The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast - Threw it on the Ground

Episode Date: August 19, 2025

This week The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers talk about the digital short, Threw It on the Ground! They also chat about sketches like Blenda Fresh and Norwegian Actors' Playhouse, and special guests Stephanie Beatriz and Jonah Hill pop in to say hello! Threw It On The Ground | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAYL5H46QnQ Comedy Central Animation Panel | San Diego Comic Con 2025 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipSEFpZXmA8 THE ROSES | Official Trailer | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkgMaS5gbaA Norwegian Actors' Playhouse | https://youtu.be/wDB2RXGSe-U?si=DZWHjT7fNAbC2QFT Andy Backstage w/ Lady Gaga | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpb89hDE_g4Not 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 Aura FramesStart reliving your favorite memories by visiting Auraframes.com and using code Island. Get $35-off on their best-selling Carver Mat frame. Support the show by mentioning us at checkout! Terms and conditions apply. Wonderful PistachiosGrab a bag today. www.wonderfulpistachios.comMaker's MarkT his episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast is brought to you by our friends at Maker's Mark. You too can celebrate the perfectly unreasonable moments in your life by visiting www.makermark.com/lonelyisland. MAKER'S MARK MAKES THEIR BOURBON CAREFULLY. PLEASE ENJOY IT THAT WAY. Maker's Mark® Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whisky, 45% Alc./Vol. ©2025 Maker's Mark Distillery, Inc., Loretto, KY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, hey, it's the lonely island and Seth Meyer's podcast show. Hey, everybody. This is, this week's a crossover. It's a Brooklyn 9-9 podcast as well. We're joined with Stephanie Beatrice. We've heard the best way to monetize is to make it a re-watch podcast for as many properties as possible. Well, you're not wrong, honestly. So, Stephanie, you were saying you went in to do a callback with Andy.

Yeah, they told me. My callback was going to be with Andy, and I was like, oh, no, I'm going to, I'm not going to get it because I was, I threw it on the ground. I'm not a part of your system. I mean, I was fully in it. Was this the first you heard that he was in the show? No, no. But I didn't know the callback was going to be with this dude. Like a chemistry read for the callback. Yeah, kind of a chemistry read, except it was like, where's the friend chemistry? Yes. Like, how is the bud chemistry?

Not a romantic chemistry. No. Yeah, we did reads with every part in the cast except Andre and Terry. who had already been cast. Yeah. And it's good that you guys had, because I know from hearing it from other actors that if at the end of a chemistry read, if Andy doesn't have it,

he just says, nope. If I don't have it, like the juice? If you don't feel it. If you don't feel it. If you don't feel it, the person, you just make a big scene. Oh, if I don't have chemistry. With them in the room?

Yeah. He just gets up and storms out. You just, like, you don't make eye contact with them. You look at the director and you go, nope. I go, dead fish. Dead fish. No, thank you. Dead fish alert.

Even joking about it gives me hives. I have a real. I have a real question about it, Stephanie. So, when I think of, like, the Parks and Rec style of casting, everybody usually, like, Aziz is doing a version of Aziz. Pratt was doing a version of Pratt. Andy's clearly doing a version of Andy as Jake. You're the only one I can think of that had a full, like,

it doesn't even sound like your voice. So what did the sides, like, what was the description, not the sides, but, like, did it say, like, a no-nonsense? It's like you said you're the only talented one. It was like a fiery temper. I mean, I think that originally it was, wasn't it written to be like a fiery redhead or something that had a lot of brothers that were cops and then they ended up changing. I remember this. Yes, it was a fiery redhead named Megan, Irish descent.

And I was like, well, that's me in a nutshell. But I do, I mean, I disagree that all of us are doing a version of, I mean, I think, you know, not to get like, not to get too on. about it, but like acting talk about it, I would say Andy and I are probably playing the characters that are furthest from ourselves. Thank you for saying it because I ain't a fucking pig, bro. Yeah, you're a goddamn pig. But even on a superficial level, your voice is a very different voice. Yeah, the voice is a totally different choice because I could see that they were doing archetypes.

I could see the archetypes that were molded into the shape of the script. And many of the archetypes are, you know, left over from Comedia Della. You know, but like what they were doing in parks was a version of these archetypes that are in the office space. This is the this one. This is the bat one, right? And I could see that the archetype needed a very succinct way to understand the character. And my choice was black leather jacket, black boots and the deepening of the voice, which felt like it was immediately. Yes.

Rosa just walked up in here. She'd be up in here all the tones. Then my other question, though, is, so when you walked in, did you go, was it like Andy's Bob Dylan audition? Like, did you go, hey, what's up? It's me, Stephanie. Hi, nice to me, feel okay? And they go, hey, what's up? I'm reading the signs now.

Or did you act? No, because I knew that sometimes that's confusing to people. So I just quietly entered the room and was like, hi, that was it. Yeah. I didn't even, like, really smile. I was like, hey. And then I just launched in. So they could have thought and probably did that your real personality could have been closer to what it was.

It's correct, sir. Yes. That's correct. Not somebody who'd say, correct, sir. Wait, Steph, might I jump in? Didn't you, didn't we read various parts? We did read, we read Amy as well. Yes.

We read Amy. So then did you, you must have flipped it a little bit when we went into that. Yeah. Well, by that time, by that time I'd been called back for both roles. Kept to Pills. Yeah, so I also needed to differentiate them very, very well. Yes, yes. And was doing a Norbit ever on the table?

Was it discussed? Not at the time, only in the fittings. Then it was like, this is something we're thinking about for the pilot. How do you feel? And I was like, sign me up. Yeah, you should be both. I'll do all eight parts. Yeah.

Your agent called and said, they're thinking of making a Norbit offer. So how do you feel about it? And I was like, sign me up. Stephanie, you are a very, I remember how clearly when you were a guest on my show. Like there's a real, like the audience is like, wait, what's going on? Yeah, they don't like it. Well, it just takes them a second because they're like, well, what's you doing now? Yeah.

Steph, I just missed you at Comic-Con, but I texted you. I saw that you guys were on the big, big stage. We were doing our activation for Twisted Metal over. There was like a bumper car situation that we had to be at, and I missed your panel, but I heard it was great. Very generous to say you guys were at the beach. big stage. I technically was there, but something tells me if it had been a solo digman joint. I don't know what you mean. I don't know what you mean. No, not. We're fledgling. I'm just

saying. I was, I was riding those. That was pretty cool. The South Park and Beavis and Butthead coattels. That was very cool. Oh, hi. What's that, June? It's Mirabelle. Hi. Hi. I'm Stephanie. Hi. Hi. It's nice to meet you. We went and saw the, I think I actually texted you when we did it, but we came to the Encanto live at Hollywood Bowl. That was the one that's on Disney Plus now. That's very cool of you to come. I really appreciate it. That's really, really nice. She loves that one.

I don't want to squash the beautiful Enkanto vibes, but it's important for me to let June know that I have seen K-pop Demon Hunters. I was just reading about it. Is it your favorite? It's heat. The music is incredible. Incredible. I was at the county fair up here

and they were playing Golden and I was like, oh, this is a smash. Golden is number one on the Billboard top 100 right now. For good reason, let's be real. June's very proud of that because she was an early adopter. You made it happen, June. I was very excited. My boys loved it and I made me really happy

because I was like, oh, this is great because this is just such like a very sort of female forward show. It's so good. Oh yeah, both my kids are upset. But they're super kick-ass. It's so good. And if you like that, watch Sailor Moon. Keeve and I both watched it separately and kind had the same takeaway, which was

why is the song Free not getting more love because it's clearly... I think it will. You think it will? You think it's a slow burner? It's like a really good... Oh, wow. You and your voice is so pretty.

It's literally what you had pulled up on your phone at that exact moment. Okay, here, wait. I do want to let Stephanie eat lunch because we're technically on lunch right now. Oh, yeah, she'll eat your lunch. Great. In racquetball.

That's kind of what I meant. Racquetball puss. Yeah, right after this shoot, we're going to do play racquetball. Did you just say Stephanie will eat your arm's lunch in racquetball? Yeah. Well, I was just people. piggyback in Key's thing. It was just like

free association. I like that, eat your lunch. You know what the kids are saying now? Like instead of oh, you ate, they're saying, oh, you chomped. And sometimes they're going, oh, like that. Yeah. Have you heard that one? I haven't been at school, so. Oh, right. Summer break. I also heard, oh, 4 plus 4. I was like, what?

What's 4 plus 4? Because you ate. You ate. You chomped. June, you chomped. I've also been watching the modern family episodes with you, Stephanie. Oh, they're highly problematic. but funny They are her, aren't they?

