"Chi-Con" (w/ Maggie Winters)

0:00This is an iHeart Podcast, Guaranteed Human. Hey, so what if you could boost the Wi-Fi to one of your devices when you need it most? Because X-Finity Wi-Fi can, and what if your Wi-Fi could fix itself before there's even really a problem? X-Finity is so reliable, it does that, too. What if your Wi-Fi had parental instincts? X-Finity Wi-Fi is part nanny part ninja, protecting your kids while they're online. And finally, what if your Wi-Fi was like the smartest Wi-Fi? Yeah, it's Wi-Fi that is so smart, it makes everything work better together. Bottom line, X-Finity is smart and reliable. You deserve the peace of mind of having Wi-Fi that's got your back. X-Finity. Imagine that. We all know the feeling when life gets really busy, taking care of yourself can feel impossible. That's why Premiere Protein Shakes are my go-to. They have 30 grams of protein, 160 calories, no added sugar, and they taste amazing. So there are a healthy choice you'll actually want to make.

1:01It's not just for fitness, it's for getting after life. Premiere Protein powers me to say yes to more. Find your favorite flavor at premierprotein.com. That's P-R-E-M-I-E-R, protein.com. Rule of culture number 212, having taste means knowing where to look. When we're planning a night out or pretending we invented a neighborhood, we start at New York City Tourism. NYCTourism.com covers all five boroughs with culture guides, TV taping schedules, dining, and free stuff your wallet will applaud. It's made for locals, visitors, and every Katie in the group chat. Before you ask, what are we doing tonight? Go check NYCTourism.com. Look, man. Oh, I see. Wow. Oh, look over there. Wow. It's not a culture. Yes. Wow. Last culturedistas. Ding dong. Last culturedistas calling. Go ahead. Tell them what you're chomping on. And just do one, because there's miscellaneous girls who can get upset. Well, it's impossible to just do one with Chicago style,

2:01because you're going to use the caramel and the cheddar. Oh. Do you still have one out there? Here we go. I got two. I got one of each. And this is it. Mmm. This is it. Cook County Classic. Garrett Popcorn Chops. This is the shit they have at O'Hare. This is as classic. This is as Chicago as Kevin. This is as Chicago as the name on every bad. These lips is going to be Garrett. Oh, my God. A Chicago tradition since 1949. I, can I say, I've not been back to Chicago since pre-pandemic. Oh, you haven't? No, I forgot. I am a Chicago girl. You're a Chicon. I'm a Chicon. What? Excuse me? It's a Chicon. No, I wouldn't say that. Remember, remember Chicago in the 90s. Let's just, I want to bring your guest into this. Obviously, she's a Chicago lover. Oh, yes. Well, yes. Bulls. Oprah. Yeah. I mean, and I would name a third thing.

3:03Oh, well. Home alone. I mean, home alone. You did it. Yeah. And this is a great tribute to one Miss Catherine O'Hare. Of course. But yeah. You know, I go every year. So I think I'm a little spoiled. I, you are. Oh, my God. I go there at least once a year, actually, because I tore in December, which by the way, nobody does Christmas like Chicago. And I'm sorry in New York, but there's like a corporate feel in the way that New York does Christmas. Paul Buildings. Yeah. I say this is the expert. And then you go to Chicago, and it's just much more lived in. It's much more like real Christmas. You can tell every, all the lights are kind of thrown up there. We're going to the Wiener Circle. And there's a little too much of them. You know what I mean? Right. There was no corporate voice to rain to them. Can I say the craziest new years I've ever had. Talk about it. Chicago, going from Berlin, RIP to Scarlett, people throwing up in the streets, me and Sam Taggart circa 2012, blasting the supersonic racing soundtrack, the sonic. The hedgehog soundtrack is full of house classics.

4:05Yeah. No one ever, when I put on my video game, I want to hear those club classics literally culture. Number eight. When I put on my video game, I want to hear those club classics. Anyway. I'm sorry. Our guest just gifted us these gorgeous Garrett, and it lit you up. I am so Chicago. I'm activated with the Chicago best summers in the country aren't Chicago. Let's go. Let's go to summer. Oh, I love Chicago so much. Let's put me in Chanel in Chicago. I have not been able to stop singing the song. Put me in Chanel. Say you love me now, put me in Chanel. It's got to be a record of the year nominee. Oh, that's interesting. I'm going to talk about it at a time point on the pod. We are going to talk about at this point in the pod is our guest. Wow. She is. I remember meeting her also pre-pandemic and being like, this fucking girl, get this met her in Chicago because she opened up for me on tour love, absolutely brought the house down at the Vic theater in Chicago. One of my favorite theaters in Chicago.

5:07And basically it was love at first sight, it was love at first sight. She's a Chican. She's a Chican. She's a Chican. Actually, we're going to move past this. I just wanted to mention the first time I heard the term chai town was, which is also, is it chai or chai? So then there's a show on showtime called the chai, the chai, but I thought it might have been called the chai. Well, we're not really the experts here. We have an expert here. We have an expert here. Her solo show is coming out March 17th, our Patrick's Day, Margarit. Yep. It has a beautiful structure that I want to talk about. It really shines a light on live love culture. Think fully, the song by journey. She hosts literally life changing. Is that what it's called? Thankfully. No. Journey song is called faithfully, faithfully, not to be confused with traders. With traders. Wait. Faithfully. Absolutely. Absolutely. This is all stuff we're going to get clarified by our guest, who's also an expert on journey.

6:08He's an expert on journey. She is a chai con, a chai con. I can't wait for her to clear this up. March 17th. Check it out. YouTube and upright citizens brigade distributors. Come on. Come on. Everyone. Please welcome up. Maggie Winters. Maggie Winters. That is so crazy to hear those words. Well, this feels. This feels very real. In the words of the real name. Yeah. My own name. Coming out of your mouth. Andy Cohen's about to bullvert your name out. I will be sick when that happens. Yeah. So you're going behind the bar. So is this happening Wednesday night? Yeah. When this comes out. When this comes out. Or we'll come out later. It'll come out Sunday. See. No problem. No problem. It's not live anymore. Watch what happens. Pre-taped. She's tired. You know, she's got kids. Yeah. I don't know about that. You can ask him. That's a bit of a kid there. So is that real? It's chai. Thank you. Chai town. Chai con. They say chai rush, which my dad really doesn't like, but the chai.

7:12My brother was a set deck on the chai. Oh my god. Oh my god. It's called the chai not the chai. Not the chai. Do people ever call it the chai? You're. Y'all are lower the rings. That is. We should start saying that. You should start saying that. Well, then at first there was the bad thing people would say, chai rock, because they were of course. Of course. Well, people have to make everything bad a little bit. Of course. It's actually a little quotient number nine. People have to make everything bad a little bit. Not Chicago. Including the person that told me to get a new hairstyle today. Let's talk about that. Let's talk about that. I don't. I just. This is my hair. It's thin. What do you want from me? Well, first of all. I just. I just take issue with you need. Okay. So I brought up Maggie's amazing. I just want to really shine a line on this because it really kind of helped shift the paradigm a little bit for me. It was you and John really were talking about bean soup theory. Yes. So do you want to explain what bean soup theory is? Yes. So now I understand that is that an actual video girl posted on TikTok for a recipe for bean soup. Of course. Of course.

8:12Okay. We all love. No, I'm not a bean girl. Do you guys like beans? I love beans. I love any soup. My dad is like, oh, really? You need to hang out with my dad. You're anti bean. No. And it's the battle between me and my dad every day. I see the battle. What's because you need to be eating beans. Have you ever had a white bean lentil? No. You can't talk about this. You can't talk about this. I can't talk about beans. No. Yes. Talk about the bean soup theory. Yes. Talk about the bean soup theory. Well, so a woman was like, here's my recipe for bean soup. I don't like beans. That's it was me. No. And it's like hairstyle. Yeah. And so the good thing I will say is I was talking about the bean soup theory in this video and someone commented, you need a new hairstyle. And then people right away were like, this is what she's talking about. Exactly. And I said, thank you. Which is the thing of like, so then this isn't for you. It's not for you. There's the entirety of human thought out there on the internet. Yes. You can just keep swiping. Or send it to the group chat. Right. So this, I hate beans. And then they're probably going to ignore it anyway because it's so stupid. Well, you send it to the group chat so they can tell you what to think.

9:14Yeah. You know what I mean? It's like, hey, I wasn't sure of an avian opinion. What do you guys think? And then they, the group chat will always have a strong opinion. That's will go to number 10. Yes. The group chat will always have a strong opinion. So I'm already loving that we have so many rules of culture. So many rules. So many rules. So many rules. So many rules. So many rules. So many rules. So many rules. So many rules. And Chicago. In Chicago. Where I live in Chicago. In Chicago. Chicago. Chicago. Chicago. Chicago. The shy. The shy. Did you have to eliminate an accent? Did I have to? Yeah. It comes out sometime. Yeah. But it's out the south side. I guess. Okay. I shouldn't say, did you have to eliminate an accent? Because I don't hear it all like when you speak. It depends on like if I'm with my family a lot. My mom is like, we're going to the jewels. It's huge. I'm like, what? Uh-huh. Can I even point out, I'm sorry, I don't mean to make yourself conscious. Even my mom. My mom, yeah, no, can I say I love Midwestern. Yeah, I love it. I almost picked different my culture, but then I freaked out. Why? Just the culture of the Midwest. Oh, no, we got

10:15to talk about cheese balls or whatever. He skirts or cheese balls. No, cheese balls. The big thing of cheese balls. The big thing of cheese balls. Oh, my God. I'm reducing. I'm bastardizing Midwest culture. We're so sweet. We'd love it. First of all, I now occasionally will go to Grand Rapids, Michigan. Love because that's where Henry and Ethan live. Remember Henry and Ethan? Of course. Henry Kupinski. Kupersky. Kupersky. No, no, no, no. Kupinski. Kupersky. It's all coming out of the car now, but they live out there now and they have the most lovely little life in Grand Rapids, Michigan. And everyone is, it's true what they say. Kindness reigns. Of course. Kindness reigns. My mind is like, I think I like this life. Remember that? What's that? Yeah. I'm from Tiktok. This really can't restart it. But for so long, it was a trend. I think people would just show like that meeting dinner. See. And it was a Midwest thing. Midwest. No, it was all over Tiktok. Where were you? Oh, I don't really do Tiktok. No, I

11:15no longer have one. Because they'll tell you to change your hair. Because they'll tell you to change your hair. I feel like you have a you have a claim and like a dominance over it. I, yeah, because at some point it's just like I'm older than I'm we're all the same age. I think right. Yeah. We're all metal forces. We're all 22. We're all 22 years. And I'm just like, it's, I'm, I'm, you're some millennial about it. It's like, yeah, I am a millennial. Right. Can I say the use of millennial as like a bad word? I'm like, come on. Because it really happened like that. Yeah. Sure. It's now, I'm hoping now it's at the stage where it's like people are kind of tired of it. But right. Well, I, I can't wait. No, it's, it happens like that because as soon as you could put the word elder in front of them, and it had to stick on it, right? Elder millennial. So, so like eventually you'll say like elder Z or elder Gen Z or some such. Yeah. You know what I mean? You didn't, you didn't have elder Gen X. No, you didn't. Can I say this is Eliza's last singer's fault? What do you mean? Her special is called elder millennial. It is. It's a one of her many

