"Chi-Con" (w/ Maggie Winters)

Summary

Las Culturistas – "Chi-Con" (w/ Maggie Winters)

Podcast: Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Date: March 4, 2026
Guest: Maggie Winters
Theme: Culture, Chicago, and the formative moments that make a Culturista

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Overview

This vibrant episode plunges into Chicago's unique cultural identity, the nostalgia of Midwestern upbringings, formative family rituals, and the performative journey of Chicago-bred comedian Maggie Winters. Hosts Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, joined by Maggie, explore everything from region-specific snack debates to the pop culture performances that defined their senses of humor—and, naturally, drop in some Las Culturistas-defining "Rules of Culture." The episode is peppered with wild laughter, deep-dish truths, and an unfiltered look at what Midwestern culture means today.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Chicago as a Cultural Nexus

• The guest is introduced via a live taste test of Chicago's Garrett Popcorn—a cheddar-caramel blend ("Cook county classic") which leads to rhapsodizing about authentic Chicago experiences versus their "corporate" New York/holiday counterparts ([02:23-03:39]).
• Discussion about favorite Chicago traditions: Bulls, Oprah, "Home Alone," Catherine O'Hara homages, and annual Christmas trips ([03:09-03:38]).
• The heartfelt assertion: Chicago's Christmas feels "more lived in. It’s much more like real Christmas. You can tell all the lights are kind of thrown up there" – Matt ([03:38]).

2. Defining ‘Chicon’ and Chicago Identity

• Bowen and Matt riff on being "Chicon/Shycon"—a portmanteau for "Chicago Icon," and parse local slang (Chi vs Shy), referencing Showtime's "The Chi" ([02:53-05:51]).
• Maggie clarifies: "It's shy. Shytown … They say Shish, which my dad really doesn't like. But the Shy." She enjoys the playful urge to call Chicago "the Shire" ([07:16-07:34]).
• Commentary on the evolution of online slang: "Of course, there was the bad thing. People would say Chiraq … People have to make everything bad a little bit." – Maggie ([07:37-07:45]).

3. Bean Soup Theory and Internet Culture

• "Bean Soup Theory" enters: A TikTok concept where a recipe video is derailed by naysayers. Maggie draws a parallel to people nitpicking her hairstyle in comments, underlining the broader issue: not everything is for everybody ([08:13-09:12]).
• "There's the entirety of human thought out there on the Internet. You can just keep swiping or send it to the group chat." – Bowen ([09:12]).
• "The group chat will always have a strong opinion." – Matt ([09:36]).

4. The Midwest, Millennial Identity, and The Culture of Niceness

• Maggie, Matt, and Bowen wax poetic on the Midwest's defining traits: kindness, cheese balls, chicken/tuna salad, and "pistachio salad" (Ambrosia salad—marshmallows, apples, pineapple) ([10:14-21:40]).
• Affectionate mocking of Midwestern food—“they call it a salad”—echoes through the segment, and Bowen marvels: "Salad is so much an umbrella term than I think anyone realizes" ([20:47-20:55]).
• The trio debate millennial/elders labels, ultimately landing with Maggie: "I'm going to be millennial." and Matt blaming comic Eliza Schlesinger for "elder millennial" ([11:56-12:34]).

5. Family, Names, and Special Bonds

• The story behind Maggie’s special “Marguerite” (after her grandmother), family naming conventions, and her brothers (who also co-directed) ([12:42-13:40]).
• Comedic mix-ups about origins—Maggie’s brother once mistakenly claimed Bowen as “the new SNL guy from Chicago. ... Aurora, Illinois!” ([13:52-14:22]).

6. Regional Snack & Food Debates

• Obsessing over Chicago foods: giardiniera (a hot/mild relish for pizza, beefs, subs), local pizza types (tavern style vs deep dish), and the ways these foods embed in holiday rituals ([22:22-23:56]; [24:38-25:57]).
• Maggie’s family eats deep dish on Christmas Eve—“Did my coworker call me white trash for that? Of course.” ([24:53]).
• On the deep dish debate: “You are over there arguing about it. I'm over here eating pizza. Heavens.” – Maggie ([24:38-24:53]).

7. Comedy, Performing, and Chicago’s Scene

• Maggie’s path in comedy: opening for Matt, performing at the Vic Theater, and carving her own lane ("Chicago fried comedian") ([05:13-05:41]; [13:40-14:42]).
• Being tall on camera (“Six, seven, you know? Sorry.”) and sharing set stories, including on Righteous Gemstones and needing to jump into camera directionally ([13:48]; [32:22-33:43]).

8. Shows, Pop Culture, and Viewing Habits

• Deep dives into Survivor, The Bear, Marvel movies, Scream/Halloween timelines, and the rules of horror franchises ([26:17-45:39]).
• “With your one wild and precious life, be Ghostface.” – Matt ([44:34]).
• “If you’re laughing, I think we did it.” ([51:52]).

9. Pizza + Movie Nights: The Heart of Midwest Culture

• Maggie’s defining “culture moment”: weekly pizza-and-movie nights growing up—combining food, entertainment, and togetherness ([56:17-58:15]).
• “The idea of eating food while being entertained—has been consistent throughout my life. A pure joy.” – Maggie ([56:32]).
• Bowen and Matt agree: “Gotta watch and eat.” ([58:53]).

10. Stand-Up, Crowd Work, and Creative Freedom

• Maggie discusses her special structuring around "live, laugh, love," with videos for each, and her journey to inhabit her own comedic style—"girly pop standup ... but I can do my own style" ([47:51-49:10]; [51:18-51:47]).
• The freedom of crafting alternative forms of stand-up, inspired by performers like Meg Stalter.

11. Regional Dialects, Midwest vs. NY Pride, and Childhood TV

• Maggie’s Chicago accent, references to “the Jewels” (local grocery), and affectionate ribbing over regionalisms (hoagie vs. sub, hassock vs. ottoman) ([09:53-24:18]).
• TV nostalgia: One Saturday Morning, Pepper Ann, Recess ("Ashleys"), and iconic cartoon theme songs ([62:57-65:00]).

12. Struggles With Internet, Social Media, and Bullying

• Relatable glimpses into early digital experiences, getting bullied on Zynga, the weird vortex of TikTok/reels algorithms (“Donald Trump in a bikini ... doing the Chanel Tyla dance”) ([71:04-83:28]).
• “If you watch it for more than four seconds, ... your algorithm is cooked.” – Matt ([83:39]).

13. Bravo, Reality TV, and Friendship Aspirations

• Quick-hit reviews of Bravo franchises and Maggie’s admiration for “Married to Medicine,” goal to be the “first fat person on Summer House,” and fan-favorite West Wilson ([95:14-97:18]).
• Parasocial relationships and wanting to “help” the cast: “If I was there, I could help.” – Matt ([97:05]).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Chicago differentness:
  “Nobody does Christmas like Chicago. ... You go to Chicago, and it’s just much more lived in.” – Matt ([03:27])
• Bean Soup Theory and online boundaries:
  “So then this isn’t for you.” – Maggie ([09:11])
• Midwest kindness:
  “Kindness reigns. I think I like this little life.” – Maggie ([11:09])
• Ambrosia salad reveal:
  “There’s also a version that has Snickers in it. People are serving this. I’m dead serious.” – Maggie ([20:41])
• Comedy identity:
  “Chicago fried comedian. ... I think we’re New York grilled.” – Maggie / Matt ([14:38-14:49])
• Rules of Culture:
  • “When I put on my video game, I want to hear those club classics.” ([04:25])
  • “People have to make everything bad a little bit.” ([07:45])
  • “The group chat will always have a strong opinion.” ([09:36])
  • “Cloves are a huge part of hot toddy.” ([18:10])
  • “If you’re laughing, I think we did it.” ([51:52])
• Maggie’s culture-defining moment:
  “Every Friday night growing up, we did pizza movie night. ... The idea of eating food while being entertained—has been consistent throughout my life. A pure joy.” – Maggie ([56:17-56:36])
• On comedic freedom:
  “Watching Meg Stalter for the first time, I was like, oh, you can do what you want ... And I think especially with women, like, we can do girly pop standup. … I can do my own style.” – Maggie ([51:18-51:42])
• On being bullied online:
  “I got bullied on my Zynga ... obviously talked about in therapy for years. Shout out to my therapist Elizabeth.” – Maggie ([71:25-72:12])
• Midwestern accent as identity:
  “Did you have to eliminate an accent? ... My mom is like, 'We’re going to the jewels.'” – Matt ([09:57-10:13])
• Pizza & eating as Midwest joy:
  “Now, today, like, the thought of going home, having a foodie want, and watching a show, like, queued up. There’s nothing better.” – Maggie ([58:15-58:29])

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Important Timestamps

• Chicago Nostalgia and Holiday Traditions: [02:12–03:48]
• Explaining “Chicon” / “Shycon”: [02:53–05:51], [07:16–07:34]
• Bean Soup Theory & Group Chat Dynamics: [08:13–09:36]
• Midwest Kindness and Millennial Labels: [11:09–12:34]
• Ambrosia Salad/Midwest Foods: [20:25–21:40]
• Deep Dish vs. Tavern Pizza: [24:38–24:53]
• Live, Laugh, Love Show Structure: [47:51–49:10]
• Maggie’s Defining Culture Moment: [56:17–58:29]
• Pizza + Movie Rituals: [56:17–58:29], [85:38–86:47]

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Segment Highlights

Maggie’s "I Don't Think So, Honey" ([87:29])

• A rapid-fire, playful roast of Matt and Bowen for not visiting Chicago, referencing their early career endeavors, and playfully challenging them to revive their queer teen soap "Lake Homo High" at beloved theater venues.

“I am the comedian of Christmas Pass here to remind you of your past. ... You guys need to come back to Earth. That's right.” – Maggie ([87:18–88:23])

Pop Culture + Candy:

Bowen’s "I Don't Think So, Honey" focuses on the excess of overly organized home spice racks—a metaphor for unnecessary lifestyle complexity ([83:58–85:02]).

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Final Thoughts

“Chi-Con” is a love letter to Midwestern authenticity, family rituals, and the deep-rooted joys of regional food, entertainment, and kinship. In blending stories of Chicago’s lived-in magic, comedy’s creative autonomy, and the comforting loop of eating while binge-watching, Matt, Bowen, and Maggie invite listeners to locate their own culture-making moments—and cherish their quirks along the way.

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Episode must-listens:

• [02:53] What makes a Chicago “Chicon/Shycon”
• [08:13] “Bean soup theory” and hijacked internet spaces
• [20:25] “Ambrosia salad” and the Midwest food umbrella
• [56:17] Maggie’s childhood pizza/movie nights and the ritual of food + entertainment
• [87:29] Maggie’s show-stopping “I Don’t Think So, Honey”

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Catch Maggie Winters’ solo special, Marguerite, from March 17 (St. Patrick’s Day) on YouTube and UCB Distributors.

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"If you’re laughing, I think we did it." – Maggie ([51:52])

Transcript

[Maggie Winters]

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[Matt Rogers]

Look, man. Where? Oh, I see my eye. Oh my. Bowen, look over there.

[Bowen Yang]

Wow. Is that the culture? Yes.

[Matt Rogers]

Wow. Las Culturistas. Ding dong. Las Culturistas calling. Go ahead, tell them what you're chomping on and just do one because there's misophonia girlies who could get upset.

[Bowen Yang]

Well, it's impossible to just do one with Chicago style because you the caramel and the cheddar.

[Matt Rogers]

Apologies to everyone out there.

[Bowen Yang]

Here we go.

[Maggie Winters]

I got two.

[Bowen Yang]

I got one of each.

[Matt Rogers]

And this is it. This is it.

[Bowen Yang]

Cook county classic. Garrett Popcorn chops. This is the shit they have at o'. Hare. This is as classic. This is as Chicago as Kevin. This is as Chicago as the name on everybody's lips is gonna be. Garrett.

[Matt Rogers]

Oh, my God.

[Bowen Yang]

A Chicago tradition since 1949.

[Matt Rogers]

Can I say, I have not been

[Bowen Yang]

back to Chicago since pre pandemic. I forgot. You haven't. No, I forgot. I am a Chicago girl.

[Matt Rogers]

You're a Chicon.

[Bowen Yang]

I'm a Chicon. A what? Excuse me. A Chicon. No, I wouldn't say that.

[Matt Rogers]

Remember, remember?

[Bowen Yang]

Okay, Chicago in the 90s. Let's just. I want to bring our guest into this. Obviously, she's Chicago lady.

[Matt Rogers]

Well, yes.

[Bowen Yang]

Well, yes. Bulls. Oprah.

[Matt Rogers]

Yeah.

[Bowen Yang]

I mean. And name a third thing.

[Matt Rogers]

Well, Home Alone. I mean, Home Alone.

[Bowen Yang]

You did it.

[Matt Rogers]

And this is a great tribute to one Ms. Catherine O'.

[Bowen Yang]

Hara, of course.

[Matt Rogers]

But, yeah, I go every year, so I think I'm a little spoiled.

[Bowen Yang]

You are. Oh, my God.

[Matt Rogers]

I go there at least once a year, actually. Cause I tour in December, which, by the way, nobody does Christmas like Chicago. And I'm sorry, New York, but there's, like a corporate feel in the way that New York does Christmas.

[Bowen Yang]

Tall buildings. Yeah.

[Matt Rogers]

I say this as the expert, and then you go to Chicago, and it's just much more lived in. It's much more like real Christmas. You can tell every. All the lights are kind of thrown up there.

[Bowen Yang]

We're going to the Wiener Circle, and

[Matt Rogers]

there's a little too much of them. You know what I mean?

[Bowen Yang]

Right.

[Matt Rogers]

There was no corporate voice to rein it in.

[Bowen Yang]

Can I say the craziest New Year's I've ever had.

[Matt Rogers]

Talk about it.

[Bowen Yang]

Chicago going from Berlin RIP to Scarlet. People throwing up in the streets. Me and Sam Taggart circa 2012.

[Matt Rogers]

Wow.

[Bowen Yang]

Blasting the Super Sonic Racing soundtrack. The Sonic the Hedgehog soundtrack is full of house classics.

[Matt Rogers]

Yeah. No one ever. When I put on my video game, I want to hear those club classics. Literally. That's the rule of culture number eight.

[Bowen Yang]

When I put on my video game,

[Matt Rogers]

I want to hear those club classics. Anyway.

[Bowen Yang]

Oh, my God. I'm sorry. So our guest just gifted us these gorgeous. Garrett.

[Matt Rogers]

And it lit you up.

[Bowen Yang]

I am so Chicago. I'm activated with Chicago. Best summers. Best summers in the country are in Chicago.

[Matt Rogers]

Let's go. Let's go this summer.

[Bowen Yang]

Oh, I love Chicago so much.

[Matt Rogers]

Let's put me in Chanel in Chicago. I have not been able to stop singing the song Put Me in Chanel. Singing Love Me, Put me in Chanel. It's gotta be a record of the year nominee.

[Bowen Yang]

Oh, that's Interesting.

[Matt Rogers]

I'm gonna talk about it at some point on the pod.

[Bowen Yang]

What we are gonna talk about at this point in the pod is our guest. Wow. She is. I remember, I remember meeting her also pre pandemic and being like this fucking girl.

[Matt Rogers]

Get this. Met her in Chicago because she opened up for me on tour.

[Bowen Yang]

Love.

[Matt Rogers]

Absolutely. Brought the house down at the Vic theater in Chicago, one of my favorite theaters in Chicago. And basically it was love at first sight.

[Bowen Yang]

Love at first sight.

[Matt Rogers]

She's a chicon, a Chicago icon. She's a chic. On. Well, actually we're.

[Bowen Yang]

We're going to move past this. I just wanted to mention the first time I heard the term chi town.

[Matt Rogers]

Yeah. Was.

[Bowen Yang]

Which is also. Is it chi or chai?

[Matt Rogers]

That. So then there's a show on Showtime called the Chai. The Chai. The chi. But I thought it might have been called the Chai. Well, we're not really the experts here. We have an expert here.

[Bowen Yang]

We have an expert here. Her solo show is coming out March 17th. Fanatics Day. Marguerite.

[Matt Rogers]

Yep.

[Bowen Yang]

It has a beautiful structure that I want to talk about. It really shines a light on live laugh, love, culture.

[Matt Rogers]

Thankfully.

[Bowen Yang]

Thankfully.

[Matt Rogers]

This is a song by Journey.

[Bowen Yang]

She hosts. Literally life changing.

[Matt Rogers]

Is that what it's called?

[Bowen Yang]

Thankfully.

[Maggie Winters]

Thankfully.

[Matt Rogers]

No. Journey's song is called Faithfully. Sorry.

