Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell

Summary

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Humor Me with Robert Smigel and Friends

Episode: Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell
Date: May 8, 2026
Main Guests: Mikey Day, Streeter Seidell, Michael Cohen, Bobby Moynihan, Lauren Feldman, David Feldman, David Cyrus, Jen Clymer, Greg Gordon, Virginia Kirby Collette Haig Green

Episode Overview

This episode of Humor Me is a comedic jam session devoted to one mission: helping Michael Cohen’s Harvard alumni a cappella group (“The Harvard Yardbirds”) punch up their between-song banter. Host Robert Smigel and his panel of comedy writers—including SNL’s Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell—brainstorm sketches, self-deprecating jokes, song parody ideas, and absurd audience bits. Later, they check back in with Michael (and Bobby Moynihan, who played the infamous "Yale Boy") to find out which ideas killed, which bombed, and whether comedy really can save a gig at a Rotary Club.

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Key Discussion Points & Highlights

1. Introducing the "Harvard Yardbirds" and Their Challenge

• [02:24 – 05:53]
  • Michael Cohen, a member of a "not the hippest" Harvard alumni a cappella group, seeks funnier banter between songs.
  • The group usually performs for retirement homes and Rotary Clubs, and admits their intersong chatter feels lackluster.
• Self-deprecation starts early:

  "Since you guys are middle aged—one erection." (Robert Smigel, 02:52)

2. Breaking Down the A Cappella Banter Problem

• [15:10 – 19:10]
  • The group’s current attempts at banter are stiff, last-minute, and leaning on inside jokes or generic intros.
  • Mikey Day muses that comedy expectations at a cappella shows are low, meaning even C-material could kill:

    "I feel like our C material might bring the house down." (Mikey Day, 19:50)

3. Comedy Brainstorm: From "Yale Boy" to Group Personalities

• [21:05 – 33:00]
  • The panel suggests:
    • Leaning into their Harvard identity—mocking themselves as over-educated, underemployed.
    • Giving each group member a comedic persona (e.g., “Virginia, single and looking!”).
    • Pitching new group names: “One Erection,” “Boys to Mensa,” “Hasty Pudding In Your Pants.”
    • Parody songs (e.g., “It’s Continuing to Look a Lot Like Christmas” about neighbors’ lingering holiday lights).
  • Key quote:

    "For people who have stereotypes about Harvard, we are proof that not everyone from Harvard gets the best jobs." (Robert Smigel, 21:40)

  • Virginia’s recurring “man-hunting” joke and referencing holiday parodies came up repeatedly.

4. Audience Engagement and Absurdity

• [33:11 – 43:09]
  • Introduce interactive bits: having an audience member join for a simple part, “birthday song” as a la Anna Gasteyer.
  • Suggests running medical emergency gags (someone “dies” at a show and pops up with a punchline).
  • “Yale Boy” bit: a bumbling, child-like Yale antagonist crashes the Harvard party, generating comic friction and audience reactions.

    "If we get them to do a few of these things and they work, they might eventually come around to the brilliance that is 'Yale Boy'." (Robert Smigel, 33:18)

5. Diversity and Edginess: Tailoring to the Group

• [43:10 – 47:00]
  • Discussions around the “Asian Jewish” member and how she might playfully narrate her “automatic Harvard admission.”

    "Let me handle the offensive stuff. An Asian Jew—did she even have to apply to Harvard?" (Robert Smigel, 37:05)

  • Playfully exploring but ultimately avoiding racial/ethnic humor, agreeing on jokes driven by self-deprecation and group member consent.

6. Testing the Material: Reactions from the Frontlines

• [62:05 – 73:00]
  • After trying the new bits at a show, Michael reports major success—especially with:
    • Virginia’s “looking for a husband” runner.
    • Self-deprecating Harvard jokes in the group intro.
    • The duet setup: “This is my wife, but the bass soloist is her real soulmate.”
    • Parody Christmas lyrics about neighbors leaving their lights up.
  • Group members showed initial skepticism, but audience response was “raucous.”
  • Direct quote:

    "We kind of wrote some of them on our own and tried them at a gig. And actually it was a huge success." (Michael Cohen, 62:39)

7. “Yale Boy” Comes to Life—with Bobby Moynihan

• [76:54 – 81:42]
  • Bobby Moynihan (SNL) guest-stars as Yale Boy, fully committed to a sailor outfit and oversized props, even as he reflects that the crowd is not the usual edgy comedy audience.

    "This is beautiful. They're bringing joy to people, and I'm about to… like, no one cares, it's me." (Bobby Moynihan, 78:02)

  • Moynihan’s post-gig mood: Sprinted offstage out of the Yale Boy getup, but celebrates being an “idiot” at 48.

    "It's a blessing that you can be 48 and still be such an idiot." (Robert Smigel, 79:46)

8. What Worked, What Didn’t: Reflection and Results

• [81:52 – 83:01]
  • Virginia’s “third husband” gags and the Harvard intro landed particularly well.
  • The conductor jokes and some racier material (e.g., “One Erection” as a group name) were nixed for being too dirty or unfit for the group’s vibe.
  • Tenor Retention: Despite all, they lost a tenor after the comedy boost—but “not because of the jokes.”
• Michael:

  "Yes, the group is invigorated by this. Seriously, this was like making it a fun time." (Michael Cohen, 82:57)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (with Timestamps)

• "Since you guys are middle aged—one erection."
  —Robert Smigel (02:52)

• "I feel like our C material might bring the house down."
  —Mikey Day (19:50)

• "For people who have stereotypes about Harvard, we are proof that not everyone from Harvard gets the best jobs."
  —Robert Smigel (21:40)

• "Let me handle the offensive stuff. An Asian Jew—did she even have to apply to Harvard?"
  —Robert Smigel (37:05)

• "We kind of wrote some of them on our own and tried them at a gig. And actually it was a huge success."
  —Michael Cohen (62:39)

• "It's a blessing that you can be 48 and still be such an idiot."
  —Robert Smigel (79:46)

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Timestamps for Major Segments

| Segment | Description | Timestamps | |---------|-------------|-----------| | Introductions, Harvard debate, SNL writer jokes | 02:24 – 06:59 | | Interview with Michael Cohen, banter problem outlined | 14:27 – 19:10 | | Panel brainstorm: Harvard jokes, group names | 21:05 – 33:00 | | Interactive/Audience bits, Yale Boy concept | 33:11 – 43:09 | | Diversity/self-dep humor, Jewish/Asian Harvard admission | 43:10 – 47:00 | | Reflection/Test drive: Which bits worked | 62:05 – 73:00 | | Bobby Moynihan as Yale Boy, panel reactions | 76:54 – 81:42 | | Wrap-up, reflection, and impact on group morale | 81:52 – 83:01 |

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Recap: Panel’s Best Suggestions

• Self-Deprecating Harvard Introductions:
  "We’re here to show you not all Harvard grads succeed!" (21:40)
• Running Gag for Virginia:
  “I’m looking for my third husband… someone who can’t remember his own name anymore!” (64:03)
• Parody Song Lyrics:
  "It's continuing to look a lot like Christmas, only at your house / It's 3 AM at night and your roof is a beam of light, it's no surprise that you divorced your spouse." (69:46)
• Interactive Audience Gags:
  Bring up audience members as “tenors,” give them easy bits, or let them “beatbox.”
• Yale Boy Character & Merch:
  Sustained bit with Bobby Moynihan as a Yale “villain”—comedic foil to the Harvard pride.
• Lean into Group’s Unique Members:
  The Asian-Jewish member jokingly claims “automatic Harvard admittance.”
• Actual Implementation:
  Group successfully used major bits at live gigs to positive reaction, with only some ideas left on the cutting room floor as too racy.

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Closing Thoughts

The episode is a case study in how good comedy writers make even “dad joke” material feel fresh and how a little showbiz self-aware goofiness can invigorate even the jankiest of alumni singing groups.

Closing Quote

"Well, God bless you, Bobby." —Robert Smigel (81:16)
"Yes, the group is invigorated by this. Seriously, this was. Was like making it a fun time." —Michael Cohen (82:57)

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Episode Takeaway

Result: The Harvard Yardbirds took the (PG-rated) advice to heart, winning over their crowd with playful, self-mocking banter—proving once and for all that even Ivy League singing nerds can bring down the house, especially when they have SNL's finest behind them (and Yale Boy getting booed for good measure).

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Transcript

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[Robert Smigel]

on Humor Me, I am in an a cappella group.

[Michael Cohen]

An a cappella singing group. And while we can do the Singing. We don't necessarily have the best banter between songs, so we would. It would really help to have some funny stuff, either introducing the songs or just little skits or something in between the songs.

[Mikey Day]

That's why you go to those shows for the band, the Yard Birds. Right? That's the name.

[Robert Smigel]

The Harvard Yard. But they're open to changing the name, right?

[Michael Cohen]

Yeah. If you have a name suggestion.

[Bobby Moynihan]

We're open.

[Robert Smigel]

Since you guys are middle aged one erection.

[David Cyrus]

So we're thinking maybe to focus group a couple of new names with you guys. So. Hasty pudding in your pants.

[Robert Smigel]

What the fuck is this?

[David Feldman]

There.

[Robert Smigel]

Don't make fun of that. Ding, ding. Hi, I'm Robert Smigel. If you don't know me, I am a person who makes comedy. Like these guys. These are my guests that I'll be talking to. This show is called Humor Me. We're going to help somebody who's got a task at hand. Blowing up, getting a very important text,

[Mikey Day]

a lot of friends. Yes, I will do all those movies.

[Robert Smigel]

Turn the text says to turn your phone off.

[Mikey Day]

Fantastic.

[Robert Smigel]

So Mikey Day, long time. Saturday Night Live staple. Some call him. How many years has it been?

[Mikey Day]

10, 9. 10 on the cast. And I was a writer for three.

[Robert Smigel]

People are calling you the White Keenan.

[Mikey Day]

Yeah. Yes, Laura.

[Lauren Feldman]

That's how Lauren refers to him. White can get White Keenan up here. What's White Keenan doing? Get him off camera.

[Robert Smigel]

We want WK now. And Streeter Seidel.

[Mikey Day]

And you're White Streeter, right?

[Robert Smigel]

Yes, White Streeter. Yeah, we got Mikey Day, Streeter Seidel. And so before you turn away, these guys are really talented.

[Mikey Day]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's the head writer.

[Robert Smigel]

You know, I'm just, you know, because some of these people are like, if it's not Bowen, right, They're going to tune out.

[Lauren Feldman]

I understand. Yeah.

[Mikey Day]

Click.

[Robert Smigel]

No Bowen. I'm not going.

[Lauren Feldman]

No Bowen. I'm not showing. I'm not going.

[Robert Smigel]

I'm not showing.

[Mikey Day]

I'm not showing.

[Lauren Feldman]

He's got a lot to do, Mikey, and I don't have as much to do.

[Mikey Day]

Yeah.

[Lauren Feldman]

So, you know, he can't be on every podcast.

[Robert Smigel]

Exactly.

[Mikey Day]

Just give us this.

[Robert Smigel]

Hear them out. Understand that not only he's the host of Is it Cake? Yeah, yeah.

[Mikey Day]

Give me that.

[Robert Smigel]

There's that. No, but these guys are all time great Saturday Night Live writers. All time great.

[Mikey Day]

Wow.

[Robert Smigel]

They are in the pantheon. You're in the all time great. And I call it the pantheon. To make it seem like it. It's really important.

[Mikey Day]

I'll take it.

[Robert Smigel]

You're in the pantheon.

[Mikey Day]

I'll take it.

[Lauren Feldman]

Update the Wikipedia.

[Mikey Day]

So we're doing a pantheon and you guys are invited.

[Robert Smigel]

Michael o' Donoghue's GH was there the other day trashing this trash.

[Mikey Day]

And the pantheon.

[Robert Smigel]

I'm in the pantheon.

[Mikey Day]

Of course. You're at top the pantheon.

[Robert Smigel]

Myself not in it right now, but I. Yeah, I. I weekend there frequently.

[Lauren Feldman]

The dudes are crazy.

[Mikey Day]

You weekend there?

[Robert Smigel]

No, but these guys. The George Washington sketches. Right. That's yours.

[Lauren Feldman]

Yes, those are ours.

[Robert Smigel]

These classic sketches that Nate Bargazzi does.

[Mikey Day]

Yeah.

[Robert Smigel]

Which amazes me because, like, he's not the first person I would have thought of. It's a very Steve Martin kind of sketch when you think about it. It's like pronouncing something with a great deal of authority, and it's idiotic. And, like, the polar opposite guy is doing it, and yet he's pulling.

