Speaker 1: Look may oh, I see you my own and look
Speaker 1: over there is that culture. Yes, goodness, wow, lost culture
Speaker 1: ding Dong lost culturistas calling just us today in person
Speaker 1: tactile hotile. I mean, at this point, it's getting rare
Speaker 1: and rare for Mount Rogers to be in New York City.
Speaker 1: He's playing sort of, you know, aloof with us. I'm
Speaker 1: playing both sides as it were. No, it's just that
Speaker 1: I'm gett It's it takes so long to have an
Speaker 1: apartment be ready. This is one of the realities of
Speaker 1: of just having a place that you want to furnish
Speaker 1: in your own way, because this is going to be
Speaker 1: your home. Yeah, I mean that's the plan. Is like hopefully,
Speaker 1: like September October comes around and I'll have like a
Speaker 1: gorgeous little fall life that low key is not as
Speaker 1: busy and stressful as our lives have been because we've
Speaker 1: been stretched them. Can I tell you today is technically
Speaker 1: and I guess not even technically anymore. Was like my
Speaker 1: first day off in a long time, I know, and
Speaker 1: it feels great because you just got back from China.
Speaker 1: So I left for China the day after we taped
Speaker 1: Culture Award, which is crazy and we'll get to the
Speaker 1: cultural awards because there's so much to say in preparations
Speaker 1: work coming out on Bravo on the fifth and streaming
Speaker 1: the next day, Yes on Peacock on the six. Much
Speaker 1: to say, But why don't tell everybody about your trip?
Speaker 1: The headline is it was so fun and it had
Speaker 1: been almost a decade since I was back. I used
Speaker 1: to go all the time as a kid. We would
Speaker 1: go basically every other year in the summer, and I
Speaker 1: would spend like six weeks there. And that was back
Speaker 1: when like time was just a little bit more available
Speaker 1: to everybody, like in the family. And you know, now
Speaker 1: everyone's grown up, and you know, Yang has a family.
Speaker 1: I have my working life, which is, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of packed the gills, and I'm very fortunate about that.
Speaker 1: But I'm also realizing, like, oh wow, like most of
Speaker 1: my summer, I mean, we're already in August, and like
Speaker 1: most of our summer was all being put into one thing,
Speaker 1: which I have no regrets about, but I am like, oh,
Speaker 1: like that's where it all went. It was like a
Speaker 1: bigger I mean, obviously because it was a bigger version
Speaker 1: of the way we've done it. It was a much
Speaker 1: bigger endeavor because you know, peek behind the curtain. We
Speaker 1: kind of just look at the Cultural Awards when we
Speaker 1: do it live like a couple weeks before, and we
Speaker 1: just reach out to friends who are available in are
Speaker 1: sourcing videos. But this I don't know if you guys
Speaker 1: have seen like the content online about who was at
Speaker 1: the awards, But this was a much, much, much different
Speaker 1: story in terms of production than getting it together. And
Speaker 1: luckily we did absolutely crush and we ate tor and more.
Speaker 1: But again, getting to that in a second, like more
Speaker 1: highlights from the trip, Like like I feel like you
Speaker 1: posted some of the most beautiful photos I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, a girl, Well that's my RICO g
Speaker 1: R three X, shout out the camera. That's the camera. Yeah,
Speaker 1: really good that anyone can use? Oh yeah, are you
Speaker 1: telling the readers? I'm oh, but what do you mean
Speaker 1: that anyone can use? Like anyone can borrow your camera
Speaker 1: or the ease of use, and the ease of use
Speaker 1: is what I'm saying, idiot proof it's idiot. If I
Speaker 1: can take a pretty picture with it, then you can,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, I know it
Speaker 1: was so beautiful and we there's this ritual in in
Speaker 1: Chinese culture of uh sweeping the tomb quote unquote, it's yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's you go and you basically like clean and
Speaker 1: you maintain like the burial side or the grave or
Speaker 1: you know whatever. And so my grandparents are buried all
Speaker 1: the way out in the like ancestral burial grounds of
Speaker 1: like the Yang family. Wow. And this this is like
Speaker 1: generations of farmers and people whose worlds are both expansive
Speaker 1: and that they literally live in like the famed grassy
Speaker 1: fields of Inner Mongolia, like they are like the pride
Speaker 1: of China. Like these are truly like cinematic panoramic windows
Speaker 1: XP coated like green saber vibes, like they're gorgeous. And yeah,
Speaker 1: like multiple many generations of young families. There's like a
Speaker 1: lot of bodies. Be there a plot for you, There
Speaker 1: is not really a plot for me. And I think, well,
Speaker 1: that may have lost the plot. Very my girl somewhere green. Yes,
Speaker 1: I want bury my girl at screensaver, yeah, atmospheres, bury
Speaker 1: my heart at wounded me now now, But no, I
Speaker 1: think my dad, so my dad, my parents are both
Speaker 1: like I think, we think we want to we'll be
Speaker 1: cremated and we'll be like buried in the States, or
Speaker 1: like we'll spread their otches somewhere when you know, if that,
Speaker 1: if it comes to that, oh wow, so you're gonna
Speaker 1: you're gonna be spreading girl? Are we are? We at
Speaker 1: the age now where we have to like write our
Speaker 1: wills out. I thought about it. I thought about it.
Speaker 1: I've definitely thought of it on this strip and I
Speaker 1: turned my mom. I was like, my parents have their
Speaker 1: roles done, and like I remember a few years ago,
Speaker 1: like Yang and I had to sort of like look
Speaker 1: at the wills. Yeah, I think I remember you told
Speaker 1: me this and it was it was just it was
Speaker 1: a totally normal thing. It was just like, shit, this
Speaker 1: is like a thing that I mean, I'm lucky that
Speaker 1: I haven't had to like my thing is like I
Speaker 1: haven't dealt with a huge, profound grief in my life. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think about this a lot, and when the time comes,
Speaker 1: like I really don't know how transfer it will be transformative,
Speaker 1: no doubt. I am kind of like what am I
Speaker 1: gonna be? I think about this. I mean that's one
Speaker 1: of the reasons I don't get a dog. Oh honestly,
Speaker 1: like we have to talk about the dogs. Okay, we'll
Speaker 1: talk about the dogs, because this has become a real narrative,
Speaker 1: and it is if you want I both got not
Speaker 1: to skip a habit. If you're not af you and
Speaker 1: I both got dogs. I don't think I think you
Speaker 1: are ready for it and set up for it in
Speaker 1: a way that I am not. But you're about you're
Speaker 1: you're on ear in the process of getting set up
Speaker 1: for it. I'm in the process of getting set up
Speaker 1: as a home for myself. I don't know. So this
Speaker 1: is honestly my issue, and it's has to do with
Speaker 1: the thing about you just said about grief too. Is
Speaker 1: it's like I think all the time about how and
Speaker 1: I hate even putting this energy out there, but I
Speaker 1: have thought about my will recently. I don't know I
Speaker 1: was one who brought it up, but yeah, god, yeah,
Speaker 1: but like I was thinking about it as recently as yesterday.
