The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast - The Naked Gun: A Preview

Episode Date: July 30, 2025

This week Andy, Akiva, and Jorma chat about the making of The Naked Gun, directed by Akiva, and starring Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson. They also do a part two in taking listeners behind the scenes of the 2009 MTV Movie Awards, reminiscing about more favorite moments with fellow writers. We hear guest voice notes from Paul Rust, Matt Murray, Tim Kalpakis, and Scott Aukerman! The Naked Gun officially releases August 1st, 2025. The Naked Gun | Official Trailer | https://youtu.be/uLguU7WLreA?si=OsFevMm-KbbMcc9STeam America: World Police | Gary Pukes Forever | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKqGXeX9LhQDelgo Trailer | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gi8ZG7UE5QSacha Baron Cohen Lands on Eminem’s Face | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAnBes__11YDirty Harry - Sudden Impact - Meathead rips a fart | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XEjC8IDmKsGet Your The Naked Gun Tickets | https://www.fandango.com/the-naked-gun-2025-240147/movie-overview?date=2025-08-01Not all the clips we mention are available online; some never even aired.Photos and anything else mentioned in the episode can be found by following us on Instagram @thelonelyislandpod. QuinceLet your bed match the season with cool, relaxed bedding from Quince. Go to Quince.com/ISLAND for free shipping on your order and three hundred and sixty-five -day returnsVuoriGet 20% off your FIRST purchase. Get yourself some of the most comfortable and versatile clothing on the planet at vuori.com/ISLANDWonderful PistachiosGrab a bag today. www.wonderfulpistachios.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's the Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast. Hey, uh, Keev, do you mind if we start off this sesh with, like, just a little bit of gushing? Because both me and Andy have seen your movie and, not blowing smoke here, it's fucking great. It's so funny. It looks amazing. it's kind of an action movie in parts and also just a hilarious comedy. I just want to compliment you and I just want to say that I think I speak for both me and Andy. When we say, when I say, we're both really proud of you, man.

That's very heartwarming. I didn't care for the film. Oh, shit. Oh, wow. Well, you know what, it was good. This is why people tune in, because controversy. Thank you, Yhorm. That's very nice.

No, of course. It's very good. We're all excited. Very excited. And this is kind of a special episode because we finally got rid of the dead weight. Fucking Seth, we all know. And the three of us just kind of chatting about your movie and asking you some questions. Yeah.

And Seth, to be fair to him, he wanted to join in his flight was just late, so he's not at a computer. How dare you defend him? That's fair. He was flying to meet up with the Bezos on their honeymoon, right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. He loved the wedding so much, he's like,

I'll give you guys a couple of weeks and then I gotta see you again. We gotta run this back. Yeah, Seth right now is helping Jeff Bezos figure out what color he wants his cup holders to be on his spaceship. And so it's really important that he's not here. Now, is plural of Bezos Bezos? Or is it Bezai? Oh.

Anyway, Keev, tell them when the movie's coming out. The movie's coming out this Friday, I guess Thursday night, right? There'll be some Thursday night screenings. And it was funny, me and your, we were texting just before this, and I called him real quick because I was like, the movie's about to come out. This is the podcast episode that would promote it. But on our podcast,

it feels weird to just do actual promotion. So that's why Jorm was starting by being so generous. But I have been doing press all week. I have genuine answers for people that would be interested in seeing the movie, but it's also a little odd to be that, I don't know, genuine. Genuine and forward with promoting a movie? Well, here's the thing, it is fucking great.

Well, take this, because I consider the Quaid army my family. Thank you. Honestly, it is disgusting, which leads me to, don't forget Digman's still on Comedy Central, which is a network on cable television. If you miss it on Comedy Central, don't worry because you'll be able to check it out on Paramount+.

I don't have anything to promote, but I am going to do a Walmart commercial soon. Be sure to check that out, guys. Keev, you shouldn't be shy about promoting your big-ass IP studio comedy in theaters. That's the thing. You have to get the word out. Yeah. And the other thing is that I'm genuinely interested in some of your answers to some of these questions. And I'm sure we'll ask you a couple more because it's fun to actually find out about the moviemaking process. And Andy and I will jump in. And then anything

you feel uncomfortable about, because these are going gonna be some fucking hard-hitting questions, we can cut out. BOWEN Well, thank you. I appreciate the hard-hitters. I mean, what we all can speak to and have on this podcast is the feeling of when a movie's gonna be in theaters in five days and it isn't, you know, a Marvel Fantastic Four where there, you know, there's a certain built-in amount of people

that are going to see it no matter what. But how do you get the momentum? I don't know. So that's why it was important to promote to the Quades a little bit right now, to be like, go see it that first weekend so that it gets a little momentum potentially. And I will also say, I've talked to many comedy people who are incredibly excited about it just based on all of the materials you've been releasing,

but also in an extremely self-serving way, everyone's really excited that it does well so that comedies do well in general. So a lot- Oh, but no pressure though. Yeah, no pressure. So just, but get out there guys. I mean, yeah, that's right.

Well, what do you want to ask me about it? Because you already know. Do you want me to tell you what the junket asks me over and over and then tell you my answer that I've given 20 times? No, no, the big first question that I do want to ask, and I think I was feeling when you were first starting to write it, and just decided to do it was just like we love the originals, all like all three of the originals, but really like we love them so much. And it is such an undertaking to jump in

and do something like that. What was the process like of wanting to make this in 2025? Okay, that's a genuine good journalist question. Thanks, you wrote it. I actually paraphrased it poorly. Tell us the answer, Keith. I mean, here's what I really learned that we all already knew,

but in going back as super fans of Naked Gun, right? But then going back and trying to be super analytical going back and watching and going, why do I think this one works when other ones don't? Right? Yeah. That was actually way more about the story of Naked Gun and how they broke down, like the screenwriting of telling a detective story that has to be so easy to follow, that you can put all the jokes on it and you're never confused.

But at the same time, not be boring because then you'd be bored. You know what I mean? Because we know when you're making a movie that's all jokes. It's why we were so happy to have Judd on Popstar, right? Because we were like, and he can make sure that we're making sure the story works and the emotional story works.

And at the end of the day, you're just like, you only care about Popstar if you're laughing the whole way through, but you're never gonna be laughing if you're confused or bored. Well, and that is truly how we had to think about MacGruber too, because like when you're quote unquote spoofing something, you kind of, you still need an original story to follow.

And I assume you probably learned a lot from doing Chip and Dale as well. Yeah, but almost everything from Pop Star applied to this in terms of, and then MacGruber only, I wasn't writing MacGruber with you guys. But the, remember on Pop Star how we knew the runtimes of every movie in the genre and how they were all under 90 minutes. And so on this, I re-looked at all them. The first Naked Gun is 85 minutes and the second Naked Gun is 85 minutes. Wow.

And so I- And how long is yours? 85 minutes. All right. Is that the perfect comedy line? Yeah. Yeah. It might be.

And I mean, we, as we all know, all of our favorites, whether it's Borat or Airplane or whatever, they're all under 90 minutes and it's really as part of it. But also it was like, when I described to you, like remind you what the first plot of Naked Gun is, it's extremely complicated yet it feels so simple when you watch it because it's about like a real estate tycoon, pillar of the community, who is super rich, but also on the side is available to terrorists to come to him and pay him $10 million to assassinate the Queen of England. He's doing both.

Then it's because he has sleeper cells, that like, Manchurian candidate, Telethon from Charles Bronson. But you watch it and go, oh, the story was so whatever, it's just the jokes. But you're like, oh my God, they have all these complex ideas being told so simply. Anyway,

so in terms of your great question about taking something from the past, the main thing I was taking was figuring out how they pulled off like the magic trick of making it the way it is. Then the other thing was just the spirit of who we all love, how they pulled off the magic trick of making it the way it is. And then the other thing was just the spirit of who we all love, right? Zazz, what was your first Zazz thing you saw? Zazz's Zuckers, Abraham Zuckers,

and they were David and Jerry Zuckers, their brothers. I think for me it was probably the first Naked Gun film. Was it really? It wasn't Top Secret? Top Secret was mine. No, Naked Gun and then realizing that you could also watch Police Squad and going back and being like, oh my God, there's more. And then, yeah, you guys were more up on Top Secret before me.

