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Episode 112

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Episode 112

The podcast features a lighthearted, nostalgic reflection on past episodes, blending personal anecdotes with inside jokes and cultural references. Key highlights include the deep connection between Greg Chen and the show’s content, especially his voice work in Japanese games and the dubbed *Squid Game*, which the team calls “exceptional.” The episode celebrates a real, non-AI performance by Arnold from *The Tonight Show*, emphasizing authenticity and humor. The hosts share personal memories, such as their childhood in a cul-de-sac and a forgotten Mexican restaurant in Tarzana, adding warmth and relatability. They also discuss the evolution of their comedic language, including the creation of a fan-driven dictionary of podcast-specific terms, like “bad hang” and “breakfast effector,” which are both entertaining and insightful. The conversation includes tributes to longtime collaborators, such as John Solomon and Will Forte, and their impact on comedy. A major highlight is a heartfelt voice note from Kristen Wiig, expressing nostalgia for their time on *SNL* and the camaraderie of the cast. The episode also touches on SNL UK’s success and the fun of Upfronts, where performers engage in banter and showcase their shows. The team concludes with a lighthearted tone, celebrating the humor, memory, and shared culture that defines the podcast. The discussion ultimately reinforces the value of personal connection, real-life experiences, and the enduring joy of a shared comedic journey.

