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March 25, 2025 16 mins
Most of us on the show are still reeling from the Severance season 2 finale, but Ben Stiller repping the show has us even more excited. 
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, the season two finale of Severns happened. It
was Thursday night or Friday morning?

Speaker 2 (00:06):
What time was it?

Speaker 3 (00:06):
Was it eleven o'clock Thursday night, Thursday. I think they
actually dropped a little early for everyone. They dropped like
a eight pm.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
And it is a cultural phenomenon. It is such a
popular show. The season two finale of Severns happens, and
it's I thought it was incredible. Now I know Skin
hasn't seen it yet. Christina, are you caught up?

Speaker 4 (00:29):
I am caught up?

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Okay, So when did you watch the finale? Right when
it dropped?

Speaker 4 (00:34):
So we had saved the next to last episode for
last week because we were going to watch that Friday night,
And as soon as we finished that next to last episode,
saw that was up. So I watched it. So finished
it all Thursday night before midnight.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Wow, very aggressive?

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Same did it? After the Texas Tech game? They got
a big winning round one of the tournaments? Are they
going to keep playing this year? Well, they're in the
sweet sixteen now, you know. They got Arkansas and Calipari
should be a good matchup. But I watched it probably
in those hours between like eleven and one am. Okay
and loved it and didn't want to take the chance
of anyone spoiling anything.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
That was a big thing for me too.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
I can't believe how good it is or was or
is and uh, it's just a phenomenal show and it
might be the best show ever. I don't know, it's
it's one of those things when you're when you're going
through it, recency biased, smacksh you. But it's definitely in
the mix for being one of the best shows ever.
But the thing I love about the show so great

(01:33):
is that it's they put so much thought and care
into every single detail, and it really feels like the
guy behind that, or one of the main guys behind that,
is Ben Stiller. And so I know he directs. Is
he a co creator? Do we know exactly what his
title is on the show?

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Executive producer director? I have not seen him as a
co creator, but he sounds like he probably is. Well,
Dan Erics the name of the guy who's the gets
credited as the creator.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Does Dan Erickson have a track record? You know what?
Not much of one.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
So what that tells you is that he got hooked
up with Ben Stiller, and Ben Stiller got the thing Greenlit, Mike,
you know, if you if you don't, if you don't
have a track record, you need to have some badass
champion your stuff. And you know, Ben Stiller's been the
focal point of all the chatter about it, right. It's
like he's the one that went on Kimmel and.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Talked about it.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
He's the one that hosts the podcasts and all those things.
So you know, if you're if you're a young creator
or a new creator, and you have someone like Ben
Stiller behind you, even if he's gonna get most of
the credit, that's totally worth it.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
I also think ben Stiller does a lot because there's
a few like Wes Anderson nods, which is another reason
why I want you to watch it skin because you
see it and you're like, dude, that's something a Wes
Anderson film would do. That's probably ben Stiller's influence.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
I watched the first two episodes of season one and
really liked it, and it reminded me of a Charlie
Kaufman thing.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Okay, Charlie Coffin, if.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
You don't know, did being John Malkovich Human Nature, the
What's the What's the movie? With Nick Cage where he
plays twins. Oh yeah, yeah, I know what you're trying
a blanket on the name of that, but it totally
felt like a Charlie Coffin stuff.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
It's really great.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, there's there's a lot of homages to many different things,
and and uh in hatt hat tips if you will
cap tips, and uh he is he puts so much
thought into every single detail. And I saw it, and
you'll see him, and whether it's the podcast or just
on social media, you'll see Ben Stiller out there engaging
with people about the show, commenting on it like it's

(03:39):
it's clearly everybody involves, super passionate about it. Put a
lot of thought in between behind everything. And so I'll
give you an example. There's some song you would probably know,
the song skin, but it's a song in the in
the finale at the very end, and the two main
characters or two of the main characters are running down
a hallway holding hands, and it just so happens that

