The podcast features a lively, self-deprecating conversation among the hosts about their own vocal health and performance, humorously comparing their voices to "shredded to shit" due to congestion. They reflect on a recent episode's content, including a satirical "bullshit list" of random and absurd observations—such as a viral voice note mimicking Arnold's style, a mock-up of a fake movie *Laser Cat* winning Cannes, and a fan-submitted take on *Weekend at Bernie’s* with Robert De Niro. The hosts also dive into behind-the-scenes humor, discussing their creative process, a "Shade or Praise" game, and a new segment involving the New York Times Mini crossword puzzle. Among the highlights is a deep-dive into the parody of *Weekend at Bernie’s*, where they rewatch the original and praise its absurdity, particularly the use of color grading shifts and the iconic "dead body in a Hawaiian shirt" gag. The episode concludes with playful fan interactions, a note on the hosts' voices, and a lighthearted nod to the growing community of listeners who engage with the show’s humor and creativity. The tone remains energetic, witty, and self-aware, celebrating both their absurdity and the shared culture of the podcast.
Glad to hear your voice is still not good, Jorm.
Is it bad?
Yeah, you sound like you've been shredded to shit.
Shredded to shit is the official medical term, I think.
Well, I've been screaming a lot because of how excited I was to get this little miniature van.
I do want to talk about the van, but I am also a little concerned you don't know that your voice sounds like that.
Like, for example, I know that I'm still congested. I can tell it's not top peak.
You kind of cheated, though, because I just blew my nose, so now you're looking for it.
I did not see that nose blow, though.
But did you guys listen to last week's pod? I felt like I actually sounded the worst.
And I think I still have it, where I'm, like, not breathing through my nose.
I don't know. Me and Seth were texting that we beat off to your voice no problem last week.
Yeah, that's true.
And we would know.
But as much no problem as the previous weeks?
Yeah, totally the same.
Because we time it.
It's hard to know if that's about our fatigue or your performance, you know what I mean?
Got it.
We are so hooked.
Column A, column B.
We're so hooked on timing. Stats based on the New York Times, and we do it for everything now.
Right. Okay. Well, I guess weigh in in the titties about it.
But you know what they say, Keith.
Weigh in in the titties?
And take it away, Arnold.
That's the episode.
You guys are all East Coast, and you all seem like you're way, like, awake, jobbed.
Yeah.
Good to go. I'm, like, solo parent here.
Oh, man.
10.07 a.m.
I was moving rocks a second ago. Giant, heavy rocks, which is great.
Because I also have a hernia.
Yeah, that makes sense for your body.
It sounds like you were swallowing them.
Yeah.
Well, he does that to incentivize himself.
It's like, move one, eat one, move one, eat one.
But don't. Don't move heavy things.
One for them, one for me.
For the rest of your life, maybe.
Yeah.
We're not going to be able to feel sad when you perish if you treat yourself this terrible.
You guys want to see my hernia belt?
This is my hernia belt.
It's great.
It's hella cool.
Stop doing stuff.
We have to go.
We had to cut it out.
Actually, Yoram literally dropped so many names last week, we did cut out the section.
But I just would like to say, I made an observation that his hat looked like he had dropped a name on it.
And I just want to say it this week so we can put the photo in the show notes.
No exception.
It's a different hat, but it's a similar shape.
Yoram sent us a last week hat that we can put in the show notes because it was a great zinger that we lost because we did decide that Yoram dropped too many names.
But, Seth, what did you call the hat, though?
Because that's part of it.
What did I?
Anvil hat?
I can't remember.
You called it a panini hat.
I called it that.
I called it that.
It had been pressed.
I think it was Andy.
The panini hat kid.
Look, you're going to kill yourself.
Everyone's like, he's the best character on the pod.
But what they don't see is behind the scenes us being like, wow, he's killing himself on purpose.
You know, the fastest star is Brian Brightest.
Shine Brightest?
The fastest star is Brian Brightest.
Yes, exactly.
The saltiest pickle.
The saltiest pickle gets eaten the fastest.
Yeah, the saltiest pickles get eaten the fastest.
Brian Brightest.
They Brian Brightest.
The saltiest pickles Brian Brightest.
Yeah.
This slogan brought to you by Hernia Harness.
Brian Bright.
So, I can't remember.
Did Rihanna do Brian Bright like a diamond for Vlasic?
Was that Brian Bright like a pickle?
Yeah, it's really.
That's not how Sia intended it.
No.
She had pretty much.
But you can imagine them in the studio and her just being like, yo, I got it.
Brian Bright like a pickle.
And everyone would be like, yeah, yeah.
You know, go back, go back.
I don't know about that.
And then do you think to celebrate, she asked Jon Hamm if he wanted to toot it?
Maybe I've tooted it too much.
Brian Bright.
Moving on.
Hey, somebody said that a good title for last week's episode was The Bullshit List.
Right.
Like the blacklist?
Well, just that ultimately the entire episode was just a list of bullshit.
Okay.
And we didn't talk about a short.
All right.
But did they like it though?
But did they like it?
I would say it was split.
Yeah.
But I think the people who liked it are the one, they're the real ones.
The real ones.
I have a preamble bullshit list, but oh, this is around the time where the theme would drop
in, you know?
But I feel like.
I have it.
Take it away, Greg.
Yeah.
But I want to just say, I feel like everybody's going to hear it and they're going to think
it's AI.
And so I wanted to preamble to say it's not.
Okay.
Yeah.
Because we don't fuck with that.
Wait, can we hear it now?
This is a, yeah, let's hear it and then talk about it.
Okay.
Job left.
Just four guys having a good time, having a good time, having a good time.
Just four guys having a good time.
Seth, Andy, Keith, and Yorm.
Jesus.
Oh my God.
He needs his own podcast.
Yeah.
He should probably come on ours just to talk about it.
Yes.
I mean, Greg Chun should come on this podcast as Arnold.
Yeah.
And we should just interview him.
So we all listened to that on our text chain.
And there's another one too that I think was the one that Andy, was it the other one that
you really thought might be AI, Andy?
Or was it that one?
It was, I couldn't believe that it was him.
Here.
Why don't I just play the other one?
Because then I also have one more thing.
