← Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
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Bowen Yang
This is an iHeart podcast.
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Matt Rogers
Honey is on the Case Focus Features invites you to honeydon't, the coolest, sexiest, most scandalous murder mystery of the summer.
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Bowen Yang
In a small desert town full of odd folks with strange obsessions, a suspicious car crash sets off a series of deadly events.
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Matt Rogers
As the body count rises, private detective Honey o' Donohue finds herself at the center of a bizarre conspiracy where everyone.
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Bowen Yang
Has a secret from Ethan Cohen, a director of no country for Old Men and starring Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza, Charlie Day and Chris Evans.
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Matt Rogers
Honey don't, written by Ethan Cohen and.
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Bowen Yang
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Matt Rogers
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Bowen Yang
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Matt Rogers
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Bowen Yang
News for all you platonic fans. Season 2 is officially out on Apple TV. Plus, if you missed Season 1, here's the gist. Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne legends play a pair of platonic besties just like Matt and I who are a total dis disaster together in the funniest way.
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Matt Rogers
I can't wait to see that Luke McFarland. Well now I'm really excited. Luke and Carla Gallo. Okay, get me to the theater. I mean the the show tv, the tv. See the Thing is, Apple TV plus is like watching a movie in your own home. Everything on there is so excellent. And you'll spot some familiar faces from SNL, like A.D. bryant.
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Bowen Yang
I know her.
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Matt Rogers
Season two of Platonic is now streaming on Apple TV Plus. It's hilarious. Go check it out. Look, man, there. Oh, I see my eye. Oh, my Bowen. Look over there. Wow. Is that culture? Yes.
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Bowen Yang
Ding dong dong.
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Matt Rogers
Las culturistas calling.
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Bowen Yang
Oh, you're a little hot on the mic.
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Matt Rogers
Am I a little hot on the mic? First of all, you. You just got dressed down by Doug, so you can't talk to me about the mic.
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Bowen Yang
No, I am. This is not out of my own bruised ego. I am just telling you. I hear you say spiking.
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Matt Rogers
Doug.
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Bowen Yang
Doug, get in here.
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Matt Rogers
Doug, am I too hot on the mic? It doesn't sound like it's distorting.
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Bowen Yang
It is a little bit louder than Bowen.
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Matt Rogers
Okay, well, maybe that.
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Bowen Yang
That could just be my excitement. Are you using the MV7?
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Matt Rogers
No, we're not. Doug, over. We're not doing this. Like, this is supposed to be a fun thing. You're going to come in with all the terminology. The mv. You got to go.
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Bowen Yang
Go pet that dog.
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Matt Rogers
We have a lot to talk about today, okay?
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Bowen Yang
We really do. He's gone. Ugh. Now it's just us girls. We love Doug. Doug is our king. As we all know, Doug is our king. Lots to talk about. Ooh wee. The life of a podcaster.
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Matt Rogers
The life of a podcaster. Remember when we thought I literally, as of, like, yesterday morning was like, oh, how great. Like, not a lot happened. We're gonna be able to recap the culture. Awards, like. And then.
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Bowen Yang
And then it's horror movie logic, and we'll more on that later. But it's, you know, just when you think you're safe. Ooh, no killers. Right behind you. The Wendy Williams killer.
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Matt Rogers
Oh, the Wendy the Killer.
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Bowen Yang
The Killer.
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Matt Rogers
But in this case, I'm so happy that the killer has arrived. You know what actually bummed me out, though? I went to my closet to sort of have like, a fun experience for me and you on the Zoom. I was gonna wear orange.
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Bowen Yang
Mm.
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Matt Rogers
I don't have an orange thing, and.
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Bowen Yang
That'S probably for the best.
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Matt Rogers
I don't think so.
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Bowen Yang
Orange is just tough. It's just tough on human skin until we have blue skin, until we're Na', Vi, until Avatar Fire comes out and.
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Matt Rogers
The New York Mets coded.
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Bowen Yang
It's New York Mets, but it looks good on the Mets. On Mr. Met and Missmet.
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Matt Rogers
Yeah, Yeah, I. Actually, there was one time in my life, I think I was in elementary school. I might have been like, fifth grade, and someone told me, you look good in orange. And I remember I was like, huh.
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Bowen Yang
Well, it's about that. It's your neutral tone. It's the olive tone. And so maybe that. It. That's it. It's. It's your Hellenic, sorry, Mediterranean lineage. But, you know, blue and orange is a classic combo. Denver Broncos. That was big. You know, blue and orange. Blue and orange. There are other examples, I'm sure.
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Matt Rogers
Didn't you wear orange for something we did once? Were you in orange and pop roulette way back in the day? I remember you wearing orange.
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Bowen Yang
I was goldenrod.
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Matt Rogers
You were goldenrod. That was your color.
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Bowen Yang
Okay, slight difference. I. I think none of us were brave enough to do orange.
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Matt Rogers
Well, who is brave enough to sort of do orange is Taylor Swift, who has announced the life of a showgirl, her 12th album, TS12, as it were. Orange is all over it. And also some mint cream, which we can also we. Which we can only describe as Tic tac coded.
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Bowen Yang
It's Tic tac coded. I would say that it is more green. I think the orange was a mislead and because she didn't want to double up on green with. Debut with. And so maybe that was the era color. But I think the overall story is mostly mint green touches of orange, because even she is not. Is not. Knows that it is not the color.
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Matt Rogers
It would just be a lot to be exclusively orange. But then again, I don't put anything past her. I mean, during eras. And she looked good in the color.
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Bowen Yang
She did. And you know what? Should we look at the ERAS tour book just to see if she dropped any Easter eggs in that? And look at it.
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Matt Rogers
Is it. Is it by you? Oh, you're talking about the. The. The official. Oh, wow.
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Bowen Yang
The hardcover book.
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Matt Rogers
So I don't think I have this.
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Bowen Yang
The note inside when she said, see you next era.
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Matt Rogers
Okay, what does it say?
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Bowen Yang
You know, her talking about ERAS tour. Eras tour. We can do it with a broken heart. We do it. Life comes in phases, waves, brilliant flurries of magical moments. All these things come together. Great errors. Okay. There was some just, like, orange emphasis.
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Matt Rogers
The first line is orange. You glad you came to the ERAS tour.
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Bowen Yang
Oh, my God, you're right. She did an orange pun right there.
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Matt Rogers
She did it.
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Bowen Yang
Oh, wow. Anyway, okay, maybe. Maybe I was misremembering things. Maybe it was a Mandela effect situation. I'm blaming a lot of things on the Mandela effect lately. That's my. That's my toxic trait.
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Matt Rogers
Define the Mandela effect.
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Bowen Yang
Bear stain. Bear stain. Bears.
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Matt Rogers
Oh, sure, sure, sure.
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Bowen Yang
You know, if, you know, countless examples, like if, you know, Popeye had a green shirt instead of a black one or whatever. Like, that's, that's. I'm making that one up.
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Matt Rogers
No, that's. Now, I, I immediately remember what it is. So we could be doing that. But the thing is like, life of a showgirl, orange and mint green. Like, all these things, like, I can't say that on. On a face value. They're. They go together. But I am more excited than I've been in a while. Like, it was like three days ago. I wasn't even thinking about this. I was obviously, we were thinking about other things and then all of a sudden I was like, okay, yes, I'm ready. I'm really ready. And you know, the showgirl imagery, it's just, it just goes to show, no pop girly is safe from a circus esque, showgirl esque, masquerade esque era.
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Bowen Yang
Well, and this is true of everyone, including Taylor. At some point, these girls, I'm sorry, these women reckon with the fact that they are. That the. The most legible metaphor on their journey through performance and being an object of whatever is like, you know, being on display is the circus, which actually, like, I don't. I don't totally poo poo it. I don't. I like the circus eras.
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Matt Rogers
I think it's gonna be great. I think that she, she clearly got something from the I can do it with a broken heart type of performance she was doing at eras tour that so clearly, like, tips to this. But my whole thing is. So there's been some. And I hesitate to really go here because leaks are leaks, but there's some imagery floating online. We don't know yet if it's real or not, but it actually points to her having a kind of era, which I have seen for her in the past, and I can't remember if I've said it on this podcast, but the imagery that the life of a showgirl thing and even the colors is sort of pointing to is sort of like an Annie Lennox diva type, grandiose energy. And she's also like, the rumor is that she worked with Max Martin on a lot of this, which to me makes it feel like we're going into a big pop era. Like if. If, you know, 1989 reputation lover type thing, as opposed to we're clearly not in a. In a depressive moment.
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Bowen Yang
No I mean, I'm sure it will be a little Travis Modlin. Oh, yeah. But I'm just saying, like, there will be elements of, like, sadness there. There's dimension to all her work. I think I remember. I also recall you saying, I think after Reputation, you were predicting a Pat Benatar adjacent thing. I feel like maybe it's not quite that.
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Matt Rogers
It's not this. I feel like. I feel like my thing is like some. One of the pop girlies was gonna try to do, like, a Pat Benatar type thing. And I think some of them have hinted at it like the person that's been closest to really kind of doing that has been Miley. But I don't know, it's not really the. I guess that was the plastic hearts era, and it didn't really pop off.
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Bowen Yang
Yeah. I think we are floating with. I mean, there's a lot to work with here. Right. Because I went to you and Jared, I said, Vegas residency, and I said, what better venue than the Spear? What better? You know, like, it can hold a lot of people every. On. On a given night.
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Matt Rogers
Mm.
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Bowen Yang
My new thought is just, I hope she incorporates Elizabeth Berkeley, Gina Gershon in some capacity.
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Matt Rogers
Oh, absolutely. Bring them back together.
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Bowen Yang
Bring it back together. Have a moment where it's like, you know, torture post department, dead poet society draw, connect the dots to cinema lead single.
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Matt Rogers
Her and Kyle MacLachlan thrashing around in the pool.
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Bowen Yang
I mean, why not her. Her getting a lap dance. Her getting a pussy out lap dance from Elizabeth Berkeley.
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Matt Rogers
I feel as though it's the only move.
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Bowen Yang
It's the only move.
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Matt Rogers
But you know what, though? In a real way, the life of a showgirl thing kind of gives super bowl more than anything else she's done. You know what I mean?
