The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller & Adam Scott - Mark's Best Friend (with Yul Vazquez)

Episode Date: September 18, 2025

It's a bittersweet day, because it's Ben and Adam's final podcast episode for awhile! For this special episode, Adam talks to Yul Vazquez, who plays Petey, Mark's best friend (but Mark is just Petey's very good friend). They talk about shooting the very first scene of the show and the joy of playing two guys who just really like each other. Then, Ben and Adam answer more fan hotline questions to close out the season. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This show is brought to you by BetterHelp. There have been times when I've turned to some questionable places for help. Turns out, not every barista needs to hear about my problems. And I don't know, I probably shouldn't be taking life advice from the guy who sold me that telescope I never ended up using. Group chats, also great place to get recommendations for places to go on hikes with your dog. But when you're looking for help around, I don't know, relationships, anxiety, other clinical issues, your buddies in the group chat might not have all the right answers. So instead, maybe just get some guidance from a credentialed therapist online with BetterHelp.

Therapists are clinically trained, so it's like talking with a friend who went to school just to help you. And you never have to hear about their stuff. I've found therapy to be incredibly helpful, and I'm so glad I can get help from someone qualified and legitimate. Sometimes also they have hiking recommendations, which is an added bonus. BetterHelp has been helping people find their match for over 10 years, and they've got to a 4.9 rating out of 1.7 million client session reviews. It can be tough finding the right therapist, but BetterHelp does the initial matching work for you. So you can just focus on your therapy goals. Plus, it's so convenient. You can join a session with a qualified therapist with the

click of a button, and you can switch therapists at any time. As of the largest online therapy provider in the world, BetterHelp can provide access to mental health professionals with a diverse variety of expertise. Find the one with BetterHelp. Our listeners get 10% off their first month at BetterHelp.com slash severance. That's BetterHelp. H-E-L-P.com slash severance. The Severance podcast with Ben Stiller and Adam Scott is presented by The Farmers Dog. Try fresh, healthy food at the farmer's dog.com slash severance. Hey, I'm Ben Stiller. I'm Adam Scott. And this is the Severance Podcast with Ben and Adam, where we talk about everything related to severance. And today is a little bittersweet because it's our last podcast for a while.

Yeah, that's crazy. I didn't know. We've done 30 episodes. 30 episodes. Wow, that's crazy. It is crazy. You know what? We've done almost one and a half times more podcast episodes than we've done episodes of severance. I was just making that calculation in my head and you did it way faster than me. me like two days to come up with that. Yeah, thank you. I am not a math expert, but I did, you know, 30 and we've done 19. Sounds like it to me. Sounds like a math expert to me. But we are going to go out on a high note here. I'm going to talk with the man who really started it all on Severance. Yule Vasquez, who plays Petey, Mark's best friend. And after your conversation with Yule, I think we should answer some hotline questions for the final time. Yeah, I'm going to miss these hotline questions. So great getting to answer these. Okay, let's get in. of the episode all right you know i do get nostalgic for pd scenes and i was shooting the pd scenes you know that was so early on and just right like like shooting in the greenhouse and yes and shooting down in the basement the first scene we shot of the whole show was us eating pizza in

the basement oh my was that the first thing really it's the first like dialogue scene because remember the very first day you took mercy on me and we shot just me like walking in through doors and opening with the refrigerator and a whole day of just little like me walking down the hallway right just little bits and pieces like that which yeah we wanted to kind of ease in yeah I loved I loved that so much that that's how we started but then the next day we dove in with me and Ewell eating pizza right yeah great memories of working with Ewell because we were figuring stuff out then like you know the the reintegration language and how to shoot those things and of course my favorite suduku seducco line of yours yeah yeah you'll's a great guy i've known yule

for ever please send him my best i will do you have anything specifically that you wanted me to ask you about his art yeah i will his paintings are incredible yeah he's like a serious artist and you know i'm sure you know but people might not know he drew that pd map himself He did. Yeah. Oh, I did not know that. Yeah, ask him about that. Which is now like on T-shirts and things all over the last.