[Mikey Day]

And yet he's perfect.

[Lauren Feldman]

He's great.

[Michael Cohen]

Yeah.

[Robert Smigel]

Also, the Beavis and Butthead sketch. Let's just talk about that for a second because, yeah. What I love about that sketch, except for the title, because, like, it really broke my heart, the sketch. No, I'll tell you, I think it

[Mikey Day]

should have been called I.

[Robert Smigel]

Not on. On YouTube. It should have been called, like, Town hall or something or.

[Lauren Feldman]

Yeah.

[Robert Smigel]

Because it broke my heart that people knew that.

[Mikey Day]

Oh, right.

[Robert Smigel]

The joke was coming in some way.

[Lauren Feldman]

Like, we did call it News Nation

[Robert Smigel]

when you submitted it.

[Michael Cohen]

Yeah.

[Lauren Feldman]

But then it got changed, or we had.

[Mikey Day]

Just because it had been around for a while. So that's where we were. Just like. It's called Beavis and Budd.

[Robert Smigel]

This sketch existed for, like, five years before.

[Lauren Feldman]

Five or six, I think.

[Robert Smigel]

Doesn't matter.

[Mikey Day]

It was on a drafts folder in our. On our desktop.

[Robert Smigel]

I watched. I have, like, a. There's a. An NBC database that I got to log into because there's some. One of the 27 documentaries that they're doing about SNL. So I got to whatever they gave me access to. So the other week, I watched the original with Jonah Hill. With Jonah Hill? Yeah. He was Stevis to your butthead.

[Mikey Day]

Yep.

[Robert Smigel]

And.

[Mikey Day]

And it was a. Like, a murder interview. Scott Peterson murder interview.

[Robert Smigel]

But it did pretty well.

[Mikey Day]

Did okay.

[Lauren Feldman]

It made it to the show. It was.

[Robert Smigel]

It was.

[Lauren Feldman]

It got cut for time.

[Robert Smigel]

It was cut for. So, Mike.

[Lauren Feldman]

I remember Mikey standing in the full butthead costume in the hallway and then hearing, like, beavis and Butthead has been cut.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Beavis and.

[Robert Smigel]

But that's incredible.

[Mikey Day]

I think it was probably Tom Broker produced.

[Robert Smigel]

How did it Take five years. Something that funny.

[Mikey Day]

I mean surface.

[Lauren Feldman]

We tried it again with someone right in the.

[Mikey Day]

In between. We put it to the table for Oscar Isaac.

[Robert Smigel]

Yes.

[Mikey Day]

And it was this time it. It was picked to go to dress. But it was cut on a rare Friday or I think Thursday night cut.

[Lauren Feldman]

Yes. Cuz the set was too big and they're like, we don't have. They added a cold open. They were like, we don't have room.

[Mikey Day]

Did you ever have a pre Saturday cut?

[Robert Smigel]

Oh.

[Mikey Day]

Where you're like, wow.

[Robert Smigel]

No sketch of mine has ever.

[Ray Porter]

Of course.

[Mikey Day]

No sketch of yours.

[Robert Smigel]

Literally. I type it and they just forward it to the Pantheon.

[Lauren Feldman]

Just goes right to the Pantheon.

[Robert Smigel]

They don't even bother with the show. They just goes right to the panther

[Lauren Feldman]

etching it in marble.

[Mikey Day]

Of course.

[Lauren Feldman]

Right away.

[Robert Smigel]

What I love about the Beavis and Butthead sketch so much was just how quiet it was in theory. Such a quiet setup. And when everybody's speaking. Speaking at a soft level. And anytime something like that can kill on snl. It's just extra special to me.

[Mikey Day]

Epic performances by Keenan. Perfect.

[Robert Smigel]

Didn't crack up in either.

[Mikey Day]

Oh yeah. Total. I think he might have laughed a little at dress, but dress for Beavis

[Lauren Feldman]

and then he was like. Got it out of his system.

[Mikey Day]

And Keenan's so good too. If he does chuckle, he'll like time it with the camera cut.

[Lauren Feldman]

So.

[Robert Smigel]

Oh really?

[Mikey Day]

When he's off camera. And then he knows when it's coming back to him and he'll be good.

[Robert Smigel]

You don't have psychotic people in your cast who. So when Sandler and Farley were on the show toward the end, they would deliberately. When the camera was not on them, just. And they knew it was on the other guy. Sandler would be. He would seriously aggressively try to make and Farley back to him.

[Lauren Feldman]

Does anyone do that? I haven't seen that.

[Robert Smigel]

No one would dare do that. I wish. That'd be so funny. Hartman would never break. He would just.

[Mikey Day]

Just maintain.

[Robert Smigel]

He would just commit harder.

[Mikey Day]

Wow.

[Robert Smigel]

For no reason.

[David Feldman]

So good.

[Mikey Day]

What was it? Caveman, lawyer?

[Lauren Feldman]

I'm not familiar. Never been a big watcher of the show.

[Robert Smigel]

Right.

[Lauren Feldman]

I do my own spoil. Yeah.

[Robert Smigel]

The audience. So we should probably move on.

[Mikey Day]

I clock in, clock out.

[Robert Smigel]

I should have started by saying Saturday Night Live is the sketch show that airs NBC.

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When?

[Robert Smigel]

Wednesday nights. Saturday nights. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mikey Day]

And it's live.

[Robert Smigel]

You should check it out.

[David Feldman]

Yeah.

[Lauren Feldman]

Give it a watch, you know.

[Robert Smigel]

So have we developed a rapport yet?

[Mikey Day]

I think so. Just get Bowen and get me out of here.

[Robert Smigel]

No, no, it's not gonna happen. We're gonna make this work somehow. We gotta get this out. Okay, so establish report. Just. I. I like to throw out occasional icebreakers. And just this one kind of pertains to the show. Favorite acapella group.

[Lauren Feldman]

May I go first?

[Robert Smigel]

Favorite Favorite acapella group to masturbate, too.

[Lauren Feldman]

Same answer. I mean, it's gotta be Rockapella.

[Mikey Day]

I was gonna say that's the only acapella.

[Lauren Feldman]

It's the only one I can think.

[Robert Smigel]

Pentatonix.

[Lauren Feldman]

Pentatonix. That would be a better.

[Mikey Day]

That one's a good.

[Lauren Feldman]

That would have been a better answer. Yeah, yeah.

[Robert Smigel]

And more about now. I mean, I'm just saying there's two.

[Lauren Feldman]

Yeah.

[Robert Smigel]

That's the only point I know. There's two that I've heard of. Not one.

[Lauren Feldman]

To masturbate, too.

[Mikey Day]

Yeah, yeah.

[Robert Smigel]

No, Carmen San Diego. I'm doing.

[Lauren Feldman]

Oh, yeah.

[Mikey Day]

You know, they did all the, like, in show sound effects, too, throughout the episode. Because they like. They're like, you're trying to find the warrant. The warrant. The loot. They like. All throughout round two.

[Robert Smigel]

See, they save money. Who says public television dollars are going to waste? They save money on musicians. We're going to help an acapella group. That's what we're going to do. Good. But again, to remind people of how the show works, let's play the theme song. This is good. You're gonna love this.

[Mikey Day]

Wow. This is a banger.

[Robert Smigel]

I got a speech to make.

[David Feldman]

A job interview. I don't know what to say or what to do.

[Robert Smigel]

Humor me. Yeah, yeah.

[David Feldman]

I'm not funny.

[Robert Smigel]

Humor me.

[Mikey Day]

This feels exactly. This feels like a sketch

[Robert Smigel]

looking for some writers who won't give me bursitis because. Bursitis from.

[Michael Cohen]

You know.

[Robert Smigel]

So I guess the first question you have is like, how did I afford Bruce Springsteen?

[Michael Cohen]

How.

[Lauren Feldman]

And the whole E Street Band as well. Do you think that if we do a good job helping this acapella group, they would do a cover of your theme song pro bono and send it your way for you to have.

[Robert Smigel]

I mean, if you think it can top it can't. The world's leading Bruce Springsteen impersonator?

[Lauren Feldman]

No. Just as it says a thing.

[Robert Smigel]

Let me explain to you something. Jeremy Allen White came to my house and asked if he could study me for a month.

[Lauren Feldman]

Followed you around?

[Robert Smigel]

Yeah.

[Michael Cohen]

Wow.

[Robert Smigel]

Yeah. He just wanted to follow me around.

[Mikey Day]

Did he?

[Robert Smigel]

He said, Mr. Springsteen, if. If you. If I could just have the honor of just picking up your. And I'm like, I'm not him again. And then he's like, you are everything I hoped you would be. You're so modest. You are a man of the people. God bless you.

[Lauren Feldman]

I mean.

[Mikey Day]

Oh, that's why he's here in this building right now.

[Robert Smigel]

He's actually. He's under the table studying me. Studying gratuity. Short joke. Gratuitous. Short joke. Gratuitous. Short joke. You get a little laugh and you're empty inside. Thank you very much. That was gratuitous. Short joke. Sorry, Jeremy. You want to give Jeremy a snack?

[Lauren Feldman]

Yeah.

[Robert Smigel]

Give him some water.

[David Feldman]

Snack.

[Mikey Day]

Yeah. Participating in this?

[David Feldman]

No.

[Lauren Feldman]

This is really in your head. You're going to the Bear next season.

[Robert Smigel]

God. They're thinking of you for a role you could play. He looks like Paul Thomas Anderson, kind of.

[Mikey Day]

I can play Paul Thomas Anderson who comes into the restaurant.

[Lauren Feldman]

Yeah.

[Mikey Day]

Yeah.

[Robert Smigel]

I'd like to see Paul Thomas Anderson host.

[Mikey Day]

That'll be cool.

[Robert Smigel]

No, host is a cake.

[Mikey Day]

That would be. That would be really, really cool.

[Robert Smigel]

And no one would know the difference.

[Mikey Day]

They're like. It's a little more understated, a little more articulate.

[Robert Smigel]

All right, let's introduce our guest. His name is Michael Cohen. But before we meet him, let's listen to his phone call.

[Michael Cohen]

I am in an acapella group. An acapella singing group. And while we can do the singing, we don't necessarily have the best banter between songs. So we would. It would really help to have some funny stuff, either introducing the songs or just little skits or something in between the songs.

[Mikey Day]

That's why you go to those shows for the band.

[Michael Cohen]

And it's a group of all.

[Kal Penn]

Heart.

[Michael Cohen]

Believe it.

[Starbucks Advertiser]

Or.

[Michael Cohen]

It's a group of almost all Harvard graduates. That's the acapella group. So we. We can certainly have some. Any type of making fun of Harvard or anything. Okay, thanks a lot.

[Robert Smigel]

Any type of making fun of Harvard.

[David Feldman]

Yeah.

[Mikey Day]

You're smart.

[Robert Smigel]

Smart. Genius.

[Mikey Day]

Friggin Worked hard. Got into Harvard. Idiot.

[David Cyrus]

Stupid.

[Robert Smigel]

I think we're done.

[Lauren Feldman]

Yeah.

[David Feldman]

Yeah.

[Robert Smigel]

Can we meet our guest now?

[Mikey Day]

Please welcome Michael Cohen. There he is.

[Lauren Feldman]

Hi.

[Robert Smigel]

Hi, Michael.

[Mikey Day]

Nice to meet you.

[Robert Smigel]

So you guys are based where?

[Michael Cohen]

Los Angeles.

[Robert Smigel]

Okay, so you're from Heart. We're gonna lose half our audience. The right wing, because we have people from Los Angeles, Hollywood and elites.

[Lauren Feldman]

Elites.

[Mikey Day]

Coastal elites.

[Robert Smigel]

The coastal elites all in one.

[Mikey Day]

Bye now.

[Robert Smigel]

For the rest of you, tell us what you need from us.

[Michael Cohen]

We're not the hippest crew, so. And we don't. So we have. Lots of times before songs we have little banter. That we talk to the audience either about the song or about the group. And it's. We don't really work on it and we're kind of last minute. We just kind of do it. And it's never.

[Robert Smigel]

I don't believe that. Let's hear some. Let's hear a piece of banter in

[David Cyrus]

honor of one of our honorees. Tonight we learned it in the best tradition of Rosemary Clooney and Dean Martin. Mambo Italiano.

[Robert Smigel]

Okay. Oh, that's the guy. I saw some of your singing.

[Mikey Day]

Is that your bass?

