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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Look may oh, I see you my own and look
over there is that culture. Yes, goodness, wow, lost culture
ding Dong lost culturistas calling just us today in person
tactile hotile. I mean, at this point, it's getting rare
and rare for Mount Rogers to be in New York City.
(00:21):
He's playing sort of, you know, aloof with us. I'm
playing both sides as it were. No, it's just that
I'm gett It's it takes so long to have an
apartment be ready. This is one of the realities of
of just having a place that you want to furnish
in your own way, because this is going to be
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your home. Yeah, I mean that's the plan. Is like hopefully,
like September October comes around and I'll have like a
gorgeous little fall life that low key is not as
busy and stressful as our lives have been because we've
been stretched them. Can I tell you today is technically
and I guess not even technically anymore. Was like my
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first day off in a long time, I know, and
it feels great because you just got back from China.
So I left for China the day after we taped
Culture Award, which is crazy and we'll get to the
cultural awards because there's so much to say in preparations
work coming out on Bravo on the fifth and streaming
the next day, Yes on Peacock on the six. Much
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to say, But why don't tell everybody about your trip?
The headline is it was so fun and it had
been almost a decade since I was back. I used
to go all the time as a kid. We would
go basically every other year in the summer, and I
would spend like six weeks there. And that was back
when like time was just a little bit more available
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to everybody, like in the family. And you know, now
everyone's grown up, and you know, Yang has a family.
I have my working life, which is, you know, kind
of packed the gills, and I'm very fortunate about that.
But I'm also realizing, like, oh wow, like most of
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my summer, I mean, we're already in August, and like
most of our summer was all being put into one thing,
which I have no regrets about, but I am like, oh,
like that's where it all went. It was like a
bigger I mean, obviously because it was a bigger version
of the way we've done it. It was a much
bigger endeavor because you know, peek behind the curtain. We
kind of just look at the Cultural Awards when we
do it live like a couple weeks before, and we
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just reach out to friends who are available in are
sourcing videos. But this I don't know if you guys
have seen like the content online about who was at
the awards, But this was a much, much, much different
story in terms of production than getting it together. And
luckily we did absolutely crush and we ate tor and more.
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But again, getting to that in a second, like more
highlights from the trip, Like like I feel like you
posted some of the most beautiful photos I've ever seen.
Oh my god, a girl, Well that's my RICO g
R three X, shout out the camera. That's the camera. Yeah,
really good that anyone can use? Oh yeah, are you
telling the readers? I'm oh, but what do you mean
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that anyone can use? Like anyone can borrow your camera
or the ease of use, and the ease of use
is what I'm saying, idiot proof it's idiot. If I
can take a pretty picture with it, then you can,
you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, I know it
was so beautiful and we there's this ritual in in
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Chinese culture of uh sweeping the tomb quote unquote, it's yeah,
and it's you go and you basically like clean and
you maintain like the burial side or the grave or
you know whatever. And so my grandparents are buried all
the way out in the like ancestral burial grounds of
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like the Yang family. Wow. And this this is like
generations of farmers and people whose worlds are both expansive
and that they literally live in like the famed grassy
fields of Inner Mongolia, like they are like the pride
of China. Like these are truly like cinematic panoramic windows
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XP coated like green saber vibes, like they're gorgeous. And yeah,
like multiple many generations of young families. There's like a
lot of bodies. Be there a plot for you, There
is not really a plot for me. And I think, well,
that may have lost the plot. Very my girl somewhere green. Yes,
I want bury my girl at screensaver, yeah, atmospheres, bury
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my heart at wounded me now now, But no, I
think my dad, so my dad, my parents are both
like I think, we think we want to we'll be
cremated and we'll be like buried in the States, or
like we'll spread their otches somewhere when you know, if that,
if it comes to that, oh wow, so you're gonna
you're gonna be spreading girl? Are we are? We at
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the age now where we have to like write our
wills out. I thought about it. I thought about it.
I've definitely thought of it on this strip and I
turned my mom. I was like, my parents have their
roles done, and like I remember a few years ago,
like Yang and I had to sort of like look
at the wills. Yeah, I think I remember you told
me this and it was it was just it was
a totally normal thing. It was just like, shit, this
is like a thing that I mean, I'm lucky that
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I haven't had to like my thing is like I
haven't dealt with a huge, profound grief in my life. Yeah.
