"We Hope We Dance" (w/ Matt & Bowen)

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Speaker 2 Oh, my. Bowen, look over there.
Wow, is that the culture? Yes, goodness.

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Speaker 2 How do you feel when we're in this setup doing it? I feel like we're recording this on a Monday and it's way p.m. for you.

Speaker 2 Me on the West Coast. And I feel like this was always when we recorded it during the pandemic.
So it's a little sense bam for me in a way that's like a little spooky. What's coming up?

Speaker 2 What is surfacing? I don't know. I'm just like, that was a vibe when we were recording it.

Speaker 2 Like that era, the pandemic Lost Culture recordings were a different moment in Lost lost culture history for those of y'all that are endeavoring for whatever reason to go back and listen all the way through

Speaker 2 first of all we commend you and applaud you i can't imagine that is mentally medically advisable no but i hope that those episodes don't feel too

Speaker 2 capsule in the moment. But of course they are, because like, what else would they be? I do feel like every now and then throughout the year, we have these Zoom episodes.

Speaker 2 I mean, what feels different about it this time that it's literally time of day. It's, it's literally like the, I'm looking outside and the darkness has descended.

Speaker 2 And I'm sitting, you know what really this comes back to again? It's, I'm sitting in this same room that I've been in since February 2020 in LA and must leave. That sounds like a you problem.

Speaker 2 It's, oh, it's a major me problem. Everything I'm bringing up.

Speaker 2 Especially, and here's the thing is it's like, I've been so excited to record all day because when you talk about culture catchups, you hope you can recap some culture that's as good as the stuff we've gotten in the last even 24 hours.

Speaker 2 Even 24 hours, but for us, the last 72 hours. Of course.
96 even. 96, but how's this for a throwback? Do you want to talk throwback? Yeah.
We're going to be talking about the Grammys.

Speaker 2 Yep. Say it.
Say this part. Which was the topic of conversation for the first ever episode of Lost Culturistas.

Speaker 2 And that's why it saddens us to say this is the last

Speaker 2 of Lost Culturistas. Just kidding, you absolute freaks.
The Kyles came in and stormed stormed the castle and ruined it all.

Speaker 2 The Katies were throwing themselves onto the freeway.

Speaker 2 Jesus, geez, sorry, guys.

Speaker 2 Death to all of them. Jesus.
10 and 2, everyone, or 12 and a hand on your hip. If you like me, driving on the roads, because we're cruising into Culch.
The Grammys were last night.

Speaker 2 We were in Vegas this weekend, and Lady Gaga has

Speaker 2 hit us with it hard. Sorry, Billy.

Speaker 2 Wow, the Cult cults lately, Bo, the cults lately, Bo.

Speaker 2 The culture lately, Matt, can we outline, chart the course of how we want to discuss this? You brought up Billy.

Speaker 2 We can talk about snubs, which there were, there's always a few, even for a night that I thought was as great as it was last night. It's just, it's so rare that it's Grammys and we're happy.

Speaker 2 Can we say best Grammys in our lifetime, maybe?

Speaker 2 Since 99, maybe? I don't know.

Speaker 2 Best Grammys in our recent recent lifetime for sure i mean this was fun from the beginning oh it moved i loved the winners i have little qualms here and there but the wealth was being spread i think we got some moments that were kind of live tv unforgettable every like that entire let's start here that entire best new artist section loved

Speaker 2 that was a great tv moment Doji's performance. How about that? Catfish into Denial of the River.
Phenomenal. Conveyor belt, ripping the Tom Brown off.

Speaker 2 All of it. I mean, just her fucking being held in the splits.
The training this girl has. Yeah.
I think I showed you when Crazy first came out.

Speaker 2 My first exposure to Dochi was a couple of years ago. This video called Crazy.
Love this video. This video went really hard.
Kind of reminds me of Abrakadabra, which we will get to.

Speaker 2 Don't you worry, you freaks. Don't you worry, freak i don't know this is she is

Speaker 2 first of all historic rami win but she seized that energy and

Speaker 2 god i mean this is this is so gratifying for her where it's the sobriety journey that she's been on this album is about that journey and for it to be held up in that way is so cool to see what an inspiration we love dochi in this house the only girl that azalea is afraid of now oh Because Azalea tried it with her and Dochi was like, please don't do this.

Speaker 2 You will regret it. This girl is a bazooka on stage.
I mean, it is everything at 10 top quality. I mean, the precision, the vision, the

Speaker 2 just degree of difficulty that she's doing things at, and for it to look this easy, this is exactly what excellence is.

Speaker 2 I thought there was a second there after that performance and, you know, when she had won best rap album, and I had thought this when, you know, her new stuff was coming out a little early, right in the voting period.

Speaker 2 She had that insane performance on, I believe it was Colbert. Colbert.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah. I was like, this girl could take best new artist.
And let's not forget Tiny Desk. Absolutely.
Oh, the Tiny Desk was crazy.

Speaker 2 The Tiny Desk was out of this world, but she is somebody that is going to be talked about the rest of her life if she wants and plays it right. She's forever.
That's a really

Speaker 2 big, bright superstar. Yeah.
We love Dochi. To go back to the best new artist block, loved it.
I mean, really stacked year. Ray.

Speaker 2 Ray, I think, is if anyone besides Billy has a snub narrative around her, I think it's Ray, but it's purely because, and I think this is maybe a thing that we can talk about in terms of indie artists.

Speaker 2 Like Ray does not have the same things at her disposal that the other nominees and best new artists did necessarily. Like

Speaker 2 the reason maybe that she is still being known is because she's working with what she has. And we need to give her more because she is such a talent.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 My God, because between Ray and I think, and I want to say Claro, like these are the indie girls and the indie artists that like.

Speaker 2 was like the last little crack in the in the china for me where it's like oh this is the thing that we can look at in the future maybe where it's like let's give indie artists a little bit more of an apparatus to succeed in this space the way that ray opens up her vocal when she's both thing, like, because it's so dexterous and it's so cool.

Speaker 2 And it's her albums are like, and her music is like a Rubik's Cube to me sometimes where I'm like, I do sometimes

Speaker 2 I wish it just were a little bit more streamlined. It's slippery.
It's slippery. But my thing is like watching her perform and we I got to see her at Coachella 2 last year and live, she's crazy.

Speaker 2 Like watching her perform is almost more interesting the way that it's had that because you get to the experience of watching it live and really sitting in it.

Speaker 2 Like I think one of of my favorite songs for her, and Don't Read Me for This is Black Mascara, just because it is a little bit more straightforward. But

Speaker 2 I'm so blown away with how dynamic she is. And my favorite part of her voice is when she's belting.
I mean, she's got the healthiest belting in that room, I think. Well, that's Dr.

Speaker 2 We can't say that because Cynthia Arrivo is maybe the best singer in the world.

Speaker 2 You and I had said this, and then I

Speaker 2 obnoxiously, I'm going to say this to readers to

Speaker 2 Pelopis' finalist Kyles.

Speaker 2 I did text her while she was singing, and I said, I think you are unequivocally one of the best vocalists of all time. Everything about that performance was

Speaker 2 crazy. The amount of people that went up there and just completely demolished and created a feeling of euphoria in that room.
Yes, it was an entrancing night. Yeah.
We were all enthralled.

Speaker 2 We were in a literal thrall. We were going crazy watching the TV together.
And it was moment after moment. I got my life watching all of it.

Speaker 2 My experience, like, I think reached, you know, remember that moment? This is also an award show moment. It was actually number one on the top 200 moment of culture.

Speaker 2 That feeling of a delicacy happening and you just feel a pure euphoria in your chest watching one of these shows. I had that like three times.
I had that when Chappell performed.

Speaker 2 At the end, when she's, I want to get my naza, belting her tits off while they're running, the choreo of everyone running on stage. I was up out of my chair, screaming, throwing hands.

Speaker 2 When the entire crowd, it has to feel awful to be Drake. When the entire crowd said, A minor,

Speaker 2 that

Speaker 2 was so crazy. That's the industry being on one side of that beef in the craziest, most cruel, but perhaps justified way.
It really is over, huh? Like that, that's wild.

Speaker 2 It's hard to, I would imagine it's hard to feel good or be able to come back to

Speaker 2 a good place anytime soon after that one.

Speaker 2 And then the third moment I had was, I guess, a time, maybe it's one moment that feels like two moments, it feels like one rather, is Beyonce's country album win reaction and then album of the year, which

Speaker 2 one of our long national nightmares is over. At least Beyonce is an album of the year winner.
Do you have a vessel for a beverage in front of you? You know what?

Speaker 2 Mo. Engineer Mo is joining us.
Engineer Mo is raising a glass. Okay, this is for

Speaker 2 self-titled for four. Yep.
For

Speaker 2 lemonade. It's for I am Sasha Fierce.
It's for I am Sasha Fierce. It's for Renaissance.
Of course, Renaissance. And let's even say, B-Day, let's even say Dangerously in Love.

Speaker 2 Let's say it's a lot of love. It's the full discography.
This goes out to the writings on the wall.

Speaker 2 The writing has been on the the wall this goes out to survivor this is 25 years in the making beyonce album of the year winner and it feels good and it was when the world needed it the most cheers we'll see you at the rodeo chitlin circuit tour last night was This crazy reminder to me.

Speaker 2 I guess, I mean, or unless some people have this tidbit at the back of their head, I'm like, oh my God, not since the miseducation of Lauren Hill.

Speaker 2 It's just like, it's not even about just like her not deserving it. It's about like,

Speaker 2 it's about so much more. You could just tell everyone in the room was feeling not even just a wrong being righted, but just like, that is the person that is the bar for everyone in the room.