I didn't listen to these because I was moving rocks eating.
Yeah.
Do you mean you're selling?
Bleep that, obviously.
I wish he could lift.
Traditionally, when people are moving rocks.
Well, you don't know how big these rocks are, Seth.
Like eyes from across the room
Down I drink where the rhythms boom
Take your hand and skip the names
No need here for the silly games
Make our way through the smoking crowd
The club is the sky and I'm on your cloud
Moving close as the lasers fly
A body's touch and the angels cry
Leave this place, go back to yours
A lips first touch outside your doors
A whole night, what we've got in store
Whisper in my ear that you want some more
And I shudder in my dreams
This really never happened, you could take my world
I would apologize, that's just absurd
Mainly your fault for the way that you dance
And now it's yours
Don't tell your friends or I'll say you're a slut
Plus it's your fault you were rubbing my butt
I'm very sensitive, some would say that's a plus
Now I'll go home and change
I mean, wow. Really good.
Did he remake the beat also?
No, that was just like he found a karaoke track
Oh, now I'm not impressed
That one you feel like
is AI because you don't believe he'd
even just do it for that long that well
The consistency and the length
led you to believe it was computer generated
The way he does absurd
is almost a perfect Arnold
pronunciation of absurd
It lets you know it's a top level Arnold impression
Absurd
Good morning, Quades, it's Greg here
I wanted to thank you for
all of your support when it comes to the theme songs
your nice comments because I work
very hard trying to make them good
Don't listen to people like Andy who think
that this is AI and not my voice
It is, this is me
Andy, stop it
Stop it
It's really good
Can we ask him if we can post that?
Can we post that, please?
I asked him for a 10 second one to prove it
Oh my god, it's really good
Hey, how are you feeling about
and I guess this is for all of you
the winner of the
Cannes Festival La Cinef
Best Short Award
Anybody have any takes?
Anybody spinning out?
I'm of course talking about how Lucas Asche's
Laser Cat
won the Cannes Festival's La Cinef
Best Short Award
What the fuck?
Now I'm mad
I mean, obviously, this was not something I was aware of
Quade Army let me know
and they're just wondering if you guys are spinning out
I am now
Yeah, thanks for letting us spin
Yeah, what the fuck, Lucas?
Can we see it?
I mean, obviously, it's probably not out
That depends on seeing it, I think, before we spin out
Let me tell you that a little bit
It's a one night journey about a teenager who's bored at home
His mother just left for a date
and he's 14
Also, I'm not sure if he's going to be able to do it this year
So, this is a planet where all the cats
shoot lasers
No, it's not
Also, there's been a nuclear war
No, Seth
Not even we believe that, Seth
Don't try to make jokes, Seth
You guys, I'll say, you guys were on that right away
You guys were on that
To your credit, you were on it right away
Okay, this is directed by an NYU student
Is it? Lucas Asche?
My alma mater
That's what it says
22-minute psychological thriller, won first prize
NYU student, Lucas Asche
I think we gotta watch it
So, Lucas
We'll be expecting our
slice of the Pomdoer cake
Do you think it more has to do with
how cats famously like laser pointers?
It's possible
You know, Seth, it's interesting you bring up Con
because I was really happy for
the Pomdoer winner
Fjord, which of course
is the prequel to Fjord
versus Fjari
Oh my god, I'm so happy you said that
Fjord versus
Fjord versus Fjord
Fjord versus Fjari
And spoiler, guys
Ferrari wins, guys
So this is about Fjord
before he meets Fjari
Before he goes
versus him
Versus
A lot of detail work
Yeah
Andy, how is
how is your movie going?
Good
Yeah
Somebody, obviously
you know who it is
Somebody snuck me a little
on-set pic of you
and it looks like a real-ass movie
Who was it?
Who was it?
You know
I work with him
Oh, that person, yeah
He can't be named?
I don't know, can he?
Seth Reese
Voldemort
Voldemort
Got it, thank you
Voldemort
Voldemort did punch-ups
I just, I live out loud
The thing that everyone says about me
is I live out loud
Really?
Because the thing I always get
emails from you is like
Don't tell people where I am
That's right
Take out every geographical reference point
I got to visit Andy for
a quick, quick one
for about an hour
or something like that
and he was like
It was really fun, Andy
I want to come back
It was a joy to see you
Oh, well thanks
Likewise
Oh, we ran a panel
Apparently it's not reciprocated.
Jesus fucking Christ.
Well, I'm pretty locked in, you know?
Yeah, you seemed locked in.
It was very nice seeing you for lunch, I'll tell you that.
Were you guys shooting outdoors or indoors?
Like, what are we talking about?
Akiva, both.
There's exteriors and interiors in the film.
Whoa, so this movie's got it all.
Yeah, thank you for saying, this is a good promo.
This is where, like, guys, there's interiors and exteriors.
You gotta buy a ticket for this.
Yeah, and dialogue and lighting.
And this drops on Tubi in when, is that June?
It drops on Tubi in 30, 21.
Okay.
Set your calendars, guys.
Tubi, interiors, exteriors.
Everything's during the day, or?
No, we got nights and daytime.
Whoa.
Also, no spoilers, but we tried to get one sort of at dawn
and then another one at dusk.
What kind of weather?
Always clear, or?
Well, that is in the hands of the weather gods.
And this is, Sam Mendes is directing it,
and it's called Fiorari, right?
Because he's doing.
Yep.
He's doing a fjord and then a fjart.
It's like the Beatles biopics.
Yeah, yeah.
He's doing this after his Beatles, yeah.
Each character from Fjord,
is getting their own.
Yeah, but the Fjorses movie is the one
I'm really pretty psyched for.
Oh, yeah, everybody's excited about Fjorses.
Oh, this was, tell me, do you think this is Shade or Praise?
Let's play a new game, Shade or Praise.
Ready?
Love it, yeah.
Always a good time in an audio-only podcast
when the hosts spend several minutes
visually comparing different word games with each other.
Oh, yeah, when you were holding it up.
I think that's high praise, high praise.
I think it's appropriate Shade.
Yeah, it's Shade.
Appropriate.
Yeah, I think that's true.
Somebody asked, can we add Yorm the Mini to the dictionary?
