Anna Konkle

Summary

Podcast Summary: What's Our Podcast? with Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney – Anna Konkle (May 6, 2026)

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Overview

In this episode, Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney welcome Anna Konkle—actor, writer, and co-creator/star of the acclaimed show Pen15—for an energetic, hilarious, and unexpectedly heartfelt conversation. As per the show's conceit, the hosts and their guest riff on what the podcast should actually be about, eventually landing on an improvised segment called "Fingers." Along the way, they discuss Anna's new memoir (The Sane One), the complexities of friendship as adults, experimental theater, mentoring, memories of family, and more, all delivered with the hosts' signature absurdity and warmth.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Patreon & Community Building (00:14–03:11)

• Announcement of their new Patreon tiers: various benefits include bonus episodes and a Discord chat ("Rocco Club"), video sketches, and access to live-stream Q&As.
• Discussion about the creative freedom and potential for fan involvement through Patreon.
  • "It's gonna be a place to see some really weird, wild, and crazy stuff where we just get to do whatever we want without really caring." – Beck Bennett (02:57)
• Notable Bit: Outlandish tier rewards (e.g., side headshots of Beck and Kyle).

2. Banter, Character, and Comedy Pitches (03:18–10:11)

• The hosts riff on nicknames (“Goggles”) and share behind-the-scenes podcast details (e.g., a timer for their intro).
• Extended improv around a fake skincare product (“Beckley”) and imagined SNL-style commercial (04:45–09:13).
• Lighthearted tension around “good” ideas: meta banter on the comedy process.

3. Spring Break Recaps & Disneyland as Adult Dads (10:11–13:19)

• Both recount family-centric spring breaks: Kyle at Disneyland, Beck in San Diego and potty training his child.
• Discussion of how Disney feels different with kids and what defines a “Disney Adult.”
  • "I do experience some...I get annoyed by many of the grownups who are like going through [Disney] childless." – Beck Bennett (12:24)
• Parents' vacation reframed: not relaxing, but rewarding in a new way.

4. Friendship Scales, Adult Relationships (15:25–44:48)

• Humorous yet real discussion about the gradations of friendship, from acquaintances to “10 out of 10s.”
• Anna and the hosts reflect on adult friendship, effort required, and what it means to move from friendly to true friends.
  • "Most of my tens I've known since literally I was born." – Anna Konkle (44:06)
• Opens into broader themes: how adult life and time constraints affect social possibilities.

5. Anna’s Book: The Sane One (52:00–65:34)

• Anna introduces her memoir, which centers on her relationship with her father, family estrangement, and finding humor in dysfunction.
• She discusses the healing (and sometimes ambiguous) process of writing about difficult history and reconnecting before her father passed away.
  • “He was best when he was being taken care of, and I got to do that for him at the end. But he also just, like, was very graceful in death...I got to, like, see him as a hero again a little bit.” – Anna Konkle (58:58)
• Memoir as a vehicle for perspective, relatability, and breaking family taboos.
  • “[David Sedaris'] book felt like, okay, and then I just started devouring memoirs. And… I didn’t feel alone in it anymore.” – Anna Konkle (63:31)

6. Mentorship & Big Brothers Big Sisters (47:12–51:36)

• Anna shares her 9-year mentorship with her "little sister" through Big Brothers Big Sisters, reflecting on the impact of mentorship in her own life.
• The complexities of integrating mentees into personal life, organizational background checks, etc.
  • “I had kind of promised myself that when I wasn’t waiting tables anymore…I would do the program.” – Anna Konkle (47:55)

7. Anna’s Creative Path & Experimental Theater (36:17–40:47)

• How Anna’s NYU days shaped her creatively: self-scripting, experimental theater antics (onstage nudity, boundary pushing).
• The evolving TV landscape: performers creating starring vehicles for themselves (e.g., Girls, Pen15).

8. "Fingers" – The Improvised Podcast Segment (76:40–97:59)

• Following their tradition, Anna pitches "Fingers" as a potential podcast concept.
• The panel riffs extensively and absurdly on all things finger-related: finger shapes, party tricks, pointing in photos, finger injury stories, sexual innuendos, body hypermobility, and first “fingering” experiences.
  • "I was on the other couch and got fingered for the first time. He was trying to reach my brain." – Anna Konkle (91:45)
• Discussion is frank, humorous, sometimes cringe—but always grounded in trusted friendship.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Podcast Theme Confusion:
  "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)

• On Creative Collaboration:
  "Kyle’s just for all the listeners. Kyle. I thought that this is a place where we could sort of pitch ideas."
  – Beck Bennett (05:51)

• On Being an Earnest Podcast Guest:
  "I kind of get. Yeah, I kind of like start off sincere, and then I find out, like, if there’s a real connection."
  – Anna Konkle (31:44)

• On Early Experiences of Comedy:
  "My parents and my family were like punchlines. It was probably my way into comedy without realizing."
  – Anna Konkle (59:37)

• On Finger Podcast Absurdity:
  "I can name every person in my life I fingered, and every person liked it."
  – Beck Bennett (96:35)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Patreon Announcement & Podcast Origin: 00:14–03:11
• "Beckley" Pitch and SNL Commercial Riffs: 05:14–10:11
• Disneyland & Parenting Stories: 10:11–13:19
• Friendship Scale & Adult Relationship Dynamics: 15:25–44:48
• Mentorship & Big Brothers Big Sisters: 47:12–51:36
• Anna's Memoir – The Sane One: 52:00–65:34
• Industry/Evolution of Creative Careers: 39:05–40:47
• Experimental Acting School Anecdotes: 37:16–40:09
• "Fingers" Podcast Segment: 76:40–97:59

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Tone and Style

• Conversational, fast-paced, and meta: Hosts frequently riff on their own process, break the fourth wall, and improvise with their guest.
• Playful irreverence with flashes of sincerity: Comedy bits about fart mics, experimental theater, and finger gags balance thoughtful moments about family, mentorship, and adult vulnerability.
• Supportive and self-aware: The trio deftly switches from ridiculous to real, with the hosts encouraging Anna to share both serious and silly stories.

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Summary for New Listeners

This episode highlights the best of Beck and Kyle’s podcast: inventive comedic bits, inside jokes, and the welcoming of guests into their open-ended creative project. Anna Konkle not only shines as a guest with her wit and candor, but also opens up about personal loss, the power of mentorship, and the occasionally awkward realities of adult friendship. The hosts celebrate Anna’s new book, meander through the absurdities of finger-related humor, and ultimately create a safe, silly, and surprisingly poignant audio space.

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Episode’s Essential Takeaway:
What’s Our Podcast? revels in the unknown—whether riffing on comedy ideas, discussing the wild world of experimental theater, or having honest talks about emotional family histories. Anna Konkle fits right into this spirit of playful exploration, and in the “Fingers” segment, their willingness to digress becomes a lesson in finding connection and understanding amid chaos and laughter.

Transcript

[Anna Conkle]

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.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. 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 mess around on the microphone, let's tell

[Kyle Mooney]

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.

[Beck Bennett]

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.

[Anna Conkle]

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.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. 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. You know what I mean?

[Beck Bennett]

I know exactly what you mean. I love it.

[Kyle Mooney]

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, and crazy stuff where we just get

[Kyle Mooney]

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]

What's our Podcast? What's it gonna be all about? Tell us what's our podcast? What should we talk about with Beck and Kyle? Yes. Hey, everybody. Welcome to what's Our. Yeah, I'm gonna.

[Beck Bennett]

Goggles, you want. You want to start calling me Goggles?

[Kyle Mooney]

No, I wasn't calling you Goggles. I was calling your glasses Goggles. But we can call you Goggles. Let's try it. Hey, everybody. Welcome to what's Up?

[Beck Bennett]

What's Our Podcast?

[Kyle Mooney]

With Beck, Bennett and Goggles.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Otherwise known as Kyle Mooney. You can call him whatever you want. You can call him Goggles. But here we are in the podcast, where we don't know what our podcast is about, so we're trying to figure it out.

[Beck Bennett]

It's like everybody these days is calling me Goggles.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. Is that somebody else's or. No. It just feels. It's kind of like this.

[Beck Bennett]

Like the new era that's just begun.

[Kyle Mooney]

Ah, that's cool. That's exciting. Something new, something different for you.

[Anna Conkle]

I haven't.

[Beck Bennett]

I have not.

[Kyle Mooney]

Because everybody's been calling you Awkward. Probably. Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, here comes awkward. Hey, is this Awkward Interview? Am I speaking to Awkward?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, this is awkward.

[Kyle Mooney]

But now you get to look forward to people calling you goggles.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, I can look forward to that.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, no, but it is. It's really nice to be back here in the studio with you.

[Beck Bennett]

I know we're doing the whole podcast thing. I see Rochelle over there. I see the cameras, mics. Of course.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. The little timer for. To tell us how long our intro

[Beck Bennett]

is and have we ever told the audience about the timer? Because I think it's really sort of an interesting behind the scenes component.

[Kyle Mooney]

Exactly. Pulling back the curtain a little bit, letting them in on what's happening. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

You have a glow. Should we tell about the timer or should we talk about your glow?

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, I didn't know I had a glow. Do I really have a glow?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Wow. Thank you. Well, I was. It's been spring break, so the timer essentially is. And so it's been spring, so I was at Disneyland. It counts with my family. Before that, I was in Naples, Florida, and sort of like to use it

[Beck Bennett]

just to get a sense of when we should be wrapping it up.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Sorry, what were you saying?

[Kyle Mooney]

I was talking about my glow. I don't know. It's just. I don't know. I don't know what it is exactly.

[Beck Bennett]

Maybe it's Beckley.

[Kyle Mooney]

Sorry, say that. What are you talking about? Maybe it's Beckley.

[Beck Bennett]

Maybe it's Beckley. It's. I thought it could be like a new sort of skin care that gives you the Beck glow. Maybe it's Beckley.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, okay. That's something.

[Beck Bennett]

You think? You didn't like it?

[Kyle Mooney]

No, I think that's definitely something to do. It's something to say. Like, I thought.

[Beck Bennett]

I thought maybe we could shoot a little video. Like a fake commercial. You know, like, I remember SNL used to do the fake commercial.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, I remember that. Yeah. Parody. Okay. You want to do it right now?

[Anna Conkle]

No, no, no.

[Beck Bennett]

I think we should get a crew

[Kyle Mooney]

together and shoot the Beckley commercial. Kyle's just for all the. All the listeners. Kyle.

[Beck Bennett]

I don't know. I thought that this is a place where we could sort of pitch ideas. I thought it was because I could imagine. Do you ever. Do you ever find yourself running late and you're. And you're lacking that glow, that special glow that you. That everybody knows you for and appreciates you for, and then the tube of Beckley flies in and all of a sudden you rub it on your face and you transform.

[Kyle Mooney]

And then I transform. You just get like a nice little glow.

[Beck Bennett]

You look good.

[Kyle Mooney]

You look good all of a sudden. And so. And so that's fine. That's all fine and dandy. Now what's the joke? Is it like, haha, there's a tube of cream called Beckley and you put that on your chest.

[Beck Bennett]

Give me a second, Give me a second to think about this. Okay, I see what you're saying right now.

[Kyle Mooney]

It doesn't seem like there's much of an idea there.

[Beck Bennett]

So this is the beginning. So that, like, yeah, you're not looking as great as you usually do, so

[Kyle Mooney]

you want to put on some Beckley.

[Beck Bennett]

Put on the. And of course he goes, maybe it's Beckley. But then I just.

[Kyle Mooney]

Jesus Christ. It's a sit.

[Beck Bennett]

I mean, maybe like an. If you're in a high rise building, maybe what?

[Kyle Mooney]

In a high rise building. And this is in the commercial.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay. So right behind you, a bunch of guys, they're like, get out of the way, get out of the way, get out of the way. And they have those backpacks on that have parachutes, right?

[Kyle Mooney]

They.

[Beck Bennett]

They kick. They kick out the window.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, okay. And this is in the commercial.

[Beck Bennett]

I'm throwing around ideas you're welcome to pitch as well. And they're like, we don't give a shit about Beckley. We got it. We're about to. We're skydiving off the building.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. And.

[Beck Bennett]

And so you're like, what the heck? So you like break character. Oh.

[Kyle Mooney]

So I'm like, whoa, stop shooting the commercial.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah. Wait, what. What is happening right now? And so you go, you follow the pair the parachuters to the window where they just kicked it out.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And they jump out and they're like. You're like, dude, are they gonna be okay? Yeah, they pull the cords, they rip out the pair, the parachutes come out.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

You. And you're looking down at the parachutes that you say, what does that say? You grab your glasses, you look at them. It says, maybe it's Beckley.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't wear glasses though.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, so that. Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

I mean, no, I think these are all really valid and I would love to see this shot. Maybe, Maybe we could do it with AI. Yeah, well, maybe that's controversial.

[Beck Bennett]

Something we can give our fans, if you don't mind. Yeah, create an AI video.

[Kyle Mooney]

Actually, no, maybe we shouldn't. I think that's as. You've gotten in trouble with that before.

[Beck Bennett]

I mean. Yeah, that was something that I didn't participate in. That was my friend Riley.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, that was Riley. Well, you know, we. As you can tell, as you know, from. If you're a New viewer, listener. As you can tell, we have lots of ideas here at what's our Podcast. We have to. Because we have to figure out what's going on with ourselves.

[Beck Bennett]

And I thought you were going to say if you're a new viewer or new listener. As you can tell, it's been, it's been a while since we recorded. We're still sort of getting some. Yeah, still a little rusty.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's getting a little rusty.