I have a mug. Yeah, me too. Do you have the Lumen mug where when it heats up, you see the map? It's so cool. It's so cool. So, Ben, how have you been? It's been a week since our last episode. I've been good.

I've been, you know, just kind of running around, you know. You're working right now. Working, working, you know, we're working on severance, too. A lot of season three stuff happening. Yeah. You know, we're writing and pre-producing and all that stuff. Also, in this downtime, you've done a couple of films that I'm just excited to see you on the big screen. Oh, thanks. And I saw that you have this horror movie. Yeah, Hocum. Yeah. Damien McCarthy, this really interesting Irish filmmaker, lovely person. He made this great movie Audity a couple years ago. And so this is his follow-up and Neon's putting it out. So really excited about that. Yeah, that's so great. I've never been in a horror movie, so I'm envious. You haven't.

No. And I saw the still that they put out when they announced that Neon was releasing it. And it's this cool. You look like just like you've got glasses and you're wet and you've got stubble. And it looked really cool and like a totally different character. And like I was like, I'm in. Oh, great. Really fun.

And can you talk about the De Niro movie? Yeah. It's called The Whisper Man. It's going to be on Netflix. It's De Niro, Michelle Monaghan. myself, Michael Keaton is in it. Oh, my God. Really? Yeah, it's really, it was really fun to make and really just so amazing getting to work with Bob.

Yeah, but we should compare De Niro notes at some point. Yeah, totally. I just wanted to talk really quickly because I just bought a bunch of Premier magazines on eBay. Did you read Premier Magazine back in the day? I had a subscription. I read it. I consumed it. I think I wrote a couple of things for them.

Did you? I wrote one thing. I think I wrote a tribute to Diane Keaton in it once. Wow. Yeah. That's amazing. But that's cool. You found the old Premier Max.

Dude, you should do yourself a favor and buy it. They're like, you know, five bucks or something on eBay. And it's just amazing going through. Just first of all, that there is this big, thick magazine that came out every month just about movies. It's so fun. It was a big deal of Premiere Magazine. Huge. And the journalists, the writers they had were great, and they would write really in-depth profiles and interviews, and it's just terrific.

Yeah, so good. And also magazine, the other thing that you don't have anymore is like with actual magazines existed, it would be time would be a certain size or, right? Yes. Or Newsweek. But then there would be like Rolling Stone was bigger. And Premiere was kind of bigger like that. It was big. Yeah, yeah. And that was like kind of a special thing too. Loved it. Yeah, I have one that I had when I was a teenager that I found on eBay. That's De Niro and Robin Williams on the cover for Awakening's. Yeah, yeah. Which my mother's in, by the way. She plays one of the patients in them. I have to rewatch. I haven't seen it in so long. Oh, that's amazing. Penny Marshall movie. Yeah. All right. I think it's time for your conversation with Yule. Excellent. Let's do it. I am so excited to have our next guest with us today.

is someone who has been in absolutely everything that you love, including Seinfeld, the Sopranos, Sex, and the City, and iconic roles in stuff like Captain Phillips, Russian doll, Little Falkers with Ben, the great show, The Outsider, The Looming Tower, so many things. And he was nominated for a Tony and a Drama Desk Award for The Motherfucker with the Hat. Incredible actor, Our Pee, Yule Vasquez, welcome to the show. Absolute pleasure to be here with you, Adam. So you have a really interesting origin story, you yourself, not PD. You want to tell us about growing up in Miami?

I grew up in Miami Beach, Florida. Yeah, I grew up in Miami Beach when nobody wanted to be there. Wow. So we came from Cuba. I was two and a half years old. Came with my mother. Okay. Single mom, two kids.

Came with my grandmother. My parents were divorced. My father stayed in Cuba. I had a second family. I have five half siblings. Wow. I think there was some overlap, if you know what I mean. I think I know what you mean.

