The Heist & Ka-Blamo!

Hey guys, before we kick off this episode, we're going back to talking about some older stuff There's some fan-made videos. So if you head over to YouTube, that's the best possible way to watch stuff Enjoy Hey everybody welcome to the Lonely Island podcast once again once again with that Andy who is going to I'm sure send us in a couple of voice notes based on what we talk about today There was something there's a few things I want to start with first of all I'm so embarrassed I made two sports errors in the last episode and I'm the one who knows about sports What were they supposedly supposedly? I mean I caught them both by the way So I chamed you guys for holding up a jersey in football town people do hold up jerseys at the NFL draft when they go down I was actually shocked that you said that because I I did think I had seen that before I did by my tongue going well He's the sports guy. Yeah, so why don't you think that I don't know what happened there That was just short circling the other mistake I made was I mentioned Philip Rivers and said he was the San Diego Chargers quarterback on the fridge and great day It was Ryan Leif which we've been talked about during that Yeah, so when you said the name I did go that sounds like a different name, but I didn't know the name So I got I liked that the problem in both cases was you guys are so I don't know Trapodacious about your sports knowledge that you just stood back and you were like you take this one Seth because I didn't Immediately have proof otherwise. I just was like, you know, let you hang yourself on with your own rope kind of thing Yeah, also also Seth I always picture you as the kind of a jock of the group that like comes by and dumps slipies on her heads with You know of our city jacket on it is really it does speak volumes about you guys that I'm the jock of the group At one point where she did Jones was talking about and she said Makes the lonely island look like jocks. No, it's interesting. I think you should do everything about that story But the name, okay, I'm just gonna go through some comments real quick before we get to the episode at hand Wait, Seth does everyone just write in is it the same as your show where everyone just like oh the mistake There's a mistake. I think because I have opened that up about me. Yeah, yeah I think you're like and we can be correct Don't want to think there's a fair amount of jackal crossover. Yeah, I think there's some jackover across over with the jackover Oh, this is very exciting. I think there's some jackover jackover all over us. Yeah. Oh, yeah, there's some jackover There was a user named Aaron Cosmic who wrote absolutely insane to see my old MS paint windows movie maker So she was the she made the art that we were watching. Oh, great. Yeah So when we talk about crossover the pot I like that somebody who made that animation to one of your old songs pre-SNL is listening to the pot So shout out. Yeah, I wonder if she was listening or if someone tipped her off, but I'm curious interesting Let us know. Let us know in the comments. Are you actually quaid army or did you get tipped off? But also 20 years ago, however young she was when she made that she probably was like dreaming that we would see it I don't want to pat ourselves on the back But I don't I don't I don't think she sounds like she cares that much now 20 years ago she was probably quite young. Yeah, I was like, whoa, I'm gonna make this way. I wonder if they'll see it and it just took a long time You just have to stick around. Yeah, now is that a rewarding thing when your dream comes true 20 years later or is it just embarrassed like you know We outgrow our dreams like you know, and that's right. That's right. Yeah, probably no way. I love that thing I think she's very proud She's so into it. She probably cried when she heard we watching it. It's probably crying now I mean, this is like just continuing the week of sobbing with gratitude. Yeah, we love you. We love you very much I knew a new portmanteau for the pod quomp a quomp is the quaid bump when a YouTube video gets more viewers after we mention it So football town got the quomp. Oh, of course it did That must be so nice for a football town. We're definitely using that the quomp the quomp A lot of comments. I'm sorry that I hear you a lot of comments about how handsome Andy was in an old football town I remember at the time even just being like oh some of these shots because like like a slowly realizing like oh If you put on clothes to try to look attractive and you make attractive looking faces and you have wind in your hair And you kind of shoot it knowing like you're supposed to be the hunky star that's somewhere it does make you that Yeah, it happened on Connor for real a bit too where it's like now you're gonna dress like a guy who thinks that he's Attractive and then I was like Andy's so really attractive in this and you're like right you got to be really attractive to pull it off when you're doing it Ironically, you're trying to be comedy handsome people like hold up. Yeah, wait. I don't like this wait I can't get over Andy's neck in football town. He has such a like a thick neck It's important for tackling. No, I mean again for our listeners truly Andy is the jack of us And he's the one who actually played sports at a level that lapped all of us collectively. I played I played soccer with him He was playing on Sundays with a bunch of guys and gals and Right before this was when Mario was shooting her movie out in LA and I went one Sunday because it was very excited And then I was doing the calculation right after he was like by the way everyone's ex-college players or semi pro and I was like Oh, okay cool, and then I was doing the calculation I was like the last time I played soccer was 35 years ago And then played 10 minutes was like slide tackling people on because I was so excited on Astroturf, which you