Nick Rutherford

Summary

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

Episode: Nick Rutherford
Date: June 3, 2026
Host: Headgum

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Episode Overview

This episode reunites the three founding members of the comedy group Good Neighbor—Beck Bennett, Kyle Mooney, and Nick Rutherford—for a sprawling, hilarious, and affectionate trip down memory lane. The conversation centers on their origin as college improvisers, their rambunctious years at USC, the formation (and near-mythical naming) of Good Neighbor, and their personal and creative dynamics. As always, the hosts are searching for the true theme of their podcast—with Nick offering several tongue-in-cheek suggestions by the end. Throughout, the episode is packed with stories, banter, and a warm examination of their shared past.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Good Neighbor Origins & College Years

• First Encounters & Improv Troupe Audition (14:27)

  • The trio reminisce about meeting during auditions for USC’s improv troupe, Commedus Interruptus, in September 2003, and how they bonded through both competitive and collaborative improvisation.
  • Nick on their first meeting: “We were basically auditioning to become each other’s friends. And we all got the job.” (14:51)

• Improv Workshop & “Juicy Juice” Callback (16:10)

  • Kyle’s memorable “Juicy Juice” improv callback and its effect on the group.
  • Beck: “He came in and said, juicy Juice. And, like, got a huge, huge reaction. I remember laughing so hard, me like, that guy's awesome.” (16:27)
  • Nick: "I heard, I remember hearing the Juicy Juice and I, I thought immediately, like, low hanging fruit." (16:41)

• Early Creative Dynamos (17:34)

  • Nick’s child acting background; early experiences with commercials and multicam sets.
  • Group discusses feeling both intimidated by and impressed with one another’s comedic style and drive.

2. Formative (and Reckless) Mischief

• Billy: Nick's Childhood Alter Ego (22:41)

  • Nick’s mom deflected his childhood mischief onto a fictional alter ego "Billy".
  • Nick: “My mom would... say this through like, a cigarette. She was like, that wasn't you. That was Billy. Billy's the bad boy. Nikki's a good boy.” (22:41)
  • Leads into discussion on how childhood psychology shows up in adult friendships and behavior.

• Physical Friendships & Friendly Fights (33:40)

  • Beck and Nick share recurring stories of drunken, roughhousing antics (e.g., wrestling at Cantor’s Deli, body-slam on a car trunk), the way fighting became a strange form of bonding, and Kyle’s role as peacemaker.
  • Nick: “That’s what I...when I see somebody I like or that I'm, like, think something's interesting...is just like, take him out. Yeah, I gotta take him out.” (35:26)

3. USC Life and Creative Hustle

• Improv & Party Culture (40:23, 41:03)

  • Parties before midnight improv shows, “residencies” at neighborhood theaters, and their self-anointed “bad boy” status among college troupes.
  • Beck: “We liked to cause trouble. It...excited us to cause trouble.” (40:37)

• Iconic “Worm” Incident (42:48)

  • Kyle recounts a legendary incident: doing the worm during a show, hitting his chin twice on the concrete stage, bleeding all over, and finishing the set before being taken to the ER by friends.
  • Nick: “There’s literally a blood stain on the stage at this point.” (43:41)

4. Forming Good Neighbor: Name, Vision, & Growth

• Brainstorming the Group Identity (47:11, 48:25)

  • Nick reads from an old email chain, revealing early names like “Good Neighbor”, “Pizza Party”, “America’s Next Top Neighbor”, “Disney Google Moonman”.
  • Kyle defines their archetypes: “Ruthers is kind of the skeezy, cute faced Italian. I’m the guy with glasses and Beck’s the party animal jock.” (49:12)

• DIY Touring & Viral Hustle (51:01)

  • Cold-emailing colleges, playing offbeat gigs, and the pain of nearly landing a major college show before getting dropped.
  • Kyle: “We just cold emailed hundreds and hundreds of schools.” (51:01)

• A Brush with Spielberg (56:53)

  • The group details getting an email from Steven Spielberg’s assistant praising their “Unbelievable Dinner” sketch.
  • Their tongue-in-cheek response—“Keep up the good work, Steven, you’re on the right track”—backs up Nick’s anecdote that Spielberg mistakenly believed Good Neighbor ignored him.
  • Nick: “Apparently Spielberg, Steven himself was...question[ing] why we never reached out...He was like, ‘they must have thought it was a joke.’” (58:52)

5. Wild College Adventures Abroad

• Mexico Mishaps (61:33)
  • Kyle and Nick’s near-arrest in Mexico for trying to buy drugs from a cab driver, and Nick and Beck’s story of Beck flipping an ATV and losing consciousness.
  • Nick (on Beck’s ATV crash): “I truly cradled you, and you were unconscious...I said the most sincere prayer I've ever said.” (67:28)

6. Living, Eating, & Bonding

• Shared Homes and Meals (119:32)
  • The trio reflect on forming surrogate families—living together, cooking, studying together, and formative food memories.
  • Nick: “We made a few homes together. Yeah. We lived together. We cooked together, I think.” (119:41)

7. Podcast Identity: Still Searching

• Nick’s Podcast Pitches (89:43)
  • At the end of the episode, Nick playfully suggests three podcast concepts: a show about beer, a show about Good Neighbor, or a show about betrayal.
  • The group settles on riffing out a “beer podcast”—prompting more nostalgia about their early drinking escapades, favorite beers, and beer pong.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Retrospective Fan Comments:
  Kyle: “‘Dude, I like...I mean, before SNL, before SNL?’ That’s the stuff. I like the stuff you did...back on YouTube.’” (05:47)

• The Naming of Good Neighbor:
  Beck: “I’ll put up a sign: Please don’t throw cigarette butts into the neighbor's yard...And she went, ‘Good neighbor!’” (86:27)

• Spielberg Email
  Nick: “He was like, this good neighbor guy's never reached back out to me. He was like, question[ing] why we never reached out. And then his conclusion was, they must have thought it was a joke.” (58:52)

• On Their Early Differences:
  Kyle: “I would say, you were the best, I'll say. Improviser of the three of us then, because I think you could actually...be both committed...but you could also heighten a scene and add information.” (27:11)

• Beer as Bond:
  Beck: “But beer’s just so great. It’s such a uniter.” (110:34)
  Nick: “You know, they say beer got us out of hunter-gatherer society...and I think that's kind of the birthplace of civilization, really.” (110:40)

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Timestamps for Significant Segments

• Introduction & Patreon Announcement: 00:05–03:10
• Good Neighbor/USC Audition Reminiscence: 14:27–17:34
• Juicy Juice Callback, Early Chemistry: 16:13–17:05
• Nick’s Alter Ego "Billy": 22:41–23:33
• Physical Fights & Friendship Rituals: 33:40–36:14
• Midnight Improv, Party Culture: 40:23–41:43
• Kyle’s “Worm” Injury Incident: 42:48–44:05
• Naming Good Neighbor, Old Emails: 47:11–50:13
• Touring Hustle, College Shows: 51:01–52:39
• Spielberg Email Story: 56:53–58:52
• Mexico Stories (Drug, ATV Mishaps): 61:33–70:38
• Shared Living, Eating: 119:32–120:32
• Nick’s Podcast Suggestions: 89:43–90:44
• Beer Podcast, Drinking Culture: 95:00–117:04
• What’s Next/Outro: 121:11–122:22

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Special Highlights & Easter Eggs

• Inside Jokes & Running Bits:
  Multiple callbacks to “let me smell my candle,” vivid stories about food around USC, and the origin of comedy group names.
• Meta Jokes:
  The ending pivots into a self-aware “beer podcast,” with the hosts openly riffing and punning until the outro.
• Unexplored Topics Teased:
  They promise to discuss “girlfriends,” “the New York City kids,” and more Good Neighbor lore in future episodes.

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The Episode’s Tone, Style, and Takeaway

The conversation is loose, intimate, and shot through with the playful, absurd tone that typified Good Neighbor’s comedy. The hosts swap between emotional sincerity, self-deprecating humor, and nostalgic ribbing. If you want to understand the creative chemistry behind some of today’s most influential sketch comedians, or simply enjoy raucous tales of college misadventure, this episode delivers.

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Transcript

[Beck Bennett]

This is a Headgun podcast.

[Kyle Mooney]

Wow.

[Beck Bennett]

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

[Kyle Mooney]

This is very big. This is.

[Beck Bennett]

It's very huge and big.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think this is life changing for me.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's the way I feel.

[Beck Bennett]

As long as it goes well.

[Kyle Mooney]

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

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, it already has.

[Kyle Mooney]

The big announcement is we are starting a patreon.

[Beck Bennett]

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

[Kyle Mooney]

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

[Beck Bennett]

Yes, it was.

[Kyle Mooney]

We didn't know what it is. We still are finding out what it is every single week when we come together with our guests. And when you and I sort of mess around on the microphone, let's tell

[Beck Bennett]

them what it is. For the first tier, Rocco, Basic tier.

[Kyle Mooney]

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

[Beck Bennett]

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

[Kyle Mooney]

It's like our intro to our show.

[Beck Bennett]

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

[Kyle Mooney]

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

[Beck Bennett]

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

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

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

[Kyle Mooney]

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

[Beck Bennett]

Rocco Premium.

[Kyle Mooney]

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

[Beck Bennett]

Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

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

[Beck Bennett]

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

[Kyle Mooney]

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

[Beck Bennett]

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

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. We don't need to labor over it.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, exactly. We just kind of have fun and pump it out to our Rocco's. You know what I mean?

[Kyle Mooney]

I know exactly what you mean. I love it.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

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

[Beck Bennett]

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

[Kyle Mooney]

It is really going to be fun. I think it's going to be a place to see some really weird, wild, and crazy stuff where we just get

[Beck Bennett]

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

[Kyle Mooney]

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

[Beck Bennett]

What's our podcast? What's it gonna be all about? Tell us what's our podcast? What should we talk about with Beck and Kyle?

[Kyle Mooney]

Feels good, buddy.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, it feels really good.

[Kyle Mooney]

You just did a. I know. I mean, I was gonna say we just did a Patreon.

[Beck Bennett]

We did a Patreon episode, though.

[Kyle Mooney]

What's your podcast?

[Beck Bennett]

Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

And now we're.

[Nick Rutherford]

And now we're about.

[Kyle Mooney]

Now we're on the main feed.

[Beck Bennett]

Now we're in the main feed. Go check out that thing.

[Kyle Mooney]

Patreon.patreon.com what's our podcast?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, the extent, like, sort of the extension of what's our podcast back to

[Kyle Mooney]

this voice, which I don't know if we should give a sneak preview for, like.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay. Ready? Yeah. Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. He's gonna do it.

[Nick Rutherford]

Emily.

[Beck Bennett]

Chicken.

[Nick Rutherford]

I'm gonna chicken.

[Beck Bennett]

Kind of like that. That was a little chicken voice.

[Kyle Mooney]

It was feelings a little different.

[Beck Bennett]

I know. I don't remember it. I'm gonna have to go back and

[Kyle Mooney]

look at the time. No, that was perfect. You did it. I was giving a hard time. Big, big day today.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Welcome to what's With Beck, Ben and Kyle Mooney, where we don't know what our podcast is about, and we have people come in and tell us what they think that it should be about, and then we give it a try.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And, you know, it's. It's just a good exercise. We're just exploring the world around us. You know, you never know what's going to stick. And it's just great to be here with you and exploring.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, I feel like we spend a lot of time in our podcast, maybe not a lot of time, but a portion of our time, talking about back in the day.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, yeah. I think you talk about it almost every episode.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, me?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh. So I'm the. I'm the perpetrator.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, I'm the per.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm the perpetrator.

[Beck Bennett]

You're the perpetrator. That's also like. I mean, I'll say back in the day, but back in the day is more of your. Your lingo.

[Kyle Mooney]

Sure. I like that phrase. But we do talk about.

[Beck Bennett]

We talk about things we did. Yes. Back in the day, in the past. Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

And is it fair to say we were in a group called Good Neighbor?

[Beck Bennett]

That's fair. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

Fair to say. A big part of our lives. And today's going to be a Good Neighbor episode because Nick Rford's coming on. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Do you ever get. Do people come up to you and compliment you? I'm trying to think of the phrase that, like, sort of bothers me a little bit.

[Beck Bennett]

That's like, I think I know what you're getting to. Already talked about it.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Have we talked about it here?

[Beck Bennett]

I don't know. Maybe not. Maybe just a little.

[Kyle Mooney]

I mean, I'm a fan of the old stuff. It's not that. I mean, that's. I guess that's a pretty iconically, like, annoying thing or frustrating thing that you could hear.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

But, yeah, it is like, it's like,

[Beck Bennett]

dude, I love your old videos.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, that's pretty much.

[Beck Bennett]

Dude, I like. I like.

[Kyle Mooney]

I mean, I'm like, before snl, for snl.

[Beck Bennett]

That's the stuff. I like, like the stuff you did, like, back on YouTube. That stuff is so funny, dude.

[Kyle Mooney]

I like that old stuff.

[Beck Bennett]

And then it's never like, you should do more like that. Like, maybe a while ago, they would kind of say that stuff. Now it's just like, that's the. That's the good stuff. Right? Like, all right, well, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Which is maybe accurate. Maybe that's the truth. Maybe, like, toast, we, like, peaked with something like that. Do you know what I'm saying?

[Beck Bennett]

Like, yeah, no, that's great. It's Nice to know your peak, but it was our.

[Kyle Mooney]

We met our guest who's going to be here in a bit, Nick Rutherford. The same time you and I met.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

In September of 2003 at auditions for the college improv group, which, if you're watching, we have. Yeah. We have photos. We have an audition, and that's the

[Beck Bennett]

three of us right there on it.

[Kyle Mooney]

There's a lot to cover. There's a lot to think about. We'll see how we do. Like, how do you.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

How do you feel? Rochelle is just letting us know that the guest is here and everything's okay.

[Beck Bennett]

Everything's okay. I'm just not used to seeing that sign. And. Yeah, I think he's early, too.

[Kyle Mooney]

There's a lot that we have to. There's a lot to talk about. Sort of like, you know, our podcast is about us trying to figure out what our podcast should be.

[Nick Rutherford]

Right.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And we're. We're trying to get better at podcasting. Is that accurate? Even though sometimes I think we, like, forget that that is the point. Maybe. Or I do. Maybe I don't.

[Beck Bennett]

You forget that. What is the point?

[Kyle Mooney]

The point is to be. Get good at this and to, like, figure out what our podcast is. Right.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

So here we have somebody we've known for most of our life. Lives. The tough thing is, like, figuring out what to draw, what to ask, what to talk about, like, and, like, kind of what little, you know, roads to go down. Because, like, there is so much. Like, we've lived together.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we've had a couple guests on recently that are old friends of ours or, like. Or my wife.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And it is. It can be harder to. The. The typical, like, conversation style doesn't really apply because you know each other so well already. You're not asking questions and trying to get to know them. But, yeah, with. With Rutherford, I mean, I just feel like we just let it. Let it fly.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

We just talk about. We just talk about everything. Cover how we. How we all met and cover our story. I mean, I think this one will focus more on the three of us rather than our individual guest.

[Kyle Mooney]

I wrote down some notes about some things I wanted to bring up.

[Beck Bennett]

I see. I didn't. I didn't.

[Kyle Mooney]

Mine aren't. It's not incredibly thorough, but, yeah, there's some. I feel like we have great. We have some good stories if we can pull them out.

[Beck Bennett]

We've got to.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Well, let's see. Nick Rutherford is one of the funniest people.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yep.

[Beck Bennett]

I'VE ever known.

[Kyle Mooney]

Cracked my ass up the very first time I laid eyes on him.

[Beck Bennett]

Cracked my ass up too. Tried to. Tried to crack a couple other things, but we'll get into that.

[Kyle Mooney]

Like imagining him like with like a bulldozer or something.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah, he. Yeah, he used to do that kind of thing. Yeah. He's one of our oldest, dearest friends and we love him. Can't wait to talk to him. Let's get him in here.

[Kyle Mooney]

Nick Rford.

[Beck Bennett]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but without Squarespace there wouldn't be an Internet.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think you're wrong. I think the Internet might have existed before, but I'm not sure.

[Beck Bennett]

But since square. If you get rid of the Squarespace, you're gonna get rid of a lot of the Internet.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, that is true. After Squarespace was introduced, all of these websites were created using their easy to use tools.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. And widgets and.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. And those websites now are all over the place and they're frequented by people all over. And those would not exist. Squarespace did not exist.

[Beck Bennett]

Right. The Internet wouldn't exist. It's like, it's troubling. So look, Squarespace, now that we're talking about it, is the all in one website platform designed to help you stand out and do well online. Maybe you're just starting out or maybe you want to scale your business. Squarespace gives you everything you need to claim your domain, showcase your offerings with a professional website.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, I like sound of that. You know, I'm tightening my bow tie.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, it looks pretty nice.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, thanks.

[Beck Bennett]

And get paid all in one place. Okay. This is huge. Squarespace is the Internet now.

[Kyle Mooney]

Domains. Do you know what that is?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, it's the.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's just a little parsley. But Domain ingredient is chicken. I'm fucking with you. Sorry. And.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, that was so scary.

[Kyle Mooney]

I was like, what's happening? I know, I saw you. I know. Because you were like. Because you like to cook and you're like, oh, is that how you say it?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, I was like, domain.

[Kyle Mooney]

I always thought it was the main ingredient. Domain ingredient.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay. No, yeah. Sorry, but what were you saying?

[Kyle Mooney]

I was saying every dream needs a domain. A domain is essentially. It's that little web address they use, like www.what's our podcast.com? is that our website? Yeah, that's a domain. Squarespace domains make it easy to find the best name for your business at one fair, all inclusive price, no hidden fees or add ons required. Every Squarespace domain comes with advanced privacy. Okay, that's cool.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

I Need that and security tools included. Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

Need.

[Kyle Mooney]

Need to ensure your domain remains online and protected. You want it to stay online.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

You want people to visit it and you want it to be protected so that, you know, the little Internet pirates are little scabs and monsters and villains are like, I want to take over what's our podcast dot com. You want it to be protected.

[Beck Bennett]

You want it to be protected.

[Kyle Mooney]

A shield. You want to force field.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes, shield and force Plus Squarespace provides

[Kyle Mooney]

everything you need to bring more of your dream to life, whether that means building a website or adding a professional email service. Oh, we do we have emails. Could we be Kyle at. What's our podcast dot com? Can we do that?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Can we be Kyle?

