Speaker 1: Look man, oh I see you. Why look over there?
Speaker 1: How is that culture? Yes? Goodness ding dong lost culture
Speaker 1: raised us calling sorry, bone is feeling absolutely frisk a liska.
Speaker 1: Today he started the countdown at five. It was so shocking,
Speaker 1: So reader, we I usually start the countdown at three.
Speaker 1: I think something. The energy is shifting in the world.
Speaker 1: The poles have flipped. Something's going on. We're living in
Speaker 1: as jas Man and Aladdin once said, a whole new world.
Speaker 1: Something is shifting with the polls. Something's going on with
Speaker 1: the polls. And well, oh my god, I just said polls.
Speaker 1: And the trigger word that polls is sorry not to
Speaker 1: take a hard ride into hell. But but that's the
Speaker 1: way I felt when I said, that's hell and we're
Speaker 1: going there. Okay, speaking of absolutely in hell, Nicole on
Speaker 1: this woman is that she's in hell. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: doing Her husband is a killer, I know it, or
Speaker 1: maybe her son for that matter, some someone in her
Speaker 1: life is an absolute killer. And maybe it's Lili Rabe
Speaker 1: is the killer. I think, well, you know that's pronounced
Speaker 1: lily Rob. Lily Rob is the killer. Broccoli like broccoli Rob.
Speaker 1: That's actually a real culture. It's it's a Real Culture
Speaker 1: number fifty What but I forget nine. I was going
Speaker 1: to say literally sister life hashtag. Um wait, so it's
Speaker 1: it's Real fifty nine. It's Lily Rocco rob spelt like rape.
Speaker 1: And then I tell you this is this is my uncle.
Speaker 1: This is my blind spot is that this is my
Speaker 1: first encounter with Lily Robin, like like a meaningful cultural
Speaker 1: setting is she Where where else would I have known
Speaker 1: her from? She's sort of been like the white lady
Speaker 1: on all Ryan Murphy shows, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like our guest is giving us a look, she's gonna
Speaker 1: look it up. She's gonna look it up. Um okay,
Speaker 1: So literally the hi junks that are going on I'm
Speaker 1: doing We'll have to talk more about it next week.
Speaker 1: But can we also talk about the hi junks on Potomac?
Speaker 1: We can talk about the hijinks on Potomac. Absolutely. Look,
Speaker 1: I'm on no one's side. I think I'm on no
Speaker 1: one's sign anymore. Um except for I mean, the only
Speaker 1: person who's just like hanging back is Robin. No. But
Speaker 1: even Robin is no. Robin is not hanging back, and
Speaker 1: she doesn't hang back because Robin is Giselle light and
Speaker 1: that's actually seventy robin robin light not including Karen in
Speaker 1: the photos, really really mean, unnecessary trick and noticed that
Speaker 1: Karen was completely unbothered about it. And when she said
Speaker 1: thank you next and threw that hat on the floor,
Speaker 1: I said, you better create that meme. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: she didn't. I think there's a reason. Why was this
Speaker 1: the first season in a while where Karen was at
Speaker 1: the center in the in the title card, in the tableau. No,
Speaker 1: I think she and Giselle are pretty much the stars
Speaker 1: of the show, but I don't know for sure. I
Speaker 1: let it hit me this episode. I was like, you
Speaker 1: know what, she was the star of the season. I
Speaker 1: know the whole I know, the whole season sort of
Speaker 1: centers around like the inflection point is the barn the
Speaker 1: wine barn fight. But Karen comes out looking the most pristine.
Speaker 1: But you're saying you're not even on her side after this,
Speaker 1: she's so Switzerland. Yeah, it's like it's a little weird.
Speaker 1: But the fact, here's here's my take on the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Was Monique wrong for literally dragging Candice, Yes, Candice filing
Speaker 1: charges and saying she wants to pursue to the full
Speaker 1: extent of the loss. She wants Monique in prison. This
Speaker 1: woman has children, like, come on, they had a moment
Speaker 1: in a wine bar, and who of us hasn't Who
Speaker 1: of us hasn't had a moment in a wine bar? Really,
Speaker 1: we shouldn't go to jail for it at the end
Speaker 1: of the day. Candice Dillard Bassett supports the Car's Real stage.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry to say this, and I said it,
Speaker 1: and I have as an NBC employee, I feel like
Speaker 1: I have something to lose by saying that. You know,
Speaker 1: the housewives are all over the streaming platform Peacock and
Speaker 1: we love Peacock. And you want to know something, I
Speaker 1: sprung for the premium no ads subscription because you know what,
Speaker 1: I want to watch Peacock, no ads, no nothing. I
Speaker 1: just want to watch, you know, uninterrupted raw Peacock raw.
Speaker 1: You just wanted. He wanted to deliver its right to you.
Speaker 1: You know, I feel like my one little quibble with Peacock,
Speaker 1: And as an NBC employee, how dare you say quibble again?
Speaker 1: Another trigger word for me after the fall of Quimby Wow,
Speaker 1: I'm being try left and right boles. Quibbles go on
Speaker 1: though we're just owned by these entertainment companies, some more
Speaker 1: than others. The Apple TV remote, I mean, maybe this
Speaker 1: is maybe this is on the Apple TV remote, but
Speaker 1: the response her talking about her, she's holding it up
Speaker 1: the Apple TV remote all over the damn place on Peacock.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I don't know. I think it's both hardware
Speaker 1: and software issue where they're not talking to each other,
Speaker 1: they're both acting crazy. I find the Apple Remote to
Speaker 1: be very overly sensitive. You feel this way, so so
Speaker 1: I feel this way. But then the peacock if you
Speaker 1: scrub across the bar so exponentially said, like the two
Speaker 1: sort of like enable each other to be very sensitive. Right.
Speaker 1: And you know, I've been watching some old Dirty Rock
Speaker 1: episodes and I and I'll jump from one like you
Speaker 1: like you do. It'll go from act one into the
Speaker 1: damn tag after I just you know, oh that's filthy.
Speaker 1: Can't have that. But here's the thing, because I know
Speaker 1: what's going to happen with you Bowen, and I'm holding
Speaker 1: myself back. We'll say you know who's on Peacock, and
Speaker 1: then we'll transition into the guests. But before we do that,
Speaker 1: I just want to address a really important item of business. Yes,
Speaker 1: do you want to take this opportunity to apologize to
Speaker 1: Doja Cat. Absolutely, I apologize to Doja Cat for riling
Speaker 1: up her base, although the stand culture around Dojakat is
Speaker 1: fucking wild and I will not ever apologize to those people.
Speaker 1: Does that make sense. I'm separating the artist from this standum,
Speaker 1: which is different from art from the artist. At this point,
Speaker 1: I'm coupling the art with the artist, Okay, And for sure,
Speaker 1: I'm really interested in I'm really interested in everything you're saying.
Speaker 1: But also I'm very interested in the two gallons of
Speaker 1: water that our guests just took to the head. Yes, hydration.
Speaker 1: Having worked with our guests and very briefly, I feel
Speaker 1: like I've seen her with She's a very hydrated person.
Speaker 1: I love that. I think it's so important to be hydrated. Babe,
Speaker 1: I don't do it in the I don't, Babe, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't stay hydrated. If you stay hydrated, you don't
Speaker 1: need to get hydrated. And that's my Real Housewives tagline,
Speaker 1: and no one knows why because you you you have
Speaker 1: a plumbing empire. Wait, just kidding, do you actually know
Speaker 1: my real tagline? I know you're no, no, no, never
Speaker 1: remind me, remind me. Sorry, it's this. I'm a triple threat.
Speaker 1: I'm coming to your house, I'm sucking your husband, and
Speaker 1: I'm eating your snacks. So you know what Peacock reminds
Speaker 1: me of. Peacock reminds me of our guests. Our frankly
Speaker 1: is the star of Peacock. Quite frankly, Look, I mean,
Speaker 1: I feel like you go to Peacock and the thing
Speaker 1: that draws you in is that our guests beaming face.
Speaker 1: You're not going for season two of Housewives of Dallas.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that you're going for the very much
Speaker 1: on right now Amber Ruffin Show, or the Amber Ruffin
Speaker 1: Show as stylized capitalized first letter in every word of that. Now.
Speaker 1: I don't mean to sort of give away the guest identity,
Speaker 1: because you know we love to keep that on lock.
Speaker 1: But b before we sort of bring the guests into
Speaker 1: much pomp and circumstances, great fanfare, as they would sort
Speaker 1: of if she were part of the royal family. Um,
Speaker 1: just describe sort of the guy impact on the culture,
Speaker 1: what other credits the guests impact on the culture is
Speaker 1: truly huge, a truly huge. You know her to write
Speaker 1: her on Late Night with Seth Myers as a as
Speaker 1: an iconic narrator on drunk History Right on Detroit Ter's
Speaker 1: Luck Lady Sketch Show saved Hello, Robin, she don't listen
Speaker 1: to this, Robin will listen to us. I asked her
Speaker 1: to come on. She was like, everyone asked me to
Speaker 1: come on their podcast. I'm like, you're coming on my podcast. Look,
Speaker 1: she might Robin, she might do it. She might do it,
Speaker 1: don't I'll text her. She's a good text her. We're
Speaker 1: not we're not we're not talking about we're not talking about,
Speaker 1: but we're not talking about her. Robin did recently tag
Speaker 1: on to Our Guests Show. She she's a quick little
Speaker 1: greeting at the end of an episode of Our Guest Show,
Speaker 1: and we love that, and also we love that this
Speaker 1: actually reminds me about our guest iconic Watch What Happens
Speaker 1: Live Bartender. Oh yes, the poses. She was on the
Speaker 1: episode with Issa and the aforementioned Robin. But listen, I
Speaker 1: feel like we've I feel I feel we've we've talked
Speaker 1: just too much and we need to bring the guests
Speaker 1: in because it's just too exciting. It's just too exciting.
Speaker 1: We're so excited to have her. We love her so much,
Speaker 1: every welcome ever. It's such a moment. It's such a
Speaker 1: Herra moment. Do you have any thoughts to contribute to
Speaker 1: the Undoing? To Potomac, I saw you nodding very very enthusiastically.
Speaker 1: My husband and I are watching the undoing. We call
Speaker 1: it the undoing undoing, and I do think the little
Speaker 1: baby did it. It's crazy that that's where we're at.
Speaker 1: Since the beginning, my husband she said no right now.
Speaker 1: Ever since the beginning, my husband said, um that Nicole
Speaker 1: Kimman did it. But I will tell you this, after
Speaker 1: two episodes ago, I think my husband and I get
Speaker 1: really really close to each other's face and we go
Speaker 1: I create mock. That's what I do know is killing it.
Speaker 1: I love that lady she is and let me tell you,
Speaker 1: she is taking it the most seriously like you need to.
Speaker 1: And Nicole too. They're taking it so seriously. And meanwhile,
Speaker 1: the it's a drag show and that's what you like it.
Speaker 1: It's a drag event like drag Race is not on.
Speaker 1: So we have undoing. The waits, the coats at all,
Speaker 1: the courtroom scenes are chaos. Everything is so big. Any
Speaker 1: one of those people could be on a comedy and
Speaker 1: you'd be like, yeah, it's big if it if it
Speaker 1: had the thirty rock soundtrack, it would just be thirty. Yes.
Speaker 1: It was like, there's Nicole, like, I'm telling you the
Speaker 1: finale is going to be the equivalent of a death drop.
Speaker 1: It is gonna be. But you think the sun. You
Speaker 1: think the sun. As a result of the sort of reveal,
Speaker 1: thought the sun for quite some time. My husband holds
Speaker 1: fast on the wife. I think that. Oh boy, sorry,
Speaker 1: I've been saying it's the kid all along, Little Noah,
Speaker 1: you think that's it's as simple as spoiler alert, y'all.
