Brenda and Shaun

Summary

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Podcast Summary: The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast — "Brenda and Shaun" (August 26, 2025)

Overview

In this episode, Seth Meyers sits down with The Lonely Island (Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone) to reminisce about their SNL days and break down the digital short "Brenda and Shaun." The group shares behind-the-scenes stories, digresses hilariously about their lives (from Seth’s late dog to old pairs of shorts), and welcomes a surprise call-in by Fred Armisen. The conversation meanders through comedy history, failed sketches, recurring SNL bits, and even touches on the legacy of odd SNL props. This episode is less about the digital short itself and more about the camaraderie, shared memories, and the absurd side-roads of their collective comedy history.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Kicking Off: Inside Jokes, Awards, and Banter

• The show opens with lighthearted teasing about Andy tracking "Naked Gun's" box office (“pushing 80 milli”), leading into references to "Good Will Hunting" and playful musings on naming conventions and DVD commentaries ([00:04–01:29]).
• Emmy voting gets a comedic spotlight as Seth celebrates friend Ike Barinholtz's nomination, joking about being up against Harrison Ford ([01:33–02:24]).
• Discussing fandom overlap, listeners of both Seth's "Corrections" segment and the podcast are dubbed "Jack Quaids" ([02:26–02:43]).
• The group erupts into an inside-joke-driven awards voting rant:

  “Let me just say, having no recollection of what the other nominees were, they can burn in hell.” — Andy Samberg ([02:45])

Shorts on Shorts: The Clothing Detour

• What starts as a bit about Akiva’s swim shorts devolves into a detailed “shorts canon,” including football allegiances and cowardly switching teams for a caterer ([03:40–04:57]).
• “This week's digital short might be less memorable than the four shorts that Yorm has just described.” — Seth Meyers ([05:34])

Remembering Frisbee: Seth's Dog as National News

• The passing of Seth’s dog, Frisbee, becomes a major topic, spawning heartfelt, dark, and hilarious reactions. This personal loss gleaned national media attention, mainly because of the on-pod bit about Andy being Frisbee’s “arch-nemesis” ([06:32–08:56]).
• Andy grapples with the strange “privilege” of being so closely linked to Frisbee’s death in public discourse:

  “Never in my wildest dreams did I think...that I would have the privilege of being so inextricably linked to Frisbee's demise...” — Andy Samberg ([06:49])

• Jorma notes the “shock” many felt discovering Frisbee was a girl, sparking a discussion about pet-naming conventions ([10:22]).
• Seth shares family lore about his parents naming six successive Old English Sheepdogs "Albert," provoking a chorus of comedic disbelief ([12:13–14:11]):

  “My parents are now on Albert 6.” — Seth Meyers ([12:53])

Digression Central: Childhood Memories and Regional Jingles

• The team briefly deep-dives into a nostalgic discussion of California's “Marine World Africa USA” jingle and TV ads ([19:02–20:31]).
• They humorously critique 80s TV commercials and failed water-sport dreams in the chilly Bay Area ([20:17–21:36]).

Transition to the Main Digital Short: "Brenda and Shaun"

• The group's lack of memory about the short is front and center:

  “I actually don't even know what we’re talking about.” — Akiva Schaffer ([17:58])

• Jorma provides some background: the short arose after the success of "Body Fusion" and involves Drew Barrymore and Fred Armisen as “magicians” with only one magic trick—a glowing thumb toy ([26:53–27:44]).
• They rewatch "Brenda and Shaun" live, giving real-time commentary on the visuals, gags, and SNL inside baseball (Fred at his most deadpan, Drew genuinely enjoying herself).

  “By far my favorite shot in the whole thing...Fred is struggling with the books… and the little light on his thumb lights up. Not as part of an illusion.” — Andy Samberg ([29:41])

Behind the Scenes & Trivia

• Discuss creative process: SNL's security often helped provide real cop cars for shoots, with Lonely Island joking about SNL’s auspicious resources ([31:25–32:07]).

SNL Digital Short Reception & Critique

• John Lutz (frequent extra) weighs in via voice note, recalling the short only dimly ([35:02]).
• The group agrees: "Brenda and Shaun" is surprisingly “tight and charming,” if unremarkable, with most of its punch coming from the performers rather than the absurd premise ([36:32]).

• “It tells a little story. It goes somewhere.” — Jorma Taccone ([30:42])
  “Super charming. It's Fred doing a bit.” — Andy Samberg ([36:30])

Surprise Call-in: Fred Armisen

• Fred joins the podcast from a parked car in LA. He has little memory of the short but recalls the glowing thumb toys, and the joy of using random SNL office props in sketches ([48:53–49:45]).
• Fred and Seth share stories of SNL sketches that killed in dress rehearsal but bombed at air, blaming fickle audiences and technical snafus ([50:01–52:11]).
• Fred offers a comedic “therapy” session for Seth about dealing with Frisbee's death, parodying denial as the only stage of grief ([56:04]).

SNL Sketches & Callback Highlights

• Discussion of Andy’s Weekend Update as Scrooge McDuck—receiving wildly different audience reactions in dress vs. live ([40:04–42:23]).
• Seth reminisces about a favorite SNL recurring sketch: "ESPN Classic – Pete Twinkle and Greg Stink,” praising its perfect balance of mainstream and insider comedy ([64:19–65:05]).

Notable Quotes & Moments

• “How does an animal's foot just be a whole nail? Just like Raptor without the pad part.” — Andy Samberg ([18:48])
• “Yeah, but pants were for kids whose dads didn't leave.” — Seth Meyers ([06:26])
• “Do we over or underrate Brenda and Shaun? And you know what? Let's see if we can get it over 76,000 views by the end of the year.” — Andy Samberg ([36:48])
• “That's why people sent free stuff [to SNL]. Because maybe it'll end up on the show.” — Andy Samberg ([50:27])
• “When they go low, I go clicks.” — Andy Samberg ([55:25])
• “Death isn't something you should accept...Stay in denial. Always stay in denial.” — Fred Armisen ([55:44], [56:04])

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Notable Timestamps for Major Segments

• Remembering Frisbee (Seth’s Dog): [06:32–12:14]
• Shorts Detour (Clothing Talk): [03:40-05:34]
• "Brenda and Shaun" Background & Live Commentary: [26:53–32:07]
• Fred Armisen Joins: [48:22–54:48]
• Scrooge McDuck Weekend Update Story: [40:04–42:23]
• Talk about “ESPN Classic – Pete Twinkle & Greg Stink”: [64:19–65:55]

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Listener Engagement & Running Gags

• Regular shout-outs to podcast fandom ("Quaid Army," “Jack Quaid” for crossover fans).
• Ongoing meta jokes about chasing “clicks,” running up YouTube counts on obscure SNL shorts, and “hit us in the tittis” (their euphemism for writing in).
• Recurring playful barbs about the minimal importance of the particular short covered, with the digression ratio greatly outweighing the SNL analysis.

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Final Thoughts

This episode illustrates the peculiar charm of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers’ rapport: it’s less a clinical breakdown of SNL history, more a rambunctious, nostalgic hang with creative peers. While “Brenda and Shaun” is the nominal focus, the real substance is in the funny tangents (dead pets, failed bits, cherished friendships, random props), listener interaction, and surprise cameos (Fred Armisen).

Listener Takeaway:
If you love comedy process, SNL lore, or just want to feel like you’re eavesdropping on old friends riffing, this episode delivers. “Brenda and Shaun” may be a footnote in SNL Digital Short history, but the episode is a whirlwind romp through a golden era of comedy friendship.

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Transcript

[John Lutz]

Is the Lonely island and Seth Meyers podcast.

[Seth Meyers]

Hey, so we got on the pod and Andy started saying that Keev's pushing Ady, which I was thinking, is this a joke about age?

[Andy Samberg]

No.

[Seth Meyers]

Does he have a new project with AD Bryant, but explain.

[Andy Samberg]

No. Naked Gun's pushing 80 milli this weekend.

[Seth Meyers]

And Keev, you were saying that maybe Andy is more plugged into this than you are on a day to day.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, he's been tracking it for me and letting me keeping cats.

[Andy Samberg]

I'm excited for my guy. How many times do I have to say it? I'm Ben Affleck. He's Good Will Hunting. I'm gonna show up at his house in a couple weeks and he' going.

[Jorma Taccone]

To be gone and you're going to get a very calm smile.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, man, leave me. Leave me to do this construction, bro.

[Jorma Taccone]

He finally did it.

[Seth Meyers]

He's not Will Hunting. He's Good Will Hunting. I do want to point out that Ben Affleck's character never calls him Good Will Hunting.

[Andy Samberg]

His full name, though legal name is Good Will Hunting.

[Seth Meyers]

He changes it when he goes out west.

[Andy Samberg]

I think so. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

And is that what he's doing in the movie? If you really assess it. Is he hunting for goodwill?

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, wow.

[Jorma Taccone]

It turned it on its head. I don't think I did. I think it was a very intentional.

[Seth Meyers]

You almost forget. I don't know. I sometimes forget that's his name.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

But also that it's a. That it's a play.

[Andy Samberg]

We need Affleck himself. King of the DVD commentary slams to weigh in.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Anybody who hasn't heard the highlights of Ben Affleck doing the Armageddon DVD commentary.

[Jorma Taccone]

There's that scene with Ron Williams where he's like, just give me a shot. Just give me some goodwill.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

Lend me some goodwill. I'm just looking for goodwill.

[Andy Samberg]

I feel like everywhere I go, I'm just hunting for goodwill.

[Seth Meyers]

I did an Emmy panel with our friend Ike Barinholtz and at some point it came up and I said, you're like the other janitor in that movie. And Ike immediately started doing a great bit where he was just telling Will not to mess with the chalkboard.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, you guys gotta don't touch the equations.

[Seth Meyers]

You just follow me. You do what I do, soon you're gonna be in charge of putting the ice in the urinals.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, my God. That's fucking fantastic.

[Seth Meyers]

I had to text hike the other day because I was doing my Emmy voting and I am very happy and very hopeful for Our friend Ike Barinholz, Best supporting actor in a comedy. He's in the same category as Harrison Ford, which just if you're for a guy of a certain age, you're like, what, broke right in my life that I'm in the same category as Harrison Ford?

