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Matt Rogers
ABC Tim Allen and Kat Dennings star in the new family comedy Shifting Gears.
Bowen Yang
Dad, I'm broke and I need a.
Moshe Casher
Place to stay until I figure out what the rest of my life looks like.
Amy Schneider
So a couple of days.
Matt Rogers
I love it when his daughter moves back in.
Moshe Casher
The last time you walked out that door, you looked back at me and.
Matt Rogers
Gave me a double bird.
Moshe Casher
I was 18.
Bowen Yang
The double bird was how I ended all our conversations.
Moshe Casher
The wheels come off. Can we try to talk to each.
Bowen Yang
Other like rational adults?
Amy Schneider
Have you watched the news lately?
Moshe Casher
That's not a thing anymore.
Matt Rogers
New Wednesdays, 8, 7 Central on ABC.
Moshe Casher
And stream on Hulu. Where'd you get those shoes?
Bowen Yang
Easy. They're from dsw.
Moshe Casher
Because DSW has the exact right shoes.
Matt Rogers
For whatever you're into right now.
Moshe Casher
You know, like the sneakers that make.
Amy Schneider
Office hours feel like happy hour, the.
Moshe Casher
Boots that turn grocery aisles into runways, and all the styles that show off the many sides of you, from daydreamer to multitasker and everything in between.
Amy Schneider
Because you do it all in really great shoes.
Bowen Yang
Find a shoe for every you@ your.
Moshe Casher
DSW store or DSW.com this is Matt.
Amy Schneider
Rogers from Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang.
Moshe Casher
Save the date for your cordially invited a hilarious new wedding comedy starring Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon.
Amy Schneider
Chaos ensues when two weddings are accidentally booked on the same weekend at the same venue. Uh oh.
Moshe Casher
Will Ferrell plays the father of the bride and Reese Witherspoon is the sister of the other bride. And they go head to head to make sure the ones they love get their special day together on screen.
Amy Schneider
For the first time ever, it's Ferrell versus Witherspoon. Chaos comedy and alligator wrestling await you.
Moshe Casher
Watch January 30th on Prime Video. Spectrum Business knows that you put in unlimited effort to unlock the unlimited possibilities of your small business. Get Internet, mobile, phone and TV services to connect all aspects of your business and see your business made limitless. Learn more@spectrum.com Business Hootie Hoo, everyone. Today we are releasing our live show from this past weekend at SF Sketchfest featuring Moshe Casher and Jeopardy. Icon Amy Schneider. We are so grateful they both did the show and we're so happy you guys sold out Cobb's Comedy Club. We had such a great time in San Francisco. Huge shout out to the whole Sketch Fest team for having us and to Moshe and Amy for being so game and just so funny and generous and smart. It was a really, really lovely night and a great weekend. Before this insane week. And so we hope you enjoy the show. We love you, and we'll be back with normal episodes next week. Bye.
Amy Schneider
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.
Moshe Casher
Wow.
Amy Schneider
Podcast starts now.
Moshe Casher
And guess what? I did that wrong. Let's take it from the top. Live show starts now. The one thing Sam said to me was, so we're doing live show starts now. I said, correct, Correct. Amendo, amigo.
Amy Schneider
Why would I need to ask that?
Moshe Casher
Why would you need to tell me that?
Amy Schneider
First of all, how's everyone doing?
Moshe Casher
Yeah. What's up, you guys? I just want to say your city has had such an amazing effect on the world, globally and politically, and it is an honor to be here celebrating your achievements tonight.
Amy Schneider
Congrats to us all.
Moshe Casher
Congrats to us all. Congrats on the TikTok ban. You guys did that.
Amy Schneider
You did that.
Moshe Casher
You did that. We did that. We are not going back.
Amy Schneider
I can't wait.
Moshe Casher
We're so. We're really pro TikTok man on this pod. Is it because we've never quite cracked it maybe?
Amy Schneider
No, that's not why.
Moshe Casher
That's not why.
Amy Schneider
No, that couldn't be it. It's just because we love Instagram reels so much.
Moshe Casher
Yeah.
Amy Schneider
I have no hate for TikTok. I just love Instagram.
Moshe Casher
Yeah, we just think Mark Zuckerberg's like a better entrepreneur and he deserves a success more than whatever that other guy's name is.
Amy Schneider
Plus, his makeover is awesome.
Moshe Casher
Yeah. Wait, that's coming up later or so Pro Mark Zuckerberg's makeover. He looks so fucking hot, you guys. I wish he was here.
Amy Schneider
I learned something kind of groundbreaking today. George has met Mark Zuckerberg.
Moshe Casher
Yep. Better believe it.
Amy Schneider
Isn't that weird? Yes, a resounding yes.
Moshe Casher
You know, what was the context? What was the context? Thank you for asking.
Amy Schneider
We have a context. Queen in the house. Get this. We have a context. Diva.
Moshe Casher
Get this, Diva. I worked at Facebook.
Amy Schneider
He's one of you.
Moshe Casher
Over a decade ago. Over a decade ago.
Amy Schneider
Back when Facebook was still punk.
Moshe Casher
Back when Facebook was still punk. And the big controversy my first week. Let me know if you remember this. I know this is a Gen Z slash Gen Alpha crowd. The big controversy my first week there was the emotional contagion study, which is when they gave some people negative content and some people positive content without asking for their consent. And then they like saw how that affected them. Doesn't that seem so quaint? Can you imagine? That was like a months long media cycle. Now they're murdering people anyway.
Amy Schneider
So how did they respond in the office? What was the vibe like?
Moshe Casher
Well, I walked in and I said, no more of that.
Matt Rogers
Enough is enough.
Moshe Casher
And they made me VP of emotion. So that's hap. So that happened. So that's happening tomorrow. TikTok is going blank.
Amy Schneider
It's on Sunday.
Moshe Casher
Whatever. I'm on New York time. It's after midnight for me. And then Monday. And Monday we have the inauguration. So again, congrats, you guys. You guys, congrats, everybody, that it's going really well. What else was on our mind?
Amy Schneider
It's funny because, like, I really. I still want to dig into this TikTok thing a little bit.
Moshe Casher
Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. Go.
Amy Schneider
Is anyone here sad about it? Is anyone here happy about it?
Moshe Casher
Yeah.
Amy Schneider
The hell?
Moshe Casher
I thought this was a tech town. You guys have moved on. You guys are like, TikTok is so. I feel like here they already have a different AI VR hologram app that they're all doing.
Amy Schneider
George, I think I have to tell you something.
Moshe Casher
Tell me.
Amy Schneider
What I was about to say was that that was a very divisive response. I realized something today that I think you guys will resonate with you all. When someone says, at least I sparked a conversation, they've lost the argument. When someone says, well, I've created a dialogue, that means they've made zero points. I'm kind of obsessed with it as, like, well, good or bad? We're speaking.
Moshe Casher
Yeah, good or bad. San Francisco is a land of contrasts, sort of.
Amy Schneider
And I find that to be so, so powerful. So it's like that TikTok thing. I was like, wow. No one can say we didn't start a conversation tonight.
Moshe Casher
But don't you think that's like, the mo. That is what social media is. It's like, well, they're all talking. That's what. When Mark Zuckerberg is doing his is at the congressional hearings, answering questions. They're like, are they murdering? He's like, yeah, but they're talking.
Amy Schneider
I love that we're a tech podcast.
Moshe Casher
Yeah, we're a tech podcast, and everyone loves it. Wait, we also wanted to talk about how this is so far, the worst year ever. Thoughts? How's everyone's year? Is anyone's year off to a good start? Oh, yes.
Amy Schneider
The Context Diva.
Moshe Casher
Oh.
Amy Schneider
Oh.
Moshe Casher
Do you. I'm so shocked that the Context Diva has had a good year, because I feel like it's not a good year for context. Do you guys think 2025 is good for. Is good? Do you think Context Is in or out in 2025.
Amy Schneider
Out, out, out.
Moshe Casher
But here's the thing. To me, the peak of no context was Kamala is brat. And so now I think the fact that people rejected that means there was hunger for context. But people don't know where to look, so they're like him.
Amy Schneider
You know, I think no matter what, no matter who wins the election, at least we're talking about context.
Moshe Casher
And by the way. By the way, yeah, we're still talking about the election as if it hasn't happened. It'll happen when we say it does. They haven't finished counting the votes, you guys, seriously.
Amy Schneider
If we all get on our phones right now, we can change the results.
Moshe Casher
Who's voting late? Do you guys vote late? So, okay, 2025. We were literally recently actually having a conversation about what is one good thing that happened in 2025. And you famously said, I've been sleeping well.
Amy Schneider
Spilled. I have been sleeping so incredibly well, start to finish. Oh, wow.
Moshe Casher
What else? There was one more thing. Oh, no. All right, What? Context Queen.
Amy Schneider
Context queen says what?
Moshe Casher
Context Diva says what?
Amy Schneider
New insult just dropped.
Matt Rogers
Wow.
Moshe Casher
Damn. I like the idea of context Diva being potentially even a government position that you can be elected to. She's running for, you know, she's running for context Diva. She was comptroller, so she would be.
Matt Rogers
Pretty good at it.
Amy Schneider
She's just used to context and things being in or out of it.
Moshe Casher
So, yeah, don't wait. This is actually kind of a big idea, I think. Context diva. How localized are we thinking?
Amy Schneider
Well, I think we need the one on the state and national level.
Moshe Casher
No. 100%. Because here's the thing. Sometimes, you know, you'll get Kamala talking, you'll get Trump talking. There's no context. We need someone to come out. She's wearing a pinstripe suit. She's a lesbian. Yes. And she opens a book.
Amy Schneider
I think it's an amazing idea. I mean, I do think calling. You know, essentially, we have context divas already, and they're called historians.
Moshe Casher
Sure.
Amy Schneider
But that is like. So I hear. I hear historian, and I'm like, no.
Moshe Casher
Yeah. You know what else? I do that for journalists, like, context. Like, who's academic? Are you kidding me?
Amy Schneider
I'd rather jump off a cliff.
Moshe Casher
I'd rather jump off a cliff.
Amy Schneider
But when I hear context diva, I'm like, work.
Moshe Casher
But here's the thing. I'm almost like, it ruins it if she is elected democratically. Not to be anti democracy, but it's like, guess who else is elected democratically? All the other losers that she's in charge of keeping track of.
Amy Schneider
Well, there will be no ethics in the context diva industry. Yeah, I think what it should be. It should be. Is this good?
Moshe Casher
Excuse me. Yes, go ahead.
Amy Schneider
I think the context diva should be more of a spiritual position.
Moshe Casher
Well, of course.
Amy Schneider
I think it should almost be in churches.
Moshe Casher
And I think.
Amy Schneider
I think when you're speaking like, say, like the spirit takes you, you can be context diva. Oh, you can be like, actually, it was like this in the seventies.
Moshe Casher
Oh, I see. Well, here's the real dark darkness of all of this. Guess what? Democratized being a context diva. TikTok, you open. TikTok, you open one of these social media apps, folks. Everyone thinks they're a context diva these days. So much so. There's so much context that we exist without any context.
Amy Schneider
We're being overly contextual.
Moshe Casher
We're being overly. Maybe the issue all along wasn't that we lacked context. It was that we had too much context and not enough content.
