The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast - Cherry Battle

Episode Date: December 16, 2025

"This week on the Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast the guys are talking Cherry Battle from Season 35 Episode 20 with host Gabourey Sidibe. Andy isn’t here today so Seth, Jorm, and Akiva are handling the shockjock duties. It’s a bit of a shaggy episode but not full shaggy. They also talk about Glenda Goodwin, Attorney at Law, T.T. and Mario, and they answer some more questions from the army. Criterion 2025 voting is open! Go here and let us know what your pick for Criterion is! Vote -- https://tinyurl.com/criterion2025 Cherry Battle | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z28afbSNeDk Amy Sedaris on Late Night | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezlcY2EULcM Glenda Goodwin, Attorney at Law | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBsW8kD5J6I The Best of T.T. and Mario | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDwrJg7eZ20 Send us an email: [e-mail] Send us a voice note: https://www.speakpipe.com/thelonelyisland Send us stuff: P.O. Box 4024 New York, NY 10185 Photos and everything else can be found by following us on Instagram @lonelymeyerspod Support our sponsors: Vuori Get 20% off your FIRST purchase. Get yourself some of the most comfortable and versatile clothing on the planet at vuori.com/ISLAND Wonderful Pistachios Grab a bag today. www.wonderfulpistachios.com Wild Alaskan Get $35 off your first box of wild-caught, sustainable seafood—delivered right to your door. Go to: https://www.wildalaskan.com/ISLAND Aura Frames Exclusive $35 off Carver Mat at https://on.auraframes.com/ISLAND. Promo Code ISLAND Shopify Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial and start selling today at https://shopify.com/lonelyisland Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Oh, I thought it meant in a positive way. Oh, I love this dryer. No, you're thinking about rave. That's rave about machines. Oh, yeah, that's a different phrase. So here's the thing. Oh, my God. So anyways, Yoram, when you get back on your feet, you're going to need some athletic wear.

Yeah. And that's why I'm going to get you a bunch of Uri's stuff. I already got some, but please get me more because honestly, I want it in heavy rotation. And so when it's laundry day, I'm like, ah, I need more. So please. All right, so here's some things I'm going to get you. It's getting cold out. Okay.

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Yeah, in Boston, they wick it all the way off. Wicked, they wick it. They have five functional pockets. Three with zippers. Yeah. And that's helpful for you because when you're doing your handstands, a lot of time, your wallet will fall out. That's not a joke. That's a real thing back in the day.

And now I'm going to get back to it. I'm going to get back to it. You should be back to it now. Your arms are fine. You should be doing handstands more often than anything. That's true. I'll talk to my surgeon about that. We'll talk to a witch's haker about that.

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smoke, don't start. If you smoke, quit. If you don't quit, if you don't quit, Change. Visit unsmoke.ca. Hey guys, you're I'm here. Don't you dare make fun of this audio that I'm recording from my iPhone on earbuds? Very important, guys. We need you to vote on criterion. We have our voting up for which short you believe is criterion and which should be placed in the annals of the dustbin of history. Vote now. Hey, hey, it's the lonely island and Seth Myers podcast show. How many just start and say this? Really enjoyed the last pod so much. Did you?

We didn't talk about it. I was worried that you hated it because you didn't mention. Yeah, the pod was great. Can I just say a few things that just delighted me to no end? Oh, I figure it immediately go into criticisms. Oh, no. I was full delight. Okay.

I liked how quickly, when I think to myself, what's the podcast? podcast going to be like when I'm not on it. Within a minute, Yoram said, amphibians don't have nipples, right? I had that same thought. I was like, I feel like it's already off the rails. It was immediately off the rails. I knew it would be.

And I feel like, I don't know. Keeve is like a decent to okay substitute teacher. I thought he was pretty good. I mean, he was reading the class notes. No, he's great. Look, don't get me wrong. It's a great episode. But like, I think he has a little.

bit you're a little bit um you're not quite jack black in school of rock but i feel like you want these guys to rock yeah and i'm not yeah i'm not keeping the train i'm keeping it on the tracks but not on schedule he's one of the classmates who's who happens to be the teacher for that episode well i almost think that like you're like a substitute teacher right away is like yeah when we talk about science in here we get in trouble let's rock i'm like a teacher assistant who maybe yeah just graduated two years ago and yeah you're maybe like friends with two of the kids in the class somehow? Or you used to babysit

him. Exactly. Do you guys have that remembrance, right? I know you did keep, like, at Berkeley Higher, I remember actually like doing the math later and being like, oh, our our, like, student teachers were only like a couple years older than us. Like, I went on a Spanish trip to Mexico and

was like, Josh around with like the student teachers and like trying to get them to like drink with us. And like, being like, wait a man, this is a man. Like, they're only like a couple years older than us because they were like, considering it you know not that you should drink in high school you shouldn't drink at all guys until you're 21 i had a fantastic time in foggy london town for what it's worth oh do tell give us some highlights as foggies i wanted to be i went on graham norton show for the first time which is sort of a dream come true

a dream come less than true is that graham norton actually asked me why andy was so mean to frisbee and then showed a picture of frisbee which was i felt an unflattering photo of frisbee and then after the show kate winslet Andy's best friend had her son there and the son said, oh, I love Andy. And I said, yeah, he's a little mean about my dog, right? And he's like, nah. So it was British Frisbee bashing over there? He was like, whatever Andy says, I back him up. And I was like, I don't need this. Oh, I thought it was based on actually seeing the photo and being like, oh, no, yeah, that tracks. That's fair. I think it was more loyalty to Andy, but he certainly didn't feel as though Frisbee had been done dirty.

Prisby's picture doesn't do many services I was also over there with Aaron David producer on Hot Rod Of course She still works for Broadway She helped or she put together the 50th The music side right special

Wasn't that perfect? Yes she did this She was a producer on that fantastic Yeah Radio City concert I mean she's as you guys know An all time great hang All time And it was great

It was great being in London I've been London so long Really enjoyed it We went to a dinner with Aaron David and it was with Lauren as well and wine was coming around the table and Aaron was like, oh, no, none for me. And we were like, are you pregnant?

And she was like, yeah, immediately. He was like, oh, no wine for Aaron? She's pregnant. Now, Seth, are you allowed to tell the other reason you were out there? Or is that kind of not a thing? S&LUK is officially, I'm going to talk around it because I can't quite figure out

what I'm supposed to say, but I will say this. SNLUK is officially happening in March of next year. And it's really exciting. And if I was there for that, I would probably meet a bunch of different British comedians. And I would even venture to say that more than one of them said Quaid Army to me. Oh.

