The Lonely Island podcast episode is recorded during a snowstorm that disrupts travel, with hosts Seth, Keith, and Akiva meeting at a friend’s home in LA despite the storm’s severity. Andy, who usually contributes significantly to their creative output, is absent due to illness, prompting reflection on the group’s reliance on his presence—especially for key projects like "Great Day." The conversation blends personal anecdotes, such as childhood SNL fandom, a funny moment when a listener’s random phrase "Mama’s Gun" leads to a deep dive into the Air Kabadu album, and the group’s ongoing efforts to engage fans through t-shirt designs and listener questions. A major fan query about the "Backseatsman" short’s mysterious 56 and Lennox reference sparks playful speculation, with no definitive answer. The hosts also share heartfelt responses to audience members, including a celebration of Connor's wedding and a nostalgic look back at their early SNL days. Behind-the-scenes elements like table-read snacks, the legendary edamame habit of Lauren Michaels, and a failed dinner plan involving Joe highlight the team’s camaraderie and real-life dynamics. The episode concludes with a mix of humor, warmth, and reflection, reinforcing the podcast’s unique role as a shared space where friends bond over shared experiences, inside jokes, and the evolving journey of their comedy careers.
All right, can we start? Sure. Yeah. Oh, yeah, let's start off This is what you wear I'm assuming the explosion you're going way longer now. Let's see. Oh, I wish I wish Nope, I'm out. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the lonely island and set my podcast Snow day edition. It's a snow day edition. So we're supposed to be recording great day. Yeah, we might actually record it tomorrow It is a Sunday. It is a crazy storm has hammering the east coast Yormini who live on the east coast have managed to work our way to podcast studios just through like driving sleep I'm not out of podcast area. I'm at I'm at my friend Jake's house There's like four kids downstairs screaming and playing Mario. Okay. Yormini was doing a bit And I was gonna eventually get to the fact that Andy couldn't make it. Yeah, because of the snow You look like you're in a studio though Seth. You look well I'm actually my office because it's better podcasting but at least Andy gave us 30 minutes warning that he couldn't do it For me it was last because I just checked the job wait so Seth Seth So you still traveled from your apartment to your studio even though it's a Sunday I was coming in from North of the city. I abandoned my family to come here I was supposed to come back Monday morning and then I started panicking that I was not gonna make it back because as of this minute We are gonna tape tomorrow and I was just worried I was not gonna make it back to the city to do my late-night trip Do you guys remember like early days of SNL what like there was a blizzard our second or third year? Well, I can't remember what it was but like but people were like cross-country skiing in Times Square No, that was like one of the coolest things I've ever seen I remember the only show which I was worried that was gonna happen for us And I last night it did not happen for us in our last night But when Paul Giamatti hosted which was before your time the weather was so bad that the after party was just in 30 rock Like that's incredible like a conference room where they just had like bad wine and beer That's such a fucking drag which is also like Giamatti's the perfect host. Yeah, that happened Thousand percent just like the saddest after party like you somebody would write a movie about him hosting SNL. Yeah, and that's what it yeah Wait, so wait the storm right now is it supposed to get worse? It is supposed to get worse. It's supposed to basically go all day. It's all it's pretty white out conditions It looks like there's about eight inches done But I think the roads are gonna get worse tomorrow because it's gonna stay cold and everything's gonna freeze Yeah, yeah, so there's worry that like your audience doesn't show up I think people in New York are gonna be fine I just think that if you were out of the city getting into the city will be hard Yeah, we walked over here and my five-year-old daughter did not enjoy like block seven of getting over here I'm sure but uh but things must be pretty harrowing in LA as well. Keeve if Andy couldn't make it You know what they're they're their families been passing around a little bit of a cold. Yeah some sort and so there's a lot of chaos right now Now don't you feel bad Seth you fucking dick. Yeah, I also have a cold Seth how often how often did you come into our office at SNL and Andy was on the couch feeling a little under the I would say passing around a cold is what I would say you outside of making really funny songs that is what the Lonely Island did Yeah, the three of us just the same cold just by the time the first guy was good again Yeah, he would just get it. They would say like what is what is it like working with a long time and I'm almost like well You know, one's always a little sick And they were like oh no, I meant the music. I'm like oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, the music too. There was a small room So because great day is a short that we're you know proud of and it's one of our main ones in our minds Criterion in our minds. We can't do it without Andy's what we talked is what our text where I was talking about and we agree But what is this podcast if we are just always? Like Andy is gonna go shoot a movie soon. This is public. Yeah information. You know what I shot on movie too So you know what we fucking you are you have to stop jumping in you pass the button really we all you did you did miss a fair amount of episodes Journey exactly and Andy will too But you know well these are these are I guess the test episodes how many cues and a's can we do you know well That's a question. Yeah, we can also will let me start with a cue for you Keith. Yeah, how do you think you are? And I did without you guys so low so low. Oh, well, I really enjoyed it because again I guess every time one of us misses it we kind of get the experience of what somebody might like about this Which is that it's just hanging out for an hour and when I'm in the car alone It's way less lonely to feel like I'm hanging out. Hey somebody made this comment because you're and I each accidentally called the other one Keeve at some point I appreciate that and someone did suggest that the next time you were and I do an episode together It's called two keves episode That makes sense to me. Yeah, yeah, you're just the you're the guy apparently a key there was not a lot I felt like to follow up on except for there was one moment you were just telling a story about your life And you were saying that one of your kids like to find interesting music on Spotify or whatever you Just throw out two words and he said mama's gun. Yes, and that was how you found something I don't know why he said that that's a fucking crazy two words to put together But that's a very famous air kabadu album. I think it's her second album. Oh mama's gun. You're right, right, so but he didn't know that I was shocked that I was shocked that Apple music or Spotify or whatever you're using over there didn't immediately play air Kabadu but maybe it does Song first rather than album like does song take preference over albums like when I type in mama's gun Yeah, into Google. It's the only thing that comes up that critically acclaimed second studio album by Neo soul singer Eric Abadu. It is crazy that I didn't think of that or mention it because it is yes Like 100% it should be that and I don't know why that came up and I don't know why he said it He was just yelling out words. I don't know and and they were not a huge band at the time a music thing should just immediately play There kabadu Spotify work on it. Let's not prioritize mama's gun the song over air kabadu guys speaking of Spotify I got my award. I got my little award - I feel like I forgot to read what mine said What's so interesting about what Spotify sent us is that the award itself is substantial like yeah They made real awards that they probably gave to real people and then they had extra as and went what if we give some more Away as goofs