"Mo’ Canada” (w/ Monique Moses)

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If he didn't know this, my name is Bowen Yang. And we are guys. This is our first episode back from that. We're recording I guess in the studio since the live show. Yeah, and how fun was that was so fun honestly beyond our wildest imagination for like, how how much fun it could be and how many people could show up. There were so many of you guys there. Seriously, if you came out to that, thank you so much. It's just so much fun. And wow, some real cultural attack.

I mean, guys, Matt introduced I think a genius element into this, which was the troll Ball, and I have to give credit words to please. That was Anna Dresden's

brainchild and sin child. But Matt was very deliberate in the items that made it to the Bowl because they were controversial, sort of universally loved things, right, And it will be henceforth known as the troll ball because you're trolling because once you get pulled out one of these and you know what, we'll talk about that in the second because we have somebody in the studio today who was at the show and killed the show. Iconic culture moment,

I believe you know what. Let's list the credits. The credits. Honey, she is one of She's one of the members of the amazing sketch group. Astronomy Club at UCBT have a monthly show they are called Let's talk about race Baby. Yes, look out for her upcoming series on i f C comedy CROB called Sport Court. You guys, this is coming, This is coming at you. I just can't wait to find out what that's going to be. A sport court, like, is it named that because the two words rhymed? Or

is it truly a sport court? You know what? Probably both? Probably both. I love a show that's built around a rhyme. You gotta And she is in the amazing Harold team some kids, truly iconic team, right there, some great person. Absolutely please welcome our guest Monique Moses. Hello, Hello, Hello, Wow, this is a true moment right now, souse. We're a bunch of friends. Here, were a bunch of friends. We go way back. We've been in the trenches, Yes, we've

We've done many a seven am wake up call. Yeah. Well, well, you guys we all met from doing story Pirates, which is and that's all we're gonna say, because two very separate entities here. Yes, I might swear a lot and never know what for the rest for the next hour and twenty minutes. Um, no, kids, everyone, kids, go to sleep, Go to bed, kids, kids, get a little salty Toka salon. You know what I'm saying, like a kid today, You guys, when I played, I played video games, and tonight I'm

gonna go see The Power Rangers. Yes, good for You've mixed reviews, really have you? Yeah, I've heard from people who are awakened alive that it's terrible, and then I've heard from other people who just love The Power Rangers and it's a great movie. Honestly, I just I want to walk in there and I want to be as surprised as I was when we saw Mad Max. I wanted to like blow me away, and it won't. But but but I'm going in with that kind of positivity.

I mean, wow, Yeah, what a special experience for you to experience Mad Max without any context, any prior knowledge. Well, I have to say this. I'm very excited about Becky g Yeah, and singer who's making her acting debut. That's not true. She was an Empire for a bit. Yeah, she's now a Power Ranger. So that's she's playing. Um Kimmy Kwan is that the name? She's the Asian one. She's playing the Asian one's playing the Asian one. But she's I mean, I think the character is still it

is still ethnically ambiguo. It's it's it's you know what, I don't hate the choice. I'm okay, she the Yellow Ranger. She's the Yellow Ranger, and they kept the cannon the canonical name and she's I guess it's fun whatever. Um. Yeah, I'm excited for Power Rangers to Honey the bar is low because a lot of the reviews are saying, you know why, it doesn't suck, so that makes it good. Okay, Well that Repulsa sucking Elizabeth Bank, which makes me laugh.

And I heard a theory today, Wow, that the reason And I don't know if this is true, so it's genuinely not a spoiler. If it ends up being true, I guess it is a spoiler spoiler alert, I guess.

But somebody through a through a theory today that read a Repulsa is all green because she was the original Green Ranger, like and that's like something they reveal in the movie is that she's actually read a Repulsa is actually like a jaded, like kind of Darth Vader esque old who turned on them, you know what, And this is so fucking such a such a stupid dredge. But I think that reminds me of Carmen san Diego when it's revealed that Carmen used to be an ACNE agent. Wow, yeah,

I just saw you do an impression of Carmen. I have a thing I love doing, like black Carmen san Diego. She's a little hood. It's like nobody. You don't want to find her because this back back. You did that character on Brian Foster's show. Yeah. Right, and he's like, oh, it's Carmen Sandigo and Black Carmen. I mean we have to defferent change guys. Let's clink her glasses. We're drinking something. Thank your producer Joe for providing us this cabb her

name Push. My push is wet for this. Okay, Okay, I'm getting a little I'm getting a few notes of lemon, getting a dried berry. I'm getting a dryberry. I don't know what that means. There's cork in mine. I'm just kidding. There's no excuse me. There's quirk in my wine. Can I get a new one? That's happened to me so many times at work, and one time I literally told

the woman. She's like, there's a little quirk in this, And I literally said back doesn't matter and she was like, um yeah, And I was like, okay, did you get but I should have gotten fired right down? Oh my god, did you get like slapped in the face earlier that day? Like what? No? I just was like, I was kind of funny about it. I was just I was just like, yeah, I mean, it doesn't matter. And she was like, I mean it could have been a joke. She's like it does.

I was like, okay, cool, yeah, but in my heart, I was like, doesn't that a bitch? You're like, there's now a hork in your wine right there. And here's the question we almost answer this, would you would you bring it up to the waiter or waitress or server if if something, if there was a cork. See, I don't know how you guys behave in a restaurant, but for me, I'm very like, if I can deal with it,

I don't say anything. But that's me sometimes and then other times I'm like, you know what, I fucking do this for people all the time because it's my job. So I'm gonna ask for more blue cheese. Yeah you know what I mean? Like, and you are there to get the experience dining, So it can go either way with me. Like sometimes I'm like, leave him alone. You wouldn't want to do it, so don't make them do it. Like today we went to brunch and I was very apologetic for ask them to make me a bloody mary.

I was like, I'm sorry, I just really want one. No, you know I would, I would ask. But the thing is, I would try to put in a way and I bet a lot of servers hate this, but be like, oh, I've been doing this. I work x y Z, I work over here. I do this all the time. Would you mind if so? It's like a server to server trying to get equal playing field. It's a fun little about you. You know, what do you send things back? Do you work in the service industry? I don't know.

I wouldn't send I've never sent something back. But for wine, if it was above like if it was above, like I don't know, fifty bucks for a bottle, I would be like, oh wow, See that's that's another thing. Is I just I just wouldn't pay that much. See that's the thing is. I would always feel like it's a bottle of one. Anyway, said what am I complaining, but if it's a sixty dollar bottle of one, yeah, I want to enjoy. Right, Okay, there we go. So there

are some parameters and conditions here. It's very conditional. Um. So it's very conditional. You know. Three, it's very very conditional. Culture is conditional. Um. That's not bad. That's not bad. Um. So Monique, here we go. And it's fitting that we've been talking about like the the youth culture that has

power rangers. Because now it's time to pose the question that we post all of our guests, right bo, So it's time to ask Monique Moses, what is the culture that really you saw and you absorbed when you were younger that made me, that made you say cultures? For me, I would like to be a part of culture. Like what what caused Monique to to step in a cultural direction? I lived in a I lived in a suburb outside of a small town, small city, and there was no

like cool dance classes. So culture for me that made me want to be a part of like the world was Michael Jackson and Janna Jackson music. Yeah, and I learned how to dance to them because there was no like I'm from. I'll tell you. I'm from London, Ontario, Canada. For the suburb outside of that and like behind the defence of where I grew up was just rural, like farms and Nazis. So it's like hill people. It's hill people, and then suburb and then like Huxtable suburb and then

the city. So nowhere to take great dance classes. So I wanted to become part of culture. I loved it watching MTV and much music and so much music Canada. So were you like watching MTV from a very early age? Well, meant you know, I mean you can do? You americanized it so much music is like the equivalent in Canada. Okay, yeah, So were you watching that at an early age? Yea yeah, hell yeah. My parents were like, no, you can't watch that.