Speaker 1: So it's funny that you say that. And I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's having to do with, you know, just
Speaker 1: getting older, or just to be transparent, having more money
Speaker 1: now that I would want to go to my sister,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I also don't know, and
Speaker 1: I don't deny that it has something to do with
Speaker 1: the fact that like shit is dark, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Like yesterday we were taping Colbert and there
Speaker 1: was a shooting right around the corner, and and you know,
Speaker 1: like to say nothing of like the rest of the
Speaker 1: state of the world, which you know, let's leave that
Speaker 1: there for now. But regardless, like I get so overwhelmed
Speaker 1: by things that have nothing comparable in terms of stakes
Speaker 1: with death and real things like if I got a dog,
Speaker 1: I genuinely feel like if it coughs weird, if it's sick,
Speaker 1: if I'm going to lose my shit, Like I think
Speaker 1: it's why I can't have children. It's not because it's
Speaker 1: a selfish decision. I simply think like I might care
Speaker 1: too much. And that sounds like a backhanded compliment. It's
Speaker 1: I promise you it's not. I think it's pathetic of me.
Speaker 1: But like I mean, like even just like just I'm
Speaker 1: having like a journey this year, and I think last
Speaker 1: year too, just like really examining my anxiety and how
Speaker 1: to control it can get and you know, I don't
Speaker 1: think I'm equipped emotionally to care for something at this
Speaker 1: time that much. Like That's really where I'm at. Like
Speaker 1: when you talk about like not being able to handle
Speaker 1: a grief like I wouldn't be able to handle it
Speaker 1: at all. I have a deep fear of what happens
Speaker 1: when that happens. Is your anxiety a fixed point to you? Like,
Speaker 1: do you feel like you can to be honest with you?
Speaker 1: You know, it's like a lot of times like these
Speaker 1: things are also superpowers for you, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's like I feel like my anxiety like it's been
Speaker 1: something that makes me over prepared. I think it makes
Speaker 1: me something that jumps into action. I think it makes
Speaker 1: me something that's very makes me somebody who's very generative
Speaker 1: in terms of ideas and you know, very equipped for
Speaker 1: what we do, you know what I mean, in terms
Speaker 1: of being entertainers and doing what we do. But I
Speaker 1: will say, like there is a there is another side
Speaker 1: to it, like a darker side to it that really
Speaker 1: comes at my expense. And I'm gonna start engaging with
Speaker 1: my psychiatrist again about potentially figuring something out because I've really,
Speaker 1: you know, just transparently, like I'm so proud of what
Speaker 1: we did with the Cultural Awards, so proud, but it
Speaker 1: took me a second to calm down, like during the process,
Speaker 1: like I was very like and we had an amazing
Speaker 1: team helping us, as you know, like and you're gonna
Speaker 1: see the results, but like I was nervous, well, you
Speaker 1: were nervous within the boundary of yourself. You were like,
Speaker 1: am I gonna be able to deliver on all of
Speaker 1: these ideas? And we spent like, you know, the last
Speaker 1: six weeks or so just like coming up with because
Speaker 1: you know, it was also very disorienting thing for me
Speaker 1: where I was not used to I'm used to just
Speaker 1: like shedding the skin of an idea, bringing an idea
Speaker 1: to conception within a week, and then just like letting
Speaker 1: it go right like I've had so many reps of that,
Speaker 1: and I realized that, like I was very specially equipped
Speaker 1: for that process in terms of scaling it up for
Speaker 1: the Culture Awards, and I feel like, but I still
Speaker 1: feel like I was kind of out of my depth
Speaker 1: by the end. I was like, oh, this is a lot.
Speaker 1: It was a lot on you and I both have
Speaker 1: very different responses to that kind of overwhelm and so sorry,
Speaker 1: and this just just just tot's keep talking about your response.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, I just mean like I have an
Speaker 1: anxious response to stress and it was just you know,
Speaker 1: you know what honestly it was, and you guys are
Speaker 1: going to see this in the show, so there is
Speaker 1: we do a big opening, yes, and does it still
Speaker 1: read as big because I have not seen the on
Speaker 1: it Still it's real. It is really good, and I
Speaker 1: have to say, like we will talk more specifically about
Speaker 1: what this is. And I understand we're dangling a carrot,
Speaker 1: but that is also fine because I I and also Bowen,
Speaker 1: I'm sure we really want you guys to tune in
Speaker 1: and tell everyone about this please. It is. It is
Speaker 1: the Cultural Awards like turned all the way up and
Speaker 1: by the way, the ship that they let us get
Speaker 1: away with. I truly feel like we were we scammed
Speaker 1: our way into doing this because so much of the
Speaker 1: Blue Sky, which is like what they call the phase
Speaker 1: at the beginning of a creative process, is in that show.
Speaker 1: So much of it, like Lucky shout out to NBC,
Speaker 1: Bravo and Peacock for really and I do think it's
Speaker 1: a credit to you and the foundation that you've created
Speaker 1: there just in terms of like how much they trust you,
Speaker 1: and the vibes were so great and they let us
Speaker 1: do all this stuff. But just to speak about the
Speaker 1: thing that made me the most nervous. It is an
Speaker 1: opening number that is certainly an homage to someone in culture,
Speaker 1: and I think that I had been I don't love dancing.
