"The Book Of Questions" (w/ Matt & Bowen)
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And now, Lost Cult. Drums.

Look, man. Oh, I see. Bowen, look over there. Is that culture? Yes. Las Culturistas. Ding dong. Las Culturistas calling. It must be another episode of Las Cult. Not just any other episode. It's our first December episode. Oh,

You are in your bag. I was going to say bag. I was going to say bag. I was going to finish our sentence like Bessie's do. Yeah. Yeah. It's officially December, huh? Today is Wednesday, December 4th. That means my tour begins tonight. Come see me in the Fonda if you're out in L.A. and on the road for the rest of the month. Santa Boy live.

Listen, the people in Atlanta are very excited. Are they? I was just there for Thanksgiving and everyone's saying, I'm going to Matt's show. And I said, well, yes, you are. Come on.

And they were very disappointed that you did not go last year. Not to put you on blast. I know. I know. You know, it's okay. It's okay. Atlanta, I'll see you this weekend. Don't be upset. Don't be upset? How was your Atlanta experience? They call it when you're there, are you at Atlantan? I'm Atlantan. You know, it was good. It was great. Took the nieces to see Wicked. They loved, you know, put together some Legos. We did a, they had a chic Lego set.

Really? It's wicked. I got them a wicked Lego set where it's the dorm room. It's Glinda and Elphaba's dorm room, but it opens up into this diorama of the dorm room, but it closes into... Oh, girl, I'm not touching that. Matt just pulled out a little pre-roll.

Honey. Honey. Tell you a little story about the diorama. Oh, no, no, no. It's over, basically. Well, so you basically, you saw an incredible Lego diorama with the girls. This Ellie girl is very quick on the Legos. She put it together in no time. What is it called? No time flat? No time flat. Is that what it is? In zero seconds flats.

Zero to hero, no time flat. Woo! Woo! Now here's a question that I have for you. Because a lot of discourse about whether or not Wicked is actually for kids. Were they scared of the film? The scary parts have to do with Chistory.

I would say. Yes, certainly. And that's the only really scary thing. And then, you know, there's fire, there's bullying, which is always scary, no matter which you are. Yeah, no, that was really scary. But to speak on Chistory, would you say the film glorifies animal abuse? And would you say that this is your opportunity to speak out against the film for the glorification of animal abuse in the film Wicked? Glorifies it? No, it shines a light on it. No, the star of the movie...

Oh my God. Is an animal abuser wicked? What do you mean? No, you're believing the wizard's lies and Morrible's lies. If I come on here and I just, I'm like explicitly alt-right from now on. This movie is sick. They're taking people like liberal elite, Bo and Yang, are taking very young children to this movie that glorifies animal abuse. And it stars queer people in lead roles. And it's normalizing.

Yeah. And it's, it should never be normal. I'm not normal. Don't normalize me. Define normal. I have a pitch for what this episode could be. Yes, yes, yes. We just did a big culture catch up, right? Yeah. And I thought about this. I was like, what will we even talk about? Nothing has happened. I bought this book.

This used book. Used up? And from what I can tell, it came out in the late 80s, early 90s. Okay. But I'm going to reveal it to you now. Sure. It's called The Book of Questions by Gregory Stock, PhD. And I forget who recommended this. It was on some video of like What's in My Bag and some chic celebrity had this.

And she's like, you know, you're on set or something. Rather than be on your phone, you just flip through. This is an old book that you flip through and you just ask each other. Some of these questions are not super...

super fun. They're a little too deep, but should we just flip through? Can I tell you something? Sometimes it's not the question that needs to be fun. It's about the answer. You know, it's actually rule of culture number 10. Sometimes it's not about the question that needs to be fun. It's about the answer. More value on answers over questions. How about that? Oh, yeah. I mean, there are no stupid questions. There are certainly stupid answers.

Baby. I'm into this. So you're saying this episode is called The Book of Questions and we should ask each other from it?

We should ask each other from it. And then I think we just have to pick a number from one to two 17. Maybe producer Becca can help us with the number selection to randomize it. But should I just read the back cover for everyone to get a sense of what this is, what this is about to be? Let us know what we can expect from this episode of Las Colas. Okay. Big head says, ask yourself period. Ask your friends, ask your parents, ask someone you hardly know the,

The book of questions gives you permission to ask those things that are too bold, too embarrassing, or just too difficult to ask by yourself. You will find questions of integrity, of sex, of what you would do for money, even things too personal to talk about out loud. This is perfect. This is perfect. One more little paragraph. May I? Yeah. Oh, please, please.

Whether you use it as a tool for self-discovery or as a provocative way to stimulate conversation, this book constantly challenges attitudes, morals, beliefs, and it challenges you. I'm speechless. I'm ready to embark on this. I'm speechless.

Becca, get in the chat. Get in the chat, Becca. Okay. You need an active role in this episode. Okay. Oh, she's already given us a number. Okay. What did she say? Number 11. All right. Okay. Are you ready? Let's hear from Bo and Yang. Oh, my God. And can we get a sound effect? We won't know what the sound effect is until later. But...

After Bowen says number 11 and before he reads the question, we need some sound effect. And we are not going to weigh in on what it is. Whatever our incredible engineers and editors, Doug and Mo, choose is what we're going to go with. Yeah, Doug and Mo, have fun with this. Or don't. Just, you know,

Get it out of the way. This is a big ask. We're throwing this at you last minute. Feel free for this to be something that you just check right off the list. Yeah. And if it's no sound, then that's also okay too. If you're slammed, don't worry about it, but we're giving you

An opening here. Carte Blanche. My favorite line from Public Affair by Jessica Simpson. Ready, set, go. Did she sing Carte Blanche in the song? She says Carte Blanche. You need to write a single called Carte Blanche. Carte Blanche is a really good title for a Christmas song. Yeah. Carte Blanche. Carte Blanche.

Oh, that's good. Okay, I'm ruminating on that. You should ruminate, honey. All right. Full of new ideas. By the way, oh my God, can I just, before we get started on number 11, congratulations to my move-in silent sister, Matt Rodders, on the new single, Santa Boy. It is fantastic, triple-A pop song.

Songcraft. Well done. Well, thanks. I didn't know about this. You didn't tell me about this. I was moving in silence about it. I was moving in total silence about it. And I just decided, okay, now's the time to put it out. I wanted to put out one more fun song before we embarked on the Prince of Christmas tour because I felt we were missing a true dance bop.

And I want to see all the RPKF shaking ass to this song. Oh, yeah. By the way, just to set things up, get there on time if you're coming, because I'm not waiting like 10, 15 minutes to go on because it's standing room and it's going to be like a music show. And we don't want to keep people who get there early standing. So if you're coming to the show, get there on time. I'll get you out of there in less than 80 minutes. How about that? 80, 90 minutes. Wow.

