BriTANick

Summary

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

Episode: BriTANick (April 22, 2026)
Guests: Brian McElhaney & Nick Kocher (BriTANick)
Podcast Network: Headgum

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Main Theme & Purpose

In this rollicking episode, Beck and Kyle welcome their longtime friends and fellow comedy duo BriTANick (Brian McElhaney & Nick Kocher) for a laugh-heavy, inside-baseball conversation about comedy, collaboration, the ups and downs of group identity, and the fitful search for a podcast theme. The hosts and guests reminisce about the early days of digital sketch comedy, navigating creative partnerships, working through professional slumps, and perform some truly absurd (and hilarious) fake ads as part of BriTANick's suggested podcast concept, "Oops All Ads." The episode pulses with self-awareness, banter, and meta-comedy, staying true to the show’s premise: maybe the guests know what this podcast should be.

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Episode Breakdown & Discussion Points

1. Patreon Launch and Community Building [02:32–05:38]

• Beck and Kyle announce their brand-new Patreon ("Rocco Club"), offering bonus episodes, fan interaction, and exclusive sketches ("our sillies").
• Tiers include basic access, submitting podcast ideas, Discord chat, unique videos, and direct livestreams.
  • “We just get to do whatever we want without really caring.” – Beck [05:27]
• Emphasis on the fun and personal nature of Patreon content as opposed to produced guest episodes.

2. Banter on Moviegoing, Genuineness, and Silliness [05:44–13:01]

• Beck and Kyle riff on the shared experience of falling in love with movies at the theater, but never specifying which movie—a running bit.
• "Quasi Genuine" emerges as a new character/bit—being almost genuine, but not quite.
• Discussion about small joys, like the smell of someone grilling in summer.
  • “Smell somebody reading The Onion…because it used to be a paper.” – Kyle [10:49]
• Casual stories segue into daily pet peeves and real-life annoyances (ordering coffee, weirdness of single-use bathrooms).

3. Reflections on Group Identity and Comic Roots [15:48–22:49]

• Similarities between Good Neighbor and BriTANick: mispronounced names, social confusion, and being forever tied to the group’s brand.
  • “I've went through a phase…deeply ashamed of being in a silly group.” – Brian [43:39]
• Navigating adulthood with a "band name" and the mixed feelings about being recognized as the group, not just individuals.

4. BriTANick’s Comedy Origins and Creative Dynamics [34:52–53:53]

• Early connections: Chris Lowell introducing Beck/Kyle and BriTANick; early days of uploading sketches to YouTube (circa 2007–2008).
• Sketch comedy scene nostalgia:
  • Getting picked as G4’s “Kings of dot Comedy,” the limos, the initial flash of digital fame.
  • SNL residuals and voiceover jobs ("Cartoon Network" voice gig).
• How BriTANick splits their partnership:
  • Brian focuses more on film knowledge and shots; Nick, on working with actors and beating jokes.
  • "It's kind of like, I try to beat every joke, and Brian wants to beat every shot." – Nick [50:14]
• Open discussion about creative fights:
  • Fights mostly during scriptwriting, resolved by going private to hash it out.
  • A notorious fight over a character entrance; admitting sometimes the other’s way worked better.
  • Comparison to Good Neighbor’s internal dynamics—sometimes being more a “duo and a pod” than a democracy.

5. The “Second Act” — Reinvesting in Live Comedy [62:11–69:46]

• After SNL and TV pilots, BriTANick returned to live performance (Edinburgh Fringe) to recapture their joy in comedy.
• Candid admissions of professional and personal struggles during the "career valley":
  • "For five years…were the worst of my life." – Nick [65:26]
• Rediscovering the thrill of daily live performance—a pleasure and a way to bypass the slow grind of TV/movie development.
  • "Every day we get up on stage, we do something, you were an artist today." – Nick [69:46]
• Festival performances led to renewed Hollywood attention (and directly to their new movie).

6. Oops All Ads: The Bit Becomes the Show [77:37–97:58]

• BriTANick's pitch: a podcast that is nothing but fake ads for entirely made-up products and services.
  • "Oops All Ads, but none of the ads can be real for actual products." – Brian [78:29]
• The crew executes an extended, rapid-fire series of absurd “commercials”:
  • Toe box wedges, bagheads, what-time-of-day-it-is app, Lil’ Butler, ABC Tellers, sit-on coffee cups, Kyle Rubbies (rubs from Kyle), Anthony Kurvavis and his controversial juice, among others.
  • Recurrent meta-jokes about nonsense promo codes, the questionable value of such products, and the futility of advertising.
  • Hilarious riff:
    • "Use the promo code: Fuck me, mama, make it last till dawn." – Kyle [81:09]
• The bit intentionally wears thin—the hosts and guests debrief on the limits of the concept and the challenge of sustaining a “one-take” improv podcast.
  • “I don’t think our idea is sustainable.” – Brian [96:50]

7. Backstage: Comedy, Editing & Process [97:58–100:03]

• The benefit/drawback of live improv vs. heavily edited podcasts for sustaining bits and pacing.
• Behind-the-scenes contrasts–BriTANick’s “Cash Grab” podcast records for an hour but is cut down to 10–15 minutes to eliminate the “fat.”
  • “It's not a great business model, but…it makes it succinct…." – Nick [98:43]

8. Closing Out: Friendship, Shoutouts, & Mutual Encouragement [100:03–101:33]

• Warm closing with genuine affection and encouragement among the two comic duos.
• Beck and Kyle promote BriTANick’s new film “Pizza Movie” (April 3rd on Hulu) and another friend’s indie film “A Weekend at the End of the World.”
• Gentle jokes about payment for acting in each other’s films (“for three days, $300,000”), and promises to collaborate again.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Creative Collaboration:
  “You're fighting a losing battle. Here's a little technique: you change what the argument's about, fully pivot.”
  – Brian [57:26]

• On Showbiz Peaks & Valleys:
  "Giving up on something...all of a sudden it sort of shows back up in your life."
  – Nick [66:54]

• On Brand Identity:
  "It's just great to have fans."
  – Nick [43:01]

• On the Oops All Ads Concept:
  "Sometimes it's fun to just like, go right into it."
  – Brian [77:59]

• On New York as a Character:
  “It’s kind of like when they say, like, New York is a character in the show…There really was a character named New York in the show Flavor of Love.”
  – Beck [63:20]

• On Podcast Format Skepticism:
  “I feel like it started out hot...people listening are probably like, holy shit this is going to be amazing.”
  – Beck [97:05]

• On Living with Creative Friends:
  “For all of us, we also were all living together…like, what the fuck happened to my car?”
  – Beck [59:31]

• Meta on Mispronunciation:
  "Which is why Nick actually invented a new product to make sure that you get everything you want to say correct grammatically and syntactically every single time you speak. It's called a knife."
  – Nick [95:31]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Patreon Announcement & Tiers: [02:32–05:38]
• Moviegoing and “Quasi Genuine” Bit: [05:44–13:01]
• Ordering Etiquette, Pet Peeves: [13:01–17:39]
• Comedy Group Identity & Naming Confusion: [41:01–44:34]
• BriTANick Origins & Collaboration Insights: [34:52–53:53]
• Edinburgh, Second Act, Rediscovery: [62:11–69:46]
• "Oops All Ads" - Fake Ad Blitz: [77:37–97:58]
• Debrief & Podcast Process: [97:58–100:03]
• Final Shoutouts & Emotional Sendoff: [100:03–end]

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Language & Tone

• Highly conversational, irreverent, and meta.
• The group vacillates freely between earnest reflection and absurd bits, signaling shifts with an unspoken code but never breaking comedic momentum.
• Self-aware about podcasting tropes, their own careers, and the inherently silly world of sketch comedy.

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For New Listeners

This episode provides a whirlwind introduction to four key figures in American comedy—Bennett and Mooney (Good Neighbor, SNL) and BriTANick (YouTube, SNL, “Pizza Movie”). Their chemistry, shared history, and playful ribbing are on full display, as is their openness about career struggles and enduring friendship. The spontaneous, sometimes chaotic “Oops All Ads” segment is peak inside-joke territory, but also lampoons the omnipresence of ads in podcasting culture.

For anyone interested in the realities of group creative work, comedy process, and the weird business of staying relevant, this episode is gold. For those who simply love silly, character-driven improv and fake ad mayhem—it’s everything you want.

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Highly recommended segments:

• BriTANick on the live performance renaissance [62:11–69:46]
• Oops All Ads fake commercial spree [77:37–97:58]
• Deep-dive on group names and lasting identity [41:01–44:34]
• Closing behind-the-scenes and mutual gratitude [100:03–end]

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“What’s Our Podcast” still doesn’t know what it’s about, but that’s half the fun.

Transcript

[Brian McElhaney]

This is a headgun podcast.

[Beck Bennett]

The Tainted Cup.

[Kyle Mooney]

Ah, time for the Tainted Cup.

[Beck Bennett]

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[Kyle Mooney]

My Uncle Robert would always. He was always telling stories when I was growing up, and he would always have these mysteries. I was way too young for them, but he was always telling me about the taint. He goes, it's a fantasy murder mystery starring Anna, if I remember correctly, from.

[Beck Bennett]

What is it Anna or Anna?

[Kyle Mooney]

I think it's Anna. Yeah, I think it's Anna. And she's an eccentric detective who prefers to work blindfolded, if I remember correctly. And Din, her magically altered assistant.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, Din.

[Kyle Mooney]

Din sounds a little bit like this, doesn't he?

[Beck Bennett]

Dinner. Help me put my blindfold on.

[Kyle Mooney]

Of course. Of course.

[Beck Bennett]

Of course. Tim,

[Kyle Mooney]

that's a little wet.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's a little sample of what you might read in the Tainted Cup.

[Beck Bennett]

Tainted cup won the 2025 Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award for best novel. That is huge.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, no, dude, I haven't won. Jack.

[Beck Bennett]

I see all these people winning Webbies and. Yeah, the. Have we done. Yeah, here we are.

[Kyle Mooney]

Done anything.

[Beck Bennett]

Every single day working on this stuff.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. And we're not winning anything, but so is the point. Got your grapes? For those who can't see, Kyle's got his grapes.

[Beck Bennett]

The.

[Kyle Mooney]

The. And he ate them. These are plastic grapes that are in the studio for everybody. And he's not going to clean these. He's just going to be covered in his garbage, covered in his goo. But, you know, there's impeccable banter and in the book. The Tainted cup and a plot that's equal parts fun and twisty. The Tainted cup will keep turning pages deep into the night. The New York Times Book Review calls it a thoroughly satisfying delight from start to finish. And when you do finish, the next book in the series will be waiting for you. Kyle's eating his grapes again. The Tainted cup by Robert Jackson Bennett is available in print and audio everywhere. Books are sold, and they can't wait for you to finish the Tainted cup and to start again and to finish and to start again and to finish and to start again and to finish and to start again and on and on.

[Beck Bennett]

Wow.

[Kyle Mooney]

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

[Kyle Mooney]

Let's tell them what it is. For the first tier, Rocco Basics here.

[Beck Bennett]

It's five bucks a month. You're going to 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 Sloppin out, which is just the two of us hanging out with each other.

[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'll just 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 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, for 10. Once you get to the $10 tier, premium rock. 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 going to get access to an exclusive chat. A chat room. Yes, the Discord. The Rocco Discord, where you can talk with other fans, other listeners do probably kind of do your own little bits. Make some friends.

[Kyle Mooney]

Maybe.

[Beck Bennett]

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've 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.

[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, and 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 livestream. 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 gonna be legal stuff, but we're gonna have fun.

[Beck Bennett]

We have to do poppers.

[Kyle Mooney]

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. Yeah, we don't know rave gear, but it's going to be an amazing family heirloom that you get and you can, you know, frame it and put above the fireplace or something or something like that.

[Beck Bennett]

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

[Kyle Mooney]

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

[Beck Bennett]

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

[Kyle Mooney]

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? We. Rolling, rolling, rolling. I'm just messing. That was. Who is. Who does.

[Beck Bennett]

That's Fred Durst from Olympizkit, who's actually in the movie. I worked on Y2K.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. Yes. Did you have a nice time with Fred Durst?

[Beck Bennett]

Great. Great.

[Kyle Mooney]

Really?

[Beck Bennett]

Yes. I liked him a lot, and I think. I think his performance is really awesome.

[Kyle Mooney]

Great performance.

[Beck Bennett]

And I was really. He has a monologue in the film when his character is introduced.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's awesome. Cool. I did. I wasn't sure about that.

[Beck Bennett]

I sort of wanted to give some. Some of our audience members sort of a peek behind the curtain of what it's like, you know, to work on a set and, you know, work with actors and, like, storytelling. It's always been such a key component to narrative entertainment. And I think the media, with the evolving landscape, it's very important to sort of hit the beats, you know, like, where is this character going? What is this arc? The discovery, the mystery.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, yes.

[Beck Bennett]

The moments where as an audience member, you're like, I didn't see that happening. Or you're like. Or you're like, wow, I wish I could, you know, transport into that universe. For me, it started when I was just a kid, and I remember going to the movie theater and seeing a movie, and I remember in the dark room with strangers. One second.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. I remember seeing a movie and the popcorn smell. Give me one second. Okay. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And I was sitting there.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I was sitting there, and I remember I was like, oh, my. Where am I go? What is this? The story is unraveling.

[Kyle Mooney]

Turn off your phone. Give me one second. Yeah, okay.

[Beck Bennett]

Give me one second.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, yeah, Sorry. I'm just trying to.

[Beck Bennett]

All good.

[Kyle Mooney]

Because you've been going for a little bit almost. Yeah. Just trying to get in there, and you just disappear.

[Beck Bennett]

And all of a sudden.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, not actually. You're not still sitting.

[Beck Bennett]

Give me one.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm just trying to be a part of it. Yeah. I love what you're doing. I. And I'm.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, give me one second.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm just trying to support it.

[Beck Bennett]

Give me one second. Give me one second.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And all of a sudden, you're in a new place and the outside world is gone, and you're not thinking about, oh, does. Is Timmy Tucker still friends with me?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

You know, what am I going to get for Timmy? Give me one second. I'm trying to tell the story of how I fell in love with movies.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, okay. I, I, I, I'm sorry. I was just trying to, like, agree with you and all good.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, I'm coming to an end.

[Kyle Mooney]

How much time do you want for the finish? To finish? Do you want 20 minutes?

[Beck Bennett]

Guests coming?

[Kyle Mooney]

No, no, you can't go for 10 minutes. No. But that is really beautiful. Did you. Is that where you fell in love with the movies at a movie theater? I feel like we see so much of that right now. It's like, whether it's like, Ryan Coogler, Leonardo DiCaprio, everybody being like, I fell in love with movies at the movie theater.

[Beck Bennett]

Right.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. There's something about being in a dark room with strangers, people you don't know, connecting over one story that you all disappear into, which is great. And I think we should hear more and more of those stories, and maybe we could put a super one of our episodes talking about falling in love with the movies at the movie theaters.

[Beck Bennett]

I like the idea of never talking about what movie you watched.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah. But just, Just the generic idea.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Of story.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

But no specific story points.

[Brian McElhaney]

Do you.

[Beck Bennett]

How do you ever feel? And, Rochelle, feel free to join in. Also, if you, if you're sort of mad at us, you don't need to talk.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Feel free to start talking what you want. Relle, the. This is your show, too.

[Beck Bennett]

Do you know that moment? Okay, now I'm being Quasi genuine.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. Okay. Nice to meet you, Quasi genuine.

[Beck Bennett]

That's actually. I actually like that. I'm back.

[Kyle Mooney]

Better. Nice to meet you. Quasi. Quasi genuine.