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Bowen Yang
And that when we think. We think that's the terminus, that's like the end point for this.
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Matt Rogers
I don't necessarily know that endpoint, but I'm just thinking, like, in terms of aesthetics that go with something in culture that she hasn't yet impacted, that being the super bowl halftime show, obviously, the Travis of it all. You know what I mean? Like, in a world where it feels like these people can predict the future somehow or just are able to manifest this. Like him going to the super bowl feels real during the life of a showgirl era.
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Bowen Yang
Totally.
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Matt Rogers
I do think it's interesting that Taylor Swift has now done a podcast.
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Bowen Yang
I'm just saying it's interesting she's done a podcast with men who have been in the straight male friend sketch.
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Matt Rogers
Wow. There's avenues. There's.
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Bowen Yang
There's avenues.
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Matt Rogers
But my opinion is she, she, she should be the second to last episode of this podcast whenever that happens. Oh, my God.
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Bowen Yang
And then the last would just be us.
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Matt Rogers
The last would just be us. I feel like the last episode can't be Taylor because we're going to want to talk to each other, but this is not in the plans anyway, everyone. You're just saying holistically, we could be 60 years old and Taylor Swift brings her talented ass in. But yeah, I mean, there's not much to know yet. But I am excited.
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Bowen Yang
I will say maybe we'll cut this out, but there was an ask. We did. There was outreach to her for something in the Culture Awards, especially in the N upsen show, which we'll get to. What we got back was now is not a good time. And I. And you know, obviously it made sense then. It makes even more sense now. It's like she's going to wait for her first quote, unquote, like appearance on something. Be very intentional because of course the album is coming out. This was what I was gonna say. Didn't we also hear rumblings of ABBA infused Swedish pop? Max Martin.
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Matt Rogers
The scuttlebutt was that it was Ace of Bass. Abba, Swedish pop. Like you were just saying, like, it's like that kind of stuff. You like Euro. It's giving Eurovision happy pop in love. I get that. It kind of reads the color orange. Like orange and the mint green of it all. They feel like upper colors.
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Bowen Yang
Creamsicle.
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Matt Rogers
Also, her sitting on her boyfriend's podcast and giggling and laughing. It's just, it's, you know, she's. She's gonna. She's gonna attempt to make the world happy. And we need it.
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Bowen Yang
Certainly do. We certainly do. And for now, we are waiting with bated breath. I think by the time this comes out. So I think the New Heights episode comes out on the same day this episode does. I think 7pm they will unblur the album cover. So at this point, we do not know what that looks like. Yeah. So, you know, exciting times. But this is.
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Matt Rogers
But we'll have more to say next week.
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Bowen Yang
We'll have more to say next week. And then our Angera did point out that she liked a tweet where someone pointed out that this is the 12 year anniversary of Applause.
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Matt Rogers
TS.
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Bowen Yang
12. 12 years. This rollout, you know, like, is. And then she. She liked the tweet, which is either an acknowledgment of the coincidence, which is purely coincidence. Or it is the intentional thing. Twelve weeks since she announced that she bought her masters back. Whoa. And so that's also. There's, there's. You know, let's just keep digging through the numerology here. The Easter eggs are usually just numerical and which is not, which is not to say just, it's like, let's focus on numbers exclusively. Our swifties loose. You know, like, let's, let's, let's go in that direction, but keep going.
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Matt Rogers
Do you remember her walking out in the stadium with the cat and she was in section A12 August 12th? Yeah. So basically, like, there are so many, there are so many examples of this that it's either completely insane how accurate and like, how methodical they are with this new numerical stuff and the Easter eggs of it all. Or, or at least some of these things are coincidences in a way that it's like if people worked hard enough on anything, they could find a line to draw to any of these things. If you really worked hard enough. Like, it just feels crazy to me that she would be like, okay, well, it has to be this day because it's 12 years since applause. And we, we months prior, like, walked out at 8:12. Like, I have no idea what it's like to be someone at that level. And I wonder if every single day is planned out. Tinfoil hat on.
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Bowen Yang
I mean, it's certainly possible that she outsources the planning to a team of people.
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Matt Rogers
Yeah, a team of scientists.
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Bowen Yang
A team of scientists. A calendar scientist.
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Matt Rogers
Astronomers and astrologers. Yes, she has six astronomers and six astrologers. And she puts them all in a room. Twelve, by the way. And that was my easter egg astrology.
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Bowen Yang
12.
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Matt Rogers
12 months of the year. Holy bo.
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Bowen Yang
Oh my God.
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Matt Rogers
There might be something to this number. She let us have a week. You know what I mean? Like, the thing about Taylor Swift is she. She saw Lost Culturistas Culture Awards were coming out. I don't know that she watched them, might not even see they were coming out, but she said, oh, give him a week.
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Bowen Yang
I'll give him a week.
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Matt Rogers
Let the Ben Platt Diet Pepsi cover.
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Bowen Yang
Right.
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Matt Rogers
And be the viral thing for a week.
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Bowen Yang
Totally. And next week is the 12 year anniversary of applause. Okay, I'll do it then. Yeah, that'll be the drop.
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Matt Rogers
That feels right.
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Bowen Yang
Speaking of Di Pepsi, Ben Platt. Thank you so much, Matt Rogers, for bringing that into the world.
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Matt Rogers
You can attest to this. It was one of the things we knew was happening in the show for the longest period of time early on. Like that Was truly like a blue. That was part of the blue sky. Was like, ben Platt is gonna sing Diet Pepsi, which was a record of the year nominee before we knew he was gonna be performing. And then I was like, oh, he should do that. That would be good.
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Bowen Yang
It was a nominee that we had established early on. And then Ben was booked, and we were so excited that Ben was on. Of course.
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Matt Rogers
Yeah.
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Bowen Yang
And that was. It was the blue sky on top of a blue sky. Because it's like, well, Ben Platt can sing anything and sing it beautifully. It was not. I mean, it's a beautiful cosmic alignment that he sang that song. But for a minute there, it was this, like, open question as to what he would sing.
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Matt Rogers
Yeah. And it was absolutely intended as a joke. I was like, oh, he should sing Diet Pepsi. That would be funny. And I bet in the. I remember, I was like, I think. I bet it's gonna be gorgeous, too. Of course. Find a way. And then, you know, Leland and Gabe Lopez, who are the producers on it, and did our whole. All of our music for the show. Bowen and I actually went to the studio the day that Ben was there, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I hadn't even really. We had been so busy with so many other parts of the show that him doing that song just kind of became, like, a given. And so we go there, and I remember being so excited because he was coming. We were going to see him in the booth, and I was like, oh, this is going to be so fun. And then he started doing it, and I remember I looked at you, and I was just like, wait, is this, like, the moment of the show?
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Bowen Yang
And I don't take videos of a lot of stuff, but I took. I recorded one of the takes while we were there. I was like, ooh, this is something.
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Matt Rogers
Brett was like, you're gonna want this, Brett. He's always like that. Whenever I'm in the studio with him. He's like, take a video of this. You're gonna want this. And he was right about this because Ben is just in the booth just shredding and, like, meaning it. And so many people now saying they're listening to the words for the first time. Like, it's stunning.
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Bowen Yang
Oh, no. Addison Tor, by the way, I think there is a place there's some discourse about, like, them being deleterious. Like, one song sort of eating up another. No, it's not that.
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Matt Rogers
Oh, Ben having Kelly Clarkson, the song, the TikTok, the virality. Here's the thing, like, I get what people are saying, of course he did Kelly Clarkson, the song. He covered the song in a way that, like, a legit singer would do it. And. But for me, it's just, like, what it does is it actually shines a light on the fact that that song.
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Bowen Yang
Is really fucking stunning, really good, and, like, it has. It has a completely different valence when Addison Rae herself sings about losing her innocence in the backseat. You know, like, there's like, an irony and. But a different kind of sweetness, a different kind of emotion behind Ben Platt singing it. Not even irony. Like, he. He fucking earnestly sang the shit out of that song.
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Matt Rogers
I just love the journey of it. And I was talking to him afterwards because he was completely blown away by the response to it. Like, I remember when we were in the booth that day, I turned to him and I was like, you're gonna have to release this. And he goes, I mean, if there's demand, like, we could talk about it, But I don't know.
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Bowen Yang
Well, there you go.
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Matt Rogers
And then it became this thing of, you know, it going sort of totally off on TikTok. And my whole thing was like. It was really the journey of the audience that. That made it. Because we were talking and he was like, I feel like to go into the studio and now put out, like, a canned version of it. Like, we would have to rush that, etc. Let's just put out the live version. And I was like, that's my favorite thing about it, is people discovering the fact that they're moved while it's happening.
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Bowen Yang
The laughs at the beginning of the song from the audience are actually a really important.
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Matt Rogers
Yeah.
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Bowen Yang
Coordinate for the journey of the song, I think.
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Matt Rogers
Well, that, like, is the culture. I remember, like, we were putting the show together, and I kept being like. The sentence I feel like we were saying to, like, validate that something should move forward was, that's the Culture Awards. You know what I mean? Like, Ben Platt singing Diet Pepsi, which, on its face value, was funny to me, which is the reason why it came up during our Blue sky. But then what makes it the Culture Awards is it actually sort of worked, right? And that's, like, the case for so many things in the show. And we were just. I feel like I can speak for myself, but after Abracadabra, I could relax because we had done it and then we were just watching it and it's.
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Bowen Yang
It been laid to your point. It was a Mad Libs vibe check. It was.
- [21:53]
Matt Rogers
Yes.
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Bowen Yang
Okay. Blank is presenting Blank to Blank. Sasha Colby is presenting best new Artist to Gabby Wendy, that's the Culture Awards. Yes. Like, you know, that is. That is sort of the DNA behind the whole thing. I think Matt and I did mention last episode that we had watched the final cut together, and it was a very wonderful experience just to, like, have our moment with it before it got released, because I kept. I mean, there were moments where I fell to my knees that just, like, I can't believe what I'm watching. And I.
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Matt Rogers
To. And I.
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Bowen Yang
That sounds a little bit masturbatory for me to say about my own thing, but, like, I. I had gone back from China. I was not in the edit. Matt really took point there with Jane Munn and Lauren Mandel. And I mean, I. Watching it, I was like, holy moly. Just like the. I mean, the thing that took me out. The two things that took me out were Angie Kats and Avis doing the full victory pose. Hands fanned out completely.
