Bowen wraps Wicked, Matt starts Barry's and Los Angeles basks in the afterglow of what seems like a dozen awards shows this week! Join your Las Cultch hosts as they recap and review the Emmys and Golden Globes, chat Mean Girls: The Musical: The Movie's box office success and cultural update, and get into the reality show of the moment: Peacock's The Traitors! So much to unpack: Parv's chalice! Sandra's braces! Dan's gameplay! And... can a Real Housewife actually win the game? Matt and Bow think ...
Jan 17, 2024•1 hr 34 min
In the spirit of WAI (warmth, acceptance and inclusion), Matt & Bowen resume their podcast hosting duties and begin the ninth (!) season of Las Cultch. The girls had time to watch some flicks! It's an Oscar film extravaganza in which our hosts review and discuss Maestro, Saltburn, All Of Us Strangers, Anatomy Of A Fall, Poor Things, American Fiction, The Holdovers, Are You There God It's Me Margaret, Past Lives and The Color Purple. And finally! We get to chat about the season four finale of...
Jan 10, 2024•1 hr 49 min
In this BONUS episode, Matt and Bowen give you their Top Ten Diva Moments. This bonus episode is available early for subscribers to Big Money Players Diamond on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/lasculturistas See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jan 01, 2024•39 min
In the last Las Cultch of 2023, the boys get holistic. After paying Madonna respects, Matt and Bow recap their respective years, which were turbulent yet important! Lessons learned...knowledge gained! They also get into Ziwe/Santos and the pros and cons of platforming clownery, anal sex in the Senate Hearing Room and why it may or may not be being covered by mainstream media, the only sex tape Matt and Bowen will ever film, whether or not your "Close Friends" can be trusted, and how the politica...
Dec 20, 2023•1 hr
It's another slay with friends! Breaking news: it's a cough culture era. It must be December. You think the sisters won't write a song about it? Don't worry, they will. This is an esteemed episode of sickness and the eating habits are a mess. More is discussed: the taste of Fridays, Potomac, soap stars, Tree Paine look-a-likes, the Golden Globes, pre-med gays, Miyazaki films, Thursday night vibes, Nicki's new album, and of course some tea with Alan Cumming! This bonus episode is available early ...
Dec 13, 2023•59 min
In this BONUS episode, Matt and Bowen give you their Top 10 Decades. This bonus episode is available early for subscribers to Big Money Players Diamond on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/lasculturistas See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 11, 2023•37 min
The Congress Queen and the Prince of Christmas convene in the Church of Cultch (Bowen's apartment) to discuss the disturbing and fascinating cult docuseries Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God on HBO, cult aesthetics, Beyoncé's Renaissance Tour film, Blue Ivy's dance journey, May December's chokehold on the culture at the moment, the song "Candle In The Wind", and the fundamental differences between stew and soup. All this, Kyle vs. Sutton, "RockaFellaCenta" in Rockefeller Center, a dragging of...
Dec 06, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Boob gays Matt & Bowen overcome the Sunday Scaries to catch up on the culture as of late. They react to May December and discuss Julianne Moore's lisp, Charles Melton's stunning performance and how the ending of the film recalls Tár. The hosts go on to anticipate The Color Purple, inquire about people who are somehow still Scientologists, and express how they feel when they are told to "shut the fuck up". All this, RHOM, RHOBH, RHOP, a scheduling and planning of Matt & Bowen's ultimate E...
Nov 29, 2023•1 hr 7 min
In this BONUS episode, Matt and Bowen give their Top 10 “Grey’s Anatomy” characters from the early seasons only (sorry if you stan Amelia by why would you?) This bonus episode is available early for subscribers to Big Money Players Diamond on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/lasculturistas See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 27, 2023•24 min
Surprise, our best late night host also happens to be a perfect podcast guest? And speaking of surprises, Matt surprises Bow with his favorite Percy Pigs (sourced by the angelic Emily Phillips!) and it’s off to the races! From unique “A” names to 5am gambling, Seth docks into a wide berth of topics with the boys. Listen with misty eyes as they discuss the Hard Rock Hotel in Tampa, that feeling when you crush a character set at 24 years old, and finally(!) getting on board with listening at 1.75x...