But they were divorced, and my mother was like, I'm getting out of this system. I am not raising my kids in this communist dictatorship, basically. So came to Miami Beach. My mother was an actress. You know, my mother didn't really speak English, learned English. Got involved with a theater company comprised of actors that were exiled actors, you know, from Cuba. and they had a theater company and they would do plays. Wow.

And when I was a little kid, I was like sort of the default kid, I would get thrown into plays. I didn't, but I didn't want to be an actor. I wanted to be Jimmy Page. You know, I wanted to be a rock star. I played rock bands. So you did pursue music for a while. You were in a band called Urgent. It was a band called Urgent and a band called Diving for Pearls.

I made two records. Right, diving for pearls. Yeah. And you guys, Urgent had a hit in the 80s. Is that right? We had a song called Running Back. Yeah. We did two records with that.

I mean, I think hit is kind. But it got on to like billboard top 100 or something. It charted. It charted. It was very AOR. It was, you know, that's how I wind up in New York is that band. Okay. So that gets you to New York.

And we're all the better for it because you are one of the best actors that we have. And we are all the better for having you on Severance, too. Very kind of you, my friend. I mean, we started the show as just you and I for the first few weeks of production. We were just doing Mark and Petey stuff. Dude, my fucking eyes just teared up. Like, literally, I swear to God, my eyes just rolled up. It's crazy.

Yeah, go ahead. I was so freaked out, and we were figuring the show out as we were going, right? And you and I were at the very beginning of it. I remember day one, Ben just had me, like, opening doors and walking. It was just me doing kind of menial stuff. And then day two, you and I dove in with the scene and the scene in the basement eating pizza. And I'm so grateful that the stuff we started with was with you, one, because you're incredible and it was such a pleasure and privilege to get to work with you,

but also emotionally, it was so important to lay this base of this relationship. It's integral to the show. And you really kick everything off emotionally, story-wise, everything. Do you want to talk about sort of how this came to be, how you ended up on Severance in season one there? You know, I, well, first of all, thank you for saying, saying all that. That's incredibly generous of you. And we have a, we have a text romance that I love. And I, and I really do, I really do adore you because you're, not only you are you a fucking great actor, but you're one of the great humans in our, in our business. And, you know, is not always, not always the case. Thanks, buddy. I knew Ben for a long time because we met, we shared a green room at the public theater

where each different place. So we knew each other. Is that like 20 years ago? Something like that. Dude, it was, it was 2005. Okay. Yeah. Crazy. Yeah. But we think we'd never work together, but we knew each other. And then we got on the Zoom and we like, we did these work sessions on the Zoom. And I had the benefit of knowing the four. Like I knew where I was starting, where I was going. You You know what I mean? Yep. And I had a sense of tonally what the show should be. And I remember saying to Ben on the Zoom, I said, I think when he goes, if it doesn't break

your heart, then we got it all wrong. Yeah. For me, you know, and it's almost better when you don't know anything else. It's good because all we have is what we're doing in this room right now. And that piece of scene, I knew, I knew that you knew, that we both knew, what we Ford have had to do there, and we had a great commander, you know? Yeah. We had a fucking great commander who was clear, and he was like, okay, let's try this and

let's, you know, fine-tune it. That to me was the only way that I could do it, and it was very personal, you know, because people were in that basement. Yes, it was, and that, that, it really kind of clicked into place really quickly. We never had a conversation about these two guys and our friendship. We just started doing it. And it really kind of fell into place emotionally right away. And the thing that I always felt was really lightning in a bottle that you were able to capture

and was so integral to the show working at all is PD coming in. And it so easily could have been an exposition machine and somebody coming in there in like a science fiction show how it's done sometimes where people come in and tell this fantastical story. about what happened to them and what might happen in the future and all this stuff to kind of set the scene and try and set up the stakes and everything but you come in and it's so hyper real and so emotionally present that none of that stuff happens and whatever exposition is there is beside the point it's the emotional character story first and that's what you came in and did just right off the bat it was like oh this is what the show is you know i've i met you and i liked you i had known your work but i met you and i liked you and i knew i could use that right and the other thing i could hang stuff on was was the daughter the wanting to return to that why i i wanted to get back to that and why can't i get back to that you mean and what you guys did to me was fucked up yeah And I'm trying to get, I'm trying to get back to that, you know, and I, I could sit with you,

you could put the camera on, and you're going to see two guys that like each other. Yes. Genuinely like each other. Yeah, when we weren't shooting, we were off in a corner chit-chatting, and it was the same thing. But, you know, I think actors sometimes, and not all, obviously, not all actors, don't realize the value of that. You don't need to gild the lily. Totally.

