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Speaker 2 David.

Speaker 3 this is kind of interesting because i was reading an article about

Speaker 3 nostalgia for the 90s and in specific y2k and it also referenced the movie um of our guest kyle mooney

Speaker 3 did a feature film called y2k

Speaker 3 where he kind of reenacts the styles, the telephones, the media, what was the web like then, everything.

Speaker 1 It plays on the fears fears we all had

Speaker 1 when it was turning from 1999 to 2000. And the word on the street was computers wouldn't understand that.
And they would all shut down at the same time.

Speaker 2 And what would we do?

Speaker 1 I do know someone that went to Hawaii thinking that was like a deserted island and saying, I'm just going to go to Hawaii. Like, by the way, Hawaii is like going to, you know, Boston.

Speaker 2 It's the same big buildings, lots of electricity.

Speaker 3 It's got a best, a best buy and a rouse.

Speaker 1 so they weren't really escaping uh

Speaker 1 you know so i don't know what i'm saying so yeah so he's an interesting guy was on snl

Speaker 1 and for nine seasons yes nine monster seasons

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 he had a lot we talked a lot about that we talk about his movie and he also did sketches before that he does a lot of improv he's actually very interesting character he's not just sort of a run-of-the-mill uh comic or improver.

Speaker 1 He's got a lot of smart guy.

Speaker 3 Dry, quirky, good neighbor was the first time I saw him on YouTube.

Speaker 3 We talk all about that and how he sort of adapted his style of comedy to the rock and roll sporting type event that Saturday Night Live is. And that was very interesting to me.

Speaker 3 And he wrote and directed this movie for A24.

Speaker 1 So, yeah. And it's, you know, SNL's a little more to

Speaker 1 the world and not just specifically to like a sliver of an interesting, like improv group. You know, you can get away with more just if you're like a hardcore comedy fan on some things.

Speaker 1 And then sometimes you go to SNL and you've got to broaden it just a little bit, even though SNL does praise very weird bits. You know what I mean? Very different.

Speaker 3 Yeah, with the live show on the soundstage and stuff, sometimes some sketches are more performative. There's a word.
And some are writer-driven.

Speaker 3 They do more films now um

Speaker 3 or videos and stuff so you can be a little quirkier drier and stuff like that but he had a great run he has a lot of fans he has his own his own lane of comedy his own yeah style uh and this is a horror comedy so uh i'm sure it's gonna be horror yeah horror horror horror is the hardest word horror is the hardest word and if you say it to a loved one and it comes out wrong you're in the doghouse for a a week.

Speaker 14 Honey, do you want to go see that horror film?

Speaker 3 And she didn't get the er part.

Speaker 1 It's as bad as saying, Does this place have any booths?

Speaker 2 Does your restaurant have booths?

Speaker 2 Yeah. Booths.

Speaker 2 What do you say, Dana?

Speaker 1 Booths or booths?

Speaker 3 I went to a horror film, and before that, we went to a restaurant and sat in the booths where it was February.

Speaker 2 February.

Speaker 2 And we went and we

Speaker 3 watched clips of the movie intersect.

Speaker 3 Everybody sounds drunk when they say these words. I want to draw a horror film.
It has some booths.

Speaker 2 It's either Tom Broca or a very inebriated gentleman.

Speaker 3 Well, here he is.

Speaker 1 So you're going to like Kyle Mooney and Kyle Mooney.

Speaker 3 Enjoy them.

Speaker 3 I made a mistake the last show, Eston L. Lawrence, during the meeting, he's on the stage.
He goes,

Speaker 3 Dana, you look like you're reading the cards.

Speaker 2 Did he, really?

Speaker 3 And I said, the reason I look like I'm reading the cards is because I am reading the cards.

Speaker 1 Yeah, King Tut.

Speaker 1 Stay out of my business.

Speaker 3 You know, on Estonia.

Speaker 15 I was there, Dana. I saw it.

Speaker 15 I saw it in real life, and that was truly the exact interaction.

Speaker 3 It was because the card was moving to when they had a single on me and moving back to the double. So that was a little bit.
I wasn't used to that.

Speaker 1 This is inside baseball, Kyle.

Speaker 3 I'm just saying

Speaker 3 we fuck up a lot, don't know what we're doing, but you direct movies, you create art. I don't know.
We're kind of, we're so excited to have you on here because

Speaker 3 I just love, I was trying to figure out your sense of humor. I'm like, what, what, why is it so

Speaker 3 potent you know

Speaker 1 well yeah i i you want me to try to answer that as well no kyle i was gonna say i don't know if you could if dana doesn't sound serious because he's eating chips or something it doesn't sound like the most serious he goes you're one of the best

Speaker 2 it relaxes the guest

Speaker 2 it says

Speaker 1 we're all just hanging out eating The moral

Speaker 15 exactly what I do with my pals. It's always somebody chewing something and then like asking a pretty sincere, vague question, I would say.

Speaker 2 very very you're potent describe your potency um

Speaker 3 yeah it's uh kind of a well at least that when i first got to know you it was through through my kids it was it was good neighbor that was like you got to see this guy and uh and your gang doing that stuff and the man on the street and so playing it so flat real,

Speaker 3 you know, almost kind of Andy Kaufman-y, but not, I'm not sure. It's your own lane, but it was very, uh, it's, it's such a skill.

Speaker 15 That's very sweet. I really appreciate it.
And I do remember, I feel like at the 40th maybe, I met you and

Speaker 15 you had very nice things to say. And

Speaker 15 it was super meaningful. So I do appreciate it.

Speaker 3 Well, I mean, I'm kind of like a showboat out there. I'm like a meat, I'm a neat little clown.
I'm dancing for my donuts.

Speaker 2 By the way, I'm around, you know.

Speaker 3 So when I see other people going on like a rock and roll show like s and l and going in their own frequency and lane um it's just very interesting and it it i just i don't you know comedians like uh like the person outside the uh the boundaries kind of like you're just sort of doing your own thing but anyway i'm sure everyone has said this to you and spoken to you and

Speaker 2 I mean, again, it truly does.

Speaker 15 Any way you say that, it sounds very nice to me because you guys are heroes. So

Speaker 15 it's really awesome to hear that. I think like

Speaker 15 the challenge, of course, is like, how do you fit whatever you want to call that?

Speaker 15 If you want to call it subversiveness or just, or like you said, subtlety, like, how do you package that in a way that works for the show?

Speaker 15 Right.

Speaker 1 Do you feel sometimes it's too far out of bounds? That's a problem. You know, you want something that works, but you want to be innovative.

Speaker 15 I do think that like early on,

Speaker 15 I was probably trying to do too much of exactly what I was doing on, on YouTube and on our internet videos.

