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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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    What do you say?

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    All I ever wanted was a really good

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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

  329. 12:42

    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

  372. 14:24

    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

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    hopeful. We were going to also name a

  379. 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,

  397. 15:19

    Adam. Adam. Sure. That makes sense.

  398. 15:25

    Okay. Seth Adam Myers, when did we first

  399. 15:28

    meet? Well, I remember the first time we

  400. 15:31

    met probably better than you remember

  401. 15:33

    the first time we met, which is I was at

  402. 15:36

    IO improve. Improv Olympic. Yeah. And uh

  403. 15:40

    there was a Herald show. Mhm. Which is a

  404. 15:44

    improv show and there used to be two

  405. 15:45

    different teams and there would in the

  406. 15:46

    middle there would be the dream. Yes.

  407. 15:49

    That's what you want. Which was an

  408. 15:49

    improvised game where somebody from the

  409. 15:50

    audience would come up, somebody on

  410. 15:52

    stage would interview them about their

  411. 15:53

    day and then the two improv

  412. 15:56

    teams would improvise what their dream

  413. 15:58

    would look like. And I came up on stage

  414. 16:01

    and you interviewed me and it was not

  415. 16:03

    during a show with me and Tina. It was I

  416. 16:05

    also saw the show with you and Tina. You

  417. 16:07

    saw it? Okay. Right. But we didn't call

  418. 16:08

    you up, right? So I interviewed about

  419. 16:11

    you about your day and we did not know

  420. 16:13

    each other. We did not know each other.

  421. 16:14

    I was a fan of yours and it was very

  422. 16:16

    exciting to get interviewed by you. Then

  423. 16:18

    the next time the next time we spoke was

  424. 16:20

    after we both got hired. Do you believe

  425. 16:22

    in the simulation? Do you believe that

  426. 16:23

    like there's some kind of universal

  427. 16:26

    thing where like basically that people

  428. 16:28

    come in and out of your life in

  429. 16:29

    different ways and you didn't really I

  430. 16:31

    do a little bit. Yeah. Me too because

  431. 16:32

    that's a very simulation thing. Can I

  432. 16:34

    tell you though something? Yesterday I

  433. 16:37

    got the same Uber driver on backtoback

  434. 16:39

    days in Giant City Los Angeles.

  435. 16:44

    And I got in the car and I was like,

  436. 16:46

    "Can you believe this?" And it meant

  437. 16:47

    nothing to him. And I was so I It was so

  438. 16:51

    disappointing. Yeah. Did you What's his

  439. 16:53

    name? Well, that was a thing. Oh, you

  440. 16:54

    didn't even find out. No, I know. That's

  441. 16:56

    why I remembered. His name was Mush.

  442. 16:58

    Mush. M U S H. So, I might be saying it

  443. 17:01

    wrong, but like Wow. So, that's one of

  444. 17:03

    the reasons I was like, you can't there

  445. 17:04

    can't be two, right? And I was like,

  446. 17:05

    hey, Mush, I'm back. You said I'm back.

  447. 17:08

    Yeah, it did feel like a curb episode

  448. 17:12

    where I was a very frustrated Larry

  449. 17:13

    David like mush. Hey, remember me? And

  450. 17:16

    he's like, "No, I'm just trying to get

  451. 17:18

    you to the Grove." Yeah. Okay. So, we

  452. 17:20

    And then the dream happened. We

  453. 17:23

    improvised your day. Y cut to you and I

  454. 17:27

    starting at the same time at SNL. People

  455. 17:29

    People may not know this, but we were

  456. 17:31

    both there post 911 and our first show

  457. 17:35

    was two weeks after it and there was

  458. 17:37

    like a very interesting We were part of

  459. 17:39

    a a freshman class. It was four people

  460. 17:42

    got hired. Yeah. It was who was it? Dean

  461. 17:45

    Edwards. Yep. Jeff Richards. Yeah. You

  462. 17:47

    and I. Yeah. And then for writers,

  463. 17:50

    Spivey. Emily Spivey. Max Brooks. Yes.

  464. 17:54

    Charlie Grandandy started with us. Yeah.

  465. 17:57

    And we all kind of came in together and

  466. 17:59

    we kind of met in Shoemakaker's office

  467. 18:02

    as a lot of young young new people did

  468. 18:04

    to like kind of get the lay of the land.

  469. 18:06

    But I think we might have like met each

  470. 18:09

    I don't Yes. I'm going to say something

  471. 18:11

    and hopefully I won't

  472. 18:13

    get too emotional saying it, but I

  473. 18:14

    remember like getting hired at SNL was

  474. 18:16

    already cry cry. Oh my god, sounds I'm

  475. 18:18

    gonna put on my glasses. This will make

  476. 18:19

    it. No, but like I remember getting

  477. 18:21

    hired at SNL was like already like but

  478. 18:23

    they said and Amy Polar also got hired

  479. 18:25

    and I was like, "Oh, I felt even

  480. 18:26

    elevated that I was like, "Oh, I'm in

  481. 18:29

    Amy Polar's class." You know what I

  482. 18:31

    mean? Yeah. For those that can't see,

  483. 18:34

    Seth has tears in his eyes. I don't

  484. 18:35

    think I do, but I feel You almost cried.

  485. 18:37

    You're such a crier. Oh, I'm such a

  486. 18:39

    crier. You love to cry any I love to

  487. 18:42

    cry. I'm going to make you cry. I I I

  488. 18:44

    also only cry historically about stuff

  489. 18:48

    that makes me happy.

  490. 18:51

    Say more. What do you mean? Well, like I

  491. 18:53

    don't think I cry a lot when I'm sad.

  492. 18:54

    When you're sad? Yeah. Well, like I know

  493. 18:55

    a lot of people are like, "God forbid

  494. 18:56

    you express how you feel when you're

  495. 18:58

    sad." No, when I'm sad I think it's like

  496. 19:01

    turn into a rock. Like Yeah. Little rock

  497. 19:02

    little rock guy. Little rock guy that

  498. 19:05

    everybody loves loves the company of

  499. 19:06

    rock man.

  500. 19:08

    Okay. So, we started SNL the same time.

  501. 19:10

    Y and speaking of that time,

  502. 19:14

    um, you know, I Okay, I love your

  503. 19:17

    podcast. I've told you this. I've been

  504. 19:18

    on them. I've participated in them. You

  505. 19:20

    do family trips with the great Josh

  506. 19:22

    Meyers, your brother and partner on that

  507. 19:25

    podcast. And you do, what's it called?

  508. 19:28

    Seth, the Seth Myers, the Lonely Island,

  509. 19:30

    and Seth Myers. Seth Myers podcast. It

  510. 19:31

    was only fair to put them first as we're

  511. 19:33

    really only talking about their look.

  512. 19:35

    Well, but and that podcast is

  513. 19:36

    incredible. It's a joy. It's so good. I

  514. 19:38

    want to talk to you about it. But that

  515. 19:40

    but on both of them, you have like as

  516. 19:44

    I've listened, you slowly un like I've

  517. 19:47

    learned something about you that I don't

  518. 19:49

    think I really took in, which was those

  519. 19:51

    early years were harder for you than I

  520. 19:54

    thought.

