Episode (Channel) 101

Hey, you're going to hear us talk about this at the end of the pod. But head over to YouTube over your dead body. Yorma's new movie has a fantastic trailer that you can watch now. And now we're going to just start the pod. It's the lonely island ends with Myers podcast. This is Yorma, none of the other guys are here. I'm trying to basically without looking at any of the tracks, make a new theme song for our podcast right now. Just dumping things on top of it. So just give me five minutes. I'll surprise the guys when they get on. It's gonna be bad. Psych to see you guys. Let's fucking jam. A key of just FYI, Yorm is working on a new theme song for the podcast that we're currently already recording. Which is pretty exciting. But I'm doing it without, I'm just looking at the tracks. So I'm doing it visually. So got it. Hey, Keith, yeah, you just left to go turn off your air purifier. We got one of those. How much more purified would you say your air is now than the air you grew up breathing in your home? I mean, the Bay area has good air. Got it. So I'd imagine the air in the bay was probably still better than the air today. Purified LA air. Yeah, although, you know, we have this feeling like things are always getting worse because, you know, with climate disaster, it is. Yeah, but when you look at pictures of LA in the 70s, like with all those huge muscle cars and everything, it was horrendous, horrendous, what they were breathing back then, much worse than today. I actually saw on social media this week. There was a picture of, like, LA with this no cap mountains in the background and people saying, like exactly that point, like FYI, no way shape or form. Do you see this in the 70s? Yeah, and I don't know the details. So I'm just speaking at term, but I know there was like, it also is like the proof that regulations work. There we go, because they made a point to change the laws about emissions and then it got way better. Well, you know what I think is that it's all a hoax. Right. Yeah, I was going to say one of the reasons, one of the reasons we don't get political on the pod and I wasn't going to name names is there's one hard core, like maybe more mauga than mauga guy on the pod. Yeah, you guys don't get it. I mean, it's hard to hang out with these lip tarts all day, but we also, we want to present both sides, you know, and be really fair. And so you're really presents that balance. That is one of the big takeaways, and people tell me how much that they're great army. They like how even handed it's been. Yeah. Hey, I'm in Durham, North Carolina. I'm going to do a stand-up show, got snowed out in January and back here. I'm very excited. I'm going to see one of the names that gets dropped the most on the pod. Our friend Emily Spivey, didn't I? It's fun, but you're not technically promoting it because it will be the show will be over by the time anyone hears this. You guys have made it very clear that I was not to promote. You said I could only mention shows after it was too late for people to buy tickets. Yes. We don't want you to like jam the stats. We needed to know how popular your stand-up is without you jamming it with promotion. That's so funny. Yeah, I thought it was you guys bit you didn't want me on your territory, but it was just jamming the stats. You don't like that. I don't like that you are so left-wing. I don't want anyone to support you. Can I just race through? I did a very quick back-of-the-envelope calculation of comments. That's not how you use back-of-the-envelope, but I really did literally right under the back-of-the-envelope. Somebody said they did find, I think I killed the president that it is on your website. Yeah, it's on an archive. Okay, great. I had that sent to us. I did not have time to check this, but a baseball player named Jack Peterson, someone said that when he played for the San Francisco Giants' "Walk Up Song" was I'm so humble. Literally have had no time to check it, but I think I remember being sent something. Okay, yeah. It seemed too granular to be untrue. Yeah. So that's very cool. That's very cool. This was very hurtful. Somebody wrote it, "Is there anything Seth won't say, throwing shade at how often I use the expression I will say?" And just let me just say I didn't care for that. That's me. Salt and pepper. I don't know, did we say salt and pepper? My mic sounds nice. That's what everybody sort of said was what they had offered. They had long taken. Once we got off the pot and we started remembering we were sending texts back and forth, and that was one of the ones. There's also a black sheep song that I think is referencing the salt and pepper song from Wolfen sheep's clothing. I forget the name of the song, but I listened to that album a lot, so I might have even been referencing the reference to some degree. In my brain. And then, I mean, if there was any catchphrase in the comment section from last week's episode, it was released the balls cut. Everybody's very excited about the promise of, you know, we're still back. Okay, this is going to get me on hitting up some rappers. I feel like if we just had LP, so this will really. Yeah. Well, I think you put LP on there and then we hit up Killer Mike and see if he'll do it. So it's a full feature around the jewels. No, because I don't want him to feel left out. You know, a wonderful thing about my mom Hilary Meyers is if she's enamored with you as a guest on my show, she will dive into the catalog. And I've had Killer Mike on my show a few times and Killer Mike is an incredibly thoughtful guy. And he was promoting like a documentary about traveling around the country and just really sweet and funny. And so then she said, where could I listen to his music? And I was like, well, you know, run the jewels. And she really, you know, to her credit, she really enjoyed how, for its filthiness, it's incredibly obviously intelligent, well-written and catchy. Good for her to give it a real shot. Yeah, she gave it a real shot. Can I big up one song of his that I love that is just a Killer Mike song, which is called That's Life, part one, because he did too. And it samples that Frank Sinatra song. And it's a it's a it's a real political, but it's it's fantastic. And Rick Flair sampling old Rick Flair. Yeah, it's one of my favorite songs of all time. Yes. You guys, I'm finished with a podcast theme. All right, well, I'm I have two more things. Okay, go keep going. I'll just finish the last thing. I feel like this is a good like this is the preamble. And I think people who are really impressed that in the reading of last week's comments, Yorm had time to write a new theme song. King Floyd's I feel like dynamite. Multiple people said that is the sample from Rocky. That does sound familiar. Yeah, listen to it. Yeah, let's listen to that. Well, let we'll listen to that after Yorm's new song, but you get that ready, Keith. And I will just finish with the last comment resoundingly was told that across the pond is it Britishism and some of the some of the Brits, some of the left tenants in Quaid Army were pretty upset that we would even dain't think an American came up with it, but that was my theory. So I deserve a little credit. Yeah, it didn't sound American. It did not sound American. All