Great Day

♪ Let me join my thing I know ♪ ♪ From all the other zippers, podcast show. ♪ Hey, everybody, welcome to the pod. This is so exciting. I can't remember the last time it was all four of us. - Hey, oh. - Hello. Andy, you're under the weather, and like, observably so. And now it's a little bit bad about the way I talked about how you're sick, 'cause you're so sick, and I'm really sorry. It's a throwback sick to like the SNL days where I just can't shake it. Do you think talking about SNL in the pod is just getting you sick again? - It's like soul cancer. - I don't know. I got really sick. And my ears get stopped up. And I bought a thing. I was really excited about it. CVS, which is supposed to help you pop your nose like after airplane rides. - Hoppies. - And his nose. - Now pop your ears. - Sorry, poppies. - I think you're just talking about poppers. - And then you get like soup. You have this moment of like just euphoria. - Yeah. - And then it's fun in a club. - Yeah, you were down on Christopher Street and airplane. - Yeah. - And there was this guy. I'm talking about doing poppers and watching you for ya. - No, it makes you feel euphoric. - Like to show. - And then you watch you for ya. - Yeah, it's like we do. - But you stick it in your nose. And you, by the way, like, you know, I'm bought it at CVS. This isn't like, you know, high-end medical warehouse stuff. But you stick a thing in your nose and you press the button. You have to plug your other nose with your finger. And it basically just like creates all this pressure in your head. And you're supposed to then have a mouthful of water that you then swallow and it pops your ear. - Oh. - And I can tell you that not only did I not get it to work, but like when I swallowed the water, like nothing popped and instead I just like spit the water out. It was like, oh, what is it pushing into your nose? - Like air. - Like air to just like fill your head. Like by the way, the minute I started, I'm like, this isn't what you're supposed to do. - I thought you were going to say like you did it. It didn't work. You spit the water out. And then a little like thing rolled out. And it said, fool you. - You look like an idiot. - I said, fool you. - It was a little tiny, tiny little gnome, a tiny European gnome. - A gunk? - A little Lord Helmet. - Who said, fool you. And then he jumped into the sink. And I haven't seen him since. - He got it. - Also, Andy, just we do want to let you clean it up. We've had back to our podcast where a guy named Connor, who had to be deployed, talked about like what a huge fan of yours is and wanted you to wish him a happy birthday. We basically just kept saying that we had reached out to you and you said no. - No. - Happy birthday, Connor. - So there's no we, Seth. Don't rope me in your room into your room. - Yeah, that was pretty much mainly Seth. I appreciate you also assuming I did not listen to the ones I missed, - Oh, we were. - Certain you. I'm sorry, it took me so long, buddy. - Yeah, I guess Andy is a good dude. - I also just, wait, your arm, is Connor engaged or not engaged yet? - He is engaged now because of my encouragement for him to pop the question. - This is the week where he did it. So congratulations, guys. - Andy, to fill you in on the podcast, your host up. - I feel like someone just starting to listen to the pod. I'm like, the fuck is a quid? - What is a quid? - Do you know that there was, here's one of the takeaways of last week, is that we think the movie Venom should have been called Venom, Colin Spider-Man with Teeth. - That was like seven minutes. That was about seven minutes of our digital short rewatch. - It does sound a lot to me like a conversation. I would have enjoyed being a part of it. - We checked in with Ribbon Flasher. He did say that he had seriously considered it. - Oh good. - And then the fuck is it now? - And now Jeff, either Jeff or Kevin, it turns out it was Connor's girlfriend's birthday. - So what, are you saying there might be a problem with answering Q and A questions three weeks after their asked? - I just think it's great that they got engaged on her birthday. - So do I need to say happy birthday to her? - We don't remember Connor's girlfriend's name. - She had as a name. - I'll let's say Lauren for this week and we'll then we'll clean it up next. - Happy birthday, Connor's girlfriend. - Fiancé. - Fiancé now. - That's the only way. That's the only way we see her. Only through the lens of Connor. - But I mean, I guess I'll be there. - Andy. - Andy, here's how sick Andy is. He started taking off his sweatshirt and just stopped. - I can't. - Like one arm out. - I'm like actively dizzy and out of my body. - Oh, it's so sad. - Thank you for jumping on here, though. - Yeah, look. - That's commitment. - That's commitment fell off a roof or something. So I figured I should try. - It's true. I showed up in the hospital. Andy showed up to this and fucking. - Yes. - Nicely done. - Yeah, and you couldn't tell. You didn't skip a beat. - I had never seen the backseatsman. - Oh. - So I do want to thank her. There was a Q&A about the backseatsman Andy. So I just watched that. - Yes. - Backseatsman was a me and Shester joint. - Yes. - And it came up. - I haven't seen it in 20 years. - Did you guys even help us at all with that? - I don't know if does it hold up? Is it hold up? Is it appropriate? Because it never held up. - I feel like it was just me and Shester, right? - Yes. - Me and the team did not already blame for that one. - It's the life. - But I might have had to hold a camera at some point or something. - Jonah. - Definitely. - Oh, Jonah. - Yeah. Never mind, Jonah Goldson. - I got to take out my headphones so I can take off the sweatshirt. Part two of that. So I got to stick it over your head. - This is my version of the Odyssey. - What's interesting though, because Andy's getting Ray for his movie. So he has gotten like a haircut. So he actually looks more put together than he usually does. - Oh, this isn't that one. It's this one. - With the director of Venom aka Spider-Man with teeth. - Yeah. - Directed by Spider-Man with teeth himself. - Reven. - Is it really? - Reven Fleischer is directing it. - Reven. Spider-Man with teeth. - Fleischer. (laughing) - It's going to be known from here on his birth name. He's in the junket. It's so crazy. They asked me to do Venom because my middle name. (laughing) - Oh, he had it before that pre-hated. - He was like Tom Holland going into his Spider-Man audition, showing pictures of himself dressed as Spider-Man when he was a little boy. - Yeah, yeah. - But he went in and was like, and I'm the one that's always been called Spider-Man with teeth. - Since I was a little boy. - I don't want to overstate it, but look at my license. (laughing) I'm Britney Scherer. I'm your man. - So the backseat's been. - Well, we did get in, right? - Yeah, Chester Senn voice note. - So I texted the voice note from the quaid. - I