They're doing the, they in this hypothetical, are doing their research about it. I don't feel as though this was a sign. It would have been an assignment. I think they would have found this independently and then been in a situation where it would be just a piece of good fortune if they ran into me to be able to position to say Quate Army. I'm going to go ahead and say that they were sucking up. No suck-ups. I'll tell you that much. Yeah, English people don't do that as much. Just young, excited comedians ready to make their mark. Young-excited comedians are in me.

Oh, speaking of it, I got one other hot rod happened to me over there in Foggy London town. Randomly ran into Hot Rod's Will Arnett at a restaurant. Oh, wow. Where are you going in New York? I mean, in London, that's so cool. Because he's out there promoting the Bradley Cooper stand-up. Is this thing on? Yeah. Is that what it's called? Is this thing on? Yeah. I think so, yeah.

Yeah. He and, uh, he and, he and, he and, Laura Dern. Yeah, they were out there doing screeners for the Baftas. What did you guys figure out the Baftas were last week? A guy who was taking a baths? Oh, I'm going to war for Baftas. The best BAFTA. Yeah, they're like in Guy Ritchie movies and stuff. That was the cleanest bath. I'm going to drown you in a bath. And then gunshot. And then say goodbye. Ta. Ta. Ta. Because I think Ta. Yeah, because they're dying in the bath. I'm going to drown you in a bath. There's your bath. Ta. Ta. It's probably Ta. It's probably Ta. And then gunshot. Ta. Ta. The transporter. He's won like 25 straight Baftas. They give them to the characters or the actor's? Yeah, because they're that sarcastic.

And the next BAFTA goes to the transporter for the 25th year in a row. No, they give it to, they wanted, they were like, it's just going to be Statham every year. So we should get, we should start giving it to his character's name. Got it. They're like, this year, it was a tight race between the beekeeper and the, and the transporter six. Shit. Now, have I told, on this podcast, have I. told the story about Sheemaker and I waiting for our valet car in front of a hotel with Jason Statham in Beverly Hills.

No, I don't think so, but don't ask me, you know what I mean? Sheemager and I were waiting for a rental car, which was like, I'm pretty sure, like, a Kia Optima or something along the lines. And I remember we were standing there, and Jason Statham was standing next to us. And I just had this feeling of like, oh, please don't let our car come first. And Jason Statham's car came out And my memory of it is it was like a foot off the ground And he like like a giant door open And he just like lied down like you would in the bed and drove off

It was like the flatest coolest car I was like what is this? It was like a souped up Roomba And he just like drove off And I was like thank God it went in that order. Then your car just p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p pah and a little chie bang car. All right, I'll be, this is a professional professional podcast where it's very cool to just come in and out. I don't know why we were having dinner with him, but it was us and our management trying to link us up for whatever reason.

days but he was still quite successful and we had some like some super fancy place in the valley and his car pulled up and it was a mazirati and i did the joke of oh this i'll be taking my car now and i thought it went over okay that's a joke but yeah it was a pretty cool car it's kind of nuts for all i mean again the rock's uh successes every one of them well earned but i was just listening you know we were listening to him sing on the milana soundtrack which is a real favorite i don't know No, I'm the opposite. I'm like, on top of everything else, he's got a banger musical number. He does have a banger music.

You're welcome as a great song. Hey, you mentioned here's something that I think would be, since no one else is on, maybe this would be a fun thing for you to do. You mentioned that Carol King has a song called Ben De Canaan, right? No, you're going to rip on where my house is. No, no, no. I'm going to rip on the fact that she wrote a song about the place where you fell off the ladder. Oh, okay.

You said that. Your words, man. I feel like you should, in that great Yorma's sound mixing way, make a version where we hear you fall off a ladder in the background of that song. Oh, yes. Like the way that Harper Steel added herself to the Tom Wade songs. Yes. Yeah.

Can you hear me? I need an ambulance. Like basically that. Yeah. And we'll say to the guys, like, you'll be like, hey, member I said that. It's really cool because if you actually listen, there's, There's like a very subtle moment where it almost like predicts my fall. Very subtle.

Carol, call an ambulance. Don't get back on the microphone. I need you, Carol. Carol, these fucking fairy lights. By the way, I went up there finally to Kane into the scene of the crime. Nobody had put up the lights, Seth. I'd been promised that they would. Who would make that promise to you?

Somebody who thought you were going to die? Yeah, my wife. I feel like that's only a promise you made to somebody who's never going to make it back to look at it. I mean, I thought the promise would be no one will ever try to hang lights there ever again. I got to tell you, Seth, the minute I saw it, like a strand of lights sitting there not being put up, I wanted to get back up there immediately. You have not learned what's known as Yorm's lesson. Oh, is that what it's called? Yeah.

Keeve and the parlance of our podcast. Keith, congrats on your Critics' Choice nomination. Oh, well, thank you. Mentioned in the last pod. Right back at you, Seth. Oh, my God. Thanks, Keeve. You spared me the indignity of having to mention it myself.

And I got solid today. Oh, nice. Thanks. It's an honor to be nominated. I feel like, well, I don't want to throw jinks on anything. We got no shot, but I like getting the old nomination. My last thing, I want to save at the last pot. I laughed the hardest I think

Andy's fuck Mary kill It wasn't winter soldiers It was winter soldier Noodle Arms Captain America Before the serum And a hot lady That's a tough one Even now I'm

It's just like Oh don't make me choose Yeah do Noodle arms is such a handy phrase too It's very It's the best Yeah it's really good Noodle arms yeah

He's said noodle arms a lot Do we need to quickly do a little pick up Where we say Andy's not on the pod today at the top of the show? I think they probably got it. Well, why don't I do the pick up later in my closet with bad audio? Okay, great. Just come in and all of a sudden be like,

Seth interrupting here to say Andy's note on the hall. Oh, but I think I might know why he's been so hard to schedule. Jack Black, real quick. Spelling Bee. Spelling Bee. Andy's on a bit of a bad tear in the old B. I can tell you that today he bailed five short And yesterday he bailed seven short

Oh, no one is this because he's stressed about work stuff I know he's been a little stress right now Oh, I don't I think that he might be stressed Because he bailed seven short and he bailed five short Like you think his stress is getting in the way of his spelling bee But I think his spelling be failures are making it seem stressed out Yeah That's difficult to say

Oh somebody today I got a real specific question Which during my Q&A is somebody You know they opened Kuwait Army I gave him a righteous kill. And they said, I want to apologize to everybody else here. I have a hyper-specific question about New York Times games. And I said, great. And they said, when Andy Clean Bees, does that mean he didn't do any hints at all?

