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Matt Rogers
This season, secrets will be spilled.
Bowen Yang
The new season of Yellowjackets is coming to Paramount plus with Showtime. And with a star studded cast and award nominations galore, you don't want to miss out on the buzz.
Matt Rogers
It's about a high school soccer team that gets strained into the woods after their plane crashes. And these girls do some pretty crazy stuff to survive. And when they grow up, everything comes back to hunt them.
Bowen Yang
The new season of Yellowjackets is now streaming on the Paramount plus with Showtime plan. Is your schedule crazy? Just want some me time.
Matt Rogers
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Bowen Yang
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Arturo Castro
Hi, I'm Arturo Castro, and I've been lucky enough to do stuff like Broad City and Narcos and Roadhouse. And now I'm starting a podcast because honestly guys, I don't feel the space is crowded enough. Get ready for Greatest Escapes, a new comedy podcast about the wildest true escape stories in history. Each week I'll be sitting down with some of the most hilarious actors and writers and comedians. People like Ed Helms, Diane Guerrero, and Joseph Gordon Levitt.
Matt Rogers
I love storytelling and I love you.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
So I can't wait.
Arturo Castro
Listen and subscribe to Greatest escapes on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast podcasts.
John Cameron Mitchell
This is John Cameron Mitchell and my new fiction podcast series, Cancellation island stars Holly Hunter as Karen, a wellness influencer who launches a rehab for the recently canceled. In the future, we will all be canceled for 15 minutes, but don't worry, we'll take you from broke to woke or your money back. Cancellation Island's revolutionary rehab therapies, like bad touch football, anti racism, spin class, and mandatory ayahuasca ceremonies are designed to force the council to confront their worst impulses. But everything starts to fall apart when people start disappearing. Karen, where have you brought us Cancellation island, where a second chance might just be your last. Listen to Cancellation island on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Matt Rogers
Look, man.
Bowen Yang
Where? Oh, I see my eye. Oh my. Bowen, look over there.
Matt Rogers
Wow.
Bowen Yang
Is that the culture?
Matt Rogers
Yes. Goodness.
Bowen Yang
Wow. Las Culturistas Ding dong.
Matt Rogers
Las Culturistas calling.
Bowen Yang
Okay. My brain feels like it's going to come out of my right eye. And you know why?
Matt Rogers
We are coming at you fresh off of the SNL50 after party. Literally. It happened. It ended not 12 hours ago.
Bowen Yang
Yeah, we were technically still probably freaking buzzed. Amount of gin and tonics we had. What is my thing with gin and tonics lately? Since 1902.
Matt Rogers
We were pounding TNTs. The way. Very British of us.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
So.
Bowen Yang
Apropos.
Matt Rogers
Apropos.
Bowen Yang
I didn't see our guests drinking gin and tonics. I don't know.
Matt Rogers
She was on another level. I saw her with the martini glass all night.
Bowen Yang
Classy.
Matt Rogers
Classy girl.
Bowen Yang
Classy. Girlina. This actually is a monumental day. I have been waiting for this.
Matt Rogers
Me, too. Well, I met our guest at an SNL after party, and immediately I was like, the vibe is impeccable.
Bowen Yang
The vibe is impeccable also. Instant friendship.
Matt Rogers
Instant friendship. And then still. So it was the three of us plus Zoe. Yeah. Can we mention her by name? Zoe plus. Oh, my God, you really are being so compliant.
Bowen Yang
But by not saying, please continue being compliant. This is great.
Matt Rogers
And it was the four of us plus Celeste Yim, famed SNL writer. Oh. And it was the five of us being a little unit all night. And anytime y'all would leave to go get a drink at the bar. Don't speak. Celeste. Celeste. We would just. We would all check in between. Be like. I mean, the Demolenburgs.
Bowen Yang
Love.
Matt Rogers
Just. Come on. It doesn't get any better than that.
Bowen Yang
Well, you know what? You know what's happened which actually really bonds people is we've shared a dressing room to go through glam.
Matt Rogers
Yes.
Bowen Yang
So I. I've seen our guests through glam.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Oh.
Matt Rogers
And that can be the most vulnerable place you've.
Bowen Yang
You. When you see someone with curlers in their hair, you see their soul.
Matt Rogers
When you see a patchology gel under eye thing.
Bowen Yang
I love that stuff.
Matt Rogers
You want to know why it works sometimes?
Bowen Yang
Huh?
Matt Rogers
Sometimes the bags do be staying. And you go, why did I put this slime on my face for 20 minutes? I'm. Look. Amanda. Anything? Okay.
Bowen Yang
Can I tell you something? No one looks more like shit right now than me.
Matt Rogers
Than me.
Bowen Yang
I am horrified. And when I look at the lights, I think, I know that's not right.
Matt Rogers
I think this is going to make.
Bowen Yang
Me look like the Crypt Keepers ugly cousin who isn't even on camera. The thing about the Crypt Keeper, he still is telegenic.
Matt Rogers
He's telegenic and he has. But he's the most presentable of his Family.
Bowen Yang
I'm going to say one thing that happened last night and this truly happened.
Matt Rogers
There's so many things.
Bowen Yang
There's so many things that happened, but I'm going to say one thing because I don't know how much to reveal.
Matt Rogers
There's a lot of light and a lot of darkness to reveal.
Bowen Yang
We're talking about, like these ugly Crypt Keeper types. And then I was thinking, wow, how many gorgeous people did we see? Guess who? I feel my butt bump against their butt bumping that. And I turn around. Who is it?
Matt Rogers
Al Franken?
Bowen Yang
No. That would be the funny way to go about it.
Matt Rogers
Yeah. Yeah.
Bowen Yang
But this is the on the nose thing. My butt touched Kim Kardashian's butt.
Matt Rogers
That is so our butts hit and.
Bowen Yang
I turned around and I said, oh.
Matt Rogers
That'S Kim K. Y'all were Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson. Not Jesse Tyler Ferguson. The dad in Modern family.
Bowen Yang
Oh, Ed O'Neill.
Matt Rogers
Ed O'Neil. Remember there was that Modern Family episode where they did like a moon landing.
Bowen Yang
I really did touch the bell.
Matt Rogers
Where they touched butts in the Lord.
Bowen Yang
They were the scholar of Modern Family.
Matt Rogers
They touched butts in the locker. In the men's locker room. Right, right.
Bowen Yang
They touched naked butts.
Matt Rogers
Are you Eric Stonestreet or are you Ed O'Neill?
Bowen Yang
We were both clothed. Honestly. Who has the bigger butt?
Matt Rogers
You, Ed.
Bowen Yang
Oh, you think me?
Matt Rogers
Between you and Kim.
Bowen Yang
Kim's butt is bigger. Get out the measuring stick.
Matt Rogers
Get out the measuring stick.
Bowen Yang
We gotta move on. It's time to bring in our guest who speak speaking of pop culture. And when you say Kim K. You say pop culture has truly. I don't know how to say this. Perfected the form of the interview.
Matt Rogers
Perfected the form of the interview.
Bowen Yang
You break chicken out. You bring smiles out.
Matt Rogers
Perfected the art of the edit.
Bowen Yang
Uh huh.
Matt Rogers
This is Sean Baker found dead. This is the new Editrix Queen of Hollywood.
Bowen Yang
I actually would like to see Anora too.
Matt Rogers
I would like to see our guest in the edit room for Shawn Baker's next film.
Bowen Yang
Can I pitch this?
Matt Rogers
Yes.
Bowen Yang
Honora 2 Colon Amelia.
Matt Rogers
Gag title of EP Honora 2 Colon Amelia. It's time this she hosts chicken chop Date. The iconic chicken chop date. She is now a fixture and a welcome presence at any red carpet event, which is almost always more stress than it's worth. Until you see our guest was killing.
Bowen Yang
The carpet last night.
Matt Rogers
Killing the carpet last night with my girl Matt Rogers.
Bowen Yang
We were. We were sort of the glam bot was in between us.
Matt Rogers
Sometimes we'll talk about the glambot, we'll talk about the glam bot. But she, for the second year in a row will be a correspondent at the red carpet at the Oscars.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Can I talk now?
Bowen Yang
Yeah, hold on, hold on. Everyone. Welcome.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Listen, such a pleasure to be here. Long time no see. It must have been about two hours.
Matt Rogers
Two hours.
Bowen Yang
Were you at 1 through 10 on brain needs to come out of your eye?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Ye, I might. I'm dry. My mouth is dry. Yeah, my mouth is dry, my head. But I just walked here from my hotel and it really put the life back in my soul. Oh yeah, there's nothing like it's cool.
Bowen Yang
To hit you sometimes for that to happen.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Is this jaywalking illegal still in?
Bowen Yang
I don't think it matters.
Matt Rogers
I don't think it matters. Well, how does the wind chill in New York compare to the wind chill in London?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Oh, so much windier here. Yeah, the wind is stronger, more powerful.
Bowen Yang
Really?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Oh, 100%.
Bowen Yang
Because it whips around those big buildings.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
The buildings are so big and they create the wind to be bigger, right? Something like that.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah.
Bowen Yang
Are you like, you come here and you're like, okay, I can't wait to get back.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
What, to New York?
Bowen Yang
No, to London.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Oh no, I love New York.
Bowen Yang
Yeah. Okay, good.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah. But like I just, I don't know if I could ever live here full time.
Bowen Yang
Well, we would like that.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
It's so full on.
Matt Rogers
Well, how are we going to maintain a friendship?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
No, I know, I know I do. There is only one option. I do need to move.
Matt Rogers
That's the only option.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
That's the only. You can't really have a long distance friendship. Really?
Matt Rogers
Because we're not coming to London all that much.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Why not?
Matt Rogers
Well, you're right.
Bowen Yang
I actually have to say I think we should go more.
Matt Rogers
I think we should go more. I need to get back on. I need to reach. Recalibrate my London experience because for a while it was filming for Wicked and it was. It's one of the great cities of the world.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
True.
Matt Rogers
Throughout history.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Throughout history. Yeah.
Matt Rogers
I do still associate with. Oh God, I'm landing at Heathrow and oh God, I'm getting stressed out and I have to like figure out the rest of my week. And it was like, for a while it was the site of my darkest comments. We shot the movies for a year total.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Does two of them.
Matt Rogers
There's two of them.
Bowen Yang
Just wait till next. Till. Wow. It's this year. Just wait till a few.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Till this year.
Matt Rogers
Just wait.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Just wait.
Matt Rogers
It's coming up.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Coming.
Bowen Yang
You'll be changed for good. And that's just what I hear.
Matt Rogers
No, you're right. No, we need to come to London more. Where are you? You're. You're a Marylebone girl.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
You grew up in Marylebone. But now I live in East London.
Matt Rogers
Oh, Hackney.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah, Hackney.
Bowen Yang
Are you like a neighborhood fixture?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I guess.
Bowen Yang
The pubs and the coffee.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Oh, I love the pub. I'm in the pub, like non stop. That's why when I'm in America, that's what I crave. I like crave the pub so much. I'm like, I need to go back into the pub.
Matt Rogers
You want a pie?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I don't want a pie, but I do want the pub.
Matt Rogers
You want the pie?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I want a cider.
Bowen Yang
Yeah. Do you like cider?
Matt Rogers
Oh, yeah, I do.
Bowen Yang
I'm. I'm. I'm a hot toddy sort of fanatic.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Oh my God. Love a hot alcoholic beverage 100%. Why don't they do mulled wine all year? That's what I'm talking about.
Bowen Yang
This, this is a huge question. I will always say I do get a little like nervous about asking a bartender to do that just because me being former industry, I do know it's steps involved in creating the hot beverage.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
What like boiling it, making it sort of.
Bowen Yang
I mean like it's like certainly there might be an area where there's already hot water, but like it's just. There's the cloves, there's the stick of cinnamon. Cinnamon. There is the lemon, there is the. Oftentimes you have to put the cloves in the lemon. If people take themselves very seriously.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Oh, there's an art to it is what you're saying.
Bowen Yang
Certainly there's preparation, there's art, et cetera.
Matt Rogers
Right.
Bowen Yang
But like it's worth it when you get to the end of the rainbow.
Matt Rogers
Now what if in theory you've fall in love with someone here? You know?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Interesting thought actually, which I haven't been thinking about. Then I would just. I would just have to get to travel more.
Bowen Yang
She lost her life where she is.
Matt Rogers
I know, I don't. I'm just, I'm just putting some hypotheticals out there.
Bowen Yang
We need to come more to you. I think we should stop trying to convince you to move here because I.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Would like to come here more. To be fair, I feel like I could come once a month.
Bowen Yang
You're invited. Well, you know, we need. That's why we need to do more award shows.
Matt Rogers
We need to do more award shows.
Bowen Yang
We understand how to get.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
You have your own awards.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Matt Rogers
Yes.
Bowen Yang
You want to be nominated. You actually should.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Oh, my God.
Matt Rogers
I feel like that's. For some reason I'm going to say. Yeah, beneath you.
Bowen Yang
Yeah. I was going to say you need a bigger role at the Culture Awards. No, it's only beneath you at our show.
Matt Rogers
At our show. You know what I mean? In every other capacity, it's like, well, there's no one better, but for us, it's like, you got to be on. You got to be in the full thing.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Do you love award shows in general?
Matt Rogers
I think so, yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Same. I've always loved them. Like, growing up watching them. Like, I love, love them.
Matt Rogers
Yeah.
Bowen Yang
It's such a gag to go to them now, like, whenever. Like, Bowen is nominated for almost every award, and so. But. But we get to go to a lot.
