Klein/Ally Show: The Podcast - Seth Green in Studio

Episode Date: July 21, 2026

The great Seth Green returns to KROQ to talk about the Global Gaming League

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Please welcome back to KROQ, the great Seth Green. Seth, good morning. Hey, thanks. Thanks for being here. I was talking about just some of the many visits you've made to KROQ over the years, I would imagine. Hundreds, maybe thousands? It's been quite a few, yeah. I first came to K-Rock maybe 1992 and started doing everything from, you know, self-promotion to the original Love Lines. And then it just became like a kind of a home base. I love music so much and the vibe was so good.

Everybody was really smart and funny. It's all changed now. Sorry about that. We're in the dark times now. We're not funny or smart. Is that really how you feel? I was listening to the show on the way in this morning. I felt like it was very entertaining.

Oh, okay. Which part did you hear? Well, I heard Jake, I guess, the part about his date. And then there was something before that, too, because I was listening for over an hour. But I was torn between wanting to give this guy advice and then also just backing off and saying everybody got to run their own game. Because clearly he did fine, right? Everything I would have said to advise against him making a better impression, he made exactly the impression he wanted to, which is, hey, this is me. And you're either in or you're out.

That's the conversation that we run into every time because he's been doing him. for this many years and yeah he's had relationships here and there but it's nothing that sticks for a long period so it was like okay the dating profile's back on let's completely do a makeover and see if that changes anything it just depends what the goal is though because maybe his goal isn't to find a lengthy successful live-in relationship i think he just wants regular sex is that right jake i would like all the above okay so he just wants everything if you were to give advice seth green what would the advice be based on what you heard well i always find if you're gonna make a partner of someone that you have to actually be really considerate to what

they want and what's going to make them happy and not just their willingness to accept you as you are right that's great it's so funny because that's that sums up jake to it that jake will not sacrifice anything that makes jake jake well like the example of him taking her to his neighborhood bar that's that's jake it's like this is what i'm already doing you're gonna fit into my lifestyle it's not really a whole lot of compromise let me learn about you or do things that i think you might like yeah and you know i think that only goes so far right because because two and a half years actually that's the longest relationship yeah i uh like i said man you you seem like you're doing fine for what you want so it's hard for me to say and all of my advice would

be ways that you could alter what you're doing to achieve a different effect and it doesn't really seem like you're after a different effect so i'm i just stand back and in awe and observe the self-fulfilling prophecy that uh ends with jake pleasuring jake usually but in this particular case we had different outcome now let me ask you this because you're here today to talk about the global gaming league and gaming is something that has become in relationships uh sometimes a thing that brings people together because they can game well together and sometimes it is the cause of relationships ending yes because we talked about how one of the biggest red flag hobbies for women was a guy who games and a guy who gambles those were the two hobbies that were

like quote red flags but we were talking about how everybody games now everybody games gambling is its own different animal and i don't i don't like to intertwine them so so deeply but um one of the things that my wife and i bonded about was that uh i like i like gaming and also i don't have a problem with her just like working deep into a a console like she um i just got the new 007 game and the last couple nights i've had stuff to read or i've had things to do and i was like oh babe do you mind if i just read this you go do you mind if i just like crush this 007 i was like of course not of course not this is one of the reasons why we've stayed married for so long it's because when she wants to bury herself in witcher or whatever the hogwarts game i'm like do it also

you can settle a great maril spat during a game of 007 and you blow each other's brains out golden gun style. I'm terrible with those kinds of controllers. Yeah, the games that I play are a little different than that, but it's still the same mechanic, which is what the principle of GGL is. Vanessa told us you were in the back catching, you're still catching Pokemon. Is that true? Like, as of

this morning, you were still catching Pokemon? Yeah, I'm still on Pokemon Go. How many things, how many have you caught to this point? Because that's like a decade now you've been catching Pokemon. I have been playing off and on since 2016. You have been. So ever since, because That's when it launched, right?

10 years ago. But there's things that I like about it. The main thing that I like about it is that it's not work at all. Literally everything that I have in my life that used to be a private pleasure has turned into a job of some sort. So you want something mindless. What's less mindless than like, this is for nobody but me. There's no professional benefit to this.

