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Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.

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Books Mentioned in This Podcast

Keeping Faith

Keeping Faith

by Jimmy Carter

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But somebody told me that a book editor—a book-on-tape editor had also worked on his memoirs! And I don't know how it came up, but he mentioned, he was like, 'Oh, the comedian Anna Gasteyer, she was a friend of—' which was such a weird feeling that he knew who I was!

Episode: CLOWNS (w/ Ana Gasteyer) | Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

A Little Life

A Little Life

by Hanya Yanagihara

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That could be good; I still have to finish A Little Life. That’s a hard one!

Episode: The Universe Needs To Relax (w/ Cynthia Erivo) | Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

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And now this is the film which is such a beautiful blessing and responsibility to have as people who also love it and have lived for this for 20 years and have done the research like read the L. Frank Baum books and have done their homework and have lived it and loved it!

Episode: “I’ve… Been Through” (w/ Ariana Grande) | Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

The Exorcist

The Exorcist

by William Peter Blatty

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I looked for dark humor like dead baby jokes; I read The Exorcist for an eighth-grade book report, and I wrote about The Exorcist. That book is not appropriate for a 13-year-old!

Episode: Drink Juice and Spill Tea (w/ Rachel Bloom) | Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

Dear America

Dear America

by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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It always says, 'Journal,' that's almost a thing you've been told from a young age–like the American Girl book and keeping of you is Dear America. Did you ever read this? Dear America?

Episode: Drink Juice and Spill Tea (w/ Rachel Bloom) | Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

The Care and Keeping of You 2

The Care and Keeping of You 2

by Cara Familian

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I’m talking about there's an American Girl book from the mid-90s called The Care and Keeping of You that every young woman read! And it featured a graphic illustration of a girl putting a tampon in—every woman listening to this or watching this who was born in the late 80s or early 90s knows what I’m talking about!

Episode: Drink Juice and Spill Tea (w/ Rachel Bloom) | Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

The Naked and the Dead

The Naked and the Dead

by Norman Mailer

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And then from then on, I was a huge fan of hers and looked up all her... you know stuff from her life! Books about her, you know, books by Norman Mailer! You know, just like incredible!

Episode: It's Time! (w/ Mariah Carey) | Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

The Meaning of Mariah Carey

The Meaning of Mariah Carey

by Mariah Carey

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So back in the day, we did on this podcast, we did a book club reading of 'The Meaning of Mariah Carey'! We did! And because it's my favorite book, and it is like, I think it's a piece of music history!

Episode: It's Time! (w/ Mariah Carey) | Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

The Meaning of Mariah Carey

The Meaning of Mariah Carey

by Mariah Carey

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But you can read the book! But like, and I honestly think it's so important that you speak so truthfully about that stuff because I think when we listen to your music, like when we listen to the song 'Outside', when we listen to 'Close My Eyes', and this is stuff that you really opened up about in 'Butterfly' and had maybe sort of hinted at in your earlier work but never really got into the darkness!

Episode: It's Time! (w/ Mariah Carey) | Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

The Creative Habit

The Creative Habit

by Twyla Tharp

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And she wrote a wonderful book called The Creative Habit, which I encourage everyone to read, inspiring dancers still today! Still today!

Episode: The Iconic 400! | Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

The secret of the old clock

The secret of the old clock

by Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson

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Yeah, that—that her first mystery was The Old Clock? Was that the first mystery she ever did?

Episode: The Iconic 400! | Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

Slouching Toward Bethlehem

Slouching Toward Bethlehem

by Joan Didion

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Um, Slouching Towards Bethlehem! And of course, did you read Goodbye to All That when you left New York? I think people sent it to you!

Episode: The Iconic 400! | Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

The Art of War

The Art of War

by Sun Tzu

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Number 213, Sun Tzu wrote 'The Art of War.' Yes, which has inspired many, many, many people, reality stars even. By any means necessary, by any means necessary.

Episode: The Iconic 400! | Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

Trick Mirror

Trick Mirror

by Jia Tolentino, Juan Trejo

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Thank you for the way that you communicate, the way you write! The way that you write with importance! You write with urgency about the things that are plaguing society!

Episode: The Iconic 400! | Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

Kiss of the spider woman

Kiss of the spider woman

by Leonard Schrader

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But I will say the gag is that he and Matt Damon are producers on Kiss of the Spiderwoman. Yeah, which is going—going, which I heard is good. Okay.

