"Amy Poehler"

Well, well, well… it’s Amy Poehler. How did you start in comedy? Do you like TV and Movies? Let’s bundle it. Benvenuti… al duecentocinquantesimo.

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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• 3:03Will Arnett?

  Do you know that this year, we're coming up on five years?

• 3:08Sean Hayes?

  I know, isn't that amazing?

• 3:09Jason Bateman?

  So then how many episodes is that? We've been doing one a week for five years.

• 3:13Sean Hayes?

  We're gonna be 250 episodes in, I don't know.

• 3:15Jason Bateman?

  And 25 is the silver, 50 is the gold. Is there anything for 250? Is that triple silver?

• 3:21Sean Hayes?

  What is it? What is it, centennial? Wasn't it like?

• 3:24Will Arnett?

  Wait guys, this is the, this is our 250th episode. Also known as... Come on. 250th episode! Bravo, bravo!

• 3:36Jason Bateman?

  Bravo!

• 3:38Will Arnett?

  Welcome guys, so nice to be here.

• 3:40Sean Hayes?

  Oh, you came from the back of the theater.

• 3:42Will Arnett?

  Yeah, I came, I finally made my way to the front. Nice to see you guys, look at you guys. Anyway, hey, listen, do you mind if I drop some beats on you? That be okay?

• 3:52Sean Hayes?

  Bravissimo!

• 3:53Will Arnett?

  Okay. Let me tell you something about, just close your eyes, okay? Now, imagine, imagine Italian Riviera, 1982, white Ferrari Mondial. Puff, puff, screaming down the old Strada.

• 4:12Will Arnett?

  You have a chinzano with ice. Okay, now you're feeling the vibe, huh? Listen, let me ask you something. When you're making a podcast, everybody wants to know, what's that old fashion recipe? But one thing, one favore, testa ligara, sfidato. What I'm trying to say is, Smiles, huh?

• 4:47Will Arnett?

  Forever.

• 4:57Will Arnett?

  If you want to do one thing in this year, get Smiles 250.

• 5:06Will Arnett?

  Shaun, how have you been? It's been a minute.

• 5:08Sean Hayes?

  Um, my nephew and his girlfriend and three friends are visiting in town this weekend, which is super fun.

• 5:14Jason Bateman?

  Wait, are we gonna see them tonight?

• 5:16Sean Hayes?

  No, uh, I'm, I know. I think it's too many people.

• 5:21Will Arnett?

  Right. You're not, you're not gonna go?

• 5:22Jason Bateman?

  Am I gonna see you tonight?

• 5:24Sean Hayes?

  No.

• 5:25Jason Bateman?

  What?

• 5:26Sean Hayes?

  I know. It's gonna be bad. But, you know, but I don't get to see my nephew and everybody for, you know.

• 5:33Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 5:33Sean Hayes?

  And I feel bad.

• 5:34Jason Bateman?

  You saw them last night, right?

• 5:35Sean Hayes?

  Why not? Why don't you come over here afterwards? That'll never happen.

• 5:40Will Arnett?

  Oh, yeah, that'll happen. Hey, yeah, why don't you come over there afterwards?

• 5:43Jason Bateman?

  Right around 8:30 or something? Drive across the city and spend another two hours?

• 5:47Will Arnett?

  This will happen. This will happen for sure.

• 5:50Sean Hayes?

  Yeah. But last night, I took him to Coy, right? Last night?

• 5:54Jason Bateman?

  Sure you did.

• 5:55Sean Hayes?

  And I was.

• 5:55Will Arnett?

  Oh, yeah. Your favorite seafood restaurant.

• 5:57Sean Hayes?

  It was so good. And, um, I was walking back to the car and there was a pothole that I thought was just like a surface, like puddle. And it was a massive pothole. And I completely twisted my ankle. It was so fucking painful. Look at this.

• 6:14Jason Bateman?

  Ow, is it all swollen?

• 6:16Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 6:16Jason Bateman?

  Let's see. Come here, Bobbins.

• 6:17Sean Hayes?

  Well, you can't see it. It's huge.

• 6:19Jason Bateman?

  No, I can see that.

• 6:20Will Arnett?

  You iced it?

• 6:21Sean Hayes?

  This is gonna heal fast, right? Like, I freaked out last night.

• 6:24Will Arnett?

  Probably not. It'll probably heal the wrong way and you'll be club. Do you know the term club foot?

• 6:29Jason Bateman?

  Dead foot.

• 6:31Sean Hayes?

  Well, but fortunately, it's not going to take anything away from your life. Usually it means that you can't be playing basketball or doing all the jogging and all that stuff.

• 6:41Will Arnett?

  Luckily, you don't do any of it.

• 6:42Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, that's true.

• 6:43Will Arnett?

  Is that what you're gonna get, Jason?

• 6:44Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, you'll still be able to shuffle into Chin Chin for lunch and Koi for dinner.

• 6:47Jason Bateman?

  Shuffle.

• 6:48Will Arnett?

  What if you, what if you, what if you go to the doctor and you're like, will this affect my ability to watch TV all day?

• 6:59Sean Hayes?

  Well, no, I just prop it up on the couch. That's what I've been doing.

• 7:02Jason Bateman?

  Will I still be able to chop celery into my egg salad?

• 7:05Sean Hayes?

  No tuna salad.

• 7:06Will Arnett?

  Well, will I have to cut, will I have to cut my sloppy gel intake?

• 7:11Sean Hayes?

  You know what, though? Here's the deal. They went to the tar pits, you know, the La Brea tar pits near the museum?

• 7:16Will Arnett?

  They being your nephew?

• 7:18Sean Hayes?

  My nephew and girlfriend and their friends.

• 7:20Jason Bateman?

  Is that still a tourist attraction here?

• 7:22Sean Hayes?

  It is. They've never been. And they bought crickets. They bought a bag of crickets and they ate them. Sour cream and onion crickets. And they pulled them out.

• 7:30Will Arnett?

  What does that have to do with the, what? Okay, go ahead.

• 7:32Jason Bateman?

  Because they're saying the dinosaurs used to eat crickets back in the tar pit days? Why they sell those?

• 7:36Sean Hayes?

  No, no, no, no. They sell them in the gift shop. They sell them in the gift shop.

• 7:39Will Arnett?

  Why?

• 7:39Sean Hayes?

  I have no idea.

• 7:40Jason Bateman?

  At the museum?

• 7:41Sean Hayes?

  Yes, and they pulled them. You want one? I'm like, I'm not gonna eat a cricket. Oh, God.

• 7:45Jason Bateman?

  Why not?

• 7:46Will Arnett?

  The last time I heard crickets was Good Night Oscar. It was right after the curtain went down.

• 7:53Will Arnett?

  But that's.

• 7:55Sean Hayes?

  Look at him. He's on fire today. He's on fuego.

• 7:58Jason Bateman?

  Who would do the worst at some sort of like outdoor Survivor type of show where you gotta eat bugs and stuff like that?

• 8:04Sean Hayes?

  I'd last two seconds.

• 8:05Jason Bateman?

  No, but I think I wouldn't, I think I might do even worse.

• 8:10Will Arnett?

  Well, you would call your lawyer and say, am I obligated to eat this?

• 8:16Will Arnett?

  Imagine if we took the word obligation out of your vocabulary. You weren't allowed to use obligation.

• 8:21Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, I need, I need new shtick. I'm sick of my own fucking voice. I'm gonna be silent today on the podcast.

• 8:28Will Arnett?

  I miss both you guys a lot. I'll just say something.

• 8:31Sean Hayes?

  I know. I haven't seen you. I'm so bummed I'm not going tonight.

• 8:33Will Arnett?

  I've been in New York and I've been with lots of friends and lots of people and with, obviously with Bradley, but I really miss you guys a lot.

• 8:40Sean Hayes?

  I know, likewise.

• 8:41Jason Bateman?

  I missed you too. I was thinking about you this morning.

• 8:42Sean Hayes?

  I'm so jealous. I can't see you. Anyway, here we go. Speaking of can't wait to see people, I can't wait for you to see our guest today.

• 8:49Jason Bateman?

  Oh, great opening line.

• 8:50Sean Hayes?

  This person is someone we all, thank you, thank you. She's someone we all know well. So much that I'm not sure what I can say about her that won't give it away. But she's a prolific comedian, she's an author, super producer, really great director. She played Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz when she was 10. And I, more recently, I think she played Elphaba? In the movie Wicked? I don't know. A Boston, she didn't. A Boston native, her summer job was working at an ice cream parlor where she'd sing Happy Birthday with Kazooz. Today, she's a comedic force in Hollywood. Hilarious colleague and the world's favorite cool mom to Regina George. It's our ridiculously funny friend, Amy Poehler.

• 9:30Will Arnett?

  No way.

• 9:31Sean Hayes?

  Wait, truly?

• 9:32Jason Bateman?

  Well, well, well.

• 9:35Speaker 03

  Well, well, well.

• 9:37Will Arnett?

  Wait a second.

• 9:38Sean Hayes?

  Holy shit.

• 9:39Speaker 03

  Well, well, well.

• 9:41Will Arnett?

  Wait a second. First of all, how many levels am I?

• 9:46Sean Hayes?

  I know, this is why, of course, my first question is, did you know about this?

• 9:50Will Arnett?

  No.

• 9:51Sean Hayes?

  Okay, good, I love it.

• 9:52Speaker 03

  Not a glimpse of recognition on Will's face when he said all of those things.

• 9:56Will Arnett?

  Well, I, there's no way that I thought, well, I, I knew that you worked at Brigham's, but I, I didn't, in, in Boston.

• 10:02Speaker 03

  Chadwick's, Will, I worked at Chadwick's.

• 10:04Will Arnett?

  No, sorry.

• 10:05Speaker 03

  Unbelievable.

• 10:06Will Arnett?

  But we went to Brigham's with, with your dad and he asked the people if they liked their job.

• 10:11Sean Hayes?

  Let him finish, Amy. Yeah. I can't believe this. Wait, Amy, did you have to, did you have to, because of kids stuff? Did you have to like say, oh, I can't, or whatever, or some schedule stuff and lie or something?

• 10:23Speaker 03

  You know what, it was, it was really easy to hide it. Nobody was asking if I was doing that.

• 10:29Sean Hayes?

