Speaker 1: Look, maher, oh, I see you my own look over
Speaker 1: there is that culture. Yes, wow, lost cult.
Speaker 2: Ding dung lost culture restas calling, still hungover, still on
Speaker 2: the come down from awards now still Honestly, the awards
Speaker 2: went off without a hitch. They were New York's biggest night,
Speaker 2: wouldn't you say?
Speaker 1: Bo?
Speaker 3: I would say it was truly such an honor to
Speaker 3: be at the cultural epicenter of New York City, where
Speaker 3: some of the most amazing cultural events take place.
Speaker 1: Talking of course about.
Speaker 2: The Big Apple Circus, yes, of course no, but in
Speaker 2: a very real way it was last year I got
Speaker 2: overwhelmed at the end and begun to weep on stage.
Speaker 2: And this year I look over at my sister and
Speaker 2: I saw that steely facade had melted it away, and
Speaker 2: Bowen had.
Speaker 1: Begun to weep. He had begun to weep.
Speaker 3: In a way I know my heart was waking up.
Speaker 3: And all the walls came tumbling down, they really did.
Speaker 2: But wow, all the Katies, readers, publicists and finalists who
Speaker 2: came out, and I will say whether you got in
Speaker 2: and were present at the event or not, and we
Speaker 2: will address this. We just want to say thank you
Speaker 2: so much. I mean the fact that this was just
Speaker 2: a little tiny bit that we decided we'd do on
Speaker 2: the podcast, and then it became this literal event. And
Speaker 2: we'll get into the particulars of what the event entailed,
Speaker 2: because I mean, I'm still so shook by some of
Speaker 2: the stuff that happened, but just the biggest thank you
Speaker 2: and the biggest hug and uh, you know, hopefully contentual
Speaker 2: open kiss on the mouth to all of you, because
Speaker 2: this was this was an unforgettable one for sure.
Speaker 3: Definitely I would say the same.
Speaker 1: And I was just kind.
Speaker 3: Of overcome by the end of the night with how
Speaker 3: lovely it was and hearing a lot of fun stories
Speaker 3: from people about friends they made in line, reunions that happened,
Speaker 3: a lot of solo people meeting up together really really special.
Speaker 1: So thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, on the subject before we get into like, yeah,
Speaker 3: a little breakdown. If you couldn't get in, We're so sorry.
Speaker 3: It really did. MA can attest to this for me,
Speaker 3: for both of us, But I mean I was really
Speaker 3: really like worked up about it afterwards. At the after thing,
Speaker 3: I was like, oh God, I'm hearing about people who
Speaker 3: couldn't get in, and I feel so bad. But the
Speaker 3: fact is that in the future this will be something
Speaker 3: that truly anyone who wants to see it be a
Speaker 3: part of it can be a part of it. We'll
Speaker 3: leave it at that for now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we are definitely aware of the fact now and
Speaker 2: not And I will say this is like I guess
Speaker 2: to boil it down the success of an event like this,
Speaker 2: and honestly, honestly, this podcast in general continues to surprise us.
Speaker 2: And so I think that when we say something like, well,
Speaker 2: if you come two hours early to our free event
Speaker 2: in an outdoor space, you're gonna get in, that's because
Speaker 2: we are so new to the fact where that might
Speaker 2: not be the case. And so I think that please
Speaker 2: understand that our intentions in sort of directing you guys
Speaker 2: in the way that we wanted everyone to get into
Speaker 2: the event were only with the intention of being as
Speaker 2: liberal as possible with how much time you needed and
Speaker 2: trying to over prepare you for what kind of weight
Speaker 2: would happen. And then the fact that a couple people
Speaker 2: waited a couple hours and still did not get in,
Speaker 2: I really and like, I don't want this to be
Speaker 2: the narrative about the event, because we did work so
Speaker 2: hard hard on it, and so many people did and
Speaker 2: it was so much fun. But suffice to say, if
Speaker 2: you did go to great length to be there and
Speaker 2: could not enjoy it in the way you wanted to,
Speaker 2: this is something that is certainly towards the top of
Speaker 2: our minds, and we will do things in the future
Speaker 2: to make it up to you, seriously, because we're now
Speaker 2: aware this is probably the last time we can do something.
Speaker 1: Like that in that way. Correct, But we love you down.
Speaker 2: In the words of Tomas Mato left You Down their
Speaker 2: original All I Want for Christmas is You by Mariah
Speaker 2: Carey rap.
Speaker 3: Verse, which was really beautiful, so inspired. I mean, they
Speaker 3: took the time to write a custom verse for this event,
Speaker 3: really referencing all of the listenerships, but especially saying blanketing
Speaker 3: all of you by saying you're all finalists.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, if you took the time to try to
Speaker 2: make it out last night, you are a finalist.
Speaker 1: You have graduated.
Speaker 2: I understand that a lot of people are saying they
Speaker 2: identify as Katie's readers, publicists, and that there's a little
Speaker 2: bit of shyness when it comes to claiming the title
Speaker 2: of finalist. But if you made your way out there
Speaker 2: and what was for a short time a drizzle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're a finalist. You're a finalist. I will say that.
Speaker 3: You know, if you had fomo about this year, no
Speaker 3: matter what your reason was, if you were in town,
Speaker 3: if you couldn't get seating, it's only going to get
Speaker 3: bigger and better from now on in the future.
Speaker 1: Truly.
Speaker 3: Also, I was only comfortable really saying come a couple
Speaker 3: hours before because I'm not going to be the person
Speaker 3: I don't know about you, Matt. I'm not gonna be
Speaker 3: the person who's gonna say come, sit and wait in
Speaker 3: line for longer than the actual show itself. Like that
Speaker 3: is right at that point, Like it's almost no matter
Speaker 3: how great the show is, usually not worth it, right.
Speaker 2: I mean I guess that was not up to us,
Speaker 2: but everyone that came thought it was worth it. And
Speaker 2: the thing is like, we will continue to make it
Speaker 2: worth it going forward. And I also think there's another
Speaker 2: thing of like, you know, when this event is coming together,
Speaker 2: we have the most incredible producer.
Speaker 1: Her name is Lauren Mandel. She's gonna run so basically
Speaker 1: she's gonna run this town. I mean that's for real.
Speaker 2: And we Bowen and I in the week's leading up
Speaker 2: to the event sort of just throw things out there
Speaker 2: that we think would be fun to happen, Like, oh,
Speaker 2: would be fun if you know, the cast of Titany
Speaker 2: came and performed.
Speaker 1: It would be fun.
Speaker 2: If we could get a video from such and such
Speaker 2: and we'll get into it, and like, and if they
Speaker 2: wanted to accept the award and send in a video.
Speaker 2: People that are like objectively kind of busy right now,
Speaker 2: and if they want to take their time out and
Speaker 2: do this, like that would be cool. And then showing
Speaker 2: up and it's all actually happened that we were allowed
Speaker 2: to just be creative. Like Lauren Mandel, I almost don't
Speaker 2: even want to share her name with you, because I
Speaker 2: don't want anyone out there who's creative and like might
Speaker 2: be able to hire her to take her from us.
Speaker 2: But then again, I do want her to have all
Speaker 2: the success in the world, so I will begrudgingly share
Speaker 2: her name and talents with you. But I mean, she
Speaker 2: made the show just an eleven out of ten, and
Speaker 2: we were able to be just so joyous and preparing
Speaker 2: for it. I mean, let's just so we just recap
Speaker 2: from the top.
Speaker 3: Yes, let's becapped from the top, But I just want
Speaker 3: to post in and all the Lauren Mandel shouts and
Speaker 3: shout outs to the rest of the team, Karina Strom,
Speaker 3: Maggie Leel, Randy Silver, We love you Randy so much.
Speaker 3: Charlotte Harrison, who designed the trophies, printed out the cards,
Speaker 3: cut together so many of the designed the graphic treatment.
Speaker 3: Ryan Gainer, her fiance for editing the videos, all the
Speaker 3: videos that you saw, just did an amazing group of people.
Speaker 3: David Davin for music directing, arranging these absolute.
Speaker 2: Band the dancers had this year. That was an whole
Speaker 2: other element that was such a gag. I mean, like
Speaker 2: it was if you came last year, it was like
Speaker 2: last year, like doubled and like we will double that
Speaker 2: we promised you this one. This has now become something
Speaker 2: that we find so much joy in doing. And of
Speaker 2: course all the presenters and winners that we had in
Speaker 2: performers and everyone at Lincoln Center too.
Speaker 1: This was just the coolest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just to begin from the top. We began with
Speaker 2: a performance, a Record of the Year nominee eighth World
Speaker 2: Wonder And I feel that I was able to look
Speaker 2: back at my like I don't know, thirteen fourteen year
Speaker 2: old self and say, yes, you did perform eighth World
Speaker 2: Wonder to a crowd of thousands.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, You traveled back in time
Speaker 3: in that moment you think.
Speaker 2: I just remember being young and thinking this is one
Speaker 2: of the greatest pop songs of all time and it's
Speaker 2: sort of being played on the radio. And to now
Speaker 2: have it be performed in the same show as Pam
Speaker 2: Padam America's number on the world's number one song, I
Speaker 2: mean a shout out to Kimberly Lock and please Kimberly
Speaker 2: hear us when we say you did that, You did that.
Speaker 3: Kimberly Lock, who is now? I think in her like
Speaker 3: either and I would love for her or anyone who
Speaker 3: knows hers more familiar with her correct me on this.
Speaker 3: I think she's in her like life coach slash influencer era.
Speaker 3: I'm checking out her Instagram, her socials. She's at a
Speaker 3: winery talking to camera, front facing going what's keeping you
Speaker 3: from your success? Or you know that kind of thing,
Speaker 3: And I'm like.
Speaker 1: Ah, she is. It feels right.
