"Jordan Peele"

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Speaker 1 Hey guys, you guys have heard of ASMR, right? So do we know what ASMR stands for? What's the deal with it?

Speaker 1 What's the deal with what you guys do? ASMR is when you talk really slow. Does it feel like I'm everywhere in your head? Can we guess what the acronym is for something?

Speaker 1 Acute sound.

Speaker 1 I need to ask you again: does it feel like I'm just everywhere? Because I am. I'm in your head.
I am you. Yeah.
I am.

Speaker 1 Acute sound. Jason, close your eyes.
Close your eyes. Look, it's me.
In here. I'm in here with you.

Speaker 1 I'm going to go upstairs and I'm going to turn on it.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 How did you get in here?

Speaker 1 Okay, I think we got it.

Speaker 1 We got it.

Speaker 1 Rob, watch out.

Speaker 1 Welcome to the Square List. Smart.

Speaker 1 Smart.

Speaker 1 Let's.

Speaker 1 Smart.

Speaker 1 Let's.

Speaker 2 So, guys, I'm sorry I'm late.

Speaker 1 Start with a reason why you're not wearing a hat and why we got to look at what we're... Is Skevo on holiday? What's going on with Skevo?

Speaker 1 Did I tell you I met Skevo? I didn't get a Skevo. I was avoid.
Did we talk last time about that I met Skevo? No.

Speaker 2 No, but I know that you did.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I was in there getting this done to my head.
Oh, it looks good, by the way, Jay. I paid for it.
Believe it. It looks really good.
Stop it. It does delight.

Speaker 1 And then there was Skevo. And Skevo, like, is not nearly as, God, I got to say this kindly.

Speaker 1 The the name will point you in a certain direction of anticipation.

Speaker 2 And here's this, like, greet God.

Speaker 1 And he's beautifully short of that. Yeah.
Um, yeah, he's, uh, he's, he's a pretty cool dude. Yeah.
Okay. So, so, so, Sean, so you're sorry you're late today because

Speaker 2 I was one minute late. I'm not making this up.
I literally just went to the mail and something was dropped over the fence. And it's for Scotty, and it's from this company.

Speaker 1 Bare bottom. B-E-A-R-B-O double.

Speaker 2 Literally describes him in two words.

Speaker 1 A bare bottom. He's a bear and he's a bottom.
Listen, this is great to know.

Speaker 1 I swear to God.

Speaker 1 I just picked it up in the mail. Does it say noisy on the other side?

Speaker 1 Does it say power?

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 what does bare bottom make for clothes? I don't know. Should I open it?

Speaker 3 Oh, they're nice.

Speaker 2 Oh, they're like shorts.

Speaker 1 Oh, there's just shorts.

Speaker 2 They're shorts.

Speaker 1 I would like to say the one thing I did think about to, and we rarely do think of anything to say on on this show non-shocker very important is just is how much this is not working for me Will you spending your summer out of town

Speaker 1 I don't get I mean I get you've got a lot of money and people with a lot of money need to figure out ways to spend it and you found one there but this isn't working for

Speaker 1 for me well like Jay and I are going to the Dodgers game tonight yeah and like you know I was invited to go to I was invited to go with you guys obviously you know that and I would love to go with you and but who is this good for I bet you it it it weirds the kids out.

Speaker 1 The dogs probably all freaked out. What's this house?

Speaker 1 Well, the kids were missing you.

Speaker 1 The kids love it. And, you know, the kids love being out here.
And, you know, obviously, I used to live in New York.

Speaker 1 And so I sold my apartment and I bought a house out at the beach, which is why I'm here. And I like it.
I'm not saying Long Island anymore. I mean, let's stop hiding.
Okay.

Speaker 1 You live in the Hamptons. Yeah.
You know,

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 you have how many Range Rovers are in the driveway? Zero. Huh.
You got those in LA? All GMCs. They're all GMCs.

Speaker 1 Why? Because they're professional.

Speaker 1 Well, we are a professional grade, sure.

Speaker 1 Sure. I got a new AT4X on its way.
It's a beautiful pickup truck from the GMC.

Speaker 1 I saw pictures of that. That was good looking.

Speaker 1 It's real handsome.

Speaker 2 I'm coming out there in two weeks.

Speaker 1 It's got a multi-pro tail game. Now, you're coming out in two weeks, Sean.
Yes, that's what I just said. How long are you guys coming for?

Speaker 2 One night.

Speaker 1 One night what night is it i don't remember just one night well i don't understand yeah well we oh because then then you're flying to come see me and where you're going to spend seven nights with me well maybe like four really are you going to cut it short because we're going to get a nasa we're going to get a tour of nasa in florida first before i see you and then you're going to go to the bahamas and do a tour of nassa

Speaker 1 wonderful will will so tight

Speaker 1 really tight

Speaker 1 are we rolling guys did you get anything i love getting i love getting instant feedback.

Speaker 1 Anyway. You want to get to it? Let's get to it.
Let's get it. Do you want to get to it? Let's get to it.
Because I think you're going to be happy. Okay.

Speaker 1 Today we have a man who is half of a famous comedy duo. He's been educated by the smart folks at Sarah Lawrence.
He's performed at Second City in Chicago, Sean.

Speaker 1 He's starred in... two big TV shows, probably more, just not good at research, produced a few of them, probably more, not good at research.

Speaker 1 He's voiced characters in multiple animated hit films, but you know him and love him for his recent work behind the camera as a writer, producer, and badass director of three incredible films, two of which we've seen.

Speaker 1 These have yielded four Academy Award nominations and one win.

Speaker 1 His new film will undoubtedly add to all of that because it looks triple good, or as the kids like to say, dope, which rhymes with nope, which is the name of the film. Here's Jordan Peel.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

Speaker 1 Look at that. He's taking it.
No one's ever taken a bow, you guys. Wow.

Speaker 1 Next level. Yes.

Speaker 2 You took a bow like the opposite way. Your head went way up.

Speaker 1 I took a bow on an audio podcast. Jordan, I was

Speaker 1 just talking about you guys. Just don't choke the puppy, all right? Just ease off.

Speaker 1 Just talking about him today.

Speaker 1 I had to just say that. Here I am in the flesh.
We're very, I'm very excited that you're here.

Speaker 3 This is so exciting. It's so exciting to meet you.

Speaker 2 I, you know, we're going to get to it, but it's like the number one movie I'm most excited to see out of.

Speaker 1 I watched the trailer a half a dozen times.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I've seen the trailer a million times.

Speaker 3 Well, that's fantastic.

Speaker 3 I've seen the clicks that you have put on the YouTube trailer.

Speaker 1 He's got a lock on our IP addresses.

Speaker 2 I'm so excited for it.

Speaker 1 Thank you. While we're talking about the trailer here,

Speaker 1 do you cut your own trailers?

Speaker 1 Or do you have meaningful consultation? I love that phrase.

Speaker 1 Or do you let the fine folks at Universal get it all done and vendor that stuff out? Because the trailers for your films are equally incredible. You can't use a radar as a verb.

Speaker 1 Don't say vendor that stuff out. That's the best thing that you're doing.
Vende that process. You can, can't you?