[Andy Samberg]

Well, yeah, it's just somebody roped Harrison Ford into doing comedy.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, there you go. There were a couple things needed to happen.

[Jorma Taccone]

I voted for you, Seth Little corrections.

[Seth Meyers]

Thank you, buddy. You know, we call fans of corrections Jackals, and obviously we know what we call fans of this podcast. And someone said a person who is a fan of both corrections and this podcast should be called a Jack Quaid.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, my God. Right?

[Seth Meyers]

So there you go.

[Andy Samberg]

Fits very snugly.

[Seth Meyers]

Very snugly.

[Andy Samberg]

I voted for corrections, too. And let me just say, having no recollection of what the other nominees were, they can burn in hell.

[Seth Meyers]

Thanks, buddy. And I think it's a good cover that you don't, because again, there are a lot of them are friends of yours.

[Andy Samberg]

I genuinely don't remember.

[Seth Meyers]

Hi, Jarmy.

[Jorma Taccone]

Hi.

[Seth Meyers]

Good to see you, bud. I'm great.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Good to see you.

[Seth Meyers]

Wait, you're great.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So you don't care about Frisbee?

[Seth Meyers]

Okay, so we can start. We can start.

[Andy Samberg]

We can definitely back off the mic.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Sorry.

[Andy Samberg]

Look, you can turn down your record wall. You could back off the mic just a skosh.

[Seth Meyers]

Who, me?

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, yeah. I'm just getting a lot of blowout. A lot of bruffs.

[Seth Meyers]

He wanted to come in loud and hot to talk about my dead dog.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yes.

[Andy Samberg]

And don't get me wrong, yor, we love your bruffs. We never want your bruffs to leave your body, only your bruffs.

[Seth Meyers]

Don't come me wrong.

[Jorma Taccone]

We love your bruffs, but right now, they're too much.

[Andy Samberg]

I just don't know if I need them. Like, so deep into my ear canals.

[Jorma Taccone]

Too much bruff.

[Seth Meyers]

Sorry. You remind you. I hate to do this. Can you stand up a little bit so I can see those pants?

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, yeah. Let's check out them pantaloonies.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay.

[Jorma Taccone]

They're shorts. They're shorts.

[Seth Meyers]

Other shorts.

[Andy Samberg]

So they're shorts.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I just came from the swimming pool.

[Jorma Taccone]

Guys, stand up on the chair so we see some legs. Let's see where it hits on the thigh. I'll be honest. I was with you when he bought him, and I encouraged him to. Because they're swim shorts.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, yeah, they're good.

[Jorma Taccone]

And I thought for a. For a pair of swim shorts, those are pretty good.

[Seth Meyers]

I Think they're good.

[Andy Samberg]

These are the shorts. Yorm is in L. A. I saw him for my B day.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's correct.

[Andy Samberg]

Swung by. I'm told, Yoram, you haven't stopped wearing those shorts since you bought them. And that's not an exaggeration that you've worn them every day since?

[Jorma Taccone]

No. There was a different pair of black shorts that weren't quite as wild that he was wearing every day.

[Seth Meyers]

I wore.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, okay, I was. I was on set, I was wearing some Man United shorts and those ones I bought a long time ago, but I bought Man United shorts. Then our caterer, Dave, made fun of me and, like, was really mad about it. He's English and was like, oh, I don't want to serve you anymore. He was like, really? He was joking around about it, but because I'm such a fair weather asshole, I also have some Arsenal shorts and those guys won over the weekend. Put them on, pretended like I had just bought them and was like, dave.

[Andy Samberg]

Look what I did.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And then he really liked me after that. But it's really just because I'm a piece of shit and I don't know anything about English football.

[Andy Samberg]

I was gonna say, for $1,000,000, name one player on either team.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I can't, Andy.

[Seth Meyers]

I just like that when you ask Yorm about a pair of shorts, he starts talking about a third and fourth pair of shorts. Definitely.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I just want you guys to know.

[Seth Meyers]

About the whole canon.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, it's a tapestry.

[Seth Meyers]

Were you wearing those ones or another pair of black ones? And then Yoram told us a story about two different pairs of shorts.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, but he wasn't wearing them.

[Akiva Schaffer]

First of all. They were black and blue.

[Andy Samberg]

Actually, when I was growing up. Shorts the rage.

[Akiva Schaffer]

1982 shorts.

[Andy Samberg]

Picture this. Y come in. Come in from playing. My dad was always yelling at me.

[Seth Meyers]

This is how off track we've come from. The theme of this podcast is we're talking about clothing shorts more than the actual digital shorts.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, my God.

[Seth Meyers]

I will say this. This week's digital short might be less memorable than the four shorts that Yorm has just described.

[Andy Samberg]

Yorm's gonna do a one man show on Broadway called Shorts, and everyone's gonna be like, it's gonna be about the digital shorts.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, with a Z.

[Jorma Taccone]

This pair I bought to impress a caterer.

[Seth Meyers]

Like, oh, my God, he does this Dave character. It is not a great British actor.

[Akiva Schaffer]

1983.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, my God. I'd watch the shit out of that show.

[Seth Meyers]

Shorts were out, but not for me. It's all I had it's gonna be.

[Jorma Taccone]

Like Neil's block show, but you'll just have all the shorts up on a big wall.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

And you'll point to this one and go, oh, that pair.

[Andy Samberg]

I begged my mom for pants. I begged her, but no dice.

[Jorma Taccone]

Terry cloth.

[Seth Meyers]

She wouldn't. But pants were for kids whose dads didn't leave.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Is your family sad, Seth? Like, how was. How was the death?

[Seth Meyers]

All right. Yeah. So I do want to start by saying Frisbee passed away. And it is very sad. As sad as it was equally funny that there were multiple major news organizations that wrote articles about it that talked about how she was Andy's arch nemesis.

[Andy Samberg]

Never in my wildest dreams did I think a. That I would have the privilege of being so inextricably linked to Frisbee's demise as that good old frizz would get so much love and coverage. I mean, what a dream come true across the board.

[Seth Meyers]

It really was amazing. It was funny because my kids kept coming over saying, what is that? I'm like, it's another article about how your dog died.

[Andy Samberg]

My mother in law sent me an article about it. I was like, oh, man.

[Seth Meyers]

This thing in the New York Times.

[Andy Samberg]

Was Frisbee breaking the net.

[Seth Meyers]

Frisbee broke the net a little bit. It was also. It was a little bit like that thing where every now and then people get angry if, you know, this is a bad example. But if someone were to refer to Hillary Clinton as like. Like Bill Clinton's wife, and it's like she has her own accomplishments, the amount that, like, the headline had your name and not hers.

[Andy Samberg]

I know, like, she was worth more.

[Seth Meyers]

Than just how much Andy fucking hated her.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Andy Sandberg's nemesis dies.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, I mean, the fact that also the news broke right around my birthday didn't hurt things. Look, I've grappled with how to handle this a lot, Seth. You know, there was a stretch of time where I was like, you know what? This is like, a hot item now. Like, this might be Chris Rock refusing to talk about the slap till he gets paid for it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You know what I mean?

[Seth Meyers]

I think there's a little of that, certainly.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. But, you know, I mean, look, for anyone out there who wants to just make sure, like, people are actually, like, real human beings and are friends. You told me before the news broke. I did, and I feel like it was a normal response.

[Seth Meyers]

It was absolutely exactly what you'd want for a friend. I also reached out and said, well, the awkward moment has finally arrived.

[Jorma Taccone]

Where.

[Seth Meyers]

And I also wanna say I'm really proud of you because I feel like I have been, you know, throwing hints out for about a year that she's not gonna live forever.

[Andy Samberg]

Taylor.

[Seth Meyers]

And we were like, we were in her last 12 months, and you did not take your foot off the gas. And I just think that speaks to.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It speaks volumes. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, I just feel like that would have been disrespectful to her in a lot of ways.

[Seth Meyers]

Cause she would have known.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. She'd been like, hey, don't take it easy on me.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Andy, before Seth called you, did you practice your maniacal laughs at all or.

[Seth Meyers]

No, it was none of that. It was really. It was. It was. And very nice.

[Andy Samberg]

I was concerned as a parent about how the kids were taking it. And then once I was told that that was all in order, I did fire back a couple of things that were maybe mean. I would mean.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, I think anybody who listens to our pod and have heard our kids. My kids talk about Frisbee, they could probably clock that they're doing okay.

[Andy Samberg]

I think there was. We were texting this whole thing yorm. So there was definitely a little discussion between us about how it was sad but also undeniably very funny that he had to have the conversation with me.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's very funny.

[Jorma Taccone]

You just inserted yourself into his family story. So much so that it was covered in the news.

[Seth Meyers]

It was a little bit like, hey, dude, this is weird. I'm dating your ex wife.

[Andy Samberg]

Hey, man. So haven't told the kids yet, but you were my first call.

[Seth Meyers]

My. Well, we were very disappointed because we remembered the weekend that you met Frisbee.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And Lexi does an incredible job of saving photos. Found multiple photos of your beautiful wife Joanna with Frisbee.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. Which you sent. And they were nice.

[Seth Meyers]

And I had memories of you and Frisbee. And I'm really bummed we didn't have a picture of it. Cause I would have loved to have posted it on the day of her demise.

[Andy Samberg]

For the record. Showed her those photos and she said, I remember that like it was yesterday. And said she really liked Frisbee.

[Seth Meyers]

That's good.

[Andy Samberg]

See, once again, I will also note, though, Seth, like, since this became something that everyone I know started calling and texting me about because it became a national news story. A lot of people really sharing my shock that Frisbee was female.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

A lot of people, like, I don't want to kick you while you're down.

[Jorma Taccone]

I feel like she's so elegant.

[Andy Samberg]

A lot of people being like, who names a Girl, Frisbee. Like, with disdain in their voice.

[Jorma Taccone]

Like that. That's actually why. Yeah, not on the visuals.

[Andy Samberg]

Nice, kind, thoughtful people, but, like, it made them a little bit mad.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Okay. Seems so weird.

[Andy Samberg]

Look, I know. I don't want to kick you while you. I don't want to kick you while you're down.

