"Adam Scott"

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Speaker 3 So, listener, this is the portion of our show called the Cold Open.

Speaker 1 Why isn't it called a hot open?

Speaker 3 Well, because it originated back in the old country.

Speaker 3 Jesus.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 Refrigerator boxes.

Speaker 1 He used to. Hey, welcome to an old newsmart list.
Smart.

Speaker 1 Smart

Speaker 1 less.

Speaker 1 Smart.

Speaker 1 Less.

Speaker 2 Do you guys sleep with the room blacked out or do the shades open? That's my opening question.

Speaker 3 Hang on, Will. Sean's got some material.
Go ahead, Sean. What should we say?

Speaker 1 What is it? I don't know what should we say. No, I don't.
Do you?

Speaker 2 No, I can't sleep with the...

Speaker 2 I have to sleep with them open because still rolling, go back to one.

Speaker 2 I have to sleep with them open because I can't wake up when it's pitch black. It makes me really depressed.

Speaker 2 Okay, I mean, I had a payday candy bar yesterday.

Speaker 1 Hang on a second. This is his second bit.

Speaker 3 He didn't want to to lead with this one because it's not as strong as the first one.

Speaker 1 One subject at a time. Sean, and now are you checking these off every time you hit one of these? Because I know you wrote these down.
No,

Speaker 3 but truly, about the blackout thing, that is something that my wife really prefers. She likes to have total blackout in the room when she goes to sleep.
She says she can't sleep with

Speaker 3 light in the room. And I'm still trying to figure out how she's been able to sleep with her eyes open all these years.

Speaker 1 Wow. Right?

Speaker 3 I mean, if your eyes are closed, no, if your eyes are closed, you don't need blackout curtains. That's what I'm saying.
Your eyes are closed.

Speaker 3 And your eyeballs roll up behind in the back of your head when you're sleeping, too.

Speaker 2 Right.

Speaker 2 But the thing is, I can't, but more than that, I don't want to wake up when it's... Like, I don't know what time it is then.
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 It's real cokey to wake up in a blackout room.

Speaker 1 It is, right? Yeah, I agree. I mean, we used to go to sleep as human beings when it got dark out and we'd go to sleep appropriately at that time because there was no light.

Speaker 1 And then we'd wake up when it got light.

Speaker 3 Yeah, you kind of peek your eyes open. Is there light outside yet? No.

Speaker 3 Yeah. It's kind of nice.
It is nice to look out the window and see that the day's out there.

Speaker 1 That's what I'm saying. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 It gets you going.

Speaker 1 I'm a super early riser, as you guys know, and I like to go to bed early too.

Speaker 3 So how has that been when you've now moved over there to New York to do your film? Which, by the way, I was thinking the other day,

Speaker 3 I'm a real shitheel for not having reached out to you and asked you how things are going thus far because you're right in the middle of prep. You're a couple of weeks out from shooting.

Speaker 1 You owned a little thing.

Speaker 3 Let me just ask you publicly, how is it going? How are you feeling? Are you excited?

Speaker 1 Are you nervous? Are you

Speaker 1 pumped?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm really excited.

Speaker 1 It's been good. Prep has been excellent.
It's been really, really good. And yeah, we're right in the thick of it right now.

Speaker 2 Can you tell us a couple of your credits before this starts?

Speaker 1 Of course.

Speaker 1 And are you acting in this?

Speaker 3 Are you producing it? Are you directing it?

Speaker 1 Let me go back through. So some of my credits as self.

Speaker 1 These are the talk shows. Talk shows.

Speaker 3 Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight appearances.

Speaker 1 Formerly known as Jimmy Kimmel Live. And so those are their own.
And then Jimmy Kibble

Speaker 1 also separates. So

Speaker 2 this is your big debut.

Speaker 3 Any scripted stuff?

Speaker 1 You know what?

Speaker 1 You know, I was looking at talk show appearances

Speaker 1 recently, and I was like, I think I've done

Speaker 1 like very, all the different iterations of Conan's show, I think a total of like close to 30 times. Same with Kimmel.

Speaker 1 I think I've done Letterman like six times. I think like it's a lot of appearances on those shows.

Speaker 2 It's a lot of stories.

Speaker 1 I'm loving being in New York, though, so much. It's been really, that part of it has been amazing, too.

Speaker 3 Go ahead, Will. What about New York that you're in?

Speaker 1 And I'm just saying, if you find yourself in Midtown and you're looking for some men's fashion,

Speaker 3 you're thinking maybe New York might be a fit for you once again in your life to live a little bit more full-time there?

Speaker 1 Yeah, as you guys both know, I lived here full-time for over 20 years and then moved out to L.A. and

Speaker 1 the bigger kids were little.

Speaker 1 It just worked out that that was really convenient and they liked school out there and they still do. So my older kids are in high school

Speaker 3 in L.A.

Speaker 1 Maybe when they're done, you can maybe, yeah, I'm going to do a little God knows where they're going to go. I'm going to split some time.
Exactly. God knows where they're going to go.

Speaker 1 And so, I'm going to start to split my time a little bit between the East Coast and LA and the East Coast. Start to feather it in.

Speaker 3 And then, in a few years,

Speaker 1 or feather, or as like you say, braid it. Braid it.

Speaker 3 Braid it. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 And then eventually

Speaker 1 go full, full-time East Coast and back here in New York. I really like it.
And,

Speaker 1 you know,

Speaker 1 that's great.

Speaker 2 My guest today appears in pretty much everything good you've seen on the stall or big screen in the last 20 years. No Stranger to the Podcast Page.

Speaker 1 I love this person. Okay.

Speaker 2 My guest today appears in pretty much everything good you've seen,

Speaker 1 period.

Speaker 2 No stranger to the podcast pace.

Speaker 1 Where did Will go?

Speaker 3 He's tying his shoes or something.

Speaker 1 I trust him.

Speaker 2 He's co-hosted one about the band U2, as well as a separate one about REM. His last name is also a first name, and he once claimed he can't live without protein bars or a water floss, sir, Jason.

Speaker 2 Today, he stars in one of the most anticipated second seasons of a show ever. Something I love.
I loved him and everything, but this one I really love.

Speaker 2 That show is called Severance, and his name is... Adam Scott? Brilliant.

Speaker 1 Adam Scott. Hey, Adam.
Oh, my goodness.

Speaker 1 My God.

Speaker 3 This is very long overdue. I know.
By the way, it's ridiculously ridiculously long overdue.

Speaker 1 Can I just ask? Can I just ask, is it too late to jump in on that blackout curtains?

Speaker 1 No, no, no, no, please.

Speaker 3 We know you're a classic vampire. Let's hear it.

Speaker 1 No, I have no stance. I don't give a shit, Adam.
Really?

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 3 What about Naomi? Good opener.

Speaker 1 Good opener.

Speaker 3 What does Naomi like? Her sort of her bedroom lighting.