There is no money to be made from it. In fact, I spend money on it. Wait, how do you spend money on it now? Well, because there's different events and activities and, you know, quote-unquote research that you can purchase to get different kinds of stuff. It's just, look,

if you're into a game, then the game mechanics of it become something that you enjoy. Did you find Pokemon in the hallway? Did you find any in this building? I don't know how to tell you. This is Pokemon literally everywhere. Literally everywhere, Alex.

There's one in this room right now? He thought he called one earlier. It was Vanessa. It was set up for us on producer and it's set up free. Yeah, there's a Makuhita. I got this guy. I got this guy if you want.

It's not important. I got too many of them. I was going to let him go. Can you read us some of your stats right now? Like, do you have a growing list that you know that in 10 years of your life, you've captured this many whatevers? Yeah, of course, there's... This many whatevers.

There's a... Pikachu's, I mean... You can't even come up with a fake one. Well, no, because there's like... A wordle's. Is that one of them? All of this stuff is indexed so completely that you can keep track of your stats really easily. That'd be funny, though, to think of that.

I mean, that's got to be... I would imagine... This is the biggest non-nerd, by the way. Well, you'd think so, but I guarantee there's stuff you're nerdy about. Like, are you into sports? Yeah, here's the thing. No, I made a list of my five great, and I believe the five best video games ever made. But all yours, I bet, are going to be old school games, are they not?

Leisure Suit Larry, number one. Well, I don't disagree that that... Opened up a genre, didn't it? Yeah, it's also like slow reveal, 8-bit soft porn. That's what Leisure Suit Larry is. That makes sense. Yes, got me into it. I think it shaped me more than anything else or any relative I've ever had.

Tecmo Bowl, original Tecmo Bowl. I thought was great. Tyson Punch-Out, I had it on there early. GoldenEye, but the original GoldenEye. Oh, yeah, I did play that. F-Zero, I thought was one of the great super NES racing games at an early age. Mario Kart, I think, was the evolution of that. And Grand Theft Auto.

I mean, I'm pretty simple that way. It sounds like the ones that you like are mostly fighting games or driving games, of which there are millions, but you're right. These are some of the top titles, and just the fact that you've got a passion for those games and why they're the best is exactly why this platform exists.

We wanted to make some, well, I mean, Clinton Sparks put this whole thing together and then got me involved. And I was so excited about the prospect of this that I wanted to be heavily involved. I was telling a story about being in Dubai back in 2012 at one of the early Middle East pop and sci-fi cons. And just to show you the way the world is adopting these gatherings of fandom, of pop culture, of video games. They're just sharing all of the stuff the same way that we are. And that's what I thought was so transcendent. So I saw these two shakes, like guys in the back sitting on Barker loungers, dressed in clothing that let me know that these two would never pray together. But they're here playing Call of Duty like, bro, he's on your six.

And I just thought that was something so beautiful. The idea that we've got all of these differences. We've got all these theological and personal ideas that make up us. And we're really forced into an era of looking at the differences and emphasizing those rather than saying, hey, what do we have in common? I used to go to see Green Day or Alice in Chains and be really excited that there was somebody there who didn't dress like me, who had different haircut than I did and loved this music. and I thought in those moments how cool and also I grew up in the 90s where that was something we were trying to do

actively was find the ways that were what we have in common rather than going on social media and talking about how different we are and so me going to those shows, me going to arcades, seeing people from all walks of life who are good at something, who want to get in the mix

on that and compete with other people at that game and not let any of this other stuff even interfere, that's what got me so excited. I mean it's exciting And I know people, competitive gaming has become such a huge industry. And I know that when I, the video games that I've played, like I got really into Call of Duty for a while, but I was never good at, I was so mediocre that anytime I was playing with anybody who was good, it was so intimidating that I was like, I just don't want to play. I want a competitive gaming league for people who kind of suck, like me. Well, this, this lets everybody from around the world play against everybody from around the world and you choose your game.

So it's not all you're playing Punch-Out, it's not all you're playing Call of Duty, it's not all Mario Kart, but those are categories that you can compete in. I'm not going to come in and play GoldenEye. That game gave me trauma. Like, I'm so bad at that. I would start and then just immediately get shot in the head and be like, oh, okay. So my buddy invited me over to his house. He set up three large screen TVs in each room. It was a quad view.