Wow. That's the perfect Goldilocks zone. Well done. Shout out to Henry Kapurski and Ethan Christopher, who this is his first song he ever co-wrote. We wrote it together. Ethan! Of course, Leland and Gabe Lopez fucked it up. They absolutely went so hard on the track. Way too hard. Way harder than I think I deserve. But I'm so happy. No, come on. It is what you deserve. It is what we deserve.

Leland, Gabe, Ethan, Henry, Matt Rogers. Bravo. Bravissimo. Santa boy. Streamer. Thank you. My absolute number one. I love you. To say nothing of number 11, which is, I guess, where we're headed. Should I read it? Yes. Number 11. You are given the power to kill people simply by thinking of their deaths and twice repeating the word goodbye.

People would die a natural death and no one would suspect you. Are there any situations in which you would use this power? No, I'm not killing anybody. Oh, yeah, sure. I'll kill like...

Don't say that. We have to cut that. We'll cut that out. I would kill certain people who abuse power. By the way, this has gone already so in such a direction I didn't see. The questions will really run the gamut. Would I kill anyone?

You know what? If I saw in a moment someone trying to physically harm someone I deeply cared about, I would do it then. But I would never premeditate. I would use this power of number 11 as self-defense.

And I just want to say going forward, if it ever does come to light that I've quote-unquote killed someone, just know it was self-defense. I would never premeditated kill someone. I'm not a killer. I don't identify as a killer. Whenever I even see movies where there is a killer, I never understand them. I don't identify with any of these girls. How could you snuff out human life? It's so crazy. I just don't think it's your responsibility. So you're saying...

that you would only use it if you were in a situation where you saw someone harming your friend. - Like if I saw someone rushing you,

If I saw someone rushing you... I can fend for myself. Don't worry. Bowen, no, you can't. Not if your back is turned. Yes, I can. First of all, don't make this into a... I'm trying to save your fucking life. Bitch. So get Ben. You know what? Just get him. Go get him. He doesn't want my help. Go get him. Oh, so you'll kill me. Yeah.

You won't use the power so that I will die. Oh no, he's making a face. I'm doing it now. What's the thing I'm supposed to say? Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye.

He lives. It didn't happen. A pelican didn't fly through the window and its beak didn't impale his skull like I thought. Hold on. Oh, it's natural causes. That is whatever. I guess it's a natural cause. You just gave 11 Stranger Things down.

Millie Bobby could never. You're about to get a nosebleed. I did think when I saw that character, I thought, should be me. Should be me. I mean, not no. So what about you? Yeah, absolutely. You would do it? I would do it. But you just said you wouldn't snuff out human life. There are absolutely situations where someone's death would be helpful to the greater good.

Honestly, yeah. It's like that question that they ask, right? Like if they gave you a baby and put it in your hands and you said, what's the baby's name? And they said, Adolf. This is Adolf Hitler. And the baby in your arms was Adolf Hitler? WWJD. I mean, that's one of the questions I ask. Jesus Christ.

I don't know. That's a tough one. That's a really tough one. I would use that. One option is you could run away with the baby and put it in a nice atmosphere. You know what I mean? Yeah, but it's... This is about current day Matt Rodgers in the year 2024. If you were given the power to kill people simply by thinking of their deaths and twice repeating the word goodbye, would you do it? Depends on the day. Probably... Likely no. No one would suspect you. And...

You just have to live with... Because I would live with... That's the thing. My brain works over time. And I wouldn't be able to live with the guilt. And I don't think neither could you. I definitely would have a hard time. I just think certain deaths...

Could be good. I hear you. I hear you there. I think, how about this? If this power ever happens to either of us, let's tell each other. Yes. And if something comes up where it feels like someone should, let's just talk it through.

But then it's a one-to-one vote. There needs to be an odd number here. Let's also say... Becca needs to weigh in if we were to have the power. And that includes you, Becca. If you were to have the power... Becca, what do you think?

Okay, so just to be clear, the power is to kill anybody no one would know. And it would be a natural death. A natural death. Natural death. Oh, it would be. I missed that part. Okay, like a heart attack. They would just die and no one would know. Now I think the whole thing is less fun. That's only by brutal.

Only by Brutal. I mean, like, if we're going to kill someone, at least let's have fun doing it. Like, honestly, when I was just 11-ing, well, that's kind of funny that her name is 11 and this was question 11. Oh, my God! This is one of the spookiest episodes yet. And I thought it was December, not October, but this actually is one of the scariest episodes we've ever done so far. Period. First line of the description, in one of the scariest episodes yet, comma,

Matt and Bowen, yeah, go through the book of questions. Unleash the power. So Becca. Okay, the fire sign in me, like my double fire big three is like, I'd kill someone. You're a killer. Absolutely. Like I can think of specifically like two people on top of my head and I'm like, they're gone. But I think the guilt would riddle me. Of course. I couldn't sit being the only person who knew that.

If that makes sense. What is the emotional, what is the interiority of knowing that you have the power? Even if you don't use it, you're like, I have the power. Ooh, that I feel like would weigh on me because like, is this life or death is in your hands? It's like whatever death note kind of vibe, you know? Yeah. It's death note. Yeah. I deeply just want my own little positive life.

You know what I mean? Of course. I don't even want to think about it. That's what I think is the worst part because it is very heavy on you. It's like you carry darkness. You essentially are the Grim Reaper. Are you comfortable with that? If you're comfortable with the knowledge that you, Becca Ramos, are the Grim Reaper. I don't know.

I don't know about that. I don't know how I sleep at night as the Grim Reaper. Because like, what if you have the wrong thought and then someone just dies? You know, you were just having a bad day. Right. Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. And that would happen to me. We've all had bad days. My best friend's ex thought about it too hard. Of course. It's over. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye. Plus, it's better for those people to live. Better for them to live and see you thrive. I want to know they're miserable in every lifetime. Yes. Yes.

There's an asterisk at the end of this question, and I looked to the back. And there's an additional follow-up question. And I think we're all in agreement with this, but I'll read it. If you can imagine yourself killing someone indirectly, could you still see doing so if you had to look into the person's eyes and stab the person to death? Have you ever genuinely wanted to kill someone or wish someone dead? No. No, that is not an impulse I have. If someone answers yes to number 11 asterisk, that's...