  521. 19:55

    They were so hard. I know. Crying was so

  522. 19:59

    But I would have guessed the two people

  523. 20:01

    who knew the most would have been you

  524. 20:02

    and Shoemaker. So, I am but I will say I

  525. 20:05

    am happy that I kept it hidden the way

  526. 20:09

    that I did cuz I don't I I don't think

  527. 20:12

    like um

  528. 20:15

    when you present the feelings that I was

  529. 20:17

    having at SNL I think that that is not a

  530. 20:20

    a vibe that people want to like be

  531. 20:22

    around. Right. And it and it is it can

  532. 20:25

    become like a little bit of a

  533. 20:26

    self-fulfilling prophecy. So, what was

  534. 20:28

    the vibe then if you were to distill it

  535. 20:30

    down? What was the feeling then? I just

  536. 20:32

    felt as though they'd made a terrible

  537. 20:34

    mistake, right? Like just full imposttor

  538. 20:35

    syndrome. And I showed up and pretty

  539. 20:38

    quickly, I think, you know, to go back

  540. 20:40

    to what I said, like I was so excited,

  541. 20:43

    you know, oh my god, I'm they're hiring

  542. 20:44

    me at the same time as Amy Polar. And

  543. 20:45

    then you walk down the hallway and

  544. 20:46

    you're like, oh my god, I'm in the same

  545. 20:47

    show as Will Frell and and Chris Katan

  546. 20:50

    and Tracy Morgan and you're like, look,

  547. 20:52

    I'm one of them. And then you realize

  548. 20:53

    like no, like you then have to like do

  549. 20:56

    the work and show that you're, you know,

  550. 20:58

    at the same level. And those early years

  551. 21:00

    as well, I just had that sense of I can

  552. 21:04

    write for this show, but like I don't

  553. 21:07

    know if they actually like need what I

  554. 21:10

    bring as a performer to this show. And I

  555. 21:12

    don't feel like I was being hard on

  556. 21:13

    myself either. There was a there were a

  557. 21:15

    lot of guys in your time like a lot of

  558. 21:18

    Well, in the early days it was it felt

  559. 21:22

    as though I could see the road ahead of

  560. 21:23

    me cuz I forgot that thing which is when

  561. 21:27

    people like Will Ferrell and Jimmy

  562. 21:30

    Fallon leave Katan that doesn't mean

  563. 21:32

    like you get their parts because they

  564. 21:34

    also hire people behind you. And that

  565. 21:36

    was for me the real crisis of confidence

  566. 21:38

    was and again you know I say this these

  567. 21:41

    are dear friends these are people I'm

  568. 21:42

    huge fans of but like when like Sedakas

  569. 21:44

    and Samberg and Fred and Will and Hater

  570. 21:46

    rolled through. Yeah. And I would be

  571. 21:49

    writing sketches

  572. 21:51

    knowing that if I was not a cast member

  573. 21:54

    I would not write for me. Like if if it

  574. 21:56

    wasn't my job to take care of myself and

  575. 21:58

    I just wanted my sketch to air I would

  576. 22:00

    be my sixth choice too. So I, you know,

  577. 22:03

    early on I kind of wanted to like blame

  578. 22:04

    the writing staff for not putting me in

  579. 22:05

    things and I'm like, "Oh, I mean you if

  580. 22:08

    you have this toolbox at your disposal,

  581. 22:09

    I understand that." Well, I think that's

  582. 22:10

    what's so wonderful about you and also

  583. 22:12

    what can be painful is you're not you're

  584. 22:14

    not a really you're not a diluted

  585. 22:15

    person. No, you do not you don't have

  586. 22:17

    the like warm bath of delusion, right?

  587. 22:20

    That some people are like, "Ah, you are

  588. 22:23

    a very realistic person." So, you're

  589. 22:24

    able to look at things very

  590. 22:25

    realistically and be like, "I have to

  591. 22:27

    figure this out." Yes. And I did feel

  592. 22:29

    that vibe. Okay. So, we do this thing on

  593. 22:31

    our show where we ask people uh

  594. 22:33

    beforehand um to um give me questions

  595. 22:36

    for the guest. So, I talked to

  596. 22:38

    Shoemaker. Okay. Good. Good pick. Yeah,

  597. 22:40

    of course. I knew I would like He is

  598. 22:42

    technically your It would have been so

  599. 22:44

    funny was like I I'm a little tired of

  600. 22:46

    talking about Seth. He's in the Cayman

  601. 22:49

    Islands right now. So, we got him when

  602. 22:50

    he was on vacation and um I by the way

  603. 22:53

    called him on the way here. He just

  604. 22:54

    texted me and said, I'm ghosting Seth,

  605. 22:56

    so tell me when you're done. He didn't

  606. 22:59

    fully ghosted me. Yeah. He said, "I'm

  607. 23:00

    not picking up." And then I was like,

  608. 23:01

    "Oh, well, he's" And then when you said

  609. 23:03

    you were talking to him, like obviously

  610. 23:04

    you called him before he was in the

  611. 23:05

    Cayman Islands. But no, no, he just

  612. 23:07

    picked up purely ghosted you. I mean,

  613. 23:09

    and you two are like in another life.

  614. 23:13

    You are brothers in arms. You are each

  615. 23:16

    other, you know, like if you believe in

  616. 23:17

    I mean, I'm pretty good with what we are

  617. 23:19

    in this life. I think it's I mean, he is

  618. 23:21

    as close as I could be to a a person.

  619. 23:25

    Yeah. you have an amazing friendship and

  620. 23:28

    he has he gave me a question to ask you

  621. 23:30

    that I love so much is the best question

  622. 23:32

    of course cuz Shoemaker is such a good

  623. 23:33

    producer and and writer and friend but

  624. 23:36

    he gave me I think the best question

  625. 23:38

    I've been given yet now I've only done

  626. 23:39

    like six episodes so um but um but he

  627. 23:44

    did while he was on with you did the

  628. 23:47

    doorbell ring and did a thousand dogs

  629. 23:50

    bark thank you again for doing that by

  630. 23:54

    the way I owe all of you a lot. I mean,

  631. 23:56

    I owe Dra like half of this the money. I

  632. 23:59

    feel like it's the movie I've been in

  633. 24:01

    that I get the most feedback on.

  634. 24:04

    I think that like that's 60 seconds. The

  635. 24:06

    amount in the last month people been

  636. 24:08

    like, "Oh my god, I can't stop watching

  637. 24:09

    the clip." I can't either. I where

  638. 24:12

    Drach's headphones tangle and then the

  639. 24:14

    doorbell rings. It's like watching a

  640. 24:17

    oneperson show. It is. It is like

  641. 24:19

    watching a like a Broadway like a a

  642. 24:23

    clown on stage like a farce. It's like

  643. 24:25

    somebody said do noises off in a minute

  644. 24:28

    just you. And people don't know we cut

  645. 24:31

    so much out of that because Dra couldn't

  646. 24:33

    get her headphones truly untangled for

  647. 24:35

    minutes and then couldn't figure out how

  648. 24:38

    to plug it in and then they weren't

  649. 24:39

    working and then the doorbell rang. So

  650. 24:40

    we cut a lot out. Yeah. And then her

  651. 24:42

    laptop died. She was carrying around

  652. 24:44

    like a a pizza box around her whole

  653. 24:46

    apartment. And thank God for you because

  654. 24:47

    you were the only one that was trying to

  655. 24:49

    keep it going cuz Fred Fred's just

  656. 24:52

    watching. Oh yeah, Fred. Zo was was on

  657. 24:54

    set I think so she could barely hear and

  658. 24:57

    you were like so how's it going Amy? I

  659. 25:00

    was like it's going good. I think it's

  660. 25:02

    going good so far. Oh Dr. Um, okay. But

  661. 25:05

    Shu, nice try trying to, um, fake me out

  662. 25:07

    so that I don't ask you this question.

  663. 25:09

    But, um, uh, Shu said, "Let me ask you

  664. 25:12

    this, which is

  665. 25:15

    I would agree that in those early years,

  666. 25:18

    him and I saw something in you.

  667. 25:22

    We kind of invested early in the Seth

  668. 25:24

    Meyers Corporation.

  669. 25:27

    What do you Oh my god, I'm getting him

  670. 25:29

    to cry. Oh my god, you guys. I wish we

  671. 25:31

    could zoom in.

  672. 25:36

    This is my dream come true. I'm getting

  673. 25:38

    you to cry. Okay. There's so many. This

  674. 25:41

    is specific kink that people are This

  675. 25:43

    is, you know, people are going to This

  676. 25:46

    is like a kink.

  677. 25:50

    Okay. Wait, wait, wait. We have tissues.

  678. 25:54

    We have tissues. Where are they, Sam? Oh

  679. 25:57

    my god. Thank you, Sam.

  680. 26:00

    [Music]

  681. 26:02

    You've connected. You've connected. Oh

  682. 26:04

    my god. This is what the show's always.

  683. 26:06

    If you have this, this is what this is a

  684. 26:08

    trap. I just want to remind you we only

  685. 26:10

    have a few minutes left with our session

  686. 26:12

    and everyone else. All it is with Jack

  687. 26:14

    Black is like your joy.