shouldn't do and then 10 minutes in I was like Well, there goes my hamstring and then I was in PT for the rest of summer So there you go Yeah, so you ran through every red flag and it ended with Hang with the semi-prose somebody asked when season two of digmond was gonna be released on Paramount Plus I don't know the answer to that. I do know season two has aired in Comedy Central But I will say there was very exciting news, which is it's gonna be on Netflix. Yeah, it's honestly Speaking for Andy the dream scenario because when they you know they go out and pitch the show They're very excited and grateful to Comedy Central for saying yes But with the knowledge that Comedy Central barely exists. Yeah, so it was kind of like well We're gonna make the show and people are not gonna see it and sure enough. They made a really funny show But people don't really see it. Yeah, and the dream kind of is like but then once we get a little library Doesn't that flicks by it when Comedy Central finally realizes they don't have a network And it's literally what has happened so many subscribers as Netflix happened. They have a lot right? It's like a hundred It's like 175 million maybe I was gonna say over a million, but yeah You were gonna doctor evilin. I mean, I was right. Yeah, you were right. Yeah Hey guys, Andy here. I'm just gonna jump in real quick Um our original thought their key with Comedy Central was not that no one would see it It's just in the past few years things have changed so much with paramount Business changing streaming changing. We're not even sure what's happening with Comedy Central But yeah, it is very exciting that Digmond is moving over to Netflix the first two seasons Can't wait for people to check that out if you haven't seen it now It's easier than ever if you didn't have paramount plus or Comedy Central as Key was kind of alluding to it's a show We're real proud of me and my buddy Neil Campbell and a whole bunch of really talented funny people worked a hard on it Please check that out It's one of the things the most proud of in my whole life Also, you're none of the people playing in that game or semi-pro like not even close It was like Nick Crowell and Murray Scoville and stuff. Mead your jahari. These are just comedians none of them are semi-pro I'm not even sure of any of them played college So I think it was more just that you were in horrible shape. I'm gonna chime in more later. Thanks guys Hey guys, this is Akiva interrupting from the exercise bike Netflix has 325 million paid subscribers globally. Thank you. Oh, it also digmond premieres on Netflix March 17th Put it in your iCal or your practical calendar with a pen and/or pencil Got's to get that quomp got we like them clicks. We like them quamps your arms Thanks for saying such nice things about my neck I'm assuming that you met it in a nice way It sounded like you met it in a nice way like you were maybe like slightly horny for me Which has always been my dream and I think everyone out there knows that okay Also, just you know, I'll do it because he's not here. It's so funny if you're quate army You're definitely gonna be digmond army so it's wild I think it'll be the thing where the old seasons go up and then a new season. Yeah, it's made for Netflix This is just a request somebody wanted it clean so they could use it as a ringtone Yorm will you give us a platinum in New Zealand? Yeah Platinum in New Zealand Okay, thank you. Yorm people can just use that like maybe like music now Yeah, we talked about House of Cosby Which is on YouTube and could really use a quomp because it's very funny and I went back and watched it because did we talk about you guys being voices and House of Cosby? Maybe we did it. I forgot I thought we even did it. Yeah, you play three Cosby's you're super hero Cosby's called the Tri-Ozby And the reason I bring it up is somebody pointed out him like that can't possibly be true So your Cosby Yorm is like a superhero Cosby. Oh god. I don't remember. It's all I know you're surprised Well, I'm sure we were there for five minutes and Justin was just like say this so yeah Well, you would go over to his house just recording is like kitchen So yeah, I'm not credited. I feel like I'm strongly confident that Chester is voicing it as well. I'm sure he was not in the credits But you your you get crushed by a dinosaur Okay, all your bones get crushed in the next episode You're literally in bed. Mm-hmm exactly the way you were for your reason. Oh So maybe it's just we dig back into this old stuff from 20 years ago. We're gonna find everything we found the winter Somebody was like it also you you in bed have a revelation that you're gonna go into comedy now that you're Can no longer be a superhero. I wonder I wonder if uh Justin was into voodoo stuff and I was being like, you know House of Cosby both a very funny and very haunting to watch through the lot of the changing American viewpoint on Bill Cosby. - Why, what happened? - Oh, no. - Right, I forget you're behind on stuff. - No, he's just on the other side. - Do you haven't read the news since Netflix had one million subscribers? - No, no, I was in the hospital, so. - Oh, somebody wrote the channel one-on-one show was called Acceptable TV on VH1? - Oh, I totally remember that as soon as you say it. - And VH1? - Yes. - And then just the names of Yachtrot. So was Yachtrot a group? - No, it was the name of a series. - Okay, gotcha. - It was the equivalent of the boo, but it was Yachtrot. And it was like a fake VH1 behind the music. And so they would dress up and it would be these stories that they were just completely inventing where it's like, the day Michael McDonald wrote, sailing or whatever, and then this Chris Christofferson would stop by and be like, "Hey, brother, what are you working on?" And they would just dress up as all. - I'm gonna shout out the makers of Yachtrot because their names were said in JD. - Riznor. - Hunter