Speaker 1 By the way, Adam, you don't have to tell Jason what your wife prefers sleepwise. Okay, just feel free to say fuck off.
Okay, go ahead.

Speaker 3 Well, okay, just tell me what she sleeps in.

Speaker 1 No, I blackout curtains in like a hotel, I can never wake up with the blackout curtains, but at home, you know, for some reason, they don't really have the effect.

Speaker 1 And that was about as interesting as it got.

Speaker 3 So, wait, so you are using blackout curtains in your in your home?

Speaker 1 Um, no, you, we do have, we do have blackout curtains now that you mention it. Yes, but you know, I'm always up early.
You know, aren't you, you have kids, you're up early.

Speaker 1 I'm going to do this because

Speaker 3 Amanda got up early this morning because she went to a workout class with our eldest, kind of a cute mother-daughter thing.

Speaker 3 But anyway, so she's up early before I'm getting up. And I was reminded once again, she's a real heavy walker.

Speaker 1 She, she,

Speaker 3 she's, she doesn't roll the heel to the toe.

Speaker 3 It's just, it's almost like she's got no flexibility in her Achilles tendon. So she's just jamming the peg of the heel down.

Speaker 1 Achilles.

Speaker 3 And she pops the light switches. Do you know how you can turn on a light switch so it makes no sound?

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. She's never heard.
It just whack, whack.

Speaker 3 She'll brush her teeth and shake out all the supplements from the bottles and stuff from the bathroom.

Speaker 2 It's like,

Speaker 1 what is going on? It sounds like she wants you to wake up. Exactly.

Speaker 3 How about a nice little reach over and just a gentle rocking would be nice.

Speaker 1 JB, it also sounds like you are intolerable as a person.

Speaker 1 You're tough to live with. It's fucking because all this time I thought Amanda was the problem.
I agreed with you over the years. I agree that she talks a lot.
She talks out of turn.

Speaker 1 She grabs everybody and whispers in their ear all the time.

Speaker 1 She's always confiding in people. Yeah, and I was just like, all day.
You know what she does? She grabs you. She pulls you to the side.
Totally.

Speaker 1 I love that.

Speaker 3 Oh, Adam's fallen down the hole himself.

Speaker 1 But now I realize you're the problem. It's not her.
She's an angel.

Speaker 3 you would say a sweet angel yeah sweet baby angel yeah no it's you i've got plenty of quirks yeah

Speaker 1 adam welcome welcome thank you thank you guys uh

Speaker 1 so

Speaker 1 well by the way i was late no by the way the you know by the way all the you guys were there was a whole flurry of activity around you being what seven minutes late. It's actually impressive.

Speaker 2 No, it's just unusual.

Speaker 3 If you're 60 seconds late to this thing, one of us will get after you.

Speaker 3 Will and I have wrecked each other's days

Speaker 3 at least a half a dozen times.

Speaker 1 Where we're like, we're like legit mad at each other and have to have a follow-up phone call four hours later and make up.

Speaker 3 Because of like a four-minute yeah, there's like there's there's like 10 minutes of vibe throughout the throughout the story.

Speaker 1 Like, oh, you're mad at me because I'm late? Well, I've you didn't want to check your connection before the start of the recording. Wow.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it gets real. You know how brothers kiss.

Speaker 3 Sure.

Speaker 1 You know how that happens.

Speaker 1 Anyway, sorry. Wait, Adam, thank you for being here.

Speaker 2 And I'm glad to me, guys. Yeah, and I'm glad you're my guest because I, as you know.

Speaker 1 You know what? I'm glad you're his guest too, to a degree. But I saw the ads for, and I loved Severance.
I haven't watched, I love Severance season one.

Speaker 1 First of all, out of the gate, you're fucking awesome. Severance one, Adam.
Severance one. So good.

Speaker 1 Love it, love it, love it. And I saw an ad for season two.
I don't know if it was on,

Speaker 1 maybe it was online, something. And I saw an ad and I thought, how have we not had Adam on the show? Look, here we are.

Speaker 3 Here we are. It's Sean's fault.
Sean.

Speaker 1 That was three days ago.

Speaker 1 I went through that thought process.

Speaker 2 Only three days ago.

Speaker 1 Sean finally booked me. I know.
That's what I did.

Speaker 3 And then, Adam, we don't need to mention the product, but did I hear your voice on a campaign a couple of days ago on TV?

Speaker 1 Yeah, maybe.

Speaker 3 Are you doing any voiceover work for a financial?

Speaker 1 You can mention, you can mention what is it? Tax Act. Yeah.
Tax Act Act.

Speaker 3 Very pleasant voice.

Speaker 1 By the way, that's my first time delving into that.

Speaker 1 And it is the best.

Speaker 3 It's like

Speaker 1 morons could do it. Isn't that right, Will? Will.

Speaker 1 Hey, Will. Uh-oh, Will.
Likely. My screen froze.
Sorry.

Speaker 3 Yeah, that's what happens when you're a robot. You glitch out every once in a while.

Speaker 1 You know what?

Speaker 3 Professional grades, you fucking.

Speaker 1 I'm not going to give it away for free. Listen, my friends over at the JFC, they make a product that's made here, that's American-made.
And if you like a truck,

Speaker 1 right? But you've been doing it like at home for

Speaker 1 like you, you know, Ethan, Will, you know, exactly what you're doing here. Like, this is what you've been doing for a long time.
Oh, yes, that is true. It is best.

Speaker 3 Ask him what his favorite microphone is and the best cans to wear.

Speaker 1 I mean, look, do you want to see something? This is yeah, do you have a different mic depending on? Oh,

Speaker 1 look at that. This is in a beautiful quilted box.

Speaker 2 Nobody cares about your microphone in a box.

Speaker 1 A mahogany

Speaker 1 wrapped up like a precious dildo. Are you kidding?

Speaker 1 It does.

Speaker 1 This is an old school microphone. It is the fucking Cadillac of microphones.
This is a, or it's a, you know, a Yukon XL Denali of microphones. There you go.
It's the Neumann U87.

Speaker 1 This microphone. is is the is made in Germany.

Speaker 1 I do keep it in this box at all times. Germany, we all know, Germany, that's where all the good mics come from.

Speaker 1 It is true.

Speaker 2 Everybody knows that.

Speaker 1 It is true. So, nobody knows that.
So,

Speaker 1 yeah, Adam, go ahead, Sean. If you wanted to ask me, go ahead.

Speaker 2 I just wanted to say, I wanted to say one thing, and then I wanted to ask you something, which was, and I'm sure you know this, but I was doing my play Good Night Oscar in Chicago with Tramel Tilliman.

Speaker 2 Yes, and Trammell says,

Speaker 1 Belize,

Speaker 1 This is a performance.

Speaker 1 Oh, Mr. Oscar, come to life.

