story, and I know you have a good research team here, there's some story where it was like the, the, this woman downloaded like a lullaby for her daughter. No. Yeah, I remember it being like a young parent. And they took her away from her child.

I remember being a young parent. And then they just like, and it might have even been like a Michael Jackson song or something. A Michael Jackson Lullaby? Yeah, I don't know like some. Oh yeah, Ben, the song to the rat. Back to you. This mother downloaded a little bit. I just remember thinking Michael Jackson got away with whatever he may or may not have done.

And this woman got, you know, arrested for downloading the song. How dare they? Yeah. Where I just kind of learned about the justice system. Oh. Yeah. Well, even, so I guess even if those stories were all made up, it was good so that you could learn about, you know. Being a law abiding citizen.

Yeah. And now the funny thing is I buy everything now. Right. Like, do you really? that I don't even, yeah, I mean, now I'm on the opposite end. Just like, like, with art. Because now I'm like, hey, you know what? If I want a movie, sometimes I'll just buy the HD version of it on iTunes, even though it could be streaming or whatever.

But I go, hey, I want to, you know, we want to make movies. We want to do all this stuff. And it's nice to have it in my library or whatever. I'll buy the digital deluxe version of this video game. Yeah, yeah, I'm in. I'm in. I relate to this so hard because from austerity immigrant, sort of, sort of, you know, environments or something where it's like no you can't have this you can have this you can have this

um i i'm fully swung the other way and there's no i'm stuck there i will i will overspend if you feel like you're overspending i'm fucked yeah that's that's that's no he knows no can confirm yeah he's never been great with like microfinances yeah yeah yeah yeah i don't think it's a problem yeah i think it's a problem oh okay well then let me ask So this like hooded type thing you're wearing, which I think is really cool. Like how many do you have in this genre? Oh my God. How did you know to ask that question?

It's like a triggering question. I know. Yeah. It's because he's Rami. He knows. He doesn't get nervous. You can't even, you can't even think. No, no, no, no, no.

I can think. I think it's, he's deciding how honest he wants to be. I'm going to be very honest. I just have to literally take stock. Like a breath. I think I have like four in this genre and that's too much. And that's just. just that material, right?

Not in this material, but just like this color. It's like, I have like, oh my God, how dare you? Yeah, I know. That's crazy. No, I listen. So are you asking this because you have the same? Totally. I say it because I know.

It's not a judgment. No, no, I don't feel judged. I'm just, I really feel seen. Thank you. So what will you now do? Absolutely nothing. Because there's a lot of, you know, people that could benefit from. There are hipsters in need.

Yeah, there's, you have four of the. probably you can get rid of two. There's a couple like 22 year olds just kind of scrap and rent together in Bushwick that would love a used Bowen Yang hoodie. Yeah, used Bowen Yang hoodie. Yeah, that'll really get them running. That'll

that's not appealing at all to anybody. Someone told me they see you by a supermarket. Like someone saw me. Okay, so someone saw me on the street and goes, dude. And I was like, hey, and I kind of like, whatever, we talked for a second or something. You know, I wasn't in a rush.

Sure. My barometer, I don't know how you deal with this. If I'm not in a rush and someone's not giving me crazy eyes, like I'll say what's up. You'll get what I mean. So I wasn't in a rush, say what's up. And probably the second thing he said was outside of, he's like, dude, I love your show. Man, I always see Bowen Yang by Whole Foods. I'm not nowhere near a Whole Foods. I'm just telling you what I was told on the street.

Okay. Literally I was told this on the street. I believe that this man said that. I think he's misidentifying. It just happens all the time. Whoa. Yeah. Oh, no, it's totally.

But, and, and we're talking about this because, oh, me, me out and about in New York. I actually don't know why we're talking. No, we're talking about it because we were trying to gauge the level of interest that some wayward like hips would have here would want a Bowen Yang used zip up. I just think demand would be high. Rain jacket. And I think that that there would A, be demand and B, there is need. It goes beyond. demand into need. And there's

certainly supply. Exactly. With all this? And also let me throw this out to you. You've worn it now on the episode. And so I will never wear it again. You know, so I've been trying to turn the corner on this. I'm trying to force myself. Tiffany had a shit?

Yeah. What is happening? Remember when she was like, I wore this dress like one time I looked amazing on it on the red carpet. I'm going to wear it again. Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Very cold. Well, I'm just saying when you have a surplus of things, probably you don't need to think in a Tiffany Haddish way. So you're saying you've been trying to have a paradigm shift about this? I want to wear, yeah, yeah.

Yes, you should. Yeah, I mean, I think I do maybe in general, but I don't know. I've found myself being more responsible. Yeah. Yeah, where I just go, I don't need that thing, man. Yeah. I got something in that color. Let me just keep moving.

And it feels good. But that I really feel, it's making me feel older. That's good. Yeah. It's making me feel older. How old do you feel right now? I think I feel my age. Which is?

45. 35. 35. Yeah. That's Bowen's age too. Yeah. I feel my age. Yeah.

Or maybe, yeah, I do. I do. Do you feel younger? What would give you a pause? I feel like, I feel like certainly feel developmentally stunted. In what way? In the way that like I was like in a sand pit for seven years. You know what I mean?

Oh, right. Oh, right. Just in terms of like my own work ethic and my own product and like the things that like would motivate me or demotivate me or whatever. And now I'm like, ooh, like I'm going to get coffee with Kirsten Wu. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like that's going to really. Who are you now?