Matt Rogers
We're very lucky. We get to go to stuff.
Bowen Yang
And it is like. It's wild when you are in the midst of it, because it's like, there. Everyone is.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yes. And you get to meet so many people. Like, I love, like, so many people that you're a fan of their work, and you get to meet them and, like, talk to them, and I just love it. And then it's exciting. Who's gonna win?
Matt Rogers
Yeah.
Bowen Yang
Do you get nervous still with the celebrity of it all, or have you now sort of reached a point where you've kind of met the biggest and so it's now less daunting and they know who you are?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I don't really get nervous to meet celebrities, and I feel like that's why I've, like, enjoyed this job, or maybe I'm good at it because I don't really feel like I get starstruck that much, but I do. I feel confident in the room because I know I'm there for. I've got my job. I'm there for a purpose. I find it difficult when I go to events where I'm not working 100% because then I'm like, oh, God. I feel. That's when I feel, like, a bit more overwhelmed by it all.
Bowen Yang
Like, give me a job, a purpose.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah. Like, for example, last night I was like, oh, okay, well, I'm here. I'm doing the carpet. I've got my SNL credentials. This is incredible. I feel like I should be here.
Bowen Yang
Yes.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Whereas I think if I wasn't doing that, I'd be like, what? Why have I. What's happening? I mean, also, like, I wouldn't have been invited. But anyway. Yeah. That kind of makes me feel a bit more confident.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
But no, like, I really do like meeting celebrities.
Matt Rogers
Yeah. Well, what was. What was the overall bounce on last night?
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
What was the incredible. Like, just like. And the after party. Oh, my God, that was funny.
Bowen Yang
Sabrina Carpenter got up there and sang Like a Virgin and then Heim doing Mustang Sally. Like, truly. It was one of those. Because they're not always like that. In fact, they're almost never like.
Matt Rogers
No, they're never like.
Bowen Yang
You think in your head the SNL after parties are going to be like that. And then it's like, you get an event like this and people were really going.
Matt Rogers
It was. It was amazing.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
It was amazing. And it was ginormous.
Bowen Yang
Right.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
And every single person there was, like, legendary. It was. And everyone was, like, letting loose and. Oh, it was just. It was just amazing. And it went on so late. Went on to, like, five in the morning.
Matt Rogers
We were there, and then there we were. And we had stayed and we had stayed. But I will say, I mean, like, we were saying that we were getting starstruck for the first time in a long time. Just like, just because it was everywhere you turn, there was just someone like, wow, wow, wow.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I met Andy Samberg. And isn't that a great moment when that. I was actually really starstruck. I was like, you are the godfather of, like, viral.
Matt Rogers
Of YouTube comedy. Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
And I like, wow. An honor to be in your presence.
Bowen Yang
Were you, like, a Lonely island fan?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yes, I was a huge. Like, it was just. I just don't. I feel like when every time they released a song, it was like there was nothing else in the world that was. That was there. It was only them, you know, it was just.
Bowen Yang
I still listen to I'm on a Boat.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yes. T Pain. Oh, my God, I love him. Have you ever listened to his Tiny Desk?
Bowen Yang
Actually, I think I did one of.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
The best ones ever. Like, no Auto Tune. Like, he has the best voice ever, and it's just sublime.
Matt Rogers
And it was a while ago, too, before it was like a thing.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
It was before Tiny Desk was Tiny Desk, right? Yeah.
Matt Rogers
I mean, okay, this is the thing. Lonely island. Only one tour, right Before COVID And then Covid hit.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I think they do a tour and.
Matt Rogers
It'S like, I think we need to put the energy out there that they need to go back on tour. Because it's like, they would be so far, right? Like, because they were saying, like, it's so interesting, like, to hear our songs being sung by a crowd. Because that was never the experience. That was never why we put it out. It was only for in service to Like a comedy bit or a sketch. Like, it is a surreal thing to like, do it in front of an audience. And I think they should. I wouldn't we all encourage them to do it.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
That would be so fun because they could also do bits. Like, they could do sketches and stuff. Of course, like, within, like, they could do the music. It could be a whole comedy music extravaganza.
Bowen Yang
It could be like what the concert on Friday felt like, which I loved because it was so in the spirit of snl. Like, I loved Ana Gasteyer coming out as Martha Stewart to introduce Snoop. You know what I mean? Like, I loved the, like Bobby and Marty like thrown in there. Like, you know, it just, it felt. And then, by the way, just you were in the same row as me. Yeah, we had an iconic.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
We've really had just a weekend together.
Matt Rogers
We did.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
We were staged by non stop every day I've seen you. I also think one of the reasons, well, as you know, like, that he's so talented as a musician. They all are. And that's why it works. Like, that's why the comedy works, is because they're actually so talented musicians. And that's something you realize when. On Friday as well. How beautiful everyone's voices are.
Matt Rogers
Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
And how like everyone's basically a musician in their own right.
Matt Rogers
But just study. Like, I. So we shot this thing for the show on Sunday, but we shot it on Wednesday. And just like between takes, we were just, you know, talking, chatting it up. And I was just like, I just innocently asked him, I was like, what are you, like, what are you listening to lately? And then he like pauses and then like unfurls all these things. He's like, well, there's this Ghanaian guy who like does a lot of big band music. And then there's Cindy Lee, this like drag artist who like has a, like a rock band. And she released like a two hour album that's like only available on YouTube. And like, that's been like. Like he just has such an expansive. And like, he knows all of his history back to like the 80s and 90s of like hip hop and like jazz and like funk and like, he's just a genius. Well, that's why he enjoyed some work. Yeah, they're like, those are music. Those are heads.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Those are music heads. Oh, that is so cool.
Bowen Yang
I mean, I saw him last night and I was just like, again, the hook slapped. Yeah, the hook in that digital short that you were in.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
And that was really fun.
Bowen Yang
It was so great.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yes.
Bowen Yang
It was just like I was like, damn. Like, I think that was so much more formative comedically on, like, our generation than anyone realizes that all. All of Lonely Islands.
Matt Rogers
You got to tell him that he is the godfather of, like, viral comedy. That's amazing. I'm sure he was very happy to hear that.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah, it was really amazing.
Matt Rogers
We were on the stairs, and I'm gonna say this. And I know he's listening. That is one of the true beauties. Hunks of.
Bowen Yang
Cause you're always like, yeah, I have a crush on Andy Samberg. And then you see him and you're like, but wait, I have a crush on Andy Samuel.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Matt Rogers
That face, the bone structure, you know.
Bowen Yang
I remember, like, just when he came out with his floppy hair. There's something about a goofy guy.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Oh, God, they're the best.
Bowen Yang
Do you like funny guys? Like, is that.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
No, I like unfunny men. Yeah, I like funny guys, but they're hard to find.
Bowen Yang
I just mean, like, is it. Oh, so it's not a rap if they're not funny.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I think they have to make me laugh, but I also want them to laugh at my jokes, and maybe that's more important to me. They're laughing at me.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Matt Rogers
But then there's a. There's an implied self made funniness in them that has to, like, be present for them to laugh at your jokes. You know what I mean?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah, totally. I do. I do think I need a man with a sense of humor. 100.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I feel like that's how I connect with anyone.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Is over a shared sense of humor.
Matt Rogers
But sometimes on your show, you are doing the legwork of, like, I'm going to, like, really guide this in a funny direction.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Mm.
Matt Rogers
And, like, my guest is someone who, like, is gonna have to, like, just follow along with me. But, like, I think my favorite interview of yours is with Cher. That was one of my favorite interviews because I. What I. What I will never forget is you asking her, what does it feel like to be an icon? And she goes, it doesn't feel like anything. So profound.
Bowen Yang
It doesn't feel like anything.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
It doesn't feel like anything. And she. It was incredible. Like, she just has the most amazing lines to feed you back. Like, she's just so great and so quick witted, so confident. Like, she was kind of the perfect guest.
Matt Rogers
What was that day like? It was like. Did you have the full, like, hour with her?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah, the full hour. But we shot that in Paris. It's the only episode I've ever filmed like, in. Out of the uk. Oh, I filmed one in Scotland. But, yeah, for Cher, I had to. And so we found a chicken shop in Paris. And, yeah, we were there. And then she was kind of. She was a little bit late, but that was totally fine. I would have waited hours and hours, but then I was like. So I was then, like, pacing around in the chicken shop. Because usually, like, I get there, like, half an hour before I, like, go over my questions, and then they're here. And then, because I was, like, waiting, it was like, oh, my God, it's Cher. And then there were these two guys who were, like, hanging outside, and I was like. To the security, I was like, can you tell those guys to go away? I don't know why they're here. And we got them to move. And then when Cher came in, the guys came in with Cher, and they were her nephew.
Bowen Yang
It was her posse.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
It was her posse who had told her to do the show. The guys were like, the reason she's here is because we were like, you should do the show. And you were like, those crepes off the Chicken Shop Date step. But anyway, yeah, yeah. Because she had never watched the show, and they had basically were like, you. She only did one piece of promo, I think, for, like, her Christmas album that. And then she did Chicken Shop Date, and they were like, you have to do it. And she just sat down and she was like, okay, cool. What's happening? And I was like, we just. She just didn't really. She was perfect.
Bowen Yang
Did she eat a lot of chicken?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I don't think she ate. No.
Bowen Yang
Do. Do guess.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
No, but she said she does like chicken nuggets. Or she said her boyfriend loves chicken nuggets.
Matt Rogers
Right.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
So she's been around a lot of chicken nuggets recently, I would imagine.
Bowen Yang
Like, recently.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah. She was like, I've been around a lot of chicken nuggets. My boyfriend and his friends love chicken nuggets.
Bowen Yang
Maybe there was some sort of festival where she lives.
Matt Rogers
A chicken nugget festival?
Bowen Yang
Yeah, Chicken nugget festival in Paris.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Probably the only option. Yeah.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
But, yeah, she's amazing. She was there on Friday. She should have done more than one song. I was, like, waiting for the more songs to come.
Matt Rogers
100%.
Bowen Yang
She walked by me at my station and she wasn't doing interviews, I don't think. Do you. Did you get her?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I didn't get her. So.
Bowen Yang
So she. Because I don't think she was doing any. She walked by and all I could think to say was, crushed it Friday. And she goes, she's going to give me a little one.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Crushed it. Crushed it. As per usual. Yeah. I love Cher. What an icon.
Matt Rogers
My only interaction with her on Friday, backstage at the concert, because I was. I was back there getting running to intro Gaga, because you were. And. And then. But there's. But the. Cher was up before me, and we.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Isn't that crazy?
Matt Rogers
It's great to say that at Radio.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
City, Cher was on just before me.
Matt Rogers
Just before me. But she was as far away from me as, like, that camera is. And I'm like, not. I. I can see her. I can sense her presence. She's there. I'm, like, truly collapsing into myself. Like, God, I fucking love this person. And she is, like, you know, kind of just, like, in her space, getting in her zone. Like, people are surrounding her like her team is surrounding her. And I'm trying not to look at her, but then I just glance up and then she's looking back at me, and she smiles and just waves, like, the sexiest, most subtle little wave. And it, like, hit me like a lightning bolt. And then in that moment, I was like, I know what I would say to Cher, but I'm not gonna say it. And I kind of am glad I didn't, but I kind of regret that I didn't either.
Bowen Yang
What would it be?
Matt Rogers
This is what it would be. You're funnier than any comedian. You're more beautiful than any supermodel. And you are more influential than any religious figure. I love you.
Bowen Yang
And she would have said, I know.
Matt Rogers
Like, that's Cher.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Oh, my God.
Bowen Yang
Unbelievable. It's so great that we got to see so many. All right, let's talk about highlights from the concert.
Matt Rogers
Yeah.
Bowen Yang
Okay. So there is so much to see out there on the Great White Way and the great Off. I don't know. What I'm saying is Broadway and off Broadway. And the one big recommendation I have for you when you come to town is you gotta hop on Today Ticks and really get yourself going on. And I understand. It's just tough to get outside when the weather is harsh. You really have to come up with a good plan to entice you to leave your cozy little home. And if you want to dress up and be around people but not be outside for too long, there's nothing better than a night at the theater. Courtesy of Today Ticks.
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Bowen Yang
It's about a high school girls soccer team who gets stranded in the woods after their plane crashes and need to do some pretty crazy stuff to survive.
Matt Rogers
This season their mental states begin to fracture and normal teenage girl drama is elevated by life and death circumstances. Fast forward to adulthood and everything they did in the wilderness seems to be coming back to haunt them.
Bowen Yang
It's the perfect mashup of horror, mystery, suspense and laughs with an absolute star studded cast. I'm talking friend of the show, Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Lauren Ambrose, Simone Cassel, special guests Elijah Wood and Hilary Swank with Christina Ricci and more. Plus, this season promises to answer so many burning questions.
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Bowen Yang
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Santi Damian
Said the first night I came over here?
John Cameron Mitchell
Ow.
Santi Damian
Goes lower. I met Santi at a luau party in October.
Matt Rogers
I'm Santi Damian.
Bowen Yang
Oh, it was bizarre.
Matt Rogers
The guy just disappeared one day.
Santi Damian
Santi has been missing ever since the hookup.
Matt Rogers
What is that?
Santi Damian
I'm solving a mystery through sex and haven't made a private dick joke until now. Like, no matter how hard I try, all roads lead to the hook.
Matt Rogers
Look up.
Bowen Yang
You think it's causing people to turn aggro?
Matt Rogers
I'm gonna rip your arms off and use them to.
