The podcast reflects on meaningful moments of physical connection among the hosts before the pandemic, highlighting a memorable 2019 trip with Brooks Whelan that included a boat ride and a concert in Milwaukee. Brooks is celebrated as a brilliant travel partner, known for his road trip habits and ability to discover great local food. The hosts share humorous anecdotes about Brooks’ comedy performances, including an audience member’s “be careful” comment, which they interpret as a moment of genuine concern rather than hostility. A central focus is the Boogerman special, an ambitious, satirical award show parody that blends fake celebrity cutaways with absurd humor and high production value. While the sketch is wildly over-the-top and technically impressive, it struggles with coherence and consistent comedic timing, resulting in a polarizing but thought-provoking experience. The hosts defend the inclusion of Katy Perry, calling it a bold and effective choice that enhances the piece. The episode also celebrates shared traditions—like drinking Newcastle Brown Ale and using “Kablamo” as a drinking chant—and includes playful, improvised ideas like launching a “Stronts” app for road trip planning. Ultimately, the discussion reveals a deep bond among the hosts, rooted in humor, memory, and mutual respect, even in the face of creative missteps. The tone balances self-deprecation with genuine admiration, especially for Brooks and their bold, genre-defying storytelling.
It's a lovely island and some fires, it's a lovely island and some fires, podcast!
Interesting thought started to begin this pod with all four of us here.
When was the last time we were physically in the same room?
And Jorm immediately said before the pandemic, and I think you might be right.
I was sort of kidding, but I don't think that's incorrect.
Wait, could it be right?
I'm racking my brain.
I feel like in New York, the three of you have been together.
I know that for the 50th that I didn't go to.
And in LA, the three of us have probably been at a dinner.
Three of us, meaning Andy and Seth, because Seth travels.
And then Jorm, of course, we've seen out here, but Seth and Jorm on the West Coast?
We went out with Harper and Matt Murray all together.
That was pretty fun.
But Seth wasn't there.
Was it our tour?
Oh, wow.
And that was pre-pandemic.
That'd be crazy.
That's too far.
That'd be 2019.
I think it might be, though.
Where it's all four of us?
I think 2019, which is both every single time I see Brooks.
We've been together.
He says it's the greatest day of his life, because we went out on, I've told this story
so many times on the pod.
We went out on a boat in Minneapolis in the day and drank a bunch of Coors Light and then
went and saw your concert at night.
Oh, that's the greatest day of his life.
It's wonderful.
And saw Jose Canseco hitting golf balls onto the highway from the back of that venue.
It wasn't a highway.
It was just a deserted downtown.
It was just downtown Milwaukee, wherever we were.
The way I tell it, you heard like.
Sign my ball full on Terminator two scene happening down below us.
And we're like, that was cool.
Brooks Whelan, greatest travel companion.
I'm on the road one week in a month and Brooks and I did shows.
I did Palm Springs and then the next day, Scottsdale, Arizona, and had booked flights
from Palm Springs to Scottsdale.
And then I realized because I'm with Brooks, we should just rent a car and drive from Palm
Springs to Scottsdale.
It's like a four hour drive.
Yeah.
And it's something.
I would never do if I was alone.
And he's just the best.
He's like, hey, let's make a pre-show playlist that we can play before a show.
I'll play a song.
And then while it's playing, you think of a song, it reminds you.
And then we'll just go back and forth.
It's just like literally like it's like a he's like a drinking game with no alcohol.
You guys stop at a Bucky's.
That's the highest compliment you can give a human being.
I have a question, Seth, and I want you to answer honestly.
Is Brooks Whelan for you the friend equivalent of the digital short Wish It Would Rain?
Yeah, I think that's yes, it is.
Yeah, we don't have to say anything else about it.
It's high praise.
High praise.
Can I say another great thing about Brooks, though?
He like Googles food.
And so he's like, we're like leaving.
He's like, all right, it's like 20 minutes outside of Palm Spring.
There's this like great breakfast taco place and it's on the way.
And then that's Keith.
That's someone who knows how to do a road trip.
Yeah.
And then he's like also Camel's oldest friend, Chris Bianco, has a place called Pizza Bianco
in Scottsdale.
Yeah.
It's like one of them.
One of the most famous pizzas in America.
Yeah.
And so, like, again, it's amazing.
It's great.
You do this stuff.
And otherwise, I would just sit in a casino hotel room, like just like going over jokes
that would be not demonstrably better.
And he's great.
Like what's an example of one of the jokes?
I don't want to tell you one of the jokes.
I will tell you that as an opener, as an opener, the one thing, if Brooks would not mind me
saying this, Brooks got so political in his opening set that somebody from the audience
screamed, be careful.
Oh, my God.
That's a fucking great audience member.
Wow.
And then afterwards, he's also like if Brooks has two great sets in a row, he's one of those
comedians who like immediately has to just like get too close to the sun.
Do you think the be careful was did it read to you as a threat from an audience member
or as a I'm worried for you that somebody else will.
I think the latter.
I think the latter because it is it is my audience.
Like careful.
They might be listening.
And were they worried he would get like beat up in the parking lot or canceled online?
What do you think the fear was without saying what the joke was?
I think just, you know, maybe ice like black bags them.
Gotcha.
Yeah.
Scary.
That kind of thing.
My one I have my my final Brooks anecdote is my parents and my brother came to the show
in Scottsdale and my dad after the show who's seen Brooks before open for me.
My dad was like, man, you were great.
And I wow, you were good.
And Brooks is like, ah, I feel like you're saying that like you didn't think I was great
last time.
My dad's like, no, but it's been a while.
It's been a while.
Brooks like, where was the last time you saw me?
He's like, I don't know, the Beacon Theater.
And Brooks is like, I wasn't that long ago.
Year and a half.
Hey, I will say I haven't seen anything on the cold open, but the SNL UK premiered the
night before we're recording this.
I watched Tina's monologue.
Very charming.
I read some very nice things.
Yeah.
From the UK.
Press, which is a very hard to please.
So congratulations to everybody over there.
I was so jealous.
They can cuss.
I know.
I think there's a weird question we asked.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Did people use the C word?
They did.
Didn't they use this?
They said they said on Norm.
Really?
Don't say it on ours.
We're not British.
We're in America.
We're not allowed.
I said it in a British fun, a fun British way, though.
Dorma, we're across the pond.
We're not across the pond.
Exactly.
Don't be.
You guys, you can watch it on Peacock the next day.
But it has not been available yet.
That's the only reason I haven't watched it.
But I believe there was a sketch in where it was a it was a good sketch idea, which
it was like a Hamlet parody where Hamlet kept coming back from London.
And he was a little bit cockier every time because like his plays had been hits.
And he came back at one point with a earring.
So they did use it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, those little glasses that men can wear are very popular.
I know.
Yeah.
That's what they're referred to as.
Yeah.
Little Y rimmed.
Little.
I thought they were slutty little glasses.
Oh, yeah.
They are slutty.
So he had a earring.
Yeah.
And maybe slutty glasses.
You're right.
Did you say Hamlet kept coming back?
I think his name was William Shakespeare.
Yeah, but it was a Hamlet.
Was it him?
Was it Shakespeare?
You're right.
Oh, my God.
Was it?
Was it William Hamlet?
I haven't seen the movie.
Oh, God.
The movie's fantastic.
Absolutely fantastic.
I cried a lot.
Before we get into Boogerman, which I mean, this is who which Quaid has been waiting for
this one.
Is that a thing that exists?
Which Quaid does Aquato have to blow to get them to watch Boogerman?
I don't know.
That's a great question.
For the Turtleneck and Chain album completionist, I think we'll come back to it.
Of course.
Because we left off somewhere, right?
Oh, yeah.
We left off in the middle.
But this is how the pod works now.
No, let's get some forward momentum and then we can take a stop down to listen to tracks
from Turtleneck and Chain later.
This is forward momentum to you?
This is forward momentum, but we do have to loop back and I mean, just a round of applause
for Yoram and the Takoni family who had a fantastic live episode last week.
Thanks.
Not live, but panel episode.
Yoram, some comments, Yoram not being able to eat a burrito on stage really elevated
this one.
Oh my God.
So I think people felt like the fact that you were somewhere where you couldn't eat.
I whereas I felt.
Was there a no eating on stage rule or did you just do that out of respect for the audience?
I will say I had two coffees backstage and I feel like I should have had a burrito instead.
That's just my personal opinion.
Or a coffee and a burrito would balance each other out.
It would balance you out.
Make you really level.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
That would get me to neutral.
Was it a paying audience, Yoram?
I don't think so.
I hope not.
Okay.
Oh wow.
Just some follow up.
But they, I think some, some people did try to pay afterwards.
They were so impressed with it.
They felt guilty.
Wow.
It was a freebie, but people did.
They certainly all paid a price.
Oh, my kids did.
My kids paid a severe price.
There's a part that you couldn't hear.
Yeah.
There was a lot of people did, did question the parenting.
There was a part that you couldn't hear where my wife yelled out, our daughter just asked
what sex was.
And I was like, oh great.
So I do have to do some explaining now to my five year old.
Yep.
But we have, we've established over the years that a lot of people do to your songs have
had to have that awkward conversation.
So it was about time.
Oh, so yeah.
So I guess chickens come home to roost.
It's what we're saying.
They are.
Um, some title pitches that we probably should have used.
Oops.
Alta Cones.
I like that.
Oh yeah.
Uh, and then three shock talks, TACCS.
I like this comma.
I like the Hollywood casting of Yorm in a Lonely Island movie.
I always refer to my brother as he feels like he's me from Concentrate.
Everything's smaller, more condensed.
His eyebrows are sharper.
He's just like, he's also his personality.
He's like slightly ripped.
Yeah.
He's, he's totally jacked.
Yeah.
I wish he had done a shirt list.
We would have put a lot of butts in the seat.
There was, there was 15% excess to Kony and they're like, I think if we drain it, we could
have a real monster.
Um, Hey, somebody else, now I'm going back two episodes, a bunch of people were like,
but why is it called the heist?
Which I liked that we did not ever address.
Cause it's a heist.
It's a heist song.
Yeah.
We're just not doing a heist, but our tone has the, um, yeah, it's a tone as if we are,
you know, I'm looking for a word, but like our enthusiasm and our ambition in it is the,
uh, is if we're pulling off heist, even though what we're talking about is Monday.
Best heist song of all time.
I feel like I've got one.
Hmm.
We're, we're, uh, telling our best heists song of all time is for sure.
There's a Ghostface one.
No, no.
It's Ocean's 11 soundtrack.
Oh yeah.
It's kind of like a, um, steel drum or, or like kind of a, a funky sixties retro vibe.
It's not like a James Bond thing.
Andy's crying pretty hard at the fact that he made that joke.
I regret the joke.
I regret the joke.
It sucked such fat fucking dick.
