Episode 100: Turtleneck & Chain Part 2

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast

Episode 100: Turtleneck & Chain Part 2

Date: February 24, 2026
Hosts: The Lonely Island (Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone) & Seth Meyers

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Episode Overview

This milestone 100th episode finds Seth Meyers and The Lonely Island celebrating their journey through SNL Digital Shorts, focusing on a track-by-track deep dive into the first half of their iconic 2011 album Turtleneck & Chain. The episode blends detailed behind-the-scenes stories, comedic reminiscing, and meta-commentary on their creative process—plus plenty of their signature playful banter and tangents about SNL, Olympics, internet comedy, and more.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Podcast Dynamics, Milestone Reflections, and Format (00:08–04:55)

• Discussion about podcast chemistry—having three vs. two hosts ("the rules are gone, man... it's burrito town." – Andy, 00:51).
• Self-aware jokes about narcissism and the impossibility of pleasing everyone ("It's almost like you can't please everyone. That's a saying I just made up." – Keith, 03:25).
• 100th episode acknowledgment and celebration ("We're definitely doing the 100th digital short tonight, right?" – Akiva, 02:44).
• Comments on their Q&A episodes and feedback from the audience ("You can always just not listen to it. Please just do something every week." – Akiva relaying fan comments, 03:05).

2. Tangents: Airbnb Escape Rooms, Olympic Trips, and SNL Friends (01:04–14:34)

• Andy staying in an odd Airbnb and riffing on escape room decor.
• Seth checks in from a car post-Olympics, sharing behind-the-scenes stories:
  • Staying at the Olympic Village (with jokes on "space Olympics" and lack of condoms, 09:10–10:00).
  • Attending the women's gold medal hockey game; confidence revealed by athletes ("With 90 seconds left? They're all like, yeah, we just knew we were gonna get them. I'm like, unbelievable. You guys are so rad." – Seth, 10:45).
• Jokes about Colin Jost’s bobsled run and other SNL members over the years (10:50–13:00).

3. Album Deep Dive: Turtleneck & Chain Track-By-Track

Thorough, hilarious exploration:

• On “Mama” (25:46–32:20):
  • Tribute to “mom songs” in hip-hop, undercut by absurd, petulant yelling at “mom” (comedic twist).
  • Liz, Akiva’s wife, provided the “mom” voice.
  • "There is a big tradition of songs in every genre, especially hip hop, about their moms being special to them." – Akiva, 31:05
• Song Structure & Sequencing Insights (32:53–35:21):
  • Careful thought put into album track order for comedy and musical impact.
  • Historical reasons for putting singles in the 3rd/4th spots: “the bigger the grooves on a record are, the louder and better it sounds.” – Andy, 33:18
• “Attracted to Us” featuring Beck (36:09–44:14):
  • Beck composed the beat; tales of their loosely structured collaboration.
  • "He kept being, like, asking us for styles of things to make... our approach to music is so high concept" – Akiva, 37:31
  • Funnier, they misheard the intended lyric: "You are attractive to us" vs. "You are attracted to us".
  • Use of "party tracks" (crowd noises layered in) inspired by The Pharcyde, Beastie Boys, Marvin Gaye, giving the song a “party” feel.
  • Beck’s “introspective” French bridge lauded as the best lyric/moment of the track.
• On “Rocky” (53:36–59:30):
  • Homage to and escalation of "I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson" (Fresh Prince) and "That's How I Beat Shaq" (Aaron Carter)—making the joke as extreme as possible.
  • The sample by DJ Nu-Mark was the most expensive on the album, ironically for a non-hit ("But it's about the beat more than the quality of the song... we musically liked them so much." – Keith, 55:41)
  • Jorma’s story of being physically annihilated by Rocky is a favorite for its escalation and surprising punchlines ("He hit me with a left and shattered my face. Then a right, sent my teeth all over the place. Then another great punch caved in my eye socket..." – Jorma performing, 57:01)
• Interlude “My Mic” (64:37–67:40):
  • Hilariously simple idea: seven increasing “mic check” callouts plus harmonization.
  • Inspired by countless hip-hop references and a favorite of Akiva’s daughter.
  • "It is so beyond stupid. But it is a pretty awesome buildup to the drop of any song." – Andy, 67:24

4. Recurring Podcast Humor & In-Jokes

• Confidence-boosting bits for celebrities who "least need it" (Glen Powell, Josh Allen).
• Running meta-commentary on their lack of prep and self-mythologizing: “We just want to work with you, Beck.” – Keith (37:54)
• Frequent asides on snacks (burritos), parenting (“Bluey” as a unit of time for children), podcasting itself, and referencing their own verbal tics (“hit us in the tit(us)”).
• Breaking into their classic character voices, fake fighting with each other, and gentle digs at their own SNL (and podcast) legacy.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On their audience:
  “It’s almost like you can’t please everyone. That's a saying I just made up.”
  — Keith (03:25)

• On the motherly sketch turn in “Mama”:
  “It’s well observed. It’s an observation about life and about music...”
  — Akiva (29:59)