Stair, David Lyons, and Steve Huey. - Yeah, big ups. - I'm sure those are all on YouTube too. They were really fun. We actually, we had a little bit of a budget in our production company to make short presentations to try to become real TV pilots. And ultimately, the show pen 15 came out of that. Like first, it was a 10 minute pilot presentation from that money that became pen 15. We did one with JD Riznor trying to kind of take the format of Yachtrot and turn it into a comedy central drunk history style show. - How many did we do? Keep 'cause we did one with Emily Heller too, right? - Oh, we did. We did like probably 20 or 30 of those pilot presentations over the years when we were doing it. Yeah, tons of them. There was a show called "A Loan Together" that went on free form for a couple of seasons that came from one of those pilot presentations. And there was Andrea Savage's show called "I'm Sorry" that was on, I forget it was a true TV or something, but it was a good comedy show that was written and directed by Andrea Savage. And that went a couple of seasons as well. - We had like a slush fund for a while. - It was pretty awesome. - Yeah, then it went away. But "Real Show" worked and got on TV. But point being, we did one with "Risnar" that did not. But we shot up at that very famous house from the Big Lebowski that you see in things all the time. - Right. - And it was Jack Black as "Jojo Moroder" and Maya Rudolph as Donna Summer. That was really fun. And they were doing the, I need love, I need love, I need love. It was like the story behind the music of how that song came to be. And "Randal Park" was a robot that "Jojo Moroder" had. - That's right. - I was like, "Randal was in it." But I was like, "What was his role?" - He was "Jojo Moroder" was robot. And then Ryan Philippi came in as Bowie. - Right, right. - Like we got an all-star cast for the most fuck around thing. And it was just this stupid fake behind-the-scenes documentary thing about them making the making of. - One of the best things about this industry is calling your friends cold and offering them like the most ridiculous roles. So we're like being like, "Hey, do you have this prop?" - But that made me a hard, a hard cast to get for a movie. Everybody would have to be really block out the time and there'd be a lot of money. But for something that's in LA for one day that is just nonsense and no one's ever gonna see? - Sure. - Yeah. - Everyone showed up. - Yeah. - There's the fun things I was showing for. I know it's Diana Ross and not Donna Summer. Have you seen Fred's bit where he's the drummer playing "I'm Coming Out" for the first time? - Yes. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's really funny. - Just hitting those random drums and then just learning the song in real time. - Yeah. - Yeah. - It's really amazing to watch Fred do a drummer comedy in front of the roots. - Yeah. - I mean, I think like for Questlove, who obviously has a great sense of humor, he must be like, this dude is like, "Everything I've ever wanted." Combining all my interests. - Yeah. - I think Fred is the most specific person by now. I mean, I stand up for drummers, like shout out to an Netflix special standup for drummers. We're familiar. - Oh my god, it's wonderful. Just check it out for regular jokes that work for everyone. But it is really funny. - Do you remember that joke? It was an early standup of Steve Martin and he does this joke. He's like, "Oh, a lot of plumbers in the audience." - Oh yeah. - And then he tells the plumber joke and then he's like, "Oh, you know what? That must have been a different night." 'Cause nobody got that joke. (laughing) I said, "Sog it, not sprog it." - Or whatever. - I referenced the movie "Dave" this week in a closer look and it was so cool. And I had written it in and it was just like the absence of a reaction. - Oh, I saw it. That was really funny. - Since I'm a major Dave for the movie head, do you think I've led you to believe that movie's more popular? Because I reference it 'cause I like Dave so much. - I mean, I love the movie Dave. We're actually saying Dave would be a good movie to show the kids 'cause I think it's probably just a fun idea about and also like a good message. - Agreed. - What is Dave? What's Dave about? - It's Ivan Ryman directed it. It's Kevin Klein and Sigourney Weaver starring and it's that there's like a Republican president played by Kevin Klein, who is, everything you would think of in terms of corrupt and just playing politics and does not care about people. And he basically gets in an accident and is in a coma. - Doesn't he have a heart attack? Like having a heart attack, maybe? - Maybe having my fingers. - Oh yes, it's having an affair, yeah. Yeah, I do. I remember everything. - Something like this where he is now incapacitated, but then the chief of staff and vice president get together and go what if we don't tell the public 'cause we don't want, and then finally we can run and Kevin Klein plays a presidential impersonator who looks like him. - Yeah, that does like birthday parties. So they go and find him and he's obviously amazing at it 'cause it's Kevin Klein again. But he shows up as just kind of a riding my bicycle around town impersonator fun guy and kind of like starts to learn, like wait, everyone thinks I'm the president, like why don't I try to fix some stuff and starts actually trying to balance the budget and try to fix things and like Sigourney Weaver figures it out 'cause she's the wife that he hasn't shown interested in years, but now he's a good husband. So it's a little bit of a rom-com as well. - Wait, is he left wing them? I don't want to see this movie then. I don't think you'll like the politics of the movie on. - I don't think it's like the most spectrum stuff. Oh yeah, you're him, you won't like it. - No, I'm very right wing and I don't like that lib-- - That sounds like it's hard to say. - Yeah, it's