I can't pull one off the top of my head, but I bet you Andy can.
- "Shaky Dog", "Shaky Dog" by Ghostface.
- Yeah, "Shaky Dog", that's probably
Probably one.
Is that like when we get to Escape from Dookie Island later on Turmalike and Chain?
That's another Heist song.
Yeah.
That's a big time Heist song.
Nobody move, nobody get hurt.
Oh, that's a good one.
Nobody get hurt.
Oh, isn't Ante up?
Ante up is a Heist song, right?
Yes.
I mean, that's basically just like a good old fashioned break yourself kind of a song.
Yeah.
Paul Revere is almost kind of one.
It turns into one for sure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I guess I am right.
Sorry.
Are we voting on this?
Are we going to vote on this?
I mean, the third act becomes one is the key, you know?
Yeah.
Sure.
Sure.
Yeah.
Great.
Once Mike D enters.
Andy, since we're not going to pretend like you listen to the episodes you're not in,
how do you feel about quump as a terminology for the bump a YouTube video gets after an
episode from the Quaid?
It's a Quaid bump.
I love it.
Okay.
I love it.
I listened to one of these and I gave commentary kind of throughout.
Oh, that's right.
You did.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I went back and fast forwarded through it to hear what Andy was saying.
And there was one moment that was just.
It was ticklish to me.
I was like, whoo, whoo, whoo, tickled.
Yeah.
Where I had done a voice note to clarify something.
And then the editors here did kudos to them because they put Andy's voice note first,
then put my voice note and then put a second one of Andy's voice notes and then back to
the pod.
So it was a complete side conversation just going over itself until it returned.
Enough that Dan Gore, Brooklyn Nine-Nine creator was like, oh, I really liked that bit you guys
did.
Oh, nice.
As if we had planned it.
He's like, you guys should have done it like three more times.
And I'm like, well, we didn't plan a bit.
Andy just sent a voice note and I sent it a voice note and it became a bit that he's right.
We could have done more.
Somebody did suggest based on that Seth should start an episode by saying this is what we're
talking about this week.
Then each person sends in a voice note.
Then Seth listens to those three voice notes and talks about what everybody said.
And then everybody listens to that.
I like that.
If we can't get together, we should definitely do that.
Which is looking more and more likely.
I mean, it would be.
I wonder what would be easier just to like independently over the course of a week, record
seven different voice notes or get together all together for an hour.
Just paddling voice notes.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Andy, there was a I don't want to talk about whether or not you quibbled yet, but can I
tell you a word I was pretty upset about not being in?
Yeah.
Today.
Yeah.
Hang gliding.
Same.
It's bullshit.
I was furious.
Was it different hang gliding or hang glider or something in or no?
No.
But hang gliding clearly should have been accepted.
Yeah.
But what about hang glide?
Is that not a thing?
There was no E.
You would need an E.
Never mind.
I get you.
So you couldn't do hang glide.
If you had done the B, you would have known that, Akiva.
I don't do it.
Guys, back to last week's episode, the Tacones.
I sent a screen grab to this group from a comment on YouTube that tickled me.
And it was somebody ribbing you guys.
And it had the quote, Bay Area.
And it had a counter saying that it was said 34 times.
I don't know if that was accurate or if they were just fucking with you.
It was from jump.
We like, yeah, we talked about it too much once again.
It is a blessing or curse, a poison or a superpower.
I don't know that we are all, we just have to carry it, I guess, as people from there
that you qualify everything with that you're from there, good or bad.
Like, well, we're from the Bay, so this bad thing.
Or, well, you know, we're Bay, so this good thing.
Like, Seth doesn't say New Hampshire or New England ever.
He's not like, oh, well, New Hampshire.
So, you know, I'm this or I'm that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But we're not unique in that way.
We were just talking about this, that when Kugler just won his Oscars, first thing he said.
I was like, he gets up on stage and goes, no, I'm from, I'm from Oakland, California.
So it's like.
And Richmond.
He was not even, he was making it very specific.
Or El Cerrito or something.
Yeah.
He had to qualify the whole Oscar of winning that Oscar with like, just so you know where
this is coming from.
It's the Bay.
And then Alyssa.
Liu.
Liu.
Yeah, Alyssa Liu.
Every other time it cut to her, she's just like, Oakland.
Oakland.
What's up, Bay Area?
So we know it's not us.
I'm saying it is a Bay Area.
It's a little Texas.
People that are from Texas tell you about it all the time.
Yeah.
I'm not saying that negatively.
Yeah.
That'd be the pot calling the kettle black.
I just found out, speaking of Texas, McConaughey's from there.
Really?
Yeah.
You just figured that out?
Just.
Does he talk about it?
I was reading an article where it came up.
When it finally came up, he's been denying it this whole time.
Somebody pressed him on where he was from.
I don't usually say this, but.
I feel like, and then, you know, people rip on people that went to Harvard for saying
it all the time.
There's just certain places that somehow tell you this is now your identity and you have
to.
I remember my junior year abroad was in England, which you guys know, and people would ask
me where I was from and I would go Berkeley.
Like, as if you knew Berkeley.
Yeah.
Like.
We were so, so clueless.
Just like, so up my own butt.
Like, this tiny little town.
And then you came back and everyone was like, Joram, where are you from?
And you were like, Fulgham.
Fulgham, London town.
Cheers.
Cheers.
Cheers.
What?
Cheers.
Cheers.
Cheers.
Cheers.
Cheers.
Would you have a pint of the Nookie Brown?
Cheers.
Cheers.
This American beer is piss.
Wait, I told you guys that story, right?
Like that, like, because we drank Newcastle Brown Ale.
We thought it was like the height of class.
I went over there.
It was the first thing I ordered.
In high school, to clarify, Seth, we didn't drink it very often.
We thought it was like, if you got a little extra money in your pocket and you were going
to splurge.
We did it for birthdays.
It was like the fanciest thing you could do is drink Newcastle, in our mind.
Very much in college as well.
Yeah, so we would get a keg of Newcastle for like people's birthdays and like really big
like celebrations between like all of us, all of like our 10 to 12 dudes that we all
hung out with.
And then the first thing I did was go to the bar with all of my new like flatmate, hallmates
guys, like these 10 dudes.
And the first thing.
His phone is Joram's.
I don't know what, how do I turn this off?
It was rhetorical.
Is it?
It was.
It was.
You could probably do that.
Just turn off the volume.
Which Joram's phone is that?
It was on my laptop.
Oh, it was rhetorical.
Just turn off, just turn off the volume on your laptop.
It won't affect it.
It could be anyone's, but how would you turn it off?
Anyway, I went to the bar.
Okay, you went to the bar.
Great.
I went to the bar and the first thing I ordered was a Newcastle Brown ale.
And those guys were like, oh, Newky Brown, that shit.
That is shit beer.
And I was so embarrassed.
I couldn't believe it.
Newky Brown's a pretty fun way to say it.
You came back and told us all.
We all had to learn.
And it's tainted.
It tainted my perception of it ever since.
In our defense, we were drinking malt liquor all the time.
That's all we would drink.
That's true.
So by comparison.
So yes, it did taste pretty good.
Yeah.
Do they still have it?
I feel like I never see it.
Newcastle?
Like if I'm at Ralph's, I don't notice it.
Is it there?
Newcastle?
No, I don't know.
I mean, in Europe, it's still there, but did they stop importing it?
I never think of it.
I never see it.
Well, when I did actually visit Newcastle, I sort of understood.
I was like, ah, gotcha.
Nothing personal to anybody from Newcastle, but, you know,
it's a pretty good beer.
It's pretty shit.
We couldn't believe the logo was on their soccer uniforms.
It was so dope.
I had that uniform in high school.
That's how much we liked Newcastle beer.
Yeah, we just thought it was so cool you could get that.
And I loved the premiership, of course.
Of course.
I mean, if they want to sponsor the podcast, I'd be into that too.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Akiva.
Yeah.
Speaking of Old English brew, I wanted to give a special moment
to the way you say in Kablamo,
and all of us drinks our Old English brew.
What?
It's kind of a wicked wit.
It's a witch, I think, is what I said.
Because it's a brew.
I think I was trying to be a witch.
I'm not even kidding.
Yeah.
Oh, that makes sense.
I think I was literally trying to be a wicked witch.
How much we drank 40s back then was that that was Kablamo
if all the drinks were Old English.
Yeah, instead of gross.
Nothing cooler than that.
Instead of poison.
But she was a witch.
I think I was trying to be like Madame Marvel.
You know what I mean?
Yep.
Anybody know what I mean?
Madame Marvel?
Yes, absolutely.
Madame Marvel?
No.
What is that?
It's from Wicked.
Oh, no.
I haven't seen the sequel.
Sorry.
You guys don't know about memes?
Madame Horrible?
It's horrible like horrible?
I don't know.
I thought you were talking about Madame Web.
I watched Wicked, too, with my family.
I fell asleep for the last half hour,
and everybody made fun of me.
Whoa, shots fired.
That has to do with maybe my age.
Yorm, yorm, yorm, yorm, yorm.
It's I watched Wicked as well.
Seth, what are we doing on this app?
Are we going to fuck around,
or are we going to fuck around?
Hit me with some ditch.
Ditch me with some shits.
Fucking spit.
Pat it on the dap.
All right, so Boogerman, season premiere.
You guys come out hot.
You've obviously been thinking a lot all summer.
You get a really,
what's the thing we have that's a fucking lock?
What is just an idea?
What?
Was that summer when we recorded?
It is, right?
That's why we're going in that order?
Yeah, we've been recording Turtle, Nick, and Chain,
so we have a bunch of finished or demo kind of level songs.
Here's what I'm going to just start out by saying
about Boogerman right out of the gate.
I have not rewatched.
Go ahead.
It's unacceptable that we had just recorded a bunch of songs
and did not use Katy Perry.
Right.
Why didn't we just put her on one that needed a singer?
Did we not have something?
We were such dumbasses.
We just were like,
none of them are really exactly for her type of pop singer stardom
or whatever the hell.
We could have added her to whatever we think is the worst one
and just put her on top of it.
Right.
And it would have still been fantastic.
My point is-
Oh, I see, I see.
She would have improved anything.
Yeah.
Well, maybe we were being respectful.
We were being respectful, you guys.
That would be like the attracted to us.
All of a sudden, she'd be all over the video
and then singing with Beck
and all of a sudden it would be twice as good.
I'm just thinking-
Or add a whole part to the end of it.
I think we just hadn't learned that move yet.
Right.
Opportunism, you mean?
Yeah.
Yeah, or just like bending what it is already
to make it something else.
Appreciating that ultimately like adding Katy Perry
had more value than like it being a perfect fit.
Yes.
I mean, she was one of the biggest pop stars
on earth at that moment.
Yes.
Like, here I go.
