Transcript: Seth Meyers on Good Hang with Amy Poehler
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Hey everyone, welcome to another episode
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of Good Hang. I'm really excited uh
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about our guest today. My old dear
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friend Seth Meyers is joining us today.
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And talking about friendship, Seth is
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such a good friend and I talk to him
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about what friendship means to him. I
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try to guess his middle name and we get
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tears, people. I get him crying more
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than once. So, bingo. It's that kind of
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episode. But uh before we get started,
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we're always um trying to ask people who
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know our guest to tell me questions to
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ask them. And joining me from the Cayman
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Islands on his vacation is the great
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producer of Late Night with Seth Meyers
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and ex producer at Saturday Night Live,
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Mike Shoemaker. Shu, can you hear me?
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[Music]
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hi. Hi. How are you? Oh my god. Where
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are we talking to you from? Um, Grand
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Cayman. The beach is over there. Now,
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before we get into Seth Shu, when I
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arrived at SNL in 2001, what was your
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job? What was the what was your title? I
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think I was producer. Mhm. I had, you
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know, I was there already 15 years, so I
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was, you know, I knew what I was doing.
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Finally, I had had my thousand hours of
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So, you didn't meet young [ __ ]
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shoemaker. And how where did Young
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Shoemaker get started at at SNL? How did
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Young Shoemaker get his started script
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PA? Uh my first job uh there was in 1986
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which is a changeover cast Dana Victoria
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Jan and um first thing was uh I came in
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and the job was to take a a yellow legal
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pad written script out of a bin and type
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it up so that everyone could read it
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because it's precomputers so big old
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selector typewriters and I was actually
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hired because I had typing skills um and
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I could type fast and not make mistakes.
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So the first thing was a church chat. So
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I had to like read Dana's scroll with no
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punctuation. I always read the scripts
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first. Even when the time you were
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there, I would put the read through
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order in. So I got to read everything
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before performance. So I got better at
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understanding everyone's performance
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style like the way like I could never
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guess how Maya would pronounce a word
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still to this day because she always
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will change it. I cannot believe that
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Dana Carvey wrote church chat on yellow
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legal pad. Literally, you could not find
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a period or a comma in it. Like, he
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didn't know how to do them. Yeah. So, it
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worked. It worked. I mean, so Shoemaker
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was the guy and it still is the guy.
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Like, kind of. You're You know, I I've
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said this before publicly. You're the
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best producer I've ever worked with. I
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think you're an incredible producer. And
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now, how long have you been working at
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Late Night? Since the beginning. Uh,
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yeah. So it's 11 years. What's that? 11
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years in until I So Amy and I left the
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same day basically. Yeah. She and I they
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had a we had a combined goodbye party.
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Yes. And it was that is called like my
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surprise party because Amy set it up and
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didn't want to call it courage, but it
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was really ours. Now um I'm I'm talking
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to Seth today. I'm almost worried that
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I'm too relaxed.
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You know what I mean? Because I feel not
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at all nervous. I, you know, it is a
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friendship that's so easy and we can
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hang so easily that I I feel kind of
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underprepared. I'm gonna try to poke him
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a little bit with some things that'll
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get him a little mad cuz he's it's a lot
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of fun when Seth gets mad. It really is
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fun. It is kind of the most fun. Well, I
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I hope someday you come on as a guest
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because I do want to continue to talk
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about Amy. Amy, you have sponsors. Yeah,
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that's true. Bill Simmons. Bill's never
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going to No, there's no way he's going
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to let you on. Those blue eyes would
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turn black saying, "What are you booking
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these [ __ ] people?" No one ever heard
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of. Just keep going with it, famous
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people. You're right. I'm sorry I even
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said that. There's no way you're going
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to be a guest. I mean, we literally just
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had Michelle Obama. Like, we just had
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Michelle Obama. Like, no offense you,
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but Yeah. Yeah. Like, don't call us,
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we'll call you. I mean, it's We're never
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gonna get to you. Tell Bill that. Yeah.
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Yeah. I'm sorry, Bill. I even mentioned
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it. Um, but um Okay. So what do you
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think I should be what would you want to
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hear me ask Seth today? What do you
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think we should talk about? Anything big
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or small? So the question that I want
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you to ask is that I think the reason
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that we all became a unit is because um
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you and I saw him first and by that I
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mean he felt seen by us before everyone
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else there did. I think that's accurate
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because you had you were kind of famous
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and I was a producer there 15 years but
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he was like a feature player that you
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don't necessarily invest in in the first
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year because you don't know what's going
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to happen but we did. So we were the
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first people that he felt seen by so my
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question would be what does he think we
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saw? What does he think that we saw in
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him? What a great question. as early
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investors to the Seth Meers Corporation.
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What does he think we saw in him? He is
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going to have That's a deep question,
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dude. He He might have He might turn
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into sand like when he has to He might
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just turn into a thousand crows and fly
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away.
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Like that just might be dirt. That might
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be what also, you know, he's a talk show
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host. So like compliments he like when
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people come on and compliment him he has
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to end it and turn it around. So he will
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like say nice things about us and say
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like we were perceptive. Now you should
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allow that and don't don't edit that out
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but
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but also like put it on fire. Make him
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say like what qualities did he have
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because I think that will be a nice
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thing to hear out of him because he
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doesn't talk nicely about himself. I
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know. Uh I think uh I think Seth is
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probably least comfortable talking about
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himself and I I relate. I relate. I I
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would much rather talk about No, it's
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hard to get you to do it, too. Yeah. Say
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something nice about yourself now. Yeah.
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Uh well, I have a fantastic fake food
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collection in my podcast. I know. I seen
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it. It looks great. And you know, I um I
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collected it. That's all I That's all I
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can think of. Well, Shu, I love that
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you're taking a vacation. You worked too
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hard. Congratulations on 11 years. We
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got to celebrate the 10 years together,
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which was great. I mean, I hope you do
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10 more. You think you'll do 10 more? I
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don't know. I don't know. What's TV?
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What's the world? I don't know. I don't
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know. It'll be It'll be like this maybe.
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Is this TV? This is TV. TV where I talk
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to you in a over over there and then But
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you listen to Yeah. Right. That's how it
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works. That's TV. All right. I love you.
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Thank you so much and thank you
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Catherine and Mike for setting Mike up
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on this and doing they're ready on the
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beach. Great. Okay, go to the beach.
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Thank you so much for I love you so
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much. I'll see you very soon. Okay, bye.
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All right, bye.
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For those listening, Seth's already
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giving us a time where he needs to be
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out. He needs to be out by 12. I don't
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feel like you respect other people's
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schedules. I mean, I feel like before
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we've even started, Seth told me, "How
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long asked how long is this going to
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go?" Oh, glasses. Well, hello. Same
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kind. Pretty pretty similar. Whoa,
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that's weird. You get tortoise. Show. I
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tortoise. Of course. I am going to wipe
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my glasses on my pants. Um, when did you
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start wearing glasses? Within like the
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last 6 months. Really? You waited? You
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were that I did a great job. And I
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I think it's easier to do crack cocaine
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once than wear reading glasses once. You
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know what I mean? The minute you put
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them on forever. I wore I put them on
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for like two seconds. What's your
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prescription? Just a one5. Yeah. What
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are you? Try a two and you're you're I
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don't But no, I don't want to try two.
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What? Cuz go back. But just try it. See
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how much better everything looks with
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it, too. I mean, that's really good.
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Yeah. Let me try your ones. I'm I'm not
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even going to feel those. See, it
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immediately immediately busted. I wish.
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Um,
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this is actually not so bad. I can see
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this pretty well. Don't do it. Go back.
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Yeah, maybe I should go back. Maybe I'm
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partying too hard. listen to your
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podcast on now that you're a podcaster.
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Do you feel like that's an unfair
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question? Thanks for calling me that. Um
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and and you really are a podcaster.
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Yeah, you do too. Mhm. Um what do I
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listen to my podcast? Yeah, just I once
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said to a podcaster Yeah. that I listen
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to them at 1.5 and they were hurt. Oh,
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you mean fast? I I never speed up. What?
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You listen to podcasts slower? You slow
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it down? I slow it. No, I listen
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regular. I never speed up. Oh,
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interesting. Sometimes I'll do the
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10second skip like if if like a podcast
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gets like gross or something or if I
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know, you know, like what are you
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listening to?
