"RE-RELEASE: Jenny Slate"

Our lovely surprise guest Jenny Slate joins from a supply closet to give us the 5-day weather outlook, the difference between drop and dropper, texts about ‘the patriarchy,’ and so much more. Come ruin your minds with us, here at Chateau SmartLess. This episode was originally released on 6/27/2022.

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

• 0:00Sean Hayes?

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• 1:29Sean Hayes?

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• 2:06Sean Hayes?

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• 2:50Sean Hayes?

  Hey, guys. Just kind of like a massive, major workout. My thighs are pumped, my thighs are pumped. My... everything's pumped up so big, I can't even... Like, I pass a mirror, and I'm like, "Wait a minute, where did Sean go?" And it's... he's right here. So... but who am I kidding?

• 3:12Will Arnett?

  I didn't work out! I never work out! Welcome to Smartless!

• 3:33Sean Hayes?

  I woke up this morning about the NASA thing. Did you see this... read this thing today?

• 3:36Jason Bateman?

  No, what happened?

• 3:37Sean Hayes?

  That the Voyager, you know, it's like 15 billion miles away. And they don't quite know what's... There's something going on with it where they're not receiving correct information, but they're still receiving information. And I'm interested in that shit. Did I just lose everybody?

• 3:52Will Arnett?

  No.

• 3:52Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, you don't... You want to try to stay away from just half-stories.

• 3:56Sean Hayes?

  Okay.

• 3:56Will Arnett?

  Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. I was gonna say, like, I'd be interested if you gave me actually anything interesting to think about.

• 4:02Sean Hayes?

  Okay. Well, I can tell you what happened with mine. I got my MRI back for my neck.

• 4:07Will Arnett?

  This I want to know about.

• 4:08Jason Bateman?

  Okay.

• 4:08Sean Hayes?

  Okay.

• 4:09Jason Bateman?

  And what'd they say? It's a...

• 4:10Sean Hayes?

  No, I got a better story.

• 4:11Will Arnett?

  It's a pain in the...

• 4:12Sean Hayes?

  Ah...

• 4:17Sean Hayes?

  Okay, so listen, so this is a true story. As you can notice, I got my haircut yesterday, right? It's really, really short. And I got a little color in there, too. So, Skevo, blah, blah, blah, joke, joke, joke, Skevo, Greek, fantastic.

• 4:28Will Arnett?

  Oh, hang on.

• 4:31Will Arnett?

  Is that what we do now to fucking? What the fuck is going on? What, are we at a kid's birthday party?

• 4:36Sean Hayes?

  So I'm sitting there.

• 4:37Jason Bateman?

  Wait, wait, you just glossed over the rinse. You put a rinse in there, huh? What was the, what's the name of the color on that rinse? It's usually something like Chestnut Forever or something like that?

• 4:47Sean Hayes?

  No, that's my handle on my, my profile on my.

• 4:50Will Arnett?

  On your, wait, is, no, it's.

• 4:51Jason Bateman?

  It's two words, chest nuts.

• 4:53Will Arnett?

  Nut, no, it's nut on chest, right? Please nut on chest.

• 5:00Sean Hayes?

  Dot com.

• 5:06Jason Bateman?

  We really gotta get a snare drum in here.

• 5:08Sean Hayes?

  Oh, I got that, I got that whistle.

• 5:11Jason Bateman?

  Oh, boy, here it comes. Here comes Shaky. Go, Shaq.

• 5:17Jason Bateman?

  So.

• 5:17Sean Hayes?

  All right, so listen, so wait, so I'm sitting there, and you know Chris McMillan, who does your hair, Jason?

• 5:22Jason Bateman?

  Sure.

• 5:22Sean Hayes?

  So he's sitting on the other side in his station across. And I go, Chris, get me something like a piece of candy or something. I want, I want, I've wanted some sugar or some, something sweet. And he goes back in the, he's like, I don't have anything. You want me to make you a peanut butter sandwich? I was like, no, I don't want that. So I'm sitting there and Skevo's cut my hair. And like 10 minutes later, he hands me a bag of chocolates. He sent somebody out to get me chocolates.

• 5:44Jason Bateman?

  It's full service over there.

• 5:45Sean Hayes?

  Isn't that the nicest thing in the world?

• 5:46Will Arnett?

  Chris did or Skevo did?

• 5:48Sean Hayes?

  Chris did.

• 5:49Will Arnett?

  That's pretty nice.

• 5:49Sean Hayes?

  The guy who owns the salon. That's pretty nice.

• 5:51Will Arnett?

  I know, I know Chris.

• 5:53Sean Hayes?

  I know, for Tracy.

• 5:53Jason Bateman?

  I can't believe you're asking them for snacks in there. Why don't you just go in there and behave yourself?

• 5:57Will Arnett?

  Also, there wasn't a please in there. You were, you were like, hey Skevo, give me some candy. You said, hey, Chris, give me some candy.

• 6:03Sean Hayes?

  I know.

• 6:03Will Arnett?

  What is going on? You're a tyrant.

• 6:05Sean Hayes?

  He was so sweet, I can't believe that, that he actually sent somebody out to get me chocolates.

• 6:09Will Arnett?

  Also, who eats peanut butter in a hair salon? The hair's gonna get stuck in it, gross. That sounds disgusting to me.

• 6:15Sean Hayes?

  Well, anyway. Listen, I don't want to keep our guest waiting.

• 6:18Will Arnett?

  I do.

• 6:20Sean Hayes?

  Okay, listen.

• 6:21Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, so with all this momentum, this hilarious momentum, let's go ahead and intro the guest.

• 6:26Sean Hayes?

  I am super excited about our.

• 6:34Sean Hayes?

  Don't make me do it again.

• 6:38Sean Hayes?

  I'm super excited about it.

• 6:40Jason Bateman?

  It's just at arm's length is what's so weird. That little slide was like, I'd have to drive 10 miles to buy one of those. And yours is just arm's length.

• 6:49Will Arnett?

  I don't even know what the search terms are for it.

• 6:51Sean Hayes?

  I'm super excited about our sweet, kind, funny, cutest pie guest today. I had the pleasure of standing next to her as we both voiced characters in that animated show I did last year, Q Force, and she made me laugh really hard. She's the epitome of a workaholic. She doesn't stop working. And I'm not sure why she's on Smart List, because she graduated valedictorian of her class from Milton Academy before attending Columbia as a lit major. She starred in films like Obvious Child and Gifted. She's guest starred on Parks and Recs and Girls and Everything Funny You Can Think Of. Earlier this year, she starred with our friend Charlie Day in the Amazon original rom-com, I Want You Back. And she is, of course, the star of my favorite animated character of all time, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. It's the wonderfully talented and hysterical Jenny Slate.

• 7:33Jason Bateman?

  Jenny Slate.

• 7:34Sean Hayes?

  Who's really great.

• 7:36Will Arnett?

  Jenny.

• 7:37Speaker 03

  Hi.

• 7:38Sean Hayes?

  Jenny, thanks for being here. This is so cool.