Nov 22, 2023•1 hr 32 min
Bowen and Matt in conversation with Betty Gilpin on October 22, 2023 at 92NY for a conversation about all things CULTCH. Bonus episodes are available early for subscribers to Big Money Players Diamond on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/lasculturistas. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 15, 2023•53 min
Cultcha Catsup. Matt and a mustachioed Bowen are gagged by season 3, episode 9 of The Morning Show (Reese?! Julianna?!?!) and preview the finale of the greatest series of all time. Matt gives another Vegas Update about the highlights of being mesmerized by the mesmers (pole dancers) at the Usher residency and going to BravoCon. They swoon over Seth Meyers, talk ruehmerrsssss about the rest of the RHOSLC season, preview Timothee’s upcoming SNL hosting gig and get into the season premiere of the R...
Nov 08, 2023•1 hr 10 min
If you're looking for BMD (Britney Memoir Discourse), baby, we got you over here at Las Cultch. Matt & Bowen discuss The Woman In Me, Britney's revelations and ruminations within the book, Michelle Williams's performance, and the backlash currently being faced by Justin Timberlake. Also, the hosts get into at Bethenny's big swing at Bravo and Andy Cohen in Vanity Fair, review Taylor Swift's 1989 (Taylor's Version), and send out the white light for the late Matthew Perry. All this, punctuatio...
Nov 01, 2023•1 hr 18 min
Bowen is a little sickstress this week, so he's invited Matt to his new home to record an episode of Las Cultch and contract whatever he has. Stanley cups in hand, the two discuss, well, pop cultural topics! "Such as?" you ask? Well, Chappell Roan and Troye Sivan's latest albums, RHONY, the "sweeps" TV culture of yesteryear, and an oversaturation of the espresso martini. Also, Bowen MET LADY GAGA, Matt has a haunted weekend in Long Island at the Chambers of Hell, and BOWEN MET LADY GAGA. All thi...
Oct 25, 2023•57 min
This episode comes to you from Bowen's Alex Levy-ish new home and will leave you feeling more updated than ever on the events of The Morning Show, Matt and Bowen's Eras Tour filmgoing experiences, Traylor Swelce at SNL, and how Matt got his "lucky thumb". All this, RHONY, RHOSLC, Will and Jada's latest bullshit, the Wonka trailer, and the upcoming Mean Girls: The Musical. Bonus episodes are available early for subscribers to Big Money Players Diamond on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/lascultur...
Oct 18, 2023•55 min
Recorded LIVE at the Columbia Theater in Berlin with special guest Sudi Green! This episode features the icon, the trailblazer, the legend, THEE Peaches! Bowen and Matt make a live attempt to get into Berghain, discuss the lack of buffalo sauce in Berlin, and debate Usher as the Super Bowl headliner before welcoming Peaches herself to discuss the origin of "Fuck The Pain Away", crowdsurfing while people are holding their damn phones, Tina Turner, paving the way for sexual candor in music, taboo ...
Oct 11, 2023•1 hr 20 min
Are you ready for an episode of emotional truths? Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp join the sisters to talk about the original city girls, fucking up press tours, season 2 of the Traitors casting, bringing your meds to the island, hitting the campaign trail for Dicks: The Musical (out in select theaters THIS WEEK and nationwide on 10/20), and more more more! Plus a series of beeps: what could they be saying?? Bonus episodes are available early for subscribers to Big Money Players Diamond on Apple Po...
Oct 04, 2023•1 hr 37 min
In this BONUS episode, Matt and Bowen bring you their Top 10 Batman Villains. Tune in next month on Monday, 10/2, for more Las Culturistas bonus content, coming first to Big Money Players Diamond. This bonus episode is available early for subscribers to Big Money Players Diamond on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/lasculturistas See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Oct 02, 2023•32 min
Recorded LIVE at Union Chapel in London, a true place of G*d, it’s the Proppa Fa**ot Tour! Matt & Bowen were bloody thrilled to share in the cultch across the pond, read British tabloids aloud, and get to the bottom of who Cheryl Cole is. Also, an interview with true queen and legend Michelle Visage! The Bodyguard album, Soul System, Seduction, musical theater, UK punk rock, old school hip hop, Madonna, Harlem ball culture, Leah Remini, Scientology, the domestic exclusivity of Percy Pigs, a ...
Sep 27, 2023•1 hr 12 min
If you thought Summer of KUNT was dead, well… maybe you would be right actually. Or MAYBE you would see it as an opportunity to herald the arrival of the first ever KUNTUMN, during which returning legend Sudi Green inspires us all to get in our full woman-in-her-30s bag. Join the boys as they record from a Las Cultch Cultural Heritage Site (Matt’s LA apartment) and talk the first episodes of “The Morning Show” season three. What follows is a spirited discussion on Lauren Boebert’s perfectly movi...
