"Ariana Grande"

We're having tea with the dames in heaven: it's Ariana Grande. Moon masks, singing on the treadmill, a wicked slumber, and an insane journey with music. Knock knock, is everyone ok? It’s an all-new SmartLess.

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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• 2:51Speaker 01

  Hey.

• 2:51Jason Bateman?

  Whoa, whoa, hi. Hey, what are you doing? Are you busy right now? Because I'd love to do a podcast. Oh, that's I think what we're doing. I think what we're doing. Let's call Will really quick. I think it would be better with three. Ring. Will? Hello?

• 3:01Will Arnett?

  You've reached the messaging of Will Arnett.

• 3:04Jason Bateman?

  Oh, shit, we missed him.

• 3:05Will Arnett?

  Feel free to start an all-new Smartless.

• 3:08Jason Bateman?

  Oh.

• 3:10Will Arnett?

  Smartless.

• 3:16Will Arnett?

  Smartless.

• 3:22Will Arnett?

  Smartless.

• 3:28Will Arnett?

  You know, I've been thinking about going, not changing, it's not really changing my name, but I'm thinking about just going with just Will. Like, kind of like Cher.

• 3:37Jason Bateman?

  With the words, just Will? Justin Will?

• 3:39Will Arnett?

  No, just Will.

• 3:40Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, but just Will would be clearer. Like, it's more individual.

• 3:44Will Arnett?

  It's too close to just Jack from that show.

• 3:48Jason Bateman?

  I'm not familiar. Me neither.

• 3:51Will Arnett?

  I don't know what the show, but.

• 3:53Jason Bateman?

  So, so nobody, and nobody's got, nobody picked Will yet? Just the word Will?

• 3:57Will Arnett?

  Will, like, you know, you know how like Brazilian soccer players just go with like. Pepe or whatever on the back of there. So I just want to do that.

• 4:04Sean Hayes?

  You know what took me?

• 4:05Jason Bateman?

  Don't say, yeah, Sean. You don't know what the hell he's saying.

• 4:06Sean Hayes?

  No, I don't. But you know what took me forever to realize? You remember that?

• 4:09Will Arnett?

  Oh, hang on. Can I have a crack at this? Because the list is long.

• 4:13Jason Bateman?

  That the world might not be flat?

• 4:15Sean Hayes?

  No. That Will, I, Will period, I period, am period, you know, the rapper singer guy, whatever.

• 4:21Jason Bateman?

  Will I Am?

• 4:22Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, Will I Am?

• 4:22Jason Bateman?

  Yeah. Is William, you stupid bastard?

• 4:25Sean Hayes?

  I didn't realize that.

• 4:26Will Arnett?

  You're kidding. You're kidding.

• 4:27Sean Hayes?

  I swear to God, till like a year ago, it was like, I looked at it, I was like, oh, it's William.

• 4:31Will Arnett?

  When you say didn't realize, um, how is that possible?

• 4:37Jason Bateman?

  Well, nothing's gonna beat Beatles, right?

• 4:39Will Arnett?

  No, that beats, that beats Beatles to me.

• 4:41Sean Hayes?

  No, lots, lots of people are on my side, guys. Lots of people are on my side.

• 4:44Will Arnett?

  I think Willie, Will I Am beats Beatles.

• 4:47Jason Bateman?

  Will, I like that the hair is still growing. Um, you got a real Carol Brady kick out on the back. I love it. Are you gonna, are you, what are we gonna do with it? Have you, have you, um, settled on what the look's gonna be for the big film?

• 5:02Will Arnett?

  No, I mean, I think you're kind of looking at it.

• 5:04Jason Bateman?

  Am I looking at it? All right.

• 5:05Will Arnett?

  Yeah, there's not a whole lot.

• 5:06Sean Hayes?

  Are you gonna put gel in it? You're gonna put mousse?

• 5:08Will Arnett?

  Well, it's gonna be all over the place and it's gonna be, you know. This is gonna be what it is, man. You know, I'm kind of freewheeling. You know me.

• 5:15Sean Hayes?

  You're freewheeling. Freewheeling.

• 5:18Will Arnett?

  Did you guys know anything about me? Uh, you're talking to Will, simply, just Will. Yeah, he's really easygoing and freewheeling. Free, free.

• 5:26Sean Hayes?

  You know, Scotty and I, I said to Jay, we missed you last week, uh, Will.

• 5:30Will Arnett?

  I know, I know. How was it?

• 5:32Sean Hayes?

  It was fun. It was really small. There was some, good laughs.

• 5:34Jason Bateman?

  It was, um, plenty of oxygen for everyone with you not there.

• 5:39Will Arnett?

  Wow. This guy. Our audience will agree.

• 5:43Jason Bateman?

  No, we did. Now, you were still in town or you had just left Sunday?

• 5:47Will Arnett?

  I left, I left Sunday night. Yeah, yeah.

• 5:49Jason Bateman?

  And now you're in New York and you're there for the haul, for the long haul. You're not gonna come back.

• 5:55Will Arnett?

  I'm gonna come back in a couple of weeks for a weekend. Uh, yeah.

• 5:59Jason Bateman?

  Grab some toiletries?

• 6:01Will Arnett?

  Grab, grab a few misplaced items.

• 6:03Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 6:04Will Arnett?

  Some sundries, uh, and then, uh, yeah, no, no, go back and, and see the kids and. And then they're gonna come out here. It's gonna be great.

• 6:12Jason Bateman?

  So you got the whisper booth all set up, don't you? Look at that.

• 6:14Will Arnett?

  Yeah, I got it all set up. You're leaving, you're leaving soon.

• 6:17Jason Bateman?

  I'm leaving in three weeks, I think. Yeah. I gotta, I gotta start doing some homework, goddammit. I've really been putting it off. I'm like that, though. I just kick it all down the road and then I cram.

• 6:29Sean Hayes?

  What, you mean memorizing lines and stuff?

• 6:30Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, that, well, no, just like rereading and rereading the scripts and like, I gotta figure out my look. You know, I'm playing this St. Louis weatherman and I'm.

• 6:39Sean Hayes?

  I think you got it.

• 6:40Will Arnett?

  I think you got it, too.

• 6:42Jason Bateman?

  Yeah. No, hey, don't be hurtful.

• 6:43Will Arnett?

  Your default.

• 6:44Jason Bateman?

  No, I have got a.

• 6:46Sean Hayes?

  Tell us what it's like outside today.

• 6:48Jason Bateman?

  Like, it's gonna be a mustache and maybe parting the hair, but I need some glasses, but I don't wanna get too Anchorman with it, you know?

• 6:57Will Arnett?

  Sure. Yeah, yeah. You don't want it to be a cartoon, a caricature. You know, the other thing, JB, if you do happen to.

• 7:03Jason Bateman?

  Guys, that's my ride.

• 7:05Will Arnett?

  If you do happen to, by the way, our guest is in Times Square. I'm so excited for this.

• 7:13Sean Hayes?

  Selling pretzels.

• 7:14Jason Bateman?

  Lies.

• 7:15Will Arnett?

  JB, I will say this, and we can get your guest, but if you do go the parted, I'm excited if you go parted because it'll mean you're finally put like a comb or a brush in your hair. It's gonna be really exciting for everybody.

• 7:27Jason Bateman?

  I might actually blow dry it, too.

• 7:28Sean Hayes?

  Wait, I.

• 7:31Sean Hayes?

  It's gonna be gigantic. It's gonna be like that. Wait, I wanna tell you, Willie, that, that I said to Jay on Sunday, we got a turntable, Scotty and I, for Christmas, you know?

• 7:41Jason Bateman?

  Two turntables and a microphone.

• 7:43Sean Hayes?

  No.

• 7:44Will Arnett?

  Dude, and did I tell you, I got a stack of wax here that I'm just looking to put on somewhere, you know?

• 7:49Sean Hayes?

  No, seriously, it's so fun. We put it on at night and we just listen to like soundtracks or whatever. Like, I haven't listened to vinyl since I was a kid.

• 7:56Jason Bateman?

  Can you just hold on a second?

• 7:59Will Arnett?

  Vinyl, you're listening to Star Wars?

• 8:01Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, a little bit. An ET soundtrack.

• 8:05Jason Bateman?

  He's got, he's got a vinyl of the Star Trek and Star Wars soundtrack.

• 8:10Will Arnett?

  Hey, Sean, when TikTok went dark, did you and Scotty make your final promises to each other and start?

• 8:18Jason Bateman?

  Can you imagine Sean and Scotty putting on a record, putting the needle down the record and just dancing around the the house there, just like they don't care.

• 8:27Will Arnett?

  They're going like, ET, this is the part, remember when Elliot gets on his bike? And he puts him in the basket?

• 8:33Jason Bateman?

  Do a dance for that.

• 8:35Will Arnett?

  Do a dance for that. This is when he comes and he's in the closet and he puts his finger out and he says, ET, wow. Do you remember that?

• 8:43Jason Bateman?

  All right, today. Today.

• 8:46Will Arnett?

  Today.

• 8:47Jason Bateman?

  We've got a guest who's just, just starting to get a little momentum in show business. We're excited to have her here at the beginning so far. She's off to a good start though with the singing stuff. She's sold over 90 million records. She's got 50 billion streams and she's got a couple of Grammys.

• 9:03Sean Hayes?

  What are you talking about?

• 9:04Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, with the acting, latest film's just gone past 700 mil.