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Well, it's the Lonely Island and St. Magus Podcast Live! I've been recording. Yeah, we're recording. I just feel like. I am rolling now. I just feel like everything I say is gold, you know? I don't know what Greg Chen intro they're playing now, but the one from last week that I only heard after, you know, we recorded the episode, we don't hear it. And then I heard it, where it was like the. It was really good. The Jelland Brothers. It was exceptional. It was really good. Can I say, and you guys know Greg better than me, I'm going to read a comment and you can tell me if this is something that you guys knew about Greg. Somebody wrote, it blows my mind that Greg Chen, the English voice actor for many great Japanese video games, has had such a long relationship with the boys. I wonder if they've played any of the video games he stars in. Did you know that detail about Greg Chen? He does so much voiceover work. I believe he is also one of the. One of the main characters in Squid Game. Yeah. If you listen to Squid Game dubbed, if you watch, sorry. Yes. Well, I guess you would be listening, technically. Yeah, we're going to let you have that one. But if you watch it and listen to the dubbed version, then he is the main dude. That was a Delayed His Song. Also, Take It Away Arnold and getting Arnold to sing got a real belly laugh for me. Yeah, we're not AI guys, but I just, we needed it. That wasn't AI. No, no, he really sang that. That was on an old. Carson Tonight Show. Yeah, so let's make sure. Because I do feel like there was a fear that somebody had AI'd Schwarzenegger singing that song. That was not the case. No. No, no, it's real. I Googled Schwarzenegger singing, no AI, real deal. And that came up. But you did ask ChatGPT to find it. Yeah, of course. Google's busted. Google's busted. That was fantastic. Wait, I have some things to say. First of all, I also got caught off guard by Jonah's winter. That was a wonderful message, and a lot of the Quades were delighted. A lot of the Quades are like, I can't believe those two dudes did not see the Bell Show mention coming. I saw it from a mile away, but I really did. I feel like such a sucker every single time, because I really, it really. It's just that he's so good at the red herring. He's so good at the red herring. There is a Mexican restaurant in Tarzana, and it got my brain just spinning trying to remember its name. Yes. And it was really good, but I don't know if we ever went with Jonah, and I was like trying to have a memory of that. We didn't. a path and me knowing you guys i could see you up talking a mexican restaurant to your house yeah of course and so my immediately was like i don't remember they never took me to one of the tarzana mexican restaurant and then i mean also just men in tights is the still the funniest end to chapelle yeah uh i like by the way you guys made a comment about i don't even know who the song was by it's we like sports where you do your dog faces and you say that's a reference to something or mad dog faces yeah yeah super thug by noriega yeah and there's this really funny thing for me as somebody who is a fan of rap music when you're like we have deep cuts i mean they're not that deep but they're deeper than that one's not that deep that was no that one's that one's pretty basic i know but you guys you are you're so um anti coming off as posers and i like every time you walk back like no no i know the real ones know this one the real way yeah yeah you don't ever want to get yeah well we don't want to seem like a pose yeah for like this is super underground super deep right somebody would be like that's not that was all that was on the radio all the time i um this is more my notes on listening to the wonderful we like sports thanks i really like the line keeve you say you like whiskey and your thinks it's bitter and then it's like the opposite of it yeah no no i just say you think it's bitter i don't think i'm talking to your i'm thinking to the the listener yes i understand yeah i always okay right so you guys are never really talking to each other the you and yeah yeah the you is the listener is is those people at home that don't know what it's like to be a real one the proverbial you yeah the most revealing moment that you guys are actually just that we like sports guys is when yorm immediately can't remember the right way to say throw the pigston like in the podcast you're like i love have the like you just immediately stumble on well speaking speaking of that though and me not actually being a sports guy when keeve kind of started actually watching baseball it hurt genuinely i was like i was like wait is there only one is there only guy guy number two is holding it down well i've stopped i've stopped yorm yeah i did have a good when my kids were young and i'd be in the house all day i was like sports is so good to have on because i remember it being kind of a comforting sound in my house yeah totally it's not gonna scare them and you don't have to be paying attention to a story so all of a sudden i was like oh my god i'm gonna have a's games on all the time and the baseballs and the warriors were on that historic run yeah so i did get it back to my childhood did your dads did your dads do this where they liked the local radio guy better so you would watch the game but he'd do the sound off and then have the radio announcers instead yeah and that was super comforting that must be just something from their generation because my dad definitely did that with the a's they were good though the a's the a's and answers were better on the radio yeah there is that thing about mean all day where you talk about when my team loses i mean all day this is my this is why i went the other way when i had kids keeve and didn't have a game on all the time like right before because you care too much i care for me it was just background noise and for you you'd be there being like oh come on you're fucking idiots and it was we were and i think maybe even ash was a baby and alexi just put him down i remember i remember the game it was the steelers cowboys regular season game like whatever 11 years old sports guy yeah and uh the steelers it looked like they pulled off this incredible comeback victory with like 45 seconds left and then the cowboys drove down on one and it was one of those things for like alexi would say i threw the ipad my recollection is i i swiped it off the table because i was watching it on the ipad and i just so it did you know what i'm gonna let her be correct on this and it hit the ground and she was very taken aback and i remember the next day she's like i'm not okay with that it's so much worse when it's the next day and i'm not okay with that being a thing that i'm worried is going to happen when our kids are around that something will happen that will make you and i was like uh-huh yeah yeah that's right that's right it's so much worse when she thought about it for a day and it was like yeah like you know it was painful for her for 24 hours how do i approach this without without making him even more angry well i want to give her credit yeah and i really appreciate that she gave a full 12 hours to figure out if she was okay with it yeah you know it means she's like am i okay with that and to let you cool down yeah well exactly um you know all day um i had a flashback as well for you guys talking about your air conditioner and tarzana that was my addiction and i was like oh my god i'm gonna die i'm gonna die i'm gonna die during covid the mexicans in tarzana sorry but go ahead oh is that how you did your your show during covid you you had to like turn it on and then yeah so it was we were in the attic middle of summer yeah so heat rises so hot and i would have to like record i would turn off the ac to do like a closer look top to bottom like 12 minutes and by the end i'd be fucking drenched that room looks hot i can picture it in my head and i'm like oh everything is collecting up there oh great though how great of an experience to remember that though like right yeah isn't that great and then we had a day where ethan hawk uh it was uh i figured out during covid was our neighbor and i remember one day i was like hey do you want to like do a bit where you're like in the closet behind me during a closer look and you just pop your head out and i don't even i remember that and i kept flubbing and he came out and again so imagine how hot it is and now he's in a closet and he's wearing a mask and he's drenched he's like buddy i think i only got one more in me this is a guy that that memorizes all of blue moon you know and he's a workaholic this guy has been through the ringer like a pro you're taking me to my limit wait should we specify that andy's not here he's not just super quiet doing spelling bee yeah so andy and by the way this was scheduled around andy's availability yes he's east coast right now yeah but that means so it's not that early for me it's not it's nine in the morning yeah but he has a cold and he's shooting a movie yeah a second movie so he has a very early start tomorrow i want to give andy his grace yeah and but it is interesting that we scheduled it around him and then he's the only one not but i'm assuming he's well i will say unless he's sound asleep a courtesy text would have been i think somewhere in the realm of yeah he wouldn't just blow it off he must really have a cold so i'm kind of hoping he's he's yeah because he is fighting a cold and has to be on camera again tomorrow i'm sure i've said it before that amy poehler used to call him little slugger because he was always like a little slugger yeah yeah he was always a little little slugger was always a little under the weather so this is this might be a little slugger sunday but the the topic today is party at mr bernard's but we held it last week because we didn't have andy yeah because it's such an andy centric and it's me and andy and you weren't even there right no no no so i don't i don't know if we so i don't know that we should even do it without him so well i mean let's see how long we can bullshit so keep going i'm feeling good look i'm not even halfway through my bullshit list okay well then maybe you take that out potentially and not name it that i think it's good i think we can name what we're doing okay maybe don't call it a bullshit list maybe call it that's what i mean so maybe we can just talk about other things that are more pressing than the short important things bullet items on my bullshit list yeah like i watched robin hood uh prince of thieves this week but i watched the extended version and there were 12 minutes i it was like going back in time to learn so much more about alan rickman's uh nottingham guy share i have a theory that there's a moment where alan rickman sighs i haven't watched it since i think it's been a while but i think it's been a while I think I saw it in the theater. Yeah. Like he has a moment where he sighs, because he realizes Robin Hood is not dead. I'm sure. And it's one of the funniest movies from like a dramatic villain, where it's just like, I feel like villains don't have that moment enough where they're just like, ugh. Well, and he's the master of it. I mean, it's Hans Gruber, but he's got huge 90s hair. Yeah. That is so rad. And all the scenes shot of Robin Hood and out in the forest are shot very traditional, beautiful photography. And every time it goes to Alan Rickman in his castle, it's super like Terry Gilliam wide angle handheld. So it has like this kind of 12 monkeys, I'm an insane person in an insane place vibe. Oh, shit, I gotta see this again. Yeah. Anyways, it's a new film, Robin Hood. Men in Tights. Prince of Thieves, check it out. It's hard not to say Men in Tights every time. That's how effective that title was. Wait, I have a question though for you. Who directed it? That guy, his name is Kevin Reynolds, I believe. Not Kevin Costner. Got it. But I think if you talk to someone who worked on the movie, I may have some insider info that I don't want to spill. Kevin Costner was a pretty bossy bottom, I think it's what they call when it's your lead actor and he's actually directing the movie from under you. Wait, I have two more things from my listen. One, I was an actual cul-de-sac kid, but before you judge me as like living the high life. I picture you. I was a cul-de-sac at the top of a hill. So it was