Transcript: Adam Scott on Good Hang with Amy Poehler

Hello everyone. Welcome to another

episode of Good Hang. I am so excited to

talk to my TV husband, the father of my

triplets, Adam Scott aka Ben Wyatt,

Leslie Nope's dream come true. Adam

Scott, incredible actor, friend. He's

just I I just loved talking to him today

and we really get into it. We talk about

his love of you, too. We talk about how

he weirdly likes to drive barefoot. We

talk about parks and wreck, of course,

and we give you a lot of juicy stuff

there. and I try to figure out the crazy

ending of Severance. And um honestly, I

I don't know what's going on. So, I I

try to have him help me um understand

that incredible show. But before we

start, um we always like to talk to

people who know our guest and who want

to give us a question. And we're going

to keep this parks and wreck reunion

going today by talking to the one, the

only Nick Offererman.

Nick, are you there?

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Hi Nick.

Hello,

Nick. You know what I love? Every time I

see you, I never know what kind of hair

situation I'm going to get with you. And

you and our guest today, Adam Scott,

great heads of hair.

That's the main thing we have in common.

Um, super super cute uh

guy in in one instance and donkey with

uh great heads of hair.

Stop it. You are so handsome. I love to

see you since I've seen you last in

person. It's been a minute. And um the

the one of the best things about this

podcast is getting to like talk to

everybody again and spend time with

everybody. And today I'm spending time

with the great Adam Scott,

the greatest.

Well, you know, we're going to talk

about this when we're in person someday

together. But I think that, you know, I

know that the character of Ron Swanson

is

iconic and it is in no um small part to

the way that you transformed yourself

and the way you approach your work

because I met you in Chicago back in the

day and you were coming from to this

work in a much more for lack of a better

term like more prepared actor space and

and you you're such a fine actor and I

can't wait to talk to you about it. And

Adam very similarly like kind of came

into the biz from that space too.

He did. Uh thank you by the way. I did

not expect compliments today. But I

Well, your people uh emailed me and said

I needed to start with them. So

I thank you and please thank them for me

as well. Um yeah, I love that about

Adam. I love his uh they hilariously

asked me to write a little thing for

Time magazine for like the hundred cool

people at right now. And it it was so

funny cuz they asked me to like sum up

his his thing and they gave me like 650

words or some something so brief that

and then they even cut paragraphs where

I was like come on you guys. Like this

guy's career is hilariously varied and

astonishing and also risible. Like he

has literally done everything. Um

I'm just going to look up Rizible real

quick.

It's a it's you'll you'll love Rizible.

R I S I B L E.

You love words. You are you've taught me

a lot of words. Rizible. Such as to

provoke laughter. I should know that

word.

You know, I love about him that he he

has done like piranha 3D and like just

wonderful like be movie schlot kind of

stuff. Also crazy the what was that HBO

show where he had apparently it was in

his contract that he had to show his

balls every episode.

Tell me you love me. He had a prosthetic

penis. It was the first thing I saw of

him.

Oh my god. And and he carried it off.

He sure did. literally carried off.

I guess I I guess you could have to say

he pulled it off.

He really pulled it off. I've known him

for a long time. We uh did play

workshops together like 20 plus years

ago and he was just this cool funny guy.

Like if you get to step aside with Adam

anywhere, he's just immediately the cool

kid where he's he whatever he says to

you, you're like, "Oh, I just want to

hang out with you." whatever this event

is. I mean, getting to work with him

finally on on Parks and Wreck, I always

said, and to this day, I still feel like

he's my favorite leading man that I've

worked with. Um, because he's so

authentic. He um he he lets the dorky

parts of himself shine. Even in

severance, he, you know, Adam's pure

sort of youthful uh juvenile otter like

persona

comes out even though he's like our our

romantic leading man. And I agree, it's

so gorgeous to see him leading this

massive artistic achievement. Yeah, I I

I I'm going to talk to him today about

obviously when he joined our show and

how uh what that felt like to jump onto

a train that was already moving. But I

realize I never talked to you. Look, you

and I I think had such similar first day

goals for the show and it was to make

good work and have a good time. And I

feel like we, you know, you more than

anyone at times really were my partner

in that every day. And

um I'm so grateful for it. But was there

when you remember him and Rob joining

the show was what do you remember

feeling about that at the time?

There was an excitement for sure. Uh

Adam was just coming off Party Down

which Megan had worked on with him,

right? And I was I was a really big fan

of

your great wife Megan Mali. People

should know your Tammy wife in life and

on on the show.

Tammy 2 plus.

I remember being excited at the talent

and but also having a little bit uh

where we had maybe eight series regulars

at the time. We were like um do we need

two can we service two

new hunks? Uh,

do we have enough do we have enough hunk

room?

Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, I hear you. Um, okay. So,

I'm asking my Zoomers to uh give me a

question to ask my guest. So, I was

wondering if there's any question you

think I should ask Adam today. If I was

just hanging with Adam, this is what I

would ask him is he's he's he's one of

those guys who has a few dozen stories

that I've never heard, even though I've

heard dozens. Um, of just like

luminaries that he's, you know,

Scorsesei put him in a Leo movie. like

he's he's done so much and and casually

and quietly been uh in so many great

arenas.

I I would just say tell me tell me a

story about uh somebody who you would be

starruck with that I haven't heard um

that you've worked with.

That's a great question, Nick. I love

that question. And you're right there.

There's a quiet

experience that Adam doesn't brag about

certainly, but that like a lot he's been

on a lot of different sets with very

interesting to your point luminaries.

He's been he's been everywhere.

Well, friend, I hope I I can't wait to

get you in this seat. And it's a hot

seat, man. And and when we get when you

get here, I do want to talk more about

facial hair because I do think you've

had to switcheroo so much in your life

and your Ron's mustache is I'm going to

put it up there in the Mount Rushmore of

mustaches and I miss you very much and

love you and so appreciate you doing

this.

Well, I I miss you and love you as well

and uh give give my best to the gang and

we'll be in touch.

All right, buddy. See you soon.

Cheers.

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Well, people haven't seen this feel. You

can't you can't hear it, but you can.

Listeners, this is a heavy peach. You

could kill someone with that peach.

That's why I like it.

Why is it is it a paper weight?

I guess it probably is. Doesn't smell.

There's not. You know what it doesn't

smell like is a peach.

Nope.

[Laughter]

Um, listeners, Adam Scott's just come

into the studio and he's um checking out

all the fake food. I knew you would love

it.