• 9:08Sean Hayes?

  What?

• 9:09Jason Bateman?

  She happens to be the seventh most followed person on Instagram with 700, or sorry, 376 million followers and she's got a cosmetic line and fragrance line that's earned just over a billion.

• 9:18Sean Hayes?

  Wait a minute.

• 9:19Jason Bateman?

  Well, so she's got a little bit of wind at her back now. She's stopping by for a little advice and encouragement from us geniuses before she officially gets out there, gives it a go. Please give an incredible hello to the incredible Ariana Grande. Come on out.

• 9:34Speaker 04

  That was very silly. Hi guys.

• 9:38Jason Bateman?

  Hi Ariana. Oh my gosh, this is exciting.

• 9:42Speaker 04

  I'm so happy to be here with you guys.

• 9:44Jason Bateman?

  Happy you said yes and you're here. Wait, where are you Ariana, you in New York?

• 9:49Will Arnett?

  Big, big, JB, what did you do? What streams did you pull?

• 9:53Jason Bateman?

  Very expensive guest right here, guys, so use your time wisely.

• 9:55Speaker 04

  I love you all so much and I love the show so much. I am so happy to be here.

• 10:00Jason Bateman?

  You're very nice to say that.

• 10:01Sean Hayes?

  Even for a podcast, you look gorgeous. I mean, even just for showing up.

• 10:05Speaker 04

  Thank you.

• 10:06Sean Hayes?

  You didn't have to.

• 10:07Will Arnett?

  Yeah, look at us.

• 10:08Speaker 04

  Oh my God, that's so nice. How are, how is everyone? How are you guys?

• 10:11Jason Bateman?

  Everyone is good.

• 10:12Will Arnett?

  We're all really good. How are you is more to the point. My gosh, you got so much going on. How are you?

• 10:18Speaker 04

  I'm good. I'm currently in London and I just got here. So I'm, I'm just, yeah, adjusting to the time.

• 10:26Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, the jet lag's no good?

• 10:28Speaker 04

  No, it's like, it's fine. You know, you get to a point where you're just kind of like, whatever, whatever needs to be, will be.

• 10:33Jason Bateman?

  I feel like it's worse coming back, right? It's worse coming back to the States.

• 10:37Will Arnett?

  No, no, from LA to London or anywhere in Europe is the worst on the planet, I think.

• 10:41Speaker 04

  And then coming back is really fun because then you're a morning person for a while.

• 10:45Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 10:46Jason Bateman?

  Uh, right, right, right.

• 10:47Speaker 04

  I love that.

• 10:48Jason Bateman?

  Did you just get in there today?

• 10:50Speaker 04

  Um, yeah, we just got here. So I'm excited.

• 10:53Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 10:53Speaker 04

  This is like a great fun way to start the trip.

• 10:55Jason Bateman?

  But let's start there. So like, you're okay with the amount of things you take on and the way you fill your day? I mean, or, I mean, I guess I should put that in the form of a question. Are you okay with it? How much, how much time do you sort of allocate to just hanging out?

• 11:12Speaker 04

  I mean, I, I feel really grateful for the balance that I have found. I, I mean, this whole wicked journey has been quite different for me. And it's been, obviously, full steam ahead, but it's been so beautiful and so fun. I really feel like, maybe when I was younger and it was, uh, like sort of during my first few years as a pop star, I really struggled with boundaries and uh, not being able to say no when I needed to because if I was like running on empty. But I really do feel like I've been able to find a balance and also like a team who's really protective and amazing. And, um, and I love it. I really feel like I've thoroughly been able to enjoy

• 11:56Speaker 04

  this wicked insanity. I feel so present and grateful and that's been so beautiful.

• 12:01Will Arnett?

  Well, Sean, Sean, you had a tough time with boundaries when you first were introduced to, right, to Oreos?

• 12:07Speaker 04

  Yeah. No.

• 12:10Sean Hayes?

  I still do. I have to have it locked away. There's a lock on the door.

• 12:14Speaker 04

  So dumb.

• 12:15Will Arnett?

  So dumb, so dumb, so dumb. Oh, there's lots of dumb here.

• 12:19Sean Hayes?

  Oh, where do we get to? Ariana, what if this was your, what if this was your press junket for this sequel to Wicked? Right now, you started now.

• 12:26Speaker 04

  I love it. Where does it end? Where does one end?

• 12:29Will Arnett?

  You'd be like, why is it so low rent?

• 12:32Speaker 04

  Shut up!

• 12:34Will Arnett?

  We love, by the way, we love Wicked. We love the great Will Platt. He's a friend, a longtime friend. Love Mark and all the people involved with it. And you guys did an amazing job.

• 12:44Sean Hayes?

  Incredible. Tears, real tears in my eyes when I watched it.

• 12:46Jason Bateman?

  You've already shot the second one, right?

• 12:49Speaker 04

  Yes, second one is done. We haven't seen it yet.

• 12:52Jason Bateman?

  Really?

• 12:53Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 12:53Jason Bateman?

  And it comes out maybe like this time next year?

• 12:56Sean Hayes?

  I have seen it.

• 12:59Speaker 04

  Yes, the same time next year, it's on November 22nd, but next year.

• 13:02Sean Hayes?

  I have seen it and it's not good. Ariana, you're barely even in it.

• 13:06Jason Bateman?

  All your stuff can be reshot. I don't want you to worry about it. Okay?

• 13:09Speaker 04

  Thank you for telling me. Thank you for having my back.

• 13:13Jason Bateman?

  So then you're set to start that junket like in a few months?

• 13:16Speaker 04

  I mean, I suppose so. I think maybe the, there'll be a little bit of space in the summer. Let it breathe for a second, but it's very exciting. I mean, the response has just been so insanely not what you expect or ever would anticipate ever.

• 13:32Jason Bateman?

  If it was just a big turd and you already, you had the second one already ready to go and you just knew you had to like...

• 13:38Speaker 04

  Well, that could still happen. God forbid, but you know, you never know. I'm just kidding.

• 13:42Jason Bateman?

  I've done that. I'm sure we all have, right? We've got to talk about something that just didn't work.

• 13:47Sean Hayes?

  Wait, so Ariana, the last time I saw you was Hairspray Live.

• 13:51Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 13:52Sean Hayes?

  And we would share a trailer and you told me the funniest stories that I cannot repeat.

• 13:55Speaker 04

  We would giggle.

• 13:56Will Arnett?

  Wait, wait, go back, go back. So the last time we saw each other, and in that series, try not to slur your way through your words, Sean. Was where?

• 14:04Sean Hayes?

  Hairspray Live on NBC.

• 14:05Will Arnett?

  Hairspray Live, okay.

• 14:07Jason Bateman?

  And we were, you were sharing a, a, a single trailer or we were in a double banger?

• 14:12Sean Hayes?

  No, the hair and makeup, the hair and makeup.

• 14:13Jason Bateman?

  Oh, gotcha. Okay, so we shared a chair.

• 14:15Will Arnett?

  So you did, I didn't even know you used to do her hair and makeup. So talk a little bit about that.

• 14:19Speaker 04

  Shut up. Oh my goodness.

• 14:21Jason Bateman?

  Were you just doing a blowout show?

• 14:23Sean Hayes?

  I didn't think she looked so good.

• 14:25Will Arnett?

  Ariana, we did a weird talk show in the UK like 10 years ago. Do you remember that at the same day?

• 14:31Speaker 04

  Wait, no.

• 14:31Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 14:32Speaker 04

  What, wait, what weird talk show did we do?

• 14:34Will Arnett?

  It was called...

• 14:34Jason Bateman?

  Chatty Man?

• 14:35Will Arnett?

  Yes.

• 14:36Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, with the drink, with the drink cart?

• 14:38Will Arnett?

  And like I think I rode a bicycle.

• 14:40Speaker 04

  Oh my god, that's right! It's back.

• 14:42Will Arnett?

  Boy, I really leave an impression.

• 14:43Speaker 04

  It's not you, it was The Boundaries, remember?

• 14:46Will Arnett?

  Maybe, was it, was there bad boundaries?

• 14:48Speaker 04

  It was, I'm missing a couple of years, I'm super serious from that time.

• 14:52Will Arnett?

  Copy that.

• 14:52Speaker 04

  I'm literally missing a few years.

• 14:55Will Arnett?

  You were, well, so let me remind you, it was disgraceful, your behavior.

• 14:59Speaker 04

  Oh.

• 15:00Will Arnett?

  No, no, no, no, you were great.

• 15:02Speaker 04

  Me?

• 15:02Will Arnett?

  You were great, but, no, no, you were great.

• 15:04Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 15:04Will Arnett?

  You were great, but what I wanted to, so, but we met at the time and you were... How, how old were you when you first, like, released your first record, as a pop star?

• 15:16Speaker 04

  I think I was 19 when my, like, first single off my first album came out, or 20. I was either 19 or 20, but...

• 15:25Will Arnett?

  And had you been, had you been making music like since you were a kid and then that was the first...

• 15:30Jason Bateman?

  She was in the musical 13 on Broadway.

• 15:31Speaker 04

  Yeah, I was, yeah, I was a total theater nerd. I did Broadway first when I was 14 and then I was acting for a little bit, but I was always simultaneously writing songs and doing music. I just never expected it to kind of take over the way that it sort of did in, in like, you know, a beautiful way. I just think that there was no way to kind of prepare for that, especially, yeah.

• 15:54Will Arnett?