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What the podcast gets gross for 10
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seconds? This is my interview. We are
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with Seth Myers and he's already asking
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me questions. And Seth, I'm realizing
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you're we're sitting the way we used to
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sit at Update. It is. It's our update
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position. And you also were sitting the
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way you usually sit on your show. I'm
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very
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grateful that it's this. You in Well,
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your people insisted on it, did they?
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No. No. No. Um, but I I feel very
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strongly about having a good side. Okay.
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Thank you for saying that. Um, a few
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people that have noticed that I've
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switched to another side. I started the
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first couple of podcasts on that side.
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That's what that's why I thought you
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maybe did this for me. And I I did it
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for me because I feel like I have a good
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side and it's this side and you like
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that side. I like this side. And if
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anybody wants to see our bad side, they
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can look at the Entertainment Weekly
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cover we did,
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which is the worst photograph of either
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of us. Yeah. It was shot with a fisheye
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lens. I think they did us dirty and I
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was pulling your tie like and it was
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like And it was like, would you like to
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see two asymmetrical faces look even
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weirder with this lens? And I was so
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excited. That was a time in my life. I
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was so excited. We were on the cover of
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Entertainment Weekly. Yeah. And then I
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saw it and I felt unexited. I don't
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think there's been many photo shoots in
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my life where I've seen it and thought
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nailed it. I don't think I've I could
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maybe count them on my hand. I feel very
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strongly think we have in common is we
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have great faces that as long as they're
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moving, got to keep moving. Got to keep
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moving. But once they stop, there's no
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good freeze frame as a whole. Yeah. No.
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Yeah. Um, in fact, I used to when we
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used to do photo shoots and they'd say
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like, "Don't worry, we're going to just
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do like a light retouch." I would say,
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"Light ret eyes and a mouth. That's all
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I want to see." Yeah. I don't want I
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want the heaviest retouching you could
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ever do. Yeah. Don't feel like you're
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doing me a courtesy of being like, "We
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barely touched it." I'm like, "Go nuts.
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Get your best touch guy in here. You're
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the wand and the like I know there's a
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there's a thing now of like being
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natural like don't retouch but I'm
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against that 100%. If you want to see
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the real thing come see the real thing
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but otherwise you're getting the retouch
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version. If you're asking me to stay
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still then we need to paint over change
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my nose and everything. No, but I feel
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like we've done a lot of photo shoots
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together over the years and I bet you
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get what I get what a lot of people get
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which is they really want you to be
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funny. Yeah. And they want you to do
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funny things. Yeah. I had a
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heartbreaking GQ photo shoot where first
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I walked in and the photographer uh oh
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didn't know who I was
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for the GQ comedy issue. So that was
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that put me in a headsp space where I
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was maybe felt as though a mistake had
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been made. Yikes. And then I remember
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they had wanted I think it was whipped
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cream like whipped cream from the like
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and they wanted to spray it all over my
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face and the amount I had to say like
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you know this will just look like bad.
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Yeah. You know what this also looks like
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on a on a face and they were like oh
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it's funny they used to want to put a
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lot of weird stuff on my face too. One
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time a guy was like I have an idea where
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your hands are covered in barbecue sauce
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and you have barbecue sauce all over
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your face. And I was like, "Okay,
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it is by the way like people who get
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talked into like a young in their life
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like a like maybe a a pornographic photo
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shoot." Yeah. Very easy. Could have
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happened to me in a heartbeat. If
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anybody had ever shown a mod of common
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interest in that. Yes, absolutely. I
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would have been 100%. And I think the
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same thing happened to you that happened
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to you where you'd go to a photo shoot
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and it was like you'd turn the corner
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and there'd be a table of rubber
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chickens and clown noses and giant props
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and you'd just be like, "Oh god, I'm
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such I'm I'm I'm Yeah, I'm being pimped
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out." Yeah. Yeah. And I feel as though
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they should save those for the dramatic
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actors and just let us look nice for
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once. I completely agree. Okay. Seth
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Meyers. Seth.
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Kevin Myers. What's your name? What's
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your Oh, let me get I don't know it. You
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don't have to. Seth. Hold on. Get it.
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Seth.
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Do you want Myers? How many hints do you
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want? I'm going to get it. Seth. Michael
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Myers. You want You're going to get it
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without hints.
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How lucky they I know your family. I
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know your family. Seth David Myers. No.
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Oh, Seth. Again, there's hints. All
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right. Give me a hint. It's an a name.
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Oh, Seth Alexander Myers. Seth Andrew
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Myers. No. I was so worried because I
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know these are only an hour and I
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thought, "Oh, I think it's going to go
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by so fast." And now I'm so happy we're
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not going to cut this out. Seth Albert.
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No. Oh, that's your dog. Family dog's
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name. By the way, my dad, you know, for
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those not in the know, we've had six old
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English sheep dogs. They've all been
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named Albert. And then, uh, when we
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started giving all our kids a names, my
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dad was very, he admitted he was
- 14:34
hopeful. We were going to also name a
- 14:36
kid Albert and I said, "No, I think you
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took it away." Yeah. If all the dogs
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hadn't been named Albert, there was a
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chance, but like we weren't going to
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name our kid after a living dog.
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Okay, one last guess. Uh,
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don't cut this out. Don't cut the No,
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this is good. People would like this is
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good for for Especially because I think
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people were tuning in being like, you
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know what, I can't wait cuz they know
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each other so well. They've been friends
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for so long. And then what they get to
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do is listen to you just without hints
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try to guess my middle name. Um, uh, my
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last guess is Seth America Myers. That
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is what I do like to I that's what I
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answer to. That's my full email. Uh,
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Adam. Adam. Sure. That makes sense.
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Okay. Seth Adam Myers, when did we first
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meet? Well, I remember the first time we
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met probably better than you remember
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the first time we met, which is I was at
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IO improve. Improv Olympic. Yeah. And uh
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there was a Herald show. Mhm. Which is a
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improv show and there used to be two
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different teams and there would in the
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middle there would be the dream. Yes.
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That's what you want. Which was an
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improvised game where somebody from the
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audience would come up, somebody on
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stage would interview them about their
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day and then the two improv
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teams would improvise what their dream
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would look like. And I came up on stage
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and you interviewed me and it was not
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during a show with me and Tina. It was I
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also saw the show with you and Tina. You
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saw it? Okay. Right. But we didn't call
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you up, right? So I interviewed about
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you about your day and we did not know
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each other. We did not know each other.
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I was a fan of yours and it was very
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exciting to get interviewed by you. Then
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the next time the next time we spoke was
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after we both got hired. Do you believe
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in the simulation? Do you believe that
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like there's some kind of universal
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thing where like basically that people
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come in and out of your life in
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different ways and you didn't really I
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do a little bit. Yeah. Me too because
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that's a very simulation thing. Can I
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tell you though something? Yesterday I
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got the same Uber driver on backtoback
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days in Giant City Los Angeles.
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And I got in the car and I was like,
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"Can you believe this?" And it meant
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nothing to him. And I was so I It was so
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disappointing. Yeah. Did you What's his
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name? Well, that was a thing. Oh, you
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didn't even find out. No, I know. That's
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why I remembered. His name was Mush.
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Mush. M U S H. So, I might be saying it
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wrong, but like Wow. So, that's one of
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the reasons I was like, you can't there
- 17:04
can't be two, right? And I was like,
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hey, Mush, I'm back. You said I'm back.
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Yeah, it did feel like a curb episode
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where I was a very frustrated Larry
- 17:13
David like mush. Hey, remember me? And
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he's like, "No, I'm just trying to get
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you to the Grove." Yeah. Okay. So, we
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And then the dream happened. We
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improvised your day. Y cut to you and I
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starting at the same time at SNL. People
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People may not know this, but we were
- 17:31
both there post 911 and our first show
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was two weeks after it and there was
- 17:37
like a very interesting We were part of
- 17:39
a a freshman class. It was four people
- 17:42
got hired. Yeah. It was who was it? Dean
- 17:45
Edwards. Yep. Jeff Richards. Yeah. You
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and I. Yeah. And then for writers,
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Spivey. Emily Spivey. Max Brooks. Yes.
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Charlie Grandandy started with us. Yeah.
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And we all kind of came in together and
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we kind of met in Shoemakaker's office
- 18:02
as a lot of young young new people did
- 18:04
to like kind of get the lay of the land.