Santi Damian
Yeah, that's a word for it. This is such terrible representation. I'm so sorry. Poppers.
Bowen Yang
These aren't just any poppers.
Santi Damian
Mama always used to say God gave me gumption in place of a gag reflex. No, not my psychiatrist didn't laugh at that one either. Listen to the hookup on the iHeartRadio album, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
Bowen Yang
So, like, this was another amazing moment for me yesterday. I stopped down with someone, and then I turned to my left and it's Bonnie Raitt. And I was like, oh, my God. And she looks up and she's like, I don't know. Do you want to interview me? I was like, what? And then she was so, like, humble. She was like, they're probably not gonna air it. I was like, bonnie Raitt, get over here right now. And then we just, like, had this, like, beautiful moment because one of my favorite moments of that whole night was.
Matt Rogers
I Can't make youe Love Me.
Bowen Yang
I said, do you know this is one of those Songs where many people say it's their favorite song.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
You know whose favorite song is?
Matt Rogers
Who?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Cher's. Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I was listening to her Desert island discs. Do you know that show?
Matt Rogers
Yeah, yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
In the uk and she picked that as one of her favorite songs.
Bowen Yang
I get it. She'd sound good on it, too.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah. Cher would do an amazing rendition of that.
Bowen Yang
Yes.
Matt Rogers
I feel the power.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yes.
Matt Rogers
And I feel the power.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
So, so beautiful and so sad and like, that's why it's so, like such a perfect song.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
And Chris Martin was there on the keys.
Matt Rogers
Chris Martin was on the keys.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Who, by the way, is so funny. So funny and so charming and amazing.
Matt Rogers
You've talked to him on the show.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
No, I know, I'm. No, he's not been on the show. But I met him at the SNL afterparty where I first met you. He was there because he was the performer that week and I was just like, wow. I don't know why. I just didn't think he would be so charming. But he just so was. And charismatic and brilliant.
Matt Rogers
So charismatic and brilliant. But he was. We were at the seafood restaurant and he's at his table eating out of a Tupperware, like veggies and tofu meal prepped. That's the Gwyneth influence.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah, for sure.
Matt Rogers
It's like this is. This is a health nut.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
He really is. Wow.
Matt Rogers
And he looks good.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
He looks good. Yeah.
Bowen Yang
That was one of my favorite moments. I mean, like, I was. We were also right. Right there in front of Post Malone singing with Nirvana.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
That was epic.
Bowen Yang
That was crazy.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
When he. When he was smoking a cigarette.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
And then he put a cigarette in his guitar.
Bowen Yang
I was not that either. That was incredible.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Oh, my gosh.
Bowen Yang
Sort of effortless.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Something happened to me in that moment.
Bowen Yang
And also, you know, he's really found. He's a tight jeans king and he's bringing it back.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
He's so tall.
Matt Rogers
He's tall.
Bowen Yang
Way taller than you think.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Like, he's like 6 foot 3 or something.
Bowen Yang
What do you think it is about people that makes them seem like they're going to be short?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I don't know, like, is it their, like, proportions of their, like, head?
Bowen Yang
Yeah, maybe that. Well, he's very broad shouldered.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
He just doesn't look like he's really tall.
Bowen Yang
But he is.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
But he is. That's a fact right there.
Bowen Yang
I would like. I would like to go on a date with him.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
So would I. Yeah, so would I.
Bowen Yang
You should get him on your show.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I am trying.
Bowen Yang
You are who are the white whales? And then I want to hear your SNL50 concert highlights. But who are the white whales?
Matt Rogers
Who are the people that you were like, white whales?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Like, like, Never heard of that phrase before.
Matt Rogers
Like, Moby Dick.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Like, who is like, who are the white whales?
Matt Rogers
Who are the.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Who are the white wit.
Matt Rogers
There's a book called Moby Dick.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I didn't read it.
Bowen Yang
Well, that was your first mistake. Sorry, it's Roloculture number eight. If you haven't read Moby Dick, that was your first mistake.
Matt Rogers
I hear it's an amazing book. I've never read it before.
Bowen Yang
Oh, it's fabulous. It's just. It's really a thriller.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
It's a thrill. Okay.
Bowen Yang
It's a page turner, but it's really about so much more than whale. And that's all I'll say about that.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
This is my Moby.
Bowen Yang
Who is my Moby Dick. Who's your Moby Dick?
Matt Rogers
Yeah. Who's your Moby Dick? Moby. The singer.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Gaga.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Matt Rogers
She would do it.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Would she?
Matt Rogers
She would absolutely do it.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
It's just that.
Bowen Yang
How did you feel about it?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I don't know. Like, I didn't. Well, I saw her last night, but, like, obviously I didn't go up to her because what would I say? Nothing. And, yeah, I think Gaga would be epic. I don't know, maybe like someone like Larry David.
Matt Rogers
Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Like, oh, my God. Well, so many people that I met last night, like, Kristen Wiig is one of my comedy heroes.
Bowen Yang
Oh, yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
And it was just a thrill to be able to speak to her and like, to have her on the show and, like, I would love to have some more comics on, actually.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
But I actually feel with Chicken Shop Day, I'm at a place with it where I feel like I've kind of, like, achieved everything I want to with the show.
Matt Rogers
Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I feel really content. Like, everything everyone now is like, just like a plus, really.
Matt Rogers
Wow.
Bowen Yang
I mean, that's.
Matt Rogers
That's an amazing feeling that you are assured in that you're like, this is great. Like, we did everything that we wanted to do.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I really feel like that. I feel like there's so many amazing. So many episodes. I'm so, so pleased with just how they've come out and just the energy of them and the type of people that I've got to meet and our dynamic. I just feel like I've got what I need to from the show, but. Yeah, but. So everything now is just like. It's just fun. It's always been fun.
Bowen Yang
How long have you felt like that was there an episode that put you over the edge, being like, okay, we good?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Well, for me, the Louis Theroux episode was a really amazing one because he was, for me, one of my heroes growing up. I loved his documentaries so much, and his tone and his style really kind of informed some of my awkwardness too, and my style. And when I was trying to get him on the show for years, and then he basically was like that it never got through to him or something like that. He said no. And then finally his children then told him to come on the show, which is. It goes a lot of the time. And then that episode was just amazing. And then it kind of birthed this viral jiggle jiggle song on TikTok. And I just thought it just had everything in it that I wanted for the episode and to get someone that I've always wanted to. And then from then I was like, okay, well, I've done what I want.
Matt Rogers
To with this show, but actually, no.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I do actually need to keep going with the show because I need to fall in love.
Bowen Yang
So really, when you're sitting down, are you actually feeling like there's a little part of you that's like. Cause you always. You do do the bit of. This is a date.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
This is a date. Yeah, this is a date.
Bowen Yang
But are you.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I don't see why, like, you couldn't meet someone on the show.
Bowen Yang
No, you.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Absolutely, yeah. But obviously there are loads of cameras there and stuff and people.
Bowen Yang
But I mean, this was part of the Andrew Garfield of it all that I wanted to ask you about, which is what did you feel about, like, all of the attention around it?
Matt Rogers
Right.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Oh, well. And I was in LA at the time, and it was, like, fun to, like, be also in, like, I don't know, like, not in London and, like, be, like, out and about and stuff. But it was kind of amazing. I just thought it was so cool that people were like. People were booking meeting rooms in their offices to watch it so that they could always get together.
Bowen Yang
It was wild.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
And that was so amazing to have created that moment with a YouTube show. People were like, it's an event. Yeah. So that's what I loved so much about that episode, in particular, about what it kind of made people feel, all the energy and. Yeah, that's why I just think it's just so fun to be able to create those kinds of moments. Yeah.
Matt Rogers
So let's say, let's work backwards from you fall in love with someone that you meet on the show. Yeah, it's presumably someone who is a guest. Yeah, could be a crew member.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
No.
Matt Rogers
Okay.
Bowen Yang
An assistant.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
No.
Matt Rogers
One of the guys. One of Cher's nephews.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
No.
Bowen Yang
Gay nephews.
Matt Rogers
Okay, hold on, hold on, hold on. So you fall in love with a guest.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah.
Matt Rogers
It's like you check in after you. You shoot the thing, right? Because it's like, is there a part of you that's like, when the cameras are rolling, it's like, for this, for entertainment, for the show. But then, like, afterwards, you're like, we need to. I need to check. I need to be one on one with this person.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Okay. This is why it's just never gonna work out. Because.
Matt Rogers
No, no, I'm not saying that. I'm saying it can and it will. Let's. We just have to be really intentional about this. Like. Like, are you, like, going, like, you don't. You're like, these cameras. I'm gonna seduce this person?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
No, because I would never do that. So actually, it's not gonna.
Bowen Yang
I.
Matt Rogers
Well, I was meaning to ask you. I was like, emilio, how do you. You do have this natural. And Cynthia Rivo said this, like, you have this natural capacity and this talent. I call it a talent because I. I lack this. Of flirting. You flirt very well.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yes, I do, actually.
Matt Rogers
So then what's that about? So it can happen.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
No. Yeah, it can. But I go for the wrong people. I go for the wrong.
Bowen Yang
Oh, in life, you go for the wrong people.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah. Yeah.
Bowen Yang
Do you find that, like, this style of flirting that you do on the show because you are a little bit of, like, you do negging, like, is that how you flirt in real life?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah, totally.
Bowen Yang
Okay, so you're not like, emboldened by the cameras to, like, be a little.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Bit, like, this character that's just who you are? Yeah. Because I don't know why I always just think that, like, when I'm talking to guys, I'm always like, I'm. I'm funnier than you.
Bowen Yang
No, it's power.
Matt Rogers
It's power.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I'm gonna tell you. Yeah. I don't know. I just feel like that's just been my natural way. But I also think maybe it's something about being British and, like, maybe, like. Like, I don't know, like, from school or like, the guys I used to hang out with when I was growing up who would be, like, so mean to you. Like, you then just have to, like, create this armor of, like, sarcasm. Like, then it just kind of stayed with me.
Matt Rogers
Right. Well, let's say there's been a recent example of you flirting with someone and successfully having it, you know, be a fun thing. Let's walk through that. Let's break a recent example down, any recent example.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Be flirting with someone and then we.
Matt Rogers
Can all do the same. Cause I actually do want to self examine a bit on this about flirts.
Bowen Yang
Flirts.
Matt Rogers
I identify as not a good flirter, but it's like we've like. But I think the three of us have successfully courted someone.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah. I feel like you can tell when there's a chemistry. I feel like kind of immediately with someone.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Matt Rogers
And so it is like a roll of the dice.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah. Like, I think just like you meet someone, you kind of, I don't know, you just can sense it really from, from. It's like an energy. I, I think you just kind of know.
Matt Rogers
Yeah. So once you sense it, you're like, okay, I'm in. Let's.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah.
Matt Rogers
Okay, great.
Bowen Yang
You're a, you're a pursuer at that point.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Well, I don't know. I, I feel like when you meet people out, it's kind of hard to meet people out. But when you do, I think you just kind of like gravitate toward each other and then you just start talking and then you in your head while you're talking, you can like sense you're like, okay, something like clicks. I feel like you feel it and you're like, are we, is this, is this, are we, are we like flirting?
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
And then they're like, yeah, I'm married. So that's what happens.
Bowen Yang
See, this is the problem.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
That's literally every time.
Bowen Yang
I know, but the thing is like with the gays, it's like this has happened to me a couple times in the past few weeks. I'll get asked on a full on date and then I'll find out like either hours before or on the date that they fully have a boyfriend.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Bowen Yang
You're saying, are you dealing with open guys sometimes?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
No, no, no.
Bowen Yang
I'm saying it's like a, it's like.
Matt Rogers
A gay guy thing where like they're already in a relationship and they are, they're open.
Bowen Yang
You have to tell someone if you're in a relationship and you're, you're asking a hang.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
People like to flirt. People are bored and they like to flirt in their relationships. I know so many people. They. Well, so like, is that about. I don't know if that is that bad. You can obviously still flirt when you're in a relationship.
Bowen Yang
Sure.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
But like, there's another, like leading someone on Right.
Bowen Yang
I mean, flirting and then asking them full on.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Oh, yeah. Going on a date. Yeah.
Bowen Yang
Like, I had someone one time tell me in the middle of things, after it was going really well. I don't know how this is gonna land, but I have a boyfriend. And I was like, you don't know.
Matt Rogers
How this is gonna land.
Bowen Yang
I was like, Cause if this was a sex thing, you had to say that beforehand. Cause there's things I had to do.
Matt Rogers
You know what I mean?
Bowen Yang
Like, I had to make sure everything was divorced.
Matt Rogers
Of course.
Bowen Yang
Like, there's things that need to go on this process.
Matt Rogers
You needed to weed whack.
Bowen Yang
A lack of respect for process. You lost me.
Matt Rogers
You lost me there.
Bowen Yang
If you have a lack of. That's a rule of culture number 19. If there's a lack of respect for process.
Matt Rogers
Lost me. I was talking to a guy, same deal. But I knew. I knew going into it that, like, he was married and whatever. Like, we were maybe planning the logistics of it. And then I just made an offhand comment where I was like. And also, I don't know, like, I might just be emotionally, like, in a different place than you because there are just different stakes to this. He was like, what do you mean?
Bowen Yang
What do you mean? What do you mean?
