"Yes, Mama" (w/ Rosebud Baker)

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Speaker 69 Yes.

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Speaker 73 This is a brand new space, and I really had to orient myself.

Speaker 74 This is, it's, it's very Sunset Boulevard.

Speaker 75 Those people out there in the dark.

Speaker 76 Yeah.

Speaker 78 Very, I love that for you, too, and Vanessa's character is auditioning.

Speaker 81 For to be a QVC host.

Speaker 79 QVC host.

Speaker 83 You know what I just realized about you?

Speaker 84 They'd be so lucky to have you go to QVC.

Speaker 86 No, don't even.

Speaker 88 Why do you, why are you offended?

Speaker 91 I said you could sell products on television live.

Speaker 93 It is a hard job and it is kind of too,

Speaker 95 it's like encased in amber, that kind of television.

Speaker 97 You know, it's like time.

Speaker 98 Like seeing Stacey Rush do it from The Real House of the Potomac, be a QVC legend.

Speaker 78 I go, this is so comforting.

Speaker 97 These women are selling some of the ugliest jeggings you've ever seen.

Speaker 81 Yeah, it's like a jewel-tone jegging that comes with a bracelet.

Speaker 65 And it's like a Christ bracelet.

Speaker 104 It's like, what I love about these jewel-tone jeggings is I can feel confident and sexy while also staying a Christian woman.

Speaker 109 And I'm a Christian woman while I also, you'd know I'm fun.

Speaker 65 And that's one thing at home that I think a lot of people are thinking.

Speaker 17 And I know there's a lot of good Christians out there, is could I still be fun?

Speaker 89 Wow.

Speaker 112 Now these are flying off the shelves.

Speaker 114 We've already sold 12.

Speaker 115 These are really selling.

Speaker 110 And And we only have 15.

Speaker 118 And so that's why I'm saying this is, and that's how I know there's a lot of great Christians out there.

Speaker 102 And this isn't a jegging. This is jegging.

Speaker 120 But this is, and can I just say, we were just doing it.

Speaker 39 You know, we were just doing it.

Speaker 65 You were doing it. No, you.

Speaker 68 I was.

Speaker 121 I'm sorry. Am I blind?

Speaker 1 So you were doing it. We were doing it, Gruy.

Speaker 123 We were both doing it. Yeah.

Speaker 106 You were doing it.

Speaker 124 I like threw a penny in the fountain.

Speaker 89 You know what I mean?

Speaker 12 I didn't, I didn't fully.

Speaker 1 You threw a rhinestone.

Speaker 104 Wow. A jewel-tone.

Speaker 125 A jewel-toned rhinestone.

Speaker 126 So, speaking.

Speaker 103 I mean, writer, performer, stand-up legend.

Speaker 17 By the way, like, we're sitting here.

Speaker 131 We're just thrilled because this has been a long time coming.

Speaker 98 It's been a long time coming.

Speaker 97 This is someone who has seen us

Speaker 60 bomb and grovel and just be among.

Speaker 65 Not bomb.

Speaker 1 We've bombed.

Speaker 68 I've never seen you bomb.

Speaker 106 I don't know if, I don't know if, like, when have we?

Speaker 1 I've never seen you go.

Speaker 99 I bet that's not true.

Speaker 1 No, I truly, I would not say that. I would honestly say.

Speaker 78 I'm sure I had Union Hall sweats in front of you at some point while you were in the back being like.

Speaker 105 Union Hall sweats?

Speaker 87 Is that something we'd call it?

Speaker 133 Oh, I felt many Union Hall sweats.

Speaker 116 Guess I crushed at Union Hall every time.

Speaker 102 You've never had the Union Hall sweats.

Speaker 138 Only felt the Union Hall shoulder shake.

Speaker 65 One off stage, killed them.

Speaker 138 One time

Speaker 92 those people were killed.

Speaker 76 I was bombing so hard.

Speaker 97 I turned around to the lady who's hanging on the wall and I said she was Mary Todd Lincoln, but that's not who that lady is.

Speaker 93 Yeah, but you know what I mean? Who is that lady?

Speaker 65 No, no, no, it's just some lady.

Speaker 1 She might as well be Mary Todd.

Speaker 139 Ms. Hall.

Speaker 140 Ms. Hall.

Speaker 80 Mary Todd Hall.

Speaker 18 Mary Todd Hall.

Speaker 65 Mary Todd Hall. Of course.

Speaker 142 But listen, this voice that you're hearing, if you're listening to this at home, is one of our pals.

Speaker 144 It's been a long time coming.

Speaker 85 The Mother Load is the special. Honestly.

Speaker 145 It is funny every single second, which dare I say, you can't say even about stand-up specials, most of them.

Speaker 147 This is any piece of comedy.

Speaker 52 Any piece of comedy, like come see us at Union Hall 10 years ago.

Speaker 122 You get a few chuckles in there.

Speaker 89 You get a few chuckles and that's it.

Speaker 148 She self-directed it, which we need to talk about because that's fucking

Speaker 80 so cool of you. So fun.

Speaker 137 We need to ask you about this.

Speaker 149 She's on the harmless lady tour.

Speaker 148 By the time this comes out, she will have Edmonton.

Speaker 62 I'm sorry, Baltimore, then Edmonton, then Sacramento.

Speaker 92 Shut up. I can't believe it.

Speaker 1 You know my tour dates.

Speaker 147 I know your dates.

Speaker 150 I don't know the dates. Well, it's up from Edmonton.

Speaker 106 I mean, you know the cities.

Speaker 126 I know the cities.

Speaker 1 I think Cleveland is in there.

Speaker 102 Cleveland's in there.

Speaker 94 I think by the time this comes out, but Cleveland, from the future, go see.

Speaker 102 Yeah, and it's Cleveland.

Speaker 1 You just missed me.

Speaker 87 Really feel shame about this because the fact is, this is one of the greats.

Speaker 152 Please welcome into your ears Rosebud Baker.

Speaker 153 I'm so excited.

Speaker 154 When I saw you at SNL the other night, the overwhelming joy I felt, and it wasn't just because Lady Gago was in the building, it was because Rosebud Baker was there.

Speaker 103 Shut the fuck up.

Speaker 1 No, it was. Every time I see you at SNL, I get like, I get excited.
And it's not just because somebody from outside of the building is in the building. Yeah, the SNL sweats.
You know?

Speaker 1 Because the SNL sweats, where you're like, oh my God, somebody, somebody.

Speaker 65 Humanity. Doesn't it feel,

Speaker 151 have we talked about this?

Speaker 149 It feels a little bit both violatory and exhilarating when like people from the outside world like permeate.

Speaker 135 Yes.

Speaker 72 And

Speaker 1 it's odd because obviously love my husband, hate bringing him to the party. Really?

Speaker 1 I feel like I'm babysitting. He doesn't operate with, this is the problem.
He doesn't operate with the same level of paranoia that I have to operate at.

Speaker 1 So I walk around after him just being like, what'd you say to them?

Speaker 80 What'd you say to them?

Speaker 74 It's like knowing where the landmines are in the battlefield.

Speaker 123 Yes.

Speaker 1 And he'll be like, they were fine. And I'm like, yeah, but what face did they make?

Speaker 156 Right.

Speaker 90 I now just pictured Andy just walking into a battlefield.

Speaker 103 And

Speaker 157 it made me laugh.

Speaker 103 He's a funny guy.

Speaker 1 He is. He's he is a redwood.

Speaker 57 Yeah, honestly. He is a redwood.

Speaker 147 Yes.

Speaker 158 BTS for people that

Speaker 159 were not here for the conversation prior to us recording.

Speaker 85 I saw Redwood last night at the Dina Menzel tree musical.

Speaker 160 We were calling it Tree Dina.

Speaker 162 Here's what I'll say.

Speaker 52 I loved watching her in the tree and I loved how much joy she was feeling doing the musical.

Speaker 150 And that is where I will end.

Speaker 133 That's what people say to me every week after an SNL show.

Speaker 1 I liked it.

Speaker 102 You're having so much fun.

Speaker 38 You're having so much fun in the sketch.

Speaker 151 And that's

Speaker 97 what a comedy show should be.

Speaker 165 Yeah. And that's what's important.

Speaker 102 You bring us joy.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And

Speaker 1 you're happy.

Speaker 157 Yeah.

Speaker 102 That's right. You have no idea

Speaker 156 what I've been through.

Speaker 65 Yeah.

Speaker 99 But anyway, the special is so good.

Speaker 166 Thank you.

Speaker 1 Thank you for watching it. I truly, whenever, when I started doing it, when I was like, okay, I'm going to do a special about like becoming a mom and what that feels like.

Speaker 1 I was like, this feels a little bit like walking into an open grave.

Speaker 115 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Because everybody, no one cares. No one cares.
Whenever I bring up motherhood, I feel like I just was like, are you guys into rollerblading?

Speaker 1 Everybody just looks at me like, if you are, I guess, you know? So I tried to make it a special that felt like whether you had had kids, didn't have kids, it was funny and you could enjoy it.

Speaker 1 And so, and I feel like I succeeded.

Speaker 72 Yeah,

Speaker 86 it just feels like you the entire time.

Speaker 121 It doesn't feel like this is my special on motherhood or becoming a mother.

Speaker 38 It feels like this is Rosebud's special, right?

Speaker 65 And I love that about it.

Speaker 120 Like, it's great.

Speaker 130 You really are one of the best joke writers out there.

Speaker 60 That's true.

Speaker 38 No, it's for real.

Speaker 17 I mean, like, it's just great to see people

Speaker 86 actually put jokes in

Speaker 169 a comedy piece and period.

Speaker 102 Yeah, which feels less

Speaker 1 and what's important is that you're happy and you had fun.

Speaker 108 Yes.

Speaker 106 You were having fun up there.

Speaker 1 And you're having fun up there.

Speaker 170 What was the choice to shoot?

Speaker 64 I guess was it you shot it twice?

Speaker 92 Yes. Once eight months.

Speaker 1 So I shot two separate hours, right? It was like, I shot the first hour when I was eight months pregnant. I waited a year.

Speaker 1 I took the jokes from that hour and I kind of like built on them based on my experience after having had the baby. Right.

Speaker 1 And then shot a second half of it a year after having the baby and combined the two into one special.

Speaker 171 That's right. I love it.

Speaker 1 It was really fun to do, honestly. I mean, it was terrifying and crazy when I look back at it.
I'm like, that was insane of me.

Speaker 1 Only somebody who's like living with the fear of being kicked out of the industry would do something like this. Stop.

Speaker 50 No, truly.

Speaker 1 I like, that is what I, I look at it and I'm like, that was what was motivating me. I was like, I have to keep working, you know, like,

Speaker 1 like, this is going to feed her, you know? Right. Oh, I hear you.

Speaker 172 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So I was like, I was working my ass off, but it was really, when I look back at it, I'm like, it's so, I, I do feel like, and I feel like a loser saying it. No.
I'm like, it does feel like it's so me.

Speaker 172 Yeah.

Speaker 1 And so when I look at it, I'm like, I'm proud of it. It doesn't feel like something where I was trying to like impress,

Speaker 1 you know, middle-aged men,

Speaker 1 which when I watched my first special, I'm like, okay, I see what you were doing there.

Speaker 1 You were trying to like get the respect of the comics and get that, you know, and now I watch this and I go, that was, that was like 100% me and just trying to like make something that I was proud of.

Speaker 101 You know, and like you shouldn't even like rate yourself retroactively on the first special because we went through that phase.

Speaker 99 We're, we're probably still going through that phase of like, I guess it should appeal to a general audience, which means inevitably like

Speaker 1 people that aren't like me. Exactly.
Yes.

Speaker 75 Yes.

Speaker 142 Let me sort of traffic in this thing that I don't necessarily believe in and also am not so that I can get across this thing that may do better as a result.

Speaker 54 Right.

Speaker 29 But then you find out it's a complicated thing, but it's like, no, just be yourself.

Speaker 142 That's what's going to connect you with people.

Speaker 131 And yes, that connects you with your fans, but it still doesn't really work in the industry.

Speaker 110 Yeah. They still will ask you.

Speaker 1 It's like you can build your own fan base. And it's like the industry's still like, well, what about the men in Ohio?

Speaker 141 Right. And you're like,

Speaker 81 I forgot about them because I don't think

Speaker 1 I don't care.

Speaker 102 Yes.

Speaker 1 I don't want them. I don't even care.
Like, it surprised me that men did like the special. Like, straight guys did like that.
It was a little disappointing, but I was like, okay, I'll take the win.

Speaker 1 I was like, okay. But it did feel like, I guess that's just what happens.
Like when you are you, it doesn't, then that's all you want.

Speaker 1 You just want to get on stage and not have to just get over that hump of like explaining who you are in the context of the rest of the world for the joke to land. Oh, do you know what I mean?

Speaker 133 Well, because it's, it's that thing, and I'm rolling my eyes as I I say this out loud.

Speaker 79 It's like you're being so specific that it, that it feels universal.

Speaker 18 Like, right.

Speaker 96 Like the, the, like the guy in Ohio can appreciate like

Speaker 137 as a husband getting postpartum anxiety like Andy did or something.

Speaker 111 Yeah. Which I didn't even know could happen either.

Speaker 1 I didn't know it could happen.

Speaker 158 But then obviously it made sense.

Speaker 142 Like it is his child.

Speaker 176 And it's like, if you, if you're someone who can ruminate it on the idea of like, this is a thing that wasn't alive a little bit ago.

Speaker 50 Right. You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 Yes. And you're like, and the whole time, it's funny because I have like a traumatic traumatic reaction to like sickness.
I'll be like, she's not sick.

Speaker 155 She's not sick.

Speaker 1 And then Andy will be like, but she is, but she is.

Speaker 1 And it actually turns out to really be perfect because he'll call the doctor on stuff where I'm like, I don't think we need to be concerned about that because that could be a nightmare for me emotionally and terrifying and for her.

Speaker 1 And sometimes I'm like, thank God you're paranoid. Cause,

Speaker 57 you know, it's a checks and balances.

Speaker 147 Well, yeah.

Speaker 142 Do you think that that, because also in especially you talk about how you guys were raised very differently?

Speaker 176 Like you, like you'd make a joke about like your dad throwing you like a football into like a lake and being like, that's how you swim.

Speaker 164 And then jumping in and saving you and being like, see, look,

Speaker 61 what a guy.

Speaker 103 Yeah.

Speaker 1 And whereas like, you know, dazzled into loving your father. Yeah, right.

Speaker 143 And he's from Seattle from a more like, I guess, liberal, progressive

Speaker 122 situation. Yeah.