Speaker 1 No, but you just tried to slide in there, and it's one of the most disgusting things in a film. So I got a long list of questions.
Can I talk to you first? Yes, of course, yes, of course.

Speaker 1 Yes, it is. And I'm really nervous.

Speaker 3 Guys, whenever you're ready, I can.

Speaker 1 Hey, man, we're back. We're back.

Speaker 1 Trail ahead, Jordan.

Speaker 3 So we're talking trailers?

Speaker 3 did you did you get your hands on that at all well yeah man look a lot of I think a lot of directors are envious of the trailers that I get to put out and I have to give universal marketing just a lot of credit they bring just great work and they're collaborative you know we've had success from get out right you so you'll they'll let you poke around oh yeah they'll let me poke around yeah yeah yeah they'll let me poke around yeah they'll in the very beginning you know we had to make some the strong decisions like you know,

Speaker 3 in Get Out, you know,

Speaker 3 the whole question of do you let out

Speaker 3 that rose, that the evil white girl, that the white girl is the evil. Do you let that out? Is that the thing that's going to bring people, okay, well, now I have to see the evil white girl movie?

Speaker 3 And so we together chose not to do that, and we made the right choice, I think.

Speaker 1 But it meant that you couldn't really put a certain section of the film in the materials, right? I mean, you couldn't. Yeah, that's right.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So it kind of, but it was worth it because, I mean, I mean, that was the right move, that's a huge

Speaker 3 move.

Speaker 2 For you know, get out is also one of my favorite movies of all time. Well, thank you, and I love it, so I've seen it a million times.

Speaker 1 No, you haven't.

Speaker 3 That's important.

Speaker 1 I'm starting to, no, it's fine, but if that number just pops up, yeah, that number is fucking that's a yeah, no, we haven't a record, we haven't a record.

Speaker 2 So, uh, but wait, did you that was your first movie you ever directed? First movie ever, first movie ever. And how, how did that happen?

Speaker 1 Because it's flawless, oh, stars, and it's yeah, and he wins an Academy Award for writing it. You know, I mean, like,

Speaker 1 you guys.

Speaker 1 How do you know?

Speaker 1 Did you have a sit-down with yourself and say, you sit down with Chelsea probably and say, now, baby,

Speaker 1 what you're probably going to witness for the next 20, 30 years is just a rapid descent from the peak of the, like, how could it ever get better? Were you prepared for just like,

Speaker 1 it's too much too soon? And then you went ahead and doubled it with us, probably tripled it with, I mean, just look at

Speaker 1 it.

Speaker 3 Well, thank you. No, I mean,

Speaker 3 yeah, dude, it was, it was so much pressure. And yet at the same time, you know, so many opportunities opened up because of that thing.

Speaker 3 And literally the opportunity to say, okay, what story, you know, to be able to write something knowing it's going to get made is a whole different thing.

Speaker 1 And that it's, it's got to be at least as good because they're going to be waiting for you to be a one-hit wonder.

Speaker 1 And then like all of that pressure to to still let your creativity come through without having it be muted or strangled by that pressure. How did you, how did you push through that?

Speaker 3 You know, you embrace the risk that only you can take, you know, because that's really the position you're at.

Speaker 3 You have you have more leeway, so you have to take a big gobble of risk and do something you're kind of not supposed to do each time.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 3 that was us. And that was us to me at the time.

Speaker 1 You were swinging and you nailed it.

Speaker 3 Thank you, man. Thank you.

Speaker 3 I'm so proud of these movies. I'm so proud of this movie I'm about to unleash on the world.

Speaker 2 When does it come out? When does it come out?

Speaker 3 It comes out the 22nd.

Speaker 1 22nd of July. So

Speaker 1 this might be right around that time.

Speaker 1 Jordan, I want to say, let me ask you this question. You,

Speaker 1 you know, obviously Kian Peele was, I think,

Speaker 1 one of the most trailblazing TV shows of the last 25 years.

Speaker 1 You guys wrote some unbelievable sketches on that show that are still memorable, that I still go and look at today.

Speaker 1 And I'm not one of those people who constantly goes, like, hey, you know, brings up bits that other people do for whatever reason.

Speaker 1 But your sketches from that show have, for me, have been a touchstone of really funny,

Speaker 1 really original. I love, I mean,

Speaker 1 I'm not unique in that way, but I love really original comedy. And you guys did incredible original comedy.

Speaker 1 And how much writing of that do you think prepared you for this next chapter that you're in now? Writing sketch, because it's such a discipline, right?

Speaker 2 Because I think all of us were like, we love you from, just to piggyback on what Will says, we all obviously love you from Key and Peel and everything you've done before Get Out.

Speaker 2 So when Get Out came out, we're like, wait, what?

Speaker 1 But it's not surprising because you wrote some great sketches. Was that like a training ground, do you think? Did that sort of give you a kind of discipline? To be good, fast.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I mean, fuck, yeah, yeah. You know, the sketch to me is about a couple of things that I think the movies are also about.

Speaker 3 And with sketch, you get this, one of the things you get is a great training ground for just that, getting to sort of push the boundaries and understand audience.

Speaker 3 And you get to commit to something just, you know, for three minutes at a time. And sometimes you take too big a swing.

Speaker 3 Sometimes you don't take big enough a swing, but you get calibrated in that whole in what to swing for, right?

Speaker 3 and so I think a lot of what I think makes one of my movies one of my movies is that you know from the early stages and and every stage through I'm I am trying to think of how can that how can I take a risk what is the right risk to to take here because that's what people need that's what people really deserve is something that's fucking sketchy to do and to pull off and to convince a studio to let you do.

Speaker 3 Has to be that.

Speaker 1 Well, and like a lot of your sketches, you guys would take a kernel of an idea and you would keep doubling down on it and keep heightening it in a way that was like, and you were like, oh, fuck these guys.

Speaker 1 Oh, and they've, and now they're heightening it again, which is just the nature of really good comedy. I mean, right?

Speaker 3 Well, this is you guys. You know, these are the rules that all you guys fucking do every day.
You know, you know these things. And yeah, it felt a bit.

Speaker 3 There was a vacuum there for a minute where it felt like, you know, we've had these great sketch shows that come along and just in Living Color and Mr.

Speaker 3 Show, Chappelle, you know, you have these moments where these things happen that's different

Speaker 3 and it hadn't happened for a while.

Speaker 1 But so then you get into writing Get Out, which is just comes, you know, just absolute like a freight train. Just, man, just, it just hits everybody.
And it just part really becomes just part of the,

Speaker 1 for a while there, just, it was the it thing culturally. And that movie really, really grabbed people.
And again, though, I was going to say, like, you kind of use the same principles, right?

Speaker 1 Like, you just kept doubling down on the idea and you kept pushing it out further. You, you talked about that before, like, how far can I push this idea? What more can I do? And surprise people.

Speaker 1 I think that's it. It's the element of surprise.

Speaker 2 Yeah. How did you think? What? I mean, you've been asked this a million times, and forgive me, I don't know the answer.
But every time I watch Get Out, and like I said, one million times,

Speaker 2 how did you you think?

Speaker 2 I mean, it's such a bizarre, brilliant concept.

Speaker 1 Where did you get the idea?

Speaker 3 The idea, you know, honestly, it's just, it's life, right? I mean, there's this.

