The Top 200 Moments in Culture History

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Web series story Matt Rogers and Study Green to Peter
Kelly the Britain episode, which was modeled after that fifties
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for that shout out to my work. It's wonderful. Um.

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You and I are Chloe and Holle and we're we're
in the tennis courts shooting our music videos. Wow, we
are very Chloe and Hell Chloe. Can I say, like
out loud right now that we are the Chloe and
Hollye of podcasting, and this is and that we were
influenced by Beyonce and ye are a duo. We were
influenced by Beyonce. We were raptured by a larger corporate

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structure also known as I Heart, also known as um Well,
Will Ferrells are Beyonce. Will Ferrells really our Beyonce. And
also we should say that, um, while is it Chloe
or Halley that is in Little Mermaid, It's it's Hallian
Calle is it in Little Mermaid? And we aspire to
be in Little Mermaid as Flotsam and jetson. So there
is like a familial thing here. We are all sisters.

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And I am so happy that my sister is here
in Los Angeles with me because I can better take
care of her and she me, and also we can
do things like this very fun episode because I don't
know if you know, and I know that you know.
But that's the way I can transition into saying it's
actually our two hundredth episode of Lost Cultures, and there's

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I mean, let's do the math. Two hundred times one
point five. That's three hundred hours on average of us talking,
hundreds of hours of us out there shooting the absolute shit,
saying really crazy things. And that's the thing is, it's
like people who are like I'm starting the podcast from
the beginning, I'm like, oh, bitch, to be a journey.

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You're gonna hear us talking about how we can't wait
for Hillary Clinton to win the damn president thing. Let's
just say we, like the rest of the world, from
March two thousand sixteen to November sixteen, were quite confident
and now it'll it is like kind of crazy to think, like, um,
how far not only like the podcast has come, but
also the world has come and we've come individually, but

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also that we started this in a different world climate. Yeah,
like in almost every way. I mean yeah, And look
now you and I are both completely radicalized, and um,
we're radical girl, We're radical girls. We embrace the radicality.

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Let me just say, Matt Rodgers just mixed to me
the strongest vodka Red Bull I've ever had, and it's
such a tall, tall tumbler. Well there's two shots in
it too, full shot girl. I have not had a
full on cocktail in like a month. Well, this is
part of the new normal, which is we have to
find a way to drink too much, even though we're
not going out, and this is just gonna be like,

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I'm excited that Boonen is here. It's our two hundred episode.
I mixed us a little celebratory cocktail, and I'm very
excited about it because this is not just the two episode.
We've actually prepared, which we do not often do for
last reasons. We have prepared a list and it's it's
actually real culture number thirteen. Culture is lists absolutely and

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Bowen what is this list? So it's our two hundredth
episode of Lost Cultures, just not counting those little, you know,
ad swamps where we just do a little fifteen minute
episode where we show you a preview of a Jaws
theme podcast or whatever, the standalone episode. So in honor
of this, we have prepared a list of the top
two hundred moments in culture history. These are the top

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two hundred moments that have happened in culture history, as
decided by Matt Rogers and Bowen Lost Culture Estes. We
are a little bit drunk, but we feel very confident
about what we've put on the list, that this is
a definitive list that is empirically ordered. I would say, um,

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every spot on this list. Uh is a huge deal.
It's culture. It's it's something that shaped the culture in
a positive way from the beginning of recorded history. Yes,
from our viewpoint, which is the empirical objective viewpoint, because
I actually remember the first episode of Last Cultures and
we're calling all the way back, we did say it.

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If we say it on this podcast, it is cannon.
Did we say this, Yes, we we said we are
the Lost cultures. Does I means we are the arbiters
of culture and taste? Yes, I mean we We really
evolved over the course of that first episode where we
started out. I do believe we started out by saying
we're the arbiter where the consultants of culture, culture consultants,

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which is not a phrase we have said since, not since,
but I really want to harken back to that sort
of um that ethos and then and then by the
end of the episode, I guess we said that anything
that we say is canon. Yeah. Well, even if it
wasn't said, I'm saying we said. And what's important is
that we as culture consultants have consulted with each other.

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And I don't trust anyone as much as I don't
trust anyone as much as Matt ros and you know
that I've been I have not been blowing smoke up
You're asked these last couple of days since I've seen
you in person, I was like, Matt Rodgers, He's he's
he's he's the one, He's the culture Maven Well, and
we know that Bowen Yang has, you know, not only
created culture in his own right, but he is one

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of the refined minds of our generations. And this is
us sitting in my apartment absolutely blowing smoke off each
other's but holes tight or otherwise, hight or otherwise. And
I have to say we have raised our drinks. And
this is also going out to not only just our
incredible team at my heart, but also shout out to
Forever Dogs. Forever Dog. Shout out to Yes Go gave

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us our start and allowed us to do exactly what
we wanted to do. Shout out to every single guest
we have had on the podcast, thank you, and what else.
Anyone that's come to our live shows I don't think
so honey live, anyone that's bought a ticket, anyone who's
performed for that matter, performed for that show. And so

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we have to say to all the readers, thank you,
bitch for listening to last culture reasons, whether you're a
recent person who started listening or you've been here from
the very beginning. I remember we used to look at
our listener account and be like, oh my god, sixty
two people listen. Remember that. I remember the day that
we broke three digits, three figures, and that was a

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big day. I think it was on the Aaron Jackson
and Josh Haarp episode, the first And they'll be back,
and they'll be back back. But suffices to say, we
have accrued much knowledge over these years during the podcast,
and we came in with our inherited knowledge is as
homosexual gay man, and we have put together this list. Now.
Matt alluded to earlier that we consulted with each other

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on this list, and that is true. We there were
a couple of points of contention on this list. I
wanted to take some stuff off. I wanted to add
some stuff in. Matt said, no, we're keeping that note.
We're we're not putting that in. Although I will say
ultimately this was a pretty We only disagreed about two
or items and like pretty much the rest of it is.
Of course, but I'm saying this is a collaborative effort.

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This is an effort that we had to, yes, kind
of watch ourselves on on an individual level and be like, actually,
know if this is not important to me, this is
important to him, or it's important to me and not
to him, And I'm gonna fight for its importance. This
is a beautiful list. I think it's some of our
best work. I think it's some of our best work.
And I think that everything here has a place here
and belongs here. And I am excited to start the

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list mailing of the top two moments in pop culture history. Yes, okay,
let's begin with the very first thing we have to say.
There is an honorable mention on the list. Honorable mentions.
She did not make the cut. She almost made the
cut Ladies and Gentlemen number two hundred and one, but
doesn't really get a number because she did not make
the list. It is Nicole Singer, give it up. I mean,

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I was listening to react today. What a comeback single,
great comeback single. And you know, I've really respected her
since buttons absolute Louis and you've you've had to respect
her at some point, especially when she was Andrew lod
Webber's firstwhile news and then they felt that they had
a falling out. Well they you know, they had a
falling out because she wanted to do The X Factor

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in the UK because she is famously an international talent
show judge and we respect that, and you respect her
because she's an international talent show judge. And she also
can turn on musical theater. Yeah, oh yeah. And the
voice you can't, you can't, you just can't beat it.
I mean, her performance of Don't Cry for Me Argentina

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was absolutely amazing. And Andrew load Webber famously said, I
mean the way she acted that amazing and she's incredible.
But she did not she did not make the list.
But let's not get going. Let's get started unless we
have to blow past a lot of these items. But
let's start with number two hundred. Let's say together for
all of these number two hundred, when when Brittany said
good Morning America. When Brittany came out and said good

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morning America in that voice, I mean I think that
we all knew she was bad. She knew she was
back promoting her new lead single against Me, good Morning America.
And I promise you it'll be a morning to remember,
see you soon that you know, and then the transition
into would you hold it against me? I mean there

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there has a lot that can be said about Britney Spears.
She is a revolutionary pop star. But when she came
out and said good Morning America, I feel that America
really woke up. She had just I mean it sounds
like from her for the timber of her voice, it
sounds like she had just swan dived into a pool,
got a little flemmy in the nose and in the sinus.

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And then there was Brittany, you have to shoot your
good Morning America promo right now. I mean it sounded
like like a cartoonishly big hammer hit her right in
the nose and broke it. I mean like, honestly, it was.
We will never get answers really as to why it
was the way it was, but I can say what
answer to your question? Was this iconic? Yes? It was
number two hundred on our list. Yes, let's move on

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to number is TL video. This was an amazing video,
an amazing song that was later covered by Glee stars
Lea Michelle, Lea Michelle and I believe Diana Agron Diana
when they did I'm Pretty mashed up with I Feel
Pretty from West Side Story iconic mash up. But of
course we have to go back to the source, and

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that was the Unpretty video which started t Buzz, Chili
and left Ie in some sort of future, some like
sort of floating den. There was very much their vibe.
It was off of fan mail, and of course we
remember the theme was like Y two K digital and
it's the video is sort of interspersed with cuts to
a bunch of monitors that say things like probe searching

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or digital search or these very new concepts at the time,
Like computers were huge at this time, and so what
they did was they blended the idea of computers with
the idea of and so they took those two things
and put them together. And honestly, this is an absolute
bob of a song. Its lyrics are beautiful and the

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video took it to the next level. You got acting
from the girls and I love it when to pop
star acts and we can't have tlc araser no no no,
I mean, and we can't have a raiser over the
fact that t Bas went on Celebrity Apprentice and was
and had to make an impression for our current president.
Isn't that crazy? Oh my god, to think that these

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celebrities had to dance, and to think that t Bas
had something like unpretty inside her and she had to
like bow down to Trump. No, like please, Trump needs
to have some respect for t Bas and by extension,
Chili and left Ie, who we say, rest in peace.
Left Eye, you are amazing in an icon. You're amazing
in an nicon. What's the next one, man? Well, the
next one hundred. Number one on our Top two hundred

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Items and Culture list is the Austin Powers Trilogy starring
Mike Myers. I think we can say this was an
incredible character, an incredible character for Mike Myers. What to
be a well and you cannot to speak that it
was a trilogy. Oh no, There were three films in
this series, which makes it a trilogy by definition. And
to think of the characters that were born not just

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from one film, but two and three films. You had
Fat Bastard played by Mike Meyers, Mike, you had gold
Member played by Mike Myers. You had Seth Green Scotty,
you had Seth Green a Scotty. I mean, also, never
forget probably the iconic character from it all is not
even Austin, But I would say Dr Evil. Dr Evil
played by Mike Myers play and to think he is

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out there playing multiple characters, this obviously as an actor
who has been involved in sketches, and we know that
from his origins at a Saturday night, Yes, which puts
him in the family. Which puts him in the family,
you know. And many people say Dr Evil is based
on Mr Lorne Michaels can confirm, can neither confirm nor didn't?
You have to wow? Okay? And also we have to

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shout out the amazing women of the franchise. I'm talking
about Elizabeth Hurley there and Beyonce Knowles Carter. The fear
in Bowen's eyes as he checked in with me that
it was in fact Heather ground it was. I was
sure that it was Heather. I wasn't sure if you,
like had had left Heather Graham's mind behind back in
two thousand three. Excuse me, this is the hangover rature.