propaganda. It is funny, Keith, how you're like, you know, and obviously he's great at it 'cause he's also played by Kevin Klein. It would be funny if the originally the producers were like, well, the problem with the movies, we got to find somebody who looks just like Kevin Klein. Play the other part. - Exactly. I think you went away for your kids to be a little bit older, not because it's inappropriate, but I think to really enjoy it. I think that they'll watch it and think they enjoy it, but if they're a little older they might really enjoy it. - My brother does a knockout Gavin Newsom impression and he did it on Jimmy Kimmel this week with the actual Gavin Newsom. - Oh, he had the moment, that's the no moment. - He had the moment, he came out to present an award to the actual Gavin Newsom. And Gavin Newsom did that really smart thing where Gavin Newsom started leaning into my brother's Gavin Newsom impression. - Like he started stealing bits from Josh, which is like, I almost alley up the joke. - Yeah, it's a very affable move. The bad move is like, I don't talk like that. The good move is you start doing the actual gestures and play the heightened version yourself. - That's great. - Yeah, very fun. One last thing and then, what did we decide the heist? - Oh yeah, let's listen to some old shit. - Oh wait, I have one last thing to say, but a last thing, 'cause you did an ad read for Good Chop, your arm. - Oh, I did. Yeah, I got some good chop stuff for real. So somebody wrote pretty ironic that your arm is doing an ad for Good Chop when he hasn't managed to schedule his good chop, parentheses, vasectomy. - Oh, that's really good. A Seth, like hopefully later on, I'm gonna be on your show and I was hoping to actually schedule the vasectomy for that day, so we could talk about it. - Not on the show. You want me to get the vasectomy on the show? - Well, no, I'm saying not on the show. I know, I was when you said scheduled and on my show like it did, it's so fun. - You know, Jimmy does all those bits. I feel like maybe you could do a fun one. - I mean, I feel like it's probably a local anesthetic. I mean, if you were like covered with a sheet, - Yeah, that's fun. - And we just said your head poking out, like I don't know, magician assistant style. - Yeah, totally. - So that's good. - All right, the heist. All right, so last week we, since we don't have Andy with us, we went into the deep cut stuff and we tried to do, I mean, football town's heavy Andy, but trying to do things that don't involve Andy and we have another that's actually arguably the best song we ever did, previous test and L, I would say. - Yeah. - Any of us and it is a me and your arm special and it's what inspired. - We talked about a little on the Lazy Sunday episode. - By the way, we're gonna send a copy this to Andy with no qualifier and it's just gonna end on you saying, arguably the best song we ever did. - Let him know. - I think you would agree. - It's great to see if he does, but let him know it. - Yeah. - And we did cannibalize it a bit for Lazy Sunday, where we were like, oh, kind of the tone and you'll see there's a chamomile line that is snack attack verbatim basically. - Oh yeah, verbatim. I will say like just before you play it, like I love the beat and I made the beat for this, but I can't remember the samples that were used. There are a lot of guitars at the end of it too, which my friend played, which is more detailed than most of our songs ever got. But if anybody out there can tell us the sample, though, it'd be great. - And no video, correct? For the highest, no video, but for fun, I bet you there's a bunch online. Do you want me to play this off YouTube instead of this? - I think so. - I mean, no one's made by others. - Yeah, get another person some shine. - Let's see if there's something out there. - Also, "Artie Party" was a real earworm for me this week. - Yeah, I heard that you couldn't get it out of you. - I really couldn't. - Oh, and Andy wrote in and said that he woke up thinking of the remix of "Artie Party" as well. - I will say the "Kittaker's Remix" is the one that sticks in my head for whatever reason. - Yeah, totally. I actually thought it was that one. By the way, the man who made that, my buddy from who I met at the guitar center is named Brian Demsky and don't dox him. What is it? - Yeah. All right, so I got one from 20 years ago with 96,000 views. That's a live-action one somebody made, you know, like shooting it with their friends. Yeah, but look who's back. Yeah, I can watch Aaron's again with another. Yes, please, Aaron. All righty, funny. Iran changed her name. All righty, so I got one from 20 years ago with 96,000 views. Okay. Oh shit, you're getting naked. Of course, I am fat. We gotta get these in the wash before the stage says. Oh, fuck, man, you just got one all over my face. We're in a mess. [Music] [Music] [Music] I was wrong, Keith. It was not mob deep as from a beat-nut song called "Do You Believe." That's what it's ill-how-he did with my heart's like, "The Beat Nuts." Yes. Shout out to Aaron again, who went by E-Ron back then. Yes, yes, crossed out. Very fun to watch. Nick had stick figures. I think my favorite detail about your breakup with Pam is that you guys were both about to cut back on caffeine together. That tells me more about the kind of couple you are and how you really must be heartbroken. We also do this a lot in a lot of the songs where one person says something super lame and then the other person strongly agrees with it. I am also that way. You're like, "I was gonna do that too." Going back, if you have an unlimited budget, and this is a song that's gonna be on an album, do you record Pam saying a line? If you could rewrite it, do you think you want to hear Pam? No. No. I think it's more of these guys just telling you the story. Got you. I mean, we had access to female voices as is proved by already party with. Yeah. You look good