[Robert Smigel]

That's. That's the bass guy.

[Mikey Day]

Where does your group perform?

[Michael Cohen]

So we perform at. We do some retirement homes. Like one of our members works at the motion picture television fund, which is like the old actors retirement home. So we perform there a few times.

[Robert Smigel]

Those people are starving for banter.

[Mikey Day]

I used to be on the ship of a screen. Give me a thing. Got it. Okay.

[Robert Smigel]

You call that banter?

[Michael Cohen]

But then we also get hired by different, like rotary clubs and things like that to come to their, like Chris, like Christmas gigs. Okay.

[Robert Smigel]

It's getting more depressing with every reference, every step. Is this pain work.

[Virginia Kirby Collette Haig Green]

Just.

[Robert Smigel]

We're not just doing old folks homes. We're doing Rotary clubs.

[Mikey Day]

Well, Rotary club, so. And are you trying to attract more, better gigs?

[Robert Smigel]

Because apparently there's like a hot. Is there a hot competition? Is that what I've read?

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Right.

[Michael Cohen]

There's like. Our group tends to be a little older, you know, probably ranging from Most people are 40 to a little over 70. In our group.

[Robert Smigel]

In your group?

[Mikey Day]

In your group.

[Michael Cohen]

Right, in the group.

[Lauren Feldman]

Okay, so they're playing to the demo.

[Robert Smigel]

Maybe they'll get fast tracked into the old folks home.

[Michael Cohen]

But. Yeah, but then there's also these kind of like hipper young groups. And so, yeah, they'll have like, kind of like sketches, like all written out like before the songs that are funny and stuff. And we just, we don't really have

[Mikey Day]

any, like what they see, the hip, cool, young.

[Lauren Feldman]

Yeah, acapella group.

[Mikey Day]

Like, what up? We saw your show. I feel like the bar for comedy when you go to an acapella show is pretty low just in terms of people's expectations. Because I remember in high school I went, we. There was a group, it was like some choir thing and they did this acapella thing and they did. Do you know it? Some song about java. They're like, java, Java, java, java.

[Robert Smigel]

They do that.

[Michael Cohen]

We do that song.

[Mikey Day]

Of course you do. I feel like it's a karaoke book that they have at bars. But it's only acapella hits. Anyway, there's me.

[Robert Smigel]

The problem is not the banter.

[Mikey Day]

I know. I. This moment for all these years that has stuck out, that in the middle, some guy just goes, like, really low. He's like, boom, percolator. And this crushed so hard.

[Robert Smigel]

Oh, really?

[Mikey Day]

In the. The.

[Robert Smigel]

In the theater.

[Mikey Day]

Sorry. The cafetorium. That's what my high school had.

[Lauren Feldman]

A.

[Mikey Day]

A stage in the cafeteria. Just because they're just kind of singing songs, there's not a lot of comedy. So in the one moment where there's some.

[Robert Smigel]

Yes.

[Mikey Day]

A kernel of a comedic idea, people lost their mind. So I feel like, wait, so this is students. Yeah, this forms performing. But the audience was students.

[Robert Smigel]

Students.

[Mikey Day]

But it was like.

[Robert Smigel]

So it's like, oh, look at Tom doing that.

[Mikey Day]

Yeah.

[Robert Smigel]

Element. These guys just walk into a familiarity. They have that advantage where they're walking

[Mikey Day]

in a cold room.

[Robert Smigel]

They're walking into a room with people who don't even remember who they are.

[Mikey Day]

Whose nurses had to, like, wheel them there. My. My point being, I feel like the bar is low for us to get over. You know what I mean? In terms of people's expectations.

[Robert Smigel]

So we can give him our C material, you're saying.

[Mikey Day]

Yeah. I feel like our C material might bring the house down.

[Robert Smigel]

Let's listen to one more of their banter, because I think they've got C plus material, and I think we have to top it.

[Mikey Day]

Okay.

[Robert Smigel]

We have to shoot for B minus very much.

[Mikey Day]

Thank you very much. That was the recent hit Boogie.

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Wow.

[Robert Smigel]

Boogie, Bugle Boy, Company B. See, that's.

[Lauren Feldman]

That's a joke.

[Mikey Day]

I think it was Drake.

[Cindy Crawford]

Not sure.

[Mikey Day]

And I think you'll really enjoy it. It actually features my personal favorite soloist in the group.

[Bobby Moynihan]

So enjoy the song.

[Lauren Feldman]

And then his ass is the guy that sings it.

[Michael Cohen]

He's the guy that sings it.

[Robert Smigel]

That's a solid C. I feel like he could.

[Lauren Feldman]

I feel like he could stretch that out quite a bit. Introing and stuff.

[Michael Cohen]

That guy actually was the youngest one in the group, and he has a synthetic. He's left the group because we're. We're not.

[Robert Smigel]

Oh, great.

[Mikey Day]

Did he get poached?

[Lauren Feldman]

Did someone come. Yeah. To get poached by, like, a younger, cooler group.

[Michael Cohen]

I don't know. But yeah, I think he just got busy with stuff. But yeah, so that.

[Robert Smigel]

Right.

[Michael Cohen]

He was definitely one of our funnier members.

[Mikey Day]

And what was. How many people were in that audience? I'm just curious.

[Michael Cohen]

I think about 50.

[Mikey Day]

That's not bad.

[Lauren Feldman]

All right.

[David Feldman]

That's not bad.

[Robert Smigel]

See, that See that? What are you coming to us for? You're killing it.

[Lauren Feldman]

Killing it out there.

[Robert Smigel]

All right, so what do we do?

[Lauren Feldman]

Banter.

[Mikey Day]

Well, I think God's name should intro yourselves. You mean differently from the beginning?

[Robert Smigel]

From the very beginning. Like I'm the this one? Yeah.

[Lauren Feldman]

I was thinking maybe they have a little personalities, you know, just like how

[Mikey Day]

you guys are introduced. Like where they. Yeah, so.

[Robert Smigel]

Oh, I'm this one, I'm that one.

[Mikey Day]

I was thinking more.

[Robert Smigel]

We all went to Harvard and we're better than you.

[Mikey Day]

Yeah.

[Lauren Feldman]

And we're doing this with our lives.

[David Feldman]

Harvard.

[Robert Smigel]

Oh, and we're doing this with our lives. See, I think that's a good way to go.

[Lauren Feldman]

Our parents spent $200,000.

[Robert Smigel]

Yeah, that's the self deciding to say, like, you know, for people who hate. We do People who have stereotypes about Harvard. We are proof, you know, that not everyone from Harvard gets the best jobs.

[Mikey Day]

Yeah.

[Lauren Feldman]

Or is it even necessarily smart?

[Mikey Day]

A self deprecating, funny intro? I think so would be great. Do you guys have an intro song you normally do?

[Michael Cohen]

No, original. Yeah, no original songs.

[Mikey Day]

What?

[Robert Smigel]

Do you think you'd be open to doing an original song or. Sure, why not?

[Mikey Day]

And would your crew, would they chafe? Would they be cool with. Would they be down to kind of make fun of themselves?

[Robert Smigel]

Yes.

Not like specific thought he had to think about that. Yes, he clearly.

[Mikey Day]

Maybe not Gene, but everyone else. He's a pain in the ass, but my God, he's talented.

[Lauren Feldman]

Talent.

[Robert Smigel]

Gene's got integrity.

[Lauren Feldman]

Gene quits every week and then comes back. I'm out of here.

[Mikey Day]

All right, Percolator. Only Gene can get that laugh.

[Robert Smigel]

Who's the worst singer in the group? Is there somebody who's like the worst?

[Michael Cohen]

Yeah, me, because I was the only one that wasn't actually in an acapella group in college. I was brought into to the group to just like play piano and teach people the songs. And then I just started singing bass along because, you know, just in case.

[Robert Smigel]

Is there anything to the idea that because you're from Harvard, you only got in because your parents made a huge donation to the group?

[Michael Cohen]

I don't know if we have anyone it actually applies to, but once again, for the sake of comedy.

[Mikey Day]

The Yardbirds.

[Cindy Crawford]

Right?

[Mikey Day]

That's the name.

[Robert Smigel]

The Harvard Yard. But they're open to changing the name, right?

[Michael Cohen]

Yeah, if you have a name suggestion. We're open.

[Mikey Day]

I mean, possibilities are endless.

[Robert Smigel]

They are maybe something not in this room, but they're in.

[Lauren Feldman]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mikey Day]

In this room. Just tell your group. The possibilities are Jeremy White.

[Robert Smigel]

Is hoarding them under the table.

[Lauren Feldman]

They're all puns, right? It's always a pun for an acapella group.

[Robert Smigel]

Okay, so we really are shooting for C. Yeah.

[Lauren Feldman]

I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, you know the acapella world better. But aren't they mostly puns?

[Michael Cohen]

That does seem to be the case, yes.

[Mikey Day]

And are you guys.

[Robert Smigel]

You realize that old people now are not old people, like, from when we were kids. So, like, they don't necessarily love puns. Right from the 20s, they were, like, at Woodstock, people who are.

[Mikey Day]

Hell, yeah.

[Lauren Feldman]

Who's.

[Kal Penn]

Who's the.

[Lauren Feldman]

Who's the oldest member of the group? How old?

[Michael Cohen]

We have Virginia. She's, I think, 71 or something. 72.

[Greg Gordon]

Okay.

[Mikey Day]

I would play into that and have Virginia sing something.

[Lauren Feldman]

Some fun. And what about Younger song?

[Robert Smigel]

Yeah, Young.

[Lauren Feldman]

A chapel roan song.

[Robert Smigel]

She would do it.

[Michael Cohen]

She would definitely.

[Lauren Feldman]

I think that be would, you know,

[Robert Smigel]

or she could do Hot to go.

[Lauren Feldman]

Hot to Go would be.

[Robert Smigel]

It's a little dirty.

[Lauren Feldman]

At the nursing home.

[Michael Cohen]

She is looking for a husband.

[Mikey Day]

So Virginia, they want you to do Hot to Go.

[Lauren Feldman]

What about. Virginia's gonna do a song at the nursing home. And the setup is like, I'm looking for a husband with money who doesn't know his own name anymore. And I figured I'd start here and then. But I'm young. She's like, I'm young. I'm young. I know the young people music. I'm gonna do one of my favorites that I just heard earlier today.

[Robert Smigel]

This is a tradition that goes back to, like, the rapping granny and wedding center. We're not reinventing the wedding.

[Lauren Feldman]

I think there's a good. There's a lot of potential in Virginia to do a runner that she's looking for a man. So in between songs, even after the banter, she can just go. And again, if anyone out there is single and a doctor, please.

[Mikey Day]

What a man, what a man, what a mighty fine man.

[Lauren Feldman]

And then you guys can kinda.

[Robert Smigel]

Virginia, stop. Virginia, knock it off.

[Michael Cohen]

You know, that sounds like a good idea to me. I think she would like that because

[Lauren Feldman]

I write for women, unlike Mikey, you

[Mikey Day]

know, But I'm a mat. I'm thinking that through this.

[Michael Cohen]

Yeah.

[Mikey Day]

They'll start attracting a different demos. You know what I mean? Not just. I think we should think beyond the nursing home.

[Robert Smigel]

Beyond the nursing home, Right? No, but anybody would laugh at a rapping granny.

[Michael Cohen]

Right? Maybe you guys can help us do some more hip stuff so we can Exactly. Okay.

[Virginia Kirby Collette Haig Green]

Hip.

[Mikey Day]

I'll give you replacement hip.

[David Feldman]

Strangest Jokes.

[Mikey Day]

What else do the kids like?

[Lauren Feldman]

Pokemon.

[Mikey Day]

That's it.

[Lauren Feldman]

Oh, the Pokemon theme song would be a good.

[Mikey Day]

Can never go wrong with a tv

[Lauren Feldman]

for any grandkids who have been dragged here against their will. We'll do one for you. The Pokemon theme song.

[Mikey Day]

You know, what about singing like Gotta catch a mo.

[Lauren Feldman]

That's how it goes, right?

[Mikey Day]

Yeah. What about adding words?

[Robert Smigel]

That would be really funny to hear. Hear that in Acapella?

[Mikey Day]

I don't think anyone's expecting that. And that would be fun.

[Robert Smigel]

And yes, it would be lost on the older people in the audience, but it would eventually pay off because then we can bring our children next time and like it.

[Mikey Day]

Did you do the Pokemon thing? Did they die?

[Robert Smigel]

They died only briefly.

[Mikey Day]

Ma', am.

