The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast - Zach Looks for a New Assistant

Episode Date: September 17, 2026

On this episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast, the guys try to figure out who made Zach Looks for a New Assistant (it was John Solomon) and why it has a Digital Short bumper on it even though none of them worked on it (no clue). So they’re just going to sit back and enjoy it... eventually. But first, they will talk about many things, including more 90s movies like the hit comedy of the decade starring future MacGruber villain Billy Zane, Silence of the Hams; Rachel Dratch’s fail in the crossword (it’s Church Chat, not Church Lady); the classic SNL sketch Colon Blow (written by the great Al Franken); and the parade of unused impressions in the sketch The Original Kings of Catchphrase Comedy Tour, in which we learn that Andy’s character was an unused audition bit. Oh, and I totally forgot to mention that this is a “versus” episode. Andy is here for the first half and Jorm for the second. Who does a better job? You decide!Part 1Church Chat | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuJpalsj9sQDebbie Downer | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfE93xON8jkColon Blow | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku42Iszh9KMThe Original Kings of Catchphrase Comedy Tour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6PCcM39PggSilence of the Hams Trailer | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lErnYQKfzp0Part 2Zach Looks For a New Assistant | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIuLU-qKQtgDelish Dish | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPpcfH_HHH8&t=1sBad Ronald | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIYfZgs2DuERadio Rental | https://radiorentalusa.com/Weekend Update | Liam | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYawJbi4nOwCheck out the Lucas Museum of Narrative Arthttps://lucasmuseum.org/And the Jamestown New York Comedy Centerhttps://comedycenter.org/And if you’re in Berkley go see Tony’s new play!https://www.berkeleyrep.org/shows/how-shakespeare-saved-my-life-1mrcSend us an email: [e-mail] us a voice note: https://www.speakpipe.com/thelonelyislandSend us stuff:P.O. Box 4024New York, NY 10185Photos 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] Date9/13/26 🐝 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

And go. Hey, guys, how's it going? Well, I have huge news. Oh, this is exciting. Notice anything different about my Zoom name? Oh, you switched it to AS? Yeah, it's been my assistant's name for the last two years. Wow.

Yeah, we know. And I had to manually fix it every time over and over for two years, endured a lot of jokes about it, you know, from random pitch meetings and edit sessions. What do you think not your name? You know what I mean? Yeah. Right, right, right. And so what do you think finally got you out of your chair to fix it?

But you would change it, but now you figure out how to permanently change it? Is that the difference? It was, I was signed in into the wrong account. Oh, so this wasn't something for you to go and fix. You just had to sign in correctly. It took about 30 seconds. I was like, hey, can we actually try and fix that? We were together in person.

Yeah. And I had my computer. And she was like, oh, yeah, yeah, I see. And then it was fixed. And now it's fixed. Wow. This is huge. This is really.

It's going to change the whole tenor of the podcast, I think. Yeah, maybe this is why you've been a little grumpy from the very beginning. That's why? Well, also, for the three of us, we've been having some sort of mental dissonance because we'd be looking at your face but seeing her name. And finally, when I look at you, I feel peace. Right. Yeah. Well, I mean, look, it's the best thing that happened to me all week.

So, feeling pretty stoked. I'm really happy for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know. Now, Yorm isn't here, but we're going to do a two-parter today. This one episode will be in two sessions. That's the plan. The first half hour will be me and Andy and Akiva.

And then later in the day when Andy's unavailable and Yorm is available, he will swap in for Andy. Yeah. Andy versus Yorba. Round one. Fight. We were hopeful that Yorm was going to join us once we decided this window worked, but he hasn't responded to any of us for the last 90 minutes. Yeah. Yeah.

Which on a Sunday is his right. Yes. It's a careful balance. I was just discussing it with my parents who are here and who I confide in all of our scheduling issues. But I was like, Sunday afternoon, putting down your phone to be with your family is actually commendable. And it's actually something my family would love it if I did. That's why I'm always anti-weekend, but it's very difficult with four adults, with kids and careers. Yeah.

Sometimes my wife, I'll be like, hey, you didn't write me back. She'll be like, I didn't have my phone with me. and the amount I want to be like, show it to me. Show me you haven't texted anyone else in the last two hours. You guys caught me listening because it was a real, you know, that real quiet Yoram. We need to come up with a word for when Yoram just drops a little one in. We're going over the best movies from 1994, and he very quietly said, Silence of the Hams, which is a silence of the lambs parody.

with McGruber the television series owned Billy Zane I listened back to that episode and I still didn't hear him say that that again time codes thank God for time codes as I've often said

Now this is a cartoon that came out that year No it's like a parody movie with Billy Zane He plays a character named Joe J-O-D-E Foster

So he's a character named Jody Foster So it's like a scary movie Dom Deloese plays Dr. Anable Cannibal Pizza. We got to check this out. Hell to the yes. Hold on. I'm bringing up the trailer.

Hannibal Cannibal Pizza? Martin Balsam, who played the detective in Psycho, plays Detective Martin Balsam, so he plays himself, I guess. It's real fun. Seth, I know a lot of people, like, a go-to kind of play joke at this point is like, well, that's a great name for a band. But Hannibal Cannibal Pizza actually is like a fucking dope name for a band. I would go see that band.

Hannibal Cannibal Pizza. Yeah, dude. Hannibal Canable Pizza plays hard. So there's a lot of, I mean, so maybe, by the way, in our, what are we going to do, we run out of shorts, a bunch of people recommended they would love a silence to the hams rewatch, silence of the hams. Excuse me. Insane, you got that wrong.

I'm just learning about it, obviously. Obviously, Yorm knew about it well. Real quick, we forgot to say last week was the episode of Japan, and we forgot to at the beginning that we did record that in Japan. We did fly over there with our podcast. What? Yeah. And do it in Japan. How did we forget that?

It seems so important. I wasn't there. How did I get left out? Oh, we didn't. We had enough money for three. A couple of new ones real quick. Are you ready? Andy, people want it. They don't want to give up on coming up with a way for words for you complaining. Oh, I'm all about it. Yeah. Andy's Can't Seas. I mean, you know, whatever.

Sam Slams, S-A-M-Bs. I mean, it's just the problem. is you don't hear the B for Sam's Slams. Sam's. Slamms. Sam's slams. Um, Quibbys, Quibbles. Quibbles is not bad on its own. Yeah, yeah, quibbles. When he's not quibbys, he's quibbles. Like if the film studio, Universal was naming this in the early odds, it would have just been quibbles. Yeah. They like a one word clean, you know? Yeah, Keeve knows what I'm talking about. And then this one hit home for me. I finally figured out the name for the part where Andy complains, call it the lonely Island and Seth Myers podcast. That's so funny.

Did not register. It registered all right. I just find it so funny, Seth. Let's just give this one a little. What could be worse than a psychopathic serial killer with an overactive appetite for destruction? Introducing Special Agent Jody Foster. Jody Foster. Happy friend? He's FBI. FBI. FBI.

Morning, George. Gone to the dead, is it? Why is the president? He's right here. I only say her husband. Smoking a cigar in a non-smoking restaurant is a federal offense. You'll pay for this. I mean, there's a million things to pause for this that I'm not going to, but was that John Landis?

I bet it think it was. Was it Hillary Clinton there? I mean, it's somebody doing a Hillary Clinton. Somebody doing it, uh, George Bush. Mm-hmm. But they got the real Hillary. He's a good guy with some bad habits. And a sixth sense for sniffing out the criminally offensive.

Thank you, smelly thing. Nothing is safe. Can't we all just get along? Nothing is sacred. What's his blowing cell high, sir? You know he doesn't inhale. Nothing makes sense. I'm sorry, boss, I couldn't understand you with your cigar in your mouth there.

Crazy. Murder. Cabin fever entertainment is proud to present. A killer comedy with cutting. age commentary and stabbing satire. Dallas was never like this. Hold on to your hernias for a spoof of epic proportions. It's the silence of the hams. Anyways, the silence of the hams,

which seems even though it's spoofing silence of the lambs, like it's mostly a psycho parody. A lot of psycho. It definitely seemed like some basic instinct was in there. Dracula. Bram Strokers, Dracula was in there. Bram Strokers? Oh, no, I've never purges.

just a movie with that parody title. Bram Stroker's Dracula. It's already so sexy. I think it was Bram Stoker's Watch Me Do Me. I'm a Freudian, you slipped. I'm a Freud you had a slip. What's the pun there, Seth? Help me out, dude.