Speaker 53 Do you think that that has informed you as parents, even if you're like growing up being like, there's no way, there's no way.

Speaker 93 I'm not going to throw my kid in the water.

Speaker 1 Right. Yes.
A hundred percent. Yeah.
Because I'll be like, I remember him coming home with Minnow and he was like, I think she has a dairy allergy. And I remember my reaction going, no, she doesn't.

Speaker 80 That's not, those don't exist.

Speaker 106 I'm fully aware they do.

Speaker 140 Fully old they exist.

Speaker 50 Your parent jumps out.

Speaker 1 I literally was like, no.

Speaker 127 Right.

Speaker 80 Not an option.

Speaker 1 And I didn't look into it. I didn't ask him why he thought that even.

Speaker 65 I just went, nah, it's not. No, brand new gut.
Yeah. Brand new gut.

Speaker 68 You can't have a dairy allergy.

Speaker 1 and we found out yes um we did not find out i i think i actually on that one he was like you might be right about this you won yeah complacency won yes yeah but we will hopefully we we should just get it checked out honestly looking at it now i'm like we probably should just take a look the gunkles say the gunkles say check it out but then it reminds me of this other joke you have about your mom like talking about like

Speaker 96 you getting a blood transfusion when you were an infant at a time when kids were getting aids from the transfusion.

Speaker 61 Yes.

Speaker 95 And you being like, well, did I have it?

Speaker 109 And then she's like, well, we never got a check

Speaker 114 because it would have ruined your social life.

Speaker 1 Right. In first grade.
I'm like, literally first grade, I think. She was like, you could have, you could have, we just never found out.
And the doctor said it would be bad for your social life.

Speaker 80 I was like, no, he didn't.

Speaker 135 The waspy doctor.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I was like, absolutely not.

Speaker 123 No, I don't.

Speaker 1 And it's funny too, because my mom, like the Pokemon evolution of my mother is like going from like Republican wife to like liberal divorcee who like paints in Maine.

Speaker 80 Love you, she moved to Maine.

Speaker 172 Yes.

Speaker 1 And she, she is now very liberal in a way that you're kind of like, okay.

Speaker 115 You're overshooting.

Speaker 1 She's overshooting. Yes.
You know, she's painting a Ukrainian flag in her in her garage. Yeah, yeah.
And she's like, look at this. Look at what I did with a big sunflower in the middle of it.

Speaker 18 You're like, cool.

Speaker 94 You're having a rediscovery.

Speaker 122 That's good.

Speaker 1 Yeah. No, that's good for you.
You know,

Speaker 57 but then

Speaker 98 do you feel her brain in your head in this moment of parenthood?

Speaker 1 I do. I, you know, that's a really good question.
I feel like my dad's parenting had more of an effect, even though I was with my mom more.

Speaker 1 So, I mean, I think the artistic side of me is all my mother. Like, she's a painter.
Her whole side of the family is like all like writers, painters, you know, photographers.

Speaker 1 And my sister is in the art gallery world.

Speaker 102 She, she works in art.

Speaker 1 And so I, and my other sister's a musician. So it's all like, we're all very much that.
Yeah. Um,

Speaker 1 but my dad, I, maybe it was like the absence of him

Speaker 1 that made his presence like more of a,

Speaker 1 or maybe just genetically, I, I'm, that's where it comes from.

Speaker 145 Do you think maybe like the absence of him made you fixate on him more and therefore like his parenting like was it's it's the searching for that or the wanting that that makes it like i don't know i'm just like i look at it and i go he was

Speaker 1 he was like a up guy and when i think about it i'm like he's kind of the reason i'm funny

Speaker 1 you know i like when i think about my dad making fun of people jogging

Speaker 1 I'm like, that's

Speaker 1 that's my sense of humor.

Speaker 53 He was your comedic influence.

Speaker 122 Yes. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 111 They do tend to be that.

Speaker 80 Yeah.

Speaker 29 My dad was, I don't know, my dad, I feel like we probably had similar dads.

Speaker 152 My dad plays a Long Island version of it.

Speaker 122 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 74 But it's kind of like.

Speaker 1 I was listening to the episode with Sarah when you were talking about how you drew him asking for a beer.

Speaker 142 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Peanut, get me a beer from the crazier for the presentation.

Speaker 102 I mean,

Speaker 115 literally.

Speaker 83 And all my mom could say was, I love you.

Speaker 121 It's not funny.

Speaker 1 Did he make him, did he make you walk on his back when his back hurts?

Speaker 65 You know what?

Speaker 188 Yes.

Speaker 64 You know what's crazy?

Speaker 156 I used to make people do that.

Speaker 170 I used to make Sudie do that.

Speaker 69 Yes, you did.

Speaker 156 Sudie was walking on my back all of college.

Speaker 116 And now I'm like, did I get that from my dad?

Speaker 52 I don't think so.

Speaker 72 My dad would just pick that up.

Speaker 104 Get on my biceps.

Speaker 170 I can lift you to heaven.

Speaker 84 And like, I did that.

Speaker 162 So it was a lot of other physical stuff.

Speaker 86 And he used to, we used to play a game called Crocodile, where he was a crocodile in the bed.

Speaker 150 And

Speaker 64 I was like a muskrat. And he would take me and throw me off the bed.

Speaker 103 Oh, that's.

Speaker 102 Yeah, that's the best.

Speaker 1 That's what we do with Minnow.

Speaker 171 She loves that.

Speaker 115 I bet. Oh, that's fun.
Yeah.

Speaker 65 I don't want to get thrown.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's really fun. She really loves it.
She does it to herself now, where we'll like grab her, we'll throw her into the bed and then we'll say boom while she does it.

Speaker 1 So then she'll climb up on the bed and she'll just fall into the pillows and go boom. Oh, boom.
It's very lonely to see, to see her do it to herself.

Speaker 191 You know what, though?

Speaker 65 Sense of humor form. Sense of humor.

Speaker 107 She's Pratfall.

Speaker 80 Pratfall queen.

Speaker 1 Big time. Big time.

Speaker 35 You've been asked this a million times, but with two comedian parents, what is, what do you expect?

Speaker 77 What's the likelihood?

Speaker 80 What do you expect her?

Speaker 113 How's she going to like spit that out when she grows up?

Speaker 1 You know, I have no idea. I genuinely hope for her sake that she's not a comic.
But I also am like, I understand it's my job as a parent to

Speaker 1 nurture whatever she wants to do. And that is like what I intend to do.
And if she wants to do comedy,

Speaker 1 I'm going to be like, great.

Speaker 67 That's awesome.

Speaker 193 Then also you guys are going to be there as comics one day watching her sets and being like, that's going to be really tough.

Speaker 81 Ooh, yeah, because you're going to have to go through a developmental period.

Speaker 1 Yeah. You know what I think is I just, just based off of her personality so far, I do think that when she, if she doesn't like it right away, she's going to be like, and I don't want to do that.

Speaker 65 Yeah, I'll be a doctor.

Speaker 166 So it's like, great.

Speaker 1 Let's do it. Gemini Moon.

Speaker 194 You know,

Speaker 1 try whatever. Try a lot of different things.
Yeah. And then see what you like.

Speaker 73 By the way, I remember one of the, one of the times that we hung out at SNL and Bowen's dressing room, you came in and you were crowdsourcing names.

Speaker 72 Yes, I remember.

Speaker 152 There was an era where you were like really looking to people.

Speaker 117 Because I remember you had like narrowed it down.

And Minnow Rocks.

Speaker 115 Minnow Rocks.

Speaker 1 I love Minnow. It's like my aunt's nickname.

Speaker 1 I love that. I feel like it's just like a cute little homage to her.

Speaker 178 And

Speaker 1 yeah, it's fun to say.

Speaker 193 When I heard we landed there, I was like, I don't know if that was even in the ether at that time.

Speaker 1 I think I said it to you and Greta.

Speaker 170 You may have.

Speaker 168 And I think we did have a very positive answer.

Speaker 1 Because we were going back and forth about the middle name. If you have Minnow, then what's the middle name? Because I was like, what about like Penelope?

Speaker 1 And then we we were like, that's a little Wes Anderson. Yes.

Speaker 194 You know, like Minnow Penelope.

Speaker 132 Minnow Penelope.

Speaker 65 Yeah.

Speaker 156 Fears on too much. Yes.

Speaker 96 Wait, what is the middle name?

Speaker 135 It's Baker.

Speaker 65 Oh,

Speaker 65 yeah.

Speaker 195 Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 So I just made it Baker.

Speaker 110 Oh, that rocks.

Speaker 153 Yeah. Baker Haynes.

Speaker 1 Right? It feels, it kind of feels like darling. It feels a little bit like it could be that, or it's like a welterweight from like the 1950s.

Speaker 97 Not heavy, not light.

Speaker 108 B.

Speaker 103 Haynes. Yeah.
Mino B Hayes. Mino B.

Speaker 135 Haynes is the welterweight.

Speaker 102 Incredible author, I feel.

Speaker 103 Right.

Speaker 65 Of important feminist work. Yes.

Speaker 194 For mino.

Speaker 65 Music producer. Music producer.

Speaker 17 One word minnow, like Willow.

Speaker 57 Minnow. Welcome back, Quincy Jones.

Speaker 80 Yes. Yes.

Speaker 1 Minnow B.

Speaker 52 Haynes. Minnow B.

Speaker 159 Haynes.

Speaker 171 I love it.

Speaker 123 It's fun.

Speaker 35 I think my favorite, there's a lot of, it's hard to pick a favorite, but I think my favorite currently joke in the special is being a mother in New York is like being a gay man in the 50s.

Speaker 101 You have to hang out with people who are like you and it has to be in the park.

Speaker 79 You have to be some

Speaker 108 park.

Speaker 127 It's like,

Speaker 149 I don't know how anyone does it here.

Speaker 147 I really don't. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 153 You can't go to fucking restaurants.

Speaker 1 You can't go to restaurants and people talk to you differently, like people that you've known your whole life, they talk to you differently.

Speaker 104 I was dying at mama.

Speaker 141 Hey, mama, how are you doing, mama?

Speaker 118 And it's not even mama.

Speaker 64 And then you are like a gay guy too, because we're all calling each other mama out in the middle.

Speaker 102 Mama!

Speaker 127 Hey, mama! Mama. Kima, mama.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And the whole time, and you're judging each other.

Speaker 122 Yeah.

Speaker 1 You're totally judging each other.

Speaker 122 Like, how do you do it?

Speaker 187 Yeah.

Speaker 85 Have you made like mom friends explicitly that you actually like?

Speaker 125 Okay.

Speaker 80 So, yeah.

Speaker 113 So, like, what are the challenges?

Speaker 1 I haven't. I have not made a single mom friend.
Yeah. I mean, I have, I have friends who are moms that do comedy.

Speaker 134 Sure. Yep.

Speaker 1 So, like, comic moms I do get along with really well because I'm like, they get it, they understand. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But it's weird to be a stand-up who's a mom because you don't really fit in with the other moms.

Speaker 65 Right.

Speaker 1 And you don't fit in with the stand-ups. And you're just kind of like, so stand-up comics who are moms or parents, you kind of understand.
Yeah. Because you really are living like a severed life.

Speaker 157 It's a weird severe life.

Speaker 123 It's a double isolation.

Speaker 68 Yes.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 22 And you've got a crazy job.

Speaker 65 And it's like, I know.

Speaker 1 Andy went to a party last night for the first time. He like went to paintball with like a bunch of his friends.
That's fun. And he came home and it felt like something like awoke in him.
He was like,

Speaker 1 he goes, I don't, I don't think I realized how isolating this is. Yeah.
And I was like, yeah. He goes, that was the most fun I've had in years.

Speaker 194 I was like, paintball.

Speaker 102 Okay.

Speaker 135 Whatever, whatever floats your boat, babe.

Speaker 133 Should we go, should we go bowling or something?

Speaker 102 I think we should go paintballing.

Speaker 68 Because now paint and sip.

Speaker 50 Now I'm not literally.

Speaker 87 Now I'm actually fixated on paintballing.

Speaker 75 I went paintballing once and it was for a straight guy's bachelor party.

Speaker 101 And you had a blast.

Speaker 147 And I had the best time ever.

Speaker 1 That was a straight guy's bachelorette.

Speaker 65 Yeah, literally.

Speaker 82 And it was like a lot of gay guys too.

Speaker 142 It was one of those New York theater straight guys who has a lot of gay friends.

Speaker 43 So it was like me, Dave, our friend Ryan, et cetera, like all gettings.

Speaker 192 Oh, I love that.

Speaker 142 And we were all getting shot at by straight men, but it was like.

Speaker 1 I've dated so many of those like theater straight guys. It's actually embarrassing.

Speaker 102 Isn't it?

Speaker 158 What's up?

Speaker 1 The personality of like a New York cop.

Speaker 140 Yeah.

Speaker 1 You're like, what wait elaborate on that well me and andy were talking about it like

Speaker 1 every like new york actor who's like a straight man okay i think i know where you're gonna be going you know what i mean they all have like a bandana as a bracelet

Speaker 1 and they'll be like yeah i'm an actor and they've got like a fucking leather jacket on and they it they have this energy like right they throw a cigarette and they fucking spin on it yeah they like you know what it is i completely know what it is i can name like three people yeah damn you're right they're all like that and you you just want to be like you know you're not actually a cop yeah you know you book law and order yes yes i know you're living like a blue collar life as an actor kind of but like your hands are soft right

Speaker 75 i also think like those guys go through phases too because in college that's when they're the worst because they get so much action.

Speaker 122 Yes.

Speaker 75 Like these girls are so starved because it's mostly gay guys and like other girls.

Speaker 142 And also they're in these programs where they're competing with each other anyway. Yeah.

Speaker 201 So it's already, they're in the mindset of like, only so many of us can get A roles and B fucked.

Speaker 161 Yes. So it's, and those guys are absolutely spoiled for choice.

Speaker 175 Yes.

Speaker 170 And they, it's a different kind of thing.

Speaker 83 They, they, they do grow up and all, everyone we've talked about has grown up.

Speaker 132 Yes.

Speaker 112 But they do in college have to send out those signals.

Speaker 97 among their classmates to be like, I'm not gay, by the way.

Speaker 102 Yes. Yes.

Speaker 102 Like that.

Speaker 1 It's just subtle signal.

Speaker 102 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like walk down the street yelling, I'm not gay, by the way.

Speaker 102 Did it work?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I can't.