Top Secret was my introduction to it as well. I didn't even know there was no internet. So it was just a VHS my parents brought home that like changed the synapses in my brain. Top Secret was the first time that I found out that adults were allowed to be as funny as they are. That's exactly one of the ways I've been putting it all week when people ask me, Jorn. Yeah, yeah. You watched it at home because we weren't old enough, right? It was a VHS. Yeah, I got it. Was it a VHS? It must have been a VHS. I feel like I saw it at like a camp thing. Like they would like throw a video on

at the end of like a camp thing. And I remember being like almost scared for how funny it was. Like just like giggling, being like, oh, this can't continue to be this funny. Like the fucking Hinto joke sticks out, the fucking, the guy falling off of the castle and then breaking into a thousand pieces

because he was actually made of glass. Shattering like glass. The one I always think about was the, when they're on their like prone, like they're sneaking into the castle and they're in the grass and they're on their elbows and knees and really trying to stay really low. And then it does that shot where it's tracking back.

So as they track, they have all of a sudden a pair of boots is there and you're like, oh, he's fucked. Then he looks up and it pans, camera tilts up and it's just a random pair of boots. It's a camera movement joke. It's a camera joke. Yeah. So good. Yeah. Then it was just,

I mean, the thing I keep saying all week is like, then it was just trying to take the spirit of the originals and honor it and bring that forward into today while also trying to just make a new movie. Because no offense to all the reboots and sequels and everything, but the ones, well, there's two reasons to not do this one, like fan service. It's a fan service movie where it's just all nostalgia hits is one, I've enjoyed every one of those and I can't remember any of them. I don't even know all the ones I've watched. Because you just, they just go in one ear out the other.

They're not movies. They just are like weird fan fiction celebrations of the past. A lot of them, the way that they've been treated. How early, how early in the process did you actually think about updating the style of the film? Because it is more of a, I guess, what were your references and when did you decide to do a more updated visual version of it? I mean, right away before I even, I mean, that's part of what excited me was to do it. I mean, it's McGroober style, right?

Yeah. I mean, just to say the things I've been saying all week, it's because of Liam, right? Like when they asked if I wanted to do a Naked Gun, immediately I was like, no. Cause when you're going to reboot or remake or do a legacy sequel, you're supposed to be finding something that you felt had room for improvement. Something that was a little broken or that was just in such a different genre.

Like 21 Jump Street's a drama teen TV show. And then you go, Ooh, what if we made it into a movie comedy version? That's just a whole other thing. But otherwise you're supposed to be looking for things that were made, had a good idea, but they didn't nail it. Where you're like, ooh, now I can nail it. And the original Naked Gun has no room for improvement. It's perfect. So it's a fool's errand to try to do it again.

And Leslie Nielsen is one of one irreplaceable. So somebody chasing him would be set up for failure as well. Yeah. Again, things I've been saying all week. So I feel like a fraud here in my normal press. I just say it again. That's the secret with press guys. Why do we think Lady Gaga got so made fun of for repeating her press on, um, the

stars born for the, there can be one million people in a room, but whatever, who say no, you just need one to say yes. Andy, you remember the quote I'm talking about? Yeah, we did a joke about it at the Globes. Right. But what's funny is everybody does press junkets gets asked the same five questions. And if they gave you a different answer for every journalist,

they'd be lying. And if they're going to be an honest person, when you get asked the same question, you have the same answer. So is it because it was too clever of a thought and she did it? It was too sticky? She was too good at it? I think that everyone just is able to like immediately assemble a bunch of quotes and

just show that someone said something over and over again. But if I'm being honest, I haven't checked out your press stuff. So this is all new to me. Most of it hasn't run. It'll be next week. Okay, gotcha. And nothing I'm saying is a lie. It's just you end up realizing you're saying the same stuff over and over because you're

getting asked the same question and you're having the same answer. But I don't mind saying it again because I think it's, I want the Quaid army to know the actual truth and hear from me and hopefully go support the movie because at this moment, just like with Pop Star or with Hot Rod, I'm afraid it'll be a movie that people discover two years from now and go, oh, you know what? That thing was actually really good. Well, we've certainly had that experience. And I'm like, maybe this one has a shot to be the first one for us, where people can learn that the week it comes out.

Wouldn't that be neat? Instead of learning it later. I feel like it's going to be a similar thing with Digman, but mostly because it won't be available for streaming for two years. Digman, you're going to have this amazing library and one day it will go on. Maybe Paramount Plus will get really popular. Yeah. Skydance Plus.

Yellowstone would argue it already is. Yes, but with the audience that you're looking for and, you know, cause even the South Park audience, which is a perfect audience, I think they're watching it on HBO. You know what though, if you watch Digman and Yellowstone, hit us in the titties. Let us know. Yeah. Let us know if there's any crossover things that you think would work that we

haven't hit for promo. Like what would it be like for Dutton to be on the farm, but then next to him is Digman and they're talking about like horses and stuff. Oh my God. Yeah, that would be sick as hell. When I've watched comedies before, and I don't know how like everyone watches comedy, but to me, if there's one joke in a movie that I remember and I've laughed out loud at,

it was kind of worth seeing that movie. This movie has so many of those moments and moments that I think are incredibly memorable. And I do want you to shout out your writers, obviously, because they're very funny guys and they wrote Chip and Dale with you. But... Doug Mand, Dan Greger.

Very funny fucking dudes. Dug and Dan. Yeah, they're the fucking best and they're killers. But there are moments in this movie that I'm not gonna really because, well, maybe this has already come out, maybe you've already seen it. But there are moments that are so fucking I'm not gonna ruin, because, or maybe this has already come out, maybe you've already seen it, but there are moments that are so fucking funny and memorable, and you will take away, that I feel like it's a...

We can just beep it if it's one of those. Well, the f*** moment montage is one of the funniest things I've seen in a really long time. And it is, like, if it was just that moment. But there's like ten other moments like that, that I was like dying laughing at. So, to me, like, more than worth it just that moment. But there's like 10 other moments like that that I was like dying laughing at. So to me, like more than worth it to see this joint.

But will you go back to like who shot this fucking movie and what your references are? Yeah, yeah, back to it. So I wouldn't think it would be a good idea to do Naked and I remember even texting you guys, or at least Andy being like, oh my God, I just got asked about a naked gun. I remember. We all have the same reaction I think a lot of fans would have,

which is like, how are they going to ruin this thing on one hand, but then also morbid curiosity. I was like, well, I need to see what they did, or what's going to happen. But it was Liam Neeson, right? They said Liam Neeson is interested, and that's the whole other thing. So this is my long-winded way of saying,

you were talking about the visual references, and it's all, the moment it's him, I go, oh, the last 10 years, he's been doing take-in style movies where he's made this iconic action persona. And there's that clip of him from the cameo he did in the Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Warwick Davis show, where he is playing Liam Neeson in quotes. But the version of Liam is nothing like the real Liam. It is a version

of every one of those action stars where he's like a humorless, you know, badass and he comes in and goes, I want to do some improv or whatever it is. It's the funniest clip if you haven't seen it. And that was all you need to see to know he could do this. Yeah. Because he's clearly doing it in character and he's playing so dumb without letting you know that he knows he's dumb or knows that he's telling a joke. It's all right there. And so as fans, as we all are of the genre of noir and action and spy movies and detective

procedurals, like Naked Gun came out in 88. They were doing 1950s TV, like M Squad. They were doing a little bit of Dirty Harry, a little bit of Charles Bronson with Telephone, and then things like Double Indemnity and stuff. There's been 30 years of movies that we have been all watching whenever we can. If Jason Statham or Jack Reacher or, you know,

throw any others in here, but all the latest Bonds, all the Mission Impossibles, CSI Miami, whatever you want to say, you know, there's been so much. And so, if it was any other actor, they would be maybe trying to go towards what Leslie did, but Liam already had his thing. So it was already gonna be different.