12:17specials. It's called that. And I had never heard that before. And I was like elder millennial. I opened for her once. I'll give her a call. We'll give her a call. Give her a call. Marguerite is the title of your special. Yes. Full name. That's my full name. Beautiful. My grandma's name. French Irish. Irish. Yeah. But it's definitely a French name. Although. What's the story there? That's a, what did my grandma want you to? I asked her, what are her parents up to? Of course. That we have one of those little things in my house that like says me and my two brothers names, and then like words from and the flower associated and like what it means. But mine says spanish. It says margarita spanish. Okay. Oh, interesting. It means royal and pearl. And pearl. Royal pearl. And in French, it means daisy. In French, it means royal, daisy royal pearl. In French, you know, it just means just daisy. It just means daisy. But it's words. Yeah. It describes it. And then it's like my brother Bart, my brother Liam, me. Talk about the brothers because they co-directed. They co-directed my special because I was really like, I want someone,

13:22because it's just about me. It's like I want someone who knows me and someone who's not afraid to be real with me. And they're not at all. They should be a little bit more. I do have to say this about my brother Liam is that he's the middle one, the taller one. Six seven. Six seven. You know, sorry. Of course. He, when you first got us now, oh, yeah, he said, he was telling everyone in town, you're from Aurora, Colorado, Colorado. My brother, we have Aurora, Illinois, which is a suburb of Chicago. That's right. He's going to everyone. He's going to the new western algai from Chicago. He's telling everyone he meets the other Chicago comedian. We're so proud. Yeah. Some days someone goes, he's from Colorado. My brother goes, what? I've been telling everyone for years that Bonyang is a Chicago guy. I was accepting it because I was like, it's weird he never did Chicago comedy, but maybe he's right here. He is kind of a Shaikon. You are a Shaikon. I had never heard that, but I really like that. I made it up today on the way over here because I was thinking, oh, wow, she's a Chicago icon. She's a Shaikon. You're the one who called me a Chicago fried comedian once and I've

14:24ran with that. Chicago fried fried comedian. What does it mean? We don't know. We don't know. Totally. Chicago fried comedian. We're here in New York. I think we're New York grilled. Oh, interesting. Yeah, grilled. You are New York grilled. I'm poached. I'm bland. Oh, that's not true. People love poached. People poached is cute sometimes. I never get it. You hate it. You're trying to stuck up for it. Poached is good when you're like making soup. You're kind of poached. We'll just like a poached breast. I check it in a moment. And what's the difference between that and based in? Based in is like you're taking the juices and just like re sort of applying it to the protein or the roast. Just in cash over here. No, no, no. Oh, my God. Interesting. Oh, interesting. I would love to have some lunch and I love watching these people and I'm just like, I could never do anything they're doing and I'm going, that's disgusting. You're disgusting. Can I ask you

15:27please? Everyone becomes an expert. Do and with that in mind. Yeah. Do you miss podma? Yeah. And what do you think about the culinary cup? Wait, what's the culinary cup? It's essentially her new show, which like is top chef, but not. I didn't know about that. I was watching it and I have the trailer for it and I was like, I mean, of course, I'm like all in because it's podma and it's this. And I also miss podma on top chef. All love and respect to Kristen Kish who is amazing. It's just like podma just was a little hot me his top chef. Yeah, of course, she definitely was like, what are you doing? Right. Her delivery style was like, do you always fuck up this way? Is this how you cook a poached egg? What do you, is this a different culture thing? Right, right, right. But what do you think of this? Like there's a new top chef that is top chef, but it's not top chef. So then I make, was there drama? She want to come back and they were like, Oh, honey, I don't think so. You know, I don't think so. I think so. I don't think so. I don't. I feel like you never know. Maybe she's just like saw an offer and was like, maybe she's

16:30making my money because it's like her show probably at the end of the day, at the end of the day, at the end of the day, at the end of the day, she came on this podcast a few years ago and we found out that she is, you know, she wrote a glossary of spices. Hello. What did you say? She wrote an insectopede of spices because she has like one of the most developed palettes in the world. But which of which with this we knew? So what does that mean? Like you open a book and oh yeah, and keep going. What do you what happens? You open a book and there's, you know, there's a whole page that's like paprika. And what it is and like what should go on? Yes. I actually need that, I think I think everyone needs it. But actually this is this is now this I'm going to say this for I don't think so honey. Okay. Save it. Or we can start now. Spices take like the footprint of spices in the home is too big. Like I now got it by a fucking book. Sorry Padma, but it's like the rack itself is taking up a whole last counter. But at that point, it's kind of like when it rains

17:31right? It's like, okay, so you have all the spice rack. You might as well have a spice glossary, a spice and cyclopedia written by Padma so that they go together. How often are you touching clothes? How often are you touching one time a year? Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving. Also all throughout the holiday season, if you make a say it with me hot toddy. Oh my god. Clothes are a huge part of hot toddy. It's actually real culture number 11. Clothes are a huge part of hot toddy. It's technically not even a hot toddy if you don't have them. Do you like when the guest goes in with yes? Yes. Because sometimes I'm like, I don't want to step on a new one's toes. No, no, no, I'm saying it at home. I'm listening to him saying it with you guys. Our toes are flat. I mean, step on them. These things have been flattened so. Oh my god. I've got the biggest feet in America. Honey. Let me see. For a girl. I'm not seeing it. Not as a loving shot at the paracelton. She's the only real one who started a footline footline. Is that what she was doing? Just she have large feet size 11 feet. Paracelton does. Maybe she got him shrunk.

18:33I don't know. But yeah, at a time she was like, I'm starting shoes for the girls. That's even though the stars. Even though the stars are crazy. Even though the guys are crazy. Even though the stars are blind. It really is a bump. And unfortunately you can't hear it without going like this. I don't understand. Are the stars blind in fact? You know what doesn't matter. We got to think about that one. I have to think about it. You added a little high and you got to eat the popcorn. You can think about that. Of course, we have a question for you guys. Do you think that the culture of taking out the spices from their original thing, putting it in a jar and labeling it and then putting it is good or bad? That is that's giving like the internet that I'm not on. I shut her out when I see it, which is like organization, like closet organization culture. Yes, which scares me a little bit. It's not realistic. This is just my thing with spices and spice racks. If our life were the Sims, it would take up

19:38an entire tile in our home. You know what I mean? It takes up an entire Sims square. Sims square. And that's what I am like that, but I'm not using this. Yeah. You know what I mean? What do you think is hard left? Is the Midwest culture? What do you think is the Midwest culture that people don't talk about enough? Oh my god. Because they talk about like food. They talk about, they're always like you guys you disgusting casserole food. It's like it's good. It's good. It's good. Relaxed. Vistachio salad if you had that. Tell. It is kind of messed up. There's a couple of names for it. Embrogeous salad. Embrogeous salad. That's good. That's very literally still. It's still a chill habit. Well, let's see here. It's like marshmallows. Vistachio. It's like a you can get it at the grocery store. It's gooped up. It has apples in it. It's so good. There's also a version that has snickers in it. People are serving this. I'm dead. And if they call it a salad. Yes. Embrogeous. But salad is so much easier. I think anyone realizes what

20:41defines a salad? A colloid. Is there fruit or vegetable in it? Is that what it is? Because I was like fruit salad, obviously. Because I was like, is it just vegetable, but there's also fruit. Right. Yeah. Let us know what you guys think of salad. I was lucky. No, I don't know about that kind of stuff. No, but I think there's like different versions. But you can get it at the grocery store and it's just like a sweet pineapple in it, I think. Okay. So far we have more. So maybe you don't know about this. That's a good one. Yes. This is really good. No, this is huge. So far we have marshmallows, apples, pineapple. I haven't heard of it for some time. Stachios. There is pistachios. Sometimes I think snickers is salad as a separate one. There's definitely one that's like, yeah, then like, but it's like, I think the marshmallows may be melted a little bit. I never made it, but I do. I'll get it at the grocery store. I don't, I'm not scared to get it at the grocery store. No, no, no. I want you guys to try. I don't need to go. I want to. Well, what aisle in the grocery store? What did you say? The deli. The deli and say that's that green thing, but it didn't a little pound thing or whatever.

21:41Of course. Chicken salad. Oh, big time. Well, but you love chicken salad. I, you know, I had tunas today. Oh, I, I said see that. I greeted you with the tuna salad in the air waving. I don't eat tuna. What? And I know my other thing. My dad's like, grow up, being my dad are fighting constantly about what I'm eating. And I'm not like a picky, picky eater just beans and tuna beans and tuna. Is it the smell? Yeah. Okay. But I do. I did really get into seafood lush two years ago. See Midwest people and see food. You have to hold their hands. Yeah. And my, my friend from New Jersey helped me. She held my hand. Jack Falker, I'll say her name. She tried to, first of all, I need to call her out because she's like, I'm going to challenge you to say that we're Jardinero five times on the podcast today. I was like, I'm not going to do it. Jardinero. Do you know Jardinero? Okay. This is amazing. Tell us. I almost brought you that too. Jardinero is a Chicago relish almost. You put it, you can get it hotter mild. You put it on beef. You put it on beef pizza, sausage and Jardinero pizza, tavern style. When you come, we're going to get that. Okay. Yes. And it's good. And it's, yeah, Jardinero. And it's like

22:44olives and peppers and it's an oil. Oh, and this feels like a good thing for the summer. Yes. Or the, you know, yeah. Yes. Well, anytime. And anytime. I put it on a sub. Oh, yeah. What do you say? Hogi? Like, what's your? Oh, no, no, no. I can't believe Hogi was a thing when I first heard it. I was like, excuse me. What? Where is Hogi? Cut, cut, rewind it back. Hogi. Hogi is like Philly. Philly. Scrapple country. Okay. You know what I mean? Yeah. I felt the way about Hogi the way I felt when I heard about Hasic. What's Hasic? What's Hasic? Another word for an ottoman, you guys. I'm test. Yeah. Like, my friend Emily was like, over there on the Hasic. And I was like, cut, rewind it back. What did you say? I just hit the mic. I didn't know it was going on Hasic. Hasic. If someone said get the Hasic, I'd for hours. I'd be like, oh, has anyone else heard of this word Hasic? I don't. Never. No one. Get the Hasic. I don't know. Okay. Knicks, you know, on Wayfarer. You've seen it on Wayfarer.

