D'Arcy Carden

Summary

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

Episode: D’Arcy Carden (April 1, 2026)
Host: Headgum
Guest: D’Arcy Carden

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Episode Overview

This episode of What's Our Podcast? features comedian and actress D’Arcy Carden (The Good Place, A League of Their Own), who joins hosts Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney for a freewheeling, improvisational chat. As always, Beck and Kyle seek inspiration for what their podcast should actually be about, leaning on their guest and following spontaneous tangents. The discussion touches on comedy, improv, personal histories, breakfast, and community in showbiz, featuring heartfelt reflections, absurd improv, and an extended, silly “Breakfast Brothers” segment.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Finding the Podcast’s Purpose

• Beck and Kyle reiterate their approach: they don’t know what their podcast is about, and every week the guest helps them explore new directions (04:02).
• “We are trying to find our podcast… Guess is gonna come in, give us an idea, and we're gonna try it. We're always exploring.” – Beck Bennett (03:57)

2. Comedy & Clubbing Stories

• Early banter involves the hosts joking about going to raves, ecstasy, and Las Vegas clubs, with comedic exaggeration about their partying styles (01:14–02:46).
• Discussion of club culture, bass drops, and silly ideas for future podcast episodes at a Marshmello show.

3. Friendship, Hawaii Trip, and Brotherly Trips

• Beck and Kyle reminisce about their recent trip to Hawaii, including the silly image of Kyle in see-through raincoat material, attracting tourist photos for his “flopping around” (06:04).
• They compare notes on sibling trips: Beck’s ski adventure with his brothers in Park City (08:33) and recurring family traditions (“Pool jump talks,” 13:03), with running bits about riffing and recreating Fleetwood Mac and Kid Rock song mashups (09:16).
• Quote: “You were basically wearing see-through clothes and they’re… like, it was sort of raincoat material, but transparent... and everybody turned around and wanted a photo.” – Beck Bennett (06:45)

4. Introducing and Welcoming D’Arcy Carden

• The hosts praise Carden’s supportive fandom (“Rocco Head”), and her comedic and improvisational talents (13:57–14:29).
• D’Arcy recalls bringing balloons as a callback to a previous episode’s helium tank joke. The trio tries helium voices for an extended, silly bit (19:45–22:00).

5. Improv, Performance, and Self-Critique

• The group improvises a “Detective Bensworth and Charlie Hackle Mystery Hour” (26:04–32:17), with D’Arcy as a guest character. The scene leans into absurd physicality and blue humor.
• They discuss improv “hangover” — critiquing oneself after scenes — and the importance of accepting mistakes as gifts in improv (32:30–33:46).
• Insightful reflections on feeling “slow” or struggling for words, especially post-pandemic and as they age, and balancing competition and self-compassion (34:03–35:48).
  • “Every mistake is a gift in improv… you kind of can’t think in regrets and improv.” – D’Arcy Carden (33:34)

6. The Importance of Community

• Reflections on the challenges and joys of forming peer support, especially during events like screenings and post-pandemic socializing (41:13–42:49).
• “It does make you feel like part of a community when things like… last night really made me feel like I just am like, oh, I... like, there’s so many people on this.” – D’Arcy Carden (42:23)

7. D’Arcy’s Backstory (Rapid-Fire Q&A)

(Timestamps around 46:53–54:14)

• Childhood in Danville, CA; sports (basketball, water polo), and theater from third grade.
• Deep music background — her dad started Bay Area Music magazine; collecting concert set lists (51:14).
  • D’Arcy shares concert “set list” strategies and stories about early music exposure.
• Personal milestones: theatre in college at Southern Oregon University, moving to NYC, discovering UCB, and meeting husband Jason via a mutual friend (54:18–63:20).

8. NYC Comedy Hustle, Bus Tours, and UCB Days

• Anecdotes about working as a tour guide for “the Ride” bus in NYC, helping improv friends find paid gigs (64:05–66:54).
• Emphasis on creating opportunities and camaraderie in the comedy scene.

9. The “Good Place” Breakthrough

• D’Arcy discusses hitting it big with The Good Place at age 36 after years in the trenches, her contentment with how things unfolded, and lessons from not achieving “success” by industry milestones (67:06–69:57).
  • “The moment when you can let things go... then things kind of fall into place.” – D’Arcy Carden (69:51)
• Reflections on resisting SNL auditions and embracing late-blooming career paths.

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• On improv self-doubt:
  “That's a horrible feeling. Especially, like, right when a scene is done or right when you come off stage… But also, I really subscribe to everything is like, every mistake is a gift in improv.”
  — D’Arcy Carden (33:34)

• On acceptance:
  “The moment when you can let things go... the desperation goes away... and then things kind of fall into place.”
  — D’Arcy Carden (69:51)

• On breakfast and togetherness:
  “I just think that, as always, breakfast brings us all together, makes us family. And family is what breakfast is about, and breakfast is about what family's about.”
  — Beck Bennett (89:04)

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Notable Segments (with Timestamps)

Balloon/Helium Bit (19:45–22:00)

• D’Arcy gifts the guys balloons, and they all do their best helium voices, referencing a previous in-joke about a helium tank.

Detective Bensworth & Charlie Hackle Mystery Hour (26:04–32:17)

• An improvised, mock-mystery podcast within a podcast.

D’Arcy’s Music & Setlist Stories (51:04–54:06)

• D’Arcy explains her process for “collecting” set lists at concerts and recalls formative moments from her musical upbringing.

The Breakfast Brothers Segment (73:06–90:40)

• D’Arcy pitches “The Breakfast Brothers” as a podcast concept (“based on something I did last night…”), leading to nearly 20 minutes of playful, comedic riffs about breakfast foods, egg preferences, and breakfast childhood memories, punctuated by recurring gags about “a bottle of cum” (freudian slips) and discussions about lox, bagels, eggs, children’s breakfast habits, and what breakfast “means.”
• “Breakfast is a state of mind more than any other meal. You could have it at any hour of the day and it makes sense.” – D’Arcy Carden (90:09)

Reflections on Community (41:13–42:49)

• Discussion about how post-event gatherings and screenings reinforce community, contrasted with the isolating aspects of show business.

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Show Notes / Summary Flow

Opening Banter (00:37–04:20)

• Loose, comedic microphone checks and initial digressions about rave culture.

Friendship & Trips (05:14–13:37)

• Hawaii trip stories, injury mishaps, and inside jokes about family dynamics.

D’Arcy Joins the Conversation (19:35–20:45)

• Balloons, helium voice bit; welcoming D’Arcy as a “Rocco Head” and superfan of the show.

Comedy & Improv Deep Dive (24:00–36:13)

• Improv philosophy, self-critique, and reflections on memory lapses and slow thinking.

Reflections on Social Life & Community (39:01–42:49)

• Anxiety post-pandemic, regaining social “muscle” at parties, and importance of supportive friends.

D’Arcy’s Origin Story (46:53–67:02)

• Childhood, college, music, theater, New York, UCB, Jason, tour guide gigs, and path to LA.

The Good Place & Late-Blooming Careers (67:06–69:30)

• Achieving a breakthrough role at 36; acceptance and success.

The ‘Breakfast Brothers’ Segment (73:06–88:11)

• Extended, humorous exploration of breakfast foods, preferences, and family routines.

Closing Reflections & Projects (90:40–94:48)

• Affirmation of friendship and comedic chemistry; shoutouts for D’Arcy’s Sunday Nights (now on Hulu) and Wild Vacation Rentals (HGTV/HBO).

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Explaining the Podcast Concept — 04:02–05:05
• Hawaii Trip & Injuries — 05:46–08:28
• Sibling Riffing & Family Jokes — 08:33–13:24
• D’Arcy Balloon/Helium Bit — 19:45–22:00
• Improv Deep Dive ("Detective Mystery") — 26:04–32:17
• Improv & Self-Critique Discussion — 32:30–35:48
• Post-Pandemic Social Anxiety — 39:01–42:31
• Music & Setlist Collection — 51:14–54:14
• D’Arcy’s Life Story Q&A — 46:53–67:02
• Good Place/Late Career Breakout — 67:06–69:57
• Breakfast Brothers Segment — 73:06–90:40
• Closing Friendship & Plugs — 91:03–94:48

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Tone & Style

• The episode is characterized by warm camaraderie, playful absurdity, and genuine affection among all three comedians. The humor is often subversive, sometimes “blue,” always self-referential, and features long, meandering tangents that still loop back to insightful or touching conclusions.

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Final Thoughts

• D’Arcy Carden is celebrated not just for her comedic and improvisational prowess but her supportive, joyful nature—inspiring kinship among her fellow comedians and fans.
• The Breakfast Brothers “show-within-the-show” is a highlight, blending affectionate nostalgia with comedic irreverence and real-life quirks.
• The episode underscores the continuing search for the podcast’s identity, but in the meantime, the joy is in the journey and the improvised connections along the way.

Transcript

[Darcy Carden]

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[Beck Bennett]

What's our podcast? What's it gonna be about? Tell us what's our podcast? What should we talk about with Beck and Kyle? Oh, I'm rolling. Yes, yes, yes. Check one, check two. That's how we check if the microphones are gone.

[Kyle Mooney]

Rochelle's like, I'm rolling. I love that.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, like, rolling on what? You know, it says rolling. It's like we never thought to ask.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, checking out dj.

[Beck Bennett]

Checking out dj. Yeah, dj Rolling.

[Kyle Mooney]

DJ Matrix.

[Beck Bennett]

Rolling on ecstasy. Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

That could be a fun episode if we all do ecstasy together.

[Beck Bennett]

I think it would be amazing. Yeah, I think it'd be really fun. Ecstasy, not mdma.

[Darcy Carden]

Well.

[Beck Bennett]

Cause ecstasy's got a little bit speed in it, I think, and it's kind of more party drug.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think that's more. Yeah, Podcast.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, more podcast energy with the speed. Yeah, like we. Those. Ecstasy usually has like a little thing printed on it, like a little like a gun or an alien.

[Kyle Mooney]

Right? Like maybe a pair of glasses or something like that.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That'd be really cool. Yeah. So if you could just bring us some of the ecstasy that you've been doing, Rochelle, that'd be great.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. Have you ever been to a rave, Rochelle?

[Darcy Carden]

I have.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. All right, now, do you remember were there DJs?

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, there were a lot of DJs.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Because it was a rave and was there, like.

[Kyle Mooney]

Was there like a moment when the bass dropped and you're like, yes, it's happening.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah.

[Darcy Carden]

Sometimes the bass drops. There's like silence between. I don't know. I don't really like the rave music.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, yeah, yeah, I've been to. I've been to some. I've been to the club. I've been to the club a couple times. I've been to Vegas clubs and I see marshmallow. You see marshmallow? Yeah, dude, on my.

[Kyle Mooney]

On my marshmallow dress up.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, you got a big marshmallow head with X's for eyes and like, kind of like. Like little silly face kind of Thing.

[Kyle Mooney]

Another thing we could.

[Beck Bennett]

So I'm at the encore dude. And that. The beat drops like crazy up in that. It's like they blow all this, like, fog. It's like they just blow your ass. It's like.

[Kyle Mooney]

Ah.

[Beck Bennett]

And it's like, it's very loud, but it's not. It's like, there's very bassy.

[Darcy Carden]

Right.

[Beck Bennett]

The music, it's like a really good sound system. It's not that big of a room. There are all these tables. It's very funny. But then there's the pit. And it's like, you can hear the music well, but it's not abrasive to your ears. You can more, like feel it in your body. Cause, like, it's pretty trippy. It's cool. It's a fun scene.

[Kyle Mooney]

I bet you had some fun little chemicals on. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

A little something.

[Kyle Mooney]

What would you take?

[Beck Bennett]

You know, probably just some Advil. Yeah, I can feel good.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. Street Advil, we like to call it.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Meth.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Cool.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, I just do smoke a little meth and go see marshmallow.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's awesome.

[Beck Bennett]

Marshmallow. If you're out there, if you're.

[Kyle Mooney]

Love to have you.

[Beck Bennett]

We would love to do a podcast episode at one of your shows. Can you imagine the. Let the bass drop. Well, that's.

[Kyle Mooney]

I was.

[Beck Bennett]

You know, because if there is, Rochelle's loving it.

[Kyle Mooney]

That moment of silence before the. Before the bass drops. You know, maybe whenever in that anticipation, we'd be like, hey, what's up? I'm Kyle Mooney.

[Beck Bennett]

And I'm Beck Bennett.

[Kyle Mooney]

And this is new. What's our podcast at the marshmallow show?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. That's perfect. And that was a perfect way to get into the name of our podcast and what we're here for.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. What is our podcast? What's the deal with the podcast?

[Beck Bennett]

I think the deal. We know what the deal is. Okay. Okay. We are trying to find our podcast.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

We don't know what our podcast about Guess is gonna come in, give us an idea, and we're gonna try it. We're always exploring. That's when. That's one of the things I love about you, I think is so interesting, is you're always exploring. Well, that's everything. Every day is a new treasure to you, you know? Yeah. And it's not just like, what do I have to do to get through today? Yeah. You're welcome. Yeah. And look at that.

[Darcy Carden]

Even that.

[Beck Bennett]

You. I've never seen you do that with the pillow before.

[Kyle Mooney]

The listeners I was with my pillow.

[Beck Bennett]

That I'm not it. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

No. Could you imagine? All of a sudden, got the image in my head, which I kind of like.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, I like it too. It's kind of cute.

[Kyle Mooney]

I got my pants all the way down.

[Beck Bennett]

You ready?

[Darcy Carden]

I'm hard.

[Kyle Mooney]

Throbbing cough.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Just like going deep into the villa.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes. Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

Getting as close as I can to that climax. To that point where I'm like. I feel full elation.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

And it's like I fuck the pillow.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. See, like you're always finding stuff like that, dude. And that's like one of my mutual. That's one of my major respects for you.

[Kyle Mooney]

I would love to explore with you.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. That's what we're doing right now.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

And that's what we're doing with our audience. Okay. Cause that's what we do. We don't know what the podcast is. We're exploring every possible situation. We're still exploring ourselves.

[Kyle Mooney]

We're still. We're making changes every day.

[Beck Bennett]

That's what life is about. That's. We're living life with our audience and our rock is. Okay. Living life, figuring it out.

[Kyle Mooney]

Have a spot with them. Like, you know, like a kind of a. How.

[Beck Bennett]

Don't know what you're talking about. I don't know what you're talking about. Spot with them. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Like a cool place where we.

[Beck Bennett]

Like a hangout, like in Congregate. Like kind of like in Saved by the Bell. They got the max. Like we could have like a diner type situation where we got fries and sodas and like listen to music. And now you and I recently discovered Hawaii together.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. Okay. I didn't know we were gonna go here.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah. Me and Kyle went on a little vacay together.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. Here it comes.

[Beck Bennett]

Me and Kyle went to Hawaii. It was my first time. Kyle had been before and you could

[Kyle Mooney]

tell now he's gonna come after me. I know what's gonna happen here.

[Beck Bennett]

Kyle had his Hawaiian shirt, his big flip floppy flip flops on.

[Kyle Mooney]

I deserve this. So far.