- 18:06
But I think we might have like met each
- 18:09
I don't Yes. I'm going to say something
- 18:11
and hopefully I won't
- 18:13
get too emotional saying it, but I
- 18:14
remember like getting hired at SNL was
- 18:16
already cry cry. Oh my god, sounds I'm
- 18:18
gonna put on my glasses. This will make
- 18:19
it. No, but like I remember getting
- 18:21
hired at SNL was like already like but
- 18:23
they said and Amy Polar also got hired
- 18:25
and I was like, "Oh, I felt even
- 18:26
elevated that I was like, "Oh, I'm in
- 18:29
Amy Polar's class." You know what I
- 18:31
mean? Yeah. For those that can't see,
- 18:34
Seth has tears in his eyes. I don't
- 18:35
think I do, but I feel You almost cried.
- 18:37
You're such a crier. Oh, I'm such a
- 18:39
crier. You love to cry any I love to
- 18:42
cry. I'm going to make you cry. I I I
- 18:44
also only cry historically about stuff
- 18:48
that makes me happy.
- 18:51
Say more. What do you mean? Well, like I
- 18:53
don't think I cry a lot when I'm sad.
- 18:54
When you're sad? Yeah. Well, like I know
- 18:55
a lot of people are like, "God forbid
- 18:56
you express how you feel when you're
- 18:58
sad." No, when I'm sad I think it's like
- 19:01
turn into a rock. Like Yeah. Little rock
- 19:02
little rock guy. Little rock guy that
- 19:05
everybody loves loves the company of
- 19:06
rock man.
- 19:08
Okay. So, we started SNL the same time.
- 19:10
Y and speaking of that time,
- 19:14
um, you know, I Okay, I love your
- 19:17
podcast. I've told you this. I've been
- 19:18
on them. I've participated in them. You
- 19:20
do family trips with the great Josh
- 19:22
Meyers, your brother and partner on that
- 19:25
podcast. And you do, what's it called?
- 19:28
Seth, the Seth Myers, the Lonely Island,
- 19:30
and Seth Myers. Seth Myers podcast. It
- 19:31
was only fair to put them first as we're
- 19:33
really only talking about their look.
- 19:35
Well, but and that podcast is
- 19:36
incredible. It's a joy. It's so good. I
- 19:38
want to talk to you about it. But that
- 19:40
but on both of them, you have like as
- 19:44
I've listened, you slowly un like I've
- 19:47
learned something about you that I don't
- 19:49
think I really took in, which was those
- 19:51
early years were harder for you than I
- 19:54
thought.
- 19:55
They were so hard. I know. Crying was so
- 19:59
But I would have guessed the two people
- 20:01
who knew the most would have been you
- 20:02
and Shoemaker. So, I am but I will say I
- 20:05
am happy that I kept it hidden the way
- 20:09
that I did cuz I don't I I don't think
- 20:12
like um
- 20:15
when you present the feelings that I was
- 20:17
having at SNL I think that that is not a
- 20:20
a vibe that people want to like be
- 20:22
around. Right. And it and it is it can
- 20:25
become like a little bit of a
- 20:26
self-fulfilling prophecy. So, what was
- 20:28
the vibe then if you were to distill it
- 20:30
down? What was the feeling then? I just
- 20:32
felt as though they'd made a terrible
- 20:34
mistake, right? Like just full imposttor
- 20:35
syndrome. And I showed up and pretty
- 20:38
quickly, I think, you know, to go back
- 20:40
to what I said, like I was so excited,
- 20:43
you know, oh my god, I'm they're hiring
- 20:44
me at the same time as Amy Polar. And
- 20:45
then you walk down the hallway and
- 20:46
you're like, oh my god, I'm in the same
- 20:47
show as Will Frell and and Chris Katan
- 20:50
and Tracy Morgan and you're like, look,
- 20:52
I'm one of them. And then you realize
- 20:53
like no, like you then have to like do
- 20:56
the work and show that you're, you know,
- 20:58
at the same level. And those early years
- 21:00
as well, I just had that sense of I can
- 21:04
write for this show, but like I don't
- 21:07
know if they actually like need what I
- 21:10
bring as a performer to this show. And I
- 21:12
don't feel like I was being hard on
- 21:13
myself either. There was a there were a
- 21:15
lot of guys in your time like a lot of
- 21:18
Well, in the early days it was it felt
- 21:22
as though I could see the road ahead of
- 21:23
me cuz I forgot that thing which is when
- 21:27
people like Will Ferrell and Jimmy
- 21:30
Fallon leave Katan that doesn't mean
- 21:32
like you get their parts because they
- 21:34
also hire people behind you. And that
- 21:36
was for me the real crisis of confidence
- 21:38
was and again you know I say this these
- 21:41
are dear friends these are people I'm
- 21:42
huge fans of but like when like Sedakas
- 21:44
and Samberg and Fred and Will and Hater
- 21:46
rolled through. Yeah. And I would be
- 21:49
writing sketches
- 21:51
knowing that if I was not a cast member
- 21:54
I would not write for me. Like if if it
- 21:56
wasn't my job to take care of myself and
- 21:58
I just wanted my sketch to air I would
- 22:00
be my sixth choice too. So I, you know,
- 22:03
early on I kind of wanted to like blame
- 22:04
the writing staff for not putting me in
- 22:05
things and I'm like, "Oh, I mean you if
- 22:08
you have this toolbox at your disposal,
- 22:09
I understand that." Well, I think that's
- 22:10
what's so wonderful about you and also
- 22:12
what can be painful is you're not you're
- 22:14
not a really you're not a diluted
- 22:15
person. No, you do not you don't have
- 22:17
the like warm bath of delusion, right?
- 22:20
That some people are like, "Ah, you are
- 22:23
a very realistic person." So, you're
- 22:24
able to look at things very
- 22:25
realistically and be like, "I have to
- 22:27
figure this out." Yes. And I did feel
- 22:29
that vibe. Okay. So, we do this thing on
- 22:31
our show where we ask people uh
- 22:33
beforehand um to um give me questions
- 22:36
for the guest. So, I talked to
- 22:38
Shoemaker. Okay. Good. Good pick. Yeah,
- 22:40
of course. I knew I would like He is
- 22:42
technically your It would have been so
- 22:44
funny was like I I'm a little tired of
- 22:46
talking about Seth. He's in the Cayman
- 22:49
Islands right now. So, we got him when
- 22:50
he was on vacation and um I by the way
- 22:53
called him on the way here. He just
- 22:54
texted me and said, I'm ghosting Seth,
- 22:56
so tell me when you're done. He didn't
- 22:59
fully ghosted me. Yeah. He said, "I'm
- 23:00
not picking up." And then I was like,
- 23:01
"Oh, well, he's" And then when you said
- 23:03
you were talking to him, like obviously
- 23:04
you called him before he was in the
- 23:05
Cayman Islands. But no, no, he just
- 23:07
picked up purely ghosted you. I mean,
- 23:09
and you two are like in another life.
- 23:13
You are brothers in arms. You are each
- 23:16
other, you know, like if you believe in
- 23:17
I mean, I'm pretty good with what we are
- 23:19
in this life. I think it's I mean, he is
- 23:21
as close as I could be to a a person.
- 23:25
Yeah. you have an amazing friendship and
- 23:28
he has he gave me a question to ask you
- 23:30
that I love so much is the best question
- 23:32
of course cuz Shoemaker is such a good
- 23:33
producer and and writer and friend but
- 23:36
he gave me I think the best question
- 23:38
I've been given yet now I've only done
- 23:39
like six episodes so um but um but he
- 23:44
did while he was on with you did the
- 23:47
doorbell ring and did a thousand dogs
- 23:50
bark thank you again for doing that by
- 23:54
the way I owe all of you a lot. I mean,
- 23:56
I owe Dra like half of this the money. I
- 23:59
feel like it's the movie I've been in
- 24:01
that I get the most feedback on.
- 24:04
I think that like that's 60 seconds. The
- 24:06
amount in the last month people been
- 24:08
like, "Oh my god, I can't stop watching
- 24:09
the clip." I can't either. I where
- 24:12
Drach's headphones tangle and then the
- 24:14
doorbell rings. It's like watching a
- 24:17
oneperson show. It is. It is like
- 24:19
watching a like a Broadway like a a
- 24:23
clown on stage like a farce. It's like
- 24:25
somebody said do noises off in a minute
- 24:28
just you. And people don't know we cut
- 24:31
so much out of that because Dra couldn't
- 24:33
get her headphones truly untangled for
- 24:35
minutes and then couldn't figure out how
- 24:38
to plug it in and then they weren't
- 24:39
working and then the doorbell rang. So
- 24:40
we cut a lot out. Yeah. And then her
- 24:42
laptop died. She was carrying around
- 24:44
like a a pizza box around her whole
- 24:46
apartment. And thank God for you because
- 24:47
you were the only one that was trying to
- 24:49
keep it going cuz Fred Fred's just
- 24:52
watching. Oh yeah, Fred. Zo was was on
- 24:54
set I think so she could barely hear and
- 24:57
you were like so how's it going Amy? I
- 25:00
was like it's going good. I think it's
- 25:02
going good so far. Oh Dr. Um, okay. But
- 25:05
Shu, nice try trying to, um, fake me out
- 25:07
so that I don't ask you this question.