Speaker 2 That there's this group of wealthy people that buy body parts.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's so nuts. Yeah, well.

Speaker 3 The whole thing started with just that feeling, okay?

Speaker 3 If I can capture

Speaker 3 a feeling, a horror, a fear that I haven't seen bottled in a film before, If I can identify that fear, I can make a horror movie out of it because it's there, right?

Speaker 3 Just the way in sketch comedy, if you get it, if one thing you say can get a laugh, I know all you guys,

Speaker 3 if you get a laugh once, you can get it a million times and you can keep getting it. You know how to do that.

Speaker 2 Just say sashimi, yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah, a million times, yeah.

Speaker 3 And then, and the uh, but same, same kind of thing with her.

Speaker 3 It's like, I know this nugget of I and this fear of being in the most, the black guy in a white space where you feeling, um, feeling the attention and it, and it's not good.

Speaker 3 Even if it feels, even if it's supposed to feel good,

Speaker 3 and it's this thing that I know that everyone recognizes in their own way, but so anyway, so it started with like that party sequence in a way was like, okay, that's the that's the movie.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but there's a, there's, there's a, there's an element to what you do that you would assume could only really

Speaker 1 happen after a lot of practice and a lot of exposure to the filmmaking process. And that is this ability to create an unsettling environment.
And

Speaker 1 there's a camera component to that.

Speaker 1 There's a sonic component to that, an editorial pace to that. There's a lighting component to that.

Speaker 1 Where did you find all of that and learn all of that? I mean, right out of the gate and get out. The scene on the street at night, like there was so much patience that you

Speaker 1 showed.

Speaker 1 It was like, I'm already nervous out of my mind because things aren't. I think, was it a one-er? I think the, I mean, it was, yeah, I mean,

Speaker 1 where do you, where do you get off doing that right out of the game? If you're paying attention, it's one shot. Yeah, right out of the gate.

Speaker 1 Were you encouraged by a DP that you hired? Were you, or is it just, you're just going to be able to do it?

Speaker 1 talking as long? Are you there? Are you still with us, Tracy?

Speaker 3 Sorry.

Speaker 3 DP is director. Is that what you talk about Tracy when some kind of business jargon is dropping?

Speaker 1 There's that, but then there's also, he's apologizing for my long-winded questions, which I am. Sean's sister lives in Wisconsin, and her name is Tracy, and so we always explain to Tracy.

Speaker 1 DP means cinematographer, and one or is without gifts. DP can mean cinematographer.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Tracy, look up that shit yourself.

Speaker 3 Tracy, look it up.

Speaker 1 So where do you get all of this filmmaking talent is is probably the better economical way to ask it.

Speaker 3 Thank you. What a lovely question.
It's watching movies. It's watching movies.
And by the way, like,

Speaker 3 I started as a puppeteer as what I went to college thinking I was going to do something like that. That's right.

Speaker 1 You know, so this is

Speaker 3 what? Yeah. This totally, you know, on this, this sort of thankless art form that I thought was kind of beautiful and special.
Can't really fail at it, but the whole notion is,

Speaker 3 you know, this illusion, right?

Speaker 3 And then since then, I've just acted, I've, I've, you know, and written, I've TMP, I've done a lot. I just had a great

Speaker 3 experience in the other piece of work.

Speaker 1 Wait, where did you start public?

Speaker 2 Your hearing seems so hard because you have to keep your arms up

Speaker 1 or down. It doesn't matter.
No, just elevate yourself and you can hang them down a little bit, Sean. God.

Speaker 1 Sorry, Jordan. Where did you start? Where was that going on, Jordan? I don't even know where you're going.
So

Speaker 3 when I went to Sarah Lawrence, my kind of like, my cheeky,

Speaker 3 like liberal arts college answer to what my major was, was I'm a puppeteer. And I was taking

Speaker 3 sculpture, fucking theater classes.

Speaker 3 You know, I was like, a real.

Speaker 3 Real bohemian, motherfucker.

Speaker 1 Fucking puppeteer at Sarah Lawrence. Fucking puppeteer at Sarah Lawrence, my dude.
That's all the girls needed to hear, right? Yeah. He's a fucking what? He's a what?

Speaker 3 He does what with his hands?

Speaker 1 But where does the confidence come to trust that you're going to to be able to transition an audience from something that seems fairly normal into something that is abnormal?

Speaker 1 You obviously know how to do that in comedy, right? Because you got to sort of present as just, well, we're just you. And then we do something that's a little bit unsurprising.

Speaker 1 And then there's the surprise that comes with a laugh. Is it the same kind of thing with doing horror? Is it the same kind of calculation?

Speaker 2 What?

Speaker 1 Oh, horror. Yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 1 Yeah, with horror. Yeah.

Speaker 3 It is connected. And, you know,

Speaker 3 I know you play around with this in your own work.

Speaker 3 There's a rhythm. I always find that horror and comedy are sort of baked into one another because it's about grounding an absurdity as best as possible.

Speaker 3 Both is taking a swing to something that is either going to make you

Speaker 3 fucking, you know, terrified or make you absurd in some way and making it real. And the difference can be the difference between two pieces of music.

Speaker 1 I was just going to let you know, I don't know if you know this, because I don't know if you know that I'm Canadian and they changed your movie, the title, Get Out in Canada. They called it Get Out.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 That's great.

Speaker 1 Guys, again, Rob Bennett, are you guys rolling on all this stuff? They're not going to cut that out, you dick.

Speaker 1 No, no, I just want to make sure we got that. I want to make sure we got that.

Speaker 1 Do they spell it the two O's and a T, Will, just to finish the joke? Oh, sorry, Jason, why are you asking Jordan about the the lighting packages, you fucking dick?

Speaker 1 Listen,

Speaker 1 here we come.

Speaker 3 I don't know what I was saying. I don't know what I was.

Speaker 1 That's okay. We don't either.

Speaker 1 And we will be right back.

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Speaker 2 And now back to the show.

Speaker 1 Now, when you come up with these original ideas, because none of them are like it's incredible premises and concepts. Is it because

Speaker 1 Donna Langley and Peter Kramer are so darn smart and courageous at Universal that they're saying, yeah, great, go. Or are you having to do a bunch of tricks to talk them into?

Speaker 1 Don't worry, this is going to be commercial. Like the real questions.
Yeah. I mean, how do you

Speaker 1 original ideas and you're getting this major studio to fund, you know, something that's not kind of boilerplate concept?

Speaker 2 I had the same question.

Speaker 3 You know,

Speaker 3 we've had a couple of situations where

Speaker 3 they're taken on the risk and it's paid off. You know, for this one, I felt very, very trusted.
And, you know,

Speaker 3 the way I talk to those guys is I sound what is my, you hear this

Speaker 1 great.

Speaker 1 No, you sound fucking cool. You're not going to sell pickup trucks like Will Arnett, but even though you sound raspy, you sound raspy.

Speaker 3 I sound like Wheezy.

Speaker 1 Jeffrey, that's good.

Speaker 3 But

Speaker 3 I mean, they gave me a lot of leeway to do some crazy shit in the movie.

Speaker 1 There's these highbrow themes underneath all of this sticky, you know, fun popcorn stuff, too. Like, I mean, you're doing it all.
I just, God.