Speaker 2 And she should be up there at the, at the finale of that evening,

Speaker 2 finally. And the way that she was genuinely surprised about Country Album, you knew that was a, that was a meme coming like the asteroid and don't look up.

Speaker 2 It was headed our way. And I've seen so many great artists online do things with that.
And great meme artistry happening from these Grammys, I have to say. Lots of visuals.

Speaker 2 We have a very visual pop star crowd right now. They're giving us a lot to look at.
Yeah, it feels nice.

Speaker 2 I do want to shout out

Speaker 2 the heroes and as they call themselves, Sheroes,

Speaker 2 who were the firefighters, and especially Miss Mama, who weeks ago was engulfed in flames, saving lives,

Speaker 2 you know, trying to put out these fires. Was this the one who actually said the name of the album? She said the name of the album, but she was giving me something close to an Adele Dazim moment.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Because she, with her full chest and conviction, a hero, a Shiro,

Speaker 2 Shiro.

Speaker 2 I clapped in my room alone

Speaker 2 when she so confidently said, this was the moment we were waiting for.

Speaker 2 At the end of this huge, touching, amazing culmination of the night, which was to help rebuild LA after these fires.

Speaker 2 They passed it on to her and she goes, and she's about to like roll out the nominees, go to that package. She goes, and now.

Speaker 2 The nominee

Speaker 2 for album of the year. And I said, Miss Mama.
The nominee for album of the year, because she knew only one really mattered. It's that and that because only one would ultimately be the winner.

Speaker 2 And that's something that she was thinking about that we weren't. Are there even nominees when one's going to win? Think about that.
Think about that. And she opens up that envelope.

Speaker 2 She gasps, holds it to her chest. Holds it to her chest.
Then says the words, Cardboard

Speaker 2 Cowboy Carter. Cardboard Carter.
Cardboard Carter. Cowboy Carter.
This

Speaker 2 we had not corrected. I wish we had gotten cardboard counter.
Cardboard counter. Cardboard.
Cowder.

Speaker 2 Title of app. Cardboard counter.
Cardboard counter. That is the title of app.

Speaker 2 I'm not being facetious here.

Speaker 2 She was incredible. No, she had the star energy that everyone in the room wishes they had.
This woman was. Saying goodbye to her family every day to fight these fucking fires.
Yep.

Speaker 2 We just need to put that on TV more. That's all.
At award shows, bring out real people.

Speaker 2 In a real way, the entire night was a perfect balance of acknowledging, obviously, the trauma that everyone has been through and the fear that people have, but also the little moments of levity.

Speaker 2 Like I loved when, I mean, it's obviously devastating. This is the reality that we even have to have this.
But the fact is, like.

Speaker 2 There was a couple of moments where they show people going through rubbish and like finding wedding rings or those little moments of hope. I mean, they probably raised a lot of money.

Speaker 2 They said $7 million at that one point in the show. I was moved to donate.
Everyone should donate. I mean,

Speaker 2 it was a really well-balanced evening in a time that feels so

Speaker 2 fucking messed up. And obviously,

Speaker 2 so much has been going on in the past couple of weeks. And we, by the way, just want to affirm.

Speaker 2 our solidarity with the trans community and just make sure that everyone knows that we got their back because what's going on is so fucked up.

Speaker 2 But it was great to see so many people standing up, using their voices in a time that feels weird because it feels like we're letting one person control everything.

Speaker 2 And I'm not talking about Trump, I'm talking about Elon fucking Musk. I just watched like this crazy YouTube video with Jasmine Crockett before I got on here.

Speaker 2 The vibes are so all over the place because Beyonce is album of the year, but Elon's taking over the world. It's at a fever pitch right now.

Speaker 2 It's just crazy that you have a best new artist winner say something, speak so cogently and directly to this like real issue that so many people, not even just musicians,

Speaker 2 so many people

Speaker 2 understand.

Speaker 2 And meanwhile, it's all these headlines being like, the Democrats don't have a message. It's like, yeah,

Speaker 2 what the fuck?

Speaker 2 Then what the fuck are you doing? It's right there.

Speaker 2 It's crazy. Then, like, this queer girl is reading from her Moleskine or from her life term or whatever.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Speaking to the people in a way that like

Speaker 2 is

Speaker 2 so invigorating and so validating and tragic and dark and all of these things. But meanwhile, there's like a messaging issue for like

Speaker 2 this horrible, horrible, dysfunctional party. It's, it's so crazy.
I mean, yes, like there was something about last night, the Grammys that was

Speaker 2 life-affirming and beautiful and communal and all these things, but it also sadly felt like ensconced in that space. Yes.

Speaker 2 Only. And like, we just need, we need to sort of let that out.
We need to ventilate that, that whole vibe. I don't know how I sound like a fucking idiot saying this, but like, no, I agree.

Speaker 2 I mean, that's what, that's what I want. That's what I was thinking about the entire time.

Speaker 2 Is I was just like, it's so crazy to hear these attacks on DEI, which I can't even believe is an acronym that we're like discussing in this way. Like, just say a slur.
Just say any slur.

Speaker 2 It's like a given that obviously diversity strengthens everything, period. Our country, our world, period.
You're watching this night.

Speaker 2 It's like, even on a vibe check alone, if you're at home watching that, you're not, you're not questioning things a little bit. Like,

Speaker 2 I'm so happy that they didn't make explicit mention of, you know, Trump or whatever, because then he would have felt the need to pick on people or get in a fight with this, you know, award show, as it were.

Speaker 2 Like, he loves to just like feud with them as if they're individuals. But it's just crazy that we can hold both right now.
It's wild that people can't see

Speaker 2 that there is a truth and a light. I don't know.
It is wild. I went a little crazy as the night went on as they were wrapping the evening around the fires,

Speaker 2 which they should have. And I think they executed that beautifully and the objective was met, which was money was raised.

Speaker 2 The other piece of that that was missing, I thought, was, why aren't you acknowledging that this is climate change? Yeah. Like, why are we, why are we afraid to acknowledge this?

Speaker 2 Which is why when Gaga finally says trans people are not invisible, I burst into tears. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Cause I just, I was just holding this, there was just this tension the entire time of like, so we're just not going to like talk about any of this.

Speaker 2 We're not going to acknowledge how everything is fucking, is the bleakest it's been in a long time. Yeah.

Speaker 2 There are all these different forces at play and all these different whims and so many things that like are beyond comprehension, but there was just something like fine, like finally some valve was like turned a little bit when someone acknowledges like the way that the industry is so fucking crazy in terms of developing artists.

Speaker 2 The way our current attitude towards transgender people is unacceptable, inhumane, is inhumane, just full stop. Like, yes, Gaga,

Speaker 2 thank you. Like truly, thank you.
This is why, this is why I'm like re-energized on Gaga, not just because of Abrakadabra, but because it's like, wow, she's at an award show.

Speaker 2 She is like using this platform in the way that is has always been true to her. As a leader, as a real leader, as a true leader and a true ally and a true icon to the queer community.

Speaker 2 And she knew that this was, I mean, not that she needs an opportunity. She knew this is her duty.
No, no. She knew this was her duty to do that.
And it is so real.

Speaker 2 And then for her to release that song.

Speaker 2 And it's not meaningful because of this, because it's meaningful on its own merits because the song is so great and it's just so exciting and it's so gaga.

Speaker 2 But also, it does call back to a time in her career which felt like we didn't have to worry about the world hugging us back. You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 Like it was giving that born this way vibe, that those kinds of sounds. Like it was so, it was like a hug.
It was like a sweaty, euphoric molly hug from Lady Gaga towards the queer community.

Speaker 2 And we fucking needed that. And I, again, was, this is, I guess, another moment from the telecast, which I guess we're considering it a part of it.
But like, I was up out of my chair.

Speaker 2 I could not sit down last night watching these Grammys. I really couldn't.
It was just, it's so fitting too, to come at the end of a musical year that was so

Speaker 2 honestly important because it was a one constant throughout this year was that music, you know, popular music, while we can have problems with the industry aspects of it, it really was a salve all year.

Speaker 2 And it felt like you saw the people in that room getting the credit and having some fun together that had really been there in our ears all year.

Speaker 2 And to put it like in super simple terms, but it just felt good. And for her to do that was, yes, a moment that was so necessary.
Thankful for the cuts into the audience.

Speaker 2 Like whoever's in the control room, bravo, bravo.

Speaker 2 You were jamming. You were jamming.
The cuts to Taylor were not too excessive.

Speaker 2 Let that girl dance in peace. I love Taylor Swift at that award show because you know what? She's kicking back those champagne flutes.

Speaker 2 She is putting on Janelle Monet's jacket, keeping it on all night. She's dancing around because I guess for her, it's like, she might as well have fucking fun.

Speaker 2 Of course, she knows the entire world is going to judge her anyway. Sure, I'll be the only one standing up.
Good. Let her.

Speaker 2 I hope I can get to a place in my life where I can go anywhere and if I want to dance, I do it. That's what I'll say.
I hope I dance.

Speaker 2 In the words of Leanne Womack, I'm repurposing the queen, but I hope I dance. Or how about you flip it and go, you hope I dance.
Make it a command. How about we flip it and reverse it?

Speaker 2 We hope we dance.

Speaker 2 Maybe that's title of app. We hope we dance.
We hope we dance. That's actually good.
We hope we dance for gaga. The category is dance or die.
Absolutely.

Speaker 2 But we just have to give a shout out to Miss Carbourg Cowder. Carborg Carter is it.
I mean, that was a great moment in time. And the fact that, like, no one, no, there was no little titters.

Speaker 2 There was no little laughter. We're the only stupid idiots that are making an issue of it.
But Beyonce just cleaned one

Speaker 2 Carborg Carrader. Just to finally put a period on this, we need to say, Captain Sheila Kelleher Berco,

Speaker 2 you are truly a legend.