Speaker 3: Klo As she was called season two of American Idol.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we called her Kalo. She seemed to Gosh
Speaker 3: and you and I were talking about this right, Like
Speaker 3: that was a time in pop culture when, especially an
Speaker 3: American Idol where it was but they wear glasses. They
Speaker 3: have so much talent, but they wear glasses. That was
Speaker 3: Klay ak And and Kimberly Walk in the same season.
Speaker 2: I mean literally, what the theme of that just to
Speaker 2: sort of leave the cultural awards behind for a second
Speaker 2: and to sort of talk about more pertinent things like
Speaker 2: season two of American Idol and its themes. What the
Speaker 2: theme I remember in the beginning of American Idol Season
Speaker 2: two was it was literally should you look like a
Speaker 2: pop star? Or should you sound like an amazing singer?
Speaker 2: And basically what that meant was they had the Frumps
Speaker 2: and they had the like SENI you know, like tank
Speaker 2: top wearing pop star must people, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: And I remember the whole bit was like Kimberly Lock
Speaker 2: came in and like a high waisted jean and a
Speaker 2: black T shirt and like her glasses and her hair
Speaker 2: up and sang somewhere over the rainbow. And then slowly
Speaker 2: as the season went by, as she, Clay and Ruben
Speaker 2: stayed in the competition and the Frumps began to win.
Speaker 1: They blew out her hair.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they took her glasses off, they put the contacts in.
Speaker 2: They gave Clay Aiken that ridiculous gay red jacket that
Speaker 2: he wore during when he sang Greece. We've talked about this, yes, yea.
Speaker 2: But they started to sex them up. They started to
Speaker 2: give Clay Akon like Ryan Seacrests hair. They gave Reuben
Speaker 2: this thing where he would wear like a different designer
Speaker 2: jersey with his area code on it. Like they sex
Speaker 2: them up a bit. Yeah, and then they were the
Speaker 2: top three. Okay, so kimberly Lock did that.
Speaker 1: They did.
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, We sang eighth World Wonder. I mean I
Speaker 3: did travel back in time for a moment too, Like
Speaker 3: just listening to that song in my mom's minivan on
Speaker 3: the way to like piano lessons or something like that
Speaker 3: was a moment. And then gosh we opened the show.
Speaker 3: We took some census work and asked what the breakdown
Speaker 3: was among the Katies' readers, publicists, finalists, and.
Speaker 1: The Katies really did respond. They responded in great numbers.
Speaker 1: It felt like a big Katie crowd.
Speaker 3: Interesting. Interesting. I feel like Steve Cornaki just kind of
Speaker 3: tracking the shifts and the demographics and all that, and
Speaker 3: then oh yeah, we thanked our sponsor. They didn't really
Speaker 3: sponsor the event, but we just did a little nod
Speaker 3: to Matt's famous reading of the Craft Back and Cheese ad.
Speaker 1: Of course, that is a reading we both did.
Speaker 3: Okay, I think I was just there to like give
Speaker 3: some some spice, but you were the meal.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Here's a glimpse behind the curtain when it comes to ads.
Speaker 2: Sometimes an AD will reach out and they'll say things
Speaker 2: like here's the copy, and then they'll say something like
Speaker 2: add some personal experience and so bone and I will
Speaker 2: rotate the copy. And then if you're the unlucky one
Speaker 2: that day, you get to be the one that adds
Speaker 2: quote unquote personal experience with whatever the product is. And
Speaker 2: you may not even have much personal experience.
Speaker 3: And whether or not you do, ninety nine percent of
Speaker 3: the time you just kind of lurched through it and
Speaker 3: you're like, I don't know what to say, But Matt, something,
Speaker 3: talk about what spirit moved you when you recorded that amazing,
Speaker 3: amazing account.
Speaker 2: Well, I think that Kraft Mac and Cheese tried to
Speaker 2: do this thing in sending us the ad where they said,
Speaker 2: let's connect culture and Craft mac and cheese. So the
Speaker 2: line what's the best culture to enjoy while consuming a
Speaker 2: bowl of Kraft mac and cheese? That was written copy
Speaker 2: and you asked me that, and for some reason I
Speaker 2: just said sex and the City. And then I believe
Speaker 2: it was the connection between the insatiable nature of Samantha
Speaker 2: Jones and how hard all the way I can personally get. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I did say all the women. I think that's really
Speaker 2: sort of form met opportunity there. Yeah, And I sort
Speaker 2: of just went with it. I went with a carnal
Speaker 2: desire for Kraft mac and cheese, and that's sort of
Speaker 2: like just a glimpse into how that process came to be,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And then we just passed the ball back and forth.
Speaker 2: Once you get horny for Kraft mac and cheese, it's
Speaker 2: actually incredibly hard to stop yourself.
Speaker 3: Oh, because also what was happening was the finish line
Speaker 3: was we had to like land on you know, in
Speaker 3: doing a bowl of Craft mac and cheese, is doing
Speaker 3: something for yourself, especially in a world that tells you
Speaker 3: you can't like that was I think that was mostly
Speaker 3: written copy as well. It was so you really built
Speaker 3: the bridge to that idea by throwing sex in the
Speaker 3: city in there, and it all works, and it all
Speaker 3: it feels like a different movement, It feels like a
Speaker 3: different act in the play, the screenplay, all of it.
Speaker 3: And so, gosh, what a huge success that is. And
Speaker 3: you really did that well.
Speaker 2: When I knew that, we were sort of because the
Speaker 2: Cultural Awards, of course, it honors culture that that is
Speaker 2: in all of space and time. You know, we're we're
Speaker 2: talking about best lunch, We're talking about best fish, We're
Speaker 2: talking about.
Speaker 1: You know, so many of these things greater. But also
Speaker 1: you do want to honor the current year. And so
Speaker 1: I felt like we couldn't commemorate this year of Lost
Speaker 1: Coach without nodding to yes, the Kraft Mac and Cheese,
Speaker 1: because I believe that culture is commerce. I do, and
Speaker 1: I knew that if there was something that elevated our
Speaker 1: podcast this year, it was the way that the Kraft
Speaker 1: Mac and Cheese at impacted. That's when I knew we
Speaker 1: had done something here, you know what I mean. We've
Speaker 1: been doing it for gosh gosh.
Speaker 2: Seven plus years at this point, and the only time
Speaker 2: I knew we had really done something here is when
Speaker 2: I saw readers Katie's publicistm finalists really reciting and responding
Speaker 2: to the Kraft mac and cheese at and I just
Speaker 2: knew that their numbers saw a bump. That's when I said,
Speaker 2: I think we're really doing something here with lost Coach.
Speaker 3: And yet I will be honest, we haven't heard a
Speaker 3: peep from Craft.
Speaker 1: It hurts. It hurts, that's all. We'll say. It hurts.
Speaker 1: We would have loved to hear from you, that's all.
Speaker 2: Because you know what, we would have loved to hear
Speaker 2: from you, because guess maybe you would have earned some
Speaker 2: nominations because you know what.
Speaker 1: Oreo Cookies. They were really.
Speaker 2: Grateful for their nominations and they left a huge winner.
Speaker 3: They left a huge winner because they were And I
Speaker 3: hate that we're sort of, you know, perpetuating this notion
Speaker 3: that like the more you engage in campaign with an
Speaker 3: award's body, the more they're rewarded. But you know, that
Speaker 3: is just how the that's just how the world works.
Speaker 3: And Oreo engaged with us and the publicists.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and look, I mean they're called publicists for a reason.
Speaker 2: I mean we say it here, like, first of all,
Speaker 2: let's just say this, just pull the curtain back.
Speaker 1: See the man behind it. This is a business. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is a business we wouldn't have for your consideration. Ads.
Speaker 1: Let me underline that word, ads, if this wasn't a business. Okay,
Speaker 1: you got to pay to play, baby.
Speaker 3: Oh, I mean, look, we're not above pay to play.
Speaker 1: You've known this all along. Secretly, I am very naive,
Speaker 1: and I am learning things about this industry that are
Speaker 1: a little ugly to me. Necessarily sucking cock for the
Speaker 1: Emmy this year. Okay, you're heard it here. First.
Speaker 3: I think that's all I'm doing for the Emmys this
Speaker 3: year because I'm not really getting much play elsewhere.
Speaker 1: In just weeks, we'll know. Yeah, And then we did.
Speaker 3: We reintroduced miss culturistaf of course. Oh yes, Patty Harrison
Speaker 3: came out. We were so glad she was able to
Speaker 3: join us. We made the trophy four ounces lighter this
Speaker 3: year so that she could carry them with more ease.
Speaker 3: And yes, she had no issue carrying the trophies this
Speaker 3: year at all. But she did threaten us with hate speech.
Speaker 3: She said she was starting she was working in a
Speaker 3: nonprofit space with a lot of you know thinkers, and
Speaker 3: in honor of five months, she says that the sort
Speaker 3: of the big mission statement of this of this organization
Speaker 3: is gay hate speech.
Speaker 1: Yeah, to stop gay people.
Speaker 2: She said, she wanted to stop gay behaviors, you know,
Speaker 2: just before I went on stage, so another peek behind
Speaker 2: the curtain. Bow started on stage right and I started
Speaker 2: on stage right, so we could sort of meet in
Speaker 2: the middle for eighth Well Wonder. So we actually weren't
Speaker 2: even speaking before the show. We actually barely even spoke
Speaker 2: before the show. We really only the only first words
Speaker 2: we said to each other were the beginning lyrics of
Speaker 2: eighth World Wonder. You know, we communicated through song. But
Speaker 2: so sort of on stage left, Patty was sort of
Speaker 2: work shopping a phrase for her nonprofit, and she was
Speaker 2: saying things like she's like, I want to make America good,
Speaker 2: like how do we make America good once more?
Speaker 1: And I was like, Patty, I can't.
Speaker 2: You're dancing around something very dangerous here, and I said
Speaker 2: I have to go sing, And then I went out
Speaker 2: and sang with you.
Speaker 1: The whole time.