And that's when you take over two minutes
to complete the New York Times Mini crossword puzzle.
That would make sense.
Oh, I really Yorm the Mini to it.
Oh, by the way, you guys, I'm consistently,
I'm consistently at like 150 now.
So whoever said that, they're fucking wrong.
Okay, great.
What did you get today, Yorm?
What'd you get on the day?
What did you get on the mini today?
154.
Okay, 26.
I got 26 seconds.
But here's the thing.
Like, I want to say something about my super slowness.
One, I'm bad at it.
Right.
But two, there's a certain language
and way to do crossword puzzles that I don't know.
I literally had to look it up recently
and be like, what is the close?
There's like a little cheat code of like hints
of like the way you have to think to do a crossword puzzle.
And I've never done them before.
So I didn't know.
You're learning the language.
How a question mark means they're being cheeky.
Yes, exactly.
Yeah.
I did not know that.
They're so cheeky over there.
You're a rocks and ladders guy.
You've never been about wordplay.
Exactly.
Salt of the earth.
You guys don't know this
because I'm fly over country.
You guys don't work with your hands.
I'm a real car heart.
You guys are work in progress.
That's right.
That's the main difference.
Nice point.
Nice point.
That's legit.
I'm just going to run like, guys, we're like weak.
I think it's almost been a month of teasing Mr. Bernard's.
So I'm just going to tear through the rest of the bullshit list.
Everybody okay with that?
Yeah.
Yes.
Keith, somebody said Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, great score.
Right, Keith?
Oh, the music.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The music was very good, but I don't, it wasn't the thing I took away from it, but I'm sure
if I went and threw on that soundtrack, I'd agree.
Were there strings?
You know, I'm guessing.
Yeah.
And in Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, were there exteriors and interiors?
Yeah.
They had both of those.
Mostly exteriors though.
Okay.
What kind of dialogue was there?
Mostly in English.
Mostly in English.
Mostly in English.
Of probably some other languages when they're in the beginning in the Crusades, when they're
in Jerusalem, in the prison.
Right.
And was the Sheriff of Nottingham in it?
Yeah.
Big time.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
Let's keep blowing through it, Seth.
Let's keep blowing through it.
Was the Sheriff of Nottingham in it?
No, no, no.
I think this list should go slower.
Yeah.
Hey, you sent in a voice note, Andy.
Oh, did I?
Multiple.
End of the episode last week.
It was actually two voice notes in a row.
Oh, that's right.
Yeah.
And somebody wrote in, out of breath jogger does.
Spelling bee on the streets of New York.
I was out there.
Very much what it sounded like.
Well, I was also like surrounded by crew and stuff.
And I was like, I want to do this, obviously.
I got to claim my Quibi victory, but I'd also don't want to be like humiliated, you know?
Yeah.
Andy, when you're shooting exteriors on the streets of New York, do you immediately start
yelling, we outside, we outside, we outside?
Generally not during takes, but otherwise, yeah.
Okay.
And when you do interiors on the streets of New York, are those like little prefab houses
you build?
And just put on the sidewalk?
For sure.
Yeah.
And some of them are open plan and others aren't.
Right.
And when you do interiors, do you shout, we're inside, we're inside, we're inside?
No.
In regards to A Knight's Tale, the reason Geoffrey Chaucer is a character is because
the whole movie is loosely based on a short story called The Knight's Tale, which was
in the Canterbury Tales.
So basically, Chaucer throughout the movie is just gathering material for another book.
Regarding other historical characters in A Knight's Tale, Alan Tudyk's character, Watt,
is thought by some to be young Watt Tyler.
He would go on to lead a peasant's revolt during the reign of Richard II.
Andy, ask me what his name is.
What's his name?
Watt.
Yeah.
What's his name?
That's his name.
Watt.
Who is it?
Who is the jouster?
The jouster's name is Watt?
No.
Alan Tudyk is not a jouster.
He's one of his helpers.
Jesus.
And you're supposed to go, no, that's. That's. You had it.
I think we should have written it out.
Anyway.
Famously, that. You know, Abbott and Costello.
Costello, who's on first, was improvised.
Top to bottom.
And it was a one take, and they had only done it that one time.
It was a oneer?
When it ended, they were like, tell me you were filming.
Tell me you were filming.
And they were like, I think we got it.
And they printed it, and they watched it back, and they were like, dude, what the fuck, dude?
It's airtight.
I just locked in, dude.
It was so crazy.
I just, like, it was. I went blank, and it just came out.
I was in a flow state, brother.
Flow state, brother.
Was Costello just genuinely super dumb?
No.
I think they were like, just, they picked up this, it was the thread of a bit.
It was a bit.
Oh, I thought he was genuinely confused.
No, it wasn't just real life.
No, dude, they were like, tell me we were. Yeah, they were just in a flow state.
Oh, you can't film improv that day, you could.
They were like, it just came straight through from the heavens above, straight through them.
They were channeling.
Yeah.
The fact, Andy, that you've promised a gulp and haven't given one yet.
Yeah.
We don't know that.
We know about.
Come on.
Yeah.
I feel like Andy would tell us.
Somebody said we got ourselves a real Chekhov's gulp.
Chekhov's gulp situation.
Oh, that's good.
That's good.
Kudos.
Can't wait for that baby to pop off.
That was very nice.
This one's a little unfair.
People are going to tune in each week to see when that thing goes off, you know?
Zero propositions.
I've got a few really nice Quaid armies, though, out in these streets.
Yeah, it's nice.
It's nice being on the streets in New York.
I got a Sherman Oaks Quaid army yesterday.
Oh, a Shermstick.
Yep, that's what that is.
Somebody wrote, this episode made me want to step on a theater rake and knock myself out.
You could kind of roll down it into the audience.
High praise.
Oh, here's, I like this one.
As a longtime voiceover talent, haven't done thousands of commercials over decades, I have
some notes on your ad reads.
Seth, what's the rush, pal?
Not sure the sponsors appreciate you blasting through copy as fast as you can go.
Let it breathe, baby.
Them Bomba socks deserve a little more love.
I would say I'm rushing because the feedback we've received from you guys is it might not
be your favorite part of the pod.
Yorma, here's a Yorma note.
