The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast - Shy Ronnie

Episode Date: September 30, 2025

Today on The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast, we’re talking about Shy Ronni featuring Rihanna. A short that almost didn’t happen and certainly no one thought would be as classic. Plus a little light catch up on what’s going with the guys, queen bee of course, and Jorm is out of the hospital! And gloating about his awards. Shy Ronnie (ft. Rihanna) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX4vzKH4lesPeople hottest podcaster | The PEOPLE Sexiest Man Alive Readers' Choice Poll | https://people.com/sexiest-man-alive-2025-readers-choice-poll-11810266Seth, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang Go Day Drinking | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6Ukgpag63wWoman to Woman | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--ApeDdWQSMSecret Word | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYJnrjw-zm0Not all the clips we mention are available online; some never even aired.Send us an email: [e-mail] us a voice note: https://www.speakpipe.com/thelonelyislandSend Jorma stuff: P.O. Box 4024New York, NY 10185Photos and everything else can be found by following us on Instagram @thelonelyislandpod VuoriGet 20% off your FIRST purchase. Get yourself some of the most comfortable and versatile clothing on the planet at vuori.com/ISLANDShopifySign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial and start selling today at SHOPIFY.COM/lonelyislandCoopUpgrade your sleep Visit coopsleepgoods.com/ISLAND to get 20% off your first order. Thatʼs C-O-O-P sleep goods dot com slash ISLAND. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's the lonely island and Seth Myers podcast. Rolling. All right. We're fucking back, guys. I'm going to pop off first. This is rare for me. Yorm, you're sitting up and clothed and looking like a normal great dude in your home. Yeah.

And, Andy, I clothed myself. Whoa. I wish I had no point. That's news to my music here. It takes a while to put on the underwear, but. Oh, I was. Damn, I was trying to hit. The flaws one.

You gave him a Debbie Downer. You accidentally Debbie Downard him. It was also accurate. Yeah, it works. I'm also enjoying that Yorm is sitting in front of his wall of trophies. Oh, shit. It's a little show, but I didn't realize that. Is that where your Zoom is set up for meetings right now?

Yeah, this is a new shelf, so I apologize for this. But this is also Mari's trophies, which are there's a lot. I didn't get any Rotten Tomatoes certified. Fresh trophies, guys. None of that. Gotcha. That doesn't happen to me. I didn't know you could get those.

Yeah. I would say it's the ugliest of the award. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Is that something you need to, like, order, like the Peabody? It might be. You probably do have to order it. You've got a, I mean, Palm Springs certified fresh. A lot of them are certified fresh, but I wonder is it, do they just give you an award if it's over 95?

I'm sorry, Andy, that I'm like, I'm sure there's one, Andy. Let's start with Popstar. Popstar certified fresh. Are you subconsciously, Yorman, knowing that you're taking Zooms and a lot of people before they get on with you were like, I think he's basically dead that you want to kind of frame yourself in front of your past successes?

No, no, no. So when I was doing Zooms, I was doing them at a place called Rusk Rehabilitation Center in New York. Shout out everyone there and all nurses who were unbelievable and thank you so much for everything seriously. But no, I was doing zooms in my

hospital bed because I was like, this will show dedication. And the funniest one I did was another name dropy story. I was doing a Zoom with Mr. Daniel Radcliffe and a bunch of other people and then I ended at Zoom and was like, you guys, this is the first time that I've peed during a Zoom and I held up my bottle of urine. Oh, you showed them. You did that for us last podcast and I didn't like it. If you would ask, should I do this on business Zooms, I would have been really have I already told this story and I'm already forgetting because I'm back to being forgetful.

No, you did it to us. I think he also told us. Jesus Christ, guys. Well, you definitely showed us your piss. No, I think he just did this. This is now, we've reached the part in the movie Awakening's where everybody just goes back to normal. Like, Norm had a moment. That's too sad. I can't even.

Post ladder where his memory was just sharper than it's ever been. Yeah, that's awful. Homer took the crayon out of his brain. Yeah. Well, back in, guys. It's back in. Norm, what's the crystal, for lack of a better word, I hate saying this, but the crystal butt plug?

You hate saying that. Sure you do, Keith. It pains me to say this, but what's the crystal butt plug? It hopefully pains me to say this. But something that pained you, it came out real smooth, Keeve. Yeah. Hopefully it pains me just a little bit, but not too much. He picked up a crystal butt plug, but what's funny is it's not even the crystal

butt plug I was looking at. There's multiple. Oh, there's a lot of these awards are crystal buttlop. Yeah, what's that one, the one you're holding? This one is S-I-B-B-B-B-E. YFF I's of award. It's from Korea. I don't know how she went, but it was from Seoul

and it was for international feature or something. It was a dire of a teenage girl. Okay, and then what's the one that right next to it? They're doing with a super sharp one? Yeah, I guess. Maybe it's, but it also looks like a see-through diamond. This guy? Yeah, that's the crystal bubble. I was looking at. Monclair Film Festival.

Yorm, does that certified Fresh Award say on it, like, for getting 95% on or something? Does it say something specific? One second. No, it's very basic. Maybe that was just a long time ago.

I used to have an animated show called The Awesomes on Hulu. Andy did a voice. Andy played an Aquaman character named Seaman. And the jokes were what you think. But I remember we got nominated for some animation award. And this happens a lot for anyone who's listening.

Andy alluded to the fact you have to pay for these physical awards. I remember they were like, hey, you didn't win, But you guys want to buy the nominee awards? It's literally like, what a racking. And so anyway, I have two of them. Okay, good, congrats.

Yes, sir. Sign right here. Yeah. 10 grand well spent. I'm going to go very far away. By the way, definitely got paid less for the awes than 10 grand. Well, by the way, didn't we all got P-Bodies because we were at SNL when... Yeah.

I do. I did buy my P-Body. I like my P-Body. And what is your say on it? Because I... Also, by the way, I'm in my childhood home. I brought my daughter to visit my parents this weekend. And my parents have the framed Peabody certificate.

It actually, like, looks like a proper thing. Yes. Yeah, well, the Peabody Award, I think, is actually quite nice. So it's this little penny guy. So if you're going to win any, get the Peabody. But check out what mine says. Oh, it says you're a genius. It says Yormitikoni, writer slash genius.

You could put anything you wanted on the Peabody, which seems erroneous to me. Yeah, they shouldn't. Well, I think they were like, nobody's going to take advantage of it, and they did not account for Mr. Yormit Toconi. For sarcasm. I wish I had spelled genius incorrectly. That would have been more of a Yorm movie. Kevin says, we are Webby winners.

If you recall, we won the, I believe, the audience award for best ensemble hosts. Ensemble. And we're nominated for hottest web hosts. We got sent that by someone in our text thread. Yeah, People Magazine, hottest podcast hosts. We're up against Bowen and Matt. Oh, fuck. I hope we win.

Fuck. That is actually a tough competition. But my, but his question was. Seth, I noticed you were fraternizing with the competition online this week. Oh, yeah. I was. I didn't know. By the way, I was fraternizing before we knew that we were head-to-head on the hot podcast.

Oh, you'll never do it again. Was I missing in our fraternizing? Fratrous. You wanted me to be fratriciciding. Yeah, I'm always, I always want you to fratricide. For those that don't know, Seth did a daytime drinking special segment. with Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers, the podcast host of Las Culturistas.

Your latter tried to commit Frapperside. Oh, that's good. I was just trying to get it in there. I didn't want to interrupt you, Keith, but I had it in the hopper, and I just, I needed to get it out. He did want to interrupt. By the way, between the last thing Andy said and that, he's been sitting, like, slowly going cross-eyed.

Yeah, I kind of have a pain look at my face. Like, oh, I got to say this bad thing. By the way, for the last, like, minute, I've been like, Is there an award for unsung ensemble? And I was like, no, this isn't funny enough to say. Unsung ensemble? I think that would be a fun award. Give me an example of an unsung ensemble.

The cast of Taxi. Yes. Nobody liked that show. I think they're pretty sung, though. I think they're pretty sung back in the day. I like where you're going, but they're fairly sung. Oh. Yeah.