  So you were a theater, you were a theater nerd and then you were like, oh, wait a second, the world wants me to be a pop star? You just kind of went that way for a while?

• 16:01Speaker 04

  Yes, I mean, where I was, I am, a theater nerd through and through. And, you know, this, this very insane journey with music kind of took over my life for a very long time. And it was... Extraordinary, but very challenging and very not what I expected it to be in certain ways, but so beautiful and gratifying in others. And yeah, it was just crazy because when I was younger, especially after doing 13 on Broadway, I was kind of like, how cool, I get to be a part of the theater community. I can't wait to be like, you know, the understudy for the thoroughly modern Millie revival and maybe be in the ensemble on the days when I'm not being the swing.

• 16:44Speaker 04

  And then I'll do music on the side and hopefully someone will listen to it and that can be like a little side thing and hopefully someone will be into it.

• 16:53Will Arnett?

  These are all things that are on Sean's, yeah, they're all on Sean's vision board. You just named everything that's on his vision board.

• 16:59Jason Bateman?

  Well, then, speaking of theater then, musical theater, was there, what was it like the first time you saw Wicked on Broadway?

• 17:08Speaker 04

  I mean, it was life changing. It was literally life before and after seeing Wicked, my life in two chapters.

• 17:14Sean Hayes?

  Did you see it with Idina Menzel and Chenoweth?

• 17:16Speaker 04

  I did. I was very spoiled. I can't believe I got to, I saw it with the original Broadway cast.

• 17:20Jason Bateman?

  When was that?

• 17:21Speaker 04

  And I was 10.

• 17:22Jason Bateman?

  Like 10 years ago?

• 17:23Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 17:23Jason Bateman?

  Oh, 20 years ago.

• 17:25Will Arnett?

  20?

• 17:25Speaker 04

  21, 21 years ago.

• 17:27Jason Bateman?

  Wow, crazy.

• 17:29Speaker 04

  Yeah, it was crazy. I mean, it changed my life. I was so obsessed.

• 17:34Sean Hayes?

  And it's gotta be so surreal, like, yeah, seeing that. And then now you're in it, like Glinda, it's wild.

• 17:39Jason Bateman?

  So then, can I ask then, was, did you hear that they were making a movie of Wicked and you threw your hat in the ring?

• 17:46Speaker 04

  Yes, I, that's putting it very lightly. I was stalking Mark Platt, like I actually was like literally in the bushes outside his house. No, but I wasn't, but maybe I was, but no, I was on tour, I was on the Sweetener tour and I had heard murmurs of, okay, this thing is gearing up to happen. And I told my team, I was like, hey, we're gonna have to have a plan. I don't know what to do, but if, God forbid, if God forbid, I'm still on the road when this thing starts happening, we are gonna have to like... You know.

• 18:18Sean Hayes?

  Refund some tickets.

• 18:19Speaker 04

  Pay everyone working on the tour to just like, you know, here's what you whatever. Go away. I have to figure this out. I have to. I have to give my everything to this and I have to start training. I have to make sure I'm in classes to train my voice every day and with an acting coach every day just to get back into it. And also Glenda requires a whole new skill set that I didn't have a connection to anymore because I was on the road for 10 years. And I was just like, I have to make this my full time gig. I have to do everything in my power just to get a chance to earn it. I want to make sure that when my audition, if I get an audition, they'll that I'm fucking ready.

• 18:59Sean Hayes?

  Right. Did they make you audition?

• 19:00Speaker 04

  To like, yeah, I mean, of course it's wicked. Of course it's wicked.

• 19:04Sean Hayes?

  Would you have to do like a self tape or did you go in there in person?

• 19:07Speaker 04

  You go, you go in.

• 19:08Jason Bateman?

  On your phone?

• 19:09Speaker 04

  I mean, it was such a, it was a thorough experience as it should be. I mean, I think, you know, there's just so much that is required of Glenda that's so different from what I usually do.

• 19:22Will Arnett?

  I am Ariana. I'm five foot six. I'm from New York and this is my first.

• 19:27Speaker 04

  Wow, five six. Do I present five? I wish. Oh, my God. Wow. No, I'm sorry.

• 19:31Will Arnett?

  You're five six presenting.

• 19:34Speaker 04

  Five six presenting. No, sorry.

• 19:36Sean Hayes?

  What's amazing though about what you just said about having to audition and show up and show your, I was just blown. Everybody knows you can sing and sing really well.

• 19:45Speaker 04

  Thank you.

• 19:46Sean Hayes?

  But to be able to legit sing like that, like you like, I, I, we both go, we both see Eric Vitro. Eric taught me how to sing and he, and he coaches you and he's.

• 19:56Speaker 04

  He's wonderful.

• 19:56Sean Hayes?

  Greatest vocal coach ever.

• 19:58Speaker 04

  In the world, yeah.

• 19:59Sean Hayes?

  Yes. And to watch you like, I, I was talking to Jay, Jason and Will about the athleticism of your voice and Cynthia's voice and like what that requires. I'm watching you on screen like breathing, breathing with you like as you, and then the legit like diaphragm, like the power you have is so incredible and, and you can't teach it, you know?

• 20:23Speaker 04

  Thank you. That is.

• 20:24Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 20:24Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, you just made me think of something, Sean. Is it, Ariana, is there a, when you're dancing and singing at the same time, do you constantly have to monitor not running out of breath? Because you're dancing, like you need the breath for singing, but you also need to, you're like, you're exercising with dancing.

• 20:42Speaker 04

  Oh gosh.

• 20:43Sean Hayes?

  Is that a challenge?

• 20:44Speaker 04

  Well, yeah, I thought I, um, it's just kind of something that you build up to. So there's a lot of physical training. There's like, you know, whatever you can do, cardio Pilates every morning. Then before the rehearsals, hopefully it feels like a little easier. Like the more you do ahead of it, the more it's easier to, you know, singing on the treadmill.

• 21:00Sean Hayes?

  Do you sing on the treadmill to get used to it?

• 21:02Speaker 04

  Sometimes, yeah.

• 21:02Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 21:03Will Arnett?

  You know, I was thinking that like all that training that you did, again, you started in the theater and then you kind of, you know, became this huge pop star, but maintained that love for theater. I, I wonder if, and I'm asking, I guess, being on tour and singing and performing in front of big, huge audiences must have been, all those years turns out was maybe great preparation, was it?

• 21:26Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's funny because I feel like it's like, yes, but also I feel like working with Jason Robert Brown at the age of 13 was, was my preparation for that. I was like, oh my goodness, the only reason I can keep up with this tour where I'm singing all of these songs live for two and a half hours every night, or however long it is, or whatever it is, at that, you know, it's very demanding and then traveling on a drive bus or in a drive plane or whatever it is. And the only reason I can keep up with that, I credit to being on Broadway. So it goes back and forth, kind of.

• 21:59Will Arnett?

  Right.

• 21:59Speaker 04

  It's like just this stamina that I am so grateful that I got to build at a young age because, you know, Jason gave me the hard, like I couldn't, I, I love Jason Robert Brown because he is like, can you do that? It's like, I don't know. And he's like, you got it. And it's just like, okay, great, I'll figure it out.

• 22:17Sean Hayes?

  Because he said, you got it, you got it, yeah.

• 22:18Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's, it's like a second longer of a note than you think you can hold, or a higher note, one note higher than you think you can sing. And he's like, perfect, you take that harmony. And I think that trained me, it trained me to be able to do the singing that I was doing. And then it went back and forth, I suppose.

• 22:34Sean Hayes?

  Do you, and forgive the, the term legit, because it's all legit. Even pop singing is legit, but.

• 22:40Speaker 04

  No, I, I know.

• 22:41Sean Hayes?

  You know what I mean? So do you want to do more of that? Because I'd never seen you do that until Wicked. I'd never seen you sing legit like that.

• 22:50Speaker 04

  Well, you know, I, it felt really wonderful to kind of have a little surprise. And it's so, it was really special for me.

• 22:59Sean Hayes?

  Yeah. And we will be right back.

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• 26:27Sean Hayes?

  And now, back to the show.

• 26:30Sean Hayes?

  Backing up a little bit. Your, the start of your career was great. So you do like this, this big musical on Broadway. You start doing some acting, and that really takes off as far as, you know, kid success goes. Like, you're, you're killing it because you're on a big series, I think, on Nickelodeon perhaps.

• 26:51Jason Bateman?

  Yep.

• 26:51Sean Hayes?

  And all the while, you're thinking and dreaming and trying for some singing as well. And that's really the passion. And your team is probably, I'm assuming, kind of supportive, yes, but not really sure, well, should we throw the baby out with the bathwater? Can we do both? Like, what was the thing in singing? What was the big success that gave you comfort and your team comfort that you could kind of transition away from acting a little bit more and really pursue this musical career?

• 27:19Speaker 04

  Well, I think it just kind of, I followed it in a way. Yeah. Because, you know, I was, the whole time I was a cat on Nickelodeon, I was also writing like pop R and B music on the side. I would go from set to the studio and I would be like making these songs that I was probably too young to put out yet. And, you know, it was just a funny, interesting thing. And I, I remember there was a blurry time when Nickelodeon kind of wanted the music that I was writing to potentially be for the show. Right. So there was a moment where I actually like put out a song with a red hair and it was very like, kind of in the Cat Valentine mindset because I didn't know if I was supposed to be myself yet or not. Yeah.