Matt Rogers
And he was being obtuse, and I was like, you know, like, you are in a relationship, and I am like, not. I'm literally putting this in the calendar because this is, like, the one window this week where I can have relations with someone. And he was like, I need you to explain this a little bit more. I'm like, this. What are you talking about? Like, some of these guys play dumb with it, but this is what I want to drill into is because you're mentioning this. This moment of, like, are we. Is this. Are we? Yeah, like, that's the thing. That is the blockage usually where it's like, you're. It's not cool to ask, are we. Is this. Are we? Out loud?
Bowen Yang
I think it is.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I've. Sometimes I have said. I was like, yeah, should we kiss? Yeah, should we kiss now? And usually, no. I feel like that's where I'm going wrong.
Matt Rogers
Well, this is my thing.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Don't do that. Don't do that. It doesn't work.
Matt Rogers
Is it. Are we saying here as a trio? Like, if you have to ask, then it's a bad sign.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Sometimes I do, though. Like, sometimes you just kind of have to, like, say it. Because really, you kind of have to be the confident one.
Matt Rogers
Of course.
Bowen Yang
And that's the Thing is, it's like, I think for me, it reflects entirely on how I'm feeling about myself in a moment. Like, if I'm feeling good about myself in a good mood, I genuinely think I'll go up to anyone and, like, flirt with them.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Flirting makes you feel alive. I'm sorry. If you have, like a, like, if you're flirting, it just makes you. You're just having a better time than if you weren't. Yeah. I don't know. Like, it's so fun.
Bowen Yang
But if you're not feeling good about yourself, though, I think any situation I'm in where, like, I can feel like that's going somewhere, I, I go right to, like, fear. I'm like, no, no, I, I, I can't. I, like, I, I shrink and it's just so. I wish I felt powerful all the time. I know. You can't. It's like, I don't know.
Matt Rogers
You just can't. London summers. Should we do Mighty Hoopla with you? Would you come with us?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Are you going?
Matt Rogers
We went a couple years ago.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I've never been you.
Matt Rogers
It would be, I mean, you would be, Mom.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
It would be. It looks so fun.
Matt Rogers
It was a blast.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah. Who did we see?
Bowen Yang
We miss Kelly Rowland.
Matt Rogers
We miss Kelly Rowland.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
They always have such fun performers.
Bowen Yang
Yes, we saw Kelly Rowland. Kelly Rowland. We saw Jake Shears.
Matt Rogers
Jake Shears, who we love.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Does Kelly Rowland do When Love Takes?
Bowen Yang
Oh, you know she does.
Matt Rogers
Oh, my gosh.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yes.
Bowen Yang
She's got so many more gay anthems than you're ready for. Yeah, she's really great. But she was on the Friday and that was when we saw Beyonce. So we were there.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Beyonce was at My Tupler.
Matt Rogers
No, no, no. It was. Beyonce was in London during Tottenham the same week, the same weekend as Mighty Hoopla. Renaissance is the same weekend as Mighty Hoopla and Kelly was doing Mighty Hoopla. So there was just all these rumors being like, kelly's going to show up to Renaissance or Beyonce's going to show up to Mighty Hoopla, which was less likely.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
That would be iconic.
Matt Rogers
Would be iconic.
Bowen Yang
But that was me as Beyonce greeting the Mighty Hoopla.
Matt Rogers
What's that park in South London that it's at Brockwell. Parkwell.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I don't know.
Matt Rogers
It's fun down there.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah. South London. I never go.
Matt Rogers
I never go. But it's like, it's where all the cool people are.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
No, it is. That's why I'm never there. Yeah. No, like, London in summer is the best. I think it's like the best time to come to London is summer.
Bowen Yang
Well now, I guess Beyonce. It would be nice to go see Beyonce again.
Matt Rogers
Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
That honestly was medicine for the Soul 100. Seeing Beyonce, like, I was feeling in like a really rubbish headspace and I was like, I felt. I was feeling so self conscious about the way I looked and all this stuff. And then I went to see Renaissance and I was just like, wow. It really like was a drug. It was like a pill, a medicine for me.
Matt Rogers
Yeah, you were at the party.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
It was. Yeah, it was amazing. Yeah, exactly.
Matt Rogers
Let's ask Millie the question. This season, secrets will be spilled. The new season of Yellowjackets is coming to Paramount plus with Showtime, and I could not be more excited. From major awards nominations to conspiracy theories galore, you'll want to catch up on the last two seasons ASAP and get in on all the buzz.
Bowen Yang
It's about a high school girls soccer team who gets stranded in the woods after their plane crashes and need to do some pretty crazy stuff to survive.
Matt Rogers
This season, their mental states begin to fracture and normal teenage girl drama is elevated by life and death circumstances. Fast forward to adulthood and everything they did in the wilderness seems to be coming back to hunt them.
Bowen Yang
It's the perfect mashup of horror, mystery, suspense and laughs with an absolute star studded cast. I'm talking friend of the show, Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Lauren Ambrose, Simone Cassel. Special guests Elijah Wood and Hilary Swank. With Christina Ricci and more. Plus, this season promises to answer so many burning questions.
Matt Rogers
Don't miss the new season of Yellowjackets, now streaming on the Paramount plus with Showtime plan.
Santi Damian
Do you remember what you said the first night I came over here?
John Cameron Mitchell
Ow.
Santi Damian
Go slower. I met Santi at a luau party in October.
Matt Rogers
I'm Santi Damian.
Bowen Yang
Oh, it was bizarre.
Matt Rogers
The guy just disappeared one day.
Santi Damian
Santi has been missing ever since the hookup.
Matt Rogers
What is that?
Santi Damian
I'm solving a mystery through sex and haven't made a private dick joke until now. Like, no matter how hard I try, all roads lead to the hookup.
Bowen Yang
You think it's causing people to turn aggro?
Matt Rogers
I'm gonna rip your arms off and use them to.
Santi Damian
Yeah, that's. That's a word for it. This is such terrible representation. I'm so sorry. Poppers.
Matt Rogers
These aren't just any poppers.
Santi Damian
Mama always used to say God gave me gumption in place of a gag reflex. No, not my psychiatrist didn't laugh at that one either. Listen to the hookup on the iHeartRadio app. Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your favorite show shows.
Arturo Castro
Hi, I'm Arturo Castro, and I've been lucky enough to do stuff like Broad City and Narcos and Roadhouse and so many commercials about back pain. And now I'm starting a podcast because honestly, guys, I don't feel the space is crowded enough. Get ready for Greatest Escapes, a new comedy podcast about the wildest true escape stories in history. Each week I'll be sitting down with some of the most hilarious actors and writers and comedians to tell them a buck wild tale from across history and time. People like Ed Helms, Diane Guerrero, Joseph Gordon Levitt and Zoe Chao.
Matt Rogers
Titanic, Charles Manson, Alcatraz, Assata Shakur, a.
Bowen Yang
Sketchy guy named Steve.
Arturo Castro
It's giving funny true crime.
Matt Rogers
I love storytelling and I love you. So I can't wait.
Arturo Castro
Listen and subscribe to Greatest escapes on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
John Cameron Mitchell
This is John Cameron Mitchell and my new fiction podcast series. Cancellation island stars Holly Hunter as Karen, a wellness influencer who launches a rehab for the recently canceled. In the future, we will all be canceled for 15 minutes, but don't worry, we'll take you from broke to woke or your money back. Cancellation on revolutionary rehab therapies like bad touch football, anti racism spin class, and mandatory ayahuasca ceremonies are designed to force the council to confront their worst impulses. But everything starts to fall apart when people start disappearing. Karen, where have you brought us Cancellation island, where a second chance might just be your last. Listen to Cancellation island on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Matt Rogers
Emelia DiMaldenberg. What is the culture that made you say culture is for me?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen.
Bowen Yang
Wow. Have we ever had anyone do that?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I was wondering if you have.
Bowen Yang
I don't think so, but this is huge. What's their greatest work, in your opinion?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Oh, wow. Okay. Well, what movie? Oh, God, I didn't have to say a movie. New York Minute.
Matt Rogers
No, no, no.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I'm just underrated, though.
Matt Rogers
Underrated.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
New York Minute. Absolutely. Holiday in the Sun.
Matt Rogers
Yes.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
With Megan Fox. Sorry, With Megan Fox. Yeah. I mean, winning London. I mean, I love. Obviously I'm a London girl, but maybe winning London wasn't my fave. What? Our lips are sealed. The one where Australia. The challenge. I remember that one.
Matt Rogers
I don't know the challenge.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
The challenge was. When they did the challenge. Sorry, it was like they, you know, they show the challenge the only way. I' watched the challenges on the Meikonashi The Challenge.
Matt Rogers
The Olsen twins did the Challenge.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Well, they did, like, a movie where they were on the challenge.
Bowen Yang
I am.
Matt Rogers
But the MTV show. Is there a British show called the Challenge?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
No, it's like they're. They're like. I assume this is the show. It's like you're in a pair and you have to do loads of challenges.
Matt Rogers
Oh, like an Amazing Race kind of thing.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah, maybe.
Matt Rogers
What was the Sleepover. What was the Sleepover series again?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
The Sleepover series.
Bowen Yang
Oh, yeah. You're invited. You're invited. You're invited.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I didn't know that one.
Bowen Yang
Oh, you're invited. That was fun.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Was that TV series?
Bowen Yang
I don't know what it was. I mean, you haven't even said.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Oh, they also had an animation.
Bowen Yang
Yeah, they had everything. You haven't even said Passport to Paris.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Passport to Paris?
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Oh, Passport to Paris.
Bowen Yang
Passport to Paris was huge for them, I think.
Matt Rogers
Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Just, like, so epic. Like, I'm sorry, but just. I just wanted to live their life so badly. I feel like so much of, like, why I feel like I'm such an overachiever is because I grew up on Mary Kay and Ashley, and they were, like, the biggest overachievers in the world. Like, there was nothing that they couldn't do.
Bowen Yang
People forget there was two of them, so they split their empire. They both had. You know what I mean?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
That's true. But still, like, still, they did the work.
Bowen Yang
I mean, absolutely no one can say they did.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
They still. Oh, okay.
Matt Rogers
This is the thing.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
That crazy. They are the coolest girls still. They are always pushing culture forward. Still with the row and just.
Bowen Yang
You own the row pieces. No, they're about a million dollars each.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Okay.
Bowen Yang
Aren't they expensive?
Matt Rogers
But they last. And they're good quality.
Bowen Yang
Beau has the row.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
You do. I mean, everyone loves the row. Really cool people wear the row.
Bowen Yang
Yeah, absolutely.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah. And they're just. They're just like little, tiny, little chain smokers. They're just so cool.
Bowen Yang
One of them. I forget which one it was. It might have been Mary Kate or Ashley at the wedding.
Matt Rogers
At the wedding.
Bowen Yang
Their wedding had bowls of cigarettes on every table.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah.
Matt Rogers
Famously.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Famously, yeah. I'm always trying to think, though, who am I more like Mary Kate? Am I Ashley? Like, I just remember, you're both. Yeah.
Bowen Yang
What is the distinction, though? Can you break down Mary Kate and Ashley?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I don't know. Because they would always change characters in their movies. Do you know what I mean? Like, sometimes Mary Kate would be, like, the uptight one, and then sometimes it would be Ashley. And you could never really know.
Matt Rogers
They would just always a complete unknown.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah. Truly two complete unknowns. But, yeah, no, I just two of them. Oh, and then they've got the other sister, Elizabeth.
Bowen Yang
Elizabeth, who, by the way, is my favorite actress.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Oh, wow.
Matt Rogers
One of the best actresses.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
They're just incredible.
Bowen Yang
Have you ever watched, I mean, obviously WandaVision, but have you ever seen Ingrid Goes West?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
No. No.
Bowen Yang
You.
Matt Rogers
You would love this movie.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Is it about, like, stalker? Yeah, she's like, situation.
Matt Rogers
Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
With the social media.
Bowen Yang
It's such a bold, great, like, interesting movie about a dynamic like that that, like, really pushes it and goes there and then ends in such a weird question mark.
Matt Rogers
Funny way.
Bowen Yang
Dark. Funny way. Like, it's truly. I just missed dark comedies like that. You know what? I just watched again, and we saw Matthew Broderick last night and I told him this.
Matt Rogers
Election.
Bowen Yang
Election.
Matt Rogers
Yeah. So good.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Never seen it.
Matt Rogers
Oh, you would love Amelia. It's your kind of movie.
John Cameron Mitchell
Really?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I should watch it.
Matt Rogers
Reese Witherspoon is, in a way, like the Olsen girl of her time.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yes.
Matt Rogers
Of her microgeneration.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
My favorite.
Bowen Yang
Reese Witherspoon.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I love Reese Witherspoon. Oh, you think I look like her?
Bowen Yang
I do.
Matt Rogers
Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Okay. I love that she's beautiful.
Bowen Yang
Elle Woods.
Matt Rogers
Elwood, you have an Elle woods quality about you.
Bowen Yang
Really?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
That's so nice.
Matt Rogers
And I mean that as the highest compliment.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Of course it is. She's an accomplished lawyer and dog person.
Matt Rogers
Dog person.
Bowen Yang
Dog advocate.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
They're doing another one.
Bowen Yang
Yes, they are. But check out Election, because it's one of Rhys's best performances. And whenever anyone is forgetting that Rhys can do Dark, I'm like, can you just go watch literally anything from the first half of her career, Like Pleasantville. She's, like, so deliciously bitchy in it, and she plays this turn so well of waking up to that. But Tracy Flick, her character in Election.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
So what's the premise of the film?