[Beck Bennett]

He was just like letting it all hang out. You haven't seen Kyle till you've seen Ky. Hawaii. Hawaii. Hawaii. Kylo.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. He was totally. He was like soaking wet and just like flopping around Hawaii and everybody was taking pictures of him because they were just like so in awe.

[Kyle Mooney]

I was getting. A lot of people were taking.

[Beck Bennett]

Living the aloha lifestyle.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's such a beautiful place.

[Beck Bennett]

It really is.

[Kyle Mooney]

And you're walking along the beach and just for everybody, for all these people to turn and to be like, oh, we've got to get a picture of this guy flopping around.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Because you were. Because you're basically wear. You're like wearing basically see through clothes and they're.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, I had. It was like sort of. It was like sort of raincoat material, but transparent.

[Beck Bennett]

And I just soggy.

[Kyle Mooney]

Kind of wet and soggy.

[Beck Bennett]

Because it's like thin, like tissue paper.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. So, like, it was. Yeah, it was. Some of it was deteriorating and everybody turned around and wanted a photo and

[Beck Bennett]

look at this, look at this guy

[Kyle Mooney]

because it was in it and I get it, it looks strange.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. But.

[Kyle Mooney]

But it was so fun hanging out with it.

[Beck Bennett]

It was so fun hanging out with you.

[Kyle Mooney]

We both had to do stunts.

[Beck Bennett]

Yep. We had to do stunts in a movie.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think I may have. I think I like, essentially in practicing the stunt, like, kind of doing. Maybe if I. If I was like doing a fake punch or something. I think I sprained my wrist on abs. I think that might be what happened.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, really?

[Kyle Mooney]

Or my hand hit the ground. But I think it's possible that just the pure brute strength broke me.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, bro, Just broke you. A little break.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm healing. I'm healing. Yeah, yeah, it still hurts. I was wearing. I bought like a little brace splint. Yeah. Brace off, Amazon.

[Beck Bennett]

That's good. You gotta. You gotta take care of those injuries. You can't just let them go. I. I popped my hamstring.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, I remember. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

He punches me in the stomach and I keel over and vomit. And I did this sort of hinge where I didn't bend my knees at all because it was like a. Just a reaction and I went over far. It was like one of the last shots. And I just heard a little in my hamstring, but it was a little one. It was a little pop and it's a problematic hamstring. I popped it a couple times, but. Yeah. So we got both. Got a little banged up in this movie that we have a small part in.

[Kyle Mooney]

But it was an awesome experience.

[Beck Bennett]

It was awesome.

[Kyle Mooney]

We got dinner together.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, we had an absolute blast. We got gifts for our kids.

[Kyle Mooney]

We got gifts. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. We had a fun time.

[Kyle Mooney]

And then came back home the following week. Went on a trip with your brothers.

[Beck Bennett]

I went to Park City, my first brother's trip we've ever gone on. My older brother Drew, my younger brother Sam shared a one bedroom little condo. Ski in, ski out, ripping it up on the slopes. We're all similar skill levels. It was awesome skiing. Double black diamonds Black diamonds, blues, greens, whatever. Eating chicken tenders and salads on the mountain. Maybe hitting. Maybe hitting a little edible here or there. Having some beers, hitting the hot tub afterwards. It was awesome, dude. Snowing it. Snow. It was one of their biggest snow days. Our second day, so we had, like, sick fresh powder and how.

[Kyle Mooney]

And now I want to know when the Bennett brothers get together.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Are you guys riffing?

[Beck Bennett]

How much riffing is happening? So much goofing. Were out getting on a. A chairlift. And you know that Secondhand News, that song by Fleetwood Mac was playing? You know, Secondhand News, Secondhand News. And then it goes, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow. We were just goofing on that all weekend because we heard that and we were just going like, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow. It was really fun for me and my brothers.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, that seems like a. I can. No, I can't imagine. That seems like a fun thing to sort a fun through line. A fun, like, recurring bit.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And like, every time you go, bow,

[Beck Bennett]

bow, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow. Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Darcy Carden]

Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. You see something funny, and you just start doing it. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

It sort of reminds me. Ball with the ball. Dang. A dang, dang ball ring, balloon.

[Beck Bennett]

Really good scatting, Kyle. Kind of like your Louis Armstrong.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, yeah. I don't know if this is scatting.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, this is a little.

[Kyle Mooney]

I guess it is scatting, but it's more written because it's. Everybody's doing ba with the ba ba dang, dang, dang. Say you boogie. Set up.

[Beck Bennett]

Jump the boogie. Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

You could do a mashup with Blue Moon and bawa to BA by Kid Rock.

[Beck Bennett]

That would be great. We could do it right now. Or we could just mash it up.

[Kyle Mooney]

Do you want me to do Blue Moon? Am I Blue Moon or Kid Rock? You do Kid Rock, I'll do Blue Moon.

[Beck Bennett]

What's the Kid Rock part?

[Kyle Mooney]

So Kid Rock is BA with the ba Ba dang dang. Diggy, diggy, diggy. Shake the boogie's head up. Jump the boogie.

[Beck Bennett]

My name is Kid.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's Kid Baby.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, It's Kid Rye. Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

And then the Blue Moon is gonna be ball with the bar. Ba danga dang.

[Darcy Carden]

Right.

[Kyle Mooney]

I almost did the Kid Rock Bob with the bob. A dang digga digger, a bloom or something like that.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, maybe ball with the bar.

[Kyle Mooney]

But do. Am I just. Maybe I'm.

[Beck Bennett]

No am I am.

[Kyle Mooney]

I mashing them up.

[Beck Bennett]

I think we should just, like, in post, maybe, like, mash it up. I can't do the kid rock part, but, yeah, me and my bros had a great time. A lot of bits, A lot of joking about my younger brother Sam being the alpha and disrespecting us and putting us in our places.

[Kyle Mooney]

Because that is actually not who Sam is.

[Beck Bennett]

I mean, he kind of is at this point, but he's a little bit more stoic. He's just a little bit more stoic than me and my. My older brother. So, like, his. His res. His reserved style, you could. You could pretend is him being out just a little bit more soft.

[Kyle Mooney]

I could do that math.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. But what about you and your brothers? Have you guys ever gone on a brothers trip?

[Kyle Mooney]

We did a. We went to Joshua Tree several years ago, but we had one. We had one of our friends. Sean's close friend Alex came with us. So it wasn't purely brothers. It was. There was a plus one. You know what I'm saying?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah. You got to go pure brothers. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't know. I mean, maybe we've done. We've definitely all hung out, the three of us, but I don't know if we've, like, gone somewhere.

[Beck Bennett]

It was. It was great.

[Kyle Mooney]

And how much. Let's say you're together for four days.

[Beck Bennett]

Four days? For three full days? Yeah, about. Yeah, four. I'd say total.

[Kyle Mooney]

How much of that time of. Let's. Let's call it four days.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Or three days. Whichever you want. Say four days. How much of that time would you say is dedicated to talking about the past?

[Darcy Carden]

Oof.

[Beck Bennett]

Not a lot. Not a lot.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

Because we do it all the time.

[Kyle Mooney]

Outside of this trip. You're always talking about, like, do you remember the time I jumped into the pool? Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, I would say so. Or like, just general stuff.

[Kyle Mooney]

When you jumped into the pool.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah. We talk about jumping in the pool a lot. It's usually just kind of stuff about jumping into the pool. Yeah. That's kind of all we talk about.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, your jumps were really good.

[Beck Bennett]

And you liked. You like to go head first into the pool. Yes, I kind of like. I kind of went butt first and like. Yeah. And be kind of like stuff.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, man.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. It's just typical brother stuff. Pool jump talks. But, you know, enough about the past.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Let's talk about the present. We're here in the now.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

We saw our guest last night.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

She's one of the greats. She's a peer of ours.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. Her new show, Sunny Nights, we got. We watched a screening of.

[Beck Bennett]

It was so good.

[Kyle Mooney]

It was great.

[Beck Bennett]

She was incredible.

[Kyle Mooney]

Out now.

[Beck Bennett]

Darcy Carden is our guest. We love her. She's a friend of ours. We love to watch her on screen and on stage. And she's also. I mean, we'll probably say this in front of her, too, but I would say one of the biggest Roccos that I know of. She's been so supportive of listening and been a fan since the beginning.

[Kyle Mooney]

Does that make it easier for you?

[Beck Bennett]

A little bit. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's always nice when somebody knows what you do.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes. Yeah. And she's one of the goofiest, silliest people in the world, so I'm excited.

[Kyle Mooney]

Let's try to keep it as straight and not. Try not to go too silly on this one.

[Beck Bennett]

And grounded.

[Kyle Mooney]

And let us know, by the way, Rocco's, if you like. If you like it when we take the interviews really seriously. If you like it when we go a little weird. So is she here?

[Beck Bennett]

She's here. All right, let's scooch over to the side of the couch and have a blast with Darcy. Great.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Excited for it. Excited for it.

[Beck Bennett]

This age you're going to. What's our podcast, by the way?

[Kyle Mooney]

Man, oh, man, oh, man, oh, man. Oh, gosh.

[Darcy Carden]

What the hell?

[Beck Bennett]

Is everything okay, Kyle, Why did buying

[Kyle Mooney]

glasses always used to feel so complicated and overpriced? It's been bothering me for days.

[Beck Bennett]

I know. Yeah. Well, I mean, I've been trying to figure that out, too, and I think it's because glasses used to be kind of taboo. It used to be kind of like, you know, nobody. Well, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Here comes Eddie Dweederton.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. And.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Gary Giekermeyer.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

But I'm just trying to buy glasses, not feel like I need a spreadsheet just to understand what's going on.

[Beck Bennett]

Exactly. Don't even get me started on how hard it is to find something you actually like and fits on your face.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

So many times I'm buying stuff and it's sliding right off my face.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes. Or way. It's just like, doesn't even.

[Kyle Mooney]

Or it's like.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's like a big. Sometimes you buy like a big.

[Beck Bennett]

A hoop or something.

[Kyle Mooney]

A big hoop attached to a bag and you put it attached, you know, like, sort of like a parachute.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Or something.

[Kyle Mooney]

You buy these things and you're like, this isn't even. This isn't classes.

[Beck Bennett]

This isn't helping me with my life. At all. Yeah. It's not glasses. It's not headphones. It's not like a. Yeah, it's not like a mouse guard or anything.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's more just like the hoop with the sort of.

[Beck Bennett]

Sort of thing. Yes, yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

So you have this experience too?

[Beck Bennett]

I do, and I'm tired of it.

[Kyle Mooney]

So annoying. How can they tell if you're gonna look good on you from just a small picture?

[Beck Bennett]

I know. I always have these small little pictures. Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Can I tell you why I'm. This is that. Can I tell you something?

[Beck Bennett]

I want to hear about it, Kyle. I want to hang out and catch up.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, well, yeah. Well, then make the time.

[Beck Bennett]

Make the effort. I'm doing my best because it feels

[Kyle Mooney]

like it's just in the podcast when we read.

[Beck Bennett]

I know. I just want to make sure that we have something. I'm always like, let's get.

[Kyle Mooney]

Let's get a drink after.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. And I'm like, ah, gotta. Gotta get some knee pads. I gotta get my knee pads. So I gotta.

[Kyle Mooney]

Is that code for something? Oh, this is why I'm obsessed with Warby Parker. Seriously. Nothing comes close on quality, price, selection, customer service. Once you buy from Warby Parker, you realize how much easier they've made the entire. How much they made the entire process.

[Beck Bennett]

That is the sound of joy from an easy entire process. Also, for. For people watching, check out what I have here. Wow.

[Kyle Mooney]

Big reveal.

[Beck Bennett]

This is a Warby Parker classic case, and I'm opening it right now. There's nothing inside. I left my glasses at home, Kyle, but this is showing you. And this is a very nice case. It opens proud customer and closes. Warby Parker is so easy to go into. They have all the styles. They got all my information there. If I want another pair or something, I go, give me that pair I got last time.

[Kyle Mooney]

You love the glasses.

[Beck Bennett]

I love the glasses. And if I. You know, they're always. If they're kind of off, I just bring them in, they tighten them up. It's great. War Parker is the best. Honestly, it's not even close. You used to have to choose between flimsy, outdated styles or spending half of your entire paycheck.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yep.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

War Parker completely changed that. Their prescription glass start at $95, so you can actually get quality and stylish frames at an affordable price. And it's not just glasses. They offer contacts.

[Darcy Carden]

Really?

[Kyle Mooney]

Online eye exams. No way.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And sunglasses. I thought it was just glasses I got. Wait, what? They offer this stuff too?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. They also make incredible sandwiches. So get to Warby Parker. They give you quality and better looking prescription eyewear at fraction of going price. Our listeners get 15% plus free shipping. Hello. When they buy two or more pairs of prescription glasses at warbyparker.com beckandkyle that's 15% off. When you buy two pairs of glasses at w a r b y parker.com beckankile after your purchase, they will ask you where you heard about them. Please support our show and tell them our show sent you. We need this. The podcast space has changed. We need anything we can get. So go to Warby Parker.

[Kyle Mooney]

I am speechless. Beck. What Beck is saying is true. Yeah. Go to Warby Parker and please tell them.

[Beck Bennett]

Keep the show alive.

[Kyle Mooney]

Where you heard about Warby Parker from,

[Beck Bennett]

it's Beck and Kyle.

[Kyle Mooney]

Thank you. Dun dun dun dun.

[Darcy Carden]

Oh, no.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, no.

[Kyle Mooney]

The balloons have arrived. Which means Darcy Cardon is here.

[Beck Bennett]

Yay.

[Darcy Carden]

Wow.

[Kyle Mooney]

Did you. Did you just float in from the land of Oz? Yes. Wow.

[Beck Bennett]

Look at this. You brought us balloons. Thank you so much.

[Darcy Carden]

Okay, so as you know, I'm a Rocco head.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes. We were talking about that in the intro. It is. It is an honor to have you as a Rocco. It's so flattering. And it's an honor to have you here.

[Darcy Carden]

What are you. Like, it's exhausting. You text me.

[Beck Bennett]

It's exhausting to have you as a fan. And we don't know what to do.

[Darcy Carden]

Every episode that comes out, I'm like, and what about this part and what happened? And you're like, I don't know, man.

[Beck Bennett]

You did ask me a question about something and I was like, I don't know.

[Darcy Carden]

Do you remember here's why I brought balloons.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes.

[Darcy Carden]

There was an episode where you guys were thinking about getting a helium tank and that got poo pooed. You were like, can you just get us a helium tank? And she was like, that's like illegal.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes. Oh, yeah. Was that. Was that the same episode where we talked about poppers?

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay. Yeah, yeah.

[Darcy Carden]

And so I thought if we. We don't know. Pressure.

[Beck Bennett]

No air pressure.

[Darcy Carden]

But it. But if anybody wanted to suck a little helium and just see how it tasted, see how you sound, see if it sounds.

[Beck Bennett]

I would absolutely love to. This is a great gift for a podcast.

[Darcy Carden]

Sits here for 20 minutes. I'm kind of stuck holding it. Cause as we saw, I didn't get a.

[Beck Bennett]

Unless your pitch for our podcast was helium noise.

[Darcy Carden]

It was not.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, great.

[Kyle Mooney]

Now do you think?

[Beck Bennett]

Give me one of those.

[Darcy Carden]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Do you know what's the best way to do this.

