I'm Actorbot (with Janelle Monáe & Sarah Edwards)
The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller & Adam Scott
Audacy, Red Hour, Great Scott
4.9 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
This week, Ben and Adam welcome actor, musician, and world-builder Janelle Monáe to the podcast to talk about their creative process and how sci-fi influences their work. They share what inspires them to build futuristic worlds like the one in Dirty Computer, why they are drawn to the concept of duality, and how family parties can be a surprising source for material. Then, Ben and Adam sit down with Severance costume designer Sarah Edwards to break down the Lumon dress code and answer some hotline questions.
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| 0:00.0 | The Severance podcast with Ben Stiller and Adam Scott is presented by The Farmers Dog. |
| 0:04.6 | Try fresh, healthy food at thefarmer's dog.com slash severance. |
| 0:09.6 | Can you hear me? |
| 0:10.8 | No. |
| 0:11.6 | Okay. |
| 0:12.1 | Now we can sort of hear. |
| 0:13.1 | Is that still bad? |
| 0:14.3 | Count to ten. |
| 0:15.6 | I don't know how. |
| 0:17.0 | Okay. |
| 0:17.8 | One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, eleven. Is that bad or good? |
| 0:32.4 | Hey, I'm Ben Stiller. I'm Adam Scott. And this is the Severance podcast with Ben and Adam, where we're talking everything severance in terms of influences, things that relate to severance and people that have inspired severance and people who connect with severance and just everything that, you know, is connected to severance. Really just something for us to do in between |
| 0:55.0 | seasons, right, Adam? That's right. Also, people who hate the show, we're going to talk to some of them. Oh, yeah. We should have more people who hate the show on the show. I know. It's so weird that we didn't start with that. Let's do it. Okay. You don't seem that into that idea, though. Listen, it was my idea. |
| 0:52.1 | I love that idea. |
| 0:54.0 | But then as I started thinking Okay. You don't seem that into that idea, though. Listen, it was my idea. I love that idea. |
| 1:12.7 | But then as I started thinking about someone coming on and just tearing the show apart, it started hurting my feelings. |
| 1:20.3 | So I think as we talked about it, I liked it less and less. |
| 1:23.9 | This week, though, we're joined by someone who feels the opposite way about our show, 10-time Grammy-nominated musician, SAG Award-winning actor, and Severance Superfan Janelle Monet. |
| 1:36.4 | Very exciting. |
| 1:37.6 | Yes, we're going to be talking with them about what they love about Severance and how sci-fi influences their work as a musician, writer, actor. You know, |
| 1:46.3 | when you say multi-hyphenate, like she's a serious multi-hyphenate. She is an impressive |
| 1:51.8 | artist. Yeah. My goodness. So we're going to talk to her about being a multi-talented person |
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