Speaker 15 I think over time, I was able to sort of like

Speaker 15 better manipulate it so that like it was, it maybe fit more in sort of a consumable box. You know what I mean?

Speaker 15 And that was the fascinating thing, I think, for me, I think always was like, just, I'm sure this goes with everybody.

Speaker 15 And so many people have said this, but just like what hits and what doesn't, because sometimes that stuff would play.

Speaker 15 And like, we did a couple of those internet interview videos and they did, they did work well. But some of the stuff is just is

Speaker 15 too non-jokey and too dry or something for the audience. And it just is, it gets nothing.

Speaker 3 Well, that is the great thing about.

Speaker 3 Good neighbor is you guys were like pirates doing your own thing. Like you, you just make your little pieces of work and you put them on YouTube.

Speaker 3 But yeah, to SNL, I think it happened to anybody, whatever their sensibility, but the audience discovering you on SNL happened over a period of time.

Speaker 3 So they knew your kind of vibe and they would start to just be happy when they'd see you, right? At some point, you got.

Speaker 15 I think so. And well, yeah, I mean,

Speaker 15 I feel like, yes, you do. I did start to notice it.
And definitely, I feel like it was in probably the latter half of my time there. I remember there was a monologue.

Speaker 15 I did, I did a

Speaker 15 piece with Chance the rapper. He had a monologue and like we both, it was a rap written by Dan Bola about.

Speaker 1 It's always Bola.

Speaker 15 Yeah, exactly. It's always Bola.

Speaker 15 It was about like Chicago and the second city. And

Speaker 15 it was, you know, Chance said like. Ladies and gentlemen, Kyle Mooney or something like that.

Speaker 15 And there was like an applause and like a sense of recognition, even even though I'd already been on the show, but it still felt like, oh, okay, you do, you do know me to some degree.

Speaker 15 And that was really special. And even when, you know, I was back a couple of weeks ago and I saw you, Dana, like

Speaker 15 they were, the audience was very sweet. And so at some point it happens.
I don't know. It's sort of invisible.
I don't know if you know when that moment is,

Speaker 15 but it is absolutely comforting.

Speaker 3 for sure. It's super nice.
I mean, you came out on during the monologue and then there's just this roar, you know, it's just like a,

Speaker 3 and I, you know, for me, people always say this thing, are you a fan of this person or a fan of that person?

Speaker 3 If I see someone on TV and they make me laugh really hard only one time, I would call myself a fan.

Speaker 3 So if you're doing it multiple times over nine years, most people

Speaker 2 never make you laugh. Yeah, I mean, for comedians.

Speaker 15 I feel, I mean, like, and I'm not, this is not me trying to

Speaker 15 turn this conversation into promotion for the movie we're putting out no what we definitely want to talk about the movie well we don't have to okay we have we have no outline and no selection

Speaker 15 of anything else other than the movie go ahead but i will i mean i will say okay it's called y2k friday december 6th is when it comes out uh

Speaker 15 it's about uh

Speaker 15 two i schoolers going to a party in 99 and y2k actually happening but what i was going to say was that like

Speaker 15 i think there are laughs in it and and i've obviously been to screenings of it And there are moments that get laughs. And to me, I feel the same way.

Speaker 15 I feel like if I go to a comedy movie and I laugh hard once, that is a win.

Speaker 1 It's such a fucking miracle. It's so funny you say that because

Speaker 1 I can watch, you can watch things and people nod and they go, that was pretty funny. And you go, you didn't even laugh.

Speaker 2 You go, no, that was good.

Speaker 1 Or you pitch a joke at like read-through or like, you know, rewrites. And they go, yeah, that'll work.
And I go, wait a second, nobody laughed.

Speaker 15 You didn't respond at all.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I just go, it'll work work for who the others

Speaker 1 that's true though one laugh if you can get like a trailer with

Speaker 1 like I remember this is an example of just Schneider doing deuce big low he was upside down remember that and he swings on like a upside down thing the stretch

Speaker 1 aquarium hey fucking put it in the trailer you don't ruin the movie anyway he gets a big laugh that sold the whole movie because you go oh that made me laugh that's the kind of movie it is it's goofy and off the wall but it's hard to even get one laugh.

Speaker 1 So, I get what you're saying. You get if someone makes you laugh, now you're in, they crack the code.
Now, you go, okay, I'll pay attention now.

Speaker 15 Yes, and speaking to what you're talking about, like the yeah, pitching something and it's sort of being like, Yeah, yeah, I mean, I think you nailed it, and I feel like so many of us have probably experienced that in any sort of comedy writing room when, like, you're talking to somebody, like, yeah, man, funny, it's funny, just like saying the word funny, but like, yeah, not eliciting any, any response.

Speaker 15 It's, it's, it's very real and something that happens quite often.

Speaker 3 Let me ask you a question.

Speaker 3 So you wrote and directed.

Speaker 15 Yeah. I co-wrote it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. My friend Evan, who I went to college with, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 The USC gang.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Bucket.
He's from Bennett.

Speaker 15 Beck has a voice in it. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 What, what is it about?

Speaker 1 Because I know I, for those of the kids that don't know, Y2K was a big deal. It was a big scary deal.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Is it a scary movie or is it comedy scary or is it not like that?

Speaker 15 I think comedy scary is an apt descriptor, I would say. Yeah.
It

Speaker 2 sounds so dumb the way I say it.

Speaker 2 No, I lie. It is the first time I heard anyone say it.
I think home

Speaker 2 and comedy go together beautifully.

Speaker 15 But they're hard to leave. I mean, it starts out as like, I would say, attempting to be a pretty classic, iconic teen movie, coming of age movie, comedy in the realm of fun movie.

Speaker 1 We got a big party to go to.

Speaker 15 Super bad. Exactly.
Yes. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I mean, like we were really, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 15 There were so many movies in that era that came out that were sort of directed to teens, a la can't hardly wait and stuff, or even the John Hughes movies or whatever. Sure, sure, sure.

Speaker 15 And then, yeah, at midnight, things, you know, again, Y2K actually happens. Machines come together and these robots start terrorizing these kids, essentially.

Speaker 1 It's what we all thought. There's a slim chance that could happen.
Not a slim. People were saying it's for sure happening.

Speaker 15 Yeah, no, my mom was scared for sure, yeah.

Speaker 1 Someone I know went to an island, I'm like, What are you gonna do there? Harvest coconuts? Do you really want to be alive when everything goes south? Like, why does everyone want to be alive?

Speaker 3 And it was gonna be supposed to be like chaos, be right, like scourge or something.

Speaker 1 Computers can't understand going to double zero or something, yeah, and it and they will all crash.

Speaker 15 But it was fine, it was fully nothing, and it's unreal that it was nothing because I really, I remember thinking what was going to happen.