[Bowen Yang]

Faithfully.

[Matt Rogers]

Not to be confused with Traitors.

[Bowen Yang]

With traitors.

[Matt Rogers]

Wait, Faithfully.

[Bowen Yang]

Absolutely.

[Matt Rogers]

This is all stuff we're gonna get clarified by our guest who's also an expert on Journey.

[Bowen Yang]

She's an expert on Journey. She is a chicon. A shy con. I can't wait for her to clear this up. March 17th. Check it out. YouTube and Upright Citizens Brigade distributors. Come on. Everyone. Please welcome Maggie Winters.

[Maggie Winters]

That is so crazy to hear those words. Well, this feels. This feels the words.

[Bowen Yang]

That's in your name.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah, my own name coming out of your mouth.

[Bowen Yang]

Andy Cohen's about to blurt your name out.

[Maggie Winters]

I will be sick when that happens.

[Matt Rogers]

Yeah, so you're going behind the bar. So is this happening Wednesday night? Yeah, but it'll tonight when this comes out. When this comes out or will it come out later?

[Maggie Winters]

It'll come out Sunday. See you.

[Bowen Yang]

No problem.

[Matt Rogers]

So sorry everyone.

[Bowen Yang]

It's not live anymore. Watch what happens.

[Maggie Winters]

Pre taped. Tired.

[Matt Rogers]

You know he's got kids.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah, I don't know about that. What's up with the kids there?

[Matt Rogers]

So is that real or.

[Maggie Winters]

It's shy.

[Bowen Yang]

Thank you.

[Maggie Winters]

Shy town.

[Matt Rogers]

Shy con.

[Maggie Winters]

They say shish, which my dad really doesn't like. But the shy. My brother was a Set deck on the shy.

[Bowen Yang]

Oh, my God.

[Matt Rogers]

It's called the shy. Not the shy.

[Maggie Winters]

Not the chai.

[Bowen Yang]

So then do people ever call it the Shire? Y' all are Lord of the Rings.

[Maggie Winters]

That is. That is. We should start saying that.

[Bowen Yang]

You should start saying that.

[Maggie Winters]

Well, then, of course, there was the bad thing. People would say chiraq. When. Because they were.

[Bowen Yang]

Of course. Of course.

[Maggie Winters]

Well, people have to make everything bad a little bit. Of course.

[Matt Rogers]

It's actually real culture. Number nine.

[Bowen Yang]

People have to make everything bad a little bit.

[Matt Rogers]

Not in Chicago.

[Maggie Winters]

Including the person that told me to get a new hairstyle today. But I'm.

[Bowen Yang]

Let's talk about this.

[Maggie Winters]

I don't. I just. This is my hair. It's thin. What do you want from me?

[Bowen Yang]

Well, first of all, I just take issue with you need. Okay, so I brought up Maggie's amazing. I just want to really shine a light on this because it really kind of helped shift the paradigm a little bit for me. It was. You and John earlier were talking about bean soup theory, right?

[Maggie Winters]

Yes.

[Bowen Yang]

Did you want to explain what bean soup theory is?

[Maggie Winters]

Yes. So now I understand that it's an actual video a girl posted on TikTok for a recipe for bean soup.

[Bowen Yang]

Of course.

[Matt Rogers]

Okay.

[Maggie Winters]

We all love. No, I'm not a bean girl. Do you guys like beans?

[Bowen Yang]

I love beans.

[Matt Rogers]

I love any soup.

[Maggie Winters]

My dad is like, oh, really? You need to hang out with my dad.

[Bowen Yang]

You're anti. You're anti bean.

[Maggie Winters]

No. And it's a battle between me and my dad every day.

[Bowen Yang]

I see the battle.

[Maggie Winters]

What's. Because you need to be eating beans.

[Matt Rogers]

Have you ever had a white bean lentil? No, you can't talk about this. You can't talk about this.

[Maggie Winters]

I can't talk about beans.

[Matt Rogers]

No.

[Maggie Winters]

We're going to talk about the bean soup theory.

[Bowen Yang]

Yes. Talk about the bean soup theater.

[Maggie Winters]

Well, so a woman was like, here's my recipe for bean soup. First comment, I don't like beans. That's. It was me. No, it's a hairstyle. Yeah. And so. But the good thing I will say is I was talking about the bean soup theory in this video, and someone commented, you need a new hairstyle. And then people right away were like, this is what she's talking about.

[Matt Rogers]

Exactly.

[Maggie Winters]

And I said, thank you.

[Bowen Yang]

Which is the thing of, like. So then this isn't for you.

[Maggie Winters]

It's not for you.

[Bowen Yang]

There's the entirety of human thought out there on the Internet. You can just keep swiping or send

[Maggie Winters]

it to the group chat.

[Matt Rogers]

Right.

[Maggie Winters]

So this. I hate beans. And then they're probably gonna ignore it anyway because it's so stupid.

[Matt Rogers]

Well, you send it to the group chat so they can tell you what to think.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah.

[Matt Rogers]

You know what I mean? It's like, hey, I wasn't sure of an opinion. What do you guys think? And then they. The group chat will always have a strong opinion. That will go to number 10.

[Bowen Yang]

Yeah, the group chat will always have a strong opinion.

[Maggie Winters]

I'm already loving that we have so many rules of culture.

[Matt Rogers]

3, 8, 9, and 10.

[Maggie Winters]

I'm gonna, I'm. I listen to this. This means a lot to me because I listen to this at my desk at my job in Chicago.

[Bowen Yang]

In Chicago.

[Maggie Winters]

In Chicago. Wearing Chicago.

[Bowen Yang]

Chicago. I'm Chicago.

[Maggie Winters]

The shy.

[Bowen Yang]

The shy.

[Matt Rogers]

Did you have to eliminate an accent?

[Maggie Winters]

Did I have to? Yeah, it comes out sometimes. Yeah. But I guess.

[Matt Rogers]

Okay, I shouldn't say, did you have to eliminate an accent? Because I don't hear it all, like,

[Maggie Winters]

when I have a strong one. But it depends on, like, if I'm with my family a lot. My mom is like, we're going to the jewels. It's huge. I'm like, what?

[Bowen Yang]

Uh huh.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah.

[Bowen Yang]

Can I, Can I even point out. And I'm sorry, I don't, I don't mean to make you self conscious. Even my mom.

[Maggie Winters]

My mom. Yeah.

[Matt Rogers]

No.

[Bowen Yang]

Can I say I love Midwestern? Yeah, I love it.

[Maggie Winters]

I almost picked it from my culture, but then I freaked out. Why?

[Matt Rogers]

The culture of the Midwest.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah.

[Bowen Yang]

Oh, no. We got to talk about cheese balls or whatever.

[Maggie Winters]

Cheese curds or cheese balls.

[Bowen Yang]

No, cheese balls.

[Maggie Winters]

The big thing of cheese balls.

[Bowen Yang]

Big thing of cheese ball.

[Maggie Winters]

Oh, my God. You know what I mean?

[Bowen Yang]

I'm reducing. I'm bastardizing Midwest culture.

[Matt Rogers]

So they would love. But here's.

[Maggie Winters]

We're so sweet. We'd love it.

[Matt Rogers]

Oh, first of all, I went to. I now occasionally will go to Grand Rapids, Michigan, love. Because that's where Henry and Ethan live. Remember Henry and Ethan? Of course.

[Maggie Winters]

Henry Kopinski.

[Matt Rogers]

Kopersky. No, no, no. Kopinsky. It's all, it's all coming out in the wash. But they live out there now and they have the most lovely little life in Grand Rapids, Michigan. And I. And everyone is. It's true what they say. Kindness reigns.

[Bowen Yang]

Of course.

[Maggie Winters]

Kindness. My mind is like. Kindness reigns. I think I like this little life. Remember that?

[Bowen Yang]

What's that?

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah. On TikTok.

[Matt Rogers]

I think I like this little life.

[Maggie Winters]

We can't restart it, but for so long it was a trend. I. People just show, like them eating dinner.

[Matt Rogers]

See and it was a Midwest thing. Midwest.

[Maggie Winters]

No, it was all over TikTok. Where were you?

[Matt Rogers]

Oh, I don't really do TikTok. I no longer have one.

[Maggie Winters]

Because they'll tell you to change your hair.

[Bowen Yang]

Because they'll tell you to change your hair.

[Matt Rogers]

But you.

[Bowen Yang]

I feel. I feel like you have a.

[Matt Rogers]

You have a.

[Bowen Yang]

A claim and like a. A dominance over it.

[Maggie Winters]

I. Yeah, because at some point, it's just like, I'm older. I'm.

[Bowen Yang]

I'm.

[Maggie Winters]

We're all the same age, I think, right?

[Matt Rogers]

Yeah.

[Bowen Yang]

We're all. We're all metal horses. We're all 22.

[Maggie Winters]

We're all 22. 22 years old. And I'm just like. It's. I feel like you're so millennial about it. It's like, yeah, I am a millennial.

[Bowen Yang]

Right.

[Maggie Winters]

I'm going to be millennial.

[Matt Rogers]

The use of millennial as, like, a bad word. I'm like, come on. Because it really happened like that.

[Bowen Yang]

Yeah, sure.

[Matt Rogers]

I'm hoping now it's at the stage where it's like, people are kind of tired of it, but. Right.

[Bowen Yang]

Well, I can't wait. No, it's. It happens like that because as soon as you could put the word elder in front of it, then it had a stink on it. Right.

[Maggie Winters]

Elder Millennial.

[Bowen Yang]

So, like, eventually you'll say like, Elder Z or Elder Gen Z or some such. You know what I mean? Although you didn't have Elder Gen X.

[Matt Rogers]

No, you didn't. Can I say this is Eliza Schlesinger's fault?

[Bowen Yang]

What do you mean?

[Matt Rogers]

Her special is called Elder Millennial, and I had never heard one of her many specials is called that. And I had never heard that before. And I was like, elder Millennial.

[Maggie Winters]

I opened for her once. I'll give her a call.

[Bowen Yang]

Give her a call. Marguerite is the title of your special.

[Maggie Winters]

Yes.

[Bowen Yang]

Full name.

[Maggie Winters]

That's my full name. Beautiful. My grandma's name.

[Bowen Yang]

French, Irish.

[Maggie Winters]

We're Irish. Yeah. But it's definitely a French name.

[Matt Rogers]

Although, what's the story there?

[Maggie Winters]

That's a. What did my grandma. What was she up to? What was she up to? I guess her.

[Matt Rogers]

What are my.

[Maggie Winters]

What were her parents up to?

[Bowen Yang]

Of course that.

[Maggie Winters]

We have one of those little things in my house that, like, says me and my two brothers names, and then, like, where it's from and the flower associated and, like, what it means. But mine says Spanish. It says Margarita Spanish. Okay.

[Matt Rogers]

Oh, interesting.

[Maggie Winters]

And it means royal. And pearl.

[Bowen Yang]

And pearl.

[Maggie Winters]

Pearl.

[Matt Rogers]

Royal Pearl.

[Maggie Winters]

And in French, it means daisy.

[Matt Rogers]

In French, it means daisy.

[Maggie Winters]

Royal Pearl in French. No, it just means. Just Daisy.

[Bowen Yang]

Just means daisy.

[Matt Rogers]

But all these words mean.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah, it describes. And then it's like, my brother Bart. My brother Liam.

[Bowen Yang]

Me talk about the brothers because they co directed.

[Maggie Winters]

They co directed my special because I was really like, I want someone. Cause it's just about me. So I was like, I want someone who knows me and someone who's not afraid to be real with me. And they're not at all. They should be a little bit more. I do have to say this about my brother Liam, is that he's the middle one, the taller one.

[Matt Rogers]

Six, seven.

[Maggie Winters]

Six, seven, you know? Sorry.

[Bowen Yang]

Of course.

[Maggie Winters]

He. When you first got SNL bong, he said he was telling everyone in town, you're from Aurora, Colorado. Colorado, my brother. We are Aurora, Illinois, which is a suburb of Chicago.

[Bowen Yang]

That's right.

[Maggie Winters]

He's going to everyone. He's going, the new SNL guy from Chicago. He's telling everyone he meets another Chicago comedian. We're so proud. Someday someone goes, he's from Colorado. My brother goes, what? I've been telling everyone for years that Bonyang is a Chicago guy. I was accepting it because I was like, it's weird. He never did Chicago comedy, But maybe he just went right to him.

[Bowen Yang]

Sure, sure.

[Matt Rogers]

He is kind of a chican.

[Maggie Winters]

You're shy. You are a shy con. I never have heard that, but I really like that.

[Matt Rogers]

I made it up today on the way over here because I was thinking, oh, wow, she's a Chicago icon.

[Maggie Winters]

Someone called me a Chicago fried comedian once, and I ran with that.

[Matt Rogers]

Chicago fried. Fried comedian.

[Maggie Winters]

Yes. What does it mean? We don't know.

[Bowen Yang]

We don't know. Totally.

[Matt Rogers]

Chicago fried comedian.

[Maggie Winters]

I think you're a New York friend.

[Matt Rogers]

I think we're New York grilled.

[Bowen Yang]

We're New York. Oh, interesting.

[Matt Rogers]

New York grilled.

[Maggie Winters]

You are New York grilled.

[Bowen Yang]

I'm poached. I'm bland as.

[Maggie Winters]

Oh, stop.

[Matt Rogers]

That's not true.

[Bowen Yang]

It's.

[Matt Rogers]

People love poached people.

[Bowen Yang]

Poached.

[Matt Rogers]

I don't get it.

[Bowen Yang]

Poached is cute. Sometimes I never get it.

[Maggie Winters]

You hate it. You're trying to stick up for it.

[Bowen Yang]

Poached is good when you're, like, making soup. Oh. Cause you're kind of poaching. Well, just like a poached breast, a chicken moment.

[Maggie Winters]

And what's the difference between that and basting?

[Bowen Yang]

Basting is like you're taking the juices and just, like, re. Sort of applying it to the protein or the roast.

[Matt Rogers]

Kristen Kish over here. No, no, no.

[Maggie Winters]

Oh, my God.

[Bowen Yang]

Interesting. Oh, interesting.

[Matt Rogers]

I would.

[Maggie Winters]

I've loved Top Chef so much, and I love watching these people, and I'm just like, I could never do anything they're doing. And I'm going, that's disgusting. You're disgusting.

[Matt Rogers]

Can I ask you a question?

[Maggie Winters]

It is true.

[Matt Rogers]

Everyone becomes an expert do. And with that in mind.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah.

[Matt Rogers]

Do you miss Padma?

[Maggie Winters]

Yes.

[Matt Rogers]

And what do you think about the culinary cup?

[Maggie Winters]

Wait, what's the culinary cup?

[Bowen Yang]

Her new show.

[Matt Rogers]

It's essentially her new show, which, like, is Top Chef but not.

[Maggie Winters]

I didn't know.

[Matt Rogers]

And I was watching it and the trailer for it, and I was like. I mean, of course I'm like, all in because it's Padma and it's this. And I also miss Padma on Top Chef. All love and respect to Kristen Kish, who is amazing.

[Maggie Winters]

It's just Padma just was a little chef.

[Matt Rogers]

Yeah, of course.

[Maggie Winters]

She definitely was like, what are you doing?

[Bowen Yang]

Right. Her delivery style was like, did you always fuck up this way?

[Maggie Winters]

Is this how you cook a poached egg, or what do you. Is this a different culture thing?

[Bowen Yang]

Right, right, right.

[Matt Rogers]

But. But what do you think of this? Like, there's a new Top Chef that is Top Chef, but it's not Top Chef.

[Maggie Winters]

So then I'm like, was there drama? Did she want to come back? And they were like, oh, honey, I don't think so.

[Matt Rogers]

You know?

[Maggie Winters]

All right.

[Bowen Yang]

I don't think so.

[Matt Rogers]

Yoda coded.

[Bowen Yang]

Yoda coded. Oh, honey, I don't think so. I don't think so.

[Matt Rogers]

I don't. I feel like.

[Bowen Yang]

You never know. Maybe she just, like, saw an offer and was like, she's.

[Maggie Winters]

Maybe she's making more money because it's, like, her show, probably. And at the end of the day.

[Bowen Yang]

At the end of the day.

[Maggie Winters]

At the end of the day.

[Bowen Yang]

At the end of the day.

[Matt Rogers]

She came on this podcast a few years ago, and we found out that she is, you know, she wrote a glossary of spices.

[Maggie Winters]

Hello. What'd you say?

[Bowen Yang]

She wrote an encyclopedia of spices because she has, like, one of the most developed palettes in the world, which. This we knew.

[Maggie Winters]

So what does that mean? Like, you open a book and. Oh, yeah, and keep going. What happens?