(04:01):
the album cover of that original song was the silhouette
of two people running down were running holding hands, a
couple running holding.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
The song is the Windmills of your mind.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Oh wow, yeah, I mean that's a classic song from
the late sixties, and it's been used in a lot
of films.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
I think it was Michelle Legron that wrote it. I
don't know what that but I told it was in
The Thomas Crown Affair.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, it was in The Thomas Crown Affair, the original
one with Homie the Real Swad. I won't say Pierce Braus, no, no, no,
the original one Steve McQueen, but yeah, Windmills of your
Mind was used in a bunch of films. It's a
real influential late sixties pop song. I see Ben Stiller
commenting on these things, and I can tell that he
is like a huge film nerd, a lover of film,

(04:44):
and so anytime he has a chance to like pay
tribute to something that he's loved and appreciated in film,
he'll do that. And so there's a ton of Easter
eggs in this thing, some million Easter eggs, even from
just if you were a connoisseur of movies and film,
there's a ton of Easter eggs.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
But then in the.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Plot itself, there's just so many bizarre things that just
they've put so much thought into that it really takes
You can take a junior college course on this show
and never even learn everything is the uh?

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Is someone singing wind Mills of your mind? Yeah? Okay,
so did y'all focus in on the lyrics?

Speaker 1 (05:20):
I do.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
I don't remember now, but I do remember.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
It might be worth your time to pull up the
lyrics because it's basically it's talking about the idea of time,
the idea of everything going in a circle, the idea
of things repeating like a windmill, you know, goes in
a circle, right.

Speaker 5 (05:34):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
And there's actually there's a lot of kind of I
don't know, prophetic lines in that song that probably relate
to the movie where or the show where they're trying
to determine what is and what isn't real and what's
happening in their mind and what's not crazy?

Speaker 6 (05:49):
Man?

Speaker 2 (05:50):
There's just uh, you know.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
The the whole idea of the show, if you didn't know,
is Severance, the idea that it's this revolutionary program where
when you go to work, you get off an elevator,
it's a step into your workplace, You go to your
corporate job, and your brain switches off and switches to
a whole different.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Person.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
Really, and so there's two people sharing your body you're
a work person who doesn't know anything and just goes
and works. And then when they get on the elevator
to go home, the life is handed back over to
you and you get to go on about your life.
And and so it's they call it the Audi and
the Anye. The person inside is the Nie and it's Uh.
There's a scene in the finale where the Any and

(06:29):
the Audi of Mark the main character. What is that
actor's name, Adam Scott. Adam Scott, who's brilliant from Step
Brothers and he's he's an executive producer on the show.
He's going back and forth as Any and his Audi
are talking to each other, and it's one of the
best it's one of the best acting sequences ever at
me Award moment, like right, because this guy is playing

(06:50):
two different characters as that look the exact same mm hm,
but he's and he's in. It's like because he's turning
a camera around, he's watching one message to oneself and
then recording a message. And so they're talking back and
forth to each other, and one of them's outside, so
the hue is like blue from the moon, and one
is inside, so the hue was like orange from orange

(07:12):
from the fireplace cool And that's the only way you
can tell.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
And I didn't get into like watching these recaps until
like the last few episodes, so like I kind of
wish I was doing that from the beginning now.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
And this is a show.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
If you haven't started, it probably sounds pretty intimidating. Yeah,
you might be like, it sounds like a lot of work.
I'm not gonna do that. And I get that because,
like you said, I I look forward to now that Severs. Ever,
I was looking forward to the White Lotus and the
Righteous Gymstones more than I was looking forward to Severns
every week. But then they just leveled up when the
season finale, it was really great, Like I mean that

(07:46):
really great. And then the season finale just came in.
It was like Jesus, okay, I get it, Like I
fully now I'm gonna become like a real fan.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
You know, I'm with you, because like it leveled up
hard the season.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
Premiere this year me and like in like twenty minutes,
I was like, man, I don't even remember what happened
in season one. I had to go watch a recap
to get caught up to where I fully bought in
but after that it was just like, oh my god,
this is so incredibly good. And so you have Ben
Stiller involved in this, and his attention to detail is
off the charts, like he is just every tiny minute
detail has a meaning to it, it has some significance.

