The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast - Incredibad Part 1

Episode Date: February 3, 2025

The Lonely Island and Seth bring you a very fun long-awaited two parter to the pod...the breakdown of the Incredibad album! Incredibad is the debut studio album from The Lonely Island, released on February 10, 2009, through Universal Republic Records. The guys discuss the process of writing, recording, and other fun behind the scenes memories! Incredibad album - https://open.spotify.com/album/5uWFEnAIeksRbygyWNrmlZ?si=Hkbw3TQPRbOvhzEFiiVMAQ (Not all the clips we mention are available online; some never even aired.) If you want to see more photos and clips follow us on Instagram @lonelymeyerspod. Send us an email! [e-mail] Support our sponsors:AirbnbVisit Airbnb.com today HomeChefFor a limited time, HomeChef is offering our listeners 18 Free Meals PLUS Free Dessert for Life and of course, Free Shipping on your first box! Go to HomeChef.com/ISLAND Produced by Rabbit Grin ProductionsExecutive Producers Jeph Porter and Rob HolyszLead Producer Kevin MillerCreative Producer Samantha SkeltonCoordinating Producer Derek JohnsonCover Art by Olney AtwellMusic by Greg Chun and Brent AsburyEdit by Cheyenne JonesMix and Master by Jason Richards

So Keef, you noticed something which is we've been receiving and not using some really fun different jingles for the pod. Oh yeah. Well, Greg Chun, who makes all our little jingles sent me a few and I was delighted. But it was like a month ago and then I was surprised to see that they weren't used yet. Well, I think maybe we thought it would be more fun to wait for you to be back. But for our listeners,

this is a new little, what would you call it? An Easter egg? An earwig? What would you call it? A Easter egg, an ear wig? What would you call this little amuse bouche for the ears? Yeah, that's definitely the first thing I would have said in the amuse bouche for the ears. So are you mad that I took it? Yeah, you snatched it right out of my mouth. I tried to think what we keep saying,

that was what popped into my head. That's me. Hey, Yoram, what's up? How do I sound? Do I sound all right? Yeah. You sound great. I can't really wear them because they're for reading, but I did join the glasses squad

finally. Hey, brown hair glasses. You just need a little bit of scruff on your face. Yeah. Fucking Andy, you look like you got out of a rainstorm. Washed my face. Wow, congrats. Hey, Keev, can I say something?

Yeah. Really good to see your face. Hey, thank you, man. Really good to see your face. Your hair, let's see that. Can you shake it out, please? Well, it's not- I did a big preamble to let's look at my glasses,

and I don't want to just move on to Keev's face. Well, whoa, whoa, whoa. I didn't know there was a reveal about to happen. Look at these. It looked like they were a little warped there. They were a little warped there. The headphones are making them uneven a bit. Yeah, they are.

Let's ditch the headphones for one second. Let's get them nice on there. Oh, there it is. Oh, yeah. So they're kind of a tortoise shell, I'd say. Yeah. You can say that. They're very attractive.

Thank you. You've made a choice instead of brown like the three of us, so it does distinguish you. Yeah. I feel like that's the key. You know, when you've got your full Christian name in the title of the podcast as opposed to your made-up band name, it's really important to distinguish yourself. Can I rip on maybe your choice though a little bit, Seth? Yeah, rip away.

That's kind of what this is. Okay, I have a theory that as you get older and your personality dwindles, that you have to get louder and louder glasses. And by the time you get to clear red, you're like a real New York artist. You're just like, this is what I- That's the production design department. Yeah.

I like that you don't see that as someone letting their freak flag fly, but rather just their personality dwindling. I know, what? You gotta show that you're still young. What does that mean? What does a personality dwindling mean? It means that people don't wanna have sex with you as much that you're just like,

oh, I'm getting more interesting with my glasses. Oh my god. That was such a reveal. Yeah, that's right. I'm going to be clear red next week, you guys. We're back, guys. I'm so excited to be on the Zoom with the three of you. A quick shout out to Mike O'Brien,

who joined us last week. Thank you, Mike. It was a full delight to talk to him. Mike O'Brien, knee pat. Nay pat. No, nay Mike. Pat O'Brien. No, I think he was born Mike O'Brien. We should now, we gotta get him back on the prod.

