We're back and this time with a guest who has been a long time coming: Nicole Byer! They get into Matt having been destabilized, Nicole having to deal with wild crowds at her shows, along with her many experiences on airplanes. Plus they get into Star Wars, how Adam Driver came to be, Lowell Farms, Salma Hayek being a good time, celebrity billionaires, reality television, daytime talk shows, a human helicopter, and so much more!! And some real talk I Don't Think So Honey's! Remember to subscribe to Las Culturistas right here on iHeart Radio!
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Look man, oh, I see you. Why why and look over there? How is that culture? Yeah? Goodness, lost cultures calling. And it's been a time since we've said that a fortnight or eight it's been technically five fortnits ten weeks or something like that. I believe you when you say that is what that is truly like. And when new home here in the Cosmo Loss in Los Angeles, this is so fun. We've already messed up parking. We've messed up parking. Um, we should tell them, you guys, we parked in the wrong lot and the wrong lot. So well, anyway, we'll talk. It was just ten dollars, they said. We closed at midnight at the gates open so you can walk in. The girl was very nice, and you know, she was actually lovely and I loved her the color of her hair, which was blue purple. And your color blindness actually am so for anyone that's new to the pot. I'm color blind, and I'm so happy this is the first thing you get to know about me before you ask. I'm red green color blind, and that is my specific handicap bency. I think you're not picking up on the red tint to the purple and so it looks blue. I think that's what it is. I'm not I'm no scientists, but that's my theory. Well nearly a doctor. And that's the first thing you can know about. Also, I mean, I'm sure we're just getting the old audience. I don't know if we're getting we're picking up new people. Honey. I don't think you know the reach of I Heart radio a conglomerate hunt. Now here's the real t. We took a photo shoot today. That's the real t. And I gotta say it was really it was my fault because it was slightly disorganized up topic because I told you to bring a certain sort of story to your clone, said bring a series of neutrals, and eye brought instead one loud embroidered floral shirt and just a gray sweatshirt, which which is technically neutral, but it's not like the neutral. And what I showed you like a mood board dish type thing. And I think that Bowen was making an effort to destabilize me. I think he wanted to off Well, first of all, we should say that the word destabilized to sort of enter it into Rhanto, the lexicon, into the queer, into the gay lexicon specifically, our friend George Severis broughtuct back in and you're using it everywhere every chance you get. I feel destabilized at all times and you but you use it. You like um, you will sort of sub it in for certain words. You're like on the on the gay text thread, You're just like guys, I have to share something with the thread. Josh destabilized. Yeah, Josh, Josh Sharp, you actually want to announce it. On the podcast years ago, Josh Sharp cornered me on a gay bar and he destabilized And by destabilized me, I mean he consensually he tried to kiss me, and I consensually kissed him. But he was very destabilizing. And I'm actually using this word correctly and powerfully. Yes. Absolutely. And I take my space and you take your space, and you know, you know who is destabilizing but restabilizing? Oh my god, our guests, can I say that talk about shaking it up and and and killing and slaying and turn and whopping and nailing. And I don't just say nailing because of the show Nailed It, which she hosts, And by the way, can I say and I don't think so, honey, what to the damn Emmy's because how can they nominated the show not the Queen. It's actually real culture number eight. You can't nominate the show and not the queen. You know what, It's stupid. Her and Jacques both deserve numbs. No just her. I'm gonna fight with Jacques stabilized. He destabilized you. I actually invite him to destabilize me. Jacques. We can get into this with our guests, but it feels like the nicest French person you've ever seen in the world. Yeah, okay, we got we got to talk about this because there's a lot of other things about there's a lot of plugs. So first of all, you can catch her live. She's gonna be at the Arlington Improv March six, seventh and eighth, and then she's gonna be in Nashville Mary. She's a book coming out called hashtag Very Fat, Hashtag Very Brave, The Fat Girl's Guide to being hashtag Brave and not a dejected, melancholy, down in the dumps, weeping fat girl in a bikini, a destabilizing, destable. And of course she's the host of The Incredible, Incredible Show Neil and she's the host of several podcasts, sever all why wouldt You Date Me? Drag best Friends Friends? She was a made up and I want to say something I did, Why would't you Date Me? We had an amazing time joining that podcast, and I have never in my life received more pictures of the dicks and butt holes of men. There was a call to action, and there was because we actually discussed how I never received dudes because our guest receives a plentiful amount of nudes and destabilizing and that you might say, and I said, well, I've never gotten one. And she sounded the alarm and the flood gates. Honey, you're welcome, yes, swung open so um. But who is well? Please welcome to your ears. Nicole By moment really so hard to not go fall laughing. I enjoyed that banter up top. We're just saying, I fucking love that. Well, how are you feeling stable or destabilized? I'm constantly I'm just in these streets being like, oh I'm destabilized. Talk about this state you're about to go on? Can you share anything about it? Or you don't have to I'm putting you on the spot. Okay, no, don't, don't don't. I can tell that it's a little man. She likes him. Okay, we don't have to we don't have to talk. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm like immediately making okay, you're not making me. No, you would know if you made me uncomfortable, I would be like, you have to stop. Like I did a live show where I was on stage with all the comics and one comic on on stage, and there was this weird energy and I was like, what the funk is wrong with you? Like I just said, I just I'll just say yes, yes. Do you get into it with audience members though, because I feel like, for some reason they often get into it with you. They love screaming at me. What is because they it's like an unearned familiarity that they think that they have. Yeah, And it's so sad because half the time it's so nice. So I threw a lady out of my show in New York recently because I said I injured myself as a setup to like a story, and she was like on the pole because I pulled answer but on Instagram and I was like what and she was like, we love you moves and it's like a nice heckle, But I was like, you gotta get the funk up out of here, you drunk loving woman, like you gotta go home and hug a teddy bear or something like you're you're too drunk to be here. And now it's not even that, it was just the energy you had to leave. You couldn't even it was positive. Ultimately you couldn't have it no, because then I was like, well if I let her stay and scream at me, what if you know Stephanie over here wants to tell me a story? Of course, and then God forbid a straight man feels he can get involved. They don't come to my show. They don't come. No, is it the women in the gays? The women the gays, yep, those are my people. Sometime as I get straight men At my live show in San Francisco, I was like, who here is straight? And I was like whoa. I was like, who here is single? And literally nothing? Not my demo? No, I mean, come on, what is it? But because