Yorma, you have a great voice, but when you use your deep, sultry lower register, you
can sometimes veer slightly into Ghostface from the Scream movies.
Not sure Quince wants it to sound like their spokesperson is standing outside our window
with a knife ready to pounce.
Akiva, yours are perfect.
No notes.
Whoa.
All right.
I thought it was for sure going to be like yours sounds like Ghostface from Wu-Tang.
Right.
I was psyched that that was going to be my criticism, but no.
I think that's more Akiva.
And then Andy, yours just is not available.
Correct.
Andy, do your best Ghostface from not Killer, but the. The one from Scream?
How does he talk?
I don't really know the Scream films.
It's through a voice modulating box because it's really just. I know you're in the house or whatever.
Yeah, that was pretty good actually.
Like, do you want to play a game, Sidney?
Do you want to play a game?
That wasn't quite it either.
Yeah.
It's stupid.
I think what we've learned is that that franchise is stupid because we can't do the voice.
That's why.
Do you think Matt can do it?
Let's get a voice note of Matt doing the Scream voice for us.
Yeah, he did direct a few, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, he directed five.
I mean, you might want to ask Greg Chun first.
I've got to be honest.
Yeah, Greg Chun could definitely do it.
All right, TBH.
He'll probably crush it.
Yeah, let's chun it up.
All right, so I'll ask both of them.
Let's chun the waters on that one.
Huh.
Yeah, that works.
Keith, you had a note on a word in the dictionary you thought should be spelled different.
Oh, it was about Bajason.
Yeah, that's correct.
You had a note.
What would you call the person who runs our dictionary?
Nick is his name, but what would you call him?
He's our. He's our Chaucer?
He's our Chaucer.
Our Almanick.
Scribe?
We're hearing Jeff wants to go with Scribe.
So Nick, our dictionary scribe.
Had this to say.
Whoa, can't believe I got my dictionary spelling corrected by a guy who was 86 from a restaurant
in Hollywood.
Fair.
He said he feels like a gaping snorf, but then he was very happy.
You guys didn't like Almanick?
Do you think he. Oh, Almanick.
Oh, shit.
I missed Almanick.
I take it way back.
Because he's Nick.
Because he's Nick.
And then Alma. That's great.
Yeah, no, we get it.
Alma is who, though?
Yeah, who's the Alma in this situation?
It's a very popular name.
It is an Almanick.
Yes.
You would say it's an Almanick.
He's not an Almanick.
So the Quaid dictionary is just the Almanick now.
And he's an Almanickster.
I also got somebody who's been to multiple upfronts said there was a period of time,
there was like a four-year period of time where Pitbull performed at multiple upfronts.
And it was really noted by those who covered it in the trades, including and up to the
fact that Pitbull performed at the Nickelodeon upfronts.
Hell yeah.
And had the same. dancers who were like a little in slightly less
revealing outfits but still wildly inappropriate for nickelodeon do do children come to the
nickelodeon up front they don't advertise so it was not it was not as though uh pitbull was being
inappropriate it was just like very funny that they knew like hey this is for nickelodeon let's
make them a little bit less revealing but also you know it's still pitbull's backup did any of
you guys see yo gabba gabba live ever i saw them at king's theater i did uh yeah and uh did you see
it with uh bismarcky when he performed with him yeah because it felt like you were like he's just
there for the bag i've never seen anybody anybody want to leave stage so quickly shout out to
bismarcky though yeah rest in peace may may your memory of him be that um he did yo gabba gabba for
money and let that be the official stance of all four of us yeah um oh also wig uh i'm glad you
shouted out uh wig and ham's voice knows that you were not on for
annie
but then heard um wigs was so delightful but then somebody did write in a wig just went don't make
me voice note um all right that's the end of the bullshit list oh also uh what was the movie out of
the past was that the one you recommended keith yeah and bad day of black rock was the other one
oh i watched it out of the past i watched it's fantastic and bad day at black rock so good why
did you watch it seth because i saw just like on social media somebody wrote paul thomas anderson
said they learned he learned more from this
uh audio track and then the audio track was the director just talking about the opening shot i
watched like three minutes of like the blu-ray audio the director's commentary you mean yes
that's what i mean sorry wait so you had already seen that one now yorm has joined just to go slow
here yorm and you liked it right i loved it i was telling you like it felt like it was like the
reason why a screenplay is has the word play in it it really was like felt like you were sitting
with just excellent writing in an old style that everything was back and also like we were talking
about how just that the length of it is fucking perfect it's so entertaining and then seth you
watched out of the past any quick takeaways it's unbelievable it's so fun when you realize that
people like robert mitchum and kirk douglas used to be like young handsome dudes and he's not
enjoying this also uh roger ebert i read an old review where he's like this might be the greatest
smoking movie of all time well guess what guys i have a movie to recommend also it was on cable
last night and it's called top gun maverick so eat shit okay that movie is amazing when you talk
about uh not why uh plays and screenplay i think like most of the scenes in that movie are like is
he gonna go faster you want to know something crazy though seth and it's probably not just
because like i feel so lonely and like miss my family and i'm too tired i cried at the end
i'm sure i would have as well yeah what happens at the end no spoilers i mean anybody no because
maverick tells goose's son thanks for saving my life and he says this is what my dad would have
done and i was like god damn it yeah god damn it rooster you piece of shit well no spoilers too
but there's a bunch of exteriors in that movie oh my god more than you can handle truly not just
exteriors like aerials like up in the air up in the sky yeah there's just a digital display that
keeps going like 9.1 they're like no one's ever done that before yeah that was like 9.2 and
they're like whoa that's the pressure against their bodies in the cockpit brother
sure sure sure it's not about it and can the plane hold together i mean sure i get it and then they
it gets all shaky that's the recommended akiva it's not about the plane it's about the it's about
the pilot in the box um i was in an airplane and i watched a pretty impeachably great airplane movie
which is gone baby gone oh what does impeachably great mean like you get impeached it's just like
a perfectly good plane movie like you've seen it you like it and it holds up and and it's like