[Kyle Mooney]

What's our best to do something like that?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, we should.

[Kyle Mooney]

So don't wait to claim your name. Invest in your dream domain today.

[Beck Bennett]

So, Rochelle, do you want to maybe help us find a custom domain name that our listeners can register an available domain?

[Nick Rutherford]

Pjuice.com is available. That's P E, P E, E. Juice.

[Beck Bennett]

P Juice.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. We're kind of coming up with maybe what kind of company that could be or what. How you'd make. What.

[Beck Bennett]

You'd make their website look like pea juice.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think this should be. Because a mason. You can buy Mason jars. Do you know this?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Buy empty Mason jars. My wife is doing it. She's been putting soup in them.

[Beck Bennett]

That's amazing. You should put them in the freezer.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Or sometimes in the fridge. If we're.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, we're gonna use them.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah, we're gonna use it soon. If we go around and put all of our piss in these mason. We buy the Mason jars.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And then we sell it on P Juice dot com. Oh, yeah, we sell. We.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Because, like, that's. Yeah. Because if.

[Beck Bennett]

No, you don't need to explain. Yeah, no, fully get it. That makes perfect sense. Yeah. We could sell. If somebody wants to. Yeah. Set up the website and send us the jars. We'll pee in the jars, and then maybe we can sell our. Where do you fall?

[Kyle Mooney]

Rochelle, would you be willing to pee in a Mason jar? I would pee in a Mason jar. Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

All right.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm willing to do it.

[Beck Bennett]

You got pee Juice there?

[Kyle Mooney]

Are you willing to do it?

[Beck Bennett]

No. Okay, so we could sell your guys Pee Juice and Rochelle and Kyle's Pee Juice.

[Kyle Mooney]

I would really want to make sure that I'm drinking a lot of water. I don't want people to judge my.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah. They don't. They don't Want to see it?

[Kyle Mooney]

So, yeah, So I see the website. I think we. Think we get some images of. Well, we. We'll do product shots. So Relle and I will have to piss in the jars and we'll take

[Beck Bennett]

a photo of the jars and put it on the website.

[Kyle Mooney]

And I feel like, yeah, yeah. And then maybe a song. Is there a song we put on there?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, maybe like, I don't know, what.

[Kyle Mooney]

Sarp juice?

[Beck Bennett]

What does it taste like? What's our pea juice? What's it going to smell, smell, smell like with Relle and Kyle?

[Kyle Mooney]

All right, but you got. But anyone's welcome to use that domain.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes, please. Go Rocco's. Go find pjuice.com and put our flag on it. Thank you. Now check out squarespace.com beckandkyle for a free trial. And when you're ready to launch, use offer code beckandkyle to save 10 off your first purchase of a website or domain. Maybe it's pjuice.com.

[Kyle Mooney]

wow. Are you Gordo from the Buffalo Wild Wings commercials?

[Beck Bennett]

That's right.

[Nick Rutherford]

Wow, this is crazy. Good neighbors.

[Beck Bennett]

Give me some love.

[Kyle Mooney]

Hey, fuck that, dude. I'll go in for a fucking hug.

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, hell yeah, dude. Yeah, dude. Ow, ow, ow.

[Kyle Mooney]

What's up, man?

[Nick Rutherford]

Why didn't you give him a hug?

[Beck Bennett]

I don't want to do that, man.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, why didn't you give me a hug?

[Kyle Mooney]

Why don't you give him.

[Beck Bennett]

We did a fist bump, man.

[Kyle Mooney]

All right, let's go.

[Beck Bennett]

I'll get two, too. I'll take two hugs.

[Nick Rutherford]

I'll go though. You go. Roman hug. All right.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's.

[Beck Bennett]

Dude.

[Kyle Mooney]

I was. Dude. Back in the day.

[Beck Bennett]

Old school. Back in the day. There's a. There's. Everybody knows that me and Kyle met back in the day in September. We. That's when we met.

[Kyle Mooney]

2003.

[Nick Rutherford]

2003.

[Beck Bennett]

But a lot. But our listeners may not know that we also met you back in the day in 2000.

[Nick Rutherford]

2003. September. Yeah, we met. And probably an audition format.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

We were basically auditioning to become each other's friends.

[Beck Bennett]

And we all got the job.

[Nick Rutherford]

We got the job.

[Beck Bennett]

One person didn't. A lot of people didn't. But there is. I. It's fair to talk about. It's like the. Our comedy group. They did and they still do, I would imagine, have a long, drawn out audition process. You audition, you get a callback, and then after the callback, you get brought into a workshop for five weeks. And there was four of us and

[Nick Rutherford]

one person didn't yeah, there was four people in the workshop, which, honestly, the workshop feels a little generous, you know, like that. Not for that calling it for the fourth guy, but. Yeah, well, just like you get like six or four or five or six weeks of, like, improv training.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, Right.

[Nick Rutherford]

But maybe that's just worse because if at the end of it, they're like, thanks.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, I think.

[Nick Rutherford]

You think it's worse.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think it is disappointing for. They don't do it anymore.

[Nick Rutherford]

They don't do it anymore.

[Kyle Mooney]

Spoke to somebody recently who's still doing improv at usc. Commidus interruptus.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, Commedus interruptus.

[Kyle Mooney]

Do you now, do you remember the first time we saw each other?

[Nick Rutherford]

I don't remember specifically. I remember. I don't remember. If anything, I remember the workshop way better. Yeah. When we were, like, working closer together.

[Beck Bennett]

But I feel like I remember it at all.

[Kyle Mooney]

One time, you guys. I do think you guys maybe remember my scene you've mentioned.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes, your callback scene. The Juicy Juice callback.

[Nick Rutherford]

Wait, I need a refresher.

[Beck Bennett]

So it was at the callback and we were like, by that tree by the rose garden at usc, and Kyle just came into a scene and went, juicy Juice. And he had said it earlier, and

[Nick Rutherford]

I like, oh, you called back. Another scene.

[Beck Bennett]

He called back. No, it was from earlier in the scene, I think. And he came in and said, juicy Juice. And, like, got a huge, huge reaction. I remember laughing so hard, me like, that guy's awesome.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's awesome.

[Nick Rutherford]

I, I heard, I remember hearing the Juicy Juice and I, I thought immediately, like, low hanging fruit.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. What do you mean?

[Nick Rutherford]

I meant, like, it was an obvious choice.

[Beck Bennett]

It's like, everybody, everybody wants to say Juicy Juice in an improv scene.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. So I just thought, like, it was

[Kyle Mooney]

pandering a little bit why I said this. Okay. You. No, no, no, it's funny.

[Beck Bennett]

No, no, it's funny. Funny.

[Nick Rutherford]

No, no, that's funny. That's what the podcast's about, right? It just kind of raz me.

[Beck Bennett]

I do.

[Kyle Mooney]

I mean, I, I, I don't know if I've said this here, but for me. Yeah. So we all got onto this workshop and it was like, I was really excited to get onto the troupe. Like, everybody there who was already on, it was very funny to me. I'd seen them perform and I thought they were smart and great. But, like, you two, I was intimidated because you had done Second City courses and you had taken at least two levels of Groundlings at that point.

[Nick Rutherford]

I think so. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And. Cause you're you sort of kind of have a child acting background.

[Beck Bennett]

Little Nicky Rose.

[Nick Rutherford]

Little Nicky. Yeah, I guess I kind of grew up in Tinseltown.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, you did. And you. What, Wait, what were you. What are your big credits? You did a lot of commercials.

[Kyle Mooney]

Pacific Heights.

[Nick Rutherford]

Pacific Heights with Prince of Bel Air. Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Dear John, which is a sitcom that I don't think anybody watched.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

Tracy Ullman Show.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, what's the big Business?

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, yeah, Big Business.

[Kyle Mooney]

I remember we bought the DVD for Big Business for our. One of the houses we lived in.

[Nick Rutherford]

Did we ever watch it?

[Kyle Mooney]

We did. And there's a. I'm pretty sure you're running through a hallway and it. It's very funny to see a tiny version of somebody you know very well. You know what I mean?

[Beck Bennett]

In that. In that setting, too, like, well shot, like. Yes, like. You know what I mean?

[Nick Rutherford]

It's like just see them be, like, being a completely different character.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, they're totally transforming. It's really amazing.

[Kyle Mooney]

The role of Kway the car. Yeah, right.

[Beck Bennett]

Were you auditioning a lot growing up?

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, I auditioned a lot growing up. I don't the way it hap. I grew up in Thousand Oaks, which is like an hour outside of la, and my mom's friend was like, oh, can I take a photo of little Nikki? She was a photographer. You do see a little bit of areola.

[Beck Bennett]

You see.

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, what happened?

[Kyle Mooney]

Wait, which part is that again?

[Beck Bennett]

I think it's like. I think it's like the inside of your lips or something.

[Nick Rutherford]

No, no, it's a nip.

[Beck Bennett]

It's a n. The name.

[Nick Rutherford]

It's the brown part of the name.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's the pepperoni.

[Nick Rutherford]

That's the pepperoni. That's the pepperoni. You were the one who. You actually introduced me.

[Beck Bennett]

That's the pepperoni.

[Nick Rutherford]

Correct me if I'm wrong Back. It's either Kyle or maybe you who introduced me as to the idea of nipples being pepperonis.

[Beck Bennett]

I think it was me.

[Nick Rutherford]

It might have been.

[Beck Bennett]

What was it? It was like a sketch or something. Like, look, I've got.

[Nick Rutherford]

It was in the. I think it was in the pilot. It was in the Good Neighbor pilot.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. I do something where I'm like. Like huge, huge pepperonis.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. I never heard that before. And I was like, I probably stole it like a thousand times. I like.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, well, you know, we. That's what we do. We bring each other ideas and we.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, exactly.

[Beck Bennett]

Wow.

[Nick Rutherford]

Another fun one is Bolted Ons.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, I've heard that.

[Nick Rutherford]

My buddy Kirk got me into Bolted Ons she. And she's got bolted ons.

[Beck Bennett]

And he can have.

[Nick Rutherford]

I don't know what that means.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, you don't know what that.

[Nick Rutherford]

I don't know what it means.

[Beck Bennett]

I think it must be something about the. The inside part of the pepperoni.

[Nick Rutherford]

I assume that the pepperoni was the bolt. This is fine.

[Beck Bennett]

It's totally fine.

[Nick Rutherford]

It's fine. There's somebody else laughing. I think it's the bolt would be the pepperoni. But does bolted on imply some work has been done?

[Beck Bennett]

I don't know.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't know.

[Beck Bennett]

I really don't know what boltedons are.

[Nick Rutherford]

I think they're just.

[Beck Bennett]

And I can hear Rochelle typing.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, these are. These are things to cut.

[Beck Bennett]

You tell us what a bolted on

[Kyle Mooney]

is, and this might be just something that your friend says. Right?

[Beck Bennett]

I've heard it. I've heard it.

[Nick Rutherford]

You've heard it before?

[Kyle Mooney]

No playing for breast implants.

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, okay.

[Beck Bennett]

So. Yeah. So there's some work.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, there's some work.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

I got. I got a question. Sort of moving on from the.

[Nick Rutherford]

But we can go back to it.

[Kyle Mooney]

It is a little Nick Rutherford question, actually, that I'm. I hope I'm not putting you on the spot, and I hope that, like, I'm not misremembering, but I remember you once telling me a story about how, like, your mother had, like, you would cause trouble, and she would sort of say that it was like.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

There was like, a d. You had, like a.

[Nick Rutherford]

Like an alter ego.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

When I would get in trouble, I wasn't doing anything terrible, but, like, I was a rambunctious kid.

[Beck Bennett]

Just classic kid shit.

[Nick Rutherford]

Classic kid shit.

[Beck Bennett]

Like, what age is this?

[Nick Rutherford]

I mean, I must have been, like, seven or eight or something. What's like, second grade or third grade or. Like.

[Beck Bennett]

Sounds about right. Eight.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's, like second grade.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. So around, like, I think.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

I think I would see, like, acts of, like, vandalism on TV and then be like, oh, I should do that. That's what, like, cool kids do. I, like, TP'd the. The toilet. The bathroom of my, like, grade school.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

Just like, you know, took toilet paper and put on the walls.

[Beck Bennett]

We were just talking about TPing in the. And. Oh, that actually wasn't the intro. Anything. Something else. Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Don't worry about it.

[Nick Rutherford]

Do we have to start over?

[Beck Bennett]

No, no, no.

[Kyle Mooney]

I might need to re. Intro you. I don't know if. Do we even say your name?

[Beck Bennett]

It's. It's Nick Rutherford.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

We don't have to say his name in the intro. We talked about him and said Nick Rutherford sat down.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't know if we said.

[Nick Rutherford]

And here's Nick R. We were just talking about really dark stuff. And then the podcast started.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So she.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Nobody gives a fucking shit.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, Nobody cares, man. What were we talking about?

[Kyle Mooney]

Your alter ego.

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, yeah. My alter ego. So my mom would. I would get really. I'd get in trouble, and I would just feel really, really bad. Cause I'd disappointed my parents. And so my mom's reaction, which I don't think is good parenting, would be.

[Beck Bennett]

Not now, but back then it was.

[Nick Rutherford]

I mean, I turned out all right, but I don't think everybody should do this. Back then, it probably was. Yeah. She would say this through like, a cigarette. She was like, that wasn't you. That was Billy.

[Kyle Mooney]

Right.

[Nick Rutherford]

Billy's the bad boy. Nikki's a good boy.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. No, that feels like awful parenting.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I think it's. It feels like you're like, okay, I

[Kyle Mooney]

can play with any.

[Beck Bennett]

I can always be two people and I'm good. But Billy's always going to be bad, and that has nothing to do.

[Nick Rutherford]

That's not me. That wasn't me. That was Billy. You can wash your hands clean.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. It's like, compartmentalizing bad behavior. She's like, there you go.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. It's probably not ideal parenting, but, you know, I'm not Billy anymore. Now I'm just Nikki. Or am I?

[Beck Bennett]

You're Billy.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think I've seen Billy.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

Billy's coming out a couple of times.

[Beck Bennett]

It set you up for, you know.

[Nick Rutherford]

But I don't. It set me up for, I guess, just a world of no consequences or taking responsibility for anything.

[Beck Bennett]

Sure, sure.

[Nick Rutherford]

That's interesting.

[Beck Bennett]

Absolute mischief.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, Absolute mischief. But I will say my mom would also catch me, which I think this might have been something she did to me. She would catch me. Like, she would get in. I would get in trouble. She would be like, oh, go to your room, or whatever. She would, like, come up to my room later, and I would be talking to the mirror. So maybe I was talking to Billy, or maybe Billy was talking to Nick, and I would just be having a full conversation. Like, she's so mean to me. Why didn't she hate me? She's so mean to me. Like, kind of like a Gollum conversation.

[Beck Bennett]

But then would you switch and be like, it's okay.

[Nick Rutherford]

I don't think I did both parts. I think I was just, like, working out frustration. But, yeah, If I was the other one. But she loves you.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, that was. That would be weird, because I will say, like, when my son gets upset, he'll go in the room. Don't let me do it. I want to do.

[Nick Rutherford]

Really? That's pretty.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. They're like. It starts so young. Just the. Like, I don't know.

[Nick Rutherford]

What do you. What do you do? Is that. I imagine, like, all these things are pretty adorable. So, like, how do you put the adorable aside and then go, like, I have to be a father here?

[Beck Bennett]

I mean, it's just. It just, like, changes all the time. Like, this morning, we had to get out the door, like, And. And he's like, his shoelace broke on one of his shoes yesterday, so he wore his other shoes today. And, like, he was taking a while to get out the door. He wanted Jesse to put his hair in, like, a little top knot bun because it was getting long. And, like, he's like, no, no, I have to do this. He'll be, no, I have to do this. And then we finally got him to the door. I'm putting his shoes on. He's like, no, I can't wear those because the shoelace broke. So we're putting on his other shoes. He's like, I got. I want to show mama and, like, to, like, run back into our room and, like, show her and then come back. And I was like, no, no, no, no, no. We've been trying to get you out the door for a while. I have to go. I, like, you know, I have stuff to do today. And so I got him out the door, and he started whining and crying, and it was, like. It was adorable. And, like, because he was, like, sad, but he was also like, sorry, now that I'm never gonna show about my shoe. And I'm like, I. Like, that's kind of funny. But I also feel for him, and I is. I'm like, in the moment. I'm like, I could just let him go and enjoy the show. But then I'm like. Then I'm telling him that whining like this will give him what he wants. So I'm just like, yeah, nope, sorry. And I want to. And I'm like, no, I'm sorry you feel that way, but I'm trying not to, like, engage too much with him. And then, like, we drive down the block, and he's like, that leaf looks like a star. I'm like, yeah, it does, doesn't it? Yeah, we're just, like, totally moved on. Yeah. So it's yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

Cause you gotta set boundaries, right?

[Beck Bennett]

You gotta set those boundaries.

[Nick Rutherford]

And kids crave it.

[Beck Bennett]

They love it. They want it. They want it.

[Nick Rutherford]

I think adults crave it. I want boundaries, too.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you didn't get Em when you were a kid. You got Billy, and Nikki didn't get him. Okay, so that was little Nikki Rutherford.

[Kyle Mooney]

What about when you guys. We've gotta talk about, at some point, you guys meeting or, like, kind of that iconic interaction. When we did get into the improv troupe.

[Nick Rutherford]

Commit.

[Kyle Mooney]

Interrupt us.

[Beck Bennett]

I do not remember the workshop, but we got in the three of us.

[Kyle Mooney]

I remember the workshop a little bit. And you guys were very, again, very, very funny. And I think they were only gonna take two. I think take one, but maybe it was two, and they ended up taking all of us.

[Nick Rutherford]

I mean, we've talked about this off the air, I think. But, yeah, I was blown away by you guys. I felt like you were just such a fantastic performer, and I was very intimidated by it. And then you were just, like, so weird.

[Beck Bennett]

So just, like, never seen, like, a specimen. And you were just like, very. Always a great writer and able to, like, write on your feet. Like a lot of great improvisers.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think you were the best, I'll say. Improviser of the three of us then, because I think you could actually, like, be both committed, a weird character, but you could also, like, heighten a scene and, like, add information.