[Jorma Taccone]

Seth, your brother's dog also had a great name, which was Pickles. Pickles. Pickles.

[Seth Meyers]

Pickles.

[Jorma Taccone]

But that's a boy, right?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, Pickles is a boy. We were dog sitting a girl Italian greyhound that we fell in love with. And when our dog sitting was over, that's when we got Frisbee and her name was Baloney.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, all right. So it gets worse.

[Seth Meyers]

It can be worse.

[Andy Samberg]

It's like the opposite of it gets better. Yeah, the campaign, not just the words. I understand that. That wasn't, like, a re.

[Seth Meyers]

It gets worse.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Wait, Seth, are you guys already moving on to, like, thinking about another little. Little skinny dog like that?

[Jorma Taccone]

You could say rat dog.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I wasn't gonna say that because I would never.

[Jorma Taccone]

I would never just watch you struggle around, walking around the. The edge of the well.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, man. We. Look, I'm not gonna be offended.

[Andy Samberg]

Would you ever get another one of those creatures of origin unknown and, like.

[Seth Meyers]

Put it in your house now? Do you have to use a summoning spell to get a creature like that?

[Andy Samberg]

And so, like, are you buffing out all the wood floors now from Marks?

[Jorma Taccone]

What is the over, under, on? When a new dog does come, it'll be a different kind of dog. But you think never. Or you think it's like, three?

[Seth Meyers]

No, I think it's gonna be a long break.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Really?

[Seth Meyers]

Again, the kids publicly talk about the.

[Jorma Taccone]

Weirdness of your family dog history, like your parents.

[Seth Meyers]

So I will tell this really quickly because it has resonated with me why this has been a problem in my grieving process, Keith.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. So when I was a kid, we got an old English sheepdog. My dad named it Albert when it died.

[Andy Samberg]

Was it a girl?

[Seth Meyers]

He got a second one and he named it.

[Andy Samberg]

See if it ran in the family.

[Seth Meyers]

All right.

[Andy Samberg]

Sorry, Seth. I know this is traumatic.

[Jorma Taccone]

That's not the problem. I won't interrupt again, but being weird about dogs. Did you hear it? He named a second dog that looks exactly the same. The same name. Not Albert Jr. Yeah, yeah, just Albert.

[Andy Samberg]

Weird that you say second Albert and not Albert II.

[Seth Meyers]

But we say. We do say Albert. Like, when we talk about them historically, we'll say Albert 2.

[Andy Samberg]

Sure.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. Like Audrey said. Okay, I got it.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

The fact is, my parents are now on Albert 6.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That is bonkers. Wow, that's a strong choice.

[Seth Meyers]

So the thing is, that's so tight because again, Frisbee was 14 and the amount of people are like, 14 is like a really long time, man. That's. That dog was around like a huge part of your life. Yeah, that's both true, but also in my head, I'm like, yeah, but we've had Albert for like 45 years.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, my God.

[Seth Meyers]

Like, genuinely. Because they all, like, sheepdogs all look alike. I mean, I know they're different Alberts, but like, I go home and visit my.

[Akiva Schaffer]

They actively try to get one that looks.

[Seth Meyers]

No, they don't. They don't need it to look alike, but.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, okay. So.

[Jorma Taccone]

And when they show up, they're puppies, I'm assuming the new ones.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

So a kid would have noticed, like, hey, the dog got way smaller for.

[Seth Meyers]

Yes, but my dad's. My dad was walking Albert at the top of our cul de sac a couple of years ago, and a high school friend of mine drove up the cul de sac and he had just gotten remarried. And he was like, hey, Mr. Meyers. And he was like, oh, my God. Hey, Ken, how are you? He's like, good. This is my wife. We just got married and I was just showing her my old neighborhood. And he's like, oh, hey, this is Albert. And they like talked for a while and then Kim was like, is that the same Albert? Is that a 35 year old dog?

[Andy Samberg]

It's like a black mirror episode.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, it's like a black mirror.

[Jorma Taccone]

At least you're not like cloning it and doing some weird genetic stuff.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, that's good. Yeah. So that's on the positive tip. You're not cloning it.

[Jorma Taccone]

Pat yourself on the back for that.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, yeah, he's not clone it yet.

[Jorma Taccone]

Although, did we keep a little Frisbee DNA just to keep the options open.

[Andy Samberg]

I was gonna say over under on a frizz Cl.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Did you keep like a leg or.

[Seth Meyers]

I will say we. We dug a hole and buried her so I know where she is. Oh, yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Wait, is that how DNA works? Can you just dig them up and use any of the old.

[Seth Meyers]

Great question. It's a great question.

[Jorma Taccone]

I think it has to be fossilized in amber.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, it does seem like you can't just grab it.

[Jorma Taccone]

I mean, right now it's fresh enough. There's plenty down there, but in a little while, it'll just be the bones.

[Seth Meyers]

How much time do you think I have before the DNA goes bad?

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, before it fully dries out to powder.

[Seth Meyers]

By the way, I love Frisbee very much. At no point was I ever like, oh, I gotta get one just like this.

[Andy Samberg]

How long did you think it was gonna be till you started asking questions like, how long till the DNA goes bad?

[Jorma Taccone]

After her passing, you can just Google dog to powder half life and you'll get like all the graphs you need.

[Akiva Schaffer]

By the way, how great would it be if Andy did that for you as a favor? Like dug her up and cloned her and gave it to you as a present? Like, that would be like a whole full circle.

[Andy Samberg]

What would you do?

[Seth Meyers]

Or Andy gives me a little bit of his DNA, we mix it up together.

[Andy Samberg]

Ooh, like doing a half frizz, half berg.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, like a fly Frisberg.

[Seth Meyers]

A Frisbee.

[Jorma Taccone]

Don't nobody draw that and make a T shirt.

[Andy Samberg]

Frisberg.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay, okay, question. Would that dog like itself?

[Seth Meyers]

It would be a self hating dog.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. Well, wouldn't be too different.

[Seth Meyers]

But yeah. So anyway though, it was. I mean, again, she was a great dog.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

For a lot of she. Once we had kids, it was like she said, I'm not gonna play anymore. I'm just gonna be old.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

I do feel like that was a shift that happened and so maybe one day we'll have a dog for kids. But it was. I really did. It made me laugh and smile that her legacy was that my friend hated her for 14 years. Like, that was the other. It was also nice to be like, oh, my God, Andy and I have been friends for so long.

[Andy Samberg]

Truly.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, that's nice. So she was like a demarcation for you. She's like a little bit of a yardstick with your friendship. Nice.

[Andy Samberg]

I mean, I knew this was gonna happen, Seth, but it has sort of mixed my emotions up a bit because my love for you and your family is now tied to my disdain for the dog.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. But now it's almost like you're free and clear. Like the one issue, the one hurdle you had was over. And my family.

[Andy Samberg]

Right.

[Jorma Taccone]

But I feel like it's meaner to make fun of the dog now.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, I don't, I don't. I genuinely don't. I think that we need like one or two more eps and then I think it's open season.

[Andy Samberg]

Back to.

[Seth Meyers]

I was talking to Sandberg. Shoemaker was saying that Frisbee should maybe probably be in the Emmy in memoriam.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

But then Andy correctly pointed out, like, cause historically Every year, they. For there's some massive oversight.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And they forget someone. Not from a place of malice, but I just think that, like, it would be extra bad if, like, you forgot, like, a really famous, like, sitcom director. But then Seth's dog was in.

[Andy Samberg]

I would argue if Frisbee's not in it, that's a massive oversight.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Because we're talking about TV legend.

[Seth Meyers]

She's not quite legendary enough. And so I'd be worried that if they put her in, they'd want to put a picture of me in, and there'd be a moment where everybody thought I died. What?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Don't they do that with the, like, famous dog, though? Like, didn't Lassie get one?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, Lassie definitely gets it. I think you could argue Lassie had.

[Andy Samberg]

More of a cultural footprint, but Seth couldn't believe it. And then Machiavelli. Machiavelli.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, she's gonna have a great second act.

[Andy Samberg]

Here's one more thought. If it was the in memoriam for podcasts, I think. No question.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, yeah, I think you're right.

[Jorma Taccone]

So for ours, we can just have one with one slot.

[Andy Samberg]

In memoriam for just our podcast, I think. Top line.

[Seth Meyers]

I think that anybody who's wondering why we're spending so much time on Frisbee 1, she was a big part of this pod and my life. And also, this is a digital short that I literally could not remember.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I actually don't even know what we're talking about.

[Jorma Taccone]

Before we even talk about. I want to talk about that. I happened across an Instagram clip that I just texted you guys from Seth's other rival sister pod.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Hasan Minaj.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yes.

[Andy Samberg]

And he's the rival pod, not the rival guest, right?

[Jorma Taccone]

Correct.

[Andy Samberg]

No one saying Hasan's your rival.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. The pod is the one he does with his brother. Family trips.

[Andy Samberg]

Unless he is your rival. Do you want to say it on the record now? We got some clicks.

[Seth Meyers]

No, no.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay. I'm just chasing those clicks. Shit. The thing about me is I chase clicks. That's, like, how I spend my time.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We're never going to break through if.

[Andy Samberg]

I can't get them. Click hits, dude, I just tail off.

[Seth Meyers]

Now that's making me sad, because that was also, like, what it felt like trying to get Frisbee was just chasing clicks. She ran across the floor.

[Jorma Taccone]

Ah. It'd been so much better if one of us had said that to you.

[Andy Samberg]

How does an animal's foot just be a whole nail? Just like Raptor without the pad part.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I guess it would make them Fast if they were on dirt. Right.

[Seth Meyers]

Fast on dirt and useless on everything else. All right, so rival pod clip.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, so he's from Sacramento. So he was talking to you about Marine World Africa usa. And I wish I had the time before we got on this to go listen to the whole ep because I wanted to know if that conversation kept going beyond the clip. But Marine World Africa USA was a.

[Andy Samberg]

Big part of our time.

[Jorma Taccone]

I hadn't thought about it in a while. It's gone now, guys.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, that I know.

[Jorma Taccone]

But hearing Seth trying to even just parse out the words of wait. Marine World Africa usa.