  688. 26:16

    Talking to Ike about restaurants.

  689. 26:20

    [Laughter]

  690. 26:23

    What is going everything? Is this not

  691. 26:25

    even a podcast? This is like the just s

  692. 26:28

    six fake episode traps. If you look past

  693. 26:30

    the camera, there's a bunch of friends

  694. 26:31

    and family that love you and want to

  695. 26:33

    talk to you about something. Oh my god.

  696. 26:34

    We just think you need to get some help.

  697. 26:36

    And we we just using this opportunity.

  698. 26:39

    Okay. What's the help here? And if you

  699. 26:42

    need to squeeze this cheeseburger, you

  700. 26:43

    can.

  701. 26:47

    This will help. What is it? What? What

  702. 26:49

    do you mean? What is You know, this is

  703. 26:51

    all fake food. What? What is this

  704. 26:54

    podcast? I've listened to every episode.

  705. 26:56

    I have a real sense of it. I'm like,

  706. 26:57

    it's food based.

  707. 26:59

    Okay. Okay. If you get nervous, just

  708. 27:02

    talk just talk into the talk into these

  709. 27:04

    bananas. Okay.

  710. 27:07

    But what do you think Shoemaker and I

  711. 27:11

    what do you think we saw in you? I this

  712. 27:13

    is very un I feel again this is very

  713. 27:15

    unfair. Um I don't

  714. 27:20

    I don't know. I mean like to be honest

  715. 27:22

    like

  716. 27:24

    one of the things that I feel most

  717. 27:26

    grateful for is I don't know. M I didn't

  718. 27:28

    see it. Yeah.

  719. 27:30

    So, um I know to this day like I don't

  720. 27:34

    make it on that show without you guys. I

  721. 27:36

    And I think that uh

  722. 27:39

    I was very lucky that Lauren

  723. 27:42

    saw me through your eyes and she's eyes

  724. 27:45

    because I don't know if I you know what

  725. 27:46

    again like I don't feel like um I feel

  726. 27:49

    like Lauren has been uh is is obviously

  727. 27:51

    a fan of mine now and has a lot of faith

  728. 27:53

    in me but like that can I think you're

  729. 27:55

    okay. He thinks you're fine. Is this

  730. 27:57

    where is this a quote? He sent me a I

  731. 27:59

    said I'm I'm interviewing Seth today and

  732. 28:01

    he went, "Oh, Seth's fine. He's okay."

  733. 28:05

    That's what he said. Did you

  734. 28:08

    The Lauren gave a quote in the New York

  735. 28:10

    Times about me. Yeah, please say it

  736. 28:12

    again. It's so good. Genuine like two

  737. 28:13

    quotes that are like insanely It's all I

  738. 28:17

    heard from everybody in our world was

  739. 28:19

    how [ __ ] funny the Lauren quotes

  740. 28:20

    were. One was I love Seth or I care for

  741. 28:25

    him or whatever it is you're allowed to

  742. 28:27

    say these days,

  743. 28:29

    which is the it's the funniest. I'm like

  744. 28:31

    I think you misunderstand whatever you

  745. 28:33

    think woke is, you're allowed to say you

  746. 28:36

    love a male friend.

  747. 28:38

    Like he's like I love you like

  748. 28:41

    backtracked like he's like I want to get

  749. 28:42

    cancelled.

  750. 28:44

    I don't want to get caught loving loving

  751. 28:47

    my friend. And then the the reporter was

  752. 28:49

    like Seth's really good at it. I I think

  753. 28:51

    Seth's a really gifted impressionist and

  754. 28:52

    he's like I don't know if I'd go that

  755. 28:54

    far

  756. 28:55

    and I believe he said I think he's fine

  757. 28:58

    which is the best the best gifted was a

  758. 29:01

    little over the top. Yeah. So um when we

  759. 29:03

    did update together which was so fun in

  760. 29:06

    so in a million different ways and there

  761. 29:08

    was like when I think about us being at

  762. 29:10

    the desk together I think of two things.

  763. 29:12

    One I had ease because I had gotten to

  764. 29:14

    do with Tina like I just genuinely felt

  765. 29:18

    a little more relaxed. I was so um

  766. 29:21

    trying to figure out how to do this

  767. 29:23

    thing when I was doing it with Tina who

  768. 29:24

    had done it with Jim. Like we it was

  769. 29:26

    like this passing. But what we also got

  770. 29:29

    to do to got to do together in real time

  771. 29:32

    was like figure out how we were going to

  772. 29:35

    do it together. Yeah. and the way in

  773. 29:38

    which we're going to do it and because

  774. 29:39

    you and Shoemaker and and you know

  775. 29:43

    previously like Mike Sher and Alex Bass

  776. 29:46

    you know I was right like the team was

  777. 29:48

    so strong of update writers and people

  778. 29:52

    it just felt like you were in a club

  779. 29:54

    within a club you were on SNL but then

  780. 29:57

    you also got another secret key

  781. 30:00

    and I know we talked about it being on

  782. 30:01

    update you could relax that you were

  783. 30:03

    actually going to be on the show yeah

  784. 30:05

    that made such a difference. We talked

  785. 30:07

    about this recently, I think, in the

  786. 30:08

    Lonely Island pod, but I remember Andy

  787. 30:10

    wrote this sketch called That'll Move

  788. 30:13

    the Chains where he was a kid in and uh

  789. 30:16

    like in the booth of a football game and

  790. 30:18

    he kept saying that'll move the chains

  791. 30:20

    and it worked. It was fine. Uh it was

  792. 30:23

    very funny. I'm I'm underelling it. But

  793. 30:24

    then he came in my office like a month

  794. 30:26

    later. He goes, "I think we're going to

  795. 30:27

    write another that'll move the chains."

  796. 30:28

    And I said, "Another?" Cuz it just

  797. 30:31

    struck me It didn't strike me as a

  798. 30:32

    recurring character. Yeah. And I just

  799. 30:34

    said another. And he goes, "Not

  800. 30:35

    everybody has update every week." I was

  801. 30:37

    like, "All right." Like when you Cuz

  802. 30:39

    again, I got to go from that thing of

  803. 30:40

    like desperately fighting to find a way

  804. 30:42

    to have a reason to get into hair and

  805. 30:44

    makeup on Saturday to having update.

  806. 30:46

    Yes. And then also you got to say your

  807. 30:48

    name. Got to say my name. Obviously not

  808. 30:50

    my middle name. Nope. Never saw your

  809. 30:53

    name. Never said your middle name. Can I

  810. 30:54

    I feel like the most

  811. 30:56

    uh tense

  812. 30:58

    our

  813. 31:00

    uh uh chemistry I ever had was uh

  814. 31:03

    mornings update mornings bagel times.

  815. 31:06

    Yeah, cuz someone had pre-split the

  816. 31:08

    jokes and then there were a few like

  817. 31:10

    left over that we both wanted and I feel

  818. 31:13

    like there was a real dance of

  819. 31:15

    interesting. I would say that I thought

  820. 31:17

    I would have hidden that but that's

  821. 31:19

    probably true. I think we were like are

  822. 31:21

    you going to take that joke? Yeah. M hm

  823. 31:23

    I wonder who takes the good joke here.

  824. 31:25

    Um my here's how I saw it from you. It's

  825. 31:28

    like hm that feels like a Amy joke.

