A true highlight hits around the middle of the transcript, when Jung asks the boys to name the piece of pop culture that “made them gay.” It’s gold:
Jonathan Van Ness: The thing you remember back to where you’re like “Ooh, I want to hump a pillow to a man.”
Bobby Berk: Hot dogs at Yankee Stadium. Mark Wahlberg! That Calvin Klein ad!
Jonathan Van Ness: Any Bowflex commercial before 1993.
Antoni Porowski: My oldest sister’s Bruce Weber collection of photographs.
Bobby Berk: My mom’s bodybuilding magazines when I was like, 6. She was into lifting weights.
Jonathan Van Ness: Oh, I was like, is your mom rubbing one out to bodybuilder magazines, too?
Tan France: Ew! The thought of your mom!
Bobby Berk: The only thing my mom is rubbing one out to is Tan’s pillowy lips. Every time she watches an episode, she’s like, “Ah, Tan’s pillowy lips!”
Jonathan Van Ness: Okay, this is some real stuff. I think we could get a triple Axel single-foot landing out of this question. Last night, I felt like Tan and I finally got to a point in our relationship where we could break down some of these final boundaries that exist between us.
Tan France: There aren’t that many at all!
Jonathan Van Ness: I looked at him square in the eye and said, “Be real with me. Once a year, do you ever just get a teeny-tiny bit of … Restylane. Just even 1/8th, just enough to make you kind of …” [pouts lips] And he looked at me square in the eye and he also showed there’s no extra skin like there would be.
Tan France: I’d tell you! I wouldn’t want to upset you!
Antoni Porowski: They’re beautiful and lush, but they’re not ridiculous! They’re not Lisa Rinna!
Jonathan Van Ness: No, of course they’re not, that’s why I said an 1/8th of a fucking syringe, if you heard my innuendo!
Would it be the Fab Five if there wasn’t a bit of a…diversion? They bring it back:
Tan France: Okay, our [root]? I’ve got two: one real-life, one celebrity. The first time I thought, “Oh, that’s interesting,” I didn’t know it was sexual. My sister had a picture of Keanu Reeves in Point Break in her cupboard. And then in real life, I was 12 and it was summer. We were just about to break for summer, and a boy who was just a friend to me took his top off and started playing basketball, and I was like, “Ah! You’re 12?”
Jonathan Van Ness: When did you know you were a gay guy, Karamo?
Karamo Brown: I don’t know.
Jonathan Van Ness: Like, I opened my eyes outta my mom’s vagina and I was like, “I never wanna see that again.”
Can you believe? Read the full convo here. It’s worth your time, honey.