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Adam Scott _ Good Hang with Amy Poehler · Midnight Mystery Stories

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  Speaker 1: Hello, everyone. Welcome to another episode of Good Hang.
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  Speaker 2: I am so excited to talk to my TV husband,
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  Speaker 2: the father of my triplets, Adam Scott, aka Ben Wyatt,
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  Speaker 2: Leslie Knope's dream come true. Adam Scott, incredible actor, friend.
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  Speaker 2: I just loved talking to him today, and we really
• 0:17
  Speaker 2: get into it. We talk about his love of U2.
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: We talk about how he weirdly likes to drive barefoot,
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  Speaker 2: We talk about Parks and Rec, of course, and we
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: give you a lot of juicy stuff there. And I
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  Speaker 2: try to figure out the crazy ending of Severance. And honestly,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on. So I try to
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  Speaker 2: have him help me understand that incredible show. But before
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  Speaker 2: we start, we always like to talk to people who
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  Speaker 2: know our guests and who want to give us a question.
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  Speaker 2: And we're going to keep this Parks and Rec reunion
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  Speaker 2: going today by talking to the one, the only Nick Offerman.
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  Speaker 1: Nick, are you there?
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  Speaker 1: Hi, Nick.
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  Speaker 2: Hello.
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  Speaker 1: Nick, you know what I love?
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  Speaker 2: Every time I see you, I never know what kind
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  Speaker 2: of hair situation I'm going to get with you. And
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  Speaker 2: You and our guest today, Adam Scott, great heads of hair.
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  Speaker 4: That's the main thing we have in common.
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  Speaker 5: Super, super cute guy in one instance and donkey.
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  Speaker 4: With great heads of hair.
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  Speaker 1: Stop it. You are so handsome. I love to see you.
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  Speaker 1: Since I've seen you last in person, it's been a minute.
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  Speaker 2: And one of the best things about this podcast is
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  Speaker 2: getting to talk to everybody again and spend time with everybody.
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  Speaker 2: And today I'm spending time with the great Adam Scott.
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  Speaker 4: The greatest.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, we're going to talk about this when
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  Speaker 1: we're in person someday together. But I think that, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I know that the character of Ron Swanson is iconic
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  Speaker 2: and it is in no small part to the way
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  Speaker 2: that you transform yourself and the way you approach your work.
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  Speaker 2: Because I met you in Chicago back in the day,
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  Speaker 2: and you were coming to this work in a much more,
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  Speaker 2: for lack of a better term, like more prepared actory space. And, and,
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  Speaker 2: you're such a fine actor and I can't wait to
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  Speaker 2: talk to.
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  Speaker 1: You about it.
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  Speaker 2: And Adam very similarly, like kind of came into the
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  Speaker 2: biz from that space too.
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  Speaker 4: He did. Uh, thank you. By the way, I did
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  Speaker 4: not expect compliments today.
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  Speaker 2: Well, your people emailed me and said I needed to
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  Speaker 2: start with them.
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  Speaker 4: So.
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  Speaker 5: I thank you and please thank them for me as well. Um, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I love that about Adam. I love his, uh, they
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  Speaker 5: hilariously asked me to write a little thing for time
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  Speaker 5: magazine for like the hundred cool people right now. And
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  Speaker 5: it was so funny because they asked me to like
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  Speaker 5: sum up his, his thing. And they gave me like
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  Speaker 5: 650 words or something, something so brief that, and then
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  Speaker 5: they even cut paragraphs where I was like, come on,
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  Speaker 5: you guys like this guy's career. is hilariously varied and
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  Speaker 5: astonishing and also risible.
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  Speaker 4: Like he has literally done everything.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just going to look up risible real quick.
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  Speaker 4: You'll love risible, R-I-S-I-B-L-E.
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  Speaker 1: You love words.
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  Speaker 2: You've taught me a lot of words. Risible, such as
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  Speaker 2: to provoke laughter. I should know that word.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I love about him that he has done
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  Speaker 5: like Piranha 3D, just wonderful like B-movie schlott kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 5: Also crazy, what was that HBO show where he had,
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  Speaker 5: apparently it was in his contract, he had to show
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  Speaker 5: his balls every episode.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me you love me. He had a prosthetic penis.
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  Speaker 2: It was the first thing I saw of him.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my God. And he carried it off.
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  Speaker 2: He sure did.
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  Speaker 3: Literally.
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  Speaker 1: Literally.
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  Speaker 4: I guess you could have to say he pulled it off.
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  Speaker 4: He really pulled it off. I've known him for a
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  Speaker 4: long time.
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  Speaker 5: We did play workshops together like 20 plus years ago.
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  Speaker 5: And he was just this cool, funny guy. If you
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  Speaker 5: get to step aside with Adam anywhere, he's just immediately
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  Speaker 5: the cool kid or whatever he says to you. you're like, oh,
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  Speaker 5: I just want to hang out with you, whatever this
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  Speaker 5: event is. I mean, getting to work with him finally
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  Speaker 5: on Parks and Rec, I always said, and to this day,
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  Speaker 5: I still feel like he's my favorite leading man that
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  Speaker 5: I've worked with because he's so authentic. He lets the
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  Speaker 5: dorky parts of himself shine, even in Severance. Adam's pure,
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  Speaker 5: sort of youthful, juvenile otter-like personality persona comes out, even
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  Speaker 5: though he's like our.
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  Speaker 4: Romantic leading man. And I agree.
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  Speaker 5: It's so gorgeous to see him leading this massive artistic achievement.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm going to talk to him today about, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: when he joined our show and what that felt like
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  Speaker 2: to jump onto a train that was already moving. But
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  Speaker 2: I realize I never talk to you Look, you and I,
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  Speaker 2: I think, had such similar first day goals for the show,
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  Speaker 2: and it was to make good work and have a
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  Speaker 2: good time. And I feel like we, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: more than anyone at times really were my partner in
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  Speaker 2: that every day.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm so grateful for it.
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  Speaker 2: But when you remember him and Rob joining the show,
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  Speaker 2: what do you remember feeling about that at the time?
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  Speaker 4: There was an excitement for sure.
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  Speaker 5: Adam was just coming off Party Down, which Megan had
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  Speaker 5: worked on with him.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And I was a really big fan of.
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  Speaker 2: Your great wife, Megan Mullally, people should know. Your Tammy
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  Speaker 2: wife in life and.
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  Speaker 1: On the show.
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  Speaker 4: Tammy too, plus.
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  Speaker 5: I remember being excited at the talent, but also having
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  Speaker 5: a little bit where we had maybe eight series regulars
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  Speaker 5: at the time.
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  Speaker 4: We were like, can we service two new hunks?
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  Speaker 1: Do we have enough hunk room?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hear you.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so I'm asking my Zoomers to give me a
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  Speaker 2: question to ask my guest. So I was wondering if
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  Speaker 2: there's any question you think I should ask Adam today.
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  Speaker 4: If I was just hanging with Adam, this is what
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  Speaker 4: I would ask him is.
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  Speaker 5: He's one of those guys who has a few dozen
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  Speaker 5: stories that I've never heard, even though I've heard dozens
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  Speaker 5: of just like luminaries that he's, you know, Scorsese put.
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  Speaker 4: Him in the Leo movie.
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  Speaker 5: Like he's, he's done so much and, and casually and
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  Speaker 5: quietly been in so many great arenas.
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  Speaker 4: I would just say, tell me, tell.
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  Speaker 5: Me a story about somebody who you, would be starstruck
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  Speaker 5: with that I haven't heard that you've worked with?