Speaker 1: I'm doing choreo and stuff. I absolutely love singing, as
Speaker 1: you guys all know, like I love it. I feel
Speaker 1: confident doing it. But when it comes to choreography, especially
Speaker 1: iconic choreography or that which references iconic choreography, I don't
Speaker 1: even need to be in front of everyone I've ever
Speaker 1: met and everyone I would have to be nervous. Science
Speaker 1: was crazy. No, It's like the one thing that I
Speaker 1: didn't realize was gonna happen, which of course it was
Speaker 1: going to, was the seat cards, Like you know, so
Speaker 1: those are all your heroes in front literally the we're
Speaker 1: rehearsing in the space, like the number doing the whole show,
Speaker 1: and they've got the seat cards on the seats, which
Speaker 1: is the headshots of everyone that's going to be in
Speaker 1: the audience. And I was like, this is not normal. Now,
Speaker 1: this is not it's not normal all. But I will say,
Speaker 1: like it happens to ten to be I'll freak out
Speaker 1: like day weeks and days before and then the day
Speaker 1: of actually feel quite confident. And I will say once
Speaker 1: we got through the number, yes, and we did it
Speaker 1: well during the show. On the day after that, I
Speaker 1: felt incredible. Yes, that's where I could take it. Feel
Speaker 1: the shift. I was just like, oh my god, we
Speaker 1: did it. I did not. The hard part's over. I
Speaker 1: didn't like eat it in front of literally the world. Yes,
Speaker 1: and again like I just like after that and once
Speaker 1: the show started and it was like our Goofy Frankenstein nightmare,
Speaker 1: like you know, Award show happening, I was just like, Wow,
Speaker 1: it's playing, It's going well, like this bizarre Hollywood puzzle
Speaker 1: slash chess game, slash keys to the car we were given,
Speaker 1: like it was all panning out. Yeah, And then I
Speaker 1: was relaxing. But I guess this is what I mean
Speaker 1: is it's like, there's got to be a better way
Speaker 1: for me to treat myself in preparation for these things.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't beat yourself up too much about it, because
Speaker 1: I think this is also something that you will develop
Speaker 1: a thicker skin and expectation and you'll just know it's
Speaker 1: like your first time doing not for nothing. One of
Speaker 1: the hardest things in entertained, which is to quote unquote
Speaker 1: host an award show. Even though we're doing like a fun,
Speaker 1: frivolous parodied version of it, we still put it like
Speaker 1: our body and our mind can't really tell the difference
Speaker 1: when we're up I'm talking about you and me. When
Speaker 1: we're up there doing like what is still a kind
Speaker 1: of thankless job, you know what I mean. We just
Speaker 1: had the extreme benefit and fortune of having our real,
Speaker 1: our beautiful, wonderful, hilarious, clever, loving fans there. That's just
Speaker 1: the main difference. It's like in the room, it feels
Speaker 1: so much better than a stuffy a war show where
Speaker 1: everyone is taking those all to so seriously and like
Speaker 1: their careers are on the line or whatever. It was
Speaker 1: like this crazy well Darcy Carden I think said it best.
Speaker 1: We were backstage and she had come off stage doing
Speaker 1: her bit which she does with del Kim Booster, which
Speaker 1: I cannot wait for you guys to see. But she
Speaker 1: came back and she was like, it's like a bit show.
Speaker 1: It's like it's BCB Bitch DC and doulkless Marathon show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so for those of you who maybe don't really
Speaker 1: know what that is, it's like there was an whole
Speaker 1: era and it's not over, but it's not like it
Speaker 1: was where when we were coming up in comedy in
Speaker 1: New York, Like you'd go to I don't know, UCB
Speaker 1: East or wherever, and it would just be like an
Speaker 1: hour or so of just whatever the show was, everyone
Speaker 1: coming up and doing a four or five minute stupid
Speaker 1: fucking bit new character trying things out, et cetera. And
Speaker 1: this was like a version of that, blown all the
Speaker 1: way out with like truly. And I can't say enough
Speaker 1: like our heroes, Like I mean, you've seen the carpet,
Speaker 1: so you know that some people are there. So it's
Speaker 1: not a spoiler for me to say that Kristen Wig
Speaker 1: does the show, to say that Keenan is in the
Speaker 1: show to eighty Bryant, you know, And the list goes
Speaker 1: on and on, and I don't want to cross into
Speaker 1: a place where I start to ruin it, but like,
Speaker 1: I just feel so lucky that people wanted to play
Speaker 1: with us and that we were trusted to do that,
Speaker 1: and so over enjoyed that it came out as well
Speaker 1: as it did. Yeh, because it was a lot, yes,
Speaker 1: because like yeah, I because because I gotta say, going
Speaker 1: to China right after the Awards. I can't imagine. It
Speaker 1: was like it was both like good and not so
Speaker 1: good in terms of processing what that experience was because
Speaker 1: I didn't really impact it with anyone except I didn't
Speaker 1: get a chance to do that until last night when
Speaker 1: you and me and our manager Olivia were together after Colbert.