Peach still looks like a butt no matter

what.

Yeah, Peach is a butt.

I mean, that's why you give send someone

a peach emoji. You're like,

you're like, "Hey." You're like, "I like

your butt."

These are the miniature.

I love it.

Uh, this is doesn't get enough play.

This you might like. This is a felt

sandwich. But guess what? You can take

it apart.

You can also take a bite if you want. I

love a You know what? We don't You know

what we don't talk about enough is how

great a good sandwich is.

What is your favorite sandwich?

Uh I like

if you were to build a sandwich.

Okay. First of all, it would need to be

felt all of it. Um I just if feels good

in your hands.

Yeah.

Two different cheese. I mean, this is

I don't know. This might be too much

information, but I have a little bit of

TMJ.

So, yeah. So, it's hard. It's hard for

me to open my mouth to eat a sandwich.

I get nervous that I'm going to get

locked.

Sure. Like this.

And your arms, too. Locked like this.

And so, a giant sandwich.

Yeah. It's But check this out.

Bread.

Yeah. Tomato.

Tomato.

Some onion.

Onion. What the heck? What are we in

California?

AO. I don't like AO on a sandwich.

I don't either. Let's talk about it

because I feel like AO makes it soggy.

It also slides out.

That's what you said.

It doesn't cooperate with the rest of

the sandwich.

Um, speaking of AO,

yeah,

Adam Scott is here and he's a California

kid.

You're a California kid.

Yeah,

you grew up in California.

You love giving me [ __ ] about being a

California person.

Well, you grew up in Santa Cruz. and

tell people how you used to drive.

If you're wearing This is a universal

thing.

It definitely is not.

If you're wearing flip flops,

okay, yeah, that's already 80% of the

world is already

and you have to drive a car. It is

unsafe to keep the flip-flops on. You

have to kick them off and drive

barefoot.

People in Santa Cruz drive barefoot.

Ridiculous.

And Adam one time casually was like,

"You know when you're like driving

barefoot?" I I said, "Is your house on

fire?"

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Did you forget your

shoes?

But Santa Cruz people drive barefoot.

If you keep your flip flops on, they can

easily get like caught under the the gas

or the the brake and then you're you

know

Yeah. I I I that has happened to me when

I'm driving a golf cart on vacation. I

don't wear flip flops in life.

You Oh, so you've never entered a car

with flip flops on?

I don't know if I ever have cuz like I

feel like

I'm going to call [ __ ] on that right

now.

Well, first of all, I don't like uh

flip- flops that have the thing. You

probably You know what? Santa Cruz

probably loves this. The thing between

the the big toe and the

How else does a flip-flop function? What

kind of flip-flops are you wearing?

I like a flip-flop that Well, I guess

it's not a flip-flop that has the thing

over the foot.

Yeah, that's a sandal.

Okay. I like a sandal. I don't like a

flip flop.

All right. All right.

Um

Agree to disagree.

Santa Cruz. It feels like you guys

walked around flip-flops all day and all

these people.

I remember I sent you a photo from

Hawaii once. That's why I thought of

Hawaii where I I sent you a photo of my

barefoot on a gas pedal and you were

just like, "Nuhuh."

Al Yeah. So gross. Also truly like um

bare feet in general like I'm a I don't

know.

Yeah. Listen,

how do you feel about bare feet?

Okay. I'm I don't like love bare bare

feet and I don't wear flip flop fl like

I feel like in my 20s I was fine with

like jeans and flip flops which now I

feel like should be illegal.

I mean we spent a lot both of us spent a

lot of time in New York City. Like flip

flops in New York City is disgusting.

Doesn't work. It's gross.

I mean I guess Santa Cruz is nice but

how can you run away from those

vampires?

Yeah in flip flops you can't do it. My

first introduction to Santa Cruz was the

movie Lost Boys where there were hot

vampires.

Yeah. Jason Patrick in 1987.

So, how were you? How old were you then?

I was when that movie came out.

When they filmed it, I was 13 and my

next door neighbor Joe Ferrara. He owned

the comic book store that they use in

the movie. So, I got to go on the set of

Lost Boys as a 13-year-old

and I met Joel Schumacher

and I stood outside Cory Hay and Cory

Feldman's trailers and watched them walk

to their trailers and it was super

exciting.

That's pretty much but um it was my

comic book store. It was the comic book

store I go to all the time. So, I saw

like how they made it look different for

the movie and it was just it was cool.

What were comics were you into when you

were a kid? I was into I was into like

the Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy's Cat.

Do you know what these?

Nope.

So, do you think I just made those up?

Fat Freddy's Cat.

Fat Freddy's Cat and the and the

fabulous furry Freak Brothers. They were

like stoner. They were comic books about

stoners.

Oh, interesting. So, it wasn't more it

wasn't like the Marvel universe. Was it

I did that for I dabbled in that but I

was kind of more into the weird like

Zippy the pin head and do you know who

that is?

I I think I remember that a little bit

like when I was older there was it was a

like alternative comic

and I don't know why I was into it. Uh

but I I loved the Freak Brothers and I

wasn't smoking pot when I was like a

little kid or anything. I just love

these comic books. I know

you weren't you heard it here first

guys. Adam was not

I mean Santa Cruz I guess it's a kind of

a tossup.

They just blow it into your car. I'm

sure

with the they blow it into your car and

make you take your shoes off.

Yeah. You just flip flops are made out

of weed. I'm sure

you have to smoke your flipflops.

Um I have now interviewed Rudd and Ham.

Ham I haven't gotten into the studio

yet, but I did he did he he um he did

thing.

Yeah, he zoomed in from a hot air

balloon. Yeah, that's right. Um, but we

talked a little bit about you guys all

meeting and being like,

you know, young bucks at the same time,

which is really wild.

Yeah.

Where and they've talked about you.

Where did you see yourself in that trio?

What how would you describe because

you're What would you How would you

describe yourself if you like which

angel are you?

That's so funny. It's true. I always

kind of feel like sort of the little

brother in that trio a little bit

cuz I'm quite a bit younger than both of

them. Obviously that's like

pretty good. Um,

no, I feel like

Rudd I knew Paul I knew first um because

we met I met him at my graduation from

acting school. He was he was a speaker

at the graduation and I

He was talking about acting. No, he was

giving out an award and I was wearing

like this uh polyester red suit

just cuz I uh you know, you're just kind

of looking for attention wherever you

can get it. I guess if you're graduating

from theater school.

