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INTRODUCING: I Need You Guys with Gabe Liedman, Jenny Slate and Max Silvestri (w/ Sean Hayes)
06 Nov 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic of the podcast 'I Need You Guys'?
Hey Smarties, Sean Hayes here, and I can't wait to tell you all about the new show from everybody here at Smart List Media. It's called I Need You Guys, and it stars Jenny Slate, Gabe Liedman, and Max Silvestri. Oh my gosh, they're all hilarious people.
Jenny, Gabe, and Max are well-established actors and writers, but they've also been best friends for over 20 years, and now that they live in different cities and have kids and responsibilities, they need each other more than ever. Get it? This show is like their group chat come to life.
You get to eavesdrop as they ask each other for advice on existing in the world, remember crazy dinner parties they threw in their 20s, and make lots and lots of Jurassic Park jokes. Plus, every episode, they'll welcome a special guest into the group, people like Nick Kroll, John Mulaney, Michelle Buteau, Kate Berlant, and many more, including... me.
I'm going to play you my segment from this week's episode. We spent a lot of time goofing around and just maybe a little bit of time answering a listener question. This show is a ton of fun.
Chapter 2: How do Jenny, Gabe, and Max navigate their long-term friendship?
I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed doing it. Subscribe to I Need You Guys Now, new episodes every Tuesday. Find it anywhere you get your podcasts. Oh. You guys, this is so exciting. You're the best. Can we just say that?
You are the best.
Well, great. And that's all our time. That's all I have to tell you. Our time is over.
That's a wrap.
Sean, I don't know if you remember this, but we, me, you, and Gabe were working together on Q-Force in March 2020. Beautiful time in history. I don't know if you remember this. A powerful month. But I remember right before we had to go remote to make the show over some app called Zoom we'd never heard of, you were setting up
this like mic setup i think in this room and you're like i'm about to start this podcast with friends and we're setting it up so we don't have to be in the same space and i was like what are you wasting time on this for brother we're making an animated show for netflix you don't need to do this podcast buddy you're doing fine i know i
I know it really was. Miss Marlis was just born out of the like you guys. It's like we've been friends for 20, 25 years, something like that. And we're just like, we can't go anywhere. So let's just do this and hang out.
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Chapter 3: What humorous anecdotes do they share about past experiences?
And they were like, oh, well, let's instead of zooming and hanging out, let's do a podcast and hang out. Yeah. And then two people listen and then 10. And then it's like, well, a ball, some shampoo. Anybody?
Yeah.
Do you remember that? Do you remember those commercials? I told, they told two friends and they told two friends and so on and so on. It's an old commercial from the 1970s. It's shampoo, it's shampoo, it's shampoo.
Chapter 4: How do they handle unexpected attention from social media?
You know what commercial from the 80s literally made me want to eat the soap and still when I think about it.
Oh, I know exactly the one.
What do you think it was?
Mr. Bubble?
No.
Irish Spring.
Oh my God.
Wait, why?
It just seems so good.
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Chapter 5: What etiquette advice do they discuss regarding personal dilemmas?
I wish there was more stuff like that where they read it wrong. And then they're more playful with how reading upside down works, which actually doesn't reverse the letters.
Right. And we shoot it in the back of an ambulance because everything's backwards. On the front of an ambulance.
Well, one thing I was going to say is, so one of the things that I think is one of the cutest things about Gabe when he was a little boy. Actually, Gabe, I thought about you yesterday because my daughter was like, why don't I take the school bus? We live like four blocks from her school. I was like, I don't know. I can't even explain this to you right now. You're four. But you don't need to.
You don't need to. A bus is like a big car, Sean, that takes kids to school. But it can be for other stuff. I need pictures. I need pictures.
So the bus went by and what I remembered, which is one of my favorite stories from Gabe, is that when he was a little boy, he was on the school bus going down the center aisle of the school bus and he tripped super hard and like fell like all the way down and then got up and went...
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Chapter 6: What funny stories emerge from their childhood memories?
Super Grover. Yes.
That was what I considered to be my first joke.
Which Sesame Street joke?
Which Super what? Super Grover. He had like Grover on Sesame Street had like a super. Yeah. Super Grover. And what it was, was I was sitting in my seat. The bus braked super hard and every other child was totally fine. But for some reason, I like. When flying like a rocket up the aisle, landed at the front of the bus, everyone was looking at me like, is he okay?
I must have been like five and I had the wherewithal to be like super gross. And that was like a real triumph for me as a comedian. Did people laugh? People laughed.
And I came home and I bragged about it. And it was your first joke. And the reason why this is not just me having like an ADHD flare up ruining the entire podcast is that One of my first jokes was about a commercial that I saw on TV and I would go up to like adults for no reason and raise my hand and push my armpit out and go, raise your hand if you're sure. I remember that. I remember that.
I used to do shit like that all the time. Yeah. And I was like, everyone fucking loves me when I do that deodorant thing. I better like do this.
I used to do a bit in high school where I would have a backpack on and I would open it just enough so that when I reached to the top of the stairs, I would, on purpose, trip on the top of the stairs and all my books would go flying everywhere. And people would think that was the funniest thing. So I was voted senior most likely to trip at graduation.
So in the line of the 2,000 people graduating... I had people like, do it, do it. I'm like, I think I'm going to do it. So I got up there and he goes, Sean Hayes. And the dean hands me my diploma. And I tripped on purpose. Everybody stood up and clapped.
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Chapter 7: How do they address the topic of etiquette in public spaces?
You know what I mean?
Yeah, exactly. They sideswipe it, kind of spear it off the top of the thing is what you're thinking of.
Take that fucking podium out and the principal.
Yeah, I was basically the podium. Have you guys ever seen those videos where like, I think it's a thing more in the South where there's a day in like peewee football where the kids go up against their parents and they're just for tackling. It's like kind of like a tradition. Moms only, right? Yeah.
mostly moms yeah there are some dads but it's the kids are in full pads so they're like absolutely cushioned like uh sumo at a you know climbing gym stop they look like comically and then it's just parents exactly and the parents just themselves just smoke their kids like so it's just their kid running and they run and it just they explode but like nobody gets hurt and you just can sense the like catharsis and relief and being like the mom of a 12 year old boy just absolutely
laying him flat in the ground.
Wait, that is genius. I thought where I thought you were going was that the kids were going to do it, that the parents were all wrapped up and the kids get to tackle the parents.
You would think all the kids have it in their head that they're like, I'm going to be the one that can take my own dad down. Like I'm actually like, I do football. He's an old man. And then every single one gets smoked by the parents because they're huge, you know? Jenny, I feel like we should get Sean's input on your conundrum this week.
I don't know if you heard some of it as you were coming in, Sean. I just heard the tail end.
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Chapter 8: What closing thoughts do they share about their experiences and future?
And he's like giving her the money. But underneath the image of me saying money, please, a moving image, it said illegal immigrants being like money, please. And then under Henry, it said Democrats. And I was like,
Well, you know what to do, which is nothing. You don't do anything. You just let it go. And I know because you feel when you're the person that the thing that is being exploited for whatever, for a missed message or whatever, and you're the kind of face of it, you can't help but internalize how personal it makes you feel.
But know that everybody on the outside understands that this is unfortunately the norm and has nothing to do with you. You were just a pawn in their messaging. And I think even Republicans, even Democrats, I think everybody goes, oh, it has nothing to do with Jenny or.
Oh, for sure.
Henry. Right. You know, but.
Well, Henry.
But I know it's weird.
No, I'm just kidding. The nicest man in the world. The nicest. Oh, God, I love him.
I love him.
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