[Beck Bennett]

And Quasi genuine.

[Kyle Mooney]

Not Quasimodo Quasi. And then what?

[Nick Kocher]

This is just who I am.

[Kyle Mooney]

And what is. What types of things does Quasi genuine say? I would imagine he's pretty.

[Beck Bennett]

The issues with the bell tower. I don't know.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, that was great. He says genuine stuff.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, But. Yeah, but what would Quasi genuine be genuine about?

[Kyle Mooney]

I do think, like, being genuine is sort of a vague thing. It's just being.

[Beck Bennett]

It's like not being bitty. Like, just being, like. I really like summers.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, okay. You know, let's be genuine. I think summer's just a beautiful time to get together with people and relax.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

I really like that.

[Beck Bennett]

And like, I. When sometimes. And I'm walking the neighborhood.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And it's a hot day.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And you smell somebody grilling.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, my God. Taken back the onions or the burger or whatever. Reading the Onion. Yeah, yeah. And then you smell somebody barbecuing, watching videos.

[Beck Bennett]

Onion News Network.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. The old clip lips. Wait, you were gonna say something, though. We. We went. You were. You were gonna. Do you know what you were gonna say?

[Beck Bennett]

That's really making me laugh. I remember summers walking past, somebody reading the Onion.

[Kyle Mooney]

And you could smell people reading. Because it used to be a paper.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. They used to distribute. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And, like, some people are being. Is this a real newspaper?

[Kyle Mooney]

Some people couldn't believe it. With Quasimodo. Quasi Genuine. You're being Quasi. What were you going to be Quasi Genuine about?

[Beck Bennett]

About the movie theater going experience.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, okay.

[Beck Bennett]

Do you remember when you were a child, like, and I guess I would go to daytime movies. What do you call that? The matinee. Matinee. And then when it's all dark in the movie theater, but then you walk out that exit door and you're blinded by the light.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Do you remember that sensation?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. And I couldn't see. And I would start walking into stuff and, like, falling and stuff. No, I'm not being Quasi genuine. I'm messing with you.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, okay. Because I was like, oh, no. Like, maybe this kid needs help.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, no, no, no, no.

[Beck Bennett]

I wanted to, like, go back and help little Beck.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, no, the little Beck is okay.

[Beck Bennett]

He's not playing Offer him, like, show him, like, the Onions. Actually, like, a really cool satirical magazine.

[Kyle Mooney]

That would have been amazing.

[Beck Bennett]

And by the way, shout out to the Onion.

[Kyle Mooney]

Shout out to the Onion. One of the highly influential. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I remember a good neighbor when we did a show in Wisconsin. Like, I think they had, like, a little newspaper Stands where you could get a free onion, which is like, awesome

[Kyle Mooney]

because that's where it started.

[Beck Bennett]

But the A.V. club does genuine TV and movie reviews. They do, but it's within. It was within a satirical magazine.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Were they being quasi genuine?

[Kyle Mooney]

I think they were being fully genuine. But, you know, can I tell you something? This little interaction I had today, Please. At Starbucks. Went to the Starbucks shout out to

[Beck Bennett]

all the folks at Starbucks.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Very interesting to see the sort of coffee. Coffee bubble burst.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. And to see you guys doing your thing and coming up with new menu items and everything. Speaking of the chive and potato egg bites fall apart too easy. They're still falling apart.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

And it tastes like chemicals. So I got those today and I didn't finish eating them.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay. And that's not the story you want to tell. That's not that you've had them before.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. And they're. They're just not. They're not. It's. It's falling apart. So here's the thing. I go up. There's two people at the ordering area. It's very busy. The. The.

[Beck Bennett]

By the way, I'm for the listeners. I'm closing my eyes.

[Kyle Mooney]

Kyle's closing his eyes and you know, two times fast. The parking lot's full. But there's only two people in front of you in. Yeah, in the front. There's somebody waiting close.

[Beck Bennett]

Two customers.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, somebody waiting close. Okay. Near the, like, pickup thing where they put like the letters out, like, you know, A through whatever. Like they just kind of like put your, like the pre. Orders out. You can like, oh, interesting. Use your app or something.

[Nick Kocher]

I don't.

[Beck Bennett]

You know me. I don't.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, I don't do that.

[Beck Bennett]

So I didn't know there was a. I didn't know there's an Alphabet.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, yeah, there's an Alphabet system. Copy A through Z. So there's somebody standing there waiting for their food, and there's somebody else, this woman standing about five to six feet back from the register. Now everybody's busy doing their thing, running around, and I'm like, have you ordered?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And she goes, no. So I stand next to her, six feet back from the register. Meanwhile, I'm like, how are they supposed to know that we want to order? And so I'm standing there kind of like, you are first in line, so you have the responsibility.

[Beck Bennett]

Make yourself known.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Go up there and stand there. There's people busy doing all sorts of stuff. And I make eye contact with one of the people, and I'm Kind of. I kind of give one of these. I go raise my eyebrows a little

[Beck Bennett]

bit for the listeners. Yeah, we got a little slight. Like, it's sort of like you're saying, I'm here. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And. And then. So she looks at us and goes, oh, would you guys like to order something? And she. And the woman next to me goes, yeah. And then she walks up five feet and orders at the register. And that's the type of thing that, like, I'm just like, what is this person doing? Right. Like, it bothers me just a little bit. Just as. As far as, like, my interest in breaking it down, but I'm like, what. What is wrong with you? Like, stand up to the register. Don't, like. I mean, five feet back and just be kind of like, now I have to follow you. And this is a. This is. It's an unspoken rule that if you're next in line, you stand at the register so you can keep things moving. Moving on.

[Nick Kocher]

Well, there's.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. I feel like you're. You're describing a couple things, because one, you're describing. And we've got to come up with a term for this. They. They. I. I've heard people. Maybe Tina Fey said it once. Sorry, I'm drawing an SNL parallel. Weirdly.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

But at good nights, there would be this. People started calling out the fact that the host, typically. And the musical guest, when we were on the show, you and I, our era, they would stand at the very front of the stage, but then we, none of us. It's like. It's a weird thing to sort of put yourself out there and put yourself to the front of the stage and, like, it just. There's something about it that feels maybe, like, egocentric or something like that. But all of us would typically sort of be backed up. So there would be this area between.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

The host and us. And they. They. Somebody came up with a name for it. But, like, it's an awkward space, right? Because, like, now you're, like, seeing the space that isn't filled. And what you're describing to me is. It's reminding me of, like, why are you creating this. This, the space.

[Kyle Mooney]

Right. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And. And what you're also reminding me of.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

I don't know if you call it a pet peeve or similar. Like, when I. I used to always. I drank a lot of juices, smoothies. And you get into the place and you see people scattered, and you have to sort of ask, are you in line? Are you in line? Some People are waiting for their smoothie.

[Nick Kocher]

Right.

[Beck Bennett]

But they're still essentially in a spot that looks like they're in line.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

You just have to get out. You have to make it clear.

[Kyle Mooney]

You have to make it clear. You got to go right up to the red.

[Beck Bennett]

We don't. That's not part. I don't. I don't want to be forced into an interaction.

[Kyle Mooney]

I want to talk to anybody.

[Beck Bennett]

I just want to be able to order my.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's a really basic thing about living in the world. Yeah. And these people just don't understand it. The other thing I will say this happened this past week to standing in line for single use bathrooms. I'm standing right next to the bathroom. Somebody comes walks right past me and tries to open the door. You know, you ever do that? You're standing for a single use bathroom. You're standing right there. People walk right past you and look and try to open it. And I go like, I'm in line. Does that ever happen to you? That happens to me all the time.

[Beck Bennett]

It must have happened to me.

[Kyle Mooney]

But with a bathroom door, you can't stand right up against the door. You got to give space with the bathroom door.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, it's got to open up.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. You're also, like, allowing some people some privacy, some space.

[Kyle Mooney]

But I think because of that, the. The distance, you know, between the. The thing where you got to do your thing and where you wait, it creates some confusion for some people. But whenever I go to a bathroom like that, I look around. If there are people waiting, I will say, are you in line? And we just go right to the door. People are weird.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Weirdest person you've ever met. I'm gonna say Rochelle.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Rochelle's probably the weirdest, zaniest person I've ever met. Shout out. Rochelle. She is a.

[Beck Bennett]

She's doing like. What is she doing with her?

[Kyle Mooney]

What is she doing? You're crazy.

[Beck Bennett]

She's like, doing this weird.

[Kyle Mooney]

Covering her face and hiding from us. No, man. You're probably the weirdest freaking guy I've ever met in my freaking life.

[Beck Bennett]

I. I believe that people probably stuff

[Kyle Mooney]

that comes out of your mouth, dude.

[Brian McElhaney]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I'm. I'm on a different wavelength. Yeah. I didn't eat the same things as the other kids in school.

[Kyle Mooney]

I was eating summer sausage and cheese. You know, I've actually started eating more cheese. Cheese is so good.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, gosh.

[Kyle Mooney]

I. I like.

[Beck Bennett]

Do you have a favorite cheese?

[Kyle Mooney]

Our guest crystal. It's like a. It's like an aged gouda. Type of hard cheese, like, orangish, with, like, the crystals in it.

[Brian McElhaney]

It's really.

[Beck Bennett]

I don't. I got to be honest, I don't love smoked gouda. And I'm not trying to.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's like. It's all. It's like mozzarella texture.

[Beck Bennett]

Yuck your yuck.

[Kyle Mooney]

Or. Yeah, yuck my yuck. I've never heard of that, but. No, you didn't.

[Beck Bennett]

Yuck my yuck your yum.

[Kyle Mooney]

We have 13 minutes. They are here. I do think we need to introduce our guests.

[Beck Bennett]

No.

[Kyle Mooney]

Do you want to? So, okay. Is there anything else you wanted to talk about?

[Beck Bennett]

I just, like, feel like, why do we always have to. Oh, we haven't introduced the show either.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, okay. So maybe we'll.

[Beck Bennett]

By the way, is everybody. Everybody's joined the Patreon, right?

[Kyle Mooney]

Everybody's joined the Patreon, because that is where the. I think we need more people to join the Patreon.

[Beck Bennett]

Good stuff is happening.

[Kyle Mooney]

We're making awesome stuff. And, you know, let's be honest, we're going to stop doing this if not enough people join the Patreon.

[Beck Bennett]

The Patreon is more fun for us.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's more fun, but also, we got to make.

[Beck Bennett]

No disrespect.

[Kyle Mooney]

We got to make some of that cash if we're going to keep making this stuff.

[Beck Bennett]

No disrespect to our guests.

[Kyle Mooney]

No disrespect to our guests.

[Beck Bennett]

I love hanging out with the guests,

[Kyle Mooney]

but this show is best when it's just us. So let's introduce our Patreon. By the way, this is what's our podcast.

[Beck Bennett]

Guests come in and try to tell what's what.

[Nick Kocher]

Try.

[Beck Bennett]

Have the gall to tell us what they think our podcast.

[Kyle Mooney]

I realized, by the way, I do have an idea for what they might ask our podcast to be.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay. Do you want to predict?

[Kyle Mooney]

It could be. It could totally miss. When I was on their podcast recently and they talked about this show, I did. I forget the name of it, but it was like. It was a show where I invited friends on and asked them how they were doing with their careers, and I would get jealous of them. Oh, yeah. It was kind of like a little talk show idea.

[Beck Bennett]

Did you put it?

[Kyle Mooney]

No, never put it out. I remember.

[Beck Bennett]

I mean, I know that character. Definitely.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

We made a SNL video that got cut.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. And then I did it in a sketch with Idris.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, that's right.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Idris Ilba.

[Beck Bennett]

Idris Ilba, who plays. Actually, I believe he plays Captain Bogo in the Zootopia.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, he does. He's very good at it, by the way.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, we watched sing last night.

[Kyle Mooney]

Not all of it.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, you were great as the. As that animal.

[Kyle Mooney]

As Lance. Yeah, Porcupine. Yeah, me and Scarlett Johansson. I got. I got a song on the soundtrack, maybe two.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, you told me before that, like, sometimes the sing checks come in. It's a nice surprise.

[Kyle Mooney]

Those sing checks are awesome. They're. They're slowing down, but they're.

[Beck Bennett]

I. I am. I'm very late in getting to appreciate some of your work. You know, like, it's like in this past year I've watched DuckTales and. And. Yeah, yeah, man. It's really. I didn't know. Even though you did the acting thing.

[Kyle Mooney]

You didn't know I did the acting thing. That is amazing.

[Beck Bennett]

Because I thought you were still doing sketch stuff with me.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, no, no, no, no. Well, no, we're kind of doing the podcast.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. We have been doing sketches for a long time actually. But we are basically doing them on our Patreon.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

Another reason to join the Patreon. They're very casual.

[Beck Bennett]

Because I know you did Superman when you played Mr. Steve Lombard.

[Kyle Mooney]

Not Mr. Reynolds.

[Beck Bennett]

No, because I saw that.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. And that was great, by the way. Thank you. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And then you did the bww.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, that's voiceover as well.

[Beck Bennett]

When was the sing?

[Kyle Mooney]

The sing was a long time ago. Like, you know, before.

[Beck Bennett]

They're still. It's still on Netflix.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, but we shot it like, I think our second year at snl. So you shot that Because I thought it was recorded it. I say shot it, but we.

[Beck Bennett]

So they had a camera in the booth.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think so. Yeah. Yeah. To help animate me.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, Britannic is a L. A and New York based comedy group. No, no bios today.

[Kyle Mooney]

No bios today. We kind of asked for. We said we didn't need them, but.

[Beck Bennett]

Is that true?

[Kyle Mooney]

I think. But then you said you wanted them. There are no bios out. It's okay. These guys, Brian and Nick, I feel prepared.

[Beck Bennett]

I actually wrote down four things on my notes.

[Kyle Mooney]

I wrote down a lot of stuff.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. See, Beg is getting more into preparation. I'm thinking maybe I should start preparing.

[Kyle Mooney]

Brian McElhaney, Nick Kocher, old friends of ours. They are the sketch group. Britannic started making videos around the Same Time on YouTube.

[Beck Bennett]

Wrote on SNL. Always Sunny. Have a new movie out called Pizza Movie.

[Kyle Mooney]

That is. Yes, that is Getting great reviews that they wrote and directed. Premiered at south by Southwest. It'll be on Hulu.

[Beck Bennett]

They're not brothers.

[Kyle Mooney]

They are not brothers. No. They have different last names and.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, I don't think anybody ever thought they were brothers, but, yeah, they are the same age and they're same guys, so they could be from the same family. Well, you don't have to be the same. Well, they're supposed to be from the same family, so they. What's that? They're.

[Beck Bennett]

All of them are from Atlanta.

[Kyle Mooney]

All of them are from Atlanta. Went to different schools.

[Beck Bennett]

How many of them are there?

[Kyle Mooney]

There's two of them.

[Beck Bennett]

Not brothers.

[Kyle Mooney]

No.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

We love them so much. Let's say.

[Beck Bennett]

Interesting. This podcast is brought to you by Squarespace.

[Kyle Mooney]

I got to be honest. I got to say, this is the all in one website platform designed to help you and me stand out and do well online. Hey, maybe you're just starting out as. You know, you're a baby, right. You just come out of the. You're, like, in. You're being breastfed.

[Beck Bennett]

You're in incognito mode, looking at something nutty.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. And you want to upscale your business, and you're like a little baby. And Squarespace gives you everything you need to claim your domain, showcase your offerings with a professional website, and grow your brand and get paid all in one place. Even a baby who's just starting out can do it because it's so easy and fun.