Oh, you asked me what Kirsten Wu would sing at the jimmies? Oh yeah. What would Kirsten Wu sing at the jimmies and say it in the voice that you use? singing God help the outcasts from the hunchback of Notre Dame Kirsten Rue. I love that for Kirsten. Wow, did you get any of that?

You've never seen Hunchback of Notre Dame? Hunchback of Notre Dame? I know that, but I don't know. I don't know, it's just such a quick reference. It's a sad story. Like hunchback, I got to dig back. It ends so sad, Rami. Like, the way that hunchback ends,

it's like, you can imagine it doesn't end good for Quasi. Yeah. And he was already cursed. There's no happy ending in hunchback? The Disney version, sort of. They gotta get. It's bittersweet because Esmeralda gets away and she finds her love. But Quasi is relegated to his experience of living really at the top of the Notre Dame forever, ringing the bells.

Because society just is not ready to accept him as one of their own truly. Like they'll thank him for what he's done and what he's sacrificed. Right. Ultimately, he being a beast. Is that the Disney version? Yeah, that's the Disney version even. That's the happy one? Yes.

Yeah, and they even still sold little toys at McDonald's. This is back in the day when it didn't kill me to eat it because I was a kid. Right, right. So you'd go and, you know, Julio has a great bit. George Costanza from Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, was voicing one of the gargoyles when they tried to sell it to kids, in the Happy Meal and such. You go to the movie.

It's a very lonely film about isolation. And Julio has a bit about how McDonald's would push it. out a Frollo toy when this is a man who, you know, tried to have, tried to ethnically cleanse France. Mm-hmm. And he was a toy you could have, if you got, like, a four-piece nugget. You could get a Frollo. You could look, Mom, it's an ethnic cleanser. It's Frollo.

He has actually sings a song about how tortured he is by his every sexual impulse. And I'm going to put him in the dog's mouth. Do you still get the toy Like last night? They don't offer toys With all the food that I got Although I would Maybe I should just order a happy meal

Maybe that's the way around this Yeah Like I just can't eat the volume Of McDonald's I did last night If I would just order a happy meal I wouldn't be sick today And I'd have a toy You know what I'm saying

There was a dentist office in Montreal Huh They would line the damn Receptionist counter with every McDonald's toy there was, like in the 90s. Oh, wow. And it was, and it took you everything not to take every single one of them. Well, this sort of goes back to, I'm sure your parents wouldn't have wanted that

because you said that it was not an austerity culture. Yes, absolutely. Which brings us all the way back to Napster. Yeah. We have to keep talking about this. Yeah. So then what were, do you remember like the big one was, is there still a white whale? I mean, obviously you would just buy it now, but was there one?

because I can think of a couple things. Thriller, the video, took a long time to download and it was what we all wanted at first. Am I wrong? Lord of the Rings. Lord of the Rings. That was always so hard to get in good quality. As a whole movie? Yeah, because it's such a big file.

I literally was going to say Lord of the Rings. That was so, and I read the books actually. That's how much I loved. Did you have the big one with all three that was black with the Nasgul on it? No. No, I had the separate. Yeah, several volumes.

Titanic. Love Titanic. But that one, I don't think that was a... It was, I think at that point... It might have been at the house. It was a... Titanic had fallen, sort of... Titanic had its moment as a two VHS box.

Everyone had it in the home. At this time in the culture, let's say early aughts to mid-a-auts. Everyone's... It's Lord of the Rings was like... I was also doing a bunch of us and else. Because I just saw this, one of those Instagram carousels that kind of tells you some, like, here's a bit of history that you don't know. And I never know if they're real, but I hope this one's real.

There was an Egyptian guy on the Titanic that no one talked about. But basically he, like, worked for this couple. And he was just on the ship. And he heard them going, there's an issue. And then he goes and tells the couple, like, hey, I heard that some shit's going down. the three of them get the first lifeboat out. Pretty crazy, right? He saved them.

The first thruple. Yeah, he saved them. And then, I don't know, the carousel ended weird. They were like, he lived in America for a little. Then he went back to Egypt and died. Oh, that sucks. That's terrible. That's very Quasimodo.

I'm dying to go. Did you see, another Instagram story, did you see the guy who got stuck in Egypt with his dog? No. Yeah, there's this guy from New York just got stuck in Egypt with his dog. some customs issue and he just like had to be in Egypt and just went viral. He just decided to keep it. Was he okay? Is he okay? Oh, he was so happy. He was he was just this like gay white dude walking through Cairo with his dog going I'm in Egypt like what is this and then he got so popular he started doing like meet

and greets at cafes and stuff. This is why we just need to meet new people. What do you mean? I'm not... Egypt would love us gay white guys. Let us in We'll do meet and greet. Certain neighborhoods for sure. Certain neighborhoods. Can you know, if I were to show up in Egypt, yeah. And they were just to just see like an Asian man.

Yeah. Like a 35 year old Asian man. They'd be like, whatever. They would say, you would get a kick out of this. That's what they would say. There's a lot. I'm not going to say a lot. I don't have numbers.

No, of course. There are Asian people in Egypt who fully speak Arabic with a full Arabic with a full Arabic accent. Yes. And it's pretty incredible. It's like your brain doesn't know what's going on for a second. It's really cool. Chinese Muslims know what's up.