Yeah. Totally. You already like this guy. Just turn that fucking thing on. Exactly, which is also why I think talking the scene to death or talking the characters to death off camera, sometimes there is absolutely no use for it. If you both know what you're doing and you understand, everyone understands what this is, let's just turn the camera on and let's get it while it's alive.

Yeah. And I think those scenes were fucking extraordinarily written. You know what I mean? Like about seeing you with red eyes and I knew what was going on with you. And, you know, like, those scenes are unbelievably fucking well written, man. Yeah, we shot all that basement stuff right away. So it was not just the pizza scene, but you and the bathroom having the reintegration sickness, all that basement stuff from the first few episodes we did in the first like week.

And then we went out and did that diner scene, which was so fun. Yeah. And, you know, this line that's become iconic, it's that PD says to Mark, I'm your best friend, you're my very good friend. Actually, let's listen to that. So you've unsevered, and now you, do I think they're after you or something? Yeah. They being greener. It's probably out here right now.

Greener. Okay. Is that, like, a person you know? We both know him. We don't like him. I see. Nothing down there is what they say. If something happens to me, the things I know need to stay known.

I'd prefer to be by a friend. So we're friends? I'm your best friend. You're my very good friend. There it is. Did you have any sense that had that potential? There's no way that I could have, I could have imagined that. I remember that day in the Phoenicia Diner.

Yeah. And it's famous, they have these famous pancakes. No, but a guy came up to me at the airport and a guy and he said, hey, I'd want you to know that my son and I say that line to each other. That's great. I was like, that's fucking crazy. We're going to take a break. We'll be right back after this.

Hey, Adam, you got any trips coming up? We do, actually. We're going to go for our first parents' weekend, visiting our son off at school. Oh, wow, that's exciting. Yeah. Wow. you're already there. That sounds amazing. We're already miss him and just can't wait to get over there. Yeah, that'll be fun. And so what are you doing with your house when you're away?

Well, I'm not exactly sure. Why? What do you mean? Well, I'm just saying that, you know, if you're away, you could actually be hosting an Airbnb. Huh. Yeah. That's, I mean, I've used Airbnb on a few family trips before and loved it, but. Love Airbnb. Christine is actually doing a movie right now. She's staying in an Airbnb. Yeah, it's the best. It's so much better than a hotel. I guess this whole time, whenever we're out of town, we could have been making a little extra cash while we're gone. See, that's what I'm saying. It makes total sense. Your home might be worth more than you think.

Find out how much at Airbnb.com slash host. I will. Good. Hi, I'm Nancy Cartwright. You may know me better as the voice of Bart Simpson. On Simpsons Declassified, we're diving into the mysteries that keep the Simpsons forever young. Have you ever wondered how the Simpsons regularly predicts future events? Who better to ask than the show's creators, performers, and writers, the celebrity guests.

Be sure to follow and listen to Simpsons Declassified wherever you get your podcasts. This episode is brought to you by The Farmer's Dog. So employees on the separate floor of Lumen Industry know their work is mysterious and important. The Farmer's Dog, on the other hand, isn't mysterious at all, which is good because what you feed your dog shouldn't be a mystery. The farmer's dog makes 100% mysterious free, fresh food for dogs. And they always use real meat and real vegetables, which are gently cooked to retain vital nutrients and avoid the risks that come from ultra-processing. Their recipes are developed by their team of board-certified vet nutritionists