Not that long ago. Not that long ago, yeah. This feels like it's right on the edge of something not so hot so. Yeah. Yeah. You play her sister. Yeah, I play her sister.

That's up to no good. Yeah, yeah. She's Colombian like me. She's from the same town my dad was from. Oh, really? But Gloria's always wrong about the argument. Always wrong. She's a spoiled brat, right?

She stole your life She stole my lives She stole my life Okay, I gotta go now Okay Bye guys Bye, stay Bye, bye, Stephanie

Bye, it's so nice to see you all Bye bye bye Love you, Surprise, thank you Something else that I find problematic Is that at the end Of K-pop Demon Hunters They play take down

But they don't change the lyrics To be like updated and more demons So you still felt it was like negative Yeah like they were like Well we already cut the track And I was like hey But they talk at length In the movie about how these

lyrics aren't actually fair and she's even rewriting them to be the right version and i was like oh they're playing it it's going to be her version that she was working on her correct version yeah june's agreeing with me yeah she gets yeah she goes yeah she's doing the point at the temple and he's on something anyway k-pop demon hunters hit me up for the sequel i'll do whatever if you need a white guy by june uh what a wonderful start to today's pod yeah you guys i'm sorry about that and by the way so you guys Stephanie Beatrice is here you can use that at the beginning oh that's great Seth did do a little intro you did

yeah okay good probably not not enough though Yorman and I do think whether we put that at the beginning or just keep it here I think it will have a lot of value and I'm glad you had you all Stephanie and I are shooting a commercial right now on the double double WB lot and yeah she's here to start the pod Is the frog there? Is he there? The frog keeps jumping out and then I'm like the fucking frog

the fucking frog and then everybody turns around He's fucking playing dead I hate it Wait, so the frog is The frog is lying on the ground pretending to be dead? Yeah, the guy So you're saying the frog is playing possum

He's gaslighting me guys Yeah, but I'm at the double Double WB Oh yeah, like the animaniacs Can I just take a moment to say Hi Seth Hi Andy How you doing bud?

I'm doing good I'm sorry that I couldn't pick up the phone During corrections That's all right, your video And then I was like an old man And fumbled your video But it didn't end up playing great Okay, good

How long was that running? I think I wasn't clear that this was like a running thing. For a month and a half, I've been trying to call Andy during corrections to ask him what was his favorite

Nick Cage line and Captain Corelli's mandolin. Yes, and that I was supposed to say no one touched my fucking mandolin. Was that it? I think it was which one of you fuckers touched my mandolin?

Which one of you fuckers touch my mandolin? Is that a real line? No. Yeah, you're a... Yeah, it's a real line. Oh, okay, I'm out of it. This is, but thank you.

you and you came through for me well also someone uh you have to watch the last corrections because someone said they found the bollywood andy sandberg and i played a trailer for a movie where there's like a dude who does kind of look like a bollywood andy sandberg oh i can't wait yeah love an alternate reality version of a person yeah it was uh it was very good times but can i tell you maybe the craziest comment i read this week yes please yes and it's cage related which is why i'm jumping in oh okay that uh get in the cage prophesized keve's naked gunman Because when you did get in the cage with Liam Neeson, you at one point said, you're a sweet kid, Leslie Nielsen.

That's right. You're a sweet kid. Which I'm almost positive is a Rob Klein joke. Fantastic. I mean, it totally makes sense. And that actually, I mean, there's no way Seth McFarland didn't rip that off, right? Keeve, on the record. A hundred percent.

Dude, we need clicks. He told me at dinner. Oh, he told you. Hey, where'd y'all go? The Ivy. A lot of the comments about our podcast. People have just been jumping in the comment section, Keeve, to say how much they've loved naked gun,

how hot it played in the theaters they saw it. That's awesome. I got some really nice, quiet armies. We haven't talked since then, right? The Saturday night of opening weekend, you know, you can just check Vandango and make sure that you're not going to get embarrassed and go to a half-empty theater.

And the theaters in L.A. were gratefully very full. And I had never done the thing that Yorm talked about doing on Hot Rod and having one of the saddest things. ever where he went to some theater and was like, oh, no. But now you can check that they're full online. Yeah, you can just make sure and see all the little exes, and then I went to see those little exes in person. And so I went around a little bit on Saturday and just kind of went and the intro of the movie

did like three-minute intros, just at a few places, just in Burbank and the Grove I did on Friday, and it was just rad to just look up. I didn't have, like, jokes. I just was like, I just wanted to see your faces and thank you. Because also the people that were in those theaters bought their tickets a few days ahead of time because they were really sold out. That's awesome. And I definitely got Quaid Armies as I walked out of each one.

That's the best. Did you Righteous Kill? Oh, of course. Yeah. Oh, man, that's so tight. There's been a lot of comments on the lot, by the way. Like, not surprising me, like there's a lot of people like JP who did a neighbor. Yeah, an AD. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, just like he saw, he's seeing it again with his daughter. He was super pumped.

Like, but everyone I've seen. And I got a really good quade army from a kid who I was stopping to ask directions on the lot, pulled up in a little cart. And I was like, I'm just trying to get to this building 20 over here. And he was like, quite arming. And I was like, precious guilt. And then he drove me around for like five minutes. It was pretty nice. He asked a lot of questions about the pod.

You got a free car ride. My friend, his daughter's 13, and she was saying her and her friends were going to see it today. And I was like, oh, you're going to love it. I go, did you see the original? She goes, yeah. But I think I saw the first one when I was too young because like I was so scared by Reggie Jackson. Oh, yeah. It was like really funny.

Yeah. But I was like, oh, yeah. And she goes, is there anything like that? I'm like, no. But, like, it's funny, like a dead-eyed Reggie Jackson is like, oh, yeah, maybe it was. Well, the premise of Manchurian candidate is terrifying. Yeah, it is. That you could be outside of yourself like that.

Yeah, and she hadn't seen the references. So she's just actually following that story as a fresh sleeper cell story. Keeve, do we want to address the elephant in the room here? I feel like I probably should. The Rotten Tomato situation. Oh, where we are. I believe I owe Mr. Davy Franco and lovely Miss El. in an apology because my man, Kiva's dip down to a very respectable 88, but they're riding

high at 90, and I don't see the scales tipping back again. So I eat crow on this one, Keith's a loser, and I would die to work on your next project. I would die. But can Lilo and Stitch still eat shit? Always. Fuck those assholes. Okay, great. Yeah.

Somebody did say that was maybe their favorite, they said my favorite line from the last week's podcast was Andy Telling. Lilo and Stitch, they could go eat shit. Yeah, they could die slow, bro. Yeah. I am excited to see it. Me too. All right, but in fairness, we have more reviews, though.

I'm looking. Oh, shit. Okay, so maybe case is not close. They have 200 reviews, and where are we at? Hold on. We're at 283, so that's 83 more reviews. So, you know, get 83 more, and we'll see where we're at. I mean, I would be curious if you broke that down, like, the percentages.

You know what I mean? Well, the percentages is what Rotten Tomatoes does, I believe. No, but I'm saying the percentage. If you had the same number, like, what was your number at that number of reviews? Oh, at 200, yeah. There's a bunch of who knows from where's reviews piling on yours. Well, we opened in a bunch of other territories around the world. So these might be, these are French reviews.

These are Australian reviews. French reviews. So then you have to build in the exchange rate. Is that what you mean? Yeah, exactly. I don't know what a French review exchange rates to an American right now. The American review rate is actually a little bit low. I don't want to point fingers, but the current interview.

administration has been driving down the rights of American reviews. Are you think tariffs are hurting your... Yes, and they thought it would get all their movies to get better reviews, but it turns out when you put a tariff on like a French review, it actually knocks it down by a star when it comes in. Do you think you could get a pull quote on the Naked Gun poster in time that says as well reviewed as together except for the tariffs on the reviews? Something like that? Yeah, you have to account for it.

Okay. Hey, I just want to jump in and say that, you know, I think I've been part of the problem. I haven't gone to a lot of movie theaters to see movies recently, but I had a great time because I got invited to the premiere for naked gun, full blast. I had James Gunn on my show, and I thought, oh, I got to see Superman. And, you know, a lot of these, the bigger movies, they don't send links, even to talk show hosts. Oh, fucking bullshit. Yeah. So I went and saw Superman in the theater really fun.

And then I wanted, I was kind of riding, you know, the wave. I went to see weapons. So did I. And this is a story about how I'm an 85-year-old man. I go to see weapons, Union Square, Monday night, buy a ticket at 8 o'clock. It's got, I don't even know what this means, but it's like 4DX seats. Oh, no. You didn't know what that meant.