Yeah. Globally? I'm just saying like the ones that are like in Western China making the spiciest food you've ever. Oh my God. Yeah. Ever. You can tell how spicy it is just from just on site. Mm-hmm.

Speaking perfect Arabic, speaking perfect Mandarin, probably speaking great English. Yeah. Or whatever other language. Mm-hmm. I'm like. This is the super species. They're unbothered. They're just making their foods and living life and just and not fucking with people.

And after they make their food, they're unbothered by how the intensity of the taste. 100% of your perfect electric car. You know what really got me about the electric car? They had these widgets and it's the same company that'll make your dishwasher. So you can just be in your car and go like, I forgot these dishes and you press a button. Wait The world is better everywhere else That's the kind of thing that I

I love that stuff Yeah Who wouldn't love that? No Well you could do it in Egypt Yeah I'm sure You can get the electric

They have the Chinese electric cars in Egypt I see I see Yeah yeah yeah but I was just talking about China Kind of in general Oh sure sure sure Just from what I read Yeah Yeah

What is it and I'm gonna mess up China maxing? China maxing Yeah you'd mess that up at all Okay I just wanted to be respectful Wait you said like you're about to say A Chinese word word.

Yeah, you were like, as if you were about to say, like, like an actual Chinese word, but you just said China Maxx. China Maxing. Yeah. Well, you don't have to, don't gesticulate like that. I wasn't gesticulating. Excuse you. But what is that?

Like, it's people who are, you know, it's all these white women playing mahjong. It rained us from that to like someone in America really drinking, really getting into drinking just hot water. Yeah. No tea, no coffee. That's China Maxing? What's the Mahjong thing? Because I saw that in the West Village. Yes.

I saw young girls play Mahjong at a coffee shop. Go to a table. And they took out the stuff. Yes. But the way that they gave up so quickly was incredible. The cycle gets kind of smaller and smaller with the mahjong sort of popping off. And you're right. It's like, I don't know if it'll ever really hold a.

amongst people who don't want to take the time to learn what the characters for one, two, and three are. They didn't know what to do. Right. It's very esoteric, but once you were really out of their depth and gave up quickly. Yeah, and they didn't have Torrance growing up because they would have learned patience.

Patience, the ability to seek to kind of catch your own media. Well, just in a real way, like, I do think that, that is true. I don't think that any child, at least that I've seen in New York or the ones that, you know, friends are raising, like, they, the kids don't wait. They don't have the aptitude to be like, yeah, I'm going to go sit around and make my own fun, like, which I do think is imperative, I guess, for any human is the ability to kind of just sit there and understand like things don't when you need it. And also, like...

It's just curiosity, yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't ever imagine what something might be like. Do you just get it? Have one of those blogs, like, do you remember Zanga? Yeah. Okay, do you remember, like, going into the back end HTML, making your colors, like picking your fonts, throwing in, like...

Putting your personality together. We were coders. Yeah. We knew how to do HTML backslash, all that kind of stuff, and go in and do that. And now it's just like you can change every... This is the thing that makes me feel 35.

for real. Yep. We're, you know, we are a different age. Yeah. Now they're telling Claude, like,

make a personality for me based on what I've told you. And it tells you literally who you are and it's right. Was it right? No, I'm not saying this happened to me. I'm just saying this is,

this is, this is. But I don't use it. But yeah, it is like, everything's being served up algorithmically, whatever. I'm not saying anything new.

But it's like, yeah, like the kids are used to it coming to them instead of, It's very New York versus L.A. Oh, that's a good conversation. No, that's a great conversation.

Yeah. That no one's had before. They're for 10 years. I lived in L.A. for 10 years. Yeah, I actually was not sure whereabouts you were now. I know. Yeah, but now I've been back to her. Yeah.

Yeah. I think you're New York. No, for sure. I did what I needed to do there, but it's, yeah. And you are publicly saying through the special that you do not know Zoron that well. I do. No, that's, you, you have to declare once and for all here. Yeah.

How well do you know him? You know him well enough. Right? I know him well enough. I know him. How about this? I know him the way I know you guys. Okay, that's fair.

Yeah. You could have a conversation with him for a 90 minutes. You competed with him in sketch comedy. We did. We did it back there. I bet he would have been great, by the way. Oh, yes. He's good on camera.

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Really, you know, like, we haven't had like multiple dinners together. You know, we can change that. You and us. That would be great. I think we would fuck up dinner. I'd be down. Where would we go? And you have to take us out.

I guess, oh yeah, take you guys out since sushi. That would be nice I wouldn't do sushi. I could take you to one of the sushi spots. I will take you to a sushi spot. What's that place by Brian Park?

I took Patty there once. It's at the Omikaze place. Like, I haven't been to it. Number one. Oh, I'm really good. I'm taking y'all.

Yeah, yeah. I'm taking you guys there. I think he's the three of us, Zoron. It would be great. Like if we just kind of. I've not had the pleasure. I almost went up to him at the Liberty game.

But the line was long. It was a long way. Yeah. He came up to me at an after party when he was still, before the primary. Yeah. Or just, no, just remember, like the first, the first big push was to, uh, was to have him sort of registered as a Democrat or something. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yes, yes. It was the, it was the DSA thing. And I, and I was like, whatever. And on the ground floor posting about it. I was like, this guy's on.