Is it nay? It's nay, because it's French, right? Either that born Mike O'Brien. We should now we gotta get him back on the prod. Is it ney? It's ney, cause it's French, right? Either that or you're a horse. That's exactly what I was thinking. All right, as I understand it, Mike was born Mike O'Brien, and maybe probably, I'm almost certain his middle name is Pat.

Got it. And then he moved to Chicago and decided I'm gonna be Pat O'Brien now. Yeah. And so he told everybody in Chicago, when I was introduced to him, he be Pat O'Brien now. Yeah. And so he told everybody in Chicago, and when I was introduced to him, he was Pat O'Brien. And I've met people that knew him from Chicago. They're like, oh, so you work with Pat now?

And I'm like, I don't know who the fuck you talking about, dude. Liz calls him that too. Wow. And then the crazy thing, though, was he came to SNL. I knew him. I was so excited. And the first writers day, I said, hey, this is one of our new writers, Pat O'Brien.

And he said, oh, actually, it's Mike. And so he decided he was going to switch back in New York, but forgot to tell me the head writer who hired him right before he introduced him. So then instead of getting away with it, his first day was him being like, well, so I decided to change it. Oh, god.

Although it's a very good education into Michael Patrick O'Brien to have that right off the bat. It's also a problem when you're a comedian to make any firm decision, because I'm just like, that sounds like a fucking joke. You're like, okay, you're doing a bit. He's the king of firm decisions, and we should do a special episode of this podcast

just talking about the tattoos he has. Can you just say one of them? Well yeah, what's the funniest one? Uh, I feel like he got... So he wanted to get a tattoo because he had always thought about getting a tattoo and he was worried he'd get a bad one. And so he thought it would be better to get a bad one. And so he got, I think it was a bucket of chicken that was a Kurt Vonnegut

drawing. Oh. But then because he's Mike O'Brien, or Pat O'Brien, depending on what year you met him. Tough to know. Then he did Calvin Peeing on the bucket of chicken. Yes. He added a Calvin Peeing on it. Like a hot rod.

That's good. I think he did do a full hot rod. We are lovers of Calvin Peeing. Liz just texted when I asked her, she doesn't know if it was powder Mike as his given name, but they all called him P-O-B. Yeah. That's a whole third thing. Yeah.

I believe he got either full Dave Matthew lyric tattooed on his full back. No, he did not. He did. I'm assuming crash. No, I think it was a different one. Two step. This is real.

We could see photos of this. Yeah. And then he also, I think he dedicated one of his tattoos, like on the actual tattoo. It's like two, and it was like the meanest non in his Catholic school. He dedicated a tattoo. Man, this should have been his intro on the pod last week.

I know. I can't believe we're going to do it now. Anyway, but more importantly. Was it so much to say, Seth? I'm going to ask him. All right, here we go, though. Real quick. Was it too much?

Your first summary. Was it ants marching? Was it satellite? Crash say, Seth? I'm gonna ask him. All right, here we go though, real quick. Was it too much? Your first summer. Was it ants marching? Was it satellites? Crash into me. You're reading off a website. So real quick, first summer, you guys shoot Hot Rod. Second summer, you react to the release of Hot Rod. This is your third summer on S&L, correct?

Correct. Yes. You rent a house and you make an album. Is it third or is it fourth? No, third summer. Third summer. He really just outlined it really clearly for you. 2006 was Shoot Hot Rod, 2007 was Put Hot Rod into theaters,

and 2008 is coming off Writer's Strike and then a few episodes, and then here we are in Encino, California. When did you decide you were gonna do the album that summer? I think it was during The Strike. Okay. But I don't know if that's true. And then for a guy like me who's not in you decide you were gonna do the album that summer? I think it was during the strike. Okay. But I don't know if that's true.

And then for a guy like me who's not in and has never been asked to join the music industry, are conversations happening during the writer's strike? Are people saying, hey, would you guys wanna do this? Well, Monty Lippman from Universal Republic, hounding. He was hounding us. He was like, I love this. You guys gotta release an album. We were like, I love this. You guys got to release an album.

We were like, no, no, no, no, we couldn't possibly. Just, you know, he was relentless. Your tone sounds sarcastic, but it's actually pretty much true after Lazy Sunday and maybe Natalie rap. Somewhere in that first year, I think we already talked about this on the pod, that a few different labels, Atlantic came to us and then it was under UMG.