right, so here's we have Yorm playing the new theme song and then a key view cue up. I feel like dynamite. I just okay, I just dumped two tracks together and another thing and then we're going to see what it actually sounds like. Okay, this is an interesting way to produce music. Great. I mean, really great. Thanks, thanks guys. Yeah, we could start the next episode with that. That's like sight unseen, guys. I mean, that was really exciting to just see how the process worked. Yorm, you don't even need to look or like hear what you're making. It just fucking, you know, comes out. That's the way to make art, guys. Yeah, it's like doing a painting blindfolded. It's just about the feeling. Exactly. Looking at the wave forms. All right, do you have the other one, Keith? Yeah, I do. Also, look at this album cover. Yeah, it's called Well Done and it's got a Well Done steak on a beautiful plate with a little tomato and a little garnish there. And it's a Lisa from Temecula steak. Yes, it is. It's got a match book for I wonder what it says on there. Here comes King Floyd. The song is I feel like dynamite. License not available. Oh, one, the wonder we had to pay for it. It's fucking great. It is really fucking great. By the way, the best thing is while we were playing it and jamming it to us, Jeff, our producer did drop it in the chat that we won't be able to play any of that on the podcast zero probably not, but it's such a small amount. I mean, what do we fucking hate for it in a certain context? Yeah, it is. It is so sad when you hear like real amazing music that was then sampled and it could have been sampled by like a real rapper and like done some justice and then to hear what we've done with it and be like, I don't know, I don't know. Is that worth it to do that? Here's a comment. I mean, we mentioned I killed the president, but I did like that someone just said after a month of jokes, they just casually dropped that there's been a winter soldier song this whole time. Well, you don't remember it. That's the whole problem about winter soldering. I can't I honestly couldn't believe that that's something that was in my head 25 years ago. Whenever I made that song. Yeah. Which president was around, Keith? I mean, the song doesn't date when it's when it's story is happening. Sure. We know which one you would have picked Yorm. Oh, big time. Did you hear it, Seth? I haven't heard it yet, but I would love can we maybe should play it now? I do like the idea of a couple fighting and just hearing a guy be like, because I'm a winter soldier. Is why? Okay, I found it right away on YouTube. I don't know why I had a trouble before. All right, rock and roll. So Yorm made this beat and I just made this song one day and did I surprise you guys, Yorm? Did you just come in and I go, I recorded lyrics to it. No, because you requested me to make this beat. And so like, but I think a majority of you're actually recording. I think we maybe came in like halfway through, but you actually, you know what I mean? I don't know what you're asked me to make this beat. - I said make me a fresh Prince style beat. - Yeah, and I nailed it. Boy, does this beat vamp? - It's perfectly the lame version of one of the good Jesse Jeff Beats in a great way. That actually makes it kind of better. - Okay, now just trigger warning, there's a Pam Anderson joke in here that I do not stand by. But on the other hand, the joke was that it's a bad joke and the character did it and says that it gets a, oh, the audience loves this joke, it's like a, I like that now you actually lick literally stand by the actual Pam Anderson. I've seen photos. - Exactly, I'm against this and I'm with her physically. - You stand with her. You don't stand by the joke, you stand with her. - Emotionally and physically. Now also, this does not go with the lonely island. Two minutes and 20 seconds max song length, either. - It's longer? - Yeah, significantly. - Oh yeah, oh, this is great. - That's also because of the tempo. - Making it for yourself and just to make Andy and Jordan laugh. Nobody else is ever going to hear it as far as you're concerned. - No, but the tempo doesn't help you. - Now my question is before you play it, do you think Andy will be bummed or happy that he missed a discussion about? I think it might have killed the president. - Bummed, because we all listened to it me and in your since the last pod after someone pointed out that we found it and Jordan and Andy were being very complimentary on the text chain. - All right, great, I love it. - All right, here we go. (upbeat music) - Such with lies. (laughing) - Oh, you just warm it up the pipes. - Lies. - It all started last week when I went on a date. She was beautiful, long hair. I picked her up at eight. I decided to take her to a magic show. My mom said I shouldn't. - But what did she know? A lobster for my lady friend cooked an extra nice and some amaretto afterward would be just right. - Thank you, Garso, I'm just going to be magnificent. Oh, the lights went down, tied for the entertainment. A magician took the stage and sawed a lady in half. I could see her legs, so fake made me laugh. Then they asked for a volunteer from the audience. I hid my face, no wait, Lee. - Yeah, he was just based on us going in the magic castle. (laughing) I don't know if we did it that time. - First of all, I love sketch premise. I love that we're just starting. Obviously, something's going to happen in the magic show, but this is not a voice. I feel like you did again. - No, I did not. - I really enjoy it. - I don't know who this goofy guy is. - I know, but I like that you were like, this voice is for this song and no other song. - Yes. - Like, it only fit in this keyhole. - Yes, there's something wonderfully hateful. (laughing) - Really, really happy about everything. It's happening for this guy. - It's a full character in this guy's. - Yeah. - Dude, wait, leave me out of it. - He's trying to be like a smug Zach Morris type though. (laughing) - I mean, I've never seen these visuals, Seth. - Yeah, I know. - Somebody is animated this. How many years ago did they do this animation? - 20 years ago. - Okay, 'cause that right when YouTube was new, they pulled up our song from our website, Aaron X Murray, if anybody's YouTube-grade, and made some very simple PC art to it, that is, it's a great time here. - Right. - But if it starts going into weird Nazi stuff or anything, it's not a word. - I just don't know, yeah. Take it up with Aaron. - Well, I'd be into that. - Jesus. - Next thing I know, my girl is volunteering for me. She tells me she thinks, man, all Steve, you're very sex. So I play along and go up on stage. Hoping that the stunt will get me, you know. So now, they want Jesus to hypnotize me. They'll ring a bell and I'll clock like a turkey. I say, yeah, right. Do your best. This whole thing is faker than Pam Anderson's chest. Big laugh from the audience. They love that joke. Then a person just in a cloud of smoke. - So you see Seth, I wasn't there. Yeah, yeah. Keeva never thought that was funny. It's this character. - This cat, 100%. You are totally fine. You were totally fine. - It's no hanging fruit for him. He does a bad joke. - You are in the clear, buddy. You are 100% in the clear. - Okay. I'm still, I'm gonna send her an apology anyways. 