215 episodes
SmartLess Wondery
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4.7 • 48.2K Ratings
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"SmartLess" with Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, & Will Arnett is a podcast that connects and unites people from all walks of life to learn about shared experiences through thoughtful dialogue and organic hilarity. A nice surprise: in each episode of SmartLess, one of the hosts reveals his mystery guest to the other two. What ensues is a genuinely improvised and authentic conversation filled with laughter and newfound knowledge to feed the SmartLess mind.
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"3 Presidents"
On our first triple-guest podisode, we let our pal President Biden bring along two friends, Former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. Let’s get a little less-SmartLess together… on an all new SmartLess.
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"Jon Bon Jovi"
This week we host Mr. John Francis Bongiovi Jr, also occasionally known as Jon Bon Jovi. The chicken or the egg, a Golden Grahams commercial, and finding joy for the first time in a decade. And so, our dear listener: strum the tennis racket and think you can sing… on an all-new SmartLess.
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SmartLess Media Presents: Pretty Sure I Can Fly with Johnny Knoxville & Elna Baker
Pretty Sure I Can Fly is a humorous exploration of things that had never been done, until someone did them. It’s a series of weekly conversations about what it takes to break through the barrier of “impossible” and set new standards for human limitation. Pretty Sure I Can Fly is like going to history class, except your teachers are actor, stuntman, and outlaw radio DJ Johnny Knoxville and long-time This American Life contributor Elna Baker. And each week they bring a new guest to tell you all about how they “grabbed the bull by the bunglesteen” or “really hogwrenched that spatooly.”
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"Larry David"
We go in the weeds with Larry David on critical items: dinner parties, romance novels, The Golden Rule, Halloween… and we unsuccessfully debut our new Speed Round format. “He’d rather be doing nothing than talking to us,” on an all-new SmartLess. We love you.
Also, our friends Johnny Knoxville and Elna Baker stop by to talk about their new SmartLess Media podcast, "Pretty Sure I Can Fly," celebrating unsung heroes who achieve incredible feats by “having more balls than a bowling alley.” Listen to Pretty Sure I Can Fly: Wondery.fm/PSICF
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"Don Cheadle"
Watch out, folks— it’s Don Cheadle, a.k.a. “Donchalant.” What is Jazz? Did Don have a good slumber last night? Get ready for some hard-hitters, like a deadly mignonette, the most rarified air, and both Kansas Cities. From our lips to pods’ ears, it’s an all-new SmartLess.
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Customer Reviews
Thanks for keeping it light
I could dazzle Sean with tales from my nightmarish health journey since 2024 began. Thank you for distracting me from the pain and helping me to laugh on days I didn’t think I could. I’m grateful for your humor. Maybe someday I’ll be able to get back on my biiiiiiicycle. (I’ll see myself out.) 🫶
Ask your Q and zip it!
Will and Bateman take 3x as long to ask a single question as it is for the guest to get a word in to answer the question. You ask the same question in three different ways before you let the guest speak. It’s frustrating. I want to hear more from your guests.
I love you-but I implore, ask open-ended questions.
I love the show and you all have amazing guests, but please, start asking open-ended questions (a question that requires a longer answer than a simple "yes" or "no). While some of your guests deal with it, and provide a longer answer after saying yes or no, some do not (Larry David for example, and I secretly hope he was teaching you a lesson). I guarantee this one switch up and reframing of your questions will increase the quality of the episode, the enjoyment of your guests, and make you all sound a lot smarter. Does this make sense? Trick question! How do you think you could start to incorporate more open-ended questions into interviews?
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