“It’s Morphin’ Time!” (w/ Dewayne Perkins)

I want to hear you say what that means. So by dusting your wheels off, I think that you are freshly in Los Angeles, where we currently are, and I think that the wheels metaphorically in this saying, have collected I guess dust from the traveling No, okay, and now you're dusting them off so that your car looks nice as you're driving around. And how load you fully misinterpreted what I was trying to say. And I don't think we can be friends anymore. This just means that, well,

it's fine that I misinterpreted. It's not the fine that we just kidding. I meant that we haven't done this in a while. Oh okay, so we haven't recorded an episode in a long time because we backlocked a bunch of bunch of like in our in our episode with current and Christina we talked about the Masked Singers if it was like a new thing and now it's like old news, humiliating humility. I listened back and I cringed

at what little I knew that the little topicality. But the reason is, but here's the thing, Like since we last recorded together, many things have changed. A lot's changed and busy bi Coastal Horse where I have to say everyone, can we can we can? We say this on the pod? I guess always Okay, this is I wasn't told I couldn't.

You weren't told you couldn't. And no, this is this is the kind of thing that just gets scuttled at it anyway, but everyone Matt is in the writer's room as a writer for the other two fourth season two. It's so exciting. It's almost like I willed it into the atmosphere. Well, I mean truly, like you like are perfect for that show, sensibility wise, comedically, your work ethic is perfect for that show. And and just you know, like it's it's it's such a perfect first job for you.

I love it having a nice time, having a nice time. And can I say what's changed about you? What she's in She's she got a tattoo. She got a tattoo. I've been thinking about it for a long time. I literally I slept on it for a very long time. And the very first thing I did when I saw the tattoo was touch it, which actually is rual culture number eighteen. You can't touch the tattoo. It's fresh, that's fine, you can touch it. I just I just have a layer of nears born. I have a layer right right right.

I wanted to go touch it, and then you did a classic bone yangs squeal you did, I yes, which I feel is your Like if Nicole Buyer was like, You're like, yeah, that is my, then it's my primal true self. But anyways, big changes, big changes. What is what does this mean? This symbol? Okay, so it's basically a red square with dashed lines cross wise and diagonally. Um. And this is the traditional meats which is the uh sort of structure. It's like the grid that you have

in calligraphy paper or just in workbook paper. And so uh. I got a lot of fun Twitter responses today being like wow, he's taken like his childhood trauma, which is Chinese school. And so these are on all the Chinese school workbooks. But then you put it there, but it represents like structure and empty space and is there anything to that is it? Is this your trauma? This is not no no. I just thought that was a funny,

like a tocy for them. But for me, this is like because like the cliche thing is to get a Chinese character, but I didn't get the character. I got the invisible structure around it, but made that visible and made the character not visible. But the tattoo artist, Raven Lou, they're amazing, their performance artists based out here and they're

they're also a tattoo artist. Um, so they do they do the grid with like something inside, and I was I couldn't decide on what to get inside, but I was like, maybe someday you will tattoo something in there. Absolutely I say, I say, keep it, keep it open, keep it open. But then someday maybe I'll be compelled to put something in there, and it'll be raven to like finish the story. Isn't that beautiful? That is beautiful?

And I want to say, like I had an instinct to ask you what it means to you, but then I thought to myself, you know what that's not for everyone, that's that's only for you. For me, it's just it's just like a simple like for the longest time, I was having a hanging being like I don't know I want a tattoo, but I didn't know what I would get. And then I saw this on Raven's Instagram. I was like, Oh, yeah, and that you get a tat um. I don't think so because I feel like I don't have any like

compulsion today. I think I've told you this. My sister and I almost got matching tattoos in Universal Studios, Florida, and then we went up and we were like, have tattoo artists they do well? And then I was like, I don't think we know what we want, and that means we shouldn't get it. And also I would feel insane if I got a tattoo in Orlando, Florida. And that's not saying there's no shade. I just think if I get a tattoo, I have to know what I want a and it has to be in like the

city of New York. I can't be I can't be on I can't be on my like Orlando fever dream and get a tattoo, because that's like, I'm not myself there, I'm a heightened version of my totally well. You know, we were walking around Portland, you and I one and I kept saying. He was like, we should get a tet and I was like, no, because we were we don't know what we want. And I look, this means something to you, and I'm I'm happy that you got it, but until we can figure out what we get that

binds us. What were we going to get? What was your idea? I don't remember that we were high. We were happy, all right, So here's the deal. Speaking of being high and speaking, I would like to tattoo things for our guests face. Oh he's got a good fire right thigh on my asshole because I feel very strongly about our guests. You know, the first time I saw our guests perform, I saw him do a character set, which I've never seen him do since. But I did say to myself, I have to know everything. He it

was impactful. Like I saw him. I saw the set, the sixacts that you're talking about. You were intrigued. I was like, Wow, that guy, and then I went up to him afterwards. I was like, you're you're amazing. Yes he did. He basically starts with from what I can recall, um, it's a DJ set from Glenn did the Good Bitch, and he's just just just super like I'm gonna hit you with some beats. It's just like I'm gonna I'm

gonna blow your fucking socks with my beats. And he basically just does like musical like like like like beat driven musical theater. I think he did like don't my praide he and he truly I remember I remember the iconic don't don't, don't, don't I'm playing, and I was like, I love that. It's just all the queerest cannon ship and I'm like, this is brilliant character at the Beast that night. Well, and truly I was like, wow, I've never seen this happen, and now I see him do

stand up. He is a stand up The thing is like I would never here's the thing. To be the bitch that turns out all different kinds of performance, you have to be talented bitch, and this is a talented bit. And we've appeared on a couple of the same shows out here in l A. Always crushes, always crushes, always never seen him not rush. We saw him crushing cluster Fest. I always watched him crush, Always watch him crush. But here's the thing I want to him on the show

to a true renaissance man in comedy. As part of the fantastic legendary in Provence Sketch Group three Pete based out of Chicago, a writer for The Break with Michelle Wolf, and he famously appeared as Beyonce with Michelle Wolf in In Fact Drag in Fact Drag Well, Michelle Wolf was heard jay Z his jay Z um to his Beyonce. Um. That was the bit was Michelle was like, I can just be jay Z and just stand there and not do anything, and while Beyonce just fucking flails around and

does all these gymnastics. Um. It was gorgeous, iconic queer that that's queer cannon. Qu queer cannon. The whole The guest is quick Cannon. The guest is queer cannon. And he's working on and Matt doing to do the honors. This is the thing that we cannot talk guess what he's doing, something that we can't even talk about. And but you're gonna be fucking gooped, And God, what do you hear You'll hear about it later, but not from us, not from us from deadline. Maybe I really love our

guests so so much. Welcome to your ears. Dwayne Perkins got hello. Hi the we just did a long inocus. We haven't seen each other in a while, but I'm so glad you guys remember that set. That's the last characters that I've ever done. I'm so good. I was like, I'm done with this. And then I just started doing stand up. That's privilege. That's privilege of being like, I'm too good at this, I'm not going to do it again.