'Cause she's probably, she's probably heard this. - He's definitely listening. - I'm a huge fan of the pop. - Yeah. - Oh, the three on the sound of a bell. You'll close your eyes and be under my spell. - Ready, here we go. One, two, three, Jing. - I opened my eyes and nothing. But wherever I looked, the crowd wouldn't stop laughing. What had I done to elicit this reaction? - Now hold on, y'all. This is the beginning of our story. And I promise later on, it's gonna get glory. - So parents, grab your kids and tuck 'em off in the bed. Because I think I might have killed the president. (laughs) - That brood. - Brood. - Oh, it's gonna break. - Really good. - One week later, I haven't seen the girl since and I get to school and we're having a field trip. - Plus participation is a must. - The sign said, Washington DC or bus. - First thing on the agenda, they're reflecting cool and it made me remember that America's pretty cool. They ain't off to the White House for a special tour. - My favorite one. - Our God was very knowledgeable in America's football. She told us about Lincoln and George Washington and even let us go into the room that they smoked pipes in. Time to go to the fairs, she called the elevator up. It arrived, I heard a ding and felt my eyes shut. I awoke on the floor, the walls felt all curvy. I was soaking wet and my stomach tops a turvy. I was covered in blood, holding a knife, I dropped it. I looked around, I was in the oval office. What have I done? I couldn't remember a thing. But then some memories came back to me. I remember finding a president and stabbing him in the neck and then cutting him into a little piece and stuffing him in his death. Oh, me oh my, I did it me too. - Just a rapper casual gets a shout out here. He has a very famous song called "Me Oh My." - Me oh my, I didn't mean to. God, really good, deep cut. - Never been said this wack. (laughing) - Oh, me oh my, I didn't mean to. - He must have been that him, it is an illegal voodoo. Now, some things are bad, that's not paying your rent, but I think I might have killed the president. (upbeat music) (laughing) - He's big, wacky, instrumental friend, so enjoyable. Also, I believe these drum roll things was a reference to "Parents Just So In Ourself." - Well, it's been a year now since that fateful event. I framed a hobo to take the cops off my scent. And every time I hear a belly stab someone in the face, but besides that, I say that everything is going great. Please learn from my story, don't be a fool. - I never let a cop you this hypnotize you. (laughing) - Or you might kill the president. (laughing) - Ow! (upbeat music) - Well, I mean, dude, we must have done parts of this together because the beat is responding to you. Unless you did it and then I made the beat afterwards, I have no idea. - You definitely collabed at a certain point. - Yeah, yeah. - I mean, obviously the best line is about seeing the reflecting pool and remembering that America's pretty cool. (laughing) - And then also remembering you killed the president. - Yeah. - I see football town is right up next. Should we just roll right into football town? - Is that the one you're interested in seeing 'cause someone mentioned it? - You guys mentioned it on the text chain today. By now, I think everybody's realized Andy's not here. And so, although you never know, like Andy could have his head buried in the old beat. He's shooting his movie. Could've asked him for getting on the pod last week. It was a weekend. - Yeah. - We chose a Friday. We could've chose tomorrow and I hope he could do it, but that was pretty mean of us. - You know, we're very proud of Andy for working on this movie. - Very happy for him. But we were talking about what else we could talk about, maybe football town. 'Cause I don't know what football town is and I really enjoy this little piece of your art. - Yeah, we don't have to go in any kind of chronological order, but basically those like 10 that I texted you this morning that you probably haven't watched yet. - Yeah. - I watched a couple. Those are the one hour ones where we were just like, no script, what can we do right now? Let's just start filming something. So there's like a morsel of an idea, even if it's just one interesting shot. - Yeah. - That we wanted to try to do in each one, even though they're just clearly being discovered as they go in a kind of a way. And I think I was too, I'll just say me, but you're if you wanted. I think I was too precious like in the beginning in terms of, that's why they're not even on our YouTube channel. Because I was like, hey, we have S&L audience eyes looking at our YouTube channel 'cause we've had lazy Sunday. And that's why you can't find them on ours because they were on our website where it was just like no one will ever see these. And then we were deciding what to put on our YouTube channel, but that felt like a big new platform. And they were too messy for me to put it. - I don't know, I mean like, yes, yes for sure. Like I'm the guy in the group who's like, "Fuck it, put it out like like that." - I mean, in hindsight now, they could all be on there, but I'm saying at the time, that's why they were. - No, but I always appreciated that both you and Andy were more discerning about everything. And I think that's fine. I also do sort of like somewhere that you can't see certain things such as the Dario's commercial or, you know what I mean? Like it's kind of nice that like not everything exists. - But they all are online 'cause they were on our site and other people uploaded them. So I was going around finding them all, but that's what that group of like really early, and they have the dates on them, and they have the day we shot them on there, which I really appreciate. Because the point is that they were just that day and what we were goofing around on, and that is the true day we shot them. - Well, can I also say that like the other thing I appreciated was that, you know, we all bought a computer. We went to UCLA, used my like last moment of being a student to get a student discount price to buy a computer together, and we were gonna edit it on it and make shit like this. But I did always appreciate that you were so motivated. motivated to be like, let's fucking do it. Like, who gives a shit what it is? Like, we're gonna figure some shit out. - So for the people listening that don't know these, they're called like lethal objection is one, oops, omise one, thugishwagish bone is one, finale sky, and they start with a shot of the apartment we lived in. It's the same shot every time at night. And so if you find one that looks like that, but I do think it's gonna be worth showing those to you, Seth, and talking about them, but maybe-- - I watched a couple, I will say I'm very happy to hear some of them were an hour. - Yes. - No, we were less, like, we wouldn't type anything out. There was never like a physical script. It was just, he means like, start to finish, like, edit it. Yeah, they're delightful. Every one of them has like a delightful lonely islandism, and I also love that that is the Lonely Island apartment building, right? So like, that's a visual. - You get to really see it. But it's, the thing that's interesting in hindsight