I think about this a lot, and when the time comes,
like I really don't know how transfer it will be transformative,
no doubt. I am kind of like what am I
gonna be? I think about this. I mean that's one
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of the reasons I don't get a dog. Oh honestly,
like we have to talk about the dogs. Okay, we'll
talk about the dogs, because this has become a real narrative,
and it is if you want I both got not
to skip a habit. If you're not af you and
I both got dogs. I don't think I think you
are ready for it and set up for it in
a way that I am not. But you're about you're
you're on ear in the process of getting set up
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for it. I'm in the process of getting set up
as a home for myself. I don't know. So this
is honestly my issue, and it's has to do with
the thing about you just said about grief too. Is
it's like I think all the time about how and
I hate even putting this energy out there, but I
have thought about my will recently. I don't know I
was one who brought it up, but yeah, god, yeah,
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but like I was thinking about it as recently as yesterday.
So it's funny that you say that. And I don't
know if that's having to do with, you know, just
getting older, or just to be transparent, having more money
now that I would want to go to my sister,
you know what I mean. I also don't know, and
I don't deny that it has something to do with
the fact that like shit is dark, you know what
I mean, Like yesterday we were taping Colbert and there
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was a shooting right around the corner, and and you know,
like to say nothing of like the rest of the
state of the world, which you know, let's leave that
there for now. But regardless, like I get so overwhelmed
by things that have nothing comparable in terms of stakes
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with death and real things like if I got a dog,
I genuinely feel like if it coughs weird, if it's sick,
if I'm going to lose my shit, Like I think
it's why I can't have children. It's not because it's
a selfish decision. I simply think like I might care
too much. And that sounds like a backhanded compliment. It's
I promise you it's not. I think it's pathetic of me.
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But like I mean, like even just like just I'm
having like a journey this year, and I think last
year too, just like really examining my anxiety and how
to control it can get and you know, I don't
think I'm equipped emotionally to care for something at this
time that much. Like That's really where I'm at. Like
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when you talk about like not being able to handle
a grief like I wouldn't be able to handle it
at all. I have a deep fear of what happens
when that happens. Is your anxiety a fixed point to you? Like,
do you feel like you can to be honest with you?
You know, it's like a lot of times like these
things are also superpowers for you, you know what I mean.
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It's like I feel like my anxiety like it's been
something that makes me over prepared. I think it makes
me something that jumps into action. I think it makes
me something that's very makes me somebody who's very generative
in terms of ideas and you know, very equipped for
what we do, you know what I mean, in terms
of being entertainers and doing what we do. But I
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will say, like there is a there is another side
to it, like a darker side to it that really
comes at my expense. And I'm gonna start engaging with
my psychiatrist again about potentially figuring something out because I've really,
you know, just transparently, like I'm so proud of what
we did with the Cultural Awards, so proud, but it
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took me a second to calm down, like during the process,
like I was very like and we had an amazing
team helping us, as you know, like and you're gonna
see the results, but like I was nervous, well, you
were nervous within the boundary of yourself. You were like,
am I gonna be able to deliver on all of
these ideas? And we spent like, you know, the last
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six weeks or so just like coming up with because
you know, it was also very disorienting thing for me
where I was not used to I'm used to just
like shedding the skin of an idea, bringing an idea
to conception within a week, and then just like letting
it go right like I've had so many reps of that,
and I realized that, like I was very specially equipped
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for that process in terms of scaling it up for
the Culture Awards, and I feel like, but I still
feel like I was kind of out of my depth
by the end. I was like, oh, this is a lot.
It was a lot on you and I both have
very different responses to that kind of overwhelm and so sorry,
and this just just just tot's keep talking about your response.
No no, no, no, I just mean like I have an
anxious response to stress and it was just you know,
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you know what honestly it was, and you guys are
going to see this in the show, so there is
we do a big opening, yes, and does it still
read as big because I have not seen the on
it Still it's real. It is really good, and I
have to say, like we will talk more specifically about
what this is. And I understand we're dangling a carrot,
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but that is also fine because I I and also Bowen,
I'm sure we really want you guys to tune in
and tell everyone about this please. It is. It is
the Cultural Awards like turned all the way up and
by the way, the ship that they let us get
away with. I truly feel like we were we scammed
our way into doing this because so much of the
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Blue Sky, which is like what they call the phase
at the beginning of a creative process, is in that show.
So much of it, like Lucky shout out to NBC,
Bravo and Peacock for really and I do think it's
a credit to you and the foundation that you've created
there just in terms of like how much they trust you,
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and the vibes were so great and they let us
do all this stuff. But just to speak about the
thing that made me the most nervous. It is an
opening number that is certainly an homage to someone in culture,
and I think that I had been I don't love dancing.