- 25:09
But, um, uh, Shu said, "Let me ask you
- 25:12
this, which is
- 25:15
I would agree that in those early years,
- 25:18
him and I saw something in you.
- 25:22
We kind of invested early in the Seth
- 25:24
Meyers Corporation.
- 25:27
What do you Oh my god, I'm getting him
- 25:29
to cry. Oh my god, you guys. I wish we
- 25:31
could zoom in.
- 25:36
This is my dream come true. I'm getting
- 25:38
you to cry. Okay. There's so many. This
- 25:41
is specific kink that people are This
- 25:43
is, you know, people are going to This
- 25:46
is like a kink.
- 25:50
Okay. Wait, wait, wait. We have tissues.
- 25:54
We have tissues. Where are they, Sam? Oh
- 25:57
my god. Thank you, Sam.
- 26:00
[Music]
- 26:02
You've connected. You've connected. Oh
- 26:04
my god. This is what the show's always.
- 26:06
If you have this, this is what this is a
- 26:08
trap. I just want to remind you we only
- 26:10
have a few minutes left with our session
- 26:12
and everyone else. All it is with Jack
- 26:14
Black is like your joy.
- 26:16
Talking to Ike about restaurants.
- 26:20
[Laughter]
- 26:23
What is going everything? Is this not
- 26:25
even a podcast? This is like the just s
- 26:28
six fake episode traps. If you look past
- 26:30
the camera, there's a bunch of friends
- 26:31
and family that love you and want to
- 26:33
talk to you about something. Oh my god.
- 26:34
We just think you need to get some help.
- 26:36
And we we just using this opportunity.
- 26:39
Okay. What's the help here? And if you
- 26:42
need to squeeze this cheeseburger, you
- 26:43
can.
- 26:47
This will help. What is it? What? What
- 26:49
do you mean? What is You know, this is
- 26:51
all fake food. What? What is this
- 26:54
podcast? I've listened to every episode.
- 26:56
I have a real sense of it. I'm like,
- 26:57
it's food based.
- 26:59
Okay. Okay. If you get nervous, just
- 27:02
talk just talk into the talk into these
- 27:04
bananas. Okay.
- 27:07
But what do you think Shoemaker and I
- 27:11
what do you think we saw in you? I this
- 27:13
is very un I feel again this is very
- 27:15
unfair. Um I don't
- 27:20
I don't know. I mean like to be honest
- 27:22
like
- 27:24
one of the things that I feel most
- 27:26
grateful for is I don't know. M I didn't
- 27:28
see it. Yeah.
- 27:30
So, um I know to this day like I don't
- 27:34
make it on that show without you guys. I
- 27:36
And I think that uh
- 27:39
I was very lucky that Lauren
- 27:42
saw me through your eyes and she's eyes
- 27:45
because I don't know if I you know what
- 27:46
again like I don't feel like um I feel
- 27:49
like Lauren has been uh is is obviously
- 27:51
a fan of mine now and has a lot of faith
- 27:53
in me but like that can I think you're
- 27:55
okay. He thinks you're fine. Is this
- 27:57
where is this a quote? He sent me a I
- 27:59
said I'm I'm interviewing Seth today and
- 28:01
he went, "Oh, Seth's fine. He's okay."
- 28:05
That's what he said. Did you
- 28:08
The Lauren gave a quote in the New York
- 28:10
Times about me. Yeah, please say it
- 28:12
again. It's so good. Genuine like two
- 28:13
quotes that are like insanely It's all I
- 28:17
heard from everybody in our world was
- 28:19
how [ __ ] funny the Lauren quotes
- 28:20
were. One was I love Seth or I care for
- 28:25
him or whatever it is you're allowed to
- 28:27
say these days,
- 28:29
which is the it's the funniest. I'm like
- 28:31
I think you misunderstand whatever you
- 28:33
think woke is, you're allowed to say you
- 28:36
love a male friend.
- 28:38
Like he's like I love you like
- 28:41
backtracked like he's like I want to get
- 28:42
cancelled.
- 28:44
I don't want to get caught loving loving
- 28:47
my friend. And then the the reporter was
- 28:49
like Seth's really good at it. I I think
- 28:51
Seth's a really gifted impressionist and
- 28:52
he's like I don't know if I'd go that
- 28:54
far
- 28:55
and I believe he said I think he's fine
- 28:58
which is the best the best gifted was a
- 29:01
little over the top. Yeah. So um when we
- 29:03
did update together which was so fun in
- 29:06
so in a million different ways and there
- 29:08
was like when I think about us being at
- 29:10
the desk together I think of two things.
- 29:12
One I had ease because I had gotten to
- 29:14
do with Tina like I just genuinely felt
- 29:18
a little more relaxed. I was so um
- 29:21
trying to figure out how to do this
- 29:23
thing when I was doing it with Tina who
- 29:24
had done it with Jim. Like we it was
- 29:26
like this passing. But what we also got
- 29:29
to do to got to do together in real time
- 29:32
was like figure out how we were going to
- 29:35
do it together. Yeah. and the way in
- 29:38
which we're going to do it and because
- 29:39
you and Shoemaker and and you know
- 29:43
previously like Mike Sher and Alex Bass
- 29:46
you know I was right like the team was
- 29:48
so strong of update writers and people
- 29:52
it just felt like you were in a club
- 29:54
within a club you were on SNL but then
- 29:57
you also got another secret key
- 30:00
and I know we talked about it being on
- 30:01
update you could relax that you were
- 30:03
actually going to be on the show yeah
- 30:05
that made such a difference. We talked
- 30:07
about this recently, I think, in the
- 30:08
Lonely Island pod, but I remember Andy
- 30:10
wrote this sketch called That'll Move
- 30:13
the Chains where he was a kid in and uh
- 30:16
like in the booth of a football game and
- 30:18
he kept saying that'll move the chains
- 30:20
and it worked. It was fine. Uh it was
- 30:23
very funny. I'm I'm underelling it. But
- 30:24
then he came in my office like a month
- 30:26
later. He goes, "I think we're going to
- 30:27
write another that'll move the chains."
- 30:28
And I said, "Another?" Cuz it just
- 30:31
struck me It didn't strike me as a
- 30:32
recurring character. Yeah. And I just
- 30:34
said another. And he goes, "Not
- 30:35
everybody has update every week." I was
- 30:37
like, "All right." Like when you Cuz
- 30:39
again, I got to go from that thing of
- 30:40
like desperately fighting to find a way
- 30:42
to have a reason to get into hair and
- 30:44
makeup on Saturday to having update.
- 30:46
Yes. And then also you got to say your
- 30:48
name. Got to say my name. Obviously not
- 30:50
my middle name. Nope. Never saw your
- 30:53
name. Never said your middle name. Can I
- 30:54
I feel like the most
- 30:56
uh tense
- 30:58
our
- 31:00
uh uh chemistry I ever had was uh
- 31:03
mornings update mornings bagel times.
- 31:06
Yeah, cuz someone had pre-split the
- 31:08
jokes and then there were a few like
- 31:10
left over that we both wanted and I feel
- 31:13
like there was a real dance of
- 31:15
interesting. I would say that I thought
- 31:17
I would have hidden that but that's
- 31:19
probably true. I think we were like are
- 31:21
you going to take that joke? Yeah. M hm
- 31:23
I wonder who takes the good joke here.
- 31:25
Um my here's how I saw it from you. It's
- 31:28
like hm that feels like a Amy joke.