• 28:03Speaker 04

  And then someone that I was very close to that was very supportive and a really, really, really loving, wonderful person in my life was like, "Hey, they're gonna love you as you with brown hair, singing R and B inspired pop and, you know, just fucking wing it." Right. And put that out. And, and I did and it, it was really cool. I, it was, it was cool to see the people not know the connection or discover that and then realize the connection and They accepted you. It was just cool. Yeah. It was scary but cool and I've learned a lot along the way, you know, it's weird. That's great.

• 28:45Will Arnett?

  What you've done, and again, like you've, you know, you've done so much in this, you know, in the music space and the acting space and the combo with the musicals. And now, as Jason said, when he intro'd you, you're getting into other businesses and cosmetics, I guess, and a lot of other things, like you're taking on a lot of, are those other things giving you that same, are you getting that same sort of like hunger for success in those other areas? Are you finding them rewarding, getting into business and doing stuff like that? Has that been a fun experience?

• 29:19Speaker 04

  It's definitely been a fun experience and I definitely love creating in all capacities and storytelling in any capacity I like. I really do love my

• 29:30Speaker 04

  Fragrance and my beauty brand and that stuff is like, it's really fun. And I think it's a totally different part of my brain. I, my mom is a CEO and she's very much a business person.

• 29:41Jason Bateman?

  Oh, cool.

• 29:41Speaker 04

  And my dad is an artist, so I think I kind of sit exactly in between the two of them. And these two parts of me are very hungry in very different ways. And I enjoy it, I enjoy creating, but I think obviously my loves of my life are acting and music. It's like not even a comparison. I feel grateful for like every area in which I can be a creative person who like makes stuff. But um, it's not necessarily the same, but it's something I love very much, you know?

• 30:12Jason Bateman?

  You know, when you said earlier about um, with the, with the music, you weren't really sure if you were allowed to be you and, and um, this is a weird question, but like with all of the success that you are having and have had in all of these different areas, all of those things can be really affecting on, on who you are, obviously to the public, but really who you are internally, because they can kind of pull you and push you into areas of yourself you would like to be, or areas that you really didn't think that you were, or at least the perception of you. So, excuse me, how are you managing keeping a natural sort of progression of who you are,

• 30:55Jason Bateman?

  who you would like to be, as far as letting these outside things identify who you are? And, and does that, does that make any sense?

• 31:02Speaker 04

  No, it makes total sense, and it's also something that I have to be so protective of. Um, because I think like, as an artist, I, the most important thing is authenticity and kind of making the records that I want to make, or making-

• 31:18Jason Bateman?

  And talking about the things, singing about the things that, that mean something to you, right?

• 31:21Speaker 04

  Totally, but you know, I also, I also am like a cancer and a recovering people pleaser, and I like, in the past, oh yeah, yeah, hi, hello.

• 31:31Will Arnett?

  Recovering people pleaser.

• 31:33Speaker 04

  I am, I am, I am. I wish there were a group, oh my god, a meeting.

• 31:38Jason Bateman?

  Let's start, just me and you.

• 31:39Speaker 04

  Let's go, please.

• 31:40Will Arnett?

  Hang on one second. So Jason, pleasing people is something, okay, how do you phrase this?

• 31:47Speaker 04

  But no, I feel like-

• 31:48Will Arnett?

  That is such a great term.

• 31:49Speaker 04

  But it's true, it's such a thing that we have to fight to protect as people who like have a connection with our- Our listeners, our fans, and also remaining true to ourselves and what's in our hearts. And I feel like I've been doing a really great job at that recently, but it's just such a, it's such a hard line to, to walk. It's like, no, I'm gonna write the songs I wanna write. I have to make the album that I want to make, and I have to, um, kind of tune as much of the noise out so that I can just be an honest person, which has been hard work, especially when you come into it at nineteen, sorry.

• 32:27Sean Hayes?

  No, that's great. You know, I was thinking too, like, uh, total, by the way, exact same person I'm.

• 32:33Speaker 04

  Long-winded. I'm like so long-winded, sorry.

• 32:35Sean Hayes?

  No, same. No, that's what I'm here for. No, yeah. Um, and we're gonna cut all of it out. So the, uh, I'm kidding.

• 32:41Speaker 04

  My whole, just my whole presence. Cut the whole presence.

• 32:45Sean Hayes?

  No, no, no.

• 32:45Will Arnett?

  Get ready, and sorry, he's gonna ask you questions, so get ready to think of your favorite colors right now. Go ahead, Sean.

• 32:50Sean Hayes?

  Or something, something weird happened on stage maybe once.

• 32:52Will Arnett?

  Something weird happened in the theater, go ahead.

• 32:54Sean Hayes?

  Oh, yeah. Anybody ever get lippy in the audience?

• 32:56Will Arnett?

  Oh my god, I could talk to you for seventeen thousand hours about that. Go ahead, Sean, then do it.

• 32:59Sean Hayes?

  I could. No, Ariana, like in the back, you gotta get like a great theater story ready, because I love those, like, things that go wrong, like, I have so many of them. But, um, but, uh.

• 33:09Will Arnett?

  Still did it, did it anyway.

• 33:11Sean Hayes?

  I have, well, you get it ready. So, um, I, I wanna talk about like getting, do you have a, what is it like with the, how do you handle the ups and downs of being, I hate saying this, but relevant, uh, because, for example, like Taylor Swift, like, I, I don't remember anybody talking about her five, six, seven, eight, nine years ago. I mean, sure, she had many, many fans, and she was very famous and popular, but she wasn't like she is now. And it goes up and down and up and down for everybody in this entire entertainment business. And so, for me, I've always been a huge fan of yours, but Wicked really like, oh my god, there's Ariana Grande and she's, and everything, and it's not that people didn't think that when you had an album come out or a tour come out, but the ups and downs where you're, when you're quiet.

• 33:56Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, there's these spikes. Yeah, there's those spikes. Well, how do you handle, or what do you do during the low spikes?

• 34:02Speaker 04

  I don't know. I mean, I try not to look at spikes.

• 34:06Will Arnett?

  Right.

• 34:07Speaker 04

  Or for them or monitor them.

• 34:09Will Arnett?

  Yeah, very good.

• 34:09Speaker 04

  I kind of try to. I think I'm a person who like wasn't meant to be famous, but I love the art of making and creating so much that I think like my insatiable need to just kind of make things and create and try to push myself to grow in different directions and, you know, learn new things and see what I can. Yeah, I just, I kind of try to focus on that as much as possible and I think it helps me survive. Otherwise, I really think if I paid more attention that I would not, I would go away. I think it's just too scary.

• 34:45Will Arnett?

  Chase it, yeah. Well, you're adding layers to it too, which is really cool. Like you're adding different dimensions to what you do. So it's like, people can't just go like, what is Ariana Grande? They're not like, oh, she's just a pop star. No, she's an actress.

• 34:58Speaker 04

  That's such a scary thought to even think like, oh, what are they thinking right now? I just, I, like, the healthiest thing for me is to disconnect as much as humanly possible. Of course, I have like the internet and I'm on my phone. You know, I, whatever, love Instagram. But, you know, I, I'm a person who tries to maintain a healthy distance from it because I think, it's like the same thing I would tell like a young person who's like, what do you do when you hear like no all the time? Those spikes feels like, feel like big no's again. It feels like I got, I didn't get a call back for a chitty chitty bang bang and I'm eight years old or something. Like, it's the same thing.

• 35:35Will Arnett?

  I know.

• 35:36Speaker 04

  But I'm serious.

• 35:37Will Arnett?

  But as you add, but as you add those, as you add those layers and you have those moments, what are the things then now as you kind of look forward and go like, okay, I've done that, like, what are, what are the new targets? Do you have new targets? Yeah, how do you define success nowadays? Yeah, yeah, exactly. How do you find success?

• 35:55Speaker 04

  Oh my goodness, I, I, first of all, all of you have to answer this, this hard ass question after I'm done. Everyone has to answer. We're taking turns. This is the first official meeting of people pleasing recovery.

• 36:09Jason Bateman?

  I'll bet it's somewhere, I'll bet it's somewhere around, like, are you able to maintain happiness and calm?

• 36:16Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 36:17Jason Bateman?

  And peace and harmony each day amidst so much complicated, challenging And noise. Kind of stuff.

• 36:25Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 36:25Jason Bateman?

  And noise.

• 36:25Speaker 04

  I suppose it's like, yeah, I mean, amen to that. I mean, how can we find that balance, maintain that balance? But also, like, is the work that I'm taking on something that can challenge me, that I can grow from, that I haven't done before, that I'm learning from, that I'm giving, like, to the character in the same way that it's maybe gonna teach me or feed me? I don't know.

• 36:46Jason Bateman?

  And maybe, maybe success is the experience of creating and not the result of.

• 36:52Speaker 04

  Right. Totally. Maybe it's like

• 36:54Will Arnett?

  I don't think so.

• 36:57Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, I mean, it's probably true with anybody on the planet, no matter what industry or occupation they're in. If you can maintain happiness each day, because it's such a, it's such a slippery thing, right?

• 37:07Will Arnett?

  JB, but we, JB, we talk about it all the time, which is this notion of, I, look, we have the benefit, I'm gonna say benefit, of being a lot older than you are. And I think that, for me, in the last couple of years, it's been really eye opening in the sense that I, first of all, I, I don't measure my, my personal success is not a reflection of what I do professionally. So how I feel is not a reflection of what I do. I've really been able to separate those things up, because if, I, I try as hard as I can to not be at the effect of circumstances. If I'm only happy if it's sunny out, then what the fuck happens when it rains?