So I walk in. Oh, no. First of all, I walk into the theater. By the way, I know everything about this story makes me sound like a very old man. I was so angry when I went to see Superman because it was like 30 minutes of previews. And I was like, never again. So I time it that I'm showing up 20 minutes after the movie was supposed to start. I walk in, you know, assigned seats.

I'm the last guy there. The dude sitting next to my seat has the biggest bucket of popcorn and already like eight like butter rags. Like just like crumpled up napkins all over my seat. And by the way, the dude was super cool. He's like, oh, bro. I'm so sorry. He like picks up his big tub, all his like butter rags. And he's like wiping a thousand kernels.

off, and I'm being really patient, but I'm also, like, standing up. People are trying to watch trailers. Finally getting to my seat, the trailer for Running Man starts, and these seats are like, like, shaking back and forth, and I'm like, no. Oh, no, thank you. And I say to the guy, I go, is there a way to turn these off? And he goes, and he says, you can turn off the water. And I say, the water.

And he says, yeah, they say, spray water if it's in the movie and I was like I cannot tell you I know I've talked about Fred used to do a bit about somebody just getting up and down like just like putting on a big show yeah and that was exactly what I did I like stood up and I'm like no thank you and immediately left I was like there was just no way and then I walked out and there was like an 85 year old woman who was taking tickets so we were she and I were the same age and she'd just taken my ticket and I'm just like arching out and uh yeah oh wait what oh wait i i sent him the wrong link i was trying to say hi jonah hey guys i was just up joe i was trying to send you through it on the ground and i sent

you the zoom link but what's up jona oh hey guys everybody as a two for on yorma inviting people to our podcast what's going on it's our podcast recording uh we're recording the uh the podcast right now we can edit it later we can edit you right out No, dude, it's cool. Leave me in, man. When we talk to throw it on the ground? Norma was like, Jonah, you've got to see this videoy, man. It's called Throw It on the Ground.

Yo, can I offer one thought if you want to leave me in about Throw It on the Ground? Please. Yes, please. Why, it's one of my favorites. You know, I'm a lonely island, like, die hard. Me and Norm are going to get to hug IRL in the next few hours, which is so sick. And what upset? I've seen your face, like, live and Andy.

Jonah, it's been forever, and it is absolutely. a delight to lay eyes on you. All I do is listen to you guys and pretend like I'm there having fun with, that I have friends on my long drives. Throw it on the ground is so dope for the backpack rat fat beats heads like me. That is why it is very specific.

The kind of rap song you're mocking is what I call science rap, which is like fat beats like backpack rap. And that's why I love, like when you guys get so specific for something that hits me, I'm like, this is so dope. And secondly, you don't have to leave any of this in.

We haven't even started talking about yet. Oh, shit. No, jump in. This is great. That's good. We need to transition, Jonah. I'm Jonah Hill. You're listening to Power 106.

Big boy in the morning. So, listen, this is actually quite important. Like, on a more serious note, is I was in such a dark place and I started watching this thing and it brought me out of it because it was like awesome and funny it's called the Dave Chappelle show

Oh fucking god damn And it's like So the big comedian It does all the Netflix specials Right? Yeah Before like years, years before that dude He had like an

Usenel type of sketch show This cannot say Yeah Jonah has done this on every text chain that we've had for the last, like, 10 years? And I always... No, no, dude, it's not like his stand-up. Like, he does some interstitions of his stand-up,

but he also does, like, SNL style, but, like, well-filmed sketches, too. Like, short films. It sounds interesting. I fully went for it, too, when you said you were in a dark place. I was like, oh, no. But the sketches just start cold?

No, no, no. He comes out, and he does, like, I wouldn't even call it stand-up. It's just kind of, like, warming the crowd up, And there's like a live crowd and a DJ. And he like, he kind of, what's it called? How you guys say, like throw to video. That's how we say it.

Sorry. Yeah, yeah. Like he throws to video and then like a film sketch. It's not like an S&L sketch. It's like a filmed short film sketch. Yeah, wow. That sounds really cool. And it's called, what's it called again?

We'll check it out for it. We'll look at for you. It's hysterical, the David Chappelle show. Got it's a great, the Chappelle show. It's laugh out loud, like gut-busting funny. And it's fucking awesome. Yeah, we know. What's it on?

Where can we find it? What channel? Oh, it's on Comedy Central, dude. Oh, that's on that I am interested. I watch it live on Comedy Central. It must be funny. Yeah, it's great. Exactly.

There's probably a DVD box at a Best Buy or something you could pick up. But, like, I, it rocks, dude. Anyway, I don't want to fuck up your guy's shit. This is great. This was a really great little interjection. So thanks to you. And thanks for a big enough of it. Also, you're iconic for just sense.

me the link of the video you're talking about, but then adding me onto the Zoom and me not understanding what was going to happen when I joined. Well, I also had Stephanie Beatrice start this show, so we haven't even started to make it about. Go walk around the lot, see who else you can pick up. Come by, Jonah. I want to fucking kiss you on the mouth.

Dude, I'm going to pop by the Connors and see if anyone's around. Oh, shit, dude. Pop by the Conners. I wish this is a video podcast because if you can see Jonah, it's just a real reminder that L.A. has some of the shittiest hallways of America.

in my production. I'm eight weeks. I'm eight weeks out of shooting. This is my like production office writer's. What's that kind of ceiling called? It's our deck. Yeah. Well, everywhere can't be the elevators at 30 Rocks.

This guy's got fucking snooty Seth. Yeah, but guess what the offices are bad? The offices are pretty bad. There's like no pictures on the wall. It's like a, it's like in like boiler room style. They'll be like phones on the floor when we leave. Like, I kind of like boiler room. No lie.

What are you this, dude? Yeah, yeah. Fuck yeah, dude. That's awesome. All right, well, thank you, Jonah. Thank you, Jonah. All right, Jonah, I'm going to come by later this afternoon. I love you.

If someone can put me on a text with Seth Myers, so I have his number, I'd like that. Let's do it. We'll do that right now. All right. And Andy, you're the only person on here I owe a call because I've talked to Yorna Kiva literally multiple times this week. Well, hit me up, bro. It's true. I know.

No, I literally owe you a call. Okay. And then, Seth, I'd love to text you funny things. I would like that, too. As long as it's about David Chappelle's show. I mean, obviously, based on these recommendations, if there's anything else I should check out. Is this South Park?

I've heard about a show called South Park. How's that? Dude, we're talking about everyone knows South Park. It's like that everyone watches it. It's like famous shit. What is it with this guy, dude? It's the most famous fucking show for like 30 years, dude. Yeah, that is actually a little crazy.

No, no, dude. This is the stand-up guy that he does like crazy stand-up, but he does other shit too. Great. Yeah. South Park. Whatever, dude. nice fun thing in you Seth

like good call dude good call dude anyway but I'll hit you with his number though yeah yeah after the South parking like you know reconsidering yes Seth I love you I would love to connect with you dude love you buddy this was awesome I got to be on my favorite show

this is how guests are booked on Seth's show too but I'm not making the cut let's be honest I'm not making the cut you're in you're gonna make the cut jump on anytime jump on any time literally is this the all zoom link for all of them because I will find out when you're recording and jump on,

you fuck your shit out. It honestly might be. I have no idea if you can do one every time. Someone hit me with the schedule in every, like, 18th episode, I'll pop in 18 minutes in and talk about Chappelle's show. Please, please do.

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Great. No shells, no limits. Don't hold back on flavors or convenience. I'll tell you what I like is just eating a ton of pistachios. And I'll tell you what I don't like when I forget to hide the shells. And then my wife comes home and says, did you eat all of the wonderful pistachios? And I say, no, I didn't. And then she'll say, well, where are all these shells from?

And I'll say, your guess is as good as mine. Visit wonderfulpestatios.com to learn more. Felt weird to say love you so early in the episode, but I guess it was just... I know, I know, but you had to do it. He knows the protocol. Yeah. I do feel like I've earned the right to say, Yoram. Stop inviting people on the pot.

Will anyone else be joining us? Genuinely, no. No. Oh, but Yoram, I don't think we ever did throw a little intro, ready? Yes. Oh, Jonah Hill. Oh, yeah, Jonah. I feel like we started saying Jonah, it pretty. quick. I think people will find choice, but we're, you know, again. Yes, guys, I just

accidentally sent Jonah the link to our podcast. So here's Jonah Hill, everybody. I don't think that's how you would have said it in the moment. Hey, uh, Yorm, I've noticed you spell your name with a Q in the Zoom and it actually looks awesome because it balances out the kind of the J. That's weird. Usually it's Yorma with quotes around it, which I find to be funny. But J-O-R-M-Q, but it, you read it as an A, but with like a little style on it. Yeah, it does look. It's a pretty good look.