we don't we don't get straights either. We don't get straights either. I think it's because they have other things to watch, and they have other they have podcasts that cater specifically and aggressively to them, and we actually dragged them quite a bit on our podcast. I would imagine not too much. I don't know, but it's like, what is it about that demo that's like so sequestered from the rest of like what's good? They don't know? I also I don't listen to like I don't really listen to podcasts, but like a little one like hosted by a straight man, I'm like, what do you You don't even talk to your friends, so you're gonna sit down and listen to some other man? What is? What is that? What does that entail? I will say that sometimes sometimes I will curiously peek over to the YouTube channel of one show Rogan because I'm fascinated because it's his podcast is so huge, it's crazy, and was it released an episode every day? I think, so it's like a week or something. I have five podcasts, so truly every work day of the week you can listen to me talk about something. But like, that's the thing is, it's just his is so huge and so and so crazy. And then when he came out and endorsed Bernie Sanders, never to the moment that that was the firestorm but it's just and that's so sometimes I don't Oh yeah, no, this was news. Yes, so much has happened in the last to three years that you're just like, I don't know that often started walking the earth and I'd be like, okay, yeah, towns right. Did you know it was seventy degrees in an arcticle two days ago? We're gonna die. We're all gonna die. Could you that degree? The buture neared seventy? Girl? Oh, they're they're blessing it up. This is this is insane, and it's it could be this thing, it could be this thing where it's like I read it and like, but it was a reputable thing. I think it was the Washington Post. Okay, and you know those girls do the research research seventy degrees they do honestly, that's what do you want? What do you want me to do with that information? Matt? Why do you bring this up? Because now I'm stressed. So now we stopped ordering from Amazon and we uh, we all buy priuses and we don't go to him. That was my favorite. I was like, just come on, every owner of every corporation, love is bad. That's how they get their money. Tax someone was like, um, I was like, well, obviously I had like a I had like a reaction like, well, I hope that everyone you know ops going to Equinox. And they were like, you are a Disney gay. You give millions of dollars probably at this point over my life. Yeah, so you love Disney, Nicole, You're a Disney gay. You are a Disney gay. I do have a full ten minute joke in my set currently Wait Disney. I loved that. I saw that and I did thank you. And then there's truly a chunk four Disney gays, Like there's three jokes in a row that is four specifically Rob Paul's drag race watching Disney games. That's us. That's us. I mean that honestly, that is that is us in a nutshell? Was this what do we talk about this on the on the mic? The Nicole's fight attendant joke, which I love, It's it's it's just a she like you had the whole setup to it. Is this other story that like, is thisnother joke about being on a plane. But then you have a quick little tag where you're just like, I also just want to say all male fight attendants are gay. They just so fun because they say I don't want to stereotype or general and then people will be like, well, you are generalizing in stereotype when you say all and I'm like, whoa, Okay, we just don't understand jokes. It's that and it's also people. I think people confuse a stereotype with a negative image. And just because many male flight attendants are gay does not mean that it's like you're replacing some value judgment by being like, that's the stereotype. That means that's on you for making it like a negative one. I don't think it's negative. I love my gay flight attendants. They give me booze when I'm not in first They're nice to me where I am on the plane. One gave me three cookies. Do they give you like a knowing look, They're like they know who you are? No, I look like a little boy when I traveling. We're like a little hat powdered glasses. I will never forget your Delta story where the piece of crap came out like we just spoke about this a little piece of pool, a little piece of No, it was not a little piece. It was like it was like it was like a half fist sized piece of ship and not like a baby, put like a human, human, adult human. Yes, and Delta theorized that they thought it was a disgruntled employee. I was like, so you figured it out, you would you? And because I kept be like, I don't know an animal, a baby, an adult, and they were like, disgruntled employee. It's so funny that they were like, it must be a disgruntled employee. It must be us. It must be The way that we treated one of our employees was so wretched. I felt like I was being gasolate because they kept be like, yeah, keeps saying ship in my blanket, and you were like, no, probably probably a raccoon gut on the plane, but there was like something hapn't no, no, no, it was us. And the reason why I stood by my stories because the flight attendant, who was super gay, I told him blank and he went girl no, in the way that he like he thought we were like having I was like, girl yes, And then he like truly pranced it away like with someone like gleeful, like a Christmas And then he looked at it and went, oh my god, that's a piece of ship like and like his his head was bopping, and then he went and got his phone into the picture and I was like, I don't know if that was that was supposed to go down. And then I was like I have to go, and he was like, okay, girl, honestly, did you get off the plane. Yes, I had a connecting flight. I had to get back to l Yeah. And then I tweeted adultoo because I was like, I can't swept under the rug. Yeah, And I took a picture of my little blanket treat and it was like a little grainy, and I kept be like, I'm so sorry it wasn't clear. Finally, so it's not your fault. You actually don't have to apologize one more time, like or ever again. I think about it every time I opened up like a little plastic wraps blanket. They do not wash these blankets. They get washed like every couple of months. So I read this like very in depth article and it was confirmed by someone at an airline um that they washed them every couple of months. But like what happens when they clean the plane is they hold like they gather them up, they bring them to a facility. At the facility, they just hold them up and eyeball them and then fold them back up and put them into the bags. And then they get back and sealed the little pillowcases. They don't get washed. God, it's crazy, but you're like, of course they don't, there's not time. Yeah, and then your trade table never gets wiped down unless you wipe it down or gets wiped down in the morning and then in the evening. I think, But like, if it's making three or four trips, that's three or four other people who are touching and you don't know what the funk they're doing. And then the people who get me are the barefoot fucking what the funk are you doing? Doesn't even follow along lines of like coach or first class people do it everywhere. But I want to ask a question. It's so kay that I take my shoes up and keep my socks off. What do you mean You're gonna slip them nasty puppies back in your shoes? Girl? But experience where there's poop everywhere, I don't know where I'm going. You're just I'm not walking. I'm not walking down the aisle with the socks. Never, never, never, I have done it once in my life, Like one time I just could not get my shoe on because it was like a real tight seats. I'm like, suck it, and I got up and I walked my sock covered feet to the bathroom and then I was I was like, I can't believe