Speaker 1 I love it about

Speaker 1 Nacor.

Speaker 1 I'm going to do it in Italy now.

Speaker 1 Sorry, Adam.

Speaker 1 This is a great

Speaker 1 one.

Speaker 2 Anyway, so Trammell comes to rehearsal and he's like, hey, y'all got to check out my show, Severance on Apple. And I was like, oh, God, that's homework.
I got to watch another friend's show.

Speaker 2 And then so I go home and watch. I couldn't take my eyes off.
I was like, this is the best. And then

Speaker 2 every night at the show, I was like, oh, my God, I'm in a show with the guy from Severance.

Speaker 1 Tramille. He's incredible.
So good.

Speaker 2 He's Milchuk for anybody who doesn't know, which now his nickname is Milchuk.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Which is great. But I want to just talk to you about Severance and get that out of the way because I love it.

Speaker 2 Because when Ben Stiller was on the show, he, I think I might get this wrong, but he said when he read the script, it was almost, he thought it was supposed to be a comedy or something. Is that right?

Speaker 2 Because there's comedy elements in it, but it's a tone like you've never seen before, which is so hard to achieve. Did you get that from reading it?

Speaker 1 Well, I think that he was sort of thinking a way into it would be like the workplace comedy that we've all sort of grown accustomed to as kind of its own genre.

Speaker 1 And he thought that could be a way in for audiences, like see these people working with their like banter and all of that, except none of them know who they are or what they're doing.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And sort of that's sort of the way in.
I think that's, and part of the reason he thought of me is because I've, you know, been in workplace comics.

Speaker 1 Well, I was going to say, so as you, as we all know, you were on Parks and Rec for many years,

Speaker 1 which is.

Speaker 1 fine.

Speaker 3 I started it down here, just under camera.

Speaker 1 I see. Okay, thank you.
Okay.

Speaker 1 He's saving the park, save the recreation.

Speaker 1 So,

Speaker 1 so,

Speaker 1 but it is funny, you know. I love that he's in the back of the theater.
Oh, yeah, yeah,

Speaker 1 but it also speaks to the size of the just the the breadth of this theater that you're in.

Speaker 1 But yeah,

Speaker 1 you did a very

Speaker 1 great, very popular

Speaker 1 workplace comedy. And then you have to kind of shift gears.
I mean, that one is a bunch of people who they know who they are, but they don't really know what they're. doing a lot of the time

Speaker 1 in Parks and Rec. And then you go to this other one, which, and what I loved about Severance early on

Speaker 1 was, first of all, is that you're, it's one of those shows where you're, you, not only do they not know what's going on, the characters, but you as an audience member are trying to piece it together.

Speaker 1 You're like, what's happening? Yeah. For me, that scratches an itch.
I love that because it keeps you hooked. You're like,

Speaker 1 what's happening? Yeah.

Speaker 1 I agree. That's part of what I loved about it too.
And just sort of the gradual,

Speaker 1 it was a constant like

Speaker 1 negotiation of like how much of the iceberg do we show, you know, from

Speaker 1 first of all, season one,

Speaker 1 how far are we going to go? And originally, the season was by the time season one ends, it was going to be way further down the line story-wise than what it ended up being.

Speaker 1 So it's constantly that thing, like, how much do we want to show? How much do we want the audience to sort of follow the breadcrumbs and all that kind of stuff?

Speaker 3 Yeah, but and you being the protagonist, sort of the central focus, you kind of hold our our hand as the audience um uh through this odd

Speaker 1 circumstance and do you do you you've you've been the protagonist you've been the antagonist what would do you do you like that do you like being the audience's proxy through something that is that is kind of um difficult to manage i do and it it's a completely different thing as as i'm sure you'd you'd you'd attest, Jason, because actually early on, I remember when I started doing Party Down, which is before parks.

Speaker 1 And thank you very much.

Speaker 1 Let's hear him in the back.

Speaker 1 Congrats.

Speaker 1 They like to party down so much.

Speaker 3 We've never done this bit before, and this will be the last time, but we're just going to go ahead and milk it till it's a stone.

Speaker 1 Okay,

Speaker 1 they like to party down so much.

Speaker 1 We party too.

Speaker 1 We'll be right back.

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Speaker 3 You're doing party down, and you're you're a protagonist or an antagonist. Right.

Speaker 1 So we're doing we're doing a scene early in that show, and we were just starting.

Speaker 1 And up to that point, I had had roles where, you know, where you're trying to like stuff everything into a couple of scenes. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And so I was doing this scene where Lizzie Kaplan and I were meeting for the first time and talking.

Speaker 1 And I remember the director, Fred Savage, took me aside after a couple takes and was just like hey man you know you've got all season you can

Speaker 1 chill it just easy yeah like

Speaker 1 we've got all this time and you can uh

Speaker 1 you know the i you're gonna be kind of the audience is gonna go and go through the story with you so you can just pull back and just

Speaker 1 like he was essentially just saying fucking relax yeah

Speaker 1 don't worry about it did that crush your spirit was that was that shaming?

Speaker 1 Well, no, it was actually, it was like the best advice I'd gotten, but also kind of looking back, yeah, maybe I could in the moment probably question everything, but looking back, it's like the best piece of advice because,

Speaker 1 you know, he's 100% right. And I'm sure he learned that lesson when he was like nine years old or something.
But it's true. You can just take your foot off the gas a little bit.

Speaker 1 Otherwise, it's going to be exhausting to watch.

Speaker 1 Well, you have nowhere to go, all that kind of stuff, right?

Speaker 1 You know what it occurs to me as you say that, Adam, I'm like,

Speaker 1 what's the best...

Speaker 1 Can you guys, this goes to everybody, remember a piece of direction, a simple note or something that's always stuck with you that was a good one or a really bad one?

Speaker 2 I got a piece of bad direction once from, oh, gosh. Don't say the name, but you.
Okay, won't say the name. But he said, what the fuck is wrong with you?

Speaker 1 Whoa. No, really?

Speaker 1 I think you said that before. Yeah.

Speaker 3 And didn't he scream it like either across the set or from Video Village?

Speaker 2 No, he, yeah, from Video Village in front of 200 people.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 saying that and then expecting you to like

Speaker 1 experiment and find.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, exactly. Jesus Christ.
That was the direction.

Speaker 2 Also, but Jimmy Burroughs once that, Jimmy Burroughs, the great Jimmy Burroughs, James Burrows.

Speaker 2 He said, I said, Jimmy, is it funnier if I like say the line and slam the fridge, or should I slam the fridge and then say the line? And his direction was, honey, I don't care.

Speaker 1 That's pretty good.

Speaker 1 Jimmy Burroughs wants, not to me, but to somebody else I was doing a scene with. And, you know, we're on one of those rehearsal days and he's just, he's just got his podium on the roll, on the wheels.

Speaker 1 And we go through a scene and we're going to move to the other scene, sort of down the stage a little bit.