We were talking.
about how it was
completely done
with just Andy
and then there
It was like, whoa, Charlie XCX is around and down to do something.
And then we were able to figure out and it became so much better.
Yep.
And YOLO, we added Kendrick because he was musical guest and added that whole verse.
And I'm still against that we did that.
I mean, you're not a Kendrick head.
Well, I just don't like opportunism.
Oh, I see.
You know, I just want, I want to stand on my own two feet.
Andy, have you ever seen J.D. Vance?
You ever read J.D. Vance's book?
I think if you read that, it would really give you some insight into a lot of your stuff.
Hillbilly Elegy.
It's really, yeah.
Yeah, Hillbilly Elegy.
Yeah, we're going back to me being super right wing.
Gotcha.
Or just watch the movie, you know, Elegy.
I think that's pretty good.
So.
Clip notes.
The other thing I'll say is Katie's great.
You shouldn't have a lot to do in Boogerman, but she executes what she's supposed to do,
super game.
And she kind of steals the show in Bronx Beat, which hopefully we'll have time to get to.
Fucking great in that.
Yep.
So everybody who did make the decision to use her was happy about it.
Yeah.
Are we going to actually?
To watch Boogerman?
We got to watch.
I'd like to watch it.
I don't remember it.
So I'd like to.
I remember being slightly embarrassed because I felt like we had underused and misused Katie
even on the day where I was like, fuck, we should have done some better.
I remember being in the recording studio with her at SNL and her singing and sounding really
good.
Like, and going.
And that was the moment where I was like, oh, why did we do something so dumb?
Yeah.
Like, right.
She's Katie Perry.
Like she's a real weapon.
Katie Perry.
Before we dive in.
Jorm, congrats on your movie.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you very much.
Heard great things from people who were there.
Oh, yeah.
We went to the Taconi Talkback, but you were in South by Southwest, for those that don't
know, to premiere your movie.
And it went amazing.
Yeah.
Tell us about how it went, because I know it went super good.
It went like South by Southwest is the most amazing festival that I've ever been to.
Like when we went and saw Jake's movie.
Wrap it up.
Jesus Christ.
Anyway, best premiere I've ever had, MacGruber will ever have.
And this was almost equivalent.
I would say it was very, like, brought the house down.
And then we won the audience award for our second.
So the audience agrees with your assessment.
They agree that the house was brought down.
Yes.
Hey, and while we're doing plugs, Jorm, shameless, Digman is on Netflix.
Just put it on and let it run.
Double like it.
Give it the double thumbs.
Well, let me at least say the name of my film then.
It's Over Your Dead Body again.
Over Your Dead Body.
Digman on Netflix.
Jason Zegel.
Samara Weaving.
Timothy Oliver.
When does it come out, Jorm?
Say the date.
It comes out April 24th.
Keith, thanks for mentioning.
That's very soon.
It's very exciting.
And then Netflix.
Where do I get Netflix, Andy?
It's on the Netflix app, Akiva.
Thanks for asking.
And I find that where?
And it's on Netflix.
Yep.
Where do I find Netflix?
It's Netflix.com.
That's a classic.com.
Oh, Netflix.com.
They have the correct URL?
They do.
They got in there early.
They did.
Great.
Yeah.
And that's a free service or?
Oh, well, it depends.
Okay.
It's tiered.
It's tiered.
You're going to open up Netflix.
You're going to put it on Digman.
Wrong pipe.
Yeah.
Put it on mute and go to sleep if you need to.
Just let it run through the, make sure it's on autoplay to get through the seasons.
And make sure you give it the double thumbs like, you know what I'm saying?
Oh, yeah.
Well, if you want a third season, you got to do that, right?
I mean, you heard it from Keith first.
Do you still let you like stuff on Netflix?
I thought they didn't let you rate stuff anymore.
Oh, yeah.
I think it's mostly for your algorithm, but they definitely do.
Oh, I see.
I see.
Right, right, right.
If you're a Quaid, they let you double like it.
Oh, look at that.
Q&A.
Q&A with Quades.
Do you think we should call it Q&A-des?
Yeah.
No.
I do.
As long as there's a space.
Jesus.
Or an apostrophe at least.
At least a post.
We're doing so much work, so much work not to talk about Boogerman.
So I want to just say.
I am afraid of it a little.
You should be afraid of it, but I watched it today.
There's so much to talk about.
And Keith, you're going to be playing it.
Just be ready for a lot of stops from old Seth, because I'm going to want to unpack a lot of things.
Yes, sir.
It's got a lot more moves than you're expecting.
I'll say that.
It's a million moves.
The audacity of it is truly spectacular.
It does not pull it off.
But when you watch it and when you appreciate what you guys were trying to poke fun at and what a big swing it is, I really do love it.
Just saying it does not pull it off.
I love it.
I don't enjoy it.
But I think you're referring to the feeling I had.
The feeling is exactly what you just said, which is afterwards like, oh, we swing for the fences and struck out.
And that's much more embarrassing than when we say, oh, it was fine.
It was a single.
Yeah.
Wasn't going for much.
Wait, wait, Seth.
I think this is going for a lot.
When you say that, when you say, because it's so, that's so evocative to say, I enjoyed it.
I, what did you say?
I didn't like it.
I think you said he didn't enjoy it.
No, I didn't enjoy it.
I loved it.
I didn't enjoy it.
Okay.
Is that how you feel about, I wish it would rain too?
I loved it.
I didn't enjoy it.
No, I really enjoy it.
I wish it would rain.
Boogerman's not in the same category.
Okay, gotcha.
Boogerman did not make me laugh when I saw it.
It didn't make me laugh on the rewatch.
Whereas like, I wish it would rain makes me like cackle.
Okay.
You're, Seth likes Brooks.
Okay.
He Googles restaurants.
I, I, I just, I'm trying to get clear.
You're jealous of Brooks now, Andy?
So what if I am Akiva?
I don't think you would Google restaurants.
That's true.
That's all I would do.
I'm jealous of Brooks for going on a road trip.
God damn it.
I would love to be just driving across the fucking desert with Sandberg, but I wouldn't
get it.
Oh my God.
We'd Google so many stronts, bro.
I'd be like, uh, I wonder what the tastiest cup of java is in this small town, Seth Lee?
Stronts.
Oh, we'd be stronting it up, bro.
Now I got to start saying that.
Should we, should we buy the domain name I want some stronts right now before somebody
else takes it?
It's like for a new Yelp?
Yeah.
Enjoy stronts.
Let's start a new Yelp called I want some stronts.
I love that, stronts.
I don't know.
It might be already taken.
Cause there's this other one, Netflix that apparently is done.
You're going to like it, Keev.
You're going to want to check that one out.
It's a red logo.
Ooh, you're talking my language.
By the way, I actually just checked a netflix.com and the link is not broken.
Okay.
It works.
All right, here we go.
Before we start watching it.
Cause I think one of the problems is that it was a little hard for the audience to even
know what was happening.
Do you guys want to explain that idea behind it?
Like what were you trying to pull up?
I don't remember except for that it was an award show.
I remember it.
It was just like the way the musical performances are on the Oscars is like always super dramatic
and it was like, I don't know, it was like, I don't know, it was like, I don't know, it's,
it was like, I don't know, it was like, I don't know, it was like, I don't know, it was like,
it used to cut to clips from the movie also during it.
Yeah.
And we were like, what if we did that?
And it was like the worst movie you've ever heard of.
Like basically you're learning about how crazy this movie is through the context of only
seeing the song that's nominated.
This is a great premise.
And I swore I'd never work with you again.
And now, performing the theme from the film Booger.
The other thing that I, that we forgot to talk about is that the real joke of this is
all of the real award show cutaways of celebrities.
Yeah.
Which is a move we did again in Popstar.
Yeah.
At the end.
And this, not just because we've been talking about it, looks like a closeup of the beginning
of the N of the Netflix logo when it's supposed to be.
It's splitting up and going to come towards you.
Yeah, you're right.
Good callback.
And when you say this for people who are listening.
It's the backdrop behind them.
On the right side.
We all know what the N looks like.
Yeah.
But also already higher production value than I thought.
We had somebody comp in Hater up into the screens.
Yeah.
If you, if you look closely, you can see that it says Bob Hope Humanitarian Award.
Yeah.
That was not taken out.
Yep.
That's a lot too classy.
Well, I don't think anybody was looking closely.
Anybody want to guess?
The amount of views before I scroll down and tell you it's been on for 12 years.
I'll give you that.
750 million.
Oh, but you know what?
12 years.
Cause this aired in 2010.
So it didn't get the initial bump.
It would have gone the night, but it was posted four years after it came out though.
And doesn't have the word Katy Perry in the title.
Oh, okay.
30,000.
That's better.
193,000.
It's more than I would even think of.
Yeah.
That's a low.
What kind of clump you think we're getting on this?
I think we could clump up this past 200.
So you think a hundred thousand people are going to.
No, it's at 193.
I think we're just going to get another seven grand.
Okay.
If you think we could clump 7k, we're talking about real sway here.
Here's the first question.
I went to on the comments or by newest because I was curious right now.
If anybody had got a clump nine days ago, question for the pod.
This sketch is so out of left field.
Andy asked the question in an earlier listener Q and a that was not answered and might help explain Akiva.
What does your butt look like?
Yeah, Keith, answer the question so they can understand booger man.
Let me watch booger man first to see if I think that's applicable or the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award.
I never work with you again.
There's Glenn Close.
And now performing.
Were you excited to see Glenn Close because of your JD Vance stuff?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
That's right.
That's cool.
Theme from the film Booger Man.
Miss Katy Perry accompanied by dancer.
From the Boston Ballet.
I like it already.
Yeah.
I mean, Bill's very winning also.
Thank you.
Almost like a 007 theme.
She's killing it.
I remember us thinking saying seemingly nothing to eat was funny.
That's how fucking.
Like, totally tapped we were.
It's making me laugh now.
Seemingly nothing to eat.
She's singing it so well, it's hard to even comprehend.