[Bowen Yang]

You open a book and there's, you know, there's a whole page that's like,

[Maggie Winters]

paprika and what it is and, like, what it should go on.

[Matt Rogers]

Yes.

[Maggie Winters]

I actually need that. I think.

[Matt Rogers]

I think everyone needs it.

[Bowen Yang]

But actually, this is. No, this is. I'm gonna say this for. I don't think so, honey.

[Maggie Winters]

Okay, Save it.

[Bowen Yang]

Or I can start. We can start now. Spices take like, the footprint of spices in the home is too big. Like I.

[Matt Rogers]

Now I gotta buy a fucking book.

[Bowen Yang]

Sorry, Padma. But it's like the rack itself is taking up a whole ass counter.

[Matt Rogers]

But at that point, it's kind of like when it rains, it pours, right? It's like, okay, so you have all the spice rack. You might as well have a spice glossary. A spice encyclopedia written by Padma so that they go together.

[Maggie Winters]

Greece.

[Bowen Yang]

How often are you touching Clove. How often are you touching.

[Maggie Winters]

One time a year. Thanksgiving.

[Bowen Yang]

Thanksgiving.

[Matt Rogers]

Well, also all throughout the holiday season. If you make a. Say it with me. Hot toddy.

[Maggie Winters]

Oh, my God.

[Matt Rogers]

Cloves are a huge part of hot toddy. It's actually roller coaster number 11. Cloves are a huge part of hot toddy. It's technically not even a hot toddy if you don't have them.

[Maggie Winters]

Do you like when the guest goes in with the roll?

[Matt Rogers]

Yes.

[Maggie Winters]

Because sometimes I'm like, I don't wanna step on anyone's toes.

[Matt Rogers]

No, no, no, please.

[Maggie Winters]

I'm saying it at home. I'm listening to him saying it with you guys.

[Bowen Yang]

Our toes are flat, honey. Step on it.

[Matt Rogers]

These things have been flattened, so.

[Maggie Winters]

Oh, my God. I've got the biggest feet in America, honey.

[Matt Rogers]

Let me see.

[Maggie Winters]

For a girl.

[Bowen Yang]

I'm not seeing it.

[Maggie Winters]

Size 11 Shout out to Paris Hilton. She's the only real one who started a foot line. Foot line? Is that what it's called? Footline?

[Matt Rogers]

Does she have large feet?

[Maggie Winters]

Size 11ft?

[Matt Rogers]

Paris Hilton does.

[Maggie Winters]

Maybe she got him shrunk. I don't know. But yeah, at a time, she was like, I'm starting shoes for the girls. That's. Even though the stars. Okay.

[Bowen Yang]

Even though the.

[Matt Rogers]

Even though the stars are crazy. Even though the guys are crazy. Even though the guys are crazy. Even though the stars aligned, it really is a bop. And unfortunately, you can't hear it without going like this.

[Bowen Yang]

Yeah, I don't understand. Are the stars blind? In fact, you know, it doesn't matter.

[Maggie Winters]

We gotta think about that one.

[Bowen Yang]

You gotta think about it.

[Maggie Winters]

You gotta get a little high and you gotta eat the popcorn. You gotta think about that. Of course. I have a question for you guys. Do you think that the culture of taking out the spices from their original thing, putting it in a jar and labeling it and then putting it is good or bad?

[Bowen Yang]

That is. That's giving, like, the Internet that I'm not on, but I shudder at when I see it, which is like, organization. Like closet organization. Culture.

[Maggie Winters]

Yes.

[Bowen Yang]

Which scares me a little bit. It's not realistic. This is just my thing with spices and spice racks. If our life were the Sims, it would take up an entire tile in our home. You know what I mean? Like, it takes up an entire sim square.

[Maggie Winters]

Sim square.

[Bowen Yang]

And that's what I am. Like that. But I'm not using this.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah, no.

[Bowen Yang]

You know what I mean? What do you think is hard left is the Midwest culture? What do you think is the Midwest culture that people don't talk about enough?

[Maggie Winters]

Oh, my God. Because they talk about, like, food. They talk about. They're always like, you guys eat disgusting casserole food. It's like. It's good.

[Bowen Yang]

Relax. I don't care.

[Maggie Winters]

Pistachio salad. Have you had that?

[Matt Rogers]

No.

[Maggie Winters]

It is kind of messed up. There's a couple names for it. Ambrosia Salad.

[Matt Rogers]

Ambrosia.

[Bowen Yang]

That's cute. That's very, like, celestial head.

[Maggie Winters]

Well, wait till you hear it. It's like marshmallows. Pistachio. It's like a. Like, you can get it at the grocery store. It's gooped up. It has apples in it. It's so good. There's also a version that has Snickers in it. People are serving this. I'm dead. Seriously.

[Matt Rogers]

And they call it a salad.

[Maggie Winters]

Yes.

[Matt Rogers]

And bread. But salad is so much an umbrella term than I think anyone realizes. What defines a salad?

[Bowen Yang]

A collard.

[Maggie Winters]

Is there fruit or vegetable in it?

[Matt Rogers]

Is that what it is?

[Maggie Winters]

Because I was like, fruit salad, obviously. Because I was like, is it just vegetable? But there's also fruit, right? Yeah. Let us know what you guys think a salad is. I would love to know. I don't know about that kind of stuff. No. But I think there's, like, different versions. But you can get it at the grocery store. And it's just like a sweet pineapples in it, I think.

[Bowen Yang]

Okay, so so far we have.

[Maggie Winters]

So maybe you didn't know about this. That's a good one.

[Matt Rogers]

Yeah, this is really good.

[Bowen Yang]

No, this is huge. So, so far we have marshmallows, apples, pineapple. I haven't really heard Snickers yet.

[Maggie Winters]

There is pistachio. Sometimes. I think a Snickers salad is a separate one. There's definitely one that's like. Yeah. Then, like. But it's like. I think the marshmallows maybe melted a little bit. I never made it, but I do. I'll get it at the grocery store. I don't. I'm not scared to get it at the grocery store.

[Bowen Yang]

No, no, no.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah. I want you guys to try it when you go.

[Bowen Yang]

I want to. Well, what aisle in the grocery store would it even eat?

[Matt Rogers]

Mmm.

[Maggie Winters]

I go to the deli and say, that's that green thing. Put it in a little pound thing or whatever.

[Bowen Yang]

Of course.

[Maggie Winters]

Chicken salad.

[Matt Rogers]

Oh, big time.

[Maggie Winters]

We love chicken salad.

[Matt Rogers]

You know, I had tuna today.

[Maggie Winters]

Oh, I. I did see that.

[Matt Rogers]

I greeted you with the tuna salad in the air, waving.

[Maggie Winters]

I don't eat tuna.

[Matt Rogers]

What?

[Maggie Winters]

And I know my other thing. My dad's like, grow up. Me and my dad are fighting constantly about what I'm eating. And I'm not like a picky, picky eater. Just beans and tuna.

[Bowen Yang]

Beans and tuna.

[Matt Rogers]

Is it the smell?

[Bowen Yang]

Yeah.

[Matt Rogers]

Okay.

[Maggie Winters]

But I do. I did really get into seafood lush two years ago.

[Matt Rogers]

See, Midwest people and seafood. It. You have to hold their hand.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah. And my. My friend from New Jersey helped me. She held my hand. Jack Felker. I'll say her name. She tried to. First of all, I need to call her out because she's like, I'm going to challenge you to say the word Jardin era five times on the podcast. I was like, I'm not going to do that. Do you know Gardiner? Okay, this is amazing.

[Bowen Yang]

Tell us.

[Maggie Winters]

I almost brought you that, too. Giardiniera is a Chicago relish. Almost.

[Matt Rogers]

Giardiniera.

[Maggie Winters]

You put it. You can get it hot or mild. You put it on beefs, you put it on pizza. Sausage and giardiniera pizza tavern style. When you come, we're going to get that.

[Matt Rogers]

Okay. Yes.

[Maggie Winters]

And it's good. And you get. It's. Yeah, giardiniera. And it's like olives and peppers and it's an oil.

[Matt Rogers]

Oh, and this feels like a good thing for the summer. Yes.

[Maggie Winters]

Or the. You know. Yeah. Yes.

[Matt Rogers]

Well, anytime.

[Maggie Winters]

Anytime. I put it on a sub.

[Bowen Yang]

Oh, yeah?

[Maggie Winters]

What do you say? Hoagie? Like, what's your.

[Matt Rogers]

Oh, no. No subs. I couldn't believe hoagie was a thing when I first heard it. I was like, excuse me. What?

[Maggie Winters]

Where is hoagie?

[Matt Rogers]

Cut, cut. Rewind it back. Hoagie.

[Bowen Yang]

Hoagie is like Philly. Philly grapple country. You know what I mean?

[Matt Rogers]

I felt the way about hoagie the way I felt when I heard about hassik.

[Maggie Winters]

What's hassi?

[Matt Rogers]

It's another word for an ottoman.

[Maggie Winters]

You guys, I'm pissed. Yeah.

[Matt Rogers]

Like, my friend Emily was like, over there on the hassick, and I was like, cut. Rewind it back. What did you say?

[Maggie Winters]

I just hit the mic. I didn't know was going on. Hassick.

[Bowen Yang]

Hassick.

[Maggie Winters]

If someone said get the hassock, I'd. For hours I'd be like, has anyone

[Matt Rogers]

else heard of this word hassock? I don't. Never. No one.

[Maggie Winters]

Get the hassick and a.

[Matt Rogers]

No.

[Bowen Yang]

Okay. Nick. Seen it on Wayfair. You've seen it on Wayfair?

[Matt Rogers]

One of the most ottoman centric places you could possibly even think of.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah. When you saw it, did you know, like. Oh, I know what that is. Okay. Yeah.

[Bowen Yang]

Right.

[Matt Rogers]

Ottoman is so much better.

[Maggie Winters]

I'm having a hoagie on the hassock.

[Bowen Yang]

That was Aurora, Illinois.

[Maggie Winters]

Aurora, Illinois.

[Bowen Yang]

That was Aurora, Illinois.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah. Jardiner. You guys gotta have that.

[Bowen Yang]

So it sounds like a topanade.

[Maggie Winters]

Yes, exactly.

[Bowen Yang]

Okay. Love you.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah.

[Bowen Yang]

Now, is it back in style to debate deep dish versus other?

[Maggie Winters]

I don't do it. I decided one day it's a different thing. I feel like. But like a long time ago, like, what was it? John Stewart, like, popped off about it. I don't. The thing is, you are over there arguing about it. I'm over here eating pizza. Heavens.

[Matt Rogers]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Maggie Winters]

My family eats deep dish pizza for Christmas Eve. Yep. And did my coworker call me white trash for that? Of course.

[Bowen Yang]

Get these people out of your life.

[Maggie Winters]

I don't work there anymore. Don't worry.

[Matt Rogers]

Good.

[Maggie Winters]

I don't work there. But I remember being like, did you

[Matt Rogers]

quit right then and there?

[Maggie Winters]

I should have. I should have been like, no, I got, of course, let go. But of course I got let go. But 23 of us did. It's fine. 23. Andme.

[Bowen Yang]

22 and you. 22 and you.

[Maggie Winters]

For Christmas Eve, we have pizza and Chinese food. Because then on Christmas Day, we go cooking crazy. But the day before, we're cheating.

[Matt Rogers]

And what do you cook?

[Maggie Winters]

I usually make the potatoes and a dessert.

[Matt Rogers]

Okay.

[Bowen Yang]

Okay. And you're hitting up all this and you're touching two of the spices on the rack at most.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah. When people say you need a lot of spices for mashed potatoes, it's like, get a grip. You know, I don't think you do need some. You need some, but not like.

[Matt Rogers]

And your brother makes the beefs.

[Maggie Winters]

You knew it. Yeah, well, my one brother's vegetarian. Surprise, surprise, surprise.

[Bowen Yang]

Ah, this is Liam or Bert.

[Maggie Winters]

Art.

[Bowen Yang]

Art.

[Matt Rogers]

That's not the tall one.

[Maggie Winters]

He's 6 5.

[Matt Rogers]

Well, he'd be 67 if he didn't meat.

[Maggie Winters]

Oh, my God, he's gonna be pissed.

[Matt Rogers]

Well, I hope everyone's pissed.

[Bowen Yang]

This is the reason You're a shy con is because I feel like earlier when you said you put it on beefs, when you pluralized beef. Sorry, that feels Midwestern.

[Matt Rogers]

Beefs.

[Bowen Yang]

Beef.

[Maggie Winters]

Mr. Beefs.

[Bowen Yang]

Mr. Beefs.

[Maggie Winters]

Did you guys watch? Of course.

[Bowen Yang]

I'm Survivor, the squid game.

[Maggie Winters]

I love Survivor.

[Matt Rogers]

You love Survivor?

[Maggie Winters]

I got into it. No, but I was thinking of. Of course, Mr.

[Bowen Yang]

Beast.

[Maggie Winters]

I think the name of the Chicago show about the chef. The Bear.

[Bowen Yang]

The Bear.

[Maggie Winters]

Well, I've lacked out the name because they won't let me audition, so.

[Matt Rogers]

They won't.

[Bowen Yang]

They won't let you?

[Maggie Winters]

The one actor in Chicago, they're going, ha, ha ha.

[Matt Rogers]

Is it a lot of Chicago locals going up for the bear? Yeah, that makes sense.

[Maggie Winters]

I'm seeing every. I'm watching him going, everyone I know. I will say I got a lot of text season. Did you watch it?

[Matt Rogers]

I watched the first season.

[Bowen Yang]

I watched the first season.

[Maggie Winters]

Francine, There's a. There's a sister of like, the two brothers. And everyone was texting me like, you got to get that part. And well, of course, Brie Larson did get it. And it's like, all my love to her.

[Matt Rogers]

Yeah, that became like a. That randomly became like a Will and Grace show where it was like, okay. And it's all the guest stars are Brie Larson.

[Maggie Winters]

So it makes sense that it's like they're not gonna. They're auditioning celebrities or they're not auditioning. What am I talking about?

[Matt Rogers]

Oh, I don't know.

[Bowen Yang]

I challenged them to have a chicon season. I challenged them to have.

[Maggie Winters]

I think it's done, though.

[Bowen Yang]

Oh, yeah.

[Matt Rogers]

I do think it's kind of wrapping up.

[Maggie Winters]

Right?

[Bowen Yang]

It's done.

[Maggie Winters]

Well, then I challenge a new show,

[Bowen Yang]

any show, to be shy con.

[Maggie Winters]

Show you guys. Shy con. Come on, Come on. You just started it.

[Bowen Yang]

I have a shy con challenge. Shy con challenge. Shy con challenge. Shy con. Just shy con.

[Matt Rogers]

Shy con.

[Bowen Yang]

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[Bowen Yang]

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[Matt Rogers]

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[Bowen Yang]

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[Maggie Winters]

Okay. When people meet my brothers, they think Bart's like, the shyer one.

[Bowen Yang]

The shyer one.

[Maggie Winters]

The shy.

[Bowen Yang]

They're shy.

[Maggie Winters]

They think he's shy, but you get one drinking him. He's in the corner. He's. He's talking.

[Matt Rogers]

And does his accent roar out at that point?

[Maggie Winters]

Yes. My favorite thing about my brother is that in the Twitter era, when everybody was, like, going off on Twitter being fun. Yeah. Being funny. I would go on late at night and my brother, who had, like, two followers, was responding to politicians. You are a ghoul. He's so funny.

[Bowen Yang]

Thank you.

[Maggie Winters]

You are a ghoul.

[Matt Rogers]

Most are.

[Maggie Winters]

And, like, Liam's not doing that kind of stuff, but he probably would be more on camera. He wants to be like the writers. They both, like, they're both very funny.

[Matt Rogers]

Hard to fit on camera at that height.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah, Right.

[Bowen Yang]

Everyone's on. On an apple box.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah, that's true.

[Bowen Yang]

Everyone else is on an apple box.

[Maggie Winters]

I'm sorry, Liam, it's over. No, Liam, you could be it. You could do it.

[Matt Rogers]

Well, you could just sit in a lot of the scenes. He's. I love that part.

[Bowen Yang]

I love that whenever I get to.

[Matt Rogers]

Whenever I get to do any scene. Yeah. First, you're just grateful to be when

[Maggie Winters]

I get to a scene.

[Matt Rogers]

Second of all. Second of all, you're like, is the character sitting? Could he be sitting?

[Bowen Yang]

I think he could be sitting. I know.

[Matt Rogers]

Love that.

[Maggie Winters]

Whenever an actor is like, I think

[Matt Rogers]

I'm going to sit. He knows what I'm talking about.