is that we knew the value of doing them, and it turned out to be the truth, where we would be like, if we don't judge, and we do it, we're gonna learn something every time. And then you watch them, and you're like, yeah, there's a bunch of real premises in these that are being thrown away in shitty ways. But like, there are discoveries happening in each one that we would use those skills later in different ways. - Yeah, yeah, for sure. And I'm doing one of those right now with my daughter. I'm literally like trying to figure out how to make a piñata into like a four story piñata. Like a piñata monster. And like, it's partially exactly that. Like I'm like, just trying to figure out how to do it. And, you know, who knows when we'll come over. - Yeah, it'll come back and help you at some point. - Yeah. - Okay, so then let's do football down. Let me tell you, Seth, what football town is? Football town is that we were doing channel 101, right? With Dan Harmon and Rob Schrob, and a bunch of other people in Jeff Davis, and like Jack Black would come do, you know, the ones that Harmon was doing in blah, blah, blah. And at a certain point it had enough momentum that those guys sold an FX pilot for channel 101 to be on FX. And it was gonna be just truly a version of the same exact thing we had been doing, but broadcast. And the new addition was that there'd be like sports commentators kind of walking you through the evening. But we even shot it at the same place, which was called CineSpace, which was just kind of like an event space that had tables and chairs and a projector where you could watch things. But it was like Jack Black and Jeff Davis wearing like sport coats behind a table now with the addition so that they could give you the play by play before one starts. And go like, all right, our next competitors are blah, blah, blah. They're a team from here. They got their start doing this. They have a new pilot for us tonight. Or, you know, they're coming back with their second episode of this, let's check it out. Then everybody watches. And afterwards they would even like do John Madden style. Like, oh, I especially like when he says he's from here, but it's clearly a closet like I remember them dissecting this after. And so they asked us to be a part of it. And so this was a new TV show, quote unquote TV show, you know, five minute pilot for that. And it was part like if we ever could find that 22 minute episode, this would be in that, but with those guys. It was basically battlebots, but, you know, for short films. It truly is. There you go. Was it was it exciting at the time when you were doing this? Like, I would imagine the invitation felt like very much the next step and a ladder that you guys felt like you were on. Yeah, I think we, we've been doing this for like over a year with these guys, because we made different shows for them. We were lucky enough to get like voted back. And since it was right on Hollywood Boulevard, it was so fun to have all these fun, nerdy, like-minded filmmakers get together. And really like the impetus for originally doing this was just as we were already doing, keep active as you're waiting for shit to happen, not waiting for fucking Hollywood to approve you. Like, you know, people like Tim and Eric, people like just wanting to make shit. And like, you kind of had this actual sense of validation at the end of the month of like, you made something, people liked it, they voted you back. And so like, yeah, it was great. It was a really fun, fun time in our lives. Did you feel like, oh my God, we've been spending our time with the right guys, 'cause like, look at this. There's an actual like pilot that is celebrating this sort of work we've been doing for the last year. Oh, it was so cool. I couldn't believe that they had sold it as a real thing. I mean, like, you know, and then we were like making it, I mean, we were still making the same stupid shit. But it was like, you know, like Jack and fucking, Jeff Davis are fucking, it was so, it was so real. Jack Block to be clear was already a huge star. Like, it was not like this is early before people knew who he was. It was so cool of him that he was like, just down to do this stuff. It's so exactly who Jack is. But you still feel it with all of the stuff he makes is that he's just like a down-do-to-lips comedy. But it's like, he's willing to like get on his bike and join a podcast for notice. (laughing) But I will say I remember feeling cool. And this is embarrassing to say, but like, but because we were like kind of like people liked our shit and they say, I remember walking around channel one on one being like people like our stuff. That's cool. Like it was like, you know, for just this one room of people. Once they sold it and had it, we were not surprised to be invited to be one of the people 'cause we were, we did have a little of the confidence of like, yeah, we make good, we make good ones. We belong here. Yeah, right. That's still very cool. All right, so you ready to see this one? I mean, I'm so excited. Here's the pilot, the unpicked up pilot of football town. Are you seeing it? I'm not seeing it. Oh, I am, yes. You see a shot of Chester with a wig on? Yeah, yes. I do see it as if it's the one with Chester with a wig on. That's what the one I'm getting. Yep, yep. Well, that's my other screen that I always have up of Chester in different wigs. By the way, I wouldn't be surprised. All righty. That offer was good. Which of our three sons do you love the most? Impossible to choose. I love all three the same. Oh my God, a truck full of RG. [CHEERING] [MUSIC PLAYING] OK, so I just wanted to point out that we were so happy to think of how to do car. Because you go pros don't exist. So you can't just like rig a car. And then you don't have any money to do fancy cameras in a car. And we were like, how do we shoot in a car? And we were like, oh, we'll just park it in the driveway and walk back and forth with a plant going by. So this is one for my hip injury. This is before my hip injury. So that is me doing the plant coming by. And it's also the only plant we own. So it's the same plant on both sides. And I'll just play this again for you, Seth, just with Unmute, just so you can enjoy watching this plant go by. Oh my God. And by the way, just not even keeping the pot. The pot is in the shop. Because part of the fun of this bad wig, things is the point of like, yeah, you can tell a story. And those things, if anything, we're leaning in. You'll see. Because it's the joy of it. You know you're not making polished TV. So why fake it in that way? Why not? But this also has to be within five minutes. So every scene has to be like almost within five lines. You have to be like, OK, this is a story in five lines. They have three sons and they get into a car crash. And it's the past. You can tell 'cause it's black wine. And they didn't have a favorite, which I really-- Yes. [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] Torbjör, it's clearly the short one. Yeah, kind of short. Like, this is what Ethan Hawke was doing in Blue Moon, you know? And he really took this kind of as an acting choice to make himself shorter. This is our friend, Shayna. Shayna Levy's song, let's go sailing as the name of the band. Yeah, I