Speaker 1: The murder weapon has been found by Nicole in the
Speaker 1: little boy's violin case, and you think it's that simple
Speaker 1: he did it? Well, no, we're on the fiftieth episode.
Speaker 1: Somebody better do something. It's the baby. It's time I've
Speaker 1: had it. Or the husband just hit her once with
Speaker 1: a hammer, he sucked her, hit her once you put
Speaker 1: it down. She's kind of fine, and the wife shows up.
Speaker 1: She picked up him and she hit her again. Okay,
Speaker 1: now she's hurting. Okay, man, the little boy came and
Speaker 1: you finished her off. The orient Express moment where where
Speaker 1: everyone's killer body killed her a little bit. That theory
Speaker 1: so to be so because you know, if well, I'll
Speaker 1: say this, if they cut to one more shot out
Speaker 1: of nowhere of her smushed head, I know too much,
Speaker 1: too damn much amount s gratuitous and talk about because
Speaker 1: you just took his leg. Talk about your hydration situation. Hi,
Speaker 1: I like to drink out of a giant jug of
Speaker 1: water at all times. At work it's a smaller jug
Speaker 1: of water. At home it's one of these big things.
Speaker 1: And I like to pretend that I am a bodybuilder
Speaker 1: because they have to drink a gallon of water day
Speaker 1: something like that. Absolutely, I'm a real strong guy. You're
Speaker 1: a real strong guy. Why is it different at work
Speaker 1: then at home or is it sort of like at
Speaker 1: home there's no rules for you. You set your own rules,
Speaker 1: so you can drink as as big a jug as
Speaker 1: you like. Yes, at home, I'm not worried about looking
Speaker 1: like a fool. So at work they have that super cold,
Speaker 1: really nice water. You gotta put it in your little
Speaker 1: coopy thing. I do that. You're talking about the Saratoga
Speaker 1: What are you talking about the Saratoga Springs water? No,
Speaker 1: no, no no, no, you're just talking about the water that
Speaker 1: comes out of the fountains, that machine thing I got you, Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I love Bowing and his brand name water. Then d
Speaker 1: n C fool You are centrists, you really are. Crist
Speaker 1: and I work in the same on the same floor. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: do you ever run into one another or or sort
Speaker 1: of the pandemic making that crazy? No, we were. We've
Speaker 1: had a couple runnings this year. Really, yes, and now
Speaker 1: we took over NBC Sports. They'll never come back NBC Sports.
Speaker 1: They shouldn't be in dirty records. They have no business there.
Speaker 1: There's like you in that entire office all of the time.
Speaker 1: Now it's full of folks. It is a bangamin, I
Speaker 1: have enough people, you do? Is it on Is it
Speaker 1: on eight B eighth floor. Yeah, it's in between Seth
Speaker 1: Meyers and NBC Sports, So that should be all Seth
Speaker 1: Myers and Ruff and show. Anyway, you're coming in hot
Speaker 1: with this. I hope NBC Sports withers and dies. I
Speaker 1: am not saying that they I hope they die. I'm saying,
Speaker 1: ain't nobody ever in that building they all work at.
Speaker 1: There's a Connecticut office, so it comes down here. They
Speaker 1: live in Connecticut. There's the thing. I can people come
Speaker 1: now here anyway? That's not nice. God, you're right, thank
Speaker 1: you for clarifying. Thank you. Okay, I wish you can
Speaker 1: run into you guys in the hallway. Maybe one of
Speaker 1: these days I'll get a job as a janitor. This
Speaker 1: is the ultimate hallway running. So I have a question
Speaker 1: sort of because it's such a wacky floor. You know,
Speaker 1: everyone everyone there is so wacky, do sketch variety, etcetera. Um,
Speaker 1: is there sort of pranks going on? Like is there
Speaker 1: the old banana peel slip? Like? So I'm sort of
Speaker 1: I'm sort of curious, like the sort of wacky antics
Speaker 1: that happens. Yeah. Yeah, especially now with the pandemic, it's
Speaker 1: like the stakes are even higher. So like sometimes I'll
Speaker 1: pick up a handful of almonds from one crafty table
Speaker 1: and then sort of sprinkle it on the sub myer's
Speaker 1: crafty table. No, now you have HEPSI like that kind
Speaker 1: of prank, Yeah, because I thought it was going to
Speaker 1: be COVID, but it's hepsy. No. That's that's the big switch.
Speaker 1: That's the sort of what they call the bait and switch.
Speaker 1: You understand. I have to say your show is really
Speaker 1: fucking good Amber. It is so so funny, it's so smart,
Speaker 1: it's so saying it, you know what I mean, like
Speaker 1: what I appreciate about it. But when and I were
Speaker 1: talking about it the other day, like it's really just
Speaker 1: it's it's not just like a show that like pass perspective.
Speaker 1: It's a show that has perspective and it's saying what
Speaker 1: it is. And you know, we're in this We're in
Speaker 1: a sort of era right now where I'm just gonna say,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of late night shows that
Speaker 1: are pretty toothless and this is just like and you've
Speaker 1: got incredible writers. I mean, we know all of them,
Speaker 1: but we love it. It's so good. Thank you. It's
Speaker 1: very very very fun. I mean, nuts, it looks fun
Speaker 1: by myself. Ain't nobody even here. I'm having I'm making
Speaker 1: you and Terek. Me and Terek are a party and
Speaker 1: have always been and there, but there are no writers.
Speaker 1: Jenny doesn't come. And then we've got Dwayne Perkin Sintia
Speaker 1: Jackson and they're in l A. Oh my gosh, they
Speaker 1: truly are. DEMI was dancing on cars in l A
Speaker 1: and became like a little meme. Did you see him? Yes,
Speaker 1: Mariah Carry retweeted it. I could see that because they
Speaker 1: did All I Want for Christmas. Yes, okay, Demi is
Speaker 1: absolutely iconic. Demi I just want to say, is is
Speaker 1: a queen of the Straits and he reigns as on
Speaker 1: early gay as because he won my show Game Show
Speaker 1: on quimby Plug. Also has like really like fun queer
Speaker 1: adjacent taste to like he likes, he likes the stuff
Speaker 1: that you would think is just for the gays, but
Speaker 1: he has such a broad sort of palette for that
Speaker 1: kind of thing. Yeah, you can't threaten Demi's masculinity. He
Speaker 1: doesn't rip feels like doing. I love it. You filled
Speaker 1: that room with queers and queer adjacent's. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's Jantira and Dewayne. And as we've said, Demi, Demi
Speaker 1: is basically as an honorary he is the Queen of
Speaker 1: the Straits. We have had Dwayne on and Dwayne's culture
Speaker 1: that made him say culture was for him was the
Speaker 1: Power Rangers, and we realized that this is actually a
Speaker 1: very gay thing. Oh yeah, love for the Power Rangers.
Speaker 1: Like to sort of announce your you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like I'm a color now, I'm a color you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like that's very like sort of gay.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it, And so I did
Speaker 1: watch that movie. Yeah, I love action movie. I don't
Speaker 1: care what it is. I don't care. I'm watching it.
Speaker 1: Did you blow something up? I mean, the highlight of
Speaker 1: the year is usually when that big old action movie
Speaker 1: comes out. You can even see me buying a ticket
Speaker 1: to a Transformer. Yeah, oh I'll go. I'll very much go. Yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: I want to say it. I'm playing the Spider Man
Speaker 1: game right now, and it's just so fun because it's
Speaker 1: a movie that you get to sort of like control.
Speaker 1: Isn't that cool? And yeah, it's such so fun. It
Speaker 1: does sounds and it does sound so fun. I want
Speaker 1: to get back to this because Matt. Matt put out
Speaker 1: something very interesting saying, a lot of these late night
Speaker 1: shows are toothless. We're not going to name names, but
Speaker 1: I feel like I feel like you are. You are
Speaker 1: aware of this, Amber because I think you've said in interview,
Speaker 1: is that like other late night shows seem to just
Speaker 1: replay what's happened in some way, And I don't think
Speaker 1: you're You're not even like playing clips of like a
Speaker 1: press conference or anything. You're just I mean the things
Speaker 1: that punch the most, that hit the hardest, or like
Speaker 1: things where you're just addressing the camera and it feels
Speaker 1: very set too. Yeah, I want to talk about who
Speaker 1: said what crazy thing? I want to call the crazy
Speaker 1: thing they said crazy, And then I want to say
Speaker 1: it made me feel bad? Yeah, and no one is
Speaker 1: doing that. They can't say this made me feel bad.
Speaker 1: But you're not of this marginalized group, are you? Sod
Speaker 1: so like, and I think it's healthy, and I think
Speaker 1: it's good for us to be like, I feel like
Speaker 1: ship because this guy in charge doesn't think anything of me, Like,
Speaker 1: I think it's okay to say that for sure. And
Speaker 1: then and then on the flip side, it's like when
Speaker 1: the race was called, Like the whole episode after that
Speaker 1: way is just you guys just being so joyful about
Speaker 1: it and and be like we're so happy. But then like
Speaker 1: we're really seeing other late night shows do that, is it?
Speaker 1: Because and like maybe it is because you know, the
Speaker 1: white dudes who are like are able to be passively
Speaker 1: observing of what's going on and be like, oh cool,
Speaker 1: like this is what happened today and we're not gonna
Speaker 1: layer on top any sort of commentary. I think that
Speaker 1: that is absolutely true. I also think that people like
Speaker 1: I'm just starting to get hate, and I think those
Speaker 1: people receive hate twenty four seven their whole careers and
Speaker 1: have for years and years, and they're a little bit
Speaker 1: sensitive to it. But I don't. I haven't had enough
Speaker 1: hate for it to color what I choose to say
Speaker 1: and not say. I was like, let's dance is great.
Speaker 1: I don't give a rip. I don't give a rip
Speaker 1: might be from I also think there might be something
Speaker 1: too when I, like I was watching and I was
Speaker 1: just like, yeah, like we're just like jumping in with
Speaker 1: this is garbage, and like you don't And I love
Speaker 1: when you said, like you don't have to accept this,
Speaker 1: Like you don't have to like like make room for
Speaker 1: these people that have believed in and supported this harmful, toxic,
Speaker 1: racist fill in the blank words here, um. And I
Speaker 1: also think I was wondering to myself, like I wonder
Speaker 1: if there's just something to the fact that a lot
Speaker 1: of these white dudes who have been on the air
Speaker 1: for years and years are just like too desensitized to
Speaker 1: what's happening to be able to call this out anymore,
Speaker 1: Like it's like they have to do these shows, many
Speaker 1: of them every day, every weekday to be fair, um,
Speaker 1: and they they just can't really like just all of
Speaker 1: a sudden jump in with like wait wait wait, no,
Speaker 1: this is insane because they have to like keep up
Speaker 1: this decorum or they just actually aren't able to process
Speaker 1: the immediacy of what's happening because they're not starting like
Speaker 1: right now like you, and they also and have your perspective. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think there's a lot of I think that's true,
Speaker 1: and I think a certain behavior is expected of them.
Speaker 1: I think they're a lot of times, they're expected to
Speaker 1: take the high road. They are under the thumb of
Speaker 1: the network a lot of times, whereas no one cares
Speaker 1: what I do or say. Is that true? Do they are?
Speaker 1: They kind of just like, do you well because I
Speaker 1: got the show after saying all kinds of crazy stuff.
Speaker 1: I think that was what they wanted. And I like
Speaker 1: to say that so I get to really, I really
Speaker 1: get to go in on it. They looked at the
Speaker 1: menu and said, we're ordering ember Ruffian for the entree.