I'm doing choreo and stuff. I absolutely love singing, as
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you guys all know, like I love it. I feel
confident doing it. But when it comes to choreography, especially
iconic choreography or that which references iconic choreography, I don't
even need to be in front of everyone I've ever
met and everyone I would have to be nervous. Science
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was crazy. No, It's like the one thing that I
didn't realize was gonna happen, which of course it was
going to, was the seat cards, Like you know, so
those are all your heroes in front literally the we're
rehearsing in the space, like the number doing the whole show,
and they've got the seat cards on the seats, which
is the headshots of everyone that's going to be in
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the audience. And I was like, this is not normal. Now,
this is not it's not normal all. But I will say,
like it happens to ten to be I'll freak out
like day weeks and days before and then the day
of actually feel quite confident. And I will say once
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we got through the number, yes, and we did it
well during the show. On the day after that, I
felt incredible. Yes, that's where I could take it. Feel
the shift. I was just like, oh my god, we
did it. I did not. The hard part's over. I
didn't like eat it in front of literally the world. Yes,
and again like I just like after that and once
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the show started and it was like our Goofy Frankenstein nightmare,
like you know, Award show happening, I was just like, Wow,
it's playing, It's going well, like this bizarre Hollywood puzzle
slash chess game, slash keys to the car we were given,
like it was all panning out. Yeah, And then I
was relaxing. But I guess this is what I mean
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is it's like, there's got to be a better way
for me to treat myself in preparation for these things.
I wouldn't beat yourself up too much about it, because
I think this is also something that you will develop
a thicker skin and expectation and you'll just know it's
like your first time doing not for nothing. One of
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the hardest things in entertained, which is to quote unquote
host an award show. Even though we're doing like a fun,
frivolous parodied version of it, we still put it like
our body and our mind can't really tell the difference
when we're up I'm talking about you and me. When
we're up there doing like what is still a kind
of thankless job, you know what I mean. We just
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had the extreme benefit and fortune of having our real,
our beautiful, wonderful, hilarious, clever, loving fans there. That's just
the main difference. It's like in the room, it feels
so much better than a stuffy a war show where
everyone is taking those all to so seriously and like
their careers are on the line or whatever. It was
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like this crazy well Darcy Carden I think said it best.
We were backstage and she had come off stage doing
her bit which she does with del Kim Booster, which
I cannot wait for you guys to see. But she
came back and she was like, it's like a bit show.
It's like it's BCB Bitch DC and doulkless Marathon show. Yeah,
and so for those of you who maybe don't really
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know what that is, it's like there was an whole
era and it's not over, but it's not like it
was where when we were coming up in comedy in
New York, Like you'd go to I don't know, UCB
East or wherever, and it would just be like an
hour or so of just whatever the show was, everyone
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coming up and doing a four or five minute stupid
fucking bit new character trying things out, et cetera. And
this was like a version of that, blown all the
way out with like truly. And I can't say enough
like our heroes, Like I mean, you've seen the carpet,
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so you know that some people are there. So it's
not a spoiler for me to say that Kristen Wig
does the show, to say that Keenan is in the
show to eighty Bryant, you know, And the list goes
on and on, and I don't want to cross into
a place where I start to ruin it, but like,
I just feel so lucky that people wanted to play
with us and that we were trusted to do that,
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and so over enjoyed that it came out as well
as it did. Yeh, because it was a lot, yes,
because like yeah, I because because I gotta say, going
to China right after the Awards. I can't imagine. It
was like it was both like good and not so
good in terms of processing what that experience was because
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I didn't really impact it with anyone except I didn't
get a chance to do that until last night when
you and me and our manager Olivia were together after Colbert.