Is it because he's going to eat boogers?
it might be because he's gonna eat boogers you think he has nothing to eat but he actually has
quite a bit to eat yeah that's that's why it's funny it's seemingly he doesn't know he's producing
food what's he gonna find so it was funny he's a real lone in the rain like out on his own
seemingly nothing to eat yeah this is a good setup so maybe we're getting actually all the
way back around on this set and now you love it i mean now i'm fully laughing at it this is all i
need we're pulling this off pretty good using oscar footage and then just a teeny bit of probably
your stage now seth yeah like no crowd no nothing also this is completely undercutting my theory
that katie perry makes everything better because literally i've heard her sing it now probably 10
times in my life never got a laugh andy said it falling out but you didn't have the context of
what it meant all right i'm going back so we can hear what deep backstory she's getting into
miles from home
okay so you've got two sticks with paper ribbons tied to your boogers to be doing like a like a
ribbon dance like a gymnast or something something elevated to represent the boogers this is having
just seen the oscars this isn't that far from some of those presentations oh my god your hair is so
dump truck are you supposed to be like a theatrical representation of a like a vagabond lives on the
streets yes yes well i think so here's the problem like i want to ask now because there's a late
reveal of obviously we're going to see bugger man late in this yeah do you think it would have
helped if we had seen bugger man in a clip first and then seeing that this was the interpretive
dance version uh no yeah but i mean again he's got a double down no you've already asked the
question right now of like is it that it's two weird things like should the movie have been
straight and then the dance to it been crazy like if you did a crazy dance to schindler's list just
these are the most serious version yes then that can be funny like springtime for hitler style or
if you did a serious dance to happy gilmore 2 maybe that's funny because you've taken no i think
this is right so far well yes no like this year the straightforward sketch which would work and i
do find funny i'm not disparaging would be like a very funny dance to happy gilmore 2 and then the
very silly irreverent fun dance for hamnet right right sure but we chose an original movie that's
already called bugger man and then i like the idea that we're doing a serious dance to it but
then the dance is also kind of trying to be funny here with this freeze frame my mom so would you
say if it's hamnet hypothetically or it's like a hamnet type movie it's a serious movie it's a
serious song and it's just a janky ass dance yeah the dancing but in the sketch version it would be
a live one and it would be a person going cut cut cut come on
what are we doing here but isn't part of it that you're going to be cutting to people in the
audience so the dumpier this is yeah yeah the best part is whoever it's trying to cut to really
enjoying this let's see yes so that's what i'm saying like this is not a super successful thing
but the jokes are the cutaways of celebrities those are yes well no i mean you're selling
yourself short because there's also going to be a massive series of jokes of how fucking crazy the
movie booger man that's right the clips of the movie so i would say maybe the issue here was
you guys could not be funny
pick a lane that's what i'm getting right here but let's or we again the the swinging for the
fences like we're gonna hit everything's a joke and you kind of can't find your footing underneath
it was ahead of its time there i said it thank you i like the ones that i push back on you guys
agree at first and then as we watch you like gotta defend it's fucking good yeah like hey
that's my brother i'm the only one allowed to hit him when we do part two booger man for next
week's episode let's see if it's going on south by then all right here we go
hit and play
everyone's clapping
i want the booger man dead i don't care what it cost me don't you see mama i know he's different
but i love him anyways you're the man booger man
oh if you like thank you get ready there's more that's another move
thank you she's
it's like adele skyfall leverall selling it yeah thank you right in the middle of the song
so and now for the audience there's a fifth game which is katie perry is like
thanking the audience for the reaction it's making me cry i love it
this might be my favorite one we've done also definitely think it's the oscars and then you
get a big old grinning ed o'neill yeah clearly the emmys for modern family yeah it's good
it's bob hope everyone was there for bob hope yeah i have to go back and watch these clips
because these clips are really good
really are saying a lot like amy poehler's in love with him some character that's in love with him
yeah keenan's like somebody who's rooting for him some sort of mentor or something who loves
him and is rooting for him also keeve right here in this freeze frame we got patrick stewart money
oh you know i like that i want the booger man dead i don't care what it cost me clearly shot
in our control room but it looks fantastic and he's some sort of evil villain with an eye patch
and he's in an evil control room but it looks fantastic i did want to note and we can talk
about it more at the end we've seen all the clips
the clips look great yeah yeah they all kind of look pretty like cinematic they look full
cinema and we did a good job making it look like they've been projected on a screen and stuff it
feels very uh when it cuts when it goes wide on amy it's a great effect yeah don't you see mama
i know he's different but i love him it feels like watching the oscars
this is crazy thank you oh my god
oh with the blood it's gonna be you
what's he doing
oh my god
definitely just switch to war shows yeah a lot of going between burn in yeah this is the funny so
morgan freeman's really impressed yeah sarandon's whistling for it because she can't believe how
dope it is bill is like what is happening yeah bill she's but in a polite way of just like is
anybody buying this kind of little side eye he's like i saw a booger man and i didn't like it yeah
thank you so much i'm so humbled don't you know those boogers are poisonous the public must
never know booger man you did it you found the time machine booger man is now property of the
u.s government you're gonna be a father booger man we're gonna have a boy you're killing him
who was that
it's kind of like a a new take so half of these clips feel like it's forrest gump
where you have a a person who is in some way considered othered and you know amy's saying i
don't care i still love him and that he's gonna have a baby and that's a big deal for booger man
and he's made some friends along the way that are rooting for him and then the other clips
are like he's some sort of sci-fi like marvel movie with guys with eye patches
and it's a little muddled it's slightly muddled people who people who look like bobby here who's
wearing like crazy blind sunglasses oh god every time it does what you pointed out seth which is go
from the screen into the movies there is genuine impact like there is at these shows yeah it's great
and then you also can't believe people that are making something like this are capable of making
any shot look as good as these shots look yeah and so it's it's hurting my brain a little there's a
jamaican in it as well yeah yeah because booger man won the surfing contest never know booger man
you did it you found the time machine booger man is now property of the u.s that's a good shot
you won the surfing contest you're gonna be a father why do you win a surfing contest
you're killing him turns out that compound that killed booger man also cures cancer i was born the
booger man and i'll die the booger man that's the reveal of who played booger man that's what
seth was saying he's like would it be better to reveal it up front but we were like no you got
to save that save that gold pun intended whatever this is doing is the perfect order let me just tell
you right now there's good backstory here he was born a booger man too i like that backstory too
so uh peter sarsgaard is a booger man and he's a booger man and he's a booger man and he's a booger man
peter sarsgaard for those not paying attention and he's got the same look that we've had seen
andy in a like theatrical bullshit version of for the dance but now you see the real version
with yellow eyebrows attention to detail same outfit oh yeah the same he's got a real will
forte vibe in this too but now it's the movie version of the outfit it looks worn and good
it looks really good yeah he really does look a lot like forte this is like a very could be
that he showed up to do this oh my god and then selling the shit out of it how wonderful
yeah i would say the greatest man who ever lived okay for doing booger man the husband of
the bride the bride he's in the bride yeah nepotism no thanks now if the bride is if the
bride had a question mark after it instead of an exclamation point do you think you would have
enjoyed it as much akiva then it would have been the bride no i wouldn't have no exactly
thank you hey look digman's got one on netflix now just download it from the apps the bride has
an exclamation point yeah like airplane like airplane april 24th over your dead body
i'm not promoting the bride or airplane you are okay i really should be though because they're
very good i haven't actually seen the bride if you've ever cared about me or anything i've done
watch digman on netflix you don't have to fucking watch it just let it play there are two seasons on
her too i don't even know i haven't checked i think it's only one you know what i'm gonna load it up on
my phone right now just let it blast in the background just put it on i will take you at
your word
If you see me out in the street, I'll suck your dick.
Oh, shit.
Don't promise that.
Get them clicks.
We need those fucking clicks.
Just go to the apps app and download Netflix.
The apps app?
Like the app store?
It's called the apps app, Akiva.
You've got to go to the apps apps and download the app store.
Speaking of apps, Brooks Whelan will Google all the apps in the nearby area for you.
How do I get the apps app if I don't have an apps app to download it from?
And you'll just take them at their word.
You don't want to have them hold up their show because they could go to their Netflix
and you'd say, like, Rick.
If you see me on the street and you're like, hey, I let Olive Digman play and gave it two
thumbs up, I'll just be all, gulp.
God damn.
This is bad.
Take him up on it, guys.
I'm so fucking lonely, you guys.
I would do it anyway.
I just want to feel a connection with a human being.
Why are we living in these times, Seth?
That's real.
Why'd you have to make fun of Trump at the fucking correspondence dinner, dude?
We've talked about burying the lead of this podcast.
Now Andy has to gulp.
That should have been the whole thing.
Anybody he sees because of you, Seth.
Oh, my God.
Should we next week do the correspondence dinner and stop after every joke and figure
out which one did it?
Oh, my God.
Did we know which one did it?
Which one caused the sliding doors split in our space-time continuum that sent us down
There was just one.
It was one.
Wasn't there just one?
No, it was a run.
I think I did, like, five.
It was a whole section.
And Obama's up there laughing his ass off, and you literally see a supervillain creation
moment.
Yeah, fucking Seth caused this, which I love, by the way.
And now here we are.
Andy's gulping people on the street.
Yeah.
Which, again, I would do anyway.
Dickman would probably be in season 10 right now if that hadn't happened.
I feel like if that's a slang that came out of this pod, I would love to hear somebody
be like, so Zandberg street gulped.
Zandberg street gulping.
By the way, we need all sides of this.
Like, if you're listening to this and you're like, hey, but I don't have a dick.
Like, I'll figure it out.
Got it.
Yes, this isn't gendered.
No.
Andy will figure it out.
You heard it here first, guys.
Andy's going to figure it out.
Just do whatever you want.
Oh, God.
Speaking of MacGruber.
Can you take this?
Oh, yeah.
Just tell me what you want me to fuck.
Is this a good time to say it's the latest we've ever recorded a podcast?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You can barely tell.
That might be pointing it out.
That might be clarifying something.
It's like super, super late on a Sunday night.
Open Netflix.
And I think that this is now we officially know this is the witching hour.
I looked down just now.
I was like, has it been two hours since we started talking?
It's only been 55 minutes.
Well, we, in our credit, we're halfway through with Boogerman.
Yeah.
So it's not like we've been wasting time.
I told you guys Boogerman needs to be a two-parter.
We're racing through this.
Ahead of this one, I texted you guys and I said, I rewatched Boogerman.
I think it needs to be a two-parter.
I think I was right.
There's a lot to unpack.
I'm opening up Netflix to see if the algo has served me any digmen.
It should be a new releases.
This has been my favorite way Jorma has laughed on this podcast.
This is five o'clock in the morning.
Jorm laughs of like, this doesn't work.
Like everyone knowing like, oh, it's not going to work.
Jorm's laughing like that.
And thank you.
I was in.
And I don't feel like we misused Katy Perry.
I feel like she's famped.
She's great.
She's got more good stuff, I think.
She's got another good move.
Yeah.
Let's blow through the back half of this so we can get to the episode.
Hold on.
Hold on.
I could be making you money while this is going if I can just find.
Oh, respect.
Oh, he's putting on digmen.
Yeah.
Just in the background.
I've seen.
The link's not broken, Keeve.
No, I'm on Netflix on my.
Oh, Netflixworks.com.
All right.
What's that, Keeve?
Did I pour my heart and soul into the show?
Yeah.
That's actually a great question.
The answer is I did.
It looks great on it.
I'm doing it too.
Nice.
Got some good bits.
Got some good bits.
Okay.
I'm playing it.
My God.
You guys are so nice.
I've already seen it too.
I know.
Getting them clicks.
This rocks.