23:48One of the most ottoman-centric places you could possibly even think of. Yeah, when you saw it, did you know like, oh, I know what that is. Okay. Yeah. Right. Hasic. Ottoman is so much better. I'm having a Hogi on the Hasic. I'm having a Hogi on the Hasic. I don't know what it is. I'm having a Hogi on the Hasic. I'm having a Hogi on the Hasic. That was, that was, that was a Rural Illinois. A Rural Illinois. That was a Rural Illinois. Yeah, Jardin R, you guys got to have that. So it sounds like a top in the odd. Yes. Exactly. Okay. Love you. Yeah. Now, is it back in style to debate deep dish versus other? I don't do it. I decided one day. It's a different thing. If you're like, like a long time ago, like what was a John Sterling popped off about it. I don't, the thing is you go over there arguing about it. I'm over here eating pizza heavens. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. My family eats deep dish pizza for Christmas Eve. Yeah. And did my coworker call me white trash for that? Of course. Of course. And get these people out of your life. I don't work there anymore. I don't work there.

24:55But I remember being like, did you quit right then and there? I should have. No, I got, of course, let go. But of course, I got let go. But 23 of us dead. It's fine. 23 and me. Um, 22, 22. We have, we have for Christmas Eve, we have pizza and Chinese food. Mm-hmm. Because that on Christmas day, we like go cooking crazy, but yeah, before we're chilling. And what do you cook? I usually make the potatoes and the deserts. Okay. And you're hitting a ball this and you're touching two of the spices. Yeah. At least at the most. Yeah. For, when people say you need a lot of spices for mashed potatoes, it's like, get it grip. I don't think you need some. You need some. And your brother makes the beefs. You knew it. Yeah. Well, my one brother is a vegetarian. So very surprised. Surprise. Uh, this is Liam or Bert. Art. Art. That's not the tall one. He's six five. Well, he'd be six seven if he didn't meet. Oh my god. He's going to be pissed. Well, I hope everyone is. This is the reason you're a shy con is because I feel like earlier when you said

25:56you put it on beef. So when you pluralize beef, that feels midwestern. Beeps. Beef. Mr. Beeps. Oh, Mr. Beeps. Um, did you guys watch, um, of course I'm survivor. The Squid Game. I love survivor. You love survivor. I got to know it. No, but I was thinking of, of course, Mr. Beeps. I can't even get the name of the Chicago show about the chef, the bear bear. Why? I've lacked out the name because they won't let me audition. So they won't, they won't let you. The one actor in Chicago, they're going, ha, ha, ha. Is there a lot of Chicago locals going up for the bear? Yeah, that makes sense. I'm seeing every, I'm watching him going, everyone I know. I will say I got a lot of text season. Did you watch it? I watched the first, I watched the first season. I've seen there's a, there's a, there's a sister of like the two brothers and everyone was texting me like, you gotta get that part. And well, of course, pre-larson did get it. And it's like all my love to her. Yeah, that between like a, that random maybe came like a willing grace at show where it was like, okay, and it's all the guest stars are Brelarson. So it makes sense that it's like they're not gonna, they're auditioning celebrities or

26:56they're not auditioning. I don't know. I challenge them to have a shy con season. I challenge them to have, I think it's done now. Oh, yeah, I do think it's kind of wrapping up, right? It's done. Well, I challenge a new show. And he showed it to, to do shy con show. You guys, shy con. Come on. Come on. We just started it. I have a question. Shy con challenge. Shy con challenge. Shy con. Just shy con. Shy, shy. Shy, shy, shy, shy, shy car show. Shy con. What if your Wi-Fi was more than just Wi-Fi? What if your Wi-Fi made everything in your whole house just work together better? Well, Xfinity Wi-Fi pretty much does exactly that. It's powered by their best, most elite, high performing tech. Allow us to paint a very realistic example. Everyone in your house, everyone is on their devices at the exact same time, gaming, working, swiping right, because of course they are. And the finale of your favorite show of all

27:57time of the week is on at the exact same moment. Well, you can boost the Wi-Fi to your device with Xfinity. And have you ever asked yourself, what if my Wi-Fi could keep watching over my kids for me? Well, probably not, because that's a weird thing to ask yourself. But Xfinity Wi-Fi has parenting skills. Even if you sometimes forget yours. Xfinity is like, don't worry, I'll monitor the Wi-Fi. It's completely proactive, fixing issues before they even happen. Bottom line, Xfinity is smart and reliable. You deserve the peace of mind of having Wi-Fi that's got your back. Xfinity. Imagine that. Make everyday feel epic in the all-new Hyundai Palisade Hybrid. The Palisade Hybrid is packed full of features, cutting edge tech, up to an EPA estimated 619 miles of range on select trims. It has class leading interior space with purposeful tech. Available front row and second row relaxation seats, available class exclusive blind spot view monitor, available class exclusive dash camera feature, and seating configurations for seven to eight passengers with available third row power seats

28:58that recline. Also available, H-track all-wheel drive, so you can be ready to go anywhere in style. It also includes standard 100 watt USB-C ports, available Bose 14 speaker audio, and standard passenger talk driver intercom. The all-new Hyundai Palisade Hybrid is more than just another SUV. It's still the Palisade, but with so much more. Learn more about the Hyundai Palisade at HyundaiUSA.com, called 562-314-4603 for complete details. Price and participation may vary cannot be combined with any other offer single item at regular price. Support for the show comes from public, the investing platform for those who take it

30:02seriously. On public, you can build a multi-asset portfolio of stock, bonds, options, crypto, and now generated assets which allow you to turn any idea into an investable index with AI. It all starts with your prompt. From renewable energy companies with high free cash flow to semiconductor suppliers growing revenue over 20% year over year, you can literally type any prompt and put the AI to work. It screens thousands of stocks, builds a one-of-a-kind index, and lets you backtest it against the S&P 500. Then, you can invest in a few clicks. Generated assets are like ETFs with infinite possibilities, completely customizable, and based on your thesis, not someone else's, go to public.com slash podcast, and earn an uncapped 1% bonus when you transfer your portfolio. That's public.com slash podcast, paid for by public investing, brokerage services by open to the public investing ink, member Finra and SIPC, advisory services by public advisors LLC, SEC registered advisor. Generated assets is an interactive analysis tool. Output is for informational purposes only, and is not an investment recommendation or advice. Complete disclosures available at public.com slash disclosures. Okay, when people meet my brothers, they think Bart's like to shy or one. The shy or one?

31:05The shy or one? They're shy. They're shy. You get one drink in him, he's in the corner, he's he's talking. And this is accidental roar out at that point? Yes. My favorite thing about my brother is that in the Twitter era where everybody was like going off on Twitter. Being fine. Yeah, I would go on late at night, and my brother who read like two followers was responding to politicians. You are a ghoul. He's so funny. Thank you. You are a ghoul. Most are. And like Liam's not doing that kind of stuff, but he probably would be more on camera. He wants to be like the writers. They both, they're both very funny. Hard to fit on camera at that height. Yeah. Right. Everyone's on on an apple box. Yeah, that's true. Everyone else is on an apple box. Oh, sorry, Liam. It's over. No, Liam. You could be it. You could do it. Well, he could just sit in a lot of the scenes. He's I love that part. I love that. But whenever I get to, whenever I get to do any scene, yeah, your first, you're just grateful to be what I get to do a scene. Second of all, second of all, you're like, is the character sitting? Could he be sitting? Yeah, he could

32:10be sitting. I love that. I know. Love that. I never said there was like, I think I'm going to sit. He knows what I'm talking about. My first day on gemstones, I'm jumping out of a van. Yeah. 90 degree weather plus size woman. If you didn't notice, I'm stripping sweat. And they're going first, they go, stop. You're jumping off camera. You need to be jumping into the camera. I'm like, absolutely, because I kind of didn't realize that when you show up, I thought they were going to be like, and this is how you act. And they don't step to it. You know what tells you know that you got to kind of just know. Yeah. But like, you're going to need to jump into the camera not off. I go, great. Yeah. Yeah. Do you need a fan? Yeah. I'm. Yeah. Yeah. I need to fit. But hold on. That means someone didn't set your mark. Well, it's like a moving van. Does that matter? Probably. Wait. You had to jump onto a moving van or front. Well, it's all like I just spit. Okay. Pulled up, stopped. I jumped out. Okay. So it stopped. It stopped. Okay. So we don't have to call anybody. No. And if they ever want to book me again, please,

33:13it's no problem at all. Right. Just gemstones. Let's let's book a shy con challenge to righteous gemstones. It is also over. But it's right. Just gemstones over. Yeah. The season for it ended. It was the dream. Did it get canceled? No, no, no. I think it was just it was done. I don't know. It's hard to tell sometimes, right? I hate when the show gets cancelled. E-pads and deserves. You know, E-pads. She needs like another show. She is. She is really amazing. It's kind of insane that people aren't like, you can never think about her. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But she. She. I feel. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I can hear you. She, I feel like is what they call an actor's actor. Yes. Yes. Where you probably would find a lot of people that, you know, who else is like that? Paul Walter Hauser. He's the guy from I-Tanya. Oh, yes. Yes. I've met him a million times. He's amazing. He's really, really, really good and other

34:13actors often cite him as their favorite actor. Sebastian Stan says that. I know that because he's my favorite actor. He is so beautiful. He's one of the most appealing people. I watched Marvel a couple of years ago. I decided to watch it all. Same. Oh my god. And it's like, you're like, okay, it's good. Okay. During the pandemic, well, it kind of is touch and go because some of them are like, I leave and I'm like, that was actually really good. Yeah. Yeah. I truly loved WandaVision. Oh, I love WandaVision. And then there's some movies where you're like, okay, that was the ride of my life. Yeah. And then other ones, you're like, what is what is happening right now? And why is it Pythagorean Theorem? Yes. Why do I have to like collect this in my watch? Pythagorean Theorem to understand what's happening in Ant-Man. It's pretty straightforward theorem. Oh my god. Yeah. A squared plus B squared equals C squared. I forgot. Are you math? Asian. Yeah. Asian. And I'm white English. And I'm white Irish. Talk about same

35:20Patrick's Day. Talk about Ireland. Have you been? I've been. Yes. I still have family that overrated or what? No. Do you think it's overrated? No. Your English ass is coming up. My grandpa is also like, you're also Italian. I'm about 2%. I'm mostly Irish. Did you do the 23s? My mom made me do that and ancestry? Just to have a... Well, she has the whole map in ancestry. She's like, got us all. Yeah. That's cool. She's a guy found her cousin. She won't talk to us. Okay. Your mom wants to know everything. Because my dad's, which is a word lineage? Yes. He's hundreds of Irish. It's all, we know that. And she's the Italian side. She's the mix. Yeah. Got it. Got it. We had family in both the North and the South during the Civil War style. Interesting. So cinematic. I know. I want to know. And I want to know. I need to talk to them. Do your parents talk about the film Brooklyn? Yeah. Of course. Of course. They're like,

36:23we saw Brooklyn. Are they Searsha fans? Yeah. But my dad is, anything, my dad, anything Ireland and Irish, he's like supporting. So, unless, you know, it's the Conor McGregor or something. Right. Right. So we have, and we have with us a shy icon, an iron con. A shy rash. Yeah. You're sure. Yeah. You said you said shy. I love that. Yeah. I'm sorry. I'm forcing it. The Irish really, you have to say Irish American. Of course. Do you have to? Yeah. They really don't like if you're like, I'm Irish, which I understand. Because there's a lot of us coming at them like, I'm Irish too. But that's nobody's fault. No. And I'm from a place where it's like so many Irish immigrants landed in Beverly, where I'm from in Chicago. And now there's all of us Irish Americans and like, what are we supposed to be doing? Of course. Of course. We have a big St. Patrick's Day party, our own on the south side. So downtown has one. I think that's the one that people don't like. The nasty one. People are puking. Sure. But the Beverly one. People are still puking,

37:26but it's a little bit more, but it's more dad's that are rubbed your back. Oh, that's sweet. My family has, we start with Catholic mass. In our backyard, it's not big. You guys host mass? Yes. My uncle's, of course, a priest. Oh, yeah. Of course. Oh, my God. That's beautiful. Talk about the experience. The first time I went and I was in sixth grade, I had a vampire tooth, which is a tooth up here. It's one of the one tooth that's a vampire. I know exactly what you're talking about. It is one of the scariest things anyone can go through if you're going through it. I'm so sorry. It's like you're in size or one crazy. Yeah. And so then you have to get like a brace go up there that it pulls it down. I look busted. No Maggie. I'm wearing Ireland shirts in Ireland, of course. I'm wearing shirts that say Irish in Ireland. Oh, yeah. That's a huge part of being there. Yeah. Is the clothing that says Ireland wearing a beret in Paris. Like that. Of course. And that's me. So young me coated so badly. And we went to my cousin's wedding. And we went. I also went to my families in Castle Island and Clare Island.