We were just like I was like, oh yeah, wow,
and like just learning about the dynamic and yes, we
had an amazing team of people. Shout out to Laura Mandel,
Jane Munn, the Cedy Green, Celestim Frank Leslie, Olivia Rap,
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Lauren Lemieu. Yeah, all of lions Gate which worked with
us on the show. And you know also you know
just Kittie Howklier truly, Jed Neil, thank you guys so much,
and like I just Proctor, we love oh John Prodger,
we love you. Which wo booked the show for us,
Like and honestly, over fifty talent in the show, which
is which you know that number If that doesn't mean
anything to you, I felt like it was having fifty hosts. Yeah,
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fifty SNL hosts in one one night. It was it
was crazy. It did feel like like SNL fifty like
kids a little like yeah, you know what I mean, Junior,
is kind of the vibe it was giving. I'll never forget,
like the I think it was that night someone had
posted like a string out of her one on the
purple carpet and I was just like, I can't believe
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that that happened, And you know, lots of really fun
different personalities, like and truly like just the collision of
like everyone is on that, on that carpet and then
getting like actual media coverage, which is also part of
the joke and the bit of the whole thing, Like
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watching someone serve on the Lost CULTURESUS Cultural Awards carpet
is just so funny because what is happening, right, You're like, wait,
why are you talking about? But no, this is We're
not like wait huh, like we're being perceived. No, it's
it's just it's just funny because yeah again and we
and we say this in the show spoiler earlier, it's
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like this started out as a bit yeah, and so
thank you for being along for the journey and helping
us sort of blow it out to this scale for
now and who who knows what will come of it
in the future. And we never would have even this
is honestly something that like, it wasn't even like when
we started it and created it, like, oh, this is
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gonna be something that we pitched one day. It was
entirely because you all like expressed the desire to want
to see it when you lined up at Lincoln Center,
and some of you got turned away because at the
time we just didn't think there was any way that
a surplus of people would come to see us live,
you know what I mean. Like, but it was really
because we wanted to bring this to you and share
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this thing that's become such a crucial part of the
Lost Coach calendar year, it just felt wrong to not
do everything we could to bring it to every one.
Also because we're really proud of it in terms of, like,
you know what it is doing, and so you're exactly
right after that first year where people were turned away,
we were like, wait, wait, wait, now, yeah, I doesn't
feel right. This needs to be literally broadcast. And so
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from that year on and that's why, like there was
no live stream the second year. The third year, we
couldn't technically do it without weird like legal and clearance issues,
and so then there were fan live streams from the audience,
which we were like unofficially like sanctioning and being like
this is okay. Hopefully it delights people externally, and you know,
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tune in. All we ever do, all we ever hope
really is to externally delight. It's actually number eight. All
we ever heard to do is externally delight. External delights
is a kind of a fro talk about some culture
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like yeah, I'm i'm, I think, I'm iye must say
I'm a little behind or I'm playing catch up because
I watched a lot of stuff on the plane because
my internet was on the fritz in China. Let's tell
us a little bit about what you watched. I watched
a lot of movies for the first time that I
feel like should be like, let's talk about it. No, no, no,
I'm ashamed. And I also like, didn't I still have
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to finish this movie that I was talking I was
telling you about last night. You don't want to share,
I don't want to share, Okay. So there is a
there's a classic film many would say one of the
best of all time or whatever, you know, rubric that's
basically but it is pretty objectively called that uh huh
that Bowen is talking about and he'll finish the film, yes,
and then we will talk about it. There we will talk,
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at which time I will reveal I also haven't seen it.
Oh yes, So I'm just saying you're not alone in this.
You have a sister. We should see it together. Okay, fine,
We're just finish together. Because because this is a kind
of like calling back to the era of I had
never seen sound in me is like you had never
seen Jaws, and now we we it's another movie that
neither of us now it's a movie. It is a
movie on that level. Yes, of course. So so you've
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been watching a lot of films, a lot of films
behind on the Bravo of it All. I'm caught up
on on Miami and OC. I'm also caught up on
I have not I have not watched Next Gen m
I c be on the first episode. It's not for me.
I don't think all good rooting for everybody from everybody.
We love everybody else in the words everybody, and I
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uh finished the Pit on the plane home. Finally, what
is your deal with the Pit? I love it because
I can't you know, I can't do that there. It's
it's pretty glorious. There's moments of there's moments of whoa,
I can't believe there, I can't believe we're seeing this. Yeah,
but it's excellent, excellent performances. No Wiley king, no Wiley
being back. Oh he doesn't wear scrubs in this huh.
He totically has scrubs and he has a hoodie over it,
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doctor Robbie. But just so wonderful. What a what a
great doctor Robbie, what a what a king doctor Robbie has?
His name? Is his name? Doctor? You are smiling? I
love him? I love him. Have you ever told him this? No,
I'm sure you know. Today I'm a little anxious because
it's when it comes to speaking about shooting your shot
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with celebrities. Yes, I haven't seen our hot ones versus
I think it's about to go up? Is it about
to go up? I think it's going up today. At
some point, I know it's going up today. And shot
they were one of the things was like shoot a
shot in real time, Like one of the things is
like shoot your shot in real time with a celebrity.