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Matt Rogers
Listen on.
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Bowen Yang
While the Parthenon was behind her. And then the second thing was Diptus pronouns, which we could not post to socials for various reasons. Well, we'll let you guess why. We can post them based on, like, the ip.
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Matt Rogers
But we're thrilled it's in the show because you guys have the show. The whole time. We were, like, pushing so hard to get this in, and it was the one thing where we were literally going back and forth, like, okay, like, are you guys gonna take this away from us at the last second? Like, please, please, please, please. And it was in. Joel Kim Booster and Darcy Carden nailed that. Like, just exactly the energy we want it to be. We were watching it. Literally. Bowen was on multiple times. We had to rewind it because it's just so fucking stupid. I. We love it. And congratulations to Stitch, by the way.
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Bowen Yang
He is so happy that E's pronouns are known to the world.
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Matt Rogers
I love ah. And I hope that wherever E is, they're having an amazing day.
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Bowen Yang
E's. E's having an amazing day. I'm sorry to. I'm sorry to correct.
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Matt Rogers
E is having an amazing day.
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Bowen Yang
Yes. Yes.
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Matt Rogers
Picture this. You're in the city, you have a.
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Bowen Yang
Free night, and you're craving a night.
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Matt Rogers
Out at the theater. Yes, you want something exciting, something fresh, but. But you don't wanna spend hours in line or pay an arm and a leg for tickets.
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Bowen Yang
No.
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Matt Rogers
So what do you do?
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Bowen Yang
Well, I pull out my phone, open the TodayTix app, and just like that, I'm booking tickets to a Broadway show or an off Broadway gem. Yes. No stress, no hassle, just instant access to the best live theater I absolutely.
- [24:25]
Matt Rogers
Love Death Becomes her and I just know you could get onto Today Tix and find an excellent seat. And truly, you're gonna be blown away by the performances.
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Bowen Yang
Might I recommend T by Josh Sharp? You can get Today Ticks tickets through the app.
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Matt Rogers
It's just you log on, presto change. Oh and ta da, you have tickets to see Joshua. That's the magic of Today Ticks. With exclusive deals and a super easy to use app, getting your hands on tickets, your little pause has never been easier.
- [24:52]
Bowen Yang
And whether you're planning ahead or making a spontaneous decision to catch a show tonight, Today Ticks has you covered. You can grab tickets for all kinds of performances, from the hottest Broadway hits to the hidden gems you might not have discovered yet.
- [25:04]
Matt Rogers
Mm. Can I say Bowen and I love spontaneous guys. So if you want to ask us out, make sure it's to a Broadway show. I've had some of my best sex after seeing a Broadway show.
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Bowen Yang
Go to todaytix.com ding dong no space or dash and use promo code ding dong to get $20 off your first Today Ticks purchase. That's promo code dingdong@todaytixtix.com ding dong why.
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Matt Rogers
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- [25:42]
Bowen Yang
Quint has closet staples you'll want to reach for over and over with your big hands. Like cozy cashmere and cotton sweaters from just $50, breathable flip polos and comfortable lightweight pants that somehow work for both weekend hangs and dressed up dinners.
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Matt Rogers
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Bowen Yang
I have some amazing sweaters, amazing oxford shirts. I've got a nice pair of slippers. I've got a knife in my kitchen that's from Gwen's True Story.
- [26:20]
Matt Rogers
Anything you've been eyeing on the site for the future?
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Bowen Yang
Well, perhaps a merino wool sweater for the fall and winter.
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Matt Rogers
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Bowen Yang
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Matt Rogers
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Bowen Yang
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Matt Rogers
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Bowen Yang
Basically, Klarna helps you stay in charge without the spreadsheets, panic or financial mystery. Because being clear on your money, that's not just responsible, it's iconic.
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Matt Rogers
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Bowen Yang
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Honey Is on the case on August 22, Focus Features invites you to Honey don't follow the clues to the coolest, sexiest, most scandalous murder mystery of the summer. In a small desert town full of odd folks with strange obsessions, a suspicious car crash sets off a series of deadly events and private eye Honey o' Donohue is at the center of it all. As the body count rises, Honey uncovers an international conspiracy circling around a bizarre new church in town. Now she'll have to figure out who's pulling the strings before it's too late. Starring Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza, Charlie Day and Chris Evans, this thrilling dark comedy is high stakes, high heels and a rollicking good time from Academy Award winner Ethan Cohen, a director of no country for Old Men. In a town where everyone has a secret and no one can be trusted, the name on everyone's lips is Honey. Honeydont. Written by Ethan Cohen and Tricia Cooke. Rated R under 17. Not admitted without parent only in theaters August 22nd.
- [29:01]
Matt Rogers
When you look at it all collectively, it's like, you're talking about, like, it sounds masturbatory. Like, no, you sh. We. Here's the thing. We should love the things that we create. And, like, I'm looking at that, and I'm being like, I love this. And I. The only thing I ever want is to walk away from something that we create. I create. Anyone creates. I feel like you just want to leave being like, I could not have done it better at this stage in my life. Like, I'm walking away from that. Yeah, I'm sure. It's. It's like when I watch my special, it's like, now it's been a few years, and I look at it, and I'm like, I could do it better now, but at the time, I could not have done it better. And I feel like. I know it looks like it's big budget because we had an incredible team of people working on it. We do not have a big budget. We did not actually have the infrastructure to do that show, but we still did it because we were surrounded by people that, like, believed in it and wanted to make it happen. And to talk about the talent that came to do the show, like, they all wanted to be a part of it. No one was getting much out of doing it. Just out of, you know, it just felt like a real team effort that, yes, we spearheaded. And so I can look at it and be like, yeah, extremely proud of how fucking dumb and fun that is.
- [30:20]
Bowen Yang
The thing that I think is pulling with the budgetary restrictions of it, there's people who work at a lower rate than they usually would, and it's just because they had this shared love of and belief in what we were doing, which, to me, was the thing that kind of, like, gave me the drive to keep going. It was not easy at many stages. It was challenging just on the body, on the mind, on the creative, sort of like wheels that were spinning. Like, we had to make a lot of. We had to move a lot of puzzle pieces, and the puzzle pieces were tenfold upon tenfold. Tenfold upon tenfold upon tenfold. Because it was, okay, who was the available talent? And that was changing all the time, day by day. What are the categories that are in play? Cause those were changing day by day based on the talent that was available. And then there were sponsorship things that we had to, you know, take care of in terms of obligations and all these other things. On top of that, the jokes. On top of that, just the movements and the writing, and we had to Plug this in Cannes, which kind of knocked us on our asses.
- [31:25]
Matt Rogers
That was exhausting. Like, we going to can and then coming back and like not being able to get equilibrium again for like a week and still writing the show. Big shout out.
- [31:35]
Bowen Yang
Our teachers in these experiences. Liz Patrick, our director. Jane Munn, our showrunner. Lauren Mandel, our co producer. Olivia gerke, our manager, EP friend. Everyone at Lionsgate, Lauren Lemieux, Jonah McMichael. Matt Caddy, our choreographer.
- [31:51]
Matt Rogers
All the dancers.
- [31:52]
Bowen Yang
All the dancers. Phenomenal. Matt Steinbrenner, our production designer. Everyone at Pentagram. I feel like I'm giving an award speech. But everyone at Pentagram, Emily Olbermann, and he's called them Pentagon. When Josh and Aaron were on the show because brain fart. But just incredible, incredible people.
- [32:10]
Matt Rogers
And also, I want to say one thing about one of the dancers. So basically we are. We're running Abracadabra. We're learning it. And behind me are two of the dancers, Taylor and Hannah. And I say to them, I'm like, so, who's your favorite? Because I had heard that a lot of the, you know, a lot of the dancers, like, these are like working dancers. They dance for a lot of the girls. So I'm like, who's your favorite person that you've danced for? And all the dancers kind of look at Taylor and she goes, I mean, Taylor Swift. And that's when I realized, I was like, you are from the Eras tour. Yeah, she went by Banks in the Eras tour. She had the long braids. And I'm like, you. I hit the floor. I was like, are you kidding me that you're here doing this? You're a celebrity to me, like. And she was like, I was, I, of course, I had a million questions. I was just like, I was like, what was the best job? But literally, she was from the Era store and that gave me strength.
- [33:12]
Bowen Yang
And my thing that I pointed out that I was like, taylor Swift, you legend. I said, she let at least one other Taylor in that. In that space.
- [33:22]
Matt Rogers
She went by Banks.
- [33:24]
Bowen Yang
Well, of course she went by Banks. But it's like, whatever, you know, you know, like there's. It's not like it wouldn't. It would be somewhat reasonable to be like, okay, you know what? It's actually kind of confusing.
- [33:33]
Matt Rogers
We can't have another tailor.
- [33:34]
Bowen Yang
We can't have another tailor. Like, no. Have another tailor.
- [33:38]
Matt Rogers
No.
- [33:38]
Bowen Yang
She was great.
- [33:39]
Matt Rogers
And by the way, those dancers were epic. Did you see Baden?
- [33:44]
Bowen Yang
I believe Baden did a tick tock about how he. Because I remember when my Mic Puff fell to the ground.
- [33:50]
Matt Rogers
Yep.
- [33:50]
Bowen Yang
Baden went in and saved. There's a tick tock of this and he is a true professional. And then what resulted was an iconic shot of Baden lunging across the floor. And while I was doing the abracadabra arms and iconic and thank you.
- [34:06]
Matt Rogers
During that TikTok in one of. In it like just like showing exactly how like it just like he incredibly remained in character while also taking that thing. It was really, really good.
- [34:19]
Bowen Yang
Remarkable. Remarkable.
- [34:21]
Matt Rogers
Those performances, highlights of my life. Doing those with you Especially I don't want to miss a thing with Lucy.
- [34:26]
Bowen Yang
Especially I don't want to miss a thing with Lucy who blessed her to the heavens on high. Just so good. So accommodating. Like took the lower harmony not because we asked, but because she, you know, felt like it was. It was the right thing and I mean, it was so special to get to sing with her.