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She had to come back, her incredible performance, her incredible
versatile performance of performance in the Hangover and empowered performance.
And I think we can all agree that Austin powers
was comedically a formidable trilogy when and it's time. I'm
saying you and I have talked about how I mean,
I love Austin powers me too. It's I'm not lying,

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and I wanted to do a fourth is our energy
mannic Right now, I am is hitting me sideways, it's
fucking me sideways, and I am who maybe that someone's
getting sideways. I'm amped, I'm not. Let's talk about Can
we talk about something? What did the math? I have
not had sex since December? You did? For a second,

(16:59):
I thought you said I did meth. I said I
didn't have math, and you have had sex since when
I did meth? And I did the math and I
have not had sex since December. We don't have to
we can cut this. That's six months. Yeah, and we're
not going to bitch bitch, Well, we'll have to find
someone who's COVID free in Los Angeles for you. I

(17:20):
I literally implore, like, it's going to be such a
fabulous experience for the person fucking you end for you
to have sex, so much pressure on them and on
it doesn't need to be a lot of pressure, and
you know what, it should be fun. It's actually real
culture number eleven sex should be five. We are minutes
into this episode, SIPs into our drinks and a hundred

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ninety seven away from our top number one moment and culture.
So our number one nine seven moment of culture is
ocean expedition slash exploring of our world. See that you
put this in explain this. I think that once we
just once we just of her, that we could go
into the ocean and discover the bottom of the seas.

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That opened the door to so much culture Because think
about all the culture we would not have if we
hadn't been able to explore the seas of the world.
You know, Titanic, which we're going to touch on later,
we would never have Titanic fever finding Dory, That's what
I'm saying. Finding Dory and also finding Nemo we have.
There are so many things that are happening in the
ocean that we needed. We required scientists to have the

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technology to go around the ocean to discover. Do you
have any oceanographers marine biologists that you want to shout
out right now? Yes, I would love to shout out
Miss Frizzle who got in her Um. Of course, magic
school Bus, which was famously was magic and dove to
the bottom of the sea. And we should say, right now,
as I shout her out, miss Frazzle did not make

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the top two hundred items. They're sorry we apolished her.
Not that she didn't even in, but she just wasn't
one of the top two hundred. She and like we're
not talking about her like I I did not. I
have not thought of his first and so long, and
I can't say that I have either. It took you
to bring her up for me to remember who she was.
What is your favorite moment in ocean history. I think

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my favorite moment in ocean history was when I mean,
we're to talk about it later. So I don't want
to sort of shoot my load as it below the load,
my load as it were. Um. But you know, just
even the beginning of Titanic, I remember as a kid,
when they were going down into the rusty rest of
the ship. I was like, there's something about this that
I left. I want to be down there. I want

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to I want to dig up the little things from
the fireplace. And there's something there's something so great about that,
and it just made me, you know, if if Titanic,
if I followed that thread a little bit more. If
I pulled on that a little bit more, I might
have been, you know, the submarine biologist, you know who
Bill Paxiston in that movie. I would have been like
you might have been like Bill Paxiston in that movie.

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I've been able to discover many things. But we're an earring.
He didn't ear piercing, remember exactly. He did in a
shaggy haircut, and they cut a plot line where he
fucked Susie Amos, who became James Cameron's But listen to
stay tuned. You're gonna have to stay tuned on that one,
because let's just say that we may not be done
with Titanic Fever, sir. Not Okay, okay, next one, This

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next one is an It's Will Smith as a rap
pop star who could forget. But you think there's a
world where he was a pop star. He was a
popular rap artist. I would go so far as to
say that his rap was more pop music than it
was like hard rap music. Not that rap music has

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to be hard, but obviously it got more play on
pop radio than it did probably on urban radio. I
don't know. I don't have those facts and fingers in
front of me. But I think, you know, when someone
like Will Smith is singing songs like the Wild Wild
West is singing songs like Men in Black is singing
songs like with It, you know, I'm thinking, this is
someone who's appearing on pop radio with a pop sensibility.

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And he did really have an impact. He had a
huge impact, I would say. I remember, I really did
feel something. I never ended up seeing the movie, but
when the Wildlad West trailer played on TV, I was like,
there's something so cool about this and and wait, this
is a Stevie Wonder song, Like you know, it just

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opened a lot of doors for me. Culturally. Well, I'm
telling you what you missed out on was some iconic
Salamahayak culture because she is, of course the female lead
in that little film, and there's great performances in it.
It's a silly, silly movie, and you do see a
little Will Smith. But in it, who who could dispute that?
Who could who who could resist that? No one could resist,

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especially at that time Will Smith was a movie star
and a music star, which gets lost gets lost? And
this is the moment in culture that we wanted to
sort of canonize in the list right. I wouldn't say
anything else that he's done is worth mentioning on this list.
Just him as a rap slash pop star, his musical remember,
just the two of us. Oh my god, get out

(21:59):
of here, two of us. We can make it. Which
iconic culture speaking of iconic musical culture, bowing this one?
Number one is the boy is Mine? It just it
still holds up in a way that is that Not

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a lot of culture does that opening that dialogue? I
mean what other songs have dialogue to open them? I
mean none like this. What we get is a full
scene with the two young women, of course, I'm speaking
of Brandy and Monica. And would we be able to
do the dialogue right now? Absolutely? Um? Okay, you're that's

(22:44):
how that's how we identify. Okay, go excuse me. Can
I please talk to you for a minute? Mm hmm sure.
You know you look kind of familiar. Yeah you do too,
But um, I just wanted to know. I want to
I want to know, do you know somebody name? You
know his name? Oh? Yeah, definitely, I know his name. Well,
I just want to let you know that he's mine. No, no,

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he is mine. I have a question to ask you
where do you think they were in that scene? What's
the place? Because I have a clear answer from the
very first moment I heard this as a child, I
have a clear answer of where they were. Okay, I'm
gonna say they're at a public pool. Okay, that's cool.
As an I was in elementary school at the time,
and so for me, like the social hub in elementary

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school is the cafeteria. Even though so even though these
were women in their late teen slash early twenties UM
at the time of recording, I imagine them to be
in a cafeteria setting of some source. So you did
see them in sort of like a high school vibe.
I thought it was high school, but even like, more
specifically spatially, it was in the cafeteria of my elementary
school in Montreal at the time. I get it. So

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I think for me, I kind of I associate this
as being like a summer jam. Yes, and I think
I saw like a pool, yeah, a pool because it
was a summer and also just like them, sort of
being at a place where one could be with their
group of friends and another could be with their group
of friends and where does that happen? But I haven't

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thought about it until this moment. That's isn't an interesting
question to ask. So ask yourself, reader, where when you
first listen to The Boy's Mind? Where did you think
that Brandy and Monica were in the beginning? And also,
any any song, any song that you hear, think, where
is this happening there? It's it's actually a really culture
number thirty. Any song that you think, where is this happening?

(24:37):
Like on the album Chromatica. We can imagine that a
lot of those songs are taking place on Chromatica. Yes,
but the geopolitical thoughts around music I think are left
out of the conversation right exactly. And you know, speaking
of geopolitical thoughts, we are going to move along to
um so so much so such a mind went into

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the creation of this movie. But we're not talking about
the writing of the movie. We're talking about a specific
performance in the movie. One four on our top two
hundred is Rooney Mara in The Social Network. Now, why
is this culturally important? Bow she is in that, the
character of Erica in The Social Network, Mark Zuckerberg's fictional
perhaps former girlfriend, is in I want to say, three

(25:23):
scenes in the entire movie. But she makes an impact
I mean she sets up the flaw of Mark Zuckerberg,
which is that he is huboristic and whatever only is
concerned about being cool, and she delivers iconic lines such
as because I watched this movie the other night with
my parents. It's on Netflix, and they loved it. They
were like, Mark Zuckerberg is like this. I was like, yes,

(25:43):
according to Erin's workin but the line the girls aren't
going to not like you because you're a nerd. They're
not going to like you because and then the Internet
is not written in pencil. I think it's written in ink.
I mean, she is really good at this, and I
would say it's a tone setting for a fabulous movie.

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And also it kind of like did give birth to
Rooney Mara David Finch rom Use because then she was
famously she was Lizabeth Salander and she was famously on
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which got her an
Oscar nomination, And would she have done that had she
not slaid so hard in the social network? Also iconic
be you representation, and there's not enough. There's not enough.

(26:27):
We don't see enough be you girls in film, and
that's real culture number nine. We don't see enough girls
in film. We're going so slow, we're we're only seven things.
Then we're twenty seven bits. And Hans Hans, our producer, said,
heads up for twenty seven minutes. And well, no one
asked him. Let no one asked him, No one is

(26:52):
he's doing a little cute, little um sort of smiley
face with the tongue sticking out, but no one asked
him what rule culture number I mean, this is not
rutal culture. This is moment moment Number one is who
wants to I won five thousand dollars and Studie Green
was my phone, my phone a friend a plus one

(27:13):
because they got rid of phone a friend. It was
a very much not a lucrative moment, but it wasn't
entertaining moment. And Chris Harrison shook her hand very hard.
Chris Harrison did a Trump shake on my hand where
he shook it and pulled me into a certain dominance
over me. And you can find it online and I
am not lying, And okay, let's move on to number

(27:35):
snatch game perform. Wanted you to come up and suck
me in the ass sometime. I think the undisputed best
snatch game performance ever followed very closely by jinx is
Little Lady. Absolutely, I would. And really what this does,
This Alaska's May West moment on the list really represents
all snatch games because it is a moment of culture.

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It's a moment of culture. So we're moving forward. Number
one on the list of top two moments in culture history.
It's the game tag You know what you love it?
You played it likely with many girls. They made a
movie about it. Yes, And it's the game of when
you are running around and you tag some with your
hands and they become quote it. Yes, it's actually real culture.