Speaker 1: They went to Peacock Restaurant and they got the special.
Speaker 1: They got the special. All oh, yikes, yeah. I am
Speaker 1: waiting for them to be like, you can't be acting
Speaker 1: like this, but I did say all the less was
Speaker 1: what I said, and I'm not saying burn it all down. Yea, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: So we'll see if I ever get in trouble, if
Speaker 1: I do, maybe text us you should text us. I'll
Speaker 1: text you the line text us text us every day
Speaker 1: with an update whether they've said it or not. And also, okay,
Speaker 1: can I also say one of my favorite bits that
Speaker 1: you did, because it really not to say I was
Speaker 1: triggered again, but when you did your bid on PT cruisers,
Speaker 1: I was like, it's true, this car is crazy, and
Speaker 1: I have to come out as being someone who, as
Speaker 1: a little boy collected little collectible cruisers I had, like Bernie,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just thought they were like a
Speaker 1: cute I am without answers, I'm w a without answers.
Speaker 1: But when you were in the PC Cruiser content, I
Speaker 1: was like, you're right, this carse crazy. I think that
Speaker 1: was your sensing that this shouldn't be and then you
Speaker 1: like that, yeah, like this isn't right. Like if a
Speaker 1: bear could fly, you'd be like, I'm obsessed with this
Speaker 1: bear because it's really able to fly. I guess pet Cruiser,
Speaker 1: as far as automobiles go, is kind of a queer
Speaker 1: car because it's like it's it's like there's something there's
Speaker 1: something different about this. It's like it's it's it's sort
Speaker 1: of personality first. Personality first. Yeah, it's sort of got
Speaker 1: its own vibe. And the personality is um, goofa loofa.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I was, I feel like there's
Speaker 1: something hostile about PT cruisers. It's like they're like no, no,
Speaker 1: I feel like remember those Scion the Scion cars. Exactly
Speaker 1: what it makes me think of, Yes Scion, the Kia Soul. Yes,
Speaker 1: T Cruiser seemed like aggressive to me, whereas the Scions
Speaker 1: were like harmless and like quirky. I don't know, that's
Speaker 1: just maybe the word cruiser was going along way with me.
Speaker 1: I was like, of course it's a car cruiser, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like that that to me making
Speaker 1: a lot of sense. I just I just said the
Speaker 1: sentence that to me make a lot of sense. To
Speaker 1: make a lot of sense. That to me make a
Speaker 1: lot of sense to make a lot of sense. Um.
Speaker 1: So you're having a blast doing the show. It's the best.
Speaker 1: It's so much fun. I do keep looking to like
Speaker 1: ask for permission, you know, or to like find out
Speaker 1: if this is okay, And I'm like, oh, I have
Speaker 1: to stop doing this, this this, Yeah, I have to
Speaker 1: kill this instinct in me because it's like no one,
Speaker 1: no one else would do that. I guess not no
Speaker 1: one else. But it's like that's not necessarily a part
Speaker 1: of um the the the power breakdown of places like that,
Speaker 1: right well, because it's the Amber Reference Show, would I say, go,
Speaker 1: it's hard to get used to that. I loved the
Speaker 1: bit about the names, like when the when the when
Speaker 1: the conservatives can't say the fucking names, and you were like,
Speaker 1: this is the Mber Reference Show, don't forget it. I
Speaker 1: just like that. I was like, I was absolutely so.
Speaker 1: When you are like doing the show and there's no
Speaker 1: audience right now, obviously because of the pandemic, I would
Speaker 1: imagine that there was the idea of having an audience,
Speaker 1: and guess I would imagine or was it always going
Speaker 1: to be no guests? Because I have to say, I
Speaker 1: love that you have. Oh good, there's never going to
Speaker 1: be any guests? Was never going to be any guess
Speaker 1: we were always our goal was always to make a
Speaker 1: variety show and then call it a late night show.
Speaker 1: Do a little monologue, yeah, and then just do a
Speaker 1: bunch of sketches. Yes, No, I love that, And I
Speaker 1: genuinely feel like not to say while Bowen Yang is here, um,
Speaker 1: where are the sketch shows? But I wish I wish
Speaker 1: that there were more of what I mean like because
Speaker 1: like I just like I love that. I never really
Speaker 1: know where it's going to go because it feels it
Speaker 1: feels brand new, Like everything you're doing feels brand new
Speaker 1: in the way that I I'm drying. It should feel
Speaker 1: brand old. It ain't none but a variety show. And yeah,
Speaker 1: there's like a novelty to it. You know it. We
Speaker 1: are little showman, me and Terek, and we love we
Speaker 1: will we will get crazy presentational on a person. We
Speaker 1: love it well it And this is when I guess
Speaker 1: we talked about the vocals. Girl, you got them, and
Speaker 1: I don't think that we didn't notice that you got
Speaker 1: these vocals. And we are noticing the breath control because
Speaker 1: some of these because let me say, some of these
Speaker 1: notes are in the basement and you are keep finding
Speaker 1: them with precision. People have known you've seen her play
Speaker 1: a damn mermaid on seth meyers and literally give you
Speaker 1: operatic ship. But the general audience is now finding the vocal. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's true. You guys are really spoiling me. I can
Speaker 1: sing just fine. I think it's I don't give a
Speaker 1: fart because I'm singing this song. You live this, Sing
Speaker 1: this song. It cannot be stabbed stapped, singing it no
Speaker 1: matter what. And sometimes it'll sound. I think they feel
Speaker 1: unrehearsed and slightly sloppy, and that is because I I
Speaker 1: am not very concerned sound. You know, Hey, I'm getting
Speaker 1: the point across. I'm having a good time. Chick. Who cares?
Speaker 1: I feel they don't they. I don't think they sound
Speaker 1: unrehearsed at all. I think they sound fun and like
Speaker 1: if they are happening because of joy. Like for example,
Speaker 1: you can I ask you a question, are you a
Speaker 1: story pirate? Yes? I knew it. I knew you had
Speaker 1: story part energy because I was like because they always say,
Speaker 1: and this doesn't apply to you, because you actually can sing,
Speaker 1: but in story parts, they say, it's not because we're
Speaker 1: both story parts and like, um, they say, it's not
Speaker 1: about how much you can sing, it's about how much
Speaker 1: you want to sing. And that's why I always feel
Speaker 1: like it's the spirit of I'm singing this because it
Speaker 1: should be sung. I feel pressed into the music, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean that at Boom Chicago, we would
Speaker 1: always have to do um musical improv and our director
Speaker 1: would say, technically, these people paid money to hear you sing,
Speaker 1: and buddy, if I don't carry that every day about
Speaker 1: to sing a stock, I'm like, people paid money for
Speaker 1: this dollars. And you tell the readers about what Boom
Speaker 1: Chicago is. Boom Chicago is a second city esque theater
Speaker 1: located in Amsterdam. Um they come to America and they
Speaker 1: audition in l A, Chicago, and New York and they
Speaker 1: take a couple of actors every year and you do
Speaker 1: home shows at the theater and you also do corporate
Speaker 1: shows all over the world. And it's mostly short form
Speaker 1: improv and it's a lot of sketch writing and stuff,
Speaker 1: and it is the hardest, craziest job in the entire world.
Speaker 1: It's the best. It's like comedy basic training. And I
Speaker 1: did it with Terek Davis, with Terrick Davis. There was
Speaker 1: a whole piece in it that there was a whole
Speaker 1: piece on it that came out today in New York
Speaker 1: Magazine about it just being this like comedy factory that
Speaker 1: like is sort of has sort of just been like
Speaker 1: underground even still like culturally, like people think I was
Speaker 1: Second City UCB. And by the way, I just I
Speaker 1: should just really quickly point out that Amber, I think
Speaker 1: has checked so many of these like comedy group boxes.
Speaker 1: I feel like you got a second city. You did
Speaker 1: Second City in Denver, which I want to talk to
Speaker 1: you about as a Denver as a Denver former Denver resident,
Speaker 1: and then uh and then Boom Chicago and then like
Speaker 1: story pirates, like I feel like this is this all
Speaker 1: sort of fits into the narrative of Amber ruffin show
Speaker 1: Person and so anyway, um okay, Boom Chicago, like talk
Speaker 1: about the crazy cultural things you would probably have to
Speaker 1: deal with living in freaking Amsterdam. Amsterdam was the best
Speaker 1: because like I have a lot of friends who and
Speaker 1: there aren't a lot of people like this in comedy
Speaker 1: who like we'll be like, oh, what a dumb shirt,
Speaker 1: you know, like people like that who just don't have
Speaker 1: a filter, and we'll do say the thing and that's
Speaker 1: every Dutch person. They don't um in that article, I
Speaker 1: think it's Seth who said as no Dutch person has
Speaker 1: ever left out of politeness. They don't. They don't have that.
Speaker 1: They don't do that, just like I loved that, because
Speaker 1: you don't have to, and because I spent so many
Speaker 1: years in Amsterdam, I don't have like. Socially, I think
Speaker 1: I'm a little behind because I spent so much time.
Speaker 1: You know how people like try to dress up the
Speaker 1: fact that what you just did was bad. Whatever. People
Speaker 1: do that to me. I don't. I don't know that
Speaker 1: that's what they're doing. And I think, oh, man, I'm
Speaker 1: the ship. Look at out nice. This person is giving
Speaker 1: me the honest truth. Yes, yes, Also I like that though,
Speaker 1: because why why waste energy not saying what you feel?
Speaker 1: Say it. You can hurt my feelings. You have a
Speaker 1: you have a show, you can feelings. I'm good for life.
Speaker 1: I'm a black life in America. Watched me drink out
Speaker 1: of a gallon jug of water. So how long did
Speaker 1: you do Boom? I did Boom for two years and
Speaker 1: then I did it later for three years. That I
Speaker 1: did Second City Dinverse, Second City Chicago, and then I
Speaker 1: went back to Boom Chicago for three years. This is
Speaker 1: I mean this is like a true I don't know,
Speaker 1: like I think I think you. I think it's like
Speaker 1: someone who's been a completist, completionist or whatever in terms
Speaker 1: of like coming up in comedy with like groups of people,
Speaker 1: which I think, like that's the thing that bums me
Speaker 1: out in some ways about like people coming up now,
Speaker 1: especially with pandemic going on, It's like, oh, like you're not.
Speaker 1: There's just a fewer chances to get together with like
Speaker 1: sometimes strangers and like doing some shared comedy goal together.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know how they are surviving it
Speaker 1: would have been. So I think about that now because
Speaker 1: this has been this is a probably going to ultimately
Speaker 1: be like a two year period that's been at least
Speaker 1: different than it would have been. And I just think,
Speaker 1: like I think about when we were coming up and everything,
Speaker 1: and Bowen, I can pretty confidently say that like if
Speaker 1: there was no live performance, well, well we have done.
Speaker 1: You know, Like I just it's so crazy. But people
Speaker 1: are being crafty. There's a lot of people on the TikTok.
Speaker 1: It's true. It's true. And I'm and I'm watching the
Speaker 1: TikTok folks, and I'm like, oh my god, this is incredible.
Speaker 1: They're doing good work. Talk about Denver. What was your
Speaker 1: Denver experience? Like city never was the best time and
Speaker 1: we I had. I was at Boom Chicago and I
Speaker 1: called Second City and I asked for a job ah,
Speaker 1: and they said, yes, you can have a job like
Speaker 1: a City Denver. So then I moved from Amsterdam to
Speaker 1: Denver and we took um whatever the Chicago main stage
Speaker 1: show was at that time, we took that to Denver.
