Vanessa Bayer

Summary

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

Episode: Vanessa Bayer
Release Date: March 4, 2026
Guest: Vanessa Bayer
Podcast Network: Headgum

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Episode Overview

This episode features comedian and SNL alum Vanessa Bayer as Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney continue their quest to discover "what their podcast should be about." The trio meanders through nostalgia, SNL memories, meditation tips, the intricacies of peer pressure, and plenty of improvisational riffing. They also brainstorm about potential podcast themes and delve into personal anecdotes, all with their signature loose, affectionate, and whimsical rapport.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Collegiate Comedy Origins and Early Sketches

• [03:17 - 04:48]
  Beck and Kyle reminisce about their college improv group at USC, describing the challenges of performing improv outdoors and sharing memories of early sketches, including the infamous “Gary Guter Penis Power Acting Technique.”
  • Quote:
    “It was the Gary Guter Penis power acting technique.” — Kyle ([04:26])
  • The sketch revolved around bizarre audition advice and physical comedy, leading to jokes about “grabbing your boys” for confidence—playful SNL-era recollections.
• [05:15]
  “I want to say Beck is doing...he did a really good job of grabbing his junk.” — Kyle

2. Memory, Sketches, and College Days

• [08:09 - 09:00]
  The group reflects on forgotten sketches and the experience of slowly finding their comedic voice and acceptance by their peers.
  • Quote:
    “I think now the crowd is...gets me. Or like, I feel like I scored...was not in a sketch I wrote. It was Bobby McCaster.” — Beck ([08:18])

3. SNL Camaraderie, Culture, and Legend

• [17:42 - 32:35]
  Vanessa joins and jumpstarts a candid discussion about the real SNL environment—myth vs. reality, friendships formed, and how those relationships shape their careers and lives.
  • Beck and Kyle heap praise on Vanessa for her warmth and steadiness at SNL, and they all recall the highs and lows of cast life.
  • Quote:
    “You guys are two of my favorite people in the world. Like, truly, I think you know that.” — Vanessa ([30:22])
  • The trio highlight the support system at SNL:
    “Not only do you get to riff...but you get to commiserate...that is invaluable.” — Beck ([42:15])

4. Vanessa's Signature SNL Meditation Practice

• [33:26 - 37:53]
  Vanessa opens up about how her twice-daily TM (Transcendental Meditation) routine helped her navigate SNL’s high-pressure environment.
  • She candidly shares practical advice:
    “If I get interrupted or I don’t get into a deep place, it’s like, I don’t care as long as I do it, I feel...” — Vanessa ([34:46])
  • She’s “very loose” with her meditation, focusing on simply resting with awareness and using it for stress management.

5. Vanessa’s Podcast—‘How Did We Get Weird?’

• [37:56 - 41:06]
  Vanessa describes her nostalgia-driven podcast with her brother, Jonah, and jokingly pitches it to Beck and Kyle:
  • Topical episodes include “Lean Pockets” commercials and “Saved by the Bell: The College Years.”
  • Quote:
    “My brother and I do a podcast called ‘How Did We Get Weird?’ It’s nostalgic and we talk about a fun topic from our guest’s childhood.” — Vanessa ([39:20])
  • The recurring bit: the difference in childhood block party experiences and cross-coastal connections.

6. SNL Table Read Anxiety, Handling Failure, and Growth

• [45:18 - 51:21]
  The group addresses post-sketch letdown, the specific anxiety of readings and live shows, and realizing how “not everyone is counting your sketches.” Vanessa shares advice:
  • “Once something made it to air, I don’t even think I paid attention to whether it did well or not.” ([45:46])
  • “No one, except for you and your parents, are counting how many sketches you’re in.” ([48:56])

7. Changing Industry, Social Media, and Perspective

• [49:50 - 52:03]
  They discuss how the rise of social media changed SNL’s environment, putting cast members under a new “magnifying glass.”
  • Vanessa notes that she just assumed “not that many people watch the show” and found it freeing.

8. Thematic Detour: Peer Pressure

• [53:11 - 78:36]
  Taking Vanessa’s advice, the group pivots to record a “peer pressure” themed segment—in classic meta fashion, turning conversation into bit and back again.
  • Definition and Scope: They explore peer pressure from its classic depiction (e.g., drugs, cigarettes) to subtler forms (style, social conformity, adult life).
  • Quote:
    “The iconic peer pressure to me is like, like what was presented to me in PSAs…a kid pressuring you to smoke cigarettes or…do drugs.” — Beck ([60:18])
  • Humorous reenactment: Kyle and Beck jokingly pressure each other to do ridiculous things (e.g., “take off all your clothes and do somersaults around the table…” [76:08]), playfully delineating the boundaries of peer pressure in adulthood.
  • They find that sometimes peer pressure is “not toxic”—it can push you to do things you’re glad you tried, like skydiving ([64:34]).

9. Personal Reflections on Peer Pressure

• [62:26 - 68:40]
  All three share personal anecdotes, including:
  • Vanessa turning down a tattoo despite group encouragement.
  • Kyle’s skydiving story—peer pressured but ultimately happy with the experience.
  • Beck’s discomfort with “coffee catch-ups” and feeling peer pressured into social norms.
  • The difficulty playing games like Mafia, despite being actors.

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Notable Quotes and Memorable Moments

• On SNL Support:

  • “...the thing that is, like, such a gift from that show. One of the things but, like, the most, like, impactful on your life, I think, is, like, you just have these relationships forever with these, like, absolute dream people.”
    — Vanessa Bayer ([30:55])

• On Meditation and SNL:

  • “I would do TM meditation twice a day, and I would always do it...after the table read would end on Wednesday. It allowed me to...be in a dark room.”
    — Vanessa ([33:26])
  • “As long as I do it, I feel...”
    — Vanessa ([34:46])

• On Peer Pressure Lessons:

  • “I think that’s peer pressure. That’s like a silent peer pressure.” — Kyle ([62:23])
  • “Do you think that you could argue that there’s a component of peer pressure in just, like, having to wear, like, cool sneakers or something?” — Beck ([61:17])

• On Game Nights:

  • “I also don’t love doing, like, game. Like, I like games but I don’t love game nights...the fact that I can’t do this thing well where you’re supposed to sort of act and lie, and it just like kinda kills my self esteem.”
    — Beck ([70:20])

• On Peer Pressure Vignettes:

  • The running joke about “peer pressure” leads to an absurd bit about undressing for virality ([76:08]), and whether Beck should wear black underwear.

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [03:17] — Intro to college improv group and early sketch stories
• [17:42] — Official introduction of Vanessa Bayer: SNL camaraderie, culture, and lore
• [33:26] — Vanessa’s meditation practice and its impact at SNL
• [39:20] — Vanessa describes her podcast "How Did We Get Weird?"
• [45:18] — Reflections on handling SNL failure, cast anxiety, and letting results go
• [53:11] — Launch of the “Peer Pressure Podcast” segment
• [60:18] — Defining peer pressure and extending the concept beyond childhood
• [64:34] — Kyle’s skydiving as a positive peer pressure example
• [68:40] — Coffee meet-ups, social conformity, and Beck’s dislikes
• [70:20] — Anxiety about games like Mafia
• [76:08] — Playful “peer pressure” bit about doing somersaults unclothed
• [82:11] — Vanessa plugs her podcast and speaks about returning to “Scrubs”
• [83:05] — Vanessa describes her new Scrubs character “Sibby”

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Vanessa Bayer’s Current Projects

• Podcast: “How Did We Get Weird” with Jonah and Vanessa Bayer ([82:11])
• TV: Appearing as Sibby, head of wellness at Sacred Heart, in the returning Scrubs series on ABC and Hulu.
  • "She's like the head of the wellness department at the hospital." — Vanessa ([83:07])

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Tone and Style

The tone is playful, candid, and affectionate, with frequent asides, self-deprecating humor, and spontaneous tangents. The trio maintains a balance of sincerity and satire, frequently breaking the fourth wall and riffing on podcast norms, SNL mythology, and each other's quirks.

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Conclusion

This episode is a warm, rolling conversation for fans of comedy and SNL, full of personal stories, wisdom on navigating creative careers, and a deep appreciation for the friendships formed in high-pressure environments. Listeners gain insight into how comedy is shaped both by peer support and peer pressure—in all its forms.

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For more:

• Beck and Kyle’s continuing search for their podcast theme
• Vanessa Bayer’s “How Did We Get Weird?”
• The new (old) “Scrubs” on ABC/Hulu
• Lots of laughter, behind-the-scenes tales, and the real meaning of peer pressure!

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Transcript

[Beck Bennett]

This is a headgum podcast.

[Kyle Mooney]

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

[Beck Bennett]

This was moments ago from my big bottle.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, yeah, I saw you chugging that thing. So is the spot still wet?

[Beck Bennett]

Say it one more time.

[Kyle Mooney]

Is the spot still wet?

[Beck Bennett]

Is the soap still wet?

[Kyle Mooney]

Is the spot still wet?

[Beck Bennett]

It's still a little wet. I don't know if. Rochelle, if you could do a really.

[Kyle Mooney]

A real.

[Beck Bennett]

Are we started yet? Sorry.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah, just started.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, keep.

[Beck Bennett]

Keep it.

[Kyle Mooney]

Keep it going. This is really good stuff. So Kyle's a little wet, so it's actually disappearing.

[Beck Bennett]

You might not catch it.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, it's drying. The water is drying because. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

As water does.

[Kyle Mooney]

As water does water. Water freezes. Water dries, Water flows, Water crashes. Yeah. It takes the shape of its containerfalls. Stick to the rivers and the lakes

[Beck Bennett]

that you're used to now I have to ask you something.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, I was. Lay it on me, sister.

[Beck Bennett]

C.K. come on, let's start to play. B E, N N E T, T. Play with me I know a man from around the way okay. He doesn't know what to do or say okay. He always thinks that he's so cool but he's sitting next to me and he is such a fool B, A, C, K Come along let's play this way B, E, N, N E, T, T that's not what you do with me. I know. Man in the city I don't think

[Kyle Mooney]

I. I don't think I like this, so I thought I liked it at first, but that's like you're saying, I don't know. I. Sitting here, I don't know what to do or say and I'm just an idiot.

[Beck Bennett]

No, it's a song by the.

[Kyle Mooney]

You're talking about my song. My name is in the song.

[Beck Bennett]

That's the.

[Kyle Mooney]

Hope you were saying back, Bennett.

[Beck Bennett]

The verse is about somebody else. Hmm.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, I loved it.

[Beck Bennett]

I know man from around the way

[Kyle Mooney]

he don't know what to do or say. He don't know what to do or say. Really nice song, guys. This is what's our podcast, starring Beck Bennett and me and his assistant. His little assistant.

[Beck Bennett]

May I grab the microphones for you?

[Kyle Mooney]

This.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay. Yeah, get that right there.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, thank you. Thank you. Jack.

[Beck Bennett]

Kyle Gore.

[Kyle Mooney]

Kyle Gore.

[Beck Bennett]

Sorry.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, no, it's okay. It felt a little New York accent, like. Jack. Jack Dennegy.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, is that that. That from 30 Rock?

[Kyle Mooney]

Maybe? Yeah. Jack Dennee from 30 Rock. Sounds like Alec Baldwin's character.

[Beck Bennett]

There is a new picture back here for those of you who are.

[Kyle Mooney]

For those of you watching, and if

[Beck Bennett]

you're approximately listening, I'm pointing to a picture. I think it might have been in the mix early on in our podcast, but then it sort of maybe disappeared or fell. I think it fell maybe.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Yeah. We don't know what. But now it's up, it's framed, and it's a poster for auditions for our college improv and sketch comedy trip.

[Beck Bennett]

Can you reach it?

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, yeah. Oh, it's coming off the shelf.

