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Hello, everyone.

Welcome to another episode of Good Hang.

I am so excited to talk to my TV husband, the father of my triplets, Adam Scott, aka Ben Wyatt, Leslie Nopes, Dream Come True.

Adam Scott, incredible actor, friend.

He's just, I just loved talking to him today, and we really get into it.

We talk about his love of you too.

We talk about how he...

weirdly likes to drive barefoot.

We talk about Parks and Rec, of course, and we give you a lot of juicy stuff there.

And I try to figure out the crazy ending of severance.

And honestly, I don't know what's going on.

So I try to have him help me understand that incredible show.

But before we start,

we always like to talk to people who know our guests and who want to give us a question.

And we're going to keep this Parks and Rec reunion going today by talking to the one, the only Nick Offerman.

Nick, are you there?

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Nick, you know what I love?

Every time I see you, I never know what kind of hair situation I'm going to get with you.

And

you

and our guest today, Adam Scott,

great heads of hair.

That's the main thing we have in common.

Super, super cute

guy in one instance and donkey with great heads of hair.

Stop it.

You are so handsome.

I love to see you.

Since I've seen you last in person, it's been a minute.

And

one of the best things about this podcast is getting to like talk to everybody again and spend time with everybody.

And today I'm spending time with the great Adam Scott.

The greatest.

Well, you know, we're going to talk about this when we're in person someday together, but I think that, you know, I know that the character of Ron Swanson is iconic.

And it is in no small part to

the way that you transform yourself and the way you approach your work.

Because I met you in Chicago back in the day, and you are coming to this work in a much more, for lack of a better term, like more prepared actory

space.

And

you're such a fine actor and I can't wait to talk to you about it.

And Adam very similarly like kind of came into the biz from that space too.

He did.

Thank you.

By the way, I did not expect compliments today.

Well, your people emailed me and said I needed to start with them.

I thank you and please thank them for me as well.

Yeah, I love that about Adam.

I love his,

they hilariously asked me to write a little thing for Time magazine for like the hundred cool people right now.

And it was so funny because they asked me to like sum up his

his thing and they gave me like 650 words or something, something so brief that, and then they even cut

paragraphs where I was like, come on, you guys, like this guy's career is hilariously varied and astonishing and also Rizzible.

Like, he has literally done everything.

I'm just going to look up Rizzable real quick.

You'll love Rizzible, R-I-S-I-B-L-E.

You love words.

You are,

you've taught me a lot of words.

Rizzable, such as to provoke laughter.

I should know that word.

You know, I love about him that he has done like piranha 3D,

just wonderful, like B-movie schlott kind of stuff.

Also, crazy.

What was that HBO show where he had, apparently it was in his contract.

He had to show his balls every episode.

Tell me you love me.

He had a prosthetic penis.

It was the first thing I saw of him.

Oh, my God.

And he carried it off.

He sure did.

Literally.

carried it off.

I guess you could have to say he pulled it off.

He really pulled it off.

I've known him for a long time.

We did play workshops together like 20 plus years ago.

And he was just this cool, funny guy.

Like, if you get to step aside with Adam anywhere, he's just immediately the cool kid where he's, he'll, whatever he says to you, you're like, oh, I just want to hang out with you, whatever this event is.

I mean, getting to work with him finally on Parks and Rec, I always said, and to this day, I still feel like he's my favorite leading man that I've worked with

because he's so authentic.

He lets the dorky parts of himself shine, even in severance.

Adam's pure, sort of youthful,

juvenile, otter-like persona comes out, even though he's like our romantic leading man.

And I agree.

It's so gorgeous to see him leading this massive artistic achievement.

Yeah,

I'm going to talk to him today about, obviously, when he joined our show

and how

what that felt like to jump onto a train that was already moving.

But I realize I never talked to you.

Look, you and I, I think, had such similar first day goals for the show, and it was to make good work and have a good time.

And I feel like we, you know,

you more than anyone at times really were my partner in that every day.

And

I'm so grateful for it.

But was there, when you remember him and Rob joining the show,

what do you remember feeling about that at the time?

There was an excitement for sure.

Adam was just coming off Party Down, which Megan had worked on with him.

Right.

And I was a really big fan of.

Your great wife, Megan Malally, people should know.

Your Tammy wife in life and on the show.

Tammy 2 Plus.

I remember being excited at the talent, but also having a little bit

where we had maybe eight series regulars at the time.

We were like,

do we need to, can we service two

new hunks?

Do we have enough?

Do we have enough hunk room?

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, I hear you.

Okay, so I'm asking my Zoomers to give me a question to ask my guest.

So I was wondering if there's any question you think I should ask Adam today.

If I was just hanging with Adam, this is what I would ask him: is

he's

he's one of those guys who has a few dozen stories that I've never heard, even though I've heard dozens,

of just like luminaries that he's, you know, Scorsese put him in a Leo movie.

Like he's, he's done so much and casually and quietly been

in so many great arenas.

So I would just say,

tell me a story about somebody who you would be starstruck with that I haven't heard

that you've worked with.

That's a great question, Nick.

I love that question.

And you're right.

There's a quiet

experience.

that Adam doesn't brag about, certainly, but that like a lot, he's been on a lot of different sets with very interesting

to your point luminaries.

He's been, he's been everywhere.

Well, friend, I hope I can't wait to get you in this seat.

And it's a hot seat, man.

And when we get, when you get here, I do want to talk more about facial hair because I do think you've had to switch a roof so much in your life.

And your Ron's mustache is, I'm going to put it up there in the Mount Rushmore of mustaches.

And I miss you very much and love you and so appreciate you doing this.

Well, I miss you and love you as well.

And

give my best to the gang and we'll be in touch.

All right, buddy.

See you soon.

Cheers.

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People haven't seen this.

You can't hear it, but you can.

Listeners, this is a heavy peach.

You could kill someone with that peach.

That's why I like it.

Why is it a paperweight?

I guess it probably is.

Doesn't smell.

You know what it doesn't smell like?

Is a peach.

Nope.

Listeners, Adam Scott's just come into the studio and he's checking out all the fake food.

I knew you would love it.

Peach still looks like a butt, no matter what.

Yeah, peach is a butt.

I mean, that's why you give, send someone a peach emoji.

You're like, you're like, hey, you're like, I like your one.

These are the miniature.

I love it.

This doesn't get enough play.

This you might like.

This is a felt sandwich, but guess what?

You can take it apart.