Help me humiliate you. I don't want to do that. Oh, hey, we talked about Dratch stepping in it with her special. Oh, yeah. Did she respond? She did. She sent in a voice note.

I haven't listened to. to. She had a lot of caveats that the voice note was too long and not good. Oh, no. Let's rock it. But should we just listen? Yeah. Yeah, we got to listen to it in its entirety, obviously. Yeah, of course. Strap in, Quades. Hello, this is Rachel Dratch, and I was asked to make a statement by Seth about the controversies surrounding my New York Times crossword puzzle. Seth, I have to say, you're the only person that brought this up to me. Bullshit. Until you talked to me, I thought I'd done a good job. But I don't know. I understand. I

understand that in crosswords you have to be a real stickler about all the facts. You can't give a possibility of two different answers for a clue. Well, I don't know, something like that. Anyway, I don't have a very entertaining story, a defense, if you will, to go into here. But, no, I think it's just something as simple as I think of sketches by their character names. It's just that's how I think of it in my head. So I think when I was constructing this with Christina Iverson, the mastermind of all crosswords. I was kind of along for the ride. And I was, we were deciding, well, should we say characters? Should we say sketches? And we decided to say the sketches. And I think, I just think of those sketches as church lady. But yes,

technically speaking, yes, it's called church chat. But that, I'm going to be honest, did not even cross my mind. Because she's one of my most beloved characters from SNL. And I just always refer to that as church lady sketch. Oh my gosh, did you see they did church lady. I wouldn't say, oh, did you see they did church chat. This is crazy. Anyway, that's just how I think of the church lady. It's not a very entertaining story.

Technically, yes, Seth, I messed up, okay? Are you happy, Seth? I messed up. I think that's all. I think there will be no further. I will be taking no further questions on this. That's good. Highly controversial topic.

Line in the sand. Of the S&L crossword puzzle. But sidebar, I would like to do more crosswords. I'm going to be very careful next time. But I really only came up with the actual S&L clues. I'd like to do one where I get to do more of the other clues and all that. All right. That's it, guys.

Carry on. I'll try to do better next time. Okay. Bye. Thank you for that. Thank you, Josh. We love you. Thank you.

I have something. This is sort of in her defense. or in my wife's, what's offense? What's the opposite of defense? Oh, interesting. Which is that I was talking about this in the car with my wife, and I gave her the clue. And I said, so what would you put?

Like, this is obvious. And she went, church lady. Right. And I went, no, it said, let me read it to you again. Read it again being like, the sketch where, you know, the person says isn't that special. And she went, yeah, church lady. And I'm like, that's not the sketch. It's church chat.

It says it in huge words. up on the screen. Yeah. Opening title card. And she says, welcome to church chat every time. Yeah. That's the opening.

I will say in Dratch's defense, I do call it Debbie Downer, even though the sketch's full name is, Deborah Downer ruins yet another family get together. Oh, wow. That's the technical name of the sketch. Shots fired. Does it say that?

Does the Higgins voiceover say? Monotone shots fired. Wait, does Debbie, I know you're joking, but does Debbie Downer have a title card? No, it just starts. No title cards. It doesn't have a theme song? Oh.

It goes, And along comes Debbie Downer, but then it might just say Debbie Downer, right? I think it's Debbie Downer. Doesn't it have a cold open, then a theme. Yes. Yeah, it's like classic 80s SNL format. Right.

Yeah, yeah. But for all I knew, I knew it wasn't what Seth said, but that it would say something else. But you're enjoying your day, something, something to rain. And along comes Debbie Downer, right? Yeah, great. That's actually exactly right.

It would be amazing if it wasn't that, and you just fucking cracked. I was like, good melody and everything. It wasn't that. That is like 20 times better than what it was. Okay, Akiva, for all the money, improvised the next few lines of the theme song. Oh, but using the same melody?

Yeah. And along can be done her. Go. Got some poop in your way. She knows what to say. She's got a horn and she knows how to honk it. You do not win the money. I love you.

And I love your moxie. She's poop in your way. You do not win the money. She knows just what to say. She's got a horn and she knows how to honk it. That's all she's doing. I mean, I guess technically she's not honking the horn. Didn't Ryan was downer?

I think it's more like if you're enjoying your day, she'll put some poop in your way. Like ultimately what she does is she brings you down. If you got some poop in your way, you're already down. I would move it doesn't need poop in there at all. But again, this is just if you're trying to win the money, not just if you're following your muse, which clearly Keeve was. Listen, it's a Sunday morning.

What are you going to do? Mm-hmm. Hey, this is just a question from, hold on, I swear to God, I got this fucking shit. Fucking Jeff sent me fucking garbage somewhere. Yeah. Where were you flying in from, Seth? I had a, my fantasy football draft weekend in South Bend, Indiana. Are you recording the Steelers game?

Yes. Okay, I won't say anything. Okay, great. I figured you would be, I was like, he can't be recording a podcast right now, his beloved Steelers. I know. I'm a very good person. Or I'm a good podcaster. I don't know if I'm a good person.

I'd say you're just like a good worker. They're one in the same. Ask Yorm. That's true. Hey, this is one, which did the Harrod know? Somebody said, did you guys help write

the colon blow sketch with Phil Hartman? That was years before we were there. I don't know if I was even born. Just kidding. I watched it. But somebody said, how did they do those special effects? Oh,

there is a behind the scenes on that somewhere. Oh, well, that'd be great. Somebody should check it out. Yeah. Obviously, Colin Blow is like an all-time class. I feel like that's a Jim Downey, am I wrong? Certainly seems like a Jim Downey. And I believe first time I maybe even heard colon.

Yeah, I had to learn what that was. Yeah. I did not know anything about like fiber and cereal or breakfast or any of that stuff until that commercial parody. But it still made me laugh so hard. Yorm, somebody was very angry because Yoram said there's nothing more American that screams freedom than Yellow Edition Red Bull. Now I think he was probably being a little sarcastic. It's possible. But this member Quaid Army wanted to set the record straight.

Red Bull is an Austrian company, not an American company. I know this because I work for Red Bull, a company headquarters in Salzburg, Austria, where the locals are still traumatized by Richie Ainesz Jr.'s offset antics. Incredible callback to Fred's character and The Sound of Music, which, of course, took place there. It makes sense that that's where it's from because their commercials are so weird. That's exactly it. So those commercials get dubbed into English. English and that's why they're fucking bizarre.

The first time I saw a Red Bull commercial was in Amsterdam. They would like show them before movies. Yeah. And by the way, you can have weird commercials and I'll still use your product. Yeah. There was a span of three or four years when we were drinking them Red Bull and Vakas every night to try and not pass out. Yeah.

Let's say we were a little on edge. A little on edge. Also, this Red Bull employee said that they think of us often because the Munich train station has a store called Yormus spelled with a Y. So what are the same? They sell there. No, no, no. Probably Red Bull.

I hope so. And Akiva, you think of them often because Munich is your favorite movie. Yeah, I talk about it all the time. Mm-hmm. I'm being told by Kevin that colon blow was written by Al Franken per the internet. Oh, great. It's good to know. So if that's the case, hats off, Mr. Franken.

Hats off, sir. This is just, we were talking about 90s movies and we're going to go back and talk more about 90s movies, but someone reached out. What do you guys think about what changed in the S&S. SNL sketches to movie pipeline that existed in the 90s that no longer seems like a replica business model today. So many sketches became movies in the 90s, seems like there hasn't been one since McGruber. I think just like what we were talking about, which is just there's just no comedy movie business anymore. That's the main reason. It's a straightforward answer,

but you will notice that tons of SNL cast members, sometimes even during their time on the show now, have another show. Right. That's the new model. That is correct. Right. No cast member of SNL back then ever would have had another TV show. Hell no. That would have been insane. It started with Fred, right? Portlandia was the first. Yeah, that it was happening concurrently.

Yeah. And produced by Lorne is the other way that it is able to happen. Right. And then Doc Now. Doc now. Shrill with 80. Right. Keenan.