don't remember the name. - Who sent in the question to Chester so that he could answer it. - The quaid. - And was it about the address? Was that the question? Like, why is it? - Yeah, it was about 56 and Lennox. - That everybody wanted to ride in Chester's car was going to 56 and Lennox. - Oh, right. - Yes. - And so here's Chester's answer. - My guess was that it was based on a non-assign. - Hey everybody, it's Chester. I'm here to answer a question from one of your callers. A guy by the name of Edwin Coulden asking about the backseatsman. He wanted to know why was everyone going to 56 and Lennox? What was happening at that address? Why did everyone need to go there? And I'm here to answer that question. The answer is very simple. I wish it was more complicated and I wish there was more to it. But simply, we are not that smart. So when we shot the backseatsman, Alicia Keys had a song called, "You don't know my name." - Of course, yeah. - And we all loved this song. We're big fans of the song. And for everyone who doesn't know, it's a throwback soul song. And in the song, Alicia Keys sings on it and in the middle of it, she stops singing to talk to the man that she's in love with. Oh, by the way, played by none other than the mighty most deaf style fresh like baby breath. - That's right. - In the video. And in the song, she says, "Oh, I'm that waitress who works at that coffee shop over on 39th and Lennox." And at the time, we all thought it was hilarious, the fact that she said 39th and Lennox, like we thought the specificity of her saying that in a love song was very funny. Now when I listen back to it, I don't know if it's that funny. At the time, we thought it was hilarious. So fast forward to us shooting the backseatsman, we all thought it was really funny for everyone to say the same address to where they were going. And Andy said, "Oh, what's that street that Alicia says in her song?" And I blurted out 56 and Lennox. Mind you, we didn't have access to Genius.com. We didn't have access to just, we had cell phones that we just couldn't get access to stuff online. - The old days. - And it was all based on memory. We didn't have any scripts because, you know, who needs a script when we were shooting that? The backseatsman. Back just comes from the soul. So I messed up the joke. And then in retrospect, I started thinking, like how did we said 39th and Lennox properly? Would people have gotten that reference? Would they have also thought that was funny? Or does nobody think that part is funny in the song? Maybe that was just sucking that we thought it was funny. I have no idea. So maybe it doesn't really matter. Anyway, I hope that answers your question. I hope you can get 20 years of fabulous sleep, knowing that there was a joke that was messed up and that was my fault. All right, thanks everyone, love you, bye. - Wonderful. - Love you, Chester. - Okay, so first of all, big ups to Chester. The fucking fantastic here is voice on the pod. And we love you very much. With the betting thing that we were talking about, how you can bet on anything now. - Yeah, a polymarket or what? - Do you get credit for half bets? Or like, 'cause I feel like I'm right in that. - What did you put your money on? - I said it was like from a rap lyric. That's what I thought it was in it. - Yeah, I think you got that one. - It was from a popular song. - Yeah, but I said no as though, too. - And as you mentioned, there was a rapper in the video. - That's true, my most deaf. I also really appreciate like Chester just owning like seven different flubs Beginning with beginning with I now realize it's not even that funny what she said Then I referenced it wrong And but also if I'd referenced it right nobody would have Would it have been better to just a joke Yeah, I mean suffice to say we never thought we would be talking about it on a podcast like 50 years later on I will say the payoff for Chester is that last week on the pod like fucking your and when and keep we're doing the Google Earth on that street Like I don't see anything Yeah, I was gonna go there. I was gonna. It exists. There is a 56 and Lennox in Brooklyn and it's just residential No, no, but we got to check out that diner at 39th and Lennox. Yeah, really Um backseat speak and I say one thing about backseat spin because I haven't watched it since then probably yeah All I remember is us making it I'm pretty sure a lot of the stuff with him as the driver was sort of based on collateral I think that had just come out. Okay. Yeah, and then Just doofin it hard, but thinking it was so funny Then at the end I had him in the viogo. I guess we're all just living in our own teenage way And then smashing that song on When it had absolutely It made no sense in the voiceover You're like we're not teenagers. That's not what it was about in the slightest in that joke to me I remember maybe laugh really hard at the time and I don't know if we talked specifically about this when we did our like very first episode of This pod when we were talking about how it came to be But I remember us talking about like challenging ourselves to try to record a video every day And that really wasn't doable so it became like a one a week or something because we all had day jobs but where it was like It doesn't matter even if the script exists or is good We're trying to put in time yeah, you know, it wasn't there wasn't the Malcolm Gladwell stuff yet So we didn't notice our 10,000 hours, but that's what we meant That we were trying to like that even the worst thing you'll be like one cut in it That was good and we'll learn something and so we would Chester's not lying when he says there's no script like we would just go Okay, how about I'm a cab driver you're a thing and then let's get the camera and what's your and like we talk for a half hour And then go oh that's enough just start filming and we would start filming and then get to us another point and go Oh, what if I come in and we would just make it up as we go and then go edit it and add music And they seem a little more polished because we were good at editing But there was they were not truly nothing just to try to teach ourselves how to do stuff definitely So Seth you you did watch it Seth. I did watch it It's also predates the algorithm like you weren't chasing a thing to try to get like sir There was no version that anyone was going to see it. Yeah, well and therefore it's still some of my favorite stuff because it's truly for us and No, oh my god, some of our very very first stuff has lines. I still quote You're I'm going whoa And Chester going Look around you're my the world is a beautiful place you're I think of them often there's another one which is well the exploded So it's just you me in paradise. Yeah, we got a lot of them. Oh my god But yeah, we never thought anybody would see any of those because they weren't and I think we would have It's good because they made us not give a shit when we were