You can also take a bite if you want.

I love a, you know,

you know what we don't talk about enough is how great a good sandwich is.

What is your favorite sandwich?

Like, if you were to build a sandwich.

Okay.

First of all, it would need to be felt.

Yeah.

All All of it.

I just say if sandwich feels good in your hands.

Yeah.

Two different cheese.

I mean, this is.

I don't know.

This might be too much information, but I have a little bit of TMJ.

So, yeah.

So it's hard

for me to open my mouth to eat a sandwich.

I get nervous that I'm going to get locked.

Sure.

Like this.

And your arms too.

Locked like this.

And so a giant sandwich.

Yes.

But check this out.

Bread.

Yeah.

Tomato.

Tomato.

Some onion.

Onion.

What the heck?

What are we eating?

California?

Avo.

I don't like Avo on a sandwich.

I don't either.

Let's talk about it because I feel like Avo makes it soggy.

It also slides out.

That's what you say.

It doesn't cooperate with the rest of the sandwich.

Speaking of Avo.

Yeah.

Adam Scott is here and he's a California kid.

You're a California kid.

You grew up in California.

You love

giving me shit about being a California person.

Well, you grew up in Santa Cruz and tell people how you used to drive.

If you're wearing, this is a universal thing.

It definitely is.

If you're wearing flip-flops.

Okay, yeah.

That's already 80% of the world is already.

If you have to drive a car, it is unsafe to keep the flip-flops on.

You have to kick them off and drive barefoot.

People in Santa Cruz drive barefoot.

Ridiculous.

And Adam one time casually was like, you know, when when you're like driving barefoot, I said, is your house on fire?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Did you forget your shoes?

But Santa Cruz, people drive barefoot.

If you keep your flip-flops on, they can easily get like caught under the gas or the brake.

And then you're, you know.

Yeah,

that has happened to me when I'm driving a golf cart on vacation.

I don't wear flip-flops in life.

Oh, so you've never entered a car with flip-flops on?

I don't know if I ever have because like I feel I'm going to call bullshit on that right now.

Well, first of all, I don't like flip-flops that have the thing.

You probably, you know what?

Santa Cruz probably loves this.

The thing between the big toe and the

how else does a flip-flop function?

What kind of flip-flops are you wearing?

I like a flip-flop that, well, I guess it's not a flip-flop that has the thing over the foot.

Yeah, that's a sandal.

Okay, I like a sandal.

I don't like a flip-flop.

All right.

All right.

Agree to disagree.

Santa Cruz, it feels like you guys walked around flip-flops all day, and all these people.

I remember I sent you a photo from Hawaii once.

That's why I thought of why, where I sent you a photo of my barefoot on a gas pedal, and you were just like, nah.

Yeah, so gross.

Also, truly, like

bare feet in general, like,

I'm a, I don't know.

Yeah, listen.

How do you feel about bare feet?

Okay.

I'm, I don't like, love

bare feet.

And I don't wear flip-flop

Like, I feel like in my 20s, I was fine with jeans and flip-flops.

Sure.

Which now I feel like

should be illegal.

I mean, we spent a lot of time, both of us spent a lot of time in New York City.

Like flip-flops in New York City is

disgusting.

It doesn't work.

It's gross.

I mean, I guess Santa Cruz is nice, but how can you run away from those vampires?

Yeah, in flip-flops, you can't do it.

My first introduction to Santa Cruz was the movie Lost Boys, where there were hot vampires.

Yeah, Jason Patrick in 1987.

So how were you?

How old were you then?

I was

when they filmed it, I was 13.

And my next door neighbor, Joe Ferrara, he owned the comic book store that they use in the movie.

So I got to go on the set of Lost Boys as a 13-year-old.

And I met Joel Schumacher,

and I stood outside.

Corey Hayman and Corey Feldman's trailers and watched them walk to their trailers.

And it was super exciting.

Wow.

That's pretty much.

But it was my comic book store.

It was the comic book store I go to all the time.

So I saw how they made it look different for the movie.

It was just, it was cool.

What were comics were you into when you were a kid?

I was into, I was into like the Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy's Cat.

Do you know what these are?

Nope.

So do you think I just made those up?

Fat Freddy's Cat.

Fat Freddy's Cat and the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers.

They were like stoner.

They were comic books about stoners.

Oh, interesting.

So it wasn't more, it wasn't like the Marvel universe.

Was it I did that for, I dabbled in that, but I was kind of more into the weird like Zippy the Pinhead.

And do you know who that is?

I think I remember that a little bit, like when I was older.

Yeah.

There was, it was an alternative comic.

Yeah, and I don't know why I was into it, but I loved the freak brothers.

And I wasn't smoking pot when I was like a little kid or anything.

I just loved these comic books.

I know.

You weren't.

You weren't here first, guys.

Adam was not smoking.

I mean, Santa Cruz, I guess it's a kind of a toss-up.

They just blow it into your car.

Right.

They blow it into your car and make you take your shoes off.

Yeah, you just flip-flops are made out of weed.

I'm sure

you're not.

You have to smoke your flip-flops.

I have now interviewed.

Rudd and Ham.

Ham, I haven't gotten into the studio yet, but I did.

He did.

He

did Rudd's thing.

Yeah, he zoomed in from a hot air balloon.

Yeah, yeah.

That's right.

But we talked a little bit about you guys all meeting and being like,

you know, young bucks at the same time, which is really wild.

Yeah.

Where, and they've talked about you.

Where did you see yourself in that trio?

What, how would you describe because you're, what would you, how would you describe yourself if you, like, which angel are you?

That's so funny.

It's true.

I always kind of feel like sort of the little brother in that trio a little bit because I'm quite a bit younger than both of them.

Obviously, that's like where we were

pretty good.

No, I feel like

Rudd, I knew, Paul, I knew first

because we met, I met him at my graduation from acting school.

He was,

he was a speaker at the graduation.

And I'm

talking about acting?

No, he was giving out an award, and I was wearing like this polyester red suit

just because I, you know, you're just kind of looking for attention wherever you can get it, I guess, if you're graduating from theater school.

Oh, that's so that hit me really hard.

Yeah, that's so true.

You're just like, I'm gonna wear, I'm gonna dress like a cowgirl or something.

Oh, yeah, and you're like, I'm really, I'm really out there.

Everyone's gonna just cheer for me just because I'm wearing this thing.

But yeah, we, we, I remember we hung out afterwards, and he was like, nice suit.