38:28Castle Island, they owned a bar. I was the first time I ever had Nutella. Oh, they're like, do you want some of this? I go, what the hell is that? I didn't say hell. I was young. But you said, you may be said hack. That hack is that with my with my bags with my tooth. There's a photo of it. I'll try to find it. And I was so brutal. Please. What's your cousin's wedding? When did my cousin's wedding? She had baked Alaska at the wedding. It's all I remember when something's on fire. Right. Then my older brother Liam had a rum and coke. And I remember I took a sip of it. What is this? He was like 16s. My parents were like, I ratted him out. You didn't like it a little bit. Rum and coke. It's the most delicious thing. It's delicious. Two years later, sick or not. Yeah, I guess when did I start drinking? You guys are young drinkers? Sure. 14. Yeah, same. Okay. So that's that's where it comes out. Yeah. That's long Island. Come on. Long Island. And yeah. What was your first drink? Do you want to know? Yeah. Well, I'm scared. It was a tiny little plastic cup of Bacardi Rads. Because we were told that was the good one. And so we all, and we would also experiment with

39:35Haderade. What's Haderade? Haderade with vodka. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. We would get a flask of Georgie vodka, which is the worst you could ever ever have. We had school. School. Yes, school is something I hear about a lot. Like that's like the cheap ass rubbing alcohol vodka. Rubbing alcohol. I recently had it like in it. I made a video where I was like, what? Because we would do that in orange juice. Sorry, you so you would not mix them. No, because it's like you would take down shots and just take two shots. And I'm like, I'm calling everyone I've ever met. Like I'm drunk. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What was yours? Mine was, um, I was 14. You guys were a bit ahead of me. I started around 16. That's good. The first, my first memory of drinking in a way that was like intentional. And like, I'm getting drunk was, uh, Mike's heard lemonade, uh, watch the program heroes. Yep. Oh, and I'm going to drink Mike's heart and watch heroes is the most 2006 thing I've ever heard

40:37in my life. That's so beautiful. I know. And then, you know, I was finding out who Zachary Quinto was, you know, who was Tyler, Tyler, Tyler, he's famously, Tyler in heroes. I never watched heroes. He killed Kristen Bell on that show. Get him. She was the cheerleader. No, she wasn't. No, that's Hayden Panatier. That was him. By the way, these are my favorite names. Hayden Panatier. When I first saw Serena Carpenter, I said, well, where is Hayden Panatier? Because they might be the same. Oh, they are. I'm still not convinced. They are. I never thought about this. Well, apparently Hayden Panatier. Wait, so is she, and do you just horror movies? Uh-huh, not really. I don't think she's in the new screen, but apparently, it was me old one. Yeah. Oh, okay. She's in the old ones. She's in the old one. Then she came back in the last one. She's that one of those characters that like dies every time. But then comes back and is like, Hey, that was a rough one. Yeah. Well, you know, just heed my warnings. That's like, okay. That is so marvel too. I can't believe, okay, spoiler alert for scream

41:44seven. Okay. I can't believe Nev Campbell lives. I mean, because she's lived all along. I guess so, but it's like, you think they would like turn something at the last. I just end it and end her. Yeah. I don't know. I was just surprised. Then again, no, I guess I'm not surprised. I'm sure I was like in her contract when they asked her back to Sydney is to live. Yeah. And I will maybe I'm keeping this line open in case I need the cash, which is not to say that that's like the only motivation. And there's multiple guy ghost guys or what's going on? Now ghost faces everybody. Ghost faces everybody. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Which was this guy? One of our friends was a ghost face. Are you serious? Jack Quaid. Oh, my God. Was a ghost face. Oh, sorry. No, no. The ghost faces like get together. I never watched it. I'm sorry. Usually two of them get together. Okay. And it's a combination you'd never expect. Were they bullied or what? Usually their reasons are a lot crazier than that. Do those full seven screws for me.

42:45Usually. And yes, I do watch these films. I haven't seen the last couple of ones, but usually it's like years ago, you were involved tangentially with a murder that had to do with someone I know. So I snapped and I'm going to get you and I got together with this one reveal. I and the person takes off their mask and they go, I barely have a reason. I'm just fucking crazy. And no, no, now it's become like, I want to be you. Oh, it's become it's it's, am I wrong? Am I right? Like people watch the screen films? Whoa, it's not it's not a screen. Okay, but you didn't see the new one. So you so then I can just tell you usually the reasoning is like, I didn't see the new one either, but I did find out after what happened. But basically it's kind of a thing of like either like I have a convoluted reason. Yeah. Or I have almost no reason, but aren't you gagged? I think I kind of like that more. Yeah. I like that more to just be psycho.

43:50Yeah. Just just I just fucking go for it. With your one wild and precious life, be ghost face. It's actually really good. Your number 10. No, we just do that. Number 11, with your one wild and precious life, be ghost face, but don't actually like I tried to do it. And I know, no, no, you're you're you're doing one wild and precious life, be ghost face. So you have to think if there's seven screen films, there's been what 14 ghost faces. It's always two. It's pretty much always two. I never that's crazy. I always thought it was one guy too. I did watch. Oh God, who's Michael? He was always the same. Yeah. He was always the same guy, right? He was maybe years later. I think he was because he is Michael Myers, but then then they tried to pull like, oh, he's the definition and he's evil incarnate. So can't be killed. They tried to sort of do like a mystical thing with him when they were like, they started

44:52did a whole like Harry Potter Voldemort like Luke Skywalker Darth Vader thing where it was like one cannot exist on the planet while the other way. And it was Laurie Strode and Michael Myers. And I won't spoil that. You have to watch. That's how Richard's lives. Oh, do you think there's someone in the world that is that is true for you guys like if they die, you live. So they they have to be dead currently. Oh, that's true. No, eventually it will come to eventually. I guess it's like your your enemy. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I don't have one. It's enough that I need to change my hair. I'm going to come. It's each other. It's each other. It's that's who it is. That's how the pot ends. That's how the pot ends. That's how the pot ends. That is one of our guests. Holy shit. Scary. Do you have one? I don't think so, honey. Sorry. Do you say that every time you say that I don't think so? Kind of. I mean, sometimes it feels like

45:53like when you're when we're out in casual company and it's like you say, I would never say it, but then like sometimes you say it, everyone's like, you got to say it. Absolutely produce my special. I love episode. Absolutely. You know that on every call, I was like, absolutely, absolutely. And I was like, Oh, my God. Stop. No, they don't care. They don't care. They know. They pick the word absolutely. It's it's and it's one of the greatest ways to say yes. It's actually real coach number 12. Absolutely. It's one of the greatest ways to say yes. Absolutely. I did it. Okay. I want to talk about this before we ask, we haven't asked you the question we're having such a bad idea. But before we ask, I feel I feel good. I was like, obviously nervous. You were nervous to do the podcast. Of course. No reason. I texted you in a manic state, and then I was like, I have to do this now. No, I loved it. And then I thought it was the best idea ever that you come. I think I called. I was like, can I be the charity case? And you were like, shut up for sure. Where's the charity case? What do you are? But do you know who's coming in right after you today? Yeah. I'm who? Nicole Kidman. I'm gonna follow the ground. She's gonna be in this

46:55chair. She's gonna be in the chair. I'm gonna leave her a note. I'm gonna leave her a note. That was good. She Australian. Okay. She's Australian. We'll ask her that. We'll ask her that. So are you Australian? They didn't wonder. You're trying to figure it out. The structure of the show, Margarit, on March 17th is live laugh love. Yes. Okay. So it's in three sections. Basically, for my own brain, I was like, I have a section live where I write stand-up or stories that have to do with my live. Basically, where I've lived, how I live, laugh, which would easily be like, my comedy, but it was more like, that's more like about my body straight up, because you're like, gotta laugh. My favorite of the three, by the way, laugh. Yeah. Come on. Come on. And then love is about, yeah, I just like the love or lack of there I've got to watch to find out. And I have a video for each one to start that my I did with my either my brothers or my friend Parker. You guys know Parker Callahan?

48:00I think he sounds familiar. He would love his video. He is one of the funniest gay guys. So it's like he may be. Jackpot. Jackpot. But he is, he made like a lot of my videos and he's so good, so funny. And then yeah, just like stand-up and storytelling. I don't know. Perfect. I feel it sucks to like, I want to just be like, it's stand-up, but then people are like, what's kind of storytelling? You're like, just don't tell me what I'm doing. Yeah. A woman or like anyone who's on a straight guy does like stand-up and people like have to be like, it's a little different. So it's all over. Yeah. That is kind of how it gets filed away. It's automatically alt if it's not yeah, crowd work or something. Oh my god. You know what I mean? Are you stating? Are you stating? I am doing like, I'm trying to do a lot more crowd work on tour. I'm on tour with Conorwood. Yes. And it's just so like, and sometimes I just literally will say, I don't care actually. It's like, when makes it funny, but it's just like, I really, they're like, oh, you're just cool. I don't care. But they love that. Yeah. I love that. That's good. That's really good. It's just to be like, question, it doesn't matter. Yeah.

49:06Did you ever do stand-up? No one. Yes, he did. Okay. Like barely in the same way where I was like, which is why, which is like, because I, because you were saying, like that coming in through like sketch an improv, which is similar to us, like it felt like it was the third thing that like felt like stolen valor if you tried it out. Yeah. It'd come up through like the traditional way or something. Yeah. So I always, I don't, I still have that thing where I'm like, I can't really, I don't know for who's benefit, but like I can't really say that I earnestly did it. I tried for like a solid six months. Yeah. Well then you did a lot more than my, a lot of Uber drivers I've had who taught me. Yeah. Well, I obviously have stopped saying I'm a comedian, but like, they pick me up from a place like, is that a comedy club? I've been thinking about trying it. I wish I, I wish I could go, you're never gonna. Yeah. Totally. They love that too. Is that I'm like, give it a try? Yes. That's a surefire way to get in to it with an Uber driver, which is not a good idea. Right. Now think about trying comedy. You never will. What?