Speaker 1: We were just like I was like, oh yeah, wow,
Speaker 1: and like just learning about the dynamic and yes, we
Speaker 1: had an amazing team of people. Shout out to Laura Mandel,
Speaker 1: Jane Munn, the Cedy Green, Celestim Frank Leslie, Olivia Rap,
Speaker 1: Lauren Lemieu. Yeah, all of lions Gate which worked with
Speaker 1: us on the show. And you know also you know
Speaker 1: just Kittie Howklier truly, Jed Neil, thank you guys so much,
Speaker 1: and like I just Proctor, we love oh John Prodger,
Speaker 1: we love you. Which wo booked the show for us,
Speaker 1: Like and honestly, over fifty talent in the show, which
Speaker 1: is which you know that number If that doesn't mean
Speaker 1: anything to you, I felt like it was having fifty hosts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: fifty SNL hosts in one one night. It was it
Speaker 1: was crazy. It did feel like like SNL fifty like
Speaker 1: kids a little like yeah, you know what I mean, Junior,
Speaker 1: is kind of the vibe it was giving. I'll never forget,
Speaker 1: like the I think it was that night someone had
Speaker 1: posted like a string out of her one on the
Speaker 1: purple carpet and I was just like, I can't believe
Speaker 1: that that happened, And you know, lots of really fun
Speaker 1: different personalities, like and truly like just the collision of
Speaker 1: like everyone is on that, on that carpet and then
Speaker 1: getting like actual media coverage, which is also part of
Speaker 1: the joke and the bit of the whole thing, Like
Speaker 1: watching someone serve on the Lost CULTURESUS Cultural Awards carpet
Speaker 1: is just so funny because what is happening, right, You're like, wait,
Speaker 1: why are you talking about? But no, this is We're
Speaker 1: not like wait huh, like we're being perceived. No, it's
Speaker 1: it's just it's just funny because yeah again and we
Speaker 1: and we say this in the show spoiler earlier, it's
Speaker 1: like this started out as a bit yeah, and so
Speaker 1: thank you for being along for the journey and helping
Speaker 1: us sort of blow it out to this scale for
Speaker 1: now and who who knows what will come of it
Speaker 1: in the future. And we never would have even this
Speaker 1: is honestly something that like, it wasn't even like when
Speaker 1: we started it and created it, like, oh, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be something that we pitched one day. It was
Speaker 1: entirely because you all like expressed the desire to want
Speaker 1: to see it when you lined up at Lincoln Center,
Speaker 1: and some of you got turned away because at the
Speaker 1: time we just didn't think there was any way that
Speaker 1: a surplus of people would come to see us live,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like, but it was really
Speaker 1: because we wanted to bring this to you and share
Speaker 1: this thing that's become such a crucial part of the
Speaker 1: Lost Coach calendar year, it just felt wrong to not
Speaker 1: do everything we could to bring it to every one.
Speaker 1: Also because we're really proud of it in terms of, like,
Speaker 1: you know what it is doing, and so you're exactly
Speaker 1: right after that first year where people were turned away,
Speaker 1: we were like, wait, wait, wait, now, yeah, I doesn't
Speaker 1: feel right. This needs to be literally broadcast. And so
Speaker 1: from that year on and that's why, like there was
Speaker 1: no live stream the second year. The third year, we
Speaker 1: couldn't technically do it without weird like legal and clearance issues,
Speaker 1: and so then there were fan live streams from the audience,
Speaker 1: which we were like unofficially like sanctioning and being like
Speaker 1: this is okay. Hopefully it delights people externally, and you know,
Speaker 1: tune in. All we ever do, all we ever hope
Speaker 1: really is to externally delight. It's actually number eight. All
Speaker 1: we ever heard to do is externally delight. External delights
Speaker 1: is a kind of a fro talk about some culture
Speaker 1: like yeah, I'm i'm, I think, I'm iye must say
Speaker 1: I'm a little behind or I'm playing catch up because
Speaker 1: I watched a lot of stuff on the plane because
Speaker 1: my internet was on the fritz in China. Let's tell
Speaker 1: us a little bit about what you watched. I watched
Speaker 1: a lot of movies for the first time that I
Speaker 1: feel like should be like, let's talk about it. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm ashamed. And I also like, didn't I still have
Speaker 1: to finish this movie that I was talking I was
Speaker 1: telling you about last night. You don't want to share,
Speaker 1: I don't want to share, Okay. So there is a
Speaker 1: there's a classic film many would say one of the
Speaker 1: best of all time or whatever, you know, rubric that's
Speaker 1: basically but it is pretty objectively called that uh huh
Speaker 1: that Bowen is talking about and he'll finish the film, yes,
Speaker 1: and then we will talk about it. There we will talk,
Speaker 1: at which time I will reveal I also haven't seen it.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, So I'm just saying you're not alone in this.
Speaker 1: You have a sister. We should see it together. Okay, fine,
Speaker 1: We're just finish together. Because because this is a kind
Speaker 1: of like calling back to the era of I had
Speaker 1: never seen sound in me is like you had never
Speaker 1: seen Jaws, and now we we it's another movie that
Speaker 1: neither of us now it's a movie. It is a
Speaker 1: movie on that level. Yes, of course. So so you've
Speaker 1: been watching a lot of films, a lot of films
Speaker 1: behind on the Bravo of it All. I'm caught up
Speaker 1: on on Miami and OC. I'm also caught up on
Speaker 1: I have not I have not watched Next Gen m
Speaker 1: I c be on the first episode. It's not for me.
Speaker 1: I don't think all good rooting for everybody from everybody.
Speaker 1: We love everybody else in the words everybody, and I
Speaker 1: uh finished the Pit on the plane home. Finally, what
Speaker 1: is your deal with the Pit? I love it because
Speaker 1: I can't you know, I can't do that there. It's
Speaker 1: it's pretty glorious. There's moments of there's moments of whoa,
Speaker 1: I can't believe there, I can't believe we're seeing this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's excellent, excellent performances. No Wiley king, no Wiley
Speaker 1: being back. Oh he doesn't wear scrubs in this huh.
Speaker 1: He totically has scrubs and he has a hoodie over it,
Speaker 1: doctor Robbie. But just so wonderful. What a what a
Speaker 1: great doctor Robbie, what a what a king doctor Robbie has?
Speaker 1: His name? Is his name? Doctor? You are smiling? I
Speaker 1: love him? I love him. Have you ever told him this? No,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you know. Today I'm a little anxious because
Speaker 1: it's when it comes to speaking about shooting your shot
Speaker 1: with celebrities. Yes, I haven't seen our hot ones versus
Speaker 1: I think it's about to go up? Is it about
Speaker 1: to go up? I think it's going up today. At
Speaker 1: some point, I know it's going up today. And shot
Speaker 1: they were one of the things was like shoot a
Speaker 1: shot in real time, Like one of the things is
Speaker 1: like shoot your shot in real time with a celebrity.