Everybody had their controller. And I was so bad at this game that I would suddenly see myself in the other three views as everyone approached me. And I was just dumbly running against a corner, just like moving my, and then they would all roll up and headshot me. And I was like, I don't even like this. So I would never compete in GoldenEye on GGL, but I'll probably see you guys in Puzzle Bomble. Seth Green is here to talk about the Global Gaming League and a Ready Seth Go, which is on GGL Prime. It's a new series of competitions inspired by the iconic characters. Obviously, there's a bunch of different ways you can get involved in the gaming there.

And even in alternative music, you talk about your history with K-Rock. It's funny to think that at recent shows, right, bands like 21 Pilots will have fans come up on stage and play them in Mario Kart on stage. How many of the different artists will actually, they've incorporated video games into their shows a lot of times. Oh, wow. Which is kind of incredible to think about. It's so become a mainstream part of people's lives, right? Yeah, it's gotten to a point. And if you're spending a lot of time on the road or you're on set, it's so easy for you to bring with you hotel to hotel, whatever else.

What is your console of choice? What do we have? I like the Xbox is probably the main thing that she plays and also the PlayStation. But I play, I can't emphasize this enough. My game is Ms. Pac-Man, Tetris, Puzzle Bobble, and Pokemon Go. Wow, so you really like the simple stuff. Yeah, yeah, it's real basic for me. But I don't judge anybody.

Everybody games in their own way. But it's crazy because some of the characters that you've played in video games are like epic characters and epic games that people have mastered. Have you ever played your own games and gotten good at your games? No, no, not like that at all. No, but I meet a ton of people. Everybody who's ever played Mass Effect, we've spent essentially hundreds of hours together.

Right. So I don't, I'm not involved in that experience, But I can appreciate, because I recorded all that stuff, so I know the emotional directions of the character. Like, I know the potentiality of all the emotion trees that anybody could run through. So when I meet people and they've spent all this time, we've done this together. It's a weird thing that's meaningful for both of us, even though I didn't play the game. You've never met each other, right, exactly. We're going to play Green Day now, but when we get back, Seth Green is here.

Ali will reveal which one of his movies she had her first kiss during. Wait, what Green Day are you going to play? basket case this is one of the greatest live bands i've ever seen oh my god and they're still incredible i went and saw that last the last show where they played all of dookie and all of american idiot and it was mind-blowing yeah so uh this was coincidental but we'll pretend we queued this up for you so uh one of seth green's favorite bands and then we come back with that air drumming on key i'm so useless seth green is back on k-rock right now talking about the global gaming league but also a lot of people asking if you're gonna be at comic-con this

weekend you say you will be there yeah i'm doing a panel with malcolm barrett thursday morning and then uh matt senrush and i are guests on the lucasarts cultural museum of uh narrative arts panel on thursday and then on set you know this george lucas is opening a massive museum yeah i know exposition i drove by it the other day i was like damn stunning yeah it's gorgeous and i i don't know i've known that this guy's a collector forever and he's got such an incredible attention to collecting things that are exquisite and important

culturally necessary and now he's gathered everything for people to witness in one collection and it's extraordinary. People arguing over what is the greatest thing you've done. So good to hear Seth back on K-Rock again. A lot of people sending love for Joker and Mass Effect.

That's what got them into the thing. Without a Paddle is by far your best movie according to 626. There's like a fight going on. There's a big fight. There's a robot chicken, family guy. There's a lot of people battling over it. My God. But it all comes down to what Allie made.

Allie had her first kiss. I think when you have your first kiss during a movie, the movie instantly becomes a more magical movie. I don't remember my first kiss movie, but I remember the first time I felt up a girl, it was during Cliffhanger. Wow. And I will always...

Do you remember which scene? Yes, I would. When were you like, now's my chance? Right when he's hanging? Because that would be a terrible time. It's when he dropped his girlfriend. And she hit the gloves, fell apart, and I said, oh, I've got to give my hand a clip. This is my moment.

That was my cliffhanger. But a movie instantly becomes that much more impactful. And, Allie, your first kiss was during which movie? I was in seventh grade. I had started dating a guy named Ryan Moreland. I'm gay now, but this was my first crush and my first significant other in terms of seventh grade. And we had decided that we were going to go see Can't Hardly Wait in theaters and that that was going to be the moment. And we both knew it going in.