- [34:47]
Matt Rogers
That sounded amazing. She sounded great on that. I was like that running that. The three of us in the Drowsing Room 2 will be a life memory. So many of those.
- [34:55]
Bowen Yang
So many of those. So many of those. As you revealed on the Today show, which, by the way, congratulations on another fantastic week with Always fun.
- [35:04]
Matt Rogers
Thank you.
- [35:05]
Bowen Yang
Always fun. Yes. You revealed Gaga the night of. The night of the special. Reached out, was very proud of us. And that is. That is a life memory for both of us.
- [35:17]
Matt Rogers
Yeah, that was amazing. She was like, you guys are incredible. And also, you know who else loved the performance of Anaw thing? Diane Warren. We heard that Diane Warren loved the performance. So we're. We're very pleased.
- [35:31]
Bowen Yang
We think Diane, certainly if she's available.
- [35:35]
Matt Rogers
Next year, might be a contention for a culture award. By the way, shout out to. I got my vocal coach in there, Doug Peck, to work with us on the songs. That's the number one man.
- [35:46]
Bowen Yang
That's the number one man. Doug Peck, you legend. Thank you so much for watching, working with us, for putting us in your schedule. You are very in demand. I think he really, he just quantum leaped me into something that I didn't know I was able to do. Can I just say, putting this out there. Yes. Leland and Gabe Lopez Bretton. Gabe did mix me a little bit. I don't know about how much they did for you. Yours sounded very raw and clean.
- [36:14]
Matt Rogers
Everyone gets a little mixed. Everyone.
- [36:16]
Bowen Yang
Everyone gets mixed. I will say people who maybe not were incredulous that I hit those high harmonies on don't want to miss a Thing. That was me. And that was me.
- [36:23]
Matt Rogers
That was absolutely him. We sang those Songs live. I'm sorry, listen, you might not want it to be true, but it is true. We did sing them live.
- [36:32]
Bowen Yang
Well known fact, well established and documented that Matt Rogers is a professional vocalist. I think I have. I have an ear for harmony that I'm very proud of.
- [36:41]
Matt Rogers
You have a. I told Doug when we were rehearsing, I was like, bowen has one of the best ears, which is why I'm confident he should be on the harmony. Because it's high. Your voice is higher than you think. And I was excited for you to learn about, like, because it blew me away when I started working with the vocal coach about how you really can just allow the mic to do a lot of work. You don't have to push just because something sounds big.
- [37:05]
Bowen Yang
Right.
- [37:05]
Matt Rogers
A lot of times that's just like, technique and good, good mic technique.
- [37:09]
Bowen Yang
But I was in my mix, like, between my falsetto and my, like my quote unquote chest voice, which I guess is a gender term, whatever. That's why I'm putting quotes on it.
- [37:18]
Matt Rogers
Oh, God, who cares?
- [37:19]
Bowen Yang
It is. Who cares? But I was in my mix and I was like, I don't. I think this doesn't sound as strong as if I, like, gave it full chest. And Doug was like. And both of you were like, no, keep it there. Keep it right there on the cusp. And then you're right. Like, I'm listening to it back.
- [37:33]
Matt Rogers
I'm like, oh, wait, it sounds the same. Right? It's a game changer.
- [37:37]
Bowen Yang
Yeah, yeah.
- [37:38]
Matt Rogers
Like, like for anyone out there that's, you know, has an interest in taking voice lesson, I love it. It's like therapy. It makes you feel confident.
- [37:48]
Bowen Yang
My. My highlight in college, I took one through Steinhardt to this wonderful, wonderful teacher. And she was. She was a slay. And it was only. It was like a half a credit, but still, it was like half an hour each week I got. I sang. I sang Jesus Incorporated by Wilco and. And she. And she really, like, you know, she like, didn't care about Wilco, but she, like, really, like, sat down with me. She's like, what do you think this song is about?
- [38:11]
Matt Rogers
I was like, oh, God. See, that's when it's the best, though. See, the. I also did at NYU Steinhardt, I did the same type of vocal credit as you. And my vocal coach was like a younger guy and he was a big snob at the time. I don't know what his deal is now, but he was very, very. He was sort of like, very superior with me. And, like, it wasn't. It wasn't a great mix. We actually got into a fight one time just like me in a fight with my voice teacher who was probably, I don't know, 18 months older than me. And I think he was insecure about that. Sounds like you got the better teacher for you.
- [38:48]
Bowen Yang
For me. And I. I brain farted. It's not Jesus Incorporated. Jesus. Etc.
- [38:52]
Matt Rogers
Anyway, Jesus, Jesus incorporated his llc.
- [38:55]
Bowen Yang
His llc.
- [38:56]
Matt Rogers
When he comes back one of these days, he's gonna immediately start influencing, build a brand on Tick Tock and then he's gonna have to incorporate and Jesus Incorporated llc.
- [39:07]
Bowen Yang
Kind of. Yeah, just make it his name.
- [39:08]
Matt Rogers
Have some statistics about the winners. So just to sort of go through.
- [39:12]
Bowen Yang
Okay.
- [39:13]
Matt Rogers
The big winner of the Las Culturistas Cultural Awards was Lady Gaga with three wins. Lady Gaga Album of the Year for Mayhem, Record of the year for Abracadabra and Social change moment of the Year for Gaga Cella. Congrats, Gaga. Dylan Efron won two Culture Awards. These are his first two Culture Awards. Best Picture Literal Picture for having his butt in the air, as well as People Magazine. Sexiest man alive. Welcome to the Culture Dud Villain welcome. The word never won best word to Whisper and best word to Scream performed by Greta Titleman in an exemplary display of how you say those words, both screamed and whispered, but both equally impactful. Absolutely. Congrats to Charlie xcx. She continues to have a great time in her career. She has won best note ever Sung for Sometimes. And the Sweat Tour award for best indoor live performance went to the Brat Tour. It actually beat out the sweatpants. Sorry, Troy, you should come to the awards next time instead of being on a boat in the Balearic Islands. So thank you for sending in the video grief of the year and best thing we texted our high school friends about both went to White Lotus, a winner of two Culture Awards. Congratulations to White Lotus. Andy Cohen won the Father Award and best Gay Guy Famous. He returns to that winner's circle for that award from two years ago. And in terms of the major awards, Ms. Piggy deservedly won artist of the Millennium. Gabby Windy, Best new artist. Audra McDonald won the Tina Turner Legend Award. It was Seth Meyer's second year in a row taking home best five hands down and a lot of first time Culture Awards winners. Quinta Brunson, Lisa rinna, Paige Desorbo, Dr. Orna Goralnick, Demi Moore, RuPaul, Benito Skinner, Megan Fahey, Toad from Mario Sutton Foster, all now culture award winners.
- [40:59]
Bowen Yang
I mean name after name. I said legends and maybe Congratulate Jenna Bush Hager on her second win for the Today Show.
- [41:08]
Matt Rogers
Excellence in the Morning Award, second year in a row. Ends as well as Angie Katsanevas won her second individual culture award for most iconic exchange of words. As you mentioned earlier, last year she took home the Allison Williams Cool Girl award, which was won by Paige this year presented by a Diet Coke clad, Megan Stalter.
- [41:25]
Bowen Yang
Yes. Who unfortunately was not nominated. But Angie also has a group award with the cast of the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City for the best way to ride with your bitches award.
- [41:36]
Matt Rogers
And the Hags Award for abbreviated things to say. So while those, you can't really attribute those to Angie, but Angie was definitely in the winner's circle alongside Lady Gaga.
- [41:46]
Bowen Yang
Absolutely.
- [41:48]
Matt Rogers
Yeah. It was a really big night for.
- [41:51]
Bowen Yang
Angie and Gaga and Dylan and Andy and countless other people.
- [41:56]
Matt Rogers
Countless other people. I mean, this, this. And also, like, just to speak about, like, because we didn't talk too much about it, Paige desorbo probably turned her best look of all time at the awards.
- [42:06]
Bowen Yang
God, that Sophia Lauren thing.
- [42:09]
Matt Rogers
Gorgeous. Lisa Rinna wore Schiaparelli on the carpet, of course. 4. Wearing five of the outfits of the year. This was a highlight for me.
- [42:18]
Bowen Yang
I mean, did she send you flowers?
- [42:24]
Matt Rogers
I don't know if I've gotten flowers yet because I haven't been to my apartment in New York. It's getting, like, fully renovated, painted, et cetera, right now. But that's lovely. She has been. We've been in contact.
- [42:36]
Bowen Yang
We've been in contact. And look, don't hustle. The hustler. Lisa fucking Rinna. Just a wonderful night. Thank you sincerely, so much for watching. It means so much that you guys even tuned in at all, had people over to watch with you, went to a bar, however you watched it, and especially if you're international, we know there are a little bit there. There are a little bit more roadblocks than that. And depending on where you live, it might still be hard to access. We are. We are doing our very best to proliferate it as much as we can. But, hey, I was talking about this to someone earlier this week. Like, there is something delightful about, like, the searching of it, which is not to, like, make your lives harder, but it's like I just reminisce, reminiscing on, like, going to borders, flipping through CDs, flipping through books. Like, there. There's something about, like, the crate digging, which is, again, not to romanticize how inaccessible the show might be in your area. It's just there.
- [43:35]
Matt Rogers
There It's.
- [43:36]
Bowen Yang
That's not so bad. Is that. Am I making sense?
- [43:38]
Matt Rogers
No. I also feel like a lot of the. A lot of it taking place on social media ended up being. I just want to say one thing about Ben, which is, you know how they always say, like it's an overused expression, but blank, blank, you will always be famous. Like, they tend to say that about someone who, like, no matter what, like media narrative happens, the ups and downs of really anyone's career that has longevity in this business. Ben Platt, you will always be famous because no one can sing like that. And it's very similar to like Kelly Clarkson, whereas, like, lots of ups and downs in her very long career in public life. And by the way, yeah, I just want to send. And I know Bowen as well, and I'm sure all of you, all of our deepest condolences, love and support to Kelly, whose ex husband passed. And this is. Has to be an incredibly difficult time. And they've asked for privacy, so we will give that. But I just want to send all my love to someone who works so hard and is such a great moment and such a hero to me and to so many people. And I just. My heart breaks for everyone in the family.