The book of questions is crazy. When was this published? I just want to make sure everybody over 1 million in print. This is like the dark version of We're Not Really Strangers. This was published in 1985. What's We're Not Really Strangers? Oh my God. You guys don't know? No. I am the queen.

the queen of we're not really strangers. Okay, so it is, I'm like, do I go grab it? It is this card game that is kind of intimate and they have different versions of it now. They have like a friendship version and a family version. But the whole point is that it is three sections of cards

and you go through them one-on-one with somebody and they kind of get more deep as you go through. And at the end, because you do like about six to eight cards per round, like you ask a question and they ask you a question and you answer them, kind of like this book. And then as you get to the end, you then write a little note

about your experience with this person and you give it to them and they read it later. Oh. It is very intimate, but I love it. That's a lot. That is a lot. I make everyone play it. I'm like, you want to get close to me? We're playing We're Not Really Strangers right now.

I thought you were going to say that like this was like a light version of that New York Times questionnaire where you ask these questions and you fall in love with the person, which does not work, by the way. No, it does not work. But this sounds even more intense. Yes, it is. It's pretty intense, especially because they have now all these expansion packs like they have like the early dating expansion pack, which I do recommend if you're like on a date three with somebody bringing that out to be like, are we worth dating any further?

no no i was just gonna say the craziest people in america are doing this on dates yes yeah not the craziest person's doing the big one on the first date that is like oh no that's absurd that's we need i i would think number 11 about those types of people because literally i'm like you're like i don't know you we don't need to be having this conversation no like a long-term relationship one like if you've been in oh sure they have like a

family one they have like a deep friendships one like people you've been friends with like you guys for years like if you're snowed in with your significant other yeah perfect game to play it's cute like oh snowed in with significant other you bring out what's it called we're not really strangers we're not really strangers and that's a rule of culture number 72 snowed in with your significant other you bring out we're not really strangers this is it

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Should we do the next question? Yes, Becca. Now give us another number. Okay. Three. Three. She's staying on the low end.

oh my god another okay this is another really intense one i mean i guess this is the book of questions do it do it that's the book of questions number three if you were to die this evening with no opportunity to communicate with anyone what would you most regret not having told someone why haven't you told them yet oh my god this is so crazy we can't answer this

I mean, I think we have to. We have to do this. My brain goes one place. Like, it's parental. Yeah, it's about the parents. Oh, wow. This episode went so hard into the book of questions. I don't even like putting this out there, but if someone in your immediate family...

were to go without you. Girl, this is so fucking crazy. Without you being like, thank you for, you know, pouring everything you had into raising me and giving me a good family, a good foundation. Like, I respect and love you so much. Like, you know what I mean? Like, that is something that I think

is so worth it to share with parents. But the thing is, I think that there is no more intimate relationship than if you really think about it, like the one between parent and child. You know what I mean? Like that is like... Hopefully, if all works out, yeah. Well, yes. But I mean like when that relationship exists. Yeah. Like that is the most intimate thing. And I think it's so intimate that it's like the true base thing

of your emotions is revealed in that expression of gratitude for being on this planet. You know what I mean? Like that is very intimate, that acknowledgement and that, you know, it's especially when, you know, you're someone who grows up and like, like anyone, I would imagine that there's strife between parents and children. You know, everyone has those issues and those blocks, but that

For that reason is probably my answer to this question is why haven't you told them yet? Because it's very hard to like, I don't know, access that all that.

I know. I always want to go beyond the moment of telling either of my parents that I love them, which I do all the time. And they get very vulnerable and they kind of cut right to like the heart of something where they're like, yes, I'm like, whoa, like, all right, like, this is not the right time or place for this conversation. And I wish I killed that instinct a little bit more of theirs.

Of mine to be like, I don't shut it down, but I kind of dismiss it. And I'm like, no, I should let that play, let that breathe. There's a reason they're communicating this. Yes. Yeah. For all the hardships that my parents and I have had, now it's so beautiful and lovely. And it's always been, in a way. And I just want to tell them, none of this would have been possible without you. Yeah.

Um, they gave me an opportunity, even though they did not by like literally moving out of China so that I could have been born and moving to the U S and making sure I was okay for the most part, even though they didn't understand what I was doing. Like that is a huge thing for them. And, um,

Can you imagine moving to a place where you don't speak the language, where you are immediately... No. A different... Like, you're immediately marked in the society as someone who's different and someone whose assumptions are created about you. Like, I mean, the sacrifice is immense. Yes. They tell me this all the time, and it's not to guilt me, but it's like, they want me to internalize that, and I have, and it's just... But no amount of thought about it will ever, like...

make that unremarkable. It's so remarkable. Yeah. Also, the totality of... So basically, I don't know if you notice this. I'm sure you do. And I'm sure that's part of what you're getting at. But my father has become so much more emotional as time goes on. I think it's because the estrogen starts popping in men as they get older. And I just think about your father. And

to understand and really wrap your mind around what that sacrifice ended up doing in a macro sense, in a cosmic sense. Like he moved to this country, well, countries, you know what I mean? Like made it work so much so that his son, uh,

is a superstar. But here's the thing. I'm going to say it. You're shying away from it. But wow, if you could go back in time and be like, you might not even understand this later, but your son is going to be able to literally pursue his dream in America and become...

so brilliant at it that it's inspiring and changes things for other people. I mean, I just hope that part of what they're experiencing when they are trying to say that to you is that they acknowledge that, how successful they were. That's just something that I think is truly...

an incredible story. It is an incredible story. They had one outfit per year that my grandma basically sewed her six children pants. Yeah. But she hemmed the pants to like short little pants, right? And then as they got older, they had one pair of pants their entire childhood into their teenage years. And then every year as they grew, she would take the hem out and then just roll it down. Like,

They had one outfit for their entire... And they would sleep together in the same room, huddled together in the cold of Inner Mongolia with no light. Like, my grandma had her feet bound. Two generations ago, my illiterate grandmother was raising six kids with her feet bound. And, like, that practice had been illegal for, like, 20 years in China. But then she didn't know about it until...

Someone from the coastal cities like went into the landlocked parts of that country and they were like, take the binding off. Wow. It's it's crazy. It is crazy. And I think that that is that idea is so big.

And there's complicated feelings with people. Like, even though those sacrifices have been made, it's, there's of course just that, that, cause then you are an American child growing up. And like, you know what I mean? There is something about, I think I experienced with my, with this with my father too. I remember one time it came up that, um,

I was going to have to go to work one day in high school to my busboy job. And it was raining. And I said something like, I hope they call me off work because I could use my time better being at home, like studying or something or like doing something else. And I don't want to go to work because we'll make no money. And my dad lost his mind on me. And he was like, you go to work. And we had this crazy fight. And I did go to work, made no money, came back early.

But later he knocked on my door and he was very tearful. And he was like, I'm really sorry. I overreacted. I just sometimes wish your grandfather was an influence in your life. And that's when I realized he was like really going through something and thinking about his own father. And it was like, obviously like baggage that was coming out. But there's this idea that like, when you think about your history and your lineage, there is a guilt there.

