Seek Culture 3 LIVE at Murmrr Theater

what religious UNEs are for. Let's just get something out of the way really quick. I lost my voice. Say that again. I lost my voice. So Catherine has home ranged a vocal cords. And I'm not a doctor, but I think that's what happened. She's she's trying to communicate with us. She's trying to tell us something. The only thing I'll do into the mic is kiss what happened? What had happened was Katherine sneezed a little hard this morning, and she's gonna tell it herself. I'm not gonna sneezed

in My chords started bleeding. So this is an amazing UM, I think learned teachable moment for all the young girls and Wow, that are experiencing sneeze as and they're saying was that too hard? Was that not hard enough? Like this is things male doctors don't really understand or talk about stars. They're just like us. Most of when you sneeze, you don't have to perform. Okay, it's for you. We are laughing, but there is pain. Katherine is very sad, but all so we said, this is a true test

of an icon, the performer and obtainer. If you'd still be compelling on stage without making any sound, I mean that's I'm a physical comedian. Yeah, okay, Now I'm mad that she's crushing way harder than all of us with no voice. Um, I don't think she should be allowed to use the machine anymore. Yeah, we have to take something away. Oh my god. Wait, how is everyone machines will win? No one, no, no no one here cares about us.

Catherine wants you to know that machines will win will Um. Well, it's very nice that you all came out to this show seek culture, which is an advice hour and a half. Um, I'm sure you've come with lots of questions. Um, all of your diseases already pre diagnosed, so that we don't have to diagnose them for you. You guys know there is a bar on the third floor, right, Do people know that there's a bar on the third floor. We were, yeah, we were worried that there's there was this sort of

um misconception that this was a dry campus. And yeah, drinking can be amazing, that can be um. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna we're gonna diagnose our own diseases on stage for you in this first section, but then we're opening it up to some the applause on when we said diagnosed our own diseases. We have to be honest. We have to come forward and be honest about the fact that we've been here for I technically scientists just saying only two hours, but we've lived

many lifetimes in the back room here. And it is the rumors are true that me and Bowen, youang, have gotten into upwards of four fights since a vinyard. It's true pitch of Pat's voice backstage when he thought that Bowen had misrepresented him to actually did he actually did me? And I know, and I own up to it and I apologized and it costed me nothing. It cost him nothing costs me nothing to be the bigger person an apology.

But it wasn't the bigger it was the equally sized person because you were wrong and you admitted it, and yeah, I was right, I also admitted at But um, but now our friendship is so strong right now, it's crazy. It's so crazy. We're in an amazing place. We're in an amazing place. We shared, um a dick first hug. Right, we essentially we over the pants, docked docked. We docked just five minutes ago. If you don't know what docking is, um,

it's when to say it with me. On cut, man, only one has to be only one, but it's only one has to be on cut, but they both can be uncut, just for that's for you guys, if you're um, yeah, so and cut an uncut, unfortunately is one of the last remaining binaries. And I just want everyone to be cut and uncut. It's sadly not a spectrum. Not, it turns out not everything can be a spectrum. It's pretty cool, pretty cool, all right? Who's cut? Wait? Okay, either everyone's

that sucking shy. We have a lot of guys and gals in this room. Who's uncut and uncuts you guys, Oh wow, can we give them something a T shirt? Can? And just now as my girls, as you know, we're all family men and girls when we have our children. Ultimately me and Katherine will be raising two children UM together and I will have my own brood that she's not involved with. UM. Do you guys think you'll ultimately make the choice to go to for your kids to cut or to not cut? Oh my god, you know

I just recently asked my I asked my boyfriend. Oh my god. I asked my boyfriend like in a stupid way. I was like, you want kids? He said, no, hard, no, And then he said that's why I have a dog. Do you know how any have any idea how hard it is to raise a dog? And it it does seem like a lot of work. And so then I kind of I was I was like, Okay, yeah, cool, I don't want kids either. But here's the thing. Maybe my diseases that I said I didn't want kids to

appease my new boyfe but maybe I do. So at what point do I didn't want a boyfriend until I lost my voice this morning at ten A. I'm due to me doing a sneeze, and now I want a boyfriend. Ye take care of them, me to care of what's just trying to say is take care of me, take care of me. We will Well, we're taking care of you and everyone hears taking care of Catherine tonight. Seriously, seriously, seriously seriously, um that I think you shouldn't seed your desires. Ultimately,

I don't want a child. Can you imagine me with a child. I can't. I I still get excited about going to Disney World. I would be it would be like we'd be online and they'd be like, we have room for one more, and I'd leave my kids. What I will say about you with I think you would be a better parent than some, but not all, of the teen mom o G but not a reason. I think you would be a better mom than Pharaoh, worst mom than Caitlin, better mom than our worst mom than Ncy,

better mom than Bristol, worst mom than Cheyenne. To wait, can I can I reveal something? I was an intern for Team Mom. To my job exclusively consistent of I stapled their taco bell receipts onto pieces of white paper, and that was how we itemized them. And every single day, there were thousands, approximately thousands of Taco Bell receipts exclusively eight at Taco Bell or Taco Hut or Kent Taco Hut, the moms or the Moms and the entire staff and produption tam Hunt only at Taco Bell or Taco Hut

or Kentacoh. She's trying to communicate with us. I think we need a sign or dance move. That means now I've heard everything. Well, do you want to show us what you think it is? It's like, no, Yo, well what I want to say? Wow? Wait? Did I hear this correctly? That you guys all learned to dance together at steek treatment we were Ultimately what happened was my younger brother shout out, Um, Catherine is staying with me sexually attracted to UM. Really you're the one with the

hot brothers. No trust me, and that's why me and Katherine are pulling our brothers and starting a giggalo survez Um anyways, um at a street sixteen. I believe they invented it dance my younger cousins kind of UM, kind of my gen Z cousins and kept adding moves, and then Catherine took to it and we actually did it as a line dance. Actually, Po's malone, not our live show, like a fish to water. Um, so not anyway, I won't have children. Okay, well what do you want? But

do you want children? Do you want? I want to see a little me, but I don't want children. But you can't see a little you because as gay men, science isn't there yet where we can't have bio kids with our lovers, except for the fact that there was a study that I had a headline of an article about that said gay rats got each other pregnant? Can you the mechanism? Do you want to know something hot? Though?

If me and my boyfriend now had a kid, I found out who it would look like Zach, it would it would look like it would look like Zach Posen, who I think is hot? Is that problematic? But I would want to funk what I think my kid would look like? Yeah, that's actually problematic. Are the very least with what is like? Who do you look like? Um? M oh, I know Elizabeth Taylor? H I know g g Had Did I know Greta Gerwig? My therapist said Jared Letto. H m oh, my god, she's trying to

tell us something. Enough of me. What's going on with my boys? Well? I don't want kids, because if I did, I would suck them. Yeah, what is okay? Shut up? Shut up? I have a question. Do you think in the responsible choice, the most responsible than you could do if you want to suck your kids is do not have has nothing to do with the climate change. It's just about being so narcissistic that you would fuck your

own child in the image of yourself. It's like, I don't want to bring my kids, not in the image of me. It would look like zach poses, right, Okay, I don't want to. I don't want to bring kids into this funked up world where I want to suck them. I have a question. Are there is there's like a psychology term for this. There's there's edible complexes, there's electric complexes. What's the what are the queer little equivalents of that? Or what's the what's the do you mean? What is

the what are the names? When you want to suck your kids? When when you're when you're when you're that's a Mary Kayla Turnout comp a Mary Kayla Turner. What Mary Kayla Turner wasn't related to bil know when I'm trying to make a joke. Yeah, yeah, all right, there's something. There's something I don't think I don't think there's yet

a term for it. It doesn't are you saying, because you said queer, are you signing allergy B t Q. Yeah, and I'm thinking like, but actually it would just be edible and electra if it's like a kid wants to fuck his gay dad and the kid wants it doesn't matter what the I always say that I have gay Oedipus complex because I'm sucking someone from the same state as my dad, and that's guy. Is so a small state. Can't believe there's more than a few people in it.

There's not. Actually there's not. There's my dad and my lover. People you can viably fuck. Okay, So we're gonna so just just so we can set this up and offer everybody this up top, we're gonna move into an audience advice section. So there's a microphone in the center aisle. Uh, people in the pews feel free? How how the pew people do it? And how are few people do what's up the pews? What's up the pew? Are there people sitting in pews. I do think I believe this is here.