Instead watch this more adult contemporary one. So I watched the one, which which is way different than it is now, which is now like a reality a lot of reality TV, like people throwing drinks in each other's faces. Back then, it was like every other video was like Jewel and shadow Crow and it was like the fair kind of the bubble. The Bubble Show pop up video was on was on VH one. Yeah, I think that's true. Yeah, it was, it was, and that was they all did

it to like, you know, adult contemporary like music. So like Annie Lennox, I knew who she was when I was But yeah, the the the Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson thing. I remember first place seeing it and was like blown away, like the Thriller music video, was like, oh, this is like in the next level. Um, curious geography question. What was the suburb called outside of London? It's called

Kilworth got it? First first place my family moved to in Canada was Kingston where Kingston was my first home that I vaguely remember, and then we moved to Quebec. Guys, I'm going to start a podcast my sound because I think people's upbringings are so interesting. I mean, this is what we ask so thank you for this idea. No, I mean like this is it? This idea it's going to that's actually yeah, the last culture adjacent podcast Where

are you from? Um? But no, that's always so interesting as we asked the question, and then some people do they describe their upbringings and some people just like have one very specific movie or musical artists. So you've did a fusion there were Miss Janet Jackson and Mr Michael Jackson in the suburbs. And yeah, because you were a dancer, but you I wasn't at that point. I mean, I wanted there's something in me that wanted to dance and perform, but I didn't know how. So I would just like

watch music videos and learn the dances. Um. Yeah, and then from there on I was a dancer. But then I stopped about five years ago. I see, I'm going to focus on Canada. Okay, did you grow up with white TV? Hell? Oh my god? Why TV was like the Nickelodeon? Uh Florida? How when did you? How? When? How long were you in Caounada? I moved? Was there a long time? I moved to Colorado four months after Columbine.

I've I think I've mentioned that on the show before, moved to move to Colorado format like right after Columbine and Johnny Ramsey, which took place in Boulder. And I just assumed, I just assumed assumed people in Colorado specifically just we're murdered. Yeah, Um, but one's also from Aurora and from Aurora, so or Colorado where the Dark Knight, Dark Knight Rise of shooting was holy on Colorado shooting

Capital of America. Baby, Um no, no, no, yeah, sorry, I didn't mean to bring it to me, but that's all that happened to um. And yeah it sucks that that's like the legacy. But anyway, um, no, White TV like we would. I didn't grow up with cable in Canada or the US that like that like parleyed Itself there, cultural blind Spot, Cultural blind Spot, honey. So white TV was like this precious time to like watch cable like programming.

It was meant for kids that was like mindless and stupid and like they had good like they had like the Nickelodeon style, like yeah, yeah, you can't do that on television. That was a show that like what's your face? Um, Atlanta's More sat was on when she was like a kid, and it's a legacy show. It's kind of the way that you know all that was a legacy show for Nickelodeon. And and what about Zoom soon we got that? Yeah

see we didn't have we had Mickey Mouse Club. Oh yeah, so I think that was like your club was zo and you guys wasn't for you on that for you was on the Electric Electric whatever trained almost said Electric Zoo really confidently that show Electric Zoo. That show I'm actually don't know when Governor's Ball, but I don't know. Yeah governors. No, remember that game show called oh Yeah? It was like they fling you basically, it was like it was like kind of cript from Nickelodeon. It's all

the same. White was where the air Pokemon. It was where they put Pokemon on and Sailor Moon and the like. It was. It would only get to watch it at other people's other kids, you guys, ever watch a show called Maniac Mansion. I don't know that. That was a show with um oh man what is his name? He was on a CTV back in the day, like in the seventies and then Maniac Mansion was a kid show and he played the dad on it. What is his name? People are going to kill me? Canadian write a passage?

I need to know? But same not like the same vein. Not Christopher Guests, No, I should look it up. But Dana Carvey No, No, same but same vein as Rick maranis mcmarannis. He Oh, other god, I was a huge Rickmranus fan. I mean, weren't we look it up? Look at some one airplane mode. Yeah, doesn't matter. Here's the thing, it doesn't matter. What it was was that it was

a fun show. Um. It took place in a weird house and that called the Maniac Matsion and it was like all kinds of ship was going down and it was on y TV. And that's all I wanted to say, come on, bring it back. Watch But did you at least watch t G I f yo. Yeah, okay, here's the thing. Let me tell you about a Canadian TV of it is Canadian, seventy percent of it is American. She did have cable, so I did watch MTV a bit, but like, yeah, I had like TBS and all that

she had mostly everything had mostly everything. But you know what you guys had that I wanted was Canadian idol. I was like, I was like, American idol isn't enough for me. I need a Canadian What was? What was what was compelling about? I feel like it? Did it produce stars? Well? Car Ra Jepson was on it, but I don't think she came in four on the show, right, she didn't do very well, but like she became a star. It was like it was almost like a training ground

to be a pop star for America. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's kind of interesting. Yeah, And I actually don't remember anyone that won the show, but I do remember listening to a lot of the performances and being like, yeah, yeah, I mean I would have I would have absorbed it. I was the kid that was watching American Idol and like making rankings in a notebook that I had like weeks a week, Like I was like essentially blogging for

myself at the time. Like it was like I would be like, you know, this week, you know, Ryan Starr didn't have as strong performance, so she did last week, so she's going to move down to the to the eight spot, and Kelly Clarkson ever climbing to the five spot. They made the show for you. I think that they really did. It was for little gay twelve year olds. Um,

oh my god, that's so funny. I the closest I ever got to that kind of fanaticism was my sister and I put together a playlist on Windows media Player of all of Clay Aiken's performances. Okay, listen to them, and we were like, this is wow. Clak and singing build Me a Buttercup is the best thing he was like he did, Oh my god, and he did. Um. It was the first time I ever heard uh, don't let the Sun Go Down? And he, I mean, he

nailed it. American idol. Like I don't know anything about it truly, but like for for a little baby gay that like loved music, like it introduced me to so much music. Like I knew what motown was because of a something Gladys Night themed night and season two and I was like, who's Gladest Night and the Gladdest Night That's what I'm saying, like, and like that's kind of cool that like thirteen year olds that were obsessed with the show now have a vocabulary or some vocabulary like

Gladys Night music. That's pretty awesome. And I remember I went into my my like ninth grade art teacher. She was a super cool lady, Miss nab Block, and she she came in one day and she was like, all right, just so you all know, every day we listen to good music, we don't listen to crap. And here's what I'm gonna play every day for the next two weeks. We're going to change and right this and she because she was like, when we're gonna listen while we draw.