Able I you know, I that was like we were all understing for JFL and I was positive you were going to go and I remember they didn't pick me, and I was like, oh, I'm not doing this again. Yeah, doing never deming early on, I wish they were all that strong well doing and they were d m NG Like I saw his set and like okay, and and so then we like we like we like strike up a strike up a little friendship. Um, but but we were both just like, Wow, maybe we'll like hang out

in Montreal, because at the Tiny was in Chicago. It was the biggest. It was enough. It was an egregious moment that you guys didn't go and I didn't and that you didn't you that was a good group because he had you and Heidi Gardner and loved Gardener. That's the first time I saw Catoen. Yeah, catcom was up there, and I also didn't go, like true DFL. I don't know about you guys, your your marks off. You know, that was a good night. That that us being a

good a good group. Would you ever do a character set again? You think if you unless you need to, I don't find a reason to. They're hard to They're hard to put up and like have everyone in the audience like be on board with Yeah, it's like I'll just like rather like write a pilot and try to sell it. I just don't have time to be done characters, well, unless you're like going up for a sketch show, which

there's only one, you know what I mean. Like and like at a certain point, it's like you don't do that anymore. You don't really do what character said, you know what. And also it is weird to just put it up in the middle of a stand up set, because stand up show rather because no one's ready for it. Yeah, yeah, unless you do one long character. Yeah, I'd rather like stand up was Honestly, stand up is just easier, like you,

less props, less preparation. You literally go on stage and talk and just like I can, I can do this. Here are you? But you too? Are? I feel well? Mad is someone who has taken his sketch or character ideas and like transmitted them very effectively into stand up like act outs, like stand up jokes, like is that something? Is that something you you do? No, because I think the characters that I would do were so far from me that it's hard to put them into stand up.

And I feel like you stand up strictly as like a power to it. But like I'm just gonna talk about what I want and you have to listen to something. So mainly is me just talking about how great I am? I love it. It's really function. I just love being like, look how great I am? You always look like a fucking million dollars or two. I love someone who puts a look together for a show. Yeah, you never know when it's your last one exactly. You might be photographed

last show. Okay, and we're talking about that let's talk about as parents as a fear of mine, losing your parents, dying, dying, dying specifically before I achieve all the things that I want to achieve? Of course, do you actually think about death? Okay, so this is this is the thing I used to There was a period in my life I'm gonna say to three years ago where I thought about it legitimately every single day, and I was like, what's wrong with me?

I haven't for a while, but like I think, Um, there's people that were friends with I don't want to speak for them, but They've revealed that they think about this every day, and I'm like, oh God, that's a bad what about death? Like, what about it? I think I was smoking some bad weed. I think that's what

it was like. And each and every day I would get high, and it was the kind of weed like are being the kind of high where you're like, oh, I don't know how it's going to happen, but I am absolutely positive that a car is going to come in through the window and kill me right now. Like it was the weird I think. Yeah, growing up in the hood, the possibility was like for real, Like it

was just real, and uh, I just haven't shook that. Yeah. Yeah, you've described to me very very elegant detail like brushes with like just like yeah, which is yeah, like that's a very apparent thing in my life, which is why a lot of other things are so easy. Like which is why I'm like, oh a character said, stand up. I'm like whatever I'm talking on stage, we're not dodging bullets, and everybody relaxed. Fuck wow. But like, what is what is in between death and a character set? Is there

something in between? Okay? Do it? Are you a Disney queen? None? Yeah? Yeah? I mean particularly but like any amazing I love a theme part a phone o cake. Yes. Do you know what I just rediscovered or not rediscovered? Like I fully knew I was gonna. I went to Disneylandry only for my birthday. And I love a fucking turkey leg I love a big fucking hunk of meat in my hands. That's too much meat, so much, And that's the thing.

That's the thing is the smell of it. You can get hooked ton and also the taste of the first My joke is I am a trip to fan of turkey until you get about halfway through and then you're just like sleep fucking messiest. Your hands are disaster, your mouth is a disaster. You can't get enough napkins in the place. I always forget about all the trip to fan in that. Oh yeah, tons of trip to fan

on the stuff. What is a trip to fan? Trip to fan is a chemical in Turkey that makes you want to fall asleep and you get so tired on Thanksgiving. I didn't know that I should. Okay, I've been looking for a way to I'm taking a plane tomorrow night. I'm terrified of planes, but I'm on a wee break. I usually smoke a bunch of weed to go to sleep on planes. Sow. I'm trying to figure out a way to fall asleep and swell the pills, because like, that's the thing that I mentally cannot do. You can't

do you cut them in half? I try? Can you can you grind them into like a bottle of water or something that's nasty. I don't know. There's no work around for this, I know, which is why I'm struggling, which is why I might just eat a bunch of turkey before I get on that turkey. Wait, Okay, A couple questions first, of all, where are you going New York? Just wait for how long? Wait? What? I go there tomorrow and I leave one Tuesday. Oh, I'm gonna miss you whatever, Okay, so it's gonna be there for a

short time. Yeah, for a short period. I have things to take care of. Okay, he's got things to take care of that he can't talk about. Um. Second thing, why is there a weed break? Because I was smoking weed every day and I needed a tolerance break, okay, because it was taking me taking too much wet for me to get high. Yes, I took a break just when I smoke again and I can get high. Of course,

very selfish? Is this is this physiologically proven to? Is this proven out where it's like if you take a break, then you then your tolerance will recalibrate and level back out. Yes, two weeks, two weeks, so what dare you? It will be fun? I don't know. Um, Monday is when I can smoke weed again, like Sunday evening. Yeah, Sunday evening, don't even don't even wait until the clocks. I love that you love weed, and I love that if we're on the same show, I know you'll have weed after

the show from experiences. Did we smoke after the Blair and Greta show. I think we did. I smoked and for a show it's just very we Um. Being game black is just real hard. So I have to be high all the time. But just like as often I can still function right right because it's it blunts everything and it's gorgeous and that's why we do it. See, it doesn't relax me. It makes me a little paranoid. So that's why getting on planes is a tough one for me, because I, like you do, not like to fly.

And if I'm up there and too high, it's like, oh my god, do you know how many feet are under me by now? Thirty three fucking thousand? Yes, I made a mistake. It can get too high, like right before I got on. So the plan you get really high before, so that when you're on the plane is the calm down. You're just very tired. You don't like get high to get on the total you know, you get high way before, way before while you're insecurity. Yes, yes, um,

well let's figure out a solution for dwaining for tomorrow. Um, I think I mean my my Pitts dream. I mean, but it's it's not me, it's emotionally. You can't do it emotions because but it's like it's a tablet. Is it tiny? It's tiny. You can grind it up. It's like it's kind of like it's kind of like a not tech talk. It's like a sweeteart. It's like where it's like I'm one of the smarties. It's like you can do that, but you no capsule. That's what you're

that's what you can't. I swallowed the pill the other day. I was shooting a commercial Oh brag, yeah, and uh I had allergies and I don't have them off in and one of the actresses was like, hey, swallow it is pill and I did? You did? It was very very actress. It's been a d and well that'll put you to leap. Really wonder if you if you are asked deep an allergies. I believe it takes care of the allergies. But if you don't have allergies and you just take a bena drill, then it puts you. I think.

So if you can take a bena drill down the throat, baby, take a bentage. But like it was like because it's like very tiny, Like there's like two kinds of like the strong kind which you have to buy over the counter. It's like you can get sucked up and it's like the weak small pill that I took, a weak small pill. That's the famous Have you never been? Is it? Is it one of those things where it's like, okay, so you know how when you get older, all of a

sudden things become fucked up and hard. Like when I was younger, I could crack an egg. Nowadays I can't crack a egg to save my life. Like I don't know, I was talking to grat This isn't like as you get older, like little things that we used to be easy, Like you used to fucking break an egg out of the carton. Snap, there we go, eggs in the pan. Now it's like I don't know how much forced to crack the egg with you're just too strong. I think

that's what it is. My muscle master has become overwhelmingly a light like did you just put it on the rim of something? Tap tap light light and then and then you perforate just a little bit, and then you you tuck your thumb under and then you you are frail. You are small and frail. And when you go tap tap, it's not the same as when I go tap tap, it breaks all over the place. I have to be

very careful with my big, big arms. I would say I did cook an egg two days ago and I tried to crack it and it just burst in my hand and hawk hulk. But okay, So could you swallow pills as a small child or this has always been a nightmare? No, Like medicine in general was just something that was hard to me. I had the flu like sometimes last year and I couldn't take pills, so take cough medicine and just like threw up in front of a rouse. It was very families eating ices. I seemed

