WEBVTT - "Monogram Culture" w/ Catherine Cohen 0:00:00.000 --> 0:00:25.080 Okay, literally podcast starts now, Okay, press play, Press play 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:30.120 on the podcast now, okay everyone, press play. Okay, hey listeners, 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:33.680 and welcome to Stradio Lab, the first and only podcast 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:37.760 to be recorded in quarantine. I am sitting here now 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:45.280 with George Severis, my co worker. George, how have you been? Wow? 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:48.400 Thanks for circling back. Well, of course I'm always trying 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:50.519 to loop you in. Thank you for looping me in. 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:56.000 This email finds me a well god, I'm I'm good. 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:58.000 When you started saying hey listeners, I thought we're gonna 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:02.760 say hi to me, but no such luck. Mh. So 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:05.839 this is our first episode that we're recording in quarantine, 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:08.440 and in fact, I've a piece of feedback I've gotten 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:10.319 about the podcast from people that have liked it so 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:12.960 far is that it's really refreshing. That it's not recorded 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:20.280 during quarantine, so we're about Unfortunately, the quarantine did get 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:23.679 us eventually as well. Yeah, it's weird. You You would 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:27.200 think you would think, based on how many episodes we 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:31.360 have released over the past two months, that truly, you know, 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:35.480 the acting as though nothing is happening, um, that it 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:39.360 just had not effected us. But not the case. I'll 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.400 tell you what. I am still piste off that somebody 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:45.520 leaked all of our episodes. You know, it's supposed to 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:49.560 be our unreleased podcast project, and somebody just put it 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:52.880 out there, kind of ruining the mystique we had we 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:55.360 did say. I mean, the one thing we agreed on 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:57.360 when we started recording this podcast is that it would 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:59.720 never be released. We said, this is for us, this 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:04.040 is absolutely for us. But you know, things change geopolitically, 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:11.840 that's true. Um, the entertainment industry entertaining up. You know, 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:15.720 let's talk about that. Yeah, as someone who currently is 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:21.520 employed by Viacom, how has it affected you? Um, you 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:25.919 know it's been so hard for everyone at Viacom CBS, 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.520 and I think I can speak for them. Um, you 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:31.480 know what, it's a family. I've heard it's such a 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.880 family everyone that works there. It's a brotherhood. Yeah, we're 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:37.760 all just a bunch of guys being guys over there. Yeah. 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:41.639 They don't employ any women, right. Yeah, And it's controversial, 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:44.520 but you just gotta throw it up. You know what, 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:47.720 though it works. Is the thing, if it ain't broke, 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:51.360 don't If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Um, that's 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:54.960 what Bernard Viacom said that in his first ever keynote 0:02:54.960 --> 0:03:00.360 address addressing the shareholders in seventy BC and nine seven 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:05.440 C Bay Bay Um, How is being a tenured professor 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:07.919 at Harvard these days? It's going really well. It's going 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:09.720 really well. I mean, I have to say, as as 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:12.160 some listeners might know, my non comedy job is working 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:15.600 at a research center and studying the media industry. And 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:18.000 one of the projects I'm currently working on is literally, 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:35.280 because Jesus Kath, this isn't insta, this isn't club coming 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:37.800 on Instagram live. Do you think there's some sort of 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:42.000 Instagram Why you're not the star, You're a guest. Just 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:52.840 wait till you're interview. So I look so bad. I'm 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:56.560 not going to change shirts during this. You literally arrived late, 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:59.840 like Lady Gaga in at the met Gala last year, 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:07.400 with changing into various black and outfits. Just disgust. Oh 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:12.520 my god, you're blowing online. It's insane. Wait, I just 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:19.320 want to close one loop because I um so like 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:21.680 so so. Part of my daily job has been literally 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:25.080 to keep track of a spreadsheet with layoffs in media companies. 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:28.440 So it's literally just reading articles about how people are 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:31.359 getting laid off. Wow, that sounds up, which is like 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:33.400 the most depressing thing to do on a day to 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:38.520 day basis. Um. And then what else I've I'm taking 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:46.320 a zoom writing workshop. I'm listening, how how is it going? 