- 31:33
Do you want it? I'm like and I be and
- 31:35
I'd be like I mean I would love it. It
- 31:37
would mean a lot to me as a friend. I'm
- 31:38
asking for it. You're like it's a real
- 31:39
Amy joke. I just feel like it's going to
- 31:41
kind of flop. And then I would go I hex
- 31:43
this joke. I would hex it. Yeah. You
- 31:45
would hex it. I would I curse you and I
- 31:46
curse you. And when I when if I the few
- 31:48
times you let me have it, you would be
- 31:50
off camera while I was telling it going
- 31:54
thumbs down. Um I don't remember us ever
- 31:58
fighting at all. That was it. It was
- 31:59
just that like where we did we did
- 32:01
argue. I would say that one of the
- 32:04
things like I don't think we ever got
- 32:05
into a we never were but we like to I
- 32:08
mean look really came out of that right
- 32:11
like this. We like to be frustrated and
- 32:13
irritated and I don't mind being
- 32:16
frustrated and irritated with people
- 32:17
that I'm close to. That is like a way of
- 32:19
My favorite thing is when you and I feel
- 32:22
very differently about a movie or a TV
- 32:23
show. Yeah. Like that when we have
- 32:26
different opinions about something cuz
- 32:29
it's very fun when you're mad about
- 32:31
something. Okay. So, with that in mind,
- 32:32
I'm going to give you a couple of
- 32:33
things. I want to know your opinion on
- 32:34
it. Okay.
- 32:37
The beach. Oh, I'm not a huge fan. I'm
- 32:40
coming around on the beach just because
- 32:42
my kids like it, but given a choice, it
- 32:45
would be one of the last places I would
- 32:47
be. What do you What do you not like
- 32:49
about it? What are you going to do there
- 32:51
that wouldn't be better anywhere else?
- 32:52
Like see the ocean. See the ocean, but
- 32:56
like you can see the ocean from uh like
- 32:58
a porch somewhere, right? Like there's
- 33:00
there's a lot of vantage points on the
- 33:02
ocean that are not in sand. You don't
- 33:04
like the sand. Like you have a sensory
- 33:06
thing. I It's just Here's the thing. I
- 33:09
everybody wants to go to the beach, then
- 33:11
I go to the beach and then they're like,
- 33:12
"Get the sand off." Like the amount
- 33:14
they're like, "Don't get sand in the
- 33:15
car." I'm like, "I didn't even want to
- 33:16
come here."
- 33:18
You know what I mean? Like I was so
- 33:20
happy. You could have left me where I
- 33:21
was. The sand would never have been a
- 33:23
problem. Mhm. So no. I love the beach
- 33:26
and that's where we disagree. I
- 33:28
no interest. No. Yeah. Have you? No.
- 33:31
Yeah. I that one feels like the combo of
- 33:34
I always feel like there's a white
- 33:36
bucket around that people are puking in
- 33:38
and I'm always like first of all let's I
- 33:39
don't know decorate the buckets or
- 33:42
something like it just feels so weird to
- 33:44
not decorate the buckets like it just
- 33:46
seems like very stressful. Can I say
- 33:47
that I think you might be the only
- 33:49
person to have this bounce on Iaska is
- 33:50
that they don't decorate the buckets the
- 33:52
buckets and also other people. Yeah. I
- 33:58
mean, I guess maybe, but like maybe if I
- 34:00
could do it if I had like a IKA guy,
- 34:03
like a private guy, but it seems like
- 34:05
you have to do it with a bunch of other
- 34:06
people. There's also I feel like I've
- 34:08
known a few people who've done it and
- 34:10
they tell you it's changed their life
- 34:11
and then you like talk to them three
- 34:12
months later and they seem a lot like
- 34:14
they were before. They bounce right
- 34:17
back. They bounce right back to it.
- 34:19
Turns out once the IASK is out of their
- 34:21
system, how do you feel about getting
- 34:23
older? Um,
- 34:25
that's a good question. I turned 50 last
- 34:28
year. Congrats. And thank you. I turned
- 34:30
51 this year. So I'm You didn't
- 34:33
celebrate prop. I like it's Look, I'm in
- 34:36
that dead no bars sell service December
- 34:40
28th. There's no room for somebody like
- 34:43
me to have a birthday and I'm fine with
- 34:45
it. It's been my whole life. Why don't
- 34:46
you have a birthday like like a half
- 34:48
birthday when you're 51 or something? I
- 34:51
know that's even as I said it sounds so
- 34:53
stupid. We all got that invite. be like
- 34:55
a Okay, he lost his mind. Um, I felt
- 34:59
totally fine turning 50, but then I
- 35:02
think part of it was because it was 50,
- 35:04
I was like taking stock and I'm like
- 35:06
this is, you know what, I would be very
- 35:07
happy if I knew all these things were
- 35:09
going to happen to me by the time it's
- 35:11
50, this is really good. With that said,
- 35:12
like I think
- 35:15
the as it's like 51 and a half or
- 35:18
whatever it is now, I'm like, h, yeah,
- 35:19
no, I don't dig this as much. Here's
- 35:21
that thing that happened to me the other
- 35:22
day. Stop pointing.
- 35:25
Seth's pointing at me.
- 35:28
Don't point my French bread at me. Um,
- 35:31
had a dream that I was being chased and
- 35:34
had to I was crawling through one of
- 35:35
those transom windows over a door, you
- 35:37
know, and then I uh woke up, my neck
- 35:40
hurt and I was like I that's I've
- 35:42
officially I hurt myself from a dream
- 35:44
because I was trying to crawl through
- 35:46
it. You pulled your neck in a dream. I
- 35:47
pulled my like what happened? It's like
- 35:49
well in my dream what kind of sleeper
- 35:51
are you? Do you like do you fall asleep
- 35:54
fast? I do. And then do you sleep
- 35:56
through the night and do you snore? I uh
- 35:58
we've uh we're now wearing mouth tape.
- 36:02
Okay. I want to talk about mouth tape. I
- 36:04
talked about CPAP with um Jack. Yeah.
- 36:06
Black. Um I would like to switch to
- 36:09
mouth tape. Sorry. I don't want to
- 36:11
abandon my CPAP people.
- 36:13
My CPAP army. Um I'm sure they're out
- 36:16
there right now. Are you my
- 36:19
Capp? But I would love to get to a
- 36:20
mouth. You're a pap. I'm a pal. Yeah, of
- 36:23
course I'm not an animal. Um, but I'd
- 36:26
like to get to a mouth tape and I have
- 36:28
tried a mouth tape. Okay. Uh, I'm a
- 36:30
little worried about I'm hooked on the
- 36:33
moisture that I get from my CPAP. You
- 36:35
know, you get like um like moist air.
- 36:38
It's really nice for the nose. Yeah. You
- 36:40
don't get that with mouth tape. No. What
- 36:43
kind of mouth tape are you using? You
- 36:44
could I mean, you have a giant staff.
- 36:46
What if one of them just stood over the
- 36:48
bed with a little spray bottle and just
- 36:53
I mean so many because when I see your
- 36:54
staff and I'm polite to them by the way
- 36:56
which they seem to really appreciate and
- 36:58
they very much appreciate it but there a
- 37:00
lot of them are like we feel like
- 37:01
there's not enough for us to do. Well no
- 37:03
you know I I like to have them work on
- 37:04
the holidays and you always wish them a
- 37:06
merry Christmas and I appreciate that.
- 37:08
Um you're allowed to again you're
- 37:10
allowed to wish say merry Christmas.
- 37:12
It's really nice. Um what was I gonna
- 37:15
say? Oh. So, yeah, I was shocked cuz I
- 37:17
do have a hard time breathing through my
- 37:19
nose. I feel like I'm I've been stuffed
- 37:21
up like almost the entirety of my life.
- 37:23
And yet, when you tape, I think it kind
- 37:25
of forces you to like early in the
- 37:27
night, you're just like breathing
- 37:27
through your nose. You're keeping the
- 37:28
airways open. I'm a big fan of it. I'm
- 37:31
I'm thinking about switching over to
- 37:32
tape. Now, I should say, and I hope this
- 37:34
won't disabuse you of making a switch.
- 37:37
One night a week, I wake up at 3 in the
- 37:40
morning and do this.
- 37:45
So, if that sounds jarring
- 37:48
to you or whoever might be in the room,
- 37:49
that would be good for a commercial for
- 37:52
mouth tape. By the way, do you cuz you
- 37:54
mentioned butt tape uh with Jack Black.
- 37:56
Do you remember the the uh Fred's
- 37:58
breathing rate? Oh, wait. You mentioned
- 38:00
it on um I must it must have been in my
- 38:03
You guys just mentioned it on your
- 38:04
podcast. Really? Tell people for what
- 38:06
they for those that didn't hear. It was
- 38:08
a Breathe right strip. It was a Fred
- 38:11
commercial parody. It was a breath right
- 38:12
strip uh for your butt that would pull
- 38:16
the way because breathe right pulls the
- 38:18
nose apart to make it easier to breathe.
