"RE-RELEASE: Reese Witherspoon"

Well aren't we surprised by the miraculous Reese Witherspoon, who pops onto the show to discuss her new business venture "Reese's Peaches," amongst a variety of other things, like life. "Welcome to Hollywood, people!" This episode was originally released on 10/26/2020.

Speaker names marked ? are inferred from speaking time and the show’s known hosts — they are not voice-verified.

• 0:01Sean Hayes?

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• 2:10Speaker 01

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• 2:41Will Arnett?

  Hey there, Will Arnett here from Smartless. It's the podcast where Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and I interview somebody. Two of us don't know who that person is because one of us has brought on a surprise guest. That's the whole conceit. I wish I could describe it better, but I'm not that smart. So it's Smartless, and it's starting now.

• 3:20Will Arnett?

  We do a little pre-dance, right? We always do a little-

• 3:22Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, we do a little- But have we played that little tune on our podcast yet?

• 3:26Will Arnett?

  We haven't played it on the show yet. We've always done it in the pre-room.

• 3:30Sean Hayes?

  It's $5 foot-long subway that Will's kind of obsessed with.

• 3:33Will Arnett?

  I'm obsessed with that song.

• 3:34Jason Bateman?

  So toe-tappy, and I feel like if we just throw it on the podcast a couple times, we might get some Sammies.

• 3:40Sean Hayes?

  Three Sammies, yeah.

• 3:41Will Arnett?

  We might. I think it's a big hit with the $5 foot-long. And by the way, I'll even take the 6-inch. That's fine. With a bag of chips and a soda, I'll take that, too.

• 3:49Jason Bateman?

  If I had a dollar, the number of times I've heard you say that, Will.

• 3:52Will Arnett?

  Then you'll take a 6-inch? I know.

• 3:55Sean Hayes?

  Oh, Lord.

• 3:55Will Arnett?

  I know.

• 3:56Sean Hayes?

  Listen, I want to tell you something. Scotty and I really look forward to our Jeopardy! Wheel of Fortune hour every night. Do you guys watch?

• 4:03Jason Bateman?

  What?

• 4:04Sean Hayes?

  Anybody?

• 4:04Jason Bateman?

  Oh, 7 and 7:30?

• 4:06Sean Hayes?

  That's right. Oh, see? Okay, so-

• 4:08Will Arnett?

  Now, listen, I don't watch yet, but in my defense, it's because I haven't given up yet.

• 4:12Jason Bateman?

  Yeah. You watch those two shows in your sweatpants, right?

• 4:16Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 4:17Jason Bateman?

  Says the guy-

• 4:18Will Arnett?

  I'm still living.

• 4:19Jason Bateman?

  Says the guy in PJs. Now, listen, guys, look. That's a naked knee you see right there. I've got shorts-

• 4:24Will Arnett?

  You're wearing shorts today.

• 4:25Jason Bateman?

  I've got shorts on today. I really got shamed.

• 4:27Will Arnett?

  You really hurt us, huh? You really hurt us.

• 4:28Jason Bateman?

  You shamed me yesterday, yeah.

• 4:29Sean Hayes?

  But Je- Okay, so wait. But like, I'll watch Wheel of Fortune, and it'll, you know, the puzzle will be like, you know, like blank of one half dozen of another. And I'm like, it's 6, but then they can't ever get it, and I'm yelling at the TV. But then, the last puzzle, do you ever- Do you watch Jason for real?

• 4:46Jason Bateman?

  I have in the past.

• 4:48Sean Hayes?

  Okay, so the last puzzle, now the bonus round, they put two words together that never make any sense, right? They'll do like-

• 4:55Jason Bateman?

  That I haven't seen.

• 4:55Sean Hayes?

  They'll be like, the phrase is like charred bricks or something.

• 4:59Jason Bateman?

  Sure.

• 5:00Sean Hayes?

  You know, and it's really upsetting. But this is all moot because you guys don't watch.

• 5:04Will Arnett?

  Well, this, I forget. When did you move to Florida again? I forget this because- And so, do you argue with people when you're in line for the early bird? Like, what's going on?

• 5:13Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, and it's just all you get is basic cable in the trailer. So that's why he's watching those game shows. I'm on cable, right? So I'm watching MSNBC or things you've got to-

• 5:26Will Arnett?

  I just, and I say that because my grandparents lived in Florida, and my grandmother would talk to the TV. And they'd be, and stuff would be going on. And you hear in the other room, she'd be going, "Uh-huh, yeah, uh-huh." And I'm like, I know she's in there by herself.

• 5:38Jason Bateman?

  Hey, is Vanna, is Vanna still out there turning letters?

• 5:41Sean Hayes?

  She sure is. She's turning lots of letters.

• 5:43Will Arnett?

  Turning cubes?

• 5:44Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, turning cubes. Anyway, guys, today-

• 5:47Will Arnett?

  Yes.

• 5:47Sean Hayes?

  This very powerful woman has accomplished more in her few years on this earth than most people have in their entire lifetime.

• 5:54Jason Bateman?

  Is she a bodybuilder?

• 5:55Will Arnett?

  Very powerful. Oh, not in that sense, maybe.

• 5:57Sean Hayes?

  No, but she's very much in shape. I'm pretty confident you guys and our listener will know who she is. She's an Oscar winner, Golden Globe, and Emmy winner. If you don't know her, Google her. Her name is Reese Witherspoon.

• 6:10Jason Bateman?

  Whoa.

• 6:12Will Arnett?

  Oh, my gosh. Mrs. America! Wow.

• 6:17Jason Bateman?

  Look at her setup.

• 6:18Will Arnett?

  Look at that. First of all, I've got microphone envy.

• 6:21Sean Hayes?

  Wait a minute. Why do you have, it looks like a mic from the 20s?

• 6:24Speaker 04

  Oh, because that's my other job. No, I'm just kidding.

• 6:27Jason Bateman?

  She's a time traveler, dum-dum.

• 6:31Speaker 04

  Just in.

• 6:32Sean Hayes?

  That's what it looks like.

• 6:33Speaker 04

  America's not doing very well.

• 6:35Sean Hayes?

  Hot pot of a hamburger sandwich.

• 6:36Speaker 04

  Oh, I'll take that.

• 6:37Jason Bateman?

  Oh, Reese, I'm so happy you said yes to come and hang out with us.

• 6:42Sean Hayes?

  This is huge.

• 6:44Speaker 04

  Well, long-time listener, first-time caller.

• 6:46Jason Bateman?

  No, you haven't listened to any of these.

• 6:48Speaker 04

  I have. I've been listening, guys.

• 6:50Jason Bateman?

  Really?

• 6:51Speaker 04

  Yes, you guys have really good guests.

• 6:54Jason Bateman?

  Who's your favorite? And I don't mean guest. I don't mean guests.

• 6:58Speaker 04

  Of you three.

• 6:58Sean Hayes?

  Hosts.

• 6:59Will Arnett?

  Wait, she's got to name her favorite host. Jeez, that's tough.

