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RE-RELEASE: Adam Sandler | SmartLess

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "RE-RELEASE: Adam Sandler | SmartLess", an episode of SmartLess published December 11, 2025 (52 min, about 11,336 words). It mentions 34 people, works and ideas, including Late Show with David Letterman, Robert Smigel, Jackie Sandler, Baby Yoda, Tommy Boy.

What this episode is about

In this episode, Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, and Sean Hayes engage in a lighthearted conversation with Adam Sandler, blending humor with personal anecdotes. They discuss various topics, including Sandler's career, his latest projects, and playful banter about pop culture references, such as Baby Yoda and the challenges of adulthood.

Key takeaways

  • Podcasts are like mystery boxes; surprise guests spice up even the simplest chats.
  • Jason Baitman's hair defies age, but can it get him adult-level respect?
  • Adam Sandler's beard: pandemic-born, stress-grown—a comedic take on 'beard goals.'
  • Intermittent fasting fails hilariously when you choose midnight as mealtime.
  • 'Ice cream diets' fail—unless you're an Arnett, then laugh off the consequences.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 5:00: Baby Yoda
  2. – 15:00: Anthony Quinn, Barry Moss, Bill Cosby, Colin Quinn
  3. – 20:00: Chicago Improv, Dana Gould, Jim Downey, Marci Klein
  4. – 25:00: It's Your Move, Silver Spoons
  5. – 30:00: Tommy Boy, Family Ties, Problem Child
  6. – 35:00: Matt LeBlanc
  7. – 40:00: Hubie Halloween, Tom Warner
  8. – 50:00: Wall-E

Notable quotes from "RE-RELEASE: Adam Sandler | SmartLess"

  • It's a Baby Yoda. And there's a message on here.
    about Baby Yoda · at
  • And being able to just relax a little more. But it took a while. Like Colin, you guys know Colin Quinn, right?
    about Colin Quinn · at
  • But he has to go through musical theater classes. And so, when I saw you do Opera Man for the first time, which is one of the funniest characters I've ever seen, I was Holy […
    about Opera Man · at
  • My first thing I ever did was Showtime at the Apollo. I did standup. I did Wow.
    about Showtime at the Apollo · at
  • There's a young kid who's funny. But when I was young, I went to school with Anthony Quinn's son, Lorenzo. He was in my acting class and he told Bill Cosby about me and Wow.
    about Anthony Quinn · at
  • Chicago. Chicago. I when I auditioned it was me and Chris Rock and Dana Gould and a couple other guys at Second City or at the Chicago Improv.
    about Dana Gould · at
  • Have David and Rob. We don't need any more of that, and so Smiggel and Jim Downey I heard would st stand out for me a little bit.
    about Jim Downey · at
  • Timur early when we were on Saturday Night Live and I gave it to Lauren and Lauren was already doing Tommy Boy with Chris and so funny. So I Well, yeah, that's awesome. And he's he was it was the first time me and Chris.
    about Tommy Boy · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Robert Smigel — Person · 6 mentions
  • Jackie Sandler — Person · 4 mentions
  • Colin Quinn — Person · 1 mention · first at
  • Anthony Quinn — Person · 1 mention · first at
  • Bill Cosby — Person · 1 mention · first at
    When I was young, I went to school with Anthony Quinn's son, Lorenzo. He was in my acting class and he told Bill Cosby about me and Wow.
  • Barry Moss — Person · 1 mention · first at
    And I got an introduction to the casting agent over there whose name was Barry Moss. Do you guys remember Barry Moss?
  • Dana Gould — Person · 1 mention · first at
  • Marci Klein — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Yeah. And then I remember Lauren was there and Smeiggel, Robert Smeiggel was there and Marcy Klein and a couple of others and Chris Rock got it immediately after the show. And…
  • Jim Downey — Person · 1 mention · first at
  • Matt LeBlanc — Person · 1 mention · first at
    With Matt Leblanc. And they with the monkey. And they were Do that. That's more like Billy Madison. I said, I think let me do I'll do that one after I do the golf one. Is that.
  • Tom Warner — Person · 1 mention · first at
  • Wall-E — Person · 1 mention · first at
    You were tight with Wall-E, right? Was doing I know Wall-E. He just texted me out of the blue the other day. He's such a guy.
  • Biff Henderson — Person · 1 mention
  • Bob Simonds — Person · 1 mention
  • Lorenzo Quinn — Person · 1 mention
  • Malcolm-Jamal Warner — Person · 1 mention
  • Norm Macdonald — Person · 1 mention
  • Safdie brothers — Person · 1 mention

Books & papers

Companies & orgs

  • Late Show with David Letterman — Company · 9 mentions
  • Showtime at the Apollo — Company · 1 mention · first at
  • Chicago Improv — Company · 1 mention · first at
    A couple other guys at Second City or at the Chicago Improv.
  • It's Your Move — Company · 1 mention · first at
    Do you remember Jason's show? He had that show It's Your Move. Did you ever see that? It was like a spin-off of Silver Spoons.
  • Silver Spoons — Company · 1 mention · first at
    That show It's Your Move. Did you ever see that? It was like a spin-off of Silver Spoons.
  • Family Ties — Company · 1 mention · first at
    To say a couple words and I said you know when I was growing up I remember watching Family Ties and seeing Justine Baitman and thinking man I wonder if she's got a brother. That's a good one man.
  • Brillstein-Grey Entertainment — Company · 1 mention
  • Valerie (TV series) — Company · 1 mention

Products & tech

Concepts & topics

Places & events

Full transcript with timestamps

Hello listener. This is Jason Baitman along with Will Arnett and Sean Hayes for the podcast called Smartless. If that's a place you're looking for, you found it. Congratulations. It's not a real high concept podcast. Uh, one person invites a guest, the other two don't know who that guest is, and then we chat. Here we go. Smart. Smart glass.

Jason, you missed this last time. Look what I got. That's a Baby Yoda. It's a Baby Yoda. And there's a message on here.

Is that from the Mandalorian show? Yeah, Mandalorian. This is from my friend Michael Cohen and the Cohen family. Not that Michael Cohen, but look. And he recorded this. Welcome to Smartless, the best podcast in the world with my dear friend Sean Hayes, Jason Baitman, and William Arnett.

He went William. I like that he went William. Yeah. And Baby Yoda said that. So, he's the voice of Baby Yoda.

Um, yeah. Could you not tell? He sounds Latin is I didn't know Baby Yoda. Actually, he is.