• On SNL Creative Process:
  “...it is so fun to tell them, like, how you guys cut great stuff all the time. They’re like, ‘what?’ because they’re like, it’s so tight. I’m like, you have no idea.”
  — Seth (31:34)

• On album sequencing:
  “A lot of the reasons why you would have, like, the fourth song or the third song be like, your big single is because the bigger the grooves on a record are, the louder and better it sounds.”
  — Andy (33:18)

• Beck Collaboration:
  "Our approach to music is so high concept... whereas [other musicians] are like, ‘you know that feeling you have when you just broke up, but all you want to do is eat ice cream?’"
  — Akiva (37:37)

• On “Rocky”:
  “It’s just crazier than any of theirs [Fresh Prince/Aaron Carter]. But also, Rocky’s a fictional character. That’s a splitting hairs difference.”
  — Akiva (59:50)

• Creative Discipline Evolution:
  “I'm sure it's less tight now, like, joke, joke, joke. Because we weren't worried about the audience or having as much discipline."
  — Akiva (62:16)

• Ending energy:
  “I do feel a little pooped.”
  — Keith (64:27)
  “Okay, let's do these last two. Real quick.” – Andy (64:30)

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Important Timestamps

• 00:08–04:55 — Opening banter, podcast format, milestone celebration
• 09:01–11:11 — Seth’s Olympic trip and athlete interactions
• 25:46–31:46 — Listening to and discussing “Mama”
• 32:53–35:44 — Album sequencing, physical media vs. digital, SNL process
• 36:09–44:14 — The Beck collaboration and “Attracted to Us”
• 53:36–59:30 — "Rocky" discussion: inspiration, sample costs, and punchline escalation
• 64:37–67:40 — “My Mic” interlude and the power of dumb comedy
• 67:54–End — Wrap-up, leftovers for the next episode, energy fades, loving send-offs

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Flow and Tone

The episode is fast-paced, irreverent, and self-deprecating—true to The Lonely Island’s humor and rapport with Seth. Each track discussion is filled with detours, nostalgia, and meta-reflections, making it both a revealing look at their creative process and a celebration of the sillier side of musical comedy. The camaraderie, running gags, and effortless banter will delight both dedicated fans and newcomers interested in the intersection of SNL, comedy, and music.

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Seth [10:45]: "With 90 seconds left? They're all like, yeah, we just knew we were gonna get them. I'm like, unbelievable. You guys are so rad."

Akiva [67:28]: "I always said episode 100, we'd get to Falcor versus Atreyu, but we didn't, so that's on me."

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For New Listeners

This episode is a perfect entry-point for understanding The Lonely Island’s creative tapestry, balancing inside-baseball discussions about comedy music with the same silly energy that made their Digital Shorts legendary. Each discussed track gets both a technical and comedic post-mortem, loaded with digressions, memories, and laughter that turn album minutiae into comedic gold.

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Note: This summary skips ads and focuses on key conversational content, preserving the tone and highlights as heard in the episode.

Transcript

[Seth Meyers]

It's the Lonely island and Seth Meyers podcast.

[Andy Samberg]

Akiva was saying that our last episode was masturbatory. And I was like, I think the whole thing is masturbatory. Let's start off pretty sure, pretty, pretty sure. The bedrock of the entire endeavor, the premise.

[Akiva Schaffer]

If there's a third one of us, they're listening to the other two talk and then can hear when they. They're maybe like just have been too normal for too long and they're gonna throw a curveball. They're gonna toss a grenade in the path. Something's gonna happen. When there's just two, you're just having a conversation. There's no.

[Andy Samberg]

You can eat as many burritos as you want when there's two. It's.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's what I mean. The rules are different.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's gone. The rules are gone, man.

[Andy Samberg]

It's burrito town.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Andy, you didn't listen, obviously, but Yoram was eating a burrito and was fully fucking half brained before the episode even started.

[Andy Samberg]

You know what, Keith? That's your op yet. Hey, wait, can I. Can I comment on where I'm at?

[Akiva Schaffer]

You look like you're on a set where they've put a bunch of conduit on the walls.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, guess what, dog? Airbnb.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But what is all that on the wall?

[Andy Samberg]

I don't want to talk about it. Oh, it's conduits.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You Airbnb in escape room. You're staying in an escape room of some sort.

[Andy Samberg]

It's like saw. But the guy's not here right now, so it's fine. As soon as he comes back, I'm.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, he's like, come and go as you please. It's my saw room, but when I'm not there, I don't lock it.

[Keith]

Look, he Airbnbs it when he's not

[Andy Samberg]

doing out getting for his chainsaw.

[Keith]

He's like, honestly, I don't think I'm going to saw at all next month. Should we just get out of town and Airbnb it?

[Akiva Schaffer]

How old is the building you're in that they were like, we didn't build it for electricity or for Internet.

[Andy Samberg]

No, this is one of those extra rooms. So you can say that there's an extra room, but this like every kid, I loved the conversation because every adult was like, yeah, like, one of them will stay down here. I was like, no kid's going to stay down here. Immediately they were all like, it's haunted.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, every. It's got like copper pipes going through it and like electrical Wires, and it's like you're in a basement.