We can make him his son to even further separate from Leslie. But anyway, so the visual things are just the shit that me and you like though, right? It's just 80s Tony Scott, right? It's Top Gun and true romance and Beverly Hills Cop 2. Those are the Tony Scots. shot Pop Star and he shot McGurber and he's been a friend of ours for a very long time. You know what movie I kind of not discovered,

but that I realized was like the perfect sweet spot was Tomorrow Never Dies, the Pierce Bronson middle of his run. Oh, really? It's because remember how over the lockdown, COVID lockdown, do you remember that? Me and Matt. Yeah. This is Matt Bennelli-Olpen who originally

lived as our fourth roommate with the three of us, and is from Berkeley and Oakland. He was kind of original Lonely Island. He was certainly in like original Lonely Island videos with us. And just to remind the audience directed The Last Two Screams and Ready or Not with his buddy Tyler. Radio silence. Yeah, that's their director team name.

Me and him started watching every James Bond movie in order from starting at the first one. Do you remember we were doing that? Yeah. And was that to make me and Andy jealous that you were like better friends with him now or like why, why did you do it? You live in New York. Okay. Well, yeah, you can easily do it simultaneously. Okay.

I was jealous for sure. He did join us for one, but it wasn't a Bond. What did you join us for Andy? I couldn't tell you, but I do remember. Okay. Well, anyway, you made us jealous. And then. I think it was a Dirty Harry.

Was it the first Dirty Harry? Oh yeah, it was Dirty Harry. Dirty Harry 2. It was Dirty Harry. Was it the first Dirty Harry? Oh yeah, it was Dirty Harry. Dirty Harry 2. It was so fucking good. Was it the first one? Yeah, the first one. So me and Matt watched every James Bond movie in order. And when it got to Tomorrow Never Dies, it was like when the old way jumped forward.

It became a modern movie. Like even the surround sound on my TV came alive. And all those movies were shot on 35mm, but before you could color time them in a computer and like crush all the blacks. So the atmosphere is still there, but they're gorgeously shot. They look amazing by today's standards, but they also give you a hint of nostalgia. They make you feel good in the way.

That's what those Tony Scott movies do. And that's what Tomorrow Never Dies, which is kind of right there. And then the more modern ones that are obviously incredible in terms of how they look and are is Casino Royale and like Mission Impossible Fallout. So we would look at those, but they were slicker than we knew we could accomplish with our time and our budget. And they were even just a teeny bit slicker than we need to do. Because we were talking about how like you look at John Wick or Taken, they look really good. Like John Wick is specifically incredibly shot,

but it's so shadowy and dark. I don't think it would help a comedy. Is that what you mean by the lightness? Like when you compare it to Tony Scott, is it just, you can see more of the frame in Tony Scott's stuff that like that kind of relates to? Gotcha. Tomorrow Never Dies, you can see everything all the time,

yet it still is very clearly a big blockbuster action adventure movie. Right. Whereas when you get into like John Wick, you can barely see things half the time in a really artistic cool way that would not that would feel suffocating in a comedy, I think. That's funny because I was just doing color on art.

It was the exact same thing of un-rushing the blacks just a little bit. That just means the compression and how deep the actual blacks are. The contrast. Yeah, that's just a way of saying contrast, I guess. But like, but doing the same thing where I just wanted to see some detail in the shadows, basically. Yeah, I went the opposite way. The way actually Andy always wants us to go more of, like whenever we're in color correction,

anything we've ever done, Andy's like, it's too dark, you're making it too much. Andy would have loved color correcting this. It's the first one where I was you in there. And we were just like, no, no, no, lift it, lift it a little bit. Yeah. Allow more smoke in the air, allow me to see everything a little more, like the creases in his jacket. Because I was just trying to give you that nostalgic feeling while being super modern so that it just feels good. In a way, I think that actually relates to your writing process of like you being able

to see everything actually helps the audience just sort of like feel comfortable. Exactly. But we don't want it to look like just some shitty, overlaid comedy that has no point of view. Yeah. We want it to be a noir, you know, spy thriller, whatever you want to call it, thing. But me and Mau also, we watched, like, we started with Death Wish. Oh, you did something else together with him?

This is how many movies we watched. We watched all five Death Wishes, and then we watched like 25 other Charles Bronson movies from the 70s and 80s. That sounds like a lot of time that you guys spent together. It's great. Yeah. Be more available, Yoram. Yeah, I'll move. And then we did all of time that you guys spent together. It's great. Yeah. Be more available, Yor.

Yeah, I'll move. And then we did all the Dirty Harrys after Andy watched the first one. Did not make it to two through five, I guess. Jesus Christ. Yeah, I didn't. You missed out. At one point, there's a close-up of a dog and he farts. I wonder if you can find that on YouTube.

You sent me a clip, though, on your phone and I did get to enjoy it. Whenever something amazing would happen in one of these movies, I would take a video of the TV. It's like by the fourth one, he's like meeting a girl he likes or something, and she has a dog, and then all of a sudden, to like get out of the scene, it just cuts to the bulldog, and it farts, and then it cuts to Clinton. He gives like a classic Clint snarl

that used to be reserved for like bureaucracy and pencil pushers, but now could just be applied to a dog farting. There's one of the Charles Bronson ones that I'm blanking. It might be Tendo Midnight, where he's got a dildo in his hand, and he keeps flopping it around, but he's seriously trying to reprimand, like, what is this? What are you doing? But it's just a dildo.

It's legit. I do love that in comedies, like, you couldn't do that. Well, you probably could maybe get away with that and make a gun, but those are the kind of things that I feel like you could have done in movies of the past. And we'd like, like, I always referenced Tango and Cash because there's a giant trailer truck, like an oil tanker trailer truck, like, filled with cocaine.

And I'm like, you couldn't do that now because it would seem like a fucking joke, but that was a serious movie. Like, we couldn't do that in MacGruber, certainly. Just like fucking the cocaine tanker. Like, It's the best because he also shoots at it and everyone thinks it'll explode, but he's so confident that they didn't like hide it in a, like the reality is there'd be like a tank within the tank and there'd be gasoline. So if they get pulled over, gas comes out and then there'd be cocaine in the center. And if you shot it, it would still explode.

Also that you would have that much cocaine. That means it's like 50 tons worth of cocaine. It's all the cocaine that's ever been made in the history of mankind. Okay, here's another question and then I will have made it through all of the questions that you floated me. And I'm actually surprised by this question. It says, how do you feel about the marketing? I'm trying to remember how someone phrased that to me.

They would be like, you know what it would be? It would be they would talk about the trailer, the teaser. And the teaser is the one that I really love that they did, which is the first thing that came out. That was just the simple one at the bank. They would talk about how they felt watching the teaser trailer and the OJ joke in the teaser trailer. And then I would talk about,

and I can just paraphrase now, about how I was really happy with that teaser because it was basically all the stuff we wrote in the first week of writing the movie because it answered all the big questions, which is one, what is Liam Frank Drebin? Are we erasing your childhood legacy? What's the movie's relation to the past? It was right away like, nope, there's a moment that I will spoil. So in the trail you see Frank, he's out there like shrine to Leslie Nielsen saying, you

know, hi dad, I love you. In the movie he says, I want to be just like you, but at the same time, completely different and original. So he just says like the whole thesis for the entire movie there. And that's one of the very first scenes we wrote. And the second thing is, what will it look like and feel like? Is it going to feel like it's some movie from the 80s or are we doing a modern version? And the bank and the way I shot the bank and Trosh shot the bank and the music let you

know no, no, no, we have a new take. And then the third thing is everybody that I would be like, hey, I'm thinking about writing a new Nick again, they'd say, what are you gonna do about OJ? And then that's the answer to that question is at the end of that. And that's really what people have asked about. Seth Meyers podcast comes from Airbnb, you know, guys, we talk a lot about Finland on this podcast, which never thought would happen. as my name is Jorma Takonen almost it makes sense and one thing that you guys may not have realized is that I stayed at an Airbnb

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I did not have a chance to listen to it. You don't have to listen to it, it's just movie music. But this guy, Lorne Balfe, did the soundtrack and he did the last three Mission Impossible movies, and he killed it. So me and Jorm when we were texting earlier about a screening, he's going to go to the premiere rather. I was like, the thing I'm excited for you to see besides just everything

finished is the color correction looking correct as director to director. Yeah. And now having a real orchestra and the real score in there, it just elevated the whole thing. I do wanna talk about the score for a second because Keev was sending us all of these videos. Like as we talked about in the pod, while his dog was humping his leg,

he's checking out the score being composed, recomposed, because that's how you do it. You do it in the box, right? So to speak, it's all on computers, it's all digital. And then once that's all done and it's approved and da-da-da, then Keev has gotten to on several movies now, I think, right? Is it three movies now that you've gotten to do this?

