Tim Heidecker

Summary

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

Episode: Tim Heidecker (Nov 12, 2025)
Host: Headgum

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Overview

In this episode, Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney—a comedic duo best known for their work on Saturday Night Live and as former roommates—are joined by comedy legend Tim Heidecker (Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, Office Hours Live). As with every What's Our Podcast? episode, Beck and Kyle try to figure out what their podcast should be about, this time soliciting Tim Heidecker’s guidance, exploring their careers post-SNL, dissecting comedy trends, exchanging honest career anxieties, and indulging in plenty of meta-riffing and affectionate roasts. The conversation slips naturally between sincere, hilarious, and sometimes playfully contentious, offering a unique blend of industry insight and absurdist banter.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Eternal Search for a Podcast Purpose

• The running bit of the show is that Beck and Kyle don’t know what their podcast is about, so they invite guests to pitch concepts.
• Quick riffs on generational differences, trends, and the absurdities of trying to “figure it out.”
• Notable recurring joke: “That is so Adley”—riffing on a young, out-of-touch friend and how references fall flat across generations.
  [03:05]

2. Parenting, the Grind, and Modern Life

• The trio discusses the chaos of being working parents, managing routines, kids starting school, and pressures of creative work.
  • “Especially with… kids, it is traveling and like, we're about to go to New York and… the routine is this stabilizing thing in all the chaos.” (Beck, [08:57])
• Lighthearted spa on parental apps, school video updates, and the struggle to keep things normal as performers.

3. Tim Heidecker Joins: Banter about Comedy Roots

• Tim recounts his Adult Swim/Tim & Eric era—the lo-fi look, awkward editing, and discomfort as a “cable access” anti-style, and how that aesthetic became influential.
  “It was almost like a kind of a cable access lo fi thing.” (Tim, [26:36])
• Beck and Kyle credit Tim & Eric as an inspiration; Beck recalls being shown “What’s Your Dad Like” in college, staking Tim & Eric as a rooting point for a generation of sketch.

4. The Podcast “Reset”: Career Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and Industry Pressures

• Tim pitches the idea of Reset, a podcast where Beck and Kyle ask highly successful SNL alumni (e.g., Bill Hader, Will Ferrell, Eddie Murphy) what they did right—and what Beck and Kyle could/should have done differently.
• The conversation morphs into an earnest discussion about career trajectories after SNL, opportunities seized or lost, and regret as a necessary part of growth.
  • “The biggest mistake is this. No regrets. Oh, we need to regret, right? To grow.” (Tim, [73:40])
  • “Do you have an idea of what our podcast should be about?” (Beck, [59:34])
• Tim good-naturedly ribs them both about not being “the next Anchorman or Billy Madison” but tempers it with respect:
  “I think you guys are talented. I don’t know where the opportunities are going to come where we do see a Billy Madison from you two.” (Tim, [69:14])

5. SNL and Sketch Comedy: Self-Deprecation & Industry Analysis

• Playful debate on SNL cast rankings; Tim ultimately dubs them “top 50” out of 167 cast members, sparking faux anxiety and meta humor.
• “Would you put yourselves in the top 50?” (Tim, [47:44])
  “I could probably be in top 50.” (Beck, [47:51])
• Digression on impressions, recurring characters, and the formula for post-SNL movie stardom.
• Tim fakes a regret: turning down SNL for Adult Swim, joking about being a “ready for prime time” player.

6. Office Hours, Touring, and Comedy Collaboration

• The guys recall their crossovers: Tim’s Office Hours Live, Kyle opening for Tim’s band on tour, and the complexities of influence (“Are you thanking me for your tour?”).
  • “I do want to say thank you for putting me on that pedestal and let me open for you.” (Kyle, [38:02])
• Joking tension and the ambiguous sincerity typical of comedian circles: is Tim fishing for credit, or just keeping the bit alive?

7. New Projects & Creative Resilience

• Tim hints at relaunching Real Time with Bill Maher… starring Tim Heidecker as a new HBO project, satiric and self-aware. “It’s me. Well, it’s Real Time with Bill Maher starring Tim Heidecker.” (Tim, [49:01])

8. Vulnerability and Open-Ended Futures

• Beck and Kyle reflect on the instability of creative careers, echoing Tim’s annual fears of professional extinction:
  • “My wife always tells me this. She's like, you always say this, like every year you're like worried about what is happening, what's next. But then it's been 10 years of that.” (Tim, [54:19])
• Tim suggests regret and self-examination are integral for growth, and jokes, “I regret the choices my wife made when it came to raising my children.”
  [76:30]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Tim on influence and comedy’s changing landscape:
  “I think pride in the work that we made an impact and that there’s people that we inspired… but I don’t like to look back.” (Tim, [31:15])

• Kyle, on still searching for their post-SNL path:
  “It hasn’t happened exactly in that way for Beck and I. We are doing the podcast…” (Kyle, [66:04])

• Tim’s career advice on the “reset” scenario:
  “You could really change… it could have gone better from both of you—to see you in, like, small parts in Superman or lugging your guitar around… you should be the next Anchorman or Billy Madison.” (Tim, [61:16])

• Meta anxiety about rankings:
  “Where do you rank yourselves in the list of the all time cast members?” (Tim, [44:41])
  “I could probably be in top 50.” (Beck, [47:51])

• Playful roast about career regrets:
  “The biggest mistake is this. No regrets. Oh, we need to regret, right? To grow. Yeah, you need to regret to grow. It’s my little T shirt.” (Tim, [73:40])

• Absurdist button: “Poop beef” story
  [79:01–80:11]: Extended riff about finding “beef” in the bathroom, morphing into a discussion on the visual nature of bodily functions—classic Tim & Eric-style body humor.

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Segment | Timestamp | Description | |---------|-----------|-------------| | Clueless/Adley Riff | 01:36–03:14 | Kyle explains generational disconnect with a friend, launches “That’s so Adley” running bit. | | Tim Enters, Comedy Roots | 12:04–18:12 | Tim and the hosts reminisce about early sketch comedy, Tim & Eric’s impact. | | Tim Describes Adult Swim Style | 26:00–31:05 | Discussion of the “awkward, editing-driven” style of Awesome Show and its influence. | | Riffing on SNL & Career Trajectories | 44:41–47:51 | Tim questions Beck and Kyle’s all-time SNL rankings; leads to meta anxiety. | | “Reset” Podcast Concept | 59:34–65:38 | Tim pitches a podcast about career resets, dissecting missed post-SNL opportunities. | | Real Anxiety & Regret in Comedy | 73:40–76:07 | Honest admission by all three about fear, instability, and the necessity of regret. | | Absurd Finale: "Poop Beef" Bit | 79:01–80:11 | Playful, corporeal humor to end the main conversation. |

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Tone & Language

The conversation is laid-back, improvisational, and often deadpan—steeped in the language of working comedians who oscillate between honesty and parody. Tim’s wry, “straight-faced” delivery keeps even sincere topics tinged with irony, while Beck and Kyle’s earnestness anchors the chaos. The trio let meta-commentary, awkwardness, and affectionate roasts do much of the heavy lifting.

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Conclusion

This episode is quintessentially “What’s Our Podcast?”: equal parts inside baseball about the comedy world, meta-podcast about podcasts, and absurdist free-for-all. Listeners are treated to stories about sketch comedy’s evolution, SNL’s treadmill of fame, the weirdness of professional reinvention, and the realities of creative anxiety—always delivered with playful self-deprecation and improvisational warmth. As always, the show’s “lack of format” becomes its real format, and the episode closes with the sincere, ridiculous, and relatable reality that nobody quite knows what’s next—but at least they can laugh about it.

Transcript

[Kyle Mooney]

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[Beck Bennett]

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[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]

Hey, what's up, everybody? Kyle Mooney here.

[Beck Bennett]

Beck Bennett here.

[Kyle Mooney]

Are we rolling?

[Beck Bennett]

We are. Ah, yes. Rolling, dude.

[Kyle Mooney]

Rolling with the homies.

[Beck Bennett]

Which was from Clueless? Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

I was just. Go ahead.

[Beck Bennett]

One of the movies. It's one of the movies.

[Kyle Mooney]

I was just telling my friend about that.

[Beck Bennett]

You were telling him about Clueless?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, I was.

[Beck Bennett]

That's so cool. And who was it?

[Kyle Mooney]

My friend Adley.

[Beck Bennett]

Adley. And did Adley not know about Clueless?

[Kyle Mooney]

He was not aware. He wasn't around back then.

[Beck Bennett]

So it's like. So he's got to be a little. He's got to be a young one. Maybe not little, but a young person.

[Kyle Mooney]

He is very young.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, and so it was just you two hanging out, the two of you?

[Kyle Mooney]

I was walking around with Adley outside.

[Beck Bennett]

And then you were like, oh, do you know about Clueless?

[Kyle Mooney]

Exactly. I said, there's an older movie from back in the day.

[Beck Bennett]

And was Adley like, I'm Clueless? Because he didn't know about Clueless?

[Kyle Mooney]

He did say that.

[Beck Bennett]

That is so Adley. Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

So you know Adley?

[Beck Bennett]

No. It's kind of like, that is so Raven. Which if I don't know when these episodes are coming out, but remember, Matt Rogers talked about his joke, that's so Raven in high school.

[Kyle Mooney]

I do, I do.

[Podcast Announcer]

So we.

[Beck Bennett]

That's so Adley.

[Kyle Mooney]

That could be a good. A could a good slogan. Sorry.

[Beck Bennett]

If you're fine, you're Fine.

[Kyle Mooney]

Sorry about the Adley stuff.

[Beck Bennett]

Sorry about the Adley stuff. It seemed like everything was going good with you guys and then. No, but it was cool that you told Adley about Clueless. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. He got really excited. He's like, oh, I want to watch it. I'm like, these days I don't know where you find this stuff. Is it Amazon, iTunes, DVD, Blu Ray, or Netflix?

[Tim Heidecker]

It's.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's. But all I know is I'm listening to podcasts on Headgum.

[Beck Bennett]

Exactly.

[Kyle Mooney]

Which speaks. We speak of the devil. My name's Kyle Mooney and I. My name is Beck Bennett and this is our podcast.

[Beck Bennett]

What's our podcast? Question mark. Don't forget about the question mark. You don't know what it is.

[Kyle Mooney]

Usually you don't say the punctuation mark out loud.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, right. But I've been voice texting a lot, so. Oops, my bad. So it's all kind of turning into robots anyway, so.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, well, it seems like that these days. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

With AI and our phone is an extension of us.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Well, there's such a. There's so much pressure. I feel like, what's the. What's the hottest. You know, the latest. The latest gadget? What's the. What are you going to plug into? But the reality is, is.

[Beck Bennett]

Did I.

[Kyle Mooney]

What were you going to say?

[Beck Bennett]

And did I post wrong? Did I do the thing I did?

[Kyle Mooney]

I know, I know, I know. And there's so many stressful. Yes. I really. Because I'm. Because I'm more old school. I'm like, put a blank. I want to put on a blanket and curl up.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

Which is.

[Beck Bennett]

So nobody does that anymore.

[Kyle Mooney]

You can't.

[Beck Bennett]

You can't. They don't make them. They have the synthetic digital.

[Kyle Mooney]

You have to. Oh, does it have Bluetooth?

[Beck Bennett]

Plug it in. Connect to the WI fi. Can I connect to the wi fi? Can I connect my blanket to the WI fi?

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't get it.

[Beck Bennett]

Right. Well, which is why I don't use a blanket anymore.

[Kyle Mooney]

I know. Nobody does. You can't. You don't know where to get them.

[Beck Bennett]

You don't.

[Kyle Mooney]

And the only way you could find out is to go online or.

[Beck Bennett]

Or if. Or maybe. Maybe Adley knows because he's young enough or like some other Gen Z. Adley is.

[Kyle Mooney]

He's. He's hip to the cool thing, but he doesn't.

[Beck Bennett]

He.

[Kyle Mooney]

He. I've told him, like, oh, do you ever put on. Do you ever put a blanket over yourself? He says no.

[Beck Bennett]

Ah, that is so sad. All these Kids growing up without blankies.

[Kyle Mooney]

I know, I know.

[Beck Bennett]

But of course, nowadays they have stuffies and loveies.

[Kyle Mooney]

They had those back. I remember those back in the day for us too, because I remember I had that brown one.

[Beck Bennett]

I think I had the white one.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

She was talking to my friend Adeline.

[Beck Bennett]

But of course, nowadays. Yeah, well.

[Kyle Mooney]

But the premise of the show is we don't know what our podcast is about and we have a guest come in. Did you say that?