Like, it seems really, seems really great. And then he came up to, uh, me and my parents at an after party. and then like came and shook my hand and then my parents like who was that? I was like oh he's running for mayor and then and now they're like we met him and it's it's very cool and very sweet but

everyone's mom calls him ZZ I think we are going to sit down as easy but I think the three of us and Zoran sure why not I think that would be a really wonderful exchange of ideas you know and more

and he's younger than us I know. About a couple months. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not. But it's like, we're really the same. It's so funny. Like, he was just like a dude on Instagram like us, just. He was.

You know? What do you think? Yeah, I wonder where his torrents were. Neutral Moch Hotel. Neutral Moly Coel was a big one for me, yeah. But I'm saying, like, he's probably more hip-hop. Yeah, he was famously in the community. In the hip-hop community.

I don't know that they ever, like, fully took him into the community. Yeah. I think if they had, he had. he wouldn't be mayor. I do think his mayoral ship is kind of hinging on that his music did not take off. Yeah. Yeah. But not bad songs in my opinion.

Can I ask a question? Do you guys invite straight people to the culture? To the culture awards? Yes. We gave out the award last year with the Creatine Award for Straight Male Excellence. It was won by Andy Sandberg. Okay. Actually, this is a great opportunity to have a conversation about.

a thing that we, that is kind of thematic year after year now. Yeah. We're genuinely, we're like, oh my goodness, we're so sorry we did not invite this person. Yeah, slipped through the cracks. And haven't you been on both sides of this? My invite list are really thorough. Yeah, I.

You never have someone. Your invite lists are thorough. Yeah, thoughtful. Yeah. That's interesting because I don't think we've ever been invited to anything that you've ever. I've never done a Las Coltrice's Culture Award. You've, you've certainly had like, I shoot my specials in Chicago. Yeah, I don't know. Well, that's a convenient excuse. Yeah. You know what's an easy flight? New York to Chicago.

Late to Chicago, less easy, but we're willing to fly on an airline that we don't usually to go spend time with you. Do you have, do you have like parties for when the specials drop? Yeah, what happens then about when the specials drop? Usually there's a big party. Yeah, but you know what? If I don't invite you guys something, I don't post about it. about that. I don't post about it. I don't think. I don't feel left out of a large gathering. I don't post about my gatherings.

Well, Bravo posted all the social, so we just accepted collabs. Post the Rami season one premiere now on right here in this video over superimpose. We weren't there. I was not there.

And it would have been nice. As your competitor, we shook hands at the end of backyard brawl all those years ago, and it was implicit in that handshake. We would invite each other to everything we had going on going forward. That was what I felt. Where did the award? Where does it take place?

We shot in LA the past two years. It's in LA. It's in Los Angeles California. Okay, I wouldn't have gone. I would not have gone. Mood. Yeah. So, moot.

We're totally new. All right. Well, we'll figure this out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll all get in the same place. Whether it's dinner, the culture awards, your next special. I mean, it would be good. Keep them coming.

Keep them coming. I say, what time is it in the house? 312. I think it's time. I think it might be time for I don't think so honey. You hear about this one? Yeah. This segment.

Did you ever do the live? I don't think so honey's, you definitely did. Another thing we didn't invite you to. Another thing I was not invited. No, yes, we did. You never did. I don't think so honey live back in the day.

I think Braylock even did. I was in L.A. I was in L.A. Well, Braylock was always from the junk. Braylock was a special. He was always saying, I'm a reader, I love the podcast. Do you even know what a reader is? It's okay.

It's a fan of this show. A reader? Yeah. Because we used to say, reader, my faces, my eyes are rolling back, like whatever. Oh, that's funny. And then it. And then they started to identify as the readers. As the readers.

Oh, that's really funny. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. I kind of think it might be time to just go back to everyone being readers again. is what are people now there's there's different there's five subgroups of our fandom readers katies publicists

finalists and kiles kiles and it's just it's getting kiles are the you know and the gender binary of this kiles are the male counterparts to katies so basically they're a gay guy that listens to us in the gym but a woman can also be

and anyone that presents any gender can be a kyle a man can be a katee a katee is a lives in the Midwest was a communications major, a publicist to someone who really campaigns hard. Publicist tells people about the show.

It's a big part of the way that they have dialogue with their friends. Readers just quietly consume the podcast and have for years. We're just a part of their media diet. They're not flexing on it. It just is. And then finalists don't know who we are.

Yeah. But they shouldn't. It's like someone who's a very, very famous and like kind of is aware of us and like are very accomplished person. Like you're a finalist. You're a finalist. You don't really have, you don't really know what the show is.

You don't need this. Totally fine. No, but I do. Like, not that I've listened to the whole thing to know the readers thing, but I've clipped. And I go, those guys are so funny. And I ask to be on. This was an incoming request. That was very, can I say?

This was an incoming request. I texted you. Yes. I said, hey, can I culture? And maybe that wasn't the right way to say it. Doesn't matter. Don't worry about that part. I think when you are someone that's as brilliant as you are, you dictate the way you say things.

Yes. Okay, how about that? And, Robbie, it was a very, very high compliment that you would want to be on the show. Really high compliment. Are you kidding? Well, and also, it's always nice to get back in with an old friend. With an old friend. And it really does actually make me emotional.

Yes. It really does. I mean, dude, if you think about what year was that? 2010. Like, that's crazy. 16 years ago? That's so fucked up. It's a high school student.