[Beck Bennett]

And I think you're a good actor as well. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Better.

[Nick Rutherford]

Well, thank you, guys.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

But I do think that's also, like. That's not as fun sometimes, because sometimes you just want the wild. You just want to go the wild card. That's just like, wow, where's. Where did that thought come from? And I feel like I get too into it, and I'm like, I gotta fix this and connect this thing. And it's a big. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

We got accept. We got. We all got phone. Do you remember how you learned? I remember that, like, Jess Lampy called me. I was at a USC football game. Shout out, just Lampy.

[Beck Bennett]

Shout out, just Lampy.

[Kyle Mooney]

He was one of the members of the troupe.

[Beck Bennett]

I just got. I just got a police report from my. My. My lawyer from when I got jumped at usc. And Jess Lampy had written a letter about what happened.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh.

[Nick Rutherford]

To, like, Like, Like a character.

[Beck Bennett]

This is what happened. And it was, like. It was really interesting because it was like, this story that I've told so many times. Me and Kyle have told. The three of us have told. And then I Got this letter that was, like, Jess Lampy's account of it. I can show you guys that you just got this. I got it because I sent it. My dad had a friend who was a lawyer, and, like, I made the police report and everything, and then he was like, you know, reach out to Craig. And I did. I sent him a letter and, like, sent him everything, and he had, like, the. He's like. He was changing his offices. He was, like, moving offices. He was going through everything, and he found it and he sent it.

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, that's crazy.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, I totally forgot about that. Yeah. But anyway, we get there.

[Kyle Mooney]

There are. Well, there's. Yeah, Yeah, I. I kind of have. In my note. In my notes, on my phone, like, kind of, I guess some of the violent incidents that occurred over the course of our friendship.

[Beck Bennett]

I was getting in trouble. Yeah, we got a lot of trouble.

[Nick Rutherford]

It was pretty innocent, though. I mean.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

I mean, there's one story I'm really excited to talk about that has never been on the record.

[Beck Bennett]

Mexico. There's the baseball thing where we had to do where?

[Nick Rutherford]

Baseball. Yeah. When we were heckling baseball. There's you breaking a window in an apartment complex.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, that was an.

[Kyle Mooney]

I got a call from Jess, and it was one of these kind of classic situations where I'm pretty sure he did, like, a. Hey, man. So some bad news.

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, he's mean.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. And, like, it really did. It was so meaningful for me to get onto this improv troupe.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, it was huge.

[Kyle Mooney]

Looking back on it, it's a silly thing, but. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

No, but I. I mean, I had just, like, run away from, like, frat initially. Run away from home. I just landed in la, but it was like, you know, we get there and there's like, I. I'm so far away from home. You guys grew up around la, but, like, there's nothing. Like, there's the dorms and there are no bars. There's. USC. There's nowhere to go besides, like, a Greek life thing or going.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, you can't, like, walk to a cool strip or anything.

[Beck Bennett]

And, like, I just sort of run away from that whole process and was like, oh, it's just. College is not as cool as I thought. People are just kind of, like, hanging out in their dorms on the weekends. Like, as a freshman.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, you. You had ran away from the frat.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, they were trying to, like.

[Nick Rutherford]

You were, like, rushing and stuff.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. And they. They, like, wanted me to rush and pledge and stuff, and I, like, ran away. I was like, no, I'm Good. I'm like.

[Nick Rutherford]

I did the rushing, but I, like, transferred in, so I was like, kind of. I was older.

[Beck Bennett]

But the rushing is like when it's a week, Right. It's like a week every.

[Nick Rutherford]

They have, like, open parties. Like.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, that might even pre rush or something.

[Nick Rutherford]

Like. Maybe it's pre rush. Oh, rushing is like the process. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

I never.

[Nick Rutherford]

I was never playing.

[Beck Bennett]

That's pledging.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's okay.

[Beck Bennett]

I don't know.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think pledging is.

[Nick Rutherford]

You choose one and then you have to, like, do a bunch of junk for them.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think rush is like, you're flirting with the different.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, it's dating. Yeah, you're dating frats, but you.

[Kyle Mooney]

But we got on. We all got on the troop, and then there's sort of an elaborate initiation process which was. It was like. I don't know, we got a call that was like, meet at Tommy Trojan, which is the statue at USC at like, 11pm or something.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, it was like. It was like angels and demons. It was like Da Vinci Code.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. Like, all of these puzzles. We sort of had to.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, I remember we met in my dorm. And you had vodka.

[Nick Rutherford]

I don't. I didn't live on campus, so whatever we had. Maybe it was Chris's vodka. But we were like.

[Beck Bennett]

I feel like we didn't have alcohol in my freshman year.

[Nick Rutherford]

We've somehow got alcohol.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

Because we were like, on this time. It was like a scavenger hunt of sorts. Like, break into the Doheny Library.

[Beck Bennett]

We had to go to the roof. We had to scale up a palm tree with our backs against the wall and walking up the palm tree to get into the library.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Because they were just a jar. They left a door ajar on the second floor balcony, and we got in, and then we had to go find a clue in a book in the

[Nick Rutherford]

stacks, which were dark or something.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah, because they were.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think I wasn't. I think I wasn't physically strong enough to, you know.

[Nick Rutherford]

You didn't get up there.

[Beck Bennett]

You didn't get in.

[Nick Rutherford]

I remember going up there.

[Kyle Mooney]

I remember being in the library. But maybe you guys, like, popped open a door.

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, maybe we did. I think we popped it up to leave. We didn't climb down. We just, like, kicked open emergency exit and ran.

[Kyle Mooney]

But I do.

[Beck Bennett]

Did it go off, though?

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, I think it. Well, it went off on some level, but it wasn't like a helicopter.

[Kyle Mooney]

I recall something, and we'd have to probably ask at some point. Nobody would actually remember. See if Jeeves.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Data on the comedus interrupt us. Initiation.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think that like, we made it worse for ourselves. I remember like that night, like Chris Cantwell, the director, saying something like, okay, this is actually taking way too long. Like I feel like they, they, yeah, they found us because it was taking too long. And I think like, there may have been easier ways to do everything, but we didn't realize.

[Nick Rutherford]

Well, also we. I think after the Doheny Library break in, we were like so jacked that we like ran to your dorm room and did shots or like slam beers or something. And then it was like before that everybody was calling us very like anonymous, like, you have 20 minutes to get to the center square. And like we were. And then like a bunch. Then I think eventually Bill called and was like, hey, where are you guys?

[Beck Bennett]

What's going on? This is taking too long.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

He was like, oh, set up this old scavenger.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, we kind of like, we took the steam out of it, but it was really fun.

[Beck Bennett]

And it always, these nights would always end with going to Carnegie.

[Kyle Mooney]

Brett 62.

[Nick Rutherford]

Red 62.

[Beck Bennett]

No, no, no, we went to.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, with the deli. Cantors.

[Beck Bennett]

Cantors, yes.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

I really remember one year we went to Fred 62.

[Beck Bennett]

One year we went to Fred 62. I remember that. But I really remember Cantors because I'm

[Nick Rutherford]

not proud of this.

[Beck Bennett]

I had a menu up and Nick started to punch me.

[Nick Rutherford]

The menus are big.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. So like there's a big menu upcoming my face and Nick's sitting next to me and he's like popping. I'm getting a fist punch through the big floppy plastic menu, but the menu's

[Nick Rutherford]

taking most of the hit.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, kind of. Not really. I'm like, stop it. What are you doing? You're like, eh. It's just kind of.

[Nick Rutherford]

Man.

[Beck Bennett]

Man.

[Nick Rutherford]

This kind of.

[Beck Bennett]

This is Billy.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, that was Billy. That was Billy. That was not Nick.

[Beck Bennett]

And then we had to like separate us. They were like just. Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

They put us on two separate tables.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. And then. And then we're driving back to USC and it's like totally empty streets because it's like 3:30 in the morning. And we get to a red light and you're in the car behind mine and I'm in the passenger front seat of the car. In front. And you get out of the car and you come over and you open the door and you like start punching me or something. You start like.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, I just started attacking you.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. And I got out and I picked you up and then I like dropped you on the Hood of the car.

[Nick Rutherford]

The hood or the trunk?

[Beck Bennett]

The trunk of the car.

[Nick Rutherford]

You, like, body slammed me onto the trunk. You, like, WWE'd me. And then.

[Beck Bennett]

And I remember you went, oh, Beck's a strong boy.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. I, like, walked away moaning, beck's a strong boy. And then years later, I feel like we really talked about that.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, we did.

[Nick Rutherford]

And you were like. That bugged me for years. And we've talked about this.

[Beck Bennett]

But, yeah, you're like. You're like, I. One of my best friends that I made at usc. We kind of, like. We kind of became friends by, like, kind of, like, wrestling and, like, fighting.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. It's like, that's what I. When I see somebody I like or that I'm, like, think something's interesting that. Especially when you're, like, blackout drunk all the time.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. If you're blackout drunk.

[Nick Rutherford]

This is a way of connecting with people.

[Beck Bennett]

But, yeah, I mean, Billy wanted to become friends.

[Nick Rutherford]

And I've seen this in, like, little kids, too. Like, little boys. Like, there's this. My. My buddy's kid is this little boy, and he really likes me, but so he just attacks me all the time.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

And so I really do want to stress. It was like. I mean, I'm sure it's everything. It's like, oh, I like that guy. I'm scared of that guy because I like him so much. I respect him. And so, like, gorgeous. Gorgeous cut.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

He's got gutters. And so your lizard brain, like, the. Especially, like, the unevolved, like, drunk lizard brain, is just like, take him out. Yeah, I gotta take him out.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. How do I connect with this guy?

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, exactly. It's like.

[Beck Bennett]

And it did make sense. I was like, oh, yeah, you guys, like, fight each other. Like. Like, had, like, tasers and, like.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, well, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Throwing knives. For me, what is fascinating, and I

[Nick Rutherford]

never tried to fight Kyle.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's what I was about to say is I feel like I really like him.

[Nick Rutherford]

I never care for him.

[Kyle Mooney]

I didn't.

[Beck Bennett]

I thought,

[Kyle Mooney]

he's punching my ass. No. But it's been an interesting trajectory from USC to now.

[Beck Bennett]

Really?

[Nick Rutherford]

I don't know what it is. I mean, I think. Well, also, I think, you know, I

[Kyle Mooney]

did at times feel like the middle man.

[Beck Bennett]

Really.

[Kyle Mooney]

In Good Neighbor. At times. Yeah. I felt.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, like. Like. Like you were the peacemaker.

[Kyle Mooney]

To a degree.

[Beck Bennett]

Absolutely. I would. I would 100% agree with that. Yes.

[Nick Rutherford]

Between Beck and I. I think everybody.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

But also, like, between Dave and us. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And which, you know, was something that my parents did to me over the course of their splitting up. So.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. They put you in the middle, so you're used to being in the middle.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Not. Not a position I would ask for, but I was sort of placed in and.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. Well, maybe they realize that it's something you're really good at.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. It's a superpower of yours. You don't think about it as a weakness. Like you're. You're incredible. You can like put people at ease

[Kyle Mooney]

and bring them together sometimes, you know, like a 12 year old doesn't want that sort of pressure on us.

[Nick Rutherford]

Well, sometimes it's. 12 year old has to step up to the plate and rip that sword out of the stone.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, man. The sword of the stone. This is like. It's not. You might not be ready for it, but the world's ready for you and it's time to. You know, you stepped up to the plane. Crushed it.

[Nick Rutherford]

And also sometimes maybe he can't get this sword out of the stone and his parents end up splitting up.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. If you would have gotten the sword out of the stone, maybe your parents would still be together.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. No, no, no, no. I thought about it.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. A bit.

[Kyle Mooney]

I always did, actually. I don't know if you remember this. I would kind of constantly invite my mom and dad to parties and stuff and like sort of be like, maybe we can parent Travis. But it was. This was like a solid 50 years.

[Beck Bennett]

I don't really remember them both being at a party.

[Kyle Mooney]

Already remarried.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. Yeah. And your stepmom's there. I think everybody had a good. A good sense of humor about it.

[Kyle Mooney]

No. Yeah. Yeah. To me it's like it was never really that funny, but like how to sort of survive.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. You had to get. You had to find a way out of it, but. So you wouldn't cry.

[Kyle Mooney]

He. He doesn't like being perceived as a party animal or like kind of a bad guy or anything like that. I remember like there was. But he's not in college where I would always. Where I'd be like, I would go like, ow, ow. And I'm like, come on, dad, dude. He's like, I'm not gonna do that.

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, that's funny.

[Beck Bennett]

I'm not howling, Kyle, but I will

[Kyle Mooney]

embarrass him now that like one of these weekends he stayed at our house at 25th and Hoover. And we all, like a bunch of us went out to a party and he's like, I'm just gonna stay here at the house. And we came back and he Is like, only in his tighty whities, smoking a cigarette on the couch inside, like, drinking wine and watching the History Channel.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And it was such a rad, like, kind of.

[Beck Bennett]

It was like, had you ever seen your dad like that before?

[Kyle Mooney]

Maybe as like a 9 year old?

[Beck Bennett]

Like, it's just like. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

He's like, oh, hey, guys.

[Nick Rutherford]

You guys are back.

[Beck Bennett]

That is so. It's so cool to me. That is so awesome. We're just goofing around. We're just having a lot of fun. We get into the group.

[Kyle Mooney]

We did shows every week on the lawn.

[Beck Bennett]

Every. Every Friday at 1:00pm Yep. Let's see the flyers right there. Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

You see 12:00pm oh, the date auction.

[Kyle Mooney]

Like, this is.

[Nick Rutherford]

That's fun. That's from. That's from the bay. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

But we. So we would do two rehearsals a week. Is that right?

[Kyle Mooney]

Sounds right.

[Beck Bennett]

Like, Sunday night. Sunday and Thursday. And then one show a week.

[Kyle Mooney]

And then a sketch show at the end of every semester.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. And then we would have rehearsals for that.

[Nick Rutherford]

And we also had, like, a lot of. I felt like we did a lot of extra shows.

[Beck Bennett]

We did. We would do, like. Yes, yeah. For prospective students and things.

[Kyle Mooney]

You know what I was thinking about that. This is embarrassing. I feel like it's funny. I remember Nick being here. I don't know if you were there. You definitely are aware of it back.

[Beck Bennett]

I might not have it because there was definitely a lot.

[Kyle Mooney]

There was an era when we were doing shows across the street from. You must have been there.

[Nick Rutherford]

You must have been there when we.

[Kyle Mooney]

It was because we were 23rd Street Theater.

[Beck Bennett]

24th Street Theater.

[Nick Rutherford]

24th Street Theater.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was there. I was there for your.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, absolutely. We would have parties. Yeah, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Essentially.

[Nick Rutherford]

It was kind of a perfect setup.

[Beck Bennett]

It really was.

[Kyle Mooney]

This was a theater that was truly, like, steps away from our house. Like, it was half a block.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. And we had, like. We had a house we could have parties at.

[Kyle Mooney]

And also, like, again, not to talk too much about the influence of alcohol on that time in our life or our friendship, but, like, we were an improv group. We liked to party.

[Nick Rutherford]

We liked to party. It was a big part of it.

[Kyle Mooney]

Not necessarily. I don't know that that's everybody who, like, kind of is into this stuff.

[Beck Bennett]

Into improv. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't think so. I think we were definitely the bad boys.

[Kyle Mooney]

We were bad boys.

[Nick Rutherford]

I think we like to think of ourselves. I have to imagine every other improv group in college is also, like, I chalk onto beer before the show.

[Kyle Mooney]

Right.

[Nick Rutherford]

But we were mainlining it.

[Kyle Mooney]

We were bad boys.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. We like to cause trouble. It like. It. It like excited us to. To cause trouble. Yeah, it makes sense.

[Nick Rutherford]

We all kind of gelled really well. And we really like drinking beer. We're doing jello shots.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

But we.

[Beck Bennett]

And if somebody. And if somebody was like, hey, quiet down. We were like, all right, let's get louder.

[Nick Rutherford]

All right.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

So we would.

[Kyle Mooney]

We would throw a big party before we would perform. The show was at like, probably nine or ten.

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, they were midnight shows.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, it was like, how many shows did we do? Was it like a month?

[Nick Rutherford]

It was like. Yeah, it was like a residency. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

We had a residence every Saturday night at like 12:30 or something.

[Kyle Mooney]

So we would probably, like, people probably come over at 8.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. We would have a party before for like four hours.

[Kyle Mooney]

And then we'd like march everybody to the house who were like our audience

[Nick Rutherford]

members to the theater and our closest friends and everybody's bliss, and then put

[Kyle Mooney]

on an improv show for them, which may have cost me money. It might have been like $5 or something.

[Beck Bennett]

And remember they, like, they like. At the. At the theater, they had like a little snack bin for us and stuff. I think we just like.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, it was like a gift basket.

[Kyle Mooney]

We did like, kind of like. Yeah, sort of. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Probably pretended heavy metal style, like kind

[Kyle Mooney]

of rock and roll. Like kind of Gene Simmons or something like that.

[Beck Bennett]

Like that granola bar.

[Nick Rutherford]

And then we pull like pocket beers out and just chug them.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. And then we did. I don't know which show was.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

So this is probably like the second or third in the run. Yeah, they had been, I guess, successful enough that we were still doing that.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, we were feeling good. Feeling too confident.

[Kyle Mooney]

I guess I was especially messed up, or maybe I was the normal amount that I always was. But like, this happened to be the

[Nick Rutherford]

day where maybe you weren't messed up enough. And that's what was off.

[Kyle Mooney]

I remember. So a scene. I want to say the initial one was like a game called maybe like something about how you enter and enter a game.

[Beck Bennett]

New entrance.

[Nick Rutherford]

You're losing them. Kyle.

[Kyle Mooney]

First line or one of the. I don't know, but it was like maybe it's new choice or something like that. But it's like. Like the suggestion was maybe do a dance to get into the scene. Or do the worm. Might have been the specific.

[Nick Rutherford]

I think it was worm related.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, well, that's what you did.

[Kyle Mooney]

So I did like, I entered the scene doing the worm and my Chin hit the stage floor, which was just cement. Yes. And immediately started profusely bleeding.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, it exploded.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. And I didn't really notice, I think, as it happened. So I was still like, sorry, Mom, I think that maybe I need more

[Nick Rutherford]

chips in the audience.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, no.