• 7:02Sean Hayes?

  Reese, you're from Nashville, aren't you?

• 7:04Speaker 04

  That's right. I'm from Nashville, Tennessee.

• 7:06Sean Hayes?

  Well, how old were you when you moved out? And where did you move to? Straight to LA?

• 7:09Speaker 04

  Well, let me see. Well, I was an Army, Air Force brat, actually. So we grew up in all over.

• 7:14Jason Bateman?

  Come on.

• 7:14Sean Hayes?

  My husband, Scotty, is an Army brat. Grew up in like 17 cities, yeah.

• 7:19Speaker 04

  Yeah, so he's been traveling around. So my dad was in the Air Force, and so in the 70s, we were in Germany. And then we came back to Nashville. I grew up there, and then I started making movies when I was 14.

• 7:30Jason Bateman?

  Well, how old were you when you left Germany? And were you old enough to know German?

• 7:34Speaker 04

  Yes, I was 5. I spoke German then.

• 7:37Sean Hayes?

  What part of Germany?

• 7:38Speaker 04

  I lived in Wiesbaden on an Army base.

• 7:42Sean Hayes?

  Scotty lived in Stuttgart.

• 7:43Speaker 04

  Oh, really?

• 7:44Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 7:45Jason Bateman?

  Those are neighbor cities? Because I think Wiesbaden is where the Porsche test track is, from what I understand.

• 7:51Speaker 04

  Oh, that might be right.

• 7:52Will Arnett?

  That's true. That's true. We went to, one time we were going over to Europe, and Dax was going over with us like the day before. And he lands in Frankfurt, and he says to the guy, he rented a Porsche from like Avis or whatever. And he goes, "Can I, can you tell me how to get to that test track?" And the guy goes, "Yeah, of course, you go this way, but you must not use this car on the test." And Dax goes, "Oh, no, for sure, for sure, I won't. No, for sure, I won't, but just tell me where it is." And the guy's like, "Okay, it is here, but let me be clear. You cannot use this on the-" Of course, of course, I won't. Yeah, for sure. Thanks, man." You know, straight to the test track.

• 8:29Speaker 04

  Is that your German accent?

• 8:30Jason Bateman?

  It's pretty good.

• 8:31Sean Hayes?

  If I close my eyes, I'm in Berlin.

• 8:33Jason Bateman?

  Wow.

• 8:33Sean Hayes?

  Crazy.

• 8:34Will Arnett?

  How would you like it to sound, Mr. Hayes?

• 8:37Speaker 04

  Oh, this is better. That is really good.

• 8:38Jason Bateman?

  That sounds threatening.

• 8:39Will Arnett?

  That one, I had to lean. But I was trying to oscillate back and forth between Mr. Shepherd and this guy. But Mr. Hayes, you have caught my attention now.

• 8:49Sean Hayes?

  Reese, Will wanted me to say this joke to you, which I just think is so dumb, but he wanted me to ask you. Because everybody's been wondering-

• 8:56Speaker 04

  Wait, I thought, who knew that I was coming? And who didn't know that I was coming?

• 8:59Will Arnett?

  That's why this is a joke. We know this isn't real.

• 9:02Sean Hayes?

  If I'd ever ran into you, Will wanted me to ask, have you ever been without your spoon?

• 9:10Will Arnett?

  I did not.

• 9:11Speaker 04

  I would, but I'd be in pieces.

• 9:13Sean Hayes?

  Oh.

• 9:15Jason Bateman?

  Oh, Reese!

• 9:16Sean Hayes?

  So now Reese-

• 9:17Speaker 04

  Terrible.

• 9:18Will Arnett?

  Reese, are you not sorry? Sorry, that's a crossover.

• 9:24Jason Bateman?

  You're talking to the voice of Reese's pieces, right there.

• 9:26Will Arnett?

  I am the voice of Reese's peanut butter cups.

• 9:28Speaker 04

  No, you aren't.

• 9:29Will Arnett?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 9:30Sean Hayes?

  He really is. Reese Witherspoon, welcome to our show.

• 9:32Speaker 04

  Thanks, Sean. This is the show where Reese listens to three guys talk.

• 9:37Will Arnett?

  I know. I know. I know.

• 9:40Jason Bateman?

  Sorry.

• 9:40Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 9:41Speaker 04

  Welcome to Hollywood, people.

• 9:43Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 9:44Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 9:45Sean Hayes?

  Weren't you like a huge, you were like the huge Avon or something, right?

• 9:49Speaker 04

  I did Avon for years, and I did Elizabeth Arden for years.

• 9:51Jason Bateman?

  Do you have a commercial campaign you're- Excited about right now, Reese?

• 9:54Speaker 04

  Now, I have this great thing with Buick where you ca- I have a book club.

• 9:59Jason Bateman?

  Really?

• 9:59Speaker 04

  Called Reese's Book Club.

• 10:01Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, sure.

• 10:03Speaker 04

  And in all the new Buicks, we have an app that plays all the Audible books and all my favorite podcasts.

• 10:08Jason Bateman?

  Oh, wow.

• 10:09Speaker 04

  Which is kind of fun.

• 10:09Will Arnett?

  Great idea.

• 10:11Sean Hayes?

  I thought you were gonna say, in every Buick, there's a stand to put a book that you read at stoplights.

• 10:18Will Arnett?

  God, Sean.

• 10:19Sean Hayes?

  So, wait a minute, did audiobooks are in the Buicks?

• 10:22Speaker 04

  Yeah, they're in that. All of our picks are embedded in the Buick. And I'm, I got so excited, y'all. I saw it for the first time just to say, either one had thought my name was on Jeopardy. That's how excited, that's, that's why. And my name has been on Jeopardy. But it was above, yeah, I just threw that down.

• 10:37Jason Bateman?

  What was it?

• 10:38Speaker 04

  This is a Jeopardy thing going on, y'all.

• 10:40Jason Bateman?

  Sure, yeah. Was it a $1,200 clue or a $200 clue?

• 10:43Speaker 04

  I think I was a 500 first round clue.

• 10:46Jason Bateman?

  Oh.

• 10:47Speaker 04

  Oh, there was a girl, this sweet girl, once swept because I was a whole category.

• 10:52Sean Hayes?

  Are you serious?

• 10:53Speaker 04

  But it's actually worth Googling because the two dudes next to her had no idea who I was. And she's like, Legally Blonde, Tracy Flick.

• 11:02Jason Bateman?

  Do you remember the title of the category?

• 11:04Speaker 04

  It was something like Reese's Pieces.

• 11:06Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, of course.

• 11:07Jason Bateman?

  I love it.

• 11:08Will Arnett?

  Of course.

• 11:08Speaker 04

  If only you had read it well.

• 11:10Will Arnett?

  I know, I wish, I wish.

• 11:11Sean Hayes?

  I wanna know, like, your crazy audition story, like, cuz we've all shared ours, crazy audition or crazy job.

• 11:16Jason Bateman?