[Beck Bennett]

Should I bring it up to the camera?

[Vanessa Bayer]

A little lower? A little higher. Up, up. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

All right. Kyle is showing it to the camera. It's me and Kyle and Billy Goodwin and Nick Rford performing improv on a lawn at usc, which is where we would do improv, which is like, probably, like right in the middle of campus on Fridays at 1pm 1pm probably the worst time and place to do a comedy.

[Beck Bennett]

I thought you were going to say probably the worst experience of my life.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, no, not the worst. But I don't. I rarely. I. It was always stressful for me.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

I. I love the sketch shows that we did.

[Beck Bennett]

The sketch shows.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, those were awesome.

[Beck Bennett]

I remember. I. I always have this one specific sketch memory that pops in my head every once in a while. It was a sketch you wrote about.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, acting.

[Beck Bennett]

An acting teacher.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. Who? It was the Gary Guter Penis power acting technique.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

It was my freshman year roommate. Chris Lowell had an acting teacher because he was discovered on the beach playing beach volleyball because he's got a rocking bod. And the face is pretty good, too. Really nice personality as well. Smart guy, caring, loving. Second time we've talked about Chris on the pod. But, yeah, he went. He. He like, booked a pilot or something. He, like, booked a TV show and his manager sent him to an acting company. Coach. And like, apparently his whole thing was like, you know, when you walk into that room, you just grab your boys. Just grab him. Grab him down there, feel him. Got that right between your legs. You walk in there confident. Like, it was like his whole thing.

[Beck Bennett]

I want to say Beck is doing. He did a really good job of grabbing his junk.

[Kyle Mooney]

Thank you. Yeah, yeah. It's kind of. It's kind of. I mean, it's just really simple. It's just how anybody. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't.

[Beck Bennett]

I've never really learned how to. Cuz.

[Kyle Mooney]

You.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Are you supposed to. You only use one hand, right?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And you kind of. You don't you kind of just claw you kind of. Yeah, no, not really.

[Beck Bennett]

Like that does feel good. That doesn't start doing that more.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, the phone is on again.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, hey Beck, we need you over here. It. By the way, this is the devil.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, I do text with the devil.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, around.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, I do text with the devil. I'm in communication with the devil all the time.

[Beck Bennett]

Sell your soul.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, but I was going to say

[Kyle Mooney]

the Gary Guter penis power acting coach,

[Beck Bennett]

there was a part of it where like I play. I think you were the acting coach and I maybe I was your student.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And I get my. You talk me into. Or somehow I get my balls chopped off.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh really?

[Beck Bennett]

But it happened side stage or something. And I remember like, I remember in rehearsals you were like, oh yeah, you should like after this moment where you get your balls chopped off, like your side stage, you should like scream or you could scream or something. Oh, wait. Great, great, great.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh yeah, that's gonna be really funny.

[Beck Bennett]

And like it wasn't scripted. And I remember like whatever was happening for getting ready for the ne. Maybe it was like right at the very, very ending of the sketch. And so our other teammates, castmates were like getting ready to move stuff onto the stage.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And I was like, no, no, no, hold on, hold on, hold on. And I did like the got cut off and it got no response. But I like fully like stalled everything. Hang on one second,

[Kyle Mooney]

man. I don't remember that.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, well, it's not something.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't think it happened.

[Beck Bennett]

You think I'm making up the whole.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah. Cuz I don't remember that. I think you made that up.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, I, I, you didn't have the I know for a fact you weren't sid stage with me, so you memory

[Kyle Mooney]

is fascinating, isn't it? So you may remember something. I may remember something else.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, doing the Beatles.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah. Ringo, Joel, a long time.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, cool, man. It's just like,

[Kyle Mooney]

right? Memories. No, but that was, that was fun. That was a fun little Beatles moment,

[Beck Bennett]

which is, I don't know that it was significant enough to be fun.

[Kyle Mooney]

Things need to be significant to be fun.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, I just, I don't know that it was much of anything.

[Kyle Mooney]

No. But it's so cool to be back here with you. Oh God, it's Monday, dude. I, I don't know if I have a case of the Mondays. Maybe a little bit.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Waking up the old instruments. Yeah, yeah, man. Memory. No.

[Beck Bennett]

What else do I think about when I think about the old days?

[Kyle Mooney]

I remember I had a penis puppet in that.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, that sounds right.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. And I was talking to you, and I was like. I was your penis and I was talking to you.

[Beck Bennett]

I remember.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's all I remember.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. I remember. I think I said this in a recent episode that, like, the first few sketches I did were not great. And you know when I. You know that moment where it's like, okay, I think now the crowd is. Gets me. Or like, I feel like I scored.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Was not in a sketch I wrote. It was Bobby McCaster. Was that his name?

[Kyle Mooney]

Bobby McCaster? Wait, is that the. Oh, then. Oh, the name of the.

[Beck Bennett]

The kid who's ill.

[Kyle Mooney]

Right.

[Beck Bennett]

Who, like, wanted to, like, strangle a puppy. I believe Sean Bury wrote.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, yes, yes, yes. I remember that.

[Beck Bennett]

But I got some laughs. And then I felt like I made it in my improv sketch group in college.

[Kyle Mooney]

See, that is significant. That is. That's fun enough to be significant.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, and how'd the sketch go?

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, wait, okay. Yeah, no, cool.

[Beck Bennett]

Like, the Beatles were in our improv group.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, yeah. Okay, zip. Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Divide it up. Oh, yeah. And they're like. Yeah. They start playing a song or something and then they're like. And then they have. There's like a helicopter comes in and they're, like, being pulled up by the helicopter.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

They're all holding on to each other and they're like, cliffhanger. And they're like. Oh, they do like a. Get dropped in a huge pool.

[Beck Bennett]

They get dropped in a huge pool

[Kyle Mooney]

and all the water shoots right out of it.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Onto all the girls and boys. And they're all wearing white.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, there's girls and boys.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. And there's. And then they all get splashed and. Yeah. You cannot see through their white T shirts. You can see their. Everybody's. Everybody's like, the shape of their body and stuff. And it's like college something. I don't. I'm just like.

[Beck Bennett]

No, no, no. I'm. I'm sorry. The boys and girls on the side. These are college age kids.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

And they're wearing white T shirts. They get.

[Kyle Mooney]

And white too. And it's like a. Yeah. And everybody's soaked, I think. Is that something. Did that happen? Memory is a weird thing.

[Beck Bennett]

Dude. Give me one second. I'm trying to figure this out because it is dope.

[Kyle Mooney]

I would love. I would. Do you say give me one second a lot? Give me one second.

[Vanessa Bayer]

What?

[Kyle Mooney]

Give me one second.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Why do I say that?

[Kyle Mooney]

I would love to see a compilation out there made by One of the Rockos of Kyle Sant. Just give me one second.

[Beck Bennett]

Give me one second here.

[Kyle Mooney]

Give me one second.

[Beck Bennett]

Because I'm trying to visualize it. I'm thinking, like, okay, so they were in a helicopter.

[Kyle Mooney]

They're hanging from the helicopter. All hanging.

[Beck Bennett]

They're hanging from a helicopter. They get dropped off into the pool. And then they drop into the pool. It splashes. And there's boys and girls all standing around.

[Kyle Mooney]

They're all about ready to go in. And then the Beatles drop into the pool.

[Beck Bennett]

And then the Beatles drop the pool. Yeah, I guess. I guess my, like, first thought is, like, why? Why now? Why? Why is it?

[Kyle Mooney]

Why?

[Beck Bennett]

You know, like, I would just sort of go back maybe to the drawing board and go, why is this moment happening now in the Beatles life? You know what I mean? Like,

[Kyle Mooney]

boys and girls, because they're going to college.

[Beck Bennett]

That could be it. I would. I would explore. I would, like. I would sit down with it for a second. Take a breather, maybe. Do you have other. Are there other parts of the story that you could work on?

[Kyle Mooney]

No, not. Not. That is all there.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay. I would just think on it for a second. Don't rush it. If it's that they're going to college, maybe they're wearing, you know, like, college, like, sweatshirt, like, kind of like. Because what college are they going to?

[Kyle Mooney]

They're going to usc.

[Beck Bennett]

So put the Beatles in maybe, like, USC sweatshirts. And maybe the. The college kids aren't just in white because, like, I'm like, why are they in white? Why are they around the pool? I would say get rid of the pool and just do it. Unless the pool's on campus.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, maybe it's a. It's a Diddy. It's a Diddy party.

[Beck Bennett]

That. That is good.

[Kyle Mooney]

He's there.

[Beck Bennett]

I think then you should just move away from the college thing and just make it like Beatles versus Diddy sort of scenario.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, thank you. Yeah, I'll write it. I've already started writing it. It's a movie.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, but you only have that scene.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, but that's the whole thing. And it's like. Oh, it's like a short film. And it's like. Well, that's like the. The whole. That's the. But there's a lot of stuff happens within that. That whole lot of conversation.

[Beck Bennett]

That whole scene takes 90 minutes to.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I think a Diddy versus Beatles thing's gonna be really good.

[Kyle Mooney]

Thank you. Well, it's always great to talk about ideas here. I think that's our Entire intro to our listeners. Thank you for being here.

[Beck Bennett]

Wait, whoa, Whoa.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's been 12 minutes.

[Beck Bennett]

How long we go?

[Vanessa Bayer]

Like 15, 20, depending on when the guests are here.

[Beck Bennett]

Is our guest here? Ooh, we've gotta stretch it out.

[Kyle Mooney]

We don't have to stretch it out.

[Beck Bennett]

You wanna just stop?

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, no, we can. I don't wanna stop, but I also don't think we have to stretch things out.

[Beck Bennett]

I like talking to you. I am talking to you too, about your ass.

[Kyle Mooney]

What did you say about my ass?

[Beck Bennett]

I'm learning about your ass.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, I like to learn about your ass, too. I'm still learning about you. No, you're right.

[Beck Bennett]

You're. You're right. Maybe that was the. Maybe. Maybe Diddy versus Beatles was the place to end the intro.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, not, like, end fully, but, like, to start wrapping it up.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Unless. Is there anything on your mind that you want to get off. You want to get off of your mind? Is there anything that's on your mind that you want to get off of your mind now to me about you? No, no, no. Just like. Like something you've been holding. Something that happened to you recently. Something where you're like, I want to say this. This happened to me.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, like one of Kyle's famous grapes.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah. One of his favorite. Kyle's famous grapes.

[Beck Bennett]

Grapes. The gripes of wrath.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, that's really.

[Beck Bennett]

That could be one of the segments.

[Kyle Mooney]

Kyle's gripes of wrath.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, I guess. It's, like, bouncy. Oh, and farty.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's just you stepping on the grapes, turning grapes into wine.

[Beck Bennett]

That's not gonna get a reply from the old Kyle steer. What the heck was going on back there?

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't know, man. Just like.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, you don't know. That's the problem.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's gotten me this far.

[Beck Bennett]

That's true. That's true. No, we're coming off the weekend, as you said. It's the Monday. Trying to think of how my weekend was. I heard you talking to Rochelle about

[Kyle Mooney]

this, by the way.

[Beck Bennett]

Rochelle are amazing.

[Kyle Mooney]

Shout out Rochelle.

[Beck Bennett]

Sir.

[Kyle Mooney]

Shout out Rochelle over there.

[Beck Bennett]

What do we talk about? Like, oh, yeah, go back to awesome Rochelle.

[Kyle Mooney]

Awesome Rochelle always can cut to awesome Rochelle for a nice smile or something.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. So what were you gonna say? Well, I heard you guys talking about the weekend, and, like, you know, with a kid, it's sort of like you gotta fill it up with activities.

