Jon Hamm and John Slattery Put Their Music Knowledge to the Test on Track Star Versus

Jon Hamm and John Slattery, the duo most people know as Don Draper and Roger Sterling, stepped into a different kind of spotlight on the latest episode of Track Star Versus. Instead of a boardroom, the setting was a music trivia hot seat, and the competition was a best-four-out-of-seven round of song identification. The playlist jumped from Neil Diamond and Tom Petty to R.E.M., Miles Davis, Bad Bunny, and The National—a scatter of eras and genres that neither man treated like a performance.

The episode moves between game mechanics and off-script conversation. The pair trade stories about working together, their real relationships with music, and at one point casually discuss the logistics of seeing Bad Bunny in Barcelona. It’s the kind of easy back-and-forth that doesn’t need the scaffolding of a talk show format. The trivia itself stays secondary to the rhythm between them.

Music video trivia lands, too. Slattery confirms his appearance in The National’s 2010 clip for “Conversation 16,” where he wore the same Roger Sterling tailoring that followed him across Mad Men. It’s a small, strange detail that fits the episode’s tone: two actors with a long history, momentarily rerouted through a shared but mostly private interest in music.

The appearance coincides with the upcoming release of Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass, a comedy that reunites Hamm and Slattery on screen and arrives in theaters July 10th. The film centers on a woman’s engagement unraveling after her fiancé pursues his “celebrity sex pass.” The Track Star Versus episode, though, doesn’t feel like promotional choreography. It’s more like a detour—one that happens to capture a friendship through a series of brief, well-placed needle drops.