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  Speaker 1: That's a great question, Nick. I love that question. And
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  Speaker 1: you're right there.
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  Speaker 2: There's a quiet experience that Adam doesn't brag about certainly,
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  Speaker 2: but that like a lot, he's been on a lot
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  Speaker 2: of different sets with very interesting to your point luminaries.
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  Speaker 4: He's been, he's been everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Well, friend, I hope I can't wait to get you
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  Speaker 1: in this seat.
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  Speaker 2: And it's a hot seat, man. And when we get
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  Speaker 2: when you get here, I do want to talk more
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  Speaker 2: about facial hair, because I do think you've had to
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  Speaker 2: switcheroo so much in your life. And your Ron's mustache
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  Speaker 2: is I'm going to put it up there in the
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  Speaker 2: Mount Rushmore of mustaches. And I miss you very much
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  Speaker 2: and love you and so appreciate you doing this.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I miss you and love you as well.
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  Speaker 5: And Give my best to the gang and we'll be
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  Speaker 5: in touch.
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  Speaker 1: All right, buddy.
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  Speaker 2: See you soon.
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  Speaker 3: Cheers.
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  Speaker 3: It's not you know what it doesn't smell like is
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  Speaker 3: a peach.
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  Speaker 2: and he's, um, checking out all of the fake food.
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  Speaker 2: I knew you would love it.
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  Speaker 3: Peach still looks like a butt no matter what. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I love it.
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  Speaker 3: You can also take a bite if you want. I
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  Speaker 3: enough is how great a good sandwich is.
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  Speaker 1: What is your favorite sandwich? Like if you were to
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  Speaker 1: build a sandwich.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. First of all, it would need to be felt.
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  Speaker 3: All of it. I just say if sandwich feels good
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  Speaker 3: in your hands. Yeah. Two different cheese. I mean, this
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  Speaker 3: is great.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: This might be too much information, but I have a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of TMJ.
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  Speaker 4: You do? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So it's hard for me to open my mouth to
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  Speaker 1: eat a sandwich.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I get nervous that I'm gonna get locked.
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  Speaker 3: Sure. Like this? And your arms, too, locked like this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and so a giant sandwich.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But check this out.
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  Speaker 4: Bread. Yeah. Tomato.
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  Speaker 3: Tomato.
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  Speaker 4: Some onion.
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  Speaker 2: Onion.
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  Speaker 1: The heck, what are we, in California?
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  Speaker 5: Avo.
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  Speaker 4: Avo.
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  Speaker 3: I don't like avo on a sandwich.
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  Speaker 1: I don't either. Let's talk about it, because. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like avo makes it soggy.
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  Speaker 3: It also slides out.
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  Speaker 1: That's what she said.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't cooperate with the rest of the sandwich.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of avo, Adam Scott is here and he's a
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  Speaker 2: California kid. You're a California kid.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You grew up in California.
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  Speaker 3: You love giving me shit about being a California person.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you grew up in Santa Cruz and tell people
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  Speaker 1: how you used to drive.
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  Speaker 3: If you're wearing, this is a universal thing.
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  Speaker 1: It definitely is not.
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  Speaker 3: If you're wearing flip-flops- Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's already 80% of the world is already not
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  Speaker 2: wearing it.
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  Speaker 3: And you have to drive a car. It is unsafe
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  Speaker 3: to keep the flip-flops on. You have to kick them
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  Speaker 3: off and drive barefoot.
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  Speaker 1: People in Santa Cruz drive barefoot.
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  Speaker 3: It's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: And Adam one time casually was like, you know when
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  Speaker 2: you're like driving barefoot?
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  Speaker 3: I said- Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Is your house on fire?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Did you forget your shoes?
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  Speaker 1: With Santa Cruz, people drive barefoot.
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  Speaker 3: If you keep your flip-flops on, they can easily get
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  Speaker 3: like caught under the gas or the brake and then you're,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that has happened to me when I'm driving a
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  Speaker 2: golf cart on vacation.
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  Speaker 1: I don't wear flip-flops in life.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, so you've never entered a car with flip-flops on?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I ever have, because like, I.
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  Speaker 3: Feel like- I'm gonna call bullshit on that right now. Well,
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  Speaker 3: first of all, I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't like flip flops that have the thing, you probably,
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  Speaker 2: you know what?
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  Speaker 1: Santa Cruz probably loves this. The thing between the big
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  Speaker 1: toe and.
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  Speaker 3: The first toe. How else does a flip flop function?
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  Speaker 3: What kind of flip flops are you wearing?
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  Speaker 2: I like a flip flop that, well, I guess it's
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  Speaker 2: not a flip flop, that has the thing over the foot.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a sandal.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I like a sandal. I don't like a flip flop.
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  Speaker 2: All right, all right.
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  Speaker 3: Agree to disagree.
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  Speaker 2: Santa Cruz, it feels like you guys walked around flip-flops
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  Speaker 2: all day and all these people.
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  Speaker 3: I remember I sent you a photo from Hawaii once.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I thought of Hawaii, where I sent you
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  Speaker 3: a photo of my bare foot on a gas pedal
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  Speaker 3: and you were just like, nah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so gross. Also, truly like bare feet in general,
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  Speaker 1: like how, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, listen.
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  Speaker 1: How do you feel about bare feet?
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I don't love bare feet. And I don't wear flip-flops. Like,
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  Speaker 3: I feel like in my 20s, I was fine with, like,
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  Speaker 3: jeans and flip-flops. Sure, sure. Which now I feel like
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  Speaker 3: should be illegal.
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  Speaker 4: I mean.
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  Speaker 1: we spent a lot of, both of us spent a
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  Speaker 1: lot of time in New York City. Like flip-flops in
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  Speaker 1: New York City is absolutely disgusting.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't work. It's gross.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I guess Santa Cruz is nice, but how
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  Speaker 1: can you run away from those vampires?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: In flip-flops, you can't do it.
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  Speaker 2: My first introduction to Santa Cruz was the movie Lost Boys,
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  Speaker 2: where there were hot vampires.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Jason Patrick in 1987. So how old were you
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  Speaker 3: then when that movie came out? When they filmed it,
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  Speaker 3: I was 13 and my next door neighbor, Joe Ferrara,
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  Speaker 3: he owned the comic book store that they use in
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  Speaker 3: the movie. So I got to go on the set
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  Speaker 3: of Lost Boys as a 13 year old and I
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: met Joel Schumacher. And I stood outside Corey Haim and
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: Corey Feldman's trailers and watched them walk to their trailers.
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  Speaker 3: And it was super exciting. Wow. But it was my
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  Speaker 3: comic book store. It was a comic book store I
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  Speaker 3: go to all the time. So I saw like how
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  Speaker 3: they made it look different for the movie. It was cool.
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  Speaker 1: What comics were you into when.
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  Speaker 3: You were a kid? I was into like the Freak
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  Speaker 3: Brothers and Fat Freddy's Cat. Do you know what these are?
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  Speaker 5: Nope.
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  Speaker 3: So do you think I just made those up? Fat
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  Speaker 3: Freddy's cat. Fat Freddy's cat and the fabulous furry freak brothers.
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  Speaker 3: They were like stoner, they were comic books about stoners. Oh, interesting.
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  Speaker 1: So it wasn't more, it wasn't like the Marvel universe.
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  Speaker 5: Was it?
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  Speaker 3: I did that for, I dabbled in that, but I
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  Speaker 3: was kind of more into the weird, like Zippy the pinhead.
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  Speaker 3: And do you know who that is?