• 7:40Speaker 03

  Oh, my gosh, it's so, I don't know if your guests say this a lot, but like, the energy mounting, waiting to be revealed, and then all like, it depends on what your personality is, but if you're like, oh, my gosh, what if I'm like a bad surprise and no one cares, or, and then you guys are so funny, and I was laughing and I didn't trust the mute. I was like, maybe, like, maybe I'll laugh so hard, I'll bust through the mute.

• 8:04Sean Hayes?

  As the youngest of five children, I'm a bad surprise. So.

• 8:09Speaker 03

  There it is.

• 8:10Will Arnett?

  Sean, don't use that.

• 8:12Speaker 03

  Oh, that's nice.

• 8:15Will Arnett?

  You know what, Jenny, I'm so sorry. First of all, hi, nice to meet you.

• 8:20Speaker 03

  Hi.

• 8:21Sean Hayes?

  You've never met, you did the Lego Batman movie together.

• 8:23Will Arnett?

  Oh, wait, we've met briefly.

• 8:25Speaker 03

  Yeah, but we didn't record. I think we briefly in passing, but this is our first conversation.

• 8:30Will Arnett?

  We've never had an actual dialogue, so, yeah.

• 8:33Speaker 03

  Double snub, before, double snub.

• 8:35Jason Bateman?

  What about no chatting at the craft service table? Did you guys not?

• 8:38Will Arnett?

  They didn't have one. Sean, tell Tracy what a craft service table is.

• 8:42Jason Bateman?

  Craft service is where they feed the cast off the side, like with a line of just food on tables.

• 8:46Will Arnett?

  Incred.

• 8:47Jason Bateman?

  It's a snack table.

• 8:48Will Arnett?

  It's a snack table for everybody.

• 8:49Jason Bateman?

  More easily said.

• 8:50Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 8:50Sean Hayes?

  Wait, I read somewhere Jenny that you are like, because I'm looking at where you are right now.

• 8:54Speaker 03

  It's the wor- I'm not in my home.

• 8:56Sean Hayes?

  That's what I was gonna say. Okay, so that's what I was gonna say.

• 8:58Jason Bateman?

  Listener, it looks like she's in a supply closet.

• 9:00Will Arnett?

  Do you run a travel agency? What's going on?

• 9:02Speaker 03

  I'm in a supply closet. Okay, look, I'm in a supply closet that...

• 9:08Jason Bateman?

  Looks like you got last night's dress hanging on a hook behind you too.

• 9:12Speaker 03

  There's a toilet underneath me. There's a toilet.

• 9:14Jason Bateman?

  That's where you want it to be.

• 9:16Will Arnett?

  Are you on a boat? Are you in the head on a...

• 9:18Speaker 03

  No.

• 9:20Jason Bateman?

  Or are you just suffering from colitis right now and you just want to stay ready?

• 9:24Speaker 03

  You know, I don't feel safe. I don't feel like myself unless there's a toilet truly screwed in with with full-on plumbing into just whatever space I'm in and I need that, even for podcasts.

• 9:36Jason Bateman?

  Directly under you.

• 9:37Speaker 03

  Yeah, so I live for most of the year in a small town in Massachusetts by the ocean and I live on a little peninsula. And we have wifi that is like internet that my mother-in-law put in there in like, you know, the late 90s I want to say, and no one has ever decided to improve upon it. And so when it's raining, literally, it's like raining today. It's not, there's not even really a breath of wind. But the internet becomes very bad and so my husband owns the general store, so I came up here with my computer and my like power cord trailing like a little tail and was like, can I use it?

• 10:15Will Arnett?

  Jenny, this is crazy. Can you, I know there's not a breath of wind. Can you, what's the five-day outlook?

• 10:21Speaker 03

  I'm gonna tell you what, well, we're gonna get into the high 70s is what I heard.

• 10:26Jason Bateman?

  Now Jenny, this sounds like an ideal life you live. Tell us slow about this peninsula and what did you say? Most of the year?

• 10:35Will Arnett?

  The general store that your husband owns.

• 10:37Jason Bateman?

  Does he wear an apron?

• 10:39Speaker 03

  Here's the thing, in ideal life, still have the same personality that I had in LA. So I'm waiting for the adjustment to kick in, for that chillness, that chillness to...

• 10:49Will Arnett?

  Maybe you need to move to Chillmark.

• 10:52Speaker 03

  Come on!

• 10:54Will Arnett?

  You come, hang on a second. Sean?

• 10:59Jason Bateman?

  So whereabouts, keeping your safety in mind, so you don't need to get too specific. Whereabouts are you in Massachusetts?

• 11:07Speaker 03

  Sure. I can see Martha's Vineyard from where I live.

• 11:11Will Arnett?

  Are you in Woods Hole?

• 11:13Speaker 03

  I'm not in Woods Hole. I'm in what they call South Coast, Massachusetts. And I'm from Massachusetts and I did not know that this area existed. And my husband and I were kind of, oh yeah.

• 11:26Will Arnett?

  Where are you from? Where are you from Jenny?

• 11:28Speaker 03

  I'm from Milton, Mass.

• 11:29Will Arnett?

  No shit, huh? Matter of fact, I used to know a kid, no, he's from fucking, he's from Bill Ricker, but I knew this other kid from Milton. Fucking good kid, you should see this dude.

• 11:40Speaker 03

  What's his name?

• 11:42Will Arnett?

  His name's Sully, obviously.

• 11:43Speaker 03

  Oh yeah, everyone is, yeah.

• 11:45Will Arnett?

  But, uh, but he's, uh, yeah. But he lives, he lives, he's from Bill Ricker, but he lives in Milton and he works in Peabody.

• 11:56Speaker 03

  That's where my cousins live. They live in Peabody.

• 11:58Will Arnett?

  Are you shitting me in fucking Peabody?

• 11:59Speaker 03

  I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding.

• 12:00Will Arnett?

  Do they work for the Edison?

• 12:03Speaker 03

  What's that? Like the Edison, like the, like Con Edison?

• 12:06Will Arnett?

  The fucking power company, yeah. Here it is. Here you know.

• 12:11Jason Bateman?

  Jenny Slate, how did you, so did you just stumble into this general store one day? And you say, "Hey handsome fellow in an apron."

• 12:19Will Arnett?

  Ding ding ding, and the bells went when she opened the door?

• 12:23Jason Bateman?

  I don't see a ring on that finger. What about we get a malt?

• 12:27Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, no. Listen, it's not, it's not how it went. I wish, that, that would be really nice. That's so romantic. But in fact, I met my husband in...

• 12:40Jason Bateman?

  Online?

• 12:40Speaker 03

  Well, in the, in the Arctic.

• 12:43Jason Bateman?

  Oh really?

• 12:44Speaker 03

  In the Arctic. I met him in Arctic Norway.

• 12:47Jason Bateman?

  It's coming.

• 12:48Will Arnett?

  What?

• 12:48Speaker 03

  I know. It's like, it all just sounds like, you know, those people who try to have stuff to make them more interesting, but they're actually like basic, so they say stuff like this, but I...

• 12:58Will Arnett?

  This is a great pitch. This is a great pitch. Keep going. So you guys meet in the Arctic, uh huh?