I think that's shot down. Jesus just work. And I do think this is a Jewish This place is Jewish places and heat on exast. Okay, we're dealing with Old Testament God here. I think that this they just don't acknowledge. This is ultimately a podcast about theology and about religion versus spirituality, and about Jesus exists. All right, everyone's so, now that's something annoying happened to me. I believe in God again. Now that's something annoying happened to me. I

believe in God again. Wow, So Bowen, should we should we move this into advice? Now? I feel well, let's just go down the line and just let's each talk about what our diseases are. Okay, well, I think my diseases. I want to suck my kids because I think it would look like exact pose. And and I have a crush on Zach Post. Everyone that just walked in. My boyfriend and I I think if we had a baby,

it would look like exact posing. And I would want to Zach pose and Zach Poses my celebrity crush that's been challenging for me and thinking ahead if I want to have children, I just I just want to reflect back to that your disease start and as you wanted up you were start telling your boyfriend you didn't want kids, to place them, and now it changed into kind of wanting to suck your kids. So is that truly what it is or do you know actually to be tbh?

I'm like very happy overall. It's nice. I'm just reaching for something that I think could be a problem and I'm thinking, well, if I had a kid, I might want to suck it. So let's say that suck it. Um, I don't know my disease. Maybe my girls can diagnose your disease. I will say. The way that you treated Bowen backstage was absolutely okay. So imagine this. Imagine this backstage, Pat screaming at Bowen. I was not screaming at Catherine's friend. Don't be mean to my friend. I love my friend

and her machine. What's happening? You don't she never thought she did she did anything she did? Um? What was Pat saying next stage? Um? No, we had a miss on. It started when I got here and someone had brought me quest burns, which I did, never asked for. I asked for them. Bowen looked at me as though I would say murdered his family and said, I can't believe you have them not and wasn't It wasn't even him that literally hot producer Meg dropped off a bunch of snaps.

You don't know, Alex dropped off, we're doing we're falling into his jop. I know we're not gonna fall into your chop. Matt, Why would you do this? Why would you do this towards as Beth is your disease? The prompt was what what are our diseases? And then you looked at me and said, what's my disease? Diagnosed me? You acted crazy fact stage and now you're saying it's because of candy. You have a serious problem. What did you just think of Pat's a little new studdings here.

Oh yeah, wow, it took him a minute. Yeah, no one cares. That's okay. I'm really happy about that. My disease is its fashion. It's fashion. Fashion, It is fashion, well, Catherine said. Katherine said that because a lot of my fashion is and I'll paraphrase stupid um. She said that having the earring kind of makes it seem like everything's a choice, and it kind of elevates that when you do introduce some new element to your fashion, it's a

huge for you. It's a huge deal. Totally. Yeah, Well you told me one time bing that you don't think I should when I get money. You don't think I should change everything. You do think I should just elevate my current esthetic. Absolutely, I didn't totally placed it in terms of money, but I will. I feel like it was responsive to me being like, when I get money, I'm gonna buy own close And you're like, I don't think and he said the words ritorial. Well that's huge

for me. Um, she's trying to tell us something something my disease as I had to wear this gorgeous count to makeup from my wretched help kissed mood, But it doesn't really breathe. One more time, she's gonna go slower, slower, my disease, as I had to wear this gorgeous count to makeup from my wretched help kissed mood, but it doesn't really breathe. You look look amazing. That's not a disease. That's not a disease. That's not a disease. Um, but what's what's my? What's mine? You guys, I don't. I

can't really diagnose. I actually can diagnose you always. I can always diagnose. That's an amazing I think that you should ignore the haters. Okay, I'm actively speaking them out, all right. Yeah, Boone is addicted to going on and seeing what the yand gang is saying about. No, no, no, no, he's addicted to it. It's not it's not no, it's not the end gang um that that that like, I've like sort of made peace with it. And I was like, hey,

I'm sorry. I squinted too much. It was literally my first day wearing contacts and I had to and I had to like, look, I couldn't read the damn que cards. And I also it was a bad impression. Yeah I was bad. It wasn't bad impression. I thought it was good. And also he does squint a little no careful, no hey when when when he when he is getting serious, he kind of does, that's what you fucking did. It

fits you're the fucking races there. I am sticking my neck out for you and you're saying, okay, no, no, no, um, it's it's just everybody, everybody. I'm just I'm seeking it out. It's kind of it's kind of entertainment at this point though, when you go on to Twitter and you say you tell them that you saw it, and they say, actually, God got the bits I've noticed. It's died down. It's died down. No, no, no, no, no, this is this

is it? Um. I I am of the Joan Didion school of thought, where the more you examine something, less scary it becomes. And I'm examining it, and it's what's that? I'm of the Joan Didion school of thought, where the more you examine something, the less scary it becomes. Oh my god? And is that is that you hating what? I just love it? And that's her coming towards you. Oh my god, that's her coming towards what's that? I look books, I look books, book, I look booked, I

look books. I love books. I love books. That's amazing. Cat's amazing. Cat. That's really great. Cat you love books. Oh my god, that's really cool. Cast. Everyone's cool to my friend that you was col Um? Well, what was my disease the first time when we all met that paoful day in Verdog Studios and recorded what was my disease done? I don't remember about Was it about anxiety or was it probably but you used to hate sex? Yeah, and now you love it, bitch, Now you're and now

you're getting fucked in? All okay, stop I have now you always had come in your butt? Yeah, you would know, Katherine, you would know. And he stopped looking up there. She's always looking up my whole. And that's another thing he said. Backstagees he informed us that he had pooped out. Stop stop at Matthew, I have teenage blood relatives in the audience before said please me for once. What before we went on stage, you said please fuck me for once? I did tell please put me for once. But but yeah,

I did say that. I did say that. And honestly, before we came on stage, Bowen did search himself on Twitter, and then that did prompt me to then search all of us on Wicky feet and which and only Katherine is on wiki feet and she has a four point five star rating. Get get your picture of those piggies, guys, show him the piggies bo when you're not on Wiki feet. I'm not one because I think they think they want

bear skin. They want toes I'm gonna I'm gonna start posting pics of my feet and then that's your isn't it? And people people, I can lift my leg wire, but

I am not wearing underwear. That's fair. Um. You know it's a little joke in my bio, I say feet picks for sale, But that that makes it feel like I'm making a joke at the expensive about the feet community thinks I'm hack hack No, oh my god, my friend, no, why why did you You looked at her and you thought that that underwear joke was a you made You made a face you're like, and I just matched you. It was a classic. It was a classic case of classic matching piece in a pod, A piece in a

pod moment between Cat and bo. Absolutely, you know what's crazy? All four of us nowadays are bottoms. Yes, I think that you can make the argument that Katherine's verse I put my finger in a butt. Wow, that's very topish activity. Katherine. She and she did it. She put her finger in a guy's butt on Pride Weekend. Why is everyone crying while I touched the dick? Still? Yeah, you put the finger in his butt while you touched his stick. Still you don't know where to look. He's gonna get whiplash

on that. Yeah. Now, Katherine is a dumb vagina owner. No, she's actually stubby. She's stubby. You can tell because she runs things like a boss in her real life. When the door gets closed and the lights go down, she wants to be taken care of. She's working on it right now. She's working on a five d essay about this on the subject this is gonna be good. She's going to the library for a while to work, and then she didn't come back. I think, are you bowen? What am I a power bottom? I don't think I

have a sexual identity anymore, which is great. Yeah, because you're so that means you get to go on a hero's journey to find one or you're saying it's more nebulous, and it's like, let's see who I meet, let's see what we find together as the partners. Yeah, and I've just I've just dissociated from Like it's like I try to think back on the last time, and I just I can't. I can't remember. So that's fine. He has

a bad memory. It was two days ago. He has amnisia, he had a full or every day he has first dates disease, First State's Disease, and erasing Drew Barrett, First State's Disease. I think it was made up for that movie that I think that it was made up. Wait, Kathin, are you prepared? Go ahead? There we go? Oh oh, I think about during sex is a professor telling me if you walk into my office dress like this, you're going to end up with a cock in your mouth.

