"Vibey Good Actor" (w/ Ramy Youssef)

Ramy Youssef joins Las Culturistas to try Celsius for the first time, and also re-connect with his old pals Matt + Bowen, the HOSTS of the Las Culturistas podcast. The full-blown vibe discusses inspiring his dad to take an acting class and walks us through his feelings about going to get a coffee with Dianne Weist (which happened right after this episode was recorded). Also, felony torrenting on Napster and the likelihood that Ramy will still be going to prison for illegally downloading Eminem in 1999. All this, the sad way that Hunchback ends, the potential value of a used Bowen Yang hoodie, Chinamaxxing, dogs in restaurants, spinach at the store, and shit-talk on the streets. Listen to this episode to find out how well Ramy knows Zohran AND the exciting reveal of “how all gay people are”! Ramy’s new special, In Love, is streaming on HBO now! See omnystudio.com/listener https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  Where?

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  Oh, I see. Wow. Bowen, look over there.

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  Wow, is that culture?

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  Yes.

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  I went home drunk and ordered McDonald's for the first time in, I think, almost two years. It was 2:30 in the morning. I, by the time I ordered it, because you know what happened is I went home, I smoked weed, I watched The Real Housewives of Rhode Island reunion.

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  And it was raining.

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  Party.

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  Right.

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  So then I ordered McDonald's. I said, we're gonna go for it. We'll see what happens. My body is letting me know today, this is not in the cards for us.

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  No.

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  It is not, my body's calling me in to let me know, never again, it has been a day. I'm wearing sunglasses today, hungover from the McDonald's, not the alcohol.

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  Wake that up.

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  Wake that up.

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  What did you order?

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  Number two, well, it's not a number two anymore. It's, it used to be.

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  Two cheeseburgers.

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  Yes, but I, because I'm bigger now and older now, I do two double cheeseburgers, a large fry, and a 10-piece McNugget with spicy buffalo sauce.

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  Wow.

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  I already have the Coke Zeros at home, so I don't need to order it. Anyways.

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  Anyways, this is, this is what our life is like in our mid-30s. Speaking of someone in their mid-30s.

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  And speaking of someone who we might watch consume something live on the episode because they have not yet tried it.

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  We have a grape Celsius in the green room.

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  Can we bring in a grape Celsius from the green room, please? Our guest has never tried Celsius. So we're gonna see how his body reacts to introducing this.

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  I'm excited. This is one of the great talents, great minds, great friends, great New Yorkers, great New Jerseians.

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  His special in Love has been out. It's, you can watch it.

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  Phenomenal.

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  Sort of that vibe of like, oh, we see Rami all the time, and then you turn around, became a generational comedian, became a generational talent. And we're flying in the Celsius.

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  I saw you two duke it out at Backyard Brawl in 2010.

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  Wow, we gotta get into Backyard Brawl.

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  And we'll get into that.

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  So.

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  He's shaking like a leaf.

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  He's shaking like a leaf.

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  I don't know if I, if I'm on.

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  Ready? Three, two, one, please welcome Ramy Youssef, now.

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  Now you can speak.

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  You're here.

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  I realized really quickly that I've seen so many clips of this show, but I didn't realize that there's a part where I'm just watching you guys talk about your night. And then, do you guys always, yeah, okay.

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  It's always that.

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  Yeah.

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  It's always like.

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  I had no idea, so I was like, I don't know if I, and then I was trying to pour a water, and it was kind of a mess. I don't know if you saw, but I was putting.

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  I saw it out of my.

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  There's like a lot of stuff like hidden under the table, because the water had a straw that still had the paper on it, and I didn't realize. Yeah.

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  Yeah.

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  How are you doing?

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  Uh, I'm excited. I, I mentioned that I hadn't drank a Celsius, and, and it feels like.

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  Well.

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  This is kind of like a, like a Hot Ones kind of thing right now.

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  Yes.

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  It's a lot like that.

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  To start, you think?

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  You should, well, if you want to sort of have the vibe and the energy, catch the vibe.

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  I think you should do it now.

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  And make sure that for the ASMR girlies, that you open it on the mic, yeah. Go ahead.

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  Thank you.

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  Give it clean.

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  There you go.

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  Oh, yeah.

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  Fabulous.

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  Okay, that's good stuff right there.

• 5:06Speaker 04

  This is, this is really bad, yeah?

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  Yeah.

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  Yeah.

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  It's so crazy, because it's like, no high fructose corn syrup, no aspartame, no artificial colors, and I'm like, maybe those are all the things I like.

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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. You think it's gonna add up to something like really exciting.

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  Really awful. Wow. And seven essential vitamins.

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  But look what happened. You kept going.

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  You kept going.

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  You will drink the whole thing, trust us.

• 5:29Speaker 04

  No, you think so?

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  We don't have a gun to your head or anything. You don't have to.

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  We don't believe in guns.

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  We don't believe in guns.

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  So we wouldn't have one here today.

• 5:36Speaker 04

  You don't believe in guns?

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  They're not real.

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  I guess I believe in them. I don't, I wouldn't have one in the studio, no matter what.

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  Matt is about to, he can, and people can know this.

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  Yeah.

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  He is, he is in Mr. And Mrs. Smith.

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  Whoa.

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  And we went to a range, we went to a shooting range.

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  Let's freaking go, man. That's so exciting.

• 5:55Speaker 01

  We can't say much more than that.

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  Okay.

• 5:57Speaker 04

  But that's really exciting. Congrats.

• 5:58Speaker 01

  Yeah, I am excited, because I, we went to a bachelor party and actually handled guns.

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  Wow.

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  Have you held a gun? Have you shot a gun?

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  I have.

• 6:05Speaker 02

  Yeah?

• 6:06Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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  You love it. Look, you lit up.

• 6:07Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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  You lit up.

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  Describe the feeling.

• 6:12Speaker 04

  It's just like fun. It's like a movie, I guess.

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  Oh, yeah.

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  But I've only done it in a range and, and, uh, one time in the woods with cans and stuff like that.

• 6:20Speaker 01

  Oh, that's really cool.

• 6:21Speaker 04

  Yeah.

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  There was one, they have various, you know, targets at the gun range, lot of them from early aughts. Lot of them having, um, a guy holding a girl with chunky highlights at gunpoint. You're supposed to shoot the guy and not her.

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  Lot of what, lot of people who are supposed to be like, I don't know, like Al Qaeda, essentially. Where you're like, let's just, let's just like cycle.

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  It didn't feel great.

• 6:52Speaker 04

  Yeah, I get on that side of the target. Like, I'm kind of like next to the boys, and I'm like, all right, guys, like, you've been shot at for too long.

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  Let's see how good you really are up there.

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  That's really amazing.

• 7:05Speaker 04

  That's brave, I think.

• 7:06Speaker 01

  Speaking of bravery, what's your memory of Backyard Brawl?

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  Oh, so yeah, Backyard Brawl, 2010.

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  This was back in the day.

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  And we did a sketch competition, and, uh, it was me and Jonathan Braylock.

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  You and Braylock.

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  Against like all of NYU.

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  Against all of NYU sketch comedy.

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  It was truly this like underdog, it was kind of like the Knicks championship.

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  It was sort of like that.

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  I had a little bit of those vibes.

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  Yeah.

• 7:30Speaker 04

  I had a Jalen Brunson thing happening. Short, yet still comedic, powerful.

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  I would say it was like the, when the Knicks won, in that everyone involved was in New York and wasted. It was sort of like.

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  I honestly, by the way, think that Jonathan and I only won because we were sober.

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  There was this feeling where I was like, I don't know if we're funnier, but we're certainly more lucid.

• 7:52Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 7:53Speaker 04

  And that is definitely, uh, helping our comedic timing.

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  I think it was just, it was really just impressive that like two people could deliver wonderful sketch comedy in a way that 95 NYU students.

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  But can I say, can I just stick up for us for a second? We had quite a run. So for those of you who don't know. Backyard Brawl was, it was, it was like Saturday night, once a month at midnight.

• 8:17Speaker 04

  Yes.

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  Like, it would be two.

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  It was on a Saturday. It was like on a Thursday night.

• 8:21Speaker 04

  It was an off night, for sure.

• 8:22Speaker 02

  It was an off night?

• 8:22Speaker 01

  Yeah. Let's call it Monday, then. Let's just have a lot of fun with it.

• 8:25Speaker 04

  Off night vibes.

• 8:26Speaker 01

  Let's just say it was Monday.

• 8:27Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 8:27Speaker 01

  So it's, it's Monday. It's midnight on Monday.

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  Packed, though.

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  Packed.

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  To the gills.

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  And it's two sketch comedy groups going head to head, and you'd go sketch for sketch for three rounds.

• 8:38Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 8:38Speaker 01

  And then the audience voted, right? It was like cage match.

• 8:42Speaker 04

  And you guys, I think we had walked in, you guys were on a crazy streak.

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  We were on a crazy streak. We were on like a nine-month winning streak, and then there you came in and took us out, and then you guys had a good run.

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  I think we had a streak.

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  It's a real good streak.

• 8:54Speaker 02

  Do you remember the streak? How long was that?

• 8:55Speaker 04

  Uh, I don't remember how long, no, but I, I remember it ended gracefully. You know, I remember feeling like it was time.

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  You were like, you shook their hands. It wasn't.

• 9:05Speaker 04

  Oh, I know, no, yeah. At a certain point, you're like, I want my Monday midnights back. Yeah.

• 9:09Speaker 01

  Yeah. I did just say it wasn't amimonious, and I just want to say on the mic, I know the word is acrimonious. I just, it wasn't amimonious or acrimonious.

• 9:17Speaker 04

  I thought your preface earlier was so that you could just do all these kinds of things. You're still drunk from Backyard Brawl. I mean, it's been like, it's been a very long time.

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  The way we drank back then? Yeah, I might be. Good for you for abstaining. And keeping the eyes on the prize, your amazing career.

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  And you've been sober ever since.

• 9:34Speaker 04

  I've never, I never drank.

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  You never did it.

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  And so.

• 9:37Speaker 04

  I've done shrooms a few times. That's like the, that and.

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  I bet you have amazing ideas on shrooms.

• 9:45Speaker 04

  Shrooms, you know, I kind of, like, I, every time I do it, I'm like, I'm gonna be doing this all the time. And then, like, a year goes by.

• 9:53Speaker 01

  Right.

• 9:53Speaker 04

  And I don't, and I just don't, like, I forget to do it. It's kind of like the gun thing. I shoot a gun, I go, I gotta buy a gun, I gotta have one. It's my American right.

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  Yeah.

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  And I never get around to getting a gun, and I don't think I will.

• 10:04Speaker 01

  You need to do both. Next time you do mushrooms, that's when you should have the gun around.

• 10:07Speaker 04

  These are bad ideas.

• 10:08Speaker 01

  Yes.

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  I took a shroom gummy on a Monday the other week, just because I could, and I, all I did was just lay in bed and stare at the ceiling.

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  That's okay.

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  Yeah. So I'm not, I don't, I, I have great thoughts, but I never think to like capture them like in writing or anything like that.

• 10:27Speaker 04

  I haven't done shrooms since, uh, like Claude. Like, I wonder what it would, yeah, I wonder what it would be like to just do shrooms, have all these ideas, and then just kind of tell ChatGPT to do them.

• 10:41Speaker 01

  Oh, okay.

• 10:42Speaker 04

  You know, and just be like, yo, I'm thinking about all this, because before, what are you gonna put in a notebook? But what if you're like, and then you kind of like go to sleep, and then I wake up, and I just have a company.

• 10:52Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 10:52Speaker 04

  Or an app.

• 10:53Speaker 01

  Can Claude, can, can, can they? Do this?

• 10:56Speaker 04

  They

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  We're gonna have to find out.

• 10:57Speaker 04

  I keep reading things where people like are making so much money making Claude.

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  Yeah.

• 11:01Speaker 04

  Claude, Chat G P T, whatever. Every time I use it, it can't even tell me where the restaurant.

• 11:05Speaker 01

  No, no, no.

• 11:06Speaker 04

  Like, it's, it's literally like, here's the restaurant, and it's not. You go there and it's not even a real place.

• 11:11Speaker 01

  No.

• 11:12Speaker 04

  But people are making a lot of money.

• 11:13Speaker 01

  I'm one of those people that's very feel fearful of it, so I don't have Claude, but what I will do is I'll do the Google A I sometimes. And I'll just ask Google A I a question I know empirically the answer to.

• 11:24Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 11:25Speaker 01

  And I, it, when it's wrong, I just say back, that's not true.

• 11:30Speaker 04

  But then you're telling it.

• 11:31Speaker 01

  You know what? You're right. And I made a mistake. It's this, but I guess that's not good, right? Because then you've told it the right answer, so the next time.

• 11:39Speaker 04

  Exactly.

• 11:40Speaker 01

  I don't know.

• 11:41Speaker 04

  No, I mean, there's no, there's no way around it, or there's no solution.

• 11:45Speaker 01

  No solution. Yeah, don't say there's no way around it, because then you'll be one of the celebrities that gets canceled for be like, it's here and it's coming and it's inevitable.

• 11:53Speaker 04

  Yeah, I don't really use it that I kind of tried a couple of times just to know what everyone was talking about, and then I,

• 11:58Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 11:59Speaker 04

  betrayed. And then, uh, but now I'm like, oh, maybe the case use for me would be shrooms.

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  Yeah. I think so.

• 12:06Speaker 04

  I'm just, I don't know.

• 12:07Speaker 01

  Full L S D.

• 12:08Speaker 04

  I never even had this thought before. This is like all post Celsius clarity.

• 12:12Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 12:12Speaker 04

  But I'm kind of going, whoa.

• 12:13Speaker 01

  Feel so far?

• 12:15Speaker 04

  I'm here, I'm present.

• 12:16Speaker 01

  Here's that.

• 12:17Speaker 04

  Yeah, I definitely am locked in in a way I didn't know I would be. Are you, you're feeling your feet? Are you, you're grounded? You're?

• 12:24Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 12:25Speaker 04

  Whoa. Oh, my God.

• 12:27Speaker 01

  Whoa.

• 12:28Speaker 04

  I feel that.

• 12:28Speaker 01

  I know, I know.

• 12:30Speaker 04

  No, I felt it too, like the way I said, yeah, was like.

• 12:32Speaker 01

  Wow. You know, I have to say, back in the day, I would describe you as a, I would describe you now as a full vibe. But back in the day, you weren't such a vibe.

• 12:43Speaker 04

  I wasn't.

• 12:44Speaker 01

  No. You, because you were like a comedy friend, and then all of a sudden you became like a vibe, like, I saw you at J F L a few years later, I'm like, Rami's a vibe now.