[Beck Bennett]

Typically the, the commercial pitches are coming in fully formed.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah, just give. If this didn't tickle your fancy, definitely come in next week where the commercial ideas will be coming in steam and piping hot. I thought those were great. And I love the Beckley style.

[Beck Bennett]

I feel like you were, you were at odds with it the whole time.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, no, but that was kind of the, that was me playing the part in the, in the thing. I could either be agreeable and adding on and adding on in a way that doesn't make sense and frustrates you or making the idea weirder and we're together or I can be going, what the hell is this?

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, so you're playing like a Steve Dasher type. Got it.

[Kyle Mooney]

Who's Steve Dasher? Nobody knows who that is. That's a made up person. Right. Oh, wait, now let me try again. Yeah, yeah, right. Steve Dasher. Yeah, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Now you add some information about Steve Dasher.

[Kyle Mooney]

Steve Dasher, he was the like the, the short shorts guy on the porch who's always picking up his new.

[Beck Bennett]

That's not his.

[Kyle Mooney]

Steve Dasher. Who's Steve Dasher? Is that Steve?

[Beck Bennett]

There's Steve Dasher, Steve Comet, Steve Rudolph, Steve Blitzen, Steve Vixen.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, he's one of the, he's one of the reindeer. One of Sandy. Okay, we gotta just get to catching up. I love the ideas. I love the brain. I love the mind.

[Beck Bennett]

No, no, no.

[Kyle Mooney]

We were just on spring break, let's admit.

[Beck Bennett]

Disney.

[Kyle Mooney]

I went to Disney, our children's spring break. So we're on spring break. We went to Disney with some out of town friends and their kids and it was awesome. I had a blast. I get why it's the happiest place on earth.

[Beck Bennett]

You did like three days there, right?

[Kyle Mooney]

Two days at the park. Three days at the Grand Californian. A free commercial for the Grand Californian. That place made being at the park with kids so much easier. Yeah, it was so awesome. We could like go back in the middle of the day and take a break and then like walk right out into California Adventure. The park there and the kids loved it. They didn't complain about line wait times or anything and. Or having to walk.

[Beck Bennett]

That's great.

[Kyle Mooney]

All day. And it was great. We had.

[Beck Bennett]

I've always been a big Disneyland fan, actually.

[Kyle Mooney]

You are a. You are a. I mean the term Disney adult has a lot of negative connotations.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, it's true.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't know if I would call you a Disney adult, but I. Some would. Yeah. A lot of people behind your back do. I'm kidding. It's all good. No, no.

[Beck Bennett]

I'm sure they're saying much worse things.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh yes, definitely. But his, his smell.

[Beck Bennett]

What is the story on his vibe?

[Kyle Mooney]

What is the story with those goggles that he wears?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, goggles is back.

[Kyle Mooney]

But would you call yourself a Disney adult?

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, I think there was this peer here. I do think that like almost when the. In the thick of us being on SNL probably from like 2014, 2015 to like 20. 2020.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

When I'd come back to Cal. To California from New York, I would often go and I'd go with a group of friends and you came with me a couple times.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And if there was a period in my life where you could call me a Disney adult, I think it would be then because like it was one only adults going.

[Kyle Mooney]

There were no kids involved, which is a very different thing.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. And it was. Yeah, it was a lot about like let's have some drinks while we sort of walk around and yeah. Go on the rides.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Now I go with my child. And now I will say I do experience some. I get annoyed by many of the grown ups who are, who are like going through childless.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh really? Because experience that. Really. I didn't, I didn't get annoyed by anybody.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Like things, you know, like you bump in like you're. I'm with my 2 year old and like you bump into somebody with like in like a bachelorette party shirt or something like that and they're like what the fuck? They're like kind of like on their own trip and it's like well let's.

[Kyle Mooney]

We're here for the children.

[Beck Bennett]

That's that to me that is true.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. It is built for the children. The children and the children. The child in us. Yes. So to.

[Beck Bennett]

I think it's, I think definitely very cool to experience it as an adult and have fun. But I, But I think you should make sure we're providing the magic for the child.

[Kyle Mooney]

Absolutely. Absolutely. Yes. Couldn't agree more. I felt it to be a much more magical place with. Yeah. Going with kids.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

What did you. What did you're at. What? I. I didn't even ask you. What did your ass get into the spring break? This is.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Were you in town?

[Beck Bennett]

I was.

[Kyle Mooney]

You went to San Diego?

[Beck Bennett]

I went to San Diego the first weekend. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Saw a baseball game.

[Beck Bennett]

I saw a baseball game. Padres won, which was nice.

[Kyle Mooney]

Congrats.

[Beck Bennett]

And we potty trained this week.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. Yeah, that's. I don't.

[Beck Bennett]

I don't even know if I could say that it's like the past tense because I think it's like it's still happening. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You and I have had this. Is our guest close? I don't want to.

[Anna Conkle]

She's in the parking lot right now.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, that's. That's a great place to be.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Especially. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

She's coming here especially. Yeah. Probably coming from within a car.

[Kyle Mooney]

Right. It's not like she was always there. Yeah, she probably just got there.

[Beck Bennett]

The. You know, the. We may have said this before. We've said this. I don't know if on record, but like the spring breaks, the winter breaks, they're.

[Kyle Mooney]

They're difficult if you're like, they're no longer breaks. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

If it's just you and your child and your small child and then you're also having to entertain family at points. Like, it's not. Yeah. It's not a vacation for me.

[Kyle Mooney]

No. It's just a different way to spend your time.

[Beck Bennett]

It's.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

It's actually like you just have to be fully focused on parenting.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's much more exhausting.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, now we're back here. It's Monday. We have an incredible guest coming in.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

We're gonna have fun.

[Beck Bennett]

It might be Monday when these people are listening, though.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, yeah. But for us it's Monday.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, okay. It's Wednesday probably. Or Thursday for Friday. I don't really know.

[Beck Bennett]

That's right. It could be Monday. I mean, you could kind of listen whenever you want.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Hey, let us know if you're listening to this on. In the comments.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. But it is Monday for us right now and we have an incredible guest coming on. Anna Conle from Pen15. A lot of people know her from the show that she created and starred in with her creative partner, Maya Erskine. She's a very good friend of mine and a friend of yours as well. She went to NYU with.

[Beck Bennett]

If you're on a 10 friend scale, what do you think I'm at?

[Kyle Mooney]

I couldn't tell you. Like, that'd be rude for me. I think like, well, what's a five? Is a five like somebody you see that's a good question. At parties and you're cool with them? Or is it and you just kind of say hi? Because under five would be negative.

[Beck Bennett]

Could five be work colleague? Like, that's it.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think five is like pretty, pretty minimum. But, but good. Like, I feel like if you ever

[Beck Bennett]

hung out with them, like one on

[Kyle Mooney]

one, I think you're up to that's, that's like, I think in the at least seven.

[Beck Bennett]

I think that's probably, yeah. Seven to ten range. Six is like you've maybe been at intimate gatherings with them.

[Kyle Mooney]

I mean, but if you have a strong connection at those intimate gatherings, then that could be a nine. Be an age.

[Beck Bennett]

Sure, sure, sure. But I guess I'm saying, like, yeah,

[Kyle Mooney]

yeah, I'm going to guess you're a 7.25. 7.5. I don't know.

[Beck Bennett]

I feel it feels rude to bring

[Kyle Mooney]

it up with her. Yeah, yeah. Don't put her on the spot. But we could talk about your relationship with her. Yeah. She's an incredibly brilliant, funny, caring human being. She's a great actor, writer, creator, and a good friend of mine. And we're gonna talk about her new book and all sorts of other crap. Whatever we want. Sound good?

[Beck Bennett]

I told. Yeah, maybe it's Beckley.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, maybe it's Becky. Maybe I put on some Beckley this morning. Maybe I put on some of my special cream.

[Beck Bennett]

That sounded wrong. Yep.

[Kyle Mooney]

I can't believe that just came out of my mouth.

[Beck Bennett]

And that sounded wrong too.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Yes, I do say, and that's welcome to my awkward life. I say a lot of things wrong. Okay, so let's invite Anna Conkle onto what's our podcast.

[Beck Bennett]

What's our podcast?

[Kyle Mooney]

Kyle, can I tell you something?

[Beck Bennett]

I, I, I'm working on this. Give me one second.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm just going to tell you.

[Beck Bennett]

I just hang. I got to focus. One second.

[Kyle Mooney]

I need to get this out right now. Otherwise I'm going to lose it.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, what does it mean?

[Kyle Mooney]

Lately, I have been more intentional about what I wear dayto day.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, I have, I have to get back to this writing. Sorry. I'm writing. It's a new, it's a new project I'm doing. They've asked me to, to work on a spin off, you know, Flounder from Little Mermaid? No, no. Okay. He's the fish.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, yes, of course I do.

[Beck Bennett]

I'm doing something with that.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, were you working with Disney?

[Beck Bennett]

No, no, no. It's. We're going to try to sell it

[Kyle Mooney]

to the big D. Oh, you're doing it on spec. You're writing a show about Flounder.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes, with my friend Alexander, who I met actually down the. Down in the tunnels.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, I know Alexander.

[Beck Bennett]

It's sort of. It's Flounder reconnecting with his family and where he. It's

[Kyle Mooney]

sounds like a great idea that. Wow.

[Beck Bennett]

Lately, I've been more intentional about what I wear day to day.

[Kyle Mooney]

This is what I was telling you. And I'm leaning into pieces that feel easy, comfortable, and still put together, you know? And it's just. It just makes getting dressed simpler. Okay. So Quint has been my go to for listening.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

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[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

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[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

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[Beck Bennett]

Alexander sold himself.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't want to hear any more about Alexander. I'm trying to focus on the Quince ad.

[Beck Bennett]

Everything is 50 to 80% helpful for his situation, because I feel like when he's at his dirtiest, he's also at his cleanest mentally. Makes any sense.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. So do you think Alexander could use these clothes? Yes. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

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[Beck Bennett]

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[Kyle Mooney]

I do too. It's. It's classic. It. It goes with everything and it's really saved me around the holidays. Through. On my.

[Beck Bennett]

Of course I gave my.

[Kyle Mooney]

I get.

[Beck Bennett]

Let my. Sometimes I'll get the code and I'll let my wife choose something nice. I'm like, I had my fun, now you have your fun.

[Kyle Mooney]

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[Beck Bennett]

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[Kyle Mooney]

you by Aura Frames. We will frame your aura. Aura Frames. Whoa. That was pretty.

[Beck Bennett]

You are flexible.

[Kyle Mooney]

Thank you.

[Beck Bennett]

This Mother's Day, why not upgrade from flowers with a gift that will actually last?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

That is a really cool sentiment because.

[Kyle Mooney]

Because I always. The flowers don't. That I've gotten my mom. They. They die. Yeah. She throws them out and it breaks my heart.

[Beck Bennett]

And they don't even make good flowers anymore.

[Kyle Mooney]

I know.

[Beck Bennett]

Have I mentioned that I love my wife?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, you've mentioned it. I've heard you say it before. And it's crazy because guess what? I love my wife, too.

[Beck Bennett]

I've given her flowers before on Mother's Day, but those only last like a week at most.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. I mean, like, I'm always thinking, like, why not give her something she can enjoy for years to come? Like when? After, like, well, after I've passed. You know what I mean? Because she's gonna. Women live longer than that.

[Beck Bennett]

I am looking forward to it.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Passing you.

[Beck Bennett]

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[Kyle Mooney]

And I'm just gonna say this right now. So if you're getting one for your mom. Right. Yeah. You can load it with some funny photos. Also some naughty photos.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, the thing is. Here's the thing. Here's the reality.

[Kyle Mooney]

And it' kind of. Maybe you're joking, maybe you're not. I don't know what your relationship is with your mom, but.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, here's the reality.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

We both have children.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

You see their. No, no, Parts from day one. So if you want to. If you want to send your mom a picture of your no nos.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. In the aura frame, you can preload these.

[Beck Bennett]

She's seen it.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, she's seen it. She wants to see it again. It's been too long. It'll bring her down memory lane. So take a. Get an or frame. Take a photo of your no nos and put it in. Load it into the aura frame and send it to your. No. No.

[Beck Bennett]

And if you can't take a picture, just put your. Press your no nose against the. Against the frame. Hold it there as long as you can.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. And see if it makes an impact.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Send that off.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's. And then you're. That's a. Happy Mother's Day.

[Beck Bennett]

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[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. Yes. Real quick.

[Beck Bennett]

I got the aura frame.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

At my house.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

It's right in front of my projector.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I got pictures of my family.

[Kyle Mooney]

I gotta. I gotta load some photos of.

[Beck Bennett]

Load some photos. It's great. And it's a. And you know, people come and say, oh, that's a cute picture. It works. Yeah, it's great.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm gonna set it up today. I would like to do a little prayer.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

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[Beck Bennett]

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[Kyle Mooney]

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[Beck Bennett]

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[Kyle Mooney]

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[Beck Bennett]

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[Beck Bennett]

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[Kyle Mooney]

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[Beck Bennett]

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[Kyle Mooney]

Let Rocket Money help you reach your financial goes faster. [e-mail] Kyle that's RocketMoney.com Kyle RoganMoney.com BeckanKyle In Change your life today you'll be thanking us. Make sure to tell them that. It's rocket money.com beckand Kyle. We're here with Anna Conol. Yes, yes.

[Anna Conkle]

Thanks for having me.

[Kyle Mooney]

Thank you for being here. This is so exciting.

[Beck Bennett]

We, we've. This is incredible.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, let it rip, Kyle.

[Anna Conkle]

Just.

[Kyle Mooney]

Just speak your mind. I'm sorry, was that a toot?

[Anna Conkle]

Did you just let it rip?

[Kyle Mooney]

Let it rip, sister.