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

That's so true. You're just like, I'm

going to wear I'm going to dress like a

cowgirl or something and you're like,

I'm really I'm really out there.

Everyone's going to just cheer for me

just because I'm wearing this thing. Um

uh but yeah, we we I remember we hung

out afterwards and he was like, "Nice

suit." Um

so it worked.

It totally worked. Um

but yeah, so so so that was like 1993.

So I've known Paul and then we did a

play together which I think he brought

up on your show um in the fall of 1993.

Now, I remember I got my first acting

job while I was rehearsing that play and

my beeper kept going off while we were

rehearsing and the other guy in the

scene kept turning it off. Um,

passive aggressive

and it was Yeah. Yeah. turning it like

turning off that acting job for me.

He was like, "No." Exactly.

He's like, "We need you to be here."

Trying to stand in front of that acting

job.

Exactly.

Uh that guest spot on Dead at 21. He

didn't want anyone. He He wanted to get

that. And that guy was Leonardo

DiCaprio.

That's right. That's right. And was

never heard from again.

Nope. Never worked again.

Um, so yeah. So I knew Paul then and

then I met Ham like a few years later.

But I mean that is that's a very that's

a very like outsiders young gun kind of

vibe that you guys were all acting like

trying to audition. Yeah. I mean, and in

in the world in in in in the world,

you're very different, but I imagine

like there was I don't know, you could

have done a lot of similar parts and

probably audition for similar things.

Yeah. And I remember once uh John and I

were each doing a different CSI. He was

doing regular CSI. I was doing CSI Miami

and we were shooting like near each

other in Culver City or something and

like met up to go get a a beer

afterwards and I remember just kind of

sitting there and just being like, "How

much longer do you think we're going to

need to be like doing CSI, Mike?"

Because it was years and years for both

of us.

I know. I think it's super satisfying to

talk to you about this stage of your

career cuz like a lot of people I know

frankly you had so much experience

before a lot of America knew you like

and I was talking to like Nick about

this earlier. Oh, I talked to Nick

Offerman about it.

I did.

It was a surprise. But um he wanted to

know um when like when in that in that

part of your career before we all met

And I think he was specifically talking

about when you worked with Martin

Scorsesi, but like what what was when

were you really starruck during that

time?

I was always starruck and never felt

comfortable partially because

and maybe it's similar for you like not

growing up in Los Angeles or in show

business at all like having zero contact

with it. It being on a TV show or being

in a movie felt like going to the moon.

Mhm.

So once you're there, it's just so crazy

that there's a camera and there are

lights and a famous person sitting next

to you that I sort of it took me a

really long time and I think probably

hindered me. It's probably one of the

reasons that I

that it took me a while as I just never

was able to relax because I was so

freaked out by all of it. Um

really

I think so.

Just were you really anxious? really

anxious but really nervous.

Nervous.

And

how did it manifest? Did it manifest or

Yeah, it manifested in me not being and

and I think part of it is and it's

something that I saw you doing pretty

immediately when we started working

together is you were like

you were good with all of it and

comfortable with all of it and you were

able to share yourself with the camera

which is something that took me a long

time to even realize was something you

needed to do beyond figuring out what

the scene was or the characters or

anything like that. You just have to be

able to to open up and share yourself

with it. Does that make sense?

It doesn't. It's so interesting because

it's kind of like what we talked about

like the way in to like when you and any

job the way the way you enter can be

kind of the thing that you identify with

forever like I'm this kind of person.

I'm this kind of performer. And I always

found like when I was in Chicago and

it's funny like Nick is a good example.

Nick was in like the like serious

theater scene and there were the

improvisers and you know people that

came the comedy road. There were the

serious actors who studied acting,

right?

And I used to find that they were so

trained and so good and I felt a little

inferior in terms of skill

but I also thought they took things very

seriously.

Yeah. And because of it, they were

missing that like play

totally like it was all their work was

done when they got to set.

I said this about you and Katherine Han,

two very skilled actors who who who

studied.

You first of all, you knew your lines,

which is important.

Okay, that's your lines.

I did. But I mean I just mean but I mean

you would you would both prepare in a

way that was an you know part of the

process of you working and the

preparation was really impressive. Um

and what I really um loved about working

with you and still do is you are one of

those rare people that you may maybe it

was learned maybe it didn't come right

away but you do have a big sense of

play. You do not come in with some

preconceived notion of how things should

go.

And you can straddle that like really

good, deep acting and really dumb fun

[ __ ]

right?

But that's because Yeah. Yeah. Sorry.

Go.

No. Why? Why do you think that's because

Well, I think that's because I was doing

it with you.

But you were doing it before then, too.

Not really. I mean,

really? Party down,

right? And

but Party Downs,

but Party Down was more scripted. I

mean, we didn't have the like fun runs

and stuff like we did on Parks.

Um, I think Martin Star would improvise

more than anybody. Um, and Step

Brothers, I was just like trying to keep

my head above water. I'd never really

improvised before. So I was like it was

one of the reasons I looking back I was

I I once started really doing parks and

it's like this is the way to do it. This

is like so fun

and um and it's no less satisfying than

some serious thing. It's it's all in

there. The characters are bone deep.

It's so funny. Everyone cares about each

other and it's super fun. Um, so it it

made me kind of think like all those

years I was wasting trying to like get

three lines on NYPD Blue, I could have

been trying to do something at Improv

Olympic or it just it's just you look

back and

it's so funny. I I can remember all the

those years that we all did those movies

big and small parts in them where improv

was so important to make those movies

come alive. But I remember there was

like a tipping point for me one time in

a movie that I did where like there was

just like 10 people like shouting jokes

at me, right,

about like do this and do that. And I

remember going like oh I don't even know

what my character's name is. I don't I

don't even know what my character is.

Like it's so I kind of

It's so interesting you say that because

like it's around that time from like

2005 through like 2013

that was the overwhelming culture on

comedy sets was just a bunch of people

screaming

jokes at you and you just being like

yeah who which one of us says and

they're like either one and you're like

who cares cool yeah I've done a good job

with my character if either one of us

can say this joke. No, I know. And I

feel I it's it's and you like your

career is so interesting. You have done

so many different things. I think it's

what is I I know for me like so exciting

about this moment for you is that um

it's just it there just really nothing

you can't do. Adam,

stop that.

It's so true, dude. So ridiculous. Um,

have But but I think people like to know

these things. Was there ever a part you

auditioned for that you got close on

that you didn't get?

Yeah. Uh, Six Feet Under.