50:08What are you talking about? What are you talking about? I'll do five minutes right now. Oh, God. In Chicago, in town, I'm sure like the, I'm sure like the people there, it's people by folks who want to like do it. I just never liked stand up as much as I liked doing other things. Yeah. Like when in a world where there's only so much time to do something, I like sketch comedy more, I like doing characters more and I like doing the musical comedy more. Yeah. So it kind of, it, it, it, not this because I obviously have a lot of respect for everyone that does stand up, but it always felt like I wasn't doing enough. Yeah. Right. I had to come to the realization, like I can do it in my own way. I truly watching Meg Stolter for the first time. I was like, oh, you can do what you want. Yeah. You can. And I think especially with women, like we can do girly pop stand up. Not for everybody. It's not for the boys all the time. But even calling that feels weird, but it's like I can do my own style and I start bawling my eyes out. Yeah.

51:08But like you can do whatever you want on stage and people can deal with the labels. Of course. Yeah. I mean, if you're enjoying it and people are enjoying it, then it's for, you're laughing. I think we did it. Yeah. Pretty much. All right. I think I think we did it. Yeah. That's your location number 12. If you're laughing, I think we did it. What if your Wi-Fi was more than just Wi-Fi? What if your Wi-Fi made everything in your whole house just work together better? Well, Exfinity Wi-Fi pretty much does exactly that. It's powered by their best, most elite high performing tech. Allow us to paint a very realistic example. Everyone in your house, everyone is on their devices at the exact same time, gaming, working, swiping right, because of course they are. And the finale of your favorite show of all time of the week is on at the exact same moment. Well, you can boost the Wi-Fi to your device with Exfinity. And have you ever asked yourself, what if my Wi-Fi could keep watch over my kids for me? Well, probably not, because that's a weird thing to ask yourself. Yeah. But Exfinity Wi-Fi has

52:12parenting skills. Even if you sometimes forget yours. Exfinity's like, don't worry, I'll monitor the Wi-Fi. It's completely proactive, fixing issues before they even happen. Bottom line, Exfinity is smart and reliable. You deserve the peace of mind of having Wi-Fi that's got your back. Exfinity. Imagine that. Make everyday feel epic in the all-new Hyundai Palisade Hybrid. The Palisade Hybrid is packed full of features, cutting edge tech up to an EPA estimated 619 miles of range on select trims. It has class leading interior space with purposeful tech. Available front row and second row relaxation seats. Available class exclusive blind spot view monitor. Available class exclusive dash camera feature. And seating configurations for seven to eight passengers with available third row power seats that recline. Also available H-track all wheel drive so you can be ready to go anywhere in style. It also includes standard 100 watt USB C ports available Bose 14 speaker audio and standard passenger talk driver intercom.

53:12The all-new Hyundai Palisade Hybrid is more than just another SUV. It's still the Palisade but with so much more. Learn more about the Hyundai Palisade at HyundaiUSA.com. Call 5-6-2-314-4603 for complete details. Every time. Thanks for not judging me. I'll try something new next time. Mate. Score a 2 for $5 deal in a sausage McMuffin with egg and more. Limited time only price and participation may vary cannot be combined with any other offer single item at regular price. Support for the show comes from public, the investing platform for those who take it seriously. On public, you can build a multi-asset portfolio of stock, bonds, options, crypto, and now generated assets which allow you to turn any idea into an investable index with AI. It all starts with your prompt. From renewable energy companies with

54:14high free cash flow to semiconductor suppliers growing revenue over 20% year over year, you can literally type any prompt and put the AI to work. It screens thousands of stocks, builds a one-of-a-kind index and lets you backtest it against the S&P 500. Then you can invest in a few clicks. Generated assets are like ETFs with infinite possibilities, completely customizable and based on your thesis, not someone else's. Go to public.com slash podcast and earn an uncapped 1% bonus when you transfer your portfolio. That's public.com slash podcast. Paid for by public investing, brokerage services by open to the public investing ink, member finraw and SIPC. Advisory services by public advisors LLC, SEC registered advisor. Generated assets is an interactive analysis tool. Output is for informational purposes only and is not an investment recommendation or advice. Complete disclosures available at public.com slash disclosures. We have to ask you the question. This is the central question of lost culture east us. It really is. What was the culture in Maggie Winters that made you say culture is for me? Yeah, I was, you know, this is a big one and I think everyone thinks about this for years who listens to this podcast. I was thinking about this and like I was like Midwest but I was like

55:18let me go a little bit more. Every Friday night, current up, we did pizza, movie night. Yep. Have been. TGIF. TG, well also the T or movie or TGIF program. I mean, I need to say into one Saturday morning, the idea of eating food while being entertained. Yeah. It has been consistent throughout my life. A pure joy. So you're a Alamo Draft house fan. Never been. We only have one in Chicago. There's one in Chicago and it's in Rigglyville. It's like I'm going to go to the cup zone. I don't think so. I'm going to cup zone and are they are they striking? I can't keep up. Oh, is they always striking? Then now I think they're good, right? Alamo Draft house is striking. No, it's just every now. It's like every now and then it's like oh, right. There's they're on striking. We can't go. Which is. Oh, court is overworked. Oh, barber time was tough. Barber time was tough for everybody. Every other movie. Don't want to talk about them. Come on.

56:20Sorry. It was all about Barber and Hymer in the summer of 2023. I watched I didn't do the Barber and Hymer, but I did watch them both. It's different times. That's good. Okay. So eating and being being being entertained. Yeah. Friday nights we'd get we'd get a pizza from either this place Milano's or Rosangela's. Tavern style, which is a square. Yes. We go to the village video. Village video. Oh, western peace. And I get a movie and it's usually like let's you know, Harriet this by love Harriet this by rest in peace. I was definitely. Yeah. I used to like put a magnifying glass under my back. So I was like, I'm going to I'm like modern day modern day. What the hell? Or go and like just to be like her. She was so cool or little princess, American Ashley. And then my older brothers would get a lot of like Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, us and all style movies. And I would try to watch them with them. And that's when I was like, oh, I love comedy. I was like, but I don't know if girl can do it. And then one day I was like, well, girl can do it. Girl can do it. And just watching the Friday nights eating pizza and

57:24just like sitting in my house and just like being home. And then now today like the thought of going home, having a foodie want and watching the show like cute up. There's nothing better. Nothing. I can't watch a show without eating. I know. And it is a little weird now. I'm like, well, I can't I actually can't press play on this until I know my food is at least coming. Yes. Or you even flip the order where I'm like, I love alone. And let's say foods, foods here or my meal is ready. I got to put a fucking YouTube video on. You know, I got to do both. I got to do both. I got to watch any. Even though like so many whatever like articles are like you should be eating like just your view in your food. And and look at this fucking concentrate. I'm like, who wrote that? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. They're they don't we don't we forgot about that. We forgot about that. What have you been? What have you been binging or watching and eating like all these things? Because I want to ask you both

58:26if you've watched the JFK show. No, but that's on my list. It should be on your list. Just for her hair alone. Okay. Sarah people are laughing. You've seen it. Sarah pigeon is playing Carolyn Bassette. Yeah. But really it's so much about the hair. Like there are scenes where it's it's so like a character I would have done in my 20s coated. Like just the longest most luxurious blonde head of hair, which I don't think is a wig. Oh, I don't think it's a wig. And it is taking her head. No, she doesn't think it's a wig either. There'll be moments where she just take you know that cool girl thing of like you just take your woman whole thing of hair and you just go to let me just put it all on one side and the movement of the hair and the way it's gotta be thick. It's like it's just crazy. And I'm just like they really and she's an incredible actor. But you have to imagine she walked in and they were like well with that hair. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You got to be in totally.

59:29To say nothing of him who hands some guy and get this. Fraser was his modeling agent in London. The scepter. Yes. Fraser was a modeling agent. Fraser was a modeling agent in London in his 20s. And one of his clients was Paul Anthony Kelly. Paul Anthony Kelly. That's his name. I'm looking at everyone in this room like they know and they don't. So that's his name. He was Fraser was his modeling agent back in the day. That is so random. Isn't it the most random thing that is that just tells you how small the world is. Oh my god. Okay. I was hoping that you guys had watched it. What have you been? Obviously a lot of bravo all the time. I just finished industry. Okay. I knew you'd say this. You know. Yeah. It's just smart. I don't know. Sometimes in that show, I do have to read the recaps because I'm like, what is her? I'm having trouble following. Yeah. I'm not. But I do like to watch it because I makes me feel smarter. I'm like,

1:00:30right, right, right, right. But then like I go on Instagram and it's like the show of the moment and some people are posting it and I'm like, this dummy. Oh, I can get into it a Vista. Yes, you can. There's so much. This dummy's gagging. I can watch industry. It's actually real occlusion number 14. Is this dummy's gagging? I can watch industry. It's fine. It's totally. I just said of this gaggy's dummy. If this gaggy's dummy, because Gabby windy invoked. Gabby windy invoked. Oh my god. Because when you were watching succession. Yes. There was a curve there where you were like, well, now I, everyone's saying the word bear hug. Yeah. And I have to find that I have to Google what that is. Yeah. The industry is coming out. You like gaddling gun. But I'm like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. They're always in the phone. Like, we're going to throw a hand of what? Right. It's like crazy anatomy. Oh, but you, but like with medical terminology, but the whole show. I never watched craze, but I do. I am watching

1:01:31the pit. Of course. Because I watched nurse Jackie and I loved it. And I need more medical. I did the pit. You weren't a Chicago Med person. Oh, shoot. No, that's okay. Audition. Um, why did you watch Chicago? No, I don't know why ever. Yeah. What if I was like, yes, I'm a huge Chicago. Yes. I love it. Um, I, oh my god. Did you watch? Did you watch like, right? I'm, did you watch, play with world and all that Sabrina Sabrina? Did you watch one Saturday morning? Yeah. Yeah. Up or down or any morning. Pepper and pepper and recess. Recess. I almost was going to say my, my culture is the Ashley's, but I was like, Ashley's. They're all named Ashley. That show got something right when it talked about six or multiple girls having the same name. Four girls in four. But then Spinelli was a secret Ashley. And remember, you have to join the Ashley. And she was like, no, I don't want that. I don't want to conform. But they were very

1:02:32diverse. Like they were those girls. They were those girls. Spinelli was beanie pigtails. Yes. She queer of course. Yes. Her and the big guy. Her and the big guy. Do you think recess a show with a theme song that has no words? Can you sing it? It's, I mean, that is, that is country as fuck. Workhead show and the theme song. Just score. And you're going to remember every note. It's going to imprint like come on recess. My dad or make pancakes. He loves making pancakes to this day. He in a minute, where he was burning them for like two months straight. We had to be like, you got to stop. Why was he burning? Because his thing was too hot. And his grill was too hot. Too hot to handle. Too hot to handle. And then he got a better grill. Yeah. Yeah. I'm marinating on this thing