Speaker 1 The number of guys that I've dated with, like fedoras, and you know, it was really a rough time where I wanted, I wanted to be in a relationship with another artist because I feel like they get it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you know, they get the life that you're living. Yeah, but the actors, honey, I just

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Speaker 173 How did you and Andy meet?

Speaker 1 We met at um matchless bar matchless like years ago.

Speaker 142 And were you ever thinking like it'll be another comedian, like straight up stand-up comedian, or were you kind of like

Speaker 1 I

Speaker 1 did not know who it would be. I was just like, I had gotten out of a relationship with a comic.
Yeah. And when I met Andy, I was like, still with this other comic, by the way.

Speaker 1 And then like, never really even saw Andy until like after that.

Speaker 1 And I remember like meeting Andy and seeing him and him being like a very awkward human being.

Speaker 1 And he told me, like, we had talked for the first time in the day to each other.

Speaker 1 And he was like, I just, I pretend.

Speaker 1 He goes, sometimes I like, I feel like I'm pretending to be a human being.

Speaker 65 And I was like,

Speaker 123 yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 And he was like, he said the whole thing about

Speaker 1 how he like talks to himself. He'll be like, good blinking, Andy, you know, while he's talking to someone.

Speaker 1 And so I immediately liked him, but not in a way where I was like, oh, I I got to get fucked.

Speaker 183 You know what I mean? I got to get dicked down.

Speaker 181 This guy who thinks about blinking is going to absolutely give it to me in every which way.

Speaker 1 He's going to split me in half.

Speaker 65 Not now.

Speaker 1 Not no, but also, you know, not like...

Speaker 24 Not the top of my head.

Speaker 1 Yes, mama. Yeah, not yes, mama.

Speaker 92 Yes, mama might be title of that.

Speaker 65 I apologize.

Speaker 102 It's still on the nose.

Speaker 108 It is on the nose.

Speaker 102 Yes, mama. Yes, mama.

Speaker 167 So

Speaker 1 I guess I just thought, like, no, it's not going to be him. And I did, I called up Sidney Washington after I realized I had a crush on Andrew.

Speaker 108 To vet him?

Speaker 1 No, to be like, do you think I'm okay? Do you think I'm doing all right? And because it was so outside of,

Speaker 1 he's so outside of like my type and my, uh, what I was like looking for that I was like, do you think I'm, I'm. Everything okay up here right now? How have I sounded to you?

Speaker 1 You know, and she was like, oh, this is really out of left field. But she goes, but it makes sense in a weird way.
And I was like, that's how I feel. And so we went on a few dates.

Speaker 1 And then I knew I wanted to get married. So I said to him, you know, not necessarily to him, I just knew I wanted to get married.

Speaker 1 So I was like, hey,

Speaker 1 sad news for you.

Speaker 1 I want to get married. So

Speaker 1 if you don't want to get married, we should just start fucking other people.

Speaker 166 Right. Right.

Speaker 1 And he was like, well, I don't want to do that. I don't want to, I don't want to fuck other people.
And so he was like,

Speaker 1 I'll get married, you know.

Speaker 1 And I was like, you know, not to me me necessarily. It was a weird conversation to have because you're not telling someone like, you got to marry me.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 You just have to be like, this is what I want.

Speaker 142 This is my cards on the table.

Speaker 74 Here's what I see.

Speaker 38 Right. And not even see for my future.

Speaker 143 This is what I'm like.

Speaker 72 Planning for.

Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So, and at the time, did not want kids, just really wanted to be like married and fun.
I just love like a fun married couple that travel. That travel.

Speaker 50 Unburdened, et cetera.

Speaker 1 And they're like, they make each other laugh. I really wanted that life.
I was like, that looks so fun.

Speaker 1 And so

Speaker 190 it was literally nine months later that he proposed so you know we're both um drug addicts yeah 100 yeah we remember when we met him in montreal yes he was for the free flight back did you knew who we were talking to you the entire time about geography no but yes he's a map guy yeah he's a real map guy

Speaker 1 wait what he loves he loves to talk about tell him where you're from He will bring up at least three landmarks in your home.

Speaker 141 Wow.

Speaker 1 He's like, he really is autistic.

Speaker 74 I was going to say, is that an autism?

Speaker 1 We've never gotten him tested, but I'm pretty positive, like based on everything that I've read and know about autism, that my husband for sure has it.

Speaker 1 He's on that spectrum.

Speaker 65 Yeah, totally. For sure.

Speaker 1 Cause it's crazy. I mean, the way just watching Jeopardy next to him, I'm like, well, why aren't you on this? He should go on it.

Speaker 114 He should.

Speaker 154 I know. Let me tell you, like,

Speaker 239 I've been on the

Speaker 85 celebrity Jeopardy and did well once I figured out what, how do you do it?

Speaker 80 Like the clicking of the buzzer.

Speaker 139 That's the hardest part.

Speaker 84 Oh, really? Yes.

Speaker 64 As long as you get that down, he could win.

Speaker 80 Okay. He could win.

Speaker 184 Mind you, I played with like other idiots like me.

Speaker 111 I just think it's a cool thing.

Speaker 1 Even if we watch, even, I swear to God, even if you put him on Celebrity Jeopardy, he knows every like side character actor's name. Yeah.
And, you know, where you're like, how do you even know this?

Speaker 1 And he's like, it's one of the most famous actors in Britain. And you're like, no, he's not.

Speaker 1 No, he's not.

Speaker 50 I wonder who it is now.

Speaker 122 I wonder who it is.

Speaker 1 It could be, he says it about everyone. Yeah.

Speaker 126 How much of it do you absorb?

Speaker 97 Do you learn, do you find that you learn things from him or are you like

Speaker 134 none of it?

Speaker 1 Like, I wish I absorbed some of it. It would be amazing if I absorbed some of it, but it all just goes like,

Speaker 230 like, there are people that are just like that.

Speaker 1 I'm, I can't, yeah, I don't know about you. You work at SNL, so you can't remember anything, right?

Speaker 89 My brain is, is fucking smushed.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And you're in entertainment, so, and also a Pisces.
So I assume your memory is kind of shitty.

Speaker 201 My memory is, well, good.

Speaker 74 no, no, no.

Speaker 201 Well, okay, my long-term memory is excellent.

Speaker 120 My short-term memory is getting worse all the time.

Speaker 192 And I think it's, I actually started to freak myself out because I think it's about marijuana.

Speaker 64 I also like all my grandparents have, you know,

Speaker 144 struggled and met their demise to some sort of like that type of thing.

Speaker 198 So I'm now, I just turned 35.

Speaker 156 I'm now in that phase of like, okay, so at what point is something coming for me?

Speaker 170 Right, right.

Speaker 64 We were saying it's like algorithmically death issues.

Speaker 164 Instrument really decides at like 34, 35 that you're seeing like panicky, like middle-aged stuff.

Speaker 72 Yes.

Speaker 84 Yes. It happens.

Speaker 142 I was thinking about you the other day.

Speaker 159 Like

Speaker 85 because you're 34 still, but just wait, things change on the day.

Speaker 1 It gets way worse in your late 30s, just FYI.

Speaker 97 What's coming up in the audience?

Speaker 1 I'm getting just pajamas.

Speaker 102 Yeah.

Speaker 135 Just

Speaker 65 pajamas.

Speaker 1 No, it's like, well, you don't work, right?

Speaker 140 They're like, you're retired.

Speaker 1 It's pajamas.

Speaker 78 So then that's, that makes me feel great because the algorithm is still stupid and it doesn't know who you are.

Speaker 1 But that's also given the number of things I've filtered out because they were literally offensive. Yeah.

Speaker 123 You know?

Speaker 1 So it's like pajamas.

Speaker 170 Like memory care facilities for you in all caps.

Speaker 103 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 They're like, a place for mom.

Speaker 102 You're like, what?

Speaker 67 A place for mom.

Speaker 127 You're like, I'm not even 40 yet.

Speaker 121 You know it's going to get even worse even now as we sit here with our phones on the table because they're currently listening.

Speaker 142 This is the most fucked up thing that ever happened.

Speaker 239 Last night I met dinner after the show and I literally said, what do you guys think about deviled eggs?

Speaker 85 Like getting them for the table to share?

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 142 I flip open my phone.

Speaker 17 It's like deviled eggs.

Speaker 64 It's like the algorithm was like, just wanted to talk about deviled eggs.

Speaker 110 And I'm like, this is too specific to not be you literally monitoring me at all times when my phone is like not in active use.

Speaker 162 It's, yeah.

Speaker 135 Well, they can hear us saying

Speaker 1 you ordered deviled eggs is I thought it was going to be for a senior home.

Speaker 80 I thought it was going to be that.

Speaker 167 Your interests changing?

Speaker 170 So might your circumstances.

Speaker 102 Double eggs for the table?

Speaker 106 A place for dad.

Speaker 127 A place for gunkle.

Speaker 102 A place for gunkle.

Speaker 127 Honestly.

Speaker 98 Do we like start this now and plan out like an assisted living facility for like Brooklyn comedians or something?

Speaker 104 I mean, we should.

Speaker 1 There should be something, but I'm scared because I'm like, what could be worse than a nursing home? A nursing home for comedians.

Speaker 171 Oh, God. Yeah.

Speaker 159 Just desperately trying out your like new stuff.

Speaker 1 Yes, just or like doing bits like people are on when they're in their 80s.

Speaker 180 Like doing a bit that you're choking, but you are.

Speaker 90 Or like doing a bit that you forget like something, but you, do you?

Speaker 1 Wait, that is my biggest fear when I'm on stage.

Speaker 1 I've had panic attacks about that.

Speaker 80 Of choking?

Speaker 1 I have panic attacks while I'm on stage about what if I had a seizure right now. They'd all think I was doing an act.
Yeah.

Speaker 161 They'd be like, she's amazing. She's so physical.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, I've never been physical in my act in my whole life. I don't know know why I think this, but for some reason in my mind, they are all going to think I'm like Pablo Francisco.

Speaker 157 And I'm just doing a full like,

Speaker 1 like, and I've had full panic attacks where I don't remember the entire set because I'm just like bird memorizing saying it out loud. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But in my mind going, if I had a seizure right now, they'd all laugh.

Speaker 80 They'd all be laughing.

Speaker 143 That's crossed my mind before.

Speaker 216 Everybody, if you see Rosebed Baker live and she seizes on stage, it's not an act out.

Speaker 65 It's not really.

Speaker 79 It's not all the hospital.

Speaker 170 She's suddenly a physical comedian.

Speaker 102 Something's wrong.

Speaker 67 She's having a seizure.

Speaker 103 Something is wrong. Call the police.

Speaker 128 Andy will be there.

Speaker 106 He'll call the police. If it was up to you, you'd be like, I'm fine.

Speaker 1 Andy's calling the pediatrician first.

Speaker 102 You have to come down.

Speaker 1 He's like, this is actually about my wife, but I don't have the doctor's number.

Speaker 119 Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's a terrifying thing to imagine.

Speaker 242 Yeah, I mean, but the great thing, though, is like, I mean, as I was watching the special, I was thinking about it.

Speaker 75 I was like, to have like that family unit in place does kind of like, this is like weird to say, but it does like you have people that are going to look after you forever.

Speaker 145 And sometimes I think about that, like, it sounds weird to say, and like, we all have it in some regard because like community has been so important and how we develop and stuff.

Speaker 17 But like, for like queer people, like, that is really important to have like your chosen family, et cetera, because like, I need to know who's going to check me into the facility.

Speaker 65 Yeah.

Speaker 237 Me, me, me,

Speaker 192 or just like, end it, girl.

Speaker 65 No, no, bring me out.

Speaker 1 Of my submission. I'd say the same thing to myself.
Literally. Yeah, I'd be like, please just unplug it.
I don't want to do it.

Speaker 86 Once we get bad news, let's commit to that.

Speaker 101 Yeah.

Speaker 160 I'm telling you, of mice and men.

Speaker 87 That's interesting.

Speaker 1 You want to be hugged to death.

Speaker 178 Yeah.

Speaker 165 Kill me like he killed her.

Speaker 61 Not like, not the shooter mother.

Speaker 1 No, just kill me like the little mouse.

Speaker 135 Yes.

Speaker 1 I was thinking of me till you crush me.

Speaker 158 Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 201 I was thinking of his mama that he shakes.

Speaker 92 Not me remembering of mice and men.

Speaker 184 My long term, I'm telling you.

Speaker 102 It's crack.

Speaker 153 That is.

Speaker 72 a crack memory.

Speaker 89 It's a crack memory.

Speaker 98 I think if you make it to the finish line, which is check me into an assisted living facility, I've made it to like 78 or whatever.

Speaker 156 God willing.

Speaker 87 Yeah, like that's that's the prize.

Speaker 114 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I hope not.

Speaker 182 That's like sucks.

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Speaker 99 Literally.

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Speaker 20 Yeah, you can.

Speaker 223 But you have to first.

Speaker 13 You have to.

Speaker 15 And a Mustang?

Speaker 211 The Mustang that conquers curves.

Speaker 55 You are more capable than you know.

Speaker 56 Like, for example, I never thought I could parallel park.

Speaker 245 I just thought it wasn't something that was going to happen for me in my life.

Speaker 242 And not everyone gets to have every experience, you know?

Speaker 206 But then, suddenly, I did a parallel park and I thought, wow, I'm going to apply to Harvard. I didn't get in, but I did parallel park.

Speaker 232 Sometimes you just need to push.

Speaker 51 What is it that they say?

Speaker 6 Whether you think you can or you think you can't.

Speaker 129 You're right.

Speaker 27 Ready, set

Speaker 134 Ford.

Speaker 251 You know what is like absolutely

Speaker 175 you could go crazy watching it is Gutfeld on Fox, which is like the Fox late night show.

Speaker 175 It is the absence of comedy.

Speaker 102 There is nothing funny happening on it. No, it's not.

Speaker 161 And yet, the ratings are so through the roof that you almost have to wonder: it's like, are people watching it because it's like they feel it's like they're political homework or just because they don't trust anything on anyone else?

Speaker 1 It's the thinnest premises you have ever seen.

Speaker 1 Like, it's hard to.

Speaker 1 Here's the the problem: to write a good joke, a premise has to be true.

Speaker 1 You have to write a true premise to write a true punchline.

Speaker 1 Not that the punchline is supposed to be like true in a sense actual, but like what we would consider a punchline.

Speaker 1 You cannot, it's that job is going to be harder and harder to do because you're trying to write jokes about premises that are not true.

Speaker 65 Exactly.

Speaker 1 So, I mean, as long as everyone in that world is considering it to be true, I guess it works.

Speaker 64 It must work because his ratings are so big.