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:53.920 It's going, It's going, I would say, relatively well. Um, 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:56.479 I had like you know how people say like the 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:58.680 positive things first known the negative things when you're going 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.920 around doing a workshop. Last night, I had this experience 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:03.880 where like everyone's being so positive and I was like, 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:06.000 oh my god, I knew it. I'm the best one. 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:08.560 And then it like and then it got to the 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:10.719 point where people were like about to say like the 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:13.480 negative stuff, and people were fully like what if you 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:17.719 got rid of like the entire B plot or maybe 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:22.160 even the A plot. Yeah. I feel similarly at viacom 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:25.960 CBS sometimes I'm like, of all the creative I'm definitely 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.880 the best one, right, and I need them to tell 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:32.159 me that. I want like a ceremony at biocom CBS. 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:38.799 But anytime someone isn't um organizing a ceremony for me, yeah, 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:41.359 I consider that to be unfair. And you know what 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:43.800 else is unfair when people treat art like it's not 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.680 a competition, Like there's a winner and there's a loser. 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:57.479 It's a competition. Mhm. Are we losing our touch? What's happening? Um? No, 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:02.240 wait did we? It's okay, So here's something I'm thinking about. 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:06.960 It's like quarantine. So this podcast right sort of prequere, 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:10.000 sort of we got to sort of bask in our 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:12.280 own toxicity. We were mean to each other, we were 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:15.000 mean to the guests, The guests were mean back. Everyone 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:18.800 was having a blast. Now everyone's so grateful to be 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:22.719 alive and healthy, and it's like, okay, I'm trying to 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:25.279 be like rude to my friends. Can you please like 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.600 drop the sincerity? Did you know? So it's like hard 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:34.039 you mean this current climate will be an active rude bitch. Yeah, 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:35.719 well tell me if this, tell me if you relate 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:38.839 to this. I have been going back and forth between 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:48.400 being so overly kind of earnestly, um you know, emotional, 0:06:49.040 --> 0:07:00.800 and then being completely like hating everything. Yeah I'm not 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.839 like mad? Does that check out? Like? What do you hate? 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:07.200 I mean things that would normally bother me, and then 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:09.080 I would move on because I have a lot of time. 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:12.680 I then think about them for forty eight days. M hm. 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:15.920 Does that make sense? Do you want to add all 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:18.760 the firm my experience in anyway? Maybe yes? And me 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:23.360 so we can kind of yes of a conversation. Okay, 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:32.360 you are heard, thank you. Um No, but I mean 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.120 I get like surprise emotion. I feel like I get 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:40.720 that a lot. Oh my god, Wait, what what were 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:44.600 you saying? It's like Carl rage Jepson song surprise emotion. 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:59.080 I'm guessed. I'm guessing I'm not here. Okay, give me, yeah, 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.120 you go, you should. We're just bringing our guests. Yeah, 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:04.520 but I do. I just wait. The seven o'clock clapp 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:08.520 has happening. They're clapping for us, clapping for Katherine. Guys, 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:14.840 we're recording our podcast. Um, let's literally bringing our guest. 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:21.880 All of Park Slope is clapping for renowned comedian Test 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:29.240 Berkshire's influencer. Please and again, we still don't have like 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:31.440 a phrase we use when we like bringing a guest. 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.480 We just sort of wing it every time. So, um, 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:40.839 open your hose for Katherine. Yes, of god, it was 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:45.360 obviously fucking impossible not to talk during that segment. Um, Katherine, 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:48.520 I swear to god, we truly we have never been 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:52.160 that bad. I mean it's crazy. I was laughing, laughing, laughing, 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:53.640 and then I was I. I was looking at my 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.080 phone because you guys, my one of my best friends 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:59.200 from high school literally just gave birth. Oh my god. 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:02.840 Definitely a big shout out to her. He shout about 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:05.079 to Lily, shout out to the new baby named Lily. 