Adam Scott: The Rolling Stone Studio Live at SXSW

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🗓️ 5 April 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Adam Scott stops by The Rolling Stone Studio Live at SXSW to talk about a packed year that includes two new films – the suburban thriller The Saviors and the haunted-hotel horror Hokum. In conversation with David Fear, Scott dives into his deep love of horror, the intense reaction to Severance’s Season Two finale, and why Hokum clocks in at “one thousand Shinings” on the scare scale. He also touches on his music-nerd podcast with Scott Aukerman and whether he’ll ever revisit his Greatest Event in Television History recreations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I probably spend an unreasonable amount of my life with headphones on, often because I'm trying
0:05.4	to get an episode ready for you, the listener, whether I'm prepping for interviews or going back
0:10.3	through a discography for the fifth time trying to catch something I missed. That's kind of the job.
0:15.6	And my new headphones, the JBL Live 780s, are making my job a lot more fun. It's all about the sound. There's a warmth
0:23.7	and clarity that you don't always get from wireless headphones, spatial audio that really works,
0:29.5	and noise canceling powerful enough to zap out a busy office or a crowded street. The battery just
0:36.5	goes and goes and it lasts up to 80 hours.
0:39.5	And when it's running low, five minutes plugged in, get you four more hours.
0:43.7	They come in black, white, blue, green, and champagne.
0:47.1	I went with black. It looks great.
0:49.1	If you care about how your music actually sounds, and I have to assume you do if you're
0:53.4	listening to this.
0:54.6	Check out the JBL Live 780s. You and Scott Ackerman did a podcast. Yeah. What was the name of that
1:01.7	podcast? And I just don't want to get it wrong. I want to hear you say it. Well, when it started,
1:06.4	it was you talking you two to me. Yes. And then we moved on to are you talking R.E.M. Re me.
1:13.6	Right.
1:14.6	And then it was you talking talking heads to my talking head.
1:19.6	And then the last one, are you springin' springsteen on my bean?
1:31.3	Welcome to the Rolling Stone studio live at South by Southwest. I have been tasked with introducing our next guest, which is frankly ridiculous,
1:38.3	because this person does not need an introduction.
1:42.3	Stepbrothers, parks and recreation, party down, severance.
1:48.4	The question is not who is this person.
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