That's actually wild. Yeah, that's insane. And also, I do, I do get, it makes me really. excited and happy when I see people that I knew from way back then still doing things. Well, A, at all, but B on a high level. Like, do you remember Steph Shoe? Yeah. Yeah, so she was competing in Backyard Ball with us too.

She's there that night too. We just saw her in Rocky. I just went again to Rocky Horror. She's Janet. She's awesome. She's amazing. She was always so good. But we were literally, I remember, she, it wasn't, Stephanie didn't always do the shows.

Right. So she did Backyard Ball and she was like so excited. We were so happy. And that was, I think you beat us that time because she did it. So, take that interesting that you'd kind of bring her up just to blame her. Just to knock her down. Yeah. That's crazy.

I got to keep everyone out there on their toes. It's like a compliment with like the blame right afterwards. Always. Yeah. You've done that. Always. Okay. So this is, I don't think so honey.

This is our minute to sort of pop off. Why don't we? Why don't we? in culture that's it's time for it to get to get addressed i'm ready okay this is matt rodgers i don't think so honey i don't think so honey you expecting me to be as excited as you that your dog is in the restaurant i don't think that people should not be allowed to bring their dogs in restaurants if you're allowed to do that i do think so honey that's fine the establishment has made its decision i don't think so honey that i'm ever going to be as excited as you

are and as accepting of this that your dog is laying in the path of a server. 30 seconds. Because I think of the human beings first for me. Oh. And I, that's just how, and I, you are lying about it being a service animal. I know you're lying. I've heard you lie. So this is just what it is.

And look, understanding the restaurants are sometimes outside. 15 seconds. Fine. The dog is there. Great. Fine. Love the dog. But I'm not going to be as excited as you are.

and on your level, and when your dog is making it difficult for humans to do their job, and I give you a dirty look, and you give me a dirtier one back. Oh, no. I don't think so, honey. And that's one minute. Rami thoughts as a dog owner? Really felt like this was kind of coming at me. Like, I know you were looking at the camera, but definitely felt at me.

Can't tell you something? Didn't know you had a dog. Didn't know you had a dog. And this is... What's the dog? I love the dog already. Didn't watch the special. Which is fine.

Totally fine. Totally fine. I admitted to it. It's a great bit about having to watch the full episode here. We didn't watch each other's specials. Fair enough.

Yeah. And this is all good. It's all fair enough. You know, we do, this is the thing that really hurt me, I think, by what you said. We bring them to the restaurant and we do kind of,

I think my wife and I kind of do a glance around the restaurant. Who's cool? Isn't this cool guys? Yeah. Like to everybody. And I think the reason why is because our dog is really well-behaved.

Yes. Like he tucks right under the table because he's waiting for something to drop. This is perfect. And he's really cute. He's not in walking paths. But we kind of, you know, I think we feel good about ourselves that he's so well trained. And yeah, I'm being honest. I know it annoys people sometimes.

Perfect result that you bring your dog there and the dog goes under the table. It's a contained situation. Even, you know what? Bring out the bowl. Bring out the whole thing. Let's make the dog as comfortable as possible. But here's the thing. If you're out there and your dog is laying in the path that servers need to go.

And where people like, if your dog is like being an inconvenience and I, and I like seem a little annoyed by it. And this person shot you a dirtier look? I just, I have had it happen where like a dog will come in because I'm in LA a lot and then just lay wherever. Fine. But when the server is having a hard time and I'm like, because I used to be one. And I'm like, this is a little annoying. Like, can you move your dog in? And I never bring anything up.

And I get a dirty look for suggesting with my eyes that maybe your dog is in everyone's way. Like, I don't know. I'll be honest, sometimes he does server path. And I'm really sorry to all servers. It's okay. No, no, because it happens. And there's even been a time where there was Bull.

And Bull was in Server Path. Kicked water everywhere. And I'm be honest, that's happened twice in, like, Like, um, hazardous. In, in the years of dog ownership. Right. Yeah.

And seating and table placement is not consistent enough so that bowl can be placed under the table. It's just sometimes, yeah, things get, you know, things get a little crazy. Yeah. It is an animal at the end of the day. Again, it's like a sensitive thing. Because it's like, because it's like, if I'm, if I'm just say like, hey, like the dog, does the dog have to come? It's then like, you know what I mean? It is a little bit like.

It's like it's like a not a valid suggestion for me. No, no, I know those. Maybe the dog can just stay home for an hour. Some things are too sensitive to say to the person. You just say it on the podcast and I get that. Like I get that's a really specific kind of sensitive. Only to the people I'm positive, don't listen. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. Because then at that point, it's like the dog can pick up on human energy and I love dogs. I don't want to upset the dog. Yeah. You know what I mean? I don't want to give off the vibe that I don't think the dog should be here, sitting in the middle of,

I know. Oh my God. It's a hard thing. But we have to do and face hard things. This is the thing I have to think about as a future. As a future dog owner. Do you know what kind of dog yet? No.

I, but I'm. Like it could be any range or do you know like size? Or do you know it like size? It can be, it can be, I'm going to say like a. This also. Border collie and smaller. Right. So it's not, I don't want a border collie.

Right, right, right. You're just talking about range. Just range, like, no higher than that table. He wants a corgi chihuahua. No, I don't. Well, my only advice would be... He's always one. No, that's not true. No, I think you're more elevated, but my only advice would be that...