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:13.280 That's what the baby's name. So surreal. Well I did what. No, 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:15.839 I just like I have to say, I'm I'm so 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:18.839 I'm so happy to see you both. I'm just getting 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.360 like sentimental. I just like, haven't seen I haven't seen 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:24.480 your faces on zoom yet even during this. And and 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:27.480 also I wanted to say that, um, I feel like too. 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:30.640 Two of my college friends text me being like you 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.280 have their new podcast is so fucking funny. I'm obsessed 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:37.480 with it. So really, I mean, it sounds like you 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:41.160 guys are both doing like good in core. That's sound good. 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:43.400 That's insane that that's how it sounded. How bad are 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:48.680 you doing? I said this one, don't say it again. 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:50.120 I just woke up from a nap, so I feel 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:52.360 I mean, do wake up from a nap at six pm? 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:55.440 Is should be illegal. It's disgusting. And then to immediately 0:09:55.480 --> 0:10:00.040 go make a cocktail. I mean also us Actually I 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.719 respond to that. In my mind, waking up from a 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:05.800 nap at six pm is the most normal possible time 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.400 you can wake up from a nap. Is that crazy? Crazy? 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:13.120 Is I'll allow up in you weren't taking a CS. 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:16.760 It's like after the work day. Let's say you're in Europe, 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.040 so the work day ends at two thirty pm, and 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:23.480 then you're in Europe, you go home, you have lunch, 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:25.640 which in Europe is at four pm, and then you 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:27.640 take a nap, and then you wake up at six 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:31.000 pm and then it's cocktail hour. Okay, I guess I'm 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:33.040 European as fun. I guess when in my mind, if 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:34.800 I was like in the city right now, in our 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:36.719 old life, we can up at six perfection, you have 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:38.360 a whole night ahead of you. But if someone who 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.000 has nothing planned to wake up at six, then you're like, okay, 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:42.400 let's have to it's gonna be a while before I 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:47.640 go back to sleep. What are we going to do tonight? Etcetera. Yeah, well, 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:49.400 this is one again boring, This is boring, waring boy 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:51.400 wearing boring. Well, but it seems like you're already on 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:54.840 the I mean, so what does it so? Just for everyone, 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:57.240 for anyone who might not have read your Grab Street Diet, 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:05.959 you are, um you or me roast me. For the 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:09.959 Americans who missed your Grub Street Diet, they're they're hard 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:13.200 to find. What they are out there? They are It's true. 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:17.600 Um So you're in You're not in the city. I'm 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:20.640 Princess Vibes. My boyfriend's parents have a cabin in the Berkshire's. 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:22.800 We spent two weeks in my Stay with Me studio 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:26.599 apartment and then fled here and then and this is 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:29.240 you guys are gonna love love, love to hate this. 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:32.839 This amazing woman on Instagram was like, I run this 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:35.800 gorgeous lodge and the catskills and there's no one here. 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:38.320 Would you want to come broadcast your instat live show 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:40.719 from here? So the past two days we went like 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:44.319 an hour away to this gorgeous lodge to like be 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.160 in an empty hotel and it was heaven on earth. 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:49.360 And so now I'm and I'm just like riding that high. 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:51.800 But now I'm back to norm But is that where 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:56.559 you did your writing retreat? No, that's that's different. What 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:00.559 is this? Um? So, what let's get to what I 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:02.920 really want to know. What's going on with You'll are cool? 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:04.679 I don't know how much you're talking about the pot 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:08.640 about your personal life. You came on, you came on, 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:14.719 talk about when things were earlier, early days the Island. No, 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:17.960 So it's the It's like the only thing I've been doing. 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:21.160 I've watched, like I would say, at least um two 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:24.000 episodes of it and so I'm kind of using the 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:26.800 linko in a way that's fun, not annoying and cool. 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:32.000 So it's days mate, Okay, so you and no one's 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:36.000 ever done it before. It's inventiff, So it was early days. 