  826. 31:33

    Do you want it? I'm like and I be and

  827. 31:35

    I'd be like I mean I would love it. It

  828. 31:37

    would mean a lot to me as a friend. I'm

  829. 31:38

    asking for it. You're like it's a real

  830. 31:39

    Amy joke. I just feel like it's going to

  831. 31:41

    kind of flop. And then I would go I hex

  832. 31:43

    this joke. I would hex it. Yeah. You

  833. 31:45

    would hex it. I would I curse you and I

  834. 31:46

    curse you. And when I when if I the few

  835. 31:48

    times you let me have it, you would be

  836. 31:50

    off camera while I was telling it going

  837. 31:54

    thumbs down. Um I don't remember us ever

  838. 31:58

    fighting at all. That was it. It was

  839. 31:59

    just that like where we did we did

  840. 32:01

    argue. I would say that one of the

  841. 32:04

    things like I don't think we ever got

  842. 32:05

    into a we never were but we like to I

  843. 32:08

    mean look really came out of that right

  844. 32:11

    like this. We like to be frustrated and

  845. 32:13

    irritated and I don't mind being

  846. 32:16

    frustrated and irritated with people

  847. 32:17

    that I'm close to. That is like a way of

  848. 32:19

    My favorite thing is when you and I feel

  849. 32:22

    very differently about a movie or a TV

  850. 32:23

    show. Yeah. Like that when we have

  851. 32:26

    different opinions about something cuz

  852. 32:29

    it's very fun when you're mad about

  853. 32:31

    something. Okay. So, with that in mind,

  854. 32:32

    I'm going to give you a couple of

  855. 32:33

    things. I want to know your opinion on

  856. 32:34

    it. Okay.

  857. 32:37

    The beach. Oh, I'm not a huge fan. I'm

  858. 32:40

    coming around on the beach just because

  859. 32:42

    my kids like it, but given a choice, it

  860. 32:45

    would be one of the last places I would

  861. 32:47

    be. What do you What do you not like

  862. 32:49

    about it? What are you going to do there

  863. 32:51

    that wouldn't be better anywhere else?

  864. 32:52

    Like see the ocean. See the ocean, but

  865. 32:56

    like you can see the ocean from uh like

  866. 32:58

    a porch somewhere, right? Like there's

  867. 33:00

    there's a lot of vantage points on the

  868. 33:02

    ocean that are not in sand. You don't

  869. 33:04

    like the sand. Like you have a sensory

  870. 33:06

    thing. I It's just Here's the thing. I

  871. 33:09

    everybody wants to go to the beach, then

  872. 33:11

    I go to the beach and then they're like,

  873. 33:12

    "Get the sand off." Like the amount

  874. 33:14

    they're like, "Don't get sand in the

  875. 33:15

    car." I'm like, "I didn't even want to

  876. 33:16

    come here."

  877. 33:18

    You know what I mean? Like I was so

  878. 33:20

    happy. You could have left me where I

  879. 33:21

    was. The sand would never have been a

  880. 33:23

    problem. Mhm. So no. I love the beach

  881. 33:26

    and that's where we disagree. I

  882. 33:28

    no interest. No. Yeah. Have you? No.

  883. 33:31

    Yeah. I that one feels like the combo of

  884. 33:34

    I always feel like there's a white

  885. 33:36

    bucket around that people are puking in

  886. 33:38

    and I'm always like first of all let's I

  887. 33:39

    don't know decorate the buckets or

  888. 33:42

    something like it just feels so weird to

  889. 33:44

    not decorate the buckets like it just

  890. 33:46

    seems like very stressful. Can I say

  891. 33:47

    that I think you might be the only

  892. 33:49

    person to have this bounce on Iaska is

  893. 33:50

    that they don't decorate the buckets the

  894. 33:52

    buckets and also other people. Yeah. I

  895. 33:58

    mean, I guess maybe, but like maybe if I

  896. 34:00

    could do it if I had like a IKA guy,

  897. 34:03

    like a private guy, but it seems like

  898. 34:05

    you have to do it with a bunch of other

  899. 34:06

    people. There's also I feel like I've

  900. 34:08

    known a few people who've done it and

  901. 34:10

    they tell you it's changed their life

  902. 34:11

    and then you like talk to them three

  903. 34:12

    months later and they seem a lot like

  904. 34:14

    they were before. They bounce right

  905. 34:17

    back. They bounce right back to it.

  906. 34:19

    Turns out once the IASK is out of their

  907. 34:21

    system, how do you feel about getting

  908. 34:23

    older? Um,

  909. 34:25

    that's a good question. I turned 50 last

  910. 34:28

    year. Congrats. And thank you. I turned

  911. 34:30

    51 this year. So I'm You didn't

  912. 34:33

    celebrate prop. I like it's Look, I'm in

  913. 34:36

    that dead no bars sell service December

  914. 34:40

    28th. There's no room for somebody like

  915. 34:43

    me to have a birthday and I'm fine with

  916. 34:45

    it. It's been my whole life. Why don't

  917. 34:46

    you have a birthday like like a half

  918. 34:48

    birthday when you're 51 or something? I

  919. 34:51

    know that's even as I said it sounds so

  920. 34:53

    stupid. We all got that invite. be like

  921. 34:55

    a Okay, he lost his mind. Um, I felt

  922. 34:59

    totally fine turning 50, but then I

  923. 35:02

    think part of it was because it was 50,

  924. 35:04

    I was like taking stock and I'm like

  925. 35:06

    this is, you know what, I would be very

  926. 35:07

    happy if I knew all these things were

  927. 35:09

    going to happen to me by the time it's

  928. 35:11

    50, this is really good. With that said,

  929. 35:12

    like I think

  930. 35:15

    the as it's like 51 and a half or

  931. 35:18

    whatever it is now, I'm like, h, yeah,

  932. 35:19

    no, I don't dig this as much. Here's

  933. 35:21

    that thing that happened to me the other

  934. 35:22

    day. Stop pointing.

  935. 35:25

    Seth's pointing at me.

  936. 35:28

    Don't point my French bread at me. Um,

  937. 35:31

    had a dream that I was being chased and

  938. 35:34

    had to I was crawling through one of

  939. 35:35

    those transom windows over a door, you

  940. 35:37

    know, and then I uh woke up, my neck

  941. 35:40

    hurt and I was like I that's I've

  942. 35:42

    officially I hurt myself from a dream

  943. 35:44

    because I was trying to crawl through

  944. 35:46

    it. You pulled your neck in a dream. I

  945. 35:47

    pulled my like what happened? It's like

  946. 35:49

    well in my dream what kind of sleeper

  947. 35:51

    are you? Do you like do you fall asleep

  948. 35:54

    fast? I do. And then do you sleep

  949. 35:56

    through the night and do you snore? I uh

  950. 35:58

    we've uh we're now wearing mouth tape.

  951. 36:02

    Okay. I want to talk about mouth tape. I

  952. 36:04

    talked about CPAP with um Jack. Yeah.

  953. 36:06

    Black. Um I would like to switch to

  954. 36:09

    mouth tape. Sorry. I don't want to

  955. 36:11

    abandon my CPAP people.

  956. 36:13

    My CPAP army. Um I'm sure they're out

  957. 36:16

    there right now. Are you my

  958. 36:19

    Capp? But I would love to get to a

  959. 36:20

    mouth. You're a pap. I'm a pal. Yeah, of

  960. 36:23

    course I'm not an animal. Um, but I'd

  961. 36:26

    like to get to a mouth tape and I have

  962. 36:28

    tried a mouth tape. Okay. Uh, I'm a

  963. 36:30

    little worried about I'm hooked on the

  964. 36:33

    moisture that I get from my CPAP. You

  965. 36:35

    know, you get like um like moist air.

  966. 36:38

    It's really nice for the nose. Yeah. You

  967. 36:40

    don't get that with mouth tape. No. What

  968. 36:43

    kind of mouth tape are you using? You

  969. 36:44

    could I mean, you have a giant staff.

  970. 36:46

    What if one of them just stood over the

  971. 36:48

    bed with a little spray bottle and just

  972. 36:53

    I mean so many because when I see your

  973. 36:54

    staff and I'm polite to them by the way

  974. 36:56

    which they seem to really appreciate and

  975. 36:58

    they very much appreciate it but there a

  976. 37:00

    lot of them are like we feel like

  977. 37:01

    there's not enough for us to do. Well no

  978. 37:03

    you know I I like to have them work on

  979. 37:04

    the holidays and you always wish them a

  980. 37:06

    merry Christmas and I appreciate that.

  981. 37:08

    Um you're allowed to again you're

  982. 37:10

    allowed to wish say merry Christmas.

  983. 37:12

    It's really nice. Um what was I gonna

  984. 37:15

    say? Oh. So, yeah, I was shocked cuz I

  985. 37:17

    do have a hard time breathing through my

  986. 37:19

    nose. I feel like I'm I've been stuffed

  987. 37:21

    up like almost the entirety of my life.