And I was like, that is correct. And it was just like everybody in the room being like, what the hell's going on? But by the way, we've covered this on the pod. And I don't think that's entirely true. It's his own set of rules. Oh, 100%. He allows himself the hint of how many words are there total. Right.

Yeah. And I think some people will consider that a hint. He said he's gotten it absolutely clean, zero anything a few times, but that it would take up his entire life if he tried to do that every day. He needs a little bit of a parameter of how many words are left. I feel like, again, he is a savant. We had Ike Berenholtz on the show today, and as I explained to the audience, like, the way Andy is good at Spellingby is the way that Ike is really good at Jeopardy, which is it's not what you would think. Yeah. He won the Celebrity Jeopardy. We won a million bucks for a charity. Oh, wow. It was televised. You can watch it. Yeah. It's multiple episodes where he has to win each episode to get to the final one. And I will tell you from having spent a lot of time in Ike's company when Jeopardy aired, like spending summers living in the same house it as him. He was a Jeopardy savant years before he got a chance to be famous enough to be on Celebrity Jeopardy.

Did he win who wants to be a millionaire as well? He did. He won it with his dad. Wow. So he's done both. Yeah. He basically is a, you know, a trivia savant. Yeah.

That's like me, too. Yep. Steel trap. Yep. Just move on the next thing we're talking about. You won. Who wants to be here for a nice time? Yep.

You got to the top level. I got middling results in that, actually. I've got a lot of questions to read, but also, should we just, like, knock out cherry battle? Yeah. Yeah, it's only weird for us to do it because Andy's not here because, I mean, it was my idea, so it's not like it was his. but it was, like, Yoram, were you there that week? Oh, I was there, yeah. It feels like Magruber Time.

You were there. No, I was there. But are we going to do it just without it? Let's just do a quick cherry battle and then go into a Q&A. Well, I'll tell you, it was similar to a lot of these. It was, I think, Thursday night, but maybe it was Wednesday night. Me and Andy would share a car service because we lived like a block away from each other. And it was in like the last block.

I have a very, very distinct memory. And it was like 3.30, 4 a.m. because we've been trying to think of something and all of a sudden, right as it was pulling up to my house, I was just like, what if we used the phantom camera through it on the ground again,

do super slow-mo, and put it all in reverse, so it looks like you guys are spitting cherries into each other's mouths from impossibly far lengths. And he was like, yeah. And I was like, oh, okay. And then we just got out

and then we got to work early the next day to just put it all in motion. I think I wrote some emails. Can you explain your thought process of like why? Why that idea? You know how it is, when we've just been trying to think of a short idea

for three days straight and staying up way too late. Yeah. I mean, I'm sure we did for three days, like up into that point. Exactly, because I think it might have been even Thursday night. I don't know what night. It was late in the week. Yeah.

And I have no idea. We would start that process on Mondays, usually, like of at least trying to smash our brains against a rock, like, you know, and sometimes it would work, and sometimes it didn't. It's not a good enough idea that if you came up with it on Monday, you'd go, that's it. It takes it being at the last minute

where you just need something where you can go, okay, let's give that a go. Yeah. And by the way, this is one of my more favorite-ish off-center shorts. There is a moment in it where I wonder, Keev, have you watched it today? No, I'm pulling it up right now. Okay.

I bet there's something, I'm not this kind of guy. There's a shot that bothers me, Keith. Oh, interesting. Well, so again, like throat on the ground, we were, I think, on your stage, I sat through you to your show now. Oh, my God. And we had to blast so much light for it to shoot at 500 frames a second to be able to see everything.

Like, it was boiling hot because we have all these lights and it's getting so hot. And it was a little hard to see certain things. Heavy costume. Yeah, we didn't quite have a plan, a total plan of what it was going to be because we didn't know if it was even going to work. It was definitely experimental. But I do remember Brian Tucker, the writer, after it aired or after dress, saying, something really nice that stuck with me that kind of made it you know when you hear someone else's opinion it becomes your opinion in the nice way he was just like you guys still have some tricks

up your sleeve like this was nothing like anything you did before even this late in the game and i that was kind of what i went yeah it was good and so i have a fond feeling of it because of that it's also nice coming from tugger too especially i did always trust his opinion on shit i like this very much when it aired i liked it very much watching again today i felt the same same way. Also, I really like the way the audience is laughing at it because certain people are really tickled by it and they stay tickled by it. And that's a nice thing as well, which is, it's not for everybody, but for a lot of people, they were just enjoying it so much. Of everything we did, this is maybe the closest to art. We're like, if you were at MoMA and you were going

through the different rooms and then there's the one that's playing a weird video and you're like, what is this? And you can sit on one of those padded square stools for a second and you look at it and it's two people spitting cherries in super slow mo and you're like huh that's very true i once saw an exhibit of just rocks falling down a hill in slow mo and i was like this is captivating so yeah exactly so uh you know i don't know if you guys ever saw my documentary now episode uh that was based on marina abramovich uh oh god yeah the woman with cape lanchet i definitely did but i don't remember it very well but it was i remember it being good but i was at an event recently and uh the real marina abramovitch was there and i had this moment of like ah

Fuck it. Maybe I'll just try. So I walked over, I go, hey, I don't know if you ever saw this thing with Kate Blanchett, but I wrote that. And it was the absolute A-plus reaction from her. Meaning nothing. Like, she had seen it and loved it. Oh, great. Genuinely best. Yeah. I thought you meant, like, just, like, just staring through your head.

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All righty. All right. Oh, I am sharing. A screensaver. Oh, cool. A real effect. Yeah, why are they? They're so on board in a lovely way. It's already great.

Well, the music is helpful. They're like, oh, even more than one. Oh. I love the little thud sounds. It's making. Remember, we did have to move the cherries over because they weren't reaching, obviously. It's really funny how she's able to catch them all.

And they're like, they're versus each other. But it seems like they're working together. Yeah, yeah. Well, yeah, it is a battle, but maybe the battle's them versus cherries. I don't know. Yeah. Great Andy faces. Yeah, he's angry about that.