Now this is Aretha Franklin's time, and so we listened to this all the good Aretha Franklin stuffs for like two weeks and so I know, like now that ship is my jam. I heard Do Right Woman, Do Right Man come on the other day and I was like, oh, ship, this stuff like and like a James she was obsessed with it was it was kind of and that was like I could tell her, like, you know, I know this song because of an American idol, and I felt like I was listening to music, real music that wasn't

like the Backstreet Boys. The only thing I knew from American idols that I did watch from Justin to Kelly or whatever. Come on. I think I did watch the first season, but I just don't remember being as invested in it is possibly you would know I was so all at that point. No, I was in Canada. When did I moved here in two thousand and nine? Wow, I was a grown ass woman when I moved here. So why the decision to move? Just because I wanted

to pursue everything. My current fiance I had a job opportunity, so he was going to move anyways, and at that time, we had already been together for five years, so I was like, hell, yeah, I'm moving with you. But I didn't want to be an illegal, so I went to school. But then you can't work, so it was kind of a weird situation like rock and hard place place, UM been here ever since I'm doing Am I doing the mouth correctly? You've been with your boot fourteen years? Twelve years? Twelve? Lord?

What is the secret? Wait? He just kind of first answer that is just like Dick's in your mouth seven he doesn't go to work or just Dick my man constant. The secret is having a man child that won't ask you who to marry you ten of those years and then it just does, and then poking at him finally does. So let's this. I asked that question on the on the ride the tour bus that I work on, and people are always ear plugs your boys, and I go, sir, you just gotta make them, you gotta make them feel

like they're the star. Hilarious, hilarious tourists. Fiance tattoo. Yes, it's of uh this really great design. I don't know who the design the guy is, but it's a graphic designer and it's all these cool like hands and different in different like positions, and they have eyes in them. It's just like one of his favorite pieces. Do you

have tatters? You know what I'm getting. We went to the place, and we researched a long time to find a good place to get his tattoo, but we ended up just going to the place just in the neighborhood and it ended up being the perfect one. The guys who worked there are so cool. I'll give them a plug because they're so dope. No all wolves, no sheep

dot com. Yes. So, my sister and I were in Universal Studios, Florida, and we broke away from our parents and I think this is the time we like smoked a blood outside the hard Rock Cafe and then went into and we were like, should we get tattoos? My sister and I almost got matching tattoos at Universal Studios, Florida, And I have to tell you, I wish that we had. That's a real swinging doors scenario, Like what like be different if you did get matching tattoos with your sister?

You know why is there tattoo artistant? Honestly everything that it was their their city walk section there's this space where you can get tattoos. And I was like, Mom and tat will be so pissed if we do this, but like let's get them on apart. It was it was so again conditional. It was like we wanted them, but we were going to get them in like a secret place on our body for that trip so our parents wouldn't see what would it And we didn't know what we want. So I was like, Chelsea, maybe we

shouldn't get one. Were like, we don't know where on my bodies we want it. We don't know what we want. We're literally only doing it because it's like a little dangerous. Wow, thank god we didn't. I truly every time I try to wrap my head around what I would get a tattoo up, I just come up totally blind. I do need one. Yeah for sure. That's the biggest sign right there. I just want to really quickly say I got man.

I were in Austin about a month ago and we were walking down South six No no, no, just just it's a town though, um, and then there's a tattoo parlor and I was like yeah, like just like the urge came over me. I was like, yeah, I'll get a tattoo because you feel as a powerful Getting tattoos is still that thing from when you're a child where your parents were like, yeah, it's the it's the decision

to do it, that's really. That's like, do you do you already mention what it's gonna be on my Yeah, okay, I'll tell you. Okay, Okay. So I'll be on my farm and it's going to be a boukia flowers. But the flowers will be like a combination of all the different countries I've gone to, all like the flowers I love so um Ontario has a really beautiful white trillium

I think is their flower. And then I'm going to get like cherry blossoms because I'm going to Japan, I mean, and then she's gonna be a beautiful and watercolor so I won't have like a black lining. Yeah, it'll be more artistic. Okay, that's great. Oh that's that's you know what. That's the perfect And it's very well thought out too. It's like you know you can tell it's gonna something you live up. When you were talking about you started glowing when you were talking about it. You look fucking

gorgeous and you look so amazing at the show. Yeah, I was like so gorgeous. And also you you made the hat like it was it was you were killing it in the hat. Hat were you that? Okay, great, I'll take it. Okay, No, that hasn't where her she wore the hat. But no, it's like you didn't wear the hat the hat? Were you? I know? But that's

a bad thing. Okay, I'm sorry. I goes like, you know, the thing about this picture is Marnie was wearing the scarf, but in this picture the scarf was wearing Helena, and everyone's just like, yeah, was there contestant named Helena? Wish to god there was. Umm. Was gonna ask you, are you the kind of person? And I just want you to settle this. I mean, this is just personal preference. If someone politely asks for the story behind the tattoo, will you will? Will you, like not non begrudgingly offer

it up? Of course I would? Okay, good, And I forgot to add this point. You're gonna make fun of me, but there are there going to be writing on it like the ribbons, and it's gonna say Anny and Noon, which are cream wars for a big sister. You guys know how I feel about that ship. Yeah, no, see a case that's I feel like. Rule of thumb is, don't ask for the tattoo story, right, don't ask, don't expect it to be telled, thank you. I disagree people

get that ship on their body to tell. Yeah, you're right, you know it's like they you know what. I guess that's right. If you didn't, if you didn't want someone to see it, then you wouldn't be visible. I've just heard enough stories or I've just heard enough from people who were like, I don't owe it to you, and I'm like, Okay, those people suck. I don't think so, honey, those people, why would you not want to tell? And obviously meant so much to you that you wanted to

put it on your body. It's not a personal thing. It's a presentational Yeah, yeah, yeah for sure. Quick anecdote, Uh, this was back in the age when this was acceptable of me to do. But we my friends and I this was when I lived in Skyetown. Um, this is me like a Jack Quad and Mike and Rob Tangent

and like all these people. One summer we just did like a photo scavenger hunt around the city and one of the items was one of the items was goofy stupid tattoo, Like we did to take a photo of it, and so we walked around the West Village and then we just walked up to this woman with like a sleeve and we were like, hi, um, we're on this photoscap and dreamer and we need like a silly tattoo. No no, no, no, no, no, no no no no,

we just need like a fun tattoo. Do you have a fun tattoo we can take a picture of and she and she just very like glumly was like, well, I was fucking tattoo of a bowl of alphabet soup. And we were like that's perfect. And it was just

the funniest reaction to this tattoo of a bull. But when we were like, yeah, that's it, Wait, did I really build up producer because I thought she was gonna like telling you be mad, but she that's what I'm sorry, that's what I thought was gonna happen, with her being like, get the funk away from me. This is sexual harass. I mean yeah, I mean sure, I know, but it's not. She would have been It was fun acting crazy there

it was. Yeah, I might be retelling it poorly, but anyway, it's fun, like I would so, Okay, a good friend of the show front of all of us, Oscar Montoya is the king of the ironic beautiful meaningless beautiful but stupid tattoos. He will admit to this. Really, he'll admit to it. I think he'll admit to it because like, one time he doesn't have a chicken leg. Okay, he's a chicken leg. And then one time we were hanging out, Yeah,

it's dancing. One time we were hanging out and then and then on his cap I noticed this tattoo of like screaming cat face. I was like, oh, Scar, did you get a new tattoo? And he goes, oh, yeah. I walked into this antique store and I saw this, this fucking like collectible card with the screaming cat face. It looks so stupid, and then I thought, I want that on my body, so I bought it a tattoo.