Speaker 1: And then Bowe was like Sebastian Stan and I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: I don't want to eat a wing because they really
Speaker 1: were hot. And I was like, I'm going to do
Speaker 1: this for real. Yeah, And so I shot a shot
Speaker 1: that i've that i've of mine for a decade fifteen years,
Speaker 1: which was which was mister Groff and the thing is like,
Speaker 1: that's spitter me in the second round with my mouth open. No,
Speaker 1: just kidding. I want to be respectful flash the ish,
Speaker 1: but no, I was really shy afterwards. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh no, and I already I had already asked them
Speaker 1: to take one thing out because I got a little
Speaker 1: carried away and uh huh. I was like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: take that out. So I was like, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to go back and askn't de edit this out. But
Speaker 1: it's out there. That's okay. It's so there. It's okay
Speaker 1: to shoot your shots. Sometimes sometimes it is. And I
Speaker 1: was like, you know, and it could work very well. Work.
Speaker 1: The wings were really hot. They were very hot. Should
Speaker 1: we reveal what the next day was? Like? We were sick.
Speaker 1: I had a harder time doing Versus sort of gi
Speaker 1: wise than I did regular hot one. Do you want
Speaker 1: to know why it's the last stap because it was
Speaker 1: the last job all the way around. Yes, So basically
Speaker 1: the way that that show works is there's six wings
Speaker 1: in front of you that I guess are the six
Speaker 1: questions arounds, and they're all They're all the last stab,
Speaker 1: which is the tenth wing in the hot one sequence.
Speaker 1: So it follows it's too after the bomb, which is
Speaker 1: like a life ruiner. The bomb is like thebamb is
Speaker 1: what is like scorches the earth in last Dab, it's
Speaker 1: like it's a soft ish landing, but it's still very intense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the like I would rather have the progression than full
Speaker 1: last dab full blast. Yeah, that's the thing is. It
Speaker 1: was like I was like, oh, I was even talking
Speaker 1: shit at the at the top, I'm like, this is
Speaker 1: not that bad, but there is a build. No, it
Speaker 1: adds up and I felt not good the next day either.
Speaker 1: But I think you did better than I did in
Speaker 1: terms of how I felt. In terms of how you felt,
Speaker 1: I do think that. And if I might say, my
Speaker 1: stomach has a little more fortitude than yours. Yes, And
Speaker 1: I first of all, I don't think Sohony ever, being
Speaker 1: like Bowen's gonna win, Yeah, Like don't that is my friend?
Speaker 1: Like that that is them just assuming that you are
Speaker 1: going to like be more poised in general, right, I
Speaker 1: think that with love. Y'all really assume I'm some sort
Speaker 1: of freak or a and no, I see you, I
Speaker 1: see you talking about me this way. I see what
Speaker 1: your opinions on me are. You did come to my
Speaker 1: mind when I was eating crab and Dandung, which is
Speaker 1: a harbor town and known for their seafood, and I
Speaker 1: was trying to break this crab open. It was like,
Speaker 1: I Matt would do this, so so well, well, I'm
Speaker 1: a trained crass, so I'm sort of the Noah Wiley
Speaker 1: and the pit. Yeah you know what I mean. I
Speaker 1: sort of break them open, crack them open, go on
Speaker 1: the corner. After I've worked really hard and save lives
Speaker 1: out there, and I just sobbed to myself, got my
Speaker 1: Emmy nom. I wonder if ten years ago I would
Speaker 1: have felt that way, because now it's like spicy foods,
Speaker 1: it's different, roller coasters, it's different, which really vulnerable for
Speaker 1: you to admit. Honestly, it's you used to be a
Speaker 1: coaster quid. I'll just never forget who I used to be.
Speaker 1: She used to be like I used to be that
Speaker 1: girl that was like I just talked about this actually
Speaker 1: on well I don't even know if it's announced because
Speaker 1: I don't know, so I shouldn't say. But a friend
Speaker 1: of ours, two friends of ours have a new podcast,
Speaker 1: and we were talking about just doing roller coasters and
Speaker 1: being like a daredevil and stuff like when I was little,
Speaker 1: I used to like be the I talked about this
Speaker 1: on this podcast. I jumped out of a plane, et cetera.
Speaker 1: I do one or two roller coasters in a row
Speaker 1: now and it's a full wrap biologically, well physically, to
Speaker 1: be fair, The last time you felt this was when
Speaker 1: we had to ride the start US Race Stars Racers twice,
Speaker 1: two times within like five minutes, right after we shot
Speaker 1: hot Ones, right after we shot Oh was do you
Speaker 1: remember that? Oh? Sh I can't get I think it
Speaker 1: was literally it was we we had shot hot Ones,
Speaker 1: then the next day got on the plane to go
Speaker 1: down there and did the roller coasters or yes, that's
Speaker 1: what it was, right, we shot hot Ones a while again, Yes,
Speaker 1: they they really banked that episode and I was like,
Speaker 1: when is this going to come out? And now it's
Speaker 1: obviously come out at the perfect time, But like that
Speaker 1: that week, that like week and a half when we
Speaker 1: were flying down doing the roller coasters and then doing
Speaker 1: the hot Ones in the same week. That was that
Speaker 1: was a test of the stomach, and I think I
Speaker 1: had to go. I went to Wicked after after start Us,
Speaker 1: after Epic Universe. You went to Wicked. Oh oh oh no, no, no,
Speaker 1: we can say we can say you did reshot we
Speaker 1: did reshoots. Ye oh oh, right, hold on, let me
Speaker 1: let me look this up. Okay, hot one, Yeah, look
Speaker 1: at the calendar. I'm almost positive that it was like, yeah, yep,
Speaker 1: May nineteen, yeah, yeah, and that was two days after
Speaker 1: the SNL finale. Yep, oh yeah, I remember this, and
Speaker 1: then we did this the ray went to Epic Universe,
Speaker 1: and then I went to Oh my god, I went
Speaker 1: to London, England to do Wicked reshoots. No, sometimes you
Speaker 1: look back at your own schedule and you're like, what
Speaker 1: I remember there was one year telling you this was
Speaker 1: this is my first day off in mom and this
Speaker 1: is technically work, even though we don't think of it
Speaker 1: as well, right, especially these episodes, and by the way,
Speaker 1: I do think that we're going to make a conscious
Speaker 1: effort to just be us for a while. Like I
Speaker 1: genuinely do feel like I'm going through some sort of
Speaker 1: new return to Saturn like interesting because it's is this
Speaker 1: the thing that I'm I get you get someone to
Speaker 1: do another chart rating for you? Am I making it
Speaker 1: up that like there's something to like every seven years.