Speaker 1: Then they were like, if this goes well, we can
Speaker 1: write and then we will be Second City Denver and
Speaker 1: we'll write Denver's own show. So we went there. It
Speaker 1: did well, and then we wrote our own show. So
Speaker 1: the theater we were at was that Downtown Theater complex
Speaker 1: in Denver. We were one of those U D t
Speaker 1: Andy they We did that show and at first it
Speaker 1: was just people who knew what Second City was, but
Speaker 1: then it was people who had subscribed to that theater complex,
Speaker 1: so it was all people who want to see cats
Speaker 1: and Forever plaid and stuff. So they came to see
Speaker 1: our show and they felt differently about it. I think
Speaker 1: really then people who knew what Second City was, you know,
Speaker 1: this was like the oldest people I've ever seen in
Speaker 1: my life to watch a Second City show. I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: this isn't right. So then yeah, what year was this?
Speaker 1: This had to be two thousand and six or seven? Okay, wow,
Speaker 1: because I was because then that must have meant Bowen
Speaker 1: was a junior in high school and maybe he would
Speaker 1: have moseyed on over and I but like, for some
Speaker 1: reason it was hard to get tickets. Though. I remember
Speaker 1: like Second City being in Denver and then everyone being
Speaker 1: like and then at least like people like my little
Speaker 1: nerdy high school group was like, oh, I wish we
Speaker 1: could go see Second City, but um, for some reason
Speaker 1: that that wasn't available to us, and I maybe I'm
Speaker 1: like just at the beginning we were hot ship and
Speaker 1: then when they opened it up to subscribers, it was
Speaker 1: something different. Um, the Denverse are the Performing Arts Yeah,
Speaker 1: d DP something, d p C A whatever. Um yeah,
Speaker 1: it's this huge, giant like yeah complex that has like
Speaker 1: four different theaters and then one you can see like
Speaker 1: um like I guess, I guess like in recent years,
Speaker 1: like a Shenyan performance, and then another and another stage
Speaker 1: you could see like a Return of the Phantom, like
Speaker 1: the Phantom of the Operas sequel and then like yeah
Speaker 1: it was. It was just this crazy Frankenstein's Monster kind
Speaker 1: of a building. Um. But then would you ever go
Speaker 1: see like, um, the Impulse Theater at Winning Cooper or
Speaker 1: anything like these other little shows. Yes, we saw to
Speaker 1: the two improv groups and one was really nice and
Speaker 1: really fun and I and one we're, um, just fucking
Speaker 1: pieces of shit. And these motherfucker's came to see the
Speaker 1: show and we're like, oh, the entire show you they
Speaker 1: We're mad that we were there. And then like at
Speaker 1: the in the at the end song of the show,
Speaker 1: they like clapped off beat. We're like, why the hate?
Speaker 1: Why did you come here to hate us to our faces?
Speaker 1: Also the show is over, Where are you okay? Theater work?
Speaker 1: You're not that man? Stay here. Let me have a word.
Speaker 1: I have no idea which theater is the theater, but
Speaker 1: like what a shitty thing for improv. That's not what
Speaker 1: improv is. No, And it's like weird scarcity, like bullshit.
Speaker 1: Like I guess at the time to where improv was
Speaker 1: like relatively popping, I guess, I don't know. Like I
Speaker 1: felt like such hot ship being fifteen years old and
Speaker 1: going downtown to the Bovine Metropolis Theater and doing shows
Speaker 1: when on all these thirty year olds being like, who
Speaker 1: the hell are these teenagers? Those are the good people,
Speaker 1: Those are the good people. Okay, so thesee so then
Speaker 1: Impulse Theater must have been the shitty people. And that
Speaker 1: kind of tracks just because at the time I was
Speaker 1: a high school student. My calculus teacher was also my
Speaker 1: theory of knowledge teacher for IB he was also my
Speaker 1: improv coach because he was the assistant director of the
Speaker 1: Impulse Theater. He was a great he's great. I love him.
Speaker 1: Adrian and I still keep in touch to this day.
Speaker 1: But it seems like so many of the actors at
Speaker 1: that theater were toxic, crazy people. Because I had a
Speaker 1: friend Laura Lockwood, who was like cast in that theater
Speaker 1: and was coming home. We're just they're just like telling
Speaker 1: me horror stories about how like so many of the
Speaker 1: especially like the women, this is all this is all
Speaker 1: just caddy and toxic and mean, and I don't I
Speaker 1: have no reason to like uncover any of this for
Speaker 1: you guys or for the listeners. But I was just like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I guess people in improv are just
Speaker 1: like really really mean and not nice, so that it
Speaker 1: just colored my perception of comedy communities for years and
Speaker 1: years and years. That's why I love Chicago. Those people
Speaker 1: are untouchable. There is no like ego because you're in Chicago,
Speaker 1: because you're you're doing it because you think it's the
Speaker 1: most fun and it is the most fun. While we're
Speaker 1: sort of existing in the past, I think we should
Speaker 1: ask the question now, this is the central question of
Speaker 1: lost culturies. Thus it is the question that really all
Speaker 1: the guests get asked, and all the guests except Margaret
Speaker 1: chill because we got too scared. Now we're going to
Speaker 1: ask you the question. Now. The question, Amber is what
Speaker 1: was the culture that made you say culture was for you?
Speaker 1: So this is the defining, definitive pop culture in your
Speaker 1: life or culture around you that now that you look
Speaker 1: back at your life, Ember Ruffin's life that is, you're
Speaker 1: kind of like, oh, that made me me In a way,
Speaker 1: I think what made me me was the culture of
Speaker 1: io mm hmmm, improv where it was just we are
Speaker 1: out all night long. First of all, it was an
Speaker 1: intern there and it was the most fun. And then
Speaker 1: we go there, it's it's six pm show start. We
Speaker 1: go there, we sit there until one am, and we
Speaker 1: drink all night and we laugh and then eventually someone
Speaker 1: kicks us out and we go to someone else's house
Speaker 1: and we laugh all night. That was I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: I can do this for forever, and I almost did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we we sort of had an experience like that with UCB.
Speaker 1: That was kind of that was kind of our version
Speaker 1: of that. But Chicago does it differently. What is that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is the doorbell. That's my doorbell. It is my doorbell.
Speaker 1: This is how Hollywood my building is. The doorbell is
Speaker 1: Leve Rose. I don't know what that is, but we're
Speaker 1: gonna We're just gonna wait. Um, it's Edith singing. And
Speaker 1: it was like I like that, and now I gotta
Speaker 1: say I hate it. Well, it's just like too long.
Speaker 1: It's like a whole thing. Yeah, talk about what I'll
Speaker 1: be right back. Go go, go go. I feel like
Speaker 1: this is a Chicago specific thing in not even just
Speaker 1: the comedy culture there, but it's like, oh, it's a
Speaker 1: vibe for people to just drink all night at one
Speaker 1: place and stay there for the entire night, for the
Speaker 1: whole night, we shut it down. I don't think I've
Speaker 1: ever really done that. In New York. I don't think
Speaker 1: I've ever done that in New York City, or I know,
Speaker 1: I'm just I feel like such a square. Matt just
Speaker 1: got a beautifully wrap to give. What is Well, it's
Speaker 1: a present from Hulu The Happiest Season. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: it's from the hulaa original film, The Happiest Season, starring
Speaker 1: Christian's Stewarts, written by Mary Holland. We absolutely stamn. How
Speaker 1: where do you get on that list? Um, because neither
Speaker 1: of us are on it. Well, listen, I'm sure you
Speaker 1: guys could get a damn box from any anyone you
Speaker 1: wanted to. You network stars, We'll see, we'll see. Okay,
Speaker 1: fill me in. What were we dadding about? I just
Speaker 1: commented on the fact that, and then I had a
Speaker 1: sad admission. But I was like, it's a Chicago specific thing,
Speaker 1: not even just in the comedy culture there, but it's
Speaker 1: a Chicago specific thing to like drink all night, stay
Speaker 1: in one place, and then shut it down. But I
Speaker 1: because because I'm like, I don't think I ever really
Speaker 1: did that in New York. I've never drank more than
Speaker 1: when I was like coming up in comedy needing to
Speaker 1: hang out, like there was times when back back when
Speaker 1: I was doing like four or five shows a week,
Speaker 1: it was like normal for me to have three drinks
Speaker 1: at because they give you the two the two tickets
Speaker 1: usually when you're doing the show, so you use both
Speaker 1: of those and that This is like, you know, my
Speaker 1: early mid twenties. So I was like still like probably
Speaker 1: I like I p A S. So you're drinking like
Speaker 1: heavier things and then you're your past doubt, maybe you
Speaker 1: go somewhere else you get another drink after. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that was the heaviest drinking of my life, was being
Speaker 1: in those spaces. But but but it's a Chicago thing
Speaker 1: to like maybe it's because of the weather. I don't know.
Speaker 1: But people they're just like gather will they gather and
Speaker 1: they all stay in one I don't think that's I
Speaker 1: don't think that happens in New York. Sorry, I didn't
Speaker 1: know about going let's have a drink here and then
Speaker 1: go to the Why would we do that? Drinks here
Speaker 1: are free? Why? But it's only because of being at
Speaker 1: theaters and stuff. If I had to pay, i'd run
Speaker 1: around to Yeah. We talk about IO being like specifically
Speaker 1: eye opening for you. IO was like this very cool
Speaker 1: like there was a group of improvisers who were just
Speaker 1: like the coolest people on the planet, you know, the
Speaker 1: cool guys. Yeah yeah, And I just thought, oh man,
Speaker 1: I'll never be as cool as the cool guys. And
Speaker 1: it was like the like high school but fun and
Speaker 1: like also the cool guys weren't really aware that they
Speaker 1: were the cool guys. They were having fun and you
Speaker 1: were allowed to have fun with them. And there was
Speaker 1: no like, I'm sure people were shitty to people, yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: but no one was shitty to me. People were like, hey,
Speaker 1: you come and play this game with us or whatever.
Speaker 1: And it was just so insufferable. There was no way
Speaker 1: you could have been there and and not been an improviser.
Speaker 1: You would have punched everyone in the mouth because it
Speaker 1: was all like, let's play would you rather, uh, let's
Speaker 1: play a murder and all these doofy improv games. We
Speaker 1: loved so much. I I can't believe we spent so
Speaker 1: many years doing the same thing. It's like a decade
Speaker 1: I spent playing games with people. This is Chicago. This
Speaker 1: is pre pre Boom Chicagoom Chicago that I owned. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I ended up back in Chicago. I did everything twice.
Speaker 1: When did you. And that's really how you master. You
Speaker 1: gotta do it all twice. Um, when did you move
Speaker 1: to New York? Was it when you got work or
Speaker 1: did you move to New York? And then the work began?
Speaker 1: The great work began, as they say in Angels, I
Speaker 1: moved to New York. Okay, So I I grew up
Speaker 1: in Omaha, Nebraska, and then I moved to Chicago to
Speaker 1: learn how to improvise, and then I got boom Chicago
Speaker 1: in Amsterdam. After Amsterdam, I called Denver and I lived
Speaker 1: in Denver. After Denver, I got main stage in Chicago,
Speaker 1: so I lived in Chicago. After that, I went back
Speaker 1: to Amsterdam and then moved to l A to make
Speaker 1: it so l A and it was just I didn't
Speaker 1: make ship, and uh, I mean it was fun because
Speaker 1: I became a story pirate UM and I did a
Speaker 1: lot of theater. There was so much theater to do
Speaker 1: in l A. And that was the ship. And I
Speaker 1: was a part of this theater. This is so not
Speaker 1: where you asked me, but here we are. Um. I
Speaker 1: was a part of this theater called Um Sacred Fools Theater.