• 12:51Speaker 04

  A vibe.

• 12:52Speaker 01

  Like, you did, you, you started dripping swagu.

• 12:54Speaker 04

  They taught you this at Esper. To be, to become a vibe.

• 12:57Speaker 01

  Esper Studio?

• 12:58Speaker 04

  The William Esper Studio changed my life.

• 13:00Speaker 01

  People, people, people, the children have forgotten William Esper Studio.

• 13:04Speaker 04

  It's incredible.

• 13:05Speaker 01

  Yes, tell us.

• 13:07Speaker 04

  Come out kind of fearless, I think, because you get so humiliated in class.

• 13:11Speaker 01

  So it's an active studio where they break you down?

• 13:13Speaker 04

  They break you down, yeah, it's Meisner, you know, and Esper, who, who has now passed, he studied with Sanford Meisner for 20 years.

• 13:19Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 13:20Speaker 04

  So he had the source, and then he kind of made the school, which was perfect for me, so. I had so many friends in N Y U, people thought I went to N Y U, I never went to N Y U.

• 13:28Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah.

• 13:29Speaker 04

  But I was, I was doing like, I basically dropped out of Rutgers, but I went to Esper. And the whole design of the school was, hey, you know, you can come and you can have a full-time job, you don't have to pay all this tuition. And so, whatever, whatever.

• 13:42Speaker 01

  Wow.

• 13:42Speaker 04

  And so that's, you know, I was like, all right, I'll do that, and then, uh, it, I didn't expect it to help me with comedy so much.

• 13:48Speaker 01

  Hmm.

• 13:48Speaker 04

  And life, actually, like, I think everyone, my dad went.

• 13:52Speaker 01

  Oh, did he?

• 13:52Speaker 04

  Yeah, my dad did the six-week summer program.

• 13:55Speaker 01

  Like, after you?

• 13:56Speaker 04

  Like, two years ago.

• 13:57Speaker 01

  Oh, wow. Oh, I love that.

• 13:59Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah.

• 14:00Speaker 01

  So how is he?

• 14:01Speaker 04

  Dude, he's a vibe.

• 14:02Speaker 01

  He's ripping.

• 14:03Speaker 04

  That's the O G vibe, I mean, he was a vibe before, you know? So my dad, it was a classic dad.

• 14:08Speaker 01

  So now he's like a vibey good actor.

• 14:10Speaker 04

  No, he's great, dude.

• 14:11Speaker 01

  Oh, my God, vibey good actor, title of the day.

• 14:14Speaker 04

  Yeah, and he's, he's, he's, it, it was really funny, though, because it was the classic dad thing, where he was like, yeah, it was good, you know, I helped them a lot, like, a lot of people had questions for me.

• 14:23Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 14:25Speaker 04

  Because they were curious about his life, like, like, what, like, what's the craziest thing you've, like, seen in New York or whatever, I don't know? Because he's, he's seen crazy shit. My dad, yeah, yeah, yeah. At the Plaza? Oh, yeah, dude, he was, he was there, yeah, he was, for years, just, oh, the thing too that I've been thinking about, because he was, he went from like a bellboy to managing the Plaza.

• 14:44Speaker 01

  Wow.

• 14:45Speaker 04

  A span of, you know, I don't know, a decade or something.

• 14:47Speaker 01

  When did he start working there?

• 14:49Speaker 04

  Uh, early eighties, I think, maybe.

• 14:50Speaker 01

  Early eighties, mm, he's seen it all.

• 14:52Speaker 04

  Mid-eighties, yeah, seen it all, yeah, yeah, and, and so, actually, I texted him because I was like, hey, um, have you seen this movie with Whoopi Goldberg at the Plaza Hotel? Did you ever see that movie? It's like Whoopi Goldberg and Diane Weest.

• 15:04Speaker 01

  Uh, wait, what's it called?

• 15:06Speaker 04

  Uh, it's called the, um, oh, my God, I'm, I'm, I'm blanking.

• 15:10Speaker 01

  If we can't find it, we'll just refer to it.

• 15:12Speaker 04

  The associate.

• 15:13Speaker 01

  I was gonna say we refer to it as Dunston checks in, and later, we could just be like, okay, so every time you hear Dunston checks in, we meant the associate. But now we know the associate.

• 15:22Speaker 04

  No, my dad know everything, I'll be like, have you, I was like, do you remember that? And he'll go, yes, nineteen ninety-four, August, three weeks after Home Alone. Like, he'll just like know everything, he's super locked in. But it's kind of a rare, it's a thing that doesn't exist anymore, like, there's no central hotel that everyone from athletes and aristocrats and celebrities and government would go to the same place.

• 15:43Speaker 01

  Exactly.

• 15:43Speaker 04

  And so imagine you're kind of an immigrant, fresh off the boat, and you just show up at the most poppin' place in the city.

• 15:50Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 15:50Speaker 04

  And you work there, and you know everybody, and you like, get in people's cars, and you get them what they need, and so he, yeah, he was very, anything I know about show business from my dad.

• 15:59Speaker 01

  Wow.

• 15:59Speaker 04

  Because he knows how to treat people, you know, that was the whole thing, it was hospitality, he was like, this is how you talk to people, this is how you make people feel good.

• 16:05Speaker 01

  Hospitality is an incredibly, like, it's, it's a really useful thing, just for navigating any industry, to have been in that business.

• 16:15Speaker 04

  You have passive contacts, is what they're called.

• 16:18Speaker 01

  Passive?

• 16:19Speaker 04

  Passive contacts, or just like faces you see, like, without, like, effort, you know what I mean?

• 16:24Speaker 01

  Mm-hmm.

• 16:25Speaker 04

  It's like, yeah, anyway, I'm just, that's, I'm probably misusing like a sociological term.

• 16:30Speaker 01

  It sounded right to me, passive contacts.

• 16:33Speaker 04

  Yeah, you said it twice, it, I don't know, but it, it feels good.

• 16:36Speaker 01

  Thank you.

• 16:36Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 16:37Speaker 01

  It's, it's almost as if you said it once to explore whether or not, like, it felt good.

• 16:42Speaker 04

  Define it for myself.

• 16:43Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 16:44Speaker 04

  And here we are. But then, why, why didn't you want to go to Esper?

• 16:49Speaker 04

  Because he was curious, he was like, I'm proud of my son, I want to see what he does. I think he was just excited to, my dad's just in kind of like, fuck it, retirement mode.

• 16:56Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 16:56Speaker 04

  He's like, I'll do, I'll do that.

• 16:58Speaker 01

  It's really good.

• 16:59Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's really cool.

• 17:00Speaker 01

  And so at the end of the six-week program, is there like a scene?

• 17:04Speaker 04

  You know, I, I think there is, I didn't get to go.

• 17:07Speaker 01

  You didn't get to go.

• 17:08Speaker 04

  No, but he did tell me that on the last day, he revealed to the class that he was my father.

• 17:14Speaker 01

  Uh-huh. And then, what was, what was their, what did they say?

• 17:19Speaker 04

  Well, now I gotta get lunch with like nine people.

• 17:21Speaker 01

  Yeah. Wait, so your parents, like?

• 17:25Speaker 04

  For lack of a better term, I hate this term, but they like, they like, they like pimp you out for lunches, because my parents are doing this, especially now that I don't really, like, have like a steady job. Yeah, they're like, you're not there anymore, you can. Exactly. Like, and this is, they, they probably kept the backlog from like, eight years. They have. Yeah, yeah, they're like, okay, great, now that, you know, now that you're free, you know.

• 17:46Speaker 01

  There's Maria's cousin who wants to start out in New York City. She doesn't know what she wants to do yet, but her name is Kirsten, and she's very nice, and I told her that you'd have a long meal with her.

• 17:57Speaker 04

  Yeah. And it's never like that specific, it's like, she wants to know what improv is.

• 18:01Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 18:02Speaker 04

  Just what it is.

• 18:03Speaker 01

  She might want to do improv, she might want to try cheerleading again.

• 18:06Speaker 04

  It's like, what?

• 18:07Speaker 01

  I just, how?

• 18:08Speaker 04

  I love that there's.

• 18:09Speaker 01

  Where?

• 18:09Speaker 04

  I love that in this world, there's a, there's a Chinese girl named Kirsten.

• 18:14Speaker 01

  Well, I was, I was saying from my experience.

• 18:16Speaker 04

  Oh, I'm sorry.

• 18:17Speaker 01

  I was speaking from my lived experience.

• 18:20Speaker 04

  No, I, I was. Your parents only know Chinese people, is what you've just affirmed?

• 18:24Speaker 01

  Yeah, well, you don't even know any Mallorys and Kirstens.

• 18:27Speaker 04

  They could have set you up on a lunch with a white girl, there's just no chance.

• 18:31Speaker 01

  There's no chance.

• 18:31Speaker 04

  There's no way with it, no.

• 18:32Speaker 01

  Her name was Kirsten Wu.

• 18:34Speaker 04

  No, my, I love Kirsten Wu.

• 18:36Speaker 01

  Kirsten Wu is so fun.

• 18:38Speaker 04

  I just, I'm here to say, what I, what I really love about my parents is that they don't know why.

• 18:43Speaker 01

  Kirsten Wu at the Jimmy's was fucking tank, dude.

• 18:46Speaker 04

  She was tanked.

• 18:48Speaker 01

  What song would Kirsten Wu have performed at the Jimmy's in Say It The Way You Say?

• 18:52Speaker 04

  What do you mean, say it the way you say?

• 18:53Speaker 01

  From performing something from Lissa Strata Jones.

• 18:55Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 18:56Speaker 01

  All the gay men gasp as if they know Lissa Strata Jones like the back of their hand. Oh. That was my favorite, my favorite bit of the whole night, this bone was like, performing song here from show here, every, every gay man in the audience, performatively is like, oh. Well, this is gonna be good, I'm like, you don't know this song from Lissa Strata Jones, fag.

• 19:17Speaker 04

  Well, but at one point I did say, performing Amaya Washington, phenomenal, I said, performing your daddy's son from Ragtime, and the whole audience went, oh.

• 19:27Speaker 01

  Would you know any of these songs?

• 19:29Speaker 04

  I have no idea what the fuck you guys are talking about.

• 19:31Speaker 01

  They didn't say, they didn't do any musical theater at Esper?

• 19:34Speaker 04

  I'm on another planet right now.

• 19:36Speaker 01

  Because of the three cents?

• 19:37Speaker 04

  It's pretty, it's like the mix of the Celsius and references that I don't understand.

• 19:42Speaker 01

  That's amazing, well, I think you have so, you're like one of, we can count on two hands, I think, at this point, the straight men who've been on the show, you have much to teach us.

• 19:50Speaker 04

  Oh, wow, is it, okay, it is kind of.

• 19:52Speaker 01

  It's really exclusive.

• 19:54Speaker 04

  Scope, wow.

• 19:54Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 19:55Speaker 04

  Thank you. What do you want to tell us about your life?

• 19:58Speaker 01

  Don't come out of the closet, don't come out of the closet now, don't.

• 20:02Speaker 04

  No, I, I mean, I don't know, I, I feel like.

• 20:05Speaker 01

  No.

• 20:06Speaker 04

  Outside of what you guys just said, I feel like we're on the same page. You're the one, you're the one getting a coffee with Diane Weest after this. I did, I, I. Are we allowed to talk about this? I mean, of course.

• 20:17Speaker 01

  I mean, excuse me, we, we didn't break news on deadline, we just said, there's gonna be a coffee between Rami and Diane Weest, and we said, that could lead to amazing things.

• 20:27Speaker 04

  Amazing.

• 20:27Speaker 01

  Because think about it, the generational comedian and legendary actress Pipeline is one that is so beautiful.

• 20:36Speaker 04

  That's so amazing. I, I just, I'm a bit, I love her so much, and we were, you know, talking about Bullets Over Broadway.

• 20:42Speaker 01

  But which woman hasn't seen?

• 20:43Speaker 04

  Which I don't see. Yeah, that's.

• 20:44Speaker 01

  She is turning quite the performance.

• 20:46Speaker 04

  Of course she is.

• 20:47Speaker 01

  And that is, to me, the definitive Diane Weest performance, for me, Bullets Over Broadway.

• 20:52Speaker 04

  Yeah. Well, it's like she's doing so much, like, even like in Hannah and Her Sisters, it's like she's super incredible, and, but in Bullets Over Broadway, you're like, whoa, this, this woman is a powerhouse, you know?

• 21:03Speaker 01

  Comedy queen.

• 21:04Speaker 04

  Comedy queen. Academy Award winner. And I was saying that we owe a lot of this podcast to Diane Weest, because Ding Dong Lost Culture, It's Just Calling is a reference to Ding Dong Avon Calling from Edward Scissorhands. So cool. And she, that's, that's, that's so, what, are you nervous? Coffee with her, yeah. You're, are you nervous? Uh, no. Oh.

• 21:22Speaker 01

  You don't get nervous.

• 21:23Speaker 04

  I'm not nervous.

• 21:24Speaker 01

  You don't get nervous.

• 21:24Speaker 04

  I, there are things that make me nervous.

• 21:26Speaker 01

  Like what?

• 21:27Speaker 04

  Like, um. Special taping? No. Uh, like when my accountant calls, I get very nervous.

• 21:33Speaker 01

  Well, it's so scary.

• 21:34Speaker 04

  Because I just go, oh, it's, it's over. Yeah, yeah, yeah, like I, like I, I just, because sometimes I'll buy, like, there's like, like, three days in a row, sweater, green juice, sushi.

• 21:46Speaker 01

  And your accountant calls like, hey, that's a lot of sushi, King.

• 21:50Speaker 04

  I go, it's fucking over, it's like this Our Legacy sweater has destroyed me, and like, everything, like, my family, like, everything, like, that's the thing that scares me.

• 21:59Speaker 01

  Sugarfish again?

• 22:00Speaker 04

  No, like, no, he goes, please go to Sugarfish, because I'm doing all this other stuff.

• 22:06Speaker 01

  You're doing just like an over sushi.

• 22:07Speaker 04

  That's kind of the problem with not drinking, is like, you, you think you can spend, you go, I'm not spending money on alcohol, so I can go to this omakase and whatever, but it's not, you're not supposed to just like casually drop money on a Tuesday.

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• 24:10Speaker 01

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• 24:27Speaker 01

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• 24:32Speaker 02

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• 24:41Speaker 01

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• 24:59Speaker 01

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  Hey, Bo, in point of order, it feels like nothing is what it says it is anymore.

• 25:33Speaker 02

  Point of answer, it's because everything has a catch.