So it worked, it totally worked.

But

yeah, so that was like 1993.

So I've known Paul and then we did a play together, which I think he brought up on the show

in the fall of 1993.

And I remember I got my first acting job while I was rehearsing that play and my beeper kept going off while we were rehearsing and the other guy in the scene kept turning it off.

Passive aggressive.

And it was, yeah, yeah, turning it like turning off that acting job for

you.

Trying to stand in front of that acting job.

Exactly.

That guest spot on Dead at 21.

He didn't want anyone on you.

He wanted to get that.

And that guy was Leonardo DiCaprio.

That's right.

That's right.

And was never heard from again.

Nope.

Never worked again.

So, yeah.

So I knew Paul then, and then I met him like a few years later.

But I mean, that is, that's a very, that's a very like outsider's young gun kind of vibe that you guys were all acting to get, like trying to audition.

Yeah.

I mean, and in the world, and

in the world, you're very different, but I imagine like there was, I don't know, you could have done a lot of similar parts and probably auditioned for similar things.

Yeah.

And I remember once

John and I were each doing a different CSI.

He was doing regular CSI.

I was doing CSI Miami and we were shooting like near each other in Culver City or something and like met up to go get a beer afterwards.

And I remember just kind of sitting there and just being like, how much longer do you think we're going to need to be like doing CSI?

Cause it was years and years for both of us.

I know.

I think it's super satisfying to talk to you about this stage of your career because

like a lot of people I know, frankly, you had so much experience before a lot of America knew you.

And I was talking to Nick about this earlier.

Oh, I talked to Nick Offerman about it.

I did.

I'm a surprise.

But he wanted to know,

like, when in that, in that part of your career before we all met,

and I think he was specifically talking about when you worked with Martin Scorsezi, but like, what, what was, when were you really starstruck during that time?

I was always starstruck and never felt comfortable, partially partially because,

and maybe it's similar for you, like not growing up in Los Angeles or in show business at all, like having zero contact with it,

being on a TV show or being in a movie felt like going to the moon.

So once you're there, it's just so crazy that there's a camera and there are lights and a famous person sitting next to you that I sort of, it took me a really long time.

And I think probably hindered me.

it's probably one of the reasons that I that it took me a while is I just never was able to relax because I was so freaked out by all of it

really I think so just were you really anxious really anxious but really nervous nervous and how did it manifest did it manifest or yeah it manifested in me not being and I think a part of it is, and it's something that I saw you doing pretty immediately when we started working together is you were like,

you were good with all of it and comfortable with all of it.

And

you were able to share yourself with the camera, which is something that took me a long time to even realize was something you needed to do beyond figuring out what the scene was or the characters or anything like that.

You just have to be able to

open up and share yourself with it.

Does that make sense?

It does.

And it's so interesting because it's kind of like what we talked about, like the way in to

like when you, in any job, the way, the way you enter can be kind of the thing that you identify with forever.

Like I'm this kind of person, I'm this kind of performer.

And I always found like when I was in Chicago, and it's funny, like Nick is a good example of this.

Nick was in like the like serious theater scene and there were the improvisers and you know people that came the comedy road there were the serious actors who studied acting right

and I used to find that they were so trained and so good and I felt a little inferior in terms of skill but I also thought they took things very seriously yeah and because of it they were missing that like play totally so like it was all their work was done when they got to set I have said this about you and Catherine Hahn two very skilled actors who who who studied you first of all you knew your lines which is important.

Okay.

You knew your lines.

I did, but I mean, I just mean, but I mean, you, you would both prepare in a way that was an, you know, part of the process of you working.

And the preparation was really impressive.

And what I've really loved about working with you and still do is you are one of those rare people that you

maybe it was learned, maybe it didn't come right away, but you do have a big sense of play.

You do not come in with some preconceived notion of how things should go.

And

you can straddle that like really good, deep acting

and really dumb, fun shit.

Right.

But that's because, yeah, yeah.

Sorry.

No, why do you think that's because?

Well, I think that's because I was doing it with you.

But you were doing it before then, too.

Not really.

I mean, mainly Party Down.

Right.

And

party down.

Stepbrothers.

But Party Down was more scripted.

I mean, we didn't have the fun runs and stuff like we did on parks.

I think Martin Starr would improvise more than anybody.

And Stepbrothers, I was just like trying to keep my head above water.

I'd never really improvised before.

So I was like, it was one of the reasons looking back, I was, I

once started really doing parks and it's like, this is the way to do it.

This is like so fun.

And

it's no less satisfying than some serious thing.

It's all in there.

The characters are bone deep.

It's so funny.

Everyone cares about each other and it's super fun.

So it made me kind of think like all those years I was wasting trying to like get three lines on NYPD Blue.

I could have been

trying to do something at Improv Olympic.

It's just, you look back and

it's so funny.

funny.

I can remember all the those years that we all did those movies, big and small parts in them, where improv was so important to make those movies come alive.

But I remember there was like a tipping point for me one time in a movie that I did where like there was just like 10

people like shouting jokes at me about like do this and do that.

And I remember going like, oh, I don't even know what my character's name is.

I don't even know what my character is.

Like, it's so, right.

I kind of.

It's so interesting you say that because, like, it's around that time from like 2005 through like 2013.

That was the overwhelming culture on comedy sets: just a bunch of people screaming jokes at you and you just being like, Yeah, okay, which one of us says?

And they're like, either one.

And you're like, who cares?

Cool.

Yeah.

I've done a good job with my character if either one of us can say this joke.

No, I know.

And I feel it's, it's, and you like your career is so interesting.

You have done so many different things.

I think it's what is,

I know for me, like so exciting about this moment for you is that

it's just,

it,

there's just really nothing you can't do, Adam.

Oh, stop that.

It's so true, dude.

It's so ridiculous.

Have, but, but I think people like to know these things.

Was there ever a part you auditioned for that you got close on that you didn't get?

Yeah.

Six feet under.

Yeah,

that was the one that I didn't get.

And it's good that for Michael C.

Hall's Michael C.

Hall's role.

And it's good that I didn't get it because it

wouldn't be nearly as good if I had done it because

he was perfect and incredible.

He's incredible.

And I wasn't ready.

But you mean like it was between you and two other guys?

She and I tested for it.

And I believe that hurts.

It was was the one where I was like, I might stop doing this.

I think that it's time for me to like read the tea leaves and walk away.