Speaker 1: And what we did was we it was like a
Speaker 1: theater of writers and so all the shows at that theater,
Speaker 1: someone wrote it, your little friend wrote it. And then
Speaker 1: they would do this thing called serial Killers where five
Speaker 1: shows enter it, three shows leave. So you write ten
Speaker 1: minutes and you do it, and then that Saturday you
Speaker 1: find out if you write the next ten minutes and
Speaker 1: then if you play yes, play right, survivor fastly to
Speaker 1: say that, And it was the most fun we did.
Speaker 1: Me and my friend Lauren did um. King of Kong
Speaker 1: the musical. Do you know the documentary King of Kong?
Speaker 1: I'm more familiar with King Kong. You creature of film
Speaker 1: and television, You guys. King of Kong the documentary is
Speaker 1: about two It's the easily the best documentary ever, easily.
Speaker 1: It's two men. One is inherently evil, like a real
Speaker 1: life evil guy, and he looks at and he talks
Speaker 1: it's crazy. And then one guy is like so kind
Speaker 1: and sweet and he's scared and he doesn't think you
Speaker 1: could do it. It's like you cast it. So it's
Speaker 1: just a documentary about these guys and they're vying to
Speaker 1: see who can get the top arcade score in donkey,
Speaker 1: Oh God, I've heard of this. I thought that the
Speaker 1: making of King Kong or whatever. No, it's this video
Speaker 1: game thing. Oh I love that. That is great? And
Speaker 1: can you give a spoiler? It just good triump over Evil?
Speaker 1: Or should everyone just watch you cannot? Don't google it,
Speaker 1: you have to just watch it. Okay, it's so many feelings.
Speaker 1: It's more feelings than you would think. It's just one movie.
Speaker 1: It's a serious Thank god. This was back in the
Speaker 1: day where things were just one movie. Now you have
Speaker 1: these things. They're eight nine episodes. You know that you
Speaker 1: don't just have one movie anymore? Undoing? Is I'm undone
Speaker 1: watching all these It's sick. I'm noting. The Vow could
Speaker 1: have been a commercial girl. I mean the way that
Speaker 1: the Vow was a cult in and of itself. Watching
Speaker 1: it really proved a lot. There's such a weird men
Speaker 1: of narrative around it now that where it's like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: um seduced, is that what it is? The other one?
Speaker 1: That one's the one you should actually watch. It's like, well, no,
Speaker 1: I already like gave away all my brain cells to
Speaker 1: this other, to the first one. Unlike the Fire documentaries,
Speaker 1: which were great, they were both great. Both they got
Speaker 1: to the point this Vow crap. I'm sorry. It was
Speaker 1: so like if the three of us went to the
Speaker 1: mall and had the best time, but also at the
Speaker 1: mall um was a performance of BTS. That's the documentary
Speaker 1: show the performance exactly when we were trying on hats.
Speaker 1: You have to leave that out. That can't be part
Speaker 1: of the documentary. We need to be asking the person
Speaker 1: at the sunglass hot where the bathroom was. But it
Speaker 1: was so funny. He did an accent. It made me
Speaker 1: laugh so hard. But we need we need to cut
Speaker 1: it because I couldn't agree with you more. I couldn't
Speaker 1: have cared less by the time it was over, and
Speaker 1: I was like, I know I should be caring the
Speaker 1: whole people came and went that nothing happened to Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was like, one of these motherfucker's better die because
Speaker 1: taking up a lot of my time. You know, when
Speaker 1: I'm on the couch saying one of these real people
Speaker 1: need to die for my narrative enjoyment. Honey, you got
Speaker 1: a documentary issue. You gotta doc issue. I mean, look, ultimately,
Speaker 1: there is a full last second. That's the biggest crime
Speaker 1: of all. That's the mystery I want solved, is what
Speaker 1: the fuck The biggest crime is that they got the
Speaker 1: biggest crime relative to everything else that has happened around
Speaker 1: that calt And I'm just kidding. No, it's crazy. We're
Speaker 1: going to jail for a hundred forty years for even
Speaker 1: bringing it up again. I just gotta. I just that's
Speaker 1: what's in the They said. It's a jail sentence from
Speaker 1: the happiest season. They're saying, Oh my god, wait, you guys,
Speaker 1: that's a chicly wrapped box. Actually really is? I mean, so,
Speaker 1: here's a question for you guys for the holiday season.
Speaker 1: Gift trapping skills. Do you have them? Do you have them?
Speaker 1: As they said on Guts, are you good gift trappers?
Speaker 1: I gotta google at how to video every December one.
Speaker 1: I got to look up a video every single year. Oh.
Speaker 1: I love gift wrapping and I am maybe not good
Speaker 1: at it, but I absolutely love doing it. You are
Speaker 1: good at it. Though you're not good at it. I
Speaker 1: don't think you're bad at things. What are you bad?
Speaker 1: To see the back of my head right now, you'd
Speaker 1: be like, oh, the front looks like you did your hair,
Speaker 1: but the back, I don't think you did a very
Speaker 1: good job. And I don't think anyone does the back
Speaker 1: of their hair. But you're so good at at us
Speaker 1: we would never know that. So that's good. Okay, but
Speaker 1: if something happens behind me, I just have to let
Speaker 1: it happen. I can't turn around. I'm bad at math
Speaker 1: science remembering some details about Okay, you know what I
Speaker 1: never can do. Whenever I'm on a date. I never
Speaker 1: remember where the person is from. It's hard. It's a
Speaker 1: hard thing to store. And you're you're saying, like second date,
Speaker 1: like they've told you in the past, it doesn't really matter,
Speaker 1: like the thing is. I like, I'm just bad at
Speaker 1: retaining some of Like I just realized this about myself
Speaker 1: because I went on a date which now is not
Speaker 1: going to happen in Los Angeles because they're shutting it
Speaker 1: all down. But um, I was like afterwards, I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: personal flaw. I am not good at, like, um retaining
Speaker 1: information about someone's um up Like of course, one of
Speaker 1: the questions you ask is gonna be where are you from?
Speaker 1: And then I realized that I'm not good at keeping
Speaker 1: that information. Jobs. I'll keep your friends, I'll keep like,
Speaker 1: but you're like basic upbringing. For some reason, I never
Speaker 1: remember it. Hmmm, what does that mean what does that
Speaker 1: say about you? I don't know. Maybe it just means
Speaker 1: I'm obsessed with my own past. I'm not I have
Speaker 1: I also have a horrible memory. It's very bad. Is
Speaker 1: it bad? Short term is because of all that time
Speaker 1: in Denver weed at itt do you mean Amsterdam? And
Speaker 1: I don't like you don't like weed? You lived in Amsterdam?
Speaker 1: You don't like marijuana? No, but I like to eat.
Speaker 1: She's a drink you like? You like e So you
Speaker 1: like you were a little raver a little bit. We
Speaker 1: had like probably three times a year where we'd be like, hey,
Speaker 1: we get to do eat. Yeah, that's actually a very
Speaker 1: fun so fun do it in Amsterdam too, because then
Speaker 1: you know the guy who cooked it, and then all
Speaker 1: your friends have already taken, so it doesn't feel like scary.
Speaker 1: It feels fine. Yeah, I mean, so that's like the
Speaker 1: difference in the drug culture there anyway, It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's not a hole to do, it's just they're what
Speaker 1: we have on our hands. Here is an upper, not
Speaker 1: a downer. And yeah, that's that's wonderful. Sometimes I feel
Speaker 1: like uppers for me make me a full crazy person
Speaker 1: because I'm already naturally out of ten um, and I
Speaker 1: feel I need a downer to sort of get myself
Speaker 1: down to a like socially acceptable seven point five. That's
Speaker 1: all four, let's get to fourteen. We are an absolute
Speaker 1: after all. Um. But yeah, I mean, listen, I just
Speaker 1: want to go to I just want to go to
Speaker 1: Amsterdam now to one like responsibly do drugs, and two
Speaker 1: to like eat the Reichstaffel, the reichstatful stuff, the Indonesian
Speaker 1: like Dutch fusion. Have you ever been bowing? Tamp Sterdam?
Speaker 1: We did a date. This is this is the twisted thing.
Speaker 1: Can't we hear the sick story? This is the story.
Speaker 1: We went to Europe after I graduated college. My sister
Speaker 1: planned the whole trip. She did a great job. The
Speaker 1: one the one flaw on that trip planning was we
Speaker 1: stayed for a knight in Brussels, where there's literally three
Speaker 1: things to see, and then for whatever reason, on the
Speaker 1: second day, we took a train to do a day
Speaker 1: trip in Amsterdam and we're only there for like twelve hours.
Speaker 1: You got to stay there. When I went to Europe,
Speaker 1: we stayed in Amsterdam and that was the move. And
Speaker 1: we made a stop in Brussels and made a stop
Speaker 1: in Bruges, and our our stupid thing was we only
Speaker 1: had three hours in Paris. We were driving from Amsterdam
Speaker 1: to Paris. Aren't gonna like tag the Eiffel Tower and
Speaker 1: come back. It was like like it was a child's game.
Speaker 1: And we were there just long enough in Paris to
Speaker 1: be like sort of chastised by a waitress and feel
Speaker 1: very hot, and like I was like, oh, Paris reminds
Speaker 1: me of New York City and I don't like it.
Speaker 1: We gotta get out of here. Paris is the funnest,
Speaker 1: but they don't care for you. No, they don't want
Speaker 1: to be given you ship or talking to or helping
Speaker 1: you in any way. And it's like in Amsterdam you
Speaker 1: can like start speaking English and they're like cool, yeah,
Speaker 1: well we us two girls. And then in Paris they're like, no, no, bitch,
Speaker 1: you come here and we're not gonna cater to your
Speaker 1: dumb ass, your dumb American ass. And then you're kind
Speaker 1: of just like sitting there with the men. You like,
Speaker 1: all I want is soup and they're like, well, learn
Speaker 1: the word for soup. Yeah, it's pretty bad. I loved Paris.
Speaker 1: I've got to Paris once. Maybe I've been through through
Speaker 1: two or three times. And when my girlfriend and I
Speaker 1: first got to Paris, a man, we first of all,
Speaker 1: we got off the plane and the t s A
Speaker 1: guys were like, oh, look, oh you are so like
Speaker 1: so hitting on us so fucking hard. And we laughed
Speaker 1: and left. We loved it. And then we went to
Speaker 1: wherever we were staying and we were like, okay, let's
Speaker 1: go get into some trouble. And when we left the hotel,
Speaker 1: first of all, every guy we saw I was like,
Speaker 1: oh baby, and we were like, it's real. So then
Speaker 1: we go and we see a tall, skinny, gray haired
Speaker 1: man in a pinstriped suit with a pencil mustache with
Speaker 1: curls on the end, a pink ascot and he was
Speaker 1: walking his fluffy, fluffy poodle and we laughed so fucking hard.
Speaker 1: We were like, this is what you think of when
Speaker 1: you think of Barris. You're doing it, You're doing the thing,
Speaker 1: and that's how you met your husband, who's in the
Speaker 1: room with you. Now. My husband went to go get
Speaker 1: sprite and vodka. Oh that's gonna be a fun Monday night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: vodka and sprite, come on, and he's oh, he's back
Speaker 1: with the vodka. And the spracket. He's back with the
Speaker 1: van ste himself some food. But what's most important is vodka.
Speaker 1: Do you drink of vodka sprite? I will drink of
Speaker 1: vodka sprite. Usually I drink um paloma. That's usually what
Speaker 1: I drink. But I've had too many palomas today in
Speaker 1: front of you this whole time. Yeah, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: whenever I see a bowl full of limes, I'm taking
Speaker 1: back to my youth on Long Island when we would
Speaker 1: make what's called the gin bucket. It's really exactly what
Speaker 1: it sounds like. You feel a bucket full of gin.