actually a terrible place to play sports because I was a cul-de-sac kid. There was just enough incline down. Were you the end of the cul-de-sac and it was the top of the hill? So top of the hill and then there was a cul-de-sac so there were like four houses ringing it. But like we had a basketball hoop and like on the rebounds the balls would start to roll. Yeah, it was a rough life. I mean, Keith, you're kind of cul-de-sac right now. Yeah, technically my kids are cul-de-sac kids. My street is cul-de-sac here in LA. There's just no other children on the street so there's no joy to it except for that there's not a lot of traffic. So it doesn't really happen. You don't really have a feeling as much. We were a kid at being cul-de-sac so it was good. And then guy number one, guy number two has a real Cat in the Hat feel to it. That was my other observation. Oh, like thing one, thing two? Yeah, and then they're really kind of Cat in the Hat-y lyrics as well. Like the rhyme structure is very Cat in the Hat. Yeah, there's some Dr. Seuss. I did not think about that. Yeah, I suppose it is. Well, we missed you, Seth. We know you had done all your prep. I try to do my prep. Hey, the ALF TV official YouTube comment or whatever, the ALF TV official Someone who has the ALF ALF TV official left the comment Verified ALF account. Yeah, and they wrote Heard you guys want to watch my pilot. Great taste. I mean, obviously, check it out right here on the ALF official YouTube channel Pilot ALF Original Broadcast Full Episode Season 1, Episode 1 You're welcome. From the perspective of ALF ALF wrote that comment By the way He said my pilot My pilot And just to hammer it home the last comment, Keeve or the last sentence is Now, if you'll excuse me Lucky isn't going to chase himself Oh shit, he left to go chase the cat So the world of ALF is still happening That's really encouraging Yeah, it's very encouraging I didn't even think about how encouraging it was I'm surprised there wasn't like a parliament ALF, you know, crossover thing You know what I mean? Yeah, well, we're going to do that So thank you, ALF I'm not going to click your link quite yet because I'm saving it for when we do a whole episode But shout out to ALF Thank you, ALF Glad to hear you're still kicking and haven't gone back to Melmac Oh, although I think we've established Melmac Maybe we should go back to Melmac It blew up And so we can't go back to Melmac Some people in the comments were like Hey man, that's actually very insensitive to say go back to Melmac Oh, right, that's true If it even existed If it wasn't just the plates That seems pretty convenient He's like, oh, they're like Well, why don't we go visit ALF? And he's like, well, well, well I keep forgetting he's ALF It blew up, it blew up, dude We can't Oh, Keeve, a lot of people were wondering And it's maybe just me I haven't watched yet Did Will Ferrell do Mug List last night? No, he didn't I mean, he hosted, he, again It was a season finale when you submitted Mug List and it went to dress And I'm wondering if Will Ferrell Oh, you said Keeve, you meant Yoram Oh, sorry, Yoram Yeah, geez louise I should have sent it in Like, I blew it Well, I mean Resubmit You should have secretly resubmit Mug List Oh, God Got Kenward to put it in the tailoring Oh, my God Ah, shit Blew it Next time Yeah, I haven't watched last night either Hmm Yeah I'm gonna maybe never watch and just assume he did it And it went to air Just assume he did Mug List Maybe it was, but then Because Mug List was hosting McCartney played the Abby Elliott part He was the one who got his mug stolen Oh, yeah Let's none of us watch it and Yoram, that'll be the happy ending He was like Hey, where's Oh, I can't find my mug Has anyone seen it? By the way, somebody made me a really nice mug that says Mug List Oh, that's nice Somebody in the comments said Somebody needs to start a dictionary for this podcast And then a Quaid wrote If you go to the show's subreddit Someone keeps an up-to-date dictionary It's a pinned post Yeah, we saw that a few months ago And I was delighted Somebody texted me the link to that How many terms do we have so far on there? We should put that in the show notes Yeah This wonderful dictionary that really Whoever's writing it is funny, though There was like funny way Did you flip through it ever since? I haven't looked at it yet There's like I forget It was months ago But there was The way he was describing certain things Or she was making me laugh What's the name of the arcade? Oh, what was that? Yeah Oh, yeah How did your thing go? Didn't you have an entire poll you did? Daiquiri Girl versus What was that? Maybe Jeff knows the answer Jeff, do you know the answer? Jeff, do you have the finals of that poll? Last time I checked it was 50-50 Wow Let me check right now Oh, wait Jeff actually sent it to me and he Jeff maybe thought the Quades were doing that on purpose Like every Quade who went to Vogue You think they're that organized? They might be I mean, they're an army Oh, that's They're an army An army of conflict Oh, wow So the Lonely Island and Seth Meyers dictionary has an eggplant emoji for the word dick in dictionary It's an eggplant emoji chanary Oh, wow This is really well done Yeah, it's got a graphics AM, PM situation of course starts with an A It's first There's a lot of terms and golden era Wow, this is This is good That's great Oh, my God To bad hang when Amy Poehler host of the podcast Good Hang attempts to sabotage another podcast with a lackluster contribution That's called a bad hang Yeah, that's a bad hang She's bad hanging us That was a quote from episode 104 This is really good Here's but Jason Oh, well, I have a comment for it Who wrote Who made this? Whoever made this Oh, yeah, Nick Ricardo Thank you, Nick Nick Ricardo I have a comment You wrote bad Jason for abbreviation of bait adjacent Yeah, so yeah But Jason I would argue that it's probably B-A apostrophe Jason Yeah, okay But Jason I'm almost certain he's listening And also just a genuine Thank you, Nick This is This feels thorough in a really nice way I love that breakfast effector is on here BBs Justin Theroux Yeah, this is Justin Theroux Breakfast effector Dim clicks Crumb bump Quump But we did say crumb bump Quump bump But he understood that that would be the quump bump involves the bump So it'd be Somebody signed off on a comment on YouTube with a party on quain Yeah, I approve Oh, I said Jensen Ackles was the actor on The Boys who said Cool it, MacGruber It was Jared Pilecki And then he plays a character named Soldier Boy who as a play on Captain America was frozen for years And so again his line was Cool it, MacGruber Right? Someone said Take a second to realize how funny it is that Soldier Boy was frozen for years and then when he got defrosted he decided to watch MacGruber Somebody told him he was frozen when MacGruber came out and he got thawed out Yeah And they were like You gotta see MacGruber You know that scene in Austin Powers where they're filling him in and he sits there and he watches all the news of the last They put together a clip to like get him up to speed and he has to watch everything and he can't believe how much the world has changed Somebody put that together for him and was like Here are the important things for you to see Yeah, you gotta watch MacGruber Yeah, they're like Here's like footage of 9-11 The Berlin Wall came down while you were frozen and here is the film MacGruber It's like the fifth element when she has to ingest all of the pain of you know everything that's ever been Yeah A moment that you brought up more than once You must have had a real Oh, I love it I love it Just the single tear Are there Wait So 85 About 85 8400 people voted on Daiquiri Girl vs. What Was That and it still came out 50-50 By the way an odd number 8405 So somebody won but like YouTube is surrounding her Well, you put the link in for that because are there comments under it at the poll? While he's doing that here's another one You guys were talking about the font issue in We Like Sports Yeah How the font changed and somebody pointed out like a font changing without your knowledge is a bit chaotic almost feels like a prankster type move They refer to it as a Tim Ola font Oh That's when that's when your font just fucks Because he's a prankster Yeah, he's just a fucking He's a Loki He's a little Loki He's a real Loki A merry prankster Yeah Somebody else read Hearing Jonah Hill call you guys two Michelangelos made me realize that another good name for the pod is three Michelangelos and Splinter I do not care for that Oh I like that that person's he was referring to the painter but they went to Ninja Turtle immediately They immediately went to Ninja Turtle I also like Jonah pronounced it Michelangelo which was I really appreciate I appreciate it. So we were talking about one of the problems about what was that? That's the name of it, right? Mm-hmm. Is that it was just like too much of a bummer, you know, to talk about like bummer things. Oh, yeah. Well, yeah. It doesn't help it. So Mike Schur wrote in. Okay. Well, he wrote in to Andy and I. The first time Jack Black hosted Higgins and I and others, question mark, wrote him and Kyle from Tenacious D, an update feature where he brought up whatever awful thing was happening in the world or whatever and said that the politics of the region were really confusing and they had written a song to help everyone understand what was happening. Then Kyle played a classic Tenacious D driving strumming beat and Jack just kept singing Hornet's Nest, Hornet's Nest. The Middle East is such a frickin' Hornet's Nest. And then it was like a call and response where he would call out to the audience like Middle East and they'd all call back Hornet's Nest. I do vaguely remember that now. And he then wrote, it went over exactly like your digital short. Like, I bet if audio technicians measured this, the decibel level in the studio for those two performances, it would be identical. So it aired. Because I think Andy wrote back that he remembered it as well. Yeah, I do vaguely remember that. This is exactly what's going on over there. It's called Hornet's Nest. Hornet, Hornet, what you gonna do about a Hornet? Hornet, Hornet, what you gonna do? Hornet's Nest, Hornet's Nest. The Middle East is just a crazy Hornet's Nest. Ha! And Andy also wrote back, I remember it and I remember liking it a lot. So, no wonder. Well, the, and also the, well, that Jack Black, the first one, we were still, you know, in LA and watching the show every week. And it was so good. I remember thinking that was a very, very good episode. Somebody wrote under, what was that? And I like a comment that's very short to the point. Greta Thunberg ripped this off. That's where the inspiration was. Here's a nice comment. Underneath the Daiquiri Girl, what was that? 50-50. It says, what was that was a swing and a miss. Daiquiri Girl was a miss and a swing. Thanks, BananaDog152. Got a genuine laugh out of me. In that, what was that episode? I really like when people oftentimes put a timestamp of, somebody had a timestamp of 24-51. Keeve had a really good groan. And then also, Yorn made an ill-timed tumbleweed joke at 45-39. And Keeve had a really deflated and long good. I like that that's becoming my catchphrase. Oh, you know, speaking of MacGruber, I was in New Mexico doing stand-up and I had lunch. And then after my show, I had drinks with John Solomon, co-writer of MacGruber. I was impressed that he flew out for that. He loves you. And his wife, Alexis. It was fantastic. Wait, why were they there? They came out to see the show. They came out to have a parent's weekend without their kids in New Mexico. Beautiful place to have it. They just kind of used it as a, let's get out of here. Let's find something to do. And they went, why not do that? That's as good as anything else. It was great. I had an awesome lunch with them. And he's one of the best. And I will say, I thought of it because John Solomon has that really nice way of saying, good, when you tell him a story, like, good. Yeah, that is his catchphrase. I guess I stole it. Dang. Yeah. But it's a very funny thing he says when you tell him something insane. What else happened? Good. Yes. Yes. It's very. It really is. He can get pretty dry. Did he tell you about having just been with, I guess we could ask Andy, but I mean, we were trying to not blow up his spot before, but