[Kyle Mooney]

Mm.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. I remember the first portion of Saturday. I'm trying to remember the second portion of Saturday. Oh, yeah, we got invited over to our neighbors. It was nice.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. Yeah, cool.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Do that.

[Beck Bennett]

We had. Yeah. Oh, and then on Sunday, we also saw some friends. We did something the afternoon.

[Kyle Mooney]

This is great podcasting. Yeah, this is really good. Just you trying to remember stuff that you did and then. And then not talking about it, though, and it's like, not really even relevant. There's, like, nothing to say about it.

[Beck Bennett]

That is a good fucking observation. That's really funny, man. Thanks for calling me out. I deserve that.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, thanks for coming out.

[Beck Bennett]

I deserve that shit, dude.

[Kyle Mooney]

You are. You're the reason.

[Beck Bennett]

You're. You're the reason our podcast only has so many subscribers.

[Kyle Mooney]

You're the reason we have any. Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

We have.

[Kyle Mooney]

You're fuck. You're the reason we have any subscribers. Okay. Because you're amazing.

[Beck Bennett]

And it's us as a team.

[Kyle Mooney]

I know the rapport. They love.

[Beck Bennett]

Like, what is what. What type of.

[Kyle Mooney]

What type of crap are they gonna shoot out of our mouths today? And it's gonna hit Kyle right in the face, and it's gonna hit me right in the face. We're gonna sit in it for a while. Is it dirty? Is it clean? Is it. And I'll stop that.

[Beck Bennett]

No, no, no. Yeah, you definitely want to stop before they're dirty. Because now I'm thinking of, like, if we went dirty, we would go blue.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, we would. Yeah, we would.

[Beck Bennett]

Because, like, I'm saying, like, this guy, I've known this guy since.

[Kyle Mooney]

When did.

[Beck Bennett]

Was it September 03.

[Kyle Mooney]

October.

[Beck Bennett]

September 03. Your birthday's October, right?

[Kyle Mooney]

And my birthday.

[Beck Bennett]

September.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's right.

[Beck Bennett]

Best birthday present you ever got.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh. Oh, I. Probably one of the. One of the big old big daddy, daddy, daddy long legs gifts. Lauren. Lauren Michaels would give cast members writers gift for their birthday every year, and he had a budget that other people in my life didn't have, so probably. Probably one of those, to be honest.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, you're not going to say what it is?

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't know. I got these boots one year that I still wear and love some sick ass boots. Or. Or some Ramoa suitcases. Those are sick. Some Jordan Chicago ones from 2015 for 2013.

[Beck Bennett]

Go ahead and bring in the guest.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, my God. You asked me about birthday presents. Wait, why? What about your birthday presents?

[Beck Bennett]

Best birthday present I ever got.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, Let me think, let me.

[Beck Bennett]

Let me think.

[Kyle Mooney]

All right, well, we don't need to hear about it. Look, this is going to be an awesome episode. We have our very dear friend and phenomenally comedian, writer, producer, creator, Vanessa Bayer,

[Beck Bennett]

who we knew from our Time on Saturday Night Live.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

Which I was just thinking of was such an interesting show to be on.

[Kyle Mooney]

It really was. There's always.

[Beck Bennett]

I feel like there's this drama, like, oh, is it. Is it as cutthroat as they say it is?

[Kyle Mooney]

Right. And are they not ready for prime time players and, like, all the. The lore?

[Beck Bennett]

Because it goes back. Because it goes back from the 70s, I believe.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think so. Yeah. And it was crazy and so many people coming through there. But we. We had a great time with Vanessa. Yeah, it's gonna be great to this day.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Yeah, it's cool.

[Kyle Mooney]

She created her show. I love that for you.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

Such a great.

[Beck Bennett]

I love that for the world.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

A great show.

[Kyle Mooney]

And she's everything she. And everything she pops into. It's hilarious.

[Beck Bennett]

She's been hilarious. And, like, it's so cool to have this, like, community of people that worked with us at snl. It's like they're. Yeah, we worked with them, but they're

[Kyle Mooney]

our friends, our family. They're our family.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

We can't. I. I told her. I. I reached. I reached out to her. I said, I'm gonna get a little. We're gonna get. Probably might get a little silly today. I don't even know. I don't even know if I'm gonna ask any questions. I might just be like, here we go, Here we go. Here we go.

[Beck Bennett]

Please do not unleash the beast, because I will get. If I'm allowed to be silly. I can already think that I might want to introduce everybody to Timmy.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, well, let's see if Timmy comes out.

[Beck Bennett]

Let's see if Timmy comes out.

[Kyle Mooney]

Is the. The wonderful Vanessa Bear.

[Beck Bennett]

This podcast is brought to you by Squarespace.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, yeah. You know, I be getting down with that. Squarespace, dude.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes, I have heard you get all up in that.

[Kyle Mooney]

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[Beck Bennett]

You know why I was curious. I'm not sure. Please tell me.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, but you were wondering why.

[Beck Bennett]

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[Kyle Mooney]

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[Beck Bennett]

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[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Depending on you can change how much.

[Beck Bennett]

How we should. And what do you want to do with our thing? Do you want to make it bigger or smaller?

[Kyle Mooney]

I want to make it bigger. I would love for our websites get as heavy as possible. Heavy on the scale. Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

It's not exactly how that works, babe.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't get every. I don't understand everything.

[Beck Bennett]

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[Kyle Mooney]

Hey, look, Squarespace is. It's like. It's incredible. The capabilities of Squarespace and it's so fun to use them.

[Beck Bennett]

I keep on thinking of when we worked with Finn Wolf. I keep.

[Kyle Mooney]

I can't say enough about it. And that's why we keep bringing it up. Just because it was like, so easy and fun to make that website. Remember the hippo?

[Beck Bennett]

I wish I had an excuse to make another website.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think we will someday soon.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, if. I don't know if we're supposed to say it on this ad, but we're going to be doing something in the future. Maybe we'll have a reason to make another website. Use Squarespace. I know, it's just.

[Kyle Mooney]

What's.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, okay, sorry.

[Kyle Mooney]

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[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, yeah. Intro. More like Riff. More like ruff ruff.

[Beck Bennett]

That's really good.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

So just so everybody, so the audience knows, it says to Riff and Beck, do say what you just said.

[Kyle Mooney]

It says. It says to Riff. And I said more like ruff ruff. You know why?

[Beck Bennett]

Let me guess. Because my neighbor keeps on pissing on my fence and I'm like, it's actually

[Kyle Mooney]

not about your neighbor pissing down your fence. It's because I friggin love my dog, okay? He's so cute when he, like, comes up to me on the couch and like, puts his nose under my hand. Yeah, Louie. To, like, pick up my hand to make it pet his face. And then I pull my hand away. That's insane. He puts his nose under my hand to pick it up and do it again. And sometimes when we come home from a walk, he's like. Which means like, I'm hungry. Feed me. And like, it's just. He's so cute. He's just the way he nestles in with me. Nestles in with me.

[Beck Bennett]

How many now how. How many times does he, like. Is he repeating that gesture of trying to get your hand up to pet him? Or do you have to stop? Do you have to be like, that's

[Kyle Mooney]

like two or three times, you know, and then I'll beg Louie and then he'll kind of settle in. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, it's so sweet that you love your dog.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. And I want to show him that I love him.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes, well, that I would recommend, if you want to show him love.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, I do.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, give them levies.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. Yeah, I'll give them.

[Beck Bennett]

But also, pet insurance.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, that is a good one.

[Beck Bennett]

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[Kyle Mooney]

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[Beck Bennett]

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[Kyle Mooney]

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[Beck Bennett]

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[Kyle Mooney]

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[Beck Bennett]

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[Kyle Mooney]

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[Beck Bennett]

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[Kyle Mooney]

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[Beck Bennett]

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[Kyle Mooney]

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[Beck Bennett]

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[Kyle Mooney]

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[Beck Bennett]

Today's episode is brought to you by.

[Kyle Mooney]

Alma.

[Beck Bennett]

Alma.

[Kyle Mooney]

Alma.

[Beck Bennett]

A year from today, who do you want to be? Sammy Davis, Jr. Not what I was expecting, but awesome sauce. What version of yourself would you like to meet? Definitely Sammy Davis, Jr. Sammy Davis, Jr. A year from now, do you feel less anxious?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

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[Kyle Mooney]

I'm sammy davis, Jr. I'm top of the Rock, I'm crooning

[Beck Bennett]

and I'm Acting and.

[Kyle Mooney]

Do you have any other questions for me? Are you.

[Beck Bennett]

Or do you feel more like yourself?

[Kyle Mooney]

No, I feel less like myself. I kind of feel more like Sammy

[Beck Bennett]

Davis Jr. Maybe your relationship is stronger or the grief feels smaller.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, just kind of on top of the world. I kind of just do whatever I want. I'm Sammy Davis Jr. But anyway. For real.

[Beck Bennett]

But for real, who do you want to be in a year from now?

[Kyle Mooney]

I want to be.

[Beck Bennett]

Do you want to feel less anxious? Do you want to be. Feel more like yourself?

[Kyle Mooney]

I do.

[Beck Bennett]

What if the thing that you've been secretly worried about just took up a little less space in your mind? Would that be nice?

[Kyle Mooney]

That would be great. And I've definitely been there before where the thing is taking up a lot of space, and then it takes up less space. And it can even take up less space. Yep, that's right.

[Beck Bennett]

You know who helps with that?

[Kyle Mooney]

Who?

[Beck Bennett]

I'm not gonna say. Sammy Davis Jr. Back.

[Kyle Mooney]

Dang it.

[Beck Bennett]

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[Kyle Mooney]

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[Beck Bennett]

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[Kyle Mooney]

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[Beck Bennett]

Point it at me.

[Kyle Mooney]

The man in the mirror.

[Beck Bennett]

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[Kyle Mooney]

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[Beck Bennett]

am never going to forgive you for that. Sammy Davis Jr. St.

[Kyle Mooney]

So I want to be Sammy Davis

[Beck Bennett]

Jr. You are amazing.

[Kyle Mooney]

And.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, okay. Let me ask the first question. Let me ask the first question. Let me ask you.

[Kyle Mooney]

For all you listeners, we're here with Vanessa Baer. We just gave you a lovely little intro.

[Beck Bennett]

Seal of approval.

[Kyle Mooney]

We've never done that before. That's not something we.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Is that really real?

[Beck Bennett]

We always do that.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, we do not. I've never seen that. Wait, what did you say? Can we.

[Beck Bennett]

A seal of approval for Nessa Bayer.

[Kyle Mooney]

I've never seen that before.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Or you do it every time.

[Kyle Mooney]

Every time. We've never done that. And I've never seen anybody ever do that. Do that thing where. So for the listeners, Kyle raised his hands above his head and I don't even know how to say it.

[Beck Bennett]

You do a little seal face and

[Kyle Mooney]

you go and you do it.

[Beck Bennett]

For Vanessa Bayer, we do it all the time.

[Kyle Mooney]

We always do it for Vanessa Bayer. We've never done it for anybody. It's so great to have you here.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Thank you so much. I bet I was almost your first guest.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, you were almost. Yes. There were about 25 people in front of you.

[Vanessa Bayer]

I bet if my schedule had been different, I would have been.

[Beck Bennett]

We've been trying to get you.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, yes. We've been trying to get you here for a while.

[Vanessa Bayer]

We've been trying.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah. So you're busy.

[Vanessa Bayer]

You're busy. You guys are busy.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, you're busy. I know.

[Beck Bennett]

That's true. I know.

[Kyle Mooney]

They go.

[Vanessa Bayer]

They went this time or this time? And I go, okay, let me see if I can move some stuff around. Okay, how about this time they go, it's full.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's full.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Okay, I guess.

[Beck Bennett]

What am I.

[Vanessa Bayer]

We.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

What am I? Chopped Vanessa?