Speaker 3 Thanks, man. How does it happen?

Speaker 1 I mean, you're a kid. What's your kid? How old's your kid? Young.
Jason, real quick. Yeah, Jason.

Speaker 1 Is there too much drool? Oh, your jealousy is showing right there. Your jealousy is showing.

Speaker 1 you. Jealousy comes out the other side.
I was going to ask you about Chelsea. So I know Chelsea as well.

Speaker 1 How did you guys, how did you and Chelsea meet? Paretti, listener.

Speaker 3 We met on the internet. I just DM'd her after I

Speaker 3 heard her on a podcast. I saw her

Speaker 3 do some stand-up. And I basically DM'd her.

Speaker 1 No way. It was, yeah.

Speaker 2 Oh, that's cool.

Speaker 1 Sometimes it works. Sometimes it works on up to

Speaker 3 load up Paretti on the straight DMs.

Speaker 1 Now, can you tell yet

Speaker 1 how old

Speaker 1 you have a young boy or girl?

Speaker 3 I got a boy named Bo. He's five.

Speaker 1 Bo. Now, can we tell yet whether he's a smart one or a dumb one?

Speaker 3 He's no, he's a very smart. He's a reader.
Is he? He's a, yeah, he's, he's, he's a brilliant

Speaker 1 brilliant Jason already.

Speaker 3 Yeah, but,

Speaker 3 you know, he, we, I'm sure we share some faults. Yeah.
Let's put it that way. His faults, I realize.

Speaker 1 Tell me what you're bad at.

Speaker 3 What am I shit at? I mean, I'm really bad at, I mean, keeping things clean. You know, I just see somebody and just being

Speaker 3 and spacing out, you know, to the bane of my wife's existence.

Speaker 1 You'll just check out?

Speaker 3 Yeah, and I'll try and, you know, so it's one of these things you're talking to your son, just boat, boat, boat, boat. Yeah, focus.
Boat, and just nothing, nothing.

Speaker 3 And I realize I'll do the same thing. You know, I realize he'll be saying dad 10 times.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, right, but maybe that's just concentration and that's focusing and that's discipline.

Speaker 3 Well, that's what I think is happening.

Speaker 1 I understand that. I had Alice Andrew just told me very recently that, like, I forget what it was.

Speaker 1 I'm now getting to remember again what it was, but I had asked her something, and she goes, I've told you the answer to this like four times in the last 24 hours. Is it her last name?

Speaker 1 I'm the same way. Why are we all that? Why are we all that way?

Speaker 3 This is actors, motherfucker.

Speaker 1 We're all dumbasses. Yeah, we're all inside our heads.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 my memory works just for learning lines. That's it.

Speaker 3 Okay, wait, hold on a second. I, because I don't want to get, I don't know how much time we have.
I mean, I just want to respond to

Speaker 3 Jason for

Speaker 3 on your very night, your very nice things that you said. But I want to say,

Speaker 3 I don't know how much it's stressed,

Speaker 3 but you are the first,

Speaker 1 guys. Let him finish.
This sounds like it might be a compliment.

Speaker 3 You are the first

Speaker 3 fucking dry delivery comedy guy I've ever seen in my my life. I'd ever seen in my life.

Speaker 3 First dry, I'd never seen it before. I'm talking about fucking Hogan, all right?

Speaker 1 Wow, Hogan family, Hogan family.

Speaker 3 Talking about seeing, yeah, I'm not, bro. We ain't, we're talking about Hogan.
Okay, this is coming out of like, right, this is coming out of an Alex P.

Speaker 3 Keaton sort of universe where you got this, you know, little Michael Jagg jumping around.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 But you came in with this cadence that I swear.

Speaker 1 It's the best. Has it ever happened before?

Speaker 3 Did it ever happen?

Speaker 1 Jordan, it's so fucking good. JB's, let's go on, JB, a little compliment thing.

Speaker 3 And motherfuckers copied. And motherfuckers came and copied, Jason.

Speaker 3 Motherfuckers came and copied that shit.

Speaker 1 First of all, I was stealing too many.

Speaker 1 Invented really when that became a big thing. I'm telling you.
And remember how mad I got about that? Because I was like, that's fucking... Bateman's.

Speaker 1 And I'd see these motherfuckers doing it on other shows and doing it as punchlines in commercials. And they're like, really? And I'm like, that's Bateman fucking invented.

Speaker 1 And we did it on Arrested because I was copying him.

Speaker 1 I was copying him. Meanwhile, here's the other thing.
When I first met Jason, we were doing the pilot for Wrestle Development. This is one of my favorite.
It's such a dumb joke. But

Speaker 1 we're in this rehearsal hall, and this guy comes in. He's a crew guy, and he's covered in tats, the neck, hands, everywhere, just covered.

Speaker 1 And he walked in like right in front of us and kind of like started talking to somebody. And Jason, full volume, because he wasn't new that the guy wouldn't know.
And jason just turns to me and goes

Speaker 1 who's your top dog

Speaker 1 who's your tippy

Speaker 1 and i

Speaker 1 i fell to the ground i was crying yeah um i i've i've just i've been trying to do bill murray my whole life right or or john cleese or or ben still

Speaker 1 or

Speaker 2 it didn't didn't it didn't hit like that it didn't hit like that you're very didn't hit like no no i never thought it was quite enough so i took it and just really notched it up you did you did you put tap shoes on it yeah it can't yeah i put tap shoes on and i didn't think nobody's it's not gonna read it's not gonna read so i just really hit the back of the room with that um

Speaker 2 it's worth it's worthy of enough yes you're very nice thank you you you had mentioned that a lot of the inspiration for not only get out but hope but nope and all of your stuff is from movies you've seen what are your inspirations what movies do you uh draw upon and do you are are stuck in your head as inspirations yeah who's done it really really well that you're dying to do it as good as?

Speaker 1 And I would say you have no equal, but like, what, who's been pulling?

Speaker 2 And hopefully, this is a compliment, but just from the trailer of Nope, I'm like, oh, it's very M-Night. But now I go, oh, it's very Jordan Peale.

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah. Well, thank you.

Speaker 3 I'm a big M-Night fan. I think he's one of the greats.

Speaker 3 I love Spielberg.

Speaker 3 It's kind of a boring answer because I like Kubrick and

Speaker 3 Spielberg, Stevenson, Hitchcock,

Speaker 3 Custom One. Yeah.
Custom One.

Speaker 1 No, I know. I'm joking.
I'm being glib, but I like when people go, I don't know. I mean, for me, I like the Beatles.
Oh, do you?

Speaker 1 Oh, you like the Beatles? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, that's me. While we're here, my favorite Sean Hayes story.
Did not know Beatles was spelt B-E-A-T. No, by the way.
Just a China favorite.

Speaker 2 By the way, Penis, lots of people

Speaker 2 comment also agreed with me.

Speaker 1 Wait, I didn't know we were calling Bateman Penis. I didn't even know that that was a thing.
They're pity tweets. Wait, wait.

Speaker 1 So, sorry, Jordan, so you like Spielberg and you like Kubrick and stuff that cinematic stuff.