with that dump in your drawers. I guess that's maybe because that was the last song we listened to, and I enjoyed that so much. I was kind of. I admit I was a little hopeful. Oh, to hear a lady. Yeah. I think I would have taken the air out of it because there's so much tension between these two guys that I think you are. What are other references I feel like we're doing a little trying to do a little bit of like Wu Tang style back and forth like Ghost Facy's stuff. I feel like there was a little bit of warning by Biggie, but there's other things being wrapped up in that that were. I mean, overall, obviously, we're just poking fun at how self-serious a lot of certain genre of rap was. I mean, we're each giving like 110% on each line, like we're just screaming. And up to 120. When you start getting naked, Keith's fully in 125%. Yeah. Yeah. And what we're yelling is loud. We're just screaming. We are just screaming. What's up, Chumbo's. It's Andy chiming in again. Let's see. The sample arm is yellow, tightrope, the great electric light orchestra. One of our faves. I'm surprised you didn't remember that because years and years later, we loved the high so much. We even were like, "Should we just put it out, like in an official way, or like re-recorded, or clean it up?" And we were like, "I don't think we can afford an ELO sample." Even given some of the samples we did before, and that kind of squashed it at that point. So we never put it out in official capacity because of that was my recollection. But hit us in the tittest. Tell us if you disagree with that account. And then influences on the heist, I would say, "It's very much a boutique, in my opinion." And interestingly, you guys are doing ghost and ray because they would do the back-and-forth story songs the most, I would say. And I think that's probably what you had in mind. I mean, I can't put myself in your shoes, but that was my guess. But a distinction, in my opinion, re-listening to it. He was really doing Rizzah, like it's full-throated, yelling Rizzah, almost like Grave Digg is Rizzah, which did bleed into many early Wu-Tang recordings before he kind of smoothed it out. Although sometimes he would bring that back. But he contains multitudes. Anyhow, as to whether or not it was our best pre-SNL song or pre-album song, it's definitely one of the best. When I first heard it, I remember feeling incredibly geeked and inspired and happy and laughing so fucking hard. The only other one that I would maybe even put in the conversation with is Stork Patrol, which is also 100% referencing Wu-Tang, not surprisingly because I was some of our favorite shit around that time and still. Obviously, Stork Patrol gets a little gross in spots in ways that I think we wouldn't do now, but the flows are kind of impeccable, and that is another one of my favorite early Yorm beats. It goes, as Keith likes to say. But yeah, gun to my head, I'd probably take the heist, and obviously the blueprint for Lazy Sunday and kind of everything we did from that point on. It kind of cracked open what we could do with the form as dumb comedy guys and also sounds good and pro, and you guys put time into the rhyme. So yeah, I'll give it the crown, and you know, I'll be back. All right, do you want to kick another one, Seth? Yeah, I feel like, I feel like Cablamo, can we Cablamo? Yeah, but then we should just watch the video to it, probably. Yeah, we should. So we had been making songs, obviously, like the ones you're hearing. I'm not sure what order they came in, but at a certain point we made one and went, let's make a music video to it, and it was our first attempt at a music video ever, I would say. So this was, this is shot in the original Lonely Island apartment, and we made it pretty quickly after we moved to LA. Like we moved here, we all were in that, that we've talked about, you know, getting temp jobs and hanging out, and we borrowed a camera, and we were like, what would it be like to make a video? I don't know why we didn't make one for the highest, because when we made the highest, we were really proud. And we knew, and like just the amount of people doing fan views, like we knew we had made something special, but maybe we thought we couldn't pull it off. I don't know why we never made one for that. It's weird because it seemed, I mean, again, who might have speak to what your sense of yourselves were then, but it seems like easy enough to pull off. In hindsight, I would have given us the advice to make a music video to every one of these party party, because why wouldn't we have? Well, it would have been, it would have been nice to just see our young faces, you know, etched in time. And when we eventually do our noodles in the pod episode. Oh, yes. Yeah, exactly. This is what it's all building towards. Like, you know, let's try to get a quampa on that noodles in the pod video. I would say Kablamo is our noodles in the pod, for sure. Yeah. Well, just to talk about the beat of how this was made. So a record player was plugged into the BR8, which is a eight track digital recorder. Basically, I would find a speed that I liked as the loop of it and then record and just try to keep recording until I got the exact loop, loop it on the BR8, and that would be one track. Then I would take drums, listen to it, match the speed of the drums to that sample. You know, I got on techniques 1200, you could like go back and forth on plus and minus and then just get it to the right volume. So you'd pick break beats from like a break beat album. So like, that's how these were made. And then after you would get all of the samples for the song, get like the like the timing right for everything in the BR8, which is a ridiculous thing. way to do it, but then you would compress that all down, then that would be on one track, and then we would do all of our lyrics with the remaining seven tracks if anyone's interested in that type of shit. Yeah. And to