Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

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

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June 24, 2026 83 mins

Miss Peppermint is here! Shall she be mother?! The legend and NYC Pride Grand Marshall (alongside Bowen!) spills tea literally and figuratively on this week's Las Cultch. She's come toting her Transcendence tea, so you know it's really on sight. Pep discusses how she's become more and more of a political messenger throughout her life, community in karaoke AND karaoke in the community, and how the art of the flirtation may be at ris...

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Mindy Kaling elevates all our lives and sits down with Matt + Bowen— on Culture Awards release day, no less!— to discuss the place of awards shows in culture as collisions of couture and competition. Also, being that person who knew the writing staffs of your favorite series, “webisodes” culture, and portraying both Kelly Kapoor and Ben Affleck onscreen. All this, burrata, spacebar smudging, and door knockin...

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June 10, 2026 109 mins

If you haven't heard, there's a Glamazonian Express headed directly into a massive Stormaganza. For more information, you must see Stop! That! Train! in theaters June 12th! That film's director, the incredible Adam Shankman, joins Matt + Bowen today to discuss the new movie, and his indelible contributions to cinema: movies like Hairspray, A Walk To Remember, The Wedding Planner and so much more. Also, Adam discusses The Sound...

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The legendary Gina Gershon joins Matt and Bowen to discuss concerts, chance encounters with Sarah Vaughan and whether it's better have a Solly Bowles who can actually SING. After sharing about her beautiful friendship with Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed, the boys embark on very educational demos on being an Alphapussy (title of memoir AND ep...) with varying degrees of success. Plus some fiery IDTSHs on film ratings, tacky billi...

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The woman who Charli XCX once proclaimed on Las Culturistas was the "sexiest woman alive" is here! Dr. Orna Guralnik, the iconic star of Couples Therapy on Paramount + with Showtime, makes her Las Cultch debut alongside her stunning Alaskan Klee Kai, Nico! The reigning winner of the Style Icon Award at the Las Culturistas Culture Awards joins Matt + Bow to discuss how every couple is like a miniature political system, navigating pu...

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This is TODAY, with Matt + Bowen... and their friend Jenna Bush Hager! The host of Today with Jenna & Sheinelle and STAR of The Devil Wears Prada 2 (yeah, we said it!) joins Las Cultch for the very first time to discuss getting dragged by her 13 year old, 30 Rock as an office environment and the best time to take in a Lobster Roll. Also, The Babysitters Club actually inspiring a young Jenna to start her own babysitting organiza...

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May 13, 2026 67 mins

Happy Pride month from Las Culturistas! For more of your favorite LGBTQ+ content, check out the Outspoken Network from iHeartPodcasts.

All hail the Pope of Trash/Filth Elder/Sultan of Sleaze, the one and only John Waters is here fresh off his 80th birthday. The boys talk to him about bonus holes, shooting machine guns, and somehow stepping into respectability in spite of those topics. Girl, it is SURREAL to see him, can we take a p...

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The second half of the nominees for the Las Culturistas Culture Awards are revealed. Watch on Bravo and Peacock at 9 pm EST on Wednesday, June 17th.

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Matt and Bowen are joined by Josh and Aaron. Is there more you need to know than that? Josh shows hole. The first time ever to be done at iHeart. Take note! 

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The first half of the nominees for the Las Culturistas Culture Awards are revealed. Watch on Bravo and Peacock at 9 pm EST on Wednesday, June 17th.

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April 29, 2026 86 mins

Well, fishing season is upon us! And you know what that means; it's time for Brandi Carlile on Las Culturistas! But, honestly? Wow. The bonafide superstar and truly great artist joins Matt + Bowen to discuss discovering gay life and dating in Seattle, how shameless dramatic grunge and rock and roll influenced her sound and the fact that Grey's Anatomy really did change it all. Also, hanging out with Joni Mitchell while she rips int...

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Blair Socci woke up, chose perm, and headed straight to Las Cultch to talk about it! And also Summer House! One of Matt and Bow’s favorite friends and comedians— who is touring, by the way! — shares insights into what’s happening on that program, as well as Wests (straight men) at large around the globe. Watch out ladies! It is the unpacking of the reality TV scandal of the year that you have been waiting fo...

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April 15, 2026 85 mins

In a world of Apple conferences, HBO gems, and insightful memoirs around career building experiences, we would be remiss to not remind ourselves that life is just so... so much so that the sisters are joined by Lena Dunham to talk, and mostly quote, one of our great post-feminist works: Girls. And of course Lena's new memoir: Famesick. Which is out now, honey! So get to listening and reading and reading and listening. 

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April 8, 2026 103 mins

The sisters must rejoice as we have been joined by none other than Caleb Hearon. And he has somethings to say to us! It's been a long time coming so strap in - the devil does in fact wear Prada and she's come back around. 

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April 1, 2026 84 mins

We're in luck... or something today because Hilary Duff is making her Las Cultch debut! In addition to going back, back to the beginning, HIlary chats with Matt + Bowen all about her new album, the Lucky Me tour, listening to your children sing adult lyrics (its art, relax!), sampling Blink 182, the Spice Girls as examples of "women in all their different vibes", "So Yesterday" as unbothered anthem and when Hilary told homopho...

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Amazing things can happen through the power of womanifestation (and gayguyifestation). Fresh off her incredible turn on “The Traitors” and new single “If Only...” is the Wordsmith herself, CANDIACE. Go ahead and make some Deep Space (stream now) for a conversation about taking shots of progesterone on a plane during turbulence, music video budgets, musical influences and the legends in the 6-CD home stereo. ...

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Four gay guys, having finally had it, go dark woke and throw neck in this episode of Las Culturistas, the sister podcast of the iconic StraightioLab. Its hosts, George Civeris and Sam Taggart, join Matt + Bowen to form a cornucopia of homosexual men who throw prayers up for Beyoncé’s highly anticipated Linkin Park era in a very “they would all be doing Best Week Ever back in the day” way. They clock each other on ...

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March 11, 2026 85 mins

Readers, Kayteighs, Publicists, Finalists, and Kyles — what better way to celebrate the 10th anniversary of CULTURE with the one and only Nicole Kidman! From penguins in Antarctica to “Heartbreak feels good in a place like this” — the three get into IT. Matt and Bowen chat with Nicole on yearning, her favorite collaborators like Baz Luhrmann, the MET Gala, cruise love, her most iconic roles, including her ic...

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March 4, 2026 87 mins

Live, laugh and love along with Matt, Bowen + their guest, comedian and Chi-con (Chicago icon) Maggie Winters! She's in the studio to say, "hey! watch my solo show MARGUERITE on YouTube on March 17th!" And with THAT said, the girls get into it all: the bean soup theory, spices, spice racks, Padma Lakshmi, being Irish, drinking young, and what it means to be Chicago Fried. Also, HBO's Industry, TGIF pizza night and the theme so...

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Matt + Bowen finally welcome drag superstar Monét X Change to the podcast! And there's *lore*! The host of Sibling Rivalry and Monét Talks delights the boys with the tale of her perfect recent engagement, details how she found her (very low) voice in chorus and shares her ambition to be in Death Becomes Her on Broadway (which must happen, btw). Also, That's So Raven and Raven Symoné giving TV's best comedic performance at the ...

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