so they can ensure that your dog's food is always complete and balanced. The farmer's dog food is made to human-grade safety standards, which are the same safety standards as the food that you and I eat, because as far as I know, if you're listening and understanding this podcast, chances are you're a human being. The farmer's dog also portions the food to your dog's unique needs, making it easy to keep them at a healthy weight. So go try the farmer's dog today and get 50% off your first box of fresh, healthy food

at the farmer's dog.com slash severance. Plus, you get free shipping right to your door. Remember, you can't get it at stores, you can't get it at Lumen, you can only get it at thefarmer's dog.com slash severance. This offer is for new customers only. So this map that PD draws, you, you will actually are the one who drew that map. Yes, it is. So if you've seen my, I paint, I don't know if you knew that about me, but I'm, yes. Yeah.

This map in particular, was that a, did you collaborate with Dan and Kat Miller, our props master and Ben and everybody on that? So Kat made a template of what the Lewin floor looked like, you know what? And then Ben said, you can take that and you can embellish that. You mean, so I did. So I took that and added all the other occult symbols and, like, I wrote in a corner, all is mind, you mean, which is something from the caballion, which is a, you know, which is a real Western mystery school tradition, philosophy. Yeah, so I wrote all that stuff, you know. You know, I said to there was, there was an esoteric sense, not only to Petey, but to the show.

You know, the show to me lives in this esoteric world, you know, where you, it can really go in many ways. I mean, it is, there is a mysticism to the show that I think is, is appropriate. It really is a beautiful piece. You know, there's so much mystery still with PD. We know generally what happened, but we didn't see a lot of it. A lot of it is you telling us about it and we see the results of it. But the actual journey that PD went through in order to start reintegration, that all sort of happened off camera. It did.

You know, it's funny. Yeah, I thought of it. I thought of it. I wonder what that would look like, you know? Yeah. what his home life what his right he's divorced daughter doesn't really talk to i mean you know it's a tragic fucking guy i know it's really it's really sad he has this this daughter and we should say the daughter's played by cassidy leighton who is great and you guys were so great together

playing enter sandman which is also uh kind of huge in the lore of the show and it's funny kind of thinking back to you starting in a kind of metal band of sorts that it ended up being enter Sandman. How did that all come together? Ben said, listen, can you play this song? And so I worked with George Draculius, who had produced a friend of mine's band actually. So my friend Ian Sperry, the singer for the cult, had worked with George. I worked with Draculius. And then I don't know if those rehearsals were, there was a room on the stage that had these giant fans. like air extraction filter like sure like they sounded like COVID yeah jet engines yes they were so loud yeah that's where we would rehearse on zoom with Draculius oh my god right so we couldn't hear anything

of course not so George so we had these little amps and she had the bass and I had the guitar and we're like and just could you hear it I can kind of hear it can kind of turn up a little bit I'm like yeah well we had the fans and I said can we turn the fans off I'm like no we can't turn the fans off I'm like, okay, so, so we did the best. So he's crazy. I'm basically winging it is what you're saying. Winged it, but I knew I could play it. I mean, I could play it, you know, and so that was like an idea.

We played it. It was so sad and so adorable, you guys singing that dark, sad song together. Isn't that crazy? Shot on a high, like a high eight camera, which that was an IFA's episode. Yeah, Iifa directed that. And I had never seen that video or her. heard you sing the song until we were shooting the scene at the funeral. And it was really profound and really just tragic.

Yeah. Let's listen to that. Rock show time. Say your prayers, little one. Don't forget my son to include everyone. So you are the first one to kind of a. establish reintegration sickness. What did you guys talk about when you, because I know when I had to do it in season two, we really used you and what you did sort of as a template of where

to go with it. What was the context you thought of that? And where did you kind of find the symptoms and all of that stuff? We had, I had this conversation with Ben about seizures. Yeah. And, you know, Petit Ma, Grand Maul Seizures. And so there's all these videos that we watch. He sent me some videos. I sent him some videos and they're pretty harrowing, you know. He said the reintegration is going to be you're going to hemorrhage.