Baby Yoda is Latin, huh? I got to watch that show. I'm developing a new show. It's Baby Yoda Nanny. And it's a nanny who works who looks after her.

No, it's just the doll that you leave with your kids and tell them they're watching them.

Yeah. Um, it should be noted Jason's haircut. Have you commented on good finally?

It looks good, right? Well, this is Guys, listen. This is just rolled right out of bed.

Such a thick head of hair. I know. It's so thick. But it's a very boyish look he's got going right now, isn't it?

Very boyish. I know. I'm trying to get respect as an adult, but that's why sometimes I try to grow up my facial hair, but that takes

you push. It cost me a year actually to grow that because you're just saying to the world, "Hey, I'm a man [snorts and clears throat]

and respect. I'm a man. Deal with it." All right. So, speaking of men. Sure. Um, we have a man today.

Uhhuh. [clears throat] This is a funny man, uh, family man. And for the next hour, he's a smartless man. Ladies and gentlemen, Adam Sandler.

Adam Sandler. The one and only. I did the beard. I'm sorry about this. Oh, look at Now that's a man. Look at the beard. Gross. It's gross. Good to see you all.

You're moving dime bags or something with a beard like that. Wow. It It started off uh early in the pandemic and I just kept going because I gained a lot. So, I was covering my neck.

You gained a lot of weight of knowledge. Of knowledge. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of weight.

But wait, I just read a report yesterday that said belly fat is now officially medically proven to lessen your life if you have a lot of belly fat. No matter how much other fat you have. Let's see it Sean.

Let's see it, Sean. And scream. You guys don't like cookies? Once a week, he brings it out.

There it is. The bagel. I don't know who ate the cookies. What' you call it? The bagel.

The bagel. Yeah. Squeeze the belly button together. Make a circle. And you Adam, I sometimes I say to my husband, I'll switch I'll pucker this up. I'll go, "Fuck that belly. [ __ ] that."

That makes sense. It looks good. All right. So, Adam, yeah. Do you have a plan aside from pushing um like a bench press or something like that? What's your plan? Is it going to be diet? Is it going to be exercise?

Well, this is what I'm doing and I just kind of started this. So, at the beginning of the pandemic, my buddy

was doing the eight hours a day you eat thing, the intermittent fasting. Yeah, I do that too. I like that.

So, so I was doing that during the pandemic, but I was starting eating at like 5 in the afternoon. So, I was going deep into the night and and then I'd wake up kind of thick. So, then uh then I

You got some bad information. I I thought he I said to him, "Anytime" and he said, "Yeah, any you picked the hour." So, I did it.

He he responded while chewing, I think. He looks great. But, uh I So, anyways, I started again. Uh I just I'm trying to calm down and I'm doing 1:00 in the afternoon till around 7 7:30 I quit. And then you're then you're done chewing until the next morning or afternoon.

Yeah, I tr until the next 1:00 rolls around. Oh, buddy, that's so good. That's a good one. But I eat a lot during the 6 and 1/2 hours.

It doesn't work for my body. It doesn't work for me. I tried doing that. I was on a strictly ice cream diet, but

yeah, you got to try it longer than a couple of days. Will, you know. What do you do, Will? You look good.

Well, thank you. I I because I like I said, I've been doing the walk and I've been working out and I've got this real kind of what what I refer to as my jail house gym in my garage now. Jason's seen it. It's a disaster. But

but there's weights and like homemade stuff you did. Oh, there's weights and then there's like baby carriages and stuff. There just crap everywhere. It really looks like a

I have a question, Adam. How long have you been flying a a spacecraft? Does that look like that?

Looks like a control center. This is in my house, fellas. I just got to Philadelphia.

Oh, wow. Wait, what are those? Why do you have He's got some Nikes in a plastic box.

Those are LeBron James shoes. The man who owns this house knows LeBron. I So, do you know the man in the house?

I don't. I haven't met him yet. He's pandemic. So, you rent it. He leaves. Oh, you're renting? I see.

Wow. Don't know. I just got here two days ago. But he's left those shoes there for people to admire that are renters.

I think he was just letting me know that I'm not the only shoe guy, famous person that he knows.

Yeah, exactly. Wait a second. Wait a second. I Adam, I have to ask you this because I've never brought it up. I've only met you a handful of times over the years. We don't know each other that well. I I have a tremendous amount of respect for you and I think that you're awesome and hilarious.

Same thing. And I I sounds like something really insulting is about to happen. No, no, no, no. One of the one of the funniest things I've ever witnessed, and I've and I've quoted this a thousand times, maybe more, um is years ago you were on Letterman.

Yeah. And he said to you, I don't tell me if you remember this. He said to you, you came on Letterman and you said, you know, Dave, I he said, "How you doing?" You said, 'You know, I'm I'm doing okay, but last year I said something and you said to me, "What are you, an idiot?" And you really burned me and I was thinking about it all year. Just I wish I'd had a better comeback. So, I've been thinking I finally have a good comeback. [clears throat] And he said, "Okay." You said, "So, ask me again." So, letter says to you, "What are you, an idiot?"

And you said, "No, are you?" Yeah. Do you remember that? I kind of do. Yeah. Yeah.

It was one of my f I just It was such a It really got me. I I'm not kidding. I've repeated it 1500 times.

That's amazing. I used to get so nervous on Letterman. You guys all did Letterman.

Blackout. Yeah. Blackout nerves. That was the one guy that got you nervous, right? Yeah. I get blackout.

Yeah, for sure. Every talk show. Letterman just from growing up in high school and and thinking he was the best of them all.

Yeah, for sure. I used to be on the side of that stage and Biff would like go, "Okay, okay, it's coming." And I'd start going, "Holy shit." Like my whole head would spin and I'd feel like I was going to faint the whole time walking out and then you'd see Dave in person. You're like, "Oh my god, there he is." And it was so

overwhelming. Now, does that exist for you at all anymore? I mean, you put yourself in the wings right now about to go on for a talk show like tomorrow.

Yeah. Do you like You can't shake that. It's always going to be a part of you, right? You have you just learned how to manage it?

Not that great. I I my whole career from starting I did stand up when I was 17 and stuff and and I had that same weird thing where I wish I never took the gig right before I start panicking and spinning. I forget all my lines. Uh I notice everyone else is like laughing and having a good time. I'm like, "Oh my god, everyone else is ready." And and then uh then rare occasions I'll go to myself in the daytime. I'll go, "Don't do that. Don't don't do do that thing where you panic. Just just overcome that now. Get over that.