Part like I got it on my cap. I was like, and that's when it clicked for me a bit, because because I was like, oh, like, it doesn't matter like it can mean, it doesn't matter what you put on your body as long as you just like have that compulsion and you want it and it matters to yeah, and I just hope it's still matters. Like I feel like I'm taking that in that clear shape is right now where it's like, well, just man, but dad, permanent, my dad. My dad used to tell us a tattoo

is a temporary solution to a permanent problem. Oh my god. Suicide. No, I don't. I don't think he might have been. I don't think he. I don't think either that was popular phrase back then first iticide, or I don't think he realized that's maybe where he heard it. He also told me one time that the reason why people wear their hats backwards is so they can put their face close up to the glass when they're in prison. Tell me that, and I was like, that's exclusive to white people. Oh,

I love that's so. I mean, this is like, this is like in the mid nineties when I was like, I want to wear my hat backwards and he was like, I'm going to tell you this, and it's like true. I feel like those are urban legends that kind of have a little bit of maybe I have a little bit truth in them. Somewhere potentially. I mean, where is that coming from? I don't know, like either someone made that up and like was plausible enough to me as a kid where I was like, oh, well, my dad

does know everything. I guess that's what's true, because you really think that because your parents tell you that, right, and you're like, how do how do you know all the answers and they say because I know everything, and we're like, we're getting your ear pierced on the left side. Means you're gay right exactly time. And I think my dad if he heard that, if he heard someone else say that now, he'd be like, what are you fucking insane? Like it's something that if you would here now, he'd

be like, of course that's not true. So have you heard the other thing about the baggy pants about prisoners. You haven't heard that, oh so um, Apparently the urban myth is is that guys in prison where their pants really low, sort of like one denote that they're down for whatever. My god. But it also I heard is like, which makes more sense to me, is that they don't give you belts in prison, so it's like you your pants are like sagging, but then when you get out

of prison. That style kept kept up, kept up. Then it blew up and was like universal, So now everyone has baggy pants. But then it's a it's a tool for your parents to be like, don't wear baggy pants, but prisoners yeah, because they were gay, Yeah honestly. Yeah, And it's funny because like what is the truth something? You know? And the thing about that is like there was like the first person to put their hat backwards,

and why did they do it? There was like the first person ever to wear that wearing their clothes a certain style, you know what I mean, like for example, the pop collar, Like who was the fucking little ship who was the first one to say, you know what, I'm gonna start a clothing revolution and popped his collar? And then it became like the poster look for like privileged, white, stupid fox. But then like it needs to catch on

in a way. It's like remember remember like years ago, like I just flipping through like some fucking like men's style magazine and it was so convinced that putting a tie between the buttons of your shirt was going to be the new thing, and it was like, no fucking way. So I think that is the stupidest thing I've ever seen people do. Do it? Will do it? My god? Does it looked dumb like? And no no jacket to

cover that? You No, like you're wearing a shirt. You're wearing a tie, but then you slip and tuck in the tie in between like these two buttons on your story, and then the bottom of your tie is just not this no jacket, You're just wearing a jacket, wearing open jacket. I would imagine that you did, or there'd be no jacket because you want people to see what you did, because it's like a fashion statement to do that. But that I don't think it's going to catch on. I

feel as strongly that will not catch on. As when I was younger, I was dead right about this. When dudes would bleach the tip of their hair, Yeah that I was like, that's not a tip. Yeah, I was like frosted tips, Yeah, the frosted tips. I was like, you know what, this is a thing that people are going to be doing for two or three years, and then we're going to look back on it and think the way we think about like crimped hair in the eighties. Pokemon Yeah, yeah, yeah, like Pokemon go like it was

like already we're like, no, that's sartorial expert. But I've always made the wrong clothing choices my whole life long. Well you've stuck to You've stuck to uh, and don't take this the wrong way. Safe, reliable, classic looks. I do utility where I do almost always a flannel over like it's partly graphic TI and jeans and like more often than not these days like my my half, But

did you want to be edgier? The thing is, like I think I've always liked The thing is, somebody the other day was talking about their friend that has a really good fashion sense, and I know what it is, and like I like fashion, like I like seeing, for example, on RuPaul's drag Race, Like my favorite part is the runway. I love seeing the looks, like even as a comedian, like I don't really care that much to see them do like performance challenges. I just want to see what

they bring to the runway. I love fashion, but it's just not something that I I don't wake up every day and say, Okay, what am I wearing? You know what I mean? Like and maybe in high school I kind of got there a little bit, but I think that was more because I was just really self conscious about what everyone thought about me. But I it's just not something I think about every day. Why what about you guys? Do you guys? I was out of presentation.

I was going to throw this over to Monique because I feel like Monique is a very distinct fashion sense. I'll just go really quickly. I yeah, I feel like I I look back at pictures of myself, even like two years ago, and I'm like, what the funk was I thinking? So now it's just like, oh, I'm gonna like be very cliche New York Asian and stick to like all dark, all black. Um, these are my stores, guys, but they're reliable. It's like, uh and you know they

work for you and they work for me. Everlyne Moogie, Unichlo uh uh and the Lady Gaga Merged are those are? Those are my four places? Um? But mo I feel no I want I want a Huffington's post slide show the style of evolution of Oh my goodness. So right now, this is so funny because I'm doing a Facebook live with an attachment and Black tomorrow about amzing wonderful fashions stuff. But um, right, now I'm actually I think I'm moving.

I'm morphing into a different style. Like I'm really like actually focusing on style as opposed to before where it's like I just wore what I wanted to wear, and it's like I had I used my dance background mixed with this sense of like I love streetwear, but then I also had to do age appropriate in the fact that I'm an improviser, so I couldn't be like I couldn't be like bomber jackets every day. So now I'm

moving into like a Zara meets um meets like urban. Yeah. Thanks, so I'll still wear like Timberland's, but like I love tailored fits. I'm killing turtlenecks lately. Yeah, right now. It's so weird and it's a mixture of like I love layering.