So, what's it going to be? Oh, just one. Oh, right. No, cherry with a face. Yeah. It's lovely. She doesn't want to eat it. She doesn't want to eat that one.

That's your yelling, clearly. What was your least? What was your least favorite shot, Seth? I was trying to pick it out. You missed your keef peeve. My keve peeve is, if you go back, there's a moment where Andy looks smug and the single and then it cuts to wide and he's screaming.

Right before this? Like farther, you're closer to the end. Go back to like a self-satisfied single. This guy got the continuity or? There, there, there. Yeah. All right. Oh.

Oh, yeah, sure. You know what's interesting about that? Every piece of this is doctored, of course. Right. You know, so I could have, we could have made any choice. It's no like, oh, yeah, it's because he did that. Well, and the edit's so slow, too. It's not like there was, like, so many shots that we were rushing through it.

Not like we ever rushed through anything. We easily could have chosen earlier even in this shot on his side. Yeah. And just rowing it back to when he starts to scream to give you a transitional moment. Yeah, easily. I don't know why we made that choice. There's a chance we cut something out between dress and error. Ah, I bet that's it.

There's a chance. That's what it was. Right, because they're never actually in these shots together, right? Or, no, were they? No. Like, was this an actual shot? This wasn't, right? Maybe we did one where the two of them

are facing each other, but I doubt it just for lighting-wise. I don't think we lit that big a space. Oh, no, we must have for the cherry. So we probably did set up this two-shot, but I don't, but none of what they're doing is at the same time. Like, they weren't spitting at each other. One of them would get out of the way and spit a bunch of cherries. And then the other one would get out of the way and spit a bunch of cherries.

And we were just like, is this even going to be vaguely aligned in a way that we could fake? What's cool about this is there's no Vee. effects except for the animated face when he says there's no there like we did this all in final cut pro uh with like masks and things like that and like just cutting up multiple multiple layers of video and just moving them around on on a space almost like a collage because it was just black behind the cherries yeah because there was because of the lighting situation the like when you throw up you know a big black wall or curtains behind people usually you see little bits of gray where light hits it, but because we had a blast so much light, the background fell to pure black.

It looks really cool. So we were able to just, like those cherries flying in the air, we would just grab from six different takes of six different cherries and just cut them and put them all wherever we wanted them. It's really good. Now, I have a question. Did you guys have the song first? Did you listen to this song and say, oh, at that moment, we should animate the cherry

singing that line? No, there's that song, the really famous, is it called O'Fortuna? You know, the really famous, oh, so love me. Yeah, yeah. And I think at some point when we were editing, we were like, oh, this should be to a song that sounds like that. And then I don't remember Yorm if it was a megatracks. I don't remember because I feel like that kid was in it, right?

But you had to have known before you were editing that you were going to animate the singing Cherry. No, that was a midway through editing. We went, what if this guy starts singing along to the song? Oh, my God. The order was just starting to edit with no music and just going, all right. And it's all happening at once and going, what would be a cool song? Oh, it should be like that. that somebody grabbing us, like 10 songs that sound like that, choosing one, starting to edit to

that music. And then we got, I remember it was, it was really last minute, and I was so happy somebody from a visual effect. Like, now they have a team, a room full of VFX artists. This was, I don't know who did it, but it was somebody that, you know, Mike Poole and Matt Yonks could ask for who was genuinely a VFX artist. And they did such a better job than I thought. Or was it somebody through Senior Ellie's team, maybe, potentially? I don't think so. I wonder if I wonder if Dina or Rachel Lynn would remember the details and when they see this, they'll get back to us. It can be in the next step so we can credit.

But I remember being, it was so last minute. It could have been 2 or 3 p.m. on Saturday, and then that came back, but it was so awesome. And somebody had to figure out how to get, like, a child voice that could sing along to it, and we managed to pull that off in the last few hours too. Because that got added to, like it was actually added to the track? Yes.

I don't remember that. I don't remember actually get like. And I don't even, we definitely added to the track. and I'm not even sure if we added some of the music to the track there, too. Like, involved the music department, and we're like, wait, can you create a little bridge right here? It was all... It would kind of make sense if we got it from a more megatrachsy kind of place.

Yeah, but, you know, it was all very, very last minute, but in my opinion, it doesn't make any sense, but yeah, it's art. I mean, I do like my VO for the guy. What's up, fellas? Andy here. Long-time Shock Jock, first time Quaid. Honestly, I don't know. Anyway, let's get to it.

Hit us, Jack Black. Spelling bee. Spelling bee. Yeah, so the answer is, I got Queen Bee Clean. Poo, pew, pew, pew, pew, in your face, Seth. You're not even hearing this because I'm recording it after the pod. So you're probably not going to hear this until this comes out. Because we're late in the game now.

They're just going to pop this on after everything's been like, smoothed out and ready for delivery and then you're going to find out in the 11th hour maybe of your entire life i don't know what your life expectancy is that i got queen b and you didn't and um you're a loser and i reign supreme cherry battle i remember we had nothing and we were told we had to do one it was one of those weeks me and akiva lived really near each other and we left late thursday night in a car we shared cars together often to save a buck or two for the show because we were thoughtful. And then I feel like right as we were getting out of the car, we had a conversation that was like, maybe do like that super slow-mo phantom

camera thing again. And we're just like spitting cherries back and forth. And we both started kind of giggling. And we were like, yeah, that's probably enough. And then we'll just figure out ways to make it more interesting. And I think we're like, we'll make it kind of like a gladiator kind of theme and give it like high drama and that might be enough um and i think that was kind of how it happened but that was my memory and then the shoot was super fun and we started adding ideas to it and my favorite part of it by far obviously is when that last cherry gets spit and we go to super close on it and it starts singing in the like choir boy voice kind of like i believe i said i wanted it to be exactly like when the bird flies away from gandolph on the top of the tower

in the two towers, or the moth. I think it's a moth. Anyway, it goes and gets some help. But the score in that part, the Howard Shore score, is like, oh, and I was like, I want it to be like that. And I can't remember who's singing if it's me or maybe Yorm or somebody else, but that was my favorite part of it. And Gabre Seida-Bay was awesome.

She was super nice. We had a blast. We shot it really fast because you get so much footage, so fast, because it's shooting at such high speed. And Keev chopped it together real quick, and we gave her a little tidbits, and it was great. And I have fond memories of Cherry Battle. Is it criterion? I don't think so.