like digest like medicine. It's just there's like a mental block. I think I understand. Is you know what, Well, don't get very sick. I'm gonna get hypnotized. Oh I mean I gotta get hypnotized. I do for what. You know, you gotta get out of your own way. Well, no, it's not that. It's just never mind, it's it's it's this, it's this. I mean, there's I have to do that. But I mean the cigarettes are creeping their way back. That's so stupid, and I and well, one thing is

that what does that mean? They're fully back? Not no, not fully back. It's just I'll be like, hey, can I bomp something? And I'll just smoke like like a couple of times, but I want There's this book apparently that's called how to Quit or something that everybody is like, you read this, read this book, and you will quit. But you only you can only quit. You can only attempt one quitting attempt. Basically as you use the book

won't work or else the book won't work. If you If the book won't work, if you read the book, you quit, and then you you fall off the bog and start back up. Then you're fucked and you have no recourse at all. So like a magic books, like a spell books. Yes, yes it's that book, and um oh my god, that big book with the eye. Yes, and she goes boo yes, yes, yes famously. Bett Miller like if you're I E and Nicole is, then Bett

Miller is boo, dwyne, what's your sound? Go don't think about it to mine And then I was like sure, yeah, yeah, I mean outside Chicago really came out. That's that's the trademark. Okay, it's different from mine, which is wow. I love that, and I e is a little Mine's very resonance, right right. So, but I was going to say that I should go see Hypnotist to Yeah, honestly, I can't believe you started

smoking snakes again whatever. I don't like that at all, and I'm so vocal about how I don't want you to. You are very vocal about it. I must say, I've never smoked a cigarette. Really, there's no you're not missing anything. Well, you don't do it. I can't claim that I've never smoked one. But but like, you can't regularly smoke I mean, come on, guys, it's actually a rule of culture number one hundred. You can't regularly smoke cigarettes. So you can't.

You know, it's it's it's it's my journey, and it's it's fine speaking of journeys. Speaking of journeys and things, I think we get into this question with Doyne. We asked this of all our guests, Dwayne, what is the culture that made you say culture is for me? This is the pop culture that was formative for you, that has created the Dwayne we are sitting with today, Yeah, there's a couple. One major one was Power Rangers. Yeah, phenomenon change, I have a power Oh I have another

tattoo that I didn't check. You have a tattoo that's like it's on It's in very beautiful calligraphy. This is It's morphan time on my Yeah, Zach, the Black Ranger just really gave me everythingsolute Tito. He wore pants. Yeah, is he in the movie? I know he was not. He was gone by then. It was that was but but but the Blue Ranger was black in the movie, right, No, the Blue Ranger was one with the glasses in the movie. He was black in the new movie and the New

Black Yes, Okay, did we like the new movie? I actually did. I actually I loved it. It doesn't have the nostalgic fill of the first one. County Ivan News, yes, a full county. Yeah, we need County Ivan News. And also, but I did appreciate about the new one. Elizabeth Banks as reader repulse. I thought that was inspired. Also loved the Becky g moment for I Live for a Queer Becky Becky G was great. And then but read a repulsa just saying Crispy Creme Crispy Creme all over again,

Brian Bryan, Brian Cranston. Yes, and also fucking hot, asked a daker Montgomery, who has the red Ranger is about to say name? I was shocked as well. Is he Australian regular white? He's not regular. He's a white. He's a which means worse. He's hum worth. He's a beach white. He's a surfer white. He's one of those like Australians that except I will say this, Australians they can turn out a good American accent. Sometimes I'm like, what the funk when I find out the Australian like like like

the kids from Riverdale, he's Kiwi. I don't know where that what? That's where that New Zealand, New Zealand. The main guy, Yes, the redhead that he's Kiwi, like straight up Geraldine, Geraldine, Geraldine does such a she does very good. But Jean is that like an old black lady who is with gerald Dame. You're right, You're right, gerald Dame. She's she's a wonderful young Australian Indian Australian. So she's a friend of a fan is like, so she like cloaks it so fucking well, we have to get her.

She's a friend of the man and a very very, very good person. But here's the thing, Like I think I would. I can't tell if I would do a horrible British slash Australian accent if I were called for. I mean, that's a tough thing to do. It's hard, it's hard. But anyway, would you Okay, do you think you would you think you would do I think you might do a good British I was in the last play I did. I had to play British and it

was at the time it was good. I don't remember it now because people get into like read when it's when people start getting into regionality ship, I'm like, oh well now it's like now I'm in my head and now I'm like, I can't tell if I'm doing if I'm doing Leads or Cockney or whatever the fuck. You know. Yeah, I can never tell what kind of British accent I'm going to start doing before I do. But then you

commit to it once you do it. Yeah, Like I think sometimes you often slip into like whatever Adele does, and you know she's very much lower class, right, Okay, let me see what comes out okay, each like oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, very easy to slip into this. And then there's also the south Shield accent. The people that talk like this, like the Beatles almost, but also the Cheryl Cole from X Factor has this accent. And I was watching a lot of British television and she offered them talk let

me see. I think that what I have is sort of wins a royalty accent, extremely Buckingham from rich. Yes, like I'm what's a phase from down the crown. The way she speaks, it's quite you know, there's a there's a word. Um, there's a word the Queen's British, the Queen, the Queen, the Queen's British. There's there's one word, um like oh this is the this is the word that

calibrates it for me. Quite quiet. And then if you if you, if you see quiet in my head, that by so okay, this is I'm really glad we're exploring power power Rangers. But we have talked about power Rangers Mark, because there's no way we can just keep over it because that's too much. It's it's like when we just talked about the Spice Girls. With Karen and Christina. I was like, I can't believe we haven't talked about the Spice Girls yet. I killed this way talked about Power Rangers.

So you were a fan from an early age? Yes? How old are yeah? Well the same age? Okay, so we had the o G Power Rangers, but I like stayed on for what I see, Um, I see, I stayed on. You know where I fell off with Power Rangers while Force, Yeah, I'm talking about that didn't murder somebody? And can I tell you the hottest Power Ranger to every absolutely that the Red Ranger from Wild Force, and that first episode of Wild Force was very well done. That hair. I don't know what was this? What was

the deal with the hair? He he was like he was like a jungle boy. Yeah, we don't mean that he was basically white Mowgli and I don't think so, honey of that. Oh, we have to talk about Hot Associate producer Alec Happens. H A. P A is with us. Are only hot ones, they are only hot ones of all genders. But Happa is a fellow Denver. Right, we talked about he went to g w Iman to smokey Hell, we got a good banana shirt, me Happa and doing

all were at I Be. We all had a long conversation about what our hls were, and you know, it was a beautiful esoteric moment. And I don't speak this language. I was an ap child on the East Coast and you were just true, true apple. But anyway, we can't leave the power. I just again, um, but I will say this, the first great love story of my time was Kimberly and Tommy the Pink Ranger. And I guess green Ranger turned into white Ranger turned into black. He

was he was, he was moving throughout the colors. Kimberly stayed pink. Kimberly stayed pink. She was like the first Yeah, she was like a true nineties icon Amy Joe Johnson. Johnson and I feel like every single town had some urban legend where where they were like our drama teacher knows, Amy Joe Johnson, there was like a stunt. It's such a it's such a dumb stuy. She was a star. There was something about her. She was definitely the one

that stood out like she was like popped. But maybe it was just because like she was like the girl. Because they weren't like sexualizing the women of color she had at like she was. She was also in a Disney original movie called susan Fantastic as well thing and that that movie is fucking sad. It is this. I don't know why they made that into a movie. Do