Speaker 2 I said, computers don't understand.

Speaker 1 They don't understand. We only made them to 99.
They don't know what to do.

Speaker 1 I didn't know they were going to attack us like your movie, but they did say they might not work.

Speaker 3 So the movie is in theaters right now, by the way.

Speaker 2 Yeah. As we speak, as we speak.

Speaker 15 Maybe somebody's seen it that's listening. And I want to say thank you if you made it out.

Speaker 2 That really is.

Speaker 1 That's very cool of you. Thank you.

Speaker 3 I think I was just curious about the writing of it. It sounds fun that you're starting out with a 90s comedy and just having all the kind of

Speaker 3 either tropes or cliches or just having fun with it, right? It's just like this big.

Speaker 3 So, I just wonder how your mind thinks when you're writing, because I would think you're like, there's jokes that are like more hard, simple laughs if someone falls down, that kind of thing.

Speaker 3 Then there's dry, weird things that go places you don't expect.

Speaker 3 And then there's the ones that are so off-kilter that people who get them bond over them, you know, that they don't necessarily kill, but friends will quote them to each other for long periods of time.

Speaker 3 Anyway, that seems to be, I mean, how, how much of the process of writing? Do you get up big bulletin board and you're starting to put up ideas for scenes, kind of like SNL?

Speaker 3 Or how did this one come about?

Speaker 15 I mean, yeah, initially it was just truly the seed of the idea. I woke up on New Year's Day, 2019, hungover, and just that, that first

Speaker 15 like little concept of like, oh, there should be a movie about teens going to a party and like

Speaker 15 Y2K happens, machines come to get them. I pitched it to my friend Evan, who's a very talented screenwriter and filmmaker.
We started riffing on it.

Speaker 15 And within a week, we had essentially the building blocks for what the movie is and what it would be.

Speaker 15 And yeah, I think the process was super fun.

Speaker 15 I think for a variety of reasons. One, like the movie follows essentially these teenagers and they all represent different cliques of the era.

Speaker 15 So there's like a rap rocker, there's like the popular girl, there's the sort of our lead who doesn't really fit in anywhere. There's like a kid who's really obsessed with underground hip-hop.

Speaker 15 And

Speaker 15 one, it was like fun. I mean, because I am, because I perform as well, like I get to sort of inhabit these characters in the writing process and sort of riff in their voice.

Speaker 2 What are you then?

Speaker 15 What am I in real life? Who am I?

Speaker 2 In the movie.

Speaker 15 In the movie,

Speaker 15 I play a video store clerk.

Speaker 15 I wanted to be in it, but I knew I couldn't be like a proper teenager. But in the writing process, I feel like I'm

Speaker 15 taking over these characters to some degree.

Speaker 3 That's interesting because I would do it the exact same way. I wrote a script with a friend called Idiots and Monsters, and it's, you know,

Speaker 3 that combination.

Speaker 3 And I would just get into the characters and just riff and he was really fast with typing and stuff yeah it's a it's a good way to do it um it's great and then and then the other component is like yeah I was 15 in 99 Evan was 14 and like

Speaker 15 you were saying in terms of the gags and the jokes there are some like pretty yeah classic standard visual gags uh

Speaker 15 but then there are like also very specific references to the era that i think like it you won't understand really if you were alive and then there's i hate to say it i actually don't even want to say it but i'll

Speaker 15 awkward humor uh

Speaker 15 which um i get uh i don't know boner jokes

Speaker 15 there is definitely a boner joke

Speaker 3 oh now you got one ticket right over there

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Speaker 3 You know, when you did

Speaker 3 Bridge These Bear, there was a.

Speaker 3 It became a little sentimental. I mean, there was that other lane underneath the laughs.

Speaker 3 You know, do you kind of have that sort of story element in this one too, or is it more just a balls out comedy? Or is there a sort of a

Speaker 3 sweetness or something to how it ties up or comes?

Speaker 3 Give away the movie before people see it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, just tell the ending.

Speaker 15 I mean, yeah, there's definitely,

Speaker 15 yeah, it's a, I, it's weird that I don't want to be the person saying this, but yes, I think that there is heart to it. And like, it's

Speaker 15 essentially really about two best friends and about their friendship and that person that like means so much to you in high school. And that sort of

Speaker 15 carries through the entire movie and there's some sort of intense drama associated with it within the movie. But yeah, I mean, like,

Speaker 15 I love making Brigsy Bear and it definitely like maybe leans into quote unquote dramedy territory or something like that. But that is something.

Speaker 15 that is exciting to me. And with this movie, like we're certainly going for laughs.
We're also going for like, you know scares but there are like

Speaker 3 moments of attempting to like tug at your heartstrings um whether we're successful about it i don't know but absolutely that that there is a layer of that yeah it is it is interesting the um you can go on youtube and stuff and look at like how do you how do you someone's in a shower and they open the curtain and what's the exact cutting and angle to scare to scare you but i assume you had a director of photography that would sort of say okay here this guy should pop out here.

Speaker 3 We don't see it. We cut there.
I mean, it's it seems fun. I mean, I think those kinds of things are just

Speaker 3 exciting to

Speaker 3 land through.

Speaker 15 Absolutely. Well, yeah, our DP was

Speaker 15 a guy by the name of Bill Pope, who's who is sort of a legend

Speaker 15 in his field. He shot The Matrix, he shot Clueless,

Speaker 15 he shot

Speaker 15 all the Edgar Wright movies. So, like, yeah, he's,

Speaker 2 but he did not shoot the deputy. No, no, no, no.

Speaker 2 That was a big misunderstanding.

Speaker 2 So you.

Speaker 1 What about A24 you're putting it out with? That's a big company.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they've been dialed in.

Speaker 15 Oh,

Speaker 15 I really appreciate that, David.

Speaker 1 Listen, that's a big deal.

Speaker 3 No, you're doing what everybody I talk to, and I always do my, if you had 300 million net, what would you do? Writers who write movies for studios and stuff.

Speaker 3 Every single one says, oh, low-budget indies, you know,

Speaker 3 lower-budgeted indies with total control.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 15 Yeah. A24 has been truly awesome and, and kind of unlike any

Speaker 15 studio or company I've ever worked with in the sense that they just are very good at branding and marketing and putting it out there.

Speaker 15 It's been, it's, it's been pretty impressive to see how they've sort of

Speaker 15 attached themselves to it. And I think got taken out the things that potentially could pull people to the theaters.
It's been, it's been a cool, it's just been a cool thing to observe.

Speaker 1 You know what, attach themselves is better than saying they're running from it.

Speaker 15 They absolutely, and they have, there were moments where it felt like maybe they would or could.

Speaker 1 They're sort of, they seem to the average

Speaker 1 guy like me that's in the biz barely that they are very, pretty selective and they don't do that much. Yeah, they do.