  What about one that you wish you would have gotten that somebody else got, they did a great job, and you wish?

• 11:21Speaker 04

  Oh, well, I really wanted Clueless. When I was 18 and, like, I've never told anybody, and then Amy Heckerling did a whole thing in Vanity Fair last year and told everybody.

• 11:31Jason Bateman?

  Oh, wow.

• 11:32Speaker 04

  You know, when that shit pops up and you're like, thanks.

• 11:38Speaker 04

  I never really let anybody know how, how hard I went at that one and didn't get it. I went pretty hard to that one.

• 11:45Jason Bateman?

  Are you a fan of the writing an email to the director or the producer or, you know, and sort of declaring how eager you are for something, or do you think it's better strategy to kind of have sexy indifference?

• 11:56Speaker 04

  No, I'm the, I'm the passionate go-for-it person cuz I feel like ego is the death of creativity. Like, if your ego comes before it, like, you can't be on set in a collaborative medium like this. Like, we work with 200, 300 people a day. If you can't bend your ego to the side for a minute, you're not gonna do very well.

• 12:15Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 12:16Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 12:17Sean Hayes?

  I totally agree.

• 12:18Will Arnett?

  Art is absent of ego, I think.

• 12:19Speaker 04

  It should be, but, I mean.

• 12:22Will Arnett?

  It should be.

• 12:23Speaker 04

  Y'all did just talk about each other for like 10 solid minutes. No, I'm just kidding.

• 12:28Will Arnett?

  Well, we love each other a lot. But wait, so I'm really psyched about this thing you did with Buick about putting these books.

• 12:34Speaker 04

  Oh, my God, please, let's not do it.

• 12:35Will Arnett?

  Well, I just wanna say, like, what was the, so you have this book club, and this was like the natural progression of that, I mean, obviously, right? So, how did, how did you start the book club thing? What was the genesis of that?

• 12:47Speaker 04

  Well, you know, I started this book club because first, before I started the book club, I, um, I started a production company probably 10 years ago because all the scripts I was getting were just so god awful, like, literally awful.

• 13:01Jason Bateman?

  And listener, this is the gold standard of all production companies in Hollywood, by the way.

• 13:05Speaker 04

  Thanks for saying that.

• 13:06Jason Bateman?

  This wither spoon here is, now, and it also, it also dovetails into your book club thing because, listener, she reads, I think, correct me if I'm wrong, a book a day.

• 13:15Sean Hayes?

  Do you really read a book a day?

• 13:17Speaker 04

  How about every two days?

• 13:18Jason Bateman?

  She's insane.

• 13:19Sean Hayes?

  Are you kidding me?

• 13:20Speaker 04

  No.

• 13:20Jason Bateman?

  I'm so jealous.

• 13:21Speaker 04

  My eyes get crossed sometimes. That's why I wear glasses a lot.

• 13:24Sean Hayes?

  What about scripts? Does that mean that you don't, you'd rather read a book than a script, or you?

• 13:28Speaker 04

  I read scripts, but there aren't as many scripts cuz I, like, I'm very discerning about what books we develop, so.

• 13:34Sean Hayes?

  Right.

• 13:34Speaker 04

  The book club came out of, the first two books I optioned for my production company were Gone Girl and Wild. And they were both, um, they both hit number one at the same time. And somebody said to me, well, you keep putting all this stuff on your Instagram, why don't you just make a separate Instagram about the books you read? And so, I did, and it, it just started doing really well. And it actually has been this incredible opportunity to have first, first-time authors get their book noticed and seen and, um.

• 14:04Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, that's exciting.

• 14:05Jason Bateman?

  And now are these publishers giving you early looks at things and hoping that you'll like it and that you?

• 14:11Speaker 04

  Yeah, so I'm, I'm reading right now for February.

• 14:13Will Arnett?

  Right, of course.

• 14:14Jason Bateman?

  Now, do you, do you have people that you trust? You've gotta have people that, that help you with some of the reading.

• 14:19Speaker 04

  It's like me and one other person are reading. My CEO of my company are doing it together.

• 14:24Will Arnett?

  And so, you're wading through all of it yourself? Like, that's, that's amazing. That's a lot of work.

• 14:28Speaker 04

  Yeah, but you can get through, well, the first filter is it's written by a woman and it start, and it has a woman at the center of it. And I have a no-women locked-in-a-basement rule.

• 14:38Jason Bateman?

  Why? Why? Oh, God, why is that?

• 14:41Speaker 04

  That actually reminds me of a story. I was like, I have to Big Little Lies. This executive in, in LA called me in at one of the major studios, and he was like, hey, hey, I just, we would love to have something like Big Little Lies at our studio. And I'm like, oh, thank you so much. He was like, it was so good. I just have, I just have one, one little comment.

• 15:01Sean Hayes?

  I can't believe it's coming. I can't believe it's coming.

• 15:05Speaker 04

  The guy's parts just, they're just not as good.

• 15:10Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 15:11Sean Hayes?

  That is genius.

• 15:13Jason Bateman?

  So, you're getting it?

• 15:16Sean Hayes?

  Wow. And who was that? Not the name, but that, that was somebody at a, a buyer?

• 15:21Speaker 04

  He ran a major studio. He just emailed me yesterday. He's like, out of the business now, starting an app. And he's like, hey, I'm starting an app.

• 15:31Sean Hayes?

  For men.

• 15:32Will Arnett?

  Do you have any guy-centric ideas for my app?

• 15:36Sean Hayes?

  Exactly.

• 15:37Speaker 04

  He had all guys starting the app, too.

• 15:39Will Arnett?

  Oh, my God.

• 15:41Sean Hayes?

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• 19:53Jason Bateman?

  I'm fascinated in the reading of it all. So are you a, are you a speed reader? Or are you just great?

• 19:57Speaker 04

  Yeah, I can read really fast.

• 19:59Jason Bateman?

  And that is just something that came naturally to you? Or is that, or did you work on that when you were a kid?

• 20:02Speaker 04

  I actually didn't know that was like something that everybody didn't have. Until I met my husband and we were probably going on a date or something. One weekend, he was like, hey, um, can we go out of town? I was like, yeah, I just have to read scripts. He's like, you're gonna be reading it. I was like, yeah, I just have three scripts to read. And he's like, that's gonna take all weekend. And I was like, oh, no, no, no. Are you kidding? And he's like, you can, I was like, I, it takes me about 45 minutes to read script. And then, you know, I'm just gonna, and he was like, what? And so I didn't know. I think my grandma was a first grade teacher and she taught me how to read when I was four or five. And I think she taught me how to speed read.

• 20:43Jason Bateman?

  Wow.

• 20:44Speaker 04

  But I, I can't ask her because she's not here anymore. God bless you, grandma. But um, I do read really fast.

• 20:50Will Arnett?

  It took Jason, it took Jason three days to read the definition of reading in the dictionary. And that's, and it's only a paragraph.

• 20:58Jason Bateman?

  I couldn't figure out the left to right. I had the top to bottom thing.