Speaker 2 You were perfect. And now the nominee for album of the year, it just brings me joy.
I'm truly, I just have to make myself clear. I'm not making fun of this person.
No. I just, it brought me joy.

Speaker 2 I'm like, this is, this is who we need to uplift.

Speaker 2 To me, I was like, my, my whole thing was like, this feels like central casting LA firefighters. I'm like, this woman is everything.
She's holding the space. Her hair.
Yeah. The hair was perfect.

Speaker 2 It was kind of giving throwback. It was kind of giving, you know, late 80s, early 90s country woman.
It was giving Judd. It's giving Judd.

Speaker 2 And I was thinking, it's giving Judd meets Ava Max uneven sides. Oh, wow.
Do you know what I mean? Or no, it's just, she just had one, one side of the hair over the shoulder and the other behind.

Speaker 2 But I did think of my girl Ava. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't know why I thought it was giving Judd. But you know what I'm saying? It's like.
No, it is Judd. No, I totally know what you're saying.

Speaker 2 Yeah, there was a nod here. I mean, I think not only were most of the musical acts and album of the year going country, I think so was LA Firefightress Shiro.
Shiro,

Speaker 2 I do want to talk about this idea of righting wrongs because I agree with that. And I also think,

Speaker 2 did we overcorrect by having these poor people from the academy be forced to apologize publicly to the weekend?

Speaker 2 I think that if they felt they needed to do that, then it's good that they did did that because clearly there was something wrong. I mean, clearly.
Yeah, I mean, come on.

Speaker 2 We have to give credit also to Sabrina to come too.

Speaker 2 And I was confronted a little bit in some group chats about people being like, really espresso for pop vocal performance. Let me tell you something about that tasty little cookie voice.

Speaker 2 You hop on the track. That song is a hit because of her vocal.
It is a warm little summer coup.

Speaker 2 And just because a vocal is not rangy does not mean it doesn't have artistic value. It is an artistic choice to

Speaker 2 whisper like this on a song. Yes, that is performance.
So I guess you can't stand Lana anymore if you took issue with this, this win.

Speaker 2 A coup is a choice. A coup is a choice.
That's actually rule of culture number six.

Speaker 2 A coup is a choice.

Speaker 2 And you know that one will be in the book. And now, after every rule of culture, we're going to have to signify whether or not it's going to be in the book, which is officially happening.
Absolutely.

Speaker 2 Sabrina, I thought, I did not know the reference until the next day that it was Goldie Han. It was a Goldie reference.
Love that, actually. She is, that's the thing.

Speaker 2 I'm like, the death becomes her thing. Like, it's all coming together, really.
Telegenic doesn't really cover it, huh? Because.

Speaker 2 It's another thing to hit the spot where you're supposed to stand, have the light hit you and bring joy to the world. It's another thing to, how do I put this?

Speaker 2 So much control over the movement in her eyes. Like beep, beep, beep.
She's like a little cartoon cookie that I want to bite out of, quite frankly.

Speaker 2 Well, you know, there is this thing going on where people are commenting on a reel and maybe a TikTok as well of Miss A.D. Bryan on Seth Meyers recently.

Speaker 2 And a lot of the comments blowing up saying, oh my God, she looks just like Sabrina Carpenter.

Speaker 2 And And I think it's in the eyes, it's in the nose, it's in the beautiful lips, but the eyes really do have it, as they say.

Speaker 2 If you are someone who has control over where the eyes beep and boop, you are made in the shade. You're made in the shade, and you're made for TV.

Speaker 2 And film. And what I love, too, about Sabrina's performance, I love that she comes out, does espresso, does please, please, please, and then goes back to espresso.
Espresso.

Speaker 2 Like, as if to comment on, no, the song's never over. This is never over.
This is a movement, not a moment.

Speaker 2 This was an earworm, a monoculture song when people said that those weren't possible anymore. What do you think was in her flask all night? Hard to say.
I mean, she was really loving sipping from it.

Speaker 2 And I want to say, but she kept her composure in a way that makes me go, maybe she's just doing a fun little performance. I think it was a Jennifer Pedrante Malibu and Diet.
Not Jennifer Pedrante.

Speaker 2 You heard what I said. My girl gives Jennifer Pedrante, okay? Sabrina and Jennifer Pedrante.
I want to see that actors on actors.

Speaker 2 I want to say, speaking of Sabrina, let's tie this into Producer of the Year Non-Classical goes to Dan Nigro,

Speaker 2 who is apparently working with Sabrina. Oh, I love that.
Does that maybe

Speaker 2 add something? explanatory to this little bit of gossip that Sabrina and Olivia were chit-chatting last night.

Speaker 2 I mean, first of all, if you don't think I scrutinized the video of them hugging, you'd be deeply mistaken. Was there a hug? There is a big hug.

Speaker 2 There was happy chatter because I'll tell you what the Recording Academy, the literal actual Recording Academy, does is they put those reaction shots up, like the crowd footage. No one saves.

Speaker 2 Like, Bruno Mars reacts to Dochi's performance. You know what I mean? Like this, this, that.

Speaker 2 And I was like, this is so funny of them to just dive in in this way and double dip and not just like like a, you know, we're officially like giving quality honors and then we're also dipping into the celebrity aspect of it.

Speaker 2 But they had me and I will say, Ken confirm, it seems good between Sabrina and Olivia. And I think they might do lost coach together.
Just kidding. But start the rumor.

Speaker 2 Well, the end game of this is collab. Absolutely.
The end game is they take this podcast from us. Yes.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 They would be better. And we can be pop stars.
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Speaker 2 We really are Olivia and Sabrina. In a way.
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Speaker 2 I want to say that

Speaker 2 on the note of the Grammys, the Recording Academy kind of

Speaker 2 putting grist for the mill

Speaker 2 out there. I need an expression.

Speaker 2 Oh, you ate that. Grist for the mill.
Girl. Where does that have its origins? I think from mills.

Speaker 2 I think from mill work.

Speaker 2 Did you just hear my Vegas laugh?

Speaker 2 That horrible.

Speaker 2 We haven't even touched on Vegas, guys. We will get to it because there's a couple more big things we need to talk about.
We need to revisit Abracadabra first of all.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah, we're not done with Abracadabra. We haven't even even picked up the wand.
Go

Speaker 2 or the hat. Cast your spell of night.

Speaker 2 Are you fucking kidding me?

Speaker 2 Oh my God.

Speaker 2 Gris for the mill real quick. It's like the academy like.

Speaker 2 Are you fucking kidding me? I'm sorry. I'm jumping ahead.
Go. Say what you need to say to the recording academy.

Speaker 2 Remember, like when they were tweeting the day before, like this person's sitting with this person. Yeah.
Like that huge list of like, oh, why are they doing this? Because it's getting us excited.

Speaker 2 Because they knew that the night would be hugely eventful and interesting.

Speaker 2 And I thank them. There was a photo, and it's going around as a Powerpuff Girls of Sabrina Carpenter, Chappelle Roan, and Billie Eilish all together looking like three legends and slaves.

Speaker 2 And I just wanted Olivia in there. I wanted to get my girl in there.
I wanted a four. I wanted that picture of Kesha,

Speaker 2 Nikki Minaj, Katy Perry, and Rihanna redone. Right.

Speaker 2 It is also giving Charlie's Angels and does that make Olivia the Jemimi more?

Speaker 2 You know what? I just, all I'm saying is, I, it seemed united in there. Even like, oh my God, I can't believe I scrutinized these videos so much, but the recording academy posted them.

Speaker 2 Like, even just sort of, you know, the girls walking by each other,

Speaker 2 it seemed civil in there. And they knew, they knew the world needed to see harmony.
I'm just going to put this out there, okay? And I think this is somewhat responsible of me. And I think this, this,

Speaker 2 this speaks to something and this obsession that we have around these narratives that we form around these people. Yes.
I'm going to tell you firsthand,

Speaker 2 these people like each other. Okay.
Yeah. They just, they just like each other.
And I can tell you primary sources. I'm not going to tell you which, but you can guess.

Speaker 2 At the end of the day, these people respect and love each other and they're all in this together. All right.
and the same is true with podcasters. Put your weapons down, put your weapons down, putcha.

Speaker 2 And because let me tell you something: stop with all this feud about podcasters, stop with the stuff with the feud about Matt Bo, Cat Pat,

Speaker 2 Joel Kim.

Speaker 2 Stop with this feud.

Speaker 2 Dak Shepard.

Speaker 2 Y'all are always putting us in a feud with Dak Shepard. And can we just say, we love the man.

Speaker 2 And we all know each other, okay? We hang out. We respect each other as artists.

Speaker 2 Wait, Dan and I grew up. I'm just saying that is, I mean, that's like an anointing that I think is really, really cool.

Speaker 2 And I liked his earring. Yes.

Speaker 2 And Amy Allen, songwriting of the year,

Speaker 2 songwriter of the year, non-classical, this woman, short and sweet, all the big tracks on short and sweet, along with Julie Michaels.

Speaker 2 We love Julie Michaels. I think she was, she was there last night, looked so happy, looked just so proud to represent all the work that she's done, but especially on short and sweet.

Speaker 2 But Amy Allen, Apata with Rose and Bruno

Speaker 2 behind that, and was Sky Riley Smile 2. She wrote all the Smile 2 tracks.
Oh, wow. Yeah.
People are really living for that. Like, this girl is one to watch.
She's there.

Speaker 2 I mean, she's the Grabby winner for Stonewriter of the Year. And also, another thing,

Speaker 2 the Billy of it all. Somebody in this situation was going to have like an off night in terms of taking things totally.
But the good news is for Billie Eilish, she has nine. Nine.