really like that in Blue Moon. They did all this work of just like digging out trenches, basically, like all this. And you guys just had your slouch even more. Yes. Like, no one will see your legs. Backwards made a look. Yeah, the youngest brother. We get it, you're sure. We're back on the football field across from our house, where you can see Fairfax, the just two guys, the graduation field. Yeah. And then what does it say on the tombstones? It says Charles Rice and Olivia Rice. OK, got you. It's our parents. And if you'll notice, Andy's the football guy. He's got a chain and a football in his hand. But we did shoot at Golden Hour. So we were thinking about things. Yeah, it was beautiful. Her song sounds perfectly the cue that would play on the OC or Dawson's Creek or something. I believe we later used her same music for that shitty ghost wiener short that we did with Blake Lavley on the show, too. It might have been the same song. Thank you. [MUSIC PLAYING] I forgot all about this. Stolen, Cleveland. Oh, that's a nice shot. That was Jonah, by the way. That we talked about. Oh, man, I'm playing a different character now. We didn't have enough people. It really shows how you can create a vibe with nothing, just zooming in on people and putting on like a headset that you had from like a random phone call at some point and one football helmet and just nothing. Oh, the sprinkler shot was actually genuinely great. And that was the real guy there that worked for the high school. That is just a stolen shot of him cleaning up. Yeah. So now we're how long into it, aren't you, Keith? Just about a minute. Yeah, we're one minute in. All right, so one minute in, we know your parents have died. It's a show called football town. Andy put a football on his dead dad's grave. And then we sort of went and saw the opening credits. And it seems like Andy's maybe a football star. Your, are you coaching? No, no, no. I'm playing a different character. Got it. Yeah, and then Chester was as well. So we're just coaches, because we didn't have enough people. And Keva, you're also a different guy? - No, I think I'm me 'cause I'm writing. down stuff like I think I am running plays and stuff and I think that is what my character is here. Yeah, and Chester is a different guy because he doesn't have a wig. You could also believably be like a scout coming to me. Oh right. Maybe I'm scouting. Okay. Let's see. I honestly don't remember. But all right. So then this is starting. Obviously, we've made a locker room set. Very good. Very believable. Cardboard lockers behind Andy and yeah, the whole thing is in our apartment, I think, from here on out. Let's see. And is this OC? Is that like in your head? I mean, I know the Boo is OC, but is this also that world? It is in Dawson's Creek and anything else you can put into that kind of world? We were pretty obsessed with this tone. Yeah, drama at every angle. But by the way, like Riverdale, when I heard about Riverdale, I definitely turned it on. The Riverdale was after this and I'm like, that's just this. Right. Being like, what if Archie Comics, but you treat it like it's Dawson's Creek? Yeah. And it's also, this is also T.C. Tuggers. Like Archie takes off, yeah, takes off his, yeah, his T.C. Tuggers, but he takes off his shirt and he's ripped. What if Archie's ripped? Like, that's just that's just an else sketch that they turned into a successful hour long teen drama. Yeah. And like, nobody ever was like, so it's just that? Yes. Okay. See, I'm still in the same shirt, but that might be laziness. You never know. I don't think you have brother vibes here. I'm calling it right now. I think you're a scout. I remember thinking I hated the choice I made for this character and that like I don't think I pulled it off, but I'm sure it's horrible. But here we go. Got to make choices. Nice workout there, Johnny, but scouts were loving it. How's the shoulder feel? Like it was never injured. Good. Those scouts don't want to waste their pick on damaged goods. Hey, Rice, you hear the news? Damien Smith just got kicked out of the NFL draft for taking illegal painkillers. You're kidding me. Ah, you know what that means, right? You're the number one pick at the draft tomorrow. See you around. Just like plot. Yeah. Oh god. Very here. We're in Spain. Dialogue. Oh shit. Now, your arms back and your is playing piano. Yeah, but it's just a piece of paper that we do piano. He's like, maybe challenge. He enters. See, this is what I remember from the pilot, from the FX pilot is them like John Maddening this moment and drawing a circle around it to be like Andy's entering like he's coming. It's clearly the closet. We didn't even try to hide it. No, we just needed an entrance and that was it. We could have put a light in there like it was coming from the outside or something. No, no, we didn't have a light. How long was he hanging out in a closet before this? All right. It's my impression of Bobby's play that song. Johnny, you're back. Don't stop, keep playing. He's got a boy scout shirt hat on. He loves his older brother. It's all in the place he finds piece of funny. When I close my eyes, it's almost like they're still here. Mr. Jenkins says, I'm a shoe-in for the music academy. I know we can't afford it, but just getting in would be awesome. You know, like your choices. I swear on our parents' grave. I will do whatever it takes to make sure you can always play that piano, Kevin. Kevin, my run. Reprising my real Kevin. Yeah, yeah. I was about, I was about to say if Lauren was watching this, he definitely would be like, I'll tell you why it doesn't work. It's the same man. I don't know if he should be Kevin. Is there not an 11-year-old boy? Oh, I also love that when the piano starts up again, we didn't bother clip. It doesn't fade up or anything. It just clips back in. It was like pause, unpause. By the way, also did not change our fridge at all from the fridge. Number one, I mean, this looks a beautifully set deck to have like a rust on the front of your fridge, but that's just me and Andy's fridge. It's just, we just live in the dream here. And then also the fact that like it's the one promo picture we took at Sears for us is up there, but it could just be the brothers, you know, so it just works as fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah, good set deck. Hey, this guy's tossing a ball around. Mark's a big day. Nervous? Yeah, a little, I guess. You'll be fine. What's that? Oh, he's sheltered in dream. God damn it, John. Your shoulder isn't better. You lied. What do you want me to do, Walt? What's my shot? All I've wanted to do is play ball. Well, there's always next year's draft. No, we got to do it now. Who's gonna pay for Kevin's piano school, you? I think there's a bit of just in the, you know, Vanderbeek rest in peace universe. I think we're doing a little bit of the varsity blues here. Yeah. He's doing a little of, I don't want your life kind of accent there. Yeah. Oh, there's there's something very funny about like not showing what like we didn't shy away from drama. The tension between the brothers. I like the detail that you would just postpone. You would be like, I'm not gonna do the draft this year. Yeah, because I care about his shoulders and him as a person. Yeah, right. But