  988. 37:23

    And yet, when you tape, I think it kind

  989. 37:25

    of forces you to like early in the

  990. 37:27

    night, you're just like breathing

  991. 37:27

    through your nose. You're keeping the

  992. 37:28

    airways open. I'm a big fan of it. I'm

  993. 37:31

    I'm thinking about switching over to

  994. 37:32

    tape. Now, I should say, and I hope this

  995. 37:34

    won't disabuse you of making a switch.

  996. 37:37

    One night a week, I wake up at 3 in the

  997. 37:40

    morning and do this.

  998. 37:45

    So, if that sounds jarring

  999. 37:48

    to you or whoever might be in the room,

  1000. 37:49

    that would be good for a commercial for

  1001. 37:52

    mouth tape. By the way, do you cuz you

  1002. 37:54

    mentioned butt tape uh with Jack Black.

  1003. 37:56

    Do you remember the the uh Fred's

  1004. 37:58

    breathing rate? Oh, wait. You mentioned

  1005. 38:00

    it on um I must it must have been in my

  1006. 38:03

    You guys just mentioned it on your

  1007. 38:04

    podcast. Really? Tell people for what

  1008. 38:06

    they for those that didn't hear. It was

  1009. 38:08

    a Breathe right strip. It was a Fred

  1010. 38:11

    commercial parody. It was a breath right

  1011. 38:12

    strip uh for your butt that would pull

  1012. 38:16

    the way because breathe right pulls the

  1013. 38:18

    nose apart to make it easier to breathe.

  1014. 38:19

    And so this pulled the butt apart so

  1015. 38:22

    that when you pass gas it wouldn't be

  1016. 38:24

    loud and it wouldn't wake up the person

  1017. 38:27

    in bed with you. But it has the best tag

  1018. 38:30

    because it's the the it's him in bed

  1019. 38:32

    with wig and it's quiet. You just hear

  1020. 38:35

    like

  1021. 38:37

    but then she still goes what's that

  1022. 38:39

    smell? cuz it doesn't doesn't get rid of

  1023. 38:41

    the smell. Just doesn't make noise

  1024. 38:44

    anymore. And I remember her being

  1025. 38:46

    disgusted by that. Yeah. Really good.

  1026. 38:48

    Really good. Disgusted wig. Okay. What

  1027. 38:49

    about uh what people do at airports that

  1028. 38:51

    drive me nuts? What do people Well, like

  1029. 38:53

    let me ask you this. What time do you

  1030. 38:55

    arrive for a flight? I

  1031. 38:57

    lot of cushion. Mhm. For the pushing.

  1032. 39:00

    Lot of Sorry.

  1033. 39:04

    Sorry.

  1034. 39:08

    This is I feel like you don't even care.

  1035. 39:10

    I feel like this was another trap.

  1036. 39:13

    Uh I Yeah, we get there very early. We

  1037. 39:17

    never check Never check it. Absolutely

  1038. 39:20

    not. It's kind of stunning. Um you can

  1039. 39:23

    board Hey, you have young kids, so you

  1040. 39:24

    can board. Yeah. Although we That's such

  1041. 39:26

    a scam. By the way, we are now out well

  1042. 39:30

    outside the zone of what they mean by if

  1043. 39:32

    you're boarding with a young family.

  1044. 39:33

    That's not true. Your kids are still

  1045. 39:34

    young enough. I think they I think they

  1046. 39:36

    mean toddlers.

  1047. 39:38

    Oh, wait. Cuz your youngest is how Addy

  1048. 39:40

    is three and a half. No, I I I would say

  1049. 39:42

    as a judgmental person at the airport, I

  1050. 39:44

    would not mind that. And I think

  1051. 39:47

    everybody realizes, it is better for us

  1052. 39:49

    to get on first.

  1053. 39:52

    I don't know.

  1054. 39:54

    Sure. I mean, I I think that's a little

  1055. 39:56

    bit obsc

  1056. 39:59

    with young children, but you're right.

  1057. 40:02

    When I had young children, it was nice

  1058. 40:03

    to be able to have It's also nice for

  1059. 40:04

    everybody else. I'm just saying like if

  1060. 40:06

    if they let you on before the boarding

  1061. 40:07

    starts and and our maniacs are in their

  1062. 40:10

    seats, but I know you can be kind of

  1063. 40:11

    hypervigilant like I am about when

  1064. 40:13

    people are doing stuff wrong or getting

  1065. 40:15

    it wrong or whatever. And I feel like

  1066. 40:16

    the airport is the ultimate version of

  1067. 40:18

    that. Yeah. Like every single

  1068. 40:20

    interaction is about power struggle and

  1069. 40:24

    like at least for me figuring out how I

  1070. 40:27

    can be more efficient next time and

  1071. 40:29

    hoping other people will follow suit and

  1072. 40:31

    just like trying to practice my system

  1073. 40:33

    in a place where everybody has their own

  1074. 40:35

    system. The worst mistake I made, I took

  1075. 40:38

    just Axel to visit my parents and we

  1076. 40:40

    went to the airport and Axel just who's

  1077. 40:42

    the most

  1078. 40:44

    unique of my kids. He just ran full

  1079. 40:47

    speed and just slid across the airport

  1080. 40:49

    floor and I made the mistake of laughing

  1081. 40:52

    and now he does it and it's it's that

  1082. 40:55

    bummer of I'm so sure the next time he

  1083. 40:57

    does it when we're with the whole family

  1084. 41:00

    Alexa will be like as you should cuz

  1085. 41:01

    they're filthy floors like don't do that

  1086. 41:03

    and he'll be like daddy liked it. Daddy

  1087. 41:05

    liked it. Yeah, I know. It's But that

  1088. 41:08

    sounds like sounds like a great move.

  1089. 41:09

    It's a He kind of without ever seeing an

  1090. 41:12

    old Did he end in like That's what I

  1091. 41:13

    mean. Without seeing an old break

  1092. 41:14

    dancing video, he really ends. He ended

  1093. 41:16

    with his with his head in his hands.

  1094. 41:19

    Yeah. The kid's funny kid. He's a funny

  1095. 41:21

    kid. He is a funny kid.

  1096. 41:29

    Okay. Speaking of funny, you're doing

  1097. 41:31

    you're performing with Oliver, John

  1098. 41:32

    Oliver. How do you like doing a show

  1099. 41:35

    with him and with somebody else? Like

  1100. 41:37

    you you stand up, you love it. So, well,

  1101. 41:40

    first of all, I really uh like John as a

  1102. 41:43

    person. And so, we have a friendship

  1103. 41:45

    where we would never see each other

  1104. 41:46

    socially. And so, just because of our

  1105. 41:49

    schedules and now we get to hang out

  1106. 41:50

    once a month, like one Sunday a month,

  1107. 41:52

    we like hang out and we get there for

  1108. 41:54

    soundcheck and then we have like an hour

  1109. 41:56

    uh to talk, which is great. And Brooks

  1110. 41:58

    Wheelen, who used to be on SNL, is our

  1111. 42:00

    opener. So, the three of us have a very

  1112. 42:02

    uh lovely relationship. The other thing

  1113. 42:04

    is, especially now because I had a

  1114. 42:06

    special come out and so I'm doing new

  1115. 42:08

    material and it's lovely to know that

  1116. 42:10

    the audience is getting John as well.

  1117. 42:13

    Well, I mean, I've never I never met

  1118. 42:15

    John. He seems lovely. I can I say

  1119. 42:17

    something? I feel like so few people

  1120. 42:18

    have both notes and the laptop.

  1121. 42:23

    You know what?