[Andy Samberg]

It doesn't take anything to paint that corner. But.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But also, why isn't that stuff in the walls?

[Andy Samberg]

Anyways, the rest of the house is great. I'm in Florida, guys. I'm spring training for the Mets. You know how I do B ball Head all the way?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yep. B ball. The famous sport of B ball.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, that's also bowling, too. So I don't want to confuse people.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Thank you for clarifying.

[Keith]

I'm gonna just jump in here right out of the.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay.

[Keith]

This is our 100th episode of the Pod.

[Andy Samberg]

Is that right?

[Akiva Schaffer]

So we're done. Hundred shorts, we're out.

[Keith]

Is that okay? Cause I would love to. Peace out.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We're definitely doing the 100th digital short tonight, right?

[Keith]

Yeah. Somehow not somehow turned into, like, 75 Q and A's.

[Andy Samberg]

People love it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We got a lot of positive feedback about the Q and A's last episode because I read a comment from one of the Quaids saying that they love it. They'll listen to everything, but please stop doing Q&As. And we apologized and just explained, like, what are we supposed to do when it's Great day, but Andy can't be there? We gotta do something. Thank you. And I will say, I looked at the comments on YouTube and most of the people were like, yes, you can always just not listen to it. Please just do something every week.

[Keith]

Interesting.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So it's fine.

[Andy Samberg]

Shouldn't be the name of the podcast do Something.

[Keith]

I mean, it's like, I just thought of this, but it's almost like you can't please everyone. That's a saying I just made up.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, wow.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Is that true? We're gonna have to pressure test that

[Keith]

Titus and the Tittis. Can you please everyone?

[Andy Samberg]

I think we should try, though, guys. I think we should try.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Here's what I know. I'll feel bad about the people we don't please. No matter what.

[Keith]

In one year, we're gonna give a TED Talk called you can please Everyone.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We figured it out.

[Andy Samberg]

Leave it to us. What are we talking about, guys, this time? Besides us?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes.

[Andy Samberg]

As I was texting everyone, I was like, I think we should talk about us.

[Keith]

Oh, my God. I said, I love that idea.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, God. But that is why you need a peanut gallery. Because whenever someone sends us, one of us on this pod throws, like, a lifeline in of, like, hey, let's talk about something else that's not us. And we all go, oh, thank God. Right when it's Just me and Yorm talking about just two guys. It's just us, but, I mean, people seem to like it. It was fine.

[Andy Samberg]

I think we are our own peanut gallery.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Right. Certainly easier when we're talking about something we did that we don't like.

[Andy Samberg]

Sure.

[Keith]

What is the origin of Peanut Gallery Circus?

[Andy Samberg]

Barnum and Bailey. What's your guess? Oh, let's do that bet thing.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It definitely is an area of the show where people could eat peanuts or something. Like. Like the cheap. Is it like the cheap seats or something?

[Andy Samberg]

It's got to be the cheap seats.

[Keith]

Yeah. Like hecklers in the. In the bleachers. Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

They're like, drink. They're basically drinking beers and having peanuts and they're being something.

[Keith]

It's gotta be something to do. I do immediately imagine, like, a Far side cartoon that was never made of, like, a bunch of peanuts on display

[Akiva Schaffer]

at a museum and it's the gallery

[Keith]

and then being like, these ones are without shells or something really, you know, hilarious. I mean, not to go at Gary Larson, you know, that's my dog.

[Andy Samberg]

Vaudeville era.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I know you are a fan.

[Keith]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Cheapest, highest balcony seats in the theater. Yes.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Called the peanut gallery.

[Andy Samberg]

Occupants of the higher tiers were often poorer, and they would loudly heckle performers and throw peanuts at them, which was the cheapest snack.

[Keith]

Remember that whole Bible verse about how J was smashing on peanuts and people

[Andy Samberg]

were chucking him at him?

[Jorma Taccone]

They're like, do it again.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Walk on water. More wine, please. Where the peanuts are making us thirsty. He's like, not enough.

[Andy Samberg]

So they were English.

[Keith]

Yeah. Jesus was cogni.

[Jorma Taccone]

No, no.

[Keith]

Jesus was the transporter.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right, well, we had a blast. Andy, since you don't listen, doing just two guys last week, just. I got a bit of a. My phone on beep. That's embarrassing.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, I. I. Mine on.

[Keith]

When you guys last week did just two guys. Did you get my. My voice note?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, it's in there. It was in there.

[Andy Samberg]

We loved. I loved your voice note. It was terrific. Thank you.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Really congrats on getting queen bee one week ago.

[Andy Samberg]

Thank you.

[Keith]

Appreciate that very much. You know, we can't talk about today's yet. That's got to be at the end, even without.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, keep it. Save it.

[Keith]

But yeah, I mean, obviously it was a plum role.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. If anybody's curious about what Seth's up to, it's all over his Instagram. He was definitely in Milan at the women's hockey game. That was the big deal that they won.

[Andy Samberg]

I'm not jealous.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Just having a blast.