[Darcy Carden]

I feel like. Let's think back to our, like.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, do you want me to take one?

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, take one. Everybody gets their own.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, I see.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, no.

[Darcy Carden]

Oh, no. Because as we know, I didn't get a wait.

[Beck Bennett]

You didn't get a wait for these balloons.

[Darcy Carden]

The woman said, do you want to wait? And I said, no. And she gave me this look.

[Kyle Mooney]

And, like, you know, I got to say, every time you're saying wait, I thought you w a I t. Okay.

[Darcy Carden]

Okay. You feel good?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Darcy Carden]

Should we huff?

[Beck Bennett]

Okay. Ready?

[Darcy Carden]

Cheers.

[Beck Bennett]

Cheers.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. Welcome Darcy Card into what's Up Podcast with Rocco.

[Darcy Carden]

Rocco. Hello. Hello.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's so great.

[Beck Bennett]

Wait, so am I. Am I really happening? Wait.

[Kyle Mooney]

One, two, three.

[Darcy Carden]

Oh, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's starting to go away.

[Darcy Carden]

What's our podcast?

[Kyle Mooney]

It's great to have you here, Darcy Carden.

[Darcy Carden]

Thank you for. Do more. Do more.

[Beck Bennett]

Thank you for having me.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm doing a little bit more.

[Darcy Carden]

So I've got to know, you joined

[Kyle Mooney]

UCB in, what, 2004.

[Darcy Carden]

2004. How old do you think I am? Oh, no, it was 2004.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Darcy Carden]

And I was once a host on Ascat. That's. That's when we met, actually.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's awesome. It's so cool. Coming up in the comedy scene.

[Darcy Carden]

That's how we met, actually.

[Kyle Mooney]

I've got a New York versus la. Where do you fall?

[Darcy Carden]

Well, something I always say is New York is better, but I like living in LA better, but.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, I say that too.

[Darcy Carden]

That's amazing. Do you feel the same way, Kai? I still have never. I still have not made up my mind.

[Kyle Mooney]

You still thinking about it?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's amazing.

[Darcy Carden]

Everybody, let's suck the rest.

[Kyle Mooney]

To sucking the rest with my friends.

[Darcy Carden]

Sucking the rest. Cause what do you mean? Cause, what do you mean?

[Beck Bennett]

Wow.

[Darcy Carden]

Because maybe you're fellating somebody

[Kyle Mooney]

and you're.

[Beck Bennett]

And you're trying to suck the rest.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. I don't know.

[Beck Bennett]

Or maybe you're finishing a milkshake or something.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't know.

[Darcy Carden]

I don't know. I don't know. And it's gone.

[Beck Bennett]

And it's gone. It's so quick now.

[Darcy Carden]

That's really fun.

[Beck Bennett]

That. That is a real. That was a sweet, sweet popper. Yeah. You're going to want to keep.

[Kyle Mooney]

We could listen, as if you have to use balloons. I go ahead and put them in

[Beck Bennett]

my little pocket and put a little pocket right there. Maybe we'll auction those off.

[Darcy Carden]

Good idea.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, that would be cool. You know, if we have a picture Patreon or something like that.

[Darcy Carden]

Oh, Was that a bit of a scoop?

[Beck Bennett]

Is it a scoop? Is it a le.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think at this point, the Patreon is out.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, the Patreon's out. So maybe we'll auction the balloons off on the.

[Kyle Mooney]

If you like what you're. If you like what you're seeing and listening to right now, check out the. Check over at the Patreon, where we'll be doing another exclusive balloon episode. We're going to zoom with Darcy, and we're going to all have balloons.

[Beck Bennett]

Just like. Just like bagging, you know, with a bag. You did? Oh, we're going to bag Darcy.

[Darcy Carden]

No, no, no. I. Because I missed it. I mean, like, I brought a bag, but then once I got here, I was like, I think they already do the. If I know this episode. If I know this show.

[Beck Bennett]

We have. Yeah. For people who know the show.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

We'll throw a bag on if you like.

[Darcy Carden]

I feel like you throw a bag on during your up top.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes. And in the other podcast.

[Darcy Carden]

Yes, in the other podcast.

[Beck Bennett]

In the podcast.

[Darcy Carden]

Within the podcast. Yeah, that's when you bag.

[Beck Bennett]

That's when we bag in my mind. Yeah. So, like, when we're starting our new

[Darcy Carden]

podcast, in my little Rocco mind, the bag was when you guys were doing your, like, 10 to 20 up top, your solo stuff. I felt like the person would be sitting here with a bag.

[Beck Bennett]

But we do that without anybody here, so. We already did that.

[Darcy Carden]

Okay, great.

[Beck Bennett]

So now we do that in our podcast within a podcast.

[Darcy Carden]

Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.

[Beck Bennett]

At the beginning when we're starting the

[Darcy Carden]

podcast, which is so quick.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. So quick.

[Darcy Carden]

A minute.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, a minute.

[Darcy Carden]

Okay, great. Well, I left the bag in the car.

[Beck Bennett]

Just a minute of bagging.

[Darcy Carden]

I don't need to do everything, Rocco.

[Beck Bennett]

No, you don't need to do everything.

[Darcy Carden]

Even though I did think about a lot of Rocko things. Whatever.

[Beck Bennett]

I can't. I. Wow. We're. I mean, I'm so honored that you're such a fan of the podcast.

[Darcy Carden]

Oh, I love it. Well, okay, I'll tell you one more thing. And then we could stop, like, Roccoing. But, like, you know, this podcast came out in. What. What do you think?

[Kyle Mooney]

August.

[Darcy Carden]

August.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Darcy Carden]

And it was on my top five Spotify. But if you think about the year

[Beck Bennett]

and you only have, like, three or

[Darcy Carden]

four months, that's hardly anything.

[Beck Bennett]

And we.

[Darcy Carden]

That kind of blew my mind.

[Kyle Mooney]

It really does. Sometimes as a performer, you feel like you're in a vacuum.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And to know that somebody. Just to know that somebody out there cares is great.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

But somebody whose work you admire, who is so funny.

[Darcy Carden]

Oh, gosh.

[Beck Bennett]

So, so wonderful. You're just. You're the best.

[Darcy Carden]

I love you guys.

[Beck Bennett]

Jesse said my wife, before coming here, she was like, tell Darcy that it's not fair and right. That somebody could be so good at improvising and acting at the same time.

[Darcy Carden]

That's really nice.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Should we do, like, a little improv scene right now?

[Darcy Carden]

God, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay.

[Darcy Carden]

But wait, should we do it? Okay, what were we gonna say?

[Kyle Mooney]

No, please.

[Darcy Carden]

I was gonna say, like, should we do the detective improv? You said you wanted to bring it back.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, we could. Or were you thinking of something specifically different?

[Darcy Carden]

No, no, no, no.

[Kyle Mooney]

I've got a yes. And the situation.

[Darcy Carden]

No, no, no, you don't.

[Beck Bennett]

You don't. Okay, yeah, yeah, absolutely. What are the characters names? Detective Bensworth and Charlie Hackle. So we could just do a quick little mystery. All right.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's the Detective Bensworth Detective and Charlie Hackle Mystery Hour. An improvised mystery.

[Darcy Carden]

Does that sound right?

[Beck Bennett]

Yes.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah. An improvised podcast. An improvised, like, mystery isn't even in the title. Let me tell.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, and. And Bensworth, was he, like. What was.

[Beck Bennett]

He was kind of like this.

[Kyle Mooney]

Of course. Charlie Hackle and Charlie.

[Beck Bennett]

Charlie Hacker.

[Kyle Mooney]

Welcome, young sleuths.

[Darcy Carden]

Wait, where's the music?

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, yeah, we gotta find the music.

[Kyle Mooney]

You gotta put your headphones on.

[Darcy Carden]

Oh, my God.

[Beck Bennett]

Can we do have them?

[Darcy Carden]

No, we can do it post. Post. Out loud.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, great. Out loud.

[Kyle Mooney]

We don't need our headphones. But if somebody wanted to wear their headphones just for the hell of it.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, yeah, yeah. That wouldn't be a stupid thing to do. Put the headphones on.

[Darcy Carden]

Just kind of feel them on our ears.

[Beck Bennett]

Come on.

[Kyle Mooney]

A Detective Bensworth and Charlie Hackle Mystery Hour.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah. The Detective Alexander Bensworth, Charlie Hackle Mystery Hour and improvised Podcast.

[Kyle Mooney]

The Detective Alexander Benzworth and Charlie Heckle Mystery Hour. An improvised podcast. Okay, you cue the music, Rochelle, and then we'll do it. So as soon as you have the music, we'll start. So once the music is there, we'll get going.

[Darcy Carden]

If you put the music on, we'll

[Beck Bennett]

just start once the music starts, and you'll get it up to that point.

[Kyle Mooney]

We're just going to wake up a little bit.

[Darcy Carden]

We'll even be quiet. We're just going to be quiet until you put the music on. But until then.

[Beck Bennett]

And so this can be some of her credits.

[Darcy Carden]

So you've got this credit, that credit

[Beck Bennett]

together, all these credits.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

We'll do a quick. This will be a Quick micro. Yeah, right.

[Darcy Carden]

Five minutes or less.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think we'll. I think we'll. We'll be able to feel when. Yeah, when we've.

[Darcy Carden]

When Del Close's ghost sits on our chest.

[Beck Bennett]

There it is. When Del Close sits on her chest. Did you say shits on her chest?

[Darcy Carden]

Oh, my God.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm going to need everyone in the building to quiet down for a moment.

[Beck Bennett]

Of course.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'd like to welcome something very important

[Beck Bennett]

going on, Charlie, please. Something we've got to solve. Right. Sorry, Charlie. Getting ahead of myself, aren't I? Again. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's going quite right.

[Kyle Mooney]

Sir, welcome. You.

[Beck Bennett]

Sorry. Sorry I disrupted you.

[Kyle Mooney]

Welcome once again to my. To our. To my study. We have a Quite the mystery to solve.

[Beck Bennett]

It's a great word, sir. Great words. A very good.

[Kyle Mooney]

On today's episode of the Alexander Bensworth and Charlie Hackle Mystery Hour improvised Podcast.

[Beck Bennett]

That's right.

[Kyle Mooney]

It was a cold, dark night in Bezelworth, London.

[Darcy Carden]

Alexander.

[Kyle Mooney]

Uh, yes, of course, Miss. Miss Critters, what brings you around at this time of night?

[Darcy Carden]

I seem to have lost my husband.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, no, that's not right.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, thank you, Charlie. Just.

[Beck Bennett]

That's awful. Did you think he disappeared in a cloud of smoke and doesn't exist anymore or something like that?

[Darcy Carden]

Hello, Charlie.

[Beck Bennett]

Hello. Hello, young lady.

[Darcy Carden]

Nice to see you again, Charlie.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, the pleasure's all mine, isn't it?

[Kyle Mooney]

Almost as if there's some sort of chemistry between these two.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, no, just friends.

[Darcy Carden]

I mean. No, wait. No, no, no, no.

[Kyle Mooney]

Mrs. Critters.

[Darcy Carden]

Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

When was the last. I feel like I don't have the money.

[Darcy Carden]

It's really good. It's really good.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Darcy Carden]

Well, yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

When was the last time you saw your husband?

[Darcy Carden]

I haven't seen him for months.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, so he's been gone for a while and you're just coming to us now?

[Darcy Carden]

If I'm being honest, I was enjoying me alone time.

[Kyle Mooney]

Possible he's passed away

[Beck Bennett]

and never coming back.

[Darcy Carden]

Hello, Charlie.

[Beck Bennett]

Hello. I think I know how to solve this mystery.

[Kyle Mooney]

Charlie. I don't usually give you the reins, but this time I must follow my gut.

[Darcy Carden]

Charlie, what's your idea? As tall as you are, straight up in front of ye.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Oh, I'm glad you noticed that and brought it to attention. Yes, it's one of my crowning achievements in it. I'm a little guy and I'm a wide guy.

[Kyle Mooney]

Get to it. What's your idea?

[Beck Bennett]

Well, I think I should go back to my lady's house and make sure everything's okay there and just.

[Darcy Carden]

And Alexander, you can come and watch.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, I think I've solved the mystery, sir. I think that her husband's out of town and she's looking for a sexual escapade with the detective crew. Mystery solved, Guys.

[Darcy Carden]

Why did I go so blue?

[Beck Bennett]

Well, it's absolutely fun to go blue, but.

[Kyle Mooney]

But that wasn't what they were gonna do. For just then, I, Alexander Bensworth, had noticed a bullet on the street.

[Beck Bennett]

Wow. That's crazy.

[Darcy Carden]

Detective, what you got there?

[Kyle Mooney]

This seems to have come from a Magna. A Magna 34 convert converter gun. And if I know my guns, there's only one person in this town who might own one.

[Darcy Carden]

Bludzo Bludzo Bledsoe.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, I don't like him.

[Kyle Mooney]

Please get off her.

[Beck Bennett]

I can't help myself. She said her husband's gone. It was practically an invitation for me to do whatever.

[Darcy Carden]

It's been months.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Trying to take care of me, lady,

[Darcy Carden]

he's crawling in every crevice. This way and there.

[Beck Bennett]

I can get around.

[Kyle Mooney]

But you're okay with this?

[Darcy Carden]

Oh, I welcome it. He's got my full consent.

[Beck Bennett]

I think the case is closed, Detective. I'll take it from here.

[Kyle Mooney]

Welcome to my crazy life as a detective.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, we'll see you next week on the Mystery Hour.

[Darcy Carden]

On the Mystery.

[Beck Bennett]

Wow. And that was the. And that was a mini episode.

[Kyle Mooney]

It was great.

[Beck Bennett]

That was great.

[Darcy Carden]

I went blue so far.

[Beck Bennett]

No, no, no.

[Darcy Carden]

You can't be too.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's a tough. It's a tough thing, I think, that everybody did.

[Beck Bennett]

It's a format where you can't do any wrong.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. You can't. You really can't.

[Kyle Mooney]

I mean, like, it's thrilling. But do you feel. How do you feel about being a person who's studied improv and mastered it? Do you. Do you beat yourself up after a scene if you're like, I could have heightened that better. I could have.

[Beck Bennett]

You do?

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah. Do you?

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I'm, like, not an improviser.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't consider myself improvising in, like, conversation.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, totally. Which is what I mean. That is kind of, like, heightened conversation. Right, Right.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes.

[Darcy Carden]

You know what I mean? I. Yeah, I do. Like, that's a horrible feeling. Especially, like, right when a scene is done or right when you come off stage where you go like, oh, I see. What if I did instead of. It would have, like, opened something up or, you know, or if you can kind of see the move that the person was trying to make and you don't see it until afterwards. But also, I really subscribe to everything is like, every mistake is a gift in improv. And. And, like, it will always. You, You. You kind of can't think in regrets and improv.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Yeah. It seems like it would be just a normal part of it. Not like, oh, I messed up. I didn't do that.

[Darcy Carden]

Totally.

[Beck Bennett]

That sort of hangover is just part of it because you're not going to think of everything.

[Darcy Carden]

Exactly.

[Kyle Mooney]

Do you ever. And this maybe is outside of improv and is just in, like, kind of interaction in normal life. Do you ever. And everybody can pitch in here. Like, feel free to say something. Honestly.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, yeah, no, just. You start the question. I would love to hop on in.