your credit, your arm, which you're also explaining is that we were using the wrong piece of equipment. Yeah. Exactly. Like, there was a keyboard, I'm forgetting what it was called, but I think it was made by Roland, then my cousin used that was like a sampling keyboard, like a synthesizer where it was made to make, you could make beats on it, or there was a thing called an NPC that was very popular that you see any time you watch old producers working on that, looks like a drum machine with a bunch of square pads. Yes. I did have an NPC at one point. We had a little control, the thing that keeps talking about is a little controller, and it would actually trigger digital sound effects in like later on when we were making stuff in, I was making stuff in Cubase, making stuff in Reason, and some computer programs. Yes. Yeah. And these, some of them still exist. But this thing, just an eight track recorder is not the way you should be making beats. It does work if you're making like Nebraska, you know, you're just making it by sound. Like there's no, I mean, obviously it has a tempo, but like, but that tempo is like, you're just, I'm just doing all of this by sound. You're doing it like a band with though, like where you would lay down a guitar track and then lay down some drums, you were doing it like live musicians would. Yeah. Wait, wait, can I say one more thing about like just music in general, because this is sort of interesting, is that we would also usually just do a either two or four bar chorus, and then you do a 16 bars, because that's just sort of a standard hip-hop thing. So usually we would just sort of do that and then find our lyrics within that 16 bar. Wait, before we move on, do you guys, were you at the table read where Fred, I really think it was about like the fall of Kadoffi and Fred played Kadoffi at the table with a guitar and a sampler. And he just, he made a song like he's like, they were like, hey, they're closing in. And he just like, thoughtfully walked over and like it was just that Kadoffi was writing a song using, like making his own music samples. Like Reggie Watts would. He just did a full Reggie Watts while like his inner circle was like watching him wondering what he was doing. But the joy of it at the table was like it was amazing to watch Fred in real time like actually make the samples and make a song. Yeah. So like ours was like that, except for over the course of many hours and not a joy in anyway. I might have to ask Fred what the inspiration was behind that and if I'm remembering it correctly. Also topical. Yeah. Yeah. It is. Time is a flat circle. There's some reflections in modern times. Yeah. Fred could bring it back. Yeah, he should bring that baby. He would be occurring if it was occurring. Yeah. Now it's this guy. Lauren would have, Lauren would order it up. Should we get Fred in to do a, do another Kadoffi, fall, fall of a leader? Yes. Fall of a leader. Fall of a tyrant. Okay. Yeah. So here is Cablama, you know, you'll really hear us just, we're just like experimenting with our voices of like, well, what does it sound like when I record my voice, should I try to be this guy or that guy? That's very fun to realize these are the building blocks that you guys did not. So you didn't even have your like the many different personas that we've heard yet. These are all just like first time. All of these is us like, like even when we're listening to Artie Party like, your arms trying to do Greg Nice from Nice and Smooth. Do you remember that? Smooth guy. Do you know hip-hop, do you know Seth? I think you'd remember, what was there, is it Nice and Smooth? Nice and Smooth. There's like two songs you'd recognize, even if you don't think you did, that you would know from, there's one with Gangstar that you would definitely know from just going to nightclubs in the early 2000s in New York, where they would definitely have thrown it on. So that was what you were trying to do, right, your arm? Oh yeah. Yeah, big time. Yeah. And I love that. that one part that Andy pointed out, we're all of a sudden I'm just like talking to my teeth. For no reason. But it is funny. It is funny because of all the references we were making. And then when you see it, you're just like, "Oh, the Beastie Boys." Exactly. That's what we look like. This, this I don't know what we're doing. I think we are just trying to do Beastie Boys' ish. Okay, here we go. I'm going to pause for one second. So when we were making pop star, we were like, "Oh, why don't we put in footage from this?" And so there's a shot in it that's from Keblemo that I don't know if it's from the video or we found the hi-8, you know, whatever, mini-dv tapes this was shot on and re-digitized the original dailies of this and found like the moment we're standing on the roof. And I think that's in pop star because it was footage of us young looking like we're trying to be in a band. It's by the way, immediately could not be more Beastie Boys. Like the first shot is like a Paul's boutique shot. Yes. A thousand percent. And you're immediately. Yeah. I feel like that's the roof from that sample. Well, that roof is at UCLA. You know, this was not that long after I graduated and it's not in the next of the theater department that was an art building. I don't know, I'm not even sure if it's there anymore, but you could go to the roof and you know, any place like this where we were like, "Cool, that's a cool location." We knew about it. Like we drove over to use it. I got this shot. And then this is some of this is in pop star. There's like a throwback to what our band have stopped with. It's also wearing thrift store clothes, but that is really what we wore to some degree. And Keave, I did notice. You're firm just said a thing that you had just explained. I don't know where he was. He was out to lunch. Because I didn't want to say that. I didn't want you to start thinking you were crazy. Oh, the rooftop