1:03:37of the theme song. Do you consider Doug to have words? If it was. No, I guess it just really depends on if you consider do a word or what it is. It absolutely is. But is he Judy? Judy was the sister? No, I think our sister was Patty mayonnaise. That was his 11th interest. Oh, right. What are you doing over here? You know what I'm doing is I'm realizing how far away from my childhood I am. Oh, no, I know. That's why I was what I was thinking about that. So I was like, oh my god. It's a tough one. I don't remember a lot of it. And I'm wondering now if it's time to sort of go back and just because it. I don't know what it even like give you what it gave me. I mean, like nostalgia does rock. What it does? You know what's good for that, though, is Simpsons. Simpsons is like an apparently recent seasons. It's like, but they're, you know, my family Simpsons. You're Maggie. And Bart Lee was. Bart was born before the Simpsons

1:04:40started. Those are these are family. So were they like, I can't believe our kids are named Barton Maggie. No, they couldn't they don't even talk about it. They don't care. They don't care. That's so cool. That's Catholic shame. Yeah. That's oh my god. Yeah. We're Bartholomew, William, and Marguerite, but where Bart Lee and Maggie and Liam is the male version of Lisa. And he went to the he is because he went to the and I can't get gifted school. Huh. Did he actually? Yes. Did I try to test to get in? Of course. And did I get in? No. Look where you are. Thank you. You know, Lisa Simpson. I don't want to say she's a red flag. Hands up. There's a lot of there's a lot of gay guys that like sort of like are like Lisa Simpson. And I'm like, they think they're Lisa Simpson. Yeah. And that's a red flag. And if that's a red flag. Assuming your Lisa Simpson is like kind of like your child who wears pearls can now. Yeah. Oh, I can't even. She did wear pearls. She wears pearls. Did Marge wear them too? Marge has she had pearls. She had pearls, but she's a mother. Yeah. She's a mother. She's allowed to. She's allowed. She

1:05:45I was just thinking maybe she's like, I got to dress my little, but then where was Maggie's pearls? Maggie. Maybe. Maybe it was a baby. Maybe it was a baby of your pearls. It was too heavy. How does it feel to be Maggie's the cutest, obviously? I was her for Halloween once and everyone goes, are you the Statue of Liberty? Shut up. Is the Statue of Liberty blue with the pacifier? You're an idiot. You're an idiot. Yeah. Yeah. This answer that question. But can I say apparently they got rid of couch gags on the Simpson's? In the beginning opening because it just saves time because it just there's more time to do. I don't like that show. What? It took three seconds and we love to see each time what it was. I love deputy. They must have ran out of ideas. No way. Get new writers. Stop. You guys should do that on this couch every time you come in. Yes. I don't know about this couch. Okay. What do you think about it? I do feel like I'm interviewing you guys. What do you want to ask?

1:06:47I'm here with Matt and Lohan. They have a podcast together and they're gay guys and their friends. And I'm here to get down to the nitty gritty. You guys ever kissed? I don't know. It's all good. They got a new year's. Did you really? They look like a peck on new years. Yeah. Yeah. That makes sense. Right. Have you ever kissed us? Yes. No. Do you kiss your closest friend? I'm trying to think of it. Well, no. Yeah. My I have girlfriends from growing up who like there's two of us that are queer and the rest of them like we get drunk and they're like, let's kiss. And it's like you guys they all have husbands. Right. So like we give them a kiss and they're like it's like. Yes. But do you ever have a friend in middle or elementary school like in those young years where like things got a little bit? No, I wish. I wish too. I like everyone talks about that. I was just too like. I don't want to say like I was I'm not like saying she was a loser. But like I you know, I thought of myself as a

1:07:50one. You know what I'm saying? When you're like little and you're chunky and you're like. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But you're saying that you thought of yourself as a loser? Of course. And so therefore you were I don't get to kiss anybody. I'm right there with all of that. Also, like yeah. It's like so sad. Like I wish I could go back and be like my, but even I say that. But then even now I'm like. Oh my goodness. Like get away. Exactly. Yeah. I'm there was there. The only reason I say it is because a lot of people are like. Oh, yeah. I mean, of course, my one friend in middle school where you know, you're like jacked each other off or whatever the fucking I was just like people talk about this like it's a thing. It was not a thing for me. I had one very, very close friend in middle school. Yeah. Where if it was going to happen, it was definitely going to be with him because we would do sleepovers and we would like talk about each other's bodies and stuff. And this is the time when like everyone was horny like no matter what. Yeah. And I was like thinking back like we were like 12 or 13. And it was just like it was like maybe better that it didn't happen because it could have gotten weird. But I do look back and I think

1:08:52like everyone or not everyone, but a lot of people I have talked to that are gay guys. Yeah. Have had that experience in their past with guys that end up being straight and are now married with kids. Yeah. Probably never looked back. Yeah. You know, but like you look back and you're like, yeah, I was a little gay with some of my friends sometimes before the voice in your head told you don't do this. It's bad. You were trying to know. Yeah. But there is that it makes me a little bummed out like like like people get so like legit. And then I wonder I do wonder if looking back like the the knowledge that we were really close made us not be friends anymore. Yeah. You know what I mean? Because we weren't friends in high school. And I was like seeing him around and I'd be like, we're best friends. And we talked to each other's bodies. We talked to each other's bodies and like got boners next to each other. Oh. And now we're not. Yeah, at least like we don't talk to him. I kind of think we don't talk to him. Charlie Booth man. Like we used to. I was I was rudely being like, why did Charlie pierce his eye around someone was like, that was a dog bite.

1:09:56And I said, I'm sorry Charlie Booth. I like to publicly apologize to Charlie Booth. Oh, that's okay. My blog. What's up with Charlie poos? Full blog. Blog bring blogs back. Oh my god. Oh, you could. Stubstack. People are going blogger. The way that you you were smiling bowing and when I said Stubstack, the biggest round in the world because I know because I'm thinking through like Stubstack. Is it blog? Stubstack feels like a different model. Yeah. The live journal Zanga blog spot. Ecosystem. My Zanga. I got bullied. My Zanga. No. Maggie, all of these people being awful to you. And I bullied on my Zanga, which it's like it was someone that like I knew, of course, you let them in. Yeah. And they bullied like and my thing was like, dear, like dear Zanga or whatever the hell. Like I'm having a great day. I went to the park and then it was like someone bullied me on it. Delete my Zanga. What did they say? I guess I'm never

1:10:57going to the park. Yeah, they were like, yes, the park's ruined for life. It's the park sucks. No, like something's so mean. Like it's, but it is funny to laugh. But then like it, I did like obviously talk about it in therapy for years, where I was in my Zanga. My therapist is like, yeah. Shout out to my therapist, Elizabeth. Elizabeth. I told, they're told I was doing this and she was like, I'm just brought, she's been with me for six years. Isn't that crazy? She knew what the hell this was. Yes. I have a genuine pitch because it's like, it's, I mean, this is so recency bias. Get a Nintendo DS and play any old Pokemon game. It'll feel like you're on your phone for hours, but you're just leveling up your Pikachu. That is great. And it's actually not hurting anybody. You're just pumping your brain with cute little animals. And it's making Pikachu stronger. It's making Pikachu stronger. I was, I didn't know a lot of a Pokemon, but I did love Jigglypuff aesthetically and just culturally. Oh, the singing the little songs, yeah. Yeah. You know who else loves Jigglypuff Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga made Ms. Louis. Who is that?

1:12:00Me and was crying. Who's that? She's for real Italian. She's for real Italian. She's not my fake grandpa. She's Italian American. Oh my god. Yeah. Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga. I saw her at La La Paloza. I mean, do you remember that? I want to go so badly. I used to serve alcohol at it. So like at the bar at the bar and people would come up and be like, one beer, please. And I'd be like, what beer? There's about seven. And they'd be like, you know, just the classic. I'm like, okay, you're 15 or you're from out of town. Oh, that's because that's another like Midwest thing as I was like, we have a lot of different beers. Like we know about a lot of beers. Not everyone does. But it says it on the thing. Like I need to know which one. But also like the young people, I'm going to give you the beer. Sorry to, I don't work it anymore. Sorry to the law. I'm sorry to be clear. It's great. Charlie Puth in the law. We've got to sound. And you know, a lot of people get very sick at music festivals because they get alcohol. They they're dehydrated. And you shouldn't have done that. No, I think you're the law. If they had a

1:13:04good idea and they were like, Oh, one guy came on to me. He was wasted. I had him in water. And they walked away. He didn't know where he was. Great. Oh, thank god for you. But you're saying it's clearly these young kids when they're like, I'll have a beer and you go, which one and they go as you said, a classic, which is never classic. And I don't even drink. I don't like beer like everything else. So I don't know what the classics are. What beer? Well, a classic. Well, a classic of course. Well, classic. Well, this reminds me. I've told this story before in the podcast, but this was when I was clearly underage at out of bar in Brooklyn. And just because I had seen it in movies, I go, um, can I have a beer and, um, and I'll have one for the road. That's extremely illegal. That's extremely illegal. I forget. This is like in Brooklyn somewhere. This is like a junior year at NYU. It was one of my friends for the road. I bet he remembers he was like, this crazy Asian kid. I bet he's like, that's bow. That was bowing. That was

1:14:07bowing. Yeah. One on one for the road. My fake ID said I was five five. What's that? My fake ID said I was five five. Mine also said I was five six. Nobody was there. Like a wheelchair. Yeah. Well, I got away with it until I really didn't. Yeah. And they were like, okay, I'll just the name on it. Uh, should I say the name? Because it was a real person. Let's say it. It was absug. And the name was spelled like this. ABCUG. And I was like, this is a real person. Like a friend of a friend gave me this fake ID. Not only was it like not me in the picture. It was five six. And the name, despite it being real, looked fake. Yeah. That was like, I was like, I was like, what name has ABC all in a row? Like none. You didn't think about it. That is so good. What's your last name? It's gonna be so. That's just to ABC. Yeah. What if we like went

1:15:08right to you? Yes. This is really good. And then go back to the people coming up with the names for the youngest. Mine was a real girl. Her name was Maggie. Maggie. Maggie. But it was like Margaret. She had curly brown hair, but the five five thing. Like I was like, yeah, up here. Like, here's my ID. Yeah, totally. Yeah. But it worked. It did work for a little bit until it expired. And then they were like, this expired. I was like, come on. Yeah. I turned 21 in Europe. And the way they did not care. Of course. As an Amsterdam. I'm like, when 21, they go, we can drink here when we're five. So we're really. I drink Hanukkah's disgusting. Sorry to them. I just feel like beer. I just like, no, that's okay. You don't like it. No, I like wine, liquor, everything else. Yeah. But what's what's like a Chicago beer like? Pretty one, too. Yeah. Yeah. Anti-hero. Bells too hard at his Michigan, right? Yes. Yeah. I do know that. My brothers are obviously my dad. They're all drinking beers. It's like the beans of beverages. They're having beans and beers. And I'm not having any part of that.