Speaker 142 They're so much bigger than any of.

Speaker 169 Right.

Speaker 99 And I was, but I was telling you that the ratings is more of a function of like it being embedded in other news programming on Fox.

Speaker 18 I hear you.

Speaker 35 Where like Daily Show could never get those numbers because it's on Comedy Central.

Speaker 101 No one's like

Speaker 133 keeping Comedy Central on all day and leaving it on at night.

Speaker 52 And I completely get that.

Speaker 142 But my thing is like, I mean, it's on.

Speaker 156 They're hearing it.

Speaker 74 And if there's there's nothing to challenge the idea that it's A, not comedy and B, also not true, then it's just on and they start to believe it.

Speaker 145 I think I'm just like really realizing more and more that we're just in two completely different silos and there's really nothing to be done about it.

Speaker 17 Yeah.

Speaker 111 There's nothing you can do.

Speaker 1 If you do care about like what is true, there are still journalists.

Speaker 80 They do exist.

Speaker 1 Right. You know, like I have found that even just at update, right? We get a setup.

Speaker 1 I have to turn around so often and be like, hey, is this something I should be freaked out about? Or is this a headline that sounds a lot scarier than it actually is?

Speaker 1 And most,

Speaker 1 most often, the answer is like, you don't need to worry about this until this and this and this happen.

Speaker 65 Right. And who's telling you that?

Speaker 100 Like, who it's like.

Speaker 135 Chay.

Speaker 65 Imagine. I go, the beacon of truth.

Speaker 102 Chay's in the office? Yeah.

Speaker 67 Checking the work.

Speaker 102 Chicken to work. What?

Speaker 103 We love each other.

Speaker 1 Just Josh Patton, who studied political science.

Speaker 52 We didn't know that about Josh.

Speaker 135 We love Josh.

Speaker 1 He's so smart. And oftentimes, whenever I'm about to freak out and it's hard for me to write a joke when I'm like emotionally

Speaker 1 like, this is crazy. Yeah.
He'll be like, ah, it's not crazy for another three months. You know what I mean? And I'm like, okay, all right.
So I can budget the amount of like fear that I have.

Speaker 1 But more often than not, you can like look this stuff up. You can find out like if it's true and if it's not.
Right.

Speaker 126 But I love that Patton's telling you, oh, worry about bird flu in June.

Speaker 127 Yes. Whatever.

Speaker 102 Yes.

Speaker 1 Yeah. He'll be like, it's not a problem until this happens.

Speaker 139 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 180 I'm like, once again, 8 million birds are dead.

Speaker 115 Text phone. Okay.

Speaker 140 We're here.

Speaker 158 When I said June?

Speaker 127 We're thinking more April 15th.

Speaker 165 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like, I was so freaked out about the flu, the flu meeting getting canceled.

Speaker 1 And like, I was like, oh, no, no, no. And he was like, if it gets canceled in six months, then we're really in trouble.

Speaker 115 How does he know this?

Speaker 1 Because

Speaker 1 of the major? Because of the major, I guess.

Speaker 80 He reads a lot.

Speaker 1 I literally just realized that I just went because of his major. Yeah.

Speaker 151 But that's an answer.

Speaker 135 Yeah.

Speaker 65 He is a very smart, funny guy.

Speaker 111 Well, he's also like, I mean, it is like,

Speaker 201 he's engaged in it constantly to do.

Speaker 53 I'm actually fascinated by how weekend update works.

Speaker 162 Like, is it, do you guys work the same?

Speaker 65 Like, yeah.

Speaker 1 We work the same week. Like, we go in Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
We go in and we do like three to five pages of jokes a day.

Speaker 1 So we just get like all these setups and that goes out to everyone. I don't know really why.
I don't know if anybody.

Speaker 76 I know it's on the setups.

Speaker 77 There's a setups file in the server.

Speaker 65 And like, I'm like, we shouldn't.

Speaker 133 I'm like, Cash doesn't need access to this necessarily.

Speaker 166 Not really, but everyone does.

Speaker 135 Sometimes people use it.

Speaker 1 So I, I, I guess.

Speaker 1 I truly speculation.

Speaker 1 Um, but we just write three to five pages of jokes a day by ourselves and, and then turn them in.

Speaker 1 And then on Friday and Saturday, we go through all of them once like Joast and Che have made their picks. We go through all of them.
We tag each other's jokes up. We listen to them.

Speaker 1 We listen to the jokes that were picked back. And based off of like the reaction or the way that they feel saying them, it's like they kind of narrow it down from that for Saturday.

Speaker 1 And then Pete has like such a hard job because Pete has to like make sure that the show has different topics, that it's covering a widespread and that things haven't been just blasted out already, that they're not telling jokes that have already been told.

Speaker 195 Like Colbert or yeah,

Speaker 1 so I, his job is so hard. Yeah.

Speaker 148 I always think about his job. Pete Schultz, also one of the kings of update.

Speaker 99 Yes.

Speaker 16 Has to like really keep his ear to the ground.

Speaker 114 Like it's hard.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And keep both hosts happy, making sure that they're getting the jokes that they want off, you know?

Speaker 117 And then what's the interaction between, I feel like I'm like asking questions of

Speaker 1 Bowen is such a star on update like what is the interaction between people writing their updates and like the weekend update writing team is there so well like when Bowen comes in he'll pitch something that's like hey I'm thinking about doing the hippo but like kind of making it off of like mapping it off of chapel Rome and we're like great sounds done yeah

Speaker 1 like that's just such a finished piece you check in on Tuesday or Monday or Tuesday with like the premise yeah with the update team yeah and you come in and you're like, this is the thing.

Speaker 1 And then you go write it. Right.

Speaker 1 Other times, someone will come in and they're like, I want to do something that's kind of about this. And then we'll pitch on it and we'll help them and like write.

Speaker 1 And this is something that I actually didn't understand as a sketch writer on the sketch writing side. Is if you go into update and you're like, I have this idea for

Speaker 1 a feature. It's not completely done.
You can sit down and pitch with them. They will give you a full, like, we'll give you like two to three pages of jokes.

Speaker 1 And I don't see it often get into the

Speaker 1 thing. Well, sometimes it does, but it's hard for people to understand that we're there for that.

Speaker 157 Yeah.

Speaker 1 You know what I mean? Cause you just, in your brain, it's two different things, staffs. So you feel like you're just kind of chucking it, like just going back and forth.
I've never said chucking it.

Speaker 122 Chucking it before.

Speaker 80 No, you're chucking it. You're not chucking it.

Speaker 131 You're not chucking it really work.

Speaker 65 No, you're chucking it.

Speaker 198 We're sitting here chucking it. We were chucking it.

Speaker 123 We were chucking it.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 I feel like when I say things about SNL, I forget. I lose my grasp on this language.

Speaker 137 I have no idea what words are when people ask them.

Speaker 1 And I also don't know what's safe to say. Like I'll say things and then I'll immediately be like, well, that's it.

Speaker 18 Yeah. And I'll walk into the ocean.

Speaker 65 Cooked.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It's over.
But so we're chucking it.

Speaker 155 We're back to chucking it.

Speaker 1 And you just think, oh, that's not really, they're not really pitching.

Speaker 166 Right. But we're totally pitching.

Speaker 171 You are. Yeah.

Speaker 172 You are.

Speaker 140 So there's that.

Speaker 95 I honestly need to take advantage of that more.

Speaker 110 Whenever you want.

Speaker 1 Chuck it. Come chuck it.

Speaker 120 Just so everyone's clear, Bowen is wearing a jewel-tone legging and a beautiful Christian bracelet.

Speaker 158 I know he's a Christian woman when he says this.

Speaker 85 And when he talks about his Lent piece that he was going to.

Speaker 1 You can wear rhinestones on your vagina.

Speaker 80 And still serve Jesus

Speaker 133 they sold two so these are flying off the shelves there's only three

Speaker 1 um on angel's wings

Speaker 90 oh wait a minute that's a tattoo I thought you were meant to push an update I thought you were gonna go on update as like like a QVC person oh that's fun oh yeah has anyone ever done that probably I mean like yeah probably in the 50-year history of SNL me thinking no one's ever done it

Speaker 77 or tease will go and sell like his fake his fake products

Speaker 78 always a blast yes no No, basically, the character was a Lent mascot named Lenny.

Speaker 137 He was in a friar's outfit, and he was like there to whisper, sweet nothings about giving up swearing and alcohol. And then got up to sing a song.

Speaker 137 And then when he stood up, like titty mags and cocaine and

Speaker 67 titty mags.

Speaker 95 And then he would just be like, I like,

Speaker 190 I'm a monk who loves boobs.

Speaker 195 Okay.

Speaker 111 And it was very much in my voice as a boob lover.

Speaker 65 But anyway.

Speaker 1 Did anyone pitch that you stand up and there is no robe under the robe?

Speaker 158 Yes. Wait, someone did pitch robe.

Speaker 127 Okay.

Speaker 137 See, I got to chuck it with y'all.

Speaker 1 We got to come chuck it.

Speaker 127 We got to come chuck it.

Speaker 141 We got to chuck it.

Speaker 143 Okay, I'm going to chuck it in a different way now.

Speaker 176 We're going to ask you the central question of our podcast. This is the question.

Speaker 64 What was the culture that made you say culture was for you, Rosebud Baker?

Speaker 83 This is that thing that hinted culturally, it hinged you.

Speaker 1 Okay, so I did think about this before I got here.

Speaker 65 Thank you for that.

Speaker 172 Yeah, I did.

Speaker 1 I thought about it. And because a lot of culture I don't remember because I have blocked out most of my life.

Speaker 114 However, um

Speaker 1 i believe that dance movies yeah center stage being the main

Speaker 1 and congrats zoe seldanya on the off screen yes because because zoe seldanya putting a cigarette out yep with her point shoe

Speaker 1 sent shivers down my spine in a way where i was like i can be cool and a girl yeah

Speaker 1 and like i don't know she's the one that got on the motorcycle but she was in my mind yeah yeah yeah she was the one that got on the motorcycle with the with the ballerina that that drove the motorcycle Yes.

Speaker 1 And they had sex in his apartment with like floor-to-ceiling windows. They had the same windows as the friend's apartment.

Speaker 162 Yeah, they did.

Speaker 145 That like completely unattainable thing that some people in New York were living in film and television at that time.

Speaker 176 Yeah. Floor-to-ceiling windows.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And I think that just made me, that sort of turned me on in a way that in a theater kid kind of a way.

Speaker 123 Sure.

Speaker 1 Which I have been, I would say, closeted about for most of my life that I was a theater kid.

Speaker 97 Now, is that this is why you and like Greta get along

Speaker 137 because you can both meet each other.

Speaker 1 Theater kids from DC.

Damn.

Speaker 259 That's the common thread.

Speaker 68 Yes.

Speaker 57 Two of our greats.

Speaker 1 Two of our greats that was like anything that was like based in New York City,

Speaker 1 like rent, obviously, musical, the Zoe Seldania putting out the cigarette with her point shot.

Speaker 74 That image is very, it's formative.

Speaker 1 It's so, but I'm like, that was it. Yeah.
But that was the moment where I was like, I'm fucking cool.

Speaker 1 I'm going to go. I'm going to go to New York and I'm going to be an artist in New York.
Yeah.

Speaker 103 That's fun.

Speaker 1 And I was like, and have edge, but also like be driven.

Speaker 80 Yes.

Speaker 1 I'm gonna have edge, but I'm gonna like eat cotton balls for lunch.

Speaker 115 Yeah.

Speaker 80 To starve myself or whatever.

Speaker 77 Soup would be too filling.

Speaker 115 Yes.

Speaker 1 Oh, I can't. Yeah, I know.

Speaker 89 Yeah.

Speaker 89 The genre have really fallen off.

Speaker 99 I just like, well, we need more of them.

Speaker 97 Like, the last big ones were like, step up.

Speaker 145 Do you want to know what?

Speaker 74 I think they sequelize them all too much.

Speaker 80 I think step up, two, three, four, five, ten, fifteen, twenty-eight.

Speaker 162 Once you die, it just feels like.

Speaker 119 It's a single toy story.

Speaker 201 Exactly. I mean, like, unless, unless you're actually going to

Speaker 160 really make them different and change them, I feel like, honestly, they got overfranchised.

Speaker 1 Also, I think that if you follow the arc of any dancer and their career is going to end way before five movies,

Speaker 102 you got to see it.

Speaker 1 You can't, nobody wants to see a dancer after retirement.

Speaker 85 Not only just because I guess your body changes and gives, not gives up, but like is not able to see.

Speaker 1 Your body's washed. Your body's washed.

Speaker 138 your body's washed after two years in Vegas hoofing it for Jay to the low yeah shucking it with J Lo and also like the lifestyle

Speaker 89 the lifestyle I guess also was like we can't keep doing this right I can't keep wearing a flat rim hat and doing get right no you can't you know

Speaker 87 don't kill yourself yeah but I mean like where is our generation this generation's like flash dance show girls dirty dancing like what dance music.

Speaker 94 Is that what you're talking about when you're graduating?

Speaker 1 Yes, I'm talking about those dance music where people were having, like, they were in high school and they were dancing up against each other. They were like, they were on teams.

Speaker 1 They were fighting each other with dance. It was like, it was our West Side story.

Speaker 194 Yeah, that was crazy.

Speaker 41 It was like they literally did Westside story, but.

Speaker 81 I don't know what it was that it just didn't hit the culture because it was good.

Speaker 160 But the thing is, like, you know, where those dance moments popped out, which they haven't really done in a few years, are those live musicals that they did.

Speaker 106 Yeah.

Speaker 84 Like the Grease live musical that they did on Fox.

Speaker 196 That was exactly what like Julianne Huff was like made to do.

Speaker 161 And I'm like, why isn't she the huge like old Hollywood star of these types of movies? It's because they don't make them anymore.

Speaker 172 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I think that people have gotten to, this is just a theory, but I think we've gotten too invested in the villain running the story.

Speaker 69 The dark heroes.

Speaker 1 We all love the anti-hero. Yeah.
You know, and I think we all sort of leaned into the anti-hero with Tony Soprano and Breaking Bad and all these.

Speaker 1 And all of a sudden, we were like, a dancer who wants to make something of herself.

Speaker 1 You know, it just didn't.

Speaker 1 I think we all have just leaned too far into that.

Speaker 1 So much so that we, oops, made one the president. Right.

Speaker 1 I'm like, let's just get back to like.

Speaker 1 fun dance movies.

Speaker 18 I think that's great.

Speaker 17 It actually speaks to like my I don't think so, honey from from the other week, which was, I need to see animated movies, Disney, whatever, for kids, where the villains die really bad deaths.

