Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to Armchair Expert early and ad-free right now. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. Or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert. I'm Dan Shepard and I'm joined by the Duchess of Duluth. Hi. Hi. Our sweetest friend, Adam Scott, is here today. Yeah.
We discovered, which I would have not guessed. Yeah. I forget now. Seven. Seven. In the interview, we realized he was the seventh guest.
It does feel like it's been a long time since he's come on, but not that long.
No, I just didn't think he was that early. I felt like we were up and running for a while and I reached out.
Me too.
But yeah. So this is his second trip. Oh, this will be good because I remembered this. There's a point in the interview where I go, weren't you super into hip hop?
Yeah, you did.
And he's like, no.
Yes.
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Chapter 2: How does nostalgia shape our views on movies from the 80s and 90s?
Is there any other current... Words that piss me off. Yeah. Nomenclature that's rubbing you the wrong way.
I have too much of it to the degree that I'm not proud of myself. Too much of what? I am hypersensitive to words people are using in pop culture to the degree that I have to be a little self-reflective and go like, this is the kid in high school. Like, I'm still looking for reasons that all the popular kids have their code.
You feel left out. I got that.
I think that's why it's such an acute, because Monica will tell you, I've called out words like artisanal. The second artisanal, I said, you watch, that's going to be on a fucking Arby's sign. It wasn't on Arby's, but it was on Subway. My current one I'm tracking is atelier. This is the new word. Wait, I don't know this one. Great. You're getting it on the ground floor.
You do know it. It just means like a shop sign.
You don't know.
It just means a nice shop.
It's like an apothecary bubbled up a few years ago in the wrong places.
Yes. Atelier, which I learned this from Monica. This is like a small bespoke handcrafted luxury item. And it's the studio for it, which I'm fine with those Italians having their ateliers or French, whatever it is.
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of the 'call of the void'?
And I think movies in that era in particular were geared for us. Yeah. When I referenced Temple of Doom, that is my favorite movie. I was 11 when that came out. That and Goonies and E.T. I know it's kind of tired now because our generation has beat the nostalgia to death a little bit. Back to the Future, those movies, at least for me, they meant everything. Yeah. I ask myself that a lot.
Why did this stuff mean so much to me? At least for me, that whole period of time from 82 to 88, when I started getting interested in beer and just a social life. Hip hop. For me, it was like the dead.
Why do I think you had a crazy hip hop phase in high school? I didn't.
I think you're thinking of Macklemore. Yeah.
Oh, I don't know if I am. If I could count the amount of times.
You get that all the time, I know.
Oh my God. That's why we wanted to do this on video, to be honest with you. To see if Macklemore and I, because he's not here, so you don't know. But is he? But I think people would think it was Macklemore posing as Adam, probably.
You're right. It's a particularly potent period of time. Stay tuned for more Armchair Expert, if you dare. Mom and dad. Mom and mom. Dad and dad. Whatever. Parents. Are you about to spend five hours in the car with your beloved kids this holiday season? Driving to old granny's house? I'm setting the scene. I'm picturing screaming, fighting.
Back-to-back hours of the K-pop Demon Hunters soundtrack on repeat. Well, when your ears start to bleed, I have the perfect thing to keep you from... Rolling out of that moving vehicle, something for the whole family. He's filled with laughs. He's filled with rage. The OG Green Gronk, give it up for me, James Austin Johnson as the Grinch.
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Chapter 4: What insights does Adam Scott share about rewatching Severance?
Yes. Where we go through every episode of the first season, then we'll be doing a weekly thing for season two. I love that. And rewatching the show. I hadn't seen it in a long time and it's been three years. So we're encouraging people to rewatch the whole season.
I can't believe how much I forgot about it. And I can't believe how much I'm enjoying rewatching. I think more than I've ever enjoyed rewatching. There's a lot of it that feels like I'm watching it for the first time. Oh, that's great. I think because of the gap between seasons. Long time.
Chapter 5: How did Adam Scott feel about working with John Turturro and Christopher Walken?
But then also the density of it and the subtlety of it. And it's interesting watching it, knowing more about it. I think you get more from it. But anyways, all that to say, I didn't watch any of the new season because now I'm on episode four. Kristen went out of town. I already decided, fuck her. I'm going on without her, which is another rare. I don't do that.
That's a tough decision to make, whether or not you're going to be honest about it or rewatch those episodes pretending it's the first time.
Yeah.
Chapter 6: What challenges did Adam Scott face during the filming of Severance?
Three viewings before we. Yeah, that's right. Well, That's right. I guess my fear, because I love the show so much, is what do you do with the second season? Right. How long did that take for them to crack that? Also, Dan, is that the writer, creator's name? Yeah. The only thing he had ever written for before this was Lip Sync Battle. Yeah, man. Do you know this story?
He wrote for Lip Sync Battle. He sent the pilot for Severance as a writing sample to Red Hour.
Yeah. And Nikki Weinstock and Jackie Cohn at Red Hour read the script and thought it was great and brought it to Ben. And so, yeah, it was more of a sample like, hey.
Chapter 7: What are the implications of aging and personal sacrifice discussed towards the end?
Wow. I'm a writer. But they were like, what about this as an actual thing? And Dan was working at a door factory when that sample was sent to Red Hour.
Oh my God. Yeah. In what state? In California? Pure somewhere. Good for us. We're manufacturing doors. I thought that was more of a Wisconsin thing. Listen, without doors... What are you going to do?
He's just the coolest guy and brilliant, obviously. And he and Ben just started working on this and developing it. And Jackie and Nikki, I'm sure. Dan was kind of scooped up from nowhere, having no real credits. It's fun talking to him about...
the show and where it can go and stuff and he has it all in his head and also when he's thinking of something new it's really fun to hear him sort of go oh yeah that's cool and then little cul-de-sacs and roads he goes down he always takes an unexpected strange direction but also as far as the kind of language of lumen there is no one who can really crack it and write it like He can't.
It's a really particular thing that he invented and has a real direct line to is the strange phrasing and nomenclature of human and cure and this whole world.
It's really fun. How much of Ben's fingerprint is on it directorially? Because and I'll admit this, I had not seen Escape from Dannemore. Or I saw the first one. I don't know why I didn't continue. But we just watched it, I don't know, three weeks ago and fucking loved it. It's amazing. I just rewatched it too last week. And did you see the parallels? Yes. It's a similar thing.
You're like trapped in a world. You don't have your autonomy. You're trying to escape. I don't know. It's interesting.
Yes. I really zeroed in on this time watching Dan and Maura, how art figured into their lives. Because John Turturro and Christopher Walken's characters, particularly John Irv, his life is really connected to art and the paintings and the rules and all of the sort of culture of the world is really important to him.
And the guys in Dannemora, Benicio del Toro and Paul Dano's characters, you know, when you have very little, your sort of stimuli is really cut off.
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