1:16:12What if your Wi-Fi was more than just Wi-Fi? What if your Wi-Fi made everything in your whole house just worked together better? Well, Xfinity Wi-Fi pretty much does exactly that. It's powered by their best, most elite, high-performing tech. Allow us to paint a very realistic example. Everyone in your house, everyone is on their devices at the exact same time, gaming, working, swiping right, because of course they are. And the finale of your favorite show of all time of the week is on at the exact same moment. Well, you can boost the Wi-Fi to your device with Xfinity. And have you ever asked yourself, what if my Wi-Fi could keep watch over my kids for me? Well, probably not, because that's a weird thing to ask yourself. But Xfinity Wi-Fi has parenting skills. Even if you sometimes forget yours. Xfinity's like, don't worry. I'll monitor the Wi-Fi. It's completely proactive fixing issues before they even happen. Bottom line, Xfinity is smart and reliable. You deserve the peace of mind of having Wi-Fi that's got your back Xfinity. Imagine that. Make everyday feel epic in the all-new Hyundai

1:17:15Palisade Hybrid. The Palisade Hybrid is packed full of features, cutting edge tech, up to an EPA estimated 619 miles of range on select trims. It has class leading interior space with purposeful tech, available front row and second row relaxation seats, available class exclusive blind spot view monitor, available class exclusive dash camera feature, and seating configurations for seven to eight passengers with available third row power seats that recline. Also available, H-track all-wheel drive, so you can be ready to go anywhere in style. It also includes standard 100 watt USB-C ports, available Bose 14-speaker audio, and standard passenger talk driver intercom. The all-new Hyundai Palisade Hybrid is more than just another SUV. It's still the Palisade, but with so much more. Learn more about the Hyundai Palisade at HyundaiUSA.com, call 5-6-2-314-4603 for complete details.

1:18:32Time only price and participation may vary cannot be combined with any other offer single item at regular price. Support for the show comes from public, the investing platform for those who take it seriously. On public, you can build a multi-asset portfolio of stock, bonds, options, crypto, and now generated assets which allow you to turn any idea into an investable index with AI. It all starts with your prompt. From renewable energy companies with high free cash flow to semiconductor suppliers growing revenue over 20% year over year, you can literally type any prompt and put the AI to work. It screens thousands of stocks, builds a one-of-a-kind index, and lets you backtest it against the S&P 500. Then, you can invest in a few clicks. Generated assets are like ETFs with infinite possibilities, completely customizable, and based on your thesis, not someone else's. Go to public.com slash podcast, and earn an uncapped 1% bonus when you transfer your portfolio. That's public.com slash podcast, paid for by public investing, brokerage services by open to the public investing ink, member Finra and SIPC, advisory services by public advisors LLC, SEC registered advisor. Generated assets is an

1:19:33interactive analysis tool. Output is for informational purposes only, and is not an investment recommendation or advice. Complete disclosures available at public.com slash disclosures. Well, I'll tell you what we're having. Is around Robin. I don't think so, honey. I can't believe this. Yeah, you've done it. Yeah, I did. Well, I need to preface this. Was not I at that one? No, that was the one that was the one that we were talking about. Patrick and co-hosted. Am I going first? No, don't go first. Don't go first. Yeah, I just, you guys both looked at me and I was like, something changed. Just we looked at you expectantly like ready. This is where we take one minute to rail against something in culture, Matt has kind of volunteered to go first. Yeah, well, traditionally, I do. I have the timer ready to go. This is Matt Rogers. I don't think so. And he's time starts now. I don't think so, honey. Everyone's sleeping on Tyler, the singer, Tyler. Oh, I looked, I don't think anyone actually is sleeping on her because I looked at her spotify streaming numbers and she has about 36.7 million

1:20:36fall million listeners a month, which is so many. But I will say maybe it's an out of things to honey to me because I recently watched the Tyler performance of Chanel on the tonight show. This should be the climax of every gay guy music video night. I didn't know that she had live vocals like this. I didn't know that she could move her body like that. I didn't know a woman could be so gorgeous. A shoe could be so iconic. She does the performance outside of like a, I guess it's a Chanel heel. I've never experienced anything like this song. I love it so much. I listen to it constantly. The song, Chanel by Tyler, it's got to be a record of the year nominee. And one thing I will also say is that my TikTok algorithm is now only Donald Trump AI doing the dance, which sucks. But I don't think so, honey. And that's one minute. Chanel on the shy. Unfortunately, now the TikTok algorithm or not TikTok because I don't have anymore my reals algorithm is just, it found that I like this song. And I guess a popular TikTok trend,

1:21:39not I guess it is, is the Chanel dance. Yeah. And it's just AI's of like Trump and Kim Jong Un doing it together. And I will, I will send them to my friends and they'll be like, we don't like this. Right. And I'll be like, I did, but I can't deal with it alone. No, you need to. Like it's just like, it's like Donald Trump and the bikini, like going back and forth with Hillary Clinton and the bikini. I made that one. And it's like they're doing the Chanel tyla dance. And I'm just like, I can't deal with it for really any part. It's just not. No, I can't do it. Right. And if you watch it for more than four seconds, what you, you can't not because it's like, what? It's sticking. It sticks. So you like that. And then your algorithm is cool. Yeah. Well, there you go. Yeah. That was, I'm going to put some more, I'm going to put some more respect on the highlight. It's okay. Well, you live, you learn and then you speak. Can I look at your phone because I need to use it for Bowen Yang's time.

1:22:40This is Bowen Yang's. I don't think so, honey. His time starts now. I don't think so, honey. As mentioned before, the spice wrap, the spice, what? I want the spices in three jars maximum. My home cannot accommodate a rack of any kind, except a gorgeous pair of breasts. If it's going to be, my goodness, if it's going to be, oh, God, like I can't even come up with, I can't even think of the spices every second. Not Meg, saffron, cloves, darlic powder. I'm good with the actual thing. Thank you. Onion powder. I'm good with the actual thing. Thank you very much. What did you say? Beshamel. No, that's a sauce. That's a spice wrap ketchup. It's a thing that we give to each other a Christmas time. No, it takes, as I said, it takes

1:23:44up an entire sin square. And that's one minute. Oh, my God. That's Shaman. That's what I knew too. That's why I'm on a crock of months here. Yeah. Or just for now. Kill the Marshall. Just any white, thick sauce, like mac and cheese. What did you mean about your good on the powder? What do you mean I'm good on the powder? No, I'm saying, are you doing cocaine at home? If it's recipe calls for garlic powder, I've got a garlic press. I think what you were doing was you were using coded language. I'm good on the powder. I have plenty of powder. I have plenty of pizza party. Oh, my God. I love nothing more than pizza party than pizza on Friday watching a movie. And we're eating whatever kind we want. Yes. And I forgot to say this, the big style in Chicago is more tavern than it is deep dish. No, of course. But deep dish is still good. Detroit style. Incredible. Incredible. Detroit style. Oh, we have what's the what's the Detroit gene? Jets. We have jets here. So the ranch is out of this world. I love ranch.

1:24:49I don't usually go crazy with ranch, but they're you get a little bottle. It's like their Midwest thing on jets. I'll never think of deep dish pizza the same way again though, because when we years ago went to Chicago sketchfest, we were performing with our musical sketch comedy group called pop roulette. We would suit your donnas. We absolutely went. It's not the one to go. It's not the one. But it was it was next to theater. We had to. I know exactly. I'm on deep dish. And then we did our musical numbers. We were just bouncing around like dancing. And it was just like the hardest ground ever. And we can just hear everyone going, oh, just like all the pizza inside us. You got to go to see it. It was down afterwards. In the one bathroom we were all sharing. There was nine of us. There was nine of us. We all took turns. And then for some reason, we all went to P quads the next day. Yeah, we want to be the next day. Yeah. Because we're going to get a deep dish every one. So 25. Yeah. If you know what I mean, like it was it was very different.

1:25:51It's like just then. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. My god. Okay, Maggie, it's time. Should I preface mine or should I say it afterwards? What I want to say? What do you what do you move to do? Well, what feels right? I'll say after why I did this. Okay. I love that. So you guys are what I did. There's going to be there's going to be an afterward. But we always we always have a discussion after the script of Adam. Thank so many. This is Maggie. Winners. I don't think so many of your time starts now. I don't think so many Matt and Bowen. I don't think so. Money. Okay. First of all, you didn't come to Chicago in 2017 because you were in Washington, DC or wherever the hell. What are you doing in shaking ass for the television series? The other two. Yeah. Sure. And oh, one of my favorite shows. Am I jealous? Yes. I don't think so any Bowen. What is your best friend Ariana Grande? Yeah. I'm jealous. I am the comedian of Christmas past here. It reminds you of your past. Okay. Don't think I didn't look up a little show called Lake Homo High. Oh. It means you need to bring the run back to a noise theater. I don't think so on a Sam Taggart. Where are you? I don't think so on a me. You guys graciously having me on this

1:26:54podcast and me trying to drag you. I'm not actually dragging you. I don't think so. Everyone in the room not laughing at this. I don't think so, honey. You guys are great, but you guys need to come back to earth. Okay. We do five seconds. The Union Hall called you're doing a show tonight. You know what's funny is when we used to do shows at Union Hall, no one would come. No, no. Like, no, we did a whole show like as popular one time with a band and everything and I was like, why can't we fill it out? I know. It was like eight people. We did a great cover of your love is my drug by Kesha. We did. It's great. Um, they're not laughing because of the agreement. No, I'm totally kidding. I was just no. You don't know what you do that. So, well, in 20, 18 was it? 2018. I picked the troll ball. Rest in peace. Where is she also? She's dormant. I picked the troll ball and I got you. Oh, really? What'd you say? I think because you were in DC. I was like, you love Trump, obviously. Um, I don't remember. I blacked out. Wait, why was I in DC? I don't think

1:27:55I was. I think I was. You were somewhere because it was because they're the other two. I was writing on my mother and you say that got you. So I was like, and then I also wanted to do this in, um, respect to Annie Donnelly. Yeah. We were just talking about Annie Donnelly. She was the one that told me about Lake Hummel. Hi. Was that what it's called? Yes, that's what it's called. She's like, tell them that if they need to get to the run and oh my god, you know what, like Hummel High was actually a highlight. It was a highlight because we were writing in 30 pages every week of script. There was a straight guy in your mat about. There was? Oh, maybe there wasn't. Lake Hummel High was actually how, was it how we met Patty Harrison? Oh, I think it was. I met Patty Harrison at a show called it's a guy thing hosted by Mutra Johari. Yes. Oh, I loved it. It's a guy thing. They came to Chicago. Of course. They did. They did. No, we, Lake Hummel High was how we met like, I want to say like Jibuki and like definitely Jibuki, but I think I met Patty Harrison doing Lake Hummel High for everyone at home was a like Dawson's

1:28:59Creek-esque, like soapy, like teen show that Sam Taggart created. Were you a co-creator? I was, yeah, like I was helping. There was both of our ideas, but it was like very much Sam's like brainchild. It feels like Sam's. Yeah, it's very Sam. He got a stray. I mean, I said, I love it. It was all gay guys that went to this high school. We were, we would like rotate the scripts and like it was always just like a lot of, you know, it was espionage. It was love. I still say ghost of comedians fast and I said, comedian of Christmas fast. Christmas fast. Which I really was like, I didn't say anything mean and I was still scared. But I don't remember what I said about you. I just remember being like, it can't play if you're not here. What do we not go to for you? Totally. Someone got cat. I remember a coin. I don't think they knew what she was. They were like, okay, cat. Never was like, this is sucks. Reverse. That was the time of our lives in Chicago. That was such a fun show.