- 38:19
And so this pulled the butt apart so
- 38:22
that when you pass gas it wouldn't be
- 38:24
loud and it wouldn't wake up the person
- 38:27
in bed with you. But it has the best tag
- 38:30
because it's the the it's him in bed
- 38:32
with wig and it's quiet. You just hear
- 38:35
like
- 38:37
but then she still goes what's that
- 38:39
smell? cuz it doesn't doesn't get rid of
- 38:41
the smell. Just doesn't make noise
- 38:44
anymore. And I remember her being
- 38:46
disgusted by that. Yeah. Really good.
- 38:48
Really good. Disgusted wig. Okay. What
- 38:49
about uh what people do at airports that
- 38:51
drive me nuts? What do people Well, like
- 38:53
let me ask you this. What time do you
- 38:55
arrive for a flight? I
- 38:57
lot of cushion. Mhm. For the pushing.
- 39:00
Lot of Sorry.
- 39:04
Sorry.
- 39:08
This is I feel like you don't even care.
- 39:10
I feel like this was another trap.
- 39:13
Uh I Yeah, we get there very early. We
- 39:17
never check Never check it. Absolutely
- 39:20
not. It's kind of stunning. Um you can
- 39:23
board Hey, you have young kids, so you
- 39:24
can board. Yeah. Although we That's such
- 39:26
a scam. By the way, we are now out well
- 39:30
outside the zone of what they mean by if
- 39:32
you're boarding with a young family.
- 39:33
That's not true. Your kids are still
- 39:34
young enough. I think they I think they
- 39:36
mean toddlers.
- 39:38
Oh, wait. Cuz your youngest is how Addy
- 39:40
is three and a half. No, I I I would say
- 39:42
as a judgmental person at the airport, I
- 39:44
would not mind that. And I think
- 39:47
everybody realizes, it is better for us
- 39:49
to get on first.
- 39:52
I don't know.
- 39:54
Sure. I mean, I I think that's a little
- 39:56
bit obsc
- 39:59
with young children, but you're right.
- 40:02
When I had young children, it was nice
- 40:03
to be able to have It's also nice for
- 40:04
everybody else. I'm just saying like if
- 40:06
if they let you on before the boarding
- 40:07
starts and and our maniacs are in their
- 40:10
seats, but I know you can be kind of
- 40:11
hypervigilant like I am about when
- 40:13
people are doing stuff wrong or getting
- 40:15
it wrong or whatever. And I feel like
- 40:16
the airport is the ultimate version of
- 40:18
that. Yeah. Like every single
- 40:20
interaction is about power struggle and
- 40:24
like at least for me figuring out how I
- 40:27
can be more efficient next time and
- 40:29
hoping other people will follow suit and
- 40:31
just like trying to practice my system
- 40:33
in a place where everybody has their own
- 40:35
system. The worst mistake I made, I took
- 40:38
just Axel to visit my parents and we
- 40:40
went to the airport and Axel just who's
- 40:42
the most
- 40:44
unique of my kids. He just ran full
- 40:47
speed and just slid across the airport
- 40:49
floor and I made the mistake of laughing
- 40:52
and now he does it and it's it's that
- 40:55
bummer of I'm so sure the next time he
- 40:57
does it when we're with the whole family
- 41:00
Alexa will be like as you should cuz
- 41:01
they're filthy floors like don't do that
- 41:03
and he'll be like daddy liked it. Daddy
- 41:05
liked it. Yeah, I know. It's But that
- 41:08
sounds like sounds like a great move.
- 41:09
It's a He kind of without ever seeing an
- 41:12
old Did he end in like That's what I
- 41:13
mean. Without seeing an old break
- 41:14
dancing video, he really ends. He ended
- 41:16
with his with his head in his hands.
- 41:19
Yeah. The kid's funny kid. He's a funny
- 41:21
kid. He is a funny kid.
- 41:29
Okay. Speaking of funny, you're doing
- 41:31
you're performing with Oliver, John
- 41:32
Oliver. How do you like doing a show
- 41:35
with him and with somebody else? Like
- 41:37
you you stand up, you love it. So, well,
- 41:40
first of all, I really uh like John as a
- 41:43
person. And so, we have a friendship
- 41:45
where we would never see each other
- 41:46
socially. And so, just because of our
- 41:49
schedules and now we get to hang out
- 41:50
once a month, like one Sunday a month,
- 41:52
we like hang out and we get there for
- 41:54
soundcheck and then we have like an hour
- 41:56
uh to talk, which is great. And Brooks
- 41:58
Wheelen, who used to be on SNL, is our
- 42:00
opener. So, the three of us have a very
- 42:02
uh lovely relationship. The other thing
- 42:04
is, especially now because I had a
- 42:06
special come out and so I'm doing new
- 42:08
material and it's lovely to know that
- 42:10
the audience is getting John as well.
- 42:13
Well, I mean, I've never I never met
- 42:15
John. He seems lovely. I can I say
- 42:17
something? I feel like so few people
- 42:18
have both notes and the laptop.
- 42:23
You know what?
- 42:26
Okay, a couple things. Um, the laptop is
- 42:30
a uh is a prop. Yeah, this isn't made
- 42:34
out of chocolate. This is edible. When
- 42:36
it's over. So, Bill Simmons asked me
- 42:39
about the laptop and he was like, "Do
- 42:40
you need it?" And the reason why I like
- 42:43
the laptop is because I feel like I can
- 42:45
look things up very slowly, right? And
- 42:48
you know, and I can find things on here
- 42:50
that like for example, I can use this
- 42:52
laptop to Seth. What are you watching,
- 42:57
listening to? What do you where do you
- 43:00
go to escape? What do you do? Do you
- 43:01
watch something? Do you like the world
- 43:04
is on fire. Everything feels intense.
- 43:07
This podcast for me is an attempt to
- 43:09
just like try to connect in a fun dumb
- 43:13
way. What do you watch, do, see? I'm
- 43:14
going to answer your question and I'm
- 43:16
going to get on the laptop. Great. And
- 43:18
and for those that are listening, listen
- 43:20
to this.
- 43:22
But I want to say
- 43:25
so you got that from an old submarine.
- 43:29
I don't know why it's making that noise.
- 43:32
So wait, and that tells you where the
- 43:34
nearest submarine is.
- 43:38
I'm tracking my submarine.
- 43:41
This is I'm very excited about what's
- 43:43
happening right now with this podcast.
- 43:45
Thank you. No, but I think it's the
- 43:47
purest form of you. Thanks. From the
- 43:50
perspective of people who know you. Like
- 43:52
I you've like you've done great like
- 43:55
work everywhere. But like the amount of
- 43:56
people who said to me like, "Oh my god,
- 43:58
is she really like that?" Like people
- 44:00
love this so much. And it's such a joy
- 44:02
to be like, "Yes, this this podcast is
- 44:05
pure polar." Thank you for saying you
- 44:07
Leslie Nope's the best but like you're
- 44:08
cooler than Leslie do and well Leslie
- 44:12
work Leslie is harder a harder worker
- 44:15
than I am and she's less because you
- 44:16
have complained a lot to me about how
- 44:18
hard it is to do a podcast already and
- 44:20
you're like seven episodes in so tiring
- 44:22
like I'm literally exhausted Leslie Nope
- 44:25
would never never do five a day um she's
- 44:28
such a good listener too I think that's
- 44:30
why and so I'm very I think that this is
- 44:33
uh you know again that your skills as a
- 44:36
listener on full display and you're the
- 44:38
best audience. Like you've always been
- 44:39
such a good audience. Thanks, dude. I
- 44:40
feel the same way about you. I think
- 44:41
this is why your show is such an
- 44:43
incredible triumph is you are very very
- 44:46
good at making people feel like they're
- 44:49
being heard and you enjoy a good time.
- 44:52
Those two things are not like you need
- 44:54
those two things in a host and I love
- 44:56
people being the if anything you do to
- 44:58
facilitate them being the best version
- 45:00
of themselves is a a joy. But do you
- 45:02
ever feel when you're doing interviews
- 45:03
like do you ever check out and you like
- 45:05
oh [ __ ] I haven't been listening? No. I
- 45:07
think I take that part. So you do? Yeah.