Yeah, we did on Hot Rod, I did on Neighborhood Watch, and we did it on this. We did not do it on Pop Star because we didn't have an orchestra. No. Because the music in that was all, you know, pop. But just describe what that process is because I am. Oh, I know, Rescue Rangers, I got to know.

Yeah, yeah, let's see, you've done it four times. I mean, I feel like everybody's seen those little videos, but it's hard for a video to capture what it's like. But it's incredible getting a private orchestra thing that is bespoke to your movie. But you really do have these 50 string players in there. The moment they all start playing, it's emotional. No matter what the movie it's doing it for, you're in a room with, and you can't believe

how incredible, you know, an entire string section starting to play sounds. It just blows your mind every time. And they're going exactly to the score, right? Like they're playing exactly to what was done in computer, basically. Like, I don't even know how they do the timing. Well, no, it gets, it all gets broken down. I wish I had the images, but maybe we can pull some. But it all gets, you know, once it's all been approved, then they have weeks of working with these orchestrators who are taking all the music and creating all the

sheet music for every, because every section needs its own sheet music, right? Like the violinist needs to be looking at a different one from the cello. They need to have same parts for some, but different for others, because the cello is not playing what the violin is playing. So it's this huge, it looks like an SNL table read. The amount of papers, it's a stacks and stacks and stacks, because everyone needs these giant sheet music for every cue in the movie separately.

How long does it take to like to record an entire score? For a movie like this, that's a short movie, but has a lot of score, it's two days. I think we did two days on Hard Rod, two days on Rescue Rangers. I think it's pretty standard. For one of these, for a Chris Nolan, two hours and 30 minutes, I would have to ask,

but I imagine it would need to be more than that. Follow-up question, can we show the video of Virginia, your dog, humping your leg while you check out the score? I'll have to revisit. So that one was, they did this in LA at the Eastwood stage, speaking of Clint again, I think he actually donated a bunch of money to Warner Brothers to save a giant, because these stages are getting torn down because they take so much real estate that they get changed into office buildings. This is one of the few remaining classic LA one

where thousands of your favorite movies music have been recorded in. I was there a lot while we were recording, but then sometimes I'd go home because it's not far from my house. Then I had a live feed on my computer and Andy came over and I'm listening to the brass recording classic like, which I mean, Dana, Dana, naked gun themes. And I have a live feed where I can give a note or do anything back. And yes, the dog came up and started humping my ankle to Andy's delight. Probably turned on by the theme. Yeah, the jazz got her going. That's

understandable. So you're kind of saying that the theme to Naked Gun is like sex music for dogs. It's burlesque for dogs, yeah. Don't put it on your house, unless you're ready for things to get very weird. The theme song for Naked Gun is burlesque for dogs. I feel like it could be the title of the episode. Right. All right, well, thank you guys for talking about Nicky and this much but I do feel like after Seth sees it, maybe we could do an episode that is just all spoilers,

where we can actually talk about the movie itself. I feel like I've made my case to the Quads. To the Quads? About trying to get some momentum. Yeah, Quads. See that shit, Quads. Or it'll just be another Hot Rod pop star in our caps. But it's up to the quads. As everyone knows, they're a lot like the Swifties.

They can move the election. Anyways, I've done my due diligence. I did text Liam and Pam to send me a voice note and they didn't do it yet. So mainly I've just been stalling the whole time. Hoping you're going to get one in real time. Yeah, but it didn't, didn't happen. Well, that happens by the end of this episode. Okay. By the way, I can probably just, I could just riff you one out real quick. Ready?

Yeah. Do it in Liam's voice. Hey, Eva, it's Liam. I wanted to just say you're the best director I've ever worked with, including Steven Spielberg. In my opinion, compared to you, he's a piece of crap. Okay, I gotta go. Jared Slauson I can't wait till some clickbait thing is like, Jared Slauson Liam calls Spielberg a piece of crap. Jared Slauson He just takes that as real. Leo I mean, they might as well write it up because it happened. It just happened. IRL.

Jared Slauson They say crap a lot over in Belfast. Leo Yeah, they're always like... Jared Slauson You chose words that sounded very... Leo Very Belfastian. Yeah, exactly. Let's go to the pub and crap. That guy's from Belfast. What a cool fucking dude. Okay. But anyways, they have their marching orders. They know what they're doing. Don't

well, let's just not worry about it. And buy your tickets ahead on Fandango. So other people say and go, Ooh, I better buy my ticket now because the seats are filling in. Oh yeah, do that. This guy loves Fandango. Do that shit. Listen, the guy from Fandango, who is like their head guy, not a reviewer or something, but somebody saw it early and wrote to the studio,

like about how much he loved it. So I'm a Fandango now, man. I'm a Fandango now, man? I'm a man who loves Fandango now? Do you think every time somebody uses the website Fandango, the band queen gets a residual? Yes God, it's such a tough question. Yoram. That was a big like exhausted exasperated side because you were thinking about it so hard Yeah, his brain couldn't take it. You were like, oh no, man. No, you're like, oh what a good question how to answer

Hey, we said there were gonna be a a lot of hard hitting questions and there were from Andy. And Queen. Andy, you went to Comic-Con. Did you see the naked gun? Um, big installation. What do they call it? Activation.

Um, I didn't see the activation. I saw some, some posters and billboard action that looked pretty rad. I definitely got some Quaid armies out there. So respect to everybody. Also PS last night at a restaurant, someone just yelled Quaid army. In the restaurant, like a quiet restaurant. Yeah. Like almost like yelling fire.

We were out on a patio. It was like as they were leaving and, um, I was like, what was that? Somebody just said quite quad Quaid army. And I was like, Oh, sorry. That's me. Righteous. And they went, everyone on my table was like, what the fuck was that? Just special code. Oh gosh. Sorry. Sorry. Oh my God. That was my cue. I am so sorry. Oh my God. You were like, you know what's going on? How rude of me. Oh, I went up on my line there. Felt great.

NGL. NGL felt great. Oh, that's fucked. That's killer. But yeah, Comic-Con, you know, was, was litty. I was on a panel with Matt and Trey and Mike Judge. Oh, shit. Four legends of animation together, finally.

If you're out there and you heard this was happening and you wondered why I was on there, the answer is same network and that's where it ends. Wow. But it was really fun and everyone was nice. I saw an article today that had a picture of Matt Groening at a panel like yesterday. He would have made more sense on the panel,

but unfortunately his show is not on the cable channel Comedy Central. Right. So I got his slot. So you're saying this is like a corporate thing? I got his legend slot. Yeah. Legends only.

Simpsons is approaching 800 episodes, right? I think that they're close, guys. It's pretty fucking incredible. I'm just full of compliments today. Andy, were you like Chris Farley up on the panel just going, remember, remember Mr. Hankey? So awesome. He was a poop.

Yeah. And what about that blanket, Tally? He was like on weed. I would say that the others on the panel knew the deal and were incredibly gracious considering. But it was cool just to be up there and like, they've done so much incredible work. It was good to just be up there and like kind of draft on their fan base and feel the energy of that and being like, right, right, South Park's been on forever. Beeps and Butts has been forever. Like these dudes have made some shit.

And we should just say, in case there's any question, we are big fans. Big time. Oh yeah. You know, I even, you'll there's any question, we are big fans. Big time. Oh yeah. You know, I even, you'll be shocked to know, mentioned it during the panel. Oh, that's nice of you. Now did you talk about the Mexican restaurant in Colorado at all? I didn't talk about it on the panel, but I did talk to Trey about it because our friend

Jake Szymanski actually went and I told him that Jake told me that it was like one of the greatest experiences of his life. He went with his family. I mean, Keith, you were going to change your flights to fly in there for like six hours and go there, right? I am dying to check it out. I had a layover last summer. I was with my family and we were leaving having seen Yoram on the East Coast. And because of the airport we had to fly out of, because we flew out of the one near you, it doesn't have non-stop delay and it already was stopping in Denver. Yeah. I was like, oh my God, it can happen.