• 37:42Speaker 04

  Right, right, right.

• 37:43Will Arnett?

  Then I'm fucked. So I gotta figure out a way to be happy, no matter what. And, and those are sometimes just the smallest things. And family, we all have kids, you know, so it's, it's like My relationship with my kids, my, you know, if my kids are happy, then I'm happy. All that kind of stuff. Those are the things that really come to the forefront and become important. My relationship with my friends. Yeah, stuff you can control. Stuff you can control, but also stuff that's really, that's for real important. You know, my, my relationship with these guys is very important. Staying connected, talking about what's going on, all that kind of stuff. And everything else, when you, when you kind of right-size all that other stuff, it feels so much better. I don't know if you guys agree, but it does for me. For sure.

• 38:25Speaker 04

  I fully agree.

• 38:26Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, and Ariana, I know you didn't ask for this, but you, you, you've gotten it because you are

• 38:35Jason Bateman?

  seemingly such a, a, a, a kind and easily likeable, lovable person, not to mention your, your success. But the, the youth, you know, really looks up to you and follows you. And, and so how do you manage that sort of, you know, responsibility that, that again, you didn't, you didn't sign up for, but you've got it. Do you, you think about that, like when you're writing lyrics or when you're taking on, you know, roles? Or is any of that factor in?

• 39:03Speaker 04

  Um, no, I, I mean, yeah, I mean, it's, here's the thing, I.

• 39:08Jason Bateman?

  Probably not an effort because you're just naturally sort of a decent person and they're gonna follow a good example.

• 39:13Speaker 04

  I mean, that's very generous and kind. I just feel like it's, it's kind of a, a really specific and strange thing to become a public person at like a really young age. And then to have kind of all this normal growth that happens in everyone's twenties and young teen years and whatever it is, in front of an audience and in front of people who, you know, don't have to have every mistake that they've ever made flashed in front of them and like reminded every two seconds. It's like, it's interesting. It's like a funky thing, but you know, all we can actually do is grow and like.

• 39:54Speaker 04

  Be human, become more and more human, I think, in the face of being dehumanized and objectified, we can just become more and more human, I guess.

• 40:01Will Arnett?

  Well, that's, that's interesting. Other, again, it sounds like there's some kind of international incident going on outside your hotel.

• 40:07Speaker 04

  Yeah, are you, is someone in it?

• 40:08Will Arnett?

  They're gonna find you, Ariana. But, but, but, but you bring up a, that must be interesting in a very unique situation and, and, and something that's been talked about in, obviously JB was a, Jason was a performer when he was young and grew up, grew up in that world as well, in a different way, but. Singing and dancing. Singing and dancing. His two, if you wanted, if you wanted Jason to die on the spot, tell him he's gonna sing and dance and he will expire in front of you. Give a toast. Well, giving a toast. Yeah, giving a toast. But, but Ariana, to grow, to grow, to go through your twenties with that kind of scrutiny, talk a little bit about that. I, I, I can't imagine, I think about, you

• 40:50Will Arnett?

  guys, think about all the dumb shit you did in your, your twenties and then imagine growing up in this world, the digital era, where, where everything is, people got an opinion on it, it gets broadcast, I mean. Yeah, people got phones to record you when you're not looking and. Yeah, it must be really hard to get your head around it and, and get your heart around it and all of it.

• 41:11Speaker 04

  Yeah, I mean, I'm a very sensitive person, so I can't say it's something that I have done particularly well with.

• 41:20Will Arnett?

  Well, it's okay.

• 41:20Speaker 04

  But it's also something that I have had the help of, you know, my loved ones and therapy and time and art and just like a love for, and also like a deep sense of gratitude for what I am so privileged to be able to do. Like, that has kind of gotten me through it. Every time I kind of experienced that, like, I.

• 41:46Speaker 04

  Just kind of had to disconnect, I suppose, for a little because, you know, again, back to the cancer people pleasing. There was always a part of me that wanted to kind of explain or do a big, Yeah. You know, come talk to the world and come talk to everyone about what the truth is and whatever it is that I'm experiencing that, whatever, or explain things. And overshare, you know,

• 42:09Speaker 04

  for the sake of being understood by a humongous thing of strangers. Right. And it's just a strange thing to feel at such a young age. And what is the boundary there? And what's a healthy relationship to it? And how do you protect yourself for the sake of being able to continue?

• 42:26Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 42:27Will Arnett?

  Well, just continuing and just to live.

• 42:29Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah.

• 42:30Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 42:30Jason Bateman?

  For what it's worth, from the outside, you know, it seems like you've done a fantastic job of that.

• 42:35Will Arnett?

  I agree.

• 42:36Speaker 04

  Oh, my God, that's so nice.

• 42:37Sean Hayes?

  And speaking of continuing, you know, like,

• 42:39Will Arnett?

  Sean does not agree.

• 42:40Sean Hayes?

  No, I agree.

• 42:41Will Arnett?

  Sean does not agree.

• 42:41Sean Hayes?

  No, I actually just texted you. Ariana, I texted you a bunch of thoughts.

• 42:46Sean Hayes?

  So, no, but speaking of continuing, like, you, what I love about you amongst many things is your ability to surprise people with choices and things you do. So you have, so you go from Broadway, then you go to a pop, be a pop star, and then you're an actress, and then you, you know, do all of these things. But one of the things that was so surprising was I don't think anybody knew how unbelievably hilarious you are.

• 43:10Speaker 04

  Oh, my God, that's so nice.

• 43:11Sean Hayes?

  And your Saturday Night Live, I, we like died laughing. And your Jennifer Coolidge impression, like, all of your impressions are so incredible. How, where in the world, nobody knew you could do that. And so it's like, if we don't know you can do that, imagine the next hundred things you're gonna do over the next, you know, 50 years or whatever.

• 43:30Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, exactly.

• 43:30Speaker 04

  That's so nice.

• 43:31Sean Hayes?

  I'm so excited.

• 43:32Speaker 04

  Thank you, I love you.

• 43:32Sean Hayes?

  Can you give us a little Jennifer Coolidge? Hey, Jen, what, Jennifer, what, why weren't you on?

• 43:37Will Arnett?

  Can she visit with us real quick? And we gotta,

• 43:39Sean Hayes?

  Why weren't you, why weren't you on The White Lotus, the sequel? What, The White Lotus, Jennifer?

• 43:44Speaker 05

  They fucking killed me, Ar.

• 43:47Speaker 04

  They pushed me off a goddamn boat.

• 43:49Jason Bateman?

  Oh my. It's so good, right?

• 43:52Speaker 04

  I didn't wanna, I didn't wanna die.

• 43:54Jason Bateman?

  Jesus Christ.

• 43:54Speaker 04

  But I guess I'm dead.

• 43:56Jason Bateman?

  Oh my god, that's creepy. It's just so good.

• 44:01Speaker 04

  I just come back.

• 44:02Jason Bateman?

  So good.

• 44:03Speaker 04

  I love her.

• 44:04Jason Bateman?

  I love her too, shit, that's fucking flat out. Oh my god. Sean, that must make you wanna have talent, right? I mean, just hearing her do it.

• 44:15Jason Bateman?

  All I want is hot. Oh, I can't do it. Jesus Christ. Ariana, so that reminds me, the whole voice thing and like, what, what is the weirdest thing you do to prep your voice when you're about to go do a concert? Or like, are you like breathing a bunch of like steam? Are you gargling milk?

• 44:37Speaker 04

  No, no, oh my god, never, milk.

• 44:40Jason Bateman?

  What goes on?

• 44:41Speaker 04

  No.

• 44:42Jason Bateman?

  No?

• 44:43Speaker 04

  Um, I, well, okay, so different, different things call for different kind of routines and tools, I guess. Because it's like, I feel like, so, I don't know, I feel like a nerd, but you know, if you're, if you need the extra, like, you can have a little vocal box where there's like all of the lozenges and sprays and hydration things and whatever, but that's mostly if you're like fatigued or have a cough or whatever it is. I don't usually, and I don't know, usually I can jump in, but I think the thing that I do that perplexes people so much and it's just so funny because like if you're a person who uses their voice, you know about this, is like, if I have a long day of press or if I have to sing, I'll place it a little higher.

• 45:26Speaker 04

  So it, so I'll, I'll change my vocal placement to kind of preserve, but that is just kind of something that's healthy for the voice and whatever, that's something I do.

• 45:37Jason Bateman?

  Because staying, staying higher gives less stress on it than, than talking in a lower register?

• 45:43Speaker 04

  Yeah, so it's just like basically pitching your voice up a tiny bit.

• 45:48Speaker 01

  That's what I do, I do the same thing.

• 45:50Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 45:51Speaker 04

  Yeah, but it's just a, a normal thing for vocalists, but people are like, that's not her natural voice. And I'm like, well, it is actually, but it's just a little higher because it's, all of it is natural. And it's so funny, it gets talked about a zillion times and people are still like, where's your real voice? And I'm like, well, they're all, they all are, so it's just interesting.

• 46:12Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, do you, do you sing every day?

• 46:15Speaker 04

  No, I sometimes, I mean casually, yeah. Actually, now that I think about it, I'm kind of insufferable to be around because I do sing all the time, every day. And yeah, the answer is yes, not no. The answer is yes.