Keenan had his own television show while he was doing. I'm sure there's more that we're not remembering. There was always the occasional cast member that would get a great movie offer. Shmigadoon. Yeah, and get to go make that movie, a non-S&L movie, during the show weeks, if they were senior enough

and Lorne would let them, like, skid out on, like, Sunday through Wednesday and then show up for the last couple days. Like, I remember Siddakes did that for Hall Pass. I know Bowen just did it for Wicked. That is sometimes double-duty that could happen at the same time. As mentioned, we were editing Hot Rod all during the season. But I think Seth's answer is the really big main answer.

which is just from last week looking at those 90s ones where there was 20 studio comedies. That's how much of a business and hunger there was. So the moment something would pop at SNL with the success of Wayne's World, it was like, oh, that could be one. And even if you think of them as not successful, every one of them was profitable.

Yes. The secondary markets with DVDs or VHS and then selling it to cable made every single one of these comedies profitable. So it was a no-brainer. greenlight them so easily because they knew they were going to make money. They also were not expensive compared to any other type of movie. I'm looking at comedy movies released over the last year or two, and there's like,

a lot of them are very funny and attempting to be funny, but they are hybrid genre. You know what I mean? Right. Like there's Naked Gun, shout out Keeve, and Happy Gilmore, too. But that wasn't even. in theaters, but yeah. Yeah. But, you know, there's S&L people in it, and it's a comedy.

The Kiki Palmer or Sizz of one that I'm blanking the name. I would put that as a real comedy in theaters. Yeah. And it felt like a bygone era comedy. But without saying the names of things I don't consider comedies, the dink is a comedy. Right. Again, straight to Apple. But yes.

Uh-huh. Do we count Anaconda? Yeah. Okay. Meta comedy, but comedy. Yeah. One of them days, Kevin reminds me. Yeah, one of them days.

So pretty much like we got Netflix is still making. some comedy movies. And then outside of that, it's mostly hybrid stuff. I think that's about right. And a lot of really fun, interesting movies. I'm not saying anything is bad about them. I'm just saying they're not how we would traditionally think of a pure comedy. I think that's right. And so that's really, it's a short answer. And it's a little bit sad as well that we don't get to see SNL character movies because they are fun. Even the ones that I think had a maybe a patina on them of having not been successful. All of them have very fun things in there.

Ladies man, a superstar. I remember laughing very much at both of those. Night at the Roxbury. I don't know how any of them hold up, but I just remember we would enjoy them at the time. Did you guys enjoy the very good intro to last week's episode as well, which was Yorm's World to the theme of Wayne's World? Oh, no.

How did I miss that? Fantastic. How did I miss that? Because it's your own's world. And you, I'm sorry to say, are just living in it. That's how it goes, fellas. Huh. Should we talk about the Jack Plaque episode?

Sorry, Jack Plack? Jack? Plack? Sorry, dude. I'm just fucking. Does he need to go to the dentist? I'm just trying to get a, just trying to read comments. It's the same time.

Here we go. Yeah, just, we can just hold. You can just hold. Was it Zach Alphancas or Jack Plack? Who hosted? It was Zach Cavity. Jack Alfanakis hosted, we find his assistant. I could have said Kavitanakis, that would have been better.

Seth, yeah. Just totally off topic. If you and me right now went to a place that had like banger hot wings, how many you think you could eat? Banger hot wings, like because of the heat or because of the actual amount of delicious, like a delicious hot wings on their menu. I could eat a easy dozen, right? But like if the challenge was how many could you eat, what do you think you'd get to?

Oh, I don't know. 50? Oh, my God. Is that too many? 50? I don't know what this game is. Did I mention their terra-dactal wings? No.

You probably couldn't do one even, is my guess. Wait a second. You just asked me, Aberpope of nothing, how many wings I could eat. I said 12. Then you said, no, if it was like a contest. I said 50. And then you drop on me. mean that it's teradactal wings?

I thought it was implied they're teradactal wings. I don't know what. What are we even talking about? We're talking about the heat level and you didn't want to clarify they were teradactal wings? I guess I just don't know

what hot wings means to you. It means chicken wings. To me, the assumption is teradactal. So in the teradactal wing eating contest, what's the usual record? 0.8. No one can even do a hole? They're so big.

Like, it's so much meat, dude. It's so much meat. It seems like the contest it would be unsatisfying at the end when the announcement of who is always sub one. Well, plus the rules, as you know, are that they can't be cooked. Uncooked teradactyl wings.

And they also don't round up. That's why the record's point eight. Because they're big and uncooked. So you're just eating flesh from a, I guess, live teradactyl that's been Jurassic Park grown? Yeah, for sure still alive. Yeah. That's another challenge.

Oh. You're eating it off the wing and they're a lot. And so they're getting hot sauce on a live teradactyl's wing? No, there's no sauce. So what's the hot part? You're just biting into a taradicle. It's a warm-blooded, you know, well, actually, I don't think they are warm-blooded. Teradactyls?

No, they're probably called. Sorry, Yorbs not here, so I'm trying to suck. Like fill in the gap. I'd be, like, frustrating and stupid. Do you remember? Can we watch the original Kings of Catchphrase Comedy Tour? Yeah, I would love to. This is Nangle, Christine Nangle and Bobby Moynihan.

I think Paul Britton worked on it as well. It was delightful. It had a nice long run on the show, and it was one of my favorite things. We've talked about it. It's a cast piece. Everybody gets a bite of the apple. Yeah. And it's a lot of fun.

This was the first one? Sorry, I know you were talking about it. This was the first one. I mean, there's one thing in here that I still quote all the time, the Paul Britton thing. Yeah, I do too. Ooh, funky boy. I want to shout it out to my friends, Nangle and Bobby. They came to my office and were like, will you do one?

And I was like, I don't want to do one. And they were like, what if it's this one? And I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll do that. Oh, yeah. That's really fun. So I want to start by thanking them for this. This was basically making an observation about comedians who leaned on catchphrases. It's the original Kings of Catchphrase comedy tour.

The Four Kings of Catchphrase are back, and they're going absolutely phrasing with David Beef Jelly Winfield. So my buddy Jimmy said, hey, man, you want to go to the Waffle House? And I looked at him and was like, hey, and I ain't going to the house. Made from the Waphas? Beavis! Croatian import, Goren, Funky Boy, Barddin. I go to your sonic restaurant. I order a plate of Doblizaki.

They tell me the washroom is that way. Ooh, funky boy. Slappy Pappy! Oh man, if a Dracula is chasing you, turn around and trip the bits. Slavy Pappy, way, way. and Pete Airhorn Shultz So that's just Zach putting his microphone up to an air horn

And it's a really good use of what Zach would think is funny And ultimately like those when you had those You know standups they came through That had really unique voices It always worked best Like I feel like we tried very hard to write a show That Zach would like and appreciate

And this is a great use of him Also Pete Shultz to this day still one of the headwriters a weekend update. This was an homage to him. Not that he's an air horn type guy. Do you think Reese Thomas directed? This one, do I think Reese Thomas directed? Was it Jake? Samanski?

I bet it's Jake. Well, here's my news, though, is that Chrysle wrote me back and said he didn't do the Zachlix for a new assistant short. Hmm. So then either Jake or maybe Solomon did the Zach one.

Well, hopefully by the time we do our second half later today, We'll know. All right. So we have our Kings of Comedy, Kings of Catchphrase comedy, four very well-established beats. And then it's just going to be a parade of Anne Golden Era cast members doing their catchphrase comedies. Yeah. Let's just say me and Seth get in there.

And they're dusting off all your old favorite bits like Eaton Doogie. You ever come home and catch your wife, Eden Doogie? You're talking about it. Oh, put this dookie in my hand. You did, you nasty-ass bitch. What the... Kicked in the Johnson. I don't know

with American women. I offer them a cresci. They kick me straight in my Johnson. Ooh, funky boy. McDonald's breakfast. I can't get an eggy McMuffin because it's 10.35? Flappy, baby, wait.

And New York versus L.A. Frays the Lord. The kings are back, and this time they brought friends. Barry the plumbing gentleman Not in my bake shop Mike insert joke here Henry

Idaho Insert joke here Chip I'm single Fennie Noah yeah I'm single Chips look It's a little dust and diamond

It's a little He just is straight speech Robert Robin Williams maybe a little But it's kind of straight screech Yeah but it's 70s Robin Williams too Yeah Guys I gotta go drive my parents to the airport Oh

All right we're gonna finish this and then we're going to let Andy go and then I'll see you later. Okay, I've texted the gang of usual suspects about these. So Seth, by Keith, love you. Love you. Love your parents. You're a good son. See you for part two.