• 25:36Speaker 01

  Hey, or it turns out to be something else entirely.

• 25:38Speaker 02

  Like a total catfish situation.

• 25:40Speaker 01

  Exactly, Bo.

• 25:41Speaker 02

  Except for hotels.com.

• 25:42Speaker 01

  Yeah, that one's pretty literal.

• 25:44Speaker 02

  Because it's hotels.com, it's in the domain. You go there, you book hotels, hundreds of thousands of them.

• 25:50Speaker 01

  And hold up, that's it?

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• 25:55Speaker 01

  Every stay?

• 25:56Speaker 02

  Every stay. No tracking or managing, just rewards that can be used like cash on future bookings.

• 26:01Speaker 01

  Which, by the way, already feels nicer than most rewards programs, okay?

• 26:05Speaker 02

  Yeah, members can also get up to 20% off bookings, so savings start right away.

• 26:09Speaker 01

  Does that mean no weird restrictions?

• 26:11Speaker 02

  And no blackout dates. Book what works when it works. It's actually really fitting of real travel.

• 26:17Speaker 01

  So the name is honest, you're saying? And the rewards are too?

• 26:20Speaker 02

  Exactly. Hotels.com, it's all in the name.

• 26:24Speaker 01

  Okay, we've been talking about Cupi mayo for a minute now, Bo. And wow, the feedback we're getting. I mean, so many of y'all love this stuff.

• 26:32Speaker 02

  You're stopping us in the street going, "I love Cupi." And if you're thinking, "Wait, what is Cupi?" Uh, do you not have the internet? It's the OG Japanese mayonnaise, the one with the red cap and the little baby on the bottle.

• 26:45Speaker 01

  Once you know it, you start seeing it everywhere. People ask what makes it different from basic mayo. Well, the answer? Egg yolks.

• 26:52Speaker 02

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• 27:03Speaker 01

  Chefs use it, restaurants use it, people who really love food and flavor use it.

• 27:08Speaker 02

  Whatever you're eating, Cupi it. So if you haven't tried Cupi yet, find the bottle with the red cap and see what everyone's talking about. You'll understand. Cupi, the original Japanese mayonnaise.

• 27:20Speaker 01

  What would be like the biggest vacation spree? Like if you, if there was no accountants?

• 27:28Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 27:28Speaker 01

  What is a vacation look like for Rami?

• 27:32Speaker 04

  I would probably go to Japan and just ransack every vintage camera store.

• 27:40Speaker 01

  Like that is literally-

• 27:40Speaker 02

  Vintage camera store?

• 27:42Speaker 01

  Oh, vintage camera store.

• 27:43Speaker 04

  Yeah, because they have the best. Like that's, I just am always online, like eBay, vintage camera Japan.

• 27:50Speaker 01

  Wow.

• 27:51Speaker 04

  And I just go every night and then I kind of wait for a moment where I go, I could reward myself with this.

• 27:56Speaker 02

  Oh, that's beautiful.

• 27:57Speaker 01

  That's really cool.

• 27:57Speaker 04

  That's kind of, you know.

• 27:59Speaker 02

  And you have yet to do this.

• 28:01Speaker 04

  Oh, no, I've done it a lot, yeah.

• 28:02Speaker 02

  And you just want to keep doing it?

• 28:03Speaker 04

  I have like two boxes of cameras, yeah.

• 28:05Speaker 02

  That you bought physically from Japan?

• 28:08Speaker 04

  Either there in person or online.

• 28:10Speaker 02

  Thank God for you because I can't, this is not my, I don't think so, honey, but it's like, enough with the bad PR spin of guys who like going to Japan. It's, it's-

• 28:19Speaker 01

  Who's been doing that?

• 28:21Speaker 02

  I think there's this like, there's like a, there's a swing back to like, just like making fun of those people. And I get it. I totally get it.

• 28:29Speaker 04

  Where am I supposed to go?

• 28:30Speaker 02

  Where am I supposed to go?

• 28:33Speaker 01

  Where am I supposed to go that's blameless? Where is it okay?

• 28:36Speaker 04

  I don't know, what am I supposed to do?

• 28:37Speaker 01

  What am I supposed to do?

• 28:38Speaker 02

  I mean, I do, I do want to go, I want to do a Southern China trip bad.

• 28:42Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 28:43Speaker 04

  Southern China trip. Well, that's, I think the biggest censorship is how incredible China is.

• 28:50Speaker 01

  Really?

• 28:50Speaker 02

  I don't even think it's censored anymore.

• 28:52Speaker 04

  No, it's censored, dude. I don't think the average American understands how incredible China is.

• 28:57Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 28:58Speaker 04

  Just from like a tech, I'm not going to talk about the government or whatever.

• 29:00Speaker 01

  No, no, no.

• 29:01Speaker 04

  Just like-

• 29:01Speaker 01

  Don't talk about the government.

• 29:03Speaker 04

  I just think the things Americans actually care about on a baseline level, like fast wifi and shit.

• 29:08Speaker 01

  They're, they're, they got it on lock.

• 29:10Speaker 04

  Cars, tech, air-conditioned streets, amazing infrastructure. Like it's like there are things happening that are unbelievable, you know?

• 29:19Speaker 01

  But-

• 29:19Speaker 04

  Probably got to listen what the government says.

• 29:21Speaker 01

  It's time to ask you the central question of our podcast.

• 29:24Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 29:24Speaker 01

  What was the culture, Rami, that made you say culture was for you? This is formative films, television series, music, atmospheric stuff, relationships in your life, anything.

• 29:37Speaker 04

  Okay. This is, I don't, this is going to be a weird one. But for me, when I was a kid, the thing that really made me feel a part of culture was Napster and torrent websites.

• 29:49Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 29:49Speaker 04

  I, that made me feel like I could seek out whatever I wanted.

• 29:54Speaker 01

  Because it was all in there.

• 29:56Speaker 04

  All in there.

• 29:57Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 29:57Speaker 04

  And you know, there was kind of a cap as to what movies could come into the house. And then all of a sudden, the whole world was at my fingertips. I felt like a hacker because I'd go to Napster, then I'd go to the torrent site, then I had LimeWire because I had every single app.

• 30:09Speaker 01

  Yep.

• 30:10Speaker 04

  I had multi-screen.

• 30:11Speaker 01

  Yep.

• 30:11Speaker 04

  I'm 12.

• 30:12Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 30:12Speaker 04

  And I'm in the Matrix, right? And I've seen the Matrix.

• 30:15Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 30:15Speaker 04

  Yeah, that's me. I'm like the only guy that can see the truth in this house at the very first 100%. And I've got it all in front of me. And so that was my entry point into just everything I love.

• 30:24Speaker 02

  This is an incredible answer.

• 30:26Speaker 04

  You know, because it's really like such a gateway into-

• 30:31Speaker 02

  Because you know, because you know what was still implicit in all that was like some friction or some like challenge around like procuring the thing.

• 30:39Speaker 04

  Yeah, you had to seek it. And so if you, if you get this album, and it's the actual album that they said it was, because sometimes you'd get it and it's not, you know? The amount of times that I'm going like, okay, I'm trying to get this like Neutral Milk Hotel record. And then you download it and it's like the thong song or whatever. It's like a knock. You know what I mean? Or it's just like a bunch of static.

• 30:59Speaker 01

  Yeah. And also waiting for them to download was such a pain in the ass at the time.

• 31:04Speaker 04

  That's how I learned patience.

• 31:05Speaker 01

  Yeah, that is so real. That's how you learn patience.

• 31:08Speaker 04

  That's how I found, take a breath.

• 31:09Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's why you're not nervous.

• 31:11Speaker 04

  Let it download.

• 31:12Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 31:13Speaker 04

  Everything's going to be okay.

• 31:13Speaker 02

  And like the, like the up torrent rate, the down torrent rate.

• 31:17Speaker 04

  Absolutely, and that's like, that's how I learned sharing.

• 31:19Speaker 02

  Oh my God, you learn to share it.

• 31:21Speaker 04

  I'm going to keep seeding, you know, for everybody.

• 31:23Speaker 01

  You have to- Community building.

• 31:24Speaker 04

  Community building. Uh, government evasion. You go, am I going to get the email from the government? Because that was always, remember those stories? They'd go like, dude, this kid went to jail.

• 31:35Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 31:36Speaker 04

  We had that at our school.

• 31:37Speaker 01

  They, they, I think, called a meeting at our school.

• 31:39Speaker 04

  We thought there was a kid, you know, we were, because I grew up, like I was living in Queens until I was like six or something, seven, and then we went to Jersey. And we would, there would be these rumors, you know, that kids in New York were getting arrested for downloading like Eminem and stuff.

• 31:54Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 31:54Speaker 04

  And then I would be so, I'd like thank my parents. I'd be, "Thank you so much for taking me away from New York."

• 31:59Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 31:59Speaker 02

  Oh, no, it made you fear New York.

• 32:02Speaker 04

  Because I would have been, yeah, because I would have been arrested.

• 32:04Speaker 01

  Yeah. Certainly with the amount you were downloading.

• 32:06Speaker 04

  No, no, without a doubt. And so I thought I was like in this like sovereign land of New Jersey where they weren't doing that stuff.

• 32:12Speaker 01

  Yeah. No crime in New Jersey, that's actually rural culture number six.

• 32:15Speaker 02

  No crime in New Jersey, only green spaces and good public schools.

• 32:19Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 32:20Speaker 02

  I think those were all urban legends.

• 32:23Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 32:24Speaker 02

  You think so?

• 32:25Speaker 04

  I, I, I think like they had, because I know what you're talking about. It's always like, oh my God, like, there's some story, and I know you have a good research team here. There's some story where it was like the, this woman downloaded like a lullaby for her daughter.

• 32:40Speaker 01

  No.

• 32:41Speaker 04

  Yeah, I remember it being like a, a, a young parent.

• 32:44Speaker 01

  From her child.

• 32:45Speaker 04

  I remember being a young parent and then they just like, and it might've even been like a Michael Jackson song or something.

• 32:51Speaker 02

  A Michael Jackson lullaby?

• 32:53Speaker 04

  Yeah, I don't know, like some like-

• 32:54Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah, Ben, the song to the rat.

• 32:56Speaker 02

  Back to you.

• 32:58Speaker 04

  I just remember thinking, Michael Jackson got away with whatever he may or may not have done. And this woman got, you know, arrested for downloading the song.

• 33:07Speaker 01

  How dare they?

• 33:09Speaker 04

  Thought.

• 33:09Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 33:09Speaker 04

  Where I just kind of learned about the justice system.

• 33:12Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 33:14Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 33:14Speaker 01

  Well, and even, so I guess even if those stories were all made up, it was good so that you could learn about, you know?

• 33:21Speaker 02

  Being a law abiding citizen.

• 33:23Speaker 04

  Yeah, and now, the funny thing is, I buy everything now.

• 33:26Speaker 02

  Right.

• 33:26Speaker 01

  Like, do you really?

• 33:27Speaker 04

  Stuff that I don't even, yeah, I mean, now I, I'm on the opposite end, just like with art. Cause now I'm like, hey, you know what, if I want a movie, sometimes I'll just buy the HD version of it on iTunes, even though it could be streaming or whatever. But I go, hey, I wanna, you know, we wanna make movies, we wanna do all this stuff, like, and, and it's nice to have it in my library or whatever.

• 33:45Speaker 02

  I'll buy the digital deluxe version of this video game.

• 33:47Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, I'm in, I'm in.

• 33:50Speaker 02

  I relate to this so hard because, uh, from austerity immigrant, uh, sort of environments or something where it's like, no, you can't have this, you can't have this, you can't have this.

• 34:03Speaker 02

  I, I'm, I fully swung the other way and there's no, and I'm stuck there. I will, I will overspend. If you feel like you're overspending, I'm fucked.

• 34:13Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 34:14Speaker 02

  That's, that's, no, he knows.

• 34:15Speaker 01

  No, can confirm. Yeah, he's never been great with, like.

• 34:20Speaker 02

  Microfinance.

• 34:21Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 34:21Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 34:22Speaker 01

  I don't think it's a problem.

• 34:24Speaker 02

  Yeah, I think it's a problem.

• 34:25Speaker 01

  Oh, okay, well then, that is a problem.

• 34:27Speaker 04

  So you, this like hooded type thing you're wearing, which I think is really cool, like, how many do you have in this genre?

• 34:33Speaker 01

  Oh my god, how did you know to ask that question? It's cause he's Rami, he knows, he just doesn't get nervous.

• 34:42Speaker 04

  You can't even, you can't even think.

• 34:44Speaker 02

  No, no, I can, no, no, no, no, I can think, I can think.

• 34:46Speaker 01

  I think it's, he's deciding how honest he wants to be.

• 34:48Speaker 02

  I'm, I'm gonna be very honest, I just have to literally take stock.

• 34:52Speaker 01

  Take a breath.

• 34:53Speaker 02

  I think I have like four in this genre and that's too much.

• 34:56Speaker 04

  And that's just that material, right?

• 34:58Speaker 02

  Not in this material, but just like this color, it's like I have like, oh my god, how dare you?

• 35:03Speaker 04

  Yeah, I know.

• 35:04Speaker 02

  That's crazy.

• 35:05Speaker 04

  No, I, listen.

• 35:06Speaker 02

  Do you, so are you, are you asking this because you have the same?

• 35:08Speaker 04

  Totally, I say it cause I know, it's not a judgment.

• 35:10Speaker 02

  No, no, and I don't feel judged, I'm just, I really feel seen, thank you.

• 35:14Speaker 01

  So, what will you now do?

• 35:17Speaker 02

  Absolutely nothing.

• 35:20Speaker 01

  Cause there's a lot of, you know, people that could benefit from.

• 35:24Speaker 04

  There are hipsters in need.

• 35:25Speaker 01

  Yeah, there's, would you have four of these? Probably you can get rid of two.

• 35:29Speaker 04

  There's a couple of like 22 year olds, just kind of scrapping rent together in Bushwick that would love a used Bowen Yang hoodie.

• 35:36Speaker 01

  Yeah, used Bowen Yang hoodie.

• 35:38Speaker 02

  Yeah, that'll really get them running, that'll, that'll, that's, that's, that's not appealing at all to anybody.

• 35:44Speaker 04

  Someone told me they see you buy a supermarket, like someone saw me, so someone, okay, so someone saw me on the street.

• 35:49Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 35:50Speaker 04

  And goes, dude, and I was like, hey, and I kind of, like, whatever, we talked for a second or something, you know, I, I wasn't in a rush. So my barometer, I don't know how you deal with this, if I'm not in a rush and someone's not giving me crazy eyes, like, I'll say what's up.