Because people didn't have options in terms of comfort, in terms of trajectory of their life. It was just you woke up and you did it and you put your head down. And I think generationally, that is difficult for people to wrap their heads around. Someone who is a baby boomer in America, you know what I mean? Have a different idea of what it means to...

go about things. And I think I was experiencing that in that moment. And it's like, from you to your father to his father, those are three completely different abject realities. So of course there's going to be like lack of understanding. But for you, it's like from your father to his father, it's like the through line there. And I hope, I'm sure you were impacted by that.

overreaction on his end. But it's like, that is like you getting this work ethic that like, no one works harder than you. No one works harder than you. Well, that's very nice of you to say. I would point to yourself. But I mean, like, I remember if it was so unfair at the time that I was being treated this way. I'm sure you know what it's, what I'm talking about when it's like, this is something that my father is just wrong.

wrong about I know you know but it's like now looking back I'm like I do understand it I have compassion and empathy for it my dad used to tell me when I was very little very little one of his famous lines was I know everything and if you ever have a question you ask me

And I actually believe that. Yeah, and I understand what he's trying to do. I don't know if I would do it. Well, you know, my dad is my dad. You know what I mean? He's very similar to me. We both have very performative personalities. We both gravitate towards being the center of attention. And I think that like...

he would say something like that because he doesn't want me to value someone else's opinion or knowledge in the world over his. You know, he's my father. But then when they reveal themselves to be human beings later, that is when you as a son, there is a moment of like, you almost feel frustrated about it. Not that you were lied to, but that it almost feels like,

oh, you didn't know everything. You're a human being just like everyone else. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. You second guess everything. But it does become like a core belief. But then it's great to know that your parents are human. You would want to say all of this and more to your parents to answer the question. I mean, yeah, right? Like, it's hard. Like, I remember we've had moments where

it really does happen more with my dad and like, it happens less with my mom, but I think he becomes more emotional as he gets older. And I think you're recognizing that as well. Right? Absolutely. And as we're talking about this, like to go back to going to Atlanta for Thanksgiving, like,

I just know for a fact, I got so stressed out because the kids, you know, had moments as they should their kids. They had moments where they were distressed and... Well, Chistory was being abused. Chistory was being abused and there was a whole bunch of stuff going on. You know, every other hour, there was just some kind of mini meltdown and...

And I realized that that's normal. But for me, I was like, this is more stress than I've ever felt than I felt in the last two months of work and wicked press and like all that stuff. I'm like, this is more anytime someone's like, I don't know how you do it. I'm like, no, that's easy. Like what's hard for me is watching these beautiful children get stressed out. And then my sister and my brother-in-law having to handle it and my mom having to handle it. But I'm like,

Shout out to the parents. This is my thing. I could never do it. And my thing is, like, anytime someone asks me what your drag name would be, anytime someone asks me, like, what would your, like, restaurant be called or whatever, I'm like, I don't know the answer to that because I have too much respect for the thing to know that I would never be in that situation. Right.

Right. I will never. I have such reverence for my parents, for your parents, for any parent who does their best. And drag artists. And drag artists and restaurateur who pours their heart and soul into this thing. Like, I could never. Literally, I could never.

Well, I feel like a couple of our group chats have been active and because it's the holidays and people be texting. So everyone is saying the same thing, which is I'm never having kids. I'm never having kids. So like even the people that wanted kids in our life are suddenly like turned around and be like, like, it's tough.

It is tough. Wow. The book of questions. The book of questions is popping off. Okay, Becca, give us another number. 1 through 217. Yeah, come on. Let's get deep. Not that we haven't. Deep in the numbers, you mean. Numerically. Okay, she says 152. Okay, here we go. This is... I like this number. 152. 152.

Oh, this is simple. Okay. What do you value most in a relationship? And I guess this is open-ended. I guess this could be romantic. This could be acquaintanceship, friendship, whatever, in a relationship. I'm going to say, I'm going to interpret this as romantic, I guess. Yeah. Let's choose to interpret it romantically. What do you value most in a romantic relationship? I'm going to say something that's kind of like an eye roll, maybe. Yeah. But comfort. I think comfort is an incredible thing.

thing to look for. And it's so valuable. Everything else falls into place. Yes. I think once you're comfortable, I think that's literally, I mean, that's where vulnerability comes from. That's where understanding comes from. I think that's obviously what I'm going to say comes from this, which is trust, which I think is so different than honesty. Yeah. It's so different than all those things. Oh my God. Like it really hurts when someone breaks your trust. Yeah. Yeah.

Totally. I mean, that's like betrayal. I mean, it's... Yeah, I don't know. You can trust me and then turning around and being untrustworthy. That's true villain behavior. That's evil ass behavior.

It is a mutual sort of buy-in, right? In a way, it's like you trust the person. And so therefore, what dictates your behavior around that person is to make sure that you build that trust with them and that they trust you in return. And then when that is violated, it is so painful. It's not so good. But in terms of comfort too, it's just like...

You know what? I've been dating a lot. And something I think I'm trying to find now is instant comfort. It's hard. It's going to be some kind of sign. Yeah, me too. But that is...

that's bad. If you feel instantly comfortable, that's when your guard is down. That's when you start looking the other way. That's when you start ignoring things. And I also think comfort, at least for me, is also based in a little bit of like sexual attraction. It's like, oh, I'm comfortable here. Like, I think I could like ultimately potentially use my body in a certain way with this person. Like, and I think that that

Maybe I'm just thinking about my own past, but that is what makes you ignore red flags, both in the other person and yourself. It's just important that I just don't want to get fooled.

Totally. That's trust. I feel like that's trust too. Like I trust you to, I trust you enough that I'm going to use my, to use your words, use my body in a certain way. Okay. No, no. My I don't think so honey later is about a certain thing, but because that, I guess we're kind of saying the same thing ultimately. Like I want to be able to be really available to you and not be sorry later.

Totally. I guess the subtle difference in our answers is I'm thinking of comfort in terms of like internal comfort, like between the two people or whatever. And then

outer comfort, which is to say that like, which is the classic thing of like, can this person like, can I leave this person alone at a party? Not that that's like the thing that I value the most. It's just like a good sign. That's a sign of comfort. That's a manifestation of comfort to me. Can I, I have this scenario. I'm like, this is so eye roll, but I'm like, can this person hang in

The Fire Island house of like me, you, Josh, Aaron, Patrick, Witt, you know, like everyone in that. Is that what you would want? I also think about this. I sometimes think about would you want your SIGO to be around all the time? I don't know. I don't know yet. Yeah. I think I've had versions of both.