• 21:02Speaker 04

  Right, top, bottom, yeah.

• 21:03Jason Bateman?

  Yeah. So do you, do you, do you know if you have a specific technique? Like some people say like they group three words at a time or?

• 21:10Speaker 04

  But you know what is so fascinating? Have you ever taken time on set to see how your fellow actor memorizes lines? I'm fascinated. Cause I can tell.

• 21:20Jason Bateman?

  No, cause I, it's such a solitary.

• 21:23Speaker 04

  Right, so we all probably memorize our lines in different ways. And so if you start to ask people what their tricks are, it, it has a lot to do with how you read.

• 21:33Jason Bateman?

  Do you ever do this? Whenever you memorize line, whenever you memorize lines, do you remember? Like if you forget a word, but you remember the letter it starts with? That happens to me a lot.

• 21:42Speaker 04

  Yes, what about y'all?

• 21:43Will Arnett?

  I can see the page.

• 21:44Speaker 04

  You can see the whole page?

• 21:45Will Arnett?

  I can see the whole page. All I have to do is see it basically once. Jason's the fastest I've ever worked with in terms of memorizing. He and I are both pretty quick at the same time.

• 21:54Jason Bateman?

  I am not.

• 21:55Will Arnett?

  I remember one time Jason and I were going to do a scene on Arrested when we were doing that Netflix season and we walked, it was a two man scene and it was like eight pages. And right as we were walking to set, Mitch Hurwitz goes, hey, guys, we just rewrote it. And it was one of the first scenes and we both were walking and Jason and I would go blah, blah, blah, then you're gonna say blah, blah, blah. We looked, we looked, we looked, we looked, we looked, we buried the script and we started shooting. Do you remember that, Jay?

• 22:17Speaker 04

  That's so amazing. Also, Mitch Hurwitz writes such good dialogue.

• 22:23Will Arnett?

  Good dialogue.

• 22:24Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, it is. If it's well written, it does go into your brain pretty easily.

• 22:28Speaker 04

  When it's well written.

• 22:29Will Arnett?

  But so Reese, when you memorize though, are you, you're, you're going top to bottom on the page and you're just memorizing it like that? Or are you memorizing it in groups or thoughts?

• 22:38Sean Hayes?

  Do you memorize it as fast as you read?

• 22:40Speaker 04

  Um, I don't know. It takes me three runs. I have to read it the night before, then during hair makeup, then I have to say it alone in a quiet space. And then I have to hold the sides, even though the sides have nothing to do, sides are our little lines that we carry on set. And then for the rehearsal, I have to hold them in my hand. And then during the blocking, wherever I stand is where I say the line. And if you change my blocking, I can't remember the line.

• 23:08Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 23:09Will Arnett?

  Forget it.

• 23:09Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, that's why, yeah, I can't really remember my lines until the scene is blocked.

• 23:14Sean Hayes?

  Same.

• 23:15Speaker 04

  I, wait, I want to hear your process, Jason, because this kind of stuff is really fascinating to me.

• 23:19Sean Hayes?

  Blocking is what, Jason?

• 23:20Jason Bateman?

  Is where you stand, where you sit, when you get up, all that stuff. This is, this is, this is for Sean's aunt in Wisconsin, I believe it is.

• 23:27Will Arnett?

  No, Sean was very happy. You see how excited Sean got when Reese, he was very kindly explained what sides are? And Sean was so excited because he loves explaining things.

• 23:37Speaker 04

  Well, I think that's important.

• 23:39Jason Bateman?

  I do too. Thank you, Reese Witherspoon. What's her name, by the way? What's the sister's name?

• 23:43Sean Hayes?

  Tracy.

• 23:43Jason Bateman?

  So, so it's a Tracy, the Tracy ticker, bottom of the screen for explanation. Okay, so what I do is I, I, I think a lot about, about, about how I'm going to do it, which is, which is actually not really a good thing to do as an actor. And that's why I don't really get them perfectly memorized before I do it. Because I don't want to nail in how I'm gonna do it. Because I gotta leave room for how you're gonna be doing your lines, you know? So I can be flexible with performance. So actually I learned my lines specifically, once we do our rehearsal. And then they're lighting the shot and the stand ins are in there.

• 24:17Speaker 04

  Have you ever had this moment on set where you're looking at somebody and they're doing, like they're doing such incredible work, you forget the lines?

• 24:25Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, all the time. You start watching? I do that a lot when I'm directing, yeah.

• 24:28Speaker 04

  You get out of your body and you start looking at them and going like, either, holy shit, they're so bad in this scene. Or, oh my God, I can't believe I get to act with this human.

• 24:40Jason Bateman?

  When I'm directing something that I'm in, I've gotta be doing that. Like I gotta be watching their performance at the same time. So yes, sometimes it's, it is, and you're thinking about, oh my God, how am I gonna edit around this performance? But it's, but it's fun because it's a great, it's a perfect seat to have. Like you're right there and you can actually, if they're open to it, you can give them adjustments and notes while you're inside the scene. You don't necessarily have to wait till the end and try to remember your notes and stuff like that.

• 25:04Speaker 04

  That's cool.

• 25:05Jason Bateman?

  But I, I love it.

• 25:06Sean Hayes?

  I can't memorize lines without making a choice. I know a lot of actors, like you just said, Jason, they memorize the words, but they wait until rehearsal to kind of figure out how it goes.

• 25:16Jason Bateman?

  Memorize it like a robot. Some will even write it down. They'll, they'll write their lines out and they'll remember it. They'll remember every single word, like real staccato. I couldn't do that.

• 25:25Speaker 04

  I worked with this actor once and he couldn't, if you ad libbed at all, and it was comedy. So you gotta just be loose, you know? Cause that stuff gets really stuck and not funny. It gets not funny after take three. It's just not funny anymore.

• 25:38Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 25:39Speaker 04

  And if I didn't say the last lot, written line, he literally only knew my last word. So if I didn't say the word, he would remember his line. I thought, he's not listening to me.

• 25:50Jason Bateman?

  A moron. Yeah.

• 25:53Will Arnett?

  I've worked with people like that who, who are like, oh, sorry, I didn't hear the cue. And you're like, well, how did you not know that I was saying the same thing?

• 25:59Speaker 04

  Right, it's the intention.

• 26:00Will Arnett?

  Yeah, it's the intention.

• 26:01Jason Bateman?

  Stupid ass.

• 26:02Sean Hayes?

  I usually just wait for a huge gaping pause and that's when I know I come in.

• 26:06Jason Bateman?

  Oh, they stopped talking, it's my turn.

• 26:08Will Arnett?

  I spend, I spend half my time so excited about doing something that's gonna crack the other person up. So I'm just giddy. I'm like bursting to fuck around at all times, even in life, that I'm just like giddy.

• 26:21Speaker 04

  That's so fun to be around, people who are like so excited to ad lib and I'm.

• 26:25Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, I love that.

• 26:26Speaker 04

  It's so fun.

• 26:27Jason Bateman?