[Beck Bennett]

So for the people.

[Kyle Mooney]

Now she's sitting in shame.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, God.

[Kyle Mooney]

What were you thinking? Oh, I just farted right away on the show. That was. That was just. So everybody knows that was Anna's mouth. That. If you heard that sound. That was Anna's mouth right by the mic. Her butt is not there's butt. Her butt is not miked. No, you had a specific request.

[Anna Conkle]

Don't mic the butt, please, if you don't mind.

[Kyle Mooney]

She did. She was like, I sometimes I don't

[Anna Conkle]

know if you guys do that or not, but yeah, I don't. I prefer the butt not to be md.

[Beck Bennett]

I know, I saw the email.

[Anna Conkle]

I know, I know you saw the email.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Everybody saw the email.

[Anna Conkle]

Cuz you guys mike your butts. No, yeah, we have. We.

[Beck Bennett]

We actually have. Yeah, they're. They're tiny.

[Kyle Mooney]

It is so small it. You can barely feel it.

[Anna Conkle]

But you're not taping it or you are taping the butt too. There's a little mic end of.

[Beck Bennett]

You shove it up the hole.

[Kyle Mooney]

You shove it up the hole. Yeah. And then like if we no camera fart during the podcast and it's kind of funny that it picks it up really loud.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, can I please again, that would.

[Kyle Mooney]

That sound that Anna made, that was not a fart. It was her mouth.

[Beck Bennett]

This is not true. We do not have your farts.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, pull back the garden, please. We do not have Fart mics up our butts.

[Beck Bennett]

I'm just like imagining, like the letters we're going to get.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, yeah, the. The free mics that we get from mic companies and stick this road up your ass and Big old road mic. Can you imagine?

[Beck Bennett]

Big old. What is a road mic?

[Kyle Mooney]

Isn't that the brand R O, D E or something where you're going?

[Anna Conkle]

Jesus.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, okay.

[Anna Conkle]

Road mic and my.

[Kyle Mooney]

What? Oh, these are sure dynamic. I don't think I could fit that.

[Beck Bennett]

Is this an SM7B?

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah, you could fit that. Come on.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. I don't tell them about. I don't know if you just.

[Anna Conkle]

If you could, like, if you put. If you lubed it up.

[Kyle Mooney]

Sometimes when me and Anna hang, we, like, see what we can fit up.

[Anna Conkle]

Fit on our butts.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, our butts.

[Anna Conkle]

That's why I was like, don't mic it this time. Yeah, not here.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay. Again, if you're a first time listener or watcher, this is not true. We mess around.

[Kyle Mooney]

We mess around. We were just saying before the episode, while I introduced you, we're very good friends and I was saying before the episode, it can be hard to interview your friend because I already know you. I know everything about you and I remember everything. That's not true.

[Anna Conkle]

Hard to feel natural, too, in this. In this situation.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Anna Conkle]

I love that you don't have headphones.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, thanks. Yeah, I stopped. I stopped wearing them when I was about. Well, only I pretty much wear them when I'm listening to music or something like that.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

But we kind of like me. I think a lot of people think that, you know, kind of with the goggles thing, like you're kind of like a guy who wears headphones around. Yeah. You know, just to kind of help with the sense.

[Beck Bennett]

I've seen that. I've seen the drawings online, walking around with headphones.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, we don't do headphones in here. We like to feel as natural as possible.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Cool.

[Beck Bennett]

Makes a nightmare for editing, right, Rochelle?

[Kyle Mooney]

Because everybody emphatically said yes. So somebody did say the other day, if we had mics, it's better for cross talking.

[Anna Conkle]

If you had headphones.

[Kyle Mooney]

If we had headphones. Like, it prevents crossing. Oh, yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

Because you can hear each other more clearly.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

In your ears.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. But then it doesn't sound like a common.

[Beck Bennett]

I don't even like the phrase cross talking. I feel like that that's getting too niche, too specific into the world of podcasting. I don't know that I want to cross smart. That.

[Anna Conkle]

I mean, very smart.

[Kyle Mooney]

Especially at the beginning. Can't even be thinking about that. I just got to be thinking about connecting with my guests.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah. And I don't like hearing myself.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, I don't.

[Beck Bennett]

You don't know. I did. I have a. I have a question about interviewing and like this, what you're talking about in terms of, oh, it's my friend. And how the deep dive. What. What is your best case scenario in. In this, like, do you want how much information, how much biographical information do you want to get out there? How much industry related, like career stuff you want to get out there?

[Kyle Mooney]

How much.

[Beck Bennett]

How much? Like just rando sauce.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. How much rando sauce? How much personal stuff or how much goofing?

[Anna Conkle]

Personal rando sauce. Goofing. Really? Anything. Is this a question for this interview or. I'm asking in general, in interviews, I guess this isn't really an interview. I just. Yeah, they all make me a little bit uncomfortable. I'm not really great at that.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, it's not the easiest thing. One of the things about doing this, I was like, I think hosting a podcast will make me more comfortable when I'm in this situation.

[Anna Conkle]

Has that happened?

[Kyle Mooney]

I mean, I think so. I don't really know if it's made me a better guest or not because I haven't guested on one in a while. But we'll see. It's a very different thing.

[Anna Conkle]

We should interview you, the guest.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah, we can try.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, we could try. I will say when you think our podcast.

[Beck Bennett]

I will just say that. And maybe I've said this on record, but for me, guesting is still as difficult because, like, I think that when I come on somebody else's podcast, maybe they expect that I'll have the rapport with them that I have with you. Do you know what I'm saying? And so, like, I don't ever expect when I'm coming on a podcast that I'm going to be doing bits or that's it.

[Anna Conkle]

Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

And so try to follow that. I kind of get. Yeah, I kind of like start off sincere and then I find out, like

[Anna Conkle]

if there's a real connection, kind of

[Beck Bennett]

supposed to be like along or something like that.

[Kyle Mooney]

Try to make a meal out of anything you could. Yeah, yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

But then I also feel like when I do that and if I ever listen back, which I try not to, but like that I feel like I'm such a chode. You know what I mean?

[Kyle Mooney]

Great word that was actually said. That word was said before you came in here.

[Anna Conkle]

Really?

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, I was going to go back. Going back to Anna, feeling like a choad. I feel the same way. When I go back and listen, I'm like, why was I so obnoxious? Why was I not just myself, myself?

[Anna Conkle]

I think it's that it's like, to be yourself in these situations. And that's what I think is the funniest. And, like, that's what I love to listen to. And you guys do that so well together. And then you come on and you're like, I might. I'm. I'm just, like, utterly myself. That's a very, like. It's not possible. And I struggle with that.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, well, we do all art form of performance of ourselves. Like, these public Personas that we're, like, comfortable with that are entertaining enough. Because, like, yeah, if you came on here, you might be like, hey, like. Like, if you're being yourself, what. What is being yourself in this situation? Exactly.

[Anna Conkle]

And myself is going to be shy at first, kind of. But that's not who I really am, I don't think.

[Beck Bennett]

What is? You don't think you're shy?

[Anna Conkle]

Well, someone asked me recently on a podcast.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

He was like, you're shy? And I was like, well, I don't think he meant it like that, but I was like, am I shy? He's like, yeah, I guess I am a little shy.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, is it because you. Is it because, like.

[Anna Conkle]

Because I'm nervous, I think.

[Kyle Mooney]

Do you think people expect you to be, like, more of a comedian type because of pen 15?

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah, I think so.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. And, like. But you are. You're more of, like an actor. You're like. You're very silly and funny.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

But you're like a creative weirdo. Emotional weirdo.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And I didn't. I didn't always realize that about you.

[Anna Conkle]

Really? What did you think?

[Kyle Mooney]

I was a cool, funny person who had good taste and, like, you know. But then, like, the more I got to know you.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

I was like, oh, Anna is weird in the best way possible. Like, in, like, just sometimes the way my brain works. Yeah. Like, one of the first things I noticed was that, for lack of a better word, you can be gullible.

[Anna Conkle]

Yes. Very earnest.

[Kyle Mooney]

Believe something so quickly, and it's such a. It's like a. Such a sweet thing because, like, you're trusting people and it's. It speaks to, I think, your creative ability because you're so willing to go somewhere and believe in something. And I think that speaks to your, you know, ability to create these worlds or to act, to be such a Great actor. But it was like, wow. Like, I'd be like. Like, yeah, I know. I just bought a. I bought a leopard. Spotted leopard I keep in the basement. It's a baby. It's. It's just a good investment because, you know, someday I'll be able to sell it. I feel like you'd be like, no, really, stop it. Back. Stop it. I'm like. And I'm joking. You know, like.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah. But I think to your point, though, that's probably what makes the comedy world in general, like, an odd place for me to be, because I know what comedy I love, but I can get lost.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

Or something in a way that's like, maybe. Yeah. Yeah. And then people don't know how to take me kind of.

[Beck Bennett]

Or something.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, it's like. Because so much of the world is built on, like, riffing and improvising.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And just, like, goofing around, but you're more of, like a sitting there and

[Anna Conkle]

thinking of something funny and then writing it down.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

More than just being, like, performing it, actually.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. It's more like experimental theater.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Which is the school that you went to, nyu, where you met so many of our friends.

[Anna Conkle]

Yes, yes, yes, exactly. And you guys met at College, at USC.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, we did.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Back in September of 2003, actually.

[Kyle Mooney]

September.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah, 2003.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

Just grab that date.

[Beck Bennett]

How. Because your. Your wife, Jesse, is she. Was she experimental?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, she was experimental. Now she's great, I think. Or I'm just kidding.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, so I fucked up. How? I.

[Kyle Mooney]

She was in the experimental theater. My wife was an experiment grown in a lab by Dr. Thisbeas. And he was trying to create the best woman in the world. And success. He did it.

[Beck Bennett]

Meanwhile, Anna's over here. Like, she's like, really? Is that true?

[Anna Conkle]

Did he buy her from a lab?

[Kyle Mooney]

I didn't know she was growing.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah. Okay. She is perfect.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, she's perfect. I believe that.

[Beck Bennett]

Wait, so did. Did. Did you all know each other in college or.

[Anna Conkle]

No, no, not yet.

[Kyle Mooney]

But you didn't know Jessie in college?

[Anna Conkle]

We really. We didn't know each other. Well, I knew of her, and she went to a program, so in the summers, NYU had this experimental theater wing program that was in Amsterdam. And there was, like, 25 people that went. So you kind of heard of, like, who the people were the year before. And Jesse was there the year before. And Alex, my partner, was there with Jesse and have been best friends since freshman year of college.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. Nick Kocher was there. Nick Kocher on our pod. Oh. And you met. You went the following year and that's when you met Maya.

[Anna Conkle]

Yes, Yeah, I met Maya in Amsterdam in that program.

[Beck Bennett]

You guys ended up doing pen15 together, as I recall.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I want to know. And I also, in my brief research, saw that you started out as a musical theater major, which I want to ask you a question about that, but first I want to ask, how experimental do they. Do the people get.

[Kyle Mooney]

They get.

[Anna Conkle]

That's such a good question. I want to know what you think. No, I want to know.

[Kyle Mooney]

This is where you're. Kyle asked you a question.

[Anna Conkle]

I was prefer if you answer for me.

[Kyle Mooney]

Come on. No, no. I mean, I will if you wanted.

[Anna Conkle]

So. Just kidding.

[Kyle Mooney]

I said very, very. Yes, Very, very experimental.

[Anna Conkle]

Experimental, yes. Well, my perception, because I was like you said I was in the musical theater wing was like, those were the kids that were wasting their parents money and like having orgies.

[Beck Bennett]

Right.

[Anna Conkle]

And getting naked and that you just like they were just massage. Massaging each other all the time. Which some of that was true.

[Kyle Mooney]

I heard a lot about people getting naked or like Jesse saying that, like, classmates, like, pulling stuff out of their butts. Vaginas. Really doing stuff.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Pooing on stage. Really, like, do it. Just crazy stuff.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah, yeah. I mean, in clowning, it was like, how can you get, you know, a response from the audience in any way possible? And in Amsterdam, like, Matt took out like a dead fish and was like, I think rubbing it on his face and body. Yeah, stuff like that.

[Kyle Mooney]

Very experimental.

[Anna Conkle]

Very.

[Kyle Mooney]

Can't do that anymore. Fun, but fun. But also, like, to this point, we. Jesse and I were talking about it yesterday. We're like, it is the school where it's like, that's like your parents worst nightmare. Like, experimental theater wing for how much a year?

[Anna Conkle]

50,000 a year. At the time.

[Kyle Mooney]

At the time. Now. Yeah, but like. But. And it was that school was known for self scripting, is what they called it, which is like bringing in your own stories and basically writing your own plays, if that's correct.

[Anna Conkle]

Yes. And it kind of. It was a home to do whatever felt the most creative and good to you. And so if you were inclined towards characters, then that's what you would end up writing for yourself. So I think there were a ton of comedians that came out of it. Because you would just start writing characters.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, I mean, it's now. Now schools are like creating these programs where they're auditioning people who, like, they want to find like the next Mindy Kaling or Tina Fey or whatever, where they're like N O u S C is doing a thing where you can. You do audition, but you also submit your writing. So it's for people who want to be writer performers and perform their own work.

[Anna Conkle]

It's so weird that that wasn't really a thing. Like when we were taking meetings at first, after we, Maya and I wrote a web series for ourselves that like 500 people watched. No one saw it, but it was like girls had just come out. And so the industry was like, oh, Lena Dunham wrote something for herself and starred in it. Let's find the next people. I feel like that's why we got half the meetings we did. Even though our web series wasn't at all successful.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, but you were. But it was funny. I remember the characters you were playing were really fun. And then it led to pen 15.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah, it led to pen 15. But it's just so weird that that wasn't a thing as much when we were sure coming up. Isn't that weird?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, it is weird.