Speaker 175 Yes.

Speaker 41 Because they used to do it all the time and they got afraid because it's not just anti-heroes that we're obsessed with, also protagonists who are complicated.

Speaker 168 And the actual, the villain is what's inside.

Speaker 132 Right.

Speaker 146 It's her insecurity.

Speaker 151 Right.

Speaker 196 It's the fact that she has a weird identity she hasn't come to grips with.

Speaker 170 That's the villain of the story.

Speaker 105 It's like, no, give me a fucking one-eyed.

Speaker 80 Total bitch

Speaker 80 coming in here who wants to kill.

Speaker 84 TKTK, it was puppies for for Corella Deville.

Speaker 162 They would never do that.

Speaker 50 They would never do that.

Speaker 105 There would never be a woman dressed in the animals she killed anymore.

Speaker 67 Not for kids.

Speaker 151 We've had too much.

Speaker 252 Like these are, if these are the three stories: man versus nature, man versus man, man versus himself.

Speaker 80 Right.

Speaker 87 We've had too much man versus himself over it.

Speaker 1 We've had enough with man versus himself. No.

Speaker 182 We need to fear the villains of the world because they're out there.

Speaker 1 Man versus the algorithm.

Speaker 92 That is the fourth one.

Speaker 229 Like if you're looking for a vintage band tee.

Speaker 213 Not just a tea, THE band tee.

Speaker 10 From the last show your favorite band ever played.

Speaker 8 Which was cute until he dumped you and took it with him.

Speaker 234 And there it is, same tea from the same tour still living in your memory rent-free forever.

Speaker 134 Yeah.

Speaker 235 But eBay isn't just for getting whatever your ex slash XBFF stole back.

Speaker 231 And where else are you going to find your first car, a RAV4 from 2003?

Speaker 55 eBay.

Speaker 237 It's Wi-Fi that keeps your whole home connected so you can actually enjoy the holiday magic chaos free.

Speaker 59 Your kid is video chatting their friends from their tablet and your partner is shopping for too many gifts and cinnamon candles.

Speaker 185 Ah!

Speaker 63 So when you go to upload 200 photos of that cat in a cute little Santa hat, you won't see that dreaded failed to upload message.

Speaker 36 What?

Speaker 66 So, whether your rule of culture is the best first state, start with the shared hot take on Renaissance, or compatibility is having the same hometown bodega order, download Bumble and turn those connections into something bigger.

Speaker 200 Your boss, your friends, some stranger on the internet? No, no, and absolutely no.

Speaker 2 Right? Mm-hmm.

Speaker 20 Yeah, you can.

Speaker 223 But you have to first.

Speaker 15 And a Mustang, the Mustang that conquers curves.

Speaker 206 But then, suddenly, I did a parallel park and I thought, wow, I'm going to apply to Harvard. I didn't get in, but I did Parallel Park.

Speaker 27 Ready, set,

Speaker 134 Ford.

Speaker 94 This is the this is the new dance movie that we're all gonna write. It's it's the tick-tock dance movie.
It's people at a high school.

Speaker 112 They're all competing for TikTok dances or something, some bullshit like that.

Speaker 149 And then they find out the real villain is the algorithm or something.

Speaker 103 Oh, I love that.

Speaker 1 Or the guy running the TikTok cult that they're in. Yeah.

Speaker 127 But here's the thing.

Speaker 187 We need to reveal in the movie that the algorithm actually is a person with one eye dressed in all dogs.

Speaker 86 He's a killer.

Speaker 168 And we have to watch him

Speaker 182 be pushed into lava.

Speaker 170 Get pushed into lava, but it's not enough.

Speaker 161 He's like coming out of the lava and like crocodiles who can swim in lava rip him apart and we watch it.

Speaker 1 But first, he comes out of the lava with the dog, with the dog costume, and he's wearing a crocodile. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 He's in the mouth, and he's like, guess what? I'm wearing this too.

Speaker 102 It needs to be a four-minute death scene.

Speaker 82 Like what we did to Mikey Madison and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Speaker 188 Like, she didn't deserve that.

Speaker 86 Some of these villains deserve not.

Speaker 143 Well, actually, she was in the Manson family. She did deserve.

Speaker 84 And she was also a ghost face.

Speaker 89 She got stabbed in the eye.

Speaker 156 And Once Upon Technology.

Speaker 81 Mikey Madison has burnt to death in two out of, I guess, her three films.

Speaker 78 Ghost Face and Once Upon a Time.

Speaker 119 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Can I be honest? I did not watch all of Once Upon a Time. I do like certain scenes from it, but mainly I just remember Brad Pitt on a Roof.

Speaker 69 Right.

Speaker 1 So I did take a photo of the screen in the movie theater, which was insane.

Speaker 108 Yeah, I did it.

Speaker 174 The Dead Man looks good in a lot of positions.

Speaker 1 But I was alone in the movie theater. It's not okay to, I was literally like.

Speaker 102 Oh, please.

Speaker 103 If I'm alone in the movie theater, my phone is out.

Speaker 92 I'm not watching.

Speaker 108 I should have come.

Speaker 65 Like, I'm telling you, like, it's for sure.

Speaker 80 Like, it's really bad.

Speaker 191 Sometimes I'll pick a movie that I know no one is going to be there for just so I can go to text in a dark room.

Speaker 102 That's amazing.

Speaker 60 I don't know what that is.

Speaker 1 You know, I used to do that when I was having a really bad day. I would get a karaoke room by myself.

Speaker 68 Oh,

Speaker 1 and staying by myself. That's amazing.

Speaker 87 What were you chucking it on?

Speaker 1 Just chucking it to like the hardest ones, you know, just like trying to belt out a Whitney Houston.

Speaker 1 Just give it a shot.

Speaker 80 So clean. Vocally pushed yourself.

Speaker 159 It wasn't a place where you could like, you know, rap hard.

Speaker 81 It wasn't a place where like whatever. It was about pushing yourself vocally.

Speaker 166 Yes.

Speaker 1 It was like, I just want to, I don't feel my, my, uh, my sponsor, my therapist, I'm like, there's a lot of, there's a team.

Speaker 140 The care team.

Speaker 80 There's the care team. Yeah, there's a care team.

Speaker 1 My, my therapist sponsor. Yeah.

Speaker 1 He was like, you need to like yell in a pillow every once in a while. That's good.
Because I was telling him how much I related to Walton Goggins in this

Speaker 80 white lotus.

Speaker 1 And he was like, yeah, you should probably like yell into a pillow about that. And,

Speaker 1 but, like, I don't feel comfortable yelling into a pillow because that's insane. So if I go into a karaoke booth by myself, also insane, but fun.

Speaker 117 But no, and also so much of why it exists.

Speaker 115 Yeah. Have you ever booked one of those rooms?

Speaker 100 I think they still have them in New York where it's just like old printers and TVs.

Speaker 137 And then you have, you take a jack camera and you just like, it's like you opt space it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I've seen a lot of people do that. And I wanted to do it so badly, but I was pregnant at the time.
And I was like, this is when I actually need this. And it's not safe.
And it's not safe.

Speaker 149 Now, if you would like,

Speaker 258 let's all go.

Speaker 172 Let's do it.

Speaker 78 I think all of SNL should go.

Speaker 97 Yes.

Speaker 1 That would would be amazing so much oh my god yes you know what i mean maybe like while they go to the host dinner or something yeah like you guys just go skip out on a tuesday just take an hour and a half to go like yes like truly hammer down on these things it helps it really does it would almost like i'll watch that story about larry david like yelling at um dick ebersoll i'll just watch that when i'm in a just the story just the story and i'll just you know of him just yelling and saying this and everybody watching and then him storming out.

Speaker 1 And then I just like stop it. I don't even watch the how he showed back up on Monday.
I'll just be like, yeah, good for you. You know, when I'm in a mood.
Totally.

Speaker 174 But it actually is a thing.

Speaker 121 I've never really thought about channeling my anger in that way.

Speaker 174 I know those rooms exist.

Speaker 212 It was like a couple weeks ago, I was, um, I was working out and the guy who trains me, we were doing this thing where like he would throw a ball to me and I would twist and throw the ball back and I had to throw it as hard as I could.

Speaker 50 Yeah. And all of a sudden I was like, wow, this is like the best and most alive I've felt.

Speaker 45 So literally yesterday in the shower, do you know what I thought?

Speaker 46 I was like, what if I just went and tried like boxing?

Speaker 80 Not with another person.

Speaker 169 Just literally just like getting a bag.

Speaker 80 Like, I actually think I could get into that because I didn't understand.

Speaker 75 And one of the things I've actually realized in my own therapy over the past few years, and I think we share this, is like actually how much anger I have about some things.

Speaker 142 And it's really very useful in like a, in like a, the way your voice, what happened with your voice when you said, really?

Speaker 108 No, really?

Speaker 111 no no i'm telling you like he even said something about it the trainer he was like oh wow like you have some aggression and i was like yeah i think it's really becoming apparent right now but i i thought to myself like what if i just go punch something in a productive way but i do think it's a slippery slope

Speaker 1 Xboxing to MMA to Rogan.

Speaker 202 You don't see me going MMA Rogan, though.

Speaker 1 No, but sometimes I wonder if the two literally are, if it's unavoidable. Yeah.
Like no matter who you are starting out, I worry.

Speaker 81 If one day we'll all end up at just different, different eras at MMA.

Speaker 1 It'd be so funny if you started boxing and within a year you were like straight

Speaker 184 living in Austin twirling

Speaker 102 as a slur.

Speaker 125 It went from hey mama in the park to you're a faggot in a real way living in Austin.

Speaker 115 What's that?

Speaker 92 Anything possible?

Speaker 1 Spinning on his

Speaker 104 why is that the way that I think that's the most masculine thing?

Speaker 102 Which it is.

Speaker 134 We're not disagreeing with you.

Speaker 155 I'm like, what is wrong with me?

Speaker 1 I'm like, ooh, spin on it. Yeah.
I'm really into like, I think it's Zoe Seldana that did that to me.

Speaker 227 So then when you moved to New York, did that feeling wash over you of like, I'm Zoe?

Speaker 1 It definitely washed over you. Like it does for all of us at some point.
Obviously, at some point, I was like, I am Zoe.

Speaker 1 But more so than I was like an amalgamation of these characters where it's like, which is hilarious because I was just like 20 with a drinking problem.

Speaker 1 But I did feel like I was like, I'm a little bit rent, I'm a little bit center stage, I'm a little bit sex in the city, I'm a little bit friends. I thought I was all of those things.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And truth be told, I was none of those things. I lived in a railroad in Greenpoint, the worst part of Greenpoint

Speaker 1 with my ex and his metal band.

Speaker 108 Oh boy.

Speaker 111 So they were actually living there.

Speaker 1 They were living there.

Speaker 1 They were rehearsing that.

Speaker 65 Oh, damn, that's tough. They were,

Speaker 1 yeah, it was, it was tough. I, because I do hate, I hated their music, but I do hate metal in general.
Um, but I hated their music.

Speaker 174 And, uh, were you honest about that?

Speaker 1 I, I wasn't because I, truth be told, it was that or rehab.

Speaker 1 So I was like, I have to, I'm like, he, he like promised my family he would take care of me because I was supposed to go to rehab and I sort of like did it. I bamboozled.
Yeah. Wow.
And

Speaker 102 worth it.

Speaker 1 Yeah. No, I, I definitely took my parents' money and I was, I told them I would buy a a ticket to DC to go to rehab.
And instead, I stopped off in New York and I got off the plane and I moved.

Speaker 80 I moved in with my virtual ex and his metal.

Speaker 89 I didn't know this about you.

Speaker 62 That is, that is the Rosebud Baker story.

Speaker 1 So insane.

Speaker 188 Very Zoe.

Speaker 140 Very Zooie. Very Zoe.

Speaker 53 Literally the energy of ballerina slipper.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Very Zoe, but bloated and alcoholic.

Speaker 1 And had not moved a muscle in terms of dance.

Speaker 80 Yeah.

Speaker 96 Everybody who moves to New York, it doesn't matter who you are.

Speaker 95 There's some piece of media and whatever.

Speaker 16 I'm not saying anything new, but that like you just are fantasizing about.

Speaker 122 From you think you're living. Yeah.

Speaker 95 For guys, it's like, I don't know, taxi driver or something, maybe.

Speaker 100 I don't know.

Speaker 1 I will say that is that is a theater guy. That is a theater straight guys version of a New York City.

Speaker 134 Right.

Speaker 95 And then for like women and gay guys, it's sex in the city.

Speaker 119 Sex in the city. Yes.

Speaker 1 But then, so girls hit when we were like at the end of college, like slash getting out of college and we were like oh wow this is like the literal version of what it is yes the green point mental band is very girls very girls i was actually hannah you were yeah yeah wow i was hannah having terrible sex in an apartment with a boyfriend that was building things yeah for no reason i'm like there's nothing to be built it's a rental i can't get over that Adam Driver went from playing the weirdest fuckboy in Brooklyn to Kylo Wren.

Speaker 1 And you know what's even weirder is that he was hotter to me as the weirdest fucker.

Speaker 102 100%.

Speaker 103 Sure, of course.

Speaker 102 A thousand

Speaker 106 percent.

Speaker 85 I think that that was the, that was honestly one of the top three things that made that show successful.

Speaker 77 Yeah. Was the,

Speaker 17 yes, just how reasonable it was that this was the hottest guy all around.

Speaker 80 All you want to know was for them to end up together.

Speaker 1 Do I have like lipstick like caking? Nope.

Speaker 18 Okay. Perfect.

Speaker 202 But what is it lately about I feel the same way.

Speaker 146 My lips have been like, I'm so conscious of my lips lately.

Speaker 1 I know, because if gross lip is really something that you live with, like

Speaker 2 bad breath.

Speaker 161 No, gross lip is worse than bad breath.

Speaker 202 It's rule of culture number 19.

Speaker 61 Gross lip is worse than bad breath.

Speaker 80 Yeah, I guess so.

Speaker 97 Mine just trapped the same spot and I peel from the same spot constantly.

Speaker 64 Mine gets mealy in the corners.

Speaker 147 I'm mealy.

Speaker 140 I'm really sorry.

Speaker 70 That was so disgusting.

Speaker 128 I feel the need to like turn to everyone here and say, I'm so sorry.

Speaker 1 No, I'm glad you said it because that's what I'm worried about right now.

Speaker 158 I'm like, I wasn't thinking about it until you said it.

Speaker 74 And now I'm self-conscious about it, but let's just live in this together.