  It's infectious, yeah. You guys seem to be having that, that kind of vibe on Morning Show?

• 26:32Speaker 04

  We don't ad lib that much on Morning Show, but we have such great dialogue.

• 26:36Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 26:36Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 26:37Will Arnett?

  Yeah, it's so good.

• 26:37Sean Hayes?

  By the way, I, I love the show and you're fantastic on it.

• 26:41Will Arnett?

  So good in it, so, so, so good.

• 26:43Speaker 04

  I love it, it's so fun. It's great to work with Jen every day and, and all those incredible people. And even like Martin Schwartz came on our show and I was freaking out.

• 26:53Jason Bateman?

  He was so great. I think he got nominated, didn't he?

• 26:55Speaker 04

  He did, got nominated, yeah.

• 26:57Will Arnett?

  He did.

• 26:57Jason Bateman?

  When do you guys go back?

• 26:59Speaker 04

  We're gonna go back right now. Um, it's gonna be interesting. I've been talking to some friends who are on sets and wearing masks and then I'm like, what's it like to, to try and stay in the scene, but then also stay safe and keep everybody safe? So just kind of trying to mentally prepare for that. But I'm excited to work again because I'm going nuts over here.

• 27:20Jason Bateman?

  You and me both. Look at us, we started a goddamn podcast, we're so crazy.

• 27:24Speaker 04

  You guys are so much fun to listen to. I was like, hold on, I called Mindy Kaling. I was like, should we be doing what those guys are doing?

• 27:31Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, you should.

• 27:32Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 27:33Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, you should.

• 27:34Jason Bateman?

  Get on it.

• 27:35Sean Hayes?

  Well, your list of accomplishments is endless. Speaking of like, I don't know what to do with myself, because I'm similar, but you're much more prolific than I am. Your acting career, your producing career, your clothing company, your book club, you're like in seven television shows right now all at once. Oh, and oh, you're a mom. I mean, these guys know my story, but what in the hell happened to you as a child? That gave you, that gave you this like boundless ambition?

• 27:59Speaker 04

  Well, I was always like a, a really overachieving kid, but I wanted, you know? I think every actor has to kind of dig down and figure out, who are you trying to make happy? So once you figure that out, like I figured that out through seven years of therapy. I figured it out.

• 28:15Will Arnett?

  Yeah, or you graduated.

• 28:16Speaker 04

  I, well, I think I graduated from therapy. My therapist passed away, so I just like didn't go anywhere. But.

• 28:23Sean Hayes?

  Oh no.

• 28:25Speaker 04

  But then, once you figure it out.

• 28:26Jason Bateman?

  Was it a parent? Was it a family member?

• 28:29Speaker 04

  For sure, for sure. It's always, right? Am I right or wrong? How do y'all feel? Give me an amen or?

• 28:34Sean Hayes?

  For sure.

• 28:35Jason Bateman?

  I'm still trying to get my atta boys.

• 28:37Speaker 04

  Yeah. Um, so it's usually like, whose approval are you trying to get? And once you kind of solve that puzzle, then it's like, okay, why am I still doing this? What am I doing? That's when my whole career shifted to more purpose driven. I want more women behind the camera. I want to see more stories written from a woman's perspective by a woman. I want to have women make more money. And it just gave me fuel, you know?

• 29:04Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 29:04Speaker 04

  It's changed my whole life.

• 29:05Sean Hayes?

  Is that what inspired you to, in the lead, in the way of Fight for Women's Equality and Equal Pay for Genders? And, and do you think your efforts have paid off and where are we?

• 29:14Speaker 04

  Absolutely. I mean, I see so much shifting, so much more consciousness, the lights are on, people are actually having these conversations and discussions. And I mean, y'all know how prolific it was that there were, there were no people of color at agencies and no people of color as executives at studios. And now I'm seeing so much more of an effort to actually diversify storytelling by changing the storytellers, but also the executives that make the decisions are just becoming more diverse, which is gonna really create a, a better diversity of programming and the emergence of streaming has helped everyone. Cause it opens up.

• 29:56Will Arnett?

  It just opens it up. I, I remember being, you know, um, when I was first dating Amy, my ex-wife, and, and then when we were married and people would talk, you know, there was that whole thing that used to be like, you know, like, well, there was always that argument like, women aren't as funny. And I was like, not as funny, the funniest people I know are women.

• 30:14Sean Hayes?

  Are women, I know.

• 30:16Speaker 04

  Tina, Amy.

• 30:16Will Arnett?

  And Tina and Maya and Rachel Dratch. I'm like, are you for fucking real? They're the funniest people, period. And you, and the fact that there was even the debate was so absurd.

• 30:28Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, it's.

• 30:28Will Arnett?

  Although, although it should be noted, one time I did an interview and they said, what's it like being married to the funniest person in America? And I said, you'd have to ask my wife.

• 30:39Jason Bateman?

  You don't think you guys got divorced three days later?

• 30:40Speaker 04

  Yeah, exactly. Are you guys still married or?

• 30:46Jason Bateman?

  Are you excited about Kamala Harris?

• 30:48Speaker 04

  Oh, gosh, y'all, your interview with her was so well timed.

• 30:52Jason Bateman?

  Oh, I know.

• 30:52Will Arnett?

  It was crazy.

• 30:52Jason Bateman?

  How lucky was that?

• 30:53Speaker 04

  Was that crazy?

• 30:54Will Arnett?

  Crazy.

• 30:55Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, that's insane.

• 30:56Jason Bateman?

  We were chasing it for a little while and then the fact that she said, you know, she picked the date and we were like, she must know that she's picking a date the week that he's going to make his pick.

• 31:07Will Arnett?

  She called us like the week before and was like, we gotta go now. And at that point, we were like, oh, this is happening, y'all.

• 31:13Sean Hayes?

  Yes, something's happening.

• 31:14Speaker 04

  Oh, my God, you all raced to the microphones. It was so good. It was so good.

• 31:19Jason Bateman?

  Oh, thanks.

• 31:21Speaker 04

  It means so much, you know, that she just represents so much to women out there. Little girls, little girls, black and brown girls all over this country now know that anything is possible and it's so important, you know?

• 31:34Will Arnett?

  Yeah, we'd be so lucky. We'd be so lucky to have her as Vice President and then hopefully President. She's incredible.

• 31:40Speaker 04

  Anybody who dedicates their life to public service like that is just really remarkable.

• 31:46Jason Bateman?

  And I'm also fascinated about her husband, Doug. I want to learn about Doug.

• 31:49Speaker 04

  Yeah, Doug's amazing.

• 31:50Jason Bateman?

  I want to follow Doug for the next 12 years. I want to see what's going on with him.

• 31:55Speaker 04

  My husband's friends with Doug. He really likes Doug.

• 31:57Will Arnett?

  Really? Oh, really? We talked to him for a minute at the start.

• 32:00Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, he was hilarious.

• 32:01Will Arnett?

  He was so cool.

• 32:02Jason Bateman?