and we got goof words. What is your say cave the eternal optimist, but I think you know when you get your your end of the year Spotify wrapped email yeah, and it kind of labels what kind of a listener you are I'm sure this is one of the labels people if they listen to like upbeat music can get this label So I think they just assigned one of the I gotta say cave. This is the only eternal optimist award you're ever gonna get Yeah, they're not fitting of my personality makes me think they don't actually listen Or it's sarcastic. I feel like if I the award. I should have received from Spotify is the age gap award when all you listen to Is stuff that's like 50 years apart. So it's like Kpop and like Fleetwood Mac. Yeah, it's you're just doing the 70s and the Yeah, there was a lot of we did mention it your a lot of our listeners were Enthusiastic about the idea of an episode called oops all your You know what people were mad that Jeff basically shut down. Yeah, I shut down my Jeff. I think Jeff just knew better like do let's not do that Yeah, Jeff. I think Jeff knows that the loudest people who leave comments maybe aren't the best reflection of our total listener base and the 2% Yeah, love you guys love you guys Connor is our service member who asked for a message from Andy and I said Andy didn't have shit to say to Connor Obviously, I do want to hammer home that that was me doing a bit. Oh did some people misunderstood? I was worried about it when we were doing But I want Connor to know that he's not out of our heart We're still thinking about him and eventually Andy is gonna be on the bottom. We'll probably have something nice to say 1,000% and I want to say congratulations on your eventual nuptials Connor and yeah lady You're hoping they're not engaged if you listen to your own episode you'd realize they're not engaged that you as had Miss Poe Connor time to pop the question Connor. I like that. Yorm has a good memory for stuff that didn't happen Yeah, well in my mind in my mind you should have already asked her Connor and I think why are people I didn't listen to a I don't tend to listen to these with ads Yorm a lot of people had words about your chai mad. What did you do on the channel? No, I was saying this to to keep it because I don't Sexual it was or it was ASMR. It was very deep voice. Yes, and it was very smooth. It was like the best part of that and we yeah But the best part about it was then the Quantifier came on at the end the little like super fast talk What do you call his disclaimer seem like a disclaimer from a female voice that's none of us that that was at like four-time speed So your man taking his really sweet time talking about whatever that product was and then the very and so Like everything he just said is a lie do not listen to this guy at all. He is a fucking idiot Fuller opposite of him. It was just too funny to discount everything Yorm. It's just what it was so is a lady chipmunk It was one of the lady chipmunk. Yeah, exactly Stephanie somebody said that hot rod was in their families top five movies and one of the movies was Night's Tale Which I've never seen the Heath Ledger movie. Oh, yeah, of course with what was her name? So Shana Shannon Sosamon Yeah, good night's tail. Yeah, but I feel like having now watched the trailer might be a perfect movie for my boys Yes, you know, it's I have a list in my notes of like family movie night Yeah, and this has been on it for like four years and get shot. I go all right Is it ET is it like I give a list each time of what we can watch and then people have to choose
something when it's family. And this one they haven't chosen yet. But I remember liking it when it came out. I remember seeing it in what year 2001 is that it. And I remember liking it. So I've been trying to revisit it ever since. I love that you watched that in 2001. That's like a right when we were fucking around making. Yeah. I think like me and Matt watched it at our house. Yeah. There's a lot of, um, allotutic, Mark Eddie, um, like some real friendly faces. Paul Bettany. This might be totally wrong. And I'll get clowned in the comments. But I seem to remember it was doing a thing where it had modern, yeah, it does songs. But that felt fresh. Right. In that like interesting, you know, combination of it's like, um, medieval times with pop songs. Well, it's like, I mean, it's a nice payoff. The only reason my boy's like Led Zeppelin is because of Thor. That was their gateway. Gotcha. Yeah. Have you shown them school of rock? Yeah. Recently. Is it the same Led Zeppelin song in both that they sing in the van? I can't remember. I don't think so. The great thing about school of rock is it ends with just that like long musical performance while they're rolling credits. It makes you so happy. And it's an AC/DC song and that they sing all the time now. They love it. That's an AC/DC song. The very last one is that way. It's a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll. I was thinking, oh, we were stuck in the dumb days. If we had had more than 30 minutes warning that we weren't going to do great day, then I would suggest we would choose a movie like a night's tale or a pilot like NYPD Blue or I watched the moon lighting pilot a few years ago. That would be a perfect one to talk. And we just choose something. And we just make that that were a rewatch podcast for some. But one of us gets to choose, you know, I mean, like it floats around. I love it. But again, this is good, Keith, because I think that our listeners just love being behind the curtain and finding out how we talk about it. Just I think they like knowing we never talk about this podcast outside the podcast. Yes. And we barely talk to each other outside of the podcast. We've got to get it in now. Oh gosh. I have it. It's in my office, which is not next to my podcast studio. But I did a show in Charlotte, North Carolina on a Friday night was supposed to do a show in Durham where it was going to see Emily Spivey for a drink afterwards. I saw her sister in Charlotte, but then that show got snowed out. So I had to come back. Wait, what's her sister like? Is her sister exactly like Spivey? Yeah. And she's the best. And also she listens to this podcast. And she said her favorite thing about the podcast is when we talked, we say nice things about Emily, which was made me so happy. That's nice. But I cousin of mine, just in cousin, who have maybe only seen like three or four times, but he, he quaid armyed me when he came in and he brought a tea, he made a t-shirt that's a black t-shirt that has Quato coming out of it. So it looks like Quato is coming out of a black void on your shirt. And it's, even he said it's bad. It's a bad shirt. Yeah, you, Quato is bad to look at. Quato's bad to look at. I did talk about our Quato challenge coin that I was given and can report back that I mentioned how cool it was. And I think there's a chance you guys are going to get your own. I'm so jealous. I guess that's the real thing. I'm very psyched on that. Oh, two more things. And then we're, we have dinner, Seth. If we get our challenge coins, I'm definitely going to keep mine and you better fucking have it out or you're paying for a round of drinks. Do you think there's that part of what's maybe unique about this podcast is that it's four very, very close friends who really don't communicate very often outside the podcast because we're so busy. So you really don't miss anything when you're, as an audience member, you're not missing things in between really. Yes. You, you're, you're really just living your life and we're all living our lives. And then we're all coming together again. Yeah. To kind of catch, to catch up. It's like a virtual world. Nothing has happened when you turn it off. Yeah, exactly. Things have happened individually, just like they've happened with you as a, as a, as we have to move the ball forward even an inch. Since you last heard no, you've done things in your life. You've gone to work and, and hung out with friends or family and, and you know, done with you've done. And we've all done that too. Separate. Yeah. Now we all come back together. We all come back. It's good to, I wanted to, uh, I, you know, I actually think it was such a hard spelling me today. I do think there's a good chance. That's why Andy bailed on us. Oh, let's at least text