• 36:02Speaker 02

  Yes, yes.

• 36:03Speaker 04

  So I wasn't in a rush, say what's up, and probably the second thing he said was, outside of, he's like, dude, I love your show, da, da, da, da. Man, I always see Bowen Yang by Whole Foods.

• 36:13Speaker 02

  I'm not, nowhere near a Whole Foods.

• 36:16Speaker 04

  I'm just telling you what I was told on the street.

• 36:18Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 36:18Speaker 04

  Literally, I was told this on the street.

• 36:19Speaker 02

  I believe that this man said that, I think he's misidentifying, it just happens all the time.

• 36:26Speaker 04

  Whoa.

• 36:27Speaker 02

  Yeah, oh no, it's, it's total, but, and, and, and we're talking about this because, oh, me, me out and about in New York. I, I would, I actually don't know why we're talking.

• 36:36Speaker 01

  No, we're talking about it because we were trying to gauge the level of interest that some wayward, like, hipster would have, hipster would want a Bowen Yang used zip up.

• 36:46Speaker 04

  I just think demand would be high.

• 36:47Speaker 01

  Rain jacket.

• 36:48Speaker 02

  Mm-hmm.

• 36:49Speaker 01

  And I think that, that there would A, be demand, and B, there is need, it goes beyond demand into need.

• 36:58Speaker 02

  And there's certainly supply.

• 37:00Speaker 01

  Yeah, exactly, with all this?

• 37:01Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 37:02Speaker 01

  And also, what, let me throw this out to you, you've worn it now on the episode.

• 37:07Speaker 02

  And so I, I will never wear it again.

• 37:11Speaker 04

  You know, so I've been trying to turn the corner on this, I'm trying to force myself.

• 37:15Speaker 02

  Tiffany Haddish it?

• 37:17Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 37:17Speaker 01

  What, what is happening?

• 37:18Speaker 02

  Remember when she was like, I, I wore this dress, like, one time I looked amazing on, on the red carpet, I'm, I'm gonna wear it again.

• 37:23Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 37:24Speaker 04

  That was old.

• 37:25Speaker 01

  Well, I'm just saying, when you, when you have a surplus of things, probably you don't need to think in a Tiffany Haddish way.

• 37:33Speaker 02

  So you're saying you've been trying to have a paradigm shift about this?

• 37:37Speaker 04

  I wanna wear, yeah, yeah.

• 37:38Speaker 02

  Yes, you should.

• 37:39Speaker 04

  Yeah, I mean, I think I do maybe in general, but I, I don't know, I, I've found myself being more responsible.

• 37:47Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 37:47Speaker 04

  Yeah, where I just go, I don't need that thing, man, I got something in that color, let me just, let me keep moving.

• 37:52Speaker 01

  And it feels good to go to the Goodwill.

• 37:54Speaker 04

  I, it's making me feel older.

• 37:56Speaker 02

  That's good.

• 37:57Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's making me feel older.

• 37:58Speaker 01

  How old do you feel right now?

• 38:00Speaker 02

  Hmm, I think I feel my age.

• 38:02Speaker 01

  Which is?

• 38:03Speaker 04

  Forty-five, thirty-five.

• 38:04Speaker 01

  Thirty-five.

• 38:04Speaker 04

  I feel my age.

• 38:05Speaker 01

  That's Bowen's age too.

• 38:06Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, I feel my age.

• 38:08Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 38:08Speaker 02

  Or maybe, yeah, I do. I do.

• 38:12Speaker 01

  Do you feel younger? What, what, what would, what would give you pause?

• 38:14Speaker 02

  I feel like, I feel like, certainly feel developmentally stunted.

• 38:20Speaker 01

  In what way?

• 38:20Speaker 02

  In the way that like I was like in, uh, a sand pit for seven years, you know what I mean?

• 38:27Speaker 01

  Oh, right.

• 38:27Speaker 02

  Right, just, but, just, just in terms of like my own.

• 38:30Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 38:31Speaker 02

  W- work ethic and my own pro, and like the, the things that like would motivate me or demotivate me or whatever. And now I'm like, ooh, what a, like, I'm getting, I'm gonna get coffee with Kirsten Wu, you know what I mean?

• 38:41Speaker 01

  Yeah, let's go.

• 38:42Speaker 02

  Like, that's, that's gonna really.

• 38:45Speaker 01

  Who are you now?

• 38:48Speaker 02

  Oh, you asked me what, what Kirsten Wu would sing at the Jimmy's?

• 38:50Speaker 01

  Oh yeah, what would Kirsten Wu sing at the Jimmy's and say it in the voice that you use?

• 38:55Speaker 02

  Singing God Help The Outcasts from The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Kirsten Wu.

• 38:59Speaker 01

  I love that for Kirsten, wow, did you get any of that?

• 39:03Speaker 04

  Nope.

• 39:04Speaker 01

  You've never seen Hunchback of Notre Dame?

• 39:05Speaker 02

  Hunchback of Notre Dame?

• 39:06Speaker 04

  I know that, but I don't, I don't know, it's just such a quick reference.

• 39:10Speaker 01

  It's a sad story.

• 39:11Speaker 04

  I'd have, like, Hunchback, I gotta dig back.

• 39:13Speaker 01

  It ends so sad, Rami, like, the way the Hunchback ends, it's like, you can imagine, it doesn't end good for Quasi.

• 39:20Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 39:21Speaker 01

  And he was already cursed.

• 39:22Speaker 04

  Ending in, in Hunchback?

• 39:24Speaker 02

  And the Disney version, sort of.

• 39:26Speaker 04

  They gotta get.

• 39:26Speaker 01

  It's bittersweet, because Esmeralda gets away and she finds her love, but Quasi is relegated to his experience of living really at the top of the Notre Dame forever, ringing the bells, because society just is not ready to accept him as one of their own, truly. Like, they'll thank him for what he's done and what he sacrificed, but ultimately, he being a beast.

• 39:52Speaker 04

  Is that the Disney version?

• 39:53Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's the Disney version even.

• 39:55Speaker 04

  That's the happy one?

• 39:56Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 39:57Speaker 01

  Yeah, and they even still sold little toys at McDonald's, this is back in the day when it didn't kill me to eat it, cause I was a kid.

• 40:04Speaker 02

  Right, right.

• 40:04Speaker 01

  So you'd go and, you know, uh.

• 40:07Speaker 02

  Julio, Julio has a great bit.

• 40:08Speaker 01

  George Costanza from Seinfeld, Jason Alexander was voicing one of the gargoyles and they tried to sell it to kids, in the Happy Meal and such. You go to the movie, it's a very lonely film about isolation.

• 40:20Speaker 02

  And Julio has a bit about, um, how McDonald's would push out a Frollo toy when this is a man who, you know, tried to have, tried to ethnically cleanse France.

• 40:29Speaker 01

  Mm-hmm, and he was a toy you could have if you got like a four piece nugget, you could get a Frollo. You'd be like, look, mom, it's an ethnic cleanser. It's Frollo, he has, actually sings a song about how tortured he is by his every sexual impulse, and I'm gonna put him in the dog's mouth.

• 40:52Speaker 04

  Did you still get the toy like last night, did you?

• 40:56Speaker 01

  They don't offer toys with all the food that I got, although I would.

• 41:00Speaker 04

  You would.

• 41:01Speaker 01

  Maybe I should just order a Happy Meal, maybe that's the way around this.

• 41:04Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 41:04Speaker 01

  Like, I just can't eat the volume of McDonald's I did last night, if I would just order a Happy Meal, I wouldn't be sick today and I'd have a toy. You know what I'm saying?

• 41:14Speaker 02

  There was a dentist office in, in Montreal, they would line the damn receptionist counter with every McDonald's toy there was, like, in the 90s.

• 41:24Speaker 01

  Oh wow.

• 41:25Speaker 02

  And it was, and it took you everything not to take every single one of them.

• 41:30Speaker 01

  Well, this sort of goes back to, I'm sure your parents wouldn't have wanted that, because you said that it was not an austerity culture.

• 41:36Speaker 02

  Yes, absolutely.

• 41:37Speaker 01

  Which brings us all the way back to Napster.

• 41:39Speaker 02

  Yeah, we, we have to keep talking about this.

• 41:41Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 41:41Speaker 02

  So then what were, do you remember like the big, one was, is there still a white whale? I mean, obviously you would just buy it now, but was there one, because I can think of a couple things.

• 41:51Speaker 01

  Thriller, the video, took a long time to download and it was what we all wanted at first, am I wrong?

• 41:57Speaker 02

  No, Lord of the Rings?

• 41:58Speaker 04

  Lord of the Rings, that was, that was always so hard to get in good quality.

• 42:03Speaker 01

  As a whole movie?

• 42:04Speaker 04

  Yeah, cause it was such a big file, I literally was gonna say Lord of the Rings.

• 42:07Speaker 02

  Lord of the Rings.

• 42:07Speaker 04

  That was so, and I read the books, actually.

• 42:10Speaker 02

  Damn.

• 42:11Speaker 04

  That's how much I loved.

• 42:11Speaker 02

  Did you have the big one with all three that was black with the, um, the, the, um, the Nazgul on it?

• 42:16Speaker 04

  No. No, I had the separate, yeah, separate volumes.

• 42:19Speaker 01

  Oh, Titanic.

• 42:22Speaker 04

  Love Titanic, but that one, I, I don't think that was, uh.

• 42:24Speaker 02

  It was, I think, at that point.

• 42:26Speaker 04

  That might have been at the house.

• 42:27Speaker 01

  It was a, it was a two VHS.

• 42:29Speaker 02

  Titanic had fallen, so it was not, Titanic had its moment as, as a two VHS box, everyone had it in the home. At this time in the culture, I mean, we'll say early aughts to mid aughts.

• 42:42Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 42:42Speaker 02

  Everyone's, it's, it's Lord of the Rings was like, just like.

• 42:46Speaker 04

  Can I sidebar though? Cause I just saw this, um, uh, one of those Instagram carousels, that kind of tells you some, like, here, here's a bit of history that you don't know, and I never know if they're real, but I hope this one's real.

• 42:57Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 42:57Speaker 04

  There was, uh, an Egyptian guy on the Titanic, that no one talked about, but basically he like worked for this couple, and he was just on the ship and he heard them going, there's an issue.

• 43:11Speaker 01

  Oh!

• 43:11Speaker 04

  And then he goes and tells the couple, like, hey, I heard that some shit's going down, the three of them get the first lifeboat.

• 43:19Speaker 02

  Wow.

• 43:20Speaker 04

  Out, pretty crazy, right? He saved them.

• 43:23Speaker 01

  The first throuple.

• 43:24Speaker 02

  The first throuple.

• 43:25Speaker 04

  Yeah, he saved them, and then, I don't know, the carousel ended weird, he just, they were like, he lived in America for a little, then he went back to Egypt and died.

• 43:32Speaker 01

  Oh, that sucks.

• 43:33Speaker 02

  Terrible.

• 43:34Speaker 01

  That's very Quasimodo.

• 43:36Speaker 02

  I'm dying to go.

• 43:37Speaker 04

  Did you see the, another Instagram story, did you see the guy who got stuck in Egypt with his dog?

• 43:41Speaker 02

  No.

• 43:42Speaker 04

  Yeah, there's this guy from New York, just got stuck in Egypt with his dog, some customs issue, and he just like had to be in Egypt and just went viral.

• 43:51Speaker 01

  He just decided to keep it, was he okay, is he okay?

• 43:53Speaker 04

  Oh, he was so happy, he was, he was just this like gay white dude walking through Cairo with his dog going, I'm in Egypt, like, what is this? And then he got so popular, he started doing like meet and greets at cafes and stuff.

• 44:05Speaker 01

  This is why we just need to meet new people.

• 44:10Speaker 02

  What, wait, what, what do you mean?

• 44:11Speaker 01

  Egypt would love us, gay white guys, let us in, we'll do a meet and greet.

• 44:17Speaker 04

  Certain neighborhoods, for sure.

• 44:21Speaker 02

  Can you, now, if I were to show up in Egypt?

• 44:23Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 44:25Speaker 02

  And they were just, just to just see like an Asian man.

• 44:28Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 44:29Speaker 02

  Like a thirty-five-year-old Asian man. They'd be like, ah, whatever.

• 44:32Speaker 01

  They would say, we love Wicked.

• 44:34Speaker 02

  Out of this.

• 44:34Speaker 01

  That's what they would say.

• 44:35Speaker 02

  There's a lot of people, um, I'm not gonna say a lot, I don't have numbers.

• 44:38Speaker 01

  No, of course, of course.

• 44:39Speaker 02

  There are Asian people in Egypt who

• 44:42Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 44:42Speaker 02

  Fully speak Arabic with a full Arabic accent.

• 44:44Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 44:44Speaker 02

  And it's pretty incredible, cuz you just, it's like your brain doesn't know what's going on for a second. It's really cool. Chinese Muslims know what's up.

• 44:54Speaker 01

  Yeah. Globally?

• 44:56Speaker 02

  I'm just saying, like, the ones that are, like, in Western China, making the spiciest food you've ever

• 45:02Speaker 01

  Oh, my god, yeah.

• 45:03Speaker 02

  Ever, just, you can tell how spicy it is just from, just on sight.

• 45:07Speaker 01

  Mm-hmm.

• 45:08Speaker 02

  Speaking perfect Arabic, speaking perfect Mandarin, probably speaking great English.

• 45:12Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 45:13Speaker 02

  Or whatever other language.

• 45:14Speaker 01

  Mm-hmm.

• 45:14Speaker 02

  I'm like, this is, this is the super-species. They're, they're unbothered, they're just making their foods.

• 45:21Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 45:22Speaker 02

  And living life, and, and just, and not fucking with people.

• 45:25Speaker 01

  And after they make their food, they're unbothered by how the intensity of the taste.

• 45:31Speaker 02

  Jump in your perfect electric car. You know what really got me about the electric car? They have these widgets, and it's the same company that'll make, like, your dishwasher.

• 45:39Speaker 01

  Uh-huh.

• 45:40Speaker 02

  So you can just be in your car and go like, I forgot to do the dishes, and you press a button.

• 45:45Speaker 01

  Wait. No, the world is better everywhere else.

• 45:48Speaker 02

  That's the kinda thing that I, I love that stuff.

• 45:51Speaker 01

  Yeah, who wouldn't love that?

• 45:52Speaker 02

  No, well, you could do it in Egypt, yeah, because in Egypt, you can get the electric, they, they have the Chinese electric cars in Egypt.

• 45:57Speaker 01

  I see, I see.

• 45:58Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, but I was just talking about China, kind of, in general.

• 46:01Speaker 01

  Oh, sure, sure, sure.