But I would maybe posit that it's, like, in the conversation for Kim's video. All right. Love you guys. Was Lauren mad that you didn't do blueberries and use him from his blueberry farm in Maine? I don't know if he had that. He didn't have that. This actually inspired him to get the blueberry farm, I think. but we'd have to get a voice out from him confirming that.

He saw that and he was like, I just had the greatest idea. By the way, every Christmas, when you get like a jam jar, a blueberry jam from Lauren, every Christmas I just picture him like slaving over a stove, making it just the idea of, I just love the idea of him being like,

oh God, another 5,000 of these. And he just, gotta send him to all my friends. Oh, I forgot about you. I'm a fuck. Fuck, another, get another pot out. He doesn't write anything down. He just by mentally remembers everybody he's going to give jam to.

I've never gotten, I've never gotten the jam. You've never gotten it because it comes for Andy. Lawrence Blueberry Jam. Shocking. Well, this is a call to arms. In my mind, he just gives it to X cast. But apparently if Yorm gets it, I did a TV show with him more recently. That was super successful on Peacock.

Oh, right. It's called McGurber. Right. You did traders. Were you getting Blueberry Jam before the McGruber TV show, were you getting the jam? Fuck, no, Keeve. No. Okay, so it re put you on the jam with?

Yeah, I got back on the jam with. Do you think it was sympathy jam based on how the show has gone? Yes. There's no jam sweeter. He sends it to Sam Elliott and Lawrence Fishwin, too. He was like, look, Yorm, you can't read the reviews. But you can have some jam. I'm sorry, we convince you to be a part of the show, Lawrence and Sam.

Before your time, the previous Lauren gift was lemons. I did get those. Meyer Lemon. You've got lemons. Yeah. And I remember once Rachel Dratch, opening a box of lemons and saying, when Lorne gives you lemons. They were those really nice Meyer lemons, but it was really hard to know what to do with them. Yeah.

That is that thing where you're like, there's a level of wealth where you're like, oh, thank God, the lemons. You know what I mean? Well, you hand it over to your baker and go, oh, we get to have the lemon meringue pie again. Yes. Our lemons have come in, but you need the baker that you. high your full-time baker yeah that's the thing where I always say Lauren doesn't realize I sometimes worry Lauren doesn't know how little he pays you at SNL yes yes you know because he's always like and then you know obviously just give those to your baker you're like I don't have a baker I've got a roommate

I got I got a roommate who's not in showbiz whatever you call him we also had all had the grossest teeniest New York kitchens that you had never used yeah ever yeah so you're also like what am I doing yeah you never used because you're at SNL all the time looking back it would have been like let's have a cocktail party and just like garnish the shit out of it just garnish the shit out of it just like solo cups full of gin but with like the nicest lemon zest just no ice solo cups full of gin i mean a mire lemon rind is the best lemon garnish on a martini for sure yeah when you were in foggy london town did you have a london martini i didn't have a london martini in foggy london town i'm trying to think if i had any my best thing in foggy london London Town as I walked into a place to get a coffee and then got like the greasiest sausage sandwich just because I saw somebody ordering one in front of me. It's hard to beat one of those. Yeah. Yeah. If you see a good one, you're like, oh, yes, please. Um, the one other thing I'll say about the Gabri Citibe Show is there's the Hamilton. I think it's the last Hamilton that aired.

And the next Hamilton is the one he's going to do at my wedding and then Andy's wedding and then never again. But again, Hamilton was, as we described, a very, um, let me rephrase. I was going to say a lovable white supremacist, but I feel like in this day of age. But there's a line in it that, because they were a couple, and he's trying to win Gabri Sidibe back. And one of the ways he says he won her back

is that he went and saw her movie, Precious, which she was there promoting. Oh, it's not her as a character. He's actually gay as gaber. Right, because at the end, he sings Life is a Gabrié to the tune of Life is a Cabaret. I've never been more sure about anything of my life.

Oh, and I'm with you, life is a gaberet, my dear. Life is a cabaret. She does take him back. But he says, I saw your movie, and she goes, you did. He goes, yes. He goes, I saw it at a Magic Johnson theater. I looked for a Larry Bird Theater, but I couldn't find one. Jesus Christ.

Good writing. Good writing. Can we say something about Gabrié just because she was an absolute delight, and she was a total delight while shooting cherry battle, and very, very fun to be around. Yeah, we kind of skipped past some of the details on Cherry Battle, but that would have been a main one. It's Andy and Gabri Cividet. Yeah, and not everybody would be down to just... Well, because it was incredibly uncomfortable.

To be, like, spitting cherries is not the most, you know, comfortable thing to be doing. Under hot lights. You don't know if you're going to be made to look like a fool or, you know, you could have a lot of questions. And she just was super game. Yeah, she was very fun to be around. This is based on the fact that we were just doing it. This is a question from Maddie. Hey, dudes, every time I hear one of you do a Lorne impression,

it makes me wonder if Mike Myers modeled his Dr. Evil performance after him. They sound really similar. I figure if there were anyone who could maybe figure this out, it would be this crack team of quades. So it's interesting because I feel like generationally, we know that that's 100% what Mike Myers is doing. But it was denied at the time because it was all the press. Yes.

When those movies were coming out, the press did not miss that. Yeah. It was talked about all the time. On our, I had a dinner when we were doing Harrod, I have no idea why it was me, Bill Hader, Aaron David, and Lauren. At a four-person dinner, I don't know why I was just me at the time, but I think you guys had an early call or something. Probably planning the blueberry stuff and wanted to make sure I wasn't there. It was probably bad at the list. But Lauren, we started talking about impressions that were done of him.

and we were talking about brain candy and he was like well that one was me and he was like but no the Mike's in Dr. Gabriel is that's not me that's not based on me

and he felt like he should have been stroking a hairless cat with his pinky in the air saying it that one's not me it wasn't like Mike but he said Mike told me he said Mike told me

that's what I said Mike always denied it I don't know what else he was basing it on I mean the look is not Lorne the look is from what Dr. No or something one of those early Bond movies Blofeld

right? Does he continue to deny that? Like, it seems... I don't know. But I was going to bring up brain candy as well because one of the most famous ones is Mark McKinney and he is like the big evil executive and he is doing Lorne to a team.

Lorne Wig, everything. Oh, my God. It's so good. For the record, Lorne was the producer of... I'm blanking everything right now. New kids on the block? No, new kids on the block. He wrote all the new kids' songs.