You're a good son. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Tell him Seth and Andy, love him. We love him. Okay, we'll do. So Seth, this character, Chips So yeah, I'm Single Fennie, is a repurpose of a character I did in my audition. Oh, someone in his magic balloons.

Oh, wow. And I tried to write it as a sketch, like my second week on the show as a live sketch that was actually, these guys never would have known about it. Similar to this sketch, not as a Def Jam, more as just like an open mic night and a bunch of different types of like vaguely hacky comics coming up and doing and everyone in the cast. It was, you know, a character parade one so that I could get my whatever guy and his magic balloons. And then he would tell jokes that would not have good punchlines. and then he would very vigorously try to blow up a balloon and then let it go and it would fart away. Because he couldn't make balloon animals. He just would blow them up and then let them go.

And it was very frenetic. But it was part of my audition, I believe. But there you go. So this is a nice use of Chip. So yeah, I'm single Fennie. Happy to see him. And we're going to keep going. We had Fred.

You want me to tell you one joke from it? Yeah. He had a lisp. So I was on a date with this girl. And she says, you need to move out from with your mother. And I said, look, my mom. So I'm single. And then blow up a balloon.

So they did. They really took the heart of it with so I'm single. Yeah, really nice. And again, this meant they came to you and said, hey, we're looking for it. And you just were so happy to like dust, blow the dust off this second week sketch. And this, your seventh here.

And then I'm sure crushed when they cut out everything but the one line. But, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, but I probably had a really good show. Yeah. We'll look at that. We'll look at it later. Boston Powers

Do I make you horny, baby? Boston Powers. I mean, again, sometimes you just aren't doing any work at all as a performer. Like, it's all, it's premise plus outfit plus one line. Now, would Boston Powers be drinking a Budweiser?

Oh, it's a good call. Probably should have been. Maybe like a, what, a Pabst? Yeah, I think it's okay. Again, what we're really looking at is just their like normal Greek beer. Right, I know. But it reads as,

a bud. I mean, like, should it be a Dunkin is my question. Yeah, should I have been having a Dunkin' Donuts? I think they wanted maybe a little inebriation. Dr. Velociraptor. So it was just Jay Farrow's doctor, velociraptor. And it exists. And a very, very adept use of probably Jay having a velociraptor impression that nobody really had a home for. Now we have Addie News Flash Sweeney. This is Vanessa Bayer. Kind of a, what, a Paula Poundstone type? We're about to find out. Addie, newsflash, sweet. Newsflash, I'm crazy.

Now, again, this is why this sketch exists is to use impressions that otherwise you never could have done. Here's Jason Sadekis's white Bernie Mac. White Bernie Mac. You're a bunch of some of my bitches. And of my bitch. And of course, fur coat Rhonda. Of course I.

Abby Elliott, fur coat Rhonda. You know their catchphrases. Slappy, poppy, wha, whey! The original kings of catchphrase tour. Fraise the roof. Coming soon to bootleg DVD. Very fun. A very fun sketch,

and I do want to give a little extra tip of the cap to how funny a physical comedian Bobby Moynihan is. Yeah. Just the way he's moving around. That whole sketch is really fun to me. Slabby, pappy, whin, wang. Whang. All right, well, that's a little.

our time. Well, that's our show. I'll pick it up with the other dudes later. Yeah? You don't want to talk about anything else? Just me and you? What else we talk about? What, uh, would you really, uh, a week later, go with Ace Venture over Dumb and Dumber still? I mean, I've talked about this before. We did, we had a joke on Brooklyn about the inappropriate nature of the end of O'S Venture. That's a big problem.

We don't have to get into that. I forgot about that. But if you're skipping over that, yeah, I'm going just based on the impact it had on my life. Yeah, that's fine. Like, I was at full Jim Carrey obsession. fever pitch when Dumb and Dumber came out. Apparently the same year. It's crazy. But like seeing Ace Ventura that first time, I remember being, that and Billy Madison are on a short list for me of movies that when I saw them, it like changed my perspective on everything. Right.

Like I put Tommy Boy in there. I put brain candy in there, Peeby's Big Adventure. Bill and Ted's is that for me. Bill and Ted's, Monty Python, Holy Grail, Wayne's World. Like these are all sweet spot movies comedically. kind of space balls in history of the world. The jerk was one for me. Yes, the jerk, but the jerk I discovered more later,

even though it's now, I would put it maybe above all of them. Right. Of just like, whoa, you can do that? Right. That's allowed. Like, Sandler biting the dude's hand in Billy Madison. We sits down for dinner and this guy can stay in my room and starts biting his hand. We're like Jim Carrey kicking the UPS box down the street and the opening credits of Ace Ventura,

just right out of the gate. it's so psychedelic and psychotic and shitting on the premise of a movie even existing or taking itself seriously in a way that is boring to me at that age especially it was like a mind blow and was like it felt so fucking punk and awesome to me Wet Hot isn't that obviously.

You're right and it's also so great that both Dumb and Dumber and A's Ventura the people behind the movies were like I think just we should definitely open with Jim doing something that only Jim can physically do and not overthink this.

Just let people know we are now living in this cartoon person's world. And it works. Like I was laughing hard just watching him fuck around. Yeah. Because part of it is you're like,

I can't believe they spent millions of dollars on this. Right. Like in a good way, you're so delighted that that exists in our world. I'd say apparently

John Solomon did do Zach looks for an assistant. So we'll get to that. We'll check in with him. Shout out John Solomon. A tall drink of water. Oh, real quick, just because we're going to lose you later. Jack Black.

Well, you know what happened because we were in close contact throughout this. I then got on an airplane and I lost Wi-Fi for a while and you were real close. I used one hint. What was your last word that you needed a hint for? Dioxin. Yeah, it's a bummer. But I got every other word clean and I was so proud of myself and then I was like, I should have just waited longer and figured it out. Yeah. But Seth. That's all right, though. It's a tough one. I have had a pretty good week. Okay. Talk me through. Well, Friday, clean. Great. Thursday, clean. Great. Wednesday, clean. Great. And then, you know, that's three in a row. That's amazing. Monday was also clean. Yeah. So, I'm just saying, like, you're good at this.

I'm good at the B. It just didn't line up for me on this particular pod day, which, you know, if we had recorded a different day, I could have been, like, dancing in the streets, you know? At this point, you should probably know that we are all kind of working with each other to do this on days where you haven't been yet. Yeah. Like most of our scheduling snafus are how desperate the three of us are to do this on days where you didn't clean, clean, be it. Yeah. That's absolutely right, Seth. If it was just me and you doing the pod.

Yeah. Like how long till we turn on each other, you know? I don't know if we would. I don't think we would. Like, you would never start looking like a giant hot dog to me, like a car. tune. We have to post the photo from the, there was a New Yorker article. I already forget what the New Yorker article was about, but the art was like two halves of a grill cheese sandwich. Oh yeah. It immediately made me think of the hot rod, grilled cheese sandwich fighting a taco.

We're going to fight in a taco, which is also like one of the most delicious fights ever. Yeah. You want to be much in those. Kev and I and Klein and Solomon went to the new George Lucas Museum in L.A. this week. Oh yeah. Tell me about it. It was pretty fucking amazing. How do you get an invite to the soft opening of the George Lucas Museum? I don't pretend to know. Akeva figured it all out and he told me I had to go because he thinks I'm in a spiral. So he was like, just play hooky and come.

Oh, that's great. So we just went for a couple hours. So he's like a bro looking out for a bro. Yeah, he's a sweetheart. That's great. And it was really great. So the art they have there is mind blowing, especially like, you know, last 80 years of pop culture history and stuff. So what is, tell us, like, what is exactly the George Lucas Museum?

It's, like, there's a section that's Star Wars stuff. Yeah. Like, you can stand in front of R2D2 and C3PO and take a picture. You can see the original Millennium Falcon model, which is, like, fucking awesome. And tons of other stuff. But then there's also, like, a huge collection of Rockwells and, like, Frida Kahlo paintings. Oh, my God. And Geiger paintings and, like, a whole, like, manga section and a bunch of original

Sunday funnies and like I took pictures in front of like an original far side cartoon, you know. So good. And much to the delight of my children, there's a dogs playing poker. Right. One of their, they think that's like the funniest thing of all time. Yeah. But yeah, it's, I'm forgetting a million things. It's really special.