- [44:52]
Bowen Yang
I hope that she feels a sense of peace in terms of the time that she did spend with him in the final months. And a lot of things were moved around and I think that was hopefully that was for the best for everyone involved. And we love you, Kelly.
- [45:09]
Matt Rogers
We just love you so much. And. Yeah, but you're so right about that. The thing about this is it's like, you know, anything, anytime anyone in the media gets like a hard time and then comes back because they're just that fucking good. And I've been loving seeing that narrative online of just being like, some of you, like, had fun, like, ripping him up when you had the opportunity to, but the fact is, like, listen to this song, see this performance, watch him on. On this show, etc. It's like he has proven it so many times.
- [45:38]
Bowen Yang
The reasons he was like, I guess, like, quote unquote away or down or like, like narrativized a certain. In a certain fashion were bullshit, you know, it's like they always are. I mean, like the Zionism shit. No, that wasn't. That's not even a thing. That wasn't like. And then he. And he came out and was very vocal about the opposite. And so whatever. And then it's just like there's. It just so happens. It's just this is the Way Allison Williams, cool girl says it, it's just she started on third base and most other people start at home plate. And so, like. And that's. And that's. And that's just how it is. And it's not. It's not any one person's fault for, like, opting in if they have the drive, the interest, the talent, the work ethic, which, I mean, you know, a.
- [46:33]
Matt Rogers
Lot of these people have. Yeah, we're talking about someone who is one of the best singers on earth. Like, it's. And it's not like, he's also not an incredibly lovely and lovely person. So kind, so supportive of us, always, like, the best energy, best vibe ever. And is also an incredibly talented actor.
- [46:54]
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
- [46:54]
Matt Rogers
Like, so it's just kind of tired and boring to even, like, have done this in the first place. But I guess I'm glad that everyone is. No, you know, appreciating him for what it is because it's just. It's just so dumb.
- [47:07]
Bowen Yang
I just think it's worth calling out that, like, the reasons why he's being reappreciated are. Are, like, built on, like, kind of silly things. He is a link later film away from winning, from Egotti, from Egotting.
- [47:18]
Matt Rogers
It's like, that's my thing is I'm like, it'd be one thing to be like, yeah, sure, that person is Nepo. So they get work. You don't. You're not just like Nepo. And then, like, keep getting opportunities and succeeding to literally the highest standard in your field. Again and again, again and again. Like, it's. That's not how it works. Like, right. Nepo is an indic industry plant. Like, that's not a thing. Because if the person keeps working, it's because people wanted to keep working with them. I don't know. It's just like the surety that people have out there that they know how things work. It's like. And I think it's really just because we have so much access to now. Everyone's opinions about everything and everyone's feedback to everything. Of course, that makes it feel a little bit overwhelming, but it's just like, yeah, this is exactly the way Ben Platt should be treated by audiences.
- [48:10]
Bowen Yang
Yes.
- [48:14]
Matt Rogers
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- [48:30]
Bowen Yang
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Matt Rogers
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Bowen Yang
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Matt Rogers
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Honey is on the case. On August 22, Focus Features invites you to Honey don't follow the clues to the coolest, sexiest, most scandalous murder mystery of the summer. In a small desert town full of odd folks with strange obsessions, a suspicious car crash sets off a series of deadly events and private eye Honey o' Donohue is at the center of it all. As the body count rises, Honey uncovers an international conspiracy circling around a bizarre new church in town. Now she'll have to figure out who's pulling the strings before it's too late. Starring Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza, Charlie Day and Chris Evans, this thrilling dark comedy is high stakes, high heels and a rollicking good time from Academy Award winner Ethan Cohen, a director of no country for Old Men. In a town where everyone has a secret and no one can be trusted, the name on everyone's lips is Honey. Honey, don't. Written by Ethan Cohen and Tricia Cook. Rated R. Under 17. Not admitted without parent only. In theaters August 22nd.
- [49:50]
Bowen Yang
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- [49:53]
Matt Rogers
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- [51:17]
Matt Rogers
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- [52:26]
Bowen Yang
Speaking of feedback or forms of feedback I do want to address, I posted this reel on Sunday because this thing had been bugging me for a couple days about the way that the times changed a headline. Yeah, and I took it down because I was like, oh wait. Because it was people kind of for the most part understanding it. But a lot of people were like don't give the haters any gas. I don't think it's that this is something different. This is me still I think rightfully being a little annoyed at the way that shows like ours are covered and like this is this is not a knock on the writer because it's an editor as far as I understand, especially at a place like the Times, who looks at the engagement on a certain article and goes let's tweak this. And the tweak was from the five Moments from the Culture Awards to can just anybody host an award show with a picture of Us, you have to click in. So, like, the way this, this story gets embedded in SEO or on, you know, Facebook, let's say, or other platforms is they just see the headline, maybe the byline, but they don't see the subhead, which was, oh, but if you're as funny as Madden Bowen, then yes, but like, it's still. Even with that compliment, I think it undercuts so many things. Chiefly, the thing that bugs me the most is that this was a hundred plus people working their asses off seven days a week to make this work. Like, we were, you know, Matt and I were fielding calls, solving problems at like 11pm on a Sunday or like 9pm on a Saturday. Like, like problem solving, writing, constantly throwing copy away, writing new stuff, shifting things around. A million pieces were moving up until the day of the show. People dropping out.
- [54:11]
Matt Rogers
Yeah, it was minimizing. It was very diminishing. And they, they didn't care about us enough to not traffic in this whatever.
- [54:19]
Bowen Yang
So it's not that I'm giving haters gas. It's not that like, it's not that like I'm. Either of us are above this or shouldn't address this. It's that like, it's also, and I said this in the video, it's like, it's not groundbreaking that comedians would host an award show. Which we are. We are. We are. I'm sorry, at this point, we're like in our mid-30s. We've been doing this for a while, I guess. Seasoned. I said we have chops, dare I say. And it's not a coup that an award show is entertaining all the way through. There's no need to frame, there's no need to, no need to frame it this way of like, well, if. Can. Can anybody off the street host an award show?
- [54:52]
Matt Rogers
No, no.
- [54:53]
Bowen Yang
Also that with my, with my chest, like, fuck the New York Times.
- [54:58]
Matt Rogers
Oh, absolutely. I mean, this is. The thing is, it's like you're not, it's not even, it's not even giving the haters gas. It's calling out the paper of record for reducing them themselves to a clickbait headline. I don't want to bring it to a place of like, responding to critics because we don't have anything to prove literally at all.
- [55:16]
Bowen Yang
Truly nothing.
- [55:17]
Matt Rogers
But, you know, it again, like a learning experience.
- [55:19]
Bowen Yang
The Life of a Showgirl.
- [55:20]
Matt Rogers
Anyway, the Life of a Showgirl was. Is the title of this episode going to be the Life of a Showgirls? Yes, the Life of a Showgirls I like with a capital S. Of course, that's a capital L for us. Cbo. I always say Taylor speaks to you exactly where you are in your life.
- [55:41]
Bowen Yang
You know who also says this?
- [55:42]
Matt Rogers
Who says this?
- [55:43]
Bowen Yang
Katie Crutchfield. She goes, I feel like my album releases through Raksahachie have been very aligned with Taylor's journey. I mean, and I hope she still feels this way.
- [55:52]
Matt Rogers
We'll have to touch base with her.
- [55:53]
Bowen Yang
We'll have to touch base with Katie.
- [55:54]
Matt Rogers
I sent you, I sent you something a little special that we've been wanting to read on the podcast. So, so basically, just, just, just as a background. Oh, yes. Originally we were going to have all the, you know, at the end of a commercial on an award show, it says coming up. And then you hear the things that are going to happen after the break. So originally our idea was to have all of these be jokes and none of them be real because we all. It was our opinion at the outset that like, literally every single thing that happened in the Culture Award should be stupid and dumb and gay and fake and a joke. We were convinced to and rightfully to actually sort of, you know, say what was going to be happening in the show after the break because, you know, it's just better to keep people engaged that way. And we did have such great talent involved. But yes, we do have a document in front of us which are all of our coming up jokes. And so I feel like Bowen and I will read them now. And should we just rotate?
- [56:52]
Bowen Yang
Let's just rotate. And this is, by the way, like a collective culling together of jokes written by Matt, myself, Sudi Green, Celestia and Frank Gillespie. And our wonderful writer's assistant, Kate Dasowski. So this is, this is from all of us. So let's just read these.
- [57:07]
Matt Rogers
Okay? Coming up, a deeply uncomfortable 7th Heaven reunion.
- [57:13]
Bowen Yang
A full Hot Topic segment from the View.
- [57:15]
Matt Rogers
A moment of explicit violence we're all forced to witness.
- [57:19]
Bowen Yang
Perez Hilton is finally tried for his crime.
- [57:23]
Matt Rogers
Ash Ketchum presents Best Soda, sponsored by Emergency. The Traveling Pants, a live reading of under the Tuscan Sun.
- [57:32]
Bowen Yang
Barbra Streisand's Clone Dogs.
- [57:35]
Matt Rogers
And Sugar Ray covers the Pokemon theme song. As the earth collapses in on itself.
- [57:40]
Bowen Yang
A duet by Jen Shaw and Elizabeth Holmes.
- [57:43]
Matt Rogers
Medusa.
- [57:45]
Bowen Yang
Adam Driver throws a big chair.
- [57:47]
Matt Rogers
Winona Ryder in the Christmas Lights. She is so back. Glenn Close performs Buttons, dancing the samba. Fran Leibowitz and her partner Derek Hough.
- [57:59]
Bowen Yang
The Heim sisters reveal which Powerpuff girl they think they are.
- [58:02]
Matt Rogers
Christina Aguilera says, haha.
- [58:06]
Bowen Yang
Florence Pugh realizes it's all a simulation.
- [58:09]
Matt Rogers
We unfreeze Jane Austen and she shakes her head in disappointment at the modern world.
- [58:14]
Bowen Yang
Jennifer Holiday holds a big note.
- [58:17]
Matt Rogers
Mu Dang got old. So we replace her with someone younger. Her.
- [58:22]
Bowen Yang
Simon Cowell sings 16 bars of a pop rock song for head judge Fantasia.