This is how we should be using this time all the time.
We should always just be playing our own projects in the background.
Naked Gun is on Prime for free if you have Prime, and it's on Paramount+.
Seth, where can I see Late Night?
Peacock, and only on Peacock.
Okay.
The cock.
Ride the cock.
Sorry.
You know what else is on the cock?
MacGruber the series on the cock.
Oh, yeah.
MacGruber.
That's on the cock.
Peacock is this.
You just.
You just get ads, but if you pay extra, you get a little bit of Peacock.
This is a filthy app.
I pay extra and don't have any ads on my Peacock, so I can watch all the Brooklyn Nine-Nines
I like.
Also, some of the seasons on Netflix.
All right.
This is good.
Now, let's get back to.
Yes, please.
What's funny is it started the episode, and I was stalling out of fear.
Now, I'm stalling because I want to savor it like a tasty little chocolate that I want
for later.
Well, let's take a nibble.
I was born the booger man, and I'll die.
The booger man.
Does he have snot on his mustache?
Yeah.
That's.
I don't like that.
Thanks.
Fucking murdering.
Her voice sounds so good.
I haven't seen the film Booger Man, but it looks like a huge pile of dog s**t.
And the winner is Randy Newman.
Good night.
That's the end of the show.
We had a lot of questions about the name.
He has a clapper.
Oh, that was a brutal end.
That was the final end of the Oscars.
Just fucking dumping.
Randy Newman didn't even come up to accept his award.
Thanks.
I hated that.
Run credits, Randy Newman wins.
You had a double clap for that lady.
Can you look at the names?
Because it's like a weird.
It's weird in between where like they're not quite joke names and they're not quite.
You're going too fast to get anyways.
That's our MO though.
Also, does it slow up at some point too?
It looked like the speed like ramped down.
Dirk Jensen.
Did we write these?
I mean, obviously this is long pre-AI, but it's almost like these are AI written.
Yeah.
Because it's like write a series, fill out these names with like joking.
Court Gash, Yesser Cly, Drip Hames.
Yeah.
So what we're talking about is that the credits roll.
The names.
Is past, and some of the names are Foot Cone, Crush Simms, David Tompkins.
Tim Bumbers, Quinn Frist.
This feels a little Tim and Zachy, honestly.
Yeah.
Fresh Gumbles.
They're pretty good.
Kyle Dinkler.
Why is Kerry Brownstein in here?
It's very strange.
I cannot make heads or tails of this spit.
One person gets a real name and it's Kerry Brownstein.
That's the homie.
Jared Tooth.
Oh, it's produced by the Jengels brothers.
Also, the sound man is Jared Tooth.
Can I point something else out?
Catering provided by Dog and Tony Show, but then if you go down a couple more, there's
another catering.
Kyle Dinkler and Fran Gorman.
Can you play it through at like 25?
Yeah, there you go.
Catering provided by Dog and Tony Show.
But go down.
There's more catering after that.
We just saw it.
This just ends with a dump.
Catering, Kyle Dinkler and Fran Gorman.
They ate a lot on the show.
I don't know what you want.
All right.
So, Boomer Man.
Is that your biggest complaint, Seth?
My biggest complaint.
Hater happened to go back and clap for that lady.
It's so good.
And it's two minutes and eight seconds.
Criterion.
The boogers.
I don't like the boogers.
I feel like the boogers should be going straight down.
I don't like the boogers either.
The boogers should be going straight down.
The fact that the boogers are over the mustache is disconcerting, and I don't care for it.
I wish we had just chosen a different name, but we're trying to do deliberately the dumbest
thing.
That short, though, really makes me respect Sarsgaard.
He's great.
He's really great, and it makes me also want to work with Katy Perry.
They really sell it.
She's really good.
Yeah.
Sarsgaard, I don't know how to say this, he's the best person that has ever lived.
Oh, wow.
That's really big of you to say.
Yeah.
Well, because he's a booger man.
Do you think if you saw him on the street, he'd know he was in Booger Man?
Like, really, "Hey, remember Booger Man?"
Yeah.
I don't think so.
He'd be like, "What?"
I don't remember it.
All right.
What if we hired an extra, maybe this lady, maybe somebody else, to just wait outside
his house, and then when he walks out, just have somebody be like, "Hey, Booger Man."
Do you think he looks?
If he looks.
Or like an autograph hound, but the printout that they're having him sign, is he still
from Booger Man?
Oh, that.
Like, you wait outside.
The next time he does-
He's like, "Why am I. I mean, it's my face with yellow snot, but why?"
You know what?
I'm going to go against the grain and say he remembers.
Okay.
Jorm, call him.
Okay.
Yeah.
He's my roommate, so. So guys, Booger Man, Criterion or Kim's video?
Does it make Kim's video?
No.
No.
He's kidding.
God, Jorm.
Akiva's a sarcastic person.
Well, no, but-
Does it make Kim's video?
No.
Do you guys feel like it?
Really?
I'll tell you what, though.
I enjoyed it a lot more than a lot of ones that we give a pass to, just going, "Yeah,
it's not going for much.
It's going by."
That had more to enjoy than I expected.
Me too.
And next week, we'll really get into it.
Yeah.
In part two.
Really, when we break it down.
Hey.
Now you're on my wavelength, baby.
Ooh, Digman's playing up there on that screen right above me.
Oh, yeah.
Where are we at?
I bet right around now he's going like, "Sultane."
Wait.
Can we talk to Digman?
Oh, what would you like to know?
I'm a big fan.
When can we expect season two to be on Netflix, Mr. Digman?
Oh, I'll have to call Mr. Netflix himself and ask him that very question.
Great.
And if it gets all the quades to give double thumbs up on the full season, then maybe-
Maybe we'll get a season three paid for by Netflix?
You didn't hear it from me, Digman, but yeah, I think there's a chance.
that's wonderful
now Jorm
you do it as
as a dead body
from your movie
oh
um
oh
fuck
I can't
sorry
April 24th guys
it's coming out
Seth's on season 2
yeah Seth plays a
a late night host
a big stretch
for him
it's funny though
chortles
chortles
yes
yeah
it's very funny
Andy got called out
on our show
because he sometimes
will uh
I'll call him
during corrections
and make him do a voice
and some of the people
in the comments
the jackals
claim that his Alf
sounded like his Nick Cage
so I had him
I have to send in a voice note
to clear up the record
and there is a distinction
and most people
have agreed that
they were wrong
to say it was the same
that's right
what did you say
do Alf
do Alf
yeah do Alf
Alf sounds like this
no problem
right
yeah
sorry I had something
in my throat
no problem
was it a cat
I had a cat
in my throat
Willie
not perfect
where are you from Alf
Melmac
good
that's okay
you like eating cats
and then
yeah and then the dad
goes good
don't eat the cat
right
yeah
the way
I just want to go back
and isolate Akiva's
good
great
I'm liking this
it was much like
Katy Perry's
thanks
hey guys
hey yeah
I have been on set
for the last
I've been on set
for the last five days
thanks for asking guys
and how's it going
how was it Keith
get my sea legs
back out there
shooting stuff
it's been really fun
it's a pilot
for NBC
this is all public knowledge
I can say that
yeah
you sent us some stills
that look great
okay
it's a show
written by Dan Gore
to bring him up again
that's why I had talked
to him this week
and by Luke Del Tricci
I think that's how you say
I know his name's Luke
but honestly
we don't use last names
that often on set
and so I wonder
if that's how you say it
it's not like a frat house
people aren't like
hey shit
Akiva
I worked with him
for eight to ten years
I'm just going to tell you
it is pronounced
Skywalker
okay thank you
so Luke Skywalker
and they wrote it together
I like that a lot
I like that a lot
he also worked on
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
as Andy just pointed out
and it stars Jake Johnson
from New Girl
what's the name of it?
it does not have a title yet
okay so write in
what like
tell us the general concept
and then people will
write in their suggestions
he's a private eye
and it also has Keith David
who's just a legend
and Jane Levy
who's wonderful
okay
I suggested
his name should be Magnus
and that it should be
called Magnus P.I.
but you rejected that
I think
I didn't reject it
I said I thought
I'd throw it in the mix
okay
well my hat's in the ring
that's my suggestion
so you thought it should be
Magnus P.I.
and this is coming from
the guy who thought
what if it was
MacGruber
instead of MacGyver
that's right
you get me
Andy you fucking get me man
Luke did say
he'd give anyone 50 bucks
if they came up with the title
alright
see guys
this is how it really works
he's basically saying
if you come up with a title
you see him in the street
hey Keith
if people watch the show
what are you going to do for them?
it's not really my show
I'm just directing the pilot
I don't think so
Keith
what are you going to do?