Speaker 2: I was worried that she would get out on stage
Speaker 2: and start to spew hate speech, and then she did.
Speaker 2: So we sent her off the stage and said, you
Speaker 2: know what, just do what we told you to come
Speaker 2: here to do just hand out the awards.
Speaker 3: The awards, and honestly we're you know, obviously we're modeling
Speaker 3: Miss culture Sta after Miss Golden Globe, and that's usually
Speaker 3: a child of an actor, and that is like, I mean,
Speaker 3: we were just doing nepo babies. We were just parading
Speaker 3: them out like a year after year. By the way
Speaker 3: our iphspa, I.
Speaker 1: Mean that is it had to happen. So what a
Speaker 1: fall from grace truly, truly, truly what a fall.
Speaker 3: But we're trying to sort of subvert this whole weird
Speaker 3: moment we're in with nepotism and how to handle it.
Speaker 3: And we brought in our friend, Patty. She's not related
Speaker 3: to us, but she's our friend, which is a degree
Speaker 3: away from family relation. And it's still I don't think
Speaker 3: I don't think we solved it. I think some harm
Speaker 3: was still done. That being said, we'll get for another chance. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Patty will return as Missulchriesta for as long as she
Speaker 3: wants to. And speaking of awards, we did pass out
Speaker 3: the first award, which was kind of greeting, Yes, kind
Speaker 3: of greeting, was presented by Joe Firestone with help from
Speaker 3: professional actor from Netflix's upcoming Glamorous and the film Fire Island,
Speaker 3: Zane Phillip.
Speaker 1: The Extraordinary Zane Phillips, the.
Speaker 2: Extraordinary talented Zane Phillips joined with the actress and star
Speaker 2: Joe Fireson to present kindest greeting, and he actually acted
Speaker 2: out the greetings, which I think made elevated it. It
Speaker 2: really elevated it, just to see just how kind the
Speaker 2: greeting could feel. And I think that that really made
Speaker 2: it clear well how tight that race was. But the
Speaker 2: winner was, of course bo boneor Boo.
Speaker 3: You know, I had a thought this morning as I
Speaker 3: was for some reason, and this is true, while I
Speaker 3: was taking out the trash, I thought, we have been
Speaker 3: waiting for you, not necessarily kind. It depends on the context,
Speaker 3: because if you're relate to something and someone goes, we
Speaker 3: have been waiting for you, not kind. You know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying.
Speaker 2: You know what, maybe most patronizing greeting a little bit.
Speaker 2: That's that's one where tone comes in big yeah. And
Speaker 2: sometimes tone comes in big and that's actually a real
Speaker 2: culture number eight. Sometimes tone comes in big yeah. Well,
Speaker 2: so Bonjo Boo was the winner. Bojor Buru was the winner.
Speaker 2: Him my love him.
Speaker 3: My love would have won, but I think people are
Speaker 3: a little fatigued with how often it's said, and people
Speaker 3: I think it started to like with that ubiquity. I
Speaker 3: think people are like, it doesn't mean anything. It loses
Speaker 3: it's not kind to hear him my love because I
Speaker 3: just hear it all the time.
Speaker 1: It feels like maybe three years ago a little bit,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, A legacy nominee.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's okay, Bonjeor boo, I love. I'm really happy
Speaker 3: for Bocher. But then we had a most memorable line
Speaker 3: from a TV show lot, a stiff competition there.
Speaker 2: I mean, this was one of the biggest categories of
Speaker 2: the night just in terms of what way it was
Speaker 2: going to go. And ultimately cook my Meat by Ego
Speaker 2: Wodhem did win, and we did have Zane act all
Speaker 2: these out again. He did an amazing job. He's extraordinary, extraordinary.
Speaker 2: Joe and Zane presented the award to Ego, who was
Speaker 2: there in person to accept, and she said in her
Speaker 2: acceptance speech, and I thought this was so beautiful. She said,
Speaker 2: cook my meat, toss my salad, and eat my ass.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: I mean, if that doesn't go down in history as
Speaker 3: one of the best acceptance speeches.
Speaker 1: She looked fabulous in that pink Oh my god, she
Speaker 1: brought fashion.
Speaker 3: She brought fashion. New dog owner Ago Wodem. I mean,
Speaker 3: this woman has won, is just a winner in every way. Yes,
Speaker 3: she's got a dog, she's got an amazing summer, she's
Speaker 3: got the Lord.
Speaker 2: She's got a dog and an amazing summer. And if
Speaker 2: you have a dog in an amazing summer, you're on
Speaker 2: your way.
Speaker 1: You're on your way.
Speaker 2: We then showed some winners, and we'll tell you right now.
Speaker 2: Biggest gesture did go to Lady Gaga's Harley Quinn. Biggest
Speaker 2: flop was Tanya mcquad from The White Lotus. She went
Speaker 2: home with multiple award.
Speaker 1: Yes, have I been Miss Jester of her name.
Speaker 2: So here's the thing about Jennifer Coolidge. When she's in
Speaker 2: the first season of White Lotus, she goes mac wad
Speaker 2: and then she goes macwah and it's like a moment
Speaker 2: of comedy, right mccoyd, I believe is like how it's spelled.
Speaker 2: I don't think you can go wrong here. I think
Speaker 2: it's part of her flap.
Speaker 1: I did.
Speaker 3: And mcclaw is the French pronunciation of it, and I
Speaker 3: imagine that is it's a moment of comedy, but it's
Speaker 3: a moment of character as well, for you know, Tanya,
Speaker 3: because it's like she cares a lot about where she
Speaker 3: comes from, her stock. And I apologize for mispronouncing her name.
Speaker 3: It's the cardinal rule of awards presentation. Her announcement is
Speaker 3: that people literally show up to rehearse and train and
Speaker 3: practice the names. But anyway, Tanya on If you want
Speaker 3: the full winner's list, Vulture did update their articles and
Speaker 3: the winners are bolded if you want to check that out.
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean just to run through some Biggest Chester
Speaker 2: flop went to Quitara Ravace, biggest Chester flap in the
Speaker 2: Clown Square with the studios who will not give the
Speaker 2: WJF fair deal, which we still don't have. Biggest Night
Speaker 2: of Our Lives went to win a fag chees adele
Speaker 2: Las Vegas. The Melanie Lensky One for most sweetest Person
Speaker 2: went to can't remember her name, but the girl from
Speaker 2: the other night. The Freedom Award for criminal who should
Speaker 2: be free of the girls locked up at the end
Speaker 2: of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. And these were
Speaker 2: all on Vulture dot Com. I mean, so many winners.
Speaker 2: It just was an amazing evening.
Speaker 1: It was an amazing evening.
Speaker 3: Then we went into Pat Reagan presenting the first record
Speaker 3: that you're nominee on stage. Yes, he so wonderfully set
Speaker 3: up the cast of Titanic performing if you asked Me
Speaker 3: to by Celine Dion. We're talking, of course about Marlon Mindell,
Speaker 3: constantin Zulia and Carrie Saint Louis doing an amazing rendition.
Speaker 1: Yes, I mean they performed if you asked me to.
Speaker 1: It was stunning.
Speaker 2: I think that Pat was right when he said, this
Speaker 2: is maybe Celian Dion's eleventh most No.
Speaker 1: That's high placement. Do you feel I think that can
Speaker 1: your Celian Dion's most known songs? Gosh, my heart will
Speaker 1: go on one.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, this is so hard already. I think
Speaker 3: it's all coming back to me. Now there you go,
Speaker 3: because you loved me, Beauty in the base four? Uh
Speaker 3: tell him, I'll throw that in there.
Speaker 1: You think that's five? I drove out power of love.
Speaker 1: I drove all night, take some chances taking that's eight.
Speaker 3: I mean I think there are like at least five
Speaker 3: more before if you asked me to. You know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying, we're already eight and like if you asked
Speaker 3: me to is not even coming closer here? Let me
Speaker 3: get to eleven, all right, Okay, where does my heart beat?
Speaker 1: Now? Oh god, that's the way. That's the way. It
Speaker 1: is ten, Her initiative Nature boy, okay. And then then
Speaker 1: there's also River Deep, Mountain, Her Mountain High. Of course.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know we're already just.
Speaker 2: You wow, what you know?
Speaker 1: What? So wow?
Speaker 2: Maybe when I wrote that copy up that was that
Speaker 2: was alous. I didn't say you did, honey. I'm just
Speaker 2: saying a note for myself. I should have said maybe
Speaker 2: her eighteenth most known song. And maybe that's a little
Speaker 2: rude if you.
Speaker 1: Asked me to no, but it is.
Speaker 3: It's part of the joke in the copies that Pat
Speaker 3: Reagan is saying these words, and to Pat, it's definitely
Speaker 3: the eighteenth or even the eleventh most popular song. And
Speaker 3: in the show Titaniq, it is so beautifully done.
Speaker 1: It it's amazing. It is like the showcase song. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, mm hmmm mm hmm.
Speaker 2: I also want to say, I want I want to
Speaker 2: get out in front of this and say, if you
Speaker 2: asked me to while a record of the your nominee.
Speaker 2: We said, if you asked me to buy Celindion, I
Speaker 2: am well aware this is originally a Patty LaBelle song. Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm well aware of it. It just feels like it
Speaker 2: had a bigger cultural impact when Celendion sang it. We
Speaker 2: could debate why, and we could get into a really
Speaker 2: academic discussion as to why that happened. I am aware
Speaker 2: of its origins. If you asked me to buy Celendon
Speaker 2: via VI. The Titanique cast was why it was a
Speaker 2: Record of the Year nominee. In fact, peak behind the curtain,
Speaker 2: there may have even been another Celene Dion song that
Speaker 2: was originally a Record of the Year nominee, and.
Speaker 1: We kicked it over to the Titanicque cast and they said,
Speaker 1: can we do this song instead? And then we said yes,
Speaker 1: And that's why it's the Record of the Year nominee.