Speaker 2 She has two Academy awards and i think that isn't she a win she was a nominee for most awards award for most awards at the culture award so she's nominated for an lcca

Speaker 2 she's good on the hardware she's really good on the hardware but it is she's got hardware you know coming out of her booty it's just tough because that is perhaps her best album and to have no

Speaker 2 i get it i totally get it no but you're right it's like what would we have traded you know what i mean i would i would have made a trade i can pitch a trade here's what i'll say. Song of the Year.

Speaker 2 Song of the Year, give it to Billie Eilish if she's going to go home empty-handed everywhere else. No, no, no.
Record of the Year because Song of the Year is definitely not like us.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I'm one of them. I mean, so if you're looking at it in terms of songwriting, yeah, I guess the reason why not like us is as high impact is because of the writing.

Speaker 2 But record of the year, I'm just saying, like, just production-wise, birds of a feather

Speaker 2 is so come on. That would be my trade.
Just, and that's just in a world where it's less fun when those awards are one-by-one song. Totally.
And also in categories filled with these amazing,

Speaker 2 stacked with these women, like it all gets split and Kendrick does emerge out of that victorious, which sly.

Speaker 2 I was a little worried for Chappell there when Sabrina. It looked like it was going to be a Sabrina sweep.

Speaker 2 I was like, I mean, as much as I live and die for Sabrina, I was like, we can't, we have to have Chappell up there getting something, especially after that performance.

Speaker 2 Best New Artist is the perfect award for her to win because not only is she the high impact you know exciting

Speaker 2 new star of the year critically and commercially i would you know wager to say but also the way that she changes the way we talk about

Speaker 2 them

Speaker 2 and the way that just the way she's demanded respect the way that she commanded the room last night she

Speaker 2 you know it's almost like she was being given not license, but the fact that everyone in that room was down to stand up and applaud.

Speaker 2 And she she had Taylor fucking Swift standing up and applauding that sentiment. That is

Speaker 2 huge. It's major.
Taylor's always going to ride for like the work. Yeah.
What Chappell was saying was the work should not devastate us in this film.

Speaker 2 And it's because of the rec, it's because of the industry. Yeah.
Like this girl got fucking dropped. Like it's, that's another like.

Speaker 2 slight similarity to Gaga where it's like, oh, these, these are both huge visionary artists, queer artists who

Speaker 2 were fucked over by this business.

Speaker 2 The insight into the music industry that I do have, I will say it's shocking when you realize how hard it is to make money when you realize how much work goes into this stuff. It would shock you.

Speaker 2 It is so much harder. It's incomparable to any other

Speaker 2 section of the entertainment industry that I could see.

Speaker 2 You know what I mean? Like speaking as someone who's written, acted, and done the music and touring thing, like, you would have to be huge to make even a little bit of money just doing recorded music.

Speaker 2 It is a harsh reality of that. And for her to get up there and do that, especially with the narrative that she's had, they should take it seriously.
They should take it very seriously.

Speaker 2 It's just a class issue that she spoke to. And you are so right when you said that, 100%.

Speaker 2 Because, of course, people who work hard for systems that can reward them with basic human dignity should be given that dignity. Yeah.
It's crazy. Speaking of people who

Speaker 2 put in the work

Speaker 2 to

Speaker 2 change something, hopefully, institutionally, Charlie XCX, finally a Grammy winner. Yeah.

Speaker 2 So incredible to think because she literally has a song about how she goes to the Grammys to be a terrorist, basically. Yep.
Like

Speaker 2 incredible. This is someone who like carved her own path, had her own vision for what she was going to do, dabbles between being a quote unquote mainstream pop artist, and then has like

Speaker 2 swung the pendulum in such a crazy, incredible way that to see her finally get rewarded in this way and to see her have this celebratory victory lap at the Grammys in a way that's like a little bit like gratuitous, a little bit like I even was clutching my pearls a little bit.

Speaker 2 I was like, oh, this is a lot. But like, by the end of it, I was like, that's exactly what it should have been.
It was uncompromising, which is what's been so incredible about her. It was Brat.

Speaker 2 It was, it was the last, not the last, because who's who's to fucking say? But it was an exclamation point on that whole fucking album cycle. Because guess what?

Speaker 2 Even if you're still, even if you're one of those people out there who's like, oh, I'm so over, Brat, like blah, blah, blah. She makes drug use seem uncool.
That's kind of built into her

Speaker 2 view on this, which is this is going to rub someone the wrong way, no matter what, no matter at what time in the cycle of and the development of this era for me, quote unquote.

Speaker 2 It's kind of bulletproof, and I think it's brilliant.

Speaker 2 Absolutely. I mean, I still stand that it was the album of the year culturally.
I will always think that. Yes, yes, I agree.
I agree.

Speaker 2 If the trade is that Beyonce gets that moment for what is essentially a career of greatness, then everything is right with the world.

Speaker 2 But they knew it too, that that was the thing that we would want to end the show on because it was the last performance. And even if Beyonce took the award, Charlie XTX punched us in the fucking face.

Speaker 2 And that's exactly what should have happened. And her screaming at the end of it, happy birthday, Julia Fox on the Grammy Awards.
I love it.

Speaker 2 That was, yeah.

Speaker 2 Great programming. Great programming.
When are we like this about any award show? When?

Speaker 2 No, I i know truly this is this is a rare moment and we should seize and we should live in this for as long as possible charlie is the fourth woman fourth solo female artist to win best dance electronic album after madonna gaga beyonce crazy she joins those people it's crazily a category dominated by like by men apex twin or male acts daphpong chemical brothers skrill x fred again which love to those people but it is so weird that it's like you would think that women would dominate that, but let's see if it shifts at all.

Speaker 2 Like that seems to be like a fertile ground. Even still, I will never tire of a, of a, of a girly pop or even a Kia putting out a dance electronic album.
No.

Speaker 2 I mean,

Speaker 2 first of all, can I just say

Speaker 2 Charlie and Gaga? are fucking gonna be a Coachella. It's and that's just that's it's so soon and it's gonna be so fucking good.

Speaker 2 Like I now let's talk about Abracadabra because I was was texting you guys.

Speaker 2 We were in the group chat texting and I had, you know, walked away from the TV for a second because I figured, you know, commercial break.

Speaker 2 And I just remember looking over and seeing her in that fucking red spiked get up and knowing that Mother Monster was present and speaking. She tapped on that mic and I just texted you guys,

Speaker 2 guys, look at the TV.

Speaker 2 And we. Oh, trust me, I was already looking.
But I'm like you, I turned away for a second and then I heard her say, the category is dance or die. And I was like, something's happening.

Speaker 2 Well, you know what? Is I know Jared and I know Jared had muted the TV because he does that during commercials. And I just needed everyone to be on the same page that she was.

Speaker 2 I thought it was just going to be a clip. I thought it was just going to be, you know, maybe 15 seconds and it to announce that there was a new single.
It was the entire video.

Speaker 2 And then presented by MasterCard at the end was did make me laugh. I did actually collapse with laughter.
but wow, the visuals, they were exciting the entire time. She looks insane.

Speaker 2 The post-chorus, Bo, the post-chorus.

Speaker 2 And now it's making me love Disease even more. And we said this when it came out.
that we could not wait to hear it in context. It is going to be so good in context.

Speaker 2 The way that song starts, when you hear this other song, it's just, it's going to breathe, it's going to really feel very good live. This is going to be very good.

Speaker 2 Mayhem is going to be extremely canon.

Speaker 2 She does a 30-minute extended interview with Rolling Stone

Speaker 2 about

Speaker 2 just with all the stems of disease. She's playing you the snare, the kick, the bass, all the vocals, all the everything in the stack.

Speaker 2 It's like, go and listen to this because it will open up the entire world of disease for you, and you will understand it to be one of the best gaga songs. Just trust me.

Speaker 2 Not since the BTS feature ad on the substance has there been a 30-minute explainer that's just so necessary. We haven't seen this in weeks.
It's been weeks since we've seen this.

Speaker 2 I just think

Speaker 2 mayhem is

Speaker 2 gonna be a gaggy time for many reasons.

Speaker 2 That's all we can say. I mean, she said, she said, I have long dreamed of a time when we could, of hosting a dance party in the desert.
I have long dreamed.

Speaker 2 And then you do hear that dream in this music. I was like, this is meant to be amongst the stars, the skies, and the sands.
This is what's going on in my life.

Speaker 2 I tragically can only make it to Sunday night of weekend one.

Speaker 2 I am now extending my stay in California so that I can, so that I cannot possibly miss Friday, weekend two, when Gaga goes out. I think it's worth it.
I think you have to.

Speaker 2 No, I are you kidding me? I have to see her. I asked you why.
She's my favorite. I love her so much.

Speaker 2 I burst into tears last night. I burst into tears when she said trans people are not invisible.
I was like, This, this, this woman,

Speaker 2 this woman has been so important to us. Do you understand?

Speaker 2 Of course you do. I mean, it's just,

Speaker 2 we need to thank her.

Speaker 2 It's not to be missed. This is not going to be.
And also just her getting carried in, her goofy face when she's like,

Speaker 2 how do you even describe it? It's when she's center frame in the video.

Speaker 2 And she's seated and she's in her chair, just like having a spasm. I'm like, yeah, this is the gaga that it's funny because she did come back with chromatica.

Speaker 2 She gave dance pop again yeah and all this stuff about like you know her return to the dance floor we we've talked about it like we've been like excuse me knock knock we just

Speaker 2 got back from our long trip to chromatica it we got on a spaceship and went to chromatica i don't understand why you don't remember this you threw up mark you threw up on the spaceship right mark mark is not kyle But now, now does it do anything for you that there are these visuals that are

Speaker 2 because it, I don't know, like Chromatica was actually speaking to art pop a little bit in a way that I kind of loved. It was more, it was living in a more R poppy space for me.