It was a wing of UMG. I don't know how you describe it, and then it was under UMG. It was a wing of UMG. I don't know how you describe it, but Republic Records was under UMG. It is a huge record label. They have everyone from like The Weeknd and Post Malone and Taylor Swift. And they would wine and dine us a little bit. I believe we already told the story of one night at the Playboy Mansion courtesy of Atlantic Records. I didn't go for the record. Any highlights? I think we already covered this. Okay. You should listen to the pod. I didn't go for the record. Any highlights? I think we already covered this. Okay.

You should listen to the pod. I'll listen to that episode. The good news is this, Yarm. If you'd gone, I also think you'd have no memory of it, based on the fact that you don't even remember the last conversation about it. What makes you think that, Bill, or whatever your name is?

The only thing I really remembered was that there was a whole room that was English tea. Like little sandwiches and cookies and proper English tea set up. And I was like, now this is class. That was a highlight of your memories of the Playboy Mansion. Yes. We definitely were like giggling and hiding in corners and stuff. We shouldn't be here.

Afterwards that A&R exec went back to the group and was like, I think that was the wrong place to take them. They really liked the small tea sandwiches. You mean because they giggled and hid the whole time and kept saying, let's look at the zoo. Yeah. So to you guys, T&A is tea and apricots scones. That's right.

The tea is actual tea. The tea is actual tea. You were so disappointed. You were like, T&A, I don't know what the A is, but I do love a warm cup of English breakfast. This might be repeating last time we talked about, but, Yoram, correct me if I'm wrong. You didn't go because your wife objected

because it's a very sexist place. Correct. But then your wife did enjoy all of or most of the episodes of the TV show that was the reality show set at the Playboy Mansion. Yeah, let's get Mari to weigh in on that. Like, what is the conflict there if you're interested in reality television at the Playboy Mansion. Yeah, let's get married away in on that. Like, what is the conflict there if you're interested in reality television about the Playboy Mansion,

but your husband ain't allowed to go? I mean, come on. I could've got inside dirt. All right, so at some point, you realize you're gonna do an album that summer. We'll get into the weeds a little bit on the track list, but you rent a house in Encino, which is an insane home. Yeah.

I feel like the house is very important to talk about because it was huge. I believe 2.5 acres, the property was. There was a track in the back that if you ran around it five times, that was a mile. There was basketball slash tennis court on it. There was a little area in the back that me and Keev really loved that we basically turned into a shooting range for BB guns, because there's a little like old. It was a horse corral for keeping your horses.

Yeah, but it was perfect to like put on an old cowboy hat and pop BB guns off of cans. There was a big pool and a hot tub, right? Yeah. It was like if you were making a movie where an orphan was finding out how good they had it now. Yeah. You'd shoot it at this house.

Yeah. Every morning I came down the stairs and went, I think I'm going to like it. Yeah. Well, we got it to be so big so that we could all live there. But then sadly, the room that we chose to spend all of our time in recording looked like just a shitty LA apartment. So most of the time we were in the worst room in the house. But not sadly, we did that on purpose. I am glad you mentioned that because the actual recording studio was a billion degrees and

looked like it could have very easily been a room in the first apartment you guys lived in together, right? Yes. Correct. The AC didn't really reach it and then we had to keep turning off the portable AC we bought because it made noise and we were trying to be a recording studio. I still have that AC. I think honestly, we chose that room because it was carpeted. I think it's kind of as simple as that. And it was far from the kitchen if somebody else was doing something. Yes. We did not have an engineer. We just engineered everything ourselves as we

continued to do because we don't want to have someone sit there getting paid money and watch us not have ideas 24 hours a day. Also saying we turned it into a recording studio is funny because it was a fold-out table with one computer monitor and then a mic standing next to that computer. Same rig we've always had, same as in our office. Exactly. Same as we have now at our office in LA Support for the lonely island and Seth Meyers podcast comes from Airbnb

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Get started at Betterment.com. Investing involves risk. Performance not guaranteed. Can you guys explain real quick how a record deal works? Because the house looked like you got paid so much money. Yes. But you guys, I would imagine all that money has been gone for a long time. Basically, we make the record deal and they tell you what your budget is to make the record,

essentially. That's what people call an advance because they are going to take that money back. That's why it's not just like, here's your budget. Like on a movie, they give you the movie budget. You're not expected to give them back the $10 million to make the movie. On a record deal, your budget is called an advance because it's an advance payment that you will later repay through album sales. When we started doing the math on the advance and doing it the way they would do it normally, which is renting real studio space, and we knew we would burn through almost all of it in a summer.