[Kyle Mooney]

How often do you guys feel slow?

[Beck Bennett]

Like, slow mentally?

[Kyle Mooney]

Like, I can't. I can't do any of that. I can't come up with that right now.

[Beck Bennett]

All the time.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah. And, like, more. More and more.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Darcy Carden]

Unfortunately, as you get older. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Because, like, do more stuff to keep it sharp up here.

[Darcy Carden]

I, I, I think I, like, think of myself or. Yeah, I thought of myself or think of myself as someone who is quick, and then I feel like maybe the last five or so years, I'll find myself being slow in situations like this, like an onstage thing or a recorded thing or I was playing. Have you ever played Taboo?

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, love Taboo.

[Darcy Carden]

Taboo is a game where I'm like, I am the best at it in the world. No, I'm not. But in my brain. No, but in my brain, I'm like, I could do this with anyone, anywhere, anytime. And the last time I played, I really was, like, having to search for words in a way that was like, like, shocking.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

I hate. I get. I. I suffer from that. The competition thing is tough on.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Because, like. Yeah. If I don't feel like I'm playing up to what, my stink.

[Darcy Carden]

Totally, Totally, totally.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. I really beat myself up.

[Darcy Carden]

Do you do that with mental and physical stuff? Like, if you were to, like, play basketball.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

If I were to go bowling.

[Darcy Carden]

Me too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

God, I just love to love myself.

[Darcy Carden]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

That's also, like, no matter where I'm at, it's like, you're doing it B.

[Darcy Carden]

That's so. That is so true.

[Beck Bennett]

No, I do lose. I. I do feel like I want to start. We've talked about trivia a lot. I want to start doing trivia and, like, doing just, like, crosswords and more, like, word games and just to, like, work. Do, like, workouts for my brain. Because I do feel like I'm losing.

[Darcy Carden]

Me, too.

[Beck Bennett]

You Know that.

[Darcy Carden]

I love that idea. I want to do that.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, but I mean, you watch you on stage, girl, you seem like you freaking got it. It's easy.

[Darcy Carden]

Sometimes breezy. Sometimes it feels breezy and sometimes it feels struggly. But I do the thing I said about like, no regrets on stage or whatever, I think is. Is helpful and to just sort of. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

But that. But is that apt to, like, all stage performances? Because that feels like improv specific where it's like there's no real mistakes. Because that is.

[Darcy Carden]

I know.

[Kyle Mooney]

Like if you're performing.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Like a written sketch or like you're delivering like a commencement speech. Yeah, I don't know that.

[Darcy Carden]

No, totally.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think there are genuine mistakes. Maybe. I don't know. Totally opposing that.

[Darcy Carden]

No, I think, I mean, especially like something like a speech. I think if it's. No. Okay. I think like, part of the no regrets is like giving it yourself.

[Kyle Mooney]

No regrets.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like giving yourself the permission to find something to be like, so open. Right. That you might. That might be like, I go the wrong way or the wrong. Ow. Do you see that?

[Beck Bennett]

I did not see you.

[Darcy Carden]

I go the wrong way. But that will ultimately, like, serve me somehow.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, that's smart. Well, that makes sense.

[Darcy Carden]

But then, God, I mean, do. I'm like. I'm the queen. The queen of. The queen of beating myself up on, like, a drive home after, like, shooting something.

[Kyle Mooney]

Really?

[Darcy Carden]

Not with a gun.

[Beck Bennett]

Not with a gun.

[Darcy Carden]

Not shooting something. Filming something.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes, yes. Oh, I thought you meant not beating yourself up with a gun.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, I'm not shooting myself in the face.

[Beck Bennett]

And you're not gonna beat yourself up with a gun on the way home.

[Darcy Carden]

Right, right. I'm the queen of just absolutely pistol whipping myself on the way home from filming something.

[Beck Bennett]

You introduced a term to me that I use all the time, which is Brandon Scott Jones.

[Darcy Carden]

Yes. You gotta have them on the pot.

[Beck Bennett]

Pie crusting. Pie crusting, which is like when you're in bed at night and you're thinking about what you said at, like, a social gathering or whatever, and you're sitting there and you start like, pie crusting the bed sheets up against your, like, face.

[Darcy Carden]

Like, imagine, this is my little bed sheet.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Darcy Carden]

I'm just like, oh, God, what did I say?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Darcy Carden]

Oh, why did I say that? And. And Brandon will use it like, I was pie crusting about that last night. Like, I really shouldn't have said that. Which is so I.

[Beck Bennett]

To give a name. The fun to such a thing that gives you so much Anxiety that people really can help. It helps it go away a little.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I think it's like, oh, this is just part of it. Pie crusting is a part of every.

[Darcy Carden]

Everybody has this. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Darcy Carden]

Are you a pie cruster?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. Yeah. And you know what? I was thinking about yesterday because we gotta shout out Sunday nights. Yeah.

[Darcy Carden]

Oh, as soon as shout out Sunday nights, I decided as soon as anyone said Sunday nights, I was gonna whip out the Australian licorice.

[Beck Bennett]

I had some of that last night. It's so good.

[Darcy Carden]

It's one of the reasons I brought it is. Cause I saw you eating it last night. Night. And I was like, beck likes the yesterday.

[Kyle Mooney]

The show is incredible. Darcy's incredible. Will Forte is incredible.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes. You guys. So true.

[Kyle Mooney]

And we were so fortunate you hadn't seen it yet.

[Beck Bennett]

I had seen it. No, we saw the first episode last night.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's funny. It's a little bit special. It's almost got, like, an Alexander Ben's word.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, it does a little bit.

[Darcy Carden]

It sure does.

[Beck Bennett]

There's some action, there's violence, and, like, really. I mean, like, you guys are so great together the whole time, but really, like, your relationship grows so much throughout the first episode. And at the end, you're like, oh, I want to see these, like, siblings work together and, like, give up.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Darcy Carden]

As soon as I open those, I'm like, that's gonna be really hard to eat on Mike.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, yeah. But let's see what it's like.

[Darcy Carden]

Okay, great.

[Beck Bennett]

We've already used helium on Mike.

[Kyle Mooney]

I probably won't snack to be just be told.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah. Because if it's not cheese or salami.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Wow.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. The Rocco's.

[Darcy Carden]

Know what Kyle eats.

[Beck Bennett]

That's right.

[Darcy Carden]

Little bit of nuts sprinkled in there.

[Beck Bennett]

Uhhuh. Yeah. You like his nuts?

[Kyle Mooney]

Had some nuts no more than an hour ago. But I was going to say, like, at your event last night, in. In. In terms of, like, regret. Of, like. Oh, did I say something wrong? I. I was reminded of this thing, and this might be so boring to the people who are listening or watching in fast forward. I know.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

I have worked so hard here to

[Beck Bennett]

be able to, like. Yeah. Have this. Our platform dude, go off.

[Darcy Carden]

Say it, though.

[Kyle Mooney]

I feel like. Okay. Yes. I do do the, like, kind of. Oh, was that a weird.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Thing to say? Or, like, did I offend them or was I. You know? But do you remember after, like, during and after the lockdown when there was a period where, like, you didn't see anybody and then all of A sudden you're like, okay, let's hang with each other in the backyard. That was when it was like. So I would leave. Like, any social event was like, what was I fucking saying?

[Darcy Carden]

I see. I think it started for me then. I don't think I had pie crusty before that. And then the no social life for a year or whatever. Like every. Every gathering for a couple years post Covid. I was really in my head about. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And for me, it was more intense after, when we started getting back to social media.

[Darcy Carden]

That's what I mean. That's what I mean. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

For you, though, was more like the backyard, the one on one.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I feel like. Well, because there was a lot of, like, social. What's the word? Like, not shaming, but, like, am I doing it right? Like, oh, yeah, I went to the grocery store. Oh, you did?

[Darcy Carden]

Right, right, right.

[Beck Bennett]

And, like, how are you doing it? Are you, like, like, donating? Are you washing your groceries? Like, are you doing it right? Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Coming to the party. So I just finished off my donations

[Darcy Carden]

a little late because of all my donations.

[Beck Bennett]

I was. Yeah. During this time when everything's shut down and nobody can make money, I'm just donating. I'm just donating people who need no hyper masks here. You guys would have had hyper masks.

[Darcy Carden]

God. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

He's a blue Kleenex.

[Darcy Carden]

But, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Coming.

[Darcy Carden]

I also remember, like, like, commenting on it a lot. Me commenting, like, in the moment, being like, I am really bad at this now. Like, you know, I don't know how to socialize anymore.

[Beck Bennett]

Exactly. Coming back and be like, I don't know how to talk. What do we talk about? What do we do now?

[Darcy Carden]

That's. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I remember being at a birthday party at your house and just like, flop sweating. Being like a flap.

[Darcy Carden]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Flop swatting.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And being like, I don't know how to do this.

[Darcy Carden]

I feel like we're through that. Like, I don't think I noticed that we're done with that or through that, but I think we are. Meaning, like, there's other reasons to be stressed out and spiral about what you

[Beck Bennett]

said, but it's not that anymore.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Darcy Carden]

But thank you for coming last night. And it was just like, a little cute, friendly screening that made me feel really, like, jazzed. Buzzed. I, like, woke up buzzed. I was like, you cr.

[Kyle Mooney]

You crushed it. And, like, also, like, isn't it so nice.

[Darcy Carden]

Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. To know that you've got people in your life who want to be supportive and let you know how awesome. You are. And, like, they're. I'm sure they're also people that you respect, and they came out because they love you.

[Darcy Carden]

That's nice, Kyle. That's really nice. I was talking to Jesse about it. Beck's wife.

[Beck Bennett]

My wife.

[Darcy Carden]

And we were just talking about how, like, it does make you feel like part of a community when things like. Like, I think there are a lot of ways for actors to feel like part of a community, but Hollywood stuff can kind of make it not feel that way. You know, a little. A little competitive and.

[Beck Bennett]

Or even like, you're, like, not seeing.

[Darcy Carden]

Exactly. Exactly.

[Beck Bennett]

Something you're shooting something you're out of town or whatever. You're not.

[Darcy Carden]

So little things like last night really made me feel like I just am like, oh, I. Like, there's so many people on this.

[Kyle Mooney]

And for me, like, as somebody who goes there, it's like, also, I can get a job out of this. That's. I'm always thinking, like, also, like, if I.

[Beck Bennett]

If I, like, make the rounds.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

You know, because some of these people have, you know, these are some real people making shows. I saw. I think I saw Jerry Burksworth there.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, yeah. And Damian Lundgren.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. Who's doing.

[Beck Bennett]

Doing the new. Doing the new fairy show. Yeah.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

So, yeah. And you put in a good word

[Kyle Mooney]

and imagine you up.

[Darcy Carden]

Oh, no, you did that because they

[Kyle Mooney]

were passing around the knishes.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Which. You know the.

[Kyle Mooney]

Do you know the game? Chubby Bunny?

[Darcy Carden]

Uhhuh.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes. Yeah, yeah.

[Darcy Carden]

Usually marshmallows.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. You put as much mar. I did. To that person.

[Darcy Carden]

Yes. To Lungren or whatever.

[Kyle Mooney]

Lra.

[Darcy Carden]

Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

I just started stuffing his mouth.

[Darcy Carden]

Did he.

[Beck Bennett]

Did.

[Darcy Carden]

Did he choke to death?

[Beck Bennett]

Did you go like. Did you just start doing it?

[Kyle Mooney]

Or were you like Chubby Bunny? Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

A little bit of.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm going to play Chubby Bunny with you with these connections.

[Darcy Carden]

And he was kind of like, what?

[Beck Bennett]

What?

[Kyle Mooney]

What?

[Darcy Carden]

What? What?

[Kyle Mooney]

And he's like, oh, roar.

[Darcy Carden]

Ro. Right. And we were, like, laughing so hard.

[Kyle Mooney]

I was laughing so far. He passed.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, he passed. He passed away.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, he passed. He's passed on.

[Beck Bennett]

That is. So you're not here.

[Darcy Carden]

No, no. I was so in my. Up. My own.

[Beck Bennett]

You were just like.

[Darcy Carden]

I was like, I'm on screen. I'm on screen. I'm on screen.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. How do you. Now, one of the. You did a little intro before the show, which was very charming. I mean, like, were you stressed out at that event? Because everybody's here for you and you're, like, checking out the, the pre situ. The reception situation, and then you give a little talk.

[Darcy Carden]

It's funny. Like there's, there's like a little. There was a moment, I think I said to my husband. Wife. Jason. Yes, Jason, where I was like, I wish this was for someone else's screening. I wish we were all here and this is for someone else because it's. You kind of can't really, like, fully socialize and chill out. And Will and I were like, what do we say? And who do we, you know, like, making sure we say all the right things. But, but, but, but. So I didn't. I didn't fully relax, but it was. It felt very friendly. Like, once we got up on stage in front of everybody just to thank everybody, I was like, oh, this is such a warm group. And it felt great.

[Kyle Mooney]

I thought it was a perfect intro. It made me. And for those of you who've never been to a screening or a premiere or anything like that, typically the filmmakers or people involved are there and they will say a few words, a few words and say, like, we had so much fun. Maybe we'll work in a bit in there. We want to thank A and G Studios, everybody from.

[Beck Bennett]

Everybody from Plymouth and Jacoby Brothers and Kellogg's Raising Brand. Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

But I think it was. It was per. It was not too long, not too short. You got some laughs in there. And it didn't go off. See, it made me. It made me, like, think about all those times I've had to do it and be like, oh, man, sometimes I'm up there, I'm just going, I'm being, like, way too silly or too indulgent.

[Darcy Carden]

I bet you're perfect. Come on.

[Beck Bennett]

No, no, he's not. He's not. No, no. You know, you can tell something's going on with you. We're like, you were perfect. You're kind of fun. You keep it moving, got the energy. And Kyle, sometimes he's doing the intros and you're like, is he okay? Is this a part of it? Is he sad?

[Darcy Carden]

That's one of my favorite things about the man.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, me too. Here's the thing that I'm thinking right now is that, like, this is. I've experienced this a little bit before. Having a good friend on the podcast.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And my. Like, when we don't know somebody.

[Darcy Carden]

Oh, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

It's always like, so you're from here and how did you get into this? Like, we talk about the story. So, like, there's a part of me that feels.

[Darcy Carden]

Wants a little of That.

[Beck Bennett]

I mean, a little bit.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Because, like. Because the thing is, like, it isn't like a long podcast, right? We can't just, like, kind of, like, talk about our. You know, our most immediate.

[Darcy Carden]

I mean, we could and we have. Right.

[Beck Bennett]

But it also feels unnatural.

[Kyle Mooney]

25 minutes on the screen and reception would be.

[Darcy Carden]

And everyone's like. And the listeners are like, what was this? And where was it?

[Beck Bennett]

Sunny night.

[Darcy Carden]

Knish is like. Like, they had dinner, right?

[Kyle Mooney]

They were passed out.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, I had a bite of a. I had a bite of a beef empanada, but it had mushrooms in it. And.

[Darcy Carden]

And you don't like.

[Beck Bennett]

I don't like mushrooms, so. But yeah, but we can't talk about that. All I was thinking.