And then don't you question yourself like why why because I I go through the exact same thing and I'm like why are we why do I why did I choose this?

I know we all wonder. We're always like why did you choose this? Believe me, it comes up a lot.

That's a good one. Yeah. Stick around. Will's got like three of them. No, but but but it's a good point. Like Adam, I think what's cool is you actually kind of sometimes you use your nerves. You can see it even in an instance like that. You use it to your advantage and it makes you very um accessible because you're not trying to put on you're not a different character as you are who you are. You're very authentic in that way which is great. Like yeah, you're [ __ ] nervous cuz you're on Letterman. You you should be.

I'm nervous. But you weren't you weren't nervous for this [ __ ] today. I was nervous. Sure I was. I mean I I I liked it though. I listened to the episodes. They're all great.

Come on. It's excellent. And oh, I was psyched to be here. And I and uh I don't know this. I'm the same way as you guys. I'm the same way of every move you make, you go, didn't I already prove myself, dude? Why the hell am I trying to prove myself again? What the [ __ ] am I here?

Exactly. Here we go again. Yeah, exactly. The only thing that can happen is it can go bad. You know, but that quality that Will's talking about that you have that's so that's so personable and it's so kind and so authentic and so honest and so human, has it always been like that or or do you think that it's gotten even better now that you are incredibly successful and some of the ease has come into your life because you've basically won. Have you gotten even nicer or you know like some people I'm sure you've worked with as I have people actually get mean and entitled when they get successful. You've got seem to have gone the other way.

Yeah. And you guys all seem the same also. It's like I had a I think when I was young I didn't know what I was doing as a comedian. I didn't know what I was doing as an actor. I was a little uh all over the place. I think I was a little more aggressive back then because I I I guess I wanted this so bad, you know, I wanted to work or I wanted whatever the hell I wanted. And I I probably was mad at myself uh for not being great. I was a little more aggressive in my early 20s and then I started going by the time I was like 28, 30, I started calming down and being able to just relax a little more. But it took a while. Like Colin, you guys know Colin Quinn, right?

Oh, yeah. Comedian. [clears throat] Hilarious. I think he's one of the greatest comedians and and um he kind of when I went to NYU used to MC the shows and he would talk to me after my my shows. I think the reason they used to hire me is I used to bring a crowd. So they even though I wasn't that good, there was this place called the Paper Moon and I used to bring a crowd. So they used to uh from NYU and Colin used to say, "You're so much funnier hanging out when when we're talking in the daytime. you just you're doing something weird up to you. You're not really being yourself. And and I and I used to try to go, okay, I got to be more myself. And then I would just panic right away and start doing something else. I just didn't I guess I I wasn't comfortable with being myself. And then took a while to get to sit in it and just be okay with not getting a laugh and and but plowing through and that

kind of stuff. Did you go to NYU for drama or for acting or Yeah. Yeah, I went to Strawburg.

Same. Yeah. Okay. So, I have a godson who's also going to New York right now to Tish and he not only has to go through drama classes and comedy and all that stuff, but he he has to go through musical theater classes. And so, when I saw you do Opera Man for the first time, which is one of the funniest characters I've ever seen, I was like, "Holy [ __ ] Adam Sandler can really sing." And then you would bring out the guitar and sing like it's always hilarious. So, please tell me you did musical theater in college because in my mind that would be one of the funniest things in the world.

Man, I I auditioned for everything at NYU. I didn't get anything. You didn't. Oh, I want to see you do Technicolor Dream Coat

or something. I did as a kid though. I was in Oliver. I was in Oliver. I did uh I played uh they named a guy. I didn't really There wasn't really I had two lines and they said, "You're I think Charlie Bates." They said, "You're Charlie Bates." And I was like, "Yeah, I'm Charlie Bates." I kind of wanted to be the Dodger, right? And they were like, "Well, you're not him. You're Charlie Bates." I was like, "Oh god, you be a great Dodger."

I thought so, too. You got to pick a pocket or two, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

How about uh Smitty on the Cosby Show? Was that your first That's not your first role.

My first thing I ever did was Showtime at the Apollo. I did standup. I did um Wow.

Five Minutes. Yeah. And I And I wasn't wasn't that great, but I I got I Tell me like the first first joke you ever told or And if you'd like, I could tell you mine.

Okay. Well, the one that worked for me back then uh was it was something I heard my father say to my mother. Uh but I and I used it. I pretended it happened to me. I said I was driving up here in a cab and the driver killed a dog on the way. Said he didn't hit the dog with a car. He got out and stabbed it. That was my big that was my guaranteed lap. And and that happened because my mother my mother was they were in the car and my mother goes the man uh uh my father said this guy killed a dog uh driving the other day. My mother goes what happened? He hit it and he goes no he stabbed at you. And so I went, "Oh god, that's a pretty good one." What's yours, Sean?

Oh, I was terrible. I was nowhere near as talented or funny as you are. I was horrible. These guys know the one that I won't repeat. But the other one was um and it's long so you can't it's like it's like 20 seconds long. Okay. So which is long for a joke. So I would go you know uh they say on Mars the atmosphere is like 95% carbon dioxide and 5% oxygen. So I imagine one day when we live there we'll breathe something like this. [sighs]

And they didn't laugh at that. Nobody laughed. I I love crying. I love crying. That's solid.

Did you hold your finger up when you did it? I liked it, too. That's a good one.

Adam, what about this uh uh discovered by comedian Dennis Miller thing? Did that happen at the Apollo? I can't imagine.

Uh you know what it was? So, I did stand up when I went to NYU. And then Dennis didn't really discover me. He just told Lauren Michaels about me. He said there's a young kid who's funny. But when I was young, I went to school with Anthony Quinn's son, Lorenzo. He he was in my acting class and he told Bill Cosby about me and Wow.

And I got an introduction to the casting agent over there whose name was Barry Moss. Do you guys remember Barry Moss? He used to cast a lot of stuff back in the day,

right? So he he got me an audition and I played Smitty on four episodes while I was going to NYU. That was my my first

and that was big probably. I mean Cosby Show was enormous. It was the biggest show on the planet.

It was incredible. And that's where I developed the whole spinning thing right before going on. I was I was spinning like oh my god I got six lines. I I'm going to choke so badly. And uh I don't know. I became friends with Malcolm though. He used to calm me down. He'd be like, "You got this, man."

Yeah. He's such a good guy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. So then, how long after that did SNL happen? How old were you when that happened?