And what would you prefer one? I actually, I have no idea because I mean, out of everything I've been in, like, I clearly still don't know what's the best thing for me. That's kind of what I'm still looking for. Like, I don't know. Sure.

But what, to use Henry Kapersky as an example, like a cigo who was around a lot. All the time, yeah. And everyone was thrilled about that. Absolutely. And now look at you guys. You're like still, you still have a wonderful friendship. But I'll say this, and this is not revealing anything, because I think he would say this. He wasn't always comfortable with it. Oh, of course. So you know what I mean? It's like, yeah.

It's a lot to be around a lot of people who are like, you know, whatever comedians and like on all the time. Oh my God. It's interesting. It's a little bit of like an ask, you know, when not that I feel like it's an ask to date me, but I get why someone wouldn't want to. Oh, it's a huge, it's a huge asterisk. Yeah. It's a risk. Just so you know, it's a lot. It's a lot.

I don't know. It's just a lot of energy. Yeah. That goes in and goes out. That's what it's about. Yeah. Anyway. Okay. I love that question too. Comfort and trust. I'm sure people will agree. Some people out there are going to be real horn dogs. Just like a good dick. Yeah.

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Would you be willing to eat a bowl of live crickets for $40,000? Yes. A bowl of live crickets for $30,000? I'm chomping down on them, thereby killing them. Yeah. I've had bugs in the past. Totally fine.

kind of flavorless. It's just a texture thing. And it's a mental thing of like, oh, I'm swallowing a bug. But once you get past that, it's like, oh, it's fine. Yeah. Yeah. I think I might need to see the crickets. The bowl. Here. Okay. Let's Google a bowl of crickets. Becca says, if no tax, yes. Like cash money. Crazy answer. So you would do it for $40,000, but not what? $32,000? Yeah.

Sure. Becca, no, that's silly. You never know. Okay, when I think about the lottery, right, and how people are like broke after they win the lottery or like when you get those cars on Oprah and then you're in debt, like I want to see like a trunk of cash and they're like, here you go, babe. No ifs, ands, or buts. Yeah, yeah. Those crickets, here's the cash. Yeah. But if there's work for me after I eat those crickets. There's no cash.

Let's just assume there's no catch. I mean, I am Googling. Yeah, I'm thinking... Now that I'm looking at them... Can you speak to her? Yeah, I'm struggling about a bowl of crickets. I put it in the chat. I put it in the chat. Oh, see, I don't know. This bowl of crickets is so crazy looking. Yeah.

It's a big bowl. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's like, I would need to see the bowl because suddenly it's like $40,000 seems not enough money for this. Like this is probably not only physically difficult, but like digestionally impossible to take all these crickets to the tum. Can I actually modify this question a little bit?

Can you? It's the book of questions. Yes, yes, yes. Well, look, it was published in 1985. $40,000 in 1985 is the equivalent to $115,000 now.

Okay, now let's look at this cricket bowl again. And that's what I'm getting. No tax? You know what? 100K? Sure. Can I make an addendum on the question? Yeah. Can I put buffalo sauce on this? Yeah. They didn't say you couldn't. Then I'll still do it for 40. I love buffalo sauce. I'll put it on anything. Yeah, put it on anything. I would do barbecue. That's what the difference is.

No, I love Buffalo too. You know I love Buffalo. Yeah, girl, come on. Anyone who's not a Buffalo fan, I could not date them then. That might be close to the top of the list. Things you're looking for, the traits, that other question. Buffalo lover.

I need a Buffalo lover for show. Toss me in it. Toss me in it. All right. Becca, new number. New number. They were clearly running out of ideas. They started so hot at 3 and 11, and then they were like, would you eat a bowl of crickets? 69. Oh, my God. This absolute freak for sex. 69. Can somebody match Becca's freak? Number 69. 69.

If a friend were almost always late, would you resent it or simply allow for it? Can you be counted on to be on time? Okay. I've had conversations with people even after they were like 45 minutes late once. Yeah. And I'm like, that wasn't okay. I'm generally, I have my moments. Like today I was late. I asked to push our, you know, zoom back five, 10 minutes. Not that late. I mean, you asked for five and then I said 10. Well, that's not late.

I'm not going to say that I'm always on time. I try to be. Okay. Can I say, and let me, let me also throw out there for me personally, 10 minutes late is not late. It's not late. Like 10 minutes late is not late. Like I don't, I don't really care. You, you text me and be like, Hey, I'm just running 10 behind. I know you're on your way. 10 minutes in the grand scheme of life. I can sit there. Becca says 30 plus minutes is late. Agree. That's late. If someone were almost always late, I,

That would be an issue. If you're over 30 minutes late all the time, it's definitely an issue because why should I take on the responsibility of navigating my own shit around the fact that you're always late? Because then guess what? We can't. I can't say it out loud. I can't have an honest conversation with you. I can't honestly be like, OK, well, you said, too. I'm going to show up at 230 because you're you. Ha ha ha. Because then you're going to show up at three.

Right. And now we're an hour after when we want it to hang. So, I don't know. Just understand, like, that chronic lateness like that, RuPaul says that's being addicted to the feeling of being late. That's an addiction, actually. Whoa. Totally. And I also am like, if you can't be...

dependable with other people, then there's something about you that is not dependable to yourself. Yeah. Well, first of all, I think one of the reasons why there aren't people in my life that I have this problem with is because if you have displayed this behavior, I wrote you off already.

Unfortunately, yes. Kinda. I mean, like, if you're saying... I will never forget one time years ago, I let Catherine Cohen sit at a diner for 40 minutes waiting for me. I will never forget it. The guilt. I will always feel bad about it. The guilt. And I...

I could tell she was annoyed and she should have been. But like she also sat with me still and gave me 45 minutes of lunch at the diner that I did not deserve because 40 minutes late is crazy. And it haunts me the one time if this was something about me, like that was a reliable thing. The only reliable thing about me is that you're unreliable. That's not going to work. That's not going to work. Hmm.

All right. I feel like so far, this is a nice sampling of questions. This has been a rollercoaster ride. Okay, should we do a few more? Yes. Let's do three more. Three more. Okay. 34. Our freaking age. Oh my God. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Number 34. What was your most enjoyable dream? Your worst nightmare?

I think I have my worst nightmare for sure. Okay. And it's really dark and it's really vulnerable that I'm sharing this with everybody, but I'm happy to, but I have, I have a dream that I, from childhood that I still think about, which is crazy.