So I think I'm a sub. This is my official statement. Oh god? Wait, what is the hottest porn scenario? We know, Katherine's What is your ideal porn scenario that you could find yourself in bon yang that I have to place myself in. Yeah, find yourself in a situation. Now tell us all what is this? No one sounds cool when they say that. I think I sound cool? Well not? Now mine is very well documented. Would you mean my favorite porn or my favorite kind of fantasy? What's your

favorite porn? My favorite porn is anyone can shout it out? Massage, thank you, massage massage. Catherine suddenly misremembers that meets surprised massage to me if it's a thirty two minute video on porn hub dot com forwards, and the premise is it's it's it's part of a larger piece. You can tell because there's a framing device where um, we start

actually inside a therapist's office. Uh, and the therapist is really hot and you can tell in the longer piece of this was cut from He certainly foks a lot, but this is he is not. He is talking to camera actually monologue, and he's explaining his modality for treatment for when he finds a patient who actually is gay. He can tell but the person doesn't want to admit it. He sends this person to a famous massage or mischiuse event.

And so this guy, this like beefy muscily beard guy event goes and he's getting massage from this guy who looks kind of like Denise Richards's husband from Denise Richards's

husband from Beverly Hills Housewives and guys. Have they had this kind of problematic discussion about like the concept of homosexuality as he's getting rubbed down, and they're talking about like if they like guys, and they kind of both agree they don't, and they're talking about they kind of are until homophobic to be honest, Yeah, and so anyways, like he's like definitely oiling, oiling, oiling takes towel off.

Oil is actually in the crack, and it kind of introduces this idea of like what if something touched your crack and then um, and that's kind of even foreshadowing, and then um, obviously it's signed them to flip over. And then we get hands in the crotch and then we get up real close to the face of wall. We're on the crotch and we say, do you like this? Should I keep going? Start making out, go on the

couch and they do riding into Doggie into Missionary. I prefer start with doggie, get it out of the way, then riding not necessarily, but won do it. I think it's the middle, and then I want to end with missionary. Im dissertation vibes dissertation vibes mine is not a specific narrative. I'm just like, Okay, so maybe you guys go on porn hub dot com and h and so did you ever type in hot guys fuck? So okay, so I guess one time I typed in hot guys fuck, because

that's how general I was feeling on the day. And so there's a whole channel called Hot Guys Funk, which is just it's porn. It's straight. I love straight porn. Sorry I'm here, Um, I mean the reverse that the

reverse kids are all right, yeah, exactly. So I love straight porn and I love I love straight porn where the the guys are like they sit it's like a guy on a girl and they're sitting on the couch and they're like fully closed and they're like sitting next to each other, and the camera guys like, so I'm here with Stephen and Kelly. What's up, guys? And they're like hey, and he's like, all right, so how do

you How long have you guys known each other? And they're like, oh, we just I think you just met. And then they're like, oh, for sure, for sure, So Kelly, we've had you, we've we've had you in here a couple of times, we've seen you get realed a couple of times. And she's like, yeah, I for sure have I stand Kelly. And then he's like Kelly his goals. He's like Stephen, y, you're either Kelly or Stephen. That's

that's another binary. That's when they're binary Kelly, and and then and then he's like, Stephen, still, what do you think of Kelly? He thinks she's got like pretty pretty, pretty hot, right, And he's like, yeah, I think she's pretty hot. And she's like, yeah, I think you think. I think he thinks I'm hot. She'll reach his dick he's and she's like, yeah he does, he does. I can, I can tell. And then Ken, it goes like okay, I guess like I'll let you guys just like get too,

let's see if there's chemistry. I love when the camera guy lets them just get to it and see and then there is chemistry and then they fuck, but the camera is fully on the guy's button. It's like not about Kelly at all. It's entirely about like Stephen, like fucking. And it's just like straight porn that's about like these hot,

like hairless straight men fucking women and then the women. Honestly, they're the best actors because they have to do the most to be seen because the scene is not about the sound familiar sound familiar, familiar that most to be seen, the most to be heard, because we mena machines. I watched one recently where the girl came five times and everyone was like, Oh, it's gonna happen again. Like everyone on set gathered around and was like yes, audibly, they're like.

She was like, I can't believe that. I don't like that. I love I think that. I think the crew is just as important as the cast. But I want them just I want them off screen and porn. No, they're all in it together. No, for me, they're not in it together. I think for me it's about the cast. Well, the cast was having the thrill of a lifetime. Also, the way that some people come in these porns, that

wasn't an exaggeration when I did. Look, that's my favorite one is when they go I'm gonna come, I'm coming, Pirate, bid come pirates. Katherine and your machine, Katherine and the machine, Katherine and the technicolor machine. I have to say something. She's gonna drag Pat. Are you serious? I was just listening. For once, you could take a lesson from me. You could take a lesson from me. I know you're going through so much right now, so I'm praying for you.

Oh my god, I thought you guys were like had each other's back. It's crazy. The way you guys just turn on each other. Everyone should pray for me, pray this. This is my fantasy. This it's it's just it's just environmental because um, there's it's gretivibes, it's it's, it's it's it's only fans, just for fans. Videos that um where the apartment has like a lot of greenery and it's like a well, you know how like some of these

amateur videos like the fucking places are dumps. Yeah, that's like, no, you know what I want now on our your time. There's there's just one guy who lives in London and he has this really clean line room and he's got a lot of lush plants and I love that. See I would never want so many plants in porn, but I am. That's why we're so different. Um, it's a red flag if a guy has a nice apport what I want in my own when I want environmentally for well, Kathy made me take your own advice? Is oh my god,

I say take you on advice. It's just kidding that section best section section, I can only come to your mahogany and built in bookcases. I like that. I'm standard chid into it's like that kind of finished basement that a lot of Sean Cody happens in, where it's like the same kind of white carpet sectional sofa. At that sectional sofa can talk. You know, there's a lot of like nice like uh, deck ac decorative accents um deck and deck ac figures and it's deck ac um. I

just blacked out, all right. Now get to the sex. No, here's the thing. The sex can be anything. The only fixed point has to be just the decor and then everything else. It can be so variable. Thank you, thank you. And that in in in a way is verse. It's verse. Now. I think it's time to open it up. It's tidy to open up the floor. You can ask us advice questions about boys, sex, fucking, dating, love or culture. So please that I think it is time to open up

the floor. What's that. It's time to open up the floor. Thank you. Literally you have to because once one comes, they'll come. This is the first brick. I love this girl. HI love this girl, And I love your pack. Thank you. It's very good. I love your pack. Thank you. Um. A psychic told me one of my friends is super in love with me. How do I find out who it is. As told you that one can I ask you a question. Has anything your psychic has told you

ever been real? I don't regularly have a psychic. This was like a free experience. Yea? Was it at a party? And she just was like, by the way and me psychic? Your friends in love? Or was it? I went to a friend's work event and there was a chocolate psychic. There was a chocolate chocolate. He made me drizzle chocolates are about a piece of paper. He looked at it like a rush chest. Did she looks like me in a wig? Like me in a wig? How do we go? Ahead? All right? Keep going? We know we I know that

you said that's it, but we need more context. So there was something was a sort of chocolate psychic looking at a chocolate raw sky. He made us like meditate and then we drizzle chocolates are upon a piece of paper and folded it in half and then gave it to him and that your friends work? Are you? Are you listening to yourself? And you're starting to like you know, I'm the practical one of the four, and it was free.

I really want to stress, So let me ask, are you getting vibes for many of your friends are do you are you in love with then your friends? So then it doesn't matter. I'm not in love with them, this chocolate, the chocolates. Like I said, you're not in love with them, but they're in love with you. Okay, So then what what do you? What's in it for you to find out? I just kind of want to know. I think that's a way for this chocolate psychic to kind of make a really safe guess, you know, like

someone's in love with you but doesn't honor. But it's low stakes. Um, I need the stakes to be higher. But I love your work a still. One thing. One thing, did you come with anyone here tonight? No, my friend broker foot and couldn't come. I sold my ticket than you. But also, police, we have a scalper and if you can take her to down. Can I tell you what I would do if I were you. I would just start like going up to your friends and like kind of doing it like small things, like just small things

to let them know like we can. I can I ask you a question just sort of like make yourself known. You could buy one of these? I would say, definitely buy one of these dresses. Um, now are you only answer you the soas it was safe? Are you G? S? B? Or where are you whatever? It just doesn't narrow it down at all. M M I think um, definitely the dress with hell. Do you have any interest in striking up a friendship with the chocolate piic? No, he's also a fire dancer. I found his instagrams. Can I tell

