Why Culture Is For You with Matt Rogers

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

4.9 • 21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Matt Rogers, comedian, actor, writer, host, half of the duo behind Las Culturistas and multi hyphenate extraordinaire is on Getting Better this week to enter our queer millennial world on all things pop culture, pride heroes, lgbtqia+, Celine Dion, Tony Awards, Ariana Grande, Epic Universe and of course... JK Rowling. He tells us his and Bowen Yang’s origin story, how Las Culturistas came to be, what's next for him, and of course - Tony predictions! Matt Rogers is an actor, comedian, writer, podcaster and television host. Named one of Variety's Comics To Watch in 2021, he is co-host of the popular podcast “Las Culturistas” alongside SNL's Bowen Yang, which was named Time Out New York’s #1 Comedy Podcast and Time Magazine’s “50 Best Podcasts to Listen to Right Now”. Matt can be seen in SEARCH PARTY, SHRILL, AWKWAFINA IS NORA FROM QUEENS, OUR CARTOON PRESIDENT, the animated Netflix series Q-FORCE, and as the host of the HBO Max competition series HAUTE DOG. Matt has written for comedies such as THE OTHER TWO and Q-FORCE and co-created the short form reality series GAYME SHOW to critical acclaim. He most recently can be seen in Searchlight’s FIRE ISLAND and as a series regular in Showtime’s I LOVE THAT FOR YOU. Matt’s special HAVE YOU HEARD OF CHRISTMAS recently premiered on Showtime and has received wide acclaim, including being named by Variety as one of The Best Comedy Specials of 2022, and New York Times best comedy of 2022. Full Video Episodes now available on YouTube. Not A Phase. Trans Lifeline Matt Rogers is on Instagram @mattrogerstho Follow us on Instagram @gettingbetterwithjvn Jonathan on Instagram @jvn Senior Producer, Chris McClure Producer, Editor & Engineer is Nathanael McClure Production support from Julie Carrillo, Anne Currie, and Chad Hall Our theme music is also composed by Nathanael McClure. Curious about bringing your brand to life on the show? Email [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Better Babes, Gird your loins.
0:03.4	We have one of our most gorgeous, hilarious, relevant guests of all time ever, host of
0:09.2	Los Culturistas.
0:10.6	Matt Rogers, welcome to getting better.
0:12.2	How are you, honey?
0:13.2	Good relevant on my tombstone.
0:14.4	You are.
0:15.4	Relevant is a great word to be described as.
0:16.7	You are scintillatingly relevant.
0:18.7	It's getting better and better in terms of words.
0:21.4	Matt, you're just, well, first of all, how are you?
0:24.1	How is your pride?
0:25.0	I am so good.
0:26.1	I'm really, I'm newly a New York resident again, like a New York City resident now.
0:31.7	And it's making me feel very powerful and, like, happy and, you know, energetic and energized for the first time in a while.
0:39.1	Does that mean that Alicia Keys and Taylor Swift are on your playlist a lot right now?
0:43.5	You know what?
0:44.2	Okay, so this is the truth about Alicia Keys.
0:46.0	I'm assuming you're talking about in New York.
0:48.9	So I used to work for New York City tourism.
0:51.2	I worked on a big bus called The Ride. Have you ever seen this monstrosity?
0:56.0	Yes. So it drives around Times Square. It's like with the stadium seating. Oh, yeah. So I used to be
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