I went to, there's a comedy museum in Jamestown, New York. Then they have a Jamestown Comedy Festival and I performed there this summer. and they said, hey, we go on a tour of the museum while you're in town. And I did, and it was incredible. And one of the things that made it so incredible is how much representation there is

of people like you and other friends of mine. Like, it's nuts to be at a museum of a thing you love and then see like, oh, everyone I know is here. Wait, really? It's the best. It's a really great interactive museum. There's a very cool thing as well

where you take an elevator down, You have to be like 18 and older to what's called the blue room. And it's just exhibits about filthy comedy. But genuinely like all the brakes are off. Like it's a room where you are like, oh, this is a, you can't come here if you were someone who was like prone to being offended easily. Right, right. But I really highly recommend it.

It was very, very cool. It's mind blowing to think that we're represented in any museum. No, that's what I mean. You're kind of like, hold up. This is a museum museum. It feels like it's for sure going to be a prank. Yeah, but it's not. It's great.

So there you go. What happens when Keev and Yormigand, we start talking about museums. We start talking about art. Yes, because we are certificates. Because we care about the arts. We're not talking about silence of the hams. No, sir, we love the arts. Apologies, Mr. Salome, you Philistine.

Yes, I'm sorry that we like ballet. I cared and I'm hung up on it. You're still, to this day, you see. say ballet hasn't recovered. I don't think he was kidding at all. He should be held to his words. He should be held to his words. And yes.

And for that, he shall have no Oscar. He shall not have a wife. He shall and may not have it. That Marty Supreme pretty fucking good, though. That was a fun one. Marty Supreme, good movie. He good actor. It was really good.

He's really good. I don't want to take nothing from nobody, but I enjoyed it. All right, buddy. I love you. Love you very much. I'm not going to say later, Arnold, but maybe I'll say it and then they can throw it at the end.

Yeah, yeah, do it. Andy versus your mother. Round two. Fight. Oh, God. Oh, God. So whoever's better is second. Wait, what are we talking about here?

We're deciding whoever is the better host. Oh, I see. No, it's going to be chronological. Right. So if you want to say whoever's better is second, that's going to work out real good for you. Yeah. Yeah, I just think that you want to save it for the second half, who's better. Because you want to keep people.

People engaged. All right. Hi, guys. Hi. So this is part two, and we got Yorne back. Thank God. And we lost Andy. And Keeve and I, you know, we're kind of stalwart, but Keeve, do want to dial in on something.

The fact that you drove your parents to the airport. Are you always the kind of guy that drives your parents to the airport? No, not every time. For instance, if we had scheduled this and had decided we were doing it, I would have told them, oh, my God, I'm so sorry, I'll put you in an Uber or a lift. and I can't do it. But because... Oh, sorry, Seth.

Is that what you wanted the second half to be? Like, when I joined, you want to talk about driving to the airport? Well, that's what I did since the last one. So this is a really following up. Yeah, clock is ticking on my time. Guys, I don't want to talk about this. People don't want to hear about this. They want to hear me talking and us talking about the short.

Let's get into it. I think people get a lot of joy on this podcast for how princely our behavior can be at times. And this was full Prince behavior by Keith. It is very true. You're really nice. The Burbank Airport, for those that don't live around here, is... Oh, Burbank. That helps.

Yeah. That helps. Burbank. 20 minutes. You're no prince. You're no friends. LAX is too much to ask of any loved one or friend or acquaintance. It has to be a transaction.

In my head, I was like, Jesus. Keeve loves his parents if he drove him to LAX. I'm so knowing it's Burbank. They listen to the pod, so they'll hear this eventually. Yeah. If they know, if they land at LAX, they have to pay for a... lift or whatever. Got it. Okay. But yeah, Burbank totally understand.

So to bring Andy into this again and exactly what we're talking about, it was in me and Akiva's wedding speech to Andy where I started pretending to cry and talking about how much better his wife was as a person than him in the wedding speech that we were

giving to him. And I was setting like, Andy is not the kind of guy who would ever drive you to the airport. And then after that, he was so, I don't know how mortified the right word. He's never mortified. But he was so annoyed that it was on the record that he had never driven me to the airport, that he drove me to LAX, the real airport. And then he, the whole time was like, there, I did it. I did it. Really? I was like, well, you kind of negated it.

Defeating the purpose. I believe I have a very good reputation as a friend. I feel like it may be the thing I'm best at in the world, and I wouldn't drive anybody to the airport ever. Yeah. But you would pick up a guy from a vasectomy there, right? A hundred percent. That's a different thing. Yes, there it is. It's asking for a different level of favor because it's wasting both of your time. It's taking someone to do something they don't want to do either. Yeah. I don't know. There's something about it, but Burbank is fine. Burbank is fine. Burbank is nice. Whereas a vasectomy is something that I want to do, and Seth wants to do. By the way, I think it's totally different when you're flying out of a smaller airport. Yeah. Totally. A whole different.

And where you're not going to be fighting traffic, you're just having a 20-minute drive to a place. There is something else relevant. So we're driving there, and my mom was like, who was on the podcast, because she knew I was on this till like three minutes before we got in the car. I got off the podcast. I told them that Yorm wasn't there. And she was like, why not? And I'm like, it's Sunday. By the way, Yorm, we were not mean about it on the pod either.

You'll see the credit. But I said something that now, you know, I'm repeating myself from earlier, but that it's a Sunday. it's commendable to put your phone down to be with your family truly. But also there's the other half, which is that we all have kids and we're all just trying to organize something who'd been nice to have heard from Yorm.

Oh, I thought we had made a decision, but sure. I know, but it didn't have Andy on that decision. It was only the three of us. Yeah. But she was like, oh, do you remember in high school? You used to get kind of... She used the word annoyed. I think that's a little strong

because Yorm would get grounded every other weekend because you told me it was a predictable pattern, which was that, There'd be a curfew set for him by his mom. He'd break the curfew and then he'd be grounded. Then the next weekend he'd allowed to go out again. There'd be a curfew. He'd break the curfew.

And then he'd be grounded. And then you would be like annoyed, obviously in a friendship way of like, so every other weekend you don't get to come out with us. Like, what is this plan? I really was grounded a lot. I was thinking about this. I was just like, I was like, this is very predictable. And then every other Saturday we're like, all right, let's get in the car.

And you're like, we'll never know why. Look, like, you know, it was flooding back to me that this had happened. I think the most predictable part to me looking back is that Yorm would, one, disobey the rules and two, never get any better at getting away with it. Well, in a way, you guys are the school marms of the group, you know what I mean? Whereas I'm just like living fancy free high on the hog, you know what I mean? And then getting grounded by the fucking marms. You had one week fancy free, two weeks, a foot jail. I think you were also the only one with a curfew.

My mom was very good at like pretending like I wasn't doing things. Like she had a very weirdly 1950s like at one point I remember like she was like, I don't think Aces had sex. And I was like, oh my God, this lady is out of it. She would very nicely or I don't know what it is. It seems nice, but she would wait up for you. But I remember we'd get home at like, because I'd sometimes be spending the night. I'm talking senior year where I'd be spent a night at your house.

Yeah, yeah. Because my parents lived in a different town at this point. And it'd be like 2, 3 a.m. sometimes when we would get home. And she'd be awake. I did not like it. Like, did you think, like, when that happened, and we walked in together, probably a little drunk, let's be honest. Of course. And did you find it?

You were like, oh, that's nice. It wasn't why she wanted to talk to you. She'd just be like, oh, good, you're home. Good night. Yeah. She was staying up with worry. Yeah. And to make sure you got home okay.

And we didn't have cell phones. So she just. was just laying there like, who knows what's happening out there? She saw the two of us leave the house, right? Two basically of the same person. Like two 17-year-olds. Yeah, like, we looked identical. And like, what real mischief we're going to get up to?

You should ask why she was staying up. Like, was she worried? My parents definitely were not doing that. But also, I just noticed it. I don't know if I thought it was really sweet. I wish I had that viewpoint. I was always annoyed by it, honestly. Our role was you had to go home.

You had to tap our dad, go into his bedroom, tap him on the shoulder and say I'm home. I could see myself doing that version, Seth, to my kids to just be like, I want to know you got home. Don't just, don't let me wake up at 5 a. His thing was, I don't want to wake up at 2 in the morning and then have to go check your room. Exactly. Wake up in the morning going, oh, shit, did they never come home last night? That's great. That's a great way to do it.