And then Bowe was like Sebastian Stan and I'm like, no,
I don't want to eat a wing because they really
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were hot. And I was like, I'm going to do
this for real. Yeah, And so I shot a shot
that i've that i've of mine for a decade fifteen years,
which was which was mister Groff and the thing is like,
that's spitter me in the second round with my mouth open. No,
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just kidding. I want to be respectful flash the ish,
but no, I was really shy afterwards. I was like,
oh no, and I already I had already asked them
to take one thing out because I got a little
carried away and uh huh. I was like, yeah, I
take that out. So I was like, I'm not going
to go back and askn't de edit this out. But
it's out there. That's okay. It's so there. It's okay
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to shoot your shots. Sometimes sometimes it is. And I
was like, you know, and it could work very well. Work.
The wings were really hot. They were very hot. Should
we reveal what the next day was? Like? We were sick.
I had a harder time doing Versus sort of gi
wise than I did regular hot one. Do you want
to know why it's the last stap because it was
the last job all the way around. Yes, So basically
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the way that that show works is there's six wings
in front of you that I guess are the six
questions arounds, and they're all They're all the last stab,
which is the tenth wing in the hot one sequence.
So it follows it's too after the bomb, which is
like a life ruiner. The bomb is like thebamb is
what is like scorches the earth in last Dab, it's
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like it's a soft ish landing, but it's still very intense. Yeah,
the like I would rather have the progression than full
last dab full blast. Yeah, that's the thing is. It
was like I was like, oh, I was even talking
shit at the at the top, I'm like, this is
not that bad, but there is a build. No, it
adds up and I felt not good the next day either.
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But I think you did better than I did in
terms of how I felt. In terms of how you felt,
I do think that. And if I might say, my
stomach has a little more fortitude than yours. Yes, And
I first of all, I don't think Sohony ever, being
like Bowen's gonna win, Yeah, Like don't that is my friend?
Like that that is them just assuming that you are
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going to like be more poised in general, right, I
think that with love. Y'all really assume I'm some sort
of freak or a and no, I see you, I
see you talking about me this way. I see what
your opinions on me are. You did come to my
mind when I was eating crab and Dandung, which is
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a harbor town and known for their seafood, and I
was trying to break this crab open. It was like,
I Matt would do this, so so well, well, I'm
a trained crass, so I'm sort of the Noah Wiley
and the pit. Yeah you know what I mean. I
sort of break them open, crack them open, go on
the corner. After I've worked really hard and save lives
out there, and I just sobbed to myself, got my
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Emmy nom. I wonder if ten years ago I would
have felt that way, because now it's like spicy foods,
it's different, roller coasters, it's different, which really vulnerable for
you to admit. Honestly, it's you used to be a
coaster quid. I'll just never forget who I used to be.
She used to be like I used to be that
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girl that was like I just talked about this actually
on well I don't even know if it's announced because
I don't know, so I shouldn't say. But a friend
of ours, two friends of ours have a new podcast,
and we were talking about just doing roller coasters and
being like a daredevil and stuff like when I was little,
I used to like be the I talked about this
(26:15):
on this podcast. I jumped out of a plane, et cetera.
I do one or two roller coasters in a row
now and it's a full wrap biologically, well physically, to
be fair, The last time you felt this was when
we had to ride the start US Race Stars Racers twice,
two times within like five minutes, right after we shot
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hot Ones, right after we shot Oh was do you
remember that? Oh? Sh I can't get I think it
was literally it was we we had shot hot Ones,
then the next day got on the plane to go
down there and did the roller coasters or yes, that's
what it was, right, we shot hot Ones a while again, Yes,
they they really banked that episode and I was like,
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when is this going to come out? And now it's
obviously come out at the perfect time, But like that
that week, that like week and a half when we
were flying down doing the roller coasters and then doing
the hot Ones in the same week. That was that
was a test of the stomach, and I think I
had to go. I went to Wicked after after start Us,
(27:18):
after Epic Universe. You went to Wicked. Oh oh oh no, no, no,
we can say we can say you did reshot we
did reshoots. Ye oh oh, right, hold on, let me
let me look this up. Okay, hot one, Yeah, look
at the calendar. I'm almost positive that it was like, yeah, yep,
May nineteen, yeah, yeah, and that was two days after
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the SNL finale. Yep, oh yeah, I remember this, and
then we did this the ray went to Epic Universe,
and then I went to Oh my god, I went
to London, England to do Wicked reshoots. No, sometimes you
look back at your own schedule and you're like, what
I remember there was one year telling you this was
this is my first day off in mom and this
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is technically work, even though we don't think of it
as well, right, especially these episodes, and by the way,
I do think that we're going to make a conscious
effort to just be us for a while. Like I
genuinely do feel like I'm going through some sort of
new return to Saturn like interesting because it's is this
the thing that I'm I get you get someone to
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do another chart rating for you? Am I making it
up that like there's something to like every seven years.