this, but I have seen people with bare fie go into the rest me too. This one lady was sitting next to me. She was caressing the wall with her nasty fucking toes. And then she got up to the bathroom with her barerass feet and the bathroom and said to the flight attendant, there's something on the floor. And I was like, I mean this is on you, Like who of course there's something on the floor of the bathroom. It's of airplane. They're disgusting. She got you need to host an expose dr mentor a six part oh yeah, on all airlines. There's a video on Instagram. This girl breaks it down for you. She's like, don't drink the coffee or the tea. It comes from water tanks that are never cleaned. Uh coffee, Yeah, don't and it does taste weird. This is a video on Instagram. She's it's on Instagram. It was like inside Edition because Inside Edition beat doing the Lord's hotels, don't change the sheets and right right now. But and then again you say, of course they don't because they don't have asy and they don't have the time. My assis in there being like, hi, I know, I'm an hour and a half really but it is again in my room right now, and they're like okay, sir, Yeah, they're like great, we didn't change the sheets for you, you know how times and you're like, this smells like a person. It's because on that agen. I've known this, but hearing you like clarify it is so chilling. It's gross. Inside edition. There's another video on Instagram where they like put that UV sprite on the cheets and then check into the hotels spratt check out and I don't know how they check back into the same room, but they did, and then they like put the light on it and still there, and then they would confront the managers and the managers to be like no, no, we changed, and they're like look at this, and they're like oh no, no questions please, no photos and questions. But at this point, like you have to be as Chandela called it on this podcast, Delta diamond fish, which means you have the diamond status. Yes, I'm a diamond diva. Diamonds and Meatball is um I love She's my favorite queen. But yes, I'm a diamond Diva. I used to be a Delta three six day, a secret club where they send you Tiffany's crystal wait from. I think it might be the ship because I do still fly almost the same amount, it's not more, but they pick you up if you've a connecting flight. That still sometimes happens. A connecting flight, send me in a suit, will be there with your name and then take you down stairs into a Porsche, drive you on the tarmac to your next gate. That's incredible, It's nice. The first time it happened, I was so high and he had my name on it, and I was like he was wearing a stud Is he a cop? Yeah? No? And then I was like mom her, He's like, what do you say? So earlier I was like, I don't you look like the shadiest motherfucker ever hospitality, But then all of a sudden, it's like your stone. You go with a man with a suit who knows your name, takes you down to the like street part of the airport. I'm calling it the street park. It's the runway, you know, the street around the road. Um, and then they drive you up to the down plane. Huh. It is opulence at its best because then everyone stares at you. And truly, I travel like a little boy. I have very bad acne scars. I wear a little Harry Potter glasses, like my little hat on the backpack, and they're like, why is she special? And I'm like, I, you have no idea of my powers. They don't know they're watching you on the flip. Oh. That's the best part is when you like get special treatment somewhere in public and people like look at you and they were just like confused. The best part is that you like they can imagine whatever they want, doesn't matter, does it make a difference, You're still getting this is like, but Bowen and our friend Dave Mazzoni and I went to Universal Studios, and Bowen works for the National Broadcasting So we got this pass that allowed us to like go to the front of the line, which was only Bowen and make a wish. Kids were getting it. It's just very and so basically like we were just like walking up and giving them the pass. And because he's an employee of the company. Everyone went looked at us like, oh, okay, come with us, sweetheart, like like it could be our like it could have been our last days. It was chilling in a way. Yeah, it was like and but the way that some people would would they would take the it was called the olden got past. They were taking on their hands and they would say, oh, it's now my responsibility to show you a good time. Come with me, and like slowly walking to us, and are you enjoying your day? Is it good? Forest kindness is so upset it, but I do love it. It's it's yeah, it's professional force. Wait talk to us about because because we cut the short newcomers. So you're it's you and Lauren la watching the Stars. We're discussing one of us had seen them and someone on Twitter star Wars star Wars. So Lauren lapis Nicole Buyer watching Star Wars for the first time and it's a podcast and we're doing it in order police four five, six, one two three got to say really confusing that way, Yes, yes, because you're like, wait, what, Palaltine, what I just watched a return of the sifth fifth fifth Coming Coming and the team when he turns into that potato thing like he looks it's like from the Exorcist. Everyone's just chill with it. Yeah, there's I have issues with like the chill factor of everybody. Sure, Okay, So I want to ask, because I actually I'm a Star Wars queen. Do you consider yourself a Star Wars um? Sort of? Sort of? All right, we're gonna take a quick break and then we're gonna be right back with Nicole Buyer. Okay, and we're back with Nicole. Yes, so we're we actually um but you. But here's the thing. I grew up on them. Thoughts on short thoughts on each of the film's the first one a New Hope, how feeling now too much dessert, too much, to a lot of desert. And then it's almost like an indie space moving right exactly because I think, well, it's technically was a Western. Well that's they're actually space Westerns. They really are, so they formulaically do follow a Western. So that was the whole idea that George Lucas had was I'm going to make a Western in space. Yes, learning new things that I will never retain. Give Thoughts on Empire strikes Back. I liked Empire strikes Back. That was the one with the e walks it well the woman Return of the Jedi, So Empire strikes Back is when they go to the Cloud City with Billy Williams. Yes, yes, I love Billy. Yes, Billy's very Yeah, Lando Crusanne, but I like Land Cruisann brother, I like Miss Cruisann okay um. And then returning the Return of the Jedi was we walked town like Cuckoo. Job was great. I love that. Was that the opening scene in the Job. But no, that's just it's he's got Carrie Fisher in a gold bikini. Honestly looking at Carrie Fisher's body, Oh my god, all that cooked? Did you goodb we cut that out? Can't we do that? I maybe not keep that, I would say with the spirit of Carrie Fisher knows she was on coke and would be cool enough to admit it. In fact, in her book, she was like so like she was like front of she was like flipping through the movie. This part I was zoned out on coke. This part I was owned out on coke. The way she delivers the line, like when there's a scene where I'm a freak. There's a scene where like she un freezes Han Solo hot Harrison Ford out of the cryogenically thing, and he said, who is that? And she goes, she takeoff her mask and she goes someone who loves you, and it's like she was zwned out on coke at that point. Apparently the hot part, which is the ice planet Empire, strikes back. They came out a few years ago and said everyone was on tons of coke doing that. I mean, I think that's just how movies got made. Was just cooked. Well you know that. Dennis Quaid said on Watch What Happens Live that in some