  He was setting up her computer. He was doing all the tech stuff, right, for the...

• 32:05Speaker 04

  He's the greatest guy.

• 32:06Jason Bateman?

  He was super funny.

• 32:08Speaker 04

  And they have great kids.

• 32:09Sean Hayes?

  And we said, what's it like? He said, Jason said, the vetting process just must be pretty intense. And he just whispered, he goes, you have no idea.

• 32:17Jason Bateman?

  He looked hawked, straight into the camera. It was the only time he did it.

• 32:22Speaker 04

  Can you even imagine? Would y'all ever want to run for office? I know y'all ask that on the show, but I wonder.

• 32:28Jason Bateman?

  I mean...

• 32:29Will Arnett?

  These guys said that I could never be the Prime Minister of Canada, which I took great umbrage with.

• 32:34Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, I think with your dual citizenship, you've kind of screwed yourself out of both.

• 32:37Will Arnett?

  I'm screwed out of both.

• 32:38Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 32:40Sean Hayes?

  Reese, what about you? Because you already act like you're...

• 32:42Will Arnett?

  Yeah, Reese, I was gonna say you could do it.

• 32:43Sean Hayes?

  You're President of so many companies. You know what I mean? You have that about you. You have that intelligence and charm and likability and all of those things that are needed. And people look up to you and they listen to you because you are an influencer.

• 32:55Speaker 04

  Oh, thanks for saying that. I...

• 32:56Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, that's true.

• 32:57Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, I think you'd get a lot of the vote.

• 33:00Will Arnett?

  You'd be a Senator like this.

• 33:02Jason Bateman?

  Right?

• 33:03Will Arnett?

  Yeah, I mean it. I mean it. You should do it.

• 33:05Speaker 04

  Yeah, I mean, our standards have become very low in this country.

• 33:09Jason Bateman?

  Sonny Bono was one of our congressmen.

• 33:11Will Arnett?

  Yeah, wait, wait, wait a second. We don't have to say that the bar is low for Reese.

• 33:15Jason Bateman?

  No, I mean, I'm just saying, it's like, you know, come on, like...

• 33:18Will Arnett?

  Yeah, you'd be great.

• 33:19Jason Bateman?

  If you ever get bored of killing it in this industry.

• 33:23Speaker 04

  I love what we do. I feel so lucky to do this. I feel like...

• 33:26Sean Hayes?

  So you wouldn't, you would never want to do that?

• 33:28Speaker 04

  I mean, I wouldn't say never because I don't know where I'm gonna be when I'm, you know, 65.

• 33:33Jason Bateman?

  The thing that's seductive about the whole notion of running for politics, for anybody, I'm sure, is you look at some of these problems and you just think the answer is so simple.

• 33:43Speaker 04

  Well, I think we need a better representation and balance, too. I mean, women are 50% of the population, but we're not 50% of the representation in government, which is bizarre, particularly when they're adjudicating over our bodies.

• 33:56Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 33:56Speaker 04

  And, and the lack of representation of people of color who make up a large, almost majority of this country. It's a...

• 34:06Sean Hayes?

  It's true.

• 34:06Speaker 04

  What about balance, you know? Just yin and yang, male, female, balance.

• 34:11Will Arnett?

  I love all the countries that have handled COVID well are all run by women.

• 34:15Speaker 04

  Run by women, yeah.

• 34:16Will Arnett?

  So like, you know, they're, full stop. That's all you need to say.

• 34:19Speaker 04

  Well, I think women have a different relationship to power. I mean...

• 34:23Will Arnett?

  Oh, that's interesting. Yeah, yeah.

• 34:24Sean Hayes?

  Ooh, that's interesting.

• 34:25Speaker 04

  My company has, you know...

• 34:28Jason Bateman?

  It's all women, right?

• 34:29Speaker 04

  No, there's men there, too. Yeah. And...

• 34:34Jason Bateman?

  Get them out of there.

• 34:37Speaker 04

  Come join us. But it's interesting how no one needs to be the number one. We sort of pass the baton almost, you know? It's always kind of deferring power or sharing responsibility. So it's almost this power balance and that there's no one person sort of dictating or mandating exactly what's gonna happen. It's like collective ideas. And it works really well for, they're actually, someone's doing a case study at it at one of the big business schools.

• 35:07Jason Bateman?

  What about, about the, about the...

• 35:09Speaker 04

  About our company, Hello Sunshine.

• 35:10Jason Bateman?

  Oh, gotcha, gotcha.

• 35:11Sean Hayes?

  Hello Sunshine, yeah.

• 35:12Will Arnett?

  You know, and so we've got to change the way, and what you're talking about is changing the way, changing our perspective on how we look at things and how...

• 35:20Speaker 04

  Well, yeah, and just listen.

• 35:21Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 35:21Speaker 04

  Just listen.

• 35:22Will Arnett?

  Yeah, Sean, Jesus. What? What?

• 35:25Speaker 04

  What'd you say?

• 35:28Jason Bateman?

  Reese, how are you managing your kids during this pandemic? Are you like, are you pulling your hair out trying to keep them from having playdates with a family that might not be as isolated as you guys? I mean, I'm asking because I'm dealing with it myself and I know you're a great mom and so...

• 35:47Speaker 04

  I love your sweet girls.

• 35:48Jason Bateman?

  But your decisions as a parent are probably better than mine, so I want to know what you're doing.

• 35:52Speaker 04

  I don't know about that, but I think the hardest piece is I have a daughter in college, right? So I have a daughter in college and I have a teenage son who's 16, gonna be 17. And, you know, it's, it's easy to keep my seven-year-old at home, but I think a big piece of being a person that age is social development. I mean, the depression that happened at the beginning of this pandemic, between the two of them not being able to see anybody and, and just, you know, trusting, my daughter is back at college, you know, and she has, she, but I trust her implicitly, but we talk very frequently. We check in.

• 36:28Jason Bateman?

  They have classes? She's in class?

• 36:29Speaker 04

  She's not in classes, but she has small study groups here and there. And that's just, it's terrifying to me, guys. Like, I don't know. And I miss her like crazy, but I just keep checking in with her, like, you know, you gotta do this. I know I'm gonna sound like a broken record, but don't do this, don't do that.

• 36:47Jason Bateman?

  The seven-year-old, that's because I've got an eight-year-old and a 13-year-old. And the eight-year-old, I would love to figure out how to get into some sort of, like, I want to almost like look online for like, clean playgroups, you know, like, I'm like shopping for friends for a situation where she can get that social interaction because...

• 37:06Will Arnett?

  Well, we're doing a pod. We're doing a school pod with like six other families. And we're starting next week when we get back and, yeah, everybody's clean, everybody's been vetted.

• 37:17Speaker 04

  And they take their temperature.

• 37:18Will Arnett?

  I test everybody myself. I take, I test everybody and I tempt them all myself. And I keep them locked in my garage. And, but it's great. And then the kids, now they can go over and they can get their learning from school. And we have, we hired this friend's sister who's an out-of-work teacher to come and be, to help them. And because the first part of the pandemic, the kids were, like you said, they were going crazy. They couldn't see their friends. And they also didn't want, they had me or their mom, both of us were like over their shoulders and they're like, ah, like they didn't want to take direction of schoolwork from us.