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  Speaker 1: I think I remember that a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Like when I was older, there was, it was like
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  Speaker 2: alternative comics.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I don't know why I was into it,
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  Speaker 3: but I loved the Freak Brothers, and I wasn't smoking
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  Speaker 3: pot when I was like a little kid or anything.
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  Speaker 3: I just loved these comic books. You weren't? You weren't?
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  Speaker 3: You heard it here first, guys.
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  Speaker 1: Adam was not smoking pot.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Santa Cruz, I guess it's kind.
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  Speaker 4: Of a toss-up.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they just blow it into your car.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure. They blow it into your car and make
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  Speaker 3: you take your shoes off.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, flip-flops are made out of weed, I'm sure, in
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  Speaker 1: Santa Cruz.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. You have to smoke your flip-flops.
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  Speaker 1: I have now interviewed.
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  Speaker 2: Rudd and Ham. Ham, I haven't gotten into the studio yet,
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  Speaker 2: but he did.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: Oh, he did Rudd's thing.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he zoomed in from a hot air balloon.
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: But we talked a little bit about you guys.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: All meeting and being like, you know, young bucks at
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: the same time, which is really wild.
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Where, and I've talked about you.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: Where did you see yourself in that trio? How would
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: you describe yourself?
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Like which angel are you?
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: That's so funny. I always kind of feel like sort
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: of the little brother in that trio a little bit
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: because I'm quite a bit younger than both of them. Obviously,
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: that's like pretty good. No, I feel like.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: Rudd I knew, Paul I knew first because we met,
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: I met him at my graduation from acting school. He
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: was a speaker at the graduation.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: He was?
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: Talking about acting?
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: No, he was giving out an award and I was
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: wearing like this polyester red suit. Just because, you know,
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: you're just kind of looking for attention wherever you can
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: get it, I guess, if you're graduating from theater school.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's so, that hit me really hard.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: That's so true.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: You're just like, I'm going to wear, I'm going to
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: dress like a cowgirl or something.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: And you're like, I'm really, I'm really out there.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: Everyone's going to just cheer for me just because I'm
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: wearing this thing. Um, uh, but yeah, we, we, I
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: remember we hung out afterwards and he was like, nice suit. Um,
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: it totally worked. Um, but yeah, so, so, so that
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: was like 1993. So I've known Paul and then we
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: did a play together, which I think he brought up, um,
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: in the fall of 1993. And I remember I got
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: my first acting job. while I was rehearsing that play,
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: and my beeper kept going off while we were rehearsing,
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: and the other guy in the scene kept turning it off.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Passive-aggressive?
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: And it was, yeah, turning off that acting job for me. Yeah,
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: he was like, no.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. He's like, we need you to be here presently.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Trying to stand in front of that acting job.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: Exactly.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: That guest spot on Dead at 21, he didn't want anyone,
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: he wanted to get that.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: And that guy was Leonardo DiCaprio.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: That's right, that's right. And was never heard from again.
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: Nope.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Never worked again.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: So I knew Paul then and then I met Ham
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: like a few years later.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: But I mean, that's a very like outsider's young gun
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: kind of vibe that you guys were all acting to get,
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: like trying to audition.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: I mean, in the world you're very different, but I
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: imagine like there was... I don't know, you could have
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: done a lot of similar parts and probably auditioned for
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: similar things.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And I remember once John and I were each
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: doing a different CSI. He was doing regular CSI. I
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: was doing CSI Miami and we were shooting like near
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: each other in Culver City or something and like met
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: up to go get a beer afterwards. And I remember
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: just kind of sitting there and just being like, How
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: much longer do you think we're going to need to
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: be like doing CSI? Because it was years and years
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: for both of us. I know.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: I think it's super satisfying. to talk to you about
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: this stage of your career because Like a lot of
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: people I know, frankly, you had so much experience before
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: a lot of America knew you.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: And I was talking to Nick about this earlier. Oh,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: I talked to Nick Offerman.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Oh, you did.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: I was surprised.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: But he wanted to know when in that part of
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: your career before we all met, and I think he
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: was specifically talking about when you worked with Martin Scorsese,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: but like what When were you really starstruck during that time?
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: I was always starstruck and never felt comfortable, partially because,
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: and maybe it's similar for you, like not growing up
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: in Los Angeles or in show business at all, like
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: having zero contact with it, being on a TV show
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: or being in a movie felt like going to the moon.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: So once you're there, it's just so crazy that there's
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: a camera and there are lights and a famous person
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: sitting next to you that I sort of, it took
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: me a really long time. And I think probably hindered me.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: It's probably one of the reasons that I, that it
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: took me a while as I just never was able
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: to relax because I was so freaked out by.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: All of it.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Really? I think so.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Were you really anxious?
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: Really anxious, but really nervous.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: Nervous.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: And- How did it manifest? Did it manifest?
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it manifested in me not being, and I think
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: a part of it is, and it's something that I
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: saw you doing pretty immediately when we started working together
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: is you were like, you were good with all of
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: it and comfortable with all of it. And you were
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: able to share yourself with the camera, which is something
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: that took me a long time to even realize was
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: something you needed to do beyond figuring out what the
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: scene was or the characters or anything like that. You
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: just have to be able to, to open up and
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: share yourself with it. Does that make sense? It doesn't.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: It's so interesting because it's kind of like what we
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: talked about, like the way in to like when you,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: in any job, the way, the way you enter can
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: be kind of the thing that you identify with forever. Like, yeah,
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: I'm this kind of person. I'm this kind of performer.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: And I always found like when I was in Chicago
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: and it's funny, like Nick is a good example. Nick
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: was in like the like serious theater scene and there
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: were the improvisers and, you know, people that came the
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: comedy road.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: There were the serious actors who studied acting.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: And I used to find that they were so trained
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: and so good. And I felt a little inferior in
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: terms of skill. But I also thought they took things
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: very seriously.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: And because of it, they were missing that like play.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: Totally. Like it was all their work was done when
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: they got to set.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: I said this about you and Katherine Hahn, two very
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: skilled actors who studied.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: First of all, you knew your lines, which is important.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: You knew your lines.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: I did.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: But I mean, I just mean.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: But I mean, you would both prepare in a way
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: that was, you know, part of the process of you working.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: And the preparation was really impressive. And what I really
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: loved about working with you and.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Still do is you are one of those rare people
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: that you, maybe it was learned, maybe it didn't come
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: right away, but you do have a big sense of play.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: You do not come in with some preconceived notion of
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: how things should go.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: You can straddle that like really good, deep acting and
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: really dumb, fun shit.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: But that's because, yeah, yeah, sorry.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: No, why do you think that's because?