Speaker 2 They do good, quirky, quirky.

Speaker 3 That's that's good Paul Thomas Anderson does a lot of stuff with them so when I saw this even before I knew you were gonna come on our show I thought oh that's cool Kyle Mooney and a 24 I just thought it sounded like a good combo that you would they would be smart about there's a trust letting it be

Speaker 3 you do your thing hopefully and it would be good it's not they don't did you finance it independently and then get with a 24 or you would got with them and they they were part of the financing and that's how you made it or was it a two-step process no they yeah they were there from the top initially when we had the

Speaker 15 you know early iterations of the script um chris storr uh who created the bear and is a director and producer came on to produce uh and then later on jonah hills company strong baby came on and about that same time a20 a24 came into the fold and and then like

Speaker 15 once

Speaker 15 we did like a couple passes but truly it was one of those situations where once they were involved, things moved fast in a way that feels like very unique.

Speaker 15 Like, I didn't, I didn't think that it was going to happen

Speaker 15 as quickly as it did. And, and it did.
And, uh, and I, I truly feel blessed. Yeah, they were.

Speaker 1 You know why it's called A24. I do.

Speaker 15 I feel like I read read once, but I'm curious what it is.

Speaker 1 That's because when you, when you look up a production company in the phone book, they put an A in front of it. So then you'll call them first.

Speaker 1 You know what I mean? Dana, like in the old days in the yellow pages, they put AAA electrician. And then that's why you call them first because it's the first one you see alphabetically.

Speaker 15 It might be.

Speaker 15 Now, do you think that

Speaker 15 do you really think they're angling for the phone company?

Speaker 2 Would that translate to the box?

Speaker 1 Am I trying to knock out of this joke? Yes.

Speaker 15 This is what they did. I'm not saying it wasn't.

Speaker 2 No, I'm saying this is 100% fact that they want to be.

Speaker 1 I'm not linking white pages.

Speaker 2 They want to be. I know we're doing a fun podcast and everything, but I'm not following you, David.

Speaker 1 That's such a good one. And it just fucking means.

Speaker 3 No, it's not that.

Speaker 2 I know.

Speaker 3 I like it.

Speaker 1 Take it to the rewrite table.

Speaker 3 It's called an urban myth. But anyway,

Speaker 3 we'll get through the inside baseball, but how many days shoot did you get?

Speaker 1 Yeah, 23.

Speaker 3 I'm going to guess. 20.

Speaker 2 Okay. Wow.
Did you guys say 23?

Speaker 15 No. Well, Dana, do you want to guess or no?

Speaker 3 Yeah, I'm going to guess. I'm going to guess.

Speaker 3 Because Zay 24 is a pretty big outfit and Kyle likes to spend money.

Speaker 2 Yeah, he likes to be money.

Speaker 3 At least that's what Beck told me.

Speaker 3 For fun, I'll say 32.

Speaker 1 Jesus.

Speaker 15 And now I feel like I need

Speaker 3 16.

Speaker 15 I think it was about 30 days. It was, yeah.

Speaker 1 I was going to switch mine to 29. I swear to God, it was going to switch.

Speaker 15 It was like David.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, no. Because Because I think Bus Boys is 24.

Speaker 3 David's doing an indie film. We're doing indie right now.
Yeah. Cool.

Speaker 3 Pizza Hut is producing

Speaker 1 in a collab.

Speaker 15 I feel like they did some early Ninja Turtles stuff. God,

Speaker 3 A24 didn't like his pitch.

Speaker 1 I should have pitched it to them. We didn't want to pitch it to anyone.

Speaker 2 We're worse.

Speaker 15 I could definitely intro you to some folks, man.

Speaker 3 But he's going right into what you just did.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we're doing it. We're doing January.

Speaker 2 That's great.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, ours is called Y2J.

Speaker 15 That's good. That works for the phone book thing.
So you got

Speaker 2 ours called AY2J.

Speaker 3 What is that?

Speaker 3 That lubricant Y2K?

Speaker 15 KY Jelly.

Speaker 2 KY2K.

Speaker 3 If I do a production company, it's going to be called KY Jelly. Okay.

Speaker 2 Okay. Dot com.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 2 Dot gasm.

Speaker 3 So

Speaker 3 in the fantasy world, because this, this is,

Speaker 3 I'm assuming you basically love, you love the experience. Usually movies suck and there's too many chefs or they're long, hard shoots or someone drops out.
I mean, so this sounds like just a

Speaker 3 pretty good experience in making this film.

Speaker 15 I would say, yeah, I would say so. I mean, again, I had my friend Evan with me throughout the process.
And so like, I don't feel, it. It felt more like a collaboration than just me.

Speaker 15 I didn't feel like the pressure was all on me. Again, we had Bill Pope, we had these incredible artisans.

Speaker 3 Um, did Evan

Speaker 3 do Briggs Beat Bear? Who directed that?

Speaker 15 That was directed by my friend Dave McCary, who I actually have known since I was in fifth grade. And he directed

Speaker 15 videos at the show for about five seasons, I want to say.

Speaker 15 But yeah, I mean, like with anything, I think we started writing, yeah, in 2019. We shot the movie in the spring of

Speaker 15 summer of 2023 and now it's out.

Speaker 15 You know,

Speaker 15 there's always like going to be, there were moments of doubts and

Speaker 15 frustration for sure. But overall, it's been an incredible experience and I like it.
And like, that's, I feel like a pretty important component is that I do feel like it's pretty good.

Speaker 1 People don't get how to go from writing to pitching to writing.

Speaker 1 It's just like a sketch. It can all be good.
And then suddenly the edit looks wrong And you're like, what fucking happened? It's absolutely. You're doing that best you can.

Speaker 1 And it just somehow does not cut together.

Speaker 3 Every script at some point, I don't know what page number, say you're trying to get to 90 pages for a low-budget comedy and you get to 40 or 45. And then there's just all this,

Speaker 3 there's a part where it gets really hard, at least my experience.

Speaker 2 Well, that's why

Speaker 15 I always link with somebody who I know is going to be better at that than me. You know what I mean? Like, and Evan is really great at that.
And Brig Subay, I wrote it with my friend Kevin.

Speaker 15 And I've written with Evan and Kevin.

Speaker 15 And like, they, I feel like they're just very good at

Speaker 15 structure and like kind of leaning into like what the character payoffs and

Speaker 15 the arc and all of that in a way that like, I wouldn't say it's my forte per se. So like.
uh it's good to have somebody like that to lean on

Speaker 1 when i do it i just bark out funny ideas and i go, somebody write it down.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 15 Well, I think, and so many people do that at SNL too, I think. You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 Don't they take notes of just

Speaker 1 the rewrite table of just people talking in case they come up with something funny? I've heard they transcribe. Is that crazy?