making this they were just for us. I Again now that we've established you know, there were times where you couldn't get rap lyrics and at the tip of your finger but Our kids doing that now is any kid like filming something like just without that burden of like you can get it out in the world right now You do want everybody to see it immediately. I bet you there is some kid that we'll talk to in 25 years That's like oh, yeah, I would make videos and I won't be like put it online and he'd be like no, right There's probably somebody out there doing it. Yeah, you don't have to post stuff. Yeah, well, I hope kids know that I'm making an epic adventure with my daughter. That's truly for no one right now Zero people I bet you're gonna make us watch it. Yeah, we've seen it. It's pretty good And it's it's it's daughter plays two different characters So she's doing dialogue with herself with herself. I have seen clips. It's very yeah, yeah, and it but it's got your arms production level of iPhone footage in his house shot from his hospital bed. Yeah, she's clumping it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, clumping here She's she's also the old Jewish guy at the burger shop. She's very good though. She does it very tastefully I I posted I did put it on my Instagram because I sent it to you guys first But it was it was very funny the other morning where independent in the pod both my sons dressed up in Captain America outfits and walked into my bedroom at like six a.m Nothing better than that. It really did feel like they were making sure that I wasn't that I wasn't too burrito brain to winter soldier Those are top notch costume. Did they did they yell something? Hey, would you win your shoulder last time? Bucky answer off. Bucky. Yeah I'm bringing you in. Bucky. You're like, oh man Sold me to brand. See now these are jokes. I know they're like why are there black beans in bed? What else did any miss anything else? We need to clean up with them or do we just get right into this uh this this one? Well, look quick thing, but do we talk about most deaf and His actual name like his birth name. We have talked about it on the spot, right? Oh, mustle deffries. No, I don't know if we've ever talked about mustle deffries That's what we used to call most stuff. Yeah, but that feels like it's in a response to Yasi in Bay, which it is not this This was back way before when he first was on deaf juck to doing his stuff and we're the hugest fans and black star with him until libuqueli And we were just loving it loving it. And we would call him mustle deffries. Oh, did you know it's actually short for? Mustle deffries mustle deffries It was uh, it was also before we started telling people that tea pan His real name was Trent paint of it Which I believe we've said to his face He likes it. Yeah, just for kids out there that only know the words most deaf. It's short for most to definitely. Yeah In real life and people would say almost deaf But for him it was just a weird coincidence because his real name was mustle deffries Not to explain the joke, but it felt it feels when it's 20 years old A lot of people had unexpectedly sort of kismeti earth names on this episode. Yeah, so uh great day This is fantastic short. Maybe you're really happy to go back and watch it. I do Want to talk very briefly about the show because it's a season finale Alec Baldwin show And there were three short things I wanted to reference one was a crazy sketch, which is again one of these like indelibly Memorable Kristen wig characters than no one outside the show remembers. Do you remember when she played a script supervisor? Oh my god Is this that one Do you remember her name? Yes Starfish Oh, yeah, I'm starfish all the scripts supervisor Wasn't it like top of the show? It's too early for this sketch like there's it's like something went wrong But it's like best of wig and James and Kent It's like takes place on a soap opera called Arizona evenings. I think you're in it Andy. I'm in it. I know. I mean I It is one of the weirdest So crazy. It's so clearly like a five to one It's like at one point her teeth are in the shot That's the part I remember being like all this shit. This is funny. There's like seven moves one her name is starfish Two she has like really crazy teeth She's just uh, she's just replaced the former script supervisor Kevin can you send me this script and it's a lot of like uh, she is dead Like she speaks in a weird way. This aired. This is in the air rundown. So it's out there Alec keeps calling her teeth like it's like a little bit like that mole a bit in Awesome powers where her teeth are so big he keeps saying teeth. Yeah, it's a crazy sketch It's one of those things where like you hear Jenna the stage manager laughing the most Because of the audacity of it Crazy boys crazy look crazy idea like the very fact that she's a script supervisor which is a job I feel like most Americans have no idea what that is Yes, and I believe she says I'm starfish on the script supervisor like 10 times. Yep. That's sort of the catchphrase Wait, it didn't go to commercial after the monologue Doesn't it usually or no is there wait? It had to do something. It went to great day. Oh, so there you go great day was did that ever happen Wow, yeah, that's like a primo where it goes monologue great day into a Arizona evening and then a commercial As opposed to the monologue. Hey, we'll be we'll be right back. We have a great show tonight. That's what you call a stamp of approval I mean, I think back in the old day you would sometimes go monologue into commercial parody into a sketch right yes Yeah, it's the commercial parody spot. Yeah, I mean for what it's worth. I can't remember if I've told this once before This was one of the few times lorne we knew he really liked it because after dress in the meeting between dress and air He went out of his way in front of everybody to be like that was very funny And I remember like us all being like nice. Yes. He's not usually giving out compliments at that in that meeting not the most abusive dude on Yeah, but also not and that meetings That's when the shit is hitting the fan exactly. So it was notable. Yeah, it was notable Just in case you're wondering here's a line Alec okay, okay, did you say your name was starfish? I thought I heard you say starfish Also, this it makes me really happy this this is the line that was added between dress and air So this was the first time this line was said was on air. Oh, okay. Did you say your name was starfish? I thought I heard you say Starfish. Oh, yeah, I got that name with my parents They made me when my dad had gone inside my mom at Myrtle Beach. Oh. I just shot a commercial in Myrtle Beach for a conjoined joint pain product. Well, last time I was there, I guess, I was in my mom's belly, so I was just, I was just a little worm, no I was in the trap. Crazy. Hold on, I want to see what happened to Elaine. Uh, yeah, she, the