you know about vague? Okay, So just for the listeners who don't know about susie Que, we should just go through susie Q. So susie Que begins in the year nine, and susie Q is a high school girl who gets asked out to the dance or maybe the prom or

something from homecoming one of those days. Right, She's going a gorgeous pink dress and her day comes a picture up in the car her parents he are off and they get into a car accident on the way of the dancedge on a bridge and the bridge like falls into the lake or whatever, and then she a ghost. She dies, and then like it's in the modern time and she's the ghost has to like help this other high school boy like do something. Yeah, and that kind of falls in love with the ghost. It's a whole

they definitely there's an unfinished business narrative. It's very odd, but Amy Joe Johnson plays susie Q, And also I remember about susie Q that she was like bleeding from the head when she died, and I was like, this is like fully a Disney. I don't know. It was dark. It was dark dealt with death like we discussed we discussed earlier. Kim really popped. But I feel like Triny tran Triny Kwon played by Tweet trying who tragical? Who did die? And this is crazy? No, god, wait, that

was so fucking sad. I don't remember when that did that happen? Like late odds, like after like by the time we had grown out. She wasn't in the movie because in the in the In the Mighty Morphine Power Rangers movie, Aisha was the Yellow Range yes right, and I fucking lived for yeah. I loved her place by her African cousin Tanya. Oh my god, she was. And like in the series, Aisha went to Africa and switched

with her cousin, Ta goes to Africa. So in season three there's a spell where they all become little kids, and so then little kid Aisha goes to Africa and she's like, I'm just gonna stay here switched with her and she came back. I was like, I guess I'll be the Yellow Ranger, which you know, just means they were done with the actress. Absolutely, we need a new black. They were like, we can't deal with whatever you're serving right now. Strange fact that actress was also in the

movie Rent. She was one of the singers that was singing about having it's there. I just like remember like Power Rangers as actors like in the movie not another team movie. The actress who has her titties out was the Yellow Rangers and Power Rangers Lost Galaxy. Wait, we have a true scholar with YEA Rangers. Okay, can you can you do this? Can you go in order of

the franchises? I can try. There's like to point, Okay, let me it's first it's Mighty Morphine Power Rangers, Yes, And then within Mighty Morphine there's Mighty Morphin Anglian Rangers, because Anglian Rangers come in right uh. And then there's within the first three seasons as Mighty Morphine. But then they get their nin Jetti powers, which much of any more from Power Rangers movie it's based on. I loved that story in the movie by I loved that because

Dulcia the little lady with the little whippy things. Oh my god. It was everything and more. Yes. And then after that it was they get the Zeo Crystals Ceo. That's when Tommy becomes the Red Ranger in the Leader. And then after that was Turbo, which is what the second Power Rangers movie was based off of. But then at this point we've swapped. It's different people. Yes, this is now like um where they had Justin who was like the little boy who grew when he morphed. That

was in Turbo. Yeah, that was that's when slightly jumped the shark. Like that point your post, Zo, you're saying, no, I don't like no. No kids they all have to be teens. Kids are not canton for me. He was a literal child. But then he mouret he grew two feet. It was strange. Don't need that. Then after that it was Turbo and then Spaces Space when they just go to space, that's when the lead androws and his sister Andernima, she was the Eva person. They turned out to be twins. Uh.

It was like a soap opera. And then after that as Powering just lost Galaxy that's the one with the lady from not Another Team movies Who to be Seen. And after that as Power Rangers light Speed Rescued, light Speed Rescue. But they were just like a firefighting team. They had a great lights to be rescued, a great theme song. Yes, Risco light Speed. It was bantastic to I truly listened to that theme song probably once a month.

It is fantastic. This is unbelievable. Yeah yeah, yeah, but that's when like the Power Rangers were republic and people like knew that because they were just like public servants they were as firefighters. Yeah. And then after that he was Time Force. Yes, Time Force first was great. That's when they were working with time. Um, you know what you can you can do so much with that. If you have the abilities to have and you have the access to then go ahead. And I trust the Power

Ranger said it right. It was great. There was a guy with green hair who had like a robot bird and then what was that? I think it was Wild Force with this guy that Bowen thinks is hot. Turned out the narrative that I love so hot, it's crazy. I think I masturbated to him as like as like a fourteen year old. I think I probably masturbated to Tommy and Jason and Billy and Zack and all the original ones without knowing what I was doing. I was like humping the like this table, you know, I thought

was really hot. T J. He was the one that was He was like he was in Para just turbo and in space He's like black Ball. It had like a really nice mold next days, Oh J. Very handsome. Um, David Yost is billy Billy. He is at all. He has all the drag huns, he has his own booth. Is he gay? He's gay? Yeah, I love that and he has he just brings the blue helmet and he just has it there and he'll he'll take your picture. He's very nice. It's known that he um was experiencing

a lot of homophobia on the set. Really is that's something? I think? You make that a fucking movie. Yeah, I would love to star in that. You would be a great billy David. And I'm sorry, I'm gonna say this, I would be a great hotter David Yost. Stop it, David that um, but let me have that. I'm a hot David Yost. Dwayne, Is there someone in Power Rangers. Okay, you tell us what franchise he would want to be

in and what color and what power we would whatever. Um. I still think like the Ninjetti season was like my favorite one because they're because they had like pre outfits before. They love a pre outfit. They're like, we're gonna have these like Ninja outfits and then when things get too rough, and I would like to be the White Ranger, like

there was like something real about angels. Yes, because they gave him like a gold embellishment on his on his shoulders, right, yes, like I remember the White Ranger got like a little bit more like that was like clearly the leader. He had his own sword, yes, his weapon. He had a talking sword that were like talk. He had like a tiger like his sword. It was fantastic. Okay. Did you play with the Power Rangers toys? Okay? So whenever I would get new Power Rangers toys, it was a fucking moment.

Like I remember, like the ones where you would get all the action figures and they came with their own little what do you call them? Like swords? What are they called? So then you put them all together and they made up they made the big one, the Mega sword. Okay,

that was my full ship. Yes, all of the action figures like they had like a button where it flips, so there yea y. I The one my favorite toy I think I ever had was the Power Rangers, Like all the George would come together and it was the pink on was the crane, the yellow one was the bear, and this just went with the movie. And I forget, I remember the green, the black almost the frog, and I forget what the rest of them were. But and

then the was the falcon. Yes there. I truly loved that the black one was a frog and that whatever his name was, Adam, Adam hated it, yes, and Dolcia it was like, Adam, why are you mad? And he was like because I'm a frog and she was like yeah, two kids and turn into a print. God. Maybe last week wait, oh my god, Dulcia was the Queen Queen. The title of episode is Queen Dulcia. I think to be more accessible. I love that, but maybe we should do It's morphant time. It's morphant time because it is.

It is morphant time. It's truly morphant time. Yeah, that's a phrase that I really take with me, which means like it's time to be a bad bit. Yes. Honestly, time I go into a general it's morphan time. Unbelievable, whoa every time I fucking every time I pull my dick out to jerk off. Honestly, things change, they do the okay question, you have a second thing that you were saying was that this is more like sentimental. It's the curse of Monte Cristo. So this is like a

very important moment in my life. So I had a very bad stutter for a large part of my life. I had to speach therapy for fifteen years and and it was like fourth or fifth grade. Um, my teachers would hate calling me because like I was very smart, and I'd be like, I know the answer, but it would be so hard to get out. And I remember I volunteered to read like an excerpt from the like an expert from the play the Cursor Monte Cristo. And it's the first time where I read something and didn't stutter.