[Maggie Winters]

My first day on Gemstones, I'm jumping out of a van in 90 degree weather. Plus size woman, if you didn't notice, I'm stripping sweat. And they're going. First they go, stop. You're jumping off camera. You need to be jumping into the camera. I'm like, absolutely. Because I kind of didn't realize that when you show up, I thought they were gonna be like, and this is how you act.

[Matt Rogers]

And they go, no one tells you how to. No one does.

[Maggie Winters]

You gotta kind of just know. Yeah. They're like, you're need to jump into the camera, not off. I go, great.

[Matt Rogers]

Yeah.

[Maggie Winters]

Do you need a fan? Yeah, I'm.

[Bowen Yang]

Yeah, right. I need a fan. But hold on. That means someone didn't set your mark.

[Maggie Winters]

Well, it's like a moving van. Does that matter?

[Bowen Yang]

Probably.

[Matt Rogers]

Wait.

[Bowen Yang]

You had to jump onto a moving van or from out.

[Maggie Winters]

Well, it's so it. Like, I just spit. Okay. Pulled up, stopped. I jump out.

[Bowen Yang]

Okay.

[Maggie Winters]

So it stopped. It stopped.

[Matt Rogers]

Okay, so we don't have to call anybody.

[Maggie Winters]

No. And if they ever want to book me again, please. It's no problem at all.

[Bowen Yang]

Righteous Gemstones. Let's. Let's book a shy con challenge to Righteous Gemstones.

[Maggie Winters]

You did it once over, but maybe,

[Matt Rogers]

like, is Righteous Gemstones over?

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah. The season four had ended. It was the dream.

[Matt Rogers]

Did it get canceled or did they.

[Bowen Yang]

No, no, I think it was just. It was done. Done.

[Maggie Winters]

I don't know. It's hard to tell sometimes. Right?

[Matt Rogers]

I hate when a show gets canceled

[Maggie Winters]

and deserves, you know, Edie Patterson. She needs, like, another show.

[Bowen Yang]

She is. She. She's amazing.

[Maggie Winters]

It's kind of insane that people aren't, like, puking every day thinking about her.

[Bowen Yang]

Yeah.

[Matt Rogers]

Yeah.

[Bowen Yang]

But she.

[Matt Rogers]

She. I'm sorry.

[Bowen Yang]

I'm sorry.

[Matt Rogers]

She. I feel like, is what they call an actor's actor.

[Bowen Yang]

Yeah.

[Maggie Winters]

Yes.

[Matt Rogers]

Where you probably would find a lot of people that. You know who else is like that? Paul Walter Hauser. He's the guy from I. Tonya.

[Bowen Yang]

Oh, yes.

[Matt Rogers]

Yes.

[Bowen Yang]

I've met him a million times. He's amazing.

[Matt Rogers]

He's really, really, really, really good. And other actors often cite him as their favorite actor.

[Maggie Winters]

Okay.

[Matt Rogers]

Sebastian Stan says that. I know that because he's my favorite actor.

[Maggie Winters]

He is so beautiful.

[Matt Rogers]

He's one of the most appealing people.

[Maggie Winters]

I watched Marvel a couple years ago. I decided to watch it all same. Oh, my God. And it's like, you're like, okay, it's

[Matt Rogers]

good during the pandemic. Well, it kind of is touch and go because some of them are like, I leave. And I'm like, that was actually really good. I truly loved WandaVision.

[Maggie Winters]

Oh, I love.

[Matt Rogers]

I loved WandaVision. And then there's some movies where you're like, okay, that was the ride of my life.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah.

[Matt Rogers]

And Then other ones, you're like, what is. What is happening right now? And why is it. Pythagorean theorem?

[Maggie Winters]

Yes. Why do I have to, like, go like this?

[Matt Rogers]

It is Pythagorean theorem to understand what's happening in Ant Man.

[Bowen Yang]

Pretty straightforward theorem. Yeah. A squared plus B squared equals C. I forgot your. Are you math Asian?

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah, Asian.

[Matt Rogers]

And I'm white English.

[Maggie Winters]

And I'm white Irish.

[Bowen Yang]

Talk about same. Are you math stage? Talk about Ireland. Have you been?

[Maggie Winters]

I've been, yes. I saw Family.

[Matt Rogers]

Overrated or what? No.

[Maggie Winters]

Do you think it's overrated?

[Matt Rogers]

No.

[Maggie Winters]

Your English ass is coming up.

[Matt Rogers]

I'm Irish too.

[Maggie Winters]

No, of course. My grandpa growing up was also like, you're also Italian. I'm about 2%. I'm mostly Irish.

[Matt Rogers]

Did you do the 23andMe?

[Maggie Winters]

My mom made me do that. And ancestry.

[Bowen Yang]

Just to have a.

[Maggie Winters]

Well, she has the whole map and ancestry. She's like, got us all.

[Matt Rogers]

Yeah.

[Maggie Winters]

She's like, I found our cousin. She won't talk to us.

[Bowen Yang]

I'm like, okay, your mom wants to know everything.

[Maggie Winters]

Because my dad's. What is the word? Lineage.

[Bowen Yang]

Yes.

[Maggie Winters]

He's 100% Irish. It's all. We know that.

[Bowen Yang]

And she's the Italian side.

[Maggie Winters]

She's the mix. Yeah.

[Bowen Yang]

Got it.

[Matt Rogers]

Got it.

[Maggie Winters]

We had family in both the north and the south during the Civil War style.

[Matt Rogers]

Interesting, you know, so cinematic.

[Maggie Winters]

I know. I want to know. And I want to know. I need to talk to them.

[Matt Rogers]

Do your parents talk about the film Brooklyn?

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah, of course. They're like, we saw Brooklyn.

[Matt Rogers]

Are they Saoirse fans?

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah, that. My dad is anything. My dad anything. Ireland and Irish. He's like, supporting.

[Bowen Yang]

So unless, you know, this is like

[Maggie Winters]

Conor McGregor or something.

[Bowen Yang]

Right, right, right. So we have. We have with us a shy con and an Iacon, A Shirish and a. Yeah, so you said shire con.

[Maggie Winters]

Oh, I love that. Yeah.

[Bowen Yang]

I'm sorry.

[Matt Rogers]

Shyrecon.

[Bowen Yang]

I'm enforcing it.

[Maggie Winters]

The Irish. Really? You have to say Irish American.

[Bowen Yang]

Of course.

[Matt Rogers]

Do you have to?

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah. They really don't. Like, if you're like, I'm Irish. Which I understand because there's a lot of us coming at them like, I'm

[Bowen Yang]

Irish, too, but that's nobody's fault.

[Maggie Winters]

No. And I'm from a place where it's like, so many Irish immigrants landed in Beverly, where I'm from, in Chicago, and now there's all of us Irish Americans. And, like, what are we supposed to be doing? Of course, we have a big St. Patrick's Day party. Our own on the south side. So downtown has one. I think that's the one that people don't like. The nasty one. People are puking, sure.

[Bowen Yang]

But the Beverly one, people are still

[Maggie Winters]

puking, but it's a little bit more. Your dad's there to rub your back. Oh, that's so sweet. My family has. We start with Catholic mass in our backyard, which is not big.

[Bowen Yang]

You guys host mass?

[Maggie Winters]

Yes, My uncle's, of course, a priest.

[Bowen Yang]

Oh, I love that.

[Maggie Winters]

Of course.

[Bowen Yang]

Oh, my. That's beautiful. Talk about the experience. I.

[Maggie Winters]

The first time I went, I was in sixth grade. I had a vampire tooth, which is a tooth up here. It's one of the scoops.

[Matt Rogers]

There's one tooth that's a vampire, and

[Bowen Yang]

I know exactly what you're talking about.

[Maggie Winters]

It is one of the scariest things anyone can go through. If you're going through it. I'm so sorry.

[Matt Rogers]

It's like your incis.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah. And so then you have to get, like, a brace, go up there. That. It pulls it down. So I look busted. No, Maggie, I'm wearing Ireland shirts in Ireland. Of course I'm wearing shirts that say Irish in Ireland.

[Matt Rogers]

Oh, yeah. That's a huge part of being there is the clothing that says Ireland.

[Maggie Winters]

Wearing a beret in Paris, like that is. That's me so young. Me coded so badly. And we went to my cousin's wedding, and we went. I also went to my family's in Castle island and Clare Island. Castle Island. They owned a bar. It was the first time I ever had Nutella.

[Matt Rogers]

Oh.

[Maggie Winters]

They were like, do you want some of this? I go, what the hell is that? I didn't say hell. I was young.

[Matt Rogers]

But you maybe said, heck.

[Maggie Winters]

The heck is that? With my bangs? With my tooth. There's a photo of it. I'll try to find it. And it was so brutal.

[Bowen Yang]

Please. Went to your cousin's wedding?

[Maggie Winters]

Went to my cousin's wedding. She had baked Alaska at the wedding. That's all I remember. When something's on fire, right then my older brother Liam, like, had a rum and Coke, and I remember I took a sip of it. What is this? But he was, like, 16. My parents were like, I ratted him out.

[Matt Rogers]

You didn't like it? A little bit? Rum and Coke. It's the most delicious thing I know.

[Maggie Winters]

Two years later or no. Yeah, I guess. When did I start drinking? You guys young drinkers?

[Bowen Yang]

Sure.

[Matt Rogers]

14.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah, same.

[Matt Rogers]

Okay, so that's. That's where it comes out.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah, that's Long Island. Come on.

[Matt Rogers]

Long Island. And.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah, what was your first drink?

[Matt Rogers]

Do you want to know?

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah. Well, I'm scared.

[Matt Rogers]

It was a tiny little plastic cup of Bacardi Razz because we were told that was the good one. And so we all. And we would also experiment with Haterade.

[Bowen Yang]

You know what's Haterade?

[Matt Rogers]

Gatorade with vodka.

[Maggie Winters]

Oh, yeah.

[Matt Rogers]

Just. Absolutely. We would get a flask of Georgie vodka, which is the worst you could ever, ever have.

[Maggie Winters]

We had Skull.

[Matt Rogers]

Skull? Yes. Skull is something I hear about a lot. Like, that's like the cheap ass rubbing alcohol. Vodka.

[Maggie Winters]

Rubbing alcohol. Oh, I recently had it. Like, I made a video where I was like. Because we would do that and orange juice.

[Bowen Yang]

Sorry, you. So you would not mix them?

[Maggie Winters]

No.

[Bowen Yang]

Because you would take down shots and just do it.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah, take two shots. And I'm like. I'm calling everyone I've ever met like, I'm drunk.

[Matt Rogers]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Maggie Winters]

What was yours?

[Bowen Yang]

Mine was. I was 14. You guys were a bit ahead of me. I started around 16. The first. My first memory of drinking in a way that was, like, intentional and like, I'm getting drunk was Mike's hard lemonade to watch the program Heroes.

[Matt Rogers]

Yep. We're all gonna drink Mike's heart and watch Heroes is the most 2006 thing I've ever heard in my life.

[Maggie Winters]

That's so beautiful.

[Matt Rogers]

I know.

[Bowen Yang]

And then, you know, I've finding out who Zachary Quinto was, you know, who. Who. Siler.

[Matt Rogers]

Syler.

[Bowen Yang]

Syler.

[Maggie Winters]

He is famously Syler in Heroes. I never watched Heroes.

[Matt Rogers]

He killed Kristen Bell on that show.

[Maggie Winters]

Get him.

[Bowen Yang]

She was the cheerleader.

[Matt Rogers]

No, she wasn't. No, that's. By the way, these are my favorite names.

[Maggie Winters]

Hayden Panettier.

[Matt Rogers]

Hayden Panettiere. When I first saw Serena Carpenter, I said, well, where is Hayden Panettiere? Because they might be the same.

[Maggie Winters]

Oh, they are.

[Matt Rogers]

I'm still not convinced they are.

[Maggie Winters]

I never thought about this.

[Matt Rogers]

Well, apparently, Hayden Panettiere. Wait, so is she in. Do you just horror movies?

[Maggie Winters]

Not really.

[Matt Rogers]

I don't think she's in the new Scream. Apparently, she was in the old one. Yeah.

[Bowen Yang]

Yeah.

[Maggie Winters]

Okay. She's in the old ones.

[Matt Rogers]

She's in the old one. And then she came back in the last one. She's that one of those characters that, like, dies every time, but then comes back and is like, hey, that was

[Maggie Winters]

a rough one, guy.

[Matt Rogers]

Well, you know, just heed my warnings. And it's like, okay.

[Maggie Winters]

That is so Marvel, too.

[Matt Rogers]

Can't believe. Okay, spoiler alert for Scream 7.

[Bowen Yang]

Okay.

[Matt Rogers]

I can't believe Neve Campbell lives.

[Bowen Yang]

I mean, because she's lived all along.

[Matt Rogers]

I guess so. But it's like, you think they would, like, turn something at the last second and end her? Yeah. I don't know. I was just surprised. Then again, no, I guess I'm not surprised.

[Bowen Yang]

I'm sure I was, like, in her contract, when they asked her back, they were like, sidney is to live. Yeah. And I will. Maybe I'm keeping this line open in case I need the cash. Which is not to say that that's, like, the only motivation.

[Maggie Winters]

And there's multiple ghost guys or what's going on now?

[Matt Rogers]

Ghostface is everybody.

[Bowen Yang]

Ghostface is everybody.

[Maggie Winters]

Oh, my God.

[Bowen Yang]

Yeah.

[Matt Rogers]

Yeah.

[Maggie Winters]

Which was just a guy.

[Matt Rogers]

One of our friends was a Ghostface.

[Maggie Winters]

Are you serious?

[Matt Rogers]

Jack Quaid.

[Maggie Winters]

Oh, my God.

[Matt Rogers]

Was a Ghostface.

[Bowen Yang]

Spoiler.

[Matt Rogers]

Oh, sorry. No, No, I don't.

[Maggie Winters]

The ghost faces, like, get together or what's. I never watched them. I'm sorry.

[Matt Rogers]

Usually two of them get together.

[Maggie Winters]

Okay.

[Matt Rogers]

And it's a combination you'd never expect.

[Maggie Winters]

Were they bullied or what?

[Matt Rogers]

Usually their reasons are a lot crazier.

[Maggie Winters]

Do the whole seven screams for me.

[Matt Rogers]

Usually. And, yes, I do watch these films. I haven't seen the last couple ones, but usually it's like, years ago, you were involved tangentially with a murder that had to do with someone I know.

[Maggie Winters]

So I snapped, and I'm gonna get you.

[Matt Rogers]

And I got together with this one reveal. I. And the person takes off their mask, and they go, I barely have a reason. I'm just fucking crazy.

[Bowen Yang]

And.

[Matt Rogers]

No, now it's become, like, I want to be you. Oh, it's become. Am I wrong or am I right? Like, people watch the Scream films. Whoa.

[Maggie Winters]

It's not a.

[Bowen Yang]

It's not a screen. Okay.

[Matt Rogers]

But you did see the new one, so you. So then I can just tell you. Usually the reasoning is, like, I didn't see the new one either, but I did find out after what happened. But basically, it's. It's kind of a thing of like, either, like, I have a convoluted reason.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah.

[Matt Rogers]

Or I have almost no reason. But aren't you gagged?

[Maggie Winters]

I kind of like that more.

[Bowen Yang]

Yeah.

[Matt Rogers]

Yeah.

[Bowen Yang]

I like that more, too.

[Maggie Winters]

Just be psycho.

[Matt Rogers]

Yeah. Just. Just fucking go for it. With your one wild and precious life, be Ghost Face. It's actually roller coaster number 10. No, they just did 11. Number 11.

[Bowen Yang]

With your one wild and precious life, be Ghost space.

[Matt Rogers]

But don't actually.

[Maggie Winters]

I tried to do it, and I.

[Bowen Yang]

No, no, you're. What? You're.

[Maggie Winters]

You're doing it one Wild and precious life be ghost face.

[Matt Rogers]

So you have to gotta think if there's seven Scream films, there's been what, 14 ghost faces.

[Bowen Yang]

It's always two.

[Matt Rogers]

It's pretty much always two.

[Maggie Winters]

I never. That's crazy. I always thought it was one guy. Two. I did watch. Oh God. Who's Michael?

[Bowen Yang]

Uh huh.

[Maggie Winters]

It was all.

[Matt Rogers]

He was always the same H2L.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah.

[Matt Rogers]

Not H2O.

[Maggie Winters]

Halloween. He was always the same guy. Right.

[Bowen Yang]

She was maybe years later.