  1122. 42:26

    Okay, a couple things. Um, the laptop is

  1123. 42:30

    a uh is a prop. Yeah, this isn't made

  1124. 42:34

    out of chocolate. This is edible. When

  1125. 42:36

    it's over. So, Bill Simmons asked me

  1126. 42:39

    about the laptop and he was like, "Do

  1127. 42:40

    you need it?" And the reason why I like

  1128. 42:43

    the laptop is because I feel like I can

  1129. 42:45

    look things up very slowly, right? And

  1130. 42:48

    you know, and I can find things on here

  1131. 42:50

    that like for example, I can use this

  1132. 42:52

    laptop to Seth. What are you watching,

  1133. 42:57

    listening to? What do you where do you

  1134. 43:00

    go to escape? What do you do? Do you

  1135. 43:01

    watch something? Do you like the world

  1136. 43:04

    is on fire. Everything feels intense.

  1137. 43:07

    This podcast for me is an attempt to

  1138. 43:09

    just like try to connect in a fun dumb

  1139. 43:13

    way. What do you watch, do, see? I'm

  1140. 43:14

    going to answer your question and I'm

  1141. 43:16

    going to get on the laptop. Great. And

  1142. 43:18

    and for those that are listening, listen

  1143. 43:20

    to this.

  1144. 43:22

    But I want to say

  1145. 43:25

    so you got that from an old submarine.

  1146. 43:29

    I don't know why it's making that noise.

  1147. 43:32

    So wait, and that tells you where the

  1148. 43:34

    nearest submarine is.

  1149. 43:38

    I'm tracking my submarine.

  1150. 43:41

    This is I'm very excited about what's

  1151. 43:43

    happening right now with this podcast.

  1152. 43:45

    Thank you. No, but I think it's the

  1153. 43:47

    purest form of you. Thanks. From the

  1154. 43:50

    perspective of people who know you. Like

  1155. 43:52

    I you've like you've done great like

  1156. 43:55

    work everywhere. But like the amount of

  1157. 43:56

    people who said to me like, "Oh my god,

  1158. 43:58

    is she really like that?" Like people

  1159. 44:00

    love this so much. And it's such a joy

  1160. 44:02

    to be like, "Yes, this this podcast is

  1161. 44:05

    pure polar." Thank you for saying you

  1162. 44:07

    Leslie Nope's the best but like you're

  1163. 44:08

    cooler than Leslie do and well Leslie

  1164. 44:12

    work Leslie is harder a harder worker

  1165. 44:15

    than I am and she's less because you

  1166. 44:16

    have complained a lot to me about how

  1167. 44:18

    hard it is to do a podcast already and

  1168. 44:20

    you're like seven episodes in so tiring

  1169. 44:22

    like I'm literally exhausted Leslie Nope

  1170. 44:25

    would never never do five a day um she's

  1171. 44:28

    such a good listener too I think that's

  1172. 44:30

    why and so I'm very I think that this is

  1173. 44:33

    uh you know again that your skills as a

  1174. 44:36

    listener on full display and you're the

  1175. 44:38

    best audience. Like you've always been

  1176. 44:39

    such a good audience. Thanks, dude. I

  1177. 44:40

    feel the same way about you. I think

  1178. 44:41

    this is why your show is such an

  1179. 44:43

    incredible triumph is you are very very

  1180. 44:46

    good at making people feel like they're

  1181. 44:49

    being heard and you enjoy a good time.

  1182. 44:52

    Those two things are not like you need

  1183. 44:54

    those two things in a host and I love

  1184. 44:56

    people being the if anything you do to

  1185. 44:58

    facilitate them being the best version

  1186. 45:00

    of themselves is a a joy. But do you

  1187. 45:02

    ever feel when you're doing interviews

  1188. 45:03

    like do you ever check out and you like

  1189. 45:05

    oh [ __ ] I haven't been listening? No. I

  1190. 45:07

    think I take that part. So you do? Yeah.

  1191. 45:10

    I think the worst thing

  1192. 45:12

    my nightmare is um Yeah. I've been there

  1193. 45:16

    a couple times already. Really? Where

  1194. 45:19

    I've been thinking I've been future

  1195. 45:20

    tripping in my head about what I'm going

  1196. 45:23

    to say next and then someone's talking

  1197. 45:24

    and I'm like uhoh. Yeah. I didn't listen

  1198. 45:27

    to what they said. Yeah. So I think I

  1199. 45:30

    Yeah. Did you feel it at all? Well,

  1200. 45:32

    there were two times where people said a

  1201. 45:33

    really sad thing and you said, "Haha,

  1202. 45:35

    that's hilarious." Yeah. Like, I mean, I

  1203. 45:38

    said, "Lol, the Reddit the Reddit page

  1204. 45:40

    of this podcast is already like, "Oh my

  1205. 45:42

    god, she did it again." LOL. And then I

  1206. 45:44

    said, "Lots of love. Lots of love."

  1207. 45:46

    It is the save you. It's funny cuz you

  1208. 45:48

    both times thought you saved it and

  1209. 45:50

    everybody, what did you just see on your

  1210. 45:52

    You just My laptop is at the low

  1211. 45:54

    battery. It's about to run out. It's at

  1212. 45:57

    the lowest red line. I think obviously

  1213. 46:00

    the uh it took a lot of battery to make

  1214. 46:02

    that sound those sound effects.

  1215. 46:05

    That's just sucking that's sucking the

  1216. 46:07

    battery right out of that thing. So what

  1217. 46:09

    do you look at? I you know what I like

  1218. 46:11

    uh we we mentioned British people

  1219. 46:13

    pointing again. I like uh watching

  1220. 46:16

    British people break. Oo. Um there's

  1221. 46:19

    that like Jimmy Carr show. There's like

  1222. 46:21

    a panel show. I think it's called eight

  1223. 46:23

    out of 10 Cats. I've never watched a

  1224. 46:25

    full episode, but I keep getting served.

  1225. 46:28

    um like short clips of like um like

  1226. 46:32

    British panelists making other British

  1227. 46:34

    panelists laugh. I just like watching

  1228. 46:35

    British people break. I feel like See,

  1229. 46:37

    you're not better than us. You are such

  1230. 46:38

    you're such an angoplile. Yeah, you

  1231. 46:40

    really are. You You love Brits. I do.

  1232. 46:43

    So, you like people trying not to laugh

  1233. 46:45

    or just like those panel shows. Yeah. I

  1234. 46:48

    I mean in general I like you know it's

  1235. 46:51

    like watching an old Carol Brunette clip

  1236. 46:54

    but I do like corpse but I feel like

  1237. 46:57

    British people try really hard not to

  1238. 46:59

    break so when they break it I don't know

  1239. 47:01

    I I it brings me more satisfaction. Okay

  1240. 47:03

    so I have one last question s that's it.

  1241. 47:05

    I mean this has been just lovely has it?

  1242. 47:07

    Well you know what though? I do want to

  1243. 47:08

    talk to you about your podcast because

  1244. 47:10

    that podcast is one of my favorites. I

  1245. 47:13

    love those Lonely Island men boy man

  1246. 47:17

    boys. Man boys man boys. They were so

  1247. 47:20

    important to all of us. Yeah, they I

  1248. 47:22

    love the like memory lane that you guys

  1249. 47:24

    go down. But what is so funny to me

  1250. 47:27

    still is the way that everybody is

  1251. 47:29

    themselves on that podcast. Like the way

  1252. 47:32

    in which everybody shows up to it,

  1253. 47:34

    participates in it, what they remember,

  1254. 47:36

    how you guys interact with each other.

  1255. 47:38

    Like what is it like doing that with

  1256. 47:39

    them? It's so fun because

  1257. 47:42

    one, I love them so much and I can't

  1258. 47:45

    remember the last time all four of us

  1259. 47:46

    talked together or even had a meal

  1260. 47:48

    together. Yeah. And I've been saying

  1261. 47:50

    like, you know, there's so much written

  1262. 47:51

    about like how as men get older, they

  1263. 47:53

    have no friendships. So, you got to

  1264. 47:56

    start a podcast to all lonely men. Start

  1265. 47:59

    a podcast. Well, I think every man has

  1266. 48:02

    done that cuz every single podcast I see

  1267. 48:04

    is just filled with lonely men trying to

  1268. 48:06

    make friends. True story. During the

  1269. 48:08

    pandemic,

  1270. 48:09

    you remember my friend Doug Stradley?

  1271. 48:11

    Stradley. Straley the best. And Stradley

  1272. 48:14

    and I are in a fantasy football league.