[Seth Meyers]

It's crazy.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's weird because in a commercial, I think it rolled off the tongue nicely.

[Jorma Taccone]

You know, it had no commas, no punctuation.

[Andy Samberg]

I vaguely remember the song. Yeah, yeah. Marine World Africa usa. Something like that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

And there was a couple different ones with a couple different ads.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, let's see how close I was on the song.

[Akiva Schaffer]

The monkeys like, hey, hey, monkeys.

[Jorma Taccone]

Killer whale. Full on tiger running.

[Andy Samberg]

Full on dirt.

[Jorma Taccone]

Motorcycles. This is with a ball pit with.

[Andy Samberg]

I'm sorry, with a giant Garfield.

[Jorma Taccone]

A ball pit with a bunch of kids and a person in a Garfield.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Giant Garfield basket costume is a huge Garfield.

[Seth Meyers]

And now that is. Hey, hey, where the monkeys.

[Andy Samberg]

Also, hey, hey, where the monkeys. Like, like, they must have approved that, right?

[Seth Meyers]

Or not. Or they were like, we're just going to rip off all the ip. We're not going to go to Garfield.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I got to say, these are pretty good ads. I immediately want to go there.

[Jorma Taccone]

I wanted. I've only went once as a kid and I wanted to go all the time. That's really work.

[Andy Samberg]

I never went.

[Jorma Taccone]

You never got to go to Marine World?

[Andy Samberg]

Never went. Just saw the commercials a million times.

[Jorma Taccone]

It was just in Vallejo, according to Hasan. Oh, my God. Wait, wait. Let's just watch one second of this all again, everybody.

[Fred Armisen]

Bob Murphy along with Wayne Grimditch. We're at Marine World Africa usa.

[Jorma Taccone]

And we're just about ready, Wayne, to.

[Fred Armisen]

See another kind of water skiing.

[Jorma Taccone]

Right, Bob?

[Fred Armisen]

We got a chance to see some exciting competition.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This is real. Those are real people.

[Andy Samberg]

But there's another dimension to the sport.

[Fred Armisen]

And that's show skiing. It's entertaining.

[Jorma Taccone]

This is a 30 minute video. I'll hit stop here. But.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I mean, it looks great. This looks like Water World practically in.

[Jorma Taccone]

My experience of the Bay Area, where the water is frigid and you would never think of doing water sports. I never heard of somebody doing water sports my entire childhood. Did you guys like you didn't know people that went water skiing.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, of course not. Of course not.

[Andy Samberg]

Just at summer camp, apparently.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We just had to go to Vallejo though. That's where it was popping off.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, where they were all freezing their asses off and getting E40 and sugar.

[Jorma Taccone]

T and Feel legit.

[Andy Samberg]

All hanging out, just water skiing all over the place.

[Seth Meyers]

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[Seth Meyers]

I would. Just. Because we mentioned my other podcast, I need to jump in with an apology because I do think there's a small handful of people who listen to both. And I did talk about my 40x seating experience on both podcasts, and I want to apologize for.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, are you not allowed to reuse? No.

[Seth Meyers]

Somebody basically just, you know, pointed out, like, hey. And I was like, yeah, you're right. I got to pick and choose where I do it. But, Andy, I want to thank you because I did try talking about it on stage, which you recommended, and it's a lot of fun. Oh, good.

[Andy Samberg]

I'm glad.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

And do you think that as a way to repay me, you could ask about spelling bee?

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, yeah. How'd you do today, bud?

[Andy Samberg]

Queen bee, motherfucker.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

In your fucking face.

[Seth Meyers]

Somebody suggested that when you tell us you got queen bee, we should say righteous skill.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, I don't want to do that.

[Andy Samberg]

That's the only part. Quibi's fine. I. Quibby.

[Seth Meyers]

Quibby's fine.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

Andy, there was a nice tote bag in our shared office when I went in yesterday.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

And it was like a dark gray, and it said New York Times on one side, and on the other side, it had a bunch of bees buzzing.

[Andy Samberg]

That's right.

[Jorma Taccone]

And you've been wearing the hat, but it said genius. And I immediately was like, oh, he can't wear this. He can't tote around this tote bag. That's right. Because he's not. He's a queen bee. He's not. Genius.

[Andy Samberg]

I appreciated the thought quite a bit. But I can't be walking around everyone thinking I'm fucking lowly genius.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

So you need queen bee gear. It's either.

[Andy Samberg]

It's Quibi or bust.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yes.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I just want to know if the New York Times makes a solid one, because that's the one I would like.

[Seth Meyers]

Do you think Mensa. Do you think there are people in Mensa who look down on people who just got over the line?

[Andy Samberg]

Probably.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Right.

[Andy Samberg]

Wouldn't you?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. I mean, I think it's silly that there's Everybody over, whatever, 145, and, you know, if you're, like, rocking a 180, you're like, don't hang out with these.

[Andy Samberg]

But I really like the idea of a T shirt or a sweatshirt that just says solid in the font.

[Akiva Schaffer]

If they don't make it, I'll make it.

[Seth Meyers]

Don't worry. Nice.

[Andy Samberg]

I mean, today was no slouch, Seth. There was microform. There was micro.

[Seth Meyers]

Mini microform was the one I missed. It would be really awesome. Yorm. It should be solid and it should also be like three words on the top that you got. And it's all like cake.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's like a bunch of four letter words.

[Seth Meyers]

Make.

[Andy Samberg]

Rake.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'll work on it, Seth. You know, I will make.

[Andy Samberg]

I'm done.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm done, Salad boy. We are doing everything we can to not talk about.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, sure.

[Jorma Taccone]

We just watched.

[Andy Samberg]

I mean, look, I watched it right before, and my opinion is I don't want to talk about it because I had nothing to do with it. So I don't want to speak out of turn.

[Jorma Taccone]

I. I can just tell you what it is, but I don't actually remember any details of it. I have not rewatched.

[Andy Samberg]

I was hoping there was going to be. There's a little bit of some turnage in it towards the end, but it's a lot style.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. More burnage than turnage, as you like to say.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Wait, can I. Can I ask just one question? What's the name of the short that we're talking about?

[Jorma Taccone]

It's in our text chain. It's Brenda and Sean.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, I do not remember this.

[Jorma Taccone]

No, no. So this was because we had such a great time with body fusion.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Brenda and Sh.

[Jorma Taccone]

And that was. It's Drew Barrymore. She was like, we got to do another body Fusion. Like, what is there? And I was like, that came from Polar. I just put style on it. I was like, I don't really have one, but I was kind of like, let's like, go room to room and see if people have something, because it hadn't come from us. I was just kind of open. And I love body fusion, too. We've talked about it. Yeah. So I was really happy to do another body fusion thing. And we went around trying to find something to body fusion. And at a certain point, I don't know if it had gone to the table at some point or if it was just something rattling around. Fred had this bit he would do as a magician, which is funny. Yeah. And we were just like, oh, could we turn that into something? And so that's where this came from.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Wait, is this worth a.

[Jorma Taccone]

Like, a watch?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Have we ever watched, like, one that we don't remember?

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Let's just watch it now.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, you guys should see it. I did watch it, so it's gonna be hell for me.

[Jorma Taccone]

But okay. Just try to audibly groan through.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I mean, it's on YouTube. That's a good sign, you know. Didn't get shelved.

[Seth Meyers]

76,000 views. Hi, we're Brenda and Sean.

[Fred Armisen]

Are you looking for entertainment for your. Your party?

[Seth Meyers]

Let us.

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, it wasn't posted when it came out. It was posted well after it came.

[Seth Meyers]

Out 11 years ago.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

76,000 views.

[Jorma Taccone]

That's. That's like 7,000 a year sass. That's pretty good.

[Seth Meyers]

That's too bad.

[Jorma Taccone]

I'm embarrassed.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That I like. I'm sort of impressed with the magic.

[Andy Samberg]

Graduation.

[Seth Meyers]

Engagements. Okay, so just pause real quick. So Brenda and Sean seem to have one move.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, that's me.

[Seth Meyers]

Which is sort of throwing this little. What do you even call them? Bjorn?

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's the light up thumbs that anyone can use. All you do is press them.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's the light up thumbs that make it seem like you have like a little fairy in your hand or something. Because a little glowing bit of energy.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, it's like your E.T.

[Seth Meyers]

So it's, you know, it has that body fusion, old retro. I mean, by the way, it looks like. Like Marine World, Africa, usa.

[Jorma Taccone]

It does look exactly like that.

[Seth Meyers]

It's shot like an ad from that. And they're just showing up at different places, graduations. But it does seem like they're showing up maybe uninvited. And now they're showing up at an engagement.

[Andy Samberg]

I mean, their outfits and looks, hair, everything are great.

[Jorma Taccone]

They're being tolerated.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. This guy, one of the most used extras in SNL history.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Fred Armisen]

Medical emergencies.

[Seth Meyers]

Bobby's got a head injury on a bike.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

He's less enamored with their arrival. Meeting your biological father. It's my fave.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I like how much Drew looks like she's having a ball.

[Andy Samberg]

Bankruptcies.

[Jorma Taccone]

They're the ones going bankrupt.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

By far my favorite shot in the whole thing. Fred is struggling with the books. Cause they're going bankrupt. And it pushes in on him. And he's got a pen in his hand. And he puts his hand against his head. Cause he's so stressed out. And the little light on his thumb lights up. Not as part of an illusion.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, no. Just out of stress.

[Andy Samberg]

That to me is the whole deal. Right.

[Jorma Taccone]

His mind is on something else now.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Life choices.

[Andy Samberg]

He just lets it kind of go.

[Fred Armisen]

Eviction.

[Jorma Taccone]

You're getting evicted there. And Drew is still selling the energy.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. And Lutz is the landlord.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, no. Now they crow, I guess.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Making new friends.

[Jorma Taccone]

Got it. They're like busking and getting arrested.

[Fred Armisen]

Road trips.

[Andy Samberg]

That shot made me laugh, too. Them still doing the bit in the back of the cop car.

[Seth Meyers]

We're Brenda and Sean and we are available.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Let us light up your life.

[Jorma Taccone]

Not bad. I mean, it tells a little story. It goes somewhere. Keev.