him for a spelling B update. Yeah. I'll text right now. All right. We'll text him and say, say also, that's my accusation. What makes it good? Like a hard B. Is it like a lot of cues in it? No, a cue would make it easier. It's like letters it, because it's always one. It's like a hundred words. Not when it's like eight. I did send you guys this week that I got solid again on one of them. Yeah. Oh, we talked about how I should be the spider man with teeth in the spider verse movie. Is it, is it happening? Is that happening? No, but there's a couple of choices. Well, you guys, could you guys Google image this for me? Mm-hmm. Um, rec rap. R-E-K-R-A-P. And that's a spider man with teeth from the actual spider man universe. Okay. Uh, oh, yeah. He's, he definitely has teeth. Look at this one. Yeah, that's rec rap. And I guess he's like a, so that's like a quite large, very muscular first spider man. That's a problem. So yeah, my voice might not be great. It does seem like you want a deeper voice for a rec rap. Also, rec rap is Parker backwards. So that's like an alternate universe. But again, we're into the spider verse. That's perfect. Uh, doppelganger. Will you look up doppelganger in the spider man universe? I think you'd be a great rec rap. Also doppelganger. I can't believe I missed this. If I was doppelganger in both the S&L digital short and spider man. Oh, yeah. He's got like venom teeth. He's scary. I don't think you should like that. Well, there's a lot of, a lot of people said venom is a spider man with teeth, but we all know venom is not spider man. Come on, guys. No, he's in the spider man world. I wish venom had been called that. I think it would have done much better as movie. Spider man with teeth. If it was venom colon, spider man with teeth. As we subtitled, that would have played way back. I would have been there in a party. We could have Ruben directed that. We could have Ruben sent in a voice note about it. If they ever considered calling it that last one, Keeva venom earth 82 94 82 94. This is Eddie Parker. So that's like if venom was spider, well, that's a venom spider man. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, so thank you for three of our listeners knew a spider man with teeth. It's pretty nice. I have one Q&A and then we'll listen to some listener questions. Wait, I got one question, Seth. Did people like the episode with you and me? Or did they fucking hit it? I think we did okay. Okay. Thank you. We held serve. You know, you go fishing. Sometimes you catch a fish. You said it. Question for the next Q&A and photos of the read-throughs. There's always an impressive spread of snacks on the table at SNL. Do people actually eat those during the read-throughs that frown upon? Is there a hierarchy to who can eat which snacks? I feel like we should get like six X cast members on here and do an entire episode on the tailweed snack go snack by snack. It'll mostly be talking about watching the guacamole go from green to brown. That's how you know when the read is over. It was sketch. If a sketch late goes good, the guacamole turns green again. Yeah. When it goes brown, they will cut off the table read no matter what sketch is being read if it goes brown. They're like, it's over. But yeah, I will say that there were little sandwiches that I would, I think they said, just said sandwiches and that was an accident. There were little sandwiches. That's right. Sorry, that was an accident. I thought that you were being cute because they were little. I just stumbled and then heard it myself and I didn't correct. Don't correct that. It sounded like they're little sandwiches. So they're sandwiches. But I have my little sandwiches that I would just stress eat during the table read. Now, I will say it's not a hierarchy, but there's a bit of a logistical issue for the caves in the arms of the world that we're not sitting at the actual table because the writers sort of sat in like church seating behind it. You're like second row or third row. We had the couch with the couch in the back. Yeah. It would have been insane if your mama mid table read had stood up, reached over and grabbed a sandwich. That would have been you have to reach over a cast member's head or between two. It would be weird. I would have done that. If we had had a sketch that was doing so badly that what's the point, I think they would have been a good bit like slowly walk over during the sketch and have a sandwich. I do remember being hungry and watching you guys snacked and feeling like, I don't want one of those carrot sticks. Nothing about it was you were never happy that you ate the table read sandwiches. I could tell you that. And then, of course, the, I would say the most iconic thing that's happened during the table read is that Lauren Michaels is just slowly eating the largest plate of edamame. Oh, right. Is it always edamame? Yeah. He likes edamame and popcorn. I wonder what year that got? Do you think that that was 1975? Edamame was around that much. That's a great question. I wonder what year the edamame got at it? I bet it's like early 90s. Yeah. That sounds right. When all of a sudden, like, it's when Nobu just looked up when Nobu opened. When Nobu opened, Lauren went there and edamame and then the next day. What's this? Exactly. It's like the new popcorn. It's like the new green popcorn. Do you think shoemaker would know that answer? Seth? I'm so curious if we're right. That is okay. It's such a good guess that De Niro and Nobu opened the first one and exactly what you said happened, Seth. All right, question for the pod writing shoe to like that he got more protein. Best guess. This is now. I mean, the content we have for our listeners right now, just fantastic. Anybody thought this had to be about shorts every week? Can we be about what year? Wait, Seth, is that website now, you know, app phone thing where you can bet on anything? Oh, right. Calche or something. There's like two really famous ones. Yeah. But we should probably put what year did Lauren start eating edamame? And then start getting the overunders and I said, best guess to Lauren. When did Nobu open? Did you have you Google that? No, no. Wait, so can you propose anything to bet on men? And then I think you kind of can. Oh, man, I might lose my whole life doing that. All right, but I just have an answer. Ready for what shoe said? Yes. 93. But he's not connecting it to it. I just said question
for the pot. When did Lauren start eating at a moment at the table? Best guest. I said early 90s. So pretty. Yeah. So the original Nobu opened in September 94. So now, I say, are you sure? Do you want to revise your answer based on this information? Say, let them know that and then see if he changes it. I also like that I just wrote randomly to Rubin Blasjer. Did you ever consider renaming Madam Spider-Man? No, we did not give him content. Yeah, just like, I haven't texted him in like a year. All right. Well, you're going to get there. Hey, what's up, man? You're going to get a very candid answer because he doesn't know it's public. I had to sign it, you're just in case it's the wrong number. So the original Matsuhisa, which is Nobu's last name and is a restaurant in LA. That was before Nobu opened. That this was his first one. And it's still there. It will open in 87. And you know it was the hottest restaurant in LA. So you know, Lauren had gone. Yeah. You think he could have gone in? Yeah, he thinks so. 87. Yeah, he's in there. Andy replied. He said, I bailed. Don't say it until the end. Okay, guys. So once again, go on to the gambling app and put in your bets now for so you heard me say bailed. You know, he bailed that how many short was he? How many had he not gotten everybody? He blamed himself for being sick. Yeah. No one could argue, one could argue it's because I'm sick is what he said. Yeah. So he's so much better than me. And I could, I mean, I feel like I'm still like 20 away. So even a sick Andy crushes me. So we know it's under 20. Jeff, I got a question. Jeff, when can we just make t-shirts, Jeff? Can we just start making t-shirts every time you talk about t-shirts? And this is a question for your. Am I been asking him several times to send me a design? Yeah, we talked about this several times this week. Knowing that we're not going to make any money off the shirts, you know, past his prologue, I feel like we should have more than one design, because I feel like the fun of the Long Island shirt store is that, you know, there's just shirts that like maybe three total listeners buy. Can't, can't we just do a revenue share with designers and just have it be open? No. And anybody that designs one, instead of making one design, I'm going to make five designs. Because I feel like somebody, some designer who's listening right now, who makes a great shirt, can earn the money on that shirt. That's fine. Oh, we get so many designs in the email, so you're just encouraging more people to send in more designs. But the question is, is there a website that sells shirts that would make it easy to revenue share, where it doesn't become like a headache for whoever's doing it? Oh, probably, probably. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah. Write in your comments. Guys, hit us in the t-shirts on that. I'll take 90. And again, here's the exciting thing, everybody. No conversation about t-shirts will take place between podcast recordings. This is no where it will be done. The next time we talk about it, we'll be the next time anybody talks about it. We can promise you that. I can promise you that. That no. This is no shade on any of the nominees. All of them are great. Plemmons robbed. Yeah. Because Emma got a nom, right? Emma got a nom, deservedly so. Plemmons. I'm just going to say it. Top three favorite actors right now, working today. Yeah, and he's so good. Yeah, it's amazing. And then what do you think of him personally? Like, when you hung out with him, are you like, fuck this guy's cool? I've never met him. Top favorite. If you asked me about like actual people, he might be my favorite actor in Hollywood today. What are you saying? Personally, when he comes in sits on your- Oh, I ain't no fun. And all of fun. Sorry. Just trying to work out who might be listening. When he sits on your couch though, snore, right? No. I'm just getting a door out. I'll tell you, wait, I have a great, Jesse Plemmons every time he comes on, tells me how much his grandmother's a big fan of mine. And then he also told a story about how she has a shrine. She has like a little antique shop, and she has a shrine to Jesse. And obviously he's done some really cool things. But the funny thing he said, I think he was on an episode of Grey's Anatomy, where he had some like weird like face disease where like he just would be as barely recognizable as Jesse Plemmons. And she just has like a still of that blown up and framed. Just like really fun. Anyway, Wally had an idea. He goes, hey, we should sign his Q card, the intro to Jesse and send it to his grandmother for her shrine. Yeah. And by the way, then Wally's like, I'll get the Q card. And so Wally brings me the Q card. Wally's also signed it. I'm like, okay, Wally. So Wally and I send this sign Q card. And then Jesse Plemmons grandmother writes the nicest note, like puts in a picture of the Q card on the wall. And just writes the sweetest note. And it's just so lovely when a person comes on your show and talks about how they're grandmother super nice. And then immediately the grandmother proves that they're not inflating that at all. That is so, that where is he from? Texas. Got it. He's a real Friday night lights. He's a real, he's a real, he's a real cast real deal. Now I don't respect his acting as much. Oh, because he was just being himself. Yeah, I mean that's fucking cheating. That's what you do every night, Seth. That's true. Look, no, by the way, nobody is impressed with my acting. Where were we? I don't even know. Hey, why don't we listen to a voice note. Also, who's your favorite recent host? Mine is Ariana Grande because she's friends with Bowen. And I love my best friend's house. It's so surprising and gross. And it reminds me of digital shorts because it's musical and funny too. Okay, hope you have a great day. Amazing. I loved it. Once again, just amazing. Thank you. Thank you, Eddie. Seth, was it always your dream? Andy's talked about that it was always his thing since he discovered it after wrestling, you know, tuning in for wrestling. And it wasn't to wrestling Saturday and discovering SNL as a kid. Probably around the same age as her. It was my favorite thing by far when I go back to my childhood home where my parents still live. My bedroom has so much SNL stuff. Like there was a 25th anniversary book that came out that my parents like got for me. Like it was a thing I would get like SNL stuff for Christmas. I don't know if it was like I think it was like too big to consider it a dream. But one of the coolest things is when I went back for my 10-year high school reunion, I was on I think I'd been on the show for a year. And the amount of people at my room, you're like, I knew it. And it was just like, oh, that's so great. Like you had a far higher estimation of me than I did. That's very sweet. Yeah, that's very sweet. I put that in the same category. There's no way that I thought SNL was a possibility in my life. And yeah, I didn't want to dare to dream. But we did love it. Oh, taking my son around the hallways recently on like a Sunday and just showing himself. And it's still being like, I can't believe I worked here. I can't believe but we made any kind of impression at this show while working. Like I'm still surprised I was even able to audition for the show. So it was never on my radar as a possibility at all. But loved it growing up. Absolutely. And my era of like Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, that was my introduction really. I remember thinking when they had reached out to ask for an audition tape, the very fact that they had given me their mailing address felt like a total triumph. It's like a very public mailing address. Of course, it's like 30 rock and whatever it was, but I was like, Oh, 17th floor. I better print well on this envelope. Yeah. So Keith, did you ever, you know, they're no fucking way, right? No, no. But, but, you know, like was obsessed with it from the moment I realized that existed. I don't know how old that was. You know, I remember sneaking into because Akiva had a his parents had a lock on their TV. So I remember being over at his house, Akiva sneaking up the stairs, stealing the key. Oh my god, we're going to get in so much trouble. And, uh, look at your mom bus. Is it going to be so fucking pissed with Jesus? Yeah. And like, and turning it on and watching us know with you and being like, Oh, my god. What do you mean a lock on your TV? Yeah, this is, this is very rare for a year or two of our, it wasn't all the time. It was only for a couple of years where she was trying different ways to get us to watch less TV. And like one of the things you could find and buy was a TV lock and I think it basically it was a extension cord for the TV that had like a little box over the part where it would connect the power. So, you know, you would have to unlock a teeny little plastic box and then you could plug in the TV essentially. And my mind, it looked like a kryptonite lock like key. I don't know if it was, but yeah, I think the key was that kind of circular little. Yeah, little lock. Yeah. I can't believe I remember that. I remember so little, but I remember that. It only happened in our house for like a year maybe or something. You know, it's another one of the things you kind of try and go, no, this doesn't really work. It made it made watching TV better though. You were like, yeah, I unlocked it. You had to work for it. It's so funny that all those years ago was the same problems parents have with their kids now, which is like, how do you just get them to look at stuff less? Yeah, blocking the phone and you're like, those kids are like, and then I just knew the password that my parents had put because I watched them do it once and then I would unlock my own phone. But yeah, recent house, I will just say that I know it's already happened a few other times, but that first time I saw that Nate Bargette, George Washington sketch, I was so jealous of it. I love, and like the best way of like, oh, man, this is perfect. And I can't believe they have a second one that's sort of equally good. Yes, great. I went up, I rarely do this, but I went up to Mikey in streeters office, once I heard they wrote it, to just tell them like.