There are, of course, no lyrics sung in the theme song to taxi, except for the time that Maya and Keenan sang And then he sang There's also a really good There's also a really good Soul's a Mischiff song Underground song where they use that as a sample

Oh my God that penis fucking awesome Yeah, Akiva, there's already like seven tangents I have to return to, but I do believe that Akiva was starting by wanting to ask, did we have to pay for our Webby's? That is what the Kevin question really was. And the answer was yes. We had a resounding yes in the chat. That's what I do not have one, so I'm assuming that's because I didn't pay for it. Yeah. Did any of you pay for yours?

What a prude this guy is. I don't know if I have one. I don't even. But the Webby, I will say, for what the Webby is, looks. Nice. It's like a spirally coil. I think it's pretty good for those. I do want to say that I went day drinking with Bowen and Matt. It was delightful. You whore. Not the drunkest I've ever been. By the way, this does tie in to today's short because the drunkest I ever was was with your co-starring in Shire.

But I will say that I walked out and I was like, I'm feeling pretty good. Now, don't get me wrong. I was very drunk. But I'm like, I'm feeling pretty good about this one. And then got a text from Kimmel being like, I'm suspended. in the future looks dark. Oh, God, it was during. Well, this is bad timing. During that shoot? At the end of it, as I literally walked out the door. God, that's horrible.

Well, at least it wasn't during. It wasn't during. That's true. What happened with him? Did he get back on the air? We don't want to spoil it for you. Okay, I've been catching up on South Park, guys. Hey, this is completely off topic.

But can I just say, and maybe, by the way, knowing you guys in your connection, you might be, have it already. gotten a taste of it. It is palpably exciting when there's a new Paul Thomas Anderson movie. Oh, man. Oh, my God. I mean, I'm trying to see it. I'm dying to see it. Okay. So nobody here has seen it. No. No. Okay. I mean, but isn't it just like a feeling that we used to have a lot more and now it's very rare and it's so cool? To be like, there's a movie coming out. I'm actually excited to see. Yeah. Well, there's that. But like, but for me, it goes double because I'm just, I've just been excited to see which places in my neighborhood are wheelchair accessible, like ADD, like, what is

it, ADA? ADA accessible. So I'm just excited to go to a movie and actually be able to sit in the wheelchair seats. You're going to have lots of room. By the way, not a lot of places in Brooklyn, super weird chill. Accessible. I'm surprised, actually. That was the word I was trying to say. I also think you might want to see if they have ADHD accessible theaters. Yeah. I'm not taking my pills for that, by the way, Andy, right now, because I'm taking so many pills. It stifles my true vision. Yeah. When they listed

off what I was taking at Rusk, I was like, oh, wow,zers. And they were, you want to put this ADHD medicine on there? I was like, no, thank you. Oh, wow, that might be, wow. No, don't put that in the cauldron. We have got a bunch of shit to do magic. Do you think Mari was like, hey,

if you're putting together a pain cocktail, could you slip a couple of these in there? Because I'd love to get there in blood. Like the kind of shit that, like, makes them schedule better? Yeah. The first thing I did, the minute I got home was go to the Dominican barbers right around the corner and just, like, had to get forced in the door. And then that guy was, like, trying to cut my hair on the wheelchair. And I was like, no, thank you.

I know exactly what I'm doing. Like hobbled over to the chair. And then my wife was like, please, why this is exactly how this happened in the first place. the best is like how's your arm doing it's like good he's falling off a couple of letters during recovery it's not helping he'd much rather that than accept help from anyone i'm gonna race through because this is a big one and i want to get to it i'm gonna race through some notes that i enjoyed okay um people did think it was very cruel just to pre-empt though set i enjoy you okay go on oh that's sweet uh it was definitely uh people

thought it was very cruel that Yoram had to read a life insurance ad right after he almost died. I wanted to, then I requested that. Hey, you did a read. By the way, look at this, like old school notes. What a sweetie. Keeve, you did a fish read, and people said, I'm surprised you did not say shockingly high-grade fish.

Felt like it was right there for you. Oh, yeah. One must prepare. I didn't make the connection as a bit of a fishmonger myself. Keith, you want to just do it, Acapella, me and you right now? The whole song? Hey, sushi, glory hole. Imagine that.

Ready? That was Yeah. Let's do the whole song Acapella and then people can put their own beats under it. I had a little bit of job right before this.

I have to confess to my three bros that I had a little bit of job just a pitch of job to get me through the cast. I wasn't looking forward to it but now maybe it's my favorite. Great.

My favorite moment of maybe all the pods was you getting super shitty with Yorm at the end of last pod about Brick Breaker and then immediately having to do a 180. I don't.

I liked that live when I heard it live. It was one of a live. It was because it was the truest 180. Like, you did not try to grab a piece. Oh, wait, oh wait, oh, wait. Sometimes you're wrong. You did not make any excuses. Yeah, yeah.

Seth, I'm famous for my great apologies. Somebody said, these are two comments that I just, I'm going to read them without editorializing, and then Andy, you can respond. Okay. Akiva's daughter has officially done more ad reads than Andy. Yeah. Oh, that's a burn. And then another one, I love that you're literary.

cheated death and still did an ad read instead of Andy. Andy loves that too. All right. Sorry, I made, I did promise. Addie wants to say hi real quick, and I'm going to say, you know what? I'll just have her say something nice about pistachios, so this account is the new ad. Oh, that rips. Just further shaming me.

Say hi to my friends. Hi. Hi, Addy. Hey. Can you say, buy pistachios, everybody? Bye pistachie poop. No. Every time you come over.

Oh, you improved it. I still think it counts, and I think it's a good marketing strategy. You have to say buy pistachios. Buy pistachios. Oh, these are unusable. We're never going to get paid. Oh, my God. All right.

Bye. It would make me buy pistachios. Bye, see you tomorrow. I don't think you will see him tomorrow. See you tomorrow. It's hard enough to figure out Fridays. Man, oh man. The job might be wearing off.

Wait, Seth. Have you gone through all of your comments? No, I've got a few more of it. Please jump in, Yorm. I've got a very effect. I only wanted to say that, like, I'm just now getting through, since I'm home, finally, I'm just now getting through, like, the stacks of, oh, yeah. It's so overwhelming, honestly, to me.

I'm just going to not, I'm not going to cry when I say this, but, like, but people have written such nice things. I also had somebody on a postcard just write the word penis, and I thought that was very funny. The only thing that they said. And I'm going to try not to cry. Someone wrote, penis on a card. I mean, I think it was penis. The end got super smudgy from when I cried all over it.

But that's just, that's just, it's fucking genius. Could have been Pemus. It might have been the penitentiary that he was from. But, no, people have, like, gotten just such nice presents and cards and letters. And I really, I'm not going to be able to write back to all of them. But thank you guys so much. It really means the world to me. And I've definitely teared up at quite a few of them.

So, anyway, thank you. I, you know, we set up a P.O. box because we have one for the show. And so the stuff comes to us first. And so I'm seeing like bags of it And it's genuinely touching to me as well, Yorm And I get choked up Not because of that, I get choked up Because right next to it is the stuff they

Take out of my PO box And it's usually like one postcard With like a moth flying around it You get choked up because you're sad Yeah, because I'm like nobody got me shit Yeah, because it's just like jealous By the way, this hat was also a present I don't know if you guys can see it

Oh yeah solid He got the Queen Bee salad app It's his queen be solid Yeah I needed two hints today We can get that out of the way So people can log off So not a quibby. Do you know another way to say solid on Queen Bee?

What? I completed the New York Times mini. Now that is some fucking puzzle humor. God, that is so deeply nerdy. Seth, I'm going to go. Seth, no exaggeration, I'm here for it. Shopping. Oh, my God.

Seth. All told, all told, it's giving me life. Speaking of giving me life, somebody wrote a comment under the YouTube comments for Two Worlds Collide. Somebody said, this brought me so much joy, especially when the world is a dumpster fire. And the comment underneath it was like, just remember when the world is a dumpster fire, check in the dumpster and you might find a wig. Oh, yeah, I love everybody. You know what? I'm going to give you a task viewer.