[Anna Conkle]

And that. That it's like a major now.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, it makes sense. It's like, well, you could just write your own stuff and perform it.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

It does feel like the industry has evolved.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Yeah. It's definitely. Yeah. Anything. Yeah, it's change. It's always changing and growing.

[Anna Conkle]

That's a joke.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, I think. I don't know. Sometimes I don't know. Is he joking or not? Were you joking?

[Beck Bennett]

Well, it's accurate, right?

[Kyle Mooney]

It's accurate. But it is. But it's also. It's also a cliche thing to say.

[Anna Conkle]

So see, this is great for me. If you guys could just describe the subtleties of what's happening.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. It was kind of a joke though, right?

[Anna Conkle]

Was it?

[Kyle Mooney]

Or were you being genuine?

[Anna Conkle]

1 to 10. Was it a joke? 10 being. It's a joke.

[Beck Bennett]

We were doing a scale thing earlier.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Right before you came in. But honestly, this is the.

[Anna Conkle]

I know about the Microsoft.

[Kyle Mooney]

This is the type of brain you have. Like, you are like, in tune to things. Things. It's pretty.

[Anna Conkle]

I'm just getting lower, though.

[Beck Bennett]

Can I tell Anna what the scale was?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, yes.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah, tell me.

[Kyle Mooney]

And I like you getting comfortable here.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

You do things just a little different,

[Anna Conkle]

just a little weird.

[Beck Bennett]

I don't want to bring any discomfort to the. To this.

[Anna Conkle]

No, bring it, please.

[Kyle Mooney]

Bring.

[Anna Conkle]

Bring discomfort. I'm down. I don't seem down, but I'm down.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, she's down.

[Anna Conkle]

I'm down.

[Beck Bennett]

I think the reality. I love being around you so much. I love your work. I'M such a fan. Um, but you spend more. You. You were very close friends with Beck in a way that I'm not.

[Anna Conkle]

Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

Right. So I was just trying to like, okay, on a scale, Beck, where do you think my friendship with Anna lies out of 10?

[Kyle Mooney]

He's like, if you're. If I'm at a 10, where's.

[Anna Conkle]

Where are we?

[Beck Bennett]

And he.

[Kyle Mooney]

He gave a number, but I don't know. I said, I don't know.

[Anna Conkle]

I would like it if you wanted it to be a 10 one day.

[Kyle Mooney]

Ooh, that's nice.

[Beck Bennett]

You guys consider yourselves a 10.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Wow.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah, he's seen me cry.

[Kyle Mooney]

We're a 10. Yeah. Yeah. You guys are two of my closest friends.

[Anna Conkle]

I know. It is really interesting, the best friends that have best friends, and then you're like, but we're not best friends. But could we be? Cause there's that overlap. That's the best person to tell us, really? Could we be tens? He's making a no face.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think you could. I do.

[Anna Conkle]

Really? Are you just saying that? Cause it's a podcast?

[Kyle Mooney]

No, I think, because I think you are both very interesting, funny people who, like, occupy similar circles and have a lot of shared experiences, but also think about things uniquely. And I think if you're able to find that connection, that comfort of, like, oh, this is the way this person thinks, and this is how our brains kind of go, I would be very

[Beck Bennett]

happy to be your friend, but I don't feel like we need to be tens. Force that.

[Anna Conkle]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, you don't need to force it.

[Beck Bennett]

Daddy, where do you fall on, like. Because I have a general feeling, being of the age I am that.

[Anna Conkle]

39, 40. 39, 41.

[Beck Bennett]

Keep going.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. 41 year old.

[Anna Conkle]

41. Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

I. I'm not always seeking. I'm not seeking friends these days.

[Anna Conkle]

I know. Okay, so I just got rejected.

[Beck Bennett]

No, no, that's. But that. No, but that's not. No, no, no.

[Anna Conkle]

That's just to say, generally start sending you letters. We'll go through slowly to get to 10.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, you know, I'm happy.

[Beck Bennett]

I would jump in right now.

[Anna Conkle]

Really, Because I get lunch.

[Beck Bennett]

Sure.

[Kyle Mooney]

Take them to the club.

[Anna Conkle]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

Not in. Not in relation to, like, us being friends. I was just saying generally, like, yes, I have.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't find time for the friends that we have.

[Anna Conkle]

Very true. Okay. Yeah. 10's ambitious. I respect being denied as a 10, and I mean that. No, no. Yes. No, that's real.

[Beck Bennett]

Wait, you respect being denied as a 10?

[Anna Conkle]

Yes, but I would say at the moment. Four or five is your ranking. Well, only because when I'm at a 10. No, no. When I'm in a 10, it's full. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Blast.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah. Most of my tens I've known since literally I was born.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

And they've seen really sad moments in my life.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

Well, then maybe we're seeing you're at

[Kyle Mooney]

a 9 and you and Jesse are

[Anna Conkle]

at a 10, probably. Yeah, I would say that's true.

[Beck Bennett]

He ranked you and I at 7.25.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah, well, 7.25. Would you say that about me? My head is seven. Because if I'm at a 7.25, then you sure are. You better believe you're at a 7.2.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, well, I said. I said. I said five is like, is neutral. Under five is negative.

[Anna Conkle]

Oh, I don't agree with that.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, well, we. We see the scale starting.

[Anna Conkle]

One. That I like you.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Zero.

[Anna Conkle]

I'm going zero to negative. Yeah. If you're my friend. Zero. One.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, that makes sense. It's a friendship scale. So if you're on the scale, then it's good.

[Anna Conkle]

Sorry. Now I'm just computing that under five to you guys is negative. Yeah. No, I'm not.

[Kyle Mooney]

Like, that was just something I said.

[Beck Bennett]

We would love an official.

[Anna Conkle]

Is that something one would assume?

[Beck Bennett]

Hey, guys, if you're out there, if you have your own friend skills, how do you do it? Is the five sort of middle of the road, we're acquaintances, or is that starting at a plus zero?

[Kyle Mooney]

Because I just don't know if it leaves any room for. I guess it could leave room for nuance. Like. Like, there's no negativity in the friendship scale because I definitely have friendships that I would say are ones that I don't want and that person, like, I don't need the friendship. I don't need the relationship. I see them and it's like.

[Anna Conkle]

I would say that's under three.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

[Anna Conkle]

Or two.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

I would say to blow is like, I like them, but. And I. And I. But there's part of me that feels like this is just taking too much from me.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Okay, now just so that we can move on to other things. Where do you. Where do you guys see each other on the scale?

[Beck Bennett]

Well, I thought you're going to say, where do you see yourself going to lunch together.

[Anna Conkle]

Oh, I love that idea.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, we'll do both on three. Say the number one.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay. Wait, wait.

[Anna Conkle]

Is it zero? What? What?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

What is. What's the fucking scale?

[Kyle Mooney]

Zero to two is kind of like Ooh, I don't want to.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, so we're doing.

[Anna Conkle]

I don't want to see this person. They're like, okay, then definitely in the seven, eight zone. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. You guys are seven, seven, eight.

[Beck Bennett]

I would love. Every time I see you, I'm excited to see you.

[Anna Conkle]

Oh, I feel the same.

[Beck Bennett]

I'd be very happy to see you more. But also, like, there's the thing of, like, you know, you don't want to overstep over.

[Anna Conkle]

I know. If I was like, oh, I saw Kyle yesterday, like, I feel like Beck would be like, what do you mean?

[Kyle Mooney]

Like, if you had, like, lunch with him or something, he'd be like, oh,

[Anna Conkle]

he had a birthday party.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, he had a birthday party and I wasn't invited. Yeah, it would feel really weird.

[Anna Conkle]

I saw Kyle yesterday. I took him out to lunch for his birthday.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, how does that.

[Beck Bennett]

That is really intimate.

[Kyle Mooney]

That is really gonna say.

[Anna Conkle]

That's what I'm saying. That is where I want to put my time into my friendship.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's kind of like a parent relationship. Like, I'm gonna take you, like a. Like, take it. Take a Kyle out for his birthday. Like, maybe gets a piece of cake afterwards, and it's on you, and you're like, do you have fun? Then you drop him off back at home.

[Anna Conkle]

I only know how to do parent child relationships.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, speaking of, I'm gonna. I'm gonna use this as a segue. I. You are. I think I've said already, you're a very caring, just loving person. Thank you.

[Anna Conkle]

You are too.

[Kyle Mooney]

You are involved in the big brother, Big sister.

[Beck Bennett]

I didn't know that.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. You mentor a young person for how many years now?

[Anna Conkle]

Like, nine years.

[Kyle Mooney]

Wow, that is such a big commitment.

[Anna Conkle]

Wait, is that true? She was in fourth grade, and now she's about to finish her freshman year of college.

[Kyle Mooney]

Wow. And you still see.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're still part of the program. She's. But she's like a niece at this point, you know, it's.

[Kyle Mooney]

So maybe that's why you talk about bringing Kyle to lunch for his birthday, because you do that.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah, right.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Take me. Take me one on one bowling.

[Anna Conkle]

And I'll find a social worker for us to be the intermediary and help

[Kyle Mooney]

encourage us and stuff.

[Beck Bennett]

How did you get into that?

[Anna Conkle]

I had kind of promised myself that when I wasn't waiting tables anymore, I would. And I had, like, a little extra time and money that I would. That I would do the program. Yeah. I don't know.

[Kyle Mooney]

And why specifically that. That program, before giving your time back and helping somebody, you know, there were

[Anna Conkle]

a lot of people in my life, adults and mentors that, like, just helped. Just gave me a lot and, like, kind of hid in my best friend's home in high school. My friend Court and her parents were, like, my second parents. I, like, didn't want to be in my house. And I think it changed my life. And there's actually so many people like that from my history that it just felt very natural of, like, okay, go, Anna. You got that? Now you gotta do that. And I also really like kids.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

So it just was sort of easy. And then she liked to sing, she liked to draw. She liked to do the things I did. So, yeah, it was easy.

[Beck Bennett]

That's awesome.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's so cool. I know that, like, I feel like it can be. I don't know, it's. It depends on what specific part. The time of, like, coming up. It all looks different. But, like, sometimes when you're, you know, getting used to working more or whatever, it can be a stressful, definitely crazy time to take on, like, mentoring a younger person.

[Anna Conkle]

I know.

[Kyle Mooney]

Maybe it would help, like, I could see that. Help keeping you a little grounded, maybe throughout all of it, a little bit

[Anna Conkle]

more, I think, maybe. And, yeah, and we lucked out in the sense that, like, we just happened. She was just, like, a joy to be around. I know that that can be hard sometimes. Not that the kid is not fun to be around, but that, like, the whole family dynamics, and it can be a complex relationship, and I've heard of different dynamics there, and I think it's always worthwhile to be doing it, but I feel like I lucked out in that the situation, like, was very conducive to my life.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, that's.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Maybe this isn't. Maybe this is too. Too much information. But I'm curious.

[Anna Conkle]

Like, her address.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, just.

[Anna Conkle]

I'm comfortable.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. It's not. She's got.

[Beck Bennett]

It's more. It's more just because I. I've been. I've been writing this newsletter, and I want to get it out to as many people as possible.

[Anna Conkle]

Oh, that's for the address.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

Oh, yeah, Not a problem.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, cool.

[Anna Conkle]

Four, three.

[Beck Bennett]

It's four three.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's four three. And that's. It's just four, three.

[Beck Bennett]

I said Applewood.

[Kyle Mooney]

Or is it four three Applewood? Four three Applewood.

[Beck Bennett]

It doesn't matter.

[Kyle Mooney]

Choose your own adventure.

[Beck Bennett]

Which one do you want?

[Kyle Mooney]

Send it wherever you want.

[Beck Bennett]

How much, like, are you, like, encouraged or discouraged in that Situation to like, make your little brother, little sister a part of your life at all. Like, it's like, do. Oh, does she ever meet other people in your life? Or like, is it like. No, let's.

[Anna Conkle]

They have to get a background check. Like, Alex, my partner, had to get a background check. And it was like, yeah, it took months for. That sounds really weird. But he was approved the background checked.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's awesome. So now. Yeah, now we're sure about Alex.

[Anna Conkle]

Crying, laughing. Yeah. So that went great. And turned out he didn't have anything bad in his past.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's great. That's.

[Anna Conkle]

So now I know too. Yeah, I was wondering. I didn't have to hire anyone. The. The organization just did that for me.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's great. That's great.

[Beck Bennett]

And that's kind of a. A nice, like, sort of shortcut to get background checks. You just become a big brother.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah. And if you're. You have any questions about your spouse or your partner, whatever, you just have them do, like. Yeah, yeah. High risk organization. And. And they have. Yeah. Background checks. It's free.

[Kyle Mooney]

Pretty good. Pretty cool.

[Beck Bennett]

And so one day he got the information that he was good to go. He's like, hey, I can hang out with her.

[Kyle Mooney]

And what did he say? Hey, I can hang out with her. Hey, I can hang out with her. And then you were like, no, no, it's not for you to hang out with her. For me.

[Beck Bennett]

I just passed the background check.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. No, I'm not looking for you to go out.

[Anna Conkle]

That's such a good impression.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's amazing.

[Anna Conkle]

That's Alex.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's Alex.

[Beck Bennett]

What do you want to do now, Anna?

[Anna Conkle]

Well, that's.

[Kyle Mooney]

Wow, that's crazy.

[Anna Conkle]

That's really.

[Kyle Mooney]

That really is crazy.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Hey. Oh, it's like he's right here.