(28:22):
Number four, when you are tagged, you are, you become
quote unquote. It's let's just keep going. Number one nine
The Jaws Ride opens at Universal Studios. Now, this was
an iconic moment in my personal culture and I think
the culture of many, which was you could board a

(28:42):
ship in the Universal Studios in Amity Arbor and that
ship would be repeatedly attacked by the villainous shark Jaws.
And how it Jaws mete its demise It would bite
onto an electrocuted wire. Well, yes, it would bite onto
the electrocuted wire and explode in flames. It would then
arrived at the surface of the water as a charred mess,

(29:02):
and then it launches at the boat one final time.
The skipper shoots a shotgun that it finally dies, and um,
that is how you survived the Menace of Jaws. And
I can say here and now it no longer exists,
but for the one in Japan. Yes, but you've got
to go out there in Japan if you want to
ride it. Otherwise I just can't help you. We're going

(29:24):
to go there some day very soon. Once say, okay,
one is Mario? Oh my god, who hasn't played this?
Hasn't played this one? You love it? You love it?
And who are you usually when you play? I'm usually

(29:45):
a peach in the old school games, But in the
New School games, I like to be a warrio. I
like to be a toad At, So you like to
be a warrior on a toad at. I am always
going to be misstowed. You love mistowed. I love toad
because I feel she was moving around the fastest. I
love the kind of sounds she made, such as this, yeah,
like I thought that that was so enthusiastic, And I

(30:07):
loved her her freedom. I don't know why I'm calling
could tote a female. I don't think totally has a
job miss gender to tote is mail. You feel this
one tote is Mail. There is a famously trans character
in the Mario cannon, which is Burdo. Who is Burdo?
I would I would say, I should say Birdo is trans.
That's a real thing. Yes, she's she was assigned Mail
at birth. And in the lore of the second Mario,

(30:30):
like the whole thing was bird like back then. And
this is like the rough Japanese translation, but it was
Burdo thinks he's a girl. But then like Mario, Nintendo
have like sort of grown along with the time socially
and they're like, no, Burdo's trans is that serious? Serious?
Look it up, like, oh my god, I love that.
Moving on to one hundred, number one hundred. It's Vegas

(30:52):
residence really made being in Vegas what it is, and
she kept it for so long. She kept it going
for something. It was the double e thing to do
with your mother and when you were in Vegas. Absolutely,
and you know she's also kept those vocals up. We
can see her with that mask on, that sort of
saline mask with iconic culture. Is that image and we
have to think Renee. We have to think Renee. We

(31:16):
can't really get into how it's a little probb. It
feels a little predatory to me that Renee, you know,
went after Selene, you went there. You really we have
to it's we got to talk about these things. We love.
We love it. Selene loved him. Um, but you know,
we've got a question Renee's motives. That's certainly an odd relationship,

(31:36):
but one that did stand the test of time and um,
she was with him until his dying day. And you know, Selene,
we thank you for your incredible talent, the way you
touch of the world. And we remember Renee, even though
we have questions about the genesis of the relationship. But
that's really none of our business, is it. French Canadian queen,

(31:56):
French Canadian queen. We just bring it up. Um, We're
just bring it up. We bring it up, and that's
our roles to bring it up. Now, bowen. One number
Nadia achieving a perfect ten and gymnastics had never been
done before, and then she did it so many times
at that Olympics. You know she received over six top

(32:19):
ten score ten perfect tense. You know this off the
top of your head, I looked it up actually today
because I was thinking about putting it on the list,
and then I saw that you had already added it,
and I thought, Okay, we are simpatico because I also
just recently watched the documentary athlete A on Netflix, which
is a startling watch but I think an important watch,

(32:40):
and they talked about how Nadia was like the prototype
for that young, young, young girl that they created into
like an Olympics monster the world over, because China's fucked
up with no completely fucked and I mean the fact
of the matter is like we have to have a

(33:01):
serious looked at the way we are sort of grooming
these young girls to be these these machine athletes, because oh,
we see that in the US it kind of got
a little out of control. And by a little control,
I mean a lot out of control. The doctor was
a sexual predator. So, oh my god. But was it
an achievement that Nadia's got those tens? Yes, when it

(33:23):
was a moment in culture. Let's go to one A six,
what is this shell? The shining Wow, we all remember
her running about that house with the knife. I mean
the screams, the most iconic screaming film history. Oh, can
you do it? It's pretty good. Sorry, Oh my god.
Literally our engineer Dug I know, his head absolutely exploded

(33:47):
on that one. But she was giving you and Stanley
Kubrick was I mean psychologically torturing this poor woman. Impact
on her because Mr Vall, we hope she's doing well now,
but you know, things took a turn. I'm those were
the glory days of Shelley. But now like she's like
she was in an interview like a few years ago,
just like she's in a bad way. She um you know.

(34:10):
I I think we got an amazing performance out of her,
But at what cost? At what cost did great culture?
Let's keep going, Okay, So number one eighty five is
the name Amanda Culture. So there are so many millions
of women across America are named Amanda. And this is
a name that, you know, very similar to the name Chris.

(34:33):
I think with men, Amanda has really taken over. And
Amanda has absolutely revolutionized the Hollywood industry because every publicist
was named Amanda. Yes, many managers and agents named Amanda,
and some talent named Amanda. Some talent is named Amanda.
I would say that Amanda made a huge impact on
the culture. But not even just in showbiz. Let's not

(34:53):
limited to show biz. No, I would say in classroom,
in elementary school, classrooms, everywhere where, there were at least
four Amanda's in every class. Amanda. Really when we were
growing up, it really took the world by storm. From
the years nineteen eight seven to nine two, they were
approximately a billion Amanda's. A billion Amanda's who are now
in positions of middle management and even executive leadership. And

(35:15):
you cannot dispute Amanda, but you know, we don't forget
the Amandas that have been left behind, you know. And
and some Amanda's um they feel that they must shorten
their name to Mandy, and we're thinking of them. We're
thinking of them, and we are not going to tell
you what to do either way. But you know, just
to go back to your roots. You're an Amanda. You
have our support. Number one hundred eighty four on our

(35:35):
top two hundred list. Dakota Fanning sets a child actress precedent,
and it's eaten by her own sister l Who could
forget when Dakota Fanning really set the tone for child
actresses and then was eaten by her own sister l
Fanna Yeah, what do you think was the last great
Dakota Fanning work. I want to say it's Uptown Girls.
I was gonna say it's Uptown Girls and World War

(35:58):
World World, World War of the World. Where are the
roles she was? I mean, excellent. If you can hold
your own opposite Tom Cruise, Oh my god, you're really something.
You are a real talent if you can hold your
own off against that crazy man. But let's not forget.
I mean, once upon a time in Hollywood she played.
I didn't see this. She's phenomenal. Well, she's an incredible talent.

(36:20):
She's an incredible talent, and you know that she consistently
works in television. Now on that show with um with Evans,
I watched this show. Who is like fully gay? By
the way, I didn't realize that. Oh my god. No,
he's like literally the hottest and he's very gay on
his Instagram And he said this thing on Pride where
he posed his boyfriend, and I didn't realize he had
come out. And then I realized maybe he never did,

(36:42):
which I love, which, oh god, he didn't have to
publicize it too much. Oh, here we go. Someone wrote
the alienist Angel of Darkness so what we've got here
is Hans has come in and a huge bold made
us know that the series that's a coded Fanning is
in is called the Alienist. But we of course remember
her best from her incredible form performances in Uptown Girls.

(37:05):
I Am Sam, I Am Sam. Member of that movie.
She did this scary movie with Robert de Niro, Hide
and Seek, that was shocking, shocking. Wait, we have to
talk about L. We're ignoring the l of it all
and she completely ate her own sister. I mean L
came in and was in Maleficent one end two. L
was coming in as a child actress, and she was
more of a teen like now she's in the Great

(37:29):
getting amazing notices, but like Super eight into into Um.
She was a kid in super She was a kid
in super Ate at that UM that that movie, that
Sofia couple of movie. She was incredible and the Begot
very funny, very funny. In the Beguild. She's really come
out and also twenty century women don't forget women. She's

(37:51):
so good. She's got the damn resume and Dakota used
to have the resume. But that's what happens when you
said a precedent is your own sister might eat you.
But we're saying that Dakota is still very much established
and working on very good projects. She is a gold standard.
She's just not sort of um. She couldn't have stayed
a child forever. Yeah, I mean, well, you know, I
hope that she comes back with an adult role. Yes, okay,

(38:14):
So when number one is the Real House of Pa.
You've got Karen, You've got Hug, You've got Giselle. Oh oh,
We've got an amazing cast, and also real drama, real steaks,
and honestly, the other franchises need to take a page
out of the Potomac book. Scale it back, get human drama,

(38:37):
real drama, and honestly, we need a full reboot of
these other franchises. And I'm not afraid to say it
on this podcast. Nothing is doing what Potomac is doing,
and for that it gets listed on our Number three
on top two hundred moments of culture history is the
is the cocktail hitting you? Yes? Number one two is

(39:00):
Rosie Perez dancing the right on this specifically in the
opening credits, to do the right thing. Obviously a huge
movie seminal movie one of Spike Lee's best works. But
Rosie Perez Dancing to Fight the Power Um huge. I
mean what a huge moments, sexual, powerful, political, all at once.
And you couldn't have had it with anyone else but

(39:22):
Mrs Rosie Perez, who went on to do great things
and she was an Oscar nominee for the film Fearless
and we respect. Number one eight one is Adam Lambert
and Clay a a K. Lambert and claymate culture a
k a. Middle aged women love. I think enough has
been said about that, and we speak for itself. Number

(39:45):
one Jane Workouts because she's most commonly I think known
as an actress and an activist, but we know her
primarily as a bund of steel queen, a woman in
five acts, a woman with buns of steel. Oh please,
revolutionizing the way white women got their skinny little tight booties. Yes,

(40:12):
and it was a revolution. It was not televised, but
on tape. Oh, the revolution will be on tape. It's
actually a real culture. Number two hundred, The revolution will
be on tape if Jan Fonda had anything to say
about it is the second half of Gone Girl, the

(40:33):
book Girl, When You, When You, when that twist hit you,
that she was still alive. Spoiler alert, I've never had
more fun while the cool girl monologue, Oh that was writing.
Thank you, Gillian flanned you served it up on that one.
Thank you, and and Viv getting recast on Fresh Friends. Now,

(40:55):
why did this happen? And why is it important that
we comment on it? And you know there's no time
we're gonna move on to one hundred seventy seven, number
one seventies seven Emily Blond take out work. And this
was Emily Blonde absolutely entering the main stage and you
were like, who is this woman? Is she really British

(41:16):
because she's laying on this accent and thick But then
you find out, oh, she really is British. But the
moments in that movie I love my job, I love
my job, I joined job. And also you can never
forget only one stomach flew away from my goal weight.
I have patrick amazing, unbelievable. I mean, listen, Emily Blonde.
We have her today because of her Golden Globe nominated