I wish I had worked that out with her. Yeah. I like, Asa is like, you're like, had sex. Asa is sex Also, speaking of Asa and his popularity, I met two different girls on the same day who introduced themselves to me as Asa's girlfriend. And I was like, oh, that's a problem. The two of you guys got, you need to get your wires checked.

He also, my brother had a competition with himself to see how many winter formals and balls and, like, you know, like senior proms that he could get invited to around the Bay Area. And he went to 13, I think. It might have been more than that. That's really good. Yeah. That's a really, really good. A good popular guy.

I do want to say, it's really great, Keeb, that your parents listen to the podcast. I would love to tell you my parents listen to this podcast, but I do another podcast where the other host is my brother. And so this one never had a chance. No. My dad, which is the most of my dad review, he gave of the early days of this pot, he goes, you know, I would never listen to it if you weren't on it. I'm like, okay. He goes, but I enjoy it. I'm like, I don't know why then the preamble.

You know what I mean? Like, no shit you wouldn't listen to the fucking Lonely Island podcast. You know what I mean? I'm like, yeah, yeah. It's good to know that. But then you doubled, you were like, well, then I'm going to make one just for you, daddy. Yeah. Here's your two boys.

He's like, I got too much comedy bang, bang to listen to. I'm like, you know, nobody thought you were listening to this. I got too much Ockerman stuff to catch up on. What did you guys cover, by the way? Are you guys deep into the Zach? No, no. None of us worked on it. The biggest mystery on it is why it says SNL Digital Short at the top when we were so strict about it. It didn't actually have the title card, though, did it? I wonder if it got added. Solomon directed it and he told me to check dress. Kevin, could you check

dress and just see if it's on there for dress? He's like, maybe Andy helped in some way, but that still wouldn't be enough. It is surprising. Yeah. Oh, no, Kevin says it is on dress. But hold on. I have one thing before we do this short. But again, for everybody, we just have nothing to do with it. So it's weird to just highlight a random sketch. But here we go. So here's something I want to play for Seth. Okay. And see if he can guess the full context of it when I play for you.

This is a 20-second clip that I found in my iTunes and played for Andy and Yom a few days ago. Okay. It's from 2016. You're listening to the Demented Mind of Terry Gross. 60 minutes of poignant questions with Terry Gross. She's not a game. Okay. So I'm just dropping that with no context, to him to Seth. And I want Seth to try to tell me what he just heard.

Pick it apart, Seth. How did you think that came about? And if you need to hear it again, just let me know. All right. Well, so it's an introduction to fresh air. Yes. Well, Terry Gross. Not a podcast, but a forerunner of podcasts. Sure. A long-running and PR show. It's what we're modeling ourselves off of. Like, This American Life was a podcast before we had podcasts.

So Terry Gross, why you guys did that? intro for Terry Gross is that's impenetrable to me. Well said. Yeah. And that's also Funkmaster Flex. Probably the most famous New York DJ of all time, right? But that's him doing it. Yeah. Okay. And he's referencing

an album that was very seminal for us in high school called 60 Minutes of Funk that he put together. It was an album he made that was a mixtape. His mixtape got so popular and his mixes on the radio that they I think it was loud records, but I'm not 100% gave him a record deal where it was like a full CD vinyl you could buy. That was a DJ mix of cool songs with him yelling over them because he was like the first of that as far as I know. I don't know.

I think the best one is the Shook One's remix with the Wu-Tang beat on it is pretty. It still sticks in my brain as one of the best things on there. But what happened was, and this happened actually a bunch, Keeve, when we were doing radio step, when we would go around the country and be promoting like an album or a movie or whatever. I would always want to bring little drops and things to like liven up our interview. For those that don't know what a drop is, it's like those, but it's also when you're listening to any radio station and it's like, hey, what's up? This is Usher. You're listening to 106.5, the beat or whatever it is. Yeah. Or there's like the ones that are actually like four, you know, clear radio channels or whatever, like where it's always the same guy around the country who's doing like, 106.1, K.

Like, you know, like whatever. Yeah. Just when they need to station ID because they're on the, you know, FCC. they're on the airwaves, and every 15 minutes they need a station ID, so they have various people doing it. So we made a bunch of drops for different radio stations that we had been on just to annoy them, and we can get more into that one. The best one that we ever did was pitting two shock jocks against each other. Yeah, we've never met. That was on K-Rock, wasn't it?

I can't remember. I think it was L.A.'s K-rock where we did a series of them talking shit to each other, even though it was just us every time. Yeah. Is the scoge or something like that? Like, oh, no, no, the scoge thinks. And then what would you use these for? It was like if it was it, Timmy and the Scooge, let's say, those are fake names. But, like, doing morning show that was on K-Rock.

The most popular, like, rock channel in L.A., like famous. And we went on there, and every few minutes, we'd be like, all right, can we play another drop? And it'd be like, Timmy thinks the scoge sucks. But he won't tell him because they have to work together. You know, 105.3. K-rock. It started off, and it started off subtle where it'd be like, it's to-ta-t-tah-tah-timmie timmy timmy and the scooge yeah yeah it was a lot of the just how great one guy was a lot of precursor to the bash brothers hose and mark song actually of energy

of like giving we just chose one of them to be super supportive and then we just met them and they were like hey by the way we made you some drops do you mind if we play them yeah we didn't know these people they're like why is this guy just getting since told he's the boring one and then and then when we were I kind of did the fresh air one to surprise these guys. Like, they didn't even know what this was going to be. And I was like, oh, what did you use it for? You bade it for them and then did you ever do that? No, we were on fresh air with Terry Gross.

She was interviewing us. Oh, God. Yeah, and so to surprise these guys. And Yoram's like, oh, we made you a drop. Oh, my God. And the way it actually came about Kyiv was I was sitting with my friend Jake, who we talked about a lot on the pod. He's a really funny dude.

And we were talking about, I was like, it would be really fun to make a drop for Terry Grove. It was like a really inappropriate, like, hip-hop and kind of drop. So I made it super fast on my computer. And then within the span of like 20 minutes, I called our buddy Peter Rosenberg, who is on Hot 97. He knows Funk Flex. And I was like, hey, can you get him to do this part? Just saying like 16 minutes of point questions with Terry Gross.

And I think Jake actually came up with that phrase. And then within like 15, 20 minutes, we had it back. And I was like, look at this. There's fucking Funk Flex is on this shit. It's incredible. It's so funny, too, with how much we love Funkflex and listen to them our whole lives, that that was the use.

That is not on one of our albums or something. Yeah. Like, FunkFlex got on it. The fact that was just for an audience that zero. Zero people in her audience. Like, she was also very confused. Like, she was like, okay. And we were like, you can play that whenever you want.

Like, you have the rock on. Who are you interviewing tomorrow? Put that in there. And then just drop it in the middle of their answer. So it's a try. drop. I mean, the name describes the action. You just drop it in. That's what it's called the drop. I did a live show

with her, a live taping of fresh air in Philly, which is her hometown. In a big room, it was a fundraiser show, and I think it was probably like 2,000 people. And she went out first because she was introducing me as the person she was interviewing, you know?

And the only problem was like, she went out and it was like Elvis had walked on stage. That place rocked to the rafters. with excitement for people, for the kind of people who donate money to public radio in Philly were fucking losing their mind, seeing her in person.

I mean, she's legend. And then they introduced me, and it was just a perfectly, like, appropriate reaction to me, but like fraction of what she had just got. I was like,

you can't do that here, Terry. You fucked me. That's so funny because she's so mild manner. I'm so impressed you even met her in person because she, you know, famously does almost all.

all of her fresh air interviews remotely. Yeah. One of the original remotes, pre-internet remote, you know, because they had those ISDN, whatever, connect, you know, it's in that, but pre... You would, like, go to an NPR studio and, like, put on cans and just start talking with headphones. And then you just hear her voice perfectly. And then you immediately start talking like her. Yes.