This can be it. We are not close with Matt or Trey, but they are always very nice and we are just such huge fans. I just reached out to Matt Cold and was like, dude, how do I get in? Because this one was really hard to get in or maybe it still is. And he was so nice, hooked me up with the manager, got it all set up for me.

And then I convinced my family, like, I know it's weird but we're just gonna move our flight a little. Cause it was like a two hour layover and then we had to make it four hours. I'm like, I think if we leave right when we get there spend two hours at a restaurant and then we have to do the gate check back in back through security. You know, we get all our bags. It would have been a and then you have to do the gate check back in, back through security.

You know, we get all our bags, it would have been a big pain in the ass. And then our flight was late. And it just wiped it right off. Damn it, that was the reason. I really do get it. Like for anyone out there wondering, the whole of the Lonely Island

fucks with a themed restaurant. I mean, I've looked at the like YouTube videos of people going there, Casa Bonita, if we haven't said the name yet. Straight up cliff diving inside the restaurant. That's incredible. I won't say who it is, so it's not name-droppy on here, but we have another friend for their birthday just took the entire family from LA to Denver, caught a Dodgers-Rockies game,

went to Casa Bonita, stayed at a hotel, and then came back to LA. And that was the full birthday party agenda. And I quizzed about after, like, well, and they were like five stars, one of the best vacations. It was like truly was like no regrets. It was the best. They loved it.

That's amazing. To shout out Matt Stone for a second, he gave me one of the best cuts in an early version of MacGruber. I will always remember how quickly he was like, now go from here to here. I was like, oh, yeah, that was fucking smart. That was the end of my story. That's a good person to be able to show things to and get advice from. Yeah, we didn't get into it,

but I will say I've maybe learned more about editing and brevity from the South Park dudes than even comedy which is saying a lot because they're easily some of the funniest to ever do it. But when we like started looking at song length for pop star and even shorts and stuff, we were like, what about like what are the song lengths in the South Park movie? And they're all like under two minutes. And I remember realizing they were so short and having our minds blown because they pack so much in. They're like jokes, story, and it sounds good and flies.

And you're like, fuck, they're not wasting a second. Their efficiency is maybe all time best. Yeah, and by learn from them, you mean learn just from their work. Just from watching it, yeah. Yeah, 100%. I wonder what the runtime on that one is going back to our conversation about the pop star and about us knowing that these kinds of movies are the best

when they're so tight, dude, 81 with credits. Yeah. That shit flies. That's amazing. Yeah. That's so good. There you go. And that's why those songs, it's like, it's like you're getting a two hour

movie in 81 minutes, so everything is compressed. So everything's so fast and entertaining. So those songs are a minute 45 instead of three minutes because everything's going at that clip. Dude, the Team America sex scene and the vomit scene, I was doubled over in the theater and I just remember it so well because my mother-in-law was sitting next to me and being like, I don't know if I can laugh this hard.

Like I was like almost gonna like, it felt like I was gonna cough up a lung. I was like, I don't think I should laugh this hard. Mr. Obscene in the alley. Did I say, I think I saw that with you, Keev. Is that possible? Yeah, for sure. You gave up on life, didn't you?

Or whatever it is. Yeah, yeah. It's the only time I can remember being in a movie theater where I was laughing so hard that I actually took a knee. Like I was out of my chair. Yeah. I was like leading forward laughing so hard that I was like, oh, I have to like brace myself and I put a knee down like I was about to give a pep talk in a football game.

You gave him a life, didn't you? And the way that they, like the music comes down and then when he starts throwing up again, the music comes up full blast again. It's just fucking incredible. It falls out. It's fucking amazing. What I remember though, and I don't remember who this was, but meeting with crew members, like,

for, I would have to look at the timing, but for whatever project we were doing, that was like a year after that project. Tell me if either you were in the room. And it was like, you know, so we're just meeting with like random grizzled old crew guys to see who you're hiring for your project. And one of them, we were like,

yo, you worked on Team America. That's so amazing. He's like, oh yeah, it was such a good movie. And then they did this reshoot and they added this terrible puking scene. Just ruined the whole movie. And I remember like two things in my mind at the same time. One, it was, oh my God, that was our favorite scene in the whole movie.

I don't remember if we told him or not. Obviously, we're not hiring this person who thinks that that's the worst scene in the movie. And then it was also just reminding me how subjective it is, right? Like if that guy had wrote the first tweet about the movie, about how there's this horrible scene, and that was what Matt and Trey read at first. They'd get so sad, not realize, you know what I mean? Like, you can do something that we thought was just obviously the funniest thing in the whole movie.

And they did it as a reshoot, which makes sense to me, or additional photography, because it makes sense. Because you'd be like, let's just go crazy right here. I mean, it's not dissimilar from on Pop Star. One of our reshoots was the limo scene. Yeah, we went back and put the craziest, Let's just go crazy right here. I mean it it's not dissimilar from on pop star One of our reshoots was the limo scene. Yeah, we went back and put the craziest or most edgy thing in or whatever Yes, but I mean it was for story purpose But when we did our test screening it was the most liked scene in the movie and also some people their least favorite scene

In the movie. Yes. Well famously of comedy testing whatever scene your most liked, usually is also the most disliked. Yes. Because it's also just a part of it being the most memorable. Right. But it's also probably because it's the part that goes for it the most. Like in Bridesmaids, I'm 90% sure that Judd said it was the throw-up diarrhea. Yeah. See?

But the trick is for it to be, you know, ten times more liked than disliked. Yes Yes, which was the case on ours It was way more people like the scene that didn't but it was also a lot of people's least liked scene Yes, and I feel like at that moment we were like, oh we did it No, but like cool beans was the same too, right? Like most like most disliked. Yeah. Yeah, it's just a cross-border definitely Okay, the only other like housekeeping we had is that we didn't quite get through Movie Awards. Oh, right. You know, Movie Awards, we talked about it a great deal, but there was a lot left.

We have more voice notes. Yeah. It feels only fair if we bothered someone to record one, that we listen to it and it will spark a memory. Yeah, and you know what? Sorry to those people for not doing it on the Movie Awards episode. Agreed. But yeah, let's let's get into it. Should we just pop a couple off?

Yeah, intro, intro one. All right. Let's see. First up, we got Paul Rust, who you know from the world of comedy, both as a writer and a performer. He was a writer on the MTV Movie Awards. Let's hear what he has to say. Hey, everybody. I have many, many, many, many fond memories of writing on the 2009 MTV Movie Awards. I'll just share a couple here. Like any writer's room, we would order food for lunch or for dinner. Jared Liesveld I can vouch for that. That is true. Matthew 5 And I remember after everybody would put their orders in every time,

Andy and Akiva would ask the staff, hey, is there any food we want to order for everybody to share, you know, for the table? It's really stuck with people. And by the end of the first day, for the table got abbreviated down to for the tate. Him and Neil, this is a big takeaway. Ever since anytime I'm with a group of people and we order food for everyone to share, I think for the tate. My second memory, and gosh, I don't know if it's going to be able to top that first memory because that one's really good and I'm sure you're going to love it. My second memory is the writers room was actually in the dressing room of whoever performed

at the Universal Amphitheater. And it was a really cool dressing room. It was like all decked out and it had this massive bathroom, you know, with like a shower and of course toilet sink. But it also had this big glittery red jacuzzi. And I remember we all went in there, we're checking it out. And Andy said, gosh, just imagine all of the stars who have been in this bathroom. And he pointed at the Jacuzzi and he said, to think Ben Folds got blown there. Okay, bye. No memory of saying that. Dude, we went to some, the University of amphitheater alone brings back so many memories. That was one of the premier venues to see cool music in LA.

It was such a cool venue and I believe it's where Hogwarts is now. Oh really? That's what they took down? I think that that's the real estate. Somebody's gonna know. Oh wow, hold on. We're getting it in the, I'm getting it live in the chat in the feed. Oh, bing bong.

Wizarding, the Universal Amphitheater closed September 6th of 2013 and was demolished for the wizarding world of Harry Potter. Ah, my man Keef was right. Man, we got hit in the tinnitus immediately. So that means that Ben Folds presumably got blown right in the Ollivanders, maybe. We don't know. Right in the Ollivanders wand shop. Yeah. I wonder why I conjured that name.