reason she's in is Elaine got hit by a Frito lay truck. Her legs are all bent. They twist curled up under that truck like a column. Marie. Man, oh, man, God, love it. All right. Also in this show was a sketch called swim team words. Do you remember swim team words, Andy? I'm certain you were in it as well. I don't remember. Alec was a mad swim coach who was giving out awards at the end of the year to a terrible swim team. And it was just a really funny Baldwin sketch because he kind of had a Boston accent. And I just want to show if you guys can see, can you guys see that a little? Like, I don't know what was going on between dress and air, but every sketch had like massive rewrites. Oh, like everything between dressing air was like, we're going to do this sketch, but we just on none of the jokes worked. Interesting. So scary. So scary. The idea of like reading shit for the first time while it's being broadcasted. It's quite common though. Yeah. Yeah. I was trying to explain it to my son when I was taking him around as no. Here were some of the things he said about the people that were coming out to get awards. This kid couldn't float in outer space. He swallowed more water than the filter. I call this kid instant drowning victim just to add water. And then Fred came out. Luke Summers. The kid has two things in common with Greg Luganis. He hit his head on the diving board and I'll let you figure out the second thing. Anyway, and then John Lutz, who was John Lutz's last show ever is a writer and SNL. And he wrote a sketch called Time Curave, which was a microwave that was also a time-traveled device. And over the course of the commercial, a bunch of like paradoxes started happening. And it was a really fun sketch and it was kind of in the five-to-one spot. Wow. That looks delicious. But where did that food come from? The future. Come on. I'm serious. Later on, when I'm done eating the roast beef dinner, all I have to do is take a roast beef dinner out of the freezer, put it in the Time Curave and send it back in time to the exact moment that I pulled out the hot meal earlier. Sounds simple. Now, what happens if you forget to send your meal back in time? Well, Penny, if you forget to send the exact meal you ate back in time, you'll create a paradox where small differences may start to occur in the space-time continuum. Oh, boy. I think there's something to be said where sometimes everybody writes a five-to-one sketch and then starfish is like Top of Show. By the way, our short being that high and it's all about being an insane co-cat. Yeah. A little surprising for Top of Show. And then Lord's like, "No, we got to do it right away." Do we have a voice note from Lots? This is the week of the writers' party where you made the crisis to conform, any shirt? Yeah. I'm just going through the photos. That's why I texted a few good photos from it. I'm just seeing that the show is May 15th, the writers' party is May 13th. And I think we were shooting this that day. Oh, wow. I think we shot this all day and then went to the party. You thought we shot Thursday, not Friday? If the date on the photos, right? Oh, hard to say. It probably is. Oh, no. I mean, well, I don't know. One of these says May 11th, but that's not even possible. I think we did. I think we shot it. Well, that's for a voice note, Andy, and he did say, like, I feel like he was a little upset. Last time he gave a voice note, you were very critical of his energy level. Oh, okay. So is he going to come in hot? I haven't listened, but that's going to be my expectation. Hello, hello, Lee Islands. It's John Lutz. And if I'm correct, Andy Sandberg just went, "Ugh." He said that to me to come here today on the pod to talk about one of my signature sketches, Time Curl Wave. Now, Time Curl Wave was a sketch that, I think it started off as a fake pitch. I think it didn't have anything for, for pitch and just went water two words that I can combine in a time and microwave. Time Curl Wave. And so I pitched it and got a bit of a laugh. So then I was like, oh, I should write that up. The basic idea of Time Curl Wave is that when you're hungry, your food is ready right away. Take it out of the microwave, you eat your food. But then you have to put your food back in time after you're done eating it to the exact moment when you sent it to yourself earlier. And then if you don't do it exactly, paradoxes start and things get crazy. So I originally, I did some research on this, I think I originally pitched it or put it to the table for the Tom Hanks show in 2005. And it was not picked. I held on to it for a while, continued to bug Seth about it. I think I brought it up every once in a while. It's like, I think it's a week for Time Curl Wave. And he would always be like, no, it's not because Lauren gets mad when you resummit things too much. But, but I did eventually resummit it for a perfect host. And it was in 2007, I believe that I did it for you guessed it, Jeremy Piven. Because if there's anybody who's like Hanks, it's the Piven. It was not picked again. And so just held on to it and held on to it and kept bugging Seth about it. And finally, on my last show, the host was Alec Baldwin, I went up to Seth and I said, I think this is the week. This is the one for Time Curl Wave to Seth. And he was like, I just want to make sure that you are writing it so that it can be live. And like, it's all mapped out in my head of how to do it live. So you can assure Lauren that I've thought this through. And it got picked. And so I was very excited about it. One of the most fun things about it is things kept changing because they ended up putting the wrong. They sent a chicken dinner back in time instead of a beef dinner. And so the hosts kept, you know, like other day, would have a mustache in one shot. And in the next shot, they'd have horns. Well, in one shot, Alec turned into Dr. Zeyes from the planet of the apes because things had just gone horribly wrong. And the person who was playing Dr. Zeyes was Michael Bryan. So Michael Bryan had to be dressed as Dr. Zeyes all night long from dress rehearsal on because it got picked. And I have a great picture of him giving notes to Naseem in between dress and air. And also him sitting on the floor in Lauren's room while we're getting notes dressed as Dr. Zeyes. And it really just made me laugh. And then the scene went on the air. My final show. And it went fine. It got some laughs. But, you know, that's the time for wave story. As Andy knows, all my stories end with a. So I hope you enjoyed the story of my time for wave sketch goodbye lonely islands. Oh, I feel like we're saying goodbye to Lutz, because since that's his last show, you know, he'll be back. I'll be back. Let's be honest. All right. Great day. Kick it off, guys. So great day was an idea that I had for a while. It was this one and people getting punched before eating were two ideas I had that were just like one sentence in my notes app