I don't understand that enough when

you lose a part and it's so close and then the show is this hit and you watch it.

It really is like

someone fucking your girlfriend in front of you.

Yeah.

100%.

And you're just like, oh my God, this show is so good.

And he's so good at it.

And that show was

everything.

like it just kind of like eclipsed all other shows it was the show i went and did a couple episodes as michael's boyfriend oh that's right like in season two

and and michael was like you want to see the trailer you could yeah yeah exactly everything he showed me is uh his banking account um

no he he was lovely of course and and it was fun and stuff but yeah that was a blow that was hard um

but you know that's it's also important that you have those,

those experiences.

Are you good in auditions, December?

No, no, no, no.

Terrible.

Me too.

I hated it so much.

I was so nervous.

You were nervous.

Yeah.

What about you?

Well, I was nervous too, but the way I masked my nervousness was, which is not a great quality, is I would get kind of like,

I would seem kind of ambivalent.

Uh-huh.

Like I would get kind of, you know, when you get nervous, you get sleepy.

Yep.

Yep.

So I would be very nervous and just like stomach in knots and really psyching myself out of like, just go in there, just, just, you know, just do what you can do.

Yeah.

But that would tip over into I don't care.

I don't care.

Yeah.

And what was your audition like for Park?

Did you audition for Parks anymore?

No.

No, I was lucky.

You just got it.

They just gave it to you.

Yeah.

Because Mike.

I remember the day that my phone had you and Mike's names on the voicemail thing.

And I was like, whoa, is this, is it finally like happening to me?

Because I, and I showed someone like, look, Mike Shur, Amy Pohler.

And then there was someone else that was calling me.

It was like suddenly for whatever reason, people were, there were incoming calls asking me to do stuff.

And that had never happened before.

I don't remember why that started happening on one particular day, but you left me a voicemail and that was a huge deal.

I'm sure I still have it.

Really?

Yeah, I'm sure I do.

We should put like a techno beat to it.

Totally.

Put it out.

No, that's what when I first heard it, I was like, this would make a great song.

This would be a hit.

This is catchy.

How is this voicemail catchy to me?

So wait, just yes,

can I just want to interject so I don't forget?

Please.

That's what I do.

I always forget shit that I was going to say.

Every single day, someone tells me Parks got them through the pandemic.

And I heard you mention it on a previous episode.

Every single day people say, I watched it during COVID.

I watch it with my kid.

My kid's going through a hard time.

I like to watch it at night because I get, I have a lot of anxiety.

Like,

I cannot believe the way that that show continues to be a

medicine for people.

It's so nice.

It's awesome.

It's nice.

And Ben and Leslie.

I know.

I know.

We just, do you remember we were texting just a couple of months ago and just kind of commented on how nice they are?

They're so nice.

They're so much nicer than us.

So much nicer.

And they're so nice to each other.

I know.

And every, every woman deserves a Ben.

Every woman deserves a partner like Ben who

roots for you and like

looks at you and is just like, that's my gal.

Like everyone deserves that kind of relationship.

Leslie from the word go

loved Ben.

Oh, Oh, be like,

like,

now looking back, it's like they were just in love with each other

immediately.

And their arc was such, so juicy.

The writers, Mike and the writers, because they meet and they're just like, well, what's your idea?

Oh, yeah.

It was like, and then, and then they like each other, but then they can't.

They can't be together.

They can't be together.

We're just like, really?

I mean, they probably could have been together.

I know, it didn't matter.

And then they had to.

And Mike was like, this is totally fake and whatever, but we just need to have Rob care about you two being together.

And it worked.

And it was like, made it even hotter.

And Ben was like, I want you.

Ben kept putting Leslie's.

You know what it is?

They kept putting each other's needs over their own.

They cared about what the other one needed and they respected each other.

Like they really liked what the other one did.

And it was the best thing about that relationship is how, you know, with the exception of Anne, who is

Leslie's number one.

Of course.

I've accepted that.

Yeah.

Is the way that they

just

rooted for each other?

Yes.

Really rooted for each other.

I haven't seen a ton of, it makes me sad to watch the show because I miss it.

Why'd you say that?

Yeah.

Why does it make you sad?

Because

I miss it.

Like you were saying, like, we really appreciated being there every day and it was so fun.

And also just sort sort of walking in that building, and then suddenly you're there, and the hallways, and the

it was so fun.

And the people just loved everybody, but I guess maybe it just

that's a good question.

Why does it actually make me sad?

I think I know is because you're stuck in that fucking weird

hallways and you're running in a wide hallway.

I told Adam, I was like, too much running.

Too much running, yeah.

I know.

I was so tired.

I mean, just exhaust, and there's you don't even know where you're going.

I mean, every hallway looks the same.

I know.

Get lost.

Get lost every day.

That's why.

Exhausting and confusing.

Yes.

I know.

Pawnee hallways.

People are dying in your new workplace.

Like, they're getting killed.

Pawnee, everyone's nice.

There's a graphic painting of a massacre on the wall, but that's covered up.

That's true.

That's okay.

It was a terrible massacre.

But something I saw recently is our very first scene in that bar when love that scene.

Me too.

So well written, that scene.

Yes.

And

we're having a beer and I say, Ben says, yeah, but you want to, you're going to run for and like immediately just knows that Leslie has these ambitions.

Yes.

That it seemed that you'd never even said out loud before, but is 100%

what you planned on doing.

It was just such a great little.

Yes, what they saw, they saw in each other the dream for the other.

Like they just, they kept like, they assumed the best and they saw

the potential in each other, basically.

I know it was so fun to play that.

And I was saying, too, that I, I, for this interview, I re-watched your first scene, which it's so good because

Nick and I are on the side.

You know, Ron and I never sat on this.

We never even sat down next to each other.

But usually you were at loggerheads.

Yeah, we were across from each other.

And so it's like, you've got the kind of like pawny side.

Yeah.

And then you and Rob come in with suits.

Right.

And it's like, who are these whipperswipers?

And I can remember that day

because

it was our first day of work.

I think that was the first scene that we did.

And it played really well because it was like, who is this new person?

Who are these guys?

Yeah.

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What was it like to join a show that was in motion that you had watched already on TV?

It was so weird,

but immediately fun.

Like even the first table read, I remember I was like, I got, I walked in the room.

like one minute after I was supposed to be there.

So I was already like thrown like, I'm fucking late to my first, Jesus Christ.

And, but it was immediately so warm and welcoming and super fun.