Speaker 1: I think you could confirm, well, Titanique had a Record
Speaker 1: of the year kind of year. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1: A one hundred percent? They were topical, They were top
Speaker 1: of mine all year.
Speaker 3: They were top of mine all year, and so we
Speaker 3: really just we gave them their pick and we have
Speaker 3: we have no regrets. You have no regrets as an audience.
Speaker 3: So anyway, then we had Bonnie Milligan Tony Award winner
Speaker 3: Bonnie Milligan via video. She could not join us unfortunately
Speaker 3: because she was performing in the Tony Award winning musical
Speaker 3: for Best Musical, Kimberly Kimbo. She presented the Kimberly Kimbo
Speaker 3: Award for Best Indoor Life Performance to Titanique.
Speaker 1: Beautiful extent.
Speaker 2: It was amazing just to just to be able to
Speaker 2: highlight the gay monoculture that was Titanique this year.
Speaker 1: If you were in New York and gay Titanique was monoculture.
Speaker 3: I have on good authority that there are some prominent
Speaker 3: head of sexuals who love Titany.
Speaker 1: I heard the same thing. Some people that we all
Speaker 1: know love Titany. A space for Titanique. Okay.
Speaker 2: So then we had the host of Exploration Live come out,
Speaker 2: and this was Charlie Barday and Natalie Roder Lightman, who
Speaker 2: really became fan favorites on this podcast after our episode
Speaker 2: with them, and so we knew we had to have
Speaker 2: them to come present.
Speaker 3: Not that they needed us to signal boost them at all,
Speaker 3: but I mean I think people were like, who are
Speaker 3: these two and I think they have a lot of
Speaker 3: lovely fans crossed over into our listenership and vices.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, so we had them on stage to present. These
Speaker 2: were covered awards, Best Gay Guy Normal and Best Gay
Speaker 2: Guy Famous. Best Gig Go Normal was a tie. It
Speaker 2: went to a nurse and a teacher. That was an
Speaker 2: incredible moment. We had a nurse and a teacher who
Speaker 2: looked suspiciously like George Saveras and Sam Taggert up to
Speaker 2: accept the award, and I think they represented all the
Speaker 2: nurses and teachers in the crowd. I'm assuming there were
Speaker 2: many gay nurses and gay teachers in the crowd. I
Speaker 2: just have that instinct that there were.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then they presented the award for Best Gay Guy Famous,
Speaker 2: And I'm sorry, is this is a soft spot for you?
Speaker 1: Now? Is this a rough one? I was not very
Speaker 1: competitive this year in my categories. I really was. He
Speaker 1: didn't think so. No.
Speaker 3: I think I'm like, I think I needed to just
Speaker 3: sort of step away from that whole, you know, process,
Speaker 3: and I think I'm the better for it, you know.
Speaker 2: Well, Best Gay Guy Famous did go to Andy Cohen,
Speaker 2: who was to send in an acceptance speech in which
Speaker 2: he actually he vowed to be even gayer this year.
Speaker 2: He said that we made him want it to be gayer.
Speaker 2: I'm hard pressed to see how Andy Cohen could be
Speaker 2: a gayer person.
Speaker 1: Than then he currently. Actually, we were on Watch What
Speaker 1: Happens Live with him this week he was acting gayer
Speaker 1: than very gay, very gay.
Speaker 3: Some people think of him as like the gay impresario
Speaker 3: of the current pop culture, and it's so redundant, you know,
Speaker 3: gay impresario, and every impresario is gay. Every impresario works
Speaker 3: in pop culture. He is the impresario. He is the
Speaker 3: gay guy famous, the best one.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: See, every impresario is gay. That's actually a really culture
Speaker 2: number thirty nine. Every every impresario is gay impresario. I
Speaker 2: don't think there's a gayer word. That's the gayest where
Speaker 2: there can be and the gayest thing in person you
Speaker 2: can be. And Andy Cohen is the singular impresario. Congrats
Speaker 2: to him. You are an impresario, Andy Cohen, congratulations, Congratulations
Speaker 2: to you.
Speaker 3: Another winner's package where we went through more categories. Anything
Speaker 3: you want to highlight in this batch. Man, here's the thing.
Speaker 3: Pizza Knight was a huge winner, and I knew there
Speaker 3: was a huge moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the movement rather for best Holiday Changing Day, for
Speaker 2: that to be Pizza Knight, for best Dinner to be
Speaker 2: Pizza Knight, And I just I'm really happy for everyone
Speaker 2: out there that was pelling for Pizza Knight because I
Speaker 2: think that there's a stigma around Pizza Knight. Yeah, because
Speaker 2: it can't happen every night, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: It's like Pizza Night is a treat. Yeah, that's why
Speaker 2: it's a holiday, you know what I mean, That's why
Speaker 2: it's a holiday changing night. So for it to be
Speaker 2: both best dinner and best Holiday changing Date sort of
Speaker 2: makes it feel like, you know what, it tipped to
Speaker 2: celebration for me.
Speaker 1: And I'm just really happy.
Speaker 3: I'm really happy because this is what happens in a
Speaker 3: lot of awards, is that if someone is represented more
Speaker 3: than once in a category, if there are a multiple nominee,
Speaker 3: sometimes that works against them. It's not fun to root
Speaker 3: for them. And I think Pizza Knight never got snagged
Speaker 3: by that. I think Pizza Knight was always fun to
Speaker 3: root for.
Speaker 1: I think, let's just say this, it has not been
Speaker 1: a good week for Doja Cat. She was I mean,
Speaker 1: besides her new single, I think this is. This has
Speaker 1: been a rough one. She lost all her spies.
Speaker 2: She went home empty handed from the lost Coultusa's Culture Awards,
Speaker 2: and she was absolutely dragged to hell by Azilia Banks.
Speaker 3: I did see what Basilia said. I mean, but who
Speaker 3: among us has not been dragged by Azalea?
Speaker 1: I really await my moment.
Speaker 3: Zalia was nominated last year. No, she did insult us.
Speaker 3: She was nominated for worst insult towards us. Fucking fagus.
Speaker 3: Yes to all gay yes, yeah to.
Speaker 1: All gay people.
Speaker 2: So I guess, I guess what I'm saying is like
Speaker 2: to get individually insulted by Azilia Banks, who really is
Speaker 2: I guess a poet Laurie, you know, not to insult
Speaker 2: any of our readers, but the best reader and really
Speaker 2: the poet laureate and like the leading insult comic of
Speaker 2: our generation. To get an individual insult from her, I
Speaker 2: hope Doja can at least find something positive about that,
Speaker 2: because she does go home empty handed from the last
Speaker 2: Culturistas Culture Award. She was blanked and you know, called
Speaker 2: corny by Azilia Banks. But there's a lad at the
Speaker 2: end of the tunnel.
Speaker 3: There's an honor in being insulted by Azalia. I mean, Grint.
Speaker 3: The best thing that happened to Grimes was being told
Speaker 3: that she looked like she smelled like a roll of Nichols.
Speaker 3: I mean that, that's the top for me. You can't
Speaker 3: beat that. You can't beat that in an insult.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you're one hundred percent right. Also, everyone's
Speaker 2: saying that Melanie Lynsky did not go home with enough awards.
Speaker 2: She won the Shivroy Award for Best Fake American Accent. Okay,
Speaker 2: she's a last Culturistas Cultural Award winner, period period.
Speaker 3: We're gonna talk about this later, about our Finalist of
Speaker 3: the Year winner, because there was a moment that we
Speaker 3: have to address.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's keep going.
Speaker 3: Oh and then finally, of course, in that package, scariest
Speaker 3: moment in history went to Hereditary.
Speaker 1: Little Diva head come off. Hereditary, Little Diva Head come off. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We had a fun celebratory moment with a cut video
Speaker 1: to heads row roll by Yeah, Yeah, yeahs and we
Speaker 1: all did the macharina, all did the macarena to it
Speaker 1: lovely sort of as a nod to the past of
Speaker 1: the Cultural Awards and also maybe even a nod to
Speaker 1: its future. Maybe we'll see the macarena employed two different
Speaker 1: kinds of songs in the future. It just shows what
Speaker 1: a malleable dance it is. You know, people talk about
Speaker 1: the step touch as being something you can do to
Speaker 1: really any song. Simple.
Speaker 2: People talk about like a body roll being like something
Speaker 2: you can do to really any music mostly R and B.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hip hop. Really you can do anything. Who says
Speaker 1: you can't do the macarena to the song heads.
Speaker 2: Will roll by the yeah yeah yeahs while yeah The
Speaker 2: clip from Hereditary plays like you can do anything. This
Speaker 2: is something I hope people felt at the end of
Speaker 2: the award show that you can do anything?
Speaker 1: Yes, I agree. What was the next award? Matt? Was
Speaker 1: this when the biggest current threat to US winners came out?
Speaker 3: We had announced George and Sam as the biggest current
Speaker 3: threat to US Award winners and so at this point
Speaker 3: we brought them on as winners Tonight. George Savera, Sam Taggert.
Speaker 3: He presented Outstanding Reality Competition Host.
Speaker 2: Yes, this was a hotly contested race, but the winner
Speaker 2: was alan coming for the traders and he was kind
Speaker 2: enough to send in a video from the woods in Scotland.
Speaker 2: And this was the scary moment in the show I
Speaker 2: felt because he really gave us traders Alan comming he
Speaker 2: was unable to accept in person, but he did send
Speaker 2: wordless twinks gagged and bound to accept the very heavy award,
Speaker 2: and they did such an amazing job that we actually
Speaker 2: kept them for the rest of the show, and we
Speaker 2: just decided, let's just keep employing these twins that Alan sent,
Speaker 2: because I was honestly, quite frankly, was afraid of what
Speaker 2: happened when we sent them back to him.
Speaker 1: I was very afraid. I was very afraid wait for
Speaker 1: Alan or for the twins.