he's just caring about Kevin as a person. Yeah, because he needs him to go to music school. We saw how Wally played piano. Yeah. Now we, Keith, we did have one microphone that we would like basically tape to a broom stick that was like our boom mic. It doesn't sound like we used to on this. We definitely did, but I don't, I don't think we, we might have, sometimes we had to tape it to like the wall or something because we didn't have a fourth person in the room. So it might not be pointed in the right direction. Right. It may not have had the gifts you have, but I'm the oldest and I'm still in charge of this family. You're wrong. You didn't have the gift. You just didn't have the guts. Johnny, it's your manager. I demanded you drop out of the draft. So I'm the oldest. Johnny. Johnny. That's good acting, Keith. Yeah, that's better. You're growing on me, Keith. You're choice. That's growing up me. So that way we go back, like so, so that house is the same house that we shot at multiple times for the boo. That is our friend, Jim Cranberba's house, who is a huge person at HBO. She was like, game of thrones, was her show. So the fact that they would allow us, like, fuck around their house. But we didn't shoot at their house this time too. So did we have this establishing shot left over from something else? I guess so, yeah. Probably looking at that, definitely. I'm surprised we didn't just drive to any random house and film the front. I bet we had this from but honestly, I think so too. This is still good editing, by the way, and like coming up from your stupid chair. It's not bad. You're drinking. The first pick of the draft. So Chester's back in a wig, but he's not the dad. This is a third character for Chester. He's not the dad who died. I actually, I hate to jump in, Keith. I think it's a fourth character for Chester, because I think he was also one of the coaches on the sidelines. Step the scouting and stuff. So it's a fourth character, bro. Jonah's hat. I guess he's an owner. It's also a second character for Jonah, who is not dressed like he would be someone added draft. No, he's the Texas. He's an oil tycoon who owns the team. Damass. It's perfect sense. He looks like a Beverly Hillbilly. He looks like if there was literally an NFL team called the Beverly Hillbilly. Where did we get that hat? Like where the fuck is this shit from? I mean, does it, oh, anyway. The San Fernando 48ers choose the San Fernando 48ers. Wonderful stuff. Johnny Rice. That's why they're last in Joe Rice, because we had a Jerry Rice jersey. Oh my god, that's the long, the longer a veil of why was their last name right? It's just shit that was lying around the house that was determined the right. But the best thing about it too is that like they don't hold up a jersey at the draft. So you guys did all this work for a thing that doesn't happen at the draft. Well, I didn't know that. It also looks a little dirty, and like maybe it's like an old jersey. Definitely old. It's one we owned. It's vintage. Awesome. It's a very fun thing that you guys don't have a regular-sized football in this sketch. No, we didn't. And we did not have the money literally to go buy a regular football. So you keep cutting the football you put on your dad's grave, the one that you're nervously holding on draft a it's just like a small, it's like a dog toy football. This ticker at the bottom I clearly recorded some ESPN and then was able to just like in final cut do a mat and just place it onto the bottom. Oh, cave, there was so much that I learned from you, like with that type of shit. I'm just stealing. But then the way we wrote 2004 official football draft is just like no attempt at making that look dumbed on top of it. Not centered, but. Wait, why do I take a shot when he gets pulled because I'm worried about his shoulder? Hold on. I'm nervous. And he does get picked, but why am I. Oh, because you're sucking down the pain, dude. Yeah, I'm worried about his shoulder. I think we're more excited. Thank you very much. I did it for you, Kevin. I think we got a little Jerry McGuire in here too. Yeah, just the feeling of like we're going to be. Yeah, here we go. We we seeded this earlier illegal painkillers. Yeah, and he's back in the locker room. And I'm going to be an alcoholic. He's on pain. - No, we called ourselves the dudes. - Keep playing. (laughs) - Wait, what did he say at the end? What was his last? - Keep playing. - Keep playing. - He said it to himself. - Keep playing. - Keep playing. - Wow. - All right. I think maybe they lowered it to 430 for the broadcast. - Gotcha. - I'm surprised they didn't make it three-minute pilots. I think later on they do get a show picked up, by the way, for Channel 101. Once we were at SNL that we were not a part of, it was not on FX, I believe. But they did have a TV show that went to air. That was based on Channel 101. That was a different format. - Wait, keep, though, did they vote on it at the end of this pilot? Like, did we get voted back? - Yes, yeah, I don't-- - I can't remember. I don't know what-- - I mean, if that didn't get voted back, what would? - Come on. - So, who were the other pilot creators? Do you remember who else was doing pilots for that? - Definitely Justin Royland. - Okay. - Good one. Am I Mr. Remembering Keep? But, is Rick and Morty front? I feel like I saw Rick and Morty at Channel 101. Didn't they make Rick and Morty before? - They definitely made a demo of it at some point. That maybe was for Channel 101 or wasn't. I remember they also had the one that we even did voices and called House of Cosby's. Did you ever see that song? - Yeah, very fun. - This is pre- you know, Cosby going down. And, but it was, it's an animated thing. It looks just like Rick and Morty, but a little cheaper. And it's like, multiplicity that movie, where somebody wants a Cosby, but he keeps cloning them over and over and they're getting dumber and weirder each time. It was Jeff Davis, the guy that was just with Jack Black, as the main voice has like a normal sitcom character, who's the one who's like now lives in this house, trying to be like, "Cosby!" - I know, but there's just Cosby's everywhere and they're like all of different personalities and they're always going, "See you!" (laughing) - Everybody, everybody says Theo a lot, yeah. It was very fun. - I'm sure it's on YouTube. - So, I'm sorry I'm gonna ask you. So, Channel 101 live, a Channel 101 was also a pilot about many pilots, right? - Yeah, that's what that was. It was like a game show, but it did not become a show. They just shot that one pilot. - Yeah, it did not get picked up by FX, but it was that pilot that got-- - That was a clip of it. - You saw they had stats, and they were treating it like it was a sporting event, but then they would play it. So, that was the context that football town played in as well. - I did not know that they made it into an actual show later. - They did while we were deep at SNL, so we kind of missed that whole thing, and I don't remember where it was or anything. - But it did air as a show? - Yeah, not this, but a different animation of it got it. - Well, I always thought there was a show called Yacht Rock, and I hadn't heard that term, and I felt like it was-- - No, JD Riznar and he did it with somebody