[Beck Bennett]

Sometimes you find yourself in the situation where you have to update your website. Right.

[Kyle Mooney]

I know. Yeah. Like. Like it happens more often than you think.

[Beck Bennett]

And, you know, consider that you've not even learned how to walk yet. You're still crawling around.

[Kyle Mooney]

You're a baby.

[Beck Bennett]

You're still asking for mama's milk. You know, you're still.

[Kyle Mooney]

Some things never go away.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Nick Kocher]

That's funny.

[Beck Bennett]

You know, you're thinking about what changes you want to make. You're trying to figure out how to. How. How to communicate your desires, what you need.

[Kyle Mooney]

You're trying to also connect with people.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes. And you want to swap out fonts and move stuff around, refresh the site if you ever.

[Nick Kocher]

Whenever you want.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And you're a baby.

[Beck Bennett]

That's why we love Squarespace.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's one of the many reasons why we love Squarespace. So I'm just going to ask. I'm going to tell everybody right now whether you're a baby or you're really old or you're somewhere in between that being old or a baby. I just want you to check out squarespace.com beckandkyle for a free trial. And when you're ready to launch into space. Just kidding. When you're ready to launch the website, launch into space.

[Beck Bennett]

All of a sudden I'm. Babies in space.

[Kyle Mooney]

Babies send a baby into space. Yeah. Can you imagine that through the little. Through the little circular hole to the little porthole or whatever you call it?

[Beck Bennett]

I don't believe babies are allowed in space.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, but if the government. If. If the government.

[Nick Kocher]

If the government allowed it, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

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[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And B, domain. Okay. So this time of year makes me rethink what's in my closet. I'm trying to keep fewer things, but better ones. You know what I mean? Pieces that are well made and easier to wear all the time. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner. That's why I keep coming back to quints. The fabrics feel elevated, the fits are thoughtful, and the pricing actually makes sense. I. I don't understand the way that other brands price their things. Well, they put that.

[Beck Bennett]

You have the. The period, the decimal. Yes. And it's like, is that. Sorry, is that the dollar or the cents? They always switch it. So sometimes they'll put the dollar on the cent side and sometimes they'll put the cent on the dollar.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. But Quince makes it easy.

[Beck Bennett]

I think it's sort of a classic style. Like, whatever you're paying. 39.99. Make it very simple. Yes. Kent's makes high quality everyday essentials using premium materials, like 100% European linen. And they're insanely soft.

[Kyle Mooney]

European.

[Beck Bennett]

No, I'm. I'm a pooin. Oh, that feels good. Nice. And they're insanely soft. Blown it. Active wear fabric. They're men's linen. Pants and shirts are lightweight, breathable, and comfortable. Basically the perfect layer for spring. The pants strike the right balance between laid back. Yeah.

[Nick Kocher]

And refined.

[Kyle Mooney]

Ooh.

[Beck Bennett]

So you look put together without trying too hard.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, do I look okay? Me? Yeah, yeah, that's you. Every. Every day you're trying to get dressed in non quint clothes. And by the way, they're flow knit activewear, moisture wicking, anti odor. That's for you. And soft enough that you'll actually want to wear it all day. Because too often I'm like, wearing these clothes. I'm like, these are too hard to get these off me, like, after a couple hours. But the best part is that their prices are 50 to 60% less than similar brands. How do you ask? Quint works directly with ethical factories. And cuts out the middleman. Nobody gets hurt. They're not hurting anybody. They just get them out of the picture.

[Beck Bennett]

So you're paying for quality, not brand markup. I gotta say, I got a quint sweater. I love it.

[Kyle Mooney]

I do, too. Black sweater, handsome.

[Beck Bennett]

I can imagine you probably look like Mr. Man coming through.

[Kyle Mooney]

I look like Bradley Cooper when I put it on. Who do you look like when you put your quint sweater on? Or who do you imagine?

[Beck Bennett]

I've all. I like to think I'm Dwayne Romero on one of his famous trips to the. To the. To the Arctic.

[Kyle Mooney]

That doesn't ring a bell. Dwayne Romero. I don't know him.

[Beck Bennett]

Dwayne Romero, explorer, actor. He was in

[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]

These guys.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, these guys know so much stuff.

[Brian McElhaney]

They've been gay and that's a bit.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, no, I think it's. I think it's.

[Nick Kocher]

You think we know stuff about podcasts because we do not know something.

[Beck Bennett]

I think we have to inform the audience that I said that, like, we sort of have to. We have to make the. We have to make the declaration that if we're going into bit mode.

[Nick Kocher]

So throughout this podcast, we have to say, oh, I'm going to bit mode now. And then we do bits.

[Kyle Mooney]

This is something that Kyle said before we started recording. Right, right. These guys came on.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah, yeah, yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

Which. And then you guys immediately said, what was your feeling with Kyle laying that out?

[Brian McElhaney]

Well, should we save this till we're rolling?

[Nick Kocher]

We're recording where it's happening right now.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Always just sort of walks around and

[Brian McElhaney]

does her own thing.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. We could go. We are. We already go.

[Beck Bennett]

Michelle, do you want to come through again? Yeah. You want to watch? Why don't you go ahead and twist the camera a little bit?

[Nick Kocher]

That'll help out. That's a bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

No, this is how I treat yourself.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's kind of Kyler.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah, I know Kyler.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian McElhaney]

I don't think you need to label when that guy's here. I'll be clear that. That's a bit.

[Nick Kocher]

You know, that's a bit.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Okay. Now, you guys have known Kyle, we've known each other a long time.

[Nick Kocher]

That's right.

[Brian McElhaney]

I also think the audacity of Kyle to say, right, you need to label when you're doing a bit is because I think calling the kettle black.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah. You can slide from reality to bit kind of better than anyone. You're a ninja doing it.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, man, that's really cool to hear, Brian.

[Kyle Mooney]

Kind of a bit ninja. Kind of.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, I take it back. We don't need. There's no.

[Nick Kocher]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

We don't have to say anything. I was just. I was. And all earnestness. Earnesty Ernest.

[Kyle Mooney]

No.

[Nick Kocher]

You had it the first time.

[Beck Bennett]

I was doing a bet. The whole thing was a bit.

[Kyle Mooney]

The whole thing was a bit.

[Brian McElhaney]

Yeah.

[Nick Kocher]

Our whole relationship.

[Kyle Mooney]

You guys have dealt with Kyle for many years and yeah. You guys have definitely come to me being like, what is Kyle doing? What does he think of me? What's happening right now?

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

You don't know.

[Nick Kocher]

One time when I lived with you in the middle or the beginning of COVID which was the crazy days, no one knew what we were doing with our lives.

[Beck Bennett]

Which, by the way, that was such a. A wild experience.

[Nick Kocher]

I remember, like, down.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, I remember. Yeah. The news came on.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I believe.

[Kyle Mooney]

Your house.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes. That's exactly as I remember it.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. And it was kind of like we couldn't go anywhere. Yes.

[Nick Kocher]

Yes, I was.

[Brian McElhaney]

You guys are speaking about this. Like it's.

[Beck Bennett]

And what was that?

[Brian McElhaney]

Something we're all very aware of.

[Kyle Mooney]

The mask.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, my gosh. I've not thought of those. And so. And what? Because they were held on by strings?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah, Exactly. Yeah. You could just take the question.

[Nick Kocher]

Anyway, one day during COVID you were like, hey, Brian, just want you to know, tomorrow's boat day.

[Kyle Mooney]

And I was like, oh, I remember this.

[Nick Kocher]

Okay. And then the next morning I woke up, there were decorations for boat day everywhere. You made dark and stormies for us and we got on some zooms and made nautical theme backgrounds. And then Boat day promptly ended at

[Beck Bennett]

like 3pm But I think we were probably lit.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

But yeah. Sort of had like a nautical themed.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Playlist as well.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah, that's right.

[Beck Bennett]

Right, right.

[Brian McElhaney]

And you guys were living together. Not really by choice.

[Beck Bennett]

Correct.

[Kyle Mooney]

How did that go?

[Nick Kocher]

Crazy.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, it was.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

To. To provide the context. That was fall of 2019. Summer of 2019. I had gotten a house.

[Nick Kocher]

Yep.

[Beck Bennett]

In.

[Kyle Mooney]

Congrats.

[Beck Bennett]

La.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's a big move. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

No, it's. I mean, thanks.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. I've never said that. Like, it's.

[Beck Bennett]

It is a big.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah.

[Brian McElhaney]

You also have a house, so congrats to you, too.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, thank you. I appreciate it.

[Beck Bennett]

That's what you're waiting for.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's been amazing.

[Beck Bennett]

Congratulations on getting your house.

[Brian McElhaney]

Yeah, let them do it.

[Beck Bennett]

And I know that you're doing some work on it.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah. I can't wait to have you over. And we're all done with it.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, I would like to, but you got rid of the. You guys okay Pizza oven?

[Kyle Mooney]

Not yet, but we're going to. Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

Because you could drop that off of my place.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's all brick. Kind of can't really move, but I'll drop off the. Whatever we're able to salvage.

[Beck Bennett]

Just like, you know, like, when people take, like. Like an old seat from, like, Yankee Stadium. If I could just get one of those bricks.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. Yeah, yeah, I would love to. Okay. From the pizza oven.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian McElhaney]

Anyhow, you're talking about COVID and we're

[Kyle Mooney]

talking about COVID So we had just

[Beck Bennett]

gotten a house, and we were. I was still at snl, which is in New York, and we decided to go on.

[Brian McElhaney]

Wait, what else?

[Beck Bennett]

Okay. Okay. Original cast was Ackroyd.

[Nick Kocher]

That's it. It was just one man. Ackroyd show, man.

[Beck Bennett]

But we decided we wanted to try to sublet.

[Nick Kocher]

Yes. A room.

[Beck Bennett]

And also, like, kind of wanted the safety net of somebody being at our place in la.

[Kyle Mooney]

So. So for the audience. So Kyle's subletting a room to Brian. You're in. We're in New York.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. You probably posted something on Instagram or something like that, looking for a place in la.

[Nick Kocher]

Something like that. I got a place. I'm mostly in New York. We'll be there once every couple weeks.

[Brian McElhaney]

And also, an SNL is a generational variety show.

[Nick Kocher]

Yes. Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

You guys wrote on it.

[Nick Kocher]

That's right.

[Kyle Mooney]

We did, but. So you're. You're subletting to Brian. Pandemic hits. You have to come home to your. To your new house.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, what happened before the pandemic hits? Not knowing that the pandemic will hit.

[Kyle Mooney]

Sure. We didn't know the pandemic was coming as Brian.

[Beck Bennett]

Or maybe you were saying, I would come back to LA for hiatuses, so, like, we would, like, spend a week or two in the same house.

[Nick Kocher]

Right.

[Beck Bennett]

Every month.

[Nick Kocher]

Exactly.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

And then, like, it just so happened that whatever that was March of 2020.

[Nick Kocher]

2020, probably that hiatus, we.

[Beck Bennett]

We always went back to LA. So we were in LA, and then. Oh, COVID 19.

[Kyle Mooney]

COVID 19. 20, 20. Yeah, yeah. And then you guys lived together and

[Beck Bennett]

Then it was like full on three months. Then it's like, okay, now we have. We're three people living.

[Kyle Mooney]

Living in a house where you can't go anywhere. And he was like, was this guy.

[Brian McElhaney]

Or she was pregnant or you had. Had the child.

[Nick Kocher]

No, we were trying hard.

[Kyle Mooney]

And so Brian was there for. So it was Covid. Nobody could go anywhere. And you guys were trying hard.

[Beck Bennett]

I like to think of.

[Kyle Mooney]

What do you mean? Sex, of course. Even pre. Course. Pre.

[Beck Bennett]

The.

[Kyle Mooney]

Pre.

[Beck Bennett]

The lockdown. And Brian and us sharing, like, this intimate moment in space. Like, Brian was also, like, when he first moved in there, like, heavily preparing for his one man show.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's right.

[Brian McElhaney]

So

[Beck Bennett]

he's constantly, like, ukulele on the

[Nick Kocher]

coffee table, like, lip syncing all around,

[Beck Bennett]

juggling pins in the washer.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Nick Kocher]

The guy you want to be locked down with.

[Beck Bennett]

Good to see you again, guys. It's like, come on.

[Kyle Mooney]

Wait, so that's what he was doing.

[Nick Kocher]

That was the part of my whole show working on.

[Kyle Mooney]

But I mean, we're. We're talking about COVID obviously, which is amazing. Let's go back to the beginning, shall we? Let's go back to the very beginning.

[Beck Bennett]

The very first virus.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Brian McElhaney]

You're probably wondering how I got in this position. One of those kind of flashbacks.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah, I remember the beginning was, unfortunately, Chris Lowell. Hate to bring him up, but he.

[Kyle Mooney]

We'll go over some of the stuff we went over on your podcast on your podcast recently.

[Beck Bennett]

What's that called?

[Nick Kocher]

Cash Grab. Cash Grab on our Patreon.

[Beck Bennett]

That's right. You guys are very literal and earnest about why you're doing it.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah, that's how it started. Is it a good move to be very earnest?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, sure.

[Nick Kocher]

We want money.

[Kyle Mooney]

We were just talking about our Patreon at the beginning a little bit and saying, like, if not enough people join, we'll stop doing the podcast.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah, yeah, that's fair.

[Beck Bennett]

You laid this out on Cash Grab,

[Brian McElhaney]

but you want to go find a paywall. And we should definitely. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

The Chris Law history.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Of it all. Chris Law, incredible actor. Let's see some clips of him right here. Awesome. Incredible character. Wonderful human being. Was my freshman year roommate.

[Nick Kocher]

That's right.

[Kyle Mooney]

And let's see.

[Beck Bennett]

Back when he was a freshman.

[Kyle Mooney]

Ooh. So you can see those two photos combined. He's my roommate. I'm like, a little upset at first because he's a gorgeous man.

[Nick Kocher]

And there's also. Oh, that's cool. There's a photo of you as a freshman. I believe in our movie. Do you Know that?

[Brian McElhaney]

Oh, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm giving a thumbs up. I did sign off on it. John Gillan's throwing up in a photo that Chris Lowell took.

[Nick Kocher]

That's right.

[Beck Bennett]

Sorry I interrupted you. Go ahead.

[Brian McElhaney]

You are now in the trailer and we bill you as part of the trailer.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, I didn't catch it.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, really? I didn't see that.

[Beck Bennett]

I interrupted you. Go ahead.

[Kyle Mooney]

So, yeah, Chris Lowell is my freshman year roommate and he introduced us to each other. Each other's videos, kind of, I guess. Yeah.

[Nick Kocher]

He talked a lot about you, his cool, new funny friend from usc. And I was like, shut up.

[Kyle Mooney]

It was a while till he even brought you guys up.

[Nick Kocher]

That's fair.

[Kyle Mooney]

But he did. And. But yeah, we. I looked back at our YouTube pages. I think we uploaded our video in May of 2007 or March, and you guys uploaded your first in January 2008.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah. And we met you, like days after we uploaded it.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Nick Kocher]

We sat you down and made you watch our sketches.

[Kyle Mooney]

And that's.

[Brian McElhaney]

I remember, actually Chris was, I think, showing you one of the sketches and you guys didn't hear me, but I was in the other room and he was showing you one of the sketches and you turned to him and said, like, is it good? No, you were like, is this good? Like, is this worth my three minutes of time before he watched it?

[Nick Kocher]

Like, what?

[Brian McElhaney]

Is it gonna be good?

[Kyle Mooney]

This is gonna be good. Yeah. Wow.

[Brian McElhaney]

And I think Chris said, I. I don't know.