Speaker 2: For the twins, I was like, Okay, let's make sure
Speaker 2: these twins get fed whatever that means.
Speaker 3: I mean, I can't imagine where they would feed from
Speaker 3: because their mouths were taped shut.
Speaker 2: Their mouths were taped, and it sort of felt like
Speaker 2: they were under strict instruction to keep their mouths shut,
Speaker 2: literally with black tape sore.
Speaker 1: Are we just letting this happen? I think Alan can
Speaker 1: get away with anything. I really do.
Speaker 2: I think he's an international treasure and listen, a last
Speaker 2: Culture Racays Cultural Award winner, So.
Speaker 1: Congrats to him.
Speaker 2: He takes home the award for Outstanding Reality competition host
Speaker 2: and then this was a huge moment for us.
Speaker 1: Yes, because George and Sam, who, by the way, they
Speaker 1: vowed to take.
Speaker 3: Us down, were the villains of the night. I think
Speaker 3: they were the villains of the night. I think they
Speaker 3: liked that, and that's okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're sort of dark, you know, the two of them.
Speaker 2: They're sort of like evil, and they really vowed to
Speaker 2: take us down as the biggest current threat to us,
Speaker 2: and that earned booze from the audience. And I don't
Speaker 2: know how they feel about it, but yeah, they should
Speaker 2: think twice before I threaten us again.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, George is giving glasses and Sam is
Speaker 3: giving mustache, and there are some parallels there with us,
Speaker 3: and I feel like people are really they see a
Speaker 3: new way to enjoy glasses and mustache and they go,
Speaker 3: I want to enjoy this. But it's different, but it's familiar.
Speaker 2: What do they make for this, Well, there's basically they
Speaker 2: feel they've reached a maximum, We've reached critical mass. It's
Speaker 2: sort of like the multiverse, which we'll get into later,
Speaker 2: Like they're a multiverse version of us, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna get into it.
Speaker 2: But they presented the Award for Most Iconic Building our
Speaker 2: Structure to LaGuardia Airport Now and we accepted on behalf
Speaker 2: of Laguadi Airport Now as its biggest champions.
Speaker 3: I mean, and we just watched a beautiful full super
Speaker 3: cut of the new Delta terminal LaGuardia set to Glamorous
Speaker 3: by Fergie.
Speaker 2: Yes, And I think that made the audience really feel
Speaker 2: like comfortable because at an award show you really are
Speaker 2: on the edge of your seat the whole time because
Speaker 2: you're sort of you know, who's gonna come out, what's
Speaker 2: this performance gonna be, Who's gonna win?
Speaker 1: I did want to give the.
Speaker 2: Audience, and I think you agreed, like a moment where
Speaker 2: they could just sit back, relax and enjoy a clip
Speaker 2: package that made them feel good. And so just to
Speaker 2: see the Delta terminal at the new La Guardia, I
Speaker 2: could see everyone sould just dropping. I could see them
Speaker 2: sort of like you know, rolling their heads to Glamorous
Speaker 2: by Fergie. It felt like, Yes, a good relaxing moment
Speaker 2: about like, you know, almost halfway through the show.
Speaker 1: And isn't it so funny because there really is nothing
Speaker 1: more glamorous than an award show. No, there's not. It
Speaker 1: was a perfect moment, perfect moment.
Speaker 3: Next up, we had another winner's package into our next
Speaker 3: Record of the Year nominee, which is pad Padam.
Speaker 2: So basically we were under the impression and like I said,
Speaker 2: Lauren Mendel, our producer, she makes amazing things happen. And
Speaker 2: we were told that Kylie Minogue was going to come
Speaker 2: perform pad Padam at the last Coultuese's Culture Awards, and.
Speaker 3: We said, but wait, Lauren, isn't she performing at Jones
Speaker 3: Beach with Deborah Hawks And isn't she just coming out
Speaker 3: to do a couple songs and then bouncing? And then
Speaker 3: Lauren goes, yes, exactly, So she's gonna we're sending a chopper.
Speaker 3: We're sending a blade chopper to Jones Beach. We're gonna
Speaker 3: blow sand and everyone's face is there, and then she's
Speaker 3: gonna hop on the copter and then come to Lincoln Center.
Speaker 3: I mean, the top of the David Deffenhall is basically
Speaker 3: a helipad. It's a flat ceiling.
Speaker 1: It made perfect sense to us and felt feasible. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but then I also did I was like I was
Speaker 1: a little I don't know, my spidy spence, my Spidey
Speaker 1: spences were going off when I noticed Patty Harrison was
Speaker 1: sort of missing, so she was misculturist, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden she wasn't handing out the awards anymore. The
Speaker 1: twins had started handing out the awards. I said, where's Patty,
Speaker 1: where's Patty?
Speaker 2: So the dancers come out in their iconic Kylie Minogue
Speaker 2: put on red and then who's posing as Kylie Minogue?
Speaker 2: It's Patty, it's Patty, and she sang, put on put
Speaker 2: on as Kylie Minogue. Her appendix burst mid song.
Speaker 1: Twice twice, which I don't think Cavan's ever.
Speaker 2: I kind of think once your appendix burst, that's your
Speaker 2: appendix is burst. Yeah, she did sound a lot like Kylie, though,
Speaker 2: I will her appendix burst.
Speaker 3: She revealed that she's been dealing with bed bugs, and
Speaker 3: then she said and then she also was pointing out
Speaker 3: things on the stage. She was I think she was
Speaker 3: really disturbed by someone's insulin needle.
Speaker 1: It was. It was a mess. We're so sorry Kylie
Speaker 1: or sorry Patty.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think I think we stressed Patty out
Speaker 3: because she would have been able to really fool us
Speaker 3: into thinking it was Kylie.
Speaker 1: But I mean it was great to hear put. I mean,
Speaker 1: who's tired of that song? No way, no one, not
Speaker 1: even out figure every day.
Speaker 3: Then we had Aga Wodem come Out Winner, Ago Woldem
Speaker 3: come Ount present the two awards with the word girl
Speaker 3: in the category. This is the Ariana Matos Award for
Speaker 3: Girl You Can Do Betta Hunt, which of course went
Speaker 3: to arion O Mattox.
Speaker 2: Yes, she was kind enough to send in a gorgeous
Speaker 2: video acceptance speech wherein she reminded us that reality TV
Speaker 2: is not trash and I never thought this. Oh and
Speaker 2: if I ever did, I want to go back in
Speaker 2: time in the DeLorean and slap myself in the back
Speaker 2: of the head.
Speaker 1: It's a fool.
Speaker 3: But I think she was talking to people who there
Speaker 3: are still some holdouts, people who think that it's trash,
Speaker 3: and it's like the way scanned of all dominated the
Speaker 3: cultural conversation. Should get rid of any of that feeling
Speaker 3: like that, should put that thought to rat immediately.
Speaker 1: I want to see the Emmy nomination from Randon Bumperles. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm saying it. Did you see that loud Did you
Speaker 1: see that FYC video that like that that thing they
Speaker 1: put together where they talked about the finale. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the producers, it's Sina Shee, it's Andy All being
Speaker 1: like just giving you and it was fascinating. No, they're
Speaker 1: they're working for it and they deserve it more than anybody.
Speaker 2: So Ego remained on stage and she presented the Alison
Speaker 2: Williams Cool Girl Award to none other than Ariana Grande,
Speaker 2: who also sent in a video speech and describe, describe
Speaker 2: what what.
Speaker 3: This legend she with this fag did so she basically
Speaker 3: cut together a reenactment to the moment in Mommy Dearest
Speaker 3: in which Joan Crawford played by Fay Dunaway wins the oscar.
Speaker 3: She runs outside with Christina with Mama Sita and you know,
Speaker 3: accepts her award in front of her adoring public. A wonderful,
Speaker 3: a wonderful moment, A deep cut of a moment from
Speaker 3: Mommy Dearist, an underappreciated, under quoted moment for Mommy Dearist.
Speaker 3: And this is what made Aaron Jackson, who was standing
Speaker 3: next to me, turn to me and go, oh, this
Speaker 3: girl is a faggot. Like this girl, Arianna just gets it.
Speaker 1: And that's all. That's what we'll say.
Speaker 3: And We all know what that means, don't we publicists
Speaker 3: and readers and katies and finalists like she is, She's
Speaker 3: one of us, and you can confirm, I can confirm.
Speaker 3: Then we move on to a winner's package, and we
Speaker 3: forgot to mention. In the last winner's package. It ended
Speaker 3: with Kate Blanchette winning the award for the Katelynchett Award
Speaker 3: for Good Acting and the reaction to her face. I mean,
Speaker 3: it was unmistakable. Everyone knew what was happening. It was
Speaker 3: Kate in her home, just elated at the win and
Speaker 3: confetti everywhere. Her kid's throwing confetti from the banisters. You
Speaker 3: can see from the corner of your eye, and this
Speaker 3: is Kate Blanchette, just win us. Because she's saying, I've
Speaker 3: known all along how ridiculous these award shows are, and
Speaker 3: she's had to play the game and do the drag.
Speaker 3: But this is a moment for her to be like,
Speaker 3: let me just give you two seconds of silliness and stupidity,
Speaker 3: and I'm out.
Speaker 1: We did. We will say we did write her copy
Speaker 1: to say. I think she was like, no, let me
Speaker 1: just do my own thing, and we honor that.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I mean, I wouldn't change a thing.
Speaker 2: The fact that she allowed her home to get messy
Speaker 2: with confetti.
Speaker 1: For us ridiculous.