you kind of like has twists
you don't remember because they're pretty you should be impeached for saying that i believe
it's unimpeachably great yeah you're right i don't fucking i think that's where your arm's
confusion is coming in but he yeah but i'm not a crossword guy so we're certainly not a mini guy
even though you do it every day well i'm becoming a mini guy you've always been a little bit of a
mini guy i knew it was coming but i still appreciate it
i do like to scoop you right up 31 minutes in still haven't talked about the short just a
reminder this is not the below
this is different seth out of the past has a little bit of almost naked gun style dialogue
when him and her like sitting by the lake right and she gets some part of it's like i bet you say
that to all the places but i can't remember like the lead-in do you know what the one that i thought
was great and you realize this is the language that inspired like the naked gun parody is uh
the guy in the earlys uh finds when he when he tracks down robert mitchum he sees his sign on a
gas station because it's his sign on a gas station and he's like oh my god i'm gonna go to the
gas station he says that lady at the diner yeah i was driving by and i saw his name on the gas station
sign she goes oh it's a small world and he goes or it's a big sign oh my god yeah it's full of that
stuff i'm gonna let her say hi real quick hello hello hi hi
yep that's right who is it that sorry daddies are good and mommies are bad no mommies are good
daddies are bad
true yeah that's actually true everyone on this podcast is a daddy everyone you're looking at is
a daddy are all daddies bad yes okay you have to go now actually no no no that's good nice hey uh
just so we can uh just could we so we can steal it for later can you say bombas are the best socks
i've ever worn bombas are the best socks i've worn quince has changed my life quince has changed
my life um you guys want to feed her another one
uh i love staying at airbnbs
great put that put that in at the end of the airbnb read yeah that's great
it's so it's so weird that when kids say that daddies are the worst that all of us secretly
are like yeah yeah what are you gonna do i'm like yeah i can't argue facts is facts all right i've
uh again i'm not trying to stall here but i have some voice messages oh great all right this is
either from greg chen or matt we'll know right away right
hello do you like scary movies that was great chun trying to give us one oh that was really good
i think that's pretty i think that's pretty accurate as soon as he started doing it i was
like oh that's it that is what that's if it was gonna be matt i would have been blown away because
all right here's matt but matt's heard it a lot more let's see like more than almost anybody not
as good of a voice actor though hello akiba this is not what ghostface sounds like but this is me
doing a bad impression of roger l jackson is this helpful
he he did offer like do you need me to text roger l jackson yeah we do like he he offered he offered
to get the real scream voice yeah yeah what what do we need him to say though just later quades
the later quades i think oh yeah we could we could tag it on to the end later arnold later quades
later ghostface later quades you know what i mean yes please um guys we've put it on for long enough
i on purpose did not re-watch it because i wanted to re-watch it with you guys so i'm gonna do it in the next couple of minutes
you guys it is robert de niro it is party at mr bernard's do you have anything you want to say
about it before we watch it yeah plenty go for it okay i'm loading it up keeve you directed it
yeah we wrote it together with bill as my recollection that sounds right you're you
there or no i i was probably in africa when this happened right with chapelle and then
yep uh i remember being like so excited about it thinking it was really fun
and loving the look of it and then being so happy walking onto the set and having it really look
like weekend at bernie's um and also us being aware that it was crazy how much we were wasting
legendary actor robert de niro in it and that being partly why it was funny to us
of like so we have robert de niro and we're literally gonna have him playing a corpse yeah
but he knowing robert de niro he probably liked it he found it very funny yes yeah he understood
that that part of it was funny and then he was like oh my god i'm gonna watch it again and then
it was funny to use him that way he was just always referred to as the greatest living actor
yeah just number one yeah so there was something and even lauren i remember fake sarcastically kind
of i forget his exact words but yes commenting on exactly that fact did you guys did you guys
say that on set like uh let's fly in the greatest living actor yeah yeah yeah pretty much lauren
being like really great use of bob something like that when you're watching it just remember
that also when like he's having to like fall in new cast members laps and stuff and like flop all
over them like every cast member was like showing up like oh my god i'm about to act against robert
de niro and then he's just a corpse yes this was my idea and it goes in a category that i think
we've done a few times which is like a movie premise or a famous story premise where if it
really happened what would it like the the joke is just what it would really happen basically um
but i yeah
to me i have very very fond memories of this one and remember feeling proud of it even though i
knew it wouldn't be like a quote-unquote biggie and weekend at bernie's was kind of well-worn
comedy territory like it is a comedy it's comedy to begin with and then it also was such an
outlandish premise for a movie i feel like there had been lots of mimicking of it or parodies of
it and so but i've never seen this one and so it was just kind of like oh we can do kind of in our
minds the definitive yes and i will also say before we get into it
and then we should the funniest stuff about it to me and the most fun when we were writing was the
little details about like these like babe hound characters and how that was such an 80s comedy
staple doing that tone was even funnier to me maybe than the actual turn of the yes by far my
favorite parts of this having not re-watched it is the first minute before the actual joke happens
but so much so that i won't get into the premise of it but for years i kept trying to write
screenplays for andy and bill to be these characters in a completely different scenario
we we did not we i seem to remember me being alone though and you at brooklyn 99 and me
and us talking all the time but me being but but maybe you were writing with me check the tapes i
got documents in my laptop okay we i mean we didn't do it so no we didn't do it it's bragging
about a failure we wrote a lot wait you guys was was part of this motivated by whoopie boys love