Yeah, that that was the one that I

didn't get. And it's good that

it was for Michael Se Hall's role.

Michael Se Hall's role. And it's good

that I didn't get it because

it wouldn't be nearly as good if I had

done it cuz

um he was perfect and incredible. He's

incredible. And I wasn't ready.

But you mean like it was between you and

two other guys?

He and I tested for it and I believe

that hurts.

I It It was It was the one where I was

like, I might stop doing this. I think

that it's time for me to like read the

tea leaves and walk away. I think people

understand that enough when you we all

have when you lose a part and it's so

close and then the show is this hit and

you watch it.

It really is like

painful

someone [ __ ] your girlfriend in front

of

Yeah.

100%.

You're just like, "Oh my god, this show

is so good and he's so good in

that show." And that show was everything

like it just kind of like eclipsed all

other shows. It was the show I went and

did a couple episodes as Michael's

boyfriend. Oh, that's really

like in season two and

and Michael was like, "You want to see

the trailer you could have?"

Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Everything he

showed me his uh his bank account. Um

no, he he was lovely, of course, and and

it was fun and stuff, but yeah, that was

a blow. That was hard. Um but you know,

that's it's also important that you have

those

those experiences.

Are you good in auditions, do you think?

No. No. No. No. Terrible.

Me too.

I hated it so much. I was so nervous.

You were nervous.

Yeah.

What about you?

Well, I was nervous, too. But the way I

masked my nervousness was, which is not

a great quality, is I would get kind of

like um I would seem kind of ambivalent.

Uhhuh.

Like I would get kind of, you know, when

you get nervous, you get sleepy.

Yh. Y

so I would be very nervous and just like

stomach in knots and and and really

psyching myself out of like just go in

there just just you know just do what

you can do.

Yeah.

But that would tip over into

I don't care.

I don't care.

Yeah.

And what was your audition like for

Park? Did you audition for parks and

No. No. I was lucky.

You just got they gave it to you.

Yeah. Cuz Mike,

I remember the day that my phone had you

and Mike's names on the voicemail thing

and I was like, whoa, is this is it

finally like happening to me cuz I and I

showed someone like look Mike Sher, Amy

Polar and then there was someone else

who was calling me. It was like suddenly

for whatever reason people were there

were incoming calls asking me to do

stuff and then that had never happened

before. Um I don't remember why that

started happening on one particular day

but you left me a voicemail and that was

a huge deal. I'm sure I still have it.

Really?

Yeah. I'm sure I do.

We should put like a techno beat to it.

Totally

put it out.

No, that's when I first heard it I was

like this would make a great song.

This would be a hit. This is catchy.

How does this voicemail catchy to me?

So, wait, just Yes. C can can I just

want to interject so I don't forget

that's what I do. I I always forget [ __ ]

that I was going to say. Every single

day someone tells me Parks got them

through the pandemic. And I heard you

mention it on a previous episode.

Every single day people say, "I watched

it during co I watch it with my kid. My

kid's going through a hard time. I like

to watch it at night because I get I

have a lot of anxiety. Like

I I cannot believe the way that that

show continues to be a a medicine for

people. It's

it's so nice.

And Ben and Lesie.

I know. I know. We just We Do you

remember we were texting just a couple

months ago and just kind of commented on

how nice they are?

They're so nice. They're so much nicer

than us.

So much nicer. And they're so nice to

each other.

I know.

And every every woman deserves a Ben.

Every woman deserves a partner like Ben

who roots for you and like looks at you

and is just like, "That's my gal." Like,

everyone deserves that kind of

relationship.

Lesie from the word go

loved Ben.

Oh beyond.

Like I Now looking back, it's like they

were just in love with each other.

immediately

and their arc was such so juicy. The

writers, Mike and the writers, because

they meet and they're just like,

"Well, what's your deal?"

Oh, yeah. It was like,

and then and then they like each other,

but then they can't

they can't be together.

They can't be together, but she's like,

"Really?" I mean, they probably could

have

I know. It didn't matter, but

And then they

And Mike was like, "This is totally fake

and whatever, but we just need to have

Rob care about you two being together."

And it worked. And it was like made it

even hotter.

And then Ben was like, "I want you."

Like Ben kept putting Leslie's, you know

what it is.

They kept putting each other's needs

over their own. They cared about what

the other one needed and they respected

each other. Like they really liked what

the other one did.

And it was the best thing about that

relationship is how um you know, with

the exception of Ann who is

of course

Leslie's number one. Um

of course uh

I've accepted that.

Yeah. uh is the way that they um they

just rooted for each other.

Yes,

they really rooted for each other.

I I haven't seen a ton of It makes me

sad to watch the show cuz I miss it.

Why did you say that? Why does it make

you sad?

Because I I miss it. I like you were

saying like we really appreciated being

there every day and it was so fun. And

also just sort of walking in that

building and then suddenly you're there

and the hallways and the

Yeah,

it was so fun and the people I just

loved everybody. But I guess maybe it

just That's a good question. Why does it

actually make me sad?

I think I know is cuz you're stuck in

that [ __ ] weirdo.

You're running.

I told Adam I was like too much running.

Too much running. Yeah, I know. I was so

tired.

I mean just exhaust and there's you

don't even know where you're going. I

mean, every hallway looks the same.

I know. Get lost. Get lost every day.

It's just that's why

it's exhausting and confusing.

Yes,

I know. Pawny hallways.

People are dying in your new workplace.

Like, they're getting killed.

Pawnie, everyone's nice. There's a

graphic painting of a massacre on the

wall, but it's covered up. That's true.

That's okay.

It was a terrible massacre. Um, but

something I saw recently is our very

first scene in that bar when

I love that scene.

Me too.

So well written, that scene.

Yes. And

we're having a beer and I say Ben says,

"Yeah, but you want to you're going to

run for and and like immediately just

knows that Leslie has the these

ambitions." Yes.

That it seemed that you'd never even

said out loud before, but is 100% what

you planned on doing. It was just such a

great little

Yes. What they saw they saw in each

other the dream for the other like they

just they kept like they assumed the

best and they saw

the potential in each other basically. I

know it was so fun to play that. And I

was saying too that I I for this

interview I rewatched your first scene

which it's so good because Nick and I

are on the we you know Ron and I never

sat on this. We never even sat down next

to each other.

Usually you were at Loggerhead.

Yeah. We were across from each other

and so it's like you've got the kind of

like

Pawnie side and then you and Rob come in

with suits,

right?

And it's like who are these whippers

snipers?

first,

who is this new person?