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah, that's.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Liver is a old school version.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's chopped Vanessa liver.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, wow.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Okay. Mental picture. I don't want to even think about my liver that way.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Vanessa Bayer]

It's like, that's why I don't drink a lot. Okay. Because I don't want a chopped liver.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

Wow.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Wait, that was a cool thing I said.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. So that's. So you don't drink a lot because you don't want a chopped liver?

[Vanessa Bayer]

That was a joke I made. But that really is true. I don't drink that much.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Vanessa Bayer]

But I do drink, but not a lot.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. And that's cool. That's cool. Kyle and I were talking about that recently. We don't drink as much as we used to. That's for sure.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Vanessa Bayer]

That's healthy.

[Kyle Mooney]

There's different ways to partake.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah. Just seeing my friends, that gives me a lot of serotonin.

[Kyle Mooney]

Exactly.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. Now, for those of you who are watching or listening, however you consume the podcast, we have known you since the SNL days.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Which I thought was. I was just talking.

[Kyle Mooney]

I thought that was.

[Beck Bennett]

I was just talking about over here. There's. It's such a. That place. I feel like it's loaded. You know, I feel like when people talk about it, it's like there's the drama. What was it really like? You know, is it competitive? And I've always. And I've always felt like I'm curious where you fall on this. I'd love to hear your. I'd love to hear your thoughts.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Exactly.

[Beck Bennett]

And it's so legendary. And I think of from the beginning, everybody. And even now, because they're still doing it, I feel like I can name all the cast members because I still watch to this day.

[Kyle Mooney]

We're not gonna do that.

[Vanessa Bayer]

We're not gonna go sort of like Kyle M. Like, I can't tell.

[Beck Bennett]

I no longer make music.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Oh, okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

But this is.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Don't even talk about it.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's not even.

[Beck Bennett]

I was curious.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Because to me, as. As difficult as the show could be sometimes.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

What made it all worthwhile for me.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Who is this guy?

[Beck Bennett]

Was the friendships and I think of meeting people like you.

[Kyle Mooney]

Who is this you? Yeah. It really. Yeah. So. And do you have anything to say about that?

[Vanessa Bayer]

I. Okay. I'm gonna enter. I'm gonna answer in a genuine way, even though I can't.

[Kyle Mooney]

No. And we can. He can. He can. He'll slip in and out of this guy.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay. Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yes. You guys. Taryn.

[Kyle Mooney]

Taryn.

[Vanessa Bayer]

I already knew Adie, but I got to spend even more time with her. That was really fun.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Kenan, Bob, where do you end the. Where do you end the list?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, it doesn't end.

[Vanessa Bayer]

So you guys are two of my favorite people in the world. Like, Truly, I think you know that.

[Kyle Mooney]

I. I do know that. And you. I've told you as well. You're one of my favorite people in the entire world as well.

[Vanessa Bayer]

That's so nice.

[Kyle Mooney]

You get very excited to be around.

[Vanessa Bayer]

When I see either one of you, I literally. My heart rate goes up because I'm so excited.

[Kyle Mooney]

You walked in the room, and I screamed, and I scared you because I screamed.

[Beck Bennett]

You kind of did the seal of approval.

[Kyle Mooney]

I did. I did.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Well, I also did the seal of approval. I also. You guys sort of hid from me, so that's part of the reason I screamed when I came in.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, sure. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

That was not purposeful.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Right. But you were, like, tucked in this corner, and I, like, walked in, and I was like, I guess I'm in this room alone, and then all of a sudden, I hear Beth screaming. I'm so lucky that I got to meet you guys. Like, it's just, like, one. It's, like, truly, the thing that is, like, such a gift from that show. One of the things but, like, the most, like, impactful on your life, I think, is, like, you just have these relationships forever with these, like, absolute dream people.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Yeah. And you were there with AD And Bobby, Cecily, all the other people we mentioned. But you guys were there. Taran, when we got there, and you guys, like, really took care of us. Like, that was like, our j. You know, you were a star when we got there. Yeah, you were.

[Vanessa Bayer]

My God.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. You were already a star shooting into the sky. And it was amazing. It was amazing to watch.

[Beck Bennett]

I said that we. We had Taran on recently.

[Kyle Mooney]

We did.

[Beck Bennett]

It really was so meaningful. I'll. I'll speak for you.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay.

[Vanessa Bayer]

That's nice.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, that's really nice

[Beck Bennett]

that you, a veteran and a star on the show, was nice to us and looked out for us and engaged with us and collaborated with us. And it really, like. Because it's a scary place to know that I was lucky because I had my friend there. I had a couple friends there.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Right, Right.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

But to also have friendship in the. In like, our colleagues was sort of invaluable.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Well, I just remember thinking you guys were so funny. I just wanted to do stuff with you. I was just like, these guys are the best. I'm thinking of the. What did we call it? The.

[Beck Bennett]

The singing?

[Vanessa Bayer]

No, the thing where. Where we kept almost asking each other out. That was based on that we were doing.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Vanessa Bayer]

It still makes me laugh thinking about it now.

[Kyle Mooney]

Kyle just said, as he said, Taran was in recently, and we were talking about you. We. We said how you were all you were. You were kind of unflappable. There. You are always, like, such a great energy and, like, so, you know, sweet. Like, it. It seemed like nothing could really, like, throw you off. And we talked about how you would go meditate after the table.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yes. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

And, yeah, I. That's. It was. You feel.

[Beck Bennett]

Building on, how do you feel? Like, this is a loaded question, which. Forgive me. And if. If you don't feel comfortable, that's all good, too. But do you think, like, you generally had a better attitude than some other people? Do you think, like, oh, this doesn't bother me as much as it's bothering some people?

[Vanessa Bayer]

Well, I do think, like, you mentioned the meditating helped. Like, I would do TM meditation twice a day, and I would always do it. I think I would do it right after the table read would end on Wednesday. So it was like, while they were in that room making all those stressful decisions about what sketches got on and what didn't, and we were just waiting for them. It, like, allowed me to. Especially once I was in Fred's old office, which had no windows, I was, like, literally, like, turned off the lights and was, like, in a dark room.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Vanessa Bayer]

And I remember sometimes, like, the interns would knock on the door for something, and then they'd be like, oh, my God, I'm so sorry. I'd be like, it's okay.

[Beck Bennett]

What kite?

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

What do you look like when you're mid meditation?

[Vanessa Bayer]

I'm just like, on the. Like, I'm on the couch sort of like. I think the camera cuts off here, so I'm gonna kind of.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Approximate. Is it okay if I put my feet up on.

[Kyle Mooney]

Whatever you want. Yeah.

[Vanessa Bayer]

So I'm on the couch like this.

[Kyle Mooney]

Cool. And then that is comfy. That's a nice relaxing.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh. Oh, God. I didn't mean to. I'm getting fired.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm sorry. There's a little cockroach. A rooster. Cockroach. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, we wanna see if you ran in.

[Kyle Mooney]

Sorry. Yeah. Was that what it would be like?

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah, exactly.

[Beck Bennett]

But you don't start over at that point. You just keep going. Yeah. Yeah.

[Vanessa Bayer]

The reason, I think not to get into meditation now, but the reason that I think I do it so frequently is because I'm very, like, loose about it. Like, it's like if I get interrupted or if I don't get into, like, a deep place, it's like I'm like, I don't care as long as you. As long as I do it, I feel.

[Kyle Mooney]

So you still. You're still doing it?

[Vanessa Bayer]

I still do it. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Every day.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Every day. Twice a day. I do it first thing in the morning, and then I do it at some point in the afternoon.

[Beck Bennett]

20 minutes.

[Vanessa Bayer]

For 20 minutes each time. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I don't. I've done minimal research on tm.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I use. I, like, will sometimes meditate to the Calm app.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Do you have. Are you just going raw dog, like kind of freestyling, or do you have.

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't think that's how TM works. I think tm, you have. You have like a monster listening to.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, you have a monster do.

[Vanessa Bayer]

But it's really just word. I was just sounds. It's. It doesn't mean anything. It's really, I think, to focus you on your breathing. Because the other thing is with tm, you don't. You don't have to, like, empty your mind, which I think can be a very stressful thing. You're just trying to focus on these sounds or this word or whatever. And then it gets you just to sort of not be like. But honestly, sometimes once I'm like, really calm doing tm, I start thinking through things and I feel like I can think through them more.

[Kyle Mooney]

Like, like, just other things throughout your.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah. Like, if I'm trying to figure out something, even sometimes, like, what am I wearing to this thing? Like, I'll like, start think. Cause there's no, like, then there's no stress associated with it because I'm so calm at that point.

[Kyle Mooney]

You're not actually. You're dealing with it in a bubble sort of where you can.

[Vanessa Bayer]

But I honestly think all forms of meditation are really good. I think just being, like, awake while you're resting in that way is. So it's such a good thing for your mind.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, it helps me a lot. Like, I'll just do, like, 10 minutes, and I'll basically just do. I won't, like, try to get thoughts out of my mind. I'll just, like, focus on breathing. And as things come up, I will. I will sometimes, like, check in about things that are maybe stressful to me. And then they're like. And then they're not stressful because they're not coming up in my.

[Vanessa Bayer]

In your life in the normal way.

[Kyle Mooney]

And I'm like, oh, I have to do something about this. How am I going to deal with it? I just am able to, like, let myself sit with it. But, like, when I do, like, 10 minutes in the morning regularly, it really, like, lowers my heart rate, I feel like.

[Beck Bennett]

And did you. We don't need to spend too much time on this, but from the moment one. Were you doing it, like, in Chicago prior to.

[Vanessa Bayer]

That's such a good question. Cause I realized I wasn't doing it the whole time I was on snl, but probably the whole time you guys were there. Because I started doing it because at some point my brother did it. And then I was filming Trainwreck, and Amy Schumer was doing it every day at lunch. And she was so, like, focused during the. She had so much. It was like a movie that she wrote, and she was producing it and she was in it, and her ability to sort of focus so much, I was like, how does one do that? And I noticed that she was doing tm. So between her and my brother, I was like, I should probably. And then my brother introduced me to his teacher.

[Kyle Mooney]

Cool. Yeah, cool. Jonah.

[Vanessa Bayer]

My brother Jonah, who I have a podcast with.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. And what is it called?

[Vanessa Bayer]

How did we get weird with. With Jonah and Vanessa Bayer and I. I've been on. And wherever you get your podcasts.

[Kyle Mooney]

But not on YouTube, right? Or is it on YouTube? Oh, he's just smiling.

[Beck Bennett]

I don't know if I said something bad.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm sorry.

[Vanessa Bayer]

No. Because I don't like to record video.

[Kyle Mooney]

Of course. Yeah, It's.

[Beck Bennett]

That's cool to say that.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, no, of course. Yeah. If we could just.

[Vanessa Bayer]

I will hear with you guys.

[Beck Bennett]

I Did Vanessa's podcast twice.

[Kyle Mooney]

I did it twice, too.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah, you guys are two of the. Maybe two of the only people who've ever done it twice.

[Kyle Mooney]

Wow.

[Beck Bennett]

What were your topics? Yeah. Can you pitch what the podcast is?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

You know, ladies and gentlemen, you know, we're the producers. We're going to decide is this podcast gonna go or not?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Okay. Okay. So, my brother Jonah, quick, what are

[Kyle Mooney]

we having for lunch? I wanna. I want to order from Josie's again.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, sounds good.

[Kyle Mooney]

Sorry, go ahead.

[Vanessa Bayer]

A big steak for lunch?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

By the way, big fans. You have any trouble parking?

[Vanessa Bayer]

Actually, spots 1, 2, and 3 were taken, so I had to park in the other spot. But I said it was okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

But that's. It's covered.

[Beck Bennett]

Stay in the bit. Right.

[Kyle Mooney]

Sorry, what's that? I was talking about my. I was thinking about my steak. It's covered.

[Vanessa Bayer]

All right, Gravy. So my brother and I do a podcast called How Did We Get Weird? It's nostalgic and we talk about a fun topic from our guest childhood. We kind of riff and have fun. Now, when you beck. I think you did our first podcast and it was about Lean Pockets.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's right.

[Vanessa Bayer]

And really, that was really fun because those Lean Pockets commercials were very sexist. We went back and watched some of them.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Vanessa Bayer]

And it's always a guy eating Lean Pockets and his wife gets home and he realizes that's girl food because they're diet food. So he's hiding from his wife and trying to make sure she doesn't find out he was eating Lean Pockets. Because that means he's not like a real man.

[Kyle Mooney]

Because real men would eat Hot Pockets,

[Vanessa Bayer]

we'd eat Hot Pockets.

[Beck Bennett]

But they look just like Hot Pockets.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Right.

[Kyle Mooney]

Sorry. Oh, yeah, same.

[Beck Bennett]

And I'm sorry, the Lean Pocket thing, does this have to. Is this every episode?

[Vanessa Bayer]

No, no, no, no.

[Kyle Mooney]

I'm back to back. Are you still the first.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Wait, wait, wait. And then Kyle, what was your first.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, now you're Kyle.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, shit. I did. I think Saved by the Bell, College Years.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Saved by the Bell, the College years, which is so funny. And then we had you on as Kyle M. Yes. And you kept saying that you really liked how I was interpreting your songs and stuff.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, you. Vanessa has been very supportive of my music. And again, I really appreciate it.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. And what was Kyle M. What did you bring on? What was your.

[Beck Bennett]

I am as Kyle M. That's me.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Okay.

[Vanessa Bayer]

So what was it we talked about Kyle M. Mostly songs. His. His.

[Kyle Mooney]

That was his nostalgia.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah. Because It. Well, just because Jonah and I are such huge Kyle M Fans.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, absolutely. Me, too. I love the Kyle M. Stuff. Yeah, it's so. I mean, like, it really is just. Well, it's really wonderful.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, the podcast sounds amazing. We won.

[Vanessa Bayer]

And back. Second one. We talked about block parties, by the way.

[Beck Bennett]

You do? You grew up doing block powder.

[Kyle Mooney]

Did.

[Beck Bennett]

You grew up on block powder.

[Vanessa Bayer]

You grew up doing block parties, not throwing them.

[Beck Bennett]

You were a kid. Probably a kid. But you must have had fun at them.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, I had a great time. Balloon toss? Bike parade thing. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Balloon talk.

[Kyle Mooney]

Balloon talk.

[Beck Bennett]

What color's your balloon? Blue.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. Like, you were there. That's what we did. That's what happens at block parties. I guess you didn't grow up. You grew up with block parties.

[Beck Bennett]

No, I mean, they existed. I never really got to do San Diego.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I'm from San Diego.

[Kyle Mooney]

San Diego.

[Beck Bennett]

And I know some of Vanessa's. Because you went to San Diego.

[Vanessa Bayer]

He went to school with my cousins.

[Beck Bennett]

Really?

[Kyle Mooney]

I didn't know that. Yeah. High school.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Like, all your school district was with me.

[Beck Bennett]

Probably middle school.

[Vanessa Bayer]

High school.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Probably middle school and high school.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Wow. Did they like him? What did they say about it?

[Vanessa Bayer]

I think they did. I haven't talked to them a ton about it, but it's just really crazy.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Can I go back for a second?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Vanessa Bayer]

I also want to say that when you guys were saying I was, like, very measured at SNL and stuff, I also think, like, I want, like, it was such a great opportunity for us to really bond there, too, because obviously, it was still hard for everyone at times, and there were, you know, high highs and low lows kind of. And it was so nice to get to do that with you guys.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, it was.

[Vanessa Bayer]

That's it.

[Beck Bennett]

I know.

[Kyle Mooney]

We are lucky. Yeah. Well, I'm glad you felt lucky that you got to do it with us.

[Beck Bennett]

It's tough not to be, like, effusive just about how. Or hyperbolic, I guess, like about. Yeah. How meaningful the relationships are, and they, like, keep you going. And, like, sometimes you get to. Not only do you get to riff, you know, on Tuesdays we're writing, and maybe we'll come up with a bit together and decide to turn it into something. But then also, you get to commiserate. You get, like. Sometimes you'll get to go in somebody's dressing room and be like, I didn't like that thing that happened.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

[Kyle Mooney]

How should I deal with this? Who should I talk to?

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

You were always so Helpful.

[Vanessa Bayer]

You were always so helpful.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Get out of here. Yeah. Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

Who's the worst host of all time?

[Vanessa Bayer]

Who's your favorite? Who's your favorite? Who's. What's something crazy that happened that you can't talk about it? Other.

[Kyle Mooney]

What is the craziest ad lib from set?

[Beck Bennett]

It was a lot of ad lib.

[Kyle Mooney]

What's the. Was it. Did you ever have an improv that made you shit your pants?

[Vanessa Bayer]

Was it all scripted or was some of it improv? I feel like.

[Beck Bennett]

I feel like. Did they not use cue cards back in the day? Because I feel like you're. They're just. You're like.

[Vanessa Bayer]

It's.

[Beck Bennett]

They've changed or something.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I think everybody's just staring at the cue cards.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's like Wally's there. Amazing.

[Vanessa Bayer]

How much improving is it, though?

[Kyle Mooney]

I don't even. Really.

[Beck Bennett]

Not much.

[Kyle Mooney]

Really, really not.

[Beck Bennett]

You're told not to.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

You're told to read the lines because there's sort of camera cuts that are. That are scripted.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

So not a ton of. But you know, you never know, like, if that. If you're really feeling that audience. Especially at Update. Because I don't know if you remember doing characters at Update.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Because then you sometimes have a little breathing room, especially if you got a big chunk of. Chunk of lines. You can maybe fill the space how you want to. You know what I mean, do.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Because I remember you could have a different personality.

[Beck Bennett]

You had some classic updates.

[Kyle Mooney]

You really did.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Thank you. I always love going on weekend updates.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I liked. I enjoyed Update too.

[Vanessa Bayer]

It's the most fun thing because you get to just do your character and

[Beck Bennett]

you get to control the pace.

[Vanessa Bayer]

You get to control it. And it's always. It was always fun whether you're doing it with Seth or Colin or Che. It was like always felt. Or Cecily. It was like, always felt like you were. They were also fun at, like, getting the best.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. I feel like I only started to get comfortable with it my last year.

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Really?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Cause I didn't do a lot of Update, but I did like a couple, like, not like. I did a couple sort of not like necessarily original characters, but, like some impressions and like, I don't know. And towards the end there I was like, I started to be able to do that, like, take my time and not be rushed and like, be like following the cards and trying to like. I was sort of like, nervous about the rhythm of the cameras and, like, keeping things moving. And I would always kind of feel a Little rushed and not my own pace until the very end, but. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Did you. How. What type of. Like, I'm gonna use the phrase hangover. It's not the right word, but, like, did you. If a sketch that was yours or that you had a prominent role in did not play as well during the live show as you had hoped for, or maybe as it had during dress or whatever? What was your experience post show? How long would you be. Were you bummed? I guess you'd be bummed, but, like, how long would that last for you?

[Vanessa Bayer]

I think I was more bummed when a sketch would make it to dress rehearsal and not to air. Once something made it to air, I don't even think I paid attention to whether it did well or not. Like, I think I was so happy to be doing it that I was like, well, they're gonna see it no matter what.

[Kyle Mooney]

So, yeah, speaking of all the old stuff that we. Of the Seth that we said, was there a moment at SNL where you felt like you were. You hadn't figured it out yet, you know, and you were like. You kind of were, like, struggling or frustrated or lost, and then you did. You know what I mean? Or was it kind of like. Cause I feel like for me, it was. I don't know, after my second year, but, like. Or do you feel like it was always. I don't know.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Well, I think a couple things. I have a couple answers to that question. One is, there was a sketch, I think it was my second season, that the host was supposed to be, like, sort of, I think. Was it. Was that what. It was my second or third season, where the host was supposed to be, like. The guest host was supposed to be, like, hosting this political thing. And then at the last minute, she pulled out, and they put me in, and they were like, we're really sorry. Do you think you can do it? And I was like, sure.

[Beck Bennett]

Is this a cold open or is this.

[Vanessa Bayer]

It might have been a cold open. I can't remember. And I don't think it was a cold open. And I did it, and I messed up so much because it was so much like. So I did it just for the live show. I don't even think I did it at dress. I don't even think I did it at dress. I think I only did it at the live show. And I was like, sure. And I truly was like, yeah, I'll be fine. Cause I had never really messed up with the cue cards before, and I did it, and I messed up so many times, and I remember Lauren was, like, on the floor, and I was like, this is like, I'm gonna. Like, what? What is happening? And it was so crazy, and we got through it, but it was like, I messed up probably, like, six times or something. It was just, like, I could not figure out, like, I had to look at all these different people and whatever. And it sort of put this, like, fear in me about the cue cards that I sort of. From. For, like, a long time after that, I was, like, scared of messing up with the cue cards. Whereas, like, up until that point, I had, like, zero fear about the cue cards. I was like, you just read the cue cards, Right?

[Kyle Mooney]

Right.

[Vanessa Bayer]

And it, like, took the, like, ease out of it for me or something. And I remember Seth wrote it, and he was really Apollo. He was like. I was like, I'm so sorry. And he was like. He was like, I shouldn't have, like, even tried to put you in. He was like, it's fine. It's like, it was fine, you know, like. But I don't know why I asked you to do. And I was like, I don't know why I said I could do it. Like, it was just sort of like. We were both like, what do we.

[Kyle Mooney]

And, well, I feel like also early on, you're like, yeah, I can do it. Yeah, of course I can do it.

[Vanessa Bayer]

And I honestly was like, oh, I'm gonna do this perfectly, of course.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, y.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Really felt that way. And so that gave me a real fear. And then it's like, the more sketches that I did after that, the more I sort of came out of it slowly. And then by my sixth season or something, I was like. I sort of realized the thing of, like, no one, except for you and your parents, are counting how many sketches you're in. Like, nobody's. So then I had this attitude where I was sort of like, if I get to do some fun stuff every show or every few shows, then I sort of got over the. I got better. About the anxiety of not being in the show enough or something.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Measuring how you're doing by how big your show is.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Exactly. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I remember you giving me a quasi piece of advice, which I don't know that you remember. I don't know that you didn't call it advice, per se, but, like, maybe you sensed my nervousness or something. I don't know. Maybe we were having a conversation and you just said something like, you know, like, not that many people watch the show. It was something like that. It was like, this isn't as big Of a deal as you probably think it is.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Vanessa Bayer]

I've said that to a lot of people.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's not that big of a deal.

[Beck Bennett]

Here's what I think that I wonder, like, how our time at the show differs from people before us and people after us. To me, one of the things that felt like sort of a magnifying glass over the whole situation was, like, the Internet and the fact that there are websites that are, like, clocking. Maybe it is worse now because I feel like, yeah, I see it on my social media feed, but, like, websites clocking. Amount of time, the amount of cast members are getting. Or like, oh, my God, So crazy.

[Vanessa Bayer]

So crazy.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, so that. Or like. Or Twitter. You know, Twitter was probably, like, at its peak when we were on the show. And so I was all. I think that was one thing I was conscious of, was, like, that component of it.

[Vanessa Bayer]

I think that I. Maybe because I'm a little older than you and I don't have any online knowledge in my mind, I was like, how many people are actually staying up and watching the show? If there's a really great sketch, it'll go online, but if it's a sketch that doesn't go that well, no one's gonna see it. So, like, if you're in a great sketch, good for you. You're gonna be like, it's gonna be seen by a lot of people. But if you're not, it's okay, fine.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, yeah, my experience, it took me, like, a year to watch the show after leaving the show because it felt like, oh, this feels like traumatic in some way or another. Yeah. And then when I started watching the show, I feel like I've told you this before. It's like, oh, Matt, you're watching it, and it's like, why was I so stressed about this thing? Like.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And it's like, oh, man, it. Look, you could just have fun up there.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah, yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And it. All of a sudden, it's sort of like. And like, I think what you're saying is true that, like. Yeah, nobody really cares as much as you do. You do in the middle of it.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Not. Not a single person. You know what I'm saying?

[Kyle Mooney]

Right. Those were the good old days.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. But now. But now.

[Vanessa Bayer]

But now.

[Beck Bennett]

But now the industry has changed.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. It's evolved. It used to be streamers.

[Beck Bennett]

It used to be.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Not go. Keep going.

[Kyle Mooney]

Streamers. Not. What was the name of the sketch group?

[Beck Bennett]

Bubble Bunch.

[Kyle Mooney]

Streamers. Not bloomers. Yeah. No longer bloomers.

[Beck Bennett]

So anyway, if they want to do something with their old sketches.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. So. And you. And keep going.

[Vanessa Bayer]

So please don't raise their eyebrows.

[Kyle Mooney]

Now it's modern.

[Beck Bennett]

Some interesting bloomers. I want to do some of their old sketches.

[Kyle Mooney]

Bring bloomers to the streamers.

[Beck Bennett]

But now. But now it's like, podcasting is the thing. Thing.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Podcast.

[Kyle Mooney]

Podcast.

[Beck Bennett]

Cuz you've got a podcast.

[Kyle Mooney]

We got a podcast. She's got a podcast.

[Vanessa Bayer]

He's got a podcast.

[Beck Bennett]

You would be. What? You don't know? It's like, oh, we're in the studio that Beck and Kyle do their podcast. Other podcasts do their podcast here.

[Vanessa Bayer]

But there's photos of you up, right?

[Kyle Mooney]

And we swap them out.

[Beck Bennett]

Relle, wait. Should we tell Vanessa we were talking about earlier? Remember when you. When I was asking you how long it takes you to set this stuff up?

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

How long did you say it was?

[Vanessa Bayer]

Less than a minute.

[Kyle Mooney]

Amazing.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Isn't that crazy?

[Vanessa Bayer]

Oh, my God. Are you like.

[Beck Bennett]

You're going, like, going so fast.

[Kyle Mooney]

She's going so fast.

[Beck Bennett]

Like, that was a really good impression. Jack. Jack from the Incredibles. Remember Jack. Jack the baby. That's really fast.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Wait, Kyle, did you see my impression? Wait, let me see it.

[Beck Bennett]

It was probably really fast. Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, my gosh. You guys have to go to YouTube to check this out.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, so right now, Vanessa is, like, doing the fastest, like, setup of the set direction. Yeah, she's like Jack. Jack from the Incredibles.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, she's like Jack, Jack. So.

[Beck Bennett]

But anyway, podcast. We don't know what our podcast should be about. I was curious. So was my friend Beck.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, I was kind of. I think we were wondering what you

[Beck Bennett]

think our podcast should be about.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Can I give you my idea and then can I take a pee break?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. We're all going to take it. We're gonna go in a different studio.

[Beck Bennett]

Yes. Everybody wants to go. I've been thinking about peer pressure.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Okay, good. I think your podcast should be about peer pressure.

[Beck Bennett]

Mm.

[Kyle Mooney]

Can't wait. All right.

[Beck Bennett]

All right.

[Kyle Mooney]

We'll be right back with peer Pressure.

[Beck Bennett]

You better listen to it.

[Kyle Mooney]

Don't be such a.

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[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. What's going on?

[Vanessa Bayer]

Big me.

[Kyle Mooney]

Same thing as pretty much always. What about you? Am I.

[Beck Bennett]

Am I crazy?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Am I going out of my. Oh, I already. Oh, he's already made up. He already made up his mind, folks.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Wow,

[Kyle Mooney]

that's.

[Beck Bennett]

It is hot out there and it is winter in la.

[Kyle Mooney]

I know. I'm like, what is this sunny, hot weather?

[Beck Bennett]

What is this sunny bullshit? What do we live in Southern fucking California?

[Kyle Mooney]

Hilarious as always, Kyle.

[Beck Bennett]

Dude, you have been cracking me up since back in the day, college. I remember sc. I remember that Go Trojans fight on

[Kyle Mooney]

Absolutely Final and all the other sports they have. It's great.

[Beck Bennett]

But you will intro this podcast and you will say the title and sing our title song right now.

[Kyle Mooney]

Please don't make it.

[Beck Bennett]

You're going to and you're going to like it.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, here we go again. Peer pressure podcast. That's what it's all about. You told us. Peer pressure podcast. That's what we'll talk about with Beck and Kyle. Yeah, that's right. We have Peer Pressure.

[Beck Bennett]

An amazing guest.

[Kyle Mooney]

I remember her. I remember her, too.

[Beck Bennett]

New York City, 30 Rock. So many. Which, by the way, so many legends have gone through.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. The building is so old. A lot of people have gone through that building.

[Beck Bennett]

And remember the cast photos.

[Kyle Mooney]

Of course. I remember the big one down at the.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Wait, can I. Can I ask.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, and that's our guest, Vanessa.

[Beck Bennett]

Vanessa Bear.

[Kyle Mooney]

There she is.

[Beck Bennett]

Give it up.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Can I ask a question about that cast photo? Because I have two. I have cast photos on my wall signed by everyone from every. From all seven seasons I was there.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, wow.

[Vanessa Bayer]

But there's eight photos because.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, yeah, we've talked about this.

[Vanessa Bayer]

My seventh season. Probably your fourth.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Vanessa Bayer]

It's so crazy that we were only there for four seasons together. Doesn't it feel like it was longer?

[Beck Bennett]

But

[Vanessa Bayer]

Beck did something weird in the photo.

[Kyle Mooney]

I did a little.

[Vanessa Bayer]

And so they picked a different one. So which one? Cause in both of them, you're doing something sort of weird.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, in. So I'm doing the little.

[Beck Bennett]

This is doing the. This came up last week. It did, yeah, With Taryn, right?

[Kyle Mooney]

No, it was with Lamorne and. Oh, yes.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

We were talking about taking photos for shows and I did this little sort of top hat, sort of like gentleman, sort of like, hello.

[Beck Bennett]

Sort of looks like a leopard. Leprechaun.

[Vanessa Bayer]

That's the photo where we're all standing in a line.

[Kyle Mooney]

Is that in a white voice? I would say the worst photo of my time there.

[Vanessa Bayer]

You're doing this. Yeah, because I. Because I'm like, they're both. You're doing sort of weird stuff in both. Then. Then there's one of us more in a cluster, and I feel like, what are you doing in that one?

[Kyle Mooney]

In that one, I'm small. I'm tinier.

[Beck Bennett]

Because you made. And you made a complaint.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, I'm. I think I'm shorter than 80. Whoa. Yeah. Or like, I'm. We're around the same height and I'm

[Vanessa Bayer]

not saying that 80 is that short, but you're definitely taller.

[Kyle Mooney]

Definitely taller than 80. And. Yeah. And then so I, like, I did that thing as a joke. I was like, maybe one of these. And everybody loved it. It was so funny. Hahaha. And then. Yeah, everybody was laughing really hearty. Har har. And then. And then. And then they chose that. And then I was like, why did. Why did you choose that? Like, that's awful. And then they were like, all right, we'll. We'll swap it out. And then they made me smaller. They punished me.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, it could have been a situation where, like, the person who was in charge of resizing the images or like photoshopping was peer pressured.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, I was. I peer pressured. I was like, change this really good. I was like, can I clarify?

[Vanessa Bayer]

So that was in the one where we're staying, but then they used a whole different photo.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, I thought they just swapped me out.

[Vanessa Bayer]

I think. No, I think that you're right.

[Kyle Mooney]

You're right. There is a cluster.

[Vanessa Bayer]

There's a cluster ended up being the photo.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Vanessa Bayer]

And you're doing something kind of weird in that photo too.

[Kyle Mooney]

Is it possible that they were cast members?

[Beck Bennett]

There are people added, like midway through the season or something like that that weren't there?

[Vanessa Bayer]

I don't think so. It's just like a new photo came out all of a sudden and I got that one signed too.

[Beck Bennett]

My, my. I feel like, iconic moment within the cast photos. Was 40th. I got to hold a little 40 flag.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, yes. That was our first year.

[Beck Bennett]

Wait, second year?

[Kyle Mooney]

Second year? Yeah. Right, right.

[Beck Bennett]

There's a little. If you look at the 40th at the bottom, there's a little Kyle with,

[Kyle Mooney]

like, waing this flag. It's really cute.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Was 40 or. No, that wasn't your first season. That was your second season.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Now. Now, peer pressure. Yeah, now is it peer pressure? We're talking peers.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Peers.

[Kyle Mooney]

So you can't. It. It's only peer pressure. Right. If it's a. If it's a peer pressuring you, we're talking about. Let's just. Let's just lay it all out there, because sometimes it's nice to return to what it actually is. It's peer pressure.

[Beck Bennett]

It's peer pressure that at times can feel pure.

[Kyle Mooney]

Pure.

[Beck Bennett]

And I bet sometimes it's taking place on a pier with boats.

[Vanessa Bayer]

It seems like you guys are missing the point.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, I honestly thought it was like, peer pressure. Like. Yeah, like on a pier.

[Beck Bennett]

To me, I feel like it's like

[Vanessa Bayer]

how it's spelled here.

[Beck Bennett]

The iconic peer pressure to me is like, like what was presented to me in PSAs and in TV shows and in movies or was like a kid pressuring you into smoke cigarettes or smoke

[Vanessa Bayer]

weed or do drugs. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

I feel like you have to be a minor or maybe not, but, like, it's. But it's obviously bad things you do. You don't peer pressure. Somebody to make a good choice.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Well, when we were growing up, that was what Kyle was saying was like, the big thing was like, someone's going to peer pressure you into doing something and. And into doing drugs or, like, smoking cigarettes or something.

[Kyle Mooney]

Right.

[Vanessa Bayer]

And something that someone pointed out to me, My friend's older sister pointed out to me at one point. I don't know how peer pressure came up, but she was like, you know, if someone has, like, drugs or something, they're not going to just want to, like, give them away. If you don't want to do them, they're going to want to, like, hold onto them because they're expensive.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, that is true.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Go ahead.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yep. Kyle's raising his hand.

[Beck Bennett]

I have a question about peer pressure.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

And I know we host a podcast about it, and.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

This is sort of a discussion, I guess. Hmm. Yes. That is the iconic peer pressure. Do you think? Could one make an argument. Beck is sort of like. He's. He's going there. He's got his eyes closed.

[Kyle Mooney]

He's like, I'm going to the place. He's going to the place.

[Beck Bennett]

Do you think that you could argue that there's a component of peer pressure in just, like, having to wear, like, cool sneakers or something like that?

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yes, I do. Especially if you don't want to.

[Kyle Mooney]

Or it's like, yeah, if you don't want to wear cool sneakers, but you're wearing cool sneakers, you need to fit in.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Right. So it's like the unspoken. It's like. It's like a societal peer pressure.

[Beck Bennett]

Is that fair? I don't know.

[Vanessa Bayer]

I think so.

[Beck Bennett]

I'm posing a name and you're saying

[Kyle Mooney]

that could go to anything that you're wearing. Maybe like, dressing for people to fit in. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

It's like you're in seventh grade and it's like, well, if you want to be popular, you've got to wear DC skate shoes or something like that, you know?

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Whether it's said out loud or whether you're observing and, like, you tell your parents, like, we got to go buy these shoes, because otherwise I'm not gonna fit in. I wonder. I don't know.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think that's peer pressure. I think. Yeah, of course. That's like a silent peer pressure.

[Beck Bennett]

Have you been. Can you. Can I. Does anyone have an example of a time when they think they were peer pressured or they were the peer pressure er.

[Vanessa Bayer]

I want to talk about? Just to give everyone a little time to think about this, I want to give an example that came up on my podcast.

[Kyle Mooney]

Great.

[Vanessa Bayer]

How did we get weird with Jonah Baer and Vanessa Baer?

[Kyle Mooney]

You gotta check it out.

[Vanessa Bayer]

You have to check it out to find out what musician this was and what fabulous band he's in. We had this musician on our podcast and he had a neck tattoo. And I said, was that scary? Like, what? And he was peer pressured into getting it. He explained to us how he was peer pressured into getting it and he. Now he likes it, but it took him a couple years to get used. But his friends were like, you should get this. And he was like. They were like, it looks so cool on your neck. And he was like, no. And then, like, I think the idea must have grown on him. He wouldn't have done it if it was, like, peer pressure because it's obviously like a lifelong decision, but I think even with stuff like that, you can get peer pressured.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Tattoos.

[Kyle Mooney]

Tattoos. Yes, tattoos.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Any tattoos?

[Kyle Mooney]

Any tattoos.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Like, get a tattoo. Like, my friends all got tattoos when we were on SNL when the first Women's March happened, I think, or something, and they were like, you gotta do it with us. And I was like, oh, but I'm filming snl. And they were like, we'll do it Sunday. And I was like, oh, what? I have to go to that thing?

[Kyle Mooney]

How do I go to that thing?

[Beck Bennett]

It's like, Sundays are sort of like day off.

[Vanessa Bayer]

I was like, yeah, it's gonna be day off.

[Kyle Mooney]

God's day.

[Beck Bennett]

All right, we'll do it on Monday.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah, we'll stay longer. We'll do it again. And I was like, these are my best friends in the world, but actually, I have to. To go do this thing.

[Kyle Mooney]

So you didn't get the tattoo? I didn't, but they all got the tattoo.

[Vanessa Bayer]

They all did. They all got, like, kind of slightly different tattoos that were like feminist tattoos, which is really cool about that.

[Kyle Mooney]

Rocks.

[Vanessa Bayer]

It does rock. And. But I thought, well, what. Cool.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, this. We're. We're. We're three people who don't have tattoos.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Really?

[Kyle Mooney]

I think so, right? Yeah. I don't have one. Yeah.

[Vanessa Bayer]

I don't.

[Kyle Mooney]

We're sensible.

[Beck Bennett]

I can't. I'm really searching my brain for a moment.

[Kyle Mooney]

I was, I think, peer pressure. I think I was peer pressured into skydiving, but I. But it was like, I'm glad I did it, but it was like a lot of people were like, we're going now. We're doing it. Come on. Like, they, like, a buddy of mine pulled up in a car and they were like, we're going now. And I was. I had just gotten back from traveling in Europe after studying abroad, and I was like, coming back to USC for a couple days before going home for the summer, and I was just kind of like, sure, yeah. And I did it, and it was great. So sometimes, like, you know, is it always negative? And can we.

[Vanessa Bayer]

No, I think it can be positive.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. And can. Do you think. Do you see yourself being peer pressured as an adult?

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yes.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Vanessa Bayer]

For example, what you talking about skydiving made me think of whenever my. Those same friends from growing up who are still my closest friends, whenever they're like, let's go on a, like, let's go hike across these rocks or something. I'm like, no, what if we just sit down and like. And then actually, my friends know how to get me to do any kind of nature thing, which is. They'll be like, vanessa, we'll sing it around for you. Just. You can direct us and we can sing, like. We'd sing like Ghost of John. Do you know that song?

[Kyle Mooney]

No. No. You can sing it now if you want.

[Vanessa Bayer]

It's so funny because when I was home over Thanksgiving, we got my high school. A bunch of people from my high school sang it and around. And it was. And Gwen, my best friend Gwen was there and she said, this is your dream, Vanessa. Yes. Because it was at, like a gathering, like a girl was having. Our friend was having a party. Anyway, it goes like this. And then I'm going to point at you when you would come in for a round. But you don't have to.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, maybe we will.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Okay. Have you seen the ghost of John? Long white bones with the skin. Oh, John.

[Kyle Mooney]

John with the.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Wouldn't it be chili with no skin on?

[Beck Bennett]

Wouldn't it be chili with.

[Kyle Mooney]

Wouldn't it be chili with the no skin?

[Vanessa Bayer]

You guys did perfect.

[Kyle Mooney]

Pretty good. That was amazing.

[Beck Bennett]

You know, I. Yeah, I'm. I hear what you're saying, like, in terms of, like, sort of peer pressure now. Like in this, at the age we are. And like. Yeah, I'm maybe stretching the meaning here, but, like, there are definitely situations I find myself in that, like. Yeah, maybe like what you were saying earlier, societal. It's just like, I don't feel the. I don't want to be confrontational, so I'm not willing to be. Like, I actually don't want to do that. But it's like, you know what? I. I hate to say it. One thing I can't stand, which is very not. Which everybody loves.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I don't like it. I don't. When I'm. When somebody wants to catch up with me. Like, we haven't seen each other in a long time. The last thing I want to do is get coffee.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Really?

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. You're not a coffee lover?

[Beck Bennett]

I don't drink coffee.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Oh, interesting.

[Beck Bennett]

It's like, it's. I don't know, it's a little too. A little too much pressure for me to, like, just, like, sit and, like, drink something and talk to somebody.

[Kyle Mooney]

So it does feel like a little more like a. Like a casual business meeting. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, yeah. I haven't gotten coffee with somebody in a long time.

[Beck Bennett]

I think I'd rather. I mean, like, a meal can sometimes be too much of a commitment.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Right, Right.

[Beck Bennett]

A drink I like because then I can chill a little bit, maybe. But for some reason, coffee is very intense to me. I gotta find a middle ground.

[Vanessa Bayer]

If it's.

[Beck Bennett]

Lunch is okay.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Can I tell you? I think a good middle ground if you. If it's like someone that you're, like, happy to see them, but, like, you actually. It's actually a little inconvenient for you because you have a lot of other stuff to do. If there's already a place that you're gonna be at, you could have coffee with them next door, like, right after. Like, if you were doing this right. And then. Or like, right before, you could get. If there's, like, a coffee place nearby, you could, like, get coffee for an hour before and you're, like, already gonna be in that.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah. That makes. I think. Yeah. If it's a geographical thing, I totally buy that. I would almost say, like, I would rather possibly go to somebody's house over. Going into a coffee shop.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Sort of, like, stuff to play with.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Go through their stuff and go through their drawers and everything. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe they put out a little snack.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Maybe have a little soda water or something like that. Maybe you sit outside, play a little music. That's nice.

[Beck Bennett]

Something about staring at each other.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Tough for me, but. Yeah. Peer pressure. Trying to think of. Very interesting.

[Kyle Mooney]

I. Yeah. It's not cool. It's not cool to do. It's toxic. You don't want to make somebody do something they don't want.

[Vanessa Bayer]

But you're right. Sometimes it's not toxic. Sometimes it's. It's to do something that ends up being beneficial.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Beck Bennett]

Or beneficial. Yeah. Beneficial to the group. Sometimes. Sometimes. Like in your scenario.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I also don't love doing, like, game. Like, I like games, but I don't love, like, game nights.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, really? I thought you would, like, love a game night. What's the game that you played that I played at your. We've all played at your house. Maybe not all of us, but the. With the phones and the.

[Beck Bennett]

Oh, that I do love. I like the, like, jackbox games.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. You like the jackbox games.

[Beck Bennett]

But I get nervous playing, like, Mafia.

[Vanessa Bayer]

I do, too. You know, I played Mafia. It's how I'm. I have so many new friends from all of Taryn's friends. Taryn and Kobe's friends from playing Mafia with them and their friends over the pandemic. We would, like, play every Friday.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Vanessa Bayer]

And I used to be great at being mafia, and now I have gotten to a point, like, I. Then I got to a point where I couldn't stop laughing. Like, I, like, couldn't do it anymore.

[Beck Bennett]

That is the thing that. Why I don't like it.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Is that I'm, like, a paid actor, and the fact that I can't do this thing well. Where you're supposed to sort of act and lie and it just like kind of kills my self esteem.

[Vanessa Bayer]

But I agree with you that I love jackbox games.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Even though I think I know a lot of the people that create them because it's based out of Chicago, I think. And sometimes I get mad at them because I'm like, can you. Could you. Could you guys go any lower in terms of like being childish?

[Beck Bennett]

Right. We like that. What's the.

[Vanessa Bayer]

They'll be like. They'll be like, what's something that comes out of your pants that looks like a pickle? And then it's like entering your answer.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Vanessa Bayer]

It's like. But okay, jackbox.

[Kyle Mooney]

Jackbox. Connected to cards against humanity at all? Because that's in Chicago too.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

There's like a writer's room for cards against humanity. I knew people who were in that writership.

[Beck Bennett]

When we play Quiplash, which is. I feel like one of the games you're referring to, what it's become and when I play it with my close friends is that it's all just inside. So we're just using it as a vessel to sort of talk shit about people we know.

[Vanessa Bayer]

We would always play it after we would play mafia and I would always look forward to that. The same mafia over the pandemic that we would do over Zoom. Then we'd play those games and that, you're right. It would become people's like, inside jokes. But then I would always. Nine times out of ten, my answer is like, I'd write grow up, jackbox.

[Beck Bennett]

Right. And how does that score?

[Vanessa Bayer]

And people would know it was me.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. Yeah. Did it do well? Did it score well? Sometimes peer pressure.

[Beck Bennett]

Do you remember the first time you had a. Some sort of controlled substance? Do you remember what the, like, circumstance was? I remember in eighth grade, I don't know if I imagine I did this. Maybe I had a drink before then, but I smoked weed with my brother. I visited him in college when he. And I don't necessarily want to blow his cover, but yeah.

[Vanessa Bayer]

And so you're not going to say which brother.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. So it's. It's one of them. Yeah, it's Ryan or Sean.

[Beck Bennett]

Do the math. But yeah. And he peer pressured me.

[Kyle Mooney]

Wow. And when were you okay. Did you vomit? Did you.

[Beck Bennett]

I don't know that I got high the first time.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay. Okay.

[Beck Bennett]

I remember us making a song and it was cool. It was fun.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Awesome. Sounds awesome.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Vanessa Bayer]

And for me, the first time I did a controlled substance, I did think of it. Were you talking just now?

[Kyle Mooney]

No, no, no, no.

[Vanessa Bayer]

I wasn't And I was with this group of people who smoked a lot of weed. And I remember I was like, I'll smoke some. And they were like, really? And I was like, yeah. And they were like, okay. And they gave me some. And then I came and like, the next day I told my mom because my mom was so. Like, it doesn't really matter if you smoke weed. And so my mom was like, what'd you think? And I was. I think I was like, it was fine. And she was like, yeah. She was like, that's fine. Just never smoke cigarettes.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, interesting.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah. Because my mom used to smoke, I think, when she was in college and stuff. And she was like, it's so bad for you.

[Kyle Mooney]

Cigarettes.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah, cigarettes. She was like, but if you smoke weed. My parents were both like. One time we found my mom's rolling papers in her purse. My mom had rolling papers, and we wrote a note to her on them. And she was so embarrassed, but she was especially embarrassed because we were, like, going to the store. Be right back. I think we were in middle school or high school. And the thing that's the most embarrassing for her is that we tell that story to so many people. Like, it would be one thing if it was just a joke between us that we wrote her a note on her rolling papers.

[Kyle Mooney]

But you're blasting it out to our entire audience.

[Vanessa Bayer]

This is going. How many viewers listening do you have?

[Kyle Mooney]

A couple hundred thousand, probably. Yeah. Millions.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah. I think a lot of parents. Did your parents, like, I feel like that was a big thing because of our parents generation. Like, they would, like, hang out with each other and smoke weed, and that's so cool. Yeah.

[Kyle Mooney]

I feel like a lot of my. I always say, like, the difference. One of the major differences between my Jewish friends and non Jewish friends, the Jewish parents smoked weed.

[Vanessa Bayer]

That's so interesting. I could totally see that.

[Kyle Mooney]

They also went by their first names instead of Mr. And Mrs. They'd be like, yeah, we just use their first names instead of being like Mrs. Fogle or Mr. You know, whatever.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah, I. I could never call parents by their first name still to this day. And I have the same problem with teachers. They're like, call me by. And I'm like,

[Kyle Mooney]

yeah, teacher. I'm going to need a Mr. Or Mrs. Or. But there you.

[Vanessa Bayer]

But you're adult now. Yeah, you're an adult.

[Kyle Mooney]

I know you're adult.

[Beck Bennett]

Do you have.

[Kyle Mooney]

Makes me uncomfortable.

[Beck Bennett]

How do you like to be referred to by a child? A strange child?

[Vanessa Bayer]

I'd like to be called Ms. Bayer.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. And I Mr. Bennett. Lord Bennett.

[Beck Bennett]

Lord Bennett.

[Kyle Mooney]

Especially if it's a child. Yeah, I mean, like, I think it might. I actually might start putting that out there. I might start peer pressuring other parents to make their kids call me Lord Bennett. And how about you?

[Beck Bennett]

What about you, Spaceman?

[Kyle Mooney]

Spaceman. Spaceman.

[Beck Bennett]

Can I have some more water? Sure, little buddy.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's great.

[Vanessa Bayer]

That's cool.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's really nice. I really like that.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Really nice.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, I don't want to pressure anybody.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Okay.

[Kyle Mooney]

I really don't want to pressure anybody, but would you be down to take all your clothes off and just do some somersaults around the room?

[Beck Bennett]

Come on, do it for the show. I'm a little comfortable about it, but

[Kyle Mooney]

come on, we'd go viral.

[Beck Bennett]

I do want to go viral. Are you sure this will go viral?

[Kyle Mooney]

Of course. It would be amazing for the show.

[Beck Bennett]

How many. What do I need to take off?

[Kyle Mooney]

Take off all your clothes and start doing somersaults around the little see through orange table that's in front of us right here.

[Beck Bennett]

And you sure it'll go viral?

[Kyle Mooney]

Absolutely. You're gonna be happy you did it, right?

[Vanessa Bayer]

That's example of peer pressure.

[Beck Bennett]

I'm really considering it, but I'm afraid if I get down to my skivvies, you'll see that there's some skid marks.

[Kyle Mooney]

So that's the reason. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Vanessa Bayer]

That was really good. Reenactment of peer pressure.

[Kyle Mooney]

That was peer pressure. Now, do you. Do you, Kyle, you've always been a teddy whitey guy. Not always. Not always, but often when I made

[Beck Bennett]

the transition, probably in. Probably in my late 20s, I made the transition to briefs. To briefs, yes. And then pretty much exclusively to tighty whities.

[Kyle Mooney]

So you keep them white, though. Wouldn't you think you'd like maybe switch to the black color if you were afraid of. Yeah. So you could, like, drop trowel anywhere and not have to worry about.

[Beck Bennett]

You want to be able to. Tire marks, drop trowel anywhere. You know what it is? It's one of those things. Yes. You bring up a very good point. And maybe this is something I need to work on. I'm not gonna let you immediately peer pressure me into changing my underwear, though.

[Kyle Mooney]

No, no.

[Beck Bennett]

With that being said, like, it is a piece of uniform to me.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah. And it is.

[Beck Bennett]

It would take.

[Vanessa Bayer]

It would take a change things.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, it would be a little bit. There would be a process for me to, like, be like, okay, I'm making the move. If I moved over to, let's say, black underwear, that would be a full time commitment. That would be. That's the thing. Don't you like me and my tighty whities?

[Kyle Mooney]

I love you. Your teddy whes. But I'm just thinking about, like, if you want to. If you want to be more comfortable.

[Beck Bennett]

If I want to be. If I want to be the real spaceman.

[Vanessa Bayer]

You're.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Vanessa Bayer]

You're trying to help him be more comfortable.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Okay. It doesn't make a difference to you, really, except that you care about your friend.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, I think I am pretty comfortable gen generally. I think, like, in the instance of, like, getting down into my skivvies to. To do the somersault, I was like, I don't want to necessarily expose everybody to.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

My underwear right in this moment.

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, I think you made the right choice.

[Beck Bennett]

Thanks.

[Kyle Mooney]

But you never know what's gonna happen here on peer pressure. You know, you might be pressured. You might be peer pressured to talk about your peer pressure moments, by the way. And it's all about, you know, finding the peer pressure that's right for you.

[Beck Bennett]

Which reminds me, I've got a pretty good idea.

[Kyle Mooney]

Oh, boy.

[Beck Bennett]

You guys want to be cool, don't you?

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, yeah, I thought I already was.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Same here.

[Beck Bennett]

No, no, no. Some of the people, some. Some of the other guys and girls like you. But you want to be cooler, don't you want to be like me?

[Kyle Mooney]

Well, yeah, I guess so.

[Beck Bennett]

Here's what you got to do. In about 30 seconds, we're going to end this segment, maybe move over to the next room.

[Vanessa Bayer]

We're going to go back there already.

[Beck Bennett]

Yup, exactly. That's what I'm saying. We end the peer pressure podcast right now. So.

[Kyle Mooney]

And we'll be cool then.

[Beck Bennett]

You'll be cool.

[Kyle Mooney]

Whoa. You promise?

[Beck Bennett]

Hey, hey. You have my word.

[Vanessa Bayer]

You're talking so quiet, though.

[Beck Bennett]

That's just how I roll.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay, if you really think we should. I'll do it.

[Vanessa Bayer]

All right. So will I.

[Beck Bennett]

Okay, then help me out with this outro, if you don't mind. Okay. Thanks for listening. What's up, everybody? Wow. That was what's up?

[Kyle Mooney]

And wow. What's up? Wow.

[Beck Bennett]

What's up? Wow.

[Kyle Mooney]

That was. That was.

[Beck Bennett]

I wish I had more. I wish I had more examples of being peer pressured or seen people being peer pressured, and I bet I do. I just couldn't come up with them, you know?

[Vanessa Bayer]

Oh, go ahead. Sorry.

[Kyle Mooney]

I was gonna say something about peer pressure as an adult, but I realized it's not really peer pressure. It's like, it's just pressure that I Feel to do things. Whether it's like, drink when other people are. Or, I don't know, like, go to somebody's birthday.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, exactly.

[Vanessa Bayer]

I was gonna say go to a party or something.

[Kyle Mooney]

And it's like. But nobody's going like, hey, come out. Where are you? Or drink this thing. It's just like a internalized thing. I feel like I want to, like, do. To make. To fit in or, like, to not make somebody feel awkward or something. Luckily, we're, you know, we're not peer pressured anymore.

[Vanessa Bayer]

No.

[Kyle Mooney]

And we're our own people. People doing our own things.

[Beck Bennett]

Speaking of, you know, sorry, Forgive me, but, like. And I'm not gonna go into details, but I think I was. I don't know if you'd call it. I feel like I was peer pressured at the show now that. Now you've unlocked a memory or like that it's like, oh, yeah. To do something that. But. But I don't know if that's like.

[Kyle Mooney]

I think that's, like.

[Beck Bennett]

That's like, corporate in some way or another. Do you know what I'm saying? Like, pressured into doing something that isn't like.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

You'd necessarily want to do.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Interesting.

[Kyle Mooney]

Corporate pressure. Yeah.

[Vanessa Bayer]

I would pressure writers into writing with me.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Like, really pressure them. I'd be like, come on, it's gonna be so fun. And then they do it.

[Kyle Mooney]

I feel like I pressured dismukes into writing before, like, the first time, and then we had a lot of fun.

[Vanessa Bayer]

John Solomon has told me that, like, it was always fun writing with, like, he. Or that I would always pressure him into writing with me. We always had fun, but it, like, took a lot. Like, he'd always be really busy and kind of like.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yeah, yeah. I mean, you have. You kind of have to. You have to.

[Vanessa Bayer]

That's how you get, you know, good

[Kyle Mooney]

writers that are busy. Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

I interrupted you back, though.

[Kyle Mooney]

I was just making a really good transition into what Vanessa is doing these days. Obviously, the podcast.

[Vanessa Bayer]

How did we get weird? We're with your Jonah Bear and Vanessa Bear, wherever you get your podcast.

[Kyle Mooney]

Exactly.

[Vanessa Bayer]

And we've had these two. These two sweeties on two times.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's right.

[Vanessa Bayer]

I can imagine that. If you can imagine and a bunch of other really good guests, then we have so much fun.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes. It's always a bonus.

[Vanessa Bayer]

And talk about nostalgic stuff, which obviously, if you listen to this podcast, you're probably pretty into that.

[Kyle Mooney]

And you are in a new show. An old show.

[Vanessa Bayer]

An old show to coming back. It's called Scrubs. Ever heard of it? I'm gonna be. I'm recurring in that show, so if you check that out, my character's name is Sibby.

[Beck Bennett]

That's a great name.

[Kyle Mooney]

That's a good name. Do you explain the name at all in the show, or is it just Sibby?

[Vanessa Bayer]

It's just what her name is.

[Kyle Mooney]

It's Sibi.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah.

[Beck Bennett]

Is that with an S or a C or S? That's even great.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah, Sibi. And I think I'm allowed to say this, especially because the show will have come out, but has come out.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes.

[Vanessa Bayer]

She's like the head of the wellness department at the hospital.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay.

[Vanessa Bayer]

At Sacred Heart.

[Kyle Mooney]

And so wellness. What is that like? What does that sort of like?

[Vanessa Bayer]

The mental health.

[Kyle Mooney]

The mental health.

[Vanessa Bayer]

And she's sort of in charge of HR as well.

[Kyle Mooney]

Okay.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Human resources.

[Kyle Mooney]

I can't wait to meet Sibby. I cannot wait.

[Beck Bennett]

Yeah, I know Sibby. You must have been pretty psyched on that name.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Yeah, it was so fun. The whole thing was so fun. And I think the show's really funny and people will like it a lot.

[Kyle Mooney]

I can't wait to see it.

[Beck Bennett]

Where do we find that again?

[Vanessa Bayer]

ABC and Hulu the next day.

[Kyle Mooney]

Is there anything else you want to tell our lovely audience about that you have coming out or doing out?

[Vanessa Bayer]

Hmm. I guess the only other thing I want to say is I freaking love you guys.

[Beck Bennett]

Love you, Vanessa.

[Kyle Mooney]

I want to. Yeah, I want to plug that. I love you guys, too.

[Beck Bennett]

And I love that for us.

[Vanessa Bayer]

Me too. Sweet.

[Beck Bennett]

Well, thanks again for stopping by the Batcave.

[Kyle Mooney]

Yes, thanks for coming by the Batcave. And as always, salute to do and make it gravy, baby.

[Beck Bennett]

Make it gravy, baby. Thanks, guys. What's our Podcast is a Headgun podcast created and hosted by Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney.

[Kyle Mooney]

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

[Beck Bennett]

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

[Kyle Mooney]

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

[Beck Bennett]

That was a Headgum podcast.