• 46:01Speaker 02

  Just from what I read.

• 46:02Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 46:03Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 46:04Speaker 01

  What is, what is it, and I'm gonna mess up, China-maxing?

• 46:07Speaker 02

  China-maxing.

• 46:07Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 46:08Speaker 02

  You'd mess that up at all.

• 46:08Speaker 01

  Okay, I just wanted to be respectful.

• 46:10Speaker 02

  Wait, you said it like you were about to say a Chinese word.

• 46:13Speaker 01

  A Chinese word.

• 46:13Speaker 02

  Yeah, you were like, as if you were about to say, like, like, an actual Chinese word, but you just said China-maxing.

• 46:20Speaker 01

  China-maxing.

• 46:21Speaker 02

  China-maxing.

• 46:21Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 46:22Speaker 02

  Well, you don't have to, don't gesticulate like that.

• 46:23Speaker 01

  I wasn't gesticulating, excuse you. Um, but what is that, like, like?

• 46:29Speaker 02

  It's people who are, you know, it's, it's all these white women playing mahjong. It, it, it ranges from that to, like, um, someone in America really drinking, really getting into drinking just hot water.

• 46:42Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 46:43Speaker 02

  No tea, no coffee.

• 46:44Speaker 01

  Oh, that's China-maxing?

• 46:45Speaker 02

  That's China-maxing.

• 46:46Speaker 01

  What's the mahjong thing, cuz I, I saw that, um, in the West Village.

• 46:50Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 46:51Speaker 01

  I saw young girls play mahjong.

• 46:54Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 46:54Speaker 01

  At a coffee shop.

• 46:55Speaker 02

  Or to a table.

• 46:56Speaker 01

  And they took out the stuff.

• 46:57Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 46:58Speaker 01

  But the way that they gave up so quickly was incredible.

• 47:02Speaker 02

  The cycle gets kind of smaller and smaller with the, with the, with the mahjong sort of popping off. And it's, and you're right, it's like, it will, I don't know if it'll ever really hold amongst people who don't wanna take the time to, like, learn, like, what the characters for one, two, and three are.

• 47:20Speaker 01

  They didn't know what to do.

• 47:22Speaker 02

  Right.

• 47:22Speaker 01

  It's, it's very esoteric, but once you were

• 47:24Speaker 02

  Yeah, like, really out of their depth.

• 47:26Speaker 01

  Mm.

• 47:27Speaker 02

  And gave up quickly.

• 47:29Speaker 01

  Yeah, and they didn't have torrents growing up, cuz they would've learned patience.

• 47:34Speaker 02

  Patience, the ability to seek, to kinda catch your own media.

• 47:38Speaker 01

  Well, just in a real way, like, I do think that that is true.

• 47:44Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 47:44Speaker 01

  I don't think that any child, at least that I've seen in New York, or the ones that, you know, friends are, are raising, like, they, the kids don't wait. They don't have the aptitude to be like, yeah, I'm gonna go sit around and make my own fun. Like, which I do think is imperative, I guess, for any human, is the, is the ability to kinda just sit there and understand, like, things don't come when you need it.

• 48:14Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 48:14Speaker 01

  And also, like

• 48:15Speaker 02

  It's just curiosity, yeah.

• 48:16Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, you, you don't ever imagine what something might be like, cuz you just get it.

• 48:22Speaker 02

  Have one of those blogs, like, do you remember Zanga?

• 48:24Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 48:24Speaker 02

  Okay, do you remember, like, going into the backend HTML, making your colors, like, picking your fonts?

• 48:29Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah.

• 48:30Speaker 02

  Throwing in, like

• 48:31Speaker 01

  Putting your personality together.

• 48:33Speaker 02

  We were coders.

• 48:33Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 48:34Speaker 02

  We knew how to do HTML backslash, all that kinda stuff, and go in and do that. And now it's just like, you can change every, this is the thing that makes me feel thirty-five for real.

• 48:43Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 48:44Speaker 02

  Where, you know, we are a different age.

• 48:46Speaker 01

  Yeah. Now they're telling Claude, like, make a personality for me based on what I've told you, and it tells you literally who you are, and it's right.

• 48:55Speaker 02

  Was, was it right?

• 48:57Speaker 01

  No, I, I'm not saying this happened to me, I'm just saying, this is, this is, this is

• 49:01Speaker 02

  Uh, but, but

• 49:02Speaker 01

  I don't use it.

• 49:03Speaker 02

  But, yeah, it is like, everything's being served up algorithmically, whatever, I'm not saying anything new, but it's like, yeah, like, the kids

• 49:10Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 49:11Speaker 02

  Are used to it coming to them, instead of, it's very New York versus LA.

• 49:16Speaker 01

  Oh, that's a good conversation.

• 49:18Speaker 02

  No, it's a great conversation.

• 49:19Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 49:19Speaker 02

  That every, that no one's had before.

• 49:21Speaker 01

  Lived there for ten years, I lived in LA for ten years. Yeah, I, I actually was not sure whereabouts you were.

• 49:26Speaker 02

  I know, yeah, but now

• 49:27Speaker 01

  You're back here.

• 49:28Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 49:28Speaker 01

  Been here for five years now. Yeah, yeah.

• 49:30Speaker 02

  I think, I think, I think you're New York.

• 49:32Speaker 01

  No, for sure.

• 49:33Speaker 02

  I did what I needed to do there, but it's, yeah. And, and you are publicly saying through the special that you do not know Zorin that well.

• 49:42Speaker 01

  I do.

• 49:43Speaker 02

  No, that's, you, you, you have to declare once and for all, here.

• 49:47Speaker 01

  Yeah. How well do you know him?

• 49:48Speaker 02

  You know him well enough. Right?

• 49:52Speaker 01

  I know him well enough. I know him, how about this, I know him the way I know you guys.

• 49:57Speaker 02

  That's great.

• 49:57Speaker 01

  Okay, that's fair.

• 49:58Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 49:58Speaker 01

  You could have a conversation with him for ninety minutes.

• 50:02Speaker 02

  You competed with him, uh, in sketch comedy.

• 50:04Speaker 01

  We did, we did it back there. I bet he would've been great, by the way.

• 50:07Speaker 02

  Oh, incredible.

• 50:08Speaker 01

  He's, he's good on camera.

• 50:09Speaker 02

  I know, he's, he's in a music video.

• 50:10Speaker 01

  Yeah, he is an entertainer.

• 50:12Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 50:12Speaker 01

  Yeah.

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• 52:18Speaker 01

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• 52:21Speaker 01

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  So the name is honest, you're saying? And the rewards are too?

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• 53:02Speaker 01

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• 54:03Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 54:03Speaker 02

  Awesome, really, you know, like, we haven't had, like, multiple dinners together, and, you know.

• 54:09Speaker 01

  We can change that.

• 54:10Speaker 02

  You and, you and us. I would, that would be great.

• 54:13Speaker 01

  I think we would fuck up dinner.

• 54:15Speaker 02

  I'd be down.

• 54:16Speaker 01

  Where would we go?

• 54:18Speaker 02

  Uh.

• 54:18Speaker 01

  And you have to take us out?

• 54:20Speaker 02

  I go, oh, yeah, take you guys out since

• 54:22Speaker 01

  Yes, I think that would be nice.

• 54:24Speaker 02

  I would do sushi.

• 54:24Speaker 01

  Had it on the podcast.

• 54:25Speaker 02

  I could take you to one of the sushi spots, I, I will take you to sushi. What's that, what's that, what's that place by Bryant Park? I, I took Patty there once, it's at the Omakase Place, like

• 54:33Speaker 01

  I haven't been to it.

• 54:33Speaker 02

  Number one, oh

• 54:35Speaker 01

  It's really good.

• 54:36Speaker 02

  I'm taking y'all.

• 54:37Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 54:37Speaker 02

  I'm taking you guys there.

• 54:39Speaker 01

  I think it's the three of us, Zorin, it'd be great, like, if we just kinda I've not had the pleasure, I, what, I almost went up to him at the Liberty Game, but the line was long.

• 54:50Speaker 02

  It was a long line, yeah. He came up to me at an after-party when he was still, before the primary.

• 54:55Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 54:56Speaker 02

  Or just, no, just, remember, like, the first, the first big push was to, uh, was to have him sort of registered as a Democrat or something?

• 55:05Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, it was the DSA thing.

• 55:07Speaker 02

  Yes, yes, it was the DSA thing, and I, and I was like, whatever, and on the ground floor posting about it. I was like, this guy's Zoran, like, it seems really, it seems really great. And then he came up to, uh, me and my parents at an after-party, and then like came and shook my hand, and then, and my parents were like, who was that? I was like, oh, he's running for mayor. And then, and now they're like, we met him, and it's, it's, it's very cool and very sweet. But-

• 55:33Speaker 01

  Boon's mom calls him ZZ.

• 55:35Speaker 02

  I think we are-

• 55:36Speaker 01

  Boon's mom calls him ZZ.

• 55:38Speaker 02

  ZZ, but I think the three of us in Zoran, sure, why not?

• 55:41Speaker 01

  I think that would be a really wonderful exchange of-

• 55:45Speaker 02

  Ideas.

• 55:47Speaker 01

  You know, and more.

• 55:48Speaker 02

  And he's younger than us.

• 55:49Speaker 01

  I know.

• 55:50Speaker 04

  About a couple months. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not, but it's like, we're really the same, it's so funny, like, he was just like a dude on Instagram like us, just-

• 55:59Speaker 02

  He was.

• 56:00Speaker 04

  You know?

• 56:00Speaker 02

  What do you think, yeah, I wonder where his torrent, torrents were, Neutral Milk Hotel?

• 56:05Speaker 04

  Neutral Milk Hotel was a big one for me, yeah.

• 56:07Speaker 02

  But I'm, like, I'm saying, like, he prob, he's probably-

• 56:08Speaker 04

  No, he's more hip-hop.

• 56:10Speaker 01

  Yeah, he was famously, famously in the community. In the hip-hop community.

• 56:15Speaker 04

  I don't know that they ever, like, fully took him into the community.

• 56:17Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 56:18Speaker 04

  I think if they had, he wouldn't be mayor. I do think his mayoralship is kind of hinging on, um, that his music did not-

• 56:27Speaker 02

  Take off?

• 56:28Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 56:28Speaker 04

  Yeah, but not bad songs, in my opinion. Can I ask a question? Do you, do you guys invite straight people to the-

• 56:36Speaker 01

  To the Culture Awards?

• 56:37Speaker 02

  Yes, we had plenty of them.

• 56:39Speaker 01

  We gave out the award last year with the creatine award for straight male excellence, and it was won by Andy Samberg.

• 56:44Speaker 04

  Never got invited, so.

• 56:45Speaker 02

  Okay, actually, this is a great opportunity to, to have a conversation about a thing that we, that is kind of thematic year after year now.

• 56:53Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 56:54Speaker 02

  Where genuinely, we're like, oh my goodness, we're so sorry we, we did not invite this person.

• 57:01Speaker 04

  Yeah, slipped through the cracks.

• 57:03Speaker 02

  Uh, and haven't you been on both sides of this?

• 57:08Speaker 04

  My invite lists are, like, really thorough, yeah, I-

• 57:12Speaker 02

  You don't, you, you never have someone-

• 57:13Speaker 01

  Your invite lists are thorough?

• 57:15Speaker 04

  Yeah, thoughtful, I think about it, yeah.

• 57:16Speaker 01

  That's interesting, 'cause I don't think we've ever been invited to anything that you've ever-

• 57:21Speaker 04

  I've never done a Los Culturistas Culture Award.

• 57:23Speaker 02

  You've, you've certainly had, like-

• 57:25Speaker 04

  I shoot my specials in Chicago, yeah, I don't-

• 57:27Speaker 01

  Well, that's a convenient excuse.

• 57:29Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 57:29Speaker 01

  You know what's an easy flight? New York to Chicago. Yeah, late to Chicago, less easy, but we're willing to fly on an airline that we don't usually, to go spend time with you.

• 57:39Speaker 02

  Do you have, do you have, like, parties for when the specials drop?

• 57:42Speaker 01

  Yeah, what happens then about when the specials drop? Usually there's a big party.

• 57:46Speaker 04

  Yeah, but you know what? If I don't invite you guys to something, I don't post about it. How about that?

• 57:49Speaker 02

  I-

• 57:50Speaker 04

  I don't post about it.

• 57:51Speaker 01

  I don't think so, I think-

• 57:54Speaker 04

  Left out of a large gathering. I don't post about my gatherings.

• 57:57Speaker 01

  Well, Bravo posted all the socials, so, we just, we just accepted collabs.

• 58:01Speaker 02

  Post the Rami season one premiere now on, oh, right here in this, in this video over, superimpose. Uh, we weren't there.

• 58:10Speaker 01

  We weren't there.

• 58:11Speaker 02

  I was not there, Rami.

• 58:13Speaker 01

  And it would have been nice, as your competitor, we shook hands at the end of Backyard Brawl all those years ago, and it was implicit in that handshake, we would invite each other to everything we had going on going forward. That was what I felt.

• 58:26Speaker 04

  Where did, where did the award, where does it take place?

• 58:28Speaker 02

  We shot in LA the past two years.

• 58:30Speaker 04

  It's in LA.

• 58:30Speaker 01

  It's in Los Angeles, California.

• 58:31Speaker 04

  Okay, I wouldn't have gone, I'm being honest with you. I would not have gone.

• 58:34Speaker 02

  Moot.

• 58:34Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's moot, so we're like-

• 58:36Speaker 01

  So moot.

• 58:36Speaker 04

  We're totally, yeah.

• 58:37Speaker 01

  All right, well, we'll figure this out.

• 58:39Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 58:39Speaker 01

  We'll all get in the same place, whether it's dinner, the Culture Awards, your next special.

• 58:44Speaker 04

  I mean, it would be good.

• 58:45Speaker 02

  Keep them coming.

• 58:48Speaker 01

  Keep them coming, I say. What time is it in the house? 3:12?

• 58:54Speaker 02

  I think it's time.

• 58:54Speaker 01

  I think it might be time for I Don't Think So Honey. You hear about this one?

• 58:58Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 58:59Speaker 01

  This segment? Did you ever do the live I Don't Think So Honey's? You definitely did.

• 59:03Speaker 04

  Another thing we didn't invite you to.

• 59:04Speaker 02

  Another thing I was not invited to.

• 59:05Speaker 01

  No, yes, we did. You never did an I Don't Think So Honey live back in the day? I think Braylock even did.

• 59:10Speaker 04

  I think Braylock did, I was in LA, I was in LA, yeah.

• 59:12Speaker 01

  Well, Braylock was always from the jump-

• 59:15Speaker 02

  Braylock was a special one.