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:40.760 What's going on? Yeah, while we're still dating. In fact, 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:45.599 I would say, yeah, we're boyfriends. We literally have a 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:49.560 conversation about whether we're boyfriends during quarantine. That's the ship. 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:55.600 That's It was one of those things where like, I'm 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:59.120 so glad that I do really like him because I 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:01.840 could imagine a olden which I mean we started dating 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:03.880 in December. I can imagine a world in which I 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:06.480 started dating someone in December, you know too. Three months 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:08.520 in is when you realize whether you actually like someone 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:13.959 or not, and like to start down and quart imagine 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:17.200 to start some like Quarantino with someone and then be like, wait, 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:22.800 I actually am not feeling this. Yeah, And also like 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:26.240 I feel like it would be imagine being like, Okay, 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:27.800 I don't like this person, but at the same time, 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:30.959 this is my only opportunity for any human contact, So 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:36.360 it's a lot of calculations to do right, like anyway, 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.240 but luckily that's not the case. And also luckily we 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:42.160 live at twenty five minute walk so it's a built 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:44.960 in exercise and be it like frames my week because 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:47.520 I know, like it's perfect, you know, like I'll see 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:49.240 him for a couple of days and then come back. 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:53.480 Your life's perfect, George, Your life is like a movie. 0:13:56.520 --> 0:14:01.000 My life is like Normal People. That okay the show. 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:03.240 We watched a few episodes of that, and then we 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:05.880 like we got horny, and then we tried to have sex, 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:07.400 and then we got in our heads thinking we were 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:11.240 trying to have sex like them, this long discussion about 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:14.079 like our sex, like our our sexual connection, and that 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:16.199 just kind of turned into three days of like really 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:19.200 intense discussions about our relationship. And we're on the other 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:20.800 side of it. But we would call it the normal 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:25.840 People discussion. I mean, I think Where's my guy? Is 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:38.920 that accurately left? Um? We had that experience but not 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:42.760 sexy at all. When we watched Sarah Jessica Parker's Vehicle 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:48.320 Divorce and that's a good show. Well, you know, we 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:50.680 we put a ban on it in this household because 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:53.840 we watched a few FS and just immediately started fighting 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:57.200 about nothing. We just were mad at each other, like 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:02.520 it just brought it out, Sam, how many is it six? Yeah? 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:08.400 Are you working on in that beautiful household? Oh? It's 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:12.200 um fine, it's mostly good. It's just like every once 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:13.640 in a while, I feel like when I'm in like 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:16.560 a bad mood, there's nowhere to go with it. So 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:18.920 then I'm just like grumpy and then he's like a 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:22.160 mad at me, and I'm like no, but I'm about 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:26.720 to be if you like. And it just absolutely it's unreasonable. 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:29.160 And it's like just as like one day a week, 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:32.680 you know, it's like this like toxic little stew and 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:37.240 the moods are on the sane. It's so difficult. Yeah, 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:44.800 it's been interesting, Go ahead, there's no like this has 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:48.680 been really interesting. I just feel like there's no outlet 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:52.320 for like feeling negative energy, like in a normal day. 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:55.359 You can be like I'm annoyed at people on the subway, 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:59.240 or like I'm annoyed at job, and now it's like 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:03.160 I'm just annoyed and I can't put it anywhere. Um 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:06.440 so it's crazy. What were gonna say? It's interesting? I 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:08.200 would just because we me and Brian I have never 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:10.640 lived together before, so this is our first foray into 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:13.840 uh that, and it's been going surprisingly well. But I 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.320 feel like every week or so we have I wouldn't 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:19.960 say fight, it's like just really long discussions about like yeah, 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:24.480 like that's how I feel. It's really like, it's really sweet. 