or whatever blackberry equivalent of that was. And I had pitched this to Akiva a few times. And he's like, okay, tell it to me. And I told him basically the first shot. I was like exactly the shot it ended up being and me popping up with coke all over my face. And going, I don't know why he's like, and he's like, and that's what he why. And he was like, okay. And then what? And I was like, I don't know. And he was like, it seems like a really funny shot and beginning. And I don't know where it goes. And I was like, okay. And then it just sort of got pushed aside because of that. And then this week. I brought it up again. And everyone feel free to disagree. But this is my remembrance and recollection. And Keith said the same thing. And you're was like, let's just start writing it. So I was like, okay, I'm down with that. And so I went to Catrice who is in charge of all the music. And I sang her the first line and basically the melody that ended up being. She made us the track. I actually just went through the old folder. And it was, there's the original one. We could even play a snippet of it if we'd like here. Yeah. Why don't we just do that right now? And it was way too slow. It's so, you know, Catrice tragically passed away. And it is so beautiful and sweet and sad to hear her singing one of your dumb songs. Yeah, for sure. We worked with her a lot. She's such a talent. She was so, so, yeah. She really, she really was. And she helped us with so many things. And it was we were lucky. And it's very funny too that like her instinct of course would her first instinct was to always make it a great song. And so the funny song is too fast. But like her first version, you're like, oh, this is a great song. I would pop that on you. So I realized in the folder, my great day folder, I had started organizing by this thing. time. There were like seven versions of it going faster and faster and faster and faster and faster and faster. And I'm sure me and you're both being like, "No, no, it has to be like fucking crazy fast." Yeah, he's like, "Cope." And we're like, and also just, you know, like halfway through, it has to go double-time that. So she made it and we loved it and we just started recording in the office. My main memory of it was me and you're more like locked into the manickness of it. And I had written out a document with a bunch of ideas in it that I also sent, but we kind of just started doing it stream of consciousness like line by line. And it took us where it took us and it was really fun. Which I think is a lesson, I don't know if I can pinpoint that. And that's when we learned the lesson. But now, when we are brainstorming songs, if one of us has a really strong first line that matches with music that we either have or have made, that's all we need now. We never overthink that now. Sure, you don't go, "Where does it go?" Like, we go, "Well, that's funny. Can we add another thing on top of that? Like, where does what's the next sentence? All right, well, we have three great sentences now. What's the fourth sentence?" Like, we go, and that's like, when you described it, Andy, I was like, "Right, we didn't know that necessarily at that time." But that became like our process, I would say. I would agree, especially in the last, like, 10 or 12 years, a lot of that has led to some of the songs I like the most. It's hilarious to call that a process, but it is a process. It's how, by the way, it's not most, but it's how a lot of people make music now. Like, I just saw like a whole bunching in. Exactly. I call it on Pro Tools, where you just do a line until it sounds good and then just go, "All right, what's the next line?" Punch me next time. Exactly. I suppose to knowing a whole song and recording. Yeah, exactly. It's a way to do it, especially now that you have such access to great recording equipment that's not as expensive and blah, blah, blah. So anyway, we had a blast doing it, and I remember we got halfway through, and I don't know if you were there the whole time, Kever, if you check back in on us, and you're like, "It's good." To your credit, always super like, "Oh, yeah, it's working. You guys did it. Great job." It was always very posy. I don't think it took very long. I think you guys got a little deeper in to where I was like, "Oh, oh, this is rad." And then I helped with that. I mean, I clearly hadn't mapped out the rest of what I saw being, but it was basically just like, "What if this guy whose life is falling apart was singing a super upbeat musical song?" We were always very good about that. If two of us saw something, then the other person would just extract themselves until they got it, and then whatever notes came in afterwards, would always make it a much, much better process with the three of us. And also, like every one of your great songs, there's like 12 different moves. Everybody knows what the premise is. The premise is so clean. Everybody knows what it is, and nobody in the audience can guess what the next move is going to be. It gets never, and so it's everything is a delight, because it also, you never betray the premise. It's just like really great leaps. Also, I think that thing would view walking and then looking at camera. Like you walking ahead, but looking at the cameras, it tracks along with you. It's one of my favorite anti-moves, and I feel like it was like your Emmy song. We have reproduced great-day energy in my estimation a few times since the Emmy opening song for sure. Honestly, the helmets commercial I just did that just came out for the Super Bowl. It's great. Very much so. And it's fun. I love playing that energy. It's like a way to be like full tilt, like chasing Jim Carrey energy within the context of what we really know how to do in control, which is the songs and the fast-cutting and all that stuff. It just makes me happy to see something move that fast, honestly. Yeah. And it's not so fast that you can't understand it. Well, we found out this time that it wasn't. Yeah. There was a discussion about that though of like, fuck, this thing is break neck. It's break neck, but I do think that the like the style of the song and like, and there's enough openness to Catrice's insertation too and the crispness of your, you're being very, it wasn't overwritten in terms of like there was no word play and it was also like the diction was very clear. I found it. Good diction. Which helps. Good diction. Oh, he's a big part of our. He's a business man. Two days ago I was walking out of 30 Rock and bumped into Bobby Moynihan who is I think in the new Tracy Morgan show, right? Yeah. And that's how he was doing press for that who I think is in the nude. He was like, you couldn't tell. But he was he had a big bag. Yeah. So it's hard to tell. Like a big like carrier bag. But he like, I was like, Oh, I was literally just watching great day and you're so funny as the mailman. And obviously we'll get into it. But like he is very good