SNL uh happened when I was 23. I moved out to uh I graduated NYU and then I moved to LA and and I was living out in Van Eyes and then uh

Beautiful, gorgeous. Yeah. Right on the water. Beautiful. And I I lived with four guys from uh from uh uh NYU also. And then um somehow I got Saturday Night Live and moved back.

Well, did you go and audition in LA? Did Lauren come out? Chicago. Chicago. I when I auditioned it was me and Chris Rock and Dana Gould and a couple other guys

at Second City or at the Chicago Improv. Oh, at Chicago Improv. Okay. Yeah. And and then I remember Lauren was there and Smeiggel, Robert Smeiggel was there and Marcy Klein and a couple of others and Chris Rock got it immediately after after the show. And me and Rock know each other since we're like 17 also. And and so I saw Lauren run over to Rock and I was like, "Oh man, okay, he's got it. I'm out." And uh and then I I was flying home and no one talked to me and I was flying home and remember on the planes you used to put a credit card in. It was like 25 bucks a minute and stuff.

Yeah. Right. So I I was scared to use that cuz I I I knew my father would kill me for wasting money, but I was just flying and flying and I was like uh I got to call my agent, man. So I put the credit card in and and uh he called and I said, "Did they say anything? They liked you. They thought you some of your writing was good. I said, "Oh, okay." And what's that mean? They were like, "Well, they want maybe want you as a writer." And I said, "What do you mean?" I I think I was like insane. And I was like, "I want to be a but I want to be a star." And they were like,

"I love the guy next to you on the plane probably." I was just like, "Oh boy." Yeah. This guy wants to be a star.

Cuz you can't talk quietly on a plane, right? But I WANT TO BE A STAR. GET IN LINE, BUDDY. Get in line. We all knew.

Yeah, man. I don't know. So, eventually I got got hired as a writer. A writer for what, like a year and then and then on camera?

Yeah, I did. It was thing uh called writer feature player and and and me and Spade and Schneider had that. And uh and you would do the I'm sure you you guys all know this stuff, but you would write write for everyone else and then give yourself a line like as a delivery guy and try to get on and score and you know and you'd score after 10 shows they started going, "All right, that guy's okay. I let's let's give him a couple months."

Right. Gotcha. Used to see that a lot with JB's move. He would always get himself into sketches.

Oh yeah. Always see JB on there and you'd be like, "Oh yeah, JB." But how cool. You you go for your your audition and it's there with Lauren and Marcy of course and Smiggle and you couldn't have known of course that that would become this like lifelong partnership. You I mean how incred how wild right when you look back at that moment.

Yeah, sure man. I mean Smeiggel was in fact I heard later that Smiggle was kind of in my court that he was going that that one kid was funny. He I I think we need that on the show. Somebody young and they were like, "Well, we already have David and Rob. We don't need any more of that, you know, and so Smiggel and Jim Downey I heard would would st stand stand out for me a little bit." And uh Lauren liked me. He he thought I was good. He just didn't know what to do with me. I was I I wasn't easy to digest. I was mumbling up there and I was a nervous wreck and I'm hostile. Like I used to be when somebody heckled me, I used to like yell at them and not say anything funny about them.

No one is funnier getting pissed off than you. Oh well, I I I turned it into something good. But in the beginning, I used to just be psychotic and get like challenge people to something like curse at them. And

see the way he just dropped his face right then. It just got like deadly [ __ ] serious. I love like there there's just there's no middle with you. Like he's either super sweet and like I can't get out of my way and then just drop the gloves and I'm going to [ __ ] kill you. I love those swings you.

I don't even know how that happened. I just because I'm I don't want to fight anybody. I'd get I probably get killed, but I was always ready to go.

Have you been in a lot of fights as a kid or when I was a kid? When I was a kid now, I would literally just run so fast. Anytime I feel it coming, I start my heart's pounding through my chest and I'm like, "Oh [ __ ] I got to get out of here." But back then, back as a kid, yeah, I'm sure you guys did the same.

It doesn't hurt as much to get hit when you're little. I like the idea that Lauren's going like, "H, I guess we could use a nervous mumbler."

Now, what about Is it true that they fired you and Farley in '95, or is that overstated?

No. No. I mean, I what happened was it was kind of the end of it. People were we were repeating ourselves. I'm sure the there was a new guy running NBC. He didn't he didn't like the young guys that much. He didn't like us. I think he didn't like Norm McDonald and and he kept saying we got to get rid of them that nobody likes them. And uh Lauren was standing up for us saying uh trying to defend us and kept us on a while. And then I got a call from my manager. You know, everyone at Burlstein Grey kind of represented every guy on the show and and woman on the show. So I uh I got, "Hey, maybe it's time to move on to me."

kind of call. And I was like, "I don't know, man. I I think maybe I'll do another year or something." They were like, "Yeah, but maybe you should move on." I was like, "Nah, I want to stay. I think I'll stay." And they kept going, "I think it's time to move on." I was like, "Do I have to move on?" They were like, "It's good if you move on." I was like, "Oh, okay. Okay, now I got you. All right, I'm moving on then." So, it was kind of like a fake quit, fake try to get up, beat them into firing me.

That was like me at every high school I went to. At the end, I swear to God. Really? You got kicked out? I'm like, "No, I didn't get kicked out. We just uh they just asked me not to return."

What did you do to get in trouble growing up? I did all this stupid stuff. if I was, you know, smoking cigarettes in the I grew up in Canada, so there were a lot of woods to escape to. So, I was always out there like, you know, drinking airplane bottles and and uh smoking butts and all. I was just but also was I was a wise ass. I was like

I said to my dad actually um once I was such a wise ass. And of course, the worse the infraction or the bigger the joke that you can make and especially at the teacher's expense, the bigger the laugh you'd get from the audience or as I'd call my classmates. And so I would [ __ ] around and they get really mad. And years later, I remember my dad was was out here and and and I just built this house and it was like everything. And my dad was like, "Wow, this house is beautiful." And I said, "Yeah, who knew that [ __ ] around could pay off, huh?"

And he finally had to admit like, "Yeah, you're kind of right." Cuz that was a pain in the ass. You know what I mean? Like my poor dad.

Ah, sure. Sure, man. You figure out how to channel it. Yeah. All right. So then were things sort of set up in a way where transitioning out of that show and into other possible sources of of employment were were kind of set up like were you feeling confident? Um did you go right into was it Happy Gilmore was was uh first out of there.

