Matt and Bowen, at their lowest, fat, nasty and broke, careers in shambles, come on this bitch mad as hell in an apartment with no A/C to complete what they set out to do: finally reveal all the categories for the Las Culturistas Culture Awards (#LCCA). They also dicuss Natalie Wynn's Contrapoints and apollonion (Natalie/Squidward/Rosario Dawson) vs. dionysian (Mila/Spongebob/Daphne Rubin Vega) personality types, how YouTube landing pages reveal what's in your soul and drag you and your interest...
Aug 11, 2021•2 hr 32 min•Transcript available on Metacast You'll feel truly ~vaccinated~ after this ep of Las Cultch, in which the boys and the volcanically talented/criminally insane Sarah Squirm discuss literally the funniest things they've ever seen (Reno 911: Miami, some shit from Shrek, news anchor fails, etc.), the power of identifying as annoying, epic fails!!!! (our thoughts are with the grape stomping lady, Scarlet who took a tumble and the two girls who got involved with the shit in a cup), practical special effects, sci-fi make-up and creati...
Aug 04, 2021•2 hr 37 min•Transcript available on Metacast The time has come...for the girls to do...what they set out to do. Mila (Matt) and Natalie (Bowen) get together to finally announce the categories for the long-threatened Las Culturistas Culture Awards. It is the most ambitious event in Las Cultch history, and we want YOU, the readers, to be a part of it. Campaign! Act like publicists for who YOU want to win. Before they get to all that, the two hosts discuss getting sick but not with Covid, Gaga and Tony: One Last Time (we are going!!!!!!!!!!),...
Jul 28, 2021•2 hr 46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Meet Cecily. She is a 525 lb. father of three and the star and producer of the incredible new musical comedy series Schmigadoon! on Apple TV+. She's also CECILY STRONG, baby!!! Matt and Bowen are joined by one of the best to ever do it who is a recent Emmy nominee for SNL and truly a dream guest for Las Cultch. Cecily shares what it was like to stage and perform the numbers in her new show, work with the fully insane cast (Chenoweth, Dove, hot Aaron Tveit) and sing live, "Les Miz style". Also, R...
Jul 21, 2021•2 hr 41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Two lil bros are absolutely on their Charizard in this episode of the podcast Las Culturistas, and an honest conversation is had. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 14, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Technical difficulties in the Dominican Republic iconically keep Bowen from recording this week, so Matt's other soulmate and fellow Gay Cold Survivor Joel Kim Booster jumps in quite literally last second to co-host a culture catchup that the readers de-SERVE despite the fact that Matt is not one of Joel's favorite friends (because of race). It's a lot of gay nonsense and also deep dives on these topics: RIP to T'Challa Samuels, Erika Girardi's potential guilt, Black Widow, Loki, what we're doin...
Jul 07, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Transcript available on Metacast After this past weekend hit them like a ton of bricks (Bow more so), the jester besties share their thoughts on the chaos of Pride, and how the new tradition may actually be to Be a Bitch to Any Old Acquaintance In Your Immediate Vicinity This Pride. Reflections on the already-historic/histrionic Madonna Boom Boom Room party take up their necessary space as the boys talk about the expectations vs. reality of any situation, but particularly how it hits different when you smoke some wild-ass reefe...
Jun 30, 2021•2 hr 37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coming to us from a literal underground opal mine in Australia, it's actual icon and genuine world treasure Alan Cumming!!! What?! And! Anyone that thinks you can't pull together a top notch Las Culturistas episode with a guest on the other side of the damn globe?! Eat it! We talk the recent Eurovision victors, what Pride means lately, the need to choose fun over darkness in both life and work, highlights of working on Spice World, Spy Kids, X2, Cabaret and Josie and the Pussycats, how Americans...
Jun 23, 2021•2 hr 37 min•Transcript available on Metacast If you had told Matt and Bowen when they were arguing years ago at the Emmys about "who was the Busy and who was the Michelle" that one day Busy would be on their gay little podcast, they would have eaten their hats! Well yum yum yum I hope the boys have a hankering for their own damn caps because Busy Philipps is here on Las Cultch! Talking about everything! Becoming a goddamn math teacher during the pandemic, raising brilliant gen-z children, how Blake Shelton actually has "the sparkle" in per...
Jun 16, 2021•2 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Readers? This episode is gonna be perfect for you. It's a hot, sweaty threesome of an ep with the luminous and hilarious Celeste Yim (SNL), who is a straight up film festival brat, former prodigious torrenter, and low key roast master that Matt and Bow are simply tickled to have on the damn show! On this ep, JUNO as both a script and film, and extended flowers-giving to Diablo Cody, Jennifer Garner and Elliot Page. Also, Jennifer's Body and Whip It! as underrated pieces of cinema, the moments th...