he's not there anymore. So. Yeah. His Hawaii times. Oh, did who tell? Solomon. Because Solomon co-wrote the movie. So he was out there a bunch. He did. He talked about it. Solomon had a very sweet story. Because again, Solomon and Forte have known each other since college. They're collaborators now for like almost probably 30 years. Right. They're very similar people in terms of the way that they annoy people. But Forte came out to do like a very small part in the movie. And John said to have written a movie that Will came to show up to do. It was the first time I saw through like different eyes what it means to have Will Forte show up on your movie, which is he's completely prepared. He is totally tireless. And he is so funny. And it's just like a shot of adrenaline to the entire operation. Well, that's so nice. That's so nice. Oh, yeah. That could have gone the other way. When you started the sentence, I didn't know if you're going to be like, he's so annoying. No. No, he is. He is. Yeah. He always gives 150 percent no matter what. That's awesome. Yeah. And I will say if there's another person who I believe that is true about, it's Fred. And I think there's a reason like Fred and Will, you know, are hundred movies where they show up for one scene and just murder it. And it is really true. Also, I mean, Forte showing up to play bagpipes for Bob Star. You know, it's a thankless role. Yeah. And he did a fucking amazing job. Well, we did shoot. We shot another scene that's on the deleted scenes with him. Do you remember? And that's true. Yeah. Where they're like in the living room and he's drinking and he's like staring at him. Is he asking to be paid? I can't remember what the joke was. He shows up in in the Will and Harper documentary. He shows up in New Mexico and goes up on a hot air balloon with those two. Forte will show up for anybody. But it was very sweet to hear like somebody be like, yeah, no, I can't believe all these years. And I'm like, oh, God, you're even. That's it's his true, like, best friend to a degree. Most adults don't have a best friend as close as those two friends are. They're very sweet together. So back to this dictionary off the job. The definition is to be abstaining from job on the job to be hopped up on job. He does have a real economy of language that is exceptional. This one, I mean, I was kind of saving it for Andy, but British quades should be called quies because Jamiroquai are from England. Like, I think quids is still better. Yeah, quids. Hey, speaking of our quids, SNL UK had their finale last night and also got picked up for another season. So congratulations. How many episodes was that? That felt like they just premiered. Is it like an eight episode season? They did. Very British. How British of them? Very well. It was actually it was six, which is the true British. And then it got it got the American clump to eight. But I think next year it might be even more. So it's a success. That's so exciting. It's a success. And they really. It was really cool to watch because they I think they had a lot of obviously the infrastructure that comes with SNL US, but they also immediately made it their own. And it's just been a joy to watch. So congrats to everybody over there. Seth, how were Upfronts? Did you get any good advertisers this year? Thanks for asking. Upfronts. So for those who don't know, Upfronts is. Have we talked about Upfronts? I don't think so. No, but I just saw Forte because he was in town for Upfronts. All the advertisers come to New York City 20 years ago, 25 years ago when I started in this business. It's a way sort of bigger thing. Of course. But it's still big for NBC, which is NBC has the Monday slot. They've had the Monday slot for the entirety of my time at the network. Cool. Is that is that a good slot? All the advertisers come in. There's a show at Radio City full, a packed Radio City from 10 a.m. to noon, where basically NBC leadership and then talent come out on stage for the purposes of convincing advertisers to buy. Time on their shows. It's a fascinating thing to watch. It's not for the public. There's no clips of it online. I do it every year and I have been elevated to I used to open it and it was too hard to open it. And so I asked if I could go at the end and I just basically make fun of how silly and dumb upfronts are at the end. And I feel like everybody really enjoys it. Like just 15 years ago, let's say, and any time before there was cable, but really there was the four really big networks. Yeah. And they would each have their presentation and there would be billions of dollars worth of advertising to be had. And I think those advertisers probably knew some percentage that they were, let's say you were Palmolive, what's that big, you know, Unilever, you probably have 500 million dollars just been in advertising, something insane. And you probably have already know that you're going to do at least, let's say, 50 million to each of the four. But then you have another 200 that you really would look at the slates and go. Hmm, where do I want to? Oh, that show looks like that's going to be perfect for our Dove campaign. And this one's going to be perfect. And you really could win advertisers there. And now it is just not this. They can't be. Well, now I feel like they're pitching whatever a holistic approach, like we'll put your shows everywhere and we do digital and like where it really used to be like this show. If you want to buy space on this show. I remember, in fact, he's like so NBC used to then throw a huge party at night and all the advertisers would be there and all the talent would be there. I remember the year Modern Family showed clips at the ABC up front. And it was amazing. The show hadn't come out yet. It hadn't come out yet. But like everyone I talked to was like, ABC has this show. And it was that thing that used to happen where like a pilot would like blow people away, like advertiser, who, by the way, were every one of them to a person was right. Their instinct was like, this is where we want our product. Yeah. Modern Family. But Seth, when you're there and when like Forte goes out for four seasons and things like that, is it to try and win that to like, I don't, it does seem like a weird, um, I don't know. It seems like this ceremonial thing that you kind of can't figure out. But it's like a courting thing, but it doesn't seem like the people who, like the famous people that are there really would potentially benefit from it. But I guess if, if people know, you have to do it as part of your job to sell it to these advertisers as the actor, but it's very funny to watch like six, like for example, six incredible actors will come out on stage and they all look wonderful. But like once you learn the rhythm of other runs each one of them says one line about the show they're about to you know right and it's not scripted like banter it's kind of like yeah it's great well don't the drama actors just get to be like a man who you know fight fires yeah has one get too close to his house and like they just get to say it whereas and then the comedy people have to come out and be like hey buddy like i'm doing a bit you know do some bad patter but either way it's a little hard i feel like if there's a if there was a catchphrase this year at nbc up front it was um a lot of shows about uh women running from their demons okay well that's something to look forward to this fall i once went to the fox up front when we had our overall yorm yeah with fox and pitbull mr worldwide 305 oh yeah performed on the stage at radio city you know but at 11 30 in the morning for a bunch of tv affiliates and advertisers from across the world america yeah and the audience was just going ham i would imagine and he had like six backup dancers and he was it made me laugh the whole time it was just wonderful but i think i mean i genuinely think you know the advertisers i mean it's a great reason to come to new york city for like four and three and a half days like matt and bowen did like an opening song it's really fun jane krakowski did a song in the middle it's not like i don't want to it's just like a weird and by the way i love that it's holding on because i think uh it's fascinating well it's coming back i mean nbc had has some really great shows to look out for yo i feel like i finally realized what keeve was fishing for you guys they showed a clip from keeve's show that he directed and you have a name for it you have a title for it now yeah it's called sunset pi sunset pi but it won't be out till like february yeah um wait so did they invite you to the up fronts then for it or no you know they didn't they didn't because i'm you know i'm in the wind now you know will i even do more maybe you know playing a little coy well i don't know it'll depend on the schedule dan gore went i know that um luke del trici went and then those are the two creators and then three of our main stars of it you know jake johnson jane levy keith david they all went yeah right i was lovely to see keith david is one of those guys that you're just very happy to see yeah and did they just do some bad did they do some not bad but did they do some painless banter up there painless banter totally painless but i mean again that's the other thing is like i don't know i don't know i think you like to see the stars they introduce the clip but then the laughs come from the clips which is better you know but who writes the are there writers then or are they just making up their pattern basically no i think somebody's writing it and i bet they write it and they probably send it to dan gore who knows though okay when i did miracle workers for tbs i did like a dog and pony show that was more like what we did for pop star archive where there were actual pictures of how we were going to present it so i like sort of was presenting a whole world to it it was a very weird and it was a smaller little i don't know it seemed like a very odd version of up fronts to me that's interesting they had you do it too because you just did the pilot you weren't gonna be doing that world i don't know yeah it was a weird yeah it felt much more like like presenting a movie like the way that you do when when all the top brass come in and you're like this is what this looks like here's the color before you shoot it but you had already shot it right no it was before we did it oh well that's different that's different um i feel like we should throw another poll up which is did you guys enjoy this up front conversation or kevin yorm's font conversation well we just we skipped the most important thing seth how did you like the follow-up on the theater rake conversation i did like it i did like the rake i'm never gonna say no to a rake conversation okay great um we're gonna do a little housekeeping here because um i think little slugger might be out cold um we are gonna do the second half of turtle neck and chain but that requires all parties or maybe the three of you if there's ever three you guys could go back and do some turtle neck and chain but we do have the long promised uh john ham voice note about uh shy ronnie too and then we have some other voice notes as well so this is from back when we asked for it yeah and we just sat on it we're really good we have a backlog hi guys it's john ham uh sending you guys a voice note as requested on the air uh curious method of requesting it i mean you guys have my number throwing it in the chat he's really listening whatever happy to oblige um the rihanna episode was amazing just to throw my two cents in on how much apparently we're all in love with rihanna and how beautiful she is uh as you know the uh host's dressing room is right next to the musical acts dressing room and and uh i was in there running some lines and higgins was in there or something and he left and i poked my head out just to see what was up and rihanna uh asked me to come in with her and i was like oh my god i'm gonna do this i'm gonna do this i'm gonna do this i'm gonna do this her and her crew to get high she said hey um you want to you want to toot it and i said no thanks rihanna i have to work but she was very pretty uh and now i completely forgot why i'm supposed to be sending you guys any kind of voice note other than the fact that you guys did the the audition sketch which is and remains my favorite sketch i've ever done on snl uh wig and sudeikis top of their powers and