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:30.280 I'm in love. Were pitching that like it was going 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:32.240 to be like our big fight, and You're like, it's 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:34.160 just really sweet. No, I've forgotten how to be like 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:36.200 funny or interesting. I'm just like I'm in love and 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:40.400 I'm in the mountains. I do feel like, how long 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:42.320 has it been since I've had a funny thought. It's 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:46.640 been a while. I still rest on reserves from pre corps. Absolutely. 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:51.240 I did have a couple of weeks where I felt like, wait, 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:55.800 does anyone here an echo for you a little? Really? 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.480 What do you think it is? No, it's gone now, 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:03.240 I think some times there's just like a lag Okay, cool, Um, 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:07.000 I don't know. I don't know what I'm talking about. 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:13.600 Literally literally set this up for us. I'm your producer. 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:17.320 Is in your ziploc bag? Well, it's such an amazing 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:20.520 question in George, I hurt my knee, for no, the 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:22.320 one time I went on a long run, hurt my knee. 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:24.240 Now can barely walk, which I'm obsessed with during this 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:28.680 amazing time. Its bag is now whatever we're all calling 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:30.560 water and I've been kind of like gently putting it 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:32.280 on my knee, but I'm realizing maybe I should put 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:34.280 it back in the freezer. Well, that has been our 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:40.159 brand new segment. What's happened. Something you should know is 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:42.200 that we make up a lot of segments while we're 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:46.680 recording this show. And something else is we don't tell 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:49.639 the guests anything about the podcast until we're recording. And 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:53.359 we talked about recording the podcast while we recorded. Yeah, No, 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:56.560 I completely can feel connected. It's a behind the scenes 0:17:56.720 --> 0:17:59.400 feature at on the thing that is currently being recorded. 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:01.720 We do a It's like if you're watching Titanic and 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:04.560 then Kate Winslet turned to the camera like fleabag and 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:08.840 was like, can you believe this to the camera and 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:15.760 was like, am I being good at acting her? It's 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:18.399 like after after the director yell's cut, She's like, that 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:22.680 was so random. When my boob was out say we 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:24.360 do we do a quirky thing on our podcast where 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:26.159 we refused if we don't know about the guests and 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:28.160 the other one wanted them on the other one will 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:34.000 refuse to look up any information about has it ever gotten? 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:38.320 Has it been very obvious for any particular guest? We 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:39.760 just we had a girl who was on the Bravo 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:42.280 shows Summer House and Pat loves that show, and I 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:43.680 was just like, I've never seen your show, and she 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:47.160 was like, okay, bitch. She was really, it was really 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:51.960 she was cool and funny and so I stand and 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:55.399 that's my that's my tail. Um, what else is going 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:57.520 to fuck on with my girl? And I was thinking, 0:18:57.600 --> 0:18:59.280 what I was looking forward to this all day because 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:02.040 you're both two of the funniest people. I remember, I said, 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:04.080 whenever I try to be earnest, I sound like a bit, 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:10.120 But you guys, I've been like this will this will 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:14.920 cheer me and like set me right, let's really quick. 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:18.240 Wait yeah, um when Catherine said we were really funny. 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:20.159 Was it just me or was she being a totally 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:24.640 big I was about to say it sounded really disingenuous. Yeah, 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:26.440 Like why would she come on? And I would say, 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:29.959 it's like, like, okay, congrats on having that girl from 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:33.520 Summer House on your podcast, Like didn't like did I 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:37.080 ask about that? Like I don't remember, just like to 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:41.000 name drop like that. I mean it's like I love 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:45.560 you know. I mean, like she goes on Instagram once 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:48.440 suddenly her head is like there's this island agreement that 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:50.280 we all kind of like pretend we're on a level 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:52.719 playing field, but like to just come in and immediately 0:19:52.840 --> 0:20:01.320 be like I had Imagen Poots on my podcast Summer House. Um, anyway, okay, sorry, 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:05.600 let's let's we have let well so that so that 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:07.480 vine and here is Hey Catherine, sorry we had a 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:10.760 technical difficult you