Amy Schneider
George, can I be completely honest with you? That was context diva. Suddenly I saw.
Moshe Casher
Because here's the thing.
Amy Schneider
KT Tunstall, original Context Diva.
Moshe Casher
Are we ready for this?
Amy Schneider
Oh, I'm scared.
Moshe Casher
Actually, Content creators. All right, get ready. Content creators. What are they actually doing? Just commentating. They're not creating anything original, so they're actually context creators. What content creators are doing are taking existing content and saying, you know, in the 90s, Kate Moss walked in this Runway, and then she did this. That's not content. They're actually just creating context. So all we're doing is we have a preexisting content. No new content is being made. We're just recontextualizing it and recontextualizing it based on everyone's weird little biases.
Amy Schneider
George, Context Diva.
Matt Rogers
I totally agree with you.
Moshe Casher
Thank you.
Amy Schneider
Context Diva, the OG George, you're scaring people.
Moshe Casher
This is crazy.
Amy Schneider
There was a moment when it really felt fire and brimstone.
Moshe Casher
Do you feel like I'm making a point.
Amy Schneider
That felt accusatory?
Moshe Casher
No, no, not at all. I genuinely can't tell.
Amy Schneider
I think you are making a point. It's just like, it's getting complicated because I think we're forgetting that we're at a comedy show.
Moshe Casher
So this is a podcast about straight culture. And what usually happens is we'll think of different topics, and I guess you could say contextualize them based on whether they are straight or gay. Would you say that's correct?
Amy Schneider
I would say that's 100% correct. Context Diva, Is that correct?
Moshe Casher
Context Diva, do you agree? Oh, she's paying attention.
Amy Schneider
This has been notarized by the Context Diva. I'm also a notary.
Moshe Casher
You're a notary. Oh, my God, you are walking.
Amy Schneider
Well. That's crazy. Did everyone see that? That was insane. Not to be a bitch, but I called that out.
Moshe Casher
Yeah, no, you did.
Amy Schneider
That was crazy.
Moshe Casher
Sorry. I'm having such a difficult time because I just want to theorize Context Diva for another hour and a half. And I know that no one wants that. Okay. But keep going. So basically, we're going to. We each thought up some sort of straight topics, and we want to run them by you, and we want to maybe debate even with one another and sort of talk through what's gay and what's straight that we're noticing in the world.
Amy Schneider
And I'll start.
Moshe Casher
Go.
Amy Schneider
I have something that I think is very straight, and it is having a sweet tooth.
Moshe Casher
This is interesting. This is interesting.
Amy Schneider
I think having a sweet tooth is extremely straight because the LGBTQ people, we have addictions.
Moshe Casher
Yeah, yeah. It's like, commit to something.
Amy Schneider
It's like, ooh, I love chocolate. It's like, my friend is on meth. Like, when. When I hear like, ugh, I have such a sweet tooth, I'm like, you are like, have you ever been out of the house?
Moshe Casher
Having a sweet tooth is like microdosing being bad.
Amy Schneider
Yeah.
Moshe Casher
Your entire religion is, should we be bad?
Amy Schneider
Having a sweet tooth is being like, I shouldn't say it, but fuck.
Moshe Casher
Yeah. It's like, shut the fuck up. Yeah.
Amy Schneider
I literally couldn't think of something more humble, something more like, I haven't been out of my home.
Moshe Casher
Yeah, okay. Having a sweet tooth.
Amy Schneider
But, you know, I have to give a little context.
Moshe Casher
Yeah, yeah, go.
Amy Schneider
This came to mind because I did hear a gay guy say it.
Moshe Casher
Well, of course. I mean, listen. On the other. You know, to play devil's advocate, Context Diva, if you will, on the. Okay, that deserved an applause. But on the other side of things. No, too late. On the other side of things, there is something about having a sweet tooth that gives. Sorry. Gay guy, adult, living with his mom.
Amy Schneider
She's asleep.
Moshe Casher
He's going to the fridge, don't you think?
Amy Schneider
100%. And I have to tell you, the context is that this guy, he was a gay guy with a Southern accent. So he would say, oh, I have such a sweet tooth.
Moshe Casher
Oh, yeah.
Amy Schneider
And by the way, he said it while fully nude.
Moshe Casher
Of course. Right.
Amy Schneider
So that's important. Context.
Moshe Casher
There's something about being in the South. That really brings out the horseshoe theory. You know, straight things become gay. Gay things become straight. Sweet become savory. By the way, you know, what is the gay equivalent of having a sweet tooth? Being like, I actually prefer savory.
Amy Schneider
Okay, drag my ass. And also my favorite thing is to go, ugh, that's too sweet.
Moshe Casher
Well, I was about to say, of course, the corollary of that is that's not too sweet, is it? When ordering a cocktail.
Amy Schneider
And guess what, spoiler alert. It's going to be too sweet.
Moshe Casher
It's going to be too sweet.
Amy Schneider
It's going to go ahead and be too sweet.
Moshe Casher
Yeah.
Amy Schneider
Okay, so George, do you have one?
Moshe Casher
Yes, I had one. Okay, so I was thinking, do you guys know Waymo is only here? You guys think it's normal. You're wrong.
Amy Schneider
You think it's normal?
Moshe Casher
You think it's normal? I'm sorry, I'm a normal. A normal blue blooded, sure, American, I'm coming here, I'm coming here straight off the bus. I see a car, there's no driver in it. I'm calling the police. And people trust.
Amy Schneider
This does every time. Okay, this is a legitimate question. Everyone answered at the same time. When you get in one, are you like, okay, yeah. Or are you literally like, no, okay, you're like filming. Everyone's filming. Ah, what's it gonna do?
Moshe Casher
Are you all creating content slash context? So I got in my. I got in my Waymo and I went to Sweet Maple for brunch. I got the millionaire's bacon because I heard it was really good. I'm sorry, all my references are about 15 years old. Okay, so.
Amy Schneider
So you think Waymo.
Moshe Casher
I think Waymo. Well, it's complicated. Here's the thing. I definitely think obviously gay guys also are evil in their own way. But I think acting so much on the instinct to not want to talk to someone, specifically someone in customer service, because that's basically where it comes from. It's people that don't want to say one single word to their human identified Uber driver.
Amy Schneider
Which, by the way, can be one of life's greatest pleasures.
Moshe Casher
Yeah, I'll have you know, and we'll have you know, actually that we were.
Amy Schneider
In a human operated Uber today and we were crushing.
Moshe Casher
We were. The way we realized we were having a normal conversation in the back. At some point we hear.
Amy Schneider
We look.
Moshe Casher
At each other, we say, let's give this man a show.
Amy Schneider
I say, we got more. 10 minutes. 10 more minutes on this thing. Let's fucking go.
Moshe Casher
And then I was literally like, all right, what do I got? What do I got? I read that Nelly is performing at the inauguration. I say, I'm yelling. I'm really speaking for the back. For the back. I'm like, what is he going to do? Hotten her?
Amy Schneider
The man starts applauding.
Moshe Casher
Oh, my God.
Amy Schneider
Oh, my God. I mean, so this is the thing.
Moshe Casher
Straight people don't want to speak one word to their human identified Uber driver. So they literally got military funding to make self driving cars. To what end?
Amy Schneider
And just to counter you slightly, please, it is a little bit gay guy coded to be like, I'm driving.
Moshe Casher
Well, okay, yes.
Amy Schneider
You're like, there is something to being like, let's just see.
Moshe Casher
Totally.
Amy Schneider
But I know what you mean. There's also a personal touch there.
Moshe Casher
Of course. Of course there's a personal touch. Yeah. Okay. What was your other one?
Amy Schneider
Okay, my other one is. This is. Well, everything I do is controversial because I push buttons. Menswear.
Moshe Casher
So menswear is straight. Is the contention people are scared.
Amy Schneider
People are waiting with bated breath.
Moshe Casher
Yeah. Are you guys okay?
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Amy Schneider
Are you choking? Are you guys choking on your tenders right now?
Moshe Casher
People are taking off their Evan Kanori jackets and throwing them in the trash. All right, context diva. No, go ahead.
Amy Schneider
I think menswear is like, okay, so clothes are gay guy. Everyone knows this, obviously. But gay guys know that, like, clothes matter when a woman wears them.
Moshe Casher
Right?
Amy Schneider
Like, that's fashion.
Moshe Casher
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Amy Schneider
Like when a man. Like, there's this thing happening with menswear where it's like, like almost being like, I can take care of myself. In fact, I don't need anyone.
Moshe Casher
Yeah.
Amy Schneider
And it's like turning into this like armor of like thousand dollar watches Also.
Moshe Casher
By the way, let women have one thing they can't have. Fashion. Now you're doing fashion for men. I would say it's incel coated, if anything.
Amy Schneider
I 100% think so.
Moshe Casher
Quite literally. It's literally like, I like clothes because I can't find a woman. The woman.
Amy Schneider
What is the roots of menswear?
Moshe Casher
Yeah, yeah. Are they. By the way, they're also. Okay, first of all, when women dress for other women, that is, we're gonna go ahead and say slay boots. When a man dresses for another man, it's like, how about you go to therapy?
Amy Schneider
There's something, I can't elaborate, but militaristic about it.
Moshe Casher
Of course.
Amy Schneider
And it is like when you see like a stylist dressing a woman and it's a gay man, he always looks horrible.
Moshe Casher
That's by Design. Yes. No, that's by design.
Amy Schneider
Because he knows that his clothes do not matter.
Moshe Casher
Yeah. You have to be egoless.
Amy Schneider
You have to forget who you are and lose yourself in the textures.
Moshe Casher
Yeah.
Amy Schneider
In the vibrant hues.
Moshe Casher
Yeah. It's also, like, develop any other hobby. You know what I mean?
Amy Schneider
Of course. I always agree with you.
Moshe Casher
Hold on. I'm looking at my list. Okay, so my other one was gonna be Sheryl Sandberg, because. Just to go with the Mark Zuckerberg, because guess what? You know what? You know who we haven't heard from in a while? Sheryl Sandberg. Where the hell is she? Does anyone know?
Amy Schneider
She's actually here?
Moshe Casher
Shouldn't this be her moment?
Amy Schneider
I could have been right. I was right before. Can you do. George did an incredible impression.
Moshe Casher
No, no, I was doing an impression. She just. She has the perfect tone where she's, like, on the one hand, being so like. So the way this is gonna work. So what we did with this product is we wanted everyone to be empower, talk to their cousin if they wanted to. But also, of course, if you want to set off a bomb and for it to go off in the Middle east, you can do that as well. And so she is able to add a sort of, I would say, professorial auntie vibe to describing, let's say, mass murder. You know, And I think that's what you have to look for in an executive.
Amy Schneider
Of course.
Moshe Casher
But the point is now she's completely disappeared.
Amy Schneider
Well, George, why can't she? Because she's a woman. Yes.
Moshe Casher
Context diva. Is her behavior approved or. No, still determining. That's a first.
Amy Schneider
Bureaucracy is getting involved in the context diva role.
Moshe Casher
Okay. I sort of want to do the Bush era thing that we were talking about.
Amy Schneider
You have to remind me.