And I realized that when I'm like reading or acting, I did not stutter. And that was like the beginning of me finding that out. And that's how I got into like perform because I was like, Oh, when I'm not saying my own words, it's easier to talk because I don't have to think about the words because they're given to me. And it was just like a very like oh ah ha moment. Okay, that's amazing. So do you think that your stutter was a social thing or

an anxiety things? So stuttering as like a science, it's not really. People don't know why someone stutters or why they stop, but you have so like with my speech therapy, I had to have normal therapy just to be like, we have to figure out what is triggering the stutter. And it turns out mine was anxiety based. So when I was like talking to people, I would get I hated talking to people because I was like, oh, I'm

going to stutter. I don't like this, and that would make me stutter more So when I didn't have to think of my own words, that anxiety wasn't there because I was like, oh, I don't have to think about what I'm going to say. I can just say it. It's there. Yes. And then now that I'm older, because I don't give a funk about what I say, I don't stutter because I don't care what comes out of

my mouth. Does does the stutter ever come back? It does normally in situations where I'm very anxious, right right, And for me personally, it was based on my certain sounds. So like saying a D was hard, which is very difficult because my name starts with the D. So sometimes when I'm introducing myself, I stuttered. I'm like, hi, I am whoa Dwayne? Like I had to like red, like okay, yeah, it's a whole thing. God, I mean there is something

truly like, by the way, thank you so much. And though no one here is religious, yeah, no one here's religious. Um I honestly, well, I don't know. I feel like I experienced, Oh this is something. This is my equivalent to you cracking an egg and not knowing how to

do it as you grow up. Great. I feel like now that I'm older, I have a harder time putting things into words, and then I have these silences and then people will just like just like like zoom the funk out while I'm talking and like not pay attention to me, and then I get even more anxious than I'm like, oh well, now there's no I need a course correct and what do I do? And like it's truly a weird thing that I am maybe just starting

to notice now that I've done all my life. But it is this weird, like newfound social anxiety I have. That's interesting anyway, something something I used to do growing up and now I I eliminated. But they almost sent me to therapy about it too, they being my parents. Um, I would say something and then I would say something like I would say I would say a sentence and I would say a sense like I would repeat it

after in a really quiet voice. I think it was because I wanted to check with myself that what I had said was like good or cool. So I think it was I just want to check at myself. But my mom was always like stop doing that, and I was like stop. What was really fucked up is that when I was a kid, because the stutter was anxiety based, I couldn't lie, So like when I would lie, I would automatically stutter, So whenever I would lie, my parents would be like, you're not telling the truth. So I

just like, I couldn't lie as a kid. But honestly, yeah, that's crazy. But what I was gonna say also, is that fucking growing up with any sort of speech impediment. I think, like it's so it's I don't know, it's just tough. It's not enough just just in school, but just the kids are so fucking relentless and cruel about Oh they're terrible, which is right, this is something that I say in stand ups was fine, which is like I tried to kill him a kid when I was young.

This is getting dark. But I was getting bullied pretty heavily because I was like a very young, small gay child who had a speech and like I was like the poster child for a bullying and I was getting like physically like beat up. And one day I brought like garden shears to school to like I was going to stab this kid. But I didn't because I got tackled teacher. So it's fine, And my school was just like, yo, you gotta relax. I was like, you're right, that's fine.

I bet you wouldn't have done it had the moment come. I don't know it was. I mean, technically my school like made me like special education and my parents, like I only was out of it because my mother worked at the school and she was like, hey, don't like he that's not correct, Like he's very smart, like he has the ability to not be in special education. So

then I wasn't. But I had to constantly prove, which is why I was like I be because I was like, well, the only way I can prove I'm not like mentally handicapped is by constantly showing how smart I can be. And then that made me to an ego mania by eighth grade. I literally wrote my eighth grade teacher, I know would be like, these are the ways you could be a better teacher, because I'm very smart. I know everything. He dragged me. Yeah, that's beautiful ego and kids is

no joke. I remember I there was the thing called Excel, the Excel program at my school, like it was kind of like for the quote unquote like um gifted and talented kids like and I remember I took the test and I did not get in, which made no sense to me. I was like, I am so much more intelligent than these clowns you have in the Excel program. This there has to be some mistake. And I remember

like they wouldn't let me take it again. And so it was I had such a chip on my shoulder forever that I wasn't in this program and it was just like the kids that were in it were absolutely insufferable. And I feel like this is a criticism I have with like the school system at large, is like you so consciously separate these kids at such an early age based on these stupid bullshit that doesn't do anything for them.

And then like like in high school, of course there's like honors classes, A, P, I, B. Whatever, accelerated because that's where they're all at. But these fucking kids, Like when when all the kids are seven and eight years old, put them all on the same fucking class. When you were in elementary school, where your classes the different classes ranked. No elementary school, like at my school, like from I went to a private school until second grade, then I

got transferred to like this public school. We're literally on the first I got beat up. But like from second to eighth grade, each class was like ranked like this is like the highest with the smartest kids, second highest. Like what they did was they would put like if there was like twenty kids in the class, there'll be eight kids that were more advanced, eight kids that were in the middle, and eight kids that were like less

and less less advanced. Like but it was like by classroom, So they put all the smartest kids in one class and like the next, like you were ranked by like how smart you within the grade. They wouldn't like rank the grades against each other. Within the grade, the students the classes would be ran. Yes, so like within like second grade, it was like, oh, this teacher teaches a smart kids. This teacher teaches the second smartest kids, and

that's the dumb class. That's insane. We had we had we had one special ed class, I remember that, and then all the other classes. I believe the way they did it was they there was like a range of children I guess like in terms of in terms of aptitude. But then of course when you get to middle school in high school they separate you into like honors classes whatever. But okay, because like when I first transferred to that school, I was playing in the lowest because they were like, oh,

you have a speech patient. And then I kept like moving different classes. They're like, oh, you're too smart for this class, too smart for this class. That'll do Yeah, I mean that that that that that's going to like internalize some like motivational force for you for the rest

of your life. Yeah, you wonder what the best way to do that is is because like kids are not dumb, like you know what I mean, Like when they see as early as second grade that they're being separated, Like I wonder what that does, Just how much effort some kid puts in, you know, totally Well, I'm blocking this out because like when I first moved to the US, it was just like really crazy. I'm not gonna say traumatic.

It was just like I had to like learn English all of a sudden and like just like just like cat the funk up and like whatever. But I think they did do a thing where fourth and fifth grade they like ranked the students and it was like a castless, bullshit nonsense thing where they're just like posted on the goddamn wall. We had that in school, and then we had a gold star ship. Well yeah, yeah, I mean

but I think yeah as early as elementary school. And also also this is how you know this is all bullshit, y'all. I mean back in the day at least um early as I walked. I was not gifted in talented myself in the in the fourth grade, but I but here's what happened. I literally my friend Danny Wetmore was in the Gift and in Talented class, and I wanted to

go hang out with him after recess. So I walked into the Gift and Intalented room where all they did was play fucking like math blasters, and I walked That's all they did. They did not learn. Now, they went on field trips that we couldn't go. They want to field and they played computer games all day. That is what they do. It's like a fucking it's like sucking like green room lounge with computers, like that's all it was. But I walk in there and then the teacher Ms.