So maybe I'll go there. Go there. Whatever you feel comfortable with. Is this the vulnerable one? No. I mean, they're both kind of... They're both, like, random and weird. They're dreams. I know my nightmare. Uh-huh. But I'm still thinking on my dream. Okay, my dream... I had this when I was, like, seven. Mm-hmm. And for some reason, it was... I woke up in the most euphoric state. And I still think about it. And I don't know why. But it was basically, like... It was a dream that turned into a nightmare. So...

It was that I was like on the phone.

Before FaceTime, I was on a video call. So as a seven-year-old, technology did not exist back then, so it blew my mind that I was talking to a class full of girls my age, but just a bunch of cute girls. For some reason, it thrilled me that I was talking to all these cute girls who were like, we love you, Bowen. My gay adult ass. I don't know what this means subconsciously, but like,

There was something about that dream where I was just in heaven talking to all these people who like adored me. And it was like attention or something. I don't know. But then the call ended with them being like, oh no, the bully is here. The bully is here.

And then I was like, I'll protect you. And then somehow fast forward, I'm on a bed, jumping up and down the bed, fist fighting the bully while we're both jumping up and down on this bed. And then I woke up from the dream. But I still think about, this is so random. What age were you when you had this? Seven. Seven. Wow. I still think about like, oh my God, the thrill of just like talking to like cute people, like cute girls. You know who those girls represented? The Katie's.

Yes. Oh my God. Katie's let's do a FaceTime and you guys tell me who the bully is and I will fight them. We need to find out who the bully is because we have to go. It was just literally have to go. It's like a big kid and I was like a small scrawny guy. Hundo. Okay. So that's my most enjoyable dream. Do you have one? So I am going to share this one that I've had, not had, had a dream when I was little.

And this one always stuck with me because it really was scary and sort of surreal and twisted. I remember I was dreaming that I was with a bunch of my friends like in some sort of cave, but we were all Muppet babies. So me and my friends were Muppet babies and we were like in this cave, like sort of aware of the fact that there was a monster. And then I remember like,

Coming around a corner and then being in my childhood kitchen. And my mother was making food in the kitchen. And I was calling out to her like, Mom, I think there's a monster. But she couldn't hear me. Like, I was like, and I was Muppet baby sized. So I was like... Were you just a generic Muppet baby or were you like a specific Muppet baby? I don't really remember. But like, that's what we were. You were a cute little puppet.

I was like a little animated Muppet baby. And so then I'm in my kitchen and I'm like, Mom, there's a monster coming. And she can't hear me. And she's like, I'm putting something in the oven. The oven is involved. So then the monster comes around the corner and it actually...

He was like, you know that McDonald's character, which is like a bunch of strings. He's like, you know what I mean? Like Grimace, I think. No, Grimace is purple. The little, the Fry Guys. God, what was this? They were little pom-poms. They're Google McDonald's Fry Guys. Fry Guys.

Yeah, literally a lot like this. That's scary. But tall and like orange and very scary. Another Muppet in a way. Yeah. So he comes over to me, picks me up, puts me in the oven and closes the door. And I looked out the oven at my mother and was yelling, mom, mom, mom. And she still couldn't hear me. And I remember like just the...

The idea that I wasn't heard when I was screaming for help from this monster and that I was too small to get anyone's attention, like, that stayed with me for a really long time. And it's one of the very few dreams from my childhood that I remember because it really, like, shook me. That's a nightmare. That's your worst nightmare. Yeah. And then a dream, I don't know, anyone where I...

I love any of my dreams. And if you know, you know, when you have like a full blown like narrative in it, like sometimes I'll feel like I woke up from a dream and I feel like I starred in Lord of the Rings. Like when you whenever you have a dream, that's like an RPG. Bitch, you can play them in real life.

Maybe I should. Sounds like a dream to me. Oh, I think you would like some. Girl. Girl. My nightmare is really bad. Wait, you don't want to? It involves me, like, killing someone.

This is the death episode in a way. Who did you get the shit out of in your dream? I was at a grocery store and then like, I just, I didn't shop. I didn't steal anything, but I was like leaving the grocery store, pushing my cart. And then this woman chases after me. She's like, you took, you stole this. And I was like, no, I didn't. And she was like, she was about to kill me. And then I like picked up my cart and swung it and just kept hitting her with my cart.

It's so dark. My worst nightmare is like my own action and my, the violence that I was capable of in that moment. Very calling back to number 11. Well, yeah, that's what's disturbing to me. But meanwhile, I'm answering number 11 saying, yeah, I would do it. But like, there's something about the power of murder, of killing someone that like,

what breaks breaks your soul yeah absolutely i mean that is a horrible feeling to have to sit with i'm sorry that's your worst nightmare anyway i bet it's such an easy answer i was like that is the most disturbed i've ever felt i need to start writing down my dreams more i think that would be interesting like taking a dream journal do you ever do that have you ever done it the times that i have the wherewithal to like grab my phone or whatever and type type the dream in yeah um

I don't know. I got so inspired by Kirsten Dunst, like her using her dreams as like acting sort of like guidelines. I tried that for a thing and I don't know if it really helped. For what wedding banquet? No, for, for, I forget something. I guess we'll have to see in your upcoming performances, which one feels the most dream inspired. Subconsciously informed. Whoop.

Okay. All right, let's get another number. I feel really sort of naked in a good way. Like, I feel like everyone's really getting to know me. 217. The last one. Oh, this is very interesting. Let's hear it. Number 217. If you were guaranteed honest responses to any three questions, who would you question and what would you ask? I guess... I can't...

Okay, let's skip it. No, honestly, like I know who I would ask and I think I know what the three questions were, but, and I think I have asked them, but I just don't know if they were honest answers. The thing is like,

This is a deep one, and this is going to take me a while to answer, too. Yeah. This one's tough. There's an interesting reason why this one's last. It's an expansive question. Yeah. They really kind of... I don't know. This almost feels like cheating. They ate with that. They ate with that. They really... They definitely... Okay, Becca's saying number 103. Number 103. Does the fact that you have never done something before increase or decrease its appeal to you? Oh, okay.

I think decrease. Comfort. Yeah, at this point. Yeah, at this point in my life, this goes back to the comfort of it all. I'm like, I have felt thrills. Yeah. Of all kinds. I'm good with something even. I'm good with boring. I was actually just thinking the other day, like, about, I don't think my sister's having kids. I'm not having kids, probably. Like, I was thinking about my parents again, being like, oh, they won't get to be grandparents anymore.

And then I thought to myself, well, not everyone gets to have every experience and that is okay. And also, I don't know. I also related to like skiing. It's like, maybe there's a reason I haven't done it yet. Cause my leg would snap in half. I don't know. It's just, I think that that's like, this is like, this question is scarcity mindset. You know what I mean? It's like, I don't, I'm not self-conscious about experiences. I have plenty. I'm all about,

an interpersonal thrill. Like I don't have to have it be this like activity, but I love activity. I just don't know if that's like the gradient that I'm thinking about necessarily. I agree. I agree. I mean, I think like I've done things to do them before.

