The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast - What Was That?

Episode Date: May 5, 2026

On this episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast… ANDY IS BACK. And we’re all on the pod together again. So as you can imagine we had a lot to catch up on and the podcast does technically start 12 minutes in. So settle in, Quaids. We catch Andy up on everything he missed then get into the digital short “What Was That?” With Arcade Fire from Season 36, Episode 6 that aired on November 13th, 2010. We chat about how we actually felt about it before it aired and whether it was ever meant to live on the album. There’s also some classic pod business: illness updates, life updates, listener messages, and Seth receiving a truly elite gift (Martinelli’s, the official beverage of the Quaid Army). We also reveal the poll results for what the British version of “Quaids” is, congratulate Andy on wrapping his latest film, float the idea of an ALF rewatch pod?? And also discuss sketches like Hollywood Dish with Scarlett Johansson and a sketch that only went to dress called “Vocabulary Man” with Andy. Enjoy, Quaids! What Was That? | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNPVXfoU1SY Hollywood Dish with Scarlett Johansson | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3lEPL1nzYI Send us an email: [e-mail] Send us a voice note: https://www.speakpipe.com/thelonelyisland Send us stuff: P.O. Box 4024 New York, NY 10185 Photos and everything else can be found by following us on Instagram @lonelymeyerspod (Not all the clips we mention are available online; some never even aired.) If you want to see more photos and clips follow us on Instagram @lonelymeyerspod. Send us an email! [e-mail] Support our sponsors: AG1 Visit https://DRINKAG1.com/ISLAND to get a FREE AG1 Flavor Sampler and a bottle of Vitamin D3+K2 in your AG1 Welcome Kit when you first subscribe, a $72 value. . Aura Frames Exclusive $25-off Carver Mat at https://on.auraframes.com/ISLAND. Promo Code ISLAND Article Thanks to Article for sponsoring this podcast! Article is offering our listeners $50 off your first purchase of $100 or more. To claim, visit https://www.article.com/discount/island and the discount will be automatically applied at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So I've been gone, but can I just start with a question? Yeah, sure. When do we think Yoram's going to not be sick anymore? Oh, dude, it's lasted. I mean, this is much better. I sound slightly better. Well, it's funny you bring that up because I am sick now. And when we, the three of us, Seth, we had a Zoom with a reporter who was doing an article

about the 10-year pop star thing two days ago. And right when I got on, I think Andy, but maybe it was you, Yorm said, they heard my voice and went, oh, Keev, you sick? And I was like real confident, like, no. and then I was sick like 12 hours later. So you guys know me better than I know myself. Yeah. That's what this pot is for.

It's for us getting really deep with each other. It's like wearing one of those like health rings that like tell you when you're like going into the zone. Like if you do a podcast with bros that have known you since high school, they're like, hey man. Hey man. Maybe slow down. Yeah. You guys are like my life monitors. Yeah.

You've missed a lot, Andy. You've missed a lot. Right. And I'm very excited to kind of update you on things. at the top of the pod. First of all, I'm very happy to report Scott from Seattle sent me what is my second bottle of Martinelli's sparkling apple juice. So did you get it?

This one had a note and the note just said, yeah, I got it. Hey, Andy, I just noticed the, you wrote me at 11 o'clock last night, awake question mark. Yeah. What were you reaching out for? I was not. I was in New York. And you thought me, a father of three, would what? Like just bust out

Hang out with L.A. If you guys went and got a drink in New York No, man, I just wanted to wrap. So, all right, so you wanted to wrap. But like, if I had said like, yeah, dude, what are we going to do? Like, what would you have said? Oh, I'd be like, oh, I'm sleepy.

Oh, I gotta go sleep. Sorry, just wanted to see if you were. First off, Andy's on West Coast time. So maybe he's good at some. He's a little more awake. And he's, again, he's like not with his family. Right. So he's like, I could, like, chat.

Correct. I couldn't zonk out till like 3 a.m. It was tough. It's like when you were here, Seth, at 5 p.m. And I wanted me to get a drink. And I was like, of course not. Yeah, that's true. I get it.

I get it. Andy, I'm going to guess you know this story that Yorne brought up in the last podcast. What did Yorm, it's a little, a lonely eye, a little Yoram trivia for you. What did Yoram want to change his middle name to, but then didn't because it was $400. Oh. In high school? High school. It wasn't Jermak.

No. That's different. No, you should know this because for our wedding, we were considering actually changing our middle names to this. another claim as well. Yeah. I know, I know the story, and I'm ashamed to admit. You're going to be super mad when you hear. I would have got this one right without the pod, I'm saying.

Just so you know, Yorne. Fuck yeah, Keeve. Yeah. Mick Duck. Oh, right, McDuck. God damn it. Two comments about Yorm, uh, trying to change the name to McDuck. A couple of people actually offered to send the 400 bucks now.

Like they're saying if like, if that's still like your barrier to entry, people want to take of that for you. Gotcha. And someone just wrote a solitary comment in the YouTube comment section. They just wrote Yorma McDuck DeCone. And then the next person commented, my phone is offering to translate to English this comment. And then only on this podcast, can you get that?