I think I did uh Billy Madison when I was on the show by the way when I got fired I was confident until I got fired and then I was like oh no.

Yeah that's the way that works right. I kept while I was there going, "These guys don't get it." What I got, man, they don't understand. And then right when they were like, "Yeah, go do it on your own." Then I was like, "Holy shit." First of all, you you're humiliated that people don't want you. And and you got to tell people like, "Uh, yeah, I'm not on the show." And they're looking you in the eyes going, "You got fired." And you're like, "No, you know, you're making up shit."

But it's like doing what we do, you're effectively getting fired at the end of every single job. you have to go find another job. And if you're having a really good year as an actor, you get fired like six or seven times, you know, like you've got six or seven and you have like there's no guarantee. There's no diploma that you can kind of

True, man. It's job interview after job interview and it's it's I remember buying the attitude that I realized I should have been renting when, you know, things kind of dried up and I was really confident until they just didn't want me anymore. And it's like, well, now you got to build up a whole ego and and and and coping mechanism to get yourself confident that's not reliant on employment. That's really hard to do.

Yeah. Oh, God. Yeah. Sitting the bench and and being shook up, I'll tell you. And no, no kidding. I loved you when I was a kid. I thought you were incredible. I swear to God, I thought you were cool as [ __ ] You guys, too.

Yeah. I thought you I wanted to look like you. I wanted to [ __ ] be like cool and calm and funny like that. And I and uh I always thought you were awesome. I'm not lying to you. And I loved your sister, too.

Thank you. Do you remember Jason's show? He had that show It's Your Move. Did you ever see that? It was like a spin-off of Silver Spoons.

I think so. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think so. But I think I I knew him more more as val or Valerie. Yeah. Yeah. when Jason when Jason got his star on the on the walk of fame out here in Hollywood because he's a big Hollywood guy and and so when he was in Hollywood where because he's a liberal elite and and so anyway so I get up and they asked me he asked me to say a couple words and I said you know when I was growing up I remember watching Family Ties and seeing Justine Baitman and thinking man I wonder if she's got a brother.

That's a good one man. But I loved them. I we felt the same way. This comes up all the time. We used to always look at Jason be like, "Oh, man. That guy's

cuz he was a smartass. He was confident. He had great hair. Oh, I was so confident. I thought I was such hot shit." And then the phone stopped ringing and I did not know what to do.

My 20s was a whole regroup. I just had to build it back up from zero. Jason and I had lunch like decades ago at the uh Chateau Marmmo, which houses the liberal elite.

That's right. And Jason said to me, I don't know if you remember this, Jason. You said to me, we were just talking about careers and whatever and the ups and downs and you said,"None of it is up to you." None of this is up to you.

Yeah. Yeah. To try and control things that are out of your control. It's not a meritocracy, you know, like in sports, like if you're a 300 hitter, you're guaranteed employment in in in acting or any form of, pardon the term, art, it's so subjective. You can't you can't rely on well I'm the best at singing or the best at painting or it doesn't matter the best in whose eye you know.

And then so Adam so kind of taking that like one of the things that I think is really awesome about what you've you've done. You've had incredible success but is is you know I I've tried to especially in the last couple years I don't want my work to define who I am as a person or how happy I am. It's about family and I know you're a really big family guy. You got a lot of really close friends

and even in your work, you do stuff that you want to do and you do stuff cuz you know it's going to take time and then you know that it's you know it cuts into school and all that kind of stuff and it feels like you gear everything towards making it fit your life and making sure that you're happy and your happiness you're truly not a Hollywood guy. I can say that. And and you don't define yourself by it, right? I kind of, you know, I lucked into having the the career of getting to write stuff and get to do it. And not everybody has that luxury. I'm sure more people would do what I'm doing if they could just, you know, just say to the head of a company, hey, let me do it in October because it's, you know, I got a lot of luck on my side,

right? But you earned that position. You you really have. I got that after a while. After a while, I just

Yeah. Let me let me really quick ask you something about that and then back to what Will was saying because when you were younger and you broke into film for the first time and how much of that success was like you know uh agent business driven and you were just along for the ride and how much of it was self-generated and kind of ambitiously coming directly from you?

I was ambitious in a weird way. I just I always kind of got in the beginning hey yeah maybe maybe next time they would hire somebody else when I would do auditions and stuff. I I I remember auditioning for uh a few movies as a kid when when I was like 21 22 and they would always pick somebody else and I was like god damn these guys don't get it man and uh I was such an [ __ ] you know and uh whoever they picked I would be like oh yeah okay man like I was hostile yeah what a mistake

and then I I I wrote Billy Madison with Timur early when we were on Saturday Night Live and I gave it to to Lauren and Lauren was already doing Tommy Boy with Chris and so funny. So I

Well, yeah, that's awesome. And he's he was it was the first time me and Chris had an either or kind of thing and Lawrence said, "We're doing Tommy Boy. We can't do Billy Madison." Actually, Tommy Boy used to be called Billy III. It was two Billy movies. Yeah, they were like two the two Billy movies and we would look at each other like who's going to pick and

oh wow and they and they picked um you know Tommy boy and and I was going oh man oh man I guess that's done we'll write another one he and then like I was in this movie called Airheads and the producer of that one called me like five months later he's like I read this script you and her wrote called uh Billy Madison do you want to do that and I said yeah yeah why do you He's like, "I could get that done for you for like $6 million budget." I was like, I was like, "I get $6 million." He goes, "No, not not you." I didn't know what any of that [ __ ] meant, but uh but he got it uh [ __ ] he did Problem Child at Universal, which was a lowbudget movie and made a lot of money. So, they said, "Get some more of those kind of things." So, somehow Bob Simons got this movie. I asked Lauren, I said, "No, that movie you said I uh you didn't want to do. Is it okay if I do it with this other guy?" He's like, "Do anything you

want?" So, uh, I I did Billy Madison. And then that kind of got me going. I mean, I remember when I first did that, every thing that they talked to me about doing after that was doing my goofy voice and and being very, you know, the same Billy Madison again. And then I had that Happy Gilmore thing that me and Hurley, he wrote and they were trying to talk me out of that. They were saying there was a movie called Ed uh uh with

Woody the Monkey, you know. No, no, no. That's Ed TV. It's the one with um um Matt Matt Matt Leblanc. And uh and they with the monkey. And they were like, "Do that." That's more like Billy Madison. I said, "I think let me do uh I'll do that one after uh I do the golf one. Is that okay?" And they were like, "No." And so they had to make a stand and say, "No, no, no. We got to do this Happy Gilmore movie." And uh,

by the way, two of the funniest movies ever. No kidding. A hugely successful. [ __ ]

Thanks. I mean, they're good. I'm psyched that that's in my They go down in history as with all the other great comedy movies. I mean, that's kind of cool.