in rewatching it. I was like, first off, you guys shot the shit out of it. It looks so fun. Gorgeous. Vibrant, the camera moves all rip. The cutting is so good. The study in this is great. And again, it's your it's your cherry lane corner. Yeah. One of our favorite streets in all of New York City and it's May. I don't want to talk about the weather every time we get to May, but you do feel it. Oh, yeah. And is this your farewell to that corner? Did you ever shoot there again? Oh, thanks. TBD on that. Put your bets in Polly Mark. But I kind of feel like this was your best. I don't know. It was like, it's kind of a love song. That corner as well. It looks like a musical. Yeah. That street is perfect. But you can see the I ran so far, Stu. For sure. Oh, yeah. Yes. I will say in terms of like the very beginning of this, I always knew I wanted it to be there because it looks like a studio lot city. You know what I mean? Total. Yeah. It looks fake. It looks fake. Exactly. Yes. If we could have shot it on a lot, I would have been stoked. There's a very hard to get into restaurant. They're now called wild cherry. Andy. Yeah. In the cherry lane theater. Yeah. I ran about that. Yeah. Bit of a foodie. Cherry lane theater is still open though as a theater. It is. Yes. It's like a second. I read the rags. Oh, you do keep up with New York restaurants. So you can put grease upon. Get yourself in there. Oh, Seth, you grease some poms, brother? Oh, my God. I love Seth. Can we go there for the can we go to our palate? That's where you go after the Vasek to me dinner. Yeah. Yeah. That was a habit. It was probably I know it's really hard to get into, but weirdly, they do have deals for people who had a Vasek to me that day. If you can prove it, it's as like, but they're like, no, we can't prove it with the doctors. No, they make you prove it. Oh, they make you show. Yeah, they whip it out. He's getting of a sect. Me the opposite of popping your cherry. Just curious. 'Cause that's my cherry. Yeah. Wild cherry. It is kind of. Yeah. It's the reverse. Yeah. It's the reverse of popping your cherry. So you go to wild cherry. That makes sense. Thanks for saying that, Seth. I didn't say it. Yeah. Thanks for asking that really tasteful question, Seth. I can't wait. Just like we didn't tell Connor that and yeah, I said, fuck off. It was you over and over. I would never have said that to Connor and Connor knows that. Yeah. He knows that. All right. Should we watch it? Yeah. I got it here. Hold on. Anybody else feel like they're about to fall asleep? Yes. Not good. That's right. This is maybe the latest we've ever done. Wait a minute. In terms of a pot. But it is TGIF. Oh nice. Yeah. Definitely going out after this. I wish Seth was here. He'd go have a drink with me. I would have a drink with you. Yeah. He probably has like 100% less vertigo than me too. All right. Here we go. I don't know why, but today seems like it's going to be a great day. There's something in the air. Can we stop? I know. Just started. No, no, go for it. I definitely remember us talking about how we want on the first line to have a light streaming through and be a bunch of Coke puff up off my face. The puff is great. So that you really just fucking just did the line. Yes. Exactly. And I think we shot that like six or seven times. That's perfect. It's perfect. That thing of like the saddest thing because there's like Chinese food and pizza. The poorly card boarded over window. I guess. Like somebody was like, no. He's had some some episodes in here. There's the cabinets broken. Yes. But anyhow, I'm very happy with how work now. Obviously, I think if they weren't getting it, they would just digitally put it a puff. But I love that we got it. Also, we have them actually build us a little set here, which was unusual for us, which is nice. Yeah. That's why I do think it was early in the week because there's more planning available. Okay, my man. It's going to be a great day. There's something in the air that makes me feel like things are going to go my way. The birds are chirping tweedly deep. I guess up. I was so happy to get actual like cell animation looking blue birds. Really well done. Good. They did a great job. And it was hard to get it. Yes. They really did it. They drew this and animated. And it was expensive. And you think it's going to be so easy. You're like, yeah, they're just like, and now maybe it would be, but it was. But we wanted like those, what is it, song of the South? Yeah, that's right. And I remember being personally very adamant about wanting it that way. And then when they did it, I was so happy. So thanks again, many years later, for everyone who did that. And then this immediately into what I imagine is exactly what you wanted on the light on your face. You aren't we couldn't hear you? Why were you saying about the words? I was saying that like, there's two little things just for like little filmmaking things of when Andy pops up, it's a little speed ramp as he like pops up just to make him even more insane as he pops up when he first see him. Oh yeah. And then and then when the door opens, I remember like in editing adding a there's that very subtle sound of sizzling like it's sizzling his brain. You're saying on the sun shot. Yeah, the sun shot sizzle. I remember you adding that. Yeah, it's really funny. Also just a Detail that's worth pointing out in the set direction the fact that there are a stack of pizza slices on top of the fridge Okay, so there's empty pee and then you also were like so like gacked out. You were like stackin pizza. Yeah, I'm gonna eat these No, I'm not I'm one of here. Nobody else is getting to my room. I'm here. I'll come back for those. I won't forget Remind me That move dude that move the camera pulling back as I'm like gliding forward or whatever and then landing at Bobby right at the right moment for the line It's you watch it and you just take it off for granted because it's telling you the story well, but for me I'm just so appreciative of how fucking dope it is. It's very smooth I mean again the choreography both actual literal choreography and then the way the camera is moving is as good as you guys ever had it in this And we're clearly on real lenses and stuff. So it's it's in our more DP-based mode here. Yeah, and I think the entire thing's on steady cam. Just I always love that same thing though Andy like the revealing foreground shots is always it's a little spielburgie, isn't it? Yeah, it is he does do that Hey there mailman Fred any letters for my ex-wife for the kids no fantastic news Oh Shout out to Danielle cuz isn't that her in the way? She she was the long-time astronaut choreographer who didn't always put herself in the dance only when she I guess thought it was appropriate and which it totally is here. She's in a budget like she's the one of the zombies in Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah nice to see her on camera for sure. Yeah, or