  Do you think Archie and Abel, do you think Archie and Abel would have been able to keep the secret? Did you not tell them?

• 10:34Speaker 03

  Well, I think one of them knew. One of them knew. One of them saw, um, uh, our youngest saw, uh, my schedule on the kitchen table and said, you're doing Smartless?

• 10:45Sean Hayes?

  Oh, wow.

• 10:47Speaker 03

  Does Dad know?

• 10:48Will Arnett?

  No way.

• 10:48Speaker 03

  And I said, no, don't say anything.

• 10:50Sean Hayes?

  I love it. Abel kept the secret. It's so cool.

• 10:53Will Arnett?

  No way. And, and also, Amy and I were texting last night about something else. Zero.

• 10:59Sean Hayes?

  That's good, that's good.

• 11:01Will Arnett?

  That is unbelievable. I can't.

• 11:03Sean Hayes?

  Amy, I didn't know what to say. I didn't know how to introduce you without them blowing it.

• 11:07Speaker 03

  Sean, I'm so honored to be your guest, Sean, of all three.

• 11:10Sean Hayes?

  Yes, likewise.

• 11:10Will Arnett?

  First of all, first of all, I've asked her to do it and she said no, and then she said yes to Sean.

• 11:15Speaker 03

  Well, I wanted to wait until you had done 250 episodes to see if this thing was real.

• 11:20Sean Hayes?

  Wait, truly? I know we've been trying to get you on for so long and it's so glad it worked out.

• 11:24Speaker 03

  I usually give something five years before I try it.

• 11:26Sean Hayes?

  Sure, sure.

• 11:28Jason Bateman?

  Wait, Will, how many times have you asked her to do it?

• 11:31Will Arnett?

  A couple of times. I asked you to do it on tour, I think, right, Amy?

• 11:35Speaker 03

  Yeah, I think so, yeah. But, you know, it just had to, I just was waiting, I was waiting for my buddy Sean to give me the go-ahead.

• 11:43Sean Hayes?

  Here I am. Here I am. I gave her the green light and she showed up, like a race car.

• 11:48Will Arnett?

  Hang on one second, hang on. Amanda, get over here.

• 11:51Jason Bateman?

  What?

• 11:54Jason Bateman?

  But wait, Sean, did you think for a second like, wait, should I, is this cool? Like, should, did you ask Bennett or Rob to like, kind of float it by Will to see if that...

• 12:04Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, no, I mean, Amy's been on my list.

• 12:05Speaker 03

  What are you guys talking about? Why do you have to float anything past anybody?

• 12:10Jason Bateman?

  Well, we kind of do that every once in a while.

• 12:13Speaker 03

  Guys, nice, by the way, great welcome. Nice to see you all. Hi. I mean, Jesus, you're all talking about how weird it is that I'm here. Hi, I'm your guest. Nice to see you. Happy to be here. Good lord.

• 12:27Will Arnett?

  First of all, you can't take over our podcast. You can't tell us...

• 12:31Speaker 03

  No, the only way to talk on this podcast is to completely take it over.

• 12:35Sean Hayes?

  100%.

• 12:36Jason Bateman?

  Believe me.

• 12:37Speaker 03

  It's unbearable if the guest doesn't, because you make me, you make us sit and listen to you in the beginning anyway.

• 12:44Sean Hayes?

  And it's torturous.

• 12:45Speaker 03

  It's unbelievable.

• 12:47Jason Bateman?

  What do you think, what do you think about how...

• 12:49Speaker 03

  And every single time I hear you guys talk about how much you miss each other, and am I wrong that you talk to each other every week?

• 12:55Sean Hayes?

  No. We don't get to see each other. We don't get to see each other.

• 12:59Will Arnett?

  First of all, slow down. I'm outraged like five outrages ago, okay?

• 13:06Sean Hayes?

  This is so great. Wait, for Tracy, just so, just to really air, right, for my sister.

• 13:12Speaker 03

  Of course.

• 13:12Sean Hayes?

  You guys were married and now you're not, and it's been years and years, and everything's going swimmingly.

• 13:17Jason Bateman?

  What a great way to put it.

• 13:19Will Arnett?

  Anyway, let me be the first to say, welcome to Smart.

• 13:22Speaker 03

  Thank you, thank you. We're 17 minutes in, but thank you for that.

• 13:29Sean Hayes?

  Amy, this is so great.

• 13:30Speaker 03

  And great crickets joke, by the way, Will. That was a really good crickets.

• 13:33Sean Hayes?

  That was a good one.

• 13:33Speaker 03

  Very, very smart. Very smart.

• 13:36Will Arnett?

  Thank you. Jason, are you okay with your mic?

• 13:39Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, I'm having a real mic issue this morning. Is it, is it bad for you guys? Is it bad for me?

• 13:45Sean Hayes?

  No, it sounds great.

• 13:46Jason Bateman?

  Okay, good.

• 13:46Speaker 03

  It sounds fine.

• 13:47Jason Bateman?

  Now, so, Amy, Will, how did you guys first meet?

• 13:56Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, we're gonna get into it.

• 13:57Speaker 03

  No, we're definitely not.

• 13:58Jason Bateman?

  First start to fracture.

• 14:00Speaker 03

  No, we're definitely not. We're definitely not.

• 14:03Will Arnett?

  Amy, can I tell this story about, you and I were talking about, about Sedaris the other day?

• 14:09Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah, that's a good, yeah, that's a very funny story.

• 14:12Will Arnett?

  And I think I maybe told it once before, but you guys-

• 14:14Speaker 03

  Great, great Amy Sedaris story.

• 14:15Will Arnett?

  So Amy Sedaris, who's working with us on the film, I was hanging out with her the other day, and she, years ago, Amy Poehler and Amy Sedaris would often get mixed up for each other because they're both comedians and they're both sort of blonde and kind of, you know.

• 14:32Sean Hayes?

  Cute and funny and talented and charming.

• 14:35Will Arnett?

  So they'd get mixed, and I've been with Poehler a million times where people like, people would say to her, remember him, they'd go like, "I'm such a fan of your brother." And you're like, "Oh, he's a lawyer. Thank you. He'll really appreciate it."

• 14:48Will Arnett?

  So, so, so I guess it happened to Sedaris too. And one time, like 20 years ago, I read this article in a magazine where Sedaris says, "People come up to me all the time and say, 'Oh, my God, I love you so great.'" And I'm such a, you know, "I just love you and Will." And Sedaris says in the interview, and I usually say to them like, "Yeah, Will and I are having a lot of sexual problems."

• 15:13Will Arnett?

  Which is so funny.

• 15:15Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, that is really funny.

• 15:17Will Arnett?

  Oh, look at Bless. He's really having an issue.

• 15:18Speaker 03

  Bateman's really having, it's so fascinating that he's having microphone problems.

• 15:22Jason Bateman?

  Will, Sean, tell her what it's like when I have technical issues.

• 15:25Sean Hayes?

  It's not good.

• 15:26Jason Bateman?

  I'm gonna slam the laptop in a second.

• 15:28Will Arnett?

  We had-

• 15:29Jason Bateman?

  What's wrong with closing?

• 15:29Sean Hayes?

  We hear you great.

• 15:30Will Arnett?

  Amy, we had McConaughey on once and he was trying to, and he was in the, in the blind, and Jason was having issues, and it took 20 minutes and he got so mad and he was like, "Fuck it," and he started freaking out. And McConaughey starts laughing with his camera covered, and Jason goes, "Oh, it's really funny, isn't it?"

• 15:46Jason Bateman?

  Who's laughing? Who's laughing? That's not helpful.

• 15:49Will Arnett?

  And he slammed his-

• 15:50Jason Bateman?

  And I slammed my laptop like a bitch.

• 15:52Sean Hayes?

  Wow.

• 15:53Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 15:53Speaker 03

  It was not "all right, all right, all right," is what you're trying to say.

• 15:56Will Arnett?

  No, it was not "all right, all right." So Amy, how did you start in comedy?

• 16:02Sean Hayes?

  Oh, believe me, we're getting into that. We're getting into that.

• 16:05Speaker 03

  Oh, Lord, you guys with your questions, they're so good. First of all, your questions are always so good.

• 16:11Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 16:11Sean Hayes?

  So sought out.

• 16:12Will Arnett?

  We're up, we're up for a, as you would call, we're up for, as you would call it, a peebity.

• 16:17Sean Hayes?

  A peebity.

• 16:18Jason Bateman?

  And wait, Amy, how was, can we talk about? Can we, how was the, um, was SNL 50 fun?

• 16:25Speaker 03

  Cause that show was great. Oh, man, it was so fun. It was kinda, it was kinda out of body, like, it was kind of too, it was, it was almost too big, like, like celeb fatigue almost.

• 16:37Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 16:37Speaker 03

  Um, but it was, uh, so fun. And I think it was a big success.

• 16:41Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, it was a great show. I started thinking about all the SUVs that must have been choking out midtown.

• 16:48Speaker 03

  Like, you want me to give you a, you want me to give you a scoop? You want me to give you a smartless scoop? Like, uh, yeah.

• 16:54Jason Bateman?

  Making news.

• 16:56Speaker 03

  Uh, breaking news, uh, people had to share dressing rooms and I shared mine with Meryl Streep.

• 17:01Jason Bateman?

  Whoa.

• 17:02Speaker 03

  How cool is that?

• 17:04Jason Bateman?

  Okay, is she a dirty bathroom girl? Does she keep the top off the toothpaste?

• 17:07Speaker 03

  Well, SNL, you don't have your own bathroom. You have like a, you know, it is a straight up, everyone uses like a a hall bathroom. You don't have your own bathroom and your own dressing room at SNL.

• 17:17Jason Bateman?

  Do people still smoke back there?

• 17:19Speaker 03

  No, I didn't see anybody smoking. Maybe vaping, but I, but, but, yeah, uh, but yeah, maybe you could. If you just did it, I bet no one would stop you.

• 17:28Jason Bateman?

  Was she a good dressing room partner?

• 17:29Speaker 03

  The loveliest. We were kind of two ships, but I took a picture of, of the door. Cause it was nice to have my, my, my, um.

• 17:37Jason Bateman?

  I love that sketch she did.

• 17:39Speaker 03

  I know, so funny. Her and Kate, ugh, Kate is so.