We talked about, Andy, it was agreed. We had a voter pool as to whether or not this was the acceptable term. as far as British listeners called quids. And when you want to ask a quid question, you say, punt us and the . Oh, my goodness. By 84%. They're totally fine with it.

Great. So hit us in the tittes and for all you quids, punt us in the fias? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. We had some other names. We talked about how Aussies would be quants.

This is just, they're fine with it. This is, again, this is anecdotal. This was not a poll. Wait, because of Qantas? Well, no, I think just like, I don't know. But also somebody did say, somebody based on that, Andy, did say we should be called Qantas. Other people said Quasys. But I think quince is the most fun.

Quants is good. Canadians would like to be called Quaid's. Like, how's it going, A? But like quades. Quades? Quades. Yeah. Or Quinox.

Quinox. Quinox. Quoids. All right. So Andy, you're going to nail this one. What do we call our New Zealand listeners? Cuiwees. Yeah, 100%.

You got it. Are you a crossword guy, Andy? Because the crossword people were sending messages to us this week. Well, you were in it, weren't you? I was in it. And also, digital shorts was an answer on Sunday. Why are they trying to winter soldier, bro? I know.

They just trying to winter soldier all the time. They think we're not onto them? And then they're like, what are you talking about? We don't winter soldier people that host a podcast. We're just words. We just do words. Which is exactly what someone that does winter soldier people who do a podcast would say. Exactly.

Yeah. Exactly. Hey, I think I was there this day. And I do remember multiple takes of this moment in Hot Rod where Danny McBride shoves Yorm into the van. Yeah. And they said, like, it really looked like he really shoved you. Yeah, he did. Well, when we were shooting that, I was like, harder.

Harder, man. Yeah. That was what I was going to say. I remember it, too. I vividly remember your arm going, hey, don't hold back. She'll be like really hard so I fly. But then you were injured, I remember as well.

Like you complained about it after. I was trying to snap my neck back. It's always funnier when it looks like it hurts. And then it did. That was the lesson we learned on Harrod is like it's like it's funnier if it looks like it hurts. And the easiest way to do that is to actually have it hurt. 500%.

Yeah. Did you see that Will Forte was on The Boys, the Amazon Prime Show, The Boys? No. No. Was he good? So he was playing himself, and I'm a little bit behind in season five, but it does seem like what has happened.

It was Seth Rogen poker game. Camel's there, Forte's there, Christopher Minst Place is there, and there's a couple of the evil heroes, Homelander Soldier Boy, sort of interrupt the game. And Forte basically is talking about a lot of people in Hollywood have been sort of executed for their opinions about these sort of fascist superheroes. Orte says he's so psyched, he's been so psyched ever since Hader died because he's getting a lot of offers now on parts.

But then there's a moment, and this is what people wanted you to know Yoram. Yes. Which is there's a moment where Forte says, can we just get out of here to these two? Because now, like, gnarly stuff is happening. And a soldier boy turns and goes, cool it, Magrooomber. And so they were like, oh, so in this world, these bad guys are like, When they see Forte, they call him McGruber.

Yeah, that's his go-to. Yeah. Great. We're part of the lexicon. Which makes me believe that, like, the actor Jensen Ackles is probably like a McGruber fan and was like, hey, can I do this? So, SNL just fully exists in this universe. Yeah. Like our version of SNL.

Yeah. Can I say what I was going to guess it was going to be? Yeah. That it was going to be Forte and Homelander, like drinking some milk. That's a big thing with Homelander. It just seemed very Forteish to me. Forte and him just enjoying milk together. Shug and milk.

I also like milk. Like from a bosom. Oh yeah, they do a lot of bosom stuff. Hey, congratulations, Andy, on wrapping your film. Thank you. Oh, yeah, big time, dude. Thank you so very, very much. And for anybody who's like, oh, my God, he wrapped his film,

that means a lot more Andy on the pod, immediately into another film. That's right. Yeah, it's bad. Yeah. It's a blessing. You're working very hard. We're very happy for you, for people who like to see in movies.

It's good. What a privilege. What a privilege. I would never complain about it, Keeve. Thanks for getting out in front of it. Do you feel refreshed now, though, Andy, now that you have like three days before you start shooting again? Yeah, man, I'm totally refreshed. Good.

And I don't look worse. No, you don't. You don't. Two quick final things, and then we'll roll into an episode, which I maybe remember less about than any episode that we've talked about since we started this pod. Somebody said, if we do do a re-watch, we floated the idea of like, should we do a podcast where we just re-watch the Alph pilot? we should give the quads a heads up so that they can watch the Alf pilot in prep for us doing an episode

about the Alf pilot. I think that's a good idea. I wanted us to do the whole series. I think a single episode about the Alf pilot is a good idea. I think so too. I just have heard about people being like they should do a full Alf rewatch pod.

Oh, no, no, no. I'm telling you guys, it's good. I think we'd start with the pilot. If it goes great, then Yorm can tell us another specific episode at some point to watch and we can tell everybody watch this episode. Okay. All right.