else, but they definitely coined the term Yacht Rock. - Yeah. - It comes from 10-1-1. - For sure. - A lot of fun people involved. Drew Carey, Sarah Silverman, Jimmy Killman. - Steve A.J., Aziz, Camille, Randall Park. - Yeah, Randall did a whole bunch of stuff. - Yeah, some of these were after us, and some of these people we probably saw and didn't even realize who they were. - Oh, wait. - They noticed in football town. It was the 2004 NFL draft, and Andy went number one. The actual number one pick in the draft, Eli Manning, who then did Blizzard Man at Dress, so life time is a flat circle. - It was meant to be. - But also, oh my God, the fourth pick in the draft, Philip Rivers, who you might remember from the refrigerator of Great Day. - Wait, that's who was on it? - Yeah. - That was the cocaine reference. - Yeah. - And Seth? - You know, it's also a flat circle, Earth. And so it's not actually round. - Man. - Part of your own size. - Both sides. - Yeah, we can move on. - Your mom always says you can see both sides of the Earth, 'cause it's basically a coin. - All right, so it was a wonderful trip down memoryly. I can't say memoryly. - Memoryly? - Is it memoryly? - Just say memoryly. - Anyway. - Memoryly Lane. How's her grew up on, was on memoryly Lane. Is there a good, weird song to close out this sort of, to try this episode, where we're just going through the files? - Yeah, where we're just finding some stuff. - Yeah, I feel like it was really fun to hear President, and then we did a little football town, and drop a weird, deep track song on us. - Okay. - Oh, you know what, let's do Artie Party, and because Andy's not here. - Okay, again, similar to the line that I don't stand by in President. This is 2003, the culture was different. Let's see what's in here. - It was me and Akiva in the grand tradition of basically calling him a cunt when he wasn't there. - Yes, exactly. And this is like a journal entry. We did not think anybody would hear this, but him and our friends. - Okay. - Here we go, right? We're going to make sure he doesn't make so much of this by the way. - It's Artie too slow. (laughs) - Yo, yo. I knew this cat named Artie. He wore sandals in size when he came to the party. He would make sure it rocks. He would play his all the round and do the Artie dance. Leaving everyone the fucker with folk in their pants. - Hey, let's Friday. You're right, the jammer the year. But something's missing there. Man, Artie ain't here. People standing on the wall. I'm not freaking at all. Check it, what you need to do is give Artie a call. And then 60 seconds later, there's a knock on the door. My man, Artie with a calling sand. Get on the floor. And I've been getting down. Ever since he said that shit. At the dance club, having a connection fit. Now, who rocks the party more than Artie? No one at whose most face back on the alley. Artie, we found him on the street. He was homeless and shit, so we didn't stick to him the coke. So we'd be dependent. Now if he wants more drugs, he's got a rock for us. Go down the whole stroll and pick up coke for us. Thank you. Oh, he's got the steps to the movie of Artie. That's why we like the party that rocks the party. We like the party. That was a better reveal than I thought. [MUSIC PLAYING] We like the party, we like the party. We like the party, we like the party. You know, Artie sticks like a motherfucking drown in this shit. But the crazy party is how much I love that kid. He's so intelligent and charming, ugly and disgusting. We're here to eat, he'll do just about anything. Like suck, ain't dick. Hell yeah, you suck, you dick nerd. You're holding weight, you'll do anything. We're here as glasses, it has a haircut, like a clown. And if you've got a girl over, you don't want a brown. Cuz he smells bad. Not dark, 'cause we'll snatch her up. Straight and play her for real sports. Settles and socks and a picture. The most disgusting fucking man on the planet and multiply that by eight. God damn, Artie's grand. Do anything for my ace. Even clean his face when the schmutz does the job. Plus, he always stays placed. And the brand new Tiva's, plus the old socks. You came here to party, he came to smoke rocks. We like the party, rock the party. Party, smoothest cat you've ever seen. The chicks know what I mean. He's a fresh and so clean. Her rubble on your leg with that warning. Start hunting, what's that smell in his pants? He's been dumping true gang, making all the girls pause. Artie, you look good with that dumping true gang. Before the ever-stop rock and you know we will kill 'em. Roll 'em up in the cockpit and throw 'em off a building. So I slip 'em, KCP whenever he's not looking. So he keeps the party jumpin' from the floor to the ceiling. Yeah, he looks good when he's smoking on rocks. And don't forget y'all, he's wearing Settles and socks. God, I've been a dead horse, man. Settles and socks, sandals and socks. Sandals and socks, sandals and socks. Great stuff. Oh, wow. And then, oh, well, first of all. Better than I thought it would be by far, honestly. Did he go away for the weekend or something and we just made mean things about him? I guess we need a voice, no, from Andy, where he listens to this and then tells it. 'Cause he definitely came home and we had that song to play for him. Yeah, we're like, hey, we're glad you're back. So, party, when did you guys start calling 'em, Artie? I don't know. That was a self-diagnosed, a nightmare. I think he called himself Artie. He gave himself Artie. Yeah. It was definitely before this song. This was not it. But wow, that song really goes through a story. I mean, first, you're just like, if you have a party that's dead and vitality over it, he's the life of the party. He'll get everybody dancing. He's wonderful. But then we just kind of slip in there that, by the way, and then he'll go in the back and the alien. He'll smoke a little bass, just kind of thrown away. His main trait is that he wears teavisons and wolf socks. And we just want, which, by the way, now is like a very hip look and has been for like six years. Like then, it was like the ugliest thing we could think of. Yeah. It's basically just you guys look. Yes. And then, yeah, we just kind of let you know that like, he's really addicted to, do we? We also are using him so that we can have sex with male prostitutes, I guess. No, he's the one that will go do it. We're pimping him out. He's basically, we've gotten, he's addicted to free bass and he'll do anything we say to get money. And so, he is turning tricks for us to be dancing for us. And dancing for us. Like a train monkey to get the party hype. And don't forget, he's wearing sandals and socks. And he's also shit in his pants. It's a little precursor to Dreamgirl where we're doing those middle verses are all compliments, you know, being like about how wonderful he is, but how disgusting he is, how we love him more than anything. Like how he looks so fantastic with his hair, that looks like a clown in his glasses, which is then we're just getting to reality again. Like, I mean, the line that, is that Mari? Who's saying that? Like the, you already look good with that dump in your draws. Yeah, I assume, but I have no clue. It's a really good line. And then also me and you are trying to change