of his movies there was a thinly veiled coke budget. Yeah, and movies in the eighties had like disguised in the budgeting they had. That's amazing. I want to time travel to that. Yes, I want to time travel. And then some morph into a white woman. So okay, So those are the originals. We have mixed feelings these the new ones with Natalie Portman. Natalie Okay is trying her hardest, Harry Young anakin because Hayden Christiansen, my God is a brick. He truly emotes nothing. So then when he turns into Darth Vader. You're just like, okay, sure whatever he's so, he's like a wet blanket. He is so fucking boring. They have zero fucking chemists. And then I'm like, who's doing Natalie Portman's hair? It's different in every fucking scene that those queen hairstylists, but nobody's ever with her. That's true. Where are we to believe that she's doing her own up? Dudes? I mean no, because there's a scene where she's brushing curls and I was like, there's no way she's doing her own Hair's George Lucas directing. Okay, so you're in the corner brushing your curly hair. He's like, okay, whatever. I cashed the check already. Um. But the movie I loved the most was the Star Wars Holiday Special. Like We've seen you've never seen. Diane Carol sings a song in it. Be Arthur is credited as Beatrice Arthur. She is in it. There is a drag queen who is a cooking show. This came out in the eighties. Yes, girl, it is a mess. I've never laughed harder. The first ten minutes is Chewbacca and his family or no, Chewbacca is away, so it's his family, just like on a mission with Hans Solo. And so his dad is itchy, his son is lumpy, and his wife's name is mal, which is bad in Spanish. She's like a bad wife. She can't cook. She also like puts on an apron at one point, You're like, you're naked, honestly, so special. So okay, So you've the Star Wars Holiday Special ranks among the number one ranks? Number one? Have you seen the new new Ones? No, that's next? And I just watched the trailer for and I'm like into it, even though I'm like, who the funk are these people? I don't know who nobody is. Well, you see special characters, you see original characters. It's for beat a new hope. So Force Awakens like essentially recreates a new hope in a way for the kids now. But the two new ones there are terms go way off. I still haven't seen Rid Sky I like Rise of Skywalker. And I'm very unpopular for this opinion, and I really I cannot wait to listen to hear what you think, because I think that the like campiness of like the old movies are actually what people loved about them and have been what's missing from Don't you think that there was camp? There was some camp element to one, two, and three, though I think a little bit you're breaking and you're breaking hard. Yeah, but I don't think that. But I think it's camp done wrong. So like the announcers in Phantom Menace during the pod chasing scene, they say is going to last thirty minutes, and then it does because George Lucas don't understand that things don't have to be in real time. H those ancers are super It's like for what that we didn't need that. That's like the wrong type of camp. Yeah. Bruce Lanche was a writer on the holiday special that give an idea of how campy it is. Yeah, good, it's great. Yeah, I'm decided to see what you think about and also I would I would request, I know we spoke about Disney before, you have your thoughts, but you and Lapis, I think we go to Galaxy's but we need to figure out how to be important people and not waiting lines. I feel like there's about what about dress I was going to say, maybe there's like a laptist Durassic World connection universal. I feel like you guys, will you know, let's let's put the call out there, if if, if you have some connection to Disney to help Nicole and Lauren sort of please help us, Please help that. You gotta get them on the Rise of the Resistance. That's the new big ride. We're doing it soon. We're doing it. I've done it and it's amazing. Is it a roller coaster? It's it's like it's like it's like a Disney ride. It's like you're getting a little car and they take you around and it's like, oh god, things are going wrong. That was my impression of and Drouid. That's good. That's that's very artish. Son, that's really good. Do you watch you understand Lauren? Lauren, Daddy ddy. He's passed on two of us. He passed on the two of us as a package deal. Is that what you're saying, No, he's passed Not everything's about you. Wait are you? Are you watching the Star Wars things now and being like I understand the cultural importance this has or no, you're very confused by it. It's so confused. Um. But and then like all of the characters have the wildest names, and then like every movie will have a normal name, like in Revenge of the Sith, there's a character name Commander Cody, so then there's like Nabu Dab. And it is so funny the way that when you realize that, like they didn't just stumble into the world with these names, like someone had to name them. And that man his name was George Lucas, and he was like, this is Boone Tray and she's a pilot, the greatest one, and that's Narnoon. It's like, what, Also, his son is in Revenge of the Sith and his son's name as Jet, and his character's name is z I think I got that right, But it's like, also, you know what, Revenge of the Sith offers an amazing instance of no Matt. When I tell you, I was just sitting on my fo are enjoying the movie and that moment happened. I laughed, maybe so hard that my neighbors were like someone's diet. I laughed so hard. It is so jarring, And I was did they ask him to like dead in his voice, to sound like a Christensen? It was because it was because they did. James Earl Jones himself to say no, yes, it's so funny. They should go to prison. And then I shouldn't have laughed when he got all burnt up, but like this graphic it was so wild. I was like, this is a children's mo. It wasn't a crazy I think it was like the first one that was rated PG their team because of his graphic burning body. Yes, and then they just stick him in that black suit and I'm like, you need oxygen to heal burns like he sticks. You know, it's all They're a mess. It's all a mess. But that's why people like them. I you know what I amswering to see why people like, Yeah, it is silly, it is. That's I guess why whenever anyone is like these movies they're not like they used to be. It's like, no, you're just a grown adults. You fool, you fool these fools. They think that like these movies are going to like hit them in the gut the way they did when they were a child. It's like and then people are like reading Daisy really for acting, and I'm like, have you seen Mark Hamill act? We love the girl that she's as as good as Mark Camp. I'm saying that she is doing what the other girls did not do, which is give a performance. And meanwhile mark Ham was like, oh dad, the day of a system. And meanwhile, Daisy really is like giving you single tear Adam Driver is giving you? Adam Driver? Is he click click low wrist clucks kylo Kylo's actually it's rule of culture number eleven? Is he cluck loran kluck? Would you fuck Adam Driver? Slash clock low? Yeah, we discussed this. He has this quiet intensity to him. I mean, I've never met him. This is when I am perceiving. It's like a quiet intense that he would like drill my whole. Yeah. Well, if you've seen Girls, you know that he's a real whole driller, or at least the character of Adam in the in the show was absolutely can you believe that he was in Girls? This is something so crazy to you? Is something so crazy to me? The way that Adam Driver became famous was as the weirdest fuck boy in Yeah now has an action figure? Y, Yeah, it's crazy what can happen for him? And two times? Two times? Wait? Two times story? The marriage story and of course we know one time, no, I believe he was not for