Speaker 1: I don't know, because it feels like thirty five, twenty eight,
Speaker 1: twenty one, fourteen and seven are like times of awakening.
Speaker 1: Like I feel like seven years old is when my
Speaker 1: honestly when my eyes opened up to like what culture
Speaker 1: was for me, because this identic of it all, and
Speaker 1: like all that fourteen was like certainly like I remember
Speaker 1: being that age and being like that was like eighth
Speaker 1: and to ninth grade, which was horrible, and like, you know,
Speaker 1: another change. Twenty one is obviously you're twenty one, so many,
Speaker 1: so much things become available to you, like et cetera,
Speaker 1: like kind of like settling into my body as like
Speaker 1: a gay person. Twenty eight is obviously returned to Saturn
Speaker 1: like et cetera. And now I feel like at thirty
Speaker 1: five again, I'm like looking at my life in a
Speaker 1: certain way and being like, Okay, I've been in denial
Speaker 1: about this. This makes me happy, This does not This
Speaker 1: person has a belonging. This person no longer does like,
Speaker 1: I don't are you in that place because obviously you
Speaker 1: know yeah, changes, Yes, I am certainly in that place,
Speaker 1: but I'm also not thirty five. Yeah, well, we're gonna
Speaker 1: pay for you. The verses is up the verses. That's weird. No,
Speaker 1: we'll watch it after. I'll watch it after. But okay,
Speaker 1: well that's fun. That's fun something to share on social
Speaker 1: which we absolutely love. My computer just crashed, you guys.
Speaker 1: What's the astrology on that? I think it means we
Speaker 1: have to do I don't think so, honey, it does
Speaker 1: a wait, but I did want to ask you have
Speaker 1: you seen Superman yet? Yes? Oh my god, I loved
Speaker 1: that movie so much fun brossient. I mean, I love
Speaker 1: Rachel mister corn sweat. He hasn't has the world found
Speaker 1: its hottest persons? As I forgot who posted this on
Speaker 1: on socials, but they were like, I love that the
Speaker 1: kid that the pr for this movie, that the campaign
Speaker 1: for this movie is just look at how hot this
Speaker 1: guy is, and I love how much it's going to work.
Speaker 1: And it did. Oh, it absolutely worked on me. And
Speaker 1: also one thing I think that movie needs to get
Speaker 1: more credit for is that long scene Sark and Lois
Speaker 1: like it was like a really long scene of just dialogue, dialogue, Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I was like, they're both so good, and Rachel
Speaker 1: is just like she's such a star and we love
Speaker 1: her so much, and just the really intelligent back and
Speaker 1: forth they were having like early in the movie and
Speaker 1: then you know the rest of it just being so
Speaker 1: kind of just like unabashedly about going for the joke.
Speaker 1: A couple of times. I was like, wow, we are
Speaker 1: really broad. But I never was mad. I was just like,
Speaker 1: this is the energy we need. No, just that whole
Speaker 1: scene of them also with like the the alien in
Speaker 1: the background, I was like, yeah, I loved that, loved that,
Speaker 1: Like it reminded me of like Scary Movie three. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Naked gunn Escu, I'm really excited to see you so excited.
Speaker 1: I think this is my favorite James gunn actually, because
Speaker 1: you know, famously we did not live for Guardians, right,
Speaker 1: but we've said on the podcast, we've said this was
Speaker 1: years and years and years ago. Bowen Yang and I
Speaker 1: walked out of guards We walked out of two films
Speaker 1: together in history, and they were the first Guardians and Oppenheimer, right,
Speaker 1: and directors who we love directors. We absolutely love or
Speaker 1: else we wouldn't have been the exactly so. But the
Speaker 1: thing is this super movie. I was just like, wow,
Speaker 1: like really I could feel. And I really liked his
Speaker 1: suicide Squad too. I like his suicide Squad too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just like really like his sense of humor, and
Speaker 1: I thought it worked really well here. And yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean incredibly incredibly hot and talented lead actor playing Superman, Like,
Speaker 1: let's go. He's actually the inspel from my haircut. Currently.
Speaker 1: I sat down on the chair with Thomas. Oh, I
Speaker 1: see it in Hollywood baby shout out, and I said,
Speaker 1: corn sweat. Oh my god, which is that how you
Speaker 1: pronounce it? I I feel like the e is so
Speaker 1: the first e is silent corn sweat. It's like it's
Speaker 1: like if corn would could sweat that is hot corn sweat.
Speaker 1: It could be it could be at. It's not the
Speaker 1: hottest last name there is. What is Smith? I was
Speaker 1: gonna say Smith? I was literally like, is she about
Speaker 1: to say Smith? I said, John Smith. But I also
Speaker 1: it's it's also the most generic. You need to examine that.
Speaker 1: Oh you're colonized, you have cones by and our devastation
Speaker 1: thinking that we had lost an episode because Matt's audio
Speaker 1: Matt's computer crash. We watch, we watched our hot ones versus.
Speaker 1: We cheered ourselves up by watching our hot ones versus.
Speaker 1: We love it. It's so fun. Team first feast, team great.
Speaker 1: They talk about going for the joke. They get it,
Speaker 1: A team who gets it so deeply over there. We
Speaker 1: love them and we love doing it. And even though
Speaker 1: we felt sick after, that's part of it. No, and
Speaker 1: it was worth it. And so we each a four,
Speaker 1: we each a two, We each a two. No, I
Speaker 1: think there was two left. No, we only ate. No,
Speaker 1: we each a two. Wings. Girl, I don't know. You
Speaker 1: watch it back and you can too on YouTube. At
Speaker 1: first we feast, Okay, so maybe it's time for I'm
Speaker 1: trying to think because that of course there's like more
Speaker 1: things and culture that we missed. I mean, Gilaine is
Speaker 1: getting interviewed. I guess right now, huh remember our episode
Speaker 1: about Gailaye one of our best, one of our best,
Speaker 1: and now she's like back, what is going on? I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know. I mean, I I have
Speaker 1: we have theories, but we we can't we kick. I
Speaker 1: have so many theories. I've actually become quite a little
Speaker 1: conspiracy theorist about the whole thing. Look, this, this was all,
Speaker 1: This was all where it's it was headed. You know,
Speaker 1: like we're all conspiracy theorists now, and the left needs
Speaker 1: its own que q. Left needs its own cue left
Speaker 1: you and I'm it we would be amazing cues. We
Speaker 1: would be amazing cues. Wo'd be incredible kind of fun cults. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we kind of do right and thank you all you
Speaker 1: cult us out there. We just really do away with
Speaker 1: our p k p fs and just say a r
Speaker 1: KPF case. Now we see this what I'm saying, it's
Speaker 1: getting too I was trying to lump Kyle's into the KDS.
Speaker 1: I'm not here to say I told you so, But
Speaker 1: you can't put the gen back in the bottle because
Speaker 1: the genie is out flexing his big muscles. And that's
Speaker 1: ky I'm not hearing from enough Kyle's. So that's I'm
Speaker 1: going to say here on the shopping block, I'm going
Speaker 1: to invisibilize Kyle's until they prove out to me. Can
Speaker 1: you guys, please, Kyle's should be in Bowen Yang's DMS.
Speaker 1: Being nice, okay, not prescriptive. No, it's fine. Not judgmental,
Speaker 1: only nice, It's fine. Okay, So this is I don't think,
Speaker 1: so honey, Yep, it's our time. It's our moment in
Speaker 1: the in the in the episode to sort of rant
Speaker 1: and really get something in pop culture or culture at large.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be attacking culture at large. Okay, this
Speaker 1: is something that you know, it's one of my vices
Speaker 1: requires me to do something and I'm having a problem
Speaker 1: doing it. Okay, this is Matt Rogers. I don't think
Speaker 1: so Honey's time starts now. I don't think, so honey.
Speaker 1: The packaging on weed, like you can't open these things.
Speaker 1: What kind of wee I'm talking about like pre rolls okay,
Speaker 1: that you would get at like an official weed store,
Speaker 1: like one of those Apple stores for weed in LA.
Speaker 1: I don't think, so honey. The way that they sell
Speaker 1: this stuff. Also, by the way, this I'm not even
Speaker 1: gonna say what it is because I don't want the
Speaker 1: brand to feel embarrassed too. Is hard to open. But
Speaker 1: once you get the hang of it, I'm telling you
Speaker 1: at able pre rolls, like I haven't even really engaged
Speaker 1: anything on their childproofing. It's childproofing, but in the child
Speaker 1: proofing you've also Matt Rogers proofed it, and that is
Speaker 1: gonna happen. When you childproof, You're gonna also Matt Rogers proof.
Speaker 1: And I am your grown ass fingers. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you something. I can't open. It's not as simple as
Speaker 1: queezing the sides and then popping the top, but it
Speaker 1: has to be because that's what you've said will do
Speaker 1: the trick, But it doesn't do the trick. Me and
Speaker 1: Melissa were banging our heads against the walls trying to
Speaker 1: smoke some Indica and I'm like, babe, I'm on the
Speaker 1: other planet of stress now I really need it. I
Speaker 1: don't think so. Honey, readers, if you're feel me, please
Speaker 1: reach out and tell me that I'm not crazy and
Speaker 1: alone in this because the packaging on marijuana has become restrictive.
Speaker 1: Criticize him, yeah, criticize me, please, No, honestly, if I'm
Speaker 1: an idiot, If I'm an idiot, tell me. But I
Speaker 1: also don't think I am because I had a you know,
Speaker 1: a witness there in and we were really we could
Speaker 1: not open. And she can do anything, she can do
Speaker 1: it all. Yeah, you know how frustrating it is to
Speaker 1: be there a full grown human alongside someone who can
Speaker 1: do it all, and neither of you to do a thing.
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to doubt you. I just know because
Speaker 1: I mean, what the next time I have a problem,
Speaker 1: I'll just FaceTime you and show you. Because like, but no,
Speaker 1: I ran into this recently. I bought a package. I
Speaker 1: bought a pre roll package, and I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, it's like getting into Fort Knox to smoke
Speaker 1: a blunt nowadays, it's like getting into Fort Knox. It's
Speaker 1: like it's full of culture number eighteen. It's like getting
Speaker 1: into smoke a blunt nowadays. You haven't, I don't think, so, honey. Yeah,
Speaker 1: although I don't, I can't. I'm gonna find it as
Speaker 1: like okay, okay, okay, here we go. That is a
Speaker 1: way to do things. Okay, great, this is Bowen Yang's
Speaker 1: I don't think, so honey, and his time starts now,
Speaker 1: I don't think, so honey. On the culture not knowing
Speaker 1: where we have landed on the Laboo Boo versus La
Speaker 1: Fu food discourse, it seems like now we're favoring La
Speaker 1: Fu Foo's more because we are you know, we seebs
Speaker 1: as this artificial scarcity, you know, example, and why are
Speaker 1: we gatekeeping you know this trend from so many people.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, now it seems like we've
Speaker 1: overcorrected into the lafufus, where we like are kind of
Speaker 1: putting more value in the lafufu because they're fake and
Speaker 1: because they're offs. But you can't knock off a culture
Speaker 1: that has thrived on knockoffs for decades. At this point,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about China. They will beat us at this game.
Speaker 1: M hm, La boo boos will emerge as the victor
Speaker 1: fifteen seconds. I for the longest time was resisting the
Speaker 1: lea booboo craze and I finally went to the place
Speaker 1: of origin and I thought, well, I walked into a
Speaker 1: popmar and I went five seconds. This is glorious. And
Speaker 1: I'm seeing the people shake the boxes because they can
Speaker 1: tell by the weight and the feel which ones are different.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, this is a turn I want to
Speaker 1: be on board for. And that's one minute. So we
Speaker 1: found out yesterday that the way you can tell a
Speaker 1: lafufu from a la buoboo is the number of tea. Yes,
Speaker 1: I said, this is crazy, it's biological, it's biological. I
Speaker 1: think this is filling the void in my heart. A
Speaker 1: lot of healing happened on this trip. That's the other
Speaker 1: headline and perspective. You heal, yes, and you know whatever,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah. Like all the trips prior to
Speaker 1: this one were about me, like being in the closet
Speaker 1: and staying in the closet. And I didn't necessarily come
Speaker 1: out to anyone on this trip, but the way I
Speaker 1: was being discussed on kind of social media made it
Speaker 1: very apparent to the people who were on social media,
Speaker 1: to my family members who were on social media, and
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, I kind of like
Speaker 1: it this way that I didn't have to broach the
Speaker 1: subject external delights, external delights, but if this also healed
Speaker 1: for me. Was never allowed to have a single beanie
Speaker 1: baby growing up. This was my DAP with Tamagotchi's interesting.