• 17:42Jason Bateman?

  I mean, could she have hiked those jeans up higher? I mean, it was, it was just tough, just tough.

• 17:49Speaker 03

  But it was fu, it was so fun. It felt like a high school reunion. Everybody regressed a little bit back into their old roles.

• 17:56Sean Hayes?

  Isn't it fun?

• 17:57Speaker 03

  And it was fun. It was, you know, I, I, I can't believe I was there, to be very honest. Like, it was wild.

• 18:03Jason Bateman?

  You and Tina were great in your bit.

• 18:04Will Arnett?

  Yeah, you and Tina, I loved it. You guys, that was a great bit. That was so good.

• 18:07Sean Hayes?

  For Tracy Tina Fey. So listen, Amy, when you, uh.

• 18:10Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, Tracy's got it, bro.

• 18:12Will Arnett?

  Sean, is, you treating Tracy like she's getting dumber?

• 18:16Sean Hayes?

  I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

• 18:18Will Arnett?

  Amy, tell a little bit, wait, just, just, you guys, and then you and Maya did Bronx Beat, which is an all time fave.

• 18:23Sean Hayes?

  Hilarious.

• 18:23Will Arnett?

  Can you tell, these guys probably don't know where Bronx Beat came from, the origin story of it?

• 18:29Speaker 03

  Oh yeah, the, the story of that is there's an amazing, um, uh, hair, uh, the head of the hair department, Jodi Manquuso, is from the Bronx and she has that accent and she would just work with us in the hair makeup room and, um, we just started talking like her. So, there's a real Jodi, so when we do the show, we always go into the hair room and just have Jodi.

• 18:53Sean Hayes?

  Get you on.

• 18:53Speaker 03

  Be like our vocal dialect coach, yeah, get us there.

• 18:56Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, I love that.

• 18:56Will Arnett?

  Have you ever thought about bringing her in on the sketch?

• 18:59Speaker 03

  Yeah, but you know, it's funny that, we, you know, we brought, um, Donna, the dresser, um, on for that moment and those, the crew, like, they're so, you know, real professionals, like, don't care about being on camera.

• 19:12Sean Hayes?

  Right.

• 19:13Will Arnett?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 19:13Speaker 03

  Like, a really actual good professional could give a shit if they're, like, if they're acting.

• 19:19Will Arnett?

  Except for Wally.

• 19:20Speaker 03

  Wally loves it, Wally does love it.

• 19:22Will Arnett?

  Wally loves it.

• 19:22Speaker 03

  Yeah, Wally, the cute, cool guy.

• 19:24Sean Hayes?

  The stage manager.

• 19:24Speaker 03

  But I said professional, I said professional, so.

• 19:28Sean Hayes?

  But Amy, being back, doing that 50th like that, like you said, it's like a reunion, I think I asked you a long, long, long time ago, when you, uh, departed the show and you, you decided to leave, that, I was like, won't you miss like that?

• 19:42Will Arnett?

  I thought you were kicked off, sorry, I had a different.

• 19:46Speaker 03

  I was asked to leave, I was making people uncomfortable, that's why.

• 19:49Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 19:50Will Arnett?

  You were given the opportunity to retire.

• 19:51Speaker 03

  Well, I had a very, uh, gentle HR meeting where a man in a suit, um, put me on an elevator, Severance style, and I don't remember what happened since.

• 20:02Sean Hayes?

  Do they have an HR on the show? Cause if so, that's gotta be a really high trafficked office.

• 20:07Speaker 03

  Well, they do, they do have an HR and they do, like all of the shows that we've all worked on, you know, I mean, do you remember and do we still have to go through the, you know, all that training every time, which is very good to do.

• 20:20Sean Hayes?

  Every job.

• 20:20Speaker 03

  But, yeah, it is, I, I believe, um, I believe that they do that still and should.

• 20:26Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 20:27Speaker 03

  It's probably a very different environment than I was there 20 plus years ago, for all of us.

• 20:32Sean Hayes?

  But, but when you, like, there's, you're one of the all time greats to ever, you know, be on SNL. And it is true, it's true. I mean, everybody's great, but there's breakouts.

• 20:42Will Arnett?

  I really like her style!

• 20:44Speaker 03

  Oh, somebody shot it.

• 20:50Jason Bateman?

  What about the after party? Was there a good, there must have been a very robust after party for this one.

• 20:55Speaker 03

  Yeah, robust after party at the Plaza Hotel.

• 20:58Jason Bateman?

  Whoa, was there an after after with the little?

• 21:01Speaker 03

  There may have been. I didn't, I didn't hang that long. I, I, you know, I, I love bedtime.

• 21:07Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 21:07Speaker 03

  I, I used to be a vampire and now I love bedtime. I think about bedtime all day.

• 21:12Jason Bateman?

  Yes. Do they still do the little, like the little sort of, um, the size of like a, a, a, a fortune and a cookie, the hand, a little address for the after after party? Is that still something that's done?

• 21:25Speaker 03

  I feel like, like, uh, one of the things that was different is, you know, things were texted and emailed and, and, you know, I didn't have any of that when I was there wildly. We didn't even have phones that we carried around on the floor. I mean, maybe we did occasionally, but we would kind of leave them in the dressing room. But now everything is texted. So I imagine maybe it's a text now.

• 21:43Jason Bateman?

  For the kids.

• 21:44Speaker 03

  A Snapchat or some kind of YouTube channel people subscribe to. It's maybe, it's probably a podcast that tells you what, where the after after is.

• 21:54Jason Bateman?

  Speaking of pods, you've got a new pod on, Amy.

• 21:56Speaker 03

  Oh my God, thank you so much for that.

• 21:58Jason Bateman?

  Amy, please tell us about your new pod.

• 21:59Will Arnett?

  Oh, that's why she's here.

• 22:01Speaker 03

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

• 22:03Jason Bateman?

  What's it called? And where can we find it?

• 22:06Sean Hayes?

  Good Hang with Amy Poehler.

• 22:08Speaker 03

  It's called Good Hang and it's on Spotify.

• 22:10Jason Bateman?

  Yes, can't wait.

• 22:11Speaker 03

  And, um, I'm very excited. It's been really fun. We're, we've been recording and getting ready for our launch. I don't know when this show is going to come on, when, when this one drops. How far ahead are you guys?

• 22:21Will Arnett?

  July 2026.

• 22:22Speaker 03

  Okay, July 2026. So it's been going for about a year and it's been good.

• 22:27Jason Bateman?

  This is a good bump. This will be a good bump.

• 22:32Jason Bateman?

  We'll be right back.

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• 27:08Jason Bateman?

  And now, back to the show.

• 27:12Sean Hayes?

  But wait, but Amy.

• 27:14Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 27:14Sean Hayes?

  I was gonna ask you if you ever wanted to do sketch comedy again, because going back to what I was saying before, you're one of the all-time greats, and you, it's hard to find people that can do what you do, and Kristen Wiig does, and Maya, and Tina, and all these, you know, really breakout people can do. And so, but every time I see you do it, I'm like, ooh, I just wish you would go, like, do more sketch comedy.

• 27:37Speaker 03

  But go back, how? Like, what do you mean? Like, do a sketch show? That's a lot of work.

• 27:42Sean Hayes?

  I know, but, so you're like, ooh, nap time, bedtime.

• 27:46Speaker 03

  It just, it just feels like, I know what you mean, Sean, I love doing it. I just don't know if I could launch back into an actual full-time sketch show. It's so much work, and creating the material, generating the material is so, is so time-consuming, but I love it.

• 28:01Sean Hayes?

  As a fan, I think I speak for a lot of people, like, oh, when we see you, and everybody together, like, ooh.

• 28:05Will Arnett?

  Well, we're not really taking questions from fans right now, but.

• 28:11Will Arnett?

  Hey, Amy, do you don't still do, you don't really still do, like, Ask At Her, there's no version of that anymore, right?

• 28:17Speaker 03

  No, improv, but you know, Tina and I have been on tour, we've been.

• 28:20Will Arnett?

  Oh, yeah.

• 28:21Speaker 03

  We've done our show a bunch of cities last year, we're going back out again in March, April, and May for, you know.

• 28:26Will Arnett?

  If you're in Orlando, do you have some dates you want to talk about?

• 28:29Speaker 03

  Yeah, we have Orlando, we have Detroit.

• 28:31Sean Hayes?

  Oh, that's great.

• 28:31Speaker 03

  We have Chicago, Boston, playing Red Rocks.

• 28:36Will Arnett?

  Wow, no shit, Red Rocks?

• 28:37Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 28:38Will Arnett?

  That's cool.

• 28:38Sean Hayes?

  Is it, is it written, or is it improvised?

• 28:41Speaker 03

  Yeah, so it's, it's written, it's a, like, a long variety show, we have special guests come in, we do, we kind of go through the history of our 30-year friendship. But there's a section in it that where we talk about Chicago and how we met, and so we improvise there, which is really fun.

• 28:59Sean Hayes?

  Yes, I want to talk about that, because I did Second City 2, and you did 2.

• 29:02Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 29:02Sean Hayes?

  And I never performed on the main stage, but you.

• 29:05Speaker 03

  Same.

• 29:05Sean Hayes?

  Oh, wow, so people, people think you're probably from Chicago all the time, but you're from Boston.

• 29:10Speaker 03

  Yeah, people think I'm from the Midwest a lot, because also with Parks and Rec, their head goes to Indiana, so they think I'm like a Chicago.

• 29:16Will Arnett?

  Would you consider yourself like a Boston homegirl?

• 29:19Speaker 03

  I mean, I'm definitely a homie.

• 29:23Jason Bateman?

  How is Bill Pola? Tell us how Bill Pola is.

• 29:25Will Arnett?

  Let's talk about Bill. Can we talk about Bill for a minute?

• 29:29Speaker 03

  Oh, God, he'd love it.

• 29:30Will Arnett?

  So this is the-

• 29:30Speaker 03

  He'd like us to talk for an hour.

• 29:32Will Arnett?

  This is, he would. So this is the reason I got Chad Wicks and Brigham mixed up. I just want to tell this story if I could. We can always cut it, Amy, by the way, which is-

• 29:39Jason Bateman?

  We don't cut anything on this show.

• 29:40Will Arnett?