Well, also, like, it's, I think, you know, obviously this is something that I think Andy's angling at, which is like how Dax does armchair expert and then like four other podcasts. Like, Andy would love to have like the Alpha and be its own thing. Oh, yeah. More. I just keep showing up to these, hoping that eventually one of them is going to end and I'll be allowed to leave purgatory and go to heaven. It's not our work. So do you think in this, in this thinking, was the first podcast, like the day you dot? Definitely, yeah.

So this is all of just a limbo. That's correct, yeah. Can we call it the Alf Limbo podcast? Well, it's not Alf. It's just any episode. He's like, of course, we're watching Alf so that hopefully we can go to heaven at the end. It's the middle space, Akiva. And you know what?

I couldn't ask for a better group. I feel like Alf would be like finding the hatch in Lost. Do you know what I mean? Like it's like a little reprieve. Spoiler. Oh, and the last thing, a comment I enjoyed was not enough. This was a comment about the last episode, not enough theater rake talk. Andy, you probably didn't listen to the Over Your Dead Body pod,

but Yoram and Keeve did like 10 full minutes on theater rake seating. It's like five minutes. I've been told by multiple people they like that this pod is about, you know, the craft. The craft, exactly. That includes pre-production, writing. Yeah, those are all good things. Host shooting. Yeah, but which fucking nerd said that to you, Keeve?

One of the Daniels. What is a theater rake? Like, well, you guys, here's a good, he left the door wide open for you guys to do your tight tent. Oh, great. Andy, I'm so glad you brought this up. Oh, no. It's the slope of the theater,

and that can really affect an audience's enjoyment of hearing other people laughing in the theater. If it's too high of a rake, you get a little bit less of that. Keith still likes the old school. You've got to move your head a little bit.

Like somebody's sitting in front of you, block it a little bit of the screen. That's a fair enough price to pay for, like, the collective enjoyment. Understood. If it's going to be a big full theater, yeah. Now, so on that note, Seth, when you're choosing where to film a stand-up,

special. Do you keep theater a ache in mind? I've never knew it was a thing and I didn't put any thought into it all. Okay, so no. That's a no. I think with stand-up also, it's very quiet because it's just your voice. And so you're probably not competing with the soundtrack of a film where it's blaring at you. Oh, I think you meant that

Seth was so bad at stand-up, it was very quiet. No, I just meant there's a lot of negative space for the laughs to be heard. I think you would hear all the laughs will be heard. When all your jokes eat shit, you don't have to worry about theater. He's like, you can try to find it. Find a theater where people are facing the back of the house. I've seen your show Seth and the rake ain't the problem. With Seth's show, you hear a lot of wind.

Sometimes a tumbleweed can get pretty loud. The howl of a coyote. There ain't no rake that's going to crack that problem. Hey, by the way, the podcast hasn't started just for anyone who's listening right now. They know. because it starts when you hear a theme song. And Greg Chun has sent in a new one. Then he wanted, he requested that we listen to live.

Oh, right. So we'll do that. He's been killing it lately. I've been texting him because I haven't been hearing him before I hear the show, and there's been so many good new ones. So let's take a listen, and then we'll start the podcast. Okay. Just three guys from the streets of California.

Wow. Then came Seth. and the whole was greater than the sum of their parts so now they talk about whatever they want like fucking art box and smoking croak in a borgh and going big game for watching a cartoon just three guys

and Seth Myers too Wow I think we should just end the pod after that Really good. Really hard to follow. For those who haven't visited Alf recently, that was to the tune of the Alf theme song. Just great. Just great. Thanks, Greg. Wow, what a lovely human being. Yeah. You killed it. Thank you, Greg. That made me feel actually better about what we've been doing with the pod. Oh, interesting. We talked about Fatal Farm at some point on this pod, but do you guys remember the Fatal Farm version from like 15 years ago of the Alf?

It was like, it was an all-alph opening credits, inner-cutting shots into it. Because in the credits, they're like watching a TV, right? Yeah. But on the TV was all, like, hidden camera footage of the bathroom. So it was like everybody's cheerfully watching this TV, but they're watching horrible, like, security cams of people on the toilets. It's like curvy. It's so uncool.

I'm sure it's still online, guys. You just look at it. I remember finding it quite funny. It's inappropriate, but what I liked about it was sort of the commentary on the commerce element of sitcoms. Yeah, I didn't like how inappropriate it was, though. Yeah, but we don't stand by like that hidden camera footage of people go into the bathroom.

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I did rewatched. Did you, had you remembered it before you watched it? I did, but I hadn't watched it since it aired, and I remembered it going bad and being like, huh, I was wrong. But then watching it again now, I was like, man, was I just in a whole other mind space. How so? Because you disliked it. Just I thought it was like...

Good? Yeah. Wait, you thought it was... You thought it was good on the rewatch? No. Okay. When we wrote it, when we wrote it, now you guys have to take credit. Well, no, I don't because I had quit this season.

That's what we figured out. No, you're misremembering right away. It was written during one of our album sessions. Seth, you know how you keep being like, you're sitting on all this gold, all these songs? Why don't you do one on the show? You've done Shairani, a new one. Why didn't you ever do any of these? Well, here's the big first one.