And this will really piss you off. Just get the kind of dog you can fly with. Yes. I understand. No. I'm sure... But, I mean, dude, like, dog in the cockpit on the plane? Can you say something?

Dog on the plane? Fine. Dog on the plane is fine. Dog on the plane is fine. Dog on the plane is fine. Because dogs not to be in the aisle. are acknowledging the fact. Other people aren't going to be as excited about this as me.

That is all I'm saying. It's bring your dog, do whatever. It's just, you know, people may have an issue with it if it's in the way and coming up to the table, smelling the food. When I'm sitting there and the dog is now in the business. Right. It seems like you and your wife like to understand. Well, let me tell you something. With all the things I've admitted to, I always do a, I'm so sorry.

Like I'm preemptively doing it. And then also have some. something happens, I'm like, hey, I'm sorry. I don't assume someone wants to be sniffed by my dog, because I don't know, maybe they have a traumatic thing with the dog, maybe they don't. My wife, I'd be honest, not, like, I don't talk poorly about her, but she seems to think everyone's like blessed by the dog

visiting them. She's not my opinion. I don't think you're talking poorly about your wife. She does listen to this podcast, by the way. So by the, you know, just so you know the culture piece, I don't think so honey, all of that. And I don't think so any I knew, just because that's so in the culture. Yeah, the culture thing though, she on my way here was like,

have your culture ready? Do you have your, I don't think so, honey, ready? FaceTime me, what are you wearing? There was a lot of stuff. That's how much she loves the podcast. She's a reader. She's a reader and a publicist, I would say. Oh, yeah, publicist. I think she's a publicist because I heard her telling a bunch of her friends that they had to. Like, she was, there was a podcast conversation came up. And she said, you got to listen to Lost Cult. Yes. And did you feel proud of us? Totally. Oh my God. Are you kidding? Absolutely. Absolutely. And her Her friends are, you know, they were, oh, we listened to it, and they're in Saudi and they're in, like, Bahrain. Oh, my God.

That's kind of global. That's amazing. Yeah, yeah. It's just important to know. That's amazing. Yeah, just think about it. As you know. As I say things about people.

As you say stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just global. That's you say stuff. I have something that is truly global. And I think it will change, we'll touch. Well, it won't change lives, but it will touch them. This is Bowen Yang's global.

I don't think so many he hopes will touch lives. Not necessarily changing. No, I won't. There's no way. There's no recourse. His time starts now. I don't think so, honey, the modern experience of buying spinach at the store. What the fuck am I going to do with 11 ounces? And why am I walking out the grocery store with a damn terrarium? And it's going to sit in my fridge and look pretty, sure, but that's all you're good at spinach looking pretty in the fridge because you're set dressing. Not salad dressing because that's actually shelf stable. That's a shelf stable legend in the refrigerator ecosystem. But for spinach, oh, but you say it cooks down, Beau, and it cooks down. Yes, that's the problem. It has the material density of cotton candy. It takes up a lot of space while not having much matter in it so that by the time it cooks down,

it is a thimble of wet leaves. What the hell am I supposed to do with this? Oh, but then the solution is frozen spinach. Well, do you want to make a frittata? You can't with frozen spinach because there's too much water because you're defrosting a sponge. And that's one minute. How would things change to create a perfect world for you? I think no spinach.

None ever? No spinach. We have to figure out another leafy green that has whatever iron content or whatever we love about spinach nutritionally. I do love spinach. Cale. What if it was saved just for smoothies? Totally. I think spatially it's taking up.

so much in the fridge. The footprint is enormous. And we all have to bear the weight. It's not heavy, but it is large. It's voluminous. And there's something very dissonant about that experience. We all take spinach home. We're like, I guess I got to be the person who eats 11 ounces of spinach in four days

before it goes bad. I didn't even, by the way, when you said the frozen spinach thing, I didn't even know people were pitching that. People love frozen spinach. I'm not against it. principally but I just think it's not it's not giving no what you said really made me think a lot because I don't know how often I ever finish the vegetables in my fridge oh they don't get I was thinking about this where I was like over the course of the year go out do

shops how often whether between travel we get invited to things or whatever how often am I successfully clearing my fridge you do get invited to things before yeah I do okay no um But how often am I actually getting through the stuff, like without throwing out kind of that zucchini that got like... You know when you take stuff out of your... Yes. And it's like fucked up. It's like been beaten down.

Yeah. Like you can't believe it. And it was your responsibility. And it's white. And it's just got all this shit all over it. You've allowed it to become this. Yeah. And that happened on your watch.

Yeah. Something started living in there. Yeah. But with spinach. Okay. So with all these things you're describing carrots, whatever. other vegetables, it's like this big. Yeah.

Oh, that's too bad. Toss into the trash. With spinach, it is an enormous crate that you have to then try to fit into a garbage bag or whatever or put into your compost. It's just so demoralizing. It's just so ridiculous. I really, I've had it. Get Bell, Pure Fiber Internet with Crave Netflix and Disney Plus from $94 a month. Price guaranteed for two years on Internet with.

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because I put spin drift in there Don't do this Your crisper? The veggie drawer The veggie drawer So I put raspberry spin drift In there and wouldn't you know it They all exploded

It was horrible what happened to the spin drifts And the crisper so don't do that Wait, what? I don't get it I don't know about this There's a crisper drawer In the fridge Yeah

the fridge. I just thought it was a drawer. But vegetables and fruits in there, don't put canned stuff in there. It'll explode. The thing, and there's a setting. The crisper is for veggies. I've never used this.