• 37:53Speaker 04

  Oh, by the way, well, like also, no one's talking about this, which is families that are divorced.

• 37:59Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 38:00Speaker 04

  Like, this is really stressful.

• 38:02Will Arnett?

  Very stressful.

• 38:02Speaker 04

  Really stressful. And if you don't have a good relationship with your ex-partner, it is, I mean, I know people who are losing their minds over fighting on top of fighting and it's really, really stressful.

• 38:14Will Arnett?

  And stressful on the kids so much and on, and on them, too. There's a big, there are so many mental health implications here. We're really lucky that we bubbled up together and we're good friends. We live on the same street and all that kind of stuff. But there are a lot of people, that's not the case. And it's gonna be a while before we really start seeing what sort of effect this has had on families, like you said.

• 38:36Speaker 04

  Absolutely. I try to share a lot of resources on Instagram for parents, like Child Mind Institute in New York does some online services. That's really great. There's a lot of great sources and, you know, hopefully you can look to people who are sharing stuff.

• 38:50Will Arnett?

  Yeah, that's awesome.

• 38:53Jason Bateman?

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• 42:03Jason Bateman?

  Reese, now you did a Friends arc, did you not? Where you were in front of an audience. Would you ever do a sitcom in front of a live audience?

• 42:10Speaker 04

  It scared the living crap out of me.

• 42:13Sean Hayes?

  Really? No rush, no fun rush?

• 42:15Speaker 04

  No, I was terrified and thank God.

• 42:18Jason Bateman?

  What about theater? You've never done theater?

• 42:20Speaker 04

  No.

• 42:21Jason Bateman?

  No, too scary. What about Saturday Night Live?

• 42:24Sean Hayes?

  You did Saturday Night Live right after nine 11.

• 42:26Speaker 04

  I did. I done Saturday Night Live twice. I was the first person after nine 11.

• 42:30Jason Bateman?

  What, poor taste, poor taste. Too soon, too soon.

• 42:33Speaker 04

  Lauren was like, we have to do this. America needs to laugh.

• 42:36Will Arnett?

  You're gonna do it. America wants to laugh, Reese. Reese is gonna do it. I'm not doing it. No, you're doing it. Man, you're doing it. Why are you in my bedroom? You're doing it.

• 42:46Sean Hayes?

  Will was trying to imitate Lauren Michaels, the head of Saturday Night Live.

• 42:49Speaker 04

  But can I tell y'all? Saturday Night Live is the scariest thing I've ever done. So that is the scariest job I've ever done. I haven't been paid for.

• 42:55Will Arnett?

  That was Amy, that was Amy's first show.

• 42:58Speaker 04

  It was Amy's first show. I know. And she, and I.

• 43:01Will Arnett?

  I was there, you were great.

• 43:03Speaker 04

  You were there?

• 43:04Will Arnett?

  Of course.

• 43:05Speaker 04

  Oh, I was so bad, Will, you're so generous.

• 43:07Will Arnett?

  No, you were great, you were great.

• 43:08Speaker 04

  I was so nervous.

• 43:09Will Arnett?

  No, oh my God.

• 43:10Sean Hayes?

  That was great.

• 43:11Speaker 04

  You know how some people just nail SNL?

• 43:13Jason Bateman?

  A lot of people don't.

• 43:14Speaker 04

  It just wasn't me.

• 43:16Will Arnett?

  There was a lot of pressure. Like you said, there was a lot of pressure. Everybody was watching. It was incredibly well viewed and you know, there was so much pressure in that moment and you did great. Are you kidding? Come on.

• 43:25Sean Hayes?

  Great.

• 43:26Speaker 04

  But somebody should talk about like, I thought that four to your special was cool. How people talked about what those feelings are like, like. It's terrifying. Don't you think it was scary?

• 43:36Jason Bateman?

  So you would not do a sitcom because you think it would be too frightening every week? Week after week?

• 43:40Speaker 04

  I'm too scared.

• 43:42Jason Bateman?

  I think you would love it.

• 43:43Sean Hayes?

  I think you'd have fun. Well, now, look, after, you've already taken over the world. Because is there anything left you want to tackle?

• 43:51Speaker 04

  Yes, I would love to have a bookstore.

• 43:53Sean Hayes?

  Are you serious?

• 43:54Speaker 04

  And then sell tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny little artisanal chocolates.

• 44:00Jason Bateman?

  Oh, Jesus. We'll be right back after these messages.

• 44:03Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 44:03Jason Bateman?

  Reese, can I talk?

• 44:04Sean Hayes?

  We're talking with Martha Stewart.

• 44:06Will Arnett?

  Get the number for your therapist real quick. Because I think we would have an emergency situation.

• 44:10Jason Bateman?

  So tiny chocolates at a bookstore? What, do you think that having a bookstore would be the best way to attract a chocolate?

• 44:20Speaker 04

  Lover?

• 44:21Jason Bateman?

  Connoisseur?

• 44:22Sean Hayes?

  Connoisseur.

• 44:22Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, somebody who's in the market to buy chocolate. You're gonna.

• 44:25Speaker 04

  Oh, oh, I have another dream. You guys are gonna like this one.

• 44:28Sean Hayes?

  Okay.

• 44:29Speaker 04

  Okay, this is my retirement plan. I am going to become a farmer. And I'm only gonna plant peaches and call it Reese's Peaches.

• 44:39Sean Hayes?

  I'm on board. I'll invest.

• 44:41Will Arnett?

  I'm kind of on board with that.

• 44:43Sean Hayes?

  Reese's Peaches.

• 44:44Speaker 04

  Because you can't be sad on a peach farm.

• 44:46Jason Bateman?

  No, you can't.

• 44:48Sean Hayes?

  I probably could.

• 44:49Will Arnett?

  I love a peach salad in the summer. How good is a peach salad?

• 44:52Speaker 04

  I mean, who doesn't like peaches? Who doesn't like peaches?

• 44:54Sean Hayes?

  I love it. Maybe you could sell the peaches at the bookstore with the chocolate.

• 44:58Speaker 04

  Now you're talking.

• 44:59Sean Hayes?

  You know what I'm saying?

• 45:00Speaker 04

  Diversify.

• 45:01Jason Bateman?

  But the chocolates will be at the, at the counter as people are buying their books.

• 45:05Will Arnett?

  You can get the chocolates anywhere, okay? Relax.

• 45:09Sean Hayes?

  We'll send you a box.

• 45:10Speaker 04

  I'll send you the chocolates. Don't worry about it. I just like making tiny chocolates. I think it's really fun.

• 45:15Jason Bateman?

  Wait, wait. You also cook like crazy?

• 45:19Speaker 04

  I'm not a great cook, but I can cook.

• 45:20Sean Hayes?