I don't know, because it feels like thirty five, twenty eight,
twenty one, fourteen and seven are like times of awakening.
Like I feel like seven years old is when my
honestly when my eyes opened up to like what culture
was for me, because this identic of it all, and
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like all that fourteen was like certainly like I remember
being that age and being like that was like eighth
and to ninth grade, which was horrible, and like, you know,
another change. Twenty one is obviously you're twenty one, so many,
so much things become available to you, like et cetera,
like kind of like settling into my body as like
a gay person. Twenty eight is obviously returned to Saturn
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like et cetera. And now I feel like at thirty
five again, I'm like looking at my life in a
certain way and being like, Okay, I've been in denial
about this. This makes me happy, This does not This
person has a belonging. This person no longer does like,
I don't are you in that place because obviously you
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know yeah, changes, Yes, I am certainly in that place,
but I'm also not thirty five. Yeah, well, we're gonna
pay for you. The verses is up the verses. That's weird. No,
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we'll watch it after. I'll watch it after. But okay,
well that's fun. That's fun something to share on social
which we absolutely love. My computer just crashed, you guys.
What's the astrology on that? I think it means we
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have to do I don't think so, honey, it does
a wait, but I did want to ask you have
you seen Superman yet? Yes? Oh my god, I loved
that movie so much fun brossient. I mean, I love
Rachel mister corn sweat. He hasn't has the world found
its hottest persons? As I forgot who posted this on
on socials, but they were like, I love that the
kid that the pr for this movie, that the campaign
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for this movie is just look at how hot this
guy is, and I love how much it's going to work.
And it did. Oh, it absolutely worked on me. And
also one thing I think that movie needs to get
more credit for is that long scene Sark and Lois
like it was like a really long scene of just dialogue, dialogue, Yeah,
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And I was like, they're both so good, and Rachel
is just like she's such a star and we love
her so much, and just the really intelligent back and
forth they were having like early in the movie and
then you know the rest of it just being so
kind of just like unabashedly about going for the joke.
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A couple of times. I was like, wow, we are
really broad. But I never was mad. I was just like,
this is the energy we need. No, just that whole
scene of them also with like the the alien in
the background, I was like, yeah, I loved that, loved that,
Like it reminded me of like Scary Movie three. Yeah,
Naked gunn Escu, I'm really excited to see you so excited.
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I think this is my favorite James gunn actually, because
you know, famously we did not live for Guardians, right,
but we've said on the podcast, we've said this was
years and years and years ago. Bowen Yang and I
walked out of guards We walked out of two films
together in history, and they were the first Guardians and Oppenheimer, right,
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and directors who we love directors. We absolutely love or
else we wouldn't have been the exactly so. But the
thing is this super movie. I was just like, wow,
like really I could feel. And I really liked his
suicide Squad too. I like his suicide Squad too. Yeah,
I just like really like his sense of humor, and
I thought it worked really well here. And yeah, I
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mean incredibly incredibly hot and talented lead actor playing Superman, Like,
let's go. He's actually the inspel from my haircut. Currently.
I sat down on the chair with Thomas. Oh, I
see it in Hollywood baby shout out, and I said,
corn sweat. Oh my god, which is that how you
pronounce it? I I feel like the e is so
the first e is silent corn sweat. It's like it's
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like if corn would could sweat that is hot corn sweat.
It could be it could be at. It's not the
hottest last name there is. What is Smith? I was
gonna say Smith? I was literally like, is she about
to say Smith? I said, John Smith. But I also
it's it's also the most generic. You need to examine that.
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Oh you're colonized, you have cones by and our devastation
thinking that we had lost an episode because Matt's audio
Matt's computer crash. We watch, we watched our hot ones versus.
We cheered ourselves up by watching our hot ones versus.
We love it. It's so fun. Team first feast, team great.
They talk about going for the joke. They get it,
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A team who gets it so deeply over there. We
love them and we love doing it. And even though
we felt sick after, that's part of it. No, and
it was worth it. And so we each a four,
we each a two, We each a two. No, I
think there was two left. No, we only ate. No,
we each a two. Wings. Girl, I don't know. You
watch it back and you can too on YouTube. At
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first we feast, Okay, so maybe it's time for I'm
trying to think because that of course there's like more
things and culture that we missed. I mean, Gilaine is
getting interviewed. I guess right now, huh remember our episode
about Gailaye one of our best, one of our best,
and now she's like back, what is going on? I
don't know. I don't know. I mean, I I have
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we have theories, but we we can't we kick. I
have so many theories. I've actually become quite a little
conspiracy theorist about the whole thing. Look, this, this was all,
This was all where it's it was headed. You know,
like we're all conspiracy theorists now, and the left needs
its own que q. Left needs its own cue left
you and I'm it we would be amazing cues. We
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would be amazing cues. Wo'd be incredible kind of fun cults. Yeah,
we kind of do right and thank you all you
cult us out there. We just really do away with
our p k p fs and just say a r
KPF case. Now we see this what I'm saying, it's
getting too I was trying to lump Kyle's into the KDS.