(41:38):
work of the Divorce Product and we hashtag stam to
wait before we move on. Remember when her and Anne
Hathaway president of the Oscars for Mayor all that year
and it was a whole bit and it was like
funnier than any you know, any comedy, any comedy I've
ever seen. It was funnier than any comedy I've ever seen.
In Emily Blond, I'll never forget when she when she

(41:59):
snaps her fingers like you tell Anne Hath the way
to go into the room. So good, so good, so good.
So speaking of the ladies who are high fashion, we
have number one hundred seventy six Rihanna at Wow the
met Ball Gala. Bowen Yanga is feeling has Red Bull Vodka. Now,

(42:21):
what are some incredible looks of Rihanna at the Mecca.
I'm of course always remembering her yellow moment with that
huge circular train. Oh my god. We always remember the
Pope outfit, papal paple um, the Catholic imagination theme. Of course,
we remember so much Rihanna. She is the number one

(42:42):
met Galla moment. She is the staple. And remember she
is out there, you know, not necessarily making music, but
she has pivoted to fashion in a way that is controversial,
but we respect. I'm for it. I'm all for it.
I'm for it. Okay. So one hundred seventy five, every
time Kenny died on Park and they say, oh my god,

(43:03):
you killed bastard, you bastard. It was really Cartmon who
said you can. And remember when every kid in elementary
school was doing their Cartman voice. I remember this so
so so vividly. And I remember moving from Montreal to
Colorado and then all the kids in the third grade
being like, well, you're moving to where they where they
do South Park, That's where South Park is. And I

(43:25):
was like, that actually gave me a lot of cool
capital right as I was leaving. And so there we go.
That's local culture. And now one seventy four is the
Big Bang to be the beginning of our universe is
the Big Bang, which was a huge I don't how
did it happen. Um, I think it happened like one Adam,

(43:47):
you know, kind of got sucked up and then started
the whole and then and then the universe started to expand.
Well thank god, well, thank god, I mean you really can't. Yeah,
we have the Big Bang to thank for all of
the us. We really do, wouldn't you say, I mean,
we would not be sitting here without the Big Bang.
And so I definitely pour out some respect to ha Alright,

(44:09):
so this is one seventy three. This is Kate Notes
on a scandal saying you want to bar I just
think a screenplay that we remember. Yes, Number one seventy
two is claymation technology. Claymation technology. Now this is the
act of sort of making little clay figures and sort

(44:33):
of making them move. And then we get amazing things
like Chicken Run. Like Chicken Run darring mel Gibson. We
get I forgot that he was in that, and he
was just dropped from the Chicken Run sequel for all
of his resurfaced anti semitic and when he was just
dropped from the Chicken Run sequel, part of the news
that kind of maybe got lost in the mel Gibson
news cycle of it all after Winona writer decided to

(44:55):
speak out again, thankfully, is that they were good at DreamWorks.
Was I think going to do another Chicken Run with
mel Gibson attached, like some twenty years later? But it's like,
we don't have we can't have mel Gibson in movies anymore.
I don't think we can have mel Gibson and film anymore.
Technology stands as the number one seventy two, but we're
happy we have claimation. Of course, Rudolph, Rudolph, I think

(45:18):
I think it qualifies. Okay, So number one hundred seventy
one is Nicole's Pitman's American accent as seen in Big
Little Lies, as seen in many films, are American accent
is very American. I would say it's very Australian. Wow,
I would say it's very Australian learning American. There you go,
and that's the perfect middle grounds. And one hundred seventy

(45:40):
is American accent. Yes, of course it's very stressed. You know.
You can hear this in you know such films as
Revolutionary Road six, films as Steve Jobs, and you know
Titanic which stay tuned, stay tuned, actually know Steve Jobs.
She played, like, ah, yes, yes, I don't know why
I said Steve Jobs. There were some interesting accent work

(46:01):
going on in there, and that Oscar nominated performance. Of course,
one hundred sixty nine on our list is American accent.
You're so infuriating. I can't even come up with the line.
I think women have lives. I don't even know what
the full line. She definitely is American in those films.

(46:27):
Outside of the films, she's decidedly not. And we see
that sort of dialogue between Sarsha, between Nicole, between Kate,
but for none, for none of them, do I think?
I don't think the accident work takes away from the
performance exactly. And you know what three talents, three huge
white women talents. Yeah, and so speaking of talents and
white women, number one is Christine Apple and all of

(46:53):
her many projects. Can you speak to some of these
projects that Christine Applegate has been involved, you know, as
someone who's still hasn't seemed dead to me, I still
appreciate this. Hold on, let me say, married with Children huge, Yes, yes,
Anchor man Legend, Ron Burgundy, come on, iconic, And Samantha
be Samantha Samantha not Samantha b Smanthody is famously someone else.

(47:17):
We also have um the incredible bad Moms, Bad Moms,
Oh my god, who could forget just and honestly, if
no one has seen dead to me out there, and
some have, it's not like no one has seen it,
but you have to check it out. Dead to me
is culture, and of course also culture is Linda Cardalini,
who unfortunately did not but we do shout her out

(47:39):
on sixty seven Christmas, Well, could you even have culture
without Christmas? I don't think you could have culture without Christmas.
For Christmas to have its own genre of music, it
might as well be country. You know, Oh, it might
as well be country. It's actually a rule of culture
number fifty. Christmas might as well. My country is not

(47:59):
on the left, it's not on the last country. Music
did not make it, did not make it, but Christmas
as a season, as a holiday, as a vibe, definitely
made it. Because you know, what affects so many people
in terms of you know, and I hate to say it,
but the capitalist sort of machines. Yes, you know, it's
like saying like, you can't you can't be like I
don't see color in a racist society, even though it's

(48:21):
a social construct. Capitalism is a social construct. You can't
say I don't believe in money, um, but you can
and you can't say I don't believe in Christmas because
we live in a Christmas culture. We live actually in
a Christmas culture. And actually, if you really think about
how many months out of the year Christmas decides it's
optimal culture, it's really crazy. And we need to be
talking about it, and I say, where's that is when

(48:46):
the French judge was not fair towards the Canadian skaters.
You remember this, I actually don't. And you put this
on the list tonight. Oh my god. This is when
the Canadians doubles figures skaters were absolutely incredible when they
go this is years ago and there was doubles figure
skating and the Russian couple beat them, even though the

(49:09):
Canadian figure skaters are absolutely slate it. And then you
found out it came out that the French judge had
a biased vote and it was a little bit of
a fix going in, so they gave them co gold medals.
Oh my god, I can't believe you of Canadian culture
don't remember when the Canadian figure skaters got the shop.
Why isn't there a movie optioned about that? Well, we
should write it. And that's the thing is like, when

(49:31):
there's not a movie of things you have you have
tote it. And that's a rule culture number seventeen. When
there's not a movie of things, you have to write them.
Let's move on to skills conversations debate. I mean it's

(49:51):
a tales all the time, people debating what's better Eminem's
for skittles? Where do you stand? I stand firmly on
the side of my eminem sisters. Okay, what do you
say as someone who enjoys sweets and sugary sweets over chocolate.
I'm a Skittles girl, and I love skittles and I

(50:12):
always will the beginning of a new conflict between us.
The beginning let's move on to this is Jonas inventing
the polio vaccine Gone Fish. Tell us about Miss sal
Miss Salk was successful in the concept of noculating your
immune system with a weaker version of a virus such

(50:34):
as polio, such as coronavirus. And this is gonna be
a thing that sort of lifts as all, hopefully out
of the current squalor that we're in. I mean, you know,
let's not get too used to this, yep. Where the
goal is to get out of this situation with the
help of multiple vaccines, several of them in phase three
trials at the moment of this recording in late June.

(50:58):
And you know, we will not achieve herd immunity if
we don't if if, if enough people do not get vaccinated.
So let's we have to beat back this tide of
the anti vax movement and make sure that everyone gets
equitable access to a vaccine once it is invented. Number
one sixty three is big Old Meg the Stallion absolutely

(51:19):
burst onto the scene Hot Girl Summer, indeed Hot Girl Lifetime,
more like how Girl Lifetime. We're like, we would not
have Hot Girl Summer, we would not have none fast
Ship or the Savage Dream Mix or um Her Girls.
I mean this was this was to me the single
that's that launched Megan's career because I would agree And
this is the first one you turned to my attention,
and I knew that you were serious about it because

(51:40):
of the way you squealed, and you are a squiller
for Megan and I am too. Can you can you
just tell the listeners that I was in on the
ground floor with Megan. I will I can confirm to
the listeners. Boon Yang was one of the first to
even be speaking about Megan v. Stallion in the way
that we all are. You know, I'm just saying like
you need to respect just like we need to respect.

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Number one sixty two Joe Millionaire. This, of course, was
the reality show where several contestants thought that the suitor
they were competing for was a millionaire named Joe Millionaire.
His name I think was actually Evan. It was revealed
to the ladies that, um, he actually was not a
millionaire after all. He was like a simple farm person

(52:23):
and the woman he picked, Zora, had to deal with
that and they did not make it. They did not
make it, but there was a lot of tension in
that final episode because the Door first said no, rejected
the proposal, and then said she came back and said yes.
I think probably because she was trapped in a situation
and coerced by producers. I'd be very curious to see
how the Doors doing now. Unfortunately we won't have that

(52:45):
answer in this episode, but perhaps in a future installment.
Number one sixty one is art Pop. I mean an
amazing album, I think, ahead of its time, ahead of
its time. As our friend Sam Taggart has written about
in Vulture, it is her Pinkerton. It is the album
that was released to critical panning, and then over time

(53:06):
has developed a nice petina and we've all sort of
we listened back to it and this is actually genius.
Applause is amazing. We were too hard on it. Donna
Tella is incredible. G u Y watched the video again.
It's the last time Kyle Richards and Lisavanner pop were
able to be in the same place, and um, do
what you Want unfortunately a great song, but we have

(53:26):
the Christina Aguilera version, Yes we Do, which is a
definitive version which I believe is superior. And also never
forget the ballad Dope Dope, Oh No. I like she
performed indentures that the YouTube music Festidium and number one
sixty is another song. It's called this song Somewhere Over

(53:49):
This famously appeared in the film Wizard of Oz and
went on to have a quiet and impact on the culture.
It's you know, we we we get to graft a
lot of queer meaning onto the song. Now, um, you
know the song also in terms of the filmic narrative
aspect of it, you know, sets up Dorothy's want and
it's beautiful. It's sort of gets us into Act two