Who are these guys? Yeah.

What was it like to join a show that was

in motion that you had watched already

on TV?

It was so weird. Um, but immediately

fun. Like even the first table read, I

remember I was like I got I walked in

the room like 1 minute after I was

supposed to be there. So I was already

like thrown like I'm [ __ ] late to my

first Jesus Christ. And but it was

immediately so warm and welcoming and

super fun. People Everybody's laughing

at the incredible jokes in the script.

But then when we started shooting, um, I

mean, you you know, you it was a it was

a a welcoming place. It immediately kind

of fostered encouraged your best, but

also

um to take swings and shots without any

sort of fear of doing the wrong thing.

That was just never really there. And

then that short season was kind of short

when we started because I was

Prager's

and it's not always easy like getting

chemistry going with a gal who's like

hiding her stomach behind a plant.

Easy,

but it was I remember just being like,

"Oh, bless your heart, Adam." The other

thing I just like that I feel like I am

proud of during that is the way in which

and I I said it before but I feel like

the way in which in real time I it it's

a job that I felt the most present in

SNL felt like a you know a speeding

train an emergency room and I learned

really fast and hard lessons really fast

and for

everyone on parks I felt like we were

all kind kind of in this tender bubble

because we often thought we were going

to get

cancelled

where

we just kind of knew what we had. I

don't know.

I think that you guys did a really good

job because all the stuff about us

almost getting cancelled. I think we all

kind of sensed something, but I don't

think any of us except you and I think

you and Mike protected us from a lot of

that, which is great producing and

really taking care of all of us.

Um,

I don't think we were ever quite I've

kind of heard all of it since. Um, but

it was pretty tenuous there at the end

of the seasons.

Yeah. Yeah.

Which is scary.

You're a great producer. What do you

like about producing? Speaking of

producing.

That's nice of you to say. Um, I learned

a lot watching you work and working with

you, both as a producer, but also as the

lead actor. like you really kind of set

the template for me

truly um how everyone should and

deserves to be treated

cast and crew and all of that. I always

kind of directing specifically is like

cuz you're looking at a monitor all day.

It's like getting to watch television

which is like one of my favorite things

to do except you get to go in and try to

make it better. And producing is

somewhat similar in that you're spending

all of your time just trying to nitpick

and find all of the things that don't

work and find solutions for all of them

or or making sure everybody's happy and

feeling good about what they're doing.

That's another important component that

I really learned from you and Mike, too.

It's so important that everybody is

feeling like they're a part of it, like

a useful cog in the machine, and that

there it's a satisfying job for them.

Now, do you guys have um for severance,

uh which by the way, congratulations.

Thanks.

And get that Emmy speech ready, baby.

Get that Emmy speech ready, honey,

please.

Um but um

get it ready. But um

uh when you um when you shoot that show,

is it I just feel like it's a really I

mean it's so beautifully shot, you have

such great uh set design. You have tons

of like it just seems like it's a long

How many days take is one episode take?

Well, it depends.

It's long, right?

It's long. The season 2 I think it was

186 days.

Wow. for the season, which is a a long

time, you know. I mean, I think like one

episode took like six weeks and then I

think it's kind of average out because

we shoot them like three at a time all

mixed up together crossboard is the you

do that. Okay.

Season one we shot the entire thing at

once. So like in month nine we were

still shooting scenes from the first

episode. But the thing that that did,

the accidental thing that that did is,

you know, the first few episodes of any

show are a little shaky and everyone's

finding their tone a little bit or

characters or whatever. It spread that

out over the entire season. So it kind

of felt more or less

fully real, you know, in a way fully

realized from the start, but the shaky

scenes are kind of distributed over the

over the um

you do so much switcheroo in that show.

I mean like you have to act against

yourself. You have to figure out

versions of yourself truly that change

mid scene, let alone mid-sentence. Do

you have a script supervisor or a graph

or someone that keeps that? How do you

keep track of that?

Yeah. Um, that's a good question. I in

season one, I remember I had heard that

Michael Keaton had this big like these

big poster boards for multiplicity where

he kept track of all of his characters

and I got large like construction paper.

I remember I was staying in Aziz's

apartment in season one. And so I was

like I remember putting it out on the

floor and getting like a marker and

drawing a line and like trying to like

mark down like the scenes and the

episodes and eventually was like I I

don't know what I'm and I just stopped

doing that. I just gave up. But um I

think it's uh you just sort of map it

out and then just like a math problem.

is try to kind of lock in what's going

on.

Particularly if you're shooting it all

at once, you have to sort of make some

decisions and and um we would go back

and forth between characters sometimes

in

in one like in the morning we would do

iny stuff and in the afternoon do udy

stuff.

Ah interesting.

Yeah. And so

Oh, that's interesting. Yeah.

So you like iny before lunch outy after

lunch.

That's right.

Which is good cuz you're slowed down

after lunch.

You want to let it outy.

Yeah. Yeah. You got to get it out.

You got to get it out.

Yeah. Yeah,

you let it iny, then you got to get it

out.

I mean, it's such a such an indication

of how well that show um uh trapped us

because in the in this last season, just

so incredible. The finale was so

incredible.

Thanks. What?

Your wife,

right?

She went

pretty hard to get back to you.

Yeah, I know,

dude.

I know. Were you pissed?

Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah.

And Britt is incredible. I got to do a

movie with Brit.

Yeah, that's right. You guys did

Yeah, we did this movie Sisters and she

was so fun in it and so funny. She's

great in the show. But

well, what other choice was any Mark?

I don't know the choice whether you're

going with your wife.

So walk out the door and like end your

life and

Yes, you go to the door.

That's the choice you would.

What do you mean end your life? He walks

out that door. He doesn't know if he's

ever coming back. He He walks out that

door, he becomes his Audi. He doesn't

know if that Audi is ever going to walk

back in that building.

But that building is not great.

No, but it's better than not existing.

But it Yeah. I don't know. That's a good

question.

That was such a good ending. It was like

standing up shouting at the TV ending.

It was so good. And you played it so

well and it was so exciting to watch

that ending. It was so satisfying.

You were nice. texted me like right

after and you you text pretty promptly

after things and it always means the

most when you text me. It really does.

I mean it means the most that I get to

have friends that I mean can for people

listening can you imagine your favorite

t it's the best feeling in the world

your favorite TV show and then you get

to text the person on it immediately and

be like what the [ __ ]

right

and you know and it's not like you get

any spoilers but you just get to like be

like you get to process

Yeah. Like I think growing up if I ever,

you know, if I had ever been able to, I

don't know, text Molly Ringwald, right,

and be like,

"Dude,

you, why didn't you pick Ducky?"