But then the success was so one after the other after the other. Was there was was there a strategic uh consideration when Punch Drunk Love came about? Was or was that more of a re did did Paul Thomas Anderson come to you and only in hindsight do you see it as a great strategic sort of balancing thing offsetting the goofiness or did you think ahead and kind of seek out something that might counterbalance all that?

That was all luck. I mean, in my head, Will, you you did Strawber, right? So, I I I I I I thought I was good at acting. I was like, "Wow, I'm going to surprise somebody someday and really act, but it wasn't on on my mind." I kind of liked Eddie Murphy and I wanted that kind of career and I just wanted to be a comedian. And then, um I was doing uh uh I think Little Little Nikki or something like that or Yeah, something like that. And um and Paul was friends with Tom Cruz. They did Magnolia together. And I I met Tom Cruz when Nicole Kimman hosted SNL. You know how you get to meet everybody cuz SNL? So I met Cruz and I my god I Cruz had a Yankee hat on like dipped down low and he looked up and he goes, "Hey man," I was like in love with him like oh my god I'm in love with Tom Cruz. And uh

that makes two of us. Of course. Anyways, uh Tom called me up. I'm on my set. He goes, "Hey, my friend uh would I'm doing a movie with my friend Paul. He's a great director and he he's interested in doing a movie with you. Can I put him on the phone?" Wow.

And I said, "Yeah, yeah, sure, man." And he gets on and Paul was very nice and he was going, "Hey, I loved Billy Madison." And I go, "Okay, man. Thanks." I didn't know who he was. And he's like, "And I just love your movies and your albums." And I like, "Okay, cool, man."

"Okay, creep." Yeah. I didn't know what he was talking about. He's like, "Is that?" He goes, "Is it okay if I write you a movie?"

I said, "You can do whatever you want, man. That's that's great." Just stay away from my house.

But he was he was sweet. I can tell he was funny. But that's like Picasso saying, "Is it okay if I paint you a painting?" Right.

Yeah, I know. It was the luckiest thing. And then and honest to God uh fellas, I I was it was like 11:00 in the morning and I had nothing to do and Magnolia just came out and I said, "I think that's that kid's movie."

Wow. Uh Paul, I'm going to go see that. And I went alone and I was in the front row. It was sold out with all real film kind of people. And I was looking up at it and I was going I was [ __ ] terrified. I was like, "Oh, this guy's [ __ ] better than me, man. I don't want to [ __ ] be in this this I'm going to ruin his movie. Whatever the [ __ ] You know, I was like, "Holy shit." And uh and I called him up and on the way home I was like, "Holy [ __ ] I JUST SAW YOUR MOVIE." He's like, "Yeah, yeah." I was like, "Fucking the frogs and the Holy shit." I I was so excited about everybody and I was like, "Oh, [ __ ] MAN. SO, YOU'RE WRITING THAT MOVIE, MAN." HE GOES, "YEAH, YEAH, I'm almost done. I'm going to get it over to you." I was like, "Well, when the [ __ ] is that coming?" You know, I started to get very excited.

Wow. And then he he he did it so cool, man. I lived in this this I rented a house on the top of Bair Road with my buddies and he came up and he knocked on the door and he's like, "I got the uh script." And I said, "Here's my present to you." And I go, "Oh, okay." He goes, "Go ahead and read it and uh tell me what you think." I go, "You going to stay here?" He goes, "No, I'm going to go for a drive or something like that." And I just sat in the other room and I read it and I was like, "Oh my god, man. I don't know if I can [ __ ] do this.

This is no way." And so he comes back after his drive and you what? You got a bunch of notes, right? You're like, "Hey, couple things, Paul."

Exactly. It's all marked up. It's a move this. That's true. No, I was [ __ ] uh scared like like you know when you get something and you just go, "Oh jeez, man. I always said I can do this [ __ ] and this is too much, man." and he talked me through it and got me comfortable.

He's incredible, though. I mean, he's His taste is just un unreal. I love that he's a huge comedy nerd, too, apparently. And that he can see the amount of acting it takes for you to pull off believably what you do. Um, is uh, you know, right in line with his with his taste and his abilities. And I just I'm such a big fan of his. And then the Safy brothers, um, you know, I mean, Uncut Gems is just absolutely stunning. I don't mean to jump ahead, but they had fun at talking Benny and and you talking at Aniston's was a great night.

I just I'm crazy about those guys as well. And I love two of my favorite filmmakers. Well, that would be three. Um, put you as a lead in their films and I I hope that you take as much pride in that as you deserve.

Absolutely. That was an incredible performance, man. It really was. It was it was h it was so nuanced and deep and this guy like it was

you you guys you know honestly you could do it you guys could do it too. I know you're all great. All three of you guys are great actors and funny as [ __ ] And

who's better? Yeah. Is there one that's better? You're number one. Sean. Okay. We're fighting for the silver over here.

Yeah. You you don't need to. You're both solid. But but Sean's number one. So the I would imagine that you um you you love the uh the creative process of doing a drama um and also the process of doing a comedy. I'm not going to ask you which is your favorite, but what would be your ideal ratio between comedy and drama and like kind of like fun films with your friends versus kind of working for a director? I I'm starting to get a lot of uh serious kind of offers and and and I love reading that stuff and I but it is more of a decision in my brain. And I'm like, [ __ ] once I say yes to that, then I'm it's [ __ ] it's a whole other thing in your trailer and you're [ __ ] rocked and you got to think into [ __ ] that makes you uncomfortable and it's slightly humiliating out there in front of people doing some of the [ __ ] they want you to do and

and uh and so it's a decision, but I like it. I I want I want to do that stuff, but I also love doing the comedies [ __ ] And the fact that, you know, I just did the probably the goofiest [clears throat] movie I've done in a long time. The, you know, [ __ ] I would have done when I was 23 and but I still I'm still happy doing it.

Huie Hubie Halloween. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What is it? What is it? I don't know anything about it.

It's on Netflix, right? It's coming out on Netflix. Uh, and it's a Halloween movie and it's all comedians and all it's like a

and our kids will love it. Yeah. And my and the kids I do that because I get excited for kids to laugh and stuff like that and [ __ ] I've been doing my whole career and I I still love that stuff.