People, everybody's laughing at the incredible jokes in the script.

But then when we started shooting,

I mean, you, you know,

it was

a welcoming place.

It immediately kind of fostered and encouraged your best, but also

to take swings and shots without any sort of

fear of doing the wrong thing.

That was just never really there.

And then that short season was kind of short when we started because I was Prager's.

And

it's not always easy, like getting chemistry going with a gal who's like hiding her stomach behind a bag.

It's so easy.

But it was,

I remember just being like, oh, bless your heart, Adam.

The other thing I just like that I feel like I am proud of during that is the way in which, and I said it before, but I feel like the way in which in real time,

it's a job that I felt the most present in.

SNL felt like a, you know, a speeding train, an emergency room.

And I learned really fast and hard lessons really fast.

And for

everyone on parks, I felt like we were all kind of in this tender bubble because we often thought we were going to get canceled

where

we just kind of knew what we had.

I don't know.

I think that you guys did a really good job because all this stuff about us almost getting canceled.

I think we all kind of sensed something, but I don't think any of us except you and I think you and Mike protected us from a lot of that, which is great producing and really taking care of all of us.

I don't think we were ever quite, I've kind of heard all of it since,

but it was pretty tenuous there at the end of the seasons.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Which is scary.

You're a great producer.

What do you like about producing, speaking of producing?

That's nice of you to say.

I learned a lot watching you work and working with you, both as a producer, but also as the lead actor.

Like you really

kind of set the template for me, truly.

how everyone should and deserves to be treated, cast and crew and all of that.

I always kind of directing specifically is like, because you're looking at a monitor all day, it's like getting to watch television, which is like one of my favorite things to do, except you get to go in and try to make it better.

And producing is somewhat similar in that you're spending all of your time just trying to nitpick and find all of the things that don't work and find solutions for all of them.

or

making sure everybody's happy and feeling good about what they're doing.

That's another important component that I really learned from you and Mike, too.

It's so important that everybody is feeling like they're a part of it, like a useful cog in the machine, and that it's a satisfying job for them.

Now, do you guys have

for severance, which by the way, congratulations.

Thanks.

And get that Emmy speech ready, baby.

Get that Emmy speech ready, honey.

Please.

But

get it ready.

But

when you

shoot that show, is it?

I just feel like it's a really, I mean, it's so beautifully shot.

You have such great

set design.

You have tons of, like, it just seems like it's a long.

How many days take is one episode take?

Well, it depends.

It's long, right?

It's long.

The season two, I think it was 186 days

for the season, which is

a long time, you know?

I mean, I think like one episode took like six weeks.

And then I think it's kind of average out because we shoot them like three at a time all mixed up together.

Crossboard is the chart you do that.

Okay.

Yeah.

Season one, we shot the entire thing at once.

So like in month nine, we were still shooting scenes from the first episode.

But the thing that that did.

The accidental thing that that did is, you know, the first few episodes of any show are a little shaky and everyone's finding their tone a little bit or characters or whatever.

It spread that out over the entire season.

So it kind of felt more or less

fully real, you know, in a way, fully realized from the start.

But the shaky scenes are kind of distributed over the over the years.

You have to do so much switcheroo in that show.

I mean, like you have to act against yourself.

You have to just figure out versions of yourself truly that change mid-scene, let alone mid-sentence.

Do you have a script supervisor or a graph or someone that keeps that?

How do you keep track of that?

Yeah,

that's a good question.

In season one, I remember I had heard that Michael Keaton had this big, like these big poster boards for multiplicity where he kept track of all of his characters.

And I got...

large like construction paper.

I remember I was staying in Aziz's apartment in season one.

And so I was like, I remember putting it out on the floor and getting like a marker and drawing a line and like trying to like mark down like the scenes and the episodes.

And eventually it was like, I don't know what I'm doing.

And I just stopped doing that.

I just gave up.

But

I think it's, you just sort of map it out.

And then just like a math problem, you just try to kind of.

lock in what's going on, particularly if you're shooting it all at once.

You have to sort of make some decisions.

And

we would go back and forth between characters sometimes in the one, like in the morning, we would do any stuff, and in the afternoon, do outie stuff.

Interesting, yeah.

And so, oh, that's interesting.

Yeah, yeah.

So, you'd like innie before lunch, outie after lunch.

That's right,

which is good because you're slowed down on that.

You want to let it outie.

Yeah, yeah, you got to get it out.

You got to get it outie.

Yeah, yeah.

You let it innie, and you got to get it outie.

I mean, it's such a such an indication of how well that show

trapped us because

in this last season, so incredible.

The finale was so incredible.

Thanks.

What?

Your wife.

Right.

She went

pretty hard to get back to you.

Yeah, I know.

Dude.

I know.

Were you pissed?

Yeah, dude.

Yeah, yeah.

And Britt is incredible.

I got to do a movie with Britt.

Yeah, that's right.

You guys did.

Yeah, we did this movie, Sisters, and she was so fun in it and so funny.

She's great in the show.

Well, what other choice was any marketing?

I don't know.

The choice whether you're going with your wife.

So walk out the door and like end your life.

And yes, you go to

the door.

That's the choice you would.

What do you mean, end your life?

He walks out that door.

He doesn't know if he's ever coming back.

He walks out that door.

He becomes his Audi.

He doesn't know if that Audi is ever going to walk back in that building.

But that building is not great.

No, but it's better than not existing.

But it's it.

Yeah, I don't know.

That's a good question.

It was such a good ending.

It was like standing up, shouting at the TV ending.

It was so good.

And you played it so well.

And it was so exciting to watch that ending.

It was so satisfying.

You were nice.

You texted me like right after.

And you, I mean, you text pretty promptly after things.

And it always means the most when you text me.

It really does.

I mean, it means the most that I get to have friends.

I mean, can for people listening, can you imagine your favorite TV?

It's the best feeling in the world.

Your favorite TV show.

And then you get to text the person on it immediately and be like, what the fuck?

Right, right.

And, you know, and it's not like you get any spoilers, but you just get to like be like, you get to process.

Yeah.

Like, I think growing up, if I ever, you know, if I had ever been able to, I don't know, text Molly Ringwald

and be like,

dude, you, why didn't you pick Ducky?

Ducky, man.

Ducky was the dude.

Or, like, I remember I wrote viewer mail to David Letterman

and just never, you know, they just kind of went off and disintegrated in the mail.

And you're like, Dave?