It also like, for the pod, there's nice to get. I mean, I feel like that's like Yorm Quaid. Yeah. Yeah. Somebody did ask in the comments, and I feel like most people know how to spell, but somebody asked, how do you spell Quaid? It's Q-U-A-I-D. Yeah.

Yeah, like the family quads. Like the family quads, exactly. So obviously, thrilling and unexpected to see Jonah there. I do feel a little bit like Seth got knee-capped in the middle of a great anecdote. That's true. I feel like the best part of the anecdote had happened, but thank you, Andy. I will just say, I literally was walking out a minute after I walked in, and this old lady said, what, honey?

And I was just walking like somebody who'd been, like, mistreated. And I said, I can't. This might be a direct quote. I'm like, I can't sit in those seats. Did you also complain about how expensive it was, too? Because I assume it's more expensive. No, but I will say, I mean, it was 30 bucks. Well, yeah.

Were you not tip-off by, like, how expensive it was? You're like, wait, movie prices. You've got not ratings. By the way, let me tell you something about 40X. They should give me $30. Bro. For your back man. Save it for your special.

Yeah. You've got to save this for your special. This is good stuff. Now, I will say, I don't know what it would have been for weapons. But, like, for the running man trailer, it was like somebody had grabbed me by the shoulders and was just, like, shaking. Because all, I mean, there's no, like, quiet moments of the running man trailer. There's lots of quiet moments in weapons. But this was just, like, two minutes of, like, ah.

But then I said, I go, no, I'm leaving. And she said, well, hold on. Let me see if I can find a different time. And she's like, oh, the next one's at 1040. And again, 85-year-old man, I'm like, I can't stay up till 1040? No, are you kidding? 1040? You've been asleep for an hour.

And she was like, you're telling me, honey. It's a long movie. And like, she and I just had the nicest moment of like, we just are living in a, this is not our world anymore. Yeah. This is not our world anymore. Anyways, the roses is coming out. Make sure to check that on before you. Oh, I'm very excited.

I did see a Rosen's poster. I'd love to see that 40X. 40X. I also do want to say I went back and saw weapons two nights later and highly recommend it. Yeah, it's very fun. Too spooky. No, no, it's fun spooky. It's fun spooky.

It's genuinely, I think it's a great way to describe it. And it goes places you don't expect it to go. Really fun to watch a movie that I was constantly like, no idea where this is going and delightful. But now that you guys have said that, I'm going to expect it to go places I'm not expecting. Oh, yeah, expect the unexpected. Yeah, yeah. So now it fucks it up. Yeah.

Spoiler. Like, you didn't spoil it overtly, but you did fuck it up for everyone forever. I'm going to read this, but I feel like you'll enjoy it because somebody who wrote a bit long, but very relevant to Andy regarding Transformers, push the cube into my chest. Oh. In Portuguese, Cube is just Cubo, pretty similar. What's not similar is that the first half, Q, pronounced Q, is a dirty slang for anus, put blatantly, asshole. Q means asshole. So some genius on YouTube took the Brazilian dub of Transformers and did a supercut of all the times they talk about.

the cube only cutting out the very end of the word i give you guys a small selection of the resulting dialogue translated back in english optimist prime before time began there was the asshole ratchet that's suicide the asshole is raw power it could destroy you both simmons we're able to take the asshole radiation and funnel it into that box sam you have to take me to my car he's going to know what to do with the asshole oh man megatron give me that asshole and last but of course not Optimus Prime, if I cannot defeat Megatron, you must push the asshole into my chest. Yeah, yeah, which, you know,

doesn't really do much for anyone. Can you do that? Can you do your, you know, optimist, but with asshole instead of- If I cannot defeat Megatron, you must push the asshole into my chest. It's really good. Great, great stuff.

Which, I'm not really sure what it's going to do. I'm not sure how it'll help, but just, we'll just have to see. But just push it in my chest. Do you think, somebody else wrote, Do you think if this movie had come out before the first quado sketch, you would have had somebody say, push this quado into my chest?

Oh, my God. Probs. Probs. It does seem like it ticks a lot of boxes for you. Dream World scenario, you know? I was very happy to watch The Root on the ground again. So was I. I didn't go back if we were in case we were going to do a watch.

I mean, obviously we're going to watch it together. But before we watch it, because it is criterion, lock criterion for me. For all of us, I believe. But this is a specific. kind. Jonah, of course, referenced it. But, like, talk to us a little bit about, like, what kind of song is this? I don't even know, really. Yeah, like, the beat is not, the beat doesn't match the tone of the character. Right. It really is its own little thing. I mean, truthfully, I'm not sure if we've talked about it ever before, but we had the beat and loved the beat. And

I believe, Keev, this is the one where you had just been, like, obsessed with the phantom camera. Yeah, exactly. Or had we already used. used it before. No, we had never used it before. I feel like you were all about the Phantom camera, which could shoot in this insane slow-mo. It was at this time pretty recent. I'm not a gearhead like Yorm, but I had seen enough things that were super slow-mo where I was

like, how do they do that? I don't know if I knew about the Phantom before you mentioned it, so gear or not, like I did not know. So I was very keen on this. There's just a level of slow-mo that you cannot do it. on any normal camera because it is so slow. It can go like two seconds becomes like two or three minutes of footage, right? Exactly.

It had been used in movies and maybe a few music videos. It was in the Hurt Locker when the bullet shells, the casings are hitting the ground and it goes into it and you see all the dirt and stuff and it's insane looking. It's beautiful. But I basically, I think I asked Dean or somebody, can you research what this is and she found it and she found a place in New York that had it. And then it was just in the back of our mind that we needed to feel. film something using it.

Were you thinking that? Like when we made this song, though, or which that it was. Because this was made that week. Yes. It was already on his mind and he had already said to us, we should try and find a use for the Phantom. We were like, yeah, sure. But Keeve was really in like, yeah, yeah, no, I remember you driving that, but that's fucking

cool. I mean, it's so funny, like, it's great to know for anybody who watches this now that, like, the first thought was like, let's have something in slow-mo. And then how quickly did that lead to, like, let's have stuff getting thrown on the graph? be thrown on the ground. I mean, we really liked that beat. Yeah. It's a Drew Campbell beat, right?

Yeah. And we were just playing it in the office. And I mean, I remember very vividly, Keeve, you jumping up from your chair and going, what if it's just this? Because I wanted to see things blow up in slow motion. Yeah. You're like, what if the chorus, when it goes huge like that on the chorus, it's just, I threw it on the ground, and you just see things exploding on the ground.

And we were all like, yeah, okay. Those are some of my favorite moments in the studio. of just like a guy being like what if it's good what kind of a guy throws things on the ground i mean kind and then i believe the characters started coming around because matt murray the panther had kept talking to us about that song funked at by sada oh yeah about the guy who's like i'm walking on his tree ain't a man dana me i'll fly you man funked funked and we were like oh right that energy turns into this guy throwing things on the ground

but musically not at all similar Seth it was sort of like a melding of that and then once we went down that path the sort of like super self-righteous I don't trust the system like you know

that whole persona which there's I mean growing up in Berkeley there's a lot of that vibe yeah that's a real bay trait yeah and Jonah's correct of the backpack hip hop vibe but not to the song itself not to the music It's almost like hip-hop slam poetry, like really up its own butt.

Yes, but the co-opted version. The dudes that we knew who were like that. Because that can be great. We were like, this is my personality now. It's kind of Ross Trenti in that way. Our experience with it anyway was knowing dudes that were like, we're counterculture, we're anti-system, all this stuff. And you're like, yeah, but like you live in a crazy nice neighborhood.

Like, who is this guy? There's a lot of fronting for sure. To me, it felt like that was sort of the basis of the character, but the first comedic thought from it was just keep thinking about doing that in slow-mo and saying that sentence. He's maybe the worst dude. You were rooting against this guy immediately. The way he's dressed, his worldview.

He's kind of every troll on the internet now. Yeah. No, but he's not that pointed. No. I feel like that guy wouldn't troll. He'd be, that's the system. He thinks he's very positive. But I think he just, I mean, what you get the longer you watch it is,

basically he so wants to prove he's like uncorruptible that he's just an asshole to every single person. Yeah, someone just offers him a free hot dog because he's being nice and he's like, what are you up to? Yeah, he's so uncorruptible that he becomes brain deck. You can't. Why are you trying to bribe me? Like, you think I can't afford it? He's got a chip on his shoulder. It's also, I mean, I might be overstepping here. You guys correct me. Early to mid-90s, there was a big, like, hip-hop pushback against pop hip-hop. You know what I mean? Yeah, the minute it became bling.