(54:09):
of the movie, which is when she lands in Oz
when she said it's a favorite of American Idol contestants
Kimberly Locker and I'm so happy that when we talk
about Somewhere over the Rainbow, we also say the name
Kimberly lock Um number one. Kelly Rowland saying she's the
second lead vocalist of the group. Huge, I mean when

(54:32):
she proclaimed that she was the second lead vocalist of
the group and she earned that look from Beyonce. This
is a YouTube video that you can all look up.
Just type in Kelly Rowland second lead vocalist other group.
You will not be upset that you did. Kelly Roland
invented a sort of role in groups and musical groups,
called the second lead vocalist of the group. Even though
the term lead vocalist would imply that there's only one

(54:53):
second lead vocalist means would would would require us to
believe there are two lead vocalists and one is sort
of Maine and one a second. And honestly, she did
correctly label herself she was the second LEO and this
was didn't she say this during the first generation of
Destiny's Child? She said it when there were still four
when there was four, so in a way you can
be like if it was just her, Michelle and Beyonce,

(55:16):
and she was like, I'm the second lea focus of
the group. That's a huge fu you to Michelle, But
what she's saying it when there's four, that's a funk
you to LaTavia LaToya. Yes, obviously, I mean she didn't
mean any harm. But at that point, could she have
done anything correctly? Probably not. Probably was held to be
Kelly Rowland. Number one is USA South Carolina answer to

(55:39):
her debate question, Um, I forget what it was. It
was about textbooks or something. Well, she definitely mentioned textbooks
and how there needs to be more education in schools,
but please look up on YouTube miss team USA South
Carolina to answer epically bad. Yes, you all know what.
You all love it, don't you. We've got to move
on because this is almost an hour in and we

(56:00):
are nowhere near getting to the top love the list.
So Number one hard for these seven is share disappearance
on Will and Grace. What chemistry with Sean Hayes. She
has chemistry with Sean Grace. You know that was thirty
minutes of work door to door and she was incredible
And that was that was famously where we developed a

(56:22):
vocabulary around a good term term and also she said
snap out of it and earned a check. Number one
is Simon and Randy. Remember these three, these were the
three in a lot of ways the original three yes,
and they are really the three yes. Now going forward,

(56:43):
we have one when Keen and ll did the orange
tell us why it's so important? Well, this was so
good because it was a reliable bit in the show
Keenan and Kelly that happened I think every episode, I
think was every episode then very close to and really

(57:03):
what Kel was asking was who loves orange soda? And
by the time the bit was over, you knew what
the answer was, Kell, Kell loves soda? Is it true?
He do? He? Do? He? Do you? And this actually
really did enforce upon us in a young communic age
that really comedy is commitment and its repetition. It's commitment,

(57:26):
it's repetition, it's volume, volume, and it's saying things in
a voice. And we should just say that keenan Kel
are sketch comedy legends and icons. They are the legendary
to the legendary too. Let's keep going. Speaking of legendary too,
Number one is Mr and Mrs Smith. Oh they met

(57:47):
on the side of that film. And boy, let me
tell you it was caputz for Brad Pitt and Jennifer
Anison at that point because brand Jelina stepped out to
the scene and they were the power couple for a
little while there. Don't you love that this huge Hollywood
are a couple of ment on the set of a
fine movie. I think it's a good movie, and I
think if you saw it again you would actually agree

(58:07):
with me. And it is hashtag and early Carrie Washington vehicle.
You're right, it's an early Carry Washington vehicle. If you
look up any sort of screenwriting, like treatment examples Mr
and Mrs Smith. For some reason, the treatment is available
and everyone sort of gets to read that and model
their treatments in their outlines. Number one of the three
is the great book, not the movie. The book. The book.

(58:32):
This is a very important book. If you're in high school,
you probably read it. Yes, you're in high school. You
don't need to see the movie. No one needs to
see the movie. It's not Bosslerman's finest work. I don't
think that would be Mulan Rouge. I would say that
would be Mulan Rouge. I think the book is great.
I think the book is short. It's you can read
it in one night when sitting. Um. We love that

(58:52):
cover with the eyes, Oh, the cover with the eyes.
Now one fifty two is Jamila Jamal's multiple slash con
conflicting stories about chased by bees. Now, can you elaborate
on this? She has multiple accounts where she talks about
the kind of very uh distressing experience of being chased

(59:17):
by bees out onto a street with moving cars. The
setting is vary from um like temporally and um geographically
that she was in England and she was young and teenager,
or that she was or that this happened two weeks
ago outside the u N when the Pakistani delegation was visiting,
or or something like that. I mean, there's just a

(59:38):
lot of stories of Jamie and jamil firsthand accounts of
her being chased by bees onto a street, and you know,
it's I think it's iconic culture. I think it's moving
the culture forward. We get to sort of talk about
bees and their place in our celebrities lives. Well, yeah,
I would agree, but I also I'm concerned for her,
and I wish that Jamilla would stay inside. You know,

(59:59):
I'm concerned for her if every time she leaves her
home that she has a be encounter. I hope that
she finds a way, you know, to really do a
lot of work from inside. I bet quarantine has actually
been kind of good for her because you can sort
of sit at the computer and not worry about bees,
unless you know they're so obtested with her that they're
making a weight into her home, which I really hope
is not the case. And we're wishing, wishing the best
for your Jamilia, and we're thinking of we love you, Jamila,

(01:00:20):
And this is number is speaking of bees. Honeys keep Jamila,
You're not gonna want to eat any honey cheos because
these are famously honey nuts cherios. I mean their cheerios
that are covered in honey nut. What do you think
honey nut is um? I think it's when bees come.

(01:00:42):
Now we're going to move on to one D fifty Witches.
Natalie and Meals relationship in Black Swan. Wow, who could
forget the film Black Swan and the relationship they're in
between Natalie and Milia. Natalie really kind of playing the
role of the white swan here and then mel playing
the role of the titular black Swan, and the question

(01:01:03):
loving in the air, will Natalie have what it takes
to sort of become the black Swan and what does
that mean for Mela. Now, do you think Mila is
dead by the end of the movie. I would say
that she's a lie. Natalie has sort of envisioned the
Black Swan and the Mila that comes to her later

(01:01:24):
on in the movie spoiler alert, who she stabs and
puts in the closet. Do you remember this part? No,
because you remember at the end of the movie, Mila
appears and it's we're to assume as the audience that
Mila was never really there antagonizing Natalie was all in
her head. But Natalie is definitively dead by the end

(01:01:44):
of the movie. I would say, I think that's what
the director, Darren Aronofsky and Natalie would want to get across.
But you know it's open to insterpretation, like a lot
of film. And you know, all of our readers watch
Black Swan and let us know what you think about
the ending we want to hear. Let's move on to

(01:02:06):
one nine, which is Michelle Kwan never winning gold medal. No,
she never was that gold medalist. She's the Amy Adams
glen Close of the Olympic, Susan Lucci of the Olympics. Well,
you know, Susan Luci ended up winning her at me.
Then you can't even say she's this. You can't even say,
like Jackie Cox can't even say she's the Susan Lucci
of drag No. So so Michelle, you know, we all

(01:02:29):
thought Salt Lake City was her year, and it wasn't.
It really was that. The fact that was Sarah Hughes
is year. We end You're the Serra Hughes and I'm
the Michelle Kwan of podcasting. Yeah yeah, I guess that
makes me a gold medal winner while you're just in
squaw absolutely with my with my Mani Silvers. This is
she endorsed Biden too early. Alright, So number one hundred

(01:02:53):
eight is Meryl Streets acting. She is an amazing act
I think she's one of the better actors. I think
that she's up there amongst the best actors that we have.
What's her favorite Meryl Street performance? I got to say,
I love Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady, and she
won an Oscar for it, you know, and it deserved

(01:03:15):
Oscar and it wasn't at all batty or it wasn't.
It was one of my favorite films. One of those
dynamic films I've ever seen is the Iron Lady, the
most exciting films where so much happens and you get
to see such a thrilling portrayal of dementia. That's amazing.
I don't know mine. Um Okay, So one is the

(01:03:35):
upside Down in the Rain and Spider Man. Wow, remember this,
it was happening in the rain. It was upside down.
Kirsten Dunch told me, why are with a secret? Good body?
She was writing that like tank Top, you can see
her in n applause. They were absolutely just two people
in love and they were really dating, kissing in an alleyway. Yeah,

(01:03:56):
and you know has come out and said that it
was actually was very hard too because the water kept
going up his nose. Hashtag comedic moment. Hashtag comedic moment.
Oh my gosh. And that's such a fun moment. Okay. So,
so the next two moments in history are a tie.
It's a tie, so tied for one and one six
are Michelle Yo in Crazy Rich Asians crowding Tiger in

(01:04:23):
a Dragon. I guess we should just talk about MICHELLEO
as a whole because these two performances are very different,
very different, very dynamic, and we have to we have
to remind the reader in case they don't know already
that we met her one time. We met her when
she was doing press first Star Trek when we were
interviewing her at Vulture Fest, and she was very cool,

(01:04:44):
very cool, and she had a lot of reverence from
her castmates, and we and I even slept in a
quick thing. And this was before Crazy Rotations came out.
But I was like, I'm so excited for Crazy rot Asians.
I like, I kind of crossed the boundary and I
feel weird about it. I don't feel you did, but
I was like, I was like, it's all I said
was it's very inspiring to me. And I looked during
her eye and she and she her facial expression changed
in a way that was like she registered what I

(01:05:05):
was saying to her as an Asian person and she
was like thank you. And I really felt it. She
is a dream. You saw that movement, right, Oh? I
saw it. I mean we were both there. I mean
it was very obvious that she was the international star
in the room and she was treated as such, which
we love. Number one hundred is Kale's designation as a

(01:05:27):
super food. Kale has really had a moment. I would
say Kle as soon as they said it's a super food.
I mean that was like the Debbie tump ball and
he saw Kale everywhere. Oh, and I think that you
know what song sounded different after that cut in, Oh,
I think that became about Kale and you were like,

(01:05:48):
this is about Klee. But I said seven eleven because
Beyonce wore that famous sweatshirt that said Kale on it.
She was iconic a mats and that sweatshirt, and then
you all of a sudden you saw people wearing it,
people like you, people like me. I don't think that's
much right, I have different Beyonce. You have a Kale.
I'll have a kick by have a kick by the
pound one. Sorry, you know me better. Number onety three

(01:06:10):
is let me blow your mind by even Stefan, do
do do drop your asses shake? No, drop your glasses shake.
They screwed up like you and Stefani. This was like
the first solo venture man iconic. Her first solo venture

(01:06:31):
at Side of Your Doubt was a feature on something
like that. Yeah, that was one of the first times
we saw and just went Stefani in a way that
was like, Okay, maybe there's going to be a moment
here and and there was indeed a moment. There wasn't
in a moment it because it hasn't held up, it
does not make our cultural list. But Halliback Girl, despite
being a moment, the album L A M B. Unfortunately

(01:06:51):
we cannot condone the horror Juku girls of it all,
and it does not even make it into the top
four on our list. Although I will say the closest
sort of candidate that win Stefani would have had on
this list was on the song make Me Like You,
which came out, Um, she just has a hook in

(01:07:12):
there or like a motif I would say, where she
keeps going, oh god, remember that. I actually have to
say something, Yes, I remember that, and I take it back.
She is on the list. Well we'll we'll find out
why she's on the list, but for now, Number one two,
Ryan Philipps. But it cruel intention. This is a great as.