Speaker 1 And as he's walking away rolling his thing, he turns to this guy who's in the scene with me and goes, hey, clear on the words. And the guy goes, which one, Jimmy? And he he goes all of them

Speaker 1 kept walking

Speaker 1 he is

Speaker 1 so i fell to my knees laughing so hard by the way his book is yeah incredible yeah it's really good yeah it's really so good yeah yeah he once just simply yelled to me stop pushing that's it

Speaker 3 i was i was yeah i was pushing too hard which reminds me of the actually actually the most helpful note i ever got was very similar uh not to drop a name but i was doing a movie of the week week in like the early 90s on CBS with the great Catherine Hepburn.

Speaker 1 And I was doing a scene with her.

Speaker 3 And she,

Speaker 1 what a talent.

Speaker 1 She wasn't fine.

Speaker 3 She said, she said to me, she stopped in the middle of the scene. I was supposed to be crying in the scene.
It's just me and her. And she stopped in the middle of the scene.

Speaker 3 And I'm trying to squeeze these tears out.

Speaker 1 She goes, stop acting. Wow.

Speaker 3 And I said, like, forever?

Speaker 1 Should I just quit? No, no, in the scene.

Speaker 3 Just say it.

Speaker 1 Just say the words. Forever.

Speaker 1 Like, forever. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Was this like a career pivot?

Speaker 3 She's like, she said, no, just say the words. And she was right.
And then I just said the words

Speaker 3 and

Speaker 3 I try to still do that every day.

Speaker 1 I love that.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Wait, so about your first two names?

Speaker 2 So is this right? Were you going to be Adam? I can't even say it, Cuartararo.

Speaker 1 Cordero.

Speaker 1 At first, it was Cartararo. Well, my mom's maiden name was Corderaro.
And

Speaker 1 so I was like, well, that's too long. I wanted to, because

Speaker 1 part Sicilian, so I wanted to have like a Sicilian last name when I was in acting school to be more, you know, to sound like Al Pacino or Robert De Niro. Yeah, yeah, of course.

Speaker 1 Some with an O would be preferable. Yeah.
Yeah. So you got the cordero.
Nothing wrong with an Italian.

Speaker 1 Exactly. See, this guy knows what I'm talking about.

Speaker 1 Okay. So wait.
So I shortened it to Cordero.

Speaker 1 And I remember being in the library at the acting school and like writing Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Adam Cordero, and being like, oh, yeah, that looks, that looks right. That's cool.

Speaker 1 That's exactly.

Speaker 3 And then what happened? Didn't Claire, somebody had it?

Speaker 1 I don't, I don't. Yeah, that's right.
And it was with a Q2, Cordero. Oh, I like that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then you were like, hey, give me the name of all the Australian pro-golfers.

Speaker 1 That's right. Let's see a list.

Speaker 1 Let's see the one. Adam Scott.
That's the one.

Speaker 2 Wait, so wait, how did you come up with Scott? What is that?

Speaker 1 That's my actual name. Oh, it is.
Oh,

Speaker 1 I thought that was the other one. Oh, fucking great research, Sean.

Speaker 1 Sean, that was his dad's name. Okay, sure.

Speaker 2 So when you were born, you just took your dad's name?

Speaker 4 Okay, got it. That's right.

Speaker 1 Wait, Adam, we've never talked about Adam Scott, the pro-Australian golfer. Has that been an issue at all?

Speaker 1 Obviously, Scott, a great discount.

Speaker 1 He's incredible, right? I mean, I don't play golf or follow golf, but I've certainly like

Speaker 1 come up obviously.

Speaker 3 You could do a lot worse.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Have you ever met him? No, but we, I remember

Speaker 1 way like 20 years ago,

Speaker 1 we did an interview side by side and something. You have got to.
But

Speaker 1 you guys,

Speaker 1 he is like you guys play golf and he's still like a great golfer right he's very good yeah yeah he's very very good well i i think it would be have you met him

Speaker 1 i've never met sounds like you'd like to scott i like him a lot he's very handsome he's very dm him or something weirdo

Speaker 1 like he's gonna answer me um

Speaker 1 but but he

Speaker 1 but i will say this there years ago uh when i first got on uh that uh social media site uh formerly known as Twitter, there was a guy who had my handle

Speaker 1 by the name of Will Arnett. And it turned out

Speaker 1 he lived in the middle of the country and he had my handle. Anyway, over the years, people would tag him mistakenly thinking they were tagging me or whatever.

Speaker 1 And he and I ended up following each other and would talk to each other from time to time. Really cool, dude.
Okay. Years later, I'm in.
I'm in Vegas. You're with me so far? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is fun.
Go ahead.

Speaker 1 And I went anyway. I was in Vegas one time and he and I ended up meeting up with him.

Speaker 1 We took a photo together, got to hang out.

Speaker 1 It was fun meeting another Will Arnett. It's fun.

Speaker 1 End of story? End of story, sure. What a waste of time.

Speaker 1 Hang on.

Speaker 3 So, but honestly,

Speaker 1 I had a story about meeting Adam Scott.

Speaker 3 You arranged to meet one another and you took a photo together.

Speaker 1 Is that what happened? Yeah.

Speaker 3 Hang on, dude. You arranged to meet the guy that shares your name and handle on Twitter.

Speaker 1 He reached out to me because he said, hey, I see that you're in Vegas. I'm in Vegas.
I'm also at Caesars right now. I said, where are you? And then we went over and we're like, what's up?

Speaker 1 After years, why not? That's not bizarre at all. How did he know that you were at Caesars?

Speaker 1 Because I had posted a photo.

Speaker 3 Inside the casino. It's illegal.
Go ahead.

Speaker 1 What do you work for the casino now?

Speaker 3 I did not anymore.

Speaker 1 The gaming commission? Like, what do you mean?

Speaker 3 And then, okay, so wait. So now you're, he sees you walking towards him.
You don't know what he looks like. And he goes, Will, and you turn to him and your eyebrows go up high.

Speaker 3 And then was there a hug or a high five?

Speaker 1 Or both? I don't remember.

Speaker 3 Y'all bet you do, fucking boring weirdo.

Speaker 1 I don't remember.

Speaker 1 How long ago was this, Will? This is like 10 years ago. I'll bet you know the month.

Speaker 1 Can you, 10 years ago, can you imagine, first of all, A, Bateman leaving his house for any reason, but B, going out into the real world and doing anything with any other person that wasn't a means to an end that somehow satisfied his ego.

Speaker 3 Can you if there was another Bateman Jason and he had like a script or something that sounded promising, I'd meet him.

Speaker 1 What a script!

Speaker 1 I've got one app.

Speaker 1 There's a cop. Anyway, you've got to meet Adam Scott the golfer.
We're putting it out there at a casino, preference. Oh, God,

Speaker 1 I got to link up with him and take a photo. Sean, there's another Sean Hayes, too.