  We went to, we went to-

• 29:42Speaker 03

  No, I can tell, there's no editing.

• 29:43Jason Bateman?

  This is super baggy.

• 29:46Will Arnett?

  We go to Brigham's, which is an ice cream store in the mall in Burlington, Mass., which is where Amy's from, with her mom and dad, well, with her dad. And there's this girl, she's like, I don't know, 17, working there as like her afternoon, weekend job, scooping ice cream. This is when Amy's first on SNL. And her dad goes, like, you know, 25 years, he goes, goes to the girl, it's kind of silent, and he goes, "You like your job?" And she goes, she's like, scooping ice cream, she's like, "Yeah, I guess so." And he goes, "You know who really likes her job?" My daughter.

• 30:16Jason Bateman?

  Teed himself up, huh?

• 30:17Will Arnett?

  It was so good.

• 30:19Jason Bateman?

  That's great.

• 30:19Will Arnett?

  But he's so proud. He's so-

• 30:22Jason Bateman?

  God, I love him.

• 30:23Speaker 03

  He will get on the elevator with people and will say, "Do you like TV and movies?" That's his question, like, like, has anyone said, "No."

• 30:29Jason Bateman?

  And you're on the elevator with him?

• 30:31Will Arnett?

  We played golf, we played golf with these guys years ago, and, and, and Bill and I were playing with some random dudes, and he gets back in the car, and he looks at me, and he goes, "Well, I told them."

• 30:43Speaker 03

  I can't help it.

• 30:44Will Arnett?

  He's so, he's so proud, though, in the best, best way. Both are parents.

• 30:49Speaker 03

  My parents are like Boston strong, very proud, they like came to almost-

• 30:54Will Arnett?

  Retired teachers.

• 30:55Speaker 03

  Yeah, they watched every SNL, they came to every early improv show I ever did live. They like had a big watch party for me when our show launched in 1998 on Comedy Central, UCD. They just are very, very big fans, and they-

• 31:11Will Arnett?

  They are, they're the definition of supportive parents, like, of what you do.

• 31:15Jason Bateman?

  Were they the ones that were, that were the first funnies in your family for you? Like, is that, is that where you got your humor from?

• 31:21Speaker 03

  I think like, I will, I, I throw this back out to you guys, because I think that you have, probably have families like this, too. You know, you have to kind of keep up. Like, for me, teasing is a love language. If I like you, I can tease you, and, and manners are kind of for people you don't know or you don't like.

• 31:37Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 31:37Speaker 03

  So, like, the idea that you could bust each other was a, was a way in which to sharpen your skills, and so we would, we would tease each other, there was a lot of laughs at the table, like, it's very like Boston Irish. Um, and some families I learned as I went to college and like are not that, which is always so shocking to me when families are, families don't get to like poke each other. It's like, oh, okay, it's a different set of rules.

• 32:06Will Arnett?

  You would, you would often accuse, well, first of all, I would say when you say sitting around the table, let's be honest, it's sitting around the kitchen.

• 32:13Speaker 03

  Well, let's be honest, it's sitting around the TV.

• 32:15Will Arnett?

  It's sitting around the TV. But also you would accuse me of playing too hard that Jason and I would play too hard.

• 32:22Speaker 03

  Yeah, well, you guys, you guys.

• 32:24Jason Bateman?

  It was his deep love. The love was too deep.

• 32:27Speaker 03

  You know how they call things a love tap? You guys are a love shove. That's what I'm trying to say. You love shove.

• 32:33Jason Bateman?

  I love it. It's good.

• 32:35Speaker 03

  But so it depends on the mood, you know, but.

• 32:37Will Arnett?

  But I, I agree with you. Like people, like you can meet people and it, there is that thing of like, if I'm not teasing you.

• 32:44Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, we're talking about all the time.

• 32:46Will Arnett?

  Right, then I'm not really interested.

• 32:48Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, right.

• 32:49Speaker 03

  Yeah. Yeah, I mean, but it, but some people have a higher and lower tolerance, like, you know, you have to just be a little gentle.

• 32:56Sean Hayes?

  But as far as your, I, I read too, Amy, that you say that you were parentified at a young age, meaning that like you became your parents because your parents were so young when they had you.

• 33:05Speaker 03

  Yeah, my parents were young and don't you feel that way? Like, I don't know. I, I don't know, but don't you feel, and this might be just our generation too. Just feel like we felt very old really fast. Like we felt we had freedom, which gave us a sense of, you know, agency. And then we had jobs really early and we just, it just felt like we grew up fast. I don't know if that's a generational thing, but.

• 33:34Will Arnett?

  Yeah. Well, Jason, the thing about Jason, I'm not joking, was out working when he was, sweet little JB was working when he was seven.

• 33:41Speaker 03

  Oh, you're blessed. So cute. Like with a little briefcase and a little security number.

• 33:47Jason Bateman?

  And a small mustache.

• 33:48Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 33:48Sean Hayes?

  So you guys, so you both, what I'm interested in, Amy, your background and your, your parents being schoolteachers and, and learning kind of from that, like what did you take from them for Archie and Abel? And Will, what did you take from your parents for Archie and Abel? And how do you do that together?

• 34:05Jason Bateman?

  Hmm.

• 34:05Sean Hayes?

  Let me try to bundle that for you. Amy, do you parent like your parents at all? Oh, by the way.

• 34:11Will Arnett?

  Look at you.

• 34:13Jason Bateman?

  Oh, yeah, no, I've been working on it. I've been working with a tutor.

• 34:17Speaker 03

  You've been working on bundling?

• 34:18Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, bundling is sort of a gathering term that he suggested I use internally, but now I'm spreading it.

• 34:28Speaker 03

  That actually, you could sell a whole bunch of like a series of tapes.

• 34:32Jason Bateman?

  Babe, bundles.

• 34:33Speaker 03

  Talking about bundling other people's questions. Let me bundle that for you. You could be so successful talking about bundling. If you jumped on a mini trampoline and did a cold dip at the same time, you'd be a bundle, bundle king. I think parenting is a constant, ever-changing like thing, right? It's like, somebody said this to me once that I always loved, which was parenting is like a series of short stories. So a short story starts and you think, I don't know how this story is gonna go. I don't know the characters. I don't even know what's gonna happen. And then you're in the middle of the short story and you think, man, I never want this to end. I love this. I love this. I got it. I'm in the groove. I know what I'm doing.

• 35:17Speaker 03

  And then the short story is over and you think, oh, no, there's no way the next one could be better. It's just like a series of, your kid is changing so much and the world is changing so much and you have to stay kind of flexible, pliable, learn from your mistakes.

• 35:34Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 35:35Will Arnett?

  I think the difference for me is, for my own parents, is I have to try really hard. Amy, you're really good at this and you helped me do this in concert with you,

• 35:48Will Arnett?

  to try to be, to remember to listen to what they're saying and to not try to impose what I think they, you know, you need this, you need that, but to actually sit and listen to what your kid is trying to say. Like, you know what I mean? Encourage them to, as much as they can, to speak and to really hear. And it's not, I don't come by it naturally because that's not how I was. Raised, do you know what I mean?

• 36:13Speaker 03

  Yeah, I, I, I am the same. It doesn't always feel natural. Your instinct is to wanna give them advice.

• 36:19Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 36:19Speaker 03

  Um, or tell them what to be aware of or afraid of, or share your own personal stuff. Like, that's so instinctual, of course, because we want the best for our kids. And I remember reading somewhere that when your kid tells you something, you just repeat it back to them like you're doing a headline of a news story.

• 36:38Will Arnett?

  Yes.

• 36:38Speaker 03

  It actually works really well with people, too. I bet it happens on this podcast, too. They say, "Oh, I had a bad, I had a bad day in math," and then you go, "You had a bad day in math." That's all you say. Period. The end.

• 36:49Will Arnett?

  Yeah, I mean, I'm usually thinking about what the bit is, like, you know what I mean?

• 36:52Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 36:53Will Arnett?

  But, but, no, but you're right. You're right. And, and the other day, we, again, we were talking about something for, with, with one of our kids, and, and I said, Amy and I were talking on the phone, and I said, "Oh, I identify with that, and I think that my own experience," and, and you said to me, you're like, "They don't really wanna hear about your experience."

• 37:11Jason Bateman?

  They want you to listen to theirs. Yeah, yeah.

• 37:13Speaker 03

  And we all, this happened, don't you feel like this happens as adults, too? When someone talks about, like, "Well, when I used to," you're just like, "Oh, boy." You know, even in your 50s, it still happens where someone talks about, "Well, I, you know, in the business I used to be in, we would be able," and you're like, "Well, that's not the way it is anymore, old man."

• 37:31Jason Bateman?

  Right, right.

• 37:32Speaker 03

  It's not that, you don't understand, like, it's so.

• 37:35Will Arnett?

  Yeah, Jason, you must get old man a lot, right?

• 37:37Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, a lot more recently. It's pretty shocking. Yeah, I find that, that it's, you, you, I, I'm constantly battling, like, how much should I be, like, leading this parenting thing? Or how much should I be reacting to this parenting thing? In other words, like, should I be waiting to see what they need me to parent them at? Or should I initiate sort of parenting, um, based on nothing they're actually showing me? In other, in other words, like, should I wait to see until how they react to a certain situation? And then talk to them about that?

• 38:09Will Arnett?

  Or this could use a bundle.

• 38:11Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 38:11Speaker 03

  Yeah, we could bundle this.

• 38:12Jason Bateman?

  Are we still rolling? Can we go back to one?

• 38:14Speaker 03

  What I think what you're trying to say, yeah.

• 38:15Will Arnett?

  Amy, tell, Amy.

• 38:17Speaker 03

  Let's bundle, let's bundle.

• 38:18Will Arnett?

  Amy, try to guess what he's trying to say, please.

• 38:20Speaker 03

  I think, I think the bundle here is, how can I be best of service to my kids?

• 38:24Sean Hayes?

  That's great.

• 38:25Speaker 03

  When they're teens, yeah, that's the bundle.

• 38:27Sean Hayes?

  That's so good.

• 38:27Will Arnett?

  That's the bundle.

• 38:28Speaker 03

  I read something, and by read something, I mean I saw it on TikTok.

• 38:33Sean Hayes?

  Totally.