in terms of you know babe hounds i wouldn't say motivated but certainly that is in the same it's
the genre for sure it's a reminder yes you're saying it's whoopie coded it's whoopie coded i
wanted to make a movie set in the 80s
that felt like a weird science or whatever it is with these two guys you know i was good i was
about to say it's not too late but it definitely is like we just look old yeah yeah you mean it's
too late for you guys to play well now you guys could be like the old businessman the other side
of it the one's getting like i'm like about a half year from being that corpse exactly i always
liked your other idea keeve of 80s uh movies of revenge of the jocks everyone had that idea though
yeah yeah yeah but we have that very
very early before it was developed and cut it out then no i'm just saying it was developed
multiple times by different people oh well then fuck you keeve but really it got used with the
ip of revenge of the nerds andy or is like different both and and my recollection and
correct me if you remember differently was that people kept writing it and then you'd get to the
moment when the jocks started fighting back and it was like this just feels like strong bullies
i don't remember it was not satisfying even though
we were in that like nerds rule moment you know that is really funny i mean and also it was just
like you have to remember the only thing that was working bully wise in that cultural moment
was sensitive bullies correct yeah and thank you all right so uh keeve you want to you want to run
this show yeah let's rock it i can't believe our boss is letting us hang in this palace for the
whole weekend we are gonna get so many babes forget about the babe
i'm just hoping for that promotion mr bernard we're here dude look mr bernard mr bernard
wow looks like you really partied hardy
mr bernard your guests are gonna be here soon uh devon i don't think he's alive oh god oh man
okay we need to call the cops yep ricky we definitely should call the cops but
the party's in one hour all those babes are already in motion if they show up here and this
place has gone from party house to funeral home we're gonna be the laughing stock of the beach
so what do you suggest we pretend he's alive and have the best night ever dude that is a great idea
okay lead in the bay it is really fun to re-watch this and remember what you said at the top which
is this is robert de niro oh my god and you guys are just basically moving him around like a puppet
godfather part two midnight run you're not you're literally like no part of it you're not
taking advantage of any of the things but it is really funny and it's fun to know that he was
down for it i was just seeing you guys manhandle him at all it's like yeah i'm like immediately
like this is awesome like
feeding him the booze bill being like i just i just want that promotion that's my favorite thing
is yeah that within two sentences you're like he's the hawaiian shirt loose guy and he's the guy that
is trying to be a stockbroker and this is my backstory it's really good it's very clean off
the top very fun for those just listening on audio once they decide on the thing they get him into a
hawaiian shirt now they're trying to feed him some sort of a blue uh daiquiri of some sort i guess to
breath smell like alcohol i'm not sure why that's that's where every girl used to write did you guys
shoot other beats of this and then like think it was too long of preparing for the party i don't i
don't think so i'm not sure i did appreciate how fast it got to the party i'll say that uh just for
a second because you know sometimes we express frustration at the sets this you're just not
kidding this is so great it's so great it's got those really popular in the 90s glass brick tiles
everywhere which were in the original only exactly these
are my favorite and white carpet yeah and it's got a step down i mean that's a real
yeah that's pricey they went all out it was true it's really special um also the music the like
muzak is almost don't go chasing waterfalls no no what i thought you were into something i know
let's listen for that is a great idea yeah
all right
oh
"okay lead in the bays come on in"
"oh my god"
"oh my god you guys i believe you know mr bernard"
"oh my god he's dying"
"can he have this dance"
"someone likes you"
"hey where did she start"
"you're gonna burn in hell for this"
"they then dressed him in a hawaiian shirt and propped him up for show like a ragdoll cadet"
"wig again just me loving everything that's just the genre the way she's giggling when she comes through the door"
"when she comes in"
"come on in"
"oh my god"
"wooo"
"no"
"so obviously you guys know what i'm gonna say my favorite thing here"
"hmm"
"little tummy"
"i was gonna say"
"little handy tummy"
"little tummy just sagging out just like a little fat porky"
"do you feel like at the time did you kind of feel like was no wardrobe didn't notice a little tummy here"
"i'm gonna i'm gonna just assume that it was a choice as an actor that i wanted it to be hanging out like i was a little tub of tubs"
"that's his backstory"
"you guys feel free to shoot me down right now but uh this is maybe back in the day i might let's say as as a writer on the show i'd be like hey is there anything to just after wig yelling he's fucking dead hard cutting right to the courtroom"
"yeah i would um at least now i would strongly consider that"
"i think part of it too is just re-watching it like this there's a little bit of like a everyone's a critic vibe to like"
"very much well with taking the picture off the wall and hitting someone that is just a pure everyone's a critic joke"
"it has nothing to do with anything that's happening"
"and it's less heightened than that everyone's a critic reactions"
"i i was a little surprised at their reaction to that though i was surprised that they were okay with it yeah"
"the logic problem is everyone stays at the party"
"yeah she should just yell and it should cut to the next thing i was actually though grateful once that began and i didn't like it that it cut so quickly to the courtroom"
"i was like oh do we do a whole everything's a critic thing here i got worried"
"right so you're relieved that it was it was short"
"yeah but any but faster would have been better"
"but it's more than they then when people are freaking out are just cool with it and are throwing the body at people so you probably were like we just need to show how how aggressive"
"yeah yeah you know it's i think it also could just have been some editing of like not the picture frame one because i did like them saying can he have this dance and trying some of the stuff that works in weekend at bernie's that shouldn't work"
"agreed"
"so it might not be a full edit"
"i believe you know mr bernard"
"oh my god he's f***ing dead"
"yeah like cut that one"
"maybe"
"is he in this dance?"
"right why are they all at the party"
"someone likes you"
"how did she start it everybody?"