Speaker 2 There is a cop named Sean Hayes somewhere. All right, so wait, I wanted to know when you first started.
First of all, you're the youngest, just like me out of all your

Speaker 4 family, right?

Speaker 3 And have you ever done theater, Adam?

Speaker 1 I've got theater stories, guys. Here we go.
Good, good.

Speaker 2 No, but Adam, I wanted to ask you, though, you're the youngest like I am, and your parents got divorced, like mine did. Sure.
And

Speaker 2 when you're a kid and you can't vocalize,

Speaker 2 you know, what you're going through, you internalize all of that stress and stuff. And then it comes out later as anxiety.
And is that what happened to you? Or did you learn how to none?

Speaker 2 You were like, oh, I'm glad they're divorced. I have no anxiety.

Speaker 1 No, I'm sure it did.

Speaker 1 I don't. I mean, I think, you know, I think when I, I was so young, like five, I guess, when it happened.
Yeah, me too. Five.
Okay.

Speaker 1 I mean, that's pretty young for it to be your fault, but it seems to be

Speaker 1 going.

Speaker 1 It was clear that it was my fault. And as I know, it was your fault as well.

Speaker 1 Sure, yeah.

Speaker 2 I mean, that's why I'm here talking to you.

Speaker 1 But you still have contact with your dad, right? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Your dad did just

Speaker 1 see you later. Right.
He didn't drive off. And like, the last thing you heard, like, go fuck, get yourself.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 3 mother's still got both the eyeballs in her?

Speaker 1 Sean, I actually, as a fan of the show, I really do want to know if you have, do you have the eye?

Speaker 1 Yeah, my sister has it. My sister has your sister has it.
It's her turn.

Speaker 3 It's seasonal, Adam.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Have you ever posted a photo of it or anything like that?

Speaker 2 It's on the documentary. I brought it on stage to show these guys.

Speaker 1 He brought it on stage. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You know, he graced us with it.

Speaker 3 It was incredibly distasteful.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I've seen that documentary, and I don't remember that all of the shows. Just to keep an eye out.
It's a loose use of the word.

Speaker 2 Keep an eye out for it.

Speaker 1 Okay. Okay, we heard.
Wow. All right.
Wow.

Speaker 1 So wait, question three? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Because we've gone through,

Speaker 3 are you emotionally scarred from your parents' divorce?

Speaker 2 Yeah, because I wanted to know that.

Speaker 1 Any follow-ups?

Speaker 1 What is it about your wife that drives you crazy?

Speaker 1 Fuck it.

Speaker 3 And then your favorite of your two children, which one do you like the best? Take them to whatever order you want.

Speaker 1 And then we'd love that theater story.

Speaker 1 You ever had an emotional, have you ever had an emotional affair with a co-worker? Go ahead.

Speaker 1 Well, I fact

Speaker 2 you're the questions, Adam. Didn't I? Didn't you get that fax? All right, so listen, um, you fell in love when you were a kid with acting because you saw the Raiders of the Lost Dark is what I read.

Speaker 2 And I love, I love that. Mine was E.T., but same era.

Speaker 1 Sure.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 1 where did you?

Speaker 1 I don't know where you grew up.

Speaker 1 Santa Santa Cruz up in the Bay Area.

Speaker 1 Right on.

Speaker 1 Where they shot Lost Boys.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's right.

Speaker 1 That's right. That's pretty much the end of that story.
Jason,

Speaker 1 did you ever shoot anything up? They used to shoot stuff in the 80s up in Santa Cruz.

Speaker 3 I shot something on the back of my knee up there in a cave in Santa Cruz. My friend was going to UC Santa Cruz up there, and boy, it came on real fast.

Speaker 1 Luckily.

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 3 No kidding.

Speaker 3 There is a cave, though, up there called Steamer's Lane there in uh Santa Cruz. Uh, so you have a lot of fun, yeah.

Speaker 1 He was up there with uh uh Leaf, Lafay Garrett.

Speaker 3 No, it wasn't with Laif on that trip, but um, and there were no needles involved, but uh, there might have been a

Speaker 3 stinky, skinny joint up there that was tough to stay lit.

Speaker 1 That sounds like Santa Cruz, yeah,

Speaker 3 so the home of the slugs, banana slugs.

Speaker 2 Yep, and when when did you get the acting bug? When you were me, or

Speaker 2 was that for the guest?

Speaker 2 Go ahead, Andy.

Speaker 1 Boy, I guess it probably was, you know, seeing, you just seeing movies when you're a kid and you're like, I want to, that's, you know, I want to do that. Like Temple of Doom and stuff.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 But what made it, what made it feel like within reach? Like everybody's got their own thing where they go like, yeah, I'm going to do it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It kind of never did. And that's.

Speaker 1 why like it was I know it's like in California, but it may as well be like on the

Speaker 1 different

Speaker 1 country or something. Like we, we were so far removed from like show business, it felt like going and being on TV or being in the movies felt like I'm going to go to the moon or something.

Speaker 1 They came and shot East of Eden and Santa, like a mini-series version of East of Eden in our town.

Speaker 1 And I remember they like put dirt out on the streets to make them look like dirt roads and had horses and horse-drawn carriages and then the actors' trailers. And I was like seven.

Speaker 1 And I remember seeing that and just being

Speaker 1 blown away. Like, holy fuck!

Speaker 2 And then you went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. How old were you when you did that?

Speaker 1 18. Was that high school? It was after high school.

Speaker 3 Okay, okay. And was that where was that down in Los Angeles at that point?

Speaker 1 Yeah, in Pasadena at the time. Okay.
Oh, but then. All right.

Speaker 3 So then you, so then you made a deliberate move to come down and pursue it. Yeah.
Um, and uh, did you drive? It was a classic like drive down there with a bunch of shit strapped to the roof.

Speaker 1 Strapped to the roof of my 68 rambler and uh

Speaker 1 boy what a what a hard career to start jesus christ yeah yeah just like coming in cold and not knowing a soul yeah sean tried to do that it didn't everything blew off the roof didn't it yeah me and my sister drove me home from college did that really happen it really did happen we were super stoned driving home didn't want to take that as a sign and and hook a yoey

Speaker 2 no because we looked in the rearview mirror we were singing songs we both just smoked pot. This is what we were both 18, whatever, around 18, 19.

Speaker 2 And or no, out of college, 20, 21, 22.

Speaker 1 And we just saw all the statue of limitations here. One second.
Yeah, smoking pot.

Speaker 1 You're probably fine.

Speaker 2 And in the rearview mirror, we saw all my clothes flying out. We're just like, do you want to turn back? And my sister's like, nah, I go, me neither.

Speaker 1 No way. You kept

Speaker 2 clothes on the highway.

Speaker 1 But anyway.