[Nick Kocher]

I don't know.

[Kyle Mooney]

But yeah, you guys would come to la. You guys were like, you guys did very well right away for a sketch group for. You guys were performing at ucb. I remember you got an agent.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Wme right away. He picked you up in a limo. Wind and dined you.

[Brian McElhaney]

No, but close.

[Kyle Mooney]

Something.

[Nick Kocher]

We took a limo.

[Kyle Mooney]

Limo.

[Nick Kocher]

We booked a limo because we had an agent and just drove around New York City.

[Beck Bennett]

That's.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's really cool.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, limos are so tight.

[Nick Kocher]

They're crazy, man. I got Coca Cola's back there.

[Brian McElhaney]

I feel like. I bet you guys did some stuff like that. Did you celebrate when you got snl?

[Nick Kocher]

What?

[Brian McElhaney]

Did you do something silly to celebrate?

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't know.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, we had a going away party.

[Kyle Mooney]

We had a going away party and

[Brian McElhaney]

it was with an ice. Ice luge, I bet. Tons of ice luges.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I will say my wife and her friend Dia love ice luges, so I did too. We had one at the. So, like, yeah, actually at our baby shower, we had.

[Kyle Mooney]

Do you remember that? I do yeah. And it was in the shape of a pregnant belly. Yes, it was.

[Beck Bennett]

It was a. It was a statuesque version of Kate.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

But in ice.

[Nick Kocher]

That's beautiful.

[Beck Bennett]

And we've had Stewie ice luges, too.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, wow. I didn't know that, but. And he kind of talks like this.

[Nick Kocher]

That's pretty good, actually. That's pretty good.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, It's Stewie.

[Beck Bennett]

Seth McFarlane, who has a new show, the Animated Ted series, which Kyle is. I play the. I do the voice of Apollo.

[Kyle Mooney]

Let's hear Apollo. Hey, Apollo, what are you gonna have for breakfast today?

[Nick Kocher]

Well, I believe.

[Beck Bennett]

I don't want to.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Nick Kocher]

Is that true? Feels pretty good.

[Beck Bennett]

I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't want to step over any, like, WGA or.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, Kyle hates stepping over the wg.

[Brian McElhaney]

I don't know how they would really. What they would say about this.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, I don't know if I should improvise in character. Like, I don't know how.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. He only probably has a couple words.

[Brian McElhaney]

You can do a line that was scripted for you, can you, Mom?

[Kyle Mooney]

That's great. That's Apollo. That's great. But, yeah, you guys, like, you guys were the. One of the things I was jealous of, among many things, were you guys were the voice of Cartoon Network.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, that's right.

[Nick Kocher]

That's right.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think I auditioned for that. I feel like we must have.

[Beck Bennett]

I think you did it with Nick, maybe.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, maybe with Nick. And you guys like to have to have a steady voiceover job.

[Nick Kocher]

That was very grunky, wasn't it?

[Beck Bennett]

It was voiceover, though, right?

[Nick Kocher]

We were the boxes at first. We were the letter cnn.

[Brian McElhaney]

Yeah. So we just. So people know, we auditioned to be the face of Cartoon Network. And the idea was we would wear these big boxes. One that said C and one that said N. We would improvise and talk about the shows coming up. And our agent said, you. We got the job. And we did like, a weekend of promos. And then they were like, great. You want to do this for seven years? And we were like, like, sure. And our agent said, you cannot do that if you want to work in this industry in any other capacity, can

[Nick Kocher]

be the face of one network and try to pitch other ones. And it was really hard to say no to that because it was like we had no money and it was like. So we said no. And then they're like, what about the voices instead? And we're like, yeah, it's so much easier. And it paid just as well.

[Kyle Mooney]

So it was like, that's awesome.

[Nick Kocher]

And then we just.

[Beck Bennett]

How much are we talking?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Brian McElhaney]

Twelve hundred a week.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay. So like.

[Kyle Mooney]

But we weren't.

[Brian McElhaney]

We worked for 20 year olds.

[Nick Kocher]

We worked an hour a week. And often they'd. That was how much we got an. An hour. So it's like sometimes there'd be three hour sessions.

[Brian McElhaney]

That'd be like, oh, yeah, that's 3,600.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah. But it was like at 23, dude, for working an hour a week, it was like crazy.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's all you need. Just do whatever you want.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

So do you still have some of that cash?

[Nick Kocher]

No way. No.

[Kyle Mooney]

Blew through it.

[Nick Kocher]

I wanted to be like a little.

[Beck Bennett]

Had to spend it on the limo. You got that before that?

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah, yeah, limo.

[Beck Bennett]

I can. I. I've got something I. I would like to bring up.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah, please.

[Beck Bennett]

Let's think about this today. I mean, we have a lot of overlap and commonalities. And the fact that we come from, I'll say it, the same world. Is that fair to say? Yeah, maybe. These guys represent. Sort of. Maybe came at it from the east coast, we came at it from the West Coast.

[Kyle Mooney]

No doubt.

[Beck Bennett]

I think we also suffer. Maybe that's too strong of a term. But like, we both are entangled in this thing that our groups are often mislabeled or mispronounced.

[Nick Kocher]

Oh yeah, ours definitely. You are.

[Beck Bennett]

Your name is Brytanic, like Titanic. And I think you guys had to explain this to me at some point.

[Brian McElhaney]

Everyone. Yeah, we've had to explain it to you guys.

[Beck Bennett]

Brian and Nick separated with the capital T A N Bry tan. Nick.

[Nick Kocher]

That's right.

[Beck Bennett]

But for many people, when you read it, it's like. Like Britannic.

[Nick Kocher]

Britannic.

[Brian McElhaney]

That is definitely how every single person says it. Right? Unless they hear from us.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes. And we are a group called Good Neighbor and what is it happening? Why are you checking your phone?

[Kyle Mooney]

No, it was just some notes I wrote down. Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

It's a little distracting.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, come on, man. It's just some notes.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's not as distracting.

[Beck Bennett]

I'll put it away.

[Brian McElhaney]

Good Neighbor feels like it would never be mispronounced.

[Nick Kocher]

That is not the stuff.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's the stuff.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, our YouTube channel. We couldn't get either just Good Neighbor. And I don't think we could get Good Neighbor comedy. So we landed on Good Neighbor Stuff.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. So now everybody thinks our name is Good Neighbor stuff.

[Brian McElhaney]

I thought that until you told me otherwise a month ago, it would make sense.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's. That's the name of our YouTube channel, Good Neighbor Stuff. So, yeah, when we shot our video

[Beck Bennett]

the other day and we were like talking to people, I said like, we're from Good Neighbor Stuff. Like, I, like, I was like, now? Yeah, now I'm doing now. I've. I've. I guess I'm owning it now.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, Yeah, I fully accepted it.

[Brian McElhaney]

I don't correct people at all.

[Nick Kocher]

It just depends.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's just great to have fans.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah. You know what?

[Beck Bennett]

I wasn't trying to shame you on the notes thing.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, dude, all good. It's all good. Sometimes we get distracted and we want to call it out and it's like. Yeah, you know, I was usually guys. So just for you. Like, I've never pulled my phone out with notes before.

[Nick Kocher]

Really?

[Kyle Mooney]

So you're the first person. Oh, first person.

[Nick Kocher]

You got a lot of notes about this.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, I don't know. I was just gonna.

[Brian McElhaney]

I was just gonna read them.

[Beck Bennett]

How annoying was it like the. Yeah, I was so focused on you,

[Nick Kocher]

I didn't notice until you talked to him.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, no, no, sorry. The Britannic.

[Brian McElhaney]

How annoying was it?

[Beck Bennett]

Was it like the first year it was annoying and then like, you just didn't care.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah, at first I was like, no, it's bright tanic. But I was like, why should I be mad at someone?

[Brian McElhaney]

Yeah, I went through a phase where I think it was like in my early 30s where I was deeply ashamed of being in a silly group. Like being like having a. Like a band name when you're that age now I feel fine about it, but yeah, I did. Did you. Have you guys ever been through anything like that where you're like, we're a good neighbor? Probably not because you're on snl. So it's like.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, we also, like.

[Nick Kocher]

You were upset by that?

[Brian McElhaney]

Well, yeah, just when we weren't really working. During periods of not working, it feels like I'm in a group. It's like I'm in a band, but I'm old.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. I think that for Good neighborhood. By the time. Even by the time we got on snl, like, we were already starting to all do our own separate things that I feel like I don't. And I mean this in like, hopefully a non offensive or egocentric way. I don't think that I walk into a room and it's like, that's Good neighbor.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think it's. That's Kyle. It's more of like a deeper cut type of thing. People who liked her stuff from.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah, yeah. I think we have stuck together doing brightannic stuff together, like, longer than most people. So it's like they still view us as bright. You're still bright by design. A little bit. Like, we like that.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Nick Kocher]

But Derek comedy. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Because they. Because they sort of. Because Donald, I believe, became Childish Gambino. Is that true?

[Brian McElhaney]

Correct.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. This is America and stuff like that.

[Nick Kocher]

I didn't put that together.

[Kyle Mooney]

Doing beats and stuff solo.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

But I have here. One of the things I have written down is which we got Kings of dot comedy on G4's Attack of the Show. This is the second podcast Comedy Bang Bang.

[Nick Kocher]

That yesterday.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Why did they bring that up?

[Nick Kocher]

Because they wanted to make fun of us.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's just like, there were all you guys.

[Nick Kocher]

That was like, at the time. Remember? That was like, that's huge.

[Beck Bennett]

Kings of dot comedy, too.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, we were, yeah.

[Brian McElhaney]

Wikipedia, I think, because that's because Brian didn't put it there for you, because he probably put it on.

[Beck Bennett]

We were definitely the kings.

[Nick Kocher]

I think it was like, every month there was a new king or something,

[Kyle Mooney]

and they would make a lot of us.

[Nick Kocher]

I think you were kings first. And then when we got it, we were like, okay, good.

[Brian McElhaney]

And what a kingdom it is.

[Beck Bennett]

It really was. And.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah. What a.

[Beck Bennett]

Is this 2009 we're talking?

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian McElhaney]

They.

[Beck Bennett]

They would have a little package that would show, like, highlight clips. Yeah, highlight.

[Nick Kocher]

Oh, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Highlights.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Nick Kocher]

At that age, when you're, like, 23, like, the idea of anyone noticing you and putting you on their site, it was just like.

[Beck Bennett]

It felt magical every time on Facebook or whatever.

[Brian McElhaney]

Like, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Hey, everybody, I'm going to be on G4 tonight.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Brian McElhaney]

Yeah, exactly. But can I read the notes out?

[Kyle Mooney]

No, you really want to. You don't want to do that. No, I was just. I was just reading. Now I'm on your Wikipedia page from your notes.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Coming out. We can go more into. Oh, yeah, you want to.

[Brian McElhaney]

Yeah. Well, let's plug it really quick. It's pizza movie coming out April 3rd on Hulu.

[Kyle Mooney]

As far as I'm concerned, you're the talk of the town. Yeah. With this trailer and this. The reviews coming out of south by Southwest.

[Brian McElhaney]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Congratulations.

[Beck Bennett]

Congratulations.

[Brian McElhaney]

Definitely the talk of your algorithms town. Because all of our friends, you know,

[Kyle Mooney]

we're all friends, but I feel like a couple. I saw. I was out a couple times this weekend and people were like, britannic's movie. Oh, it's great. Great. People were like, who? Talking about it. I don't want to out them.

[Brian McElhaney]

They're complimenting.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah, it's a good outing.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. I. I feel like it was brought up at an improv show amongst other people. Neil Campbell, Frank Gillespie.

[Brian McElhaney]

Thirsty. We are right now.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't know who else.

[Nick Kocher]

Those are some good people.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, those are funny people.

[Beck Bennett]

I got. I got questions.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah.

[Brian McElhaney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Are you credited as Brian McElhenny and Nick Kocher or credit as Britannic recorded

[Nick Kocher]

as our separate names?

[Brian McElhaney]

I. I wanted to be credited as Britannic. Like Daniels. Yeah, either. It's the wga. Really won't let you do that unless you. I don't know, you got to do a bunch of stuff, but you get promotion.

[Nick Kocher]

Exactly.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah. Right.

[Beck Bennett]

And you do an episode on one of the.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, I do. I forget who I play.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, we don't know when Ted's coming out, but when we do, you know, we'll do an exclusive.

[Kyle Mooney]

We'll do a special. Yeah, we'll do a special.

[Brian McElhaney]

What's our podcast with in characters.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Brian McElhaney]

As your characters.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay. So you're not. So it's your names. And I wanted to ask you because you guys have been making stuff for such a long time. And Brian, you went to film school at nyu.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Nick, if I recall, you went to theater school. Acting school.

[Brian McElhaney]

Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

And if we go back back in time, you made the film. A horse is being turned into.

[Kyle Mooney]

Eagles are turning people.

[Brian McElhaney]

No, no, let them try.

[Beck Bennett]

Horse is being turned into. My old. Horse is turned to my old friend.

[Nick Kocher]

My old friend Jason.

[Kyle Mooney]

Jason.

[Beck Bennett]

Actually, let me get it. Yeah. Is it Horses are turned into eagles? What is it?

[Nick Kocher]

Eagles are turning people into horses.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm closer with you guys, so I know

[Brian McElhaney]

about the little moment you had to yourself after you said it.

[Nick Kocher]

My film professors did. When I pitched it, I.

[Beck Bennett]

What I'm ultimately getting at is. And it's a great short and, like, I think also indicative of the work you would do thereafter and sort of your brand of comedy as a directing team. I've never talked to you guys about that and about, like, kind of how you share responsibilities. If it is like, we're one monster, one unit. Or like, oh, Nick is paying attention to this. Brian is paying attention to this. I'm just curious.

[Brian McElhaney]

It's a little bit of both.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah.

[Brian McElhaney]

It's Brian. So Brian has much more of the film knowledge in terms of, like, editing and the shots.

[Beck Bennett]

180.

[Nick Kocher]

I know about that.

[Brian McElhaney]

180. Stuff like that. I tend to care about, like, every 10th shot, I'll be like, oh, I think it'd be this would. It'd be great to do something like this. But generally, I'm kind of like, whatever you want to do there, fine. And then I tend to, like, work with the actors more. Yeah, but we're both. I mean, like, I'm there when Brian and the DP are designing the shots. It's kind of. For this movie. I was more involved with the shots at the beginning. And then I was like, we do not have time for. For my discussion.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, it's.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah, I would say I'm always kind of with the DP figuring stuff out. And if we need to figure something out and Nick needs to do something else, he leaves us to that. And Nick is very much with the actors and the script and trying to do so as many alt lines as possible. I feel like you want to try to figure out every. How to beat every joke, and I want to try to figure out kind of how to beat every shot. So it's like, that's kind of where we split when we're on set.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah, but we're. It's great.

[Kyle Mooney]

It makes sense because, yeah, you work with actors. You are an actor.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's. But we're both very aware of what's happening. And one of us goes, that's fucked up. You know, we'll jump into each other's thing. But it is nice that we. We do kind of split like that. So, you know, if I have a meeting with our DP and you're not there, you feel completely fine with that. And if I. You go and talk to an actor about doing other lines and we have the time, I'm like, great.

[Brian McElhaney]

It tends to be like, we'll do the scene. I'll give a bunch of notes. Brian will have one note that I probably haven't covered or something. Like, he. He'll. If, if, if, like, when we do it again, the actors haven't done what he wants, it's like, then he'll get in there and he's giving them notes as well. But, yeah, that's generally. And then script wise, we're doing everything.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah. You know, everything else is like, script is. We just fight to the end. We're like, we both want complete ownership over our script. And then the things we don't know much about, hair, costumes, wigs. That's like. We're both like, I don't hire people.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Nick Kocher]

Jill Kim. Jill Breen. Yeah, she was amazing.