[Beck Bennett]

And no, no.

[Kyle Mooney]

I did pitch what they think the podcast should be.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. And then we're gonna try that podcast. We don't know what it is. When they come in, we're gonna talk to them for a little bit, have. Have a nice little back and forth. Not an interview necessarily. Kind of just a hang about.

[Kyle Mooney]

I like that term, hang about. Hang about. With Beck and Kyle. Hey, you know, recommended by six out of six doctors.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, yeah. That. I. You kind of threw that under you. Kind of. But we have found out that this podcast is recommended out of six out of. Is recommended out of six out of six doctors.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's true.

[Beck Bennett]

And so.

[Kyle Mooney]

And I. And we prescribe laughter and camaraderie.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. So if you're not feeling very good or if you have like, like a little something broken with your body or something, these aches and pains, just turn on the podcast and consider yourself taken.

[Kyle Mooney]

Care of on all major platforms.

[Beck Bennett]

Don't look into it. Don't go to a doctor. Just turn on the pod, look into the light.

[Kyle Mooney]

You never know, they might be sucking your brains. Dr.

[Beck Bennett]

Very cool.

[Kyle Mooney]

Hey, sorry it took me so long to see Superman, but I finally saw it this weekend. Finally got a break with.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes. With the old Mrs. Ah, the Mrs. Finally let you out of the house. We all know.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, we. Well, we went together.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, you went together. So she let you out. She came out with you.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

That is so nice. Thank you for saying.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, you crack. I'm sorry it took me so long. You cracked us up.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, it kind of took you a little bit there.

[Kyle Mooney]

It did. It did. I was. I've been on tour.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, you've been on. I can't believe, like, I, I. You just pop in and out of town all the time. Is it? Thank you for going. I appreciate it.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, you're great. And again, I truly. I wish I had seen it earlier.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, good. Thank you. We, we need that, we need that longevity at the box office. You know, What I mean is, but you are in and out of town so much. Is it very exhausting?

[Kyle Mooney]

It Is. And I'm like, kind of used to it at this point, but. Yeah, it's disruptive to the routine. Right?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And like, I have a child and daddy's sort of in and out, and now school just started.

[Beck Bennett]

And as you know, we have the app where we can see our kids in school and they are now in the same class. Ruby and Bea were in the same video. First video of the day.

[Kyle Mooney]

Was that the bell video?

[Beck Bennett]

Were those bells that. Well, he was. He had the bells in one of them, and then in the other one, the previous one, they were the teacher ej Circle time. And they, like, came over to be like. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

What do you think?

[Beck Bennett]

What do you think, B?

[Kyle Mooney]

We. We didn't. We didn't have the easiest drop off.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Yeah. Shout out to teacher Uma, though, holding B. Taking care of her. They have a great class. I'm not gonna say where they are. I'm not gonna say where that is. Little B. Is little. Yeah. Well, this year, Ruby's one of the big kids, and I think he's. He's feeling that confidence. But last year was hard, but yes, it is the routine. Especially with. There's like. I feel like there without kids, there's no routine. Like, you could do whatever you want, but with kids, it is traveling in like, we're about to go to New York and it's. It is very. The routine is this stabilizing thing in all the chaos.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

So when you disrupt it, it's challenging. But. But I'm sure you guys are handling it well.

[Kyle Mooney]

And then they just pile on all of the. Oh, so much podcast stuff to do this week.

[Tim Heidecker]

Right?

[Beck Bennett]

I know, I know. I'm dealing with the same stuff with my family. And, like, I'm trying to tell. I'm trying to tell Ruby and Jesse, like, it's Casey and Anya, they're just. They're grinding me.

[Kyle Mooney]

Don't forget, we've got the photo shoot.

[Beck Bennett]

I didn't ever.

[Kyle Mooney]

Nobody told me about a photo shoot.

[Beck Bennett]

I thought this was a podcast.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm just talking about a photo shoot. I just want to riff with my friend.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

I just want to talk about older people you meet and younger people you.

[Beck Bennett]

Meet and how things have come and gone out of fashion.

[Kyle Mooney]

I want to do more trends.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, but you gotta. You gotta take photos. Part of the grind.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's part. It's part of the. The machine that makes it all work. Yes, you're listening. Brought to you by Albert Diner. Where the Cheetah.

[Beck Bennett]

I was gonna say Albert Diner, where this is how the sausage is made. There's my phone.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, well, hey, put that in. Put that in Apple mode.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, put that in Apple mode.

[Kyle Mooney]

All right.

[Beck Bennett]

It's going in Apple mode. I was gonna say. I don't know if it's time to introduce. Well, real quick, I was gonna say with the whole, you know, you brought up in one of our recent intros how we kind of used to use this time to talk about the.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, the podcast.

[Beck Bennett]

Working on the podcast, which, like, I don't think I said. I. That is true. But at some point, I was like, oh, is this gonna get exhausting for our audience to always hear this sort of, like, talking about the previous episodes, which may or may not be true. But I will say for the interview hangout portion with our guests, you have very good questions, which we've said many times, and I try to work on questions. I try to prepare for an interview, and then it doesn't really happen. So I'm really trying to embrace not being an interviewer or trying to have good questions. I might have questions, but, like, I.

[Kyle Mooney]

Think you've been doing great, and I.

[Beck Bennett]

Feel like I. I feel like I've been doing amazing.

[Kyle Mooney]

You said you feel like you were doing amazing.

[Beck Bennett]

10 out of 10.

[Kyle Mooney]

I love. I love when. I've never felt that way about anything.

[Beck Bennett]

Never been more confident in my life.

[Kyle Mooney]

I. I feel you're. I feel you making the effort, and I think it's. It's scoring. But I hear you, like. I think it's that tough thing of.

[Beck Bennett]

Like.

[Kyle Mooney]

What is the. What is the. There's. There's a phrasing that maybe someone in this room knows, but it's like, what. What. Preparation meets, I guess, reality or something like that. Right. You can prepare so much, but you also have to sort of go with it and see what happens and sort of feel. Feel the flow, if you will. You know what I mean?

[Beck Bennett]

Absolutely. It's like, what kind of like what Mark was saying. Mark Mehron.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. Was that the last.

[Beck Bennett]

Was that.

[Tim Heidecker]

That.

[Kyle Mooney]

That was our second episode. Was that the last thing we recorded?

[Beck Bennett]

That was the last thing we recorded, but it was. It'll. It'll be. It'll come out right away at the very beginning, but. But, yeah, anyway.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, let's see what happens with. Today. We have Tim Heidecker.

[Beck Bennett]

Tim Heidecker, absolute legend, Jack of all trades. I wish I had something written to describe how. How important he is to. To me and probably you and a generation of comedic performers. Sketch.

[Kyle Mooney]

I feel like you. I feel like Beck Maybe we'll get into this when we bring in Tim. But you, I feel like, showed me a clip from awesome show when we were in college.

[Beck Bennett]

Really?

[Kyle Mooney]

I think so.

[Beck Bennett]

I remember seeing. And I'll bring it up with him, I'm sure, but I remember seeing it for the first time. Gavin James introduced it to me, and it was, what's your dad like? And I, like, lost my mind. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

I remember being in when we were doing some show. Maybe it was our east coast. Our first Good Neighbor east coast tour.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Did we stay with a family member of yours? Yeah, In Marble, Massachusetts.

[Beck Bennett]

Marblehead. My aunt Susan.

[Kyle Mooney]

Marblehead. Yeah. I remember watching.

[Beck Bennett]

And Uncle Harlan.

[Shopify Announcer]

That's where I grew up.

[Beck Bennett]

You grew up in Marblehead?

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, this is.

[Beck Bennett]

Whoa.

[Shopify Announcer]

Did we talk about this?

[Beck Bennett]

I don't think so.

[Shopify Announcer]

This is crazy. You would just say that out of.

[Beck Bennett]

Did you grow up going to the yacht club, or were there two there?

[Shopify Announcer]

No, no. We were like an immigrant family.

[Tim Heidecker]

Ooh.

[Beck Bennett]

Not allowed.

[Shopify Announcer]

Not really. Yeah, they weren't begging us to come by or anything.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, Sorry about that.

[Tim Heidecker]

That's okay.

[Beck Bennett]

We had the jcc. Oh, there was a JCC in Marblehead?

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, great. That's better. That's where. That's where. That's where I would be jamming. I'm not touching, but my aunt got married at the yacht club. What's that?

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm not getting into the yacht club stuff.

[Beck Bennett]

But what about the jcc?

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

I just don't want to get involved in that.

[Beck Bennett]

That's fair. But. Yeah, that's. That's.

[Kyle Mooney]

Anyway, in Marblehead, I remember us all watching Good Neighbor, watching an episode together, and of Tim and Eric. Awesome show. And laughing and having fun.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. It was a whole create. The beginning of an era, I would say, of sketch comedy and.

[Tim Heidecker]

Well, let's.

[Kyle Mooney]

Let's flatter Tim himself and let him know how we feel.

[Beck Bennett]

Let's flatter his ass.

[Kyle Mooney]

Bring him in.

[Beck Bennett]

Come on in here, Tim.

[Kyle Mooney]

What up, B?

[Beck Bennett]

What up, Kidman? What's going down?

[Kyle Mooney]

Just hanging around. You know you and me are both married, right?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, I think so.

[Kyle Mooney]

Can. Would you agree that wedding music can be corny sometimes? And it. When you go to a wedding, dude.

[Beck Bennett]

I feel like I'm the only person who's thinking this. And you're totally right.

[Kyle Mooney]

I love that we found something that we. We can agree upon. You know, sometimes the music doesn't totally represent the client's personal musical taste.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, well, then that's the problem, because I'm usually like, this music's good, but it doesn't represent the taste.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's not like Randy and Alicia.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah. Randy and Alicia wouldn't listen to that.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, Dart works with actual musicians and artists, many of whom have their own productive careers or touring bands. You've heard of. I'm talking Leon Bridges.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes. Lalome Love it tops. Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

And Anderson Paak.

[Beck Bennett]

Of course. I know all those guys and girls personally. No, no.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. I have actually. I've used the dark DJs.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, it finally comes out.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay. What did you use?

[Kyle Mooney]

The dark DJs at my wedding.

[Tim Heidecker]

Really?

[Beck Bennett]

Your wedding was amazing. It was baller. It was off the chain.

[Kyle Mooney]

And my 40th birthday party.

[Beck Bennett]

I was there too. That was baller. That was off the chain.

[Kyle Mooney]

I have pretty niche specific music tastes.

[Beck Bennett]

You do.

[Kyle Mooney]

But you know what they do? They're able. The dark DJs. You're mad about it.

[Beck Bennett]

No, I'm not.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm not trying to make you feel bad because I listen to like, you know, bands you might not be aware of and.

[Beck Bennett]

Did you ever play those records that I got you for your birthday? Two years. Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

I love them.

[Beck Bennett]

You don't have to say that in front of everybody.

[Kyle Mooney]

I do sort of like give me some like old school house.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, I did. Pretty cool actually.

[Kyle Mooney]

Dart DJs use vinyl and are cool in the way that your peers would be. Not a dated carnival cruise performer. They even have an in house stylist to make sure all personnel look perfect on the day. I didn't even realize that.

[Beck Bennett]

Wow.

[Kyle Mooney]

They travel all over the world for events from Morocco to Italy, Greece and the Maldives. Dart has done huge high profile events and also intimate 50 person events. So a massive range. Hiring Dart feels like hiring your very talented friend who happens to be a DJ or a musician. The difference is they are professionals and will perform and execute the full scope of the event at an elite level. You know the thing. What they're good about what?

[Beck Bennett]

Tell me.

[Kyle Mooney]

You tell them like, this is what these are like some songs I want to hear. You know what I mean?

[Beck Bennett]

Right.

[Kyle Mooney]

This is the vibe.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Because these are musicians or artists. They hear that and like, okay, I'm gonna make sure that I'm making the client happy and I'm playing the music they want. But I could also add a little touches of stuff that is in the same realm.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, Right. So if I'm like, I want drums, not beats.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well then they're gonna think you're stupid.

[Beck Bennett]

Why?

[Kyle Mooney]

Because that doesn't.

[Beck Bennett]

Do you mean I want drums, not beat? This is how I want Guitar, not.

[Kyle Mooney]

Strings, not like violins. You're saying strings, so you're going. So they're like. Okay, Beck, we're excited about the big party. What type of music you think in here?

[Beck Bennett]

I want drums, not beats.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, so you want like a live. You want music with like a live drummer, not like recorded?

[Beck Bennett]

I want recorded drums, not beats.