• 46:26Sean Hayes?

  I sing in the shower all the time.

• 46:28Jason Bateman?

  I wouldn't dare.

• 46:29Sean Hayes?

  All the time. What do you sing, Sean? I sing the National Anthem. Can we get a little taste of it?

• 46:33Speaker 04

  Can we have it?

• 46:34Sean Hayes?

  Go ahead, go ahead, Sean. Just a little bit.

• 46:38Jason Bateman?

  The water trying to get back up into the body.

• 46:41Sean Hayes?

  Hit the next one, I want to hear that.

• 46:42Speaker 04

  That's gorgeous.

• 46:45Speaker 04

  Work!

• 46:46Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 46:47Sean Hayes?

  You're welcome.

• 46:48Speaker 04

  Choices, I love it. Wow, wow, wow.

• 46:55Sean Hayes?

  We'll be right back.

• 46:58Sean Hayes?

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• 49:15Sean Hayes?

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• 49:52Sean Hayes?

  And back to the show. Speaking of routines, walk us through a typical day for you if nothing's on your plate. You have a completely free day. Are you one that sleeps in? Do you like to read? Are you watching dumb movies? If you've got nothing on your plate, what's the day look like?

• 50:13Speaker 04

  Oh, I love this. I love to, well, I love to wake up early. I do. Like, if I need it, I feel like my body will tell me. And I get like one sleep in a month. Like, the whole month is relying on this one day where my body just decides that it's going to sleep, and then it sleeps. You know what I mean? Like, a really scary slumber. Like, knock, knock. Is everyone okay?

• 50:38Speaker 04

  Yeah, I'm good. I'm good.

• 50:39Sean Hayes?

  Otherwise, you're up at the crack of ice.

• 50:41Speaker 04

  Yeah, I like to get up and I like to do my steps. I like to pace on the treadmill with my little iPad. And I either like am playing a game, a virtual game, or I'm texting my team and like whatever. I'm very creative when I'm on the treadmill. So I have ideas and I'll send like crazy voice notes to Christian Brezlauer, the director that I work with on all my music videos. I don't know, I always have ideas on the plane. I'll either be texting him or my stylist Mimi or my team will be like, oh my god, we forgot to talk about this, I wanted to talk about this. It gets my brain going. I love to get my steps done early. And then I'll hang out, I'll either like, you're laughing at me already. I haven't even said anything. I like to cook.

• 51:24Jason Bateman?

  Cook? On the treadmill, she likes to cook on the treadmill.

• 51:28Speaker 04

  I like to cook on the treadmill.

• 51:29Jason Bateman?

  What's your go to, what's your go to dish? What do you, what do you, what do you cook best?

• 51:35Speaker 04

  Well, I'm vegan, so I like to make, yeah, I love to, I love to roast like mushrooms of different variants. And make like a vegan pesto and make like, why you hate mushrooms?

• 51:49Jason Bateman?

  I like it. I don't eat mushrooms, I can't eat mushrooms. Well, you're not invited.

• 51:53Speaker 04

  Tofu sweet potatoes.

• 51:54Jason Bateman?

  What about, so then you can have pasta as a vegan, right?

• 51:56Speaker 04

  Yeah, yes.

• 51:58Jason Bateman?

  So then you're doing the pesto with the pasta?

• 52:00Sean Hayes?

  I'm back in, I'm back in.

• 52:01Speaker 04

  I'm Italian, so we have to, we have to have that, you know.

• 52:05Jason Bateman?

  Do you spend any time over there in Italy?

• 52:07Speaker 04

  No, no, actually. I haven't been since I was on tour and I would love to in a, you know, more meaningful like as I get to, I have more time way.

• 52:18Sean Hayes?

  Because so much is required of you every day of your life in so many areas. Are you a germ freak? Are you like, I can't get sick, I can't get sick?

• 52:24Speaker 04

  I, I am a little bit of a germ freak. I do, I do maintain the mask stuff.

• 52:30Sean Hayes?

  Oh, you do?

• 52:30Speaker 04

  I love a mask. I'm, I've always been a little bit of a germ person, a little bit of a... Like a OCD germ of person. Not like, more with masks than it is like obsessive compulsive with Purelling. But like, just kind of, I like to stay.

• 52:47Jason Bateman?

  Or like when you go in an elevator, do you take your sleeve and press the button with your sleeve?

• 52:51Speaker 04

  No, it's not that far, but I also like would do that now that you mentioned it, I'm gonna start doing it tomorrow.

• 52:57Jason Bateman?

  Wait, what about, what about bare feet on a hotel floor? That's Jason's.

• 53:01Speaker 04

  I can do, I can do that, but also.

• 53:03Jason Bateman?

  Okay, so I'm sicker than you are.

• 53:04Will Arnett?

  I said, I said to Jason, we were just on, we were just on vacation and he was like, of course, every time you sit down to eat with Jason, he, he sits down, he orders and then he gets up and he leaves and he comes back and he's, and he's holding his hands like he's going into surgery, like a surgeon does.

• 53:19Jason Bateman?

  I washed them.

• 53:21Will Arnett?

  And then he says like, oh, did you sit there? You got your hand? And I go, do you, is everybody else here? And there were like 20 of us. I go, is everybody else falling down on the ground sick? Is everybody got, do we all get infected?

• 53:33Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, you might. Today you might.

• 53:35Speaker 04

  It's, that is a scary thing to me with all of the travel and all of the.

• 53:39Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, it's a lot. Now, speaking of masks, I bet you really enjoy the anonymity of walking around with a mask. And you, you can, you can get away with it now because masks are so sort of ubiquitous, right? So, yeah, so are you, have you taken like a big risk with a mask lately? Like have you done like the, like gone to Disneyland with a, with a mask on? Yeah, or murder. Cause you could, cause you could, you could walk into a really, a really huge public place that you probably otherwise wouldn't be able to get through.

• 54:08Speaker 04

  Wait, do you wanna know my secret? I do it all the fucking time. I literally walk around for hours and hours and hours. Whenever I'm off, that was my next part of my schedule that I was gonna tell you on my off day. I meander and I shop and I walk and I go and I go to the movie theater and I see movies and I wear like a little hood and a cap and I'm just like, I, I have to be able to like explore, otherwise I'll fall apart. I really love it. And then also, also like I really do enjoy meeting people. So like, you know, it's fine and I love it. Like it's like really nice. I met the cutest, the cutest waiter the other day. He was so sweet and he had a little tattoo, a little sweetener tattoo. It was like made my day. I love meeting people, but I

• 54:46Jason Bateman?

  So did you pull the mask down and go, hi?

• 54:48Speaker 04

  Oh, I didn't have a mask on that.

• 54:49Jason Bateman?

  Oh, wow.

• 54:50Speaker 04

  But I, but no, he was just like, but I do love

• 54:53Will Arnett?

  But do you give people that treat like you're in a store and like, and you're like, they're helping you're like, oh, this person's cute and pull the mask down, give them a little treat like, look who it is and they're like, oh, my god.

• 55:01Speaker 04

  Well, first of all, I don't always have a mask on. I, I just mean like if I'm like, you know, meandering around Broadway.

• 55:08Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 55:08Will Arnett?

  It's the best. I'm here now and, and, and I was walking around, I went and got coffee and they asked me to put a mask on.

• 55:14Jason Bateman?

  Oh.

• 55:14Will Arnett?

  Yeah, yeah, they said, cover it. They didn't want to see you.

• 55:18Speaker 04

  You're so silly.

• 55:19Jason Bateman?

  All right, so then what, what's, what's next on the dream board for acting?

• 55:24Speaker 04

  Wait, I never got to tell you my thing about the masks.

• 55:26Jason Bateman?

  Do it.

• 55:27Speaker 04

  This is, I promise. And I said, when I said, but, but this was the but was I, I've always loved masks. I think they're so cute and like, I, I used to sell them as merch on my tour with like a little moon on them.

• 55:38Jason Bateman?

  No way.

• 55:38Speaker 04

  Because it was like a cute thing that me and my fans like always wore and it was like a cute thing and it was like a fashion thing. We liked it. That's cool. And then when the pandemic happened, all of my fans were like, we are prepared. We have plenty of these. We have moon masks. Yeah. Yes, thank you. Sorry. That was what I was trying to say.

• 55:55Jason Bateman?

  Good. I love that. Next, next up is an acting thing or a music thing? What do you think?

• 56:01Speaker 04

  Um.

• 56:03Jason Bateman?

  Or can you, can you talk about it yet?

• 56:05Speaker 04

  I would love to, I would love to continue acting. That's my, that is my, I feel so connected to it. I really would love to find the right thing that challenges me in a new way. I love it so much. I think it's, um, I love it for different reasons than music. I mean, it's just so nice to kind of take a break from playing yourself. Like a caricaturized version of yourself that isn't really yourself, but it kind of is because parts of it are in the songs. So it's just a confusing little thing. And I think, uh, what a like, cool thing it is to find characters that you can kind of jump into and

• 56:43Jason Bateman?

  Right. Which, which are other parts of yourself that they are the outer reaches? Yeah?

• 56:47Speaker 04

  Yeah, I suppose. I mean, you can heal little parts of yourself through them and with them and for them that you didn't know needed to be looked at because when you're, you know, finding commonality, it's, yeah.

• 56:58Jason Bateman?

  Comedy versus drama, do you lean one way or the other, do you think?