You're going to be a brain hemorrhage. So you're having a seizure and then your brain starts to hemorrhage. So and it's excruciating pain. So those scenes are like, in those scenes, it's like, okay, mirror, okay, now, a lot of pain now. Yeah. Like he's basically, yeah, yeah. I remember that.

And I was like, yeah. And I was like, joff. I was like, fuck, you know. you know and then the convulsions at the and the convenience store yeah and then the sort of dead behind the eyes you know it was literally like trying to figure it out you know look he's looking at it and we're like does his work you know he goes when you come in like because I'm walking you know and I come in I was like I'm completely out of my mind I fall down into the store and the blood and um and then you collapse outside and right I see you and I collapse

yeah it's really hard to watch and I had the benefit of you having you and Ben kind of figuring it out but I do remember you guys like a lot of stuff on the show try a bunch of different stuff till you kind of zeroed in on what felt right and what what looked right and yeah so I know that you tried all kinds of stuff we did have been exhausting yeah I mean I don't know what you can't do you're so busy we so appreciate you taking the time I appreciate it I'm so so happy we got to chat and so happy I got to work with you. I hope we get to work with each other so soon. My friend, me too. Sooner rather than later.

Adam, I love you, brother. I have a lot of admiration and affection for you. And just know that. Know that. Likewise, pal. That was my conversation with the great Yule Vasquez. We're going to take a quick break. And when we're back, Ben and I will answer some of your hotline questions. During the Volvo Fall Experience event, discover exceptional offers and thoughtful design that leaves plenty of room for autumn adventures. And see for yourself how Volvo's legendary safety brings peace of mind to every crisp morning commute. This September, lease a 26 XE90 plug-in hybrid from $599 bi-weekly at 3.99% during the Volvo Fall Experience event. Condition supply, visit your local Volvo retail.

or go to explorevolvo.com. Adam, that was amazing. Great an interview. Well, thanks, man. It was super fun. Why don't we go into some hotline questions? Great. Hi, guys. Praise Keer. This is Emily G. And I actually work at a dog rescue. And I have been pretty obsessed with severance for the last couple years.

So that means many dogs have severance-themed names. So far, I've named a dog Lumen, Harmony, Cobell, Mark, Helley, Kear, James. And I'm just wondering if you guys have any suggestions or some other names. Thanks so much. Love the show and can't wait for next season. Thank you, Emily G. That's incredible. I love that. that. Well, I mean, the glaring omission, I feel like you have to have a Mr. Milchick.

100%, right? And I think any and outy, too, maybe. Oh, that's good. Any and outy. I love that there's a dog at this rescue just named Mark. Is it Mark or Mark S, though? Maybe it should be Mark S. Yeah. Have you also seen the, like, I've seen people now use like sort of the abbreviation, I mark or O Mark. Oh, no, I haven't seen that. Or like any mark or Audimark? Why didn't we do that while we were making the show? I know, I know, I know, but it's smart, right? Yeah. Any other dog names, Drummond? Drummond's great. Any dog name with a mister? My dog's name is Moe and we call him Mr. Moe all the time. Mr. Milchick's a great name for a dog. Dylan G, that's a good name. Dillon G and Emil. Emile. Emile, that's a good one.

What's the name that Audi Mark gets wrong in 210? Heleney. Heleney. could be one. Oh, that's a good one. That was great. Thank you, Emily. All right. Next. Hi, this is Julia. Adam and Ben, you guys are amazing. My question is for Adam Scott. If you were to pick any R.E.M. song to be part of Severance, what would it be? Pretty scared. Wow. Well, Adam, did you do a, did you do a podcast about REO? Yeah, I did. Wow. Yeah, we had just about everybody from the band on the podcast. I saw R.m. play at the 40 Wat, Club in Georgia back in the 90s, yeah. You did.

Yeah, that was pretty cool. That must have been incredible. Yeah. I guess, I mean, it's the end of the world, as we know it is maybe too much of a on the nose pick. What about losing my religion? Yeah, that would work. Everybody hurts would work.