[Lauren Feldman]

Has there ever been a medical incident during a show?

[Mikey Day]

La la la. I'm sorry, ma', am. Are you all right? No.

[Robert Smigel]

Okay, stage a medical incident because everyone will buy it.

[David Feldman]

It.

[Michael Cohen]

That's actually.

[Robert Smigel]

Get a plant to die in the audience and it'll go viral. What if Sandler. Did you see the one where Sandler. Somebody was. Fell ill in the audience and. And there was a big viral clip of Sandler being. He was very cool and in charge and.

[Mikey Day]

Oh yeah, yeah.

[Robert Smigel]

Everybody calm. And one of you guys could, you know, play that role.

[Mikey Day]

And then they pop up and go, I died because this group is so fresh.

[David Feldman]

And yeah.

[Mikey Day]

Boom, boom, boom.

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[Kal Penn]

hey everyone, it's Cal Penn. I'm the host of Irsay, The Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club. This week on the podcast, I am sitting down with Ray Porter, the narrator of Andy Weir's audiobook project, Hail Mary Massive Sci Fi adventure about survival and science and what happens when you wake up alone, very far from Earth.

[Ray Porter]

I really had to make a decision because I caught myself getting that frog in my throat and starting to get teary as I'm narrating some of these sections. And it's like, okay, yo, yo, yo. Is this indulgent? And I really thought about it. I was like, no. At this point, it would kind of be betraying the trust the author and the listener have in telling this story if I don't go through it. But there's places in this book that that deeply, emotionally affected me. And I left it on the mic. That's great because it served the story. People will say like, oh my God, I cried at the end. It's like, yeah, dude, me too.

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[Lauren Feldman]

Do you play any Harvard functions?

[Michael Cohen]

We have done. Yeah. Some, like, there's like some Harvard club functions for the Harvard Club board.

[Robert Smigel]

And there's a Harvard.

[Michael Cohen]

There's a Harvard Yale potluck event, like at Christmas time.

[Lauren Feldman]

Okay. I was gonna say maybe for when you're playing to the Harvard crowd, since you said you're the worst singer, you could come out in like a Yale sweater and butcher a song or something

[Mikey Day]

like that, you know, throw eggs at me. Do it.

[Robert Smigel]

Do they seriously still have a rivalry with Yale that way?

[Michael Cohen]

Oh, yes, yes.

[Robert Smigel]

Jesus. Okay.

[Mikey Day]

Come out with a little hat.

[Robert Smigel]

Great.

[Mikey Day]

Mine's a Yale boy.

[Lauren Feldman]

Sing a song about how you couldn't get into Harvard, sucker.

[Mikey Day]

Yeah, yeah. They called me Eli. My mommy said I went out by myself. The Yale boy.

[Lauren Feldman]

You got to have velcro shoes.

[Mikey Day]

People are like, yale boy did not test well with the older folks.

[David Feldman]

I'm Yale boy.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Boy.

[Jen Clymer]

No.

[Robert Smigel]

It would be great if it turned into like a wrestling villain.

[Lauren Feldman]

Yeah, like a heel.

[David Feldman]

You people suck.

[Mikey Day]

The boy is back in town. The boy. You come miss everybody booze.

[Lauren Feldman]

They know to boo after a while

[Robert Smigel]

to get boo in harmony.

[David Feldman]

Boo, boo, boo.

[Mikey Day]

Kind of like Rocky Horror. The room screenings. People bring pacifiers to throw. Like it's a thing that it'll.

[Robert Smigel]

That's a given. You're gonna have to pay for merchandising and stuff.

[Mikey Day]

See, I think putting WWE type production value and intensity is a good idea.

[Robert Smigel]

And then rap and granny throws a chair at you.

[David Feldman]

Yeah.

[Mikey Day]

I think. Think if they do crazy shit like this could kind. You'd be like, have you heard of this acapella group?

[David Feldman]

Yeah.

[Mikey Day]

There's this old lady. Someone at some point, someone got medically out of medical.

[Robert Smigel]

I love that. It happens every episode.

[Mikey Day]

Every shout is Yale. It would be a big swing that first show where you're coming out with short suspenders, a propeller hat and a big oversized sucker. But if it works.

[Lauren Feldman]

Yeah, I think you gotta do it first at the Yale Harvard potluck. Oh, no, here comes.

[David Feldman]

It's Yale boy.

[Mikey Day]

New Haven's a real city. It is, I tell you. Oh, man.

[Robert Smigel]

Okay, so let's think of things that they might do.

[Mikey Day]

Yeah. The more I talk about it, the more I'm like, they'll know.

[Robert Smigel]

They might. If we get them to do a few of these things and they work, they might eventually come around to the brilliance that is Yale boy way.

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Got it.

[Mikey Day]

I think some audience interactivity from what I saw, like, this is lame, but asking if there's any birthday and you sing Go Shorty, it's your birthday. I feel like I'm just doing Anna Gaston will say, go Shorty, it's your birthday. But sing Happy Birthday to someone.

[Robert Smigel]

I was talking to my friends here, Dave Cyrus and Dave Feldman, also writers that are. They're brilliant guys. And we were talking about how maybe song parodies of some of. Some of the songs on your list might. Might appeal to your audience instead of just singing the Straight song. Maybe you also add a parody lyric, for example. So they're gonna do a lot of holiday songs. They got Carol of the Bells, It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas. So the idea was to do a song about a neighbor who still has his Christmas lights on after January.

[Mikey Day]

Not bad.

[Robert Smigel]

Yeah.

[Lauren Feldman]

Yeah.

[Robert Smigel]

Like, that's the kind of thing that 80 year olds would laugh at. But even 75 year olds.

[David Feldman]

There's a house. Yeah.

[Lauren Feldman]

Every neighborhood has the house.

[Robert Smigel]

Oh, no, no. Like here. No. We actually came up with a couple of lyrics here. So isn't this. Right. It's continuing to look a lot like Christmas, only at your house, it's the middle of the night and your roof is a beam of light. It's no surprise that you divorced your spouse.

[Mikey Day]

Wow.

[Robert Smigel]

And you think they would do a line like that?

[Michael Cohen]

Yeah, why not?

[Robert Smigel]

You keep saying why not as if you're preparing to argue with the other eight people.

[Lauren Feldman]

They're just off camera.

[David Feldman]

Not.

[Robert Smigel]

I went on a podcast and nobody

[David Feldman]

is giving me anything.

[Lauren Feldman]

Why not, Gene?

[Robert Smigel]

I talk to guys who are in the panther pantheon. What's a pantheon?

[Mikey Day]

At the next meeting, they're gonna be like, how was the podcast? Did you get any ideas? Nothing usable. It was garbage.

[Lauren Feldman]

They love Yell Boy.

[Mikey Day]

That's great, though, that song. I think.

[Michael Cohen]

Now, do I need to give credit to you guys?

[Robert Smigel]

No, no. Jesus.

[Lauren Feldman]

I think we do want credit for Yale Boy, right? Yeah.

[Robert Smigel]

Oh, yeah. Because that's gonna be merchandise.

[Ray Porter]

Yeah.

[Lauren Feldman]

There's merch. There's a show. A movie. Pop, possibly.

[Robert Smigel]

That is. That's David Fincher's gonna do the movie. Yeah.

[Mikey Day]

It says the Yard Birds.

[Robert Smigel]

Are there any more people in the group that we can focus on? The way you did rap and granny and, like, who would have a perfect song for them? Like, who sticks out?

[Mikey Day]

There's kind of an older gentleman I remember. I saw. He's. He's bald.

[Michael Cohen]

I think that's Bas guy.

[Robert Smigel]

That's not.

[Mikey Day]

Oh, that's Bas guy out there.

[Robert Smigel]

There's another bald guy who seems to conduct.

[Michael Cohen]

Right.

[Mikey Day]

Yeah. What's his.

[Michael Cohen]

That's Mark. That's Mark.

[Lauren Feldman]

Okay.

[Mikey Day]

Does Mark sing?

[Greg Gordon]

Yes.

[Robert Smigel]

Yeah, he does. He does sing.

[Mikey Day]

And he's. He's sort of conducting because he's doing both.

[Michael Cohen]

He's singing.

[Robert Smigel]

And.

[Mikey Day]

Are you guys looking? Because the. Especially the people who take center stage are really singing out, if I'll be honest.

[Michael Cohen]

No, we're not. We're basically not watching.

[Mikey Day]

You guys should clown on Mark a little bit. Be like, he insists on conducting, Maestro.

[Robert Smigel]

True.

[Mikey Day]

You guys should just kind of.

[Robert Smigel]

Maybe there's a song about him. He waves his fingers.

[Mikey Day]

Do it mid show.

[Robert Smigel]

No one. Yeah.

[Michael Cohen]

Now, we also have a woman who is Asian and Jewish. So I don't know if you want anything to do that or if that's, you know.

[Robert Smigel]

Right.

[Mikey Day]

I. Whatever you guys want to do and she wants to do is good with me. I'm staying away from anything possibly offensive moving forward.

[Robert Smigel]

Let me handle the offensive stuff. An Asian Jew. Did she even have to apply to Harvard? I mean, it's like, boom, bam, right in.

[Mikey Day]

Wow.

[Robert Smigel]

Hand her a diploma. See, I can say that because I'm Jewish.

[Mikey Day]

Yep.

[Robert Smigel]

Right. And I have frequently supported numerous Asian restaurants.

[Lauren Feldman]

There you go.

[Mikey Day]

I was like. I was gonna say people.

[Robert Smigel]

No, no, no.

[Mikey Day]

Organizations.

[Michael Cohen]

I met my wife in the group.

[Lauren Feldman]

Oh, okay.

[Mikey Day]

You guys should French just make out hard.

[Lauren Feldman]

Is it like a Fleetwood Max situation where you guys were seeing other people in the group? And then it kind of got pretty messy.

[Michael Cohen]

And I was seeing. I was seeing a bass guy and, you know, he got. It got a little messy.

[Lauren Feldman]

What if you say you're going to do a duet? What about. You could bring her up. This is my wife. We met here. We're soulmates. Or she's saying this, and she goes, I'm going to do a duet with the love of my life.

[David Feldman]

Life.

[Lauren Feldman]

And then bass guy comes out and sings it with her.

[Michael Cohen]

I actually like that a lot.

[Lauren Feldman]

And you're jilted, you know, you're like.

[Mikey Day]

And she goes, or maybe he's joining

[Lauren Feldman]

in and you're like, why are you singing in it?

[Mikey Day]

Let's say we're crazy. What do they know? Gene, get out of here. You should definitely do. Nothing's gonna stop us.

[Robert Smigel]

You sure you don't need the base?

[Mikey Day]

Do you need me? Or maybe down here? Stars out of everybody.

[Lauren Feldman]

I think base guy. There's a lot to do there, too.

[Mikey Day]

And you should call him Bas. Yeah, this is whatever. Mark McKenzie.

[Robert Smigel]

He's the one who worked at SNL, right?

[Michael Cohen]

He was. He did the commercial parodies for season 12. And he was, like, oversaw production for seasons 13 and 14.

[Lauren Feldman]

Wow. All right.

[Mikey Day]

Wow, wow. Excellent, excellent.

[Lauren Feldman]

He's still. He's still banned from the building, I believe, right?

[Robert Smigel]

Yes.

[Lauren Feldman]

Yeah. His pictures up.

[Robert Smigel]

And we weren't going to talk about why he doesn't work there anymore.

[Mikey Day]

He's at the orientation work there.

[Lauren Feldman]

If you see this guy, please tell security.

[Mikey Day]

Don't let him or his acapella rat

[Robert Smigel]

friends into the building.

[Mikey Day]

Do you have a tenor? Do you have a tenor?

[Michael Cohen]

We have Currently kind of two tenors. So some. We have some women sing tener. Because it is hard to find tenors. There is a shortage of tenors.

[Mikey Day]

Right. So that is, like, really good tenors are difficult to find.

[Michael Cohen]

Well, just because not that many men. Global warming.

[David Feldman]

Speak for your.

[Boost Mobile Advertiser]

Global warming.

[Lauren Feldman]

I was going to say it's a vaccine. Yeah, I think so.

[Robert Smigel]

I think it's global warming.

[Mikey Day]

You can get someone from the audience, some. Some audience interactivity.

[Robert Smigel]

Yeah.

[Mikey Day]

Maybe it's something like trying to think of a full.

[Robert Smigel]

You guys probably think anybody can come up here and be in an. Let me tell you something. You're right.

[Mikey Day]

You're right.