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Well, I think that's because I was doing it with you.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: But you were doing it before then too.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: Not really.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: I mean- Really party down.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: And- Party Down was more scripted. I mean, we didn't
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: have the like fun runs and stuff like we did
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: on Parks. I think Martin Starr would improvise more than anybody.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: And Step Brothers, I was just like trying to keep
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: my head above water. I'd never really improvised before. So
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: I was like, it was one of the reasons I,
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: looking back, I was, I once started really doing Parks
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: and It's like, this is the way to do it.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: This is like so fun. And, um, and it's no
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: less satisfying than some serious thing. It's, it's all in there.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: The characters are bone deep. It's so funny. Everyone cares
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: about each other and it's super fun. Um, so it
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: made me kind of think like all those years I
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: was wasting trying to like get three lines on NYPD blue.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: I could have been trying to do something at improv
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: olympic or it's just it's just you look back and
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: you never.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Know i can remember all the those years that we
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: all did those movies big and small parts in them
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: where improv was so important to make those movies come
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: alive but i remember there was like a tipping point
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: for me one time in a movie that i did
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: where like there was just like 10 people like shouting
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: jokes at me right.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: About like do this and i remember going like I
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: don't even know what my character's name is. I don't
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: even know what my character is.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: It's so interesting you say that because it's around that
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: time from 2005 through 2013, that was the overwhelming culture
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: on Netflix. comedy sets was just a bunch of people
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: screaming jokes at you and you just being like yeah okay.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Who which one of us says and they're like either
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: one yeah who cares cool yeah i've done a good
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: job with my character if either one of us can
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: say this joke no.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: I know and i feel i it's it's and you like.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Your career is so interesting you have done so many
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: different things i think it's what is uh i know
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: for me like so exciting about this moment.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: For you is that it's just, there's just really nothing
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: you can't do, Adam.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: Stop that.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: It's ridiculous.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: It's so true, dude.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: It's so ridiculous. But I think people like to know
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: these things.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Was there ever a part you auditioned for that you
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: got close on that you didn't get?
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Six Feet Under.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: That was the one that I didn't get.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: And it's good that- It was for Michael C. Hall's role?
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Michael C. Hall's role. And it's good that, I didn't
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: get it because it wouldn't be nearly as good if
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: I had done it because he was perfect and incredible.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: He's incredible. And I wasn't ready.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: But you mean like it was between you and two
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: other guys?
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: He and I tested for it. And I believe.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: That hurts.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: It was the one where I was like, I might
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: stop doing this. I think that it's time for me
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: to like read the tea leaves and walk away.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: I don't think people understand that enough when you lose
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: a part and it's so close and then the show
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: is this hit and you watch it.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: Oh, it's painful.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: It really is like someone fucking your girlfriend in.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: Front of you.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah. 100%. And you're just.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Like, oh my God, this show is so good. And
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: he's so good in it.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: And that show was everything. Like it just kind of
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: like eclipsed all other shows. It was the show. I
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: went and did a couple episodes as Michael's boyfriend.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: Like in season two.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: And Michael was like, you want to see the trailer
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: you could have had?
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly. Everything he showed me is his bank account.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: I love that show. No, he was lovely, of course,
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: and it was fun and stuff. But yeah, that was
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: a blow. That was hard. But, you know, it's also
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: important that you have those experiences.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Are you good in auditions, do you think?
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no. Me neither. Terrible. Me too. I
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: hated it so much. I was so nervous.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: Me too.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: You were nervous.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah. What about you?
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Well, I was nervous too, but the way I masked
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: my nervousness, which is not a great quality, is I
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: would get kind of like, I would seem kind of ambivalent.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Uh-huh.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Like I would get kind of, you know when you
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: get nervous, you get sleepy?
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: So I would be very nervous and just like stomach
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: in knots and really psyching myself out of like, just
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: go in there, just do what you can do.
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: But that would tip over into- I don't care. I
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: don't care.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: And what was your audition like for Park? Did you
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: audition for Parks and Rec?
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: No.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: No, I was lucky.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: They just gave it to you.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Because Mike, I remember the day that my phone
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: had you and Mike's names on the voicemail thing. And
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: I was like, whoa, is this, is it finally like
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: happening to me? Because I, and I showed someone like, Look,
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: Mike Schur, Amy Poehler. And then there was someone else
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: who was calling me. It was like suddenly for whatever reason,
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: people were, there were incoming calls asking me to do stuff.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: And then that had never happened before. I don't remember
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: why that started happening on one particular day, but you
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: left me a voicemail and that was a huge deal.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: I'm sure I still have it. Really? Yeah, I'm sure
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: I do.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: We should put like a techno beat to it.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: Totally. put it out no that's when I first heard
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: it I was like this would make a great song
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: this would be a hit this is catchy this is
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: How does this voicemail catch you to me? So wait, just, yes. Can,
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: I just want to interject so I don't forget because
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: that's what I do. I always forget shit that I
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: was going to say. Every single day, someone tells me
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: Parks got them through the pandemic. And I heard you
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: mention it on a previous episode.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: Every single day, people say I watched it during COVID.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: I watch it with my kid. My kid's going through
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: a hard time. I like to watch it at night
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: because I get, I have a lot of anxiety. Like,
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: I cannot believe the way that that show continues to be.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Medicine for people.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: It's so nice.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Isn't that nice? And Ben and Leslie.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: I know. I know. Do you remember we were texting
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: just a couple months ago and just kind of commented
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: on how nice they are?
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: They're so nice. They're so much nicer than us.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: So much nicer.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: And they're so nice to each other.
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: And every woman deserves a Ben.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Every woman deserves a partner like Ben who roots for
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: you and like looks at you and is just like,
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: that's my gal. Like everyone deserves that kind of relationship.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: But also, Leslie, from the word go. loved Ben. Oh, beyond. Like,
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: now looking back, it's like they were just in love
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: with each other.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: Immediately.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: And their arc was such so juicy.
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: The writers, Mike and the writers, because they meet and
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: they're just like, well, what's your deal?
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. It was like... Hot. And then
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: they like each other, but then they can't.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: They can't be together.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was great. They can't be together, which is like, really?
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, they probably could have been together.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: I know, it didn't matter, but.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: And then they had to break up.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: And Mike was like, this is totally fake and whatever,
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: but we just need to have Rob care about you
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: two being together. And it worked. And it was like,
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: made it even hotter.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: And then Ben.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Was like, I want you. Ben kept putting Leslie's, you
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: know what it is?
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: They kept putting each other's needs over their own. They
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: cared about what the other one needed and they respected
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: each other. Like they really liked what the other one did.
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: And it was the best thing about that relationship is how,
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: you know, with the exception of Anne, who is.
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: Of course.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Leslie's number one.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: Of course. I've accepted that. Yeah.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Is the way that they just rooted for each other.
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: They really rooted for each other.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: I haven't seen a ton of... It makes me sad
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: to watch the show because I miss it. I've heard
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: you say that. Yeah.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Why does it make you sad?
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: Because I'm... I miss it. I, like you were saying,
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: like we really appreciated being there every day and it
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: was so fun. And also just sort of walking in
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: that building and then suddenly you're there and the hallways
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: and the, it was so fun and the people just
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: loved everybody. But I guess maybe it just, that's a
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: good question. Why does it actually make me sad?
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: I think I know is because you're stuck in that
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: fucking weird office.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: The white hallways. And you're running in a white hallway.
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: With the green carpet.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: I told Adam, I was like, too much running.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: Too much running, yeah. I know. I was so tired.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, just, and there's, you don't even know where
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: you're going. I mean, every hallway looks the same.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: I know, I know. Get lost. Get lost every day.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: That's why. It's exhausting and confusing. Yes. I know. Pawnee hallways.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: People are dying in your new workplace. Like, they're getting killed.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: Pawnee, everyone's nice. There's a graphic painting of a massacre
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: on the wall, but it's covered up.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: That's true.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: That's okay.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: It was a terrible massacre.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: But something I saw recently is our very first scene
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: in that bar when.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Love that scene.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: Me too.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: So well-written, that scene.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: And we're having a beer and I say, Ben says, yeah,
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: but you want to, you're going to run for, and
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: like immediately just knows- that Leslie has the, these ambitions.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: That it seemed that you'd never even said out loud before,
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: but is 100% what you planned on doing. It was
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: just such a great little. Yes.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: What they saw, they saw in each other, the dream
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: for the other.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: They just, they kept like, they assumed the best and
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: they saw the potential in each other basically. That's right.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: It was so fun to play that.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: And I was saying, too, that I for this interview,
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: I rewatched your first scene, which it's so good because
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: Nick and I are on the side. You know, Ron
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: and I never sat on this. We never sat down
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: next to each other.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: Usually you were at loggerheads.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we were across from each other.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: And so it's like you've got the kind of like
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Pawnee side.
