I like to be around people,
I like to work, I like to do things.
I've been working on this thing that has been really fun,
actually, really kind of exciting also,
because it's my own thing, which has been kinda great-
You wanna elaborate on that?
Well, I wrote with a friend of mine named Dan Etheridge.
He and I have been working on this,
like a series of, it's like four episodes,
but it's like a narrative, like for Audible,
you know, like a series, that's been really kinda great
because I don't normally get the opportunity
to work on my own things like that,
as I'm usually a hired gun, so.
Right, right.
But its it's been fun and I've been working on it
and recording it with my friends, which has been great.
Adam Scott is in it.
Oh, great.
And Ken Marino, who I think you know, and Celia Weston,
who I actually did a play with many years ago.
Ken Marino of "The Other Two," obviously.
He plays the manager.
He is so goddamn funny.
Oh, he's hilarious.
I mean, that's a fantastic show.
I love that show.
He is, always makes me laugh.
Oh, he's great.
Part of that kind of that state collective.
We've worked together a bunch.
But it's been cool.
It's about this guy named Ken Croft,
who has hung his own shingle as being kind of a publicist.
Mm-hmm.
A low rent publicist.
And he is kind of really at the end of his rope.
Things have just not gone well in his life.
And he stumbles into this craft store.
This sounds strange,
but there's a woman that's working there from New Orleans
who's been displaced ever since Katrina, which is-
Years and years ago, but she's still displaced.
She's through and through New Orleans,
and a very positive person.
And he's smitten with her immediately
because she's wearing a sweatshirt
that just says, beignet done that.
(Conan chuckling)
That would get me.
Yeah, and so you see this, it's very sweet,
but funny in this kind of relationship
between these two people.
And I actually brought,
we've recorded it if you wanna play a little bit of it.
Sure.
And it's with Celia Weston who's playing-
We did a play years ago called "Last Night at Ballyhoo,"
and this is where she is playing Gladys
who's the woman that's working in the store.
I'm playing Ken.
Even though it's not Ken Marino, who's in the show.
He plays Carl.
But this is between Ken Croft and Gladys,
and this is from our podcast, our audible podcast.
(suspenseful music)
(Eric groaning)
Oh, for Christ's sake.
(Eric screaming) |- Eric!
(Conan laughing)
Why?
(Eric yelling)
Eric, stop!
Why? (Eric yelling)
You can't do this on a pod-
There he goes.
Wheelchair.
You can't do that on a podcast.
That's why I didn't see it coming.
Right, well-
You can't do that on a podcast.
Yeah.
It's a visual joke.
I know.
I swear to god.
How could I?
Well, that was-
(Conan laughing)
I don't know, it's never-
It's an audio medium.
I know, would it work that way?
(Conan laughing)
I don't know.
Was there any truth to anything you said in the setup?
No.
No, Jesus.
None of that was true.
The joke continues.
You had me completely fooled, honestly,
because I didn't think-
You can't do that on a podcast. (laughing)
No, of course not.
You can't.
No.
Such a waste.
I think all she even says is Eric.
Yeah.
Eric!
Yeah.
Oh, trust me, I know the clip pretty well.
(Paul laughing)
Having watched it 160,000 times
while an audience roared its approval.
I don't know.
And I grew increasingly angry.
I thought it was worth the attempt
to just see how it goes on a-
(Conan laughing)
How is it?
You know what, we're gonna find out from the listeners.
Please tell us.
You just heard the "Mac and Me" clip
totally take me by surprise, honestly, I swear on my life-
(Paul laughing)
take me by surprise,
because I did not think that could happen on a podcast.
I don't think it can work on a podcast,
but you have to tell me.
Maybe it does work.
Jesus, I looked over, I looked at my producer, Adam,
and he nodded like, no, we have it,
and I thought, well, that's weird, they didn't tell me.
And then I see the beginning of the "Mac and Me" clip.
I didn't even realize-
Yeah, there's a computer sitting there.
There's a computer screen.
They actually played it.
I didn't think they were gonna play it.
Well, how could it work at all if I couldn't even see it?
Oh, I'd hear Eric and I'd know.
And I know that goddamn music,
and the sound of that wheelchair
going over the cliff. (laughing)
(Paul laughing)
You're a terrible person.
It took me a long time to realize that.
(Paul laughing)
But you really are.