[Robert Smigel]

We're gonna prove it right now. And then you, like, talk to the person for, like, 30 seconds, give them, like. Like, you know, like six bobo bows and. And it works perfectly.

[Lauren Feldman]

Or give them the beat box. You know, like, all you got to do is go.

[Robert Smigel]

Do you guys do, like, that pentatonix kind of beatbox by.

[Michael Cohen]

I mean, we don't really have anyone to do it, and it doesn't really fit most of our repertoire.

[Robert Smigel]

Oh, he's got a repertoire.

[Mikey Day]

Okay.

[Lauren Feldman]

All right.

[Mikey Day]

But you're open to expanding, right, Your repertoire? It's a lot of old. Kind of like. Yeah, I know you guys think FAI heard.

[Kal Penn]

Faith is.

[Michael Cohen]

We do have George Michael faith.

[Mikey Day]

You guys should all put on, like, 80s sunglasses there. Just everyone in unison. That's a.

[Lauren Feldman]

Like a cross.

[Robert Smigel]

Publicly masturbated.

[Lauren Feldman]

Yeah.

[Mikey Day]

This is from the 80s. Does anyone know public masturbator. George Michael. Virginia sing it. I guess it would be nice.

[Robert Smigel]

I think the Asian Jew. I think there's something.

[Lauren Feldman]

There's got to be something.

[Robert Smigel]

Got to be.

[Lauren Feldman]

I think we're just afraid to say it.

[Robert Smigel]

No, but if she says it, it's okay.

[David Feldman]

Yes.

[Mikey Day]

TR.

[Lauren Feldman]

Sing a Hanukkah song.

[Michael Cohen]

We do have a Hanukkah medley.

[Robert Smigel]

Yes.

[Michael Cohen]

She normally does introduce it.

[Boost Mobile Advertiser]

Yeah.

[Lauren Feldman]

Do you preface it with, like, time to kind of bum everyone out with some minor Kenuka songs? Now that. Now that we're all smiling from the Christmas songs.

[Robert Smigel]

They are terrible songs.

[Lauren Feldman]

Let's shift that to a minor key.

[Michael Cohen]

That is a great intro. We might have to.

[Robert Smigel]

What is a medley? Like, there's more than one. We got Hanukkah. Hanukkah.

[Michael Cohen]

Hanukkah.

[David Cyrus]

Another one,

[Michael Cohen]

and.

[Robert Smigel]

Oh, yeah, that's. Everyone knows that one.

[David Feldman]

Yeah.

[Lauren Feldman]

You could probably make a joke that all the Christmas songs were written by Jewish guys, too, because I'm pretty sure they all were.

[Michael Cohen]

Right.

[Robert Smigel]

Something. That's a real source of pride because there's so many beautiful songs. But then I saw a documentary and Jackie Mason was on it and talking about. Everybody's like, singing the praises of all. Yeah, well, the Jewish guys went on there because, you know, there's a lot of money. There's a lot of money. Christmas song.

[Mikey Day]

That's a fantastic.

[Robert Smigel]

What are you doing? You're ruining the whole documentary. Think about it, though. Think about it. Hear me out, hear me out, hear me out. You write a Christmas song. They play it every year on the radio. Every year you make money. No, that can't be the only reason. The whole rest of the documentary was like, jews are outsiders. They can relate. Frosty the Snowman or Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. It's a song about it. An outsider. He had a red nose. And Jews can relate. And then, ching, ching. And the guy's got dollar signs. Wipe out the dollar signs, God damn it.

[Mikey Day]

But anyway, that's an incredible Jackie Mason, by the way.

[Robert Smigel]

Oh, please. Every Jewish person can do an old Jew name. Any old J. George Burns. I can do George.

[Mikey Day]

That's a great George. The adage is true.

[Robert Smigel]

It's just. But seriously. Well, maybe the Asian Jewish person could brag about.

[Lauren Feldman]

Yeah, you could. She could also then say after the Hanukkah medley, now, I'm going to do some Asian Christmas songs. Just kidding. They don't exist.

[Robert Smigel]

And then you just start it and then you're like, we're just kidding. Like halfway. Come on, dreidel dre.

[Mikey Day]

Just kidding.

[David Feldman]

Just kidding.

[Mikey Day]

We wish you a merry Christmas. Merry Christmas.

[Robert Smigel]

Okay, it'd be funny if she says that because she's Jewish. It'll. That'll work.

[Starbucks Advertiser]

Or you.

[Robert Smigel]

I. I sense you're Jewish, Cohen.

[Michael Cohen]

Yes.

[Mikey Day]

Your Spidey sense.

[Lauren Feldman]

Michael Cohen.

[Michael Cohen]

That's right.

[Robert Smigel]

Michael Cohen.

[Lauren Feldman]

So there you had it. So you had a. Your life was going great.

[Mikey Day]

And then Trump's.

[Lauren Feldman]

Trump's buddy.

[Robert Smigel]

People just, like, don't believe a word he says. He's just all he wants. It's a different one.

[Mikey Day]

It's not me.

[Lauren Feldman]

I'm not the fixer.

[Mikey Day]

Getting a lot of emails from the Associated Press. Can you comment? Yeah, not me.

[Lauren Feldman]

I'm the Harvard singing one.

[Robert Smigel]

Yeah, you don't do political stuff. You're not gonna get even.

[Boost Mobile Advertiser]

Go there.

[Michael Cohen]

We have performed at some, like, Democratic. One of our members, he's very involved in the la, like, Democratic Club. So we performed at some of their, like, like, they open a little, like, regional center and we'll go and perform there, so.

[Robert Smigel]

Cause maybe if you said something that was like, Semi controversial. And then it's like, check that we're the only people from Harvard who haven't been sued by the president, and we want to keep it that way.

[Lauren Feldman]

Could also say, yeah, you're raising money to pay off Trump so it doesn't close Harvard down.

[Robert Smigel]

Oh, that's good.

[Lauren Feldman]

Pass the hat.

[Robert Smigel]

You know, this is not our regular job. We are doing this to fund the, you know, fun medical research. It's been denied by the Trump administration.

[Mikey Day]

Put one dude in a Trump suit and a Trump wig, and he's standing there kind of in the middle of the group, but never have him do a Trump impression or sing a song. So the whole time, what is.

[Bobby Moynihan]

What.

[Mikey Day]

When is he gonna come out and be like, hello. Oh, and then just never have him do anything.

[Michael Cohen]

I don't know.

[Lauren Feldman]

Very alt bits for the.

[Mikey Day]

Yeah, I don't know if the Rotary Club.

[Robert Smigel]

I don't know if they're trying to expand their audience. Right. Then, you know, then there'll be some word of mouth, perhaps.

[Michael Cohen]

Well, then we'll go viral.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Right?

[Michael Cohen]

Then we'll go viral.

[Robert Smigel]

Let's slow down. That's step two. Viral. No, that's the. That's the medical emergency that's going viral. That's your best shot at virals, I think.

[Lauren Feldman]

Think, for starters, what's the social media presence?

[Robert Smigel]

But then at the end of the medical emergency, there's like, a little clip from you guys smiling, like, click to subscribe. There's plenty of funny stuff like that.

[David Feldman]

Hey, they didn't die.

[Mikey Day]

Click to subscribe.

[Robert Smigel]

Yeah, and then. And then that draws them into the

[Lauren Feldman]

Smash that, like, button.

[Robert Smigel]

Do you get a lot of Harvard people coming to your event because they're. You're from Harvard?

[Michael Cohen]

I mean, sometimes. Well, sometimes we'll also open up for. Some of the current group at Harvard will come out for, like. Like winter break or spring break or something, right?

[Robert Smigel]

Then you might want to hit the. You might get some positive attention by hitting, you know, the Trump cuts and the settlement. And just say, as Harvard alumni, we find it very offensive that our school has agreed to this settlement. No private institution like Harvard should have to submit to the whims of a government. Unless it's the government of Qatar. That's for the Jews. That's. That's when you play a synagogue. Have you got any synagogue bookings? Because that'll murder

[Mikey Day]

a lot of east coast schools. Acapella is like, a big deal, right?

[Greg Gordon]

They're like.

[Michael Cohen]

They're like the Rock. Everyone.

[Mikey Day]

Yeah, everyone goes to the shows because they appreciate.

[Robert Smigel]

Yeah.

[Mikey Day]

The artistry and the showmanship.

[Robert Smigel]

I agree that, like, some of the repertoire could be spiced up. And.

[Mikey Day]

Yeah, TV theme songs, I think is fun on. Right, we touched on that. But like, songs that maybe don't have lyrics that they either. You could write lyrics for or kind of do the like. Like, I'm thinking of Lost.

[Lauren Feldman]

I mean, Game of Thrones, you could put some lyrics on. You put some lyrics on Seinfeld.

[Mikey Day]

Yes,

[Robert Smigel]

but it also could sound really good without lyrics.

[Lauren Feldman]

I mean, that bass guy would really. He's auditioning. Mikey's got.

[Mikey Day]

He's got the Pops and of course, Cosby Show.

[Robert Smigel]

Beretta.

[Michael Cohen]

You know, Beretta.

[Mikey Day]

That could be something like Cosby Beretta. I don't know if you want to add the layer of instrumental, but doing something instrumental.

[Robert Smigel]

What was the Kevin Spacey show?

[Lauren Feldman]

House of Cards.

[Mikey Day]

It's all cancelled.

[Robert Smigel]

House of Cards, Yeah.

[Mikey Day]

Just disgraced.

[Robert Smigel]

To see how long it takes for the audience to realize that you're only doing show. You have to save Cosby.

[Mikey Day]

See if you can find the common thread. Boom, boom. Cartoons. Inspector Gadget. Let's go.

[Lauren Feldman]

That is a good, good acapella.

[Robert Smigel]

One gadget actually would be a really good acapella song. What was the other one? Well, Carmen San Diego.

[Ray Porter]

You could.

[Lauren Feldman]

I mean, that's Jesus.

[Mikey Day]

Do other groups do that? Like, what's.

[Michael Cohen]

What's.

[Jen Clymer]

What.

[Mikey Day]

How do. How does the acapella community view Rockella?

[Starbucks Advertiser]

Yeah, I think.

[David Feldman]

I think they're considered.

[Michael Cohen]

One of the guys in our group, Mark, the guy that conducts, he was like, friends with them. So he was there when they were recording their seminal works.

[Mikey Day]

I was there. It was like the Beatles doing the.

[David Feldman]

I was there.

[Mikey Day]

Is there anything. A silly, dumb story. Like, for instance, they sing the Gambler, right?

[Robert Smigel]

Yes.

[Mikey Day]

So, like, we have any gam. People like to gamble here in the crowd. Right. And then you guys tell it, obviously fake. Like some silly, stupid story about how you gambled too much or something.

[Lauren Feldman]

Plot of uncut gems.

[Mikey Day]

And then someone goes, is that pretty deep?

[Robert Smigel]

See if people figure it out.

[Mikey Day]

I have a little story, and then they just do the full plot.

[Robert Smigel]

I worked in the diamond district for a time.

[Mikey Day]

Had a bit of a problem with sports.

[Robert Smigel]

Gambling. Yes.

[Kal Penn]

Yes.

[Robert Smigel]

Then Kevin Garnett. Kevin Garnet, girlfriend Kevin Garnett happened into my store.

[Mikey Day]

Mind you, the Weeknd was banging my girlfriend. Isn't that what happens?

[Lauren Feldman]

Yeah, the weekend.

[Mikey Day]

That's something like that.

[Robert Smigel]

I think that would be hilarious, personally. And I'm in the pantheon. My friends David and David made some suggestions for band Names.

[David Cyrus]

Okay.

[Robert Smigel]

Since you guys are middle aged. One erection. Pretty good. Wow.

[Lauren Feldman]

That's incredible.

[Robert Smigel]

David Feldman. David Cyrus.

[Mikey Day]

That's incredible.

[Robert Smigel]

This is a little more Harvard favoring. I think this would alienate people. Boys to Mensa.

[Mikey Day]

Come on.

[Robert Smigel]

And I like this one. This is another Harvard reference. Good evening, everybody. We're Hasty pudding in your pants.

[Michael Cohen]

I wrote for three of the Hasty Pudding shows. So yeah.

[Robert Smigel]

If you would just say that when you introduce yourself, everyone would stand up.

[Mikey Day]

What do you need us for?

[Robert Smigel]

I'm Michael Cohen.

[Michael Cohen]

I wrote the music.

[Mikey Day]

Got it.

[Robert Smigel]

I wrote the music to the Hasty. They don't even have to say pudding Show.