[Kyle Mooney]

What about. And also, like, I got to meet your family recently. They're awesome.

[Beck Bennett]

Incredible family. Can we do the Ericans?

[Kyle Mooney]

How about we. Yeah, can we do like a kind of lightning round speed version of Darcy Cardon up to today?

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, okay. Sure. Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

Let's see. Let's get into the.

[Darcy Carden]

You ask and I answer. You want me. You want me to say, like, some.

[Kyle Mooney]

Maybe we'll start. We'll. Okay, just start. Yeah. Start. Moment one.

[Beck Bennett]

Where were you?

[Kyle Mooney]

Where. How did you come into.

[Beck Bennett]

Where were you?

[Darcy Carden]

It was September.

[Kyle Mooney]

Wait, September. What?

[Darcy Carden]

September. Usc.

[Beck Bennett]

She was in September. Usc when she came to the world.

[Darcy Carden]

Rocco unite. Roccos unite. Hey.

[Kyle Mooney]

Hey.

[Beck Bennett]

Rocco unite.

[Darcy Carden]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, that's a. That could be a good.

[Darcy Carden]

That could be a good thing. Okay, so Bay Area born.

[Beck Bennett]

I always say Bay Area, but where specifically?

[Darcy Carden]

Danville.

[Beck Bennett]

Danville.

[Darcy Carden]

I mean, if you want to get.

[Kyle Mooney]

My manager. Dan McManus.

[Darcy Carden]

Yes. We're from the same. I went to high school with his sister Mora.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, wow. I didn't know.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, we were friends. Isn't that wild?

[Beck Bennett]

That is wild.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah. Dan. Fucking right.

[Kyle Mooney]

Dan is from Danville.

[Darcy Carden]

Dan from Danville.

[Beck Bennett]

Dan from Danville.

[Darcy Carden]

Dan was. I don't think we were in high school at the same time, but I was definitely in high school with his sister, and she was really cool, and she still is. Okay. So grew up in Danville.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Darcy Carden]

Okay. Theater, basketball, water polo, softball.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, that's. I was gonna say theater.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

When did you start doing theater?

[Darcy Carden]

Like, first play was third grade. Lucy in your Good Man Charlie Brown.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, cool.

[Beck Bennett]

And it was like a children's theater. No, it was like straight up school. It was straight up school, but it was.

[Kyle Mooney]

It.

[Darcy Carden]

It ignited the bug.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes. Yeah.

[Darcy Carden]

And you bit the bug.

[Beck Bennett]

It bit the bug. And you were playing sports as well. What was your number one sport?

[Darcy Carden]

Basketball.

[Beck Bennett]

Basketball what position?

[Darcy Carden]

Center. Until I got to high school. And then there were taller girls than me. Dang. Taller girls than me.

[Beck Bennett]

Can you. I can't believe that. There's no way.

[Kyle Mooney]

Do you remember, like, you're like, sorry, highest jump?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. What's your highest jump?

[Kyle Mooney]

Most points scored in a game.

[Darcy Carden]

I don't remember. Should I say something? 20?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, that's 20.

[Beck Bennett]

That's pretty solid.

[Darcy Carden]

That means I made 10 points.

[Beck Bennett]

Did you always balance both theater and sports at some point? Were you like, I can't do sports anymore. I'm fully getting into theater.

[Darcy Carden]

And it was in high school, my theater teacher who I loved, Mark Kornfield. Still love. He. He kind of was like, you gotta choose. But I didn't choose. I did theater and sports all through high school.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Darcy Carden]

And then when college came, then it was like, do I go play water polo in college or do I do theater?

[Kyle Mooney]

And you gotta. The water. My brother played water polo. You gotta do this. I'm doing something with my. These are my fingers.

[Darcy Carden]

Do you remember what that was called?

[Kyle Mooney]

Your legs are moving back and forth? It called it egg beater.

[Darcy Carden]

Egg beater. That's right. That's exactly right.

[Beck Bennett]

So how would you use that in a sentence? I'm gonna use my egg beater to play.

[Darcy Carden]

You'd be like. You'd be like, how are they staying up? They're egg beatering.

[Beck Bennett]

Egg beatering.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think it takes a lot of Maybe you.

[Darcy Carden]

But I feel like we said beater. Well, I don't know how they're doing their egg. And then you. Egg beater. It's like saying. And then you tread water. Exactly that. Doggy paddle. Tread water. Egg beater. But it's called eggbeater because of the, like, way you do it. Okay. If you're watching at home, it's like, it's not like this. Not like, frog kick. Okay. It's like one at a time. Boom, boom, boom, boom.

[Beck Bennett]

Alternating frog kick. Alternating.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, so you were alternating frog kicks.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, I was alternating.

[Beck Bennett]

I'm not going to do that. I'm going to do theater instead.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Water bowl is sort of a specific sport. Did you, like. Was it just like freshmen? What was the decision?

[Darcy Carden]

The decision was like, I loved swimming, and there was not a girls team until I was a sophomore in high school. And that felt so new, like, it was only boys. And then when I was a sophomore in high school, they were like, we're gonna have a girls team. And I was. My best friend. Lindsay and I were like, let's do that.

[Beck Bennett]

Let's start it.

[Darcy Carden]

Let's fucking start it. And then we won junior and senior year, we won, like California State champions. You know, I always say that it's Northern California.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Yeah. That's a big state. That's pretty.

[Darcy Carden]

But we were really good.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, it was cool. We had really good swimmers on our team.

[Kyle Mooney]

And your parents?

[Darcy Carden]

My parents.

[Kyle Mooney]

I know your dad is a music journalist.

[Beck Bennett]

Started Bam.

[Kyle Mooney]

Bay Area Music.

[Darcy Carden]

Bay Area Music. That's right. Which was like a music magazine in the 70s, 80s and 90s that was really California based, even though Bay Area Music. But was big in la, too, but not anywhere outside of California.

[Beck Bennett]

And one of the first things. One of the first things I knew about you is how much you love music.

[Darcy Carden]

I love music.

[Beck Bennett]

And how many concerts you go to. So many concerts. And you take like the set list, if you can, and you like, frame them from some of your favorite shows.

[Darcy Carden]

I have. Okay. I'll just name a few.

[Kyle Mooney]

Ready?

[Darcy Carden]

I'm just going down the list. Robin.

[Beck Bennett]

Wow.

[Darcy Carden]

Fleetwood Mac. The Strokes.

[Kyle Mooney]

Whoa.

[Darcy Carden]

Rufus Wainwright. Counting Crows.

[Beck Bennett]

And these are. These are. You get them from.

[Kyle Mooney]

What is the process?

[Darcy Carden]

The process? The process, like, doesn't suck. But it's so not my personality. It's like you go to the front of the stage the second the concert's over and you just kind of like belly up to the stage, right? You're like, as close as can be. And you stick your hand out and you're like, oliver. You're like, please, sir, can I have some?

[Beck Bennett]

And they know what that means.

[Darcy Carden]

Not the musician. To, like, the roadie. You just kind of go. There's like. I know this is so funny because it really. I'm like, if I saw someone doing this, I'd be like, but it's the gimme. It's not. I feel like people are going, gimme, gimme. Or they're yelling at them and I'm like, this works every time you make eye contact with one of them, you pretend like you're the only one there. You're not competing with anyone else.

[Beck Bennett]

So there's a lot of people.

[Darcy Carden]

There's a lot of people. And you're not going like, please. You're not like, hey, guy, guy, me.

[Beck Bennett]

I wanna.

[Darcy Carden]

You're just kind of like. When they. If they happen to make eye contact, you're kind of like. It's as if they're looking to give the set list. You have to come in with confidence. And I'm tall, so I can really reach, but I just go like, hi. Do you mind giving me the set list?

[Beck Bennett]

Wow. And does that piss other people off right there?

[Darcy Carden]

Do you mind just grabbing that for me like that, as if I, like, deserve it?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, okay. Can I just get that?

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, that thing. You're right. And you don't want to. They are, like, trying to get out of there. They're trying to, like, pack up and go. So you don't want to do anything that's, like, work for them. It's just like you're already bending down. Do you mind just grabbing me that? Oh, I dropped that. That type of vibe.

[Beck Bennett]

You ever have, like, a sandwich in your hand to persuade them?

[Darcy Carden]

That's such a good idea. Some freaking Australian liquor rice.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, yeah. Be like, hey, set list for some Australian licorice. Lick her rice.

[Darcy Carden]

Lick her rice.

[Beck Bennett]

Lick her rice. Hey, man. Lick her rice.

[Darcy Carden]

Hey. So then, like, I don't do that anymore because one time.

[Beck Bennett]

Sorry, Kyle.

[Darcy Carden]

Sometimes I'm like, hey, man, do you mind licking my rice?

[Beck Bennett]

Sorry. What? Yeah, yeah, I'll give you.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, yeah. There was one, like, Jenny Lewis concert where I was doing it and a girl was like, are you Janet from the Good Place? And so then I don't do it anymore.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, really?

[Darcy Carden]

Because I felt, like, really caught.

[Beck Bennett]

But now that's cool.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah. But I still. Now, like, you know, we, the three of us have some friends that are singers, and you go to their concert and you go backstage, and I still always get it.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, that's great.

[Darcy Carden]

And that's easier.

[Kyle Mooney]

Informal.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah. Now I can just be like, oh, I'm gonna grab that.

[Beck Bennett]

I'm just kidding.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

It's such a cool thing to collect.

[Darcy Carden]

It is. I love. It's like. It's my favorite. I'm so proud of it. I have, like, a Strokes one where, like, Regina Spector opened for them. And it's from probably like 2004 or something. And there's like a big boot print on it. And like, you know, they're just like. They're all crumpled and shitty and it's cool. That's an awesome Blur. I think I have one from blur in, like, 1999. Wow.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, damn. Peak of their powers.

[Darcy Carden]

Peak of the pow.

[Beck Bennett]

Peak of the pow.

[Kyle Mooney]

And you keep them in a peak of the gaio.

[Darcy Carden]

I have a lot of them framed. Yeah. Yeah. So like, maybe 12. But I have so many more.

[Beck Bennett]

And so did you grow up just with music playing a lot in your house? Going to a lot of shows.

[Darcy Carden]

Going to a lot of shows. My parents job was to see live music or to know all the Bay Area music and see live music. And because my dad was in the music business, we got. Sorry for the privilege, but we got free tickets to everything.

[Beck Bennett]

That's amazing. And he would just take you.

[Darcy Carden]

That's what I love, is that thinking as an adult now, I'm like, he could have just gone to do that. But it was always like a family. I'm sure there were so many that he went by himself that I don't even know about.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, wait. Oh, crap. Maybe once someone had me without me,

[Darcy Carden]

didn't even ask me. But so many of our, like, would revolve around going to concerts. And it was. And like, also imagine once a month, we got a box full of CDs. A box full of CDs that were, like, coming out the next week or the next month. They also, like, promotional on them. Most of them, like, we wouldn't even know who they were. But occasionally it would be, like, sublime or like, Snoop Dogg or somebody that, like, you'd be so excited to have it early.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. You know, that's wild.

[Darcy Carden]

It was really a cool way to grow up, which I knew.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Darcy Carden]

I knew. It was like. I was like, we're so lucky.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Where people would. People come over being like, what's it?

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally.

[Beck Bennett]

And it was there, like, one of your first concerts that you went to with your family that, like, made a huge.

[Darcy Carden]

Well, Huey Lewis in the news was my very first concert. And I was so little. I was like, three or four. What the hell?

[Beck Bennett]

That's crazy.

[Darcy Carden]

I five.

[Beck Bennett]

Were you wearing. Wearing ear stuff?

[Darcy Carden]

I don't think that existed. Big ears. I want to hear harder.

[Beck Bennett]

Did you wear Mickey ears? Salish.

[Darcy Carden]

Four or five, but one that really sticks out. Is this, like, Counting Crows one? I think I was a freshman in high school, went with my sister. We saw friends there. I was with my parents, but, like, the friends were smoking and I was like, oh, that's perfect.

[Beck Bennett]

That's classic.

[Darcy Carden]

And it was Cracker. Do you remember the name of Cracker? They.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Darcy Carden]

I think Counting Crow was, like, opened for Cracker.

[Kyle Mooney]

Wow.

[Darcy Carden]

Whatever it was, it. I was like. It was cool that my parents were there, and I just. It was. I. I love my mom. And I just saw Bonnie Raitt recently, and I just, like, realized that maybe, like, concerts or music is, like, my religion. Because I was sitting there with my mom and I got choked up. I was like, I know I'm gonna cry. The way my mom, like, moves at a concert or taps her feet is so in my soul. And being My age, with my mom at her age, at a concert and she's doing that, I'm like, this is all I want in my life.

[Beck Bennett]

That's so cool. I mean, like, seeing I've gone to a bunch of concerts with you, you've invited me to some, and, like, just seeing how you, like, just like, seeing that you're at concerts on Instagram, like, I'm like, jesse, what are we doing with our lives? We need to go to more concerts.

[Darcy Carden]

Let's go to more concerts. But also, it's a choice. It's not like an easy thing. Right.

[Beck Bennett]

You know, you have to, like, be on top, like, know who's coming to town when and everything. But, like, it's something that I envy and really want to make a part of my life. Because whenever I do.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

We never regret, like, such an incredible experience. Like, I'm crying. I know my brain is going to different places it wouldn't go to. And it's like, always sort of transformative in a way.

[Darcy Carden]

I'm with you. I feel the same way.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, so you grew up that way with music.

[Darcy Carden]

He needs a sip of water.

[Beck Bennett]

The helium's getting.

[Kyle Mooney]

Next question. Sorry. So then you go to college.

[Beck Bennett]

So then you went to college. Wait, wait, was that a good transition? So you grew up with music and then you went to college and. No question.

[Kyle Mooney]

And you focus on theater.

[Darcy Carden]

Focus on theater.

[Kyle Mooney]

Very much in college. Where?

[Darcy Carden]

Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon.

[Beck Bennett]

Was it cool? Did you like it?

[Darcy Carden]

It was cool and I liked it. But I was kind of like a party kid in high school, so by the time I got to college, I was like, partied out and I was such a good student and like, theater nerd.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's good.

[Beck Bennett]

That's cool.

[Kyle Mooney]

And then you went to New York.

[Darcy Carden]

And then I went to New York to be, like, a theater actor.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah.

[Darcy Carden]

And. And discovered ucb.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Like, we all did, like, we all did.

[Darcy Carden]

Like, two years into it.

[Kyle Mooney]

When did you see a show?

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, that's right. I saw an ascat. I went to an ascat and had I, like, I wasn't privy to the UCB Comedy Central show.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Darcy Carden]

So I didn't know what it was. I had been to a couple, like, improv shows with my family, like, I don't know, on vacation or whatever. Like, like in Boston or in London or whatever, we'd go see an improv show. But that was more like short form stuff. So I'd never seen a long form improv show. And it was. Sorry, Kyle. No, no, please, Kyle.

[Kyle Mooney]

But did You. You were doing theater. Were you, like. Did you like to play funny characters on stage or, like, was comedy a prevalent thing?

[Darcy Carden]

It was, but, like, I almost didn't know it. Do you know what I mean?

[Beck Bennett]

And were you, like, going for musicals or.