[Andy Samberg]

That's fine. I'm. I'm Flores.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He didn't tell me. I just saw it on his Instagram.

[Keith]

And was Seth just solo doing that?

[Akiva Schaffer]

I don't know. I don't know.

[Andy Samberg]

Was he doing Stand up on a Mountain?

[Akiva Schaffer]

I think it's just the NBC thing. And they go, hey, Seth, if you want to get out there and, like, interview athletes or do anything, let us know. And he's like, oh. And just gets the vip.

[Keith]

He was like, I want to go on a bobsled.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I did. I did.

[Keith]

Update 2.

[Akiva Schaffer]

For those that don't know what he's talking about, there is a good video of Jost. He did the bobsled, and he's just terrified. It's pretty enjoyable. But by the way, that was in New York. That was in upstate New York.

[Andy Samberg]

And by the way, that's far terrifying. Like, it. It looks terrifying for professionals. Like, yeah, amateurs.

[Keith]

It's pretty much what Jost was talking about. That it was the most terrifying thing he's ever experienced.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's.

[Andy Samberg]

I mean, good on you.

[Keith]

It's kind of like. I mean, imagine going on a bobsled is like going on a roller coaster, but you're not being told that it's for sure safe.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. It can tip. Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Do they often tip? Do they?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Not often, but. But I read a whole article about it. Like, how you're not a real bobsledder until you've been in a crash. But that's horrifying.

[Keith]

Speaking of tips and the Olympics, did you guys see that video of the French guy who got smacked in the nards with the pole?

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, I did.

[Keith]

I did.

[Andy Samberg]

I mean, it's not funny.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You'd have to really be on it. But did you guys. And I don't know her name, so I'm not even going to try it. But the. The girl from the bay that just won gold in Figure SK Oakland. Yeah. There's so many clips of her. And all the clips, you're just like, she talks exactly. Like everybody.

[Jorma Taccone]

We just area exactly.

[Andy Samberg]

So awesome. I love it. Did you see the picture comparing her to Mag Dre?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes. Doing the Mac Dre pose.

[Keith]

God, it was so fucking dope.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I saw a long interview where she's just talking about Blades of Glory being

[Andy Samberg]

like, that's so dope.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I was like, oh, this is real bae.

[Keith]

Oh, my God, Yes. Big Bay Area congrats there. My friend said his wife, who's from the Bay, was watching that and watched her win and was, like, crying, and I was like, oh, okay, I gotta see what this is all about. And I watched it on YouTube because I was busy when it was happening. And I also cried just at her

[Akiva Schaffer]

just doing a beautiful, good run, just.

[Keith]

And then her story is super inspirational where she was, like, gonna quit and it was too much and she was having, like, you know, mental health about it. And then came back, and she's older than. I guess a lot of the other girls who were competing and was just felt free and like, oh, are you

[Seth Meyers]

guys talking about the Olympics?

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, we can't talk from personal experience.

[Keith]

Like, you can't be a surprise guest on your own show.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Are you in Italy right now?

[Seth Meyers]

No, I'm in a car. I just landed from the Olympics.

[Keith]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

How was it?

[Andy Samberg]

What a cool guy.

[Jorma Taccone]

It was.

[Seth Meyers]

So the bummer was. It was very cool. I was very excited because I got to stay in the athletes village.

[Keith]

But do they have any condoms?

[Akiva Schaffer]

They were out of condoms. So you. Damn.

[Keith]

Did you do it? I beat you. I beat you.

[Andy Samberg]

That part was.

[Seth Meyers]

It was on. It was on Zargon, and incidentals weren't covered. And then I had tickets to, like, Space Sluge and Space Disc.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You had a junior suite.

[Keith]

Yeah, they were all totally canceled.

[Seth Meyers]

They told me, like, keep your ass out of the minibar.

[Andy Samberg]

This spot is so inside, it's insane.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, literally, I think that's the only reason I'm calling in with terrible sound is because I want to do that space Olympics joke. But of course, you guys had to step on it with your fucking condoms bit.

[Keith]

We're so shitty. And I'm sorry about our shittiness. We can't change it. We can't flip a switch.

[Seth Meyers]

You can't flip a switch. The Olympics were the best. I went to the women's gold medal hockey game. Top five sporting events I've ever seen live. Unbelievable.

[Keith]

Yeah, I heard about that game.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's.

[Keith]

You were there.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Amazing. Basically, you. You work for NBC. NBC's like, Seth, you want to come see some stuff and interview some athletes? And then did you choose, like, ahead of time, look at the thing and go, oh, I'd go to the finals. Whoever is in that. And then it just happened to be a great game or. No, I just know. Yeah, go ahead.

[Seth Meyers]

I decided day of. And I will say I couldn't lose because the other one was that figure skating final. And Li. That girl is so awesome. And I would have loved to have seen that. But the hockey game was so intense. And then next morning, I did the Today show, which, by the way, Andy, this is more for you. If you do the Today show. Do it in Italy because you gotta show up at, like, 2 in the afternoon. Oh, that's fantastic.