um yes it was tremendous oh right the short um ronnie and clyde top-notch production values top-notch song top-notch shirani costuming penis work so much good stuff and yes i was only needed for like two shots which was pretty fun and cool um but yes it was a delightful time to be there and i treasure it the goldenest of golden eras once again halloween cut for time uh bringing back um jeff montgomery uh which we really missed that'd be interesting to watch this was it oh my god uh love you guys later on oh he tried son of a bitch just play the i don't know if he's allowed to do that play the music um since we had a uh a ham and he mentioned audition sketch and obviously we know his co-star in that sketch is kristen wig i got a voice note from kristen and i was you know i think just because we do this i'm recollecting about our our friends that i wish i saw more more often and i was just walking down the street i think i was going to the dentist and all of a sudden i saw a text from wig and it was the best kind of text because it was a voice note and so uh let's give a listen to that hi guys it's oh it's seven in the morning you're getting a real early voice wig this morning um and this is this is just a general voice note it's not based on anything i'm just uh recording this at my own will um and i will tell you i'm i don't feel confident in my in my voice note skills for this because the first thing good i don't have anything funny to say and i'm just uh you've asked me to do these in the past um i i was just listening to you guys and thought you know what i just need to tell you how much i love being a part of you guys going back in time with these years like you know it was probably i mean besides having kids um the best years of my life with all of you and we all shared in something so rare and um i don't know i just listening because i i never watched the shows when i was on i don't know it was like a weird ocd thing or something i just i couldn't do it and like towards the end of my time there i would maybe watch a sketch that i wasn't in like maybe so i've never seen these most of these sketches that you're talking about but i remember all of them and then especially the shorts that you know that was just something that as a cast member we didn't really know what you guys were doing like you would you would tell us and we know you were working on it and we never got to see anything beforehand so for us it was also such a special time to you know to be able to be able to be able to to you know run to the monitors during the show and and watch what you guys did and it was such a big part of the show and it was just i don't know i'm just getting full of nostalgia in my in my later years i guess i just wanted to reach out and just tell you that i love you all and listening to you and anyway that's it i don't know how to end this but i'll just say that i'm in the army guys i'm in it and i love you oh my god righteous right just kill me a little emotionally it is very emotional i was walking down the street and made me emotional and also it's a reminder for someone who has an ability to do some of the funniest voices known to man kristenwick has a beautiful speaking voice i mean it's just it was like yeah velvet so calming velvet really really sucked me in uh she did send a second voice note was like just kidding all that was bullshit fuck you well you'll be surprised let's take a look okay one last thing i want to say is that i love you and i love you um and it's about all the elf stuff grew up watching that show and i i don't think i've ever been bleeped and i would just love my first time to be on the pod sorry andy um i'm just uh shocked and appalled at the dad and how he smoked all that and soaked all that it's pretty sick oh yep oh wow really nice really i mean uh uh just i love you donahillian uh use of the second the follow-up voice note follow-up voice note is really a powerful tool that we you know the members of uh the celebrity members of quaid army really understand the game and i can't thank them enough well can i go back to the realness of the first please i just when i went to college i remember going to ucla and being so disappointed about the dorm experience and being like i thought it was going to be like magical fucking like what you think of when you think of like a movie version of college and i had such a fucking great time in high school all of my really close friends i have a couple of friends from college that i'm close with but going to snl was like the college experience that i wanted to have like our stupid room was covered in shitty fucking posters it was so sarcastic and ridiculous and you're with some of the greatest people who are so fucking funny like four days across the hall from us it all feels like dorm rooms and you're having a sleepover fucking basically every night like on tuesdays and and we spent a lot of time sleeping at the vet at snl yeah on shitty couches but like but it was it felt like that to me of like this was the college experience that i wanted to have it's so true you're right it is the stereotypical captured on screen i don't know like college romp movies but in real life i remember like trying to ollie over a couch in the hallway like on my skateboard and like having that stupid jazzy scooter that uh ozzy osbourne gave to horatio that was just in the hallway and we were driving that shit it was like it was it's so great it was such a great i mean you know stressful anxiety ridden for sure all of that but like but just some of the greatest people that i will ever know and love you know experiencing that was just it was the best thank you wig for sending that yeah yeah it made me want to go hang out with wig which i know we both live in the same i mean she's here and i never said you should go have dinner with her back to the dictionary one last time guys there's one that's in bold for no reason like like super bold i don't know why it's bigger win ben stein's money guy ben stein is the definition of that and its origin is from sandberg episode 54 the win ben stein's money guy well not surprisingly andy has a lot of these that are origins from andy's joining andy can you hear me right now yeah can you hear me yeah we found the dictionary that somebody's keeping of all the things that we talk about on the pod for people that need to catch up but one of the words in it is win ben stein's money guy and the definition is ben stein yeah yeah you know the win ben stein's money guy yeah grandma got run over by what's that song about grandma getting run over by really it's so embarrassing uh andy talk us through the late arrival well uh i'm shooting back-to-back movies do you want the long version no yeah please yeah okay no i'll go shoot yeah dad really get us into it yeah i'm completely overstretched uh i was supposed to do something this morning but i'm sick as a dog and i canceled it after my alarm went off to do the morning thing knowing we had this at noon or 12 15 yeah weird time i was like oh i don't have to do that morning thing now i get to just fall back asleep for let's say three hours it'll be totally fine to make this uh and then i woke up and we were a good 30 minutes into it and i had the good old-fashioned panic i'm gonna tell you something and i want you to know this is sincere i am so happy you got that sleep yeah thrilled i appreciate no no hard feelings at all you got what you needed i mean i'm also jealous and impressed that you're able to sleep that i know it's because you have a cold but it's also like it's amazing to be able to sleep that much yeah i mean i haven't done it probably in like three or four straight months which is you know generally comforting people would say that but working so much seth you know how it is i know how it is my son came in this morning and woke me up and uh my daughter had a fever she slept in my bed with alexi i slept in my daughter's bed so my son found me at 6 50 and woke me up and i was like can you just give me five more minutes and he was like i'll give you two and then he left and i fully fell back asleep and then he poked me and he goes i gave you seven i was like i'm not gonna sweetheart chips are a negotiation uh we've reading a lot of uh we actually this has worked out fine because i think we got a full episode out of just uh minutiae which i think is like a very helpful we didn't go into party of mr bernard's because that we we agreed that that was for all of us and part of extending the pod we talked a lot about up front so that's one of the issues let's talk about how fucking fun they are we should call this episode minutiae i did talk about when we saw pitbull at the that was the first thing i was gonna say yeah at the fox up front he was like god damn i wonder how much they gave him yeah i've seen musicians come off like at radio city like not pitbull but like that level of that and they just come off and they're like fuck because it's just the just impossible get the audience going he smiled and danced his way through it and you could he knew exactly what the deal was like you're paying me and i know this is a corporate gig and i'll cash the check and i'll do a 15 minutes medley and hit the road it's like a different version of like performing for the shah right yeah it's a little poor for the shop kept saying how you're doing uh saudi arabia yeah and we were like no no it's like gaddafi how you doing gaddafi yeah happy birthday no no abc no fox frito-lay and unilever um hey uh speaking of ads i've saved a few comments for okay please a possible seven 11 partnership with andy big gulp sandberg oh yeah because i'd be gulping the big reviewers by the way i'm in the streets of new york y'all i'm out here still zero suitors still zero suitors and do you want to put the caveat again on how they should approach if you're with your children yeah i gotta be chill about it with the kids no it's that they bring they bring a nintendo switch that they have to hand to the kids to play with so if you want the quulp from andy on the streets and he's with his kids you've got to have a second person with you to watch the kids you've got to have a second person with you to watch the kids you've got to have a second person you guys go around the corner he will not leave his kids on the corner without a second adult and also like don't take forever like don't show off um anyway 7-eleven time are you the one that's supposed to be impressed andy yeah i like kind of an episode like this that's just kind of recapping talking about the past and then have andy come in late so we can recap this episode yeah we just did two recap what he just missed we got a great voice note from wig we went over one from ham uh you'll be able to check them all out on the uh you know on the pod wherever you get your podcast yeah i don't know if you're on apple or you go to youtube channel yeah spotify really anywhere that you find your podcast andy when you're listening to yours this is everyone knows what this joke is because i don't care for podcasts she even by the way in her voice note chris and goes i love the pod sorry so worried that you're going to be offended that she likes the podcast you're on i appreciate that from her what a bud that your first your first tranche is you hate podcasts your second tranche is you do one and you like when people like it yeah that's true um hey somebody sent in another suggestion for uh queen bead i'm a little worried because like do you consider queen be a quiz no yeah that's the only issue that i did like it except that i don't yeah it's a game somebody said like you could say if you queen bead you uh you can't do it if you don't like it if you don't you quizzed in your pants oh yeah you can say it's good quibbed in your pants quibbed in my pants yeah i gotta say because of you andy i've been doing the mini and trying to do it under two minutes and that is a fun one it's a midi or the mini the mini the mini am i am i under two minutes yeah isn't that i think that's i think if it's over two minutes that's failing a cognitive test you want to get it in like under uh 30 seconds if you can i got the mini in 19 you got it in 19 he's also very good at typing in his phone because the keyboard the keyboard if i can get the midi in under two i feel good about myself wow what's the midi the midi is somewhat new yeah as we know i don't subscribe to the game so i don't