Jun 09, 2021•2 hr 42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Unfortunately the boys were rode hard and put away wet by their respective Memorial Day Weekends. But that doesn't mean they can't catch up on the Cultch. Mare of Easttown finale? Discussed in full, babe. Turn back to avoid spoilers. But spoiler alert for this episode: we fucking loved it. Also, Friends reuniting, the reboot of In Treatment, Legendary's new season, RHONY thus far, Olivia Rodrigo's SOUR and the music it brings back from our youth, how cocaine is not "That Girl" and when to avoid ...
Jun 02, 2021•2 hr 58 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is a re-release of a CLASSIC Las Culturistas episode: This week Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp join Matt and Bowen to discuss the sexuality of "DOD," living in your doms parents house, and the eternally relevant and eternally gay debates: The Rosemont vs. Metropolitan and Fire Island vs. Palm Springs. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
May 26, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Las Culturistas is proud to say it's the podcast that introduces poppers to our guest on this god damn behemoth of an episode, Nikki Glaser!!! The one and only. Listen, to get into the ins and outs of anal sex and also partake in a full Swiftie convention? We hope that's why you come to Las Cultch! That bullshit, how self-care actually *should* be trendy, the impact of Conan O'Brien on Nikki as a comedian, meeting your heroes and keeping your faculties (or not!) while doing it, and spending mone...
May 19, 2021•2 hr 43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Listen, flops. People throw the word "legend" around. Okay? And CHER...is a legend. But today we welcome queen jester NON-flop, the one and only Bianca Del Rio! Moment in time alert! Matt and Bo are honored to welcome one of drag's finest to talk livin la vida Palm Springs, hosting Drag and Drive this year, and Bianca's chosen superpower: being an absolute c*nt. Also, the fall of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the set pics of Nicole Kidman in the Lucille Ball biopic, how it feels to ru...
May 12, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast This one's chuck FULL of the good stuff. The "good stuff" in question is, of course, culture and our guest Shalewa Sharpe, host of the new podcast The War Report (new episodes every Thursday!) is a damn expert on it. From the straight camp of Meat Loaf to the pop stylings of Ashlee Simpson and the aesthetic design impact of the recent premium streaming services' logos, there is nothing Shalewa cannot culturally dissect. She and the hosts get into it about Sesame Street and ask the hard questions...
May 05, 2021•2 hr 42 min•Transcript available on Metacast We've been waiting forever for this...this is the night. That night, you ask? Well. it's the one where Matt & Bowen RETURN TO THE STUDIO for the first in-house recording with a guest since the god damn pandemic began. And you KNOW we got D'Arcy Carden, a Las Cultch legend, to join the girls to talk all things c-u-l-t- bitch, you know the rest. Why even tease it any more? Get started listening with those ears, darling dears! The LC energy...has returnt. Learn more about your ad-choices at htt...
Apr 28, 2021•2 hr 55 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2021 is, of course, primarily the year of the Demi Lovato Froyo Controversy, but that's not all. It is also the year of the incredible film Shiva Baby, which stars the two truly magnifique guests on today's episode: Molly Gordon & Rachel Sennott! The four fools discuss making this lil' indie that could, becoming #sisters during the 16-day shoot, falling in love with a collaborator the way these girls did with writer-director Emma Seligman, the glory that is Dianna Agron and gorgeous Gleek cu...
Apr 21, 2021•2 hr 53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Well, readers, it's our first post-op ep! After a successful surg for Matt, the girls are so happy to welcome the true healing spirit that is Clark Moore, actor and host of the incredible Soul Balm podcast, which is a genuine Las Cultch Pick! Take that, Oprah! We can pick things, too! This episode, dripping wet with water sign energy, features discussions and reviews of Thunder Force, the Netflix College Admissions Scandal documentary, and a full on Godzilla Vs. Kong discussion (with spoilers......
Apr 14, 2021•2 hr 41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Matt and Bow get raw and real about their physical and mental health (mama, as they say in hospitals, "scalpel!") before launching into an episode truly for the ages with the one, the only, Kate Berlant! Often imitated but NEVER duplicated, this genuine hero and co-host (alongside friend of the show Jacqueline Novak) of LC's Big Money Players sister podcast POOG joins the gals to discuss many cultures: "sending things back in restaurants" culture, "approaching people you admire in public" cultur...
Apr 07, 2021•2 hr 34 min•Transcript available on Metacast It's that thing of when four sisters with no drag talent whatsoever express strong opinions about the television program RuPaul's Drag Race and all of *its* sisters, or sister ~shows~. You understand. Hop in, readers, the water is absolutely wet! Enjoy all this sound! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Mar 24, 2021•2 hr 45 min•Transcript available on Metacast He IS the blueprint. The "he" in question? BD Wong, babe. After some Grammy and Oscar nom thoughts, Las Culturistas welcome the truly hot king and *decorated* actor to the show to discuss his incredible career and more, darling. Acting in musical theater AND theme park ride waiting lines? Both covered. Jurassic Park AND Jurassic World? Obviously thoroughly discussed. Sitting across from Michelle Obama at a White House state dinner AND insight into Bryce Dallas Howard's leadership capabilities th...