Yeah. Because she's, well, that's the delicious dish, right? That's a great question. I guess Dick in a Box came up because... But it is true. We were in L.A. and we all went to Culver City's NPR, and she's, was, where did she always do it from Philadelphia or somewhere? Yeah. I was in New York, actually, when we did that too. Oh, were you? So even we weren't in the same world? Yeah, we were like,

so there you go. But it was so, it's so present, you really feel like you're in the same room with her. Oh, it's amazing. Hey, um, Yoram, Silence of the Ham. Was that a movie you'd seen, or you just read it off the list when we were talking about those movies? Read it off the list. I was lying. I was just being fun. Would you be surprised to know who played the lead in Silence of the Ham? Nick Cage? Billy Zane. Oh, really? Billy's name played a man named Joe D. Foster. Great.

Yeah. Great stuff. Got to see it. We watched the trailer earlier. It wasn't Kevin and the Bean, or was it? I know that's the most famous K-Rock morning DJs. Oh, maybe it was it? I don't feel like it was Kevin.

His scooch, isn't that from the Seymour Butts? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Mono Butts. Yeah. Yeah. Somebody in the Scoot. You're just referencing herself. Yeah, who was it?

Was it Kevin and Bean? They're so famous, though. I feel he wasn't, though. Here's a question for Q&A question since he came up earlier in the pod. Y'all mentioned Asa, created this from Jason, you all mentioned Aza created the beat for Mother Lever. Does that send I'll pay him for that? How does the whole process work?

I get record labels definitely would have, but this is different, right? Also, if it were to have won Emmy Grammy MTV Music Video Award, would he get credit? He definitely got an Emmy, right? Yeah, he won the Emmy for Dick and Box. He did. Yeah, but it is scary enough, though, because it was a very last minute.

Like, he had worked on it. He totally, like, absolutely deserved credit for what he did. He did, like, a bunch of work. But it comes down to you just filling out of form. And it was, like, a last minute, like, oh, oh, shit, we should put ASA on. And then... Oh, it's scary how close he came to not getting credit. Yeah, just because we're filling out shit and, you know, it's like, it's a last minute.

Oh, yeah, no. Certainly in the process of when you're working on an S&L sketch, like the reality that you could make a, I don't know, clerical error that would cause. somebody credit in perpetuity. Yeah. Because they are very, it's very hard to retroactively plug credit in for those things. And there is something about being on the show

that does, it does feel very insular. And so you did feel a little, always a little strange about having outside help because they have an amazing music department there too. Like, Catrice was fucking incredible. She'd done a bunch of work on the song too. So in a way, just also because we're young, it's our, we're very early on in the show.

So it always felt a little strange, including people from outside. But to answer the question, yes, you got paid for your work. I'm sure he got very, I think he's talked about it. This, like, I think he's got like $8 and a fucking handshake. It was not much. All right, Yoram, here's what I found so far, ready? I don't know which one this is.

Kevin Bean, new Kevin Bean theme by the low in the island. They're going to play it every day from now on, contractually bound to play it every day. And they will get sued if they don't. Piaz, go see the watch Why are we there for 20? Oh, it must have been for... Okay, so that was a different one that we made. We were just going around the country.

So when you brought this to Kevin and Bean... But that's not the one we were even talking about. We must have done... But did you play that in front of Kevin and Bean? Yeah, and they didn't know what we were about to play, and then we just said, hey, we made a new theme song for you. This is all your special stuff. What else do you have there?

This is great stuff. This is me just having searched the word, Kevin. Oh, okay. Gotcha. Yeah, what pisses me off, honestly, after hearing that, Keeve is I don't think that they played it even the next day. Yeah, that's so weird because you said they were contractually obligated. It's all in the fucking song.

There's no confusion about that. I legitimately, I don't think that they ever played it again. I have a question. When we did the episode about Hot Rod, the two-parter, did we ever play the Cool Bean remix? I don't think we ever played it. We maybe talked about it. Do you have the uncensored version? I have something.

You want to play it for one second here? Yeah. What is this? The little tee up here. This was a remix that we made. made for the cool bean. Oh, yeah. Okay. So, cool beans.

Cool beans. This might be unmastered or whatever. I don't know. Cool beans. Cool beans. Cool beans. Cool beans. Cool beans. Cool. So it's just really using all the real ones from the movie. Oh, there was thousands of of them. It was like, I think we ran out a mag on both of us. All part is pretty bad. It gets pretty hypey. It gets pretty icy. It sounds like some real East ugly shit. Such a pure E40 B legit beat from back then.

You call in my waist. I pointed at your face if you really want to chase. Six shots with no chase and laid my space. And get your king crown around with the ace. I blast smash off in their seven deuce class. Me and my buddy situations get ugly Can't see my mask be on Chitty, chitty, bang, bang Yeah, this is block game Dark blue like hut one and hut two Yeah, I cut you, you bleed on your own

Go home, ride a song Oh, how I did you roll How I drink for trone And by my team might be Okay, what happened at the end? Wildly inappropriate. Who joined us? Well, I don't know if Bela

quite understood What cool beans, We are cool beans to him, but we'll take it. Yeah. I think he thought we were like the group called Cool Beans. Like, we didn't explain a lot too. And he hangs with them. We're just like, go hard.

Go real hard. Which I appreciate. What did you say to him? What was the instruction? What was your prompt? Well, you know, it was me. So I was probably, I would say it was probably a little less clear than Keev may have written. You know, I was like, be as gangster as you possibly could be.

Just go super hard. Mention cool beans. Yeah. And I don't know. And I was like, this is for Hot Rod. Like, this is this movie. You know, like, it was very... Yeah, he hadn't seen the movie or anything.

It was just, just do a good verse. It didn't have any specificity. Yeah. And that's sort of what we wanted to. It is a good verse. I love it. I love it. Oh, it's fucking, it's sick.

And so what was in the perfect world? What use would that have? It was on the soundtrack. Okay. Yeah, it was on the soundtrack. It was legitimately on the soundtrack. That's mostly songs from Europe, obviously, the band Europe. because they're 90% of the soundtrack.

But it has the Queens of the Stone Age song they did for the movie, too, under the pseudonym gown. Yeah. And then, so we knew it would have little clips from the movie and various songs. So there was a place. It was an extra credit thing that we were doing while we were in sound mix for Hot Rod, because sound mix takes a tremendous amount of time. Like, you're giving notes.

You're coming, occasionally you're coming in and out to let the sound mixers do their thing, so you're not slowing them down with notes. and while we were doing that, I was simultaneously like, oh, for the soundtrack, let's do this Cool Beans remix. So I made that beat. And then was sort of, remember when we were sound mixing, Keeve, like, trying to facilitate getting money to be legit, like in the bay. And I was remember he was going to Drew's studio,

Drew Campbell, who we talk about a lot on the pod and has made beats for Bash Brothers and all throughout, like a ton of shit that we made throughout. And my dad had to bring like a bag of money. to Drew's, and this is my father, you know, Tony Tocone, who has new play coming out at public theater right now that he directed called How Shakespeare Saved My Life. But making Tony Tocconi go and drop off a bag of money to be legit at a studio in Oakland who was just so comically wonderful. I really, really appreciated it.

Did Tony have his own bag of money or did you have to procure? No, I made him go to the ATM. You're like, hey, you know that bag? You know my money bag? Well, it's time to use it. Dad, I'll get you back. I'll get you back. Again, this is a... Sometimes we're talking about things and the divergence.

We ended up on a podcast together considering our very divergent beginnings. It's wonderful. That a boy from the New Hampshire suburbs could find his way into three Alvins from the Bay. Can you imagine how my dad felt? I'm just like, what's happening? Just get in the car. Go to the bank. Why can't you write him a check?

And you're like, because he won't record the verse for a check. Dad. Because a check is not money. He wants to see the cat. cash and he wants to count it and then put in his pocket and then he'll record. Anyway, that was, we were talking about AIS getting paid and then obviously everybody's getting paid. That's the thing about the podcast. Most people who come up, and if they did something good, they got paid for it. Yes. Not much. Not a lot. Yeah, just not a lot. They got paid

enough. They're not allowed to complain later. Right. Wait, somebody said, which is interesting, and I feel like it's a mistake to show this without Andy, but maybe I missed it somewhere. Along the way, this is from Patricia. Are you familiar with the 1970s made-for-TV movie called Bad Ronald? It's like a combination of Declan and Shy Ronnie. No. All right. I mean, I will say just based on what I'm seeing.