know, worry about it. You guys are 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:15.360 really like you're doing amazing ship right now. Your ship 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:18.840 is being amazing. Every week on my Instagram Live there's 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:23.120 fewer and fewer people and I'm I feel like that's 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:25.000 literally the most I feel like the most pathetic one 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:26.720 of the world posting about it. But it is all 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:29.800 I fucking have. I'm like I had so much had 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:31.720 so much fun when I did it. No, doing it 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:34.840 is so fun for me, But it's just like there's 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:36.440 something about I don't know, how do you guys feel 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:40.320 navigating Like posting anything during this stay with me time 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:43.520 feels so psycho. But I need it to live because 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:47.600 I am so I'm as endless void of need an approval. 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:51.080 I mean, my literal new job is making content for 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:55.600 Viacom CBS, and it is just like putting what is 0:20:55.600 --> 0:20:57.000 your job? I couldn't tellf that was real? Are you 0:20:57.040 --> 0:21:01.280 guys like had had a standing bit? This one is 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:04.200 actually real? I'm like doing like I'm like making videos 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:09.680 for Comedy Central Digital like uh, and it's like it's fun, 0:21:10.200 --> 0:21:12.879 but it's like really crazy to just be like, okay, 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:15.840 well come up with quarantine content every single week and 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:18.119 I'm like trying to be like really funny. And then 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:21.159 it's like today, truly I put out a video and 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:24.919 it didn't do well and I spiraled. I've been like upset, 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:28.040 just like checking my phone and being like, well I 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:30.640 only last night this video does isn't getting enough likes? 0:21:30.720 --> 0:21:34.639 And Brian's like it's okay. And I was like, I 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:37.280 wrote a song that was like, Um, if anything else 0:21:37.320 --> 0:21:39.879 bad happens to me, I'm gonna kill myself and you 0:21:39.960 --> 0:21:43.560 can I don't think you can say that shutting down 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:47.639 my quarantine muse. I've been trying to write a song called, um, 0:21:47.760 --> 0:21:54.320 what if I commit suppuku being like suicide. It's like, yeah, 0:21:54.320 --> 0:21:57.960 I'm feeling myself, but it's like different to remember when 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:03.919 um when like, so I'll say it. Trump said that, um, 0:22:05.600 --> 0:22:12.320 you know you know what I called the orange chee 0:22:12.359 --> 0:22:17.760 though whoa ripping those not watching? I'm ripping my clothes 0:22:17.760 --> 0:22:25.520 off masturbating at how funny that that? Remember when he 0:22:25.640 --> 0:22:28.920 said something that was like maybe you know bleach? Would 0:22:28.960 --> 0:22:31.000 you know, like what if we put bleach inside our bodies? 0:22:31.040 --> 0:22:33.440 Maybe that would help or whatever. Um. The day that 0:22:33.560 --> 0:22:37.320 that happened, I wrote an entire shouts and murmurs that 0:22:37.440 --> 0:22:41.000 I did not submit that was like, um, your guide 0:22:41.040 --> 0:22:43.920 to bleach based cocktails, And it was like all like 0:22:44.040 --> 0:22:47.040 parodies on like Negronia, but it was like dead you know, 0:22:47.400 --> 0:22:49.800 dead crony or whatever. And I wrote the entire thing 0:22:49.840 --> 0:22:51.280 and then I read it through and I was like, 0:22:51.400 --> 0:22:56.879 this is so dark I can't. This is not publishable 0:22:56.880 --> 0:22:59.000 in the New Yorker. And then I just like but yeah, 0:22:59.080 --> 0:23:01.320 I um. Then your called me and they're like, no, 0:23:01.440 --> 0:23:05.400 George speriously, it's really good extra. They pay me extra 0:23:05.480 --> 0:23:10.040 for it. Bag of water. She's got a bag of 0:23:10.160 --> 0:23:14.920 water in her hands. For the all the one hundred 0:23:15.160 --> 0:23:19.120 thousand listeners at home, Catherine Cohen is holding a ziploc 0:23:19.200 --> 0:23:23.440 bag of water. No, that's so crazy to come to 0:23:23.520 --> 0:23:25.560 a podcast holding a big bag of water. You know, 0:23:25.680 --> 0:23:28.320 she holds this bag of water and you expect maybe 0:23:28.359 --> 0:23:30.320 a goldfish to be in there. Maybe she wanted that 0:23:30.400 --> 0:23:34.840 a fair perhaps, but no, it's just the bag. Do 0:23:34.920 --> 0:23:36.720 you know what I think we should do? Sam? Do you? 0:23:36.880 --> 0:23:38.720 Are you literally gonna suggest me to our first segment? 0:23:39.720 --> 0:23:44.000 That is so upsetting to me? Yeah? I knew. I 0:23:44.080 --> 0:23:45.800 knew that would get you. I said it just to 0:23:46.000 --> 0:23:53.400 rile you up. Oh and now I'm pete off. Three 0:23:53.440 --> 0:23:58.520 starts crying, um um, So that we do is this? 0:23:58.920 --> 0:24:01.080 You're gonna make fun of us for this one big time? 0:24:01.119 --> 0:24:06.760 We actually do a segment like straight shooters hate that? 0:24:07.080 --> 0:24:12.960 Are you guys? Okay? Oh? Can we tell people that 0:24:13.000 --> 0:24:14.879 I am straight? But you know that I have. There is, 0:24:14.920 --> 0:24:16.720 as I like to say, that's a shred of By 0:24:16.840 --> 0:24:19.080 and me because I find it really erotic when a 0:24:19.119 --> 0:24:22.040 woman pushes her boobs, like her soapy boobs against a 0:24:22.080 --> 0:24:30.360 shower door. That's like the one like, that's why I'm by. 0:24:32.080 --> 0:24:35.119 I've never been. I've never been. I've never trying been 0:24:35.200 --> 0:24:37.400 with a woman. There's a bird trying to fly outside. 0:24:37.440 --> 0:24:41.000 It's like trying to fly. It was so low. It 0:24:41.119 --> 0:24:46.160 was too low to be a bird going in from 0:24:46.160 --> 0:24:54.240 the car. Okay. So the segment is called straight Shooters, 0:24:54.280 --> 0:24:56.040 and it is a segment that we used to gauge 0:24:56.160 --> 0:24:59.800 our guests familiarity with the rich tapestry of straight culture. 0:25:00.000 --> 0:25:03.040 And it is a series of rapid fire questions with 0:25:03.160 --> 0:25:05.760 two options. So we'll just rapid fire at you like 0:25:06.640 --> 0:25:08.320