So the house, even though it looked very expensive, it was a house that had been used as a shooting location. Like, it was a beautiful big place, but it wasn't like everything worked perfect. It wasn't a house someone had lived in in a while. It's in an episode of The Office, actually. Yes, it is. The boss guy, not Michael Scott, but the other guy. Yeah, he goes over to the dinner. Where they have the big party, all the branches

come together for the big party at the house. You could make it on camera look beautiful, but I will admit that being inside, it did seem a little not thought through. Yes. It was definitely a lot bigger than our apartments in New York, though. Yes.

Certainly it was. Yeah, first off, to explain why we did it at all, besides that it's awesome, was that we were in New York, and we were like, well, there's no way to record an album here on our budget and the way we do things. Because we would have, unless we used our office at 30 Rock, which would have been really sad, we're all in different apartments all over town,

just getting to a location. We just knew it would never happen if we didn't all live in a house together. I would argue that renting that house was like the perfect encapsulation of our joke, which was like sarcastically bawling out. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like it was a tacky, massive McMansion that was the biggest place any of us had ever stayed by far with huge property. Like everyone who came through that we were friends with

was like, Jesus Christ, this is crazy. And we were like, I know, I know, come to the shitty room where we're making the song. Like it was hilarious and fun to us. We were definitely like, let's do a crazy dumb thing because when are we ever gonna get to do this again? I think it was part of making the label deal was us thinking like, oh, if it gives us a summer in LA

in a big house, it's worth it to make the deal. I only reference movies that everyone has seen because this is a populist podcast. I would say if the kid from Menorah had a house in LA, it would be this house. Haven't seen it. What? house. Haven't seen it. What? Yeah.

Haven't seen it. That was kind of the irony of my setup, guys. Yeah. The assumption that no one. I was gonna let it lie. I was gonna yes and and be like, oh yeah, everybody's getting that. Anyways, let me just say real quick,

don't sleep on Anorah, which is maybe one of my favorite movies of the year. So I'm excited to see all of them. You know what I've seen? What? I saw Dune II. Dune II? I saw Dune II.

You saw Dune II, you like Dune II? Yeah, yeah. I checked out Dune II, I like it. I like it. Dune II came out a while back. Yeah, that's why I've seen it. We also, we watched, not together, but Challengers. Challengers, I'll tell you right now,

I think Challengers might be my favorite movie of the year. There you go. It's very fun. But shut out by the Oscies. Shut out, I don't understand. I liked Night Bitch, but you know. Yeah, Night Bitch is great. I sat with Night Bitch's own Amy Adams at the Globes.

Oh, nice. Do you think when she walks down the street now, people go, hey, Night Bitch! There she goes! Night Bitch, sign my glossy, Night Bitch! Seth, did you have fun at the Globes? I did, but hold on, I have a real good tag to this bit. Do you think when she tucks her kids in,

they go, night bitch? Oh! Yeah, comma. Uh, did I have a fun time at the Globes? I had a wonderful time at the Globes. Thanks for asking. I sat next to the producer of Andy's movie, Lee, who was lovely.

Yep, Kate Sollum. I had a lot of nice people. My table sat next to Allie Wong, who is lovely. And she was with a high school friend of hers, who was lovely. Yep, Kate Sollum. I had a lot of nice people at my table. Side next to Allie Wong, who is lovely. And she, I was with a high school friend of hers who was a delight. And then Kirsten Dunston, Jesse Plemons, who kind of might be my favorite showbiz couple. Wow. Just on vibes and the work and the hang.

That's a good table. Speaking to three showbiz couple members right now. Yeah, but I feel like you guys, I kinda, I could never pick one of you because it would offend the other two. I see. I thought you were going to say we don't count because in your eyes we're not real human beings.

Kind of. We're just fucking dollar signs floating in a zoom. Podcast dollar signs. This job is going to crash and it's going to get so mellow on this cast. Oh yeah. When my job crash hits. Oh, you're on job. Oh, sorry.