- [58:27]
Matt Rogers
Catherine Zeta Jones reads from her dream journal. And it's actually really beautiful.
- [58:33]
Bowen Yang
Cynthia Erivo sings the thong song.
- [58:36]
Matt Rogers
We pass out the Scantron sheets for the test.
- [58:39]
Bowen Yang
Very good. Mariah Carey sprints 600 meters.
- [58:43]
Matt Rogers
Che Diaz wins an Emmy for their earnest comedy special.
- [58:47]
Bowen Yang
Blackpink reunites to help each other pitch a big tent.
- [58:50]
Matt Rogers
The original cast of CSI flops in an escape room.
- [58:55]
Bowen Yang
Jack Schlossberg love bombs Matt and then dumps him for Bowen.
- [58:59]
Matt Rogers
And a member of the crew has a psychotic break. It's been a lot.
- [59:04]
Bowen Yang
Winnie the Pooh debuts his first pair of pants.
- [59:07]
Matt Rogers
Jessica Chastain kills Bin Laden.
- [59:10]
Bowen Yang
Dula Peep.
- [59:11]
Matt Rogers
Princess Peach makes out with Zelda in a win for the male gaze.
- [59:16]
Bowen Yang
Anne Hathaway says, kalma, Kalma.
- [59:20]
Matt Rogers
A water break. You're supposed to drink 10 gallons a day.
- [59:23]
Bowen Yang
Rihanna is Smurfette.
- [59:25]
Matt Rogers
Rachel Zegler's Evita bodyguard. Please be nice.
- [59:31]
Bowen Yang
I know, I know, I know, sweetie. But please be nice.
- [59:33]
Matt Rogers
Please be nice.
- [59:34]
Bowen Yang
Please be nice. Emmanuel Macron gets shoved by his wife.
- [59:37]
Matt Rogers
Bowen and Nat play pregnancy roulette.
- [59:41]
Bowen Yang
A young Hugh Grant. Okay, technology.
- [59:43]
Matt Rogers
The HOKA Award for best not actor.
- [59:47]
Bowen Yang
The cast of the Labubu movie, which is rated R, by the way.
- [59:51]
Matt Rogers
Tan France looks at a French tuck and goes, you know what? It's weird.
- [59:55]
Bowen Yang
Patti LaBelle finally finds her background singers.
- [59:59]
Matt Rogers
Five Little Shop Seymours fight to the death.
- [60:03]
Bowen Yang
Tate McRae teaches the sports car choreo to the baby from Ally McBeal.
- [60:07]
Matt Rogers
Harry Daniels turns Blake Shelton's Cher with Etta James. I'd rather go blind.
- [60:13]
Bowen Yang
An apology from the big bad wolf. And he does have a ukulele.
- [60:16]
Matt Rogers
We play squid game, but gentle.
- [60:19]
Bowen Yang
One of us will get the severance procedure live.
- [60:23]
Matt Rogers
One of us. Freaky Fridays with Nara Smith.
- [60:26]
Bowen Yang
We lip sync for our lives to the trilogy song.
- [60:29]
Matt Rogers
A furby comes back to life. And no, it does not have batteries.
- [60:34]
Bowen Yang
We get makeovers from Lisa Frank.
- [60:37]
Matt Rogers
J.K. rowling says something normal.
- [60:39]
Bowen Yang
J.K. laura Dern tells us it's all gonna be okay.
- [60:43]
Matt Rogers
The veggietales veggies reveal some nasty secrets.
- [60:47]
Bowen Yang
We'll show you how to use your stepmom's shower.
- [60:49]
Matt Rogers
A drag queen grooms my dog. And wow, she looks amazing.
- [60:54]
Bowen Yang
We teach a robot to love and unfortunately, also to love.
- [60:57]
Matt Rogers
Bomb. I guess Megan 2.0 is really into tarot now.
- [61:02]
Bowen Yang
The significance of Andor explained.
- [61:04]
Matt Rogers
We found your mom's little book of passwords, and we're gonna read them all out loud.
- [61:09]
Bowen Yang
Your favorite male comedian gets a diagnosis. And it's exactly what you think.
- [61:13]
Matt Rogers
We announced the cast of the Real Housewives of Upper Darby, Pennsylvania.
- [61:18]
Bowen Yang
We make Tom Colicchio a PB&J, the.
- [61:21]
Matt Rogers
Ghost of TBS, the first ever facelift on a baby, and Lauren Boebert's vape pen.
- [61:30]
Bowen Yang
There you go.
- [61:31]
Matt Rogers
Those are our coming ups.
- [61:33]
Bowen Yang
I mean, fabulous.
- [61:35]
Matt Rogers
Those are.
- [61:35]
Bowen Yang
Those are really fun.
- [61:36]
Matt Rogers
But the thing is, like, coming up next, Alison Brie and Dave Frankel present the award for best Batman Woman. Like, is one of those. So they were like, works. It's the truth. Our producer Lauren was like, I just think people might think Adam Driver would come out and throw a big chair. And I was like, that's fair. That's the thing.
- [61:55]
Bowen Yang
This already gives us a document. I mean, we can't do them now because we've already told everybody them. But, like, this is like this actually, really. I think an exercise for if we're lucky enough to do this next year is to start with the coming ups and then see how many we can actually do.
- [62:07]
Matt Rogers
Oh, I love that. That's our blue sky just coming up. If you really want to see Adam Driver throw a big chair on the Culture Awards next year, let us know online. We might be able to make it happen. There's a lot of lead time now, so it's not impossible. As you know, we. We did a lot of stuff.
- [62:25]
Bowen Yang
We did a lot happening. The Mariah Carey one made me think. I just. We haven't really Talked about this. MC16 here for it all. I do just want to say I want both of us to really lock in here. And I encourage the readers, Katies, Pulpus finalists, Kyles to do this as well. Let us really cherish this time that Mariah Carey is back on an album cycle. We don't know, like, we know this doesn't happen very often. We don't know when the next time this will happen. It's been a while since Caution and I. I had spent the intervening years saying, when is Mariah Carey gonna follow up Caution? And now it's here. And I just really want to point out the fun that we all had with her being informed that Katy Perry went to space.
- [63:05]
Matt Rogers
Yeah, yeah. No, she. If you. If you. If you catch Mariah in the right moment, she's gonna give it to you.
- [63:10]
Bowen Yang
No. And that that, that interview has so many. I mean, obviously the big line is, I think I've done enough.
- [63:14]
Matt Rogers
Which is still a good enough. I think I've done enough.
- [63:17]
Bowen Yang
My favorite thing is my two favorite things are, where'd she go? To space? All right, Katie.
- [63:24]
Matt Rogers
All right, Katie.
- [63:25]
Bowen Yang
All right, Katie. I love that. Supportive.
- [63:28]
Matt Rogers
All right, Katie.
- [63:31]
Bowen Yang
Wow.
- [63:32]
Matt Rogers
Oh, that reminds me of our Blue Origin, too. Oh, yeah. Moment. That was also fun, going to space and all.
- [63:39]
Bowen Yang
It felt like we were there when I was watching the opening pack, and I was like, oh, we're up in this.
- [63:44]
Matt Rogers
Astronauts down. Okay. You saw Weapons, y'. All.
- [63:50]
Bowen Yang
I, you know what can I tell you? The thought that I had up until the halfway point of the movie, I said, matt can watch this. This isn't so scary at all. But then, and then at the halfway point, if, you know, you know, shit goes down, a certain thing happens to a gay couple.
- [64:09]
Matt Rogers
Do you want to say spoiler alert? And then sort of go off?
- [64:12]
Bowen Yang
I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna spoil. Well, I, I, I feel. It feels even. I know you will never see this movie, but it feels wrong to even spoil to you, because these are. These are really things that you are meant to experience in the experience of watching it.
- [64:24]
Matt Rogers
What is it with gay couples catching strays in these horror movies? Because didn't this also happen in it, Part two?
- [64:30]
Bowen Yang
See, I didn't see it, okay?
- [64:32]
Matt Rogers
So I know for a fact a gay couple, like, really got it in it, Part two.
- [64:39]
Bowen Yang
This gay couple, it made me, for the first time in a long time, not since Ready Passion of the Christ have I had to cover my eyes.
- [64:49]
Matt Rogers
It was that bad. Why the gays.
- [64:53]
Bowen Yang
It's, it's not because they're gay. It's just an incidental thing. But, I mean, all I'll say is, Amy Madigan, you legend for all time. But this is just a wonderful ensemble. And I know you talked to Julia Gardner. Did you talk to Brolin, too, when he was on?
- [65:06]
Matt Rogers
I did. I talked to both of them. They were on today's show.
- [65:09]
Bowen Yang
Wonderful. What was Brolin's vibe? I love him. Hot. I know.
- [65:13]
Matt Rogers
Like, I know he was great. Very laid back. And honestly. Yeah, really, really attractive in person.
- [65:22]
Bowen Yang
Yeah. I mean, but just, Just wonderful man. Wonderful actor, icon, legend. But Julia's fantastic. But, like, you know, you don't spend too much time with one character in a way that really helps and really works. The structure of it is so cool. I mean, there's precedent for it. It's very Magnolia, very Rashomon. But I just Want to point out Austin Abrams, fantastic in this truly wonderful work. And I think the most, like, poignant, quote, unquote, poignant stretch in the film. And I say this because I do want to point out, you know, we talked about this with Joel Kim Booster. Like, really nice and refreshing for a horror movie to not have an allegory. Really nice. Because there's been this thing in elevated horror, quote, unquote, where it always has to map onto something. I mean, you could make the argument that, like, this is about, like, school shootings.
- [66:06]
Matt Rogers
Yeah, that's what I had heard.
- [66:08]
Bowen Yang
I would not go so far as to say that it's just a horror movie for horror sake. And sometimes that's enough. Not all the dots have to be connected. It's just a really bang for your buck. Really entertaining movie. And the last, I would say, what, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, just the ending of the movie are rapturous. I was like, this is the most fun I've had in the movies and a very long time.
- [66:34]
Matt Rogers
That's what everyone is saying.
- [66:35]
Bowen Yang
Yeah. And all I'll say is, I don't want to spoil anything, but the people who shot that, the group of people who shot that last scene must have had a blast. You can tell that it was some fun days on set for everyone involved. That's all I'll say.