[Darcy Carden]

Musicals and, like, the. We focused a lot on Shakespeare in college. It was like a Shakespeare town that I went to college in. There's like a big Shakespeare festival there. Oh, right, The Ashland Shakespeare Festival, which we should all go to.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, we should go to, like, a road trip.

[Darcy Carden]

It's a 10 hour drive from here.

[Beck Bennett]

That'd be great. And we could document it for the Rockos or something.

[Darcy Carden]

Okay. If you guys are into that. If you guys are into that.

[Kyle Mooney]

Sounds like a good time for the Go to the shock show. Process the shit.

[Beck Bennett]

The shock show.

[Darcy Carden]

The shit show. If you guys are into that. Put the little theater, smiley face, frowny face in the comments below this and say yes or no, Ashlynn. Yes or no.

[Beck Bennett]

And we'll see how many we collect.

[Darcy Carden]

And if we collect enough, if we're

[Beck Bennett]

good enough, then we'll go on the road trip.

[Darcy Carden]

And one of you can come with us.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, please let us know in the comments.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, so you were doing theater.

[Darcy Carden]

College. College. College. New York. New York. New York. Okay. You see, Bea just watched the show. Oh, my God. I gotta take this tomorrow. Signed up for classes.

[Beck Bennett]

Bada bing, bada boom, bada bing, bada boom. You're in.

[Darcy Carden]

I'm in.

[Beck Bennett]

Cut to a couple years later. You're running the ass cassette.

[Darcy Carden]

It took me a min.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Darcy Carden]

Then I, like, worked my way up. And that leads me to you.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes, to us. Wait, real quick.

[Darcy Carden]

No, not Kyle yet.

[Beck Bennett]

Not Kyle yet. But wait, when did you meet Jason?

[Darcy Carden]

Wait, my husband?

[Beck Bennett]

Yes, your husband.

[Kyle Mooney]

I got to hear a good Jason story the other day.

[Beck Bennett]

Jason is awesome. For all you people who don't know Jason, Jason is Darcy's husband, and he's awesome.

[Kyle Mooney]

Can I pitch here?

[Beck Bennett]

Incredibly lovable human being.

[Kyle Mooney]

I can't say what year, but I could give the.

[Darcy Carden]

The.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think I could sort of explain how. How it happened.

[Darcy Carden]

Please do.

[Kyle Mooney]

You shared a mutual friend who was putting on a play.

[Darcy Carden]

Yes. Okay. I thought you were making this. I thought you were like, I'm going to come up with this.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Darcy Carden]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, no, no, no.

[Darcy Carden]

Give me time.

[Kyle Mooney]

Give me.

[Darcy Carden]

Let me cook. Let me cook.

[Kyle Mooney]

So, yeah, you have.

[Beck Bennett]

So.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

So. So it's like a candy store.

[Darcy Carden]

It's like a kid at a candy store.

[Kyle Mooney]

Like, which one should I choose?

[Darcy Carden]

Oh, I choose Darcy.

[Beck Bennett]

That's Great, too.

[Darcy Carden]

That's so good.

[Beck Bennett]

That's great.

[Kyle Mooney]

A mutual friend of Stone was doing a play in the Bay Area.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And you were both gassed as actors in the play and you were in a relationship.

[Darcy Carden]

Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

But you were sort of like, this guy's a stuntman. I kind of like this. I feel like there's something. There's a rapport here. There's something here.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And then that escalated to you telling your family members, your sister that you think you're in love.

[Beck Bennett]

The hell?

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, dude.

[Kyle Mooney]

But she didn't. Did she put it together who you were talking about?

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah. Oh, you mean when she said the things she said? I said to my older sister, I said, I have to tell you something important. And she went, you're gay. Or it was more like, you're gay.

[Beck Bennett]

You're gay.

[Darcy Carden]

And I said,

[Beck Bennett]

Ellen, you do the Kyle Lab.

[Darcy Carden]

And then I said, I'm in love with Jason. And she was like, oh, my God, we have to tell Mommy, Daddy.

[Beck Bennett]

That's so sweet.

[Darcy Carden]

And we told Mommy, Daddy, Meemaw Willie.

[Kyle Mooney]

And so were you doing in the timeline, were you doing UCB stuff of that era?

[Darcy Carden]

You know what? God damn. I started UCB not dating Jason. My second class that I took with Paul Downs, our friend, during that second class, I met Jason. The timeline's too crazy. No, I could have answered that question so easily. It was almost just like it was occurring to me. I think I was doing UCB for about a year before I met Jason.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

But then what? Like. But you were in New York, too, and used to be.

[Darcy Carden]

But you met Jason in the Bay Area.

[Kyle Mooney]

So you had. There must have been an airplane.

[Darcy Carden]

Was it an airway in the air?

[Beck Bennett]

So you got back to do somehow, and then you went back to New York and then you came over to la.

[Darcy Carden]

I got my damn temp job answering phone calls. And my mutual friend. My friend said, hey, I'm gonna do a play in the Bay Area. Do you want to come do it? It'll be an equity show. You'll make some money. I said, sign me up. And he goes, and that guy Jason that you've met before, he's gonna be there too. And I was like, color me interested.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, sign me up. Color me interested.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, so you had met him prior to.

[Darcy Carden]

Briefly.

[Beck Bennett]

Briefly, I did.

[Kyle Mooney]

And when you met him that time, you're like, there's something about this guy.

[Darcy Carden]

There was just something about him. I was just like, I liked him. I wasn't like, I want to marry him. But I was like, I really liked him. I liked his vibe. I thought he was cool. And I. And I had the thought, oh, I should date somebody like this.

[Kyle Mooney]

Right?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah. He's a stallion and a fox.

[Darcy Carden]

Stallion, fox, whatever other animal you can think of, all mixed together in.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Michelle is throwing up the next segment.

[Beck Bennett]

As far as Thirsty Charmline goes, she

[Darcy Carden]

got here, New York, 10 years.

[Kyle Mooney]

Sorry, go ahead.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, then I was on Killing It.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, you did Killing It.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, we all did kill you.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, yeah, but you said you're killing it then.

[Kyle Mooney]

But you're. You're doing ucb, you're doing some plays.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, but.

[Darcy Carden]

And then. And then came to la.

[Kyle Mooney]

We gotta get.

[Beck Bennett]

But we gotta.

[Kyle Mooney]

We got Venus Rising in there.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, my God.

[Darcy Carden]

Why? Yeah, totally.

[Beck Bennett]

Venus Rising.

[Darcy Carden]

Venus Rising was like a theater company that I did hella plays in.

[Beck Bennett]

And then. Did you also do improv experience on a bus?

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, a little bit. It was like. I was like a tour guide on a big. This was probably there when you guys lived there. The ride.

[Kyle Mooney]

I remember being explained to me a big bus that. And did, like, a lot of, like, improvisers do that sort of thing.

[Darcy Carden]

Yes. And I hate to, like. No, I don't hate to. I'm like, pardon me for bragging, but that's because of me.

[Kyle Mooney]

You.

[Beck Bennett]

I've maybe I heard that you got people into it.

[Darcy Carden]

There's. One of my favorite UCB friends and improvisers is a guy named Tim Dunn, who lives in New York. And he and I auditioned. You auditioned in pairs? And we auditioned to be tour guides on the ride. And we got along with the people that ran it. And we just, like, afterwards, they were like, will you do it? And we were like. We sat down and we were like, can we help you with this? And we were just like, we know so many people that would be good at this. It was just starting it, like, they hadn't written it. It was in the beginning stages and we were like, if you let us populate, the staff or whatever, the cast, however you wanna call it.

[Beck Bennett]

If you let us procreate.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah. If you let us have sex, have some kids, if we're lucky.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Darcy Carden]

And then so we just got all these UCB people to be in this thing. And we got paid so much, which isn't a lot, but for the moment,

[Beck Bennett]

it was like getting paid any money.

[Darcy Carden]

When you were like. It was just like such a. Not racket, but we were all kind of like, I can't believe we did this. Everyone was like, we're getting paid for this. And then as the ride got like less and less, maybe ticket sales, we got paid less and less, which is like, absolutely cut in half again and again.

[Beck Bennett]

And we were like, oh, the performances aren't working.

[Kyle Mooney]

This could be something we could bring back here. I mean, you should.

[Darcy Carden]

You and me, you should be the laugh. There's the Hollywood sign.

[Kyle Mooney]

But you would then. And then you'd have like these sort of made up scenes.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, it was like a little bit of a. Like a show. It was a cute idea. It was like a show and a tour. Yeah, yeah. The craziest part of it was. And this has been like. I think they did a bit on the other two with this. So you may have seen this where like we would, let's say, drive up to Carnegie hall and we'd be like, and this is Carnegie Hall. It was built in. And then we'd be like, oh, looks like that guy's doing something. And then we'd be like, hey, sir. Sir. And he'd be mic'd and have like. He'd be like, you talking to me? And we'd be like, are you on your way somewhere? He's like, I'm on my way to an audition. And he like, sing for us.

[Beck Bennett]

That's so funny. You have, like little placed people throughout the tour.

[Darcy Carden]

It was very cute. It was really cute. Like a hot dog vendor and like a ballerina and stuff. It was very dumb and very cute.

[Beck Bennett]

I mean, I'm surprised. It did become a bigger deal in New York City. Perfect.

[Darcy Carden]

I know, I know.

[Beck Bennett]

But wait, I do want to get back. I do want to connect to Los Angeles a little bit. I know we have to wrap up, right?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, I do want to know.

[Kyle Mooney]

I want to hear the end. Yeah. I want to get to where we're

[Beck Bennett]

so, so getting here, though. Like, you were 36 when you landed, when you. When you booked, when I. The Good place. An incredible comedic performance, character that is loved far and wide.

[Darcy Carden]

Thanks.

[Beck Bennett]

But it was like that 36 is. I mean, it's young, but it's also relatively late in when, like, people are coming up in their careers. And I remember talking to you about it and you were like. I was at a point where I was like, just like, cool. I was like, I'm gonna be doing improv shows and getting, like, small parts here and there. And like, you. You were. You had sort of like, come.

[Darcy Carden]

Come to terms a little bit. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Come to peace with that or whatever. And then you got this huge role that, like, blew up your career and like, Crazy. And, you know, it's just been incredible ever since. I mean, like, it's been an incredible ride for me ever since. I don't know, like, now. I don't know if I have a question about that, but that is.

[Darcy Carden]

I do. It was like, so clear to me that 36 was, like, scientifically too late.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes.

[Darcy Carden]

Which is crazy because we know 36 is so young, but I was just like, there's just no way. And. But I would do that a lot. 22, 24. I'm like, well, you know, whatever. You just. With SNL things too, like, I always, you know, SNL was like a dream that I never went for, that I was always putting off. Because in New York, if you're in the comedy scene in New York, you can just send in a tape. Like, everybody can just send in a

[Beck Bennett]

tape and just like, do shows at theaters and hope that you get.

[Darcy Carden]

It's just like, it's. Yeah, it's pretty normal to. If you're in the comedy scene in New York, that you can get a tape in. The tape to audition for it for real is like, obviously one in a million. But even that I didn't do because I was like, I would always push it off, like, maybe I'll be more ready next year, whatever. But I'm not even talking about two different things, but basically.

[Beck Bennett]

But you didn't have that thing of like, watch out, here I come. You're just like, funny, but not really clawing your way to the.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, yeah. You're kind of like, let me just kind of like, do my thing, put my head down. And I don't know. There was just also. I think SNL was like the dream. So there was like a little bit of. If you audition for it and you don't get it, then you're like, you're gonna be haunted. You gotta pistol whip yourself in the face to bring it back.

[Beck Bennett]

Absolutely.

[Darcy Carden]

But, but, but. Okay, so I kind of went on a tangent there. But the. I would do that to myself a lot. And SNL was one of those things where I would be like, well, you're 30 now, so there's just no way.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, it's like, this is. Yeah. You haven't hit the milestone, so you're gonna be. You're not gonna have that career that you want.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah. But I think that with the coming to terms moment, and I think this is true for people in, like, many aspects of their lives, relationship or so many things, job, whatever it is, it's like the moment when you kind of can Let things go. I think the desperation goes away or something, and then things kind of fall into place.

[Beck Bennett]

You're like, come to peace with where you are and be like, oh, I like this. This is great. And then it allows other things to open up.

[Darcy Carden]

The good lord rewards ya and.

[Kyle Mooney]

And then the Good place. You were incredible on it. And from that, you've continued to do amazing things, such as Sunday nights, which is now on Hulu.

[Darcy Carden]

Thank you.

[Beck Bennett]

Out now on Hulu.

[Darcy Carden]

Out now on Hulu.

[Beck Bennett]

A League of Their Own.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm sure you have A League of Their Own. So many other projects that are coming

[Darcy Carden]

up that we couldn't even begin to imagine.

[Kyle Mooney]

I see you as a fighter pilot.

[Darcy Carden]

Oh, I haven't yet begun to do that.

[Beck Bennett]

I can see you as a fighter pilot for sure.

[Darcy Carden]

I would love to be a fighter. I would love to be a fighter.

[Kyle Mooney]

Top fun.

[Darcy Carden]

Top. Top. Top. Top gun.

[Kyle Mooney]

Top gum.

[Beck Bennett]

Top gum.

[Darcy Carden]

Top Gum.

[Kyle Mooney]

Wait. Oh, yeah, okay.

[Darcy Carden]

Or maybe like, top.

[Beck Bennett]

Top pun.

[Darcy Carden]

Top Pun. Oh, maybe like, what if it's your name?

[Kyle Mooney]

Top Hun. Okay.

[Darcy Carden]

Top Hun. Top Hun.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. And she's kind of like, hey, the girl's doing it now.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, exactly. I have, like, a little thing, and I'm like, yeah, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

It would be nice if parody movies came back.

[Darcy Carden]

Oh, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Now, I know they're doing another scary movie, but, like. Like, could be Top Puns or something.

[Kyle Mooney]

Hot Shots.

[Darcy Carden]

Hot Shots.

[Beck Bennett]

Hot Shots. Oh, yeah, they did that.

[Darcy Carden]

Wait, was Hot Shots? Yeah, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Hot Shots.

[Beck Bennett]

Hot Shots part, Dude.

[Darcy Carden]

Okay, when you think of Hot Shots, you think of the 1, 2, 3. Frying an egg on her stomach.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes,

[Beck Bennett]

man.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think of. I think. I don't know if it's first or second one, but there's. I. I actually don't want to go into that part where Sheen sees, like, he's like. I think he's walking in water and he sees a guy that.

[Darcy Carden]

That.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't know if it is Martin Sheen or somebody who looks like Martin Sheen, but he's, like, playing his character from. From Apocalypse Now.

[Beck Bennett]

I always said Armageddon.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, from Armageddon, for sure.

[Kyle Mooney]

But, you know, you've seen. You're Rocco. You know the show. So we don't know what our podcast should be about. So we were wondering if you have any ideas.

[Darcy Carden]

I have an idea for you guys.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, great.

[Darcy Carden]

Based on something I did last night.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay.

[Darcy Carden]

I think the podcast should be called the Breakfast Brothers. Wow.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay. And do we.

[Kyle Mooney]

Should we not say anything further or should you.

[Beck Bennett]

Is there anything. Any caveats? We just go with that. We just go with that.