• 59:16Speaker 01

  He was always saying, I'm a reader, I love the podcast, do you even know what a reader is?

• 59:22Speaker 04

  What is-

• 59:25Speaker 02

  It's okay.

• 59:25Speaker 04

  Wait, what's-

• 59:26Speaker 01

  He's a fan of the show.

• 59:27Speaker 04

  A reader?

• 59:27Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 59:28Speaker 02

  'Cause we used to say, reader, my face is, my eyes are rolling back, like, whatever.

• 59:33Speaker 04

  Oh, that's funny.

• 59:34Speaker 02

  And then it-

• 59:35Speaker 01

  And then they started to identify as the readers.

• 59:37Speaker 04

  As the readers, oh, that's, that's really funny.

• 59:39Speaker 01

  Yeah, thank you.

• 59:40Speaker 02

  Thank you.

• 59:40Speaker 01

  I kind of think it might be time to just go back to everyone being readers again.

• 59:45Speaker 04

  Cause what are people now? Are they-

• 59:47Speaker 02

  There's, there's different, there's, there's-

• 59:48Speaker 01

  There's five subgroups of our fandom.

• 59:50Speaker 02

  Readers, Kates, publicists, finalists, and Kyles.

• 59:52Speaker 01

  Kyles.

• 59:53Speaker 02

  And it's, it's just, it's getting-

• 59:55Speaker 04

  What are Kyles?

• 59:56Speaker 02

  Kyles are the, you know, in, in the gender binary of this, Kyles are the male counterparts to Kates.

• 1:00:02Speaker 01

  So basically, they're a, they're a gay guy that listens to us in the gym. But, but a woman can also be, and any, anyone that presents any gender can be a Kyle.

• 1:00:11Speaker 02

  A man can be a Katie, a Katie is a, lives in the Midwest, was a communications major, uh, a publicist is someone who really campaigns hard, um, for their client.

• 1:00:20Speaker 01

  Tells people about the show, it's a big part of the way that they have dialogue with their friends. Readers just quietly consume the podcast and have for years, we're just a part of their media diet, they're not flexing on it, it just is. And then finalists don't know who we are.

• 1:00:33Speaker 02

  Hmm, yeah.

• 1:00:34Speaker 01

  But they shouldn't. It's like someone who's very, very famous and like, kind of, is aware of us and like, or very accomplished person.

• 1:00:43Speaker 02

  Like, you're a finalist, you're very accomplished and you don't really have, you don't really know what the show is.

• 1:00:46Speaker 01

  You don't need this.

• 1:00:47Speaker 02

  Totally fine.

• 1:00:48Speaker 04

  No, but I do. Like, I, not that I've listened to the whole thing to know the readers thing, but I've clipped, and I go, those guys are so funny, and I asked to be on.

• 1:00:58Speaker 02

  Rami.

• 1:00:59Speaker 04

  This was an incoming request.

• 1:01:00Speaker 02

  That was very, can I say-

• 1:01:01Speaker 04

  This was an incoming request, I texted you.

• 1:01:02Speaker 02

  Very, yes, and-

• 1:01:03Speaker 04

  I said, hey, can I culture? And then, maybe that wasn't the right way to say it.

• 1:01:06Speaker 02

  Doesn't matter, don't worry about that part.

• 1:01:08Speaker 01

  I think when you are someone that's as brilliant as you are, you dictate the way you say things.

• 1:01:13Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 1:01:13Speaker 01

  Okay? How about that?

• 1:01:15Speaker 02

  And Rami, it was, it was a very, very high compliment that you would want to be on the show.

• 1:01:19Speaker 01

  Really high compliment.

• 1:01:20Speaker 04

  Are you kidding?

• 1:01:21Speaker 01

  Well, and also, it's always nice to get back in with an old friend.

• 1:01:24Speaker 02

  An old friend.

• 1:01:25Speaker 01

  And it really does actually make me emotional.

• 1:01:28Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 1:01:28Speaker 01

  It really does.

• 1:01:29Speaker 04

  I mean, dude, if you think about, what year was that?

• 1:01:33Speaker 02

  2010.

• 1:01:35Speaker 04

  It's, like, that's crazy.

• 1:01:36Speaker 01

  16 years ago, it's so fucked up.

• 1:01:38Speaker 02

  A high school student.

• 1:01:38Speaker 04

  That's actually wild.

• 1:01:40Speaker 01

  Yeah, it's insane, and also, I, I do, I do get, it makes me really excited and happy when I see people that I knew from way back then still doing things, well, A at all, but B on a high level, like, do you remember Steph Schuh?

• 1:01:55Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:01:55Speaker 01

  Yeah, so she was competing in Backyard Brawl with us too.

• 1:01:58Speaker 02

  She was there that night too.

• 1:01:59Speaker 01

  We just saw her at Rocky, I just went again to Rocky Horror, she's Janet.

• 1:02:02Speaker 04

  She's awesome.

• 1:02:03Speaker 01

  She's amazing.

• 1:02:04Speaker 04

  She was always so good, yeah.

• 1:02:05Speaker 01

  But we were literally, I remember, she, it wasn't, Stephanie didn't always do the shows.

• 1:02:10Speaker 02

  Right.

• 1:02:10Speaker 01

  So she did Backyard Brawl, and she was like, so excited, we were so happy, and that was, I think you beat us that time, 'cause she did it. So.

• 1:02:21Speaker 04

  Interesting that you'd kind of bring her up just to blame her.

• 1:02:23Speaker 01

  Just to knock her down, yeah.

• 1:02:25Speaker 04

  That's crazy.

• 1:02:27Speaker 01

  I gotta keep everyone out there on their toes.

• 1:02:28Speaker 04

  With, like, the blame right afterwards.

• 1:02:30Speaker 01

  Always.

• 1:02:31Speaker 02

  Yeah, you do, you've, you've done that.

• 1:02:33Speaker 01

  Always. Um, okay, so this is I Don't Think So Honey, this is our minute to sort of pop off, why don't we? On something in culture that's, it's time for it to get, to get addressed. I'm ready.

• 1:02:46Speaker 02

  Okay, this is Matt Rogers, I Don't Think So Honey, his time starts now.

• 1:02:48Speaker 01

  I don't think so, honey, you expecting me to be as excited as you that your dog is in the restaurant? I don't think that people should not be allowed to bring their dogs in restaurants if you're allowed to do that. I do think so, honey, that's fine, the establishment has made its decision. I don't think so, honey, that I'm ever gonna be as excited as you are and as accepting of this, that your dog is laying in the path of a server.

• 1:03:18Speaker 02

  30 seconds.

• 1:03:19Speaker 01

  Because I think of the human beings first, for me.

• 1:03:22Speaker 02

  Oh.

• 1:03:22Speaker 01

  And I, that's just how, and, and I, you are lying about it being a service animal. I know you're lying, I've heard you lie.

• 1:03:30Speaker 02

  Matthew.

• 1:03:30Speaker 01

  So this is just what it is, and, look, understanding the restaurants are sometimes outside, fine, the dog is there, great, fine, love the dog, but I'm not gonna be as excited as you are and on your level, and when your dog is making it difficult for hu, for humans to do their job, and I give you a dirty look, and you give me a dirtier one back.

• 1:03:49Speaker 02

  Oh, no.

• 1:03:50Speaker 01

  I, I don't think so, honey.

• 1:03:51Speaker 02

  And that's one minute, Rami, thoughts as a dog owner?

• 1:03:54Speaker 04

  Really felt like this was kind of coming at me, like, I know you were looking at the camera, but definitely, uh, felt at me.

• 1:04:01Speaker 01

  Can I tell you something? Didn't know you had a dog. Didn't know you had a dog.

• 1:04:05Speaker 02

  And this is-

• 1:04:05Speaker 01

  What, what's the dog? I love the dog already.

• 1:04:07Speaker 02

  Didn't watch the special.

• 1:04:08Speaker 04

  Which is fine. Totally fine.

• 1:04:09Speaker 02

  Totally fine.

• 1:04:10Speaker 04

  Totally fine, cuz I admitted to not having to watch the full episode here.

• 1:04:14Speaker 01

  We didn't watch, we didn't watch each other's specials.

• 1:04:17Speaker 04

  Fair enough.

• 1:04:18Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:04:18Speaker 04

  And this is all good. It's all fair enough. You know, we, we do, this is the thing that really hurt me, I think, by what you said. We bring him to the restaurant.

• 1:04:28Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:04:28Speaker 04

  And we do kinda, I think my wife and I kinda do a glance around the restaurant, like-

• 1:04:32Speaker 01

  Who's cool?

• 1:04:33Speaker 04

  Is this cool, guys?

• 1:04:34Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:04:34Speaker 04

  Like, to everybody. And, and, and I think the reason why is because our dog is really well behaved.

• 1:04:39Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 1:04:40Speaker 04

  Like, he tucks right under the table, cuz he's waiting for something to drop.

• 1:04:44Speaker 01

  This is perfect.

• 1:04:44Speaker 04

  And he's really cute. He's not in walking paths. Um, but we kind of, um, you know, I think we feel good about ourselves that he's so well-trained. And, um, yeah, I'll be honest, it's-

• 1:04:56Speaker 01

  Perfect-

• 1:04:56Speaker 04

  I, I know it annoys people sometimes.

• 1:04:57Speaker 01

  Perfect result, that you bring your dog there and the dog goes under the table. It's a contained situation, even, you know what? Bring out the bowl, bring out the whole thing. Let's make the dog as comfortable as possible. But here's the thing, if you're, if you are out there and your dog is laying in the path that servers need to go, and where people, like, if your dog is, like, being an inconvenience, and I, and I, like, seem a little annoyed by it-

• 1:05:23Speaker 04

  And this person shot you a dirtier look?

• 1:05:24Speaker 01

  I just, I, I have had it happen where, like, a dog will come in, cuz I'm in LA a lot, and then just lay wherever.

• 1:05:32Speaker 04

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:05:32Speaker 01

  Fine, but when the server is having a hard time, and I'm like, cuz I used to be one.

• 1:05:38Speaker 04

  Yeah?

• 1:05:39Speaker 01

  And I'm like, this is a little annoying, like, can you move your dog in? And I never bring anything up, and I get a dirty look for suggesting with my eyes that maybe your dog is in everyone's way. Like, I don't know.

• 1:05:51Speaker 04

  I'll be honest, sometimes he, he does server path, and I'm really sorry to all servers. And no, no, cuz it happens, and there's even been a time where there was bowl, and bowl was in server path. Kicked water everywhere. And I'm be honest, that's happened twice in, in, like, um-

• 1:06:09Speaker 01

  Hazardous.

• 1:06:10Speaker 04

  In, in, in the years of dog ownership.

• 1:06:12Speaker 02

  Right.

• 1:06:13Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:06:13Speaker 02

  And seating and table placement is not consistent enough so that bowl can be placed under the table always.

• 1:06:21Speaker 04

  It's just sometimes, yeah, things get, you know, things get a little crazy.

• 1:06:24Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:06:25Speaker 04

  It is an animal, at the end of the day.

• 1:06:26Speaker 01

  Again, it's like a sensitive thing, cuz it's like, cuz it's like, if I'm, if I'm to say, like, hey, like, the dog, does the dog have to come? It's then like, huh, you know what I mean? It is a little bit like, it's like, it's like, it's like a not a valid suggestion for me to say maybe the dog can just stay home for an hour.

• 1:06:45Speaker 02

  Some things are too sensitive to say to the person. You just say it on the podcast, and I get that. Like, I get, that's a really specific kinda sensitive.

• 1:06:53Speaker 01

  Only to the people I'm positive don't listen.

• 1:06:55Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:06:56Speaker 01

  You know what I mean?

• 1:06:57Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:06:57Speaker 01

  Cuz then at that point, it's like the dog can pick up on human energy, and I love dogs. I don't wanna upset the dog.

• 1:07:03Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:07:03Speaker 01

  You know what I mean? I don't wanna give off the vibe that I don't think the dog should be here, sitting in the middle of-

• 1:07:07Speaker 04

  I know. Oh, my god.

• 1:07:10Speaker 01

  It's a hard thing, but we have to do and face hard things.

• 1:07:13Speaker 04

  This is a thing I have to think about as a future-

• 1:07:16Speaker 01

  As a future dog owner.

• 1:07:17Speaker 04

  You're gonna, do you know what kinda dog you have?

• 1:07:19Speaker 02

  No.

• 1:07:21Speaker 04

  I, but I'm-

• 1:07:22Speaker 02

  Like, it could be any range, or do you know, like, size, or have you zoned in on size?

• 1:07:26Speaker 04

  It can be, uh, I'm gonna say...

• 1:07:33Speaker 04

  Like, uh-

• 1:07:35Speaker 01

  This also will-

• 1:07:35Speaker 04

  Border collie and smaller.

• 1:07:37Speaker 01

  Right, so this-

• 1:07:38Speaker 04

  But it's not, it's not, I don't wanna border collie.

• 1:07:39Speaker 02

  Right, right, right. You're just talking about range, yeah.

• 1:07:41Speaker 04

  Just range, like, no higher than that table.

• 1:07:44Speaker 01

  He wants a corgi chihuahua.

• 1:07:46Speaker 04

  No, I don't.

• 1:07:46Speaker 02

  Well, my only advice would be-

• 1:07:48Speaker 01

  He's always one. No, that's not true.

• 1:07:50Speaker 02

  No, I think you're more elevated, but my, my only advice would be that, and this'll really piss you off, just get the kinda dog you can fly with.

• 1:07:57Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 1:07:58Speaker 04

  I understand, no.

• 1:07:59Speaker 02

  And I'm sure-

• 1:07:59Speaker 01

  Agree.

• 1:07:59Speaker 02

  I'm sure, but I mean, dude, a do- like, dog in the cockpit on the plane?

• 1:08:03Speaker 01

  Dog on the plane, fine.

• 1:08:04Speaker 04

  Dog on the plane, fine.

• 1:08:05Speaker 01

  Dog on the plane is fine. Dog anywhere is fine, as long as we-

• 1:08:09Speaker 04

  Cuz dog's not gonna be in the aisle.

• 1:08:09Speaker 01

  Are, are acknowledging the fact-

• 1:08:11Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:08:11Speaker 01

  Other people aren't gonna be as excited about this as me.

• 1:08:14Speaker 04

  Sure, sure, sure, sure.

• 1:08:14Speaker 01

  That is all I'm saying. It's, it's, bring your dog, do whatever, it's just, you know, people may have an issue with it if it's in the way, and coming up to the table smelling the food, I, I, when I'm, when I'm sitting there and the dog is now in the business.