Was it not clear that I'm fully on job right now? Wait, did I tell you guys I don't do job now? Oh my God, what are you doing? It's a company called Clever that I believe, who's the guy who wrote Spare? We please try not to plug a product that's not one of our sponsors. Prince Harry, his wife, she's involved in that.

Nobody knows her name, she's famously unknown. It's a macha thing. Dorm ever plugged in. The guy who wrote Spare, who's royal, his wife, as this company called. Wait, the way you get into Prince Harry is the guy who wrote Spare? Spare, the guy who wrote Spare and his wife, the lady from TBS. You know Suits and Spare. Don't cover your face, Andy.

Just accept what's going on. You're from Mars, and you're from Venus. I know that book, too. I love you. I love you so much. No one on Earth has ever said those sentences. This is the worst advertisement for quitting coffee. I can get coffee, and, you know, I feel a lot sharper mentally.

You know Spare? I still don't even know what the connection is. Did he quit in the book, or did he put on like a mushroom mud tea that you're drinking? She has a company called Clever, and they send you matcha, and it's working great, because I'm sharp as a tack. I also just want to point out, this is like the fifth time you've said you quit job and then we see you and you're drinking it. Or denied it, or denied it later when we say you quit

and he goes, I've never quit. I did have some job yesterday. Also, by the way, it's still caffeine. It doesn't make any difference. Matcha has just as much caffeine as job, doesn't it? I don't know, Keith, I think it goes through you differently. I think matcha has more caffeine than this. According to the lady.

What lady? Who's married to the prince guy. Oh, fuck. All right. So the thing, the reason I said, it does feel like what a rich kid would think a cool house is. Like he would have his friends over and be like, come look at the stables.

Yes. I went there once, and I feel like I got the tour you gave everybody where it sort of ended as you walked way in the back, and it was like the stables, and you'd show off the track. And I kind of got the sense you were only where it sort of ended as you walked way in the back and it was like the stables and you'd show off the track. And I kind of got the sense you were only back there for the purposes of saying, and look at this. Yes, although it turned out to be a great location

for the entire We Like Sports video. Well, that I was gonna get there. We Like Sports is one of the tracks on this album. It is also a YouTube video. You guys wanna guess how many views We Like Sports has? 20 million? 25 maybe. 32 million.

That's a lot for what it is. That's a lot for what it is. It is a delight and it is, while we're talking about this house, it is a really good representation of what this house was. Yes, it is a full tour. It uses all the parts. We used every part of the Buffalo.

Cause when you're standing in front of the TV, I think that is the best version of what that has. That tells you everything about the house. It's like a big TV in a room with kind of a shitty couch. That's right. The kitchen was beautiful. Like the house had the capacity. It did sell at a certain point, I think.

And if somebody lived there and made it what they want to make it, it would be gorgeous. But it just had been a rental for too long. I did want us to make it like our lab cab in California. Shout out Far Side ref. Like a lonely island compound would have been kind of cool, but none of us would ever go there. It would have cost so much to renovate it too, because it is so big.

Yeah. I have an update via text. Okay. The first tattoo Michael Bryan got was a bucket of chicken from the Kurt Vonnegut book, Breakfast of Champions. And the lyric is, via text. Okay. The first tattoo Michael Bryan got was a bucket of chicken from the Kurt Vonnegut book, Breakfast of Champions. And the lyric is, "'Into your heart, I'll beat again, Dave Matthews man.'"

Wow. And what song is that from? I don't know. Oh my God, if it's from one of the ones I said, I'm about to ream you, Seth. I don't wanna. Say the line again. "'Into your heart, I'll beat again.'"

It's from Crash Into Me. Great. First guess. First guess, yeah. God damn, you guys. Damn you to hell fire. Guys. Yes. Yeah, sorry.

We give ourselves three months to make this album, by the way. You have three months to make this album, and I want to talk real quick about the fact that you go into it on the track listing. There are three songs that you have recorded for SNL already. Natalie's Rap, Lazy Sunday, Dick in a Box. That felt good knowing we were going into it with three things already done, I will say.