[Kyle Mooney]

So.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, what I said synthetic beats. I want real.

[Kyle Mooney]

Want a drum machine. You want a live drummer?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, I want drums, not beats.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. Yeah, we'll have all like kind of bands, like kind of classic bands with drummers in it.

[Beck Bennett]

Drums, not beats.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, you got it.

[Beck Bennett]

That would be amazing if I could finally have that conversation with a real professional. Dart is an engine for fair wages and payment for musicians in the industry. They offer everything From a single DJ to a 14 piece event band which would have drums, not beats. With hubs in la, San Francisco, Austin and New York, and now Chicago, which is where I'm from. Way to go, Chicago. Dart can easily play all over the country and world. So get on it. Time to time to dart. To dart right now. Go. Yeah, those were drums.

[Kyle Mooney]

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[Beck Bennett]

Every time you connect to an encrypted network in cafes, hotels, airports, et cetera. Your online data is not secure.

[Tim Heidecker]

Any.

[Beck Bennett]

Any hacker on the same network can gain access to and steal your personal data, passwords, bank logins, credit cards, etc. It doesn't take much technical knowledge. It doesn't take much technical knowledge to hack someone. Just some cheap hardware is needed. A smart 12 year old could do it. Your data is valuable. Hackers can make up to 1,000 per person selling personal info on the dark web.

[Kyle Mooney]

Thousand dollars? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So why is ExpressVPN the best? Well, it's super secure, right? It would take a hacker with a supercomputer over a billion years to get past ExpressVPN's encryption. Easy to use.

[Beck Bennett]

I didn't know that.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, seriously, they got these guys. I don't know if you've heard about these hackers with these big supercomputers. No, they've been working. I mean, they've only been doing it for a few years, but they'd have to work a billion years to get past ExpressVPN's encryption.

[Beck Bennett]

Think, think, think, think.

[Kyle Mooney]

Whatever.

[Beck Bennett]

What do you believe in? Whatever you believe in.

[Kyle Mooney]

We're not saying you have to believe.

[Beck Bennett]

In Something you don't have to believe in anything except for ExpressVPN.

[Kyle Mooney]

I believe Jesus Christ is our savior.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes. But that's not what we're talking about. That's another ad. This ad is for ExpressVPN. I've never used it, but I found out my wife has been using it. Sounds like a bad.

[Kyle Mooney]

Easy to use.

[Beck Bennett]

It's. Oh, yeah, it's super easy to use, I think.

[Kyle Mooney]

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[Beck Bennett]

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[Beck Bennett]

Thanks.

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[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, no, this is gonna be. This is gonna be like pulling teeth.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't even know where they came up with these things, but they're cool. They're fun to.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. They can move around wherever you want, however you want to get comfortable.

[Tim Heidecker]

You see Marc Maron doing interviews this week?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, actually, we had him on the show.

[Tim Heidecker]

Oh, good.

[Kyle Mooney]

He's not come out yet.

[Tim Heidecker]

He's wearing shorts and flip flops in some of these.

[Kyle Mooney]

Do you like that or how do.

[Beck Bennett]

You feel about that?

[Tim Heidecker]

It's just. I'm happy for him to be comfortable, but just seems like a. A big change for him. A big adjustment for him.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

Is this gonna trigger you?

[Kyle Mooney]

All right. Tim's giving me a hard time. I'm Padres fan.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm not triggered, but thanks for saying so.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Because the.

[Tim Heidecker]

Getting interesting because the Dodgers won the.

[Beck Bennett]

Whole thing last year.

[Podcast Announcer]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And they beat the Padres out of.

[Kyle Mooney]

It three games back right now.

[Tim Heidecker]

It's gonna be an interesting race to the finish line.

[Kyle Mooney]

Big moves at the trade deadline for the Padres.

[Beck Bennett]

Dude, I don't know any of that crap.

[Tim Heidecker]

Is this. Are you guys getting this?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, we don't like.

[Tim Heidecker]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, we don't like what's happening?

[Tim Heidecker]

What is this?

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, we're so excited to have you, man.

[Tim Heidecker]

Thank you.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

Well, this is. You've done my thing, which we should promote right away. It's kind of why I'm out here.

[Beck Bennett]

Office hours.

[Tim Heidecker]

That's right.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Office hours live.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah. Which has been going on for years and very successful and popular and people love when you come on the show.

[Kyle Mooney]

I always have such a blast. It's always. It's always.

[Tim Heidecker]

It's always a bit of a trip.

[Beck Bennett]

It's a journey.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. I actually haven't been on.

[Tim Heidecker]

Haven't been asked.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Which is. You know, I was thinking about that. I was like, what? And I was like, no, it's all good. It's totally.

[Tim Heidecker]

I didn't know you lived in la.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

I've seen you at.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, we used to be.

[Beck Bennett]

We bumped into each other a little bit here and there.

[Tim Heidecker]

Are these transitioned yet? Have you noticed this? I got the transition. The sunglass transition things.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, that is really cool.

[Tim Heidecker]

But are they. Are they transitioned to daylight?

[Kyle Mooney]

Sunglasses?

[Beck Bennett]

Maybe. Maybe if you kind of go like that.

[Tim Heidecker]

No, you need. You need light, right? I need daylight. Can we do this outside of.

[Kyle Mooney]

Stare directly in that. In the big light we have above us.

[Tim Heidecker]

I'm just. I don't. You know, I don't like that look where it's like sunglasses, but you could still see my eyeballs.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. You don't like.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, yeah. Because you don't want people to know where you're looking. You want to.

[Tim Heidecker]

You want to be able to use them for reading.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay.

[Tim Heidecker]

Is that going to. Is that okay for continuity?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. There's no continuity.

[Beck Bennett]

There's no continuity.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's not an issue.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

It's a movie.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. You're asking Kyle because he's the director, right? Yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

You do direct movies now. Because I was in one of them.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's right.

[Tim Heidecker]

How was that experience directing, making the.

[Kyle Mooney]

Movie or working with you?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, it was.

[Kyle Mooney]

It was great and it was fun. I feel like.

[Tim Heidecker]

Exactly. Alfred Hitchcock. Wow.

[Beck Bennett]

As a director, he's not exactly Alfred Hitchcock. Yeah, well, he's a little different.

[Kyle Mooney]

Because I'm not as skilled as what you're saying.

[Tim Heidecker]

No, just.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, doesn't have the. The look.

[Tim Heidecker]

But that's a high bar. I mean, no one should say I'm not Alfred Hitchcock. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

I feel like that's a rude thing to say.

[Tim Heidecker]

I thought you compare anyone to somebody like that.

[Beck Bennett]

I think you're talking about the way he looked.

[Tim Heidecker]

Definitely not. Because I was a portly fella. He's a big, big fella.

[Beck Bennett]

Does not have these.

[Kyle Mooney]

Regardless, it was a fun. It was a fun time. And working with you is always great, and I feel like we got closer over the course.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah, you must. And you must have lots of other movies lined up to direct.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. What else do you have coming up down the pipeline as a director?

[Kyle Mooney]

I feel like Tim is, like, fishing. He's like.

[Tim Heidecker]

And this is Mr. Superman.

[Beck Bennett]

You.

[Tim Heidecker]

Were you Superman?

[Beck Bennett]

I was, yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

Or which one? Which guy were you?

[Kyle Mooney]

He was Steve Lombard.

[Beck Bennett]

I. Steve. Yeah, Steve Lombard.

[Tim Heidecker]

Okay.

[Podcast Announcer]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

We don't know if he's gonna. We actually don't.

[Kyle Mooney]

He's upset.

[Tim Heidecker]

I'm just not. I don't know the. I don't know the lore that well. Is he a big character in the Superman world?

[Beck Bennett]

Absolutely. Daily Planet, in the comics. In 72, 73, something like that. He's. In simple terms, he's the douchebag at the Daily Planet.

[Tim Heidecker]

Oh.

[Beck Bennett]

He makes fun of Clark Kent. Hits on the ladies.

[Tim Heidecker]

But he's not in the old movies. The Christopher Reeve. Christopher Reeve, which is my opinion, are the only Superman movies.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Except for this one. This is. This is this. Actually, they came out and said this one. Better than the originals.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah, better than the original.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah. No, it's number one.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

What? Matt Kelly, I believe his name is, played him in man of Steel.

[Tim Heidecker]

You seem a little annoyed already bummed out. You seem like you're disassociating.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, no, no, no, no. I'm. I'm paying attention. And I'm. We're excited to have you, Tim. Of course, talking Matt Kelly.

[Beck Bennett]

We are very excited to have you. Very excited.

[Kyle Mooney]

Tell us about old school Adult Swim.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Legend.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah, totally. Did you ever. You never. You did snl. That was sort of the other, you know, comedy world.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

And which is similar late night sketch kind of comedy.

[Kyle Mooney]

Similar to your show. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, our show is live and it's sort of, I would say, maybe has a little, you know, more foundational in the fabric of. Of entertainment.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, we love it because I thought.

[Kyle Mooney]

It was so absurd. And you would do these skits where it would be the editing. Do you remember that?

[Tim Heidecker]

It was all about the editing.

[Beck Bennett]

It was all about the editing. It was all about awkwardness.

[Tim Heidecker]

Definitely awkward. It was almost like a kind of a cable access lo fi thing.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

And we. And tell us about that. That must have been remarkable.

[Tim Heidecker]

I hate when interviewers go tell us about, you know. Or what was it like?

[Kyle Mooney]

Sure, sure. I'll ask a more specific.

[Beck Bennett]

Awesome show.

[Tim Heidecker]

Sure. Also. Yes. No, questions are tricky.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

Because we're going with that.

[Beck Bennett]

We're new to podcasts. You've obviously been podcasting a long time.

[Tim Heidecker]

But this is sort of a podcasting. I don't know if this is public knowledge, but this room is where a lot of it goes down.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. What are some of the podcasts, you know, that go down here?

[Tim Heidecker]

Wtf?

[Kyle Mooney]

I think that's at Mark's house.

[Tim Heidecker]

I thought he moved to here. I thought they.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, he was here.

[Tim Heidecker]

We interviewed, started doing it where he started doing it in his garage.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

And I think he does it here now.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh.

[Tim Heidecker]

Or not.

[Kyle Mooney]

Maybe.

[Beck Bennett]

I think he came here to do this podcast here, but I don't think he does it because I think he's done with it.

[Tim Heidecker]

Doughboys.

[Beck Bennett]

Doughboys, yeah. Hollywood Handbook.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yep.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Yeah. A lot. A lot of good stuff happens here.

[Tim Heidecker]

Anything else?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, I was curious. So you. Yeah. So as you know, or maybe you don't know, Tim Beck and I have started. Yes. We're trying to figure out what our podcast should be about. We're going to ask you at some point, not right now. What you think our podcast like a.

[Tim Heidecker]

Better last name, don't you think?

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, well, it's funny that you say that. It was my mom's maiden name.

[Tim Heidecker]

Okay. So what's your first name?

[Beck Bennett]

Christopher. Oh, Christopher Beck Bennett.

[Tim Heidecker]

This is like a Paul McCartney situation.

[Beck Bennett]

Exactly.

[Tim Heidecker]

James. Paul McCartney's name is James.

[Kyle Mooney]

I actually didn't know that. Is that his son's name? What is his son's name?

[Tim Heidecker]

And his mother's maiden name was Paul. That's cool.

[Beck Bennett]

That's pretty cool.

[Tim Heidecker]

You didn't like James? Oh, no. What was your real name?

[Beck Bennett]

Christopher.

[Tim Heidecker]

Christopher.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. My parents started calling me back when.

[Tim Heidecker]

I was Christopher Bennett. Christopher. That's not going far in showbiz.

[Beck Bennett]

That's not going to be on Superman. That's not going to be on Saturday night.

[Tim Heidecker]

I gotta see this. Superman. Have you seen it?

[Kyle Mooney]

We were just saying. I actually saw it this past weekend. Yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

Really?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Beck was great. I loved the line. What is it? Where's my seat?

[Beck Bennett]

Plus close. Why don't I have a seat? And I improvised that. That was.

[Tim Heidecker]

Who's Jimmy Olsen? Because that feels like the part to get.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah. That's Skyler. Skyler Jasondo.

[Tim Heidecker]

Oh, I know him. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

I did a movie. I did a movie with him, actually.

[Beck Bennett]

What movie did you do?

[Tim Heidecker]

You guys don't know?

[Beck Bennett]

Book smart.

[Tim Heidecker]

I think it was Vacation. The Vacation.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

Were you a fan of the original Vacation?