Moshe Casher
Okay. So we were saying, you know, obviously, we're about to enter another Trump era. So we were like, which disgusting parts of the last time conservatism was endemic are gonna come back. And I was saying, I think spring break slash Girls Gone Wild culture is gonna make a comeback, but this time it's gonna be. Talk about context less. Like, it's gonna be. It's gonna be so confusing, whether it's empowering or not. Like, the Girls Gone Wild version today is gonna be run by a burnt tan woman from Florida who's, like, a billionaire.
Amy Schneider
Yeah, no, it's gonna be like, unfortunately, my mom is gonna sort of be like, I think it's cool. She's gonna be like, I think it's cool what they're doing. And I think women should be allowed to express themselves.
Moshe Casher
And then guess what? In the next Trump administration, that woman is gonna be ambassador to the UN thoughts?
Amy Schneider
I think this is 100% genius. Sometimes it scares me when you predict things because they will come true.
Moshe Casher
I mean, do you remember when I predicted aerobics was gonna make a comeback? And then literally, Jane Fonda is doing it for Meta.
Amy Schneider
Did you guys know which of you signed off on that?
Moshe Casher
By the way? Where's her statement? She's still working with Zuck. Wow. Hanoi Jane, they called her. I'm right wing. All right, should we get the show started? What do you think?
Amy Schneider
Yeah, what do we think? Should we get the show started?
Moshe Casher
Oh, my God.
Amy Schneider
We have.
Moshe Casher
I have to say, we have two guests that I'm incredibly excited by. Well, I was about to say both Bay Area.
Amy Schneider
Well, medium.
Bowen Yang
No, no, no, that's not what I.
Moshe Casher
Was about to say. Both Bay Area natives. We did find out one of them is a Bay Area native. One of them has lived here since 2009, which to my mind counts.
Amy Schneider
I think it counts.
Moshe Casher
So I think this is a hometown glory style show. And of course I'm a hometown native because I worked at Facebook in 2013. So, you know, we all get it here.
Amy Schneider
Yeah, I'm hometown I. For a wedding two years ago.
Matt Rogers
Yeah.
Moshe Casher
Oh, please. Get a waymo. I'll meet you there.
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Amy Schneider
This is Matt Rogers from Lost Culturesis with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang.
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Amy Schneider
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Moshe Casher
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Amy Schneider
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Moshe Casher
Our first guest. You are going to absolutely go hog wild for him. He is, in fact, doing his own podcast show, Endless Honeymoon, tomorrow at 4pm.
Amy Schneider
As part of this festival.
Moshe Casher
As part of this festival even. Please start clapping now. Give it up for Moshe Casher.
Amy Schneider
Wow. Grab a chair. Grab a mic.
Matt Rogers
Where is she? Where's the queen?
Moshe Casher
Oh, yeah. Context diva. Context diva.
Matt Rogers
I just had to contextualize who you are. Nice to see you.
Amy Schneider
Wow.
Matt Rogers
How's it going?
Amy Schneider
Are you inspired by the context of this force?
Moshe Casher
Yes.
Matt Rogers
I mean, it was really psychedelic. It was really cool. Yeah.
Moshe Casher
Any thoughts about any of the amazing points we've made so far?
Matt Rogers
I thought you both were charming and killed.
Moshe Casher
Oh, perfect.
Matt Rogers
Yeah, that was really. The scuttlebutt up in the green room is these two boys are killing right now.
Amy Schneider
Wow. I will say it didn't go quite as well as it did with our Uber driver today, but we still appreciate all the laughs, y'all.
Matt Rogers
I didn't love the points you made about menswear, but other than that.
Moshe Casher
You know, I was thinking that as we were saying it, I was like, you are clearly someone who dresses well and likes how you dress.
Matt Rogers
Like, I wouldn't consider myself an incel. Per se.
Moshe Casher
No, as I was saying it, I said I could see you sort of backstage hovering, and I said, yeah, I.
Amy Schneider
Saw the glimmer of that knife.
Matt Rogers
No, it's just, I'm not.
Moshe Casher
He's probably on Reddit right now.
Matt Rogers
No, because, like, I fuck my wife. You know what I mean? Like, all the time, you know? You know what I'm saying?
Bowen Yang
Totally.
Matt Rogers
I'll be like, bow, Bow, mother of my child, you know?
Moshe Casher
This is so cool.
Amy Schneider
I love this.
Matt Rogers
I'm just trying to bring really kind of like, dick swinging straight energy to the stage right now.
Moshe Casher
Well, if there's anything that's dick swinging, it's a Japanese cardigan and crossing your legs like that.
Amy Schneider
Damn. Damn. Damn. Got his ass.
Matt Rogers
Yeah.
Moshe Casher
So.
Amy Schneider
Well, I just wanted to say that I brought it up because menswear was close to me, and the siren song always calls, and I always say, stop it. I don't want to be a part of this world.
Matt Rogers
Oh, you wanna. You wanna dress?
Amy Schneider
I want. I. Sometimes it.
Matt Rogers
I don't wanna say better, but you wanna dress better?
Moshe Casher
I think we both do. We both do.
Amy Schneider
It calls to us, but I know it's bad.
Moshe Casher
I think for us, menswear is like. If we were evangelical Christians, menswear would be porn. Like, we're like, we want it so fucking bad, but we know. But we think it's immoral.
Matt Rogers
Can I. Can I tell you something gay?
Moshe Casher
Please.
Amy Schneider
Would love that.
Matt Rogers
Gay straight about porn that happened to me very recently, like, last night, and it involves my wife, who, you know, I'd be fucking on a regular basis.
Amy Schneider
Fuck, man. Seriously. Fuck.
Moshe Casher
She.
Matt Rogers
I think it was. It might have been last night, actually, was like, we were talking about something, and she was like. And that's why you. That's why you exclusively jerk off to gay porn? That's what she said to me.
Moshe Casher
And I go, did she mean lesbian porn?
Matt Rogers
No.
Moshe Casher
Oh, okay.
Matt Rogers
And I said, what? And I guess early in our relationship, I told her that I have jerked off to gay porn, and she assumed that that was the exclusive content. We're married 10 years.
Amy Schneider
That's wild.
Matt Rogers
And she thinks that that' the only pornography that I consume.
Moshe Casher
She is so accepting.
Matt Rogers
That's amazing. Yeah, you would think it would be a fucking red flag. It's basically you, babe. And then it's got to be, man, exclusively. Like, you are gay. You are a gay man.
Moshe Casher
Maybe she thought she turned you.
Amy Schneider
Oh, that's cool. Did. Did. Did you feel like. Was it hard to dispel this rumor without seeming Defensive.
Matt Rogers
No. Yeah.
Moshe Casher
You don't want to be odd.
Matt Rogers
Not at all, actually, dog. Cause you know, it's like I. No, it was so confusing to me that she had taken one small detail and superimposed it over what I would say is a nightly hobby of mine.
Moshe Casher
Jerking off to gay porn. Yeah.
Matt Rogers
Just general. General, sure.
Moshe Casher
So what percentage are we talking is gay?
Matt Rogers
Wait, what percentage.
Moshe Casher
What percentage of the porn you jerk off gay.
Matt Rogers
It's just the one time I mentioned my wife.
Amy Schneider
Okay, I'm hearing 50%.
Matt Rogers
I would go 10. I would go 10. I Would go 10.
Moshe Casher
And can I ask, this is. By the way, I'm so glad you brought this to us. What is it about it? What is context, diva? Hear me out. What is the context here?
Matt Rogers
Well, what do you mean, what's the context? I got a boner and lotion. I'm horny.
Moshe Casher
That's fair.
Matt Rogers
No, actually, now that we're bringing this up, it is my topic.
Moshe Casher
Okay, wait, wait. So you said you had a bunch of topics.
Matt Rogers
No, this is my topic. Jerking off to gay porn. Straight. No, I'm just kidding.
Moshe Casher
Okay.
Amy Schneider
I fully believed you.
Matt Rogers
What's the content? Why you're saying.
Moshe Casher
I guess what I mean is.
Amy Schneider
Yeah, try to tap into your inner sexuality. What's speaking to you about it?
Moshe Casher
Here's what I love about this, and this is actually very dick swinging of you. I'm asking you, what is the context of you jerking off to gay porn? And you're like, what the fuck do you mean? Here you are talking about jerking off to gay porn.
Amy Schneider
You're like, what's the issue?
Moshe Casher
Which I love.
Matt Rogers
I would say the context is I am an aficionado of all porn. Of all porn. And it's all hot to me. Well, not all. There's one category that I don't fuck with, obviously that's interracial. But no, I just. Once in a while I'm in the mood. It's a picadillo. You know, I would say I'm. I would say I'm 10% gay, 10% trans, 80% good old fashioned meat and potatoes.
Moshe Casher
Yeah. All right, cool.
Amy Schneider
Wow. Well, that was really amazing. Thank you for talking about that.
Moshe Casher
Yeah, give it up for Moshe.
Matt Rogers
Thank you for.
Amy Schneider
That was vulnerable space.
Matt Rogers
Thank you for opening this queer space.
Amy Schneider
Of course.
Matt Rogers
Listen, I guess come out, I guess.
Amy Schneider
Yeah, honey, I'm seeing the headlines already.
Moshe Casher
I love it. To come out and immediately be like, my wife thinks I only jerk off to gay porn. The fuck is her problem, Bitch.
Matt Rogers
Well, where else than stadiolab am I Going to admit this.
Moshe Casher
Okay, Moshe.
Matt Rogers
I'm Moshe.
Moshe Casher
Moshe, we heard that you actually came with not one topic, but several that you wanted to run by.
Matt Rogers
It wasn't even that. It was that I was struggling with my sexuality.
Moshe Casher
Of course, we know.
Matt Rogers
To come up with every topic that I came up with as uber straight immediately felt gay again. And you said that that's an ongoing theme that'll happen.
Amy Schneider
It's a problem.
Matt Rogers
I mean, at first thought about like my hobby, which is surfing, and then I'm like, actually there's nothing gayer than surfing. You know, it's like you put on like a skin tight rubber suit with your buddies and then you, you all lay face down and you get really excited when there's a big swell, you know, like. And then I was like, let me go really straight ufc. And I was like, okay, I don't. That's as gay as anything is. I was like, okay, how about like fingering? It only took me a few moments to realize the flaw in my logic and a few memories from the catch on my computer. And then I was like, well, how about like, like come. Come's pretty straight, right? Yeah, it, like, it shoots, you know, it's like. Yeah, it's violent, it blasts, you know, it's. It's straight.
Amy Schneider
If you're lucky.
Matt Rogers
It's white stains. Yeah, it's straight, it's white, it's male.
Moshe Casher
Wow.
Matt Rogers
But I finally landed on, on, on intimacy workshops.
Moshe Casher
Love it.
Amy Schneider
This is so huge because I went.
Matt Rogers
To one two weeks ago with my wife. You know what I'm saying?
Amy Schneider
Oh, so cool.
Matt Rogers
Actually was more. It was more of a, of a porn detox than an intimacy. No, it wasn't. It was a real intimacy workshop. And we noticed that. And this is. I'm noticing already that there's a bit of a slant towards gay men on this show. Would we say?
Moshe Casher
Oh, yeah, well, we try. You know, we used to try to be more inclusive. I think we've sort of given up recently.