I had to get on the elevator and come up here to say it was perfect and the great thing which I'm sure they've talked about at length at this point was it didn't really do that great address. Like it was I kind of thought it was on the bubble and I was like this must be have been a home run from the minute you did it at the table they were like no everything was a little bit off and the dress was the first time we clicked so just goes to show you. Seth again that I wasn't say the exact same thing. It was Nate, Nate Burgessy for me and I'd love that particular sketch and I've showed it to so many people and I also love that that one is one that you can show to anyone from any country in the world and they'll be like yeah that's funny and kids yes oh my god like that great that way that Hey Burgessy is good all the time you can show it to kids. It's hard to do kind comedy and still be funny and he's that guy he's figured it out. He hates him and Andy hates him. Andy hates me and Seth big for my comedy a little bit more tweaked so demanded. I feel like I by the way I think I this is like seven pods in a row I haven't been on with Andy and I'm telling you he's about to be shooting a movie and it's only going to get worse I don't know what's happening here. I think everybody's looking for a day keep your man's self talking about the moonlight. But also Edie thank you for sending that voice note it was lovely and I hope we answered correctly. What do we got next Jeff do you have another voice now? Hey Lonely Island this one's mostly for Akiva a little bit for Andy but I just showed my daughter the Chip and Dale movie and she well I'll let you she'll say what she thinks in a second but I wonder what you guys never bring that up and I would love to have a full episode just breaking that down because it was it was super fun and Andy was great and it and bring Melania into it to talk about his experience and this is what my my five year old thought the movie would you think of the Chip and Dale movie? I love it. There you go. Oh well that's very nice. That was great. Yeah we could talk about it later when we get up to it. It's just I feel like we don't talk about the really recent stuff that just predated starting the podcast because we're not up to that. We're just yeah we're going in order. You got to wait. But thank you guys for watching. I'm glad you enjoyed it and I have plenty I can talk about if we I mean I'm sure we'd all have to like almost rewatch it and then we could do an episode where I can talk about the good parts and the challenges the things I'm the things I'm not as happy with. Look at that that's a real tease there. Not the eternal optimist. I mean all right great. What do we got next? Hello gentlemen. This is Edwin Allen Richards, the fourth longtime quaid first time caller and I have a question that has plagued me for about 20 years now. Back in the day you all created a short called the backseatsman and in this short everybody seems to have the same point of interest and that is 56 and Lennox and I just didn't hear to ask you what was at 56 and Lennox. It has plagued me for 20 plus years as I previously stated. I lose sleep over at night. My girlfriend is sick of me tossing and turning and sweating in the night wondering what the hell was at 56 and Lennox. If you could answer that that would be really awesome. Also Andy I think your character work with the backseatsman was some of your most actualized and creative and deep character work truly that you've ever done. So I wonder if there's maybe any chance of a revival of that character, maybe a movie, maybe a spin-off series. That would just be great. Also follow a question in awesome town at the very beginning. Were you guys actually dancing with your moms? Were those your real moms? Yeah I don't know hit me in the tit me. Let me know. I had two good ones. Thanks, love the pod. You guys are great. Sweet later. Okay. The one thing we can answer is about our moms and those were me and Akiva's real moms, right? And then Andy had a fake mom, I believe, is the joke. And awesome. God, I barely remember. I just remember that I had wanted to do a bit at the beginning of the awesome town where our moms come out. It was going to be all our real moms and then somebody in the audience was going to say, Hey, everybody, check out those moms. And then all of the audience was going to start chanting, moms, moms, moms, moms, moms. And then we were going to be like, why is everyone so excited about moms? Like we just like, what, what? And then they were, some of you said, we like, we're all orphans. Yeah. We're all orphaned. And then everyone was going to be really excited because they were orphans. We didn't do it. Oh, spilled milk. But back seeds, man, I don't want to be blamed for that at all. And that is entirely out of interference. So I wonder if we should even bother addressing this one or just do it with Andy, even if it's on the episode with great day. Before we start, we had a Q&A that is because Andy and Chester really were the creative people. It's one of the shorts we made before we even made like awesome town. It's like one of the like around when we were doing like a glam on stuff, like 2002, when we were just making little shorts around the house. But this is pretty much entirely Andy and Chester, right? And it was an Andy Chester joint. I mean, I definitely remember helping shoot at it. But it was not, I don't think I can answer. We can do that. But where, where do you think this gentleman saw the backseatsman? It would just be on our YouTube channel. But since then, I didn't even know it was still on YouTube. But I'm sure it's right there from 2002. Well, that's good. Then people could use this time to go and watch the backseatsman. No, but here's the, here's the thing. We can bet on this. So my guess is 56 and Lennox. It's Andy and Chester. My guess is that it is a reference to some sort of hip-hop album and somebody like Nas mentioned 56 and Lennox or something like that. That's my guess. Keith, that's a great guess. And Chester's from New York and they also met at NYU and were in New York a lot. So yes, but it does sound like because Lennox is not in Manhattan, right? 56 and Lex would make, makes more sense. Yeah, but Lennox. So maybe it's made up or maybe is that in? Look it up. Let's put it on CalShi. Let's put it on CalShi and see what comes up. Look up lyrics 50s. So far, the questions have been not for us as much or you can't talk about it in the future. All right. Do we have another question? Jeff. Hey, this is Rachel in Tampa. I don't really have anything great to add, but I just wanted to tell you that I really enjoy your podcast. I'm just a little low Jewish grandmother, but I'm a big fan. Keep it up. Oh my gosh. Thank you so much. That was so nice. Can't ask for much more than that right there. Yeah, we've got some pretty good grandmas on this podcast. I think you added plenty today. I think you added a lot. Honestly, to my day and to the spot. That was great. Rivaling Jesse Plumman's mom so far. Yeah. I mean, what a nice, what a just nice time that was to have her drop in. Kept it nice and short. Yeah. Didn't overstay her welcome. Just I also, you know, really wasn't like, sometimes she was like, I don't have much to say. And then they ask like three questions. She really like, yeah, stuck with her premise. Yeah, she just wanted to share a little. So your mom, hold on, there is a 56 and Lennox that just looks like east of Prospect Park kind of near like how do you say Utica? How do you pronounce Utica? Utica. Yeah, I was going to guess that it was in which street is the, and is it 27 of freeway or is it just a big street? Dude, I'm just like I am in the Bay Area where I'm like, oh, 580, is that a fucking thing? Like, I know I get on the BQ, the Clarkson Ave in Utica by NYC King City, the hospital. How about this? I'll go there. I'll tell you what it's like and why they probably, you know what I mean? I think that's the only way to solve this. That's the only way to do it. Like, oh, there's a there's a proper chicken there that like that, like they used to go to. Actually, you know what? It would probably be roundtable if it's a chest right because he was big and roundtable. I'm pretty sorry. Oh, yeah. So a couple of things, Dale was in the near times mini. Oh, yeah. He's in Chip and Dale. He's an Andy's character from Chip and Dale. So, yeah, we can we can chalk that up as another New Geary was in the spelling bee. And somebody thought that that would be a illusion. I don't think that that I don't think we can claim the gear I do. I got a Q&A from my audience. Somebody said in my Q&A, they said, hey, I have a question is sushi glory whole based on a restaurant the lonely island went to and I know like it took a long time because it seemed like a genuine question was like, yeah, like it would be so much less impressive if you guys were like, yeah, no, that happened. No, we would do it. It's a real thing. We went to one that had that. By the way, I like that song so much. And then when I was thinking about like, oh, if we ever made an album, would you ever want that as a title? And then like, nope. No, thank you. Have either of your kids seen as Utopia too yet? Yes, they just saw it last week. Are we watching it as a family? Okay, great. And I saw 28 years later bone patrol instead. Or whatever it's called bone patrol. It's not called bone patrol, but it's something like it's something like that. No, I love that one bone patrol. Sean William Scott. Oh my god. Wife sent me out to the video store to rent bone temple. I came home with bone patrol to say awkward, pretty awkward at the slumber party. I mean, we watched it. We watched it, but as a bunch of ski bunnies on the slopes and they don't have to watch bone patrol with kids. Civil war burial ground. They're skiing over it.