another Oscar for supporting Look it up. Look it up. Well, we look this up. We're gonna take a quick break and we'll be right back with Nicole Buyer. And we're back with Nicole Buyer and the information that Adam Driver was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for a Black Klansman. Oh, that's right, which you forget and he Y'll say this. I like the movie, but I really hated that the last image of the movie was a white woman of Black Klansman. Yeah, it was. The last image was that woman who was killed. I think in North Carolina that her death was like bad? Yeah, you know, that was like was compared to the suffering of the It was like, this was a black movie. Why why was the last image we see of a white woman? I think, Oh, I'm going to get red for that artist. All right, I heard radio has a wide reach. You're gonna come from me. We can, we can, we can cut around it if need be. No, we're not gonna cut around it. Just like we're gonna make sure that we feature the part where Nicole says that Carrie Fisher did because guess what, it's actually a real culture number twenty Carrie Fisher did coke coke, and she had a healthy distance from it after sobriety. Absolutely she did, so it's fine. Real fact though about carry Fisher, she did become addicted to coke later in her life. But cocaine, cocaine, Coca cola, the soda that has coke, It used to have cocaine and did. Which is so much fun that someone's like, let's make drugs bubbly yeah and drinkable. Yeah, let's drink these drugs. You're a big stoner, right, not a huge stoner, but I do like an edible. Yeah. So you know where I went last night, Lowell Farms. The cafe is there food, there's food, there's like weed food, there's we drinks, which is why I bring this up. We drinks. I like them. This is the first one I had ever had. It was so interesting. Was it like a CBD or like weed? I mean I think it was weed because grass Madre has like CBD and fuse. I've had a CBD like latte and it put me too bad. Yes, yeah, which was which it will do what it was? It was fun and actually it actually was like really cool. I will say this though you would you would not be surprised to hear the service was like terrible stone. The girl on us was like, alright, guys, absolutely, are you guys like having the best time. It's like we ordered fries and three hours ago She's like, oh my god, yes you did order fries. Okay, I'll be back, and then she was like, all right, you guys have been fun. It's like the fries. The fries. Though, I just I like smoking weed, but I can't wrap my mind around my whole personality being like this is what I love. Yeah, no, no, I think I truly think it's an age thing. I mean for people who like maintain it throughout their lives, that's great, but like for me, it's this thing that I just kind of grew out. If I still smoke it, I I would say I do smoke every day, but now it's like before bed thing. My boyfriend is the most functional stoner I've ever met in my He smokes more with than anyone. He like wigs and bags and like is like able to live life. And then I forget it is me that uh yeah, I've dated several men who would just from the time they woke up to the time they went to bed, and they were like, fine, it wasn't like wed be together and like you're just stoned and you're not listening. It's like they listened to better rather better. I will say this, this brings them back to Star Wars. But I was a little stoned when I saw Rise of Skywalker and I made the mistake Matt Wicker and I went to go see it in X. Have you experienced this? No fucking way it is. The chair is literally moving the entire time. If character turns to talk to someone else, you go, I know, it's crazy. Thank you. And there's water they me in the face. Do they warn you because my wig, well, I guess i'd wear a shower cap to the movie. You have to go with your play gear, god makeup. It was. It was crazy how wet. I wasn't, but you, as someone who likes theme park ride, you loved No, I mean I loved it. I just thought I was a little nervous because like I went with a friend who was a little sensitive to that motion, and I was like the whole time, I was kind of like, oh no, no, I'm gonna have to worry like is he gonna paint this? Like while are literally gonna like this, but he dropped in and had a good time. You get used to it after a while, because Julie and I went to go see Maleficent Mistress of Evil with you unnecessary and it was truly you and Julio sing Mistress of Evil and the stupidest thing on brand. Yeah, very on brand for out of us. But it was just not not not necessary at all. And actually we will be embarrassed for this in three years minimum. No, right, I think for no, no, no, for for this trend of forty x No. I think it's great. I didn't even know it was a thing. Oh No, honestly, pick something so insane. Where do I go out here? I would imagine they have it at like any of the big city walk probably probably city Walk, any regal regal in the one why I think, Well, I saw it in New York with Matt, so that was like and we saw it a regal. Yeah, regal theaters have I love that movie theaters are trying everything to get people to kind of They're like, we'll give you as much booze as you want. You want food, We'll give you food, you want chairs and fucking swim up this is like a boss forty xxxxx like a boss. Whenever one like a boss came out, I we should have seen it. We should have seen it. Did you see it? I didn't didn't make it. I didn't make it to the theater. It's for us. It's truly women and gay men. Yes, it's it's like the Nicole Bayer, Matt Rodgers, Bow and Yang of movies. But it was only of movies that I'm just gonna watch at home. I know. Yeah, that's the thing. It's like. And I'll tell you who was so funny promoting it with Salmahick. She was on every talk show being like this is funny, is funny, and it was just like you could tell. They were like, send Salama out, let her do whatever, but talk about someone who's gotten lost in the conversation. But is fun and crazy. It's a good time. She's a good time. Don't she breastfed someone else's baby? No, no, what tell us? I think maybe she's just maybe at some point and I'm not sure where she was hold on, let me google she was offering the titty to the children of others. She breastfed another woman's baby. I hope I'm not making this up wild thing to make it sounds it sounds like it tracks. I mean, yeah, she's the giving type. I mean. Also, did you see Rose Dammies episode interview with her Rose Dammy Out Magazine. No, I didn't see this like somehow because she's in, because she's in the eternals that's coming out she is. And so Rose was like, how do you feel about Marvel like introducing queer characters into the universe? And then she like gave just like a really sweet answer. She's like, I think it's amazing and we get to see you know, people as you know, gay people as normal, not that they're not normal, but you know, she like dimps into this like really like Yike's territory, and then she immediately swings out of it and it's great, Okay, you found Okay, give the Samaha said her decision to breastfeed another woman's tresh was an attempt to diminish the stigma placed on women for breastfeeding. At the time, she was still breastfeeding her one year old daughter, So she's snatched some she said, daughter, give me a child. This means that's amazing. I'm in the eternals and I'm like, what if that baby hadn't latched onto the mother yet, because sometimes it's hard for and then that baby was like I love Salma High xty and this woman is just like I kill yeah bye mom at these Salma High activities once a lot of time and then you can't give It's just me and the titties and a French billionaire. I think, yes, she's a billionaire. Yes, she's actually rich as absolute funk. That's like Eve Eve is married to a very rich investing man. Yeah