Ducky man.

Ducky was the dude.

Um, or like I remember I wrote viewer

mail to David Letterman

and just never, you know, it just kind

of went off and and disintegrated in the

mail.

And you were like, Dave?

Yeah, Dave. Hey,

I remember I came up with this whole

thing that I thought they would use to

create a bid around that I thought would

be

so lame. Yeah, people should know this

about you. You have great hair and you

do not have a system. That is your hair.

Do you mean like a toupe?

I I don't know. Just you don't have a

system, whatever that is. And there's

nothing wrong with having it.

No, look, there is nothing wrong with a

system.

Nothing wrong with a hair system,

men and women. I'm just saying that Adam

has great hair and

you do you think it's because you're

Scottish? Aren't you Scottish? And

I'm Scottish. I'm Sicilian. Oh,

okay. That maybe it's that.

I don't know. But also, I started taking

Propezia when I was like 30 years old.

Really?

Yeah. It started it started coming out

um pretty like when I was like 30ish.

Um, yeah. I mean, everyone on Park's

room, all the guys had great hair.

Yes. And all the men and Katherine Han

had great hair.

Han has great hair.

And then I don't think Rashida would

mind or Aubrey would mind that we all

felt like we had

our hair was

it was just it's just thin.

Oh.

But um it was all the men would just

have these like giant heads of hair.

That's right.

like and it just and just I mean Nick

would grow a beard in a day. Like he

would

Yeah. Yeah. That mustache is like what

is it 45 minutes he can grow that?

Yeah, he can grow it in 45 minutes if he

just goes

Yeah. He has to push really hard.

Um but one more severance question which

is um uh what is happening on it? What

is it? And

what what happened?

Right. What's going on?

And what's going on? what happened and

what is it?

But you do host a podcast. How has that

been?

Ben and I host it.

Yeah. How has it been doing that? Like

what's it like to talk about the show

that you're

It's actually been um we did we

originally it was actually Naomi's idea.

She was like you guys like because it

had been 3 years since season 1. We were

just like we were just worried about

everyone that watched the first season

coming back. So, we're just trying to

think of ways to and Naomi thought, "You

got you know, you guys should do this."

And um it actually was it's so fun to

just go back and really be able to to

watch the episodes as finished things

and talk over it with the actors or, you

know, crew members or or whomever. um

and kind of talk about it as audience

members and kind of dipping into uh what

we remember, what we intended and you

know all that stuff.

Cool. And do you remember the YouTube

podcast you used to do with Aur?

Yes.

What if I didn't remember it?

Do you remember? That's such a bad

question. Do you remember?

Because it's something that you could

forget. People also don't know that you

did a podcast about you too and it was

called

you talk and you two to me.

Why? Why did you do a podcast about you

two?

We did it because we found out that we

were both you fans and there was

something funny about doing a doing it

because YouTube is so huge. There was

something funny about doing it's almost

like doing a podcast about like Sizzler

or something. I love YouTube, but

they're big and so and I don't know.

It's hard to pinpoint exactly why it's

funny to do the thing and that wasn't

the right analogy, but um we both found

out that that that Kulop Scott's wife

and Nam were sick of hearing about you

two and didn't want to talk about it

anymore. And so we I think maybe Seth

Meyer said something on this show about

being a middle-aged man. If you want to

have middle-aged male friendships, you

need to do a podcast together.

Oh my god. Yes. Yeah. I mean, it is it

it's one of the things I love about you

is you have a very back of the classroom

style of comedy. Like you are a side

like you're the like out of your mouth

talker. You're a [ __ ] talker. Um, not in

a bad way, but you like, you know, you

are you are

you can be like the a love tap from Adam

is like a quick, you know, to me that's

what intimacy is is when you can like

[ __ ] talk your friends. Um, and you like

to mumble out of the side of your mouth

in the back of the class.

Sure. But what comes what what's great

about that is along with that comes like

you like deep dives into

dumb stuff.

Dumb stuff.

Like getting dumb stuff and and like

elevating it by the way you talk about

it. Have you always been like that?

Maybe

cuz you were a big TV and movie fan

girl. Like you just were a kind of a

nerd in that way when you talked about

comic books. I mean

yeah I know there's nothing nerdier than

a [ __ ] comic book. But like

particularly Fat Freddy's cat. Um

uh yeah, I think that and I think doing

it on a podcast is extra good because

you can edit it and make it shorter

now that you're my we're the same age.

Are you like a year younger than me?

I think we're the same.

Do you have like hobbies now that you're

getting into like you know how we are

like that happens to us like where we're

like I want to

start

sculpt gardening stuff like do you do

that? No, I've never I I have like

in the garage is like a bicycle and a um

what did I have? I had a telescope that

I

got like a really nice telescope and

never once used it.

Um a bicycle that I rode once. Um I

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

I I like working and and I like Do Do

you have a thing? No, it's funny you say

that about a telescope. That is such a

like, you know what? I'm going to get a

nice telescope.

Get a [ __ ] telescope.

I deserve it.

Yeah, I know. Look at the stars.

I mean, who are we?

Yeah.

On this tiny marble.

There's a moon. It's up there every

night. I've never taken a good look at

it.

And then I just never looked at it.

Just cut to a dusty place to hang your

clothes.

I don't care about the moon that that

much. Um,

I guess what I'm asking underneath that

question is like you've been working

really hard for a long time. What's your

relationship to work and to hard work

and do you

That's a good question. I feel like it's

um it's all mixed up and somewhat

dysfunctional. You know what I was

thinking about actually and it's sort of

on the same line of thinking is is that

you mentioned SNL earlier and

something that I realized recently was

when I really kind of met you and got to

know you SNL was only like what 2 years

ago a year and a half before Parks.

Yeah. Like it was a fresh thing and what

an intense experience and what a giant

change work-wise from that environment

and that the pressure of that to the

pressure of of parks which was an

enormous amount of pressure but entirely

different.

It must have been that must have been

something that you that took a while to

kind of settle and grapple with.

Yeah. I mean the what I was lucky about

almost was how much I had to do. I felt

like if I had been playing if if Leslie

Nope was a character that worked three

days a week

uh I feel like I would have been

struggling because to your point I just

had to I like made a lot of I feel like

swings and misses in the beginning like

the show did kind of did too, right?

like the I think we were all trying to

figure out what the show was and I think

it just took me a while to settle down.

