Paul McCartney on Good Hang, and two guests on grief

On Good Hang, McCartney said he has no formal method, instead sitting at a guitar or piano and improvising until something sounds good. He rejected the label of workaholic, describing himself as addicted to playing music, and attributed the expectation of very long concerts to Bruce Springsteen, noting that older acts played for about an hour.

McCartney said he admires Billie Eilish but does not wish he had written her songs, and named Bob Dylan as the artist he would still like to work with, though he said he is too nervous to call him. Poehler said watching McCartney work had made her feel she could write a song.

McCartney told Poehler that the Beatles did not expect a long career, since rock bands of the era typically lasted only a few years. He said the band settled difficult decisions by asking what their 17-year-old selves would have thought, and that he has become an increasingly devoted Beatles fan over time.

Two guests on different shows described how a death in the family reshaped their outlook. On Coffeez with Joe Shalaby, KERACELL founder Ekin Ozlen said the early death of her first husband made her determined to accomplish everything she set out to do, because life is short.

On Tomorrow, Today, Olympic artistic swimmer and coach Andrea Fuentes told host Shekhar Natarajan that her sister's death taught her that a meaningful life depends on how time is lived rather than how long it lasts.

Discussing his new album, McCartney said he knew the song 'Days We Left Behind' was working once he inverted the phrase 'black and white' to 'white and black'. He said another track, 'Down South', recounts meeting George Harrison on the school bus.

SNL came up in two episodes. McCartney recalled watching the show with John Lennon around the time of Lorne Michaels's on-air Beatles reunion offer, saying it showed him why the program was an American institution. On REAL AF with Andy Frisella, Frisella and DJ discussed the backlash to Shane Gillis's gym-shorts joke during his SNL monologue.

McCartney explained that the title 'Monkberry Moon Delight' named a milkshake he had imagined, built from his children's word 'monk' for milk.