"you're gonna burn in hell for this"
"they then dressed him in a hawaiian shirt and propped him up for show like a ragdoll cadaver thank you"
"so they're in court right away"
"desecrated his body"
"made him do the limbo"
"well i think i've heard enough"
"never in all of my years"
"your honor if it pleases the court there's one last piece of evidence i think we all need to see"
"hello this is my video will and testament in the event of my death i ask that my dead body be dressed in a hawaiian shirt and sunglasses and that i be paraded around a rock and beach party filled with bodacious babes"
"oh and devin and rocky you're promoted"
"BOOM"
"yeah"
"hey everyone look who i dug up"
"yeah"
"okay i forgot how to end it"
"i forgot to surprise that didn't get more of a reaction from the crowd there on that last part"
"that color correction joke is pretty great i haven't seen that"
"the switch went back in the 80s"
"when it cuts so when it cuts to the courtroom this is for people listening that aren't seeing it it goes from this bright really you know saturated colorful 80s movie to like a courtroom drama so it's way muted"
and dark and very kind of almost not sepia but almost and then the moment you guys go yes it just
on a dime the color correction flips back to the other color correction and i don't i don't know
that i've ever seen that joke we did something like this in the mcgruber tv series but it's a
slow grade change i love talking about grades but it's piper is in a depressing you're finding him
for like like it's years later he's teaching a shitty dmv class or so you think and it's
reverse it's going from super bright where you're like oh his life is maybe okay and then it slowly
starts to change into a darker and you don't notice it happening until you cut to wide and
so he's now matching the tone of like it's shitty and it's this like like subtle and my my dp
suggested doing it and i was like oh that's fucking cool you're watching it
get depressing as he's talking yeah that is cool you should pull that up so we can watch it it's
pretty neat well i knew you'd be interested in it keith listen there's a certain kind of quade and
we've gone over this that want to hear about color grading hey for those that don't know color
grading is just another way of saying color correcting um you know what aged very well in
this robert genaro episode uh the blizzard man with diddy i don't know if we even want to look
at it that your whole sentence just scared me
shit out of me i think that we'll just leave it at that and you know i'm just glad we have a lot
of other blizzard men that we can go back and enjoy i want to say a personal experience in
andy's corner if you will from this episode sing him in your andy's corner he doesn't usually do
this but he's gonna do it right now take it away thanks your arm so i had maybe the biggest show
of my whole time at snl this show interesting in that i was in i want to say like six or seven
live things or at least like heavily featured in five or six things and all week everyone was like
whoa samberg big show man crazy you're really featuring in this one and i was like wow and not
just the pre-tape i'm in the live stuff and then the show happened and it felt great to me and then
it was very much a like early the next week out of nowhere people deciding to review that episode
and talking about how it was the worst one in 10 years
like i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know
i was just like what no but it was my big show they're just like oh this was trashed like listing
all the reasons it sucked and like i remember being pretty pretty down about it have we talked
about this on the show where like people who would come visit you like just friends of yours
did not mind telling you that things were bad or or just like friends of yours would be like oh man
yeah that show sucked and you're like we know we worked on it right it's like you can't exactly
tell us like how everyone who comes to the show believes they just saw the best episode of all
time because live it's so much more exciting yes yes but people will text you those people
yeah and be like oh my god that's that episode sucked and you're like hey hey hey hey cool it
yeah alexi is a very good person to like bounce things off and like when i'm working on new
material i like showing to her she's very honest and yet in all the years she came to snl
and she would be in my dressing room after update it was always like oh my god it's such a good show
like to speak to both like i think one she understood the assignment and two it's just
fucking fun when you're there when you're there it just all works because you're like i can't
believe i'm at fucking snl yeah and i will say when you're there and working on the show uh
during the show is not when you want feedback
mid-show or or after yeah you don't really ever want it yeah you really you know it's true
yeah i mean i waited uh when what year was this this episode 2010 de niro is so i waited
six i waited 16 years to say i think you should have gone to the courtroom faster
and i appreciate that and you know that and that's why our friendship is so rock solid
yeah that's why it thrives um do you remember it says special guest robin williams is one of
them do you remember that in my mind he was he's in what up with that what up with that
god it's the one time i met robin williams and one time i met robin williams as well i clearly
did not meet him at all that week because i'd remember he was super nice and it meant a lot
he was very sweet
and present yep and i did not talk to him very long but it was everything you kind of wanted to
be he was very much like with you while he was talking to you and it was great and went out of
his way i think probably to say hi to a lot of us not keith obviously no but um it was you know
he's robin williams it was crazy i just it was weird i i don't remember meeting him i just
remember i kept yelling garp right oh you garped him yeah garp and then he was probably ducking
well it's because i wanted to prove like i knew i wasn't just like a genie from aladdin
guy you know that i knew some of the deep cuts you weren't like patch adams you were garp yeah
so i just kept going garp yeah you weren't one of those many many patch adams fanatics yeah i
remember you and you were just to be like even deeper cut you kept standing by the page desk
being like i like the world according to that guy yeah yeah it'd be like whatever his name was i
don't even have to say the name you know who i'm talking about yeah you know i'm talking about
garp how many people do you think named their kids right after that movie like just named them garp
i mean probably a lot right just like i made sure it shot up
was it garp and cap were those the two the wig and fred characters
recurring update feature i'm just gonna say should joanna's next album be called the world
according to harp yeah yes yeah it's a parody album where she does she does she does she well
it's not even i think she does she does music from famous movies and it's called the world
okay let me jot this down
it by the way it's a
based on how she reacts you can say it was come from one of the three of us if she doesn't go for
it she could also do a christmas album called harpy christmas dude the harpy christmas just
harpy christmas what's that a play on what's that a play on happy christmas what happy christmas if
you just saying happy christmas oh i see it's not a it's not a nested pun yeah it's also famously
merry christmas but um i don't say that um i don't say that you could have said like harpy birthday i
guess but even that is pretty sweaty well especially when we're starting with the world
according to harp where it's just like perfect i think in england they say happy yeah happy
christmas uh well this guy did spend time across the cover of brit pop songs called harpy christmas
yeah you're gonna spend time across the pond hey andy are you surprised to know that you came back
as spider-man on the update desk i am surprised what is that let's watch it keeve here we go this
week the spider-man musical had its first run of previews on broadway after several delays due to
actors sustaining injuries while they rehearsed here to comment one of the actors from the spider-man
musical ryan christopher upside down again so he's upside down swinging back and forth
real callback seth is trying to steady him thank you for coming so uh brian there's been
been a lot of reports of problems with the production how is it tented fingers under
jim don't believe the negative press seth spider-man is the greatest musical ever i really
think you're gonna flip for it
andy doing a light crunch while he tries to flip
maybe okay sorry seth this is all very new to me i'm the fourth understudy oh