  1273. 48:16

    We did a weekly podcast just about the

  1274. 48:19

    fantasy football league. Wow. That the

  1275. 48:21

    other 10 guys would listen to. That was

  1276. 48:23

    what we were doing during the pandemic.

  1277. 48:24

    And it was like and then when I started

  1278. 48:27

    doing professional podcasts, I had to

  1279. 48:28

    stop that one. And like to those 10

  1280. 48:29

    guys, they're like, "It's I mean, we

  1281. 48:30

    totally get it. You're doing real

  1282. 48:32

    podcast now, but man, we missed the we

  1283. 48:34

    missed the Straley podcast." Do you have

  1284. 48:35

    a lot of old college friends? I'm very I

  1285. 48:38

    got a good and you know improv friends

  1286. 48:40

    like I feel very lucky. Well, it's not

  1287. 48:43

    just lux. Yeah, I put a lot of work into

  1288. 48:45

    cultivating. You do and and that's what

  1289. 48:47

    Shoemaker and I were talking about is

  1290. 48:48

    the kind of friend you are. You are very

  1291. 48:51

    very good at friendship. You I feel like

  1292. 48:53

    it might be the thing I'm best. You are

  1293. 48:55

    excellent at friendship. What why is

  1294. 48:58

    friendship so important to you? What

  1295. 48:59

    does it do for you? What has it done for

  1296. 49:00

    you? I just love having

  1297. 49:04

    I thought I was out of the woods. For

  1298. 49:07

    those listening, I just want you to know

  1299. 49:08

    his eyes are glistening again. I just

  1300. 49:11

    love my friends and I've been so lucky

  1301. 49:12

    to have them. It's just the best. I feel

  1302. 49:14

    like I get so much more out of them than

  1303. 49:16

    I put into it. And what like what do

  1304. 49:19

    they do for you? Cuz some people

  1305. 49:21

    friendship is something that yes,

  1306. 49:22

    everybody loves friendship, but they

  1307. 49:24

    don't participate it in it the way you

  1308. 49:26

    do. You are a very loyal, consistent,

  1309. 49:29

    and um and and meticulous friend. You

  1310. 49:33

    pay attention to your friends. They feel

  1311. 49:35

    very seen by you. I can speak for

  1312. 49:36

    myself. And you get such delight in your

  1313. 49:39

    friendships. Well, I think that like

  1314. 49:42

    seen is a really good way to put it

  1315. 49:43

    because I like the way

  1316. 49:46

    I like who I am through my the eyes of

  1317. 49:49

    my friends. Mhm. So it would break my

  1318. 49:51

    heart to, you know, not be held in high

  1319. 49:55

    opinion by the people I care the most

  1320. 49:57

    about. You like how you feel when you

  1321. 49:59

    can see how they see you. I whenever I'm

  1322. 50:01

    like, how am I doing as a person? Like

  1323. 50:03

    when I take stock of who my friends are,

  1324. 50:05

    I feel very good about who I am as a

  1325. 50:07

    person. And you have a lot of female

  1326. 50:08

    friends. I do. Great. Like a great

  1327. 50:11

    number. I count myself as one of them.

  1328. 50:14

    women in your life who are your friend,

  1329. 50:16

    who you're deeply

  1330. 50:18

    uh uh uh uh tender to and very like you

  1331. 50:22

    really like take care of us and you care

  1332. 50:24

    about us and you like I mean you're the

  1333. 50:26

    only you and Shoemaker are the only men

  1334. 50:28

    they're ever allowed even close to a lot

  1335. 50:31

    of the SNL women we gather together as a

  1336. 50:33

    group and just recently we let you sit

  1337. 50:35

    with us for 30 minutes. Yeah. And then

  1338. 50:38

    we said, I think it might have been

  1339. 50:40

    maybe it was Tina, but Tina said, "Thank

  1340. 50:42

    you for coming." And also, "Thank you

  1341. 50:43

    for leaving." Yeah. Well, on the way

  1342. 50:46

    there, I said, "Seth, heads up. We're

  1343. 50:48

    meeting." And I think you have about a

  1344. 50:50

    half an hour window. And you said,

  1345. 50:52

    "Fine, I'll take that." And then we sat

  1346. 50:54

    down at the steakhouse and you hung. And

  1347. 50:57

    then Tina said, "And now it's time to

  1348. 50:59

    go." Yeah. Yeah. It was um Can I point

  1349. 51:02

    out my favorite observations about you

  1350. 51:04

    guys as a group? Yes.

  1351. 51:06

    You needed a second table

  1352. 51:08

    uh for all your jackets

  1353. 51:11

    and every one of you had two totes.

  1354. 51:13

    Yeah. And most of the meal again, I

  1355. 51:16

    think if people saw the seven women that

  1356. 51:19

    were there, they would be like, "Oh my

  1357. 51:20

    god, how funny was it?" And I would say

  1358. 51:24

    mostly they were looking through their

  1359. 51:26

    totes.

  1360. 51:29

    At at no point Mhm. were less than two

  1361. 51:32

    people looking through a tote for

  1362. 51:34

    something. Well, yeah, cuz we had put it

  1363. 51:36

    in the other tote. Comedy legends. Yeah.

  1364. 51:39

    Rustling through totes and it was like

  1365. 51:41

    hand it was a lot of hand me my tote and

  1366. 51:43

    it was like is this my tote? Lot of

  1367. 51:45

    matching totes. Mhm. Yeah. I think we

  1368. 51:46

    had gotten some totes. Matching totes

  1369. 51:48

    and puffy totes is how I would describe.

  1370. 51:50

    It was I mean it was the SNL 5th week

  1371. 51:52

    and it was very cold. It was also we

  1372. 51:55

    were all dealing with like a lot of

  1373. 51:56

    temperature. So our bodies, you know,

  1374. 51:58

    we're of a certain age. We get hot and

  1375. 51:59

    cold really fast. So it was a lot of

  1376. 52:00

    putting on coats, taking off coats. It

  1377. 52:03

    was a lot and a lot of like, oh my god,

  1378. 52:04

    I'm so hot and then taking the coat off

  1379. 52:06

    and then handing it to you to put at the

  1380. 52:07

    table. Every coat was louder than the

  1381. 52:10

    next coat. Just when you moved the coat

  1382. 52:12

    Mhm. It was uh like the sail of a

  1383. 52:15

    schooner which is like

  1384. 52:18

    [Music]

  1385. 52:20

    very hard to hear any conversation due

  1386. 52:21

    to the rustling which is weird because

  1387. 52:23

    we were shouting at each other. We do

  1388. 52:25

    shout at each other across the table

  1389. 52:26

    very loudly. Yeah. Also Paula within

  1390. 52:30

    Paula Pel within like 5 seconds had set

  1391. 52:32

    up a home office at a third table. She

  1392. 52:34

    you're right. She went she got a third

  1393. 52:36

    table because she had to do some

  1394. 52:37

    rewrites like real time rewrites on SNL

  1395. 52:40

    50th. She was immediately had like a a

  1396. 52:43

    laptop and also like a TV monitor. Yeah.

  1397. 52:47

    Hooked up. There's also when we all go

  1398. 52:49

    out, there's a ton of food panic. Yeah.

  1399. 52:51

    When are we going to get our food? Who

  1400. 52:54

    ordered? What should we order? And we

  1401. 52:56

    all fall into very specific categories

  1402. 52:58

    about like how fast we should order and

  1403. 53:00

    and there was a lot of talk about what

  1404. 53:02

    you guys were going to get. And as soon

  1405. 53:03

    as uh the server came over, the minute

  1406. 53:07

    they spoke, everybody forgot everything

  1407. 53:08

    that had been agreed upon. Yeah. And uh

  1408. 53:11

    because it went right back to square

  1409. 53:13

    one. Yeah. And don't forget, you know,

  1410. 53:15

    I'm a woman of a certain age. I need

  1411. 53:16

    like 85 grams of protein a day. So we

  1412. 53:19

    were just like, how many steaks do we

  1413. 53:22

    need to get like 40 stakes? They put us

  1414. 53:24

    in a private room where you could have a

  1415. 53:27

    wedding. That's how big it was. Yeah.