Ms Swift or something. She was just like cookie lady. She was like, oh you're, oh hello, what are you? You're you're a new student in the class, will come join And like I was putting get into town to because they walked into that room and the teacher was like yes, I assume maybe who knows if it was as near. But she was like crazy. They had the dumb teacher that allowed that. Ms. Swift more like miss Dumb, Yeah, there you go. That's why I should be in Gifted

and Talented. That joke, but like it's all a fucking it. It is a joke. It's dumb anyway, I just feel like And then but then on the same token, it's like I don't know if you if you have a class that's like where everyone's spread out, like do you want to like slow down the learning for the kids that need it quicker? But also doesn't matter. I think what you do psychologically to a child at a young age, if you tell them you're dumber than the other kids, like,

that's fucked up. Not everyone's mentally strong enough to handle that. Yeah, it definitely had an effect for sure. Yeah, and so that's why I my child into the monestary school. I want to have kids. Why I don't think we're gonna have kids. I'm not having a child, no, no, for what reason? For what? So that they can boil to death truly also not for nothing. But this all, this type of school is making me think of the Felicity Hoffman Laurie Laughlin, which is the college Scams, which is

literally it's so funny to me. We're recording this week by the way, that this just happened to This is Thursday that this just happened. So we don't know when this episode is coming out, but it could be soon, could be in a little while, but we are recording this days after it's reported that as many as fifty people would have been arrested. CEOs, A couple of actresses,

college coaches, people in education, et cetera. Who we're part of a bribery scheme to get children into college despite them not deserving it, and like they made their children appear like they were better candidates for IVY like schools and although also schools like usc Um than they were. So this is so crazy to me because you couldn't pick two more random actresses than Felicity, so fucking random.

And so we've been saying in the room, like Chris Kelly was like, wow, Lori Laughlin can't get top billing, and I was like, yeah, Felicity Huffman will never be a star by herself. Always got to be in a group with another like actress. Like it's just so funny to me. And then also what's also hilarious is the courtroom drawings of them. Oh they look so did you see Evan Ross cats like made them into toad bags.

I need that with a distress white woman on it. Yes, yes, a distress white woman on the stand for being able to pay five thousand dollars, so it looks like her daughter road crew. That is insane to me. Dollars. It's like conduct for your kids to you already, just let your kids just enjoy your wealth. That is stupid. Y

tweeted something funny. She goes, it's okay to admit that your kid is dumb, like the mediocrity that you are, that you must possess to need to have five hundred thousand dollars paid on your behalf to get into like USC when you're like, live in California and your parents are who they are, not for nothing. I'm very cresent if there was like a negotiation situation like she was like and they were like, no, she's dumb, and she's like two hundreds, but she's sucking stupid. God wait, I

need to watch the vlogs of the daughter. Well did you know that Laura Laughlin's daughter had a press conference? She was like, I didn't even want to go to college. She's being such a bit to go to prison. And she's like, well, I guess I didn't even want to go to college and they made me. So have they found Laura yet? Yeah? They found her. Yeah, they both turned themselves in ye. But for a while, wasn't lord trying to escape? She's trying to find like safe pass.

There's a whole thing. Isn't that incredible? And her daughter was like on a yacht with people and to leave the usc yacht. This is beautiful, it's so, it's so there's it's perfect, just unadulterated shot in Freuda. Like you just you love that these people are suffering because they

deserve it, because my favorite things. So I mean, I'm sure the kids are like fucking nightmares, but it also does make me feel bad for them a little bit, a little bit because a little bit just because as a young person you have your whole life to get better. Their parents are freaking miserable and selfish and whatever. But like I do feel bad that at no point now can they turn it around? Like it's like, yes, sure they can. I don't know. I don't think this is

going to affect them in any way. They they're all zero sympathy. Like do you think they won't get kicked out of school? I think even if they fucking do, they'll be fine. If you can pay five dollars to get your child into college. They don't go to it does. They're also fully Instagram stars. I forget sometimes that no publicity is bad publicity. Like I really forgot that publicity of these people they're gonna be. They're gonna probably get

fucking book deals. She's about to come up with a makeup liner right right the next card as fine the law flins. Oh, the whitest, fucking the funniest. But it's the funniest thing I saw about it was someone tweeted, never watch full House just thought ed Becky was a hilarious thing. We were calling this white lady, which is

everything perfection. And Lette Lynette. It's so funny that she went to prison for dodgy mom ship because I just always will picture of Lynette, like fucking being addicted to her kids, a d D medication, the heels in the pool, being so tired. I'm like, yeah, I kind of loved Lenette as the character she's still stressed out. I did not like Lenip because she was such a kill joy.

And if I was, she had the hottest husband to time was can I tell you, like publicly I talked so much about white ladies, I'd be dragging him constantly. But like I am so entertained. But if a white woman has a skill, I am in yeah, would you consider this a skill for Laurie and Felicity? Yeah? I would love a scam I love And if I was a white woman, do you know how often I would be scamming because no one's gonna do anything like this is like the first time I'm like, oh, you're oh,

something's happening, but like, how long have they been scamming? Oh? That's the thing. It's like white women can get white women and like just like like your Billy McFarland's but like but maybe he didn't get away with it, but like, white women get away with the ship until they don't. But then it's like you think about all the white women who currently arguing away with Like, are you following

this Elizabeth Homeship? Oh? Absolutely. I interviewed the director of the film and do have you listened to the drop out the podcast? No? He news It's phenomenal. I also talked to the people that they it was the director of the film who also did the scientology movie Going Clear, So this guy is really good. This is this this documentarian And there was also um at Sundance when I interviewed them. It was people who were involved with Elizabeth

Holmes herself. It was like regular people that are in the documentary featured. This is a crazy It's this woman who goes to Stanford, like her dad used to be some executive Enron after Enron crashed. This the story the juicy, like the thing that narrative that people want to project onto this is that she probably saw her dad fail and was like driven to like succeed at all costs and to become a successful business person. So she goes

to Stanford. She wants to start the startup um. She has this idea for a blood test that a machine that can run a blood test based based on using only one drop of blood, thousands of blood tests based on a machine that people can have in her homes, so you wouldn't have to draw blood. Really it would be much easier to get like test results and stuff like that. It would change and the machine was called

an Edison. It would change healthcare forever in theory if this machine were to come into where to like exist.

But then somehow it's like she she gets she drops out of Stanford all of her provisionally, they the interview some of her old chemistry chemical engineering professors, and they were just like hack, they were just like, she's a fucking lunatic, but she's charismatic, and she's charismatic, and so she's able to talk to like Henry Kissinger and fucking old army generals and fucking God like all these fucking people. All these are mostly Republicans who like who Angel invest

into this business called fairness Um. But then she like drops her voice and starts wearing turnals because she's obsessed with Steve Jobs and she starts to become this like different person. So she basically tries to iconicize herself and to this like female, young, hot, honestly blonde Steve Jobs type. And because people, I think, because because she's a young woman, she's like a new inventor. Like she talked the talk and people really bought it, and so they gave her

all this money. And what ended up happening was it didn't fucking work. She didn't like the technology wasn't there, and she was lying, and she like she partnered with what she partnered with Walgreens to have these machines and every Walgrains would be within five miles of every home in America, Like she had this grand master plan that just was not there, ripped all these people off. These

people lost billions and billions of dollars. Forbes valued her one year at like however many billion dollars down to zero after all this stuff came out, after all this reporting from the Wall Street Journal, you know, and it's it's it's like basically like Firefest, but like but a woman. Imagine reverse social network. Yeah, you know what I mean.