Speaker 15 I'm sure. I'm sure they do.
I mean, like.

Speaker 1 Someone's just taking down while you're talking in case you run into something and they read it back and go, that was funny.

Speaker 15 You're talking about at SNL.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 15 You didn't experience this, though. You think this is happening now?

Speaker 1 No, we had no court reporters. We had low budget, but I feel like I've heard that about something and they go, oh, read it back.
And I'm like, oh, someone reads it back.

Speaker 1 Maybe it's during pitches or something. I don't know.

Speaker 15 When I was there,

Speaker 15 there are definitely people that are taking notes during the pitches for sure.

Speaker 15 At rewrites, I don't remember anybody like

Speaker 15 writing what was being said, but I was personally writing it down. I feel like you're hearing pitches from everybody else.
And I'm like making notes on my script of like, okay, that's a good thing.

Speaker 1 The table is still on 9. Where the old read-through was?

Speaker 3 It's an 8-H.

Speaker 1 Rewrite table is?

Speaker 3 Oh, not rewrite. Rewrites of, yeah, but the actual read-through.

Speaker 1 Read-through is moved, but rewrites is still up on 17.

Speaker 15 No, no. Well, it's on both.

Speaker 15 They actually do. When I was there, at least, it was on 17 and 9.
So there was the office on 9 that sort of overlooks the stage. I don't know if you know the one I'm referring to currently.

Speaker 15 Like it's, it's, it's by Lauren's office

Speaker 15 on nine. And then they also have a rewrite table on 17.

Speaker 1 They got two going? Are you mad? No, I'm, yeah.

Speaker 3 It's, it's a model.

Speaker 1 It's as mad as I get. I'm like, it doesn't affect me at all.

Speaker 2 I should probably get mad about this.

Speaker 3 You know, I got

Speaker 2 tweaked.

Speaker 3 I got tweaked because I saw some of the dressing rooms, you know, and I just had a couch and a sink.

Speaker 3 But the dressing rooms on 8H and up on 9, they're like, there's Christmas lights, there's jukeboxes, there's refrigerators.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 3 So when you, you left, who you 80, Kate, and Pete left when you left.

Speaker 2 Oh, you guys all did you together?

Speaker 3 Did you convince them all to leave with you, or did you blood pack?

Speaker 15 I feel like,

Speaker 15 I mean, yeah, I don't know how it felt for you guys.

Speaker 15 Beck left the season prior, my eighth season, his eighth season.

Speaker 3 Your buddy from USC.

Speaker 2 Yeah, so weird.

Speaker 1 You feel weird dangling out there without him?

Speaker 15 I, well, that, that season that he left was like the quote-unquote, I guess you could call it the COVID year. It was like,

Speaker 15 we had done the, the year prior

Speaker 15 ended with COVID. So we did those at-home shows.
But that season, which I guess was maybe 2020 going into 2021 um

Speaker 15 was the first year where like yeah table read was moved to 8h it was super spread out we were testing every day and uh each person was you didn't share an office with anybody everybody had their own individual space and every uh their own individual dressing room and like initially the audience or was audiences were really sparse it was like only like you know, first responders and there would be like whatever 30 people max or something like that in studio.

Speaker 15 So that didn't, I feel like Beck left that season. I think some of us, and I feel like 80 for sure said this, like

Speaker 15 was like, you know, I would like to experience one more year that's closer to the traditional version of it. So

Speaker 15 so yeah, I don't know, I don't know what our conversation was at the top of that season, but I do think that I had a sense that most of those folks are probably going to go.

Speaker 1 So you didn't say you're going to go or would anyone make you stay? Would anything change your mind or you just like you talked about it with the family you're like i think i'm done after this

Speaker 15 my what was my like my personal like reasonings i mean

Speaker 15 just had a good run and nine nine years yeah it's too much nine is a good run that's i mean it pretty much came down to yes i feel like at that point

Speaker 15 my close friends had left i had pretty much done what I was capable of doing. You know what I mean? I don't know that I had a ton of new moves left.

Speaker 15 I feel like if the moment to like break out further was going to come, I don't know how that would have transpired.

Speaker 15 So like there was that component. And then yeah, there was obviously just that amount of time.

Speaker 15 That's a long period to be in that environment. And then I just got married and we wanted to start a family.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Oh,

Speaker 3 so the family took

Speaker 2 family came.

Speaker 15 That was definitely the, that's definitely what I told Lauren. Like, I want to have a family, man.
And he's like, oh, and I understand. I understand.

Speaker 2 Where are your family?

Speaker 3 Well, is there, you know, because I'm around there now and young cast members and stuff. And so even during the summer, you're thinking about what's going to happen when you go in there.

Speaker 3 And maybe there's new cast members coming and going. And then, so there's this, this emotional weight.
Even I think Kate McGinnon said it was just she got kind of just exhausted to a point. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 3 Just needed to get away from.

Speaker 2 Well, it's unhealthy.

Speaker 15 I feel like you guys talk about this.

Speaker 2 We must all agree that it's not a healthy

Speaker 15 place to be.

Speaker 1 There's no air in there.

Speaker 2 I think

Speaker 2 aside from everything else,

Speaker 3 I was going for that, but you beat me too.

Speaker 15 I want to say that

Speaker 15 a producer over there, I'm pretty sure it was Eric Kenward who said this at some point.

Speaker 2 He's like, in whatever

Speaker 15 20, 30, 40 years, there might be some sort of study about like PTSD associated with people who worked at that show because it is such an intense onslaught. And like, yeah,

Speaker 15 it's definitely not good for you. There's no way it is.
I mean, it is in terms of like

Speaker 15 what it teaches you and the fact that you have this massive platform, but

Speaker 15 you get what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 Well, being unprepared and going on live, and it'll be in the cards, and seeing the writers trying to fit the puzzle, and you go and and your friends see it or family members and critique it yeah it is it's just different than anything else i think what didn't chris rocks say to you or somebody like if you can do sl if you can produce your own sketch and land it and go through that then you can direct films you you you have some sort of armor emotionally on you nothing fat frazzles you because everything is last second on sl and well you become you definitely become way less precious about your work.

Speaker 15 All of a sudden, well, one, you have to turn around something every week, right? You, I think that was like the

Speaker 1 hardest part.

Speaker 15 One of the most, and for me, that was one of the most profound things that I took from it was like, I prior to working there, I would like make stuff or write stuff when I was inspired.

Speaker 15 And that could take, you know, a couple of months. Like, okay, now I got an idea.
I want to pursue this thing.

Speaker 15 Now you're in a situation where you like, you have to come up with something every week to have a chance to be on TV, essentially. And for me, it was like

Speaker 15 surprising that I found out that I could write something that I was okay with each week.