Matt Rogers
I mean, you know, after the election, every couple was. There were no gay male couples. There were 22 couples. And there were some lesbian couples and the rest were straight couples. And we were. Natasha and I were asking ourselves, where are the gay men? Where are they? And we were like, oh, they're probably like having fun or something somewhere.
Moshe Casher
So we can answer that for you. It's complicated. So as we've said before on the podcast, divorce is lesbian.
Matt Rogers
Right?
Moshe Casher
And staying together forever but being violently unhappy as gay guys because they're all open. So if they're like. Let's say you go home to your husband. You literally hate each other, can't stand each other. There's no reason to change anything because you're already having the sex you would be having otherwise. Do you see what I'm saying?
Amy Schneider
Yeah. You're like. You come home, you throw your keys down. Your husband says, like, huh, finally, you're here. You pick your keys back up, you're going to the bathhouse.
Matt Rogers
Oh, that sounds great.
Amy Schneider
Yeah.
Matt Rogers
In a straight relationship, you just go, yeah, I'm here. And you sit down on the couch and dig in. Now, what is straight? What's straight? Lesbian is divorced, staying with somebody straight.
Amy Schneider
Somewhere in the middle.
Moshe Casher
Yeah. Straight is like being moderately happy in your second marriage. You know what I mean? It's sort of like. Well, I reached. Like, this is sort of the best I can probably get.
Matt Rogers
You're married? Are you both married?
Moshe Casher
No. Sam is. Sorry. Engaged.
Amy Schneider
But in, like, a. But it. But in, like, an alternative way.
Moshe Casher
Sam is obsessed with being fully in the process of planning a wedding but not saying that he's engaged. Sorry, am I calling you out?
Amy Schneider
No.
Matt Rogers
Do you call him your fiance?
Amy Schneider
Oh, God, no.
Matt Rogers
No.
Moshe Casher
How.
Amy Schneider
Ghost.
Matt Rogers
That's too basic or something. Yeah.
Moshe Casher
What is he, a lesbian? Yeah.
Matt Rogers
So why weren't they there? They don't.
Amy Schneider
No. I think, literally, George is right. They're, like, out. They're, like, spending the money you spent on that to, like, go to Fire island and hook up with as many people as they can. Yes.
Moshe Casher
Their therapy is having three. Or their intimacy workshop is literally fucking another guy.
Matt Rogers
Okay. I have pitched that to my wife so many times.
Amy Schneider
The thing is, it does help.
Moshe Casher
Yeah.
Matt Rogers
Does it?
Amy Schneider
Oh, yeah.
Matt Rogers
Wait. You'll have a conflict with your partner and then go, well, when you're feeling.
Amy Schneider
A little bland and you're like, okay, it's time to mix it up. Like, who are we anymore? It's like, then you have sex with a third person. You're like, oh, that's who I am.
Matt Rogers
That's cool. See, I do that, but I. It's. I keep it a secret from my wife.
Moshe Casher
Wow.
Matt Rogers
Yes.
Amy Schneider
That's why.
Moshe Casher
That's okay.
Matt Rogers
Yeah. Wait, this doesn't get. You don't put this podcast out or anything.
Amy Schneider
No, I'm curious. Like, in this intimacy workshop, what we're like, what were they getting up to?
Moshe Casher
Like, because I actually am also very.
Amy Schneider
There's an element of this that feels very LGBTQ plus, where it's like, so you're all getting horny together.
Matt Rogers
Oh, we weren't no, we weren't. We weren't fucking each other.
Moshe Casher
So here's what Sam is referring to. It's like there are actually one of the reasons I will say you didn't see gay men. There is because there are intimacy workshop adjacent things like that that are like men only. There's a lot of like men only things that you don't hear about that are like sort of bathhouse adjacent culture.
Amy Schneider
Well, they'll phrase it like reconnect with your body.
Moshe Casher
Yeah.
Matt Rogers
Oh, it's like. It's like a lingam covering or whatever.
Moshe Casher
It'll be like everyone is edging. Right. But like there is also a psychoanalyst present.
Matt Rogers
I got it. He's the guy you come on.
Amy Schneider
Right, exactly. You do watch gay porn.
Matt Rogers
Starting to get it. Can I, by the way, tell you, I don't know, this is weird. It's back to gay porn. But I was in a circle jerk when I was a teenager. Jealous, with one gay man and a straight friend. Everybody here is just like, okay, you're gay, Moshe. That's what's happening.
Moshe Casher
No, you're from Oakland.
Matt Rogers
It reads similar, but it was in the 90s. This was in the 90s. And gay. I don't know if. Do you remember this gay porn? They used to do multiple cum shots of the same come. Like it would be a guy like, oh, oh, oh. And then there'd be another angle and the same guy would have uncom.
Moshe Casher
Yes.
Amy Schneider
Yeah, yeah, I'm familiar. Yeah.
Moshe Casher
Do they not do that in straight porn?
Matt Rogers
No, no, we like cinema verite.
Moshe Casher
Okay.
Matt Rogers
You can't come twice.
Amy Schneider
Did someone just go aww?
Matt Rogers
It was between an aw and an ew context.
Moshe Casher
Diva has thrown out her notebook. She's like, they are hopeless. Okay, so. All right. But I. I do want to get into the specifics of what else happened at this workshop.
Matt Rogers
Okay. Well, it was. It was conducted by an old hippie couple. And the man. The man started. There was a lot of funny things that happened. But the man, he had a harmonium. Let's start there. You know what that is? It's like a. It's like a cross between. It's like if an accordion was on psychedelic drugs, kind of. It's like a thing that you do this with and then you play. And he would sing songs. And they were very bad.
Amy Schneider
I can see the eroticism in that.
Matt Rogers
Yeah, they were really bad songs, but they were kind of beautiful too. It'd be like I everybody love. And he would say everybody before he had sung the whole song. So we'd be like, what do we. But they were very basic love. Hippie, kind of like, loving is good, loving is God. You love love. And we would all have to sing together. And then his wife was there. He was a psychiatrist and she was a psychiatric nurse. They'd been together 60 years. They were all over each other, like, constant touching, fondling. He mentioned the fact that he had cheated on her within 10 minutes of the beginning. And that was sort of the. That was the table setting. And then opening night, we went around the room and everybody said their biggest vulnerability. Everybody. Everybody. And people we didn't know would say their biggest vulnerability. And that was really super intense. And once you got really vulnerable after that, I kept thinking we were going to talk about fights that we were having. And it was. It wasn't. It was really very positive stuff. It was like, what do you love about your partner? What do you can you. Your memories when you first met them. And. And it was actually a super beautiful experience.
Amy Schneider
So this is so different than what I was expecting.
Moshe Casher
Same.
Matt Rogers
What did you think?
Amy Schneider
I'm like, so when does the porn come on? When do you start touching each other?
Moshe Casher
Oh, I see what you're saying. You thought it was a sexual intimacy workshop.
Amy Schneider
Yes.
Moshe Casher
Oh, okay. Okay. This was more of a. It was like a therapy. It was therapy adjacent. It was like building intimacy with your partner.
Matt Rogers
I think I figured it out. Emotional intimacy.
Moshe Casher
Emotional intimacy is straight. Well, yeah, I would say there's a spectrum. And it's like, emotional intimacy is lesbian.
Amy Schneider
Yeah.
Moshe Casher
Straight is down the middle.
Matt Rogers
Right.
Moshe Casher
Zero. Emotional intimacy is gay guy.
Amy Schneider
Yeah, I think there's something to that.
Moshe Casher
Okay, here's my sort of first thought about this. The emphasis on positivity, to me, feels very straight because it feels like a sort of. It feels like upworthy videos. Like, it feels like a cliche ridden. Yeah. Like, it's literally like, guess what it is. It's literally love wins. Like, that's what you're doing. It's like you are saying, we have issues, and someone's like, shh.
Matt Rogers
It was sponsored by the Lincoln Project. If that.
Moshe Casher
That would be iconic if the Lincoln Project sponsored intimacy workshops for lesbians.
Matt Rogers
Not to be too sincere, but the dodging of conflict was its secret sauce. I thought. Like I said, we were going there to work on ways to fight better. And instead we spent the weekend talking about how much we loved each other, which wasn't really the primary thing we were thinking about on the way up there. And it somehow changed the topic in such a way that it was really healing. And it was. Is this the content?
Amy Schneider
Keep going.
Matt Rogers
Is this the format of your show? I had this, like, realization that you would be. And you as a married man and you as a. As a fiance. I was like, why wouldn't you do this once a year or once every two years? Do a tune up.
Moshe Casher
Sure.
Matt Rogers
And tune ups. I think we can all agree very, very straight.
Amy Schneider
Well, again, check the tires, babe. Yeah, Yeah. I mean, I think that's part of straight culture that I really relate to, actually, is there's this thing, like, I remember one time, like, five years ago, my partner and I were arguing a lot.
Matt Rogers
And there's your fiance. Shut up.
Amy Schneider
My guy, my best guy and I were arguing quite a bit. And there was a moment we were like, you know what? Let's just bury it. Like, let's actually not discuss it anymore. We're actually just gonna be like, enough. Moving on. And it helped so much.
Moshe Casher
Okay, so basically, have.
Amy Schneider
You guys are repressed.
Moshe Casher
You guys are literally rebranding WASP culture to make it more like Burning Man.
Amy Schneider
Like, and I think that's genius.
Matt Rogers
Literally the opposite of intimacy is what that is, Right?
Moshe Casher
Exactly. Yeah.
Matt Rogers
I'm getting really close to an emotional truth for you. So what I'm gonna do is suggest that you build a callus over it and we never revisit it.
Amy Schneider
I think it can be so empowering.
Moshe Casher
Well, here's what I'll say. What if the agreement to create a callous is the most intimate thing you could do at the end of the day?
Matt Rogers
Yeah. By the way, that should have been my applause break. I just didn't bring it up quickly enough. That's how it felt. It felt like, even through the corniness of the harmonium, even through the, like, the weird flakiness of this situation, showing up was, like, 80% of what this whole thing was. So, basically, anyway, that's the reason I came on the show. I'm actually planning an intimacy workshop for gay men only.
Moshe Casher
Wow.
Matt Rogers
Yeah. And basically what it is, you all stand in a circle, you stare at each other, you say your biggest vulnerability, and then you all just sort of ejaculate on me. Like, that's.
Moshe Casher
And then you get to recreate some of Moshe's favorite videos.
Matt Rogers
No, that is the video.
Amy Schneider
Wow. Well, that sounds amazing.
Moshe Casher
All right.
Amy Schneider
Any final thoughts on an intimacy workshop?
Matt Rogers
I do have a final thought. This is for your audience. Our podcast tomorrow is struggling. We have sold five tickets. No, I'm joking. We're very popular. But we are doing a dating game segment, and there's a woman Coming up. That is gonna do like classic dating game. Bachelor number two, bachelor number three, she's queer and we have two women and we would love a man. If there is a man that dates women in the audience, you're like, I'm a man. You thought I was just like, if there is a man.
Amy Schneider
The way that fingers started flying as if there's only like one, you know.