- [66:48]
Matt Rogers
I want to shout out, whitmer Thomas.
- [66:50]
Bowen Yang
Whitmer Thomas, who had fun with a.
- [66:54]
Matt Rogers
Fork in the film Go King. He had fun with.
- [66:56]
Bowen Yang
Well, a little too much fun. But he was. He was just so good. But when I saw him, at first I was like, is that wit? I was like, oh, my God, that's Whitmer. And then he just has a really lovely. He has really lovely scenes where he's just incredibly, you know, as an audience member, you are immediately invested in him as a character in the time that you see him. And then things turn and then you're like, well, fuck. And then just a great movie. And Amy Madigan.
- [67:22]
Matt Rogers
Yeah, man. People are. There's a groundswell support for Amy Madigan.
- [67:26]
Bowen Yang
And, you know, I think.
- [67:28]
Matt Rogers
Did you ever see the movie she.
- [67:29]
Bowen Yang
Won an Oscar for with Gene Hackman or that she was nominated for Twice in a lifetime? I've never seen twice in a lifetime.
- [67:35]
Matt Rogers
No, I have to say, I'm sort of. I have a little bit of a Madigan blind spot.
- [67:41]
Bowen Yang
I think you and I maybe share this. Our first introduction to Madigan was great. Yeah.
- [67:46]
Matt Rogers
Okay. What was she on Grey's Anatomy?
- [67:48]
Bowen Yang
She was Meredith's therapist in Season four.
- [67:50]
Matt Rogers
Yes, she Was Meredith's therapist fist. Oh, my God. That's how we know her. Yes, yes.
- [67:55]
Bowen Yang
They have great scenes together.
- [67:57]
Matt Rogers
I remember that.
- [67:58]
Bowen Yang
They're really good.
- [67:59]
Matt Rogers
Oh, wow. And she sort of gets to go all the way off.
- [68:02]
Bowen Yang
She gets to go all the way off in the most indelible hairdos. Whether it's wig, whether it's spoiler alert micro braids. It's like, what the am I seeing?
- [68:15]
Matt Rogers
I heard it's giving, like, a new classic villain type.
- [68:20]
Bowen Yang
I was watching a couple scenes with her and I was like, she's giving iconic cinema. Like, she's giving memorable cinema in these moments.
- [68:28]
Matt Rogers
Like, did you texted me after and you were like, I really want you to see this, but I really don't think it would be a good idea.
- [68:34]
Bowen Yang
I don't think you could handle.
- [68:36]
Matt Rogers
I mean, I think. Well, how. Well, how's that?
- [68:39]
Bowen Yang
Can I put this forward? How would it be if you watched a movie, a horror movie like this that is gruesome, but by the end has this, like, cathartic release moment?
- [68:49]
Matt Rogers
I've, I've done it before. It's just about, you know what? Let me figure out my anxiety and then we'll get back. I have a meeting with the psych this weekend. I mean, this week. So you know what I mean? Let's, let's maybe, let's maybe get me on some, on some new tip, and then we'll try to figure out how I can not internalize things that are happening on a screen and not in my life. I am pathetic. I do know this.
- [69:12]
Bowen Yang
No, no, no, that's, this is not.
- [69:13]
Matt Rogers
You don't even need to protest like it is, is. No, no, I should be able to watch this movie. I mean, I, I, I, I'm doing my best. You know, the substance was a big leap forward for me, and I loved it, as we all know.
- [69:24]
Bowen Yang
I would not say that because you can clear that hurl that you can clear this. And, And Joel was like, if you watch Hereditary, you can do. But you didn't. And I think this is a little bit. It's even more just gruesome than Hereditary to me in some moments. But I just, I just want to shout out, I mean, Zach Kruger, he's two for two on these, like, really great, innovative, I would say horror movies with interesting structures, really interesting turns, whether it's in the middle of the film or, you know, quarter of the way through. And I just love that he's a, he's a comedy guy. He's like, he's a sketch guy. Well, he's. He's one of us. And so really, how many people know.
- [69:56]
Matt Rogers
How to do horror? I mean, like, there it is. It is in the genes.
- [70:01]
Bowen Yang
It's.
- [70:02]
Matt Rogers
It's.
- [70:02]
Bowen Yang
It's, you know, tension release or whatever. Not to be all Hannah Gatsby about it, but I'm really exciting that he's doing the new Resident Evil. He's. He's. He's. He's doing those. And really funny.
- [70:13]
Matt Rogers
Was weapons funny as well?
- [70:15]
Bowen Yang
I think there are moments of true, like, humor. It's not like a hard comedy, but there are moments of like, oh, that's really funny. I mean, the ending is, like. The ending has a lot of fun. That's all I'll say.
- [70:26]
Matt Rogers
Well, you know, I ended up seeing the Naked Gun for a third time, so.
- [70:30]
Bowen Yang
That was your third? Yeah, I've been meaning to see it multiple times. Did you. Because the velocity of the jokes is that I missed of 10 things. Things.
- [70:37]
Matt Rogers
So Greta and Abe wanted to go, and I was just like, I'll go with you. Because, like, if there's. There was nothing. I didn't have anything to do. And I was just like, oh, they're going. I want to go again. Like, it's one of those things I've. I've. I'd be supporting. Kind of a nice little moment for the box office.
- [70:50]
Bowen Yang
I love it. This is really good.
- [70:52]
Matt Rogers
Not for nothing, but speaks to, you know, this idea that more moderately budgeted things can succeed. You know what I mean? Like, that I. I just hope. Hope I saw a rumor that, like, as a result of, you know, sinners and weapons and, you know, the success of these movies that are not attached to franchises, that there might be a movement towards original stories with lower budgets. Like, that would be incredible. That would be amazing. It'll be such a better use of money, time, talent. How long was Weapons?
- [71:29]
Bowen Yang
Two hours and five minutes. Okay. And you? I think you can see Sinners, Loki.
- [71:34]
Matt Rogers
Oh, no, no, I'm definitely seeing Sinners.
- [71:36]
Bowen Yang
I don't think it's scary.
- [71:38]
Matt Rogers
I'm not. That's one. I just literally haven't done it yet, which is crazy.
- [71:42]
Bowen Yang
Excellent.
- [71:43]
Matt Rogers
And I will before. I'm sure it, you know, becomes quite a big topic at the end of the year. I think so. But speaking of. You said Austin Abrams. I went to the concert of Gracie Abrams. Yes. I loved it. I was there when she did her all too well cover.
- [71:58]
Bowen Yang
Oh, my God.
- [71:59]
Matt Rogers
I wonder if she knew. I'm gonna ask. I'm gonna ask her if she knew.
- [72:03]
Bowen Yang
I'm sure she was in the know.
- [72:06]
Matt Rogers
I'm. I'm gonna figure it out. But honestly, like, vocals, incredible in concert. Yes, definitely. The most beautiful woman alive. I can't believe what she looks like on those screens. I was, like, looking at it. Like, I was, like, breathless the whole time.
- [72:21]
Bowen Yang
Right.
- [72:22]
Matt Rogers
And her fans. I was watching so many people have, like, like, formative core memories. Like, even more than at the ERAS tour. These girls were holding each other and sobbing. It was so just, like, they love her so much. Like, she's got the. I think, honestly, sky's the limit when it comes to. Because it's the songwriting. Right. It's like you can see the girls, like, absolutely screaming these songs. It means something to them. Right, Right.
- [72:51]
Bowen Yang
Great writer, Fantastic.
- [72:53]
Matt Rogers
Tate, Order is this way. Yeah. No, I loved it. I loved it. And, you know, I. I'm a. I'm a Gracie fan. She's my pen pal. We have yet to meet in person, but we. We have a lovely text relationship. And Gracie will come on the show.
- [73:06]
Bowen Yang
Gracie will come on.
- [73:07]
Matt Rogers
She's a reader.
- [73:07]
Bowen Yang
There you go, finalist. Congratulations to finalist of the year, by the way. Megan Fahey.
- [73:11]
Matt Rogers
Yes. Megan Fahey, a finalist of the year winner.
- [73:14]
Bowen Yang
And speaking of Gracie, Audrey Hobert's album is coming out this Friday.
- [73:18]
Matt Rogers
Before we go into. I don't think so, honey, I had one thing I wanted to say, which is the dog, Matt Rogers was adopted. Oh, my God. And he looks so happy. He lives in Queens now. He's happy. It brings me such joy that that happened. God, this week, full of great narratives. Love that. At least in some regard.
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Bowen Yang
Yeah.
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Matt Rogers
You know, one of those little things that just made you happy in a sea of otherwise dark things.
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Bowen Yang
Truly, truly, truly. Maui. Hope you're just having a great time at Corona park and Flushing or whatever. Just. You're living your best queen's life. Well, the queens don't sleep on Queens.
- [73:57]
Matt Rogers
Y' all don't sleep on Queens.
- [73:59]
Bowen Yang
We'll be there soon.
- [74:01]
Matt Rogers
Will we?
- [74:02]
Bowen Yang
The Open. We'll be at the U.S. open.
- [74:03]
Matt Rogers
Oh, we're gonna go to the Open? Yes. What day? Well, we'll talk about what day you're going.
- [74:06]
Bowen Yang
We'll talk.
- [74:07]
Matt Rogers
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- [75:47]
Matt Rogers
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Matt Rogers
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Bowen Yang
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- [77:37]
Matt Rogers
Okay, you ready for I don't think so honey?
- [77:39]
Bowen Yang
I am.
- [77:40]
Matt Rogers
Okay, this is I don't think so honey. This is the one minute segment of our podcast where we take like 60 seconds, exactly one minute, as it were, to rant rail and more against something in culture that we need to dress down. I have something.
- [77:54]
Bowen Yang
Okay. This is Matt Rogers. I don't think so Honey's time starts now.
- [77:57]
Matt Rogers
I don't think so honey. No more kind judging on reality shows. Law Roach has come back to Project Runway and showed us all what we've been missing, which is truthful, harsh judging. The stakes are back when it comes to assessing reality show contestants. And you know what. But it's been time. I have to say, Law Roach, we appreciate you coming to the Culture Awards presenting outfit of the year to Lisa Rinna for whatever the fuck she wants to wear. But what really, really, really has won me over again with you. Because you speak for yourself, like your reputation proceeds. Then you come to the show are lovely and delightful. And then I turn on Project Runway because I want to have a good time. And I didn't even know I was.