yeah, yeah, wait celebrities that are billionaires that you did not know Salma Eve. I believe Tina Turner. I think she's married to some Yes, I think you're right, businessman, because she lives in like Sweden, only it doesn't come to the States ever. Um, Julia Louis Dreyfuss born a billionaire. Yes did you know this? Like I don't know how like her family is like international, like I want to say they're like in shipping, like, but I could be making that up. Does this sound weird? Like it does not take away from not at all how I enjoy her. No, she's I think she's a very grounded actress and she's very funny. Yeah. I mean she's actually one of the top so funny veep is so it's good, it's absurd how funny it is. God yeah, and it was. It was one of those shows too. It's like, you know how people were like, oh, thirty Rock. You know, over the years, it's gotten like not as funny. I actually would disagree so much. I think we're just desensitized to how funny, to the style of style stitcom that was. I just watched the hundred Episodes special again last night and I was laughing, my damn ass off, it's so funny. I actually think it hurt unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt to that Dirty Rock was so funny because everyone it's used to that level of excedence from Tina and I think, yeah, yeah, but they're working on a new show that looks very Holly Hunter and I mean, what a dream. I was like, is there a part for me? And they were like, goodbye, Nicole. Oh you have to even say good n No, Nicle, are you having your door knockdown? No, that's what You're undeniable. I feel like you are the biggest still audition. Yeah, but I still yeah, I mean it's it's interesting. And sometimes a lot of parts that I go out for go to unknown people. Why are we giving them chances? I've been known, I did the Work's just give me a part. That's so crazy to me. It's but it's not like a path, it's not like a window that's like in fixed in one place. It's like it will all come. I feel like I might just be speaking from a place of like total out of touchiness, but it's it's I'm just like, Oh, this stuff all just happens when it needs to, right, No, that's how I feel. I think everything happens for a reason. I think you get things when you're ready for them. But you're like, you've been ready. She read that? Was she ready? Is this my co remember that white woman on the red carpet? And remember you remember that? Yes, okay, she ready? She goes she ready, She's ready, and then she's is what got me? And then I retweeted it and I said this is a hate crime. People were like, you don't understand what I hate crime? Understand not satire but like just a joke. It was just like, so why would you ever think I actually thought that was And then Tiffany was like, that's mom, and I was like, Tiffany, you don't get that. I'm kidding. It was like a time come on, it's she ready, She's ready, cheese ready. Maybe a damn explorer read, oh my god, are you ready? Well, here's the thing. We have to ask the question because we have not yet asked it. And here's the question that we ask you, Nicole Buyer. This is the podcast Last Culture. That's where we're exploring your culture that defined and helped curate the person that you are. So we ask you, Nicole, what was the culture that made you say culture is for me? Okay? I really thought about this and I was like, what is it? Was it like sneakers because I love sneakers. For a while, I was like fake nails. I loved intrigram fake nails for a while. Is it wigs? Is it weaves? And I figured it out it's reality television. This is a huge specifically like Jenny Jones, Ricky like and Maury give it up? Where are my fucking everything? Growing up? Like oh and Jerry Spring Let's not forget about And I understand that a lot of it was staged, but like growing up, I thought it was all real. I thought these people really acted like this real life. I was like, well, they could be crazy. I guess I could be a little while too, But just how staged is it? Is there like a definitive entswer to this? Do they kind of give after situations or is it real people? Like what's happening? I think they're real people, maybe with real issues and then maybe producers like put like a in their head to be like maybe you say this to your friend who cheated on you or whatever. Because if you remember Jenny Jones, I think she ended her show because it was an episode where a gay man came out to like a childhood friend and the childhood friend didn't take it well and murdered that gay man. I'm like, so, like yeah, like reality and like talk shows like that, it's like it toes the line between like like is this is this? Like? Oh well, like I love ninety fiance. These people are fucking fantastic, idiot. I love them so much. Even the ones who aren't are like WHOA Like on this season there's that girl who's in Jersey who's just like very much an activist, very smart, who do you know what I'm talking at? You talking about Tanya. Tanya, she's like Tany and Sinjin. Yes you like Tanya. I'm not. I'm not saying I like, it's not just stupid people. Yes, she is like an activist. She is like a hippie dippy special person. She seems like a very like l a girl because you're like, the way she talks to her fiance is crazy. And then during their ninety days together they only have ninety days to get married, she left for thirty of those days to become a witch doctor in Coaster Rica, And just like is this real? It's so good and you truly contract like your fascination with a fiance now like back to like the way you s a Jenny Jones and yeah, and like when I was little, it would like inspire me to do things. I remember this specific Rickey Lake episode for this woman had her hair weaved up into a helicopter that worked, and I being like, lady could have a helicopter, I can have anything on my end. Wait wait wait, she she was actualizing pop hur Yes, this black woman did it, and she did it well. And I mean she didn't flew up into the air, but she did it work. It worked. The propellers. Wait, wait, we're saying, did you answer the question what it worked? As in it went, but she lift up the ground because her country on the side worked on the top work. It was amazing. I was like, this, Leomon is incredible. That's the first time I saw it, like strippers on a stripper pole that that's cool to me. Like, yeah, these talk shows my name is and I'm good, baby says I'm good. I would get my baby, what give me a backet? And then if I get aford it, then I guess I have to sell it. Yep. I love those teens that were like like the whole neighborhoods have the baby I'm not having with one not rates different guys. And then my mind. And then the poor mother. It was like Victoria, she was so sad, the saddest and Victoria was, no, don't I don't care, I don't have a baby. Yeah, like dream of acting like that with my mother. My mother is so stressed. And I would like live vicariously through these scenes who were like slutty and ceiling. And then I loved when they went to boot camp and someone was sting with them. They did that to this girl and then I remember like, um they Mari was having the time of his life because he was like Victoria's mother, there's more. Watched this clip and it was just Victoria direct to can Bey on like, Mom, I know I told you that I never had sex in your bed, but I've had sex in your bad upwards of a hundred times and I'm not going to stop. And then then she was like the mother so sad, so sad, and He's like, what do you feel about that? You feel? I just like I feel bad, really bad. Also, okay, Mori the camera operators like whoever told them to chase these people? Like was it a producer or was it one brave camera opt I was like, oh, no, good ship. Honestly, they must have all seen combat. And then like and Mari, I think was very particular in the way that it like punched in on