- 45:10
I think the worst thing
- 45:12
my nightmare is um Yeah. I've been there
- 45:16
a couple times already. Really? Where
- 45:19
I've been thinking I've been future
- 45:20
tripping in my head about what I'm going
- 45:23
to say next and then someone's talking
- 45:24
and I'm like uhoh. Yeah. I didn't listen
- 45:27
to what they said. Yeah. So I think I
- 45:30
Yeah. Did you feel it at all? Well,
- 45:32
there were two times where people said a
- 45:33
really sad thing and you said, "Haha,
- 45:35
that's hilarious." Yeah. Like, I mean, I
- 45:38
said, "Lol, the Reddit the Reddit page
- 45:40
of this podcast is already like, "Oh my
- 45:42
god, she did it again." LOL. And then I
- 45:44
said, "Lots of love. Lots of love."
- 45:46
It is the save you. It's funny cuz you
- 45:48
both times thought you saved it and
- 45:50
everybody, what did you just see on your
- 45:52
You just My laptop is at the low
- 45:54
battery. It's about to run out. It's at
- 45:57
the lowest red line. I think obviously
- 46:00
the uh it took a lot of battery to make
- 46:02
that sound those sound effects.
- 46:05
That's just sucking that's sucking the
- 46:07
battery right out of that thing. So what
- 46:09
do you look at? I you know what I like
- 46:11
uh we we mentioned British people
- 46:13
pointing again. I like uh watching
- 46:16
British people break. Oo. Um there's
- 46:19
that like Jimmy Carr show. There's like
- 46:21
a panel show. I think it's called eight
- 46:23
out of 10 Cats. I've never watched a
- 46:25
full episode, but I keep getting served.
- 46:28
um like short clips of like um like
- 46:32
British panelists making other British
- 46:34
panelists laugh. I just like watching
- 46:35
British people break. I feel like See,
- 46:37
you're not better than us. You are such
- 46:38
you're such an angoplile. Yeah, you
- 46:40
really are. You You love Brits. I do.
- 46:43
So, you like people trying not to laugh
- 46:45
or just like those panel shows. Yeah. I
- 46:48
I mean in general I like you know it's
- 46:51
like watching an old Carol Brunette clip
- 46:54
but I do like corpse but I feel like
- 46:57
British people try really hard not to
- 46:59
break so when they break it I don't know
- 47:01
I I it brings me more satisfaction. Okay
- 47:03
so I have one last question s that's it.
- 47:05
I mean this has been just lovely has it?
- 47:07
Well you know what though? I do want to
- 47:08
talk to you about your podcast because
- 47:10
that podcast is one of my favorites. I
- 47:13
love those Lonely Island men boy man
- 47:17
boys. Man boys man boys. They were so
- 47:20
important to all of us. Yeah, they I
- 47:22
love the like memory lane that you guys
- 47:24
go down. But what is so funny to me
- 47:27
still is the way that everybody is
- 47:29
themselves on that podcast. Like the way
- 47:32
in which everybody shows up to it,
- 47:34
participates in it, what they remember,
- 47:36
how you guys interact with each other.
- 47:38
Like what is it like doing that with
- 47:39
them? It's so fun because
- 47:42
one, I love them so much and I can't
- 47:45
remember the last time all four of us
- 47:46
talked together or even had a meal
- 47:48
together. Yeah. And I've been saying
- 47:50
like, you know, there's so much written
- 47:51
about like how as men get older, they
- 47:53
have no friendships. So, you got to
- 47:56
start a podcast to all lonely men. Start
- 47:59
a podcast. Well, I think every man has
- 48:02
done that cuz every single podcast I see
- 48:04
is just filled with lonely men trying to
- 48:06
make friends. True story. During the
- 48:08
pandemic,
- 48:09
you remember my friend Doug Stradley?
- 48:11
Stradley. Straley the best. And Stradley
- 48:14
and I are in a fantasy football league.
- 48:16
We did a weekly podcast just about the
- 48:19
fantasy football league. Wow. That the
- 48:21
other 10 guys would listen to. That was
- 48:23
what we were doing during the pandemic.
- 48:24
And it was like and then when I started
- 48:27
doing professional podcasts, I had to
- 48:28
stop that one. And like to those 10
- 48:29
guys, they're like, "It's I mean, we
- 48:30
totally get it. You're doing real
- 48:32
podcast now, but man, we missed the we
- 48:34
missed the Straley podcast." Do you have
- 48:35
a lot of old college friends? I'm very I
- 48:38
got a good and you know improv friends
- 48:40
like I feel very lucky. Well, it's not
- 48:43
just lux. Yeah, I put a lot of work into
- 48:45
cultivating. You do and and that's what
- 48:47
Shoemaker and I were talking about is
- 48:48
the kind of friend you are. You are very
- 48:51
very good at friendship. You I feel like
- 48:53
it might be the thing I'm best. You are
- 48:55
excellent at friendship. What why is
- 48:58
friendship so important to you? What
- 48:59
does it do for you? What has it done for
- 49:00
you? I just love having
- 49:04
I thought I was out of the woods. For
- 49:07
those listening, I just want you to know
- 49:08
his eyes are glistening again. I just
- 49:11
love my friends and I've been so lucky
- 49:12
to have them. It's just the best. I feel
- 49:14
like I get so much more out of them than
- 49:16
I put into it. And what like what do
- 49:19
they do for you? Cuz some people
- 49:21
friendship is something that yes,
- 49:22
everybody loves friendship, but they
- 49:24
don't participate it in it the way you
- 49:26
do. You are a very loyal, consistent,
- 49:29
and um and and meticulous friend. You
- 49:33
pay attention to your friends. They feel
- 49:35
very seen by you. I can speak for
- 49:36
myself. And you get such delight in your
- 49:39
friendships. Well, I think that like
- 49:42
seen is a really good way to put it
- 49:43
because I like the way
- 49:46
I like who I am through my the eyes of
- 49:49
my friends. Mhm. So it would break my
- 49:51
heart to, you know, not be held in high
- 49:55
opinion by the people I care the most
- 49:57
about. You like how you feel when you
- 49:59
can see how they see you. I whenever I'm
- 50:01
like, how am I doing as a person? Like
- 50:03
when I take stock of who my friends are,
- 50:05
I feel very good about who I am as a
- 50:07
person. And you have a lot of female
- 50:08
friends. I do. Great. Like a great
- 50:11
number. I count myself as one of them.
- 50:14
women in your life who are your friend,
- 50:16
who you're deeply
- 50:18
uh uh uh uh tender to and very like you
- 50:22
really like take care of us and you care
- 50:24
about us and you like I mean you're the
- 50:26
only you and Shoemaker are the only men
- 50:28
they're ever allowed even close to a lot
- 50:31
of the SNL women we gather together as a
- 50:33
group and just recently we let you sit
- 50:35
with us for 30 minutes. Yeah. And then
- 50:38
we said, I think it might have been
- 50:40
maybe it was Tina, but Tina said, "Thank
- 50:42
you for coming." And also, "Thank you
- 50:43
for leaving." Yeah. Well, on the way
- 50:46
there, I said, "Seth, heads up. We're
- 50:48
meeting." And I think you have about a
- 50:50
half an hour window. And you said,
- 50:52
"Fine, I'll take that." And then we sat
- 50:54
down at the steakhouse and you hung. And
- 50:57
then Tina said, "And now it's time to
- 50:59
go." Yeah. Yeah. It was um Can I point
- 51:02
out my favorite observations about you
- 51:04
guys as a group? Yes.
- 51:06
You needed a second table
- 51:08
uh for all your jackets
- 51:11
and every one of you had two totes.
- 51:13
Yeah. And most of the meal again, I
- 51:16
think if people saw the seven women that
- 51:19
were there, they would be like, "Oh my
- 51:20
god, how funny was it?" And I would say
- 51:24
mostly they were looking through their
- 51:26
totes.
- 51:29
At at no point Mhm. were less than two
- 51:32
people looking through a tote for
- 51:34
something. Well, yeah, cuz we had put it
- 51:36
in the other tote. Comedy legends. Yeah.
- 51:39
Rustling through totes and it was like
- 51:41
hand it was a lot of hand me my tote and
- 51:43
it was like is this my tote? Lot of
- 51:45
matching totes. Mhm. Yeah. I think we
- 51:46
had gotten some totes. Matching totes
- 51:48
and puffy totes is how I would describe.