Speaker 3 Now that you put it like that, fucking well, I like fucking Jean.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I don't know. I'm with you.
By the way, I'm fucking with you. So I'm just, I'm just like, yeah.

Speaker 1 While we're there at cinematic Titans like those guys, can you just indulge me for one second before we lose the audience about your pursuit and landing of Hoyta? Oh, my God. Where that came from?

Speaker 1 This is a cinematographer.

Speaker 3 Heuit von Heutsmer.

Speaker 1 Like, this guy's just nails.

Speaker 1 How do you get him? Well, I tell you how you get him. You make two great movies.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 was it as incredible as you thought it might be? Like I would imagine it would be?

Speaker 3 Oh,

Speaker 3 different level, right? So, I mean, I've worked with great cinematographers. I gotten very lucky in all of my films.
I mean, with Hoyt, I really got a guy who's done it all.

Speaker 1 Is that how you say it? Hoyt?

Speaker 3 It'd be said, Hoyt, Hoyt, Hoyte, Hoyt von Hoitemer. You can say say it either way.
I say it either way. I hope he's not angry.

Speaker 1 Just never known.

Speaker 3 He's an absolute beast. I mean, he's just,

Speaker 3 and

Speaker 3 what we were able to do with this movie is push ground in ways that I don't even really want to talk about because I don't want to take some of the experience from the audience.

Speaker 3 you know he we push technology with infrared um cameras wow and uh he's just he yeah so we we got on this It was just like, it's just exactly what you want as a director, like this adventure where you're in over your head, but you've got this salt of the earth

Speaker 3 fucking DP who knows it all, who's like, come, this guy, he's this Dutch guy, this jolly Dutch guy with this beard. And he's like, hey, it's going to be all right.
We're going to figure this out.

Speaker 1 By the way, that's a good Dutch accent. That's fucking great.
Thank you.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I just like, I don't know how do you gather when you have such a specific and unique flavor to your films, how are you able to crew that and cast that appropriately to where everybody is as crafty and clever as you are?

Speaker 1 Because they are. Or do you just vendor it? Or do you just vendor it? Do you vendor it? Because I have Apple Pay, but I'll take Venmo.

Speaker 3 It's, I mean, you know the thing. It's like the team building is the thing.
If you get that part right, it's it really it really flows. But

Speaker 3 yeah, you just talk to people who,

Speaker 3 for me, I'm talking to people who are inspired by the idea in a way that it's not you know in every department it's not going to be me telling saying this is what goes it's going to be me about the collaboration between me and this person right so if I'm excited about what they're excited about and maybe they're excited about something that I didn't even know to be excited about letting them do their thing We're going in that direction together.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Did you, did you, so you touched on something really briefly in there when you were talking,

Speaker 1 you said that you don't want to take away from people's experience. And I don't know if I've had this experience myself.
I remember doing

Speaker 1 answering something questions about when we were doing Bojack Horseman a few years ago. And I told you,

Speaker 1 and I kind of didn't want to be too much of a dick about it. And I said, you know,

Speaker 1 I feel like sometimes there's too much emphasis on how the sausage is made and not enough enjoying of the sausage.

Speaker 1 And I kind of got that feeling when you said that, that it's like, look, I could talk ad nauseum about how I made this film and what kind of cameras and what kind of shots we did, but you didn't do make the film so that you could explain that to the audience.

Speaker 1 You did all that shit, and hopefully, it's seamless, and they don't know what that is, and they just experience it. Is that right?

Speaker 3 That's right. And, you know,

Speaker 3 the only reason I bring it up is to give Hoyt. No, you didn't bring it up.

Speaker 1 I did. Yeah.
I'm dorking out. Jason did.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 Fair enough. But, but the, but the, yeah, I mean, the, the, only reason I even tell you that there was some really interesting ground pushed at all

Speaker 3 is just so you know, like, yeah,

Speaker 3 to answer that question,

Speaker 3 he's a real master.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and again, you didn't bring it up, and obviously this is what we do, and so we're asking the questions because we are, and Jason's interested, and our audience is too, and I, and Sean and I are b really interested.

Speaker 1 But I just mean more generally, do you feel sometimes like you wish

Speaker 1 that you didn't have to answer questions about it and just let it the work speak for itself? Does that

Speaker 1 Is that ever something that kind of annoys you or gets in the way?

Speaker 3 You know,

Speaker 3 I think it can get in the way. And it was an interesting experience, because I think with Get Out, you know,

Speaker 3 Get Out, you know, it had a lot of success, but it was also,

Speaker 3 there was a lot, I was talking about it a lot

Speaker 3 and sort of trying to help that audience put together the dots on it. And I don't know if it needed that, maybe not, you know, in the long run.

Speaker 3 But to get people to see it, and you know, my entry point into film was sort of telling people what I did. Right.

Speaker 3 You know, when it got to us, you know, all of a sudden we have something that is a bit of a vaguer notion of how to discuss.

Speaker 3 And so I felt like the responsibility to that film was to not sort of take the audience through it, but to let them experience it more. Yeah.

Speaker 3 You know, I think with this film, I'm going to approach it, letting the film lead a bit. But, you know, I do want the audience to know it was about spectacle and

Speaker 3 that it was about the theatrical experience in its core.

Speaker 3 And this idea of I felt like, all right,

Speaker 3 I've got this position, I've got this responsibility to try and do that thing where I make some original shit that's just a fucking spectacle.

Speaker 1 The title cannot be beaten. There's no better title for any film.

Speaker 1 ever.

Speaker 2 Can you tell us a little bit, like just from a, I'm just from a fan's point of view, like I am, like, can you tell us a little bit about nope?

Speaker 2 Like, can you tell us what the word nope means in the movie or what we're looking at in that trailer that they're looking at? Any kind of exciting anything?

Speaker 3 Yeah, I mean, look, it's

Speaker 1 the

Speaker 3 it's a, it's a, I'll say this, it's a word that's said a lot in the movie.

Speaker 3 And it generally is something that, you know, part of the notion of this movie is like we got a big budget flying saucer movie with black people in the lead.

Speaker 3 That to me, in itself,

Speaker 1 you know,

Speaker 3 there's no need to really dig further in terms of how to push the conversation than to just fucking do it, right?

Speaker 1 That should be, that should just be on the one-sheet, by the way.

Speaker 1 That's it, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 And well, and then, I mean, it kind of is. It's like the nope part of it is,

Speaker 3 I think, an acknowledgement that, you know, it is a different movie. You can't just make the same movie.

Speaker 3 You know, and there is an experience that people want to see

Speaker 3 deal with this shit as well.

Speaker 3 And,

Speaker 3 you know,

Speaker 3 and I would also say it's a film that feels like

Speaker 3 it's a concept

Speaker 3 in a way. But, you know,

Speaker 3 there is also an acronym to it that I think a lot of people online have

Speaker 3 sort of pieced together.

Speaker 1 I think I know what it is.

Speaker 3 You want to guess? You go for it.

Speaker 1 You want to guess and you don't have to say yes or no.

Speaker 1 Not of planet Earth.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Whoa. Yeah.
Did you just know?

Speaker 1 Did you just know that, Will? Yeah, I just guessed that smart.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah. I thought you were going to say something

Speaker 3 funny and wrong.

Speaker 1 Not of planet Earth is pretty.