  1416. 53:29

    They knew what they were dealing with.

  1417. 53:31

    And yet within like 10 minutes, I

  1418. 53:33

    thought we might need a second room. The

  1419. 53:35

    sprawl. Well, luckily in 10 minutes, we

  1420. 53:38

    asked you to leave.

  1421. 53:40

    because it was enough time. It was so

  1422. 53:44

    it was so much you that putting on and

  1423. 53:46

    taking off coat sometimes I think of an

  1424. 53:47

    SNL sketch just at the table that for

  1425. 53:52

    whatever reason stays with me forever.

  1426. 53:53

    Do you remember Fred did a sketch once

  1427. 53:55

    where he was someone at a dinner party

  1428. 53:57

    who kept taking off and putting on his

  1429. 54:00

    scarf. Yeah. Yes. The longest scarf. It

  1430. 54:02

    was a really long scarf and he kept

  1431. 54:03

    being like, "Oh my god, it's so hot."

  1432. 54:05

    and he would take it off and it was like

  1433. 54:06

    he had to like loop it around his head

  1434. 54:08

    and he had a practical scarf and he loop

  1435. 54:10

    it around his head like 10 times while

  1436. 54:11

    everybody waited and then he'd start

  1437. 54:12

    telling a story. He's like, "Oh my god,

  1438. 54:14

    it gets so chilly." And then just

  1439. 54:15

    looping

  1440. 54:17

    I think about it all the time. Like did

  1441. 54:18

    he make it on air? No. And I but I can't

  1442. 54:21

    I think about it all the time. Mhm.

  1443. 54:23

    Also, uh Fred I think Anilda was his Do

  1444. 54:25

    you remember his stenographer course

  1445. 54:27

    stenographer character? Oh yeah. And it

  1446. 54:29

    was it had a name. I think her name

  1447. 54:32

    stenographer had a name. I think Anilda.

  1448. 54:34

    Anilda, I think. I'm not sure. Okay.

  1449. 54:36

    Typed like this. Oh, kind of a little

  1450. 54:39

    bit like this. It was a lot like that.

  1451. 54:40

    But also

  1452. 54:42

    paused the trial a lot to look through

  1453. 54:45

    her bag. Mhm. And just would say over

  1454. 54:47

    and over, I can't find my chapstick. I

  1455. 54:50

    can't find my chapstick. I would say I

  1456. 54:52

    don't see a scarf without thinking about

  1457. 54:53

    the first one or hear somebody say

  1458. 54:55

    chapstick without thinking about the

  1459. 54:56

    second. The uh Fred Armison is like we

  1460. 54:59

    talk about him all the time on here.

  1461. 55:01

    like he is truly like the funniest of

  1462. 55:02

    the funny people. I think I'm actually

  1463. 55:04

    going to see Fred this weekend. Tina and

  1464. 55:05

    I are going to do a show. I don't know

  1465. 55:07

    when this will come out. Your your

  1466. 55:09

    people uh said they were going to review

  1467. 55:11

    it and see if it's if it's good enough.

  1468. 55:14

    I got to run it by like a bunch of

  1469. 55:15

    lawyers and stuff. Yeah. But um I got a

  1470. 55:17

    cry guy. He's going to make some cuts.

  1471. 55:19

    Cry Guy is going to make some cuts.

  1472. 55:22

    He's like a super jacked. He's like most

  1473. 55:24

    He makes my protein shakes every morning

  1474. 55:26

    and he's like you got to stop crying on

  1475. 55:27

    these pods, man. How many times you cry?

  1476. 55:29

    And you're like, "Three." And he's like,

  1477. 55:30

    "Three? Give me the tape." He's like,

  1478. 55:34

    "We've been working on one, bro. You get

  1479. 55:36

    one cry a day, bro." And then the worst

  1480. 55:38

    is he's so mean. And then I just start

  1481. 55:39

    to tear up. Yeah. And then it's like

  1482. 55:41

    just awful. And then I will say he's

  1483. 55:44

    like, "I'm sorry. I'm sorry." He's

  1484. 55:45

    really sweet. He's really sweet. He's

  1485. 55:47

    like, "Oh my god, I'm like I'm the I'm

  1486. 55:49

    the root of the problem. I'm supposed to

  1487. 55:51

    be here to solve the problem." That's

  1488. 55:52

    why I've called the cry guy. Yeah. And

  1489. 55:53

    then he gives me a big hug and like

  1490. 55:54

    broke my rib. He's so jacked. squeezes

  1491. 55:57

    all the tears out, puts them in a cup,

  1492. 55:58

    and drinks it. Um, so can men and women

  1493. 56:02

    be friends? No. Yeah, they can't. All

  1494. 56:04

    right. Well, um,

  1495. 56:06

    [Music]

  1496. 56:07

    [Laughter]

  1497. 56:10

    Seth, I love you so much. I love you,

  1498. 56:11

    too. This has been so fun. Thank you for

  1499. 56:13

    doing it. Let's get our glasses on. I'm

  1500. 56:15

    going to take this with me cuz I know

  1501. 56:17

    what people can do with DNA.

  1502. 56:20

    [ __ ] don't want to come back here

  1503. 56:21

    next time. You're okay.

  1504. 56:25

    I'm like, "This is your child." You're

  1505. 56:27

    like, "What? What?" I just cried a

  1506. 56:29

    little bit. I'm like, "We get to

  1507. 56:31

    pre-board at the airport now with your

  1508. 56:34

    child that I got from a tissue." Um,

  1509. 56:37

    anyway, I love you so much. I love you

  1510. 56:39

    in LA. This was a good hang. Such a good

  1511. 56:42

    hang. And I I can't wait to come back

  1512. 56:44

    and do your stuff. Although you guys

  1513. 56:45

    don't really have guests, but uh Oh,

  1514. 56:47

    yes. I thought you meant my talk show

  1515. 56:49

    and I'm like, "Yeah, we do.

  1516. 56:53

    Do you want to guess uh my brother's

  1517. 56:55

    middle name

  1518. 56:58

    people? I think people are disappointed

  1519. 57:00

    that was just the one. Christopher.

  1520. 57:03

    Fine.

  1521. 57:08

    Well, that was a great podcast with my

  1522. 57:10

    old buddy Seth Myers, who I love talking

  1523. 57:13

    about the past with and I love talking

  1524. 57:15

    about the present with and the future.

  1525. 57:17

    And um you know, I just wanted to take

  1526. 57:19

    this minute to plug the stuff that he's

  1527. 57:21

    doing. Um and he and he told me if I

  1528. 57:24

    didn't do it, he would sue me. So um uh

  1529. 57:27

    Family Trips, his podcast with his

  1530. 57:30

    brother Josh Dylan Meyers.

  1531. 57:33

    Um great hilarious stories about family

  1532. 57:36

    trips and what ensues. And then uh the

  1533. 57:39

    Lonely Island and Seth Myers podcast is

  1534. 57:42

    a great podcast to listen to if you care

  1535. 57:44

    about the minutia of SNL and how it's

  1536. 57:46

    made and all the guests that came

  1537. 57:49

    through. Those guys are the best and

  1538. 57:50

    it's so fun listening to them and I

  1539. 57:52

    listen to them every week. And um check

  1540. 57:55

    those two things out and thank you Seth

  1541. 57:58

    for joining us and thank you for

  1542. 58:00

    listening and never know how to end

  1543. 58:02

    these things. Okay, bye.

  1544. 58:06

    You've been listening to Good Hang. The

  1545. 58:08

    executive producers for this show are

  1546. 58:10

    Bill Simmons, Jenna Weiss Berman, and

  1547. 58:11

    me, Amy Per. The show is produced by The

  1548. 58:14

    Ringer and Paperkite. For The Ringer,

  1549. 58:16

    production by Jack Wilson, Cat Spelain,

  1550. 58:18

    Kaia McMullen, and Alia Zanerys. For

  1551. 58:21

    Paperkite, production by Sam Green, Joel

  1552. 58:24

    Levelvel, and Jenna Weiss Berman.

  1553. 58:25

    Original music by Amy Miles.

  1554. 58:29

    really good. Hey