even know what that is you can do the mini in 19 seconds i'm gonna do the mini right now oh no i mean my best ever is 12 i think jesus but it's really i used to do it and me and andy would send them to each other every night this is years ago and have the challenge and sometimes it's also just the typing is hard like i just did it there you go that's my mini seth got it in 23 shut the fuck up what was what jammed what jammed you but at that point half the skill is knowing how to like hit the buttons fast enough yeah but they're regular keyboard buttons it's not a new keyboard for the new york times the new york times keyboard works worse than other keyboards wait sorry guys if they're listening is this the mini though is this it right now no that's what you just did seth no that's that's something the mini is like the really tiny one right is that the saturday or is that oh this is saturday yeah so oh yeah yeah it looks it looks more like this right the this guy right yeah that's the mini okay what'd you get four minutes that's wonderful that's four minutes uh did you take a call in the middle yeah occasionally i like i come back to it fucking okay i thought you were doing it in under two minutes and i was like oh okay that's doable a mole-eyed cherry just to remind you is one who has poor undiscerning eyesight and or questionable taste in visual aesthetics that's great definitely don't remember that play on eagle eared cherry and in turn Swedish musician eagle eyed cherry. This is an origin from episode 77. Quote, if you think Jorm's vest looks good, you're a real mole eyed cherry. Oh, fuck. I gotta start wearing that vest again. How was the first week of the movie, Andy? It was great. I'm very excited and I'm so tired. I have not been on an episode since I saw Maya and O'Mary. Oh, great. Which was like, I don't want to overstate it, but like life changing. Yeah. She's so fucking incredibly funny in it. It was like spectacular to behold. I can't wait to see it. I know you mentioned it on your show, Seth, when she was on, but like I went into it being like, oh, this will be cool. And I get to say hi to Maya, my buddy. And then like about 30 minutes into it, I was like, oh my god. Yeah. She's just destroying the whole time. I cannot wait. Yeah. And at the end of it, we were chatting, I was like, it almost felt like a full theatrical story length performance of the National Anthem sketch. Right. Where it's just her doing every single move, but like it just never ends. There's just moves after moves after moves after moves. We were like, it just felt like watching someone at the absolute like peak of their game. And it was a joy. Yeah. I'm curious, Seth, you've seen the show a couple times with different actors doing it, right? Yeah, I've seen twice with Cole and once with Betty Gilpin. So that'll be, you'll be seeing it through a whole even other lens of like what she changed. Yeah, and I had my doubts about seeing it with someone other than Cole. And I will say Betty was amazing. Yeah. And it was such a credit to Cole's writing. Yeah. And I saw Titus and Cole and I just loved with Titus like how much they actually rewrote a bit. Like it feels like it's actually tailored to a new performer. And it's like, it's really fucking fun to see. Wait, but let me go back because I did say I should have caveated by saying I have never seen the show O'Mary before. So yeah, I also like just the comedic at Cole's writing experience of yeah, of enjoying the show O'Mary for the first time and understanding what all the hype was about. It is one of those things where I originally worried you could overhype it and I think it might be incapable of being overhyped because the way it's audacious is beyond your. I think it's coming to the Pantages here in LA soon too, but I don't know who's going to be playing it, but I bet you. I think it's in London too. I bet you it'll be somebody good in LA. Like Seth, I know you would say it for yourself too and probably we all would. You and I know you would, but like in terms of what we like in comedy, it's so right down our wheelhouse. Relentlessly stupid, but also very detail oriented and sharp and like it just feels like a person in their room as a kid having the most fun. You could possibly have, but also it has a lot of thought behind it and no overstaying any welcome. It's amazing. That's the part is that it's, you know, when Cole was on my show and said, you know, I wanted to write this show without doing any research about Mary Todd Lincoln, which is the funniest way to start, but that like from like a wide view is like oh, that sounds lazy, but then it's like the structure of it, like the payoff, like that part of it is just the best. Yeah, yeah. And then getting to watch Maya do it, I was like, man, this is just heaven. I was like, I think maybe I like theater again. I mean, that is, I mean, you'd watch a two hour version of it, but like it is the right price to get in and out. Oh, it felt great. I also don't think you could stretch it any longer than whatever, 80 minutes because it's so relentless. Oh, it's nice and short. No, it's perfect. The length is absolutely perfect. I was sending people the like, what's his face, Hitchcock from Waiting for Guffman gif afterwards they're like, I just want to be on the show. Also, shout out to Ana Gastar, Rachel Dratch, both Tony nominated. I saw that. Pretty amazing that they're all on shows too at the same exact time. It's a very cool time. Fucking come out, Steve. Let's go see some theater. Oh, one other thing we talked about, Andy, is I ran into John Solomon and he was saying how cool it was to observe what it's like to see his oldest friend Will Forte show up to do a small part in a movie. Yeah. And how delightful. He said for the first time he kind of saw like, oh my God, like Will shows up super prepared, super game, super funny, and just like leaves everybody in a better mood than before he showed up. Yeah. I mean, I knew that was going to be the case, but he's such a killer and the nicest ever, as we've discussed. Yeah. Pretty sure he has every single person in the crew's number now. And now they're his burden to carry until the end of his days. You know what I just remembered? I had him do a part in Neighborhood Watch way back then, and he was the same, obviously. But also his co-star was a guy named Mel Rodriguez, and then that guy ended up being on Last Man on Earth with him. Oh, yes he did. Forte becomes friends with everybody. For years and years and years. And it was so nice that they just like had a good time hanging out there. He thought he was talented and was like, let's write him into the new TV show I'm doing. Okay. I want to do a little quiz for you guys here. Because of what we're talking about and Will Forte, I want to know this for Forte as well. Yeah. But how many contacts do you have in your phone right now? Oh my God. Forte must have 10,000. At least, right? How do you know how many you have right away? Okay. So you go to your contacts and then you go back one, and it says all contacts. You mean to the very top? Oh, yeah. Oh, I see. How many do you guys have? Some people in here are dead. Does that still count? Yeah, it counts. I have 1,475. Okay. I have 1,615, Andy, and I feel such harmony with you right now. And I feel like it speaks to how we approach life, and I'm really happy. You guys both did me. I have 1,052. Okay. And you will not be surprised, guys. That I have 3,313. Not at all. That's so perfect. I'm not surprised in the slightest, yeah. Let's say, like, I have, like, a math tutor for my daughter who Liz put me on a group text with. Do you immediately put it as a contact so you know what it is, or do you kind of go, I'm gonna let that ride for a little bit where it's just like a random. I mean, clearly I do, Keev. You know what? To my great detriment, I let it ride. I let it ride, too, but. It's shameful. And it does bite me in the ass. It bites me in the ass. And it's often, you know what? It bites Alexi in the ass first. Yes. That is then a double bite. I think I'm gonna start just immediately putting them in because also I need to start building up my numbers, apparently. But Jorm, when Jorm, especially if Jorm is drinking, it's like he'll get as many numbers in his phone as drinks he has had. That is true or was true, but I don't really drink anymore. So, the better question that'd take too long to answer is if we started going through, how many do you not even know who they are? Oh, no, no. I put in who they are, so most of them I actually will have a contact for. But for 3,000, there's gotta be a bunch where it'll even say, like, AD of this, and you go, I don't remember what that is. No, no, no, no. I want to know, like, while we're doing this, can you maybe do a little scrolling to find, like, the funniest description of somebody? I can try that. You're like, Jeff, hot dog. Hey, look, we're in the era of the roast, you guys. This is all my game now. Wait, the roast, I will say, I don't want to talk about that. Fucking Cat Williams was very funny. Really made me laugh, man. God damn it. I mean, I was like, who does? Did you just watch a clip, or did you click the Netflix thing and watch an hour of a roast? I kind of heard who was good and then, like, scrolled and watched. I watched most of it. I did some fast-forwarding, but I did it in two chunks. This is the difference of what we spend our time on. I watch Robin Hood, Men and Thieves extended version to catch the extra 12, and you guys do that. But it'd been so long since you watched the first Men and Thieves, as you called it. Well, it's a hybrid of the tights and the men. It must have been so long since you watched the first Prince of Thieves. Did you know that? Could you even notice what the 12 minutes, the new 12 minutes were? No, I didn't know what they were. And so I did a little Googling, and it has a lot to do with, I don't know how well you know it, but there's a witch that kind of lives in the basement of the castle that the Sheriff of Nottingham that Alan Rickman keeps going to for, like, Satan-worship-y kind of black magic fortune-telling. And there's a lot more information with her. Again, this won't have meaning if you don't know the movie really well. But suffice to say, she says at some point that he came out of her. Oh. Her words. Well, you know, now it's a question of how much you're going to believe a basement witch. Right. Yeah, it seems pretty plausible, because she says, like, I'm a freak. You're my damaged seed. Ah, interesting take. Yeah. She just can't believe she could get her, like, cursed seed into potentially royal blood. And she keeps saying that he has to stud Maid Marian. These are, again, her words, not mine. Stud. Yeah, so that her seed will get. Yeah. Anyways. And they decided to cut that stuff. Can you believe it? Weird. There's also these holes in the wall that she's been spying on him through, and he sees it, and he almost, like, barfs, because he thinks about how she's been watching him fuck. Anyways, it's interesting cuts. Andy, how did you like me and Yorm's, um, we like sports pod? Oh, bro, you know I love that. Yeah, he listens to it. We should have talked so much shit about Andy and Yorm. It's a missed opportunity. Did you give me credit? Did you give me credit for my one contribution on it? What? I don't remember what it is. I pitched doing the Nori thing at the end. The what, what, what. There you go. Super thug. And you guys did it, and I was like, I contributed to one! Now, that Noriega song, Andy, like, so, top tier, like, um, 99 Problems. That's the shallowest cut on rap, right? So that's a one. A ten is a super deep cut song. Okay. What is that Noriega song? How deep a cut would you call that? - A one is something everyone's heard of? - Like 99%? problems that's a one super thug is like a two yeah oh my god a two or a three wow that's very popular i thought i thought you'd put it at like a six or like a five no way that that song was popping if you if you listen to pop music at all i feel like it's a three let's be real three or four three or four so very popular i overranked it in the beginning okay yeah it's very popular but it's not 99 what's up if you have a certain age which is our age like seth the number of times we were out at a club during snl that that played is many probably got it you maybe just aren't recognizing it from me and yorm's rendition that