Speaker 2 I don't know how to describe it other than like brighter. Like when you saw Stupid Love, you were like, okay,

Speaker 2 you know, this is, but this is dark, spooky, haunted house, Gaga. I've wanted to go back to this haunted house.
I liked it. You've long wanted to go back to this haunted house.

Speaker 2 I'd liked the drama and Chromatica had drama, of course. I mean, those instrumentals that Chromatica won, two, and three, like that broke up the album.

Speaker 2 It was there, but there's a vocal drama in what she's doing here. And there is a lot of characterization that is new, which is really exciting to hear from her.

Speaker 2 Like this, this vocal fry that she is using, but it's like placed differently. You know what I'm talking about, right? I absolutely know what you're talking about.
She's made discoveries vocally.

Speaker 2 Well, it's interesting that you say Chromatica is in dialogue with Art Pop because I am getting the sense that Mayhem is

Speaker 2 in many ways

Speaker 2 also in dialogue with Art Pop because Abracadabra does remind me, does seem to be a child between Aura and Venus.

Speaker 2 Okay, I can definitely feel that. For me, it's just

Speaker 2 more like

Speaker 2 Fame Monster. Not Shysa,

Speaker 2 it's Swine.

Speaker 2 But Swine was also Art Pop, so you are right. Interesting.
Very interesting. I think what gave me chills to think about was:

Speaker 2 if this is hearkening back to the darker tracks of Born This Way and the Fame Monster, I thought, well, the Fame Monster wasn't even a full-length fucking album. And if we're about to get that,

Speaker 2 and I think I love that it's ending on Die With a Smile, by the way, personally, I think it will fit, it will work in the sequence.

Speaker 2 I just think this is, this is, this is going to be a hugely important album for us, for many people.

Speaker 2 Just, just, I, I just have a feeling she is having fun. She is confident.
She's doing stuff. She's going to be at the SNL February 14th show at Radio City.
I cannot wait to see her.

Speaker 2 That's going to be amazing. Last time we saw her at Radio City was the Tony Bennett show, that iconic Tony Bennett show the rest of the world.
That iconic Tony Bennett show.

Speaker 2 I have some intel on what she might be doing at this show, and it's going to be fun. It's going to be fun.

Speaker 2 That's all I can say. March 7th.
I mean, that's two days after my birthday.

Speaker 2 This is a birthday gift. This is Pisces season, Gaga.
You know, it doesn't feel Pisces. It's not giving that, but just know that it will be meaningful.

Speaker 2 Well, it's Pisces season for you, and it's a Scorpio album for me, perhaps. I would say.
Not to center ourselves in this, but I would agree with that deeply.

Speaker 2 Paris Goebbels, Bethany Vargas, co-directing this video with Gaga. Bravo.
I thought it was going to be a return to Nick Knight because it felt very fame, the Eau de Parfant commercial.

Speaker 2 I don't know if you remember that where she is

Speaker 2 in a dark space and all these muscular men are climbing a giant version of herself. It just, there was just a lot of parallels, but the narrative of this video, I think,

Speaker 2 so beautiful to me. Yeah.
It's just her in red. It's a battle between light and dark.
And guess what? The light wins. The light wins.

Speaker 2 And also, I mean, just the fact that like her and the dancers are just gathered there. So Mother Monster can order them to play her little game.
Category is dance or die.

Speaker 2 They dance for her, and they dance.

Speaker 2 We see the routine, we see the passion, we see the dance, and then at the end, they look up, and Mother Monster is looking away, and then she looks at the camera as if to say, Yes, acceptable.

Speaker 2 And the last shot of the video is Gaga on the floor looking up, like,

Speaker 2 and it's like she's

Speaker 2 you know, she's done her job, she's won. She has not died.
Pleased, Mother Monster. She's, she can continue on today.

Speaker 2 Well,

Speaker 2 Gaga has said

Speaker 2 in the last 24 hours since this video came out that this video is about a path forward. Wow.
And the only path forward, the only alternative to dying is to what?

Speaker 2 Dance.

Speaker 2 Category is dance or die.

Speaker 2 I don't care that I, that I'm reading too much into this. I really don't care.

Speaker 2 There is something that is healing about me being obsessed with a lady Gaga song like this that we are all obsessed with because she's given it to us so many times before.

Speaker 2 I feel like Rain on Me was like one of the only bright spots in that lockdown period

Speaker 2 where we were all listening to this song at the same time and it felt incredible.

Speaker 2 I just, I can't thank her enough. I can't thank this woman enough.
It's just coming from a very commanding place. And I think that's all we really want to do is take orders from Gaga.

Speaker 2 You know what I mean? That's ultimately what I, the only leader that I believe in as of right now is Lady Gaga. Yeah.
And she says dance or die. So that's an easy choice for me.
Right.

Speaker 2 Personally, but I'm not a nihilist. I'm an optimist.
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Speaker 2 Let's talk about Vegas.

Speaker 2 We had fun. We had a lot of fun, didn't we? We had Shania on Friday.
We had Mariah on Saturday.

Speaker 2 And we had destruction on Sunday. How did you feel getting on the plane from Vegas to New York? Because my plane ride from Vegas to LA was tough.

Speaker 2 And famously, that's a quick one. Oh, yeah,

Speaker 2 it's really no big deal in the eyes of God.

Speaker 2 Right.

Speaker 2 Think about this. Five-hour flight for me.

Speaker 2 Willing to think about it. Willing to.

Speaker 2 But

Speaker 2 I do feel comfortable sharing this because it did gag me. Okay.

Speaker 2 I told you this already. Yeah.
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Speaker 2 I think this is definitely fair game. I get on my plane.

Speaker 2 I have my

Speaker 2 on.

Speaker 2 Then I see at the foot, at the foot of my seat, a little bottle of like hand sanitizer or something. And I was like, oh, that's not mine.
I pick it up.

Speaker 2 I go to my seat, partner next to me, lovely man named Michael. We got to chatting.
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Speaker 2 Marishka Harjite?

Speaker 2 NBC icons on the plane. She said, oh, that's my perfume.

Speaker 2 And we shared a laugh. She was making jokes with me.
Did she recognize the queen?

Speaker 2 I did not want to bother her. I think she was with her wonderful daughter.

Speaker 2 And then

Speaker 2 upon deplaning, we just exchanged pleasantries. She was there to see Nate Bargettsi.

Speaker 2 And I was very vulnerable and traded with her that I was there to, she was like, this isn't a work week. I was like, I was there to see Shania Mariah.
And she goes, oh, well, of course.

Speaker 2 So glad I got to share that with. There were like two crowds in Vegas.
There was the Nate Bargetzi stand-up crowd and there was the Shania Mariah crowd. There was the Sharia Law.
Sharia Law.

Speaker 2 Well, there was the Sharia crowd. And what's the Bargettsi pun that we can come up with? No, we can't really.
Bargettze, Bargetti.

Speaker 2 Bargettzi laughing. Bargettze Pargetti.

Speaker 2 This is why we are not Nate Bargetzi and that's not even making the pilgrimage to Vegas to see us. And we can't even be clean comments.
We got to put dirty words and say say whole and cock and stuff.

Speaker 2 We're saying whole and cock for laughs. We're out here begging on the street.
We're destitute comedically, saying whole and cock for laughs.

Speaker 2 We are destitute comedically. Pathetic wastes.

Speaker 2 It's true. Anyway, we saw Shania on Friday.
Here's what I'm going to say about the Shania show.

Speaker 2 Incredible.

Speaker 2 Energy from Shania.

Speaker 2 We need to get her in a better outfit, guys.

Speaker 2 My girl was wearing a negligence. She was comfortable.

Speaker 2 She was comfortable, but can we get an outfit on her in Vegas, please?

Speaker 2 Dazzle us with the outfits. Come on.
Don't do Shania like that in a peach negligee.

Speaker 2 Totally.

Speaker 2 She's saying,

Speaker 2 honey, I'm home and I had a hard day.

Speaker 2 But, you know, also, up, up, up can only go up from here. How is she going to get us good? How is she going to get you good in a peach neglige and a top hat?

Speaker 2 Get that woman in a better outfit. I'm serious.

Speaker 2 And that's going to be my brave take today. Okay.
But because she gave you us a performance and the songs are songing. Yeah.
But

Speaker 2 she was in that outfit I didn't like for too long. And then the alpha's got a little bit better.
But this is Las Vegas. This is the Bach Theater at Planet Hollywood.
Okay. Right.

Speaker 2 I will say one of the great,

Speaker 2 great songs is Man, I Feel Like a Woman. There's no disputing.
I would have started with it. She ended with it.

Speaker 2 I do think Man, I Feel Like a Woman at the top would have really got us going. But Man, I Feel Like a Woman is the defining gravity of

Speaker 2 songs, I would say. It is a

Speaker 2 Man, I Feel Like a Woman is the defining gravity of songs. It's a war cry.

Speaker 2 It is.

Speaker 2 That's what impressing me much. I just feel like I can never get over the deheightened between.
Okay, so you're a rocket scientist. Okay, so he's got a car.
Oh, so okay, so you're a rocket scientist.

Speaker 2 Okay, so he's got a car

Speaker 2 pit okay so you got a car shania that doesn't work comedically we need shania and ucb sketch 101 so you're saying car

Speaker 2 rocket scientist brad pitt or car this

Speaker 2 here's what i would rather here's what i would rather in order i would rather the guy i'm have a car well first thing i would say even baseline living in la

Speaker 2 have a car and i don't relate to that because i live in new york and most of us take public transportation right but okay, so you have, I mean, for me, it's like car is one thing.