Speaker 1 And if you have MAC, like MAC lipstick is like, it's great for stage or whatever, but it does, it just cakes.

Speaker 102 It clumps.

Speaker 135 You're like, oh, damn.

Speaker 1 I don't want to have a cake on my lip anyway.

Speaker 1 We were talking about Adam Driver being hot. Well, I mean.

Speaker 194 And also, it's funny that you say they were having bad sex because I remember this must have just been my exceptional experience at the time, but I was like, is what they're doing really hot?

Speaker 161 Because remember when he, because he dated, started dating Sherry Appleby in the show, and then he like made her crawl around on the floor and he like came on her tits and she was like, I don't like this.

Speaker 250 Yes. And I was like, oh, he has that weird sex that he loves with Hannah.

Speaker 92 Yeah.

Speaker 191 And I hadn't even, I guess, that was like why the show was so created a character to point out that it was label it as weird.

Speaker 74 No, it was just like, it was, I guess, what I was latching onto was I was like, there's really different modes of this.

Speaker 142 There's no such thing as like good sex and bad sex.

Speaker 188 It's like your sex is your sex.

Speaker 86 And this guy, his weird stuff like works for her.

Speaker 115 Like I was never worried for her.

Speaker 122 Right.

Speaker 52 It just seemed like she was in a position where they were figuring it out sexually, but I was never worried for Hannah.

Speaker 1 Right. No, ever.
I felt like it was, it was odd to me because I was like, oh, this is a guy who genuinely loves her, wants to care for her, like just loves her.

Speaker 65 Yeah.

Speaker 1 And for some reason, it's like sexually, he's like into this shit, you know? And she kind of always seemed a little bit like, I guess.

Speaker 80 Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 184 And that was the part of the early 20s of it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Cause they always felt like Hannah was going, like, sure.

Speaker 1 You know, it was always, she literally would like shrug her shoulders as consent. And then they'd be like, yeah, cool.
But it was that.

Speaker 1 I mean, that's why I, I got to say, like, when I was watching girls, and then I think it was like me too, a few years after that.

Speaker 161 Yeah.

Speaker 1 And I was like rewatching it. And I was like, well, this is half of my sexual experience

Speaker 1 as like, as just a person that grew up when I did.

Speaker 244 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So I'm like, so just everything.

Speaker 153 I literally called my therapist.

Speaker 1 I was like, I actually just don't have the bandwidth for this.

Speaker 65 Yeah.

Speaker 65 No, I said that.

Speaker 1 I was like, I don't have the bandwidth to break all this down. I'm just going to kind of push this down.

Speaker 139 Yeah.

Speaker 258 And he was like, okay.

Speaker 65 Wow.

Speaker 86 It's like, what were we okay with?

Speaker 64 And what were we just like, oh, I guess this is what sex is.

Speaker 174 Like, I'll, I'll submit to whatever this is, despite the fact that, like, because I guess what it was for me is it was like, well, this person that I'm having sex with can't have like, like a real relationship with sex in a way I don't like a proclivity towards this thing he wants to do.

Speaker 116 I guess we're just both figuring out and it must be fine. Yeah.

Speaker 106 And then, yeah, wow.

Speaker 1 I'm like, and sometimes you meet somebody and you're like, well, I was never into this before, but I guess I kind of am with you.

Speaker 65 Like you don't, you never know.

Speaker 1 And then you're like,

Speaker 1 it's just, it's sort of a mystery that I'm going to leave unsolved.

Speaker 18 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. You know? But like.

Speaker 96 That show kind of portrayed it in a way that I think we probably hadn't seen before.

Speaker 135 Absolutely. You know what I mean? Absolutely.

Speaker 137 In a serialized way, like, oh, you can track like the sex that Adam was having with this character is not the same as the sex he was having with Hannah, and therefore that is

Speaker 101 this weird, sort of questionable

Speaker 195 whatever.

Speaker 137 They definitely didn't do that in Sex in the City.

Speaker 69 It was always like, fun.

Speaker 1 I know the sex scenes in Sex in the City, when you re-watch them back, you're like, no. It's like, that's that.

Speaker 202 He, that's not even, it doesn't even look right.

Speaker 162 No, it wasn't even staged.

Speaker 82 Like, all this Samantha stuff is just like, oh, yeah.

Speaker 70 Like, it's like, I don't know.

Speaker 201 What I loved about girls was like, it never made an attempt almost ever

Speaker 188 to make sex look hot or good.

Speaker 65 Yes.

Speaker 86 It was always weird.

Speaker 83 It was always.

Speaker 102 It was ridiculous, absurd,

Speaker 1 odd, and clanky.

Speaker 168 Yeah.

Speaker 146 And like, that was the whole thing with Adam and Jessa, too, right?

Speaker 74 Like, the first time they fucked, it was terrible.

Speaker 84 And they were so positive it would be good.

Speaker 180 Right.

Speaker 17 And then it eventually does get good and they get on the same page.

Speaker 174 But like those two characters having bad sex was so, it was such a moment in that show.

Speaker 195 Yeah.

Speaker 147 They were chucking it.

Speaker 157 Yeah, they were really chucking it back to me.

Speaker 203 That's what this title of M.

Speaker 53 That's what it is.

Speaker 115 It's not, hey, mama.

Speaker 102 It's chucking it.

Speaker 122 It's going to be chucking it with mama.

Speaker 1 Chucking it with mama.

Speaker 111 Chucking it with mama.

Speaker 115 That's the winner. Yeah.

Speaker 102 People are going to be like, what's this going to be?

Speaker 1 They're chucking it. They're chucking it.
We're going to find out. We're chucking it.
We're clanking it. I think I said clanking a second ago.

Speaker 80 Clanking it.

Speaker 1 When I was talking about the sex in girls, I said clanking.

Speaker 123 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Which it does actually work.

Speaker 135 It's clanking.

Speaker 95 It's very Judy Garland meet me in St.

Speaker 147 Louis. Yeah.

Speaker 65 Clang, clang, clang.

Speaker 102 Clang, clang, clang.

Speaker 127 Wait,

Speaker 1 scarecrow meets Tin Man.

Speaker 102 Yeah.

Speaker 38 Imagine if they fucked, it'd be terrible.

Speaker 18 I would watch.

Speaker 140 I would watch.

Speaker 144 The scarecrow and the tin man getting.

Speaker 65 Google it.

Speaker 102 Yeah.

Speaker 106 I want to click the link.

Speaker 140 Yeah.

Speaker 80 Samuz always goes, I'd click the link.

Speaker 81 Whenever he sees two hot guys in a picture together, he goes, I'd click the link.

Speaker 77 That's why I'm actually.

Speaker 68 That's really cool.

Speaker 104 That is so this.

Speaker 65 Oh, God.

Speaker 80 I clicked the link.

Speaker 65 I clicked the link.

Speaker 142 He said it's about a picture of me and someone else the other day.

Speaker 67 I was like, why are you clicking my link?

Speaker 1 Not me responding to a picture of the baby with that later today.

Speaker 80 Click the link. I clicked the link.

Speaker 1 You're like, no, that's not how you do it.

Speaker 177 I was watching Denise Richards has a new reality show on Bravo.

Speaker 74 It's like Denise Richards, like, not on Housewives, but, and she was talking about like her daughter joined OnlyFans.

Speaker 92 Yes.

Speaker 187 And she kind of couldn't really say anything because like she hit Hollywood Hollywood and was doing like wild things, et cetera.

Speaker 199 And they have a lot of people who are in the family

Speaker 119 that brought it up. Right.

Speaker 86 And so, yes.

Speaker 64 And so, but now on the show, it's like they're explaining it more.

Speaker 159 And the daughter, Sammy, was like, well, it would have been fine had you not joined right after because Denise was like, well, then I joined OnlyFans because I didn't want my daughter doing it alone.

Speaker 17 Like I wanted her to feel like empowered about it.

Speaker 116 And then, and then the daughter was like, do you know how embarrassing it is for me to have to explain to my friends like why you're on OnlyFans?

Speaker 142 And it's just so funny that culturally that's where we're at.

Speaker 106 Like, mom, I do porn.

Speaker 67 Porn is my thing.

Speaker 1 Let me do porn by myself.

Speaker 108 Mom, why do you always have to do porn after me?

Speaker 136 I know.

Speaker 86 I was doing porn for years before you, but I understand why you're upset, honey.

Speaker 1 Okay, I do need to watch this show.

Speaker 81 I actually, I texted all of them. I was like, you told me.

Speaker 81 I just want to say cling, bling, bling.

Speaker 83 I just want to knock on the door and say, Denise Richards is.

Speaker 156 giving something on the link.

Speaker 102 You can't do that. I'd click the link.

Speaker 80 Yes.

Speaker 104 On Peacock.

Speaker 1 I'd click the link.

Speaker 151 Yeah. Rosemet, any housewife's thoughts you want to get off your chest?

Speaker 214 Yeah, what's up?

Speaker 1 God, I have so many. I have so many.
I feel like I'm really, I've never loved Sutton.

Speaker 2 I'll be honest. We're having a hard time.

Speaker 100 But you're loving her.

Speaker 1 I've no, no, no. I've never loved her.
Yeah. But now I am like, you are an evil,

Speaker 178 evil person. She's the villain.

Speaker 77 Or at the very least, she's just broken.

Speaker 102 Okay, well, no, but no, but no, I've been generous, but yes.

Speaker 136 I've said evil too.

Speaker 98 I've said evil too in the past.

Speaker 50 Yes.

Speaker 1 I just, watching her sit across from Darit and do this.

Speaker 106 Oh, the wallet thing really bothered me.

Speaker 1 Like with the eyes, I was like, calm down.

Speaker 1 You look like Ramona.

Speaker 162 Yeah, it was, it was giving Ramona a bit.

Speaker 102 Control your face.

Speaker 212 Also, also, if the insult was about like wealth in a way that was like trackable or actually funny, that would be one thing.

Speaker 161 But it's like, you need to fight with someone whose wallet fits.

Speaker 50 It's like, well, a wallet doesn't fit.

Speaker 72 The premise has to be true.

Speaker 135 Yeah, the premise has to be true.

Speaker 110 And I'm just like, and then it was so easy to dunk on her because the rest of the women were just like, like Kyle said in the after-show, she was like, well then we have to talk about where you actually got your money which is from a divorce right period thank you like so that's just it and i was like do you feel this backed into a corner or are you just that mean Because I think she is that mean.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I think she is that mean because she's never been backed into a corner once that I've seen.

Speaker 1 I'm like, except somebody maybe said something about her drinking, but it's like, hello, that's the job.

Speaker 182 Yeah, but also she, she, there were things to say about her drinking.

Speaker 122 Yeah.

Speaker 161 I remember the show one time, like they saw, they showed her pouring like a huge cocktail in the middle of the day.

Speaker 74 And on the bottom hand of the corner, bottom thing, it said 11.45 a.m.

Speaker 162 Yeah. It was like the show was pointing out.

Speaker 1 You're like, okay, well, maybe don't do that on camera. Yeah.

Speaker 138 Or if you're going to, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 92 If you're going to do it on camera, expect that one of your castmates whose job it is to say something like this may say something like this.

Speaker 1 And the whole show, the whole premise of the show and the lot, and this is why the logic of it gets so depressing if you really like start to think about it.

Speaker 80 Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's it's like you are putting your life out there and you're gonna get torn apart. And that's kind of what we do with housewives.
It's fun to do.

Speaker 1 We feel better about ourselves doing it and it's fucked up, but it's it's sort of the last like dark, disgusting habit, I think, of like this part of culture where it's like, it's listen, let's enjoy it while it lasts.

Speaker 162 It's WWF for women and gays.

Speaker 115 Yes. Absolutely.

Speaker 80 100%.

Speaker 209 And I will say when I did, because I have publicly spoken against Bronwyn on Salt Lake.

Speaker 137 And then I met her finally at the SAG Awards.

Speaker 78 And then we had this lovely moment.

Speaker 137 And I explained myself and I apologized for all these terrible things that I had said. Yeah.

Speaker 78 I said, you are ultimately a fantastic mother.

Speaker 148 She like shows up to all these rallies where she's supporting her trans kids.

Speaker 99 And then

Speaker 95 she goes, Bowen. I can take it.
This is what I signed up for.

Speaker 137 I love you no matter what you say.

Speaker 135 And I'm like, oh, that's actually such a

Speaker 89 transcendent attitude about it.

Speaker 1 that's what i love about bronwin yeah that is what i love about her i kind of that was the vibe at least i was like i feel like it's the same vibe off camera yeah you know whereas sutton it's i'm getting it's dr jeky

Speaker 108 yes you know

Speaker 1 and i feel like dereette I'm really loving Darit this season. I'm, I'm loving her kind of like snapping back and getting mad.
And just, I'm just enjoying that. Yeah, it's because it's real.

Speaker 53 It's,

Speaker 85 that's ultimately what it is.

Speaker 162 It's like the authenticity is kind of it's like she does, she has no more to give because it's kind of like you know, this job now, the housewives is now like you know, she doesn't have to like think about like what her husband's gonna think or like pretend at all.

Speaker 117 She's like, Oh, this is the place where I can be in my mouse authentic now.

Speaker 154 It's not, but I don't have to wait to fight with my husband behind closed doors, right?

Speaker 74 Okay, great, then I'll just say what I feel.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and she'll be like, Hey, little peanut, anyways. She's a cunt, yeah, like,

Speaker 1 Like, I love that she's like, she's like a good mom. She's sweet to her kids.
I love the way she talks to her children. I was never talked to like that.

Speaker 1 I mean, my mom was like very sweet and loving and kind, but she didn't call us like little peanuts. And like the little nicknames that

Speaker 1 I just think that's really sweet.

Speaker 1 But I mean, who knows? They'll probably grow up to a resenter for it. It's a

Speaker 65 well,

Speaker 174 I mean, if it's not that, it's definitely the show at large.

Speaker 18 Right.

Speaker 81 Oh, I was a television star at what age and I didn't know?

Speaker 106 Uh-huh.

Speaker 110 That.

Speaker 1 Did you guys watch Potomac? Yes.

Speaker 184 Stacy Rush is his everyday.

Speaker 77 Stacy Rush is my everyday.

Speaker 1 Stacy Rush is so funny.

Speaker 119 And I want to say,

Speaker 258 I believe her.

Speaker 114 I believe her too. Really? Yes.

Speaker 1 Thank you for saying this. I believe her.

Speaker 76 Because TJ has clearly shown himself to be like a bad person.

Speaker 135 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Why would I believe this man?