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I'm not here to say I told you so, But
you can't put the gen back in the bottle because
the genie is out flexing his big muscles. And that's
ky I'm not hearing from enough Kyle's. So that's I'm
going to say here on the shopping block, I'm going
to invisibilize Kyle's until they prove out to me. Can
you guys, please, Kyle's should be in Bowen Yang's DMS.
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Being nice, okay, not prescriptive. No, it's fine. Not judgmental,
only nice, It's fine. Okay, So this is I don't think,
so honey, Yep, it's our time. It's our moment in
the in the in the episode to sort of rant
and really get something in pop culture or culture at large.
I'm going to be attacking culture at large. Okay, this
is something that you know, it's one of my vices
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requires me to do something and I'm having a problem
doing it. Okay, this is Matt Rogers. I don't think
so Honey's time starts now. I don't think, so honey.
The packaging on weed, like you can't open these things.
What kind of wee I'm talking about like pre rolls okay,
that you would get at like an official weed store,
like one of those Apple stores for weed in LA.
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I don't think, so honey. The way that they sell
this stuff. Also, by the way, this I'm not even
gonna say what it is because I don't want the
brand to feel embarrassed too. Is hard to open. But
once you get the hang of it, I'm telling you
at able pre rolls, like I haven't even really engaged
anything on their childproofing. It's childproofing, but in the child
proofing you've also Matt Rogers proofed it, and that is
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gonna happen. When you childproof, You're gonna also Matt Rogers proof.
And I am your grown ass fingers. Let me tell
you something. I can't open. It's not as simple as
queezing the sides and then popping the top, but it
has to be because that's what you've said will do
the trick, But it doesn't do the trick. Me and
Melissa were banging our heads against the walls trying to
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smoke some Indica and I'm like, babe, I'm on the
other planet of stress now I really need it. I
don't think so. Honey, readers, if you're feel me, please
reach out and tell me that I'm not crazy and
alone in this because the packaging on marijuana has become restrictive.
Criticize him, yeah, criticize me, please, No, honestly, if I'm
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an idiot, If I'm an idiot, tell me. But I
also don't think I am because I had a you know,
a witness there in and we were really we could
not open. And she can do anything, she can do
it all. Yeah, you know how frustrating it is to
be there a full grown human alongside someone who can
do it all, and neither of you to do a thing.
I didn't mean to doubt you. I just know because
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I mean, what the next time I have a problem,
I'll just FaceTime you and show you. Because like, but no,
I ran into this recently. I bought a package. I
bought a pre roll package, and I was like, okay,
all right, it's like getting into Fort Knox to smoke
a blunt nowadays, it's like getting into Fort Knox. It's
like it's full of culture number eighteen. It's like getting
into smoke a blunt nowadays. You haven't, I don't think, so, honey. Yeah,
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although I don't, I can't. I'm gonna find it as
like okay, okay, okay, here we go. That is a
way to do things. Okay, great, this is Bowen Yang's
I don't think, so honey, and his time starts now,
I don't think, so honey. On the culture not knowing
where we have landed on the Laboo Boo versus La
Fu food discourse, it seems like now we're favoring La
Fu Foo's more because we are you know, we seebs
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as this artificial scarcity, you know, example, and why are
we gatekeeping you know this trend from so many people.
But at the same time, now it seems like we've
overcorrected into the lafufus, where we like are kind of
putting more value in the lafufu because they're fake and
because they're offs. But you can't knock off a culture
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that has thrived on knockoffs for decades. At this point,
I'm talking about China. They will beat us at this game.
M hm, La boo boos will emerge as the victor
fifteen seconds. I for the longest time was resisting the
lea booboo craze and I finally went to the place
of origin and I thought, well, I walked into a
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popmar and I went five seconds. This is glorious. And
I'm seeing the people shake the boxes because they can
tell by the weight and the feel which ones are different.