Speaker 3 But that was not funny and right.

Speaker 2 Wait, how in the world did you... I would have never.

Speaker 1 That's got to be it. You fucking.

Speaker 1 All right. Well, let's

Speaker 1 that's the end of the interview. Thanks so much.
I don't need to say that. No, I just guessed it.
I'm good at wordling

Speaker 1 octaves. I'm not pretty wild.
Yeah, you sure are, boy. This guy.
That's really good.

Speaker 1 All right. Now, because of getting back to sort of your taste,

Speaker 1 your radar for uniqueness and originality, what are you watching? What are you reading? I was going to ask the same thing. Who are you talking to? Yeah.

Speaker 1 That keeps that sharp, that keeps you kind of not postmodern, but knowing where the next idea is going to come come from that's going to make the last idea seem not so original.

Speaker 3 It's a great question. I mean,

Speaker 3 I'm there's

Speaker 3 so much immersion into my own up my own ass

Speaker 3 that it's hard to

Speaker 1 you say you smoke a lot of weed. Is that what is that what you're going to say? It's as simple as just getting the right strain of indica.

Speaker 3 Well, oh, I see, and I see what you're saying.

Speaker 3 Even when I'm fucking, well, yes.

Speaker 1 First of all, yes.

Speaker 3 When I'm coming up with shit, that is kind of an important part of piece of the puzzle. You know, i like uh anime okay because anime

Speaker 1 is

Speaker 3 just high concept

Speaker 3 world building that is pulled off so well there's these big swings and there's there's uh that it's a it's a great way to free yourself and say look you can tell a crazy story and people do pull that shit off.

Speaker 3 Right. You know, there are storytellers in the world that are pulling off really crazy things that are super popular.
Right. And so that's, that's one, one place.

Speaker 1 Right, right. Gotcha.
All right. So you're an anime.
Are you watching any comedy? I find it hard to watch comedy. I don't know why.

Speaker 1 I know.

Speaker 3 Right? I know. It's broken.
It's broken. I mean, I think it's probably broken for us, but maybe.
Tell me why.

Speaker 1 Yeah, where is it? Is it on television or is it in film right now? Or is it on stage? Is it stand-up? Is it

Speaker 1 where is where is funny shit happening?

Speaker 3 Some funny shit. I mean, you know what's funny is Penn 15 is funny.

Speaker 2 Yes. I just worked with Gabe Leidman, who created that show in another show.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Gabe's great.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I don't know what I'm doing.

Speaker 3 You know, yeah, I haven't seen shit. I haven't seen shit, but it is.

Speaker 3 I do feel like we've been in this weird comedy drought where people want to laugh, but somehow it's hard.

Speaker 2 Well, isn't it a lot like it's just become fragmented with TikTok and Instagram and stuff where you can get your comedy fill through five second, 10 second things. So people are maybe

Speaker 2 not so inclined to go tune into an entire series. I don't know.
Just throwing that out there. I have no idea.

Speaker 1 Well, I do know, Sean, I think that you're right. I know that from

Speaker 1 my own experience in dealing with streamers, that they tell us that they have a hard time getting people to stay through and watch

Speaker 1 multiple episodes in comedy. It's really, really, really, really difficult.
Crazy. I know.
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Speaker 1 And now, back to the show.

Speaker 1 Now,

Speaker 1 is Chelsea a good sounding board for you? Like, is she reading pages or drafts or watching cuts of things and giving you good feedback? I know it's always tricky with a partner.

Speaker 1 That little balance there,

Speaker 1 I'm sure she's incredibly helpful, but that's a dance, right?

Speaker 3 She is incredible. I mean, you know, one of the reasons, one of the many reasons I love her is she's just always going to be honest and tell me the truth.
And, you know, it's like,

Speaker 3 you know, there's a certain point, especially in this industry where, you know, I'm sure you guys know that's like, there's nothing more attractive than that, you know, and nothing.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. I think we're all lucky on this call here.

Speaker 1 Now, what about, now you shot, it looked like you shot this thing in town

Speaker 1 here in Los Angeles,

Speaker 1 in Santa Clarita, perhaps, as it's, as the website says, right? By the way, you guys, what you need to know, I don't, correct me if I'm wrong here, Jordan, this is the first time that a film has a

Speaker 1 an amusement park there at Universal Studios Tour

Speaker 1 being

Speaker 1 released, germane to the movie, on the same day the movie is being released. Usually a movie has to earn that by becoming super, super successful.

Speaker 1 And then four, five, six years later, they have like a ride.

Speaker 1 He's got a like, you explain it, Jordan, but it's incredible what he's done here.

Speaker 1 Explain a little bit about it.

Speaker 3 I mean, yeah, a big deal for me. I'm in Universal Studios.
I remember going when I was 12. It's cool.

Speaker 3 You know, you see like fake, it's like the experience, like the fake version of what it means to make a movie. You know, it's like, like, this is where, you know, Jaws was shot.

Speaker 1 It's like, no, it's not, but it's like, yeah, it's meant to look like a psycho house.

Speaker 3 So, yeah, the whole like artifice.

Speaker 1 By the way, that was Jason's backyard. Like, Jason played there when he was a kid.
No joke. No joke.
That's where he was.

Speaker 3 Is that true?

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Just do it, silver spoons, and it's your move.
Me and Ricky would fart around back there on our brakes, on our bikes. Anyway, how about that?

Speaker 3 So, you know, you know how, I mean, and I, when I went for the first time, I was just blown away. And so now, I mean, look, we're on the lot lot now and just feel that magic again.

Speaker 3 And yeah, we've got,

Speaker 3 you know, Stephen Yun's character,

Speaker 3 Juke Park in the film, has

Speaker 3 an amusement park called Jupiter's Claim. And it's one of the centerpieces of the film.
And so that's going to be on the studio tour.

Speaker 1 Oh, wow.

Speaker 3 Like fucking in between

Speaker 3 the psycho house and Jaw.

Speaker 1 That's so cool. That's so cool.

Speaker 3 And is it sort of without without giving away anything with the movie is sort of is the ride of this place, is it kind of like a haunted house or a fun house kind of um like like the website is that you can kind of click around on you know like all of the things on that tour there is going to be a certain amount of uh interactivity got it okay but you know it's um but the the the thing that you know real nerd movie nerds are gonna geek about upon the the hopeful embrace of this film is just that it's it's there yeah so cool that's so cool they did that that's that that is really, really awesome.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Now, do you have to fly around and do a bunch of promotion for this? Or are you able to do it all with Zoom nowadays with the COVID? Or they got you on a world tour or something?

Speaker 3 I'm going to do a tour.

Speaker 3 I'm going to do, they're going to cart me away to some places. I'm just going to

Speaker 3 shut my eyes and

Speaker 3 open them and

Speaker 3 try to figure out where I am.

Speaker 1 And then do you like to take some downtime before you start writing the next thing or are you already underway with that?

Speaker 3 You know, writing is kind of, I mean, it is the downtime. It's nothing more fun than being in those early stages of

Speaker 3 what is really the next one.

Speaker 3 I mean,

Speaker 3 it's a very relaxing, if I'm doing it right, it's a very freeing month.