characters each verse. We're like completely different guys each verse, trying to do different styles. Was he delighted when you played Artie Party to him? But I think so. I think so, yeah. You know what? Let's just get a voice note from Andy. We'll ask him what his reactions were to Artie Party and how he did on today's spelling bee. And we'll drop that in now. Hey guys. Andy. So yeah, Arty Party, a loving homage to a dear friend. Once again, these early days just being treated so nice by my two buds. And you know, in a lot of ways I was, you know, and there's a lot of mixed messages in the song, which is sort of like cornerstone of the whole endeavor. Fun re-listening to it, remembering so many nice details. I really like my two friends flow. I thought they were both kind of bringing it in a nice way. Kiev drops into a 50 cent at one point, which I appreciated, the kind of gridded tea style, which was very popping at the moment. You know, I wore sandals with socks a couple times. I was a summer camp guy, camper and counselor, and I had nice teabas. And I'm not going to even pretend like the socks weren't fleece. You know what I mean? I was very comfortable. I quickly burned out of doing that. I knew it wasn't cool. And in fact, fun tidbit around this time, we went to a Halloween party in LA where we were living. And I dressed as the kid from your cabin at summer camp that everyone hates. And I wore a super dumpy green cotton turtle neck, fleece pants, flee socks, and teabas. And we showed up to a party where we didn't know anyone. And true to form, everyone ignored me because they thought I was just a dude that dressed like that. And then at the end of the night, I finally talked to a few people and they were like, what's your costume? And I told them and they were like, whoa, that's actually so funny. And I was like, yeah, I just wasted the whole night. Worst Halloween ever much. Anyway, that was a great anecdote. And you know, the irony obviously is that that style has come all the way back around. And now it's like, oh yeah, that's what my parents wore. Isn't it so ironic and wonderful? Kind of like how we were rocking that 70s disco gear in high school. Anyway, the songs mean, but it goes, what are you going to do? You know, also like, you guys stand on all that crack stuff, that bass rock shit. That's what you wanted to put out into the world. I wasn't involved. So my hands are clean. Anyway, I needed one hint to get queen bee today. And it really pissed me off. But the last two days I quibbed clean and that fell fantastic. Obviously, Seth didn't. I know because we texted about it. I'm not going to say anything mean to him because I'm all about positivity now. That's my new bent. All right, guys, enjoy. I'm going to go back to not being able to be there goodbye. Keith, we're just real quick. Will you play, you won't be surprised to hear this stuff. But I befriended a dude who worked at guitar center who made EDM-ish kind of like electronic music. And he did a remix of Artie Party for us. But I can't believe that there's remixes on that playlist you guys have. That's that's there. I think his name was Kid Icarus. He was going by Kid Icarus. His name was Brian. But isn't it using the music from Kid Icarus from the any-ass game? Yeah, it must have been. Yeah, because he was making weird like, plinky like, computer. Will you play just two seconds of it? Very different. But immediately more professional. I'm assuming that's the melody from Kid Icarus. Yeah. Oh, I like this better. This is great. And I've been getting down ever since he said that shit at the dance club having a condition fit now who runs the party more than Arnie. When we found him on the street, he was homeless and shit. So we had to do the coke so he'd be depended. Go down the whole stroll and pick up popcorns. He's got the steps that move your body. That's why we like the audience. I mean, that's great. So, weren't we saying pick up cock for us? Yeah. Yeah. We sent him down the whole stroll to pick up cock for us. But I remember that one and loving it. It's very good that Kid Icarus on. What's the other remix? I don't know who did the other remix. Oh, a darker tone. Oh, who did this one? Is it Doria? It's pretty cool. Oh, wait, wait. Keep going. Keep going. I think that this is sampling Remo Williams. I think this is a Remo Williams theme so it gets on that chorus. It goes big. That's Remo Williams. That's fucking hot. I mean, it's genuinely a very good song. Even the original party is just genuinely good times. This is basically like soundcloud stuff before a soundcloud, right? Like where people. It's so fun. Share their homemade music and then other people say, "Can I remix that?" And there's community and stuff. It's cool. I remember we did that four. There's a song called "Champion" that is in the closing credits of McGruber, the movie, that Christian Wigg sings. And then for StereoGum, we released the "Acapella" and then people did like a gang of remixes of that. I think it's always a cool little extra thing to do for. And actually in the movie that I just did, Julie, it released as a song, "Smart Weaving" as a song. Oh, and Karen Gillan does a song. So maybe we'll release the "Acapellas." Thank you for that trip down memory lane. It's always fun when I hear stuff for the first time. Your congrats on the awesome trailer coming out. Oh, thank you. It came out for your movie. We need to talk about that kind of thing when it happens here. Yes. This is late, so we could really do it next episode too. But yeah, thank you. Over your dead body, go on YouTube, Google it, and find the trailer, Jason Siegel, "Smart Weaving, Shot in Finland." Lot of sauna. You can feel the sauna's kind of coming off the trailer. Thank you. It also is going to be preparing at South by Southwest March 14th. So if you're in Austin, come through. Is that a late night screening or like a normal time screening? It's a normal, normal. Ray or not premieres the night before. So I'm going to go see that with everybody. That's so fun. Matt Bernoulli. Another "Smart Weaving" with Blood All Over her with a shotgun. She loves it. She loves screaming and getting splattered. It's very funny that it's just through randomness. It's our best buddy Matt. Yes. And who makes the ready or nots and just made. Well, it's not even random because Matt was the one who was like, "You got to hire her." She's fucking amazing. And he was right. She's so good. You might see a shoemaker down at South by Southwest. We produced a movie called Brian that our writer Mike Scullin's wrote. Awesome. And so shoemaker's going down. So check out Brian if you're going to be in Austin as well. I know the day that that's happening. Is it the similar? I should know, but I don't. I'll tell shoemaker to him. All right, you guys. Well, what a delight. At least we have a lot more of these for when we don't have Andy. Although he was a part of all them. So yeah. And I bet I genuinely think that Andy will be bomb that he's missing these because I think he probably has a lot of as expected delight in these early day shaggy ones. Agreed. Yeah. All right, I love you guys. Love you. Love you too, Seth Lee. And what do you have to say about that, Arnold? That works. Later, Arnold. Later quates.