Speaker 1 Well, strapping stuff to the roof is like not,

Speaker 1 you know, and when you're like 20, you're not going to do a good job strapping anything anywhere yeah yeah yeah yeah you don't realize the science and you're at that point you're like fuck it i can buy short shorts anywhere i'll just get a bunch of different right like

Speaker 1 so

Speaker 1 so you you but you move here and then and then or you move to to los angeles and then you're like

Speaker 1 uh you go to the american academy and then you're done with that and it's like okay

Speaker 1 as you said this is a tough way to start you're like all right yeah dude where do we go now Was it commercials first?

Speaker 1 It was background work first.

Speaker 1 I just moved from past from school. I moved to Hollywood and just started like

Speaker 1 going and trying to do whatever and didn't know anyone. And

Speaker 1 we did a lot of background work and then got like a guest spot on something

Speaker 1 and then got a little agent and then just sort of, you know. Yeah.

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Speaker 2 And back to the show.

Speaker 3 What was the first thing that was like, oh, this is going to give me a little bit of capital that I can maybe use for a couple of jobs? Like, what was the first kind of big thing?

Speaker 1 I mean, I think part of the self-delusion you need in order to survive, you think that every time you get anything, you're like, oh, fuck, okay, now.

Speaker 1 But it turned out that I didn't really have a career until like 15 years later.

Speaker 3 And what was that?

Speaker 1 What was the thing? That was like, it was like this period of time where it was like Park's stepbrothers party down, like this. period of like three years where these things all happen.
Oh, I see.

Speaker 3 Yeah, well, you were, you were, you are definitely a working actor that I was certainly well aware of before those three things happened.

Speaker 3 But you're saying those three things kind of put you in another category where maybe you weren't really auditioning anymore and people, you had some incoming calls, yeah?

Speaker 1 A bit. It was just, I remember when that started happening and I remember getting

Speaker 1 some incoming phone calls from like Mike and Polar, like, hey, do you want to maybe? And just being like, oh, this is what it's like to actually have something going.

Speaker 1 i thought when i did murder one i was on top of the world yeah yeah thank you i didn't care for it

Speaker 2 um adam but i thought this was really cool when you were 14 like because will was talking about at the top about like doing conan so many times and jimmy kimmel and all those shows and you were obsessed with letterman which i loved i was too as a kid and how did you when you were four talk about that when you were 14 you went to how did you coerce your parents into letting you go to New York to go, you went to a taping or something?

Speaker 1 Well, we went to, we went to, we were on like a family trip and I was just like, let's go to 30 Rock so I can get a Letterman t-shirt.

Speaker 1 And we were there, didn't even think about doing the tour or anything. We were just at the gift shop and my brother and I saw Chris Elliott walk by and we were like, oh.
Holy shit.

Speaker 1 And we just chased him down and he stopped and talked to us for like 20 minutes. It was a way.

Speaker 1 That's cool. That's great.
The great Chris Elliott. The great

Speaker 1 guys. The Chris Elliott bits

Speaker 1 back from Letterman were unbelievable. Unbelievable.
So good.

Speaker 3 And then what was the name of the old man that would always be on the show?

Speaker 2 Biff Henderson.

Speaker 3 No, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 Oh, Larry Bud Melman? Yeah, Larry Bud Melman.

Speaker 4 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Whose real name was?

Speaker 1 DeForest Kelly. No, no, no.
That's a guy on Star Trek.

Speaker 3 No, no, no, no. But

Speaker 1 you're right in the ballpark. You're going to write something.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I remember when we talked to Chris Elliott, he was talking to us for a while, and then he was like, I got to go, but you guys should watch the show tonight. I'm going to try something new out.

Speaker 1 And it was the first night he did his, remember he did Marlon, this really weird Marlon Brando impression. Yeah, yeah.
I mean, that was what that was.

Speaker 2 Calvert DeForest.

Speaker 1 Calvert DeForest. Calvert DeForest.

Speaker 1 So,

Speaker 2 but, but what was that like?

Speaker 2 Because, you know, I think all of us, when you're, when you're like Jason, the always talked about the first time he did the tonight show with Johnny Carson, how like, that you're like, oh, God, I'm on that thing that all the other famous people are on.

Speaker 2 So I must be in that, right? So having been obsessed with Letterman when you were growing up, I assume you were on, yeah, many times. Yes.

Speaker 1 I did it twice before he finished. Yeah.
I mean, that was doing Letterman, as I'm sure it was for you guys, too, was a major like life moment the first time.

Speaker 1 That's it. That was it.

Speaker 3 Patricking, petrifying.

Speaker 1 Everything. I had my brother come out.
And so he was in the audience. And

Speaker 1 I mean, you know, it's just the best. And he, he was so

Speaker 1 cool and hilarious. And I just couldn't believe it.
I'm sure I was nervous and terrible, but

Speaker 1 it was really something.

Speaker 2 Wait, so why was your nick? Why was your nickname Spanky?

Speaker 3 Here we go.

Speaker 2 Wasn't your nickname Spanky when you were a kid?

Speaker 1 Well, it was when I was in Little League. I had, they called me, I was a heavier kid for a few years, and I was on the baseball team.
And so the kids called me Spanky because this kid on uh went from

Speaker 1 Little Rascals,

Speaker 1 the heavy kid on Little Rascals. You know what? I had the opposite problem because you know, I grew up like

Speaker 2 so skinny, I could not gain weight. I would drink milkshakes and go work out with my brother and eat burgers, and like I couldn't, I couldn't gain weight.

Speaker 1 I just sure made up for it, fixed it.

Speaker 1 Sorry, Walk right into that.

Speaker 1 You sure did.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 But it's so funny because people, you know, make fun of fat kids all the time when you're in school. All the other kids are mean.

Speaker 2 But like I, when I was a kid, people used to make fun of me for being so skinny.

Speaker 1 People were like, well,

Speaker 2 it was just skinny.

Speaker 1 How much?

Speaker 1 What would you give to have people make fun of you for being skinny?

Speaker 1 Yeah, exactly. 100%.

Speaker 1 And then you played. But the thing is, is back then, the kids were all calling me spanky.
But then eventually the coach started calling me Spanky as well, which was

Speaker 1 good. Yeah, that's good.

Speaker 2 Wait, so then you married, so your wife, Naomi, for my sister, Tracy, Naomi Sap. Did you say Sablon or Sap? Sablon, right?

Speaker 1 It's Scott, but yeah, her maid name was Sablon.

Speaker 2 When you met her, that was her name.

Speaker 2 She's a producer. And how did you meet her? On a show?

Speaker 1 We met. No, we met at a bar at the

Speaker 1 Cat in the Fiddle on Treasure. I love it.
Remember that place? Yes, I used to go all the time.

Speaker 1 Outside so you could smoke. Yes.
Yeah, I used to go all the time.

Speaker 1 Yeah. We met there in like 1998.

Speaker 4 That's crazy.