(08:21):
And then we start seeing pictures of him on set
because he's not acting in this, he's directing. And so
we started seeing pictures of him from the set from
the finale, and he's wearing our hat. He's wearing the
hat for our business, the Rollertown Beer Works hat. Yeah,
it's a brewery balls, So he's wearing a Rollertown hat

(08:44):
on set. So it's so surreal. You're in this mind
f where the show is so deep, with so many layers,
in so many details, and you're like, what is real?
What's not real? And it's just bending your brain. And
then to see that the person in charge of that
brain bending is wearing a Rollertown hat while it's happening,

(09:04):
it is so surreal. So is that your work life
or is that you're away from work life?

Speaker 2 (09:10):
You're out right, I know, it's it's crazy. I mean,
what do you guys make of that?

Speaker 1 (09:15):
I mean, well, so we know he loves the hat,
because he's told Ben that on Twitter before.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
I love this hat. Okay.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
So Dirk gave him a Rollertown hat yep, from his
tennis term his charity event, and we got to meet
him and he did a promo for us for the
radio stage. He couldn't have been nicer and so he
just left with a hat as part of like a
gift pack. Hey, thanks for coming. Well, he started showing
up to you know, Hollywood events or whatever wearing that hat.
It was pretty clear no one had ever given him

(09:44):
a hat. It's the only he's ever seen wearing. The
thing that really got big was that he took his
daughters and his I guess it was his ex wife
at the time, and maybe they're back together. I'm not sure,
but they went to a Taylor Swift concert and he
was wearing the hat. So people were posting pictures, yeah,
because it was a big dealers at the Arras tour, Yeah,

(10:05):
And it was a big deal because he was with
his wife. Who wasn't she in the Brady Bunch movie?

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yeah, and she was in Dodgeball and all that.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
So she's there with him and he's wearing the hat, right,
and so, but that was a couple of years ago. Yeah,
what year was the tennis event? That one was before
we started the freak, So it was, yeah, it's September
of twenty two.

Speaker 4 (10:27):
And so.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
What happened as I started posting pictures of him wearing
that Rollertown hat in a Salina Facebook group, I was like, hey,
look here, Ben Stiller is reppings line in the school.
And I had multiple people posting it, that's not Ben Stiller.
That guy looks like Ben Stiller, but that's not what
Ben Stiller really looks like. Now, like, that's not really
him and so, and then I started seeing it on Twitter,

(10:49):
people are like, dude, that's not Ben Stiller. All right,
that guy looks like Ben Siller. That's a really weird
thing to take the stance at. The guy that looks
exactly like Ben Stiller and is with Ben Stiller's ex
wife is not Ben Stiller.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
So I was kind of catching a right here, guys,
this is good for us, you know, and I refuse
to believe that.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
So so then Ben Steelers saw that happening on Twitter
and he took up. He made a post of just
holding the hat out and said, I love this hat.
But that's not been still his Twitter account. It was
his verified Twitter account. No, just just Elon made it
to where anybody can have a verified Twitter account. Okay,
so anyway, so there it is where Uh you know

(11:28):
that was a couple of years ago.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
Well now he's still wearing that hat.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
He's wearing it at the finale shooting the finale of
seven season two, and I gotta say, man, it looks
like the hat has been worn a lot, and I'm
concerned he's gonna stop wearing. That's what my roller Town
hat looks like too. Somebody told me they go, dude,
that's his favorite hat. That's like going down next to
his car keys every day. Really, well, there's somebody speculating
that because after all these years, he still is rocking

(11:55):
that hat on his most important day. I think you
rarely see neurotic East Coast Jewish comedians wearing baseball caps,
and I think that's the only one he's ever been given.

Speaker 7 (12:05):
Date.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
If he's wearing that and happy Gilmore to you, guys,
are gonna need to bring an umbrella to work in here.