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: And then you and Rob come in with suits.
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: And it's like, who are these whippersnappers?
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: And I can remember that day because it was our
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: first day of work. I think that was the first
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: scene that we did. And it played really well because
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: it was like, who is this new person?
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: Who are these guys? Yeah.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: What was it like to join a show that was
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: in motion that you had watched already on TV?
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: It was so weird. but immediately fun. Like even the
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: first table read, I remember I was like, I got,
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: I walked in the room like one minute after I
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: was supposed to be there. So I was already like thrown,
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: like I'm fucking late to my first, Jesus Christ. And,
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: but it was immediately so warm and welcoming and super
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: fun people. Everybody's laughing at the incredible jokes in the script.
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: But then when we started shooting, um, I mean, you know,
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: it was a welcoming place that immediately kind of fostered,
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: encouraged your best, but also to take swings and shots
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: without any sort of fear of doing the wrong thing.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: That was just never really there.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: And then that short season was kind of short when
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: we started because I was preggers.
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: And it's not always easy like getting chemistry going with
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: a gal who's like hiding her stomach behind a plant.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: It was so easy.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: But it was.
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: It was so easy.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: I remember just being like, oh, bless your heart, Adam.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: The other thing I just like that I feel like
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: I am proud of during that is the way in which,
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: and I said it before, but I feel like the
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: way in which in real time, it's a job that
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: I felt the most present in.
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: SNL felt like a speeding train, an emergency room. And
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: I learned really fast and hard lessons really fast. And
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: for everyone on parks, I felt like we were all
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: kind of in this tender bubble because we often thought
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: we were going to get canceled.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Where we just kind of knew what we had.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I think that you guys did a
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: really good job because all this stuff about us almost
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: getting canceled. think we all kind of sensed something but
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: i don't think any of us except you and i
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: think you and mike protected us from a lot of
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: that which is great producing and really taking care of
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: all of us um i don't think we were ever
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: quite i've kind of heard all of it since um
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: but it was pretty tenuous there at the end of
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: the seasons.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah it's scary you're a great producer what do
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: you like about producing speaking of producing.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: That's nice of you to say Um, I learned a
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: lot watching you work and working with you both as
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: a producer, but also as the lead actor, like you
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: really kind of set the template for me truly, um,
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: how everyone should and deserves to be treated cast and
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: crew and all of that. I always kind of directing
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: specifically as like, Because you're looking at a monitor all day.
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: It's like getting to watch television, which is like one
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: of my favorite things to do, except you get to
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: go in and try to make it better. And producing
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: is somewhat similar in that you're spending all of your
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: time just trying to nitpick and find all of the
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: things that don't work and find solutions for all of them.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: Or making sure everybody's happy and feeling good about what
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: they're doing. That's another important component that I really learned
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: from you and Mike, too, is It's so important that
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: everybody is feeling like they're a part of it, like
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: a useful cog in the machine, and that it's a
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: satisfying job for them.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Now, do you guys have... For Severance, which, by the way, congratulations.
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: Thanks.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: And get that Emmy speech ready, baby. Get that Emmy.
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: Speech ready, honey. God, please. But....
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Get it ready.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: But.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: When you.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: When you shoot that show, is it, I just feel
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: like it's a really, I mean, it's so beautifully shot.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: You have such great set design.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: You have tons of, like, it just seems like it's
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: a long, how many days take, is one episode take?
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: Well, it depends.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: It's long, right?
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: It's long. The season two, I think it was 186 days. Wow.
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: For the season, which is a long time, you know?
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think like one episode took like six
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: weeks and then I think it's kind of average out
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: because we shoot them like three at a time, all
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: mixed up together.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you cross board is the term you do that?
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Season one, we shot the entire thing at once.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: So like in month nine, we were still shooting scenes
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: from the first episode. But the thing that that did-
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: the accidental thing that that did is, you know, the
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: first few episodes of any show are a little shaky
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: and everyone's finding their tone a little bit or characters
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: or whatever. It spread that out over the entire season.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: So it kind of felt more or less fully realized,
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: you know, in a way fully realized from the start,
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: but the shaky scenes are kind of distributed over the.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: You have to do so much switcheroo in that show.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: I mean, like you have to act against yourself. You
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: have to just figure out versions of yourself truly that
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: change mid scene, let alone mid sentence. Do you have
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: a script supervisor or a graph or someone that keeps that?
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: How do you keep track of that?
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good question. In season one, I remember
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: I had heard that Michael Keaton had this big, like
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: these big poster boards for multiplicity where he kept track
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: of all of his characters. And I got large like
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: construction paper. I remember I was staying in Aziz's apartment
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: in season one. And so I was like, I remember
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: putting it out on the floor and getting like a
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: marker and drawing a line and like, trying to like
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: mark down like the scenes and the episodes. And eventually
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: it was like, I don't know what I'm doing. And
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: I just stopped doing that. I just gave up. But
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: I think it's, you just sort of map it out
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: and then just like a math problem is try to
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: kind of lock in what's going on. Particularly if you're
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: shooting it all at once, you have to sort of
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: make some decisions and, and we would go back and
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: forth between characters sometimes in the, In one, like in
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: the morning we would do innie stuff and in the
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: afternoon do outie stuff.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: Ah, interesting.
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And so.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's interesting.
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: So you'd like innie before lunch.
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: Outie after lunch. Yeah, that's right. Which is good because
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: you're slowed down after lunch.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: And you want to let it outie.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. You got to get it outie.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: You got to get it outie.
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. You let it innie and you got to
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: get it outie.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's such an indication of how well that
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: show trapped us because in this last season, it's just
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: so incredible.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: The finale was so incredible.
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: Thanks.
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: What? Your wife.
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: She went pretty hard to get back to you.
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know.
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: Dude.
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: I know. Were you pissed? Yeah, dude. Yeah, yeah.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: And Britt is incredible. I got to do a movie
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: with Britt.
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: She's awesome.
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: You guys did.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we did this movie, Sisters, and she was so
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: fun in it and so funny. She's great in the show.
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: So good. Well, what other choice was any mark going
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: to make?
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know. The choice whether you go with
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: your wife.
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: So walk out the door and like end your life? Yes,
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: you go to the door. That's the choice you would make.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: What do you mean end your life?
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: He walks out that door. He doesn't know if he's
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: ever coming back. He walks out the door. He becomes
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: his Audi. He doesn't know if that Audi is ever
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: going to walk back in that building.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: But that building is not great.
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: No, but it's better than not existing. But is it? Yeah,
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: I don't know. That's a good question. I don't know.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: It was such a good ending. It was like standing up,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: shouting at the TV ending. It was so good. And
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: you played it so well.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: And it was so exciting to watch that ending.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: It was so satisfying.
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: You were nice. You texted me like right after. And
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: you text pretty promptly after things. And it always means
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: the most when you text me. It really does.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: I mean, it means the most that I get to
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: have friends that, I mean, for people listening, can you
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: imagine your favorite TV?
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: It's the best feeling in the world.
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: Your favorite TV show. And then you get to text
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: the person on it immediately and be like, what the fuck?
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: Right, right.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: And, you know, and it's not.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: Like you get any spoilers, but you just get to like,
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: be like, you get to process.