There are six by my count that go on to be digital shorts, so I don't want to talk about them too much now. Fair? Yeah, because we will do an app on each one, right? Yes. You can mention them, but... I'm going to mention the six, but just to give people a sense of what the weight of this album is. Jizz in my pants, I'm on a boat,

boombox like a boss, Ross Trent, Space Olympics. Those are the six that you will record for this album that will eventually be digital shorts. Now, this is a different process than the way you guys have to work on SNL, where you're under the gun, week in and week out. But what was the process? Did it feel completely different than when you were writing work on SNL, where you're under the gun, week in and week out. But what was the process? Did it feel completely different than when you were writing songs for SNL,

or was it ultimately the same? It was just way more relaxed. Right. Way more pleasant. Much more pleasant. I almost say way more fun, not that SNL is not fun, but it was like, part of it was this dream of like,

when we were roommates in LA before we got SNL, we would say things like wouldn't it be incredible to make an album? Then it actually was happening. So there was like a whole level of wish fulfillment for us. We were acting like little kids living in this stupid dumb mansion. Every day you wake up whenever you feel like, some people later than others, looking at me, looking at myself.

And you go in and you're like, what are we gonna do? Whatever we feel like. And our label and our manager, Steve Barnett, like procured tons of real beats from real rap producers for us. And we'd just sit there and flip through the beats and like star the ones we liked and be like,

ooh, we should do something to that one, that's awesome. And it was just a fucking dream. I feel like at any given time, I would just wander in there and listen to beats and write down ideas and nothing else. There was no other commitment. I think maybe the job is wearing off. Oh, no, it happened mid-think. We saw the job go out of his eyes while he was talking.

The job wore off. I'm just gonna take a quick five minute nap. Did you see the sad thing is you watch the job light go out in the one eye first? And then you see, he's out cold. There was a moment I remember when we were making the album where I actually got a ton of anxiety, woke up one morning and was like freaked out,

probably because of SNL and the stress that that had caused. And Mari was like, what's wrong? And I was like, I'm not working. I haven't been working. She was like, you're making an album right now. And I was like, I know, but it doesn't feel like work. Because we like it so much. You can't like work.

Well, and again, when I say nine to five, this is judgment free zone, I think that's noon to eight for you, Andy. If that, yeah. But you had people over as well. At night, you could socialize in a way that you can at SNL because you feel that giant ticking clock. That was the best part. We had so many fun parties and invited so many people over to swim the pool.

But we would also work till 2 a.m. a lot, but it was still you're like, just the freedom to know that if the thing you're working on sucks, you'll just throw it away and no one will know. Yes. And that just feels so good. Right. There were moments all the time where we'd go, all right, I think I'm done thinking about that, and I'm sleepy, and I'm going to stop. And the difference between that and how it is at SNL is the whole difference.

That was it. Yeah. We would do a song where we started it and then just ran out of steam and then came back to it weeks later, months later. And we'd go like, oh, you know what? There was something to that. What if we try to fix that? And then just head to the Target and buy pool toys, you know?

Or we went to the Kmart a lot and we bought a lot of pool toys at Kmart. Kmart's where we did the entire We Like Sports video. It was just a gold mine of amazing t-shirts. Support comes from Home Chef. Okay, so Home Chef is that meal kit that we get. It's really great and it's like all those little bags come and we cut up all the vegetables and then we cook all the stuff and even though we don't even know what we're doing, we're able to kind of do it.

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Yum! Homechef.com slash island. Must be an active subscriber to receive free dessert. We were texting last night about whether or not, and I have ruled in favor that it is not name-droppy to say the friends of ours that visited you guys that summer because you would have parties, and it was a real snapshot of the sort of late aughts comedy scene.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. It was so fun. And people would come through, and they'd bring friends, because it was like, hey, want to go to this big-ass mansion where those dudes from SNL are making an album of those dumb songs? And people would be like, yeah, what the fuck? It's the summer.

Let's go. So people would roll through, and we'd be like, whoa. Yeah. And these people obviously collaborate with friends of ours now. But you know, Rudd, Hader, Danny Bride, Tim and Eric. You were saying Jeanine Garofalo. Yeah.

Danger Mouse. Flying the Concords guys, right? Yeah, Concords came through. I remember sitting with Jermaine and Brett and them listening to our songs and being like, wow, you guys really just go straight at the joke. Yeah. Like, for us, we kind of like walk around it for a while.

I remember it too. It was Jermaine. We played them Jizz in My Pants and he was like, there's no like dancing around the joke. You just really say it and then just say it a lot. And we were like, yeah, that's the difference I guess between our songs. So funny. But it was, he said it lovingly. Like we were laughing about it.