(01:07:33):
It's an amazing ass. We saw it in the pool
light and you know who else saw it, Weatherspoon. And
she had to marry she mary that she married that ass.
You're gonna have to marry that as. You're gonna have
to marry that ass. Okay, so then a number hundred
forty one is the blank that that has monologue. Can

(01:07:53):
you do it? The clearance, that that has the international occasions,
that that has the profile, that that has a huge moment,
and it can apply to so much. Thank you in Navarro,
Thank you. One of the only top Republicans, one of
the only acceptable Republicans. No, she's the only one. I mean,
I don't even know she's identifying as a Republican anymore.

(01:08:14):
I mean, she might identify as conservative, but she's certainly
not going along. She's a trump pater. She's voting red.
What she's voting red, she's like voting for like red
cannon like Republican. We'll see about that, okay. Number one
hundred forty is disco. An amazing movement in music, a
huge movement in music. Thank you, Disco, Thank you so much.

(01:08:35):
Number one nine is Terry Hatcheris and Clark. Really it
was her first emergence on the scene. Was her incredible
sort of performance as Lewis Lane and Lewis and Clark.
This is before Desperate Housewives, this is before Desperate Housewives.
I remember watching Lewis and Clark as a child and
being like, this is the most beautiful woman I've ever
seen in my life. She's certainly that. She's certainly that

(01:08:55):
number one. Dty eight is the World of Pandora, A
Disney's Animal Kingdom. I mean, we've gotten our life here.
We've eaten at what was that beautiful steakhouse that we've
even see that wasn't in Animal Kingdom. It was called Tiffins.
But I mean is that wasn't at the World of Pandora.
It's right when you it's on the way to World

(01:09:16):
of pandas well. This is this I'm looking you in
the eyes and telling you Tiffins is in a different
area of the park, but it's the closest. It's the
closest three dollar sign restaurant and eating eatery in Animal Kingdom.
That's closest to Pandora. It is the nicest restaurant there,
but it is not in the World of Pandora. And
we are talking about the World of Pandora, right, Let's

(01:09:37):
talk about the World of Pandora. It's got the beautiful plans,
the bioluminescent plans. I'm happy that you enjoyed Tiffins. I
love because I have booked that for us and I
want to say I went to Tiffins with Michael Hartney
with Wow, You've been to Tiffins multiple times. I've been
to Tiffins with Michael Hartney, I've been to Tiffins with
um people, with Charlie Hankin of the probably everywhere we

(01:10:00):
went for a job in Orlando, and then this was
right when Pandora opened and we went to Animal Kingdom
and we got our life at Tiffins. And we should
say that Tiffins is great, but it is not on
the list top two hundred things in culture. The world
of Pandora is, and we don't have time to talk
about it, don't unfortunately. Number one seven is Patty Harrison

(01:10:21):
reveals Feud with Ellen podcast. Now, this was an incredible
moment where we've had really a first celebrity feud unveiled
on our podcast. This was a big deal and it
kind of developed over Patties appearances on the podcast, where
at first it was Ellen just being generally transphobic and

(01:10:45):
Patty taking a shoe with that, and then on Patty's
second appearance on the show, she talked about a specific
incident where Ellen um murdered a lot of concert which
is Patti's first her first night in her tour at
Stockholm and flipped onto the stage and called Patty mini slurs.
And we should all say, this is all quote unquote alleged.

(01:11:06):
So this is an alleged feud, but that happened between
pop stars Patty Harrison and now the generous and only
she can confirm. But um, thank you Patty for being
brave and thank you to share your story here on
the podcast. UM. And number one hundred thirty six is
Michelle Fiver as a cat woman and Batman returns. Who

(01:11:27):
could forget what she got pushed out of that window
by Christopher Walking and then she was licked alive by
cats and became a supervillain really and and put together
the most formfitting sort of costume that we've ever seen
in supervillain history. Oh, unbelievable. She had to be sewn
into the costume in real life. Just a little culture
of fact there. So Number one d thirty five on

(01:11:49):
the list is Marilyn Monroe and by extension, Smash, So
we wouldn't have Smash the show the musical they're in
without really Marilyn Monroe, who was a bombshell to the Bombshell,
the namesake Bombshell and Smash with the musical television show
that we would not have had had it not been

(01:12:10):
for Marilyn Monrose existence. Some like it hot, more like
we like it Maryland, We like it, Norma Jean. Let's
keep going on. The motor roll Raiser, Now, the motor
roll Eraser was a huge phone back in the day,
the aspirational phone, in fact, the iPhone before they were iPhones.

(01:12:31):
I mean it was the motor ill Eraser, the Sidekick,
and BlackBerry all sort of swirling in the same pool.
But as you know, in our lives and our sort
of developments as non solvent financial, non financially solvent high
school students, I mean, the motor role E Razor was
the closest thing we could get to like status phone.
When you say, was that the one that went pretty

(01:12:52):
when you texted someone? It was like, I'm not sure. Okay,
well we can move on a number one thirty three?
Is Were you ever a kid? No, I was more
like a tamagotchi girl. Okay, I respect that. What is
neo pets to you? Neopets to me was kind of
the first I understood that the internet could be a

(01:13:13):
vessel for capitalism, where you know, if you had to stay,
if you wanted your neo pet to stay at the
nice hotel, you had to pay a huge amount of
neo coins wherever the currency was. And I was like, oh,
this is how the world works in real life, but
it's on the internet and this made up world of animals.
So it was an intro to capitalism for you, absolutely,
and then therefore it makes it onto the list. It

(01:13:33):
makes it on the list because you had to earn
money by playing games with your pets to make them
happy and to feed them, and if they weren't fed,
then they would die and you would feel bad. It
was just similar to Toma, similar to Tamagtcha, but with
Tamagotchi there wasn't this whole economy around do you want
to give your pet a massage, it has to make
the nice massage place. Like the social status and the
cast system of society as it were, was sort of

(01:13:56):
grabbed onto the world of neopets, and you learned a
lot as a kid. I so so really um Toma
got you with more about life or death, and Pats
was more about like a commercial society totally understand. Number
one two is when people started saying slash typing l L.

(01:14:17):
Now this has really taken ahold of the culture in
a way that I don't think we could have anticipated
in the beginnings of a O L instag messenger. L
O L not only did it arrive in the scene
in a big way, but it is here to stay.
I mean, you've got people saying l O L in
real life. L O L has really lasted far beyond
B R B or G two G T T y L.

(01:14:38):
I mean, who says these thing? Cares about T T
y L. We say L L all the time. It
transcends demographics, that transcends age groups, that transcends race. What
what can we say that transcends race? Not much? But
l O L definitely does. L O L is used
the world over. No. Number one one, speaking of you
know sort of things technologically took the world of flame.

(01:15:02):
This is the invention of gone all the days when
you had to call someone later and be like, hey,
I'll get you this money later. No, no, no, Now
you can just text the girl the cash over the
internet and there was no excuse. It's like, hey, you
haven't venmoed me. You haven't fulfilled my venmo in a while.

(01:15:23):
Oh yeah. Now you know when someone is troublesome in
your life if they have not fulfilled your venmo. And
I'm thinking actually of Bow and Yang for many years
was a vanmo bandit you you still really take a
long time to fulfill venmos. Okay, I'll cop to that now.
Not not so rich rich woman. Number one hundred and

(01:15:46):
thirty is Sandra Wine winning Survivor Pearl Islands. A huge win.
I mean a win that she could have won, she
could have easily lost, but um, what's her face? Litl
litl eliminated, eliminated once during the game, came back as

(01:16:06):
an outcast that made it to the end. Really one
of the first goats, if you will, really easy for
Sandra to win, and she was a smart player, smart
tratetic player. She's your girl, Sassy Sandra, and she won
again herees versus villains. And this we really include on
the list because it was the introduction of Sandra Dias
Twine into the franchise up Survivor. But it was that
Lil eliminated. It was that Little chose Santa to go

(01:16:28):
to the top two and little eliminated fair play Johnny
fair Play. And so at that point Sandra was like,
I've got this. She really took her moment there. Number
one is the actress Regina King and everything and everything
she's in Watchman. If Bill Street could talk, never forget
Miss Congeniality, to never forget Blonde, to a sequel Queen

(01:16:53):
two to seven, never forget all the American crimes, I
ever forget any of it. Jerry mc wire, Jerry McGuire,
and we got to say we also met Regina King one, Yes,
we did. Wasn't she the coolest person, coolest, best dressed person,
best energy. Yes? And you this is before I Feel
Streak talk came out. You brought it up and she

(01:17:14):
I remember the look on her face when you said
the words, and we're so excited that if fiel Stree
could talk would come for that to come out. And
she lit up and she was like thank you. She
the look in her and her eyes was thank you
for bringing this up. She was thankful for you. I
don't have to reveal that I can remember clear as
day that it was you who brought up if Bill
Streak and I brought up seven seconds. I did not
bring up a Filtre. Did you brought up both? No,

(01:17:36):
I didn't know what it feel streeld Talk was at
that time. You said that she had a new piece
by James Baldwin that she was working. I gave you.
I said, you have a new a movie based on
a James Baldwin book, James Baldwin story. And then you
said if fiel Street could talk, that is I probably
did say that, but I want to give you credit
to it because you did bring up that. But the
thing is we actually recalled both things that she had

(01:17:58):
won an award for because I said seven seconds and
I said, we are putting into the atmosphere that Regina
people will win another enmy day. She did, and we
talked about if Bill Streak Top when she would later
win an Oscar. So we did not know we were
sitting in the midst of an Oscar winner and she
had already won to I mean before that, we're you're
going to be winning another Emmy, young girl, And she

(01:18:20):
was like, well, thank you, I hope so, and then
those hopes turned to reality. We stand, Regina King have
from the very beginning. Thank you, Regina. Let's move on
to number one. Another actress Alison Williams eating the cereal
and get Out a huge scene. This scene really kind
of shot her forward in my eyes as you know,

(01:18:42):
someone to watch. Because we only knew her from Girls
playing More any we were like, what's she all about?
That she wasn't get out and the movie get Out
does not work without that performance. We should say it
was fun the way she ate that cereal and the
cereal coming right after. You think the moment up until
that point is when she's freaking out and then she
has the car keys. She can't find the car keys,
and then she has them and then her expression changes.