no hanky panky
yeah can't do much
can't do much
can I just
can I give a shout out to
what was a delicious
rewatch of Bronx Beat
in this Amy Poehler episode
oh yeah
oh okay
yeah let's get to that episode
also just the fun of
Amy coming back
this was her first time hosting
after having left the show
which made me a little sad
when I'm like
oh my god
we're so far in the pod right now
that
yeah
people who've left
are back to host
yeah
it was great having her back
but Bronx Beat is just
by the way
Bronx Beat
Bronx Beat
watching it
you're like
if this was just
a comedian
that was like
a Long Island
funny woman
doing material like this
it would be one of my
favorite comedians
like
just great jokes about
they're talking about
how the summer's over
and they're so happy
because they're just
their whole summer's
just been kids at their house
and like
Maya's like
my house
filled with kids
none of them mine
like just like
some kid comes up to me
asks me for some milk
I'm like
go ask your mother
I don't know you
just really great
and then they
uh
complain about how
there's bedbugs everywhere
and then Polar says
the thing about
you know how bedbugs
get into your house
why how
they ride in
on the backs of mice
what
marauding armies
of bedbugs
galloping in on mice
so guess what
you got bedbugs
congratulations
you also got mice
let's discuss it
hey
hey guess what bedbugs
do me a favor
take a hike
I didn't invite you
grab your saddles
jump on your tiny mice
and ride yourself
out of my house
giddy up
giddy out
alright
alright
alright
so
I'm just like
this is
magic
was
what like
is it channel 13
that would have had
like a show like this
like I feel like
if you grew up in New York
there's like a certain vibe
of like these shows
that you're like
fuck this is like
awesome
public access
or whatever
and then the
Katy Perry
musical guest
comes out
in a very tight
Elmo top
and it's just
she works at a library
and she's a very
shapely woman
who works at the library
and there's a great thing
where the Bronx B women
are both
taken aback
until they hear
that the library
has asked her to wear
looser fitting clothing
and then
they're like
and they rush
to her defense
like don't let anybody
ever tell you
there's anything wrong
with your body
it's just great
was this
was this torn from
the headline slightly
had she gotten in trouble
for wearing something
slightly too
you know
this way
on on
Sesame Street itself
oh
I think you're right
he ripped
from the headline
so it was
it was like
I think it was
Katy had worn something
and had gotten some blowback
you were right
Katy Perry
Sesame Street
yes
she did a
a modified version
of Hot and Cold
with
with Elmo
parents complained
her dress
was too revealing
yes
and
so this is a reference
to it
a difference
between now and then
is that I have children
and team parents
looking at the photo
she's fine
she looks totally fine
double D
more like 3D
tell me about
I need some glasses
I need those glasses
awabanga
yi yi yi
yi yi yi
the library
told me to wear
some looser fitting
clothing
it's so embarrassing
hey
listen to me
never be embarrassed
about your body
never
never be embarrassed
about your body
it's beautiful
beautiful
in France
everybody walks around
with no shirt on whatsoever
everyone
boobies as far as the eye can see
it's boobieville
la boobies
and you know what's good for them
they know how to do things over there
I'm this close
to moving to France
except that I can't speak the language
and I hate the people
there's this beyond
comfort
yeah it's on fire
it is so weird
to see people who are like
just flowing
like
there's no
it isn't like
there's no
it's definitely not
it is
it's just pure flow
it's like no one's tied
to fucking anything
it's amazing
I'm gonna go ahead
and say something crazy
I think Amy and Maya
were very good
on SNL
yeah
and what do you think
of Peter Sarsgaard
whoa
the greatest person
that ever lived
nice
by the way
Maya coming out
to Broadway
to do Oh Mary
oh I'm excited
I'm gonna come see that
thrilling
oh you know what
there's a chance
all three of us
could be in New York
at that time
so meaning all four
oh
we could finally
have a get together
can I make a request
I mean
if our get together
was going to see
Oh Mary
could we
also get
vasectomies
because I don't want
to be the only one
who does it
Andy
can we put you
on stront duty
yeah
I'm just gonna go
to the places
you've taken me
stront duty
it's my hometown
I get stronts
Roger Brush
again Roger Brush
not
not a hit character
and it's because
there's also that funny thing
of like Bronx Beat
are like the most
joyous people
and everybody gets behind them
Roger Brush is Fred's
incredibly misogynistic
television producer
character
who like fills in
for the host of his show
I mean I love it so much
this is
he's filling in
for a show
where all the guests
are women who are pregnant
and
he's so rude
to them
and the audience
doesn't like
I mean nobody knows
what to make of him
but he does say
at one point
to a pregnant woman
who can't get a straight
answer for him
you think you're
the only one
with problems
you should see
my water bill
that was just
a delight
you guys
oh god
we really
covered it
I can't wait to really
talk about it
oh wait
Jack Black
can you sing us in
spelling bee
spelling bee
I needed two hints
but I got it
what were your hint words
my hint words were
dandling
and ganglia
Jesus
those are not words
dandling is a real problem
for me
historically
ganglia
ganglia I usually get
yeah
ganglia
what does it mean
I mean
it was 69 words
it was a lot
so two hints
I didn't feel too bad about
ganglia
Seth I was on a little bit
of a hot streak
when I was missing the pod
and that was kind of painful
to be away
because you couldn't share it
right
yeah
a structure containing
a number of nerve cell bodies
typically linked
by synapses
which one is that
gang
oh this is ganglion
though
fuck
maybe it means something else
yeah
clusters of nerve cell bodies
located outside
the central nervous system
what's up quads
it's Andy
um
just jumping in here
it's the day after we recorded
but um
like last night
the spelling bee got posted
and I'm in a time zone
where it was a little earlier for me
so I got through all of it
except one word
and then I was like
I can't keep my eyes open
fell asleep
woke up this morning
pre 6 a.m.
there was a five in front of it
and I was all
oh last word
eunuch
I got it
clean
queen
bee
that's a kukwibi
a kukwibi
maybe that's a kukwibi
anyways
um
I just wanted to get that in there
I know Seth didn't get it
and you know
I've done this before
but I feel like it's still relevant
I know at least
two percent of
of you guys
are interested in what happened
uh
regarding me
and the bee
and be sure to check out
Digman
it's on Netflix
just let it stream in the background
you don't even have to watch it
I mean I think you will enjoy it
but just let it run
and then give it that
double thumbs up
and
I might just be padding this on
a little more
to make my new dream of
Boogerman being two episodes
come true
but
we'll never know I guess
alright
peace and love
- Ringo Starr.
- I have something before we get off.
- What you got, Keev?
Wait, I've got something, too.
Check one, too.
Oh, are you guys all hearing that?
You can't see me, right?
No.
Good, because I'm fully nude.
Is that Maya?
Maya?
Is that Maya?
One of the two Bronx beaters is in the house.
Oh, yeah.
Guess what I just watched on TV?
What?
MacGruber.
Oh, my God.
Why?
The movie or the show on Peacock?
It was the film.
It was the film starring Will Forte.
And the late, the late great Val Kilmer.
Oh, my gosh.
Yeah, that's me in a lot.
There's also some great ladies in that movie.
There's some really great ladies in that movie.
Oh, Hamilton.
Maya, we were just watching the, do you remember the Katy Perry Bronx beat?
It's a tour de force.
I do.
I remember her boobies very well.
I remember her being really game in the idea of wanting to be part of the joke.
I sent Keeva a recording.
And then after I made the recording about my feelings about it, he said, come join the
Zoom.
And now I'm here, which, which now makes the recording moot and makes it unimportant.
Yeah, we didn't play it yet.
Tell us what you said on it.
Tell us what the thing was.
I remember saying that I liked that she was into the idea of jumping into it.
That first of all, that like polar coming back to host was definitely like a very exciting
thing because one of your own coming back is a big deal.
And then feeling like I had, I had any part in any recurring character that was like viable
enough to come back was so terribly exciting.
So, and then when I was saying that, you know, when the musical guest is in on it, it feels
like SNL prime, like firing on all cylinders.
It's like my dream when everybody's having fun and like the musical guest wants to be
in sketches and they're delightful about it.
You know, that can be, that's my, my joy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I love the shape of that, of that place when it's going in the right direction.
Who was your favorite?
Who's your favorite that ever did that, that you ever worked with?
Wow.
No pressure.
It's like, this is like, this is like TMZ.
Yeah.
Oh, I'm ruthless.
I'm like the ruthless one.
Let's get into it.
It's a pretty normal show here.
Andy just let the entire audience know that if anybody watches Netflix season one on Netflix
and gives it a double thumbs up that he will suck their dick if he sees that.
If he sees him on the street, if they watch Digmen, which Maya is also on.
Yeah.
I am.
Aren't I, aren't I, am I God?
What's my name?
Goud.
Goud.
Yeah.
Not to be confused with God.
No.
Maya, since we have you, do you remember Boogerman, the digital short?
The answer's no.
Neither did we.
We didn't either, but I actually was pleasantly surprised.
I, cause I remember.
Should we watch it again to catch Maya up?
Don't worry.
I just watched it and I gave you my synopsis on the recording, which was, I, I don't remember
Boogerman either because it's forgettable or I was busy drinking in my, my dressing
room.
Yeah.
But, um, watching it again, I feel like, because I know you guys so well, it really, really
smacks of fuck it.
I'm so tired.
Well, that makes sense.
Cause it's the season premiere.
So we're.
Season premiere.
Yeah.
Exhausted.
It's the season premiere.
Yeah.
That's terrible.
We are out of ideas.
That's.
Well, it, it, it definitely shows.
However, the other thing about it is that you are the few people that I know that will
still execute and complete an idea and bring it to fruition, which I find very commendable
and, um, is a delight.
Even the bottom of the bottom of the barrel, such as a Boogerman.
Yeah.
You're still.
It got more.
It got more laughs out of me than a lot of the stuff we go back to.
Go back and watch.
I will say it's built for a podcast.
So many surprises.
I want to understand what, what the thing, the contraption was in Andy's nose.
What was that?
It's supposed to be like, what is the rhythmic dancers with the, with the ribbons, like some
sort of pretentious dancing.
So it's a artistic interpretation of the boogers from the film Boogerman.
So it's like taking the low brow, uh, boogers, but giving them a high brow treatment.
Sure.
Sure.
It's beautiful.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We all agreed the boogers themselves is the worst part of it.
And that if we had chose a different stupid idea for this, the movie that it could have
been a little better, but case in point, Katy Perry jumped in and was a real, she's great
in real sport.
And like, I will say gave it some validity.
Like when you get her in it, passionately singing the theme to Boogerman, I was also
really, really, it was nice to see all the clips from Boogerman.
Yeah, we agree.
Right.
So you're coming around on it.
Oh no.
I feel, I feel the.
I feel the exact same way, but.
Right.
Unwavering.
That's good.
When Katy was thanking the audience mid song.
Her timing was great.
I mean, I've never seen someone do that at the Oscars.
For me, it's pure, it's, it's pure like execution and drive.
It's like the power of, of will.
And it's, that's so commendable.
To have the worst idea and see it through without, seemingly without shame.
Right.
Like underneath the barrel.
Such a good compliment.
Yeah.
I also wonder how many times.
The three of you were in a room and, and Andy, I'm assuming it was Andy's idea.
I don't know.
Was like, I don't know, is this, is this week a good week for Boogerman?
Oh my God.
Well, Andy was pointing out that we had just done our, our, um,
second summer in Encino, you know, we probably came back with a week before.
So we had just recorded all of turtleneck and chain had demo versions.
There was definitely a track, if not five to six tracks that we could have chosen
one to put Katy Perry on and maybe made a.
A song with her, a real one.
We blew it.
But it'd be decided, you know what, let's be inspired.
The problem is it was, uh, it's about the Oscars.
So you kind of had to do it in September.
That makes sense because they had been timing.
There was a ticking clock.
Yeah.
Well, people wouldn't have remembered Boogerman.
If we waited another year, you have one window to call.
Sarsgaard that you are reminding me though, that again, the execution of the,
um, the audience, the audience reactions starting out with.
Glenn Close, they're delightful and very, very well done.
Not everybody's good at fake, uh, award show reactions from real
celebrities at real award shows.
Yeah.
Thank you.
I mean, you guys are the best to ever do it.
We had some in pop star too.
Oh, I'm aware.
I mean, this is, this is great.
A stuff.
Great.
A bottom of the barrel, the bottom of the barrel of great bottom of your
bottom of the barrel is only dream.
This turn has been polished.
I mean, it's like a barrel of like the best Scotch, but it's just the
very bottom of it.
Yeah.
It's a little crazy.
Unfiltered.
All right.
I just went through all the tracks on the turtleneck and chain, and I'm
not sure which one, but hit us in the titties listeners.
Let us know if you think there's one that would have made perfect sense
for, for Katy Perry, Maya, since we have you, uh, you were at the Oscars.
Any good butts?
Yeah.
Top five butts.
Oh, are we talking about actual, but do answer that?