Yeah, Dave.

Hey.

I remember I came up with this whole thing that I thought they would use to create a bit around that I thought would be so lame.

So lame.

People should know this about you.

You have great hair and you do not have a system.

That is your hair.

Do you mean like a toupee?

I don't know.

Just you don't have a system, whatever that is.

And there's nothing wrong with having it.

No, look, there is nothing wrong with a system.

There's nothing wrong with a hair system.

Men and women.

I'm just saying that Adam has great hair.

And

you do you think it's because you're Scottish?

Aren't you Scottish?

And I'm Scottish.

I'm Sicilian.

Okay, that maybe it's that.

I don't know.

But also, I started taking propecia when I was like 30 years old.

Really?

Yeah,

it started coming out

pretty, like when I was like 30-ish.

Yeah, I mean, everyone on parks, remember all the guys had great hair?

Yes.

And all the men and Catherine Han had great hair.

And then I don't think Rashida would mind or Aubrey would mind that we all felt like we had

our hair was,

it was just, it's just thin.

But

it was, all the men would just have these like giant heads of hair.

That's right.

Like, and just, and just, I mean, Nick would grow a beard in a day.

Like, he would.

Yeah, yeah.

That mustache is like,

what is it, 45 minutes?

He can grow that?

Yeah, he can grow it in 45 minutes.

If he just goes, yeah, he has to push really hard.

But one more severance question, which is,

what is happening on it?

What is it?

And

what, what happened?

Right.

What's going on?

What's going on?

What happened?

What is it?

What is it?

But you do host a podcast.

How has that been doing?

Ben and I host it.

Yeah.

How has it been doing that?

Like, what's it like to talk about the show that you're?

It's actually been,

we did, we originally, it was actually Naomi's idea.

She was like, you guys, like, because it had been three years since season one, we were just like.

We were just worried about everyone that watched the first season coming back.

So we're just trying to think of ways to, and Naomi thought, you guys, you know, you guys should do this.

And

it actually was, it's it's so fun to just go back and really be able to watch the episodes as finished things and talk over it with the actors or, you know, crew members or whomever

and kind of talk about it as audience members and kind of dipping into what we remember, what we intended and, you know, all that stuff.

Cool.

And do you remember the YouTube podcast used to do with Awkward?

Yes.

What if I didn't remember it?

Do you remember?

that's such a bad question do you remember no yeah that's like a question

because it's something that you could forget people also don't know that you did a podcast about you too and it was called

you talking you two to me

why why did you do podcasts about you two we did it because we found out that we were both you two fans and there was something funny about doing it doing it because you two is so huge there was something funny about doing, it's almost like doing a podcast about like Sizzler or something.

I love YouTube, but they're big.

And so, I don't know, it's hard to pinpoint exactly why it's funny to do the thing and that wasn't the right analogy.

But

we both found out that

Kulop, Scott's wife, and Naomi, my wife, were sick of hearing about YouTube and didn't want to talk about it anymore.

And so, we,

I think maybe Seth Meyer said something on this show about being a middle-aged man.

If you want to have middle-aged male friendships, you need to do a podcast together.

Oh my God.

Yes.

Yeah.

I mean, it is, it's one of the things I love about you is you have a very back of the classroom style of comedy.

Like you are a side, like you're the like out of your mouth talker.

You're a shit talker.

Not in a bad way, but you're like, you know,

you are, you are, you can be like a love tap from Adam is like a quick,

you know, to me, that's what intimacy is, is when you can like

shit talk your friends

and you like to mumble out of the side of your mouth in the back of the class.

Sure.

But what comes, what, what's great about that is along with that comes like you like deep dives into

dumb stuff.

Dumb stuff.

Yeah.

Like getting dumb stuff and like elevating it by the way you talk about it.

Have you always been like that?

Maybe.

Because you were a big TV and movie fan growing up.

Like you just were a kind of a nerd in that way when you talked about comic books.

I mean, yeah, I know.

There's nothing nerdier than a fucking comic book.

But like particularly Fat Freddy's Cat.

Yeah, I think that, and I think doing it on a podcast is extra good because you can edit it.

Yeah.

And make it shorter.

Now that you're my, we're the same age.

Are you like a year younger than me?

I think we're the same age.

Do you have like hobbies now that you're getting into?

Like, you know, how we are, like, that happens to us, like, where we're like, I want to

start

gardening.

Gardening stuff.

Like, do you do that?

No, I've never.

I have like

in the garage is like a bicycle and a um, what did I have?

I had a telescope that I

got, like a really nice telescope and never

once used it.

A bicycle that I rode once.

I don't, I've been looking for, I don't,

I, I like working and, and I like, do you have a thing?

No, it's funny you say that about a telescope.

That is such a

like, you know what, I'm going to get a nice telescope.

Get a fucking telescope.

I deserve it.

Yeah.

I know, look at the stars.

I mean, who are we?

Yeah.

On this tiny Marvel.

There's a moon.

It's up there every night.

I've never taken a good look at it.

And then I just just never looked at it.

Just cut to a dusty place to hang your clothes.

I don't care about the moon that much.

I guess what I'm asking underneath that question is: like, you've been working really hard for a long time.

What's your relationship to work and to hard work?

And do you.

That's a good question.

I feel like

it's all mixed up and somewhat dysfunctional.

You know what I was thinking about actually?

And it's sort of on the same line of thinking is that you mentioned SNL earlier.

And something that I realized recently was when I really kind of met you and got to know you, SNL was only like, what, two years ago, a year and a half before parks.

Yeah.

Like it was

a fresh thing.

And what an intense experience and what a giant change work-wise from that environment and the pressure of that to the

pressure of parks, which was an enormous amount of pressure, but entirely different.

It must have been, that must have been something that

took a while to kind of settle and grapple with.

Yeah.

I mean, what I was lucky about almost was how

much I had to do.

I felt like if I had been playing, if Leslie Knope was a character that worked three days a week,

I feel like I would have been struggling because to your point, I just had to, I'd like made a lot of, I feel like, swings and misses in the beginning.

Like the show did kind of did too, right?

Like, I think we were all trying to figure out what the show was.

And I think it just took me a while to settle down.

You know, I used to make a joke when I would be in people's movies.

I'd be like, you know, when you get into someone else's car and the music's too loud,

that may be how I am.

Like, feel free to turn me down.

And I think it took a while.