- 51:50
It was I mean it was the SNL 5th week
- 51:52
and it was very cold. It was also we
- 51:55
were all dealing with like a lot of
- 51:56
temperature. So our bodies, you know,
- 51:58
we're of a certain age. We get hot and
- 51:59
cold really fast. So it was a lot of
- 52:00
putting on coats, taking off coats. It
- 52:03
was a lot and a lot of like, oh my god,
- 52:04
I'm so hot and then taking the coat off
- 52:06
and then handing it to you to put at the
- 52:07
table. Every coat was louder than the
- 52:10
next coat. Just when you moved the coat
- 52:12
Mhm. It was uh like the sail of a
- 52:15
schooner which is like
- 52:18
[Music]
- 52:20
very hard to hear any conversation due
- 52:21
to the rustling which is weird because
- 52:23
we were shouting at each other. We do
- 52:25
shout at each other across the table
- 52:26
very loudly. Yeah. Also Paula within
- 52:30
Paula Pel within like 5 seconds had set
- 52:32
up a home office at a third table. She
- 52:34
you're right. She went she got a third
- 52:36
table because she had to do some
- 52:37
rewrites like real time rewrites on SNL
- 52:40
50th. She was immediately had like a a
- 52:43
laptop and also like a TV monitor. Yeah.
- 52:47
Hooked up. There's also when we all go
- 52:49
out, there's a ton of food panic. Yeah.
- 52:51
When are we going to get our food? Who
- 52:54
ordered? What should we order? And we
- 52:56
all fall into very specific categories
- 52:58
about like how fast we should order and
- 53:00
and there was a lot of talk about what
- 53:02
you guys were going to get. And as soon
- 53:03
as uh the server came over, the minute
- 53:07
they spoke, everybody forgot everything
- 53:08
that had been agreed upon. Yeah. And uh
- 53:11
because it went right back to square
- 53:13
one. Yeah. And don't forget, you know,
- 53:15
I'm a woman of a certain age. I need
- 53:16
like 85 grams of protein a day. So we
- 53:19
were just like, how many steaks do we
- 53:22
need to get like 40 stakes? They put us
- 53:24
in a private room where you could have a
- 53:27
wedding. That's how big it was. Yeah.
- 53:29
They knew what they were dealing with.
- 53:31
And yet within like 10 minutes, I
- 53:33
thought we might need a second room. The
- 53:35
sprawl. Well, luckily in 10 minutes, we
- 53:38
asked you to leave.
- 53:40
because it was enough time. It was so
- 53:44
it was so much you that putting on and
- 53:46
taking off coat sometimes I think of an
- 53:47
SNL sketch just at the table that for
- 53:52
whatever reason stays with me forever.
- 53:53
Do you remember Fred did a sketch once
- 53:55
where he was someone at a dinner party
- 53:57
who kept taking off and putting on his
- 54:00
scarf. Yeah. Yes. The longest scarf. It
- 54:02
was a really long scarf and he kept
- 54:03
being like, "Oh my god, it's so hot."
- 54:05
and he would take it off and it was like
- 54:06
he had to like loop it around his head
- 54:08
and he had a practical scarf and he loop
- 54:10
it around his head like 10 times while
- 54:11
everybody waited and then he'd start
- 54:12
telling a story. He's like, "Oh my god,
- 54:14
it gets so chilly." And then just
- 54:15
looping
- 54:17
I think about it all the time. Like did
- 54:18
he make it on air? No. And I but I can't
- 54:21
I think about it all the time. Mhm.
- 54:23
Also, uh Fred I think Anilda was his Do
- 54:25
you remember his stenographer course
- 54:27
stenographer character? Oh yeah. And it
- 54:29
was it had a name. I think her name
- 54:32
stenographer had a name. I think Anilda.
- 54:34
Anilda, I think. I'm not sure. Okay.
- 54:36
Typed like this. Oh, kind of a little
- 54:39
bit like this. It was a lot like that.
- 54:40
But also
- 54:42
paused the trial a lot to look through
- 54:45
her bag. Mhm. And just would say over
- 54:47
and over, I can't find my chapstick. I
- 54:50
can't find my chapstick. I would say I
- 54:52
don't see a scarf without thinking about
- 54:53
the first one or hear somebody say
- 54:55
chapstick without thinking about the
- 54:56
second. The uh Fred Armison is like we
- 54:59
talk about him all the time on here.
- 55:01
like he is truly like the funniest of
- 55:02
the funny people. I think I'm actually
- 55:04
going to see Fred this weekend. Tina and
- 55:05
I are going to do a show. I don't know
- 55:07
when this will come out. Your your
- 55:09
people uh said they were going to review
- 55:11
it and see if it's if it's good enough.
- 55:14
I got to run it by like a bunch of
- 55:15
lawyers and stuff. Yeah. But um I got a
- 55:17
cry guy. He's going to make some cuts.
- 55:19
Cry Guy is going to make some cuts.
- 55:22
He's like a super jacked. He's like most
- 55:24
He makes my protein shakes every morning
- 55:26
and he's like you got to stop crying on
- 55:27
these pods, man. How many times you cry?
- 55:29
And you're like, "Three." And he's like,
- 55:30
"Three? Give me the tape." He's like,
- 55:34
"We've been working on one, bro. You get
- 55:36
one cry a day, bro." And then the worst
- 55:38
is he's so mean. And then I just start
- 55:39
to tear up. Yeah. And then it's like
- 55:41
just awful. And then I will say he's
- 55:44
like, "I'm sorry. I'm sorry." He's
- 55:45
really sweet. He's really sweet. He's
- 55:47
like, "Oh my god, I'm like I'm the I'm
- 55:49
the root of the problem. I'm supposed to
- 55:51
be here to solve the problem." That's
- 55:52
why I've called the cry guy. Yeah. And
- 55:53
then he gives me a big hug and like
- 55:54
broke my rib. He's so jacked. squeezes
- 55:57
all the tears out, puts them in a cup,
- 55:58
and drinks it. Um, so can men and women
- 56:02
be friends? No. Yeah, they can't. All
- 56:04
right. Well, um,
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[Music]
- 56:07
[Laughter]
- 56:10
Seth, I love you so much. I love you,
- 56:11
too. This has been so fun. Thank you for
- 56:13
doing it. Let's get our glasses on. I'm
- 56:15
going to take this with me cuz I know
- 56:17
what people can do with DNA.
- 56:20
[ __ ] don't want to come back here
- 56:21
next time. You're okay.
- 56:25
I'm like, "This is your child." You're
- 56:27
like, "What? What?" I just cried a
- 56:29
little bit. I'm like, "We get to
- 56:31
pre-board at the airport now with your
- 56:34
child that I got from a tissue." Um,
- 56:37
anyway, I love you so much. I love you
- 56:39
in LA. This was a good hang. Such a good
- 56:42
hang. And I I can't wait to come back
- 56:44
and do your stuff. Although you guys
- 56:45
don't really have guests, but uh Oh,
- 56:47
yes. I thought you meant my talk show
- 56:49
and I'm like, "Yeah, we do.
- 56:53
Do you want to guess uh my brother's
- 56:55
middle name
- 56:58
people? I think people are disappointed
- 57:00
that was just the one. Christopher.
- 57:03
Fine.
- 57:08
Well, that was a great podcast with my
- 57:10
old buddy Seth Myers, who I love talking
- 57:13
about the past with and I love talking
- 57:15
about the present with and the future.
- 57:17
And um you know, I just wanted to take
- 57:19
this minute to plug the stuff that he's
- 57:21
doing. Um and he and he told me if I
- 57:24
didn't do it, he would sue me. So um uh
- 57:27
Family Trips, his podcast with his
- 57:30
brother Josh Dylan Meyers.
- 57:33
Um great hilarious stories about family
- 57:36
trips and what ensues. And then uh the
- 57:39
Lonely Island and Seth Myers podcast is
- 57:42
a great podcast to listen to if you care
- 57:44
about the minutia of SNL and how it's
- 57:46
made and all the guests that came
- 57:49
through. Those guys are the best and
- 57:50
it's so fun listening to them and I
- 57:52
listen to them every week. And um check
- 57:55
those two things out and thank you Seth
- 57:58
for joining us and thank you for
- 58:00
listening and never know how to end
- 58:02
these things. Okay, bye.
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You've been listening to Good Hang. The
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executive producers for this show are
- 58:10
Bill Simmons, Jenna Weiss Berman, and
- 58:11
me, Amy Per. The show is produced by The
- 58:14
Ringer and Paperkite. For The Ringer,
- 58:16
production by Jack Wilson, Cat Spelain,
- 58:18
Kaia McMullen, and Alia Zanerys. For
- 58:21
Paperkite, production by Sam Green, Joel
- 58:24
Levelvel, and Jenna Weiss Berman.
- 58:25
Original music by Amy Miles.
- 58:29
really good. Hey