Artists we love and would listen to all the time, like your De Laus and your J-Rue the Damagea, like this whole like anti-puffy kind of thing was happening in hip-hop. And because of that, all the people that listened to that didn't necessarily have a leg to stand on in that conversation adopted that attitude.

And by the way, I put myself into that category. Like when I was in high school or whatever, I'd be like, man, fuck that mainstream hip-hop. Yeah, that stuff's commercial. I'm going to go to soccer practice now. You know, like, and I feel like there's a little bit of that in this as well of, like, misguided rebellion and anger against a thing that really had nothing to do with it.

Yes, because that also made complete sense. Like, there was a lot to rebel against it. So it was money and bling and da-da-da-da. And there were some really good political points. And there was like, this isn't really hip-hop and did-da. And then not getting co-opted. other people who weren't quite as intelligent. Even one further in the Bay Area, though, too,

there was a big culture of unsigned artists selling tapes out of the back of their cars, but then there was pride in that, too, of, like, being unsigned and making your own music, which even was one step even further. Yeah, I-N-E-P-N-T. Yeah. Keep it independent.

No fuck A-N-Rs, right? Yeah, for real. Definitely the genre of music where there's the most songs about who's doing that genre the best at the current time. Like songs about the genre and what the genre is supposed to be

who's doing it wrong. Yeah, the rules. Yeah, exactly. What are the rules? What is it supposed to be? Yeah, it is weird that that doesn't... That should happen more in pop music. That would be fun. I think it happens in country a lot. Does it? Like, this isn't real country. Yeah. That's not the real country. Like, you're pop country. You're not the real

shit. Obviously, I know less about it. I think it's like way more surf. There's like, I think it's all just text in country. Whereas there's, like, more subtext in hip-hop. Okay. You know, I think literally the songs are like, that's not country. That's like the title of the song. Just right to the point.

Oh, yeah, I see what you're saying. Well, it was very easy to wardrobe this character because we did know a lot of people who were of this ilk in the Bay Area, certainly. I want to get to it. And I feel like, should we just, should we watch it now? Oh, yeah. There's other things in the Ryan Reynolds episode that I would want to talk about as well. Agreed.

I was reading through it and realized it was a pretty great act. It was a great app. There's also a sketch I think about all the time, and I'm always wondering, like, why didn't that, like, why didn't nobody ever talk about that? And just today for the first time, I realized it was cut a dress. But it made such an impact on me that I sing a song from it all the time in my head. Oh, okay. Well, let's get to that.

And it was Lady Gaga, I was the musical guest, too. Yeah. And Madonna had a cameo. Oh, we were. And what was Ryan Reynolds promoting? Did we figure it out? Somebody in the comments made a guess that it was... Mint Mobile.

Mint Mobile. He was pre-Mint Mobile. He was... hinting at the fact that he was going to buy a mobile phone company. Wolverine and the Proposal. Oh, too. He had a two for him. He's barely in the Wolverine.

That wouldn't be it. Proposal for sure. Proposal would be. Do you guys remember Blenda Fresh 25? I remember that phrase. Here's the song that I think about all the time. Blenda Fresh 25. I say it a Blender Fresh 25.

So it's a forte, but I don't know what it is. Is he like in a recording booth? No. Blenda Fresh 25 is. is Ryan Reynolds is setting up a demonstration at a supermarket for a blender called the Blender Fresh 25. And immediately as people are gathered around, Whig walks over and it's like, hey, that looks amazing.

I don't know you. I've never met you. And then Forte comes over and he's like, well, I love soup. Hello, you. I've never met you. I've never seen you. And it's the craziest sketch.

And he's like, does anybody here like soup? And she's like, there's a line where I think Wiggs says, do people in China eat with chopsticks? And Fortin goes, I've just been there, and they do. Very important. And, like, Ryan's very natural, and they're so crazy. And for a while, you think they don't actually know him, even though Keenan, who's a customer, keeps stressing that they do.

Yeah. And then everybody leaves. Hey, I'm an old lady. And I'm here with this stranger. But I'm not just a stranger. I also have a hairy mustache. Prove it! Prove it!

Prove it! Prove it! You two again? I'm out of here. Come on. No, you two! Ah, guy. So?

How do we do? Really bad. I mean, you stuck to my script, but your acting was way too subtle. Especially you, Jasmine. Sorry. But it was wonderful to finally answer the question of like, how come that's not something

people are still talking about? Because it never aired. Really, a really funny... Second Chance Theater. Oh, yeah, Second Chance Theater. Second Chance Theater for Blendefresh 25. Would watch. Other fun stuff in the show.

Norwegian Actors Playhouse, Andy. Do you remember Norwegian Actors Playhouse? I do. That one I do remember. It's really wonderful. I kind of wanted to just pull up a clip for us to watch. Can we watch a second?

Yeah, sure. Fuck, yeah. Yeah. I mean, at some point, we should watch through it on the ground, too. Yeah, yeah. Well, should we do that last? I'm probably going to have to go in, like, 10 minutes just so if I. All right, so let's do Throne in the ground.

You want me to share that, and then we'll come back for them. Yeah, like, you take it over. You take it over, Keefe. I mean, we need to do through it on the ground so Yorm can get credit for coming up with the best joke. Okay, great. I feel like Taze you in the Bottle. It's the one that I believe has said, well, that and happy birthday. Oh, I like Tase You in the Bottle.

But this ain't my dad. This is a cell phone is the line that most people say to me, and I'm always like, that's a pure Yerm. It's a great line. Yes. And happy birthday to the ground. Tased me in the butthole is still my faith. Yeah. Well, we're going to get into that.

Oh, I just thought this is really short, but just with, in terms of gearheads, I got invited to do the DGA Digital Day, like a year after this, which is like a panel where you talk about shorts. Yeah, I remember that. So it's the thing I wouldn't normally go to, the DJAs, the Directors Guild. And it's a trade day also where like, like, almost like a mini-comicom, but in this teeny little space where different camera companies are like showing off their new lenses and new equipment and what the technology can do.

And at the table for the Phantom camera, showing off it, they had versions of the camera and then a big TV showing on loop like a four-minute examples, and the Throat on the Ground video was part of it and would play in its entirety. And it was literally like Hurt Locker, throw it on the ground,

and then like maybe it won car commercial, and that was it. So we were early, early on the Phantom camera thing. Yeah, for sure. I don't remember you did that. That's killer. They should have given us a fucking free phantom camera. By the way, we're still totally open to them giving us one.

I mean, they're still around, but I wonder if other companies do crazy slow-mo now. I was walking through the city streets. And a man walks up to me and hands me with the latest energy drink. Run faster, jump higher. Man, I'm not going to let you poison me. I threw it on the first. Wow, it's like 20 seconds in a I mean, I'm a joke.

I ain't gonna be part of this system. Man. Wow, it's fast to get into the joke. That's like a pop song where it's like 20 seconds in, chorus. I mean, we didn't have much else. That's true. I remember we had to speed up the slow-mo a lot. Yes, because it wouldn't fit in the time of the song.

It was so slow. It was incredible, but then the song is fast. And so the cup is breaking, but it doesn't even look that slow. I remember in post you being like, okay, so here's our choices. We can do it at the incredible slowness, but I have to do these jump cuts. Yeah.

Or we can do faster, and we all voted faster. Exactly. It looks fucking awesome. I want to say for a first beat incredibly effective at establishing the tone, because the energy drink is you're like, okay, I know that guy wouldn't want to put poison in his body.

It's the most reasonable you are the whole time. Yeah, but also when in human history has a man stood on a corner with little shot glasses of energy drinks. Certainly the shot glasses. I was in Beverly Hills two weeks ago. There were two girls with Red Bull backpacks. Oh, okay. Hey, look, the times that I like being standing corrected the most are when it makes us look good.

Yeah. Head of the curve, always. Yeah. But you're right. It wouldn't be open. They were given out full cans to be fair. And they wouldn't give you a glass shot glass. Right.

Did we also have a different DP on this? Because it feels substantially better than... Yes, because we were using that camera. So I believe it was Aaron. Phillips, and he went on to shoot a ton of our stuff. A ton of our stuff, yeah. And was this his very first one? I think, well, it's definitely one of them.

Is this our first music video we're talking about since Like a Boss? Yeah. Yes. So, as you recall, we talked about on Like a Boss how, I don't know if we did, but that it ended up costing through various reasons almost as much as just in my pants. And when I saw that, I went, wait, if we're spending almost much as just in my pants, why don't we make it look like that? And then that was when a big discussion was had.