[Matt Rogers]

I think he was he. Because he is Michael Myers. But then, yeah, then they tried to pull like, oh, he's the definition and he's evil incarnate, so can't be killed. They tried to sort of do like a mystical thing with him where they were like, they started did a whole like Harry Potter, Voldemort, like Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader thing where it was like one cannot exist on the planet while the other ravens. And it was Laurie Strode and Michael Myers. And I won't spoil that. You have to watch Kyle Richards lives.

[Maggie Winters]

Do you think there's someone in the world that is. That is true for you guys? Like if they die, you live.

[Bowen Yang]

So they have to be dead currently.

[Maggie Winters]

Oh, that's true. No, eventually it will come to.

[Bowen Yang]

Oh, eventually.

[Maggie Winters]

I guess it's like your enemy. Yeah.

[Matt Rogers]

I don't know.

[Maggie Winters]

Name drop your enemy right now.

[Bowen Yang]

I don't know. I don't have one.

[Maggie Winters]

The person that said I need to change my hair. I'm coming to them. Yes.

[Matt Rogers]

It's each other.

[Bowen Yang]

It's each other.

[Matt Rogers]

That's who it is.

[Maggie Winters]

That's how the pot ends.

[Bowen Yang]

That's how the pot ends.

[Matt Rogers]

The pot ends in one of our deaths.

[Maggie Winters]

Holy shit.

[Matt Rogers]

Scary.

[Bowen Yang]

Do you have one?

[Maggie Winters]

I don't think so. Ani. Sorry. Do you say that every time you say that? I don't think so.

[Bowen Yang]

Kind of.

[Matt Rogers]

I mean, sometimes it feels like, like when you're. When we're out in casual company and it's like you say, I would never say it. But then like sometimes you say it and everyone's like, you gotta say it.

[Maggie Winters]

Absolutely. Produce my special.

[Bowen Yang]

I love Absol.

[Maggie Winters]

Absolutely. You know that on every call I was like, absolutely, absolutely. And I was like, oh my God, stop. They don't care.

[Bowen Yang]

They don't care. They care.

[Matt Rogers]

They picked the word absolutely. It's, it's. And it's one of the greatest ways to say yes. It's actually real culture number 12.

[Bowen Yang]

Absolutely is one of the greatest ways to say yes.

[Maggie Winters]

Yes, absolutely. I did it.

[Bowen Yang]

Okay, I want to talk about this before we ask. We haven't have to do the question. We're having such a bad value. But before we ask.

[Maggie Winters]

I feel. I feel good. I was, like, obviously nervous.

[Matt Rogers]

You were nervous to do the podcast.

[Maggie Winters]

Of course.

[Bowen Yang]

No reason.

[Maggie Winters]

I texted you in a manic state, and then I was like, I have to do this now.

[Matt Rogers]

No, I loved it. And I thought it was the best idea ever that you come.

[Maggie Winters]

I think I called. I was like, can I be the charity case? And you were like, shut up. Of course.

[Bowen Yang]

Where the charity case.

[Matt Rogers]

But do you know who's coming in right after you today?

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah, I'm. Who?

[Matt Rogers]

Nicole Kidman.

[Maggie Winters]

I. I'm gonna fall to the ground. She's gonna be in this chair.

[Bowen Yang]

She's gonna be in that chair.

[Maggie Winters]

I'm gonna leave her a note. I'm gonna leave her a note. No, it's gonna. Is she Australian? Okay.

[Bowen Yang]

Yeah.

[Matt Rogers]

Is she Australian? We'll ask her that.

[Bowen Yang]

We'll ask her that.

[Matt Rogers]

So are you Australian?

[Maggie Winters]

Maybe wonder. Try to figure it out.

[Bowen Yang]

The structure of the show. Marguerite on March 17 is live. Laugh, Love.

[Maggie Winters]

Yes.

[Bowen Yang]

Explain this.

[Maggie Winters]

So it's in three sections. Basically, from my own brain. I was like, I have a section live where I write stand up or do stories that have to do with my live. Basically where I've lived, how I live, laugh, which would easily be like my comedy, but it was more like, that's more like about my body. Straight up. Because you're like, gotta laugh.

[Bowen Yang]

My favorite of the three, by the way.

[Maggie Winters]

Laugh.

[Bowen Yang]

Yeah.

[Maggie Winters]

Come on.

[Bowen Yang]

Come on.

[Maggie Winters]

And then love is about. Yeah, I just like the love or lack of thereof. Gotta watch to find out. Gotta watch to find out. And I have a video for each one to start that I did with my. Either my brothers or my friend Parker. You guys know Parker Callahan?

[Bowen Yang]

The name sounds familiar.

[Maggie Winters]

You would love his videos. He is one of the funniest gay guys. So it's like, he may be jackpot, Jackpot. But he is. He made, like a lot of my videos. And he's so good, so funny. And then, yeah, just. Just like stand up and storytelling. I don't know.

[Matt Rogers]

Perfect.

[Maggie Winters]

I feel it sucks to, like. I want to just be like, it's stand up. But then people are like, what's kind of storytelling? You're like, just don't tell me what I'm doing. Like, yeah, a woman or even like, anyone who's not a straight guy does, like, stand up. And people, like, have to be like, it's a little different. So it's for.

[Matt Rogers]

It's this. That is Kind of how it differs. It's filed away.

[Bowen Yang]

It's automatically alt. If it's not grad work or something.

[Maggie Winters]

Oh, my God.

[Bowen Yang]

You know what I mean?

[Matt Rogers]

If it's not three seconds.

[Maggie Winters]

You guys dating? Are you guys dating? I'm. I am doing, like. I'm trying to do a lot more crowd work on tour. I'm on tour with Connor Wood.

[Bowen Yang]

Yes.

[Maggie Winters]

And it's just so, like. And sometimes I just literally will say, I go, I don't care, actually. Yeah. What makes it funny. But it's just like, I really. They're like, I go to school, I don't care.

[Matt Rogers]

But they love that.

[Bowen Yang]

But they love that.

[Maggie Winters]

They love that.

[Matt Rogers]

To be negged.

[Bowen Yang]

That's good. That's really good. Is just to be like, question. It doesn't matter.

[Maggie Winters]

Did you ever do standup?

[Bowen Yang]

No.

[Matt Rogers]

Yes, he did.

[Maggie Winters]

Okay.

[Bowen Yang]

Like, barely in the same way where I was like.

[Matt Rogers]

Which is why.

[Bowen Yang]

Which is like. Cause you were saying, like, that coming in through, like, sketch and improv, which is similar to us. Like, it felt like it was the third thing that, like, felt like stolen valor. If you tried it out, you didn't come up through, like, the traditional way or something. Like, so I always. I don't know. I still have that thing where I'm like, I can't really. I don't know for whose benefit, but, like, I can't really say that I earnestly did it. I tried for, like, a solid six months.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah.

[Bowen Yang]

Yeah.

[Maggie Winters]

Well, then you did a. A lot more than my. A lot of Uber drivers I've had who told me.

[Matt Rogers]

Yeah.

[Maggie Winters]

Well, I obviously have stopped saying I'm a comedian, but, like, right. They pick me up from a place, they're like, is it a comedy club? I've been thinking about trying it. I wish I. I wish I could go. You're never gonna.

[Bowen Yang]

Yeah, totally.

[Matt Rogers]

They would love that too.

[Maggie Winters]

Instead of, like, give it a try.

[Bowen Yang]

Yes.

[Matt Rogers]

That's a surefire way to get into it with an Uber driver, which is not a good idea.

[Bowen Yang]

Right.

[Matt Rogers]

I'm thinking about trying company. He never will. What? What are you talking about? What are you talking about?

[Maggie Winters]

I'll do five minutes. Oh, God.

[Bowen Yang]

In Chicago, the comedy town. I'm sure, like, the. I'm sure, like, the people there, it's peopled by folks who want to, like, do it.

[Matt Rogers]

I just never liked stand up as much as I liked doing other things.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah.

[Matt Rogers]

Like when in a world where there's only so much time to do something, I liked sketch comedy more. I liked doing characters more, and I liked Doing the musical comedy more.

[Maggie Winters]

Yes.

[Matt Rogers]

So it kind of. It. Not this, because I obviously have a lot of respect for everyone that does stand up, but it always felt like I wasn't doing enough.

[Bowen Yang]

Yeah, right.

[Maggie Winters]

I had to come to the realization, like, I can do it in my own way. Truly. Watching Meg Salter for the first time, I was like, oh, you can do what you want.

[Matt Rogers]

Yeah, you can.

[Maggie Winters]

And I think especially with women, like, we can do girly pop standup. Not for everybody. It's not for the boys all the time. But even calling that feels weird. But it's like I can do my own style. And I started bawling my eyes out.

[Matt Rogers]

Yeah, I can do what I want.

[Maggie Winters]

Like, you can do whatever you want on stage and people can deal with the labels. Of course.

[Bowen Yang]

Yeah.

[Matt Rogers]

I mean, if you're enjoying it and people are enjoying it, then it's for.

[Maggie Winters]

If you're laughing, I think we did it.

[Matt Rogers]

Yeah, pretty much. If you're laughing, I think we did it. That's roller coaster number 12.

[Bowen Yang]

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[Matt Rogers]

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[Bowen Yang]

Allow us to paint a very realistic example. Everyone in your house, everyone is on their devices at the exact same time. Gaming, working, swiping. Right. Because of course they are. And the finale of your favorite show of all time of the week is on at the exact same moment. Well, you can boost the WI fi to your device with Xfinity.

[Matt Rogers]

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[Bowen Yang]

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[Matt Rogers]

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[Bowen Yang]

Imagine that the Emmy winning comedy scrubs is coming back to ABC with a fresh Pulse. It's been 15 years since we've checked in with the gang at Sacred Heart Hospital.

[Matt Rogers]

The beloved original cast, Zach Braff, Donald Faison and Sarah Chalk, scrub back in older and maybe wiser Judy Reyes and

[Bowen Yang]

John McGinley also reprised their iconic roles. And Scrubs fans, you'll be thrilled to see some of your other fan favorite characters pop up, though we can't reveal any more names just yet.

[Matt Rogers]

After creating huge hits like Ted Lasso and Shrinking, executive producer Bill Laurens has put together a diverse, talented group of writers to bring to life the Scrubs universe of today.

[Bowen Yang]

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[Bowen Yang]

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[Matt Rogers]

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[Maggie Winters]

Yeah, I was. You know, this was a big one. And I. I think everyone thinks about this for years who listens to this podcast. I was thinking about this and, like, I was like, Midwest. But I was like, let me go a little bit more. Every Friday night growing up, we did pizza movie night.

[Matt Rogers]

Yep.

[Bowen Yang]

Heaven.

[Matt Rogers]

Tgif.

[Maggie Winters]

Well, also the movie or TGIF programming on abc into one Saturday morning. But the idea of eating food while being entertained.

[Matt Rogers]

Yeah.

[Maggie Winters]

Has been consistent throughout my life. A pure joy.

[Matt Rogers]

So you're an Alamo Drafthouse fan?

[Maggie Winters]

Never been. Oh, we only have one in Chicago.

[Bowen Yang]

There's one in Chicago and it's in Wrigleyville.

[Maggie Winters]

It's like, I'm gonna go to the Cub Zone. I don't think so.

[Bowen Yang]

I'm going to Cub Zone. And are they. Are they striking? I can't keep up.

[Maggie Winters]

Oh, are they always striking now?

[Bowen Yang]

I think they're good, right?

[Matt Rogers]

Drafthouse is striking.

[Bowen Yang]

No, it's just every now, it's like, every now and then it's like, oh, right, there's. They're on strike and we can't go. Which is. Oh, Gordis. Oh.

[Matt Rogers]

Overworked.

[Bowen Yang]

Overworked. Barbenheimer was tough. Barbenheimer was tough for everybody.

[Matt Rogers]

Every other movie, no one was talking about him.

[Bowen Yang]

Come on.

[Maggie Winters]

Sorry.

[Matt Rogers]

It was all about Barbenheimer. In the summer of 2023, I watched.

[Maggie Winters]

I didn't do the Barbenheimer, but I did watch them both at different times.

[Bowen Yang]

That's good. Okay. So eating and being. Being entertained.

[Maggie Winters]

On Friday nights, we'd get. Yeah, we'd get a pizza from either this place, Milano's or Ros Angela's Tavern style. Which is the squares.

[Bowen Yang]

Yes.

[Maggie Winters]

We go to Village Video.

[Bowen Yang]

Village Video.

[Maggie Winters]

Rest in peace.

[Bowen Yang]

Rest in peace.

[Maggie Winters]

And I get a movie. And it's usually like, let's, you know, Harriet the Spy.

[Matt Rogers]

Love Harriet the Spy. Rest in peace.

[Maggie Winters]

I was definitely. Yeah. I used to, like, put a magnifying glass under my bed because I was like, I'm gonna. I'm like, modern day. Modern day. What the hell? Or go. And, like, just to be like her. Like, she was so cool. Or Little Princess Mary Kate and Ashley. And then my older brothers would get a lot of, like, Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, SNL style movies. And I would try to watch them with them. And that's when I was like, oh, I love comedy. I was like, but I don't know if girl can do it. And then one day I was like, well, girl can do it.

[Bowen Yang]

Girl can do it.

[Matt Rogers]

Girl can do it.

[Maggie Winters]

And just watching. Yeah. Friday nights, eating pizza and just, like, sitting in my house and just, like, being home. And then now, today, like, the thought of going home, having a foodie want, and watching a show, like, queued up. There's nothing better.

[Bowen Yang]

Nothing.

[Matt Rogers]

I can't watch a show without eating. I know, and it is a little weird now. I'm like, well, I can't. I actually can't press play on this until I know my food is at least coming.

[Maggie Winters]

Yes.

[Bowen Yang]

Or you even flip the order where I'm like, I live alone and let's say food's here or my meal's ready, well, I gotta put a fucking YouTube video on. You know what I mean?

[Matt Rogers]

Always gotta do both.

[Bowen Yang]

Gotta do both.

[Matt Rogers]

Gotta watch and eat.

[Maggie Winters]

Even though, like, so many whatever, like, articles are like, you should be eating, like, just you and your food and.

[Bowen Yang]

And look at this fucking concentrated food.

[Maggie Winters]

I'm like, what for?

[Matt Rogers]

Who wrote that?

[Maggie Winters]

I don't know who wrote that. We forgot about them.

[Bowen Yang]

We forgot about that.

[Matt Rogers]

What have you been. What have you been binging or watching and eating? Like, oh, my God, all these things at the. Cause I want to ask you both if you've watched the JFK show.

[Maggie Winters]

No, but that's on my list.

[Matt Rogers]

She's an amazing list. Just for her hair alone. Okay, Sarah, People are laughing. You've seen it. Sarah Pigeon is playing Carolyn Bissette. But really, it's so much about the hair. Like, there are scenes where it's so, like a character I would have done in my 20s, coded, like, just the longest, most luxurious blonde head of hair, which I don't think is a wig. I don't think it's a wig. Anna is shaking her head no. She doesn't think it's a wig either. There'll be moments where she just take, you know, that cool girl thing of, like, you just take your one whole thing of hair and you just go to. Let me just put it all onto one side. And the movement of the hair and the way it's gotta be thick.

[Bowen Yang]

Gotta be thick. It's like.

[Matt Rogers]

It's just crazy. And I'm just like, they really. And she's an incredible actor, but you have to imagine she walked in and they were like, well, with that hair, you're it.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah.

[Matt Rogers]

Like, you gotta be in. Totally.

[Maggie Winters]

To say nothing of him.

[Bowen Yang]

Who?

[Matt Rogers]

Handsome guy. And get this. Fraser was his modeling agent in London.

[Maggie Winters]

This actor?

[Bowen Yang]

Yes, Fraser was a modeling agent.

[Matt Rogers]

Fraser was a modeling agent in. In London in his 20s. And one of his clients was Paul Anthony Kelly. Is that what. Paul Anthony Kelly. That's his name. I'm looking at everyone in this room like they know and they don't. So that's his name. He was. Fraser was his modeling agent back in the day.

[Maggie Winters]

That is so random.

[Matt Rogers]

Isn't it the most random.

[Bowen Yang]

That is. That just tells you how small the world is.

[Maggie Winters]

Oh, my God.

[Matt Rogers]

Truly, I was hoping that you guys had watched it, but what have you been?

[Maggie Winters]

Obviously a lot of Bravo all the time. I just finished Industry.

[Bowen Yang]

Okay.

[Matt Rogers]

I knew you'd say this. You knew because you're so smart.

[Maggie Winters]

I don't know. Sometimes in that show, I do have to read the recaps because I'm like, what is happening?

[Bowen Yang]

Having trouble following.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah, I'm not. I. But I do like to watch it because I. Makes me feel smarter. I'm like, right, right, right, right.