So this is an album track. We wrote it. All together, all three live done. it just kidding wait what is this short i just don't know what this fucking short it was what was that right because this is your to remind you you're not at the show no yes i was not at fault for the video yeah so we recorded it to be fair to uh the statement i just made we knew on some level it it was it was not i just had sex or jack sparrow or something no no and that is why we felt comfortable doing it because we thought it was a little or at least i thought it was a throwaway one

So I was like, oh, yeah, that'll fill the time. I thought it was a throwaway one. But I thought it was going to go on that album. But I thought it, yeah. Yes, I also really thought it would be on the album. And then once it aired, we were like, oof, that is not going on the album. I'm so glad we did that because now our album's going to be better.

It's really true. It was a real lesson. Yeah. I think, I mean, we'll watch it. The disconnect for me was thinking that anyone would be able to laugh about the things that are mentioned in the song. The joke being like to anyone, like a child, the horrific things that people have done throughout human history, you're just like, what the fuck? Yeah, they feel so abstract, they also just feel so abstract, but also so unfathomable that, I mean, a lot of them are unfathomable to any age, but as you get older, maybe you see more, I guess, evil in the world.

And when you're a kid, you're just like, how could someone do any of that? Yeah. My kids are that age where you tell them about, they're like, why would they do that? Like, very much. That's the whole premise of the sketch. Have I ever told you, has anybody ever read, I don't know if this happened to you. The fireboat is this book that, like, one of the kids checked out from the library. And like the cover it, it's like a fireboat, like, with hoses.

And you're like, oh, this looks fun. And I'm reading the book to my kids. And it's about this old fireboat that they stopped using. It got decommissioned. And then these guys bought it and they refurbished it. And then literally halfway through the book, it's 9-11. And like children's drawing, like, you know, children's books illustration, and it's about how this decommissioned fireboat, like, got called into service. And it's like this, but like, I'm sobbing. Yeah. And my kids are like, wait, what happened? They're like, yeah. What's, what is, what are you talking about? Who did what? And I'm like, let me get to the end of the book about the fireboat. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Watching it now as an adult with children, I mean, we weren't like young when we were. we wrote it, but compared to now, for me, I was like, it's kind of chilling me and we wrote it.

I think just the, I think ultimately the joke of like saying the most terrific things that have ever happened and then being like, hit the showers. Like, the dissonance of that does make me laugh, but I think. Yeah, the joke is about this character. It's not about the stuff, but of course. So how quickly into watching it on the night were you like, oh, like, of course. Pretty quick. And did you know it dressed?

Did you have a moment of like, oh, this shouldn't air? I don't think it was not strong. That's a good question. Yeah. There's also an interesting choice made in it where like, I wish we had kept it all as TV feed cameras, but we switched to like glossier steady cam. And watching it now, I was like, oh, it would have felt more protected if we hadn't been like, now check out the slick version. So it felt more like an actual thing that was happening with these kids. and then this one really old guy

pretending to be accused. Why'd you make that bad decision, Keeve? I haven't seen this since the day it aired, so I don't even remember. I forgot that it was out of U.N. He kind of thing until you just said that. Let me say this, though, Keith. That is not why it didn't work.

Well, Andy, and me and Andy were texting last night. Andy was more bullish about this than me, and I was. I'm going to put you in the category of Yorm only because you probably, even though you weren't there when we shot it, You were there when we recorded it. Yeah, sure.

But I didn't dislike it, but it was definitely a shrug for me a little bit where I was like, I get it and it's fine, and let's do it. But I don't want to put words in your mouth, Andy, but you were just more into it for whatever reason. I think that that happens occasionally with me and Andy in particular on recording, where I really sort of like us fucking around. And occasionally it's maybe a little thinner. I don't know, Andy. Do you agree with that?

Sometimes yes and sometimes no. You know, like you got to see them. through to find out. Like, there are certain ones that we were like, I don't know if that's even anything, but then because you started and you do it, you realize it's one of your favorites by the end. And then sometimes it isn't.

I have lots of examples that we've talked about where either both or one of you are starting something that I'm like, maybe, like I'll use an example of Ibiza from Popstar. Andy kept being like, let's do that song about Ibiza. And I'd be like, that's such an old observation. I don't know what there is to it. and then the moment

I was like, fine, I'll record you. And I just got on the computer, like, here we go. And I was like, I don't want to stay in your way, so I'm, like, recording it. And then as soon as with the music and with his voice. I don't know. But by the time you get to, our tummies are full of paesija.

I think that, like, you're winning pretty hard. Here's the recipe for the paesha. Steamy broth. That's what I mean. Like, like, because there's no pitch there. Like, oh, it's just a song about Ibitha, and I use the list, you're like, that's not a thing, but then you realize so much pop is based on less

that it actually is, right, it's wonderful. Anyways. Do you like, before we do the rewatch, do you like it musically, Andy? Like, comedy aside. No, because it's also my voice is really grating. It just has a lot of things going against it. I really like that beat.

Yeah. And I really like the synth line that comes in at the end when Arcade Fire starts singing. Do we remember who made it? Does it sound like a... I think it's a Drew Campbell, maybe, but I could be wrong. like that's what it is, but I don't. We'd have to look it up. But yeah, I don't like the lyrics we wrote for Arcade Fire. They seem a little too pleased with themselves. Not them, the lyrics. Mm-hmm. I mean, see what you guys think. But for me, I was just rewatched it and was like, oh, man, I just would have done so many things differently or not done it. All right. Well, Keeve, you want to lead the way? Loading it up.