• 38:34Speaker 03

  Supposedly, when your teen, when your kids become teens, you go from producer to consultant. That's the difference. You're no longer producing their lives, you're there for them to consult.

• 38:44Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 38:44Speaker 03

  So you have to like, kind of, you have to kind of let them start producing their own lives, which is not easy.

• 38:49Sean Hayes?

  Perfect use of the bundling concept. Yes. I've also heard that, you know, part of, like, I've heard you love therapy as much as I love therapy. I can talk about it all day long. I love it. I love going to therapy. And because you-

• 39:03Will Arnett?

  You go to therapy?

• 39:06Will Arnett?

  Ooh.

• 39:06Sean Hayes?

  Yeah. Oh, you said it. And I'm always trying to make her laugh, and she's like, hey, let's get back on topic. But, um, but you-

• 39:13Speaker 03

  She's so lucky to have you. You're so funny, Sean.

• 39:15Sean Hayes?

  Yo, thanks, Annie.

• 39:17Speaker 03

  You're the funniest. You're the funniest, Sean.

• 39:18Sean Hayes?

  No, you're the funniest. And so, uh, but you, I've, I've heard, which means I saw on TikTok, that you identify as someone who's a natural, like, fixer, or you want to get into action and problem solve, because that's kind of how I am a little bit. But that as you've gotten older, that you've taught yourself how to pause and feel feelings and stuff like that, and how-

• 39:37Speaker 03

  Barely.

• 39:38Will Arnett?

  You got a lot of quote, you got a lot of quotes out there.

• 39:41Sean Hayes?

  I do my research. I do my research.

• 39:43Will Arnett?

  You're already talking out loud, um, you're really living out loud, um-

• 39:46Speaker 03

  I sent Sean a bunch of needlepoint pillows with a bunch of stuff on it, and Samian took credit for it. He's very, he's filled with pillows.

• 39:54Sean Hayes?

  I just regurgitated a whole conversation you had on your phone that I overheard. No, that, how has that, like, shaped you today? Because I also read that you, uh, the best work that you've ever done is the work where you feel most present.

• 40:09Speaker 03

  Yeah, I think improv was really helpful with that. Like, you had to stay super present, just to be, I mean, I, I imagine you guys feel that with this podcast too, right? Like, you're actually where you are.

• 40:19Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 40:20Speaker 03

  As opposed to being ahead or behind, which is really hard.

• 40:25Speaker 03

  Yeah, I'm still searching for that. Still every day trying to stay in the present moment. It's not easy for me like to not, you know, jump ahead.

• 40:34Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 40:34Jason Bateman?

  Will you talk to me about that? Because I've always been told that like it's best to just stay in the present. But like my brain tells me.

• 40:42Speaker 03

  I know. But you go in there and your brain is like.

• 40:45Jason Bateman?

  I got like, I got plans, you know? And like, yeah, I've got plans. I've got, I've got a desire for the way I want this meeting to go or this week to go.

• 40:55Speaker 03

  I know what you mean. I struggle with that too.

• 40:56Will Arnett?

  Oh JB, that's so sweet. It's true. You do. You do go in with that.

• 41:01Jason Bateman?

  But what are you supposed to do with that?

• 41:06Jason Bateman?

  Wait, what is that? Is that me inhaling a bonnet?

• 41:08Sean Hayes?

  Inside your brain. Inside your brain.

• 41:10Jason Bateman?

  Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Yeah.

• 41:11Speaker 03

  And then, and then a little plan, plan flies by like a, like a bird like.

• 41:15Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 41:16Speaker 03

  That's a little plan.

• 41:20Jason Bateman?

  So am I just supposed to react to things and not drive anything?

• 41:24Speaker 03

  I don't, it's a great question, actually. I don't know because I, I'm struggling with that all the time. How much can I be prepared? Because that calms me down. Preparation calms me down.

• 41:35Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 41:36Speaker 03

  But, you know, life, you cannot control. You cannot control things in life. I mean, it's just like you have to let go.

• 41:44Sean Hayes?

  You know, it's a perfect example of that JB today. When I just told you I sprained my foot really bad last night. It was so painful. I can't even describe it. And I woke and my old me would have been like, oh my God, I gotta cancel this. I can't do this. And I'm like, this is what it is right now. And I surrender to it. And I go, if I can't do this and I have to cancel that and I can't show up for it, then that's what it is.

• 42:08Will Arnett?

  I think.

• 42:09Sean Hayes?

  And I used to, it used to make me really depressed.

• 42:11Will Arnett?

  I think there is, that is one of the benefits I've been saying recently. I've been saying in therapy that, that, oh, no applause. I, I've been saying that.

• 42:20Speaker 03

  Oh, wait, Will, you're going. That's great. And you're, and you are 50.

• 42:24Will Arnett?

  Okay.

• 42:26Speaker 03

  Very good.

• 42:27Will Arnett?

  And what I've noticed at 54 is, and especially in the last six months, that I'm, it just kind of occurred to me, I'm like, oh, I'm doing a much better job of, this is what the situation is, and I'm realizing it in real time, and I'm not really in a panic about the outcome. I'm just accepting it for what it is. And I said this to you the other day, like, I got this notion of like, feelings are gonna come, feelings aren't gonna kill you, your feelings aren't gonna kill you. That's a big one, and it really, and I went, oh, yeah. And I can let it, I can let it, I can feel it, and then I can let it go. And I can recognize, I think I used to, you know, you'd freak out and then you'd think about it later.

• 43:09Will Arnett?

  Now I can, in real time, go, oh, this is where I am. In a much better way than I, for me, anyway, than I've ever been able to do. And I think that that's the benefit of being older, having experience, et cetera.

• 43:21Speaker 03

  I find my 50s to be my favorite decade by far.

• 43:24Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 43:24Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's pretty great.

• 43:25Will Arnett?

  Oh, really?

• 43:26Jason Bateman?

  As soon as you get to your 60s, it's pretty cool.

• 43:31Jason Bateman?

  I'm having a great time.

• 43:32Will Arnett?

  No.

• 43:33Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 43:35Speaker 03

  What if you guys find out, you see Jason's license one of these days, and you find out he's 62?

• 43:41Jason Bateman?

  I thought about that the other day. No, Willie, I like what you said about like, not being attached to the outcome. Maybe that's a good hack for me, is like, it's okay to be prepared, but don't be like, stuck on, it has to end this way.

• 43:55Will Arnett?

  Again, it's a new concept for me, I've just been kind of going through it, and it's, and it's very freeing.

• 44:01Speaker 03

  Well, like, Jason, for example, your mic hasn't been working this whole time, and the audio hasn't recorded, and you should be fine with that, like, just let that go. It's gonna be great, it's a great episode, and just let go of the outcome of that.

• 44:13Jason Bateman?

  I can't touch it, I can't move it.

• 44:13Will Arnett?

  Amy, any funny stuff happen on stage before with people? Any funny stories?

• 44:19Jason Bateman?

  No, come on, wait, Amy, why, why, why is 50 the best decade?

• 44:25Speaker 03

  I feel like I finally have a better sense of who I am, kind of what we've been talking about. I have, some of my priorities are, you know, like, I just feel like there's a... I'm a little kinder to myself. I definitely care less about how I'm perceived by other people as long as I feel like my side of the street is clean.

• 44:46Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 44:47Speaker 03

  And I have a lot of wise people, younger and older than me. Like, I'm in this sandwich of experience. So I learn a lot from people who are younger than me, and I learn a lot from people that are older than me. And knock on wood, I still feel healthy. Like, being in your 50s, you're like the youngest old person, you know. You're the youngest of the old people.

• 45:08Sean Hayes?

  Is that true?

• 45:09Speaker 03

  You're the freshman of old people.

• 45:11Sean Hayes?

  That's really true.

• 45:12Speaker 03

  And so we'll never be this young again.

• 45:14Sean Hayes?

  Right.

• 45:15Speaker 03

  In our 50s because, you know, I'm looking to people in their 60s and 70s to seeing like how they're living life, how they're doing it, how they're keeping healthy. And then I still feel connected to people in their 20s and 30s. Like, it doesn't feel so far away.

• 45:28Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, I'm on medication to reverse the aging process.

• 45:30Speaker 03

  Ooh, what are you doing?

• 45:32Sean Hayes?

  I'll text you. I'll send it in the chat. I'll send it in the chat.

• 45:35Speaker 03

  You're that guy who does all those crazy things to like stay in super shape.

• 45:38Sean Hayes?

  Oh, my God, remember that? Did you watch that? Oh, my God, that's wild. Wait, Amy, remember? Remember when you used to come over and we would watch Intervention?

• 45:47Speaker 03

  Oh, my God, yes, Sean.

• 45:48Sean Hayes?

  We would airplay, we would airplay all the instruments in the opening theme?

• 45:52Speaker 03

  Great theme, Intervention. What a great show. I know, that show made me so uneasy. I wanted to tell the story, or for you to tell the story about, remember the time that you told your friend that the TV was voice activated?

• 46:04Sean Hayes?

  Oh, my God.

• 46:06Speaker 03

  Have you told that story here?

• 46:07Sean Hayes?

  I don't remember.

• 46:08Speaker 03

  Oh, God. Well, maybe can I try to tell it?

• 46:11Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 46:12Speaker 03

  It was, Sean was with a bunch of friends, right?

• 46:16Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 46:17Speaker 03

  And, yeah, go ahead, Sean.

• 46:19Sean Hayes?

  No, no, I was just gonna help you out.

• 46:21Speaker 03

  And, and you guys were really?

• 46:23Sean Hayes?

  We would get, we would get stoned after.

• 46:25Speaker 03

  Get really stoned.

• 46:26Sean Hayes?

  After the, an episode, after taping an episode of Will and Grace, and we would go, we went back to his house one night.

• 46:32Will Arnett?

  Will and Grace, that's the show you were on?

• 46:34Speaker 03

  That's it.

• 46:35Will Arnett?

  That is it.

• 46:36Speaker 03

  You couldn't think of it?

• 46:38Sean Hayes?

  Amy, never gonna get through it.

• 46:42Sean Hayes?

  A story that long will never make it on here.

• 46:46Will Arnett?

  Go ahead. No, no, go ahead. No, tell it. It's good. It's really good.

• 46:48Sean Hayes?