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: Like I think growing up, if I ever, you know,
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: if I'd ever been able to, I don't know. Text
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: Molly Ringwald.
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: And be like.
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: Dude.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: Why didn't you pick Ducky?
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: Ducky, man.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: Ducky was the dude.
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: Or like, I remember I wrote viewer mail to David
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: Letterman and just never, you know, they just kind of
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: went off and disintegrated in the mail.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: And you're like, Dave. Yeah, Dave.
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: Hey. I remember I came up with this whole thing
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: that I thought they would use to create a bit
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: around that I thought would be. So lame.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: People should know this about you. You have great hair
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: and you do not have a system.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: That is your hair.
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: Do you mean like a toupee?
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know. You don't have a system. Whatever that is.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: And there's nothing wrong with having it.
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: No, look, there's nothing wrong with a system.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with a hair system. Men and women.
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying that Adam has great hair and you,
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: do you think it's because you're Scottish?
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: Aren't you Scottish and I'm Scottish. I'm Sicilian. Oh, okay.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: That maybe it's that.
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: I don't know. But also I started taking Propecia when
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: I was like 30 years old.
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: Really?
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah. It started, it started coming out, um, pretty like
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: when I was like 30 ish. Um, Yeah. I mean,
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: everyone on Parks, remember all the guys had great hair? Yes.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: And all the men and Catherine Hahn had great hair.
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: Catherine Hahn has great hair.
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: And then I don't think Rashida would mind or Aubrey
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: would mind that we all felt like we had.
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: Why? Our hair was.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: It's just thin.
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: But all the men would just have these like giant
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: heads of hair.
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: That's right. Like, and it just.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, Nick would grow a beard in a day.
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that mustache is like, what is it, 45 minutes
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: he can grow that?
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he can grow it in 45 minutes if he
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: just goes.
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he has to push really hard.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: But one more severance question, which is what is happening
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: on it? What is it and what happened?
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: Right, what's going on?
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: And what's going on?
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: What happened and what is it?
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: But you do host a podcast.
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: How has that been? Yeah, Ben and I host it.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, how has it been doing that?
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: Great.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: What's it like to talk about the show that you're.
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: It's actually been... We originally... It was actually Naomi's idea.
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: She was like, you guys... Because it had been three
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: years since season one, we were just like... We were
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: just worried about everyone that watched the first season coming back.
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: So we were just trying to think of ways to...
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: And Naomi thought, you guys should do this. And it
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: actually was... It's so fun to just go back and
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: really be able to watch the episodes as finished things
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: and talk over it with the actors or, you know,
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: crew members or whomever. And kind of talk about it
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: as audience members and kind of dipping into what we remember,
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: what we intended and, you know, all that stuff.
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: Cool.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: And do you remember the YouTube podcast it used to
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: do with Aquaman?
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: Yes. What if I didn't remember it?
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: Do you remember? That's such a bad question. Do you remember?
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: No, no, no. It's not because it's something that you
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: could forget.
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: People also don't know that you did a podcast about
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: you too.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: And it was called?
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: You talking you too to me.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: Why did you do a podcast about you too?
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: We did it because we found out that we were
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: both U2 fans and there was something funny about doing it,
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: doing it because U2 is so huge. There was something
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: funny about doing, it's almost like doing a podcast about
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: like Sizzler or something. I love U2, but they're big.
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: And so, and I don't know, it's hard to pinpoint
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: exactly why it's funny to do the thing. And that
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: wasn't the right analogy, but, um, We both found out
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: that Kulop, Scott's wife, and Naomi, my wife, were sick
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: of hearing about U2 and didn't want to talk about
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: it anymore. And so we, I think maybe Seth Meyers
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: said something on this show about being a middle-aged man
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: if you want to have middle-aged male friendships you need
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: to do a podcast together.
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: Oh my god yes yeah i mean it is it
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: it's one of the things i love about you is
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: you have a very back of the classroom style of
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: comedy like you are a side like you're the like
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: out of your mouth talker you're a shit talker um
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: not in a bad way but like you know okay
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: you are you are You can be like a love
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: tap from Adam is like a quick, you know, to me,
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: that's what intimacy is, is when you can like.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: Shit talk your friends.
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: Uh-huh.
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: And you like to mumble out of the side of
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: your mouth in the back of the class.
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: Sure, sure.
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: But what comes, what's great about that is along with
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: that comes like you like deep dives into.
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: Dumb stuff.
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: Dumb stuff.
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: Like getting dumb stuff and like elevating it by the
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: way you talk about it.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: Have you always been like that?
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: Maybe.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: Because you were a big TV and movie fangirl.
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: Like you just were kind of a nerd in that
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: way when you talked about comic books.
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know. There's nothing nerdier than a fucking comic book.
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: Particularly Fat Freddy's Cat. Yeah, I think that, and I
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: think doing it on a podcast is extra good because
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: you can edit it and make it shorter.
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: Now that you're my, we're the same age? Are you
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: like a year younger than me?
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we're the same age.
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: Do you have like hobbies now that you're getting into? Like,
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: you know how we are, like that happens to us, like.
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: Where we're like, I want to start gardening.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: Gardening stuff, like do you do that?
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: No, I've never, I have like, In the garage is
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: like a bicycle and a, what did I have? I
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: had a telescope that I got, like a really nice
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: telescope and never once used it. A bicycle that I
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: rode once. I don't, I've been looking for, I don't,
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: I like working and I like, do you have a thing?
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: No, it's funny you say that about a telescope. That
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: is such a... like, you know what? I'm going to
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: get a nice telescope.
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: Get a fucking telescope.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: I deserve it.
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I'm going to look at the stars.
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, who are we?
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: On this tiny marble.
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: There's a moon. It's up there every night. I've never
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: taken a good look at it. And then I just
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: never looked at it.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: It's cut to a dusty place to hang your clothes.
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: I don't care about the moon that much.
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: I guess what I'm asking underneath that question is like,
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: you've been working really hard for a long time.
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: What's your relationship? to work and to hard work?
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: And do you? That's a good question. I feel like
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: it's all mixed up and somewhat dysfunctional. You know what
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: I was thinking about actually, and it's sort of on
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: the same line of thinking is that you mentioned SNL earlier.
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: And something that I realized recently was when I really
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: kind of met you and got to know you, SNL
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: was only like, what, two years ago, a year and
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: a half before Parks? Yeah. Like it was a fresh
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: thing and what an intense experience and what a giant
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: change work-wise from that environment and that the pressure of
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: that to the pressure of, of parks, which was an
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: enormous amount of pressure, but entirely different. It must've been
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: That must have been something that took a while to
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: kind of settle and grapple with. Yeah.
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, what I was lucky about almost was how
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: much I had to do. I felt like if I
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: had been playing, if Leslie Knope was a character that
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: worked three days a week, I feel like I would
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: have been struggling because to your point, I just had to,
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: I like made a lot of, I feel like swings
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: and misses in the beginning. Like the show did kind
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: of did too, right? Like I think we were all
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: trying to figure out what the show was. And I
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: think it just took me a while to settle down.
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: You know, I used to make a joke when I
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: would be in people's movies, I'd be like, you know,
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: when you get into someone else's car and the music's too.
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: Loud, that may be how I am.
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: Like, feel free to turn me down. And I think
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: it took a while. And honestly, Adam, so much of
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: it was our work together where I felt, like grounded
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: on the ground as a performer enough to just settle.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: Because so much of the beginning was.
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: Sketch energy, which is different. Right. Which is all about
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: right now we've got to like make it great. I mean,
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm just guessing that it's all about
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: like an immediate thing that you have to put everything into. Yeah.