That's okay. Don't worry. Well, on your podcast, though, you know, your team does something, I've never seen before on a podcast that I feel like people wouldn't know because the camera's been going that way. Every time you ask them something, they kind of go, and then they look it up.

Yeah. And it's kind of incredible. Well, play stupid games, win stupid prizes. It is what we're asking is stupid. Yeah, always. They're like, but then despite, kind of how stupid it is. They do type. I just think it's really cool. Isn't it so aren't we sort of liberated like they're scowling on us because they're stuck in a prison where they have a screen in front of them

that has access to all human knowledge. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're just sitting here having a real human conversation. I look over there and I get frustrated sometimes because I see them not listening to the podcast or not engaging. They're on the computer and then I said, what are you doing on there? And then they yelled at me last week. They said, working, always working. And I was like, okay, I just wanted to Google how to spell fruit. And then they fucked up the spin drift. And they fucked up the spin drift. Yeah, it was the assistant.

Well, now it's time. I love our team. You all are a second. It's a highly skilled coach. Highly skilled coach. Now, I think it's time for Rami's. I don't think so, honey. This is exciting.

First one ever. It's my first one. And I'm just bringing something to table that I have struggled with. Why are you pointing to us with both? hands. Justiculate. I'm just kind of. Oh my God.

It's going to be, I don't think so honey gay guys. Yeah. I would, come on. Finally. Finally. What a straight guy does this?

It's, you know it's about to be. When a straight guy does this, it could be, are they becoming a mummy? Or are they hunking boobs of a woman laying on a table? Or. Are they pervaying their domain?

Okay, this is Rami Yusips. I don't think so, Honey has time. Did all this give off that much? Just doing this. It's just not something, I wish gay guys would do this more. This is cool. This is, like, inherently.

This is a straight. This is a gesture. Because gay guys are like this, this, this. They do this. I was kind of gripping. I like it. Just gripping the air a little bit. I also like that.

Gay guys will just point. Okay. And what you did is this. Whoa. Wait, wait. You're actually bringing, I don't think I've ever pointed. Like the what you just did? No.

And that doesn't feel right. Wasn't that weird? That's weird. Don't ever do that to me again. That was... I didn't like it. When you just did that, that's... Wow.

This is, yeah. That's really good. This is authoritative. This is, okay. It's authoritative without being like... It's calming to. It's very calming. It's not I'm threatening.

This is threatening. And I do this too much. And you've called me out. You stop pointing. No, I... You know who points a lot is our friend Jared. Jared will see a famous person at like a restaurant and be like, look.

And I'm like, If you don't stop pointing, I'm going to burn this whole place down. And then he laughs because he knows he's doing it. I'm like, you are pointing at Dakota Johnson. Can't do that. He's gay? He's gay. We're telling you, gay guys, gay guys point and straight guys, the good ones.

And he's blind. Trump points a lot, which is why the good ones. Trump is gay. He's gay. Oh, yeah, and you make a joke about that. But, um, okay. Okay. Okay.

So this is, ready, we're going to tee you up. You realize I had nothing to say about it more? It was like, Trump's getting. I was like, yeah, okay. Let me get to my, yeah, Trump's a big gay guy. Trump's a big gay guy. This is Rami Yusufs. I don't think Sony's time starts now.

I don't think so, honey, talking shit about someone right when they leave the room. No, I hate that. I hate it so much. So mean. It creates this terrible feeling in my body. I will admit, I've done it before and I've. was younger. This to me feels like my destructive 20s behavior. Someone leaving the room. I talk shit about them, say something about them, like whatever it is. It horrifies me, I think, too,

because I go, what if you guys doing that to me? Like what is that? Is that like I leave and you guys go, oh, what's going on? Like that shirt fit and weird. He's looking a little bloated. He's looking tired. You know, like, I don't like that stuff. And I think if you're going to say something about somebody, you should wait at least an hour. It should be thoughtful and constructive. It even can be framed with like, are we helping him with the bloating? You know, like, just like something like that. Like that would be really nice.

How could we? And at the very, like, I think the maximum you can do, someone leaves a room, you can go. Yep. And that's one minute. That's one minute. And I was just gonna say that. Wow.

You could do that. Like, like if you want, because we all maybe need to decompress a little bit, sometimes people are in the room and it's wild. We do this all the time. But then keep moving. Don't fucking like, debriefing. We all know what happened.

Like you need to like sit and do that. That's not. I love this. Everyone really process on their own time for an hour. And then we can make sure it's thoughtful. But you know what though? I will say this. Let's leave space for the look that you just did.

Because what Bowen and I love to do is someone will leave a room and we'll kind of do this. Yeah. It's always a little bit like. What our producers do to us. And they're entitled. we have done things a lot which I think from them would merit a look to each other and go no guarantee with us it's more of this yeah that's a bit that's a lot what you did but yeah this like just an eye roll okay yeah okay and then and then with us it's usually this what

yeah and just keep it moving like you know I don't it always feels weird you start like breaking down someone's life and it's like oh and then that and then that and then And then that, and then you that, and then at the end of it, you feel terrible. Yeah. It's, it's, it's, it's satanic. I, you, this is really important because I will just say, uh, at work, like, at S&L just because it's an office with, like, lots of closed doors. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. There's just all these closed doors and people are entering and exiting rooms all the time, right? And I would clock this all the time and be like, wait, let's cut that out. Yeah. And then, and so it's, I think it's actually. taught me to not do that anymore. Well, that's why the culture at S&L changed because of me.