  Just bundle it.

• 46:49Speaker 03

  All right, well, bundle it. Bundle it.

• 46:50Sean Hayes?

  I'll try to bundle it. Okay, here we go. So we would go back after we would get stoned and we'd just hang out and talk about the night and whatever after we tape an episode of Will and Grace. So we go to his house and it was a brand new house. And he has a brand new house. He has a brand new media system. This massive screen in the screening room. And I'm high out of my mind. I can't even see straight. And he's trying, he goes, "I just got the DVD of Cast Away. We should watch it where the plane goes down because the effects are so cool, right?" I'm like, "Yeah, let's put it on and watch it." So he walks all the way to the front of the screening room. And I'm way in the back and I start to giggle. He's like, "What's so funny?" I'm like, "Nothing." And he can't get it to play and I go, "Is that a Sony?" And he goes, "Yeah."

• 47:32Sean Hayes?

  And I go, "Well, those are the new ones. You don't even know what you have. You're so rich, right? They're voice activated." And he goes, "What?" And I go, "Those are voice activated new screens." Like you have to speak the name of the movie into the DVD player.

• 47:48Sean Hayes?

  And he goes, "You're making that up. That's not even true." I go, "Those are the new screens. You have to speak the name of the movie." And he totally bought it and he goes really close into the DVD player and he goes, "Cast Away."

• 48:03Sean Hayes?

  And he looks at the screen and it didn't come up. And the second time, "Cast Away."

• 48:10Sean Hayes?

  And I couldn't breathe.

• 48:12Speaker 03

  We and Meredith Walker say "Cast Away" into our remote control a lot.

• 48:17Sean Hayes?

  No way.

• 48:17Speaker 03

  A lot. And into our DVD a lot.

• 48:19Sean Hayes?

  Cast Away.

• 48:20Speaker 03

  Cast Away.

• 48:21Will Arnett?

  Oh, Meredith, let's say hi to Meredith. Hi, Meredith.

• 48:23Sean Hayes?

  Hi, Meredith.

• 48:24Will Arnett?

  Hi, Deidre.

• 48:25Sean Hayes?

  Are you guys still working together? It's a friend of all of ours, Meredith Walker.

• 48:29Speaker 03

  Is she still in Austin? Yep, living in Austin.

• 48:31Sean Hayes?

  Hey, oh. She's so great. I love her.

• 48:33Will Arnett?

  We love Meredith. We love, love, love Meredith.

• 48:35Speaker 03

  Yeah, we say "Cast Away" quite a bit.

• 48:38Sean Hayes?

  Oh, that's great.

• 48:39Speaker 03

  I love telling someone something is voice activated when it isn't. I don't like a prank. I'm not a prank person at all.

• 48:47Sean Hayes?

  You got it. For anybody to use.

• 48:49Speaker 03

  But that is a harmless, funny prank. That is harmless.

• 48:56Sean Hayes?

  We'll be right back.

• 49:00Sean Hayes?

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• 50:58Sean Hayes?

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• 51:39Jason Bateman?

  All right, back to the show.

• 51:42Sean Hayes?

  Um, okay, so wait.

• 51:45Jason Bateman?

  Sean, do you have any questions for Amy, your guest?

• 51:47Speaker 03

  That's okay. I mean, we don't need to-

• 51:48Jason Bateman?

  No, no, this is minute forty-six. I don't think we've had a legit one yet.

• 51:51Sean Hayes?

  I know. I've asked her a couple ones.

• 51:53Jason Bateman?

  Really?

• 51:53Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 51:54Speaker 03

  Yeah. I mean, do we really need to, I mean-

• 51:57Jason Bateman?

  No, it's a conversation.

• 51:58Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's a conversation.

• 51:59Will Arnett?

  Wait, wait. I do wanna, I do wanna get into, you touched on it before. Talk a little bit about when you were in Chicago, Aim, and how you knew-

• 52:07Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, that's what I wanna know.

• 52:09Will Arnett?

  Your experience with Second City, who was in that when you were on the tour, toured with Second City, and Improv, Improv Olympics, Chicago, all that stuff, and then how you, how that moved to New York and UCB and all that stuff. Just bundle it.

• 52:20Speaker 03

  Well, I mean, it is, I'll bundle it, because it is important as a storyteller to discuss my craft.

• 52:24Will Arnett?

  You will get kicked off this podcast if you were a storyteller.

• 52:28Speaker 03

  I love telling a story, and I love crafting stories, and I love my storycraft to be about telling craft. So, get used to it.

• 52:37Will Arnett?

  The only thing we like on this podcast more than independent film is talking about independent film. Go ahead, Amy.

• 52:46Speaker 03

  Started out in Chicago and arrived at Second City in ninety-three. And the seniors to my freshmen were, on the main stage of Chicago, Amy Sedaris, Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert.

• 52:58Jason Bateman?

  Amazing.

• 52:59Speaker 03

  Um, Mike Myers and Chris Farley had just left to go to like stardom in at SNL. Um, I rented Chris Farley's old apartment.

• 53:09Sean Hayes?

  Um, in Chicago?

• 53:11Speaker 03

  In Chicago. I didn't know I was renting it, but you know.

• 53:14Sean Hayes?

  In the Hancock Building?

• 53:16Speaker 03

  No, it was another earlier one. Yeah. Um, you know, back then in the twenties, when we were in our twenties and we moved every year. Like, remember moving every year?

• 53:23Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah. Yes, that's true.

• 53:25Speaker 03

  And I think the apartment was probably like three ninety a month.

• 53:28Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 53:29Speaker 03

  And hard to make that rent.

• 53:30Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 53:31Speaker 03

  And then, yeah, studied and met Tina there very early on and met Rachel Dratch, who I was the understudy for at Second City. And it was just, the place was lousy with talent. Everyone was so great and, um, and then, um, moved, uh, with, and then, and then UCB, um, Matt Besser, Matt Walsh, Ian Roberts, Ali Farinocchi.

• 53:53Sean Hayes?

  All great guys. Yes, yes, yes.

• 53:55Speaker 03

  Adam McKay, all those guys, Neil Flynn, they were all part of a big improv group called The Family that we would go and watch and they were incredible. And then they also had UCB. I joined in ninety-three and then in ninety-six, which is not that much time now that I think about it. It was only three years, but we left and moved to New York, drove to the city, did a show and just started. Um, well, at the time it was, um, and, uh, Will, I don't want this to be uncomfortable for you, but I was dating, um, Matt Besser at the time.

• 54:27Will Arnett?

  I knew it. I fucking knew it. No, no, truly, I knew it. But here's, here's the thing. Here's a funny story and Amy knows this. So ninety-six, and she knows how good I am with dates in this.

• 54:38Speaker 03

  Yeah, you're very good.

• 54:39Will Arnett?

  Ninety-six, they come and they do, uh, uh, UCB. So it's Amy, Walsh, Besser and Ian. And they do, um, they do their show Bucket of Truth, which was an amazing show. It's so funny. It was a sketch show, the improv and sketch, et cetera. And they're doing it downstairs at the West Bank on Forty Second Street and Peter Principato, the beloved Peter Principato, who we all love.

• 55:02Speaker 03

  Yeah, my first, my first agent.

• 55:04Will Arnett?

  First agent.

• 55:05Speaker 03

  At William Morris.

• 55:06Will Arnett?

  And Peter Principato, and he was my agent at the time. And he said to me, hey, I've just signed these new, uh, this new comedy group. You've got to go see them. They're performing at the West Bank. So I went with Duff. And, and, uh, Amy, I was dating Missy at the time. I don't know if I told you that.

• 55:22Jason Bateman?

  Oh, touche.

• 55:22Speaker 03

  You did.

• 55:23Jason Bateman?

  Touche, yeah.

• 55:24Will Arnett?

  So, I go, so we go, the three of us, to the West Bank, knowing nothing. Go downstairs to that little stage and watch them do Bucket of Truth, and we're blown away.

• 55:34Jason Bateman?

  You had not yet met Amy.

• 55:36Will Arnett?

  Not yet met. We watched the show, we're blown away, we go for a drink after, we're talking about it. We talked about it for a few days, because nobody was doing what they were doing. And we were like, God, that was so funny, and it was so inventive, and it was so cool, and blah, blah, blah. So that is January of 1996, and just like, what the fuck? Continue, sorry, Amy.

• 55:56Speaker 03

  Yeah, then we were there just slogging away, and like Will said, and we remember this too, right? Like, people had to come see you live. They had to go actually see you. We didn't have any, like, um... Now you can really deep dive on someone really fast on the, on the internet, but we didn't have that. So you had to like, go see people live.

• 56:14Will Arnett?

  What was that first space you guys had when you started?

• 56:16Speaker 03

  We had a Solo Arts was the name of a, yeah, was a, like, the walk-up theater where we would improvise there and stuff. So we just kind of, you know, slogged for a while in New York. And handed out flyers in Washington Square Park, and everyone, I was a waitress, and, um, just thinking like, okay. You know, and then, um, I, and then I started getting some bits on Conan because of, um, Andy Richter. And that's where I got like, my SAG card, that's where I got my, you know, I got paid like, an under five.

• 56:45Jason Bateman?

  And now you're in the building though, right? Like, was it, could you like, taste the possibility of SNL perhaps? Did you allow yourself to start to dream that?

• 56:52Will Arnett?

  Mm-hmm.

• 56:53Speaker 03

  That's such a good question. I think you're right. I didn't really put that together, but you're right. Like, walking in a 30 Rock, you are, I always feel like with jobs and stuff, like, Chicago felt like where I was getting my training, but New York and Los Angeles, it's almost like, you know, when you're having like, a pickup game of basketball, and someone's just standing around, and you're like, hey, come play.

• 57:12Will Arnett?

  Sean, don't say sure.

• 57:14Speaker 03

  Your proximity to the, to the game can be very helpful.

• 57:18Will Arnett?

  Yes.

• 57:19Speaker 03

  Like getting closer to the game, just being around. So that's what happened. When we moved to New York, we were just a little closer to the game. So we got asked to do things.

• 57:27Will Arnett?