Speaker 1: You put some seven up in there, and you cut
Speaker 1: up some limes, and then you get a turkey baster,
Speaker 1: get some and you squirt in each other's mouth. It
Speaker 1: does exactly what you think it's going to do. Because
Speaker 1: can I tell you guys something, and this is a secret.
Speaker 1: Gin is sin That's true. I'm concerned about the basis.
Speaker 1: Like you said something, sit up straight, I'm shaking my
Speaker 1: shoulders because gin will make you sinful. And I actually,
Speaker 1: I actually just got a whole bunch of gin, and
Speaker 1: I feel that I'm That's what I'm missing, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm missing going out and having some chin. That's another
Speaker 1: thing about drinking throughout your twenties, says you discover gin
Speaker 1: and it's sort of keep gets your gets your frisky.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Everyone has their danger alcohol
Speaker 1: bow and what's your danger alcohol? My danger alcohol is this.
Speaker 1: I sound like a Damn Gray's Anatomy character, but it's tequila.
Speaker 1: And I sound like Meredith Gray herself, but it's tequila.
Speaker 1: Do an impression of Meredith Gray being like, don't don't
Speaker 1: have I can't drink tequila. It's the tequila. She's always like,
Speaker 1: it's men in tequila, it's or whatever, And then here's
Speaker 1: me at Sandro agreeing it's men in tequila. Well, this
Speaker 1: is this is such an inversion. Usually I'm the I'm
Speaker 1: the Christina to your Meredith and it's not racial. Well
Speaker 1: that's actually really you. You racialize that, and I'm really disappointed.
Speaker 1: I have to be baby No what your cab? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're actually literally in CAREB. You're like, I'm Amber Roughan
Speaker 1: and Creb's like, I'm carib Oh, I'm probably Izzy. I died.
Speaker 1: She actually is very much alive, and there's rumors that
Speaker 1: she'll return for this season. There is wait did you,
Speaker 1: do you guys really watch Crais' anatomy? We are wet
Speaker 1: wait a wait, So the answer to this is yes,
Speaker 1: but not currently. Do you watch it now? I watch
Speaker 1: it now, I've always watched it. I am up to
Speaker 1: I Whenever I meet someone who's up to date on
Speaker 1: Gray's anatomy, I know they're like in a past life
Speaker 1: we were like, you know, twins because I feel sisterhood
Speaker 1: with everyone despite not being currently up to date with Gray's.
Speaker 1: I feel a sister hope with those that are. But
Speaker 1: do you know, I am on the cusp of like
Speaker 1: fully diving back in and I think. I think crazy
Speaker 1: is in the conversation in a huge way right now.
Speaker 1: It always is. I've had but I haven't know, but
Speaker 1: I'm saying something is going on with like four different
Speaker 1: people texted me being like, hey, hey, so if I
Speaker 1: if I fell off of Grays after the plane crash,
Speaker 1: where should I start? And I'm like, I fell off
Speaker 1: before the plane crash, and I don't know what to
Speaker 1: tell you, but everyone there's like an ground I made
Speaker 1: it further than you. That's crazy, but there's a groundswell
Speaker 1: of people. It was the shooting after the plane crash.
Speaker 1: The shooting was. Yeah, the shooting was the last draw
Speaker 1: for me. Actually, I love the shooting episode. Actually, it
Speaker 1: was well, it was very well written. The shooting episode
Speaker 1: was where I screamed and I screamed so loudly that
Speaker 1: my husband had to come see. He was like, I'm
Speaker 1: crap doubled over. It was so it was the best
Speaker 1: episode of television. And I wanted April Techner to die.
Speaker 1: Are stupid guts? I was like I was, And she
Speaker 1: didn't even die, she just got She got to have
Speaker 1: more annoying moments in that episode when she was like,
Speaker 1: there's so much blood. You never think there's gonna be
Speaker 1: that much blood. And you know, even when you're a
Speaker 1: daughter and you know there's that much fun and you
Speaker 1: do work and you do you do, you go to school,
Speaker 1: and you know how much nd there is, but you
Speaker 1: never know there's gonna be that much fun. It's dead.
Speaker 1: It's dead, and they're like that was really the monologue. Really,
Speaker 1: my god, I mean literally the way I want. Okay,
Speaker 1: So here's some t I got to audition for the
Speaker 1: New Shanda Show, which is an Annadelvi show. So she's
Speaker 1: doing an a show for Netflix, and I got the
Speaker 1: audition for it, I can say now because I almost
Speaker 1: definitely didn't get it. I haven't heard back, but it
Speaker 1: was truly pages and pages and pages of Shonda dialogue
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh my god, then I just
Speaker 1: get to do this one time. And you know, the
Speaker 1: role was like a gay guy who's a stylist who
Speaker 1: knows it all, and I was like yes. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I got to say so much good,
Speaker 1: ridiculous like never ending Shanda stuff, and it was the
Speaker 1: highlight of my career as an actor. I was like,
Speaker 1: this is so good. And sometimes I just sometimes I'll
Speaker 1: just watch my own self tape. Oh, a startling admission.
Speaker 1: I love it because it's so delicious, Like it's so unhinged. Wait,
Speaker 1: here's a good thing. What's all your favorite Shonda monologue?
Speaker 1: This is for Gray's anatomy scholars. This is huge. I
Speaker 1: think I know Bowen's I do you though, because I
Speaker 1: have one all time? Yours is definitely. Can I guess
Speaker 1: yours and you can guess mine? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yours.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess is gonna be Sandra? And it's it's
Speaker 1: not difficult, it's unbearable. That's not the one what and
Speaker 1: it's a Sandra one, but it's the one from will
Speaker 1: Never Again. I love that one, but it's actually that's yours.
Speaker 1: That's that's a good choice. Number mine is from because
Speaker 1: I memorized this and I used it. I've never told
Speaker 1: this to anybody before. I memorized I memorize this one,
Speaker 1: and I used it as an audition monologue for my junior. Ye, no,
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't. I don't remember it anymore. But
Speaker 1: it's the one where the chief is questioning all the
Speaker 1: interns about who cut the al bad wire when it
Speaker 1: gets she goes and as he goes, I'm a pretty girl.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. She But we love crazy, We loved it.
Speaker 1: But but Christina, Christina's was well how did it? How
Speaker 1: did it start? It's just like, how do you do it? Sir?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you're because I see you and you're like
Speaker 1: like that one and then like she's And then that
Speaker 1: was the first I think single tear drop where her
Speaker 1: face stays still but the tear just falls. Unbelievable, unbelievable.
Speaker 1: And now I'm realizing that, like all my favorites are
Speaker 1: not actually monologues, but they're sort of moments like I
Speaker 1: got his off head wire. I didn't. I didn't know
Speaker 1: what to help Matt. I thought I was a surgeon,
Speaker 1: but I can't. I can't. I thought I was. I'm not.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a pretty incredible one. That's a very
Speaker 1: good one. I like the one where um Sandra has
Speaker 1: to get out of her wedding dress. Were you guys
Speaker 1: watching that? Oh? We are, trust me. But Grey's Anatomy
Speaker 1: is huge for Bowen and I. We used to do
Speaker 1: we used to have a two man improv group called
Speaker 1: Gray's Anatomy Drag where which which we did I think
Speaker 1: three times because it was so bad and it was
Speaker 1: it was terrible. We would get no laughs. There was
Speaker 1: a show that we did at the Duplex where it
Speaker 1: was a gay show for all people, and it was
Speaker 1: we were awful and we got no less. But we
Speaker 1: were full scrubs and I was Diusy and Bowen was
Speaker 1: Christina Young and we would just get a suggestion and
Speaker 1: we would do a scene that took place at Seattle
Speaker 1: Grace and it was horrible. It was horrible, terrible, but
Speaker 1: we did do it. The biggest boons in my life. No, no, no, Amber.
Speaker 1: It was such a true bomb in every sense anyway. Um,
Speaker 1: but no, this is what I'm saying. Grace is coming back,
Speaker 1: and I feel like people like Amber have some high
Speaker 1: ground to be like I've been staying with it the
Speaker 1: whole time, but I think everyone is like, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: Grays has been such a constant throughout the years, and
Speaker 1: wouldn't it be so comforting to watch something like Grays?
Speaker 1: And I kind of feel that same way. It feels
Speaker 1: freaking great. And because everyone fell off, you can now
Speaker 1: pick up way a million years ago and it's uh,
Speaker 1: it's quarantine. You have anything to do, sit down and
Speaker 1: watch a bunch of Grays. It feels great. You're talking
Speaker 1: to someone who watched thirty seasons of Survivor in the
Speaker 1: first month of the quarantine three dash zero. So yeah,
Speaker 1: there's nothing. There's not There's not much stopping me from
Speaker 1: plunking it down and watching all that. But wait, so
Speaker 1: what's your sort of read on what's happening now, which
Speaker 1: is like, there's a return of mc dreamy, Uh, Meredith
Speaker 1: is seeing him. I guess in like a COVID state,
Speaker 1: what's happening? When you say it out loud, it sounds crazy,
Speaker 1: but that is what's happening. How can you stand to
Speaker 1: know what's happening without watching it? How are you going
Speaker 1: to watch it now that you know that I can? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, just because there's there's so many characters
Speaker 1: now that I'm like, who who is that? Like? And honestly,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, I am kind of a purist
Speaker 1: and like I don't know this is the word, like
Speaker 1: an originalist. Like and when they started, when they started, okay,
Speaker 1: what is that Leah? Nothing? Shut up? I hate you anyway?
Speaker 1: Um so, so he doesn't hate I know, I love
Speaker 1: him more than life. I just don't like being compared
Speaker 1: to Scalia another trigger word. Um but anyway, um uh wait. Now,
Speaker 1: when they started to get rid of the original five,
Speaker 1: like when they killed George and Izzy like was literally
Speaker 1: dying of cancer and almost died, and then they ended
Speaker 1: up firing her, I was like, see, I feel my
Speaker 1: chain has been jerked too hard. And I was already
Speaker 1: in a certain way with the show. And then they
Speaker 1: killed um miss Kyler, Lee, Lexi and um mixed team
Speaker 1: at the same time, and all of a sudden that
Speaker 1: I just felt like everyone was falling off in ways
Speaker 1: I no longer believed, and I feel that the sort
Speaker 1: of drama with a soap edge that it was in
Speaker 1: the first few seasons became a full blown soap. And
Speaker 1: ordinarily I love that ship, but with this I was like,
Speaker 1: I missed, I miss my my people, like I didn't
Speaker 1: really wanted to turn into the er that it would
Speaker 1: just go on and on and on and on and on,
Speaker 1: and then it did. And so now I don't know
Speaker 1: who any of these young girls are on the show.
Speaker 1: Each of them is more special than the last, really perfect. Yes,
Speaker 1: I love them and you'll love them too. They're flawed.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. I want to ruin it, but I
Speaker 1: can't have to. You can you can? You can? You can?
Speaker 1: I don't want to ruin it for you. Youwear to you.
Speaker 1: We're not going back, but and that's okay, and that's okay. No,
Speaker 1: I I'm considering it. But I still want Amber to
Speaker 1: tell us but he doesn't care. I don't want you to.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know what. I don't care what. Okay,
Speaker 1: dear reader, plug your that When um uh, Derek's sister,
Speaker 1: who was one of the newer women, is this old
Speaker 1: this might be old Shepherd? When Amelia Shepherd had the baby.