[Kyle Mooney]

Do you feel comfortable? Love you. Jill Bream.

[Beck Bennett]

Hey, Jill. Great.

[Kyle Mooney]

Hey, Jill.

[Beck Bennett]

Great costumes at SNL and really good

[Kyle Mooney]

at what she does.

[Beck Bennett]

Some of the best Can't. Do you feel comfortable? You don't have to do this.

[Nick Kocher]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

But if all of us sort of start jerking off.

[Nick Kocher]

Oh, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. There could be, like, sort of. No.

[Kyle Mooney]

A cool thing.

[Beck Bennett]

There could be, like, this fountain type thing.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Kind of capture it in slow mo. Kind of a fountain.

[Brian McElhaney]

The podcast kind of goes. Serious question. Absolutely.

[Kyle Mooney]

Nonsense bit.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

What was the biggest, like, kind of conf. Did you guys get at each other's throats during a point in the movie that, like, you can say, like, okay, that. That day, that. That moment was some of our biggest

[Nick Kocher]

fights we've ever had were on set. Like, Bella had to kind of.

[Kyle Mooney]

Because I would have thought that, like, all of your work in the. On the shorts would have given you the language or the, you know, techniques, whatever to deal with those problems.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

But they kind of came out in

[Brian McElhaney]

a way that I think generally on set, we're fighting a ton during the writing process. And I think. And I would say also the. The fights that might happen on set, which I don't think are anything that, like, usually they're happening in a private office. Like, they're not happening on set with the actors.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes.

[Brian McElhaney]

But there's one.

[Kyle Mooney]

You guys are. You guys are going into a private office, closing the door and thinking.

[Nick Kocher]

Our DP was very good at being.

[Brian McElhaney]

Or just like.

[Nick Kocher]

Like, let's move over.

[Brian McElhaney]

There would be a bunch of. There was also a bunch of times. Times in our office. Someone is in there. We start getting into it about something in the script, and I just see that person kind of, like, awkwardly just, like, show themselves out of the room.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah. Because it can get, like, kind of vicious, and people aren't really ready for that with us because we're not like that normally, but with each other. We had one day on. I think the thing was we, the script were constantly rewriting.

[Brian McElhaney]

Yeah, That's. Those are the arguments.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah.

[Brian McElhaney]

And it's like said it's a writing

[Nick Kocher]

shooting something in 10 minutes. We don't have much time. So we get one take of this. We can't do it both of your guys ways. And then we'd have to, like, really go to, like. Remember Lulu's entrance when she grabbed.

[Brian McElhaney]

Yeah. That's what I would say is the biggest fight.

[Nick Kocher]

That scene I remember being, like, also crazy.

[Brian McElhaney]

The interesting thing is it's, like. It's a vicious fight, but then the moment we, like, figure it out or get the idea, it's, like, immediately gone. There's not. There's no residual tension now.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Who. Who won that, that argument Brian won.

[Nick Kocher]

Are you okay with how it is?

[Brian McElhaney]

Yeah, I am. I do think. I think I was like, when we filmed it, I was like, okay, yeah, this works. I think this works.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Brian McElhaney]

I'd be curious.

[Nick Kocher]

Jankier of our scenes in general.

[Brian McElhaney]

Yeah. It's definitely not my favorite.

[Nick Kocher]

Not because of the actors, because of our writing, but like, yeah, yeah, we had to figure some Check out pizza movie on.

[Kyle Mooney]

The reviewers are saying great things. I actually, I actually did take a screenshot of a review. Have you guys read the reviews?

[Nick Kocher]

Yes. And it's every single one with a comedy.

[Brian McElhaney]

Every single review, every comment, people have

[Nick Kocher]

gone from it's my favorite thing to this is the dumbest fucking shit I've ever seen. You have to get right with that. It's hard.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, it's, it's. I mean, comedies are inherently dumb.

[Nick Kocher]

Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. So of course they're going to be dumb. It's always annoying when a reviewer is like, this is stupid.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

But let's see if you've only lived life by eating Neapolitan pies from Linda street, which is a very well regarded pizza place in New York, understandably. The first bite of deep dish from Pequods, which is a deep dish place in Chicago. Okay. Might surprise, but once you've tasted it, it's hard to go back. And Pizza movie is the type of spasmodic delight that elevates its genre rather than simply leaning into it.

[Nick Kocher]

That's from the Roger Ebert review, right?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, it is.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah. Thank you so much. That was really nice to get a good review from.

[Brian McElhaney]

Very nice from Roger Ebert's ghost.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Speaking to you from beyond the grid

[Nick Kocher]

now, Kylie, did you do south by Southwest with Y2K?

[Beck Bennett]

I did, yeah.

[Nick Kocher]

How was that experience for you? Was it crazy?

[Kyle Mooney]

It was great.

[Beck Bennett]

It was like, I would say to me a sort of headline, personal headline.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Was just that we had our daughter. She was. She must have been May. That was December 2024. So she wasn't even one years old. One year old yet. So I think I was sort of like, like flying her, like kind of to and from. And like we had a party in the evening after the screening, but then like, we had to leave early to get back to la. So, like one of these things where I feel like I was. Yeah. Not fully immersed in the celebration of it. You know what I mean? But it was a great. It was. I mean, the screening went great, the party was nice. But you know, you like, it's good to have a little buffer for when you're celebrating something. You know what I'm saying?

[Brian McElhaney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And I didn't necessarily have that, but. But yes, it was great.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And like, you, I know everybody here is like a fan of Austin.

[Brian McElhaney]

Love Austin. I mean, yes, very much.

[Beck Bennett]

Do you guys. Back on the, like, fight stuff.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Or like, do you guys. Do you guys text, apologize ever? Is there any of that?

[Brian McElhaney]

Rarely it's happened. I remember I texted you once during a fight in the edit where I was just. I texted Brian and our editor. I was like, I'm sorry. I got heated last night, you know, and it was just like, like. But it's like we're all getting heated.

[Nick Kocher]

You know what it is? We work often we'll just work to like 4am and then around that time, you just get. I don't know if you guys felt this at SNL or just with Good Neighbor, but, like, your emotions can just go haywire for no reasons. And then, like, you're just fighting about nothing. It kind of happened the other night.

[Brian McElhaney]

It's also. It's never getting to be clear. The fights are never really getting personal. Like, we're not like, bring. It's just. It's. It's just over a creative difference.

[Beck Bennett]

I wish I could describe this feeling. Do you know that feeling when you're like, in the midst of a fight and it's like maybe you realize you're wrong or maybe like. Yeah, yeah, but it's like there's a defensive quality coming and like, you kind of can't give in.

[Nick Kocher]

And like.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, sometimes there's like a disgusting feeling. It's one of the worst feelings because

[Nick Kocher]

you're like, oh, do I keep doubling down or do I kind of give up? And then if you decide to double down, you know you're wrong. You know, like, you're fighting a losing battle.

[Brian McElhaney]

Here's a little technique. You change what the arguments about fully pivot.

[Nick Kocher]

You just fully. We're.

[Brian McElhaney]

No, we're actually talking about this. It's like you've backed off of. You knew your were wrong and backed off completely. You say something like, well, how can you ever really know anything in life?

[Beck Bennett]

Right?

[Brian McElhaney]

Exactly.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Nick Kocher]

Once you get there.

[Brian McElhaney]

I mean, you heard of the Heisenberg principle?

[Nick Kocher]

This is the Jackson Pollock fight. Remember that? Yeah, we had a fight one time. This is so indicative of how we fight. And it was like we were talking about some structure of something we were writing 10 years ago, a sketch. And I think I said, like, I think it's a mess. It's like a Jackson Pollock Painting. And Nick was like, Jackson Pollock was one of the premier painters of the 20th century. And I was like, well, I don't like his work. And Nick was like, well, I love his work and most people do too. Then we were arguing about the merits of Jackson Pollock as a painter, which neither of us have really an opinion about, but it was like, utilized to

[Kyle Mooney]

try to make very passionate about it. But.

[Beck Bennett]

But you're also like, carrying other. Like it is. Yeah, none of it is an argument about that. You also, like, have other idiosyncrasies that are bothering each other that, like, you can't get into. So you have to like, use this.

[Nick Kocher]

Right, Right, Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

A mask to be like, no, I like. But it's like, brother, if I could be honest right now, you know the out of me.

[Brian McElhaney]

Right. So with Britannic, it's two people and we both have to. Where we can't move forward with good neighbor stuff.

[Nick Kocher]

Three, maybe four.

[Brian McElhaney]

Four people.

[Nick Kocher]

Dave involved in those.

[Brian McElhaney]

So I have to imagine sometimes people were left salty and upset.

[Nick Kocher]

What were your guys fights like? They get rough.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, because there would be like, Dave and Kyle were kind of a pod. Yeah. So they were in alignment. And then maybe Nick would think something else and I would think something else.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And then it'd be like, all right.

[Beck Bennett]

It was kind of unfair, like, because Dave and I. I. Dave and I share like a pretty distinct sensibility, like, for certain things. And I think I had like, more access to him, you know what I mean?

[Kyle Mooney]

And he was also the director and the editor, and he was best friends with Kyle, who was one of the three performers.

[Beck Bennett]

So, like, sometimes I probably got to like, skip. You know, the pitching process became muddled. Do you know what I'm saying? It wasn't fully democratic.

[Kyle Mooney]

You guys had more of a combined mind.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes.

[Brian McElhaney]

Like, what were those creative disagreements? I'm curious.

[Beck Bennett]

Like, well, there's also like, I feel like, like for all of us, we also were all living together. Right. So this similar to what we were just saying.

[Nick Kocher]

It's like, oh, that house was fun,

[Beck Bennett]

you know, like, what the happened to my car? Like, or whatever.

[Kyle Mooney]

You know what I mean?

[Beck Bennett]

Like, and then also being like, no, I think it needs to be more grounded than that. You know what I mean? So you have like two different channels that are operating at the exact same time.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah, yeah. I remember seeing like being like, drunk at your guys's place.

[Beck Bennett]

And by the way, remember the first time you got drunk, dude?

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Feels so good. I've been chasing that.

[Beck Bennett]

You're dizzy.

[Kyle Mooney]

My Life. Sorry, go ahead.

[Nick Kocher]

I just remember Dave showing us. Well, I remember, like, going into your guys's room and just looking at the craziest YouTube videos that you had found in the deep, dark, crazy corners of the Internet. You are the king of knowing those videos.

[Beck Bennett]

I was in up until.

[Brian McElhaney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Probably 2012.

[Kyle Mooney]

But you were.

[Nick Kocher]

They were. We also saw some.

[Brian McElhaney]

Got a treasure trove. Really amazing.

[Beck Bennett]

Very nice of you to say, but

[Nick Kocher]

we saw some sketches that you guys never released. One was like, you guys were the Borrowers. Like, you were like little people. Like, like inch tall people. And I remember watching the sketch being like, this is great. And you guys are like, nah, it's not good.

[Kyle Mooney]

It never. Never put it up.

[Beck Bennett]

Went out.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Was it you and me? Oh, yeah. You were the main one.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

What was his name? It's a fun. It's. It was a silly name.

[Brian McElhaney]

Tumnus Truffkin.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And, like, is that a live sketch that we did for a while.

[Beck Bennett]

It started as a live sketch in college, and then we shot it, and, like. Yeah. It's like Nick is having. Brings a girl over, and then, like, I'm like, hey, down here. I'm like, a little, like. It's like we shot it on green screen. I'm like a little guy guy. And, like, I've become very manipulative. Yeah. Or like, kind of horny.

[Kyle Mooney]

Like, horny.

[Brian McElhaney]

When she.

[Beck Bennett]

When she. When I'm, like, dealing with her. I'm very cute and, like, I'm the size of an apple or whatever it was. And then, like, when she would leave the room, I would say nasty things.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. To Nick, and he would react negatively and then change.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Something I want to go back to.

[Nick Kocher]

Yes, please.

[Kyle Mooney]

Great. So little segue. We're talking about your movie, which seems to be a great success. We're talking about your. Your shot out of the freaking gates of your career. Like a freaking.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Zebra or something.

[Brian McElhaney]

Not really. I wouldn't say.

[Beck Bennett]

But sure.

[Kyle Mooney]

You guys got eight. You guys had a. You guys had a pilot in 2014 with Comedy Central. Yeah, that's true. But you guys were, like, very successful, built a big following, doing a lot of stuff. And then, I mean, there was a period where, you know, after that, you kind of, like, get your pilot at Comedy Central if you're lucky enough to have. Which is a huge thing. And then, you know, things. The Internet changed. We all changed. Like, we were not like, young people on YouTube anymore.

[Brian McElhaney]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And then, I mean, like, I'm just curious because you guys kind of stopped Making videos for a while. You did SNL with us.

[Brian McElhaney]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And then you guys were writing more, and then, like, maybe not Britannic wasn't as active.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

But then you guys started again and started doing sketches. You started your Patreon. You started doing live shows again. Going to Edinburgh two times. Like, you guys were just like. Like, I feel like there was, like, a second win where you guys just, like, were kind of like, oh, wait, we have, you know, like, you had the momentum of your group that carried you into a. A career, and then, like, things naturally slowed down a little bit. And I feel like you guys were like, wait, why aren't we using this group? And because you guys are also incredible live performers. You guys are so quick. You really share a similar mind. Like, you guys are such. Like, the rhythm of your live sketch is incredible. It's kind of like your videos. Like, your editing is like a third character. The rhythm and everything. Like, the pacing and everything.

[Brian McElhaney]

Thanks. Thank you.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, that was a.

[Nick Kocher]

Well, yeah, and also, I feel like

[Beck Bennett]

it was very much kind of editing is its own character.

[Kyle Mooney]

You guys can use this.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah, we will.

[Brian McElhaney]

It's kind of like when they say, like, New York is a character in the show. Like, any show that's filmed in New York and New York really is a character in it.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And there really was a character named New York in the show Flavor of Love.

[Brian McElhaney]

That's true.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. And that's a separate thing. But you guys, I mean, it is really cool. Like, I'm just curious about. About that time, how you kind of, like, reinvested in yourselves and started just making stuff. And clearly it has worked for you. And it was really. It's really cool. It was really cool to watch, to see you guys, like. Yeah. Doing stuff.

[Brian McElhaney]

We were basically, after we left snl, unconsensually, we. We were getting writing jobs. We were. It was like, you know, we're just barely saying, afloat, just like, being in terms of just being. Luckily, like, a writing job would come along and you guys would, like, rewrite a script.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

[Nick Kocher]

For a year, we'd have that job, and then all the money, we just sort of, you know, it wasn't really

[Brian McElhaney]

fall in between those things.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Brian McElhaney]

And it was also, like, there weren't like, multiple prospects. It was just like we were taking everything that we could.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Brian McElhaney]

And then. And we had, like, a pilot at Fox that was like a multicam pilot, and we.

[Beck Bennett]

We.

[Brian McElhaney]

We decided to go do a run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. And I remember being like, this is like, irresponsible. We should be working on this pilot

[Kyle Mooney]

because you're not making any money, you're losing money. You're developing as a performer.

[Brian McElhaney]

I mean, you were paid to write the pilots. But Edinburgh would be loot. We would probably lose money.

[Nick Kocher]

And we didn't know if anyone show up. We didn't know people were excited about us anymore.