It's because he wrote hanging tough and so he gave it to them. Well, it was funny is I'm so tired and frazzled. I just wanted to say Strangers with Candy over and over. Which is just not what they were. It was kids in the hall. You told me that Hanging Tough was written about growing up on the streets of Canada somewhere. I'd be like, yeah, that makes sense.

Yeah. And Lauren, it was a real surf meeting situation because Lauren was originally in New Kids on the Block. And then they said we had a meeting and it was a lot of him going around. Yeah. Wait, who's out? Wait, who did he say it was out of the band? It's Donnie. Is Donnie Walberg out?

Oh, sorry, I missed something I was getting a snack. Who did we, do we mention who was out? Donnie. As we eat, as we all reveal how few of the new kids we know. Buttfish? Donnie? Was it you? Did we say buttfish was out?

Hey, speaking of strangers with candy, I just had Amy Sedaris on the show, who's truly one of the greatest people in the world. That show was so funny. We got the box DVD set back before we had SNL. watched every episode. Every time she's been on the show, she has said diabetes, like her character on that show and just, like, looks out in the audience and says it, and it's the funniest thing in the world. We're going to be selling these at the cure thrift. All the money goes to diabetes because it's a funny word.

And then Cole, whenever... But the other thing is she was backstage giving out little, like, craft rings for people to give to their kids for the holiday season. And one of my producers told me, I wasn't here for that, that he had a friend with him. And she turns to his friend and goes, do you have kids? Because she was going to give him rings and he goes, no. And she goes, oh, sterile. And it's such a great.

Just knowing that like Amy Cideres is that funny, just take that big a swing. Hey, Shana, I hope I said that right. Hi, guys. So I do love you guys love NYT games. I also love NYT games. I work at the New York Times, but not at games. I work at Wirecutter. I'd love to hear you mention some other time sites, especially Wirecutter.

I'm feeling a little left out. product would you like to see reviewed? We actually, John Lutz, although I learned last episode, John Lutz is the presentation. John Lutz does a very wirecuttery sketch on our show where he is a sort of overworked product tester. So maybe you should look that up, Shane. I think you'd enjoy it. John Lutz is a very talented comedic actor. And yeah, I'm sorry that we have been sort of overlooking other parts of the New York Times, the venerable institution. I do go to wirecutter. Wirecutter is great. I'll give you a recent example, even though this is not paid, and maybe it should be, is I need new smoke detectors, and I went on wirecutter to find out which ones to get. Did you find it helpful?

Did you listen to their advice? Yeah, because, I mean, how would I know what to get? Yeah. So, all right, there you go. If I get back to you and my house is burned down, then no. Yeah. I will say that Akiva was always that guy, like your entire family, Akiv, like your mom, your dad, like, they would do research, they would, like, check things. And the fact that you're telling me that that's what you check now, that really bodes well for me to want to check it in the future.

So big up at wirecutter. It's really hard to get paid for this after we did. Be like, hey, we didn't add. You give us a little bit. It's also hard not to get into ad reading mode when you start talking like this. Yeah. About products. I would just say real quick, I just can't imagine that could have gone any better for Shana.

No. As a member of Quaid Army, we look out for each other, you know. This is from Daniel. And he said Boiled Goose was the line of his that Maya Rudolph quotes to him the most. You're all friends with her. What is the line of Mayas that you quote back to her the most?

I don't think we try to quote Maya around. I don't do good enough impressions to usually quote people's stuff. I feel like there might be a Bronx Beatty kind of thing. She once said Hayunda Ye. She pronounced the car Hayundee. And I will say that I like it so much. that I have trouble saying the actual name of the car brand.

See, me and Renata do everything together, huh? Mainly because Glenda doesn't have a car. Yeah. Yeah, my stupid ex-husband, Barry got custody to Hyanda Ye. That's a weird car brand, because it does make you want to say it wrong, because you're like, how do you say it? Hay under yay. You know what, and this is shitty for me to say because it's our movie,

but I do, in my mind, Deborah is, like, it goes through my head all the time of her saying Deborah. And then what's that based on? I believe Deborah is... But, you know, that's us quoting ourselves. So that's a pretty shitty response. She has unlimited things you could quote. And by the way, the boiled goose she quotes is the...

Buell Goose. Yeah, which is almost like good, like, written for her as well. Yeah. She also... What was the name of that character that was like a... It said Forney Numskrolls. She has so many great... Kevin wrote in Glenda Goodwin.

Oh, yeah, Glenda Goodwin. And Kevin, was it, Forney Numskrolls? She was like a lady. who was afraid of different monsters like ghouls goblins and then she said 40 numbscrows what is that we might have to play a little

I'm trying to decode it what is it I don't know I think she just made it out I think she told me that it was something that she said when they were kids that they made up got it she definitely tried it as a talk show once and you try to find out also kev what dratch's name was when she was her friend it's an all-timer and then there was definitely

I mean I think the sketch I watched the most is her singing the National Anthem, which is what Liz wrote. Remember, she'd, like, just making a meal of singing. Or she, where you here? Can I add on to that last, like, when quoting your friends who have made something funny, I think the only time that you do that to your funny friend

is when you're trying to be a dick, right? Like, I once put jizz in my pants as my ringtone so that people would call me around those guys just to be an asshole to Annie and Keefe. You know what I mean? Like, I'm not going to like, It's rare to actually quote something your friend says in seriousness. I think, though, Maya can do that very skillfully.

Oh, and then there's T.T. and Mario is the other one of Mayas that I quote all the time, which was. What's that one? Keenan and Maya were soul singers named T.T. and Mario based on, like, Ashford and Simpson. And there was a song, the entirety of a song was, Let me put it in a little bit Just the Tip That was the full song

I know you're going to know this one Who didn't groove on this bad Mamma Jama in 1977 Roller Skate Love You are so beautiful And you are my knight in shining armor Let me put it in a little bit Jet the tip Yeah, it's just sexy innuendo.

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And Dratch's character's name was Renata Wang. Great, that's fucking perfect name. That's great. Fucking perfect name. And then the next time was, Goodwin and Goodwin. Oh, man. Rudolph, spivey, and Mike Scher.

Who was the host? Why would Mike came back for something? No, I think this was that old. Oh, Neavardalus. Oh, it's from both. So it's, oh, God, it's before our time. Yeah. If you've been bothered by any of the following, such as cyborgs,

Tyrannosaurus Rexes, alien dudes, count Dracula, sleestex, the boogeyman. Outlaws, hunchbacks, sea monkeys, monetars, loopharynx, portraits with moving eyeballs, gremlins, and phony nomscrows. What year was this? Near Randall, it's like 2004, I want to say? So this predates the Lina Lost Movie, Yoram, for the Cistacks.