Speaker 2 You can get from place to place. Like, it's not going to be tough to see you.

Speaker 2 Next, I would say,

Speaker 2 okay, rocket scientist then for me, because it's like you're clearly successful. You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 I don't know that we can talk about a lot of things because I don't know anything about rocket science. Right.
But I like that you're engaged in what you do. You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 Because I don't think you're a rocket scientist by accident. I think if you're a rocket scientist, you love rockets and everything there about you applied yourself in this way.

Speaker 2 And congratulations. Would rather fuck you than someone that just had a car.
And then even though I'm concerned about like a high probability of narcissism,

Speaker 2 I can't deny Brad Pitt would be the most desirable thing for me, Matt Rogers, out of those things. So that's the order I think it should go.

Speaker 2 Because I think the dick would be so good that the narcissism wouldn't matter that much. And I'm also not positive that Brad Pitt is a narcissist, but it's just that he's Brad Pitt.

Speaker 2 Right. I mean, that woman in France or whatever

Speaker 2 gave away so much money because she thought this guy was him. Sure.
And I mean, people have given away a lot more and less.

Speaker 2 My thing with Brad Pitt is it's like,

Speaker 2 we can go there. Yeah.
But that would be the natural progression for me. And I just think, I don't think it would be too tough to do.
We'd have to look at the verse,

Speaker 2 but, you know, we could do it. I

Speaker 2 imagine we rewrite that don't impress me much, a hugely successful song on this episode. We just rewrite it and restructure it, pitch it to her, she says no, which she has every right to do.

Speaker 2 No, she trust me, I hope

Speaker 2 whatever

Speaker 2 she never has to know about us. I hope the only word she ever says to me is no.

Speaker 2 I hope I go after her and I go, Shaniai, I love it. I hope I just hear no.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that would be fine, totally.

Speaker 2 I would say

Speaker 2 car,

Speaker 2 but again, I don't relate because

Speaker 2 you don't necessarily need them to have a car, though. I'm going to say something crazy.
Okay.

Speaker 2 My order, Brad Pitt, because

Speaker 2 you don't care. He's had, of course, I care.
Okay. She's an amazing actor, a talent, a nice guy.
Nice looking guy. Great looking guy.

Speaker 2 But troubled, I would say. It's too much for me, girl.
Troubled. Let's fuck once.
You know what I mean? And it do impress me much that it's him. But

Speaker 2 it would be more impressive if I met you. And after you look like Brad Pitt, you also have a car in New York City.

Speaker 2 I say, wow, this guy.

Speaker 2 This guy is one to watch. Okay, so there's Brad Pitt.
There's then Car.

Speaker 2 You're saying rocket scientist is your most desirable, the greatest Titan. You gotta be really smart.
Doesn't mean you have good stroke game. I don't know.
I think

Speaker 2 maybe I'm a sapiosexual. I don't think you are.
Hmm. Can I say something about you? I've never thought you were a sapiosexual for one second.
I know. I'm kidding, girl.
I am shallow. I really am.

Speaker 2 If you are fucking a rocket scientist and the stroke game is on 10, we want you to be on an episode of Lost Coach. We'll do the voice change thing on you.

Speaker 2 But if you're fucking a rocket scientist who is the best sex of your life or anything close to it, please contact us somehow, some way. You'll find a way, I'm sure.
And don't play games.

Speaker 2 Don't mess around. Don't mess around.
Don't fake that you're fucking a rocket scientist. And don't try to find someone that is.
I'm talking to people. And Bowen, I'm sure you agree with me here.

Speaker 2 We cut the bullshit. If you're fucking a rocket scientist and the stroke game is looking like what Dylan O'Brien does in in the Sundance movie he's in that he just won that award for.

Speaker 2 Did you see that gift?

Speaker 2 I did not.

Speaker 2 Stroke game has to be on Dylan O'Brien. Right.
Rocket scientist. Then contact Lost Coach.
We want you to come on. Not for a full episode.
We'll do 10 minutes.

Speaker 2 I will say, if it is the triple crown of rocket scientist Carr Brad Pitt,

Speaker 2 it's happening. If it's all, if you're all three.
Oh, period. If you're Brad Pitt, you're a rocket scientist and you have a car, you could fuck Lost Coach.

Speaker 2 So maybe the order doesn't matter at the end of the day. No, no, no, because in a world where the thing I'm thinking about is song structure, it matters deeply.
Of course, of course.

Speaker 2 Fine. But it doesn't impress on me much

Speaker 2 that I have

Speaker 2 a little sigh come out of my body every time.

Speaker 2 So you got a car happens at the end of that song. I'm never going into that final chorus as excited as I could be because I, I feel,

Speaker 2 I don't know,

Speaker 2 I'm waiting. Brad Pitt is, you're right, on a songwriting level, on a heightened level, absolutely, Brad Pitt is the last one.
I agree with you.

Speaker 2 I think we were just, I think, I thought we were just sharing our, our personal values and priorities.

Speaker 2 No, I mean, listen, and I think it's important that we did because I think it'll affect the songs that we write. And I think that now the audience knows what to expect from us a little bit better.

Speaker 2 And listen, if Shania's whole thing, and remember, she's from like a place in Canada that I think her town doesn't even have a name.

Speaker 2 If for her, having the car is the number one thing, look, I don't know what the Canadian reality is. I don't know what the country Canadian reality is.

Speaker 2 If having a car is huge, to her, maybe she's really excited. Maybe she's, I don't know, what is, what are we going to do? Autophiliac? Maybe Shania wants to, maybe she has a thing with cars.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Sure. Mariah Carey.

Speaker 2 And there's one more, and remind me to go back to one one more thing about the Grammys that we did, a huge thing that we missed, but let's let's before I don't want to break up this.

Speaker 2 I knew there was going to be something. I knew there was going to be something that we had missed, and I had a panic attack about it simply.

Speaker 2 Your jaw is going to drop, but let's talk about Mariah. Do you want to talk about Mariah? Do you want to go back to Grammys? Let's talk about Mariah.
Okay.

Speaker 2 Mariah Carey,

Speaker 2 you

Speaker 2 are

Speaker 2 such a legend.

Speaker 2 I mean, not that we need to tell you, we already have to your face, but seeing you live, seeing you sing these songs in chronological order of release, and for you to end at Mimi is both cruel and also a testament to your genius as a songwriter and an artist and a vocalist, because there's so many other hits after that that you could have put into the set list, but you chose not to because you wanted it to be what?

Speaker 2 A celebration of Mimi.

Speaker 2 I just feel like you can't really name anyone else who can only do 40 seconds of every single one of her songs because there's so many and there's only so much time in a night.

Speaker 2 And then there's still shit. You're leaving being like, oh, she didn't do this.
She didn't do this. She didn't do this.
She didn't do this. But the fact is, next residency, how about that?

Speaker 2 For her to mash up Honey and Heartbreaker, that was tough. For one song, that was tough.
But then you go, I get it. She wants to get out of there.

Speaker 2 But those are two standalone, perfect pop songs that, yes, maybe have similarity structurally or chord-wise.

Speaker 2 But come on, give them their own moment. Those are so perfect.
We're not telling you how to do your job, Mariah. Oh, please.
That was my song. love you so much.

Speaker 2 Literal only thing with the whole show is she mashes up Honey and Heartbreaker. And I was like, ooh, those are both my, those are literally my two favorites.

Speaker 2 But I'll say the songs that she did do full lengths of

Speaker 2 Always Be My Baby, Dream Lover, which, by the way, this was my one thing I'm kicking myself that I didn't say to Ariana on the episode when we had her.

Speaker 2 I think that when Mariah eventually has her Kennedy Center honors, Ariana should sing Dream Lover. I think she would crush that.

Speaker 2 Dream Lover is so good.

Speaker 2 So good.

Speaker 2 It's so good. I mean, and yeah, that was a real, it was a real trip down memory lane, and you could tell that everyone there,

Speaker 2 the Lamelie was just very strong. There wasn't

Speaker 2 that guy was there by himself, and I kept turning around and making eye contact with him because I knew that

Speaker 2 we were having the same moment. Like, but

Speaker 2 it's, it was joy. I mean, Mariah is, it's just those songs that take you back home, really.

Speaker 2 If you're a lamb, that's a show you have to go to because it's only going, I think, till, or at least this leg of it, February 15th or something.

Speaker 2 Please go see it. It's like a tiny little run this time.
Like, I don't know what she's doing with it. I probably should, but you got to go see Mariah do the show.
Come on. It's so good.

Speaker 2 She sounds great, too. She sounds great.
She's having fun. She's taking tiny ass steps to the piano or to across the stage.

Speaker 2 She cannot be focused or bothered to do anything else but give you a perfect vocal. Give her, let her walk, let her cook, let her do whatever.
Because guess what?

Speaker 2 Her voice in every sense is a comfort with what you just said, but also with her spoken word interstitials.

Speaker 2 I really was moved by the end when she was just saying that as an artist, the thing in life that she has learned, the biggest thing in life that she has learned as an artist is to never give up on your dreams.

Speaker 2 That nobody, no mother, father, she,

Speaker 2 and she just lists people who might try to take and drain that from you. Never give that up.

Speaker 2 And that is a perfect, simple, succinct message to give to anybody and to have it feel universal, have it land universally. That's what songwriting is at the end of the day.
And she, guess what?

Speaker 2 She's the best at it.

Speaker 2 So, yeah, there was, there was that moment at the end where she was like, and nothing, and nobody, no ex-husband, no husband, no boss, no boyfriend, no landlord, no dentist, no clown,

Speaker 2 no president.