[Brian McElhaney]

And we had this other commitment and we were just sort of like, best case scenario, it'll be fun. And it was very much that. Reinvesting in ourselves and just what. Why we got into this business, which is like, to make people laugh and to do silly little shows and to

[Kyle Mooney]

enjoy the process totally together.

[Nick Kocher]

I would imagine it was very much like, after we got fired from SNL in 2017-2022, when we went to Edinburgh. Those five years, I think, were like, the worst of my life. Like, I really. It was. I was really in, like, a rough spot. Bought Britannic. Like, we said, we had these jobs. It was like we were going up and up in our 20s and all these things.

[Beck Bennett]

Living with me.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah, living with you.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's when it was a pandemic, too.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Which disrupted things.

[Nick Kocher]

That wasn't a good point. Boat Day really brought things up for

[Kyle Mooney]

a second, but it is that thing of like, oh, well, we've already done the live shows. We can't go back to a little bit.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

We have to move forward in it and be taking those steps up.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And it's like, yeah, maybe you do need to go back and revisit what worked totally. To kind of catapult you to that.

[Nick Kocher]

You know, it's like. And also, you can tell when the heat's off. You, like, you know, really. There was no phone calls.

[Brian McElhaney]

Oh, yeah. Also, we couldn't get. Get LA execs to come see our live show in la. And then they all came to it at Edinburgh. It was so funny. Like, they. They went, you know, they. Not. Not for us. They didn't fly to Scotland for us. They were there, but they. They. And that was very much what it directly led to. This movie. Billy Rosenberg saw our live show and was like, pitch me a college movie. And that's Billy Rosenberg.

[Kyle Mooney]

Shout out to Rosenbergs.

[Brian McElhaney]

Oh, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Great supporter of. Of funny people.

[Nick Kocher]

He love. He's like, I'd work with him forever.

[Kyle Mooney]

I love Billy.

[Nick Kocher]

But he. Yeah, it was like a thing where we were like, let's just go reconnect with. Because Hollywood had just, like, burned us out. And it was just like, it's so annoying. And Then we went, and nothing was happening. So just going back and performing live, we were like, maybe this is our life. Maybe we just go back and perform live and we can kind of make money, and maybe we. Britannic's kind of over in the Hollywood sense. And then, oddly enough, going to Edinburgh, like, revitalize the second act of our career all at once. So it was like, there's some sort of Aesop's Fable there. I feel like. Like, you know, giving up on something all of a sudden, it sort of shows back up in your life.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, but I was gonna say asop's Fable.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian McElhaney]

Should we go and say our. Go around and say our favorite Aesop's Fable?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah, we will after the podcast. I don't want to interrupt Brian's point.

[Beck Bennett]

People love this.

[Nick Kocher]

People claiming free substitute.

[Brian McElhaney]

You want a clip? Go viral.

[Kyle Mooney]

You know, you go, asop's Fables. Yeah, they did.

[Beck Bennett]

Which ones do they do?

[Nick Kocher]

I think Taurus in the Hair is

[Beck Bennett]

a big one, brothers.

[Brian McElhaney]

They.

[Beck Bennett]

Sorry.

[Brian McElhaney]

Asop.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, One guy. It's kind of like Shakespeare. It's like a bunch of guys.

[Nick Kocher]

You can't write all these fables by yourself.

[Beck Bennett]

He do.

[Nick Kocher]

I think Tortoise in the Hair is what he did.

[Kyle Mooney]

Tis in the Hair.

[Nick Kocher]

There's like, hundreds of them.

[Kyle Mooney]

Right.

[Nick Kocher]

Can we look up and see if ASOP did Taurus in the Hair was

[Kyle Mooney]

kind of like a Taurus in the Hair?

[Beck Bennett]

I got to say, I'm deep into Mother Goose these days. Georgie Porgy.

[Kyle Mooney]

I ain't really with that Humpty Dumpy,

[Beck Bennett]

humpy dumpty sat on the wall. I could even get a phone call. Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Little Jack Horner sat in the corner.

[Nick Kocher]

Sat in the corner

[Beck Bennett]

eating his Hot Pocket and lube.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't know what version you have that you read into your daughter.

[Brian McElhaney]

Next thing you know, I'm not totally sure.

[Beck Bennett]

Down he goes.

[Kyle Mooney]

Go.

[Brian McElhaney]

What the take is on this?

[Nick Kocher]

What's happening at the end?

[Beck Bennett]

And now he's just

[Kyle Mooney]

a boob. This is Andrew Dice Kyle.

[Brian McElhaney]

Andrew D. Kyle, who hasn't written his material before. He played the garden.

[Beck Bennett]

Sat on. Sat around on her oven, eating around with her friends.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, but I do think Brian was talking about the. The ASOP's fable part of his care. Okay, so you return.

[Beck Bennett]

Did we get the tortoise? Did we get the turtles?

[Kyle Mooney]

That's great.

[Nick Kocher]

That's great, dude. I got it. Yes. Anyway, you guys, we gave up, and then because of that, we came back kind of.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. What was that feeling like when, like, you kind of reconnected with where it all started and what you love. And then it started clicking.

[Brian McElhaney]

I remember Fringe was like, the greatest.

[Kyle Mooney]

I remember you were so happy.

[Nick Kocher]

We did the Fringe, and then we did the soho Theater in Alumni. And after our final show, when you kicked my head into the ground. Yeah. You were like, you said you backstage, you were like, thank you.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian McElhaney]

Because Brian was the driving force of us doing the Fringe. And I was like, this is a mistake. We should not do this.

[Kyle Mooney]

But you felt like, seemingly afterward, it just felt like you were, like, in the zone, just, like going full speed ahead.

[Nick Kocher]

We just went next three years with Friends.

[Kyle Mooney]

It just felt good. And you were like, this is what we're doing. Exactly. Keep going.

[Nick Kocher]

It was like, it reminds you why you do it.

[Brian McElhaney]

I just wanted to pivot fully the live performance. I was just like, this is all I want to do. I don't, I don't care about writing movies or TV shows anymore. I want to do live performance. It does not pay nearly well enough

[Nick Kocher]

to do that, but it was great for those are the years we did French. And also, it's like, as you guys know, like, movies and TV scripts take forever to move, if they ever do. And with live performance, it was just sort of like every day we get up on stage, we do something, and it's like, you were an artist today. You actually got to do it.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's why we're doing this. We just get to around and do bits.

[Nick Kocher]

Totally. Yeah. Just, yeah, you have to relieve that pressure valve somehow. And it's like when you're just writing all day and waiting, it's just like,

[Kyle Mooney]

well, I'm so glad you guys dip back into your library. I, I, I missed a lot of your recent shows in la. Are you guys going to be performing anytime soon?

[Beck Bennett]

Maybe.

[Nick Kocher]

I mean, we've been sort of just out because we're making this movie, but we did in south by Southwest, and it was great to hear.

[Kyle Mooney]

And, you know, speaking of the movie and kind of like full, just kind of like where we started, where we are all the in betweens, you know, like, I kind of was like a driving force and, like, helping you guys get a person out. Well, it's like, now you guys are making movies, you want some of those

[Nick Kocher]

sweet Hulu royalties, what you're saying?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, I would love to just get some royalty checks. I would love to get maybe your next movie. Okay, look, is it Kyle Beck? Kind of obviously the dream.

[Nick Kocher]

We wrote a college comedy for our first movie, which is great, and we got great actors, but we were like, I think our next movie is for people in the 40s because we want to use all of our friends.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Nick Kocher]

Like, we've accrued the best, funniest people. We couldn't use any of them. Them for this film.

[Kyle Mooney]

You could use some of them. I'm sure they're fantastic.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, but no to your friends. The actors are fantastic. They give incredible performances.

[Nick Kocher]

Yes, yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

But you were not friends with them.

[Nick Kocher]

Yes, we're not friends. No, they are incredible. They are. They are now our friends. We couldn't use our previous friends that we had made throughout the UCB and YouTube era.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. I guess we use it here on the podcast. You're gonna employ all your friends, other people, you know, and you.

[Nick Kocher]

Every single one.

[Beck Bennett]

Such a classic place for improvin. Scratch sketch.

[Kyle Mooney]

They had New York and la, so that's cool.

[Brian McElhaney]

It's good for them.

[Beck Bennett]

Remember Beer Money?

[Nick Kocher]

Beer money. Yeah. Kyle and I. Kyle and I. Oh, yeah, you directed. We tried to write a feature during Company.

[Beck Bennett]

I think the day that locked that, like, it was like, okay, we're not going to go anywhere. I was like, I want to make a movie.

[Nick Kocher]

And I was like, let's do it. And then we would shoot like an hour every Sunday or like, maybe over the course of. And it was just like. It was one of those things where you were kind of writing it as you go. I got to see the cut process.

[Beck Bennett]

I played three characters, three different characters.

[Nick Kocher]

And they.

[Beck Bennett]

Colby was one of them.

[Nick Kocher]

Maybe I don't remember if they have names.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, maybe not.

[Nick Kocher]

But I remember what they sounded like.

[Beck Bennett]

I think then like the, The. Then we found out SNL was going to come back and do At Home episodes. And so I think I was just sort of like, let's just try to turn this into a sketch for the show. But it. But at that point, we had like a 15 minute short film.

[Nick Kocher]

Exactly. So we were like, let's just truncate this into a sketch. And then it's amazing because it, you know, it was during the time where you didn't have to go to Table Read and Learn. Didn't have to approve, really. It's just whatever you made kind of got on air. So we got one of the craziest videos I've ever made in my life.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, I like that.

[Brian McElhaney]

There's some great videos that came out of that. I thought.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, that was fun.

[Brian McElhaney]

I love the. I loved your Architectural Digest.

[Kyle Mooney]

Thank you. I love that one too. Jesse directed that one. Yeah.

[Nick Kocher]

Oh, that's nice. I like the character that like, stay five feet away. That guy.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, yeah, that guy was that. That guy was a handful. Yeah, he's definitely on the edge.

[Brian McElhaney]

I also.

[Nick Kocher]

That was. You filmed outside your old house when you're on this street that was like this. So it. Like, people didn't know you lived on that street. The background is like, why is the road.

[Kyle Mooney]

I remember my old house.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah.

[Brian McElhaney]

Beck's first house was on a near

[Kyle Mooney]

vertical hill, Baxter Street. It was scary.

[Nick Kocher]

Very scary.

[Kyle Mooney]

Beck was also very scary.

[Brian McElhaney]

You would come over and Beck would be very defensive about the hill, and

[Kyle Mooney]

he would be like, you're gonna say something about the street and how steep it is. Yeah, well, you're a. Beck would be

[Brian McElhaney]

like, it's actually not that steep.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's actually not that steep. It's just weird to you because you don't come here every day. Once you start doing it, it's fine.

[Brian McElhaney]

It's like every delivery guy that would come would be like, what is this hill?

[Kyle Mooney]

This is nuts. Like, kind of walking up to the house, like they were gonna fall off the edge of the.

[Beck Bennett]

I currently deal with that with my driveway, because I have a steep driveway.

[Nick Kocher]

You're in the same place?

[Beck Bennett]

Yes. Yeah.

[Nick Kocher]

Good place.

[Kyle Mooney]

Good place.

[Beck Bennett]

But yeah, I remember, of course, backster, but. But back also, you had, like, genuine love for Baxter Street.

[Kyle Mooney]

I remember that.

[Beck Bennett]

There's like, sort of that iconic skate clip of the nude bombing.

[Kyle Mooney]

Bombing Baxter Street. There's also that famous clip of Tesla. Tesla shooting over that same house.

[Brian McElhaney]

Yeah, that is Baxter Street.

[Kyle Mooney]

That was the street that I looked at. If you want to check out news. The news bombing Baxter. The street he goes down is the street that I would look out, out of my house. And then he comes up the other street, which is another steep street. And he comes up. He stops basically right across the street from my old house.

[Nick Kocher]

Nice, but.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, pretty.

[Beck Bennett]

But you probably were, like, defensive in the sense you're like, it's not that difficult to drive.

[Kyle Mooney]

Like, what was your go to? People would be like, am I. Can I drive up this? Be like, yes, it's a road. Cars drive on it every day. Day cars were totally fine to handle it. Unless you have manual transmission. Then it can't because it would not stick.

[Brian McElhaney]

Shift would have been terrifying.

[Beck Bennett]

You can't admit in that scenario that, like, it is very steep and it is challenging for something.

[Kyle Mooney]

There are a lot of houses here because I moved in and it was like, you know, the first house I bought, and I remember an Uber driver picking me up, being like, wow. Damn, man. So our house Is cheaper here. I was like, no, no. They're actually just as expensive as everybody.

[Nick Kocher]

Good location.

[Brian McElhaney]

Actually, another thing about Becca is you get. You have a very temporary period of buyer's remorse. I feel like I remember always for everything. For everything. Everything you buy. You bought a couch in New York. That I remember was a whole event.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah. Couch.

[Kyle Mooney]

I just like, Jesse talks about a lot. I, like, emailed her being like, it was the email that said the couch. And like, I hate this couch. We fucked up. Like, we won't be able to get it out of here. Like, so dramatic. And like, a day later, I was like, I love this. It was like, the best couch I've ever bought. Bought. But it was like a. It was an expense. First expensive piece of furniture. So anytime you, like, spend money on something for the first time, at least for me, it's, like, so funny. I'm so.

[Brian McElhaney]

I think there was that period for your house where you were like, did I buy.

[Kyle Mooney]

Is it too steep a hill? Because you could hear the cars outside

[Nick Kocher]

on the street, like, Little Engine that could.

[Kyle Mooney]

And it just was, like, loud and. But it was a flat lot. It was a great house.

[Brian McElhaney]

It's a, It's a charming. Love that house.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Was great.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, you know, we could talk about the past all day.

[Nick Kocher]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

But we're here to talk about the present.

[Beck Bennett]

What you think our podcast should be.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, yeah. Yes. So hopefully you guys have an idea.

[Beck Bennett]

We didn't even get to go. We. I feel like you had a guess, but we didn't get to say at the beginning what our guesses were.

[Kyle Mooney]

What did I say in the intro? What I, I, I did.

[Beck Bennett]

I don't think you did.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's the. Yeah, yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian McElhaney]

This is great content.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, great. We both have an idea of what you might be pitching.

[Brian McElhaney]

Well, we did, I believe, email somebody.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. The idea. You don't know our producer, to make sure it was an idea that was covered. Yeah. I was like.

[Nick Kocher]

And Brian, I saw it, spilled some tea. Talk about a ruined couch.

[Brian McElhaney]

Can we man just do a replay of that clip?

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't know.

[Beck Bennett]

And by the way, here's Beck Bennett, freshman year.

[Kyle Mooney]

And here's Optimus Prime. Optimus Prime.

[Beck Bennett]

And this is my dingleberry bush cut

[Kyle Mooney]

to, like a freaking. A dingleberry bush.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

So. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

But it's not exactly what you imagine.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. So what's your idea? What do you think our podcast should be about?

[Brian McElhaney]

I hope I. People listening can't see this, but every time Kyle does a bit, he Just sort of wilts. Right?

[Nick Kocher]

You know, you go away from the bike, have a moment to yourself over here.

[Beck Bennett]

It's kind of the only moments I get these days.

[Nick Kocher]

Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, good.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh good. He's our guy. He's our little guy.

[Nick Kocher]

That's a little guy.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, what do you think our podcast should be about?

[Nick Kocher]

Nick, you had an idea?

[Brian McElhaney]

Yeah, I had an idea that was like. It was like oops all ads.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, great.

[Kyle Mooney]

Great. Okay, well, we'll be back. Any or any no follow up questions? No, actually, sure, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Do we need to pick. Do you think we need to access ads to do it?