Mm, mm, everybody hurts. That's probably the way. Yeah. There's also a song, a later song that's one of their lesser known songs that would fit beautifully in a show. Actually, the bear used it beautifully. Oh, which song? Oh, My Heart is a really pretty song and would work very well in the Audi world.

Great question. Yeah. Let's do one more. Hi, this is good to see. I just had two questions relating to the issue of daylight savings time. My first is, do they deport daylight savings time in Kier or does Kier have its own period in time zone that is devoid of daylight savings? My second question, a more serious note, why don't you, given the,

power and authority you now have through severance, gather the leaders of the world together and simply agree to move the clocks back 30 minutes? Why can't we just meet in the middle? Why can't we all get along? Praise care. Greg, C., you are kicking a hornet's nest over here. I mean, why not just get the leader? I mean, you're getting to the heart of a question. I don't understand why this hasn't happened and don't get me going again. And this will be the last time we ever talk about daylight savings time on this. I have a feeling that's not true. Well, another year gone by, fall is approaching, I think, as of this recording, we're 56 days away from daylight savings time going away. Oh, my God. Yeah, and that's going to, you know, throw us back

into darkness too early. So, yeah. Sorry, are you saying to me right now on the record that you aren't looking forward to the clocks pulling back here in the fall? No, yeah, I am saying I physically dread it. I'm like stressed about it. Yeah, because then it gets dark way early. I love it when that happens in the fall. It's like Halloween. It's like the leaves turning and the clocks turn back and it gets dark at like five.

You don't love that? All of that can happen without the clocks turning back. You still have leaves and Halloween. It's an essential component of... It's going to be darker earlier anyway because the sun is because of the trajectory of the earth is, you know, the axis... It's happening anyway. It's happening anyway.

And we don't have any uniformity on it. I think it's one of the few things we can depend on in today's world. Well, this is why, Adam, you and I will never be able to, I don't know, we're never going to work together again. I don't know. It's just like a really different worldview on this. Agree to disagree. Agree to disagree. And, you know, when we're shooting severance and, you know, we're in the stages, you can't tell anyway because there's no windows.

So maybe that's why we get along when we're working. That's true. All right. Just, season three, no one better bring it up. That's all I have to say. Wow, is that it? Is that going to be it for us? I guess that's it.

This has been so fun, man. Yeah, I'm kind of, I am a little bit sad, and it's going to, we're coming back, though. We're going to come back. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. And, of course, the show's coming back and we'll be doing the podcast again. And in the meantime, it's been so much fun doing this with you and talking to people on the show and, you know, all the different.

interesting points of view we've had and totally learning about stuff and so I've really enjoyed it it's just been fun talking about this thing we've been focusing so much of our time and our lives on and being able to step back a bit and appreciate it with you has been

really rewarding yeah it's been a little I think it's been kind of therapeutic in a way yeah agreed well thank you for listening thanks for being fans of the podcast and the show and we so appreciate it and really look forward to more. Same. I'm Ben Stiller. And I'm Adam Scott. Thank you for listening.

The Severance podcast with Ben Stiller and Adam Scott is a presentation of Odyssey, Red Hour Productions, and Great Scott. If you like the show, be sure to rate and review this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your other podcast platform of choice. It really makes a difference. Our executive producers are Barry Finkel, Gabrielle Lewis, Naomi Scott, and Leah Reese Dennis. This show is produced by Ben Goldberg. It's mixed and mastered by Chris Basil. We have additional engineering from Hobby Cruces. Show clips are courtesy of fifth season. Music by Theodore Shapiro. Special thanks to the team at Odyssey, Mora Curran, Eric Donnelly, Michael LeVay, Melissa Wester, Kate Rose, Kurt Courtney, and Hillary Schuff. And the team at Red Hour, John Lesher, Carolina Pesikov,

Jean-Pablo Antonetti, Ashwin Ramesh, Maria Noto, John Baker, and Sam Lyon. And at Great Scott, Kevin Cotter, Josh Martin, and Christy Smith at Rise Management.