Okay. Okay, maybe fucking today. It's so fast. Thank you, Andy. That was great. Next on the day's agenda, a very, very special treat. The winners of our Model UN competition are going to address the General Assembly and present their thoughts on world history. So please welcome. I like that side angle.

Hello, based on our hours log deliberating at the Model UN, here are our key thoughts on world history thus far. Two, three, five. Oh, yeah. What was that? Hiroshima. So it goes into the steady right away.

Well, yeah. That was just an intro. But it would have been fun if it was, if we had just committed and shot it this way. Yeah. It just seemed like a TV broadcast. Like these kids. Kids rule.

Talk to the hand. Yeah, I do think that that other camera, like, keeping it more TV. Keith, first off, most importantly, thank you for stopping it before the meeting. music stars. Well, I was impressed that they left in the clapping stuff. It's because there was visual. It's because there was visual. They don't cut off visuals, but we had let it linger at the end. Yeah. That's steady, though. Not as bad as I thought it was going to be based on Andy's preamble at all. Okay. I'll take that. You're, you were singing, irritating. You're opening Salvo as a dude, a kid in Mila Yuan. You were great, Andy. I was with it. I was like, hey, maybe it's going to be good. Yeah. Yeah. Hit the showers. Hit the showers. This is a question, do you ever when you see that many extras in a thing that you don't feel like played, do you ever feel like, oh, God, we brought so many people in? No.

Yeah. No, I feel it about bringing in all of Arcade Fire. Yeah. That's fair. Although they were a good vibe for running around, getting on top of desks. How do you, I don't want to put you, but like, did you guys ever have those moments where, like, oh, my God, arcade fire, they're so great. I can't believe they said yes. Like, while it's playing and you're like, oh, this isn't quite lame.

do you have any, like, how do you feel, I mean, you mentioned it, Andy, but are you really like, oh, it's going to be awkward to see them? It definitely, like, once you see it air in front of an audience, you mean. Yeah. Because on set, we were like, maybe this is going to be great. Of course, yeah. And I'm sure they felt the same way. They're like, great. And also, like, because they're putting their trust in you, of course.

Exactly. And they, you know, they had been in the office meeting one for a shot. Yeah. Yeah. So we. And then we, and we did like a yorm dance. with them. We were pals with them in a way that I don't think it felt as shitty to like, you know, if you didn't know them as well. Also, the whole, you know, every show is so hit and miss of an S&L, obviously, that this doesn't like stand out once it's in the 90 minutes to me. It just cruises right by. So I, it's just us holding ourselves to a different standard.

I think maybe for me in rewatching a cube is just like the beat drops and I just scream, the Holocaust and no one laughs. I'm just like, oh, this. This is bad. Yeah, but I mean, the jokes, it's getting, you know, not the hugest laugh. It's getting laughs, but it's getting laughs on what it's supposed to, which is, you know, your immature, like, talk to the hand about the worst things. The general dynamic of the joke of saying the worst thing and then saying something very, that you should just be saying about something very flippant is playing on some level. Yeah, on some level.

You can hear like 10% of the audience enjoying it. Yes. I think the other thing is, like, once you, you either like the premise or you don't like the premise, but there's not a lot more. It doesn't like spike through the ceiling as far as heightening goes. Agreed. Also, I personally dislike that I or we made the choice

to scream arcade fire because everyone knew it was them. It just felt very S&LE and overly presentational. I'm just down on it. Was that out of fear that they weren't famous enough, but they were the musical gas. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Second time. Keeve, do you remember where you guys actually shot that? Because that room's pretty

big. It's a good looking little room there. I mean, it was definitely, I think we were At SNO. You know you're killed when you're talking about how good the room looked. It's a big space. But we did pull off the overall thing. That's the actual UN symbol. That's the actual symbol.

You know what? It is good. I'm trying to find a wide of the back of the room is what you're talking about. Because mostly it's these real cutaways of people at the UN. Yeah. But yeah, like, what's that door there? Does that remind you of one of the stages, Seth? You're there every day.

What's this door? That is not my... That's somewhere on six, I would say. I bet that's across the fall. This is just a testament to how much we shot in that building that I'm like, oh, I don't know that room. The three kid extras are great. The ones playing music are great.

Oh, there we go. This is the whole room, so... Oh, yeah, I don't know where that is. Sorry, dogs. Take that place apart. That fucking building. I mean, you know, it's maybe just super poignant. It's just not meant for laughter, you know?

It's like children telling adults, stop fucking it up. Oh. Appointancy. It's a lot like the fifth element, you know, just when she's like ingesting all of humanity's trauma, you know what I mean? But it's a lot like that. And she's like, why y'all suck? Yeah, that's right. I think that she says that, right?

After she cries, she's like, single tier, single tier. Hey, why y'all suck? Bruce Willis. I'll be curious if there's some defenders in the quades, the way that, like, Dacquerie girl gets weirdly defended by being so, so bad, but not. You know what? I'm very, I'm really leaning into putting poles in. So we're going to put in Dackery Girl v.