Speaker 1: Do you remember that Amelia Shepherd had a baby and
Speaker 1: the baby Amelia Shepherd is a brain surgeon, and her
Speaker 1: baby had no brain. She had to go donate his body,
Speaker 1: so she got to hold him for like ten minutes,
Speaker 1: and the baby went like this, Oh he was he
Speaker 1: was he was alive. He just he was alive with
Speaker 1: no brain. He was like so essentially it was just
Speaker 1: like a body with like blood coursing through its veins,
Speaker 1: but it had no brain. And so I guess it
Speaker 1: would have been out of the question for any of
Speaker 1: the medical professionals in the year I'm gonna guess two
Speaker 1: thousand fifteen that this happened to sort of know beforehand
Speaker 1: that maybe he was not going to have a brain.
Speaker 1: I just I just feel like someone has to ask
Speaker 1: the hard questions. But I don't know if they bumped
Speaker 1: on that in the writer's room, like then who am I?
Speaker 1: But I mean to look at the baby, because it
Speaker 1: wasn't like he had an empty head. It was like
Speaker 1: where the brain should be, there was nothing. There was nothing.
Speaker 1: So maybe they could have known this. So she probably
Speaker 1: felt like, well, we're not going to do the typical
Speaker 1: brain check. We do on any old baby, because I'm
Speaker 1: a brain surgeon. Of course my baby's gonna have a brain.
Speaker 1: Think of the big, beautiful one that I have. So
Speaker 1: this actually makes a lot of interesting sense, and that's
Speaker 1: actually pathos. That's what you want out. There was a
Speaker 1: there was a so get this. In college when I
Speaker 1: was studying writing, we had to take a I was
Speaker 1: a didn't want you doing a dramatic writing and I
Speaker 1: was a television concentrate, so we had to do like
Speaker 1: a spec script in one hour drama, and I wrote
Speaker 1: a one and my class was insane because they were like,
Speaker 1: I'm doing a Breaking Bad like these twenty year olds,
Speaker 1: like I'm doing mad Men. I'm doing Breaking Bad like
Speaker 1: all like shows. No one any business writing. And I
Speaker 1: was like, bitch, I'm doing a grays anatomy and a
Speaker 1: lion gets loose in Seattle Grace, and that's my episode.
Speaker 1: I'm writing a Sweeps episode where a lion eats let's say, Kepner,
Speaker 1: And that's going to be something I want to see
Speaker 1: because if it's just about the form, then we let's
Speaker 1: get goofy. That is that is the forum. Did you
Speaker 1: get a plus? I got an A plus plus plus
Speaker 1: plus and and a job said he's a genius and
Speaker 1: they put me in Hollywood. No, but it's just so
Speaker 1: it's so funny what goes down, and I can't believe
Speaker 1: she's having COVID flashes of McK dreamy. That's so fun
Speaker 1: it was real. Like I sat down and be like, yay,
Speaker 1: Gray's Anatomy and escape. I was like, oh, I don't
Speaker 1: like this. I need this to be separate. Here's what
Speaker 1: I think. I think that whenever Gray's is going to end,
Speaker 1: if it is this season, we need to know. We
Speaker 1: need to know in advanced because I would like to
Speaker 1: have an amy push for Ellen Pompeo for the last
Speaker 1: season because m Ellen does underrated work as Meredith Gray.
Speaker 1: And I've said it since the beginning. She makes it
Speaker 1: look super easy and she always has and she's so talented.
Speaker 1: She's such a good center of that show. And she
Speaker 1: said she's pretty much on the record saying she's never
Speaker 1: acting after this. She's going to just do more behind
Speaker 1: the camera stuff. And so then give a career I
Speaker 1: mean nominator, because let's let's let's see her off because
Speaker 1: she has she makes that show and it's it's easy
Speaker 1: to say, like you know, the best part of Sandra
Speaker 1: or you know, the highlight of the show was like
Speaker 1: the busy of it all, like the elved wire, those
Speaker 1: iconic moments. Meredith has always been the glue. And it's like,
Speaker 1: basically say that because she is Gray of Grey's Anatomy.
Speaker 1: But she she gets paid dust Ellen Pompeo. She really does,
Speaker 1: and she she doesn't literally not literally she gets paid millions.
Speaker 1: No, no no, no, she gets When I say she gets
Speaker 1: paid dust, I just mean like she does not get them.
Speaker 1: She doesn't. She needs her flowers. She needs her flowers. Um.
Speaker 1: The fact that Grace is still in the conversation as
Speaker 1: a network drama like in the year is remarkable, and
Speaker 1: we love that and we celebrate that, and we celebrate
Speaker 1: the Ember Ruffin show. Truly wonderful. I think it's time
Speaker 1: to move on too. I don't think so. I think
Speaker 1: it actually is time to sort of, as they say,
Speaker 1: move on, and I'm putting move on in quotes is
Speaker 1: just sort of, you know, colloquialism for to continue. UM,
Speaker 1: so start going to sort of move on to the
Speaker 1: last section of the episode of Last Culture Reasons that
Speaker 1: we're currently recording with Amber Ruffin which um has a title.
Speaker 1: I believe we said, um, I don't give a rip
Speaker 1: and give a rep. Yeah, um, And that's I don't
Speaker 1: think so, honey. So I don't thinking is our one
Speaker 1: minute segment sixty second Segmentum is another way you can
Speaker 1: say that, And it's where we take something in culture
Speaker 1: and we absolutely rant, rave, harass the topic because it
Speaker 1: deserves it. It really deserves it in many ways. And
Speaker 1: I don't think the money is in opposite of and
Speaker 1: I don't give a rip because I don't give rip.
Speaker 1: You're indifferent, but I don't think the honey, you are
Speaker 1: impassionately against something. Oh, you care very much. You care
Speaker 1: very much, care very much. So I usually traditionally go first,
Speaker 1: but I want to say one thing before I go,
Speaker 1: which is it was almost I don't think so, honey,
Speaker 1: and it's it's ultimately not. But I do want to
Speaker 1: have said this. Yea, if you are not going home
Speaker 1: for Thanksgiving and Christmas, be nice to your parents on
Speaker 1: the phone. Don't be giving them the attitude you might
Speaker 1: historically be giving them, are classically be giving them on
Speaker 1: the phone because they're without their children this holiday season.
Speaker 1: And so if you're usually the kind of person who
Speaker 1: was like my mom calling be fucking nice because your
Speaker 1: mom does not have their child this holiday season, and
Speaker 1: this is not my I don't think so, honey, but
Speaker 1: it nearly was. I have a much more important one.
Speaker 1: But I just want to say that because I heard
Speaker 1: someone on the phone in passing the other day and
Speaker 1: I was like, how dare this person speak this way
Speaker 1: to their to their parents who's gonna be missing them
Speaker 1: as holiday and they're going to be thinking about a
Speaker 1: lot more than you because your parents love you anyway.
Speaker 1: So I just wanted to get that out there. It's true,
Speaker 1: it's true. Okay, Well, this is Matt Rodgers. I don't
Speaker 1: think so, honey, and I just want to hold on.
Speaker 1: Before we start, I have to really sincerely apologize. I
Speaker 1: said the word impassionately earlier. I don't think that's the word.
Speaker 1: I think we forget it. I think we forget about it.
Speaker 1: But I just wanted to before we forget about it.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to apologize for it. Okay, Okay, all right, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is Matt Rodgers. I don't think so, honey. It's
Speaker 1: time starts now. I don't think so, honey. You're saying
Speaker 1: you want to fuck Steve CORNACKI. Let me tell you something, bitch.
Speaker 1: You don't it's okay. You don't want to fuck Steve CORNACKI.
Speaker 1: You like Steve CORNACKI, you maybe even love Steve CORNACKI.
Speaker 1: You appreciate Steve CORNACKI, you think he's wonderful at his job.
Speaker 1: You want to fuck Steve CORNACKI, I don't think so, honey.
Speaker 1: If you do want to suck Steve CORNACKI, that's that's
Speaker 1: your business. I'm talking about the royal audience here, all
Speaker 1: of us saying we all want to suck Steve CORNICKI.
Speaker 1: Leave that man alone, sexually objectifying him. He came in
Speaker 1: here in his cornaki khakis and did his thing on
Speaker 1: that board, and he didn't deserve to be objectified by
Speaker 1: all of y'all. He's so tired, he doesn't have the time, energy,
Speaker 1: space moment to deal with you and your bullshit. And
Speaker 1: you're tweeting about how you want to fuck this man.
Speaker 1: Leave him alone, let him do his thing, and actually
Speaker 1: let him rest. I don't think so, honey. And that's
Speaker 1: one minute. You don't want to fuck Steve CORNACKI, And
Speaker 1: you're not impressing by anyone by saying you want you
Speaker 1: think it's impressed people to be like, I'm secretly sabio sexual.
Speaker 1: It's this sort of trademark Bowen Yang sensationalism. People sort
Speaker 1: of want to get online and stir the pot, so
Speaker 1: they say nasty things about Doja cat to sort of
Speaker 1: get the sort of you know, fire happening around them
Speaker 1: and then say what me. But guess what, honey, it's
Speaker 1: not fine with me on this one on tonight, as
Speaker 1: they say not on tonight, it is not gonna work
Speaker 1: with me. You're saying you want to fuck Steve CORNACKI
Speaker 1: because guess what gays I say, who you follow on Instagram?
Speaker 1: And it's not Steve CORNACKI types okay, it's the same
Speaker 1: white Instaga with a shirt off being like might make
Speaker 1: bread tonight. It's not Steve CORNACKI man certainly with a doctorate,
Speaker 1: and if he doesn't, he has doctor energy and he
Speaker 1: doesn't need to be part of your fucking mess. So
Speaker 1: you take it somewhere else. Has ended up being a
Speaker 1: two minute I don't think so, honey, because I see
Speaker 1: this Steve CORNACKI first ongoing leave him alone. He's almost
Speaker 1: certainly as children or he has the energy of having children,
Speaker 1: and he they don't want to hear about how you
Speaker 1: want to suck their father who simply wants to point
Speaker 1: to award and say the word Philadelphia and then some
Speaker 1: facts about it. So leave him the goddamn alone. I'm through. Look,
Speaker 1: we should all be grateful that we know the nuances
Speaker 1: in the population of Maricopa County because of that man.
Speaker 1: And that's different than wanting to get carnal with them.
Speaker 1: Is so different, and it's actually culture number different, it's
Speaker 1: a real culture number. Knowing all about about Maricopa, Ricopa
Speaker 1: County is different, different, so differ. So fuck fuck corn
Speaker 1: corn act, thank you, thank you, And so now it
Speaker 1: would be time, I guess for really bow and yangs
Speaker 1: I don't think so, honey, And we both sort of,
Speaker 1: you know, got a little saucy before our respective ones.
Speaker 1: And but this is the main event. Okay, So are
Speaker 1: you ready? Bow I think so bo schemo, bochemo. I'm
Speaker 1: ready because somebody people think that Bowen sort of lives
Speaker 1: like this like extravagant lifestyle, being a huge celebrity. Basically
Speaker 1: just alright, and yeah, you're time, this is your I
Speaker 1: don't think your times now, I don't think so, honey?
Speaker 1: Why is everyone sleeping on Kim's Convenience? Okay, it is
Speaker 1: one of the most binge able shows that's out there,
Speaker 1: especially especially in Quarantina. It's so wonderful, such a wholesome
Speaker 1: family comedy, but that also has jokes, and for some
Speaker 1: reason lately that hasn't been that's been like a rarity.