[Brian McElhaney]

Huh? No, I, Well, I, well do. I'm. I'm pleased that you're completely on board. I just thought there was going to be a.

[Kyle Mooney]

What do you mean by who? Sometimes it's fun to just like go right into it. But. Yeah. Why, why did you pick this? And do you have any other ideas for the podcast the way we should? Because recently we just had. This hasn't aired. Will have aired at this point. But we had Bob Odenkirk on and he gave us. He was like. And I wanted. His idea was LA's routing infrastructure and he was like, I want it to be as boring as possible. So it was the first time we got some direction for how to do it and I thought that was really fun. So if you want to give some

[Brian McElhaney]

direction, I would say it's oops all ads, but none of the ads can be real for actual products.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. And why, why? How did you guys come up with this?

[Beck Bennett]

And how did you guys first meet?

[Brian McElhaney]

Chris Lowell introduced us.

[Nick Kocher]

We came up with this because Nick texted me in the morning and said, oops all ads. I said, that sounds fine. I guess. What is that? And now I'm here with you guys learning about it.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, so it's oops all ads for ads.

[Brian McElhaney]

I also have a. I also have a backup if you want to.

[Beck Bennett]

I like oops all ads. But we can hear the back.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Hear the backup.

[Brian McElhaney]

It's Oops all apologies. And it's just each episode is a very special episode where you're apologizing for something that you did. You're finally addressing the allegations and rumors.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah. Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

It seems like ads. We got a strong choice. Oh boy.

[Beck Bennett]

Because I actually do have some shit that I need to apologize. Apologize.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah.

[Brian McElhaney]

Don't use it.

[Nick Kocher]

I know. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't know what I have to apologize for because, like, you know, like, I think once another decade goes by, it'll be like, oh, what I did was bad, but right now I'm not aware of it.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Nick Kocher]

So you don't. Yeah, just sort of keep ghosting, man.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, I got another decade, and then I'll be. I'll be done. Okay, we'll be right back with Oops.

[Beck Bennett]

All ads with the guys from Britannic.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, Brian and Nick is their names brought together. It's like Titanic.

[Beck Bennett]

The guys from Britannic are here.

[Kyle Mooney]

Britannic is my favorite.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah. Yeah, a lot.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yo, yo, yo, yo. What up, Kyle?

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, man. My shoes. It just feels like they really get constricted around my toes. Yeah, what does it matter? Nothing will ever fix this.

[Kyle Mooney]

No. I used to think this.

[Beck Bennett]

There's nothing to fix my problem problems.

[Kyle Mooney]

I used to think the same thing, but that's when I found toe box wedges.

[Beck Bennett]

Toe box wedges. Well, now you're sounding like a lunatic. What the is wrong with you?

[Kyle Mooney]

No, no, no, no, no. I know. That's what I thought I sounded like, too, at first. But then I realized I was using toe box wedges, and they actually work. They create a little bit of extra room in your toe box. It's just a little wedge that you put in there to free up some of the room for your toes to move around a little bit more so you can finally get the most out of your shoes.

[Beck Bennett]

Interesting. Interesting. I always knew that the space inside of my shoe was. Was a toe box. I just didn't know that that's what they were called. But I know that there are new toe boxes that are better for my toes, that leave it less constricted. Make it better for me.

[Kyle Mooney]

Exactly. You know what that reminds me of? Sometimes I don't want to be seen. Right. I'm waiting in a waiting area. And sometimes my hat doesn't cover my face up enough. Or sometimes I'll take my shirt, right. And I'll stuff my face inside.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, like your Cornholio or something.

[Kyle Mooney]

Exactly. Exactly. And my hair is popping out. It's just kind of awkward. But that's when I started using bagheads

[Beck Bennett]

made by the same company that brings you toe box. Bagheads are a tobo wedges, and they're new to box wedges.

[Kyle Mooney]

Bag.

[Beck Bennett]

Bag heads are a new product where you can hide a person and make them so they don't have to look.

[Kyle Mooney]

So they don't. You don't have to deal with their faces when you're in the same room with them.

[Beck Bennett]

And guess what, Beck? We actually even have bagheads right here with us today. And you, you listening or watching? Get a special deal if you use the promo code. Fuck me, mama, make it last. Make it last till dawn.

[Kyle Mooney]

Wait, that's the whole code. Fuck me, mama, make it last till dawn. Wow. And you get 25% off bags to put on your head.

[Beck Bennett]

And shipping.

[Kyle Mooney]

And shipping. Wow. Because usually shipping for the bags is really expensive. So this is actually a great deal. So remember, put in. What was the cooking?

[Beck Bennett]

Mama Omega last still don.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's F U C K M a M a

[Beck Bennett]

mama a n D M A K E I T apostrophe T I L L A S T D

[Kyle Mooney]

a W last till T I L d you make it last till dawn. All right.

[Beck Bennett]

And we are going to have some bagheads here with us right now. Would you want to try one but it back?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, go ahead and lift one up. These are. These are bagheads that were shipped over.

[Kyle Mooney]

Our guest today are wearing bags. Brian and Nick from Britannic. Whoa, whoa. Take those bag heads off. Wasn't that nice? You didn't have to. You could kind of be your own world.

[Nick Kocher]

That was beautiful.

[Brian McElhaney]

I could earn the rest of my life in that bag.

[Nick Kocher]

Isn't baghead. That's beautiful. I've never even thought about putting a bag in my head. Oh, my God. It just changed my life.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. This is lavender one over here. It's kind of a little bit silkier and tighter. This is a little bit looser.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. And you can sort of actually wear it like a.

[Nick Kocher]

It can be a toe wedge.

[Kyle Mooney]

And this is kind of nice because while I am a part of the conversation, I kind of feel like I'm in my own world. Am I coming in here loud through the bag?

[Beck Bennett]

You sound really good.

[Nick Kocher]

You sound just like Beck. And that's the thing about bagheads.

[Beck Bennett]

And the bagheads also work as monkey sacks.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, my gosh. Oh, a monkey sack.

[Beck Bennett]

Yep. A monkey sack, if you didn't know, is where you can keep other your. Your little toy trinkets, things like.

[Kyle Mooney]

So it's kind of like. It's kind of like a fanny pack, but you wear it in front and

[Beck Bennett]

they call it a monkey sack because monkeys have them too.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's amazing, you guys. Thank you so much for being here. We didn't do the intro song for our podcast, so let's do it now. Thanks so much for being on Oops all on Oops All Ads. That's what it's all about. You told us. That's what we'll talk about with Beck and Kyle. Yes. Thank you for Being here. You guys, what's going. What has been going on with Brian and Nick?

[Nick Kocher]

So much.

[Brian McElhaney]

I tell you, I'm kind of upset, guys.

[Nick Kocher]

Well, what's happening?

[Brian McElhaney]

Because I never know what to eat.

[Nick Kocher]

Oh, I have this problem.

[Kyle Mooney]

I never know what to eat either. I'm always like. Like I'm always wondering what I should eat.

[Nick Kocher]

Breakfast, lunch, dinner, three times a day, you have to figure this out and

[Kyle Mooney]

you have to figure out a different type of meal for each one.

[Brian McElhaney]

I know what order they're in or anything like that. Which is why I've been using this great new app called what meal time of day is it? And you check it and it goes breakfast or it will tell you lunch.

[Kyle Mooney]

Right.

[Brian McElhaney]

Or it'll tell you dinner or it'll tell you it's not one of those.

[Kyle Mooney]

Will it give you a brunch time as well so you don't get confused?

[Beck Bennett]

I don't know. To me that sounds stupid as fuck. Why should I get it?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, I. I already feel like I could figure that all out on my own.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah. Nighttime, daytime, you can kind of tell pretty much which version of a beginning

[Kyle Mooney]

of the day, middle of the day, end of the day.

[Beck Bennett]

Did you just wake up?

[Brian McElhaney]

I thought that too. But actually thinking about whether or not it's breakfast, lunch, or dinner is burning valuable brain cells that you could be using to solve other problems. So I like to just take that load off of my mind. And now I can't tell you if it's breakfast, lunch or dinner, no matter what you ask.

[Nick Kocher]

Can you show us how it works right now?

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, I actually just going to take out my phone and show, but it's all right.

[Brian McElhaney]

Can you show us?

[Beck Bennett]

You probably have better service.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, you probably have better service.

[Brian McElhaney]

Speaking of service. Yeah, I've got really good service.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah, what is it?

[Brian McElhaney]

It's called I've got. Well, I'm using this new cell phone provider which is called better than Kyle's service.

[Nick Kocher]

Really?

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, well, speaking of service, I'm actually using a new service. It's called Lil Butler and it's this great service where like I want to get stuff done around the house, but I don't have the time. Time. So there's milk.

[Nick Kocher]

Sir?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. This is my little butler right here.

[Brian McElhaney]

Hi, little butler.

[Beck Bennett]

Hi. I'm. I'm trying to give you everything you need.

[Kyle Mooney]

Now this guy, he comes with a fun little accent and voice. So it's always kind of entertaining to have him do stuff.

[Beck Bennett]

Need some food? Need. Need a new radio.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, I do need a new radio. And little butler will help me make one.

[Nick Kocher]

And little butler, where did you come from? Where did you grow up?

[Beck Bennett]

Well, I. Well, marketers all around the world.

[Kyle Mooney]

Sorry. I'm sorry. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Little butler, if I'm going to bring you around with my friends, you have to be able to enunciate so we can understand your words. What did you say?

[Beck Bennett]

Marketers all over the world trying to find out how we make the best, tiniest butler. They use algorithms and data surface from all bells throughout the globe. And when they came together, they created me. Well, you could. I'm a little butler. Or you can call me Al.

[Brian McElhaney]

Can you change the voice?

[Kyle Mooney]

No, you can't. Okay, yeah, you've tried, but you know, and, and if you, if you use the promo now code now you can your little Butler. You'll get 25 off your little butler.

[Nick Kocher]

Now wait, that's the promo code.

[Kyle Mooney]

You can your little butler.

[Brian McElhaney]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

And you'll get 25 off your new little butler.

[Nick Kocher]

Now can you, you little butler. I've always wanted to know.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, I'm not sure. That's just the promo code. I haven't tried yet.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, that's that for that you'll have to. We'll have to wait and see.

[Brian McElhaney]

Now this must be really expensive, right?

[Beck Bennett]

No, it's. It's free.

[Nick Kocher]

Everyone can have a little butler for free.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, the promo code you can your little butler is just for the shipping.

[Brian McElhaney]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Cuz it's a free little butler.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, well, why don't we take a break and we'll be right back after

[Kyle Mooney]

a word from our sponsor.

[Beck Bennett]

We'll be right back from. Oops. All ads with a word from our sponsor. Actual conversation.

[Kyle Mooney]

Wait, what?

[Beck Bennett]

Well, I thought that like if. If the show is ads, maybe they'll like the thing you go that when you go. When you go on break to ads. It's not ads. It's the opposite. It's just sort of catching up.

[Kyle Mooney]

Just like, wow. Taking a break from the ads.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

But then, yeah, it's just kind of nice to like just be ourselves for a little.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Nick Kocher]

No, just like chill out. Not hockey, not trying to sell. Right.

[Beck Bennett]

Because that to me, that is the issue with, forgive me, America today. It's all this corporate capitalism.

[Nick Kocher]

No, it's also like you need more. You need more, but you don't need more.

[Beck Bennett]

No, because like when it comes down to, to it just like interacting on a human level, getting to know each other, talking about each other's families, each other's romance.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Each other's Clothes or whatever.

[Beck Bennett]

And like also spending more time getting to know where your money's being invested, how.

[Kyle Mooney]

How it's moving around.

[Beck Bennett]

How it's moving around. Do we really know who's in charge? Yes, that's ABC Tellers. ABC Tellers is making sure that your money's safe.

[Nick Kocher]

These are tellers who work at a bank. A group of them named ABC Tellers. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Tell me more about abc.

[Beck Bennett]

Tell.

[Kyle Mooney]

Is this like a direct to consumer teller system?

[Beck Bennett]

That's all we know about ABC Tellers right now.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, that's amazing. Well, back to the show, you guys. It's so great having you here on the couch.

[Nick Kocher]

Thanks. Good to be here, guys.

[Brian McElhaney]

Speaking of couches.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah.

[Brian McElhaney]

I was gonna say, is there any other type of thing that you can sit on? Cause I feel like there's couches, there's chairs. There's gotta be something else out there, right?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Well, there's rocks.

[Beck Bennett]

Coffee cup.

[Kyle Mooney]

Coffee cup.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah. You're gonna sit in. All right.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, we all carry coffee cups around to drink out of them.

[Nick Kocher]

There's already hawking a paper coffee cup to sit on.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, I know.

[Beck Bennett]

I'm trying my best.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. No, I was just. I thought I was just giving you.

[Beck Bennett]

I feel bad. I'm gonna have to sit on this guy's cup.

[Kyle Mooney]

You don't have to.

[Beck Bennett]

I have to.

[Kyle Mooney]

You don't have to give a live. I think you have tutorial.

[Nick Kocher]

I want to see how it works.

[Beck Bennett]

Cup now. You don't need to sit on couches. You can sit on the phone cup.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, oh, there's a little bit coming out. Getting a little wet. Oh, got a little wetness.

[Nick Kocher]

Thanks, man. Hold on.

[Kyle Mooney]

Instead of sitting.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, you got my short juice.

[Nick Kocher]

And it's still so tasty.

[Brian McElhaney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Wow.

[Brian McElhaney]

Hey, this short juice is actually really good.

[Nick Kocher]

Is this healthy for you?

[Beck Bennett]

Yes, it's made with low tribates. Low tribates and alpha gomegas. Wheat gomegas.

[Nick Kocher]

That's amazing.

[Kyle Mooney]

This is the thing you need for your gut. Health.

[Beck Bennett]

Health.

[Kyle Mooney]

If you're actually going to be one of these guys who is making a billion dollars, this is the.

[Beck Bennett]

By the way, the same short juice that Anthony Kurt Kurvavis uses in the Curvavis.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. That's how he's able to get so high in the air.

[Nick Kocher]

I love that guy. At least two, maybe three high in the air that day. That was nuts.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well. And he's gone around the entire world doing it. And it's all because of juice. Juice.

[Beck Bennett]

Short, short juice.

[Kyle Mooney]

So if you. Yeah. If you want to Be like, Anthony Carvaras. Get that high.

[Beck Bennett]

And by the way, I know Anthony Carvadis has made some mistakes, that some people are not happy about it. I am a supporter of Anthony Corvis. I know times have changed. He said some things that were okay

[Kyle Mooney]

during the time, but then a couple years went by, and now it's not okay.

[Nick Kocher]

And you guys remember specifically what that was? Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. Yeah. Yep. It was that people.

[Beck Bennett]

If you are a person.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Then you should not be allowed to be alive.

[Brian McElhaney]

Well, I'm. I'm glad you guys brought up.

[Kyle Mooney]

That was kind of.

[Beck Bennett]

And he said it, but he. But it was, like, on a podcast

[Kyle Mooney]

and where you're allowed to sort of,

[Beck Bennett]

like, just sort of riffing, like.

[Brian McElhaney]

Yeah. Well, that's why I'm so excited that he's got his new reality show. Anthony Kurvavas takes you to Vegas. It's Anthony, it's his family, and it's. And they're kind of a kooky bunch.

[Beck Bennett]

It's the old school Kravavas, because I remember, like, we all grew up on the Kravavas movies.

[Nick Kocher]

Oh, my God. Kervavis goes to George Washington. Kravovis is in jail.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Yeah. Kavavas goes intimate.