I was like, what can we, can we hire outside of the show, essentially? But obviously, we had on boat, on the ones we had done outside the show. Yes, yeah. I would just really quickly add that this many years later, it's still funny to me when we casually talk about jizz in my pants and don't acknowledge how stupid it is that we're saying. Okay, let's keep going. Also, real quick, Mother Lever was the last music video we talked about.

Oh, right, but that was supposed to look like the other one. Right, right, right. So, Andy, how would you describe your facial hair? I mean, it's a go-tee, but with the soul patch. Yeah, I would describe it as... And without the sides, it's... It's a chin beard. Yeah, it's whack.

Huh, yeah. And then you've got your, like, thin-rimmed MC search glasses on. Yeah. But then you got, and the kangle. This is definitely, this is definitely the dude who jumps into the cipher and spirals, and he's too self-effacing. Yeah, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. That's the mathematics that, um, Jonas have referring to. Yeah.

He sees this guy, and he's picturing the systematic, automatic, refresh. Cerebellum, definitely says cerebellum. Yeah. Yes, definitely. Mammada dula. Cillocybin in my cerebellum Antebellum Cerebellum

Lyrical Miracle is the classic Lyrical miracle is the classic All right You got the Pookishels You got the Army jacket It was like Every perpetrator Who was like copying the 70s style

That was the return Vietnam soldier Look And actually your What happens to perpetrators? Perpetrators get the Bozac Camille jam Sack That was a real real drop

from our hometown radio station back in the day that we tried to, like I would wait around trying to get to, so I could record it. Perpetrators get the Bozac, K.M.L.J. It's the best sentence ever written. Perpetrators get the Bozac,

that was said on the radio by an adult man. I love it so much. All right, you can play. Oh, but it also is getting out that these guys don't trust. It is garbage to him, it has like caffeine and taurine. Yeah.

This guy is granola. Yeah, major corporation, too. He makes his own granola for sure. Yeah, he's not trusting what Nabisco's putting into a product. I can tell you, currently this guy is super psyched that RFK Jr. has the position he has. That's what I meant by the internet troll. I didn't mean like that. Yes, it's the Venn diagram of that.

His position is to take the other side of any ledger. Less troll more conspiracy theorists. Yeah. Contrarian conspiracy theorist. He started far left, and he's ended up somewhere else now. Yeah. All right, we're never getting through it. All right, here we go.

I go to my favorite hot dog stand, and the dude says, you come here all the time. He's one for free. By the way Andy's even just moving his shoulders through life, like, as you walk up to the hot dog man, is so indicative of this character. Swag. Yeah.

I want to say something that I love again in the writing because a dude who doesn't like energy drinks and what they put in your body would also maybe not like street hot dogs and I love that you establish he comes there all the time he's always eating hot dogs so now his issue is completely moved on

yeah he doesn't do the knowledge yeah one other just film nerd thing I'm noticing is this video has a really weird look to it a lot of the times lighting-wise And it's because, even though we're in broad daylight, the camera needs so much light when you're shooting at like a thousand frames per second that we had to blast everything with light.

So that's why it's got this kind of golden hue sometimes. I think you're going to say it was bouncing off of the buildings in Manhattan. So we shot the whole thing on Phantom at different speeds. Yeah. And so we had a blast light, though, on any shot that was going to go into slow-mo so that it could capture it. No, I do remember that. But that's one for free

I said, man, what I look like A charity case I took it and threw it on the ground I don't need your hand out But that's why it has this interesting shady look Because he's in that super slow-mo too Obviously so you have to blast the shit

It's going wild Yeah You're handouts I'm an adult Please You can't buy me high I feel like maybe vocal slightly blown out, or is that an effect we put on it? It's got a real...

I bet you they're just blown out. I think they are. A little crackle on it, which I do think adds to the anger. Was this the one, though, where we were listening to, like, Rick Ross, and we were like, you know what, that shit's blown out, and it sounds fucking great. I honestly think it might be that we did it on purpose. Yeah. That's pretty cool.

Look at these fingers, this gloves. A little boombox action here. Oh, yeah. I want to give real quick a shout out to both Tucker and Bobby, who play it very serious. straight and their reactions to you and very honest, which is how a person will react, because it makes no sense what you've done. Yes. And in

both cases, they're just like, huh? Although, Seth, they're shot in such slow motion, they might have been going huge and Keeve just took like a millisecond of it for that reaction. Very good point. You know what? So don't give them credit yet. Compliment rescinded. But they also might have played it perfectly.

Compliments to the camera, though. Release the tapes. Keeve, release the tapes. Release the tapes. Release the tapes. Why won't you release the tapes? Keeve. Release the full tapes. Why don't you release the tapes and open your wallet? Listen, I'm just trying to find them at S&A. I got the Tucker cut three minutes.

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Let's see, personally? Yeah. Yes. One time on your weekend update, I was playing beloved hero. Yeah. Doing the upside-down smooch. Right. Give up the smooch.

Give up the spooch. It was a classic kiss in the film. And it was a class of give up the smooch in the day of the future. I would say the bit itself was reasonable. Probably them lifting me up there and hanging the upside down for 15 minutes before lowering me. Was it a bit unreasonable? Yeah. And probably the fact that we had to bring in like 10 professionals for the purposes of bringing you upside now.

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Yeah. It's a scull-y, but then it's got a little visor covered in beanie. If anyone on this wants to know if I owned a hat that was a lot like this hat in high school, the answer is yes. For sure. I searched for this hat, and I absolutely wanted this hat, too. So, you know, like, fronting is, we're not above front. I've told this story before, during the 2007-2008 writer's strike, I was wearing a hat like that, and I was on CNN.

And Shoemaker called me and yelled at me because he said, if you're going to be on TV, you can't look like a piece of shit. Oh, my God. He said, not a piece of shit. Sorry, he said, you can't look like shit. Oh, I see. Because I did look. I was like unshaven and I was wearing a hat like that. Yeah, he's like you're an actor now.

But you were on the WGA line. I was trying to look like a, yeah, like an unwashed writer. Like a slubby writer. I feel like this hat, in my mind, was worn by the likes of diggable planets. Maybe some Black Star. Maybe Common, too? I feel like Common. Yeah, Es Poscibly.

And all of those people made it look very cool. Yeah. And that's why me and your arm scrambled out to our local Army Navy store in Berkeley to try and get one. I feel like I look a lot like common. Defo. Same bone structure, same beautiful face. I've read that a lot of places. Do you know who else looks a lot?

like common who the other person who looks a lot like common this is key's observation is john travolta in the movie from paris with love yes he does immediately yes he does yeah i don't think that that's the accident i want to do like them a picture of common and they went and they're like this guy you're this it's it's the leather coat it's the scarf it's the bald head it's the facial hair it's every by the shout out shout out that movie you guys definitely go see from paris with love i think i want to do like a white Common. Right? That's what he said.

Oh, man. Me and Mary Jane, we got a thing going on. Oh, my God. He sings it, though. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Highly recommend for Paris with Love.

He refers to his gun as Mary Jane, I believe, right? Yeah. No, sorry. It's Mrs. Jones, guys, not Mary Jane. Me and Mrs. Jones. Oh, that's right. Yeah, Mrs. Jones. That's right.

Yeah, he calls his gun and Mrs. Jones. He loves murdering with it, I guess. All right, he can play. Yeah. Yeah. Farmer's Market with my so-called girlfriend. She hands me her cell phone, says it's my dad. Man, this ain't my dad.

This is a cell phone. I threw it on the ground. Nice to see Jenny's plate. It's quite a reveal of the depths of the stupidity of this man. And Jenny now for his reacting with shock, which is the accurate reaction to somebody. It's also so funny. Again, this does not feel like a long time ago to me. until you see what counted as a phone.

Well, as a Blackberry. Yeah, yeah. And as mentioned, we were May horror Blackberry heads. We liked that QWERTY. Always, still, to this day. Still, to this. Breakbreaker. Love it.

Miss it. Made me sad when they saw it. Free advertisement for Stokes in the truck behind her there. Yeah. Yeah, Jenny, delightful. That's the homie. And yes, this was a Yorm line.

This is the most quoted one to you? To me, I feel like it's the one that is the most discussed. Yes, that and happy birthday to the ground. Yeah. Yes, it's definitely between those two. Yeah, good for the T-shirts. I think a better T-shirt. I remember thinking, we can't do this, can we?