thing you just said that. The reason I paused was talking about pop star. You know what's the whole reason we paused? You know what's funny is that I was thinking about something entirely else. I know you're surprised with that. But the sample, the sample for this, I had all these like old like Danny K and Spike Jones records not Spike Jones, the filmmaker, but the original Spike Jones today. And I think that that is one one of those two gentlemen. But I had probably several hundred records that were around this time that doing the laughter. The listen. I was worried that when you pause the video, Keave, you also pause, you weren't. Oh, shit. It was. That's how take that's how taken it back. I was by you think it was a click kind of a click situation. Oh, you clicked them. The reference to an Adam Salary guy. Click them. They no click. All right. Here we go. Do they? They don't know any Bob Sets references. [Music] You gave him your number. He gave you a call. You told you to meet him at the corner at eight. You met him at nine. That's right. You were late. You stupid idiot. You don't want to mix. Fred Siegel. The star. And you call this. He's pimping ass, cooling ass, mac ass, building. We did get the IB on the rule, but not around the lettering. This Fred Siegel. And everybody goes. Ha ha ha ha. You're not a glamour. The doctor's your artery. That's a glamour. You're mouth watches gargling. That's a glamour. Your water is watery. That's a glamour. I made you the plotter. You're chilling with your dudes and they stab you in the face all the way to the hospital. You're bleeding all the way. How did we get this? How did we get this ambulance shot? I can't remember. That's Evan, right? That's Evan. Oh, right. Because he was actually an EMT, right? He's an EMT. Yeah. Where you at a friend who is an EMT? Yeah. Our friend Michael Blacks friend. Evan had just become an EMT. And he was our friend too at the time. And he was like, that's fine. Like, if I don't get a call, I'll just drive over. And so he was just waiting on call and we just we did shock him. That's great. Yeah. High quality. So Fred Siegel, for those that don't live in LA, Fred Siegel was a very famous clothing store, but we had just moved there and we had no money. We had never been inside. And we were just it was just nonsense. It was just like looking at it. I don't know why that even came about as the writing process. It's so crazy. It wasn't it was sort of iconic signage and it was like, I think for everybody to show this, there was a little bit of aspirational. Like, I didn't even know what was in Fred Siegel. But I knew that like, you needed money to go in there. Yes. When we finally went in, I realized it wasn't my style. Yes, at all. But it's just nonsense. And it's just us being like, that's a thing. Like, again, we're making it for ourselves on some level and we're just goofing it. I don't know what I don't know how to explain it. But I do know that I still have friends that are like, I have you on the wall, but not around the lettering for whatever reason. But I also think it's us, like when you hear Beastie Boys or Wu Tang or whatever in their Tomat in New York things that we don't know, it never stopped us from enjoying it. Like, we don't have white castle on the west coast. But I knew all about white castle or I mean, there's still things in Beastie Boys that I have to google. But you just love them. Exactly. And they would talk about random people that are just in their studio, like George Jacrullius and stuff. And you're just like, I guess that's a guy. And so I think we were also just kind of doing a version of like, it doesn't matter. It's a little bit like, like, you know, I mean, the Santana dvx was our brass monkey, which I believe is a real drink just that's really fucking hard to get that is like, you know, melted wine or something. I can't remember what the fuck it is. But I do want to say that our, our lyrics feel painfully dry, which is something later that we would add reverb. We would always add reverb and it makes you sound much better. It blends you into the song. Yeah, because we had no clue. We're just, yeah, we're just saying the words into a mic and it's recording. We didn't even know that like every song you've ever heard has a little bit of EQ making them brighter and a little bit of reverb. Minimum. Yes. Something we added later. Like if you go into a real recording studio, the engineers putting that on your mic, before you even are at the mic. So when you hear your voice through the mic, it's not, it doesn't suck and embarrass you. Okay. Oh, wait, wait, wait. I just want to say some of the shots that are on the roof in this were actually in pop star. Okay, keep going. - Oh, okay, good. - Great. You're welcome. - I appreciate that I'm just holding a light here. - Yeah. ♪ You're the daughter, knock out my mom ♪ ♪ You're chilling with your dudes ♪ ♪ And they stab you in the face ♪ ♪ All the way to the hospital ♪ ♪ You're bleeding all over the place ♪ ♪ Your leg is amputated 'cause you got gangrene ♪ ♪ And then you get cancer and you got your team ♪ ♪ But then it's really pretty girl ♪ ♪ Who you always really like ♪ ♪ So step up to your funeral ♪ ♪ And that's a real mixed blessing ♪ ♪ The cello is wobbly ♪ ♪ That's got my mo ♪ ♪ You make your burger curry ♪ ♪ That's got my mo ♪ ♪ Your Harlem club trottery ♪ ♪ That's got my mo ♪ ♪ You walked into this orderly ♪ ♪ Knock out my mom ♪ - Like, why is the disorderly is catching stress? - Yeah, I don't know. - I'm just no need. Like, when you don't think anyone's paying attention when you're this young, we were just writing things. Like, I don't stand by any of these lyrics. - But can we talk about, like, so I'm actually surprised at how many visual, you know, digital effects we did in editing. So there's a lot of flashes that you added, keep, like, I think they're like polarizations, like quick little blah, blah, blah. And