Yeah no. And Henry gets mad at me because I primarily wear his clothes now, so like, for example, this shirt, I'm wearing this like kind of uh like green flannel today and he really likes the shirt, and I was going to put this other sweatshirt over it because I love to layer, and he was like, I hate it when you wear my good shirts over my other good shirts, so you can't even see the one good shirt and you have a T shirt on underneath. Sound. And I

was like, but I like to layer. He's like, so then wear something underneath it that's not as nice and isn't going to be like wrinkled or whatever or not seen. And he's not wrong, but like, what can I say? The bitch likes to layer, the bitch loves to be warm, yes, and the bitch loves the look of a flannel popping out under a swatshirt. Yes. I I think you're right

on the right track. You know. My look is like casual gay guy whose room is probably messy and eats a lot of pizza, but like, you know, like lazy gay chic lay cheek on the end. Yeah, cut where it used to be like it used to be like American Eagle nightmare right right. I want to point out something it's not too specific about Monique. She is rocking the rings, honey, Yeah, you know what? You know what's

about that? You know what it is about them? They're not like over embellished, No, they just good, clean, crisp, classical of it. I mean, I can't thank you, thank you voice. I really appreciate it. I can't wear ear rings because I have, like, um, a thing where I need goals and sober. Yeah, I thought you were going to say, because like you were allergic to something, allergic

to fake as ship potential title of that. But also, I'm kind kind of cheap and I don't want to spend you know, a couple of bills proper jewelry, So I don't wear I don't I wear chokers, but I don't wear like necklaces and ear rings. And I love rings. These are these golden I think, so, I mean these were given to me by bo and there's a engagement. I love it. Look at that circle, I love it.

That's the one thing as gays I was hanging I was hanging out with my straight friends from high school the other day and my friend Ken was like, yeah, this is this is a question. I don't know that, Like what do guys do for wedding rings? I was like, I think we just do bands for me, which is fine. I like the nice classic bands feel like diamonds somewhere or I said, because I wouldn't want to wear a diamond ring, but I would. Here's what I would do if it was diamonds all around the bands and it

was just like one ring of diamonds. I think that's take a diamond, cut a hole fucking middle of it and stick your finger. Oh my god, wait, this is what I want. Can I walk us through this, walk us through, unpack this for us. I'm unpacking this. A dark sort of dark titanium band with the tiniest fucking microns of diamonds along the north south east west like the north east bones. Finger is the world, bitch, I

have a compass on my fucking Oh my god. I mean that's stupid, but like just just four points, baby, and I think that's great. That is actually very future forward thing to me. I've never seen that done, and that makes it drag. Drag is something that you've never seen done before. Hunt. Yes, um you guys. We actually are going to take a quick break to get a word from our sponsors and then we're gonna come back and we're gonna get into it a little bit alright,

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The live event yes, and Monique was a part of a moment that stopped the world stop. Now you chose to go into the troll ball. Yeah, and okay, first of all, very bravely keep going, thank you. I mean, in my head, what I was going to do was a scathing review of Wagon Mama Ramen, yes, which which we will hear. I'm not going to do that, tod I know, but like I, in my head, that's what I was going to do. But then I thought I'm second to last. No one has picked the troll ball.

It's very popular when you do it. And I did not think I was gonna I thought I was going to get some bullshit thing. But I got Donald motherfucking Trump, okay, and so let me so I made the trollball, like I put everything in there, and Andresen created the idea of the trouball, and I thought that was so that's so funny, especially because you know some people they might not you know what, exactly know what to do, like you know, some people just like I might not have

a might not have a thing. Anyway, Monique draws Donald Trump, and the reason I put Donald Trump in there is because I was just trying to funk with everyone that the trouble, and I think I certainly did. So you picked the Donald Trump and I look in the crowd and everyone's got up two fingers, and then it's like two minutes and it's I've never It's like it was like the fucking Roman Colisseum. People were just foaming at the mouth, being like rabbit like god they were, and

we were. Honestly, I was shook and I thought, Okay, I can do this, I can do this. But then I was like, holy funk, there's so much to unpack here, I know. And I'm just saying my apologies for throwing two minutes on you, because like, honestly, looking back, I was like, yeah, he forced Donald Trump. But I will say you were hilarious. And you guys have all heard of the episode already at home where it's going to

come out tomorrow for us, but I cannot wait. But we were screaming, laughing, we were just but I get like like hearing coming off stage after two minutes and being like, oh man, I did not funk with Donald Trump and like like what a hard Like it's an easy mark, but it's also so hard, like where do you even fucking begin and honestly, like I like I remember going to Man after the show and being like,

I thought it was perfect that mode. Monique just like just like did her thing on two minutes on Donald Trump and just and just like man him and I hate Donald like it was also burns on your burns on him. In regards to Trudeau, we're amazing. Also the realize like of course we know this, but then like just as you were going like, oh my god, she's Canadian, like, it was so fun, it was so neat, and I

don't know, I thought it was perfect. I understand. I understand this this like instinct of like or this feeling of like, oh funk, like I didn't funk with him. And so anyway, um wait before we get before we like dive into that FIRS, because I want to hear it you oh yeah, yeah, we want you to come through again and fucking everything you want out of it

because it's deserved. Come on, you has, honey. But I want to hear about this Roman place because I because because when when you first said, when you first said you were going to come fort like the Roman place on the corner of the street, I was like, oh, that's fucking amazing. And then when you picked the ball, I was so fucking happy because if there's an improv queen, it's like, oh my god, it was so funny. Also, like I was, I was, I was saying, this is

someone that you need to see live. Honestly, you gotta because when Monique is on stage, you are safe, you mean, like, and there's nothing like that. There's nothing like being in the crowd for someone who is like taking care of you, like you're going to have a good time when you watch Monique. So yeah, Harold Knight, Um Astronomy Club, you gotta seek this ship out and you gotta watch her

shower series because you have to see Monique wherever. And sport Court, Honey, you're one of my sport y Wait, tell us about sport Court. Then tell us about Wakam and then first thing, sport Court. Sport Court I love saying. It was written by Joe Shappa and it's just literally what it is. It's about a court that's in the basement of a sports arena and it's just random people who you know, function up while they're watching their favorite sporting group and then came down and they need to

be delivered Justice. It stars me and a good friend, Christopher Birdie chrisp. Bertie's the judge and I'm his bailiff and we just have a really fun relationship. And it's just a dumb How many episodes it six six good order. And here's the thing, And this is just another little praise for Monique. Um, I could see her both as the judge or as the bailiff. Yeah, we get a second season, then maybe we'll switch roles. Honestly, work that into the story. Um, okay, we can't wait for that

to come out. Comedy. Love it, love it, love it, love it. Okay, so now talk to us about while Mama ram because I just want to I just want to say I'm very invested in this because I'm recently a Ramen. I mean, I've always loved Ramen, but winter months, i mean we're it's warming up. But I've been digging into Ramen and just getting some spicy tinctus, some spicy misos puts me right to sleep. Oh my god. My boss at work, she's the best. Um. She always wants

to order Ramen. It's so cute. She's like, can we order Ramen? And like sure, test and then we get ramen and then we are immediately sleepy by like toast, it puts you right to sleep. So anyway, need that five hour energy, you need that five our energy. I'm a big Ramen head now, but so I want to know what's what's wrong about this? How they So there's two things you have to know about me in regards to rack Mamma. One, I I'm obsessed with Ramen. Eat at every Roman shop in the city too. I work

in fla Iron. So when Wagga Mama, I don't even know Mama opens its new shop and they're like this fucking corporate juggernaut. They have a shot Raman restaurants all over the world, like Tehran and fucking a Ramen shop. I mean, I think, So, I don't know. I didn't research them that much, but they've got shipped in Boston. Is there only Uh? I'm like giving them advertising, you agon Mama. Anyways, they only have one shop in Boston. So they open up a block away from my work.