We had talked to our friends about it. And this was all separate conversations with my friends, his talk with his friends. So we were sitting there the whole time. And I was enjoying the movie, but knowing that any moment this kiss is going to happen. I can't remember the exact scene where it happened. But it was the worst kiss still to date that I've ever had. And I remember going, this is what I was waiting for. Sorry she first and last name checked you on the radio.

Yeah, Ryan Morland, that was terrible. You turned her gay, Ryan. It was really bad. You turned her gay. I mean, it was sloppy. It was weird. Yeah, but Can't Hardly Wait is, to date, one of my favorite movies of all time. And I've seen it so many times.

And I just, like, I feel like it just holds up even now when you rewatch it. I love that movie. Well, now we're seeing, of course, the return of all things Dr. Evil. Austin Powers. And Scott Evil returning. And it's interesting how everything is, we've gotten so nostalgic. Everything has become, everything that you probably thought, well, I've cashed my last Austin Powers paycheck years ago. and then it's like you get a phone call from Mike Myers

and they said, we're doing it again. How does that happen? I tell you the truth. I don't think about things in those terms. I really, I've always gotten excited. No, no, I always get excited about something in the moment. And so I try to pay attention to the audience and what the sort of market will bear.

You know, you can always tell when the audience is like game for a particular type of joke or a type of story. Austin Powers is a really interesting title just because it it hit so big when it hit and it has remained in zeitgeist all this time and then we made those two commercials

we made the GM commercial and the Verizon commercial and I think that's why everybody's so excited that and Mike Myers has been like Instagram baiting I know everyone's going crazy about it but is it is there a script yet? I haven't seen anything

I've seen exactly what you've seen. Yeah, when Mike and I talk, we don't talk about that movie. So there's no scoop you can give us now that we can then use as some sort of a clickbait to bring attention selfishly to this show and say Seth Green revealed on KROQ that Austin That he also saw Mike Myers' Instagram post. And said, wow, interesting. I had no idea. There's the scoop.

Eddie, you're on with the great Seth Green back on KROQ. What's up, Eddie? Whoa, whoa. Hey, guys. Morning, Klein Alley. You got this, Eddie. I'm Seth Green. Thanks, buddy.

first of all before I ask my question I just want to say Seth Green you are like one of the nicest people ever to go up and ask for a picture when I asked you for a picture last year at the pumpkin patch it was awesome you were so cool one of the nicest people ever you get approached constantly you're at a pumpkin patch just trying to get a pumpkin and this guy comes up for a picture

that happens all the time you know it's less than it was between 2003 and 2017 there was a period of time where it was just sort of every every age group would recognize me and it's a little different now i also think i'm older now and so younger people are a little less inclined to approach which is funny to me

um but i also just try to be nice um while keeping it moving and not letting it affect whatever i'm doing and if somebody's weird i'll say hey you're being weird or somebody's yelling I'm like hey bud you're yelling I'm just very what you're giving me now is there in your entire career you've played so many iconic characters and what is the one character that like is there a certain

character that is the number one most recognizable that people will come to you for no it's all spread out yeah it's funny and it's just generational right so like if you've got the Chris Griffin family

guy that's a whole different thing I had a 19-year-old tell me that he was so excited to see me on camera because he thought that I only ever did voiceover and I should give on camera a try. And I was like, cool. That's good advice. Thank you. You just sort of can't take it. There was a point where I had already been working for over 10 years and I had already made like eight feature films. and I did a commercial

for a burger chain called Rally's where I said the phrase cha-ching and that became its own kind of where's the beef I didn't do it catchphrase but exclusively in the Midwest and so in Los Angeles it was as if it didn't exist

in Los Angeles I was like 8th build on an ABC multi-camera but in New Orleans you were the cha-ching guy I was the cha-ching guy and so it was this weird like totally disassociative experience and it and people were like hey do you think you're

going to give this acting thing a try and so i sort of realized in that moment that nobody can be expected to know anything and you can't take it personally that somebody thinks you're good at this but has no idea that you've already been doing this like it has nothing to do with you you're so right that it's generational because like obviously klein and i know you from our own you know like from the 90s 2000s but then johnny over here is like Like, oh, my God, that's the guy from Phineas and Ferb. You know, and that's how he knows you. He's Monty Monogram, the greatest.

