Buck Rogers
Appearances
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
You're good in partnership because you have it with Mulaney too. Do you prefer working with a person?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
I'm not. I'm going to say that I think sometimes in a three environment, it can be hard. And I can imagine sometimes, probably, I'm not putting words in your mouth, but I assume that sometimes you're like, it might be easier if it was just me. Not all the time, but in a real way. Like, well, this person has their own thoughts and I'm coming in with the structure. So I think some people...
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
do prefer a solo creative endeavor. And that's understandable too.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Was there a lead up of like, hey, man, are you all right? Was there a lot of that pre-intervention?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Especially when you went out on a huge limb. Yeah.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
tightrope i think with addicts i didn't know any before i knew dax but it is a tightrope to walk where you're not alienating them so that they just completely go off the deep end don't talk to you anymore but you have to also say that you see something's wrong i was just at such a loss and i was just like i know you're doing this and then there was just like i'm not doing it yeah oops
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
He's going to come for you. You know, he has vendettas.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
But when you're own. You might be into shopping on your own. We don't know.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
You thought maybe those diapers were going to come back into play.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Sorry, real quick about the special. You do a bit about moms being annoying. That is so spot on and good. And I think about it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
I talk to my mother. We are on the heels of Mother's Day. And yeah, I think about it all the time. They are so annoying, but we love them. Yeah.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
It is the most relatable. And for this reason you're saying, everyone is just so impatient and mean to their moms. It's so weird. And they are calling to say like, hey, I just re-upped your AAA. And it's like, why'd you do that?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
I got my hair cut today. Barb did my hair. Barb Thompson. Where'd you find Barb?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Don't ever say that again. No, what did you say? Barb Thompson. Thompson.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
She's awesome. And she's done my hair before. She did it for a gala.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
One of the only galas I've ever been to. And she's great.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
No. Okay. I take care of my hair. Okay. I just haven't, and it's hot out.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
I was really actually self-conscious. Oh. Oh, and I mean, it would get noticed. And I was like, there's no way anyone will notice. And you noticed immediately.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
That makes sense. Well, you know, I also, I have to groom my arms, my legs, my armpits, my vagina parts.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Yeah, it sucks. Speaking of, how's the cashmere? We haven't even seen it in a while.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Oh my God. I don't even count Groot as a stuffy. When you said that, I wasn't thinking of him. He's a real boy. He really is. Unlike the robot.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
But what if like it was downstairs and you had to tell your mom like, oh my God, polar is missing.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
It's because you like him in your nook and like, like a kid, like a kid.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
He's one of those guys in the comedy space that just has so many things going on at all times, and it's awesome.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Imagine when it's like to lose your son. You never get over it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Well, and so she answered our long lasting question about would you clone?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Okay. Gosh, that's wild. But okay, if he had gone in the monster truck and then got sent to the next monster truck show, that's a kid's book. That's a children's book.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
I don't think all the dust from the monster truck would be good for his lungs.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
I know, but that's life. It's like, you can't buy health. Well, actually, I mean, to an extent you can, which is a problem, but you know, that's why health is the most important thing we have.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Being alive. Yeah, being there. Being present. Being present. Well, I'm also grateful because I immediately got codependent for the girl, the friend. Can you imagine?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
This is complex because this is how you feel about your kids. This is how you parent them. You're like, you know, I'm going to let them go explore the world. And another person could say, look, they're a little too valuable for that. Don't let them just go down the street to Ralph's where there's crazies.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
So it looks like she's- She's inherited my parenting to- Looks like it's nurture.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Wow. Yeah. I'm grateful. I'm so grateful. I would have been really- You understand. Yeah, it would have been so sad if group... I mean, I would have been happy for him if he was on an adventure, but we know that really he would have gone in the trash.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Dax, missing persons after like 48 hours, they're dead.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Now don't trick her into getting like pain meds for him.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Oh my God. Wow. That isn't quite an adventure. I'm. Yeah. I'm really glad that had a happy ending.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Yeah. Okay. So you've been gone a couple of days. Um, in the meantime, I've watched two full seasons of you, the show, which reminds me, I want to play the thing about me. Exactly. It's about time that we revisit that because I'm watching it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