I'm excited because you know, I'm at work and the only thing I need now is some fucking Ramen. They feel good and I go and why right now? Wants a few good. Why do I go one soggy ass noodles bad cold tepid broth over price and then this isn't just one, this is and just one time. I gave them two chances and they funked up both times. They're auxiliary dishes, are good, like what names the um like, they're buns, they're pork buns, were right. But their ramen

is all this like and it's not good. You can't Ramen is one of those things. It's a very delicate sort of thing where you cannot funk with the formula. And they have like these weird spoons. I see what they're trying to do. They're trying to make. They're trying to give us their version of ramen, and it's like, don't do come and give me what I want. Wagga, mama, Come on, I don't think so, honey. You know I don't think so, honey. Wagga mama, thank you so much.

You know what, I guess I associate ramen with like ramen that you eat in college, and I'm not understanding what a different cultural side of the coin, honey, right, But I do get get very hard when you say the word spicy, like I'm immediately ready to go for a good Raman place. You guys, they do Raman ands sheet both very well. I don't know how rare that is. This is the place called m Zucho the U T d o. It sounds Italian, bitchet ain't it's Japanese. Where

is this? Um? I only order three seamless they're they're they're They're around Hudson Square, Tribeca. So how um fantastic spice mesa round in amazing pork pork belly. It's amazing soft whaled eggs. It's the best. I love it so much. That's incredible. Yeah, it's incredible. But they sucked up. So but you know what, I didn't talk about them. I talked about Donald, all right, So you know what. So you floated around a lot of topics to Donald Trump. But but Monique is here to do another I don't

think so, honey. And the woman has no outcome. I mean I have to I can't just go down. No, no, no, no no. But the thing is that's so crazy about I don't think so, honey. Is we go right off the top of the dome and there's gonna be a twist for today. Is I don't think so, honey. You're gonna know, not for you, for you, towards us. Um. I don't know about this. What is this? Monique is going to decide on the spot what we do are

I don't think I love that? Alright, So we're the coin now, the tables of terms, yes, um, And we're going to get our own taste of the trouball that's going to come from the mobile. I gotta taste the trouble myself. I thought I didn't. Okay, John, you at Sarah Paulson. Yeah, my angle. The one thing I would have changed, And I'm sorry this is a tangent. I For some reason, I mentioned I wish you had done

comedy Bang Bang, which makes kind of no sense. First of all, no, I think it's amazing because your whole thesis was we want to see you in everything, and that includes comedy Bang Bang. But then I also and this is the other thing I wish I had revised. I mentioned her in Memorium Real, which is like kind of heavy, and I that's you're just giving yourself notes And no, you can't judge. I don't think so, honey that way. I don't think so, honey, is from the heart.

It's about the passion. It doesn't matter what the funk you say, No one cares. It's about did you make your case? And guess what you made the case. I don't think you did something in me which was I don't think so, Honey, Sarah Paulson, You're too amazing to not work every goddamn day of your life. Fuck you for not working more, which is brilliant. You're able to come on it positively, but also you know the stakes were hot. I am, I am. I can spin anything

better than fucking Kelly and Conway herself. I have to say, if there's a if there's someone besides me who I feel is your arch nemesis, it is Kelly and I think I think the end of days, we're all going to watch something on television, like like Bowen's Catanis and Kelly an Is likes We're going to see a televised fight to the death by Bowen Yang and Kelly and Conway. Speaking of Kelly Anne, yeah, here we go, Here we go. This is Monick Mosis. Are you ready? I'm ready, and

you've got in a minute on there. Yeah, alright, Monique Moses. I don't think so any Donald Trump. Part two time starts now. Okay, Donald Trump, I don't think so, mother fucking honey, you're trying to repeal Obamacare. I don't think you cann don't think so, honey, because even your party doesn't like you. Your body's like Donald, you are dumb, dumb, dumb. You are not a real president. You think you're a real president. I don't think so, honey. No, the only

thing you can get done is by executive order. It's like that teenager at a party when they have a party when their folks are away, and you know what, You're gonna get your asspeat when they come home. But you'll like still try to have that party anyways and deal with it later. Fuck you, Donald Trump. You are like the motherfucking Baba Duke. Okay, spoiler alert, he represents grief everybody. Is he even human? Donald Trump? Are you

even human? I don't even think so, honey. Okay, you are fucking Demi Gorgon from Stranger Things, pushing legislation to literally turn the environment into the upside down. And it's probably gonna take us like eleven years to reverse. And you want to know why I said eleven because it's a stranger things referenced. All right, Donald, you need to take several scenes because you are the clown from it, but the clown from it has better teeth. Fuck you,

Oh my god, three seconds. Why are you wasting our money? You fucking suck. I tried to go through Fifth Avenue when I couldn't. Oh my god, stop seeing our money on golf tramps because everybody sees you, Donald Trump. We do honestly and honestly, but you know what the thing is, like, here's the deal now when people when I'm ever like challenged by someone who did vote for Donald Trump, and for some reason it is still standing by him or the people that are mad silent now because that's also

a thing. People that were real opinionated about how she was equally as bad as him, and now don't say a fucking word on Facebook. All of a sudden, they're not as political anymore. They don't want to talk about it. It's like, come the funk on. But then I get to talk into them and they say, well, why do you hate him so much? And I get so overwhelmed. He's so overwhelming. That's what part of the whole shock of him being president is is. It's like, truly, where

do you fucking start. We haven't begun. I mean we've begun to process it, but we looks like just there are so many entry points. Oh, this is a thing. Um. I was just I was just talking with my parents this past weekend. My mom and I had a nice spawning experience. UM because a lot of her old students from med school who are still living in China. Um, and even some like family friends who live in Colorado

who I found out voted for Trump. And I'm shocked and appalled at them, and they've I've lost all respect for them. But anyway, a lot of my mom's medical student, medical student, uh whatever, students from from China who were still there supported him, like from Afar. Obviously they couldn't vote,

but they were like, wow, they're always awful. Donald Trump is better for China, and now all of them are trying to like all of the like have business in the U. S. And come every now and then, but now with this, like with this immigration crackdown and like visa crackdown, like they're not able to get into the country and they are they have such regrets about just siding with him and I'm like, well, like that, and I kind of like feel sort of it feels karmically

satisfying for me to be like, well, fuck you forever thinking that he was a good choice. Like and I know they it was of no consequence for them, like they didn't vote, but still it's like, it's such an I told you some moment and anyway, you know what, some of us are smarter than doctors in China, so I should feel good about that. It's just so. Did you read the article about the woman who voted for Trump and now her husband is being deported? Yeah? I