what happened to the other three spider-mans in front of you well the first one broke his
wrist
okay yeah then the next guy shattered his leg and then the last guy just exploded
what is going on over there it's a musical seth it happens you know how many people die
every year doing jersey boys all right uh so what can we look forward to in the show
well it's basically me taking on all those great spider-man super villains oh right so like the
green goblin uh yeah he's out of the show he fell off the balcony and landed in a fire okay
dr octopus buried alive unrelated to the show uh what villains do you have left uh well we got some
cool new ones uh we got margarita man uh bizarro jerry seinfeld the schmoop what's yeah shrek stops
by for like an hour wow yeah it'll be great seth i really think you're gonna flip for it
all right i might stop teeing that up do you need any help actually seth there is one thing you're going to flip for it
you could help me with okay what's that i don't know upside down spider-man kiss
you be mary jane
come on okay fine i'll be mary jane just hook up the smooch now hook up this
i'm not gonna hook up this
come on just give me a kiss i guarantee you you'll flip for it
everyone brian christopher remember me because he's gonna die
definitely a way better execution on the physicality of hooking up the smooch yeah they
were giving me nice little swings oh my god i like your little peppered kisses andy yeah
we try we shoehorned in a hook up the smooch into it i mean i was watching and felt sad because
when i realized oh this one is in hook up the the it's not hook up the smooch and then it was
but it was a
hook up the smooch it's all team you can hear the blood rushing into my head about halfway through
and my voice changes i'm so impressed that you were constantly willing to do that
it was not smart yeah upside down cue cards how painful was it it did not feel good by the end
fine in the beginning bad by the end you're not supposed to hang upside down that long i don't
think were you kind of like uh also i'll be riding high on the laughter the bed of laughs
from bizarro jerry seinfeld bizarro jerry seinfeld i like and i believe is a client that's my guess
yeah it could be a jost could be a jost was just in on that i think joseph's in on it too that's
um guys we finally got mr bernard's done and uh we got through a very healthy bullshit list and
we have some other stuff to do for the next episode but this is just one more mr bernard's
thing that just came in that i asked for just 10 minutes ago and and he obliged so hold on one sec
my main memory of that was that robert de niro is such a good actor that he really did go
completely limp and that andy and i really had to hold him up
you
but he didn't even um like he didn't pretend or anything and that he also um didn't talk a lot
between takes that was my main memory of it was um being like oh we're doing this fun
weekend at bernie's thing and then being like wow he's still like so committed and more committed
than i am at uh anything
there you go there you go thank you billy thanks bill what's weird is that i asked him also if he
had an alf impression or and or a scream guy impression to put it at the end of the voice
note and you know he's sitting on good ones above oh yeah i just ghosted you
pun intended the master and he didn't do either ghostface he's uh i think his thing is his agent
was like stop giving it away for free yeah is it time for spelling bee yeah hit us all right jack
hit us in the chest hit us in the tit chest is in the breastplate
i quibbled clean it felt so good i texted seth and he knew it was coming congrats
always nice when it happens on a pod day i at least uh i i queen bead with hints
with how many hints we talking like 17
yeah there's so many i will tell you this now my like my i feel like if again if we're doing this
based on like a golf handicap i tried a genius before i get to hints and stuff i know that's
like child's play jesus christ what are you guys even talking about i know what are you even like
we're this is like for genius no after genius i get genius look you're one of my dearest friends
and you're a very accomplished man you're a good father and husband and you're really talented here
but that's a
fucking joke i can't believe i get how much heat i take from being with the whole fucking
two minute yorm over here well he ain't getting oh by the way i think that that could be a new
little segment too and i did it under two minutes so oh yeah you're yeah what do we call it when we
check in with your arm to see what he got on we need jack black to do another song for it
yeah how did our mini do on the mini
all right we're very similar heights it's it's it's not fair
uh this was very fun you guys and uh i love you all very much love you too seth you guys love you
guys honestly like a lot of a lot of shots fired but i really love you guys thank you buddy yeah
no josh and no jk rowling's that's fine yeah you can take that out of context if you want to and
just use it as its own clip
you made it right to the end of the pod
yeah
uh all right love you guys love you love you love you love you arnold
love you too that's mine well barely yorm says it now i was waiting for him to say take it away
arnold i didn't want later arnold later and take it away arnold i took it back i reclaimed it
i love you guys later quades
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The hosts discuss their own vocal struggles, joking that they sound "shredded to shit" due to congestion and fatigue, while noting that their audio quality has remained consistent over time.
A humorous segment highlights a fictional movie, *Laser Cat*, winning the Cannes Festival’s Best Short Award, prompting excitement and confusion among listeners, with the hosts debating its plot and significance.
The podcast features a detailed, satirical "bullshit list" of random observations, including a viral voice note from Andy that sounds like a real Arnold impression, a discussion about the *Weekend at Bernie’s* parody involving Robert De Niro, and a playful debate over whether certain jokes or music tracks are AI-generated.
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The podcast features a lively, self-deprecating conversation among the hosts about their own vocal health and performance, humorously comparing their voices to "shredded to shit" due to congestion. They reflect on a recent episode's content, including a satirical "bullshit list" of random and absurd observations—such as a viral voice note mimicking Arnold's style, a mock-up of a fake movie *Laser Cat* winning Cannes, and a fan-submitted take on *Weekend at Bernie’s* with Robert De Niro. The hosts also dive into behind-the-scenes humor, discussing their creative process, a "Shade or Praise" game, and a new segment involving the New York Times Mini crossword puzzle.
Among the highlights is a deep-dive into the parody of *Weekend at Bernie’s*, where they rewatch the original and praise its absurdity, particularly the use of color grading shifts and the iconic "dead body in a Hawaiian shirt" gag. The episode concludes with playful fan interactions, a note on the hosts' voices, and a lighthearted nod to the growing community of listeners who engage with the show’s humor and creativity. The tone remains energetic, witty, and self-aware, celebrating both their absurdity and the shared culture of the podcast.
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The episode is a list of humorous or questionable topics discussed, with the hosts noting it was a mix of reactions and opinions, and some felt it was split in popularity.
The hosts were surprised and initially annoyed, especially since they didn't know about the win. They expressed excitement and acknowledged the film's potential, noting it's a psychological thriller with a unique premise.
Geoffrey Chaucer is a character in the movie because it's loosely based on a short story called 'The Knight's Tale' from Chaucer’s 'Canterbury Tales,' and the film uses this to build its narrative structure.
The hosts note that Yorm's deep voice sometimes sounds like Ghostface from the Scream movies, and they humorously suggest that Akiva's voice is more in line with the character, while Andy's impression is not available or identifiable.
The hosts play a mental game of 'Shade or Praise' to evaluate the tone of different content, with Seth and Andy agreeing that the game is more appropriately labeled as 'Shade' rather than praise, adding humor to the discussion.
The 'Yorm the Mini' segment is a new feature where Yorm completes the New York Times Mini crossword puzzle, highlighting his learning process and noting that he's still developing the skills and language needed for wordplay.
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