Bowen Yang
So the premise is basically, it's a high school and Matthew Broderick is a social studies teacher. And there's a girl in class, Tracy Flick, played by Reese Witherspoon, who's like an overachiever. Very Mary Kate or Ashley, depending on the movie vibes. And so she drives him nuts. And basically she has an affair. I mean, well, I mean, like, it's with a teacher that's his friend, and he gets obviously kicked out of the school. And so Matthew Broderick's character grows to, like, really resent this girl who's running for class president unopposed. So he encourages A popular jock student to run against her. She goes crazy, like, because she's, like, not supposed to lose. And it's like a sort of political satire taking place in this high school. And they did a sequel to it called Tracy Flick Can't Win. Tom Perotta wrote a second book, like, years and years later, and they're doing it. Alexander Payne is supposed to do it. They're getting the script together. I know that she's supposed to do it. She's producing it, too.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Reese is producing it.
Matt Rogers
Yes.
Bowen Yang
That's the buzz.
Matt Rogers
Criterion Collection election. Yeah. It's one of those movies where you're just like. It's undeniable.
Bowen Yang
I think you would love it.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Okay, I'm definitely gonna watch it tonight.
Matt Rogers
Tonight.
Bowen Yang
It actually would be a great movie for tonight. Great movie where it's like, you know what? I went out last night.
Matt Rogers
Yeah. But I still want to watch something good.
Bowen Yang
I want to watch something I'm awake for, I have to think about. But it's not gonna, like, scare me, like, or, like, you know, Perfect. Drive me nuts.
Matt Rogers
I can look at my phone every 20 minutes or so if I wanted to.
Bowen Yang
Adapted screenplay. Oscar nominee.
Matt Rogers
That's right.
Bowen Yang
I love awards.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
You really love awards.
Bowen Yang
I was like a gold derby kid.
Matt Rogers
Okay. We're going to the Oscars for the first time.
Bowen Yang
Yes.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Oh, my God.
Bowen Yang
What?
Matt Rogers
What's. What are your. What are your tips?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Don't wear a train dress.
Matt Rogers
Okay.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Like a long dress with a train. I know. Sorry.
Bowen Yang
I've just seen what he's wearing. Ruined.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Gorgeous.
Bowen Yang
It has no train.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Because that was a nightmare for me when I went and, like. Yeah, that was a nightmare. I would say, eat something before, but then also afterwards at the Governor's Ball, there's, like, the most amount of food in the world. In the world, like, ever. And there's, like, every single kind of food you could ever. But, like, in a miniature version. And then they also have gold, like, Oscars made out of chocolate.
Bowen Yang
I love.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Which you can take for your family. Like, take my dad. You're so sweet. I, like, my whole suitcase was filled with.
Matt Rogers
Your dad is adorable, by the way. I'm sorry. That's so patronizing. He's so wonderful. He seems like such a charming man.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah, he is so sweet. Both my parents are so cute.
Bowen Yang
And you're very close with your sister as well.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah. Really close to my sister. Yeah. We work together, and we're just like. We actually. Yeah. We used to live together. Then we had to separate because it was too much.
Matt Rogers
Well, Olsen twins Kind of Olsen twins vibes.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Very Olsen twins vibe. Actually, we're very similar in age. We're only one year apart. So it's kind of like it's giving Mary Kate and Ashley very.
Bowen Yang
That.
Matt Rogers
Who's who?
Bowen Yang
Depends on the movie.
Matt Rogers
It depends on.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I'm sorry, we've been over that. So. Yeah, so we'll have to see.
Bowen Yang
We'll have to really see.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
To be continued.
Matt Rogers
To be continued.
Bowen Yang
Now, were you a Full House first person? Do they have Full House in the uk?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
They probably did on some random channel, but I didn't watch it.
Bowen Yang
Oh, so you weren't introduced to them when we were. Well, actually. Well, I guess you didn't cable.
Matt Rogers
No, but we were. Full House was a thing in Canada for sure.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I found out about them through Billboard Dad, I think was the first movie. Billboard dad.
Bowen Yang
Billboard dad, yeah. What was the one where they were living in like. It was like they were in like Miami beach or something and they lived in like what looked like essentially a hotel.
Matt Rogers
I found that one.
Bowen Yang
No, their dad wasn't Steve Guttenberg. I'm getting that mixed up with the film. It Takes Two.
Matt Rogers
It Takes Two, yeah.
Bowen Yang
Have you seen It Takes Two? Yes, I've seen It Takes Two with Kirste Alley.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yes. Yeah.
Matt Rogers
We're. We're naming off so many movies. Are we, Are we in retrospect, a little bit. Like, I mean, what, what, what was, what was their life? They were, they were just working these kids to the bone.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yes. So true, in a way. And. But now. But they seem to. They. I feel like they love to work because they. Why you wouldn't run a fashion brand if you didn't love to work. Because that's like one of the hardest jobs, of course, in the world.
Matt Rogers
But also. What were you going to say?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Sorry, no.
Matt Rogers
But also like, they are so, like, we don't want to be seen at all.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
So cool.
Matt Rogers
Like, that's the reactionary thing to being in show businesses at that young age.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
And I also feel like they're in a way the precursor to the modern day influencer that we have now.
Matt Rogers
Absolutely.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Because Mary Kay and Ashley's movies for me was how I feel like people now when they're watching Alex Earle or all these other influences, because you want to watch someone's really fun life where they're going out to parties, they're kissing boys, they're putting on makeup and stuff. But like, I watched that through Mary Kay and Ashley, but like, that was obviously fictionalized. Like, that's what I loved about it was because I felt like I was like have getting like a door open into like their world, which I thought was real. And now we do have that now, but it is. Well, it's kind of real to a point. But you have that with influences, I guess.
Bowen Yang
Yeah, but you're.
Matt Rogers
No, but you're touching on something so huge which is that like when we were growing up or when we were like impressionable youth, like we knew it to be a fantasy and now it's like, like it's hard to tell for a lot of people.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
It's true. And people probably do are watching people on TikTok and thinking, oh my God, this is like their actual life. Not realizing that like so much of it is still staged and like not staged in that sense but like, you know, like heightened or like the things that you decide to include and the things you choose not to.
Matt Rogers
Right.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
And yeah, it's a bit more. Yeah. Difficult for young people probably to get their head around it. But saying that I honestly did think that Mary Kane Ashley lived that life. I actually thought that was like, oh, they obviously are like jetting off to the Bahamas. They're going to like kiss those boys in power Paris. Like they are doing that.
Bowen Yang
They really were. All over the world.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
They were. Mr. Mrs. Worldwide.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Pitbull, watch out.
Bowen Yang
Ms. And Ms. Worldwide.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Little. Little mission number 14.
Bowen Yang
Mary Kate and Ashley were the Ms. And Ms. Worldwide.
Matt Rogers
Little Ms. Ms. Worldwide.
Bowen Yang
You know, they never did. They never did. Really? Little Miss Worldwide.
Matt Rogers
It's not. What was it?
Bowen Yang
I think in order to. Emilia has a point but. And I would like to see it. But wait, they never grew up on camera though, you know what I mean? Like they did New York minute and then it was kind of like, you know what? You guys don't get to see us encounter drugs and alcohol. You guys actually don't. You don't get to see us get a horny feeling. No. And I think it's because A, probably they were fed up at that point. But B, people are so uncomfortable whenever that happens with anyone they're watching as a kid. Like think about like now. It's so crazy because Miley Cyrus is like a beloved American treasure. Four quadrant moms, dads, brother, sister, everyone loves her, the gays, everyone. But she was derided of course for.
Matt Rogers
Like, you know, just growing up, being sexual. Yeah, it's the Britney thing. It's the.
Bowen Yang
Yeah, it's all of them. And Mary Kate and Ashley didn't even participate in that. They were just like, we're actually. No, you got everything you're getting from us.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah. Because you're going to be judged as a young woman in the limelight if you're showing all of these different sides to your personality or just figuring stuff out.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
On camera or whatever. And. Yeah. They just basically were like, goodbye, close the door.
Matt Rogers
They just. They just skipped straight to dating, like an older French guy.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yes, they did. Was he like in. In politics or something?
Matt Rogers
Or something?
Bowen Yang
Like, which one's a billionaire?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Some, like, they have a very. Yeah. They've got. Yeah. Interesting.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Men in their lives.
Matt Rogers
This has been on my to do list, but like a dating pros and cons list. Have we. Have we done this exercise?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Dating pros and cons? What do you mean?
Matt Rogers
Like, for, like, things that you're like. He needs to be at least these things.
Bowen Yang
French billionaire.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
French billionaire.
Matt Rogers
Right. And so you're like, well, does he have to be a billionaire?
Bowen Yang
No. Is he?
Matt Rogers
No, of course.
Bowen Yang
I'm just saying you'd be a multi millionaire.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I just want someone to buy me dinner.
Bowen Yang
Really?
Matt Rogers
And that's a tough.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
No. No. Well, I realized my bar is really low. I need to raise it.
Matt Rogers
Yeah.
Bowen Yang
In this. Live in this moment, I was like, that's it.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah. No, it's actually sad.
Bowen Yang
Less funny than me so that I can feel better. But at least.
Matt Rogers
But by dinner, that's actually. There's people.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah, there's some people.
Matt Rogers
There's some people.
Bowen Yang
Is there anything that, like, everyone else would consider a positive, that you consider a negative when dating someone?
Matt Rogers
Totally.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Everyone considers a.
Bowen Yang
Like, honestly, you know what drives me kind of nuts? Like, not politeness doesn't drive me crazy. Cause I actually do like to know that the person really likes me. But I don't like to feel like things are careful or, like, too kind for me. There needs to be, like, some edge.
Matt Rogers
Yeah.
Bowen Yang
Like I need to feel and not like, I had a really nice time. Don't tell me you had a really nice time. Make out with me on the street. Oh, that's how I feel. Not in the dark.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Up against the wall.
Bowen Yang
I've done that. Oh, God. See, that's what's so great about. That's why when you come to New York and you start dating here. And I bet it does give that in East London, to be honest. But very diva on the east side. Where you at?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
It's exactly that. Yeah. Wow. I need to feel I've been transported back to the streets of London.
Bowen Yang
Is it cool that I said, oh, is it still that you're in my head?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Is it true that like, in New York, everyone's dating all the time. Like, multiple people. Because that's more than other say about New York that, like, really, you're. When you're dating someone, it's normal. It's usual that they'll be, like, dating numerous other people. Like.
Matt Rogers
Right.
Bowen Yang
Like, they say, don't do that, but I think it happens all the time.
Matt Rogers
Of course I do it. The New York thing, I'm curious if this is the same in London. The New York thing is everyone thinks that they can do better than the person they're with.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
On some level, I feel like that's a thing now, just in, like, society.
Matt Rogers
I know.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Because you've got too many options.
Matt Rogers
It's literally like. It's like browsing through Netflix. It's like, well, let me keep looking, because there's some. I'm like, at about a six or a seven in terms of watching this show about this documentary that's like, I'm kind of interested, but I'm sure there's something that's gonna take me over the edge. And you just keep. It's online shopping, it's immediacy, culture.
Bowen Yang
It's the instant gratification that we're so used to that makes us swipe, swipe, swipe away from these actual things. Do you guys know the Muslim matchmaker?
Matt Rogers
Yes. She says focus on one partner.
Bowen Yang
She says focus on one person. The illusion of choice is just that, an illusion. It's like you're not giving someone a chance. If you are thinking about two, three other people, even later on in the week, whatever. You also will be less attentive to them. Of course you're gonna find yourself going on a date, being like, now, is this the one with the two older sisters? You know what I mean? And it's like, that's crazy.
Matt Rogers
I know. No, I've caught myself in that for sure.
Bowen Yang
And to quote Natalie Portman, I've been you this closer.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I love that film.
Matt Rogers
Great movie.
Bowen Yang
It's one of the great films.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
So good. It was a play. It was a play first.
Bowen Yang
It was.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I love a play. Like, I love. Like, sorry, I love. I'm swearing now. I love movies that feel like plays. I love them.
Matt Rogers
But that's. People knock that for some reason.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Really? Do they?
Matt Rogers
Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I like that.
Bowen Yang
A common, like, criticism was it felt stagey or it felt like a this. I'm like, I like that. What's bad about a long scene? Hello. Watch the movie Doubt the scene with Meryl Streep and Viola Davis. Yeah, yell at me. That it's staging.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I love that.
Bowen Yang
What? You hate people acting at each other.
Matt Rogers
Get out. Get out.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Get out of here.
Bowen Yang
Get out of here, I say.
Matt Rogers
Wait. Good American accent.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Thanks.
Matt Rogers
Yeah, you've been told that.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
No, I haven't. Sorry. That mess stopped now.
Matt Rogers
That was really good.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
But my agent keeps trying to get me to do auditions in an American accent, and I'm like, I can't.
Bowen Yang
Do you have acting ambitions?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I would like to, yeah.
Matt Rogers
Okay. We're gonna write something for you.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Oh, please.
Bowen Yang
We'll take care of you.
Matt Rogers
We'll take care of you ever again. Wait, I, I, I see something for Amelia. Same for sure. No, like, we're. Yeah. So we're being so annoying.
Bowen Yang
We're being so annoying. And we're being such. And we're being such divas.
Matt Rogers
Wait, I did an impression of you last night on the carpet.
Bowen Yang
Right.
Matt Rogers
What did I say again?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I said, oh, I love Andrew Garfield.
Matt Rogers
No, I said, I said.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I said, loves me.
Matt Rogers
He's obsessed with me.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Andrew Goff was obsessed with me.