It's literally that. So basically now there's this movie about her coming out called The Inventor in this documentary um, and there's a film being made about her, starring Jennifer Lawrence, directed by Adam Kay, written by the woman who wrote The Shape of Her. That's wuld be great. I can't. Jennifer Lawrence is perfect to play. I was like read about this like last year and I was writing on the break, but I just like forgot because I was like, oh, this is a crazy white woman because it was still

it was still being developed. Now she has all these charges and she could she could go to prison for like I don't know, you'll see, you'll start to see posters about it. She's gonna be a household name, it's gonna be It's gonna because especially now after the Firefest documentaries, like howeveryone was like so enamored with those, When people hear this story and they watched these movies, I think

it's going to be psych What is it? Like, there's something There is a cultural moment happening right now with scamming. Like people are like, scamming is like happening right. You don't understand if I was a white person, I would be doing the same, no joke, I would be doing it, but you have anxiety about like I couldn't keep that. I wouldn't if I was white, I'd be like, who's

not check me? Like, I mean the confidence that comes with like like it really is, like it makes me feel thing it does, and I would truly I sleep I was a white woman, I would be robbing banks. I mean I would be I would be the worst. He's like, be oppressed so you could be a good person. I always say the worst culture be oppressed so you

can be a good person. I always feel like so with the scam with the colleges, right, So if you read about what how fucking stupid it is, you would have to think well, I'm never getting caught to do it because literally they like made it appear like their daughter's road crew the photoshop, and I was like, this is the dumbest thing ever. And also there's fully email paper trails and insane. She said, row at one point, I didn't read these emails. Girl. Yes, they were going

back and forth like does this photo shop work? And then somebody was like she should be more in the water, Like it was, it's just like insane. Wait, yes, she should be more in the water. What what is what is the felicity stuff? I couldn't keep up with this I can procure. So basically, her daughter took the S A T S and they got a score that was like an eleven hundreds, and someone said, well, part of this is I will go in after your daughter takes the test and I will change the answers to the

right one. So they changed her score from like an eleven something into a fourteen twenties stupid, which is still my parents would have killed me. Well I didn't have to take that take the A C T. But but you know, um I did well on that one. That's so funny that this felicity, this, this is it's Philicity and Laurie. It's like so beautiful, It's so delicious and Joel and Joel tweeted this. He was like, God, God bless but no he goes no, he know, he goes,

God blessed Felicity and Lauria. And this day, like they gave us one blessed day to make us feel like it was again where we could just not worry about politics. It could just be about dumb celebrity bullshit. And and he ends it with, um, Beato should not run for president. It's so crowded anyway. But what a juicy, juicy story. Yeah, And we were saying like, like, had this happened, we were talking about this today in the other children. We were saying, like in the nineties, it felt like there

were five big news stories. It was Tanya Harding, John benet O, j Monica and Bill and Diana and like that was like in the nineties, whereas now it's like every two days as a massive scandal. Like had this happened in the nineties, it would have been like, do you know, it's white women wild? And since forever Nicole Yes and Nicole Brown Simpson that was her fault role of Culture number nineteen that was falls out here getting murdered. Oh my god, remember if you don't want to get murdered.

Oh it's all your phone, just the family. Did you like and Run Golden We Love? Did you like reading for Late Night? Was that like a fun thing for you? Was that like a hectic thing? I enjoyed the job, but as a as a black gay man again, the things that we had to make jokes about impacting me

very differently. I was the only person color in that room, and I think Late Night as an art is mainly affluent white people talking about things that don't actually affect their everyday life, and it was hard to try to make jokes about things that I was like, oh, this

is personal. Like if I was in a writer's room when the whole like Jesse smalling thing happened, I would not have wanted to write jokes about that, like I. But it it's a profession that forces you to find funny and things that I was like, Yo, I don't I don't want to. I don't want to do this. It's like I enjoyed it, but do I want to do it again? Not necessarily like if I was like I needed a bunch of money, sure, but it's not

my first choice. I'd rather be in a narrative room where I can just like make up stories that are fun and not have to anchor it to something that is uncomfortable and like crazy, because like that's I mean, that's like mine and I can I feel comfortable saying this. That's like my least favorite part of my job as just the times when you have to sit in a room and decide how to make something horrible funny. It's

like how do you? And it's it never feels like it fully pays off, because there's still that like pounce of pain to everything, but like anyway, it's like how is it helping? Like even going to the White House Correspondence dinner was like one of it was gross, Like I felt like the Hungry Games, Like you were in a room with a bunch of people who want TV. People are like arguing and they're like we hate each other, but they were just like hugging taking photos. It was

fucking disgusting. Like Kelly and Conway was like acting. She was like a Kardashian like literally everybody thinking itself. It was then they put the writers in one corner and being like, you're the poor people who in the corner. And then when she did her speech, they were just like, oh god, how could she? And I like, what do y'all not see what's happening? Right? Like, truly, this should be the prevailing narrative from that moment. And this has

happened so many times. But the reaction to Michelle Wolves right has correspondence did her speech? Is that like that just shows you that they're all playing for the same fucking also not for nothing. I love Michelle Wolf and I loved that. I love that speech. It was also mild in terms, so it was not I mean, I'll tell you what I think happened. I think what happened was they heard that they heard her say she burns facts, and I think they heard she burns fats, and they

got it in there. No listen, let me finish, please, They got they got it in their head that she was making an image conscious thing, and then they were like, oh, she's not, but we could spin it like she is and we can get mad about this. And the eyeshadow thing was just such garbage to make about appearance, and that the ant lydia thing was actually so insulting to end out actually in such garbage for him to like,

please suck my dick. If you couldn't fucking deal with Michelle Wolves comedy at that White House Correspondence Center, you can suck my fucking dick. That that sucked. I mean, like, you know, something that most people don't talk about, but quite a few people thought that she was black, Like they thought that she wasn't white. And yeah, like that that has that has been a thing for like a while, Like they're like, oh, she's like they don't think she's

like a white woman. They think like ethnic woman. And even like within that room, like there was moments where people were like whisper and being like, oh, like she's like a personal color, Like they said that she was a person of But then what does that surf on their end, like that she's I think that would help in the fact that like if in the disrespect would be like, let's disregard this person, like how how dare she? Like how dare she used this platform to talk to

us like this? That's like that is a factor that even there This is just like funny in my opinion, But there was a moment when I was talking to my reps about being the only person of color in the room, and they were like, oh man, how can a black woman only have one person of color? And and I was like, yeah, that's white woman, like when you're talking about because like she does because she has like red hair and fred like po just don't assume that she is like like Caucasian woman, but it is.

But she's done. Yeah, I mean great. I think Michelle is so funny. And it's just like but it's just so funny because has she done that set three years ago? No one would has not a fucking word, but because of the sensationalism around everything. I mean, honestly, if you take the last ten White House Correspondence centers, I would probably rank hers in terms of like offensive quality at like seven. To be honest with you, there was nothing there.

I mean, and the things that work offensive in my opinion, they didn't even talk about like she said that, uh, Mitch mcconno's neck should be circumcised, and I was like, that's funny because and he has a fact, like he's literally talking about his fat fat And they were like they don't care, but like they really were trying to find anyway and that's even like working on that show. After that moment, we were like, this is things have changed now, Like that moment changed the trajectory of the

show because the show wasn't supposed to be political. It's called the Break because it was supposed to be a break. That moment kind of forced us into that place because everybody was like, you have to now continue what you started at the Correspondence dinner. And by the last episode we like finally got back to where we originally wanted. But by that point we were like this is hard,

like we can't this is not going. Like we found what we wanted, which was like this is a comedy show where we want to talk about other things that are not politics. Like the last episode we did like to monologues about like crows fucking like it was like very fun and just like silly. But those first few episodes are just like based on the energy that she gave that the way correspondence, it was very much what she had no control over. True, but in terms of

the response, she did not control over that. And because the politics, like the right were constantly attacking her, like it was like we have to kind of keep doing what we're doing because this is the thing that's getting

the response. That's you know, it was a weird I watched a lot of like she really became one of the most talked about people in America for the next two weeks after that, Like it was crazy to watch, Like, but what was so frustrating about it was watching And it's why the media sucks so much, because they don't have enough time to talk about complex issues with the

complexity they need. They have two minutes to talk about this ship and maybe and so they were like, well, I did think it was offensive, but she said etcetera, etcetera, without even talking about what she had said, without playing

the clip, without showing things in context. So it's just this begets that, begets that, begets that, And all of a sudden, you have this boiled down little sound bite someone here's at home and they're making a whole judgment on that whole piece and the whole context in which it took place in and it's like and then you have sucking Andrew Mitchell being like I thought it was

like God and honestly shot up. It just sucks that that whole thing sucked, But it's great to be a part of the team that sucked it all up, honestly, and your jokes were very good. They were great. I mean like but but it was just so Yeah, Andrew, work on the break was wonderful. You you brought me in for this thing that you wrote was bad, humble brag you for I didn't book I just I just went in. Um. But Duyne is truly one of the most talented people. And I think this is a great performer,

great great performer, great writer. And I think we're gonna we're gon We're gonna put this all on display for all three of us. And I don't think so funny it's time for I don't think so honey. I don't think so honey. Is our segment that we do. Um, we take one minute to rant against something in culture that we you know what, hate that you know what we hate? We don't like it. We don't like it. So, Matt, do you have what do you have one? I could go first? Okay, that you can go first. This is