By the way, you guys are making up random shit here, but it's very similar to what actually happens All right, here's the thing though. So can I Google maps real quick? I'm just gonna show you my Jesus Christ. I'm gonna show you 56 and Lennox Check it out. Okay. Yeah, see the sign Lennox. Yeah, 56 Didn't allow me to go there, huh? You just wanted me to it's just houses just houses interesting Wait, uh, how is Bombatrol? Bombatrol is so book wild I haven't I didn't see the one previous which I was excited to see that when you and you were showing up for the famous You know dick swing index It was I first of all I didn't know about that so that was a fun surprise didn't know about any about thing about that And I know I'm a lake to the party, but um, yeah, there's a lot of big dicks in the movie and joby dicks It's not like he's worried although when you see the movie and I don't want to ruin anything for everything But debatable, you know like there's things are happening And it there's full so we got what the bone yard goes into like music videos and like It's just fucking buck wild that movie, you know bombatrol that seems like I feel like buck wild is a good review from your yeah For sure, by the way, you got a fucking like 93 and 90 on rotten tomatoes bombatrol you gotta see it gave it two grades Audience award audience is so there's 90 tons of male frontal nudity and it's called bone patrol It might be the same one I rented I will say I will say if you're gonna see And this is a spoiler yeah, he never gets erect and I do feel like that that's a slide on the movie Oh, so the title is kind of like sarcastic and maybe that's has to do with the eating the brains and everything like that I just think zombies are famously like not turned on by humans that you could be that It could be that but there were other zombies there. They were all so naked there so yeah So he was just didn't get turned on by anybody But having said that a lot of blood it would require a ton of blood to get that thing hard Oh, we're not talking about the Gore in the movie. We're talking about now. We're talking about the science behind getting interactions Yeah, with those massive hogs So cool. What a great conversation Next color Next color go ahead as long as most of the audience is seven-year-old and I mean just five I know by the way, I was like come on This is it's an adult podcast and then you listen to her callers. It's like I don't know if it is a seven It's either seven-year-olds or grandma's and then we're like how much blood would it take in a zombie's death? Do zombies have blood in their bodies? Can they still get the bone patrol going? It's fucking Fucking man This is not a thing that like we can be like I forgot literally our last two calls We're a child and a nice old one. By the way, she's not seven. She was seven when she liked us now for the first time She's older than that. That's why it's a lot older Anyway, you I'm sorry. I'm sorry. What the fuck? Well, it's because you're seeing those movies. I mean, it's crazy Why are you seeing that you're on you can't infect your brain? I didn't want to watch the topia too and like as much as like I You know, I don't know. I just the way it was called bone patrol like Fucking got to see it first off. It's not called bone. I keep it. It does this semantic fucking next color, please We talked about zootopia too already. It's great. I agree They all loved it by the way also if you guys recall edie's mom doesn't let her listen to the podcast Tells her about it. Oh, oh, good. Thank God. Thank you, edie's mom. All right, shut up. I mean, thank you Edie's mom although I do feel like it's kind of crazy, she's like all right You want to leave another voice for a thing you can maybe jimmy chip plays our answers. I'm assuming yeah Give us another one. What's up three albums in a day? I'm Aaron. Long time listen. They're a second time caller I love you guys remember me because my last voice note was from all the way back to the third listener episode So it's been a while probably two winter soldier to recall that I asked about if loving that great girl was a crime which I guess makes me the that great girl girl Hold for laughter Okay, great and he said it wasn't a crime, but it might be a comedy crime So yeah, that's why I haven't called in a while because I just got out of comedy jail No, it's not as bad as I thought And now hearing the new criterion episode. I'm just glad I have somebody like the quest love To be on my side about that great girl and that made me very happy. That's all I have to say really I don't actually have a question except for how are you guys? Anyway, you probably won't hear from me again after another year. Love you guys later Quage You're definitely not gonna be in comedy jail after that. Don't know worry. I like it I mean, it is for the Dackery Girl believers. I mean the quest love thing was a huge breakthrough Yeah, they felt really vindicated. I mean, and it ultimately, you know, it had to be somebody like quest love It couldn't be like, you know, back then it, you know No, you wouldn't trust that. It had to be somebody unimpeachable. I thought quests Response were so Well thought out and interesting like his take on as with everything like he always has an interesting take on stuff But it was just so enjoyable to hear him speak on that. I really fucking love Dackery girl too But you knew I would like that's that's a fucking Jimmy you liking it means nothing to exactly It would be like if somebody said like if you were on trial for murder and then they were like, don't worry We got a we got an eyewitness who can vindicate you and then you're like, oh my god. That's great Who is it? They're like your Metacony you'd be like out fuck. They're like, oh, I'm going to fucking jail Oh, I'm a dead man. I'm a dead man or or woman. Yeah, the weak me when he falls apart on cross How dare you set and you know what if you get on a murder trial? I'm not gonna come to your defense now I'll miss you. I mean, nice if you did Uh, that was a that was a lovely message and uh, yeah, do not do not let us or anybody else put you in comedy jail for believing your own truth Thank you. All right, um, just in terms of us catching up over a week. What's happened since last time I think we're on here Is that Colin Jost came into town? I'm not sure why but it was golden gobs weekend. I don't know if it was related to that He sent a group text to everyone in LA saying Want to go to dinner? I'm going to be in town for the weekend. How about Friday night? You know the people like Tim and Zach and Michael Bryan all the people all the people yeah exactly Climb, you know everybody you would think that we talk about on the pod all the time just the LA based excess and L writer guys And I was in LA the night before just I flew in for 24 hours to see my brother for his birthday That's right and I was so jealous this dinner was happening. Yes And some of those people I just mentioned couldn't make it but uh, you know We got like five or six of us and we're like all right, we can do it. This is the thing And we have so much trouble getting him to then follow up on his own idea to like name of time in place That ultimately Andy has to make the reservation because he's so bad just so bad a text thing even though it's his idea And then as we the night is you know like Like I'm trying to get the best way to put this but I'll just skip to the end. Just can't come Yeah, but Joe's bailed like within an hour of a dinner. He organized Yes, and to be fair he was under the weather He was in LA and he was hoping he'd feel good enough to go hoping he'd feel good enough to go I'm basically just on his text. I didn't follow up with him after But basically did not bail until we were already there And we would have gone with it without him anyways because it was an excuse to have a dinner And it was still five of us. It's not like we were all there for Joe. That is so gankster and great That's a fucking thing. So then he was it was like maybe 10 minutes before like we Some of us I've had already gone to this hotel because I saw Did you guys see I did that a little video with Pam Anderson because we won Yes, right tomato award So I had already just randomly because she was host she was presenting at the globes the next day So she was at a hotel in LA and I was like oh, I'm gonna be leaving the house anyways Pam will you do this thing with me? She said yes, I'd say I went to her hotel and we recorded And then I was like wow, I have two hours to kill near the restaurant So Andy came and met me and that was honestly my favorite part of the night was me and Andy got a drink Outside at this empty hotel in Beverly Hills. Yeah, which