Bowen Yang
Have you spoken to him since all that, or did it start a friendship?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah, I would say we're friends.
Matt Rogers
That's good.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah, I would say we're friends.
Matt Rogers
So.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
He's so nice.
Matt Rogers
Of course.
Bowen Yang
Seems lovely.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah.
Matt Rogers
Sweetheart. Okay. But I still want to finish this conversation about the potential of falling in love on the show for you.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah. Okay. I feel like I might meet someone on the show, but then once I end the show, then maybe I bump into them at a party and then that's.
Bowen Yang
That's when it's on. Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
That's how I realistically feel like.
Matt Rogers
That sounds really right.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Rather than like the day after the we film. I'm like, so. So we're going up now. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Bowen Yang
Does the guest ever hit you up? You don't say who, but did a guest ever hit you up after, like, in an actual way? No, no, no, dude, it's actually up. But you know what? You know what sucks about your show?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah.
Bowen Yang
You don't have any gay guys on.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I'm trying. I'm trying.
Bowen Yang
Well, you were on our show.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I'm trying.
Bowen Yang
What do you mean you're trying? Who are you trying? You're trying to get Johnny Bailey.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah.
Bowen Yang
Yeah. Oh, who is not. He was not. He was supposed to do our show and Lizzie. Yeah.
Matt Rogers
And then there was. There was just double booking.
Bowen Yang
There was a double booking.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
It was a double booking.
Matt Rogers
No, and it's. And it's my fault.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
It was your fault.
Matt Rogers
It's fine.
Bowen Yang
Owen had to Do Kelly Clarkson at the time we were originally scheduled. And that. That is literally the only thing I would allow.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I feel like I have. I feel like I have had a gay person on.
Bowen Yang
I don't. Well, you've had a gay person on. You haven't had a gay guy. Because I feel like you think that you can't flirt with the person. But let me tell you something. Just me and you in a room with chicken.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Well, this is a blind spot for me. And actually, I need to get more gay men on the show.
Matt Rogers
Thanks.
Bowen Yang
I just wanted to open that door.
Matt Rogers
Your work isn't over.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
No, thank you for. Thank you for highlighting that.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Thank you. I'm going to do more.
Bowen Yang
I. Sometimes it's easier to flirt with girls.
Matt Rogers
I love flirting with girls.
Bowen Yang
Well, you are.
Matt Rogers
You're.
Bowen Yang
You know, who do you.
Matt Rogers
I'm a little bit.
Bowen Yang
Yeah. Straighter than me, isn't that.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Does that surprise you?
Matt Rogers
Yeah, I'm. Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah.
Matt Rogers
We talked about this.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah. You and Cindy Sweeney.
Bowen Yang
Yeah. Vibes. Eugenia Gershon. You and Sydney Sweeney. You and.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Wait, you guys are leading people on. Actually, you've probably had. Well, you've probably had. People have probably gone to their friends. Like, I had the most amazing, amazing conversation with this guy. He was talking to me all night.
Matt Rogers
This guy.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
He was talking to me all night, and then turns out he's gay.
Bowen Yang
You know, I. I actually someone gave me their phone number when I worked at Ulysses years ago. A girl was like, Gave me her phone number on a napkin like it was a rom com. And I was like, I don't.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
The girl gave you her phone number on napkin.
Bowen Yang
I didn't even try to act like anything other than myself. And I was like, am I straight? Passing. Perhaps the answer is no, per chance, really. So she couldn't even answer it.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Wait, sorry. What was the question?
Bowen Yang
Am I straight? Passing.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Oh, sorry, I didn't hear that. Sorry. I'm literally.
Matt Rogers
We're so tired.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
So I've actually, like, got turned a corner now where I'm like. I actually thought I was gonna throw up before I came into this room.
Bowen Yang
Do you vomit when you're hungover?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah.
Bowen Yang
You do.
Matt Rogers
Shit. Did you vomit last night?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
No.
Matt Rogers
Good. So that means, like, it's backed up.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
It's coming up, it's coming up, it's coming up, it's coming up. It's. Duh. Do you hear that song?
Matt Rogers
What's that? What is that?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Don't know.
Bowen Yang
Do you have singing ambitions? Yeah. Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I can't clearly. Wait, what was this person I ask.
Bowen Yang
A question like this, it's so much.
Matt Rogers
So much more fun to ask.
Bowen Yang
Singing ambition.
Matt Rogers
You have singing ambition.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
It wasn't a British accent, but it's not an.
Matt Rogers
It's the inflection of.
Bowen Yang
It's inflection.
Matt Rogers
In American, you ask a question like this. And in the UK you ask a question like this. Yes.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Do you know you are not straight pasta?
Matt Rogers
That's a question.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
That's the statement.
Matt Rogers
It's the same inflection.
Bowen Yang
You don't think I'm straight pasta.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Nice.
Bowen Yang
It isn't more like you say it like soapy.
Matt Rogers
Hello?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Hello.
Matt Rogers
Okay, we gotta get you out of here. We all gotta get out of here.
Bowen Yang
No, I don't fucking understand this.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
What time is it?
Bowen Yang
It's 4:39. My girl was 10 late.
Matt Rogers
Oh, stop it. No, she wasn't.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
7.
Bowen Yang
Dragging ass down the street.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah, I was actually sorry that I was getting stopped to ask for photos.
Bowen Yang
Were you actually? Well, you are incredibly recognizable and I'm also just.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah, well, am I?
Bowen Yang
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I think, I think also I think people think. People think I'm approachable. I am approachable. But like, I think because of the show, it's like people are more likely to come up if you're doing something in comedy, I feel like you probably get 100%.
Matt Rogers
It's lovely.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
It's so nice. I always just think, like, there's so many. It's a privilege to get people to come up and say that they like your work. When so many people are in jobs where they're never thanked for what they do, their boss never tells them. Doing a good job. And like, we literally get people being like, good job.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Thank you for doing work. Yeah. It's so nice.
Matt Rogers
It is very, very nice.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah.
Matt Rogers
What? That's beautiful perspective.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah, it is.
Bowen Yang
Do you have your Oscars dress?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Not yet.
Bowen Yang
You got to get on that.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah.
Matt Rogers
Do you have a color?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
No.
Matt Rogers
Well, what's, What's. Okay.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Which I don't know what I'm wearing yet. I don't know.
Bowen Yang
Will you be. Will you be dressed like.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I hope so.
Matt Rogers
Yeah.
Bowen Yang
Nice.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I better be.
Bowen Yang
Can I say one of the. The number one things I look forward to when now you're going to be somewhere is what you're going to be wearing.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Thank you.
Bowen Yang
You have such amazing fashion sense. You went to school for fashion journalism?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yes, I studied fashion journalism at St. Martin's and yeah, I always wanted to work at Vogue. That was like my ambition.
Matt Rogers
I see it.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah. I wanted to be editor of Vogue. Still time And No. And then. And then. Yeah. When I was studying fashion journalism, I kind of realized I was more. More interested in, like, pop culture as a whole.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
And kind of. And then I was doing chicken shop Day at the same time, like, while I was at university, and just, like, chicken shop date. I just focused on that.
Matt Rogers
Right.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
But, yeah, I've always loved fashion and, like, I just find fashion history and, like. Yeah, fashion journalism is like a gateway into, like, culture as a whole. Anyway.
Matt Rogers
Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Everything is so connected. Everything is so connected.
Matt Rogers
Everything is so connected. Well, it's a specific window. It's like, it's the entry point into the broader scope of.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah. Whether it's. Yeah. Whether it's from. Even from politics to business, like music, to, like, identity, like.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
To everything.
Bowen Yang
You're Brad Coated right now.
Matt Rogers
Am I?
Bowen Yang
Well, always.
Matt Rogers
I've got a mesh back.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Oh, right.
Matt Rogers
That's why.
Bowen Yang
Yeah, his back is mesh.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Is it? Well, just for some more air.
Matt Rogers
Just. Just. Just for ventilation. Of course.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Okay. I love that. I love that.
Bowen Yang
Yeah, he's bar coated, you know, just.
Matt Rogers
A little shoes and My shoes. Well, you had Charlie on, didn't you?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Oh, God, I love Charlie.
Bowen Yang
Yes.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
She's the best. I used to call her the best person ever.
Matt Rogers
Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
So talented and, like, it's just down to earth. So down to earth.
Matt Rogers
Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
And so amazing. So funny. So brilliant. But, yeah, like, watching her perform is just, like, such a joy. Like, every time I see her live. I've seen her perform so many times now, and it's just. I'm just so blown away by. I think it's also when you know someone, like, as a friend and then you see them on stage and you're like, what? You're like, oh, my goodness. Like, how do you. Like what. How do you do that? I just think it's. And she's so physical on stage.
Matt Rogers
Yeah. Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Like, what she does with her, like, her movement and everything, it's like, like, wow. I'm in awe of her. She's amazing. Yeah. I loved her episode with you guys.
Matt Rogers
I know.
Bowen Yang
She had a great episode. I think it was one of my favorite.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
It's a viral moment.
Matt Rogers
It was over the. I'm not.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah, I wouldn't say.
Matt Rogers
I wouldn't say. But I can be a bitch. I can't even quote it.
Bowen Yang
What? I don't think. No. What did she say?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I'm not a bitch.
Matt Rogers
I'm not.
Bowen Yang
I can be bitchy, but I don't know if I'm. I don't know if I'm A bitch, right?
Matt Rogers
There is a distinction.
Bowen Yang
That is the big distinction.
Matt Rogers
We're promoting our own.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
That was a good moment. You know what's crazy?
Bowen Yang
I'm not really on tick tock. So like I didn't know it was a viral sound until well after it happened.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah, it's pretty best.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
That's fun. It's fun to go viral.
Bowen Yang
Yes. Finally. You would.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Must be nice.
Matt Rogers
Must be nice.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
And Andy a good friend. My good friend Andy Samberg.
Matt Rogers
Oh my.
Bowen Yang
You should have him on I would.
Matt Rogers
Love you guys would the sparks would be flying.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I would love that.
Matt Rogers
What if you home wrecked?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
What if I wrecked I don't want.
Bowen Yang
You in your home record era. They'll be so uncommon online.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
No, I know and it's not for me. I don't want to be on the Reddit.
Matt Rogers
Exactly.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
On the Reddit.
Matt Rogers
No.
Bowen Yang
No, you don't.
Matt Rogers
No, please. You want to be on Snark subs or whatever. Okay. It's time for anything. So honey.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
God.
Matt Rogers
This season, secrets will be spilled. The new season of Yellowjackets is coming to Paramount. Plus with Showtime and I could not be more excited. From major awards nominations to conspiracy theories galore, you'll want to catch up on the last two seasons ASAP and get in on all the buzz.
Bowen Yang
It's about a high school girls soccer team who gets stranded in the woods after their plane crashes and need to do some pretty crazy stuff to survive.
Matt Rogers
This season, their mental states begin to fracture and normal teenage girl drama is elevated by life and death circumstances. Fast forward to adulthood and everything they did in the wilderness seems to be coming back to hunt them.
Bowen Yang
It's the perfect mashup of horror, mystery, suspense and laughs with an absolute star studded cast. I'm talking friend of the show, Melanie Lynskey. Tawny Cypress, Lauren Ambrose, Simone Cassell. Special guests Elijah Wood and Hilary Swank. With Christina Ricci and more. Plus, this season promises to answer so many burning questions.
Matt Rogers
Don't miss the new season of Yellowjackets now streaming on the Paramount plus with Showtime plan.
Santi Damian
Do you remember what you said the first night I came over here?
John Cameron Mitchell
Ow.
Santi Damian
Go slower. I met Santi at a luau party in October.
Matt Rogers
I'm Santi Damian.
Bowen Yang
Oh, it was bizarre.
Matt Rogers
The guy just disappeared one day.
Santi Damian
Santi has been missing ever since the hookup.
Matt Rogers
What is that?
Santi Damian
I'm solving a mystery through sex and haven't made a private dick joke until now. Like no matter how hard I try, all roads lead to the hookup.
Bowen Yang
You think it's causing people to turn.
Matt Rogers
Aggro I'm gonna rip your arms off.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
And use them to.
Santi Damian
Yeah, that's a word for it. This is such terrible representation. I'm so sorry. Poppers.
Bowen Yang
These aren't just any poppers.
Santi Damian
Mama always used to say, God gave me gumption in place of a gag reflex. No, not my psychiatrist didn't laugh at that one either. Listen to the hookup on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
Arturo Castro
Hi, I'm Arturo Castro, and I've been lucky enough to do stuff like Broad City and Narcos and Roadhouse and so many commercials about back pain. And now I'm starting a podcast because, honestly, guys, I don't feel the space is crowded enough. Get ready for Greatest Escapes, a new comedy podcast about the wildest true escape stories in history. Each week, I'll be sitting down with some of the most hilarious actors and writers and comedians to tell them a buckwild tale from across history and time. People like Ed Helms, Diane Guerrero, Joseph Gordon Levitt and Zoe Chow.
Matt Rogers
Titanic, Charles Manson, Alcatraz, Assata Shakur, the.
Bowen Yang
Sketchy guy named Steve.
Arturo Castro
It's giving funny, true crime.
Matt Rogers
I love storytelling and I love you. So I can't wait.
Arturo Castro
Listen and subscribe to Greatest escapes on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.