people this way, like crazy, Wait, what was your Did you pick a favorite out of those shows? Like I'm gonna say mine is Jenny Jones, but I think mine was Jenny Jones. I just loved Jenny because she was so she would just try to be so reasonable and she didn't seem like she was in on the show, like mari has really like over the years, leaned into what his show is. He's still on, Yes Girl, I didn't know that. Yes Marie still comes on. He is so old and he's still going you are not the father. It is in Those are the only episodes really hell. Everything else is kind of like untouchable because like you can't send teens to boot camp now, and then you can't do like I'm going to come out to you because like, you don't know, these people might be fucking crazy, so truly, that's like all they do, or like where are they now? You get some of those oh my god, I used to love the big baby ones that are big baby can open the refrigerator and I put a lock on it, and then you see the baby was the best. Honestly, there is something to the narrative of you are not the father. It's always going to be satisfying to find out. It's like those makeover reveals. It's like that and makeover reveals are always gonna work. It's like I'm always going to see what us bitch looks like by the time they're done. Stakes, it is just high stakes. You are not the father, and then what if you are? Oh, my god, that is a huge thing to find out. Yeah, it's great, it's great. Um I. Jenny Jones is my favorite because she seemed so far removed from it. She was not in the same way on stage. Springer would like poking prod and very interesting ways and then also like he would let his audience say ship. It was just like they were like dog pilot on these people. But I love that women would come out shoeless, prepared to fight. Yeah, ready to go, ready to go. And I was like this, I don't I don't know if it was stage, but I was like, yeah, you can't just let people fight on camera. What if someone gets But it's so they really, um, you know. Jerry Springers, like Bodyguard, the guy that would like got his own show. He became a celebrity. He tried to be like Dr Phil And that's why I don't like his show. To drop it in yeah, and I'm like, I don't know if you've got a brain. Yeah, But Springer made it work at the end where you know, take care of yourselves and each other, like I mean all those little like mini monologues at the end of each show. Yeah, he would always do the final word, final work, it was. Those were always very well conceived. I think that is it. But yes, the thoughts probably we showed people in an hour of trash, we better say like one redeemable thing. Yeah, I don't I wonder if Jerry Springer still comes on. I don't know if he's still on the air hosting the show. But if you're telling me Maria's still on. So these people on television that are still on, like I guess Pat Sajack like still hosts Will of Fortune? Does Vannah White up there spinning those tiles to the bitter ends? It's I mean, those are those are like relics. And I'm not even in terms of age, but in terms of like television. No, but like those things have been on since the late eighties only nineties. Yeah, it's like it's raised maybe even before that. That was that was culture. That was a culture when like the seven o'clock moment before like real TV quote unuote would come on, like the Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy of it All, and then the dates we did you watch soaps? Did you guys watch My mother loved soaps. My mother tape soaps, and then she did laundry at night just like catchup, loved them. I couldn't get into them. Yeah, it's hard. The passions I would watch and I was I was an ABC girl, so it was all my children, General Hospital, Port Charles, One Life to Live. Those were like the ones because they all were on the Pine Valley universe. You know who loves you? Know who loves this ship Madison Like it's like a soap, of course, but I'm telling you some of these plotlines, it's like you wish they were still on because they are so fucking stupid. It's basically, you are not the father the fictional show. I love that. Wait, oh my god, but how do you feel about the landscape now? Because because you're like a multiple wend you and wend your pals. I love wend We I just went all this. Despite all the stuff that's gone down lately with Wendy, I'm still like Wendy is an old woman who truly does not think before she and she means well um, and she knows that her own issues. Yes, of course she's had a tough fast year, but anytime you go on it's it's you can tell she loves you. She is very kind to me and one of her producers like, she actually thinks you're funny, And I was like, actually, I like that means she tells them that when she doesn't like somebody, she's fun I really like her. She had Actually we we interviewed her for her Vulture fest like tribute and she was all business like. We didn't really get We didn't really get like the you do a moment with her. Checked in with her before this, and I think it might have been tough time she was she was still with Kevin though, did she seven? After she had got to say? She served face when she went down? Oh yeah, it's a saved gift on my phone dressed as the statue of Liberty herself. Yes, Like is there anything campier? Do you know? Of course its gay culture. I love it. Yeah, but he knows what a moment that was. I think it's also it's kind of goofy that, like people would pick on her now for of course it's bad that she said the going down thing about what did she What she said was, um, well, this is a tragic story. But Drew Carey's ex girlfriends was pushed to her death by by it, I guess a boyfriend or another ex boyfriend and she passed away, and so Drew carry host The Prices, right, and Wendy Williams was talking about this and she said come on down, which is like brutal, and no one in the I mean we laugh because it's so instant laughing. No, no one is laughing. Um, I'm only laughing because Nicole. I mean, it's because it's so crazy. But see, you can't say that, you can it is a good job if you break it down. Come on down as a phrase as the Prices, right, But there's some girl came on down, So like theoretically good job, yeah, I mean, but there's situation and very too soon. I think it would also always be to some of course, this is my thing with Mindy, and this is my favorite thing about Wendy is that she did this whole cheerful apology the other day about I'm saying that, you know, people, gay men should do drag because women and go through you know, menzies and all this stuff. And then she apologizes for because she didn't know it was transphobic or whatever. And then she she says in this in the video, I never anything I do on the show never comes from a place of mouth, which looks like a bag on fire. Premise of the Wedding Blames show was so she could shoot on people on camera, so that they would know if she looked like as she shot on, because she did them for years on the radio, and she was like, give me, we were doing we were do one one day. We were amusing ourselves by doing Wendy Williams. Oh, it was just mat I take no part in this. It was matching a Wendy, will you unwrap a little? To take a too long time to say, I don't think Angelina and jelis and thens out truly which it will just spend thirty seconds and silent. She just keeps her audience in full blow sense. I'm here for well, actually, you know what's happening. It's actually reaching the point in the episode where we do I don't think yes, yes, so this is I don't think so, honey, And this is your first ever I don't think, never done it because we have asked you to do the show and I have not, and you have not been availed. But this is a moment in time, moment in time. I also can't believe it's because we don't record episodes in l A but I feel like this is like a