Speaker 15 Not that it necessarily ended up on the show or that it was brilliant, but at least something I was like, this is decent enough.

Speaker 1 You have to run with a wispy idea. You're like, okay, I just finished the show.

Speaker 2 I wake up from the party. You just got back from the party.
Monday morning, you're sobered up.

Speaker 1 What are you doing? What do you got? What is your long, thought-out sketch with all the beats? And you're like, it's nothing. I have nothing.
I don't even know. Right.

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Speaker 3 Well, let me ask you a question. Like, because I don't know if it was old-fashioned, but I was worshiping the first cast, and the coneds would come on more than once.

Speaker 3 And so you'd have a character with a catchphrase, and then it gave you a baseline.

Speaker 3 What were your, you had some reoccurring ones that would come back on update or in sketches, or did you land many of those that you could then go oh i'll do this character this week you know once you're i mean

Speaker 15 certainly never anything like iconic that people are like oh kyle's bringing dr ding dong back

Speaker 2 so that actually i'm going to pitch that

Speaker 3 dr ding dong and i'm just gonna see if that can land that's that's comedy writing and kyle we're gonna do a a ding dong with uh fallon this week week and then and then eventually we'll get a dong from kyle

Speaker 15 maybe hold it for margo robbie that'd be a fun week uh um i had a yeah i had a few like probably but towards the end on update i did like i was doing baby yoda uh and i got to do that a few times and that was fun uh and there were a couple video pieces that we sort of would uh return to i don't think I don't know if I can really

Speaker 15 remember a time where like the show was asking for me to like you got to do maybe maybe there are a couple instances where like you should write like one of these sitcom parodies this week yeah baby yoda former child star

Speaker 1 yes yep it's been a while since i've seen baby yoga hit the headlines baby

Speaker 3 they're probably deep on uh whatever mandalorian season something i think they're making a movie baby yoda had a good run did that happen during the i don't know what 2010 to 20 but i um

Speaker 3 Tina, what they're called, they're not the knots, the secondary knots,

Speaker 3 but being fanciful. I know Tina Fey early on in this mentioned Bowen Yang's iceberg character.
And then I see people like Sarah doing very fanciful costumes and, you know, headgear.

Speaker 3 I'm Manhattan and there's a city on your head, which I love. I love it.
It just,

Speaker 3 I think that was a stylistic thing that wasn't as big when I was there initially, but I saw saw that come up and it's, it's, really makes me laugh. It's funny.

Speaker 15 Yeah. I mean, I, yes, I love what all those people.
I mean, like, Sarah is such a good example of like

Speaker 15 someone who

Speaker 15 I knew prior to her, I knew her work prior to her being on the show.

Speaker 15 Yeah.

Speaker 15 And she's the same.

Speaker 15 person doing essentially a version of what she was doing then.

Speaker 1 And I think exaggerated and like perfectly for the show and it's good for the show i think that fits right in i mean if she gets it sometimes it may be too far out for the show but when i saw that squirrel one and it was funny because they were made she's going

Speaker 1 after every after every punchline and then i think someone in the band is trying to match it with noise from sticks it's right and then every time it's slightly off it's funnier much funnier you know

Speaker 3 but uh yeah i don't know what you know there are for me um and others like me, I would get people saying, well, you know, you're silly, you know, and it's sort of like, you know, you just get up there and you start doing your thing and acting silly, you know.

Speaker 3 So what do they say to you?

Speaker 3 That's so easy.

Speaker 3 You're so funny naturally. You come up with us, make it up.
They push you out on the sound stage.

Speaker 15 Yeah, they let me improvise a lot on the show.

Speaker 2 Everyone's always improvising.

Speaker 15 Yeah, I think like for me,

Speaker 15 sort of, I guess the struggle was a little bit of like, I do have a peculiar voice and like,

Speaker 15 you know, how much of it is like leaning too much towards like alt comedy versus like something that a mainstream audience can appreciate and be into.

Speaker 15 So sometimes there would be questions of like, you know, what do you want to be? What is. What do you compare yourself in terms of what we've seen? You know what I mean? And like kind of

Speaker 15 figuring out my space. And I think like,

Speaker 15 ultimately, I mostly, I'd like to think, ended up pretty much doing

Speaker 15 what I would have done if I wasn't on the show to some degree. You know what I mean? I'd like to think I stayed pretty true to my, I guess, perspective, if that makes sense.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I would say that. I don't see you pandering or anything out there.

Speaker 1 Wait, Dana, I just saw this is a news flash. This is a news flash.
I'm looking at his impressions. And

Speaker 15 no, great.

Speaker 1 It's so funny because I guarantee you half these you don't remember

Speaker 3 a sign or they're just a look. I mean, right? They just give you a look.

Speaker 1 He's got John Kennedy. Is it the John Kennedy that does the hearings? We always talk about him.

Speaker 15 Oh, I have no fucking idea.

Speaker 2 I don't.

Speaker 3 This is just your Wikipedia.

Speaker 15 I was on, like, I did, I was on, like, I think, I think, WGN, like a couple weeks ago promoting the movie. And like, the...

Speaker 15 the anchor was like you're just listing off all these impressions these like kind of bradley cooper exactly Exactly. Yeah,

Speaker 2 I'm like, I don't know. I'm sure that like Michael Jackson.

Speaker 15 You do Michael Jackson. That I do remember.

Speaker 2 I actually think my Michael was pretty good. Okay, good.

Speaker 2 Can we get a little bit of Michael Jackson? Hey, I want a donut. Hey, man, give me a donut.

Speaker 15 Why should I do it after you guys have already done it well?

Speaker 2 I just did donut.

Speaker 2 Always want the donut that's funny.

Speaker 1 It's better than the donut one.

Speaker 2 That's so funny.

Speaker 3 You should do him. He's about to go in

Speaker 3 michael jackson about to get a root about to get a root canal

Speaker 3 michael jackson right after a root canal

Speaker 2 michael jackson

Speaker 2 i love that because it's getting put some jam on it

Speaker 3 i see i like i like abstraction i don't accurate impressions can be breathtaking You guys,

Speaker 15 you, you know, Dana, for instance, that like you excel at that. And then there are those of us who don't.
Like, that's never been something that's been like a part of my toolbox or whatever.

Speaker 15 You know what I mean? I would get thrown in every once in a while. I would surprise myself and do an impression on the show where it's like, okay, I hit that pretty well.

Speaker 15 But like, I, I never was like the dude in.