(01:19:04):
But the moment is actually seeing the pictures of her
with her former boyfriends who have been killed, eating the
cheerio separately from the milk. Yes, an absolute queen of
a scene. Queen of number is our interview and as
subsequent feud. This was a low moment for us when

(01:19:27):
we had what we thought was a really good interview
with Tracy Morgan at Vulture Press and it went viral
because he made some mess out of the Tiffany Hattrish
of it all. You can go back and watch the
video um And then based on that interview, Julie Chen
said that we were rude for asking him about Tiffany Hattrich,
which is almost like her saying that every time she's
interviewed someone that she's never asked about a code star,

(01:19:49):
which I defy Trulie Chen, and I say that is
not true. And Julie Chen, when you lost your job
in disgrace, we did not feel bad about it because
you came for us in a moment a very bad
sting in journalism, and we don't we don't feel bad.
And Julie Chen, I mean, you're you're an apologist for
a lot of terrible people. Let's just say that on
the record. Let's just say that on the record. Honey.

(01:20:14):
Let's keep going. Those big brother checks are keeping you
warm anyway one is. And doubt saying Hulu, who could
forget when and Down won an Emmy and said, Hulu,
I haven't forgotten. Let's move on. When Game of Thrones
could make dragons but not photoshop out a Starbucks cup,

(01:20:36):
I mean there's not there's nothing that hasn't been said
about the Starbucks cup. No Game of Thrones references are
on this list. Just the fact that a Game of
Thrones let a Starbucks cup sneak in there. I famously
think it was on purpose because I have sat in
editing rooms and to think that no one would catch
that cup from shooting to editing to pop bushing is

(01:21:00):
literally insane. I don't believe it, and I think they
were trifling with us. That's that's a conspiracy. MAT's a truther.
Let's keep going American America for in Sisterhood of the Traveling. This,
of course, is when she threw the first brick at
Bradley Wufford's house, which is something that we've covered before her.

(01:21:23):
We love it, number one, Matt and on the View,
we were famously on the View. We went to the
View to go see Kelly Clarkson be on the View,
and then they producers came out of to the audience
and said, we're going to be surprising Kelly's number one fan.
People who had given us tickets were well aware of that.
I was in the audience. I thought they met me.

(01:21:43):
Turns out they met someone else who allegedly Land who
had lost like ninety pounds while listening to Kelly's music,
and then he got free tickets to Kelly Clarkson's concert,
which was devastating to hear about However, the real gag
was when we were on Screw Yes, and you saw
me being a little overcorrecting in my support for this

(01:22:05):
boy who would just want tickets to this Kelly Clarkson show,
and that Matt had this abject horror on his face
that he had to watch someone else get there Kelly
Clarkson fantasy fulfilled, And um, let's just say it didn't
say well with me. I'm sorry, it did not say
well with me. Number One Sutton Foster tap dancing and

(01:22:26):
Anything Goes. She is an amazing talent, that Sutton, an
amazing talent, that Sutton who has sung at so many
Kennedy Center honors. We love her something. I mean when
she tap danced and Anything Goes. On the Tony Awards,
you said, how could you give it to anyone else?
And we did and we didn't. She won that one.
But I will say that I did see her in

(01:22:48):
the musical Drowsy Chaperone, and she has a number called
show Off and Then and I watched that at a
young age and I said, she cannot lose the Tony
and she did. So these Tony Awards are not a
sure thing, no matter how well turn a performance that's true.
That's true. Let's keep going to number one, KFC releasing
the double Down. What is this poem? This is this

(01:23:11):
is the KFC sand which where the two buns were
chicken patties fried chicken patties, and it caused a big
stir And I think we're still dealing with ramifications today
fast food culture that we have to say, and honestly
that McDonald's released them. Griddle did not make it, but
KFC releasing the double Down did make it and make
you understand. We're going to get a lot of sort
of hate mail about this from our McDonald's queens and kings,

(01:23:34):
but you know, please sit down. We are the culture
where the culture now. The next is one and twenty
Sherry Shepherd not knowing if the Earth is flat, you know,
famously she was confronted on the view by saying, do
you think the earth is flat? Will She said, I
don't know. I wouldn't I would want to know how
to feed my children. She said that something to that effect.

(01:23:57):
She definitely redirected and she said, I may not know
if the Earth is flat, but I am a good person,
which is, you know, certainly a way to get her
I actually respect that it's fire that Roger's school. If
I don't know my words, but I do know my heart.
I actually have a picture of Sherry Shepherd up in
my personal museum. That's great. Saint Sherry. We call her
especially a rule of culture. Number ninety s Sherry. We

(01:24:20):
call her. Number is Jennifer Lawrence gay rights. No. Jennifer
Lawrence has said a lot of things in her day,
but when she said gay rights, that was culture. And
now all the girls are trying to say gay rights
with her right. Number one D eighteen Pon wasted accepting
a Golden Globe. This is when she brought the cookies

(01:24:43):
up off the table and handed out cookies on her
way up to the Golden Globe. She could tell she
was absolutely black out. But she won for her performance
as cookie Lion, and she deserved that one absolutely. Number
one seventeen is half the dress. Who could forget us
arguing all about the dress. I was with you Times
Square at a at a like a bodega buffet, and

(01:25:03):
you thought it was black and blue, and I thought
it was white and golden. I thought it was white
and gold You were right, I was wrong, And it
was really crazy to have an argument about that and
it was and for me to be right. Number one
hundred sixteen on our rule of top two hundred moments
in culture history is the passing of the men. This
gave women the right to vote and think it was

(01:25:24):
about time and it was the beginning of us a
voting rights reform. And thank you Susan B. Anthony for
making this happen, and all the suffragets really thank you,
which is Rosie and Elizabeth on the view. This beats
out the passing of the nineteenth Amendment. When Rosie and
Elizabeth fought on the view, this was a moment a culture.

(01:25:46):
They went to that fabulous split screen and really they
have not reconciled over this poem. And when they went
to the split screen, you get see and you come
into on this when Rosie, like Rosie, saw that they
were going to the split screen, or was it Elizabeth
who thought that they were going to It was Rosie
who saw it and called it out wow, And that's
when she quit. She said, I can't be having this.
Someone who has moral clarity and and and and decisions

(01:26:08):
based on that clarity. Huge. Yeah, Now we have number
one hundred fourteen carry voiceover, and I had to wonder,
is there more of an influential voiceover performance than this?
I had to wonder that I had to wonder. I
don't think there is. I would say this brought back
to the voiceover as a worthy method of narration. Do

(01:26:31):
you think that there would be an a Meredith Gray
voice of were convention in Gray's Anatomy without sex in
the City, Carry Bradshaw. I think that that's a really
interesting question, and I would say no. I would say
Carry Bradshaw and Sara Jessica Parker's performance as Carrie Bradshaw revolutionized, revitalized,
and resurrected the voice over as a narrative device that

(01:26:55):
we now have in Gray's Anatomy, which has a lead
character named Meredith Gray. Let's keep going. This is number one.
Lisa Lisa Coudro invented post It's monologue and Roman Michelle Wow.
I mean when she talks about how she like used
a specific kind of glue epoxy, you have to wonder

(01:27:15):
did Lisa Coudo draw on her experience as a chemistry
major at Vassar at Vassar and working for her father
in some biotech company. Have you ever met Lisa Kudro.
I have not met Have you met Lissa Coudro Never?
When you do meet her, though, you should tell her
that you majored in chemistry like her. I would love to.
I mean, she's she's the best there is. I mean,

(01:27:36):
we watched the Comeback season two the other the other day,
like we watched the whole series, and it was just
so unbelievable. Started all started all oh, you know, Sex
in the City started it all in a different way,
of course. Lea Lela Durham. I think it's Lena Dunham.
That's what I said, Lena number one t when Thelma

(01:28:02):
and Louise drove over the cliff huge, This was so huge,
and that thunderbird went over that cliff, and that iconic
soundtrack and those incredible performances of those two women Gina
Davis and Susan Sarandon both nominated for Oscars in that film.
A film that should be watched, watched absolutely, and a

(01:28:23):
polarizing ending, but one that we stand by that it's
an iconic ending because if this world couldn't handle them,
this world didn't deserve them on that freeze frame ic iconic,
Let's keep going one Dred eleven. Julia Roberts is huge mouth.
You can hang a coat hanger in that mouth. Mouth,
and that mouth was a hundred million wattage of smile

(01:28:46):
and it got her all the roles in the early nineties,
Mystic Pizza on Pretty Woman still Magnolia's woolf. The we're
just saying the mouth was a big part of the
appeal because that smile was amazing and you saw, you
saw it all, and she could a moute through that
math like no other. She's a star. I see, let's

(01:29:07):
blast through these next ten and and cut to a break.
What what do you say? I think that we are
going to have to just have this be one episode
and we're going to have to do a second episode,
which is part two, I think, because there's just there's
just no way this is gonna be too long. And
I'm actually saying it on the mic to our producers
that this is gonna have to be a two partner
because I don't know how we thought we were going

(01:29:29):
to get through two hundred moments of culture. It's it's
the only it was the only option when it was
the only option we had. It had to be two hundred,
had we had it. We couldn't gloss over these moments. No,
but we're gonna get through these next ten or next
what is it next? Next ten, and then we're going
to take a break, um, and we're gonna come back

(01:29:49):
with another whole episode, which is the top one hundred
moments of culture because we have done two hundred episodes
of Last Cultures this, I mean, the only way to
honor that sort of back hat aologue is with two moments.
And I'm so happy we stopped everything to say that
discovering in this moment, like we have discovered so much
that will be doing two episodes of this because it's
not logistically feasible to continue. Number one D ten lou

(01:30:13):
Post light blue oscars dress a k A. The moment
when she won her oscar firsts a slave and she
had that light periwinkle blue dress. Zach Posing. I want
to say, honestly, I want to say Zach Posing all
the time, because you know that Zach Poson is my
celebrity crush and he's DM you made that up. I