[Anna Conkle]

Like, yes, I do. You know? Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, shit. When he got married, I remember.

[Kyle Mooney]

Wow.

[Anna Conkle]

We're not married. We're engaged Still.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Engaged. Sorry.

[Anna Conkle]

But yes to the engagement.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Well, to me, I actually think engagement's actually cooler than marriage.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, it is sexier. Yeah. Now, speaking of big brother.

[Anna Conkle]

Speaking of what? Yeah, reign it back in, rain it back in.

[Kyle Mooney]

And you said you, like, kind of hid in your friend's house and, like. Right. You said her parents were like second parents to you. Yeah, you. I'm gonna hold up this book.

[Anna Conkle]

I love you, Beck. You're so sweet.

[Kyle Mooney]

You've written your first book, a memoir, the sane one, right here, about you. You're the sane one.

[Anna Conkle]

And you have a galley.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm the what?

[Anna Conkle]

You have a Galley.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's cool.

[Anna Conkle]

There's mistakes in there.

[Kyle Mooney]

I saw there's.

[Anna Conkle]

Yep. There's more than one, my friend.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay.

[Anna Conkle]

There's a really irritating area.

[Kyle Mooney]

Great.

[Anna Conkle]

Where the tech parts got all up.

[Beck Bennett]

I've seen you post about this. I'm so excited about this.

[Anna Conkle]

Oh, thank you.

[Beck Bennett]

I want to say something somewhat tangential.

[Anna Conkle]

Please.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

When I'm hanging out with my boy Beck.

[Anna Conkle]

Yep.

[Beck Bennett]

It feels like this.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, my God. You.

[Anna Conkle]

I agree.

[Beck Bennett]

Feels like a random house.

[Kyle Mooney]

How dare you use Anna's beautiful book to just rip my open again. Trying to make room for that room. Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

Random House. You are a random house.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, we're random houses.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

He's a name for the podcast.

[Anna Conkle]

Do you want me to show you where the big mistake is?

[Beck Bennett]

Please.

[Anna Conkle]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

It's an area.

[Beck Bennett]

Let's read your. Your little biography in the back there.

[Anna Conkle]

Oh, God, please don't.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, God.

[Anna Conkle]

There's a ton of dialogue. But it made the audiobook really fun. And I did my dad's voice, which is crazy.

[Kyle Mooney]

Really?

[Anna Conkle]

You'd be great as my dad, actually.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And pen 15, you're.

[Anna Conkle]

My dad's. Not really like that, but I was

[Beck Bennett]

going to say the. The. It's that. That actor's name who plays your dad is Taylor Nichols.

[Anna Conkle]

He was incredible. I can't find it. I'll show you later. Okay. It's a big mistake.

[Kyle Mooney]

Big mistake.

[Anna Conkle]

Kept me up at night.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, well, I'm gonna go. I'm ready to find all the big mistakes. And I'll send photos to Kyle.

[Anna Conkle]

Okay. Yes, do that.

[Kyle Mooney]

I haven't read this yet.

[Anna Conkle]

Thank you for shouting it out.

[Kyle Mooney]

First chapter.

[Anna Conkle]

Oh, thank you.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, it's. It's great. I was gonna say it's so funny to like read a book where like you and Alex are interact. Like I'm like seeing things that he said and interact. Like I know where you guys lived at the time. Like, so basically focuses on your relationship with your father, your parents divorce and. What? Am I missing something?

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah, no, it.

[Kyle Mooney]

Trying to make sense of it.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah. So in my early to mid 20s. Mid 20s. My dad and I weren't speaking, basically. And so there was an estrangement that lasted about five years. And during that time I. Which is like really what the book is, is I went kind of obsessively back into my memories of the past and my parents relationship, which was like very dysfunctional but very funny. Very funny characters. You've met my mom.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, yes. She's very funny.

[Anna Conkle]

She's a trip. And you know, just like and me, the little person, trying to fix things constantly in. In there, in our house. And. Yeah. Just, like, looking at the corners of memory, both the joys of it and the things that, you know, aren't joyful, and figuring out, like, this person that, to me as a kid was, like, coolest, funniest, best dad ever. The falling of the pedestal, you know, off the pedestal. That happens to most people with their parents, you know.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

But it really felt like, was I. Is he different now? We're both different, you know, now that I'm in my 20s. But, like. Yes. Going back to the past and figuring out what happened, because it didn't feel like a pedestal. It felt like a building.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

You know what I mean?

[Kyle Mooney]

He was way up there.

[Anna Conkle]

He was way up high.

[Kyle Mooney]

And then.

[Anna Conkle]

And then he fell down very low.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

And probably to. To be. You know, now that I've had time since, like, the amount that he fell was probably more than. It was. Like, my fantasy of how bad he was kind of.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Anna Conkle]

Was greater than what I sort of concluded of the reality of it.

[Kyle Mooney]

Like, what it felt. What it felt like to you.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah. Just like I felt in my. Yeah. In my mid-20s. Like, I. Did I ever know him? Because I was looking back and seeing how many estrangements he'd had my whole life.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

I don't know.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. How.

[Anna Conkle]

How long is it and how long

[Kyle Mooney]

do you talk about something?

[Anna Conkle]

I can answer a little.

[Beck Bennett]

What is the spectrum of time that's being dealt with in this?

[Anna Conkle]

It starts, like, after the five years of not seeing my dad, and, like, I've seen him for the first time, and then it goes back to. I'm probably, like, five years old in Vermont, and. And then it carries back through until my mid-20s in the estrangement. And then he gets sick, actually.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Anna Conkle]

And we were lucky enough that we had started to mend things again, and I became his caregiver. So it's definitely a ride. Like, it's tonally kind of going through the highs and lows and things, I think that are very funny, but also things that are really sad.

[Kyle Mooney]

Was it nice that you were able to have that with him at the end?

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah. I remember a family friend sent me an article in the last few weeks of his life that it was like, why Cancer is a Gift. I was like, wrong timing. This is not feeling helpful. And the more that I sat with it, it. So, you know, I did read the article, and it was. There was that point of view that resonated with me of, like, you know, if it had been fast, if I had gotten a call that there was a car accident or, you know, like, we wouldn't have had the time of knowing that the end was coming and getting to just talk about the difficult things. Like, and especially after being estranged for five years, the fact that we had, you know, two months, basically, but two months to talk through the difficult things. And, like. And there were so many amazing moments, too, through those last months where, like, you know, he was on morphine and there was playlists of music, you know, just. And he was just jamming out, and

[Kyle Mooney]

he was, this is how you should be on morphine.

[Anna Conkle]

Well, he was kind of like his. I. It. In some ways, I felt like I was seeing the dad from childhood again that was on a pedestal. Like, he. He was best when he was being taken care of. That's true. He liked to be taken care of, and I got to do that for him at the end. But he also just, like, was very graceful in. In death.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

And that was. I got to, like, see him as a hero again a little bit.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's so nice.

[Beck Bennett]

Did you know. Did you. When were you, like, kind of struck by the moment of, like, I think this is a story I want to tell people.

[Anna Conkle]

I think for so long, my parents and my family were like punchlines. It was probably my way into comedy without realizing that I was going in that direction was just, like, such funny characters. And I would make fun of our dynamic and them all the time to my friends of, you know, trying to make light of whatever bad had just happened that day. And so that was always sort of in there. And then during probably the estrangement, it was less funny to me, and I started having to grapple with, like, memories that were more in the shadows of my life and. And facing those, and then that is hard.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's like, oh, I haven't. I. This. There's this distance. Wait, why is there this distance?

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Is it real? Am I making it a bigger deal? Yes. Or wait, no. Am I actually protecting myself?

[Anna Conkle]

There was definitely an aspect of feeling like I was exaggerating my memories or I've always been, like, very sensitive, and everyone, since I was little, always been like, oh, you're so sensitive. So there was that feeling of, like, I'm probably just too sensitive. This isn't that big of a deal, you know? And then there's some important moments that happen where I'm sort of validated of, like, no, it was bad. That part was bad. And then I think, I don't Know if it's because we were in the pen 15 writers room at the moment when he passed or. Or what. But it was just naturally, like, there was all of these storylines of his life and my life that closed. It was like there was always this strange will they, won't they? With my parents, like, past divorce of, like, when I went to college. After they got divorced, they started getting burgers again. And then, like, they were. They moved to two. Then that stopped. They got in some fight that ended, and then they moved to two different states on the north in the northeast, and then the same weekend moved, like, 30 minutes away from each other in Florida. And then they both were going up, you know, through breakups at the same time. And then my mom was trying to see my dad again at the end of his life, and anyway, he ended up saying no, but it was like, that was the end of their story, too. I don't know. There was a lot of. A lot of endings that I was like, okay, I want to write it. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I mean, congratulations.

[Anna Conkle]

Oh, thank you.

[Beck Bennett]

I can't wait to read it. Nobody gave me a galley, but.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, well, you're gonna have to get the real one with pen 15. I mean, such an incredible show. I. Such a singular, unique show that I can't really. There's very little to compare it to. It is very funny and creative, but it is also very emotional. I think episode seven of season two, opening night, that episode hit me really hard. I think anybody. Most people grew up with parents who argue. My parents.

[Anna Conkle]

Is that true?

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't know. Maybe not. Maybe parents, the kids have to deal with silence instead of arguing that, like, my parents were funny, too, but they also were expressive, and there was, you know, you just really relate to. Yeah. And that show, obviously, was, I think, helpful for a lot of kids going through adolescence and navigating things, and they see themselves in it, whether it's in the moment or afterwards. And then, you know, even with the Big Brothers, Big Sisters club, you're, like, mentoring young kids. And then.

[Anna Conkle]

Thank you.

[Kyle Mooney]

With this book, I mean, I could take a guess, but I would imagine, like, what do you. What are you hoping for, you know, with this book for. For your readers?

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah. I mean, memoirs were an important thing for me. I started reading them, like, in my early 20s, and it was definitely the first time of feeling like I tend to gravitate towards people that have more stable family lives than I do and. Or than I did. And. Yeah, like, David Sedaris was like, the first time going like, oh, my God, you had way crazier. And you're fine. You're fudgeing writing about it, and you're funny and you're, like, sane. And because you have perspective in the way you're writing about it, like, isn't. You didn't die. You're fine. Yeah, fine. You know what I mean?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

And so it felt like, okay, and then I just started devouring memoirs. And it was just a time. Yeah. I just didn't feel alone in it anymore. And, like, I need to hide it or whatever. It was, like, did it.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Did it.

[Beck Bennett]

The actual act of writing, how challenging did it. Did it flow? Was it, like, tough to find the time or how was it for you?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

So hard. I mean, it was. I pitched it, like, five years ago. I was pregnant. I remember being pregnant when I pitched it.

[Kyle Mooney]

There's so many. So many things. I feel like we all started when we were having kids or there was a pandemic or a strike, and now our lives are back to normal. Normal.

[Anna Conkle]

And it's like, God, when did you guys pitch this?

[Kyle Mooney]

During the strike, I think.

[Anna Conkle]

During the strike, yeah. Why do things take so long?

[Kyle Mooney]

It's crazy.

[Anna Conkle]

I never think it will. And it feels like when we were younger, things didn't. I guess they did. Pen15 took forever. Eight years, something. But when you guys started, Good neighbor. You just. You just start.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, we just started putting videos up.

[Anna Conkle]

You don't have to ask permission.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, it's easier.

[Beck Bennett]

I think. Unfortunately, we are. We're witnessing. We're back to the era of, like, you sort of just have to make it on your own immediately to get it made.

[Kyle Mooney]

Almost just in general, you're saying. Yeah, yeah, I think so.

[Anna Conkle]

I think so.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Which is exciting, which is frustrating.

[Anna Conkle]

But not when you're paying a mortgage. Like, that's what's hard is, like, being older. And all I want to do is being like, all right, let's make something for nothing again. And then, like. But mortgage next month.

[Kyle Mooney]

We're like, yeah. The first time I was able to quit my waiting job, I was living on a porch with Kyle paying $400 a month, and it was like, this is the best thing in the world. Like, all I need is a thousand dollars.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah. Right. I picture that porch, by the way. Like, I have a picture in my head of, like, a green room. Like a. Like a plant.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

Is that what it. It's not, right?

[Kyle Mooney]

No, no.

[Anna Conkle]

Like a sun room.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. Where you're just. Sunroom, laundry room, sweat.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah. Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Very sweaty.

[Anna Conkle]

I'VE really taken up a lot of. A lot of. What's your podcast time?

[Kyle Mooney]

I know. Well, no, no, it's good. This is the perfect time.

[Beck Bennett]

You're the guest.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. What are you. You're just talking and talking about your book. I mean, we're. Regardless, I. I excited for this to come out and for a lot of people to connect with this as they have with a lot of your work and see themselves in it and have some relief and be like, oh, there's other people like me out there.

[Beck Bennett]

And I. I'm not. I. I don't know your story, but I did see that Wreck It Ralph is mentioned in there.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah, Wreck It Ralph is in there.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's cool.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Can you tell us a little bit about that real quick before you tell us what our podcast should be?

[Beck Bennett]

Well, he works with Fix It. Fix It Felix.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay.

[Anna Conkle]

Okay. Didn't know that part.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, yeah. Or.

[Anna Conkle]

But I know his daughter's name is insane. Is it his daughter? Is it not? Persephone.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, no, no. Penelope. That's not.

[Anna Conkle]

No, it's crazier than that. Who cares?

[Beck Bennett]

Persephone Ralph, not his daughter.

[Anna Conkle]

If you want to figure out Wreck It Ralph's daughter's name, like, just read the end of the book.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, just read the whole book and get to the end.

[Beck Bennett]

It does say the daughter's name.