[Lauren Feldman]

The Hasties.

[Mikey Day]

The Hasty.

[Lauren Feldman]

Yeah.

[Kal Penn]

I got three.

[Robert Smigel]

I got three Hasties under my belt.

[Mikey Day]

I think they're already going to be on your side because the name of your group is going to be one erection.

[Robert Smigel]

Is that your favorite? One Erection.

[Lauren Feldman]

I like one Erection.

[Robert Smigel]

Or maybe you just also known as three or four others. One erection.

[Mikey Day]

Fka.

[Robert Smigel]

We're looking for a new name. And you could like pull the audience. That's always a winner.

[Mikey Day]

That's a great.

[Robert Smigel]

Gets them involved.

[Lauren Feldman]

Yeah.

[Mikey Day]

Have like, like 20 or 10 names on a list.

[Robert Smigel]

Say 3,000 and skip the song.

[Mikey Day]

But that's a great in between song bit. Have a bunch of like that.

[Robert Smigel]

That's a good bit offer. Yeah.

[Mikey Day]

What do you guys think?

[Robert Smigel]

Because we're some. And you can come. You can come up with some.

[Lauren Feldman]

We got that runner. We've got the lady looking for the husband.

[Mikey Day]

Yale boy.

[Lauren Feldman]

Yale boy, of course. Who's making multiple appearances.

[Mikey Day]

Your pants are around your ankles.

[Robert Smigel]

Wait, I think we had the bathroom.

[Mikey Day]

I'm Yale boy.

[Lauren Feldman]

He has a little boy. He has a little bulldog. Boxer shorts on.

[Mikey Day]

Little heart.

[Michael Cohen]

Little hearts.

[David Feldman]

A little.

[Lauren Feldman]

A little stain on the back.

[David Feldman]

Hey, yeah. I put my pants. Oh, yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Oh, boy.

[David Feldman]

No one ever taught me how to go in the party.

[Mikey Day]

That Christmas song is fantastic.

[Robert Smigel]

Oh, that was good. David. I think he had another idea. Cyrus, who had this idea for a parody of. Based on the fact that the tariffs presumably so say the liberals will cause inflation. You could do a parody. Due to the rising prices. Have yourself very little Christmas. Right?

[Lauren Feldman]

Obviously.

[Mikey Day]

And it's all about like budget all the lyrics.

[Robert Smigel]

Little Christmas. Maybe half a day from now on. Just be glad we're making other countries pay. You're gonna have a Christmas like you're not gonna believe it's gonna be so small and so wonderful. So white.

[Kal Penn]

So white.

[Robert Smigel]

Weren't they incredible? None of that diversity crap other than

[Lauren Feldman]

the Asian Jewish lady.

[Mikey Day]

Like, can you see your group Realistically incorporating any of these suggestions.

[Michael Cohen]

Yes.

[Mikey Day]

Into your run of show.

[Michael Cohen]

No, Seriously?

[Boost Mobile Advertiser]

Yes.

[Mikey Day]

Obviously, Yale boy's a stretch, but, you

[Michael Cohen]

know, I think that's the big winner of the day.

[Mikey Day]

We're gonna give it.

[Robert Smigel]

We're gonna give that one to the hip, young group.

[Lauren Feldman]

They're gonna steal it.

[Mikey Day]

Have you told the rest of your group members that you were coming on?

[Michael Cohen]

Yes, I did. They are aware of that. I'm doing this.

[Mikey Day]

Okay, Very cool.

[Michael Cohen]

They were worried the only suggestion was going to be for me to poop on.

[Robert Smigel]

No, there's nothing like that. The worst thing triumph would say to you would be like acapella. Oh, great. So that's. You do that with no music. Why don't you try no voices too? You see, because you can't sing. It's terrible. And that's why it's funny.

[Mikey Day]

Here I am live at the Rotary Club. It's.

[Robert Smigel]

Oh, man, how the mighty have fallen.

[Mikey Day]

Dude, if you do.

[Robert Smigel]

Be the worst prank ever.

[Mikey Day]

If you do a triumph after all

[Robert Smigel]

this, I do a triumph remote at your performance and interview people about how shitty it is.

[Mikey Day]

Do you know how funny that would be and how great I. I would honestly go to their next performance, do a remote for humor me and be like, I'm here. The fans are going neutral troll. Let's step inside, shall we?

[Michael Cohen]

Well, thank you guys for all of your help.

[Greg Gordon]

We.

[Michael Cohen]

We will be happy to implement whatever.

[Robert Smigel]

Yeah, I'm going to get back to you with formal material, and then we're going to see.

[Mikey Day]

We're going to sit in the front row.

[Robert Smigel]

Yeah, we are.

[Michael Cohen]

We are.

[Lauren Feldman]

That's mine. Well, that one was mine.

[Robert Smigel]

Oh, my God.

[Mikey Day]

They're doing Yale boy.

[David Feldman]

And that's it.

[Mikey Day]

That's the only.

[Lauren Feldman]

Took the bad boy one.

[Mikey Day]

Everyone's. I'm Yale boy.

[Lauren Feldman]

I hope. I hope you can convince your bandmates to try out one or two of these.

[Michael Cohen]

I think we can. I promise you we will do some of them.

[Lauren Feldman]

And I hope this really helps with tenor retention, which I know is a major problem afflicting it.

[Robert Smigel]

There is a pharmaceutical company working on tenor retention right now.

[Mikey Day]

You suffer from tenor retention? Yeah.

[Robert Smigel]

What if we got, like, Bobby Moynihan to play Yale?

[Lauren Feldman]

Oh, he would. Bobby, would he?

[Robert Smigel]

Would you do it if we got a celebrity to play Yale boy?

[Michael Cohen]

Honestly, 100.

[Mikey Day]

Bobby would be really funny.

[Robert Smigel]

He'd be so funny. And the hat.

[Mikey Day]

And he would commit.

[Robert Smigel]

Oh, my God.

[Mikey Day]

That's gonna be an interesting cross section with Bobby. Hey, Bobby, so it's no money. Will you put on a bonnet Already.

[Robert Smigel]

He's already off the phone ordering suckers online.

[Mikey Day]

Honestly, Bobby, I imagine Bobby would think it is so stupid and funny. He might actually do it.

[Robert Smigel]

I think he might do it in a second.

[Michael Cohen]

I think he might.

[Robert Smigel]

For the goof.

[Mikey Day]

He would do it just cuz he thought it was insane.

[Robert Smigel]

And the older and more sleepy the audience, the better. It's like a. It's like performance.

[Mikey Day]

I think Bobby would appreciate what it is.

[Robert Smigel]

Yeah. This is happening.

[Lauren Feldman]

All right.

[Michael Cohen]

That's great.

[Robert Smigel]

All right. God bless.

[Mikey Day]

Thank you for talking to us.

[Robert Smigel]

Thanks for everything. And we'll get back to you and everything's going to be great. Thank you for joining. Thank you for. Thank you for taking part.

[Michael Cohen]

Sure.

[Robert Smigel]

With Robert Smigel and friends.

[Lauren Feldman]

Work friends.

[Mikey Day]

Can you imagine if you had audio of Yale Boy just absolutely bombing?

[David Feldman]

Nothing would be better than video.

[Robert Smigel]

Are you kidding? We gotta get two cameras for the

[Lauren Feldman]

audience response to retirement home. Is he real?

[Robert Smigel]

We were enjoying the. The program and then this horrible man from Yale interrupted.

[David Feldman]

Big beard and he was screaming.

[Robert Smigel]

That was interrupted by someone having a medical incident.

[David Feldman]

Worst show I've ever been to Bugle Boy.

[Robert Smigel]

Okay, we're all set.

[Mikey Day]

Thanks for having.

[Lauren Feldman]

Thanks for having us.

[Robert Smigel]

Thanks, guys. You're. You really are amazing writers over here. An honor to have you here.

[Mikey Day]

It's an honor. Honor to be had.

[Lauren Feldman]

Absolutely.

[Robert Smigel]

All right, let's. Let's hit the Pantheon. Yeah, the Pantheon.

[Mikey Day]

There's a. There's a pool there.

[Michael Cohen]

Buffet.

[Robert Smigel]

There's a buffet. Got a thing that needs to be funnier. Tell us about [e-mail] Humor me.

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[Kal Penn]

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[Ray Porter]

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[Robert Smigel]

Those of you watching, we couldn't get a regular studio, so we're in the Bow and Yang Memorial Memorial Studio. This is where. This is where it really happens. A real podcast.

[Mikey Day]

Las Coltristas.

[Robert Smigel]

You know all the lyrics to the theme song.

[Mikey Day]

I don't. All I know is Las Culturistas.

[Robert Smigel]

I think that's all the lyrics.

[Lauren Feldman]

That's really all you need.

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Okay.

[Robert Smigel]

Do you think they took our jokes? Do you think they botched them just like, or do you think, I hope so.

[Lauren Feldman]

But he was, he was kept. Remember he kept being like, yeah, we'll give it a shot. He seemed very confident and I remember feeling like, I don't think the rest of the crowd crew is gonna go for these.

[Robert Smigel]

But yeah, we'll ask him about what the rest of the crew thought.

[Mikey Day]

This is trash.

[Robert Smigel]

Are you making us do?

[Mikey Day]

You're sullying our brand Anyway, like I

[Robert Smigel]

said, it's many months later. The world's very different now.

[Lauren Feldman]

Yeah.

[Robert Smigel]

Robot rebellion.

[Mikey Day]

Yeah, I mean, I think. I think we got a win on our hands.

[Robert Smigel]

Okay, let's bring on Michael Cohen. First of all, tell us when you broke the news to the other bandmates that you were thinking about a character named Yale Brad Boy. And many other.

[Mikey Day]

How dare you?

[Robert Smigel]

Never.

[Michael Cohen]

So, yeah, I told him about Yale Boy. I think people were a little skeptical.

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[Michael Cohen]

About Yale Boy.

[Robert Smigel]

They crazy. Okay.

[Michael Cohen]

And the other ideas, overall, people were actually very open to trying it. And then before we had even had a chance to work on them with you, we kind of wrote some of them on our own and tried them at a gig.

[Robert Smigel]

Yeah.

[Michael Cohen]

And actually it was a huge success.

[Robert Smigel]

You tried out. And to review, which ones did you try out on your own?

[Michael Cohen]

Virginia looking for a husband.

[Mikey Day]

Okay, I remember that. Yes.

[Michael Cohen]

And we did a volunteer. We needed a tenor to come volunteer. We made it so they would. We needed something. We brought them up.

[Mikey Day]

Lead with Yale Boy.

[David Feldman]

Yeah.

[Michael Cohen]

And it was like raucous. I mean, like, I mean, admittedly, they've been drinking for two hours. I mean, they were, they were loving it.

[Robert Smigel]

So that gave the band a little more confidence. Well, this is exciting. We have the entire show here, so we're going to scan it. This is the end of their first song. This is the end of their first song. Hark, hear the bells. Get a look at the audience there.

[Lauren Feldman]

There we go.

[Mikey Day]

Look that walker in the aisle.

[Robert Smigel]

Thank you so much. Hi, I am Marissa Chandler and we are the Harvard Yardbirds. We are an acapella group of alums from Harvard.

[Cindy Crawford]

Now I know there are many people

[Jen Clymer]

out there that have stereotypes about Harvard. But we are here to show you

[Robert Smigel]

that not all Harvard people have great jobs. Good big lies.

[Mikey Day]

Crunchy lass.

[Jen Clymer]

So I'm in a theater company. I'm in Pasadena and we did a show last weekend.

[Robert Smigel]

Here she comes.

[Virginia Kirby Collette Haig Green]

Step back for a minute.

[Cindy Crawford]

Okay.

[Virginia Kirby Collette Haig Green]

Hi, I'm Virginia Kirby Collette Haig Green. And I'm looking for my third husband.

[Mikey Day]

Thinking about it.

[Virginia Kirby Collette Haig Green]

Successful who can't remember their own name anymore. So I thought I'd start here and maybe this could be the start of something big.

[Robert Smigel]

We didn't write that segue. No, but. But it worked for this crowd, you know?

[Mikey Day]

Yeah, I think they're.

[Robert Smigel]

And this is the big Steve Allen classic. This guy.

[Mikey Day]

This guy's amazing.

[Robert Smigel]

He wants to hear his hearing. Okay, we're probably not allowed. The Steve Allen foundation will sue us.

[Mikey Day]

So let's skip to.

[Robert Smigel]

Skip to the next one.