might be the issue listening to the two guys do it guy one guy two should we listen to the whole thing right now can we clear it i don't think we can clear it oh i actually had some uh housekeeping thing to say great to the people who complain on youtube about ads not that we've had that recently but that was a thing in the past yeah we turned them off to the best of what is possible to do occasionally because i went and looked at something on our we like sports post when i was looking at the comments and i saw there was ads and i was like huh what happens occasionally when we put our music on is that umg republic you know like the record label that technically owns the master of that song flags it as if we are anybody posting owned music and when they do that they get control of it so they're not taking down our podcast but then they are deciding to monetize it because it has a song they own we like sports in this case on it so we can't control that they're adding ads because the ads go although i am seeing in the chat keve it was because of the arnold clip not you guys it was the arnold schwarzenegger singing oh that's the one that got that got us flagged yeah well regardless we got flagged and then they're putting ads on it and we can't control it and we're not making money from that either so uh just for anybody who's annoyed at them um it's yeah and by the way we're not making money from that either so it was worth it for that arnold song because that made me laugh and he of course doesn't know what we're talking about but he'll he'll he'll listen i feel like for some reason i did hear that well i i had played a little bit of it when i found it but yes yeah it was pretty spectacular well it was to honor yorms take it away arnold oh god so now when he did yorm says take it away arnold arnold sings a song which is a very good song so i guess next time i have arnold on the show yeah i should get him to sing a song so we can use it the wheel yeah yes that's right but also make sure it's not a song that is a cover it has to be an original they'll like can you sing two bars of an original song or a lonely island song well no we those aren't safe as we know well maybe it depends tbd on that i guess uh i don't know if i've given a shout out yet to widow's bay big fan of widow's bay i keep being told i'd like it it's really good what what is it tell me it's uh that matthew reese apple tv show katie dippold show running creator it's um like a horror comedy that takes place on a new england a haunted new england island stephen root it's fantastic he is a great actor wow that sounds very good yeah highly recommend so are we all giving our recommendations because mine beyond being um you know the prince of thieves obviously extended cut uh satanic mom cut yeah the uh i don't actually have another one andy what's it uh i watched the back half of t2 uh yesterday and guess what still great yeah i can't wait to show my kids i watched the martin short documentary which i loved of course uh already loved him just makes you love him more just the best best human being in the world oh for the record me and seth have both done our homework and watched a knight's tale i don't know if we want to talk about it but there was a lot of chatter from the quades about that we yeah hadn't seen it and we both have now watched it yeah um recently oh good for you guys i thoroughly enjoyed it thoroughly enjoyed it the real star is paul bettany he really does he steals it is that his first movie i remember him being an unknown to me when he plays jeffrey chaucer it's a little bit of a figure of history oh he does yeah is anybody else a figure of history in there i don't think so i think it's it's a it's a nice little piece of writing to make him jeffrey chaucer the guy who wrote it also did the adaptation of la confidential one of the best adaptations of all time yeah he wrote and directed a knight's tale he he did that screenplay adaptation um yeah very good i'm trying to think if i got any others to shout out you know what i watched the back half of t2 and seth have both done our homework and i don't know last night what's that eight berlant special from 2022 what's it called it's got a it's a great name uh cinnamon in the wind that's it yeah yeah yeah it was fucking fantastic obviously dude they have you seen that like youtube clip of the two of them um berlant and early uh just like complimenting each other shit hold on let me try to find it they're incredible um i'm gonna have to go soon guys i gotta go uh wow wow this is andy and i'm judging you i can't believe that oh you know what i did watch seth on the cry 2 criterion app that is excellent when you're looking for some nice you know uh old stuff to watch that are like 80 minutes i watched three things one was bad day at black rock which i've never seen watch that you know why i watched it uh there was uh somebody had a clip on twitter of uh they said paul thomas anderson said he learned more from the audio track of this than he did in film school of the director yeah that's awesome i just had always it had been on my list and it just came on criterion and someone pointed that out so i watched it's like 80 minutes great it's so rad and then i also watched so you know out of the past the noir movie uh yes it has like which one is that it has like kurt douglas in it and shit it's like one of the classic noirs of all classic noirs so i had seen that like a film printed that a few years back but then you know criterion they do like a little block where it'll have more from in a theme that dude who did it's a french director even though it's an american movie he did they put up three of his movies so it's out of the past this other one called nightfall and this other one called berlin express they're all excellent like crazy excellent awesome watches and they're all short and easy out of the past great yeah out of the past is an all-time classic but but nightfall and berlin express i hadn't even heard of either of them and they both are so fun and easy what what what is this podcast this is just our recommendations at the end of it always just like how polar does the polar plunge where she tells you about something that made her laugh oh we talk about either westerns prison movies black and white old ones it's like a great hang you know or like car racing like ford versus ferrari it's called dad's corner i think oh yeah there's got to be a more catchy like polar plunge like like dad dad well speaking of speaking of dad shit i gotta go race my son in a swimming race that's what i gotta go do right now you're gonna lose all right we love you let him win yeah i gotta i love you lauren yep love you love you love you pretty and sweet love you lauren we tell yorm i said that yorm perfect yep bye bye what do you want me to share will you share a screen and play the clip i just put in the chat it's from their 2022 special oh the twitter one do you guys believe yorm had to leave early yeah so selfish you look i'm looking at you oh i remember this it's so strange because you look 12 but you also look 60 and it's it's i love the way you're the shading and you finally found a foundation that matches you know i'm looking at you i'm looking at you i'm looking at you i'm looking at you you know it's so funny obviously i've seen you in years yeah i know years you know i'm in person um i haven't seen you in person but i also haven't seen you just kind of reflected anywhere in the culture so what have you been up to i've been really good i've been busy i've been in new york doing theater kind of a first love of mine but mostly i'm busy with my foundations that is really what keeps me occupied you have foundations yeah i've started many foundations and that's where i really pour my energy out what foundation my foundation is which one it's a lot of work but it's so worth it which foundation which foundation name one which foundation would i name do you see just one of them yeah which foundation you know and if you come down to the irish foundation i didn't go irish at all with that i didn't go irish when i said foundation now she's fully irish so you mister i can't go anywhere without seeing your face i know i saw you in the the movie where you play the genie i walked in on my friend's dog watching it the dog was completely fixated on you that must have been hard though i know you've got a lot of flack for playing the genie people are so vicious now oh my god i should have congratulated you on the kiosk i should have loved that yes congrats on the kiosk um kate has been selling candies oh my god at the airport this little kiosk at the airport with your kids no i i don't tell you no candy really clusters i don't sell little whoopsie daisies yeah i don't sell candy at the airport it's just not what i heard i don't think anyone's ever told you i do that i can't believe i'm saying i am not attacking you it is just not what i heard well i don't have a kiosk at the airport the mutual friends have reported that you have a kiosk at the airport where you sell candy i do not sell candy the airport and no mutual friends have reported that because that would be a lie sorry are these cool here god damn it just perfect it's so good that whole hour is pretty fun just like a sketch show that they do yeah they are the best yeah they really are um i do have to run my kids are about done with their mountain biking class this worked out perfectly all right a success andy i'm assuming we're offered tonight and i love you i love you and i'm i don't have a spelling bee squirter report i was trying to do it while we recorded but it wasn't even a full app for me so i'm not even a genius yet okay well let us know i'll send a voice note jeff thank god andy here with that quick spelling bee update uh yesterday i used one hint it was for a ordle i was pissed and then today of course got it clean one of the pangrams was chutzpah uh seth also got it but he didn't get it clean i confirmed that vr text chain i win he loses Uh, you may have noticed that during the duration of this episode, my audio was dog shit. It's because I forgot to hit record on my recorder, so it was taken from the Zoom audio. I apologize to everyone again. I'm a mess, you guys, but I'm on the mend. I'm on the mend. I might just be on the mend. You never know. I could be on the mend. This episode wasn't long enough, so I'm going to stretch it out. I'm going to stretch it on out. Stretch it on out. Thanks for the voice notes, Jon Hamm and Kristen Wiig. Really appreciate you guys. I wasn't there when you were playing those, but, ah, just good stuff. And the fellas, my main mans, Keeve, Yorm, Seth. I mean, who could ask for better friends? Just sitting through this whole thing the way you guys did and just listening to them yammer on about this and that. It was really heartwarming. The guys are just good guys, you know? They're nice, good guys, and that's the reason why it's important to recognize that and just talk about it, you know? Right here at the end, where it feels like it really should be over, and yet, I persist. All right, well, probably going to go ahead and pass out now. Love to all. Peace and love. Ringo Starr. Oh, also, one more thing. Next day, out on the streets of New York, Manhattan, the Big Apple, just got Queen Bee again. It was a monster. 62 words, two pangrams. I snapped it off. Took me all damn day. Oh, man, it was worth it. Oh, man, I just feel the vibes out here. The Big Apple. Go Knicks! But I did get it clean. I did it clean multiple times this week, much to Seth's chagrin. Yeah, bum me out. But I'm happy to talk to you when you haven't. All right, love you guys. Yeah, love you guys. Sorry I was late. That's all right. Love ya. Later, Arnold. Later, Quades.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The podcast highlights nostalgic and humorous moments from past episodes, including references to Greg Chen’s extensive voiceover work in Japanese video games and his role in the dubbed version of *Squid Game*.
  2. A real, non-AI performance by Arnold from *The Tonight Show* is celebrated, with the group emphasizing the authenticity of the moment and its emotional impact.
  3. The team reflects on personal memories, such as a mysterious Mexican restaurant in Tarzana and their childhood experiences with cul-de-sac life, while joking about the absurdity and charm of their shared references and inside jokes.