(01:30:36):
kind of, for some reason thought that he that you
would correspondence. Oh my god, I love Zach pos and
I think he's so hot. But anyway, um, if it
wasn't him that made this dress, and then god bless
who did? God bless who did at this moment the
way it moved as she hit center stage, Oh my god,
I mean just like Cinderella, that like a fairy tale.
It looked so incredible on her, and she is a

(01:30:58):
fashion icon and we need to say it loud and proud.
Let's keep going. Let's keep going. One or nine the
o C Season one. Oh my gosh, who could forget Ryan,
Marissa Summer and Seth Yes, thank you for naming the four?
Who could forget the four? And also never forget Miss
Julie Cooper iconic milth Ms Kirston iconic alcoholic and Mr

(01:31:24):
Sandy iconic eyebrows. He's sexy sex You ever watched the
sex scene Front American Beauty when he foxs in net
Benning and he goes, you're like getting fucked by the king.
You like getting funned by the king. Oh my god?
Do you identify with with um with with Mr Gallagher
as an eyebrows person? Yes? Yes, I would be interested

(01:31:45):
to see if he was got any Greek in him.
I think he's the Greek. Okay's Greek there alright, Greek
going um yeah, though he was amazing. Number one eight
Elizabeth Banks and Power Rain. She went for it with
this one, a true villain Krispy Kream. You loved all

(01:32:06):
the Crispy Cream line readings, and let's do it one too.
Three How you could tell? The line in the script
was how, and it came out as just like a
sort of exasperated howel Yes, she was going for the
Razzie with this one. I think she wanted to show
up at the Razzy stage winning. But really she should

(01:32:27):
have been nominated for an Oscar for a no holds
barred performance as Rita Repulsa, who is, of course I
think canonically Filipino, well, Japanese in the way that all
of them were. I mean maybe Philippine, maybe some Pacific islander,
Southeast Asian. Well, she's Elizabeth Banks. Now, she's Elizabeth Banks.

(01:32:47):
Now let's keep going. Okay, this is number one hundred
and seven. This is Whitney Houston when she went and
who could forget when the drum made that sound and
she unleashed the note, you will never forget where you
were when you saw that. I'll never forget that, and
you know famously this was a song written and first

(01:33:09):
performed by Dolly Parton, who could have known that it
would be done? So I kindly by Whitney, the Houston,
the Voice, the Voice, Let's keep going to the drums
and Lose my Breath by Destiny's Child of course, But wow, percussion, fish,

(01:33:31):
Oh my god, percussion for your absolute nerves and it
just lights up a spark in you, doesn't it? It
really does. And I knew this was going to be
a huge hit when I first heard it. I had
a moment of hope when Lose my Breath came out
and was like, they're back together. Well they they've never
broken up, I know, but like you know, dangerously in love.
It was the moment and everyone's like, Beyonce, that's the moment,

(01:33:54):
and I remember loving that damn album. But then kind
of secretly morning Destiny's Child does mean? Does this mean
Siny's Child is over? But then Lose my Breath came
out and Destiny Fulfield came out, and I was like,
all hope is not lost. Not only did Destiny of
the Field come out, I believe it is their best work.
I believe it's their best album as a trio. Kelly
Roland has gone on record to say that it is

(01:34:15):
her favorite. It's like like like they asked you, like,
what's your favorite Destiny's Child song? And she says, every
song off of Destiny's Destiny I mean, never forget, Girl, Girl,
never forget, If never forget, I mean cater to you,
to you, t shirt sleep, Yes, come on, I mean

(01:34:37):
and also their iconic Bolt which was not on the album,
but was stand Up for Love, Stand Up for Love.
And then they did a cover of Emotions by the
Beg's Well that was on an earlier album, but yes,
all Emotions was on Survivor. Yes, it was I Accept
Your Apology. UM number one. The baby boom after World

(01:34:57):
War Two. Okay, so, okay boomer. We wouldn't have the
phrase okay boomer without, of course, the baby boom. Now,
this is a period of time before and after and
during the war when men were not spending a lot
of time with their wives and someone they did, they
got them absolutely pregnant. This you led to a huge
surge in births during the time period of fifties. Yes, absolutely,

(01:35:24):
and it led to it coincided with um. You know,
a lot of social programs being put into affecting the
United States and economic prosperity, so it all could have
worked out when it helped assert the US's global dominance. Yes,
and um, we should say, um, I am ya teacher,

(01:35:45):
and I knew this knowledge of um World War two,
and I should be celebrated. I not put this in,
and I think that should be celebrated for putting this in.
Number one is the longevity of hang. Talk about longevity.
I think Pank has had one of the most enviable
careers in music. I mean once she burst onto the

(01:36:07):
scene with there you Go, look in Pizza Foe just
because I lets you go, There you Go, talking about
she want me back? Oh my god, I mean so
much versatility and what is powerful voice? I mean misunderstood
the album, misunderstood the album. I mean raise your glass,

(01:36:29):
So raise your glass if you are wrong, and all
the ways iconic freak, pink, iconic freak, iconic absolute freak.
We will never never be anything but loud and nitty gritty,
dirty gritty, dirty little freak little freaks, So raise your glass.
And also iconic ballad in a family potcher. We look

(01:36:53):
pretty happy. Let's play perdun not like I go Natty. Yes,
never forget, never forget number one hundred and three. And
you better believe that I watched every single one of
her confirmation hearings in the Senate. I mean, she is

(01:37:13):
the Supreme Court justice. Do you know this story? AOC
tells this story. But so during her Senate hearings when
she was nominated by Barack Obama, one of our presidents,
remember her? Remember her? Some publicists or some like media
consultants or media consults are like, you should wear a
nude neil polish so that you come off more neutral

(01:37:36):
and more sort of not as like loud and vibrant
and sort of like you're not making this impression that
you can control. She said, no, she said fuck that.
And you see her wearing bright red nail pology. Isn't that?
I love that story iconic. Also, have you seen Knock
Down the House? No, I need to see it. Oh
my god, there's such that it. Knocked Down the House

(01:37:56):
is amazing. And also it's like, there's so much great
stuff going on. Netflix has amazing documentaries. You guys, come on,
you gotta give it up. Rule of Culture number nine documentaries, guys. Um.
But she in her very first scene talks about she's
getting ready, and this is before she's even filed to run,
Like this camera crew followed her from the beginning. It's unbelievable.

(01:38:19):
And she's getting ready and she's like, there's no way
to know how you should get ready as a female
running for president, because either you're in a full suit
or you're in that like drag of light colored shirt
with the sleeves rolled up to the elbow. But there's
no prototype of how a woman who is a politician
running for office looks, and so you have to think
about the way you present yourself. And it was just

(01:38:41):
like she also talks about in the yeah, in the
documentary and it's really moving. So and she was our speaker,
our speaker at graduation. Yes she was. She spoke in
our graduation and was amazing. In the first word she
said was this is awesome. Do you remember that? I

(01:39:02):
remember that. And she was like a girl like me
from the Bronx speaking to you at Yankees. I mean
they made a whole big deal about being at Yankee Stadium.
Our graduation was at Yankee Stadium. Um, okay. So the
next one is number one D and two Beanie Baby Culture. Wow. Wow, Um,

(01:39:24):
I mean beanie babies are still going strong. I saw
one at the airport on my way into l A.
It was a very perilous environment, but the beanie babies
were a grounding force. And also, you know what you
can never forget is the fact that, you know, beanie
baby culture also was Princess Diana culture because it sort

(01:39:44):
of gave us, you know, the um beanie baby that
was most famous, which is the Diana baby, which was
the Diana baby. And also never forget we had our
peace Bear, yes, and we also had um the dolphins,
the dolphins. Many different things contributed to um beanie baby

(01:40:06):
culture and ultimately we were told they would come to
be worth a lot of money and that remains to
be seen. But speaking of toys that were good for
Christmas time, number one and one is Furby a big comeback,
I would say, in the meme culture, I'm seeing a
lot of furbies. Not surprised to hear that. I mean,

(01:40:27):
there's such crazy, crazy animals. I'll never forget what My
uncle got me a Furbye three or four years too late.
And it was like three or four years after the
Furby craze, and I was like, oh my God, and
then I just had this white furby acting a fool
in my closet. I feel actually very bad because even
though it was a toy with no soul, it really
did a good job of making you feel it did
have a soul and feelings because they would be crying, hysteric,

(01:40:51):
randomly begging for attention in the middle of the night.
Oh honey, terrible. So fur actually may have been scarring culture.
I think the scarring culture. Matt. We're one hundred and one,
We're halfway through the list. What do you think we
should so number one hundred? Oh okay, so maybe you're
saying maybe we should start with a hundred. I think

(01:41:11):
we start with that, alright. So then literally, I think
we've gone through the first one hundred of our We've
been two hundred to one hundred and one of our
top two hundred moments of culture, and I think that
we've done an incredibly We've done an incredible job. We
hope that you agree with this list. You have to
agree with the list because it's definitively empirically the list. Um,
we're not going to do and I don't think so, honey,

(01:41:32):
Because this this episode is an hour and forty five minutes.
But we are going to say we will see you later,
and maybe the episode that follow us will be coming
a little bit sooner than you think. Yes, we'll have
to talk to the producers. We're gonna have to talk
to the producers because we've made a lot of decisions
without them and they are very We appreciate their flexibility
and their adaptability in this process. That we're doing something

(01:41:55):
that no one's ever done before, which is catalog the
top two hundred moments in culture history. No one has
ever done this before. And also it's our two hundredth
episode and we're very excited. Also, please remember that we're
saying it's our two hundred episode based on my count,
which could be wrong. I will accept it as right.
I I told you, I looked in your eyes and
I said, I trust you. And remember that Bowen has

(01:42:18):
not done account of the episodes, even though I told him,
do you want to double check me? And he said,
I trust you? So I really I I put it
to the viewers to count the episodes and tell me
if I'm wrong, but also deeply no that I don't care.
And that's not the point. The point is to celebrate
this landmark achievement for the pod and recount the episodes

(01:42:39):
and moments of culture that are really meaningful. We're so
drunk um and I mean, this is the most time
I've had in months. But stay tuned for the remaining
one hundred top moments in culture history. You're not gonna
want to miss any of these. There's plenty to cover.
And number one, I'd want to say, definitively, you can

(01:43:02):
you can? You can? You know push back on the
order of the list. Number one is in the exact
deserving spot. Oh, number one is the number one moment
in culture history. You will not dispute it with that,
I would say that really everything is in its right place,
there is no dispute. But before you think we've not
counted something in, understand that there are a hundred more

(01:43:26):
moments coming. So and we end every episode with a song.
If the said no one your body now, if would
you want it against me?

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