[Mikey Day]

Sounds like an episode of Big Bang Theory. Where did you get your laugh track here? It's already feeling fun. You know what I mean?

[Lauren Feldman]

Feeling light.

[Mikey Day]

Yeah, yeah.

[Greg Gordon]

Yes.

[Michael Cohen]

Sometimes in the past. That's what I'm saying. We would sing songs and we talked in between the songs. But it could sometimes be a little dreary.

[Robert Smigel]

Well, we. We heard those segues. No, this is good. You did a self deprecating joke and a self deprecating. And that. That makes them root for you. Okay, let's see what we got.

[Lauren Feldman]

Oh, and she's back. Is this the callback?

[Virginia Kirby Collette Haig Green]

And furthermore, this is a few requirements I have for my third.

[Robert Smigel]

She ran with this and wrote her own joke.

[Virginia Kirby Collette Haig Green]

A short list.

[Kal Penn]

Drop it.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Drop it.

[Virginia Kirby Collette Haig Green]

I'm just going to pick a couple

[Mikey Day]

out at random to the ground.

[Virginia Kirby Collette Haig Green]

Number one, you have to be able to cook, use a hand drill and read my mind. Those are some basics. I'm also looking for a man with a very big diamond that he's a little blue. Pre owned is preferred. And finally, you must have your own car and not live in it.

[Robert Smigel]

Okay, we can jump ahead. Not that the songs aren't great. I actually. I have to admit Michael had my comments about acapella. But the state of the world is right now. Robot rebellion, all that.

[Greg Gordon]

Right.

[Robert Smigel]

I listened to the songs. And I was like, I need this. I need to hear this. Yeah, it made me feel good. And you. You guys perform very well.

[Mikey Day]

Yeah. You sound great.

[Michael Cohen]

Thank you.

[Robert Smigel]

Here comes bass guy, everyone.

[David Cyrus]

My name's Greg Gordon. I sing bass with the group. Yes. And now we're going to be doing a song that I think a lot of you will know was made pretty famous by some girls I used to date collectively and individually, the Andrews Sisters.

[Robert Smigel]

There you go. Greg wrote that on his own.

[Lauren Feldman]

Yeah.

[Robert Smigel]

Okay. So everybody got into the spirit of self application.

[Lauren Feldman]

Was it getting competitive? Like, people felt like Virginia got too much writing, and we're like, well, how come they didn't write anything?

[David Feldman]

She got a call back.

[Michael Cohen]

Well, yeah.

[Robert Smigel]

Right?

[Jen Clymer]

Yeah.

[Michael Cohen]

People were getting a little jealous of Virginia. Yeah.

[Lauren Feldman]

Yeah. Well, breakout.

[Robert Smigel]

Yeah. Couldn't we get Virginia here?

[Mikey Day]

She stole the show.

[Robert Smigel]

All right, let's. What's next?

[Michael Cohen]

I'm Michael Cohen. I'm the music director the group, ironically, I'm also the worst singer. So I did go to Harvard, but the only reason I got into the Harvard Yardbirds is because my parents donated a lot of money.

[David Feldman]

Yay.

[Michael Cohen]

And, you know, they paid for these scarves.

[David Feldman]

Yay.

[David Cyrus]

I'm sorry.

[Cindy Crawford]

I think it's a little much that

[Robert Smigel]

they ask Nate the rehearsal space after them.

[Michael Cohen]

Why is that?

[Cindy Crawford]

Because it's my garage.

[Robert Smigel]

Well, you guys got a whole Gail

[Michael Cohen]

Cohen Memorial rehearsal garage. It's a very pretty. Nice.

[Robert Smigel]

I gave him that one.

[Michael Cohen]

So we've been talking about love tonight. Virginia's looking for a husband. And I was lucky enough to meet my wife when she joined the group 11 years ago.

[Robert Smigel]

Remember this idea?

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah.

[Jen Clymer]

We were so fortunate to meet in

[Robert Smigel]

the group, and to honor that, I'd

like to sing a quick duet with the love of my life. Love lives where we belong where the eagles cry on a mountain high.

[Michael Cohen]

Actually, they sound pretty good.

[Robert Smigel]

Thanks, Mike.

[Michael Cohen]

All right, well, so give them a hand.

[Lauren Feldman]

This is that guy.

[Robert Smigel]

The ridiculous.

[Michael Cohen]

Here's a song.

[Robert Smigel]

Oh, this is the song parody coming up. Oh, yes.

[Ray Porter]

A lot more.

[Robert Smigel]

Oh, I missed that kind of way. What was it?

[Lauren Feldman]

Just that guy in the green having a. Is this the planted medical emergency we talked about?

[Mikey Day]

There's a lot riding on this parody.

[Robert Smigel]

Oh, yeah.

[Lauren Feldman]

Little jazz hands.

[David Feldman]

What?

[Robert Smigel]

I'll give you three. It's back to the Palm.

[David Feldman]

Thank you, everyone.

[Jen Clymer]

I'm Jen Clymer and I also enjoy the holidays.

[Robert Smigel]

But there is a limit, right?

[Jen Clymer]

The people that keep their lights on until Valentine's Day.

[Robert Smigel]

No, no.

[Jen Clymer]

So we wrote an extra verse to this song.

[David Feldman]

It's Continuing to look a lot like Christmas. They're on board Only at your house.

[Lauren Feldman]

Oh, my God.

[David Feldman]

30am at night and your roof is a beam of light. It's no surprise that you divorced your spouse.

[Jen Clymer]

It's continuing to look alive.

[Mikey Day]

They're on board.

[David Feldman]

Dude, take your lights down, please. Everyone on the block but you is

[Jen Clymer]

embarrassed and hopes you do or we'll

[David Feldman]

chop down all your. Wow.

[Robert Smigel]

Very nice.

[Lauren Feldman]

That's.

[Mikey Day]

Were those the lyrics? Did you provide.

[Robert Smigel]

Yeah, okay, stop it for one second. So, Michael.

[David Cyrus]

Yes.

[Robert Smigel]

There's at least one bit that Michael and the band refused to do. You remember that? We talked about that somebody was conducting during the show, but that didn't really happen.

[Michael Cohen]

Problem was we didn't have time to practice a whole, like, new song.

[Robert Smigel]

No, but I purposely made the song to the theme of the Harvard because I knew that you'd have that experience excuse. So I was like, okay, I'm gonna write it to the Harvard. Not fight song.

[Michael Cohen]

But what is it?

[Robert Smigel]

The school song.

[Michael Cohen]

There's a right fair Harvard. I'm open to doing it in the future. I think we just literally didn't have.

[Robert Smigel]

Oh, I don't think you'll ever do it, because it was. It was here. I'm gonna. I'm gonna sing it really quick. So it was making fun of Michael for conducting, and I was gonna have him conduct while he did it. I don't know the exact tune anymore, so I'm gonna just. He waves his arm so proudly and so energetically but none of us are looking we're just trying to sing on key still he acts as if he matters that on him we all depend but he lets us pass around his wife so we all choose to. To pretend. Yes. His wife has sex with all of us so we all choose to pretend.

[Lauren Feldman]

And they didn't go for that.

[Robert Smigel]

They didn't go for it.

[Mikey Day]

My wife.

[Michael Cohen]

Now I remember.

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Yeah.

[Michael Cohen]

I think my wife might have put

[Lauren Feldman]

the Knicks on maybe a lot of cuckolding stuff with you in the show.

[Robert Smigel]

Actually, he did. Did make a point. He said, we've already got a cuckold in the show.

[Mikey Day]

Right, Right.

[Robert Smigel]

So that was you guys.

[Lauren Feldman]

Why are you guys coming up with this stuff for me, man?

[Robert Smigel]

Maybe, you know, another time you skip that one and you go with this.

[Michael Cohen]

I think it was also just our vibe. Yeah, we don't really go to the

[Robert Smigel]

now they've got sexual. Hey, the yard birds don't get it. You know, we do a lot of comedy, but, you know, we. We know where to draw the line.

[Mikey Day]

Sing the Crowd, too. I understand.

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Yeah.

[Robert Smigel]

That's why you want to do it.

[Mikey Day]

True.

[Robert Smigel]

Okay, next bit.

[Jen Clymer]

I love all these Christmas songs that we're singing, but I actually don't celebrate Christmas because.

[Mikey Day]

Which one is this?

[Jen Clymer]

I'm Jewish,

[Virginia Kirby Collette Haig Green]

I am Asian, and I am Jewish.

[Jen Clymer]

I actually didn't have to apply to Harvard.

[Virginia Kirby Collette Haig Green]

They just send me the admission letter.

[Mikey Day]

That's crushing.

[Robert Smigel]

As a good Ivy League

[Cindy Crawford]

group, we

[Jen Clymer]

have scoured the Earth to bring you

[Robert Smigel]

all of the Hanukkah songs that we can find.

[Jen Clymer]

And we have put them all together in a lovely big medley, which we

[Virginia Kirby Collette Haig Green]

would like to do for you now.

[Mikey Day]

Is this one. Is it just really?

[David Feldman]

Oh, Hanukkah oh, Hanukkah Come like the menorah Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel I made it out of clay and when it's dried and ready A dreidel ice will play hey.

[Virginia Kirby Collette Haig Green]

Okay. All right.

[Lauren Feldman]

That was a dicey bid.

[David Cyrus]

You guys all got in free to this back to the base. So we're clearly not able to draw a lot of people with our name, the Harvard Yard. So we're thinking maybe to focus group a couple of new names with you guys. So, you know, if something resonates with you, feel free to respond.

[Mikey Day]

Oh, I remember what we're talking about.

[David Cyrus]

Let's try this one. How about the Harvard Red Squares? Anybody like that one? Hasty Pudding in your pants.

[Mikey Day]

What the fuck is this? Don't make fun of that.

[Robert Smigel]

There's the old cutaway to the old man.

[David Cyrus]

How about boys to Mensa?

[Robert Smigel]

So you guys skipped the one that got the big laugh in the room, which was one erection.

[Michael Cohen]

Yeah. Once again, people, too dirty.

[Robert Smigel]

Okay, all right. After that, this will save it. Don't worry, no matter how it goes, we've got java in our back pocket.

[Mikey Day]

This is the song. This one's for the kids.

[Lauren Feldman]

Did we say that uncut gems bit?

[Michael Cohen]

Yeah, there was some reluctance about whether that would work. I'm not sure how much of our audience knows the movie. Maybe just reference a different gambling movie that we can think of or something.

[Mikey Day]

Rounders. You're all familiar with a plot of Rounders, right? No. Okay. You're not gonna like the next six minutes

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more.

[David Feldman]

My un. Oh, my God, Bobby, look at these armor. Guys, I want to sing, too. Ones who can sing.

[Michael Cohen]

We're in the middle of a show.

[David Feldman]

I want to give you such a smack. You guys are such meaning. Singing, dance. Just because you got clean underwear song doesn't mean you're better than me.

[Lauren Feldman]

The Gail boy, she's great.

[David Feldman]

You didn't write your lines on your hand just in case. Here was a good school. It's in New Haven. There's pizza and streets too. I want to sing. You guys are a bunch of meanies and snaps. Oh, no. Yeah.

[Mikey Day]

Yale. Wow.

[Lauren Feldman]

Said Bobby would commit.

[Robert Smigel]

There he is. Let's stop the tape and bring on the gift of honor.

[Mikey Day]

Bobby Moynihan here to talk about Yale boy himself. Wow.

[Robert Smigel]

Acapella's Yale boy.

[Mikey Day]

How are you? The entrance, coming in hot. Wow.

[Lauren Feldman]

Nothing setting him up.

[Mikey Day]

Did you get a look at the crowd before Bobby? Did you peek out there and see?

[Greg Gordon]

Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I sent smigo videos of me watching them through, like, a slit in the window in the background and being like, what have I done? I really wasn't sure how it was gonna go. I've done a lot of these silly bits before, but, like, for some reason, this felt rude. Like, it was like, they were really good too, dude. It's like my wife is a. Is a very, very talented singer. And, like, sometimes you forget, like, a group of people just in a room singing together can actually be, like, beautiful and cathartic and. Yeah, I'm standing backstage in a sailor

[Mikey Day]

outfit going, like, I feel mean with your life.

[Bobby Moynihan]

This is beautiful. They're bringing joy to people, and I'm about to kind like, no one cares. It's me.

[Robert Smigel]

It's not exactly the Saturday night live

[Bobby Moynihan]

audience that, I mean, my entire life is. Wait, is that Horatio?

[Robert Smigel]

Oh, these people be like, is that. Is that Jackie Glen?