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, what more could you want? That
Speaker 2: woman allowed her home to be covered in little pieces
Speaker 2: of paper for us, for us, Thank you. So the
Speaker 2: winners this winner's package again go to Vulture dot com
Speaker 2: and we'll also post the winners. Ended with the song
Speaker 2: Breathe by Faith Hill winning the Santa Award for being unforgettable,
Speaker 2: and that led into what I think, yet again, was
Speaker 2: my favorite moment of the night personally. Last year, my
Speaker 2: favorite moment of the night was performing Driver's License in
Speaker 2: four part Harmony with Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson and
Speaker 2: my sister Boon and Yang, and we were able to
Speaker 2: perform Record of the Year nominee Breathe in sheets that
Speaker 2: were ordered off Amazon that were a nod to the
Speaker 2: music video the Breathe video by Faith Hill. And I
Speaker 2: have to say I disappeared into the moment you did,
Speaker 2: and I just allowed no, we all did. I just
Speaker 2: allowed myself to enjoy singing Breathe in a satin sheet
Speaker 2: so much so that I absolutely launched a belt in
Speaker 2: harmony too early in the clear when we were not
Speaker 2: supposed to do that.
Speaker 1: And I wouldn't change a thing, Baby, all we need
Speaker 1: is just to be You were caught up in the touch.
Speaker 1: I was caught up in the touch.
Speaker 2: I think I was so because before so peak behind
Speaker 2: the curtain. Wow, a third peak behind the curtain.
Speaker 1: Crazy, this is the whole point of the episode.
Speaker 2: So we're rehearsing this song beforehand, and we're all sort
Speaker 2: of standing sagment on stage singing the song, which is,
Speaker 2: you know, not on common for a first run through. Okay, right,
Speaker 2: and then I send my note is we got to
Speaker 2: do a lyrics pass? Yeah, And then my second notice
Speaker 2: use the fabric, because why are we here if we're
Speaker 2: not going to use the fabric? Then lo and behold.
Speaker 2: During the formance, I'm too into using the fabric, and
Speaker 2: I lost the place in the song and launched a
Speaker 2: belt in harmony too early in the clear, and I
Speaker 2: felt sure I deserved that one.
Speaker 1: No, no, no.
Speaker 3: I think it was a perfect moment because it earmarks
Speaker 3: that whole number for you, and I was right there
Speaker 3: with you. I was very present in that moment. I
Speaker 3: literally remember, just walk out there, feel the wind on
Speaker 3: your face.
Speaker 1: Oh, and that's all you have to do in this moment.
Speaker 3: What an amazing song. That's an amazing song. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's a song that does not need a bridge because
Speaker 3: it doesn't have one, because it doesn't need one. And
Speaker 3: the sheets I thought were a really nice, lovely little
Speaker 3: thing that we decided on last minute because we were
Speaker 3: Matt and I were watching the video on what was it, Thursday, Yeah,
Speaker 3: two days before the awards, and we were like, wow,
Speaker 3: this video a so nineteen ninety nine, so perfect, love
Speaker 3: it timeless in a way, and then we went look
Speaker 3: at Faith Hill freshly fucked on that bed, covered up
Speaker 3: in that sheet, wearing just the sheet, just like centrally
Speaker 3: singing about this love of hers Tim.
Speaker 1: We said one of the sheets. We said, what do
Speaker 1: we think? What are we thinking? What are we thinking?
Speaker 3: Because you know what the video for this kiss, where
Speaker 3: she's on flowers and shit popping out of sunflowers or whatever,
Speaker 3: she's cute, it's good, breathe is I think her best
Speaker 3: acting moment in a music video, and it laid the
Speaker 3: groundwork for eighteen thirty three for her Yellowstone prequel show
Speaker 3: with Tim McGraw.
Speaker 1: That's all I'll say.
Speaker 2: She's apparently a slay she's apparently she's a sleigh on
Speaker 2: one of the biggest television shows in the country, which
Speaker 2: you could.
Speaker 1: Never tell us that. Sorry eighty three, so you were
Speaker 1: fifty years off. I'm sorry, yes, and in a lot
Speaker 1: of respects, I am, yes, old soul, old soul. We
Speaker 1: always say Bowen Yang should have been bored in the seventies.
Speaker 1: Uh wrong decade. But yeah, we said we got to
Speaker 1: get the sheets.
Speaker 2: So happy we did and added a different texture literally,
Speaker 2: and then we closed the song down and they didn't
Speaker 2: know we were doing this, but we kept Josh and
Speaker 2: Aaron on stage and we said, not only are you
Speaker 2: are sisters, but you are inspirations to us. You were
Speaker 2: inspiration to the community, and that's why we award you
Speaker 2: when we honor you with the Diplo Award for LGBTQ.
Speaker 1: And they beat out a lot of people.
Speaker 3: They beat out Rapel's Drag Race All Stars, they beat
Speaker 3: out Poppy Juice. I saw Oscar Nier at Bubble d
Speaker 3: later that night. They were performing at Knockdown Center for
Speaker 3: that Pitchwork party and Oscar Groes did we win? And
Speaker 3: I had to look them in the eyes and say
Speaker 3: you did it, And he said okay, and I said, wow, this,
Speaker 3: You're the first person I've had to look in the
Speaker 3: eye this year and go you did not win the award.
Speaker 1: And he laughed, but so he understood. He said, Josh
Speaker 1: deserves it. Wow Aaron found dead? Aaron? No, of course,
Speaker 1: he said, Josh and Aaron sidas what I know. He said,
Speaker 1: Josh deserves Josh just woud shade No, no, no, I mean,
Speaker 1: let's earnesty zone, honesty zone. I mean Josh and Aaron
Speaker 1: got Earnesty's zone ernest which is not a word earnestness.
Speaker 1: I guess whatever Josh and Aaron are, there is no
Speaker 1: queer comedy community without Josh and Aaron. I know we've
Speaker 1: we've probably said as much in recent years in the past,
Speaker 1: but I will always say this until the rest of time,
Speaker 1: especially right before they come out with their new movie,
Speaker 1: which exciting stuff coming, exciting news coming down. Will let
Speaker 1: them announce it, not us.
Speaker 2: Yes, we actually tried hard to get a trailer for
Speaker 2: the film to be shown to the last CULTU Racist
Speaker 2: Cultural Awards, but it's just the note that was coming
Speaker 2: down was they didn't want grainy footage of the trailer
Speaker 2: out there. They wanted to be presented in all closes.
Speaker 2: This is an eight twenty four film. Okay, it's getting
Speaker 2: a proper rollout. Yeah yeah, people are going to watch
Speaker 2: for the first time on real off of the phone.
Speaker 1: Do you know what I'm saying. As much as I
Speaker 1: wanted this to be a gay cinemacn it just couldn't be.
Speaker 1: It made sense to us. But then, you know, we
Speaker 1: just loved Joshaniaron so much. Just perfect comedians, perfect people.
Speaker 1: I mean, they really still bring in so many new
Speaker 1: faces into the folds, Like I meet so many people
Speaker 1: through them still, and it's just really lovely what they've
Speaker 1: cultivated and anything that we do that resembles that is
Speaker 1: just our way of sort of paying it forward.
Speaker 2: That made them the perfect people to present the award
Speaker 2: for Finalists of the Year exactly. And this was hotly contested.
Speaker 2: I mean, all five of these finalists could have walked
Speaker 2: away with the award, but Darcy Cardin was the winner
Speaker 2: of Finalist of the Year. She took to the stage
Speaker 2: to a standing ovation cute. She joined Josh and Aaron,
Speaker 2: and she accepted the award. She had the crowd, one
Speaker 2: of whom was very upset to see Melanie Lynsky lose.
Speaker 2: They were someone who screamed when Darcy was announced as
Speaker 2: the winner that Melanie Lynsky was robbed, and Darcy took
Speaker 2: to the stage and she acknowledged this. She acknowledged this,
Speaker 2: and she said a highlight of her own life was
Speaker 2: hearing Melanie Lynsky pronounced the name Darcy Cardon. And then
Speaker 2: she led the crowd in a pronunciation of a key
Speaker 2: week Darcy Cotton. And that was another cathartic highlight moment
Speaker 2: of the show. And then she kept off her acceptance
Speaker 2: speech by reciting I don't think so, honey, going to
Speaker 2: church on Sundays and Wednesdays with Aaron Jackson and Josh
Speaker 2: Aaron Jackson, of course, the originator of that and a
Speaker 2: Lost Culture Recess Cultural Award winner the year prior for
Speaker 2: best I don't think so honey of all time for that,
Speaker 2: I don't think so honey. The crowd all did it together,
Speaker 2: and it was only then that we were able to
Speaker 2: announce the Muna Award for Hottest Queer.
Speaker 3: Of course, the nominees were Katie Muna, Naomi Muna, Joe Muna,
Speaker 3: fans of Muna, and Matt Omer.
Speaker 2: And remember this was the queerest moment in New York
Speaker 2: City last night, Even though boy Genius had a concert,
Speaker 2: and even though just to the east of the city,
Speaker 2: Kylie Minogan Deborah Coxs were performing at a beach full
Speaker 2: of gays.
Speaker 3: Even though Tanasche was slaying with backup dancers at Knockdown Center,
Speaker 3: one of the gayest venues.
Speaker 2: Right this was the gayest moment in New York because
Speaker 2: Darcy Cardon's star of A League of their Own, a
Speaker 2: gay show, was presenting the MUNA Award for Hottest Queer
Speaker 2: to fans of MUNA alongside Josh Arp and Aaron Jackson.
Speaker 2: And accepting the award were Katie, Joe and Naomi from MUNA.
Speaker 1: That was the fun and littest surprise.
Speaker 3: We kept that one under wraps for y'all, but of
Speaker 3: course some people clocked them entering the premises. Lovely, no problem,
Speaker 3: and they were so nice to join us. They were
Speaker 3: just at Bonnaroo the day before, I mean, come on,
Speaker 3: and we were so so so happy that they came.
Speaker 2: Real chemic having big and Darcy Oh yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: that kiss that they all shared was Bugini's found dead.
Speaker 1: Brittany Madonna found dead, and Christina found dead one.