Speaker 1: He was like, why would I get you that you
Speaker 1: have a dog? Well, period, I mean, can't really argue
Speaker 1: with that, but it was devastating, of course, and you
Speaker 1: couldn't have a beanie baby. Couldn't have a beanie baby?
Speaker 1: Was there reasoning for that? They were like these are
Speaker 1: gonna be all over the house, like literally, So when
Speaker 1: we moved to the States. We would go into like
Speaker 1: open houses and go to look at people's houses in
Speaker 1: Colorado and suburban Colorado, and it would be you know,
Speaker 1: we yang and I would freak out. I remember there's
Speaker 1: one room, there's one kid's room full of beanie babies,
Speaker 1: and we were like, oh my god, Mom and dad,
Speaker 1: look at how many baby and beanie babies they have.
Speaker 1: They go, yeah, no, is grotesque. Not in my home.
Speaker 1: Not in my home. You're you're not having those fucking
Speaker 1: things in our house. See I think so they saw
Speaker 1: an example of an extreme yes, and they went, we're
Speaker 1: not touching. I mean, it was this. It was just austerity,
Speaker 1: and it's it's immigrant parents. And I told I don't
Speaker 1: begrudg them of that. I just think all these years
Speaker 1: later I had to heal that child. Yeah my mind
Speaker 1: my labuoboo and I love my labuboo. Can you show
Speaker 1: your labuobo. I've got one labuobu here, I've got the
Speaker 1: blue one. Oh that's really good. I've got that, and
Speaker 1: then another one came in. I'm that is good. Okay.
Speaker 1: So I have not really engaged in labooboo lao culture.
Speaker 1: You want my lab I have another laboo boo. I
Speaker 1: don't think no, you take it because I feel like
Speaker 1: if I want if I want one, I will pick
Speaker 1: I will find the lula boo for me. But and
Speaker 1: how much is it? It depends? Okay, well talk about that.
Speaker 1: I think if you go on stock x dot com
Speaker 1: you can buy one for like forty bucks. And what's
Speaker 1: the what's an example of an expensive la buoboo? Like
Speaker 1: if you want to like really like go for I
Speaker 1: don't know the premium ones, it can go like a
Speaker 1: hundred two hundred Okay, ye see, I thought it was
Speaker 1: so out of control that we were talking like a
Speaker 1: couple thousand dollars. No see, But that's the thing is,
Speaker 1: it's like with things like this that become a fashion accessory,
Speaker 1: like where is the ceiling on what people would pay
Speaker 1: for that? Like you have to imagine, like you know
Speaker 1: some people, there probably is no ceiling if you love
Speaker 1: it that much. Wait, you said the lafufoos can't turn
Speaker 1: their head around. The labuobuo can turn its head around.
Speaker 1: I just turned it. Well, maybe you have a lafoofoo. No.
Speaker 1: I count nine teeth and that is the real number.
Speaker 1: That's nine. That's nine all right, I have another one.
Speaker 1: I have another one in my room. He's gonna get
Speaker 1: the the other labooboo and we're actually going to count
Speaker 1: the teeth right now. Just find out if it's real
Speaker 1: or not. This is a huge thing in culture and
Speaker 1: this is lost culturista. So if you are already at
Speaker 1: max with the labubu, by the way, like okay, so
Speaker 1: this is really good. In two seconds, these are going
Speaker 1: to be out of style. We're gonna look like one, two, three, four, five, six,
Speaker 1: seven eight nine. So this is real. And then can
Speaker 1: you turn its head around? I think they can all
Speaker 1: they can all have their heads. This one doesn't turn around,
Speaker 1: So I'm saying, like, by the way, I don't want
Speaker 1: to snap its head off because this is what I
Speaker 1: don't know what you paid for it. I don't want
Speaker 1: to ask you what you paid for it. But like,
Speaker 1: by the way, this one is cute. Maybe I will
Speaker 1: take this one. Take care? Would you gift it to me? Yes,
Speaker 1: you don't want to give it up? No, that's yours,
Speaker 1: this is mine. Yes, I think that's a real. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're going to take a photo with our boos, and
Speaker 1: that's going to be the episode that external delights. This
Speaker 1: has been an internal delight in terms of the people
Speaker 1: that make and create Lost Culturistas Bowen Yang and myself,
Speaker 1: and we have to say one more time that the
Speaker 1: Lost Culturistas Cultural Awards around August fifth on Bravo, so
Speaker 1: real thing to say. We are going to be you know,
Speaker 1: on Washer What Happens Live on Monday night, and we're
Speaker 1: going to be chatting with the man himself, Andy Cohen,
Speaker 1: who does factor into the show along with a lot
Speaker 1: of your faves, and yeah it streams of the next
Speaker 1: down Peacock. Anything you want to say to prime the
Speaker 1: readers and more, because maybe they should just be called
Speaker 1: that readers and more interesting. Well, we can't, we can't.
Speaker 1: Now you're really trying to put the gunie back in
Speaker 1: the bottle. I think it will be out of this world.
Speaker 1: That's a hint, that's a hit. Okay, Well you guys
Speaker 1: are also have a la booze out there, and all
Speaker 1: you lafu fuos we can tell. We end every other
Speaker 1: sod with a song. Don want to cold my eyes
Speaker 1: hello on fall Sleep because I miss your babe and
Speaker 1: I don't want to miss a thing. For more of that,
Speaker 1: watch the Culture Awards Bye Last Culture. Racist is the
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Speaker 1: created and hosted by Matt Rogers and bowen Ye, Executive
Speaker 1: produced by Anna Hasnier and produced by Becka Ramos, edited
Speaker 1: mixed by Duck Baby and Nikla Board and our music
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