I do feel like I would like to see your first approach at a not a gongk t-shirt. Not a gunk. Okay, yeah. Thank you. I mean, right? Like, just let's, we as the other three of us would love to see what you, what your balance is on that. Okay. Okay. A couple other real life two worlds collides that have been brought up to me. Nellie and Tim McGraw. Oh, yeah. That was maybe the truest, maybe closest to this. Yeah, that's a fucking great ball. I forgot about that one. I had forgotten about it entirely. Phil Collins and bone thugs and harmony. Is that a real? Come on. That's not real. That's AI. I think it is real. No, bro. That's AI. I googled it because it didn't seem real to me. It's just the Tarzan soundtrack

And is it real? That's fresh on my mind It's called a home And it's a bone thugs and harmony song And is sampling him or he's singing a new part for them? I don't know He's in the video I literally just pulled up the YouTube

He's in the video But like they sampled him and he's in the video Like Bob Dylan in the Gone Till November video For Wycliffe or like he's like Collabbing on the track I need to know Seth All right It says featuring Phil Collins

But that still could just be that they sampled You know what? Samples from Take Me Home. Thank you. Gotcha. But maybe he could have re-sung it. He could have re-sign it. But he's in the video.

He's in the video. They said there was a day where they shot in one airport and it was a lot of rap acts and then the iconic white musicians would sit in the airport waiting area like Bob Dylan. That's what Bob Dylan's in an airport

and gone until November? Yeah, he's in an airport. Almost as if it happened on accident. You think it happened on accident. He was just there is. I can't believe he's not in the lounge. Get him, get him, get him. He didn't know.

Do you think Bob Dylan? Hey, Andy, you're here. You're auditioned for Bob Dylan, not knowing he had lounge access. We're so excited. All right. This is like complete unknown, but we wanted to take even a smaller slice of Bob Dylan's career. Right, right. Hey, Andy, Sam, we're greeting it for Bob Dylan, not knowing that he had access to the lounge

and ended up in the White Cleft John gone until November video. Should I just start? Yep. Okay. Waits. I'm going to stop. I'm going to just take off. Thank you so much for your time.

and I know whoever you choose is going to crush it. And if you need help, like a side character, maybe sort of like an engineer guy who was in his life. Sure, sure. Or I don't know if you want me to play Wycliffe. I could try that. Or just maybe somebody in the lounge. Keeve, you have a good Wyclef, right?

Hit us. Yeah, it's gone till November. Oh, exactly. Wow. Hmm. Somebody said, hey, while you're making, while you're talking about making Lonely Island shirts, if Yor makes a pair of Lonely Island pants,

I think the butt should be a Dennis Franz butt. I don't know how you do that, but yeah. Yeah, I'm not sure what that would look like. Just be a hot butt. Here's my favorite, though. Also, somebody said it was, they literally go, I think I learned about what happened with Kimmel and ABC because you guys talked about how NYPD Blue

got taken off the air for Franzbutt. Like, they felt like that was like an intro level as far as like. That was their entry point to understanding like free speech. Gotcha. Yeah, like the power affiliates have, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, that was kind of an inflection point. Yeah, it was an inflection point.

Yeah. You always say from Franz's butt to Kimmel's mouth. Oh, it was from that TV critic that you're friends with that wrote to an email. Seppewa. Yeah. Alan Seppel. What's Alan watching? I feel like you guys both just miss Seth saying, saying I always say from Franz's butt to Kimmel's mouth.

Yeah. Which, of course, I do. Thank you for reminding me. Of course. Yeah. My last, the one that really made me like slap both palms at my desk because it made me laugh so hard

because I believe it to be true that there are people in this world who their first introduction to Reba McIntyre was that video. Oh no. And then maybe literally somebody wrote, today I learned Reba isn't black.

Because like that's parts never explained. No, they might just think oh it's some country singer I don't know. They may think it's like a black singer. But like that was, they were like, oh, oh, wow. Yeah. And just much older than him.

Just, yeah. I think there might have to be a special, like, catch-up episode on some sketches that we have kind of not had time to get to because the... I was going to say we have kind of been dipping out on the episodes and the Seth's corners and I do enjoy that. Well, I'm keeping a list. Is it because the shorts are better and so we're talking about them more? It was a robust hour talking about Two Worlds Collide. I think we're also just goofing more, guys. Yeah, there's a lot of goose.

a lot of talking about, like, say, people's wives awards, and whether or not they would or wouldn't make good butt plugs, Akiva. They would. That's the answer. I hope it doesn't hurt. Akiva. They do. Fine. So we can decide. There were two

in the last episode, which was Joseph Gordon Levitt, Jogo Lev. First, Roger Brush. Do you guys remember who Roger Brush is? No. Roger Brush is a long intro of Nassim hosts like a woman's issues a Q&A show where she engages with the audience

and then it just cuts to Fred as her producer he's like I'm Roger Brush and it said he's filling in for this woman because she's sick and it's like Fred having to answer very embarrassing personal questions from women in the audience

and he basically he can't hear them and then he gives them bad advice it does ring a bell great it's a lot of like you gotta speak up baby a lot of really condescending yeah honey I can't I can't hear you honey

a lot of that really good there's a picture of them in the chat if you forget what he looks like I feel like that's got to be based on somebody who worked at 30 Rock oh yeah yeah yeah there's no way I remember yes it felt very true

to that crew yeah it was a lot of like people like and very well acted by like Abby and Jenny and just like I am not you know I can't have an orgasm with my boyfriend and he's like all right here's what you got to do young lady here's my advice okay you go home and you put on some lipstick and you put

on some eye shadow and you get your hair done and you come home to your boyfriend and you say I'm sorry baby I'm sorry for what honey I don't know what else to tell you he's like constantly like I don't know what to tell it just worse he just he just I will say, like, he does think he's being helpful. Oh, yeah. Which is the good friend thing. And the other was, I think her name's Mindy Grayson. It was that Whig sketch, a secret word, where it was like that old sort of password game, where the premise is Wiggs character is sort of this old Broadway actress who always says the one word you're not allowed to say.

Oh, yeah, secret word, yeah? And the best thing about it is, it's, like, as a premise, it's very easy to get ahead of it. except Whig has a different, funny way to say a word you know she's going to say time and time again, which makes it incredible to watch. It would crush, too. I remember every time just being like, okay, we're doing it again, and then it would just destroy. Yeah, just for being like, house. Whig characters that want to say something are always going to work.

It's such a funny move, you're right. Yeah, like you're not supposed to say something, but you want to. Like, surprise party woman. What is the name of the surprise? Linda. No, no, that's Anne Linda. Surprise party lady. I can't remember her name.

But yeah, same. Well, there's going to be something you can't say. Alexi still sometimes will just go, here at Takasawis? Because there was a... They tell her late there's going to be a surprise party at a sushi restaurant. Support comes from Viori. Oh, my God. Now, has Viori reached out to you, Keeve, and said, you know, your wife Liz is now basically our international spokesperson?

You know, they haven't yet, but I'm... I'm standing by the phone. I'm expecting that call. Because that was, I mean, it's almost an insult to Viori for it to be you and I now without Liz. But let me just say, I've never met a person whose life has been more positively affected by a new line of clothing than your wife Liz by Viori. You put a huge smile on her face. And I think our ad, among quads, if you looked at the graph, there's a big spike in Viori sales after that ad. Yeah. Now, if I see somebody walking down the street, like head to toe in Viori, it's almost like 95% they're going to say, Quaid army to me. Yeah, are they the ones that whisper it kind of as an aside, or are they the

yellers? They're the yellers, because let me tell you, the people who are Vioree, they got a lot of energy, you know what I mean? Because these are workout people. They're core short. You know, that's one short, every sport, soft, lightweight, breathable boxer brief liners can go from the gym to hang it out without changing the Sunday performance joggers are another favorite. Moister wicking fat. You're taking the words right out of my mouth. I am. Yeah, I'm taking it right out of it. Like, I was going to say moisture wicking fabric and five pockets. You didn't join me. I thought you were going to.