you what I think? I think he wanted you to be interested enough to go to his instagram and follow him and tell us all that he was a fire dancer so that we all go to Instagram and look for the psychic fire dancer who works exclusively with chocolate, so that he could pop absolutely off. I did not follow him. If he didn't follow him, I think reach for the moon, even if you miss you land among the stars? Is that the psychic where? Oh my god? If you shoot for the movie, I think someone's visiting

us Chocolate. Oh my god. Wait, Katherine, you're not even touching your computer Chocolate Psychic. Great, Katherine, you've exed out of the app. What's your name? What's her name? Leah? Leah Chocolate Psychic. Which of Leah's friends is it? Please give us a sign anything. He's French. Do you have a friend name? Um Joe, No, that was the psychic name. I'm psychic. I'm a little psychic. Oh my god, that just came into I had. I swear to god, you

have never met this woman. I've never met this chocolate psychic that came into my hand. I am so proud of my friend, Leah. I think that we asked, we answered your questions. Thank you for seking culture. But Leah, I want um take a huge dress and ask the chocolate psychic out on a date. If that's not ethically weird because you were his client, he is the one. Okay, we can have our next person to the MI guess it's it's you. It's you. It's you. I love this

girl before me. We love her. Hey. Hey, that's why I sounds like um I am. My question is I'm twenty four. Congratulations, Sorry, it's huge. Okay. My question is it's amazing for you. Hang on to that. I will. I'm twenty four and I'm hooking up with a thirty six year old. What's your take? What? Yeah, I just want to know your opinion. I am Harney, forty six is kind of it's like one of those beautiful like when those ratios like the natural we also work together?

Oh okaya? Is he in a position where he's your superior sa not? Are do you guys work in different departments? Are you were in the restaurant industry? So it's pretty restaurant industry? Is he also? Are you a server? I'm a host's you're a hostess? Okay? What does he do with the restaurant? Is he a chef? He's a waiter. He's a waiter. Would be hot if he was a chef. He wears a three piece suit. It's yeah. Party. Could

he go to Connery School? He could? I was going to ask, are there any hot chefs at your job? Could be a very scary too scary. Well, how do you feel about the thirty six year old? I mean I don't notice it because he's pretty mture for his age in a good way. He I mean, I don't know. He acts like he's more not thirty six. So what we're hearing is it's not that you're mature that he is. Uh yeah, I would say so, I'm pretty much. Is he an actor? No? Cool? That's look, I mean, that's huge.

I made sure of that. Are there are red flags that have nothing to do with his age or like, sure, sure detail those Oh I don't know. Okay, that's what. In a few years, you'll be like having a glass of orange wine with your grandline. You will be like, I used to hook up with this old guy, and that's why we do things. Ultimately, life is about collecting story socks. So I love your talk. It's a good it's a good talk. I would is this is this

sex good? It's great, It's really it's very generous. I may say so like he goes out of his way. He goes out of his way without needing to us. Well, let me say, you seem a very statistic five. Okay, I think we say that we actually as a counsel, I'll say it's okay, we think it's great. So it's okay, it's okay, okay from everyone. When I was five years younger than you, I was sucking someone at my job and I was also in the service industry, and it

was a real thrill. Just make sure that you don't give him your phone number, because in ten years he will try to call you. At four I am telling you that he wants took up with you again. And you will have to block his number. I'll do that. Do that? Thank you so much. Do you approve? No, do you approve to borrow my phrase from earlier? Okay, thank you for speaking culture. Thank you so much for speaking culture towards us. So much for speaking culture towards us. Hello, Hello, Hi, welcome,

make yourself at home. The terrorist over everyone. Um, I actually know my disease. I am still in love with the first person I ever had a crush on. Okay, and so when did you first have that feeling? Oh? Literally like second grade? It's yeah, um, well this is how women's the last time is tom or like high school? Are now I'm a college freshman, you're a college freshman. So thirteenth grade. I'm inte grade grade. So Catherine is actually joking out what grade? But you're actually really a

young person at this point. It's like at this point, at this point, it's like, all right, did you go to your high school? Obviously a question? Okay, was he? Um? Was he at your captain in your in that I was literally narrative kind of except for I didn't go to a single football game. Okay, look, I mean neither didn't Taylor. Was he Um, was he like a like a jockey quarterback type? Yeah, well is there a quarterback for volleyball? Because that's what he was. Yeah, they're called

they're called the spiker. Yeah, oh you're you're so you're a zygo like you'll you will forget about him in like four years. Yeah, really, he won't matter. You will meet someone and you'll be like, oh that guy, Um had nice hair, but now I have a different person hair did It was like blonde, curly hair. It was good. Well do you go where does he go to college? Oh? God, University Wisconsin. Okay, he's gonna lose that hair really quick.

But oh my god, I think, oh my god, I remember the guy that I crushed on in high school. I actually don't remember the guy crushed on in high school because because enough time passes that you just they just get out of your rolodex at a certain point. And yeah, sometimes even relies you hate them. Yeah, do you stand Taylor? I hate her new album. You're not offending me? Yeah, but like Fearless, am I wrote that album? She likes that album. She said I wrote that album.

All right, I'm sorry, he said I wrote that album. Oh wait, Katherine can we can we get ahold of this guy? Can we get ahold of this guy? Can we speak to her? You see, if you can get him on mine? Well, what would you say to him if you let me have the mainframe? What would times? I may see you get out six seconds? I need six seconds? What would you say to him if you could speak to him? Because he might show up? I mean, I have no idea. I haven't said a word to

him since like freshman sophomore year of high school. So what's what you went in Softmore high school? I have been said a word intin sophomore year of high school when he was in my English class and we had to be partnered and it was awful. That was he spoke to him. I wrote you every day for you. Oh my god, I have to say, no matter what this machian says to you, Um, I think he missed his chance. I think that I agree with Bowen that you'll meet someone else for sure. And did you just

did you just moved to the city? Is that? Did you? Yeah? I go to a school around here. Oh great, Oh my god. I want you to know there's actually a lot of single straight guys here tonight totally I bet okay, we have a queue. I think we all believe in you and we want to thank you so much. I still have feelings for someone I met ten years ago and one time I saw them at Zara? Was that helpful? Is that helpful? That is so helpful? Thank you so much,

Thank you so much for so suet you more. Yeah, Hello, hello, Hi, how are you all? I've been laughing so hard and now I climbed all the way down from the balcony down here too. Thank you. Thank you bring word back to your community that she's a girl's girl. She's a girl's girl. Um. So I think maybe I'm trying to like black out when it happened, but I think maybe a month and a half ago, I got stood up

so insane. Thank you, and I just want to know, right it's like very like movie like sitcom, wouldn't ever happen in real life, but then it did. So I want to know if you guys can help me find out what happened to him within a first date? No, it was our third date was okay? So maybe did you check in and say like are you okay? Um? I know I checked gothamss I checked like a lot of things to make sure he was actually alive. But he is because he's sending Venmo transaction. So smart smart,

You're very smart, very smart. You're very smart. That is the realty. That is the real that was and he's not and he's not mendoring people for like, uh, surgery for my car today, no rent, rent, utilities, WiFi, the usual. Yeah, okay, So I think that what you should do is you should showed up at his house or his work. I think I think you should go to his work. I mean, he works at Salesforce. Wait, what was the vibe on the first two days. Was this surprising to you? Yes,

it was extremely surprising to me. He also he was like a nice person. He portrayed himself as a good person. He works at the soup kitchen every Saturday. Oh that's what he told you. That's that's what they do. That's what they do. They lie. Lie. No one a soup kitchen. They don't exist their myths. I don't time. A guy told me he was a pediatrician, and there's no doctors for kids. There's doctors. It was very surprising. Our first two dates were Honestly, I think maybe I am maybe

too intense of a person. I think, um, no, you've seen very good. I'm not that intense, but we you are perfect. Thank you, perfect girls. You didn't deserve that at all. Thank you. I was standing outside of the garret, in where the garret, it's like, where the five guys is there? Did you get five guys? I did? I left my bag a prize. But yeah, it was very It was strange. It was very surprising, and I just I don't know where he could have happened to he he was like, I love five guys. I know I

love five guys too. It was strange. But it's for something like that to happen and for you to try to rationalize that there's no it's a complete, letely irrational to do. So I wouldn't try to trace it back to like you did. I It's not you, I promise it's not you. It's definitely him being an illogical, probably crazy person works at a soup kitchen. Now I have an idea. I think I think that you should veno him fifteen dollars listen and be like, this is the ticket.