actually couldn't even read it. I was like, this is too fun to say. Yeah, it's nuts and it's weird too. As a Canadian, I should have more of a um an anger towards the travel band, but it's like, I don't even know what his aim is, so I can't even I don't I don't even. So did you vote? You voted in Canada? No, I can't vote anywhere, so yeah, so I'm just like a bystander. I'm like a ghost. So you would have voted for Trudeau though? Oh hell yeah, oh my god. He is a fine man. He's he's

he's he's beautiful, he's smart, he's kind. Yeah, God he shakes back, you know when he gets a weird handshake. Yeah, he's just Also that shot of his booty, it's unbelievable. It's crazy, it's crazy. The world is obsessed. He's kind of it's it's nuts. He's gorgeous. Perfect. When I do stand up, I have this funny bit about like I gave him up. Well, actually I did that Trump, I left sucking Trudeau behind. It's like it's like seeing your

ex just fly. Also, his first name is Justin Justin, and he like speaks like do you hear do you hear him speaking French at the Parliament House or whatever. It's like he speaks perfect French. Do you speak French? No? I don't really, I just like I speak direct translation, which is not speaking. It's just you know, it's just like it's like signs. Yeah, I realized I speak more farsty than I do. Friend, stud has taught me some far amazing Yeah. Um, what what did you say recently?

And I think you posted the way you yes is ballet, and then there's and and what's the when you want to give a term of endearment to someone tell them that you care about them. It's like you say there, if it's a man, it's bow and June and then um um. My favorite, my favorite thing is um, like the way you say like God willing or we hope. So like inshallah, this podcast gets a million views, you know what I mean, Like like vocal podcast exactly. Like

every day I'm like inshallah. I'll find out that I'm going to Disney World today and I'll finally be happy. But that's my favorite word and I like to use it in casual conversations. I love it. If you if you if you had told American eagle nightmare Matt Rodgers ten years ago that he was speaking FARSI I think I honestly think about this sometimes. I'm like Jesus Christ. If eighteen year old me could see like twenty seven year old me, what would I think? And I think

I'd be pretty okay with it. It would be shocking because it would mean that I conquered a lot of my like fears about my identity, and I would be I think I'd wonder, like how the fund did that go? But um, but I think it'd be nice to see that, like I was at least happy and gay without panicking about it. Yeah, and be able to speak Farsi and be able to speak four words of Farsi and got my layer layer game down. Yeah, I don't went up enough Mandarin for you. I realized a Mandarin. Yeah, what

do we what do we want to know? Um? You know what they say? You should know how to do. You should at least be able to ask in any country you go to, where's the bathroom? Okayez? Great? Is this is this what you want to first time? How to introduce ourselves? Um? So we all know? Uh was shot Monique, Monique matt beautiful and guys, any my relatives would sucking flipping? Okay great? And then were and then where's the bathroom? Um, it's it's a little tough, but

just just go with me. Just really make your tongue very pliable and make sure that we when we say we say it in the polite way. Yeah. Okay, cool, So that makes it even more complicated, but sure, that's fine. Um, this is may I please ask to win? To win to Nali? She went to Nali. She went to Nali close enough. She went to I'm sorry, I'm sorry, No, no, no no no, no no no no no no no

no no, there's I no, this is isn't wrong. No, it's it's very wrong, but it's fantastic because there's something so um compelling about math, just so with such poise, just saying Mandarin gibberish and it's it's my new favorite thing. This is this is a new discovery for me. Matt t wins Holly, this isn't it's kind of offensive, but it's amazing. Really, it's not offensive. I really don't want to I'm can't kidding. This does not offend me, which told not offend anyone else. There you go, and you

know what, this brings me to an interesting point. This is a little to okay, so oh no, I don't know if I want to go okay off and I have to talk about this and I'm not going to name any names. So um. I recently realized that um the word f a G within a show that I saw recently, and I thought it was hilarious because it

was justified well. And the person that put up the show said that they had fielded some emails and gotten some complaints because this is a straight white man, that that they were now going to take the word out despite it being justified very well, because they got emails from some actually women who said that they shouldn't be

able to use that word. And I've seen the show a bunch and it didn't offend me, but it definitely opens up a very interesting conversation, especially this week after that d c M poster about like words, how we use them, who gets to use them? Because I have to be honest, I was even a little confused after the d c M conversation because when I saw the poster, obviously I cringed a little bit, you know what I mean.

I was like, that shouldn't be on there. But then why everyone was so mad about the word woke being used? I thought everyone was without kind of saying it, because no one was being very clear. Everyone was kind of angry for different reasons. And it was like, hold on, and because it's social media and Facebook where anyone can set anything or give any half reaction or over the

top redaction they want. Um, I kind of found myself saying, let's actually have a conversation about the way that we use stay woke, Like who is is not allowed to say this? What does it really mean? Because I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about that. Like I have white friends, um, and you know, people of all different races around me, and I feel like that word has become such a part of the zeitgeist that I legitimately had to type into Google like an idiot, what does

stay woke me? And where did it come from? I think someone wish a credit whoever said this comment. But somebody was like, unless if this is a three day symposium on diversity and race relations, I don't think that it should have been named the Wokening. If that was like, I see what they were going for. But that's the only reason why it's a cringe e title. If that, if like diversity truly like was pervasive throughout the weekend, then absolutely like do some weird pun or play on

words or whatever. But like, yeah, it's kind of it's like an improta. It's sort of it's like the Veneer. You know, It's like it's not really what Diversity not a theme, you know what I mean? Diversity should be a given. It's like we should be you know, you can't like the theme of celebrating diversity that should be a part of every day and you see and so

to kind of make that the focus. Like I absolutely share in the frustration with that, especially because you know the people that decided to make it that way we're white people. It's just like it's frustrating. I thought it was handled really well. I thought it was handled there. I really appreciate a chance response. Yeah, oh I didn't

read it. It was very very graceful, and it really it kind of like said, like you know what, like this is another opportunity for a conversation, and this conversation will never stop until it will just never stop. And that's great, and that did make me feel proud to be a part of the community because you know what, at least we're having the conversation and the artists themselves

was black, right, I believe. So I don't want to say yes or no because I don't know, but that would make sense, I mean, so you know what I mean. But as going back to that that anecdote about about fag, it's interesting how like it's it's I don't know, this is this might be a little thorny for for me to go into. But like if it's mostly if it's like women predominantly who are like coming up and like

policing that the usage of that word. I feel like there's some sort of a erasure on game Man, and just like on gay men b it's like, oh, well, someone else is speaking on my back. I don't know if that's fully representative. And it was just interesting because I've seen the show a bunch and I've never thought

to myself that offends me. However, I do have to say I'm grateful to the people speaking because I think it means I think what it means is like people have been hurt by things, and you know, you just you don't want to you don't want other people to

be triggered by something that. But I think maybe there's a little bit of an assumption that it's going to be a trigger where it's not like at the end of the day, we're a comedy theater and you know, like the comedy has to come first, and if the comedy is not coming first, I do think there is a second. There is there is an opportunity to take

a second of pause there um. But and shows of solidarity um are good and helpful in their intention, but also um, you know, also sometimes just just just maybe not fully I don't know I think this is so hard. It's such a it's such a tough, terrible Yeah. Yeah, I mean and like I remember when I first saw the poster, I did like it because I didn't even