Speaker 4 (12:11):
I'm just.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
Like she said, that reminds me of the intro.

Speaker 5 (12:21):
Grabsid Lord dark time boys.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
Right now, you're ready, right.

Speaker 5 (12:39):
Right, right right.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
I have to do it one time.

Speaker 6 (12:43):
Wit wit epan within I'll show you goal ruin it
except a similar sweet pursuing it toddled out Shaw shank
through the sewer kid now with chilling at the eagle. Yeah,
we two in it. Three o'clock on the doc.

Speaker 5 (12:57):
Gotta have it for my house A go status.

Speaker 6 (13:00):
I would started to get Cratti shows that enough multiplied
like a rabbit tuned in, zone out, crank it up,
beat the habit I won.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Hang out with my friends, rocket on the radio, my
home boys in.

Speaker 7 (13:18):
Talking on the radio. It's time to through this walk
all ba ba baby KT thirteen up all on the radio.

Speaker 4 (13:33):
All right.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
So today's like one of those days where it's eighty
seven degrees right now, not a lot of wind. Was
really nice days like this morning, sixties if you wanted
to get up early, go to something outside. I used
to back when we did, you know, afternoons long ago,
play quite a bit of golf in the morning, and
that in mornings for a little bit. And I didn't
play golf at all because you didn't feel like doing

(13:55):
it afterwards. This morning, I said, screw it. I'm getting
back into it. So I played golf Wow, So I
called yesterday, I called the golf course. I kind of
I knew, knew. I wanted to go to Hey, do
you guys listen to these?

Speaker 2 (14:06):
No I do.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
The whole thing is like, hey, I play really fast
if I if I you know, I see you only
have a seven thirty two tea time?

Speaker 2 (14:13):
Can you let me on at seven twenty?

Speaker 3 (14:15):
I want to play alone because I go to work
after a sneaking out, you know hall ass man. Well,
they're like, well we got regulars that play, but I
can tell you there's just one more guy, so just
be you and him. I was like, oh, that's fine.
So I get there and it's a couple Michael and Shannon.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
What's good. Nice people.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
But I'm also going always wanted to play by myself.
Seemed just go, you.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
Know, just do your your pace Shannon guy or Gal
Shan Yeah, and then his wife and I know how
you feel about female golfers.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
So today is Michael's forty third birth take it to
so you have to meet. You can't just you're gonna
be in silence. And you guys know me, Sometimes I
want to and sometimes I don't want to talk to
people you never know.

Speaker 4 (14:56):
With me, I probably didn't want a third on his birthday,
you know, Yeah, yeah's life outing on his birthday.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
Oh we got a strange guy, there's no doubt. So
he was Kevin Turner. Huh used to work with the fan.
So I was like, we got the wrong guy. You
got the wrong guy. I don't know who that is.

Speaker 3 (15:17):
Point is, guy used to listen to the fan. He
doesn't anymore. He's listening to the show today with his
wife Shannon. Wow, fans have been in skin show. I
have been for a long time.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
And so you were okay with playing with a female
golfer because I've seen she she was riding.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
Along, okay, but she looked smoking hot? Did you for himself?
And I didn't get picks. I didn't want to about it.
Oh yeah, good. Did she say how she woke him
up this morning? She didn't say that. That wasn't something
that she did, uh, But she was very curious about
So how many songs y'all playing and all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
But they're back, they're back.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
The fans are out on a few A few of
the people of the fan, big listeners of the Eagle
now you can convert a listener every day of the week,
every time you turn the mic on someone who's listening.
I also saw some beavers today and you can check
that out at the end of the post that I
just put on at ninety seven to one the Eagle
on Instagram and TikTok Happy birthday, Michael.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
Okay Shannon's and to Shannon Yeah, okay, all right, there
you have it.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
There's now we'll never listen again, all right. Coming up
next in the Hollywood Shuffle, there's two new shows that
you need to have on your radar, and we'll talk
about Tiger Woods. That's all next right here on Eagle
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