This is the ticket to the garrett. Get there whenever you can. Cancelation fee and invoice. I've I've heard of doing that. It feels a little distant though it happened like almost two months ago, my time saying vamo quass I think you should Veno pay him him money for a year of therapy, be like be like for the soup kitchen fund Um. I know I think that honestly, Sorry, no, I said I should. Honestly I should have since, but you should definitely like one of Venmo payments. Right, It's

just enough, It's just passive aggressive enough. Yeah, are even funny? Ob he sounds like a waste. But can I ask you something? Can I ask you something? This will really inform um if this guy's even worth the air we breathe? Um, are the Venmo payments not funny in that like they're not even trying to be just like a sandwich? Or is it like he's trying to be funny and it's not. No,

they're literal, They're exactly what they do. And know I'm on your side with thousand or some, but that is erotic to me when someone's like, yeah, like this is what I'm paying you for and I have nothing comedic to say about that, I'm like, raise my kids. We all agree this. This can be stopped on Venmo. Thank you so much for speaking culture. Thank you. I think we can get through everyone here if it's super quick. If I know us for it'll be super quick. Yeah. Absolutely.

So my first question is why everyone has regular Red Bull not sugar free. It's kind of worrisome. Can you hear you hear? Yes, he's he's calling us out for only having regular Red Bull not sugar What you need to know actually is that we had all sugar free before and there was no more. Okay, So my question is, let's say I work with someone named let's say Bob, and Bob has a boyfriend that's us. Let's say name Jim, and Jim has been hitting me up on dating apps.

What is the move there? Are you friends with Bob? Um? We are work friendly, but not in the way we're like we text outside of work, and obviously is Jim hot? Would be the other question. I mean, I would definitely sleep with Jim and then bring it to Bob. Is like a fun story. Yeah, and that's kind of speaks to Katherine's ethos of kind of collecting stories to how um they seem open. They're open though you know, no no one tv D. It doesn't seem like the person

I work with knows that they are open. If they are, so that don't even call that not open. Yeah, well that not open. And he's also the person I work with is moving to California to be with this boyfriend who's cheating on him? Who is what? Who's Jim who's like maybe cheating on him? Sounds like a fucking mess. And I think you should get all new friends, get a job like Jim, but Jim lives here, but he's moving to California and here, but Jim is hitting up

on dating apps from California. He's like back and forth. People who people who are by coastal who already have a fucking boyfriend, who like try to like dip dip a chip into different bowls, Like, you can't have both coasts and a boyfriend, exactly and beyond. That's the rule of Culture Act. That's the rule Coature number thirty. You can't have both coast East coast West coast a boyfriend picked two ye wait, yeah, I wouldn't touch it, don't engage with it. I mean, are you asking questions? What

would you say? Sorry? Sorry, Sathers Wining in Go obviously East Coasting boyfriend. Oh, yes, I disagree. Oh for me? For me boyfriends boyfriends, says Coast. My question isn't whether or not I should sleep with the boyfriend, because obviously I would do that. My question is should I tell the person I work with? Oh, that's your question, sweetheart. I let him know that his boyfriend's you know, like, should I tell the personal I work with his boyfriend? Can't?

He says? Can I tell you something? I think it's it depends such on the nuance of your relationship with Bob and if you care if he lives or dies when he moves to California will not be good for his a Is he an actor? Ultimately? Is the question? Again? Also, I think you need to stop thinking about this because the more you think about it, the hotter it's gonna feel between you and this guy, and it's going to become unbearable and you're gonna suck him. Sweetie. I feel like,

don't be a randomista, don't get in their business. Don't be a randomista. Don't random don't get in their business. And thank you so much for thanking much. Thank you cole More. Hello, Hello, So I know you said, you wanted this to be sure, but my friends kind of in a complex situation, you might be in this room even actually, but so we started seeing this guy and he makes phallic sculptures. He makes vallet phalla sculptures, not valets soldiers. Great, I hope I sitcom. She's a pax.

Sounds like it would be in a sitcom, but it's real life. He's a really nice guy. I've met him. Okay, but there's this other situation where he had a summer fling and this boy started texting him again and he's unsure whether he should open that can of worms. Well, is the only bad not even bad? Is the only thing about him that gives you concern that he's a phallic sculptor? I mean, is it concerning? Not to me?

I once had a huge crush on I once had a huge crush on someone that did extremely erotic tattoos. Not the same. I mean, don't you have a question, which is that are you involved in this situation? No, I'm not, But you've been sent here as a proxy? Yes, yes, okay, So this gentleman that's here is dating someone who's a phallic sculptor. However, the fling from the summer is now appearing and he wants her. You want to know if

you should open that can of worms precisely? Okay, wait, so wait, sorry, just to clarify, the phallax sculptor is from the summer and now he's coming back or yeah, so the flat no no, no, no no, the fallax sculptor is right now, he is a fall, he's the fall. But another another layer to this is that the fall fling, So we go to sculptu Vagina, we go to so the fall fling is local and the summer fling would

have to be long distance. Okay, so not that. Yeah, it's exclusive with the sculptor the fall sculpture to say, I would say winter is coming. Yeah, I would love to be exclusive with a sculptor. Up. This sounds so manifold and crazy and I'm sorry I'm using terrible words. I think you Yeah, open that canni worms. In terms of like confronting him about this guy who's texting him again, yes, in terms of becoming romantically involved again with Summer Boy.

How good was it was? Summer Boy? Was it good? Where? Yeah? This is what are you waiting by? If he wants to expose himself. I will not explore. I think that he assured were ever you are if you can hear me right now, I think you should. Um, I say East Coast boyfriend's day with the ball sculptor. O. No, no,

that was good. And we want to thank you when this person for speaking coach trying to give my friend Julia shout out because she loves you guys so much and she's been waiting, like for the months since we've had these tickets. She's been excited every single day. Thank you, thank you for the question. Okay, yes, hello, go ahead. Sorry. So I recently match with someone unhinge while in New York. Yes, he's not from New York. He's living in Chicago, moving to l A. We start talking a few weeks ago.

I go to l which is famously part of New York City. Uh, and I go camping with him in Joshua Tree. Um. Not a popular decision amongst my friends. What's so ever? So? I was told you may be killed, you may like come back to us, and they were all very concerned. I do it anyway. It was great. We like hit it off, had the best time. I'm going to Chicago this week. To see him again plot twist. He's not Minogue. I don't know the first time. I don't know, and I guess I am looking for advice,

like do I keep doing this? He's not going to kill me. We talked pretty regularly. So do you think it would bother you to be in a non monog situation right now? And he's in l I have no problem. He's so far away. And but if you're in the same city, like you think that will bump you out? I don't know. I think you should say when we get in the same city, won't we assess you? Also, you're saying where it's like New York, l A, Chicago. I have to ask is an actor? Is an actor?

Is a comedian? No, he's like start up? Okay, he's a startup. It's like a start up. He does like the I don't know. He sets up small companies too, and we all start ups in a way. I'm Australian now this part, we all start up, and we all start up in a this I think, keep seeing him until it feels bad. Yeah, I would always this has this has this has too many layers, and then do it just a bit longer. Thank you? Thank you for speaking. We're gonna just speed round so we can get to everyone.

Speed round. Hi, So this is gonna be for Catherine? Then love it? Love it great? So I oh, okay whatever. Um. So, I was in high school, I had a boyfriend, we dated great. I went off to college, didn't speak to him for three years. I'm now a senior and I got this message from his now girlfriend and I have

no idea what it means. Um context, my freshman year, I was on Facebook looking at his account, and uh, there was a picture of this girl next to him, and she's sitting in her skirt like was sort of pulled up and her legs were together and it looked like her vagina was on the internet. And so I like messaged him. I guess I don't really remember. This was three years ago. And so she messages me this from his Facebook account and i'ven't talked to him three years.

She goes, Hey, Sally, that's me. I needed to let this out, even though it's been three years since it has happened, but I need this to have a closure. F I. I this is Dylan's g F who's vagina was on Facebook? Were you yeah? Yeah? Were you were you a dumbass or needed glasses because of your miserable soul back, needed an outlet, whatever fucked up ship happened to you, you felt like you had the right to

comment about someone you didn't even know. Just letting you know that you can reflect on yourself in your words so that you won't do that to someone else in the future. Sending you prayers that you will learn self love. Yeah, so that you won't be so toxic to other people. Yeah, So, like, what what's that mean? What's that mean, Sally? This girl needs so much treatment. If you're ignored nor never change, ignore her, ignore her? Oh yeah, you know you don't.