Oh, I know, but I like, it is fun hearing how you talk when you think someone's going to join you. Yeah, three with zippers, so your stuff stays put. Yep, you got it, Seth. God, hanging me out too dry. You know what you don't have to hang out to dry? The moisture wicking fabric of the Sunday performance jars. Of the tech polo.

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We've been talking about going to some of these like local art fairs to start. selling our homemade Lonely Island podcast shirts. Yeah, and I've been quilting, and that's just exactly how I want to sell it. But I've been worried about, like, the details of trying to become a small business. I don't want to bring a big old change box and say, and I'm cash only. I certainly don't want to be dealing with checks. No, I need people to be able to pay with their phones and whatnot. Well, that's why Shopify is behind 10% of all the e-commerce in the U.S.,

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We've been talking about it for so long. Yeah, I know. It's been long enough. It's like 80 episodes in. We haven't sold a single thing. If you want to see less cards being abandoned, it's time for you to head over to Shopify, sign up for your $1 per month trial and start selling today at shopify.com slash lonely island. All right. Now we have a very, I mean, this is a really classic, awesome one. I didn't remember we did Reba and Shairani back to back.

I certainly didn't either. There's an off week, because this is December 5th. The last one was the 21st, so we had a couple weeks there. But still, back to back shows. Fucking heat. Bring in the heat. So, Yorm, you weren't really here this week. This was a Magrouber edit week. Yes.

And I know that because I remember as me and Andy. Andy tortured ourselves through the week with nothing and had a few. Andy, do you remember what our stopped attempt was? There was one that we went down the road on. We had a whole song written that she approved. Really? And then we were like, it's not good. It was a theme song for Planet Earth.

Oh, right. Yeah. And it was to the same beat. It was all basically being, it started off just like sort of as a riff on like when people are repping for their city. Yeah, yeah. Like, but I'm from Earth. And we were like, what if somebody did one of those for Earth?

and it kept it going into how all these snooty astronauts keep trying to go to the moon and leave Earth. Is it not good enough for you? And it was pretty funny, but we knew it was like a B and wasn't quite making us laugh. But we had had the idea for Shai Rani before that, and we kept not doing it because we were like, it's too similar to Saxman, and we don't want to blow that in case we ever did a Saxman video. And then finally we got to the point where we were like, should we just record it? and then we recorded it wrote it and recorded it

I want to say in like less than an hour it came so fast but it was late Thursday night Oh yeah it was like four in the morning And I remember like calling Yorm because Saxman is a Yorm joint And he wasn't even there

And we're like we hate everything we've been doing We have to go somewhere on it It's Thursday night at like midnight Or 1 or 2 a.m We're fucked here We're trying one We acknowledge it is ripping off your Saxman Structure.

Premise The premise Yeah exactly A different character But it's the format of Saxman. No, I remember being very pleasantly flattered that we were basically doing

within our group, like, comedy-on-comedy crime. Like, hey, is this okay? I was like, yeah, man, this is... I mean, it certainly wasn't the first time it wouldn't be the last where we were like, we know that there's a little bit of crossover, like, structurally. Yeah. But it was also just like...

I think we had maybe talked a few times about, like, it would be great to do a video for Saxman. and worrying that if we did Chironi, that it would make it that we wouldn't. It's funny because they seem like such different worlds to me, I feel like it would be fine. Yes, you could definitely do that. We did a lot of overthinking, I feel like.

I think we still could do a Saxman video, and it would still be super funny. Yeah. Yeah. The funny thing would be how Lauren would have responded if you said, like, in between dress and air, it's too close to Saxman. Pull it.

We got to pull it. He would have slapped me with the back of his glove. Okay, this is the way. This is a dumb question, but again, I'm on Geva Penton right now, right? This is the first Shairani that we're talking about? Yeah. We're not talking about the thing. Yeah.

So, Keev, like, yes. I just remember that I was there at the beginning of the week, and we met with her. I don't think I recorded her at all, though, like, but we met with her, and I remember, like, they're being like, oh, we were feeling each other out and da-da-da-da. And then we played her Ross Trent. Yeah, this is the Ross Trent week that we talked about a little bit during the Ross Trent. Yes, yeah, yeah. But I just, like, remember being so geeked at how watching her. laugh at that. She was the perfect audience for Ross Trent. Just every reference got everything

was like looking at her people like, these motherfuckers. And I was like, oh my God. It was the audience we had been waiting for for Ross Trent since we had made it. Somebody from the Caribbean who would understand everything that was in it. It was the only person we had ever looked in the face who knew what we were doing. How did you know that? Also, if it's not implied, we were huge Rihanna fans. Yeah. Which, by the way, it's Rihanna. Which we learned also that week.

She told us it's Rihanna, and we were like, why don't you correct people? She's like, I don't care. I also know it's Rihanna, and I still say Rihanna because it feels like it's, one, I know she doesn't care and two. It seems like you're saying it wrong. It's almost like Rihanna is her stage name. She had already recorded on the song

because we did our temp, which was Andy, as usual, our Thursday 2 a.m. temp. And Andy went, Rihanna and Shireani. And then she was so great at recording exactly Andy's inflections to get the jokes perfect. And she did that. And then it was like either just before or just after, I heard her say her name to somebody else out loud. And I went, why did you just say Rihanna? Wait, is your name Rianna?

She's like, it's fine either way. And I'm like, what does your mom call you? And she's like, Rihanna. And then I was like, and by the way, it's Robin after all that. Yeah. But it's always funny to me when people say that because you're like, well, then there is a right answer. Like, you answered it. It's like, no. The other one's wrong. The person who knew it first, who named you. Yeah. I think it, but like, look, her vibe is very much like, it's all good. No, it was the best. The fact that she was repeated Rihanna in the song, it didn't matter

at all. By the way, I relate as a Schaefer Schaffer. My mom is diehard Schaffer, but her parents said Schaefer. And that's why I'm not a stickler when people get it wrong, quote, unquote. know who sticks a little for you. Liz. Yeah. Your wife will... She'll correct people. Which I like.

Yeah. Well, Liz doesn't fuck around. If someone asks me, I tell them Schaffer, but I don't care. I try not to be prone to exaggeration. I believe this is the best a human being has ever looked on film. And that is... Yeah, yeah. That is Rihanna.

That is not Samberg. But truly cannot take my eyes off for, no matter how many times I've watched it. Yeah, it's... star shit. She's just so magnetic. As soon as we started shooting, we were like oh, oh, God. Well, were you guys, we guys talk about the shoot a little bit? Yeah, we should talk about it. Because I remember

seeing you the next day, and it was a very funny way to see both of you. I think we've alluded to this, or maybe talked about a teeny bit in the past, about this is our... I think we have. Where we've lost all credibility with our peers and bosses at SNL was on this one. Oh my God, I love it. As

judges of our own work, of having any perspective on what we're doing. Well, to be fair, to be fair, you were fucking exhausted. I remember just looking at you and me like, oh, shit. Like, I actually got to edit McRuber and I got to go home sort of on time and then just seeing you and being like, oh, that's what my life is like just looking at a man who's just like beaten and like fucking what the fuck is this shit? We knew that Rihanna was down to do a short all week.

So we were not going to stop. And as Andy said, we had made a whole other song. So we had stayed up all night, probably Monday night, definitely Tuesday night, definitely Wednesday night, and definitely Thursday night. So we were, yeah, we were crazy people. Oh my God, you were basically finished with editing. We were shot, also in the middle of a stretch of shows,

but ended up being worth it. Yeah. Well, but no, but here let's talk about it, though, because honestly what happens a lot at the show is that we're waiting around for the host to be able to be available, and oftentimes that conflicts with the rest of the show. And so she was unable to make it,

and like it got shorter and shorter, and you're going to burn out the host. Yes, we built sets. We built a set for the mountain, top from the mountain top down to the boys and go so we had a mountain top set did we have a third set andy because obviously we had the classroom set that the short is in we had three sets there was a mountain top and it was fire and ice so it was like a snowy mountain and then like a fiery like yeah i can't remember what it was volcano set or something yeah it was at least three

i thought you had four so we had three sets we had a noon shoot time planned and she showed up at 8 p.m and we hadn't recorded the song yet at that point we had our version but not hers. Right. And so at 8 o'clock, the crew has been sitting on their hands for eight hours being paid. Nothing has been shot yet.