Speaker 2 She went so far and listed so many names of people who could potentially hold a position of power over you. And she said that none of them can hold you back from your destiny.
I mean,

Speaker 2 from your dream, Mariah, because I had forgotten, I had forgotten. We've both forgotten.
And it's thank you, Mariah, for the reminder.

Speaker 2 We just thank you for all the ways you've enriched our life, our lives. And I want to bring it back to Graham, unless there's anything else you want to say about Mariah.

Speaker 2 Bowen learned the rules of Baccarat. I learned the rules of Baccarat.
Did not get a chance to play because the buy-in is so high.

Speaker 2 But Matt and I did have fun at the Blackjack table with our friends, Cliff and Gusin Riri.

Speaker 2 We had a wonderful unit. We had a family unit.
We had a family unit. It was a very nice.
We had to karaoke,

Speaker 2 had a blast. And then, of course,

Speaker 2 we were part of a larger group that was also there as well. Lovely people.
Celebrating

Speaker 2 celebrating Sharia law.

Speaker 2 We know it's Sharia. We just pronounced it Shariah.
Sharia was just, you know, it's a little fun thing you can do with words. It's called wordplay.
If you're a Mariah fan, you know all about it.

Speaker 2 But I digress. You said that in a very Mariah way.
I know.

Speaker 2 What can I say?

Speaker 2 You know, sometimes I get a little Mariah.

Speaker 2 It's a moment.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 2 This is what we forgot to talk about. Okay.

Speaker 2 What did we literally miss? Megan 2.0. Oh.

Speaker 2 Yeah, to Feminenominon. The Megan 2.0 trailer,

Speaker 2 that's cinema.

Speaker 2 and have you done any research at all into the plot details no is allison williams not around in this one

Speaker 2 get ready okay

Speaker 2 gemma

Speaker 2 which is the character name which is allison williams' character uh-huh

Speaker 2 gemma is now

Speaker 2 a writer okay

Speaker 2 who is criticizing the dysregulation of AI. And she's a prominent voice in the sort of like we should be careful about AI.
Because she knows better than anyone, she survived the events of Megan 1.0.

Speaker 2 She survived Megan 1.0. Barely.
If you saw Megan, you know that Allison Williams barely leaves with her life. Sorry, Gemma, the character that Allison Williams plays.

Speaker 2 Because when it's Allison Williams up there, you completely forget about Allison Williams. You just see Gemma.
Absolutely. So Gemma is now a prominent voice in this movement.
Yes.

Speaker 2 Somehow,

Speaker 2 the technology

Speaker 2 and the sort of recursive model that Megan represented,

Speaker 2 because Megan has been discontinued. Well, certainly.

Speaker 2 A defense or military contractor, I want to say, I might be watching these details, but

Speaker 2 these details are really actually crazy, and I'm gagged and I cannot wait for this movie. Okay.

Speaker 2 Someone with sinister

Speaker 2 motives

Speaker 2 has gotten their hands on the model, the Megan AI model, and is now putting it into

Speaker 2 a new AI named Amelia.

Speaker 2 Perez? No, no, no, no, no. Don't say that name.
I don't want to hear that name while I'm talking about Megan or ever, frankly.

Speaker 2 Amelia is the new girl

Speaker 2 who will be used in an army of Amelia's to basically be a weapon of war.

Speaker 2 Gemma, in an effort to stop this and stop Amelia, has to go back, reboot Megan, and join forces with her.

Speaker 2 You

Speaker 2 are kidding me. Gemma and Megan are going to team up against Amelia? Like,

Speaker 2 this is an amazing three dollars. I'm so excited for this movie.
No, you know what? I have to disagree with you. We have to get Amelia Perez in in there.

Speaker 2 What do you mean?

Speaker 2 We need these cinemas to cross over. We need this cinematic universe.
No, we don't. DPCU needs to combine with Megan.

Speaker 2 That bitch had her fingers chopped off.

Speaker 2 She is not going to be involved in the Megan cinematic universe. Okay, you're right.
Amelia Perez. I want, no, Amelia with an A.
Yeah. And it's going to be.
Amelia, A-M-E-L-I-A, like DeMoldenberg.

Speaker 2 Amelia DeMoldenberg.

Speaker 2 It's an army of Amelias, and the only people that can stop them are Megan and Gemma. If I was in a spelling bee and the word was Amelia, I would say, can you use that in a sentence?

Speaker 2 And one thing that they could do was: Chicken Shop Date is hosted by Amelia DeMoldenberg. Oh, that's good.
And what's a gag about that is De Moldenberg isn't even the word you'd have to spell.

Speaker 2 You would have to spell Amelia because that was the question to begin with so my question to you bowen is can you spell de moldenberg

Speaker 2 de moldenberg

Speaker 2 are you gonna pull it up

Speaker 2 yes yes go

Speaker 2 de moldenberg

Speaker 2 d i m

Speaker 2 o l d

Speaker 2 e n b e r g de moldenburg

Speaker 2 That is correct. Yes!

Speaker 2 Akeelah and the B, more like a Bowen and the B. Now, just so I have the details right, and just so I don't want to mislead anybody, I'm just going to read what I have found on the internet.

Speaker 2 Set two years after the original film, Gemma, parentheses Williams, becomes author and advocate for the regulation of artificial intelligence.

Speaker 2 When a defense contractor steals the technology behind Megan and creates their own evil AI-powered robot called Amelia, who is intent on taking over the world, Gemma reboots and updated Megan to destroy Amelia.

Speaker 2 Are you not

Speaker 2 so excited for this movie? That's That's going to be a must-see. When is it coming? It is coming out June 27th, the end of Pride month.
They know the market will be, well, our butts are in seats.

Speaker 2 The gays are going to be so exhausted for Pride, they're going to need to sit down and watch a movie. That's actually so, that's really smart.

Speaker 2 They're going to put that movie in theaters where it's traditionally

Speaker 2 seated because the gays are going to need to be seated.

Speaker 2 The gays are going to be seated for Megan in terms of internet slang, and they're also going to be seated out of necessity because they're so tired from pride

Speaker 2 this

Speaker 2 is so smart bro this is megan level genius in the way that megan the the doll is a genius but i never been against allison williams oh never when have we ever I literally never have.

Speaker 2 We have the Allison Williams Cool Girl Award for a Reason at the LCCUs. Okay.
Which is now henceforth known as the Allison Williams Cool Girl Award World, in the words of Andrew Katzanavis. Yes.

Speaker 2 Cool Girled A World. Cool Girl A World.
Have we reached out to Allison Williams about being on this podcast? I think we got to know. We got to know.
Well, we've certainly reached out.

Speaker 2 We have certainly reached out is all I can say. We love her.
We want you to

Speaker 2 get on the show, Allison.

Speaker 2 Come on, it's going to be fun. And we know you can hang.
And Allison, you think you should be on the show? Come on. Come in June.
Come on Lost Cults for Megan 2.0 Allison Williams Challenge.

Speaker 2 That wouldn't be fair. If she didn't do lost culture recess for Megan 2.0, that wouldn't be fair to the gay community.
Come on. Allison, I would hate for you to disappoint the entire gay community.

Speaker 2 I'm just going to leave that hanging there. She won't do that.
She already isn't. It hinges on this.
Just kidding, girl. Just kidding, girl.
Cool girl. World.
Cool girl.

Speaker 2 I hope the only word she ever says to me, like Shania Twain, is no.

Speaker 2 You would want. I think you guys would get along.
No, I think we'd be great. I think we'd be best friends.
I think that we, well, she's already married, so we can't be in each other's weddings.

Speaker 2 I'll think about it. She should see me in yours for sure.
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Speaker 2 All right. It's time for I don't think so, honey.
This is our one-minute segment where we.

Speaker 2 Oh,

Speaker 2 are you okay? I'm never getting married.

Speaker 2 I have a total Marty moment.

Speaker 2 We can stop the podcast. I'm never getting married.

Speaker 2 Marnie gave us permission to be

Speaker 2 ourselves, right? Do whatever we want, really.

Speaker 2 If you want to be a music artist, you can. You think I'm not Marnie Michaels? The name that Marnie Michaels invents when she's at the Plaza Hotel, when that couple thinks she's a sex worker.
Say it.

Speaker 2 Say it. Megita.
Megita Perez.

Speaker 2 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Megita Perez walked so Emilia Perez could run.
That's actually rule of culture number 56.

Speaker 2 it depez walked.

Speaker 2 Good run.

Speaker 2 Stupid. Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 This show will cancel us. Okay, I think I have an I don't think so, honey.
Okay, this is Matt Rogers's I don't think so, honey, and his time starts now. I don't think so, honey, Carla Sophia.

Speaker 2 I think you got to can it, hon. You got to can it, Missy.
You got to sit down at this point. Don't go on CNN and be pointing the fingers.
You got to sit down.

Speaker 2 When Zoe Seldanya is at QA's now, having to shoulder this question and calling herself saddened,

Speaker 2 let me tell you something to anyone out there listening. If you ever do anything that results in Zoe Seldanya at a QA saying she's saddened,

Speaker 2 I don't think so any of you saddened Zoe.

Speaker 2 And how dare you?

Speaker 2 You saddened Selena, I'm sure. And you know that she struggles.

Speaker 2 How could you do this?

Speaker 2 But Carla Sophia, I think what we could

Speaker 2 learn from this

Speaker 2 and

Speaker 2 imagine I had anything to learn from it. We can't all be trolls.
And I think if this proves anything, it's that everyone can be a troll and everyone should be off the computer.

Speaker 2 I don't think so, honey. Emilia Perez, this is the weirdest moment of culture ever.
I don't think so, honey. And that's one minute.
We've really never seen anything quite like this.