But being able to do both, I mean, good god that you can make, you know, an eight-year-old laugh and you can make, you know, a 70year-old cry. I mean, it like come on. Like not a lot of people can do that at all.

Thank you. I I'm lucky. Yeah. Yeah. Adam, you said I read somewhere a long time ago, you said, "I'll I'll do this for as long as they let me."

Yeah. And they I love that. And they keep letting you because you're incredible and talented and likable and winning. And is there a time when you actually tell them that you're done or are you still having the time of your life? Like what what else? Because you work more than anybody. Like you never stop working.

I I I I I don't know when I'm going to stop. I look at like uh you know I know Dustin and I know Nicholson and Pacino and those guys and those guys they they're addicted to work too. I mean they I I had lunch with Pacino and he still gets excited about [ __ ] and he's just like I read this amazing script and he still wants to kick ass and and uh I I I kind of think I could stop and then I I when I'm st like this pandemic man with not working. Holy [ __ ] was I losing my mind. And [ __ ] every day becomes the same

jumpy [ __ ] And my [ __ ] family certainly wanted me to work. They were like, "Jesus Christ, he's [ __ ] insane. Get him out of here."

I heard you were out on the golf course a little bit. Yeah, we heard we heard from a friend that

Oh, I hit into your buddy. Yeah. Who's your buddy that I almost hit, by the way?

Tom Warner. Tell Tommy I'm sorry. Okay. Are you a big golfer? because I'm finding that that is uh keeping me off the streets a little bit during this pandemic.

You've been playing a lot. Yeah. Well, you know, I I I met you long time ago, like 20 years ago, and you you were friends with Bril. Yeah.

I think back then and I was at a party and I saw some thing that uh they interviewed you on like a a show and you had a uh you golfed on it and I saw you at the thing. I said, "Dude, I just saw you today. You got a great swing." And you kind of like, "Okay, okay." And that was it. But I I remember going, "Oh, that [ __ ] guy knows how to golf."

He's got a great swing. He does have a great swing. I didn't have a career at that point.

He's got a He's got a great swing. We We've both taken it up in the last couple weeks. We've been a little irritating to our significant others. Uh

yeah, it's a long day. Golf Day, right? Are you addicted to it or is it just something that you just kind of slap around?

No. Tell your buddy what happened was I'm a member of Riviera and I [ __ ] live right right down the street. So, so I um I haven't golfed since I've had kids. I don't golf that much. Just like you're saying, will because of the whole 5 hours away and the the the stare you get when you get home of like, are you [ __ ] kidding?

But while they're in school, we got to pass while they're in school, right? That's right. That's supposed to be it. But I get I still get nervous leaving the house and

coming back to a [ __ ] uh whole other mood. So, uh, I I I know what you guys are talking about because

when I make banana bread, I'm like, do I do I pull it out at the right like when when is the do I leave it in five another five minutes? Do I not? It's crazy.

It's just like it. Well, listen. I know you must feel guilty about paying all those dues over there at Riviera and not using the course. So, Will and I want to help you out. Just kind of getting a little bit more active out there. So, you just let us know.

You guys are playing real well, though. Like in the 80s or 70s. No, the key is I'm playing like [ __ ] But Jason's game is getting together. But what we've been doing is we've been calling guys that we know who we know belong places cuz we don't. And we go,

that's where you come in. Hey, are you playing these days? And then they go, yeah. And we go, well, Jason, we're we're available on Wednesday.

Willing to keep you company. Wow, man. Adam, I'm always ask like I I always ask funny parents this. Like Will and Jason are two of the funniest people I know. They always make me laugh so hard. And I've we've always talked about do their kids find them funny. Do your kids f and you're obviously [ __ ] hilarious. Do your kids find you funny or not at all or like do they get your sense of comedy?

Do they watch your funny movies, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean I I'm pretty good at home. They I'm happy when I make them laugh because uh when I'm

asking them to practice something or that kind of guy, they like they don't like him, but they like the funny me. They get they I do pretty good. Good. I make I make them comfortable and then I I definitely try to be funny a lot and try to get laughs. I don't always always score like I try to take them out of their moves. I think growing up that that was my move too. When I felt my father about to [ __ ] go nuts on me, of course I said a few jokes to lighten them up. I think I do that with the kids too. When I see him upset about something, I go to the jokes. Do you guys do that?

100%. Adam, who's the disciplinarian then? If you if you make them laugh every once I mean is Jackie the one that's laying down the law or do you do both?

I heard you guys talking about this. You're lighter than Amanda, right? I'm lighter but it's I I would imagine you might be similar to me where you're super you're you're the you're the class clown. You're the Joker, but then you can swing all the way to the other side and really get serious if you need to. And there's really nothing in between. Oh, I yeah, I think I get really [ __ ] nuts where they just like scared eyes at me when I'M LIKE, "NO, YOU HAVE TO KNOW THIS BE." RIGHT WHEN I START RAISING my voice

that Jackie would not do. Like Amanda would not do that. She covers the whole middle ground and I'm like the book ends.

Jackie cuts me off in the middle of that too and starts going. She takes a weapon out of your hand, right?

You got to Yeah. She's like They can't understand what the weapon I guess is my [ __ ] loud,

right? you know, semi angry tone all of a sudden. She's just like, "Stop. Stop. You can't. They They don't understand when you're doing that." I'm just like, "They have to know this." All right.

Listen to how loud I am. Yeah. Exactly. And then it goes away. And then I'm a kiss ass most of the time. I like keeping them [ __ ] happy. I I like when they're happy and laughing and but I put some pressure on them. Not not about I I don't know if you guys have this, but everything I did, I I would just go outside and practice and [ __ ] basketball, baseball, even bike riding. I would just like be in my own [ __ ] world, just driving in circles, trying to hop off a curb, trying to pop a wheelie, whatever the [ __ ] that was.

And I don't see my kids want to do that as much as me. So, I'm like, there's nothing you WANT TO GET GOOD AT, RIGHT?

I do that that [ __ ] And they're just like, not just not what you want us to get good at. We want to get good at what we like, you know.

All right. Well, in closure, I have one last question for you. What makes you happiest in all of these uh all of these areas of your life? There's it seems like there's so much harmony and everything's kind of cruising and there's so many things to bring you happiness. I'll bet you'll say family or some garbage like that.