Matt Rogers
Come talk to me after the show. But any further thoughts on intimacy workshops? I honestly think if you're in a relationship as corny as they are, it was one of the coolest things that I ever did. And it was really funny because there were couples in there. There was one couple that had been together 60 years, the people that were leading it, another couple been together 50 plus years, and the woman was in her last, I think two or three months of life. And they were dedicating themselves to making those last three months intimate and loving. And I know that's getting right to that callus that you built over with your. With your fella or your guy pal or whatever it is.
Amy Schneider
They should have gone to Berlin.
Matt Rogers
And then there were other. Another couple was there. They were like, we've been together since May.
Moshe Casher
Oh yeah.
Matt Rogers
And they were just high on cocaine the entire time.
Moshe Casher
Yeah.
Amy Schneider
Damn. Well, give it up for Moshe Cash, everybody.
Matt Rogers
Thank you. See you later.
Amy Schneider
That was amazing. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.
Moshe Casher
That was incredible. That was, that was electric.
Amy Schneider
That was electric.
Moshe Casher
The narrative to come out with like, you know, haha, gay porn and then to end on love conquers all. I witnessed a 60 year relationship like, reach its pinnacle in front of me. And then she died.
Amy Schneider
God, it would have been so great for the story if she died at the end.
Moshe Casher
I know.
Amy Schneider
That's too bad. Did you all learn something about intimacy?
Moshe Casher
Okay, I want to know. San Francisco, make some noise. If you have been in anything that could be called an intimacy workshop, that's.
Amy Schneider
A pretty good amount.
Moshe Casher
Okay. I would have thought more maybe I.
Amy Schneider
Want to say this thing keeps happening tonight where, like there will be like this. It's sort of one of my favorite things is where there will be three people that go like this. And it actually sounds much sadder than if there was no applause.
Moshe Casher
It's true.
Amy Schneider
It is. Genuinely, when I hear that, I'm like, damn. Like queer art a failure.
Moshe Casher
Wait, can I tell you something? This is so smart actually, because guess what is like the sign of silence is crickets. It's not actual silence. Like there's something about. There's something about.
Amy Schneider
Are you hearing this sometimes you can be louder than silence. Fuck.
Moshe Casher
Like, actual silence isn't silence.
Amy Schneider
Damn, George, you are so smart. Wait, I also just confessed something.
Moshe Casher
Go.
Amy Schneider
When Moshe was doing the, like, fake straight guy hand slaps to you.
Moshe Casher
Twice. To me. Zero. Twice. I'm so. There was one time where he went like that, and I literally didn't act fast enough. And then the moment was over.
Amy Schneider
The way that I genuinely felt taken. Taken in. That was like. Like, oh, trust.
Moshe Casher
He picked favorites, and it did not go unnoticed.
Amy Schneider
Well, maybe our next guest will also pick favorites, but the opposite way, so that we.
Moshe Casher
God, let's hope so. You guys, I feel like I just sounded like Busy Phillips. You guys.
Amy Schneider
Which would be an honor to sound like Busy Phillips.
Moshe Casher
That's right. Or like Rachel Zoe. Okay, I'm dead. About this next guest. I'm dead. I'm literally. I die. I die. I die. We met at the Met gala in the bathroom. I was literally dead. And now I'm dead again. You're my best friend.
Amy Schneider
Best friend now.
Moshe Casher
Anyway, so she is quite literally one of the smartest women alive.
Amy Schneider
I want to say. That's what they're telling me.
Moshe Casher
That is what I think. She was voted smartest woman alive. She is an absolute legend and an icon. She has a memoir out called in the form of a question. Look at us promoting work.
Amy Schneider
You're so good at this.
Moshe Casher
I'm literally so good at promoting. Please give it up for Amy Schneider.
Bowen Yang
Yes. I am the. I am the smartest woman alive. That's true.
Amy Schneider
Yeah. Congrats on that, by the way.
Bowen Yang
Yeah. Because, like, definitely, you know, knowing the capital of Lichtenstein, that's. That's what smart means. Like. Yeah, that's. That's who I am.
Moshe Casher
Is the capital of Liechtenstein Lichtenstein, or is that just Luxembourg?
Bowen Yang
Ah, that's Luxembourg.
Moshe Casher
Classic.
Bowen Yang
Classic trap.
Moshe Casher
That's a classic trap.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Moshe Casher
Damn it.
Bowen Yang
Liechtenstein's Vaduz.
Moshe Casher
Oh, of course. Well, that was gonna be my second guess.
Bowen Yang
Yeah, of course it was.
Moshe Casher
Okay, Amy, first of all, how's it going?
Amy Schneider
Yeah, let's start there.
Moshe Casher
Let's start there. Oh, dish.
Bowen Yang
You're still asking people how things are going at this point in life, like the timeline of history. Yeah, things are going fantastic.
Matt Rogers
Oh, perfect.
Moshe Casher
I'm so glad to hear it. We're so happy to have you. This is my new. My new character. Go ahead.
Amy Schneider
No, please do it.
Moshe Casher
No.
Amy Schneider
Wow.
Bowen Yang
Yeah. No, things are going wonderful. I'm trans. I just got. You know, this election just happened, and. Yeah, this is wonderful. I can't even fucking play college Volleyball these days.
Moshe Casher
And we know, you know, people don't know that your passion has always been college. College volleyball.
Bowen Yang
I know.
Moshe Casher
And you actually did Jeopardy.
Amy Schneider
Because you were hoping to.
Bowen Yang
You were hoping to transition.
Moshe Casher
That's the real transition is from Jeopardy. To college volume. Now that's.
Bowen Yang
That's been forever taken away from me, apparently.
Moshe Casher
That is so sad.
Amy Schneider
I'm so sorry.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Amy Schneider
God.
Moshe Casher
So, Amy, did you bring a topic with you, and can you tell us what it is?
Bowen Yang
I. I mean, yes and yes. Okay.
Moshe Casher
I'm amazing at my job today.
Amy Schneider
That was great.
Bowen Yang
Very well done. It was. It was a struggle because I was, like, at a certain point dealing with the. There's. Because there's the gay or straight spectrum, of course, and then there's also the CIS or trans spectrum. Correct, Right. Because a very CIS thing to do is to divide things up into categories. So I had to, like, work through that. And then.
Amy Schneider
If there's one thing we love, it's putting something in a box.
Bowen Yang
Right.
Moshe Casher
But can I tell you something? Theorizing about categories is trans.
Bowen Yang
I mean. Yeah, you got me. You got me on that one.
Amy Schneider
Got her ass. Good job.
Bowen Yang
Yeah. Yeah. But, yeah, I mean, I had a lot of different ideas, but, like, I felt like the one that somehow felt most appropriate to this venue is Colonizing Mars.
Moshe Casher
Got it. Colonizing Mars.
Amy Schneider
Colonizing Mars. And what. Do you feel straight about that off the bat? Before we really get into it, what.
Bowen Yang
Feels straight about it to me is that it is this idea that Elon Musk specifically and a lot of other people have this idea that we're just going to go to Mars and answers will happen. We'll figure out a way to do things there. Everything's gonna work out just fine.
Moshe Casher
Yeah.
Bowen Yang
You know, and I'm like, I'm trans. Like, nothing works out. I can't even put on eyeliner. Like, I don't.
Moshe Casher
Now you want me to do it in Mars.
Amy Schneider
Right. What's the gravity even, like, there?
Bowen Yang
Yeah, No, I mean, but it is just this, like. Like bullish confidence.
Moshe Casher
Yes.
Bowen Yang
That, like, okay, here's what we'll do. We'll go to Mars.
Moshe Casher
And I also think you're pointing to the idea of having a big. Going big without thinking of the consequences, without thinking of the implications. It's like, literally, like, doesn't that sound cool? And that's reason enough to do it, Right?
Bowen Yang
Exactly. Yeah.
Amy Schneider
It's a childishness.
Moshe Casher
The childishness.
Amy Schneider
It's a childishness because everyone. Queer people, have to grow up.
Moshe Casher
And specifically, boyishness.
Amy Schneider
Yeah.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Amy Schneider
There's something also, you know, when people, like, get a really big house but, like, have nothing to put in it, you are.
Moshe Casher
That is genius.
Amy Schneider
That is what Mars is to me.
Moshe Casher
Yeah.
Matt Rogers
Yeah.
Amy Schneider
Where it's like, it's like, yes, we could maybe get there.
Matt Rogers
Yes.
Amy Schneider
Maybe even live there. But what are we gonna put there?
Bowen Yang
Well, I mean, yeah, I mean, exactly.
Moshe Casher
Next thing you know, you have three kitchen islands in your kitchen.
Amy Schneider
And it's literally like, how about you just clean your fucking room?
Bowen Yang
Right? Yeah. This is my thing about like, like the Elon Musk of the world being like, oh, we need to be a multi planetary society. Like, even that, like on the scale of the galaxy, it's like ants being like, oh, we need to also colonize the kitchen as well as the bathroom. And now we're like, you know, doing it. No, we're still in this tiny little space. And you know what? I'll tell you what's on Mars. Nothing.
Moshe Casher
Right?
Bowen Yang
There is nothing there. But if you're straight, you just assume that something's gonna turn up and be good for you. You're gonna be like, oh, turns out things worked out all right for me after all.
Moshe Casher
Yeah. There's also a way that thinking big, which is so privileged in straight spaces, is actually a defense mechanism against not wanting to focus on the small. So it's like Elon Musk wants to go to Mars. It's like, call your son or call.
Matt Rogers
Your daughter or call your daughter. That's right.
Moshe Casher
That's right.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Amy Schneider
Yeah. Context queen has a question. Oh, the context diva has spoken.
Moshe Casher
Okay, what is your question?
Amy Schneider
What is your question? We always do this with our context divas.
Matt Rogers
Is the American dream straight?
Amy Schneider
Oh, whoa.
Moshe Casher
Oh. So we're just like.
Amy Schneider
So we're just saying whatever we want.
Moshe Casher
Let me tell you something, for a context diva, you sort of missed the boat on how this works. But I, but, but okay, but here's a bit. But okay, I, I, but I, we can relate that to Mars.
Bowen Yang
I think this is really valid.
Moshe Casher
What? You're abs and you're absolutely right now. And now I'm getting how you made the connection. It's like the, it's like, well, the American dream, of course, the American dream and also colonizing Mars, both built on infinite growth. It's like you, you can do anything.
Bowen Yang
Yeah, yeah. And I mean, this, the thing too. Like again, the, you know, the, the trans thing. Because like, you know, as, as a white trans woman, I spent so much of my life in straight land, you know, and I've lost my train of Thought. Hold on. Sorry. Yeah, but it's like. Yeah, these things that, you know, we. We're all the outcasts. We get put into these places.
Amy Schneider
No, no, no, look, this is.
Moshe Casher
No, I love this.
Amy Schneider
And. And we think. You know, we think your life is so glamorous as the smartest woman on earth, but there actually comes with side effects sometimes.
Moshe Casher
Sometimes you can have too many. Sometimes you can have too many thoughts. Yeah.
Amy Schneider
And people don't talk about that. They only talk about the glitz and the glamour.
Moshe Casher
That's right.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Amy Schneider
Yeah.
Bowen Yang
I don't have too many thoughts right now. But what it is, like, things start out like the tech industry, the American dream, America itself. All the outcasts end up out there. And all the outcasts are a combination of gays, straights, queers, da, da, da. And also assholes.
Moshe Casher
Sure, right.