Speaker 1: It feels like it makes me feel like I'm watching
Speaker 1: like old of like family matters, but it's like, oh
Speaker 1: but wait, the cameras are nice and and it's all
Speaker 1: happening in different sets and and all this stuff. Why
Speaker 1: the reason why we're not all losing our minds over
Speaker 1: Kim's Convenience the way we do for other family sitcoms.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say is say that there's some there's some
Speaker 1: obvious reasons, and we'll leave it at that, but everyone
Speaker 1: get on board, like I'm so late to the damn party,
Speaker 1: like four years later, four seasons later, but look, I
Speaker 1: am loving it now and you should too, and you
Speaker 1: will too. And that's one minute. So basically the thesis
Speaker 1: of Bowen's I Don't Think So Honey is I just
Speaker 1: discovered the show, but it's bad, but you haven't get
Speaker 1: discovered the show, so I have to say, um, I
Speaker 1: I kind of this is so characteristic of Bowen Yanks.
Speaker 1: I don't think so honey this He'll go fifty seconds
Speaker 1: and be crushing and then the last time he'll say,
Speaker 1: but also it's okay, it's all right, and I love you,
Speaker 1: and he sort of and then he says, I'm actually
Speaker 1: the problem, and then it ends he's too sweet. That's
Speaker 1: my style. It's not that I'm sweet, Okay. I have
Speaker 1: to say, honestly, I do blame the mainstream media about this,
Speaker 1: but I didn't know what Kim's convenience was until very recently.
Speaker 1: And where where can I watch it? And where can
Speaker 1: the readers watch it? Bow and tell them all instead
Speaker 1: of just yelling. Season five is about to come out.
Speaker 1: All the first four seasons are all in Netflix. Five. Yes,
Speaker 1: but okay, thirteen episodes of season twenty minutes, twenty minute episodes,
Speaker 1: so nice to watch. I'm not saying five like that's
Speaker 1: too much. I'm saying five, like why is it? Why
Speaker 1: aren't more people talking about It's obviously a successful sitcom
Speaker 1: and I've never even and then I did not just
Speaker 1: discover it. I just like gave it a rest, and
Speaker 1: like I was watching it like years ago, and I
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, this is something that we have to
Speaker 1: like just like put off for later. But then like, damn,
Speaker 1: we're in second lockdown. So I'm just like, okay, let
Speaker 1: me find a show to walk and it's it's hitting
Speaker 1: the spot, so good. Love that. Love that? Okay, I
Speaker 1: think it's time for Amber Ruffan. I love that's time
Speaker 1: for Amber. I don't think so, honey. What did you
Speaker 1: not think you how to do one? I didn't think
Speaker 1: you are crazy? Okay, great, um, okay, listen, no, that's unacceptable.
Speaker 1: We are going to give you the moment you need
Speaker 1: to think of one. I know you've got a head
Speaker 1: full of I don't think so, honey. She's a mass
Speaker 1: your improviser and writer. No matter what gear she ends
Speaker 1: up being in, she will succeed. So we got just
Speaker 1: getting I mean, it's getting on your damn nerves right now,
Speaker 1: anything at all, anything, anything, okay, anything, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: let Matt call the time and then don't don't tell
Speaker 1: us what it is until until we say it starts. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: only one thing is getting on my nerves now, Alright, alright, good.
Speaker 1: I want to know. It's not a good one. But
Speaker 1: these are my feelings, all right. We want your feelings,
Speaker 1: you want, you want? This is ef I don't think so, honey,
Speaker 1: and her time starts now. I realized this is un orthodox.
Speaker 1: But we've been in quarantine for months and months now,
Speaker 1: and I have to live in this house with all
Speaker 1: this fucking ship. I don't know, honey, everything of my
Speaker 1: goddamn ship like I want a kid anymore. I have
Speaker 1: like a real job and ship, but I do not
Speaker 1: have the time to be taking care of myself like
Speaker 1: an adult. Everything in here is hot garbage. And yes,
Speaker 1: maybe it's because I've been looking at it for eight
Speaker 1: months straight, or maybe maybe it's maybe I'm a hundred
Speaker 1: percent right, because maybe my couch is being held up
Speaker 1: by a can of beans because everything in my house
Speaker 1: is fucking broken piece of ship. Look at Oh no,
Speaker 1: it's a can of a couch, because everything in this
Speaker 1: house a piece of ship. And that's one minute. Oh
Speaker 1: my god. Wait, I want to let the readers know
Speaker 1: there's a serious, real can of beans holding up that couch. Girl.
Speaker 1: But Adam Savage of MythBusters made that can of beans
Speaker 1: for you. That's true. But I think that's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: Now though, because the couch has some personality, it also
Speaker 1: has like a lot of danger and several ways. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, wait, do you feel this way about my apartment?
Speaker 1: Doesn't everyone? Right now? I hated in here. I have
Speaker 1: to tell you. I I just ordered a bookcase. And
Speaker 1: here's the thing. You never think I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: put this together in any substantial way. They make you
Speaker 1: put all this ship together. And that's with what chaps
Speaker 1: my ass is like the the manual labor I have
Speaker 1: to do to make things. But see, that's the thing,
Speaker 1: and that's that's why ordinarily I would say to you,
Speaker 1: just order some new stuff, but then you gotta put
Speaker 1: it together. And well, so what do you do with
Speaker 1: the things you already have? Ambert? Did you reward yourself
Speaker 1: with like, oh my god, I have my own show gifts?
Speaker 1: You get yourself nothing? I mean, my god, I think
Speaker 1: I respect that. I respect the hell out of you,
Speaker 1: even more than because I'm someone who just rewards myself
Speaker 1: with bullshit all the time. And then and then at
Speaker 1: one point in the summer, I had a damn TV
Speaker 1: up in my room. I have a TV my room
Speaker 1: and I have a gun ball machine. You guys are
Speaker 1: doing it right, But you need that, you need you
Speaker 1: need a thing. Look, I don't like stuff. Not I
Speaker 1: can't be having just stuff sitting in the house. I
Speaker 1: don't like it. It's not it's not about stuff. It's
Speaker 1: about making a nice experience. Like I don't mean for
Speaker 1: this to be like a want, like a cure all
Speaker 1: for everybody. But would you consider having a TV in
Speaker 1: your bedroom? Do you have one? Already? There's a TV
Speaker 1: in there. I don't watch it. I feel like that
Speaker 1: it's fixed all my problems. See, you gotta watch the thing.
Speaker 1: That's the thing to get washed. The living room one
Speaker 1: gets watched. I can't because I gotta sleep when it's
Speaker 1: time to sleep. That's right around enough. Already I'm not
Speaker 1: doing I'm not making good choices. So I can't start
Speaker 1: the habit of watching TV before bed, because then I'll
Speaker 1: go to bed even later than I do. I need
Speaker 1: an adult. Yeah, there's just so much. There's so much
Speaker 1: content to watch too. I mean, we talked about the undoing,
Speaker 1: and we we discussed Potomac in the beginning, and there's
Speaker 1: just and of course there's the amber Ruffin Show. And
Speaker 1: what might have what might happen is if you put
Speaker 1: a TV up in your bedroom, you could be watching
Speaker 1: the Amber Ruffin Show. You don't even get any sleep,
Speaker 1: and and and and then then you're just like, what
Speaker 1: have I done? But the thing is you did something
Speaker 1: good because the Amber Ruffin Show is the best late
Speaker 1: night show out it's the best late night show out there.
Speaker 1: And how many more episodes we have this this this
Speaker 1: limited season? This season there are two more episodes, so
Speaker 1: that means that means you readers, and then and then
Speaker 1: we'll hear we'll hear about more potentially then maybe we'll
Speaker 1: get renewed. We hope, so, we hope, so I will
Speaker 1: be so I will burn down. And you said, you
Speaker 1: said to wait, but this is what I'm waiting for.
Speaker 1: If I don't, if I don't get the result that
Speaker 1: I want out of the Ember uff and renewal for
Speaker 1: season two, I will burn it down. I will. Okay,
Speaker 1: did you tape No, you haven't taped him yet. Obviously
Speaker 1: we're going we're off this week, we're off next week
Speaker 1: and then we're back to work. Wow. Wow, pretty cool
Speaker 1: for some Christmas episodes. I suppose I know what am
Speaker 1: I going to do? What am I going to do?
Speaker 1: I love? Can I give you? Can I give you
Speaker 1: a pitch? Yeah? Wrap herself up like a gift, burst
Speaker 1: out of it. That would be funny. That's a good skit.
Speaker 1: That's my dad's would say, you're right, what's your what's
Speaker 1: your pitch? Bowing for the pitch for the Ember Ruff
Speaker 1: and show, she's been doing a lot of um some
Speaker 1: segments for She and Terek are sort of at odds
Speaker 1: with each other. I think maybe, and I know you're married.
Speaker 1: I don't know what terrik situation is, but maybe you
Speaker 1: two sort of reconcile by having full on penetrative sex
Speaker 1: with each other. I think you should be that's her friend.
Speaker 1: That's her friend. You're her stick bone. You're very sick,
Speaker 1: You're you're very sick disposition. It's really off putting. You
Speaker 1: are shaming me. He did, He said that, he really
Speaker 1: really went there. I was gonna say past that. And
Speaker 1: I think you guys should just do a divorce storyline.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, if you watch The Crown, The
Speaker 1: Crown has a divorce storyline and everyone's really talking about it,
Speaker 1: the Charles and Diana of it all, and I think
Speaker 1: that that could be really fun for you guys. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's not a crazy idea. Is to give ourselves a
Speaker 1: big fat history would be fun. He also have brilliant
Speaker 1: writers such as Jenny Higgel, Shinta Jackson, Dwayne Perkins, and Demiodwibe,
Speaker 1: who could probably write circles around, just write circles around.
Speaker 1: Are dumb asses? Well, we sort of sit here and
Speaker 1: have a podcast. Hey, don't you snore at my friends?
Speaker 1: My maiden are my friends. They do a good job.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you literally so much. Literally, um, it's
Speaker 1: been so fun to have you. When you said you
Speaker 1: when we we emailed and we were like, yeah, probably busy,
Speaker 1: and then you said you would come on and we
Speaker 1: said we we squealed. It's nice to hang out with
Speaker 1: people on their podcasts because to get to hang out
Speaker 1: with people now, oh my god, get to do a
Speaker 1: podcast now, or else you're not going to see any
Speaker 1: of your little friends. Well someday in the future. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: someday in the future. Lights at the end of the tunnel.
Speaker 1: The cavalry is coming, sweet and you've got three options
Speaker 1: so far. Hey, Matt, I want to ask you a question.
Speaker 1: What's Amber Ruffin's hometown, her hometown. Did you say it?
Speaker 1: She said it? Did you say I did? I didn't
Speaker 1: know that. Oh my god, wow, you just like sort
Speaker 1: of really can't. But everyone, I weren't on a date.
Speaker 1: We weren't on a date. I don't think penetrative. I'm
Speaker 1: so sorry, Amber, please accept my holiday. That was vulgar.
Speaker 1: I like it. You're so vulgar. And I think that Bowen,
Speaker 1: we should sing a sort of Well, the thing is,
Speaker 1: we do end every episode with a song, and Bowen,
Speaker 1: I think we should sing a sexy song to end
Speaker 1: this episode because it's been so charged. Um what sort
Speaker 1: of sexy? You know? Songs you want to sing? Doverything?
Speaker 1: Tempo was down on straight to the chorus. If he
Speaker 1: just the sole version, will you not hit me? Ch
Speaker 1: Why don't know the words? That's a good one. H
Speaker 1: It was a chart topper before we get to top
Speaker 1: the charts. Show me a coming. It's bursting in on
Speaker 1: to lie. Okay, you want to hear more of that
Speaker 1: song until she's anatomy. Bye bye,