And I'm like, this is a turn I want to
be on board for. And that's one minute. So we
found out yesterday that the way you can tell a
lafufu from a la buoboo is the number of tea. Yes,
I said, this is crazy, it's biological, it's biological. I
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think this is filling the void in my heart. A
lot of healing happened on this trip. That's the other
headline and perspective. You heal, yes, and you know whatever,
blah blah blah blah. Like all the trips prior to
this one were about me, like being in the closet
and staying in the closet. And I didn't necessarily come
out to anyone on this trip, but the way I
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was being discussed on kind of social media made it
very apparent to the people who were on social media,
to my family members who were on social media, and
I was like, you know what, I kind of like
it this way that I didn't have to broach the
subject external delights, external delights, but if this also healed
for me. Was never allowed to have a single beanie
baby growing up. This was my DAP with Tamagotchi's interesting.
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He was like, why would I get you that you
have a dog? Well, period, I mean, can't really argue
with that, but it was devastating, of course, and you
couldn't have a beanie baby. Couldn't have a beanie baby?
Was there reasoning for that? They were like these are
gonna be all over the house, like literally, So when
we moved to the States. We would go into like
open houses and go to look at people's houses in
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Colorado and suburban Colorado, and it would be you know,
we yang and I would freak out. I remember there's
one room, there's one kid's room full of beanie babies,
and we were like, oh my god, Mom and dad,
look at how many baby and beanie babies they have.
They go, yeah, no, is grotesque. Not in my home.
Not in my home. You're you're not having those fucking
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things in our house. See I think so they saw
an example of an extreme yes, and they went, we're
not touching. I mean, it was this. It was just austerity,
and it's it's immigrant parents. And I told I don't
begrudg them of that. I just think all these years
later I had to heal that child. Yeah my mind
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my labuoboo and I love my labuboo. Can you show
your labuobo. I've got one labuobu here, I've got the
blue one. Oh that's really good. I've got that, and
then another one came in. I'm that is good. Okay.
So I have not really engaged in labooboo lao culture.
You want my lab I have another laboo boo. I
don't think no, you take it because I feel like
if I want if I want one, I will pick
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I will find the lula boo for me. But and
how much is it? It depends? Okay, well talk about that.
I think if you go on stock x dot com
you can buy one for like forty bucks. And what's
the what's an example of an expensive la buoboo? Like
if you want to like really like go for I
don't know the premium ones, it can go like a
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hundred two hundred Okay, ye see, I thought it was
so out of control that we were talking like a
couple thousand dollars. No see, But that's the thing is,
it's like with things like this that become a fashion accessory,
like where is the ceiling on what people would pay
for that? Like you have to imagine, like you know
some people, there probably is no ceiling if you love
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it that much. Wait, you said the lafufoos can't turn
their head around. The labuobuo can turn its head around.
I just turned it. Well, maybe you have a lafoofoo. No.
I count nine teeth and that is the real number.
That's nine. That's nine all right, I have another one.
I have another one in my room. He's gonna get
the the other labooboo and we're actually going to count
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the teeth right now. Just find out if it's real
or not. This is a huge thing in culture and
this is lost culturista. So if you are already at
max with the labubu, by the way, like okay, so
this is really good. In two seconds, these are going
to be out of style. We're gonna look like one, two, three, four, five, six,
seven eight nine. So this is real. And then can
you turn its head around? I think they can all
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they can all have their heads. This one doesn't turn around,
So I'm saying, like, by the way, I don't want
to snap its head off because this is what I
don't know what you paid for it. I don't want
to ask you what you paid for it. But like,
by the way, this one is cute. Maybe I will
take this one. Take care? Would you gift it to me? Yes,
you don't want to give it up? No, that's yours,
this is mine. Yes, I think that's a real. Okay,
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we're going to take a photo with our boos, and
that's going to be the episode that external delights. This
has been an internal delight in terms of the people
that make and create Lost Culturistas Bowen Yang and myself,
and we have to say one more time that the
Lost Culturistas Cultural Awards around August fifth on Bravo, so
real thing to say. We are going to be you know,
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on Washer What Happens Live on Monday night, and we're
going to be chatting with the man himself, Andy Cohen,
who does factor into the show along with a lot
of your faves, and yeah it streams of the next
down Peacock. Anything you want to say to prime the
readers and more, because maybe they should just be called
that readers and more interesting. Well, we can't, we can't.
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Now you're really trying to put the gunie back in
the bottle. I think it will be out of this world.
That's a hint, that's a hit. Okay, Well you guys
are also have a la booze out there, and all
you lafu fuos we can tell. We end every other
sod with a song. Don want to cold my eyes
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hello on fall Sleep because I miss your babe and
I don't want to miss a thing. For more of that,
watch the Culture Awards Bye Last Culture. Racist is the
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produced by Anna Hasnier and produced by Becka Ramos, edited
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