[Anna Conkle]

It does. I can't remember it right now.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, we're reaching into the book.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, we're reaching into the book now.

[Beck Bennett]

This is not online.

[Anna Conkle]

You can only find this in the book. Vanellope.

[Kyle Mooney]

Vanellope.

[Beck Bennett]

That sounds right.

[Kyle Mooney]

So was her last name Ralph?

[Anna Conkle]

I don't know. Yeah, I watched a small section of it, and that's the point that I walk in and I'm seeing Alex with our daughter. It's the epilogue. Watching Wreck It Ralph.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, cool.

[Anna Conkle]

And then something crazy happens.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, well, you're gonna have to read to find out. Video game.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, Anna, you guys.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, this has been an absolute joy. And there's more to come. No, no, you can't go anywhere. You have to take your shoes. Please don't take your shoes.

[Beck Bennett]

Leave them here.

[Kyle Mooney]

Leave it. Those are ours now. Those are our shoes now.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, you.

[Kyle Mooney]

You go.

[Beck Bennett]

Come on. You go for it. You guys are okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Come on. Know we're exploring here.

[Beck Bennett]

Takes back to days of the experimental theater.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, this is very experimen.

[Anna Conkle]

Who wants a massage?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, that's real.

[Anna Conkle]

They give a lot of massages. Too many massages for that much money a month.

[Kyle Mooney]

Theater school A lot of breathing. And I. I.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes. I remember in doing high school drama and, like, getting. Being a part of a massage train. I'm not comfortable with that stuff.

[Kyle Mooney]

Run a train on each other.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah, yeah, there's. I don't think they're probably happening that much anymore. If I had a gas. No, you can't. You're definitely not.

[Kyle Mooney]

You have to have a background check.

[Anna Conkle]

There were a lot of boners during massages. Don't say O like that. That was.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. That's a whole nother podcast.

[Anna Conkle]

Maybe they can put a sound over the O so no one hears that.

[Beck Bennett]

The oof. Like, I don't support the boners. Or like, like, that's embarrassing or what? Or like, no, I feel for the

[Kyle Mooney]

guy who had the word. I don't like that. No, no, an oof is not a. Oh, yeah. That would have been an oh, the delivery was.

[Anna Conkle]

Oh, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I like the idea of, like, everybody

[Kyle Mooney]

rubbing each other's back.

[Beck Bennett]

I just got a boner.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, no.

[Beck Bennett]

I don't know why somebody politely telling

[Kyle Mooney]

you that I got a boner. You should probably stop touching me, you guys. I do. Okay, but we can talk about boners all day. But what do you think our podcast should be about, Enna?

[Anna Conkle]

Well, I floated one, but I think I shouldn't float. I think I should just dive.

[Kyle Mooney]

You can float or dive. Float and dive.

[Beck Bennett]

We've kind of, at this point, experimental theatered a few different versions.

[Kyle Mooney]

I mean, so the one you floated was. I'm not here, you're not here. Okay. Which could be the one. Sometimes people do pitch multiple. What's your other idea?

[Anna Conkle]

Fingers.

[Kyle Mooney]

Fingers. I gotta say, I think fingers is pretty exciting. What about you, Kyle? Or do you want to pretend that Anna's not here?

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah, you guys shouldn't get that. That's, like, too awkward. But that's so funny. If you choose. Pretend Anna's not here. That's actually not the words that I chose, but we could put it into that. Pretend Anna's not here.

[Kyle Mooney]

Like, no guest.

[Anna Conkle]

I'm not. I. Yeah, I'm not. I guess I did say I'm not here.

[Kyle Mooney]

I mean, it would be funny for the people watching because we could cut to you a lot and cut to your reactions, but I think for all of our listeners, I think fingers is going to be best because I want you to participate.

[Anna Conkle]

I'm not here is also fine with

[Kyle Mooney]

that and any other. Before we go into it, any other caveats?

[Anna Conkle]

Oh, I had a bunch of ideas.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, no. No other ideas. I like fingers. Is there any, like. Like, thing you want to be mentioned or any direction for it?

[Anna Conkle]

No.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, great. It's just Fingers.

[Anna Conkle]

Fingers, man.

[Kyle Mooney]

Right. Well, ladies and gentlemen, we'll be right back with our new podcast, Fingers.

[Beck Bennett]

This podcast is brought to you by.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's brought to you by Circle Spot. Circle Spot is the. All in one place.

[Beck Bennett]

Back. Back. This is not like. This is actually a company I really enjoy working with, and I really like their product. I really like.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, I did not me. I did not know. I thought it was just a regular company, but we're actually talking about Squarespace and I kind of. I was having fun with the name.

[Beck Bennett]

Podcast Episode is brought to you by Squarespace and an amazing group of people.

[Kyle Mooney]

I didn't know. I. I mean, like, I know that's not.

[Beck Bennett]

I don't.

[Kyle Mooney]

It was kind of like inverting it or something. I was trying, like, I. Squarespace means a lot to me too, and I didn't know.

[Beck Bennett]

Why didn't you show it? I mean, this is like an one website platform designed to help you stand out and do well online.

[Kyle Mooney]

I know. And, like, it's. They're the only. They're really the only people in the game.

[Beck Bennett]

Like, are you just starting out? You're trying to scale your business? What's going on here?

[Kyle Mooney]

I am growing my business. Okay. I am definitely going to go back. We have a website that we created with Squarespace, and once we have, you know, we definitely need to update it and grow it. And it.

[Beck Bennett]

Like, I'm podcast dot com.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm just going to say this right now. If you. If somebody else is like, I made a website and I didn't make it. With Squarespace, you do not want to be in business with them, like, because it shows that they're cutting corners. They don't know what the best tech is and all the, you know, all the tools that they have. So, like, it's just. That's it. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I wouldn't go into a swimming pool with somebody who. Who's not currently using Squarespace. I wouldn't.

[Kyle Mooney]

That should be at every swimming pool. Show us your Squarespace website.

[Beck Bennett]

Anything, you know, like, I wouldn't walk into a. A communal kitchen or something like that. We got a kitchen here. Studios. Like, if I. If I walk in, if I run into one of these buttheads and they're like, no, actually, I used. I used. I used Dot com Builders.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Dot com builders. Like, that's.

[Kyle Mooney]

So I would not trust them, you know? Yeah. I would not trust them in a kitchen. I would not trust them in a pool.

[Beck Bennett]

I would not trust them, Kyle. I am.

[Kyle Mooney]

If I get a ride share and the driver's like, yeah. But starting my new website with dot com builders, I'm getting right out of the car because, like, there's no way I trust my life to be in their hands.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Sorry, sister.

[Beck Bennett]

Yep. Squarespace gives you everything you need to claim your domain, showcase your offerings with a fresh website, grow your brand, get paid all in one place. Yep.

[Kyle Mooney]

I've had a great experience using them, and I don't trust anybody else. Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

Squarespace makes it easy to showcase your expertise and engage clients with video content on your website. Your expertise. I'm gonna say your expertise. You're a great ass, dad.

[Kyle Mooney]

Thank you. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

You're a great cook.

[Kyle Mooney]

Thank you.

[Beck Bennett]

You're a great actor.

[Kyle Mooney]

Thank you. You are an incredible father. You're an incredible musician and music man, and you are an incredible filmmaker and appreciator of. Of sounds and. And movies. And I. And I. You're a. You're a great communicator, and you're a community. You're. I would almost say you're a community builder because of the way that you. You keep it real and connect with people.

[Beck Bennett]

That's very sweet.

[Kyle Mooney]

And you do it all with Squarespace. I don't think that you'd be able to do any of that without.

[Beck Bennett]

No. What, do you think I'm stupid? You think I'm, like, up in the head? Of course I need square.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, sometimes I do think that. And then I realized, no, you're using Squarespace.

[Beck Bennett]

Exactly.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. And so then I'm like, oh, he's actually pretty. He actually knows what he's doing.

[Beck Bennett]

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[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

For online courses, exclusive tutorials, and premium workshops.

[Kyle Mooney]

I would like to do a course or a workshop, and we can do it on Squarespace. We could do like a. We could do like a songwriting workshop or a comedy workshop, characters workshop, screenwriting workshop. Or like a. I don't know, like a. Like a parenting workshop or like something

[Beck Bennett]

where we could all get together. I would love to kick it with community. This. These three.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

Back Rochelle, myself.

[Kyle Mooney]

Let's do it on Squarespace. Yeah. Check out squarespace.com beckandkyle for a free trial. And when you're ready to launch. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

They're imagining, like, a rocket ship.

[Kyle Mooney]

Exactly. That's a rocket ship. All right.

[Beck Bennett]

Keep going. Sorry about that.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's all good. Offer code. Beck And Kyle, to save 10 off your first purchase of a website or domain. And here they go, folks.

[Beck Bennett]

5, 4, and 3, 2, 1.

[Kyle Mooney]

And the launch was successful. They made it to Mars.

[Beck Bennett]

One step for back, one step for a. For the podcast.

[Kyle Mooney]

Be funny Squarespace. 3, 2, 1. And finger blast off. Whoa. Welcome back.

[Beck Bennett]

I gotta hand it to you.

[Kyle Mooney]

What? I gotta. I gotta. You fingernailed that one. Just kidding. We're just riffing. Welcome back to Finger Fingers with Beck and Kyle. I'm here with my co host, Kyle.

[Beck Bennett]

Good to see you, man. I was, I've been, I've been thinking about you because I was, I was lost the other day.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, cool.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's amazing.

[Beck Bennett]

I was driving around town and I couldn't. Couldn't figure out my exit. I was like, oh, this is such a Beck moment.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's not true. I don't get lost a lot. What are you talking about? That's insane.

[Beck Bennett]

I must be mixed up.

[Kyle Mooney]

Is that something that you think of? Like, Beck's always getting lost on the freeway or something?

[Beck Bennett]

Well, we have a great show.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. Yeah. I'm sorry. I'm just, I'm a little rattled. Let me just do my breathing.

[Beck Bennett]

I didn't mean it. I did not mean it in a way. I did not. I was. I don't think you always get lost. It was more just that, like, I feel like you have this way of, like, I, of like, you know, getting mixed up and like, you know, forgetful and like. So I was sort of having a Beck moment, I guess, is what I was saying.

[Kyle Mooney]

That is funny. That's really funny. Funny. I think that that checks out with me and. Yeah, sometimes. Yeah. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

It was just, I was just having a Beck moment.

[Kyle Mooney]

Just so you know. I'm. I'm letting you know. I, I, I. The other day, I was, I was walking my dog.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And I. My dog went to the bathroom.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

And I went down to pick it up and I realized I didn't have a bag. And I was just picking it up with my hands and my, My pants split open and they kind of split open so bad when I was bending down and picking. And then my pants fell down and I'm standing there with doodle over my hand and I was like, this is such a Kyle moment.

[Beck Bennett]

What do you mean?

[Kyle Mooney]

Like, you're always like, just like covered in shit. Like, pants kind of falling down kind of.

[Beck Bennett]

I don't know about that.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, well, you know what time it is. It's time to hear our song Fingers. It was a podcast that's what it's all about. You told us. Fingers. Here's our podcast. That's what we'll talk about with Beck and Kyle. Yeah, that's right. And we're here with our guest this week.

[Beck Bennett]

I love her to death. To die for.

[Kyle Mooney]

I love her to die for. Is that was what they say is the expression.

[Beck Bennett]

I think she's got 10 of them, by the way.

[Anna Conkle]

Surprise.

[Kyle Mooney]

10 fingers.

[Anna Conkle]

There she is.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, there they are. She was hiding some ten fingers. Anna Conkle. Thanks for being here, Anna.

[Anna Conkle]

Thanks for having me on, Fingers.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, it's great to have you here to talk about it all.

[Beck Bennett]

And now the fingers pointed at you because you're in the hot seat.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Now how do we this. I love these.

[Anna Conkle]

My hips already hurt. Sorry.

[Beck Bennett]

Can I describe to the listener?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

So Beck has both his hands up left and right, and he's got. He's doing what I'm going to call them the gun fingers. He's pointing one at me.

[Anna Conkle]

Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no.

[Beck Bennett]

And now. So he transferred from kind of classic pistol fingers to sort of a. I

[Kyle Mooney]

guess an assault rifle. That feels a little awkward. But anyway, can I just ask. Yeah, go ahead.

[Beck Bennett]

You go first, please.

[Kyle Mooney]

So I recently took a photo with somebody.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, okay, I know what that is.

[Kyle Mooney]

In the photo.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, wow.

[Kyle Mooney]

In the photo, this man, I'm gonna say sports legend, points at me. He does this thing, and so I point at him.

[Anna Conkle]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Cause he's pointing at me, and I don't want to just be standing there like this. You know, sometimes people.

[Anna Conkle]

Is this a real story?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Sometimes people do, like, one of these or one of these. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, for our listeners, you're throwing

[Beck Bennett]

up a peace sign. You're throwing up a pointing out, number one to the.

[Kyle Mooney]

But he's. But he's pointing at me, and I'm pointing at him. So now we have this photo where we're both pointing at each other.

[Beck Bennett]

Right.

[Kyle Mooney]

You know, this is something that people do.

[Beck Bennett]

Like, what is the point implying? Like, yeah, I'm here with him. Like, what is it trying to say?

[Kyle Mooney]

I know that's Beck. That's this guy right here. Or like, this is the guy right here.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

But I'm also, like. I kind of wanted. Like, it would be nice to have a photo where he's pointing at me and I'm just kind of, like, looking at the finger.

[Beck Bennett]

Right?

[Kyle Mooney]

What the.

[Anna Conkle]

Smelling it.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, now on to our next.