Oh, hello, Matt Ronald. I'm going to go ahead and guarantee that Andy hasn't seen this. I think what happens, as I understand it, from the little work I did, guys. Is it Bad Ronald's a movie about a kid whose family maybe dies, and they don't know he's in the house? and so he stays in the house and a new family moves in and he's like he's a little sneak oh Ronald you should know better but he's traumatized you should know better

I'll give him a lot of slack Bad Ronald if they're looking to do a remake of Bad Ronald I think we got our guy people love remakes nowadays Although it's weird this is where I look at Bad Ronald and I'm like Andy could still play him and I forget that Andy is no longer the age of young Bad Ronald I think Andy would be Dabney Coleman now

He might be the Dabney like doing sit-ups and drinking beer Yeah, drinking beer. Bad Ronald was in 1974 made for television psychological thriller about a teenager accidentally kills a neighbor girl and hides inside the walls of his own house. Oh, so they just think he's run away because he's a wanted murderer. Yeah. And now he's just hiding in the walls.

Oh, Ronald. But then I think another family moves in. It's a little, it's basically early parasite. Yes, it's a parasite. Yeah. That's what they watched. Do you guys ever listen to creepy podcasts at all? No, sir.

You know I don't. There's one called a radio. video rental that I'm pretty obsessed with. Early days it was Rain Wilson and is this video store clerk. It's sort of moved on to other comics, but he sort of plugs that he's going to play you a tape. And then the tape comes in and it's a real story and it'll just be like, let's put in a VHS tape. And then you just hear it was 1984 and we were driving to the woods and you're like, oh God, oh no, what's going to happen in the woods?

And it's really legitimate. Just people telling like spooky short stories? There's some really scary ones. And then there's like ones where it's like, and then it turned out that person was a murderer later that I almost got killed by. You guys are too easily spooked for that kind of thing. No, yeah, I can't do that. He'd be shaking his head, hardcore, no, that. My brother got me into it.

And so now I got, I got obsessed. Should we watch, Zach finds a new assistant? We forgot. Yeah, but also this is too late because Andy's not here anymore, but he did the teenager that just woke up on update. Oh, yeah. Well, that guy is a real bad Ronald. That guy. He really is, like, exactly bad Ronald, minus the murder.

Yeah. So here we go. Wait, okay, so we're going to preface this by saying none of us were involved in this short and we're going to talk about it. We're just going to watch it. We're going to watch a sketch just for fun. Great. The only information I have is from Solomon. He couldn't remember anything except for that, yes, he did direct it.

It was Zach's idea and that Zach wanted his office to have a Lauren's office kind of vibe. It kind of looked like Lauren's office. You'll see that he has like posters on the walls from his own work and stuff. What year was this? This episode is the... Zach Gallifanakis episode from March 12th, 2011. I don't know what Andy was doing this episode, but he was not doing this. And then me and you were not there still.

So there you go. What I want to know is, did I do those AT&T commercials before or after this? Because I'm going to feel like I ripped this. Was Andy still at SNL and I'm still technically at SNL? I'm just on paternity leave while you were making those ads. I feel like that was a year or two later. I think it was. Yeah.

All right. Ready? All right. Let's take a look. So there's the short logo, surprisingly. It's called Zach Looks for a New Assistant. Do you currently have a job? Well, at school, I do.

My job was floor sweeper, but I don't do it. So it's like you don't have any job, which is actually kind of fun. I don't like doing my job. Most jobs are boring. What kind of music do you like? I have to say I do like Usher. Usher is Justin Bieber's dad, right? No. They're friends.

They're friends. That's not Justin Bieber's dad? No. Because they're from two different countries, actually. Oh. It's good that you know this kind of stuff, because this is exactly what I'm out of the loop about. They're not really related to each other. Like, they're not cousins. They're not brothers.

Man, you sure do you know a lot about Beaver. I like this. I like this a lot. Your feet never smell? Sometimes, like, once in a while. Okay, so, Dean, when do your feet smell? For like a week and a half and then it goes away and then... A week and a half and then it goes away. He's very good.

Hello? Yeah. It's just a lot of pressure right now because it's just busy. He's talking into a stapler. I want you to try and what your name is. Does this kind of... These are all different kids. ...lap funny.

Not funny. not funny kind of funny what are you doing okay I'm Zach listen

the entertainment business is a rough business okay but what kind of ideas do you have to get me happy again say that like I look weird

and you look perfect if you're like crying okay I'm gonna cry and then I want you to tell me that I look perfect. You don't need to cry. You look perfect.

And I look. Everybody likes your beard. You look handsome. Everybody likes you. Yeah? And they like your hair so much. Thank you. And they think you're so great.

I think you got it. Cute. Oh my God. That's very winning. Just a wonderful little thing. Yeah. Adorable. Nobody is good as Zach at being Zach.

He's very good at being Zach. Yeah. Good thing he's Zach. He's managing to be cold and warm to children at the same time. It's wonderful. He's really, really good. I do really actually want to know how they made it because I did spend so much time doing the exact same thing with those Beck Bennett commercials. Yeah, well, call John and see if he picks up his phone. I don't know why he can think of anything. Yeah, you want to know how much they gave the kids funny things to say and how much they just asked questions. So there are various people that I won't name drop on here that are employees at the show whose those were really. their kids. Yes. Well, I will tell you guys and Keev already knows this, but we made all these AT&T commercials with Beck

Bennett, and it was just him in a suit with four kids. It was always four kids. And he was just saying, what's better? Bigger or smaller? And they would go, bigger, why bigger? And then some of them were scripted. We would always do like a scripted one. And then we would just start improvbing and then just having them make stuff up and talk for like 45 minutes. And then we would make them make sense retroactively. Like they'd start doing jokes. A kid would tell the weirdest fucking joke ever and then we'd stop and then I'd go up to back and we'd think of the edit in our heads and then we would retroactively make it make sense so that he would say something that would trigger what you just heard to make into some kind of comprehensible sense. And we would hire like ringer kids. These are all feel like pretty ringery kids of just like you know they're going to say something weird. They're good at talking and they're not uncomfortable. And then we started to like just do. a tremendous amount of them during the day,

because they wanted to be like, well, I'll have four kids, and they'll shoot all day, like, for five hours. And you're like, kids can't do that for more than half. Like, you get 40 minutes out of a kid, and you're like, that's amazing. Right. And so we would hire four kids.

One of them would be a ringer. Three of them would be really good at sitting still. And then we would see it for 45 minutes, and then we'd get another group in. And then we made hundreds of spots that could have been used. We did this for like a year. Yeah, they were on a lot the ones they used. I mean, the best one that I'll just post of the pod here,

because might as well at this point, was with this future song called You Deserve It. Yeah, it was his first, great song. His first semi-breakthrough song. And so we shot so many rounds of these commercials that at one point I was like, I'm going to do one where put all the cameras into slow motion and I'm going to have all the kids start saying you deserve it.

And we said, I sort of wrote this spot. And the people from AT&T were like, what are you doing? I was like, just let me do this. Let me do this. So then he'd be like, I'm thinking about getting a car. Like, what kind of cars? Do you think I should get a fast car or slow car? like, oh, Fast Car, why?

Because, man, you deserve it. And then they all just start singing the future song, you deserve it with no music. And then it kicks into the music, and then they start, it becomes like a music video for like 15 seconds. And then it's out. And then Beck says, you're right, I do deserve it. And they made the spot.

And it was fucking great. And they sent it to Future. And Future was all in. He, like, loved it. It was before he was, like, really, really big. Yeah. And I was like, you guys are from the 18th season in Atlanta. Like, you got to fucking do this.

This is like, this is going to be so ground. But like, this is way ahead of it. But they were like, it breaks the fourth wall. We don't want to do it. Just thinking about the math of all of it. You guys are blowing it. Yeah. It was so great.

So I'll post it, but I'm still upset. And then Future posted it to his Instagram at one point. That's awesome. There you go. It's a very nice piece. It's a very nice. Not quite a digital short. It's got the logo, so I guess it counts.

But that is a mystery. Got the logo. It is. Yeah, it's charming. It's charming. It's charming. Zach Galvanakis is, he's his fucking charming as he is funny and very high scores in both.

Good job, Zach. Oh, by the way, thanks to Seth McFarland for tags last week. Great. He was happy to help, I'll say. I don't know if that's true. I'm sorry, we're happy he helped. I am happy he helped. All right, love you guys. Love you, too, Zach. Later, Arnold. In the future.

Later, quades. Later, skater. Hey, what's up? This is Tony Hawk, pro skater, sing. Later, quads.