Bowen Yang
And then what happens is, as it gets more powerful, all the gays, straights, and queers get filtered out, and you're left with just the assholes at the top. And that's what's happening with the tech industry right now, is that we've just. We're just left with the assholes.
Moshe Casher
But here's my question for you. You're saying initially, America was outcasts, and then the assholes rose to the top. Are the people going to Mars? Is the issue with Mars is that it's not the outcast going there? Oh, my gosh. Okay, hold on. So the issue with colonizing Mars is that it's not people that are like, I'm so weird. They'll only get me on Mars. It's not that it's actually. Right, because it's not escaping to a safe space. It's literally colonizing a new place.
Bowen Yang
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Moshe Casher
Okay.
Bowen Yang
Yeah, yeah. No, because it's like. Because I chose this because I used to. I read, like, the Kim Stanley Robinson and Mars trilogy, and I loved that stuff. Yeah. See? Mm.
Moshe Casher
Yeah.
Bowen Yang
And it's like, it used to be so promising. Just like computers used to be so promising. You know, the Internet used to be so gay, and it has gotten so straight because, like, that's what happens. You know, we. We've come along. All us weirdos have come out and done these new weird things, and then a bunch of other. It turns out some of us were just, like, not weirdos. We're just, like, assholes with no constraints that are like Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg and just want to, like, bang shit up and do shit.
Moshe Casher
What do you think appeals? So the Assholes are the ones planning to go to Mars. Yeah, fine. But then there are normal people who are excited by that proposition. What's going on psychologically there, would you say?
Bowen Yang
Well, I mean, we all.
Moshe Casher
We all wish we could go to Mars.
Bowen Yang
We all wish we could go to Mars. Right. We all wish we could have a clean slate and a fresh start, obviously.
Matt Rogers
Yeah.
Moshe Casher
Settle down with a nice alien. Sure.
Amy Schneider
Yeah, sure. Yeah. I moved to Mars. It's just called la.
Moshe Casher
Here's a question. Women are from Mars. Men are from Venus. Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus.
Amy Schneider
Who's from where? Who does what?
Moshe Casher
Who gets that reference? Okay. Was that context Diva?
Amy Schneider
But the spirit took over.
Moshe Casher
Oh, that's her deputy.
Amy Schneider
Yes. The context diva has security.
Bowen Yang
Yeah, yeah.
Moshe Casher
Okay. Got it, got it, got it, got it.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Moshe Casher
Okay, so here's my question for you. Colonizing Mars is straight. However, sci fi and space exploration in an ideal world should be queer.
Amy Schneider
Right.
Moshe Casher
So what is the solution? Like, how do we reclaim the idea of, you know, being enraptured by infinity?
Amy Schneider
This is such a tough question.
Moshe Casher
No, I think it's pretty easy. And there's a right answer.
Bowen Yang
Oh. I mean, I don't know. I feel like this is another, like, CIS and trans thing. Like, you think there's an answer? No.
Moshe Casher
Period.
Bowen Yang
No, but it's like that. It is. It is just an eternal cycle.
Amy Schneider
Right.
Bowen Yang
Like, it's always going to be, like, a bunch of us going out. Like, if you don't fit into society, you go out and find new societies that you might fit into, and that's queer, and that's cool, and that's great. Also, if you don't fit into society, maybe you're just a terrible person. You get, like, cast out. And if. Yeah, I don't know. Consequences, I feel, is, like, the main issue here.
Moshe Casher
Yeah.
Amy Schneider
You know what I think would be really powerfully lgbtq?
Bowen Yang
What?
Amy Schneider
Getting stuck in space.
Moshe Casher
Haven't you seen that Matt Damon movie? He had to piss on the potatoes.
Amy Schneider
And what's on LGBTQ plus about that?
Moshe Casher
That's true. It is part of kink positive piss play. I guess if you think about it.
Amy Schneider
I'm a potato pig.
Moshe Casher
That's right. He's a potato pig. He's doing intermittent fasting. He has a very strict diet.
Amy Schneider
I mean, sustainability snatched us Ho. I think there's something about the wanting when you're like. I'm mostly thinking of the film Gravity, but when you are Sandra Bullock and you are stuck in space, you're lgbtq.
Moshe Casher
Oh, you mean stuck Literally, like Rotating. Yeah.
Amy Schneider
You're like, how the hell am I gonna get home?
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Moshe Casher
By the way, if you're in orbit, of course, that's queer. But if you're on Mars, that's strange.
Amy Schneider
Yeah. That's like you're buying property and it's like, enough.
Matt Rogers
No.
Moshe Casher
The most queer you can be a Sandra Bullock. Just being like, whoa.
Amy Schneider
When I saw that, I was like, I feel so seen.
Moshe Casher
Wow.
Amy Schneider
Yeah. Well. And also, while we're on space, I mean, have we already discussed whatever Pluto's up to?
Moshe Casher
Wait, you're the person to ask?
Bowen Yang
Yes.
Amy Schneider
What the hell is Pluto up to?
Moshe Casher
What the hell is Pluto up to?
Bowen Yang
I mean, it is a big chunk of rocks that is out there in the universe.
Amy Schneider
A chunk of multiple rocks? Yeah. I thought it was one.
Bowen Yang
See, this is. This is again, the CIS trans thing. Because it's like, who cares whether it's a partner or not? Pluto is Pluto.
Moshe Casher
Okay. I see what you're saying. Yes.
Bowen Yang
Pluto is just Pluto.
Amy Schneider
Pluto is just Pluto.
Moshe Casher
I'm really understanding what's going on here, which is. I think it is. Mars exists. Okay. Yeah.
Amy Schneider
Let's start there.
Bowen Yang
It is.
Moshe Casher
It is CIS to try to bring it to human terms.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Moshe Casher
Would you say that's accurate?
Bowen Yang
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Amy Schneider
It's like, oh, that's nice.
Moshe Casher
It's like, okay, Mars. Right.
Amy Schneider
You know what's another LGBT thing would be to go to Mars and instantly die. Cause you met it where it's at.
Moshe Casher
That's right.
Matt Rogers
Yeah.
Amy Schneider
You said, I see you. Thank you. I'm dead.
Moshe Casher
Right. It's like, your fault. What do humans do here? Oh, not live.
Amy Schneider
Not live.
Moshe Casher
Okay. Right. All right.
Bowen Yang
Which is also. Yeah. I mean, where this comes in as my. As a lesbian, like, that, like, factors in as well. I was thinking with your, like, divorce and. Because divorce is the lesbianist thing of all. Of course. Yes. Oh, we both hate each other. Let's drag this out for years. Yeah. I think the straight thing is having a mistress. I think that's the.
Moshe Casher
Oh, my God.
Amy Schneider
Of course.
Moshe Casher
Yes. That is of course a straight thing. The straight thing is having a mistress. And les. I mean, lesbians sometimes get divorced without even getting married first. Yeah.
Bowen Yang
That is real truth. Yeah.
Moshe Casher
Here's a even bigger form of intimacy. Sometimes on a first date, they'll be like, wanna get divorced?
Amy Schneider
God, I wish we could go into a big legal battle.
Bowen Yang
Ooh.
Moshe Casher
Yeah. Well.
Bowen Yang
So you see my Grinder profile.
Moshe Casher
Yeah.
Amy Schneider
I'm feeling like I understand.
Moshe Casher
Yeah. No, I actually. But guess what is understanding, sis.
Bowen Yang
No.
Moshe Casher
Okay.
Amy Schneider
That would be such a funny take.
Moshe Casher
She's like, no, sweetie.
Amy Schneider
Oh, sweetheart.
Moshe Casher
Oh, sweetie, no.
Amy Schneider
You have been out of this area for a long time.
Moshe Casher
He said simple. Okay, we'll give it up for Amy Schneider, everybody.
Matt Rogers
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Moshe Casher
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Matt Rogers
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Amy Schneider
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Moshe Casher
Save the date, prepare for chaos and.
Amy Schneider
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In this perfect blend of hijinks and.
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Moshe Casher
Give it up again for Moshe Kasher. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.
Matt Rogers
Can I do two quick updates? Please, please, please? I didn't give my final. My final takeaway from intimacy workshops. Oh, no. And I thought about in the story, and there is a very cute bi man in the audience who has DMed me and is down to do the Dating Game tomorrow. So they're like, that's huge. It couldn't be huger. Yeah.
Amy Schneider
And what's his name? Cause he actually should get kicked out. You're not supposed to be on your phone. Be here with us, please. Moshe's not going anywhere.
Matt Rogers
But okay, my takeaway that I forgot to say my real takeaway because I was so busy trying to get this by male representation, which, thank you for participating. Is that when you're in a relationship and it comes back to even what everybody's been saying about how hellish the world is when you're in a relationship, not just with another person, but with this hellish world it is, you get into this grind of life where negativity is the only thing that will raise you out of your stupor in order to focus on actually engaging. That's why we go to therapy, because we're so miserable. That's why you go to an intimacy workshop, because you've been fighting so much with your partner. And my big takeaway was we never take a pause to do something intentionally positive. And that was like a giant shift in my relationship and in my relationship with the world. And I think as you go to your fiance, fiance, fiance, and everybody, even if you're single, taking time in your life to say, I'm going to set a date to do something that is infused with positivity. It's a huge shift, and it's changed my relationship and it can change your life too. And it is the straightest thing you can do.
Moshe Casher
Wow. Incredible.
Amy Schneider
Nice to say, but, Moshe, we are an anti gratitude podcast.
Moshe Casher
Moshe, you would.
Matt Rogers
I am on a lot of MDMA right now. I should have said that for context.
Moshe Casher
Moshe, you would love the album Radical Optimism by Dua Lipa.
Amy Schneider
It's quite a rich text when you really dive into it.
Moshe Casher
Well, I think it might be time to do our first segment.
Amy Schneider
I think it is. Guests, our first segment is called Straight Shooters. And in this segment we're going to ask you a series of rapid fire questions, basically. This thing or this other thing, to gauge your familiarity with and complicity in straight culture. The only rule is you can't ask a single follow up question or we will be so, so upset.
Moshe Casher
Go ahead.
Amy Schneider
Got it.
Moshe Casher
Yes.
Amy Schneider
Okay, Squad. AI or gay guy?
Bowen Yang
Gay guy.
Matt Rogers
Uh, AI is a gay guy if you ask enough questions.
Moshe Casher
Wow. That's tea, actually.
Amy Schneider
Yeah, spilled.
Moshe Casher
Okay. Rejecting the TikTok ban or premiering at Cannes.
Bowen Yang
Premiering at Cannes.
Matt Rogers
Yeah, I mean, we're both 45. It's going to be premiering at Cannes. TikTok has nothing for us.
Amy Schneider
Okay. Being lost in music or getting sloshed in Munich.
Matt Rogers
I'm a Jew, so I'm gonna go ahead and not do Munich.
Bowen Yang
Oh, I was gonna say being sloshed in Munich. But it's just a dream. I haven't achieved it yet.
Amy Schneider
Well, the first step is dreaming.
Moshe Casher
First step is dreaming. First at Munich, next at Mars. Okay. Ethical polyamory or congressional gerrymander ring?
Amy Schneider
Whoa.
Bowen Yang
I hate them both so much. Yeah, I guess. Ethical pol.