[Keith]

As opposed to 4 in the morning.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. But the whole women's hockey team was there, and so awesome to talk to them. Also, you know, they scored with, like, 90 seconds left to put it into overtime, and they were all just like, yeah, no, we knew we were going to. We knew we were going to win. And I afterwards, off camera, I was like, do you really, like. With 90 seconds left? And they're all like, yeah, we just knew we were going to get them. I'm like, unbelievable. You guys are so rap.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, my God.

[Keith]

Love that confidence baller.

[Seth Meyers]

But, yeah, it was a plus.

[Keith]

Amazing.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And then you just flew right back.

[Seth Meyers]

I flew right back, and I'm glad I flew back today.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Did you get to eat? You get a slice of pizza with Stanley Tucci or anything like that?

[Andy Samberg]

No good spots, actually.

[Seth Meyers]

And he was. He was there, and he was basically saying yes to everybody but me.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So you didn't get to live La Tucci Vita?

[Seth Meyers]

No, I went. I got bred with Tony Shalhoub. Oh, okay.

[Keith]

Well, that's also good. I mean, look, we're not here to say one's better than the other.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, that seems like it would take longer.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Norm's eating Big Night is definitely some of its parts, right? I mean, those dudes are both rad on their own, but totally together. They're their best version of themselves.

[Akiva Schaffer]

What is the movie called? I've seen it. You just said it. Big Night. Is that what it was?

[Andy Samberg]

It's fantastic.

[Akiva Schaffer]

When they're young, they're young, and they're working in the Italian kitchen.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. Oh, my God. That. That movie is awesome.

[Seth Meyers]

It's a fantastic movie. You're eating pizza.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I watched that like, a year ago. I had never seen it.

[Seth Meyers]

I like that Yarm is having more pizza on our podcast than I had in Italy.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, I'm Italian.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, that's true.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, he's in Florida.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, Florida.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, you're in Florida.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And when you're there, you do what you do.

[Andy Samberg]

Naples Flora, it's not Naples.

[Keith]

Yoram said, I'm doing a podcast. Cut off everything but the crust. I want to sound as bad as possible.

[Andy Samberg]

I didn't say that, Andy.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Like, I know that I said when there was two of us. Stop.

[Andy Samberg]

Just go on to the next thing. We're wasting time with Seth.

[Akiva Schaffer]

The rules were different last week for eating burrito, but now it's all four of us.

[Andy Samberg]

We're wasting time With Seth. Let's ask more Olympic stuff. We don't have to talk about me

[Keith]

eating you guys, I'd love to chime in, but I'm watching gold medalist Alyssa Liu have a blast in the exhibition gala.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, the exhibition gala. So fun.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oakland.

[Andy Samberg]

Wait, how did you get to stay.

[Akiva Schaffer]

How did you.

[Andy Samberg]

How do you get to stay in the Olympic village? Just because you're cool.

[Seth Meyers]

That was all just a setup for my really good space Olympics joke.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He didn't think about how the condoms thing was going to be a cloud over real. Well, now I'm stayed at a five star hotel. Yorm.

[Andy Samberg]

Now I'm bummed.

[Keith]

There was a story that they ran out of condoms after like two days in Olympic village.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, I should have known that since there was something like penis adjacent. That was gonna be where you guys like left too,

[Andy Samberg]

always.

[Seth Meyers]

By the way, did you guys see Jost in the bobsled?

[Keith]

Yeah, we already talked about it, dude.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, okay, gotcha. My bad, my bad. I know. I came in late. I was waiting for my luggage.

[Keith]

I had to check.

[Seth Meyers]

Luggage.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You can add your comment about it. Well, first off, it was in New York, not in Milan, but it was on the Olympics and it's Olympic themed.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Even knowing that it had been pre taped, I was scared for his life. Even like when he threw to it, it was so scary that I thought

[Keith]

maybe it was like the equivalent of watching that guy climb the building on Netf.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, it was interesting because it had an angle which was like a GoPro attached to the actual bobsled, pointing forward where you could see how fast the track is moving if you were in it, what it looks like. And I'm guessing that's not an angle you ever get to see. Because they're not going to add a random weight to a bobsled because that would throw off the whole event. But I was like, oh, they should always show this angle. Because that was the angle that really sold how horrifying it is. It looks like you're like going in triple fast forward.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, if they all had it then. But I guess they're trying to get records of like everyone wants to make it as light as possible.

[Seth Meyers]

The other thing that helps you realize how fast it's going is you almost never hear while it's happening, somebody go, oh God.

[Andy Samberg]

That would make it more exciting.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, fuck.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'm so.

[Seth Meyers]

Fuck.

[Jorma Taccone]

Why did I choose this job?

[Seth Meyers]

Oh no.

[Keith]

I pissed.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh no. The piss is flying up into our faces.

[Andy Samberg]

I did it again, Barry. I'm so sorry.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, man, you said this suit was piss proof.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Is the suit piss proof? Do you think that he asked that?

[Keith]

I mean, I ask that before every bobsled I get on.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Monsieur, before we depart.

[Jorma Taccone]

Is the suit piss?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Poof.

[Seth Meyers]

You say when they dress you for the Met Ball, you also ask that always.