• 57:01Speaker 04

  I love both. I think, um, You know Glinda had a, the, the biggest gift of Glinda is that there's a little bit of both, you know.

• 57:10Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 57:10Speaker 04

  Especially with, you know, part two, there's, you get to see more of her and get to know more of her. Um, and she goes through a little bit more, but you know, it's, I, the combination is really special. I think, I love roles that have room for all of it.

• 57:27Will Arnett?

  Right.

• 57:27Speaker 04

  And that's what's, I love so much about her is that the comedy plays so well because it's just truth. And underneath it is a very real person with very real insecurities and fears and things.

• 57:42Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 57:42Speaker 04

  And it's, it just gets to live there. So I, hopefully both and if I'm lucky, both in one, you know?

• 57:48Will Arnett?

  Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it's, Sean, you've always, you, I, I have always thought that you should try comedy. Cause, you know what I mean?

• 57:55Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, give it a shot, buddy.

• 57:57Will Arnett?

  Yeah, you should.

• 57:58Sean Hayes?

  I'm gonna really, well, you know what? Thank you for the push. Thank you for the push.

• 58:01Jason Bateman?

  You could take an improv class or something, just to sort of see.

• 58:04Will Arnett?

  That would be a really good exercise for you, actually.

• 58:06Sean Hayes?

  Well, should we do one now? Give me a place.

• 58:08Will Arnett?

  Let's do one now.

• 58:09Sean Hayes?

  Give me a place and uh.

• 58:12Jason Bateman?

  What about, what about, what about the, what, what about the music videos?

• 58:16Will Arnett?

  Sean just did it. I'm sorry, go ahead.

• 58:17Jason Bateman?

  All right, Adam, do you love getting involved with the music videos and, and the whole design of them? And the concepts of them and the shooting of it and all that or, or?

• 58:26Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, I love the Yes and one. Oh my God, so good.

• 58:29Speaker 04

  Thank you. Thank you. I, yeah, I really feel like I found my like, my like lifelong music video collaborator in Christian Brezal, who I just started working with for the Eternal Sunshine era. He did Yes and, he did We Can't Be Friends, he did The Boys My, he did all of those things. And not that you have any idea what those are, but, but you know, I just plan on continuing with him forever. You know, when there's something to do, it will be with him. I love him. And I love it. It's so collaborative. We speak the same language. We love all the same references. Like, we just kind of were destined to meet. You know, when you meet like, a creative person and you're like, "Where have you been my whole life?" And it's just kind of this cosmic collision.

• 59:13Jason Bateman?

  But like, so when you're in the recording studio and let's say you're, let's say you're not in the recording area, whatever that's called, but you're back where the, where the, where the board is with all the slidey things on it. Do you love sitting there and playing with those buttons?

• 59:26Speaker 04

  The slidey things?

• 59:27Jason Bateman?

  Yeah. Or do you like being on a, or do you like being on a movie set and like, talking about lenses and, or, or the acting stuff? With all the light things? The shiny stuff? Do you, do you like both of those, with those workplaces evenly?

• 59:43Speaker 04

  Holy fuck. Um, yes. I mean, well, I have different relationships to them both because I feel like, um, with acting, I'd love to just kind of be the character and go away and not have, like, I don't want to know what the playback looks like. I don't want to know or be aware of what my face is doing or my body's doing. I just want it to happen and then hopefully it'll make sense later.

• 1:00:07Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 1:00:08Speaker 04

  Um, which is a huge risk. I realize I'm saying that, but also, you know, I just don't want to be aware of it because I just want to be honest. And then if I'm judging what I look like or my, whatever, I won't have the ability to just be a character. And that's my own thing in my head. But with, with, with vocal producing, I'm like, it's my favorite thing in the world. So yes, the slidey thing is, of course. It's my, it's my number one favorite thing to do, even more so than singing, is vocal production and comping vocals and stacking and vocal arranging. I'm like a huge nerd in that way. So I-

• 1:00:41Jason Bateman?

  So what about like, taking on a young performer and producing that performer and making he or she, you know, really soar?

• 1:00:48Speaker 04

  Love being able to vocal produce. Literally, like, that is just a dream. Like, if someone calls me and is like, "I want you to record me," I absolutely have done it, will do it, love it, will take that call any day. I got to, actually, wait, I have a fun, sorry. I got to vocal produce, uh, some of the, uh, Way Kids soundtrack. I got to vocal produce Cynthia. And some of my stuff too, so that was really cool and such a treat. And to anyone who questions the live element of the vocals in Defying Gravity, in that second verse, when she's going up the stairs in Defying Gravity, if you solo that vocal, you can hear her little boops on the stairs.

• 1:01:24Sean Hayes?

  Oh wow, that's amazing. Yeah, it's so cool that you guys sing it live, it's crazy.

• 1:01:29Speaker 04

  Yeah, Heaven on Earth is being able to sift through a bunch of Cynthia Erivo vocal takes. You know what I mean? Because it's not about, it's not about finding the good one. It's about finding which perfect, amazing one is the choice that you want.

• 1:01:42Sean Hayes?

  Did you hear that thing that was going around for a while that on New Year's Eve, if you started watching the movie at a certain time,

• 1:01:49Sean Hayes?

  by midnight, you would hit the, "Whoa!"

• 1:01:53Speaker 04

  Yes, I saw several videos of that.

• 1:01:56Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:56Jason Bateman?

  You read that, Will, right, on the website?

• 1:01:59Will Arnett?

  Yeah, I saw that too.

• 1:02:00Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, it came up on your feed?

• 1:02:02Will Arnett?

  I was about to, and Sean cut me off and took my fucking, remember with the, New Year's, because I, and I was like, right, it was like, "Whoa!", and I was like, "Fuck, man."

• 1:02:12Sean Hayes?

  Why'd you miss it? Why, you missed out, you missed out.

• 1:02:14Speaker 04

  No.

• 1:02:15Sean Hayes?

  Wait, so Ariana, I don't know why I'm remembering this, but one of the cutest, greatest things you ever did, this is 10 years ago, around 10 years ago, we were doing Hairspray Live, we were sitting there in the makeup trailer, and you said to me...

• 1:02:26Speaker 04

  Oh god.

• 1:02:26Will Arnett?

  And you said, "Just a little off the top."

• 1:02:30Sean Hayes?

  Just tease up the top a little bit more.

• 1:02:32Speaker 04

  I'm so scared.

• 1:02:33Sean Hayes?

  No, no, you said, you turned to me and you said, "Hey, there's just a few of us going over to my house after later on tonight. We're gonna get totally wasted and sleep over, wait, and then sleep over, and in the morning, my mom's gonna make us pancakes."

• 1:02:46Speaker 04

  Did I say that?

• 1:02:47Sean Hayes?

  Yes, and that was so sweet, you invited me, and I turned to you and I go, "Ariana?", you said, "Yeah", I go, "I'm 45 years old."

• 1:02:55Speaker 04

  That is absolutely crazy.

• 1:02:57Sean Hayes?

  It was so sweet, though, it was so sweet.

• 1:02:58Will Arnett?

  You said, "I'm 45 years old, I'll see you for the pancakes."

• 1:03:02Speaker 04

  Oh, yes. I can't believe that that's how I would have ever said anything, ever. And I actually do remember that cast party. That was like so funny. And I remember like, yeah.

• 1:03:15Sean Hayes?

  Can you believe that was almost 10 years ago? Isn't that wild?

• 1:03:17Speaker 04

  It was a long time ago.

• 1:03:18Sean Hayes?

  And, and I just wanted to bring up that your boyfriend is one, a very good friend of mine.

• 1:03:23Speaker 04

  Yes, he loves you so much.

• 1:03:25Sean Hayes?

  I love him too, Ethan Slater. He's one of the nicest people you'll ever meet in your life. He did Goodnight Oscar with me in Chicago. Come on. Yes, and then he was in Wicked. Yeah, and, and now you guys are dating and I love that because you guys make a perfect couple.

• 1:03:39Speaker 04

  Thank you, he's amazing and he loves you.

• 1:03:40Sean Hayes?

  What part did he play? He was the P A guy with the, you know. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I want it. Uh, but Ariana, next time you're on, or whenever, I want to hear a horrible theater story gone wrong in 13 or some other theater show because they're my favorite stories. I have a thousand of them.

• 1:03:57Speaker 04

  I have some.

• 1:03:59Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, tell me one. We've got time for one. We got time for one. No, we're gonna let you go. Yeah.

• 1:04:03Speaker 04

  No, that's totally fine. I, I realize you all probably have like a heart out of like right now.

• 1:04:07Sean Hayes?

  No, no, no.

• 1:04:08Speaker 04

  And I'm just like, I'm having, I'm having tea with the dames and I'm in heaven.

• 1:04:12Will Arnett?

  No, no, no, it's yours.

• 1:04:12Speaker 04

  But no.

• 1:04:13Sean Hayes?

  Tea with the dames.

• 1:04:14Speaker 04

  So my, my, my best friend, Aaron Simon Gross, who I actually grew up in Boca with, and he and I auditioned for 13 on the same day together and we both got cast, which is like, never happens, crazy. He was playing Archie and he, um, which was the character in the show. And he was, he has these spontaneous nosebleeds that are just really flocking. Yeah, but it's, um, but it's like, it's the kind from like a scary movie. It's like not, it's not good.

• 1:04:43Sean Hayes?

  It's a geyser. Oh, wow.