Versus this. Daggery Girl with a bullet. Dagger Girl is not attempting much and therefore is pulling it off. I think you moved your mic too far away for you, Andy. But we heard you. Is this better?

Yeah. Oh, that's... I was just trying to open a bottle of water so my hands would be free for one fucking second, but that's not going to be good enough for Akiva. Andy, would you want to have... Well, don't talk when you do it then, Andy.

Would you want this one to have not existed? Oh, yeah, now you don't ask him questions right after he pushes his mic 10 feet away because he has to open. One second. Yeah, one second, keep. I have to take a sip of my water now because I had to take a break to open it. I got to agree with Andy, though. I think if you guys had shot it without the steady and kept it all within the context of UN footage, I would have been way more into it. Yeah, but it's no, but it wouldn't have been any funnier.

What I would like about that is it would be protecting it. As Andy said. It would just feel like we hadn't tried as hard. Yes, exactly. One, but two, if it had been actual kids doing the song instead of me and not doing it in that annoying voice, I think maybe it could have been just a cool, interesting little piece, which is just kids yelling at adults. What was that? Talk to the hand. You fucked up the whole world.

What the fuck is wrong with you? Yeah. It might not have been huge laughs, but it at least would have been like a complete thought. It would have gotten our point across in a clear way that didn't try to be thirsty as well. you just couldn't. By the way, the point getting across is don't be like mass murderers and pieces of shit war mongers. Yeah, that is obvious to children.

Yeah, and also most adults. But you couldn't get rid of your ego to like not be on camera, right? No, I had to be in the show. Me and Yom kept saying, let it be a kid. And then he was like, you were Kevin in Hot Rod. Do you think you were the right age for that? And then we were like, fine, fuck. I wasn't there.

I wasn't there. It was exactly like that. Andy, did you see the picture of me sitting like Lauren underneath the poster of Lauren? Oh, you did. I did because that was on our text chain. That was so funny, guys. And it made me very happy. It was so fun.

Thank you. Lauren loved it too. Keith to answer your question, do I wish it didn't exist at all? Yeah, that we hadn't done it. That's tough. Oh, man. You don't want to change the past, right? Yeah, I don't like to ever regret something that you'd be like erase it from ever happening because we learned from it, you know?

Oh, so you're glad that Darfur happened then? That was the quote. That was the quote. But yeah, I mean, I might delete it from all of human history. It's fine. I think it's professional. It's just not what we like. Yeah.

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Yeah, but I remember just really, really liking it because of how it sounded and because it was different and because I thought, and then for years I've been like, ah, we should have put fuck off in the end credits because I like it more now than legal editor. I agree with that, yeah. But it was interesting at the pop star screening, so it's the end credits and it's playing,

and it's a short amount of it that really lines up nicely with the credits, it feels good. And it ended, and we were talking about stuff, and I brought it up to the audience because someone brought fuck off, and I was like, yeah, I wish it was that one. And then everyone there kind of slightly disagreed. That's a good feeling.

They like fuck off. cough, but they were like, no, no, it's really good. It fits with the credits. It ends nice. But Kyiv, were the people that all said that, like, oh, we love that one? And then they were like, lazy in the audience. Yeah, it was at the Kingston screening. Gotcha.

In Jamaica. And they were all smoking . No, no. No, they were like weed heads. You know what I mean? Like, they just... Obviously, you can bleep that, as is our custom. Yeah, of course. But in a house? Bleep it. By the way, by the way, by the way, no one has approached me anywhere and asked for a gulp.

Oh, a lot of people in the comments are trying to line up their gulps. They're like, they want time and place because they've been watching Digman and loving Digman, and they're like, where do I go for the gulps? Well, look, I got a mouth sitting right here, you know? And you're in New York now, one of the great walking towns in the world. Yeah. People love a good goal. By the way, the first time this actually happens, I'm going to be real uncomfortable. Hey, Shibb, gulp this.

Hey, I probably shouldn't have to say this, guys, but if I'm with my kids, don't ask for the gulp, okay? Just take him to the side. It was off to the bathroom. Obviously, like, traveling pairs and make sure one of you has, like, toys for Andy's kids to they can play with while you take them around the corner. Traveling pairs.

Yeah. Yeah, there's logistics. If you're looking for your digman quulp, just have a bag of toys, stuff that the kids. What do they into, Andy? things your kids are into right now so they should have so much stuff you know just like straight edge hardcore and um wait can i share the screen for a sec kev uh yeah i'm not sharing anymore oh right how do i do it again fucking i know i should be here you go i know you share the screen is that

what you're like kind of all right hold on share boom uh optimize it was share sound oh no okay Oh, Jesus. It's a roller coaster. Oh, no! Oh, no! Okay. This one, you guys see it? Yep.

This is like, has become like a meme this sketch. Do you know which one this is? It's when he spits in her face, right? Yeah. Sexy, sexy, sexy, sexy. Look at you. More like Scarlett Joe Hansom. Good nickname.