Maybe there was pictures of who had performed on the wall. Definitely on the wall. I think he was Prylo. Because if any of those venues have on the walls when you're walking in, all the photos of people that have performed there. That's so funny. All right. Should we listen to another one?

Yeah. Let's roll them in. Thank you, Paul Rust. Yeah, thank Rusty. Nice of you to send. We love you, Paul. All right, should we go to Matt Murray? Oh, the Panther? Fuck yeah. Yes, he's been on here before.

He wrote with us for a couple years at SNL and then came to LA and on the Movie Awards, obviously. That's right. Let's see. Hey, what's up, guys? Matt Murray here. We're talking Movie Awards. This is actually sort of near and dear to my heart because this is where I met you guys. We all were writers for the 2004 movie awards hosted by, that's

right, Lindsay Lohan. And I remember thinking like, oh, who are these dudes? They're my age and we all listen to the same music and we all skateboarded. And I was like, these guys are awesome. They make these awesome shorts and You guys were my friends from day one And then we all came back the next year 2005 movie Awards when Jimmy hosted and that's where you met Higgins and Jimmy and Shoemaker and all those dudes and that's when you got hired at SNL Despite my I guess I would say strenuous objections, but that's okay So yeah flash forward to 2009 I guess I would say strenuous objections, but that's okay. Flash forward to 2009, they asked Annie to host,

again, over my objections, but you know what, it's okay. I don't remember too much from the show. I remember you guys had already done so much by the time I got there. I think you already had the idea for cool guys don't look at explosions, which to me would rank pretty high on the on the SNL digital shortlist. I think that could have easily just been on SNL and then one of one of the all-time classics

I Helped out on the opening film Which I remember that was the year of Slumdog Millionaire Which had a scene where a guy jumps in a big old pile of poop. So that really wrote itself once we had that in our pocket. The only other thing I remember from that show was there was that bit with Sasha and Eminem where they pretended to get in a big fight, which was itself a reference to something that I witnessed when Jimmy hosted the VMAs in 2002.

Triumph, the insult comic dog, sort of accosted Eminem, not planned, and Eminem did not take it well. And I remember because all the writers were in sort of a green room and after it happened, Eminem and his entourage just sort of stormed in and they were like, you guys got to get out of here. And he was like freaking out and melting down and I remember it being very funny because Smigel was there who we all worked with at SNL, voice of triumph and I remember when it was happening Eminem and all of his friends like got up and

stood up and cut and try on his face and they were like hey knock it off but they they only talked to the puppet like Smigel was there with the puppet on his hand like saying all the words but like they Smigel was there with the puppet on his hand, like, saying all the words, but like, they were, they were really mad at the puppet. They were like, stop it! Stop it! That wasn't your show. That was a different show. Anyway, that's it. I love you guys. Bye. Jared Svelte Oh my god. Oh my god. Jared Svelte All right. Good. Jared Svelte That's one man's account, you know? We don't know nothing about it.

Jared Svelte Yeah, we weren't there. We were. We were just in our apartment. We had no clue. But this is a spicy take. That's definitely going to make some headlines now in 2025. Yeah, we didn't say it. 23 years later, they're like, remember when it looked like he was really mad about that? I do remember that Eminem was, because I remember what he was saying, I was trying to lean forward and it was him saying, I did my TV time. I did my TV time. And I was like, that was an interesting way to phrase that.

Oh, God. You remember watching the 2002 Movie Awards as a fan back in LA. There's a lot I don't remember, Kew, but I remember that. That's surprising. It is. There's so much. You know what's so great is we've known each other for so many years, but it's just like peeling a layer of an onion.

You know what I mean? It just keeps going. You never know what's going to stick with any of us. Yeah. And the coolest thing about peeling back an onion is underneath, same thing, more onion. More onion. Still smelly. Still smelly. Still smelly onion. All right. We do have two more. Yeah. Let's rock them. Crank them.

Okay. Yo, hey guys. It's Tim Kall. Yeah, let's rock them. Crank them. Okay. Yo, hey guys. It's Tim Kalpakis, writer. Marauders Row. That was my first job ever. So I was really shy in the room and one day Fred Armisen popped in and he was going around to all of us like, uh, Hey guys, how are the bits? How's it going? We got good bits.

And, uh, in front of all of you, I answered him earnestly and I was like, yeah Fred, oh, we got great bits, Fred, oh, it's gonna be a great show. And I realized, Fred Armisen doesn't give a fuck about the bits, he's just being Fred. And I'm kinda sweating right now, even just recalling that moment. I also remember watching the Kings of Leon sound check,

and then I felt somebody take my hand, and I looked down, and it was Andy, and then I felt somebody take my hand and I looked down and it was Andy and then we just Sat there holding hands And also lastly there was a joke we kept repeating around the room it didn't get in but Paul Rust pitched that Andy would be standing on stage Confused looking into his hand and say, huh? That's weird.

It says that my next presenters are here. Oh, nevermind. Sorry. I thought that the L's were H's from Land of the Lost. Please welcome Will Ferrell and Danny McBride. The end of the Host. So just giving the audience the credit to do the math with no explanation that if Elzer H's Land of the Lost is Hand of the Host, and the presenters are teaming the little shrunken guys in Andy's hand.

Oh my God. And I'll pitch that, and Andy was like, yeah, pretty good. Put it on the board. That's good. The math is so difficult. I was trying to do it the whole time he's talking. But both of those stories about you, Andy, make me like you as a person. One, that you would hold, you just go to the chair, like, guy's hand, just hold a guy's hand while

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A 17-minute, we can say the length, 17 minutes. It was a 17-minute voice note. And to his credit, he was like, hey, sorry if this is too long, take what you want. Yeah, but it's a fourth of the bigger, longer uncut movie, South Park's movie. All right, let's check out some of it. We've got Scott's down to three snippets. So let's roll snippet one. First of all, we had to do a lot of research about what was happening in movies at the

time, just looking at like, what was a box office hit? And then Jason Manzoukas, I believe, found a list of every movie that was released and how much money they made. And down there at the bottom was this movie called Delgo, which was an animated fantasy movie. And it made something like $500 when it was released. It was just a huge disaster. And I think it cost a lot of money.

And Jason just would not let Delgo go. And he tried inserting Delgo into every punchline, which made us all laugh in the room so much. And, you know, Andy never asked us to stop doing the Delgo jokes. He liked them himself. And in fact, I don't think we used any of them. Maybe we used one.

But a month after we did the show, I rented a movie theater and we all watched Delgo, all of the people who worked on the show. And surprisingly was not incredibly fun. It's not one of those movies that's so bad, it's fun. It was just kind of bad. So Delgo was a huge thing guaranteed to make us all crack up in the room.

Yeah, so I do remember this. I believe it was Manzougas wrote a huge musical opening number all about Delgo. It made us laugh so much that we actually, for like 10 minutes, we're like, could we do that? What would the response be? We went through the motions of how it would land.

We were like, obviously, no one would know what we're talking about. But the tale of this, how would it play out after the show? Like would it be something actually really memorable by doing a huge opening number about an independent animated film that bombed and no one knew what it was? That is one of my favorite fucking things

about writer's rooms, I'm just like that joke. Is so funny, but is for no one, but is so funny that it might make it on and again you as a host Andy and being a real writer yourself and a very funny guy like you just being like yeah maybe the idea that you would fucking entertain that is insane. I mean it's it's textbook writers room stuff though I mean the funniest things in context in the writers room never make it out. That's just kind of standard. And probably shouldn't.

No, because it's confusing to people. Delgo. But I will say it was very appreciated. It's also just a great name, Delgo. So we were just having so much fun saying it in the room. Yeah. And I do remember going to that screening. I believe it was at the silent theater on Fairfax

and us all being like drinking. Like we had done those, I think we talked about on this before, how he had done like Beowulf screenings and from Paris with Love and things like that, where we'd have a bunch of drinks. Whoopie Boys certainly. Just movies we enjoyed that we wanted to share with our friends and family. We thought Delgo might be one of those.