• 1:04:44Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, it's really, it's aggressive and it's not the kind of thing that is like, um.

• 1:04:49Will Arnett?

  Aggressive nosebleeds.

• 1:04:50Speaker 04

  Yeah. You know, when you see something and it takes you out of body for a second?

• 1:04:54Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:04:55Speaker 04

  Because it's like not supposed to be happening at all. So he's in the wings waiting for his entrance and we used to have this cute moment in the opening number where I was on stage and we're like, I would sing one of the lines into the wings. We would like lock eyes and have a cute little moment and like hi, and then go back to the choreography. And I, one day, it was, because it was right before his entrance. So I'm like, okay, 13. And I like look over to lock eyes with Aaron and do the choreography his way. And then I turn back and I see him covered in blood, just covered in blood. And I was like, oh my God. And he had to enter and go, get through his entire first scene.

• 1:05:29Sean Hayes?

  Was he aware that he was bleeding?

• 1:05:31Speaker 04

  Yeah, he was looking at me like he was had no idea what to do and also his character, he was using crutches in the role and he couldn't wipe himself.

• 1:05:43Will Arnett?

  Did the audience gasp?

• 1:05:45Speaker 04

  Yeah, they were like, huh. And then when they realized it wasn't a part of the plot at all, that this just like blood-covered man was entering and then he was singing. And he's like singing, and he's like, there's the cool kids, there's... And he's like singing his first number, spitting blood onto Graham Phillips, who's playing the lead role. It was just like, the craziest thing and it never ended.

• 1:06:05Jason Bateman?

  Did you try to help him out?

• 1:06:07Speaker 04

  There was nothing to do. How?

• 1:06:09Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:06:09Speaker 04

  How would I...

• 1:06:10Jason Bateman?

  Keep your distance, right?

• 1:06:12Speaker 04

  I had to exit.

• 1:06:13Sean Hayes?

  One time, one time I was at the end of Promises, Promises, thank you. We, um, I would...

• 1:06:20Will Arnett?

  We usually, we have, no, we'll create space and put the pause in there.

• 1:06:23Sean Hayes?

  We were coming out, me and Kristen Chenoweth were coming out for our bows and we would do the same thing. We'd be in the wings from opposite sides of the stage and lock eyes before we'd come out and meet in the middle to come downstage for our bow. And one night, I, the audience is clapping, everybody's taking their bows. And where I'm supposed to see her, she's on the ground, passed out with her feet under the curtain like the wicked witch of the West.

• 1:06:43Speaker 04

  No.

• 1:06:43Sean Hayes?

  On the house. Yes. And I was like, oh my God, what... So I took my bow by myself. People were like, what happened to...

• 1:06:49Speaker 04

  Did she faint?

• 1:06:50Sean Hayes?

  She did, she fainted.

• 1:06:51Will Arnett?

  No way.

• 1:06:52Speaker 04

  Oh no.

• 1:06:53Will Arnett?

  You know what the thing is? Uh, this just reminded me, this is true story. On Sunday, I was shooting this thing in California. And we were at lunch and there were a bunch of us sitting around in, in the, in the, in the trailer and this girl works in costumes, uh, uh, all of a sudden comes out of the bathroom and she's going like, like waving her finger. And my, and Eli goes, you can't talk. And she goes, uh-uh. And she goes back and I go, you can't breathe. And she goes, uh. And I've never done it before and I jumped up. And I put my arms around her and I had three times and she barfed on my hands. And she, uh, and it got it out.

• 1:07:25Jason Bateman?

  Oh my God.

• 1:07:25Will Arnett?

  I've never done it before, but it just, I was like, I think this is what you...

• 1:07:29Sean Hayes?

  Did you have to do it like aggressively or did you...

• 1:07:31Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 1:07:31Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, cause you gotta get it out of there.

• 1:07:33Jason Bateman?

  Well, I guess we can't count on Eli. He just was like, oh, um, and he just hit it.

• 1:07:38Will Arnett?

  Well, he and then when I grab her, he ran out to get the paramedic and the paramedic came in and she was like, "I'm fine now." And I'm like covered in threw up. I'm like, she's fine now.

• 1:07:46Jason Bateman?

  She was choking.

• 1:07:47Will Arnett?

  She was choking, yeah.

• 1:07:48Jason Bateman?

  Oh my god, Will, that's fucking scary.

• 1:07:50Will Arnett?

  It was pretty wild. I've never, I don't even know if I was really doing it right. It worked, but I didn't know what I was doing. And it, I thought like, oh shit, I should learn.

• 1:07:59Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, we need to learn that and CPR.

• 1:08:01Will Arnett?

  And CPR.

• 1:08:02Speaker 04

  That's really scary.

• 1:08:03Will Arnett?

  And I've been asking people on the street here if they want to do, practice CPR. And all these dudes are like, no, and whatever.

• 1:08:11Jason Bateman?

  Can I get your number? I'll try later.

• 1:08:13Will Arnett?

  I'll let you try later, let me call you, man. But isn't that crazy?

• 1:08:17Jason Bateman?

  That is nuts. I'm surprised you didn't include that in coffee chat at the top of the episode.

• 1:08:22Will Arnett?

  I, I forgot about it until we were just talking about crazy things. And I was like, oh yeah, this just happened three days ago.

• 1:08:27Sean Hayes?

  Well, on that note, Ariana, we hope you don't choke. Thanks for being here.

• 1:08:32Speaker 04

  Thank, holy fuck, thank you so much for having me.

• 1:08:35Will Arnett?

  I hope I don't ever have to save your life, I guess is my point.

• 1:08:38Speaker 04

  Oh my goodness.

• 1:08:39Jason Bateman?

  We'll see you in six months in London.

• 1:08:40Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 1:08:41Jason Bateman?

  Continued great luck. You are the best.

• 1:08:43Speaker 04

  Thank you for having me.

• 1:08:44Jason Bateman?

  Thank you for saying yes to this. Enjoy the rest of your day.

• 1:08:47Sean Hayes?

  Thanks.

• 1:08:48Jason Bateman?

  Continued success.

• 1:08:49Speaker 04

  Love you all, thank you.

• 1:08:49Sean Hayes?

  And love, and love to Ethan too, please.

• 1:08:51Speaker 04

  I will. Love you guys. Bye. Thank you so much.

• 1:08:54Jason Bateman?

  Bye, bye, bye.

• 1:08:57Jason Bateman?

  That was Ariana Grande, the Ariana Grande. A pure delight.

• 1:09:01Sean Hayes?

  She's great. She's so funny, man. You know, that's what I said, like, people don't know she's, how funny she is. Yeah, she's funny. She's like, I mean, they do now because Glinda was really funny role.

• 1:09:11Jason Bateman?

  I can't wait for people to discover how funny you are. If you take that improv class and you get yourself an agent, I bet you get a guest spot or two or three. And then people are gonna say, hey.

• 1:09:21Will Arnett?

  Well, at the very least, I think you'll get an agent.

• 1:09:23Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, can you, hey guys, did you ever get this when you were younger? Can you hook me up with your agent?

• 1:09:28Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 1:09:28Sean Hayes?

  Can you get me?

• 1:09:29Will Arnett?

  Yeah. No.

• 1:09:31Jason Bateman?

  But, uh, yeah, I would love to see her, um, do tons more acting.

• 1:09:36Will Arnett?

  I think that's what's gonna happen. I think she's gonna do a straight acting gig will be next.

• 1:09:40Sean Hayes?

  Yep, for sure.

• 1:09:40Will Arnett?

  Is my prediction.

• 1:09:41Sean Hayes?

  Yep, yep. And she's gonna kill it.

• 1:09:43Jason Bateman?

  And she's just starting, right? She's 30, 31, something like that. With all of that success already. But has a great head on her shoulders, clearly, and seems well-suited for all that's a-coming.

• 1:09:56Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, and you know what? A great musical that she-

• 1:09:58Will Arnett?

  Hang on a second, Sean.

• 1:10:00Jason Bateman?

  Oh, yeah, hang on, Sean.

• 1:10:01Will Arnett?

  Sean, did you want to cut in with something? Because you're ready to get on it, to get on the-

• 1:10:06Jason Bateman?

  He's got a great one.

• 1:10:07Sean Hayes?

  I just thought maybe like-

• 1:10:09Will Arnett?

  You know, if there's- Have you ever heard the expression, like, smell the roses? Or just fucking just exist and not act out in the moment to get stuff done as quickly as possible?

• 1:10:21Sean Hayes?

  I thought that you were setting up like as a bye.

• 1:10:23Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, yeah, shut the hell up, Will.

• 1:10:25Will Arnett?

  No, I'm teaching you a lesson.

• 1:10:26Sean Hayes?

  Sean, thank you.

• 1:10:27Jason Bateman?

  Sean.

• 1:10:27Will Arnett?

  You say shut up, Will.

• 1:10:28Sean Hayes?

  I was gonna- I was gonna say what? A musical that I'd really like to see her in, you know.

• 1:10:34Will Arnett?

  Bye Bye Birdie?

• 1:10:35Sean Hayes?

  Yes, you motherfucker!

• 1:10:38Will Arnett?

  Sorry, I meant to say, "Bye Bye Birdie!"

• 1:10:42Sean Hayes?

  Bye!

• 1:10:44Will Arnett?

  There's something about your face, and hopefully we're still recording, there's something about your face when you go, "Yeah!" And I'm like, "Okay, here we go."

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