  Okay, because here's, here's my image of Reese Witherspoon. You wake up and you don't stop moving until you go to sleep at night.

• 45:30Jason Bateman?

  I bet there's a bunch of little yellow birds in your bedroom though, too, when you wake up, right?

• 45:34Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 45:34Jason Bateman?

  Some blue ones?

• 45:35Speaker 04

  The energy of a, of a squirrel who drank coffee is me all day.

• 45:40Jason Bateman?

  And I'll bet you never got a B in school, right?

• 45:43Speaker 04

  Not a lot.

• 45:44Jason Bateman?

  Never, God, you're the best.

• 45:46Speaker 04

  I failed, though. I got, I only got a straight F.

• 45:49Jason Bateman?

  What?

• 45:50Speaker 04

  In calculus.

• 45:51Sean Hayes?

  Oh, wow, who needs that?

• 45:52Jason Bateman?

  I never got that high. I, I think I made it to algebra two.

• 45:56Speaker 04

  And now my kid is in second grade. I can't do the math that he's doing. I can't do it.

• 46:01Will Arnett?

  It's tough, isn't it?

• 46:02Sean Hayes?

  It's tough for Will, too.

• 46:03Will Arnett?

  It's really, it is tough. I went, I went to a math, I went to a, they had like a math symposium for, when Archie was in fourth grade, to talk about how they were redoing the math. And I was like, I gotta go with a bunch of other parents. And I kept sticking my hand up. I'm like, wait.

• 46:19Jason Bateman?

  Singapore math.

• 46:20Will Arnett?

  It was.

• 46:20Speaker 04

  I don't know.

• 46:21Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, that's what they're changing to.

• 46:22Will Arnett?

  It was tough, man.

• 46:23Sean Hayes?

  It sounds amazing. Reese, look at fine lady. Thank you for being here today. I'm so happy for everything that you've accomplished in your life. You make us all feel lazy. And I hope you're getting everything your heart desires because you deserve everything.

• 46:37Will Arnett?

  Sean, you're not lazy. Sean also has the energy of a squirrel who just drank coffee.

• 46:43Will Arnett?

  But then ate two pints of ice cream and sat on the couch.

• 46:46Speaker 04

  So he took it all down.

• 46:47Sean Hayes?

  That's me, I need, I need a sugar nap, yeah.

• 46:50Jason Bateman?

  That was, I think that was the fastest hour I have felt, yeah.

• 46:53Will Arnett?

  I know, that was really fast.

• 46:55Jason Bateman?

  You're amazing, Reese.

• 46:56Speaker 04

  Well, I love you all.

• 46:57Sean Hayes?

  We love you.

• 46:57Speaker 04

  I'm just such a huge fan of all of you. I've gotten to work with most of you. Sean.

• 47:02Sean Hayes?

  I know.

• 47:03Speaker 04

  It's gonna happen.

• 47:03Sean Hayes?

  We just love each other from afar.

• 47:05Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, do a sitcom together.

• 47:07Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, I'll.

• 47:07Jason Bateman?

  It's gonna happen.

• 47:08Speaker 04

  Put me in, put me in, coach.

• 47:09Will Arnett?

  Convince her to do a sitcom with you.

• 47:10Sean Hayes?

  I will be all over that.

• 47:12Will Arnett?

  Reese, you have honored us with your presence. You're fantastic and interesting and cool and all of the above. And thank you for coming and joining us idiots.

• 47:20Jason Bateman?

  We really appreciate it. Thank you, Reese. Say hi to Jim.

• 47:22Speaker 04

  I will do, okay. Bye y'all.

• 47:25Sean Hayes?

  Bye.

• 47:27Speaker 04

  See ya.

• 47:29Jason Bateman?

  That is such a special lady.

• 47:31Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 47:31Jason Bateman?

  Really is, I, I.

• 47:32Sean Hayes?

  Doesn't she make you feel like, God, I've done nothing?

• 47:35Jason Bateman?

  I know. And I, I don't think I've ever been that happy or energetic or ready to take on the day.

• 47:43Will Arnett?

  You've definitely never been that energetic. And your face has never been that happy, for sure.

• 47:48Jason Bateman?

  I mean, I felt that happy, I just haven't told my face yet.

• 47:51Will Arnett?

  You've never told your face that.

• 47:52Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 47:53Will Arnett?

  But, but she is like, it, it is, it's amazing how many different things she's doing at once at all times.

• 48:00Jason Bateman?

  And doing it well.

• 48:01Will Arnett?

  There are very few people and doing, and do it at such a high level.

• 48:05Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, she's got the Midas touch.

• 48:06Will Arnett?

  It's, it's unbelievable. And whether it's movies or like multiple television programs that are kind of seemingly running one into the next on HBO or on Apple Plus. And like, frankly, it's, it's kind of awe inspiring, you know? It's pretty, like, wow.

• 48:20Sean Hayes?

  And it inspires, it inspires me to, to, to work harder.

• 48:23Will Arnett?

  I hope so. I, I was hoping that something would finally inspire you, Sean.

• 48:26Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, me, me too.

• 48:28Will Arnett?

  Jesus fucking Christ. One more day at this rate. I mean, it's unreal.

• 48:34Jason Bateman?

  You wear an R2-D2 t-shirt and you just, the signals that you're sending is just, don't hire me is why, all that.

• 48:42Sean Hayes?

  This is help me, not help me Obi-Wan, help me anybody. You're my only hope.

• 48:46Jason Bateman?

  I'm not feeling the force.

• 48:48Will Arnett?

  Help me any, just change my circumstances. I'm doing a Miss Universe project too. There's a script, I'm doing it with your dad.

• 48:56Jason Bateman?

  Oh, he couldn't even get that one out. Please, please finish it. Finish it, Will.

• 49:01Will Arnett?

  Oh, come on, I couldn't finish it, I couldn't.

• 49:05Will Arnett?

  I was gonna do it the last time that you did that to us. You dropped your dad leaving a few times mid-conversation, which is so rude.

• 49:13Sean Hayes?

  I love it.

• 49:13Will Arnett?

  And the guest is always like, Jesus, Sean.

• 49:18Sean Hayes?

  Okay, guys, thank you for being such great hosts with my guest today, Reese Witherspoon. She was great.

• 49:24Will Arnett?

  Sean, what a great.

• 49:26Jason Bateman?

  Truly was the fastest hour I have felt.

• 49:28Sean Hayes?

  It was, it was great, she was great. Okay, bye.

• 49:31Will Arnett?

  No, wait a second, where are you going?

• 49:32Jason Bateman?

  Not yet.

• 49:33Will Arnett?

  Why are you leaving so quickly?

• 49:34Jason Bateman?

  What do you got, something you gotta do today?

• 49:37Will Arnett?

  Listen, Sean, let me just say a couple of things. First.

• 49:40Sean Hayes?

  Yeah. Bye.

• 49:57Sean Hayes?

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• 50:37Speaker 05

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• 50:53Speaker 01

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• 51:03Jason Bateman?

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