And then we have to very nicely go upstairs back to our office with her to calmly record the song. Yeah. By the way, we only have 15 minutes. So we're like, okay, let's get started. And we... By the way, this was the first for us too

is they kicked us out of our office. Yes. Her team came in. They put silks over all the lamps and dimmed all the lights and lit candles and then her and her engineer got on Yorm's computer

at his desk. His name was Marcos and he's lovely. Super nice. Fucking awesome. And they were like, okay. And we were like,

you don't want us to like talk to it through? She's like, I got it. Yeah, because she had heard our demo. And so we were like sitting outside on the couch like little kids. And then we could sort of hear it happening. Oh, my God.

And then they like open the door. She's like, okay. It took maybe 30 or 40 minutes, max. And they played it back for us and we were like, oh, shit, it's like

It was perfect. Yeah. It was exactly what you heard. She had any little comedic inflection that Andy had put on, you know, whatever the line is, keep up or whatever it is. Speak up. There you go. Speak up was perfect.

Andy, Andy, be honest, because I remember you being very proud. I remember you being like, it was like exactly what I did. Like exactly. But nobody can do that. I was proud of what I had written melodically that. that she was like, yeah, it's good, and then did it, and it sounded good, and I was like, shit. Yeah, you're talking about for the choruses.

Yes, yeah, yeah, in particular. Nobody can get the comedic inflections the same as anybody else, and I'm talking about the best comedians, like, in an animated movie, if you do temp, and fall in love with your temp, and then get the best comedian, they're putting it in their own cadence. People can't say lines the same way other people do,

and she perfectly did. Okay, Keith, hot takes. So you're saying that you think Rihanna is talented. Yeah. Payback. I do. Then I know we're going to do the watch as well, because then you have less time to shoot it than you would have.

While we're sitting on this couch waiting for her to record, not knowing how long it's going to take, the entire crew is still down on, I think, your floor, I think on your stage where you do your show now, just sitting on their hands. How long did you guys actually have to shoot? Because I thought you had like 45 minutes to shoot with her or whatever. As it goes down to over, as it turns into overtime, yes.

And then, again, this whole week started because her team, her manager stuff, came into us before we even met her and said, she would love to do one of your shorts. And we were like so flattered, but clearly, in hindsight, it was them just saying, like, we think it would be great if she did one of your shorts.

Yes. Not to say she ever was against it, but it was not clearly something where she was like, I got to do it. She was lovely, but it was so funny then because then, after showing up at 8

and then doing this, and then we get down there and we're finally about to roll cameras at 10, and they're like, how long is this going to take? You can have her for like an hour. And we were like, And it was the exact same people who had to do it.

And by the way, they came in. I was standing next to you, Keeve, when they said that because we had, and I, by the way, standing next to you dressed like Shireani. And we had been waiting the eight hours or whatever. And they were like, I guess we'll just shoot the one set. No, we didn't even know that yet. We were like, well, we can still get it all. We're just going to go crazy late.

Yeah. And they were like, hey, we got to get out of here. We could maybe do like 45 minutes. I think you guys shot for 45 minutes. And like, and granted, it's all unsteady, which is like, great. It has like the sheen of money. It looks super nice. As soon as you cut, as she walks on camera, you're like, oh, that's all you need.

It's going to work. Yeah. But by the way, just imagine me, Seth, dress like Shairani after the publicist walks away, turning to Akiva and going, I can't believe this. We're out of our minds. We've been up all night for a week. Yeah, we're basically speed freaks at this point. And now we're 11 hours late for a shoot.

But it was so funny the next morning because I don't know how much you slept, Keith, but I walked in. to the editing room and you were so mad you were like it's fucking ruin yeah yeah well don't you know i mean that's the end of this thing so at 10 30 at night we finally go okay let's just through the classroom we'll just shoot every shot at her and we'll let her leave so we got every one of her takes really quickly 45 minutes and she left then i did andy's same direction of andy stuff and i think had we stole some of the kids stuff during the day because also the kids couldn't be there all day I want to say we got the kids after she left. Yeah, you would have to.

Right, because they're in some of her shots in the wide, obviously. So I think after she left, we got the kids. I don't know how, I don't know if at some point we sent kids home and got a new batch of kids. I have no, I have no idea how those kids were there for so long because you can't have kids there. Anyway, in Prague, by the way. I shot a commercial there specifically so we could run that kid into the ground, shot for 16 hours with him. That's horrible. In Prague?

It is. I made them, I made them buy him a wee because I was like, you guys are fucking terrible. And they, like, just plied him. with absinthe or yeah sausages and like rye bread keep going keep keep going Seth that was a Prague joke

it was good I liked it thanks dude I know you're kind of into that area of the world I do want to say that it's shocking knowing how fast you shot this that means that like

her takes are like you probably had one or two options because again like outside of how great she sings it like facially she's perfect she's emoting all the things yes there's a few moments not to like out ourselves

there's a few moments where sync falls out that we normally wouldn't settle for. Towards the very end, she has a line that's completely interesting. Can I say something about it? So in seeing you, Keev, this is just a testament to Akiva. You're so convincing, you are so convincing that I remember looking at it and being confused because I was like, this is really, in my mind, I'm like, this is good, this is really funny,

and then looking at you being like, it's ruined, and being like, maybe it's ruined. Like I was like, maybe this is bad, and I don't understand things. Yeah, so, all right, so we shoot the things. and it's so it's whatever time it is now, 2 a.m. or something. And me and Andy are both, because we had all these sets built and we never went, even shot on them, and we don't know what we have, and we're like this thing. And it's the only time I ever went to bed after shooting.

Because you were so pissed. You're like, fuck it, who cares? I was so mad, and I was so tired. I was so convinced that we hadn't got it, that we didn't get the footage we needed, that I just was like, no, Andy, I'm coming home, like, we're sharing the car. No, like, we didn't live together, but I just mean, like, we live in the neighborhood, and I'm like, no, I'm getting in the car this time.

Every other time I would go right and edit. And I was like, it doesn't matter. I'm going to go to sleep. Everyone else. And so I just went home and went to bed. If you know Akiva, that's the most damning thing. Like, him not working. And I didn't race in the next day.

I slept till I wanted to sleep, and I came in at, like, noon. Usually, if I did ever go home, I was back, like, when we did the last two, here I go, sushi glory hole. I was the last one in the building before I went home that night. And I was the first one in the building Saturday morning, every time. That was both of us, too, on anything we ever worked on. Exactly. And this time, not at all. Got in at noon.

I was like, I guess I'll go check out this piece of shit. Went up there. And because we had no footage, it cut together so fast because I had no choices. Yeah. And so it was a little bit like the movie, the producers. You guys were like, you were in the lobby being like, it's a bomb. And then you just were like, oh, no, it's working. It's also funny because I think it actually serves the premise.

of it because you can't escape the awkwardness. You're not allowed to go to any other shit. No, it's in one set. It's a sketch. Andy spent the entire early afternoon on set, down on 8-H, blocking sketches with everyone going, how's the short? You have Rihanna in a short.

Oh, my God, what's it? And just being like, it's trash. It's the worst thing we've ever done. We got no footage. It's not going to work. I don't even think it'll be a dress. He was up there looking at it. So he was ruining his reputation the entire afternoon.

Such a little bitch. Just like, how is it? It's not. It's doing the Dave Chappelle Tia. I just made this little thing. Who gives us? We had two other sets for the choruses, Bill. Everyone's hearing that.

I'm upstairs just being like, oh. And then there was this moment, though, and it must have been after I talked to you, Yorm, where, like, enough cuts came together in a row because, you know, we always cut it chronologically, and it got to Andy's reveal as Shireani. And it was so clearly working just on. on a really obvious level.

And I think maybe it was Kenward or somebody who was in there with, laughing with me. And I was like, and I had been talking shit because people always came into our edit all day. Yeah, yeah. And I had been doing it. Well, speak on that, because because edit was Matt Yonks' office. And it was basically a breeze.