[Keith]

Yeah, I don't want to miss a thing.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

In long lines. Long lines in the bathroom.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. A lot of people taking off outfits very slowly out the bathroom.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. And then usually the high end designers, just, when you ask that, just start packing up their shit and leaving. Right?

[Keith]

That's right. And I realized we were not supposed to be in this room. We went to the wrong room.

[Seth Meyers]

To the wrong room.

[Keith]

And like.

[Jorma Taccone]

No, no, no, no.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Wait, wait, wait. No, no, no, no, no, no.

[Seth Meyers]

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What do you guys. Is this a more Turtleneck and Chain?

[Andy Samberg]

Eventually, yeah.

[Keith]

I think that's our only option.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's what we were thinking. We were thinking we would just start banging through songs because, I mean, I'm

[Seth Meyers]

very excited because, you know, it's been a long time since I've listened to it start to finish, so, I mean, I'm just gonna hang back and enjoy.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, you're just on the car ride from, like, JFK right now.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. All right, great. That's a long ass car ride.

[Keith]

Seth. Did you know it's our hundredth app?

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, it is the 100th up. I. I think I kind of knew it was coming. I mean, it would have been a real bummer if I wasn't here for one hundo.

[Keith]

Agreed.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Do you guys do quantifiers of time for your kids in, like, bluey episodes when they don't understand how long something is gonna take? You're like, oh, that's like two and a half buoy episodes or like, whatever.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

But I'd say a podcast is a ride from jfk. So you're good, Seth?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, yeah, I'm good. That's a good way of looking at

[Keith]

it, I guess, depending on the time of day.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, yeah, of course. That's very important.

[Andy Samberg]

Good ad.

[Seth Meyers]

Good ad, Andy.

[Keith]

Thank you.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right. Do we want to listen to a song and see what memories it brings back and see?

[Andy Samberg]

Certainly. Can I just ask a question? Because I didn't listen to all of the last episode that you guys talked about Turtleneck and Chain. Did you talk about the intro?

[Akiva Schaffer]

We only did. We're back.

[Andy Samberg]

Gotcha. Okay.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But we watched the video and we talked about Rock Vodka, and then we talked about how the Lamborghini was From the Rock Vodka shoot. Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Cool.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And honestly, there were even comments about how it was the most Yorm compliments for your performance on the episode. You weren't there to hear it. And knowing that you didn't even listen to the episode is so baller. Because you have no idea. You have no idea how nice people were talking behind your back. There were literally comments. The kindest, most generous yorm comments in the history. I will deny that episodes of the pod. It was the one about yorm.

[Andy Samberg]

Just me screaming. Me screaming about dicks.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. But we were loving it. People love held up very well. And you weren't here to even hear the compliments and then didn't even listen to it, so. Fantastic.

[Andy Samberg]

Do we have any things that we cut out from that? Because I do remember platinum in New Zealand is obviously in. But do we have any screams that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No. Is platinum in New Zealand in? It is in New Zealand. I don't know if that is there. Seth, does that ring a bell?

[Seth Meyers]

No, definitely not.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No. I think that is the thing we cut.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay, so that's what I want to talk about then. I was like, I was always bummed that we didn't because we are technically platinum in New Zealand. But that means, like, 6,000 copies were sold.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes. It was the only place we had gone platinum at that point.

[Keith]

Whoa, whoa. You don't got to talk numbers. Let's just. It's just a fact.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay. Still got our plaque.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We definitely had it recorded and in the song at certain point and then switched it for something else. Okay.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay. Well, that's my add on to that.

[Keith]

Maybe because we cut a chunk out or something.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes.

[Keith]

I feel like we would have kept that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's definitely very good. We definitely all like it.

[Keith]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I forgot that it was platinum. Do it the way you did it. You want again?

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, I don't want to blow this mic out or scare people upstairs.

[Keith]

Just back off it. Just back off it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, back the up.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay. Ready?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

Platinum in New Zealand.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It was so proud.

[Andy Samberg]

And that's it, right?

[Seth Meyers]

It is very fun when. You know, one of my favorite things about being over in London, talking to those new nascent SNL cast and writers. Obviously, they're huge fans of yours.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh.

[Seth Meyers]

And, like, it is so fun to tell them, like, how you guys cut great stuff all the time. Like, they're like, what? Cause they're like, it's so tight. I'm like, you have no idea.

[Andy Samberg]

You're like, I wish it would rain even longer.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

When is their premiere episode?

[Seth Meyers]

I believe March 21st.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's so exciting.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, it's really cool.

[Keith]

Is that already announced or is that an exclusive?

[Seth Meyers]

I don't know.

[Jorma Taccone]

Cause you know, I'll be feeding for them clicks. Yeah, we need to get them clicks. Inject it right into your dick vein, Seth. We gonna get those British clicks. Clicks, clicks. Click, click, click, click, click, click, click. Paparazzi.

[Seth Meyers]

Jesus.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Do you think they say across the pond there about us?

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, interesting.