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: And yeah. Yeah.
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: And I think one of the things that was so
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: fun about what we got to do is the camera
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: helped us, at least it helped me, have my feelings about,
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: you know, I tell people like.
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: Of course you, of course we love Ben.
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: We got to, like, Ben, we watch Ben watch Leslie
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: and we love Leslie. So, like, when people love Leslie,
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: we love them. And we got to watch Ben love her.
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: Because the camera, like we got to do so much
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: indirect stuff. Like we didn't have to face to face
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: all the time. We had feelings, our characters had feelings
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: for each other because of the camera.
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: Though, even though, I mean, and it's such a beautiful genre,
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: that mockumentary, because it allows you to just even create
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: space and depth in the shot.
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: People are just not in the same room.
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: That's right. And like, I remember we always used to
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: say we loved it when there were spy shots through
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: like blinds because it made our acting better. Do you
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: remember that? Yes. Do you also remember this thing we
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: used to do where sometimes we would be doing a
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: scene and we'd be like, okay, I can't, I'm not
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: someone who can predict the future a hundred percent, but
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: I will say it was like a couple of times
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: a season. I will say, I can say with 100%
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: certainty that neither of us will ever be win an
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: award for acting for this scene. You would say it sometimes.
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: Let's just, I mean, and also on the other side,
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: I would sometimes say, you know, and I said this
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: on the podcast, like I would say like, Adam, your
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: acting is so good.
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: You'd be like, shut up. We're in the middle of
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: the scene. Like, because it was like, Oh my God. Um,
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, but Oh yeah. I mean, that's what I
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: love about working with you.
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: And I just feel like before we end, like I
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: just want to feed our fans a little bit more,
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: which is what, what do you think was the most
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: romantic scene between Ben and Leslie?
• 54:45
  Speaker 4: Oh man.
• 54:47
  Speaker 3: It's so sweet.
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: I know, but what's the most romantic?
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: The most romantic? I think, I think, well, there are
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: a couple of nominees. Okay. But I think, I think
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: maybe Smallest Park.
• 55:03
  Speaker 4: Ugh.
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: I just heard a little groan. I hope it's a
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: good groan.
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: Someone just being like, ugh.
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: I love Smallest Park.
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: Me too.
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: Nicole Holofcener, the great Nicole Holofcener directed that.
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: Chelsea wrote that one.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: Chelsea Peretti wrote that episode.
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: And I remember really like feeling connected shooting that and
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: just being like, this is kind of feeling like how
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: special it is. it was making the show. And that was, yeah,
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: that was, but I don't know. What, what do you think?
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: Well, I have a lot. I mean, I feel that
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: that was such a big one. I feel like some
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: of the, I have such a affinity for the beginning
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: beginnings parts of Ben and Leslie, because I do think
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: it also just reminded me of like, we were, you know,
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: the show was deciding that they were going to love
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: each other too. And, um, I really love this tiny
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: moment when they realize they like the same spot, when
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: they like to sit under the sunflower mural.
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: I love that moment.
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: When I ask you if you know where that mural
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: is and your response, it's a rewindable moment.
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: I love that moment.
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: Between both of us because, and of course, Parks then
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: pays it off years later.
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: Years later.
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: By sitting underneath it.
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: Um i also you know when we shot ben and
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: leslie's wedding it was so fun it was like we
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: were all just sitting there all day goofing around um
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: and it was so fun and like.
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: I think we had real champagne too maybe we.
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: Probably did yeah we probably did and then that probably
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: became a problem later in the day.
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah probably champagne not something to have when you're when
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: you have like A 10-hour workday ahead of you.
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: Speaking of champagne, maybe our fans would like to know
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: that on our last day of shooting, or one of
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: our last days, like, speaking of, like, romantic goodbyes, we
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: all climbed up on the top of the hair and
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: makeup trailer and, like, did a big toast up there.
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: Because we shot at a studio called CBS Radford.
• 57:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: And it was very, like, we wrote our names on
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: the wall.
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: We were sharing a studio. Who had been there before?
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: Malcolm in the middle.
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: And maybe Seinfeld? No.
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: Seinfeld was on the lot, but not that particular stage.
• 57:35
  Speaker 3: Naomi and I have our office at Radford. You do?
• 57:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 57:38
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. And I walk over there all the time.
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: That would have been my first time really shooting anything
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: on a studio. I had never had like a studio
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: experience before, and I was so lucky to do it there.
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: But yeah, we like got up on the trailer.
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, there was just so many proper goodbyes for
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: that show. We really, and Mike and the writers really
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: landed that plane.
• 57:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: And that's rare.
• 58:01
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: Like that is so rare. Are you asked all the
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: time if there'll be more parks or a reboot or something? Yeah.
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: I always feel like it's been, it's done. Like it
• 58:12
  Speaker 3: was perfectly done. Like how do you do that?
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: Maybe they should do like Muppet babies. They should do
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: like Parks and Rec babies.
• 58:18
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: Like everyone has babies.
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: Like that Instagram thing where everyone's. Oh yeah, we've seen that.
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: The AI babies.
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: They should do AI babies.
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: But like a whole series. Yeah. Of all of us
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: just in a crib together. Yeah.
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: But they should do it like present day where like
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: the politics are really dark.
• 58:35
  Speaker 4: Yep. And mean.
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: And so it should be like, Tiny babies fighting each other.
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they hate each other. It's like apocalyptic political babies.
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: And they're all like, oh, no.
• 58:47
  Speaker 3: I hate you so much. I hate you so much.
• 58:50
  Speaker 4: Yay.
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: I mean.
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: Yay, I hate you.
• 58:53
  Speaker 3: Because we made the show in an era where public
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: service was encouraged and valued. Right. And funded. Yes. It was,
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: or I mean, you know, I'm sure it wasn't as
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: funded as much as it, should have been, but it
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: was funded at least. It's an entirely different tone to
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: American life.
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: And, you know, the many fun town halls that we
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: used to have to do were so fun to sit
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: together and do those and just have people like just
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: come up and score.
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: And be so funny.
• 59:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: The funniest people coming and doing stuff on the show.
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: We had the best, best rotating cast of geniuses come
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: through there. In fact, a lot of people should know
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: that at the end of the year, the show made
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: like a yearbook.
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: And it was a list of every single person that's
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: been in the show. And by the way, RIP Jonathan Joss.
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: I know. Ken Hotate.
• 59:49
  Speaker 4: What a sweetheart.
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: Sweet man and- Funny. Very funny and so sad for
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: him and his family and his husband.
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: You know when you have that feeling sometimes like you
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: wish you could go back to high school and enjoy it?
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: That's how it felt. Like we actually got to do
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: it in real time.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: Because it was genuinely goofy and funny. Yeah. Like the
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: best jokes ever.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: What is one of the favorite funny scenes you got
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: to do? So many.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: So many. I mean, I always think of you guys
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: on the ice at the ice skating rink with Gloria Estefan. Yeah.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 3: I mean, that is, I remember at the table read,
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 3: that was, we couldn't stop laughing because it was so funny.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Mike Scully wrote that episode.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 3: Oh, Mike Scully is the best.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: And we got to walk across that ice. And I
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: remember just thinking, this is so fun.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: What a fun job. That wasn't even in that scene. Yeah,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: that's right.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: Sorry.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: We should probably just Photoshop.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 3: We should put me in that scene. That's why I
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: brought it up. I feel like it would, I deserve it.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: You know, my kids watched the show during the pandemic
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: like everyone else did. And I rewatched a lot of
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: stuff and it was so fun because I remembered the feeling.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: Of how everything was to shoot it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: But I didn't remember what was going to happen.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 3: It is weird to watch yourself doing something and have
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 3: no recollection of it happening in your life. It's so strange.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: What are you, I ask this to everybody, like, what
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: are you laughing at right now? I mean, first of all,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: you know, do you, you're very serious now.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 4: That's right.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: I don't. Thank you for acknowledging that. I don't laugh anymore.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, all you're doing is running and typing.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 3: Running. And if you'll, I don't know if you noticed,
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: but while I'm running, I'm not laughing.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: Not at all.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: I didn't see you crack a smile once.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: Because it's hard to laugh while you're running because it's
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: not funny.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: You're running for your life.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 3: I got to get there like as fast as possible.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: And again, I'd love to ask you where, where are
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: you going?