It was a hallway. It was like how you got through to the other side kind of thing. Yes. Also, and I'll say this, this is a little tidbit about Keev, doesn't care if there's people all standing around watching him.

him at it. And I would always be like, get everyone the fuck out of here. I need to focus. We need to talk. And he's just like he just doesn't have a thing in his brain that cares about that in the slightest. They weren't strangers, but I didn't care. No, but sometimes just randos would be walking around and they would

just stop in and be watching and I'd be like, can we? And you'd be like, what? I don't even notice. Yeah, I'm in the zone. You were just you're in the tank. I'm in a flow state. That's what Seth says. He's like, ooh, this guy's in the flow. He's in the flow. They're like, how's he doing? I'm like, in the flow. If there's a moral to this story, it's like, whatever you need done,

Rihanna can get it done in like 95 minutes. That's probably. You know what I mean? Whatever you think you can, whatever you think you need a day for. Yeah. And that's why the whole time she's like, yeah, it's going to be totally fine. Don't worry about it. Well, so yeah, so anyway, jump ahead, sorry, just to close the loop on it. Yeah. The funny moment of it, I didn't talk to Keeve about this. I was just down on eight. So I still believed it was terrible. He was sort of split, let's say. Yeah, I was coming. around and getting embarrassed. And then as usual, we met up on the floor at dress rehearsal to watch it play.

And, like, I would say, Keeve, like, the second the reveal moment happened and the crowd laughed really hard. We looked at each other and, like, our faces just fell. We were just like, oh, we suck. It's going to work. It was a mix of, like, holy shit, it's really good. And, oh, my God, we embarrass ourselves in front of every. Everyone we know.

Yes. Everyone we know we've embarrassed ourselves. The reason that that's so important is because the show was in so, like, so demanding of shorts, I'm just like, you've got to do one this week. Like, credibility mattered. So to be like, oh, no, did you just do one? And then do that. Yes, you're right.

I mean, it was also like when it ended, I felt this, like, weird, like, vibrating feeling of like, we just got away with the heist of the century or something, you know? We're just like, oh, God, like, the release. Beef was so palpable that it was going to work and we were going to be okay for that week. But then the whole rest of the night was bumping into people and them going, hey, it wasn't that bad. And I remember you guys, even at the after party, you're like, yeah, but there was like this mountain set. I mean, can you imagine how cool that we're going? We're like, fuck not really.

He cares. Everyone's like, just take the fucking win. It was a real lesson on so many levels. I think about it often in other scenarios when we're doing something where I go, maybe we don't need as much. Yeah. Like even on sushi glory hole where we're in that pitch. room there were moments where it was like the whole video could be in this pitch room if we bring in enough props like it's it's a shark tank and we can just be in there and if we just point to

things describing the sushi glory hole and they keep giving us looks and we keep trying to go to the exit they keep trying to exit and we keep pushing them back easily that whole video could be in that room yeah also because the two things have a similarity because there's something about being stuck in one place yeah is kind of the comedy of glory hole and you also feel like shirani like she's stuck with Shairani. And like, you almost feel like the character she's playing would only give Shirani one location. Yes. You know, if you saw them in four locations, you'd be like, why is she still doing this? Yeah, it reveals it's a music video, not a scene that's happening in real life. Yeah, Keith, will you real quick, re-edit that video to just be that one location? Yeah, real quick,

just do that. Yeah, I wonder if we got the footage, but we honestly might have. We had lots of good props in there and stuff and lots of footage of them leaving. We'll just do it. real quick for the There were definitely versions where we stayed in that room longer. Seth, I believe

you said the comedy of being stuck in one place is glory hole. Yeah. Which I just thought was kind of an interesting sentence.

Something for a shirt, maybe. Let's talk about the look. Shairani. It was based on the sun from a show, which show?

Oh. Does it bum you out that I think your hair looks better Shireani than it does in two worlds collide? No, and I fully agree

Shireani at least is an intentional and complete look I have a lot of love for Shirani Like when I see him, I feel for him God, where what show is it? Was it like hung? Was there a kid on hung? Oh, that sounds right. Is that what it was based on?

He was more like goth though But we were like this but bright red And I remember this is the only At SNL I remember us being like But it can't be too much much like Clementine from Daughery Girl. We got to make sure they're different.

It's like anyone knew what the fuck that was. Anybody watched that twice? He just erased your memory as soon as he saw it. Yeah, there. Oh, it was? Is that it? Yeah, what's the character's name? We're looking at pictures of Hung, the kid from Hung.

It was from the show, huh? Oh, my God, he came away from the second hour. We were obsessed with this kid because his look was so dope. Trying to get a bigger picture here. It's so good. Yeah, that's really good Oh shit That is Shireani, bro

Yeah, a little bit Charlie Saxon is his name Yeah, shout out Charlie Saxton, buddy I hope you're a fan of show I can't believe I pulled I pulled hung out of my head There he is He was funny on that show too

By the way, that's a really good reveal Years later if he does listen to the pod Be like, shit, that's what it was I do want to give credit Where Credits to Andy Shy Ronnie One, Rihanna To the Day

does more with small dance moves than anybody. I remember when she was, like, pregnant at the Super Bowl halftime show, somebody was like, gosh, it's like she's not even dancing. I was like, that was never her thing. Right, yeah. It's always just like, again, it's like these very subtle, whatever she's doing you wish you could do. I think what you're trying to say, Seth, is wind-pondy rhythm.

Hmm, yes. Yeah, you know, you always managed to put it in words that I'm far too nervous to try to say. And the other thing is you have multiple I'm a shy physicality moves over the course of it, Andy. Yes. I think there's a lot of truth in shyrani for me. And in all of us. Yeah, we all have a shy runny within. It's a bit of it like just two guys.

It's harnessing whatever that is. Yeah, your insecurities. You're well, frankly, shyness. And Seth, I don't mind telling you, I'm living. for it. This short is everything. All right, we're going to watch the short. Also, real quick, when I did day drinking, we talked about this and she has very fond memories.

That's nice. I think I've said this before, but my favorite thing about Rihanna is when I see her at things like an award show or something, I still to this day, don't know if she knows my name. She always just goes, Shairani! And I am thrilled to be acknowledged. Every time I see her, she's like, The kid from Hung!

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We like fire and nice Taking over the whole world From the mountain tops Down to the boys and girls And the street of knowledge you grow because we plant the sea we're the teachers a bit so we got just what

you need shout around it can't turn my end I'm not sure speak up to speak up shout run speak up

okay I'll take it from here Yeah, yeah. So he does the fit he said, ha-ha. I will say that's the longest we've ever in a watchdown. It's the longest we've ever watched anything because I'm like captivated. Capitated.

And there's no jokes. She's just doing it, but it's good. She's killing it. The second okay, which now we know she's just copying Andy, but it's perfect that she fits a second one in. Yeah. By the way, her dancing that you were just talking about, I'm like, yep, you're doing a lot with a little.

Yep. And it's, yeah, more than any of us could do with a lot. Her performance, acting performance, is just perfect. And I remember looking at the monitor, just being like, oh, my God. Because she, again, heard this song for the first time an hour ago, recorded it 45 minutes and has to now remember all the things to say, and they're not, like, necessarily rhythmic. Yeah. There's not necessarily, you know, in terms of when she has to say them.

It's very hard to say these things in sync. We have been unbelievably blessed in our, all of our careers to work with some unbelievably talented people and making them do stupid shit for the most part and there's so many dumb moments that you've had. I had it with the McGurber series of just like looking at Sam Elliott

and be like, damn he's good at acting and like just but same thing like Rihanna you're just like oh shit you see certain people on screen and you're like wow they should be famous yeah they should be like professionals of this. Also she's obviously she has to match

what she's recorded and Some people, me, for example, would be so in your head that you would not be able to have the great acting performance. She's also a perfect representation of someone to whom something is dawning on. You know what I mean? Like it is dawning on her that this is bad now. Yeah, like, oh, this is maybe not going to work. Yeah. She went into it with all the hope in the world.