So, real quick, Andy, you've done this the most. This is junket press. Yeah. So this is where you a movie actor sit in a chair and just like different interviewers come through. Yeah. Yeah. Bill and Wigg just already

making me laugh so much. By the way, this episode is Scarlett Johansson Arcade Fire and it's from November of 2010 and Wig and Hader just walked in as cheesy interviewers. Basically almost like morning show. So they're going to do some junket press with Squatter.

I'm Brady Trump. And I'm Anastasia Sticks. Thanks so much for... Anastasia Sticks is a great name. And Bill almost laughs right off the bat at Anastasia Stee's. Yeah, anyway, are we ready to get started? Are we speeding?

Is the lens cap off? How am I doing? My pop in my peeves. My shoe shining? Okay. Scarlett Johansson, right off the bat, I've got to say congratulations on your Tony Award. How did that feel? Oh, God, I was so surprised.

I was not expecting that at all. Being on stage in New York, it's such an incredible feeling. They're weirdly nodding. The whole experience was magical. Big open smiles. I do realize that I have, I'm, playing a sight gag sketch, which is not great for the pod. But I do encourage everybody to go see a Hollywood dish.

I want to get to the... I think I should just go. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, please, one. One last question, one last question. And not personal at all. Yes, we're asking everybody, just tell us how excited you are for the next and probably final season of the Jersey Shore. You know, I've never seen the show, so...

I just don't watch a lot of... reality television wigs holding it together wow he did a spit take but into Kristen Wiggs face Oh that's great And he took like a slurpy and threw it in her face And then a whole bowl of popcorn or chips

And dumped it the bowl on her head He's still acting super surprised You have great skin What is your secret? It's a wonderful I mean. So is that, that's a little giff that gets used over and over.

Yeah. Of him spitting. It turns up all the time. Spitting, but then grabbing her drink, throwing in her face, and then pulling like a bowl of spaghetti from off camera. Is that it?

Yeah. Spaghetti. Spaghetti. Yeah. Wigg really holds it together well. She did. And then Bill trying to hold the face of like, shock that she's never watched reality shows or whatever.

That's really funny. Andy, do you remember we're going to watch you from Dress? Oh, no. This is cut. Vocabulary words, cut. Oh, vocabulary man. Do you remember it?

No, who wrote it? You and Jost. The classic me and Jost, probably some high school or college topic thing, because we were young guys. Probably. You want to give it a go? I mean, look at how young this gentleman looks like, too. That's crazy.

Well, Seth Myers actually. In the past 40 years, America has spent more and more on education with no noticeable increase in test scores. Here to comment on the state of our education system is the kid who just learned a bunch of vocabulary words. I mean, it's a real It's a real Justin Andy right off the bat Aloha, Seth

Oh, so snug I hate this dude I hate this guy I mean, I hate this guy So much more than the guy from the model UN Well, this guy sucks Well, that one aired and this one got cut

Yeah, let's see We're about to find out why Aloha, Seth, you look exquisite Uh-oh Thank you. So how are you? I'm doing swimmingly, Seth, and also effervescent. Thank you. Okay. Very good. So tell me, where do you think America's education system has gone wrong?

Well, Seth, I think you'll surmise that not all of the populace has been magnanimous. There's a lot of metaphysics that's almost quixotic in its magnanimous. Out of curiosity, can you define the word magnanimous? You are so sporadic, Seth. God, you are sporadic. Define sporadic. I don't know. Do you never know?

I'm sorry for being so maudlin. I apologize for this incessant nictating. What's nictating? It's a Latinate verb. anonymous with blinking. Hey, I think you're gonna be fine. I think you do know these words. Really?

Would you say this went swimmingly? Sure. Okay. I'm gonna go back to my room to masticate. You're gonna go back to your room to chew. Oh, no, I used the wrong word. You can you just learn a bunch of vocabulary. Aloha again, works both ways.

Nice. I like how short that one was. Yeah, it's cute. Totally fair, cut. But let's not bear the lead here. What you have tried to do there was repurpose Griff Banks. It is the Griff Banks. Yeah.

So Banks has failed now twice as a sketch. And you're like, what if we take the part that's also not worked? That's right. It was the crying that was the Griff Banks and the voice. Oh, got it. But the perspective is decidedly different. Yeah. This one was an update feature.

Well, there you go. It was a weird episode. Two of the, I mean, Scarlett, one of the great hosts of our generation, Arcade Fire, one of the great bands of our generation. And yet, sometimes they just are, you know, they come and go. There are some good stuff in there. It's just wasn't. Is that a sequel to chandeliers?

I will say I was looking at the rundown and I noticed Jost had a real good show and I was like. Ooh, you think like maybe like a lot of rehearsing? She was like, you're a star. Well, or he was like, yeah, he was doing his best to like catch her eye, you know. Yeah. And it worked.

They come and go like tumbleweeds at a Seth Meyer's stand-up show. Good. Wow. It took me a second. It took me a second. Oh, good. He's got a big bowl of zucchini to eat.

The show's come and go? I don't know. Somebody said, come and go. It worked. Did your child bring you your big bowl of zucchini? Yeah. Great.