Speaker 109 Why would you believe him?

Speaker 1 What about him even read as even a teensy bit believable?

Speaker 69 Right.

Speaker 99 And I believe that she's like heartbroken over the fact that, like, this guy who, whatever it means to her or to us, her best friend, yeah, would then betray her and go on and like and like tell the man, like, oh, she was paying me to be her boyfriend the whole time.

Speaker 80 Like, that would be a heartbreaking thing.

Speaker 97 And she would not know how to, she, she was probably in shock in that moment and did not know how to like explain that because it's such a hurtful thing.

Speaker 1 No, I feel like the way that she handled it, I was like, you guys are just making her look more innocent. Yeah.

Speaker 89 And still I rise.

Speaker 102 And still I rise. Still I rise.

Speaker 156 It was a moment in culture history.

Speaker 106 Yes.

Speaker 50 But I will also say,

Speaker 202 I think it's somewhere in the middle.

Speaker 105 I think she did not offer to pay him, but it was fake and staged.

Speaker 115 Sure.

Speaker 145 I think the whole thing was fake and staged.

Speaker 159 Whether or not

Speaker 187 they made an agreement that money would change hands,

Speaker 142 I can understand why you guys think that's definitely didn't happen.

Speaker 17 But I do think that they either did not know each other. I don't even believe that they were best friends.

Speaker 81 I believe that he was flown in because he was like wanting to do it.

Speaker 75 He probably was, you know, two-faced to her as well.

Speaker 179 Like, I just don't believe it was real.

Speaker 97 I just think once the show is out, he could not handle the humiliation of people being like, well, he's clearly

Speaker 92 forgot the eyes and whatever.

Speaker 125 And for the streets and for the guys.

Speaker 147 Right. And so

Speaker 35 he probably needed to retaliate in some way, which is to embarrass her.

Speaker 139 Right.

Speaker 1 And, and he did it in a very,

Speaker 1 may I say, please, homosexual way.

Speaker 67 Yes.

Speaker 189 By calling into the reunion.

Speaker 1 By calling into the reunion and being like, run me my money. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's like, okay, now you're just stirring the pot.

Speaker 72 It felt like a flavor I recognized.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he was dropping tea.

Speaker 68 He's dropping more tea.

Speaker 198 He was. He was chucking it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he was chucking it.

Speaker 104 He actually chucked it into the reunion.

Speaker 85 And then when Eddie got first chair, I was like,

Speaker 65 thank God.

Speaker 101 Thank God. I love Eddie.

Speaker 119 Eddie's hot. Eddie's a hot.

Speaker 65 And Wendy had an amazing reunion. Yes.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Oh, yes.
Yes, she did. What do you guys think of, I don't know why her name's...
Mia. Thank you.
It's got to go.

Speaker 102 Right? It's time. It's curtains.

Speaker 1 It's got to go.

Speaker 178 We're done.

Speaker 142 And I think she probably is because the thing is, like,

Speaker 81 you can't really just, I mean, she literally just left.

Speaker 48 And I know Andy hates that.

Speaker 99 Yeah. Right.

Speaker 98 Like, in a punitive, like, way.

Speaker 86 I think so.

Speaker 174 I also think if it wasn't so clear that that storyline is like circulatory now and has run its course.

Speaker 160 And also, I do think we've seen all of her tricks in terms of like funny things things she can say, do, etc.

Speaker 180 Yeah, I think we can lose Mia.

Speaker 1 And, and also, I think I think she's just like a straight-up villain. Yeah.
Like, I think it's, you see the good sides of every housewife and you love the good sides of them as well.

Speaker 1 With Mia, it's just getting harder and harder to understand, like, where's the yeah, where's the side of you that's really, I mean, walking off for her kids, if

Speaker 1 I were to believe that that was,

Speaker 1 I think it was partly why she walked off, I believe that.

Speaker 65 But like

Speaker 1 walking off was like maybe the most redeemable thing she did, where I'm like, okay, yeah, stand up for you. Get out of there if you're not.

Speaker 1 But the problem is I've seen so much of her behavior is like sort of mean spirited or manipulative that now it's hard for me to believe that when she does something redeemable, it actually is for the right reasons.

Speaker 1 Sorry to use ABC language.

Speaker 147 No, no, no.

Speaker 133 But

Speaker 77 bachelor language.

Speaker 97 She, but yeah, her walking off is a redeemable thing, but she still walks off.

Speaker 101 At the end of the day, she still is pulling away from the whole thing in a way that you're like, well, then you don't, then you can't, then you shouldn't be here.

Speaker 65 Yeah.

Speaker 81 And you're in that position because you did this to your children.

Speaker 57 Right.

Speaker 175 Like, it's like, yeah, sure, you're walking off because not my kids, but it's like, we wouldn't have a not my kids situation had you not

Speaker 169 broken the news of the divorce to the kids on the, on camera.

Speaker 128 Yeah, it just doesn't really math for that to be the thing thing that's like like as if giselle had crossed the line and trust me like i don't have love for giselle bryant but my thing is like she's she's expressing her her views on it which were a lot of the viewers you know positions which was we can't really believe you went i'm gonna say i kind of do like giselle that's okay and that's a that's

Speaker 1 an opinion she's such and that and that and that's an opinion and we're just chucking it we're just chucking it around i'll chuck it with giselle i would here's the thing i think she is,

Speaker 1 she's a Debbie Downer for sure.

Speaker 1 But I do relate.

Speaker 79 Yeah. Giselle.

Speaker 1 Yes. As a Debbie Downer.

Speaker 1 I do relate. My problem with Giselle is when she stirs the pot for no reason.

Speaker 188 For no reason.

Speaker 160 That's the thing is, I don't think she's not a compelling person.

Speaker 130 Like, I actually think she soars when she's dealing with something personal or with her family, et cetera, like that.

Speaker 69 Or when she

Speaker 74 thought that.

Speaker 1 She's so psychotic to throw them out of that.

Speaker 157 Oh, so crazy.

Speaker 102 Yeah.

Speaker 88 I mean, they got there.

Speaker 115 I feel like when she seemed genuinely concerned for Karen, I was like, this is the kind of thing that like, you know, not everyone can do on television.

Speaker 57 Right.

Speaker 224 Like, I do think, like, and she wouldn't be on television for this long if there wasn't a lot there.

Speaker 116 It's the very transparent producing that I don't like.

Speaker 242 And I don't like it when anyway.

Speaker 119 Yeah, she does do that. She does do that a lot.

Speaker 95 And the Karen stuff.

Speaker 1 I do feel like Giselle probably produces a lot in her own life, though.

Speaker 69 That's interesting.

Speaker 1 I'm like, you're a producer in general. Yeah.

Speaker 99 Because her life is kind of like a reality show, anyway.

Speaker 80 Like, yeah.

Speaker 77 With what's his face?

Speaker 65 Oh, Jamal Brown.

Speaker 103 The guy. The guy.

Speaker 102 Soapy.

Speaker 80 Soapy soapy. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I don't know. I'm, I've gotten really into Beverly Hills this year, and I and I did enjoy Potomac.
I kind of dipped off at the end, but I did tune in for the reunion.

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Speaker 104 I'm so excited.

Speaker 142 And it might get me a little bit in trouble, but I'm going to do it anyway. Okay.

Speaker 195 Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 78 This is Matt Rodgers. I don't think so honey.
His time starts now.

Speaker 43 I don't think so, honey, hating on Portia Williams for the

Speaker 92 stealing the man thing.

Speaker 39 I feel like we don't know what happened.

Speaker 187 And I feel like the thing with Portia is I believe that she is a bleeding heart.

Speaker 161 And I believe that she is really susceptible to men and their manipulation.

Speaker 104 And that is not, it's sure, it's a character flaw, but it's not an evil thing about her.

Speaker 120 I think when they, when people are like, she's a home wrecker, fuck her.

Speaker 64 I don't, I hate the home wrecker label because I think it is, it sort of gets across like an evil person that wants to ruin lives.

Speaker 105 I do not think that's who Portia Williams is.

Speaker 120 I think that she was in a situation where, sure, she had met a woman's husband on television and then they got divorced.

Speaker 143 I think a lot lot can actually happen in 18 days.

Speaker 80 Maybe you're not a manic Pisces at home, but I can tell you a lot can happen in two or three days.

Speaker 83 I've been in situations I didn't want to be in, but my feelings and my heart were telling me one thing.

Speaker 198 And I think it can happen when you are Portia Williams or Matt Rogers.

Speaker 138 And if you are, give us our identities back.

Speaker 170 But I don't think so, honey, condemning her for this thing, which obviously didn't work out.

Speaker 75 She's also paying for it now.

Speaker 92 I don't think so, honey, this attitude.

Speaker 78 And that's one minute.

Speaker 86 Lovely. That's how I feel.

Speaker 142 Like, I feel like, of course, when I heard that Portia had gotten with Simon Guebadia, who's Fallon Gabaria's ex-husband, like that soon after, I was like, wow, that sounds like a really weird situation.

Speaker 179 But I just don't like it when people are like, fuck her, home wrecker, et cetera.

Speaker 64 There must have been cheating, et cetera.

Speaker 121 It's like, you don't know.

Speaker 174 A lot could have happened in that two and a half weeks afterwards.

Speaker 119 Oh my God.

Speaker 50 And matters of the heart are complicated.

Speaker 1 I got engaged in three days during the pandemic.

Speaker 161 There you go. That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 But some of us cannot sit home alone. Yeah.
Yes.

Speaker 65 Love that.

Speaker 198 It was really that short.

Speaker 1 It was three days. The engagement was three days? No, no, no.
We got engaged within three days. Wow.
Like pandemic lockdown started three days later.

Speaker 80 This is what I'm saying.

Speaker 65 That's great.

Speaker 97 You know how we'll know she's a villain if she shows up on the show with one eye and she wears a cape made of dogs and someone pushes her into the lob.

Speaker 133 Yes.

Speaker 83 In this world where villains look like villains from now on.

Speaker 115 Please.

Speaker 102 Because

Speaker 135 one-eyed bitches.

Speaker 161 My thing is like there's real villains out there.

Speaker 64 One of them is president.

Speaker 128 Let's not waste energy on Portia Williams.

Speaker 102 Let her ruin her own life if she's going to do it.

Speaker 1 It's episode one, too.

Speaker 164 I am saying it had an amazing premiere and Shamia Morton is now like the center of the show.

Speaker 152 And I didn't know that she really could carry that center, but I said kudos to them for making that swing because it paid off.

Speaker 142 It's she's, I didn't realize that she had all of that going on.

Speaker 122 Yeah.

Speaker 142 But she's going to be really fun to watch.

Speaker 101 I can't wait. I need to watch it too.

Speaker 184 You're doing a housewives one too?

Speaker 80 Yes. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 I'm not doing Housewives.

Speaker 53 Okay, so you'll go next.

Speaker 97 I'll do one anyway because I actually have an idea now.

Speaker 115 Okay, good.

Speaker 117 This is Bowen Yang's. I don't think so, honey.

Speaker 142 It's time starts now.

Speaker 87 I don't think so, honey.

Speaker 94 Ashley Darby, because you know who might have also paid for her significant other?

Speaker 76 Ashley Darby.

Speaker 94 Who is that guy? Who is that guy?

Speaker 151 And she can't even take a joke about how he does look like Jack Harlow.

Speaker 169 And even if he doesn't, Wendy still made a fun joke.

Speaker 94 The premise has to be true.

Speaker 98 The premise is he looks like Jack, Jack, what's Jack Harlow?

Speaker 98 And I mean, Ashley Darby, the nonsense you pulled this season, you receded so far into the background this season that I forgot you were even on the damn show.

Speaker 169 You didn't deserve to sit that close to Andy at the reunion.

Speaker 76 And you should have owned up to the lies you did spread about Eddie because even though that did not come from you, you helped bring it to a national platform on the show.

Speaker 169 And you need to take some accountability for that.

Speaker 87 I've never found you funny, never found you cute.

Speaker 169 You look good and drag, I guess, as a man, but otherwise, I don't care for your antics anymore.

Speaker 95 If you can even call it that,

Speaker 98 congratulations on your divorce being finalized.

Speaker 97 But even that situation is very telling about the kind of person you are.

Speaker 117 And that's one minute.

Speaker 64 Also, the one thing you missed, the kissing with Jacqueline.

Speaker 80 Kill me. Oh, my God.

Speaker 127 Kill me.

Speaker 108 Saturday.

Speaker 106 It was so dumb and fake. And so I was like, tell me the most desperate people in the world without telling you.

Speaker 1 Yes. The way she walks in, she's like, so.

Speaker 167 Like, I've never seen you two talk.

Speaker 80 No, never.

Speaker 158 And I also seen you in the same room.

Speaker 90 The absence of attraction to each other.

Speaker 231 Yeah.

Speaker 60 Truly.

Speaker 84 You know what that

Speaker 64 was giving was Ashley knowing she had no storyline and that the Jack Carlo thing is like not real.

Speaker 121 Yeah.

Speaker 201 And also Jaclyn being like, something that's not Mia?

Speaker 65 Yeah. Yes, I'll do it.

Speaker 80 What do you want to do?

Speaker 108 Kiss?

Speaker 127 Kiss. Yeah.

Speaker 170 And then Ashley being like, no, we don't need a thought.

Speaker 122 Yeah, totally, totally, totally.

Speaker 1 Yeah, totally. I was anyway.
I'm busy getting ready. Yeah.

Speaker 160 Like, think about being a human and like walking into that thing with the camera on you and having that stupid interaction.

Speaker 135 I was like, oh, they called the camera guys into that bathroom.

Speaker 1 I've done student films that were actually less sad.

Speaker 156 And we're going to show them right after this.

Speaker 1 Tune in.

Speaker 137 Okay, this is Rosebette Baker's. I don't think so, honey.

Speaker 97 Her time starts now.

Speaker 1 Okay. I don't think so, honey.
Severance season two is pacing.

Speaker 1 You guys have the audacity to keep us waiting two years only to drop one episode. Like this is network television 1997.
I don't think so, honey. We are not on the severed floor.
Okay.

Speaker 1 We remember what you did to us last time.

Speaker 1 I don't think so, honey.

Speaker 1 We are five episodes in, and what do we have to show for it? A little espionage, a little cryptic workplace dread? That is a Tuesday for us.

Speaker 127 Yes.

Speaker 102 Okay.

Speaker 155 Where is the momentum?

Speaker 1 What happened? Where's the what the hell just happened energy that we just signed up for? Because right now, honey, it feels like I'm sitting through a corporate training video and the pacing.