rampa-bom-bom I would not have before I watched it I would not have remembered that line, but when I heard this set up to it. I knew it was coming in there There's so many fucking good Andy moves just the genuine and like like just the the performance and The glee Of the insanity the first kind of big turn. That's about to happen is one of my favorite things Love the choreography of them all touching their face because their face is numb Mm-hmm It's just a pleasant musical the dancers are just like hey So many places and people to me now that I've lost my job They say you're hitting a little choreo is so key Yeah, like pop stars do where they have the dancers go nuts and then they just hit like three things and you're like whoa They know the whole thing. It's great. Yes. Yes, and truly Just give me a second get that one ladder shot What I remember about that shot is chrysal was still with us for the whole season with us and out working with the show And we gave him the eyeball shot in my remembering correctly. Yes. Yes. Yeah, like he did that on What was the program he was used probably after a fax maybe yeah exactly and then I think this was one of the first it can be in the first time but like but that we do a little pop in Close up and those were all digitally done. I remember being like, I know we have like high enough quality When you and him went no and Andy's walking Oh, just to keep it lively. Yeah, yeah, well, we're just popping it on the same footage popping it out because we were at such high dirt Yeah, yeah I just cuz we went to Daniel like all those dancers do a great job because there's no cuts there They have to actually act through the entire range and it's they're all really great because then they have to pop right back into the High energy just like you definitely and none of them get you really you watch it again I'm like, oh yeah, none of them get cut acting there. They're all like so natural It's really great that's true and and then we come back in and the tempo's faster which is delightful And it's like halfway through Just cooking he's recharged also it is I mean you're talking about how like they built you a set you got a DP It's unsteady cams like this is like this is fat city times for Lonely Island up to an including like Kreizel was just like on retainer Like a guy who fully could do a short on his own was like yeah I'll do eyes They found other stuff for him to do at the show Yeah, no, I know it's just like so awesome. We know you're his greatest defender, Keith We're starting to have a team of people we can count on which is great and then somebody in the VFX People did the Matrix stuff for us at the end, but I don't I'm not gonna remember. He's sure that was art jail I think that's I think it's grandma art. You got it. Yeah Why would I do that? It's a free much of the ocean is still unexplored. How did I get out of the mystery really good legs and arms? Yeah, just back in the again a different I ran so far location the roof that the roof, right? Yeah for the roof Come on man. That was like three days ago where it wasn't very happy to be reminded of that joke. Yeah Really good also very good casting on the on the family like everybody's like and it sort of looks beautiful Who's sitting on your hair the portrait? That's our wardrobe Brian have a stuff. Oh, yeah, I did not notice it I believe Brian works for a Sesame Street now. Yeah, he's for many years now has worked for Sesame Street doing their wardrobe, but he was our that's another sign that we were more of a mainstay We had our dedicated person that would come in late in the week to handle our stuff He would still be within the S&L infrastructure and wardrobe, but he would do our Brian was my I mean the easiest job That's an L it was great at it. That was why he also had time for you guys. He was my dresser on shownight. Yeah, so he would like put your jacket on yeah Nicely done and sometimes the pants if I wanted to you were shorts No, I'd wear like jeans like what I like sometimes I put on the full suit pants. Oh, I see. Yeah Seth be real Bermuda shorts. You everywhere Bermuda shorts. I was a I went to Adam Sandler's warehouse There's a lot of like long basketball shorts this bench that were paused on as well one of my favorite photos of the three of us is on this bench That we will have shared before us from shirts on the internet, but we can put it on our Instagram because it all posted once a year If we want because I dislike it so much. Yeah, that's a great. I love it But it's a very good picture. I think Rachel Lynn took it This tree now I'm over here now I'm over there now I'm under the stew now back in the tree now hanging out backstage with my very best friends I'll go in and Tom Petty What now Full talks just floating through that shit insane full talks. I mean this at this point. We're inside his mind. Yeah. Oh, it is Zooming it's like and I love that any any memory of where we shot this. I'm just curious the audience doesn't give a shit I think that this was like maybe set stage. I think this is That's stage. Yeah, it might have been down on one of the news stages. Remember we do that sometimes on like three or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah Like where we did boom box. Rachel Lynn will know Rachel tell us Also saying homies in this song is so wrong. It's the best. It's definitely does not fail. Oh, I love it. It's so lonely That nasally We added of just someone just trying to suck this shit out of and then the nectar out of that rose. This guy snort stuff. He's a snorting type Any problem is solvable. We can't be the hungry at jerseys, but all of that would be a huge waste of time because we land in the matrix What is wrong with him He's on drugs Metrics are what's hard to get to I mean the little spit the little spit at the end is just perfect Do you guys remember how hard it was to get that shot that like we like it was like I wasn't gonna work It was me fucking $10,000 and then it just got talked down into like no, we can get that matrix shot. It's fine They did a great job. We spent yeah, it was awesome Um, did you guys know we're actually living in the matrix? IRL. Oh shit. Oh, yeah I heard about that. Yeah, um, wasn't there something about the end shot keve With the spit you can see the water on the ground from a different take or something. Oh, yeah I think you could see take one is in there and we just nowadays you would easily yeah All right, yeah, now a days you would just easily erase that yeah in five seconds How embarrassed, but in it was the beginning I think of people being able to like because of everything being online and repeat viewing and stuff and getting videos Sected more of people being able to notice something like that. We're as any The Eldon times you would have just aired this and known what it's not the the Diffie. Oh, I'm tailing off Yes, but your point is well taken But it is there. Oh, and then it's