Moshe Casher
They're both really bad. They're tough and actually rampant in this state. Yeah.
Matt Rogers
I'm gonna go with, with unethical polyamory.
Moshe Casher
Oh, a third option. I love that you're saying neither.
Bowen Yang
Oh, no, I, I, I, I will settle on ethical polyamory. I have.
Moshe Casher
Everyone always does.
Bowen Yang
I have been to an orgy. I get it. I know.
Amy Schneider
Okay.
Moshe Casher
The most unexcited anyone who has ever been to an orgy has ever sounded.
Bowen Yang
Everybody here. This is San Francisco. Everybody here has been to a boring orgy.
Moshe Casher
And the only person who hasn't is that bi boy that's about to be in one tomorrow.
Amy Schneider
Okay. Donald Trump's inauguration or Forrest Gump's jog through the nation.
Bowen Yang
Of course. Gumps Jog through the nation.
Matt Rogers
I'm gonna go with the. I just really respect intellectual fortitude, so I'm gonna go with Forrest Gump as well.
Moshe Casher
Control, alt, delete, or lather, rinse, repeat.
Bowen Yang
Oh, lather, rinse, repeat.
Matt Rogers
Control, alt, delete. Because wouldn't it be nice to control, alt, delete a lot of things that have happened recently? Preach.
Amy Schneider
Okay. Sex, positivity or next. You're not for me.
Bowen Yang
Sex positivity city, Bay Area. Come on.
Matt Rogers
I think we've established that I am ashamed of my own sexuality. So it's gonna be next. Not for me.
Moshe Casher
And finally, the Princess Bride.
Matt Rogers
Done. Princess Bride.
Bowen Yang
Yeah. No, I agree. Second.
Matt Rogers
Second.
Amy Schneider
Yeah, but read it just in case.
Moshe Casher
Or the Christ, he died.
Bowen Yang
That does not affect my.
Moshe Casher
Not a big answer. Wow.
Bowen Yang
Okay.
Moshe Casher
All right.
Matt Rogers
And I do not think that means what you think it means.
Moshe Casher
Okay.
Bowen Yang
Wow.
Moshe Casher
I'm. Excuse me.
Bowen Yang
As you wish.
Matt Rogers
It's a line from the movie the Princess Bride. Thank you.
Moshe Casher
Thank you. Yes, yes, yes.
Amy Schneider
I was so scared. You're about to be a shooter?
Matt Rogers
You think that's how it happens? They just burst into a high school? As you wish.
Amy Schneider
Duke, that was so scary. I was like, what is this code?
Moshe Casher
I'm bi.
Matt Rogers
Wait, you think that school shooters are ren faire cosplayers?
Amy Schneider
I mean, you have to admit, if they're shooting a school, there's gonna be some drama.
Moshe Casher
That's the one thing about school shooters. They are addicted to the drama.
Amy Schneider
Literally.
Bowen Yang
Yeah, no. My younger brother was like, gothy emo kid when Columbine happened, and he was like, I am just being goth and dramatic. I'm not about to kill everyone. But everyone's like, oh, you draw weird pictures. Your notebook. And he was so devastated.
Amy Schneider
God, your brother was literally being like, I'm not dramatic.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Amy Schneider
I don't know why everyone's saying I'm dramatic.
Bowen Yang
Yeah. Yeah.
Amy Schneider
Well, that was an incredible performance. I think we rate our guests on a scale of 1 to 1000 doves, and I think you both hit 988.
Moshe Casher
I agree.
Bowen Yang
All right.
Moshe Casher
Okay. We have to keep things moving, you guys, because it's literally 3am my time. So our final segment is a segment we like to do at all our live shows called Is She There Yet? And I will explain the story behind it, and then. And then we'll get to it. So our dear friend, past guest of the podcast, Celeste Yim. Many, many years ago, many, many years ago, they were at the Toronto International Film Festival. Tiff, if you're in the industry. And they were at the premiere of the Grace Jones documentary. And then afterwards, there was a talk back with the director. And the director was saying something along the lines of, you know, they don't make icons like Grace Jones anymore. There's no icons anymore. And someone in the audience said, what about Janelle Monae? And the director said, she's not there yet.
Amy Schneider
She's not there yet.
Moshe Casher
Now, we've never commented on whether or not we agree on that. And we never will.
Amy Schneider
We never will.
Moshe Casher
Especially in San Francisco, not to be a bitch, but from that story, the game issue there yet was born. It's quite simple. We're going to show you a series of people, places, things, and we're going to basically all have a really open and honest intimacy. Building conversation.
Matt Rogers
You know, I like that shit.
Moshe Casher
And they're going to be, you know, they're going to be Bay Area themed, I would say.
Amy Schneider
Well, of course.
Moshe Casher
So first, live San Francisco legend Nancy Pelosi. Is she there yet?
Amy Schneider
Is she there yet?
Matt Rogers
She's so close, you guys. She's so close.
Amy Schneider
One wrong step, you know.
Moshe Casher
Yeah, she just took one wrong step. What do you think?
Bowen Yang
No, I've met her.
Moshe Casher
You've met her? Iris, Sworn to secrecy.
Matt Rogers
I never met her, but I met her husband late one night at their house. That was me.
Moshe Casher
That was after the intimacy workshop.
Matt Rogers
That's right.
Amy Schneider
You're like, I have all this negativity. I need to take it out someone.
Moshe Casher
I think I'm gonna say. I mean, I hate to say, you know, she looks so happy in that photograph, which was taken many months ago. I am gonna. It seems like the consensus is, no.
Amy Schneider
She'S not there yet, I guess.
Moshe Casher
Next slide.
Amy Schneider
Next slide.
Moshe Casher
San Francisco legend Gavin Newsom, seen here on the COVID of the Nob Hill Gazette.
Matt Rogers
Now he is there. I mean, I can't believe. I cannot get over the fact that he used to date Kimberly Guilfoyle and that Donald Trump Jr. Now dates Kimberly Guilfoyle and they look like the same guy. But if one of them went to.
Moshe Casher
Slytherin, I completely agree with you, Moshe. My political views aside, I think he is. I mean, that is the face of someone who is there.
Amy Schneider
Well, it's like, I even think the way that he starts a conversation implies how there he is.
Moshe Casher
That's right.
Matt Rogers
He's there. And by there, we mean in the vagina of his best friend's wife. Like, that's how there he is.
Amy Schneider
Yeah, yeah.
Bowen Yang
I mean, I guess, you know, he is there as the avatar of, like, he. He's, you know, Nancy Pelosi is over. He is the next generation of Democratic failure.
Moshe Casher
Exactly. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, he is.
Amy Schneider
If Nancy Pelosi took the substance, he.
Moshe Casher
Very good. All right, he's there.
Matt Rogers
He's there. As in at a Michelin star restaurant during a pandemic.
Amy Schneider
All right, next slide.
Moshe Casher
Mark Zuckerberg, version 2.0.
Amy Schneider
Is she there yet?
Moshe Casher
So he unveiled this new version. It hasn't been beta tested yet. What do we think?
Matt Rogers
No, I think you guys are misunderstanding the question. It's not. Are they good?
Moshe Casher
Yeah, yeah, no, no. You're absolutely right.
Matt Rogers
Have they arrived? And he's definitely arrived.
Moshe Casher
I think this is the final version.
Matt Rogers
Absolutely. Darth Z. Zuckerberg is among us. Like, he's so I mean, we should have seen it coming when he displaced all people in Maui for his mansion. He's there.
Bowen Yang
I'm gonna, you know, respectfully disagree. Because here's the thing. Like, he's trying to do this whole thing, but, like, dude, look at your face. Look at your hair. This is not a thing you can become. This is just not possible.
Amy Schneider
I think you're so right. I think there's something. So, like, this is the first day after Christmas break, and he's wearing all his new clothes, and it's like you have to slowly roll these things out.
Moshe Casher
Totally.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Moshe Casher
You're absolutely right.
Amy Schneider
And it's like, almost implies, like, in a year he'll be something completely different. Like, next year he's going emo. Like, we don't know.
Matt Rogers
He definitely went to, like, a beta male workshop at the same place. I went with the same harmonium guy that's like, you. You can be alpha, bro.
Amy Schneider
Yeah, totally.
Moshe Casher
Yeah. And you guys took completely different things out of that.
Amy Schneider
So. So sorry. Are you guys mad at George?
Moshe Casher
Okay, next slide. Microclimates. Is she there yet?
Bowen Yang
I mean, she has been there in the Bay Area. Yeah, but has she made microclimates this whole time?
Moshe Casher
I do. I mean, microclimate. It's sort of like, she's there, she's here. Where is she? It's a little bit like.
Amy Schneider
I think microclimates are like, an alt girl.
Moshe Casher
Yeah. Yeah. They're Caroline Polachek.
Amy Schneider
But even like, yeah, maybe.
Moshe Casher
Yeah. What do you think?
Amy Schneider
I do.
Matt Rogers
I do not know what a microclimate.
Moshe Casher
Is as a Bay Area native to this day.
Matt Rogers
We didn't talk about things like that back then.
Moshe Casher
You're absolutely right.
Matt Rogers
This is a gentrifiers term.
Moshe Casher
You're absolutely right. It did suddenly.
Bowen Yang
Because this is. This is where revealed Moshe is the actual native. I'm the one that only moved here in 2009. Moshe doesn't know what a microclimate is. The same way that fish don't know what water is. Like, that's just what it is out here.
Moshe Casher
Yeah.
Amy Schneider
Interesting, huh? So sort of no. Everyone's saying no.
Matt Rogers
I guess what I'm really saying is, what is a microclimate?
Amy Schneider
Do you all want to say it in unison? Whenever I come to this damn town, everyone's like, well, it's because of the microclimate.
Matt Rogers
Well, I do actually think it is kind of a gentrifiers term, because similarly to what happened to Oakland, where all of a sudden they were creating out of whole cloth neighborhoods. I'd never heard of before. Like, this here is Nabilliwill. You not heard of that neighborhood? This is also phenomena. Maybe this was just rain when I was growing up.
Moshe Casher
Totally. And I actually think it goes back to your point about categorization. Like, cutting up a city into smaller and smaller and smaller pieces is heteroizing it.
Bowen Yang
Well, I don't know. I mean, I just, like, I remember, like, having lived out here for a while, flying to New York, staying at a place that was in, like, Brooklyn or Queens or something and being like, well, I'm going to Manhattan tomorrow and checking my weather app and being like, no, what's the weather in Manhattan gonna be like tomorrow? And then realizing, oh, no, this isn't the Bay Area. It's just gonna be the same weather kind of everywhere, all around. Whereas here, like, you have to. You have to do that. So that's. That's microclimates.
Moshe Casher
It sounds like. It sounds like she's on her way.
Amy Schneider
She's still finding her voice.
Moshe Casher
She's finding her voice.
Amy Schneider
Next slide.
Moshe Casher
Micro. Microdosing. I just want to say I made this. I just thought. I just thought Jared Leto, like, has the vibe of microdosing. Oh, I've never read anything about.
Matt Rogers
I thought that was Russell. Brad Brand, man. And she's there. Russell's there in the arms of Christ.
Moshe Casher
She's there. He's doing amazing microdosing.
Amy Schneider
Microdosing.