Yeah.
Any physical butts?
Top five.
You see any like, you see any butts in like suits, like famous butts,
not famous, but it's just any good dudes.
Just, just did it back.
Tuck spot.
No, you can tell us any kind of, but then also when you're done
two worse ones as well, just by best to worst.
Yeah.
Worst, but by far, um, Oh God, I'm trying to think.
I'm trying to think who is there that sucks.
Who's there that sucks.
And it was by far the worst, but we were very sure.
There were some great, great, great, but this is just between us.
Don't worry.
We would never trade you for clicks.
I mean, you, you,
you definitely get a lot more butts in suits for sure.
I'm trying to think if there were some, some tight, some tight suit butts.
Like there was no, like, there was no like Momoa or John Cena,
like where it's like just a muscle.
Not a lot of muscle.
Like they just did squats kind of butt.
Yeah.
Correct.
Um, you know, you don't, you don't probably don't have to answer that.
Did you have any drinks after?
Did you enjoy yourself?
I did enjoy myself,
but I felt so overwhelmed that I didn't even drink that much.
Like I, I think I drank some, like you,
you go from place to place.
It's a really like high class life.
You know, you go from place to place, you sip some champagne,
you go in another room, you sip some more.
Did you stay in the building the whole time and upstairs and at the things,
or did you go to a second location far away?
I stayed in the building for the awards and I tried not to miss any of Paul's.
No, we saw you on TV.
You were accounted for.
But I, but I didn't want to like miss any of the,
the awards even for the, for the other departments.
So I ran back for the,
the bridesmaids thing and then came back and then.
That was very funny.
Very funny, by the way.
Very funny.
Guys, this is very nice of you.
It was fine.
You were my favorite out of all of them.
I don't want to pit people against each other,
but you were my favorite.
Okay, continue.
It was fine.
I mean, nobody remembers that we presented at the Oscars 15 years ago,
but somehow the Oscar gods were like,
Hey, you guys presented 15 years ago.
We think you should present again.
We're like, all right.
I think it's because Rose was there and they knew I was going to be there.
So they're, they're making,
they're making some money.
It was very smart.
It was good producing to take advantage of it.
What's Paul going to do with the Oscars or where are you going to put them?
Are you going to put them on display?
That's private.
That's private.
Oh, that's private.
Oh, I know where he's,
oh, I know where he's going to put them.
I know where he's going to put them.
I also thought you were going to say,
what's Paul going to do next?
Any new plans?
What's he working on?
Tough one to follow up.
What's he cooking up?
We, we got on a plane the next day to,
to be,
on vacation because that's a long
rode to that oscars ceremony it's not just the oscars it's a lot as as you gents know
but then he woke up and was immediately sick like full fever
at least he held it to break which is always what happened after snl and shit the mind is
is a magnificent is a magnificent thing it knows it like held on until he couldn't hold it any
longer and then released but it was totally worth it we did party to answer your earlier question
we did there was a nice we went um to a friend's and had some food and cocktails and then we went
to the warner brothers had like a really nice party with all the sinners folks and um man that
ryan coogler man he is a dreamboat he is he is the best dude ever did you know he's from the bay
we should have asked for your can you get a voice note from ryan to explain the bay area what like
just like him shouting out the bay yeah yeah all right sure we started this maya we're talking
about how bay area people can't stop talking about the bay us
being some of the worst offenders i think i brought up the bay to him like i'm a bay adjacent just
because of going to uc santa cruz like two of you guys and i feel and all my friends being from
oakland and being from berkeley made me feel bay adjacent and so much cooler like i know what a
hoop d is and i know and i and i've used hella so many times but it made me feel like i had to tell
ryan coogler that which i'm sure he was not that interested in but made me feel closer and he's a
he is such a dream what a great guy he's the best here here is the the last picture that i sent to
ryan just because i was gonna text him this is what i said this is what i sent to him it's me
my head on jeremy allen white's body i don't know what i was talking about no reply weird
no reply that was the last text you ever said i
i think i should text him again he'd be like hey any thoughts on this picture it's been six months
i think it went straight to the spank bank i think like
to rush off the phone oh god hey ryan i know oscar stuff can be a real drag now that it's
finally through it any thoughts on this pic yeah i was giving you some nice time
i was trying to stay out of the way congrats on the win now that things have settled down here's this
enjoy your life uh wait can i can i like tangent for a second because when when seth was saying that
mcgruber should be up for an oscar that wasn't really what you were saying for the mcgruber tv
show i really pressed everyone to try to get it submitted for a nobel peace prize and i like
looked it up and everyone was like no you can't and i was like it's a whole thing and blah blah
but i'm still bummed about that when we weren't able to submit i think there's time you and trump
i mean especially in today's climate i feel like
i feel like trump would go for it i feel like he'd be really into it it's not too late it does
as a reminder that on every yorn project they should hire somebody to handle the bullshit
it's like hey yorm's gonna come up with three obsessions over the course of this film and
will you just pretend like they're real just just pretend you did it guys i just want to say that
just because keith and i were texting about about tommy bahamas i also feel so um excited and
delighted to be on your podcast i have never been on your podcast before
we're thrilled we don't we generally have yeah guests either so this is this a live guest you're
maybe the second or third one ever yeah listen i can be here at any time you just let me know
it's good to hear maya we realize the four of us maybe haven't been in a room together since 2019
and we think that with the next time we want to be in a room together is to see you in o'mary
oh boy that's a great idea will you please do that yes we're so excited oh my god it's
soft plans that andy will be out there a little bit and that i'm gonna be out there
with my family a little bit they're very soft the potential's there they're flaccid now but
wait when are you when is it gonna happen april 28th flaccid plans you really got your finger on
the pulse of broadway yeah but they could become hard plans they could become rock hard later i
hope they become rock hard that would be my dream yeah i would love it if you guys were there that
would wow what a
what a thrill i can't believe it but what kind of stront do you want to eat at after
a stront did you say yeah what kind yeah which stront you want to hit up i mean you know it
depends on what the local like broadway fair is i mean have you done broadway before never so the
the eight show a week of it i feel like they're the performers you're going to talk to are going
to talk about kind of the regiment because you kind of want to yeah i don't think they go out
ever no you because you want to eat the same time it's like a thing because you need to get
a really strict pattern so i don't think going out to dinner with us after is actually something
you can do yeah i believe she'll make an exception for us fairly monastic but i would make an
exception for you guys for sure she's gonna want the strong or you tell us your pattern and we'll
fit into it my pattern is no i don't have one i haven't even started rehearsing i start rehearsing
in april there's only a two-week rehearsal period it's pretty it's pretty quick turn around because
the show's going and it's been going as you know so it's how many times have you seen it have you
just seen it the once three times great different different performers three different mary's three
different times which is nice great have you seen it a lot seth i know you've had all the mary's on
i've seen it three times i've seen i saw twice uh with cole and once with betty gilvin and it's
fantastic and it's seeing it with somebody other than cole which i had my doubts was so exciting
and so cool that's what's cool about it and talking to cole about it made me feel better
which was like you know you don't have to do cole's performance you bring to it what you're
gonna do and then actually the last time i saw i saw jane do it as well and i saw jinx monsoon do it
and then when i saw jinx do it i was like oh you can't it's they're all different they're all
totally different because jane can't not be broadway perfection and i was like fuck how am i
gonna yeah i don't you know we're used to running on fumes and those two shows on a saturday kill us
but we do it but this is eight
shows a week and i'm 53 i started i started us know when i was 27 and i could do it then but like
this is a really different this is a different story dark on mondays maybe we could maybe we
have that dinner sunday night there you go i do think it is gonna switch to a monday dark
it's either a thursday or monday i can't remember but the the dark is gonna switch
you heard it here first the dark is gonna switch that's what she said dark is gonna switch
we'll go to a stront on monday maybe what a dream
stront is a uh joannaism i can't take it wow by the way so late in the pod for you to throw that
out yeah he had been claiming stront for i feel like you waited until a lot of people have stopped
listen i'm still sitting on a question for maya it's been like a 20 minute hold don't hold it it's
not good for you would you say that uh someone who's bay adjacent is but jason
i'm gonna go with yes i'm gonna go with yes
yeah i knew it but i felt my toes stepping immediately into some fucking andy thing
that was so long running i don't even know what i just stepped into don't worry about maya she's
but jason you guys coogler's not gonna hop on what the fuck not even for the bay he's busy he says
he wants he wants you to know though that please send maya uh him and zinzi's love though but no
what about the rest of us
also haha did he put a haha on the picture should i send him a pic of me on jeremy allen white's body
now oh my god please i feel like he'd really like that since we know now that's a way that's how you
say goodbye to somebody why don't your why don't you send her the picture of you on jeremy allen
so it can just come to him the same photo from multiple phones you guys i just want to chime in
and say i'm getting kind of hyped because if we go just like a little bit longer we are gonna have
a two-part boogerman on our hands we said this should be our first part which was my prediction
oh good news i just got the photo so i can really see it wait there's a detail to the um your jeremy
allen white photo that i hadn't seen before which is there's an arrow to his face and the word me
i'm gonna call you
that's in case you were wondering so you you or paul send it to him and just say hey
jorm thought maybe you hadn't seen this so i love that you're assuming that i have ryan
coogler's phone number i do not what like it's so confusing what we're even talking about he
stopped giving it out he got that photo he stopped giving it out after jorm back yeah he stopped
giving out after he got that yeah he's like i've cast too wide a net here andy's tongue just fell
out of his mouth i was just seeing if i had ryan coogler's phone number i don't know if it's
coogler's number i do not we're bay bay people all have it if you're adjacent like me you don't
yeah but jason is oh that's really really good i'm pretty sure i have his number comedically
like i'm just sort of his sensibility is adjacent joanna are we gonna find out three episodes from
now that the jason's joanna too no but i do think she would appreciate it wait have you been saying
straunt like every season on the podcast and now you're giving joanna credit no no just today just
today yeah but he let it ride for like three weeks and then he's like i don't know what to do with it
40 minutes before and we're gonna start stront want stront swans that's something she would
casually say to me yeah what time are we headed to the stront that's great that is your wife i like
it god your wife is
is the best at being the worst i've said that many times before she's truly she's a world award
winning she's the best at being the worst and the best for being the best for you that's right you
created a monster uh in the best possible way you created a mini mini andy wait andy will you give
us just like three joanna isms well the whole job thing is her and her sibs yeah yeah they start a
job can i also do an impression of like when we were making the albums this is what she would in
the morning she would come down she'd be like oh yeah like a very low weird powerful walk oh god i
loved it i'm a fucking weirdo another morning and here we go to the coffee machine
did someone order the rascal are you talking about louise and cino days or yeah yeah let's