gone. Oh, there you go. Yeah, so it is dry at the end It does appear correctly at the end. Yeah, but the the shot of you matrix arming was clear Yeah, but we easily could have even just using our rudimentary skills done a little matte and just grabbed that piece of cement from the other shot put a vote in notice you know because right if that's what they're looking at we've lost I think we aren't We were in the zone, dude, we were so fucking zone out. - But it's often what's said on set, especially when you're moving particularly fast, and usually a scriptie will say, hold on, like we need to make sure that this, and you're like, if people are paying attention to that, then we've already lost, is a phrase that I often use. - And that script supervisor, what needs-- - We'll start with that. - We'll start with that. - We'll start with that, so that's why it has that. - That's a nice full circle moment. - There had been a water in the previous shot. - Starfish, Starfish is a script supervisor. (laughing) - Wow, full circle, that's Starfish. - That's perfect. - So shot list on Thursday, panning down to find a street early in the morning, I think you are, and you type these up, is my guess. - Yeah, I don't know, like dancers come in on so many places and people to meet. - I thought, were you doing something this week? Why did I think that we weren't around as much? - I don't know, I was there, maybe just from those first few hours that you guys cracked the song without me. - And it goes just out. - 'Cause I was there the whole time. I have memory of every shot, more than most, because again, spring time. - Oh, spring time. - That's when the memories really are made for Akiva. - I'm gonna buy a plane ticket to New York City on May 10th of this year, and I'm gonna come out and just fucking lie about it. - The guy who just walked down, Charlie. - Yo, guys. - He likes to take it, it's majesty. - Schedule that vasectomy, and I'll be there. We get you real. - Oh, hey, you heard it here, Ferg. You guys, Akiva's in. Get your wild cherry, and I'll be there. You know, when you don't wanna be there, Keeve? - Right now. - No. - Grace, no. Six degrees. - It is brick. - I thought about you guys today when I was outside, 'cause it was 80 degrees, and it was so nice and clear, and I was like, wow. - Oh. - This is when you don't wanna be in New York. - Andy, all right, like Andy's fading. This is criterion collection, 100%. I can't wait for this field to go for it. - I do wanna say, we talked about Mani Manimal a lot last episode, Andy. I don't know if you remember Mani Manimal. It was a sketch that Joe's wrote for Taylor Lautner, where he was like a spider man, but got bit by a lot of different animals. So he was the man of Mani Manimals. - That sounds familiar. - Mani Manimal. Then he resubmitted it for me in 2017. Then he resubmitted it for Finn Wolfhard last week. It got cut three times, and then we talked about it on the pod, and then I had to get permission from him to tell the story. - Got it. - He told me, and laughing very hard. He was very happy, and he wants to come on the pod and talk to a whole Mani Manimal episode, because his argument is that he has made it better every single time, and it definitely hasn't worked. - That's what we want to chronicle through Mundo Butz style. - He's like, it hasn't worked, but he's like, it is very different. - Yeah. - In his mind, it's a Mundo Butz. - He is a Mundo Butz. Also, the thing that I'd forgotten was that the man of many animals, Mani Manimal, also in the beginning voiceover, he was a janitor named Mani Manimal. (laughing) I told Joe's that I had forgotten that he goes, believe it or not, it's a huge part of the Finn Wolfhard version, and I'm like, oh, and nobody cared, he's like, nobody cared. - He zeroed in on a funny detail, and was like, oh, why don't I make some more out of it? - This is what it is. - Where people are like, wait, your name was Mani Manimal, but it was before a Mani Manimal? - Still nobody. - No, no. - Did you ask him about dinner though? - I know, I didn't, I talked to him about Mani Manimal. I didn't talk to him about dinner, but well, I mean, I obviously will grill him. - I just wanna know about the five people he was gonna invite to dinner an hour before me. - Have you talked about our recent thing? - Yeah. - Well, 'cause we were talking about Joe's, and I'm like, he invited us to dinner, and that didn't come. - Oh my God, you put him on blast. - Oh, so much. - I thought I was fucking gangster. I love it. - Well, it's funny, it's extra funny that he invited, he said, actually, can we make the reservation for 12 people, I'm bringing five more people, an hour before, and then was like, actually, I'm not coming at all. - It was way less than an hour before, it was like 20 minutes before. - That's when he told us he wasn't coming. - It was crazy. It was crazy. - We love him. - Hey, just circling back to great day for one second, guys, if you don't mind, I'm looking at the shot list. It was shot on Thursday, because it says shot list Thursday. On Friday, it was the stuff in the stage of Alec and Tom, Petty, and the dramatic lighting stuff about you being dressed with the rows, with the tux and the family portrait stuff. Wrong about you, Dennis. I'm gonna say one last thing. - 'Cause I meant to say when I watched it. Also, fucking rad that Tom Petty was in this. - Yeah, so, yeah, truly. - And that was not lost on us. We couldn't believe when he came in and sat down for a minute and was super nice and we did it. And there's a really nice photo of us with him that even somebody printed out black and white copies of. - Yeah, it was great. I mean, that's the S&L thing. You just meet legendary people you love in passing super quickly, and they're like, "Okay, great, thanks." You're like, "Hey, that living legend was really cool." Yeah. Hey, guys, it's Andy. I guess we never got to whether or not I quibbied, which I think we can all agree it's unacceptable 'cause it's the most important part of the entire pod. I think everyone feels the same in his onboard and his agreement about that. Anyhow, the day we recorded, I needed to hints, but as fate would have it today, I did it clean. I got a full on clean quibi and there were 80 words, and I felt so proud. And yeah, I think proud enough to pop it a little voice note. Right a little snuggler, a little duggler right at the end. Just for all the heads. It was an annoying, long one, but I persevered, and I made it up your Seth. - It's criterion. And I love you guys. And Andy, I hope you get better soon. And-- - It's buddy. - Let's do it again in the near future. - Love you guys. - Take it away, Arnold. - No. - Oh no, sorry, love you quids. Love you quids. Take it away, Arnold. - And he goes boom, boom, boom. - Hey, there. - He doesn't respond to that. - Oh, he doesn't. - What is he talking about? - So you tell me what he responds to, Andy. - Later, Arnold. - Later, quids.