podcast you should have been on nineteen times or absolutely and now that we're here in Los Angeles, I've wanted to be hunt for a long well I know, literally you've been top of our list, and then like when we come out to l A, like you're either in New York or traveling or whatever you want to ask, because I didn't want to seem like I was thirsty. No, No, You're welcome anytime. You are truly the ideal guest for the ideal Ghosts. And that's what we said, Well we're going to have a first guest, let's have it be the one's the one podcast, um. And so this for everyone that's catching up. Maybe you're a new fan of the podcast. If you this is your first time listening because of our new Daddy's and Mommy's I Heart Radio. Thank you for making it to this point. What I don't think so honey, bow, I don't think so honeys are a one minute segment. We take one minute to rail on something against culture or in our lives and eating in general, while repeating the phrase I don't think so honey. If we'd like and going absolutely off, it's about an economy of rage. So I actually have one. Okay, you have one, So this is Matt Rodgers. I don't think so honey. As time starts now, I don't think so honey. Yes we're going back to planes. People who have a problem with my ass reclining. Okay, So all of a sudden in the news, absolute fools. I need to turn around and ask you if I need to recline, bitch. No, I don't think so honey. You're gonna make this an issue now after people are already in my lap for decades. Girl, No, it is the wild West up from the sky. I'll be reclining as much as I damn like, as far as this can go absolutely back. I do think, so honey. You're tapping on my shoulder and being like, hey, I'm so sorry, could you move it up a little bit, because yes, I have been you, I have had in my lap and I don't like it. I don't think so honey. So I am willing to have a collaboration, but don't think I'm gonna ask for And I definitely don't think so honey. The ce motherfucking oh of Delta being like I'm gonna weigh on on this with my dumbass and say, yes, you should ask people to recline five seconds. No I don't. I don't think so, honey. That the coffee is bad, I've been drinking that And that's one minute. Girl out a lot of stuff this episode. It's a plan centric episode. But can you believe this ship? I mean that video is nuts, video is insane, Like that man is a lunatic. No, he should go to jail, truly, yes, take him straight from the plane to jail. He is crazy. And the fact that the woman had like the foresight to record it and not just be like what Yes, she probably was like stop it and he was like no, and then she's like, great, I'll record you. Can you even believe like fucking children on plane? Oh yeah, I've had my bad moments because I feel that once you get up there, you do become a different and darker version of yourself. But like some people like it's beyond but there's something recognizable in the guy in a way that's not not in not in yourself. I've seen this man before, absolutely like very entitled and like I need to get my way. Yeah. Yeah, it was using like the last seat of the plane you chose that, or like you didn't pay enough money to choose a seat, So sorry, sorry, that's the way it is. And also it's like we are all, at the end of the day, human beings. Yeah, and you on some of those planes you cannot sleep when you're upright, it's you. It's not a competition for the body. I couldn't believe when he was shaking that seat so hard. But now now it's like the motherfucker that's in charge of Delta. And I say this as a Delta girl is going to come out inside with essentially him, right what. Also, it's a thing where it's like, and someone wrote this in Vulture about this in Vulture, it's like there's a button on the chair that does the thing that you're everyone is allowed to do. It's not up for discussion. You're able to do it, So you shouldn't ask for pres You didn't break the seat to make it happen anyway. Okay, this is gonna be bowe and yang. Okay, to see the thing is often doesn't have no No, I have one. He doesn't have one. Okay, this is bone. I don't think so, honey, his time, I don't think so honey, motherfucking jade rollers. Bitch, mine broke in half on the way here. But then I realized, wait, this whole thing is bullshit. And I for the beauty bloggers out there who are gonna come for me and say, but blah, but who are going to try to explain my culture to me, don't even try. No. Look, jade rollers you put them in the fridge and you roll them on your face and they're supposed to tighten your pores or like drain out the lymph up up or something. I don't think someone, no, no, no, no, no, But see, this is not real. This is I am picturing may mother when I was like ten years old, just rolling around her face and being like looking at it, being like this is bullshit, that doesn't work, and putting it away, and that is locked into my memory for the rest of time. It's pseudoscience. It's not real. Even the Chinese people don't think it's So. If you're if you're looking up a video on YouTube of like an Asian woman with a huge mole on her face saying this is how you use a Guasha jade roller, and you believe it to be true. You dispelled that from your mind. Jade rollers are bad. They break, and they're scam on Amazon. That's one minute, and that's one minute. And that I if there's anyone I would trust for critique on creature comforts, it is, Oh my god, here, my dear friend loves a jade roller. It doesn't do anything. She's got very sick disease. She's got great skin, she's got amazing but also she does other things. It's not just the other stuff. It's not Corey, it's I would tell that she has a very sick disease and it's taking over her brain. It's taking over her brain. Um, but there you go. I'm not going to invest than that one. No, not at all. Please don't. Okay, this is no coal buyers time. Now are you ready? Okay, she's she's gonna pop off. She's gonna pop off. This is no coal buyers. I don't think so your time starts now. Okay. So I was on w W dot oh navy dot com, and I know it's not opulence, it's not luxury, but I was looking for affordable pants. Why, to my surprise, his old Navy selling boot cut jeans. Again, I don't think, so, what kind of boots are trying to cover with jeans. Also, if you were wearing boots, don't you want the people to see them. They're not straight leg, they'rears, they're not wide leg. Jeeves are just some middling in between type of pants. What's to wear it? I don't think. So. I see the streets wearing boot cut jeans, I will spinning your face a second and knocking down the stairs and say you stupid fucking bit five second, and then I will rip them off of you. And then I will sell them to a proper with and put them back on you and let you back into the world. And that's one minute essentially a helpful young woman, very healthful boot cut jeans. It's true. People be trying to And this is just when I'm wrapping my head around Highwaysted. I like the highways that the boot cut I cannot who's covering a boot? Yeah? Okay, So here's the deal. Here's the deal. Nicole has summer to be she's a show. She's a working comedian. Get Catcher Arlington Catcher in Nashville. Please get damook all of her program, listen to all her podcast. We love her so much, Thank you so much. For doing this, thanks for squeezing me, and you moved your photo shoot. Thank you. That's because we knew it was the moment and there couldn't we could not be just a little moment in between therapy and a show. Yes, spend her up on a microphone. Yes, thank you for squeezing us. And so when we were both squeezed in and um, actually we're gonna squeeze one thing out before we go, which is we end every episode with you give me one more montin time when I could be the moment uptime, I will be, I will be, I will be a rain struggle to pretend