[Keith]

I was thinking about that. I almost said back across the pond, you know.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Right, well, because it sounds like a more British way to say it. Maybe it originated over there and we're across the pond.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, let's ask the peanut geller that was from earlier.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Seth has no clue.

[Keith]

Oh my God.

[Andy Samberg]

It's so fucking funny. Seth

[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Keith]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Jorma Taccone]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Keith]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Keith]

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[Keith]

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[Seth Meyers]

right, what do we got?

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right, track two after we're back is entitled Mama. You guys just flag me down if you want me to pause. But let's, let's, let's see what we think about this.

[Seth Meyers]

It's called Mama.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's called Mama and it's two minutes long.

[Andy Samberg]

Wait, wait. Can I say something about we're back, which I assume you guys didn't talk about?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Sure.

[Andy Samberg]

We were going to end the album with a song called We're Still Back, which was all about how disgusting our balls were.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Right.

[Andy Samberg]

And I will say it's a heater and we did ask Ice Cube to be on the song and talk about how disgusting his balls were. And we also sent it to LP of the great LP from Run the Jewels fame. And also his own before that. And also to Ninja of Diane. Word. All those dudes, except for Ice Cue the lp, sent the most disgusting lyrics possible about his balls. I go right back. Which is horrifying.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Fantastic.

[Andy Samberg]

Ninja was also sent a whole verse that was horrifying. And then Ice Cube said, no, I.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, the reason it was an Ice Cube is because the song was formatted similar to. I forgot the name of the song, but the Hickory Dickory Dock.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

What was that one?

[Keith]

Nursery Rhymes or whatever. Right.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. And it's where it's like, yo, yo, yo. Where it's a kid going, ice Cube. Yo, Ice Cube.

[Jorma Taccone]

Blah, blah.

[Andy Samberg]

It's Akiva doing the kid.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And we've. So we had a fake kid in the beginning of ours, like, you talking about your dick so much.

[Jorma Taccone]

Why don't you say something about your ball? Your boss.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, yeah. And we're like, oh, okay.

[Jorma Taccone]

Here's a little something you should know about my ball.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This. Yeah. And it was just all.

[Seth Meyers]

And did it. Did you record it?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes, we did. And then guess what, Seth? We thought it was too immature.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Right? It was gross.

[Andy Samberg]

So you'll be proud to know that we.

[Keith]

Yeah, I mean, we've still kind of been talking about putting it out, though,

[Akiva Schaffer]

so it's still good.

[Andy Samberg]

I love that song. Jay Zone made that beat.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So we could ask Jay Zone if it's okay. It's not like it's.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, he's fine with it. I've already asked him.

[Keith]

I mean, it's a heater.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We could dig it up. But then you got to put both LP and DatNinjas verses on it.

[Keith]

Yeah, well, maybe LPs. Maybe LPs

[Andy Samberg]

burned.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right, ready? Here comes Mama. This one goes out.

[Jorma Taccone]

From the bottom of our hearts to

[Akiva Schaffer]

the most important lady in our lives.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's time to pay some respect.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I hope you're proud of us, because

[Keith]

we're proud of you.

[Andy Samberg]

Mama, you raised me right. Mama showed me the light. Mama, through panic strife Mama, you gave us life. When I fell down, you would that have picked me up. When I felt bad, you wouldn't let it build me up Gave everything you had in the world to me and you made me the man I'm supposed to be.

[Jorma Taccone]

J Even though I don't say it often enough, I appreciate everything you did for us. Never take it for granted.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Cause it ain't Hard to see the

[Keith]

best parts of you were now a

[Jorma Taccone]

part of me oh my. And when it was cold outside you kept us warming hell us down my

[Andy Samberg]

boys who once mom, get out.

[Jorma Taccone]

You're making a track, you idiot. Just leave

[Andy Samberg]

my want true love my heart My mom showing respect in the form of the song so when life gets hard and it makes you cry I'll always be dead or wiping jeopardy

[Jorma Taccone]

ride My mom's my number one fan, my best friend and I'll never disrespect I know you said you weren't hungry but I made ants on a long the.

[Andy Samberg]

How's your little club going?

[Jorma Taccone]

Not a club, it's a rap.

[Andy Samberg]

Leave these here anyway and eat him if you're fine.

[Jorma Taccone]

Go to hell Mo. She's an angel on earth with invisible wings and put no one above and

[Akiva Schaffer]

someone winter a spring or fall.

[Andy Samberg]

Have I seen the remote?

[Jorma Taccone]

Leave us alone. You leave us alone. I hope you go jump in front

[Andy Samberg]

of a bullet and pick a save my bullet cuz she will never see.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Never mind.

[Keith]

I found.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Everything.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay.

[Jorma Taccone]

Shut the up D. Be nice to Dan. Can't believe you have sex with that guy. Get the out now.

[Keith]

Okay, okay.

[Seth Meyers]

Delightful.

[Keith]

Delightful.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's a real. It's a sketch in a nice way.