This joke? It's just the dumbest old dad joke. It's so funny. I remember you having a problem with it. Yes. Yorm, I will say, to Yorm's credit, like a lot of times we'll bring in an old-timey-feeling joke like that. Like, from Show a Show's era almost or like Mark's brothers or early Steve Martin. Yeah.

It's all that early stuff I used to listen to. My dad made me listen to a lot of old radio like George Burns' crazy album jokes. They're so conceptually clean and convey so much about the character. Yeah, it's correct for this guy. I do believe he's also, most people that have said it, say it because they're winking. Hey, that's not my dad. It's a cell phone.

But he's mad. Yeah, this guy believes it. This guy means it. She literally went, saw her phone, went, oh, hey, it's your dad. And you went, that's not my dad? That's a cell phone! He's so mad. Broke other guy.

What are you even talking about? I'm not an idiot. You, by the way, you make it clearer to her. In the next line, you're worried that she still believes that that foams your dad, so you do want to clean it up a little bit more. By the way, so we went to a real farmer's market, clearly. Do you think we even had any permission? We just had to look up farmers markets that were happening on that day.

Did we, or did they just set up a few things? No, there's no way. The fact that there's a truck there is pretty good. There's no one. We've got to ask you to know that. Jenny's reaction there is very good. She's the stupid one. That's an important distinction.

Yeah, but her reaction shot, she looks legit, angry and annoyed, and I love it. If you go back a little, that's my favorite, I hate this guy's face. Nostrils flared. Yeah. Yeah, it's not good. They were fully, fully flared. Jenny's so mad. Yeah, she had so.

thought about breaking up so many times she's actually furious she's mad at herself she's like how she's like still yeah now today's the day how did i let this is your last day how did i let this happen again she's like here he fucking goes again this guy how am i here also my so-called girlfriend it's just a concept to him but by the way we gave her she's got like bird feathers on her puka necklace and like black fingernails to let us know why she would be dating you yeah like the Those are little personality choices happening there. I'm not a part of your system. That.

Yeah. It's so stinky. You're right. It's an amazing Andy face. Yeah. It's amazing. Some poser has me cake at a birthday party. What you want me to do with this.

Eat it. Happy birthday to the ground. Why? See that kid a poser? Yeah, he's a poser. He's just a child. It's like an eight-year-old kid giving Andy kick. Look at this little poser

Saying what something's for As if it's crazy What you want you want me to do with this eat it Yeah it's got refined sugar Well actually little backstory on that line There was a There was a Dell the Funky Homa sapien album Yeah

Where he talks about trying to buy weed And instead he gives this guy his money And he goes into a house And comes back out and gives him crack Oh is this why I wish my brother George was here That's the first No, it was like a Dell, like, it never got released. It was just the tape.

You'd, like, buy it at shows. Oh, shit. And his line, the guy hands him crack, and his line literally is, what the fuck you want me to do with this? Eat it? And I always thought that was the funniest shit ever. Oh, that's a deep. I love that. So then on this, I was like, oh, my God, I could do that Dell line, but it actually makes sense now because it's a piece of cake.

Oh, that's great. That's great. The other great joke on the joke here is that it's not this slow-mo of the solitary piece of cake hitting the ground is not. No, it's very underwhelming. It's very lame. It's so funny. How underwhelming it is is so funny. We were honestly trying to figure out, like, wait, I could try to, like, throw it really hard, but then it would, like, fall apart in your hand.

And we could not figure out how to make a slice of cake explode in a good way. And then I don't know if we got one that was a little better and then gotten editing and realized this was the funniest one. No, but the second shot is obviously very sad. That's fine. That's what pays it up. Yes. But I definitely think it was... I mean, we knew this was funny.

So wild. There you look. ...through the rest of the cake, too. Welcome to the real world jackass! Oh, my God. So, yeah, the wind on that kid, obviously, was not planned. I love that shot. Yeah, he looks majestic.

And, again, when it was in crazy slow, it was, like, the most majestic shot I had ever seen. Yeah, it was, like, from where the wild things are. The kid's great, by the way. Crush. Great kid. Wherever he is. Yeah, he's probably a full-grown adult now. But you know what?

I hope he's quaid army. Yeah, me too. Righteous Co. Oh, fuck. Oh, we can only hope. What I don't hope is that he grew into your character. That would be the most hard. Is it right now he's looking at you being like, I'm going to have that look in real life?

Maybe he was just looking up at any of you like, this is what I want to be. All right, let's keep doing it. There's so many things to throw on the ground like this and this and that and even this. We just wanted to. things in slow-mo and see what would happen. Chicken, the rotisserie chicken is a real delight. Well, it's always funny to me, though, like,

this is a song with audio in it, and just that you would say this, and that, and even this, like, in an audio song, is so fucking dumb. Yeah, we were not thinking about releasing it on a record. We knew that when we wrote it, we didn't want to

commit to sang the things, because we didn't know what we were doing. Yeah. Or what's going to look the coolest in slow-mo. Again, you can see, they all have this weird lighting because we had to blast light at them, but it gives it kind of an interesting look on each one. I like it a lot. It sets it apart. Yeah. I mean, again, Phantom can give us a camera any time they want. Yeah. Also, this is an entire subgenre of TikTok, you know, Instagram video reels of people that break things in slow or like,

you know, the one where they fill different bottles with like hundreds of bouncy balls and roll them down steps. Yeah, yeah. Like an ASMR videos of things being crushed. I'm just saying this is a, a, basic human desire to see what things look like when they explode that we are exploring here. And it should be called through it on the ground genre, is what you're saying. Yeah, there should be a small residual, and it's so funny that we had just gone on strike, and we didn't secure that. Seth was wearing the hat. He had made himself look like a sloppy-ass writer, the opposite of what he really is. I do want to close the circle in that story, because I don't want Schumerger to feel like a bad guy.

Shoemaker felt so bad that he called me up and told me I look like shit, that he said, can I come to your apartment and apologize in person? And when he did come to my apartment, I had shaved and answered the door in a tuxedo. Is that true? Yeah. Wow. One, you guys are a great team, but also I think that's great producing on both ends. Both guys.

You look like shit and then go to your apartment. This is back when he was a producer at S&L and you were writing. Yes. And the strike had basically had separated us. Wow. You guys, I do have to go now back to my set. So I loved, loved seeing you guys. Larry Shear is shooting this, guys.

It's what you call overkill. Oh, say hi. Oh, that's awesome. All right, bye, guys. Peace, John. Okay, here we go. Ready? Like this and this and that and even this, I'm a dog.

Why, I mean, how the Ryan Reynolds is clear, he's the host. Yes. What was the Elijah Wood? Had he just come to an episode and we had just... Was this before after Celeste and Jesse Ferrell? came out because he's in that and we became friendly through that and I maybe just texted him. I feel like this is before Celeste and Jesse. Celestine Jesse is 2012. Oh. Yeah, we're well before that.

Maybe we just asked Talent who was around or maybe Ryan and him were friends. Yeah, and I do think we, I mean, obviously we were fans and you, the Lord of the Rings guy, as established on the pod, were a massive. I was geeking hard when he showed. Yes. And I believe he. had shown up at some SNLs just to watch an SNL and somehow. Sweetest dude on Earth. Yeah.

Lovely, lovely human being. Yeah. Just saw him at Comic-Con. I believe he just finished shooting with our buddy Matt that we talk about all the time on Radio Silence for Ready or Not, too. I believe he's in it. Oh, exciting.

Yeah. So we needed two Hollywood phonies. Yeah. Ended up being two, like, super nice guys having a very civilized dinner and chatting. They offered you their autograph. They tried to give me their autograph. They're trying to force it on him.

Very clearly. based on the video. Oh, you must be a fan. And then it's funny because the idea is this is your video. Yeah. And then you put in irrefutable proof that that's not what happened. That's right. And you flip over their table and it's an incredible slow-mo shot.

Everything reverse engineered to what would be cool to throw up to the ground or flip or do. Hollywood phony's trying to give me the autograph. Grail! What do you want your autograph? Phony. This outfit's incredible, Andy. You look like you're an extra on the TV show Andor. Yeah.

This is, you pre-Andor. Which you know I love. Yes. You pre-a-dored. For those just listening to the pod in their car, he's wearing like a leather vest and a red long-sleeve-like t-shirt or sweatshirt under it. So he's got these red sleeves with leather in the center and then a leather hat that's like, how do you describe that? It's like military baseball hat. But it's like, it's like second-tier military.

You know what I mean? Which is a perfect, like, Andorian. I want to believe that, like, Tony Gilroy was, like, talking to his wardrobe department pre-Andor. It was like, you know, threw it on the ground guy, the Hollywood phony scene. Yeah. They're like, oh, got it. Not Deadpool or Frodo. Yeah.