[Tim Heidecker]

Oh, Sure. I mean, yeah. Do I look at. Am I supposed to be looking in the camera?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, the whole time. If you could just look into the camera.

[Kyle Mooney]

You don't need to. You could just be interacting with us.

[Tim Heidecker]

Okay. So we can go back and start over.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, no, no, no. It's all good. We'll take care of this.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, they'll take care. You keep checking your Apple Watch. Is that because you're checking the stats?

[Tim Heidecker]

Thank you for calling it an Apple Watch. A lot of people call it a iWatch, which it's not.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, an iWatch. I watch because.

[Tim Heidecker]

IPad, iPhone.

[Beck Bennett]

Right.

[Tim Heidecker]

I don't know why they went Apple Watch, not I watch.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, that's it. That actually would be a decent sort of stand up style routine now.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

We were, you know, before you got in here, Tim Beck and I were talking about when we first saw awesome show.

[Tim Heidecker]

Right.

[Beck Bennett]

Which.

[Tim Heidecker]

And you remember that?

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Beck, I think, showed me a clip of. I feel like it was the Hacky Sack video.

[Tim Heidecker]

Sure. That's season one.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

You didn't know about us before that.

[Kyle Mooney]

I had heard of Tom Goes to the Mayor. I don't know that I'd really seen it.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. And I first introduction was awesome show and it was. Think about your dad.

[Tim Heidecker]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

What's your dad like?

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah, that's an early one. So you guys were right there at the beginning.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Now how do you feel? You know, I do feel like the style of the way the show looked and the way it was edited and even performance to, to a degree became.

[Tim Heidecker]

Should I put these? I didn't realize you guys had headphones.

[Beck Bennett]

Put the cans on.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, you can.

[Beck Bennett]

We don't put the. We don't put the cans on.

[Tim Heidecker]

No, no. Well, we're not taking calls or listening to things.

[Beck Bennett]

Right, right.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, Go for it. Thank you. Appreciate it. You know, I feel like that style sort of resonated and became somewhat ubiquitous in comedy and videos and filmmaking. Do you have any thoughts on that? Do you feel like the sort of aesthetic of Tim and Eric leaked into other things and did you ever have any bitterness over that or joy.

[Tim Heidecker]

Bitterness or joy are my two options.

[Kyle Mooney]

Or anything else.

[Beck Bennett]

Sorry, Fear.

[Tim Heidecker]

Fear. Well, pride.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, great.

[Tim Heidecker]

I think pride in the work that we made an impact and that there's people that we inspired and offered a new way of thinking about doing comedy. But I don't like to think, I don't like to look back.

[Kyle Mooney]

Really?

[Tim Heidecker]

No.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, I was going to ask you about meeting Eric in college, I believe.

[Tim Heidecker]

Really?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. But I Don't want to make you go back if you don't want to go back.

[Tim Heidecker]

Is it something you're actually interested in?

[Beck Bennett]

I. Well, me and Kyle Madden.

[Kyle Mooney]

Dude, you're. I think you're. I think I've told you before, I think your shit's amazing.

[Tim Heidecker]

It's.

[Beck Bennett]

It's fucking. It's fucking iconic. It's legendary. It really is.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

We wouldn't be here without.

[Kyle Mooney]

You ran into Eric in the halls.

[Tim Heidecker]

Literally. Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

Because. Because he's. You ran into him. He's tall.

[Tim Heidecker]

He's a big guy.

[Beck Bennett]

How do you run into a guy like that?

[Kyle Mooney]

What was the school you were going to?

[Tim Heidecker]

We were at both at Clown University.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. This is one of Tim's old. Oh, I'm gonna. I'm gonna bull crap you guys.

[Tim Heidecker]

Temple. Temple University.

[Kyle Mooney]

Is that where Cosby went?

[Tim Heidecker]

No, we don't. Yeah, I mean, he did, but not when I was there. I actually got you.

[Beck Bennett]

You weren't. You weren't at temple in the 40s.

[Tim Heidecker]

I got a. I did get my. No, no joke. I got my diploma from him.

[Kyle Mooney]

Really?

[Tim Heidecker]

At the. At the graduation ceremony. Yeah, he gave. He gave the. What's it called? The ballot. The. Not the valedictorian.

[Beck Bennett]

He gave the valedictorian commencement speech.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah. And handed the. I think he was in his sweatpants. He was not well dressed for the occasion.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, wow. And he was. Yeah, he's Jello pudding.

[Tim Heidecker]

He gave me. That's a pretty good impression.

[Beck Bennett]

Jello pudding.

[Tim Heidecker]

Did you ever do that on snl? I tried, but they wouldn't let me do SNL impressions. Who are your guys?

[Beck Bennett]

Putin.

[Tim Heidecker]

Right?

[Beck Bennett]

It was kind of like. It was.

[Tim Heidecker]

You did Obama.

[Beck Bennett]

I did Obama. And I did.

[Tim Heidecker]

Remember that? Fred did Obama.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. That was a great Obama. He doesn't like to. He likes to look back at that.

[Tim Heidecker]

He did a couple of black guys. He did the governor of New York, which is very funny. The blind guy.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes. And, well, he's talented. Kyle, you're kind of making a face here.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, no.

[Tim Heidecker]

You didn't do impressions on snl.

[Kyle Mooney]

I mean, I never really volunteered myself for an impression, but sometimes I was thrown in.

[Beck Bennett]

I feel like.

[Tim Heidecker]

You didn't. Never really feel fit in there. I know. You were there eight years.

[Kyle Mooney]

I was there nine.

[Beck Bennett]

What about. What about.

[Tim Heidecker]

You were fine.

[Beck Bennett]

Thank you, bro.

[Tim Heidecker]

You served that kind of Fred. I mean, that kind of Hartman.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Thank you.

[Tim Heidecker]

Throw him in. You can play the boss. You could play the boyfriend. You. They're sort of like. Can we cut? Is it more of like a Sarah Squirm problem.

[Kyle Mooney]

Right.

[Tim Heidecker]

What are we doing this.

[Beck Bennett]

We love Sarah. Squirm problem. We don't. We don't think she's a problem, but.

[Tim Heidecker]

I don't know what. Who could he impersonate?

[Kyle Mooney]

Right.

[Beck Bennett]

I know. It's like. It's like there's.

[Kyle Mooney]

We never got the full story on meeting Eric at the. In school, at temple.

[Tim Heidecker]

Well, we were both offered SNL and turned it down because we wanted to do our own thing.

[Beck Bennett]

Big mistake. We did not do that.

[Tim Heidecker]

No, you guys just sort of took that first offer, which was snl.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, it took a while. It actually took a little while.

[Beck Bennett]

It took a little while. We were trying to get a show like you and Eric, but it was slow to go. We were hashing out the details on the contract with our lawyers and stuff. And then SNL came calling and Lauren picked up the phone.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah, well, it actually took us a while, too. We were not. I was thinking about this, that we were a little older when we got our first shot. Tom Goes to the Mayor for us. It felt young, but now I see people who started younger and are now more successful at a younger age. But we were 28 or something like that when we got.

[Kyle Mooney]

And I feel like I've heard the story that you sent DVDs to some prominent comedy folks.

[Tim Heidecker]

We did. We sent. I knew, like, three people who I thought might like it. And there was Bob Odenkirk and Conan o', Brien, Robert Smigel. I think I even sent it to Steven Soderbergh.

[Beck Bennett]

Really?

[Tim Heidecker]

I don't know. I just was like, I like his movies. And he had made this movie called Schizopolis. Have you ever seen Schizopolis?

[Beck Bennett]

I haven't seen it.

[Tim Heidecker]

It's a great. It's really one of the weirdest, weirdest movies ever. And he kind of made it. I was. Well, he definitely made it.

[Kyle Mooney]

Sure.

[Tim Heidecker]

So in between bigger movies. So I just thought maybe he would like what we were doing. Never heard back, but we did hear back from Bob, and Bob became our guy Shepherd.

[Beck Bennett]

He's kind of the God.

[Tim Heidecker]

Enter.

[Beck Bennett]

I feel like I've casually. He's like the Godfather of sketch comedy. A little bit.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yes. He cares about it. He's a very caring, passionate person about a lot of things, but specifically comedy. And when he sees something he likes, he really wants to foster it, support it, mentor it. And that's who he was for us for several years.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

You are on tour right now, or. I don't know when this is coming out, but you're doing A tour this summer. You had toured with me earlier this year. Yeah, I would say opening. It's a very good band and did some of my shows, and then suddenly, oh, now you're doing a tour.

[Beck Bennett]

That's really interesting.

[Kyle Mooney]

Is that not allowed?

[Tim Heidecker]

It is definitely allowed, but there's been no, like, acknowledgement.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, let me take the time being.

[Tim Heidecker]

Like, oh, actually, I could tour. I'm gonna do this.

[Beck Bennett]

Where'd you get that idea?

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah, sure, sure, sure, sure.

[Beck Bennett]

And also, to be honest, while we're at it, I did a music show in 2020 at Dynasty, typewriter. And then the Pandemic hit, so I couldn't keep doing it. But then Kyle, five years later, Kyle comes out with an album and tours the real me. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay.

[Tim Heidecker]

What was your music at the time?

[Beck Bennett]

It was kind of a pop kind of.

[Tim Heidecker]

Which it would have to be popular to be considered pop. I'm kidding.

[Beck Bennett]

It was pop style.

[Tim Heidecker]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, it was pop style. Kind of Rock. Pop. Pop rock. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And I think.

[Beck Bennett]

I actually think a little space, Serge Gainsbourg style stuff and some.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think there's space for everybody to be. To be creating. And I do want to say thank you for putting me on that pedestal and let me open for you. I had a great time. I had a great time hanging with you and hanging with the folks from the band.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

You know, I had had the idea of, like, at some point going on tour.

[Tim Heidecker]

Oh, really?

[Kyle Mooney]

And actually, I feel like you helped build my confidence, like, oh, I can do this. So. So, yeah, the timing worked out great.

[Tim Heidecker]

And, yeah, I never got nice to get that now I just. I haven't gotten it. This is the first time I'm getting it.

[Kyle Mooney]

I didn't know.

[Beck Bennett]

Never got a thank you.

[Tim Heidecker]

I never got, like.

[Beck Bennett]

Like, thanks for bringing me.

[Tim Heidecker]

Well, I'm sure I got a thank you at some point from you for me and having you come on the road with me.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, sure.

[Tim Heidecker]

You said in passing.

[Kyle Mooney]

I feel like.

[Beck Bennett]

I feel, like, very grateful.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, absolutely. And I. And I truly am.

[Tim Heidecker]

Right. And was it after the fact? There was never, like, a, hey, I'm gonna do this tour. Thank you, by the way, for including me. And I do.

[Kyle Mooney]

I. I want to say. And let me, like, I feel like I want to be genuine for a moment.

[Tim Heidecker]

Sure.

[Kyle Mooney]

I am incredibly thankful. I. I do feel like. And I mean this, not in a way that I don't want to, like, force any negative energy towards you by any means, but I do think that, like, touring in comedy or entertainment or music is. Is pretty commonplace. So, like, I don't know that me, even though I did open for you, I. And I. And I am so thankful you think.

[Tim Heidecker]

It'S absurd that I'm. I'm sort of putting pressure on you to, like, acknowledge me as an influence on a tour.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't. I'm not gonna say absurd. I'm just saying, like, it's like, oh, yeah, I'm gonna tour. I don't think it.

[Podcast Announcer]

I don't.

[Tim Heidecker]

Would it be easier for you just to kind of go, yeah, you're right. Thank you for kind of putting that bug in my head.

[Kyle Mooney]

I did do that moments ago, but I feel like. I feel like you have this habit. And again, I'm not. I don't. I'm not trying to offend you. I have so much love for you. I've told you before. We were just talking about the old school. Tim and Eric. Shit.

[Tim Heidecker]

Sure.

[Beck Bennett]

And then all the new, too. Fucking loving everything.

[Kyle Mooney]

I mean, you've been doing. You're so prolific.

[Tim Heidecker]

But I don't. Bugged me. Maybe when I. The first thing that comes in, the first thing that happens when I come and sit down is, let's talk about something that happened 20 years ago when I'm a pretty vibrant. So you don't think the people watching this or listening to this have any. Any context of where I come from or who I am?

[Kyle Mooney]

I.

[Beck Bennett]

Maybe not.

[Kyle Mooney]

They might not. We have. We have. We don't all have the exact same fans. And by the way, Tim, what I'm trying to do is I'm actually.

[Tim Heidecker]

You're.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm not doing anything.

[Tim Heidecker]

Upset.

[Beck Bennett]

It's all good, man.

[Kyle Mooney]

We're here hanging out with Tim. I feel like Tim does this.

[Tim Heidecker]

Tempo goes. This is your. I could feel your blood pressure.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't know what you're talking about.

[Tim Heidecker]

Going up.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't know what you're talking about.

[Beck Bennett]

How did you.

[Tim Heidecker]

Eric. Tempo. Your tempo. Your.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, okay.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, get it out now. Let's see. Let's see what else you want to say?

[Tim Heidecker]

I haven't said anything. I'm just.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm just saying, like, I don't need to say thank you for, like, putting me on, like, because I'm on tour. Okay. And I said thank you.

[Beck Bennett]

And that's like.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's actually enough for that. Okay.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah, great.

[Beck Bennett]

WTF question right here.

[Kyle Mooney]

Exactly.

[Tim Heidecker]

That happened in this decade.

[Beck Bennett]

So how did you and Eric meet?

[Tim Heidecker]

We met. I explained how we met. Or I think I did.

[Beck Bennett]

Or maybe I didn't attempt. I don't know why, but you Ran into each other in the halls.

[Kyle Mooney]

What do you want to.

[Beck Bennett]

What.

[Kyle Mooney]

How's office hours going?

[Ad Read Announcer]

Good.

[Tim Heidecker]

We miss you.

[Kyle Mooney]

I want to come by you guys. Are you guys always every. Yeah, everybody treats me great. Except for one little knucklehead over here. You sick son of a. Whoa. Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

How did that feel? To finally get that? He's been holding on to that for a long time.

[Tim Heidecker]

But you're. You guys are entering a very crowded space. Yeah. The podcast. A little bit late.

[Beck Bennett]

That's right.

[Tim Heidecker]

Because you had the.

[Beck Bennett]

That's right.

[Tim Heidecker]

You had the workaholics guys come out, and now the Lonely island guys have come out stuff. And of course, I've been in this space for a very long time.

[Beck Bennett]

Absolutely.

[Tim Heidecker]

Where do you guys see yourselves fitting into the.

[Kyle Mooney]

We're doing. We're trying to do something creative. We're trying to do something that is original. We're trying to figure out what our podcast is. That's what we bring the guests in.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Nick and I have a great rapport. We go back since the college days.

[Beck Bennett]

It's been a really fun energy, but not. It was before. It was after 9, 11.

[Tim Heidecker]

You guys are a little younger. You guys are a good. I. I feel. I always feel like I'm the same age as everybody.

[Kyle Mooney]

Sure, sure.

[Tim Heidecker]

But I'm not. I'm older than you guys, right? Like.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, a little bit.

[Ad Read Announcer]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

What year were you born?

[Tim Heidecker]

76, baby.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, you look a whole lot younger than that.

[Tim Heidecker]

Good. 10 years older than you. Right. Because you're what, 44.

[Beck Bennett]

40.

[Tim Heidecker]

Wow.

[Beck Bennett]

40 guys.

[Tim Heidecker]

But same. Not even the same generation. Anyways. You're Gen X. I'm Gen X. You're millennial.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

So you. That's right. Because I feel like, in terms of snl, okay, my contemporaries are the Lonely Island.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, sure.

[Tim Heidecker]

They. I'm serious. They were my. They're my age when they got snl. Eric and I were starting out. We were all like, kind of you guys.

[Kyle Mooney]

I remember seeing them in your. In the old Tim and Eric video.

[Beck Bennett]

That's right.

[Tim Heidecker]

And then we were established and we had been doing things, and then up come the young kid, the. The upstarts, you two.

[Beck Bennett]

That's right.

[Tim Heidecker]

And to some degree, Nick. And to an even lesser degree. Well, I should say to some degree, Dave. And to an even lesser degree, Nick.

[Beck Bennett]

Sure. He's going to be happy. He's going to love hearing that.

[Tim Heidecker]

Did he not get a job on the show?

[Beck Bennett]

He did. He wrote on the show. Our second season.

[Tim Heidecker]

It's not for everybody.

[Beck Bennett]

It's not for everybody. It's really not.

[Tim Heidecker]

How often do you talk to Lorne Michaels now?

[Kyle Mooney]

Do you get a. Did you get a. Did he wish you happy birthday last year?

[Beck Bennett]

No.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think probably, yeah. The 50th. It's fine.

[Beck Bennett]

I got invited to the, to the cocktail party on Saturday, so.

[Tim Heidecker]

The 50th? You went to the 50th?

[Beck Bennett]

At the 50th.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Saw him there. Give him a big hug.

[Tim Heidecker]

Great.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Do you, do you know Lauren?

[Tim Heidecker]

No.

[Beck Bennett]

You've never met him?

[Tim Heidecker]

Never met him.

[Beck Bennett]

Do you want to.

[Tim Heidecker]

I don't care. Okay. Either way.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Do you have dreams? Do you want to that show?

[Tim Heidecker]

Don't want to host that show. No, I don't. No. Things would have to be very different in my life if that came to be. I mean, I would have to be a much more well known than I think you're. And I'd have to have come. You know, I have to have like a, A big movie come out that I'm in. I'm a big part of or something.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

Hasn't happened.

[Kyle Mooney]

That could happen. That could happen.

[Beck Bennett]

Anything could definitely happen.

[Tim Heidecker]

I feel like I would think it would be fun to do, I imagine. Did you ever host? No. A lot of times they have the cast come back and host.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, you got to be a big cast.

[Tim Heidecker]

You got to be huge.

[Beck Bennett]

You got to be huge. You got to be a big deal.

[Kyle Mooney]

We've had a couple of the cast members come back from our, our sort of crew and host already and they're great shows.

[Tim Heidecker]

Where do you rank yourselves in the list of the all time cast members?

[Kyle Mooney]

Where do you put so many?

[Tim Heidecker]

Great.

[Kyle Mooney]

I mean, I think.

[Tim Heidecker]

Are you in the top 20?

[Beck Bennett]

Probably not, no.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's a mean thing to say.

[Tim Heidecker]

I mean, no, I'm, I, I'll tell you where I think you fit in.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Yeah. That's what I'm.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't like this stuff.

[Tim Heidecker]

Where do you think? I'm asking, where do you fit?

[Beck Bennett]

Let's say how many have there been? About 170.

[Tim Heidecker]

I don't know. We can look that up.

[Beck Bennett]

167. One, maybe one.

[Tim Heidecker]

That's a good number to find.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't need to know Tim's ranking of where I've. Where I fall in the.

[Tim Heidecker]

How many. What's total number?

[Kyle Mooney]

167.

[Tim Heidecker]

Okay. What did you say?

[Beck Bennett]

I said 170.

[Tim Heidecker]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

So he's thinking about it. Yeah. Just go with the blink.

[Kyle Mooney]

You don't need to give an answer.

[Tim Heidecker]

Right. Because like also I think people Watching. Are excited to hear where I think you guys.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. To me just to like, just to dissect it for a moment.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

I feel like. Well, one you have. There's the. There's the issue that one of us could get our. Our feelings hurt.

[Beck Bennett]

No way.

[Tim Heidecker]

Who would that be? Not him.

[Beck Bennett]

No way.

[Tim Heidecker]

Because Beck seems very confident about where he is in life. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Look at what I'm sitting here.

[Tim Heidecker]

He's just been cast and he's just appeared in Superman Global.

[Beck Bennett]

Huge. People are going to be watching that for decades.

[Tim Heidecker]

And you're doing pretty well on tour. They're playing rock clubs and everything.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Yeah. He's getting the word out wherever.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

I guess. I guess my point is just that, like, you never know if you could hurt somebody's feelings and you get another. Yeah. Yeah. So then what is your intention? I guess is what some of wondering.

[Tim Heidecker]

Right. Well, I think it's just. It's a fun. Like, we love. People love talking about that show. Yeah. And thinking like, I've seen all that.

[Kyle Mooney]

There's so many outlets doing it. Like, why do you know, why would.

[Beck Bennett]

You talk a lot about the show? You got. You've written. I think you've written songs about every cast member. Not every cast member.

[Tim Heidecker]

I'm not. I've not written songs about any cast.

[Beck Bennett]

There was a little song, wasn't there? You and Fred or.

[Tim Heidecker]

Oh, maybe Vic.

[Beck Bennett]

You guys were doing songs.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yes. No. You know, we did puns using Saturday Night Live cast members, but you don't want me to.

[Kyle Mooney]

No go number. You know, I feel like you've led the. Led the producers. Do we want to hear it?

[Tim Heidecker]

Big number. 167 is a big number.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. And where do we fall?

[Tim Heidecker]

Because.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, here we go.

[Tim Heidecker]

I like.

[Beck Bennett]

This is going to be a huge headline when the podcast comes out.

[Tim Heidecker]

I'll tell you this. I won't get a number. We won't give a number. Ranks top 50.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

That is awesome, dude. That is so great. Thank you, brother.

[Tim Heidecker]

You're above Charles Rocket and oh, Victoria Jackson.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

She's.

[Tim Heidecker]

She was great on the show. And in fact, I might. She's turned into kind of a creep, but sure. I think. I think maybe you're right. Maybe she is in the top 52. I don't know where you fit with her, but that's fair.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, that's.

[Tim Heidecker]

Anyways, that's a pretty big deal.

[Beck Bennett]

That's a great deal.

[Kyle Mooney]

I actually feel a lot better about it. And I don't know, I feel like.

[Tim Heidecker]

Would you put yourselves in the top 50.

[Beck Bennett]

I'd have to look at all the names.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah, me too.

[Kyle Mooney]

I can make it.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I could probably be in top 50.

[Kyle Mooney]

And I do want to ask your forgiveness, Tim. I feel like I did. I do get worked up because I feel like sometimes you bring this energy that's sort of. I don't know, Riles. It's like I can't tell if sometimes you're coming after me. And, like, I also don't know if it's a bit. Or where it sort of lies. So sometimes I do get a little offensive.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I think it's. I mean, I. From here, I don't see. I don't see anything wrong.

[Tim Heidecker]

Good.

[Beck Bennett]

With Tim. I think he's just being totally nice and normal. I mean, he's been a great guest. I was intimidated to have you here because I don't know you as well as Kyle, but you've been nothing but sweet and open and sort of chill and relaxed.

[Tim Heidecker]

Thanks.

[Beck Bennett]

And because. Yeah, because, you know, it's. Well, yeah, because he obviously has done a lot. He's been a huge influence, and he's continued to transform himself as an artist and creator and continue to make things and grow, which is one of the most incredible things.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah. I'm curious to see, like, what I do next and then what you do next and how they.

[Beck Bennett]

That.

[Kyle Mooney]

What are you working on?

[Beck Bennett]

I do.

[Kyle Mooney]

I am.

[Beck Bennett]

What you have. Okay, so this is actually. This is actually a real question. Okay. You have done a lot of things.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Do you have something that you're working on that has not come out?

[Tim Heidecker]

Okay. This is real. And I think I have not announced it anywhere else, but I don't know when this will come out. This podcast hasn't come out yet.

[Beck Bennett]

Hasn't. I don't know if it ever will. I hope it does. It's supposed to come out August 27th, but the. Soon.

[Tim Heidecker]

Perfect. I will have announced this. At some point. I will have announced this, but it's in real time. This is the first time I'm relaunching Real Time with Bill Maher as a Netflix show.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's amazing.

[Beck Bennett]

But it's you as Bill Maher.

[Tim Heidecker]

It's me. Well, it's Real Time with Bill Maher starring Tim Heidecker. So Bill Maher has. Branded is like a franchise. The idea of real time. Real time.

[Beck Bennett]

To me, that feels very Club Random.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah, it's very random, I guess. But no, it's not actually. It's very smart because it's a great form for a show that talk it's like a panel show with comedy and interesting guests. That's really cool. And I'll be the first host of Real Time with Bill Maher. That's really cool.

[Beck Bennett]

And do you. Do you have like a wig and stuff and like.

[Tim Heidecker]

No, it's just me. It's just me.

[Beck Bennett]

It's Real Time.

[Kyle Mooney]

All sorts of people coming in.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah, man. Like people from the comedy world.

[Kyle Mooney]

Absolutely.

[Tim Heidecker]

And would at some point would love to have one of you guys on.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

I mean, like.

[Tim Heidecker]

Or journalists, politicians.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

And everybody like that. Did I say Netflix? It's not on. It's.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, you said Netflix.

[Tim Heidecker]

Hbo, which is where they do.

[Kyle Mooney]

You aren't sure which network.

[Tim Heidecker]

I just blank. I always think Netflix now, but HBO owns it, Right? You're exactly right.

[Beck Bennett]

So they have the whole franchise. Do you think they're going to do.

[Tim Heidecker]

Like a ride, like an amusement park kind of thing? Be interesting. I mean, it would be cool to do like sort of an VR experience of what it would be like to be a guest on Real Time.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

You know.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. I mean, with the odds and I.

[Kyle Mooney]

Had no idea you were Simpsons ride and everything.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

The only difference is Larry Sanders sort.

[Kyle Mooney]

Of going behind the scenes.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah. This won't be live, Bill. Real Time with Bill Maher is live. This won't be live. This will be pre tape stuff. It's not. It's not exactly Real time.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, sure, sure, sure.

[Beck Bennett]

Right.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's interesting, man. That's gonna be really cool.

[Beck Bennett]

It's gonna be so exciting, and I can't wait for that to come out.

[Kyle Mooney]

How are you feeling right now in this moment? We're, we're, you know, maybe 50 minutes into. Into our sort of interview, sort of conversational portion with you. Obviously, we're new. A little bit of the podcasting thing. How you feeling? How are you doing?

[Tim Heidecker]

Thirsty and all otherwise having a great time.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, great.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay. Yeah, that's perfect. I was gonna. I was gonna try to ask one more question.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, please.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Can we get Tim some water?

[Tim Heidecker]

No ice? What? What?

[Beck Bennett]

Sorry about it. Anyway, why did you ask that? Why did you ask him that?

[Tim Heidecker]

Like, you're gonna also have like cherry syrup so I can, you know, make an Italian ice.

[Kyle Mooney]

She's just asking if you want. No, no. She just wants to know what temperature you want.

[Beck Bennett]

But if you want some cherries.

[Tim Heidecker]

Not a matter of cherries. I'm sorry. No one's ever been like ice.

[Beck Bennett]

I don't know.

[Kyle Mooney]

You've never been asked if you want.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, especially it. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Or Not.

[Tim Heidecker]

I just asked for water and I didn't. I mean, I would have said, we're.

[Kyle Mooney]

Getting it for you, buddy. Yeah, Coming right now.

[Tim Heidecker]

I love that. That's. I have to remember that one ice.

[Kyle Mooney]

You'll have to remember because it's going to make you laugh so much.

[Tim Heidecker]

There we go.

[Beck Bennett]

Thank you so much. On you.

[Tim Heidecker]

Well, I just. I could probably use that in my stand up or something. Thank you so much. Yes, no and okay. No coaster.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, you could just put it right on the. Right on the table there.

[Tim Heidecker]

Whatever.

[Kyle Mooney]

What is his deal?

[Beck Bennett]

No, he's being fine. He's being a nice, warm, gentle guy.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, sorry.

[Tim Heidecker]

I love that though, Ace.

[Kyle Mooney]

You love it that much?

[Tim Heidecker]

It's funny.

[Beck Bennett]

It's.

[Tim Heidecker]

I love people. I love like.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, right. The image. Like, what makes people do things. Why do they say that? Yeah. Where are they coming from? The behavior and everything?

[Kyle Mooney]

Did you ask your question that you wanted to ask?

[Beck Bennett]

No, but I'm. I'm kind of. I. I don't even know if it's a good question or not. Okay, ready?

[Tim Heidecker]

Let's find out.

[Beck Bennett]

All right. Have. Throughout the past couple decades. Has there.

[Tim Heidecker]

Like, we're talking 2001 to now.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, 2000, I guess specifically around the time that you. And sorry to bring up Eric again, so sorry. You guys started doing your own thing.

[Tim Heidecker]

A little bit more. Right. Were.

[Beck Bennett]

Was there ever a moment where you were genuinely nervous about what came next? Because to me, from the outside. Cause the outside, again, you've done so many things. It's like, I see you as somebody who has so many. And you guys are producing stuff through. Absolutely. You guys have a lot of stuff going on, but it's somebody. Like when we left snl, that was.

[Tim Heidecker]

A very hard time in getting our footing again, 100%. I think there's that feeling all the time, like, oh, I guess that's. I guess that's it, folks.

[Beck Bennett]

Right.

[Tim Heidecker]

Or you know what? Yeah. Phone hasn't rang or emails haven't come in about. And then something comes up usually. But there's always. My wife always tells me this. She's like, you've been. You always say this, like every. Every year you're like worried about what is happening, what's next. But then it's been 10 years of that.

[Beck Bennett]

Right. So there's always more. There's always something.

[Tim Heidecker]

There's always something.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

And then there's plenty of things that don't come my way. There's plenty of things that don't happen.

[Beck Bennett]

Sure.

[Tim Heidecker]

That could happen.

[Beck Bennett]

But don't that Are, like, close to happening.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah. Like. But yeah, I'm sure you're in the same thing where you audition for things.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

You must audition for the. I do read for things. Do you read for things?

[Kyle Mooney]

Sometimes.

[Tim Heidecker]

Do we know. Just. Do people know about this Arnold Schwarzenegger situation?

[Beck Bennett]

The situation that I'm in a movie with him?

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think it was announced online.

[Beck Bennett]

You haven't. Have you talked Kyle Mooney?

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay.

[Tim Heidecker]

It's wonderful working with Kyle Mooney. He's, like, terrific.

[Beck Bennett]

Stop drooling, Kyle. To pull your pants up.

[Tim Heidecker]

He doesn't have any muscles, though. He's a small guy.

[Beck Bennett]

Puts the clothes on, they fall right off.

[Tim Heidecker]

Long hair.

[Kyle Mooney]

I end up between these two guys. This is wild.

[Tim Heidecker]

Katahuli, get over here.

[Beck Bennett]

Kyle must be on set. I can smell that gross thing that coming out of my. Coming into my nostrils.

[Tim Heidecker]

He likes nostalgic things. He wears old clothes from another time.

[Beck Bennett]

Snoopy on the shirt there. Ironic.

[Tim Heidecker]

I like that.

[Kyle Mooney]

I genuinely like Snoopy.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, well, that. I mean, that. That is very. It's not reassuring. It's reassuring to hear that you go through that.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yes. And we should start, like, a support group or something.

[Beck Bennett]

We really should. That'd be nice. You have to.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Sorry.

[Beck Bennett]

To. To. To let us know everything's gonna be okay.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah. Or maybe it won't.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, maybe it won't. These days.

[Tim Heidecker]

Industry is tough right now, and it's getting tougher.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. With.

[Tim Heidecker]

What's the.

[Beck Bennett]

Orange man and.

[Tim Heidecker]

Orange man and AI.

[Beck Bennett]

Orange man and AI coming after everybody.

[Tim Heidecker]

You use a lot of AI with your music, right?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. No, no. How's he gonna write something like Blue Car?

[Kyle Mooney]

I did all. I record all that. Stu Renner quoted it.

[Beck Bennett]

All right.

[Tim Heidecker]

I mean, I love that we can sort of vacillate between goofing around and sincerity. I do want to say that that record was such a surprise and such a joy for me when I. When I heard it.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's very sweet, Tim. And you did send me a nice text, and I do genuinely owe you. Thanks. As do so many persons who make comedy out there, because you have paved the way in a lot of ways. And even the fact that you make music and you do all these things, podcasting on cinema, which is such a massive universe that I have not even. There's so much of it that I. I can't say that I've consumed all of it, but. But it's nice to know somebody is out there that is trying things and expanding and. And. And. And. And. And sort of messing around with all Sorts of platforms, if you will.

[Tim Heidecker]

Well, thanks.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

It's like. You're welcome.

[Beck Bennett]

It's like, it's very inspiring, and I'm.

[Tim Heidecker]

Sure Jason Walliner said it. We were talking about this a while ago, and we're like, well, I guess we're lifers. I guess we're just in this. Like, this is just what we. This is, you know, we're just gonna keep trying stuff and keep doing things, and, like, some things are gonna work and some things aren't, but there's no. It's like, too late. Too late to stop.

[Beck Bennett]

That's great.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, you know the show.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah. What is the premise of the show?

[Beck Bennett]

We're trying to figure out what are. Because we've been having so much fun.

[Tim Heidecker]

I hate that. This was at. By the way.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

Oh, man. Right at the lunch hour. And what a gash in my day.

[Beck Bennett]

I know, right? Are you.

[Tim Heidecker]

How do I do anything before?

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't think anyone said, it has to be noon. Who did something.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. I thought you wanted it to be noon.

[Tim Heidecker]

No, I was. I said, this day's good. What time?

[Beck Bennett]

Anya.

[Tim Heidecker]

I think they might have thrown new.

[Kyle Mooney]

What is the ideal podcast?

[Tim Heidecker]

9:00Am 9:00am early for some people.

[Kyle Mooney]

We drop off our kids.

[Beck Bennett]

We dropping off our kids at pre nine.

[Tim Heidecker]

Your kids are good.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. It's at 8:30. It opens at 8:30.

[Tim Heidecker]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

But there's no way I'm getting. I'm getting there till nine.

[Tim Heidecker]

I hear you.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

All right. Next time. If there's a next time. I don't.

[Beck Bennett]

I would love to have you back on. You're not going to come back?

[Tim Heidecker]

Not at noon.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's fair. That's a fair demand request.

[Tim Heidecker]

But we should love to eat at noon or 12:30. And now I. Today I had to have. I had to have, like, an early lunch, so I didn't want to come here empty. I made myself a fried egg sandwich.

[Beck Bennett]

Ooh, that's nice.

[Tim Heidecker]

A little ketchup on it.

[Beck Bennett]

Ooh, ketchup. No mayonnaise.

[Tim Heidecker]

Tapatio ketchup and a little mayonnaise.

[Kyle Mooney]

I didn't know there was a tapatio ketchup.

[Beck Bennett]

I had some ground turkey and beans.

[Tim Heidecker]

What kind of beans?

[Beck Bennett]

Black beans.

[Tim Heidecker]

Oh, nice.

[Beck Bennett]

Ran out the door. I was.

[Tim Heidecker]

Spice.

[Beck Bennett]

A little bit of whatchamacallit.

[Tim Heidecker]

What's the everything bagel spice?

[Beck Bennett]

Everything bagel spice. Just covering it.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And it was a little Al Pastor Spice. Wow. Yeah. Just in a baggie, you know, from the grocery store, from Sprouts. That's my store.

[Kyle Mooney]

Cool.

[Tim Heidecker]

Like A bulk bag?

[Beck Bennett]

No, no, just like a little baggie. Like a little cardboard al pastor. Taco spice.

[Tim Heidecker]

Oh, right. Taco spice.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, Taco spice.

[Tim Heidecker]

Like, you sprinkle on the meat on the ground turkey.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, just put it on the ground turkey.

[Kyle Mooney]

The premise of the show is we bring in guests to help us figure out what our podcast should be about, and then the guest pitches us an idea, and then we go and try to make that podcast, and we decide as to whether that should be our podcast moving forward. So do you have an idea of what our podcast should be about?

[Tim Heidecker]

I don't know if there's a name. If this is a name of a podcast already, but I was thinking Reset.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay.

[Tim Heidecker]

And it's how you guys talk about how to reset your careers. Like, get at a place where you guys can. What would you do differently? You know, like, how could you have taken the opportunities you were given by one of the greatest just opportunity creators there is? I mean, yeah, the. The engine of Saturday Night Live. And. And where that. And, like, examine what.

[Beck Bennett]

What happened.

[Tim Heidecker]

What happened? Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And is. And. And our guest. Are they pitching ideas for, like, ways you can reset? Are they.

[Beck Bennett]

Are there.

[Kyle Mooney]

We talking about you and them about their potential reset or.

[Tim Heidecker]

I would aim for, like, the most successful people you can get that have come out of that system successfully. Bill Hader.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

You know, Ferrell. Ferrell.

[Beck Bennett]

Eddie Murphy.

[Kyle Mooney]

And then they sort of pitch on ideas on, like, well, this worked for me. Or try this out, maybe.

[Beck Bennett]

That would be.

[Tim Heidecker]

And you're so young still. It's like you could really change.

[Kyle Mooney]

Are you disappointed in me or are.

[Beck Bennett]

You disappointed in me? Well, no, he's just saying.

[Tim Heidecker]

He's just talent.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, he's just saying that it could.

[Tim Heidecker]

Have gone better from both of you that to see you in, like, small parts in Superman or, like, lugging your guitar around the country in a van.

[Kyle Mooney]

Sure.

[Tim Heidecker]

You know, it feels like you guys should be the next anchorman or Billy Madison.

[Kyle Mooney]

I love that movie.

[Tim Heidecker]

Are you in Billy Madison?

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't believe it came out in, like, 1995.

[Tim Heidecker]

Billy Madison 2. I'm talking about, of course, Happy Gilmore, too, I think. Happy Gilmore. Are they doing Billy Madison? They must be doing Billy Madison, too, as well.

[Beck Bennett]

They must be, Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't know.

[Tim Heidecker]

Right. But you're not in Happy Madison, the golf movie.

[Kyle Mooney]

Happy gilmore.

[Tim Heidecker]

Happy Gilmore 2.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm not in it, no.

[Beck Bennett]

No.

[Tim Heidecker]

Really?

[Beck Bennett]

But Marcelo. Marcelo.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, Marcelo.

[Beck Bennett]

Is it from snl? Yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

I'm sure there's plenty of SNL vets.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

Eric, Andre, he's on. On snl, right?

[Beck Bennett]

No, no. That must have been somebody else you're thinking of. Yeah, must have been somebody else.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, what do you say we go to our new podcast called Reset with.

[Beck Bennett]

Our guest Tim Heidegger and Beck and.

[Kyle Mooney]

Ky. What's up, everybody?

[Beck Bennett]

Kyle Mooney here, Beck Bennett here, as always.

[Kyle Mooney]

And you're listening to Reset, the podcast where we go back and sort of try to figure out what we did wrong, what we could have done better and how we ended up where we're at and specifically to improve.

[Beck Bennett]

Specifically having the launch pad of SNL and, you know, historically, where people. How people shoot off into the stratosphere after that and use that as sort of a launch pad and how we kind of. And it didn't. How we didn't maybe do you know.

[Kyle Mooney]

We got the podcast, obviously, which is going well. We feel good about that. And speaking of.

[Tim Heidecker]

Is it going well?

[Kyle Mooney]

If you probably hear. Say that one more time back. What's going on?

[Beck Bennett]

My mic is flopping down. Fix that. Please have the producers coming here.

[Tim Heidecker]

I think I saw the same issue on another of the many podcasts that film here.

[Beck Bennett]

Thank you so much. This is.

[Kyle Mooney]

We're going to introduce you in a second, Tim.

[Beck Bennett]

All right. We're trying to reset the mic.

[Tim Heidecker]

Perfect.

[Beck Bennett]

All right.

[Kyle Mooney]

All right.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm Kyle Mooney.

[Beck Bennett]

I'm Beck Bennett.

[Kyle Mooney]

And you're watching and listening to Reset, where we go back in time to try to figure out what went wrong with our copy careers. All right, we got a great guest, one of our comedy heroes. This guy does it all. Music, podcasts, sketch comedy shows, movie acting, TV acting.

[Tim Heidecker]

I'm in the new movie Him.

[Kyle Mooney]

He's in the new movie him.

[Beck Bennett]

I didn't know about him.

[Kyle Mooney]

And you all know him. He's a Dodger fan, which I take issue with. Give it up for Tim Heidecker.

[Beck Bennett]

Ever heard, like, maybe that's what.

[Kyle Mooney]

Maybe that's what went wrong.

[Tim Heidecker]

Hey, buddy, how you doing?

[Beck Bennett]

Thanks so much for being here, Tim.

[Tim Heidecker]

You betcha. This is exciting.

[Kyle Mooney]

Sort of a role reversal, because sometimes I'll do your podcast. And now you're on the podcast.

[Tim Heidecker]

Are we behind the paywall? Or can we just have. Or is this for everybody?

[Beck Bennett]

This is for everybody.

[Tim Heidecker]

Okay, cool.

[Beck Bennett]

We're just trying to get people to listen to it. Yeah. Because nobody. It's not going that. Nobody's really heard it yet.

[Kyle Mooney]

So you've. You know, I'm so excited to have you on because I feel like in the past you have expressed disappointment, if you will, in sort of where I ended up. Maybe even Rebecca ended up.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. I don't know.

[Tim Heidecker]

So I think somebody I frankly gave a ton of thought to just because I don't know you as well, but I know you pretty well, thought more about you more about where. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And I love that. Just the fact that I'm in your brain, like, that's cool. Like, oh, shit, you know, he's thinking about me is cool thing. Yeah. I think, you know, for me, I actually feel like I'm doing okay. I gotta be totally honest.

[Podcast Announcer]

Good.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah. I mean, we all should be happy with where we are.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

But also striving towards, at the same time, a better.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes. And we do have this podcast to kind of go, what happened? What could we have done differently? And it's great to have people on here who have had incredible careers who could offer some insight into what we might have done, maybe dissect the roles we took. Didn't take. Just, you know, all that sort of stuff.

[Kyle Mooney]

And it's true that, you know, sometimes people come off of a show like snl, which, by the way, was an incredible time. I did nine years on there. Beck did eight.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes. Thank you, Lauren.

[Kyle Mooney]

We did it in New York. We had, like, incredible hosts, incredible musical guests. It was such an amazing experience. But, yeah, sometimes people come out of that and they're doing big movies. They have.

[Beck Bennett]

Or they do Ted Lasso, Barry, or, you know, big shows.

[Tim Heidecker]

Big shows.

[Kyle Mooney]

It hasn't. It hasn't happened exactly in. It hasn't happened exactly in that way for Beck and I. We are doing the podcast, which has been. And it's head gum, which is, like.

[Beck Bennett]

Not one of the biggest. What? Or what?

[Tim Heidecker]

It's a professional operation, for sure.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, no, it's really good. I mean, it's not, like, serious, right? Or it's not like.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah. And. And to be. Just to be honest, when we were pitching the show, we, you know, we were sort of told, like, I don't know, that serious is the right sort of realm for guys like you and sort of, like your, I guess, level of.

[Tim Heidecker]

Me?

[Kyle Mooney]

No, no, no. I'm just talking about what sort of our problems and all that sort of thing. So we're doing the podcast. I put out the album recently, which is amazing. Beck did the Superman, and I think we're gonna try to keep on working on stuff. What's up with you, Tim?

[Tim Heidecker]

You know, I don't want to get into my stuff because it seems like this podcast is about you guys. Sure, sure.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. What could we.

[Kyle Mooney]

What would you change?

[Tim Heidecker]

Well, all the things you said were right. I don't know if I have the exact prescription for it, but.

[Beck Bennett]

More cowbell.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah. I mean, look, I do think it's funny. I do think it's funny that you were given this platform of SNL for, what did you say, nine years? Yeah. Wow.

[Beck Bennett]

One of the longest running cast members.

[Kyle Mooney]

And, yeah, definitely above top 50 in that.

[Tim Heidecker]

Where was your 30 rock or your, like, you said, Ted Lasso or your Barry?

[Kyle Mooney]

And do you think there's. Is there an expiration date on that? Like, not necessarily May 22. And we're looking. This is summer of 25. We're recording this.

[Tim Heidecker]

So it's been three years, four years for me. So I've had one extra year, let's say jump. Ten years in the future. We look back now. Maybe you're hoping that this is considered sort of the wilderness years. So the lost years, you're hoping that would be the corner. You're around the corner from something big happening. But when you look at the landscape of television and movies, it's very different now and it's not falling apart. You don't have a lot of control over this. The old guard is going. And I don't know who's gonna be the guys out there at these networks, the gatekeepers saying, we want a big show from Beck Bennett. We want a big show from Kyle Mooney. We're going to put all of our ducks. Yeah, we're going to put all of our. What do you say we put all.

[Kyle Mooney]

Of our ducks in a row?

[Tim Heidecker]

Our coin, our chips in the middle, all in on whatever one basket, weird Kyle Mooney show wants to, you know, hope that it becomes a big.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's a risk.

[Beck Bennett]

It's a big risk.

[Tim Heidecker]

It's a risk. But you don't see, you know, like a Happy Gilmore or a Billy Madison coming out of you guys anytime soon.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

You don't think we're capable of making a movie like that.

[Tim Heidecker]

Listen, I. I'm not.

[Beck Bennett]

Because comedy's back.

[Tim Heidecker]

I'm not even a fan of those kind of. I'm not saying, like, I'm not talking about quality or my preference.

[Beck Bennett]

Both those movies.

[Tim Heidecker]

That's fine. I'm not talking. We're not here to talk about quality or art or, like, preferences about what I like versus what you like.

[Beck Bennett]

Determine success.

[Tim Heidecker]

The bit. The reality of the business.

[Beck Bennett]

Right.

[Tim Heidecker]

Is not looking like for whatever reason. I mean, we can go through the reasons, but I don't think it's talent based. I think you guys are talented. I don't know where the opportunities are going to come where we do see a Billy Madison from YouTube.

[Beck Bennett]

Right.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, let's. It is that time of the show, so we are gonna hit the reset button, as it were, and try to figure out how we could have done it differently and actually ended up with a Happy Gilmore Billy Madison.

[Beck Bennett]

Kyle, press the reset button.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, so I'm gonna take you back to about spring 2013, summer 2013. I get on SNL. You get on SNL.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And it just feels like it's scary, but the opportunity is there to strike gold.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And I think that, you know, in that first year, in those first couple years, had I really had, you know, one of these characters that everybody knows.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

That, like, is bankable. It's like, oh, they're bringing back.

[Tim Heidecker]

Right.

[Beck Bennett]

You know, baby boss or something like that.

[Tim Heidecker]

That I. Lasagna man. What'd you say?

[Beck Bennett]

Baby boss. My character.

[Tim Heidecker]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Had I had a baby boss or. Lasagna man is a great idea. And, you know, you know, you're under the. You have this pressure of, like, I gotta come up with something this week. I don't know, like, hey, do you want to try this?

[Beck Bennett]

I don't know.

[Kyle Mooney]

Is that the right move to make? And nobody was ever like, oh, what about a guy who is just obsessed with lasagna? Or, like, obsessed with. Because you could do that with other Garfield. That could even. That actually is really hilarious. And it's a guy who's just like. Who won't stop talking about Garfield.

[Tim Heidecker]

Right.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

Right.

[Kyle Mooney]

But I.

[Beck Bennett]

Or you are Garfield and you're obsessed with it.

[Tim Heidecker]

Okay. So you're stressed and you're feeling the pressure.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

So I don't come up with the perfect.

[Tim Heidecker]

So in this timeline. Recurring bill, the reset timeline, you do. Is that what we're talking about?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Tim Heidecker]

Well, that.

[Kyle Mooney]

You listen to the show.

[Tim Heidecker]

Let me pose another scenario.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay.

[Tim Heidecker]

It's 2015. Let's say you've been on the show for a couple years. And the producers say, kyle, we just don't have. We love your sketch. We love the movie you made. We're cutting it for time. Don't worry. We're gonna put it on the YouTube.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

And you stay. Instead of going slumping down.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

You go. No, you put on my thing that I worked hard on for at 11:40. First sketch of the night after the monologue.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

Or you could say goodbye to me and Beck. And Beck. You got to be there, too.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, I'm there, too. I'm gonna take a moment. Yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

And Say, like, I'm with Kyle, you know, And Lorne Michaels doesn't like it, but he respects it and says, all right, kid, let's try it. What the hell do we have to lose? Throw it in there at 11:40.

[Beck Bennett]

But the thing is, to do that, Kyle probably would have had to have testicle surgery because he doesn't have the balls to do.

[Tim Heidecker]

I think that's the inflection point where we see the path that could have gone, the road less traveled.

[Beck Bennett]

Right, right.

[Kyle Mooney]

So to be like, maybe you go two parter. This is like, I guess having a sense that I'm going to potentially have to have this conversation. You're suggesting that you get implants. I first get bigger balls, and then I say, like, listen, 1140 or bust. Then that sketch, and hopefully plays well.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah. Blows up and it becomes you're the. You're.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's like, oh, we got to have a.

[Tim Heidecker]

The church lady.

[Kyle Mooney]

But yeah, it goes well. And, you know, maybe I don't even have to do nine years maybe because.

[Tim Heidecker]

Like, you're done in four and they're already. There's, you know, Fox and Universal and Paramount, they're all saying, kyle, bring in the script. Beck, we want you too. And you guys can do buddy comedies.

[Beck Bennett]

That's great.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, I think so.

[Beck Bennett]

Kyle would have had the implant then maybe we could have had a better career. Yeah, that's a really good one.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's one of our better resets.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, that's. That's the first time we've actually gotten some good advice.

[Kyle Mooney]

You know, it is really good advice. And. And I want to take it.

[Beck Bennett]

And I.

[Tim Heidecker]

What did Ellen Cleghorn say when she came in? Did she do the show yet?

[Beck Bennett]

No, not yet.

[Kyle Mooney]

No. Mostly everybody's actually just been really kind.

[Tim Heidecker]

About the work we've done.

[Beck Bennett]

I think they. We kind of go like, what could we have done differently? And they're kind of like, no regrets. Everything happens.

[Tim Heidecker]

The biggest mistake is this. No regrets. Oh, we need to regret, right? To grow. Yeah, you need to regret to grow. It's my little T shirt.

[Beck Bennett]

And is there anything that you were. Or how would you do?

[Tim Heidecker]

Is there anything that you turning. Actually, for me, it is turning down SNL when I was offered.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, I didn't know you turned down snl.

[Tim Heidecker]

Oh, yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

As a cast member, a writer.

[Tim Heidecker]

Full cast member. Yeah. Not a. Not a Kyle Mooney. Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, I guess you're not really doing the movies thing featuring Kyle Mooney.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, you could have done that. You could have been featuring. You could have been the New. You could have been the new voice.

[Kyle Mooney]

I was only featured for a couple years and I became regular.

[Tim Heidecker]

Right. I was going to be. Boom.

[Beck Bennett]

They immediately start you as repertory player.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah. Ready for prime time. Yeah, in a way I was, though.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. But. But you said. But you said you weren't. You said, no, I'm not.

[Tim Heidecker]

I said, you know what? I'm going to chart my own path. I'm going to redefine sketch comedy through with the. At the Adult Swim platform and do it my own way.

[Beck Bennett]

What's going about saying, like, what happened?

[Tim Heidecker]

What.

[Beck Bennett]

And then. And then what happened with Josh.

[Tim Heidecker]

You know, Jash, So if you.

[Beck Bennett]

Do you have any resets for Josh?

[Tim Heidecker]

No, because I made $125 million off. Yes, yes, we cashed in.

[Beck Bennett]

That's fucking awesome. That's what it's. Me and Kyle are never going to make that kind of money.

[Kyle Mooney]

Money.

[Tim Heidecker]

No, it's. And. And it's not for everybody, but we just. We were at the right time at the right right place, the right time. There was a ton of money going into content creation, specifically through YouTube and 125 million.

[Beck Bennett]

Our friend. Yeah, our friend.

[Kyle Mooney]

So you. I mean, that's why you can afford to do the podcast.

[Tim Heidecker]

Like, I don't want to be a Superman or whatever it is. Spider man or whatever.

[Beck Bennett]

It's actually. Yeah, no, you had it right the first time. It's Superman. Right.

[Tim Heidecker]

Because you're just a cog in the wheel there and it could be anybody. And in few years it's a classic.

[Beck Bennett]

People are going to be watching for generations.

[Tim Heidecker]

In a few years, it's going to be AI anyways. Right.

[Beck Bennett]

So might as well get a good movie in before it turns AI.

[Tim Heidecker]

Maybe. Maybe. But the characters, a lot of like your part Lois Lane and.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah. It's always so. Oh, go ahead. I was just wondering if there were besides anything specific, if there was any other reset that. That Tim might have in his life, whether it was personal and professional and you can get serious, you can get. Or you can go no. Or you can.

[Tim Heidecker]

Professionally. No. Personally, my kids aren't all that I was expecting them to be.

[Beck Bennett]

That happens.

[Tim Heidecker]

And I don't know how much you can control that. If there are different decisions, specifically my wife made when she was rearing them and I was busy working.

[Beck Bennett]

So that could be a reset.

[Kyle Mooney]

You could have ideas of how you want to do it.

[Tim Heidecker]

I regret the choices my wife made when it came. It came to raising my children.

[Beck Bennett]

Because you weren't. You were too busy to raise. To be a Part of that, for the most part.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

A lot of travel, but there's. There's no. You.

[Kyle Mooney]

You said the Tim and Eric tour stuff or.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah. And a lot of stuff shoots out of. Out of state now.

[Beck Bennett]

Right. And so. And so there's no reset there for.

[Tim Heidecker]

You at this point? No, I mean, I will probably, like, look, I'm about. I'm turning 50 in February.

[Beck Bennett]

Right.

[Tim Heidecker]

I will probably have a second wife and a new family in the next five, ten years. Yeah, that's. That's par for the course in my field.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. That's kind of what happens. You kind of do it like Alec Baldwin. Yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

I mean, I'm sure by the time I'm 60, I'm have a new wife and two or three young kids.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

Right.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

So, I don't know.

[Beck Bennett]

Al pacino's got about 16.

[Tim Heidecker]

Right. So there will be opportunities for me to write the course. And I don't. It's like, it's not that I don't love my kids.

[Kyle Mooney]

Right, Right.

[Tim Heidecker]

I'm just a little disappointed in them.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Cool. That's cool.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, we're here with Tim Heidecker from Tim and Eric. Awesome show. Great job. It's an incredible show. He's also doing more podcast stuff these days.

[Beck Bennett]

So.

[Kyle Mooney]

So, yeah, tell us, what's your funniest idea?

[Beck Bennett]

I thought we're going to wrap it up. Yeah. What is your funniest idea?

[Tim Heidecker]

I felt. Well, this morning I had this thought. I always feel bad for women named Carmen because people must think, like, you know, you see, I'm Carmen. Oh, did you see the new Porsche they came out with Carmen? You know, she's not a car man. She's not somebody that is into cars.

[Kyle Mooney]

That is.

[Tim Heidecker]

That is.

[Beck Bennett]

I bet Carmen Electra had to deal.

[Tim Heidecker]

With her all the time.

[Beck Bennett]

And it's like, back then, there weren't as many electric cars.

[Tim Heidecker]

Well, sure.

[Beck Bennett]

She was Carmen Electra, so.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah, that must be even more confusing.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, thanks for watching. This is Reset with Kyle and Beck, and our guest was Tim Idecker.

[Beck Bennett]

That was. Thanks for helping us. Thanks for coming, guys. Thanks for being good for coming.

[Kyle Mooney]

Thanks for coming. All right, we're back. That was a fun reset. That was sort of one of the more. Forgive me, like, I feel like dramatic pitches.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, it was. It was kind of a serious podcast.

[Tim Heidecker]

What was an example of one that you've had that was not so serious?

[Kyle Mooney]

Jeans.

[Tim Heidecker]

Talking about jeans. Yeah, Whole podcast about jeans.

[Beck Bennett]

Whole podcast about jeans. Beef. Okay, what else we got that could be an episode? We had one no, we did pretty.

[Kyle Mooney]

Great with both those two.

[Tim Heidecker]

Excuse me.

[Beck Bennett]

Beef.

[Kyle Mooney]

You just had some beef?

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah, there's some beef in the bathroom.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, you're not supposed to eat that be.

[Tim Heidecker]

Oh, no. Is that what I think it was?

[Kyle Mooney]

That's.

[Tim Heidecker]

Oh, it tasted. It did not taste good.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, that was. I wouldn't like to use the toilet.

[Tim Heidecker]

Doesn't like to flush.

[Kyle Mooney]

I liked it. I don't.

[Tim Heidecker]

I walked in there, saw what I thought was beef in the toilet.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, I do it. And people have said that. People have said that because it'll come out in different sty. It'll be like flanks. It'll be.

[Beck Bennett]

His will be bone in. So that's why it's confusing.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, I have. No, this is not a bit. I will poop sometimes. It'll come out full. It'll look like a T bone. Really? There'll be the bone. There'll be the steak. It'll look like steak, but it's all the T bone.

[Beck Bennett]

And he's.

[Tim Heidecker]

Because he tasted like. That's why I was.

[Beck Bennett]

That's.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, I feel like you just got to avoid. If you see something.

[Tim Heidecker]

I shouldn't have eaten it.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Because it is like, oh, food go. Food goes in there. You don't take food out because food goes through your body.

[Kyle Mooney]

But I did. That's my bad.

[Tim Heidecker]

For some Scope or something.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think we have something like that. And they got the. What are the zappo chips around here?

[Beck Bennett]

A couple zappo chips.

[Tim Heidecker]

I took one bite.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, you're eating my poo.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

But recently, yeah, I feel like.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, you got pretty.

[Tim Heidecker]

Marion's Wish.

[Kyle Mooney]

We got pretty.

[Ad Read Announcer]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

About sort of our careers and what. What could have been. But I always like that about you, Tim, that you're willing to sort of go there, be earnest.

[Tim Heidecker]

Gonna get a bunch of glad handing from your reps and your agents and everything. It's good, man. Everything's good. Gravy.

[Beck Bennett]

I don't think they know about what's happening here.

[Tim Heidecker]

No, they don't. That's for sure.

[Beck Bennett]

It's completely off their radar. They haven't been helpful. Yeah. At all. But.

[Tim Heidecker]

But you'll get residuals from Superman. That'll be cool.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes, yes, that'll be very cool. That's why I do it. Just to see the checks come in. The overseas. The foreign territories.

[Tim Heidecker]

I can't wait for my next overseas flight to put that baby on and sit back and watch Superman glide across the.

[Beck Bennett]

I'd say check it out in a theater.

[Tim Heidecker]

Really?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Imax if you can Big screen.

[Tim Heidecker]

Really?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, really big. And blast. Blast the music.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, I'm not seeing it. I. I will see it. I want to see it.

[Beck Bennett]

Definitely.

[Tim Heidecker]

That's what I'm more into. Oh, yeah, you're more sort of art house.

[Beck Bennett]

I'm gonna see weapons.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Weapons. Another comedy guy.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah. Zach Krager.

[Tim Heidecker]

That would be a cool trajectory for you guys. Making big, like, making movies. Oh, actually, go, Jordan. You guys.

[Ad Read Announcer]

Horror.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, yeah.

[Tim Heidecker]

Horror comedy.

[Kyle Mooney]

Right, right, right. Well, we always love having Tim on. He's from the. He's one of the more.

[Tim Heidecker]

First time I've been on. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And we love.

[Kyle Mooney]

It doesn't matter.

[Beck Bennett]

And we've.

[Tim Heidecker]

We'd love to say we always having. Always.

[Kyle Mooney]

We're just messing. It's just a podcast.

[Beck Bennett]

It's just a podcast.

[Kyle Mooney]

We're just messing around.

[Beck Bennett]

But we would love to have you back tomorrow or another at our next episode.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, I guess we won't do it at noon because he's gonna. He'll blow his lid off. But we did some great work with Eric back in the day, and we're all happy to see the guys.

[Beck Bennett]

And we love to see the morphing and can't wait for real time with Bill Maher, with Tim Heidecker and the Ghost.

[Tim Heidecker]

They're all about ghost.

[Beck Bennett]

This would be right around the right time that it's coming out. So check out Ghost. Check out the.

[Tim Heidecker]

This is gonna be like. You're gonna look back on this clip. Like, have you ever seen the Regis Philman on the iPhone?

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. No, I haven't, actually.

[Tim Heidecker]

It's amazing. Why do people need this? People? Don't they. You already have a phone. You're gonna. And this is gonna be. People are gonna go, kyle and Beck. We're on Ghost.

[Beck Bennett]

Ghost.

[Tim Heidecker]

I gotta see that clip.

[Beck Bennett]

We gotta pull that clip up and see how stupid they are.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm always excited to check out whatever you do. No, for real.

[Tim Heidecker]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

You have such an original voice, and it's really interesting to talk to.

[Tim Heidecker]

Cool.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Thanks for coming on.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's Tim Heidecker.

[Beck Bennett]

That's Beck Bennett, that's Kyle Mooney, and.

[Kyle Mooney]

This is what's our podcast.

[Tim Heidecker]

What?

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

What's our podcast is a headgun podcast created and hosted by Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney.

[Beck Bennett]

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

[Kyle Mooney]

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

[Beck Bennett]

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

[Podcast Announcer]

What's going on? It's Lamorne Morris and Hannah Simone, and we host the Mess Around a New Girl Rewatch podcast now on Headgum.

[Beck Bennett]

Now here's the thing.

[Podcast Announcer]

Every single week we chat about an episode of New Girls. And we really get into it. Like, we get up in there. We get up in there. You know, we reminisce about our times on set. We share behind the scenes tea. We react to re watching episodes that we haven't seen in years. We talk about how Jake Johnson is dog.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's not true. We talk about so many memories we have of working with the biggest stars on the planet. I'm talking Prince Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo.

[Podcast Announcer]

We're just two BFFs having a good old time.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay?

[Podcast Announcer]

Sometimes we even talk to other co stars like Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield, and Damon Wayans Jr. And your dad. We talked to your dad on this show as well.

[Kyle Mooney]

Make sure you subscribe to the Mess around wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes drop every single Tuesday.