I mean, obviously the show was from the 70s, but somebody pulled that out of their memory. That probably got the ball rolling For the movie Wow That might have got it They went Hey we're in the culture

Check Turn on SNL right now We're in for back in the culture That's Sid calling Marty Croft Say it one more time Seth Forney Forney F-O-R-N-E-Y

Like forney But forney Yeah Num-Scrows N-N-U-N-B Like num Skulls But yeah Just a little off

Forney N-N-Sroll Forney N-S-Croll Oh, man. Hey, speaking of, Gremlins is on there. Gremlins, what do you think? Nine and seven-year-old boys. Gremlin's too scary or just good? I think it might be okay.

There's definitely some boys that they'd be fine and some boys where they'd be like, why'd you show me that? I think it's fine. I think it might be fine. We just watched the trailer, and I would love to watch it again. It's pretty goofball, central.

Yeah. Here was a question, a common question, Keith. Did you consider that you were winter soldiering when you used your credit card at the bar you were banned from. Oh, that's interesting. Well, that implies a timeline that would be kind of the timeline, because this is 2011 you're talking about.

Right. So if we're going to go, I mean, this would be before Kuwait Army, before the podcast. So that would imply that this has been happening well before New York Times games or any of this. So it's a can of worms, certainly, to think about it. Well, when did you, that sort of, I thought you meant timeline, like,

Because you were in a different state, would it be possible for you to have flown there as a winter soldier? Stay asleep, right? Or stay in a comatose state, wherever it was. Yeah. Well, it's obviously a highly financed thing, and maybe they have future tech kind of flights, like Concord Jet type things, you know, like the Avengers have. I don't know. You could probably get from Atlanta to L.A. in three hours using their tech. And so you could probably fall asleep at 9 and be back home by 6 a.m.

if you're really going to do a ton of charges. So the quick answer is it is possible. Well, but then B.S. is only open through business hours, so I don't know. Oh, you finally mentioned it. You did beep it last time. Oh, shit. I didn't mean to.

Now we have to beep. Beep is only open for normal business hours. That beep just costs us fucking $15. By the way, I definitely knew which place it was. When you said it was near UCB, I was like, click. Here's one. I just want to let you know, this is from Lennon. I just want to let you know he's conducting a work.

meeting. At the end, I went to tell the team hit me up if you have any questions, but it started to come out, hit us into titus. I caught myself, but definitely bobbled the sentence. Does it make you feel good or bad to sabotage my meeting? I mean, good. And I'm especially good that you caught it. Yeah. Yeah, I wouldn't want you to actually get in trouble. But great name. That's a separate note. Simon, just a quick email from foggy Londontown. My wife, Sally, and I are big fans and love the pod. We both seem to have included it in our nighttime routine, getting into bed with headphones and falling asleep to the podcast. A couple weeks back, we started being confused about how we know someone named Galvin Penton, and it took us quite a while to figure out that somehow subliminal

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You're really good Hey boys This is from James One thing I'd love to hear more about Is the process of picking songs From the albums for digital shorts Did you have digital shorts in mind While writing tracks for the albums

Or was it after an album was finished That you went through and chose which ones to use for shorts How did that work with the usage rates Between the label and S&L? Always been curious about that. Sending love from here in Foggy Australia Town. When we're writing the songs,

like in the studio, goofing around, having a laugh, we are picturing a video, I would say, 100% of the time for every song. Like, we're in a fantasy world where we get to make videos for everything. And I will say also that the songs are much more successful when they have videos, and it would be really great

if they all could have it to support it. I think some of the ones that on the album are probably the least listened to might be the most fun as a video. But then the real world comes in videos are very expensive to make, or certain kinds of videos are. And so then it's a weird combo of trying to be responsible financially. Like, you don't want to spend, I'm going to boat video money on the old saloon. That would be irresponsible. Yeah. And so you're trying to figure out,

you know, what the opportunities to make a video is, and then which ones to do, which ones you can do, and which ones seem to be people's favorites. And then if it has a guest, that's a whole other problem of trying to figure out when that guest could show up to do the video. And then, Keeve, What about the rights issues? Oh, that's a whole other Galvin Penton. Oh, is it? Indeed. I think we kind of touched on it

on the Increditabod one, where because for years, of course, we weren't allowed, and none of NBC put any of their videos on YouTube, but then they would put it on NBC.com at a certain point, and that could barely even run videos, and on Hulu, and we always wanted them on YouTube where they'd be international.

We made a record deal so that we could own the songs and license them to SNL, and then it was always a negotiation. So certain videos got paid for by the record label and just licensed to SNL for $1. Other videos, sometimes we got them to collab. Like, for instance, with Yolo, we got half the money from the record label and half from SNL, and they split it right down the middle. There was always something to figure out, but it's why they're on our YouTube channel, to this day, the ones that are on there, because they were on the record first, so we controlled the music, and a lot of times our label had paid. So it was some, we owned some, we own some,

amount of it. And by we, I even mean me, us and Universal Music Group, Republic Records. So we don't actually own shit. No, no. I mean, we own like basically the same amount they do, right? Like, it's a good deal, right? Where let's pay 50-50? No, no. Oh, God. Oh, it's not? Oh, fuck. They own like 82%. It's not. No, I hate to tell you how record deals work. So we, yeah. So, but it did get them to be able to reach a lot of people, you know, there's a whole generations of people out there that just saw them on YouTube and didn't even know about SNL. And that's

all because we were able to make that deal. And then just think, if you did not have the platform that you sort of earned from, you know, making those videos, you wouldn't be doing a four-person podcast that's like half ads. Exactly. And that at the end of maybe two years

we could afford to make one new music video. That's what we're saving up for, guys. One music video. But it's good as you'd be Japan. Yeah. So we're really going to blow it out. I mean, we should all do it.

And shrooms. Michael has a question. Hey, I've always wondered watching us. And this is a very good question. I've always wondered watching us on TV when there is a camera cut and the skit swaps out a real person for a dummy or other prop to take its place. How does the studio audience react to that? Do they see what's happening and does it ever take away from the live experience?

Thanks for bringing a little light into my life every week. Again, not Andy. I should know what this started. Hey, Seth, Keev and Yorma, not Andy. He sucks. So I don't know. Michael's coming to heart for Andy. It's the perfect episode to ask this question.