Bowen Yang
I, I mean, yeah. How. How do you think I did so well on Jeopardy?
Amy Schneider
Do they drug test you for Jeopardy?
Bowen Yang
No.
Amy Schneider
That's an amazing detail, actually.
Moshe Casher
Yeah.
Matt Rogers
Were you high for real?
Amy Schneider
Will they take away the money if you say yes?
Bowen Yang
I, I, I, I spent it, so I hope not. Not in my original run, but maybe for some of the later tournaments, maybe a little bit. Yeah.
Moshe Casher
Well, now you're a star. There's more pressure.
Matt Rogers
Yeah, you're like. You're like, what Is anything, man?
Amy Schneider
Wow.
Matt Rogers
That's good. Thanks.
Moshe Casher
Okay, so. Yes.
Amy Schneider
So, yeah.
Moshe Casher
All right, next slide. She's there.
Amy Schneider
Next slide.
Moshe Casher
Microaggressions.
Matt Rogers
I think she's gone. I think she was there.
Moshe Casher
Yeah.
Matt Rogers
Five years ago.
Moshe Casher
I think you're absolutely right.
Matt Rogers
I think we're post microaggressions.
Amy Schneider
We're post microaggressions.
Bowen Yang
Nobody needs to bother with them anymore. It's just aggressions. Aggressions.
Amy Schneider
It's so iconic to be four white people being like, we're post microaggression.
Moshe Casher
Damn.
Matt Rogers
They, like, don't matter anymore, man.
Amy Schneider
Yeah, but we kind of ate with that.
Moshe Casher
Next slide.
Amy Schneider
Next slide.
Moshe Casher
Okay. Apple watches.
Matt Rogers
Well, Apple watches. Does Bring us back to my hobby of surfing, of course. Because Tesla finally has integration with Surfline.
Moshe Casher
Finally.
Matt Rogers
And I can open it. And I do drive a Tesla because I support what the CEO does. Politically, of course, needless to say. And so I. It's very. For me personally, in my microclimate, she's there.
Moshe Casher
Wow.
Amy Schneider
Any thoughts?
Bowen Yang
I mean, to me, no, Like, I mean, that's my own perspective. Every time I see somebody, like, do something with their Apple watch, I'm always surprised.
Moshe Casher
I agree.
Bowen Yang
I'm always like, oh, there's still that. They're still out there.
Moshe Casher
Okay.
Amy Schneider
Whenever I see an Apple watch, like, I get filled with like a sadness. Like I feel like I'm watching like a space shuttle not quite take off. Cause there's something so like, oh, you almost have us.
Matt Rogers
Yeah, I know. And I don't mean to make this political, but for you to even mention space shuttles not taking off after I mentioned my CEO and savior, just, just. That was a bit of a microaggression.
Amy Schneider
Just. No, thank you for calling me in. I appreciated it.
Moshe Casher
And this is now. Microaggressions are only towards white men. Okay, next slide.
Amy Schneider
Next slide.
Moshe Casher
High tech bike to work pants.
Amy Schneider
Is she there yet? Who has them?
Moshe Casher
Who has them?
Amy Schneider
Who has them?
Moshe Casher
Where's the bisexual guy? I'm sure all his clothes are high tech.
Amy Schneider
Oh, you know, they have little vents everywhere.
Moshe Casher
Bisexuals love wearables.
Amy Schneider
Publish that contest.
Moshe Casher
Publish that in the San Francisco Chronicle. What do we think?
Matt Rogers
Sure. They're there.
Moshe Casher
They're there. Wow.
Matt Rogers
Oh, yeah.
Moshe Casher
I guess they're on top of a bike.
Bowen Yang
Yeah, yeah, no, I think so. They're great because it's like a day to night outfit. They're like both pre and post apocalypse. Ready?
Matt Rogers
Yeah, I love that.
Moshe Casher
Yeah, but not pre or post sex. Ready?
Amy Schneider
Get them.
Matt Rogers
What I have enjoyed about men's fashion in the last 10 years is that it has shifted from structure to comfort. And I feel like I spent a decade suffering in red wings and structured jeans. No offense at all. But now there are vents. Now there are. There's wind blowing through it. She is there. There.
Moshe Casher
Wow.
Amy Schneider
Okay, she's there. Next slide.
Moshe Casher
Next slide. Hate Ashbury hippies. Are they going to make a comeback?
Bowen Yang
I mean, hello, hello, hello. Yeah, yeah, they are in Oakland.
Moshe Casher
They're there, just not in the hate.
Matt Rogers
Yeah, I saw. I don't know if this answers your question, but I saw one of the craziest street fights I've ever seen in my life on hate. There it was all the, the, the. It was the kids that lived in. There used to be a housing project at the bottom of Hate. And it was them, those teenagers versus the, like. Like, hemp homeless, you know? And literally, the wizards were throwing st. They were fighting with staffs, and they were throwing quartz at the people. I'm not joking. Like, there was hemp weaponry. And honestly, the hippies won that afternoon. I'd never seen anything like it in my life. And it was a bit of a microdose.
Moshe Casher
They're there and they're out for blood.
Amy Schneider
Be careful, y'all. Next slide.
Moshe Casher
Public nudity. Is she there yet?
Bowen Yang
If she was, I would be nude right now.
Moshe Casher
That's right.
Bowen Yang
Yeah.
Moshe Casher
What do you think?
Matt Rogers
I don't mind public nudity, but I did have a friend staying with me recently. We went surfing, and he doesn't wear underwear. And we were getting changed, and he. And he changed very boldly with, like, children about. And I was like, you're allowed to not wear underwear and be that guy, but not. You can't force everybody to be that guy with you.
Amy Schneider
Yeah. That's where it gets really complicated, huh?
Moshe Casher
You're sort of one of these, like. You're like, no kink at Pride.
Amy Schneider
You're like my surfer. You're like, surfers are grooming our children.
Moshe Casher
There's children out there.
Matt Rogers
Well, I'm a no kink.
Moshe Casher
My Christian wife might be okay with me watching gay porn, but she's not okay with someone whipping their out on the beach.
Matt Rogers
I'm a no kink at Pride because I work for Pepsi, and we're sponsoring this year.
Amy Schneider
Wow.
Moshe Casher
And that, you know, brings us to our final segment. Thank you, Pepsi.
Amy Schneider
Yeah. Where everyone actually says, thank you, Pepsi. One, two, three.
Bowen Yang
Thank you, Pepsi.
Matt Rogers
You're welcome.
Moshe Casher
Do you have any final thoughts about public nudity?
Amy Schneider
Well, I. I guess I just wanted to say sometimes I think I'm so chill when it comes to public nudity, and then I see, like, a nude family, and I'm like, stop it. Like, when I meant I was okay with public nudity, I meant gay guys.
Moshe Casher
Yeah. And in my apartment.
Amy Schneider
Yeah. Like, not like dad and son. Like, stop.
Matt Rogers
Well.
Moshe Casher
All right. I think next slide. I think I was the last. All right.
Amy Schneider
Wow.
Moshe Casher
Wow. That was our show, you guys. Thank you so much. Give it up one more time for Moshe Casher and Amy Schneider.
Amy Schneider
Thank you so much.
Moshe Casher
Thank you, San Francisco. Goodbye. Bye.
Amy Schneider
Podcast ends now.
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StraightioLab Live: SF Sketchfest! with Amy Schneider and Moshe Kasher
Hosted by Big Money Players Network and iHeartPodcasts
Released on January 21, 2025
Introduction
The latest episode of StraightioLab Live at SF Sketchfest features the sharp-witted comedians Amy Schneider and Moshe Kasher as guests. Hosted by George Civeris and Sam Taggart, the episode delves deep into the nuances of straight culture, interweaving humor with incisive social commentary.
TikTok Ban and Social Media Commentary
The conversation kicks off with a humorous nod to current events, particularly the recent TikTok ban. Moshe Kasher quips, “Congrats on the TikTok ban. You guys did that. We are not going back.” (03:25) The hosts express a nostalgic preference for Instagram over TikTok, sparking a lively debate about the merits of different social media platforms.
Notable Quote:
Moshe Kasher (03:25): “Congrats on the TikTok ban. You guys did that. We are not going back.”
The 'Context Diva' Concept and Cultural Analysis
A recurring theme throughout the episode is the concept of the “Context Diva,” a satirical role assigned to analyze and categorize cultural behaviors as either straight or gay. Amy Schneider introduces the idea, prompting a series of discussions that examine various aspects of daily life through this lens.
Notable Quote:
Amy Schneider (07:22): “When someone says, at least I sparked a conversation, they've lost the argument. When someone says, well, I've created a dialogue, that means they've made zero points.”
Intimacy Workshops and Relationship Dynamics
One of the standout discussions revolves around intimacy workshops and their role in straight and gay relationships. The panelists explore how these workshops emphasize different aspects of intimacy based on sexual orientation, blending personal anecdotes with broader societal observations.
Notable Quote:
Matt Rogers (45:28): “This is for your audience. Our podcast tomorrow is struggling. We have sold five tickets. No, I'm joking. We're very popular.”
Segment: Straight Shooters
In the “Straight Shooters” segment, Amy and Moshe engage in a rapid-fire round of questions designed to highlight and critique elements of straight culture. Topics range from AI and ethical polyamory to iconic movies and public behaviors, all examined through the playful yet critical perspective of the hosts.
Notable Quote:
Amy Schneider (72:38): “If you think you've been to a wedding where crazy things happen, prepare for alligator attacks, sabotage, shipwrecks, cornhole, and all-star comedy cameos.”
Segment: Is She There Yet?
The “Is She There Yet?” segment serves as a humorous take on the arrival of cultural icons and phenomena. Guests are presented with a series of personas and concepts, debating whether they have “arrived” or are still in the process, often leading to witty banter and sharp observations.
Notable Quote:
Moshe Kasher (78:37): “Mark Zuckerberg, version 2.0. He's there. As in at a Michelin star restaurant during a pandemic.”
Guest Interactions and Humorous Anecdotes
Throughout the episode, Amy and Moshe share personal stories and engage in comedic exchanges that highlight the tension between societal expectations and individual behaviors. Topics like public nudity, fashion, and even mass media narratives are dissected with both humor and critical insight.
Notable Quote:
Matt Rogers (31:44): “I have been sleeping so incredibly well, start to finish. Oh, wow.”
Closing Remarks
As the live show draws to a close, the hosts and guests reflect on the evening's discussions, emphasizing the importance of intentional positivity in relationships and personal growth. They encourage listeners to engage with content that fosters understanding and connection, wrapping up the episode with a blend of humor and heartfelt sentiments.
Notable Quote:
Matt Rogers (70:20): “But it is the straightest thing you can do.”
Conclusion
This episode of StraightioLab Live masterfully blends comedy with cultural critique, offering listeners an entertaining yet thought-provoking exploration of straight culture. Amy Schneider and Moshe Kasher provide invaluable insights, making the conversation both engaging and enlightening for audiences unfamiliar with the podcast.
Notable Quotes Summary
Final Thoughts
Whether you're a regular listener or new to StraightioLab, this episode offers a rich tapestry of discussions that challenge and entertain. The blend of humor with societal analysis makes for a compelling listen, illuminating the intricacies of straight culture through the lens of comedy.