1:30:01The dream. And I remember I came up to you because we didn't, it's actually too much time to get into the Disney of it all. No, no, please, just because I worked there. You worked at Disney World? Yes, I was in Orlando. In the, yes, at the college program. At the college program, which like is, yes, we talked about this because I, I had, there were friends from Aurora, Colorado, who like were like big Disney heads and they were like, their dream was to work in Orlando through the college program. I worked in Tomorrowland. The worst ride of all time. One of them, which is greatest game. Oh, yes. It just greatest game. Rest in peace. Rest in peace. And then the people mover, the people after that, see, the people mover is a classic. I love the people mover. So much, I got Neil Patrick Harris on it. I said, I said, he's, he's, he's at Disney World. He's at Disney World with his kids. He's carousel progress still there. It's getting, it's getting refurbished. It's actually getting like, it's apparently getting the rumor is, but I can't sometimes, it's how I am. The rumor is that it's getting like a, like a Walt Disney

1:31:02animatronic. And the carousel progress is getting like updated. Did you have your heard about villains land? Of course. But I heard that it's like, now there's drama. Yeah. What's the drama? So Josh Demarro became the CEO of Disney. And so there's big changes because he came from parks and he was like, the plans that y'all were dreaming up for villains land are not good enough, go back to the drawing board and do more because they feel the heat now from Epic Universe. Yeah. Universal. So a lot of Disney world is getting like, they're putting like billions and billions of dollars. And Conto land is getting away. I was just going to be my family. Oh, and Conto was going to go into animal kingdom. Animal kingdom in the, they're making the, what was the dinosaur area? Tropical Americas. I see. So it's getting in Conto. And it's also getting Indiana Jones is replacing dinosaurs. Okay. But not the Indiana Jones from Disney land. A new, a new Indiana version of it. This is the thing though. Universal's got Nintendo and

1:32:03Pokemon is on the wall. Like you can, that's the number one franchise. I understand, but I love Universal. But like when you go there, it's just so different. Totally. They're like, kid on the road. I don't care. So you are loyal. But I do go to Universal. I just, I was just, maybe because I was just there. Yeah. And then the difference between our day at Universal and our day at Disney was just like night and day. Of course. Also, I was looking for food and they were like, you could have fish and chips. And I was like, please don't do this to me. Like I just want like a hot dog like a, my moratorium on Universal is, is that the right word? Moratorium? You're sure? Yeah. Is that. So you know, they're doing, they take down the rip bride rocket. Yeah. And they're replacing it with a fast and furious roller coaster. What? Yeah. They need to figure out what else is going on in that Universal Studios floor at a park. Yes. Agreed. And I think after we said, we just went to Universal Studios in Osaka, Japan. Oh my god. I'm going to Japan and know them. You need to tell me everything. We're telling

1:33:06you everything. If you want to Disney sees, I think you should. But anyway, they have the jaws right at Universal. And I'm like, bring it back. Yeah. But Disney sees fun. I can't wait. What did we have a great time? We had a great time. The roast beef popcorn. Oh. Feels very Chicago. Oh yeah. They go off with the popcorn there. Like every single popcorn stand is flavored different. And you go to go to a stocka because it's literally sister cities with Chicago. Comedy town, rivers, huge gay bars. It's very Chicago. I can't wait. I think Osaka is going to be very important for you. Very Maggie. Osaka. It sounds not right. I don't know. Sure. No. It sounds a little bit like Shaka con. Shaka con. Shaka con. Oh, like Osaka con, like a convention for people that love Osaka, like a bravo con, but with Osaka. I'm going. I haven't been here, but I'm going to give some thoughts on Bravo before we ends. Oh, my gosh. This is coming out tomorrow. So this is really great. This is coming out tomorrow. Yeah, this is really current. I would have acted so different. I am. So yeah, I just binge watched

1:34:09the currency's in a married medicine. And those women are everything to me right now. They really are great. I'm a quad web fan. You're what? I'm a quad web fan. My favorite is the introduction where it's like paging. And this is the doctors that I'll just be like, and quad, like, yeah, another doctor and quad. It's so good. And then I mean, I've watched, I think every show, you know what would show? I've never watched Miami. Oh, we love Miami. So I'm going to start different. Like, I think I am in for a journey. You can start from season one or you can start from the rebooted season. Yeah. Okay. I think there's, I think that's, that's a totally acceptable. That's how I did it. And then I, I have not finished my since the beginning watch, but it's, you're not really missing out on too much. Can I name drop out who I've been in dinner with tonight? Yes. West Wilson. Stop. Wow. I love him. Well, because, how do you know, Connor? Oh, I'm sure Connor would. And he is kind of the one who was like, oh, my friend, West. And I'm like, yeah, I know who West Wilson is. Like, of course. Of course. So West, I, I became friends with him. And I was like, kind of like, we're going to go to dinner

1:35:10with me. I think he's the best dressed person on Bravo. Yeah. He constantly every single time I see him on my screen and his confessionals, I smile and line up. I'm like, I love West. I love West. I love summer house. Love summer house. I one time. And I think for like an interview said, I would like to be, and I mean, this was love the first fat person on summer house. And I don't think it'll happen, but I'm going to try my best one today. You're getting, you're getting, and first of all, they're, they're all really nice and cool. So nice. Yeah. It feels like, this is not the producer. But I do watch that show. And I, I don't ever really feel the parasocial thing. No, but I watch that show. And I do. Yeah. Oh, because you like, you want to be where the people are like, I'm like, oh, well, that person just needs, if I was, yeah, I often think if I was there, I could help. Yes. We do need a gay guy in the mix. We used to have one. We used to have one even. Oh, there was a gay guy in the mix. I just feel like that might be a little boring for the gay guy. Well, that's why he would, he'd be like, I got to start some

1:36:10straight up here. Right. Three, two, like cats, two gay guys, two cats. Exactly. Like cats. Oh my god. Is this, is this what, is this how you, how you have cat, you bring cats into it into an environment? I think, no, I just mean, like, I think it's just, I get to, so they have each other. I see. I don't know. I love cats. I'm allergic. But I'm like, it's like the rare thing where I would love to have a cat. I love that. I'm allergic. Because it's never really going to happen with a cat and a dog. You know what I'm saying? It's like, you can pretend they're best friends. They're not. Your cat does not like your dog. Your dog is so scared of your cat. Have you seen that videos with the cat with the cat on the dog? Drop the video in the comments. Drop the video in the comments. If you see that, Matt is speaking from experience because his sister has what you would on paper or in photos seems like a perfect dog cat. But then I go to visit them. And it's like, oh, these, first of all, this cat is just like a cat, which is, it's like going to do its own thing. Diego, you're going

1:37:11to do your own thing, King. And then Kelly is just like very like the dog is, my sister's always like, yeah, she's terrified of Diego. It's just like, and it's not what you think because the dog is more afraid of the cat. Your cat is not afraid of anything. No. Sometimes siblings don't like each other. Yeah. Not not mine. Love you boys. Love you boys. I wouldn't know about that, either. Yeah. Anyways, um, you've a sister. I do. My sister, Chelsea, or I am you siblings? I have a sister. Yeah. Oh my god. Sister. I was I had a sister. Oh, it's not too late. I think it's too late. You think? Call my parents up. Hey, what about you guys getting busy? They like getting me a little sister. Oh, sorry. Sorry to do that. Sorry, man. Okay. Well, it's Margarit. It's a solo show stand-up special hybrid down whatever you want to call it. See Patrick's Day, March 17th. Thank you so much. This was a dream come true. Don't even.

1:38:11I won't, but I, but I do well. We're so happy you got to come in and be on the lost culture. He's the show. And we thank you. She's a shy con. We had every episode with the song. I've got it. What is it? Who's that girl? What's her name? Mr. Cooler. It's your name. Peperan, Peperan, Peperan. So the girl is Peperan. Peperan, she's like one in a million. Yeah. Why do I want to go? She's like one in a million. Oh, I like that. In a million. Yeah. But that's not right. I don't remember any of these songs. Oh, Peperan. Peperan. R-I-P. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Okay, bye. Lost Culture East is the production by Will Ferrell's big money players in a hard radio podcast. Created and hosted by Matt Rogers and Bowen Yeg. Executive produced by Anna Hosniay and produced by Becker Ramos. Edited and mixed by Doug Bame. And our music is by Henrik Murrowski. Hey, so what if you could boost the Wi-Fi to one of your devices when you

1:39:20need it most? Because Xfinity Wi-Fi can. And what if your Wi-Fi could fix itself before there's even really a problem? Xfinity is so reliable. It does that too. What if your Wi-Fi had parental instincts? Xfinity Wi-Fi is part nanny, part ninja, protecting your kids while they're online. And finally, what if your Wi-Fi was like the smartest Wi-Fi? Yeah, it's Wi-Fi that is so smart. It makes everything work better together. Bottom line, Xfinity is smart and reliable. You deserve the peace of mind of having Wi-Fi that's got your back. Xfinity. Imagine that. We all know the feeling when life gets really busy, taking care of yourself can feel impossible. That's why Premiere Protein Shakes are my go-to. They have 30 grams of protein, 160 calories, no added sugar, and they taste amazing. So they're a healthy choice you'll actually want to make. It's not just for fitness, it's for getting after life. Premiere Protein powers me to say yes to more. Find your favorite flavor at premierprotein.com. That's P-R-E-M-I-E-R

1:40:24protein.com. Imagine never buying gas again. E-Vs are as easy to charge as your phone and perfect for every day life. Drive daily with confidence everywhere you go. Most Americans drive 40 miles a day. Do you know that? Most E-Vs are equipped with 200 to 400 miles of range. Here's the thing. They've got fewer parts, fewer repairs, fewer headaches. With hundreds of new and used E-V models available today, there's an E-V to fit every lifestyle in every budget. The way forward is electric. Learn more at electricforall.org. Honestly, honestly, no one wants to think about HIV, but there are things that everyone can do to help prevent it. Things like prep, prep stands for pre-exposure prophylaxis, and it means routinely taking prescription medicine before you're exposed to HIV to help reduce your chances of getting it. Prep can be about 99% effective when taken as prescribed. It doesn't protect against other STIs, though, so be sure to use condoms and other healthy sex practices. Ask a health care provider about all your prevention options,

1:41:27and visit findoutaboutprep.com to learn more sponsored by Gilead. This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human