[Seth Meyers]

They get an Akiva.

[Jorma Taccone]

They get Akiva.

[Seth Meyers]

Akiva.

[Andy Samberg]

Akiva. Seth. Can I. Can I?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

So when they're eating the crow, is that just like a super clever metaphor about how they thought their business was gonna work, but it didn't, and now they're eating crow. You gotta tell us.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. Do you remember?

[Jorma Taccone]

I think it was just probably a pigeon and it just looks like a crow. I don't know.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, okay. Okay.

[Jorma Taccone]

Thanks. I love your blog, by the way. Thank you so much for having me.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Thank you.

[Andy Samberg]

You so much.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, man. They only gave me one question, so I gotta go.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, it's my time. Pretty sure. I thought I was for sure spot on with that one, but.

[Jorma Taccone]

All right.

[Andy Samberg]

So I'll see you in the lobby.

[Seth Meyers]

So is that you rent a cop car, Kee.

[Jorma Taccone]

God. I have no memory of any of this.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I. I don't remember shooting that at all.

[Jorma Taccone]

I think our. I think a bunch of our security guards at SNL were part time police.

[Seth Meyers]

And could call somebody, wave one down.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I think they probably pay them a little bit the way that when you do like a movie and you're shooting on a street, you always have tons of real cops with you.

[Seth Meyers]

So it's the way Lauren does with the SNL cast. He pays them a little bit.

[Jorma Taccone]

Exactly. He's got the NYPD on the payroll. That's what I'm saying. But the police are used to being paid by entertainment in a real way because they have to provide security when you're doing stuff.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So it makes it sound like what you're talking about is illegal, though.

[Jorma Taccone]

I know, but I don't think it's weird at all.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's like, approved by the city.

[Andy Samberg]

Hey, guys.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

The Strokes famously said, new York City cops, they're not that smart. Agree.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, wow.

[Jorma Taccone]

I don't know if that's what this podcast is for.

[Andy Samberg]

It's so hot. It's. The temperature is very hot, you know, and it just makes you feel like a real wackadoodle.

[Jorma Taccone]

It is 96. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Out here you guys are really jaded, and so you probably don't give a Shit. But you know what? I'm gonna make you look out the window. Oh, fuck. I bet if I do this, it's gonna look.

[Andy Samberg]

Look out the window and see.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, wait.

[Andy Samberg]

Where are you set?

[Jorma Taccone]

Space Needle. Oh, you're in Seattle.

[Seth Meyers]

Pretty cool.

[Andy Samberg]

Seattle.

[Jorma Taccone]

Seattle.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm in Seattle.

[Jorma Taccone]

That's nice.

[Seth Meyers]

It is nice.

[Jorma Taccone]

You have a show tonight?

[Andy Samberg]

Hey, Seth.

[Seth Meyers]

I have a show tonight.

[Andy Samberg]

Been to any grunge shows?

[Seth Meyers]

I'm doing grunge. Yeah?

[Jorma Taccone]

Had any good java?

[Seth Meyers]

I've had some java. And tonight I'm gonna do my first grunge show.

[Andy Samberg]

And by the way, Seattle does have fucking incredible coffee.

[Jorma Taccone]

Seattle's best.

[Seth Meyers]

I had some really good sushi today for lunch.

[Jorma Taccone]

You had some good sushi? Sure. Probably go down to Pike's Place and watch Throw the fish around.

[Seth Meyers]

Throw the fish around.

[Jorma Taccone]

Wait, did we already talk about that? We went during the hot rod press. We went to a Mariners game, and when they hit a home run, it said funk blast. Did we cover that on the hot rod episode?

[Seth Meyers]

I don't know if we did.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, didn't we talk about the failed sketch Funk blast, or did we not Funk blast.

[Jorma Taccone]

Phone. It would say it up there. We were on the. I think we talked about it.

[Andy Samberg]

We were like, that can't be right.

[Jorma Taccone]

We were on the hot rod promo. They're like, hey, today you get to go to a Mariners game. We're like, hell, yes. And we're just sitting there and someone hits home, running up huge up on the screen. And we're like, wait, is everybody else seeing this?

[Andy Samberg]

Is this a bit? And everyone's like, yeah, Funk flag.

[Jorma Taccone]

This is the Major League Baseball. We all have kind of a common group of words. And, like, we all kind of know what the main things are that we say about home. These games are nationally televised a lot. We are not going to some weird, weird podunk. I don't know. I don't know. It's pretty exciting. You could go see a funk bus.

[Andy Samberg]

What would you describe as podunk on the record?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Just asking questions.

[Jorma Taccone]

He's really trying to get some of those Frisbee clicks.

[Andy Samberg]

I'm feeding for the clicks now that this frisbee thing hit. I'm just addicted to the clicks. Put them in my vein, push them in my chest.

[Seth Meyers]

If somebody is prime, Push the clicks into my chest.

[Andy Samberg]

Push the clicks into my chest.

[Jorma Taccone]

Who could text somebody the zoom link, no information right now, and get somebody to get on the pod?

[Seth Meyers]

I will say a lot of good feedback. People did, like, the Jonah pop in and the Stephanie.

[Jorma Taccone]

That's what you want we should start cold texting a zoom link with no context to one person at the beginning of each pod and see if anyone clicks.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Anything else to say about Brendan and Sean?

[Seth Meyers]

I asked Lutz. I sent him just a picture of just him.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay.

[Seth Meyers]

I said, give me a voice note. Tell me what you think this is from. Do you think he remembered?

[Jorma Taccone]

Yes.

[Andy Samberg]

No.

[Seth Meyers]

Joran, what do you think?

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, I don't.

[John Lutz]

Hi, lonely islands.

[Seth Meyers]

This is John Lutz.

[John Lutz]

Always plural, your favorite extra in every one of your digital shorts. I think that this is a still of me from a digital short with Drew Barrymore and Fred Armisen, who were magicians who had little tiny dots on their fingers, the little light things that you do with your thumb that they just thought was really cool, I guess. That is all that I remember of the digital short. I don't know if it's the right one, but I think I was like a super at an apartment building and they were doing the lights in front of us and we were supposed to look like it was not cool. I hope I'm right, and I don't know what I win if I get it right, but I hope it's something good. Signed copy of a DVD of the Naked Gun movie. Do they make those anymore?

[Andy Samberg]

Okay.

[John Lutz]

Goodbye, lonely islands.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, what he won is my failure to guess correctly.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

That he would get for your respect, I guess. Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, my respect.

[Andy Samberg]

He didn't remember the name Brendan and Sean, so in my opinion, he failed.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, I'm not going to give him full credit or anything.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, good. So I'm not totally demoralized.

[Jorma Taccone]

You know, every comment under Brendan and Sean is very positive saying it's underrated. And I will say that, me, I thought it was going to be dog shit. And compared to some dog shit ones we play, it actually at least holds together and has an arc.

[Andy Samberg]

It's super charming.

[Seth Meyers]

Super charming.

[Andy Samberg]

It's Fred doing a bit. There's never going to be a no.

[Jorma Taccone]

And it's nice and tight and tells a little story.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, but that's the least we've ever talked about a short.

[Jorma Taccone]

That's why I just want to go on the record saying that I. I was pleasantly surprised.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, we're not running from it. We just don't have much to add.

[Andy Samberg]

Guys, hit us in the titus. Do we over or underrate Brenda and Sean? And you know what? Let's see if we can get it over 76,000 by the end of the year.

[Seth Meyers]

But that's what it's at now.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay. See if we can get it to 77,000 by the next five years.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I will say, seeing how much Drew seemed to really enjoy doing that, it was. I found it very charming.

[Jorma Taccone]

She's selling it, Andy.

[Seth Meyers]

We have some people who wrote in with some questions and also just some information, including that Andy Samberg's stuntman suit from Hot Rod is up for auction.

[Jorma Taccone]

Ooh, you have a link for that?

[Seth Meyers]

I do. Hold on. I'm gonna put it in the chat.

[Andy Samberg]

How much we talking?

[Seth Meyers]

It opens at 1,500 better than I was expecting, but.

[Andy Samberg]

Is that Yorms bid?

[Akiva Schaffer]

I did bid on the Miata when we were selling that, but I lost that one.

[Seth Meyers]

The McGrewer Miata.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well. Cause I wanted to make it into a stock racing car and then have him go around and race other Miatas and then come in dead last every time. Time, like just really slowly creep around the garage.

[Andy Samberg]

I like to think about Yoram bidding on the Hot Rod outfit and winning it and then having, like, a video of himself in the mirror being like, this time you're Rod.

[Seth Meyers]

This time you're Rod. You're in charge. And he's a fan of you.

[Fred Armisen]

And he's Kevin.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He's Kevin. And he's going to give you a present.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, my. Oh, it's your leather suit at the end. It's your evil Knievel suit.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, dude, that should be higher than. I mean, leather suit.

[Andy Samberg]

Wait, is it the leather one from the end?

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, it's awesome.

[Andy Samberg]

That's a good. That's a memorabilia.

[Seth Meyers]

What do you think about leather, you guys?

[Akiva Schaffer]

I mean, just ask questions here, but like to be surprised.

[Jorma Taccone]

Rod was gifted the suit by his trusty pit crew in advance of the climactic moment. You're gonna look like a champion. Taccone's Kevin tells Rod in the scene as he gives his half brother the gift.

[Akiva Schaffer]

My favorite line that I got to say in the movie Guys, Taccone called.

[Jorma Taccone]

It my favorite line of my lines in the movie, noting the whack earnestness of the line. That's a quote from this podcast.

[Akiva Schaffer]

As I was saying it again, I like it's.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, it's tough to beat cool beans.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, to be cool beans out of nowhere for a favorite line.

[Jorma Taccone]

Per the auction's estimates, the item is expected to fetch between $3,000 and $6,000, a small fraction of the $50,000 heart transplant Frank needed.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, I really love this write up.

[Jorma Taccone]

I agree.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's a good copy. Copy. Thank you. Whoever wrote that.

[Jorma Taccone]

When does it go up?

[Seth Meyers]

September 4th.

[Jorma Taccone]

All right, so for anybody listening to this, screenbeat.substack.com is the who wrote this article?