Mar 17, 2021•2 hr 37 min•Transcript available on Metacast The time has come for Matt & Bowen's deep dive on evermore. We know...late!!! But after taking some time to sit with the album, Las Culturistas has takes on the ongoing battle between Taylor vs. Tayla and how it exists in this body of work. The boys discuss each song on the album, and also get into this season of Drag Race UK and how Bimini Bon Boulash is their ONLY winner, the recent Snatch Game on RuPaul's Drag Race, final WandaVision thoughts, and Netflix's I Care A Lot. Also, though this...
Mar 10, 2021•2 hr 35 min•Transcript available on Metacast You know how a witch will often cackle? Well, similarly, Las Culturistas and guest Rose Dommu (icon) absolutely DO THAT through this episode of LC wherein witchcraft in media, WandaVision (there are spoilers throughout this ep for the season so far, y'all! So skip 14:14 to 20:15 if you're not caught up!) , favorite Aronofsky films and Evan Rachel Wood (who Rose says is "the woman who taught me how to huff") are explored in depth. Also, Rose's love of Buffy and her take on the Joss Whedon of it a...
Mar 03, 2021•2 hr 59 min•Transcript available on Metacast A sea change in the Las Cultch executive branch! Meghan McCain has resigned from our Board of Directors after blocking us on Twitter and then publicly flopping so absolutely hard that we have to spend our time and energy on it in this episode. That bullshit, WandaVision and how it was Agatha All Along, plus a revisitation of Mean Girls and how Rachel McAdams as Regina George both captured and influenced a generation of social terrorists in our high schools. Are you interested in the style evolut...
Feb 24, 2021•2 hr 36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Las Culturistas are joined by NPR correspondent, host of It's Been A Minute and active listener extraordinaire Sam Sanders, who quickly finds out that he is "held in the same high esteem as Regina King" by Bowen & Matt, which is saying quite a lot, okay?! The three show Regina respect, get into Whitney Houston's National Anthem at the Super Bowl (Sam has a great episode of IBAM that is sort of *talking to* our Britney episode, so check it out), react to Justin Timberlake's lil' apology, and ...
Feb 17, 2021•2 hr 50 min•Transcript available on Metacast It's a Britney deep dive, bitch. Also, Wendy (hmmm...), Armie (WOOF), Abel (sure!) and Brady (UGH). JT stans, turn back. #FreeBritney Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 10, 2021•2 hr 39 min•Transcript available on Metacast We think we can all agree that it was time to have Meg Stalter on Cultch. And readers? This ep does not disappoint. Fresh off a, get this, bad car accident, Matt is still alive to record the podcast and ultimately that's good because Meg is the funniest and gives us all her takes on the Sex and the City reboot, meeting up with LOVERS in quarantine (and also not), and the Scorsese vs. Marvel ugh drama!!!!!!! Also, the impact of Grease, auditioning for a Six Flags revue with "Teardrops on my Guita...
Feb 03, 2021•2 hr 56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sisters provide each other with support in this episode of Las Culturistas that explores so much and yet so little. The ladies discuss watching themselves on camera after Matt's recent good news. Bowen questions whether or not it is ethical to wave your finger and scream "yaz" at a woman who is a billionaire from arms deals on Bling Empire . Matt, for some reason, watched Love Life and actually really enjoyed it! And... the culture of the moment Promising Young Woman gets discussed in such detai...
Jan 27, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Alright, well! It's a moment in Las Cultch history, readers, as the one and only Trixie Mattel joins Matt & Bowen to discuss Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the traumas and dramas of keeping a pet alive, submitting to the lifestyle that is watching 90 Day Fianceé and only 90 Day Fianceé, the power of Ms. Mojo, the new season of Drag Race, Cyberpunk 2077 and Michelle fucking Branch. That, and obviously more! Watch Trixie as host of Drag Race recap show The Pit Stop on YouTube and check out her podc...
Jan 20, 2021•2 hr 49 min•Transcript available on Metacast As 2021 begins with a flop, America is not the only institution in upheaval. Immediately in conflict, Matt and Bowen rage at each other about recent culture consumption. Ultimately, Matt has promised to watch 90 Day Fiancée and Bowen will listen to the song "driver's license". So, watch this space. Like they do, Las Culturistas immediately put their differences aside to catch up on culture, and there is a lot to discuss: the attempted insurrection, Trump's ban from Twitter, conclusions on this s...
Jan 13, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast