Good Hang with Amy Poehler - Adam Scott

Episode Date: August 12, 2025

Adam Scott is kind of tired from doing all that running on 'Severance.' Amy hangs with her former 'Parks and Rec' co-star and talks about driving barefoot, hosting a U2 podcast, and his favorite Ben-Leslie moments. Host: Amy PoehlerGuests: Nick Offerman and Adam ScottExecutive Producers: Bill Simmons, Amy Poehler, and Jenna Weiss-BermanFor Paper Kite Productions: Executive producer Jenna Weiss-Berman, coordinator Sam Green, and supervising producer Joel LovellFor The Ringer: Supervising producers Juliet Litman, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin; video producers Jack Wilson, Chris Wohlers, and Aleya Zenieris; audio producer Kaya McMullen; video editor Drew van Steenbergen; and booker Kat SpillaneOriginal Music: Amy Miles Get anything delivered on Uber Eats. www.ubereats.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, everyone. Welcome to another episode of Good Hang. I am so excited to talk to my TV husband, the father of my triplets, Adam Scott, aka Ben Wyatt, Leslie Knope's dream come true. Adam Scott, incredible actor, friend, he's just, I just loved talking to him today, and we really get into it. We talk about his love of you too. We talk about how he weirdly likes to drive barefoot. We talk about Parks and Rec, of course, and we give you a lot of juicy stuff there. and I try to figure out the crazy ending of severance. And honestly, I don't know what's going on. So I try to have him help me understand that incredible show.

But before we start, we always like to talk to people who know our guest and who want to give us a question. And we're going to keep this Parks and Rec reunion going today by talking to the one, the only, Nick Offerman. Nick, are you there? This episode of Good Hang is brought. Presented by Walmart. Now, everyone's talking about back-to-school outfits, and we all know how expensive that can be to get the shoes and the pants

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Hello. Nick, you know what I love? Every time I see you, I never know what kind of hair situation I'm going to get with you. And you and our guest today, Adam Scott, great heads of hair. That's the main thing we have in common. Super, super cute guy in one instance and donkey with great heads of hair. Stop it. You are so handsome.

I love to see you. Since I've seen you last in person, it's been a minute. And one of the best things about this podcast is getting to talk to everybody again and spend time with everybody. And today I'm spending time with the great Adam's. Scott. The greatest. Well, you know, we're going to talk about this when we're in person someday together, but I think that, you know, I know that the character of Ron Swanson is iconic and it is in no small part to the way that you transform yourself and the way you approach your work because I met you in Chicago back in the day and you were coming to this

work in a much more, for lack of a better term, like more prepared actory space. And you're such a fine actor, and I can't wait to talk to you about it. And Adam very similarly, like kind of came into the biz from that space too. He did. Thank you. By the way, I did not expect compliments today. Well, your people emailed me and said I needed to start with them. I thank you.

and please thank them for me as well. Yeah, I love that about Adam. I love his, they hilariously asked me to write a little thing for Time magazine for like the hundred cool people right now. And it was so funny because they asked me to like sum up his thing. And they gave me like 650 words or something so brief. And then they even cut paragraphs where I was like, come on, you guys. Like, this guy's career is hilariously varied and astonishing and also Rizable.

Like, he has literally done everything. I'm just going to look up Rizable real quick. It's a, it's, you'll love R-I-S-I-B-L-E. You love words. You are, you've taught me a lot of words. R-A-R-S-B-L-B-L-E. such as to provoke laughter. I should know that word.

You know, I love about him that he has done like piranha 3D, just wonderful like B-movie Schlot kind of stuff. Also, crazy. What was that HBO show where he had, apparently it was in his contract, he had to show his balls every episode. Tell me you love me. He had a prosthetic penis.

It was the first thing I saw. him. Oh, my God. And he carried it off. He sure did. Literally carried it off. I guess you could have to say he pulled it off. He really pulled it off. I've known him for a long time. We did play workshops together like 20 plus years ago. And he was just this cool, funny guy. Like, if you get to step aside with Adam anywhere, he's just immediately the cool kid where he's whatever. He'll, he says to you, you're like, oh, I just want to hang out with you, whatever this event is. I mean, getting to work with him finally on Parks and Rec, I always said, and to this day, I still feel like he's my favorite leading man that I've worked with because he's so authentic.

He lets the dorky parts of himself shine, even in severance. he, you know, Adam's pure sort of youthful juvenile otter-like persona comes out, even though he's like our romantic leading man. And I agree, it's so gorgeous to see him leading this massive artistic achievement. Yeah, I'm going to talk to him today about obviously when he joined our show and how, what that felt like to jump onto a train that was already moving. But I realized I'd never talk to you. Look, you and I, I think, had such similar first day goals for the show and it was to make good work and have a good time. And I feel like we, you know, you more than anyone at times really were my partner in that

every day. And I'm so grateful for it. But was there, when you remember him and Rob, joining the show was, what do you remember feeling about that at the time? There was an excitement for sure. Adam was just coming off party down, which Megan had worked on with him. Right. And I was a really big fan of. Your great wife, Megan Mullalley, people should know. Your Tammy, wife in life and on the show.

Tammy 2. Plus. I remember being excited at the talent, but also having a little bit where we had maybe eight series regulars at the time we were like um do we need to can we service two new hunks uh do we have enough do we have enough hunk room yeah yeah yeah i hear you um okay so i'm asking my zoomers to uh give me a question to ask my guest so i was wondering if there's any question you think i should ask adam today if i was just hanging with adam this is what i would ask him is he's he's he's one of those guys has a few dozen stories that I've never heard, even though I've heard dozens, of just like luminaries that he's, you know, Scorsese put him in a Leo movie. Like, he's, he's done so much

and casually and quietly been in so many great arenas. I would just say, tell me, tell me a story about somebody who you would be star-struck with that I haven't heard that you've worked with. That's a great question, Nick. I love that question. And you're right. There's a quiet experience that Adam doesn't brag about, certainly, but that, like, a lot, he's been on a lot of different sets with very interesting, to your point, luminaries.

He's been everywhere. Well, friend, I hope I can't wait to get you in this seat. And it's a hot seat, man. And when you get here, I do want to talk more about facial hair because I do think you've had to switcheroo so much in your life. And your Ron's mustache is, I'm going to put it up there in the Mount Rushmore of mustaches. And I miss you very much and love you and so appreciate you doing this. Well, I miss you and love you as well. And give my best. to the gang and we'll be in touch. All right, buddy. See you soon. Cheers. This episode is brought to you by Uber Eats.

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Yeah, peach is a butt. I mean, that's why you send someone a peach emoji. You're like, you're like, hey, you're like, I like your butt. These are the miniature. I love it. this doesn't get enough play this you might like this is a felt sandwich but guess what you can take it apart you can also take a bite if you want

I love a you know what we don't talk about enough is how greatest a good sandwich is what is your favorite sandwich like if you were to build a sandwich okay first of all it would need to be felt

all of it I just say if sandwich feels good in your hands Yeah. Two different cheese. I mean, this is great. I don't know. This might be too much information, but I have a little bit of TMJ.

You do? Yeah. So it's hard for me to open my mouth to eat a sandwich. I get nervous that I'm going to get locked. Sure. Like this? And your arms too, lock like this. Yeah.

And so a giant sandwich. Yeah. But check this out. Bread. Yeah. Tomato. Tomato. Tomato.

Some onion. What the heck, what are we in California? Avo. I don't like Avo on a sandwich. I don't either. Let's talk about it because I feel like Avo makes it soggy. It also slides out. That's what you said.

It doesn't cooperate with the rest of the sandwich. Speaking of Avo, Adam Scott is here and he's a California kid. You're a California kid. You grew up in California. You love giving me shit about being a California person. Well, you grew up in Santa Cruz and tell people how you used to drive. If you're wearing, this is a universal thing. It definitely is not.

If you're wearing flip-flops. Okay, yeah. That's already 80% of the world is already now. And you have to drive a car. It is unsafe to keep the flip-flops on. You have to kick them off and drive barefoot. People in Santa Cruz drive barefoot. It's ridiculous.

And Adam one time casually was like, you know when you're like driving barefoot? I said, is your house on? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Did you forget your shoes? But Santa Cruz, people dry barefoot. If you keep your flip-flops on, they can easily get, like, caught under the gas or the brake, and then you're, you know. Yeah, I, that has happened to me when I'm driving a golf cart on vacation. I don't wear flip-flops in life. Oh, so you've never entered a car with flip-flops on? I don't know if I ever have, because, like, I feel like. I'm going to call bullshit on that right now. Well, first of all, I don't like flip-flops that have the thing.

You probably, you know what? Santa Cruz probably loves this. The thing between the big toe and the first toe. How else does a flip-flop function? What kind of flip-lops are you wearing? I like a flip-flop that, well, I guess it's not a flip-flop that has the thing over the foot. Yeah, that's a sandal. Okay, I like a sandal.

I don't like a flip-flop. Agree to disagree. Santa Cruz, I feel like you guys walked around flip-flops all day, and all these people. I remember I sent you a photo. from Hawaii once that's why I thought of Hawaii where I sent you a photo of my barefoot on a gas pedal and you were just like nah oh yeah so gross also truly like um bear feet in general like like I'm I don't know yeah listen how do you feel about bare feet okay I'm I don't like love bare bare feet. And I don't wear flip flop. Like, I feel like in my 20s, I was fine with like jeans and

flip flops. Which now I feel like it should be illegal. I mean, we spent a lot, both of us spent a lot of time in New York City. Like flip flops in New York City is absolutely now. It's disgusting. It doesn't work. It's gross. I mean, I guess Santa Cruz is nice. But how can you run away from those vampires? Yeah. In flip flops, you can't do it. My first introduction to Santa Cruz was the movie lost boys where there were hot vampires. Yeah, Jason Patrick in 1987. So how old were you, how old were you then? I was, when that movie came out. When they filmed it, I was 13 and my next door neighbor, Joe Ferrara, he owned the comic book store that they use in the movie. So I got to go on the set of Lost Boys as a 13 year old. And I met Joel Schumacher. And I stood outside

Corey Hame and Corey Feldman's trailers and watched them walk to their trailers and it was super exciting. Wow. But it was my comic book store. It was a comic book store I go to all the time. So I saw like how they made it look different for the movie and said it was just, it was cool.

What were comics were you into when you were a kid? I was into like the Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy's Cat. Do you know what these? Nope. So do you think I just made those up? Fat Freddy's cat. That Brady's Cat and the fabulous furry freak brothers. They were like stoner, they were comic books about stoners.

Oh, interesting. So it wasn't more, it wasn't like the Marvel universe. Was it for you to that? I dabbled in that, but I was kind of more into the weird like Zippy the Pinhead. And do you know who that is? I think I remember that a little bit, like when I was older. Yeah. There was, it was like alternative comic.

Yeah. And I don't know why I was into it. but I loved the Freak Brothers and I wasn't smoking pot when I was like a little kid or anything I just loved these comic books I know you weren't you heard in your first guys

Adam was not smoking pot I mean Santa Cruz I guess it's a kind of a toss up They just blow it into your car right they blow it into your car and make you take your shoes off flip flops are made out of weed I'm sure in Santa Cruz

you have to smoke your flip flops I have now interviewed Rudd and ham yeah ham I haven't gotten into the studio yet, but I did, he did, he, he, he, um, he zoomed in. Yeah, he, yeah, yeah, yeah, he zoomed in from a hot air balloon. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Um, but we talked a little bit about you guys all meeting and being like, you know, young bucks at the same time, which is really wild. Yeah. Where, and they've talked about you, where did you see yourself in that trio? What, how would you

describe, because you're, what would you describe yourself of you, like, which angel are you? That's so funny. It's true. I always kind of feel like sort of the little brother in that trio a little bit because I'm quite a bit younger than both of them, obviously. That's like weird. That's such a nerd. Pretty good. No, I feel like, Rudd I knew, Paul I knew first because we met, I met him at my graduation from acting school.

He was, he was a speaker at the graduation. He was? Yeah. Talking about acting? No, he was giving out an award. And I was wearing like this polyester red suit just because I, you know, you're just kind of looking for attention wherever you can get it. I guess if you're graduating from theater school. Oh, that's so, that hit me really hard.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's so true. You're just like, I'm going to wear, I'm going to dress like a cowgirl or something. Oh, yeah. And you're like, I'm really, I'm really out there. Everyone's going to just cheer for me just because I'm wearing this thing. but yeah we we i remember we hung out afterwards and he was like nice suit um so it worked totally worked um but yeah so so that was like 1993 so i've known paul and then we did a play

together which i think he brought up on your show um in the fall of 1993 now i remember i got my first acting job while i was rehearsing that play and my beeper kept going going off while we were rehearsing, and the other guy in the scene kept turning it off. Passive aggressive? And it was, yeah, yeah, turning it, like turning off that acting job. Yeah, he was like, no. Yeah, exactly. He's like, we need you to be here.

Trying to stand in front of that acting job. Exactly. That guest spot on Dead at 21. He didn't want anyone on you. He wanted to get that. And that guy was Leonardo de Caprio. That's right. That's right.

And was never heard from again. Nope. Never worked again. So I knew Paul then and then I met Ham like a few years later. But I mean, that is, that's a very, that's a very like outsider's young gun kind of vibe that you guys were all acting to get, like trying to audition. Yeah. I mean, and in the world, and in the world you're very different. But I imagine like there was, I don't know, you could have done a lot of similar parts and probably auditioned for similar things.

Yeah. And I remember once John and I were each. doing a different CSI. He was doing regular CSI. I was doing CSI Miami and we were shooting like near each other in Culver City or something and like met up to go get a beer afterwards. And I remember just kind of sitting there and just being like, how much longer do you think we're going to need to be like doing CSI might? Because it was years and years for both of us. I know.

I think it's super satisfying to. talk to you about this stage of your career because, like, a lot of people I know, frankly, you had so much experience before a lot of America knew you. And I was talking to, like, Nick about this earlier. Oh, I talked to Nick Offerman. Oh, you did. I was a surprise, but he wanted to know when, like, when in that part of your career before we all met.

And I think he was specifically talking about when you worked with Martin Scorsese. But, like, what was, when were you really star-struck during that time? I was always star-struck and never felt comfortable, partially because, and maybe it's similar for you, like, not growing up in Los Angeles or in show business at all, like having zero contact with it, being on a TV show or being in a movie felt like going to the moon. So once you're there, it's just so crazy that. There's a camera and there are lights and a famous person sitting next to you that I sort of,

it took me a really long time. And I think probably hindered me. It's probably one of the reasons that it took me a while as I just never was able to relax because I was so freaked out by all of it. Really? I think so. Were you really anxious? Really anxious, but really nervous.

Nervous. And how did it manifest? Did it manifest? Yeah, it manifested in me not being, and I think a part of it is, and it's something that I saw you doing pretty immediately when we started working together is you were like, you were good with all of it and comfortable with all of it and you were able to share yourself with the camera, which is something that took me a long time to even realize was something you needed to do beyond figuring out what the scenes. was or characters or anything like that, you just have to be able to open up and share yourself with it. Does that make sense? It doesn't. It's so interesting because it's kind of like what we talked about, like the way into, like when you, and any job, the way, the way you enter can be kind of the thing that you identify with forever. Like, I'm this kind of person. I'm this

kind of performer. And I always found like when I was in Chicago, and it's funny, like Nick is a good example as Nick was in like the like serious theater scene and there were the improvisers and you know people that came the comedy road there were the serious actors who studied acting

and I used to find that they were so trained and so good and I felt a little inferior in terms of skill but I also thought they took things very seriously and because of it they were missing that like play

totally so the like it was all their work was done when they got to set. I've said this about you and Catherine Hahn, two very skilled actors who, who studied. You, first of all, you knew your lines, which is important. Okay? You knew your lines. I did, but I mean, I just mean, but I mean, you would, you would both prepare in a way that was, you know, part of the process of you working. And the preparation was really impressive. Um, and when I really, um, loved about working with you, you and still do is you are one of those rare people that you maybe it was learned maybe it didn't come right away but you do have a big sense of play you do not come in with some preconceived

notion of how things should go and you can straddle that like really good deep acting and really dumb fun shit right but that's because yeah yeah sorry no why why do you think that's because Well, I think that's because I was doing it with you. But you were doing it before then, too. Not really. I mean. Really party down. Right.

But party down. But party down was more scripted. I mean, we didn't have the like fun runs and stuff like we did on parks. I think Martin Starr would improvise more than anybody. And Step Brothers, I was just like trying to keep my head above water. I'd never really improvised before. so I was like it was one of the reasons I looking back I was I once started really doing parks and it's like this is the way to do it this is like so fun and um and it's no less

satisfying than some serious thing it's it's all in there the characters are bone deep it's so funny everyone cares about each other and it's super fun um so it made me kind of of think like all those years I was wasting trying to like get three lines on NYPD Blue. I could have been trying to do something at Improv Olympic. It's just you look back and you never know. I can remember all the those years that we all did those movies big and small parts in them where improv was so important to make those movies come alive. But I remember there was like a tipping point for me one time in a movie that I did where like there was just like 10 people like shouting jokes at me about like, do this and do that.

And I remember going like, oh, I don't even know what my character's name is. I don't even know what my character is. Right. Like it's so, right. I kind of. It's so interesting you say that because like it's around that time from like 2005 through like 2013, that was the overwhelming culture on comedy sets was just a bunch of people screaming jokes at you. And you're just being like, yeah, okay.

Which one of us says? And they're like, either one. Yeah, who cares? Cool. Yeah, I've done a good job with my character. If either one of us can say this, Joe. No, I know. And I feel, it's, it's, and you, like, your career is so interesting.

You have done so many different things. I think it's what is, I know for me, like, so exciting about this moment for you is that it's just, it's just really. nothing you can't do, Adam. Oh, stop that. It's ridiculous. It's so ridiculous. It's so ridiculous. Have, but I think people like to know these things.

Was there ever a part you auditioned for that you got close on that you didn't get? Yeah. Six feet under. Yeah. That was the one that I didn't get. And it's good that. It was for Michael C. Hall's role. Michael C. Hall's role.

And it's good that I didn't get it because it wouldn't be nearly as good if I had done it because he was perfect and incredible. He was incredible. And I wasn't ready. But you mean like it was between you and two other guys? He and I tested for it. And I believe. That hurts.

It was the one where I was like, I might stop doing this. I think that it's time for me to like read the tea leaves and walk away. I don't think people understand that enough when you, we all have, when you lose a part and it's so close. And then the show is this. and you watch it.

Oh, it's painful. It really is like someone fucking your girlfriend in front of it. Yeah, 100%. And you're just like, oh, my God, this show is so good and he's so good in it. And that show was everything. Like it just kind of like eclipsed all other shows. It was the show. I went and did a couple episodes as Michael's boyfriend.

Oh, that's right. Like in season two and. And Michael was like, you want to see the trailer you could have? Yeah, yeah, exactly. Everything. He showed me his bank account. I love that show. He was lovely, of course, and it was fun and stuff. But, yeah, that was a blow. That was hard.

But, you know, it's also important that you have those experiences. Are you good in auditions, do you think? Me neither. No, no, no, terrible. Me too. I hated it so much. I was so nervous. You were nervous.

Yeah. What about you? Well, I was nervous, too. But the way I massed my nervousness, which is not a great quality, is I would get kind of like, I would seem kind of ambivalent. Uh-huh. Like I would get kind of, you know, when you get nervous, you get sleepy. Yep.

Mm-hmm. Yep. So I would be very nervous and just like stomach in knots and really psyching myself out of like, just go in there, just, you know, just do what you can do. Yeah. But that would tip over into. I don't care. I don't care.

Yeah. And what was your audition like for Park? Did you audition for Marks and Rick? No. No, I was lucky. You just got each guy. They just gave it to you. Yeah.

Because Mike, I remember the day that my phone had you and Mike's names on the voicemail thing. And I was like, whoa, is it finally like happening to me? And I showed someone like, look, Mike's your Amy Poehler. And then there was someone else who was calling me. It was like, suddenly for whatever reason. People were, there were incoming calls asking me to do stuff, and that had never happened before. I don't remember why that started happening on one particular day, but you left me a voicemail, and that was a huge deal. I'm sure I still have it.

Really? Yeah, I'm sure I do. We should put like a techno beat to it. Totally. Put it out on the internet. No, that's what, when I first heard it, I was like, this would make a great song. This would be a hit. This is catchy.

How is this voicemail catchy to me? So wait, just, yes, can I just want to interject so I don't forget, because that's what I do. I always forget shit that I was going to say. Every single day, someone tells me Parks got them through the pandemic. And I heard you mention it on a previous episode. Every single day, people say I watched it during COVID. I watch it with my kid. My kid's going through a hard time.

I like to watch it at night because I get, I have a lot of anxiety. Like, I cannot believe the way that that show continues to be a medicine for people. It's so nice. Isn't that nice? And Ben and Leslie. I know. I know. We just, do you remember we were texting just a couple months ago and just kind of commented on how nice they are?

They're so nice. There's so much nicer than us. So much nicer. And they're so nice to each other. I know. And every woman deserves a person. Ben. Every woman deserves a partner like Ben who roots for you and like looks at you and it's just like, that's my gal. Like everyone deserves that kind of relationship. But also Leslie from

the word go loved Ben. Oh, beyond. Like I now looking back, it's like they were just in the love with each other. I know. And their arc was such so juicy. The writers, Mike and the writers because they meet and they're just like, well, what's your deal? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It was like, and then, and then they like each other, but then they can't. They can't be together. Yeah, that was great. They can't be together, which is like, really? I mean, they probably could have been together. I know, it didn't matter, but. And then they had to break up. And Mike was like, this is totally fake and whatever, but we just need to have Rob care about you two being together. And it worked and it was like, made it even hotter.

Yeah, yeah. Ben was like, I want you. Ben kept putting Leslie's, you know what it is, they kept putting each other's needs over their own. They cared about what the other one needed and they respected each other. Like they really liked what the other one did. And it was the best thing about that relationship is how, you know, with the exception of Anne, who is. Of course. Leslie's number one. Of course. I've accepted that. Yeah, is the way that they um they just rooted for each yes well really rooted for each other i i haven't seen a ton of it makes me sad to watch the show because i miss it yeah why does it make you sad because i'm i miss it i like you were saying like we really appreciated being there every day and it was so fun and also

just sort of walking in that building and then suddenly you're there and the hallways and the yeah it was so fun and the people just loved everybody but I guess maybe it just that's a good question why does it actually make me sad I think I know is because you're stuck in that fucking weird office you're running with the green carpet I told Adam I was like too much running yeah I know I was so tired I mean just and there's you don't even know where you're going I mean every hallway looks I know I know get lost get lost every day that's why it's exhausting and confusing. Yes.

I know. Pawnee hallways. People are dying in your new workplace. Like, they're getting killed. Pawnee, everyone's nice. There's a graphic painting of a massacre on the wall, but it's covered up. That's true. That's true.

That's okay. It was a terrible massacre. But something I saw recently is our very first scene in that bar when... Love that scene. Me too. So well written in that scene. Yes. And we're having a beer.

and I say, Ben says, yeah, but you want to, you're going to run for a, and like immediately just knows that Leslie has these ambitions. Yes. But it seemed that you'd never even said out loud before, but is 100% what you planned on to? It was just such a great little. Yes, what they saw, they saw in each other the dream for the other. That's right.

They just, they kept, like, they assumed the best, and they saw the potential in each other, basically. I know. It was so fun to play that. And I was saying, too, that I, for this interview, I rewatched your first scene, which it's so good because Nick and I are on the, you know, Ron and I never sat on this. We never even sat down next to each other after time. Right. Usually you were at Loggerheads. Yeah.

We were across from each other. And so it's like, you've got the kind of, like, pomp. on east side. Yeah. And then you and Rob come in with suits. Right. And it's like, who are these whippersnappers? And I can remember that day because it was our first day of work.

I think that was the first scene that we did. And it played really well because it was like, who is this new person? Who are these guys? Yeah. What was it like to join a show that was in motion that you? that you had watched already on TV. It was so weird, but immediately fun. Like even the first table read, I remember I was like,

I walked in the room like one minute after I was supposed to be there, so I was already like thrown like, I'm fucking late to my first, Jesus Christ. But it was immediately so warm and welcoming and super fun. Everybody's laughing at the incredible joke. in the script. But then when we started shooting, I mean, you know, it was a welcoming place that immediately kind of fostered and encouraged your best, but also to take swings and shots without any sort of fear of doing the wrong thing. That was just never really there. And then that short season was kind of short when we started because I was

preggers and it's not always easy like getting chemistry going with a gal who's like hiding her stomach behind the plants but it was it was so easy like oh bless your heart at him the other thing I just like that I feel like I am proud of during that is the way in which and I said it before but I feel like the way in which in real time it's a job that I felt the most present in S&L felt like a, you know, a speeding train, an emergency room. And I learned really fast and hard lessons really fast. And for everyone on parks, I felt like we were all kind of in this tender bubble because we often thought we were going to get canceled. Yeah.

Where we just kind of knew what we had. I don't know. I think that you guys did a really good job because all this stuff about us almost getting canceled. I think we all kind of sensed. something but i don't think any of us except you and i think you and mike protected us from a lot of that which is great producing and really taking care of all of us um i don't think we were ever quite i've kind of heard all of it since um but it was pretty tenuous there at the end of the seasons yeah yeah yeah which is scary you're a great producer what do you like about producing

speaking of producing that's nice of you to say um i learned a lot watching you work and working with you both as a producer but also as the lead actor like you really kind of set the template for me truly um how everyone should and deserves to be treated cast and crew and all of that i always kind of directing specifically is like because you're looking at a monitor all day it's like getting to watch television which is like one of my favorite things to do, except you get to go in and try to make it better. And producing is somewhat similar in that you're spending all of your time just trying to nitpick and find all of the things that don't work and find solutions for all of them. Or making sure everybody's happy

and feeling good about what they're doing. That's another important component that I really learned from you and Mike, too. It's so important that everybody is feeling like they're a part of it like a useful cog in the machine and that it's a satisfying job for them. No, do you guys have for severance, which, by the way, congratulations. Thanks. And get that Emmy speech ready, baby. Get that Emmy speech ready, honey. God, please.

But get it ready. But when you shoot that show, is it, I just feel like it's a really, I mean, I mean, it's so beautifully shot. You have such great set design. You have tons of, like, it just seems like it's a long, how many days take, is one episode take? Well, it depends. It's long, right?

It's long. The season two, I think it was 186 days. Wow. For the season, which is a long time, you know. I mean, I think like one episode took like six weeks, and then I think it's kind of average out, we shoot them like three at a time all mixed up together. Crossboard is the turn.

You do that? Okay. Yeah. Season one, we shot the entire thing at once. So like in month nine, we were still shooting scenes from the first episode. But the thing that that did, the accidental thing that that did is, you know, the first few episodes of any show are a little shaky and everyone's finding their tone a little bit or characters or whatever? It spread that out over the entire season. And so it kind of felt more or less fully realized, you know, in a way, fully realized from the start.

But the shaky scenes are kind of distributed over the course of the season. You have to do so much switcheroo in that show. I mean, like you have to act against yourself. You have to just figure out versions of yourself truly that change mid-scene, let alone mid-sentence. Do you have a script supervisor or a graph or someone that keeps that, how? do you keep track of that? Yeah, um, that's a good question. In season one, I remember I had heard that Michael Keaton had this big, like these big poster boards for multiplicity where he kept track of all of his characters. And I got large like construction paper. I remember I was staying in Aziza's

apartment in season one. And so I was like, I remember putting it out on the floor and getting like a marker and drawing a line and like trying to like mark down like the scenes and the episodes and eventually was like I don't know what I'm doing and I just stopped doing that I just gave up but um I think it's uh you just sort of map it out and then just like a math problem you just try to kind of lock in what's going on particularly if you're shooting it all at once you have to sort of make some decisions and and um we would go back and forth between characters sometimes in in one like in the morning we would do any stuff and in the afternoon do outy stuff. Oh, interesting. Yeah. And so oh that's interesting. Yeah. Yeah. So you like any before lunch. Yeah. That's right. Which is good

because you're slowed down after lunch. And you want to let it outy. Yeah. Yeah. You got to get it outy. Yeah. Yeah. You let it any and you got to get it outy. I mean, it's such a such an indication of how well that show trapped us because in the last season it's just so incredible the finale

was so incredible thanks what your wife right she went pretty hard to get back to you yeah

I know dude I know were you pissed yeah yeah yeah and Britt is incredible I got to do a movie

with Brit yeah that's right You guys did. Yeah, we did this movie, Sisters, and she was so fun in it and so funny. She's great in the show. So good. Well, what other choice was any mark and I made? Oh, I don't know.

The choice whether you're going to with your wife. So walk out the door and like, end your life. Yes, you go to the door. That's the choice you would make. What do you mean end your life? He walks out that door. He doesn't know if he's ever coming back. He walks out that door.

He becomes his Audi. He doesn't know if that Audi is ever going to. walk back in that building. But that building is not great. No, but it's better than not existing. But is it? Yeah, I don't know. That's a good question.

It was such a good ending. It was like standing up, shouting at the TV ending. It was so good. And you played it so well. And it was so exciting to watch that ending. It was so satisfying. You were nice. You texted me like right after.

And you text pretty promptly after things. And it always means the most when you text me. It really does. I mean, it means the most that I get to have friends. For people listening, can you imagine your favorite TV? It's the best feeling in the world. Your favorite TV show. And then you get to text the person on it immediately and be like, what the fuck?

Right, right. And, you know, and it's not like you get any spoilers, but you just get to, like, be like, you get to process. Yeah. Like, I think growing up, if I ever, you know, if I'd ever been able to, I don't know, text Molly Ringwald. Right. And be like, dude. You, why didn't you pick Doug? Ducky, man.

Ducky was the dude. Or, like, I remember I wrote viewer mail to David Letterman and just never, you know, they just kind of went off and disintegrated in the mail. And you're like, Dave? Yeah, Dave. Hey. I remember I came up with this whole thing that I thought they would use to create a bit around that I thought would be so lame. So lame.

People should know this about you. You have great hair and you do not have a system. That is your hair. Do you mean like a toupee? I don't know. You don't have a system. Whatever that is. And there's nothing wrong with having it.

No, look, there's nothing wrong with a system. There's nothing wrong with a hair system. There's nothing wrong. Men and women. I'm just saying that Adam has great hair. And do you think it's because you're Scottish? Aren't you Scottish? I'm Scottish.

I'm Sicilian. Okay, that maybe it's that. I don't know. But also, I started taking Propecia when I was like 30. years old. Really? Yeah, it started coming out pretty, like, when I was like 30-ish. Yeah, I mean, everyone on Parks, remember all the guys had great hair?

Yes, and all the men and Catherine Hahn had great hair. And then I don't think Rashido would mind or Aubrey would mind that we all felt like we had. Why? Our hair was, it was just, it's just thin. Oh. But it was, all the men would just have. these, like, giant heads of hair. That's right.

Like, and just, and just, I mean, Nick would grow a beard in a day. Yeah, Nick, yeah, that mustache is like, what is it, 45 minutes? He can grow that. Yeah, he can grow it in 45 minutes. If he just goes, yeah, he has to push really hard. But one more severance question, which is, what is happening on it? What is it? And what, what happened?

Right. What's going on? What's going on? What happened? What is it? But you do host a podcast. Yeah, Ben and I host it. Yeah, how has it been doing that?

Great. What's it like to talk about the show that you're... It's actually been... We originally, it was actually Naomi's idea. She was like, you guys, like, because it had been three years since season one, we were just like, we were just worried about everyone that watched the first season coming back. So we were just trying to think of ways to... And Naomi thought, you got... You know, you guys should do this.

And it actually was, it's so fun to just go back and really be able to watch the episodes as finished things and talk over it with the actors or, you know, crew members or whomever. And kind of talk about it as audience members and kind of dipping into what we remember, what we intended and, you know, all that stuff. Cool. Yeah. And do you remember the YouTube podcast? It used to do with Ockermann? Yes. What if I didn't remember it?

Do you remember? That's such a bad question. Do you remember? No, no. No, it's not because it's something that you could forget. People also don't know that you did a podcast about you two. And it was called, you talking you two to me. Why did you do a podcast about you two?

We did it because we found out that we were both YouTube fans and there was something funny about doing it because you two is so huge there was something funny about doing it's almost like doing a podcast about like sizzler or something i love youtube but they're big and so and i don't know it's hard to pinpoint exactly why it's funny to do the thing and that wasn't the right analogy but um we both found out that that kulop scott's wife and namely my wife were sick of hearing about you too and didn't want to talk about it anymore. And so we, I think maybe Seth Meyer said something on this show about being a middle-aged man. If you want to have middle-aged male friendships, you need to do a podcast together.

Oh, my God, yes. Yeah, I mean, it is, it, it's one of the things I love about you is you have a very back-of-the-classroom style of comedy. Like, you are a side, like, you're the, like, out-of-your-mouth talk. You're a shit-talker. Not in a bad way, but you're like, you know, you are, you are, you can be like the, a love tap from Adam is like a quick, you know, to me that's what intimacy is when you can like shit talk your friends. And you like to mumble out of the side of your mouth in the back of the class. Sure, sure.

But what comes, what's great about that is along with that comes like you like, deep dives into dumb stuff dumb stuff like getting dumb stuff and like elevating it by the way you talk about it have you always been like that?

Maybe. Because you were a big TV and movie fan girl like you just were kind of a nerd in that way when we talked about comic books, I mean. Yeah, I know, there's nothing nerdyer than a fucking comic book. But like you... Particularly Fat Freddy's cat. Yeah, I think that

and I think doing it all on a podcast is extra good because you can edit it and make it shorter. Now that you're my, we're the same age, are you like a year younger than me? I think we're the same age. Do you have like hobbies now that you're getting into? Like, you know how we are like that happens to us? Like where we're like, I want to start sculpting, gardening stuff. Like, do you do that?

No, I've never. I have like in the garage is like a bicycle and a, what did I have? I had a telescope that I got like a really nice telescope and never once used it. A bicycle that I rode once. I don't, I've been looking for, I don't, I like working and, and I like, do you have a thing? No, it's funny you say that about a telescope. That is such a, like, you know what, I'm going to get a nice telescope. I don't get a fucking telescope.

I deserve it. Yeah. I'm going to look at the stars. I mean, who are we on this tiny marble? There's a moon. It's up there every night. I've never taken a good look at it. And then I just never looked at it.

Just cut to a dusty place to hang your clothes. I don't care about the moon that much. I guess what I'm asking underneath that question is, like, you've been working really hard for a long time. What's your relationship to work and to hard work? And do you... That's a good question. I feel like it's all mixed up and somewhat dysfunction.

You know what I was thinking about, actually? And it's sort of on the same line of thinking is that you mentioned SNL earlier. And something that I realized recently was when I really kind of met you and got to know you, SNL was only like, what, two years ago, a year and a half before parks? Yeah. Like it was a fresh thing. And what an intense experience and what a giant change work was. from that environment and the pressure of that

to the pressure of parks, which was an enormous amount of pressure, but entirely different, it must have been, that must have been something that you, that took a while to kind of settle and grapple with. Yeah, I mean, what I was lucky about almost was how much I had to do.

I felt like if I had been playing, if Leslie Knope was a character that worked three, days a week. I feel like I would have been struggling because, to your point, I just had to, I made a lot of, I feel like, swings and misses in the beginning. Like the show did kind of did too, right? Like I think we were all trying to figure out what the show was. And I think it just took me a while to settle down.

You know, I used to make a joke when I would be in people's movies. I'd be like, you know, when you get into someone else's car and the music's too loud, that may be how I am. Like, feel free to turn me down. And I think it took a while. And honestly, Adam, so much of it was our work together where I felt, like, grounded on the ground as a performer enough to just settle. Because so much of the beginning was sketch energy, which is different. Right.

Which is all about right now, we've got to, like, make it great. I mean, I don't know. I'm just guessing that it's all about, like, an immediate thing that you have to put everything into. Yeah. And yeah. Yeah. And I think one of the things that was so fun about what we got to do is the camera helped us, at least it helped me have my feelings about, you know, there. I tell people like, of course you, of course we love Ben.

We got to like Ben, we watch Ben watch Leslie and we love Leslie. So like when people love Leslie, we love them. and we got to watch Ben love her because the camera was... Like, we got to do so much indirect stuff. Like, we didn't have to face to face all the time. We had feelings... Our characters had feelings for each other

because of the camera. That's right. Even though, I mean, and it's such a beautiful genre that mockumentary because it allows you to just even create space and depth in the shot. People are just not in the same room.

That's right. And like, I remember we always used to say we loved it when there were spy shots through like blinds because it made our acting better. Do you remember that? Yes. Do you also remember this thing we used to do where sometimes we would be doing a scene and we'd be like, okay, I can't, I'm not someone who can predict the future 100%.

But I will say, it was like a couple times a season, I will say, I can say with 100% certainty that neither of us will ever win an award for acting for this. scene. You would say it sometimes and sometimes, you know what, let's just, I mean, and also on the other side, I would sometimes say, you know, and I said this on the podcast, like, I would say, like, Adam, your acting is so good. You'd be like, shut up. We're in the middle of the scene.

Like, because it was like, oh, my God. I mean, but, oh, yeah, I mean, that's what I love about working with you. And I just feel like before we end, like, I just want to feed our fans a little bit more. which is what do you think was the most romantic scene between Ben and Leslie? Oh, man. It's so sweet. I know, but what's the most romantic? I think, I think, well, there are a couple of nominees.

Okay. But I think maybe smallest park. Ugh. We just heard a little groan. I hope it's a good groan. Someone just being like, ugh. I love smallest park. Me too.

Nicole Hall of Center, the great Nicole Hall of Center directed that. Chelsea wrote that one. Chelsea Peretti wrote that episode. And I remember really like feeling connected, shooting that, and just being like, this is kind of feeling like how special it was making the show. And that was, yeah, that was, but I don't know. What do you think? Well, I have a lot.

I mean, I feel like that was such a big one. I feel like some of the, I have such a affinity for the beginning, beginnings parts of Ben and Leslie, because I do think it also just reminded me of like we were, you know, the show was deciding that they were going to love each other too. And I really love this tiny moment when they realize they have, they like the same spot, when they like to sit under the sunflower mural. Well, I love that moment.

When I ask you if you know where that mural is and your response is, it's a rewindable moment. I love that moment. Between both of us, because, and of course, Parks then pays it off years later. Years later. Yeah. By sitting underneath it. Yeah. I also, you know, when we shot Ben and Leslie's wedding, it was so fun. And it was like we were all just sitting there all day goofing around.

And it was so fun. I think we had real champagne too, maybe. We probably did. Yeah. We probably did. And then that probably became a problem later in the day. Yeah, probably. Champagne, not something to have when you're, when you have like a 10 hour work day ahead of you.

Speaking of champagne, maybe our fans would like to know that on our last day of shooting or one of our last days, like speaking of like from. romantic goodbyes. We all climbed up on the top of the hair and makeup trailer and did a big toast up there because we shot at a studio called CBS Radford. And it was very like we wrote our names on the wall. We were sharing a studio. Who had been there before? Malcolm in the middle. Yeah. And maybe Seinfeld was on the law, but not that particular stage. Naomi and I have our office. at Radford. You do? Yeah. And I walk over there all the time. That would have been my first time shoot, really shooting anything on a, I had never had like a studio experience before and I was so lucky to do it there. But yeah, we like got up on the trailer. I mean, there was just so many

proper goodbyes for that show. We really, and Mike and the writers really landed that plane. Yeah. And that's, that's rare. I know. Like that is so rare. Are you asked all the time if there'll be a more parks or a reboot or something, I always feel like it's been, it's done, like it was perfectly done. Like, how do you do that? Maybe they should do like Muppet babies. They should do like Parks and Rec babies.

That's right. Like everyone has babies. Like that Instagram thing where everyone's, oh yeah, we see that. Yeah, the AI babies. They should do AI babies. But like a whole series of all of us just in a crib together. Yeah.

But they should do it like present day where like politics are really dark. Yep. and mean, and so it should be, like, tiny babies fighting each other. Yeah, they hate each other. It's like apocalyptic political babies. And they're all like, are like, oh, no, like you help. I hate you so much. I hate you so much.

Yay, I mean. Yay, I hate you. Because we made the show in an era where public service was encouraged and valued. Right. And funded. Yes. It was, or, I mean, you know, I'm sure there wasn't as fun as much as. it should have been, but it was funded at least.

It's an entirely different tone to American life. I know. And, you know, the many fun town halls that we used to have to do were so fun to sit together and do those and just have people like just come up and score and be so funny. The funniest people coming and doing stuff on the show. We had the best, best rotating cast of geniuses come through there. In fact, a lot of people. should know that at the end of the year when we made a um the show made like a yearbook yeah um and it was

a list of every single person that's been in the show and by the way rip um jonathan joss ken hotate what a sweetheart sweet man and funny very funny and so sad for him and his family and his husband yeah um you know when you have that feeling sometimes like you wish you could go back to high school and enjoy it right that's how it felt like we actually got to do it in real time yeah because it was genuinely goofy and funny. Yeah. Like the best jokes. What is one of your favorite jokes?

What is one of the favorite funny scenes you got to do? So many. So many. I mean, I always think of you guys on the ice at the ice skating rink with Gloria Stephan. Yeah. I mean, that is, I remember at the table read,

that was we couldn't stop laughing because it was so funny. Yeah, Mike Scully wrote that episode. and we got to walk across that ice. And I remember just thinking, this is so fun. It looked so fun. That wasn't even in that scene. Yeah, that's right. Yeah.

That's right. Sorry, we should probably just Photoshop. We should put me in that scene. That's why I brought it up. I feel like it would, I deserve it. You know, my kids watched the show during the pandemic like everyone else did. And I rewatched a lot of stuff. And it was so fun because I remembered the first.

feeling of how everything was to shoot it. But I didn't remember what was going to happen. It is weird to watch yourself doing something and have no recollection of it happening in your life. It's so strange. What are you, I

ask us to everybody, like what are you laughing at right now? I mean, first of all, you know, do you, you're very serious now. That's right. I don't. Thank you for acknowledging that. I don't laugh anymore. I mean, all you're doing is running and typing and if you'll i don't know if you notice but while i'm running i'm i'm not

laughing not at all i didn't see you crack a smile once because it's hard to laugh while you're running because it's it's not funny you're running for your life that's right yeah i got to get there like as fast as possible and again i'd love to ask you where where are you going where am i going yeah i'm going down the hall got to got to run down the hall um what am i laughing Are you watching anything? Are you like... Anything like super funny? Yeah.

What are you like, what are you Naomi liking right now? Or did you see something recently or... You know what I've been watching recently is I've been rewatching all sex in the city? The Ridge? Yeah. It's so fucking good. So good. It is so good.

Such a love letter to that time period. Yes. Were you ever on it? Because every actor actor I know is on it. But like Justin Thoreau. Bobby Cannavalli, Will. Yep. Everybody.

Yep. Slattery. Slattery. Elizabeth Banks. Yes. It's a real who's who. Yeah. Everybody in New York.

But it is so good. And something I like doing is watching it and just kind of thinking about all of this happening for the first time. Like women sitting at a table together, talking about whatever, talking about themselves. and talking about like how weird someone's cum smells this is like holy shit this is incredible like that has never been

on TV before let alone said out loud for people and just how Samantha is just the most sex positive like incredible like not a moment of embarrassment never like so fucking cool So good.

And Sarah Jessica Parker is so great at being the center of a show, servicing everybody else, but also keeping that motor going in the middle. It's so good. There's a couple shows that make me, when I'm in Los Angeles, really miss New York. Old Sex and the City. And law and order. Oh, yeah, sure. Yeah. Were you on Law & Order?

I was on Law & Order once. I was so jealous. You weren't on Law & Order? No, that was my dream. Really? Never. I mean, I didn't see. I wasn't auditioning in that way.

I didn't think I was like a good enough actor. But I wanted to be on law and order so bad. What was your character? Why do I not know that you were in Law Order? I should know this. Timothy Dinkins. I don't know what the name was.

I can look it up. I was working at the grocery store arranging fruits or vegetables when they came up and first started talking to me. And I remember my agent at the time calling me right after it aired and being like, you don't know how to handle those vegetables.

Like, you weren't doing anything. Who were the peeps? Was it the Orbach years? It was, uh, no, it was Dennis Farina. Dennis Farina. Who was so cool. And, uh, Jesse L. Martin. Fantastic.

Did you meet Esopatha, who I asked, apath, if you, if you're listening, I need to get you on the show. She's great. She's incredible. Uh, Sam Waterston. Oh. Yeah. So you went to the court?

I went to court. You got to the law part. Pablo Schreiber and I were in court together, and he ended up being guilty, and I was the red herring, I think. What were you accused of doing? Probably killing someone. I don't totally remember. Well, we're going to watch. Are you finding my character's name? And if it's Timothy, whatever I said, that would be amazing.

Okay, Timothy Dinkins. Yeah, Timothy Dinkins. Was Adam Scott on law and order? Okay. The trail leads to a pair of perpetrators, another mercenary, played by Pablo Schreiber, and the brother of one of Schreiber's fellow mercenaries who was killed in a roadside ambush by presumably Al-Qaeda? God, I don't know. The brother, you forgot the Al-Qaeda part?

I did. The brother is Adam Scott, and he is the only true innocent. That's right. The whole show. That's right. Wow. Wow. That's, I wanted to play a, I wanted to play the opposite. See, because you wanted to be a murderer. I wanted to be like the one that you would, would not suspect. And then it's like, I burned the whole place down.

Yeah. I wanted to be a pyro. Because I felt like of all the things. You wanted to specifically be a pyro maniac. I wish I wanted to be like a baby-faced pyro. Oh, yeah. Someone who just is like, you know, she seems like she's helping the police. And then she's like, they deserved it. Yeah. You know, whatever kind of weird psycho thing. Okay. So sex and sex and. the city is what you're watching and laughing at. Yeah, I'm, I, it's great. And you know, when you're, I saw something recently that said that repeated, if you have the urge to watch something you've seen before and repeat viewings is a sign of a particular kind of intelligence.

Oh. Yeah. No, this is real. It's a sign of intelligence? Intelligence. I saw this on Instagram. On Instagram. On Instagram.

Okay. It just, and it was a picture of someone watching. watching TV and it just said that. There was no, nothing to back it up. And I was like, oh, great, well, and watched more sex in the city. You saw it on Dr. Instagram. My daughter and I just flew together from New York, like, night before last. And we got on the plane.

And I got in my seat and she was across the road from me. And I got in and, like, so then I started watching sex in the city that I had downloaded. And she was like, dad, are you? watching more sex in the city? Yeah. I love you, Adam. I love you, Amy. Thank you for having me.

Are you kidding? We were really excited to do this one today. Oh, that's very nice. I love being here. Thank you. Come back when we do our big, we'll do a big park show. We can do Philly Justice again.

Today's Polar Plunge is brought to you by Wayfair, here to help you make your home a happy place. Well, that was an amazing episode. with Adam. We got so deep. I love talking to him, and he's just the best. And he mentioned six feet under, a show that he got close to booking. And that did remind me of the Parks finale. You know, for people that watch the end of Parks and Recreation, Mike Scher and I were talking about the idea that in comedies, you don't always get to see the future. You don't always get to see what happens to these characters that you've grown to love. And so we were so, we were so

blown away by the six feet under finale and i think we were heavily influenced by the idea of that when we wrote the finale of parks and recreation so watch six feet under and honestly it's so good i mean and better because adam didn't get cast in it you know what i mean michael hall is incredible so um you know adam's loss is our win and um and check that show out and um you know as always Thank you for caring so deeply about Parks and Rec because I do too. Wayfair makes it easier to turn your home into your happy place. Express your style and create a space you love with everything from cozy sofas to stylish decor and smart essentials with free shipping and easy setup. Head over to Wayfair.com and find something that's just your style today.

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