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: Where am I going?
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 3: I'm going down the hall. Got to run down the hall.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: What am I laughing at? Are you watching anything?
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: Are you, like.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: Anything, like, super funny? Yeah.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: What are you, like... What are you, Naomi, liking right now?
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: Or did you see something recently?
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 5: Or.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: You know what I've been watching recently is... I've been
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 3: re-watching Sex and the City.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: The Ridge?
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah. It's so... fucking good so good it is so.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: Good such a love letter to that time period yes
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: were you ever on it because every actor i know but.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: Like justin thoreau uh bobby cannavale will yep everybody.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: Yep um slattery slattery elizabeth banks yes it's a real
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: who's who.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah everybody in new york um but it is so
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: good and to something i like doing is watching it
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: and just kind of thinking about all of this happening
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 3: for the first time. Like women sitting at a table
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: together talking about whatever, talking about themselves and talking about
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 3: like how weird someone's cum smells. It's just like, holy shit,
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: this is incredible. Like that has never been on TV before,
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 3: let alone said out loud for people. And just how
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: Samantha is just, The most sex positive, like incredible, like
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 3: not a moment of embarrassment. Never. Like so fucking cool.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 3: So good. And Sarah Jessica Parker is so great at
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 3: being the center of a show, servicing everybody else, but
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 3: also keeping that motor going in the middle. It's so good.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: There's a couple of shows that make me, when I'm
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, really miss New York.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: Old Sex and the City and Law and Order.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, sure. Incredible.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: Were you on a Law and Order?
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 3: I was on Law and Order once. I'm so jealous.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 3: You weren't on Law and Order?
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: No, that was my dream.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 3: Really? Never.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, I didn't see, I wasn't auditioning in that way.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: I didn't think I was a good enough actor, but
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: I wanted to be on Law.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: And Order so bad.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: What was your character? Why do I not know that
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: you were on Law and Order? I should know this.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 3: Timothy Dinkins. I don't know what the name was. We
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: can look it up. I was working at the grocery
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 3: store arranging fruits or vegetables when they came up and
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 3: first started talking to me. And I remember my agent
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 3: at the time calling me right after it aired and
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  Speaker 3: being like, you don't know how to handle those vegetables.
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  Speaker 3: You weren't doing anything.
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  Speaker 1: Who were the peeps? Was it the Orbach years?
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  Speaker 3: It was, no, it was Dennis Farina.
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  Speaker 1: Dennis Farina.
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  Speaker 3: Who was so cool. And Jesse L.
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  Speaker 4: Martin.
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  Speaker 3: Fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: Did you meet Esa Patha?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: If you're listening, I need to get you on the show.
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  Speaker 3: She's great.
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  Speaker 1: She's incredible.
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  Speaker 3: Sam Waterston. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So you went to the court.
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  Speaker 3: I went to court.
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  Speaker 1: You got to the law part.
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  Speaker 3: Pablo Schreiber and I were in court together. And he
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  Speaker 3: ended up being guilty and I was the red herring,
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  Speaker 3: I think.
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  Speaker 1: What were you accused of doing?
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  Speaker 3: Probably killing someone. I don't totally remember. Well, we're going
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 3: to watch it right now. Are you finding my character's name?
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  Speaker 3: And if it's Timothy whatever I said, that would be amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Timothy Dinkins.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Timothy Dinkins.
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  Speaker 1: Was Adam Scott on Law and Order?
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: The trail leads to a pair of perpetrators.
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  Speaker 2: Another mercenary played by Pablo Schreiber and the brother of
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  Speaker 2: one of Schreiber's fellow mercenaries who was killed in a
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  Speaker 2: roadside ambush by presumably Al-Qaeda?
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  Speaker 3: God, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: The brother, you forgot the Al-Qaeda part?
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  Speaker 3: I did.
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  Speaker 1: The brother is Adam Scott and he is the only
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  Speaker 1: true innocent.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. In the whole show.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. I wanted to play the opposite.
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  Speaker 3: See, because- You wanted to be a murderer.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to be like the one that you would
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  Speaker 1: not suspect. And then it's like, I burned the whole
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  Speaker 1: place down.
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  Speaker 3: I fucking did it, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to be a pyro. Because I felt like of.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 3: All the things. You wanted to specifically be a pyromaniac?
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: I wish I wanted to be like a baby-faced pyro.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Someone who just is like, you know, she seems like
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  Speaker 2: she's helping the police. And then she's like, they deserved it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, whatever kind of weird psycho thing. Okay, so
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  Speaker 2: sex in the city is what you're watching and laughing at.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm, it's great. And you know, when you're, I
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 3: saw something recently that said that repeated, if you have
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 3: the urge to watch something you've seen before and repeat
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  Speaker 3: viewings is a sign of a particular kind of intelligence.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No, this is real.
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  Speaker 1: It's a sign of intelligence?
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 3: Intelligence. I saw this on Instagram. On Instagram.
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  Speaker 1: Where did you see this on?
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 3: On Instagram. Okay, yeah. And it was a picture of
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 3: someone watching TV and it just said that. There was
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 3: nothing to back it up. And I was like, oh, great.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 3: We'll watch more sex in the city.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: You saw it on Dr.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 3: Instagram? Frankie, my daughter and I just flew together from
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 3: New York like night before last and we got on
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: the plane and I got in my seat and she
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 3: was across the road from me and I got in
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 3: and like suddenly I think, started watching Sex and the
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 3: City that I had downloaded. And she was like, Dad,
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: are you watching more Sex and the City? Yeah.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: I love you, Adam.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 3: I love you, Amy. Thank you for doing this. Thank
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: you for having me. Are you kidding? This is so fun.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: We were really excited to do this one today.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's very nice. I love having you. I love
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 3: being here.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for coming.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: Come back when we do our big, we'll do a
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: big park show.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 3: Or we can do Philly Justice again.
• 1:07:50
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  Speaker 2: to help you make your home a happy place. Well,
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: that was an amazing episode with Adam. We got so deep.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: I love talking to him and he's just the best.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: And he mentioned Six Feet Under, a show that he
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: got close to booking.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: And that did remind me of the Parks finale.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: You know, for people that watch the end of Parks
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: and Recreation, Mike Schur and I were talking about the
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: idea that in comedies, you don't always get to see
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: the future. You don't always get to see what happens
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: to these characters that you've grown to love. And so
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: we were so blown away by the Six Feet Under finale.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: And I think we were heavily influenced by the idea
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: of that when we wrote the finale of Parks and Recreation.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: So watch Six Feet Under. And honestly, it's so good.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, and better because Adam didn't get cast in
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: it you know what I mean Michael Hall is incredible
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: so um you know Adam's loss is our win and
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: um and check that show out and um you know
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: as always thank you for caring so deeply about Parks
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• 1:09:31
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