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.
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:
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*.
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.
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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