[Andy Samberg]

Screenbeat.com substack.

[Jorma Taccone]

Like, if you need to Google this, Andy Savers Stuntman Su from Hot Rod is up for auction. That's the headline. And then what's the link? What's the place doing it? I want to give the Quaid's a chance to spend more than $6,000 on it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, but a chance. Wait, wait. How do you find this stuff? Like, because honestly, occasionally you find stuff that you send us that I'm like, how do you get this?

[Seth Meyers]

Like, how did I find that?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, you found this?

[Seth Meyers]

No. So one of the quaint armies found it and sent it to me.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay, that explains that. Thank you, Seth.

[Jorma Taccone]

So propstoreauction.com is the website that sells props.

[Seth Meyers]

And this is kind of cool. Like, for example, Yoram, I didn't find out that there's a town in Germany called Quaidesburg, but there is. And now we know that it's got.

[Jorma Taccone]

All kinds of cool shit. Yorm. You can get a single storyboard from 1991's film Hook.

[Andy Samberg]

How much, though?

[Seth Meyers]

Andy, I want to tell you something because I was very proud of myself because again, I did not remember Brendan and Sean at all. But I looked at this run through and I remembered something about your Weekend Update feature. You played Scrooge McDuck. Do you remember playing Scrooge McDuck?

[Andy Samberg]

I remember playing Scrooge and I don't remember what the joke was.

[Seth Meyers]

The joke is kind of all over the place. Great. It's basically, definitely we're writing jokes about a financial crisis and you're really happy. You invested in gold. Gold. But then there's that really nice second half of it. You wrote it with Simon Rich. The second half is that because you swim around in gold coins, they're really dirty and you have an infection, and the level of the infection is you weren't born a duck.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh my God. That's a good joke.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's a really good joke.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. And. And then you go into a lot of like. And trust me, they can't reverse it because you've got the money for healthcare. It's really good. However, I'm so proud of myself because I remember something crushed at dress and then didn't at air. So I had Kevin send me dress as well. At dress. You say your three keys to investing is collect gold coins, put them in a big pile, and then go swimming in it.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Applause Break.

[Andy Samberg]

Air.

[Seth Meyers]

Nothing and you go, why you're wearing a dumb beak and glasses.

[Jorma Taccone]

Do you have both? Do you have that clip handy?

[Seth Meyers]

I have both. I have both.

[Andy Samberg]

Seth, My investment strategy has always been very simple. Step one, convert all money into gold coins. Step two, put all the coins into a pile. Step three, swim around in those coins. Oh, my God. Applause break.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, my God.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

They loved it.

[Seth Meyers]

And you're real happy.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Let's just say you're real happy.

[Jorma Taccone]

Flip some coins.

[Andy Samberg]

I'm like, it worked.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, my God. Psyched to see this.

[Andy Samberg]

Seth. My investment strategy has always been very simple. Step one, convert all money into gold coins. Step two, put all the coins into a pile. Step three, swim around in those coins.

[Seth Meyers]

That's your whole strategy. What does your accountant think about that?

[Andy Samberg]

He's always.

[Jorma Taccone]

It didn't die, die.

[Seth Meyers]

But you can tell. Cause you give the quietest like.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, yeah, I can definitely read Andy's face.

[Seth Meyers]

The.

[Jorma Taccone]

You got a little. A few applause and the run up is the same. The like, little laughs at each thing going to it. So you really think you're on the same ride?

[Seth Meyers]

I have to show you because I sent this to Solomon and Forte. There was a Hamilton in this episode.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, no.

[Seth Meyers]

Hamilton gets the weirdest recognition. Applause, which is maybe two people. And one of them just does, like, so just at the entrance here.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, we've all been there, you know.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, I sure do.

[Andy Samberg]

Any other questions? I have a question.

[Seth Meyers]

Hamilton.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Another attempt at clapping. There's one third clap.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, no.

[Seth Meyers]

By the way, the rest of the sketch picks up steam.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, but it's somebody who wanted to clap of being like, oh, we're all gonna clap because we know the character.

[Seth Meyers]

It's weird to clap for him. Cause he's the most detestable character.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

So I feel like people get caught in the middle. There's a great line in that Hamilton where he's trying to win back Drew Barrymore. They were former lovers.

[Andy Samberg]

Look, there are so many things that you would have to change.

[Seth Meyers]

I don't know where to start.

[Andy Samberg]

Start towards the end. Yeah, that's really good.

[Seth Meyers]

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[Jorma Taccone]

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[Seth Meyers]

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[Andy Samberg]

Um, Seth?

[Seth Meyers]

Yes.

[Andy Samberg]

There's a sketch in the rundown that aired that I wrote with Rob Klein and America Sawyer called Cooking al Fresco.

[Seth Meyers]

Yes.

[Andy Samberg]

Do you remember it?

[Seth Meyers]

I'm gonna say attacked by birds.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. It's a cooking show. We're trying it on the roof. Birds immediately attack us and start eating the food. I think it played pretty good. There's one moment in it that I remember I found very, very funny. Something a little safer. Marinara sauce. Good idea.

[Seth Meyers]

Mm.

[Andy Samberg]

Marinara sauce. Now, a lot of the jars that marinara sauce.

[Seth Meyers]

They're dipping the bread in the sauce.

[Andy Samberg]

They're dipping the bread in the sauce.

[Jorma Taccone]

There it is. Oh, close. Super close.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That did great. They got a little scoop.

[Andy Samberg]

Keith's cutting the cooking alfresco. We'll be right back. They're dipping the bread in the sauce. I remember being pretty happy.

[Seth Meyers]

You and Klein often wrote things that would get interrupted by a title card that said tactical difficulties.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes. Yes. Things would often go haywire, and then you'd have to cut away. I asked Klein less than a minute ago for a voice note about cooking alfresco. I don't know what this is. Let's see.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay. Cooking al fresco really fast. That was a fun one. Only memory at the end of the sketch, there's a dead skeleton that drops on the table. Table. At one point during rehearsal, it fell out of nowhere and almost killed Drew Barrymore. And they had to practice. They could never get it to land on the table. Practiced it dropping it, like, 20 times. Did it at dress, fell off the table.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Did it at air.

[Seth Meyers]

I think it stayed on the table.

[Andy Samberg]

Thanks, Rob. Fred Armisen just joined our podcast.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I like to surprise everyone on this podcast, including our special.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, I was gonna say, it seems a lot like Jorma sent him the link as a goofy.

[Seth Meyers]

Hi, Fred.

[Fred Armisen]

Hey, what's going on, Fred?

[Seth Meyers]

Did you pull a car over?

[Fred Armisen]

I pulled over.

[Jorma Taccone]

Good.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. That's good for you and everybody out there. Let that be a lesson to you.

[Seth Meyers]

Fred, what do you remember? You and Drew Barrymore, a digital short called Brenda and Sean.

[Fred Armisen]

Oh, that was because we had these toys that were, like, for magic tricks. I don't even. Whose were they originally? Were they Akiva's or somebody? It's like. Or Jorma's? It's like if you press the thumb, it lights up red.

[Jorma Taccone]

We just watched it, so we know exactly what you're talking about.

[Fred Armisen]

Okay. Okay. So I Don't remember how we got them, but the whole script was based on, that's their magic trick. That's what they can do. And that was it. That was, like, the main part of the whole thing.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, it's small, but it's accomplishing what it's setting out to. It tells a little story. Do you remember what happens in it after?

[Fred Armisen]

No, I don't remember what happened.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's an ad for them selling this as, like, we're magicians. Hire us for your thing. And as it goes on, the things go from being normal ones to being more parts of their lives. So it tells a little story. It was better than we thought. But, you know, the Quaid Army's gonna weigh in on if it was actually better than we thought. So I don't wanna put words in.

[Fred Armisen]

Their mouth, but I'm kind of more surprised that those thumb things didn't take off as a product, as merchandise, you know, like, why have they disappeared?

[Jorma Taccone]

They exist.

[Akiva Schaffer]

My son just got some. And I will say they're pretty fun.

[Jorma Taccone]

Y. You need kids around to have them. I don't think they were ours. In the office, there is that thing.

[Seth Meyers]

Fred, when you work on the 17th floor at SNL, like, you see a lot of stuff that you just stop seeing when you stop working at snl.

[Fred Armisen]

That's true.

[Jorma Taccone]

Where did all the rubber chickens go? There used to be rubber chickens in every room I'd walk into.

[Seth Meyers]

Do you. I feel like there's not giant baskets of freshly made popcorn everywhere I go.

[Fred Armisen]

I remember there were, like, Hulk fists that you made the rounds, you know, like gigantic.

[Andy Samberg]

Those worked their way in. Well.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And Horatio's jazzy. That Ozzy Osbourne, Rest in peace.

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, anything there was clearly made it into one of our shorts at some point.

[Andy Samberg]

That's why people sent free stuff, because they'd be like, maybe it'll end up on the show.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, and we were always just like, immediately, we'll put it in. What was the one we just did? It was. Oh, the Transformers mask.

[Seth Meyers]

Fred, do you ever remember crushing a dress and then having it die at air? And in the moment, wondering what happened?

[Fred Armisen]

Oh, of course. Like, yeah, that happened. Whenever that happened, I feel, like, always blamed something else, like, oh, the sound wasn't good or something.

[Seth Meyers]

Something that, like, you remember the story. Can you tell the story about the. Remember the Roomba that didn't work at air and what the crew guy told you? Like, the Roomba, you had, like, you had an apartment that was all voice activated. Like, you would say, like, turn on music. And this was very utter.

[Fred Armisen]

Yes, yes. I remember this one. And that was Megan Mullally, I think, right? Yeah, that's an early one. And it was like, yes. Like, lights on, on music on. And what happened with the Roomba?

[Seth Meyers]

That's right.

[Fred Armisen]

Like, it didn't work.

[Seth Meyers]

It didn't work. But then a guy came up to you after it crushed a dress. And then it didn't move at air. And then a guy came up to you and said, hey, sorry about that, Freddie. We forgot to turn it on.

[Fred Armisen]

That's so honest. I like that.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, it's much better.

[Andy Samberg]

Good.

[Fred Armisen]

Good for him.