Yeah. I mean, there are things that I've done that I want to explore further. Yeah. Because I've already done them and I'm like, I liked that. Like, I want to go like, I want to hike more intentionally and intensely. I want to like learn new languages. I want to like do, I just, I don't know. I want to like do stuff that I already know that I enjoy. Yeah. And that there's a wide expansive horizon for more to come, you know? Agree. Agree. Okay. Yeah.

New question. Let's do one more. One more, and then we'll do I Don't Think So, Honey. 22. Oh, my God. I'm so happy you said 22. That's my lucky number. This is going to be a great question to end on. Oh, okay. Interesting. Number 22. If you could use... This is kind of similar to the first. All right. If you could use a voodoo doll to hurt anyone you chose, would you? Oh, my God.

See, yeah, this is very similar to the first one. It's very similar. 11 and 22, they got lazy. They got lazy. It's not killing someone. Becca's saying she might do that. No, because you know what? Like, putting someone in pain, this is even worse than the other one, because the other one is like, you'll think of someone and they'll die of a peaceful death, natural causes. This is like wanting to cause someone pain. It makes me even more uncomfortable. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This book is so cursed.

The Book of Questions. The cursed book. Who wrote this? Gregory Stiles? Gregory Stokes says, if you could use a voodoo doll to hurt anyone, you chose which. Okay, so your answer is no. I honor that. I don't want to hurt people. I really don't. And I hate... I know. I don't have that kind of ill will. Yeah, no. I don't want anyone to be in any pain. I just... I really don't. Like, that's... I don't know. Like, when people are like...

Are people born good or evil? I'm like, good. Interesting. What if it was... No, I don't want her in pain. I don't want her to be in pain. Really? No. You're not going to want this in the episode. Okay, yeah, we'll take it out. Okay, Becca's asking, what if it was a bad migraine once a month?

I don't want people to feel nauseous and in pain because of me. Am I going crazy? They're going to feel pain no matter what. Life is suffering. Have you seen Mad Men? But I have. That doesn't mean that you should be the person to explicitly contribute to that physical suffering. You guys are scaring me with your devil's advocacy. I'm not kidding. I've not been a devil's advocate. I've been mostly aligned with you except for the first and the last question.

That you would kill and cause pain. No, no, actually, we are aligned on the first question. It's not worth the guilt. But I would have guilt about giving someone a migraine. I wouldn't. Oh my god. Migraines are awful. They are awful. They are debilitating. I knew a waitress named Crystal. She had to leave work. What?

And her dad had told her, you have to go to work. She had to leave work and she had to go home and face her father, who no doubt was like, if your grandfather was around, he'd be so disappointed in you. While she clutches her temple, nauseous in pain from a migraine, debilitated, unable to see out of one eye. I wouldn't wish a migraine on my worst enemy, I swear. And trust and believe a lot of these questions about causing someone pain.

On my worst day, maybe I get a little edgy in terms of this question. But on today, no, it is December. I'm the Prince of Christmas. I can't be giving people migraines. No, you're right. I gotta give gifts. You have a title to uphold. That would be bad for business, Beau. Oh, I know. Worse than coal, a migraine. I feel like people have made up their minds about me at this point. And I'm like, well, I can kind of do whatever I want. This is what makes you Elphaba and me Glenda. You realize this.

Yeah, although I would say Glinda would align herself with power, which is, I guess neither of us are doing that. It would be, no, trust me, like, Glinda would never give someone a migraine on purpose. Elphaba wouldn't give someone a migraine on purpose. What are you trying to say? Yes, she would. No, she wouldn't. The Wizard of Oz. No, no, she wouldn't. And no, let me quote her.

Her father? And nobody in all of Oz, no wizard that there is or was, is ever going to bring me down. That's protective, bro. She's not saying, fuck the wizard. She's saying... So you don't think in order to protect, she would give him a migraine? You forget that... Can I say something? There is so much revisionist history here, and the Wicked film not only glorifies animal abuse, but also erases the fact...

That Elphaba, if she loved Fiero so much, why did she set him on fire in the Wizard of Oz movie? There's a huge plot hole. Huge plot hole. The timelines are different. It's silver slippers, not ruby. It's like, come on. Come on, we're not doing this. No, no, no. Watch the Wizard of Oz again. I've seen it and I know what you're referring to. Excuse me. You've spoken a lot.

And you got to speak in many lines in the film Wicked, but I didn't get my opportunity. So I want to enter the Wicked universe and say, there's something wrong here.

There's something really wrong here in Oz. You're anti-wicked because you think it's about... It glorifies animal abuse. It glorifies animal abuse. And... I believe it's revisionist about Elphaba's physical abuse. This is not adding up. I've had it. We've done the Wicked Press Tour, okay? Now here's my real feelings. I feel it's not PETA. Ha ha.

Wicked thinks it's PETA. It's not PETA. It's like how Crash thought it was anti-racist and it was racist. And it was racist. Wicked thinks it's saving the animals. Last I checked, I'm watching this movie and a monkey was in agony. What they had to do to that monkey on set? Yeah, that was not a good day. That gorgeous little deer, that's our Tandy Newton in Crash. Now you're out of this land in the deep.

That movie fucking sucks. God, it's terrible. It's a crazy-ass movie. One of the craziest movies ever in American history, and it won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Sorry, Ang Lee. Sorry, Ang. Sorry, beautiful art. Sorry, beautiful Heath. We were out here swimming in the deep. This is it.

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Move on to I Don't Think So, Honey. Okay. I have a good one, actually. Okay. This is Matt Rogers' I Don't Think So, Honey. Well, first of all, I Don't Think So, Honey is our one-minute segment where we take one minute to rail against something in culture. Matt Rogers has something. This is Matt Rogers' I Don't Think So, Honey. His time starts now. I Don't Think So, Honey. If you're going to send a sexy DM...

and it's fisting, you have to say that beforehand. Well, no. I am so on board with people out there if they want to send me their sexy DMs. Like, you want to send me a dick pic on DM? Like, truly, my DMs are open. You want to send a little sneaky ass? You want to send whatever it is? If you're empowered to send me this type of material, I support you. I embrace you. I do think so, honey.

I don't, however, think so, honey. If you're going to send, and this is not a kink shame, I swear to God, everyone do whatever it is you're going to do consensually with your partner or partners. I don't care. But if I open my DM and it is something that is going to sexually shock, disturb, and turn me off, I have to know beforehand.