is so rare that we got together and had to drink and then Yeah, and then the other guys met us and then I think we were already at the actual restaurant by the time It was like he's not coming. Well, that's it Yeah, oh The other detail was that just maybe three hours two hours earlier it was um Maybe the bears game was that night. Yeah, and he texted being like yo I'm going to this like it's kind of like a so house. I want to bother name dropping it But a place in LA that's very like members only club To watch the bears game if anybody wants to meet up there before dinner And then maybe an hour before dinner said hey, I'm gonna call the place and see if we can make the reservation Instead of six make it 12 Like he's bringing six more people from like like Some act, you know, I don't want to name drop his name drops But there was actor people that had hosted SNL that he was meeting there to watch the bears game Nobody knows who the extra five or whatever or six and then 45 minutes later is like actually it's all off and I never act and then we're like but you went you're sick But you went to that club to watch the bears game and he's like no I actually never went to that. I've been in my hotel room the whole time. I just I thought I was gonna go to that And then I thought I was I kept waiting to feel better like so all of He went from making a 12 people to not coming. He's the best. Yeah, I mean the only thing that would have been better is if he invited all those people and then didn't show If all five of them had shown up also without her that would have been amazing So work on in that show Can I tell you my favorite this is not my story to tell but uh
a friend of mine, Vince Vaughn, for the first time. And Vince is the greatest guy. Obviously, Akeva, you've worked with him, and he's just like a pistol of a person. And Vince is on fire. He's at a, like, they're at a bar. He's killing it in the conversation, but my friends are like fucking psyched and like, meet him. And he's like, oh, what are you drinking? What are you drinking? Like, it's him and his friends. And he's like, Roman Coke, and you're in a vodka tonic, right? Great, all right. Never saw him again. He just like, took their drink orders and he's going to go, get them drinks. Never saw him again. And I was like, I'm such a great way to leave a conversation. I'm sure, I'm sure he meant to. Like, but I'm like, it gets you out so fast, and it's like you're the hero, then you're just gone. Oh wow, if that was on purpose, that's a genius move. It's a fucking great move. And I think we should all employ it. Here's my Joe's story that has happened since the last podcast. Yeah. What year did Taylor Lawton or host SNL, Kevin Miller? I want to say, like, 2006 or '77. Yeah, okay. Taylor Lawton or hosted SNL. And Joe's story to sketch called "Manny Manimal." Do you remember "Manny Manimal"? Yes. "Manny Manimal" was the man of many animals. And it was basically like, it started with like, cartoon type opening, like of a superhero cartoon, where he was bit by a radioactive spider. But then he like fell backwards into a tank that had a radioactive octopus. And he just keeps getting bit by different things. And so he has the power of every animal, December 2009. And then it cuts to him like, stopping a bank robbery. And it's this crazy costume where it's got like a scorpion tail and like, you know, falcon wings. And it's a nutty costume that was amazing. Like the SNL product. And it was all about like how he just felt really sick all the time, 'cause it was just like too much stuff going on. But the thing about it is, the audience is super psyched by the premise. And then there's super psyched when they see the costume. But then it's like the diminishing returns of like just like, "Oh, oh, I think I might throw up." (laughing) So this error was just the, no. So here's 2009, does not air. I host October, I wanna say 2017. Eight years later, he resamits "Manny Manimal" for me. (laughing) Once again, enough time has passed that everybody forgets myself included why it didn't work. We take into dress in my show. - Wait, same script. I mean, I'm sure Joe's would say he fixed it. - And now you're a man of men. - Yeah, 'cause you can go back into the computer, watch your dress rehearsal and go, "Okay, what went wrong?" - Yes. - So then basically, I do it at dress. By the way, my show, like not a house on fire, wasn't like, "Oh, it was a great show, it was hard to get through." Like fucking eight shit at dress, not even considered. So you would think that's the death of a "Manny Manimal." Re-submitted it for Finn Wolfhard went to dress. - Oh, no, shit. I wonder what he changed again. We should watch all three dress and see how he can see-- - Oh, I hope nothing, I hope nothing changes. - In like a mountain, in a mountain, we should gotta get a mountain here, which will never happen. But like in a "Mando Butt" way, I see how this thing grew. - It feels very "Mando Butt". - So, by the way, I think that's great. So, kind of like a eight-year gap and then a nine-year gap. - Yeah. - To submit a sketch that then-- - We're talking 16 years from the first one. - That's amazing. - Yeah. - Good for him. - But also, the amount of people from SNL, 'cause I, you know, I still work on the floor, right? So I'm constantly running into people. Like, just like old script supervisors being like, "Manny Manimals back." (laughing) I'm like, "I can't believe it, they're like me, "lookin' we, gotta build that costume again." - So, then I go down. - I've never met Finn Wolfhard, and it was Thursday finish my show. And I walk down, and I was like, "Oh, I should go say hi to this dude." So I just go to his dressing room, knock on his door, and he comes out, and I'm in the hallway talking to him and his parents and his brother, just the most lovely people. And then Joe's comes down the hallway. And he, you know, I know. So he like goes, like, he points and both of them was like, "Ah!" And then I say, "Does he know?" And Joe says, "Yes, but I don't know what Joe's thought." I meant, because then I said, "So, you know, "Manny Manimals." And then Joe's eyes go like, "Wide with me." He's like, "That's not what I'm saying." He knows. And he literally just gives me a hug and goes, "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no." (laughing) What did Joe's mean? We don't know? - I don't know, 'cause that was like the end of our interaction. - That's like a sitcom way of dealing with the problem. - It was like hugging someone and saying, "No, no, no, no, no, no." - It is, it is, you brought up an interesting dynamic, which is with the resimists, which famously can be, can yield great results in the most famous being cowbell. - Cowbell spelling bee. - Is another one we talk about all the time. - Yeah, those are resimists. So it's not that it's tainted material, but you could spook a host that it is. Like, "Oh, that one is a failed sketch, and now I'm doing it, why am I doing a failed sketch?" - Yes. - And that's where I the nose are there. - That's where I thought, "Don't get in his head!" That this has been tried twice and failed both times. (laughing) - You should leave the building. - It was so funny to me like the way he backed off it, but the other great thing was that Finn says to his parents, like, "Oh my God, he wrote this sketch called "Manny Manimal," and then Finn's describing it to his very sweet parents, and like, "Just it is playing to silence with his parents." (laughing) It was like every, there was every bell where there was an ominous omen. - Just their responses, just what else is in the joke? (laughing) - And then, it was so delightful 'cause about halfway, whatever, like 10.45 on, or that's what it would have been earlier, like 9.45 on that Saturday, I started getting texts from people who were watching the show being like, "It's not gonna make it." (laughing) - Gotta wait another eight years. - Oh, we really gotta see those. - I know. Wait, Kevin said, "Do we have a picture of you "in the "Manny Manimal" outfit?" - Oh, that's what we want. I want pictures of all three of you, and then wearing your outfits like for it best. - By the way, the first guy that they had, Taylor was like in Twilight, and had tons of muscles and could do backflips, like he would make sense as like a Spider-Man. - Yeah. - So it was going off of that seed of like, this kid looks like he should be cast as Spider-Man. - Right, and then Seth is the same thing, and then he's gonna make his sense for fun. - Well, that is, the three, like, the three graph points of Taylor Lawton, or Seth Meyers, and Finn Wolfhardt, I think tells you that it might never have worked with anybody. - We've tried it every version. - And