♪ Getting together to talk about ♪
♪ All the things we used to do. ♪
♪ The laughs, the passions, the lyrics sebastian ♪
♪ The pets we fell into ♪
♪ And we're putting it all in a podcast ♪
♪ Then we'll send it up into the sky ♪
♪ We're calling it Parks and Recollection ♪
♪ Come on little podcast, spread your wings and fly ♪
Hello, everybody.
Welcome to parks and recollection.
What's up. What's up?
That's my pal right there.
That's Alan Yang, ladies and germs.
Happy to be here. Happy to talk about the show.
Happy to talk to you, Rob.
For those of you who don't know the great Alan Yang,
Alan Yang wrote on Parks and Recreation from day one
and later we'll get into this
was a kind of the inspiration for Chris Trager.
That's that's a fair assessment of your contribution.
Wouldn't you say to them.
It's somewhat fair.
I would say I was a writer on the show for all 125 episodes.
And there are definitely elements of Chris
uh, in my personality
because we're both very high energy people
and relentlessly positive, hopefully not annoyingly so,
but uh yeah.
The listeners will be the judge of that.
Yeah, we'll see.
As they, as everybody comes into this little club,
we've started, I'm excited to have you guys listening.
This is, fasten your seat belts,
going to be the ultimate parks and recreation experience.
And we're just going to spend some time on a show
that Alan and I worked on and loved.
Yeah. It's also nice to go back and look at a show like,
you know, there's no monoculture anymore, man,
not everyone's watching the same shows,
but like back when this show was airing
and The Office was airing and 30 Rock,
people would watch the shows on one night,
like Thursday night people would watch television
community was on that night too.
It was like, can you remember a time?
I think the last year, like that was game of Thrones.
It just doesn't exist anymore.
Wait are you, are you asking me
if I can remember a time when TV was good.
Is that what you're asking me?
'Cuz it sounds like what you're asking me.
I'm not saying, I'm not saying it's not good,
but it's just a, it's just a warm, funny familial show.
And it is, you know, every time we see each other again,
or, or people from the cast and other writers,
we do talk about it because it's also this form of
experience, right?
You're just spending time with these cast members
and these writers every day, every day,
and the show ran for seven years.
So few shows run that long anymore.
So we really were like a family.
And if you ever watched the show
and you felt the tone of the show
and the warmth and the sort of, you know, the comradery.
That was all because the writer's room
and the cast were all kind of like that in real life.
I hate to disappoint anyone looking for horrible gossip,
cause we just loved each other too much.
And I think it came across in the show.
So it's going to be really fun to watch these episodes.
I haven't seen a lot of them in a long time,
so we're starting from scratch, man.
We're starting from the pilot and,
and it's cool to see them again
and see how the show changed over time.
Alan, how you describe my performance in the pilot,
just getting started
It is powerful. I would say,
I think award worthy,
I believe you were nominated for seven Emmys
for your performance in the pilot.
No Chris Traeger is not in the pilot.
Rob's not in the pilot. He's watching these as a fan.
So we're going to talk about the show.
I think it's going to be really interesting
because Rob is going to, you know,
he shows up in season two.
Season one is really short.
It's six episodes and we're going to burn through them,
just watch these episodes
and talk about how the show changed.
And Rob is going to be able to offer his opinion.
Cause when he joined the show,
the characters had changed a little bit
and the show had kind of found a groove.
And so it's going to be fun to sort of watch them,
me, someone who's worked on them.
And Rob as someone who is kind of watching them
if not for the first time, then sort of,
well sometimes for the first time.
What about that, Rob?
I mean, well listen, I,
and we'll get into more of this as we progress,
but I watched the pilot last night.
I'd never seen it before.
And I have so many thoughts for you, sir.
Let let's, let's describe the show this way.
Parks and Rec is a dead body and we are Quincy.
Yeah.
We are doing an autopsy on each episode
of Parks and Recreation.
Yeah. We're really excited to do this podcast
and we're gonna give you a rundown
of what each episode is going to feel like.
We're going to kick off each episode of
Parks and Recollection with a recap of the episode,
we're going to discuss just a little summary.
Then we're going to tell you about all the juicy details
about what happens behind the scenes, the writing process,
the casting, the props, all that stuff.
Members of our cast and crew will be stopping by
along the way.
And then we'll close out each episode
with what we like to call the Pawnee town hall,
where we answer your fan questions.
So send them in.
And now that you know what the deal is,
I think we're ready to kick this off and get going.