Speaker 2: Hundred percent, so that went down. Then we had Pat
Speaker 2: came out one last time to present the Record of
Speaker 2: the Year nominee All I Want for Christmas is You
Speaker 2: by Mariah Carry. It was performed by Fire Islands, Nick
Speaker 2: Adams and Tomas Mattos, who, as we said, tore it up.
Speaker 2: This was one of the best performances of the night
Speaker 2: in a night that was already stacked. I mean this,
Speaker 2: All I Want for Christmas is You. It's here to stay,
Speaker 2: It's here to stay.
Speaker 3: And I have to say, there is something about listening
Speaker 3: to a Christmas song sung live in June that really,
Speaker 3: it really is a new feeling. It's something I've never
Speaker 3: quite experienced before, and I did not expect.
Speaker 1: To love it so much. It was a get up
Speaker 1: on your feet moment.
Speaker 2: I mean, the vocals were together, it was giving Broadway choreol,
Speaker 2: it was given chemistry. We were saying, Nick and Thomas,
Speaker 2: take it on the road or take it to the bedroom, honey,
Speaker 2: either way, We're happy.
Speaker 1: Either way. I'm happy to think about it. Either way,
Speaker 1: I have I have a boner. Either way. I'm erect.
Speaker 1: I'm erect. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Then we had a lovely moment where we rolled a
Speaker 3: beautifully edited package where we had you guys send in
Speaker 3: videos of your moments that made you say cultures for you.
Speaker 3: We always want to know and the thing is that,
Speaker 3: like you know, we can't. I just always want to
Speaker 3: individually pull people on, like what their moment is like.
Speaker 3: And we always hear from people, Oh, I know exactly
Speaker 3: what my answer would be, and this was a platform
Speaker 3: for that. So many lovely answers, a lot of common answers,
Speaker 3: a lot of spice girls answers.
Speaker 1: A lot of spice girls.
Speaker 3: I think the beautiful poetic way to close that package
Speaker 3: that was someone mentioning Marion Courtyard's Oscar speech being a
Speaker 3: moment and you know, nice little way to ease us
Speaker 3: back into the awards proceedings of the night, which were
Speaker 3: capped off by Sarah Sherman and Celestium coming out to present.
Speaker 1: Not nominated that evening, not nominated that evening, the only
Speaker 1: presenter to them next.
Speaker 2: Year, the only unnominated presenters. But you know, good luck
Speaker 2: to Sarah and Celeste both next year. Hopefully, hopefully they.
Speaker 3: Were presenting for Album of the Year. We're hugely contested category.
Speaker 3: You of course had Renaissance Midnights Prism by Katy Perry
Speaker 3: Chapel Ron's album when it comes out.
Speaker 1: And then what was the fifth one.
Speaker 2: It was the twenty twenty two original probably recording of
Speaker 2: Into the ward Woods. Yes, yes, and Chapel Roan did
Speaker 2: take it home for an album that we have not
Speaker 2: even heard yet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is huge, which is huge.
Speaker 3: And then Chapel was nice enough to send in a
Speaker 3: video acceptance from London International International. She said, I'm so
Speaker 3: honored to win this award considering that my album isn't
Speaker 3: even out yet. Clay and really really Good, really Good
Speaker 3: didn't really care about the fact that the album wasn't out,
Speaker 3: just went I'll take it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Finalist behavior, and that's confidence. That's finalist behavior, that's confidence.
Speaker 2: She of course was a Finalist of the Year nominee.
Speaker 2: You watch this space for next year. I mean, we've
Speaker 2: all got our eyes on Chapel. The album comes out
Speaker 2: in September, and listen to red Wine, super and Nova.
Speaker 3: Oh excellent, perfect pop song. And then we have a
Speaker 3: Record of the Year, the biggest award of the night.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, I get emotional watching them. I'll get announced
Speaker 3: at the same time. I go, we really have seen
Speaker 3: all these songs be performed tonight, haven't we.
Speaker 2: We really did watch and I think that Sarah and
Speaker 2: Celeste were so right when they said that not every
Speaker 2: song matters this year, and the pieces of musical art
Speaker 2: that we had seen that night were examples of music
Speaker 2: that we need now more than ever. And when the
Speaker 2: winner was announced and it was Pa Paam, all I
Speaker 2: could say was Puda.
Speaker 3: And we were so honored to present it ourselves to Kylie, who,
Speaker 3: of course was Patty who said in her trademark Australian
Speaker 3: accent that all her life she had been told that
Speaker 3: she would never want to or.
Speaker 1: Something to that effect, and look at her. Yeah, she's
Speaker 1: an award winner.
Speaker 2: So proud of Kylie, so proud of the entire queer
Speaker 2: community for lifting up that song. There were no guarantees
Speaker 2: thirty days ago when it was released that it would
Speaker 2: run Record of the Year.
Speaker 1: Okay, there were no guarantees.
Speaker 3: And I'm going to say something and I'm not calling
Speaker 3: anyone out, but I remember she announced this single, she
Speaker 3: announced the album being called Tension, And then there are
Speaker 3: a couple of gays where like, god, do you see
Speaker 3: the new Kylie album announcement? It looks awful, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: you don't know what you're saying. Clearly not a Kylie fan,
Speaker 3: And I'm like, just do wait. But I even did
Speaker 3: not say that from a place of like anticipating that
Speaker 3: put On put On, the lead single off this album
Speaker 3: would be a global phenomenon.
Speaker 1: Let's just say something right now. There's something in the
Speaker 1: air right now. Kylie's album is called Tension. Kelly's album
Speaker 1: is called Chemistry. We need a third science. We need
Speaker 1: we need a third science. Yeah, we need bio.
Speaker 3: Bio, we need Andrew Chronology. We need a pop Gurley
Speaker 3: to come out with an album called Endo Chronology.
Speaker 1: Yes, period. Who is it going to be? Charlie? We
Speaker 1: put it to you, Charlie, it is going to be Charlie. No, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: End of chronology, Like who could it be? Interesting? It
Speaker 1: could be anyone. We put it to you. We put
Speaker 1: it to you. Let us know which.
Speaker 2: And we asked the readers, the katies and publicis as
Speaker 2: the finalists, make the album mark which pop girley do
Speaker 2: you want to see with an album called Endo Chronology?
Speaker 2: Pitch it to us by creating the album art. The
Speaker 2: Record of the Year was then performed by the entire
Speaker 2: cast of the show, and we.
Speaker 1: Tearfully, joyously celebrated everyone that had come, and we closed
Speaker 1: the night at two different places.
Speaker 2: Really, Bowen, I guess you went to Bubble Tea. I
Speaker 2: ended up at Flaming Saddles where Jody Benson, the original
Speaker 2: area was there celebrating her daughter's birthday. And I went
Speaker 2: up to her, and I was so drunk at this point,
Speaker 2: and I said these words. I said this, it is
Speaker 2: an honor to even be around you. You gave us
Speaker 2: a gift forever.
Speaker 1: And then how did she receive that? She said, thank you,
Speaker 1: it's my daughter's birthday. I said, yes, it is. I
Speaker 1: just wanted to come say hello.
Speaker 3: I mean, I take your daughter, to take your daughter
Speaker 3: to Flaming Saddles at what it must have been one
Speaker 3: a in the morning.
Speaker 1: Jody, I always thought, Jody legend. Here's my thing.
Speaker 3: I had mischaracterized Jody in my head. I went Tody Benson, like,
Speaker 3: daughters start doing like fun. Christian music wasn't crazy for
Speaker 3: you on Broadway? Of course was Ariel.
Speaker 1: I was like, I think she's I think she's a
Speaker 1: wholesome girl. I think she's wholesome, maybe even like socially
Speaker 1: politically conservative in whatever way, Like, no problem for this
Speaker 1: woman to bring her daughter and her daughter's friends out
Speaker 1: to flaming saddles at two am on a Saturday night.
Speaker 1: It was two thirty in the morning and there were
Speaker 1: no signs of stopping.
Speaker 2: Let's just say this, like, Jody Benson outlives at Rogers
Speaker 2: in terms of being out.
Speaker 3: Oh, me in Hell's kitchen and me period, all of us.
Speaker 3: Jody Benson, my God, and this moment for her, I mean,
Speaker 3: the Little Mermaid. I still have not seen the live action.
Speaker 3: I feel like this is the thing with all these
Speaker 3: live action remix is that like across the board, it's
Speaker 3: like you can't touch the original. And Jody, I think,
Speaker 3: can now come on. What's the rest of her life going.
Speaker 3: Nothing will beat the thing that I helped me. I'm
Speaker 3: sure she doesn't feel this way really, but I'm like,
Speaker 3: I know, I bet she does. That's kind of what
Speaker 3: I was saying to her. I was like, you know what,
Speaker 3: it's an honoratavy around you. You gave us a gift forever.
Speaker 3: And I meant every single word I said, one thousand percent.
Speaker 3: That is a song that makes you go I can't
Speaker 3: think of anything better. I mean, Howard Ashmann and I
Speaker 3: don't think so, honey Disney for really fucking sanitizing that documentary,
Speaker 3: because I needed to know about this man and the
Speaker 3: way he moved through the world as like a fucking
Speaker 3: gay radical like I fuck okay, Like yeah, let me
Speaker 3: like be a gay man who is not just some
Speaker 3: like wholesome little pencil pusher. You know, where's the biopic?
Speaker 3: Where's the biopech where is the Ben Platt biopic?
Speaker 1: We're getting it. That's what I want to see. I
Speaker 1: want to see it.
Speaker 2: Movement start the movement. Who plays Allan Oh? I don't
Speaker 2: know Jonah Hill, Jonahill. I always want to involved jo Hill.
Speaker 1: I always want to involve John We love Jonah I.
Speaker 1: I have to say that was the last Countures Cultural Awards.
Speaker 2: They were an absolute barn burner, and we hope that
Speaker 2: if you were not able to live them in person,
Speaker 2: that this recap helped you live them in podcast form.