Speaker 1 I was there.

Speaker 4 We probably ran into each other and didn't know.

Speaker 1 I would go there all the time. Same.
Like that and the dragonfly. Do you remember going to the dragon? Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 I would fly. I would go to cat and fiddles.

Speaker 1 Isn't that when you had a candle on your dashboard? Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, fucking old.

Speaker 3 This is why I don't go out anymore. You know, these guys make fun of me, but

Speaker 2 I've fixed my ways, but Adam, I used to go to Cat and Fiddle all the time with Julie Bowen, and that's when we'd make out and stuff.

Speaker 2 But anyway, um, so and then, but you, so it was uh Julie Bowen, everybody, Julie Bowen, Julie Bone, she's the best. I love her.

Speaker 2 Um, you used to have family karaoke nights, and you're you love Billy Joel.

Speaker 4 I love Billy Joel.

Speaker 2 Just did a documentary. It's coming out on HBO about him.

Speaker 1 Oh, you did? Really?

Speaker 2 Yeah, produced it in my company.

Speaker 1 Oh, amazing. Yeah, but well, hang on a second.
You're

Speaker 1 Billy Joel.

Speaker 2 You're a huge Billy Joel.

Speaker 1 He's the piano man.

Speaker 1 Sorry, so stupid. Just crushing this bitch to death.

Speaker 2 Wait,

Speaker 2 are you a singer?

Speaker 1 No, I can't sing at all.

Speaker 2 Oh, so you just kind of do it?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I guess so.

Speaker 3 Where are you right now?

Speaker 3 What room are we enjoying?

Speaker 1 This is

Speaker 1 on Radford.

Speaker 1 Wait, it is on Radford.

Speaker 4 Did you just say Radford?

Speaker 1 I did. How did you know that? I don't know.
There was something about the bleakness of it that looked like Radford.

Speaker 2 Are you still doing the show, Severance?

Speaker 1 I thought this is Naomi and I have a company that we have our office here. Oh, that's great.
That's great. That's fucking crazy that I said.
It's insane that you just said Radford.

Speaker 3 They're about to redo that whole studio. Have you been consulted about that?

Speaker 1 No, they haven't asked me anything about that. And now I'm pretty fucking pissed.
Yeah, now they're going to redo the whole thing. It's going to bring blueprints over and go through it with me.

Speaker 2 What are you excited about that's coming out of your company?

Speaker 1 well we're developing a bunch of stuff right now

Speaker 1 um and do you like that kind of work like uh working with writers and taking a script and i do yeah i i know you do too i'm sure i know all of you guys do uh yes i do i mean i think like and i i don't know if it's the same for you guys but after acting for so long it's nice to

Speaker 1 use all the hours of your day, you know, because

Speaker 1 after a certain number of years, you realize that

Speaker 1 acting can take up this much. But if you're

Speaker 1 producing or whatever, you can sort of

Speaker 1 get all of it. Yeah, and sort of keep your eye on the whole thing, the thing as a whole, instead of just your little part of it that you can't really control all that much.

Speaker 3 Are they listening to you at all over there on Severance? Let's get you in trouble here.

Speaker 1 Let's do it.

Speaker 3 When you have thoughts and ideas over there at Severance,

Speaker 3 fun to get there and get involved?

Speaker 1 Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 1 dan erickson who created it and ben and uh that's a great yeah

Speaker 3 dan erickson and ben stiller um yeah it's a great group of people we have we have great time and where are you in that process you see you got you're you're out here in la you're obviously not shooting um uh are you

Speaker 3 waiting to hear about a third season or uh or plans to start it well they're not going to not make a third season

Speaker 1 yeah we're hopeful that we'll be able to make a third season when would you start doing that if they do? Hopefully really soon. So it's not, you know, this last break was

Speaker 1 a three-year wait between seasons. So hopefully it'll be a lot shorter than that.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 1 that's in New York, right?

Speaker 3 New York, yeah. And how does that work with

Speaker 3 family?

Speaker 3 Yeah, do you, I mean, it's, it's a, it's a, it's a, sometimes it's an annoying thing to hear about us complain about, but it is a real thing.

Speaker 3 You know, it's not easy to manage working away from Los Angeles where a lot of the work happens.

Speaker 1 It is.

Speaker 1 It's really hard with family because

Speaker 1 I know you just finished something out there. For Severance, it's like nine, ten months we're shooting that show.
And

Speaker 1 so it's just like a, you know, you're just gone. And I know you try, I try and fly back as much as possible, but I don't end up with much time off.

Speaker 1 But the kids, the good thing is, is the teenagers, they fly out on their own if they want to, and they love going to New York.

Speaker 1 You you know you figure it out but it's it is it's it's a drag yeah it's hard going back to um you know i didn't know all this music i didn't know you love music as much as i do or probably will does jason what do you mean like like like like uh jason doesn't know jason doesn't know jason doesn't care for music no he doesn't get it i like sounds um but you didn't just go somebody tell me what's cool

Speaker 2 you did a whole podcast about you two which i didn't know in rem and did you meet Bono or U2 or anything?

Speaker 1 Is that true?

Speaker 2 Yeah, it was in the intro.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we did. Scott Ockerman and I.

Speaker 3 Don't get pissed off, Sean.

Speaker 1 Scott Ockerman. It was in my fucking written intro.

Speaker 1 We started a podcast about you too just sort of as

Speaker 1 just like a sort of as a joke because you two kind of felt like a funny.

Speaker 1 funny subject matter just because they're so sort of mainstream. We go and analyze them.

Speaker 1 We weren't sure what it was going to be, but we just started going album by album through U2's catalog, both of us growing up with them and being fans and stuff.

Speaker 1 And it's so stupid. It's ridiculous

Speaker 1 bits and stuff, but super fun. But then eventually, and it was not our intention at all when we started it.
Eventually, we did have the band on a couple of times. That's amazing.

Speaker 1 Which was, yeah, it was super.

Speaker 3 Did you see them perform at the sphere?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Wasn't that incredible?

Speaker 3 That venue is just stunning.

Speaker 1 That's crazy. Yeah.
I went opening night, I think, like the very first. Yeah.
It was wild.

Speaker 2 First of all, thank you for being here today.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Well, by the way, if you have a theater story, I love a good theater story. You could tell me now.

Speaker 1 We can end strong right here.

Speaker 1 I actually don't. All right.
Okay, next question. I do.

Speaker 1 Finish strong, Sean. Come on.
No, I do this.

Speaker 2 I want to talk about like Billy Joel and like why you love him so much because I love him so much. And you, I think you met Paul Rudd, and you got to meet Billy Joel.

Speaker 2 And you and Paul met him at the same time or something or something.

Speaker 1 We had him. We, we, I did this thing.
Uh, Naomi and I made this show for Adult Swim where we recreated opening credit sequences for TV shows from the 80s.