Speaker 2 Do you want to stay in the horror genre for a while or is there some kind of dream of like wanting to do something completely

Speaker 2 left turn?

Speaker 1 A musical.

Speaker 3 You know, one of the things that has been

Speaker 3 fun for my journey in these first three films has been a little bit of the deconstruction of what I feel like

Speaker 3 genre is and what the role of genre is in storytelling. I like this.
Yeah, you like this.

Speaker 3 Check this one out, Bill. So in that first one,

Speaker 3 in that first one, I was really using a very specific type of suspense thriller genre trope. Yeah, yeah.
And,

Speaker 3 get out. It fits in

Speaker 3 that world. And so that helps the pieces of it, I think, that are outside of the box sing because there is a checkpoint.
There's a genre checkpoint. That's genre I think used very well,

Speaker 3 at least for

Speaker 3 you know, it worked. So then, you know, us, I really kind of focused on the horror idea, you know, and the specificness of no, something

Speaker 3 a little bit more threatening to the core of existence and scary in that way, and

Speaker 3 in a lot of ways worked within

Speaker 3 that genre as well. You know, with this one, I feel like this idea that's been bubbling in these other two films with Nope, I think has come into fruition where I can't really pin it down to

Speaker 3 a genre anymore. It kind of,

Speaker 3 it is all things.

Speaker 3 And I think I probably keep doing that.

Speaker 1 But you've always, you've kind of delved into a lot of bigger issues. And I would suggest I didn't even think of Get Out as a horror movie at all.
And I'm saying horror.

Speaker 1 I didn't think of it as a horror movie at all. I thought of, I mean, it is, I guess.
It's like a thriller. Yeah, it's a thriller, but you, I mean, it'd be hard.

Speaker 1 You know, you're dealing with a lot of like big issues. You're asking a lot of questions and you're making some.

Speaker 1 You're bringing up a lot of things that I think make some people uncomfortable. And I think you're doing it in a way.
You're serving it in a a way that is like, maybe seems familiar to them.

Speaker 1 But then you're like, well, but guess what, motherfucker? You better think about this shit and think about what the experiences other people who aren't you may be having. And you kind of do it.

Speaker 1 And maybe us is about like our own,

Speaker 1 you sort of mentioned it, like it's very sort of an existential question about, you know, as human beings and blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 1 I like the idea that you're, you're kind of like, I guess they're in horror, but you're dealing with a lot of pretty fucking big universal issues.

Speaker 1 It doesn't seem like you set out to make a horror movie or a genre movie. You're making,

Speaker 1 it seems like you're leading with theme and then kind of backing into, well, maybe this medicine will go down well if we wrap it up with something that's a little bit kind of scary here or sci-fi here.

Speaker 2 I withdraw my question.

Speaker 1 No, but I mean, in the same way that you lampooned it, when you did Key and Peel, man, you did a lot of, you took on

Speaker 1 so many sketches that you did where you took on the idea of race and challenged it and did it from a different perspective in ways that were really funny but also like really fucking right on the fucking money man and you've kind of you're kind of doing that same thing but now in it in you're doing it in film and you're using i mean i sound like now i sound like baben but you're using light and you're using no and you're you're doing it in a cinematic way like you're i like i i i think that you defy genre so anybody who says that Jordan Peel is this, I say, fuck that.

Speaker 1 He's everything. Oh, well,

Speaker 3 thank you. And at the same time, you know, just to stress, you know, I think a lot of people, you know, if I make any sort of distinctions from like the horror genre at all,

Speaker 3 I want to, you know, a lot of people think a horror is a bad word. Sure.
I think it's actually the greatest genre.

Speaker 3 And I think it is one that I'm honored to

Speaker 3 take part in. The true, I have to say the true spirit of great horror is really to fuck somebody up on some on some terror level that I still have not

Speaker 3 sort of approached the darkness that that is needed. So I just have so much respect for horror and I'm so I'm honored to be a part of it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and I didn't mean to suggest that it wasn't that it wasn't worthy at all as genres go. It's fucking great.
I agree with you. I'm just saying that I think that what you do kind of

Speaker 1 transcends the idea of genre. Yeah, and it seems like you're using it or attracted to it because of

Speaker 1 its power and its accelerant for

Speaker 1 whatever sort of human condition story you're talking about.

Speaker 1 Like, you know, when you mentioned Kubrick, like you think about, you know, the only thing that he ever did that was close to horror was The Shining.

Speaker 1 And there wasn't a lot of, that wasn't, you know, that wasn't some slasher film, you know, that, you know, a bunch of jump scares. It was just deeply unsettling.

Speaker 1 but it was earned through its filmmaking, through its acting, through its writing, through its cinematic elements. I mean, like, that's what you do.

Speaker 1 You're not like anybody can like make a big sound and do a big, you know, fucking snap zoom or whip pan and like scare somebody, you know, like you're not doing that.

Speaker 1 You're creating these environments that are unsettling and that's not easy to do. And I just, I think you're just like, like the most exciting filmmaker we've got right now.

Speaker 3 Thank you, man.

Speaker 1 Look,

Speaker 3 you guys are fucking awesome. I mean, I think, you know, just the last.

Speaker 1 Do you have any shit stories? Yeah. Shit, as in,

Speaker 3 as in what.

Speaker 2 You ever been on a set in the middle of nowhere and you really got to go to the bathroom, but there's nothing around?

Speaker 1 There we go. Sean's going to watch.
On a set? No, no.

Speaker 1 I'm kidding.

Speaker 3 No, but

Speaker 3 no, I mean, let's just talk about the set portos for a second.

Speaker 1 Sure,

Speaker 1 you know. Yeah, because you keep it real, right? You say, no, no, I don't want the double pop-out thing.
Just get me a honey wagon, something.

Speaker 3 Yeah, but you can't make it back to the honey. You can't make it.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 3 yeah, I mean, you're talking about one of those fucking four pies?

Speaker 1 Yeah, he needs the four pies. One of the four slots?

Speaker 1 Jason doesn't have the, he doesn't even know what he's talking about because he's, he goes to the bathroom once in the morning before a shower, and then

Speaker 1 he's never running the risk of going to the bathroom on set, ever, ever. I don't, there's not a lot of animals on the planet that need to empty more than once a day, Will.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 So you guys have a difference in

Speaker 3 regularity.

Speaker 1 There's a difference in regularity. Well, listen, I'm sorry to end on such a low point,

Speaker 1 but it wasn't that very generous talking to us, even just agreeing to do the show, period. Yeah, dude, Jordan, we're such fans, man.
I've been a fan of yours from everything you do.

Speaker 1 I love what you do. And you're such a cool guy, and you haven't changed an iota.
So that's a great testament. You're a good dude.
Yeah, keep charging, please.

Speaker 3 Thank you, man. You guys

Speaker 3 on and on. I love you.

Speaker 1 Love you. This is great.

Speaker 3 I really hope I can

Speaker 3 come see you guys again

Speaker 3 and fuck around some more.

Speaker 1 I'll come up with that scat story. Yeah, good, good story.
Best of luck with Nope. I'm going to be first coming and hurry up and make more, please.

Speaker 3 And just to, you know, just to take the James Cameron approach for a second,

Speaker 3 you know, I'm finishing this movie right now. It will make your eyes melt out of the back of your eye sockets, fall down in through your nasals,

Speaker 3 down your esophageals.