That feels like animal abuse. When I'm an animal, a human is an animal, and you send me just straight up fisting out of nowhere, I don't think so, honey. I feel animally abused. That's one minute. And there's something very nuanced here, which is this is not a kink-shaming moment. It is a moment of...

There's no sort of like gut check either way about it. You have to ask someone if they're okay with certain things. Period. And here's the thing. Like the person that sent me this, we have had a like exchange nudes relationship in the past, but this was a jump forward to the point where it was like, if your intent was to test me and see what my limits are, truly just ask. I will tell you.

Like, very status positive, forward person. When that is on the table, I will talk about it. Let's get into it. That's literally communication. 100%. And whoa. Gay guys, slow it down when this is the deal. I mean, I'm shook about it. There's some good ones out there. Gay guys. Oh, yeah.

Some of my favorite people. Absolutely. Some of my favorite people. And some of my least. But when they get on DM, I mean, it's a spectrum. Yeah. Gay guy is a spectrum. It's actually Real Culture number 30. Gay guy is a spectrum. But I have to say, and I kind of, now my perspective on this one gay guy has to change a little bit because I feel I was like,

animal abuse through the phone. It's just the worst medium for animal abuse. Be like, hey, are you into this, that, the other? Then we can actually get into it so that when you send me this, I'm not on lost coach being like, I don't think so, honey, your actions. Hey, I have a video of me fisting, getting fisted. Is it okay if I send this? Correct. You can say no. I would be like, I'm going to respectfully decline. I politely decline.

And then you would have still maintained that nude sharing relationship, friendship. Yeah. That could have grown into something else. Also, or I go, yes. And then I can't complain when I see it and it upsets me. You know what I mean? But like, give me an opportunity to have a say in my experience here. You know what I'm saying? Right. Because you can't see what it's going to be when it's one of those DMs that goes away, you know? Mm-hmm.

That is my I don't think so honey answer. It's okay, Bo. I survive. Yeah. I wouldn't give that person a migraine. Yeah. You ready? Yeah, I feel like this is going to be a rehash of something that I've surely talked about before, but there's a new sort of resonance to it for some reason. It'll be fresh, new, brand new, different, and more. I'm sure pertinent.

Here we go. This is Bowen Yang's I Don't Think So Honey as time starts now. I Don't Think So Honey TikTok, or at least my experience of it, because it's not even the algorithm anymore. It's for me. My experience of TikTok is I log on and 20 of my notifications are of someone who thinks they're being cute, tagging me, saying, oh my God, this person looks just like Bowen Yang. It's an Asian person. It's a little Asian baby dancing around in like a little elephant costume. Yeah.

Trust me, I've seen it. You guys can stop tagging me in that. No, thank you. It makes me not want to use the platform, which I guess is not my... I'm not missing out on too much. I'm happy to get the detritus on Reels weeks later, but I'm saying, like, I guess that's just not going to go away. I guess I have to accept this as part of my life, but, like...

I even still get Asian people who make the Joel Kim booster joke, switcheroo joke. And I'm like, y'all, what's with that? I don't know. Like, it's just a weird thing. And I hate the internet because of it. I think this is a great reason to leave. I mean, I think that here's the thing.

Last week I was in therapy and I was talking about how I, for the first, not the first time in a while, but lately I've been feeling really good. And the only times I feel bad are when I log on and see what people like have to say. And so I would say for you, it's,

probably not going to change. It's not going to change. Because if they haven't heard you at this point to not do this or whatever, it's like, and also there's like unlimited people out there that can all, you know what I'm saying? Like these people who like don't

see a lot of Asian people in their everyday lives I'm top of mind to them and so they see an Asian person on the internet they go oh my god that's Bowen Ying Bowen Ying should do a sketch a skit on SNL where he plays this little baby who's dancing I'm like listen to yourself do you think that could happen do you think I'm over here thinking I'm gonna do that

I don't know what they think. Something about, and I, listen, what a huge honor to be in this movie that is, you know, I'm being appreciated by so many people. I am receiving an uptick of the most lobotomized people you have, you didn't even think were out there in this world. I'm, I'm, I,

I love everybody. And this is not related to me wanting to voodoo doll potentially kill anybody if I had the power. But I am over here thinking, wow, like human beings, man, our brains are small. We are a stupid species. We are dumb. Myself included. I think that also people that act that way online are,

Like they if they saw you in person, they would obviously never say those things, which makes me feel like that's not even a reflection of an actual human being. That's reflection of like a human being's base thing. Yeah. You know what I mean? It's like.

These people online, quote unquote people online, like if you think of them as not people, but as like online opportunities for people, you know what I mean? Because like you're not actually being online. You're talking to an avatar and an attitude that is put on and constructed. So it's just like that makes you want to take the whole thing less seriously. Yeah.

to begin with. Because it's like, these aren't people online. Even if they are operated by a human being, this is not a reflection of reality. It's a distorted extension of, like, the way their minds work, which is never going to agree with me. I can't control what they think. I'm not out here saying, like,

I don't think so, honey. I'm not saying like, you better not do it. Yeah. And then they can't see you as a person either because they have their own thing in their own head. Yeah, I mean, social media is bad. Internet is bad. Breaking news! God bless Australia. That little social media ban.

Are they doing that? Love. Is that happening? Anyone under 16. They don't know how they're going to, people are like, how are they going to enforce this? But I'm just glad it's out there. Yeah. I'm glad the intention is there. I knew the intention was there. I wasn't sure if it was actually being enacted, which, you know. They get a couple shootings, they go, no more guns. Yeah, exactly. I'm like, God. Imagine that. Imagine that.

And imagine an episode that took you to highs and lows like this one. Wow. Lost Coach really is a podcast that continues to grow and inspire. Thank you to Gregory Stock, PhD in what? I don't know. In being a mess? In being a messy hoe? Messy hoe vibes, but also got to give him thought provoking.

Gotta give him thought-provoking. I mean, this man was writing the book of questions before we had these little fall in love, we're not really strangers questions.

girls stepped onto the world stage. Yeah. Oh, my God. Well, maybe we'll do another episode of this down the line. Hey, look out for another episode of the Book of Questions 2. Like, Wicked 2. Or Book of Shadows, Blair Witch 2. And I want to say something. I take back everything I said about Wicked. Those animals were CGI. I know they just looked incredibly real. But that's just...

you know, a testament to the power of filmmaking and what we call movie magic. And can I say, I could have never convinced you that they were not real. You had to arrive at that yourself. Something has changed within me. Something is. I love her performance in that moment. So good. We end every episode with a song. I'm through with playing by the rules of someone else's game.

Too late for second guessing. Too late to go back to sleep. It's time to trust my instincts. Close my eyes. It's time to... You know, the soundtrack is out. Bye.

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