Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

Fearless was solid and then what was after that? Speak now, which people now all three of those albums and this isn't it. This is a lost culture.

I was going to say yes for this they're going to change the rules because the Oscars famously don't matter anyway if Green Book wins wow this is going to play after Green Book has won right it's like after Green Book or Bohemia and Rhapsody has taken home the gold oh my god it's sick they're going to tie the world we live in is incredibly sick

I was given reading material, Michael Schulman's Oscar Awards. Fabulous. Yes. So good. So readable, very thick and encyclopedic, but like the way he writes is so narrative and fun.

Matt, you're going to fucking love it.

Parade, if you all don't know out there is a musical. It's a Jason Robert Brown musical about the trial conviction and hanging of Leo Frank, who many historians believe was incorrectly and unjustly tried for and hung for the crime of murdering a 13 year old factory girl in Atlanta.

It deals with issues of antisemitism. It deals with issues of race.

It's just a really stirring show that I cannot recommend enough.

It's really good. I think a contender for best revival and Ben should absolutely be up there for best actor in a musical.

His voice is fucking crazy Bowen. It's like we all know he can sing and belt to fucking high hell, but there's moments where he goes into his lower register that I had...

Like a recent episode with author and podcaster Glynis McNicol on her new memoir, "I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself."

Ding dong last culture is calling back at the table back at the Fifty Shades table

connie britain is the best part of american crime story people versus obispo oh wait you play res just say did you watch american crime story you would love you would have loved selma blair i love that now that whole crowd because they're very like real hausels of ebbly hills too is like oh sure yeah that's like all like every once in a while real hausels of

it's so fucking heavy handed but i'm saying like this is how the kardashians were made that is how they were made in that one moment at that one restaurant the thesis of american crime story is wow what a shame that he got away also this is how the kardashians so um call back to last episode where one of the rules of culture was have to mention or when you have to mention something you always have to mention i have to mention that um for one david schwimmer like i can't stand him but i am like so attracted to him and myself especially in that piece of content of

Cuz you know what suit and I went to the theater the other day looked around The it was What the Constitution Means to Me Heidi Shrek phenomenal.

Everyone, please go see it. She made some big big true statements about how the founding document of our country is Actively working against marginalized communities and you could feel the buttholes the white buttholes Upper middle-class buttholes clench in that fucking audience and you know what I realized this is second This is most Broadway audiences and picture Sardi's right now I can all of the families in there probably white and I'm I don't mean to like get to this very like reductive level about race, but Broadway audiences The reason I have had to catch up on a lot of theater because I did not grow up in a theater loving family And most families of color probably didn't have access to that either and I'm doing a lot of ketchup culturally but I'm happy to do but I'm realizing that the there is a the gap the gatekeepers are The gatekeepers are white the people are white The gatekeepers are the people who are just sitting in the seats in the first place and they're displacing other people from seeing theater And that's one minute.

Three years late but I'm on almost like within pages of finishing Taniheesey Quarcoats.

Oh Taniheesey goes Between the World and Me?

It's so good. It's so, I've inhaled it. Like I started yesterday and it's great.

It makes me want to have a kid. But also like it's just effused in tragedy and racial history.

It's so right. It's so succinctly and poetically. It's beautiful. Really renders the situation palpable.

Well, let's sit here and go... I mean, it's fine. Yeah, sure, sure, sure. So you just have to like go through all that.

I just saw Michael Urie's play 'Torch Song', well, Harvey Fierstein's play, yeah, 'Torch Song' starring Michael Urie, yes.

And that's why I say I feel dull, stupid, and bad because it just... it just melted me in all the best ways. Yeah, it is essential viewing if you're in New York and you and you have to see it because I mean I... I remember I saw the movie when I was in college.

It is like... I came in and said it's our 'Glass Menagerie' or our 'Our Town', it's that seminal and it's that important and it's funny and it's heartbreaking, it punches you across the soul. It is so good, damn it.

It's called I'll Show Myself Out, it's essays on midlife and motherhood.

I am absolutely loving this and it's really caused me to, I don't know about you Bo, but like really renegotiate and like think again about me being a child and thinking more and really considering my mother in a way that I never had until reading this and I just can't say enough about it. It's so funny, it's so good, so smart.

Hey, I just finished it today, I loved it. Just the end is really special.

Your last book, You'll Go Out of It, was like my last great like subway read.

It was just one of those books where I was like, damn, like I feel like she's really, she, you write with that, I know, such like a crispness.

From '13 Reasons Why'. Miss Books.

I tried to start Station Eleven and I just need to go back to it at some point.

But I know it's brilliant and I know it's wonderful.

I very much love the show Bosch and it's based on these novels named Bosch but in the novels originally the character of Bosch is rich because there was a Bosch TV show based on a case of this. So the TV show starts and he's got a Bosch poster in his house and you're kind of like okay so there's a different Bosch TV show in the TV universe.

Okay I get it but another weird thing about the novels and they've sold 100 million copies is the Lincoln lawyer is the half brother of Bosch. It's written by the same author they also made a movie of the Lincoln lawyer with Matthew McConaughey.

And they do overlap in some of the novels I guess I haven't read those but in a recent Bosch book I'm reading the book which is narrated by the actor who plays Bosch on an audiobook. He calls his half brother Mickey Holler the Lincoln lawyer and his half brother answers hey like hey little brother all right, all right, all right and then in the book it says his brother has taken to doing a Matthew McConaughey impression after they made a movie based on him starring Matthew McConaughey.

Like my Sideways life.

I love that. And I've read that and I love Chelsea's books.

Did you know Lost Culturistas is in bed with DC Vertigo, the legendary Legs and Dairy comic book imprint behind Sandman, Why the Last Man, Preacher, and more?

And yes, I know there is going to be Lost Culturistas ads in DC Vertigo comic books.

Isn't that a brand new chapter in the Sandman universe?

Yes.