Sep 20, 2023•1 hr 31 min
The truth is finally really spoken aloud on Las Culturistas this week as Matt & Bowen catch up on culture, discussing interim agreements vs. scabbing during strike era, The Morning Show returning, Olivia Rodrigo's GUTS and the important of the sophomore album, Chappel Roan on the horizon, the fact that Shucked on Broadway is a blast and, unfortunately, the Drew Barrymore of it all. All this, BONGOS, Joe catching Sophie on the ring camera, Married To Medicine and the overuse of "god damn" in ...
Sep 13, 2023•1 hr 14 min
Sitting in an apartment. What could be better? In the culture lab, (Matt’s apartment in Queens) our Las Cultch hosts catch up with culture. Topics include: RIP Jimmy Buffett, if Lady Gaga ever came on the podcast, remembering high school math, Charli and Rina, whether anyone actually saw Camp Rock, and all the SILVER at renaissance world tour. All this, a live listen if Nicki’s “Last Time I Saw You”, rocket fuels, Busted Queen, problem of sand, the issue of glitter, and conundrum of tape. Take a...
Sep 06, 2023•1 hr
Matt and Bowen are reporting to you readers straight from FIRE ISLAND (scabs…) and MENTION IT ALL (tw: Bethenny). Bonus episodes are available early for subscribers to Big Money Players Diamond on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/lasculturistas See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Aug 30, 2023•59 min
She’s back and she’s cute as a pumpkin, it’s Sarah Squirm! Bowen’s flying solo this week but is joined but his OTHER Long Island track star Piscean legend, and she’s currently “of touring experience” in a city near you. Bowen and Sarah discuss what grade they would teach, what the Eras Tour even is, and how incredible it was that Michael Jackson was the biggest freak who was also the most famous person in the world. Fascinating treatises on “relatability” in culture get their overdue space on th...
Aug 23, 2023•1 hr 12 min
RPKFs, Las Cultch favorite Greta Titelman returns to the pod and joins us from Scotland with Matt, who has gone through one of the most harrowing travel experiences in recent personal memory. All this as Bowen has a terrible fever? It’s giving I DON’T Think So, Honey. Find out what on earth the Witches Well is and whether or not Edinburgh has amazing food options (it doesn’t). Noomi Rapace, early memories of curse words and the plausibility of “And Just Like That” pave the way for emphatic discu...
Aug 16, 2023•1 hr 31 min
Matt & Bowen may be back in little boxes on a computer, but that doesn't mean they're not injecting you right in the little veins with a culture catch up for the ages. After Matt's two-Eras-Tour weekend and Bowen's one-canceled-Carly Rae-concert-Monday, there is much to discuss, such as Alex Newell in Shucked, Patti LuPone's upcoming shows at Cherry Grove, being in indictment watch for the third time (got him! btw), the Lizzo of it all, psychics, and getting fingered. All this, how GHB is ki...
Aug 09, 2023•57 min
In this BONUS episode, Matt and Bowen bring you their Top 10 Julia Robert films. Tune in next month on Monday 9/4 for the Top 10 Batman Villains, coming first to Big Money Players Diamond. This bonus episode is available early for subscribers to Big Money Players Diamond on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/lasculturistas See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Aug 08, 2023•27 min
Bonus Content! Once a month, Las Culturistas is bringing you a new Top 10 list for various aspects of culture. In this inaugural list, Matt and Bowen break down the Top 10 Pop Girlie Debut Singles. There are more bonus episodes waiting for you! All you need to do is subscribe to Big Money Players Diamond on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/lasculturistas See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Aug 07, 2023•26 min
HAUS! Readers, it is time for you to meet a sister. Dear friend of Matt and Bowen, Patrick Rogers, joins our hosts to tackle culture and be their astral guide. Nicole Kidman's AMC ad: how much longer are we doing this? Should we ever stop? Should it reboot? It's discussed. Matt and Bowen reveal something huge about when they went to see Oppenheimer. The girls discuss Iceland's pleasures, Björk's genius, Taylor's Eras... and next era, what they want to see from Lorde, and Tina Knowles Lawson's In...
Aug 02, 2023•1 hr 44 min
The dolls are in back the room, and by dolls we mean pills, of course. Bowen runs into Matt’s loving embrace and the two marvel at the beautiful fan-bound Rules of Culture book. They r-e-m-i-n-i-s-c-e on all the culture of the last few weeks, starting with the single biggest monocultural release of the year (“Barbie”) and promptly discuss the meaning of the double strike era we are officially in. Opinions on the new RHONY women finally take shape which officially means this reboot is in full swi...
Jul 26, 2023•1 hr 23 min