You know, I used to make a joke when I

would be in people's movies, I'd be

like, you know, when you get into

someone else's car and the music's too

loud,

that may be how I am. Like, feel free to

turn me down. And I think it took a

while and honestly, Adam, so much of it

was our work together where I felt like

grounded

on the ground as a performer enough to

just settle because so much of the

beginning was

sketch energy, which is different,

right? Which is all about right now. We

got to like make it great. I mean, I

don't know. I'm just guessing that it's

all about like an immediate thing that

you have to put everything into.

Yeah. Yeah. And Yeah.

Yeah. And I think one of the things that

was so fun about what we got to do is

the camera

helped us

at least it helped me have my feelings

about, you know, there I I tell people

like, "Of course you of course we love

Ben. We got to like Ben. We watch Ben

watch Leslie and we love Leslie." So

like when people love Leslie, we love

them. And we got to watch Ben love her

because the camera w like we got to do

so much indirect stuff like we didn't

have to face to face all the time. We

had feelings our characters had feelings

for each other because of the camera.

And

that's right

the even though I mean and it's such a

beautiful

uh genre that mockumentary because it

allows you to just even create space and

depth in the shot. People are just not

in the same room.

That's right. And like I remember we

always used to say we loved it when

there were spy shots through like blinds

because it made our acting better. You

remember that?

Yes. Do

you also remember this thing we used to

do where sometimes we would be doing a

scene and we'd be like, "Okay, I can't

I'm not someone who can predict the

future 100%." But I will say it was like

a couple times a season. I will say I

can say with 100% certainty that neither

of us will ever win an award for acting

for this scene.

Totally.

You would say it sometimes and sometimes

you know what let's just I mean and also

on the other side I would sometimes say

you know and I said this on the podcast

like I would say like Adam your acting

is so good. You'd be like shut up. We're

in the middle of the scene. like because

it was like oh my god. Um I mean it but

Oh yeah. I mean that's what I love about

working with you and I just feel like

before we end like I just want to feed

our fans a little bit more which is what

um

what do you think was the most romantic

scene between Ben and Lesie?

Oh man,

it's so sweet.

I know. But what was the most

the most romantic? I think I think well

there are a couple of nominees.

Okay.

But I think I think maybe smallest park

cuz I

I just heard a little groan.

I hope it's a good groan.

Someone just being like

I love smallest park.

Me too.

Nicole Holiff Center. The great Nicole

Holl Center directed that.

Chelsea wrote that. Chelsea Peretti

wrote that episode

and I remember really

like feeling connected shooting that and

just being like this is kind of feeling

like how special it was.

Yes.

Making the show and that was

Yeah, that was but I don't know what

what do you think?

Well, I have a lot I I mean I feel like

that was such a big one. I feel like

some of the I have such a affinity for

the beginning beginnings parts of Ben

and Leslie because I do think it also

just reminded me of like we were

you know the show was deciding that they

were going to love each other too.

Yeah.

And um

I really love this tiny moment when they

realize they have they like the same

spot when they like to sit under the

sunflower mural. Well,

I love that moment

when I ask you if you know where that

mural is and your response is really

it's a rewindable moment.

I love that moment between both of us

because and of course Parks then pays it

off years later.

Years later

by sitting underneath it.

Yep.

Um I also, you know, when we shot Ben

and Leslie's wedding, it was so fun. It

was like we were all just sitting there

all day goofing around.

Um, and it was so fun. And like

I think we had real champagne, too.

Maybe.

We probably did.

Yeah,

we probably did. And then that probably

became a problem later in the day.

Yeah, probably champagne. Not something

to have when you're when you have like a

10-hour workday ahead of you. Speaking

of champagne, maybe our fans would like

to know that on our last day of shooting

or one of our last days, like speaking

of like romantic goodbyes, we all

climbed up on the top of the hair and

makeup trailer

and like did a big toast up there cuz we

shot on uh at a a studio called CBS

Radford

and it was very like we wrote our names

on the wall. We were sharing a studio.

We had Who had been there before?

Malcolm in the middle.

Yeah.

And maybe Sein No,

Seinfeld was on the lot, but not that

particular stage. Naomi and I have our

office at Radford.

You do?

Yeah.

I walk over there all the time.

That would have been my first time shoot

really shooting anything on a stu. I had

never had like a studio experience

before and I was so lucky to do it

there.

But yeah, we like got up on the trailer.

I mean, there was just so many proper

goodbyes for that show. We really And

Mike and the writers really landed that

plane.

Yeah.

And that's that's rare. Like that is so

rare. Are you asked all the time if

there there'll be a more arcs or a

reboot or something?

I always feel like it's it's been it's

done. Like it was perfectly done. Like

how do you do that?

Perfectly. Maybe they should do like

Muppet Babies. They should do like parks

and wreck babies. Like everyone has

babies.

Like that Instagram thing where

everyone's

Oh, yeah. Yeah. AI babies. They should

do AI babies,

but like a whole series.

Yeah.

Of all of us just in a crib together.

Yeah. But they should do it like present

day where like the politics are really

dark

and mean. And so it should be like tiny

babies fighting each other.

They hate each other. It's like

apocalyptic political babies.

And they all like are like, "Oh no,

I hate you so much.

I hate you so much. Yay." I mean,

yay. I hate you. Because we made the

show in an era where public service was

encouraged and valued,

right?

And funded.

Yes.

It was or I mean, you know, I'm sure it

wasn't as funded as much as it should

have been, but it was funded at least.

Um, it's an entirely different I know

tone to American life. I know it's and

and you know the the

many fun town halls that we used to have

to do

were so fun to sit together and do those

and just have people like just come up

and score and be so funny.

The funniest people coming and doing

stuff on the show.

We had the best best rotating cast of

geniuses come through there. In fact, a

lot of people should know that at the

end of the year, we made a um the show

made like a yearbook.

Yeah.

Um and it was a list of every single

person that's been in the show. And by

the way, RIP. Um I know

Jonathan Joss,

Ken Hote,

what a sweetheart.

Sweet man. And

funny.

Very funny. And so sad for him and his

family and his husband. Yeah.

Um you know when you have that feeling

sometimes like you wish you could go

back to high school and enjoy it,

right?

That's how it felt like we actually got

to do it in real time.

Yeah. because it was genuinely goofy and

funny.

Yeah.

Like the best jokes.