John Cameron Mitchell
This is John Cameron Mitchell and my new fiction podcast series, Cancellation island stars Holly Hunter as Karen, a wellness influencer who launches a rehab for the recently cancelled. In the future, we will all be cancelled for 15 minutes. Minutes. But don't worry, we'll take you from broke to woke or your money back. Cancellation Island's revolutionary rehab therapies, like bad touch football, anti racism spin class, and mandatory ayahuasca ceremonies are designed to force the council to confront their worst impulses. But everything starts to fall apart when people start disappearing.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Karen, where have you brought us?
John Cameron Mitchell
Cancellation island, where a second chance might just be your last. Listen to Cancellation island on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Bowen Yang
Did you have something? Have you?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah, I've got something, but I don't know whether I'm going to be able. I. I just need to get my energy up. Let me have a sip.
Bowen Yang
Coffee?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Wait, do you guys drink coffee?
Matt Rogers
Yeah. Do you?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I can't.
Matt Rogers
Why?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I can't. It makes me go. It makes me go insane. Does it not make you insane?
Bowen Yang
I thought you were going to say something else.
Matt Rogers
It makes me go shit. And you're like.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
It makes me Poo.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
And do you say poo in America?
Matt Rogers
In Canada, we would say poo more than.
Bowen Yang
He's probably more likely to say poo than me.
Matt Rogers
We said poo in Canada, but now I'm now more American. I spent more time in the States. It's poop.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Poop. Okay.
Bowen Yang
See, I don't like poop either. I have to say, poop is quite cute. You know what? I'm ready.
Matt Rogers
Okay. This is Matt Rogers. I don't think so, honey. His time starts now.
Bowen Yang
I don't think so, honey. The word poop. There's nothing worse letter in the Alphabet by far. P. I'm sorry, I can lose it. There are so many better. And also, not for nothing, but there's enough Peters, there's enough Patrick's, there's enough polls. Let's get more creative. Let's explore the letter Q. Okay. How about more Quentins and Quentins in the world?
Matt Rogers
Quentins and Quentins.
Bowen Yang
Here's what I don't like. That letter I hate at the end. You have to say it not once, but twice. Let's not even get into what we're talking about when we say the word fecal matter. Oh, I think that fecal matter matter this one time that Bowen and I wrote a piece, we wrote a show, and he wrote a line, was the funniest thing I ever heard. He said you were a vile fecal woman. And I said, calling someone fecal and talking about feces is better than poop. Grow up and say shit. Grow up and say five seconds. Shart not poop. I'm so hungover.
Matt Rogers
And that's one minute.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Wow.
Matt Rogers
That was quite searing.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I was really. That was serious.
Matt Rogers
But I. I do want to say for context, the line, you vile fecal woman, was in response to your character taunting me by saying that you had eaten my husband's ass out, you vile fecal woman.
Bowen Yang
So that I'll never forget that you're a line read.
Matt Rogers
Oh, thanks.
Bowen Yang
Yeah, I was like, I was eating your husband's ass last night, you vile fecal woman.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
That's good.
Bowen Yang
Owen's a wonderful writer.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
He has away with a quill, away with words.
Bowen Yang
I didn't get to say this. It's really the fact that it's like.
Matt Rogers
Like poop.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
It's that poop is cute.
Bowen Yang
I don't think so.
Matt Rogers
I was gonna say poo is cute.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Poop is cute.
Bowen Yang
No, poo is like you're dancing around it.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Oh, poo is cute.
Matt Rogers
Poo is cute.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Like, it also looks cute. Poop.
Matt Rogers
But Poop is a palindrome.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Oh, what?
Matt Rogers
Spelled. Spelled the same way front as it is back.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Oh, love that. A new word today.
Matt Rogers
A new word today.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah.
Matt Rogers
All right. Matt's got a sunglasses.
Bowen Yang
I've left the building, actually.
Matt Rogers
You've inspired me.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Matt Rogers
I'm not going to do a letter. I'm going to do something else.
Bowen Yang
Okay.
Matt Rogers
You can guess.
Bowen Yang
So this would be our lucky day because it's Bowen Yang's. I don't think so, honey. His time starts now.
Matt Rogers
I don't think so, honey. The number nine, what are you giving? Prime number, square number. That's all you have going on. That's all you will ever be. Let's go through them. One, Amazing, iconic. Two. Amazing iconic. Three. One of the most important numbers. The rule of three. Four.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Four.
Matt Rogers
I like.
Bowen Yang
And Beyonce.
Matt Rogers
Four, Great Beyonce album. Five. Really important. You need the halfway to ten. You really need that as a benchmark, an accounting system. 6. I like. I love 6. 7. Oh, name a prettier number than 7. 8. I love 8. You 8. 9. Hold on, hold on, hold on. 9. What are you giving us? You might as well be 10. You know what I mean?
Bowen Yang
I don't know.
Matt Rogers
What are you doing? Nine. Just you're, you're pussyfooting around 10. I think you should nut up and go up to 10 or go down to eight because that's a prettier number. Or you might as well be seven because nothing beats seven.
Bowen Yang
That's one minute.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Wow.
Bowen Yang
Now why was six afraid of seven?
Matt Rogers
Why?
Bowen Yang
Because seven ain't nine and.
Matt Rogers
Cause nine is. Nine can only be eaten and nine will never eat.
Bowen Yang
I think they wanted to eat nine because nine's delicious, quite frankly. I love nine.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I feel bad for nine at this point. I feel really bad for.
Matt Rogers
Why, why do you feel the need to defend nine?
Bowen Yang
Because you think it's catching strays and did nothing to deserve it?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I think so.
Matt Rogers
Do you have nine in your. In your sort of date of birth or anything is like any meaningful number?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I do not.
Bowen Yang
Excuse me. 1989.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Oh, 1994.
Bowen Yang
Yeah. Hello.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Oh, sorry.
Bowen Yang
Yeah, I'm born in 1990. I'm made of the stuff.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
19, 9. 9. What about the movie 9 Love?
Bowen Yang
So you've seen that?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
So you've seen. So I've seen one film, a movie.
Matt Rogers
You know that.
Bowen Yang
You know that I saw nine twice in theaters.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I know that about you. Yeah, I do know that.
Bowen Yang
Who do you identify with from 9?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
The one who's she got a famous mom.
Bowen Yang
Kate Hudson.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Kate Hudson.
Matt Rogers
Same.
Bowen Yang
I, I.
Matt Rogers
You Two are Kate Hudson.
Bowen Yang
Literally, when I saw Kate Hudson at 9, I was like, I finally saw myself on screen.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Wow.
Bowen Yang
Yeah. The reporter with, like, a fucking huge piece in her hair.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
The hair was really getting.
Bowen Yang
And then she's like, saliano.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
So good.
Bowen Yang
Just like, throwing ass.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Is it a remake of Eight and a Half?
Matt Rogers
It's like a retell reimagining of Eight and a Half.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Okay. Right, Eight and a Half. Random.
Matt Rogers
Random, random.
Bowen Yang
No, no, no, that's.
Matt Rogers
I'll take it over 9. What about platform 9 and 3/4? Might as well be 10. Also, I'm. We're not elevating that transphobes world.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Oh, yeah, sorry, sorry.
Matt Rogers
By the way.
Bowen Yang
You know what? I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
Matt Rogers
You know who hates you now, jk?
Bowen Yang
Charlie and Troy.
Matt Rogers
Because they just want to go back.
Bowen Yang
Back to 9099.
Matt Rogers
I stick around. I find nine quite chic. When it's next to another nine or any other number.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Nine is chic.
Bowen Yang
Nine is so chic.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Nine is actually the chicest number.
Matt Rogers
I don't know, y'all. Nine by itself, I don't enjoy it. Gives me anxiety. I say go to 10. You know what I mean?
Bowen Yang
I think, honestly, if I'm really thinking about the numbers, 3 pisses me off.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
9 doesn't want the responsibility of 10.
Bowen Yang
You know, nor should it take on responsibility. It can't handle. Did you think about that?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
But it won't. That's why I know.
Bowen Yang
I think nine is a lot of restraint.
Matt Rogers
Ten is whole. Ten is.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Ten is king. Yeah.
Bowen Yang
By the way, I don't think nine is a prime number.
Matt Rogers
I'm sorry. It's not. I take that back. Of course.
Bowen Yang
I can't believe I knew a number thing you didn't.
Matt Rogers
I am deeply mistaken, Emelia, because you.
Bowen Yang
Know what you can do with nine? Split it in threes. But I hate three.
Matt Rogers
Yes.
Bowen Yang
Wait. Also, if you don't have nine, you can't have 69. The best sexual position.
Matt Rogers
I don't know. Have y'all.
Bowen Yang
Have you guys reminiscing?
Matt Rogers
Have y'all. Have y'all six. Have y'all 69 recently? Because it's always like. I don't know what. It's all canceling out.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
It's a bit unlike. Necessary.
Bowen Yang
I kind of love it.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Unnecessary.
Bowen Yang
I kind of love it.
Matt Rogers
I like it in theory. I'm thinking about it. I'm going, oh, that's nice.
Bowen Yang
I don't like.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Why is it called 69?
Bowen Yang
Because you are a six and a nine.
Matt Rogers
Someone's a six and someone's a nine.
Bowen Yang
You catching my drill?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Maybe I'm doing it wrong.
Bowen Yang
Like, if this is a six and that's a body. Here comes nine.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Beep, beep, beep.
Matt Rogers
And there's a little.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Isn't it more of an eight?
Matt Rogers
No, wait.
Bowen Yang
Let's actually think about this before we say no. Before we, like, like, disrespect her suggestion. Let's think about it. No.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Okay. Glad we cleared that one up.
Matt Rogers
But could you understand why it's 69?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
No.
Matt Rogers
So it's. So look, look.
Bowen Yang
All right, Bowen, we have to show her.
Matt Rogers
This is what it is. It's like, all right, let's throw her. One person is like. This is the tail. And then that's.
Bowen Yang
That's why this is adventurous.
Matt Rogers
And then, see, like, working. Like, it's like we're symmetrical.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
That doesn't look like a six or a nine to me. That does not look like a six or a nine.
Matt Rogers
Amelia.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Do you want me to do it to you?
Bowen Yang
Want me to do it to you?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
No, I'm fragile.
Bowen Yang
You've had it already.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Fragile.
Bowen Yang
Period.
Matt Rogers
Period.
Bowen Yang
I think that 69 is great when it's not side by side. I have to be.
Matt Rogers
You have to be down on your back.
Bowen Yang
I sort of be exactly what I just did to you.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Just like that. Just like that.
Matt Rogers
Oh, yeah.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
That's just the best. That's what we just saw there. That is romance.
Bowen Yang
You know what's gonna happen? This video is gonna come out audio first, and then a couple days later video. And they're not gonna be able to wait to watch me. 69, Bowen. It happens. We have been getting a lot of requests to kiss lately. Have you seen that?
Matt Rogers
Ooh.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
That's not a kiss.
Bowen Yang
Kiss. Kiss.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Kisses. Who's that?
Bowen Yang
I'm like, where's this?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
The fans. Kissing's fun. Yeah.
Matt Rogers
My favorite thing to do.
Bowen Yang
You guys wanna all kiss?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah. No challenges.
Matt Rogers
Challengers.
Bowen Yang
Challengers. Oh, wow. You should have been in the middle.
Matt Rogers
You're Zendaya, obviously. But then who are we? I'm. I think I might be Feist, I guess. Yeah.
Bowen Yang
I'm Josh.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
You're.
Matt Rogers
You're like the scuzzier Messier one. No. That's a controversial compliment. For the streets.
Bowen Yang
We were saying. We were saying. One of my favorite comments about me recently online was that I need to stop pushing Bowen to talk about his sex life just because I'm for the street.
Matt Rogers
I wish I was for the streets.
Bowen Yang
You are for the streets. Look at the top you're wearing, you slut. You're such a slut.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
She's taking a turn.
Matt Rogers
There's a shy girl song where she's like. She goes, I'm for the streets, bitch.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah, that's great.
Matt Rogers
Really good. I'm for the streets, bitch. All right.
Bowen Yang
Are you ready to. Ready to show the streets what you got?
Matt Rogers
You said you had something. I do. Okay. This is Amelia de Waldenbergs. I don't think so, honey. Her time starts now.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I don't think so, honey. Magicians.
Bowen Yang
Okay. Gotta go.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Okay. What? I don't need a man to tell me something I don't know. Hello. Don't trick me. What? Stop doing it. Also, where are the female magicians? I don't see any of them. Okay? It's a feminist issue. The only women around magic are getting sawn in half.
Matt Rogers
No.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
No, thank you. Playing cards, sleight of hand. I just don't think it's necessary. Really. And I also think it's. I've been to the Magic Castle.
Matt Rogers
Wow.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Smell bad. Smell bad.
Matt Rogers
Smelled bad.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Smelled really bad. Also, it's not real.
Matt Rogers
What?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Magic.
Matt Rogers
Oh, sorry.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
It's not real.
Matt Rogers
They met the magic house.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Magic's not real. Show me some real magic. Find me an emotionally available man who can buy me dinner.
Bowen Yang
Oh, my God.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
That's all I want. Five seconds, isn't it? Don't pull a rabbit out of a hat. They don't want to be there.
Matt Rogers
And that's one minute.
Bowen Yang
Amelia, first of all, I think that. That you are so right to call out the gender inequality in this art form.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yes. Yes, it's true. It's weird, isn't it? There's no.
Bowen Yang
As Olivia Rodrigo once said, God, it's brutal out here.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Exactly. No, but I think there's a reason why women don't want to be magicians. Because they know it's, like, not appropriate, like, to be a magician.