Bowen said, hey, let's open the doors. And then he began to sing. And I began to sing. And you left once you felt the culture had been reset. Yes. That was kind of... And now it's back to being a wonderful place. Yeah. The place it was always meant to be.

Like it was in the land before time. Oh, remember that movie? Yeah. Land before time. Epic. So good. Toorn that. No.

That was like, we had it. Yeah, we had the VHS. Yeah, you had the VHS. Yeah, you need to go out of the way. Do you know the song from that? If we hold on together. Dagen of Ross sang it. What?

Yeah. You want to know something? This might be like a, like a, this might be a delineating factor here. Because I think when I would watch these movies as a kid, when the song part would happen, I was like, oh, cool, I can go to the bathroom. You would tune out. Yeah, yeah. Oh, interesting.

You were not vibing to somewhere out there by five-old. I was just like, there's no plot, bro. Why aren't we, can we get to something? These guys are just singing about something for four minutes. I was very plot-focused. And then they start singing and I go, I can miss this. Like if there's something I got to handle, I don't know what you need to handle when you're like nine. But I was like, I got to handle something.

I can go do it. Peep poop, get juice. And then come back, she's done singing. And then now I can figure out where they are on the journey. Hear that? Hold on. No, no, no. Oh yeah. So do you feel this way about non-verbal things? Because I catch myself tuning out and like going something like you know folding clothes.

Not action scenes, but like when there's when there's no dialogue for like a long stretch of time. I'm like okay let me go fold this t-shirt or something. No, because I think a lot of times in film if there's no dialogue there is really intentional stuff happening. Always. Action though, I'll tell you John Wick, I'm in. Yeah. You love it. I don't frequent those types of movies but I do like John Wick. You know what's cool about it too? And I think it actually probably overlaps with musical theater type stuff. It's all choreography. Yeah.

It's straight up. Oh my God. I'm going to like every scene in each of those films, he's killing people in a totally unique way. Mapping out. It's like a dance. Yeah. Yeah.

I think that is the crossover, you know, for. Yeah. For us. Just, yeah. Yeah. I don't know how to finish the sentence, but it. Dance and violence. You believe that the cross between us is dance and violence.

You get the. gun will bring the we'll bring the beat. You bring the gun, we'll bring the beat. Yeah. See, I could have never finished that sentence, but I... Together. If we hold on together.

Diana wrote that for you. You are a comedian who speaks to so many kinds of... No, hold on, hold on. You are able to speak to so many different kinds of political truth that I think you should not be afraid to finish sentences like that one.

Yeah. You know what I mean? I appreciate it. It's just sometimes, I think, in a room such as this, it felt like you would finish it better, which was why I did that, you know. Because I go, why should I finish their sentence? You know, because you guys kind of found a wrapping up there that I never would have found. That's very nice.

Yeah. But I'll leave it. I'll leave it. Well, let's leave it at this. Say a political truth. any truth leave us with a political truth um

finish the sentence finish the sentence i mean there's so many that um finish this one gay people are all gay people are all gay people are attracted to the same sex yes i mean that's just the definition

a political that was well i was trying to think of something like all gay people, because I'll be honest, there was an instinct that I had where I go they are bundles of light, right? Oh, I love that. Yeah, but... But no, not Peter Tiel, not Sam Muslim.

Who are awful. This guy is fucked, bro. This guy's, like, this guy is, yeah, this guy, well, there's no light in him. Oh, he's just, he's got a bundle. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, well, there's also, like, he's so, I, I assume he must only be happy when he's, like, doing gay stuff,

because I've never seen him happen. Oh, there are some gay people. who are not happy when they do gay stuff. Yeah. Trust. No, they're mean. Really? Like sexually, yeah. Sexually mean. They're not happy.

I'm sorry. This happens in your community. This happens. I'm sorry this happens in your community. It's so good. That's perfect. Oh, thank you. That's actually my political statement.

Thank you. I'm sorry this happens in your community. I'm sorry that whatever happens bad in anyone's community out there. I'm sorry that that happens. I'm sorry, yeah. Yeah. Well, this has been a wonderful episode, truly. I've loved this. I loved this. We love you, Rami. We love you. I love you guys. This is so fun. Thanks for having me. We're so, what about? Maybe I'll see you, uh, maybe I'll get an invite to the culture awards. Wow.

And maybe it'll, you know, not be in L.A. And then we'll all be there. You know, watch this space. Watch this space. It sounds like it's coming to New York. It'll probably be in L.A. again. Okay. The unions. The unions. It's a union thing. And then. like a venue thing. It is actually. Yeah. But they deserve to be paid, but we're not being given the money.

But that doesn't mean... I'm sorry, that's happening in your community. Thank you. Thank you. That doesn't mean that, and we end every episode with a song. I want to be a part of it. New York, New York. These vagabond shoes,

origin to stay. It's something like that. Look it up. If you want to hear more of that song, look it up. Bye. Get it on Napster. Get it on Napster or Kazah. Lock you up.

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