Well, by the way, shout out to the kid who you got the cutaway of, because him talking to the tree of knowledge of knowledge of grows and the cutaway of that kid. Doing a great nod. Yeah, the kid nodding is a nice Akiva cut. He's taking notes. He's learning. She's planting the seed of knowledge. Is this a good time to mention that Seth was a clue in the mini? Oh.

Okay, let's go on. Let's keep on. I mean, he brought up the mini earlier in his great puzzler joke. He was trying to get us to talk about it. Yeah, but we didn't take the bait. Yeah, he was trying to take it. I'm fucking real. We didn't take the globe weight.

They sent me a little award. I did pay for it. It's only 5K. Mentioned in the mini. Made the mini. It's the littlest award. I can't even see it. It's just written on a gum wrapper and sharpies.

It's a little stamp. By the way, on the website, when you pay the five grand, you doesn't tell you how little it is. He's got a picture of it. Five grand for that award. You made the mini. You know, that's how they make half their money now. It's next to an Oscar on the website.

You're like, oh, it's that big. And then when I called in, they're like, that was a tiny Oscar. Right. It's a little chocolate. It was a novelty Oscar. Either way, that has happened to us on Amazon before. Mari bought a mirror, and then it was a doll's house mirror.

Yeah, that happens to people. Yeah, that's a whole, there's a whole, like, Twitter threads or whatever about it. Reddits. I forget what it's called. What's the other really cheap website that people buy things online? That's the one that's really notorious for it. Ah, fuck, I forget what it's called. Alibaba.

No, no. Timu? People get T-mood a lot. Oh, people get T-mood. I heard Etsy got turned out because it's all AI images now. All right, let's keep watching. It's okay. Okay, that one. She hates her guts there.

Oh, yeah, we get them rocking. Oh, yeah, all hell of uncomfortable. Those kids killed it. It just says knowledge. Yeah. No. No. Move the mic away from your face.

Come on. Thank you. I love that line. Oh, no He pissed himself Yeah He pissed himself Oh boy

Should have just Kaye con yet Age is the best of all the jokes They were known for their collabs Bye-bye Ha-ha He's trying to be like 50 Yeah

She's stupid because life is a bitch She's super suspicious She thought she heard maybe some hard raps Yeah I don't need no beat I'll keep her in a cappella You should hang with me because my name is shy Ronnie Oh my god

It's amazing to me how much I still love your ha ha It's like it's one of my favorite things I think we only got her exiting twice, and that's why that last line's out of sync. Yes, yes. Well, because we did it all in a oneer. Yeah, and then the exit required the cameraman to be in a different position to be able to do that. No idea what a one-er is, and I wish somebody would make a show that helped explain it. Oh, my God, so lit. Fucking so many Emmys, though.

That episode is fantastic, and I don't even like you pretending to make fun of it. It's absolutely fantastic. You kidding me? It's cringy, though, like on purpose, you know? Oh, yeah. Yeah, like, he's messing things up. He has to put, he puts on the shirt. Yeah, you're like, stop doing that. Let's get the other Seth's voice note in here for that.

So I noticed, I believe at the time even, he pissed himself. Like, that is how we originally recorded it for her to do, and then she did. And it's literally just, don't stop believing. Oh, yeah. Well, now we're going to get sued. Wait, wait, wait, wait, back it up. I want you guys to explain when you say the lyrics are out. explained that.

Oh, out of sync. Just like that, her mouth is moving and the lyrics are not perfectly... Okay. Now that you've explained it, Keev, now there was a moment we were shooting a music video. I can't remember.

I fucking Kiva comes in. I'm editing. He comes in, he's like, dude, that's way off. That's one fucking clip. It's way off, way off. He goes, we go back and forth, back and forth.

Now it's good. And I'm like, you know how many frames that was? That was one. It was one frame. I do notice one frames off a lot. Yeah, I know you do. I'm going to go ahead and join this.

and say I also notice me. Yeah, I know you do too. For timing sometimes, like cutting out of a joke or something, one frame is the difference. Yeah. The amount I was doing that on the last two, on the sushi glory hole and the, here I go, because I wasn't necessarily editing every frame myself,

so sometimes we'd take a chunk from them, and then I would just be like, yeah, but they're all out of sync. Like, nudge that one, nudged. Diva's pretty good at, too, once he focuses in on it. But it drives me nuts. Once he's been around you, Basically, anybody who's been around you gets a lot better at it.

You know what's really impressive, though? When you go watch old movies, musicals, say Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, whatever. I mean, I don't want to name just Julie Andrews ones. But you know what I mean? They are... Put them on blast. Well, you know what?

I do. I do just want to name Julia Andrews' ones. I do. Put a mom, blast key. My fair lady, Julie Andrew's voice and Audrey Hepburn's face. They are perfect. Oh, they're perfect. I think we're going to say that they were not.

You know what I mean? Like, you watch singing in the wrong. and they're perfect. And I'm always like, damn, they were editing this analog and they look like they're singing it. And I'm like, we are cheating stuff with computers doing nudges and stuff that would be really hard to do. Yes.

I'm very impressed and confused how they were able to make them perfect. Let me jump in, though, because they rehearsed a thousand times and they're running all those and wonders. A lot of that is that the performers were that on point. Yes. But we're talking about something that we put together in under 24 hours. Yeah. Yeah, and I mean, honestly, some of the other lines that she appears to be in sync are the reason it's a very short cuts is because she'd get one line on and then one line would be late, and I would use the different part of it and move it over.

But, like, ultimately what you're saying, Keeve, is you're a little disappointed in her. Hot take. Oh, that's interesting, Seth. I thought what he was saying is that we're as good as singing in the rain. Yeah, definitely. Hot take. Shireani is singing in the right. There we go.

So, hey, nobody wants. I was trying to do a different button. Sad take. There are four buttons. Two of them are. That was actually a good, that was a good preamble to what I'm going to say here, because it's logic police, which I've never noticed until today in my rewatch. Shit. Which is, had Shirani not choked in his moment, right?

Had he done it at full volume, it was a wildly inappropriate song for those kids. Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? We don't know what he was saying the rest of the time. It was just at the end when he comes to night. The lyrics are always about the two of them. And like, it's very... What is the rap?

It's like a rap song about the two of them. Because life is a bitch and like... Hers is all about like, I don't know. Like, it seems very like positive. Yeah, knowledge and... He's cursing. Power and the world. Yeah, he's cursing.

Well, it's, yeah, I'm shy running and I'm running this bitch. It's basically like real bravado rap. And I'm running this shit. You know, I stay steady strapped because life is a bitch. He has a gun. Like, why is he... It seems like he let her down in a lot of different ways. And it's a mistake to think it's just that he pissed himself and got the mic too close and wasn't loud enough.

I do like at the end that he does the classic I don't need no beat And I don't need it's like straight at a mile Yeah that's how confident he is That's the ultimate confident MC move I don't need to fuck a beat But he's worried he's worried she's gonna come back a second time So he doesn't go full volume

Wait was that also because Nause's major look Had just come out too in that era Oh maybe Because I did like the end of that hard ass I mean it's a classic thing that happens when the beat cuts out And they say they don't need it They keep going You know what?

We, not they. We. We. We say, oh, yeah. Real-life emcees. Yeah. The next time, I'll also say, when Rihanna came back, and we ended up doing the Ronnie and Clyde one, I felt such pride when she was, like, showing up to the office being like, boys, what are we doing? And, we're like, we're...

Yeah, we earned it. Like, the opposite feeling, when on some of these episodes, when we're like, we had Tom Hanks and we did one that we felt shame over or whatever, or Steve Martin. and we did surf meetings, and you kind of have this thing hanging over you of like, man, we got a shot, you know, somebody that's a hero or who were just such massive fans of and we didn't deliver the opposite when it's true feels very good, too, to have that like under your belt and they come back and there's a shared history and you feel like you delivered for that person, and it feels good. Also, Steve Martin, I will throw it out again.

If we can ever figure out scheduling, does want to come on and talk about his memories of surf meeting. I mean, we should just ask him for some times and then just make it happen. Yeah, just make it happen. It seems like nothing could possibly go wrong with that. Yeah, absolutely. We won't embarrass them again. We won't embarrass them again.