yeah you want me to put on the tv oh yeah you can this is my favorite clip of all time and now it has extra meaning because i'm watching the show is it a great show i love it it has real veronica mars vibes oh fun but it's it's like dexter meets veronica mars but i've never seen dexter um okay let's watch this real quick yeah you know i was watching an episode
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
It really is. Yeah. Oh, my God. Anyway, so, yeah, I started you random. It, like, popped up as the next. This never works out.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Auto play or whatever. And I was like, sure, why not? Watch the whole thing. And then last night stayed up so late. I couldn't even look at the time. I was too afraid to look.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
They're like 45-ish minutes. Whoa. Yes. Oh, my God. Okay. So it is Penn Badgley from Gossip Girl, who I loved back then, Dan Humphrey.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
And he recently, he has a podcast, but also I saw there's like an Instagram kind of viral video of him like dancing on one of these platforms. And I was like, well, in my opinion. And so I was like, oh yeah, I love him. And then he pops up.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
You know what? It is. I'm gonna circle back. I didn't say it wasn't.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Yeah, but turns out it's really high. So anyway, then it pops up and he is a, He's a stalker, like he's obsessed with this woman. Uh-oh. There's like murder. Ooh. He's a psychopath, but it's a love story and he's hot. And it's confusing. Yes. It's sexy, but scary.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
I heard him say on an interview, something like that, like, or someone asked, like, what do you think of when people say he's hot? Yeah. And he was like... He's a killer.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
So I saw that clip before I watched the show and I was like, yeah, he's right. This is people are crazy. Yeah. And then, of course, I'm like, he's hot.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
He's also tricky because he's like kind of a good boyfriend if he wasn't a murderer and putting people in cages.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Luigi. That's real life, so I find that much more complicated. I do not think he's hot.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
No. I don't think there's anything good about killing.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
I don't think murder is hot in real life, and I don't think vigilantes are hot.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
I'm going to say that. Good to know. There's a lot of people that are like, good for him.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Exactly, exactly, yeah. Except in the show, sometimes he does kill some people I really don't like. And it is vigilante. And like, it's for kids. Sometimes he protects kids. He's weird. He's like kind of this like good friend.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
I really don't know, but I was so tired when my alarm went off at nine.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
And so then I had to go back to bed. Probably three.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
And because I'm scared a little, like it's very cliffhanger-y. It's very good at keeping you on the hook. So I'm a little too scared in those scenarios to go to bed. Like I need to know how it's completed, but they do a good job at the end of each season too. You never know. I did star episode three, but then I was like, Monica, no.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
I got to stop. So I turned it off about halfway through that. When I woke up this morning after so much murder, I was like, I think I need to take a break today because it really gets infiltrated. And then it made me think this is what's happening with boys and video games.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
They're just, it's like a constant, they're living in this world that's dark and bleak and they're shooting people and stuff. And then like reality starts to disappear.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
I don't. Okay. In this show, it's a lot of voiceover. Because you're hearing his thoughts.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
And so then today I was kind of hearing my thoughts like that.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
No, but I also really want to know what happens. Keep going. All right, let's see if there's anything else I want to talk about. You know, you're really tunnel vision. Me? It is easy. I get why. I get how it happened.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
But he did end up saying it's a show on Netflix called You.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
It's so good. I almost feel like it's fake and I don't want to like look too into it. I don't think so. I don't either.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
All right. Well, that's it. Let's move into facts.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
I think COVID fucked with it too. Those couple years.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Yeah, that was so funny. Also, I wrote down specifically... When he said sick little cutie, I laughed so hard at sick little cutie. I thought that was the funniest. Just a sick little cutie.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
It was great. And then I was kind of like, oh, sick little cutie is kind of like.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Anyway, that was just really made me laugh. He's so funny.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
I think they also might, I don't know if they really think that or if they're like playing along. They're playing your role, maybe. Yeah, exactly.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Maxi pad. That's the original. I bet you can do that and come back to us.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
if people listen to the CTE episode with Chris Nowinski, and then also it came up in another episode, the P baby, we had AI make a video of us originally talking about the P baby, the original story of P baby.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Yeah. And we're, I'm going to post it tomorrow, but so by the time you listen to this, it will be posted. And I really, really recommend you, people going to watch this. It'll be on our Instagram. Because for one, the story is just, you need a good reminder of the pee baby. But the AI is...