Summary:

The podcast features a lighthearted, nostalgic reflection on past episodes, blending personal anecdotes with inside jokes and cultural references. ” The episode celebrates a real, non-AI performance by Arnold from *The Tonight Show*, emphasizing authenticity and humor. The hosts share personal memories, such as their childhood in a cul-de-sac and a forgotten Mexican restaurant in Tarzana, adding warmth and relatability.

They also discuss the evolution of their comedic language, including the creation of a fan-driven dictionary of podcast-specific terms, like “bad hang” and “breakfast effector,” which are both entertaining and insightful. The conversation includes tributes to longtime collaborators, such as John Solomon and Will Forte, and their impact on comedy. A major highlight is a heartfelt voice note from Kristen Wiig, expressing nostalgia for their time on *SNL* and the camaraderie of the cast.

The episode also touches on SNL UK’s success and the fun of Upfronts, where performers engage in banter and showcase their shows. The team concludes with a lighthearted tone, celebrating the humor, memory, and shared culture that defines the podcast. The discussion ultimately reinforces the value of personal connection, real-life experiences, and the enduring joy of a shared comedic journey.

FAQs

Greg Chen is a voice actor known for his work in Japanese video games. The podcast mentions that he has a long-standing relationship with the group, and fans have noted his voice work in dubbed versions of shows like Squid Game, where he is a main character.

Yes, the song 'Take It Away Arnold' is a real performance by Arnold Schwarzenegger, recorded during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. The podcast confirms it was not AI-generated and is a genuine performance.

The term 'bad hang' refers to a poor or lazy contribution to a podcast, originally from an episode where Amy Poehler's attempt to sabotage a show was described as a 'bad hang.' The term has since become a recurring joke in the podcast's lexicon.

A fan-made dictionary has been compiled on the podcast’s subreddit, defining unique terms and inside jokes. It includes entries like 'breakfast effector' (a reference to Justin Theroux) and 'bad hang,' showcasing the community’s engagement and creativity.

The poll resulted in a 50-50 tie, with 8,405 votes. The outcome is notable because it’s an odd number, and the comment 'what was that was a swing and a miss' adds humor and context to the result.

The movie 'Men in Tights' was directed by Kevin Reynolds, not Kevin Costner. The podcast praises the film's visual style, calling it a classic with a unique 1980s aesthetic and noting it as a standout in their list of favorite films.

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