[Andy Samberg]

Forgot to turn on. I know you're out there in front of millions of people and you completely ate shit, and you're pretty new on the show and it might completely sink you, but what are you gonna do?

[Seth Meyers]

We did figure it out. We did pin down what went wrong.

[Fred Armisen]

Seth, what was your memory when that happened? Like, something crushed a dress and died at air. Did you.

[Seth Meyers]

I was so. I was the most nervous when something had crushed a dress. And I feel like back when I was in the sketches, like, I was tight to a place where I could never hit the heights of, like, the, like, all the joy went out of it. Cause I was like, just hold, sir.

[Jorma Taccone]

But we've talked about on this pod how sometimes our shorts would play different address and air and they'd be the same edit. And that was a real proof of that was like the way to prove it's not us, it's them. The audience being different.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes. That way we could decidedly walk into the writer's room and go, this audience sucks.

[Jorma Taccone]

Right?

[Andy Samberg]

Yep.

[Jorma Taccone]

Exactly.

[Seth Meyers]

Yep. I remember that.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. It's official.

[Seth Meyers]

You always. You almost opened always with it's official.

[Andy Samberg]

Fred, where are you?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, where are you driving?

[Fred Armisen]

I'm in la.

[Jorma Taccone]

You can give the exact address. You won't be there by the time it's there.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's not going to air.

[Fred Armisen]

I'm on Riverside Boulevard.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, like Burbank, Toluca Lake.

[Andy Samberg]

Ah, the Californians. He's doing his bit, you guys. He's gonna do it.

[Fred Armisen]

Riverside, heading over to the five.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

Nice.

[Fred Armisen]

No, I'm just driving around because this time of year, it's so pretty. So I'm just looking at the trees and it's just like. As the season changes, like, it's just. It's subtle, but so beautiful.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. And like, sort of like all the cherry blossoms and sort of using that.

[Fred Armisen]

As a. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Cause it's sort of like an analogy for all of life in existence, just.

[Seth Meyers]

Marking the passage of time.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Fred Armisen]

Yes. I love it. So I just spend the rest of the day doing that.

[Andy Samberg]

All right. And how's that big old hog doing, bitch? I got you. I got you, dude.

[Jorma Taccone]

I got you.

[Andy Samberg]

I got you, friend. Oh, my God. Dude, you shouldn't have called in. This is one of those clickbait cast, brother. I need them clicks.

[Fred Armisen]

Damn it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This is such a new character, Randy.

[Fred Armisen]

I knew I. I actually did not know what this was going to be. And Yorma was just like, hop on real quick. I know what this was.

[Jorma Taccone]

That was the challenge.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'm sorry. This is my new bit. This is my new character, is that I attack people. Friends of ours.

[Andy Samberg]

Your new character with our pot.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. You're near.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Call her.

[Seth Meyers]

Call her.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Go ahead.

[Jorma Taccone]

Hey, Fred, you got anything you need to promote Wednesday?

[Fred Armisen]

Oh, yeah, please.

[Seth Meyers]

I don't know if you're coming off as desperate. Just bring it back, dial it back and keep going.

[Andy Samberg]

Please, please, please, sirs and madams. You could find it in your heart, like, even.

[Fred Armisen]

Just leave it on. Even if you don't watch it. Just. We're asking you.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Just watch Wednesday.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, it's good.

[Fred Armisen]

We don't ask for much. Please.

[Seth Meyers]

To this day, Alexi, who I think may be her favorite thing she ever saw an SNL was you and Wig doing Garth and Cat. Sometimes she will just at some point, will go, please, Mr. Minors. The fact that you guys call me Mr. Minors.

[Andy Samberg]

Please, sir.

[Fred Armisen]

What else did you guys talk about in this? Like, what were the other. Or was it just. Just that Drew Barrymore one?

[Seth Meyers]

We talked a little bit about Drew Barrymore. Andy played Scrooge McDuck. Ate shit on air. It didn't really.

[Andy Samberg]

Pretty good Scottish accent, though.

[Seth Meyers]

Pretty good Scottish accent. Also, Andy was really, you know, back. This was back in the day where it was shocking to see somebody with a beak on Weekend Update.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Now it's basically requisite. Yeah, it's requisite.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. Yeah. And you know who's in heaven? Me. Watching it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, I thought you were gonna say Frisbee.

[Andy Samberg]

You thought I was gonna go negative, Keith.

[Jorma Taccone]

I really did.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I thought you were gonna say Frisbee because we talked about Seth's dog dying.

[Andy Samberg]

When they go low, I go clicks.

[Jorma Taccone]

This guy's all about the clicks. We actually spent most of this talking about Frisbe.

[Andy Samberg]

All right, Fred. I'm walking on air because Seth's dog died. So I'm feeling super juiced this week, dude.

[Fred Armisen]

Oh, Seth, I'm so sorry.

[Seth Meyers]

Thanks, bud. It's okay.

[Andy Samberg]

No, I mean, obviously it's sad.

[Fred Armisen]

It's not okay.

[Jorma Taccone]

No, it isn't. Take time to process it, Seth. You don't have to just brush it.

[Fred Armisen]

Off, not accept it. Death isn't something you should accept.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, interesting take. Very American.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. Maybe you should go drive around, Seth. You know what I mean? Just think about the passage of time and the blossom.

[Seth Meyers]

You think it's like the one stage of grief and it's just denial?

[Fred Armisen]

Yes. Stay in denial. Always stay in denial.

[Akiva Schaffer]

First stage. That's it. There's only one stage of grief.

[Seth Meyers]

Pull up a chair and stay.

[Andy Samberg]

Now that's a therapist. I'd like to see Fred be the one step, only denial therapist for YHorm. Yorm. Go.

[Jorma Taccone]

Sorry.

[Andy Samberg]

Not yorm, Seth. You're the one whose ugly dog died. All right, Seth.

[Seth Meyers]

Sorry.

[Andy Samberg]

Set your butt out.

[Seth Meyers]

I just. Look, my dog died, and I just. She was such a huge part of my life, and it just. Like there's this real hole right now, you know?

[Fred Armisen]

Unacceptable. Did your dog die? I don't think so.

[Seth Meyers]

Well, unacceptable.

[Fred Armisen]

This is unacceptable.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, but I don't see. I mean, she's not. I can't physically see her.

[Fred Armisen]

No, stay in denial. Stay, Seth. Stay with me.

[Jorma Taccone]

There's a lot of people you can't physically see right now. You don't know what they're doing.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, exactly.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, are you saying she just might be. Else elsewhere?

[Fred Armisen]

Yes.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay.

[Andy Samberg]

I think that's the most likely thing is what this therapist is saying.

[Seth Meyers]

Gotcha.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's a more advanced denial than I was expecting, actually.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, it almost. It did kind of start making me sad, Iri.

[Fred Armisen]

And if people ask you, Seth, you've got to be like, nope.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, no, she didn't. I don't know.

[Andy Samberg]

What do you.

[Jorma Taccone]

If you. If your kid seems sad, just be like, what are you sad about? No, she just left.

[Seth Meyers]

I wish I had a soundboard right now. And every time a car went by, I could just play a horn like Fred had stopped in the middle of the road.

[Andy Samberg]

Good, you. Good you.

[Seth Meyers]

And then every fifth person recognizes him.

[Andy Samberg]

Sorry.

[Jorma Taccone]

I'm on the 405 California heading down Cahuenga Boulevard.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, come on.

[Fred Armisen]

I'm loving this for real.

[Jorma Taccone]

What part of Riverside? Where did you drive from?

[Fred Armisen]

I drove from rehearsal with the Go Gos.

[Jorma Taccone]

That's cool.

[Fred Armisen]

Playing a benefit tomorrow. And we practiced today, and it was really fun.

[Andy Samberg]

This won't come out till after that happens. What's the song?

[Fred Armisen]

Oh, it's like eight songs. It's a whole bunch of songs. Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, okay. What's your favorite one?

[Fred Armisen]

There's a song called Head Over Heels. It sounds great.

[Andy Samberg]

Awesome.

[Jorma Taccone]

This is a live concert somewhere.

[Fred Armisen]

Live concert?

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

And you're gonna be a surprise guest.

[Fred Armisen]

I don't think it's a surprise. Their bass player lives in England, so I'm just playing bass for it.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, you're playing bass.

[Seth Meyers]

And this is pro frack and fundraiser.

[Fred Armisen]

Pro fracking. A gentle pro fracking.

[Seth Meyers]

Not like, in your face.

[Fred Armisen]

We're pro fracking. Just like. Just like. Hey, FYI, we're kind of pro fracking. Let's move on from the conversation.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, just listen to somebody.

[Jorma Taccone]

Enjoy the tunes.

[Fred Armisen]

Just nice and gentle.

[Andy Samberg]

I think I know that song, actually, Fred. It's Something Happened and I'm head over here.

[Fred Armisen]

That's the one.

[Andy Samberg]

That's the Go Go's, right? Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Are we making you late for something right now, Fred? Like, what are you.

[Jorma Taccone]

No, he's just checking out the Foley.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay.

[Fred Armisen]

You told us it's going from, like, green to, like, light brown, which is so.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, nice.

[Andy Samberg]

Currently.

[Fred Armisen]

Yeah. Like, just a little off green.

[Jorma Taccone]

What temperature does your dashboard say it is right now?

[Fred Armisen]

It is, no joke, 94 degrees.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yep.

[Andy Samberg]

Yep. Proof.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I bet we're going to be all right, though. I think it's all going to go fine.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Fred Armisen]

Where are you guys? We're around Anaheim.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, we're all in Anaheim.

[Andy Samberg]

Separate rooms.

[Jorma Taccone]

We're at the Honda center because we're. We're playing the triangle for the B52s. I don't know.

[Fred Armisen]

Isn't it wild? Seriously? Not as a bit. Isn't it wild that none of us moved to Anaheim, like, after snl?

[Jorma Taccone]

Not as a bit.

[Fred Armisen]

It's so wild. Disneyland there and stuff. Like, none of us were like, oh, we're all gonna end up in Anaheim.

[Andy Samberg]

Right?

[Seth Meyers]

If you had to say somebody moved to Anaheim, I would say Bobby Moynihan because it was close to. Closer to Disney. Right.