That's the kind of joke that people who don't know about the 7,000 text and phone calls to get this scheduled. Hey, can I say something, no? Can I say something from those of us that are bedridden? I'm available, like a lot of the time. I like how it's kind of turned you into the ladies' man. Yeah.

Well, I'm ready. You guys want to get on the mic. I got a text. from Tim Meadows the other day. That was a photo. He was sending photos on set for some whatever TV show he's doing it. Yeah, but what was great about it,

I'll just hold it up, see if you guys can say it. Timmy. So it's him, Leslie Jones, and that other actress that I forget her name. Him, Leslie Jones, and another actress.

And then underneath it, it says sent by mistake, but enjoy. But enjoy. Yep, just a great photo that was not meant for me. By the way, I got the same photo. So, Tim Meadows, what the fuck is your problem?

That would make sense that it was, maybe it was to you, though. So maybe he confuses us. Yeah, well, that would make sense. I know it's one of those guys with a beard. He says, hope your PT is going swimmingly. It is, Tim. Thank you so much. This one had, again, a long tail.

You guys got to do another one. It's very special. Definitely, definitely Sweet 16 all time. Definitely criterion for me. Look at that. Andy, you did it on stage once, but it was not with her. You just came out on stage as her I mean obviously at our concerts

No, it was it was Santi was doing a show in New York and she was like Do you want to come do something at my show And I was like Well, this isn't something that we did together But do you want to bring me out as Shai Rani She was like oh my God fuck yeah

That's right I know we went to that show But what was the bit What did you do? I can't remember The bit was I met someone who wants to Because she has the

She I think she still And definitely at that time Had her two friends That were her like full on Just dancers for her whole show and they were so good and awesome. And so I pitched in, she liked, that I was auditioning to be her third backup dancer.

I can't remember exactly how it went, but it went well. It was super fun. It was at that huge hall, right? Like the one of Manhattan, right? City Hall. Yeah, city hall, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And at our concerts, it was always a treat

to hear the audience go wild when Shy Rodney would come out because he's the opposite of somebody that you should go wild for. But it was same for, I came out with you guys, of Just Two Guys, because we're all in that same spirit. It's basically the same crew.

At the end of our Just Two Guys set where we did a medley, we would always go into Hits of the Day, me and Yorm. So it would be like, we've talked about this before, but it would be like, how much money you got a lot, how many bitches you got a lot, which is a 21 Savage song, or various other ones. But then how did we transition, because we transitioned to the Drake.

God's plan. God's plan. And then Shireani would come out and do God's. plan God's plan God's plan what was what was our transition

do you remember because I know me and Yorm would have to go oh now for a special treat ladies and gentlemen shy Ronnie and then you come out and I just come out in pain

and like wincing at the light and then we were we were cooler than you yeah exactly we were really mad at oh yeah we played Rihanna we were the ones being like

Messing it up, dude. You're missing it up. Say the words. Say the words. Oh, my God. He doesn't even know them. And then we would, yeah, we would kick you off stage. And then when we would leave.

And then there would be a hard rap when you guys were. It was a 6-9 beat that came in. Before he snitched. Oh, my God. Before he snitched, though. Hey, before he snitch, we didn't know. Snitching. Jake Tapper made this and was mad that I hadn't shown you guys.

I kind of forgot to, but that's his. Oh, my God. He drew that? Oh, my God. Yeah, he drew that. He's great. Oh, he's a good artist. Yeah, he's a, it was State of the Cartoonian.

Do you remember we used to do that on his show? Only me. I'm the only one that watches the Sunday new show. Yeah, no, we remember. Wink. Wait, who's, obviously, it's the three of us. I'm the lady and it's your faces. Why are you a lady?

Well, I'm the woman with the three breasts in total recall. Got it. So you have her hair. Yeah, I think that that might be T-shirt material. Wait, why do I look like Mark Cuban? Oh, yeah. Why are you so furious. Your arm looks a little chubier than I think your arm.

And so does Keith. It's clearly at least Yorm. Yeah. Identify Keev and Yorm as themselves. And then also Mark Cuban is with them. Shark tank. That's got to go. That's got to pop up.

We got to show that to people. Because that's fucking, that's awful. So Tapper, I think now is probably regretting that I've fallen through and showed it to you guys. But that's... I mean, Tapper, thanks, but no thanks on the Mark Cuban. Yeah, you got cubed. I disagree. I'm very impressed with your side hustle.

It could be worse. Mark Cuban's a handsome, rich man. Congratulations. Never thought when I woke up this morning. I was going to get cubed. that is what that is Hey this is great We're going to put a pin in a couple other things

Yeah because we're long We're long and we're not going to look We're not in this to If we got content We need to chop it up Yeah Keep it small Yeah chunkable

But I do want to talk about And I got a voice note from O'Brien That will play the next episode I'm sorry Mike Because they did text him Midway through this one And he had to scramble Because underground music festival

Which is one of my favorite sketches Had its first airing Oh yeah Oh it's good Yorm, of course. You were the V-O. I said, why did you pick Yoram? So we'll find that out the next episode. I did. Potato Chip finally airs. Oh, fuck. This was a good app. This is a crazy good app. And ladies bowling. Ladies bowling. That's a second of the ESB. And guys, a cold open cess corner that I'm perfectly happy to talk about. And so those are all things we're going to do a cleanup episode then. This is great.

Yeah, we're going to do a clean episode. We're going to talk about some stuff. Well, maybe we'll have a dud next. I'm going to guess next episode is a dud just based on. having two good ones in a row. I'm saving, I'm backlogging some really fun sketches that we had very little to do with because we do like talking about our colleagues and how brilliant they are.

You don't have a shy Ronnie or a two worlds collage. Yeah, tune in next week. It's going to be a dud, you guys. We're doing a dud. Kevin, which one's next? What's the dud? Yeah, what is it? What is the dud?

What's the guarantee dud? Name that dud. I was doing that a lot when I was getting x-rays in the hallway at Rusk and people didn't appreciate it. I was doing like, wind down selector.

And then I was like playing reggae hell of loud in the hallway because my dude who was pushing me around was like, I'm from Jamaica. And I was like, oh shit. Have you heard this? Here we go. No woman, no cry.

No woman in the row cry. Have you heard? Oh my God, I love reggae. Have you heard legend? Wind down selector. Wind down selector. Tizzle whizzle's a goody. Tizzle was good.

So we were on a bit of a run here, Seth. All right. Tizzle Whistle Show. I have no memory of Tizzle Whistle. It's a very solid. You're going to love that one. Thought you were a friend, man. Didn't make this 64.

Okay, how about this? Yes. I bet I'm going to like Tizzle Whistle less than you guys think I'm going to like Tizzle. Oh, for sure. I know you will. I know you will. And I'm not saying I'm in the right or anything. I'm just saying like ones I don't remember are often.

Yeah. It didn't make your top 64, clearly. Well, we're going to find out next week. And Seth, I swear to God, I mean this when I tell you, I'm living for it. I mean, I would love to say bum me out But I liked it all three times I like it because it's not making fun of current slang It's old just old enough

That I'm ready for it again It's like a classic tweener Nobody's calling it back It's not retro yet And it's not fresh It's just like in the dead middle Seth, how long have you know me Would I ever bullshit you?

No, you would never bullshit me Okay, so here's the truth I'm obsessed Oh, I like it a lot All right, so nice to talk to you guys Also, can I tell you guys something When I came home to visit my parents I met him in a restaurant

I had a big old Guinness And I've been a little bit drunk this whole time You son of a Gunderson Oh, you had just from one pint of Guinness Just kind of did you up I don't know, I think it's because I woke up Really early to get our travel day started And I just hadn't eaten enough

And I'm pretty lightheaded And fuck, I've just loved this last fucking 90 minutes so much Oh, Seth, Seth, I didn't tell you guys this But I'm on 10 different pain killers right now No, you told us Oh, I did? Yeah Oh, that's crazy to me

Oh, anyway, tune in next week When we have a dud of an episode DUD. That's the DUD sound? This is the Prometheus sound, you guys. All right, I'm calling it. Love you guys. Love you, too.

Love you. Later, Arnold. Later, Quates.