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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Bowen Yang thinks being present is overrated

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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4.510.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The Pop Culture Happy Hour team is off today, so we're bringing you an episode of the NPR podcast Wild Card with Rachel Martin. This episode is an interview with Bowen Yang. He is the first Chinese American cast member on SNL, the co-host the podcast Las Culturistas, and he starred in the rom-com Fire Island. He talks to Rachel about living too much in the present, hard truths from Tina Fey, and why the afterlife should have a rollercoaster.

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0:00.0

On the inheriting podcast if you ask a Filipino American or Asian American who is Patrick

0:05.4

Salver they have no clue Pat Salver was a Filipino civil rights hero but his activism

0:12.1

came at a cost.

0:13.4

The FBI labeled me as a troublemaker.

0:16.6

Now his niece unearth's his legacy.

0:19.3

Listen to inheriting from LAS studios and the NPR network, wherever you get your

0:23.8

podcast.

0:27.8

Hey, I'm Glenn Weldon and the pop culture happy hour team is off today

0:32.4

so we're bringing you an episode of the new

0:34.4

NPR podcast Wild Card hosted by our pal Rachel Martin, which only makes sense because this episode is an

0:40.8

interview with someone all of us at P.C.H. are big fans of, Bowen

0:45.0

Yang.

0:46.0

Bowen is the first Chinese American cast member on Saturday Night Live.

0:49.8

He's played the iceberg that sank the Titanic, the Chinese Spy Balloon, the Tiny Desk Intern.

0:55.6

He hosts the podcast Las Culturistas with his best friend Matt Rogers.

0:59.0

I am a hardcore fan of that podcast and you should be too. He also started the

1:03.7

2022 romcom Fire Island and turned what could have been a light throwaway

1:07.7

role as the best friend who never gets the guy into something real and

1:11.8

heartbreaking and joyful.

1:14.0

Wild Card is an interview show where the game controls the conversation.

1:18.0

The guest chooses questions at random, questions about the memories, insights, and beliefs that have shaped their lives.

1:24.9

Here is Rachel.

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