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, no, you. You kept going.

[Kyle Mooney]

You kept going. Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

Maybe Helea Debaros, I think, pulled you off stage.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

But didn't you do it again? Well, so, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

So then the scene ended and then, like, I got. I think I was like, taken off stage and I got band aids put on me or whatever. And then I was like, I'm good, I'm getting to get back in.

[Nick Rutherford]

There's literally a blood stain on the stage at this point.

[Kyle Mooney]

And then, like, so now we're in, like, the second half of the show. And then I enter, I play another game, and then I immediately fall on my chin.

[Beck Bennett]

But did you fall or did you, like, do the worm?

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't know exactly.

[Nick Rutherford]

I don't remember if it was the worm. I feel like we all had kind of like special moves or moves that we just relied on a lot. Like, I would used to take my pants down in a wiggle way. Like I would mime taking them down.

[Beck Bennett]

And you would, like, get killed.

[Nick Rutherford]

Well, yeah, but. And you used to just, like, you would do this thing where it felt like you had disjointed all of your bones.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes. And you would just clap.

[Kyle Mooney]

You.

[Beck Bennett]

You'd be like, ah.

[Nick Rutherford]

Like a marionette. Like if you just cut the strings on the marionette, you would just like.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

Collapse into yourself. And so you did that. Something like that again.

[Kyle Mooney]

And then it immediately. Yes.

[Nick Rutherford]

And then onto your chin.

[Kyle Mooney]

Broke. Whatever.

[Beck Bennett]

Broke it even further.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Because then you started really bleeding. And I remember it like. Like blood coming out of your chin.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm pretty sure Jess was the director.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

I remember he's like, see? Good night, everybody.

[Beck Bennett]

And then.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, that was one of the situations where I think Jess and his girlfriend at the time, like, drove me to the er.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. And waited in the ER with you all night.

[Kyle Mooney]

So up to, like, kind of put that on somebody.

[Nick Rutherford]

But also what I. Jess and Lizzy at the time, I mean, they still are great people, but that's a great thing to do.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Nick Rutherford]

And we went back to our house and just partied all night.

[Beck Bennett]

I'm sure I'll be fine. Yeah. What else can we do?

[Nick Rutherford]

And Jess had to be drunk too. Like, there's no way, right?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, I mean, maybe. Yeah, maybe it wasn't. I mean, we're looking back at college being like, yeah, I'm sure everybody was as drunk as us where everybody's like, no, man.

[Nick Rutherford]

No, no.

[Beck Bennett]

You guys were kind of special.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, everybody was drunk.

[Beck Bennett]

Everybody kind of drank, but not that much.

[Nick Rutherford]

We got master's degrees. Oh, you got a master's degree, didn't you?

[Beck Bennett]

No.

[Nick Rutherford]

You had a bfa.

[Beck Bennett]

Bfa, yeah. Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

Is that not a. No, it's not.

[Beck Bennett]

No. Masters is like a graduate Fine arts. Yeah, Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

I was looking up. I was trying to look up old shows we did and stuff and I found like one of the first Good Neighbor emails we had sent to each other that has early drafts of names and it has.

[Beck Bennett]

Really.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I will say the. The. The Edwood Film Festival is really fun. That was a big part of, I

[Nick Rutherford]

think, like, is that the 24 hour film festival?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, Yeah. I mean, like, not that there's too much to say about it, but like it kind of grew over time. But that was a really fun. I feel like it was like, because that. That's when we. I mean, it was with other people, but it's like when we started making videos together and.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. With like a timeline and like a goal in mind.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

I don't. Other than. What's the robot in your pocket one? I don't remember the other ones, but that was the one every year. I looked forward to so much.

[Kyle Mooney]

Rebel without a Bra.

[Beck Bennett]

Rebel without a Bra.

[Kyle Mooney]

What's.

[Nick Rutherford]

What's that in your pocket?

[Kyle Mooney]

What was the one that was like the submarine one?

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, that one was fun.

[Kyle Mooney]

And then there was one that was. And then there's a fourth one that you weren't in.

[Nick Rutherford]

I was in.

[Kyle Mooney]

You were in that. I feel like I remember Lowell played a part in shooting part of it and there were puppets in it.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

But I know that might have been. Let me smell my Candle.

[Beck Bennett]

I think it was. Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, I think so. Because then I came back from New York and you guys were. Yeah, that might smell like my candle was a big inside joke and I felt very.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. Which makes sense.

[Beck Bennett]

So that was our senior year.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

There was some scene where, like, Beck was voicing a puppet that was like some sort of like, oracle.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And he.

[Beck Bennett]

And he smells his candy by the

[Kyle Mooney]

candle and he's like, let me smell my candy. And it was just something we said over and over.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, exactly.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. And he smelled his candle and then, like had a. Like, this is what you must do. Right?

[Nick Rutherford]

They have to exist somewhere. I really.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. So this is. Is this A Good Neighbor thing.

[Nick Rutherford]

This is Good Neighbor. This is an email chain between Christopher Bennett, Kyle Mooney, Patrick wood and Dave McCary.

[Beck Bennett]

Patrick Wood was a friend of ours who we. We. He was our manager. He was our manager, which like is insane.

[Nick Rutherford]

And producer. And he lived on the floor of my bedroom. Yeah, yeah, eventually. But really great guy. No, he was a great guy. So this is Dave's top 10 names. His first choice was Good Neighbor. I'm guessing that's why we did it.

[Kyle Mooney]

So there's. So we've talked about. There is a pitch. These are him pitching them or these. These ideas have already been.

[Nick Rutherford]

I think they've pitched him. I think. Remember it was between Good Neighbor and Pizza Party for a minute.

[Beck Bennett]

Party.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. Wow.

[Beck Bennett]

So like pizza movie.

[Nick Rutherford]

So there. These are all kind of just a combination. I don't have the whole conversation in here because I think we just probably talked about in person. Good Neighbor, Good Neighbor, Pizza Party. Pizza Party. Best neighbor. Slee. Sleepy neighbor, Secret neighbor, no neighbor. America's next top neighbor. Disney, Google and Moon man. Which probably could have gotten us in a lot of trouble.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's one phrase.

[Nick Rutherford]

That's one Disney Google name. Yeah, Disney Google name.

[Kyle Mooney]

So it's the idea that you guys represent Disney and Google.

[Nick Rutherford]

I guess so I didn't understand that. When you're Moon Man, I guess am I Google or are you Google?

[Kyle Mooney]

And is it possible that's a bit.

[Nick Rutherford]

I think that might be a bit.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, it's a bit.

[Nick Rutherford]

But so I was going through this. Cause this is a long chain. We never really wrote new emails. And then Kyle, you had. We kind of go through videos that we hadn't released and I think some of these we have never released. But then Kyle, you kind of get into describing what we are. Wow. So you kind of described, hey, I watched 18 while Dave was asleep and I really like it. It's great to see all of our faces. And it's what I truly imagine Good Neighbor will be. It's just the three of us, like old times. We're kind of like the new Lonely island or Stella. We also have great looks. Ruthers is kind of the skeezy, cute faced Italian. I'm the guy with glasses. What's that?

[Kyle Mooney]

Do you have any Italian in you?

[Nick Rutherford]

I do, yeah. Okay. I'm like quarter Italian or maybe half Italian. I don't know. I'm the guy with glasses and Beck's the party animal jock.

[Beck Bennett]

Great.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. And then you wanted to do some Nintendo 64 stuff. I just want to. You always thought I was kind of a skeezy, cute faced Italian guy.

[Beck Bennett]

I think so.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

That's a nice. That's a compliment.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's not bad.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, it's sexy.

[Kyle Mooney]

What is your. How do you react to that?

[Beck Bennett]

Italian's very sexy.

[Nick Rutherford]

There's a few more emails and then I chime in and I just say, skeezy, cute face, Italian with a few exclamation points. And that killed the whole chain. We didn't respond.

[Beck Bennett]

Did I ever say anything?

[Nick Rutherford]

You probably did. I don't know how to. I think you were happy being the party boy.

[Kyle Mooney]

It is.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

It's so party animal jock.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

But also you're just. I want to know more about you. You're just the guy with glasses and long hair.

[Beck Bennett]

Curly long hair too.

[Kyle Mooney]

It is like a.

[Nick Rutherford]

It is like a trophy thing. Yeah, sure, sure.

[Kyle Mooney]

You're the ego and I want to say, like, we're not. We've never became anything like the Lonely island or Stella. That was very wishful thinking and.

[Beck Bennett]

But it did, it did help us get to where we are because you did. We were all watching Lonely island but you were like, oh, we could do what they're doing. Why don't we just do that?

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. You were like, why don't we put

[Beck Bennett]

videos up on YouTube?

[Nick Rutherford]

I never. You were like,

[Beck Bennett]

yeah, these guys suck. Let's do what they're doing.

[Kyle Mooney]

It is tough to like, because I have done some fishing of like old emails before and it's so hard. It is so cringy because like some of it is so sincere and it'll be like, you know, like kind of strategy for getting our videos seen more and it's.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Hey, guys, so we got to upload to Splink block, right?

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. Gruber Crackle. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

If you. As soon as our video goes up on Funny or Die, we need. We need six computers going voting. Funny. Like, we were like really trying to make it happen.

[Nick Rutherford]

It is very sincere. Like, and also like us talking about meeting and like I was just trying to find like old memories of it and just. It is like. And we were grinding. I have so many emails. I think we all emailed like hundreds of colleges and it's just like, hey, like California State University Northridge. We would love to perform. Like, we just cold emailed hundreds and hundreds of schools.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

To me that is. Yeah. I'm glad you brought that up because I've not thought about this in a minute. But yes, our very, the very first shows we did as Good Neighbor, we went to Austin, I believe outside of la.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And we did some sort of festival there. But then the next big one was this, like, east coast tour we manufactured that Patrick helped us out with as well. And we played this venue. Mo Pitkins. It was like.

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

In New York. It was like closing.

[Beck Bennett]

We were like one of the last upstairs Right.

[Kyle Mooney]

Performers ever do it. But, yeah, we tried to sort of build this college tour. And I forget. We ended up playing Alfred University.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

But there was one of the colleges

[Beck Bennett]

that first time we got picked dropped

[Kyle Mooney]

out like a week before.

[Beck Bennett]

I think it was Harvard.

[Nick Rutherford]

It was Harvard. It was either Harvard or Yale. It was like a Ivy League.

[Beck Bennett]

And I feel like it was like they had never actually committed, you know, it was like just through emails. And they were like. And we. We were. I think we were staying at my aunt's house. And we were like, trying to draft a response to be like, yes. All right.

[Kyle Mooney]

They essentially were like, hey, you know what? We forgot this is our homecoming weekend,

[Nick Rutherford]

so we can't do it. Yeah, we can't even. But they were flying us out and paying us. Like, they were the ones who. They were the big paycheck. I thought they were the ones that only. That made the whole tour make sense.

[Beck Bennett]

Right.

[Nick Rutherford]

I think they did end up paying us.

[Kyle Mooney]

That might have been. But there might have been another call. I think that maybe we got the deal out of Harvard, but there was another college that did us over. And I remember what happened was they're like, hey, turns out we can't do it, so sorry. And then I believe you were the brains behind the draft of the email back to them, which is like us trying to sound as professional.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, well, we've gotten us into a financial situation. We just.

[Nick Rutherford]

And like.

[Kyle Mooney]

And like a promise was made and. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You must retaliate with proper compensation. Yeah, right.

[Nick Rutherford]

Something you would just have, like, chat. GPT.

[Kyle Mooney]

And then they just immediately responded back with like, no, there wasn't a contract. We don't know he's Jack.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Good luck.

[Kyle Mooney]

Guys.

[Nick Rutherford]

Guys, I got it. Well, before put forward by this agreement.

[Beck Bennett]

Greetings.

[Nick Rutherford]

No, we didn't sign anything.

[Kyle Mooney]

So the other, of course, classic email was when after our sketch, unbelievable dinner. Which, by the way, I got a little something for us.

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, an unbelievable lunch.

[Kyle Mooney]

Keep talking.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yes. This was a big career high point.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

For all of us. And this lasted for years and years.

[Beck Bennett]

It still, still does.

[Nick Rutherford]

I found that email too, as I was scrolling around.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, here it is for the listeners. Kyle is behind the couch. He's putting on a T shirt. On top of the T shirt that he currently has on. Going down.

[Kyle Mooney]

This is the shirt.

[Nick Rutherford]

This is the Sade shirt.

[Beck Bennett]

Sade.

[Nick Rutherford]

Sade. What'd I say?

[Beck Bennett]

Sade.

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, that's how.

[Beck Bennett]

You know.

[Nick Rutherford]

That's how C likes it.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

S. This morning I was going to wear this. Today I've developed a little secret for sort of how to get wrinkles out of my clothes. That is.

[Nick Rutherford]

What do you do?

[Kyle Mooney]

I just. I spray the shirt.

[Beck Bennett]

Yep.

[Kyle Mooney]

A little water and then I throw it in the dryer.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, it's great. It's perfect.

[Kyle Mooney]

But I accidentally discovered a secret. Go ahead with me.

[Beck Bennett]

No, no, no.

[Kyle Mooney]

With me.

[Beck Bennett]

Today I figured out this way to

[Kyle Mooney]

clean my shirt and see what happens. Spoke with me today and see what I out.

[Beck Bennett]

No, man. No. We're not going to.

[Nick Rutherford]

Exciting. It's exciting when you discover everyday, normal things.

[Kyle Mooney]

No idea what's inside my basket.

[Beck Bennett]

I have another secret. It's like if you. If your clothes are dirty, you can put them in the.

[Nick Rutherford]

The basket.

[Beck Bennett]

No, you put them in the

[Nick Rutherford]

toilet.

[Beck Bennett]

No, no. What's the machine?

[Kyle Mooney]

Washer.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, the washer. You put soap in there and then when it's. When it's done and it's wet, you put it in the dryer and then it gets all dry.

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, okay. Don't get your backpack, man.

[Beck Bennett]

I'm sorry to be happy.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, no. It's like, not a secret. Other people know that shit. But it's like the way I do it is very specific and funny as I do.

[Beck Bennett]

I do feel like it's a hack to like, spray it anyway.

[Kyle Mooney]

I sprayed it with like, Lysol equivalent. I didn't. I grabbed the wrong bottle.

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, you sprayed it with like, bleach.

[Kyle Mooney]

With like. Yeah. Some sort of like, cleaning. Probably a fire hazard, but yeah, we. Unbelievable. Dinner was a sketch that we did where.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Did you already say this based on the scene from Hook where they.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. They have their, like, imaginary feast.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

They imagine food and then it comes. It becomes real to them.

[Beck Bennett]

And if they see it. Yes, yes.

[Nick Rutherford]

It's a lot of, like, scooping of like, blue color. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Like. Like rainbow goop or whatever. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And I. I will say to me, I think it's a pretty quintessential good neighbor sketch. I think, like, it sort of represents.

[Beck Bennett]

People don't talk about it enough. I don't think

[Kyle Mooney]

what our voice was when we were like, kind of all plain versions of ourselves, if that makes any sense.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. I feel like it's like nostalgia with surreal elements and like always some weird Twist.

[Kyle Mooney]

Some sort of fucked up thing that happens at the end.

[Nick Rutherford]

And, like, maybe a little violence.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. Yeah, yeah. But anyway, we. Yeah, we based it off hook and we used the John Williams score. And then we got this email from Samantha. That's right.

[Nick Rutherford]

From a woman named Samantha who said,

[Kyle Mooney]

you just read it.

[Nick Rutherford]

I know I just read it. She said.

[Kyle Mooney]

She said I have a note.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

She said the subject might have been note from Steven Spielberg. Is that possible?

[Nick Rutherford]

Maybe. Note from Steven. I think, yes. Like, note from Steven. Hey, like, hope I'm not disturbing you. I'm Steven Spielberg's assistant.

[Kyle Mooney]

And he just wanted to pass along.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, he wanted to pass along a note. And then in quotes, it was, my daughter Sasha and I watched your video. Unbelievable dinner.

[Kyle Mooney]

And we just howled with laughter.

[Nick Rutherford]

And we howled with laughter.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. And he said, keep making movies.

[Nick Rutherford]

Keep making fun. Yeah, keep making movies.

[Kyle Mooney]

And then this was another situation where it's like, okay, how do we got to.

[Nick Rutherford]

We put our best brains together.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, my God. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

For, like, I wanna say hours, if not two days, we were like, well, how do we respond?

[Beck Bennett]

This could be. This could be everything.

[Nick Rutherford]

This could be everything.

[Kyle Mooney]

And I wanna say it was one. It definitely wasn't me who came up with the bit of it all.

[Nick Rutherford]

We ultimately said, well, I think we had. We knew we wanted to be funny and not just like, we're not worthy. We're not worthy. So it was like, thank you so much. I just read this too. It was like, very sincere. It was like, thank you so much. That means a lot to us. Something to that effect. And then we said, we've been following your stuff too. Yeah, we think keep up the. It was something like, keep up the good work. You're. You're on. You're on the right track. Yeah, you're on the right track or something like that. This is after, like, Jurassic Park.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, well, that came out in, like, 1993.

[Nick Rutherford]

So it was definitely after that.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, so it was after Jurassic Park. It was after Jaws.

[Nick Rutherford]

This was before.

[Beck Bennett]

It was after Schindler's List.

[Kyle Mooney]

This was before.

[Nick Rutherford]

Or Guardians of the Galaxy.

[Kyle Mooney]

This was sort of like War of the Worlds.

[Nick Rutherford]

Right. So he was kind of on a down spin. He really was.

[Kyle Mooney]

You know what? Okay.

[Nick Rutherford]

But then. So we sent that and we were just like, oh. And then we said, also, we would love to get coffee or drinks.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

With you, Samantha and Steven. And then we never heard back ever again. We never heard back.

[Beck Bennett]

No. Said, of course.

[Nick Rutherford]

But then years and years and years later, I was at the Bar on. In Echo park, on Sunset.

[Kyle Mooney]

Draggers.

[Nick Rutherford]

Draggers was at Draggers before they changed by the new ownership and became Jaggers junior. So when they were Draggers Senior, I was back there and somebody was like, oh, you're from Good Neighbor. And I was like, yeah, yeah, what's up? And they were like, my best friend is Sasha Spielberg. And they sent her. And her dad sent you an email like, six years ago, and you never responded. And I was like, that is not true. We responded as quickly as we could with a really funny dig at Steven Spielberg. And he was like, she never got it. He never got it. And like, weeks later, apparently Spielberg, Steven himself was like, you know, cutting a steak and smoking a cigar and drinking cognac at family dinner. And he was like, this good neighbor guy's never reached back out to me. He was like, question why we never reached out. And then his conclusion was, they must have thought it was a joke. They must have thought somebody emailed them and said, hey, Steven said you're doing a good job. And so if he. I know he's a big fan of the. I know he's one of the true Roccos.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, he really is.

[Nick Rutherford]

So I guess this is a good time to tell him that we are interested in getting coffee.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, we would love to make the next Jurassic Park.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Like, Kyle could be one of the dinosaurs.

[Nick Rutherford]

Wait, Jurassic park is screaming for a sequel.

[Kyle Mooney]

What do you mean might be one of the dinosaurs, though? I'm like, sorry, I'm kind of caught up in that.

[Nick Rutherford]

Well, I just think that you'd be a smart dinosaur.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. With glasses and long hair. It's kind of like, you know, because so far the dinosaurs have been, like, really ferocious. But can you imagine Kyle's like, hey, yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, like Grogu. Like a baby Yoda. You could be like, whoa, they made

[Beck Bennett]

a different kind of dinosaur.

[Nick Rutherford]

And he's like, yeah, what do I do with these?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, I don't.

[Kyle Mooney]

I can see it.

[Beck Bennett]

He's just like, interesting idea. He's just all over the place and he's just.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, you just it everywhere.

[Beck Bennett]

He's having. Trying to hump everything.

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, he's a horny little cute dinosaur.

[Kyle Mooney]

I mean, I do it if. If. If it's. If it's what the group wants to do. I know we've not done a lot of together recently, but if you want me to play the nerdy night. Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, we would love to.

[Nick Rutherford]

That'd be great. And you could be kind of be the Pratt role.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah, that'd Be great. Yeah, I would love that. And you could kind of be like the Goldblum.

[Nick Rutherford]

Goldblum?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Is that his name?

[Beck Bennett]

Jeff Goldblum?

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

You know what story I was thinking?

[Nick Rutherford]

Dr. Ian Malcolm.

[Beck Bennett]

Dr. Ian Malcolm.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. No, go ahead, Kyle. Okay, this is another, like, Dr. Ellie Sattler.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, yeah, yeah, sure. I didn't name another one.

[Nick Rutherford]

Muldoon.

[Beck Bennett]

Nice.

[Nick Rutherford]

The hunter guy.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, wow. You know all their names, do you?

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, this is.

[Beck Bennett]

This is.

[Kyle Mooney]

This might be Pablo.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

When we were. When you and I were in Mexico.

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, well, yeah. To me, you must have been in, like, Ireland or something, because this was a spring break.

[Beck Bennett]

I was studying abroad, studying Shakespeare in London.

[Nick Rutherford]

You weren't there.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

I mean, you have. You have your own incredible Mexico story. So what? So I'm gonna tell the story.

[Nick Rutherford]

Okay. Yeah, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

So we went to. I don't know, were we at Puerto Vallarta?

[Nick Rutherford]

Where were we?

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't remember, but, like, sort of like a cheap spring break.

[Nick Rutherford]

Spring break destination. Yeah, yeah. It wasn't like Cabo or any. It was like somebody on the campus walked by and said, here's 80 bucks for, like, a week of a hotel room. It was like a.

[Beck Bennett]

That's what it was our freshman year, too.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And Nick and I decided, like, there was, like, one main discotheque, one main club that we would, like, go to every night and dance at. And Nick and I were like, we should try to get some drugs.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, we need drugs. We can dance, dancing, drugs.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, sure.

[Kyle Mooney]

But, like, I don't know how we devise this plan, but it's like, like, let's get in a cab and then, like, ask the cab driver.

[Nick Rutherford]

I think somebody told us, like, just go. Any cab driver knows. So you just have to get in a cab and then talk to them.

[Kyle Mooney]

Right?

[Nick Rutherford]

I think.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

So we did.

[Beck Bennett]

Sounds good.

[Nick Rutherford]

Sounds very sad.

[Kyle Mooney]

And, like, I feel like you probably spoke in, like, broken Spanish and was like, hey, we're trying to get some drugs. And the cab driver's like, I got you.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And just took us to the front of, like, a random apartment building. He. He ran into the apartment.

[Beck Bennett]

I don't know if I know this story.

[Kyle Mooney]

And then just like, we were just sort of sitting in the back of the cab for, like, nine minutes.

[Nick Rutherford]

Really stupid.

[Beck Bennett]

So sketchy. So sketchy now.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, we just kind of were like.

[Kyle Mooney]

And then he came back. And then here's the part where I'm, like, trying to figure out what was happening, because we didn't.

[Nick Rutherford]

We.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't know. If we got dropped off back at the club or if we decided to

[Nick Rutherford]

get dropped off in the parking lot. Like that dirt parking lot.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, because we were in like, sort of vacant lot.

[Nick Rutherford]

The. The club, I remember, had like, it was like half constructed building and like the bathroom itself, it had all of the stalls for pooping. The.

[Beck Bennett]

For pooping.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. Like, it would cut off here. There was no privacy in the stalls. It was like. Do you remember? It was just like, not. I think that's probably why we were like, let's just go.

[Kyle Mooney]

Let's just go into like a truly. Just open area of like dirt.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. Like a festival park. Like fairground parking lot that was empty.

[Kyle Mooney]

And then immediately here, like, policia.

[Beck Bennett]

Like.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, immediately flashlights are being pointed at

[Nick Rutherford]

us and we're like, surrounded by like four people.

[Beck Bennett]

Really?

[Kyle Mooney]

Nick immediately throws. And it's dark. So, like, it feels like it could be.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, it feels like we're good. And then I think immediately I was like, should we start making out? Like, I was thinking like, should we just be like, oh, we're out here because we're gay. And we. But we didn't.

[Beck Bennett]

Wow.

[Kyle Mooney]

And one of the officers immediately finds out.

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, immediately we're like, whoa, whoa, no problem. And he just like laser beams it

[Kyle Mooney]

and picks them up. He's like, drogas, drogas, drogas. And we were like, oh, shit, what do we do? What do we do? What do we do?

[Nick Rutherford]

I was, I. I was running through like calling my mom from like a prison in Mexico. And like. And it would been a good trip up to that point. I was just like, it's over. It's over. Like, I gotta admit that, like, do stupid things. And then.

[Kyle Mooney]

And I'm in prison.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, I'm in prison. And I guess you gotta come down here or I'm de dead. And then you swooped in. You immediately became fluent in Spanish. It felt like. I don't know what you said, but

[Kyle Mooney]

you probably like tango de niro.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. Yeah, I think so. And. And that like, stopped it.

[Kyle Mooney]

But I had like. I think I had like, maybe maximum $30, but probably more like $15.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, I don't think I had anything.

[Kyle Mooney]

And I took out the cash and I gave it to them. And they're like, like, okay.

[Beck Bennett]

Wow. Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

And then they left. And we like, just stood in this dark parking lot. Just like.

[Kyle Mooney]

And then we like, we gotta go get some drugs.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. And then we got back in the cab.

[Beck Bennett]

Did you get back in the cab?

[Nick Rutherford]

No, no, no. We were back in. And I Remember, like, it was like, Dave and Eddie, and, like, this was, like, two improv groups we're hanging out. And so we, like, went back into all of our friends who had no idea that any of this thing had just.

[Kyle Mooney]

But it was, like, so. It truly was so scary. Like, this is the end of my life. This is like, yeah, everybody. Yeah. You have to let your parents know the truth.

[Beck Bennett]

And, like, something's gonna happen to me that I can never change. It'll be with me forever.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. Yeah. It's just a shame of it. And then now, and it's like, where's Billy now, huh? That was Nick.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Yeah. That was Nick.

[Nick Rutherford]

That was Billy.

[Beck Bennett]

Can't get you out of this.

[Kyle Mooney]

You had your own Mexico story.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. I mean, I flipped an atv.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

Okay. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And that's.

[Nick Rutherford]

Some stories can be long and detailed,

[Beck Bennett]

and some stories can just. We were in Mexico, we took ATVs out, and we, like, brought them back. And we're like. They're like, you can do another 15 minutes. It was, like, sunset. It was starting to get D. And I, like, went off a mound and landed, like, went flying off of it. Landed on my face and my neck. My body went up. My legs went back down. Like. Like, it looked like I broke my neck.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, we saw it.

[Beck Bennett]

I was fully unconscious.

[Nick Rutherford]

You, like, speared off an ATV just, like, an arrow, and then just straight head into another, like, dune.

[Beck Bennett]

And you were. I was. You were there.

[Nick Rutherford]

It was me and Nick.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. You went to go get. You were holding me.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

In your arms for, like, 10 minutes. 15 minutes.

[Nick Rutherford]

I don't know. I have no idea. But it had to be long enough for Nick, our other buddy, who I was like, go get help. And he, like, started running, and I was like, no, take the atv. And then he got his ATV and drove back into town.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

Until truly, like, a Ghostbusters era ambulance. Like, the ones with the cool wings. Like, you know, the Ghost Mobile. Like, we didn't have the Ghostbusters. Bankman.

[Kyle Mooney]

Slimer.

[Nick Rutherford]

Slimer. Janine.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

Spiegel.

[Beck Bennett]

But they picked me up, took me to a Red Cross, and they strapped me onto a gurney or whatever.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. But during those 15 minutes before we get to the Red Cross, however long that was, it had to be 10 minutes or longer. I truly cradled you, and you were unconscious. Your face was bleeding. You had, like, sand embedded into your whole face, and you were, like, death rattle breathing, like. And I said the most sincere prayer I've ever said. Like, truly, just. And I. Cause I'd Met your parents not too long ago. And I was like, I'm gonna have to, like, tell them that their son died in my fucking arms. And it was terrifying. And then, like, Nick. Nick Clark rolled back in on the atv, and then that ambulance pulled up, and, like, moments before, you started, like, kind of moving, and they put you on a gurney and took you to, like, a little clinic, which then you started being funny again.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, and then I was like, yeah, we had a video camera. I was like, record it. Record it. And I got a shot in my butt. And they were like. I was like, my butt?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. They, like. I was like.

[Beck Bennett]

I, like, had to get. Yeah. To get on my stomach. And they had, like.

[Kyle Mooney]

The video camera was set up so that it was, like, basically, like, you belly down with your.

[Beck Bennett]

Like. You see my butt cheek behind me,

[Nick Rutherford]

like, the two dunes of his butt cheeks. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

He's like, okay, you ready? Don't move. Stay still, stay still. I popped it out. I just went,

[Nick Rutherford]

no. Then you said you went, no me gusta.

[Beck Bennett]

No me gusta.

[Kyle Mooney]

And Eddie Quintana compiled this footage. It was kind of crazy because so much of it was documented, like, seemingly, like, you see, there was footage of you guys having fun with the ATVs, and then there is.

[Nick Rutherford]

And it's died out, and it's getting darker and darker, truly.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. I think moments of this thing that you're talking about, of you cradling him. I feel like you do hear some of that dialogue or something. Maybe I'm fully.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, that might be. But.

[Kyle Mooney]

But, like. But then all set to, like, Bob O'Reilly by the who. Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

And then he played it at, like, a party, like, months later, and it truly felt like a memorial video.

[Beck Bennett]

Like, yeah, yeah, but I survived. It is.

[Nick Rutherford]

And then you investigate. They treated you for free, which is very nice, but they did not know that your arm was broken.

[Beck Bennett]

Right. And I didn't do an X ray.

[Nick Rutherford]

You got back.

[Beck Bennett]

But I got broke. And I was like. Like, I looked like Tom Cruise from Vanilla Scott.

[Nick Rutherford]

You did, like.

[Beck Bennett]

And I, like, couldn't. Like, I bit your shot of my mouth, and I, like, heard to talk like that. And, like, my whole face was, like. Sort of, like, Looked like it was burnt.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Because all my acting teachers were like, oh, no, this is gonna be. Is this gonna be permanent? Is your career over? And then, like, a couple days later, I was like, my arm hurts, and it was broken. I had to go get a cast. And so, like, the end of my freshman year, after spring break, I had. I ended up like, buzzing my head too, or something.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And. And I had, like, this cut all along my face with, like, a pussy, like, corner of my mouth that was like, all cut and a. And a cast on my arm, and it was just like a mangled spring break.

[Nick Rutherford]

I kind of think Cass looked cool.

[Kyle Mooney]

It was sexy. That was.

[Nick Rutherford]

You've always been a tank top. You just, like, kind of always had.

[Kyle Mooney]

I can, like, see. I can, like, see images of it.

[Beck Bennett]

Those photos. I look back, I'm like, oh, God, yeah. Ever again.

[Nick Rutherford]

I don't know. I agree. It's something cool about it.

[Kyle Mooney]

It is. I mean, like, I'm saying, maybe the obvious, but, like, we've been through some serious battles together.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Like, we've been on the ground.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

We've.

[Kyle Mooney]

We've been in the trenches.

[Beck Bennett]

In the party trenches, truly.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

In the rascal party. Because that's all we've talked about. Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. But also, I mean, it is.

[Beck Bennett]

It is like, you know, that's that time in our life.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. Really true.

[Beck Bennett]

But.

[Nick Rutherford]

But I think, like, our little tour, like, our tours and figuring out each venue and, like, running around trying to get an adapter for some MacBook or whatever. Like.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Being in a. Being in a new city and being like, oh, we need a lion Costum.

[Nick Rutherford]

Like, we need a wheelchair.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

And. No, go ahead.

[Kyle Mooney]

I tell the story all the time of, like, you. I remember you always being the guy. In my recollection, when we would get to a venue, you would have the tech book. You'd have a book with, like, all of our sketches with the cues on it. Like, lights up here, lights down here. That was always you talking to the tech person, the tech director. And one time I just have the. Sorry, this might not be an incredible story, but one time I had to do it at ucb. Like, you guys were picking up costumes or whatever. Like, I was the first person there, so I had to go over the tech. And, like, I was nervous. I'm not good at that sort of thing.

[Nick Rutherford]

Talking to people, related to people.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm talking to a person who is a man who is my age or maybe even younger, and I'm like, so, yeah, after the first sketch, the lights go down, and then we'll do the first video. After that video, lights back up, and then we'll. We'll start the doctor sketch and he's like. And like, whatever. This guy who is truly like, just taking UCB classes, like any of us or whatever is like, relax, man. It's going to be okay. I Hate it.

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, I. Yeah. I think you've told that story for years.

[Kyle Mooney]

Usually it's with the guy's name attached because like it's indicative of a person. I think that is. Some people have feelings on and like.

[Nick Rutherford]

But also that it's like, no, I'm going to be nervous about my show

[Kyle Mooney]

and I don't know.

[Nick Rutherford]

Right. So like I'm talking a little more amp than you, mister. Relax, man.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

Is this a good time to take a little pee?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, let's go.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. We're back. We took. We took a bathroom break. You know what I was thinking of in the bathroom break? What do you think about that email you. You shared, Nick, that I wrote about how whatever like our types. What did I say? Like we really have it. We got. We're like the next Lonely island or Stella, which I actually. That makes me want to.

[Nick Rutherford]

That makes you do bad things.

[Kyle Mooney]

Like it really hurts my feelings.

[Beck Bennett]

You were so much younger. You were like making an observation. You were like, this is. I have something to say.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's. It's like egocentric. It's like. I don't know, it's.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, we're. We're these guys. Yeah. Yeah. But it's.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't. And I. Because I have so much respect for them. Like it just is gross sounding to me.

[Nick Rutherford]

I read it as like it's reverent and it's like this is who. Where we're aiming for. Not like we can finally bury those guys.

[Kyle Mooney]

But it's funny that it's like coming off of me talking about the video 18 or I call year 18, which is like one of our. Which I remember being a very like Lonely island inspired video. Even though it doesn't. There's no rap in it, but it is like high energy, sort of like a dance. Like. Yeah, like it's like a lot of.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's like a music. Music video ass.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, sure.

[Kyle Mooney]

But the whole bit is just us. We've turned 18 and we're like smoking cigarettes and buying porn essentially.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. And like buying lottery tickets.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

But it's like such a non scam. There's like really one of our worst things.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, it's. It's not great.

[Nick Rutherford]

We were riding high I think at that time. Because also there's another email where I send and I'm like, guys, I just checked the Chinese calendar and 2008 is the year of good neighbor.

[Kyle Mooney]

That might be true. That might have been true actually.

[Beck Bennett]

That could have been true.

[Nick Rutherford]

And then we were really Amped about doing the diesel clean. The clean diesel bus.

[Beck Bennett]

That's right. The converting an engine to biodiesel, corn oil or something, which is, like, why

[Nick Rutherford]

I care about the environment.

[Kyle Mooney]

That was the initial concept for Good Neighborhood was because Nick had moved to New York. Yeah. We were seen. Beck and I were seniors. Nick had already graduated.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And I think we felt like we had such a good thing performing improv and sketch together in college. Like, it was sort of, forgive me, but undeniable that, like, there was a good rapport there. And I feel like when people came to see our shows, like, you were interested in, like, us interacting.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. We got along really well and we all played off each other really well. And we also had, you know, we were in a great group with a bunch of great people. Shout out to all those wonderful people.

[Kyle Mooney]

But the fact that we came up together, I think.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

We were the same class.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

And we were probably living together by that point. Well, maybe not you, but we were all.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, I wasn't. Yeah. But it was kind of more of an actor.

[Nick Rutherford]

You were more of an actor. More of an actor.

[Beck Bennett]

I did take a year off of improv and sketch because I went to study in London, and then when I came back, I was doing Threepenny Opera.

[Nick Rutherford]

This is when I was gone, I think.

[Beck Bennett]

No, but. But I'm just saying. Well, okay. Yeah, anyway.

[Nick Rutherford]

But anyway, yeah, you. You got serious. You took the serious route.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes, but, like, but you. When you were there, you were living with them. Yeah, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And I feel like even when you'd visit la, I'd probably stay with you guys. But. Yeah, so this is Spring of 2007, was our last semester. And it was an era when there were these. There was the Lonely island had been. Had just gotten on snl. They. And like, we had seen them sort of go from people on the Internet, like, making videos for channel 101 to being on Saturday Night Live. And we had seen there was Human Giant. They were people who made sketches for, like, UCB and now had their own. Own TV show. And, like, Tim and Eric seemed similar where, like, they were kind of making videos on their own and now had, like, a sketch show on Adult Swim. And it felt like there. It was an era where it's like, oh, maybe there is something that. And combined with the fact that it was the beginning of YouTube. Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

Every. Like, everybody had a platform at that point.

[Kyle Mooney]

Point. And.

[Nick Rutherford]

And there was precedent of, like.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And it was early enough where you could actually, like, pop from it or like, you know, you could. We were doing something unique, but it still had a track record of working. And, like, there were all these channels.

[Nick Rutherford]

There was still, like, a little bit of a burden to, like, even enter the game because you didn't have, like, an iPhone that you could shoot and edit a sketch on.

[Beck Bennett]

Right.

[Nick Rutherford]

We had to get a camera. We had to have your dad buy us a camera, right?

[Beck Bennett]

Yes.

[Nick Rutherford]

And once we had that, I mean, I guess we could probably. No, I don't think we had phones that you could film, like, any sort of decent video on.

[Beck Bennett]

I don't think so.

[Nick Rutherford]

I think the iPhone had, like, came

[Kyle Mooney]

out a year before, but the idea was not. We kind of. It took us a second to get to the idea of, like, just, like, we should just make videos first. The idea was like, let's start.

[Nick Rutherford]

Let's tour the country in a converted school bus collecting spent oil from, like, Chinese restaurants to fuel it.

[Kyle Mooney]

And I feel like there's also a component of, like, hey, we'll travel with Ben. Bands.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, we'll have bands.

[Beck Bennett]

It'll be a whole thing. It'll be, like a whole culture.

[Kyle Mooney]

But then I.

[Nick Rutherford]

We're gonna live in the. We're gonna live in the bus.

[Kyle Mooney]

And we did. We did meet with my father and

[Beck Bennett]

we pitched him this idea.

[Kyle Mooney]

Right. Because he was. He. He expressed to me. He's like, you know, I feel like he. You know, he was a fan. My father has always been incredibly supportive, and he was a fan of our work, and he watched all of us, you know.

[Nick Rutherford]

All right.

[Kyle Mooney]

And he was like. Like, you know, Kyle, I think you guys might have something here. And. And then he's like, I want to meet with you guys and, like, talk about potentially investing in the group.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. He was staying at a hotel in la. He was in town for work. Yeah, I believe. And he had, like, this nice suite or something. And we met him at the bar, and we, like, went up to his room. Yeah. And we, like, sat down. Like, the room had, like a. A. Like a big table that we could all sit at. And we pitched him the idea. And he was like, I gotta tell you, that's not. That's not a way to make money.

[Kyle Mooney]

He said, I gotta tell you, I actually spoke to my accountant. He said, it's a very bad idea.

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh.

[Nick Rutherford]

He took himself out of it.

[Beck Bennett]

That's himself out of it. And we were like, oh, okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

But you're right, he did. He did get us our camera. The Panasonic DVX100B, I believe.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

Which Dave Sort of became the master of.

[Beck Bennett]

That's what I was.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. I mean, that we researched so much scammers, and Dave did become the master of that.

[Beck Bennett]

Dave. Dave. Our fourth member.

[Nick Rutherford]

Dave McCarry. Yeah. And he.

[Beck Bennett]

Or fifth or third member. Second member, you could say. I say fourth because we're all on camera.

[Nick Rutherford]

What's. What would the second member be?

[Beck Bennett]

I. I was kidding. Like, fourth makes it sound like he was like.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, he actually would be second alphabetically.

[Beck Bennett]

Second alphabetically.

[Nick Rutherford]

Right.

[Beck Bennett]

Fourth as far as on camera time.

[Kyle Mooney]

But we do. We do need to give our. Our. Our props and our due that, like, so he was not only the filmmaker, but also conceptualizing and I think, like, like, heavy in, like, kind of the. What became the brand of Wet art.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

I think, like, to help, like, definitely help define the style, the voice of everything. I mean, he edited everything. Yeah. He shot everything. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And that was like. I think when we made the conversion to, like, oh, we should just do sketch. Like, do live show first. It was like, we want to do live shows and we're making videos. We. We always did live shows, but pretty soon it felt like it was more on. Okay. There's interest in the video, so we sort of have made that the felt. But Dave was already making videos with versions of the group and us, not only at the, like, Edwood Film Festival, but also, like, we would do sketch. Like, I'm thinking of, like, my best friend, which used to be called Arrival.

[Beck Bennett]

Arrival.

[Nick Rutherford]

Right.

[Kyle Mooney]

Which is a sketch where I basically keep on walking in on Nick having sex with my girlfriend. And then he sort of magically is constantly. Right.

[Nick Rutherford]

I'm always back in there.

[Kyle Mooney]

But, like, the. That was.

[Nick Rutherford]

We didn't shoot that for Good Neighbor.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, it was not. Definitely not.

[Nick Rutherford]

It was just like, let's just shoot a sketch.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. With no place. No. I sense of, like, where this is going to live.

[Nick Rutherford]

Like, a lot of these emails are like, here's the sketches we have. How should we release them? So we just started, like, building up a library.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. We committed to this idea of forming a sketch group. We had a website, goodneighborstuff.com people assumed that our name, and we stamped that on every video we made. Goodneighborstef.com People assumed our name was goodneighborstef

[Beck Bennett]

stuff, which makes sense.

[Nick Rutherford]

Makes sense.

[Beck Bennett]

But our name was Good Neighbor.

[Nick Rutherford]

But to finally put it to bed, it was we are Good Neighbor. And that was where we keep our stuff.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

But we thought that was obvious.

[Beck Bennett]

Kyle and I have talked about this,

[Kyle Mooney]

but people, we told it Britannic because they, they get confused as Britannic or Britannic Britain.

[Nick Rutherford]

Nick.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, like, I, I, I'm like, Good Neighbor Stuff is our name too.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Because, like, the most of our fans think our name is Good Neighbor Stuff.

[Nick Rutherford]

So somebody once, like, hit us up and was like, oh, you guys should. I'm your biggest fan. I, I've known, I've told everybody about you. I've known you guys since day one. You guys, you guys absolutely should make a good Neighborhood Stuff T shirt.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

I was like, we're doing something wrong.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's probably an email that exists.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, I'm sure.

[Kyle Mooney]

But I feel like, okay, we've got. There truly is so much to cover.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And by the way, this has been a true delight and it's been fun reliving all these memories.

[Beck Bennett]

It's so fun. But yeah, we could do. We might have to have you, I don't know, back in to cover everything.

[Nick Rutherford]

Well, I guess. Let me check my schedule. Yeah, I guess I could do that.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, we'll just, we'll punt it. We'll just check in in a couple months.

[Kyle Mooney]

Can we leave? Can we leave the. Sorry, cut you off. Can we leave this section with May? We've said this before. Can you tell the Good Neighbor name story?

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, sure. Yeah. It was our senior year. I was not living with you guys. I was living, like, down the street at usc. Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

By that big brick building.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes, Right next to it by Pete's Burgers on 23rd Street.

[Kyle Mooney]

You always get the gyro meal there.

[Beck Bennett]

Hell, yes.

[Nick Rutherford]

I like that little Italian place that was around the corner.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah, I know what you're talking about. That was a cute little spot.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't remember the Italian.

[Beck Bennett]

They did little paninis.

[Nick Rutherford]

They had little paninis and they had. Oh, the coffee.

[Kyle Mooney]

It was like a coffee shop.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, coffee shop. We played a lot of dominoes there.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

But we had sort of had a

[Kyle Mooney]

missed connection at that coffee shop. We. By the way, the next time you come back. Sorry to interrupt you, but yeah, we should do, like, all the rating. Bastango. Pastoroma. Just go through all.

[Nick Rutherford]

We should do just all the restaurants, all the spots.

[Beck Bennett]

Bgo. It changed to B.

[Nick Rutherford]

Is it Bistango or Bistango.

[Beck Bennett]

It was B.

[Kyle Mooney]

It started at V or B, which

[Beck Bennett]

I think it started at V and

[Nick Rutherford]

then they made it. They changed it to Bistango. Why?

[Beck Bennett]

Doesn't sound like what happened.

[Kyle Mooney]

And like the 9.

[Nick Rutherford]

0.

[Kyle Mooney]

We haven't gotten into anywhere.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. 32nd Street Market. It.

[Beck Bennett]

Hell yeah, dude.

[Kyle Mooney]

24th Street Cafe. Okay, sorry, sorry.

[Nick Rutherford]

24th Street Cafe was Felix Autos.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, that was a big thing.

[Kyle Mooney]

Which market did you say?

[Beck Bennett]

2434th Street.

[Nick Rutherford]

32nd.

[Kyle Mooney]

32nd Street.

[Nick Rutherford]

Whatever. Is now, like a really island. Remember that place in the. Yes. In the food court? Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

You didn't like it?

[Beck Bennett]

No, no.

[Kyle Mooney]

What about the Mongolian barbecue?

[Nick Rutherford]

Mongolian barbecue place?

[Kyle Mooney]

That was incredible.

[Beck Bennett]

That was awesome.

[Nick Rutherford]

I'd go to the lion center and get my.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, at the little food court, too.

[Nick Rutherford]

That was my first experience with a place that had, like a boba place that had the lid sealer, you know, instead of a lid, you know, like, melt it to it, and then you stick the.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, I remember Nick giving me this sort of, like, heads up, like, for the Mongolian barbecue place. Like, whatever you do, don't. Don't put the noodles in there, because they'll cook the noodles as the base rather than rice. If you just don't. If you don't put any base in there, they end up adding the rice after the fact. So you just put all your veggies and meat in there. You pile it on the bowl as much as possible, and then they're gonna throw some rice in there, but immediately you put noodles in it.

[Nick Rutherford]

You're wasting space.

[Beck Bennett]

Noodling out, but yeah. The good neighbor name. We had a party at our house, and the next morning I woke up to somebody knocking at our door. Went downstairs, answered it, and it was a little lady. Old lady, like, white, curly hair, glasses, about, I don't know, 4 foot 8.

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, I think I say about 40.

[Beck Bennett]

About 40. And she had cigarette butts in her hand. And she was like,

[Kyle Mooney]

you had a

[Beck Bennett]

party last night and people threw cigarette butts into my yard? And I was like, oh, you're, like, fully hungover. She was like, I have a. I have a little dog. And he's very curious.

[Nick Rutherford]

That's right. Yeah, very curious.

[Beck Bennett]

And he could have gone over to see what the cigarette butts were, got lit on fire, and come back in my house.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And burned my whole house down.

[Kyle Mooney]

Like, a very specific narrative.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. Could happen.

[Beck Bennett]

And I was like, I am. I cannot believe that that happened. That makes perfect sense. I. That could easily happen. And I'm. I'm so sorry. I can't believe people threw. I. It's awful that people threw cigarette butts into your yard. I'm so sorry. If we ever have people over again, I will.

[Nick Rutherford]

Which I can't imagine after this.

[Beck Bennett]

No, I'll put Up a sign. Please don't throw cigarette butts into the neighbor's yard. That's so inappropriate. I'm sorry. And she went,

[Kyle Mooney]

Good neighbor,

[Beck Bennett]

good neighbor. And she just walked away. And I never saw her again. And that was it.

[Kyle Mooney]

Another one of those things. Yeah. I feel like I remember us just you telling me that story or telling us that story. And like, it's sticking with me just hearing, good neighbor, good neighbor, good neighbor, good neighbor.

[Beck Bennett]

That lady gave us. Gave us our name. She was a little. Little oracle.

[Nick Rutherford]

She was your neighbor, right?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, she was my neighbor.

[Nick Rutherford]

You were the good neighbor.

[Beck Bennett]

And I. If I was the good neighbor.

[Kyle Mooney]

If you go back, she actually was. Never even know.

[Nick Rutherford]

She never even existed.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, let me smell my cander.

[Kyle Mooney]

Let me smell my candy.

[Beck Bennett]

We could talk forever. We've already talked.

[Kyle Mooney]

So we'll bring you back. We'll go. We'll go over all this.

[Nick Rutherford]

Just do it again.

[Kyle Mooney]

Wear different outfits.

[Nick Rutherford]

We'll hit the sc. The USC food spots.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, we'll hit all the food spots.

[Nick Rutherford]

Got a lot of talk that we crashed. We could talk about girlfriends. We've had lots of girlfriends. We've had. We've shared girlfriend.

[Kyle Mooney]

It was on the list that I didn't. We didn't get to.

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, yeah. Just as a teaser. Oh, I have a little list, too.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, this was cute. This is, like, not even much of a story, but I feel like you and I riding a bike together. Not. I'm not going to say anything more.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, my God. I was riding mopeds.

[Kyle Mooney]

I just. You talking about. We sort of hit this. Like, you throwing knives. You and Nick Clark were really into destructive stuff, stealing food. We didn't really get into much of, like, kind of the salad days of it all, dude. I mean, like, when we even at ufc, we had, like. We were sort of like, kind of always trying. Trying to get food, I feel like.

[Beck Bennett]

But even after Parkside, bringing Tupperware to Parkside and like.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yes. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

In the good neighbor era, I feel like I've. There were, like, a lot of hacks to get to eat.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. A lot of it was around the.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Girlfriends.

[Nick Rutherford]

I have Mongolian barbecue.

[Kyle Mooney]

I did write down racial slur audition, which is something we talked about the other day. One of our.

[Nick Rutherford]

Somebody auditioning for none of us.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

New York City kids.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, my God. The New York City kids.

[Nick Rutherford]

About the New York City kids.

[Kyle Mooney]

Austin. The Austin trip. The initial Austin festival. Like, there was some there.

[Nick Rutherford]

There was that Austin festival when. No. What was it?

[Beck Bennett]

It was like the Austin Comedy Festival.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't Know what it's called?

[Nick Rutherford]

Really?

[Beck Bennett]

It wasn't Moon Tower Southwest. They invited us to do one more show, and we were like, oh, my God. Well, yeah, we'll stay here for a week and do a half an hour show in a week. That's huge.

[Kyle Mooney]

I remember we got like.

[Nick Rutherford]

Did we stay there for a week?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

And that's when we live with Jack.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

What a day.

[Beck Bennett]

Two weeks.

[Nick Rutherford]

Just, like, we all lived on, like. Like, kind of. I call them my grandma couches. They're all connected and they all recline.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, right.

[Nick Rutherford]

And, like, three of us slept on just a couch. Just, like, reclined like space captains.

[Kyle Mooney]

Do you remember the, like. Like, there was, like, a Coyote Ugly moment.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, you did a body shot. That tribe that on camera, too.

[Nick Rutherford]

That's when I got turned on to Drafth House. Alamo Draft House.

[Kyle Mooney]

We went to see King of Kong.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. That was amazing. Got to eat, like, chicken tenders and drink beers while that.

[Kyle Mooney]

The first time I had fried pickles.

[Nick Rutherford]

I remember that.

[Kyle Mooney]

Sure.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, we have to talk about.

[Kyle Mooney]

So we don't have time to talk about podcast is. We do not know what our podcast should be. Nick, do you have a sense of. Do you have an idea or.

[Nick Rutherford]

I've been thinking about this a lot, and I'm kind of settled on three ideas. I think they're all pretty good. So we. I think, you know, I'll just pitch them to you. I think all of them could work. So one first idea is we could do a podcast about beer.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, we like beer. We take. Or we could do a podcast about good neighborhood, which we kind of did.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

Or we could do a podcast about betrayal.

[Beck Bennett]

Now, the Good Neighbor podcast, it wouldn't necessarily be talking about Good Neighbor. Like, it wouldn't necessarily be talking about our history.

[Nick Rutherford]

No, it'd be talking about different neighbors we've had and how we've felt about them. Actually, that's not a terrible podcast, but

[Kyle Mooney]

Good Neighbor, Bad Neighbor, like, kind of like what makes a good Neighbor. Yeah, but you were thinking actually, like, history of Good Neighbor.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, but we did. We kind of did it.

[Kyle Mooney]

We also, like, dissect a sketch.

[Beck Bennett]

I mean, or we could go into the specific. We've kind of gotten. We've mainly gotten into pre Good Neighbor and the beginning of it.

[Nick Rutherford]

Right.

[Beck Bennett]

We could either go into that now and make that the podcast, or we could do.

[Nick Rutherford]

I thought you guys would be really interested in the beer podcast.

[Kyle Mooney]

I like beer.

[Beck Bennett]

I like beer, too. But we've also kind of already done the beer podcast in A way, because we told so many, like, parties.

[Nick Rutherford]

What's kaguama cerveza?

[Kyle Mooney]

That's what they sold at the 32nd.

[Nick Rutherford]

That was the cheapest beer.

[Kyle Mooney]

And that's what. What's his. Gunner drank.

[Nick Rutherford]

Gunner. I forgot about Gunner.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

Was he our neighbor on scarf?

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, he was the guy who lived in the van next door in the empty lot. Right.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, yes. And he has the iconic quote of saying, this was a man who lived in a vacant lot next to us.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And Dave. And I mean, Dave really did. When I was in film school, I had to make movies, and Dave pretty much made my movies, is the reality. And we did a documentary on Gunner,

[Nick Rutherford]

and,

[Kyle Mooney]

you know, he had a ton of cats. He was like, a hoarder, essentially. But he, like, he.

[Nick Rutherford]

He.

[Kyle Mooney]

We had this one quote of him saying to us, you know, I got hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E. They haven't discovered that one yet. He would, like, say things like that. And he's like. Like, had, like, one of those old school. Like. Like laundry. You know, those.

[Nick Rutherford]

Like a dryer. It's like.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, he's like this. For my skivvies.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, I remember that. For my skies.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, he lived in that. Truly empty.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think he was, like, maybe a professor, like, decades before or something.

[Beck Bennett]

Like.

[Nick Rutherford]

No, that makes me scared.

[Kyle Mooney]

But. But here I would say beer. Like, maybe we could use it as a jumping off point. And, like, it's.

[Beck Bennett]

But, I don't know.

[Kyle Mooney]

Betrayal. I am, like, nervous about, like.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, that feels like it could be opening up, like, some secrets that I don't even know about.

[Nick Rutherford]

But. Yeah, well, betrayal is a bit. It's a bit of a joke pitch because I don't want to talk about sad things.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, right.

[Nick Rutherford]

But in Good Neighbor, I feel like we've done it. Beer. I thought we could get excited about it because we'd be like, well, we're about to have.

[Kyle Mooney]

We might have a beer after this.

[Beck Bennett]

All right, we'll be right back with our new podcast. Beer. Dude, it's great to be Beer.

[Kyle Mooney]

I didn't expect to see you.

[Beck Bennett]

Beer. Yeah. I thought you were gonna be over

[Kyle Mooney]

beer, by the way, isn't it crazy? It's already. It's. It's. We're recording this in April. It's, like, so already so far in the. In the. In the new beer.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, yeah. It really is. And, yeah, that's. That's weird. You could say it's sort of. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Say something, please.

[Beck Bennett]

I have a. I'm trying. I'm not really growing a Beard. But you know, the, the. I do have some facial.

[Kyle Mooney]

I know somebody that I've had quite a few drinks with.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And we sort of have to bury the hatchet.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, but he's.

[Beck Bennett]

No, but he's fantastic.

[Kyle Mooney]

He really is. He really is a. Be nice guy. And

[Nick Rutherford]

guys, I can hear you.

[Beck Bennett]

I'm right there.

[Kyle Mooney]

Of course, he might act a little.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, it might be kind of a, you know.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

It might be kind of a squirrely Italian sometimes.

[Nick Rutherford]

Hey,

[Kyle Mooney]

you know, there's, you know, whenever he's around, there's something. There's some trouble brewing.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes, yes, yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

He's one of our.

[Beck Bennett]

And it's. And it's nobody's malt. It's nobody's malt. What happens when he's hop to it?

[Kyle Mooney]

He does what he can sometimes. A little bottled up inside, though.

[Beck Bennett]

Nice.

[Nick Rutherford]

All right.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah. You know, but, but, but he can really. He can really let loose.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. And you know what? He cares more than anything. And no cap.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, and I don't. And get your hand off my hiney. Hiney Kim.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, yeah, we got it.

[Beck Bennett]

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to show. This is R. Nick. This is Nick.

[Kyle Mooney]

R. Do that, Rochelle.

[Beck Bennett]

Beer is our podcast. That's what it's all about. You told us. Beer is our podcast. That's what we'll talk about with Beck and Kyle. And our guest today, ladies and gentlemen, Nick Rutherford.

[Nick Rutherford]

Wow. Hello.

[Kyle Mooney]

Hello.

[Beck Bennett]

It's great to have you here, man. It's great to have you here.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, great to just draft on in here.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, I'm excited about the draft.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, me too.

[Beck Bennett]

The new draft. Yeah. Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

I. I'm not. I'm not so excited about the military draft, but I'm excited about. Usually I get excited about a cold, frosty draft.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Like seeing it come out of the little spout there.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

You know what I get excited for is to see. Is to see this mug.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, it's frosty mug over here. Nice to see you. It's great to have you here.

[Kyle Mooney]

And what ails you these days?

[Nick Rutherford]

Well. Wow. Well, I guess, you know, I'm a little thirsty. Yeah, I'm always thirsty.

[Kyle Mooney]

Crow. Remember that spot?

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, it's still there.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, so we're saying. Do you think that we had. Do you think we had beers? Oh, I just made Beck fall asleep. Oh, no, we know we drank at the initiation for Comedus and Reptus. Yeah. How many times? We probably had beers before then, right?

[Nick Rutherford]

Together during the workshop. We must have.

[Beck Bennett]

I don't know if we did.

[Nick Rutherford]

I don't Remember we never hung out

[Beck Bennett]

afterwards after the workshop?

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, after, like, you know, would be like 9pm or 10pm Maybe not.

[Beck Bennett]

Maybe not because like, again, it's like, where would we go? To a dorm room.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. And we couldn't go to Tratty's because I think it was close. Plus you guys would go to the dorm and I'd have to go off campus to go with my roommate, Anshel.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, Angel.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, yeah, that's right.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh my God. Where were you living your freshman year, your sophomore year?

[Nick Rutherford]

I remember that it was fairly far. It was 22nd.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, I remember that place.

[Nick Rutherford]

Hoover, kind of. Yeah, it was like a big strip of a bunch of apartment complexes.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

I remember there was. There was a quote you used to always say, like, he would be upset at you. For what, playing music loud or like anything.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, I.

[Nick Rutherford]

It was. Come on, Nick.

[Beck Bennett]

Come on, Nick.

[Nick Rutherford]

Come on.

[Beck Bennett]

Come on, Nick.

[Nick Rutherford]

Come on, Nick.

[Beck Bennett]

Come on.

[Kyle Mooney]

And he was like a grad student in like.

[Nick Rutherford]

No, he wasn't a grad student. He was graduated. He was probably 35. And he went to grad school. Yeah. At USC. And he just chose. He worked now in Santa Monica, which is probably about a 40 minute drive, maybe longer during rush hour.

[Beck Bennett]

Sure.

[Nick Rutherford]

He worked in Santa Monica, stayed basically on campus at USC because he loved the events. He loved to go to, like free speakers, you know, like, college campus is fine. It's like, oh, you can go. And this person is speaking.

[Beck Bennett]

So he's just like living that campus life.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And so he's like, yeah, I'll get a roommate who goes to college and will get frustrated when he's like, having fun.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, pretty much. I, like, I would. We would get in horrible fights and it'd be like, well, I'm only paying a third of the rent because I can't even hang out in the living room. It was.

[Kyle Mooney]

How did you find him?

[Nick Rutherford]

Like, I think Tommy Trojan. I think it was like truly classified in the back of the school newspaper.

[Kyle Mooney]

Daily Trojan.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, Daily Trojan.

[Beck Bennett]

Tommy Trojan's the guy.

[Nick Rutherford]

Tommy chosen the statue. It's a nice guy.

[Kyle Mooney]

You know, it's, you know, it's a classic beer thing that we all share.

[Beck Bennett]

What's that, Carl?

[Kyle Mooney]

Toast. Remember this video? No.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

You don't remember it?

[Beck Bennett]

No.

[Kyle Mooney]

Cuz it ends with us saying no.

[Beck Bennett]

Right. Toast. Drink the beer.

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, toast.

[Kyle Mooney]

How much of it do you. You think you could do right now?

[Nick Rutherford]

I don't.

[Beck Bennett]

I could do 90%.

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, I could do the whole thing. You want to act? Do you Want to do the.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, I'm just curious.

[Nick Rutherford]

I feel like it's a thing that we withhold from the people who want to see it to increase its value.

[Beck Bennett]

We do it live. We do it live. If you want to come see us live, do it live for you.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

Which is what maybe we'll do. Which maybe we'll do someday, depending on the numbers we get from this podcast.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. First beer you ever drank. Jesus. First beer you ever drank. Do you know, I remember one of

[Beck Bennett]

the first beers I ever drank was a Corona in my basement. My parents had had a party, and, like, apparently, two people, like, my. Everybody, like, there were two people in charge of getting beer, basically. No, wait. Like, my parents thought it was their job to get beer. Somebody else thought it was their job to get beer. They showed up with a bunch of beer. My parents were like, oh, we have all this beer. We're going to put in our ext. Fridge in the basement. So there was, like, stocked full of beer, like, and it was, like, a bunch of Coronas. And we shared one, I remember. And we had, like, pizza. I think there was like, wait, your

[Kyle Mooney]

parents were not there or. They were there.

[Beck Bennett]

They were. I don't think they were.

[Kyle Mooney]

But they didn't know that you were drinking.

[Beck Bennett]

They didn't know we were in the basement. We were having, like, a sleepover or something. We were like, we're gonna try a beer. And we had a beer, and it was Coors. It was. No, it was a Corona.

[Nick Rutherford]

Corona.

[Beck Bennett]

And we had pizza, and we thought it was awesome.

[Nick Rutherford]

I don't remember my first beer, but I remember my parents having a party, and I, like, snuck downstairs. It was like a Halloween party. And one of my dad's friends was like. I was like, what you drinking? And he was like, it's beer. You want to try it? And I, like, drank some of his beer.

[Beck Bennett]

How old were you?

[Nick Rutherford]

I was like, 10 or something.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, I definitely have a.

[Nick Rutherford]

But I wasn't. I didn't just like, wow, Nikki. Likey. I think I just was like. And then that was Billy.

[Kyle Mooney]

Likey. Yeah, Billy. Billy's gonna have problems.

[Beck Bennett]

Problems for a long, long time.

[Nick Rutherford]

Billy found a new facet of his personality.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, I remember. I mean, I think that probably a lot of people have that experience, or I think my dad might have. I don't even know who. Yes. But I was probably, like, I must have been five or six when I had, like, a sip, because it's like one of that. The thing where you're being, like, the annoying kid, like, why can't I drink that? I want some of that. And then, like, the idea is, you take a sip, it's disgusting.

[Nick Rutherford]

You never want to touch it. And it was disgusting, that Kool Aid.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

But I do remember there is, like. I think. Think it's real, that there is sort of some sort of learning curve to, like, liking the taste of beer. Because the first one, I remember it feeling like, oh, that's kind of weird. And then it becomes. It became like, one of my favorite flavors.

[Nick Rutherford]

I know. Is it.

[Beck Bennett]

I used to like the taste of it more. It used to, like, have a different quality to me. Like, it had, like, sort of like a. It's not like, it almost tastes like. It kind of smelled like weed, and it kind of had the taste of.

[Nick Rutherford]

You're talking about some ipa?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, I think ipa.

[Beck Bennett]

No, it's. It's not. It's like, to me, it was like Heineken or Rolling Rock or something. Like, I remember, like, the. The light beers in green bottles specifically had a certain sort of. I don't know that, like. I just don't taste it.

[Nick Rutherford]

You did.

[Beck Bennett]

But maybe it's because I'm having heavier beers, like IPAs or Belgians or like,

[Nick Rutherford]

whatever, that my, like, beer trajectory started at, like, Coors Light, Bud Light, I

[Kyle Mooney]

think it's PBR was my. Was like the first beer, I remember. And Mickey's. We dropped. Drank malt liquor.

[Nick Rutherford]

We drank. We drank lots of.

[Beck Bennett]

In the Midwest. We had Ice House.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, yeah. We had Natty Ice.

[Nick Rutherford]

Natural Natty Ice.

[Beck Bennett]

Ice House was like. Was like 8% or something, as opposed to like, a typical 4%. It was like double Pabst Blue Ribbon

[Kyle Mooney]

and was, I think, 5.99 for a 12 pack.

[Nick Rutherford]

In 2003, Kaguama was like 10 bucks for a 30 pack or like, maybe. Maybe 12 bucks for a 30 pack, if you can get it.

[Beck Bennett]

When would you.

[Kyle Mooney]

But I loved Coors Light, too. That was. That. That's what I drank at my friend's house, where we could. We were allowed to drink, and the parents sort of like, oh, that was

[Nick Rutherford]

like the cool in the den. And you.

[Kyle Mooney]

Silver Bullet, the tall. It's like a kind of taller.

[Nick Rutherford]

It's like an energy drink can.

[Kyle Mooney]

Aesthetically, it's cool.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, it's cool. I like Coral's Coors Banquet beer in the little bottle. It's kind of like a little Mickey's Grenade bottle.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's the way I felt about Red Stripe. I loved the Red Stripe.

[Nick Rutherford]

Red Stripe bottles are cool when you guys could drive.

[Beck Bennett]

I remember Red Stripe that was also in the fridge when I had the Corona because it was some sort of like. Like island party or something that my parents were having. It was like a theme party. Was Coronas and red stripes in the fridge. But did you guys ever. When you got your license or your friends got, you know, their driver's license, did you ever go to a parking lot and post up to ask people.

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, yeah, they could.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

To buy beer for you? Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

It was so exciting.

[Nick Rutherford]

That was. That happened a lot. My. My family and my other friend's family that we hung out with a lot camped. We went camping a lot. And that was like. You'd go to the little mini mart by the campsite, like car camping. And then you just pace around and try to get somebody to buy you beer.

[Beck Bennett]

What an exciting time. We.

[Nick Rutherford]

Has anybody ever asked you to buy them beer?

[Beck Bennett]

No.

[Nick Rutherford]

No, I. I don't think I've ever had it happen to me too. I swore when I couldn't buy beer that if somebody ever asked me to, I would do it for them to pay it forward. I feel like maybe it's irresponsible. I don't know. Is that not.

[Beck Bennett]

It's definitely irresponsible. Yeah. Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

Well, if they're like, dangling their keys and they're already like a little drunk and they're like, we're going on a road trip, maybe not. But if it's just like a little boy who wants.

[Beck Bennett]

Hey, sir, can you help us get drunk?

[Kyle Mooney]

Hi, sir. I'm actually a really good kid. I've been studying really hard and I just like a little bit.

[Nick Rutherford]

Three beverage. And just.

[Kyle Mooney]

There's six of us, so we'll only have a beer each. That is if you get a six pack. We have enough cash for a 12 pack if you want to make a little boy very happy.

[Nick Rutherford]

And you can keep the change.

[Beck Bennett]

I'm really sad. I don't know how to be happy. I just don't.

[Kyle Mooney]

The beer makes me a little happier. I notice that. It sort of calms me down. It's like a medicine firm.

[Nick Rutherford]

Maybe it's just because it helps me forget all the things I did. I don't know. But I need help getting it.

[Kyle Mooney]

The only stuff's pretty rough. That's why I need the beer.

[Nick Rutherford]

I remember.

[Kyle Mooney]

Do you guys ever have, like, any? Because. Yeah, when I was first drinking beer. A lot of paps of ribbon, a lot of Coors light. Did you ever have, like, funny or peculiar? I mean, I guess you're saying basements are a thing in The Midwest. I remember a very specific time. Multiple times. I think we went to our friends trying to find a place to drink. We would go to, like, his parents. They kept their boat in a storage unit. So we would, like, drive to the storage unit and drink in a boat

[Nick Rutherford]

that's, like, inside a shipping crate.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, exactly.

[Nick Rutherford]

Wow.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

Which.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't remember what the lie was. It was probably like, yeah, we're gonna go drive to, you know, but it was like, I know where we can go. We can go to the storage unit spot where there's.

[Nick Rutherford]

That's amazing.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's a great specific.

[Beck Bennett]

There was a. I think people go to, like, golf courses sometimes.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

We. I. I thought maybe. I don't know if Chicago. You guys had these, but there's a lot of, like, buried water towers in the hills. So a big sp. Us was, like, going into the hills and drinking on, like, a big cement water. Like, really? Yeah. Like, you'd be just on this, like, landing pad for a helicopter. But it had water. Yeah, it was cool.

[Beck Bennett]

One of the things that some friends of mine did in. I think it was, like, junior high or high school, there was, like, a club that was, like, this building. It was, like, very simple building, one floor building. And it, like, didn't have any fences or anything. It had a big, long. It was called the Kenilworth Club. It was in Kenilworth, which is. Anyway. And they would, like, in the winter, they would put their beer for these big parties just out in the back, out by the back door. And, like, basically, like, put it in the snow. And so we would just, like, go by and, like, try to, like, sneak attack and wait. And people would be, like, looking out, and we'd be, like, giving each other signals, and you, like, get some cases of beer. And sometimes we got chased. And, like, that's fun.

[Nick Rutherford]

See, I think. Think. I hope kids today are still, like, doing mini heists.

[Beck Bennett]

I hope so, too. That was, like, my favorite thing to do in that time of my life was like, stealing stuff that was not.

[Nick Rutherford]

It's like, naughty stakes.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

It's like kind of like slow stage. You're not really hurting anyone. That club closed down a year later. A lot of people lost their jobs.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Yeah. Too low sales rode into the ground.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

I was just thinking. Yeah. I remember, like, definitely did a lot of beer drinking in college. And I was thinking of, like, one of the places my freshman year we would go a lot is where Nick Clark and Dave Reisenberg lived. Scarf street, which later you and I would Live there. Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

Then with Dave.

[Kyle Mooney]

And was it on Thursday? Was it Thursday bars day? Cause Nick had built. Nick Clark had built a bar.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, in the. Like, in a closet, basically.

[Kyle Mooney]

But I remember you guys. There was always a lot of video games being played. Was there, like, a.

[Nick Rutherford]

We were really into Halo at the time, but we had a lot of days. It was Sunday fun day.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

Monday. I think Monday was just Monday. Tuesday, booz day. Wednesday was mirculas cerveza Diaz. It was Spanish Thursday bar. Friday is just a Friday. So you can drink Saturday and Saturday. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

I remember the High life was a drink.

[Nick Rutherford]

I remember that was lots of high lives.

[Kyle Mooney]

And I remember one of our friends. I'm not going to call them out, but, like, probably from drinking too much high life, but maybe some weed. Maybe some. Some vodka in there. Barfing into a heating vent. The vent.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, my God. Barfing into a vent is like. Heating vent is one of the worst.

[Nick Rutherford]

We all witnessed it. Cause I think we were, like, hanging out in the living room, and he had passed out on a couch like this, and the heating vent was, like, right here. And he kind of just, like, woke up and then leaned over into the vent, and we're like, no, no, no, no, no. And he just puked into, like, the bowels of our house that heats up and circulates through everything.

[Beck Bennett]

Here's an interesting time, Ryan. One of my first parties at USC was being hosted at the. The 23rd street house that I eventually moved into that was responsible for the good neighbor name. Patrick woods was living there. Wait, no.

[Kyle Mooney]

Patrick Adams.

[Beck Bennett]

Patrick Adams was living there. It was like the cool, you know, theater house. Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

And they were having a party.

[Beck Bennett]

I remember it was a Halloween party. I was dressed as Richie Tannenbaum, and I was like, I'm gonna be the. I'm gonna be the keg master.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

All right, let me help you out.

[Nick Rutherford]

It was like the Cakemaster vibe, like,

[Beck Bennett]

getting to know people and stuff. And I, like, absolutely did not remember the end of the night. Chris Lowell, my freshman year roommate, was out of town. I vomited on the floor. Didn't clean it up properly. And for the rest of the year, whenever the sun came up and shone through our window, it would cook the vomit in the rug. And you could smell. I remember it was so. I mean, it kind of went away. It did, I think, kind of. But it was like. It was. It was brutal.

[Kyle Mooney]

Keg culture, by the way, is something that is, like. It's. I think it's too challenging for a 20, 21 year old. Because, like, you got to go to the liquor, you got to somehow secure the keg at a liquor store, you got to, like, do the research, which is like.

[Nick Rutherford]

Which also was like, raise $115.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. And I remember you'd always get, like, there was like, documents that would come along with it.

[Nick Rutherford]

Like, you'd get a receipt liability, or like a. A carbon copy.

[Kyle Mooney]

And you.

[Nick Rutherford]

You'd be.

[Kyle Mooney]

Would you be buying the tap maybe and renting the keg?

[Nick Rutherford]

I think you had to rent the tap and you rent that red bucket.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, you're right. But you ultimately had to return everything.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

And I. I think for somebody of that age to. To be responsible for that stuff, to like, turn them in is. Is very difficult. Even though I know I. I know it's often.

[Beck Bennett]

I remember it being like, well, we didn't finish it right. And so it's like, well, do we have to keep a cold?

[Nick Rutherford]

Yes, you do.

[Beck Bennett]

I guess. Should we start drinking it the next day?

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. How many times? How many Sundays are, like, where there's still half a keg left. I guess let's just start drinking and like.

[Kyle Mooney]

And I don't know. I feel like you were there, but there was one evening, a party at my then girlfriend's house, and we had like half a keg left and the party was ending. We had. We had it at our house.

[Nick Rutherford]

Your brother was in town too. No.

[Kyle Mooney]

Possibly. But I remember us, like, getting in a truck with some other friends, bringing the keg, like, walking it upstairs to this other party. So we brought it from our house to another party when, like, the party was dying down and just like immediately placed the middle. And we're like, you know, like, the king is here or something stupid. You know what I mean?

[Nick Rutherford]

We're doing like keg stands and then

[Kyle Mooney]

started doing keg stands. And all of a sudden it became kind of the spot. I think we took it maybe.

[Beck Bennett]

No, no, no. Why. Why would I be mad at you? No, I was smiling.

[Nick Rutherford]

He feels loved. I think we also took it to a third spot. Cause it got low enough to where we could throw it over our shoulder. So we were just like walking around like that. The rock movie where he's got a stick with a nail in it. It felt like that we would just bully our way into parties and slam it down.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, I don't remember that.

[Nick Rutherford]

That's why he got mad.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. No, if anything, I was just. Just like. I just went somewhere else.

[Kyle Mooney]

We also. We did have a friend who never turned in his kegs. And then ended up using it as

[Nick Rutherford]

like, oh, is that an entertainment system?

[Kyle Mooney]

He would, like, place like, TVs on tops and TVs.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, it was pretty impressive. He had multiple TVs. They'd all be tuned to different, like, political channels.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah. No, but beer's just so great.

[Nick Rutherford]

It's such a uniter.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, it really is.

[Nick Rutherford]

You know, they say beer got us out of, like, hunter gatherer society, because to make beer, we had to grow wheat. And so we were like, it's. Rather than living off the fat of the land, let's just park it right here and drink beer.

[Beck Bennett]

Wow.

[Nick Rutherford]

And I think that's like, kind of the birthplace of civilization, really. You can Google that.

[Beck Bennett]

You can Google that. I don't know what you're gonna come up with.

[Kyle Mooney]

I never watched on Netflix that was called. Yeah, like how beer made the world or something.

[Nick Rutherford]

I think so. And also because, like, you could travel with it because it wouldn't spoil. Like, water would. I guess water doesn't spoil. But something you knew it was safe to drink because it been, like, processed and there's alcohol which killed bacteria.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

I think I love.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. People used to drink beer instead of water. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

I love keg stands and I love shotgunning. I feel like, when was the last time you did that Shotgun to beer or keg stand?

[Beck Bennett]

I mean, I would imagine you would

[Kyle Mooney]

have shotgun beer more recently.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

I feel like we should have like another beer pong. Just another, like, beer party. Beer bong. Remember going to all the frat parties or in probably years after frat parties, and they would have like a nine foot beer bong just like stapled to their pat. Like their balcony.

[Beck Bennett]

God, it's so gross.

[Nick Rutherford]

I've got no interest in that.

[Beck Bennett]

I have no interest. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's like.

[Nick Rutherford]

But, you know, it's okay if you want.

[Kyle Mooney]

If it's a good.

[Beck Bennett]

That's something you've been dying.

[Kyle Mooney]

If it's put together in a way that's like, okay. Like, it's constructed.

[Beck Bennett]

Like, you respect the construction of it and like, the physics of it.

[Nick Rutherford]

If there's Val. If you can shut the valve off,

[Beck Bennett]

open your throat.

[Nick Rutherford]

I remember people

[Kyle Mooney]

learn keg stand. One, two.

[Nick Rutherford]

I think Kean are fun.

[Kyle Mooney]

Number five.

[Nick Rutherford]

Safe.

[Kyle Mooney]

Sound like kicking your leg.

[Nick Rutherford]

All right.

[Beck Bennett]

He's good. He's good, he's good. Oh, God. I. I have no interest in doing either of those. I would. I would shotgun a beer.

[Nick Rutherford]

Be doing it.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, I would. Yeah. If there. If there's peer pressure.

[Nick Rutherford]

Pressure. There's Always got to be peer pressure.

[Beck Bennett]

I got to just bring up my brother Sam's beer.

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, yeah, I went to his brewery.

[Beck Bennett]

You did? Yeah. Pretty cool, right?

[Nick Rutherford]

He's a master brewer.

[Beck Bennett]

He's a master brewer, head brewer.

[Nick Rutherford]

Really cool.

[Beck Bennett]

He's won some. His breweries won a bunch of awards. I don't remember exactly what they are. Sam. I'm sorry. I think they won a. A silver four at the World Beer cup for the. They're an ipa. Maybe they're hazy or they're European cerebral. Check it out. Oh, I also said on the podcast, if you go in there and say, what's our podcast sent me? You'll get a free beer.

[Nick Rutherford]

That feels like.

[Beck Bennett]

And he honored it. One person emailed him and he came in and he gave him a free beer.

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, really?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Wow.

[Nick Rutherford]

He gave me beer when I went in, but I hadn't heard the podcast yet.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, that's. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

So what is top three beers? What do you got?

[Nick Rutherford]

Well, I was. Do you guys have beer eras? Cause I, like, was very light. Cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap. And then I became really real IPA type, and now I just find I don't enjoy them.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, I think that happens to a lot of people. Now you're in like, a pilsner log.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. Now I kind of back down or like. Honestly, I like a stout. I like a Guinness.

[Beck Bennett]

I like a hazy ipa. I don't really like too hoppy of an ipa. I like. I. I really love Belgium beers. Like. Like a Duvel or something like that. Like, they have, like, a good richness to it, but it's not as, like, as. As. You know, the hoppiness of an IPA is a lot.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I think my fav. My favorite brewery is Highland Park Brewery. They make some of the best beers in la. They're. They're. They have a baseball. One I can't remember the name of.

[Nick Rutherford]

Might be the Highland Park Brewery.

[Beck Bennett]

They have them at Western Station.

[Kyle Mooney]

Uhhuh.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think that. I think the beer I drink probably most consistently is Modelo. Modelo Especial, like on Dragon Raft at

[Nick Rutherford]

a bar is probably nice with a go to. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, I. I'll tell you, my go to light is Peroni.

[Kyle Mooney]

I love Peroni.

[Beck Bennett]

Peroni has such that. That flavor that I was talking about remembering from when I was a kid.

[Nick Rutherford]

It kind of tastes a little bit like weed.

[Kyle Mooney]

You know what? I drank. Drank a lot in. Sorry. At. In my 30s. Stella all the time.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Stella was everything. I feel like that's the most classic go to beer.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. No, no, no. I think my 20s, maybe I was really into Sierra Nevada for a second because it felt like it was like earthy and like, I thought it was kind of related to the environment. I don't think it is.

[Kyle Mooney]

I had a traumatic episode in my life where I drank Sierra Nevadas before I didn't get drunk. This was. I had. I had to do a performance and it really fucked up my head. And I stopped drinking Sierra Nevada after that moment because I associated with.

[Nick Rutherford]

But it was not related to the beer. You just.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, no, it was just like I decided like, oh, I associate this with this thing that happened.

[Nick Rutherford]

That's it. I had like a real bad injury when I was a kid. I like bailed on a skateboard and I was bedbound for like a week and I ate nothing but ice cream sandwiches. And now I can't eat ice cream sandwiches. Cause it's attached to like just being like

[Kyle Mooney]

now I gotta say something maybe that's maybe controversial. I love Bud Light. People say it's like, it's like.

[Beck Bennett]

I don't know if I really have a flavor for it.

[Kyle Mooney]

I like the can. Like, yeah, I guess you just crush em. And I think like for shotgunning, it's great.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, it's a good like all day sip.

[Kyle Mooney]

And for some reason, because light is in the name, I feel like.

[Beck Bennett]

You feel good?

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah, I'm probably unpopular opinion. Michelob Ultra. Pretty good.

[Beck Bennett]

Wow.

[Nick Rutherford]

Pretty good.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. My radar.

[Nick Rutherford]

I feel like you're. You're a health conscious person. I feel like you would love it.

[Beck Bennett]

And I did an ad for him.

[Nick Rutherford]

You did? For real?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Digital. Digital things. Small thing. I don't think it was like, do

[Nick Rutherford]

they send you a cat or something when you do?

[Beck Bennett]

No, no, no, no, no. I don't think I did well enough.

[Kyle Mooney]

You guys like the big. Remember when they introduced the like big mouth?

[Beck Bennett]

I don't like that. The metal cans?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, I kind of like. I like that because it's resealable. Like you get it at a stadium.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, yeah, No, I was talking about the cans. Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

When they made the circle, it went wider.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah, I do like a big can. It's exciting.

[Kyle Mooney]

Tall can.

[Beck Bennett]

Tall can.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

You guys like playing Edward Forty Hands?

[Beck Bennett]

I. The first, I think and only time I played it was with you guys

[Nick Rutherford]

at Campbell and Chris Campbell and. Yeah. And John Beery in a minute.

[Kyle Mooney]

But yeah, that's sort of thing that I sort of have a daydream about. Like, oh, one. One of these days I want to have a birthday party. Where it's like just me and a few friends and we do, like, something stupid like that.

[Nick Rutherford]

I kind of miss those really dumb drinking games. Like the Wizard Staff.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. Like, what was that?

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, we did that.

[Nick Rutherford]

We did that at McCullum.

[Kyle Mooney]

Did we?

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

Kings cup was really fun. Kings Cup's been a minute.

[Kyle Mooney]

I mean, I. Yeah, I pro. I probably played that like two years ago. I, I. Yes. Kings Cup. I mean, I love Flip cup is probably.

[Beck Bennett]

You get the flip cup going wherever you used. That used to be before, like, before you had a child. It was like if Kyle was showing up to a party or if you were having a party, Flip cup was going to be played.

[Nick Rutherford]

I like, I like having a thing that you bring to the party. Like, I got. I was really into dice. Like, playing dice.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. It's so fun.

[Beck Bennett]

I was at. I was at a. A birthday party last night. People like, let's play Frogs. It's a Rutherford thing. They said frogs. Yeah. It's like, it's like wavelength, but it's like, like, it's like an essence thing. It's like, let's all guess, Pick a number. Rutherford feels about scuba diving.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yes. Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

And you'll pick a number and everybody.

[Nick Rutherford]

I'm trying to make that a real game.

[Beck Bennett]

What's it called? It's called Frogs, though, right?

[Nick Rutherford]

I don't know what the name call. I call it Magic categories.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay. They seem to.

[Nick Rutherford]

Frogs or some people call it Magic Pickle or Pickle.

[Beck Bennett]

Pickle. Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

Pickle. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

But there's a game called Wavelength, and

[Nick Rutherford]

it is that Wavelength is basically that. Yeah, but it's got a big metal plastic piece. It's too hard to manufacture. It's bad for the.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, you got to make a metal one. Call it Pickle.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, I don't know about you guys. You know you always want a big finish, right?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

And sometimes you don't get one. Thank you, guys.

[Beck Bennett]

And now girls on trampolines.

[Nick Rutherford]

That's right.

[Kyle Mooney]

My pitch is like that. My pitch is like we're here talking about beers, We've not seen each other, and all three of us, you a

[Nick Rutherford]

whole bit of time.

[Kyle Mooney]

Maybe we just get out of here.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, let's get out of here and

[Kyle Mooney]

maybe have some beers.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, dang. Do you think we should.

[Nick Rutherford]

Well, let me check what time it is.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, it's 11:00am Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

00:00'. Clock.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

All right.

[Nick Rutherford]

So Friday. Yeah, let's have a beer.

[Kyle Mooney]

All right, well, we'll be here. We'll be right back.

[Beck Bennett]

Thanks for coming. Around.

[Nick Rutherford]

Wait, I don't cut yet. I want to get one in.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Take your time.

[Nick Rutherford]

My goodness. My goodness. Now that was. That one counts.

[Beck Bennett]

That was something.

[Nick Rutherford]

I don't think that one counts.

[Beck Bennett]

I don't know.

[Nick Rutherford]

Okay. It's Miller time.

[Beck Bennett]

Beers. It was kind of similar. Similar to our first conversation we had. We talked a lot about partying, but that's where a lot of good stories are, and that's where our relationships were formed.

[Nick Rutherford]

That's where they blossomed.

[Beck Bennett]

And, you know, we did a lot of crazy stuff, and it's really fun to think. Talk about those days.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. But we also did some uncrazy stuff, too.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, we did.

[Nick Rutherford]

We made a few homes together.

[Beck Bennett]

We made a few homes together. Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

We lived together. We cooked together, I think.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. One thing I was thinking of, that I was gonna make mention.

[Beck Bennett]

We studied together.

[Nick Rutherford]

We studied together. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Right.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, we did.

[Nick Rutherford]

We.

[Kyle Mooney]

We wrote papers together.

[Nick Rutherford]

We wrote papers.

[Kyle Mooney]

But I remember you, like, once making green curry.

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

At the. McCollum. And, like, I'd never had green curry, and it was spicy. And, like, I think it was one of those moments where I was like, oh, I like spicy.

[Beck Bennett]

Really?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, I like.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, really weird.

[Kyle Mooney]

But, like, that was one of the most.

[Beck Bennett]

That's when the spice kicked off.

[Kyle Mooney]

You didn't get spice. Then I started putting jalapenos in my subway sandwiches, you know, and then I sort of converted to, like, oh, spicy is something I want to seek out.

[Beck Bennett]

I remember your little. Your little crock pot, and you made those little.

[Nick Rutherford]

Oh, pulled pork sandwich.

[Beck Bennett]

Pulled pork sandwich.

[Nick Rutherford]

Pulled pork sandwiches. Yeah. I was really into, like, meal maxing, and I would make, like, that chicken curry thing for, like, the week.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

And I'd make a huge pot. I don't do that anymore. I really should.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, you really should. It'd be great.

[Nick Rutherford]

It's fun.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, Nick. What. What a blast.

[Beck Bennett]

This is. So. I mean, this.

[Kyle Mooney]

I do really feel like I've known you a while. It's cool.

[Nick Rutherford]

And you. I. You guys got to tell me your names again.

[Beck Bennett]

I'm back.

[Nick Rutherford]

Back.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. And this is.

[Kyle Mooney]

They still haven't given me a name. I'm going to ask my provider very soon.

[Nick Rutherford]

That's exciting.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

He's not allowed to have a name because they don't trust him with this.

[Kyle Mooney]

I did.

[Nick Rutherford]

Then he could vote, create an identity and everything.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm. I'm told I will be graduating into the name program within the next.

[Nick Rutherford]

That's incredible. If you need anybody to sign off on it, I'm Happy.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, thank you so much.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah. If you need a sponsor or anything.

[Kyle Mooney]

Thank you.

[Beck Bennett]

You. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Lords of Dread. They're out there.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. They're always working for you. It was so great having you here. Thanks for coming in.

[Nick Rutherford]

It's my pleasure, guys.

[Beck Bennett]

Love you so much.

[Kyle Mooney]

Any. Now you're on jury duty. What?

[Nick Rutherford]

It's Jury Deity, Season two, Jury Duty presents Company retreat.

[Beck Bennett]

That's right.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Anything else you want to plug?

[Nick Rutherford]

You know, I'm going to do. I'm going to do celebrity. I don't know if I'm allowed to say this. I'm going to do Celebrity Family Feud in a month and I'm stuck. Have you guys done it?

[Beck Bennett]

No. So who you going to do show with?

[Nick Rutherford]

Eric Byron Bowers and Derek Beckles.

[Kyle Mooney]

Fun.

[Nick Rutherford]

I think, and as long as it doesn't fall apart.

[Beck Bennett]

No.

[Nick Rutherford]

But yeah, and we.

[Kyle Mooney]

And I guess we could say now, like for those listeners and. Oh, check out our patreon. Patreon.com. what's our podcast? But also Good Neighbor, our old sketch group. We've been talking about going on the road.

[Beck Bennett]

So the 20th anniversary is 2027.

[Nick Rutherford]

Yeah. Next year will be 20 minutes since he sent that email. Female, you know, 20 minutes. 20 years.

[Beck Bennett]

20 years. 20 years.

[Nick Rutherford]

Twenty mirrors.

[Kyle Mooney]

20 beers.

[Nick Rutherford]

20 beers.

[Beck Bennett]

We. We got into a lot and we could get into a whole lot more. We kind of talked about college and the beginning of Good Neighbor. Maybe we'll even get more into the Good Neighbor days and we'll have you back on.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Nick Rutherford]

Maker Days. The scarf, the McCollums, all of it. What was that. What was that sketch retreat that we went to New York and slept under? Genius camp.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Yeah. I didn't go on that.

[Nick Rutherford]

You didn't?

[Beck Bennett]

I need to do something else. I don't know.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Well, I'm very hungry.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, let's go eat and get a beer.

[Kyle Mooney]

All right, take care, everybody. See you next time.

[Beck Bennett]

Bye.

[Nick Rutherford]

Hi, I am Mandy Moore. Sterling K. Brown.

[Beck Bennett]

And I'm Chris Sullivan. And we host the podcast that was Us now on Headgum.

[Kyle Mooney]

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

[Beck Bennett]

This is us.

[Nick Rutherford]

That's right.

[Kyle Mooney]

We're going to go episode by episode. We're also going to pepper in episodes with different guest stars, 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.