Speaker 1 I've had actual miscarriages move faster. Okay, the whole show is just walking,

Speaker 1 staring, whispering cryptic nonsense like the baby goats. Bitch, what about the goats?

Speaker 155 Okay.

Speaker 1 And I swear if one more character just stares at something for a full 15 seconds instead of saying something, I'm going to throw my Apple TV remote into the ocean.

Speaker 1 Okay, I don't think that there's so much more. I just, I don't think so.
And that's what

Speaker 65 continue on with your thoughts.

Speaker 187 Yes, because literally,

Speaker 65 what do you have?

Speaker 1 I have so much more. I literally am like, I have a lot of feelings about this because I've stuck with it until last episode where there was like.
Four bottle episodes in a row. Are you kidding?

Speaker 119 It feels like people are starting to bail.

Speaker 1 I'm getting upset.

Speaker 1 And I listen, if they can land the plane, God bless them. I will be blown away.

Speaker 117 I trust them to land the plane just because it feels like its moments of greatness are so great.

Speaker 29 But I would agree.

Speaker 142 I had a really hard time with the first season because sometimes,

Speaker 135 yeah.

Speaker 1 Patricia Arquette literally went to an old

Speaker 1 friend-turned enemy who did not want anything to do with her. Yeah.
Was like, please, I need to borrow your truck.

Speaker 1 He's like, no, why would I give you my truck? He, she gets in the truck.

Speaker 1 He's like, okay, yeah, we get, I'll drive you somewhere. Then she gets out.

Speaker 1 She's like looking for something that she literally contacted a past friend turned enemy for, walks into the house to go look for it and fucking takes a six-hour nap.

Speaker 1 Yeah, looks for it for two minutes, takes a six-hour nap. I was like, what? So, what is what are you looking for?

Speaker 192 What should I be paying attention?

Speaker 92 We'll have to hope it pays off.

Speaker 212 For me, the second season just needs a lot more Patricia Arquette.

Speaker 152 Yeah.

Speaker 111 Like, that was one of the great things about the first season.

Speaker 1 I agree. They needed a lot more Patricia.
I mean, what they gave us of Patricia is, I'm not happy because she's amazing. Yeah.
And she was so good when she was like,

Speaker 1 like just female rage behind the wheel of a car.

Speaker 123 I love that.

Speaker 1 I love a woman on the verge. Yes.
You know, and then this whole episode, this whole thing where they're trying to explain what her whole deal is with Lumen.

Speaker 1 And also, why does everybody talk so fucking stupid?

Speaker 72 What is this? They're severe.

Speaker 1 They're just like one sentence like a human being. I mean, that's part of why I love that the character.

Speaker 172 Scott Jerry's character. Yes.
Yeah.

Speaker 72 Where

Speaker 1 he's just like, what's up, guys? Yeah. Instead, they're like, we're going to tend the garden.
What garden?

Speaker 65 What garden?

Speaker 1 What even? Where even is that? Yeah. And what about the baby goats? And what about the fucking trapdoor or whatever? I don't care.

Speaker 87 Is it feeling losty for South?

Speaker 162 Well, I think, I think, well, it's interesting.

Speaker 46 Like, I've actually heard that a lot of people that are watching Severance and absolutely loving it are really not liking White Lotus.

Speaker 118 And I think that you've heard a lot of the same things about them both being slow.

Speaker 85 So, and then my friend said, Whitaker said this the other day. He went to go go watch White Lotus with a bunch of our friends who love Severance.

Speaker 74 And he said they were watching White Lotus like, that's a clue.

Speaker 152 That's a clue. That's a clue.

Speaker 75 And I'm like, oh, so I get it.

Speaker 121 It's like, some people want to watch this like it's like a puzzle.

Speaker 74 And other people want to watch it like it's like a satirical comedy.

Speaker 1 Like it's gossip. Exactly.

Speaker 224 And so I am, give me gossip, give me my like delicious.

Speaker 1 It's so funny because I literally thought when Helena came in, I was like, good on her because the way that I would have been fired for sexual misconduct on day two at that office, just for trying to make something happen, that dradass Kinderworld, I'm like, God bless.

Speaker 1 She's the only person that's made anything happen.

Speaker 142 But I just think it's like, it's funny that these two shows are on at the same time and like the water cooler shows of the moment and they obviously come out week to week, which, you know, forbids people from binging them.

Speaker 50 Yeah.

Speaker 154 And I think it has something to do with our attention spans that we're saying slow, but also the fact is, like, I guess when there's a lack of prestige elsewhere, we'll just sit and have to wait.

Speaker 81 It's, I just think two of them are offering two different things: Severance is a puzzle, and White Lotus is like a prestige soap.

Speaker 1 Well, Severance needs to release all three of the last episodes together because I honestly, I need to be able to spit, like, speed it up myself.

Speaker 1 Because if it's appointment television and I'm falling asleep in the middle of every episode, right, there's a problem.

Speaker 83 I mean,

Speaker 1 I will say I'll take 50% of the, that's my life.

Speaker 195 Yeah, right, right, right.

Speaker 52 But like, come on, come on, come on, yeah, whiz-bang, something.

Speaker 65 Yeah.

Speaker 175 It's a lot of stuff lately.

Speaker 73 Like, we just watched a movie that was, it promised more action than it delivered.

Speaker 131 And I'm like, well, then, I don't know.

Speaker 52 I think people would sign up for something that was like a slow burn thing.

Speaker 139 But it is nice to say that.

Speaker 1 I am a white lotus girl, though.

Speaker 61 I love that.

Speaker 1 It's funny that you said that because I didn't realize it was like...

Speaker 102 I don't even think it's moving slow.

Speaker 44 It's just, it's funny.

Speaker 81 The people that are saying it's moving too slow are the puzzle people.

Speaker 137 Who are watching, who love a show that is moving, that is in fact moving too slow.

Speaker 80 Yes.

Speaker 97 I'm going to say something.

Speaker 98 And this is just the next extrapolation of what I've been saying for years.

Speaker 258 Chuck it.

Speaker 147 And chuck it.

Speaker 210 Netflix has been doing this.

Speaker 97 I would encourage other streaming platforms to do this.

Speaker 98 1.5 speed.

Speaker 92 1.5. 1.5 speed.
1.75 speed.

Speaker 90 Even 1.25.

Speaker 175 Wait.

Speaker 106 No.

Speaker 65 No.

Speaker 123 You're anti-this?

Speaker 80 No.

Speaker 1 Of course.

Speaker 169 I understand. I understand if you're anti.

Speaker 168 I used to be anti-this.

Speaker 152 Why is it a bridge too far for you?

Speaker 1 That makes me so sad.

Speaker 89 I know, I know.

Speaker 1 Because we are watching television. We are not reading.

Speaker 89 Fine, fine.

Speaker 114 Actually, that's a great, great argument.

Speaker 1 You know what it reminds me of? Okay. It reminds me of like when I was drinking, right?

Speaker 1 I would, if a friend was like concerned with my drinking, I would adjust my I would adjust my life to to make way for my drinking.

Speaker 1 If we start that with TV, if we start adjusting our lives to make up for our short attention spans,

Speaker 106 that is a very slippery.

Speaker 180 Okay, you're right. I take it back.

Speaker 93 You know what, though?

Speaker 170 I will say it's scary.

Speaker 145 What about for the mind? So, so, yes, for something like prestige, like these shows we're talking about, yes, that's art.

Speaker 85 It is paced, it's edited, it's like specifically made for whatever.

Speaker 78 The pace is relative, and that's why, like, I think 1.5 is fine.

Speaker 100 Anyway, initially, but now I take it back.

Speaker 143 Okay, but I used to really get upset when people said they listened to this podcast at like 1.5, 1.5, sometimes 1.75.

Speaker 17 A, how are you doing that with us?

Speaker 106 Like, that must sound crazy.

Speaker 83 Like, I'm in my brain all the time, and I don't want to be in your brain all the time.

Speaker 90 Like, my, I am running that fast all the time.

Speaker 142 If you can listen to us at 1.75, clinical.

Speaker 1 I've been sitting here for an hour looking at you guys, going, wow, they're so good at just getting it out. Nine years in the game, talking, just getting it out quickly and quick-witted.

Speaker 86 I have been asked by people I'm on dates with, like, so how, how much dead air do you have to cut out?

Speaker 192 And I'm like, we don't do that.

Speaker 18 And they're like, what?

Speaker 186 And I'm like, yeah, we just

Speaker 140 pick it up.

Speaker 216 Yeah.

Speaker 68 We'll pick it up. And we'll

Speaker 68 keep going.

Speaker 1 It's amazing. I was literally talking to Sarah about it this morning.
I was like, I don't know. They're so quick.
They're so good. I was like, I don't have, it takes me so long to form a thought.

Speaker 198 That has proven to not be true here today.

Speaker 135 Well, because I, honestly, you've been chucking it hard and chucking it.

Speaker 102 I've been

Speaker 1 chucking it, but that's because I drank, I was chucking back coffees.

Speaker 102 You overcaffeinated for a lot of time.

Speaker 102 Was that something that was the last thing Sarah told you to do?

Speaker 1 No, but I did do it. I did it when I talked to Sydney.
She was like, remember, because I talked to Sydney last night and she was, she had just come from an espresso.

Speaker 1 And I was like, you're like a different person right now. I love what this is doing for you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And she was like, I just feel, I feel like I really had a good set or whatever.

Speaker 140 And I was like,

Speaker 1 I'm doing that tomorrow.

Speaker 65 Oh, he's a Celsius kick.

Speaker 101 I'm a Celsius kick.

Speaker 77 I mean, the whole office is Celsius.

Speaker 1 I love Celsius. It's so good.

Speaker 65 We love it.

Speaker 1 It's so good. And it's so much better than coffee because I do just feel like I am on a steady stream of crack cocaine.
Yes.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 235 It's just XR extended release.

No real like, whoo, like it just sort of slows up and then bewoo.

Speaker 1 and then you're not and you're landing upside down, but it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter on Celsius.

Speaker 147 Yeah.

Speaker 89 And I find that even the upside down landing is not as bad as like a full-on crash.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 80 You're upside down, but you're, you're kind of

Speaker 65 lying to the ground. Yeah.

Speaker 147 Like a feather.

Speaker 193 Did you hear Dakota Johnson say she thought it was like a healthy fruit drink?

Speaker 259 She had 10 of them.

Speaker 176 She had like six or seven of them and she was like actually like having a conniption on a set and she was just like,

Speaker 203 because no one told her it's like, no, that's like, it's a lot of cap.

Speaker 212 Even one is like, you're going to be zooming.

Speaker 1 Oh my God, that's my nightmare.

Speaker 1 The first time I had five-hour energy, I had like a full-on breakdown in the street.

Speaker 102 I was like,

Speaker 152 five-hour was like, that was an overpressure before we landed.

Speaker 1 Yes, it was crazy. That was too much.
It was way too much. It should not have been legal.
I think it still is.

Speaker 86 You definitely can still get it.

Speaker 83 I remember like

Speaker 1 it's a 7-Eleven purchase for a reason.

Speaker 65 It is.

Speaker 198 And they look like poppers, too.

Speaker 194 They do. They do.

Speaker 65 They put them right next to you.

Speaker 109 Can I get that little bottle and that little bottle?

Speaker 65 I want to get absolutely amped and

Speaker 171 dilated.

Speaker 65 Oh, God.

Speaker 83 You hold them both up and you're like, you're like, which one?

Speaker 182 This has been so fun.

Speaker 181 This has been so fun.

Speaker 89 So fun.

Speaker 78 The mother load.

Speaker 217 It's on Netflix now.

Speaker 79 Harmless Lady Tour, Baltimore, Edmonton, Sacramento.

Speaker 115 Cleveland somewhere in there.

Speaker 1 You do have a better memory than you think.

Speaker 192 No, he's great.

Speaker 135 That's great. Short term.
Short term.

Speaker 1 I literally was like, is there a teleprompter?

Speaker 65 There's no prompter.

Speaker 120 Oh, and you're going to have a McMahon's cruise.

Speaker 89 The absolutely not cruise.

Speaker 72 Yes, Yes.

Speaker 1 There's going to be so many white women with like Adele vacation braids. It's going to be a problem.

Speaker 67 Oh, and you should get them too.

Speaker 188 You should.

Speaker 214 She'll be like, hey, ladies.

Speaker 127 No.

Speaker 161 Is everyone feeling like Adele tonight?

Speaker 1 Imagine I go in there with like full extensions, like actual wefts of extensions, trying to braid those.

Speaker 128 I want them to be really visible.

Speaker 80 Yes, really visible.

Speaker 106 Chunky visible.

Speaker 106 My favorite thing is like...

Speaker 138 I feel like this.

Speaker 106 Someone who can

Speaker 127 tell us.

Speaker 121 Someone who either doesn't care or doesn't know that their extensions are wildly out.

Speaker 103 Yes.

Speaker 1 That was me on my wedding.

Speaker 137 And it's a look.

Speaker 78 Oh, I bet you looked amazing.

Speaker 1 They show up in the pictures.

Speaker 153 Yes.

Speaker 141 Amazing.

Speaker 1 Yes. I look like fucking Heather on the beach.

Speaker 113 I need to tell you something.

Speaker 127 I need to tell you. Oh, my God.

Speaker 206 Yeah, wow. That made it even better.

Speaker 140 Even better.

Speaker 140 I love you, Smells.

Speaker 108 Well, Della.

Speaker 65 I love you guys.

Speaker 1 Thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 102 This is so fun.

Speaker 92 This is a joy.

Speaker 142 Well, we end every episode with a song.

Speaker 206 That's right.

Speaker 70 There's a fire burning in my heart.

Speaker 67 We shoot nothing.

Speaker 70 Wait, hold on.

Speaker 162 It's Donnie's last day with us.

Speaker 1 Bye, Donnie.

Speaker 120 It's Donnie who operates our cameras.

Speaker 154 It's our last day for us.

Speaker 152 He's literally the cutest person in the world.

Speaker 154 So we just want to say he's moving on to another job.

Speaker 82 And actually, the song that we want to sing is, what's a goodbye song?

Speaker 61 I hope you dance.

Speaker 141 I hope you dance.

Speaker 61 We hope you dance.

Speaker 153 We hope you dance.

Speaker 92 Do well in finance.

Speaker 102 Do well in finance.

Speaker 127 Yay, Donnie.

Speaker 127 Yay!

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More episodes from Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

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"The Protagonist" (w/ Heather Gay)

“Drinkin' The Soda” (w/ Brittany Snow)

"All Up In The Macabre" (w/ Sarah Paulson)