  And you're doing, and you're doing bits on Conan and, and you did Andy's sister, Richter's sister, and you started doing more. And, and all those guys were there who were writers, a lot of whom were performers from Chicago you knew, like McCann and Glazer and all those guys. Brian Stack, one of the all-time greats. And like, and all those people, they're all there writing on Conan, and you guys are all kind of part of this, this group of people who are creating comedy, right?

• 57:54Speaker 03

  Yeah, my decision to move to Chicago was probably the best decision for me in my career. Because it allowed me to meet all these people really fast, who then went on to do things that I got to be a part of. Like I, they remembered me for things. They put me in small things. They, you know, wrote things for me. And it like was just this like concentrated feeling of comedy at the time, that then everybody went to LA and New York and, you know, and McKay was the head writer of SNL. And then Tina got a job there. We all just started. It was really, really cool to, to, and I depended on the kindness of a lot of those people for a long time to have a job.

• 58:32Jason Bateman?

  Let me ask you like a tough question, and I'll try to bundle here. Basic, it's basically after all of the accomplishment, you've just walked us through the whole beginning and everything. It just seems like you've done, or maybe even far exceeded what you allowed yourself to dream of at that age when you were starting. What's left? What would you love to do in your next, you know, now that you're a freshman?

• 58:56Will Arnett?

  Why do you still get out of bed, Amy?

• 58:58Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, I mean, there's like, you've just, you've, you've done it. You've like, you've had like this incredible career already, and you're still, as you said, a freshman. Like where would you love, how would you like to use what you've done, the success you've had? Bundle. Yeah, sorry. Go ahead.

• 59:13Speaker 03

  Well, I am, that's why I'm starting to wind down, and this podcast is the beginning of that. Like I'm just starting to wind down away from showbiz.

• 59:21Will Arnett?

  Hang on a second.

• 59:22Jason Bateman?

  Wait, truly?

• 59:23Will Arnett?

  Fucking cool. Just take it cool.

• 59:25Jason Bateman?

  Are you being serious or not?

• 59:27Will Arnett?

  We're the number two most downloaded podcast on the planet, so just cool your jet.

• 59:30Jason Bateman?

  No, no, her podcast she's talking about.

• 59:32Will Arnett?

  Oh yeah, that is a wind down. You're right. That is a wind down.

• 59:34Jason Bateman?

  No? Or are you talking about us?

• 59:37Speaker 03

  Well, you know what? It remains to be seen.

• 59:40Will Arnett?

  It remains to be seen.

• 59:41Speaker 03

  No, no, I, I, but honestly, it is kind of why I'm excited to do a podcast. Like, because I'm actually, Jason, to genuinely answer your question, I am excited about what is the next. I like thinking about what is the next thing to do. Like, I like trying new things. That's what keeps me feeling engaged in the world and in our, like, creative. So I'm very excited about this new podcast because I really like, I'm a huge fan of podcasts in general.

• 1:00:06Sean Hayes?

  Yes, I saw that, yeah.

• 1:00:07Speaker 03

  I listen to them all the time and they're really replaced a lot of, like, media for me. And I'm into the idea of exploring it because I really like talking to people and I'm curious about people and I learn a lot about myself.

• 1:00:20Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 1:00:20Speaker 03

  And I like to have fun. Like, I think what's happened in the space, especially for women, is that women are being asked to be like teachers and wise leaders and like a lot of, and they don't get to fuck around and, and like, do very little research like you guys, you know?

• 1:00:36Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 1:00:37Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 1:00:38Will Arnett?

  Hang on a second.

• 1:00:39Speaker 03

  You guys do not know who the guest is, which is the wildest con in the world. It's unbelievable.

• 1:00:44Will Arnett?

  By the way, you could have bundled that insult. That would have been a lot nicer. But let me ask you a tough question. You know, Sean, you shut up for one second.

• 1:00:52Sean Hayes?

  Shut the fuck up.

• 1:00:54Will Arnett?

  Amy, Amy, answer this question honestly. This is a tou- this is a tough one. This is a hard hitting, all right? And I know you're very serious for a comedian, so that's okay. Her mom used to do that to her when they'd get into arguments.

• 1:01:07Speaker 03

  When we'd get in a fight, she'd say, "You're so serious for a comedian."

• 1:01:11Will Arnett?

  So, wait, have you ever listened to Smartless?

• 1:01:15Speaker 03

  Of course I have.

• 1:01:16Will Arnett?

  Okay, you have.

• 1:01:17Sean Hayes?

  That's a little high.

• 1:01:17Speaker 03

  I've listened to Smartless.

• 1:01:18Will Arnett?

  She did go up on that.

• 1:01:20Speaker 03

  Of course I have. Of course I have. Oh, my God, I love, my favorite episode is the one with the lady and the other one with the guy. I love the one with the guy.

• 1:01:28Will Arnett?

  Oh, my God.

• 1:01:29Speaker 03

  Oh, I like the one with Bradley.

• 1:01:31Jason Bateman?

  But so, but in your answer to my unbundled question, it sort of gets into the area of there is a slight plan, but you still want to kind of stay in the present and not be too sort of strategic about what the next five, 10 years are, right? So like, how do you find the balance there?

• 1:01:53Speaker 03

  I guess it's just figuring out, it's just kind of figuring out what is, feels challenging. I like a challenge. So, I like mixing things up to feel challenging. And also, a big part of my 50s has been balancing my relationship to work in general.

• 1:02:12Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 1:02:12Speaker 03

  And how do I make sure that there's real balance in my life? Like, the last five, you guys were talking about being in your podcast.

• 1:02:21Jason Bateman?

  Stuff that's not challenging, potentially, right? Just relaxing, yeah.

• 1:02:23Speaker 03

  Yes, like basically how to find ease and, and enjoy, you know, the past five years have been wild, wild. And, you know, what you guys do here, what I've been doing is just like trying to just genuinely laugh with my friends. It's been actually, you know, how I've been keeping sane. And so, I want to just do whatever feels like that, which feels kind of fun and a little bit challenging. And so, I'm always trying to figure it out. I don't know, it's a long-winded answer.

• 1:02:54Jason Bateman?

  No, I love it.

• 1:02:55Speaker 03

  I don't know.

• 1:02:55Jason Bateman?

  No, but it makes, makes total sense. It's basically a combination of all the things. And you're able to combine now because you're older and smarter and wiser. And it doesn't have to be like all go on career or, or all go on just like, no, fuck it, I don't want to do anything. We're, we're actually able to merge both now finally at this age, I think.

• 1:03:15Speaker 03

  And women, women I think especially have often a burden to really pay attention to what everybody is doing and feeling. And then, if you have the luxury of turning it around and trying to figure out yourself, it's like that is what can be great about getting older. And women do really well, I think, when they like give themselves time to do that.

• 1:03:38Will Arnett?

  Let me speak to that, let me speak about women, because I think I've ever...

• 1:03:40Speaker 03

  Yeah, let's talk about women. But, well, go ahead, your thoughts on women?

• 1:03:49Jason Bateman?

  But Amy, who is that person that you bounce stuff off of? Or when you get like...

• 1:03:55Speaker 03

  Oh, I would say all of my, all of the women in my life have been like really, really helpful mentors and teachers and friends and stuff like, you know, the women in my life that have been through it with me, I think, is really the biggest resource for me. You know, people who have kids and people who, you know, who understand what it's like to feel overwhelmed and stuff, and especially the past five years, which has just been a complete insane

• 1:04:25Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 1:04:25Speaker 03

  Hit after hit of sci-fi nightmares.

• 1:04:31Jason Bateman?

  That's a dream of mine.

• 1:04:34Jason Bateman?

  What's it like, what's it like being, for you and Will, being on the verge of being empty nesters? It's not the verge, but it's gonna, it's gonna come sooner than later. Do you think about that?

• 1:04:44Speaker 03

  I do.

• 1:04:46Jason Bateman?

  How that relates to what you're gonna do?

• 1:04:47Will Arnett?

  I know.

• 1:04:48Speaker 03

  I know, I haven't, I haven't really, but kind of in the short story metaphor, I haven't, I'm like, I don't, I don't feel like the story, I'm there yet, so I'm not quite.

• 1:04:55Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 1:04:56Speaker 03

  I don't know, I mean, it's, it feels so, I don't even, I don't even know.

• 1:05:00Jason Bateman?

  It sucks, I got one about to go to college and it's fucking...

• 1:05:03Speaker 03

  How does it feel, Jason?

• 1:05:04Jason Bateman?

  It's bleak, you know, because there's just, it, it, it's, it's a mortality thing. It's like, you know, we all kick, kick, kick it down the road. Well, but it's like, it's the concept of the end of something that is just something you, is conveniently kind of pushed aside, and then it, then it's here.

• 1:05:23Will Arnett?

  Can I, can I, can I say something about that that I've noticed? And this is JB, this is, I've learned from you something that, and I mean this, I mean this gently and I mean this sweetly, which I, which is...

• 1:05:34Jason Bateman?

  It's gonna hurt.

• 1:05:35Will Arnett?

  No, which is, you've been, Jason's been so nervous and anxious about Franny going to college for a few years, and he's talked about it. And so I see him going through the pain for so long, and this is an example of not living in the present. So sometimes I think that you had a tough time enjoying the moment because you're just so, you've been anticipating, for years you've been putting that out and talking about it.

• 1:05:56Jason Bateman?

  I've been trying to separate myself from her so it doesn't hurt.

• 1:05:59Will Arnett?

  Yeah, exactly, which is, by the way...

• 1:06:01Jason Bateman?

  That's true.

• 1:06:01Will Arnett?

  Which is so you, like, remember you do that, like, Jason's thing to not laugh when he's in a take is to think about people dying in a car crash, I'm not kidding, and then he doesn't, and then he won't go up.

• 1:06:11Speaker 03

  Well, we all know.

• 1:06:12Jason Bateman?

  We all do that.

• 1:06:13Speaker 03

  We all know Jason is a sociopath.

• 1:06:15Will Arnett?

  No, he's a robot. But the thing is, I, but, but I see that in you and I, and I, and I've said it to you before. I'm like, it's okay. Like let that moment come when that moment comes and enjoy. So I've been using it. I keep reminding myself, just enjoy it now. Enjoy it now. It's, it's again, not easy.

• 1:06:32Speaker 03

  It is not easy.

• 1:06:33Will Arnett?

  No.

• 1:06:33Jason Bateman?

