Jun 3, 2025 · 58:32

Seth Meyers on Good Hang with Amy Poehler

The Hang, in Short

Seth Meyers finally started wearing reading glasses six months ago, and he's not happy about it. He tells Amy that trying reading glasses even once is like doing crack cocaine: you're instantly hooked forever. They compare prescriptions (he's at 1.5, she's at 2.0) and their matching tortoise frames before Amy gets real with him. She's got producer Mike Shoemaker calling in from Grand Cayman to ask the tough question: what does Seth think they saw in him back when he was just a feature player at SNL in 2001? Amy warns that Seth, being a talk show host, is way too good at deflecting compliments and turning conversations around. She's determined to make him actually say something nice about himself. Good luck with that.

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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

  199. 7:53

    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

  212. 8:22

    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.

  217. 8:33

    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.

  223. 8:46

    Yeah, maybe I should go back. Maybe I'm

  224. 8:48

    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

  227. 8:53

    question? Thanks for calling me that. Um

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    and and you really are a podcaster.

  229. 8:57

    Yeah, you do too. Mhm. Um what do I

  230. 8:59

    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,

  233. 9:10

    you mean fast? I I never speed up. What?

  234. 9:13

    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?

  242. 9:32

    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

  247. 9:44

    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

  251. 9:52

    grateful that it's this. You in Well,

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    your people insisted on it, did they?

  253. 9:56

    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

  256. 10:05

    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

  263. 10:18

    that side. I like this side. And if

  264. 10:20

    anybody wants to see our bad side, they

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    can look at the Entertainment Weekly

  266. 10:23

    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

  270. 10:32

    was pulling your tie like and it was

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    like And it was like, would you like to

  272. 10:36

    see two asymmetrical faces look even

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    weirder with this lens? And I was so

  274. 10:40

    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

  282. 10:58

    strongly think we have in common is we

  283. 10:59

    have great faces that as long as they're

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    moving, got to keep moving. Got to keep

  285. 11:02

    moving. But once they stop, there's no

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    good freeze frame as a whole. Yeah. No.

  287. 11:08

    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

  292. 11:19

    I want to see." Yeah. I don't want I

  293. 11:22

    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.

  297. 11:30

    Get your best touch guy in here. You're

  298. 11:33

    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

  303. 11:44

    but otherwise you're getting the retouch

  304. 11:46

    version. If you're asking me to stay

  305. 11:47

    still then we need to paint over change

  306. 11:51

    my nose and everything. No, but I feel

  307. 11:53

    like we've done a lot of photo shoots

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    together over the years and I bet you

  309. 11:57

    get what I get what a lot of people get

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    which is they really want you to be

  311. 12:00

    funny. Yeah. And they want you to do

  312. 12:02

    funny things. Yeah. I had a

  313. 12:04

    heartbreaking GQ photo shoot where first

  314. 12:07

    I walked in and the photographer uh oh

  315. 12:10

    didn't know who I was

  316. 12:12

    for the GQ comedy issue. So that was

  317. 12:14

    that put me in a headsp space where I

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    was maybe felt as though a mistake had

  319. 12:17

    been made. Yikes. And then I remember

  320. 12:20

    they had wanted I think it was whipped

  321. 12:23

    cream like whipped cream from the like

  322. 12:25

    and they wanted to spray it all over my

  323. 12:29

    face and the amount I had to say like

  324. 12:31

    you know this will just look like bad.

  325. 12:33

    Yeah. You know what this also looks like

  326. 12:36

    on a on a face and they were like oh

  327. 12:39

    it's funny they used to want to put a

  328. 12:41

    lot of weird stuff on my face too. One

  329. 12:42

    time a guy was like I have an idea where

  330. 12:44

    your hands are covered in barbecue sauce

  331. 12:46

    and you have barbecue sauce all over

  332. 12:47

    your face. And I was like, "Okay,

  333. 12:51

    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

  337. 13:02

    happened to me in a heartbeat. If

  338. 13:04

    anybody had ever shown a mod of common

  339. 13:06

    interest in that. Yes, absolutely. I

  340. 13:07

    would have been 100%. And I think the

  341. 13:10

    same thing happened to you that happened

  342. 13:11

    to you where you'd go to a photo shoot

  343. 13:12

    and it was like you'd turn the corner

  344. 13:14

    and there'd be a table of rubber

  345. 13:16

    chickens and clown noses and giant props

  346. 13:20

    and you'd just be like, "Oh god, I'm

  347. 13:22

    such I'm I'm I'm Yeah, I'm being pimped

  348. 13:26

    out." Yeah. Yeah. And I feel as though

  349. 13:29

    they should save those for the dramatic

  350. 13:30

    actors and just let us look nice for

  351. 13:32

    once. I completely agree. Okay. Seth

  352. 13:35

    Meyers. Seth.

  353. 13:37

    Kevin Myers. What's your name? What's

  354. 13:40

    your Oh, let me get I don't know it. You

  355. 13:42

    don't have to. Seth. Hold on. Get it.

  356. 13:44

    Seth.

  357. 13:46

    Do you want Myers? How many hints do you

  358. 13:49

    want? I'm going to get it. Seth. Michael

  359. 13:52

    Myers. You want You're going to get it

  360. 13:53

    without hints.

  361. 13:55

    How lucky they I know your family. I

  362. 13:57

    know your family. Seth David Myers. No.

  363. 14:00

    Oh, Seth. Again, there's hints. All

  364. 14:04

    right. Give me a hint. It's an a name.

  365. 14:06

    Oh, Seth Alexander Myers. Seth Andrew

  366. 14:11

    Myers. No. I was so worried because I

  367. 14:13

    know these are only an hour and I

  368. 14:15

    thought, "Oh, I think it's going to go

  369. 14:16

    by so fast." And now I'm so happy we're

  370. 14:18

    not going to cut this out. Seth Albert.

  371. 14:22

    No. Oh, that's your dog. Family dog's

  372. 14:24

    name. By the way, my dad, you know, for

  373. 14:26

    those not in the know, we've had six old

  374. 14:27

    English sheep dogs. They've all been

  375. 14:28

    named Albert. And then, uh, when we

  376. 14:30

    started giving all our kids a names, my

  377. 14:33

    dad was very, he admitted he was

  378. 14:34

    hopeful. We were going to also name a

  379. 14:36

    kid Albert and I said, "No, I think you

  380. 14:38

    took it away." Yeah. If all the dogs

  381. 14:41

    hadn't been named Albert, there was a

  382. 14:42

    chance, but like we weren't going to

  383. 14:43

    name our kid after a living dog.

  384. 14:47

    Okay, one last guess. Uh,

  385. 14:54

    don't cut this out. Don't cut the No,

  386. 14:56

    this is good. People would like this is

  387. 14:57

    good for for Especially because I think

  388. 14:59

    people were tuning in being like, you

  389. 15:01

    know what, I can't wait cuz they know

  390. 15:02

    each other so well. They've been friends

  391. 15:03

    for so long. And then what they get to

  392. 15:05

    do is listen to you just without hints

  393. 15:08

    try to guess my middle name. Um, uh, my

  394. 15:11

    last guess is Seth America Myers. That

  395. 15:15

    is what I do like to I that's what I

  396. 15:17

    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

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