Yeah. There was a day when Tim and Eric and Bret and Jermaine came by with Kreisel, who later on, we got hired at SNL as a director, who then went on to co-create Portlandia with Fred and Carrie. But they came to shoot a sketch on our tennis court for Tim and Eric's show. But do you remember how that happened? Like how, when they came over,

it was for a barbecue and they're like, this place is great and we're like, yeah, if you guys ever want to shoot anything, it was like two days later that they showed up with a camera truck. Two days, yeah. We're shooting. So there is another way to see how we lived

because there's a tennis sketch with the four of them. There's that Laurel Canyon documentary about that music scene. It's so crazy when you see pictures of, say, Jackson Brown and Joni Mitchell and Eric Clapton all in a backyard with guitars. Right. It was like that. It was exactly like that.

It was like that. I mean, it's like a less, you know, a lesser, you know, version. But it was that. I mean, if you loved the comedy that you guys were making as much as people loved that music scene, you sort of look... I mean, you you loved the comedy that you guys were making as much as people love that music scene, you sort of look. I mean, you guys were sending photos.

The comedy that would be in one hot tub at a given time. The stew. The comedy stew. You could tell just from the upper body strength that it had to be comedy. From the Muppet arms in there. There was so many Muppets. It looked like noodle soup.

It was just arms. Just pool noodles. Oh, this is a second of noodles in the pot, isn't it, Seth? Oh, we had such a good time. We did, just to jump forward, two years later, when we get to Turtleneck and Chain, we were like, could we rent the same house? And we did.

We went back two years later and repeated the summer and had just as good a time. And I will say, looking through the photos last night that I texted you guys a bunch of from 2008, I realized like half my memories are from 2010. Definitely went to that house a few times, nowhere near as much looking back as I wish I had. I don't think I was in LA much that summer.

I don't quite know where I was, but because obviously I would have been over there all the time, but as you guys were sending those pictures around, I really had this pang of, I don't know know where I was, but because obviously I would have been over there all the time, but as you guys were sending those pictures around, I really had this pang of, I don't know what I was thinking, the idea of like, oh, I'm sure every summer, the rest of my life, my friends will be making an album at a giant house with no responsibility.

Who else was in the pictures? John C. Reilly, Maya, PTA. But also specifically to Seth, there was a nice picture of Josh, his brother. Pashi, Pashi and Speedman. And there was a nice picture of Josh, his brother. Pashi and Speedman. And there was a nice picture of Neil Brennan and Speedman from those photos last night. And I was like, yeah, this is all Seth's. These are Seth's homies.

Yeah, it was great. And then musicians were like, Ben Gibbard was there, right? Yeah, Ben. I'm sure Ben came by. Yeah, Gibbard, Hommie. So I listened to the album last night, and I realized I hadn't listened to the album all the way through since it came out. And then, you know, lost to my memory

were the ones that weren't in the end shorts. Right. And it was so fun to listen to those again. It's 19 songs, 42 minutes. Nobody's gonna complain about that yield that's outstanding over the course of a summer. I don't know if I would call them all songs, however. There's not. There's a couple of skits, but I would like to, with your permission,

talk through the ones that we will not talk through later in shorts. Oh, my God, yes. Yes, please. Right off the bat, and it's a real statement of intent. Who said we're whack? Who said we're whack?

By the way, I think if my ear is correct, that's Chester in the beginning. Yeah, he kicks it off. And this is a beat that I made. I noticed. I noticed on the Wikipedia page, Yoram, you get a lot of credit. You produced quite a few of these.

On this album. Yes. On this album. And then I was relegated to only things like, we like sports guys. They're just two guys, guys. You weren't relegated. You stopped making beats.

Yeah, we would happily have accepted. Well, yeah, but we also upgraded. We upgraded a little bit. I love your beats, and I stand on it. Thank you. Who Said We're Whack is a great beat, and it's a very funny song about Chester tells you that somebody said you guys were whack.

And you are, it's very aggressive, like who said we're whack. But it's immediately clear there's a great deal of insecurity. Yeah. And it's really spinning you guys out that someone called you wack. Yeah, for sure. We think they might be right.

We just want to know who it is. We're not going to be angry. Very clearly. We're maybe in agreement. Hey, yo fam, check this out. I was just at the club, right? Heard these two dudes talking. One of them said to the other one that they knew someone.

