"Ambition" (w/ Reese Witherspoon)

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

Big Money Players Network and iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.8 • 8.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

It's a moment in Las Cultch history as Reese Witherspoon makes her debut! The Morning Show is back! Reese chats with Matt & Bowen about studying Goldie Hawn in Private Benjamin for Legally Blonde, creating Tracy Flick and Election in retrospect, owning your ambition, producing Gone Girl and Wild, exploring the inner workings of female friendships on Big Little Lies and the importance of a good set-piece. Also, The Morning Show forecasting Blue Origin, how Bradley Jackson got her name, aura ring culture, producing with Hello Sunshine, Jon Bon Jovi's thigh high red leather boots, Gwen Stefani's "Just A Girl", joy as revenge in The First Wives Club and Matt, Bow and Reese's Blockbuster strategy. All this, managing anxiety alongside an ambitious personality, the "Oscar Curse", Reese's Nicole Kidman impression and Big Little Lies season 3. The Morning Show is streaming NOW on Apple TV+!!! Go!!!

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:04.2	I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different.
0:08.0	What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club?
0:12.2	Answer, a new podcast called Wisecrack, where a comedian finds himself at the center of a chilling true crime story.
0:18.8	Does anyone know what show they've come to see? It's a story.
0:23.3	It's about the scariest night of my life. This is Wisecrack, available now. Listen to Wisecrack on the
0:30.4	IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Look, Matt. Where? Oh, I see. Wow. Bowen, look over there. Wow. Is that culture? Yes. Oh, my goodness. Wow. Las cultureistas. Ding-dong. Las cultureistas calling. I don't know that I've been more excited. And this is the thing. We're already getting along, I'd say gangbusters with our guest.
0:55.5	Love. I can't believe she's here either. It's like staring at the sun. I can't. It's hello
0:59.6	sunshine. I can't look at the guest. I want to say hello sunshine is their frontrunner for
1:04.9	title of that, but we can't do that. No, no. It's going to find it. Do you remember yesterday when we were
1:10.6	talking about iconic line reads of our guest? Yes, but that's every day. On most days. So on the red carpet at the Culture Awards, someone asked us, like, what's an iconic line from cinema history that like jumps out right now? Was it Mark Malkin that asked that? No, it was Vulture.
1:27.9	It was Vulture.
1:28.9	And I go, what?
1:29.1	Like it's hard? But... And yesterday I said to you, this is what pings and palms in my brain. Anytime I open mail. Yeah. Anytime I open mail. You ready? This is it. Bruiser, what's this? Bruiser, what's this?
1:42.7	Bruiser, what's this?
1:43.7	But anytime I open an envelope, I'm telling you, the reason I ring it up is because I actually know what it is.
1:51.4	Okay.
1:52.7	This was maybe the culture that made me say culture was for me, which is a big statement on this podcast, that being the central question.
2:00.3	Pleasantville.
2:01.4	Oh, here we go.
2:02.6	Our guest's first scene.
2:04.7	She's on the phone talking to her friend, and she's talking about what outfit she's going to wear for a date.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Big Money Players Network and iHeartPodcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Big Money Players Network and iHeartPodcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.