Don't engage you do you don't have to respond? That's bad? Oh God? Or answer her question? Are you a dumbouk or need and everyone? To me, I'd be like amazing to meet you digitally. I am a dumbass, but I have to be honest with the fact that I've seen your vagina on Facebook dot com. Yeah yeah, Oh, hold on one more thought. Anyone who uses Facebook is spiritually sick and needs go. Thank you for culture. Thank you? Wow? Okay, math Part math PARTA. I'll try and be really fast Okay,

so outline, m hm, really fast bullet point. I'm best friends with this guy. Yeah, Um, he has a serious girlfriend. While he has a girlfriend, we accidentally kind of fall in love. Okay, accidentally in love. It's accounting Crows song, so we know exactly what you mean. He breaks up with his girlfriend. After they break up, Um, we all go out drinking together, and he and I spontaneously decided to get a hotel room together. Okay, what to get

a hotel room together? They were broken up, they're broken up. A week later, I find out that he's talking to his girlfriend again and they're probably going to get back together. Is he a scumbag? Or is he just confused? I gotta be honest with you. Yeah, but are you? Are you? Mad am? I mad about which part? You don't even seem that bothered? You look fucking cute. You're out of

the show in this audience. There's so many straight guys here, who are you ready to absolutely mingle and crush and slam? I just said a dog whistle was counting Crows. They're so fucking horny right now. All the straight guys in here are so hard, I said, counting Crows, And you you can hear the dicks rise cheer. Is you straight? Cheer? If you're a straight guy. If you're here, my god, thank you for a speaking culture. Thank you so much, straight man. This question is for Pat. I am so

glad I got you? Are you glad you got me? I think we shared in the voice where we all turns. We hear a question we want to advise on. We turn around. Oh that's for next show. Next we're doing the voice. I'm sorry, this is your moment you had the floor. Okay, So last year, I'm fortuning tested positive for HIV and I immediately after I went on my apps and changed my status because I'm honest, And within

a couple of days of doing that, I started getting solicitations. Um. Yeah, And the issue I'm having is, you know, some of these guys are kind of hot. I probably wouldn't get them in a million years, and some of them have offered me money. Okay, are they like buck chasers? Basically? Like yes, like they're they're they're they're negative. But I get I get these every I get two of them a week. I'm scared. How does that make you feel?

I don't know how to feel about it. Like it's I try to be non judgmental about people's sexual interests, but I'm always I'm always saying, they're typing to them. Why you know what I would do? It's impossible to know. That's such a unique situation. I think that, for one, I think you should just take a break from it so you understand your relationship with your with what your situation is, and then when you know how to even feel at it, you can start dealing with it again

if you want to. But I think, like even the fact that you're a little confused about how you feel about it and it's a sensitive thing, I would just block it out for a little bit n till you have some more clarity. All right, Yeah, thank you, that's so thank you. Last one, hie. Hi guys, before I start, can I take a selfie with you? Yeah? Thank you? You look amazing. Thank you. If I I said no, okay, so you all might be unqualified to answer this, Okay,

Cat might be the most thanks for coming. Cat might be the most qualified because she was b for a little bit on New Year's Eve. She was I'm in theory, not in practice. She was open to it. So I am b and I'm recently out of a relationship long term relationship with a man, and I want to casually date women. But all of the lesbians in New York love monogamy, so I need advice on how to find a casual female lover. Um. I literally see a raised

hand and someone someone be commoted to become friend. To get the case, people, I know that's not the only JUNI lesbian up in here tonight. I mean, congratulations on, congratulations on being ah, yes, this is this is not pejorative a slutty by person. That's that's like like the

world's your oyster. I they love monotomy, but that doesn't preclude you from like having sex with him and then not paying attention to them after hers right it is to take into account their feelings this much, Oh my god, I mean people get away with it all the time. And for you, as a queer woman to exercise that revolutionary I say, duett, break as many hearts to see

and then go talk to her. It's also not your problem that they didn't understand when you say that you're like, just fuck him and just just be up front, just like, hey, I'm I'm I just got out of a relationship with with the student. And I think I'm just I think I want to do a fun little tour and that's that's it, you know. Yeah, I keep getting friend zoned when I say that. Really after after after you hook up, though, don't just just just don't bring it up until afternoon.

Oh my god, there's nothing I've done with you a truth teller, thank you. There's there's nothing like inethical about that. Unless they say, before you woke up, do you want a relationship? I can't tell you for forty five minutes. Wow, that's long. Um, well, I think I think that's it. That's my honest that's my honest answer. Have less of a conscience that sure cares taking dank dank anky Dan, thank you for culture. Okay, I think this is this is this is the time of the night where we

bring on a guest. We bring a guest on stage, um, and they're going to give us advice because we we we in our first act we didn't really we explore each other's diseases, but no one really ever gave us or conferred upon us any advice. So you could almost say we didn't accomplish anything in the first section. So at this time, we are going to be welcoming to this stage a very special guest of ours that's going to give us some advice and give you all advice

really truly by proxy. He is a Tony Award winning actor. Um. He was just in the Netflix show The Politician. Um. He's just a lovely, lovely person. Please welcome to the stage, Bena, Mr Bad Yeah Ben, what Oh my god? A throw Wow. I just want to say that I feel really at home because we are in a house of Jewish worship yea um. But at the same time, I feel really sad because if this was an Orthodox house of worship, all the women would have to sit up there. I know, lady,

and I don't like that. Ladies come down from there, Ladies get down from there. It's nineteen Uh. Well, I guess before we get before we really get into it, do you are you taking treatment or seaking culture for anything? You know what? Yes, it's a mutual jerk, yes, sure. I mean it's kind of a weirdly specific thing that I'm like seeking. I'm in this weird kind of moment

where I, for the first time have like some agency creatively. Um, and I'm trying to figure out like how irresponsible it is to purely only do things that like make me very happy and fulfilled as a person, but aren't necessarily like the smart moves to make, or to only be making the very smart moves that I'm acted to make by the people around me, if they're not sort of as fulfilling to me as the like other stuff. So I'm just trying to juggle those two worlds. So we'll

just quickly give you career advice. Yeah, yeah, because I want to be where you are. Okay, Cathol's type while she's going off, I feel like it's like I'm trying to think, what if I were as talented as Ben Plat, well, would I do? I think I would do literally anything I wanted because it doesn't matter because like even if you were to do something that wasn't like there was a little off the beaten path or whatever, you could

always come back and literally do anything you wanted. Because I think you're in a unique position of being talented at everything. And I think, um, well, it depends like whose career. I think you look at other people's careers, like for me, I would like when I think about like a career aren't like Amy Sedarius is so appealing because it feels like she truly does whatever she wants. Are a sus Jerry. He's a combination of David Sedaris. Let me, no, you're not. He's wrong. He's talented, but

that was wrong. I think it sounds fun to be able to like pay run to like a nice place, but then also like be quirky over once. But is it like an either or situation, like purely or is it like a is it like I'm trying to think of a good example, is like a Natalie apartment who does like one for you one for me? Altern can you do a Mark? It's an option to a Marvel movie every four years. Yeah, when Marvel calls me, I'll

let you know. But it hasn't happened. Is that option now where you like, you do one thing that's like fulfilling for you and then you just you set some powdern around it? I think, yeah, I think so. I think that the thing I keep running into is that when I say the thing I love, the thing fills me up or whatever. Usually I mean theater and musical theater, and that requires like at least like a six seven month situation so I'm just trying to like not you know,

be an idiot, but also like do what I love. Yeah, anyway I feel do you feel like, yeah, well Catherine has a whole thing. Oh my god, I'm so excited. Here we go. Thanks for asking, Ben Plat. My advice is to do whatever you want, whenever you want to do it. That's what I do. And now I'm typing on a computer near some of my best friends on stage in Brooklyn. Anything is possible. That being said, musical

theater is life ruining. H Yeah, So is there is there anything that you want to do that's like absolutely freaky? Like if if if you told us right now, we would be like, oh that is that legal? No? I wish really, I mean, do you have any suggestions? But no, I thought you were like like, I don't know. Like sometimes, do you guys remember on American Idols Season one? Um, do you guys remember Ryan's starr? Okay, do you remember here Ryan? It's a she is stupid bit. Her name

was Ryan with two ends Star with two rs? And do you remember when she she did the first few weeks and Simon Calli said to her, you could be Britney Spears and then she came out and she's saying, yeah, you really got me now, and she didn't like like that, and she got out. So what I'm saying is, don't take risks, be Britney Spears or else you're gonna be Ryan Star and you're gonna be shooting up in bed because you your face finally flushed because some fags said

your name in Brooklyn tonight. Just kidding, take risks, it's me Ryan Stark. Anyway, then I think I think you've already I think it's this is this is going off with Matt, what Matt was saying earlier, but maybe it's adding this extra thing where I think you've already established yourself in a very very very very very good way, an impressive way. And I think you can't straight too far from that center. I mean, no matter how far off you've hear, that's always going to be accessible to you.