[Matt Rogers]

But then, like, I go on Instagram and it's like, the show of the moment, and some people are posting, and I'm like, this dummy. Oh, I can get into it if this dummy.

[Maggie Winters]

Yes, you can, because there's so much.

[Matt Rogers]

This dummy's gagging. I can watch industry. It's actually really close to number 14.

[Bowen Yang]

If this dummy's gagging, I can watch Industry. Maggie, it's fine.

[Maggie Winters]

If I just said if that this Gaggy's dummy.

[Matt Rogers]

If this Gaggy's dummy.

[Maggie Winters]

Gaggy's dummy.

[Matt Rogers]

Gabby Wendy invoked.

[Bowen Yang]

Gabby Wendy invoked. Because when you were watching Succession.

[Maggie Winters]

Yes.

[Bowen Yang]

There was a curve there where you were like, well, now I. Everyone's saying the word bear hug.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah.

[Bowen Yang]

And I have to find.

[Matt Rogers]

I have to Google what that is.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah.

[Bowen Yang]

But industry. It's coming at you like Gatling gun.

[Maggie Winters]

They're always on the phone. Like, we're gonna shorthand. What?

[Bowen Yang]

Right.

[Matt Rogers]

It's like Grey's Anatomy.

[Maggie Winters]

Oh, but you.

[Matt Rogers]

But like, with medical terminology. But the whole show.

[Maggie Winters]

I never watched Grays, but I do. I am watching the Pit.

[Bowen Yang]

Of course.

[Matt Rogers]

Okay.

[Maggie Winters]

Because I watched Nurse Jackie and I loved it. And I was like, I need more medical. I did the Pit.

[Bowen Yang]

You weren't a Chicago Med person.

[Maggie Winters]

Oh, shoot.

[Bowen Yang]

No, that's.

[Maggie Winters]

Okay. Audition. Why? Did you watch Chicago Mad?

[Bowen Yang]

No.

[Maggie Winters]

Okay.

[Bowen Yang]

I don't know why, but if I

[Maggie Winters]

was like, yes, I'm a huge Chicago Met girl. Yes. I love it. I. Oh, my God. Did you watch. Did you watch, like, growing Up? Did you watch Boy Meets World and all that? Sabrina. Sabrina, did you watch one Saturday Morning?

[Bowen Yang]

Yeah, Saturday morning.

[Matt Rogers]

Pepper and Pepperon.

[Maggie Winters]

Recess.

[Matt Rogers]

Recess. Love.

[Maggie Winters]

I almost was gonna say My. My culture is the Ashleys. But I was like, the Ashleys. They were all named Ashley.

[Matt Rogers]

That show got something right when it talked about six or multiple girls having the same name.

[Maggie Winters]

Four girls named four. But then Spinelli was a secret Ashley. I remember one day they were like. They were like, you have to join the Ashleys. And she was like, no.

[Matt Rogers]

Yeah, I don't want that. I don't want to conform.

[Maggie Winters]

But they were very diverse. Like, they were those girls.

[Bowen Yang]

They were those girls. Spinelli was beanie pigtails.

[Maggie Winters]

Yes.

[Bowen Yang]

She queer feeling.

[Maggie Winters]

Of course.

[Bowen Yang]

Yes, yes.

[Maggie Winters]

Her and the big guy.

[Bowen Yang]

Her and the big guy.

[Maggie Winters]

Don't you think.

[Bowen Yang]

Recess. A show with a theme song that has no words. I mean, that is cunty as fuck. We're a kid show, and the theme

[Maggie Winters]

song just score, and you're gonna remember every note.

[Bowen Yang]

It's gonna imprint.

[Maggie Winters]

Oh, God.

[Bowen Yang]

Like, come on, Recess.

[Maggie Winters]

My dad would make pancakes. He loves making pancakes to this day. He had a minute where he was burning them for, like, two months straight. And we had to be like, you gotta stop.

[Bowen Yang]

Why was he burning them?

[Maggie Winters]

Cause his thing was too hot and his grill was too hot. Too hot to handle.

[Bowen Yang]

Too hot to handle.

[Maggie Winters]

And then he got a better grill.

[Bowen Yang]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Matt Rogers]

I'm marinating on this thing of the theme song. Do you consider Doug to have words if it was.

[Maggie Winters]

No.

[Matt Rogers]

I guess it just really depends on if you consider do a word or which it is. It absolutely is. But is he Judy? Judy was the sister. No, I think her sister was Patty Mayonnaise.

[Maggie Winters]

That was his love interest.

[Matt Rogers]

Oh, right.

[Maggie Winters]

What are you doing over here?

[Matt Rogers]

I don't know. You know what? You know what I'm doing is I'm realizing how far away from my childhood I am, so.

[Maggie Winters]

No, I know. That's why I was. When I was thinking about this, I was like, oh, my God.

[Matt Rogers]

It's a tough one. I don't remember a lot of it. And I'm wondering now if it's time to sort of go back and just revisit.

[Bowen Yang]

Revisit.

[Matt Rogers]

I don't know.

[Maggie Winters]

Would it even, like, give you what it gave before?

[Matt Rogers]

I think it might. I mean, like, nostalgia does rock.

[Bowen Yang]

What it does. You know what's good for that, though, is Simpsons. Simpsons is like. And apparently recent seasons. It's like.

[Maggie Winters]

But they're.

[Bowen Yang]

You know what? They're.

[Maggie Winters]

You know, my family Simpsons.

[Bowen Yang]

You're Maggie and Bart.

[Maggie Winters]

Bart was born before the Simpsons started. Those are. These are family members. Whoa.

[Matt Rogers]

So were they, like, I can't believe our kids are named Bart. And Maggie.

[Maggie Winters]

No, they couldn't. They don't even talk about it. They don't care.

[Bowen Yang]

They don't care.

[Matt Rogers]

That.

[Bowen Yang]

That's so cool.

[Maggie Winters]

Bartholomew.

[Matt Rogers]

That's Catholic shame.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah, that's. Oh, my God. We're Bartholomew, William and Marguerite. But we're Bartley and Maggie.

[Bowen Yang]

Bartley and Meghan. Liam is the male version of Lisa, basically.

[Maggie Winters]

And he went to the. He is. Cause he went to the. An Iken gifted school.

[Matt Rogers]

Did he actually. Yes, Lisa.

[Maggie Winters]

And did I try to test to get in? Of course. And did I get in? No.

[Bowen Yang]

Look where you are.

[Maggie Winters]

Thank you.

[Bowen Yang]

You know Lisa Simpson.

[Matt Rogers]

I don't want to say she's a red flag.

[Maggie Winters]

Hands up.

[Matt Rogers]

There's a lot of. There's a lot of gay guys that, like, sort of like, are like, lisa Simpson. And I'm like.

[Maggie Winters]

Like, they think they're Lisa Simpson.

[Matt Rogers]

And that's a red flag. Assuming you're Lisa Simpson is like, kind

[Bowen Yang]

of like you're a child who wears pearls. Get out.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah, I always. I can't even.

[Matt Rogers]

She did wear pearls.

[Bowen Yang]

She wears pearls.

[Maggie Winters]

Did Marge wear them, too?

[Bowen Yang]

Marge has.

[Matt Rogers]

She had pearls. She had pearls.

[Bowen Yang]

But she's a mother.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah, she's a mother. She's allowed to.

[Bowen Yang]

She's allowed.

[Maggie Winters]

But I was just thinking, maybe she's like, I gotta dress my little. But then where was Maggie's pearls?

[Bowen Yang]

Maggie.

[Matt Rogers]

Maybe the pearls are too heavy.

[Bowen Yang]

How does it feel to be Maggie's the cutest? Obviously.

[Maggie Winters]

I was her for Halloween once. And everyone goes, are you the Statue of Liberty?

[Matt Rogers]

Shut up.

[Maggie Winters]

I said, is the Statue of Liberty blue with the pacifier? You're an idiot.

[Bowen Yang]

You're an idiot. Pacifier.

[Maggie Winters]

This. Answer that question.

[Bowen Yang]

But wait, can I say. Apparently, they got rid of couch gags on the Simpsons in the beginning opening. Because it just saves time. Because it just. There's more time to do.

[Maggie Winters]

I don't like that show. What?

[Matt Rogers]

It took three seconds, and we'd love

[Maggie Winters]

to see each time what it was.

[Bowen Yang]

I loved it. But they must have ran out of ideas.

[Matt Rogers]

No way. Get new writers.

[Bowen Yang]

Stop.

[Maggie Winters]

You guys should do that on this couch every time you come in.

[Bowen Yang]

Yes, I'm still.

[Matt Rogers]

I don't know about this couch.

[Maggie Winters]

Okay. Okay.

[Matt Rogers]

What do you think about it?

[Maggie Winters]

I do feel like I'm interviewing you guys.

[Bowen Yang]

What do you want to ask?

[Maggie Winters]

I'm here with Matt and Bowen. They have a podcast together and they're gay guys and they're friends, and I'm here to get down to the nitty gritty. Have you guys ever kissed? I don't know, that's all I can think of.

[Matt Rogers]

New Year's. Did you really look at peck on New Year's?

[Bowen Yang]

A peck on New Year's?

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah. Yeah. That makes sense, right?

[Matt Rogers]

Have you ever kissed us?

[Maggie Winters]

Yes. No.

[Matt Rogers]

Do you kiss your closest friend?

[Maggie Winters]

I'm trying to think if I. Well, no. Yeah. I have girlfriends from growing up who, like, there's two of us that are queer, and the rest of them, like, we get drunk and they're like, let's kiss. And it's like, you guys. They all have husbands, right? So, like, we give them a kiss, and they're like.

[Matt Rogers]

It's like, he, he, he.

[Maggie Winters]

Yes. They're like.

[Matt Rogers]

But did you ever have a friend in middle or elementary school, like, in those young years where, like, things got little bit.

[Maggie Winters]

No. I wish.

[Matt Rogers]

I wish to.

[Maggie Winters]

I. Like, everyone talks about that. I was just too, like. I don't want to say, like, I was. I'm not, like, saying she was a loser, but, like, I, you know, thought of myself as one. You know what I'm saying? When you're, like, little and you're chunky and you're like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Bowen Yang]

But you're saying that you thought of yourself as a loser.

[Maggie Winters]

Of course.

[Bowen Yang]

And so therefore, you were.

[Maggie Winters]

So I was like, I don't get to kiss anybody.

[Bowen Yang]

I'm right there with also, like, yeah.

[Maggie Winters]

It's, like, so sad. Like, I wish I could go back and be like, my. But even I say that. But then even now I'm like, who am I gonna kiss? Like, get away.

[Matt Rogers]

Exactly. There was there. The only reason I say it is because a lot of people are like, oh, yeah. I mean, of course. My one friend in middle school where, you know, you, like, jacked each other off or whatever the. And I was just like, people talk about this like it's a thing. It was not a thing for me. I had one very, very close friend in middle school.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah.

[Matt Rogers]

Where if it was gonna happen, it was definitely gonna be with him. Because we would do sleepovers and we would, like, talk about each other's bodies and stuff. And this is the time when, like, everyone was horny, like, no matter what.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah.

[Matt Rogers]

And I was, like, thinking back, like, we were, like, 12 or 13, and I was just like. It was, like, maybe better that it didn't happen because it could have gotten weird. But I do look back, and I think, like, everyone, or not everyone, but a lot of people I have talked to that are gay guys have had that experience in their past with guys that ended up being straight and are now Married with kids, probably never looked back, you know? But, like, you look back and you're like, yeah, I was a little gay with some of my friends. Sometimes before the voice in your head told you, don't do this. It's bad.

[Bowen Yang]

You were trying it out.

[Matt Rogers]

Yeah, but there is that. It makes me a little bummed out that, like, people get so, like, rigid. And then I wonder. I do wonder if looking back, like, the knowledge that we were really close made us not be friends anymore. You know what I mean? Because we weren't friends in high school. And I would, like, see him around, and I'd be like, remember when we

[Bowen Yang]

were best friends and we talked to

[Maggie Winters]

each other's bodies and we talked about

[Matt Rogers]

each other's bodies and, like, got boners next to each other. Oh, and now we're not.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah. At least, like, I never had to deal with that kind of thing. But we don't talk anymore.

[Matt Rogers]

Charlie Booth, man.

[Maggie Winters]

Like, we used to. I was. I was rudely being like, why did Charlie pierce his eyebrows? And was like, that was a dog bite. And I said, I'm sorry, Charlie. Brad. I like to publicly apologize to Charlie Booth.

[Bowen Yang]

Oh, that's okay.

[Maggie Winters]

For my blog. What's up with Charlie Puth Full blog.

[Matt Rogers]

Blog.

[Bowen Yang]

Bring blogs back.

[Maggie Winters]

Oh, my God. You could substack.

[Matt Rogers]

People are going blog on stub.

[Maggie Winters]

The way that you. You're. You were smiling, Bowen. And when I said substack, the biggest frown in the world.

[Bowen Yang]

Well, because. No, because I'm thinking through, like, substack. Is it blog. Substack feels like a different model. Where.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bowen Yang]

The Live Journal. Zanga. Blog spot ecosystem.

[Maggie Winters]

Bye, Zanga. I got bullied on my Zynga.

[Bowen Yang]

No, Maggie, all of these sides are people being awful.

[Maggie Winters]

I got bullied on my Zynga, which. It's like, it was someone that, like, I knew.

[Matt Rogers]

Of course you let them in.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah, and they bullied me, like, and my thing was like, dear. Do, like, dear Zanga or whatever the hell. Like, I'm having a great day. I went to the park, and then it was like. Like someone bullied me on it. Delete my Zanga.

[Matt Rogers]

What did they say? I guess I'm never going to the park.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah, they were like, guess the park's ruined for life.

[Matt Rogers]

Sucks.

[Maggie Winters]

No, like, something so mean. Like, it's. But it is funny to laugh. But then, like, it. I did, like, obviously talk about in therapy for years where I was like, my Zanga. My therapist. Like, yeah, shout out to my therapist, Elizabeth.

[Bowen Yang]

Elizabeth.

[Maggie Winters]

I told. Yeah. I told her I was Doing this. And she was like, I'm so proud. She's been with me for six years. Isn't that crazy?

[Matt Rogers]

She knew what the hell this was.

[Maggie Winters]

Yes.

[Bowen Yang]

I have a genuine pitch because it's like, it's. I mean, this is so recency bias. Get a Nintendo DS and play any old Pokemon game. It'll feel like you're on your phone for hours, but you're just leveling up your Pikachu.

[Maggie Winters]

That is great advice.

[Bowen Yang]

And it's actually not hurting anybody. You're just pumping your brain with cute little animals, and it's making Pikachu stronger. It's making Pikachu stronger.

[Maggie Winters]

That's true. I didn't know a lot about Pokemon,

[Matt Rogers]

but I did love Jigglypuff, aesthetically and just culturally.

[Maggie Winters]

Oh, just singing the little songs. Yeah.

[Matt Rogers]

Yeah. You know who else loves Jigglypuff?

[Bowen Yang]

Lady Gaga.

[Matt Rogers]

Lady Gagaoodles.

[Maggie Winters]

Who's that? Mia was crying. Who's that?

[Bowen Yang]

Who's that?

[Matt Rogers]

She's for real Italian.

[Maggie Winters]

She's for real Italian. She's not my fake grandpa Italian.

[Matt Rogers]

She's Italian American.

[Maggie Winters]

Oh, my God. Yeah. Lady Gaga.

[Bowen Yang]

Lady Gaga.

[Maggie Winters]

I saw her at Lollapalooza.

[Bowen Yang]

I want to go so badly.

[Maggie Winters]

I used to serve alcohol at it.

[Matt Rogers]

Really?

[Bowen Yang]

So, like, at the bar.

[Maggie Winters]

At the bar, and people would come up and be like, one beer, please. And I'd be like, what beer? There's about seven. And they'd be like, you know, just the classic. I'm like, okay, you're 15 or you're

[Matt Rogers]

from out of town. Oh, that's because that's another, like, Midwest thing. As I was like, we have a lot of different beers. Like, we know about a lot of beers. Not everyone does, but it says it on the thing.

[Maggie Winters]

Like, I need to know which one. But also, like, the young people. I'm gonna give you the beer. Sorry to. I don't work it anymore.

[Matt Rogers]

Sorry to the law.

[Bowen Yang]

Sorry to the law.

[Matt Rogers]

Sorry to be clear.

[Maggie Winters]

Sorry, Charlie puth in the law. We've got it down.

[Matt Rogers]

And, you know, a lot of people get very sick at music festivals because they get alcohol. They. They're dehydrated, and you shouldn't have done that. No.

[Bowen Yang]

If they.