And honestly, Adam, so much of it was our work together where I felt like grounded on the the ground as a performer enough to just settle because so much of the beginning was

sketch energy, which is different.

Right.

Which is all about right now, we gotta like make it great.

I mean, I don't know, I'm just guessing that it's all about like an immediate thing that you have to put everything into.

Yeah.

And yeah.

Yeah.

And I think one of the things that was so fun about what we got to do is the camera helped us

at least it helped me have my feelings about you know there I tell people like of course you of course we love Ben we got to like Ben we watch Ben watch Leslie and we love Leslie so like when people love Leslie we love them and we got to watch Ben love her because the camera watch like we got to do so much indirect stuff like we didn't have to face to face all the time we had feelings our characters had feelings for each other because of the camera.

And that's right.

Though, even though, I mean, and that's such a beautiful

genre, that mockumentary, because it allows you to just even create space and depth in the shot.

People are just not in the same room.

That's right.

And, like, I remember we always used to say we loved it when there were spy shots through like blinds because it made our acting better.

Do you remember that?

Yes.

Do you also remember this thing we used to do where sometimes we would be doing a scene and we'd be like, okay, I can't, I'm not someone who can predict the future 100%,

but I will say, it was like a couple of times a season, I will say, I can say with 100% certainty that neither of us will ever win an award for acting for this scene.

You would say it sometimes and then sometimes not.

You know what?

Let's just, I mean, and also on the other side, I would sometimes say, you know, and I said this on the podcast, like, I would say, like, Adam, your acting is so good.

You'd be like, shut up.

We're in the middle of the scene.

Like, because it was like, oh, my God.

I mean, but, oh, yeah.

I mean, that's what I love about working with you.

And I just feel like before we end, like, I just want to feed our fans a little bit more, which is what

do you think was the most romantic scene between Ben and Leslie?

Oh, man.

It's so sweet.

I know, but what's the most romantic?

The most romantic?

I think,

I think,

well, there are a couple of nominees.

Okay.

But

I think maybe Smallest Park.

I just heard a little groan.

I hope it's a good groan.

Someone just being like, oh,

I love Smallest Park.

Me too.

Nicole Holliff centered a great Nicole Hollow center.

Chelsea wrote that episode.

Chelsea Peretti wrote that episode.

And I remember really

like feeling connected, shooting that, and just being like, this is kind of feeling like how special it was

making the show.

And that was,

yeah, that was, but

I don't know.

What do you think?

Well, I have a lot.

I mean, I feel like that was such a big one.

I feel like some of the I have such a affinity for the beginning, beginnings parts of Ben and and Leslie, because I do think it also just reminded me of like we were, you know, the show was deciding that they were going to love each other too.

And

I really love this tiny moment when they realize they have, they like the same spot, when they like to sit under the sunflower mural.

Well, I love that moment.

When I ask you if you know where that mural is

and your response is real, it's a rewindable moment.

I love that moment between both of us because, and of course, Parks then pays it off years later

by sitting underneath it.

Yep.

I also, you know, when we shot Ben and Leslie's wedding, it was so fun.

It was like we were all just sitting there all day goofing around.

And it was so fun.

And like, I think we had real champagne, too.

Maybe.

We probably did.

Yeah.

We probably did.

And then that probably became a problem later in the day.

Yeah, probably.

Champagne, not something to have

when you have like a 10-hour workday outside of you.

Speaking of champagne, maybe our fans would like to know that on our last day of shooting or one of our last days, like speaking of like

romantic goodbyes, we all climbed up on the top of the hair and makeup trailer.

and like did a big toast up there because we shot

at a studio called CBS Radford.

And it was very like, we wrote our names on the wall.

We were sharing a studio.

Who had been there before?

Malcolm in the middle?

Yeah.

And maybe Sein, no.

Seinfeld was on the lot, but not that particular stage.

Naomi and I have our office at Radford.

You do?

Yeah.

And I walk over there all the time.

That had been my first time really shooting anything on a studio.

I had never had like a studio experience before, and I was so lucky to do it there.

But yeah, we like got up on the trailer.

I mean, there was just so many proper goodbyes for that show.

We really,

and Mike and the writers really landed that plane.

Yeah.

And that's, that's rare.

I know.

Like, that is so rare.

Are you asked all the time if

there'll be a more parks or a reboot or something?

I always feel like that's, it's been, it's done.

Like it was perfectly tough.

Like,

how do you do that?

Maybe they should do like Muppet Babies.

They should do like parks and rec babies.

That's right.

Like everyone has babies.

of us is like that Instagram thing where everyone's

like a whole series

of all of us just in a crib together.

Yeah, but they should do it like present day where like the politics are really dark and mean.

And so it should be like tiny babies fighting each other.

They hate each other.

It's like apocalyptic political babies.

And they're all like, oh no, like I hate you.

I hate you so much.

I hate you so so much.

Yay.

I mean, yay, I hate you.

Because we made the show in an era where public service was encouraged and valued.

Right.

And funded.

Yes.

It was, or I mean, you know, I'm sure that it wasn't as funded as much as it should have been, but it was funded at least.

It's an entirely different

tone to American life.

I know.

It's and, you know, the

many fun town halls that we used to have to do were so fun to sit together and do those and just have people like just come up and score and be so funny.

The funniest people coming and doing stuff on the show.

We had the best, best rotating cast of geniuses come through there.

In fact, a lot of people should know that at the end of the year, we made the show made like a yearbook.

And it was a list of every single person that's been in the show.

And by the way, RIP,

Jonathan Joss, Ken Hotate.

What a a sweetheart.

Sweet man and funny.

Very funny and so sad for him and his family and his husband.

Yeah.

You know, when you have that feeling sometimes, like you wish you could go back to high school and enjoy it?

Right.

That's how it felt.

Like we actually got to do it in real time.

Yeah.

Because it was genuinely goofy and funny.

Yeah.

Like the best jokes.

What is your, what is your, one of your favorite joke?

What is one of the favorite funny scenes you got to do?

So many.

So many.

I mean, I always think of you guys on the, the on on the ice at the ice skating rink with gloria stefan yeah i mean that is i remember at the table read that was we couldn't stop laughing because it was so funny yeah mike scully wrote that episode and mike scully so we got to uh walk across that ice and i remember just thinking this is so fun oh my god

that wasn't even in that scene yeah that's right yeah that's right sorry we should probably just photoshop we should put me in that scene That's why I brought it up.

I feel like it would.

I deserve it.

You know, my kids watched the show during the pandemic like everyone else did.