Speaker 2 And Carla Sophia Gascon,

Speaker 2 why did you

Speaker 2 no one on the movie or at netflix told her to do this interview by the way oh no this seemed very of her own volition if you don't know now you know carla sophia it's been unearthed has has said some tough very bigoted racist stuff in the past claims are arising from her camp that a lot of it is fake but i don't know because she's like half contrite and half blaming everyone else.

Speaker 2 All I'm saying is Emilia Perez

Speaker 2 has brought so much chaos.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 I'll say this. I hope it doesn't, if she was going to win that Oscar Zoe, I hope this didn't mess it up for her.
Right. Because that would be a huge bummer.

Speaker 2 Obviously, we have got a friend in the category, but you know, like, it looks like she was going to finally get this huge moment in her career. And it would be a shame.
It would be a shame.

Speaker 2 It's just a shame that one person can really fuck up a whole movie's campaign. Well, when you go that far, I know, but I know it's crazy the stuff that's out there.
I mean, it's like endless too.

Speaker 2 And I don't even, I God,

Speaker 2 I have nothing really that trenchant to say. I'm just like, it's just mean.
It's not even

Speaker 2 stuff. It's not like someone being like, hey, let me use my voice in this like, you know, chaotic way that's also going to make people think.

Speaker 2 It's just kind of lazy, mean, run-of-the-mill, racist stuff and

Speaker 2 doesn't feel good.

Speaker 2 But what you're saying in your honor thinks it's funny is interesting. It's like, anyone can be a troll and any troll can be an Oscar nominee, it seems.
Like, let's just like,

Speaker 2 if there's a pill that can turn off that part of your brain, that thing that makes you want to tweet something insane,

Speaker 2 let's invent it.

Speaker 2 Well, it's like this weird thing where this movie is like, all things.

Speaker 2 It's kind of an interesting microcosm when you think about like internet culture and like also combining with this awards culture because the trans community hates this movie.

Speaker 2 The Mexican community hates this movie. And it's the film, it's like the prestige film community and the industry community that loves this movie.
And it's kind of like those things are at odds.

Speaker 2 And yet, also, now this person is being canceled for saying these things.

Speaker 2 And so weirdly, the right is like rallying for her, but she's trans. And it's just this very odd convergence of hot-button things all around this movie that is, I will say again, bad, nuts.

Speaker 2 This movie is wackoed nuts. And yes, there is like something interesting there being said.
And like, I do think it's well performed. I think Zoe's great.
I think Selena's great.

Speaker 2 I thought Carlos Sophia's performance was pretty great too, but it's just, it's so bizarre, like as a film and as a like movie-going experience

Speaker 2 that

Speaker 2 it leaves you scratching your head and now all this extra stuff and now it's going to go into the Oscars and I'll tell you what the what's vibes are not going to be as high as the Grammys the Oscars vibes

Speaker 2 it's amounting to be like one of the most bizarre wacko years in Oscar history

Speaker 2 We think Mr. Michael Schulman will write another chapter in his book.
And also, wait, one more thing. Speaking of bad vibes at the Oscars, that extended part with Will Smith last night at the Grammys.

Speaker 2 I'm sorry. Who's watching that guy on television and not thinking about how he assaulted a man on TV? Who?

Speaker 2 Is anyone out there just like, are we just forgetting this? Also, Chris Brown won RB album. Like,

Speaker 2 all I can make is noises.

Speaker 2 Who's watching Will Smith go on about Quincy Jones? It's supposed to introduce the celebratory moment for Quincy Jones by telling a fully boring anecdote about Quincy Jones,

Speaker 2 about himself, but Quincy Jones at a snack table at Crafty, being like, this should be better food. That's not, that is not meaningful.

Speaker 2 That is not a meaningful Quincy Jones contribution to the culture. I'm sorry, Mr.
Smith.

Speaker 2 Quincy Jones telling you to get better craft services is not one of his most, it's not worth sharing to millions of people. Because he took care of people.

Speaker 2 And then Will Smith is like, and that's what I've striven to do my entire career, like making it about him. Dude, this is extra disrespectful.

Speaker 2 And I'm going to mind my business, but I'm just going to say, I don't know who out there is not thinking about

Speaker 2 him hitting Chris Rock on stage when he's on television at an award show.

Speaker 2 Like in the round, in that same style. That wasn't in the round, but you know what I mean? It was just, it was just reminiscent in a way that did make me comfortable.

Speaker 2 And I don't know who's hearing Chris Brown as a Grammy winner's name and not thinking about those pictures of Rihanna when he beat her up.

Speaker 2 But anyway, apparently there's, you know, maybe the vibes in that room were a little too good.

Speaker 2 Hmm. That's just, that's all I have.
I've, yeah, I've, I've, I've got something. Okay,

Speaker 2 everyone, Boen Yang's got something.

Speaker 2 And I'm excited about that because he's going to show off his, I don't think so, honey, skills right now. This is Boen Yang's I don't think so, honey.
His time starts now. I don't think so, honey.

Speaker 2 Las Vegas, I love you. You're such a beautiful city.
There is something in the

Speaker 2 air about

Speaker 2 the casinos not understanding or knowing how they feel about theming towards Asians, where you have beautiful Lunar New Year things out, but also you have slot machines.

Speaker 2 Half of your slot machines are something called the China Mystery

Speaker 2 with someone in like a little, a little straw hat or some such, like a rice patty hat. Like, let's meet in the middle.
at least. Those seem to be on opposite ends

Speaker 2 of the Orientalism spectrum. And I'm not saying we have to like clean up every weird slot machine.
Like, of course, that is part of the imagination of Asian people in this country.

Speaker 2 But let's pick one or the other. Either be like crazy in the depiction or celebrate the year of the wood snake.
Five seconds. I think those things coexisting is

Speaker 2 a little dissonant. And that's what I'm in it.
Yeah. And then there was that one.
slot machine with the Buddha on it.

Speaker 2 And correct me if I'm wrong, it was rubbing, he was rubbing his tits together and shaking his titties. Which is not what Buddha does.

Speaker 2 That didn't feel like part of Buddha's thing. You don't, Buddha's not going to shimmy.

Speaker 2 Buddha is going to sit there and be perfect. I don't mind the Buddha slot machines.
I don't mind the Asian slot machines. I'm not saying take, take every Asian slot machine.

Speaker 2 I love, like, we were talking about Rush Hour 2. And I, ever since that movie, I was like, I want there to be like a hugely bombastically Asian casino in Vegas, unfortunately.

Speaker 2 I think the one that comes closest is the win, honestly.

Speaker 2 But it's like one or the other. You know what I mean? Like, you can't have the China mystery.

Speaker 2 Exactly. That one slot machine where Buddha was flipping it and reversing it.
I didn't know about that one.

Speaker 2 So, but right. I, if you're noticing it, I think there's a huge problem, and I think we need to raise all of them to the ground.
I'm sorry. No, no.
Leave only the Vanderpumps standing.

Speaker 2 And Bouchon.

Speaker 2 Oh, we had the best time at bouchal shout out to bouchon we love bouchon and um we had a wonderful stay at the encore yeah we had a fabulous time my first time in vegas since i was a teenager i could finally drink i could finally gamble i had a great time and we did and we did we only bet with like small numbers but like right we were up i think i was up like 160 bucks you were up our friend cliff was up up up we commend you cliff you really made a killing well he knows what he's doing he really does at the blackjack table i kind of just look at him the corner of my eye and he just like shakes his head

Speaker 2 or he taps the table and I do what he says and I'm up 160.

Speaker 2 Well, Cliff made me realize that some of these dealers, you forget you're playing against them in blackjacks and some of these dealers don't have your best interests in mind.

Speaker 2 So anytime I ask what the dealer recommends, I have to go, wait a minute. I'm going to ask Cliff because Cliff knows.
We love you, Cliff. Yeah.
King Daddy, his shirt said the whole time. Yes.

Speaker 2 And he was right. He was right about that.

Speaker 2 Here's what I'll say. We're going to end the episode.
This was a culture catch up for the ages. So much to catch up on.
Really does hearken back to episode one. I got to say.
I'm saying this was the

Speaker 2 Grammys. It was the Grammys again.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 I want to apologize if our voices sound a little nasal and coughish. We were in Vegas.
You're saying mine is? No, no, no. You know what? I'm so sorry.
I shouldn't have done that. I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 No, I shouldn't have done that. I didn't mean for you to.
No, I was being a bitch. No, no, I was.
I was. I was.
I don't want to ascribe this to Bowen as it's not the case.

Speaker 2 I will say my voice sounds a little bit nasal and coughish because I've been in Vegas for three days and I'm as sick as I'm sure everyone is listening to this because everyone in America is currently sick.

Speaker 2 I also want to implore you not to touch birds.

Speaker 2 I implore you not to touch birds and I implore you to clean your nails because somehow I got a staph infection last week. You got poopy nails.
I got ravaged.

Speaker 2 I got, I guess they're poopy nails or child's poopy nails. Well, Bowen wipes his ass with just his hand.
Well, with my, with my, oh, God,

Speaker 2 how did we get here?

Speaker 2 I didn't know that about my sister. He wipes his butt with just his hands.
No paper. He goes, Abra Godabra.

Speaker 2 Poopy hands.

Speaker 2 Anyway, I guess that's how this episode is going to end with the poopy hands joke.

Speaker 2 And we end every episode with a song.

Speaker 2 Abra Godra, Abra Badani,

Speaker 2 I'm not yet off booked.

Speaker 2 It's really it.

Speaker 2 Cast your spell on the night.

Speaker 2 We're gonna go stream it right now. We're leaving.
Bye.

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