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
And it's like a version of you and me, like the AI made versions of us. It's so funny.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
No, I was just going, I'm doing stuff, you know.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Anyway, so check that out. Check out the P-baby and the AI. It just reminded me, AI.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Great. Um, now what are the most watched shows on Netflix? This is on Wikipedia and notoriously Netflix doesn't really release this information. So, um,
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Interesting. Yeah. Okay. Well, this is just Wikipedia. Oh, and it's most popular television series by hours watched in their first 28 days. Number one is Squid Game season one.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Five is Dahmer Monster, the Jeffrey Dahmer story.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Six is Money Heist. That was a big, big show. Yes. I think maybe it was in Spanish, I think.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
She loved it. Yeah. Oh, wait. No, sorry. So Six is Money Heist Part Five.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Interesting. Seven, Eight, and Nine are Bridgerton, Season One, Two, and Three.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Yeah, I think so. I know I would watch that. I'm still in ER.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
It's always about land and... Religion often. Religion. But yeah, who owns what? Yeah. I mean, that's very timely because India and Pakistan were... Well, this was obviously made before they've now launched missiles at each other. But they're in a ceasefire.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
But anyway... Okay, Seth MacFarlane and Nick, that conversation, that's on the SAG After Foundation YouTube.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
So you can watch that there if you're interested in animation.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
He's going to be sick for another 10 years or so.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Well, you kind of are. You're still kind of sick.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Speaking of kids. Yeah. I wasn't sure if I was going to bring this up, but why not? Yeah, why not?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Sure. Yeah. Mother's Day. We just had Mother's Day, right?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
And I think for so many reasons, I feel overwhelming. Yeah. And I'm just tracking that.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
That it's starting to feel really tough. I'm glad I go home. I go home. I've gone home the last couple of years. And it's nice to be with my mom. And I know it makes them very happy. So I like doing that. But there is something about... Being there, that's hard. When I'm there, especially for moments, events, yearly events, the passage, like time starts to feel very oppressive.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
You know, we go to the same places and... You know, I'm going to this like mall that I went to when I was in high school and to see it be so much the same and also so different. It's just it feels it feels sad. It feels melancholic.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
And I can kind of Buddhism. I know. Yeah. And when I'm not there, I can detach from it when I'm here.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Yes. And I think I can just compartmentalize in a way. Like they're there and that's happening, but I'm not seeing... Day to day, like the little things that are changing. So it's kind of hard to be there, even though I'm glad I make that decision. That's a little hard. And then I also know being here would be hard because all of my friends have kids.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
And that is painful in its own way. And like, it just feels sort of like this day is hard.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
I think it's both. I think it's. It's so tricky because it's not like on a day to day, I think, of the pain of not having children. But on that day, I am away. I'm just very aware that I don't.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
And that it's not it wasn't. really a choice. It's just the way my life went, right?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Yeah. Unfolded in this way. I made decisions that took me in certain places. I, you know, I'm not married to my high school sweetheart. I didn't have one, you know, and yeah, I'm just like aware, like, oh, my life hasn't gone, didn't go that way.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
And yes, I can still make decisions that might lead to that, but it's, Different. It's like really different now. Me having a kid now is a real choice. It is not like, oh, I fell in love with this person and then maybe we'll have kids. That's the next step. It's I have to make.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Let's do it. It's real, real hard decision making.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
It kind of I don't. Yeah. And that's that's an annoying thing to have to think about.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
I don't know. Like it it it it makes me feel feel like, oh, I wish I had that. But does it make me feel like I'm going to take those steps to do it?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Yeah, I know. I don't know. Again, that's a question that I I have to ask that I'm kind of resentful that I have to ask resentful towards my towards life, I guess, because I know that if I was married and in a partnership, I would I would have kids.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Yeah. I mean, I assume it's the same feeling and the same thing. Like, I guess I have to figure out if I'm going to like just be with a person I don't want to be with or or take. Take those steps. In some ways, I mean, it's all hard. But I think for a man, if they have the means, I mean, a lot of women don't have the means to do any of this either.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
But your egg, like, you know, do retrievals and it's expensive.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
You have to remove the eggs in order to make the embryo to implant.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Oh, they can try it. While you're ovulating? Yeah, some people, that works for some people. It's pretty hard for it to take, but it works for some people. But then if that doesn't work, you spent money doing that and then you have to, you know, it's a lot. Right.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
But for a man, they can make the embryo, you know, they'll take the egg, the sperm, they'll make the embryo and then they'll implant it into a surrogate.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
I'm sure. Fertility is so expensive. Another thing that's like, that's a cost that it wouldn't be a cost. I mean, having kids is an insane cost in general. To your mental health. Yeah. Diapers. Diapers. Ding, ding, ding. That came up in Nick Kroll's fact.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Bad for business. Um, anyway, I just thought I would share it because I'm sure it's complicated for a lot of people.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Anyway. Well, that's it. All right. Love you. Love you.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
Yeah. Correct. And I can't have that. You could break up the marriage.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nick Kroll Returns
I could see your faces on the Kleenex box. How cute.