But the guy in the middle. Yeah. Like, something like that. The table flip. And the costume department was like, oh, God, it's, yes. Not the hot dog, not the energy drink. No, no, no. You don't have to say anything else, Tony.

We get it. Hollywood phonics, got it. Yeah. What phonies got up turned out They had a taser And they tase me in the blood horn Out to the ground The phonies didn't let up

Tasing on my blood hole Over and over I was screaming and swirming My blood hole was on fire The moral of this story is You can't trust the system Man What a turn

Wow Really got me a little, and Andy's really losing it. It was making me laugh hard all over again, yeah. The repetition of it is very funny. He's so proud. He doesn't change his tone. He's just telling it like it is. Yeah, this is what happened.

I mean, again, it's wonderful that you got tased in the butthole, and you keep saying butthole. It's a real stammer. Oh, no, you can't talk right now. Bye-bye. I have to do this. I'm sorry. I love you.

But there was an alternative ending you were saying, getting tased in the butthole? Oh, no, just to last. the energy of that of like so there was an alternate ending yes it was the moral of the story is everything was the same by the way we had tays in the butthole there was no alternative

to tase in the butthole that was always going to be it was the moral of the story is you should always wear a butthole shield and we were going back and forth again these wonderful S&L moments where you're taking it so seriously and what you're talking about is the dumbest thing both are recorded you could listen We would play people the whole song.

I very vividly remember us asking people being like, hey, which one should it be? Everyone was like, oh, you can't trust the system, like, obviously. Yeah. And this was the year or two that Hannibal Burris was on the writing staff. And Hannibal was walking by and we were like, Hannibal, come here, come here. We brought him and he's like, hey, what's up? And we were like, which one should it be? And we played him both.

And he was like, oh, man, definitely butthole shield. He's not wrong either. Like he had no doubt in his mind. He was like 100%. That was this guy's lesson of the whole song. Everything was leading. I really, I do like, and it speaks to like what a gamer, Elijah Wood is, right? Because Ryan's the host, but Elijah comes and you're basically, the pitch is you're going to be having dinner with Ryan.

I'm a jerk. I flip over your table. You chase me outside. Ryan's going to tase me in the butthole and you are just going to be so gleeful. Yeah. Yes. He is devilishly gleeful. The idea that this guy is getting tased in the butthole over and over.

No, no, this is like Frodo won't throw the ring in level. Yeah. You know what I mean? Just, yeah, real insanity behind the eyes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Also, a theme in our songs and videos of an idiot getting come up and it's at the end. Yep. We like an arc, loose as it may be.

And he gets what he wants. I don't think the vest is leather on closer inspection now that you can really see it. Yeah. It's like some kind of woven canvasy kind of vibe. Yeah, it's got a leather zipper, that's for sure. It show does, Keeve. Oh, Keeve, you got a good eye. Look at these two phonies back there.

Yeah, they are Hollywood funnies. You guys crushed it very hard, and this is a great one. Yeah. Listening to that with the audience, something interesting about it, it takes a couple beats, but it goes up, up, up, up. Yes. In terms of their reaction, which is really satisfying. And I think I've mentioned this.

We were not expecting this one to be much of anything. And then slowly it started becoming a thing, A, that a lot of people really liked, B, that a lot of kids like. Like, over the years we've gotten, I can't tell you how many texts from people being like, my kid is obsessed with through it on the ground, which we didn't think about in the slightest when we were writing it. It is a really fun thing. Well, I think it's like every kid's dream, right, is to just like immediately embrace your

worst instincts with an interaction. Yeah. Just like anytime somebody tells you anything, You're like, I just want to take what you did and just throw it on the ground. Yeah. I remember Higgins coming in on Monday and being like, John Higgins, who now works at SNL but was a child, had told him, like, you know that was one of the best ones they've ever done, right? Because we were all just looking at it.

I was like, hey, really solid effort. Good one. Okay. And he kind of thought it was funny that his kid thought that it was dick-in-a-box level. And then over time, and at our concerts, I think John Higgins was on to something. Yeah. When you performed this at our concerts, me and Yorm would always be doing our quick change and then basically be free the entire time.

And it was one of my favorite moments of every concert would be me and Yom would be standing just off thing. And I have tons of videos from my phone of filming the audience because they would be singing along every single word. It's a very quotable, easy one to sing along to. And they would be like, butthole over and over. And it would be 10,000 people saying it word for word. and it would be so funny.

I could do the thing they do at like rock shows where they like hold the mic out to the audience. Over! Over! Oh my God! It was truly great. So, so wonderful. Can we wrap up, and I know we're going a little long here, and this has been a delightful one.

Can I just play, can I share a screen and play just the beginning? This is the most Fred Armisen sketch. The Norwegian Playhouse, right? Norwegian Playhouse. Yes, it's so good. This is Fred's observation of how Europeans see Americans, America. And like one of my favorite things, and I will take a picture of it and send it to Fred, we never tire of like, I was just in Amsterdam and there's always like some guy with a T-shirt

that says like Detroit City Motorcycle Club. You know, it's just like that weird American ideas are like Long Island Baseball Group, just like just a little off, but like what they think America is. And this is a great version of it. And, uh, oh wait, I'm going to share a screen and just play. I'm in it. He put me in it. Yeah, you're in it. Not my normal moves, but I love doing it so much. So, you better tell us, mister. Did you do a crime of making graffiti? We found a spray painting the bin.

Of course, I did not. Don't make me cross. I haven't drank my coffee from the donut store yet. Well, I suppose you better keep drinking because I have not made any wrong doings at all, copper. It's Detective Joe Smith. Memorize this name. I'm starting to become very cross with you.

Joe, do you want me to strike him with a knuckle sandwich? No, John. I'll just read this newspaper of the Daily News and Wade. Give me my Marlboro cigarettes, will you? I didn't make a group. I mean, it's just idiotic and so much fun. It's really good. It's also because Fred doesn't know how to hold a coffee,

up or a cigarette or a newspaper either. No, even his gyrating body is somehow Norwegian, like Norwegian pretending to be American. It's just, he's the best, classic Fred. He is. What else was that show? I had my backstage with Gaga. Yeah, wear the bubble dress.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Which I was gassed about. A line I really enjoyed from that was, you're wearing the bubble dress and you, and you guys are like, you sort of are embarrassing that you wore the same costume. No way.

It's weird. I can't believe this. I spent $20,000 on this dress. Yeah, and I made this out of garbage. Fashion. It's really great. Oh, there was a deep house dish as well, as we mentioned. And Lady Gaga and Madonna were in it,

and I think that was an iconic moment to have the two of them together. Oh, right. And I'm sure I was behind them as T. Shane. You were, and you ran over. They started making out with DJ Dynasty. What was Dynasty Handbag? How can I not remember? Keyes your Dynasty Handbag?

Yeah. I think that's right. And then you ran over and jumped on top of Madonna and Lady Gaga. So don't never let you forget that memory. I did? Yeah. Dagwood. At the end, that was like the end.

He has forgotten that memory. Hey, somebody said, as we wrap up, there was one comment I wanted to read where someone said, oh my God, I say hit his in the titus so much at home. I'm worried I'm going to say it at work. And then they just put in quotes, hit us in the titus, your honor. They're a lawyer worried they're going to say hit us in the tent. Yeah, I love that. To a judge.

I love just telling us through context. Also, hey, do we have that voice note ready, Jeff or Kevin? While we wait, I just want to say Keefe. It would be an honor to memorize and perform the song free with you. Oh, would you be the Siza or the Justin Bieber part? You choose which part you want and I'll take the other part. Right now or like we can practice? No, we need to practice.

but we'll build up to it. It's from K-pop Demon Hunters for everyone listening, yeah. All right, well, I had something weird happened at the show this week. Okay. Somebody was on my show who was also in Total Recall.

Oh. So I, you know, how to give us a voice note. Okay. So, I think we should let it be the closer, but before we close it, I just want to say, you know, I love you guys.

All right. Love you guys. Love you. This is Sharon Stone, saying, later quades, you have bunch of idiots. Did she say idiots? You dumb idiots.

Wonderful. My soul just left my body. Let me just say something about Sharon Stone. Fuck, hurricane of wonderfulness. Yeah, she rules. And just really nice. I think, like, you know, it's a little bit like, you know, Pam Anderson, Keith. Like, people are so happy to see her.

Yeah. And she's so magnetic. And she has such good stories. And she's been through every year. chapter of what's been awesome and cool about Hollywood and New York City. And yeah, it was just a dream. Well, let's just say love you, buddies. All right. Love you, dudes. Later, Arnold. Later, Quates.