[Andy Samberg]

Is he a full Disney adult, though, or just.

[Seth Meyers]

No, I don't think so, but he would if I had to put my money on one.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Fred Armisen]

Because that's Star wars part of Disneyland now.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Which is pretty incredible, by the way, not to, like, jock the mouse.

[Jorma Taccone]

This guy's always jocking the mouse.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, you caught me jocking the mouse again, man. Anyway, hit us in the tittis. Does jocking the mouse have legs?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, I think that's gonna come back.

[Andy Samberg]

Gimme the climax, bitch.

[Seth Meyers]

Thanks for calling in, Fred. We really love seeing you.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. I love you, buddy. Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Be careful out there. On those roads.

[Fred Armisen]

I miss you. It's great to see you. I'll hop on back in a minute.

[Andy Samberg]

I'll talk to you. Okay, sounds perfect.

[Jorma Taccone]

This is getting closer to Yorm's dream of, like, a morning radio show. Yeah, people call in and talk about the commute.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. Caller, go ahead.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, Caller, don't. Don't drive off a cliff.

[Jorma Taccone]

Caller, the four shock jocks is coming in. Bye, Fred. Love you, buddy.

[Fred Armisen]

I'll talk to you guys later.

[Andy Samberg]

Bye, Freddy. Bye, Fred. He's not gonna get off.

[Jorma Taccone]

He's just gonna keep doing it. At least start driving and just ignore them.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, no, that. He did go.

[Jorma Taccone]

He might just turn off his camera.

[Andy Samberg]

Damn it. Oh, man.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I think he's gonna hop back on, so some point.

[Seth Meyers]

Well, guys, what can I say? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

[Andy Samberg]

Is there a Seth's Corner?

[Seth Meyers]

No, it was kind of a. But I will say, you know what's a great sketch? First time there was no Seth Corner this week.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Seth was hella lazy, and he didn't do anything. Don't take it away, Seth.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, I'm sure he did a couple things just now we're talking.

[Jorma Taccone]

You have your name on the. Pulled open.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, so.

[Andy Samberg]

But he's not proud of it, guys. Don't force the issue.

[Jorma Taccone]

He's trying to ditch out Larry King with his name. I mean, he's all over this.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, I mean, there's probably offensive material in it that he'd rather side with divinity.

[Jorma Taccone]

He talks to Vinny Vecchi.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, I watch Vin. It's a fun Vinny Videtchi, by the way. I also just weird timing. Just watched ET with my boys for the first time. Drew Barrymore. So insanely good. Oh, ET So good.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. And did you know that she's actually a kid in that?

[Seth Meyers]

It's nuts. It's not CGI. That was her age.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, she was like, 10.

[Jorma Taccone]

They didn't deep fake a baby face.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm sure a million podcasts that do.

[Andy Samberg]

You just said it's Nazi GI It's a soldier. A Nazi soldier. That's what you said.

[Seth Meyers]

Nazi G.I. yes.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, that's what the A.I. thinks you said.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, I gotcha.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Hit us in the tittis, guys. What do you think Seth says?

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, it's Nazi GI and you're like, whoa. Like, you think that's good? Anyway, I'm walking on air. Frisbee, go, man. I gotta do a tribute on your show, Seth. I don't know when. I don't know when you're dark right now. Your show's dark. So it's hurting my tribute, but I don't have anything prepared, so it's good.

[Seth Meyers]

Yes. It's called Morning. It's not called the show's dark. It's called we're in Morning.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, is that why.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. NBC asked us to take time off to heal a pitch.

[Jorma Taccone]

A pitch. Maybe the I'll be missing you performance, but you do the Diddy version and dress like Diddy.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, really? Really good idea, Keith.

[Jorma Taccone]

Okay.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Hey, you want a clickbait? Fucking.

[Seth Meyers]

Coming up, let's see how this line that Andy Kawak is like, yo, I'm so likable. I'm gonna make fun of Seth's dead dog. Nobody's gonna blame me. I'm gonna do it as deity.

[Andy Samberg]

I'm gonna do it as any.

[Seth Meyers]

Wait, I was going to say hey, because, look, I know a million people do, like, movie recaps and have probably talked about this end of E.T.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes.

[Seth Meyers]

Just like, there's a lot of, like, I feel like they're not locking down the site particularly well. I'd have to rewatch, like, you know, the Feds. Yeah. Like, it just seems like it's. It's way too easy.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, but aren't they.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Aren't they more like scientist feds? You know what I mean? Like, they're. They're not used to this.

[Seth Meyers]

There's. There's a lot of guys used to it with, like, guns and stuff chasing around in their BMX bikes, but they, like, fully just, like, kind of get into a van. It's like a white van that's got ET in the back of it and feels like there's not a lot of security.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, you don't expect kids to drive. That's. That's the fun.

[Jorma Taccone]

Did your kids like it? And were they scared and were they sad?

[Seth Meyers]

Super scared for the first 45 minutes, then loved it. And not sad grossed out by ET.

[Jorma Taccone]

Or just loved him? Grossed out in the beginning.

[Seth Meyers]

Loved him. I think more scared than grossed out. But, like, the minute the Andy and I took a very iconic photo of he and I as Elliot and ET Once.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, yeah. And the bike.

[Andy Samberg]

Iconic to us for sure.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Yeah. When the bikes take off, the kids were just over the moon.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, but what about the part in the ravine, Seth, when they find the. Like, he's almost like a body in the ravine when you look down, that's terrifying to me.

[Seth Meyers]

They were mostly scared of him being scary. They weren't. And much like Frisbee, they Didn't really mind when they thought he was dead.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, okay, okay.

[Jorma Taccone]

I've tried maybe once a year to get my kids to watch it. They take one look at ET and go, nope.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, I get it. This episode has the first ESPN Classic. Pete Twinkle and Greg Stink. And really, really fantastic. Multiple, multiple games. And it's an exceptional piece of writing.

[Andy Samberg]

Turned into one of the strongest recurrings of our entire and golden era, right?

[Seth Meyers]

Very much so, yes.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Was always very good.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. Just crushed every time. And was like broad audience and comedians loved it.

[Seth Meyers]

Yes. I mean it was ESPN Classic. It also felt like Marine World, usa, Africa. One of those ads. The game of one. There was an inappropriate spot that Sudeikis kept doing tags for. First of all, Pete Twinkle, Greg Stink. Like Pinnacle names Twinkle and Stink. Forte's full on idiot.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

But like the most affable idiot, he's.

[Andy Samberg]

Smile without the eyes.

[Seth Meyers]

First time it was billiards. It was Lady Billiards.

[Andy Samberg]

Right.

[Seth Meyers]

And about halfway through he goes real quick, can you tell me what are the rules of billiards? And he's also Tampax is the sponsor. And at some point Greg, sorry, Pete Twinkle says, what's the strategy? Strategy here, Greg?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, it's just to sponsor an event, get the product name out there and corner that tampon Mark.

[Seth Meyers]

It's a lot of him taking Sudeikis literally. It's wonderful.

[Andy Samberg]

Get your name out there.

[Seth Meyers]

Also really great names throughout. Drew Barrymore, her name is Nina Wilkes Booth.

[Andy Samberg]

And is this just Will and Jason? Is there some Solomon? Who else is involved?

[Seth Meyers]

I think Solomon.

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, if this is accurate on here, it's Sudeikis is the first name, then Lutz, then Forte Solomon. But sometimes these are inaccurate cause they're a little old.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay. Lutz 2.

[Seth Meyers]

I will say that was some real grindhouse when those guys were working on that. It was not fun to walk in the room. And it was exceptionally fun to listen to it when it was done.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, interesting.

[Akiva Schaffer]

One of those ten hour joints.

[Andy Samberg]

And if for anyone who doesn't remember, Lutz sent in that voice note earlier that was just so funny.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, it was very succinct.

[Andy Samberg]

In the could call us lonely islands.

[Seth Meyers]

Hamilton is so dark. This is the darkest Hamilton. And at some point he's trying to convince Drew Barrymore to take him back. And she said, will you get rid of your Hummer? And he said, I already did. I replaced it with a bigger Hummer. And then she says, will you get rid of your bayonets? And he says, I will bury them in the chests of My enemies. Yeah. So dark.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And you were like, I want that guy to speak at my wedding.

[Seth Meyers]

And I wasn't wrong.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, you weren't.

[Andy Samberg]

No, you weren't wrong.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's all time.

[Andy Samberg]

And then I ripped you off.

[Seth Meyers]

It's the weirdest case of a recurring character's best performance being at two weddings after he was off the show.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, lucky us.

[Seth Meyers]

Lucky us. Hey, I'm going to finish with one last thing. A lot of people said my read on the pistachio ad, and I'm sorry, I have no memory of it, but I'm sure it did. And I think it might be out of the rotation. And to the pistachio people, you know, I'll make a better effort next time out.

[Jorma Taccone]

Damn comments on ads.

[Seth Meyers]

Guys, my show is an outdoor show at a zoo tonight.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, good.

[Seth Meyers]

And we'll see.

[Jorma Taccone]

We'll see if it's any marine world, Africa, USA level.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I hope it is.

[Seth Meyers]

It's a real risk doing an outdoor.

[Andy Samberg]

Show, but you got to imagine if things don't go well, that the monkeys are going to throw shit at you.

[Seth Meyers]

You got to imagine.

[Andy Samberg]

Imagine that. You were hoping I was going to bring that up, right?

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, I had a real moment where I'm like, am I really going to get off the pod and not tell Andy I'm doing a zoo show?

[Andy Samberg]

God damn, I wish you had started with that. We never would have stopped.

[Jorma Taccone]

We also talked about a zoo for so long. There were so many options for.

[Seth Meyers]

I just, you know, I. I really wanted to get to Brenda and Sean. That's what our listeners were here for.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, a lot of people are going to click on this app.

[Seth Meyers]

Brendan, Sean.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes, please, please.

[Seth Meyers]

I love you guys.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Hey, love you, too, Seth.

[Andy Samberg]

Love you, buddies.

[Jorma Taccone]

All right, love you.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Love you guys.

[Andy Samberg]

Later, Arnold. Later, Quaid.