Yeah, yeah, love you. So my take, and I wonder if you guys share it, is that most people, even at the live S&L, are watching the monitor. Yeah. And so you can kind of still switch something out. Now, again, like maybe the one place that wouldn't be true is home base, which is when I say home base, that that's where the monologue is.

And when you do a sketch there, you want to do a sketch there, by the way, because people are watching it more than they're watching the monitor. But if you're in one of those corners, like, they're definitely watching on the model. I would say that is absolutely true. Or if it's a really long swap and people start to know, like, for instance, Cuado is a long swap. Right. It's so long that it actually has like extra dialogue to like facilitate the swap.

And it's such a ridiculous looking swap in that people start to notice. I'm just like, wait, what is going on? But I think it a good way they start to notice. Yes. 100% for that sketch in particular. Sometimes you will hear a giggle. When you're watching at home, I'll hear a giggle that is not motivated by anything you can see

and you know something is happening off camera. You know whatever. When the next cut comes, there's going to be a joke and they're getting ahead of it because they can see it. And it is potentially fun for the audience. Yeah. I think that there's very little more enjoyable than that extra couplet of dialogue

that has been added between dress and air to buy more time. Certainly for writers. It'll tell me more about that until we're ready to cut to the next chat. Yes. Here's someone from Avi. I'm a long-time quaid, first-time querier. So here's my quaid query. Ooh, a QQ.

Aside from being the golden era of Estinnell, the Lonely Island blew up at the same time that a lot of comedy was flourishing online, college humor, cracked, five-second films, Brit, Nick, et cetera. Some people in these sites even ended up working at SNL, Sarah Schneider, Streeter Seidel. How where were all you guys of the other comedy groups and websites? Was that a time where you guys knew all those dudes? Well, just quick shout out, the movie that I did in Finland was actually written by Nick and Brian Britannic. Oh, nice. And they have a movie that I think the guy that used to be

our main exec at our company, Billy Rosenberg, I believe screened a Britannic movie at our office because we have a little private theater in our office and they just came by and did a screening. I couldn't make it to it. But right, that was that right? Yeah, yeah, that is correct. But I will say we were not, we were sort of aware

Because that wasn't like, it's not like we went to comedy clubs or to comedy shows. Right. So if a video was really funny on college humor, we got texted it or, you know, emailed it the same way anybody would. Yeah, like Derek Comedy, I remember like watching the island of daughters sketch and thinking that was really funny. That early Derek comedy. And we knew the human giant guys, but they were, they had a show on TV, so that's like a little different. Yeah. But, you know, some things would reach us, but it wasn't like our, it's not like the SNL circle also included.

all of those people. But also it was early days of YouTube, too. So it wasn't like we were like scouring the site for a ton of shit, too. Yeah. I don't know. We were working, I guess. I mean, Charlie bit my finger was pretty huge. I love that one.

Oh, here's a question from Elizabeth. I've listened to your podcast for one year and eight months in the hopes of when to hear a vague anecdote about the sketch hip hop kids bear cave with Ryan, Philippe. And we talked about that episode and didn't talk about it. I got to go back and watch it. and then I will briefly comment on hip-hop kids. Hip-hop kids. I feel like that's a lot, right? This is good.

Yeah, I think that was plenty. Okay. I think maybe the day this comes out, so we'll have day-drinking with Sabrina Carpenter. I'm very excited. I'm jealous, you know? My daughter went to the concert. I'm just jealous any time you go day-drinking.

I'm a big fan. I will say a real big fan of Sabrina Carpenter, the person. Why? Just I think she's incredibly kind, nice, sharp, funny. I've heard all her music because my daughters are such fans. And it's one of those ones where they're always like, put on some music. And I was like, oh, I'll put that one on because I know it's genuinely funny. Yeah.

It's too dirty for them to be listening to, but they've heard it all without me. So then I... Wait, so how good was she at drinking, though, Seth? Good? Yeah. You know what? I'm also very happy to say she was cautious in a way that I respect and liked. Got it.

Yeah. She wasn't trying to be a hero. Okay. You pressured her properly, right? And just was like, you fucking take the drink. Yeah, exactly. You're going to come on day drinking and not drink? I told her my favorite thing when a Julie Lee Dreyfus did it,

which I, by the way, I say this to all of our guests, where I'm like, hey, by the way, you don't have to do any of this. You know what I mean? Like, I'll drink, but, like, we can switch your shots to water. Like, don't do anything you don't want to do. And when Julie Lee Dreyfitt did, I said, basically, that speech, I go, you know, you don't have to drink anything. You don't have to.

And she's like, yeah, I know. I am I'm strong. You think I'm going to do any of this stupid shit? But people really are drunk on your thing. I want to make it clear that you're not faking your thing because when you watch the Julia Louis-Dreyfus one, you're like, oh, she didn't drink.

She's very clear, and it's on camera that she's not drinking. Yeah, yeah, that's not a secret. Most people do drink, and yeah, nobody... I do think it's a very hard thing to act as drunk as we end up sometimes. I did have to explain to my daughters because they asked what exactly being wet meant because of Sabrina Carpenter though. Interesting.

And I was the only one in the car so my wife could not field that question. I would like that you're like, Liz was there but I'm like, I got this. I got this, honey. They, I mean, they're old enough that they do they're like, yeah, kids say it at school or like someone will say like, oh man, it's raining out, I just got so wet and everyone will go

and so she knows it's something dirty, knows it's something she needs to know so she doesn't get made fun of, so she did need to know it at that age. And you told her about doing PCP? Yeah, about just getting wet. I'm like, when you're in the, if you're smoking angel dust, if you're smoking weed by itself, it's just smoking weed. If you sprinkle angel dust on top of it or on tobacco, it's called getting wet. And that's what

it's all about. And you're like, now go out into the world and be confident, young ladies. Exactly, be confident. Yeah, so they're laughing because they think you went out in the rain and smoked PCP. That's exactly right. Be confident girls. Your daddy's made you Compton cross. Yeah, this is common. Now you know exactly what it means. Well, this was lovely. We wish Andy the best as he recovers from just eating shit back-to-back days on the bee.

Oh, that poor bastard. Yeah. And this was a delight. I love you guys. Love you very much, though. Yeah, love you. Oh, who's going to take it? All three of us at once?

Three, two, one. Later, Arnold. Later, Quates. Thank you.