Uh

what is your what is your one of your

favorite Jo what is one of the favorite

funny scenes you got to do? So many

so many. I mean I always think of you

guys on the on on the ice at the ice

skating rink with Gloria Stefon.

Yeah.

I mean that is I remember at the table

read that was we couldn't stop laughing

because it was so funny.

Yeah. Mike Scully wrote that episode and

Mike Skully Sebast,

we got to uh walk across that ice and I

remember just thinking this is so fun.

Oh my god, what a fun job.

I wasn't even in that scene.

Yeah, that's right. That's right. Sorry.

We should probably just Photoshop.

We should put me in that scene. That's

why I brought it up. I feel like it

would I I deserve it. You know, my kids

watched the the show during the pandemic

like everyone else did

and um I rewatched a lot of stuff and it

was so fun because I remembered the

feeling of how everything was to shoot

it,

but I didn't remember what was going to

happen.

It is weird to watch yourself doing

something and have no recollection of it

happening in in your life. It's so

strange.

I um What are you I ask this to

everybody like what are you laughing at

right now? I mean, first of all, you you

know, do you you're very serious now.

That's right. I don't Thank you for

acknowledging that I don't laugh

anymore.

I mean, you're all you're doing is

running and typing.

And if you'll I don't know if you

noticed, but while I'm running, I'm I'm

not laughing.

Not at all. I didn't see you crack a

smile once.

Cuz it's hard to laugh while you're

running because it's it's not funny.

You're running for your life.

That's right.

Yeah. I got to get there like as fast as

possible.

And again, I'd love to ask you where

where are you going?

Where am I going? Yeah,

I'm going down the hall.

Got to got to run down the hall. Um

what am I are you watching anything? Are

you like

anything like super funny?

Yeah. What are you like What are you and

Naomi liking right now or did you see

something recently or

You know what I've been watching

recently is I've been re-watching all

Sex in the City. The original.

Yeah. It's

incredible.

So [ __ ] good.

So good.

It is so good.

Such a love letter to that time period,

too.

Yes.

Were you ever on it? Cuz every act actor

I know is like Justin Thorough. Uh Bobby

Canavali.

Will.

Yep.

Everybody.

Yep. Um Slatterie.

Slatterie. Elizabeth Banks.

Yes. It's a real who's who.

Yeah. Everybody in New York. Um but it

is so good. And to to something I like

doing is watching it and just kind of

thinking about

all of this happening for the first

time, like women sitting at a table

together talking about

what whatever talking about themselves

and

talking about like how weird someone's

[ __ ] smells.

It's just like holy [ __ ] This is

incredible.

Like that has never been on TV before.

let alone said out loud for people and

just how Samantha is just

the most sex positive like incred like

not a moment of embarrassment

like so [ __ ] cool

so good

and Sarah Jessica Parker is so great at

being the center of a show

servicing everybody else but also

keeping that motor going in the middle

of it's so good

there's a couple shows that make me when

I'm in Los Angeles really miss New York.

Sex old Sex in the City and Law and

Order.

Oh, yeah. Sure.

Yeah.

Were you on Law and Order?

I was on Law and Order once.

So jealous.

You weren't on Law and Order.

No, that was my dream.

Really?

Never. I mean, I didn't see I wasn't

auditioning in that way. I didn't think

I was like a good enough actor, but I

wanted to be on Law and Order so bad.

Yeah. Yeah.

What was your character? Why do I not

know that you Law and Order? I should

know this.

Timothy Dinkens. I don't know what the

name was. Um,

we can look it up.

Uh, I was working at the grocery store

arranging fruits or vegetables when they

came up and first started talking to me.

And

I remember my agent at the time calling

me right after it aired and being like,

"You don't know how to handle those

vegetables."

Like, you weren't doing anything.

Was your Who were the peeps that was it?

Or the Orbeck years?

It was uh, no, it was Dennis Fina.

Dennis Fina

who was so cool

and uh Jesse Martin

fantastic.

Did you meet Esapatha who I Apath if you

if you're listening I need to get you on

the show.

She's great.

She's incredible.

Uh Sam Watston

Yeah.

So you went to the court. You got to you

got to the law the law part.

Pablo Shriber and I were in court

together and he ended up being guilty

and I was the red herring. I think

what were you accused of doing? probably

killing someone. I don't totally

remember.

Um, well, we're gonna watch.

You have your Are you finding my

character's name? And if it's Timothy,

whatever I said, that would be amazing.

Okay. Timothy Dinkens.

Yeah, Timothy Dinkens.

Was Adam Scott on law and order? Okay.

The trail leads to a pair of

perpetrators. another mercenary played

by Pablo Shriber and the brother of one

of Shriber's fellow mercenaries who was

killed in a roadside ambush by

presumably Al Qaeda.

God, I don't know.

The brother You forgot the Al Qaeda

part.

I did.

The brother is Adam Scott and he is the

only true innocent.

That's right.

And the own of the whole show.

That's right.

Wow. Wow. That's I wanted to play a um I

wanted to play the opposite. See,

because

you wanted to be a mermaid. to be like

the one that you would would not suspect

and then it's like I burned the whole

place.

I wanted to be a pyro cuz I felt like of

all

you wanted to specifically be a

pyromaniac.

I wish I wanted to be like a babyfaced

pyro, you know, someone who just is

like,

you know, she seems like she's helping

the police and then she's like they

deserved it. Yeah. You know, whatever

kind of weird psycho thing. Okay. So,

Sex in the City is what you're watching

and laughing at.

Yeah. I'm I It's great. I and you know

when you're I I saw something recently

that said that repeated if you have the

urge to watch something you've seen

before and repeat viewings is a sign of

a particular kind of intelligence.

Oh

yeah. No, this is real.

It's a sign of intelligence.

Intelligence. I saw this on

on Instagram. Did you see this on

on Instagram?

Okay. Yeah.

It just and it was a picture of someone

watching TV and it just said that. There

was no nothing to back it up and I was

like, "Oh, great. We watched more Sex in

the City."

You saw it on Dr. Instagram,

Frankie. My daughter and I just flew

together from New York like night before

last and we got on the plane and I got

in my seat and she was across the row

from me and I got in and like suddenly

and started watching Sex in the City

that I had downloaded cuz I and she was

like, "Dad, are you watching more Sex in

the City?"

Yeah.

I love you.

I love you, Amy. Thank you for having

me. This is so fun.

We were really excited to do this one

today. Oh, that's very nice. I love

being here. Thank you.

Come back when we do our big we'll do a

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