Just keep just just do what you want and then if it feels wrong and then you just you just just change. Yeah. Or I think, um, something about my gorgeous human brain, which say it with me belongs in a trash ball. Um. I think the idea of like if I was if I was you. I wake up one day, I'm like, okay, I'm randomly Ben Plat, I would um uh and someone and someone like even Bowen Yang was like, don't straight from the course like that

would make me. I would be like, actually, like I'm going to do something psychotic, you know what I mean? Like um, I was saying, he can straight from right right right, but you'll end up back on some like it'll all look looking back, it'll all make sense. I think there's like one thing you really want to do that you should do it. But if it's like nothing and it just would be to be random, then don't. Thanks you guys, Yeah, don't be a random mista. Um Ben,

do you have advice for us? Please be as candidates. Can I get like an area or like a question or like what you're like, yes, should I have children? Here's the thing, given what you said before, I feel I could get into some legal trouble for saying yes. But I know, but you're you. I think you'd be a wonderful dad from the little that I know. Can

I tell you something. One of the things that is like a weird thing I think about sometimes is I actually I do feel like I I know, and so I know that there's kids out there that like need a dad and so, and some of my best friends are adopted, and so I just feel like it kind of makes me feel like, why would I not if I'm able to and capable of doing it, Why would I not give a child a loving home? And I know that, like with the way that I feel about

the things I care about, I know I would. I would obviously commit to being a father, like you can't just be a father. And it's like, well, this is my Tuesday through Wednesday thing. Um, but it's it is like it is, but it is a thing. And it's like he said he didn't want children and I was like oh, and I was like, well I don't want kids either. But then it's like is that a selfish way to think? And then ultimately am I like a

selfish person? Blah blah blah. I don't think I would have like a natural child because if you're gay and we aren't rats, Yeah, but what I a child with you? Yeah? I have a child with you? Yes, Kelma or an your child? Kel So, I don't know. It's it's it's interesting to think about do you have a child with Katherine, I would, but I have to have with with Beanie Felstine first. Yeah, Beanie first, And then you get in

line Cohen, do you want children? Here's the thing, really really badly and I always have and like the only thing I've known that I wanted to do besides like sing around and beyond people's stages, is like be a father. But now I feel like a deep existential terror of like can I bring a child into a world that is slowly ending? I know that's a thing, that's a thing,

but you wouldn't be bringing it in. I feel like gay Manner in a position where it's like you're it's almost a gift to be able to adopt a child because there's so many children in the world. You need families. That is true. That is true, so hopefully yeah maybe, um and we get that. In writing, Katherine has a question should I get a boyfriend? Child? You want to get my voice back? The first part where should I what? Should I have a boyfriend? Should I get a boyfriend?

Should get a boyfriend? And how do I get my voice back? Um? Don't only if it's like undeniable you should get a boyfriend. I feel like if if you wake up in the morning feeling anything other than all I wanted to do is be with this person. Then like, no need to have a boyfriend. I think I'm trying myself also to get like more comfy in the gray area. So I think, like, live in that area until your

heart is saying, honey, no more living in the gray area. Um. And then about your voice, I mean, get a good n T. We talked a little bit about who your e n T is. I don't I've never heard of him, but he sounds lovely. Um. Um. If there's one thing, Yeah, if there's one thing I know, it's my e NT. I spend more time in there than anywhere else. He lives around the corner for me. Um, A lot of water, a lot of quiet. What you're doing now is amazing, And the fact that you have the talents and faculties

to still be incredible without your voice is amazing. Catherine almost wasn't kind of come, and we were all I come. They would have been so mad if you didn't come and enjoy this time of silence and joy. I had to be silent for a couple of weeks because of a very similar thing. I had to pole up and I found that I like observed things about my friends and family that I had never noticed before because I couldn't be opening my mouth all the time. So I

feel very connected. And Manuka honey, yes, Manuka honey, that's correct. It's very good for you. Um what do I do about what I do about seeking out like specifically bad like negative feedback about myself? You want it? Well, no, it's not that he wanted. It's just but it's just that, like it's it's like this I can't help you with

because I'm the same way. Like if if I read like ten things and one of them is bad, the only thing I think about is a bad one, and I look for more like that, Like when the politician came out and I was reading like some people saying things all over on line. Then one person was like, that guy looks throughty. He's not in high school. And then and then I literally searched in Twitter like Ben Plat two and just like anything and somebody who is five years older than Ben Platt, I feel like those

comments are pejorative to me. Your ageless stop that right now. I think it's in our nature somehow to want to know, like I think I always want to have the information rather than to imagine what the information could be, because it's always worse. Whatever imagine in my head is always worse than the reality, even if the reality is like shitty. Um. But if you're so, if we're already doing this, then like,

what is your coping mechanism around this now? Because I don't know how to like, I think I'm just getting a thicker skin and that's good, but I'm also like, but I still think about it constantly. Here's my like,

um coping like healthy coping mechanism. It's just like a like really paying attention to the nice things and also the people that I actually who's who are in my life and whose opinions I really do value, and my friends who will like tell me the truth, be like that was shitty or like that was beautiful, and like really tell me to my face. And then the bad coming mechanism is that I'll look at whoever's account it was that was mean, and I'll find out that they're

either not very intelligent or they love Trump. Yeah yeah, it's beautiful. Yeah he um, I don't know how do I um stop right now? So I'm gonna be really vulnerable right now kind of if we can have um all the everyone pass out some tissues, that would be amazing. I don't know. I've been freaking out lately about my physical pearance because my belt wouldn't fit even this night that we are in and I just wanted to vote

less emotional energy. It's been like a lifelong fucking struggle to like and it's so weirdly tied up in gay I don't know if you've ever heard of it, and um, I just don't know where it began or how to get. Every time I think I'm doing better with it, I'm like, oh my god, I've only like beaten the ship out of myself in my head for how I look for the past like thirty six hours and I don't know

how to stop. And my therapist is name Daniel, and he only sometimes is helpful, and whenever I excited a question to him, he says, what do you think that I asked if he watched to be a Housewives? And he You're gonna get a load of this. He goes, what do you think if I watch for Housewives? And I was like, I don't know, Daniel, I'm trying to

be a human for one. So to all of that, I mean, all I can say, I think is that I see you and then I feel the same way, and then I have the same experience and the body just smore feels so real, and that like from where I'm sitting, you're very beautiful and very handsome, and that means nothing because that's the response that you get when you ask something like that. And I feel the same way.

And I feel like I dissect my appearance as well, particularly because I'm like on camera and things like that and like pictures and like I think digital stuff in

my face and I'm on the web. Yeah no, I know we have podcasts, but I mean, because then the voice comes in where it's like, of course, then plasts gonna say that we're on a stage in front of seven Hondo, like he would have to be have a true so psychopath to be like you know what I mean, Like those voices all keep undermining everything you think and then you're like, oh my god, it's literally too hours later, and um I'm late to murmur and bo and young is gonna be mad at me when I get there.

But whatever, I just I don't know how to make the voices stop and I'm pro exactly trying to make me stop lifting up my shirt in public, and uh it doesn't. I have a joke in my stand up where I stay Prozac is supposed to help my body just morphia, but I'm gonna place for either prozact doesn't work or my body looks like that. Do you mean lifting up your shirt in public to like check yourself?

It's like a weird o c D where I I never thought I had o c D because I'm a slovenly pig who lives in Felth, but um, I um have all these weird o c D things like checking, like I have to check all the time. Me too, Me too all the time. And after like I've eaten to like some like a meal or something. It's always like before I go to bed, just like where where where? What's the status? Quote? Now? Like where are we at today?