Speaker 15 middle school or whatever, like doing the perfect Mr. Frank impression or something something like that, our history

Speaker 2 teachers. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 What about a read-through? When you get one, you're assigned and you get it right, everyone erupts because they love it because you either close. And then when you miss it, everyone goes,

Speaker 2 oh, they kind of like,

Speaker 15 that's also, I mean, yeah, I mean, the

Speaker 15 journey from read-through to like

Speaker 15 the state, the state, like actually Saturday, when it's like, my Johnny Depp is feeling really good right now.

Speaker 2 And then it's like the live show.

Speaker 15 And all of a sudden, I don't fucking know how to do this.

Speaker 1 Have you ever had it stolen from you after reading the sketch gets on and they replace you?

Speaker 15 I'm sure. Yes, absolutely.
I'm sure I have. I mean, like, I've, you know, once all the celebs started coming through, like, uh, fucking Dana stealing jobs.

Speaker 3 I know. I said to the Lord, I just, you'll come back and you'll do all these.
No, I just do Biden. And I, I,

Speaker 3 I have five catchphrases. I've done them seven times.
I'm running on fumes. I mean, so it's funny.

Speaker 1 They go, who looks like matt damon we go let's get matt damon

Speaker 3 but i'm i'm not like you know

Speaker 3 daryl hammond or kevin pollack there are people that are truly brilliant i mean i can sometimes they come to me but uh sometimes i i i've been out there i when i was doing they'd assign me someone i don't really have a book oh and that's what i think that I don't know that this is happening a ton when you guys were there, but we were getting a lot of, I mean, I was there during a pretty

Speaker 15 intense

Speaker 15 like

Speaker 15 long strung out news cycle like it's you know what i mean i i was there obama trump covet yes biden and um

Speaker 15 like we would get the cold we wouldn't often get the cold opens until like

Speaker 15 maybe friday at 5 p.m but sometimes we wouldn't get them till like saturday at noon and then you'd be thrown into like you're gonna play this like yeah whatever louisiana senator yeah yeah

Speaker 3 yeah it's um you know, when they have women starting to playing,

Speaker 3 you know, like

Speaker 3 it makes me smile when I think about Kate McGinnon doing

Speaker 3 Giuliani.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Because, like, I'm just going to do kind of a penguin-y villain with the,

Speaker 3 and just on a bat. And it's like Sarah coming out as Matt Gates.

Speaker 3 Just the look itself.

Speaker 15 Yes, it was so funny. Yeah, he was funny.

Speaker 3 It was so funny that Louis put together. and he's a Star Trek nerd, so it was completely.

Speaker 1 Do you think there's a male cast member that says, I want to play Matt Gates, or does Sarah just say, I want to pay Matt Gates?

Speaker 15 I bet that producers are choosing Sarah. That's my idea.

Speaker 1 Sarah, just this will be funny.

Speaker 2 It is funny.

Speaker 15 I think so. And David, I do want to say,

Speaker 15 I want to give you your impression. Thank you.

Speaker 15 I'm a big fan of your Tom Petty.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yes, Tom Petty, let's go back and explain it.

Speaker 3 You know that he had a whole thing because he used to open for me. What did you have in your trunk?

Speaker 2 You had a cross hat.

Speaker 3 You wore the petty hat.

Speaker 1 Petty hat that I stole off a valet in New Orleans. It was like a gray hat that he used to kind of wear.
And then I had the skinny glasses that were like kind of colored.

Speaker 1 And I used to first say I'd put those on and do an impression of a girl on Adam 12. an old cop show.
So I'd put like these hippie glasses and go, what are you going to do? Bust us, pig?

Speaker 1 That was the intro.

Speaker 1 Then I'd put the carpet sideburns on, a little piece of sidebar. That's right.

Speaker 3 You had the sideburns with the double-sided

Speaker 1 carpet. Yep.
Kneaded double-sided tape in every gig.

Speaker 1 In my rider, I was an opener. No one had a rider.
But I would bring it where the bit would fall apart.

Speaker 2 Couldn't do the bit.

Speaker 1 And then the hat, and then try to sing like them. And it was like a close.
It got up to be a closer. And then

Speaker 1 SNL, we did it. Me and Dana did him and Bob Dylan.
I did it alone. But I didn't have that many.

Speaker 15 But he was in, I feel like one of those sort of things.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 15 We didn't realize that it predated the show.

Speaker 1 I did. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 I brought that one in. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 3 He's my opener.

Speaker 2 That guy.

Speaker 3 I'm watching to see when I go on. I see the Simon Burns come out of the little suitcase.

Speaker 2 I see the hat.

Speaker 3 And I go, I got to get on deck. Get ready now.

Speaker 3 I got to follow this guy. And a lot of times I'm having him cut the mic right before that.

Speaker 2 And And then you go, there was some sound problem.

Speaker 1 I didn't hear the ending.

Speaker 2 And I go, I know, what happened?

Speaker 3 But Spade was always like never

Speaker 3 trying to get the audience to love him. So he had a lo-fi kind of attitude.
And it was really funny because toward the end of our little tour in the Northeast, he'd come out in shorts, like cutoffs.

Speaker 3 and kind of drape himself over the over the little

Speaker 3 mic stand with a coke and go, hey, what's up, everybody?

Speaker 2 I'm coming out.

Speaker 3 Isn't that special?

Speaker 2 Everyone's leaning in to hear me. Is this guy talking? Isn't that special? Special, special.

Speaker 3 It was August in the Northeast outdoor sheds, and I would sweat. One night, I sweat all the way through my 90.

Speaker 2 Gotta do it. Gotta do it.

Speaker 3 David's in the back. He's got a straw in the can of coffee.

Speaker 1 I'm asleep in the back of the rental car. Are we done? Let's go.

Speaker 2 Head off.

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Speaker 3 Did you ever do stand-up, Kyle, or want to do stand-up?

Speaker 15 I would do it. I did it a few times.

Speaker 15 I got really, I think prior to getting on the show,

Speaker 15 I would do character bits. I would do stand-up shows.
And I did this character, Bruce Chandling, which I did at the show, which was like a shitty stand-up comedian. And that's something

Speaker 15 I would do.

Speaker 15 uh in clubs and stuff can i hear a little bit of what a shitty stand-up comedian talks like um um hey hey good to be here right uh you know good to be in la you know los angeles city of dreams i like

Speaker 15 everybody's got a dream here right yeah yeah dreaming to get dreaming of getting across town in less than an hour

Speaker 3 yeah i remember this character

Speaker 2 i love that i say that

Speaker 15 but then he would say something very depressed but then he would be like but um i do really need some help out here and um i think i might

Speaker 15 count it down yeah yeah

Speaker 3 i still do stuff like that to make myself laugh. If I go out there, to me, the funniest thing a comedian can say, say they're in Cleveland and just say, what's up, Cleveland? That's their first line.

Speaker 3 It's so funny to me.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah. I would say that.
I just go

Speaker 1 Cleveland.