[Beck Bennett]

But maybe it's also, like, trying to, like, kind of for the for the person who's looking at the photo, if they don't know who to look at.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

It's like, look at him.

[Kyle Mooney]

Sure.

[Anna Conkle]

It's not about me. It's about you.

[Kyle Mooney]

But Anna mentioned maybe in the next. Next time somebody does that I should smell the finger in the photo. Which would be funny.

[Anna Conkle]

No, that would be really fun, because

[Kyle Mooney]

that's kind of a plan. We've all heard it. Smell my finger.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Smell my fingers.

[Anna Conkle]

It's like, oh, it's not what I just ate. You know where my pretzels smell.

[Kyle Mooney]

Where my fingers just were. And it could be. Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

Pretzel bag. You know, my hair. Oh, smell my shampoo.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, yeah. I always thought it was kind of like these were in a. In a hole of a human.

[Anna Conkle]

No, no, no. I don't know. That's not. I've never thought about that.

[Kyle Mooney]

When you kind of hold up too, like that. That's kind of.

[Anna Conkle]

I've never thought about that. Really?

[Kyle Mooney]

You never thought about that?

[Anna Conkle]

That's what you're saying?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

Why would you think about that?

[Beck Bennett]

When do you think that started? When do you think. You think we're talking.

[Anna Conkle]

Smell my fingers.

[Beck Bennett]

79.

[Kyle Mooney]

When do I need smell like in the.

[Anna Conkle]

Actually, now it's all coming back to me. A boy has done that right under my nose. Like a mustache. Is there anything more humiliating?

[Beck Bennett]

Have they done that?

[Kyle Mooney]

Like a mustache? Yes, I think they were.

[Beck Bennett]

I keep on smelling.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think they were probably trying to get you to smell their back.

[Beck Bennett]

I don't need to smell them, but every time they come.

[Kyle Mooney]

I've smelled his feet. I've smelled his feet before, but now

[Beck Bennett]

I feel pretty good about my fingers.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah, my fingers smell like soap.

[Kyle Mooney]

And those smell really good. Actually, you just washed those.

[Anna Conkle]

Really?

[Beck Bennett]

Do you want to smell them? Yeah, I feel comfortable in.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, this is kind of.

[Anna Conkle]

Oh, wow. Floral.

[Kyle Mooney]

Smell my fingers.

[Anna Conkle]

So floral.

[Beck Bennett]

Let me smell my fingers.

[Anna Conkle]

Let me smell yours.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, it's. It's, you know, it's too far.

[Anna Conkle]

Why are you making me smell Kyle's but you won't let me smell yours? That's weird.

[Kyle Mooney]

Smell my fingers.

[Anna Conkle]

I'm regretting this.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, I'm with you.

[Anna Conkle]

I don't know about mine now.

[Kyle Mooney]

Kyle, you were just holding up your fingers. Kyle, I don't know if we've ever shown your fingers on the fingers podcast.

[Beck Bennett]

They might have been. Okay. Sorry.

[Kyle Mooney]

But we would love to see them. They're special fingers.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, Rochelle, let's. Let's make a meal out of this. What camera should I play to?

[Kyle Mooney]

I Think this. And it should be. Should I do a walk? I think it could be some sort of slow mo thing with you in the background with, like a zoom in. We'll have some music. What's that?

[Anna Conkle]

See if I like double joints going.

[Kyle Mooney]

We'll see.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. What is the best reveal here?

[Anna Conkle]

Okay. I didn't know. I didn't know.

[Kyle Mooney]

It'd be great if we had, like. Okay, that camera that they have first,

[Beck Bennett]

or should I go straight to the camera?

[Kyle Mooney]

I think straight to the camera.

[Beck Bennett]

I'm gonna go pointer finger first.

[Kyle Mooney]

Here we go.

[Anna Conkle]

Wow. You got special fingers.

[Beck Bennett]

Wow.

[Kyle Mooney]

There they are. Kyle's Ziggly wiggly little fingy wingy.

[Beck Bennett]

Wow. The profile is the best way to see what's happening, right?

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Look at that. Oh, that is bent.

[Kyle Mooney]

That is bent.

[Anna Conkle]

That's awesome, though.

[Kyle Mooney]

Now.

[Anna Conkle]

Very cool.

[Kyle Mooney]

Very cool.

[Anna Conkle]

Are you hyper mobile? And check this out, because I am. Back up a little bit. You're hyper mobile. Does he know he's hypermobile?

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't know. I don't think he's ever used that word.

[Anna Conkle]

Okay, show us what you were just doing.

[Beck Bennett]

I wasn't on mic. I feel like I was talking. Talking like I was on the mic.

[Kyle Mooney]

Let's see.

[Beck Bennett]

But I wasn't on the mic.

[Kyle Mooney]

You were on the mic.

[Beck Bennett]

I'm doing this. Check. Watch this. Press. Press my. Press my. Press this.

[Anna Conkle]

Press it.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Fixed it. So. Yeah. So I was. I basically dislodged my thumb and I pushed it back in. You want to try it?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, my God.

[Kyle Mooney]

I did. I thought you were doing that.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

Wow.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

So my fingers are. I believe.

[Kyle Mooney]

I've never.

[Beck Bennett]

How would you describe these? These are crooked.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, All.

[Beck Bennett]

All of them. I feel like this one is maybe the worst one.

[Anna Conkle]

I don't think they're crooked.

[Beck Bennett]

Pointer finger.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think they're special.

[Beck Bennett]

Every section, you know, you've got these little sections almost, and everyone is pointing in a different direction.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Zigzag.

[Anna Conkle]

Are you. And you're not overextending on purpose. Like, you know how some people do, like, a little bit of a party trick or something, so.

[Beck Bennett]

No, no, no, let's. No, they're special.

[Anna Conkle]

They are special. I agree with that.

[Kyle Mooney]

They're really beautiful. Everybody has different fingers.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah. They just seem like more articulate fingers to me.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

Truly.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, yes. Well, they've been reading quite a bit of Dostoevsky.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

Why was that bad?

[Kyle Mooney]

That was so ugly.

[Anna Conkle]

Wait, I keep trying to ask, though. Are you hypermobile?

[Beck Bennett]

You tell me.

[Anna Conkle]

Cause I am.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't Know what that is?

[Anna Conkle]

Erlos Danos syndrome.

[Kyle Mooney]

Ehleros Danlos syndrome.

[Anna Conkle]

Yes. And there's different ways of having it, and hypermobility is usually the core quality eds. You'll see it everywhere now.

[Kyle Mooney]

We'll see it everywhere. So what did you do, like, party

[Anna Conkle]

tricks as a kid with your body? Let me show. Can I just show you? This isn't fingers.

[Kyle Mooney]

I would love to see.

[Anna Conkle]

But since I was a kid, I'd be like, oh, everyone can do this.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, right.

[Anna Conkle]

And then I'd walk on my knees across the room, and people would be like, whoa, she's so cool. I have a big crush on that.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Yeah. Wow.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Love that.

[Anna Conkle]

I'd be like, get away. No, I am in a relationship, a lot of them.

[Beck Bennett]

You bring up a very funny point. This, like, kind of sexualization of people who are, like, flexible. It's like, I don't know that you

[Kyle Mooney]

think she was joking.

[Beck Bennett]

No, I know. I. I know, but I'm saying that it is funny to me.

[Anna Conkle]

Oh, yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, sure.

[Anna Conkle]

The idea.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think with guys, there's a thing of, like, she can do this, but

[Anna Conkle]

it's like, oh, yeah, that's ridiculous. And she can walk on her knees, too. I want to show you, but I won't. So.

[Beck Bennett]

But so hyper mobile is like, you can do weird stuff with your body.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah. Like you. You are dislocating your. Your thumb on cue.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

Like, that's. That's a. That's a hallmark feature.

[Beck Bennett]

That's my superpower.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

Cool. Can you do that with any other part of your body?

[Kyle Mooney]

Ooh, wink, wink. Hong Kong.

[Anna Conkle]

Didn't mean that.

[Kyle Mooney]

Didn't do that with any other part of your body. Hong Kong.

[Beck Bennett]

I do.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's a whore.

[Anna Conkle]

You know. Hong Kong.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, that was just a car coming by. We were in the way the other day.

[Beck Bennett]

We sort of found out that of three men who were sitting here in total, I was the only one who could bring my foot up to my mouth to suck on my toe.

[Anna Conkle]

There we go.

[Kyle Mooney]

There we go. Hyper mobile.

[Anna Conkle]

That's hypermobile.

[Kyle Mooney]

Eds, you got.

[Anna Conkle]

It's gonna blow your mind.

[Kyle Mooney]

You guys. You guys could talk about that at your birthday lunch.

[Anna Conkle]

You know tomorrow's my birthday.

[Beck Bennett]

I do.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's right. Yes.

[Anna Conkle]

You want to go. Go to lunch?

[Kyle Mooney]

You can't say no, but we do have a record. Do you want to go to lunch for my birthday? Is that what you want?

[Beck Bennett]

Hey, you guys.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. You could show up tomorrow. Yeah, okay. But back to fingers.

[Beck Bennett]

You don't have anybody to spend your birthday with.

[Anna Conkle]

I Don't have plans.

[Beck Bennett]

A.

[Anna Conkle]

But we have plans up, but in a nice way. Kind of. Yeah, we have plans. We do have plans Later. I was thinking of asking if people wanted to go to a bar.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, wow.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, that's what people do sometimes. You could do that. I would say do it before. Give people some notice. Like, if your birthday's Wednesday, do it.

[Anna Conkle]

That's so embarrassing.

[Beck Bennett]

I would also, you know, be.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, honestly. But no, but this is. This is something.

[Anna Conkle]

You sound like such a loser.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, but this is happening to us in our life. We used to go to bars all the time when we were younger and didn't have kids. And it was just like. Like, yeah, we'll just go out. And now going out is like, wait, how did you do that? Where did you go? And. And when you go to these places, it's always, what do you do with your fingers?

[Anna Conkle]

Oh, absolutely.

[Kyle Mooney]

Right.

[Beck Bennett]

What about this one? I've been. I've been getting back into this, by the way, and.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh yeah, Kyle's really into this. Ask me to do it.

[Anna Conkle]

I don't know about. Pull the finger. See? Another party trick.

[Beck Bennett]

No, it. Something else came out.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, God. You just. Your pants.

[Beck Bennett]

I had a little baby.

[Kyle Mooney]

Kyle does this from your penis. My son. So with. With like Ruby's. Ruby. Kyle's finger. D. And be going like Kyle pud again and again and again.

[Beck Bennett]

I. I do feel bad about it. Like I. I am into the poo and pee pee humor with the kids.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh yeah, I am. Yeah. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Cuz it is.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's funny.

[Anna Conkle]

What's funnier, it's still funny.

[Beck Bennett]

And the fact that they think it's funny is funny.

[Anna Conkle]

And it's more honest.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, right.

[Anna Conkle]

Kids are so honest. I love that. That.

[Kyle Mooney]

So fingers. Fingers. So yeah, you can do the. Do the. Pull my finger pinkies. Smell my fingers.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, yeah. See, that's they. Yeah. Yours. Kind of sort of. They sort of split up.

[Anna Conkle]

They go away. Each other. My. My pinkies move away from each other, like at the tips.

[Kyle Mooney]

How interesting, right?

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Not mine.

[Anna Conkle]

We could talk about being fingered.

[Kyle Mooney]

I was just going to go to finger each other. Yes. So.

[Anna Conkle]

So my dad had part of his finger removed.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh really? Why?

[Anna Conkle]

He got bit on the finger by a bird.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, by a bird?

[Anna Conkle]

Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

What kind of bird?

[Anna Conkle]

Four Seasons.

[Kyle Mooney]

Could assume it's like a toucan or something. A parrot.

[Anna Conkle]

It was like a rescued parrot and it would say hello.

[Kyle Mooney]

So it was like an attraction.

[Anna Conkle]

Really cute.

[Kyle Mooney]

So it was an attraction of the hotel?

[Anna Conkle]

It was, but they were rescued. It was under the guise of being rescued, removed. My father's finger was removed because this bird. Sorry, two separate stories.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, two separate stories. See, that's the way the mind works on this one sometimes.

[Anna Conkle]

Thank God you're here.

[Kyle Mooney]

I would. I mean, even our texting before the show, you did something that was like, oh, wow. I know.

[Anna Conkle]

I remember what I did.

[Kyle Mooney]

I would show people and I was

[Anna Conkle]

gonna tell you, like, explain what happened, and then I decided not to. I could show the text to know each other. Well, sure, who cares?

[Kyle Mooney]

I mean, maybe. Maybe in the aftermath. Okay, we'll get people to listen.

[Anna Conkle]

Okay, put it on Senton.

[Beck Bennett]

So, yes, Centurion.

[Kyle Mooney]

And we do have. We. We only have a little bit more time here on Patreon.

[Anna Conkle]

Patreon.

[Kyle Mooney]

Put it on your Patreon.

[Anna Conkle]

See my text on Patreon.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Okay, That's a good idea.

[Beck Bennett]

The. The.

[Anna Conkle]

Got you now.

[Beck Bennett]

It's a. This is a sensitive subject to me.

[Kyle Mooney]

Fingering. Fingering, Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I will say, like, you know, you. You did a. A show around.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, fingering show. Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

Basically that was part of the pitch. I'm not kidding.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah. Using the corners of beds.

[Anna Conkle]

Well, it was just not fair. It was more that, like there's so many R rated funny stories about that time, like the first time I got fingered that you can't fucking tell unless you have an adult playing the child. And then you can go as far rated and accurate and tell all the funny stories that are there that we feel like we can talk about as funny, but we can't show it on tv.

[Kyle Mooney]

Right, Right.