again, it's very good writing, like, Joseph's a very good writer, and he's also crazy, and he's also stubborn, and he also cancels dinners, he arranged and organized. - When they've already began, they're too late for people to not go. (laughing) - I love that. - Wait, I'm gonna share a man of "Manny Man" more often. - "Manny Manimal" was an ordinary janitor at Sea View Radiology. When one night, an X-ray machine mysteriously malfunctioned. "Manny" was bit on the hand by a spider that had been exposed to radioactive rays. He was then bitten on the other hand by a radioactive rat, which was trying to eat the spider. Then, a hawk flew in the window, right into the X-ray machine, and bit him in the face. "Manny" screamed, waking the owner's pet German shepherd, which bit "Manny" on the leg, then ran through the X-ray machine, then bit him in the ball, disordered. "Manny" fell backwards into a fish tank, where he was bitten by a zebrafish, a box turtle, and several jellyfish. He was then ambushed by a hyena, a rabbit, a horse, some fleas, a scorpion, a butterfly, and three squirrels, all while a crab watched. He briefly died, but then he was given CPR by a radioactive parrot, but not before a radioactive gorilla had sex with his body. Now, he's "Manny Manimal." - Whoa, whoa, that's the end of "Mando Buts." - That's true, he wanted to get some of that good luck from "Mando Buts" on this thing. - From the original "Mando Buts," from the original "Mando Buts." - The first iteration. - Before it got too safe. - Yeah. - You have the turtle shell on your chest. - Yeah, I have turtle shell on the side. - It's a really good costume, and this also did you notice what my actual name was before I got bit? - Oh no, what did it say? - "Manny Emanuel." - Yeah. - That was really, really good. - So I was a janitor named "Manny Emanuel," who then got bit by many animals. - Yeah, Spider-Man's real name was like Speedro, his name was "Manny Dermann." - Spider-Man's real name. - I gotta say, my favorite part was briefly disoriented. (laughing) - Anything about it's very good until it starts. - You know what, that's kind of a version of, but not in a bumping way, but just in a way is, O.J. Simpson's death, or almost death in the very beginning of "Nake Again" when he goes into the boat, and then he's getting shot, and he's falling into the wedding cake and then onto wet paint, and then into a steps into a bear claim. And then, yeah, a bear trap, rather, sorry. - Of course, that seed pales in comparison to what we just-- - That was a great intro. - It's the best. - So then this is just you having stomach troubles, and all of pain in your body, basically, for the rest of the skin. - Yeah, just everything. It turns out when you have all those animals in here, just your insides are a mess, like the butterfly wing. - Everything about it's good, except the results. (laughing) - Well, I think that's a great place to wrap it up. - I'm just always gonna remember everything about it's good, except for the results. - We're gonna, I mean, I will ask, Joe's for a voice note about "Manny Manimal." - I ask for a voice note about "Manny Manual," and what happened up with the dinner, and with the five extra guests. - Yeah, okay, that's great. And that, well, maybe that'll help flesh this out. He'll weirdly be our fourth guest.
And what he thought you were gonna say to Finn Wolf and when thought you were saying the Finn Wolf are I hope you let's us keep that in All right you guys great talking to you. Oh wait. We have one last thing. Yeah. Oh right. We got a circle back Do we want to ask Jack back to send us into this? Yeah, I guess well, I mean we already talked about it though No, no, we don't know. We don't know. I stopped it. I'm on polymarket right now, and it's I got to say whoever put in 12 short You made a hundred bucks And he bailed 12 short. Oh my god. It's so fucking in bail. All the markets on fire boys. Wow All right, well by the way, wait, I don't know if you caught it Keith But it was sure his favorite part of the podcast might share original criteria and collection judge Who just was so delighted that when I teed up your arm to say later Arnold Your arm said take us out. I don't know He was so delighted that your could remember later Arnold Wait, what do we say anyway, I know he's in the super recording it's hard to say sometimes remember anything and then by the way Yarm's sent us a voice note because Yorm tried to claim it was because he was on drugs and then You admitted you read this text chain to Mari and she was like yeah, that's on drugs. That's you She knows me well All right, love you guys. All right. Love you later quads. No, that's it. I know Keith will you do it later Arnold later quads
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The podcast episode was recorded during a snowstorm, with the hosts in a remote location due to travel disruptions and poor weather conditions.
Andy missed the recording due to illness, and the group reflects on how their creative process relies heavily on his presence, especially for key short films like "Great Day."
The hosts share personal stories, including family life, childhood exposure to SNL, and quirky moments like a spontaneous "two Kevs" episode idea and a random music discovery involving "Mama's Gun" and Air Kabadu.
A listener question about the "Backseatsman" short's 56 and Lennox reference leads to speculation about a hip-hop album reference, with the hosts acknowledging it’s a mystery tied to their early comedy work.
The team discusses fan engagement, including Spotify listener awards, listener-submitted t-shirt designs, and a planned future episode about the film "Zootopia."
A heartfelt tribute is shared to a listener, Connor, who was emotionally impacted by the podcast’s absence and is now married, while the group reaffirms their commitment to future content.
The hosts reveal behind-the-scenes dynamics, such as table-read snacks, SNL history, and the emotional impact of working with long-time collaborators like Jesse Plemmons.
A humorous story about a failed dinner plan involving Joe, who initially planned to attend but later canceled due to illness, underscores how the group values spontaneity and real-life connections despite their professional distance.
Summary:
The Lonely Island podcast episode is recorded during a snowstorm that disrupts travel, with hosts Seth, Keith, and Akiva meeting at a friend’s home in LA despite the storm’s severity. " The conversation blends personal anecdotes, such as childhood SNL fandom, a funny moment when a listener’s random phrase "Mama’s Gun" leads to a deep dive into the Air Kabadu album, and the group’s ongoing efforts to engage fans through t-shirt designs and listener questions. A major fan query about the "Backseatsman" short’s mysterious 56 and Lennox reference sparks playful speculation, with no definitive answer.
The hosts also share heartfelt responses to audience members, including a celebration of Connor's wedding and a nostalgic look back at their early SNL days. Behind-the-scenes elements like table-read snacks, the legendary edamame habit of Lauren Michaels, and a failed dinner plan involving Joe highlight the team’s camaraderie and real-life dynamics. The episode concludes with a mix of humor, warmth, and reflection, reinforcing the podcast’s unique role as a shared space where friends bond over shared experiences, inside jokes, and the evolving journey of their comedy careers.
FAQs
A severe storm hit the east coast, forcing the team to record remotely from friends' homes. Seth and others traveled to Jake's house in the city, and the snow made travel difficult, especially for those outside the city.
Andy couldn't make it due to the snowstorm and a cold he had picked up from his family. He gave a 30-minute warning and later confirmed he was feeling under the weather.
The reference is likely a fictional or made-up nod to a hip-hop album or cultural reference. It's not tied to a real location, and the team believes it may be a playful inside joke, possibly referencing New York areas like Lenox or Utica.
Yes, snacks like guacamole, edamame, and sandwiches are commonly eaten during table reads. Guacamole turns brown when the read is over, signaling the end of the session.
The podcast offers behind-the-scenes insight into the group's creative process, personal lives, and challenges, giving fans a rare glimpse into their daily routines and real conversations.
Backseatsman was a creative short made by Andy and Chester early in their careers. It's considered one of their most original and deep character-driven works, and fans have requested a potential revival or movie spin-off.
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