  It's a great.

• 1:06:34Speaker 03

  Well, raise your hand if you think you're going to live to a hundred and if you want to live to a hundred.

• 1:06:38Jason Bateman?

  That's me.

• 1:06:39Speaker 03

  Okay. Three of us are raising our hands. Sean is not raising. It's that ankle. Sean's like, I can't go on with that ankle. I can't with this ankle. No way.

• 1:06:47Jason Bateman?

  No, I'm done. The ankle was the last straw.

• 1:06:49Speaker 03

  I think we got a shot.

• 1:06:50Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, no, it truly, didn't, didn't one of these really smart scientists lately say, uh, that the person that's going to live to a hundred and 20 or a hundred and 50 or something is already born? Like that's going to be kind of common in this generation. Like hundred is like the new 80s.

• 1:07:03Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, but what kind of life do you have at a hundred and 20?

• 1:07:05Speaker 03

  Yeah, Sean, I hear you. Like as long as it feels like a fruitful life, but you know, imagine if you were like a little, a little dude in a little, in a cute little suit.

• 1:07:14Sean Hayes?

  But they cut, they cut to the, like in the news, like the local news, they cut to like, Marjorie is a hundred and six today. And we're going to, we visited her and she can't talk or move or she.

• 1:07:24Speaker 03

  And they're like, Marjorie, Marjorie, what advice do you have to, for people to live this long? She's like, make sure that.

• 1:07:30Sean Hayes?

  And she's got cake, cake falling out of her mouth.

• 1:07:33Jason Bateman?

  Every day.

• 1:07:34Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 1:07:34Speaker 03

  Please walk and make, have a glass of wine and.

• 1:07:41Sean Hayes?

  Exactly. I don't want to be that. I don't want to be Marjorie.

• 1:07:43Will Arnett?

  Remember, remember Ernest Borgnine had that great, he had this great advice on how to live forever, which was to snap one off every day. And Amy, you know, and yeah, and then, and you know where he lived? In, in Jason and Amanda's house. So I, I always remind him to think about Ernest Borgnine walking around that.

• 1:08:00Jason Bateman?

  Throwing goo all over the. Place.

• 1:08:02Speaker 03

  He had Borg nine lives.

• 1:08:04Will Arnett?

  Oh, nice, very nice.

• 1:08:07Speaker 03

  Thanks, guys.

• 1:08:08Sean Hayes?

  Amy, I have one last comment before we let you go because we've had you for too long. And I want to thank you for your time, but.

• 1:08:14Speaker 03

  Thank you, Sean.

• 1:08:15Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, I told you, and both you and Will, I love Arch and Abel so much and they've, and I love Maple and Franny too, and both of you, everybody on this.

• 1:08:24Jason Bateman?

  We love Ricky.

• 1:08:25Sean Hayes?

  Podcast right now. Have you guys have done such a phenomenal job with, between your journey, between you two, your kids are just unbelievable, great human beings.

• 1:08:38Speaker 03

  Oh, thanks, Sean.

• 1:08:39Sean Hayes?

  And it's the greatest compliment, you know, because.

• 1:08:41Speaker 03

  Thanks so much.

• 1:08:42Sean Hayes?

  To you guys, yeah, I just love them and you guys.

• 1:08:44Jason Bateman?

  They're incredible.

• 1:08:45Sean Hayes?

  And I wanted to remind people to listen to Good Hang with you.

• 1:08:47Speaker 03

  Thank you, it's on Spotify.

• 1:08:49Sean Hayes?

  On Spotify.

• 1:08:49Speaker 03

  And I have great guests coming out, Tina Fey is my first guest.

• 1:08:53Will Arnett?

  No kidding.

• 1:08:54Sean Hayes?

  That's great.

• 1:08:54Speaker 03

  Yep, because you know why, give, give America what they want.

• 1:08:57Jason Bateman?

  And then get Dax on there, Dax will give you some pointers.

• 1:08:59Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, Dax would be great.

• 1:09:00Speaker 03

  Can't wait, yeah, any pointers, guys, now that you've, you're five years in?

• 1:09:04Will Arnett?

  You can tell we've learned nothing.

• 1:09:05Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:09:06Sean Hayes?

  Zero.

• 1:09:07Jason Bateman?

  We're less people.

• 1:09:08Speaker 03

  I mean, if you, if you guys can do it.

• 1:09:10Will Arnett?

  It's true, anybody can do it. By the way, Amy, you won't be surprised that we haven't looked at comments forever, but they'd always be like, their questions suck and they interrupt people all the time. And I'm like, yeah, of course we do. What are you talking about?

• 1:09:21Jason Bateman?

  Exactly. It's all the conversation.

• 1:09:23Speaker 03

  If you guys have taught me anything and taught all, individually and collectively, it taught me so much.

• 1:09:28Will Arnett?

  This is gonna hurt.

• 1:09:29Speaker 03

  It's, don't overthink it.

• 1:09:30Sean Hayes?

  Right.

• 1:09:31Speaker 03

  Don't overthink it.

• 1:09:34Sean Hayes?

  It's good.

• 1:09:35Will Arnett?

  Unbelievable.

• 1:09:37Sean Hayes?

  We're so glad you finally, we finally got you. We love you, Amy.

• 1:09:40Speaker 03

  Thanks, guys. Thanks for having me on. It was so fun.

• 1:09:42Will Arnett?

  Thank you, Amy.

• 1:09:44Speaker 03

  Okay, glad it was a fun surprise.

• 1:09:45Will Arnett?

  It was such a good surprise. I'm bringing the boys over.

• 1:09:50Speaker 03

  Okay, can't wait.

• 1:09:52Jason Bateman?

  Bye.

• 1:09:52Will Arnett?

  Bye, bye, bye, bye, Amy, thank you.

• 1:09:54Speaker 03

  Yeah, you got it. My pleasure.

• 1:09:58Jason Bateman?

  So, well, that was fantastic to meet her. I've been such a fan of hers for, I don't know.

• 1:10:05Will Arnett?

  How funny. I had no, you know what? When you were doing the intro, and of course, I was like, and then she was like, oh, you didn't. I was like, it never occurred to me.

• 1:10:14Jason Bateman?

  You just thought it was coincidental that all, oh, well, you know, Amy did all those things.

• 1:10:18Sean Hayes?

  How did you guess it, Jay? From what?

• 1:10:20Jason Bateman?

  Because you said, uh, a queen of Massachusetts or something like that.

• 1:10:23Sean Hayes?

  Oh, wow. You knew it just like that.

• 1:10:25Will Arnett?

  I had such a like, yeah.

• 1:10:27Sean Hayes?

  I love that you didn't know. I told Amanda last week.

• 1:10:30Jason Bateman?

  Oh, yeah?

• 1:10:30Sean Hayes?

  And, uh, yeah.

• 1:10:31Jason Bateman?

  Amanda could work for the government. She is very good about keeping a secret.

• 1:10:35Will Arnett?

  But the kids, Abel, Abel's here right now. He never said a word.

• 1:10:38Sean Hayes?

  I love that. I love that. I love your face.

• 1:10:40Will Arnett?

  I'm gonna go drag him out of his bed. How dare you?

• 1:10:44Jason Bateman?

  That was right. Listen, it's, uh, not to get weird, but, uh, I, I, I hope you're as proud as you should be, uh, and she as well. I mean, like, that went beautifully, like, the fact that you guys not only have raised these two kids so well, but your relationship is so great and healthy and like, you could do a fucking one-hour podcast in front of millions of people and not have to fake anything. Like, it's just, you know.

• 1:11:09Sean Hayes?

  It's really cool. I know it's like, full disclosure, it, like, any couple that goes through the journey you've gone through, it took a while, but you're there now.

• 1:11:17Will Arnett?

  Yeah, but, you know, we, I, I am really proud of it. And of course, it takes, things take a minute because everybody's sort of adjusting to what it is, but I, I'm also, um, very proud of, certainly as parents, what we've been able to do.

• 1:11:31Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:11:32Will Arnett?

  And that, um, you know, is, has been really important to both of us. And, um, yeah, I, I'm, I'm really, really lucky to have her as a partner in this way for us to, to, to parent in this way.

• 1:11:47Jason Bateman?

  How lucky Archie and Abel are too, that you guys like worked out a brand-new relationship that serves you both and them, and it's, uh...

• 1:11:53Will Arnett?

  And I would say that I probably, you know, there, there aren't many people I speak to more than I speak to her, which is weird because it, you know what I mean?

• 1:12:01Jason Bateman?

  Yep, yeah.

• 1:12:02Will Arnett?

  But it's, it's, it's great. I, I feel really lucky and I do still...

• 1:12:05Jason Bateman?

  Does Josh Shotlin get, get jealous at all, or?

• 1:12:08Will Arnett?

  He does, but, but she is, she is somebody that I, I still run a lot of stuff by if I'm thinking...

• 1:12:13Sean Hayes?

  Does who get jealous?

• 1:12:14Jason Bateman?

  If Josh is not available.

• 1:12:16Will Arnett?

  He's my buddy Josh, you know, that I FaceTime.

• 1:12:17Sean Hayes?

  Oh, Josh. I didn't hear what you said, yeah.

• 1:12:19Will Arnett?

  But I still like, she's the person I go like, hey, I'm thinking about doing this. Or hey, like whether it's life or work. And I really, I seek her counsel because it's important to me. Because I trust her in that, you know?

• 1:12:31Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, and she's a sharp cookie.

• 1:12:33Will Arnett?

  She's awesome. She's awesome. And so.

• 1:12:36Sean Hayes?

  What is the, what did we, what was the buy from the opening?

• 1:12:38Jason Bateman?

  It was a bicentennial, like 250 episodes.

• 1:12:42Sean Hayes?

  That's right.

• 1:12:43Jason Bateman?

  So anyway, so guys, that was unbelievable. And enjoy the rest of your day.

• 1:12:51Sean Hayes?

  No, it's our 250th episode. I can't believe it.

• 1:12:55Jason Bateman?

  Wait, what?

• 1:12:56Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 1:12:57Jason Bateman?

  You remember 1976? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:13:00Will Arnett?

  That was the 200th. That was the.

• 1:13:03Jason Bateman?

  Bye, Santenio, everybody.

• 1:13:38Sean Hayes?

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