• 13:02Speaker 03

  So she's in the Arctic.

• 13:06Speaker 03

  She's an artist. She's in the Arctic. She's there for art, but what she does find is love. By the end, you realize that love is art and art is love. And she's standing on the end of a peninsula with a toilet underneath her. Yeah.

• 13:18Will Arnett?

  Can I just say that we love this?

• 13:20Jason Bateman?

  We'd like to take this off the table.

• 13:22Speaker 03

  Thanks, guys.

• 13:22Jason Bateman?

  We'd like to take this off the table now.

• 13:24Speaker 03

  Truly, first time I've ever sold anything in the room.

• 13:28Will Arnett?

  Wait, wait. So you met in the... How did you meet in the Arctic? What were you doing in Arctic Norway?

• 13:32Speaker 03

  Um, I was making a movie there. And, um, my friend wrote the movie and her now husband is best friends with my now husband.

• 13:44Jason Bateman?

  Okay.

• 13:45Speaker 03

  And so they... And I was there and they invited him to come there and like hang out with us.

• 13:50Jason Bateman?

  To Norway?

• 13:51Will Arnett?

  Was it a setup or just a visit?

• 13:53Speaker 03

  Well, they... It was just a visit. I guess there wasn't a lot of pressure put on it.

• 13:58Jason Bateman?

  So you didn't know it was a possible setup?

• 14:00Speaker 03

  Uh-uh.

• 14:00Jason Bateman?

  Did he know it was a possible setup? He must have to like pack your bags and fly all the way. For what? There's this great girl here. He must have had some sort of carrot there, right? Did he know?

• 14:10Speaker 03

  Well, he, um, he lived in Amsterdam, so we didn't go that far. You know, it's not like he came from Massachusetts. That would be like totally...

• 14:17Will Arnett?

  Is he from Amsterdam?

• 14:19Speaker 03

  No, he's from Massachusetts, but he was living in Amsterdam.

• 14:21Will Arnett?

  No, he's originally from Mass too. What town is he from too?

• 14:24Jason Bateman?

  Oh, let's revisit this joke, Will.

• 14:26Speaker 03

  We live in his childhood home, right? Sorry, I forgot. This is...

• 14:29Jason Bateman?

  No, no, it's Will's fault. It's Will's fault.

• 14:31Speaker 03

  No, I should let it...

• 14:32Jason Bateman?

  Do the funny voice again, Will.

• 14:33Speaker 03

  Run his course. Yeah.

• 14:36Will Arnett?

  You know what?

• 14:37Jason Bateman?

  You know what, Bateman? Fuck you.

• 14:39Will Arnett?

  Shut the fuck up, Bateman.

• 14:40Speaker 03

  Oh, my god.

• 14:42Sean Hayes?

  Jenny, you... The reason why I asked about where you're sitting right now, because it does look like a utility closet.

• 14:47Speaker 03

  I am. I'm in the closet. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 14:51Sean Hayes?

  Pause.

• 14:51Will Arnett?

  Anybody? Anybody? Hang on. Oh, let me just do it in...

• 14:54Speaker 03

  Oh, sorry. Right.

• 14:55Will Arnett?

  In advance.

• 14:55Speaker 03

  Does anyone ground ball, guys?

• 14:57Will Arnett?

  Just to bank it.

• 15:02Jason Bateman?

  I came out of there years ago. Okay, there you go.

• 15:04Will Arnett?

  Okay.

• 15:06Will Arnett?

  Have you ever seen Vaudeville? Because Sean would love to walk you through some of the... Every time on the set of Will and Grace, they all did that to each other.

• 15:16Sean Hayes?

  I read somewhere once that you were like a massive OCD clean freak, because I am a little bit of that, too.

• 15:24Jason Bateman?

  I am.

• 15:25Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 15:26Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, I've got a problem.

• 15:27Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 15:27Will Arnett?

  I'm not.

• 15:27Speaker 03

  You do? What's it like for, what's happening for you?

• 15:30Sean Hayes?

  Like, did you have a messy childhood, Jenny, or something? Sorry, Jay.

• 15:33Speaker 03

  Yeah, I did. I did have a messy childhood.

• 15:36Will Arnett?

  Wait, Jenny, don't drop your voice and get real real with us.

• 15:39Speaker 03

  I did.

• 15:40Jason Bateman?

  Oh, boy.

• 15:41Speaker 03

  I did have a messy childhood. I think I was more like me adjusting in my, in my jeans. I did, I did have a messy childhood.

• 15:53Speaker 03

  I did. I did. I had a messy childhood and, but very clean grandmothers, like tidy houses. And there was just like a big, obvious like, oh, I'm way less stressed out at both of my nana's houses than in our house, where it's like crazy. It's like crazy.

• 16:10Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, I'm the same way. I grew up like in a mess.

• 16:11Jason Bateman?

  So then your OCD comes from trying to create order and cleanliness as opposed to trying to avoid germs?

• 16:18Speaker 03

  Yeah, I don't think I have. I mean, obviously, I'm kind of like at the COVID level of afraid of germs that maybe most people are. But for me, a tidiness means like, untidiness means like an unsettled mind. And it like makes me feel crazy. And there are like little things that, like, I don't understand why you would ever leave anything open. Like why you would leave a cabinet open, a dishwasher, a jar? That's crazy to me.

• 16:46Jason Bateman?

  What about a toothpaste tube?

• 16:48Will Arnett?

  Toothpaste? That's not, for me, it's not, it's more, I'm with you on the people who can leave a cupboard that much open. I'm like, just close it. I was just, my friend Eli.

• 16:58Sean Hayes?

  What else are you leaving open, right?

• 17:00Will Arnett?

  What?

• 17:01Sean Hayes?

  Because if you leave those things open, what else are you leaving open?

• 17:04Will Arnett?

  Holy shit. Holy shit. Shit just got real, you guys. Hey, wait, Sean, you're not a, first of all, Jason, the term OCD is way overused. It's not.

• 17:12Speaker 03

  Yeah, I don't have OCD.

• 17:14Sean Hayes?

  Right, right, right.

• 17:14Will Arnett?

  Just to be clear, it's not OCD. So nice try. It's the same way that everybody says that, I don't know. We just use a lot of these terms that are just, you know.

• 17:24Jason Bateman?

  Sorry, man, I'll work on it.

• 17:25Will Arnett?

  Yeah, okay, thanks. I'm a little intense today, Jenny, because my, my workout.

• 17:30Jason Bateman?

  We interrupted him right in the middle of it. What were you blasting, buys and?

• 17:33Will Arnett?

  No, just doing, just doing a little boxing, bro.

• 17:35Jason Bateman?

  Oh, right, right on. Were you winning or?

• 17:41Will Arnett?

  I hope so, because I was up against a bag.

• 17:45Sean Hayes?

  All right, so Eli.

• 17:47Will Arnett?

  But Eli would, he would go, when we were in Atlanta, and I'd come to the kitchen in the morning, and there'd be four glasses, some cups and whatever stacked next to the sink. And I'd go, and stuff open, I'd go, at least, forget, I get you're not gonna put it in the dishwasher. Can you not put it at least in the sink? It is, how much, it's easier. Gravity would take your hand down even further into the sink.

• 18:11Sean Hayes?

  And run some water in it.

• 18:12Will Arnett?

  And run some water in it.

• 18:13Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 18:14Will Arnett?

  And he literally at one point just kind of looked at me and goes, "Yeah, I don't know."

• 18:20Sean Hayes?

  You got a deal on this roommate, huh?

• 18:22Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 18:23Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, Scotty can't handle when there's actual like pieces of food in the sink, too. Like, if I just put a plate down.

• 18:29Will Arnett?

  He has to rinse it out.

• 18:30Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, I always, I always clean the food, make sure there's no food in the sink. But I don't really put the dishes in the dishwasher. He likes to do that. He likes to do that.

• 18:38Speaker 03

  Oh, that's nice.

• 18:39Sean Hayes?

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• 20:49Sean Hayes?

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• 23:01Sean Hayes?

  And now, back to the show.

• 23:03Will Arnett?

  Jenny, I don't know if you're like this. I like things to be orderly and stuff, and at the same time, I'm not like a, I'm not a germaphobe, but I just like things as certain to be kind of clean and sorted.

• 23:18Speaker 03

  Yeah, I like that, too. I like to like display my kitchenware like it is sort of a useful art installation. When people like move the bowls around, I'm like, okay. Like, I know it's not okay to be unchill about that, but then when sort of the people are gone, I'll put it back. But I mostly, I'm just like, yeah, I like to, I think it's about respect. I really do, and I like how it feels to like close the circle. Like, when I make dinner every night and like while the thing is, I was just saying this to a friend, like, I guess this is a big thing. I love a clean station, and when whatever's on the stove getting, you know, having its final... You know, moment on the stove, I do all the dishes I can.

• 24:03Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 24:03Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 24:04Speaker 03

  I love it. It feels so good to me.

• 24:06Will Arnett?

  I get that. You know what? I'm gonna, I'm gonna share with you guys a story that I haven't really told you before. Tuck in, guys. Which was, I think I was kinda messy when I was younger. I went to, I went to all-boys boarding school. And when I was there, I was, I was in seventh grade, I was 12. And, hang on, it gets mildly, mildly interesting. 12? Okay? And I, one day, my, and the guy who ran the house kept, kept telling me, you gotta clean your room, gotta clean your room. Finally, one day, I came back and I, my shit was everywhere. And I came back and all my shit was gone from my room. And I go, where's my stuff? And he goes, come with me. And he'd taken all my stuff and put it in garbage bags and put it in the back of his car. And he, and he drove me six miles away. And I had four garbage bags full of stuff.

• 24:50Will Arnett?

  And I was a little 12, I hadn't, you know, I was, and these big bags of stuff. And he was like, put them down. And he said that, hopefully now you'll learn to clean your room. And he drove away. And so I had these four huge bags, and six miles. And I thought, how am I gonna do it? So I started doing like, two bags, 50 yards, go back, get the other two bags. They were too much, too big. Are you kidding me? No, I swear to God. And, and at a certain point, I thought like, I'm gonna fucking break. Like, what's gonna happen here? And I was like, you know what I gotta do? And I just opened, I started putting everything on. And jackets and whatever. And I, and I managed to get most stuff on and then just had a small bag left of stuff. Oh my god. And I walked, like a Michelin, swear, true story. And I walked back. And I came, I remember crossing the first soccer field towards my house and him seeing me

• 25:34Will Arnett?

  way sooner than he thought he was gonna see me. And I was carrying the shit, but I was wearing everything. And I felt like a fucking king. And I was like, fuck you, I figured it out, you dummy. And then did you just throw, throw it all over your room again? But you know what? Last laugh on me. From then on, I was much better. I was much better about cleaning my stuff. This was, this was a boarding school? Yeah. This was 1982. Wow. Yeah. Wow.

• 25:56Sean Hayes?

  I remember when my dad got blasted drunk one night, which was very, very often. He came home and, and the dishes weren't done, so he's really furious about that.

• 26:05Will Arnett?

  Did he take an Uber, do you think?

• 26:10Sean Hayes?

  He took all the dirty dishes and we had linoleum tile on the floor, on the kitchen floor. And he put a dirty dish on every single tile, so you couldn't walk on the kitchen floor. Oh, so he was a psycho too? He was a little bit of a psycho, yeah. God darn it, we've really gotta find him for a very special Christmas episode of Smartless. That's, he's gonna be my mystery guest for you.

• 26:32Will Arnett?

  This is a recurring theme, Jenny, just so you know.

• 26:34Sean Hayes?

  By the way, and also, sorry, sorry Jenny, we'll get back to you in just two seconds.

• 26:37Speaker 03

  Oh, no.

• 26:38Sean Hayes?

  We wanna ask you something.

• 26:39Speaker 03

  Phone in here.

• 26:40Sean Hayes?

  Is that my dad?

• 26:41Will Arnett?

  Jenny, Jenny, can you bring the fucking bounty up to the front? We need more fucking bounty.

• 26:46Sean Hayes?

  Get the phone, Jenny, god damn it.

• 26:48Will Arnett?

  Jenny, get the phone.

• 26:49Speaker 03

  Should I answer it?

• 26:50Will Arnett?

  Where the fucking trash bags?

• 26:51Sean Hayes?

  Answer it, answer it, let's see what it is, if it's an order for some milk or something.

• 26:55Speaker 03

  Somebody answered it.

• 26:56Sean Hayes?

  The machine got it.

• 26:56Speaker 03

  Somebody answered it, I guess I...

• 26:58Will Arnett?

  What if you answered the phone, the person said, "You get off this fucking podcast right now." "You shut your goddamn computer and you get off the fucking podcast with your Hollywood friends."

• 27:09Sean Hayes?

  So wait, Jenny, I wanna ask you, you've done a million voiceovers, like, and you're a regular on Big Mouth and Bob's Burgers, right?

• 27:16Speaker 03

  Yeah, and The Great North, it's on Fox.

• 27:18Sean Hayes?

  And The Great North on Fox, I mean, it's so, why voices, like, what, when did you learn, like, you could do all of these different things with your voice?

• 27:26Speaker 03

  I honestly feel like I didn't know that, I didn't know this could be like an actual job that you can do a lot. And I don't know if you guys feel this way, but like, I think it is the most fun, it's so, it's like, it's challenging creatively, but it's really also really easy. Not that I'm showing up in my PJs, but like, do you hear these, do you hear these ladies behind the door?

• 27:46Sean Hayes?

  It's good, it's good, it's good, Atmo.

• 27:48Will Arnett?

  No, we haven't asked, are you in the supply, are you in the supply room of the general store?

• 27:55Speaker 03

  Yeah, I'm between the groceries and the books.

• 27:57Sean Hayes?

  No, are you really in this, like?

• 27:58Will Arnett?

  Is that true?

• 27:59Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 28:00Sean Hayes?

  Oh, wow. And right now, it's, so it's 1:31 there, so you've got the lunch rush, so is Ben slapping together a bunch of pastrami sandwiches? And, you know, who's number 35? Yeah.

• 28:11Speaker 03

  So he owns the store, but he doesn't like work here every day, he just, he and his brother, so... His like great grandmother used to come to this store. His family has lived in this town for a really long time. And during the pandemic, he and his brother bought the store. And like did a little work on it and they put a bar in here and a bookstore and. Um, so he's kind of like, he's like the store owner. And then he comes here every day to do like little things for the store. But there's a lovely woman named Mary Ann, who is the manager. And she is letting me be in her office.

• 28:43Jason Bateman?

  Can you still do all your voiceover work, given the wifi limitations out there?

• 28:48Speaker 03

  I can, but sometimes it's really bad. Like I do it in the linen closet between my bedroom and my daughter's bedroom. And um, I have a little baby. Yeah, she's 17 months old.

• 28:57Will Arnett?

  Oh, congrats. I thought of it. That's so amazing. First of all, I thought of the name for your autobiography, if you ever want one. Here we go.

• 29:03Speaker 03

  Sure, let's go.

• 29:04Will Arnett?

  Closets, because you have a lot of closets in your life. You gotta get the slide flute out, Sean. Or just my life in closets, you know? That's really clever.

• 29:13Speaker 03

  Yeah, thank you.

• 29:15Jason Bateman?

  So uh, who was, who was, uh, who was the tougher transition for you? From uh, living single and having all your stuff in an orderly way? Was it harder for you to get used to living with Ben or the 17 month old? What's been the bigger transition?

• 29:29Will Arnett?

  Great question.

• 29:30Speaker 03

  That's a really good question.

• 29:32Jason Bateman?

  Take your time.

• 29:33Speaker 03

  It does come down to the neat freak thing. Um, I think it was harder with the baby because also like Ben, you know, understands what I say. And so when I'm like, I don't like when that's like that. He doesn't just like be like, you know, like he.

• 29:47Jason Bateman?

  He can understand a threat when he hears one.

• 29:49Speaker 03

  Right, that's right. Yeah, whereas the baby just doesn't understand my threats yet.

• 29:52Jason Bateman?

  Isn't that amazing how you cannot negotiate with something that doesn't speak your language? Like that was a big, big lesson for me. Like I can't just say, well, you're not having, you know, dessert tonight or whatever. Like they don't care. You got, for the first couple of years, you gotta just deal with it.

• 30:09Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 30:09Will Arnett?

  So Jason, you, how, how, what was the age that your kids finally were able to understand? I'm going golfing today. Like what was the? Because for a while they just, you know what I mean?

• 30:22Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, that was, they were 12.

• 30:24Will Arnett?

  But wait, so Jenny, so you have a 17 month old daughter.

• 30:28Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 30:29Will Arnett?

  And you guys, and now you're firmly living back in Massachusetts and Ben and his brother have opened the general store. And you're there and you've kind of, you're, you're, are you done with the West Coast? Are you done with LA? Are you done with New York? Are you just like, I'm gonna, this is where, for now, in your mind, are you like, this is my life now, living here?

• 30:51Speaker 03

  I like it here more, but we, we still have my house in LA.

• 30:55Will Arnett?

  Geez, must be nice, huh?

• 30:57Speaker 03

  You know?

• 30:57Jason Bateman?

  On the east side. Zoe said?

• 30:59Speaker 03

  Here's the thing, on the east side, on the east side, in Silver Lake.

• 31:03Will Arnett?

  By the way, that's a Massachusetts thing to say, by the way, which is like, oh, must be nice.

• 31:07Speaker 03

  Must be nice.

• 31:08Will Arnett?

  Yeah, must be nice, got a house.

• 31:09Jason Bateman?

  What does Ben think about, what does Ben think about Los Angeles?

• 31:13Speaker 03

  He likes it a lot. He, I mean, we had two years there before the baby was born and he was like, whoa, I can't believe you just pick an, like an orange off the tree and you go for hikes and it's like, very chill. I, I mean, we don't have like a, I don't know, like a super flashy lifestyle. So I think he was like, this is vacationy. Like, this is pretty vacationier, which it is. And, and my best friends live all around us and everything. But I will say about our house in LA, like, I, it's a beautiful, small, old house. I bought it when I was single and I was like a heavy stoner and like, the refrigerator is not even in the kitchen. It's in like a tiny room off the kitchen. And at the time I was like, I was single and I was like, it's like, under the Tuscan sun.

• 31:55Speaker 03

  Like, I'm just gonna buy an old house and just live in here and have all my shirts and like, this will be very romantic for me. And then he came. You know what I mean? Like, just like, all my blouses. Like, it's just me and my blouses and I just don't give a hoot anymore about anything. I'm just living in my old home. And then Ben came to live with me and I was like, oh my God, it's so messy in here, all like, with two people even, it's crazy.

• 32:19Will Arnett?

  And Ben's like, where are all these shirts from?

• 32:22Speaker 03

  What? You never told me that you had so many blouses.

• 32:24Will Arnett?

  We need to open a general store, yeah.

• 32:26Speaker 03

  Right, totally. Just drove him to that. So anyway, so I was like, oh, I love this, this house. Then he came and I was like, ooh, there's kind of a lot of stuff in here now with two people and, but I, I felt like it was fine. And then, now with the baby and also we got a dog during the pandemic, like a beautiful, large border collie mix. That house is like. It's just really hard. It's way too small and the scares are really loud and.

• 32:53Jason Bateman?

  You okay, Will?

• 32:54Will Arnett?

  Yeah, I'm fine.

• 32:55Jason Bateman?

  Take a minute, man. Sorry, you throw up in your mouth. Clean the microphone a little bit, I guess.

• 33:00Speaker 03

  I'm sorry.

• 33:03Speaker 03

  It's like my favorite, favorite. Truly, I'll never have a better joke than burping.

• 33:08Will Arnett?

  Sorry about that. Sorry about that, you guys.

• 33:10Jason Bateman?

  Welcome to Barstool Sports.

• 33:15Jason Bateman?

  So, uh, uh, but, but you, but you guys have decided we're going to, what, what is your child's name?

• 33:22Speaker 03

  Her name is Ida. I-D-A.

• 33:24Jason Bateman?

  So you, you guys said, let's, we're, we're gonna raise Ida in Massachusetts, not, not out here in LA. Let's, yeah. Good, good, good choice. Tell me what's happened. They were like, where do you want to live? And she said, I don't know. Or Idaho.

• 33:35Speaker 03

  Oh, you got it.

• 33:37Jason Bateman?

  Thanks. What happened to your weed, your weed addiction? What, did you, did you crack that while you were pregnant? You got rid of all that? Or, or are we back into?

• 33:45Will Arnett?

  No, no, no, no. She doubled down when she was pregnant. What the fuck do you think?

• 33:50Speaker 03

  Yeah, I went straight to meth.

• 33:51Will Arnett?

  Yeah, I'd like to go wide with that. I'd like to go wide with that on a podcast about how I doubled down.

• 33:57Speaker 03

  Nine months till the baby's here. I gotta just do all the drugs. Um, no, I.

• 34:02Jason Bateman?

  Is it legal in, in Massachusetts like it is out here in California?

• 34:05Speaker 03

  I think it is. I think it is now. I, uh, I think it is. I actually, I had like a bad moment of, um, like, I don't know if it's possible, but I kinda think I overdosed myself on weed. I, or like, when, I, I, it was not with a joint or anything. Like, I, I used to smoke a lot of weed and I could smoke as much as possible, I guess it seemed like, but I, I took a, a CBD gummy.

• 34:33Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 34:33Speaker 03

  That my friend was like, oh, you need to activate it with a THC dropper. And she was like, but you, and it was like, cause I had like a back issue. I don't think CBD is really real, but that might be controversial. Either way, she was like, if you want it to work, you have to use the,

• 34:49Jason Bateman?

  Gotta kick it in.

• 34:50Speaker 03

  Yeah, the THC dropper. And she was like, but you smoke so much weed that, you know, it says between one and three droppers. You should probably take three droppers. So I was like, cool, I'll take three droppers. And then.

• 35:01Jason Bateman?

  You had to call your mom.

• 35:02Speaker 03

  I took the three droppers. And I just, I mean, it was like, I think it was like the worst experience of my life, during which I tried to watch the movie Amelie and couldn't figure out what language it was in. And was just like, what is this?

• 35:14Jason Bateman?

  That movie's so good.

• 35:15Speaker 03

  Oh, man. Yeah, I'm trying to work it into stand-up now, but it's still like a little scary that this happened. You know, it's like, it's not exactly funny yet, because I actually think I did almost die. And I, I threw up like outside of my bathroom, because I like couldn't figure out how to get over the threshold. Like, just crazy shit. Went to bed with all my clothes on, my boots, like some, like, like little zipper-up booties. Like, got in the bed that way, text, I need to call for help, need to call for help. And then was like, it's too late, Jenny. It's too late. And then I looked, it was 6:45 PM, and I was like, oh!

• 35:48Speaker 03

  It was just, it was so bad. And it was truly like, oh my god, I, I really was like watching Amelie being like, when did this movie get so fucking scary? And what language is this? What is this? Like, I don't know, I used to love this. Her hairstyle was so great, and everything just looked crazy. Um, but anyway, so then, the next day, my friend, you know, it was Jane Levy, do you know her? Yes, of course. You must know, yeah. So she, she gave me the THC thing. Anyway, so, um, she was, she called me and she was like, I got all your texts about the patriarchy.

• 36:23Jason Bateman?

  Uh-oh.

• 36:28Speaker 03

  And she was like, I, Jenny, I'm, I'm so sorry, it wasn't one, one, not one to three droppers, it was, it was, I misspoke, it was one to three drops. And so I took like, like a hundred and twenty times the dose. Yeah, and I like ruined my mind. And then, and I was like, I guess I'm off weed. And like, couple of months later, I thought I'll just take a little hit and, and try and get back in. And it was like, it went right back to where I had been that evening. So I'm just done forever. Yeah, I'm not gonna try it.

• 37:01Jason Bateman?

  Oh my god. So, so she saved you. She saved you.

• 37:04Speaker 03

  Yeah, in a way, she saved me. Yeah.

• 37:06Jason Bateman?

  Wow, that's so crazy.

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• 40:04Will Arnett?

  And now, back to the show.

• 40:06Sean Hayes?

  Jenny, speaking of like getting freaked out and stuff, you know, your Netflix special called Stage Fright.

• 40:12Speaker 03

  Oh, yes.

• 40:12Sean Hayes?

  So fucking great. I loved it so much. You talk, I love the way it was shot, by the way. It's so cool. But anyway, you talk about like fear and how you hate it and you love it and it motivates you and how people say, just be yourself. And you were like, that's the worst advice because there's a million people in my head.

• 40:26Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 40:26Sean Hayes?

  How do you choose?

• 40:29Sean Hayes?

  So how do you, how do you, talk about like the love and the hate of performing live? Like, what is it you, what freaks you out about it?

• 40:36Speaker 03

  I like it so much, but it, it must be like what like adrenaline junkies are like, I guess. I mean, I don't know, or, but not the guy that does the free solo. I actually think that, I sound like an old woman, but that really makes me angry that he does that.

• 40:49Will Arnett?

  There's another one. There's another one that makes him look like. There's the one that he talks about, the other guy. The Alpinist. The Canadian kid.

• 40:57Sean Hayes?

  Wait, what?

• 40:57Will Arnett?

  Yeah, isn't it called the Alpinist?

• 40:58Speaker 03

  And that one's really sad.

• 41:00Will Arnett?

  The Alpinist.

• 41:00Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 41:01Will Arnett?

  Oh, man. Oh, man. What a documentary.

• 41:03Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 41:04Will Arnett?

  Most of them don't end with like, don't, don't have amazing endings.

• 41:08Speaker 03

  No, they're not like a lot of times back in the parking lot at the end.

• 41:12Will Arnett?

  No. Oh, you mean, you mean the guy who climbs the, the ice waterfall at night by himself with no ropes doesn't end well?

• 41:19Speaker 03

  Oh, the guy with the bears, the guy who did all those cute movies of the bears.

• 41:24Will Arnett?

  That one I still need to see. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 41:27Speaker 03

  Also, I got busted on not seeing The Revenant the other night by, at dinner with my parents and my husband because I said that a Snuggie was like that guy in The Revenant who wears the. Bear suit.

• 41:40Jason Bateman?

  Leonardo DiCaprio.

• 41:41Speaker 03

  Yeah, like truly everything, everyone is like, what are you talking about? You're talking about Leonardo DiCaprio, like the, you know, Oscar winner, the, the actor, the guy. That, he's not the guy, he's Leonardo DiCaprio, and he doesn't wear a bear suit. Like, I guess he gets attacked. I didn't see it, I was too afraid.

• 41:59Jason Bateman?

  It's stunning. You should just see that once, or just, just watch the YouTube special on how they shot that scene. Yeah. It's, it's amazing.

• 42:06Speaker 03

  That seems like at a, at a safe distance.

• 42:08Jason Bateman?

  Oh my god.

• 42:09Will Arnett?

  There's also a video, a YouTube video about the guys getting prepared to shoot the YouTube video for the, which is amazing.

• 42:15Speaker 03

  That seems like a safe.

• 42:16Will Arnett?

  It's mainly just in the parking lot and putting on, putting on Patagonias and shit, but it's good.

• 42:21Speaker 03

  No, I, I need, I need to be pretty far afield, I think, of the central experience. I don't, I don't really wanna.

• 42:27Jason Bateman?

  Wait, go back to the fear thing.

• 42:29Speaker 03

  Oh, well, I, yeah, I think the fear is that people don't like, that they won't like me and that they won't think of, like, yeah, that I'll be wearing a Patagonia jacket and I'll be like.

• 42:37Will Arnett?

  They're great jackets. They're great jackets, especially if you're, well, they're expensive, but if you're a size large, they're great.

• 42:42Speaker 03

  They're great.

• 42:43Will Arnett?

  Sorry, I just had to put that out there.

• 42:45Speaker 03

  They're telling just what you need to tell. Yeah.

• 42:47Jason Bateman?

  So what, so that fear of, when you're up there on stage and they're not gonna like you, if you play that out in your head, is it like that, oh my god, I have no place to go? I can't, I can't hide? Right, because you still do it.

• 42:59Speaker 03

  Yeah, I mean, it feels like a social thing. I like it that I'm gonna have to be up here and they're all gonna see me like,

• 43:07Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 43:07Speaker 03

  Just like choking and, and floundering and being out of control and all the things that if I succeed at, they'll see me as a master of like, you know, the moment and like chaos and power or whatever. Not that I see it that, but I think that would be the other side of it. Not that I think I'm like the master of chaos.

• 43:27Jason Bateman?

  I would imagine that you'd have to find a place of like, the, the perfect combination between sort of an adversarial relationship with the audience, right? So that you, you feel sort of puffed up and, and strong, like a worthy adversary, and you can defend yourself, but then also kind of be a teammate with the audience too. You wanna try to find that connection with them. I bet that's a really, that's a real challenging place for stand-ups. I, I, I don't think I'd ever have the spine to do it.

• 43:52Speaker 03

  But it's like a date.

• 43:54Jason Bateman?

  Terrifying.

• 43:54Speaker 03

  I think of it like a date, like you're like, the person could think.

• 43:57Will Arnett?

  You don't have the balls to do it. Fine.

• 44:01Sean Hayes?

  Or the butt, no skeletal structure whatsoever.

• 44:03Will Arnett?

  Or sack. I don't think you have the sack. I don't think you have any of the, of the undercarriage to do it. Sorry, Jenny.

• 44:09Speaker 03

  Look, I don't have that undercarriage either and I, it's okay.

• 44:17Sean Hayes?

  How often are you still getting up there and doing stand up?

• 44:19Speaker 03

  Well, in LA, I was going, so I usually go up at Largo and I was trying to go like twice a week while I was there because I want to make a new special. And that's harder, obviously, like when I want to put the baby to bed and, you know, and I like it when Ben sees my sets because, especially after having the baby, it's like, oh, I guess I'm just this person who like complains about like almost everything all the time. I really want him to see me as someone who other people think is like, literally in the cheapest way, like, popular, like I would like him to, you know, like everything's fine, but I'm just like, that's such a good, I think it's such a good look, you know, up there on stage.

• 44:58Speaker 03

  If, if they're liking you, it's like, oh, right, I forgot that, that there's this powerful person and it, it is nice, but it's also really scary and, but I have to do it.

• 45:11Sean Hayes?

  Do you make him the butt of any jokes?

• 45:13Speaker 03

  No.

• 45:13Sean Hayes?

  Either intentionally or unintentionally, like when you're sharing your stuff about, about home and the kid and, and, and adjusting to that, that, the new life in your house, like, did you, do you back into sort of throwing him under the bus at all? I used to do that on talk shows with my wife and then she, she straightened me out.

• 45:30Speaker 03

  Did you ask permission or would you just like?

• 45:32Sean Hayes?

  I didn't and then I got my snout smacked and then I started asking for permission and then she started saying no and then I started looking for different material.

• 45:40Speaker 03

  Sure, sure, sure.

• 45:42Sean Hayes?

  Yeah. Jenny, I want to talk about, I want to leave you with Marcel the Shell because it's so good. I watched the movie last night. It's so good. Here's what I need to say. I've been a fan of Marcel the Shell as she was on forever. I know it's been like over 10 years or something like that, right?

• 45:55Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 45:56Sean Hayes?

  And I used to watch those videos all the time and what I love about it is if you haven't seen it, all you need to know about it is in the title. It's literally Marcel a Shell and he has shoes on. And you literally play a, a shell named Marcel and he, how the voice, like how the voice, why the voice, are you sick of the voice? Tell us all things about Marcel because how did you think of him? And are you kind of like done or more, more, more? Because I can't get enough of him.

• 46:22Speaker 03

  Oh, thanks, thanks, thanks for saying that.

• 46:24Sean Hayes?

  Like, wait, sidebar really quick. I loved when Marcel played taps from his horn, which was a piece of hollow spiral macaroni. And he sleeps in his breadroom, which is a bedroom made out of bread, which is fantastic. Bless him.

• 46:36Speaker 03

  And when he played taps, he plays taps, that is, um, that's like my favorite part of the, that like sort of, it's a sad part. It's a sort of like a eulogy part, and it's so funny, and it's also so terribly sad.

• 46:49Sean Hayes?

  It's a spiral piece of macaroni.

• 46:50Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's like a shofar. In my culture, we call that a shofar, yeah, for sure. There's a lot of secret Judaism put in there. Um, I'm not sick of the voice. I love doing it. It's like, it feels like a, you know, like, I don't know, like a soothing thing. I do it by myself a lot. I like it. Um, it came up one weekend when I was like in a hotel room, sharing a hotel room with like five friends, and everyone was like broke, and we were all sharing a hotel room. And, um, like every thing you could sleep on was being used, like the cot and the two beds, and like someone on the floor, whatever. And they were just like all men. And I felt like tiny, and that it was like so messy and cramped in there.

• 47:34Speaker 03

  And I started to talk, to like sort of rib people in that voice. And then, and then, um, my partner at the time had like promised that he was gonna make a video for a little show in Williamsburg, and he hadn't done anything yet. And he was like, could I interview that voice? And like, maybe there'll be a character, and I'll, um, you know, make something with it. So he interviewed me in that voice, and then he made Marcel's body. And then we just like made that video.

• 48:01Sean Hayes?

  It's so cool. So is he still a part of all the stuff going forward?

• 48:05Speaker 03

  Yeah, Dean Fleischerkamp, he's, um, he's the director. And, um, we co-wrote it together with our friend Nick Paley. And yeah, yeah, he's a, he did everything.

• 48:15Sean Hayes?

  I love, um, there's a million one-liners, but you know what Marcel uses for skis? Our men's toenails.

• 48:23Speaker 03

  Yeah, toenails of a man.

• 48:27Jason Bateman?

  Toenail clippings, not the actual toenail, full toenail.

• 48:30Speaker 03

  Not the full nail.

• 48:31Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, just the clippings. Did I see a trailer for it that's coming up?

• 48:35Sean Hayes?

  Yes.

• 48:36Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's coming out June 24th through A24.

• 48:39Sean Hayes?

  What? And you filmed it like over a year ago, right?

• 48:43Speaker 03

  It took seven years to make.

• 48:44Jason Bateman?

  Wow, Jesus.

• 48:46Speaker 03

  Yeah, we finished it, I want to say in the winter of...

• 48:50Sean Hayes?

  Why did it take seven years?

• 48:51Speaker 03

  Well, because it's stop motion and we weren't, you know, we were like fully funded by Synergy, it's like, it's not a studio, it's like basically like getting arts grants, basically, and which also gave us total...

• 49:04Sean Hayes?

  Freedom?

• 49:05Speaker 03

  Yeah, which is really great. And it took a long time, the film was improvised off of a long treatment, so we would like record, like improvise, and then Dean and Nick would go back and cull through all the audio and start to make a script off of that, and then like write things that we should say and go back into more improvising, and that that process itself took about a couple of years.

• 49:26Jason Bateman?

  And then you would do the stop motion?

• 49:29Speaker 03

  Yeah, then I think, I think the order was we locked like the audio play, like everything that Marcel and his grandmother is the only other character besides Dean, played grandmother played by Isabella Rossellini, who is incredible.

• 49:42Jason Bateman?

  Nice.

• 49:43Speaker 03

  And she has a beautiful voice, yeah. And so we did, and she let us go to her farm to improvise, like when there are scenes...

• 49:51Jason Bateman?

  Where's the farm?

• 49:52Speaker 03

  It's in New York, yeah.

• 49:54Sean Hayes?

  City?

• 49:55Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's in this city, it's so weird, it's on 56th Street, it's so odd. Yeah, so strange.

• 50:03Will Arnett?

  It's just a farm, and then what do they, they just raise improvisers? That's amazing.

• 50:08Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's called Yes and Farm.

• 50:10Sean Hayes?

  Oh my god, that's amazing.

• 50:12Speaker 03

  Yeah, I just love that, I love that about her. Anyway, yeah, so we recorded it all and then they filmed the live action, because like Marcel is, you know, like he's in a physical house and obviously Dean is the real person that you sometimes see like his hand or him walking away. They filmed all the live action, the whole movie's worth, and then they filmed the stop motion animation on...

• 50:38Sean Hayes?

  It's so good. I love it. I loved it so much. It's, please go see it if you haven't seen it.

• 50:42Will Arnett?

  June 24th.

• 50:43Jason Bateman?

  June 24th.

• 50:44Speaker 03

  June 24th.

• 50:45Will Arnett?

  It's my sister's birthday.

• 50:46Jason Bateman?

  Is that right?

• 50:47Speaker 03

  Happy birthday.

• 50:47Will Arnett?

  Well, two of them, both of them, because they're twins.

• 50:49Jason Bateman?

  Oh, happy birthday.

• 50:50Speaker 03

  Both of them, Ben.

• 50:51Jason Bateman?

  What are both their names? Well, quick.

• 50:52Will Arnett?

  Tannen and Chanley.

• 50:54Jason Bateman?

  Good. And what about your brother?

• 50:55Will Arnett?

  Chuck.

• 50:56Jason Bateman?

  Wow.

• 50:58Will Arnett?

  Wait, why do we test me all the time?

• 51:03Sean Hayes?

  Jenny, it's such a pleasure. Thank you for being here. I want everybody to go see the movie.

• 51:08Jason Bateman?

  Jenny.

• 51:08Sean Hayes?

  Jenny.

• 51:09Will Arnett?

  You're hilarious and a delight.

• 51:11Jason Bateman?

  You really are.

• 51:12Speaker 03

  Gentlemen, so are you. Wow. This is really, really fun.

• 51:15Jason Bateman?

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• 51:19Speaker 03

  Oh, that'll be nice.

• 51:20Jason Bateman?

  They don't exist.

• 51:21Speaker 03

  Oh, they don't? You don't have to.

• 51:22Will Arnett?

  We're building a whole compound out there to rival Isabelle Rossellini's Yes, End Ranch.

• 51:29Speaker 03

  Yep, Yes, End Ranch, top of the rock. You can't miss it. It's gorgeous up there.

• 51:33Will Arnett?

  Top of the rock.

• 51:34Sean Hayes?

  Top of the rock. She's just up there hoeing. Anyway, honey, thank you. We love you. I'm so proud of you and I'm excited for the movie. I hope it does really well.

• 51:44Speaker 03

  Thank you so much.

• 51:45Jason Bateman?

  Thank you, Jenny. Please say hi to Ben and Ida. Tell her I miss her.

• 51:51Jason Bateman?

  Bye, Jenny.

• 51:52Will Arnett?

  Bye, bye, bye.

• 51:52Speaker 03

  Goodbye.

• 51:53Jason Bateman?

  Bye.

• 51:55Speaker 03

  Okay, I'll go. I go now, right?

• 51:56Will Arnett?

  Yeah, you go now.

• 51:57Jason Bateman?

  You go. You go.

• 51:58Speaker 03

  I go now. Goodbye. Thank you.

• 51:59Sean Hayes?

  You go now.

• 52:00Speaker 03

  Bye.

• 52:00Jason Bateman?

  Bye.

• 52:03Jason Bateman?

  That's Jenny Slate, y'all.

• 52:04Will Arnett?

  Yeah, I love her. She is great.

• 52:07Sean Hayes?

  Slate's a killer.

• 52:08Jason Bateman?

  She's a real killer.

• 52:09Sean Hayes?

  I know. Everybody knows, everybody knows her voices, right? But they don't know that she probably does all them because they're all so different.

• 52:16Jason Bateman?

  I did a, I did a small movie with her. Um, uh, it was, she was on camera, not just a voice, the face, the whole acting, the whole thing.

• 52:24Will Arnett?

  What was the movie?

• 52:25Jason Bateman?

  She's very, very good. I believe it's called The Longest Week. Um, wasn't, wasn't a large film. Um, but she was in it and she was great. I really had a good time with her. She's real fun.

• 52:37Sean Hayes?

  She's super fun, cute, funny, just adorable, super talented.

• 52:41Will Arnett?

  Oh my God, a great, great energy, great vibe.

• 52:45Sean Hayes?

  She should teach improv and voiceover stuff because she's.

• 52:48Will Arnett?

  I know, it's pretty good.

• 52:49Sean Hayes?

  Well, Will, so are you gonna go back work out and finish that now or?

• 52:52Will Arnett?

  No, I was just finishing up and I'm really rattled. I'm now so hungry, obviously.

• 52:58Sean Hayes?

  Well, go get, go get something to eat.

• 52:59Will Arnett?

  And then I gotta go, I gotta go meet Jason, we got a meeting.

• 53:02Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, we got a, we got a lunch meeting. Hey, uh, what, what do you, so what are you gonna eat prior to your, uh, to your one o'clock lunch?

• 53:08Will Arnett?

  I am fucking.

• 53:10Jason Bateman?

  What's it gonna be though? Is it gonna be a protein shake? Are you gonna ruin all the work you've done this morning? Punching that dumb white bag.

• 53:20Jason Bateman?

  There it is.

• 53:21Will Arnett?

  My, my energy is, is really plummeted in the last 10 minutes.

• 53:25Jason Bateman?

  It's sugar.

• 53:25Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, no, I noticed. Yeah. All right, well, why don't we let you go?

• 53:28Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 53:29Sean Hayes?

  I think you're coming today. We're huge fans.

• 53:32Will Arnett?

  No, oh wait, wait, wait, and do I just slam shut?

• 53:34Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, you just slam shut.

• 53:36Jason Bateman?

  Listen, if you're feeling weak, just go grab something that looks like it's got a lot of car, a lot of carbohydrates in it and just take a big bite.

• 53:44Sean Hayes?

  Bite of it, bite of it, bite.

• 53:48Will Arnett?

  Smartless.

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• 54:12Will Arnett?

  Smartless.

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