I think about halfway through everyone was like, this doesn't have quite the right energy for what this is. For a bunch of drunk writers. Yeah, yeah. Andy, quiz, do you remember where you lived during the summer? And do you remember where I lived during the summer? Oh, no, but you didn't. Did you stay in LA all summer after the movie awards? I think I was staying at the Sunset Tower Hotel.

But then after, after, did you go back to New York? I don't know where you were all summer, because I know where I was because of MacGruber. I don't know where I went after. Do you remember where I lived? Was it in Justin Lung's house? Yeah, and I just wanted to give a shout out, because I don't really know Justin Lung almost at all.

Oh, I loved going over that house, though. They had a cool pool. Exactly, and he, I had met him with Jonah Hill, because they were longtime friends, and we had had a couple nights where we had gone out and had drinks and stuff, and he was always super nice. Exactly. And he, I had met him with Jonah Hill, because they were longtime friends. And we had had a couple nights where we had gone out and had drinks and stuff. And he was always super nice. And at some point, something came up where I was like, oh, I'm going to try to live in LA somewhere. I don't know where. And he's like, I have a house that I just emptied because I'm about to put it on the market. But the real estate agent told me to put it on the market in September. So it's just sitting there for two months.

And he just let me go use this empty house. Yeah, it was so beautiful house in the was a beautiful house in the hills. It was very small, it was like a two-bedroom little house. I had to rent furniture from like a business rental furniture place. All right. And so I just rented a few things, but I had a pool in the Hollywood Hills for two months courtesy of Justin Long, no rent paid. And I don't know that I've seen him since, it's in 2009. Anyway, shout out Justin Long for the hooks. Yeah, I mean, I thanked him afterwards through text messages, but again, super fond memories

of that house and of staying there. And so if this gets to him, thank you to Justin Long again, because I was just, I was looking at the photos of the summer to remind myself of what we did. I mean, Keev, you thanking him for that is shameless clickbait, but I'm here for it. Oh my God. Gonna be... That house, having a barbecue and swimming at that house, also I recall the first time I ever remember hearing Drake was on the Jambox.

It had a great outdoor speakers outside and I figured out how to rig my iPad to it. And it was also the first time you've been in a house where you were like, this place has Sonos, it's this new system. Exactly. Oh yeah, I totally remember that. Where I this new system. Exactly. Oh, yeah. I totally remember that.

Where I can play stuff and have a little outdoor TV. Yeah. He had really done it up nice, and then he was selling it. Yeah. And to be clear, Eve or whoever was in charge of the music chose Drake. It didn't come with the house. Yeah, and you kept shouting, nothing

will ever take him down. You kept shouting that, right? Nothing will ever take this guy out. He's never going to be in a feud. Don't wade into that. We've already given Perez and just Jared enough juicy gas. With you thanking Justin. They're already gonna have their hands full

with the fact that Yhorm remembers watching the 2002 movie awards and that he was in fact not just pretending to be annoyed, but was really annoyed per rust. So many good stories here. Speaking of, should we hit another Ackerman? Yeah, do another awkward man. Let's roll awkward man number two. Let's see what else. The night of the show, a couple of the stars who were presenting together, their publicist snuck a look at the script. together, their publicist snuck a look at the script. I guess no one is supposed to read these scripts because that just opens up this can of worms where if the stars get to approve any joke you make about them nothing will ever get on. But

this particular publicist like snuck backstage read the intro for the stars that he was representing and then came to us writers and said, hey guys, I've talked to my clients and they hate their intro, they just hate their intro. So, you know, please just change it. They're saying they're not gonna do the show. And I really liked Andy went, no, we're not gonna change it. And then we actually saw those stars

at the wrap party afterwards and they talked about how funny they thought the joke was. So the publicist had obviously just never even talked to them about it. He was just trying to sort of cover his or her ass. I think I said it was at his already. That kind of stuff happens on those things all the time. And that's when, you know, the angry Keef that you guys were making fun of about balcony songs.

Yeah. He really comes out at award shows when Andy's hosting, and somebody tries to break, and someone breaks the rules, the social contract. Like a Vika came out. I understand how it happens because a publicist can go back to check prompter or a person that is going to present to make sure the stuff

they're going to say is in there correctly. They could be snoopy and look around. But the idea that you get to approve what other people say about you, like imagine everyone at the Golden Globes going to Ricky Gervais beforehand and approving the jokes he's about to say about their people in the crowd. The whole system of comedy will collapse if people are shown jokes making fun of them before you say them.

That is not how it works, but there's a lot of people who attempt it every time at these shows. I would also say there is a thing that goes on at a lot of award shows where if a joke is particularly harsh, sometimes the host or the writers will directly reach out if they know the person. You know what I mean? Yeah.

Like, I've definitely reached out to people directly to be like, hey, just FYI, we're doing this joke. And they'll be like, oh, okay, got it. Like, it's nice to get a heads up. Certain times it makes more sense than other times. Well, you certainly don't want to get like blindsided and then be standing out there trying to read lines angry. Like if it's a joke, that's going to make you angry.

But I think you just reminded me, cause we reached out not for like little funny little witticisms that you're going to do, but if the camera was ever going to cut to somebody, because you had said something, we went and tipped them off because we are not mean people that are trying to catch them. Pete Slauson Well, we also want them to have a funny reaction ready. Jared Slauson Exactly. Well, I want them ready and not get caught. But I do remember one, and I think it was Megan Fox, where whatever the joke

was was small and we were like, just look at Andy like he's a fucking idiot. Like to us, that was the joke. Like Andy's gonna say something fucking dumb, so look at him like an idiot. And she's good. So she did. And then I remember a few people being like Megan can't take a joke and me going like fuck Oh, that's a bummer and go me going damn we did we sell her out like we should have let her laugh I remember that cuz she did it so well because they don't know that anyone's ever tipped off So they assume it's real right and to us it was funny and she was doing her part as the straight man in a two-part joke But it's better to just let them laugh and show that they're a good sport. Was it at this award show or was it after?

I think it was this. Yeah, it was. I don't remember what the joke was, but I remember that moment and learning a lesson in my head of, right, don't do that. We still could have tipped her off and let her choose her reaction, but giving her the direction of play. She came to SNL right after that to host the next season. I think that's our next episode. Yeah, I'm sure we got to apologize.

But yeah, sorry, Megan. It wasn't like terrible or anything. No, no, no, but yeah, there's so much judgment on every single second of those shows. It's crazy. Exactly, exactly. Yeah, it was fine. And we did have two shorts with her.

That'll be the next episode, I think. But that did just bring back that memory. All right, roll our last Occamon clip, please. We all saw that Eminem Bruno thing, and we all thought like, oh, funny bit. And we didn't know anyone was trying to pretend it was real. And I think, Andy, you said afterwards, after this whole thing blew up, you said, yeah,

if anyone had asked me on camera after the show about it, I would have said, yeah, it was a really funny bit. We saw it at rehearsal. So a friend of mine called me the next day saying, was that staged? And I was like, yeah, yeah, it was a really funny bit. We saw it at rehearsal. So a friend of mine called me the next day saying, was that stage? And I was like, yeah, of course it was. And I wrote a blog, I wrote on my blog a blog about the experience of working on the show.

And I put up some jokes that we had cut and all sorts of stuff. And I was like, yeah, it was, that thing was staged. We watched it in rehearsal, which blew up in my face. And it was really, it was a great lesson in how the internet is not going to protect you on this. You may think there's only a couple of hundred people who are your fans, but if they send it around to people, it suddenly became a huge news story.

And I got into so much trouble about it. Nandi, you were very kind about it and never held it against me which I really appreciated but I just felt like such a dipshit and I remember I went to see with the Human Giant guys the day this all blew up I went to go see Drag Me to Hell and those guys like saw me and my face was ashen because it was all just blown up like two hours earlier and all those guys were like, hey man, it's going to be okay. Don't worry. It was like one of the worst things to happen in my career where it just got spread.

It spread like wildfire throughout the internet and got on major new sites. And so it was a terrible experience and it is one that keeps kind of being repeated in a way like you'll think your podcast is just some sort of niche comedy podcast that only fans listen to and you offhandedly say something and then it becomes like a news headline. It happened a few times on Comedy Bang Bang and it's one of those huge lessons you have to learn of like, oh yeah, don't ever talk about any project you're involved in with that much detail without it getting cleared by anyone first. Oh, fuck. There you go.