Matt Rogers. I don't think so many as time starts now, I don't think so honey. Anyone who dates the actress Kaylee Kuoko, I don't like her. I think she's cookie. I think she's hack um, but also like if you date her, like Henry Cavill dated her for like a minute and I'm like, what this is no way, this is real? This cookie girl. I was like, this girl to me is like dating someone because he's Superman, and

I was like, why are you getting involved in that? Also, Henry Cable, if you go to his instagram, I don't think so honey. He is a goofy Instagram also boring, boring, boring bar But he's the kind of guy who'll be like walking in the woods and instagram himself and being like I'm walking in the woods and he'll say that out loud and that'll be the whole Instagram. I don't think so honey. I don't think so honey. The fact that you guys were a couple for like fifteen minutes,

I don't know why. I'm like going back to this now. But I also think now she's like she was married, now she's not. She seems to be like a celebrity. That's like I'm a celebrity and that's it. Big bang theory sucks. No, thanks, Kelly Coco. I don't think so many people who date her. That was beautiful. I was talking to this other day. I was like, I don't get her. Who else has dated her besides Henry? I don't know. I mean, she was in the last season

of Charmed and that's when it really went down. Here. Oh, there's something about her where I'm just like, she's fooky and hack like. And I don't think it's just because of Big bang theory is like whatever, but um, it's just like something about her where I'm like, I don't like this. And then when she dates like famous people on their photographed I'm like, you know, they set this up in it in advance. I do believe she's married now or maybe divorced. I will look it up later.

I did not research this. I don't think so, honey. But we were talking about it in the room the other day and I was like, like, something about her seems like very fake celebrity today. This is damn No, that was no, this is good I was gonna do. I don't think, so, honey, sitting next to another person, well, you're never your well maybe for later. This is I don't think so, honey. As time starts now, I don't think so, honey. AlOH, this is this new luxury yoga.

This is this new luxury yoga brand that they sell yoga pants and ship. They have a lovely location in the grove, lovely staff. The cashier gave me a free canvas toe. It's gorgeous. But they're they were giving me crazy body. This more of you right now because the best fit for me of one of their tops was an extra large and for my shorts it was a medium. So this is I'm getting a lot of mixed signals and my body is going through some changes right now,

and um positive ones, I think. But I think like I need to be supported in this way where things sort of track and scale along with me. You know, I don't think so honey, when you know you're you're fitting in your clothes all weird and but I think l A has really just play kating me. I'm not so angry about this. I'm just concerned, you know what I mean. I don't think so, honey, is more like a maybe we can consider something else, honey. You know,

so I don't think so, said Aloe. I love you as a store, but maybe we can reconsider the sizing. And that's one minute. So I could have swarned you. We're going to talk about all of the plants. And I'm like, I guess you don't like putting things on burns. Okay, I can never shot on allows, God allow. The store is different, Okay. So I feel upset for you about this because when sizing is off, I don't like that.

I don't think, so honey, when sizing is not right, I can tell if I'm if I'm like heavy up here and then and then some whatever the fun is going on down here in my legs. I don't know. It's it's really confusing. So that's that's just once again in society sending me, you know, bad signals about my body. So here's the thing you did. I don't think, so honey. That was like more of them. Maybe we can reconsider this,

and I didn't. I don't think so honey, which I'm already regretting because it was like feel I feel very negative. Oh yeah, but that's what that's the point. But I know what's going to happen. I guess you're right, But I think Duenne is gonna do this. I don't think right now and around So you think now this is Dwayne and Duyne is a is a master of the form. Said it many times, but here he is doing it again.

This is Dwayne Perkins. I don't think so many times starts now, I don't think so, honey, Twitter potentially taking away likes and retweets, Like, what the funk is the point Twitter? Like? Also, I just started going virals, so like, don't take that away from me, Like, this is the validation that I get every day. I wake up and think of the quirkiest thing I can think of, and then I post it and I wait for people to

like it. That like equals one. Like in my heart, you take that away, you're taking away my blood, my life, my spirit. I put so much of myself Twitter. I didn't use to, but now I'm like, this is my thought, this is my diary, this is my album that's not music but words. And for you to take that away, it's taken away my livelihood. Like I've gotten job offers from Twitter, I've gotten asked from Twitter, like and that the popularity that you get from Twitter transcends into real

life and you've kirks. So if you take that away, you're taking away happiness. Thank you for acknowledging the transference. Of your Twitter cloud to r R O clock because sometimes it does. That does happen for people you would know? I mean no, I haven't gotten Twitter stuff. You would know you know. Um wait, here's the thing. How likely is this? They said that in their next update that

it's they're they're also changing. Um they tried a new look of the app and they took the bird away and people get really mad and they're like, well, we're just trying. What's there instead of the bird? Nothing, it's just a blue square because they said minimalism is like what they were going for. It was introduced it south by Southwest. Oh yes, okay there, and they're trying to make it more user friendly and trying to um have

more friendly conversations between people. So they're trying to take away the likes and reach meats because they think it changes the focus of the platform and they want to switch the platform to like really whole some conversation. And also they added like of camera features because they want people to share more photos and video, similar to like Instagram, it has its own identity. Now why do you want

less of an identity? Like I hate like communities are built around Twitter, like like like you have like gay Twitter. You have like, oh, I'm so mad black Twitter. You have like fucking gay Twitter again. You need It's a it's a tool to build. It's like fucking Arab spring started out of whatever I'm mad about this Twitter also just broken and whatever I mean, it will never be great. You know what did I say about Dwainness? I don't

think so around and it starter. I mean, when Instagram went down, I feel like everybody had to really like, what would like be if this ship wasn't here? Huh? It was kind of a beautiful moment. It was the day after all the Felicity stuff. We we've really been through it this week. This is weird. But I don't think it went down for me. So I didn't notice that Instagram went done. And I think I just like I didn't get well you were, And that's why I felt.

I really felt liberated. I was like, oh, I can go on this hike with Joel and not think about, well, you can always go on a hike even though Instagram is out, and I got to post a picture of I've been on like a very special diet and it has really like sucked, like really like made me tight and I'm trying to post a photo and I couldn't, and they had to sit with the fact of being like, oh, I just have to be happy with myself without this

external Yeah, a little serotonin bump, but yeah. Well and then it went up later and I was like, thank God, give me compliments. We're sucking junk. That's crazy. Listen what an app. I think we morphed from the beginning of us up to the end of the up we morphed into better people. I think so. I agree, and I'm happy to have spent this morphing time with you with Dwayne. Twayne truly like a phenomenal, phenomenal comedian, a performer. If

he's in your town, check him out. Thank you. Will you be traveling anywhere I'm doing, Yes, I'll be in New York, but like it doesn't matter. I'm doing a show at May at some college I don't remember from college. If you go to college on your board, it's in St. Louis Mary Mount. I think that. Okay, that's definitely a famous to New York. But hopefully Twitter will still exist by the time when this comes out. I don't know.

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