Matt Rogers
Appropriate in the sense that, like, it's.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Not appropriate, really, to be a magician.
Bowen Yang
It's lying. It's lying.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yes, it's lying. It's just more men lying to me, and I don't want it around me.
Matt Rogers
What? If you like magic, I can appreciate it. Okay, but, like, what.
Bowen Yang
But what if.
Matt Rogers
Okay, I mean, hold on, hold on. What if they're like, we're gonna pay you $5 million if you learn magic.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
It's so lame. Magic.
Bowen Yang
You don't need that money.
Matt Rogers
You don't need that money.
Bowen Yang
What am I gonna be doing?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Like, pulling the doop, doop, doop. Sorry.
Bowen Yang
If you were gonna do magic, what would. Like, you know what I'M saying you should find a.
Matt Rogers
Like. Like a lane. You should do fashion magic.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Fashion magic? Well, like. Oh, no. Like when they, like, turn their clothes inside out. That's what I'm saying. We don't need it. We don't need it.
Bowen Yang
Oh, wait, no.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
You know who I do kind of like?
Bowen Yang
Who?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Dave. Is it David Blaine?
Matt Rogers
Yeah, David Blaine.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Oh, he's. Is he canceled?
Matt Rogers
I. We don't know.
Bowen Yang
I don't know. Do we know if David Blaine.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Is he canceled?
Bowen Yang
Can we find out? Just Google search.
Matt Rogers
David Blaine canceled, but you can still like him if he's canceled.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
No, I just. Okay. That's the kind of magic I can maybe. I'm into that, but that's more like risking your life. Like, you could maybe die. Right.
Matt Rogers
And that's not deceit. There's no deceit in that.
Bowen Yang
That's death defying. Have you ever seen Criss Angel? Mind freak?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
No.
Matt Rogers
He's under investigation. Okay, okay, okay.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I hate him.
Matt Rogers
All right.
Bowen Yang
Got it. You're right. They're bad.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
They're bad. That's what I'm saying.
Matt Rogers
That's what I'm saying.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
This is Point Braven.
Bowen Yang
Wait, but where are the. Is there one female you know who I share a birthday with? Penn Jillette.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Oh, are they the ones who shoot themselves?
Matt Rogers
Penn and Teller.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Penn and Teller with the gun. I don't know if they have guns.
Bowen Yang
Wait, Stupid. Interacted with Siegfried and Roy. They got mauled by their own tigers.
Matt Rogers
Right? That was.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
That's what I'm saying. A dumb.
Bowen Yang
They should just hung it up.
Matt Rogers
Also, Magic Castle. Get the carpet cleaner out.
Bowen Yang
Have you. Have you been there?
Matt Rogers
I've not been. I've not been there.
Bowen Yang
I don't know why.
Matt Rogers
Have you been there?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I've been there. Unfortunately, no.
Bowen Yang
Did you get invited by a magician?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
By a magician.
Matt Rogers
And how did you know this magician?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
It's friend of a friend. I wouldn't personally smash. I wouldn't personally associate myself with magicians, but.
Bowen Yang
Were you trying to smash.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I wasn't trying to smash the magician. No. Magician is not my type.
Bowen Yang
Time, as we know.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I don't think so, honey. Magicians.
Matt Rogers
That was brutal in the best way that you. I'm on your side completely.
Bowen Yang
It was a searing takedown.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Thank you.
Matt Rogers
Emily de Maldenberg. What a true delight it's been to be with you.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
It's really been delightful.
Bowen Yang
You have to come back.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I've honestly had the best time with you guys.
Matt Rogers
But, like, truly, like, for multiple days.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah. And I just really appreciate it because I feel like Some of these things can be really overwhelming. And it's so nice to, like, have people around you who are, like, actually funny, normal, great, talented. Love it. Love you guys. And thank you so much for having me on.
Bowen Yang
Of course.
Matt Rogers
We feel the same way about you. I remember meeting you at that part after party, being like, you just. I mean, we just have to have you on.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah.
Matt Rogers
I'm so glad. I'm so glad it happened.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah. And you guys, it's nearly the 10 years for you guys.
Matt Rogers
Is it true?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah.
Matt Rogers
Did we start around the same time?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah, we must have.
Matt Rogers
That's so nice.
Bowen Yang
I guess, like March 2016 was when we started.
Matt Rogers
So another year or so. We're at the nine year mark.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Do a big ten year thing.
Bowen Yang
I'm sure we will. We love to do an event.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
You have to.
Bowen Yang
We love to eventize.
Matt Rogers
Love to eventize. And maybe we'll see you at the awards.
Bowen Yang
I think you're going to be nominated.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I'm. I want, I'm begging to work the carpet.
Bowen Yang
You know what? Honestly, like, let me work. Could be good.
Matt Rogers
Could be good. Only if you want to do it.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Okay, we'll do.
Bowen Yang
We will talk.
Matt Rogers
We'll talk.
Bowen Yang
Well, we have to rope in a lot of people. There's meetings about the culture awards now.
Matt Rogers
We keep teasing the meeting on up to the. All right. We end every episode with the song. And here we go.
Bowen Yang
Moving on up to the east side. Why this key that big in the sky?
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Yeah, yeah.
Matt Rogers
Fish don't fry in the kitchen. Bye.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Bye. Thank you.
Matt Rogers
Las Coltritas is a production by Will Ferrell's Big Money Players and iHeartRadio podcast.
Bowen Yang
Created and hosted by Matt Rogers and Buddha Bowen Yang, executive produced by Anna.
Matt Rogers
Hosnier and produced by Becca Ramos, edited and mixed by Doug Bateman, Monique Labord.
Bowen Yang
And our music is by Henry Komirsky.
Arturo Castro
Hi, I'm Arturo Castro, and I've been lucky enough to do stuff like Broad City and Narcos and Roadhouse. And now I'm starting a podcast because, honestly, guys, I don't feel the space is crowded enough. Get ready for Greatest Escapes, a new comedy podcast about the wildest true escape stories in history. Each week I'll be sitting down with some of the most hilarious, hilarious actors and writers and comedians, people like Ed Helms, Diane Guerrero, and Joseph Gordon Levitt.
Matt Rogers
I love storytelling and I love you, so I can't wait.
Arturo Castro
Listen and subscribe to Greatest escapes on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
John Cameron Mitchell
This is John Cameron Mitchell. And my new fiction podcast series, Cancellation island stars Hollywood Hunter as Karen, a wellness influencer who launches a rehab for the recently canceled. In the future we will all be cancelled for 15 minutes, but don't worry, we'll take you from broke to woke or your money back. Cancellation Island's revolutionary rehab therapies, like bad touch football, anti racism, spin class and mandatory ayahuasca ceremonies are designed to force the cancel to confront their worst impulses. But everything starts to fall apart when people start disappearing.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
Karen, where have you brought us?
John Cameron Mitchell
Cancellation island, where a second chance might just be your last. Listen to Cancellation island on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Emilia DiMaldenberg
I'm Dr. Laurie Santos and to welcome the new year, my podcast the Happiness Lab is releasing a series of happiness how to Gu to help you in 2025. I'll distill the wisdom of world class experts into easy to digest actionable tips. You'll learn how to handle relationships, how to be inspiring, and how to find your purpose. The Happiness Lab's how to season starts January 1st. Listen on America's number one podcast network, iHeart. Open your free iHeart app. Search for the Happiness Lab and start listening.
Matt Rogers
Hey man, what are you into?
Bowen Yang
I have the hookup.
Santi Damian
The hookup? The hookup for what? I'm solving a mystery through sex and haven't made a private dick joke until now. Poppers. Why are there so many poppers? All roads lead to the hookup.
Bowen Yang
You think it's causing people to turn aggro?
Matt Rogers
I'm gonna rip your arms off and use them to.
Santi Damian
Yeah, that's a word for it. Listen to the hookup on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
Podcast Summary: Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Episode: "Little Miss Miss Worldwide" (w/ Amelia Dimoldenberg)
Release Date: February 19, 2025
In the "Little Miss Miss Worldwide" episode of Las Culturistas, hosts Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang welcome special guest Amelia Dimoldenberg, the creator and host of the popular British web series Chicken Shop Date. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartPodcasts, this episode delves into Amelia's experiences in pop culture, her interactions with celebrities, and her insights into modern relationships and flirting.
The episode kicks off with Matt and Bowen recounting their recent attendance at the SNL50 afterparty. Fresh off the event, they share humorous anecdotes about their time there, including consuming gin and tonics and interacting with fellow celebrities.
Matt Rogers reflects on the ambiance:
“We are coming at you fresh off of the SNL50 afterparty. Literally. It happened. It ended not 12 hours ago.”
(02:49)
Bowen Yang adds his own twist:
“I mean, you time sounds like a dream, right? Ikea is here to make your me time dreams come true.”
(00:42) (Note: This seems to be part of an advertisement interjected into the conversation.)
The hosts introduce Amelia, praising her for her impeccable vibe and instant camaraderie during the afterparty. They highlight her role in Chicken Shop Date, emphasizing the show's unique format of hosting dates in chicken shops, which offers a candid and humorous look into modern dating.
Matt Rogers shares their connection:
“Well, you know what? You know what's happened which actually really bonds people is we've shared a dressing room to go through glam.”
(04:21)
Amelia Dimoldenberg expresses her enthusiasm:
“It's such a pleasure to be here. Long time no see. It must have been about two hours.”
(07:35)
Amelia discusses her experiences attending various award shows, detailing the excitement of meeting industry icons and the challenges of navigating such high-profile events. The conversation touches on the importance of having a purpose at these gatherings to feel confident and engaged.
Amelia Dimoldenberg on feeling confident:
"I don't really get nervous to meet celebrities, and I feel like that's why I've enjoyed this job, or maybe I'm good at it because I don't really feel like I get starstruck that much."
(12:17)
Matt Rogers adds:
“What was the overall bounce on last night?”
(13:27)
The trio shares memorable moments from award shows, including interactions with notable figures like Andy Samberg and Cher, highlighting the blend of professionalism and genuine connection that makes these events special.
Amelia delves into the genesis and evolution of Chicken Shop Date, revealing how the show became a pivotal platform for genuine storytelling in the realm of dating and relationships. She recounts her encounters with celebrities who appeared on the show, such as Cher, Andy Samberg, and Bonnie Raitt, illustrating how these interviews blend humor with heartfelt narratives.
Amelia on her experience with Cher:
"She was perfect. She just didn't really. She was perfect."
(20:39)
Bowen Yang shares a standout moment:
“She was so humid out there. She was putting on more than just makeup.”
(Unstated timestamp)
The discussion emphasizes the show's unique approach to interviews, where vulnerability meets comedy, allowing guests to showcase different facets of their personalities.
The conversation shifts to the intricacies of flirting and modern relationships. Amelia opens up about her natural flair for flirting, influenced by her British upbringing and personal experiences. The hosts explore the dynamics of flirting within and outside of monogamous relationships, addressing common pitfalls and the importance of mutual respect and clear communication.
Amelia Dimoldenberg on her flirting style:
"I just have this natural capacity and this talent for flirting. You flirt very well."
(35:27)
Bowen Yang adds insight:
“If you're not feeling good about yourself, though, I think any situation I'm in where, like, I can feel like that's going somewhere, I go right to, like, fear.”
(40:28)
The trio discusses the challenges of maintaining genuine connections in a world saturated with instant gratification and endless choices, advocating for deeper engagement and sincerity in interactions.
Amelia and the hosts engage in a lively discussion about their favorite shows, movies, and cultural phenomena. They share anecdotes from recent events like Mighty Hoopla and reflect on the impact of iconic figures in entertainment.
Amelia Dimoldenberg on her admiration for Cher:
"What does it feel like to be an icon? It doesn't feel like anything."
(19:07)
Bowen Yang reminisces about meeting Andy Samberg:
“It was truly amazing. I know he's a friend, but seeing him perform live was next level.”
(28:07)
They also delve into discussions about the influence of shows like Full House and the evolution of pop culture icons, drawing parallels between past and present media influences.
As the episode draws to a close, Amelia reflects on her journey with Chicken Shop Date and her aspirations to expand her creative horizons. The hosts express their appreciation for her candidness and the enriching conversations that emerged from the episode.
Amelia Dimoldenberg shares her future goals:
"I wanted to work at Vogue. That was like my ambition. Still time."
(68:40)
Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang reaffirm their support and enthusiasm for Amelia's continued success, leaving listeners with a sense of camaraderie and inspiration.
Matt Rogers:
“We are coming at you fresh off of the SNL50 afterparty. Literally. It happened. It ended not 12 hours ago.”
(02:49)
Amelia Dimoldenberg:
“I don't really get nervous to meet celebrities, and I feel like that's why I've enjoyed this job.”
(12:17)
Amelia Dimoldenberg:
“She was perfect. She just didn't really. She was perfect.”
(20:39)
Amelia Dimoldenberg:
“Flirting makes you feel alive.”
(40:01)
Bowen Yang:
“If you're not feeling good about yourself, though, I think any situation I'm in where, like, I can feel like that's going somewhere, I go right to, like, fear.”
(40:28)
Amelia Dimoldenberg:
“I wanted to work at Vogue. That was like my ambition.”
(68:40)
This episode of Las Culturistas offers a rich exploration of Amelia Dimoldenberg’s journey in pop culture, her innovative approach to storytelling through Chicken Shop Date, and her thoughtful perspectives on relationships and flirting. Through engaging conversations and memorable anecdotes, listeners gain a deeper understanding of the cultural forces shaping modern interactions and media.