Which is awful, but like it's when we have you know, I mean I can't speak for like who you're sort of comparing yourself to you, but for me it's like I look at like you know, Timmy shallow May and Lucas Edges and like all of these beautiful anti l Gore, you know, like all these very beautiful and for man and you feel like either I need to be like stacked or need to be like a pin, right, Yeah, And I just was running a lot, so I was like, Okay, I guess probably going with Pin for the summer. But

now and then I hurt my friends. I can't runtil my should I go for stacks? Like should I pay blank Fitness back to actually like oh them? Um um? But yeah, it's one together, like the every day I was talking to Katherine's lover and he was like, well, how small are you trying to get? And I was like, it's not about small, Like, uh, it's like right now, I'm closer to Pin than Stacks, so we should be small. But if I was trying to be stacked, then it's like we don't have to be small, but like we

better have shoulders. I feel like the answers that you and I should just go out and eat together, Like I feel like that's the answer for both of us. Yeah, I would love that. Uh yeah, I just do a lot of people feel like that. It honestly makes yeah, right. I think probably every human being looks in the mirror and they're like, well, no, and I every day it's hill in the cool way. Yeah, but I always I always feel like no one's looking at you as closely

as you were looking at and that's you. And Kather knows my stance on this is whenever you're like, I think that personates me, and everyone's like, no one's thinking about you as much as you are. I'm like, I spend my entire day thinking about other people and if I hate them or not. So it's like, you don't invalidate me, bitch, absolutely cut me off with the nag

people say. One time sometimes someone told me that gave me that advice, and then we went on the next second to talk about how this girl was being annoying with her dog and the place me just where, and I was like, someone's telling that girl right now that no one's thinking about her the dog, and they're wrong. They're wrong. People are thinking about you. I'm sorry, it's

an ugly true. Everyone's thinking about you all the time, Okay, but specifically this stuff though, this is I think this is probably like all pseudoscience stuff like armchair analysis nonsense, but I think like limbic brain stuff where it's just like you're it's lizard brain stuff where that that's just telling you that like you're worth This is like Martha beck kind of right to the bonus, pointing towards Tammy

Seger in the front row. We're all renounced therapist. Is this like kind of Martha Becky where she's like Nate like like literally draw out a little tiny lizard and that is your lizard brain like feeding you like disgusting thoughts throughout your day about yourself. Name it, draw it,

characterize it. You cannot take it seriously. And then like it's perched on your shoulder like it's whispering like shitty things to you all day and you you literally just like brush it off as often as you can because there's no there's no use in like holding onto it. This is actually anti Jone diddion. There's no use in

holding onto it and examining it. It's actually you just you just you just brush it off and there's there's no function in like holding It's this and this is burnet brown stuff, where it's like there's there's there's no use in like people are gonna fling sh it you from the cheap seats all the time and there's no use in picking it up and looking at the ship. You just let it, let it, don't even let it hit you, and then when it does, just let it slide off. There's no there's no use in just picking

it up. That's the medicine for your own disease. But that's so interesting about lizard because, um, because I told Catherine the other day in a car, I said, if I had Virginia gave me three wishes, one of my wishes would be that lizards didn't exist because I hate lizards. You would say that I met, lizards are not snakes. You're fucking wacko. Yeah, if I had to pick one to not exist, to be lizards and no until lizard brain, Can I just ask an irelevant question because I always

wanted to ask. I I know two of the answers because I got to find out earlier today. But what are our caton pats um Hogwarts houses? So how do you know? Yeah? Mine, I think I can be a Slytherin for sure. Um. I then I have like raven cloth because I'm so quick. Um. And then so it's hardy. I think the one that I know that I'm not is Griffin door and I'm okay with that. Um, I only say Hufflepuff because I am guy, but I mean,

but besides that, I think it's like routing out. I would be like raving horr Suther and raven horror slyther End. I think ultimately raven claw. I would agree you think he's a raven Claw. Yes, if those are my two options, yes, sorry, I am a Hufflepuff and my Slytherin just came out and it's in there. I think I'm huff. Ben is a Hufflepuff. People think that Slytherin means you're mean. It's justus ambitious, loyalty, bravery, connect, connect strategy. I think him.

Catherine says, I think I'm Griff. I would say you have griff energy. Being a Leo was very Griffin. Door Scorio. What do they say? What is the say about Katherine? Everyone shout out, shout out the signs that you think everyone is Catherine, Matt okay, Pat, Oh my god, are we the four Houses or Hufflepuff, Slytherin, Ravelo gorgeous? That's amazing, that's actually amazing. And Ben is our headmaster, who is not Dumbledore. Dumbledore. I can feel God and here didn't

know it. I can feel God in here tonight. That's like reminiscent of when I said, is one of your friend's named She's beautiful? She's beautiful? Is beautiful? I think? I think wait, hold on, weight, I feel psychotic about something that I've been dating someone for five months and I was like, what about kids? What the fuck is that? Yeah, that was kind of what we were all thinking. I feel like a lesbiyan Um. Okay, they moved so fast.

I do that. I'm I'm a Charlotte. I'm a Charlotte for like a sex in the city Charlotte to pick out the China right away. You move fast, very That's what I'm trying to not do that. Now you're trying to stay in gray zone. So if you're trying to stay in Grayson right exactly, and you're already Jewish, so that's fun exactly. Someone. Yeah, everybody in my family has been married so far in order and like had children

in order. I'm talking like extended family cousins, Like if you line them up by age, it's literally gone like in order. So like I better hurry out. Oh my god, why when was your last relation? Oh my goodness, my last like proper relation ended like in like summer of last year, and it was a long distance situation with an Australian person, so very long and you don't get longer than that, you don't. Me and Katherine get very angry when someone very easy lead and having an oshaw

lover is the lead. Yeah, you know what the thing is about Charlotte's. The reason they're so Charlotte is because they have a side of them that's Samantha, I thought, And they're scared of their Samantha side. Are you identifying with this very much? So? Yeah, bitch, And that's why I'm like, I should have kids first time because the Samantha and me is like, for some reason, I thought you were gonna say Charlotte, Charlotte's know that they have a side pony towel. I was like, I'm never I

didn't think it was about hair. I wish I could do a side pointy tail. Oh my god, what I would give to wear my hair a high. I had my nails painted for Halloween and it's the first time I've had color on my nails and now I never want to not have color on my naise I loved it. My toe nails are currently teal really yes, show for Wiki Feed. Should I do on my foot? No, I'm not. No. Who here's a who. Here's a little piggy freak. Do you love little piggies? Oh my god, envy a sound?

Um Anyway, I'm so happy we found out our real houses. Yes, and I love and I love me with black nails is really fun and it makes me not bite my nails, which is amazing. Yes, me too. I'm really I bite a lot. These people stand back Calvin colored nails keeps you from biting them, that's and that's why. And that's every one day at a time. Babe. Yeah, it's one

of those like dog cones of cosmetics. Yeah, it is. Um. Well, I think I think it's time for us to really close out the show with something that could be beautiful. It could be a disaster, could be both. And I think we're gonna sing a song to Ben. We're gonna sing a song to Ben, and I just want to see thank you for accepting that in a machine now welcome, Hey, listen,

thanks for coming to see Culture Alive. This is really fun, and thank you Ben Platt for being our esteemed Tony winning guest who can do whatever projects he wants because he has longevity in this town. She's got longevity. Um this this show tonight was really about people coming together and about two podcasts coming together. So this is a song that really explores that theme. Sure does and justin

ay ready let's hit it. This is a song called to become One Scary Spice ginger by Sporty Spice, Hash Spice, Baby Spice Soul Forever, dream of you and together, say you beleeve, They believe me, your mind down, danger bee for real, don't be stranger. We can't achieve it. We can't achieve Come on, it'll be closer men, get it all, get it all. Tonight is the night when to be Come on, baby, I had a little Now I'm back far.

We're a baby at your star its breath. It's the only way to be set the games if you play in empty words, we both and work it out. Boy. Let's work it out boy, anyway to or then girls a good together, take it all, leave it, take it a lead you as good as I remember. Get it off, Get it off. Tonight it's the nice when to be. Come Oh, I want to make love to re a baby No, this is gonna sound so bad. That's just it. Free. It's the only way to be Yes, everyone, check your

own diseases. This is the condom party. Here we go. Be a little bit wiser, be put it on. Put it on, because tonight it's the night when you become never laugh Before I loved you, baby, I had a little love. That we have famous that shuts staring free. It's the only way to be latus here everyone, thank you so much. My name is bow Again. I'm not rogers him. Hurry again never Forever. This has been a Forever Dog production executive produced by Brett Baum, Joe Cilio,

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