Who said you guys are wack? Who said we're wack? You said we're whack! You take it back! Who said we're whack? You talking smack? You gonna get smacked! -♪ You're saying that I'm whack, but it just ain't so-so. -♪ Someone said we're whack! Why would they say that? I don't think we're whack! Who said we're whack? Yeah, there's a real... I think this really hammers it home.

Keev, you have one of my favorites, which is, I am not whack no matter what you say. What did you say? Question mark. Did you say I'm whack? That's a guy. We can't even stand our own conviction. Yeah, you can't even like back away from it.

It doesn't matter what you say. No matter what you say, but that being said, what did you say? Yeah, I might be wrong. I might be wrong. I just had a memory of the song going to my head, which was the very first time we ever performed live in front of an actual real audience,

was Tenacious D was doing a festival down at the Santa Monica Pier. It was the first year of it. It was an all day festival that Tenacious D would be the final act. And they asked us to come on, and I don't know what year it was. It was well after this,

but we reenacted that live. Like Jack Black started talking shit about us on stage, like fake stuff. And then calls us whack. Festival Supreme. And then all of a sudden, what was it? Festival Supreme. Yeah. And then we were a surprise and it was so fun too, cause they have a whole band

and we went and rehearsed with them for a week beforehand and came up with a medley that they helped us, Spiker, who is their director of music also became ours when we did finally go on tour. He helped put together this whole little medley. It was like 10,000 people and it was our first thing ever. We got to come out there with their whole band and we started by coming out, who said we're wack? You said we're wack. It was an amazing moment.

Do you remember, Keev, that we started with that song because Jack insisted, because he was like, no, don't play those songs that they all know. My favorite one is Who Said We're Wack. That's what we're doing. And we were like, all right. And then it was so fun.

And if he could tee it up like that, I mean, what a great way to start it. I forgot that was 10,000 people. Anytime we performed, it was always like, hey, let's just do this on TV. We were like, you've never done this before. Do it for 10,000 people. We're like, oh God.

We were like, we're all being so nervous. We were shitting our pants. There's also a lot of rhyme. The rhyme scheme is everything rhymes with whack. And a lot of times whack is rhyming with whack. But then you have a real great four liner, Andy. How could a person up and call a person whack? How could the devil turn the blue sky black?

How many babies born will ever reach their dreams? And how could a person call another person whack? How could the devil turn the blue sky black? How many babies born will ever reach their dreams? And how could a person call another person whack? How many babies born will ever reach their dreams? Yeah. Which is just threw me so, threw me for a loop. And then how could a person call another person whack? Back on topic. These guys are spiraling.

They can't get away from it. They're spiraling. You think we're going into a new direction. But the other really nice moment is that it ends with you guys having all the ladies putting their hands up, all the guys putting their hands up, everybody who called us whack put your hands up and then everybody else put your hands down. So you do in the end find the guy. We catch the person.

We're detectives. I feel like this was also one of the first songs we wrote when we got out there. I do believe that's the case. I think so. Possibly the first. Yeah. I mean, I understand it does not, it was never going to be an SNL short. No.

Way too much the three of you. Yeah. Especially at that time. But I'm assuming your heart is warm for this song. For sure. I do like this song, yes. You know, one of the things we wanted to make sure of, I am remembering now, is that this was a real album. Meaning like not just something that felt like,

hey, they had some hits on the show, just put them in a compilation and send it out. That if you bought it, you felt like, because when you started to buy an album, that you felt like you had bought something new that stood on its own. Yeah. So like you said, it's a declaration.

But I think it also by being about the three of us and us using our names, it separates it from SNL in a way that lets the album be its own thing, I think. The next thing is just fantastic. Santana DVX. That's the second song in the album? That's the second song in the album. Now, I feel like if the first is a parody of what one of these albums is going to be, the aggressive statement of intent, this is now you're letting the comedy fans know,

also we're going to get super granular and weird. Yeah. Even on this podcast, people have asked us, what video do we wish we had gotten to make for songs? It's always semicolon in Japan. But this should be actually in that top three wished videos. I was about to say, I think I speak for all three of us when I say it's one of our personal favorite songs that we ever got to make.

Definitely. Hey everybody, this is Seth. We are going to split up our Incredibad episode into two parts. This was the end of part one, and we look forward to joining you again in a week for part two. Thanks everybody.