Good Hang with Amy Poehler - Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Julia Louis-Dreyfus has a lot of pictures on her phone. Amy hangs with the Wiser Than Me host and talks with her about being the LeBron James of TV, going to Paris with Ina Garten, and how long they would last on 'Alone.' Host: Amy PoehlerGuests: Tony Hale and Julia Louis-DreyfusExecutive producers: Bill Simmons, Amy Poehler, and Jenna Weiss-BermanFor Paper Kite Productions: Executive producer Jenna Weiss-Berman, coordinator Sam Green, and supervising producer Joel LovellFor The Ringer: Supervising producers Juliet Litman, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin; video producers Jack Wilson and Aleya Zenieris; audio producer Kaya McMullen; video editor Drew van Steenbergen; and booker Kat SpillaneOriginal Music: Amy Miles Check out the Wiser Than Me newsletter at wiserthanme.substack.com. Use coupon code ‘EATCESAR10’ at Cesar.com for 10% offVisible. Live in the know. https://www.visible.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration: 1h 9m
Broadcast on: 09 Dec 2025
Audio Format: other

Host: Amy Poehler
Guests: Tony Hale and Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Executive producers: Bill Simmons, Amy Poehler, and Jenna Weiss-Berman
For Paper Kite Productions: Executive producer Jenna Weiss-Berman, coordinator Sam Green, and supervising producer Joel Lovell
For The Ringer: Supervising producers Juliet Litman, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin; video producers Jack Wilson and Aleya Zenieris; audio producer Kaya McMullen; video editor Drew van Steenbergen; and booker Kat Spillane
Original Music: Amy Miles

Check out the Wiser Than Me newsletter at wiserthanme.substack.com.

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Oh, man, somebody was asking me the other day about just the codependency. That's in that show between me and Lucio Bluth, who was played wonderfully by Jessica Walter. There is a scene in there, which is such a beautiful picture of the codependency where she's on house arrest and she can't smoke. So she tells me, she goes, "Bustered, come here, come here." She says, "She makes me inhale the smoke out of her mouth as she smokes and then blow it out on the balcony and then she takes another drag and then blows it into my mouth and I've got to exhale on the balcony." And I was like, "Just like a baby bird getting a worm out of his mom's mouth." And I was like, "If that's not a picture of dysfunction, I mean, that is crazy." Well, to me, that's a picture of a loving son taking care of their mother. You know what, Amy, I think this is a side conversation. That's what a son should do for its mother. You're absolutely right. My mother would agree. You have created such great codependent dysfunctional relationships in the work that you do because Lucio and Buster, I mean,

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