We're going to learn about this Justin Long house stay. You beat me to it. What is his response going to be, Keev? That's what I want to know. But yeah, no, I do remember that all happening. And I remember Scott being like mortified and being like, I didn't think anyone was going to read that. And all of us being like, yeah, I would never would have expected but it became like a global news story or at least country. Andy, I think you came out as kind of a hero in your hosting duties. You protected your writers from the pattern.

Held their hands through a spooky case of land. Held hands and fucking were nice about an internet blow up. Well, they're all very nice. For the people who don't even know what he's talking about, so they were kind of recreating the triumph moment, only now they were in on it. I think we're safe to say 20 years later. Maybe not. Maybe there'll be a huge head on that it's still

not real. But it was Bruno kind of dangling from the ceiling dressed as an angel with wings. And then it's like the, you know, the wiring is almost malfunctioning, lowering him too much. And he ends up upside down, like in a 69 with his crotch right in Eminem's face. And Eminem gets really pissed. And it was awesome. But I agree that for people that know how bits go, you go, I mean, it didn't look like it was an accident. What it looked like was that Bruno was pranking Eminem. Yes. And that it would have been a surprise to Eminem. And then Scott's slip was letting the world know that, oh no, Eminem knew it was going to happen, which is a slip.

And they did a great job of it too. They like threw Sasha and he was like swinging around dangling on the wires and he had like funny zingers to say and it all worked really well and went crazy. And it was a red hot news story after. Yeah. It's also funny, which happens now we know at every award show, but we are so new is like, we worked so hard on your thing and all your bits. And we're so proud of the show we had put together. And then Sasha correctly goes, Oh, I'm going to go, Oh, I have a place to try to make. I'm going to try to get the biggest story of the night and did.

Yes. But it was also a little like, you see the next day and you're like, Oh, right. That's how you win one of these things. You don't do all the work. You work really hard at one thing and come in and try to steal the show. Like that's if you want to make a splash. That's how to use this as a thing. Well, Sasha always has been really good at doing that when he's on a press tour for his projects. All right. Well, those were some wonderful voice notes. Thank you to every one of those writers and friends who sent them in. Oh, wait, I had one

movie award related correction. Oh, dear. One correction. So we talked a ton about the promos that Jason Carley, I incorrectly said directed, he was the writer. There was a guy and as soon as he said his name, I was like, right, Aaron Stoller. Oh yeah. Let's give credit. We were all complimenting how they looked, how they were directed, how pro and awesome they were. And Aaron Stoller was the director.

I hope he's doing great out there. We haven't seen him since or before. He was a person we met for that. But a lot of times you go do these things and you meet the person of that day and leave unimpressed. So props again to him for us to show up somewhere and be super impressed. And doing such a great job. Yeah, thanks. And then there was also one that Seth sent us. This was a comment on last week's episode that I'll read. This is from at Patrick Clanton. It's a YouTube comment it looks like.

This is random and unrelated to this particular episode. But I'm in the Moulin Rouge on Broadway and Wayne Brady joins our cast tonight. The other day during rehearsal, I passed by his dressing room while he was on stage and like a boss, was blaring from the room. Turns out it's his ringtone. Just thought you quads would enjoy knowing that. And Wayne, if you ever read this,

I hope you don't mind me sharing, crying laughing emoji. Wow. Oh my God. Fuck yeah, Wayne Brady. Fuck yeah, Wayne Brady. Love that. That's awesome. Congrats on being on Broadway to who wrote this to us too. Wayne Brady who was in Self-Reliance.

That's right. And was fucking killer. Yes. I was not there on set that day at all. Hooked it up though, came through and it's an awesome moment. Did awesome things, yeah. Yeah. It's a really special moment in the movie. So thanks twice, Wayne. That's rad. Jeff, you have one comment we got a lot of about the movie words. All right. Why don't we end with this last question about the movie words?

Oh, this is another correction from, I guess, multiple Quaid army weighed in with this. Jeff is telling us, what Andy is doing in Pommel, the Bobby Brooks story, is technically vaulting, not Pommel. Oh yeah, obviously. Because Pommel is what Pommel Horse Guy does. It's with the two handles where you're going in circles and stuff. This is a vault. Oh, yeah, obviously. Because pommel is what pommel horse guy does. It's with the two handles where you're going in circles and stuff. This is a vault. Oh, how embarrassing.

But that's why I wondered what the actual block that you kiss is called because we were like, you kiss the pommel, but I was like, I don't think that's called a pommel. Well, he's vaulting off a pommel, but he's not performing pommel. You think that's called a pommel? I bet you that also has a different name. What if he's in love with a character named Pommel who's a pommel horse? That's my only pushback. Yeah, we don't see the whole movie, we see a clip.

Yeah, so. Oh right, Yoram has a hell of interesting question. This guy also might be really good at pommel horse and now he was doing the vault and he kisses the vault. Could easily be that it's a romantic comedy about a man who's in love with a pommel horse and whose name is Pommel. That was how I interpreted it.

Yeah. This is really judging a book by its cover kind of situation. Like, you saw 30 seconds. You don't know what the movie's saying it is or isn't. You have no clue. Exactly. Yeah, I mean, I'm looking at, like, a still from the Olympics, and it's definitely not a pommel horse that you vault off of. We just used a pommel for the vault.

No, I bet you we used a vault for the vault. No, but doesn't it have handles on it? No. No, a vault is of? No. We just used a pommel for the vault. No, I bet you we used a vault for the vault. No, but doesn't it have handles on it? No. No, a vault is a different thing, I think. So we just got the event wrong straight up. Yeah, you guys were definitely wrong. I wasn't involved, so I wasn't wrong. Well, not us, Aaron Stoller,

the guy I just gave all the credit to. Yeah, Aaron Stoller, who we immediately shouted out and now we're throwing him under the bus and he fucking blew it, buddy. You're gonna get the credit, you're gonna get the blame. It should have been called Vault, the Bobby Brooks story. Vault. Sometimes you show up and the guy just fucking blows. I remember getting pissed on the day.

God damn it. Our legacy is ruined and it's all thanks to Aaron Stoller. On the day, I remember coming in going, that's what you think a problem is? My man, one day we're going to talk about this on a PCAST. You're getting ripped 16 years later. We're going to sit on it till then. We're going to just passive aggressively stew about it and then we're going to just rip you. Alright, we've gotten to the end of the show where we always talk about what's on your

gindle, Andy? What's on your gindle, Yorm? You guys go first. We go first. I've got the book by Andy Weir, I believe, that Phil and Chris just made into a movie that they're still editing that I'm blanking the title of. But I do have it. But I have it in my physical Gindle, which is just one book at a time printed out on

paper. Project Hail Mary. Project Hail Mary. Well, I'm a populist, so I'm just reading the Let Them Theory, Sunrise on the Reaping, Onyx Storm, the Deluxe Edition, obviously. And Big Jim Begins. This is top five New York Times bestsellers. Top five. We gave him enough time to do some Googling. What's up, dude? Nothing. After Andy's done quibbing, he's on the NYT website. He clocks on over to the bestseller list, makes sure he's got all the toppies in there.

Oh, Keeb, thanks for bringing it up. I did get Queen Bee clean today. Everyone thought they were gonna get out of this without me talking about it. We've definitely made it to the end of the show, then. Yes. Well, we didn't want everyone to just sign off after hearing about it at the top. But yeah, I got it today clean, Seth didn't, it felt great, I was happy.

I let out a little yelp when I got the last word. I was all, oh! Oh my God, I can just picture fucking Seth and his little fucking space pod with Jeff Bezos right now, just like kicking himself. Just like, God damn it, there's four pangrams? Space Pod with Jeff Bezos right now, just like kicking himself. God damn it. There's four Pangrams. All right, gentlemen, this was how you say so-so.

Hey, you know what? Go see Nick again. And, uh, love to talk to you guys. It's really nice to see you. Bring your, your sons, bring your daughters, bring your, or you know what, bring your parents. Yeah. Four quad, that's what you call four quad. All right, homies, love you.

Love you guys. Later, Quades, right? Well, or it's gonna be Arnold. Then he'll also say it. He'll say it, yeah. Later, Arnold. Later, Quades.