And I re-watched a lot of stuff, and it was so fun because I remembered the feeling of how everything was to shoot it.

But I didn't remember what was going to happen.

It is weird to watch yourself doing something and have no recollection of it happening in your life.

It's so strange.

What are you, I asked this to everybody, like, what are you laughing at right now?

I mean, first of all, you, you know, do you, you're very serious now.

That's right.

I don't, thank you for acknowledging that.

I don't laugh anymore.

I mean, you're, all you're doing is running and typing.

And if you'll, I don't know if you noticed, but while I'm running, I'm not laughing.

Not at all.

I didn't see you crack a smile once.

Because it's hard to laugh while you're running because it's, it's not funny.

You're running for your life.

That's right.

Yeah.

I got to get there like as fast as possible and again i'd love to ask you where where are you going where am i going yeah i'm going down the hall

gotta gotta run down the hall um

what am i like

are you watching anything are you like anything like super funny yeah what are you like what are you naomi liking right now or did you see something recently or

you know what i've been watching recently is i've been re-watching all uh sex in the city the origin yeah It's

so fucking good.

So good.

It is so good.

Such a love letter to that time period.

Yes.

Were you ever on it?

Because every actor I know is on it.

Justin Thoreau,

Bobby Cannavale, Will.

Yep.

Everybody.

Yep.

Slattery.

Slattery, Elizabeth Banks.

Yes.

It's a real who's who.

Yeah.

Everybody in New York.

But it is so good.

And to what something I like doing is watching it and just kind of thinking about all of this happening for the first time.

Like women sitting at a table together, talking about

whatever, talking about themselves and

talking about like

how weird someone's cum smells.

It's just like, holy shit, this is incredible.

Like that has never been on TV before, let alone said out loud for people.

And just how Samantha is just

the most sex positive, like incredible, like not a moment of embarrassment.

Never.

Like, so fucking cool.

So good.

And Sarah Jessica Parker is so great at being the center of a show, servicing everybody else, but also keeping that motor going in the middle.

It's so good.

There's a couple shows that make me, when I'm in Los Angeles, really miss New York.

Old Sex in the City and Law and Order.

Oh, yeah, sure.

Yeah.

Were you on a Law and Order?

I was on Law and Order once.

You weren't on Law and Order?

No, that was my dream.

Really?

Never.

I mean, I didn't, see, I wasn't auditioning in that way.

I didn't think I was a good enough actor.

But I wanted to be on Law and Order so bad.

Yeah, yeah.

What was your character?

Why do I not know that you're on Law and Order?

I should know this.

Timothy Dinkins.

I don't know what the name was.

You can look it up.

I

was working at the grocery store arranging fruits or vegetables when they came up and first started talking to me.

And

I remember my agent at the time calling me right after it aired and being like, you don't know how to handle those vegetables.

Like, you weren't doing anything.

Who were the peeps?

Was it the Orbachiers?

It was.

No, it was Dennis Farina.

Dennis Farina.

Who is so cool?

And

Jesse Martin.

Fantastic.

Did you meet Esapatha, who I asked?

No.

If you're listening, I need to get you on the show.

She's great.

She's incredible.

Sam Waterston.

Yep.

So you went to the court.

You got to the law part.

Pablo Schreiber and I were in court together, and he ended up being guilty, and I was the red herring, I think.

What were you accused of doing?

Probably killing someone.

I don't totally remember.

Well, we're going to watch.

Are you finding my character's name?

And if it's Timothy whatever I said, that would be amazing.

Okay, Timothy Dinkins.

Yeah, Timothy Dinkins.

Was Adam Scott on Law and Order?

Okay.

The trail leads to a pair of perpetrators, another mercenary played by Pablo Schreiber and the brother of one of Schreiber's fellow mercenaries who was killed in a roadside ambush by presumably Al-Qaeda?

God, I don't know.

The brother, you forgot the Al-Qaeda part?

I did.

The brother is Adam Scott, and he is the only true innocent.

That's right.

That's right.

Wow.

Thank you.

I wanted to play the opposite.

See, because

I wanted to be like the one that you would not suspect.

And then it's like, I burned the whole place.

I wanted to be a pyro because I felt like of all.

You wanted to specifically be a pyromaniac?

I wish I wanted to be like a baby-faced pyro.

Yeah.

Someone who just is like,

you know, she seems like she's helping the police and then she's like, they deserved it.

Yeah.

You know, whatever kind of weird psycho thing.

Okay, so sex in the city is what you're watching and laughing at.

Yeah, I'm, I, it's great.

I, and you know, when you're, I saw something recently that said that repeated, if you have the urge to watch something you've seen before and repeat viewings is a sign of a particular kind of intelligence.

Oh, yeah.

No, this is real.

It's a sign of intelligence.

Intelligence.

I saw this on Instagram.

On Instagram.

Where did you see this on?

On Instagram.

Okay.

Yeah.

It just, and it was a picture of someone watching TV and it just said that.

There was no, nothing to back it up.

And I was like, oh, great.

We'll watch more Sex in the City.

You saw it on Dr.

Instagram.

Frankie, my daughter and I just flew together from New York like night before last, and we got on the plane.

And I got in my seat, and she was across the road from me.

And I got in and like sold in it and started watching Sex in the City that I had downloaded.

And she was like, Dad, are you watching more Sex in the City?

Yeah,

I love you, Adam.

I love you, Amy.

Thank you for having me.

This is so fun.

We were really excited to do this one today.

Oh, that's very nice.

I love having you.

I love being here.

Thank you.

Come back when we do our big, we'll do a big park show.

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Well, that was an amazing episode with Adam.

We got so deep.

I love talking to him, and he's just the best.

And he mentioned Six Feet Under, a show that he got close to booking.

And that did remind me of the parks finale.

You know, for people that watch the end of Parks and Recreation, Mike Scher and I were talking about the idea that in comedies, you don't always get to see the future.

You don't always get to see what happens to these characters that you've grown to love.

And so

we were so blown away by the Six Feet Under finale.

And I think we were heavily influenced by the idea of that when we wrote the finale of Parks and Recreation.

So watch Six Feet Under.

And honestly, it's so good.

I mean, and

better because Adam didn't get cast in it.

You know what I mean?

Michael Hall is incredible.

So,

you know, Adam's loss is our win.

And

check that show out.

And,

you know, as always, thank you for caring so deeply about Parks and Rec because I do too.

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