Speaker 1 We won't shop for shot made these opening credit sequences. So we did Bosom Buddies with Rudd and I as those guys.
Funny. And it was a Billy Joel song, obviously, was the theme song.

Speaker 1 And so, as part of the fake documentary

Speaker 1 about the making of this thing, we got Billy Joel to join us and play the song for us.

Speaker 1 He was great. He was really, really funny and great.
That's cool.

Speaker 1 I didn't know that you liked Billy Joel so much.

Speaker 2 I love Billy Joel.

Speaker 2 I play his music. I sing his songs.
My go-to is Honesty. I love that song.

Speaker 1 Oh, it's a great song. Did you see him at the song?

Speaker 1 Yeah, because I was about to say bullshit, but what do you bullshit on that? But, okay.

Speaker 2 No, I couldn't make it it out from Madison Square Garden, but I really wanted to, but I've seen him in concert many, many times. Yeah, it's great.

Speaker 3 Another guy with two for two first names.

Speaker 1 Yep, that's right. Yes, man.
Billy Joel.

Speaker 2 Yeah, look at that. Adam Cordero.

Speaker 1 Adam Cordero. That's me.
Adam Scott. Listen, I wanted to ask you, but we ran out of time.
We're saying goodbye, but

Speaker 1 you must get stopped. People must stop you all the time because of stuff you do, but stepbrothers, people must go

Speaker 1 crazy on you, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's still like that was, you know, a while ago. And yeah, I know, but it was so popular.
I love that movie. And I love it too.
I'm sure I would feel that way if I wasn't.

Speaker 3 I love turning it on anytime I see it. Anytime I see it on TV, I watch it.

Speaker 1 So good. You're so good.

Speaker 3 You've never sucked. Everything you do, you're great in.
So I would imagine a lot of people, you've been a part of a lot of really great things that are very cool in the comedy world.

Speaker 3 And that's something you should, I'm sure you do, really

Speaker 1 are proud of.

Speaker 1 Well, likewise.

Speaker 1 And, you know, the part of that, when I was talking earlier about that, kind of figuring it out when we started Party Down, the other part of that that I was going to get to was when I was telling someone about the show, I forget who it was.

Speaker 1 I was like, yeah, it's this catering team. And I'm kind of at the center of it.
And I'm not sure what to do. And they're like, oh, you're at the center of it? Like Bateman on Arrested Development.

Speaker 3 Right. With just the craziness circling around him.

Speaker 1 Yes. And that was so key to kind of figuring it out:

Speaker 1 watch, you know, I was watching the show anyway, but really thinking about it from that perspective is very, how, how can I be a robot?

Speaker 1 How could you be as sort of charmless and

Speaker 3 emotional?

Speaker 1 How could you suck all the charisma,

Speaker 1 charisma-less, and just be a blank mayonnaise on mayonnaise on egg?

Speaker 1 Thank you, Will.

Speaker 1 Well, what an inspiration.

Speaker 3 Happy to provide some sort of guidance.

Speaker 2 Adam, we love you.

Speaker 1 Thank you for guys. Thank you for having me.
Such a fan really cool.

Speaker 3 Adam, love you, Adam.

Speaker 1 Love you. Please pass on our regards to Naomi.
Yeah. Thank you.
Yeah. Thank you.
Yeah. Thanks for doing this.
Please tell Abel and Archie. I doubt they remember me, but please tell them hello.

Speaker 3 They're like

Speaker 1 full teenagers now. They are full teenagers.
I will. JB ran into Abe.
Abe texted me from school. That's how I knew JB.
And he's like, I just ran into Jason and he grabbed my ear.

Speaker 1 And I was like, yeah, that sounds about right.

Speaker 1 And, you know, they are such big fans. I can say this.

Speaker 1 They're such big fans of yours and of Parks and Rec, even though it's their mom's show. During the pandemic, we watched.

Speaker 1 Abe and I watched all these episodes, like most of Parks and Rec again. Wow.
Watched it all the way through. And then I would say to Amy, like, hey, that episode was really good.
Right.

Speaker 1 Super highlighted. Super highlighted.

Speaker 1 Yeah, like eight years later. My kids have yet to see Parks and Rec.
They're just, they're not.

Speaker 3 Right. I mean, right? Do they, I don't know.
Don't care. Your kids are like mine.
They don't watch anything that we do.

Speaker 1 Nothing. They haven't watched Arrested Development.
My kids. And Abe loves comedy.
Neither does Sean, right? I know. No, Sean's never watched it.

Speaker 3 And he is one of our children. So wait, Abe and Archie have not watched Arrested?

Speaker 1 No, and their friends have, and they're like, I love it. Abe was like, a lot of my friends love Bo Horseman.

Speaker 3 We'll strap these kids down one goddamn.

Speaker 1 They should watch Arrested and they should arrested development and they should watch Bojack Horseman. It would be so.

Speaker 1 And Parks and Rec.

Speaker 3 We're going to strap them down.

Speaker 1 They've watched Parks and Wreck.

Speaker 1 Amy kind of guilted them into it, though. Right.
If I'm being honest, if I'm being totally honest, that sounds hard in a way that only polar can.

Speaker 1 Okay, fine. Don't watch it.

Speaker 3 Your choice.

Speaker 1 Adam, thank you, dude. Guys, thank you.

Speaker 3 Love you, buddy.

Speaker 1 Great to see you. Love you, too.
Bye-bye. Bye-bye.
Take it easy.

Speaker 3 Now, that feels like we kind of deprived the audience of a really good interview because it just felt like we were just sitting on the couch. He's over here at one of our homes like he always is.

Speaker 3 And I feel like we were undisciplined. I was.
And disrespectful.

Speaker 1 We were just a bunch of bullshit, not really asking any questions.

Speaker 2 You know what? No, it's like the Catherine Hahn episode, you know, where a good friend comes on.

Speaker 1 We're just a bunch of bullshit.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah, we apologize, listener. We're just children, yeah.

Speaker 1 Adam likes to fuck around and do bits and joke around, and so why not? Yeah,

Speaker 1 I mean, it must have been like that on Will and Grace.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 I love it.

Speaker 1 Everybody's gay.

Speaker 1 I finally feel good about my sexuality.

Speaker 1 I feel safe to come out now.

Speaker 1 Please let me out. Can I see Josie to the stage now?

Speaker 1 I'm bad.

Speaker 1 I'm in here. I don't want to hear anything from Mac either.

Speaker 1 That is so

Speaker 1 dumb. That is so great.
Hey, but listen, at the end of the day, at the end of the day, you need people like Adam Scott.

Speaker 1 Look at you to bring it back. Look at you, what a response.

Speaker 3 I'm trying to talk slowly here as I try to think of a bye.

Speaker 1 No, I got one.

Speaker 3 So, by having, okay, by having Adam in our world,

Speaker 3 socially, professionally, what, Sean?

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