see the title because I'm color blind as fun. And I was like, oh, like this like moment of like all of Facebook with status is about the poster and I was like, oh my god, what does the does the post to say? I went back and I saw what it was and I saw that I liked it, and I was like, oh, I'm like, I'm like, wow, Um, I mean that's that's that's where your color blindness it will defeat me. No, no, no, I don't mean I'm colorblind in the fact that I don't know. I mean

like I'm literally color blind. Like I'm like, I'm not allowed to fly a plane or like the draft fighting the war. Um, that's hilarious, Monique. That's come to give you your Oh well you can. You also have the opportunity to do on the one of your choice. So that was just a Marquis moment for you. Oh you guys are giving me life right now. If you want pressure, I mean sure I will. I will only because not but I want you guys go first. Well, we can

go first. Yeah, okay, so this is now. It's time you have to choose because you've been troll bold yeah yeah, and maybe this is something for the guest to come onto the future in the future. This is uh, if you've been troubled in the past, by yes, you get the opportunity to come on here and tall us. So, um, Bone, do you want to go first? Or should I? I can go first? Okay, Bone is going to go first,

So Monique really troll Bowen here? Okay, here we go and then and then when you already just tell me and I'll start a minute on o'clock. Bowen, Yeah, you're I don't think so, Honey, is about Vanessa Carlton and it starts right now. I don't think so, Honey, van Nessa Carlton. How dare you come onto the scene the same time that Michelle Branch does? How dare you confuse the zeitgeist and and and popular music at a time when Michelle Branch could have really had a monopoly on

this post Atlantis landscape and music. Honey, you ruined Michelle Branch for me because people kept getting here confused. They're like thousand miles? Was that Michelle Branch? I keep going, I keep saying, no, Honey, Michelle Branch can rock a guitar and write a song that doesn't involve fucking uh doesn't talk about her roll down the street. I don't think so. Carlton, you fiddled out, honey. I'm sorry, but

you are the definition of a one hit wonder. You are the fucking um You're you're you're the fucking what's his name? Well, I don't you know what this is. That's that's a different story. I don't think so even has a Carlton fifteen seconds? Who do you think you are? Fiona Apple for for for kids, Bob? I don't think so, honey, Vanessa fucking Carlton. I don't think so, honey. Your time is done, Vanessa Carlton. Regina Specter will eat you alive. That's what I love, baby, I mean, you know what?

That was intense. And you know what again, like you're we're all gonna judge ourselves based on how we know of these troubles. But that's why it's called And you know what, now you'll all take a second thought when you try to trill someone online and get yes, this is edifying, an educational honey, we're we're teaching the kids to not troll. Okay, I'm ready for you to hit me over the topic. Here we go. Okay, um um, Matt your I don't think so honey is on um

is on Socrates? Socrates? Socrates, Socrates, the Greek philosopher. Oh, here we go. I can't wait for this. This is Matt Rodgers. I don't think so Hony. Time starts and now I don't think so honey, Socrates. I'm a Plato bitch. Okay um. First of all, um, no offense to you, Socrates, but Plato said all the good ship. Also, you are not my favorite thinker. My favorite thinker is Nietzsche. Bitch, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger? Adopted in the

pop song by Kelly Clarkson. And you know what, I think that's true, Socrates. Guess what. Maybe it's that that I'm not read. Maybe it's the fath that I have a fried brain from a little bit too much wet and not enough sleep. But I can't remember anything that you said, bitch. And guess what. When I was in school at NewYork University, hy created to n Y U. I got an A plus in the class called social Foundations, to which specifically specifically dealt with you and your teachings.

And still I remember something which means you have nothing good to say you. All I know about you as you were quoted and legally blonde in the first scene and brought back at the end. And guess what even that wasn't about you, It was about Reese high and guess what the world's about Reese. Down with Socrates, up with Reese. And that's one minute, very everything, wow, very unrend is meant to bring it back to Reese Weatherspoon, Matt, I just you know what. No, I'm gonna let you

have this, but I just want to let you know what. No, no, no, you didn't do anything wrong, Plato wrote. Plato wrote, from the perspective of Socrates and a lot of his works, Well, um, let's just say I like to hang out with my younger bitch like Socrates. Socrates was accused of indoctrinating the youth. Honey, what does that mean? Indoctrinated in the youth? Does that mean being a little bit of a perv knows? Who knows? Honey? I think he indoctrinated the youth, if you know what

I mean. That's shade at Socrates. Literally there's a column over there, and that's how I came to Greek Socrates. So I don't know anything about that. I on a column in this in this bitch, there is an Iana column in this bitch where columns? Now, Now you have and I don't think so, honey, of your choice right to be fair? Yeah, you get to do whatever the right? All right? So are you ready? Oh? Is there anything your gears? There isn't anything that's grinding my gears off

the top of my hand. Or do you want us to troll? You're okay? What's the beloved institution? Okay, here's what I'm gonna say. Okay, Monique Moses's me. I don't think so, honey, Um, okay, okay, Pop, I don't think so anyk Wow, let's see how she can spin this. She loves her time starts now, I don't think so, honey, K pop. Listen. Nobody wants to listen to You're busted ass music. Everybody wants to listen to American music. Everyone

wants to listen to Canadian music. Yeah't even speaking English, And I know you're from a different country that there's an entirely different language. No, you have to speak English if you want an international fan. Oh my god, just because you can dance synchronicis Lee, I mean no. People like individuality, People like people that can look like Elaine

when they're dancing. Don't try to look like a fucking army No, and I don't think so, honey, Kay Pop, Are you trying to use yourself against North Korea and like trying to use ka pop again like as war related materials? No, honey, don't do that. You are a popular music. You should be for when we are in the club and we are fucking twisted on that to on, or we should be when we are like in a dance class and we're dancing. Don't try to benda and

listen kapop. Just because you look slick and like everyone is gorgeous doesn't mean you're anything. Honey. You ain't ship. You fake your plastic and nobody likes your dumb ass but you. Oh my god, we really just turned Monique against her own taste. Honestly, that's the trouble, honey. You know I love thanks for doing of course, and thanks for coming on the show. Money if you love you so much, so much, where can we follow you out on the ground? Oh, you can follow me on the

Graham or on the Twits. And what's your what's your natal cartete? One word? Give it to me. I am serving out that Natella goodness and we are eating um. Oh my gosh, you guys, another episode of Lost in the goddamn book fucking can honey, we love you so is one of the best story parts of all time. Now that now, now that the episode is over and

the kids are listening again, they wanted some milk. Yeah, parents can bring their kids back into the room and let them know that you get iconic story And she had the benefit a couple of years ago, laid it out in the Creative story. You did you fucking probably gottess and I just want to mention very quickly, Monique and I audition together. Yes, we're in the same call background. Yes, and then look look where we are now we're married

and you're her wife, I'm you're my son. Yeah. Yeah, we love We're gonna raise our last one more time to all of you. Thank you guys so much for listening. Thank you, thank you. Monique. I'm mat Roger Yang. Bye. This has been a Forever Dog production executive produced by Joe Cilio, Alex Ramsay, and Brett Bom. For more podcasts, please visit Forever Dog Productions dot com