Speaker 1 This is you selling the film?

Speaker 3 You scat it out

Speaker 3 and then you fucking

Speaker 3 eat your eyes shit.

Speaker 1 This is the, we've got our quote.

Speaker 3 And then you can see your own fucking heart pulse racing.

Speaker 1 Save it for the junket, Jordan. You're wasting all the good stuff.

Speaker 1 You got the exclusive hot take.

Speaker 3 No, no, I just want to stress it's it's it's it's it's gonna be a spectacle.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 I cannot wait. It looks so can't wait for you guys to see it.
Uh, all right, man, best of luck. Thank you for coming on, and uh, we'll talk to you on the next one.

Speaker 3 Thank you, guys, honestly.

Speaker 1 Thank you, Jordan.

Speaker 3 I am, I, I really, I could, I could give you guys each, I know, Will, I know you, I could give you guys each fucking solid half hour on uh neat notes and uh how much I love your how much I love your work.

Speaker 1 And so I didn't want to write that.

Speaker 3 So you guys are all just fantastic.

Speaker 1 I hope to hang. Yeah, man.

Speaker 1 That will be great. Best of luck, dude.
Take care, Jordan. Bye, buddy.
Cool.

Speaker 1 Wow, that Jordan Peale. That Jordan Peale.
He has turned the movie industry on his goddamn head by, he barged his way into films, didn't he? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and he just kicked the door open and it stayed open. And now he's bringing us, I mean, the horror genre is like one of the few genres that's working in theaters still.
Thank God.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 he's also doing it in such a cinematic way and these like social themes working at it. He's so fucking smart.
You can't write a show like Key and Peel and do that so consistently

Speaker 1 and have it be so good and so funny for all those years and not be a fucking brilliant guy. And he's just shown again.

Speaker 2 I hope he wasn't like offended when I said, you know, that we knew him from all this stuff. And then Get Out came out.

Speaker 1 I was like, wow, Jordan. Like, didn't Jordan know that too?

Speaker 1 No way. I mean, he's.
I was offended. He wasn't.
I was. Yeah, no, I could see it in Will's face, but not Jordan.
I was.

Speaker 1 He's got to know that he's got to, I mean, I'm sure, I would hope that that was part of his excitement, too.

Speaker 1 That like, you know, whenever you excel at something you're not known for, it's got to be a thrill. Yes.

Speaker 1 And so.

Speaker 1 Also, like, yeah, you can't be mad if you're like some person who came, not him, I don't mean him specifically, but you could see how people would be like, well, yeah, I've always thought I was great.

Speaker 1 Yeah, well, we didn't know. Yeah, great.
Yeah. And now we're finding we're now we're finding out that, yeah, you're great.
Yeah, exactly. But I don't even mean that for him.

Speaker 1 I do think that what he did before, I

Speaker 1 always thought, you know, writing really consistently good, funny sketch like that, doing it in that way is so hard. So fucking, you guys know it's almost impossible.
Sketch is so uneven and

Speaker 1 rarely people always go like oh i remember snl back in the day was used to be way better than it is now is funnier all the time like no there was always if you had one good sketch an episode success yeah for sure and key and puel now they didn't do it live but they they would have just brilliant it's just it's just brilliant anyway um wait i have a question about the dodger game yeah so um how wait a second wait a second are we are we you want to talk about tonight's plans in front of our audience right now go ahead sean they'll they'd love to hear it where What route are you taking?

Speaker 1 And what is

Speaker 1 where? What lot are you in? Do they have egg salad there, do you think? Or should I eat before I leave? By the way, all questions I have. Yeah, let's hear it.

Speaker 2 How long is the game?

Speaker 1 Oh, bro.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. He wants to leave already.
No, no, he would left your house.

Speaker 1 You're getting rid of it. Why don't I watch Getting? I'm glad you didn't say how long is each half.

Speaker 1 It's roughly three hours, but you know, you only need to dip in and dip out for about an hour. No, I'm excited.
I'm going to do because I'm bringing, you know, Maple

Speaker 1 and probably with shorter attention span is Amanda. In fact, she may actually even flake.
I can't believe that you got Amanda to go. No, Amanda will go.

Speaker 1 Well, because, you know, it's a luxury suite, you know, so she's, she can be up there and, you know, watching the TV and having snacks and sitting on a couch. It's a luxury suite.

Speaker 1 I'm just imagining if that Paul McCartney explains to somebody who he loves, who he calls sweet.

Speaker 1 Why all of a sudden are we? It's a luxury.

Speaker 1 It's a luxury suite. Did you find a gummy store there in the Hamptons? Well, no, it does.
It does. It does seem like a very high thing to say.

Speaker 2 Are you going to bring your own food, Chase? Are you going to

Speaker 1 buy it? Buy it. Oh.
Buy it.

Speaker 1 I love Sean's.

Speaker 1 He always goes high with it and he repeats it. Sean, we're having a conversation over here, and you're trying to do a buy on your own.

Speaker 1 You do have a heart out?

Speaker 2 What if I just slam my laptop?

Speaker 1 I guess bye.

Speaker 1 I guess that's

Speaker 1 well

Speaker 1 better answered here. You know, you will be out by 10 o'clock tonight.

Speaker 1 Bye.

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Speaker 1 I'm very excited that you're here.

Speaker 3 Oh my gosh, my friend, this.

Speaker 3 Not more than I am.

Speaker 1 Not more than I am. I cannot wait.

Speaker 1 Possible.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 1 So you've met Bennett and Rob. I am sorry.

Speaker 3 I met these guys.

Speaker 4 On Jason's behalf, we apologize for us.

Speaker 1 The weird part is that Rob nor Bennett play any musical instrument at all.

Speaker 3 I don't believe it.

Speaker 1 That's the shocking part.

Speaker 4 No, no, no. These are just CG background sounds.
No, no, I don't believe it. Yeah.

Speaker 3 No, I don't believe it. This is a jam band that produces a note hard time.

Speaker 1 Rob, that's a real strong t-shirt you're bringing to David. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 4 Show them the bottom. Show them the other stuff.

Speaker 1 The In the Studio.

Speaker 3 Straight Zimmer.

Speaker 4 The In the Studio

Speaker 4 Behind the Pro Tools rig is the best.

Speaker 1 Is he playing a keytar on the back?

Speaker 1 I love it.

Speaker 3 It really is like, you know, it really is a very bootleg hans zimmer shirt we went to disneyland for rob uh andrea's birthday recently they were both wearing this shirt at disneyland matching god can i tell you something i i also have a picture i have a shirt that has hans zimmer's face and the name hans zimmer on it oh wow this is just a complete a completely different shirt i'm not joking

Speaker 1 i mean i'm not lying i do the idea that there's actually two shirts in existence on the planet that have Hans Zimmer's name and face on it and the two dudes that have them. Yeah, this is everything.

Speaker 3 There's very little I can do to actually

Speaker 3 make it clear that I do have that, but I do. I do have it.
Kismet.

Speaker 4 Excuse me. Should we let Will Arnett in the room?

Speaker 3 Yeah, let him. I'm going dark.

Speaker 4 Go dark. All right.
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