Hey, Papa, I got your evening bowl of zucchini. Thanks, kiddo. Papa, we wanted to make sure. Mama wanted to make sure you got your food before the pod was over so the quades could hear you chew. Andy, I drank some water. If the quays don't hear Papa chew, then I sleep in the closet.

We bought you the crunchiest zucchini as we can find. It's watercrests, guys. It's different. It's a weird house over there. Even crunch it. Well, at least you're all so sick. Unreal. All right, I actually have to go.

Well, first off, let me just do my spelling bee. Oh, yeah. Andy, Spelling Bee. Jack Black. I got it with one hint. What was your hint word? It was fucking nuncio. Oh, yeah.

I missed one, but I haven't looked up what it is, and you're going to... Guys, in real time, you're going to see how mean Andy is when I tell him a word I didn't get. I only missed by one, but I'm going to tell him, uncommon. You fucking idiot. Wait, you got nuncio, stuff? Yeah, but only after hints. And what did it mean? Uh...

Swimmingly. Exactly. It seems like maybe vocabulary, man. Oh, Fahkeem. I'm not going to get into Howard. Not going to get it to Howard, bro. You guys. Obviously the best joke in that was,

I'm not going to get into Howard. You guys, a little update on me, I'm only on good right now. So I have not gotten to solid. Hey, guys, it's Andy. I'm on an airplane. I'm about to take off. It's May 4th.

I hope this isn't the last thing that I ever say. But I got Queen Bee squeaky clean. I got it squeaky. Zero hints of any kind. It was an easy one granted. But I did it in under 15 minutes and got it completely squeaky. And it felt like a goddamn dream. Hot knife through butter.

Seth didn't. He already texted me. He definitely didn't get it. I hope this isn't too hard to listen to. Okay, later, Quince. Love you. Hey, can I just say one last thing before you leave, Seth? Yeah.

I got a bone to pick. Pick it. I sent in a voice note. for last weeks, right at the end. And I knew it would be right at the end because I was told that I was talked about right at the end. Yeah. And so I listened to it to see how it was cut in.

And I said, later, Arnold, and they cut it out. What? Well, I think because people like, they like hearing Eorma say, take it away, Arnold. Wait, is that not what you're supposed to say? You can still let Andy say later, Arnold, and then just come back for whatever you need to come back. I don't take it up with Jeff, dude.

I'm not doing the post. Look, I'm the favorite. character on the pod. By the way, everybody does. Yorm is everybody's favorite now. We just all have to fucking deal with that reality. Well, it's because he's the only one who's on it. Look, when you're hungry, you gotta eat watercrests.

Yeah. It turns out the guy who takes out like multiple hours of his week all the time to thank everyone individually is the most liked. Oh, somebody said they met Yorm and they said Yorm is the nicest person in show business. It's fake. I haven't met Forte yet. No, it's Forte. We all know it's Forte. And I will say.

sell you something, you know what I mean? Yeah. Oh, big time. Over here, a dead body. Out now. There it is. The thing about Forte is so nice to people. I think we've talked about this. If you meet somebody like in Kansas City and they're like, oh, I know Will Forte. You're like, oh, no.

I got to be so nice to you to just be half as nice as Forte was. Correct. Like, he's so nice and so patient and so kind and like, it's lovely. But like, if you're like, because you want to be like, Dude, before this even starts, I just want you to know I'm so much nicer than most celebrities,

but I'm nowhere near as nice as Forte, and that doesn't mean I'm a bad guy. And also, let's be real, there are times when Forte is so nice that it's like arguably a liability. Oh, not sometimes. I'd say like 50-50. He meets someone somewhere and they're like, oh, I'm so happy. I just got out of prison for a triple homicide. And he's like, come to the after party. He's like, I did some weird stuff to a guy who looked.

Like Lorne Michaels. He's like, how? You should meet the real one. Andy, how did you feel about New York Magazine saying that Seth and Yorma were the two sweetest sweetie pies of the Lonely Island Seth Myers podcast? I think that, you know, it's easy for people to just hear what they're given on the pod and not know the truth. Right. The dark, dark truth. Yeah.

Yeah. But that's fine, you know. It's a good watercust. Yeah. Why are they putting on such a show, you know what I mean? Who's it for? For them? Is it for them?

In a way, you know, it's so that they don't feel, like, where is this need to be liked coming from? You know what I mean? Dark, dark place. Well, do you think it's just like ASMR fans who are just like super into Yoram? They just know that it's going to be like question. Like great voice and like a lot of crunchy foods? Yeah, there's certain people that just tune in for the chime ads, I bet. Oh, yeah.

I hope it's a chime week. We don't know yet, guys. We record these and then we find out later which ads are in. Can I show you guys something before you leave, Seth? No, I got to go. Look at this. Somebody gave us this. He did individual illustrations for every single short, and he gave us these posters.

It's so fucking nice. Got a poster. He got a post it. His name is his name, and thank you, Josh. Thanks, Josh Abraham. Will you take a nice photo of that? Hell yeah. It also makes us feel good about all the work we did.

All right, I love you guys. Seth's really trying to shut it down. Love you, too, Seth. Love you, Seth. Love you guys. Take it away, Arnold. Later, Arnold. Later quates

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