• 1:08:29Speaker 04

  Right. It seems like you and your wife, like, understand.

• 1:08:31Speaker 02

  Well, let me tell you something. I, I, with all the things I've admitted to, I always do a, I'm so sorry. Like, I, I'm, I'm preemptively doing it, and then also if something happens, I'm like, hey, I'm sorry. I don't assume someone wants to be sniffed by my dog, cuz I don't know. Maybe they have a traumatic thing with the dog, maybe they don't. My wife, I'll be honest, not, like, I don't talk poorly about her, but she seems to think everyone's, like, blessed by the dog-

• 1:08:53Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:08:53Speaker 02

  Visiting them.

• 1:08:54Speaker 01

  She's thus-

• 1:08:55Speaker 02

  Not my opinion.

• 1:08:55Speaker 04

  I don't think you're talking poorly about your wife.

• 1:08:57Speaker 02

  She does listen to this podcast, by the way.

• 1:08:58Speaker 01

  Okay, okay.

• 1:08:58Speaker 02

  So, by the, you know, just so you know, the, the culture piece, that I don't think so, honey, all of that. And I don't think so, honey, I knew, just cuz that's so in the culture.

• 1:09:05Speaker 01

  Yeah, it's in-

• 1:09:06Speaker 02

  The culture thing, though.

• 1:09:07Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:09:07Speaker 02

  She, on my way here, was like, do you have your culture-

• 1:09:10Speaker 04

  Wow.

• 1:09:11Speaker 02

  Ready? Do you have your I don't think so, honey, ready? FaceTime me, what are you wearing? There was a lot of stuff. That's how much she loves the podcast.

• 1:09:18Speaker 01

  She's a reader.

• 1:09:18Speaker 02

  She's totally a reader and a publicist, I would say, actually.

• 1:09:21Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah, publicist actually would be more her type.

• 1:09:23Speaker 02

  Cuz I heard her telling, uh, a bunch of her friends that they had to, like, she was, there was a podcast conversation came up.

• 1:09:31Speaker 01

  And she said, you gotta listen to Lost Culture.

• 1:09:33Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 1:09:34Speaker 01

  And did you feel proud of us?

• 1:09:36Speaker 02

  Totally. Oh, my god, are you kidding?

• 1:09:37Speaker 04

  Oh, my god.

• 1:09:38Speaker 02

  Absolutely, absolutely. And her friends are, you know, they were, oh, we listened to it, and they're in Saudi, and they're in, like, Bahrain, and so-

• 1:09:45Speaker 04

  Oh, my god. That's amazing.

• 1:09:47Speaker 02

  You guys are global. Yeah, yeah.

• 1:09:49Speaker 01

  Holy heck.

• 1:09:50Speaker 04

  That's amazing.

• 1:09:51Speaker 02

  Yeah, just think about it, as you, you know.

• 1:09:52Speaker 01

  As I say things about people.

• 1:09:54Speaker 02

  As you say stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, just global.

• 1:09:56Speaker 01

  As you say stuff.

• 1:09:57Speaker 04

  I have something that is truly global, and I think it will change, will touch, well, well, it won't change lives, but it will touch them.

• 1:10:03Speaker 01

  Hmm. This is Bowen Yang's global I don't think so, honey, he hopes will touch lives. Not necessarily change, but touch.

• 1:10:10Speaker 04

  There's no way, there's no recourse to it.

• 1:10:11Speaker 01

  His time starts now.

• 1:10:13Speaker 02

  I don't think so, honey, the modern experience of buying spinach at the store. The fuck am I gonna do with 11 ounces? And why am I walking out the grocery store with a damn terrarium? And it's gonna sit in my fridge and look pretty, sure, but that's all you're good at, spinach? Looking pretty in the, in the fridge because you're set dressing, not salad dressing, cuz that's actually shelf-stable. That's a shelf-stable legend in the refrigerator ecosystem.

• 1:10:42Speaker 01

  30 seconds.

• 1:10:43Speaker 02

  But for spinach, oh, but you say it cooks down, Bowen, it cooks down. Yes, that's the problem. It has the material density of cotton candy. It takes up a lot of space while not having much matter in it, so that by the time it cooks down-

• 1:10:58Speaker 01

  15 seconds.

• 1:10:59Speaker 02

  It is a thimble of wet leaves. What the hell am I supposed to do with this? Oh, but then the, the, the solution is frozen spinach. Well, do you wanna make a frittata? You can't with frozen spinach cuz there's too much water, cuz you're defrosting a sponge.

• 1:11:14Speaker 01

  And that's one minute. How would things change to create a perfect world for you?

• 1:11:19Speaker 02

  I think no spinach.

• 1:11:21Speaker 01

  None ever?

• 1:11:22Speaker 02

  No spinach. We have to, we have to, we have to figure out another leafy green that has whatever iron content or whatever we love about spinach nutritionally. I do love spinach.

• 1:11:31Speaker 01

  Kale.

• 1:11:32Speaker 04

  What if it was saved just for smoothies?

• 1:11:36Speaker 02

  Totally. I think spatially, it's taking up so much in the fridge. It is, the footprint is enormous, and, and we all have to bear the weight. It's not heavy, but it is large.

• 1:11:50Speaker 01

  Hmm, it's voluminous.

• 1:11:51Speaker 02

  And that is, there's something very dissonant about that experience. We all take spinach home, we're like, I guess I, I guess I gotta be the person who eats 11 ounces of spinach in, in four days before it goes bad.

• 1:12:01Speaker 04

  Dude, I didn't even, by the way, when you said the frozen spinach thing, I didn't even know people were pitching that.

• 1:12:06Speaker 02

  People love frozen spinach. I'm not against it principally, but I just think it's not, it's not giving.

• 1:12:12Speaker 04

  No, what you said really made me think a lot, cuz I, I don't know how often I ever finish the vegetables in my fridge.

• 1:12:19Speaker 01

  Oh, they don't get finished.

• 1:12:20Speaker 04

  I was thinking about this, where I was like, over the course of the year,

• 1:12:23Speaker 02

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:12:24Speaker 04

  Go out, do shops, how often, whether between travel, when you get invited to things or whatever, how often am I successfully clearing my fridge?

• 1:12:33Speaker 02

  You do get invited to things.

• 1:12:34Speaker 04

  Before, yeah, I do.

• 1:12:36Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 1:12:36Speaker 04

  No, um, uh-

• 1:12:38Speaker 01

  Got him.

• 1:12:39Speaker 04

  But...

• 1:12:42Speaker 04

  How often am I actually getting through the stuff? Like, without throwing out kinda that zucchini that got, like, you ever, you know when you take stuff out of your-

• 1:12:50Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 1:12:50Speaker 04

  And it's, it's like fucked up.

• 1:12:52Speaker 01

  Yeah, it's crazy.

• 1:12:53Speaker 04

  It's like been beaten down.

• 1:12:54Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:12:55Speaker 04

  Like, you can't believe, like, it smells.

• 1:12:56Speaker 01

  And it was your responsibility.

• 1:12:58Speaker 04

  And it's white, and it's just got all this shit all over it.

• 1:13:00Speaker 01

  You've allowed it to become this.

• 1:13:02Speaker 04

  Yeah, and that happened on your watch.

• 1:13:04Speaker 01

  Yeah, something started living in there.

• 1:13:06Speaker 02

  Yeah. But with, with spinach, okay, so with all these things you're describing, carrots, whatever, other, other, like, vegetables, it's like this big.

• 1:13:12Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:13:12Speaker 02

  Oh, that's too bad, toss it in the trash. With spinach, it is an enormous crate that you have to then try to fit into a garbage bag or whatever, or put into your compost. It's just so demoralizing.

• 1:13:27Speaker 01

  It's just so ridiculous.

• 1:13:29Speaker 02

  I, I really, I've, I've had it.

• 1:13:34Speaker 02

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• 1:14:24Speaker 01

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• 1:14:29Speaker 02

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  Hey, Bowen, point of order. It feels like nothing is what it says it is anymore.

• 1:15:30Speaker 02

  Point of answer, it's because everything has a catch.

• 1:15:33Speaker 01

  Hey, or it turns out to be something else entirely.

• 1:15:35Speaker 02

  Like a total catfish situation.

• 1:15:36Speaker 01

  Exactly, Bo.

• 1:15:37Speaker 02

  Except for hotels.com.

• 1:15:39Speaker 01

  Yeah, that one's pretty literal.

• 1:15:40Speaker 02

  Because it's hotels.com, it's in the domain. You go there, you book hotels, hundreds of thousands of them.

• 1:15:47Speaker 01

  And hold up, that's it?

• 1:15:48Speaker 02

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• 1:15:52Speaker 01

  Every stay?

• 1:15:53Speaker 02

  Every stay, no tracking or managing, just rewards that can be used like cash on future bookings.

• 1:15:58Speaker 01

  Which, by the way, already feels nicer than most rewards programs, okay?

• 1:16:01Speaker 02

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• 1:16:06Speaker 01

  Does that mean no weird restrictions?

• 1:16:07Speaker 02

  And no blackout dates. Book what works when it works. It's actually really fitting of real travel.

• 1:16:14Speaker 01

  So the name is honest, you're saying? And the rewards are too?

• 1:16:17Speaker 02

  Exactly. Hotels.com, it's all in the name.

• 1:16:21Speaker 01

  Okay, we've been talking about QP Mail for a minute now, Bo, and wow, the feedback we're getting. I mean, so many of y'all love this stuff.

• 1:16:28Speaker 02

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• 1:16:42Speaker 01

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• 1:16:49Speaker 02

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• 1:16:59Speaker 01

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• 1:17:05Speaker 02

  Whatever you're eating, QP it. So if you haven't tried QP yet, find the bottle with the red cap and see what everyone's talking about. You'll understand. QP, the original Japanese mayonnaise.

• 1:17:18Speaker 01

  I don't ever shop for food. I just had a horrible experience with my CRISPR because I put Spindrift in there. Don't do this.

• 1:17:26Speaker 02

  Your CRISPR?

• 1:17:28Speaker 01

  Yeah, the veggie drawer. So I put raspberry Spindrift in there, and wouldn't you know it, they all exploded. It was horrible what happened to the Spindrifts and the CRISPR, so don't do that.

• 1:17:40Speaker 04

  Wait, what? I don't get it, I don't know about this.

• 1:17:44Speaker 01

  There's a CRISPR drawer?

• 1:17:45Speaker 04

  In the fridge.

• 1:17:46Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:17:46Speaker 02

  In the fridge.

• 1:17:47Speaker 01

  I don't, I just thought it was a drawer. Vegetables and fruits in there, don't put canned stuff in there, it'll explode.

• 1:17:52Speaker 02

  The thing, and there's a setting, the CRISPR is for veggies.

• 1:17:54Speaker 04

  I've never used this.

• 1:17:55Speaker 02

  It's okay, don't worry about it.

• 1:17:57Speaker 04

  On your podcast, though, you know, your team does something I've never seen before on a podcast that I feel like people wouldn't know because the camera's going that way. Every time you ask them something, they kind of go... And then they look it up, and it's kind of incre- like...

• 1:18:09Speaker 01

  Well, play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

• 1:18:11Speaker 04

  It is, what we're asking is stupid, and they're kind of letting you know, they're like... But then despite kind of how stupid it is, they do type. I just think it's really cool.

• 1:18:20Speaker 02

  But isn't it so, aren't we sort of liberated? Like, they're scowling at us because they're stuck in a prison where they have a screen in front of them that has access to all human knowledge.

• 1:18:29Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:18:29Speaker 02

  We're just sitting here having a real human conversation.

• 1:18:31Speaker 01

  I look over there and I get frustrated sometimes because I see them not listening to the podcast, they're not engaging, they're on the computer. And then I said, "What are you doing on there?" And then they yelled at me last week, they said, "Working, always working." And I was like, "Okay, I just wanted you to Google how to spell fruit."

• 1:18:50Speaker 02

  And then they fucked up the Spindrift.

• 1:18:51Speaker 04

  And they fucked up the Spindrift.

• 1:18:52Speaker 01

  Yeah, it was them.

• 1:18:54Speaker 02

  Well, now it's time.

• 1:18:55Speaker 01

  I love our team. You are a second.

• 1:19:01Speaker 01

  It's a highly skilled coach.

• 1:19:02Speaker 02

  Highly skilled coach. Now, I think it's time for Rami's I Don't Think So Honey.

• 1:19:06Speaker 01

  This is exciting, first one ever.

• 1:19:09Speaker 04

  It's my first one, um, and I'm just bringing something to the table that I have struggled with.

• 1:19:15Speaker 01

  Why are you pointing to us with both hands?

• 1:19:17Speaker 02

  Gesticulating, I'm just kind of...

• 1:19:19Speaker 01

  Oh my god, it's gonna be I Don't Think So Honey, gay guys.

• 1:19:22Speaker 02

  Yeah, which, come on.

• 1:19:23Speaker 01

  Finally. Finally.

• 1:19:25Speaker 02

  When a straight guy does this, it's, you know, it's about to be...

• 1:19:29Speaker 01

  When a straight guy does this, it could be, "Are they becoming a mummy?"

• 1:19:33Speaker 02

  Or?

• 1:19:34Speaker 01

  Or are they hunking boobs of a woman laying on a table? Or?

• 1:19:41Speaker 02

  Are they?

• 1:19:41Speaker 01

  Third thing.

• 1:19:42Speaker 02

  Purveying their domain. Okay, this is Rami Yusuf's I Don't Think So Honey, his time.

• 1:19:46Speaker 04

  Did all this give off that much, just doing this?

• 1:19:48Speaker 02

  It's just not something, I wish gay guys would do this more, this is cool.

• 1:19:51Speaker 04

  This is, this is like inherently...

• 1:19:53Speaker 01

  This is a straight.

• 1:19:54Speaker 02

  I think so.

• 1:19:54Speaker 01

  Well, like, gay guys will just... This is a gesture? Because gay guys are like this, this, this, they do this.

• 1:19:59Speaker 02

  I was kind of gripping, like, I'm kind of just gripping the air a little bit.

• 1:20:02Speaker 01

  Also, gay guys will just point.

• 1:20:04Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 1:20:05Speaker 01

  And what you did is this.

• 1:20:08Speaker 04

  Whoa.

• 1:20:08Speaker 01

  Like, you guys?

• 1:20:09Speaker 04

  Wait, wait, you're actually bringing, I don't think I've ever pointed. Like, the what you just did?

• 1:20:15Speaker 02

  No, and that doesn't feel right.

• 1:20:16Speaker 04

  Wasn't that weird?

• 1:20:17Speaker 02

  That's weird, don't do that.