And by the way, this is Jason's looking, this is going to be informative. He's looking for something to make him happy. So, he's looking for clues, whatever kind of

Yeah. Uh, if you had to pick, usually where do you find yourself the most sort of just serene and this is a great day?

Well, [ __ ] I would have to say when shit's going good at home, everything is good.

Even, you know what I mean? When the the kids and your your wife or your partner are are happy and there's nothing else to be concerned about, you're just [ __ ] free to be who you were as a kid, you know? Like, that's when I feel like, [ __ ] I'm making a movie. This is great. When I'm [ __ ] making a movie and I get a call from home and something's off, I'm like

and I'm [ __ ] lost. Totally. I'm lost until that [ __ ] gets resolved, right? And you got to act good and the other actors are joking around and you're kind of like what? Like you're beat behind

and you're looking at your phone cuz you're like, "Fuck, is this thing going to resolve itself?"

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're [ __ ] heart heartache. Heartache for no reason. And then all of a sudden

I I doubled mine cuz I now have like an ex-wife. So I I want to make sure that Amy's happy and also my partner and every I've got like way too many people I'm worried about are happy now.

Sure. Sure. So it sounds like a complaint. Listen, I'm a very lucky guy, but still.

Yes. Absolutely. No, we all are. But the definite ups and downs in my own brain, I can't I never have a [ __ ] 24-hour happy day. I don't see that ever ever coming my way. But I have when I'm when I'm working, I'm pretty like, "All right, let's How about you guys? When you're working, are you like, "This is great." Or you kind of like

when the phone is off cuz you're working and it's and you're on set and you're in that thing. That is a great space when you're really in it.

I remember for me, one of my happiest times was when when Jason and I were first doing Arrested Development. And so people you didn't text as much back then. It was because everybody still had the flip phones. I remember I got a new flip phone and I was so psyched

and uh the two-way pager two-way pager thing. Remember we had those and we had those [ __ ] and I just remember like you'd go to you'd go to work you you leave your trailer or whatever your dresser and you go on a set and you're on there for like four hours and you're not contacting the outside world and you're in this thing working and you're in it. That is a happy memory for me. But if you know that there's that there's something a little sideways back home, you still can't 100% enjoy it. So staying a little bit ahead at home and making sure that that's all running smoothly and it will be smooth again tomorrow, too, cuz I'm not just, you know, you know, I'm doing something proactive to keep it going forward and staying ahead of it. I' I've been trying to do lately.

Yeah. my my wife's uh when I know I go on Tuesday I got a pretty that big scene blah blah blah uh she'll go oh okay and then she'll kind of block [ __ ] she'll she'll should not bring [ __ ] up to me on a big day

oh that's nice that's pretty nice and and then yeah that's nice anyways and then yeah

you run lines with her yeah oh my god all the time and she she's good at finding [ __ ] that I wasn't going to do in the scene and going like well don't you know what that line means.

Oh, that's awesome. She does that for me. Yeah, Scotty. Yeah, I do it all the time here.

You do that with Scotty constantly. That's nice. Are you good at at at memorizing your lines Adam?

Not too good. How about you? Jason's the best in the biz. The best of all. Will's really good at it, too.

That's that [ __ ] TV [ __ ] He's [ __ ] unbelievable. I'm surprised that Saturday Night Live didn't kind of grind that in on you. Or were you just looking at the cards the whole time?

Uh, both. They tell you to, right? I would do the panic thing like before Letterman. Well, I remember I did this [ __ ] on weekend update where I did um costumes crazy I'm crazy pickle arm and all this [ __ ] and I and I had to do this thing where I was I'm crazy under the desk guy. So I remember in my head I went when you're crazy the under the desk guy there's no Q cards because you're going under the desk and you got to remember your [ __ ] And I remember I [ __ ] live I went under my desk and it was like my head's going, "Holy [ __ ] there's no [ __ ] Q cards.

You're in trouble, man." And I I I think I remembered most of them and and got it done. But no, I I like knowing the Q cards were around.

You were tight with Wall-E, right? Was doing I know Wall-E. He just texted me out of the blue the other day. He's such a guy.

He He's doing well. He's got [ __ ] some other business he's doing right now. Yeah, I don't know. He's Yeah, I haven't heard from him years, but Wall-ally was the the guy, the cute guy.

He's got an amusement park now. I think he just started an amusement park, right?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Old John Candy's working there. It's nice. Uh Adam, you're incredibly generous to give us all this time. Thank you for saying yes to doing the show in the first place.

Thank you for asking me, guys. Congrats on your show. It's a great thing you're doing it, getting to hang out all the time together. And you're great guys.

We're pretty lucky. We're we're very appreciative. So, looking forward to seeing you on the golf course tomorrow. We'll be there probably about 8:30. Yeah, we'll wait. We're going to warm up first. I know you don't like to warm up, but we will warm up.

All right. Right on, man. All right. We love you. Say hi to your family. Love you, pal. You, too. Thanks, buddy. See you guys. Bye, All right. Later, guys.

He's fantastic. What a good, decent guy. So engaging. [clears throat] Like, uh, I could listen to him talk for hours. And by the way, how he's talking about all that anxiety that he has, I'm like, "Yeah, I totally get that. I relate."

Yeah. He's stayed he stayed so human when he's had many opportunities probably not to. Um he's able to stay very loyal to his friends. He's also putting up a great product. Um he's got his family with him. Like he's just been so smart the way he's kind of put all these pieces that are available to him into a certain direction that I would imagine perpetuates so much happiness for him and so many people that are close to him and obviously his his audience as well.

He's a good human being. Yeah. Yeah. He's a well-rounded guy and he's got a sort of

happy life. Uh and for me anyway, I like looking at the people who are having a happy life because it's not defined by what they do, but it's defined by uh so many other things starting with family

and what they do with the things that are available to them in their life whether it be you know really expensive nice things or uh not uh what you do with what you've got I think is uh is a is a good test.

Yeah. Thank you to Adam uh for joining us. That was uh that was a great one. I like that.

He better take us golfing. He better take us golfing. And thank you listener for joining us for another hour of Smartless.

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Jason Bateman (Host), Will Arnett (Host), Sean Hayes (Host), Adam Sandler (Guest), Michael Cohen (Host).

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In this episode, Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, and Sean Hayes engage in a lighthearted conversation with Adam Sandler, blending humor with personal anecdotes. They discuss various topics, including Sandler's career, his latest projects, and playful banter about pop culture references, such as Baby Yoda and the challenges of adulthood.

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