Speaker 3: Yes, I mean what we did, and I said this
Speaker 3: via tweet. I will apologize personally because I did say
Speaker 3: the words you will be fine if you you know,
Speaker 3: come a couple hours before I over promised on the
Speaker 3: likelihood of getting a seat. But what we can promise
Speaker 3: now is that it will only be bigger and better
Speaker 3: in the future, something that everyone can be involved and
Speaker 3: everyone can engage with. And that's on promise, and that's
Speaker 3: on promise. And we love you so much. Thank you
Speaker 3: for coming, thank you for celebrating with us, and our
Speaker 3: wards season is over. Publicists, you can put your hats away. Yeah,
Speaker 3: just rest ress. Let us do some work right now.
Speaker 1: As we do. I don't think so honey.
Speaker 2: This is our sixty second segment that we do on
Speaker 2: every single episode of this podcast, where we rant and
Speaker 2: rave against something in pop culture. I'm gonna leave the
Speaker 2: award space, I'm gonna leave the lccas behind. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: do something else. I read a news item on the
Speaker 2: Business this morning, and I feel it's time to say something.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is Matt Rogers. I don't think so honey.
Speaker 1: As time starts now, I don't think so honey. The multiverse,
Speaker 1: it's a wrap stop it. We did it.
Speaker 2: I don't think so honey that you can do it better.
Speaker 2: The Flash didn't do as well as they thought it
Speaker 2: was going to do, spite them really trying to like
Speaker 2: cram it down our throats that the EZRA Miller of
Speaker 2: it all was gonna be worth it, that like, at
Speaker 2: the end of the day, we will really wanted to
Speaker 2: see them do this, that the movie was actually quote
Speaker 2: unquote good. No, you guys, I'm sorry. All of these
Speaker 2: movies feel the same. They really really really do. And
Speaker 2: I think that you look no further than the receipts
Speaker 2: as to why people aren't going to these anymore superhero movies.
Speaker 2: We have reached critical mass, We are at saturation. We
Speaker 2: need either a five year break or a total total
Speaker 2: reboot fucking films. Will we get them? No, because you
Speaker 2: don't fucking get it. If you run a studio, you
Speaker 2: clearly do not fucking get it. And it's just gonna
Speaker 2: keep being diminishing returns until you, I guess, at some
Speaker 2: point get fired or do I don't think so, honey.
Speaker 2: The multiverse, it was done with fucking everything ever, all
Speaker 2: at once.
Speaker 1: Now it's over, and.
Speaker 3: That's one minute. It really was done with everything everywhere.
Speaker 3: Because I have a good authority that like the Marvel
Speaker 3: folks from the week that that movie came out in
Speaker 3: the week that like people were just sort of responding
Speaker 3: to it. It was just like the Marvel folks were scared.
Speaker 1: That's all. I mean, that's all. It's just like they
Speaker 1: were shook. And also it's like when you finally can
Speaker 1: wrap your head around the multiverse, which is difficult to
Speaker 1: do because it's confusing, especially when, like you know, these
Speaker 1: movies aren't necessarily known for their clarity. Sometimes I'll be
Speaker 1: watching I'll be a little Stone watching one of these
Speaker 1: Marvel movies, and I'll be like, wait, what the fuck
Speaker 1: is happening? What's this Stone? I don't think what exactly
Speaker 1: is going on? I don't think so, honey. Having to
Speaker 1: fucking read a Wikipedia article or like a fucking screen
Speaker 1: Rant article before or after you go into the movie,
Speaker 1: like ant Man two, it's like I should be able
Speaker 1: to go to ant Man two and leave clean, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I just want to leave clean.
Speaker 1: I want to leave these movies clean. Meanwhile, it's like
Speaker 1: then you do understand what happened, and then in understanding it,
Speaker 1: you realize, oh, so there's like not really stinks. These
Speaker 1: people are all alive in other multiverses, and therefore they
Speaker 1: can just kind of like whatever. Like Zoey Sldana I
Speaker 1: think has died like seventeen times in Guardians on the
Speaker 1: got again. I'm making that up, but like if it
Speaker 1: were true, you could believe it because they would do that.
Speaker 1: Was she in the recent one? I mean yeah, but
Speaker 1: she didn't remember shit because she was the other zowais
Speaker 1: sold on. It's just stupid, right rights, it's getting stupid.
Speaker 2: And I liked the Marvel movies before the Multiverse. I
Speaker 2: loved Endgame. I loved all of that. It's just like,
Speaker 2: can we just go back to fucking basics? And now
Speaker 2: the DC of it all, like the flash bombing, because
Speaker 2: they completely went in on the Multiverse, which I also
Speaker 2: can't believe because didn't Marvel just do that? Doesn't it
Speaker 2: look inherently like you're copying them? I just the whole
Speaker 2: thing is like, it's the snake eating its own tail,
Speaker 2: choking on the hotel, shitting it out, eating it again,
Speaker 2: multiverse snake. Yeah yeah, And I'm just like, let's just stop, Like,
Speaker 2: make it about tortured super villain in a world where
Speaker 2: they have their little conflicts about their identity, you know,
Speaker 2: and then there's an evil person, you know, there's an entity, yeah,
Speaker 2: and make it about that. Fucking with great power comes
Speaker 2: great responsibility.
Speaker 1: Take it back, Take it back. I don't disagree. Thank
Speaker 1: you for that. We gotta shut it down. We gotta okay,
Speaker 1: when do you have an I don't think so, honey,
Speaker 1: to do I do this one.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna bring it back to the sccas, but not
Speaker 3: about the actual awards themselves.
Speaker 1: All right, here we go. This is Bowen Yanks. I
Speaker 1: don't think so, honey. As time starts now, I don't
Speaker 1: think so, honey. Lightning delays.
Speaker 3: We were shaking in our boots the day of because
Speaker 3: there was lightning eight miles away in fucking probably central
Speaker 3: to South Jersey, Okay, And we had to clear the
Speaker 3: stage and sit in a room for like what felt
Speaker 3: like three hours, just because there was lightning in like
Speaker 3: fucking Morris Town. It's like, it has nothing to agree
Speaker 3: with us, paramus, it has nothing to do with us.
Speaker 1: Why are you making thirty seconds? Why are you taking
Speaker 1: this away from us when it has has nothing to
Speaker 1: do with us. We had planned for this. We were like,
Speaker 1: it might rain, but it'll be during the day and
Speaker 1: then we should be in the clear by like two pm. No,
Speaker 1: it was like four pm. We had to fucking sit
Speaker 1: in a.
Speaker 3: Basement fifteen seconds. It did not ruin the day thank god.
Speaker 3: And Lauren Mandel once again kept it so so so calm,
Speaker 3: managed our emotions alongside the logistics of it all seconds.
Speaker 3: But just the concept of a lightning delay for something
Speaker 3: that happens that far away ridiculous. And that's one minute,
Speaker 3: and a lighting delay took away Gaga's last night on
Speaker 3: the chromatica balts for took away her Miami show. She
Speaker 3: could not do her last show of this era that
Speaker 3: she fucking got blue balled out of. And then it
Speaker 3: ends with another moment where she gets robbed of satisfaction,
Speaker 3: of fulfillment.
Speaker 1: It's awful. I hate it.
Speaker 2: The lightning delay is, of course here for our safety,
Speaker 2: but I feel interest much. Sometimes it's within eight miles ridiculous.
Speaker 2: I said, get the mediaorologists on the phone, get let
Speaker 2: me talk to media, get me the doctor radar on
Speaker 2: the phone.
Speaker 1: Media urologists.
Speaker 2: Miss as a media rologist, I want to speak to
Speaker 2: her because I had to say within eight miles, and
Speaker 2: then get this reader's publicist, Katie's finalists that were actually
Speaker 2: at the show.
Speaker 1: Had there been lightning within eight miles and you all
Speaker 1: had been seated, you would have had to go home.
Speaker 1: We would have canceled the show. This show would have
Speaker 1: had to be canceled. I said, we got to move
Speaker 1: this inside. We have to sidestep the lightning of it
Speaker 1: and all. We can't chance that. We even had to
Speaker 1: get started about five minutes later because there was a
Speaker 1: rain delay, which we would never have known about because
Speaker 1: it wasn't raining, literally not raining. It was gas lighting
Speaker 1: to the mass. The weather was gaslighting us all day.
Speaker 1: We'd be looking at the weather app, which has not
Speaker 1: gotten better over time, and it says sunny conditions the
Speaker 1: rest of the day. Forty five minutes later, duck and
Speaker 1: cover at seven pm on eighty percent chance of thunderstorms.
Speaker 1: It's like, this is why.
Speaker 2: Biggest current threat to us included a nominee that was
Speaker 2: the fickle nature of the weather in June and New
Speaker 2: York City.
Speaker 1: And I did. I didn't know I was tempting fate.
Speaker 1: You were when I catched that one as a nominee. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I had to sit there in the basement with
Speaker 2: you while Lauren was like trying to be like, Okay,
Speaker 2: so what do you guys think about this?
Speaker 1: This? This this? I had to be like, did I
Speaker 1: do this? No, I'm gonna know you did I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna let that be the narrative.
Speaker 3: We had In Eighth World Wonder, we cut the line
Speaker 3: your loves like a summer rain watching my Dad's away,
Speaker 3: and I thought, if we would have kept it when it.
Speaker 2: Happened seven Days and seven Nights of thun Thunder, I
Speaker 2: would have been really prescient.
Speaker 1: Pertinent and prescient.
Speaker 3: Anyway, went off without a hitch. We're so happy you came.
Speaker 3: We're so sorry if you couldn't, but we will make
Speaker 3: it up to you in the future, we promise, And
Speaker 3: we end every episode with the song Matt.
Speaker 1: Seven Days and seven.
Speaker 3: Nights of Thunder, Long Days and seven Nights of Sunder.
Speaker 1: Press from listen to listen to Wonder, I wonder I
Speaker 1: can really lack the legends. Bye bye, mm hmm