[Maggie Winters]

If they had a good ID and they were like, oh. One guy came up to me, and he was wasted. I had him in water, and then he walked away. He didn't know where he was.

[Matt Rogers]

Great.

[Bowen Yang]

Oh, see? Oh, thank God for you.

[Maggie Winters]

But you're.

[Bowen Yang]

You're saying it's clearly these young kids when they're like, I'll have a beer. And you go, which one? And they go, as you said, a classic. Which is never a classic.

[Maggie Winters]

And I don't even drink. I don't like beer. I like everything else. So I don't know what the classics are.

[Matt Rogers]

What beer? Well, a classic. Well, a classic.

[Maggie Winters]

Classic.

[Bowen Yang]

Well, this is. This reminds me. And I've told this story before in the podcast, but this was when I was clearly underage at a bar in Brooklyn, and just because I had seen it in movies, I go, can I have a beer? And. And I'll have one for the road, too.

[Maggie Winters]

And then the bartender looks at me

[Matt Rogers]

and goes, that's extremely illegal. That's extremely illegal.

[Maggie Winters]

I was like, one of the world, too.

[Bowen Yang]

I forget. This is, like, in Brooklyn somewhere. This is, like, junior year at nyu.

[Matt Rogers]

It was one of my friends.

[Bowen Yang]

I bet he remembers. He was like this crazy Asian kid. I bet he's like, that's Bo. That was Bowen. Yeah.

[Matt Rogers]

Is that. That was Bowen?

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah. One on one for the road. My friend said I was five. Five?

[Bowen Yang]

What's that?

[Maggie Winters]

My fake ID said I was five' five.

[Matt Rogers]

Mine also said I was five' six.

[Maggie Winters]

Nobody was. They were like, yeah, nobody cared.

[Matt Rogers]

Yeah, well, I got away with it. Until I really didn't.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah.

[Matt Rogers]

And they were like, okay, I'll just. The name on it. Should I say the name? Because it was a real person. Say, was absug. And the name was spelled like this. A, B, C, U, G. And I was like, this is a real person. Like, a friend of a friend gave me this fake id. Not only was it, like, not me in the picture, it was five, six. And the name, despite it being real, looked fake.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah.

[Matt Rogers]

So it was like. I was like, what name has ABC all in a row? Like, none. You needed to think about it.

[Maggie Winters]

That is so good. What's your last name? It's gonna. So let's just do abc. And then you and J.

[Bowen Yang]

What if we, like, went right to you?

[Maggie Winters]

Yes, this is really good.

[Bowen Yang]

And then go back to J.

[Maggie Winters]

For the people coming up with the names for the IDs. Mine was a real girl. Her name was Maggie. Maggie. Maggie. But it was like, Margaret. She had curly brown hair. But the 55 thing. Like, I was like, up here. Like, here's my id.

[Bowen Yang]

Here's your. Yeah, totally.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah.

[Bowen Yang]

But it worked.

[Maggie Winters]

It did work for a little bit until it expired. And then they were like, this expired? I was like, come on.

[Matt Rogers]

Yeah, come on.

[Maggie Winters]

I turned 21 in Europe. And the way they did not care. Of course, I was in Amsterdam. I'm like, I'm 21. They go, we can drink here when we're five. So we don't really. I drink. Heineken's disgusting. Sorry. To them. I just don't like beer. I just don't like.

[Bowen Yang]

No, that's okay.

[Matt Rogers]

You don't like it.

[Maggie Winters]

No, I like wine, liquor, everything else.

[Bowen Yang]

Yeah, but what's like a Chicago beer? Like 312? Yeah. Yeah.

[Matt Rogers]

Anti Hero Bell's Two Hearted is Michigan, right?

[Bowen Yang]

Yes.

[Matt Rogers]

Yeah.

[Maggie Winters]

I do know that My brothers are obviously my dad. They're all drinking beers.

[Bowen Yang]

Of course. It's like the beans of.

[Maggie Winters]

Of beverages. They're having beans and beers, and I'm not having any part of that.

[Bowen Yang]

What if your WI fi was more than just WI fi? What if your WI fi made everything in your whole house just work together better?

[Matt Rogers]

Well, Xfinity wifi pretty much does exactly that. It's powered by their best, most elite, high performing tech.

[Bowen Yang]

Allow us to paint a very realistic example. Everyone in your house, everyone is on their devices at the exact same time. Gaming, working, swiping. Right. Because of course they are. And the finale of your favorite show of all time of the week is on at the exact same moment. Well, you can boost the WI fi to your device with Xfinity.

[Matt Rogers]

And have you ever asked yourself, what if my WI fi could keep watch over my kids for me? Well, probably not, because that's a weird thing to ask yourself, but Xfinity WI fi has parenting skills, even if you sometimes forget yours. Xfinity's like, don't worry, I'll monitor the WI Fi.

[Bowen Yang]

It's completely proactive, fixing issues before they even happen. Bott Xfinity is smart and reliable. You deserve the peace of mind of having WI fi that's got your back.

[Matt Rogers]

Xfinity.

[Bowen Yang]

Imagine that the Emmy winning comedy Scrubs is coming back to ABC with a fresh Pulse. It's been 15 years since we've checked in with the gang at Sacred Heart Hospital.

[Matt Rogers]

The beloved original cast, Zach Braff, Donald Faison and Sarah Chalk scrub back in. Older and maybe wiser Judy Reyes and

[Bowen Yang]

Johnson McGinley also reprise their iconic roles. And Scrubs fan, you'll be thrilled to see some of your other fan favorite characters pop up. Though we can't reveal any more names just yet.

[Matt Rogers]

After creating huge hits like Ted Lasso and Shrinking, executive producer Bill Lawrence has put together a diverse, talented group of writers to bring to life the Scrubs universe of today.

[Bowen Yang]

And there's a healthy injection of super funny, colorful new characters, including a fresh group of newbie interns and co workers slash nemeses like Vanessa Bayer and our dear friend hot dog Joel Kim. Booster the new season of scrubs Wednesdays at 8, 7 Central on ABC and stream on Hulu.

[Matt Rogers]

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[Bowen Yang]

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[Matt Rogers]

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[Bowen Yang]

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[Matt Rogers]

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[Bowen Yang]

The all new Hyundai Palisade Hybrid is more than just another suv. It's still the Palisade, but with so much more.

[Matt Rogers]

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[Maggie Winters]

I can't believe this.

[Bowen Yang]

Yeah, you've done it.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah, I did. Well, we're. I. I need to preface, was I at that one?

[Bowen Yang]

No, that was. That was the one. Was the one me and Pat Regan co hosted.

[Maggie Winters]

Am I going first?

[Matt Rogers]

No, don't go first. Bone go second.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah, you guys both looked at me and I was like something changed.

[Matt Rogers]

Just we looked at you expectantly like Like Freddie.

[Bowen Yang]

This is where we take one minute to rail against something in culture. Matt has kind of volunteered to go first.

[Matt Rogers]

Yeah, well, traditionally I do.

[Bowen Yang]

I have the timer ready to go. This is Matt Rogers. I don't think so, honey. His time starts now.

[Matt Rogers]

I don't think so, honey. Everyone's sleeping on Tyla. The singer Tyla. Now I looked. I don't think anyone actually is sleeping on her because I looked at her Spotify streaming numbers and she has about 36amillion listeners a month, which is so many. But I will say maybe it's an I don't think so honey to me because I recently watched the Tyler performance of Chanel on the Tonight Show. This should be the climax of every gay guy music video night. I didn't know that she had live vocals like this. I didn't know that she could move her body like that. I didn't know a woman could be so gorgeous. A shoe could be so iconic. She does the performance outside of like a. I guess it's a Chanel heel. I have never experienced anything like this song. I love it so much. I listen to it constantly. The song Chanel by Tyla, it's gotta be a record of the year nominee. And one thing I will also say is that my TikTok algorithm is now only Donald Trump AI doing the dance. Which sucks. But I don't think so, honey.

[Bowen Yang]

And that's one minute.

[Matt Rogers]

Chanel and the shy unfortunately now the. The TikTok algorithm or not TikTok because I don't have it anymore. My reels algorithm is just. It found out I like this song and I guess upon popular TikTok trend not. I guess it is is the. The Chanel dance.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah.

[Matt Rogers]

And it's just AIs of like Trump and Kim Jong Un.

[Maggie Winters]

They're obsessed doing it together.

[Matt Rogers]

And I will, I will send them to my friends and they'll be like, we don't like this.

[Bowen Yang]

Right.

[Matt Rogers]

And I'll be like, I did. But I. I can't deal with it alone.

[Maggie Winters]

No, you need a friend.

[Matt Rogers]

Like it's just like. It's like Donald Trump in a bikini. Like going back and forth with Hillary Clinton in a bikini.

[Maggie Winters]

I made that one.

[Matt Rogers]

And it's like they're doing the Chanel Tyler dance and I'm just like, I can't deal with social media anymore. It's just not. No, I can't do it.

[Maggie Winters]

Right.

[Matt Rogers]

And if you watch it for more than four seconds, which you, you can't not because it's like what it's Sticking. It's sticks.

[Maggie Winters]

You like that.

[Matt Rogers]

And then your algo algorithm is cooked. Yeah.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah.

[Bowen Yang]

Well, there you go.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah, that was. I'm gonna put some more. I'm gonna put some more respect onto highlight.

[Bowen Yang]

It's okay.

[Matt Rogers]

Well, you live, you learn, and then you speak.

[Maggie Winters]

You lose your language.

[Matt Rogers]

Can I look at your phone? Because I need to use it for Bowen Yang's time. This is Bowen Yang's. I don't think so, honey. His time starts now.

[Bowen Yang]

I don't think so, honey. As mentioned before, the spice rack. Yes, the spice.

[Matt Rogers]

What?

[Bowen Yang]

I want the spices in three jars maximum. My home cannot accommodate a rack of any kind except a gorgeous parabrack breasts. If it's gonna be.

[Matt Rogers]

My goodness.

[Bowen Yang]

If it's gonna be. Oh, God, like, I can't even come up with. I can't even think of the spices.

[Matt Rogers]

Pepperitis.

[Bowen Yang]

Nutmeg. Saffron.

[Matt Rogers]

Cloves.

[Bowen Yang]

Cloves.

[Maggie Winters]

Garlic powder.

[Bowen Yang]

Garlic powder. I'm good with the actual thing, thank you. Onion powder. I'm good with the actual thing, thank you very much. What did you say?

[Matt Rogers]

Bechamel?

[Bowen Yang]

No, that's a sauce.

[Maggie Winters]

Sauce.

[Bowen Yang]

A spice rack.

[Matt Rogers]

Ketchup. It's a thing that we give to

[Bowen Yang]

each other at Christmas time. No, it takes. It's as I said, it takes up an entire sim square, and that's one minute.

[Maggie Winters]

Oh, my God.

[Matt Rogers]

I was. Shamato. I was shocked that I knew.

[Bowen Yang]

Two.

[Maggie Winters]

That's one on a croque monsieur.

[Matt Rogers]

Yeah.

[Bowen Yang]

Or just for just any white, thick sauce, like Mac and cheese.

[Matt Rogers]

What did you mean about you're good on the. On the. On the powder?

[Bowen Yang]

What do you mean, I'm good?

[Matt Rogers]

No, I'm saying, are you doing cocaine?

[Bowen Yang]

If the recipe calls for garlic powder, I've got a garlic press.

[Matt Rogers]

I think what you were doing was you were using coded language.

[Maggie Winters]

I'm good on the powders. I've got plenty of powder.

[Matt Rogers]

He has a pizza party.

[Maggie Winters]

My God.

[Bowen Yang]

Wait, I. God, I love nothing more than pizza party, then. Oh, then pizza on Friday, watching a

[Matt Rogers]

movie, and we're eating.

[Maggie Winters]

We're eating in whatever kind we want.

[Bowen Yang]

Yes.

[Maggie Winters]

And I forgot to say this. The big style in Chicago is more tavern than it is deep dish. No, of course, but deep dish is still good. Detroit's sale. Incredible.

[Bowen Yang]

Incredible. Detroit's.

[Matt Rogers]

Oh, we have.

[Bowen Yang]

What's the. What's the Detroit chain?

[Maggie Winters]

Jets.

[Bowen Yang]

We have jets here.

[Maggie Winters]

So their ranch is out of this world.

[Matt Rogers]

Oh, I love ranch.

[Maggie Winters]

And I don't usually go crazy with ranch, but they're. You can get a little bottle. It's like They're Midwest.

[Bowen Yang]

I know. Come on, Jets.

[Matt Rogers]

I'll never think of deep dish pizza the same way again, though. Because when we years ago went to Chicago Sketch Fest, we were performing with.

[Maggie Winters]

Which, like, doesn't exist anymore.

[Matt Rogers]

We were performing with our musical sketch comedy group called Pop Roulette.

[Bowen Yang]

We went to Giordano's.

[Matt Rogers]

We absolutely went.

[Maggie Winters]

It's not the one to go to.

[Bowen Yang]

I know it's not the one, but it was next to the theater. We had to.

[Maggie Winters]

I know exactly where I was.

[Matt Rogers]

Ham on deep dish. And then we did our musical numbers, which we were just bouncing around, jump up and down. And it was just like the hardest ground ever. And we could just hear everyone going. Just like all the pizza inside us.

[Maggie Winters]

You gotta go to sleep afterwards.

[Matt Rogers]

In the one bathroom we were all sharing, there was nine of us.

[Bowen Yang]

There was nine of us. We all took turns.

[Matt Rogers]

We were like, oh.

[Bowen Yang]

And then for some reason, we all went to Pequods the next day.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah, you went to PE the next day?

[Bowen Yang]

Yeah, because we were like, we're in Chicago. We get to do deep dish everywhere.

[Matt Rogers]

We were also 25. You know what I mean? Like, it was.

[Maggie Winters]

It was very different affect us then.

[Matt Rogers]

Yeah, they really did.

[Maggie Winters]

Oh, my God.

[Bowen Yang]

Okay, Maggie, it's time.

[Maggie Winters]

Should I preface mine or should I say it afterwards? What I want to say?

[Bowen Yang]

What do you. What do you move to do? What feels right.

[Maggie Winters]

I'll say after why I did this.

[Bowen Yang]

Okay, I love that.

[Maggie Winters]

So you guys are ready.

[Matt Rogers]

Why I did this.

[Bowen Yang]

There's gonna be. There's gonna be an afterword, but we always have a discussion after Heart's Racing post script of I Don't Think so, Honey. This is Maggie Winter's I Don't Think so Honey. Her time starts now.

[Maggie Winters]

I don't think so, honey. Matt and Bowen. I don't think so, honey. Okay, first of all, you didn't come to Chicago in 2017 because you were in Washington D.C. or wherever the hell.

[Matt Rogers]

What were you doing?

[Maggie Winters]

Shaking.

[Matt Rogers]

Assigning for the television series the Other Two.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah, I'm sure. And oh, one of my favorite shows. Am I jealous? Yes. I don't think so. Any Bowen. What is your best friend Ariana Grande? Yeah, I'm jealous. I am the. I am the comedian of Christmas Pass here to remind you of your past. Okay. Don't think I didn't look up a little show called Lake Homo High. Oh, it literally needs you to bring the run back to annoyance Theater.

[Matt Rogers]

Sam Taggart.

[Maggie Winters]

I don't think so, honey. Sam Taggart, where are you? I don't think so.

[Matt Rogers]

Me.

[Maggie Winters]

You guys graciously having me on this podcast and me trying to drag you. I'm not actually dragging you.

[Bowen Yang]

I don't think it's so funny.

[Maggie Winters]

Everyone in the room not laughing at this.

[Matt Rogers]

That sucks.

[Maggie Winters]

I don't think so, honey. You guys are great, but you guys need to come back to Earth. That's right.

[Bowen Yang]

We do. Five seconds.

[Maggie Winters]

The union hall called. You're doing a show tonight? Yes. Let's go to union hall.

[Matt Rogers]

That's what happened. You know what's funny is when we used to do shows at union hall, no one would come. No one would come.

[Bowen Yang]

No.

[Maggie Winters]

Like, no.

[Matt Rogers]

But I remember we did a whole show, like, as Paparilla one time with the band and everything. And I was like, why can't we fill it out?

[Bowen Yang]

I know. It was like eight people. We did a great cover of your Love Is my drug by Ke$.

[Matt Rogers]

We did.

[Bowen Yang]

It's great. They're not laughing because they agree with me.

[Maggie Winters]

No, I'm totally kidding. I was just.

[Bowen Yang]

No, you don't.

[Maggie Winters]

Now, why'd you do that so well, in 2018.

[Bowen Yang]

Was it 2018?