• 1:20:18Speaker 01

  Don't ever do that to me again. I didn't like it.

• 1:20:21Speaker 04

  When you just did that, that's, wow. This is, yeah.

• 1:20:25Speaker 02

  That's really good.

• 1:20:25Speaker 01

  This is authoritative.

• 1:20:27Speaker 02

  This is, okay. It's authoritative without being like, um... It's very calming, it's not, it's not, I'm threatening, it's really, I really... This is threatening, and I do this too much, and people, you've called me out, you're like, "Stop pointing."

• 1:20:38Speaker 01

  No, I, you know who points a lot is our friend Jared. Jared will see a famous person at like a restaurant and be like, "Look." And I'm like, "If you don't stop pointing, I'm gonna burn this whole place down." And I, he, then he laughs because he knows he's doing it. I'm like, "You are pointing at Dakota Johnson."

• 1:20:57Speaker 04

  And he's gay?

• 1:20:58Speaker 01

  He's gay!

• 1:20:59Speaker 02

  We're telling you, gay guys, gay guys point, and straight guys, the good ones?

• 1:21:03Speaker 01

  And he's blind, sorry, he's gay.

• 1:21:05Speaker 02

  Trump points a lot, which is why the good ones...

• 1:21:07Speaker 01

  Trump is gay.

• 1:21:08Speaker 02

  Trump's gay. Oh, and you make a joke about that.

• 1:21:11Speaker 04

  But, um...

• 1:21:13Speaker 02

  Okay. Okay, okay, so this is, ready? We're gonna tee you up.

• 1:21:17Speaker 04

  You know, I got, you realize I had nothing to say about it more? It was like, Trump's gay, and I was like, "Yeah, okay."

• 1:21:21Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:21:22Speaker 04

  Let me get to my, um...

• 1:21:23Speaker 01

  Yeah, Trump's gay. Trump's a big gay bitch.

• 1:21:26Speaker 02

  Gay guy. This is Rami Yusuf's I Don't Think So Honey, his time starts now.

• 1:21:30Speaker 04

  I don't think so, honey. Talking shit about someone right when they leave the room.

• 1:21:35Speaker 01

  No, I hate that.

• 1:21:37Speaker 04

  I hate it so much.

• 1:21:39Speaker 01

  So mean.

• 1:21:40Speaker 04

  It creates this terrible feeling in my body. I will admit, I've done it before when I was younger. This to me feels like my destructive 20s behavior. Someone leaving the room, I talk shit about them, say something about them, like whatever it is. It horrifies me, I think, too, because I go, "Whoa, what if you guys doing that to me?" Like, what, is that, is that like, I leave and you guys go, "Oh, what's going on? Like, that shirt fit him weird, he's looking a little bloated, he's looking tired." You know, like, I don't like that stuff. And I think if you're gonna say something about somebody, you should wait at least an hour. It should be thoughtful and constructive.

• 1:22:14Speaker 02

  So good.

• 1:22:15Speaker 04

  It even can be framed with like, "Are we helping him with the bloating?" You know, like, just like something like that, like, that would be really nice.

• 1:22:22Speaker 02

  How could we?

• 1:22:23Speaker 04

  And at the very, like, I think the maximum you can do, someone leaves the room, you can go...

• 1:22:28Speaker 01

  Yep. And that's one minute.

• 1:22:31Speaker 02

  That's one minute.

• 1:22:31Speaker 01

  And I was just gonna say that.

• 1:22:33Speaker 04

  Wow.

• 1:22:33Speaker 01

  Because the best...

• 1:22:34Speaker 04

  You could do that, like, if you want, because we all maybe need to decompress a little bit. Sometimes people are in the room and it's wild.

• 1:22:40Speaker 01

  We do this all the time.

• 1:22:42Speaker 04

  But then keep moving, don't fucking like, debrief it. We all know what happened. Like, you need to like, sit and do that, that's not...

• 1:22:50Speaker 02

  I love this, everyone really process on their own time for an hour, and then we can...

• 1:22:55Speaker 04

  Make sure it's thoughtful.

• 1:22:55Speaker 01

  But, but you know what, though? I will say this, let's leave space for the look that you just did. Because what Bowen and I love to do is someone will leave a room and we'll kind of do this. It's always a little bit like...

• 1:23:09Speaker 02

  What our producers do to us.

• 1:23:11Speaker 01

  And they're entitled. How, we have done things a lot, which I think from them would merit a look to each other and go... No, guarantee with us, it's more this.

• 1:23:23Speaker 02

  Yeah. That was, that's a bit, that's a lot, what you did, but yeah.

• 1:23:27Speaker 01

  This, like, just an eye roll. Okay.

• 1:23:30Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:23:31Speaker 01

  Okay. And then, and then with us, it's usually this.

• 1:23:34Speaker 04

  What?

• 1:23:35Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:23:36Speaker 04

  And just keep it moving, like, you know, I don't, it always feels weird when you start like breaking down someone's life. And it's like, oh, and then that, and then that, and then you that, and then you that, and then, and at the end of it, you feel terrible.

• 1:23:46Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:23:46Speaker 04

  It's, it's, it's satanic.

• 1:23:48Speaker 02

  I, you, this is really important because I will just say, uh, at work, like, at SNL, just because it's an office with like, lots of closed doors.

• 1:24:01Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:24:01Speaker 02

  There's just all these closed doors and people are entering and exiting rooms all the time, right? And I would clock this all the time and be like, "Wait, let's cut that out."

• 1:24:09Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:24:10Speaker 02

  And then, and so it's, I think it's actually taught me to not do that anymore.

• 1:24:14Speaker 01

  Well, that's why the culture at SNL changed.

• 1:24:17Speaker 02

  Because of me.

• 1:24:17Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:24:18Speaker 02

  Bowen said, "Hey, let's open the doors."

• 1:24:21Speaker 01

  And then he began to sing.

• 1:24:23Speaker 02

  And I began to sing. Uh...

• 1:24:25Speaker 04

  And you left once you felt the culture had been reset.

• 1:24:27Speaker 01

  Yes!

• 1:24:28Speaker 02

  That was kind of... And now it's back to being a wonderful place.

• 1:24:32Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:24:33Speaker 02

  The place it was always meant to be.

• 1:24:34Speaker 01

  Like it was, like it was in the land before time.

• 1:24:40Speaker 01

  Oh, remember that movie?

• 1:24:41Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:24:42Speaker 01

  Land Before Time?

• 1:24:43Speaker 04

  Epic.

• 1:24:44Speaker 01

  So good.

• 1:24:45Speaker 04

  The Torn Back. No, that was like, we had it. Yeah, we had it. We had the VHS.

• 1:24:49Speaker 01

  Yeah, you had the VHS. Do you know the song from it? If we hold on together. Diana Ross sang it.

• 1:24:59Speaker 04

  What?

• 1:25:00Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:25:00Speaker 04

  You want to know something? This might be like a, like a, this might be a delineating factor here. Cause I think when I would watch these movies as a kid, when the song part would happen, I was like, oh, cool. I can go to the bathroom.

• 1:25:11Speaker 01

  You would tune out?

• 1:25:12Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:25:13Speaker 01

  Oh, interesting. You were not vibing to Somewhere Out There by Five-O.

• 1:25:17Speaker 04

  Well, I was just like, there's no plot, bro. Why aren't we, can we get to something? These guys are just singing about something for four minutes. I just, it was, I was very plot focused.

• 1:25:27Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:25:27Speaker 04

  And then he starts singing and I go, I can miss this. Like if there's something I gotta handle, I don't know what you need to handle when you're like nine, but I was like, I gotta handle something. I can go do it.

• 1:25:36Speaker 01

  Get juice.

• 1:25:37Speaker 04

  Pee, poop, juice, and then come back. She's done singing and then now I can figure out where they are on the journey.

• 1:25:42Speaker 01

  Hear that?

• 1:25:43Speaker 02

  Hold on. No, no, no, no, no.

• 1:25:44Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:25:44Speaker 02

  So do you feel this way about non-verbal things? Cause I, I catch myself tuning out and like going something like, you know, folding clothes. Not action scenes, but like when there's, when there's no dialogue for like a long stretch of time. I'm like, okay, let me go fold this T-shirt or something.

• 1:25:59Speaker 04

  Uh, no, because I think there, a lot of times in film, if there's no dialogue, there is really intentional stuff happening. Action though, I'll tell you, John Wick, I'm in.

• 1:26:09Speaker 01

  You love it. I, I don't frequent those types of movies, but I do like John Wick.

• 1:26:15Speaker 04

  It's, you know what's cool about it too? And I think it actually probably overlaps with musical theater type stuff. It's all choreography.

• 1:26:21Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:26:21Speaker 04

  It's straight up.

• 1:26:22Speaker 01

  It's amazing.

• 1:26:23Speaker 04

  Oh my God, I'm gonna like every scene in each of those films, he's killing people in a totally unique way. Mapping out, it's like a dance, actually, I think. Yeah, I think that is the crossover, you know, for.

• 1:26:34Speaker 02

  Yeah, for us.

• 1:26:36Speaker 04

  Just, yeah.

• 1:26:37Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:26:37Speaker 04

  I don't know how to finish the sentence, but it, I think you felt.

• 1:26:40Speaker 01

  You believe that the cross between us is dance and violence. You get the gun, we'll bring the flight, we'll bring the beat. You bring the gun, we'll bring the beat.

• 1:26:50Speaker 04

  Yeah. See, I could have never finished that sentence, but I, I.

• 1:26:54Speaker 01

  Together. If we hold on together. Diana wrote that for you.

• 1:27:02Speaker 02

  You, you are a comedian who speaks to so many kinds of, no, hold on, hold on. You are able to speak to so many different kinds of political truths that I think you should not be afraid to finish sentences like that one.

• 1:27:16Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:27:17Speaker 02

  You know what I mean?

• 1:27:18Speaker 04

  I, yeah, I appreciate it. It's just sometimes, I think, in a room such as this, it felt like you would finish it better, which was why I did that, you know? Cause I go, why should I finish their sentence? You know, cause you guys kind of found a wrapping up there that I never would have found.

• 1:27:33Speaker 02

  That's, that's very nice.

• 1:27:34Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:27:35Speaker 02

  But.

• 1:27:37Speaker 02

  I'll leave it, I'll leave it, I'll leave it there.

• 1:27:38Speaker 01

  Well, let's leave it at this. Say a political truth.

• 1:27:45Speaker 01

  Any, any truth. Leave us with a political truth.

• 1:27:48Speaker 04

  Um.

• 1:27:50Speaker 02

  Finish the sentence.

• 1:27:51Speaker 04

  Finish the, I mean, there's so many that, um.

• 1:27:55Speaker 02

  Finish this one. Gay people are.

• 1:27:59Speaker 02

  All gay people are.

• 1:28:01Speaker 01

  All gay people are.

• 1:28:05Speaker 04

  Attracted to the same sex?

• 1:28:07Speaker 01

  Yes!

• 1:28:09Speaker 04

  I mean, that's just the definition.

• 1:28:10Speaker 01

  I loved, I loved how empirical that was.

• 1:28:14Speaker 04

  Well, I was trying to think of something like all gay people, because I'll be honest, there was an instinct that I had where I go, they are, uh, bundles of light, right?

• 1:28:22Speaker 01

  Oh, I love that.

• 1:28:24Speaker 04

  Yeah, but.

• 1:28:24Speaker 02

  But no, not, not Peter Thiel, not Sam Altman.

• 1:28:27Speaker 01

  Who are awful.

• 1:28:28Speaker 04

  This guy is fucked, bro.

• 1:28:29Speaker 02

  This guy's like, this guy is, yeah, this guy, well, there's no light in him.

• 1:28:33Speaker 01

  Oh, he's just disgusting.

• 1:28:35Speaker 04

  Yeah, I don't know. I mean, well, there's also like, like he's so, I, I assume he must only be happy when he's like doing gay stuff, cause I've never seen him happy.

• 1:28:44Speaker 02

  There are some gay people who are not happy when they do gay stuff.

• 1:28:47Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:28:47Speaker 02

  Trust.

• 1:28:48Speaker 01

  No, they're mean.

• 1:28:50Speaker 04

  Really?

• 1:28:50Speaker 02

  Like sexually, yeah.

• 1:28:51Speaker 01

  Sexually mean.

• 1:28:52Speaker 02

  They're not happy.

• 1:28:53Speaker 04

  I'm sorry, this is, this happens in, in your community.

• 1:28:56Speaker 01

  This happens. I'm sorry, this happens in your community. It's so good.

• 1:29:02Speaker 02

  It's perfect.

• 1:29:03Speaker 01

  Oh, thank you.

• 1:29:04Speaker 04

  That's actually my political statement.

• 1:29:05Speaker 01

  Thank you so much.

• 1:29:06Speaker 04

  I'm sorry this happens in your community.

• 1:29:07Speaker 01

  I'm sorry that, and whatever happens bad in, in, in anyone's community out there. I'm sorry that that happens.

• 1:29:14Speaker 04

  I'm sorry, yeah, yeah.

• 1:29:16Speaker 01

  Well, this has been.

• 1:29:18Speaker 02

  It's been a wonderful episode, truly.

• 1:29:20Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:29:20Speaker 02

  I've loved this.

• 1:29:21Speaker 01

  I loved this.

• 1:29:22Speaker 02

  We love you, Rami.

• 1:29:23Speaker 01

  We love you.

• 1:29:24Speaker 04

  I love you guys. This is so fun. Thanks for having me.

• 1:29:26Speaker 01

  We're so, what a vibe.

• 1:29:27Speaker 04

  Maybe I'll see you, uh, maybe I'll get an invite to the Culture Awards.

• 1:29:31Speaker 02

  Well, got it.

• 1:29:32Speaker 04

  And maybe it'll, you know, not be in LA and then we'll all be there, you know?

• 1:29:37Speaker 01

  Watch this space.

• 1:29:39Speaker 02

  Watch this space.

• 1:29:40Speaker 04

  It sounds like it's coming to New York.

• 1:29:41Speaker 02

  It'll probably be in LA again.

• 1:29:42Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 1:29:43Speaker 02

  The unions, the unions.

• 1:29:44Speaker 04

  It's like a union thing and like a venue thing?

• 1:29:46Speaker 02

  It is actually.

• 1:29:47Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:29:47Speaker 02

  But they deserve to be paid, but we're not being given the money.

• 1:29:51Speaker 01

  But that doesn't mean.

• 1:29:52Speaker 04

  I'm sorry, that's happening in your community.

• 1:29:54Speaker 01

  Thank you. That doesn't mean that, and we end every episode with a song.

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• 1:30:15Speaker 01

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