[Darcy Carden]

I think we. I mean, like, like, should I tell you? No.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, you can tell us where it came from.

[Darcy Carden]

Well, we. Jason and I had breakfast for dinner last night. Okay. Eggs and a waffle at 9pm that's cool. We're at Fred 62.

[Beck Bennett]

Classic.

[Darcy Carden]

Classic. And did you say, I've never been there?

[Kyle Mooney]

No, I said. I go.

[Darcy Carden]

Oh, I thought I said, probably one

[Kyle Mooney]

of the first restaurants in la.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, yeah, totally.

[Beck Bennett]

With our improv Mac and cheese balls.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, shoot. For sure. I know, I know, I know. And I was thinking, okay, so it could be things like, what do you eat for breakfast? What do you like to make for breakfast? How did you eat breakfast as a kid? Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

How have you grown?

[Darcy Carden]

What did you eat? Like, right before school?

[Beck Bennett]

Yep.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

You.

[Darcy Carden]

You get it.

[Beck Bennett]

Everything.

[Darcy Carden]

Breakfast, Denny's, memories.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, I got so much to talk about.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay. Let's just get into it.

[Kyle Mooney]

Right back with the breakfast. Take it.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Darcy Carden]

We're going to be right back with the Breakfast Brothers.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes.

[Darcy Carden]

Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

Yo, yo, yo.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yo ho ho and a bottle of yolk.

[Beck Bennett]

Yolk.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yo come.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, that's how it goes. That's how we start off every show.

[Kyle Mooney]

Are there people put that in bottles these days?

[Beck Bennett]

Yo ho ho and a bottle of cum. Yeah, of course. That's what people say.

[Darcy Carden]

It is amazing to see you.

[Kyle Mooney]

Same.

[Beck Bennett]

Same couch, same bed. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Same time, same back. Same back, man.

[Beck Bennett]

Breakfast Brothers time, same breakfast.

[Kyle Mooney]

I was going to ask you.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, go ahead and ask.

[Kyle Mooney]

Where do you fall on this, on the whole state of politics?

[Beck Bennett]

I think it's just like incredible to see our democracy at work.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And see all the guys that are coming out, all the wrestlers that are kind of like part is just like doing their thing.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

These catchphrases.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

But really fun to see them just kind of.

[Kyle Mooney]

Buddy, whether you're one of. Whether you're one of those wrestlers or one of the villains.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Do you. What do you think about the political landscape?

[Kyle Mooney]

I think that I need to eat.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. It's like. It's kind of like, you know, it's like, I don't know much about this. It's time to talk breakfast. You're right.

[Darcy Carden]

Right.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yep. It's time.

[Beck Bennett]

It's kind of like a very entitled sort of privileged thing just to be able.

[Kyle Mooney]

Let's talk breakfast with. With the Breakfast.

[Beck Bennett]

The Breakfast Brothers. Breakfast Brothers.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

That's what it's all about. You told us. Breakfast Brothers podcast. That's what we'll talk about with Beck and Kyle. Yo, yo, ho, Ho.

[Kyle Mooney]

And we got bottle of cum.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes. You said it again. That's what people are. That's what we do. We have a great.

[Kyle Mooney]

But that is not what our podcast is about.

[Beck Bennett]

No, it is about breakfast.

[Kyle Mooney]

The fact that we're brothers and that we like breakfast.

[Beck Bennett]

And our guest here was snap it along with the theme song.

[Darcy Carden]

I'm also your brother.

[Beck Bennett]

And she's also our brothers.

[Kyle Mooney]

The great formidable. She puts the syrup on our pancakes

[Beck Bennett]

and the yolk in our eggs.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, they always tell great yolks.

[Beck Bennett]

Ladies and gentlemen, let's take the bag off. It's Darcy Carden.

[Kyle Mooney]

Darcy Carden.

[Darcy Carden]

Happy breakfast.

[Beck Bennett]

Happy breakfast.

[Darcy Carden]

Happy breakfast.

[Beck Bennett]

To toast.

[Darcy Carden]

Happy breakfast.

[Kyle Mooney]

To toast.

[Darcy Carden]

Happy breakfast, too.

[Kyle Mooney]

Toast.

[Beck Bennett]

Happy breakfast.

[Darcy Carden]

To

[Kyle Mooney]

toast.

[Darcy Carden]

Todd. Toast rocks.

[Beck Bennett]

Toast rocks. Breakfast rocks. Darcy.

[Kyle Mooney]

Bread and butter. Still.

[Darcy Carden]

Still is doing it for me, too.

[Beck Bennett]

But would you even consider that breakfast? When I hear bread and butter, I'm thinking in dinner. When I think whining and bread and butter, I think bread and butter. I think dinner, but I think toast and butter.

[Darcy Carden]

Now. Toast and butter. Now you're talking Breakfast.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Yes.

[Darcy Carden]

Bread and butter.

[Kyle Mooney]

Dinner.

[Darcy Carden]

Lunch.

[Beck Bennett]

That's dinner. Lunch.

[Kyle Mooney]

Is it fair to say that toast is bread?

[Darcy Carden]

Yes. Okay. It's like quadrilateral rectangle square conversation.

[Kyle Mooney]

Everybody's talking about it on the Internet. Is toast bread?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, I think it is. Literally.

[Darcy Carden]

It is.

[Beck Bennett]

It's cooked bread.

[Darcy Carden]

It's nothing else.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's what I thought.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Ice is water.

[Darcy Carden]

Ice is water. It is.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Darcy Carden]

And okay, so.

[Kyle Mooney]

I've never thought about that. So ice. Water is water. Water.

[Beck Bennett]

Whoa. Whoa.

[Darcy Carden]

Hard and soft, you could say. Can I have some hard water with my soft water?

[Beck Bennett]

Yes, have some hard, soft water, please.

[Kyle Mooney]

Or some water on the rocks.

[Darcy Carden]

Oh, water on the rocks.

[Beck Bennett]

That's nice. But never for breakfast.

[Darcy Carden]

Water for breakfast.

[Beck Bennett]

Water on the rocks.

[Darcy Carden]

Water on the rocks for breakfast.

[Beck Bennett]

That's just kind of like a cool dinner thing to do.

[Darcy Carden]

When you think of breakfast drinks, you think of 1, 2, 3.

[Beck Bennett]

Orange. Orange juice.

[Darcy Carden]

And then any other juice falls in behind, of course.

[Kyle Mooney]

And now if you're for the grownups, you're thinking of 1, 2, 3.

[Beck Bennett]

What'd you say?

[Kyle Mooney]

Bloody Mary.

[Darcy Carden]

Every morning before work.

[Beck Bennett]

Every morning. It's how I start off my days. With a nice bm.

[Darcy Carden]

Ew. Bowel movement.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Darcy Carden]

Wait, actually, not ew. That's great.

[Beck Bennett]

That's great. You have to be. So have a little coffee and I have a bm.

[Darcy Carden]

I have a little coffee and a gigantic bloody bm.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm just, like, imagining, like, being in that room.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Darcy Carden]

Okay, what do you.

[Beck Bennett]

I'm just saying, what do you. What you. So you see one of us or. It's like I was thinking of you.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, so you're in the bathroom.

[Darcy Carden]

No, no, no, no.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's fun if you're in there, too.

[Darcy Carden]

I'm in there.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, so you're in there. Maybe in the corner.

[Kyle Mooney]

Shiver.

[Beck Bennett]

And we don't know you're there.

[Darcy Carden]

I'm freezing.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, it's very cold.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. And Kyle's standing right there just looking right at me. And I have this bloody, huge, bloody bm. And. And what? And what do you think? What do you.

[Kyle Mooney]

What's your first reaction?

[Beck Bennett]

First reaction is walk like through the. This now.

[Darcy Carden]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, yeah, it's in the bathroom.

[Darcy Carden]

Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.

[Kyle Mooney]

My first reaction is, you might want to put that back in, sir.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm going like, yeah, I wish I could. Would have, could have, should have, should have.

[Kyle Mooney]

I guess I would have been like, that seems violent. Like the blood. I would be. I would be nervous for you. Like, that might be something that you should.

[Darcy Carden]

We call a doctor to go to

[Beck Bennett]

a doctor for Dr. Simmons or something.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, Dr. Simmons. J.K. simmons.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. J.K. cinnamons. But no, we're talking about cinnamon.

[Darcy Carden]

J.K. cinnaMons. Ooh, that sounds like that could be another breakfast.

[Beck Bennett]

J.K. cinnamons. J.K. cinnamons.

[Darcy Carden]

JK cinnamon. Sounds like a delicious cereal.

[Beck Bennett]

It really does. Yeah, man.

[Kyle Mooney]

JK Cinnamons.

[Beck Bennett]

That's really now. But talking about delicious cereal. BMs, all the stuff. How you guys starting off your day with breakfast these days?

[Darcy Carden]

Just these days.

[Beck Bennett]

These days.

[Darcy Carden]

This morning I popped.

[Beck Bennett]

You popped?

[Kyle Mooney]

I gotta say, I popped this morning.

[Beck Bennett]

I'm glad that's where you stopped talking. This morning I popped.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, speaking of it, you know, you got blood in your shit. Take the nose like this. I popped this morning.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, God, I'm so happy for you.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's a good thing.

[Beck Bennett]

That's a good thing to pop.

[Kyle Mooney]

Anyway.

[Beck Bennett]

It's good.

[Darcy Carden]

Yolk everywhere. I popped two hard boileds.

[Beck Bennett]

Ooh, right in the mouth.

[Kyle Mooney]

You're getting into controversy. You are about to step.

[Beck Bennett]

Do you know this about me? Because now we brought up my second food that I don't eat on this platform.

[Darcy Carden]

I think I knew this. I knew mushrooms and hard boiled boils. But you like. You like scrambies. You, like, flipped. You like the other.

[Beck Bennett]

I like, flopped.

[Darcy Carden]

I like boiled any kind of egg other than hard.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Because they don't like the texture and I don't like the smell.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, for sure.

[Beck Bennett]

It's like Spurts.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, yeah. Too hard boiled.

[Kyle Mooney]

You throw salt or pepper on salt and pepper?

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And did you hard boil them a couple days ago, night before or that morning?

[Darcy Carden]

To my absolute disgust and dismay, I bought them hard boiled.

[Beck Bennett]

Were they in a sack?

[Darcy Carden]

Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

Wow.

[Darcy Carden]

A little egg sack.

[Beck Bennett]

Individual sacks?

[Darcy Carden]

No, B.

[Beck Bennett]

A big sack flopping around.

[Kyle Mooney]

Where do you get that? What if it was like, buy something like that.

[Beck Bennett]

We get something like that. Big eggs in a bag, you know,

[Darcy Carden]

like at like, like a health food store where you'd like. No, no, no, no.

[Beck Bennett]

This is not.

[Darcy Carden]

Shovel them in, like shovel in nuts and stuff. You probably know I just did that

[Beck Bennett]

with hard boils and you're breaking a lot of them. It's getting all over the shelf.

[Darcy Carden]

Not to give them any. Well, no, maybe I will give them some love because I think they've had a hard go. Yeah. The eggs place that just got got like. People were like, they're not as organic as you say they are.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, I don't know if I am.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, the. The brand. Yeah, I know. Which I know. Something farms.

[Darcy Carden]

Something farms. Harvest farms, but not vital Bill. Vital, Vital. Vital.

[Beck Bennett]

Vital farms. Yeah. Vital farms.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah. And I read the article. Instagram post.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Darcy Carden]

And I said, you're dead to me. And then in a pinch, I said, but I want a hard boiled. Yeah. I want the SAP.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. I still get those because Sprouts has them.

[Darcy Carden]

Well, somebody said, and this is just the world we live in. They're like, yeah, they're worse than they say they are, but they're still better than dip. Da da ba ba ba ba. Other choices.

[Beck Bennett]

But they're not actually pasture raised.

[Darcy Carden]

But these words confuse me. I want these chickens. I want them living at the beach.

[Beck Bennett]

I want them to be running around.

[Darcy Carden]

I want them doing whatever the hell they want. Die of old age. I eat their eggs.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

We get their great eggs for their entire life and they die a nice old age. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Do you so like. Sorry, I'm just. You got these two. You got these two deviled eggs. You're pouring some salt and pepper on them and you're just. You're going straight bite. Are you slicing?

[Darcy Carden]

I'm going bite.

[Beck Bennett]

Anyway.

[Darcy Carden]

I'm probably taking three bites. Chomp, chomp.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, that's awesome.

[Beck Bennett]

And then what about you?

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, and then what about you?

[Beck Bennett]

And then what about you?

[Kyle Mooney]

Breakfast?

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, I had a coffee and I had a coffee.

[Beck Bennett]

I had coffee too, today. About me.

[Kyle Mooney]

We're talking about Kyle is not like. It sort of blends into lunch now. I love. I do love he's weight breakfast.

[Beck Bennett]

I can't wait for that summer sausage.

[Darcy Carden]

I know. He's like, if it's not a summer sausage and cheddar.

[Kyle Mooney]

I do love breakfast, but I feel like I'm not traditional on a date on my day to day.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

The first thing I put in my body today, which was like, let's say

[Darcy Carden]

a bloody vm stuffed it back in there.

[Beck Bennett]

You put it back in and then I popped.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think I had. I think I had, like, multiple handfuls of nuts.

[Darcy Carden]

Cute.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, that's good.

[Kyle Mooney]

I like a beat, a juice, a leftover juice press. Like.

[Darcy Carden]

Oh, nice.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Some veg beets was the main thing.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay. And so that's kind of like on a weekday, you're not having anything fun. You're kind of maybe just throwing some nuts in.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

But you know what Kate, my wife, has been getting into? She's been doing scrambles with, like, Brussels sprouts.

[Darcy Carden]

Yum.

[Kyle Mooney]

Jalapenos.

[Beck Bennett]

Wow.

[Kyle Mooney]

And so when she's prepared that I will sometimes scoop it.

[Beck Bennett]

That's a fun, adventurous scramble. Not your typical scramble. Now this morning for me, I did. For me.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And my wife and child, I did a scrambled egg quesadilla.

[Darcy Carden]

Ah, fun.

[Beck Bennett]

Just a little bit of cheese.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Two between the three of us.

[Darcy Carden]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

We all had breakfast. Quesadillas.

[Darcy Carden]

Cute.

[Beck Bennett]

Upstairs in the living room.

[Darcy Carden]

Cute. And is that before school?

[Beck Bennett]

Before school?

[Darcy Carden]

Cute.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Darcy Carden]

Is your daughter eating breakfast before school?

[Kyle Mooney]

She.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, she loves a pouch.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

But she likes.

[Darcy Carden]

She does like, she does like a three.

[Beck Bennett]

Ouch.

[Kyle Mooney]

She likes.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Or an O. We love an oat bar. Sometimes she's not. She doesn't eat the way I would like her to.

[Darcy Carden]

Does she eat like. Does she eat like you?

[Kyle Mooney]

She actually. It's like, it's very cute that, like, she. Yeah. She wants to just eat goldfish and sometimes she doesn't even want to eat those. But like, we've been. We have. We don't. Nuts are a little scary to us

[Darcy Carden]

because of the choke he has.

[Beck Bennett]

You got to get to a certain age.