leave it with this uh we were texting because somebody sent me the louise house is featured
in the film the gift the joel
egerton oh is it really uh bateman movie wow they shot at the house that we stayed at that
no longer exists that has been leveled and turned into another house now oh i didn't know that
raised if you will it's been raised but didn't somebody say that that house had a haunted room
in the back debatable i did not experience that but i never stayed there the horse table was
odd uh the land was so big that whoever bought it destroyed the first house redid it completely
moving it up and then
was able to build two more complete huge houses on the land and find a way to connect them to
the road behind it so it's become on top of a native american burial ground yes so they're
all haunted now correct intentionally to be disrespectful as a prank as a prank on the
spirits spirits love pranks yep so you rolled right out of beetlejuice the original beetlejuice
right into mcgruber is that right honestly i did i watched a little i got an ivy today because i
wasn't feeling so good and i was like oh my god i'm gonna die i'm gonna die i'm gonna die i'm gonna die
i wanted to hear someone say my name and i wanted to watch some feel good tv and beetlejuice was on
caught the end of beetlejuice we'll pull up the gap there andy a little tighter
what was your favorite line from beetlejuice that he said oh god is your hand down where i think it
is don't worry andy i thought of your monologue gosh was there anything perilous in the desert
oh god i can't remember the desert perhaps something which are a worm like
andy i'm so mad that when my said beetlejuice i didn't say it two more times that is on me
so i could have appeared i was texting with keeve and he wrote it correctly he wrote
fatal guys no yeah but i think i might have still misspelled it because it gave me the
lines that i put the i in the wrong place you spelled you spelled it with the g which i
appreciated yes yes yes like i tried to take it back to the old well you were being you were being
you were just being cautious
yeah thank you all right well this was a pleasure amazing thanks for having me thank you for being
on maya thank you so much first time caller long time listener we love you maya i'm just gonna
shoot you the link whenever we're doing it and you're my favorite adjacent friend i am your
favorite adjacent friend aren't i i'm pretty great yeah yeah you're up there amongst them all
thanks guys i love you all very much we love you love you buddy love you see you in april
you want to say it andy no way
we have one more thing i do have one more voice note that i kind of forgot about oh
which is i reached out to the host of this episode i reached out to polar oh did she leave you on red
like ryan coogler no she's she's a real friend well that's interesting because i texted her
seth i texted her two days ago to ask about a costume designer she had worked with and she
didn't write me back did you send the same picture that you were yeah that's a conversation i did i
send it with all texts and we'll put that in the show notes he's like how do i
respond to this you know what he did write haha he did write haha yeah he did so up yours when
did he do it this time when he realized you wrote him again he was like oh i never responded
that's that move i do that sometimes somebody writes and i then feel bad and i haha
i didn't see this oh hey back in the day haha just seeing this i love that text i send that one a lot
hey everyone amy polar here a member of the quaid army and a righteous kill to all
um thank you
for asking me to send in a voice note um just loving the pod guys love the pod and uh i'm being
asked to talk about when i hosted in september 2010 i was let's see 40 something i i had just
maybe started parks and rec the year before it was my first time hosting and i remember being
very excited and nervous and maybe maybe two spray tanned that's my memory um
but honestly and this is going to come to no surprise i remember very little
um seth sent me the rundown and i looked at it and we did a bronx beat sweet maya
came back for that that's you and we did it with katie perry and i remember
that i remember we did a sketch about tiny hats um uh let's see i think we i'm sure we did some
stuff on update yeah um seth were you still there you must have still been there i don't know it's
all a blur it's all a big soup um but i do remember that we had the cold open was like
my anxiety dream and um justin timberlake very nicely came and tina and jimmy and dratch
and yeah i was just looking over the sketches again and laughing at the stuff that got cut
seth just read out loud the sketches that got cut because that's always really fun
seth do it um all right guys uh well i wish that this could be more and more interesting but but
um i'm trying to remember if there was anything else other than katie perry and 2010 and you know
just saying she's trying to tank our pod she's trying to tank our pod because we're
competition i don't think i did a hillary clinton i think that got cut and um you're right she's
yeah yeah because she knows we're up for the golden globe to everyone there was this thing
called artificial intelligence and then i can bet she's bad hanging 15 years it was going to take
over our lives and you guys were all like shut up amy you don't know what's gonna happen in the
future and i was like come on guys this is real you should invest in it and you were like shut up
remember most so yeah that's right okay later quades later later quades
it came true thank you amy it all came true quades god bless god bless mrs polar i wish i
knew arnold schwarzenegger well enough to get him to record later amy oh yeah play that after
i know him i'll text him oh boy god what blocked wait wait hold on block send him the bod pic first
why why arnold what seth do you want to say the names of the sketches lobotomy pepto-bismol ice
and american america also i cut a cut on air family feud and a message from hillary clinton
makes sense pepto-bismol ice written by klein i mean the title really says it all yeah let's
probably find out i feel like that aired maybe later eventually it was cut after dress so and
it's a videotape so they definitely probably aired it later what was the actors on actors andy i saw
it i don't remember what is that sketch nobody remembers it's it's a very short sketch with you
and timberlake sitting in front of like on like a charlie rose black psych set sketch and oh it's
like two sentences right it's very short it's like you're an actor now blah blah blah and then like
line three is you being like but when are you making new music man and he like storms off oh
yeah yeah yeah yeah uh i will say hair restoration which is a james anderson sketch
is a very good psych gag commercial parody that it is uh
replacing your hair loss with your pubes and so it's just very good wigs that does ring a bell
of like super like fred and bobby with like super curly like not matching their hair at all that was
kind of like one of the first films that me and akiva worked on it was his actor in uh one of his
films at santa cruz and it was called beard street blues and it was that i couldn't grow a beard and
so i was cutting my hair off of my head and i basically got addicted to it and then by the end
i was uh i was cutting my pubes off
on them on my face he had a pube beard yeah it's kind of like a it's like a merkin yeah that was
funny yeah it's kind of like a face like a face merkin well on that note yeah i got through two
episodes of digman andy while we were doing the pod bro i appreciate you i appreciate you i'm
gonna double thumbs them up and next time i see you you know what's going down let me just tell
y'all if you just let it play in the background we'll be into season three just get your phone
going off to the side you do not need to watch my just let it roll through the episodes and then give
it that double thumbs up and then next time you see andy in his words gulp but this is fun that
you guys do this it's keeping you keeping you young i like it it is it's good for the it's good
good for the soul good for our hearts it's funny you say that my because scheduling it is literally
taking years off my life but i do appreciate that it feels good to like be in it you know
in the soup my are the people who listen to this pod are quite army yeah so you're quite
- 'Cause they're all Quaids, that's why she said.
And if they see us on the street, they know we're Quaids.
to either give a quiet, like, Fight Club-style Quaid Army.
And then our response is, Righteous Kill.
Wow.
And then you just go along your day.
Or, if you're far away, you can shout it.
You can go, Quaid Army!
And then we have to go, Righteous Kill!
But that's the whole interaction.
And so far, in my experience,
every Quaid out there has kept the arrangement.
Yeah, it's amazing.
It's made beautiful interactions.
A lot of people say Righteous Kill to me,
and then I have to be like, you can't say that.
You have to say Quaid Army.
Yeah, but we often have to give a PSA,
being like, if you steal, if you say Righteous Kill,
we have nothing to say.
This feels like a very clear setup for me
to leave you with a Quaid Army.
Oh, Righteous Kill.
Oh, Righteous Kill, Righteous Kill.
Do you want to take the honors of actually saying later, Arnold?
Sure.
All right, first we all have to say, love you, everybody.
Love you guys.
Love you, Maya.
Love you guys.
Love you, Maya.
Love you, Quaid.
Later, Arnold.
Later, Quaid.
Where are you from, Alf?
Melmac.
Good.
Thank you.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The group reflects on rare physical meetings pre-pandemic, recalling a memorable 2019 trip with Brooks Whelan involving a boat ride and a concert in Milwaukee.
Brooks is celebrated as a travel companion and road trip expert, known for Googling great local food spots and recommending iconic places like Pizza Bianco in Scottsdale.
A humorous anecdote highlights Brooks’ politically charged comedy set, where an audience member’s “be careful” comment is interpreted as concern, not threat, for his safety.
The group discusses the Boogerman special, noting its ambitious, over-the-top satire that mixes Oscar-style award show parody with absurd celebrity cutaways, creating a divisive yet impactful experience.
The sketch is praised for its high production value and clever use of real award show footage, though it fails to deliver consistent humor due to its chaotic, unfocused tone.
Katy Perry’s inclusion in Boogerman is defended as a bold, effective move that elevates the sketch despite misalignment with the film’s tone.
The episode highlights strong camaraderie among the hosts, especially in shared memories and inside jokes, such as the “hang gliding” debate and the “Kablamo” beer drinking tradition.
The group jokingly proposes launching a new app called “Stronts” to capture the spirit of road trip exploration, blending humor with creative collaboration.
Summary:
The podcast reflects on meaningful moments of physical connection among the hosts before the pandemic, highlighting a memorable 2019 trip with Brooks Whelan that included a boat ride and a concert in Milwaukee. Brooks is celebrated as a brilliant travel partner, known for his road trip habits and ability to discover great local food. The hosts share humorous anecdotes about Brooks’ comedy performances, including an audience member’s “be careful” comment, which they interpret as a moment of genuine concern rather than hostility.
A central focus is the Boogerman special, an ambitious, satirical award show parody that blends fake celebrity cutaways with absurd humor and high production value. While the sketch is wildly over-the-top and technically impressive, it struggles with coherence and consistent comedic timing, resulting in a polarizing but thought-provoking experience. The hosts defend the inclusion of Katy Perry, calling it a bold and effective choice that enhances the piece.
The episode also celebrates shared traditions—like drinking Newcastle Brown Ale and using “Kablamo” as a drinking chant—and includes playful, improvised ideas like launching a “Stronts” app for road trip planning. Ultimately, the discussion reveals a deep bond among the hosts, rooted in humor, memory, and mutual respect, even in the face of creative missteps. The tone balances self-deprecation with genuine admiration, especially for Brooks and their bold, genre-defying storytelling.
FAQs
The last time all four of you were in the same room was in 2019, during a trip to Minneapolis where you went on a boat and saw a concert together.
Brooks is known for being a great travel companion, suggesting spontaneous road trips, Googling great food spots, and creating fun pre-show playlists with the group.
Seth compared Brooks to the digital short 'Wish It Would Rain,' calling him the friend equivalent of a great, heartfelt, and memorable connection.
During a show in Scottsdale, Brooks’s father said he was great, but Brooks responded by saying he hadn’t seen him in over a year and a half, showing a deep personal connection.
Yes, they used Katy Perry in the Boogerman episode, and the group later admitted it was a bold move that improved the performance, even if it didn't fit perfectly.
The sketch parodied award show performances by cutting to clips from a fictional, terrible movie, using real award show footage to create humor through irony and surrealism.
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