then, you know, like the pictures moving, we put that magnifying glass in front of the lens, just to make it chaotic. Which actually, it's like, it almost feels like what our DP was doing with "I'm on a boat" as well. But like, but, you know, there's a lot of chaos that's been created in this digitally. It's pretty good. - I agree, we spent the time editing and learned a lot of our tricks just playing around with it. - Yeah. ♪ You're funeral, that's the real mixed black ♪ - Just trying desperately to make ourselves look. - Yeah, look at that. - More glow on the "Bat's Cablama" detail work. - So we like Gilbert Godfrey, but are not in too disorderly. (laughing) - Also, why are we mad about majoring in pottery? That could be okay. - Yeah, I don't know why that's a hit. ♪ When you're mining for coal and you forget what coal is ♪ ♪ And you're sure to be fired because that's your job ♪ ♪ When the holes in your ass and you wonder where the hole is ♪ ♪ You're screwed, man, the hole is in your ass, job ♪ - The meaning of life is revealed to you. - And all of the dreads are on England's brood. - I think I was gonna be a witch there. ♪ People on earth, but the hole in the ass thing is haunting you ♪ ♪ When you're cool with your fun, then that's Cablama ♪ - What happened to Cablama? ♪ I mean Cablama, good, that's better ♪ ♪ That's Cablama, wait a minute ♪ ♪ We said Cablama ♪ - At least it's shitting on it. - Hard. - Oh yeah, a bee switch out. - Come on, that was great. - And then awkward ending? - Sure. - Really awkward ending. I'm gonna say something with love, which is the guys who made this, you can see another path where they suck. - Yeah. - And went nowhere. - That's fair to say, when we were finding it, we were really proud of it too. - Yeah, I'm not saying that it sucks. - But we somehow knew which parts to leave in the path. We knew we were like, okay, that's, well, I proved we could make a music video and like we got that out of our system, whatever it is. And, but people liked it at the time. Like, our intention of being like, what if Cablama was a word? And people liked saying Cablama to us. So, at that age and that time, I don't wanna poop on anybody who listens to this. Who's like, I liked Cablama. 'Cause I think we were all whatever age we were, and thought it was okay. But luckily, we also grew from there. - Yeah, I don't think anything about it is bad or a bad listen. I'm just saying like the people who made it could have taken the wrong messages from it. - Oh, great. You don't necessarily watch that and go, oh, I see all the promise that's here. - Yes. - The way just two guys kind of do. - Right. I think there's more cohesion to the idea of just two guys. Where you're, right. I mean, you just throw a lot of stuff against the wall and some of the stuff that didn't hit the wall could have been what you took away from it. - Yeah, I think that when I see this, when I think about my father and mother being like, oh, thank God they got SNL, that makes complete sense. Like, I'm just like, oh yeah, you could have thought this went nowhere. - Right, right. All right, so I'm composing the text, Andy. Here's his setup for whatever voice nobody's gonna give us. Andy, weigh in on Cablama, the Heist. Tell us about Digmund News. When is season two on Paramount Plus? And the Netflix thing. And I said that the Heist is our best song. Pretty SNL, do you agree and also tell us about how you did on Spider-Man? - Thanks for all those questions, Ikeva. I already answered most of them in my previous voice notes. Cablama, yeah, full agreement with you guys. I don't wanna be like boring people by doubling down. There's some sloppy stuff in there. Our vocals are all over the road. There's a couple of fun little moments. The beat obviously is good. And I agree with you, Seth, you know? It's like sliding doors. You know what I'm saying, brother? So let's get to the important part. I got Queen Bee Clean today. Not only that, and Seth knows this. I got it four days clean in a row this week and it felt fantastic. Just hot knife through butter. It's like there's no feeling like it in the whole world, you guys. And to me, it just makes me feel validated in a way that I can't express. Like it feels like it's my purpose. It's my why, you know, with apologies to my kids and family and friends and career. But it's really the reason that I'm here. Anyhow, there was one day in between those. It would have been six in a row, but I missed by one the day before. So I didn't miss actually. Just used a hint. So in your face against Seth, I guess. Look, you guys, I'm gonna sign off now. I want everyone out there to know it's not for lack of enthusiasm for the pod that I keep missing it. I'm just in a completely different time zone. And it's a brutal switch. So thanks, guys, for continuing to make the pot of my stead. Thanks for enduring these voice note interjections. And if someone else says later Arnold will be pissed. So if you can just take what I'm about to do and put it after, whomever says later Arnold, so that I get the last word, that would mean a lot to me. - I would imagine over at Paramount right now, that's probably top of, you know, top of mind. - No, it was Warner Bros. people being like, well, Netflix is okay 'cause they feel more like stable and it's less, you know, they're not gonna dismantle CNN. - But. - Oh, but now they're gonna be bound. - We're gonna get Digman. - But now Digman's on Netflix day like. - Fuck, we should just weed it. - Right. - Yes. - Digman jump ship. All right, you guys. - I gotta run. - Yep, next time if we don't have Andy, we can show you Stork Patrol and maybe Nintendo Cartoon Hour. - Great. - And Thuggish Ruggish Bone. - I watched that this Ruggish Bone. - Oh, it's really, it's really good. - I'm just surprising to show up super horny. (laughing) - All right, love you guys. - Love you, take it away Arnold. - Later Arnold. - Later Arnold. - Later Quates.