[Kyle Mooney]

But she's seen me eat nuts and she's like, can I have some of those? And we've got. She, like, loves all almonds. So, like, she is actually like me. She likes cheese and almonds.

[Beck Bennett]

So cute. Ruby will often have a. A Greek yogurt, granola, strawberries, a little maple syrup. Cute favorites.

[Darcy Carden]

God, I love.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, so let's.

[Beck Bennett]

Now we've. Yeah. Get into it.

[Kyle Mooney]

I do. I'm curious. Sorry. I know. We've. We've Touched upon this a little bit, but you're in a scenario. You're at a restaurant or you're at your own home. But I'm talking about.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, sure.

[Kyle Mooney]

Your. I, Your. Your number one choice. How do you want your eggs?

[Darcy Carden]

Okay. I am like, I love scrambled eggs, but I feel like the. I don't want them a certain way. I do like them. It's like there's so many ways to make.

[Kyle Mooney]

There's too much.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That and I love a fried egg. A flipped egg.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes.

[Darcy Carden]

Over easy. Yeah. Or a poached egg. That's what I'm preferring. Especially if there's a cooked bread.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes. That is probably. I would agree with that. A nice orange yolk runny over a nice thick piece of sourdough.

[Darcy Carden]

Oh, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Maybe some other stuff. But for regular consistency, I'm gonna go scrambled.

[Darcy Carden]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

Like even. Almost like a scramble with a little cheese, maybe a little something in there. Bacon, sausage, red peppers, spinach.

[Darcy Carden]

No mushrooms. Trust me on that.

[Beck Bennett]

Trust me on that. What about you?

[Kyle Mooney]

I think I'm. I'm fully with you guys. I think at home, like, I'll be honest. Like, I've scrambled some eggs, but usually it's gonna be Kate who's doing that. But I trust the pros with the sort of over. Over easies. Over mediums and making. Getting that runniness. Where To a place that I like it.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Now, now, if we're talking ideal breakfast situations here, we're talking about eggs. Now, if you could have, like your favorite breakfast, like at a restaurant. At a restaurant. And this could be a menu item or it could be a specific restaurant's breakfast. Is there something that you have?

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm going to tell you something.

[Beck Bennett]

It may not. Doesn't have to be perfect, but it could also be one of the best breakfasts you've ever had.

[Kyle Mooney]

Have I. I maybe have brought this up.

[Darcy Carden]

Please. And bring it up again.

[Kyle Mooney]

And I'm. This is sinful.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, we love to sin on.

[Darcy Carden]

Wait, this is. Sounds like a sinner's delight.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah. We're getting into sinner's delight.

[Kyle Mooney]

You want to know you are not the most sick. Breakfast is like absolutely sinful.

[Beck Bennett]

Nasty boy.

[Darcy Carden]

Not sleeping on the edge of my

[Beck Bennett]

seat, about to bottle up a whole thing of comb or something.

[Darcy Carden]

You could have said it in a bottle of orange juice,

[Kyle Mooney]

but it's like.

[Beck Bennett]

No, but we have the breakfast show.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Because breakfast is so good. We're always coming.

[Darcy Carden]

Okay, okay. No, that totally makes sense. Okay, so wait. Get into this sin this is the

[Kyle Mooney]

most sinful breakfast o dish you can get. And a lot of people might not like this.

[Darcy Carden]

Okay, okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

A lot of people might not like. You know what?

[Beck Bennett]

I'm going. I think I do.

[Darcy Carden]

Papa knows.

[Kyle Mooney]

I've talked about it.

[Beck Bennett]

Should we say it on? No. Okay, go.

[Kyle Mooney]

Country fried steak.

[Darcy Carden]

I just went like this. Country. I've never had it in my life. I don't even know.

[Beck Bennett]

I don't even know if I have either. But Kyle's been talking about country fried steak since I met him in college.

[Darcy Carden]

Wait, you got to have it then.

[Beck Bennett]

I know.

[Darcy Carden]

I. I can't believe it's just a chicken fried chicken. But a steak.

[Kyle Mooney]

Steak, steak inside, breaded and fried.

[Beck Bennett]

So it's like.

[Kyle Mooney]

But with the best version, white country gravy.

[Darcy Carden]

Come a bottle of Coke.

[Beck Bennett]

Are there any eggs involved in this dish?

[Kyle Mooney]

And then you're gonna get on the side, you're gonna get eggs.

[Beck Bennett]

So it's the only thing that brings it into the breakfast. Fried steak. I mean, that is so.

[Darcy Carden]

But I mean, like, I ha. Wait, that is so.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, that. That's like something you did as a child, right? When we were.

[Kyle Mooney]

When I was like 10, I was just like, like, and I was a big kid. And I think it was largely because, like, whenever we'd go together, be like, country fried steak, please.

[Beck Bennett]

Country fried steak, please.

[Darcy Carden]

When you say big, like a little roundy boy.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

There's a really cute photo of Kyle in his baseball outfit. Like 10, and he's busting out. He's busting out.

[Darcy Carden]

He's just like, so cute. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I love that.

[Darcy Carden]

I love that.

[Kyle Mooney]

Also fried steak. Did you guys ever. Have you ever with biscuits and gravy?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. In the South.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah, I guess. But I don't really know what a. Is that just kind of like a bottle of cum.

[Beck Bennett]

That.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's country gravy. I don't know why. What makes it white versus, like.

[Darcy Carden]

Right?

[Beck Bennett]

I don't know what makes it white, but I think.

[Darcy Carden]

I don't really know white gravy. But I bet it's really good. Yeah, but I feel like it's like clam chowder.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. It has similar consistency.

[Beck Bennett]

I do got to say, I like my gravy brown.

[Darcy Carden]

Brown.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah. I love a biscuit. Oh, ever. Ever had a biscuit from Millie's in la? Know, I. I recommend back in the day.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes, yes, yes. Love millies.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, you guys, I. I feel like we got to bring it to an end. Okay. But one.

[Darcy Carden]

One thing.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Darcy Carden]

I'm new to locks, like in the last maybe three to five years.

[Beck Bennett]

Wow.

[Darcy Carden]

And now I really am excited about a lock situation in my breakfast egg and a little bite of lox. Or in a, in a sandwich.

[Kyle Mooney]

Is lox always raw?

[Darcy Carden]

I think so.

[Beck Bennett]

Smoked for you or not smoked?

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm into it. I, I, I don't like.

[Beck Bennett]

It's a cold.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't know that I really, like, wake up. I don't, it's not there. I don't have a craving level yet,

[Darcy Carden]

but I enjoy it, I guess I crave fish like I'm an otter because I, I have little tins of fish all over my damn house.

[Beck Bennett]

I do. I love the tin fish and the lox. Ruby loves lox.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

My son loves.

[Darcy Carden]

Ruby's good at eating.

[Beck Bennett]

He's good at eating. So, like, I just, I'll, like, scoop out a little bagel, you know, kind of, kind of make it healthy, ash, and put a little cream cheese and lox on.

[Darcy Carden]

For the boy or for you?

[Beck Bennett]

For me. For me. I love it. Fantastic.

[Darcy Carden]

I just wanted to end it on locks.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Any other final breakfast thoughts?

[Beck Bennett]

I mean, I just think that, as always, breakfast brings us all together, makes us family. And family is what breakfast is about, and breakfast is about what family's about. So, like, I just want to say, as always, it's been incredible connecting with my brothers.

[Darcy Carden]

I feel the same way. Like, but like, I, I really do feel that way. I mean, I know you're being funny, but you're also being real.

[Beck Bennett]

No, I'm 100.

[Darcy Carden]

But that breakfast is actually, like, the sweetest meal when I think about it. It is so much about family and, like, like, togetherness.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Darcy Carden]

Food really is bringing us together because

[Beck Bennett]

lunch, you're at work, you're at work. Dinner, you're going out, you're getting a babysitter leaving.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Whatever it is, whatever it is, you feel like you're going off doing your own thing.

[Darcy Carden]

Right? Or. Yeah, but breakfast is like, let's start the day together. It's really sweet. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

But I want, I, I want to say that I fully agree with all of that, but just like, you had breakfast last night.

[Darcy Carden]

Oh, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

It is a state of mind.

[Darcy Carden]

It totally is.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't think we can throw a time stamp.

[Darcy Carden]

No, you're right.

[Beck Bennett]

I agree. Breakfast is a state of mind more

[Darcy Carden]

than any other meal you could have. It's a, it's a. I mean, you could have it at any hour of the day and it makes sense. And it's a state of mind.

[Kyle Mooney]

Mind Also, and it's been so amazing.

[Beck Bennett]

It's been this.

[Darcy Carden]

It's been so good to be here with my brothers.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, wherever we are, the Breakfast brothers.

[Beck Bennett]

We really are. Wherever you Breakfast. Always be brothers.

[Darcy Carden]

Oh, my God, you guys. So good.

[Kyle Mooney]

We'll see you guys next time on Breakfast bro.

[Darcy Carden]

We'll see you next time on Breakfast Brothers. What is our podcast? Breakfast.

[Beck Bennett]

That's what we talk about.

[Darcy Carden]

What is our podcast? Breakfast Brothers. That's what we talk about with Beck and Kyle and Darby.

[Beck Bennett]

Darby. Oh, well, that was Breakfast Brothers.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's. You know what the tough thing is, Darcy, for me?

[Darcy Carden]

What?

[Kyle Mooney]

It's that you're our friend. You're a fan. Which is it still? It feels funny saying that.

[Beck Bennett]

I know. Greatest gift.

[Kyle Mooney]

That it's like you just feel like I. And. And you. You are a person, an important person who has things to. To do. But I feel like I could just do this all day and we could explore so many things, and I feel such a level of comfort that, like, I don't want it to stop.

[Beck Bennett]

I agree. I want it to keep going. We'll have to bring you back. And something we didn't. I didn't get to say, maybe. I don't think I got to say during the main thing. During the main part of the podcast is you are such a joyful person, and you bring that into all your performances and whether you're. Any room you're in, whether you're, like, hosting or just hanging out.

[Darcy Carden]

Out.

[Beck Bennett]

And it's been such a pleasure.

[Darcy Carden]

Thanks. Well, that means a lot to me. I love you guys so much. And I felt the same way. I felt really like we could just keep going for hours and hours and

[Kyle Mooney]

such a perfect pitch because, like, we love.

[Darcy Carden]

I love. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Speaking of, you're going forever now. We talked about Sunny Heights and Sunny nights.

[Darcy Carden]

Take that again, guys. People are going to see that. They're going to talk in Sunny Heights, and they're going to go, I guess there's no show.

[Beck Bennett]

We're going to cut that. Yeah. So we talked about Sunday night.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's on Hulu.

[Beck Bennett]

It's on Hulu.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah. It's doing great.

[Beck Bennett]

It is. Yes. It's doing great. It's doing great. It's got legs.

[Darcy Carden]

Everybody's talking about how if, like, they don't watch it right now, then they don't know what to do with the rest of their day.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, it's the number one show on Hulu. Everybody's talking about it. Get out there.

[Kyle Mooney]

I would love our. Sorry, Go ahead.

[Darcy Carden]

No, no. They're saying the faster the better.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, the faster the better.

[Kyle Mooney]

I would love our Rockos. Tell me if you can. We're gonna have to do a little searching. What is tans form?

[Darcy Carden]

Great.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes.

[Darcy Carden]

What is it?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Go check out what transform is and let us know.

[Darcy Carden]

Just curious.

[Beck Bennett]

Awesome.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Is it happening that you want to talk about?

[Darcy Carden]

No. Oh, you can.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah. I have a fun travel show with Sherry Cola on HGTV TV that you can watch on hbo.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't. I actually didn't know that.

[Darcy Carden]

This is brand new. It started like last week. A couple weeks ago, depending on when this comes out. A month ago, actually.

[Beck Bennett]

May. Wait. Amazing.

[Darcy Carden]

I mean, it's called, it's called Amazing Rentals. It's called Wild Vacation Rentals.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes. Wild Vacation.

[Darcy Carden]

I, I, It's a name that is not sticking in my head. And I told them that, that you stupid. But I love the show. It's so fun. We got to, like, travel all over the country and we're going to do some more and it's really fun.

[Beck Bennett]

Cool.

[Darcy Carden]

Great. Yeah, that's great.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. You guys go in a cave.

[Darcy Carden]

Oh, we went in a cave.

[Beck Bennett]

You sleep in all these places?

[Darcy Carden]

Yes. A missile silo, a treehouse, a freaking potato. And that's not a joke.

[Beck Bennett]

You slept in a potato?

[Darcy Carden]

Honey shrunk down.

[Beck Bennett]

Did the hot. Went to honey shrunk. The kids house. It got shrunk down by the dad.

[Kyle Mooney]

Wayne Zelensky.

[Beck Bennett]

Wayne Zelensky?

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

He got Went to a potato and

[Darcy Carden]

we went to a potato and there's a big ant. And he said, oh, when was the last time you only saw one ant?

[Beck Bennett]

Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

You said that or the ant said that?

[Darcy Carden]

Well, I said that to my friend who was also near the ant.

[Kyle Mooney]

Right.

[Beck Bennett]

Because there's always so many ants whenever you see one that you guys really did that. Go check out Darcy. Sleeping in a potato. Being shrunken down by. By Zelensky.

[Darcy Carden]

Zelinsky.

[Beck Bennett]

Wayne Zelinsky. Not.

[Darcy Carden]

Is that like the Unabomber?

[Kyle Mooney]

No, that's Ted Krasinski.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And Ted Krasinski. Wayne Zelensky.

[Darcy Carden]

Here we go. Do that.

[Kyle Mooney]

Rap through life like Monica Lewinsky.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Darcy Carden]

What did you say?

[Kyle Mooney]

I said Ren and Stimpy.

[Darcy Carden]

And I said Monica Lewinsky.

[Beck Bennett]

And I said Wayne Gretzky.

[Kyle Mooney]

All good.

[Beck Bennett]

All good stuff. We should rap more.

[Darcy Carden]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Darcy Carden]

I love you guys.

[Beck Bennett]

Love you.

[Darcy Carden]

So fun.

[Beck Bennett]

All right, we're gonna have you on again. And we're.

[Darcy Carden]

And do more rapping. Yeah, I can't wait to rap with you guys. I'd love to come on again.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Darcy Carden]

I'm a free next week. I'm gonna go ahead and be free next week.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. Next. Well, you're welcome to come by the Batcave anytime.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, welcome back. We'll see you next week on the Batcave. Bye.

[Darcy Carden]

What is our podcast? The Batcave. Tell me what it's all reference to.

[Kyle Mooney]

Batcave what's Our Podcast is a headgun podcast created and hosted by Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney.

[Beck Bennett]

The show is produced and engineered by Rochelle Chen and Anya Konowskaya with production support from Ali Khan and Ryan Lutzow.

[Kyle Mooney]

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

[Beck Bennett]

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

[Darcy Carden]

Hi, I am Mandy Moore.

[Beck Bennett]

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

[Darcy Carden]

Each episode, we're going to go into a deep dive from our show. This is Us.

[Beck Bennett]

That's right.

[Darcy Carden]

We're going to go episode by episode.

[Kyle Mooney]

We're also going to pepper in episod

[Darcy Carden]

with different guest stars and writers and casting directors.

[Beck Bennett]

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