[Maggie Winters]

I picked the Troll Bowl. Rest in peace. Where is she?

[Matt Rogers]

Also, she's dormant.

[Maggie Winters]

I picked the Troll bowl, and I got you.

[Matt Rogers]

Oh, really? What'd you say?

[Bowen Yang]

I think.

[Maggie Winters]

Cause you were in D.C. i was like, you love Trump, obviously. I don't remember. I blacked out.

[Matt Rogers]

Wait, why was I in D.C. i don't think I was. I think I was.

[Maggie Winters]

You were somewhere.

[Bowen Yang]

It was because they were the other

[Matt Rogers]

two I was writing on.

[Maggie Winters]

On my Monday or in dc. But I got you. So I was like. And then I also wanted to do this in respect to Annie Donnelly, because she did this.

[Bowen Yang]

We were just talking about Annie Donnelley.

[Maggie Winters]

She was the one that told me about Lake Homo High. Is that what it's called?

[Bowen Yang]

Yes, that's what it's called.

[Maggie Winters]

She's like, tell them that they need to get the run.

[Bowen Yang]

Oh, my God.

[Maggie Winters]

See?

[Matt Rogers]

You know what? Lake Como High was actually a highlight.

[Bowen Yang]

It was a highlight because we were writing 30 pages every week of script.

[Maggie Winters]

I heard there was a straight guy in it. You're mad about.

[Bowen Yang]

There was.

[Maggie Winters]

Oh, maybe there wasn't.

[Matt Rogers]

Lake Home O High was actually. How was it how we Met Patty Harrison?

[Bowen Yang]

It was.

[Matt Rogers]

Oh, I think it was.

[Bowen Yang]

I met Patty Harrison at a show called It's a Guy Thing, hosted by Mitra Johari.

[Maggie Winters]

Oh, I loved It's a Guy Thing.

[Bowen Yang]

It's a Guy thing.

[Maggie Winters]

They came to Chicago.

[Bowen Yang]

They came to Chicago.

[Matt Rogers]

Of course I did.

[Bowen Yang]

No, We. Lake Humo High was how we met. Like, I want to say, like, Jabouki

[Matt Rogers]

and like, definitely Jabouki, but I think I met Patty Harrison doing Lake. So Lake Homo High for everyone at home was a, like, Dawson's Creek esque, like, soapy, like, teen show that Sam Taggart created. Were you a co.

[Maggie Winters]

Creator?

[Bowen Yang]

I was kind.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah.

[Bowen Yang]

Like, Like, I was helping. It was both of our ideas, but it was like, very much Sam's, like,

[Matt Rogers]

brainchild, because it feels like Sam.

[Bowen Yang]

Yeah, it's very sa.

[Maggie Winters]

He got astray when I said, I don't think son Dagger.

[Matt Rogers]

But it was all. It was all gay guys that went to this high school.

[Maggie Winters]

Oh, I wish I could see this.

[Matt Rogers]

We were. We would like, rotate the scripts and like, it was always just like, a lot of, you know, it was.

[Bowen Yang]

It was.

[Matt Rogers]

It was espionage. It was love. It was.

[Maggie Winters]

I was supposed to say ghost of comedian's past. And I said comedian of Christmas.

[Bowen Yang]

Christmas pass.

[Matt Rogers]

Which I really was.

[Maggie Winters]

Like, I didn't say anything mean and I. I was still scared. But I don't remember what I said about you. I just remember being like, I can't believe you're not here. It would have been not good enough for you.

[Bowen Yang]

Totally.

[Maggie Winters]

Someone got Kat. I remember Cohen. I don't think they knew who she was. They were like, okay, Kat. And everyone was like, this just sucks. We were. That was the time of our lives in Chicago.

[Bowen Yang]

That was such a fun show.

[Maggie Winters]

The dream. And I remember I came up to you because I. We didn't. We can't. It's actually too much time to get into the Disney of it all.

[Matt Rogers]

No, no, please go.

[Maggie Winters]

Well, because I worked there.

[Matt Rogers]

You worked at Disney World?

[Maggie Winters]

Yes. I was in Orlando in the. Yes. At the college program.

[Bowen Yang]

At the college program, which, like, is. Yes. We talked about this because I, I. There were friends from Aurora, Colorado, who, like, were like big Disney heads, and they were like. Their dream was to work in Orlando through the college program.

[Maggie Winters]

I worked in Tomorrowland, the worst ride of all time. One of them Stitches. Great Escape.

[Matt Rogers]

Oh, yeah. Stitches.

[Maggie Winters]

Great Escape. Rest in peace.

[Matt Rogers]

Rest in peace.

[Maggie Winters]

And then the People Mover.

[Matt Rogers]

That's. See, the People Mover is a classic.

[Maggie Winters]

I love the People Mover so much. I got Neil Petri Caris on it.

[Matt Rogers]

Stop it.

[Maggie Winters]

I said get on.

[Bowen Yang]

He's.

[Maggie Winters]

He.

[Matt Rogers]

He's at Disney World.

[Maggie Winters]

He's at Disney World with his kids.

[Bowen Yang]

Is Carousel Progress still there? It's getting.

[Matt Rogers]

It's getting refurbished. It's actually getting, like, it's apparently getting. The rumor is, I Can't sometimes how I am. The rumor is that it's getting like a. Like a Walt Disney animatronic in there. And that Carousel of Progress is getting, like, updated. Have you heard about Villains Land?

[Maggie Winters]

Of course.

[Matt Rogers]

But I heard that it's like, now there's drama.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah.

[Bowen Yang]

What's the drama?

[Matt Rogers]

So Josh d' Amaro became the CEO of Disney. And so there's big changes because he came from parks and he was like, the plans that y' all were dreaming up for Villains Land are not good enough. Go back to the drawing board and do more because they feel the heat now from Epic Universe Soul. So a lot of Disney World is getting, like. They're putting, like, billions and billions of dollars Land.

[Maggie Winters]

I can't wait.

[Matt Rogers]

Yeah.

[Maggie Winters]

I was just there with my family.

[Matt Rogers]

Encanto is going to go into Animal Kingdom. Animal Kingdom in the. They're making the. The. What was the dinosaur area? Tropical Americas.

[Bowen Yang]

I see.

[Matt Rogers]

So it's getting in Kanto, and it's also getting. Indiana Jones is replacing Dinosaur, but not the Indiana Jones from Disneyland. A new Indiana version of it.

[Bowen Yang]

This is the thing, though. Universal's got Nintendo and Pokemon is on the way. Like, you can. That's the number one franchise in.

[Maggie Winters]

I understand. But. And I love Universal. But, like, when you go there, it's just so different.

[Bowen Yang]

Totally.

[Maggie Winters]

They're like, get on the ride. We don't care.

[Bowen Yang]

So you are loyal. You bleed Disney.

[Maggie Winters]

Well, I do go to Universal. I just. I was just. Maybe because I was just there. And the night. The difference between our day at Universal and our day at Disney was just like, night and day.

[Bowen Yang]

Of course.

[Maggie Winters]

Also, I was looking for food, and they were like, you can have fish and chips. And I was like, please don't do this to me. Like, I just want, like, a hot dog.

[Matt Rogers]

Like, my moratorium on Universal is. Is that the right word? Moratorium? Your.

[Bowen Yang]

It's true.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah.

[Matt Rogers]

Is that so? You know they're doing. They take down the Rip Bride rocket.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah.

[Matt Rogers]

And they're replacing it with a Fast and Furious roller coaster.

[Maggie Winters]

Well, yeah.

[Matt Rogers]

They need to figure out what else is going on in that Universal Studios Florida park.

[Maggie Winters]

Yes, Agreed.

[Matt Rogers]

And I think after go. We said. We just went to Universal Studios in Osaka, Japan. Oh, no.

[Maggie Winters]

I'm going to Japan in November.

[Bowen Yang]

You are?

[Maggie Winters]

I need you to tell me everything.

[Bowen Yang]

We're telling you everything.

[Maggie Winters]

I'm gonna go to disneyseas. I think you should.

[Matt Rogers]

But anyway, they have the Jaws ride in Universal Osaka, and I'm like, bring it back. Yeah, but DisneySea is fun.

[Maggie Winters]

I can't wait.

[Matt Rogers]

Didn't we have a great time?

[Bowen Yang]

We had a great time. The roast beef popcorn. Oh, feels very Chicago ago.

[Maggie Winters]

Feels very.

[Matt Rogers]

Yeah, they go off with the popcorn there. Like every single popcorn stand is flavored different.

[Bowen Yang]

And you go to go to Osaka cuz it's literally sister cities with Chicago. Comedy town, rivers, cute gay bars. It's very Chicago.

[Maggie Winters]

I can't wait.

[Matt Rogers]

I think Osaka is going to be very important for you.

[Bowen Yang]

Very Maggie.

[Maggie Winters]

Osakan Osaka. That sounds not right. I don't know why.

[Bowen Yang]

Sure.

[Matt Rogers]

No, it sounds a little bit like Shaka Khan.

[Maggie Winters]

Shaka Khan. Shaka Khan.

[Matt Rogers]

Osaka. Like Osaka Khan. Like a convention for people that love Osaka. Like a Bravo convention. But with Osaka I'm going.

[Maggie Winters]

I haven't been yet but I'm going

[Matt Rogers]

give some thoughts on Bravo before we end.

[Maggie Winters]

Oh my God.

[Matt Rogers]

This is coming out tomorrow. So this is really cool.

[Maggie Winters]

This is coming out tomorrow.

[Matt Rogers]

Yeah. This is really current.

[Maggie Winters]

I would have acted so different. I, I. So yeah, I just binge watched the current season of Married to Medicine and those women are everything to me right now.

[Matt Rogers]

They really are great. I'm a quad web fan.

[Maggie Winters]

You're what?

[Matt Rogers]

I'm a quad web fan.

[Maggie Winters]

My favorite is the introduction where it's like paging and this is the Doctors. Then I'll do to be like and quad.

[Matt Rogers]

Like they're not the doctors and quad.

[Maggie Winters]

It's so good. And then I mean I've watched I think every show. You know which show I've never watched Miami.

[Matt Rogers]

Oh, we love Miami.

[Maggie Winters]

So I want to start it from like I think I am in for a journey.

[Bowen Yang]

You can start from season one or you can start from the rebooted season. Yeah.

[Maggie Winters]

Okay.

[Matt Rogers]

I would.

[Maggie Winters]

Do you think I should?

[Bowen Yang]

Okay, I think there's. I think that's. That's a totally acceptable. That's how I did it. And then I. I have not finished my since the beginning watch. But it's. You're not really missing out on too much.

[Maggie Winters]

Can I name drop of who I'm having dinner with tonight?

[Bowen Yang]

Yes.

[Maggie Winters]

West Wilson.

[Bowen Yang]

Stop.

[Matt Rogers]

I love him.

[Maggie Winters]

Well, cause how do you know him? Connor. Oh, Connor Wood. And he is kind of the one who was like, oh, my friend Wes. And I'm like, yeah, I know who Wes Wilson is. Like, stop.

[Bowen Yang]

Of course, of course.

[Maggie Winters]

So Wes. I became friends with him and I was like, kind of like we're going to go to dinner with me.

[Matt Rogers]

I think he's the best dressed person on Bravo.

[Maggie Winters]

His little.

[Matt Rogers]

He constantly. Every single time I see him on my screen in his confessionals. I smile and light up. I'm like, I love West.

[Maggie Winters]

I love West. I love Summer House.

[Matt Rogers]

Love Summer House.

[Maggie Winters]

I, one time, I think for like a interview, said I would like to be. And I mean, this was love. The first fat person on Summer House. And I don't think it'll happen, but I'm going to try my best one day.

[Matt Rogers]

You're getting, you're getting. First of all, they're, they're all really nice and cool.

[Maggie Winters]

So nice.

[Matt Rogers]

Like it feels like this.

[Maggie Winters]

Isn't that the producers?

[Matt Rogers]

Yeah, they're amazing. But I do watch that show and I, I, I, I don't ever really feel the parasocial thing.

[Maggie Winters]

No.

[Matt Rogers]

But I watch that show and I do.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah.

[Bowen Yang]

Oh. Cause like, you want to be where,

[Matt Rogers]

like, I'm like, oh, well, that person just needs. If I was, I, I often think if I was there, I could help.

[Maggie Winters]

Yes, we, we do need a gay guy in the mix. We used to have one.

[Bowen Yang]

We used to have one, Steven.

[Matt Rogers]

Oh, there was a gay guy in the mix. I just feel like that might be a little boring for the gay guy.

[Maggie Winters]

Well, that's why he would, he'd be like, I gotta stir some shit up here.

[Bowen Yang]

Right?

[Maggie Winters]

We need two, like cats. Two gay guys exactly like cats. Oh my God.

[Bowen Yang]

Is this, Is this what, Is this how you, how you have cats? You bring cats into it, into an environment?

[Maggie Winters]

I think. No, I just meant like, I think you should get two so they have each other.

[Bowen Yang]

I see.

[Maggie Winters]

I don't know. I love cats. I'm allergic. I. But I'm like, it's like the rare thing where I would love to have a cat.

[Bowen Yang]

I love that I'm allergic.

[Matt Rogers]

Cuz it's never really going to happen with a cat and a dog. You know what I'm saying? It's like you can pretend they're best friends. They're not. Your cat does not like your dog. Your dog is so scared of your cat. Cat.

[Maggie Winters]

Have you seen the videos with the cat? With the cat on the dog. Drop the video.

[Bowen Yang]

Drop the video in the comments.

[Matt Rogers]

Drop the video in the comments. If you've seen that.

[Bowen Yang]

Matt is speaking from experience because his sister has what you would on paper or in photos. Seems like a perfect dog, cat partnership.

[Matt Rogers]

But then I go to visit them and it's like, oh, these. First of all, this cat is just like a cat, which is, it's like gonna do its own thing. Diego, you're gonna do your own thing.

[Bowen Yang]

King.

[Matt Rogers]

And then Cie is just like very like the dog is My sister's always like, yeah, she's terrified of. Of. Of Diego. Like, it's just like. And it's not what you think because the dog is more afraid of your cat. Your cat is not afraid of anything. No.

[Maggie Winters]

Sometimes siblings don't like each other.

[Bowen Yang]

Yeah.

[Maggie Winters]

Not. Not mine. Love you, boys.

[Matt Rogers]

Love you, boys. I wouldn't know about that either.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah.

[Matt Rogers]

Anyways, you have a sister. I do. My sister. Chelsea or Ian.

[Maggie Winters]

Do you see Siblings?

[Bowen Yang]

I have a sister.

[Maggie Winters]

Yeah. Oh, my God, Sis. I wish I had a sister.

[Bowen Yang]

Oh, that's nice.

[Matt Rogers]

It's not too late.

[Maggie Winters]

I think it's too late.

[Matt Rogers]

You think?

[Maggie Winters]

Call my parents up.

[Matt Rogers]

Hey, what about you guys? Getting busy tonight. Getting me a little sister.

[Maggie Winters]

Oh, I'm scared.

[Bowen Yang]

Sorry.

[Matt Rogers]

Sorry to do that.

[Bowen Yang]

Sorry.

[Maggie Winters]

Not so good.

[Bowen Yang]

Well, it's Marguerite. It's a solo show. Stand up, special hybrid, down, whatever you want to call it. St. Patrick's Day, March 17th.

[Maggie Winters]

Thank you so much. This was a dream come true.

[Bowen Yang]

Don't even.

[Maggie Winters]

I won't. But I. But I will.

[Matt Rogers]

We're so happy. You got to come in and be on the Lost Culturista show. And we thank you.

[Bowen Yang]

She's a shy con. We end every episode with a song. I've got it.

[Matt Rogers]

What is it?

[Maggie Winters]

Who's that girl? What's her name?

[Bowen Yang]

Is she cooler?

[Matt Rogers]

Is she lame? Pepper ran. Pepper ran so good.

[Maggie Winters]

She's like one in a million.

[Matt Rogers]

Why did I want to go? She's like one in a million.

[Maggie Winters]

I like that. In a million.

[Matt Rogers]

Yes. But that's not right. I don't remember any of these songs.

[Bowen Yang]

Oh, Pepper Rip.

[Matt Rogers]

No, no, no, no.

[Bowen Yang]

Okay, bye. Las Culturistas is the production by Will Ferrell's Big Money Players and iHeartRadio podcasts,

[Matt Rogers]

created and hosted by Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, executive produced by Anna Hosnier, and produced by Becca Ramos, edited and

[Bowen Yang]

mixed by Doug Behm.

[Matt Rogers]

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[Bowen Yang]

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[Bowen Yang]

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[Bowen Yang]

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[Bowen Yang]

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[Matt Rogers]

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[Maggie Winters]

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