Hell, yeah. Howard the Duck. I mean, it's cool to have so much of that stuff, you know, people draw from. I get all these, like, kids. Well, I say kids, but they're all in their mid-20s, and they're like, oh, I saw you in Scooby-Doo. Yeah. This is Scooby-Doo guy. Yeah, that's Scooby-Doo guy.

Well, Seth Bean is here, but we can't let him leave without asking not one, but two epic questions. These are the most epic questions you've ever been asked. And, of course, reminder for all things Global Gaming League, we'll put up all this on our socials. But there's a lot going on in gglprimes.com for more details. It's time for two epic questions with Seth Green. Two. Two. Two.

Epic. Two. Epic. Questions. Questions. Questions. All right, Seth. That's an incredible production.

These are epic questions. We wasted no time putting this together. Cha-ching. There it is. Cha-ching. There's your line. if you had to kill off one of your characters forever, which one would it be?

What's that guy's name? There's a character I played in a movie called Arcade who's just a real he's so obnoxious. I could probably see him die. But he dies in the movie, so. I mean, spoiler alert. Oh, you spoiled Arcade.

I think his name is something silly like Shades or Wheels or Bricks. I can't even remember so long ago. You are a well-noted gamer, as we've talked about. Is there another celebrity that you believe is very skilled at the art of video game? Nathan Fillion is great at gaming, but also Claire Grant, my wife, is a killer. She played in the Fortnite Pro-Am in New York. What's the top prize at that?

Is that millions of dollars? It was money, but for the guy, not for her. She was the celebrity contestant. But this kid was like an 18-year-old kid, and he won a bunch of money. Wow. Would you like to talk to someone who wants to apologize to you? Brady, go ahead. We love connecting people with, you know, anyone that they've encountered in their lives.

Go ahead, Brady. Round with the great Seth Green. Hey, Seth. I don't know if you remember this, but you were with Macaulay Culkin going to the Pierce Farm Harvest Festival one year. And you guys put your faces in, like, the little reading railroad cutout. And I kind of did a slide move to get a picture of you two. And you came up very nicely and were like, hey, man. that's not cool and I was so

sorry but I didn't really get it out in that moment so I wanted to apologize for that man. You're so sweet and I appreciate that. How many years are you in wholeness and that's so funny. Well no it's also like it's so shocking but when Brecken and I were teenagers, Breckenmeyer and I were teenagers we were in a Tower Records and we saw

John Amos the famous actor and we were both so excited we were like oh my god John Amos and John Amos said oh that's not cool yelling at me and pointing like I'm the boogeyman and we were like oh my god I can't believe that I'm devastated

and like I've never read it met him since but that stays with you no I'm just haunted haunted by his reaction and so let me

just assure you Brady I hold no ill will and everybody makes mistakes and I also appreciate you even taking that cue and saying

oh maybe this was inappropriate right so literally I've never thought about it again and I hope you don't either you know Seth Green

is a star of many things but he's a human just like the rest of us he bleeds He takes pictures and cutouts. He goes to K-Rock shows, you know. And yes, sure, was he in Rat Race, one of the greatest movies ever made? Yes, he was.

I mean, almost every movie or TV show you've been in, there's been a request for a sequel or a reboot. Ali and I were discussing, would you be opposed to an all-Seth Green film festival where we buy out a theater and we do a 24-hour marathon of your films? Boy, that would be exhausting, guys. And you have to speak between each movie and do Q&A. So I'm just taking quick naps and peptides in between screenings. Yeah, exactly. Thank you. Please don't be a stranger.

You're welcome here anytime. It's good to have you back on KROQ on Instagram, at Seth Green. And, of course, we will put everything else up on our socials. We're back in a moment with your tickets to a festival. And, hey, I know you know Jack White. You've introduced him on stage before. But this is a festival coming to Santa Monica with Jack White, The Killers, Sublime, and more. Oh, yeah.

And we'll give you your tickets away the second we get back from this quick break on KROQ. The greatest summer tradition since.