[Anna Conkle]

How do you fix that?

[Kyle Mooney]

You get fingered. You get, get. Wait, how do you fix that?

[Anna Conkle]

How do you fix that? You as an adult get fingered?

[Kyle Mooney]

Do you get fingered in the show? Is your. Is your first. Is your first. Kyle's a.

[Anna Conkle]

No, I guess I don't get fingered on you.

[Kyle Mooney]

Your first fingering wasn't on the show. Kyle, what's going on in your brain right now? You're so sad. So you can talk about fingering with.

[Beck Bennett]

I get nervous talking about finger. It's like part of it. I feel like here, here's. You want to speak for me? What do you want to do?

[Kyle Mooney]

No, no, no, go ahead. I don't know what to do right

[Beck Bennett]

now because I feel like sometimes I'm allowed to talk sometimes. Sometimes. Sometimes I'm just the guy who like, like grabs apparently or something.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. And his pants split open. So. Kyle, I.

[Beck Bennett]

What?

[Kyle Mooney]

I think one of my neighbors saw me do that. Went, Kyle, that's okay.

[Beck Bennett]

It is just Such.

[Anna Conkle]

I don't agree though.

[Beck Bennett]

It is a very aggressive thing, the idea of finger, like, put.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. And also, I don't want to put you on the screen the name of it too. But, like, what is the actual satisfaction from going inside?

[Anna Conkle]

It's a great question. And I.

[Kyle Mooney]

Cause we all know Kyle's uncomfortable. Look, we're close friends. We can cut this.

[Anna Conkle]

We're close friends. We can cut this.

[Kyle Mooney]

We can talk about it.

[Anna Conkle]

We can cut this.

[Kyle Mooney]

We're close friends.

[Anna Conkle]

We can talk about it.

[Kyle Mooney]

We can cut it.

[Anna Conkle]

It's gone. No one's ever gonna see it.

[Kyle Mooney]

But the finger going inside.

[Anna Conkle]

Well, I will say that I am not the right person to ask. Cause I didn't know either, like, the first time you're doing those things. I mean, it depends on anatomy. Like, it's just partially, like, anatomy different.

[Kyle Mooney]

Right.

[Anna Conkle]

But thank you. But you're welcome. The. Thank you so much. Yeah. I've said it already. So. Yeah, it was like. I think I was 15 or 16 and we were like, in the. My friend's basement. And she was on one couch and I was on the other. We both had, like, blankets where it was like, nothing's happening, but you're, like, making out under the blanket.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

And I got fingered for the first time. And I'm so sorry.

[Beck Bennett]

No, no, no.

[Kyle Mooney]

Comfortable or. He's loving it.

[Anna Conkle]

You can cut it. You can cut it.

[Beck Bennett]

No, no, no.

[Kyle Mooney]

Keep going, Keep going. I want.

[Beck Bennett]

You are painting such a, like, related memory picture.

[Anna Conkle]

Okay, good.

[Beck Bennett]

Emma J.

[Anna Conkle]

And it was like he was trying to reach my brain.

[Kyle Mooney]

Like, I. Searching around for something that he lost.

[Anna Conkle]

It was. And I don't know, like, I wasn't like, this is how your finger. Like, I don't know what. I'm not expecting anything except something wonderful.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

And then like an hour later.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, that's a lot of fingers.

[Anna Conkle]

You know, that's a whole.

[Beck Bennett]

That's.

[Kyle Mooney]

God.

[Anna Conkle]

And it's. And it's like, well, right.

[Kyle Mooney]

How do you feel? You need any more work done down there?

[Anna Conkle]

And like, is he enjoying that? I guess he probably was probably more than me, right? Is that the act where they're like, I'm fucking them?

[Beck Bennett]

I do. I think there is a psychological thing happening where I bet, like. Like, that boy is getting off partially on the fact that tomorrow or later that day, he gets to call up his friend Darren and be like, not Darren.

[Kyle Mooney]

Darren.

[Beck Bennett]

And be like, I. I fingered her.

[Anna Conkle]

I fingered her.

[Kyle Mooney]

I was inside the sacred.

[Beck Bennett]

I think that I. I wonder if that is, like, sort of as much of an opinion, but it's like.

[Anna Conkle]

Is the boy getting, like, they are like, a boner?

[Kyle Mooney]

Maybe?

[Beck Bennett]

Well, yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah. Yeah, for sure.

[Kyle Mooney]

Maybe.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, fingers are very sensitive for most men.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

What are you talking.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, there's nothing. There's nothing physically probably pleasing.

[Beck Bennett]

Fingers are very sensitive. So when we go.

[Kyle Mooney]

So when we go in. Yeah, we're getting. We're.

[Beck Bennett]

We're getting our own.

[Anna Conkle]

Sorry, I was too focused on myself this whole time. You have, like, erotic nerves in your fingers.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, just like women have erotic nerves in their. In their vaginas.

[Beck Bennett]

What? What? Favorite finger? Which one's your favorite finger?

[Anna Conkle]

Totally switching course.

[Beck Bennett]

Are we?

[Kyle Mooney]

Is it.

[Beck Bennett]

What is the thumb?

[Anna Conkle]

Is it a finger? I think someone told me it's not a finger.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's a big toe.

[Beck Bennett]

So then you only have eight fingers?

[Kyle Mooney]

No, it does everything that a finger does.

[Beck Bennett]

You have eight fingers and two thumbs.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say my favorite is definitely the pointer.

[Anna Conkle]

Wait, you're right. It's fingers. It's definitely a finger.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, it's definitely a finger. It's definitely a finger. See, we have eight fingers.

[Beck Bennett]

Thumbs.

[Anna Conkle]

A finger.

[Beck Bennett]

What about this one?

[Kyle Mooney]

That's a. Yeah, that's the middle finger.

[Anna Conkle]

Good.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, I look down too.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh,

[Anna Conkle]

you look, too.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, my. I did. I did. But you can't reach me. Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

Favorite finger?

[Kyle Mooney]

You like the swear finger? What do you like?

[Anna Conkle]

Wait, what?

[Kyle Mooney]

What's your favorite finger?

[Anna Conkle]

My favorite finger? The pinky's cool.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, the pinky's cool.

[Beck Bennett]

Do you guys say flip off or flick off?

[Anna Conkle]

Ooh, great question. Flick off.

[Beck Bennett]

Flick off with a ck.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, you could say flipped off.

[Anna Conkle]

I'm flipping pissed. That feels like Minnesota, right? Like, he flipped me off.

[Kyle Mooney]

He flipped me off. He flicked me.

[Beck Bennett]

Do they both work?

[Anna Conkle]

I flicked him off.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, both work. He flicked me off. Flipped. Flicked. I think it's both.

[Anna Conkle]

I think it's both.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think it's reaching. Flicked me off. He flipped me off and he kept flipping me, and then he flipped me even harder, and then he was, like, flipping me and flopping me. No, I. I don't know. Gave me. He stuck the bird in me. What?

[Beck Bennett]

I don't know. Yeah. Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

So I'm the only one that's gonna

[Kyle Mooney]

share your fingering story? Yes. Yeah.

[Anna Conkle]

You got. You just went to, like, favorite finger.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, I. I don't remember the first time I did a fingering. Kyle, I have a. Kyle's got a.

[Beck Bennett]

I have a story.

[Anna Conkle]

Looking at us.

[Kyle Mooney]

Kyle's got a story that.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, there's one time I think it was my. To my thumb. So if we're calling it the thumb finger. I was playing Little league baseball and

[Anna Conkle]

calling a thumb a finger.

[Beck Bennett]

I scored. I rounded third base. I ran for home plate. And I slid. Oh, yeah, I slid into home. I was safe.

[Kyle Mooney]

Hardcore.

[Beck Bennett]

And for some reason, I don't know why, I was probably, like, 14 years old. I decided just to sort of chill there. I was like. I don't know if I was, like, enjoying the moment that I scored.

[Anna Conkle]

I love that.

[Beck Bennett]

And then within moments, another runner came round at third base into home plate. It. And slid spikes first into my thumb. Ripped my thumb open.

[Kyle Mooney]

Dang, dude.

[Anna Conkle]

Where?

[Beck Bennett]

Like, right, right, right here. And so then, like. Yeah, there's, like, skin hanging off.

[Anna Conkle]

You can see the bone.

[Beck Bennett]

I don't know if you can see the bone.

[Anna Conkle]

Okay. You can't see the bone.

[Beck Bennett]

And so, I don't know. They taped me up and ended up having to. I. I just. I did something. I dislocated or something. But it was one of those, like, last moments. I was like, 8th. 8th grade, and I cried. And it was an. You know, it's an era where, like,

[Anna Conkle]

you're not supposed to.

[Beck Bennett]

It's not looking cool to cry. Do you know what I mean?

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Too late to cry.

[Anna Conkle]

How can you not cry at that?

[Kyle Mooney]

Fingered after that? Or we. Is that just.

[Beck Bennett]

You have the most disgusting brain, Christopher Beck Bennett.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm just. I'm an absolute freak.

[Beck Bennett]

I can name every person in my life I fingered, and every person liked it.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't remember every person I fingered, but I will. I remember being like, I have to find the G spot. I have to. I have to. I have to find it.

[Anna Conkle]

Yes. I've hit my G spot.

[Beck Bennett]

He's doing the come hither.

[Kyle Mooney]

The come hither moment. It's. It's for everybody. It's in there. You gotta find it. I've never found it.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah. I don't know. What is the G spot?

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't know. I think people.

[Anna Conkle]

Is that how you squirt?

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't know. I really don't know much about squirting. I've heard it's just piss sometimes. I don't know.

[Anna Conkle]

I've heard it's piss. And then some people say, no, I swear to God. I had just peed, I think.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, but I.

[Anna Conkle]

And then it was clear, liquid.

[Beck Bennett]

I've heard about squirting.

[Anna Conkle]

I'm regretting talking about this.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, but we'll talk about squirting on the next podcast.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And see, this is fingers. So, yeah. And we do have to wrap up. We've talked. There's so much we can talk about finger foods.

[Beck Bennett]

We didn't even get into them.

[Anna Conkle]

We didn't even get into finger foods.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, let's cover that on our next episode. Anna, thank you so much for coming here and fingering food.

[Beck Bennett]

I hope.

[Anna Conkle]

We didn't do finger foods. We didn't do finger the Finger Lakes.

[Beck Bennett]

Finger licking good.

[Kyle Mooney]

Finger licking good.

[Anna Conkle]

We didn't do anything about that. Yeah, we could have plugged Buffalo barbecue.

[Kyle Mooney]

Wild Wings. Finger My wings.

[Anna Conkle]

Lick your fingers after you have wing

[Kyle Mooney]

fingers and you're licking them like I just got here. Well, it's tune in next week. Thanks for joining us on fingers.

[Anna Conkle]

Okay. Thanks for having me.

[Kyle Mooney]

Wow. So that was fingers. That was amazing.

[Beck Bennett]

Can't put my finger on it, but that was the really fun.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, I. I can put my finger on it. That was really fun.

[Anna Conkle]

Anywhere you want.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, it was fun to finger together. Fun to finger with everybody.

[Anna Conkle]

Thank you so much for having me.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. Thank you for exploring that with us and opening that up. That chapter for us. Opening that chapter up. It's been so fun having you here.

[Anna Conkle]

It's been fun being here.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't want it to end.

[Anna Conkle]

It has to.

[Beck Bennett]

When is the other guest? Is it available now?

[Anna Conkle]

Oh, thanks for asking, Kyle. It's out May 5.

[Kyle Mooney]

May 5.

[Beck Bennett]

May 5.

[Anna Conkle]

But you can pre order it now.

[Kyle Mooney]

Pre order it now or buy it now if it's available. May 5th.

[Beck Bennett]

I think that's Star Wars. May 4th. Oh, great.

[Kyle Mooney]

May 4th is Star Wars.

[Anna Conkle]

Great competition.

[Beck Bennett]

May 4th is Star Wars.

[Kyle Mooney]

And honestly, you can see Star Wars.

[Anna Conkle]

You could spend your money there or you could get a memoir. The sane one.

[Kyle Mooney]

You guys, guys and gals, you're gonna wanna have this. You're gonna wanna read from it and relate to other people based on what you read, maybe carry it around. So if you're single, read a little bit of it and carry it around. So people see you carrying this and they go, oh, that's cool. I wanna talk to you.

[Anna Conkle]

Yeah. He understands women, right?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. If you're single, carry it around.

[Kyle Mooney]

If you're single, carry it around.

[Anna Conkle]

Use your fingers.

[Kyle Mooney]

Go buy and order the sane one. Anna Conkle, thank you so much for being here.

[Beck Bennett]

And please stay safe. If you guys are driving right now,

[Kyle Mooney]

stay safe, Stay safe.

[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 Kanovskaya with production support from Ali Khan and Ryan Lutzow.

[Beck Bennett]

Our executive producer is Anya. Katie Moose is our VP of content at Headgum. Our theme music is made by us.

[Kyle Mooney]

For more podcasts by headgum, visit headcum.com or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.

[Anna Conkle]

Hi, I am Mandy Moore.

[Kyle Mooney]

Sterling K. Brown. And I'm Chris Sullivan. And we host the podcast that was us now on Headgum.

[Anna Conkle]

Each episode, we're gonna go into a deep dive from our show. This is us.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's right.

[Anna Conkle]

We're gonna go episode by episode. We're also gonna pepper in episodes with different guest stars and writers and casting directors.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Are we gonn to cry? Yes, a little bit. Are we going to laugh a lot? A whole lot. That's what I'm hoping, man. Listen to that was us on your favorite podcast app. Or watch full video episodes on YouTube or Spotify. New episodes every Tuesday.