[Bobby Moynihan]

It was, but it was a blast.

[Kal Penn]

But.

[Bobby Moynihan]

But how many times I have stood in a tiny all purpose room with a giant lollipop and a sailor outfit?

[Mikey Day]

It's a.

[Lauren Feldman]

It's.

[Michael Cohen]

It's a.

[Bobby Moynihan]

It's a sad amount of times.

[Mikey Day]

The commitment is impressive because I would have been back there, I would have seen the sunlight coming through the windows, and I would have been like, I don't think I can do this.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Oh, those videos were originally for my wife. Those were just to show her, like, this is what I'm doing. I'm 48, and this is what I'm doing.

[Robert Smigel]

Oh, believe me, I've had that experience. When I was 48, it was on my 48th birthday. So literally, I get a call from Lorne Michaels, and I. I am underneath an acupuncture table in Chinatown holding up triumph like, I'm on the floor. It's my 48th birthday, and there's an Asian guy who doesn't understand English. The whole bit is that triumph is turned on by the acupuncture. And wants it to hurt because that's what's gonna make him come. And this is what I was doing on the phone with Lorne Michaels How. Congratulations. 48th birthday.

[Mikey Day]

One sec, Lauren. Come on, Matt.

[David Feldman]

Rocket up, Matt.

[Robert Smigel]

Exactly. Exactly. So, Bobby, all I can tell you is it's. It's a blessing that you can be 48 and still be such an idiot. It's actually a blessing.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I'm a very lucky Yale boy.

[Mikey Day]

I think no matter what with Bobby being Yale boy. Yale boy is endearing.

[Lauren Feldman]

Yeah.

[Robert Smigel]

Did you have any experience afterward? Like, were any audience members coming up to you?

[Bobby Moynihan]

I was in the car 48 seconds after I left.

[Robert Smigel]

You're like Lady Gaga. Just get me into the limo. I went, she's gone. She's out of the room.

[Mikey Day]

He was like, Marty MC with the outfit on.

[Michael Cohen]

I don't remember taking the outfit off.

[Mikey Day]

You went so fast. You ran out of the outfit, like,

[Lauren Feldman]

spinning in the air like a cartoon.

[Robert Smigel]

So that's. That doesn't sound like you were happy with the experience if you left that. It's like LeBron tearing his jersey off after Boston Beat.

[Bobby Moynihan]

No, no, it's just that. That's the thing. It's just the SNL of, like. Well, on to the next costume. I gotta go put a costume on.

[Robert Smigel]

I got three more acapella gigs. Okay. Give me a break.

[Mikey Day]

Yeah, that was.

[Bobby Moynihan]

That was. That was probably the least amount of performing I had to do that. That come home to my kids and put on a woody costume immediately.

[Robert Smigel]

That's the real thing. He had kids. It's a Sunday afternoon. He'd want to get home.

[Michael Cohen]

Bobby, what do we need to do to lock you in permanently for the Yardbirds?

[Bobby Moynihan]

I mean, not much.

[Michael Cohen]

Food.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Food.

[Robert Smigel]

Three fish sticks and a ride home.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah, just feed me. That's my new drag. That's my new drag.

[Robert Smigel]

Name two turntables and a microphone.

[Lauren Feldman]

Three fish sticks in a rock.

[Mikey Day]

God, that's so funny.

[Robert Smigel]

Well, God bless you. Bobby.

[Mikey Day]

Bobby, that was incredible, dude.

[Lauren Feldman]

I can't thank you and apologize enough.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Driving home and realizing to going to myself, like, the only reason I showed up was because that was weird.

[Mikey Day]

Here comes the old boy. I think if there's ever a big, like, the Yardbirds come home homecoming concert.

[Virginia Kirby Collette Haig Green]

Dirt.

[Mikey Day]

Yo, boy. And Bobby's willing to reprise his role

[Robert Smigel]

if you actually went to Harvard.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I'm just gonna go walk around campus.

[Robert Smigel]

That too.

[Lauren Feldman]

The Harvard Yale football game, too.

[Mikey Day]

You.

[Lauren Feldman]

You could play Lost and his pants are falling down.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I have no problem saying this on a podcast. I am wildly confident. I Could kick anyone's ass at Harvard.

[Mikey Day]

Let's put him to the test.

[Robert Smigel]

We have our headlines.

[Mikey Day]

We better do a post warning about that later.

[Lauren Feldman]

Not the Winklevoss twins. Ah, no.

[Robert Smigel]

Well, fantastic.

[Boost Mobile Advertiser]

I love you.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Thank you for letting me do weird stuff at your. At your acapella group. It was wonderful. It's good to see you.

[Michael Cohen]

Thanks for coming.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Thank you for having me.

[Mikey Day]

Do you have your next gig on the books?

[Michael Cohen]

No, we had a few. We had a number of holiday gigs.

[Mikey Day]

Right.

[Michael Cohen]

Went well.

[Mikey Day]

Do you replace all the holiday stuff?

[Michael Cohen]

No, we won't be doing any holiday classic favorites, and we're looking for suggestions for songs.

[Robert Smigel]

You may have to do the conductor,

[Mikey Day]

the concoctor.

[Robert Smigel]

The concoctor.

[Mikey Day]

We're cutting concoctor. You know what? I'm putting it back in. This crap can handle it.

[Robert Smigel]

All right.

[Mikey Day]

Well, you guys crushed it. Well done.

[Lauren Feldman]

Well done. Yeah, thanks.

[Robert Smigel]

Congratulations. Glad we could help in whatever way we did.

[Michael Cohen]

And, yes, the group is invigorated by this. Seriously, this was. Was like making it a fun time.

[Lauren Feldman]

You might even be able to keep a tenor.

[Michael Cohen]

The one tenor that was there. He quit the group after this. No joking.

[Robert Smigel]

Why?

[David Feldman]

I. I'm here for the music.

[Mikey Day]

I'm not some clown.

[Michael Cohen]

Exactly.

[Robert Smigel]

He did quit.

[Michael Cohen]

That's not a joke.

[Robert Smigel]

Yeah, and because of the comedy.

[Michael Cohen]

No, no, no.

[Robert Smigel]

Oh, okay.

[Lauren Feldman]

Because of some stuff Yale boys had to.

[Robert Smigel]

Yale boy touched him inappropriately. Just kidding. All right, well, thank you so much, Michael.

[Michael Cohen]

Thank you. Thank you, guys for all your.

[Lauren Feldman]

Michael.

[Robert Smigel]

Of course, you gentlemen.

[Mikey Day]

It was a lot of fun.

[Robert Smigel]

Thanks to Bobby Moynihan.

[Mikey Day]

Thanks to Bobby.

[Robert Smigel]

Another satisfied customer. We'll be right back. So, Mikey Streeter, you guys buy canoes, right?

[Mikey Day]

Oh, absolutely. All the time.

[Robert Smigel]

Yeah, all the time.

[Cindy Crawford]

Right.

[Robert Smigel]

Like, isn't it frustrating, though, the. The trouble you have to go through every time you buy a canoe?

[Mikey Day]

Yeah. You have to go to the store.

[Lauren Feldman]

Go to the store. Getting it home is.

[Robert Smigel]

Hear the salesman spiel. He tries to sell you on this canoe.

[Lauren Feldman]

Right, right. And I often know what canoe I want.

[Mikey Day]

Oh, yeah.

[Lauren Feldman]

You know, but. But I gotta hear the pitch.

[Robert Smigel]

Pitch. And you got to hear the pitch, and then you gotta get to the roof. And it's like, given how many canoes the average person buys in a year.

[Michael Cohen]

Right.

[Robert Smigel]

It's a huge inconvenience.

[Mikey Day]

Oh, absolutely.

[Lauren Feldman]

I mean, I think if you're like me, I don't. I can't speak for you guys, but I'm buying at least a canoe a month.

[Mikey Day]

Yeah.

[Lauren Feldman]

And so to.

[Michael Cohen]

That's a.

[Robert Smigel]

That's a Whole Saturday, a lot more than that.

[Mikey Day]

And we're heading into February and March, early March, which is canoe season.

[Boost Mobile Advertiser]

Yeah.

[Cindy Crawford]

Right.

[Robert Smigel]

Well, all I can say is, thank God finally there's. You guys know about this.

[Mikey Day]

Yeah.

[Robert Smigel]

There's a service called Canoe Direct, which allows you, in the comfort of your own home, to join a club, as it were. And the canoes will be sent directly to your home.

[Lauren Feldman]

Yes.

[Robert Smigel]

No muss, no fuss.

[David Feldman]

Yeah.

[Lauren Feldman]

No more bungee cord on the.

[Robert Smigel]

Yeah.

[Mikey Day]

What I love about it is that you keep the canoes you. You like.

[Lauren Feldman]

Yes.

[Mikey Day]

And you send the ones you don't want right back to Canoe Direct. You pay the shipping, but you can ask Canoe Direct to send you the boxes and what you need.

[Robert Smigel]

All you pay is. All you pay is the shipping. But if you buy enough canoes over a certain amount of time, you become. Then you reach a higher tier.

[Mikey Day]

Oh, yeah.

[Lauren Feldman]

It's cool, too.

[Mikey Day]

The.

[Lauren Feldman]

And this is a new feature that they just rolled out, but they're. The AI powered algorithm will learn what canoes you prefer, you know, based on your order history and which ones you can see.

[Robert Smigel]

So it's like an auto Canoe Direct.

[Lauren Feldman]

Yeah. So it starts tailoring the canoes because sometimes you'll get like a birch bark. I'm not a birch bark canoe guy, but they were sending me one and I would always send it back. And now it learned don't send them birch bark canoe.

[Mikey Day]

You know, like the canoe you just got. I remember commenting, like, where Canoe Direct. Which is like, we just knew Canoe Direct.

[Robert Smigel]

I mean, honestly, I got into Canoe Direct for the convenience. I didn't expect the quality of the canoes to be what they are.

[Mikey Day]

Yeah. You were skeptical at first, but now, honestly.

[Lauren Feldman]

And the subscription piece is nice because I'm not having to think every, you know, saying to my wife, it's the third Sunday of the month, we gotta

[Robert Smigel]

go, we gotta go.

[Lauren Feldman]

We gotta go to the canoe store. They just show up right on my doorstep. The kicker kayak is nice, too. Once you've bought five canoes, they send you a kicker kayak for free, which is just like a perk.

[Robert Smigel]

Right.

[Lauren Feldman]

You know, just. It's nice.

[Cindy Crawford]

It's.

[Mikey Day]

Yeah. And I always look forward.

[Robert Smigel]

It's nice to break it up once in a while.

[Mikey Day]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I always look forward to that day when those five canoes show up at my house. I'm like, ooh. Like, my wife, she goes, canoe day.

[Robert Smigel]

Oh, my God. My kids run out and they all know the canoe delivery man is like, he knows their names.

[Mikey Day]

Yeah.

[Lauren Feldman]

You know, it's that white glove delivery, which is nice, too. So they unbox it.

[Mikey Day]

They'll figure it.

[Robert Smigel]

Yeah.

For the amount of money. Money.

[Mikey Day]

Yeah. Yeah. For 179.99amonth. Again, that covers your initial canoe.

[Michael Cohen]

Right.

[Mikey Day]

You pay for any additional canoes you want, which makes sense. And the price is, by the way, better than a standard canoe store.

[Lauren Feldman]

Well, because you're cutting out the middleman.

[Robert Smigel]

Yeah. You're going overhead.

[Lauren Feldman]

The canoe manufacturers and the rewards you

[Mikey Day]

get, the more canoes you buy, you can't be beat.

[Lauren Feldman]

Yeah.

[Robert Smigel]

And we have a special offer on this show.

[Kal Penn]

Right.

[Robert Smigel]

You know, if you use our promo code, which is Mikey and Streeter, love to buy canoes directly. 973-8126-579998-87368. Mikey and Streeter, as I said earlier, love to buy canoes. No. 9 12.

[Mikey Day]

Yeah, yeah.

[Lauren Feldman]

You just put that in on the app or the website.

[Robert Smigel]

Yeah, just type it in.

[Mikey Day]

Yeah. Three Y's on Mikey and three R's on Street or whenever you.

[Robert Smigel]

Yeah, Everybody knows. Everybody knows. I'm sorry. I should have.

[Mikey Day]

No, no, it's not.

[Robert Smigel]

I could spell it out. Do we have time for me to spell it out? I, K, E, Y, Y, Y. Okay.

[Lauren Feldman]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Robert Smigel]

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