Speaker 15 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 15 It was a lot of, whenever I do it now, which I've not done in a while, but a lot of like, you know, like, have you, have you seen this? Right. You know, it'll be like, of course, it's Christmas time.

Speaker 15 You heard about this? You seen this?

Speaker 2 You know, that sort of thing.

Speaker 3 how much, how much money would it

Speaker 3 take to get Kyle Mooney to play a private party? You don't have to answer that, but I'm just saying. It's funny to ask you.

Speaker 2 I mean, how much

Speaker 1 as this bad comedian?

Speaker 15 Yeah, I have a child, so now that I have to support, so I will do and take anything for hire.

Speaker 2 I mean,

Speaker 1 no, he's for hire, like we all are.

Speaker 15 Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 15 above 10K for sure.

Speaker 3 Super Bowl commercial.

Speaker 15 Yes, please.

Speaker 15 This is what we all want, right?

Speaker 3 Yes,

Speaker 3 you literally say that everyone turned down commercials in the 90s because, you know, that's a sellout. And I think about it and it frustrates me because we read ads

Speaker 3 hours and hours a week for any product. So it is

Speaker 1 Pearl Jam and fighting the fucking power.

Speaker 3 But I am happy when I see X SL members doing giant commercial campaigns, knowing they're making a ton of money. It makes me happy.
Good. Good for it.

Speaker 3 Because selling out is taking money and being in a really shitty movie or something, but it's not selling out when everyone knows you're there to get a track to do the commercial.

Speaker 2 Absolutely. Yeah.

Speaker 3 It's the opposite of selling out.

Speaker 15 I am so eager to get in that game.

Speaker 15 I've been, I've, I've had a couple of those opportunities, but I, if if bud light is interested in doing anything with me i'm like i'm fully in so yeah people tell me i sell out every commercial i go you don't know me i sold out starting during snl i was doing 100 collect beep boop bop boop beep bop beep you did sell out early

Speaker 1 not enough

Speaker 3 No, no, not enough.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I think I'm going to think good thoughts about you getting a Super Bowl commercial or just some kind of long-term campaign.

Speaker 15 I appreciate it

Speaker 3 for

Speaker 3 a phone company or

Speaker 3 she is like a tech guy.

Speaker 3 Like you'd be great, the guy in the store, like the Target guy or an Apple helper guy. What do you do with your wiring? Is more confusing or just passive aggression? Whatever you do with that.

Speaker 3 It'd be funny.

Speaker 2 I love it. Okay.
Okay. All right.

Speaker 1 Can you make it up for this young man who's answered everything we've thrown at him?

Speaker 3 Just casually, I just thought it was cool. I'm just such a fan of Jonah Hill.
I just love the way he,

Speaker 3 as an actor, he's somebody who pops. It's pretty cool his company was part of your film, Y2K.

Speaker 15 Yeah, absolutely. And like, you know, when he, when they came on, that was really the moment that the movie came together and that A24 signed on.
So like,

Speaker 15 and I feel like, you know, he.

Speaker 15 You know, he's the, he's, he, he made Superbad such, and like, he was so incredible in that movie.

Speaker 15 And that movie has become such an iconic teen film that I feel like having that sort of association and that stamp does bring a lot of value to

Speaker 15 our.

Speaker 3 Is it flattering? I mean, probably it must be. Like, does he call you up and stuff and say he's a big fan or he reads the script or, you know, it's something like, I mean, obviously he's a fan.

Speaker 15 Yeah, no, he's, he's always been very, he was,

Speaker 15 we sort of

Speaker 15 became aware of each other or met each other prior to me being on the show. He was a fan of our internet videos.
He's, you know, he's from the LA area. I'm from San Diego and

Speaker 15 I made these videos, these inside SoCal videos where like I play a

Speaker 15 San Diego bro, essentially. And I know he really liked those.

Speaker 15 So he reached out early on. And then when he came, he hosted, I think,

Speaker 15 twice while I was there. And each time he came on, he's like, we should do something, maybe three times.
And that's so special.

Speaker 15 I don't know how many, many times you guys got to experience that when like a host knows you and it's like i want to do a dada you know what i mean uh

Speaker 15 so uh yeah he's he's he's always been really cool and supportive for sure now your budget couldn't have been too huge though this isn't like aquaman right

Speaker 15 yeah i agree i'd say it's not exactly like aquaman it sounds like aquaman the way you told me it but yeah it's got and i and that might be that i'm pitching it poorly because i really don't want to give the impression that it's like aquaman jason Momoa texted me during this podcast and said, Man, I'm going to Y2K Friday night.

Speaker 3 You in, bro?

Speaker 1 He's like, Dude, this sounds like a fucking ripoff.

Speaker 15 Yeah, they're just doing Aquaman.

Speaker 2 It's exactly doing Aquaman.

Speaker 3 Yeah, Seth, Seth, you're not even saying comedy safety belts because this movie is going to blow your mind.

Speaker 3 If you could do an ad with an announcer promoting Y2K, a television ad, what would it sound like?

Speaker 2 If I could do

Speaker 3 Y2K,

Speaker 3 they don't know what's gonna happen, you know, that kind of thing.

Speaker 2 Yeah, mainly you might have been zapped.

Speaker 15 Wait, here he goes. Okay, uh, why 2K?

Speaker 15 When do you guys want me to go?

Speaker 2 Yeah, go now.

Speaker 3 One, two, three.

Speaker 15 Why 2K?

Speaker 15 Why two not

Speaker 2 2K

Speaker 2 or Y2K? That's the question. Why?

Speaker 2 Mooney.

Speaker 2 Hey, yeah. Kyle.

Speaker 2 K.

Speaker 15 December ding 6.

Speaker 2 Here comes Don Duncan.

Speaker 3 December 6th.

Speaker 1 All right. Thank you, Kyle.

Speaker 1 We won't be on the spot anymore.

Speaker 15 Such a fan. I hope to see you guys at the 50th and hang out and fan of the show and fan of you guys.
So thank you for having me.

Speaker 3 Appreciate it.

Speaker 3 It's been a thrill and good luck with the movie. And I feel you're going to be doing a lot of films.
And that's just a great career.

Speaker 3 Making films that you control and love i believe but certainly do my best in between that

Speaker 3 big ass fucking commercials big ass

Speaker 15 i want

Speaker 15 i want my ass to be huge in these commercials

Speaker 3 all right bye guys all right take care kyle

Speaker 1 this has been a presentation of odyssey please follow subscribe leave a like a review all the stuff smash that button whatever it is wherever you get your podcasts Fly on the Wall is executive produced by Dana Carvey and David Spade, Jenna Weiss-Berman of Odyssey, and Heather Santoro.

Speaker 1 The show's lead producer is Greg Holtzman.