- [78:40]
Bowen Yang
Going to have a spectacular 15 seconds.
- [78:42]
Matt Rogers
Because of the way you are tearing these people up, up. And also shout out to the casting. This year on Project Runway, not only do we have Utica Queen, but we've got some big personalities that are getting into it with Law. And Game has met Game. I'm loving this. I don't think so, honey. That it can ever go back to the way it was. Law Roach forever.
- [79:01]
Bowen Yang
I love this thank you for pointing this out, because I think this is a shared thing. Like, we are all very thrilled about this. I've been meaning to watch the season.
- [79:08]
Matt Rogers
It's good. And also just like, so the. The way the first. First episode of the season ends, by the way, Heidi Klum is back. And so it's like they're all judging. It's Heidi, Nina, Law, Roach, and Christian, which is, like, feels perfect.
- [79:21]
Bowen Yang
All Stars. Yeah.
- [79:22]
Matt Rogers
And so they go, all right, so we have our tops and our bottoms. But there was a lot of discussion and there was a debate about it. So then you come to understand that Law is on completely different pages than everyone else. Like, there was someone who was filling in the top, and he was last. Like, I can't stand this look. I hate this. It's this, that, that, that, that, that. And I'm just like, wow. Like, without reservation, Law is giving his take. And, like, you did see it on. On legendary Top Model.
- [79:55]
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
- [79:55]
Matt Rogers
And you saw it back in the day on Top Model, when he actually went too far. But now it's perfect because he's La Ro. Like, now he's a part of the cultural fabric. And it's just like, I'm sorry, but. But it will be hard to argue with anything he says, because he is the one.
- [80:11]
Bowen Yang
And I really just also want to point out, omg, fashion. He gives.
- [80:14]
Matt Rogers
Oh, God.
- [80:16]
Bowen Yang
Quick. I mean, this is what his, like, sixth reality show competition. This man. This man knows what he's doing.
- [80:22]
Matt Rogers
He shows up and does the gig, and he does it true to him, and it is true superstardom. Like, I don't think I've seen a reality show judge, like, pop and be this compelling and the show be about them since, like. And I'm not arguing that this holds up, but, like, the very early days of Simon Cowell, you know, and it's not like that. He's not cruel for cruel sake on Runway, but it is just like, no, no, no, I'm not. It's not going to be smiles and rainbows. Like, you're here to compete on the Olympics of drag for fashion, and I'm going to give it to you.
- [81:01]
Bowen Yang
I mean, the thing with Simon is that it's soured kind of quickly with Law. It's been going on for at least, like, seven years now since he's been on reality shows. And then, like, that compounded with all the styling work he's. He's done, it's like, okay, like, he. He's an image architect, as he says.
- [81:20]
Matt Rogers
Yes. It's truly having an impact in the world, in real time in that industry. Whereas, like, Simon unfortunately, like, clowned himself too many times. Simon is on the record as saying that Beyonce can't sing and isn't pretty. Like, that's hard to come back from. If you're, like, a talent show judge. You can't say that at one point and then be like, yeah, I'm someone to be listened to. Like, he had to go like, you know, America's Got Talent. I'm smiling the whole time. I'm actually standing up and clapping. I'm even dancing in my seat because, you know, he kind of just. It kind of got invalidated.
- [81:59]
Bowen Yang
Yeah, totally. Well, thank you for sharing that. I've got something.
- [82:03]
Matt Rogers
Here we go. This, everyone, is Bowen Yang's. I don't think so, honey. His time starts now.
- [82:10]
Bowen Yang
I don't think so, honey. Letterboxd. Unlisting the culture Awards and, you know, not letting that be a place for some wonderful feedback to Liv. I mean, I'm sure that you have the reasons why I'm not actually going after letterboxd. We love you, but come on. For a while there, our. Our bar graph on the stars, we were up in the fives in a way that I have not seen in a long time. But then I think at some point, you know what? There's just been some existential confusion. Peacock put us out on 32nd show first. Then we're on as a movie. Letterboxd puts us on letterboxd, and then they take us down. You know what? I love it. Y' all don't know what to do with us. Keep guessing, mama. But I just liked that little moment where people got to go on Letterboxd and 15 give their honest opinions about the culture wars, because people are nothing if not honest on letterboxd, as we all know. But, you know, anyway, I guess let's. Let's have a platform for award shows. I can review these things. Anyway. Letterboxd. Come on, put us back.
- [83:10]
Matt Rogers
And that's one minute. Yeah. They didn't know what to call us because we were a TV show. We were a movie. We were on Letterbox. We weren't. We're really just a comedy special, which I think ultimately would fall under tv. But I'm not going to argue with Peacock. We think Peacock.
- [83:27]
Bowen Yang
We all. We think Peacock. Oh, no, no. That's not what I'm doing here. I'm just going. You know, we defy categorization because.
- [83:35]
Matt Rogers
What was it? I love that question. Just to. Wait. I'm. What? I'm Realizing is one thing we missed talking about in our, like, little recap there. And this is not to say that every single person we're not indebted to for coming. Thank you. Thank you. But I wanted to shout out two people in particular, which is Jensen McCrae and Remy Wolf. Like, I have loved both of those songs, like, for a long time, and especially with Jensen, just that moment in the show. I'm just so proud that that's there. And Remy brought so much energy and fun. And the live vocal was so sick. They both were amazing. So good. Just that we were a platform where talent like that could be displayed. And, you know, just also Holden, Jensen's brother, who came and accompanied her on that gorgeous song. Like, you really should be streaming her whole album. Everybody. I mean, it's so good.
- [84:32]
Bowen Yang
I've been a remy fan since 2021, and I told her since the job, like, photo ID, I was like, who the is this person? I've loved her for a very long time. I'm. I'm so happy she's getting more success, especially with her album with. With Big Ideas. Being a year old, I was like, this. This has. This still has life in it. I'm still listening. I'm still spinning. This, like, it is a really, really amazing album.
- [84:57]
Matt Rogers
The best. I mean, like, she's incredibly gifted, as is Jensen, as is Ben, as is Lucy. Everyone that performed on the show. I mean, that was, yeah, very special. I just can't believe it even happened. And you can still stream it on Peacock, you know, because like I said, it is a comedy special and not an actual award show.
- [85:16]
Bowen Yang
Exactly. Hopefully there's more clarity on what this is for people in the. In the incoming years, for. Just. For everybody involved, for people who want to come to the show, people who want to watch the show, people who want to do the show and their publicists therein.
- [85:31]
Matt Rogers
But next week, we'll probably have tons to catch up on about the Taylor of it all. Maybe we'll even have a new song. Life of a Showgirls.
- [85:40]
Bowen Yang
The life of a Showgirls.
- [85:42]
Matt Rogers
Well, and we're gonna be in P Town.
- [85:43]
Bowen Yang
We'll be in P Town. And we are going to.
- [85:45]
Matt Rogers
Yeah, we'll bring our mics.
- [85:47]
Bowen Yang
We'll bring our mics. Yes, I will do that.
- [85:49]
Matt Rogers
We'll have another chaotic P Town episode, maybe even with a new Taylor single. Wow. That. She released it just in time for Carnival. She knew.
- [85:56]
Bowen Yang
We're gonna do Taylor Tub.
- [85:59]
Matt Rogers
I love Taylor Tub.
- [86:01]
Bowen Yang
Was it. Oh, Taylor Tub was for people who. We might not have mentioned it on the pod. It was is four hours of us being stoned out of our gourds in a hot tub on fire island, just playing four hours of Taylor music.
- [86:12]
Matt Rogers
Honestly, in our in our truest form. Really?
- [86:18]
Bowen Yang
Yeah, truly.
- [86:19]
Matt Rogers
We end every episode with a song.
- [86:49]
Bowen Yang
Listen to that song.
- [86:51]
Matt Rogers
Listen. Watch the Culture Awards. Bye.
- [86:54]
Bowen Yang
Las Culturistis is a Production by Will Ferrell's Big Money Players in iHeartradio podcast.
- [86:58]
Matt Rogers
US created and hosted by Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, executive produced by Anna Hosnier and produced by Becca Ramos, edited.
- [87:05]
Bowen Yang
And next by Doug B.
- [87:06]
Matt Rogers
And our music is by Henry Kabirsky. You know that feeling when you want to buy something but also want to feel like an adult about it? Klarna gets it. Clarna has an app that helps you shop smarter, track your spending, compare prices, earn cash back. Which who doesn't want that? And if needed, split payments interest free.
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Bowen Yang
No drama, no guessing, no weird math.
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Matt Rogers
Ugh.
- [87:35]
Bowen Yang
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Matt Rogers
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- [87:54]
Bowen Yang
Hey, big news for all you platonic fans. Season two is officially out on Apple tv. If you missed season one, here's the gist. Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne legends play a pair of platonic besties just like Matt and I, who are a total disaster together in the funniest way.
- [88:10]
Matt Rogers
I can't wait to see that Luke McFarlane. Well, now I'm really excited. Luke and Carla Gallo. Okay, get me to the theater. I mean the show, the tv. The tv. See, the thing is, Apple TV is like watching a movie in your own home. Everything on there is so excellent. And you'll some familiar faces from SNL like A.D. bryant.
- [88:29]
Bowen Yang
I know her.
- [88:30]
Matt Rogers
Season two of Platonic is now streaming on Apple TV. It's hilarious. Go check it out. Do you know what the perfect addition is to any party?
- [88:37]
Bowen Yang
What?
- [88:38]
Matt Rogers
A Casamigos margarita.
- [88:39]
Bowen Yang
Everyone loves a Casamigos margarita. She really is that girl.
- [88:44]
Matt Rogers
It's true. Everyone can get behind her.
- [88:46]
Bowen Yang
She's a little tangy.
- [88:47]
Matt Rogers
She's a little sweet.
- [88:48]
Bowen Yang
She's good. Any which way Anything goes with my casamigos. And that's rule of culture number 87. Because anything goes with my casamigos.
- [88:56]
Matt Rogers
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Bowen Yang
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