Episode: HATERS (w/ Peyton Dix & Hunter Harris) | Las Culturistas

What You Think of Me is None of My Business

What You Think of Me is None of My Business

by T. Cole-Whittaker

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Here's a book that my mom literally had a self-help book on her shelf! Alright, called, It's None Of My Business What You Think Of Me! 30 seconds, we got there! And even as a little kid, that was my mantra!

Episode: Rode Hard And Put Away Wet (w/ Will Ferrell & Harper Steele) | Las Culturistas

Utopia

Utopia

by Thomas More

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And it was just so funny because you're watching 'Chimp Crazy,' and I was reading this book called 'Status and Culture' and I was like if this isn't role reversal like it's a role reversal 'cause usually I'm like watching like the Housewives and he's like reading a book!

Episode: “FUSSY. FINISHED.” (w/ Kathryn Hahn) | Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

Mémoires d'Hadrien

Mémoires d'Hadrien

by Marguerite Yourcenar

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I was reading a lot of memoirs in the past couple of years when I was thinking about writing one.

Episode: Gas Me Up, Lil Bro! (w/ Joanna "JoJo" Levesque)| Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

What Happened

What Happened

by Hillary Rodham Clinton

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Anyone can write any book and call it 'What Happened,' and it would be great.

Episode: Emergency With Our Closest Friend (w/ Cole Escola) | Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Wrote Great.... Love, love her in Great Gatsby! She rode herself into Great Gat actually!

Episode: Throw Up Ya Hands (w/ Taylor Tomlinson) | Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

Pachinko

Pachinko

by Min Jin Lee, Allison Hiroto

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Uh, she’s reading Pachinko! Taste!

Episode: Taste! (w/ Dua Lipa) | Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

The Notebook

The Notebook

by Nicholas Sparks

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For sure, yeah, but I had read, of course, this Nicholas Sparks book! It was like targeted for someone like me, my age! And I was like, I have to do this!

Episode: Mama's Singing (w/ Mandy Moore) | Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

A walk to remember

A walk to remember

by Nicholas Sparks

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And then how does it... like the choice 'cause Walk to Remember was the first movie, right? Princess Di? Oh my God!

Episode: Mama's Singing (w/ Mandy Moore) | Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

A walk to remember

A walk to remember

by Nicholas Sparks

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But I literally remember saying to myself, I was like should I watch A Walk to Remember? Because I was like it literally used to solely exist for me as an outlet to—that catharsis!

Episode: Mama's Singing (w/ Mandy Moore) | Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

Flowers in the Attic

Flowers in the Attic

by V. C. Andrews

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Just thinking culturally too, it was like VC Andrews, Flowers in the Attic. Flowers in the Attic, reading those on like the beach at the Jersey Shore, or like on the trolley to work.

Episode: Great Americans (w/ Tina Fey) | Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

Wild and Crazy Guys

Wild and Crazy Guys

by Nick de Semlyen

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I read this book, I think it's called like Wild and Crazy Guys! And it's just a little nonfiction book about this, that span of time where like, it's like Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Bill Murray, Dan, it's like all of when they all were blowing up and what movies got made and whatever!

Episode: Great Americans (w/ Tina Fey) | Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

Into the Woods

Into the Woods

by Erin Hunter, Dan Jolley, Don Hudson

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No, well, Into the Woods—I didn't read the play! I only read the book!

Episode: The Russian Tsarina (w/ Sarah Squirm) | Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

Love Warrior

Love Warrior

by Glennon Doyle Melton

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I think every singer should have a Glennon Doyle era, should have like a Love Warrior era. Yeah, should have a Brene Brown era, I feel like grenade.

Episode: Kelly Clarkson Visits Las Culturistas!

The Virgin Suicides

The Virgin Suicides

by Jeffrey Eugenides

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I am almost done with The Virgin Suicides, which I've never... never seen the movie!

Episode: Truants and Delinquents (w/ Aaron Jackson & Josh Sharp) | Las Culturistas w Matt Rogers & Bowen Yang

Valley of the dolls

Valley of the dolls

by Jacqueline Susann

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I'm gonna be—I’m gonna see about some dolls in the Valley of the Dolls sense—but not the bad dolls! Right, 100!

Episode: Forever-Coded (w/ Matt & Bowen) | Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

Picasso

Picasso

by Pablo Picasso, Jean-Louis Andral, Pierre Daix

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Joco Studio made this for us at joke at joco.io! I mean a bound book!

Episode: Forever-Coded (w/ Matt & Bowen) | Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells

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You do not want your name in an Epstein book! You do not want your name in an Epstein book; that is a recipe for disaster for your PR!

Episode: Forever-Coded (w/ Matt & Bowen) | Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang