Patton Oswalt

Summary

What's Our Podcast? with Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney

Episode: Patton Oswalt
Date: June 17, 2026
Podcast Network: Headgum

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Episode Overview

In this lively and irreverent episode, Beck and Kyle welcome the legendary comedian Patton Oswalt to their ongoing quest to figure out “what’s our podcast about, anyway?” The trio banter on everything from parking lot rage in Los Angeles, the intricacies of stand-up comedy in the age of short-form video, the surreal art of sitcoms, and, inevitably, Ratatouille. Blending meta-humor, improv, and genuine reflection on comedy and culture, the episode ultimately lands on a perfectly Beck-and-Kyle topic: angry LA parking lots.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. The Never-Ending Podcast Identity Crisis

• Beck and Kyle continue their self-aware bit of not knowing what their show is about, riffing on possible directions.
  • “We didn’t know what it is. We still are finding out what it is every single week when we come together with our guests.” – Beck Bennett (00:35)

2. Patreon Announcements & Community Engagement (00:22–03:11)

• Detailed breakdown of Patreon tiers: bonus episodes, access to chat/Discord, being able to pitch podcast ideas, exclusive videos, live streams, and even a comedic promise of personalized headshots.
• Tone is classic Beck & Kyle: self-deprecating, loopy, filled with inside jokes and deliberate absurdity (e.g., “Rocco’s” tier names, casual talk of doing poppers at live streams).

3. Absurdist Banter – “Beck Brown Juice” Song (04:02–06:33)

• Extended silly riff about “Beck Brown juice” being diarrhea, with mock-serious details about medical consequences and doctors named Ronnie J.
  • “First thing I do, I go to the toilet, I make some brown and I drink it down..." – Kyle Mooney (04:30)
  • “It seems disgusting.” – Beck Bennett (05:32)
• Leads to a meta-convo about whether Obama would be a good podcast guest.

4. Ratatouille, Citizen Kane, and Animation Tangent (07:43–13:12)

• Discussion about Patton's likely topic (Ratatouille), confusion over whether the rat’s name is “Ratatouille” or “Remy,” and extended tangent comparing Ratatouille's food-critic-to-childhood moment to the “Rosebud” reveal in Citizen Kane.
  • “His name is Remy, not Ratatouille. Ratatouille is... the dish that Remy makes.” – Beck Bennett (08:09)
• The obtuse, looping conversation is classic Mooney/Bennett—deliberately pedantic, playing dumb, and mining comedy from confusion.
• Notable Quote: “It’s 3D animation style, not 2T... 2D... but the character, the food critic, is like kind of hooty Tooty.” – Beck Bennett & Kyle Mooney (11:23)

5. Podcasting Goals & The Obama Question (13:12–20:22)

• Meta-riff: Is the podcast’s purpose to get high-profile guests like Obama or Oprah?
  • “Is the goal like, oh, maybe you can get to Obama someday?” – Beck Bennett (13:06)
  • “I just want us to be like, changing the culture.” – Kyle Mooney (13:24)
• Gags about presidential snack butlers and remote butlers.

6. Character Comedy: “Pouchy” Returns (15:24–18:01)

• Recurring character “Pouchy” (the pocket in Kyle’s shirt) makes an appearance, featuring crude and surreal jokes about “eating pussy” and “shirt disease.”
  • “That's not hair, my friend. That's pussy.” – “Pouchy”/Beck Bennett (15:34)

7. The Reveal—Patton Oswalt Arrives (27:01–28:34)

• Patton is welcomed, with the slight tongue-in-cheek drama about whether to keep guest names secret or not.
• Quote about podcasting format:
  • “I'm not going to be the guy—I'm not going to make some stupid little movie out of our song... but unfortunately you do have to kind of embrace the new. Just don’t let it affect your content.” – Patton Oswalt (27:39)

8. Stand-Up, Comedy Specials, and The Clip Economy (28:34–31:39)

• Patton discusses adapting to the current landscape of vertical video, working with media companies for clips, and the tension between performing authentically and creating social content.
  • “A lot of times with stand up clips now, they need it more vertical... just stand still at the mic? Well, I kind of like to move around.” – Patton Oswalt (28:18)
• Reflection on how podcasts and entertainment have become “new TV,” and that DIY or run-and-gun podcasting is being repackaged by platforms.

9. Sitcom Surreality, Comedy History & Star Trek (31:11–34:34)

• Group riff on how podcasts are like the new “I Love Lucy,” and deep dive into TV’s evolution, with Patton name-dropping Karl Freund, Lucille Ball, and the creation of multi-cam sitcom filming.
• Parallels drawn between “Star Trek’s” hopeful vision and the world’s state in the 1960s.
  • “In the year 2500, everything's fine! I mean, we work it out.” – Patton Oswalt (33:42)
  • Gene Roddenberry’s on why Picard is bald: “In the future, nobody cares.” – Beck Bennett (34:08)

10. Parks and Rec, Pop Culture, and Improvisation (35:05–39:48)

• Patton tells the origin story of his famous “Parks and Rec” filibuster, which was much improvised and included every pop culture reference he could summon under pressure.
  • “There’s three responses: Fight, Flight, or trivia Dump. And I just did trivia Dump.” – Patton Oswalt (36:40)
• Amy Poehler’s skill at improv and her perfect line in the scene: “I think the female part’s a little underwritten.”

11. The Art and Reality of Bombing (42:07–44:06)

• Patton and the hosts swap honest war stories about bombing, especially in stand-up and SNL.
  • “You are allowed to go up and try stuff... some nights you're gonna bomb. It's not fatal.” – Patton Oswalt (42:38)
• The liberating effect of failing, and how it can become almost a rite of passage.

12. The Nature of Sitcoms and Acting (60:20–66:26)

• Discussion of King of Queens, physical comedy, comedic timing in multicam sitcoms; stories about Kevin James, Danny DeVito, Michael Richards, and their mastery of the unnatural sitcom format.
  • “It is a weird discipline. And I learned a lot from watching Kevin... No, this is a different discipline.” – Patton Oswalt (63:58)

13. Ratatouille & Critical Reception (66:44–72:33)

• Patton talks the cultural impact of Ratatouille and being constantly misidentified as “Ratatouille” instead of Remy.
  • “Probably like 90%. I love you as Ratatouille.” – Patton Oswalt (67:12)
  • On critics: “The actual risk and the real reason a critic should exist is making friends with the new, because the new needs friends.” – Patton Oswalt (71:05)
• They recount how nostalgia and food are tied, and the movie’s message about slow, sincere creation vs. fast, content-driven culture.

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Main Topic: “Angry Los Angeles Parking Lots” (Patton’s Podcast Pitch)

Transition Point: [72:37+]

• Patton pitches that “What’s Our Podcast?” should become a show about LA’s most rage-inducing parking lots.
  • “If you would do a weekly podcast... about the angry parking lots in Los Angeles... I think that will create a firestorm in the city of people. Finally, someone is talking about this.” – Patton Oswalt (72:47)
• The group launches into passionate, hilarious, highly specific rants about LA parking, covering:
  • Trader Joe’s (Hyperion), Whole Foods (Riverside & Woodman, Pasadena), Century City Mall, Cedars Sinai Hospital, and the absurd phenomenon of enforced valet in empty lots.
  • “Trader Joe's that's on Hyperion... was designed by Nazi scientists.” – Patton Oswalt (74:00)
  • Frustrations with post-shopping confusion, poor signage, and psychological warfare designed by parking lot architects.
  • Gags repeat about Beck’s “pubes,” core memories for children scarred by parking, and the existential torment of Los Angeles commuting.

Notable Quotes:

• “There are people who then go into their car and need to sit and collect their thoughts and maybe find where they had left off the podcast they were listening to.” – Patton Oswalt (81:16)
• “I have a full bush. I may have a Brazilian by the end of this episode...” – Patton Oswalt (85:29)

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• “There are sketches on SNL... you went somewhere crazy with this. A lot of your film stuff... I would always try to amplify those, like, ‘Hey, this was on at 12:47am—look at this thing, man.’” – Patton Oswalt (59:08)
• “If you want to put it in selfish terms, if I put more of the stuff that I like out there, it makes people more receptive to the kind of stuff that I’m doing.” – Patton Oswalt (58:27)
• “In multicam sitcoms, it's a very unhuman way of talking and interacting... really, really good actors can make it feel natural. That’s why people don’t realize just how talented, like, a Danny DeVito… or a Kelsey Grammer is.” – Patton Oswalt (60:52)
• “We told the truth and it could cost us... It doesn’t always work, but it keeps it exciting.” – Beck Bennett (102:03)
• "My thick bone syndrome in my left leg... that's what parking does to the marrow in my legs. Yeah, it’s rough." – Patton Oswalt (98:54)

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Memorable Segment Timestamps

• 00:22–03:11: Patreon launch/every-tier breakdown
• 04:02–06:33: “Beck Brown juice” comedic song & riff
• 13:12–20:22: Is the podcast's dream guest Obama or Oprah? Why?
• 28:34–31:39: Patton on the clip economy and TikTok-era stand-up
• 35:05–39:48: “Parks and Rec” filibuster origin story
• 59:07–66:26: The art and subtlety of sitcom acting; SNL parallels
• 72:47–99:13: LA’s most infuriating parking lots: in-depth, comedic horror stories
• 97:01–98:27: “Kyle’s crash out”: a cathartic group release for parking frustration

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Final Thoughts & Takeaways

• The episode punctuates “What’s Our Podcast?” meta-experiment with an extended, oddly therapeutic comedic deep-dive into the shared agony of LA parking.
• Patton is game for every bit—whether the topic is nostalgic pop culture, critical risk, or the bleak absurdity of a Trader Joe’s parking layout.
• The podcast’s “structureless structure,” where the guest pitches the subject, continues to yield variety, unpredictability, and genuine moments of both silly and insightful comedy.

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Useful for New Listeners?

Absolutely—this episode is peak “What’s Our Podcast?”: loose, improvisational, and both lovingly dumb and sneakily sharp about comedy, Los Angeles, and modern creativity. Even if you’re new, you’ll quickly catch the ethos: embrace silliness, geek out about culture, and complain about parking.

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TL;DR – Episode Essence

Patton Oswalt joins Beck and Kyle for an hour-plus of meta-comedy, discussing everything from the evolving landscape of stand-up and sitcoms, the eternal confusion around Ratatouille, and, in the end, launching a cathartic and hilarious roast of LA's worst parking lots—proving once again that, in Beck & Kyle's hands, the most mundane topic can become an epic saga of laughs.

Transcript

[Patton Oswalt]

This is a Headgun podcast.

[Beck Bennett]

Wow.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yay. Another episode of what's our Podcast. But first, a little special announcement from Becky and Kyle.

[Beck Bennett]

This is very big. This is.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's very huge and big.

[Beck Bennett]

I think this is life changing for me.

[Johnny Knoxville]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's the way I feel. As long as it goes well.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, even if it doesn't, it is altering my life.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, it already has.

[Beck Bennett]

The big announcement is we are starting a patreon.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. You're saying to yourself, oh, yes, it was.

[Beck Bennett]

You know, it was a risk. It was a swing to even start a podcast together back.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, it was.

[Beck Bennett]

We didn't know what it is. We still are finding out what it is every single week when we come together with our guests. And when you and I sort of

[Kyle Mooney]

mess around on the microphone, let's tell them what it is. For the first tier, Rocco, Basic tier.

[Beck Bennett]

It's five bucks a month. You're gonna get a bonus episode every week. No guest. Okay. It's just Beck and I doing what we've been doing Since September of 2003 when we first met each other.

[Kyle Mooney]

For that tier, we have slopping out, which is just the two of us hanging out.

[Beck Bennett]

It's like our intro to our show.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. But it's longer. We can go into bits longer.

[Beck Bennett]

We can also be earnest. Learn about each other's lives.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. Catch up for longer. Or we also have what's yous Podcast, where we take ideas from our Patreon members.

[Richelle Chen]

Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

At a certain tier, at the $10 tier, which is the next tier. We take your ideas and we try that podcast out. Right, but you can pitch those ideas at the $10 tier.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes. Once you get to the $10 tier, premium rock, which we're calling Rocco Premium.

[Kyle Mooney]

Rocco Premium.

[Beck Bennett]

That's where you actually get to pitch the ideas that we will do on our podcast. You're also gonna get access to an exclusive chat. A chat room.

[Johnny Knoxville]

Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

The Discord. The Rocco Discord, where you can talk with other fans, other listeners. Probably kind of do your own little bits. Make some friends. Maybe. Maybe you can grab. Grab dinner or coffee with one of them sometime.

[Kyle Mooney]

Also with the $10 tier, you get access to. You get to see our. What we're calling our sillies. Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

These are little videos. You know, we came up making videos together. Full circle. Because now you and I are just gonna make a little video we already started. Get a little iPhone, make a little video, play some characters, do some bits.

[Kyle Mooney]

Just come up with an idea and pop it right off and just shoot it.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

We don't need to labor over it.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, exactly. We just kind of have fun and pump it out to our Rocco's.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

You know what I mean?

[Beck Bennett]

I know exactly what you mean. I love it.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

For 15 bucks, you get all that stuff, plus you get free access to our new ticketed live stream. So, like, we will talk to you directly. You can ask us questions. We'll be doing these quarterly throughout the year.

[Kyle Mooney]

We might do poppers there. We don't know yet. It's only going to be legal stuff, but we're going to have fun to do poppers. Yes. And here's the thing for Rocket supreme. If you sign up for a full year, you'll get a side headshot of me and Kyle. We don't know, but it's going to be an amazing family heirloom that you get and you can, you know, frame it and put above the fireplace or something or something like that.

[Beck Bennett]

It is really going to be fun. I think it's going to be a place to see some really weird, wild

[Kyle Mooney]

and crazy stuff where we just get to do whatever we want without really caring. So. Yeah. So go to patreon.com what's our podcast and join today, please.

[Beck Bennett]

That's patreon.com what's our Podcast? And be in the Rocco Club with all your fellow Roccos.

[Kyle Mooney]

When I found out I was going to be a parent, I immediately felt

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

a lot of anxiety and worry.

[Kyle Mooney]

So I went on to BetterHelp to

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

try to look for a therapist to help me with that.

[Richelle Chen]

My relationship with my family and with my boyfriend and with myself were suffering. I really needed help.

[Beck Bennett]

I was ruminating a lot, really.

[Kyle Mooney]

Getting those thoughts out to a therapist

[Beck Bennett]

and getting feedback was just life changing.

[Kyle Mooney]

Discover what BetterHelp Online Therapy can do for you. Visit betterhelp.com today.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

What's our podcast? What's it gonna be all about?

[Kyle Mooney]

Tell us what's our podcast? What should we talk about with Beck and Kyle woke up.

[Beck Bennett]

Beck is sipping his. His Beck juice.

[Kyle Mooney]

My Beck. My brown Beck juice to get me going in the morning. My brown Beck juice to get me going. My brown Beck juice to get me going in the morning. Gotta get up, gotta get up, gotta drink my. Gotta drink my brow. Gotta bring. Gotta get up, gotta get up, gotta drink my Beck Brown juice. Gotta get up, gotta do the thing. Gotta get up, gotta do my day.

[Beck Bennett]

Gotta get up, gotta drink my Beck Brown juice.

[Kyle Mooney]

Gotta get up, gotta get up, gotta get up. First thing I do, I go to the toilet, I make some brown and I drink it down. I gotta get up, gotta get up. Gotta do the day. Gotta do my thing. Gotta get up, gotta get up. Gotta drink my bag. Brown juice. Gotta do my thing. Kind of like Limp Bizkit.

[Beck Bennett]

It is good. And sorry, let's just clarify real quick.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, definitely. For all the listeners out there, please.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

The Beck Brown juice is what?

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, it's my diarrhea.

[Beck Bennett]

And you put it in a mug to drink?

[Kyle Mooney]

No, just keep it up with my hands out of the bowl. Kind of like, like clown style. Because clowns just kind of are, like, silly. Yeah, well, they're. They're bottom of the barrel kind of degenerates.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Like just whatever. Just.

[Richelle Chen]

Okay.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

So you take. You got. You got to have your Beck Brown juice to get up and to get going.

[Patton Oswalt]

Y.

[Beck Bennett]

And now you're.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's the fastest way to get up. It's the fastest way to get my

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

nutrients for the day.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay. It seems disgusting.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, it seems.

[Beck Bennett]

And I actually feel like that it. It will in some way hurt your body.

[Patton Oswalt]

Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

I have extra doctors for it.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, extra doctors?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

What are their names?

[Kyle Mooney]

Ronnie.

[Beck Bennett]

Ronnie J. Ronnie and Ronnie J. Those are two different people.

[Richelle Chen]

Yep.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

And they don't make sure very much

[Beck Bennett]

and they make sure your levels are good after you drink your back brown juice.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, they check me out once. Once a year or so.

[Beck Bennett]

And they're okay with how you're doing generally, you drink this every day?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Yeah. And as long as. Yeah, as long as I'm getting. As long as I'm taking the medicine they prescribe me.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Kind of like in. It's kind of just like a. It kind of helps counteract. It kind of helps turn the. The doo doo into nutritious vitamins. So it helps my body break them

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

down and turn them into energy.

[Beck Bennett]

So you need to take the medicine. Otherwise you just so. Because to me, it felt like. Oh, it's just. He's just drinking straight diarrhea every day. But what you're saying is you have this medicine to counteract it so that it is nutritious.

[Kyle Mooney]

Exactly. It's kind of like a antihistamine or something like that.

[Richelle Chen]

That.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Now. Now, I thank you for being so curious about my song. But remember, what we were going to talk about is if we actually want Obama as a guest.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes, we.

[Kyle Mooney]

On this podcast.

[Johnny Knoxville]

Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

So here's the conversation.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

We're going to be.

[Beck Bennett]

We going to be real.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

We were like, let's.

[Beck Bennett]

We've been having a lot. It's been. It's been really fun doing. What's our podcast, dude?

[Kyle Mooney]

It's been really fun hanging out here and kind of just like, building it as we go.

[Beck Bennett]

It is built.

[Kyle Mooney]

It is building.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, yeah, I guess it is sort of. It's like every. There are all these steps to make, like, what is the perfect podcast with Beck and Kyle?

[Kyle Mooney]

Exactly. And it's kind of. You can't plan it. You can't do it. It just happens. Kind of like the brown juice.

[Beck Bennett]

It just happens. Well, no, I thought we were just gonna have a sort of conversation about what we can build and sort of

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

what our goals are.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, cool.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, here's my thought. My thought is we're doing good. I always wonder, like, oh, by the way, this is what's our podcast with Bennett and Kyle Mooney. The only show where you get to

[Kyle Mooney]

listen and watch us. Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

And we have a guest come in and pitch an idea for what our podcast should be about. Today we have a great guest, and I. I have a feeling he's going to pitch

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Ratatouille.

[Beck Bennett]

That's a little hint, but, yeah, I imagine we'll be talking about our favorite moments from Ratatouille, favorite merchandise from Ratatouille, and if we were Ratatouille, what dish we would cook.

[Kyle Mooney]

I like how sometimes in the. Probably.

[Beck Bennett]

By the way, his name is Remy, not Ratatouille. Ratatouille is a d. Is.

[Kyle Mooney]

Is the. Is the. Is the dish that Remy makes. Yes.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

At the very end that the. The critic, by the way, the critic tastes it. Brings it back to childhood. Sort of takes me back to. You remember in Citizen Kane? Do you remember that old movie?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Do. Rochelle, do you know this movie? Citizen Kane?

[Richelle Chen]

Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

It's an older movie, Black and White.

[Kyle Mooney]

My Rosebud.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes. It's from the wizard of Oz era.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

From that style of older movies, I believe. And it's by a very famous filmmaker. I don't remember his name, but the movie is sort of.

[Johnny Knoxville]

Yeah.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

He.

[Beck Bennett]

He. We're wondering what Rosebud is, and it turns out it's his childhood sleigh.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Oh.

[Beck Bennett]

And it's a really great reveal, and it's a great movie. And I think this is available.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Spoiler alert.

[Beck Bennett]

I believe this is available online, I would imagine. Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

But, yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't know.

[Beck Bennett]

I feel like in Ratatouille, it's a similar thing where this sh. Critic. Right. He's a food critic. And I'm. And I imagine they were thinking of this old movie, Citizen Kane. I don't know.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Oh, I Don't know.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, so. Because I haven't seen Citizen Kane.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay. It's a great black and white. I do not remember who made it, but it is.

[Patton Oswalt]

No.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Orson.

[Beck Bennett]

What was the other name you gave us?

[Richelle Chen]

Orson Welles.

[Beck Bennett]

No, sir. What was the other name you said?

[Richelle Chen]

I didn't say another name.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't think.

[Beck Bennett]

I think you said another name earlier. You said two other names.

[Kyle Mooney]

Orson.

[Richelle Chen]

Well, Remy the Rat.

[Beck Bennett]

I think he's the rat.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

Who.

[Kyle Mooney]

He's not. No, no. He's not like an auto. It's not autour situation. He's not like.

[Beck Bennett]

He's not autistic.

[Kyle Mooney]

He's not autistic. I guess an auteur is. Is not.

[Beck Bennett]

Remy.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, I got the. He's not an auteur,

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

but.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Anyway, it takes the chef. Sorry, the food critic. Like, the ratatouille. It's like a dish he ate as

[Anya Kanowskaya]

a child and sort of takes him back.

[Beck Bennett]

And, yes, he experiences all these emotions.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's powerful. It's really powerful. But we were.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, that's what I think is so great. Like, with animation.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Because, like, as I recall, ratatouille is not. It's a. It's cartoon style, Right?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. I don't know why you're checking with Rochelle so much. I mean, like, she's not one of the hosts of the show. You could just check it.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay. Oh, well, it seems like every time I sort of look to you, you don't know what I'm talking about. She is. She's got a computer. It seems like she's like. Oh, she's kind of got the. So you're just the database over there.

[Kyle Mooney]

Every time you look over here, you're expecting her to just look stuff up.

[Richelle Chen]

Ratatouille is animation style.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. It's animation style. It's not live action.

[Richelle Chen]

It's not live action.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Richelle Chen]

The animation is 3D animation.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's what it is. That's what it is.

[Patton Oswalt]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay. Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. The animation style is so amazing. It. I remember thinking. Is this a.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, one second. Sorry. It's okay. Sorry. When you say 3D style. Say that again. Sorry. Say one more time.

[Richelle Chen]

It's more of a 3D animation style.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay. What were you saying? Wait, sorry, you got. I interrupted you. Go ahead, finish that thought.

[Richelle Chen]

It's not a 2D animation style.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay. And what were you saying?

[Kyle Mooney]

I'd say it's not a 2D animation style either.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay. Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Okay, great. So now. So we've got all the ratatouille stuff settled.

[Beck Bennett]

So we got that ratatouille is 3D

[Kyle Mooney]

animation style, not 2T style.

[Beck Bennett]

Not 2T.

[Kyle Mooney]

2T.

[Beck Bennett]

Is it 2T or 2D? I thought you said 2D.

[Richelle Chen]

2D.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, like 2T.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Like.

[Beck Bennett]

Not like. But it. But the character, the food critic is like kind of hooty Tooty.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

He's like a little.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think that was my confusion.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Hoodie doody. Hoody tooy. But wait, I. We were.

[Beck Bennett]

We were going.

[Kyle Mooney]

Can we go back?

[Beck Bennett]

Yes, we can go back. Really Sorry. I went off. Oh, no. Cuz I. I could not get that movie out of my head. The black and white one, and that sort of derailed me. The.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, sorry.

[Beck Bennett]

Citizen Kane, which you said is made by Orson Wells. What was the other name?

[Richelle Chen]

You said?

[Kyle Mooney]

She didn't say another name. There was only one name she said.

[Beck Bennett]

Was there another name that you said that it was made by?

[Richelle Chen]

I said Remy the Rat.

[Kyle Mooney]

Remy the rat.

[Johnny Knoxville]

Right.

[Beck Bennett]

Which is not that. I think that's Ratatouille.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, so we were talking about whether or not we should have Obama on the podcast.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes. Because we were wondering.

[Richelle Chen]

Because that's.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

That's a.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's a. That's a big goal for a lot of podcasts to get. We were talking about president.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes, we were talking about that. We have so many these high profile guests.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

Come on.

[Beck Bennett]

And today is no different. We have.

[Kyle Mooney]

Today is no different.

[Beck Bennett]

I would.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

An icon.

[Kyle Mooney]

We got icons and legends here.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

Of all sorts.

[Beck Bennett]

Shapes that should be like. That could also be the sort of. What do you call that? Like, you know, like the subtitle of our show. Wait, what's our podcast with Beck Bennett? Yeah. Gravestone. Yeah. We could say that when we pass away.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

What's our podcast with Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney?

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

That's your name.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

And then.

[Beck Bennett]

Wait, what was the thing you said?

[Kyle Mooney]

Legends and icons only.

[Beck Bennett]

I like that.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. Maybe we should put it above the door.

[Beck Bennett]

What's our podcast with back Ben and Kyle Mooney? You are now legends and icons only.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

By getting all of these, like, high profile guests, it's like, what is the goal? Is the goal like, oh, maybe you can get to Obama someday.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Or Oprah.

[Richelle Chen]

Right.

[Beck Bennett]

But is that. But that was our discussion. Was. Is that your goal back? What is. What are you looking for? What are you hoping for? The podcast?

[Kyle Mooney]

I want for us to, like, feel good.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

And just be doing the thing, being ourselves. I want us to have stuff to, to say, you know, I want us to be like, changing the culture.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay. So I think that Obama would help to change the culture. Because I feel like we could ask him some pretty pointed questions about sort of where he falls on the state of things and like, what it was like. Because I would be. I would have to ask him what was it like being president?

[Kyle Mooney]

I was gonna say. I was gonna say I would have to ask him what. What was your favorite snack to.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, because they probably have. They have butlers, right? Yeah, so. So I imagine butlers are kind of constantly coming up to you at the White House being like, what type of snack would you like? Yes, I would love to know what type of snack he likes.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, they. They have butlers for everything, I think at the White House snack.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

What are drink butlers? The remote butlers. These are butlers who only bring in

[Beck Bennett]

like TV remotes and stuff.

[Kyle Mooney]

Cuz, you know, you ever. You ever. You lose the remote and you're like in bed. Is it in the.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

And it's like you. When you're president, you can't afford to lose the remote. You just don't.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, you have to sign the con. What are they called? Contracts.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Contracts.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Yeah. So you have a butler that's just like. Just carries the remote around, I think. Yeah. And like bedtime butler.

[Beck Bennett]

How difficult. Because he's not president anymore.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

Right.

[Kyle Mooney]

So he's is Obama. Obama's eye.

[Beck Bennett]

Is there a way to get a hold of his team so we can get him on? Or how does that work?

[Richelle Chen]

We could ask Mark Maron.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. Yeah, we could ask Mark.

[Richelle Chen]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

I have a surprise for everybody.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

There is somebody, speaking of guests, I don't know if this is a guest exactly, but somebody who has played a decent part in the evolution of what's our podcast, who has decided, as far as I can tell, to stop by today.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Really?

[Beck Bennett]

Yes.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

And I'll show you right now.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, my gosh.

[Beck Bennett]

How's everybody doing? It's Pouchy.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm back. Hey, Pouchy. Hey, Pouchy. I think you have a little bit of hair in your mouth.

[Beck Bennett]

That's not hair, my friend. That's pussy.

[Kyle Mooney]

Wow, so you have some pussy in your mouth. That is so cool.

[Beck Bennett]

I didn't.

[Kyle Mooney]

I didn't know. Are you. So just to get it out of the way, Pouchy, you eat. You eat pussy or breakfast?

[Beck Bennett]

Lunch?

[Richelle Chen]

Dinner?

[Beck Bennett]

Yep.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. Wow, that's amazing. That's kind of a player.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Kind of a.

[Kyle Mooney]

Kind of a. A real kind of a lady's pocket, I guess.

[Beck Bennett]

So what the have you been up to? It's been a while, Kyle.

[Kyle Mooney]

You're.

[Beck Bennett]

You smell. Oh, come on, Pouchy. That's not nice.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, Pouchy, that's not very nice. You're also closer to him than everybody else.

[Beck Bennett]

And Becky, uh, interesting shoe choice.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, Pouchy. Pouchy, Pouchy. Pouchy. Yeah, these. These are off. Off brand crocs. Got them in the Philippines.

[Beck Bennett]

Are they called Fox?

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Fox?

[Beck Bennett]

Fox.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, fuck you, Pouchy, you piece of shit.

[Beck Bennett]

All right, well, go ahead.

[Kyle Mooney]

I just want to let you know I missed you and we've all missed you, and we think about you a lot and we know you can't always be here. You are busy eating pussy. But I just would love, you know, try to make some time to come by more often and. And tell us about your tales and what's been going on with you, because we care about you and you're a

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

big part of this show.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, that was. That was unexpected, to be honest.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

You know, things haven't been going great for me, to be honest.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Oh.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, that's not.

[Beck Bennett]

I recently found out that I have. I have shirt disease.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

I'm sorry.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm very sorry. Is that serious?

[Beck Bennett]

Well, it means that I'm part of a shirt.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, we know that, Pouchy.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, I didn't know that, but just knowing it makes. Makes it a lot easier for me because I've always felt that something was a little different about who I was.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. And. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And then I went to my, you

[Kyle Mooney]

know, you're a pocket, but you just didn't know you were part of a shirt.

[Beck Bennett]

I didn't realize I was part of a shirt.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, but you knew you were a pocket.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, yeah, I thought it was.

[Johnny Knoxville]

Sorry.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

You know, I thought it was a pocket just hopping around.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, cool, cool.

[Beck Bennett]

But, yeah, now I realize. Got this little thing, but. Yeah, I better go eat some.

[Kyle Mooney]

Bye. All right, see you, Pouchy. Wow, that was really nice to see Pouchy.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Does he. Do you talk to him regularly when you wear that?

[Beck Bennett]

This shirt has been in the drawer for a while, and I found it and I was like, oh, I'll put this on. And then when I started buttoning it up, I was like, oh, that's where Pouchy lives.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. Yeah, that's for. For people who don't know, Pouchy is pocket in Kyle's shirt. It's kind of a floppy pocket. He came out one of the first episodes that.

[Beck Bennett]

Bobby Moynihan's episode.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah, yeah, that's right, Pouchy.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, it was great to see Pouchy. I didn't know he ate so much.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, it seemed like maybe he could have Told us something a little more interesting.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

But I mean, I guess he's busy doing that and it's just. Yeah, that's what it is. That's cool.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, as our guest here. No.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. We introduced. I mean, people know.

[Patton Oswalt]

We.

[Kyle Mooney]

I was gonna say I like how we pretend to, like, keep it a secret, even though people can tell because

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

they clicked on the episode somewhere.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, but what if. Okay, what if there's a scenario where you're on a road trip and you're

[Anya Kanowskaya]

a big fan of what's our podcast.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And you just sort of have it

[Anya Kanowskaya]

playing and your friend

[Beck Bennett]

Kendall is right in with you and doesn't necessarily listen to the podcast and didn't see that you pressed play on the episode, therefore didn't see the name of the guest. And so they're listening to us for

[Anya Kanowskaya]

the first time and have no idea

[Beck Bennett]

who's about to come up. Is that possible?

[Kyle Mooney]

Or am I. That's possible.

[Beck Bennett]

So she's also. Do. Also do the. Do the episodes, when you listen to them on. On like, say, your phone on Apple, do they flow from the next one to the next one? So it's also possible you put on.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

One, and then all of a sudden a new one starts without you looking at the title.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

True.

[Beck Bennett]

So I actually, I think in certain cases you're incorrect.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, well, like what?

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Like.

[Kyle Mooney]

But like, who cares? Like, we're not. We're not trying to keep it a surprise, are we? We could say it at any time.

[Beck Bennett]

You're right. Who does care? No, no, that is. That is how I should be living my life. I feel like I'm so. I'm so, like, I'm so strict to these, like, it's got to be this way. It's got to be that way. You got to, you know, look, let's look at all the angles. But you're like, who cares? Like, it's just a podcast.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's just a podcast.

[Beck Bennett]

Even if we. Even if our listener base doesn't grow, even if we never get Obama, it's just a fucking podcast. There's other things in the world that I should be thinking about and caring about. Like, it's. This is just a fucking podcast.

[Kyle Mooney]

Just a fucking podcast.

[Beck Bennett]

Our guest is Patton Oswald.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

One of the great stand up actors, comic collectors.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. Voiceover artists.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes. And I believe he was in Ratatouille.

[Kyle Mooney]

I believe he was.

[Beck Bennett]

And I believe he replaced Lucy K as the voice of Max and the Secret Life of Pets franchise.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

That is.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's correct as well. I wonder how Many people come up to him and go, I love you as Ratatouille.

[Beck Bennett]

How many people love. I love you as Max, but as I said, is the name of the character's name is Remy. So we'll have a very long conversation about like Remy, how do you feel about being. Because like people assume it's Ratatouille because he's a rat.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Right.

[Kyle Mooney]

And it's the name of the movie and it's Ratatouille. But I bet people forget that his

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

name is actually Remy.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

Beck just fell asleep.

[Kyle Mooney]

I just kind of went half asleep. Well, let's talk. We're going to talk to him all about it and all, all sorts of other stuff. King of Queens, AP Bio.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, we might not talk about everything. Don't set up. Don't say that.

[Kyle Mooney]

We're going to talk about all comedians of comedy. I don't. Well, we're. Yeah, okay. Well maybe I said.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, you did?

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

I don't know.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, here's Patton Oswald. And it's always good to see you back.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's ever good to see you.

[Beck Bennett]

Summer always changes how I get dressed.

[Johnny Knoxville]

I know.

[Kyle Mooney]

And sometimes it drives me absolutely bananas because it's like, what do I have to wear that I'm not sweating this thing. Am I going to be cool enough because it's hot and it's sunny.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

Thank you.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

You're welcome.

[Beck Bennett]

I want pieces that feel lighter and more breathable. Things that are easy but still put together.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's exactly what I'm thinking. That's why I keep coming back to Quint.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. They focus on high quality essentials that feel and look amazing.

[Beck Bennett]

I'm just like imagining this.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Think breathable linen, Soft, organic.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, cuz I was going another way.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, no, this is, I was thinking like armor. No, no. That is not breathable.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, it is cuz it's hard too. It's not if it's up against your bare skin and there's like kind of like some wind coming through between.

[Kyle Mooney]

Maybe, maybe the mesh armor that the knights used to wear.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Maybe.

[Kyle Mooney]

But nothing else would ever fit into this category. I don't know why you came up with it. Let me just, I, I, let me get back to what I was saying. Well made basics, but without the luxury of markup. Without the luxury markup.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh. You okay?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, I'm fine. I just threw in an extra of. It's that rare balance where everything feels elevated but still effortless. Like an elevator. Right. You're not putting in any work. These quince is like an elevator. You're elevated, but you're not. You're not walking upstairs. You're just standing there. And it's easy. You're so Quint's European linen pants and shirts are the perfect warm weather upgrade to add to your rotation, starting at just $34. Kyle, I would love to see you in a full Quint linen summer outfit. Our next podcast. Can we talk to the Quint people about this?

[Beck Bennett]

If. If they can get it for our next record, which is in a couple weeks, I will come to the podcast in a full Quint's linen outfit.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, great.

[Beck Bennett]

I'm excited about it.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Their teas are soft and easy to wear because some teas are not. Some TE's. I'm like, where does my hair?

[Beck Bennett]

Don't get them started.

[Kyle Mooney]

I have.

[Beck Bennett]

I. I've known this man since 2003 and he's always going off on. On how soft or easy to wear tees are.

[Kyle Mooney]

How many times have you have you put as the neck around the waist and the waist is around the neck and your hands are coming out the. The armholes down here, not up. It's like I get turned around.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, me too.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. And they're so. They're perfect for summer nights. These things, these tees and, and the cotton sweaters. Summer knights.

[Beck Bennett]

Knights wear armor, by the way.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. Shut up about the armor. Please shut up about the armor.

[Beck Bennett]

50 to 80% less than similar brands.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

That's amazing.

[Beck Bennett]

They work directly with ethical factories and cut out the middlemen. So you're paying for quality, not brand market. I hate these middlemen.

[Kyle Mooney]

I hate the middleman.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Don't take care of those shirts. You pay me a little. Get paid them a little.

[Beck Bennett]

I get a little on the side.

[Kyle Mooney]

Get out of here.

[Beck Bennett]

So they're annoying. Yeah, they're annoying.

[Kyle Mooney]

As it's like you didn't make anything.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

You're just.

[Kyle Mooney]

You're just getting in the way.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Middleman.

[Beck Bennett]

Listen, I, I'm. I'm waiting for my linen outfit to come in, but I got the cashmere sweater sweater all the time.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

I love it, dude.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's breathable.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

It's soft, it's handsome.

[Kyle Mooney]

I get compliments.

[Beck Bennett]

It looks expensive, but it's not.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah, that's what I love about it. That's what I love about it. That's. It's nice. It's finally.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's like a nice hack. So elevate your summer wardrobe. Go to quince.com beckand Kyle for free shipping on your order. And 365 day returns now available in Canada too. A, that's Q, U I, N C E.com Beck and Kyle for free shipping and 365 day returns. Quint.com Beck and Kyle. These clothes actually work unlike other clothes. Make sure you go there, put in the thing so that Quince is still our friend.

[Beck Bennett]

On God.

[Kyle Mooney]

And stop. Hi, I'm Beck Bennett.

[Beck Bennett]

I thought I was Beck Bennett.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, no, no, no.

[Beck Bennett]

It's always Kyle Mooney.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, sorry about that.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Exactly. No, all good.

[Kyle Mooney]

All good.

[Beck Bennett]

Thanks, buddy.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. And we host the show what's our podcast here on Headgum.

[Beck Bennett]

This podcast is brought to you by Squarespace. Squarespace is the all in one website platform designed to help you stand out and make you look like a kick ass person online.

[Kyle Mooney]

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[Beck Bennett]

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[Kyle Mooney]

I like that.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

It's all in one place.

[Beck Bennett]

I know.

[Kyle Mooney]

I like that I don't have to go around, you know, like different stores or something.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

It's just all.

[Beck Bennett]

It's like, oh, do I need to go to like, do I need another type of website to like, find the right pictures or to like another type of website to upload?

[Kyle Mooney]

You know, it's all in one place.

[Beck Bennett]

The video or the audio or like.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

No, I want it makes it easy. Make it easy on me, please.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. And you can do all those things. Photos, videos, changing fonts, you know, I mean, the designs are amazing. They're catering to all your different needs. They're SEO tools, which. I know what those are. And custom domains.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, let's come up with a domain right now. Let's see.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

I wonder if it exists.

[Kyle Mooney]

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[Anya Kanowskaya]

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[Kyle Mooney]

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[Beck Bennett]

Well, if you're just tuning in here, we're here with Patton Oswald.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Guys, which one's my camera?

[Patton Oswalt]

Really quick.

[Kyle Mooney]

I mean, if you could look at all of them. Actually, if you could just kind of.

[Beck Bennett]

Today, every camera is

[Kyle Mooney]

whichever has the red light. Yeah, you chase it, chase it like a cat and a laser.

[Beck Bennett]

I would say, I would say maybe you don't need to move throughout the whole experience.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Never stop moving. We need, we need really good Instagram clips. Never stop moving.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's what it's all about these days.

[Beck Bennett]

It is all about the. Yeah. How do you. Have you. Has, has that made its way into your work in terms of like the stand. Are you, Are you putting up, stand up clips?

[Patton Oswalt]

Oh, yeah.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Oh, yeah.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Look, that. I don't want to be the guy. Here's what. At first I was very, you know, I don't, I don't get this. Why am I doing this? And then I, what I realized is they're in 1981 or 82. There were bands like REO Speedwagon in Kansas that are like, I'm not going

[Patton Oswalt]

to make some stupid little movie out

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

of our song to show on tv. Who the hell is that? We feel arenas. We feel arenas. There's some group called Duran Is it twice? They say twice they make these little movies. Like, who cares? Like, unfortunately, you do have to kind of embrace the new. Just don't let it affect your content.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

The thing I don't like is that a lot of times with stand up clips now, they don't want you moving

[Patton Oswalt]

back and forth a lot.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

They need it more vertical to like, can you kind of stand still at the mic? I'm like, well, I kind of like to move around. So I got to figure out what's the solution to that is right now.

[Kyle Mooney]

But that's wild. Who's giving you the snow?

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Like, I work with a. Well, I now work with. Everyone seems to work with a media company, a clip company. Except that the few comedians who were smart enough to figure out how to do it all themselves, which I'm not

[Patton Oswalt]

smart enough to do.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

And they. And then also a couple of the streamers and people, you know, my new special is coming out June 9th on YouTube.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Cool.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

And there was no one said it directly, but there was this like, hey, for some of your clips, you know, they kind of need you staying still.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

See? Yeah, that's.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's wild. That's. It's like, it's one thing to post the clips, but to be like, I have to change how I do this thing that I've been doing for decades at the.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

But everyone, I feel like everyone has had to do that on some level in, in their career. As long as it doesn't change the content of what you do.

[Patton Oswalt]

Like, if the con.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

If you're still delivering good comedy, thoughtful stuff, then, okay, I can make a couple of, you know, forensic adjustments just, you know, for presentation.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yes.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Cosmetic adjustments. But again, I don't want to be the basis scenario Speedwagon going, I ain't putting on eyeliner and I know. Face makeup for what.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

I would go out there on stage and be hungover in a dirty T shirt. That was real. People love that. I know, but there's. It's changed.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's changing. I mean, that's kind of one of the reasons we're.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

We're here too, is because it's like,

[Kyle Mooney]

you know, making your own stuff. Well, has Big got you? There aren't like cable channels anymore to get like small shows on or it's like, that's done. It's done. It's done.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Well, what they want to see is you do it first. Figure out all of the art direction and stuff. And then they're like, yeah, well, we'll start showing.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, we'll start copying what you. You just figure it out and then. Yeah.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

I mean, Netflix is showing podcasts now, but they're all podcasts that they had already produced and figured. I mean, I'm sure they tweaked it a little bit for the platform, but it was just like, have a show ready.

[Kyle Mooney]

They really. Yeah, they're just like full shows. Everybody watches podcasts more than.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

Such a really sad time in the industry.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

It really is. Anyway, thank you.

[Kyle Mooney]

So sad to be here with you guys.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

You know, Blue Apron, everything. Wonderful way to get home cooked meals.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's right.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

By the way, isn't it weird how there was network TV with sponsors and then it turned into now we're doing

[Patton Oswalt]

our own podcast on our garage.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

We're doing it great and that. And now it's become. If you have a podcast, it had better be in a studio. You better have a talent booker. And it's just become tv.

[Beck Bennett]

We've always kind of felt like our podcast is sort of like the new I Love Lucy.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, we have always said that.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

That's how we.

[Beck Bennett]

Reinventing or inventing the whole form.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Yeah. Putting up the mortgage for your house to finance it and.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Bringing over Carl Freund from Germany to shoot the thing.

[Kyle Mooney]

Speaking of all. Speaking of all these Carl Freund.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

I mean, Carl Freund folks, that's. Listen, we gotta get Jen Alpha listening. And they love a good Karl Freund reference.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, we all love Karl Freund.

[Beck Bennett]

So did he invent the multicam or is that kind.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Yeah, here. Okay, listen. Oh my God, here we go. Say goodbye to your pre 60 year old listeners. This guy, Karl Freund, he shot like the Mummy for Universal, this great expressionistic German cinematographer. Some of the darkest stuff. And then he had kind of retired, and this is murky. He was apparently doing work with the CIA to build surveillance systems. Like, better microphones, better cameras to, like. He was kind of in the spy service. And then Lucille Ball got him to go, come, I have this idea for a thing. It'll be on tv, but it's a. It's a weekly show, and we're gonna shoot it with a three camera. And so he kind of, along with Luco Ball, developed that, the whole thing, which is.

[Beck Bennett]

I mean, unfortunately, I hate to say it, that's what we're doing right here.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

It's exactly what we're doing. Where's X camera? Just for the. Just for the wild stuff. They grab that.

[Kyle Mooney]

We're gonna do it right. That's right there.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Hey, remember Lucille Ball? She put up the money for three pilots for Star Trek to make sure it got on the air.

[Beck Bennett]

Wait, I only recently found this out.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Yeah, Desilu, she was the one. They did the pilot. It didn't work. Let's shoot it again. Let's rework it. Shoot it again. And also put up the money for Mission Impossible. Got that on the air.

[Beck Bennett]

And the stories in Star Trek, those are made up, right? That's not.

[Kyle Mooney]

Be careful what you say.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Be careful what you say. I don't want to say something. And then people go, Ugs. Actually, on Rylon 7, that was the thing.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Because whatever happened on Rylon 7 actually did. People will debate that. That actually happened.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, okay. I. Yeah, okay. I won't get into it.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, we don't really.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

I do like that Star Trek tried to do that thing of. Let's just fast forward to a future where everyone's just working together. There's no more. There's clearly no more wars on Earth. There's no more racial injustice. We're just. Everyone's fine. Everyone's working together. And now we're going to explore space and try to bring whatever peace we have made to other people. That's just. That was this weirdly hopeful thing, especially in. At the height of the 60s when the whole country is, like, burning to the ground.

[Patton Oswalt]

Like, yeah.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

In the year 2500, everything's fine. I mean, we work it out.

[Kyle Mooney]

Is that maybe one of the reasons people flock to it a little bit. Like, it was like, oh, this is just a fantasy. It's like escape.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

It's a very hopeful future. It's a very, like, okay, this thing suck now, but we'll work it out.

[Beck Bennett]

I really love. There is a quote, I think, supposedly when Next Generation came out, some critic asked now, don't you think Patrick Stewart obviously playing Jean Luc Picard.

[Patton Oswalt]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

The critic asked something to the effect of, like, don't you think they would have solved baldness in the future? And Gene Roddenberry says no, because in the future, nobody cares.

[Patton Oswalt]

Yeah.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Okay.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

They don't look at it that way. That's exactly. Yeah. Oh, I like that.

[Beck Bennett]

And thank you for. And thank you for the chance of letting me to say that.

[Kyle Mooney]

Wow. You're welcome, Kyle.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

That is.

[Kyle Mooney]

That is really fantastic.

[Beck Bennett]

And I Now you are notably. I don't want to, like, project something on you so you can say, like, that's not the reality of it, but you are steeped in comics, pop culture, all of this. I want to. I mean, I'm sure maybe you have to talk about this all this time, but I was thinking about the Parks and Rec clip where you just go off Jesus on this. I guess was when Disney and Marvel first merged.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

I think it was right before they merged or maybe just as it was happening. But there was that kind of thing in the air where people were saying, I was even hearing jokes about, so technically, is Leia a Disney princess now? Do those exist in this world? Someone even said, well, since Pulp Fiction is Miramax, which was owned by Disney, is the gimp from Pulp Fiction a Disney princess? I forgot someone tweeted that. I was like, yes, he's a Disney princess. Yeah, there's just that thing. I mean, I'm sure you guys see this all the time. Everything just seems to be melding together into one easy thing. So. And I think also.

[Beck Bennett]

But that was, I mean, prophetic cause. And just to contextualize it a bit, you're like in a courtroom.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

We're in one of those public community hearings that you see when you see, like, the public gets to go up and speak and talk about, you know, there's a stoplight that needs to be fixed on the. You know. And I loved Park. I think Parks and Rec was one of the best, like, TV shows ever done. It was this sneak, way darker, way deeper show than it pretended to be. But it was like this beautiful 22 minute short film for free every week on NBC. That's how good that it was like a Tom McCarthy film every week. And I loved it so much. Then when they asked me to be on it, I was like, I don't want to. I don't want to do badly on a great show. You know, which is weird. There is pressure when you get to ask to be on a good show, like, why don't want to suck on this show, right?

[Kyle Mooney]

And it's hard because you're coming in like you haven't done. You have no rhythm in the show with anybody.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Everyone knows each other. I'm just like, oh God. So what they did was in the original script, it's, I will now begin filibustering. And then they cut to like four hours later and I'm finishing it. And then Amy Poehler goes on with the scene. Like that's. But for the first take, the director was like, don't yell cut. Just see how long he talks, you know, just see how long he'll go. So they never yelled cut. So I just started, you see the moment where I'm like. And I'm going to. This is my idea for the next three Star Wars. And then I just start. And then I, I mean I was half panicking. So then I just started bringing in all of the Pop Cult, I guess. There's three responses. There's Fight Flight or trivia Dump. And I just did trivia Dump. I just dumped everything out of my head. But yeah, I was, yes, it was very funny and goofy, but it was stuff I had been thinking about and I was like, are they gonna. Would they dare? You know, because you know, if they could, they would do it, right? They're just waiting for the moment when it's okay in the Zeitgeist to push that through. If they could have the Millennium Falcon flying with friggin Iron man next to it, they'd do that in a second.

[Kyle Mooney]

That sounds tight. That's cool, man. They just gotta mash it all up, but they're holding back.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

God, I hope you lose all your sponsorship.

[Beck Bennett]

You're not, you're not happy about it. It was, it, it was just an incredible clip. And also like I love those, those sort of peak peaks behind the curtain where I mean I, I got to do. I was very lucky to do that show once and like they let me improvise a bit and it was really cool. But like anytime you see somebody going off on and ad libbing and like, oh shit, that's so rad that they let you do that. And it was incredibly funny and smart and the fact that we get to see. I imagine that was that, that was that in the episode or not?

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

No, but then they release it on YouTube. They release the uncut thing on YouTube. I start in the episode a little bit. So they, they do Say that I'm talking about Star wars, but then they save the whole long thing for later. And I think one of the reasons they let me go on as long as I did is because I was talking to. It's Amy Poehler, it's Chris Pratt, it's, you know, Aziz. And they knew that those guys could. I mean, Amy Poehler is so friggin brilliant. Did you notice how like a lot of times when people start going off, other people will lean forward to try to jump onto the Rift and she kind of holds back for a second. And first, her first reaction is when I say that Leia and Lando are having like an affair. And she's like, wait a minute, like. Cause now she's kind of into it. And then she wait and says that. She says the best line in the scene is, I think the female part's a little underwritten, which is just. That's all those movies. It's the same way. And there's also a moment when I talk about the. And then the Enterprise shows up and they cut to Chris Pratt and he's going like.

[Kyle Mooney]

He's kind of delighted.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Oh, and John Glazier was also there and they just knew that those guys know how to react to and make it better rather than try to jump all over it. And if anything, I mean, I think I did a good job in the scene, but those three elevated it even higher.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

Sure.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Like made it took it to another level.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

That first she's annoyed until I say the thing that she cares about. Wait, no, no, no, no, no, no. Those two would not hook that. She's brilliant.

[Beck Bennett]

Iconic.

[Kyle Mooney]

Iconic. Now, just to go back to the. The standard, like just all the way back to the YouTube and then having you stand still while you're delivering stuff, you would. Your last stand up special was audio only. I got audible for it.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Yes. I did an audible special that I'd recorded at the Minetta Lane theater in New York. And it's a hour of whatever was on my mind at the time. And it was fantastic. Because what I'd forgotten was because my first album, my first two albums are just audio only. And it's so much more freeing. You don't have to worry about camera angles and what are we cutting to? And okay, I gotta have makeup on. What should I wear? This is just. I'm just talking. My first album, I'm in the 40 watt club and I'm just talking. It was a two hour and 22 minute set that we cut down to an hour and then we released the 2 hour and 22 minute set as a bonus thing. So this new one was that when I got on stage and you realize, oh, this is just audio. Oh, I'm so much freer. It was really amazing to get to do that. I think they're gonna. It went very, very well. And they're approaching other comedians about building that library of just audible stuff. We will let you put out an album and then after a period you get to put out a vinyl, which, I mean, putting out vinyls, it's so nostalgic for us. I don't think it makes anyone any money. But getting to have a comedy vinyl is amazing. And then the new one, this new hour, which is some of what was at Minetta Lane. And then a lot of other new stuff I recorded at the Comedy on Main in Madison, Wisconsin, which is this tiny club. I forgot how electric a little tiny club can be. They're so wired in there. And look, I love doing big theaters. They're great. But that little tiny. It's like when you listen to Elvis Costello live at the Trocadero and it is this tiny room and they are so. They're just so wound up for it.

[Kyle Mooney]

So it's like the Comedy Cellar. It's like a small little room.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

They're right there. Well, it's why so many people post clips of themselves at the Cellar, because it's such a great energy. I don't know if you. Jim Norton posts a lot of clips and he does something really interesting. He'll post clips of hit. Of some of his bits not working, that he's working a bit out. And then even in the middle he'll just go, this bit is bombing. Oh, my God. Which I think gives young comedians more breathing room to go.

[Patton Oswalt]

Oh, yeah.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Some nights you're gonna bomb. It's not fatal. You're allowed to go up and try stuff.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, I remember the first time I heard about that. I don't know where the story came, but just Roseanne Barr, I think, was talking about just laying an egg and just going to bomb on purpose just to get rid of that fear of it, just to be more comfortable with it.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Yeah, I think there's a. I don't know if I have the room. Right. I think in Bloomington, Indiana, she was at a club and there was a story about it on the wall where she bombed so badly that she stood at the exit door as people left and like apologized. It was like, hey, look, that was. And she goes, I wanted to look in their faces. And then like you said. And then wake up the next day and go, oh, the world didn't end. Okay, that's fine. I mean, there must have been times at.

[Johnny Knoxville]

At.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

You got like a sketch all the way to dress, and then it just dies in front of you and you're like, how do I walk away from. And then the next day you're like, oh, okay, got to write something else.

[Beck Bennett]

It was truly like, yes, I would say 24 to 36 hours of recovery. But yeah, by. Yeah, it airs on. Yeah, maybe it aired on Saturday, maybe it didn't. Monday, you're still feeling it a bit by Tuesday. You're right.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. And eventually it gets kind of funny and you're like, what? That's so.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

You know, and then some of the ones that bomb really badly become legendary in themselves. It's almost like again, it's like this rite of passage. Oh, you had your. You had your bomb. You're in, you made it.

[Kyle Mooney]

It kind of sets you free a little bit.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

It really does.

[Beck Bennett]

That was. I think, you know, we did. I think it was. Your last year on the show was 2020-21. Is that right?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

So it was fall of 2020 where we started and like, still heavy. Heavy Covid.

[Patton Oswalt]

Oh, wow.

[Beck Bennett]

Like, you know, testing maybe every day,

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

going in the spit and the swab

[Kyle Mooney]

and like a spaced out audience.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

So the audience was like 30 people, like, kind of spread out like a sparse, empty house.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

So the laughs felt weird that they sounded differently.

[Beck Bennett]

They were. There were no.

[Kyle Mooney]

There were no very rare chuckles. It was like.

[Beck Bennett]

I think it was like first responders.

[Kyle Mooney]

Not even necessarily comedy fans, like police officers. Like, I don't get it. To me, I am stupid.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

My partner died last night, making me stand here.

[Beck Bennett]

I feel like I enjoyed it because, like, oh, I knowing we're not going to get anything, you know.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Right, right. You're free.

[Beck Bennett]

And almost like when, like the audience members came back, I was like, now I actually feel like I have to turn it on in a different way.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Oh, yeah, you could, like, during. So I'm just trying to picture. I'm sorry, I'm just trying to picture your thoughts as you look out into this crowd. And it's just random faces and then huge empty areas and masks and.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Patton Oswalt]

Oh, my God.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

But yeah, that must have been like,

[Patton Oswalt]

well, we can just do anything now.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

We can really try the weird stuff, see what happens.

[Kyle Mooney]

It was a little liberating. It was the opposite of where you did your special, which. Why did you choose that club in Madison?

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

I had done the club a year before. Cause I was getting ready for my last Netflix special. So I was like, put me. I just need. Every now and then I will do three nights in a row in a club. Cause you really not just write, but you also edit. Because you've gotta do these like five shows. Boom, boom, boom, boom. And it can't be this big indulgent theater show. It's how do I get the tightest hour I can and deliver it five times in a row? And I was like, yeah, find a club for me to do. And they go, oh, well, there's a club in Madison. And I've been to Madison. I really love it there. And I go, yeah, let's do it. And I remember I called my manager in between shows. I was like, I didn't know this club was this amazing. It was so good and it was so tiny. You're like right in this little corner and they're right there. I just had. I'd never had better sets and a lot of my material, I made it so much leaner and so much trimmer because of the space I was in.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

That's fine.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

I was like, oh, okay, this is what I want. So then I was like, let's shoot it here.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

That's so sweet.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. I don't know if this is like an awful question to ask a stand up comedian, but like, how is this. You said you use some of the material from your last special, but some new material or whatever. Like some, some. Like, how is this different than what

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

you were talking about?

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Well, because they. I had planned to do the Madison thing that was all squared away. And then I get this offer from Amazon Gotcha. To do this audio thing and I'm like, I bought the, the Madison things in place.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Gotcha.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

So I can't. So I was like, I'll try to do as much different stuff as I can for the, for the audible thing. And then hopefully by Madison I'll leave even newer stuff. So then that kind of that process was happening. And then like with everything after you record an album, after you record a special, some of the bits I have found even more efficient ways to do them that I wish I had done.

[Kyle Mooney]

See that, that is. That almost kind of blows my mind. I feel like whenever I'm like shooting something or like whatever, it's like, oh, I should have said that. But like with it, you have that with a stand up special as well. It's still, I mean, obviously it's still always growing, but like, there, look, I've

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

talked to musicians about that. Because musicians and comedians, there's a weird oppositeness where if you put out a special or an album and then people come to see you, you better not do that material. You better do all new stuff.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

You know, and. But if you're a. A musician and you put out an album, you got to play that album. They don't want to hear your new stuff.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, no.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

But I've talked to musicians going, yeah, but we've been touring, like, after we record the album, the album is out and then we're playing, and we will find a section of a song that we. All we have to do is drop this out of the song and it's 10 times better. Or if we'd phrase it, or we'll think of better lyrics.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

There's some live Elvis Costello recordings of songs like Brilliant Mistake, where there's whole different verses, where he's like, oh, the.

[Patton Oswalt]

I thought of some better words.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Yeah, sorry. You know, and so that's also got

[Patton Oswalt]

to drive you kind of crazy.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

I mean, yeah, I'm sure there's.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm sure that there's.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

There's sketches that you've watched that you've not only been in, but have written and gone. Oh, if we had just started it, like, 10 seconds later would have been.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Or like, why did I do. Why did I do that? Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, we would also get the. I mean, like, not the same, maybe arguably the opposite, but, like, we would have to make trims between dress and air sometimes. And sometimes you would lose the thing that actually brought it together or like, oh, wow, really? Thing that was making it land.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

It was the thing that you most wanted to say, and it's gone now.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

There's one sketch, maybe it was the second time we did the brothers sketch. Like, we. We had to, like. I remember getting a note that we had to, like, justify. We had brought these characters back and we had to justify why they were back or, like, why it was a new dad. Like, why the host was different.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Nobody cares.

[Kyle Mooney]

Nobody cares.

[Beck Bennett]

We don't know how the show works. Every week somebody new.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

But it, like, it felt like. And maybe it's not accurate, but it felt like we just fully.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

MacGruber died last week and this guy blew up.

[Beck Bennett]

I saw him blow up.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, it's not going to work.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

I don't get it. We got to. If we had to show him in the hospital, we had to show him recovering. Yeah, but did you ever have the thing. Cause this has happened to Me as a comedian. You did a sketch. It kills the table. It kills during rehearsals, it kills during dress. And then it just mysteriously eats it for no. And you're like, always what? Like, I've done bits where it kills. It kills, it kills. And then I put it either on a special album and then I record it. Doesn't work, really. To me, that just happened to me.

[Beck Bennett]

I'm always. My, like, neurotic brain is always like. I can feel like, ooh, this one line delivered in a slightly different way. Or like I swallowed one word or whatever.

[Kyle Mooney]

Right. Like, I didn't ride the wave. Right. Or something like self.

[Beck Bennett]

You know what I mean?

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

How do I recreate that little accident that made it work?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, but maybe that's not. I mean, who knows if. If you. You know, I mean, like, we were. I think we. Those audiences shifted. Sometimes you'd have a hot dress, sometimes you'd have a hot live. You. You kind of never knew what you

[Anya Kanowskaya]

were going to get.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Oh, you've had, like, a better audience at dress. And then suddenly, for some reason, they bring in the next audience. Like, why did we lose that first audience?

[Kyle Mooney]

And it's like you're, like, riding high on it all week, and then you do it in front of everybody. It's like, good job.

[Beck Bennett]

And then there's. Yeah, that is the thing.

[Kyle Mooney]

I mean, I thought I could just like, ride this one to the end and it would connect with an audience.

[Beck Bennett]

There is nothing. Whimpers and worse to me than the experience of like. Yeah. Having to see people as you walk past them in the hall, knowing that this thing that on Wednesday, they love. They're like, dude, we can't wait to see Office man return.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Right, Right. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Like, yeah, yeah. I'm feeling pretty good about it, you know? And every day that's like Office man returns. They're going to be talking. People are going to talk about their coffee breaks, man. Really fucking funny shit.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And then you. You finally get it on plays nothing. And then, like, nobody fucking.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. No icon deck. People, like, people who are celebrating it all week are like, that's, like one of the hardest things.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

That's like the thing you don't want to hear from a club owner after you've gotten on stage.

[Patton Oswalt]

They're like, hey, come here, man.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Hey. These people.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, exactly.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Your stuff.

[Patton Oswalt]

Don't, don't.

[Kyle Mooney]

I didn't think it was that bad. Give me that talk. No, I thought they kind of.

[Beck Bennett]

Exactly.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Late Saturday crowd. They're morons. Don't worry about it, man.

[Beck Bennett]

I love that when like. Yeah, it actually felt like I felt that was pretty good. Hey, man, even though people weren't laughing, like, it was still really, really smart.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

They just. They weren't ready for it, man.

[Beck Bennett]

People are gonna like it in a couple years. The set I did, I was gonna say a very foundational thing for me and I think for.

[Kyle Mooney]

For us, I think my bread was gonna go to the same spot. Go ahead, let's go. Let's see. Let's find out.

[Beck Bennett]

Patton is shifting. No, come on, man.

[Kyle Mooney]

We're gonna give you your flowers, dog.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Oh, all right. My flowers.

[Kyle Mooney]

We have flowers for you.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

That phrase is so. There's something creepy about that phrase and I can't put my finger on it.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm probably just. Kyle.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

It almost sounds like something that like a circa would say.

[Patton Oswalt]

I'm. I'm going to give you your flowers

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

someday I'm give you your flowers someday

[Beck Bennett]

I'm going to find you.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Giving you your flowers. You, like, take the flowers.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Flowers.

[Kyle Mooney]

Let's give him his flowers.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

Sorry.

[Beck Bennett]

Was that Bane? Who was that?

[Kyle Mooney]

It was kind of puzzle lotion on.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Yeah. More Buffalo Bill. Oh, my God. Buffalo Bill and Bane are kind of close. What was the thing?

[Kyle Mooney]

That could be a good Halloween costume.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Yeah, that would.

[Kyle Mooney]

Buffalo Bane.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Buffalo Bane.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's great. It puts the lotion on its skin. Yeah.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Or it gets the hose again.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, it's a little bit more growling.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

So what's the foundational thing, you guys? High five. No, bring it home. I got it. I need to know.

[Kyle Mooney]

Comedians of comedy.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes. Watching the. That. The feature length documentary. I feel like we were.

[Kyle Mooney]

We were just starting out.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Maybe at the end. Was it post college? I don't know. Probably 2007. Ish. 8. Whenever that movie came out. Came out, I remember it was on demand on whatever our cable.

[Patton Oswalt]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And I think I was partially aware of who you were and I recognized Brian Posayn. Did not know who Zach Galifianakis was. Did not know who Maria Bramford was. And we were. Yeah, as a sketch group just starting out. We were making videos. We were starting to tour. But I don't know, there was just something so inspirational about you as a group. You guys on the road, like the sort of.

[Kyle Mooney]

The fucking live. The videos in between. Like the sort of fucking around backstage trying to.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Battling boredom. That's where the best comedy comes from. How do I just battle boredom right now?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, it felt raw and it felt like. Oh, something special. You know, I felt like that moment of discovering something special.

[Patton Oswalt]

Like. Thank you.

[Kyle Mooney]

Damn yeah, it meant a lot to us.

[Beck Bennett]

I imagine it was a very fun time.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

It was really fun because I had forgotten because I had just started headlining because I was on a sitcom. But a lot of the people that were coming to see me, they weren't coming to see me because of my comedy. They're like, he's on tv, we'll go see him. And then I'd forgotten that.

[Patton Oswalt]

Oh, no. The best comedy is like, when you're

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

traveling with your friends and you're kind of messing around. And even some of the shows, we'd mess around a little bit, like with the format of the show and like, fuck with each other. And so you are all part of this. I'm as excited to be here as the audience is. Cause I don't 100% know what's gonna happen now. When you see performers with that kind of energy, like, oh, shit, this is like. That makes it even more fun.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah. I mean, touring, like some of the. Like, just being so silly on the road. Like, we did like mini tours. Like we'd go somewhere for like a week or even just like sketchfest or something and like sleeping all in a room or something.

[Johnny Knoxville]

Yep.

[Kyle Mooney]

The silliest, weirdest, like, grossest, dumbest shit.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

It was the best.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

I remember we would take the pillows out of the hotel. Cause we had this tiny pass van. We'd steal as many pillows as we can. Like, make these nests on our seats so we could get some sleep in between the dates. And then one time we went to Chicago and we went to a. I was like, let's stay as cheaply as we can. Like Motel Sixes.

[Patton Oswalt]

I don't care.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

We gotta. But there was one hotel we went to in Chicago that was so creepy. Like, this is bad. And I was like, yeah, we gotta. We're splurge for something a little better here. This is like. We took it too far in terms of the. Like, literally, in the lobby of the hotel, there was like one bare light bulb screwed into the wall, but to the side, so it only lit up like half the lobby. And there was like. David lynch couldn't have art designed it better. And the way the deskman was like half in shadow, I was, yeah, we're not. Something bad things are happening here. I can't do this to these guys.

[Beck Bennett]

What was the. How did the four of you link up? What was the first.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

It was Zach and I had done. I'd gone down to Athens, Georgia, did a show at the 40 watt. And it was like, oh, this is my. This Crowd. This is the crowd that's not coming to the comedy clubs. So then I was a huge fan of Zach's. I'd been doing the Largo and stuff with him. I said, let's. I got this friend. We can book a couple of little rock clubs. One in Baltimore, one in. Go back to the 40 watt, one in maybe. And we did this quick little tour just driving to these places, and it just. The response was so amazing. And then I said, okay, let's do a bigger tour. And I got Brian, who I've known since 1992, and he was great. And then, much like Zach, Maria Bamford was someone I was seeing in the clubs that I was like, she is so frigging brilliant. How do people don't know how brilliant she is? So it was half. Obviously, it was me. I want to showcase myself and get good crowds. But it was also like, I'm a big fan of comedy. I wanted Zach and Maria to get

[Patton Oswalt]

more exposure and do well.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

I mean, and obviously they both blew up, thank God. But, yeah, there's that kind of, hey, why is this thing popular and these guys aren't? They need the. They need their flowers.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's so cool. I mean, that's something I feel like. I feel from you to this day, you know, for over the. Over the years. Like, you just see, you are a fan.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

You are a fan of comedy and other people, and, like, you're just. I can't think of specific examples all the time, but, like, you.

[Beck Bennett]

You.

[Kyle Mooney]

I just see you supporting other people and championing other people, and it's really great.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

I'm always trying to bring people on the road with me that I think need more exposure and light on them, because the.

[Patton Oswalt]

This.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

The. If you want to put it in selfish terms, if I put more of the stuff that I like out there, it makes people more receptive to the kind of stuff that I'm doing.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

You know, but if you're. And if you don't do anything, like, instead of criticizing other comedy or movies that I don't like, it's like, well, then support the ones you do like and make them better.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

Of course.

[Richelle Chen]

Yeah.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

It took me a long time to realize you don't get anywhere by criticizing anybody. You actually help things by putting up the stuff that you like.

[Beck Bennett]

Good.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was, by the way, on. There were. There were sketches, I remember on SNL that, you know, it was always funny, but then there was certain sketches were like, they went somewhere crazy with this. A lot of your Film stuff, you know?

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

And. And I would always try to, like, amplify those. Like, hey, this was on at 12:47am and I make sure. Look at this thing, man.

[Johnny Knoxville]

Yeah, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I mean.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

No, it's. It's so meaningful.

[Kyle Mooney]

Like, it really is to.

[Beck Bennett]

To have anybody be like, this is cool. This is something.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Stuff's getting through.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah, exactly. That is what that. Because you. In that scenario, you are obviously performing in a vacuum. And, like, you don't know.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Especially if it's a film sketch, you don't know what people are thinking.

[Kyle Mooney]

Absolutely. Yeah. We've definitely been in places where, like, this is going to be awesome.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

And then it's, you know, it's not

[Kyle Mooney]

at all like we were saying earlier. But speaking of the sketches that we've done, we. We done a lot of.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

And Kyle's the.

[Kyle Mooney]

The sort of.

[Beck Bennett]

I'm sort of the brains. I'm like, kind of.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, he's kind of the brains director. Yeah.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

He gets the girls in, and then he opens her. Their minds.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. Yes. Yeah, we should actually try that sometime.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

Yeah, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I'd be down to start.

[Kyle Mooney]

Start going.

[Beck Bennett]

Talking to girls, picking up girls.

[Kyle Mooney]

Our wives will be fine with it. It's for the best.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

You stand at the bar. When they approach, he slips in. You ever hear of Stan Freeberg?

[Patton Oswalt]

He did some kind of conceptual.

[Kyle Mooney]

And I was just moving my mouth around. He's standing behind me. We did these sitcom sketches, these sort of surreal sitcom sketches. And somebody brought to my attention recently how in King of Queens, there is a scene where you're standing there not moving, not saying. Cause you didn't have any dialogue or action in this scene. And you're just standing there like that. And even like. Yeah. For the whole scene. And it is like, it's out of one of these sketches, these surreal sitcom sketches that we did.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Yeah. I mean, you guys clearly were having a lot of fun with the idea of. Because there is a lot of surreality to surrealism, to sitcoms. It is a very unhuman way of talking and interacting. The weird pauses for the laughs. And really, really good actors can make it feel natural. That's why people don't realize just how talented, like a Danny DeVito or a Kevin James or a Kelsey Grammer is. They can make it feel seamless when it should not feel seamless at all.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Totally.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

You know, but, yeah, that was. And that was a combination of me going, I don't have any. I literally had. There's no even mention of me in the scene. But I'M in the scene and the writer's going, just stand. See how long you can stand still and see if that cut gets through. Not only does the cut get through, then there's an over the shoulder with Leah when she goes in the kitchen. And I'm still in the scene.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

The profile. Yes. That really made me laugh.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

That really made me laugh. Yeah.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Yeah, it was. They were always doing weird stuff like

[Anya Kanowskaya]

that in that show.

[Beck Bennett]

I mean, I hope that people in the moment caught. It was like, what the. That is the type of thing that, like, in the days of dvr, I would be so psyched on.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

Like, I would, like, bring.

[Patton Oswalt]

Oh, my God.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

I saw. Do you see what he's doing?

[Beck Bennett]

Exactly.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. There was a show called Till Death with Brad Garrett. And it was on, I think, like TBS or something, and it did okay. But either the second or third season. Cause the ratings kept going lower and lower, so, like, well, no one's watching. We can start doing what we want. So they started fucking around with the reality of the show. And there's. And the guy who plays, like the wacky sidekick started seeing a shrink and he's like.

[Patton Oswalt]

Just feels like I'm in this thing. It's just all scripted and I.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

You know, like, all these horrible things happen, and then it just resets every week. Like, everything's back. And then also at the end of every episode, Brad Garrett and the lead actress, and I'm blanking on who she was, basically just came to the conclusion every week that they should be divorced. You know, because most sitcom couples, if they acted the way. If real people act like that, you're like, you need to be divorced.

[Kyle Mooney]

You should not be together. This is not working.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

So they would just openly address it at the end of every. We should probably separate. And then next week they would just start another adventure. It was so weird.

[Kyle Mooney]

It is really fun.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Which. Then I feel like that was the inspiration for that show, Kevin Can Go Fuck Himself. Which feels a lot like the sitcom stuff you guys were doing. Like, let's start messing around with that.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I mean, I. Yeah. That form is so ingrained and.

[Patton Oswalt]

Oh, yeah.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

In my brain.

[Beck Bennett]

What was that like?

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Thanks, Lucille Ball.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Carl Frone. Yeah. How was that for you? Like, because I've heard you talk about that before, like, sort of like watching Kevin James and learning from him as a performer. And. And I've never done. Have you done a multicam?

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

No. No, I haven't.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Really?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

But you know what? But your. You guys comedy is so heightened and surreal. I almost think that people would think that you were almost making fun of the form. If you were doing it right, it would be that weird thing of, like, what is his deal? Something weird is going on here.

[Beck Bennett]

Which is like, sort of like what Andy Kaufman was doing.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Absolutely. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I mean, again, it's like I said when I first started doing sitcoms, I didn't realize how weird the form and how weird the type of acting it actually is. And then to try to make it feel like it's just people talking when it's not at all. It's weird pauses and stuff. And when you see someone like Kevin James that can. Again, you know, his. The physical stuff that he could do, and not in big, crazy ways, but like, in between lines and during laugh stuff as he gave it this flow that made it all seem so natural. And it was amazing to watch him work that out during the week. I heard that when Dan DeVito was doing Taxi, people would say he would just be wordlessly working out bits of physical stuff. He'd be doing, you know, in between, like, delivering his lines and then waiting for the laugh and then doing all that stuff. He would do that in between takes and then make it seem very same with us. Michael Richards on Seinfeld, he would really. I did an episode of Seinfeld, and I would watch him work out how he'd come in the couch. Yeah. And he would come in and, okay, I'll go under the couch. But make it feel natural. It is a weird discipline. And I learned a lot from watching Kevin. I learned that I'm like, oh, I need to. Because Kevin James started out in stand up, but also doing theater. Like, he's had years of experience working that stuff out, and I hadn't. I was just like, well, I'm a funny comedian. I can just trans. He's like, no, this is a different discipline. And I started working with an acting coach. We'd go over scenes and, okay, you can do this and do this. And if you. There's actually two jokes in this line, you know, so that was immensely helpful. You know, if you get a chance to be on a show and you have someone on the show who's really amazing, be like, watch them and learn from them. Go to rehearsal and watch how they work stuff out. Yeah, I would do that with Kevin. And he was just incredible.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I think we were fortunate at SNL that you had somebody like Keenan or

[Kyle Mooney]

whenever you had so many people.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Keenan's been doing it like since people keep forgetting he's been doing sketch comedy since he was a little kid.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, I was watching him when I was a kid. Yeah. Yeah, he is.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

So that's another guy that no matter how heightened the characters are, that he does like. I keep watching clips of Neighbor Willie.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Oh, yeah.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Because it's so ridiculous.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

But he makes it seem real and human and so funny.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, I wanted to ask you about.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

Do you.

[Beck Bennett]

There was this one thing you did. What was the. The movie with the rat and the.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

In France.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Right. It's.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Wait, wait, wait, come on.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Not.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Or go on IMDb.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, no, I think it's named.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

It's named after a food. So it's a croissant or vichyssoise.

[Richelle Chen]

It's Ratatouille.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Ratatouille.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, it's Ratatouille.

[Beck Bennett]

Ratatouille.

[Johnny Knoxville]

Right, right, right.

[Beck Bennett]

How often do you have to talk about Ratatouille?

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

People look, people like the movie. I'm not gonna. And also, like, I remember, but also

[Beck Bennett]

his name isn't Ratatouille.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

I wanna.

[Beck Bennett]

I wanna make.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, we were talking before in the intro. We were talking. How many people come up to you.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

How.

[Kyle Mooney]

What percentage of people think the character's name is Ratatouille?

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Do people come up to you go probably like 90%.

[Kyle Mooney]

I love you as Ratatouille.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

I love. Dude, Ratatouille is one of my favorite characters.

[Kyle Mooney]

Ratatouille.

[Johnny Knoxville]

Yeah.

[Patton Oswalt]

Y.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Well, and I don't want to end, but I'm now in the same thing of like, Frankenstein is the name of the doctor and Frankenstein is actually Frankenstein's monster. He doesn't have a name like, that's who it.

[Kyle Mooney]

Ratatouille is what Remy cooks.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

He cooks Ratatouille. He's not called Ratatouille, but that's one of those. Look, I remember there was an interview with Tony Bennett. They're like, aren't you sick of singing I Left My Heart in San Francisco? He's like, that song changed my life. I met popes because of that song.

[Johnny Knoxville]

Right.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

I will never not be happy to sing that song. So, yeah, that's a movie that. And watching like people come up to me and go, my three year old daughter, I showed her like there's this constant new generation that watches it and watches a movie about actually slow down and create things and take joy in creating things and believe in yourself rather than just eat the. I mean, it's a very good analogy for a lot of the AI slop we're being given and the content driven

[Patton Oswalt]

stuff just churn out content.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

This is the big thing on TikTok. Just do one of those. And he's like, no, I want to

[Patton Oswalt]

do my own thing. And that is what will sustain me. And it's such a.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

It's a weirdly. It's a perennially timely message in that movie. It's also just really, really fun.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's so fun. It also like, I feel like it did it. The thing that I took away from it was is that connection that the critic has and it takes him back to his childhood. I feel like that informed, like just how. How people eat or something or the way what people are cooking, like started

[Beck Bennett]

eating differently after that movie came out.

[Kyle Mooney]

I feel like the connection of nostalgia and being like, oh, let's like make fancy Hot Pockets or like, let's recreate a White Castle burger, but make it like good, you know what I mean?

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

To our childhood. What is that flavor like? Yeah, what does that. Yeah, because also what people are realizing is we are now in such a degraded age that even the so called junk food of our youth was way more natural.

[Beck Bennett]

Sure.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Than what now when you eat, like when you open Doritos, it's just a bag of chemicals that they have tested over and over again to make you open another bag. It has nothing to do with actually making you go, oh, that was tasty.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

It just of kind to get you to open another bag. There's no joy in it. So. Yeah, bringing that back. And then also there's all these little. I love the fact at the end when Anton Ego, the critic writes his thing, what he points out is what I've always said, the writing, trashing things that suck. It's very fun and it's fun to read, but the risk, the actual risk and the real reason a critic should exist is making friends with the new. Because the new needs friends. And you've gotta put yourself out there and go, no, this is good. And risk people going, you're an idiot. Or I can't believe you like this thing. There is risk in that, if that's what you're willing to do. And it really was telling. There were a couple of very specific critics that hated the movie specifically for that scene. Like they're saying critics don't matter. It's like, no, no, he's actually saying they matter more than you know, but for not the thing that we value them for. Yes, it's fun to read that this one star. Oh, let's read this. This is gonna be hilarious. But when someone's like, listen, if they take a risk on a movie, like, I know this seems like throwaway garbage. This is actually kind of brilliant. And here's why. You know, Pauline Kael risked her career by giving a rave to Bonnie and Clyde back in the day after everyone had trashed it. And then people went back because of her view and watched it and went, shit, she's right, this is brilliant. But I couldn't see it because I'm so used to. But if a movie looks like this and moves like this, it can't be a great movie. It's like, no, you don't understand how hard it is to make a movie this entertaining.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, I'm really hopeful that today's episode will.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

Somebody will finally take a risk and

[Beck Bennett]

say, this is actually the way podcasting should be.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, yes, that's what's gonna happen.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

And you hope someone goes, listen, I see all the one star reviews and I don't care. This is the kind of.

[Kyle Mooney]

You guys should listen to this podcast.

[Beck Bennett]

And if you didn't know, there's actually a little mouse operating me right now.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Rat. It's a rat.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's a rat. It's a rat.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

This is a different joke.

[Kyle Mooney]

This is not Ratatouille.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

I also love. Another great thing about Pixar movies is they're always putting in little things for themselves. Tiny details that you literally have to know exactly where to pause to see it. So of the many hidden things in Ratatouille that I'll leave you to discover, here's one I'll reveal. Remember at the beginning when that old lady is shooting at the rats with a shotgun and she's got the gas mask on and she's pretty handy with a shotgun for an old lady.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Well, at one point, as there's. And I mean, it is a zip pan, you can barely see it. They zip through the living room and on the fireplace on the mantel, there's a framed picture of her when she was 18 in the French Resistance.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Wow.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

And that's why. And she's wearing that helmet that she has on now.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Oh, wow.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

And the other. And the guy who's with her is wearing the gas mask that she put on. And so she clearly kept those things and that's why she's so good with a gun.

[Patton Oswalt]

Wow.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

But it's just either see it or you don't. So, like, they work out every detail on these things.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

That's so cool.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Yeah, I love stuff like that now.

[Kyle Mooney]

But the reason. No, but, no. So the reason you're here really is to tell us what you think our

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

podcast should be about.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Well, guys, you know, I don't want to judge anyone for leaving money on the table, but if you would do a weekly podcast, because I know I'd listen to it. About the angry parking lots in Los Angeles, which I think is a city with the angriest, almost psyop designed parking

[Patton Oswalt]

lots in the world.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

And I think that that will first it'll create a firestorm in the city of people. Finally, someone is talking about this. And then you will be invited to tour the country to please come to Cleveland, experience our parking lots. Become the experts. Yes, exactly. You will become the Johnny Appleseeds of roaming the country and talking about. Because there are some. There's some angry parking lots in this city.

[Kyle Mooney]

Parking lots.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

And here's what's weird. And this is why I say it's a psyop the parking lots for like a Trading Joe's or a Whole Foods where supposedly you are going in to get the freshest food, to get the healthiest stuff. Are the ones that are the most badly laid out cause you the most stress. I've seen fights break out in Whole Foods parking lot.

[Kyle Mooney]

Really? Those are the first two things that came to mind.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

Yeah, same.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Yeah. There's the Trader Joe's that's on Hyperion. Is that was designed by Nazi scientists? Absolutely. It was designed by Nazi scientists.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

And the. The Whole Foods on the corner of Riverside and I believe Woodman in the Valley. Is it is this giant Whole Foods with and I cannot stress this enough, the tiniest parking lot. Like they. People were rubbing their hands together and giggling when they designed this place.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay. I think we. I think we need to save some of this. We need to deep dive into all of this in just a moment. All right, we're coming back with. And we're talking about Angry Los Angeles Park.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Angry Los Angeles. Now you. And if you wanna. If you're in a city and want to send in the. We are happy to. To meet your challenges. I'm sure that there are. But I. I would put LA in the top. Top of the top of the seed

[Patton Oswalt]

for angry parking lots.

[Kyle Mooney]

Perfect.

[Beck Bennett]

We're coming right back with Los Angeles angry parking lots.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think it's Angry Los Angeles parking lot.

[Beck Bennett]

We're coming back with Angry Angry Los Angeles parking lot.

[Kyle Mooney]

I up and it's.

[Beck Bennett]

Give me. Just give me one more chance.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, we. I think you got it.

[Beck Bennett]

We're coming back with Angry Los Angeles podcast.

[Patton Oswalt]

Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

Wow, Kyle, it's good to See you.

[Beck Bennett]

I look okay?

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Sorry.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you look great. Yeah.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

Thanks.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

You look really good.

[Kyle Mooney]

Do I look okay?

[Johnny Knoxville]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I feel like you're kind of doing the. The Beck thing.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Per usual. Absolutely.

[Johnny Knoxville]

Yeah.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

You're kind of doing the Kyle thing.

[Beck Bennett]

It's good to have this time, though.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

To.

[Kyle Mooney]

As we say, it's good to make space.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

It's good to create space for us to. To breathe a little bit.

[Beck Bennett]

It's good to have a. You know, I. Forgive me if I'm. If I'm being a little blue here, but have a. A place for my butt to park, so to speak.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

A place to.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, because you don't. You don't always. When you're out there in the world,

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

in Los Angeles specifically, you don't always have a place to. To put yourself. To park yourself.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

It can be. It can be really, really frustrating. It can drive me insane sometimes when I'm out there. So. Yeah, it's just nice to be able to have a spot to park.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

Well, thanks for taking us there.

[Beck Bennett]

We have a really great guest who's

[Anya Kanowskaya]

been in Los Angeles, I imagine, for a pretty decent amount of time.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah, probably.

[Patton Oswalt]

I'd say, since 1995. I'm very excited to be here. Should I introduce myself, or do you.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

I don't know.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Let us take. Let us take that away. Oh, all right. Ladies and gentlemen, it's Patton Oswalt here.

[Patton Oswalt]

Hi, guys. Hi, Kyle. Hi, Beck.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

Patton.

[Beck Bennett]

Great to see you.

[Patton Oswalt]

Really? Really. I've been looking forward to this. This is like having Phoebe Bridgers tickets.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

That's a really great analogy. And we love doing the show, and we're excited to have you because I'm sure, like us, you. You experience the pain, to put it frankly, that. That can come along with sometimes trying to park in the city that we live in.

[Patton Oswalt]

Guilty as charged.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

I'm just imagining right now a full courtroom scene where they're like, oh, no, Patton, he's. He's going to prison because he.

[Richelle Chen]

Yeah.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Wait, why?

[Anya Kanowskaya]

I don't know. I was just imagining that.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Oh, he was.

[Patton Oswalt]

I had said guilty as charged. He was riffing on. It's a thing. They riff a little riff.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

I was lost because I thought we were talking about parking lots.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

I know.

[Beck Bennett]

And then you started talking about the

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

courtroom, and I was like, I don't think you park in a courtroom.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

I made a mistake. And when I think about it now,

[Beck Bennett]

I really, really, really.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

No, no, no, no, no.

[Patton Oswalt]

Becky's right, though. They do not let you. They even in Traffic court. You don't park in that courtroom. You park outside. You go inside.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

But the courtroom outside the. Sorry, the parking lot outside the courtroom

[Kyle Mooney]

at City hall is enough to make

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

me just rip my. Forgive me.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

That's a structure, I believe.

[Patton Oswalt]

Is that a structure that is. Well, again,

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

bad.

[Patton Oswalt]

Parking lots can be a lot, and it can definitely be a structure. I put it all under the same umbrella. There are certain parking structures in the city, one that I will mention a little bit later as we go through this list that I just something for people to look forward to. We'll make you make it. I don't know if I can use violent imagery on this show, but really make you tear your hair out. Yeah, tear your hair out. And if anyone out there who has alopecia or has hair related ocd, I know people there is that. I apologize and you know, if that was triggering.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

But I think what we're doing is we're providing a service because any folks out there who are affected by this sort of thing, let's let them know what the places to avoid the structures.

[Johnny Knoxville]

Yeah.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Oh, we definitely have to do that. I think we should get started. Let's get it.

[Patton Oswalt]

Yeah, let's do this.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Give me space. That's what it's all about.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

You told us Give me space.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's what we'll talk about with Beck and Kyle.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah, that's right. Here we are with Give Me Space.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, you know, we got. We were getting into it a little bit earlier, Patton and I feel like

[Anya Kanowskaya]

it's something a lot of our listeners

[Beck Bennett]

have been talking about and it's something

[Anya Kanowskaya]

that Beck and I always talk about. These sort of elevated grocery stores.

[Patton Oswalt]

Here we go.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

I'm scary and I know that this could be triggering for some people in the room. Why the proportions, why it feels as if.

[Patton Oswalt]

And I don't want to get into conspiracy theories. It feels like a psyop sometimes. Here is a store full of the

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

stuff that people really do want.

[Patton Oswalt]

The freshest produce, that most well stocked deli. They can make you prepared meals. And let's make the parking lot as small and the spaces as narrow and the flow as ambiguous as we possibly can. A CVS parking lot. And what are they selling there? Snack foods. And, you know, nothing that you desperately are craving necessarily. You know, toys. That's the most easy, calm parking lot on the planet. And then Whole Foods, where. Oh, I'd like to go get some, you know, some cauliflower rice with seitan chicken on top.

[Kyle Mooney]

Things we need.

[Patton Oswalt]

Things we desperately need every Day of our lives. And the parking lot is a. Is a. To use an analogy, a faulty Tetris game that you cannot find spaces. I have seen people nearly come to blows in their cars. There's also, because of the nature of the people who shop at Whole Foods,

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

there are people who then go into

[Patton Oswalt]

their car and need to sit and collect their thoughts and maybe find where they had left off the podcast they were listening to.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

You see them in the car, you're like, is this a spot for me? And they're.

[Patton Oswalt]

I see your lights are on. You're not backing up. Please. You know, gentle honk. Gentle honk.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Make you do that loud honk so

[Patton Oswalt]

they can give you that judgmental look as they pull out.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

So I would say.

[Patton Oswalt]

And I cannot think of a single Trader Joe's, Lassen's, Whole Foods, or Erewhon parking lot that is not the most stressful.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

And I'm thinking of all the ones that I've been to. I couldn't agree more. And I would like to name names, please. The Whole Foods in Pasadena.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Oh, I didn't want to start with

[Patton Oswalt]

that one because I thought that's where everyone would go immediately. But yes, the Whole Foods in Pasadena.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

It's a multi layer parking lot. You go down, and then you have to take the elevator up, and there's all these tight turns, and it's always full.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's enough to make you want to rip all of your pubes out, which I do.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

We talked about ripping hair out earlier.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

Well, that's something I feel like you do when it's even not related to parking structures.

[Kyle Mooney]

Right?

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Well, anytime I'm a little frustrated, anytime I come up against any sort of

[Kyle Mooney]

block because I'm trying to keep all the hair on my head, so I just go, I rip out my pubes.

[Beck Bennett]

And we do.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

And Rochelle over there, who's our producer, might know that sometimes her and I, after you leave, we will do a little pubic hair cleanup around the studio.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

But a little pube never hurts anybody.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Who you gonna call?

[Patton Oswalt]

Dust Buster?

[Anya Kanowskaya]

That's really, really funny.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

I like that.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

No, I was gonna. And I certainly don't wanna interrupt you if you have more to say about the Pasadena Whole Foods.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Oh, no, no. Actually, it just makes me want to rip all my pubes out.

[Patton Oswalt]

Well, yeah, we all have our calming rituals.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

Yeah. Yeah. Here's an issue I have. I've got to say that I don't do a lot of shopping at the Trader Joe's and the Whole Foods of the world, but there is A Trader Joe's rather near my home. So here's an issue I have that when we're talking about the parking lot and the drama that that comes with such an environment, there will be a spill out from the parking lot onto the street. So what you're talking about is a line of cars trying to make their way into the parking lot. Now what you're doing is you're taking up an entire lane where myself.

[Patton Oswalt]

Sorry, Kyle, I'm just gonna. Hang on. I've got to do my 5, 3, 2. Breathing very quickly here.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

I'm sorry about that.

[Richelle Chen]

That.

[Patton Oswalt]

Okay, I'm good now. Go ahead.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

So if you can imagine, here I am with my wife, my two and a half year old daughter.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Congrats.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

We're on a far right lane.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

And all of a sudden I see this line, this long line of automobiles. And I'm thinking, I better get out. I better veer left as fast as possible or else I'm going to be looking at the rest of your life. Bumper Bombay.

[Patton Oswalt]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

It's enough to make you want to. Me. It's. It would be enough to make me want to start unbuckling my pants.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, I would imagine, yeah.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

That start ripping whatever was left away.

[Richelle Chen]

Yeah.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

Which is. I mean, where. What, where are we at now in

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

terms of how many pubes I have left?

[Anya Kanowskaya]

Yeah,

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

let me check. Just give me one second. I'm just. Four.

[Beck Bennett]

And I will say I got a little peek.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

One of them is very long.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

That's one I'm saving for a rainy day.

[Patton Oswalt]

Look, I'm just impressed, especially with the state of the latest bond issue for the water table here. And that he has any pubes at all. I wish. Totally understand if they were all ripped out.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, he had.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

He had quite a few to start with.

[Patton Oswalt]

Well, okay.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah.

[Patton Oswalt]

Yes.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah.

[Patton Oswalt]

He parcels it out. But yes, the spillover is a thing that I. Again, you are bringing up things that are. That are triggering things that are bringing back memories. And you know, I have a. I don't want to be crass. I have a full bush. I may have a Brazilian by the end of this episode, you know.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah, that's.

[Beck Bennett]

We do have.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

You know, I don't mind imagining that. Which way? Both ideas.

[Patton Oswalt]

Well, I would love to add a name to this, please. Location of this list is of course the Century City Mall. The parking lot there is somehow. It is a very bland grid. And yet it is so confusing getting out that this is. Now this is another type of angry parking lot they design A park that is very easy to get into, very easy to park in. But leaving first, finding your car because of how it's designed architecturally, there is no. There are no visible landmarks.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

There are no clues.

[Patton Oswalt]

Landmarks, nothing. No clues.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

It's so dense.

[Patton Oswalt]

No clues. And then the way out, the exit signs and the way you go out is so counterintuitive to how you would exit that place that I think that what they want is they want you to have the most pleasant shopping experience and then they want that erased by the time you're back out on the road. And again, I don't want to get into conspiracies I don't want to get into. But it feels like maybe there is a much larger purpose to. We've got to eject the angriest drivers into the flow of LA traffic.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Okay, now that, I mean everything that makes perfect sense. Do you think? And now I really do want to. I've not really thought about this until you gave me this idea. Maybe these people are making the parking so hard that they are putting into our brains.

[Kyle Mooney]

This is gonna be hard. I might as well do as much

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

shopping as I can while I'm here. Spend as much of my money as

[Kyle Mooney]

possible so I don't have to come back.

[Patton Oswalt]

I know that I'm facing this ordeal, but the.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Oh yes, I better load up as much as possible.

[Patton Oswalt]

The hip narrowing genes at Doerr right now are something I need. I'm willing to go through this, so maybe I better buy four pairs.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yes. Hip narrowing jeans. I didn't know these were. I need to get a pair.

[Patton Oswalt]

They are new. Yeah, hip narrowing jeans. You can only wear them every other day because it causes urethral problems. But you do look fantastic in a lot of my Insta pics. I'm getting some really good comments.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

I love that.

[Patton Oswalt]

Very good comments.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Congrats.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

May I pose a question?

[Patton Oswalt]

Yes, please.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

And I want to know if my fellow panelists have experienced this. Have you ever found yourself in, let's say, a restaurant parking lot?

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yes, I have.

[Patton Oswalt]

I. Wait, yes, I have.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

I'm now just to warn you, I'm getting a little more specific.

[Patton Oswalt]

Okay, okay.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

That operates through Valley restaurant parking.

[Patton Oswalt]

I guess I have had that experience.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

But the valet is, let's say non essential because they have an existing parking lot. So in theory you can just park your car in any of these spots, but you're being forced to go through the process of valet to place your car or for you to leave your car and grab a ticket in what is essentially a Typical parking spot.

[Beck Bennett]

If.

[Patton Oswalt]

Yes.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

Has anyone ever experienced this?

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

I've been, yeah, I've had that happen to me. Thank you. I'm sorry that it's happened to you.

[Patton Oswalt]

It has. It happened to me once, but so profoundly, so profoundly. Where I left, I gave the keys to the valet attendant and he parked it in a space that was two feet away from my car that my car was already pointed into. So I left my car to let a stranger drive my car two feet, and then I had to pay him and was because of societal pressure, tip him? Yes, because I came out and watched him back my car out two feet and then leave my car and let me get back in. It was very, very surreal.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

I, I, and those, those prices are not cheap.

[Patton Oswalt]

They are, they are not cheap at all. No, no.

[Kyle Mooney]

I mean, I just.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

To name names. Is it okay to name names?

[Anya Kanowskaya]

I mean, I've got, this is kind

[Beck Bennett]

of an interest in my head.

[Patton Oswalt]

Well, but it's also, this is a public service podcast, so I think people should know.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah, I was gonna say it. LA Studios, Uncle Huanga, full parking lot, empty spaces.

[Patton Oswalt]

Some of the most awkward mornings I've had.

[Kyle Mooney]

Valet.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

There's six open spots. He takes my car, moves it a spot over, and then I'm tipping, I'm tipping for one.

[Patton Oswalt]

Yes.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

I don't know. And then I don't have money and I feel bad.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

I'm too nervous to name these restaurants.

[Patton Oswalt]

Oh, okay.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

This is, this was, I really am frightened.

[Patton Oswalt]

Well, he just took a, he just really rolled the dice on naming LA Studios right now.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

Will name, I will name a place that I care about. I was there the other evening with my family for a pre Easter simple.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

You go everywhere with your family. That's really sweet.

[Patton Oswalt]

That's interesting. That's really sweet.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

They are, they are related to me.

[Patton Oswalt]

Those are core memories. Those are core memories.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

I don't park with my family.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

I'm sorry to hear that.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

This is in LA Pacific Restaurant, obviously. This is a place called the Tam o Shanter.

[Patton Oswalt]

Celebrated 100 years, I believe, last year, or that's right, I believe 100 years now.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

They have a sizable parking lot, a type of parking lot that you wouldn't even think we'd have to speak about.

[Patton Oswalt]

Yes.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

On this sort of night.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

But go ahead, rip it a new one. Rip it a new one.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

But it's a valet setup. And so you know what? Not only are you essentially, as you said, paying the cost of the valet ticket, wanting to provide a tip, but you're also disrupting the flow of traffic. Because for me to present my car going in, I have to gather my stuff so the car is braked. Now there's also a whole other line of cars that will be arriving for people who are waiting for their cars. If we went away with a valet component, people could drive freely, find a spot, and then enjoy their meal.

[Patton Oswalt]

And you're very self conscious doing that, you know, because you are feeling it as well, the, the hunger and rage to just get in there and get one of those loaded baked potatoes that they do. You feel that hunger, you feel that hanger, if I may go so far. But you know, there's a line of people behind you with that hanger and that pressure's on you and they want

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

to get in there in order first. Maybe they run out, who knows?

[Patton Oswalt]

And you're impeding that. And what if they're parking with their family? What if they're parking with their children? Their children's core memory is of you preventing their family from getting the loaded baked potato, the steak that they need.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

And what about the folks with no children who are now seeing like, oh, this is what life with children is. They're just gonna, these people in front of me are gonna spend their whole time gathering the kids snacks and the toys, the bottles.

[Patton Oswalt]

I thought that, but I didn't want to go that dark.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

But that's the reality.

[Patton Oswalt]

Yes, it is the reality. And speaking of reality, now that, I mean, I wasn't going to mention this, but since you kicked it open with LA Studios and you with Tam o' Shanter, and good luck on your future with them. Cedar Sinai, I'll say it, the Cedars Sinai parking lot.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

You're supposed to be taking care of us.

[Patton Oswalt]

They are supposed to be. Thank you, Beck. They are supposed to be taking care of us. People are going to that center, to that building, to that parking lot with ailments, with worries, with pains. And it is a parking lot that is laid out, I'll say it, like one of the levels of Dante's Hell. Maybe not level nine for traitors, but certainly level seven.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Definitely. Absolutely.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

And that is a deeply, deeply ingrained bad parking situation.

[Patton Oswalt]

Because when you are given the address of where you're supposed to go, it is not clear. Is it the north tower? Is it the south tower?

[Kyle Mooney]

Where's the parking lot?

[Patton Oswalt]

Where do I go? What bridge do I use to get every single aspect of that? Am I taking the right elevator to go up from the right lobby? And again, it feels as if someone said sick, worried, in pain. People are coming in Here, let's design the most diabolical parking lot we can.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

I can't tell you how many pubic hair transplants I've had there just to rip them out right away again afterwards because of how frustrating.

[Patton Oswalt]

Think of the hamster wheel they've put you on. Yeah. Where is the only place to get pubic hair transfers in LA currently?

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Cedars.

[Patton Oswalt]

Cedars Sinai. What is the place that causes the most rippage of pubic hairs? The Cedars Sinai parking lot.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

And you know, I'm the one. He is parking his car there. Right. But he's obviously, he's getting these transplants, so he can't drive his car out. So guess who's picking him up and having to drive into the parking lot to take care of his friend back and then bring him back a day later so that he could retrieve his car.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

It's just, I mean, they're making a lot of money off of me.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

Yeah, Well, I gotta say.

[Patton Oswalt]

Well, I mean, I go there for my gluten allergies, my skin sensitivities, my thick bone syndrome, and that is all. But I feel like those three conditions are exacerbated by their parking lot. And much like Beck's pubes, my gluten flare ups, my skin events, and my bone insults. They're called bone insults. It's where the marrow flares inside of thick bone syndrome. Those are specifically, specifically agitated by that parking lot. And again, another hamster wheel. Another man on another hamster wheel.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

It's just tragic.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

It is tragic. I'm so sorry.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

I'm generally very healthy. I don't really have any ailments myself. With that being said, what we're talking about today brings me a lot of emotional ailments.

[Patton Oswalt]

Oh, boy.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

And if, If I may.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah.

[Patton Oswalt]

Is it time for. I, you know, I listen to the show when I, When I do my gentle walking.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

Oh.

[Patton Oswalt]

So. So I know that this is. I don't want to step on any. But is this, Is this Kyle's crash out?

[Anya Kanowskaya]

It's Kyle's crash.

[Beck Bennett]

I do.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I want to adjust the volume.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

Warn our listeners. Yeah, our audience. Exactly. Like if, if you're not prepared, this is hopefully a moment where we all can come together and let out those feelings that we experience. The difficulties, the challenges of just trying to place your car somewhere.

[Patton Oswalt]

I mean, isn't that just what it is?

[Anya Kanowskaya]

That's what it comes from.

[Patton Oswalt]

It's that simple. I want to place my car somewhere.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

It's like cars aren't trains, is what I always say. Trains are on a track, they always have somewhere to be. But cars, you need to park them. You can't be driving them all the time.

[Patton Oswalt]

It couldn't be simpler.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah.

[Patton Oswalt]

Oh, I'm feeling the rage too. But, Kyle, this is your moment.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Let's let it go. Ladies and gentlemen, that's the sound of parking in la.

[Patton Oswalt]

It really is. Thank Kyle. I. I just want to thank you every week for doing that for the listeners.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

It's essential. It does, it does. It does something for all of us.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

I can ask a small favor of my good friend back.

[Patton Oswalt]

Yeah.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

You mind ripping out that long one?

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Absolutely. Here we go. And for the listeners, I'm unbuckling my pants and I'm reaching some asmr. We got a long single puke here. I'm buttoning up my pants again.

[Johnny Knoxville]

Okay,

[Kyle Mooney]

it's gone.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Feels good.

[Patton Oswalt]

My thick bone syndrome in my left leg. My leg is throbbing, so I'm going to put the mic up next to my shin bone so that listeners can hear a little. Ready? That's what parking does to the marrow in my legs. Yeah, it's rough.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

That sounds very uncomfortable.

[Patton Oswalt]

I'm thinking maybe if I would it. Is it silly to think if I just started ripping my pubes out, it would take the focus off of the leg, off of the skin eruptions, off of the gluten sensitivity?

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

I think that is. Would be very helpful for you.

[Patton Oswalt]

Well, I'm off to the Cedar Sinai parking lot, aren't we? I'm gonna, you know, unbuckle these pants and see if I can maybe, you know, refocus the. The pain.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

I'll see you there, brother.

[Patton Oswalt]

I'll give you a nod as we. As we circle because you circle quite a lot in that parking lot.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

I wish you plentiful hairs with the cares.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

I'll pee you there.

[Patton Oswalt]

Plentiful, plentiful hairs. Thanks. Plentiful hairs without a care.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yes.

[Patton Oswalt]

I like it.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

How rare. Thank you so much again for joining us.

[Beck Bennett]

Give me some space.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

Patton, always a pleasure.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah, yeah, Both of you. Always a pleasure.

[Patton Oswalt]

I was nervous coming on because last week you had John Cena and following him was very intimidating. But, you know, I feel like. Yeah, but I feel like this really worked really well.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

I always tell my friends, Patton Oswalt is the new John Cena.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Oh, my.

[Patton Oswalt]

Okay.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

I say it all the time.

[Johnny Knoxville]

All right.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

You know, this is, you know, I know we have to end, but I kind of want to sing. Sing a little song as we fade away. Great. Give me some space. Give me some space. I'm driving around and I'm looking for space I'm looking for space yes. I'm driving around I'm driving around and I'm looking for space.

[Patton Oswalt]

Oh, I have a new alarm tone for my phone ring. New alarm ringtone.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Pretty cool.

[Patton Oswalt]

Yeah, that's pretty good.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

All right.

[Patton Oswalt]

Pretty good.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Thank you.

[Patton Oswalt]

Thanks.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Bye.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

Thanks, everybody.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Thanks, everybody.

[Kyle Mooney]

That was fantastic. I was very gentle the whole time.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

If you watch go rewatch it, you'll see that as it moves on, I look less and less at Kyle and Beck because I know I'm gonna laugh and blow it. You did enter the art blow.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

That was Elizabeth.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Oh, my God.

[Kyle Mooney]

I really. I do hope sometimes we talk about sometimes being taken out of the podcast and being like, oh, this could be a clip. And I do think you screaming the

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

sounds about parking in la.

[Beck Bennett]

That's sweet. Well, there are a lot of great moments.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

No context.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

This week on what's Wrong?

[Kyle Mooney]

And the two of us sitting, just closing.

[Patton Oswalt]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I like, you know what, what we did, which I think is I'm, I, I take pride in because we told the truth.

[Patton Oswalt]

We did.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Yeah, we did. And it could cost us.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

I know.

[Kyle Mooney]

That is what I, I work at

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

LA Studios, but I'm, I'm going there next week.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

I mean, and, and I, I was waiting for you to, to bring up up the same deal as over at Margarita Mix, their sister studio.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, yeah.

[Patton Oswalt]

Yeah.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

In the same deal, there's a, there's a valley attendant in a lot that is so easy to.

[Kyle Mooney]

And there's a gate there. They're not parking them anywhere else.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

No.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, no.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

And. And the valet is. And the valet looks embarrassed and uncomfortable.

[Patton Oswalt]

Like, I don't.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah, I know.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

They're like, hey, yeah, I guess. Hey, you want to go there? Do you want me to drive it? I mean, I guess I should drive it, right?

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And to be clear, we love the valets, Margarita Mix and la.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

And we love the studios as well.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

I even love the, the valet companies with the clever names like Valet of the Dolls. That is they. I've seen them at some places. There's some really good valet places.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, that's. Next time we will.

[Kyle Mooney]

We'll talk about rank.

[Beck Bennett]

The valet.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Valet, baby.

[Kyle Mooney]

Thank you so much for being truly so fun.

[Patton Oswalt]

This was a blast, man.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Thanks, guys.

[Beck Bennett]

You're a hero and it's rad.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Yeah, it's a. This is also a very fun podcast that you guys come in and drop a subject on you and then you just craft a whole.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

And then we just do It.

[Kyle Mooney]

I know. We really put that on ourselves.

[Patton Oswalt]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

It doesn't always work, but it keeps

[Kyle Mooney]

it exciting, keeps it interesting.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

What happens if you have a guest on and then you do like a joke podcast, but that the joke podcast becomes genuinely popular and people are like, more of that. And then you have to then do this shit.

[Kyle Mooney]

We've talked about that. Like, we might. Might make it segment work.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Special episode or something.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

We're like, well, I think they want more.

[Beck Bennett]

I think we would be okay with fully transitioning, not the whole show. No, I'm okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. We're down to. We're down to go with it like in a couple.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Like maybe one more year. Do like a week of favorites. Like, we're bringing back the ones that you guys ranked as your favorites.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Yes.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Here's another episode.

[Beck Bennett]

I think that's right. Maybe that, you know, we'll be.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Good idea.

[Beck Bennett]

We'll be at a year will be in August. So, like, maybe that's the way we celebrate our year.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Just go, hey, we're putting seeds up.

[Beck Bennett]

What do you want? Brackets?

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

And then who are the. Who are the final four and those. That'll be the week of podcast we do.

[Anya Kanowskaya]

I think that's great.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think it's a great idea.

[Beck Bennett]

I think that's truly the move.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Yeah. Because some of these are like, that

[Patton Oswalt]

would be a good podcast.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

I mean, I know they're joking, but that would be a good podcast to do that.

[Beck Bennett]

I know that. Well, then it's like now I have to like, if we do. If the Give me some space becomes a real podcast, I'm really gonna have to start getting in my parking brain. I'm gonna have to be looking at the world around me.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Well, I mean, ideally makes it very easy.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. I do think we should, like, if we do it, go to those parking lots and try to park so we can really break. Do some video things and.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Yeah, well, the bleed out. The Bleed out into the street. That's the one on Hyperion has that as well.

[Kyle Mooney]

And the Trader Joe's in Eagle Rock has it as well.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Really?

[Kyle Mooney]

Trader Joe's sets up their parking lots where the turn in is.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Because when you're in the Gelsons and you're going out. Cause that trader is right across the street from the Gelsons.

[Patton Oswalt]

You hear the honking and the screaming and it's like, oh, it's Trader Joe's time.

[Beck Bennett]

Gelson's. You got space.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

I know, man. Crazy. All right.

[Kyle Mooney]

All right. Well, your special. Your new special comes out.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Tuesday, June 9th. Tea and scotch on YouTube drops at 8pm Eastern Standard Time, 5pm Pacific Time.

[Patton Oswalt]

So if you're trying to park at

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

5 o' clock on a on Tuesday,

[Patton Oswalt]

June 9th, you go to YouTube, you

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

go to watch my special.

[Kyle Mooney]

While you're waiting for yourself, park yourself there.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Yeah, there you go.

[Kyle Mooney]

Park yourself in front of Patton's new special. Thank you so much for being here.

[Patton Oswalt]

Thanks for having me, guys. It was fantastic.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

All right, all right.

[Richelle Chen]

Yay.

[Beck Bennett]

What's Our Podcast is a Headgun podcast created and hosted by Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney.

[Kyle Mooney]

The show is produced and engineered by Richelle Chen and Anya Kanowskaya with production support from Ali Kahn and Ryan Luzo.

[Beck Bennett]

Our executive producer is Anya Kanefskaya. Katie Moose is our VP of content at Headgum. Our theme music is made by us.

[Kyle Mooney]

For more podcasts by Headcum, visit headcum.com or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Hi, I am Mandy Moore. Sterling K. Brown.

[Kyle Mooney]

And I'm Chris Sullivan. And we host the podcast that Was Us now on Headgum.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Each episode we're gonna go into a

[Beck Bennett]

deep dive from our show.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

This is us.

[Patton Oswalt]

That's right.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

We're gonna go episode by episode.

[Beck Bennett]

We're also gonna pepper in episodes with

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

different guest stars and writers and casting directors.

[Kyle Mooney]

Are we gonna cry? Yes, a little bit. Are we gonna laugh a lot?

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

A whole lot.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's what I'm hoping, man.

[Johnny Knoxville]

Listen to.

[Kyle Mooney]

That Was us on your favorite podcast. Episodes on YouTube or Spotify. New episodes every Tuesday.

[Johnny Knoxville]

Hello, I'm Johnny Knoxville.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

And I'm Jeff Tremaine.

[Johnny Knoxville]

Welcome to Jackass the podcast. A new show coming to, coming to.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

That's what it is.

[Johnny Knoxville]

Hello, I'm Johnny Knoxville.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

And I'm Jeff Tremaine.

[Johnny Knoxville]

Welcome to Jackass the Podcast. A new show coming to Head gum soon.

[Producer/Guest Contributor]

Woohoo.

[Beck Bennett]

That bloody.

[Kyle Mooney]

A Jackass movie has to be really 90 minutes. Every minute over is a minute too long.

[Johnny Knoxville]

Apparently. There's only so much butthole you can take. We're going to take you behind the scenes of our entire history. All the best bits, bad behavior, and even worst decisions.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

All of it.

[Johnny Knoxville]

Sometimes we don't make the right decisions. Jeff.

[Kyle Mooney]

I've noticed that every every so often

[Johnny Knoxville]

with guests like Spike Jones.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think let's commit to Jackass the podcast.

[Beck Bennett]

What was it gonna be called?

[Kyle Mooney]

The Jackass Podcast. Without you, The IQ drops significantly.

[Johnny Knoxville]

Steve O.

[Beck Bennett]

There's a strong chance that were it not for Jackass, that I would be

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

in clown makeup right this fucking minute.

[Johnny Knoxville]

Chris Pontius, that shot of your butt just cruising up.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm like, yeah, I got that on tv.

[Johnny Knoxville]

God bless us, Dave England.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, when you come in and you're being really nice, they're like, damn it, something bad's gonna happen to me.

[Johnny Knoxville]

Wee Man Jeff grabbed me from the

[Beck Bennett]

back of the head and threw a punch. The whole bar just stopped and wanted

[Johnny Knoxville]

to kill me, like, and some of the crew that's been with us from the beginning.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

I had to share a room with this guy, and I left a nice

[Beck Bennett]

surprise in the toilet for him every time.

[Johnny Knoxville]

Apparently he hates to flush. Subscribe to Jackass, the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Cast, or wherever the hell you get podcasts.

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Our new episodes drop on June 18th.

[Johnny Knoxville]

Whoo.

[Kyle Mooney]

Look out for new episodes in your feed every Thursday.

[Johnny Knoxville]

Watch video episodes on YouTube and follow along with us on Instagram and TikTok @JackassThePodcast. What were we just talking about?

[Comedian/Guest (possibly a stand-up comedian guest)]

Probably buttholes.