[Beck Bennett]

Intimate conversations was another good one.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah. That was sort of a change of style a little bit for him. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

But now he's, like, back, and he's doing, like. He's over the controversy and he's doing just classic Kurvavis. He's doing. He's getting high.

[Brian McElhaney]

Yeah.

[Nick Kocher]

In Vegas with his family.

[Kyle Mooney]

Getting higher than he's ever gotten. He's trying to get higher.

[Brian McElhaney]

And you can watch the show Tuesday mornings at 10am on VH1.

[Beck Bennett]

Yep. With the promo code. Jack be nimble Jack be nimble, Jack me down.

[Brian McElhaney]

Make sure to enter the promo code, otherwise you won't be able to watch the show.

[Kyle Mooney]

Exactly, exactly. It doesn't get you anything for free, but it's just gonna allow you to watch the show. Speaking of Anthony Gravavas and, like, you know, if you're like him, then you're like me. Then you get these. You're getting rashes.

[Nick Kocher]

Where are you getting those rashes, Ben?

[Beck Bennett]

Between.

[Kyle Mooney]

Specifically in between the thighs.

[Nick Kocher]

Oh, no.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Rubbing together. Swish, swish, swish. On a hot summer day.

[Beck Bennett]

I think I've got just the solution.

[Nick Kocher]

Try this.

[Brian McElhaney]

Whoa, wait, that's your hand.

[Beck Bennett]

They're Kyle Rubbies.

[Kyle Mooney]

These are incredible new product called Kyle Rubbies. They're little rubs from Kyle. It's all on an app.

[Beck Bennett]

Check to see if you have your rationale.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, my gosh. It went away.

[Nick Kocher]

Now, are there different styles of Kyle Rubbies? Does it have to happen here? Does it have to happen, you know, where is it? Can it be hard? Can it be soft?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think we all know the answer to that. They can be hard and they can be soft.

[Nick Kocher]

That's what I really wanted. I want to hear it from him.

[Beck Bennett]

They can be hard and they can stop and they can be soft. Kyle Rubbies come in all shapes and sizes, and. And if you want to get rubbed, just hit me up on my personal email. That's kylerubbiesmail.com.

[Nick Kocher]

he almost fell asleep.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, and also, I'm doing. I'm starting to do convention appearances.

[Kyle Mooney]

Kyle Revy's is. So if you're at the conventions and you get a rash from all that walking around, you know where to go. Go to the Kyle Rebbies booth and get a little rub from Kyle and he'll be able to get rid of it.

[Brian McElhaney]

Does it? And now, by the way, if you're walking around a convention, you're probably going to get sick of walking normal. Here's a new product for you. It's called Spring shoes.

[Nick Kocher]

Now, how are those different than moon shoes, Nick?

[Brian McElhaney]

They're not.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, and can you tell us a little bit about the product?

[Brian McElhaney]

I just did.

[Kyle Mooney]

What? What? No, but what are. How are they different than a normal shoe?

[Beck Bennett]

Or is it different than a moon shoe?

[Nick Kocher]

No, it's the old moon shoes from the 90s. Just.

[Brian McElhaney]

Yeah.

[Nick Kocher]

The right spring shoe on it, at least.

[Brian McElhaney]

No.

[Nick Kocher]

Oh, so it's a moon shoe.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, does Anthony Kavavas have anything to do with this?

[Nick Kocher]

Oh, he gets so high.

[Kyle Mooney]

I bet he's able to get a lot higher.

[Brian McElhaney]

He actually called this product a slur, and it got in a lot of trouble for it.

[Nick Kocher]

Oh, yeah, that's the old Kavavas, though.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, this has been amazing. I mean, I love just like. Like, you know, just kind of doing ads with you guys and just like. Because, you know, we all think about advertisements, products, something you can buy or sell. But what about something. An ad for something that's not a product that's in your life. Yeah.

[Nick Kocher]

More like an experience or something else that's sort of going on. Oh, man. There's so many things that we need to, you know, talk about right now that we're really using.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, thank you so much for joining us on Oops all ads.

[Kyle Mooney]

And definitely go see pizza movie.

[Nick Kocher]

What's that?

[Kyle Mooney]

It's the movie that you guys wrote. And Directed at something.

[Brian McElhaney]

Oh, yes. Use promo code.

[Kyle Mooney]

Say it.

[Beck Bennett]

You can say it. Say whatever you want. Say what Krava says.

[Kyle Mooney]

Bring it back. All right, well, thank you guys for being here. On ad reads only, it's been Oops all ad reads. I mean, Oops all ads. Thanks for coming.

[Beck Bennett]

You've been getting it wrong since the very beginning, because I think you said you. When you sang the song, you said, whoops all abs.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's oops.

[Nick Kocher]

And that's the thing.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't know if you've ever noticed

[Nick Kocher]

sometimes when you mispronounce words all the time, it can be a disaster for your social life. Which is why Nick actually invented a new product to make sure that you get everything you want to say correct grammatically and syntactically every single time you speak. It's called a knife, and you just use it on people when you speak incorrectly so they can't tell anyone that you mess. Messed up the words.

[Beck Bennett]

Wow.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm definitely going to be getting a knife.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes. I think my friend Braden uses them.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, then, you know all too well. Thanks for joining us on USAL Ads. See you next time on this podcast. Bye.

[Beck Bennett]

And thank. And thank you.

[Kyle Mooney]

And thank you for using the promo codes.

[Beck Bennett]

And sorry, was that a little awkward? Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Wow. That was Oops all ads.

[Nick Kocher]

Wow.

[Kyle Mooney]

Fantastic.

[Nick Kocher]

Lot of things to buy.

[Kyle Mooney]

We were saying. Fantastic, fantastic. Always, like, don't know if that could be a podcast, you guys. So, like, I feel like you kind of, like, came in. Well, I. Well, I don't know that.

[Beck Bennett]

I don't know that it's.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, I'm gonna go ahead and say it, you guys. Oh, okay.

[Nick Kocher]

I think actually we maybe knew that

[Brian McElhaney]

it would not really. I didn't realize how earnestly you are actually trying to. Trying to find a.

[Kyle Mooney]

We're really trying to find a. I

[Brian McElhaney]

don't think our idea is sustainable.

[Beck Bennett]

I feel like it started out.

[Nick Kocher]

It's the bit thing. We. We should have told you. It was a bit that we came in with.

[Beck Bennett]

I think it started out hot. I think, like, it's. I thought it started really hot. I think people. People. People listening are probably like, holy, this is going to be amazing.

[Kyle Mooney]

People are going to be coming up to us for years being like the first five minutes of Oops All.

[Beck Bennett]

I would say like the first, like,

[Kyle Mooney]

two and a half minutes.

[Brian McElhaney]

I think we said before we came in.

[Beck Bennett]

Right.

[Nick Kocher]

Right when the bags were on our heads.

[Beck Bennett]

That part.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, no, no. Up until the. The back. No, no. Through the back. Yeah, yeah.

[Nick Kocher]

Okay. I think when you sat on my tea. That was pretty epic. I've never seen anything like that before.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, it's a first.

[Beck Bennett]

No, we. There were. There were some great. It's like.

[Kyle Mooney]

This is.

[Beck Bennett]

I actually, I. I had so much fun doing. I don't want to talk Mac about this because it was great. It was so. And it was a great suggestion. I think the tough thing I have with podcasting, one of them.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Is the one take nature of it. Cuz, I mean, like, we were getting some good stuff. But if. Could you imagine if we could like kind of go in there and maybe like.

[Kyle Mooney]

Like that would be really.

[Beck Bennett]

Punch up a little bit here. Punch up a little bit there.

[Kyle Mooney]

Get on the same page a little bit.

[Brian McElhaney]

Just said a knife.

[Beck Bennett]

No, knife was great.

[Kyle Mooney]

No knife is great. Come on.

[Nick Kocher]

All right.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, you guys are awesome. Okay. We're just having a unique experience. What. What it does the. When we're. We do a podcast together, it is a. It's an odd experience and it like breaks up the typical podcasting format. And if, you know, it's at the end, it's if. If the audience is like, I don't like this podcast. They're trying. They can too tune out. They can leave. Yeah. It's almost at the end.

[Brian McElhaney]

Do you think anybody skipped over it and comes back for the outro?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, they skip that and they come to see what.

[Nick Kocher]

Just what we say to say goodbye.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Nick Kocher]

I think the one take nature can be tough.

[Brian McElhaney]

We.

[Nick Kocher]

When our cash grab, we basically shoot for as long as we do here, but then just make it 10 minutes. So it's like not. We still do one take, but we just take out all the stuff that doesn't.

[Beck Bennett]

You shoot for an hour and then I have a 10 minute episode.

[Kyle Mooney]

Exactly.

[Brian McElhaney]

It's not a great business model, but

[Nick Kocher]

it's like, it makes it succinct and like. Like takes out all the stuff where we're going.

[Brian McElhaney]

I like our episodes a lot.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah.

[Brian McElhaney]

We've cut out all the stuff. That's good stuff.

[Beck Bennett]

And is that who. Do you have an editor or do you guys.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah, Josh in Australia.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Brian McElhaney]

Oh, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Gonna go ahead and clip this right here. I don't know if we should use that one. Nick.

[Kyle Mooney]

Don't worry. I took out all the fat. Yeah. Trimmed all the. All the bad bits. You guys sucked it up for a while there. There's like 50 minutes of crap that I got out of there.

[Beck Bennett]

Go ahead, open up. Premiere right here.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Start editing. My boys.

[Brian McElhaney]

Your guy sound like he's on a boat. He's speeding by reminds me of that sketch.

[Nick Kocher]

You guys did so much fun on the boat. Which was. Which was part of. We both were part of some YouTube contest. We had to like work in a few different things in our videos. And that was your guys's submission. Remember that?

[Brian McElhaney]

Yeah, it was. It had to be a road trip. You had to have guitar.

[Beck Bennett]

An instrument.

[Brian McElhaney]

Yeah, yeah, an instrument.

[Kyle Mooney]

And there's small instruments.

[Nick Kocher]

And we both entered because I think that.

[Beck Bennett]

I think ours was qualified. I feel like.

[Brian McElhaney]

Cuz you weren't in a car.

[Nick Kocher]

You're at the end.

[Kyle Mooney]

What they were at the end.

[Brian McElhaney]

At the end.

[Nick Kocher]

Like a kind of a nice. Nice note, right?

[Kyle Mooney]

Like a little. Yeah, go check. Outrageous fun on YouTube.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, it was such a pleasure. It really was a fun time having you guys here.

[Nick Kocher]

I would love talking to you guys and.

[Kyle Mooney]

And I hope we have a lot of history. We had a lot. We have a lot of history and I hope we continue to be a part of each other.

[Nick Kocher]

We would love to.

[Beck Bennett]

And congratulations on pizza movie which comes

[Kyle Mooney]

out April 3rd on Hulu.

[Beck Bennett]

So it might already be. Be out.

[Kyle Mooney]

The maybe started out. Go see it. And you have another movie coming out that you wrote. You didn't direct.

[Brian McElhaney]

Yes. It's called over your dead body. It was directed by Y. Chone and

[Nick Kocher]

it'll be on the theaters nationwide 24th, so you can see it at your

[Kyle Mooney]

local AMC 2 movies at the same time. You guys are hot. You're back, baby.

[Nick Kocher]

We'll see. For the moment.

[Kyle Mooney]

This is like. This is like G4's attack of the

[Nick Kocher]

show and then finally. And then it comes a little down

[Brian McElhaney]

dormant for 15 years and then come back movies.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, I can't wait to see him. It looks especially pizza movie.

[Nick Kocher]

Thanks guys.

[Kyle Mooney]

It looks so great. Congratulations on being here and hanging out with us and on the movie.

[Nick Kocher]

Congratulations on having a podcast. You're going to find what it's about one day.

[Kyle Mooney]

We are. You know what I mean? We're finding what it's about.

[Beck Bennett]

I want to. I also want to shout out another friend who has a movie out on April 20th, 420. It's called a weekend at the end of the world starring our buddy Clay Elliott, who went to college with us. It's a really fun movie movie visually kind of some awesome stuff happening. Clay is really funny and great in it and that is on itunes, Amazon, Google and YouTube where and anywhere you rent movies from.

[Kyle Mooney]

So check out their movie and Clay's too.

[Beck Bennett]

A lot.

[Kyle Mooney]

There's a lot of movies, a lot to consume. We're Kind of going through a renaissance.

[Beck Bennett]

Go back and try to, like, I would say, start watching the Star wars movies. Like, go prequels first.

[Nick Kocher]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

Phantom Menace, Attack the Clones, Revenge of the Sith, New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Force Awakens, Last

[Nick Kocher]

Jedi, Return of the King.

[Beck Bennett]

Return of the King.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay.

[Brian McElhaney]

Mandalorian, Grogu, Baby Yoda, and Andor Adventures in babysitting.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Nick Kocher]

Ernest Goes to True Lies. Star Wars.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

True Lies is good too. Well, I hope so. Check all those out.

[Beck Bennett]

I hope you guys get to continue to make mov and make stuff together and.

[Nick Kocher]

And we can't wait to put you guys into our things.

[Beck Bennett]

I would love to be. I will be. I will be Earnest in this moment.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm a little busy.

[Beck Bennett]

I would love to be. I will. I likely will need to be paid a certain amount to participate just because of how my life is and supporting my family.

[Nick Kocher]

You both have been in Britannic sketches, two of our favorites.

[Brian McElhaney]

You didn't finish the sentence. It was I'd love to be Earnest the characterist. I thought you were going to say, I'd love to be the new Earnest film.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, yeah, no, no, I would.

[Beck Bennett]

I would to love, love to be in the movies. I just want to. I just want to be real about the fact that, like, it might come down to a number.

[Brian McElhaney]

It might come down.

[Nick Kocher]

Oh, yeah. What is that number for you?

[Beck Bennett]

I would say that's an off mic.

[Brian McElhaney]

Let's say three days.

[Nick Kocher]

Off mic?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, we got to go off mic.

[Beck Bennett]

Three days.

[Brian McElhaney]

Three days of filming.

[Kyle Mooney]

You're in and out.

[Brian McElhaney]

It's scale these days. It's vancouver scales.

[Nick Kocher]

Like, $1,000 a day.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm going to need, like, for three days, $300,000.

[Brian McElhaney]

Okay.

[Nick Kocher]

I don't think we can afford back at all.

[Brian McElhaney]

All right, well, you know, we'll.

[Kyle Mooney]

We'll see what our lawyers can figure out.

[Nick Kocher]

Okay, cool.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, but I'll be there.

[Beck Bennett]

But I would. I would actually pay you guys to be in there.

[Nick Kocher]

We can afford.

[Kyle Mooney]

I mean, yeah, you pay me 300 and I'll pay you some of it.

[Nick Kocher]

Okay.

[Brian McElhaney]

Sort of a kickback situation.

[Kyle Mooney]

Exactly. That's a little on the side. But thanks for being here, guys.

[Nick Kocher]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Thank you so much, guys.

[Nick Kocher]

So fun.

[Brian McElhaney]

Love you, boys.

[Kyle Mooney]

Thank you for having us. We'll see you tomorrow. I guess you'll See you soon.

[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 Konowskaya with production support from Ali Khan. And Robert Ryan Lutzow.

[Beck Bennett]

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

[Kyle Mooney]

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

[Beck Bennett]

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.

[Beck Bennett]

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

[Kyle Mooney]

This is us. That's right.

[Beck Bennett]

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

[Kyle Mooney]

Are we going to cry? Yes, a little bit. Are we going to laugh a lot?

[Nick Kocher]

A whole lot.

[Kyle Mooney]

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.