[Seth Meyers]

It's a nice sketch.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's well observed. It's an observation about life and about

[Keith]

music and co starring guest starring the mother of Akiva's children, Liz.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, Liz killed that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

There were a few comments last week that noticed because when Liz came on to talk about that, she was there when we were shooting the Just Two Guys video for one moment and helped throw balloons when we had just met her at the movie awards. She was over one of those days, Andy, and she came to give her pov. And then when she was leaving the pod last week, she kind of started putting on a mom voice like, well, have fun with your little pod. You know, it's so great. You guys are so creative. It was like that. But it's exactly this fake mom voice. And there were definitely some people being like, oh, it's so great. Liz reprised her character for Mama. So shout out to whoever made those comments for clocking that drawing the parallels.

[Seth Meyers]

I will admit to forgetting what the turn was. And it's also really fun at this point career. Anybody listening for the first time, like, knows something's coming. And it's so fun to try to guess what it is. And certainly not what I guess. And then you just know it's gonna be just fun. Beat after beat.

[Akiva Schaffer]

There's a big tradition of songs in, I think, every genre, but especially hip hop, about their moms being so special to them.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, we talked also about the Party Andersons last week. Week too. And I think we have a thing about, you know, three guys that are brothers.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Now you guys are doing 99.9 of the yelling. And I remember it was just because I didn't. Wasn't, like, able to hit the same tone of petulant. Like, my acting wasn't good enough.

[Andy Samberg]

Andy's is so good. It's so petulant.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I couldn't find the right yelling tone. It felt faker. And your guys felt more like genuine teenagers telling people to get out of their room.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And mine felt more like a person pretending to do a voice of a teenager. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

We did try funny yelling harder. Harder than it seems.

[Keith]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Keith]

There were a few in there that I would have replaced now, looking back.

[Seth Meyers]

Interesting.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And you know, Liam would say that playing drunk is actually one of the hardest things to do. Agreed.

[Keith]

That's why I'm always so impressed by Poehler. She's so good at it.

[Seth Meyers]

So good at it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. Like, especially for comedy.

[Keith]

Yes.

[Seth Meyers]

You know when she was really good at playing drunk was when her and Steve Martin did it in the show where they cut it and did surf meeting instead.

[Andy Samberg]

I knew there was gonna be a drop, but I didn't expect it to be so cruel.

[Keith]

Well, I also enjoyed it when her and Adam Scott do it on Parks. Okay. That's another good example. When it did air, the beat for

[Akiva Schaffer]

Mama was made by Knockdown, a producer that we didn't meet in person, but no.

[Andy Samberg]

Made some hot shit, though.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Little shout out for it. Sounds great.

[Keith]

Totally good beat. Very of the moment at that time.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yep. I love that we start adding in things shattering. She's like, watch it. So what? We, like, threw a bottle at her, which is pretty extreme.

[Seth Meyers]

Is this too early to ask a why, like, just sequencing question? Why is that your second song?

[Keith]

Yeah, it's a good question.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I think it was comedy forward.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And because it. We knew, like, I just said sex was going to be next, which is, like, on just, like, sketch comedy level, way less funny than Mama in terms of, like. I don't know, in terms of, like, hard joke that you could actually just do as a sketch. And so it felt good, I think, to kind of take it in another direction also. It has all three of us.

[Keith]

That's what I was going to say.

[Andy Samberg]

Speaking of sequencing, just because I did find this fascinating when we Were mastering. A lot of the reasons, like. And you guys can correct me if I'm wrong, but, like. But a lot of the reasons why you would have, like, the fourth song or the third song be like, your big single is because the bigger the grooves on a record are, the louder and better it sounds. And so you want your biggest songs to be on the beginning of the record where the grooves are the widest. And so a lot of that was coming from sound quality of sequencing.

[Keith]

But Mama was definitely not that. But we did sort of believe in the batting order thing of third and fourth track are hopefully your singles, Right?

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Keith]

Sure enough, on this, it was Just Had Sex and Jack Sparrow.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But you're saying the reason pop records kind of evolved to that at some point where you know that big singles are usually in certain places is actually because of, like, groove depth.

[Keith]

Yes. Yes. That's a nice history tidbit. And we were dealing mostly with CDs at this point, but still just sort of adhering to it because we were doing. Trying to do ours. It just feels good the way other people really do them.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, but. But, Seth, we. We really did very much think about C sequencing.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, like, obviously I was certain you guys did, and I was just curious how. So that all makes sense, though.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Keith]

Well, here's a question then. What about a redraft, you know, of our sequencing? Would you still put Mama second if we were to do it today? I don't know. I don't know that I would.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We got a lot of. I remember because the joke is so accessible. I remember getting a lot of positive feedback on it when, like, people would be at the Encino house and they'd be like, oh, play us a few things. And we would play a few things, and Mama would always play really well the same way. It was just to you, Seth, watching you in the car. And I think it's because the joke is the kind that's a joke joke that you can. You can laugh at it right away. The way that, like, we talked about I'm on a Boat. How we sometimes would get really mediocre responses because there's not clear laughs. It's a tone piece. But we knew I'm on a Boat is, quote, unquote, much better and could go much farther than, say, Mama. But Mama's easier in a room to play for people if you're trying to get a response.

[Seth Meyers]

Also, Mama does not need any visual.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes.

[Seth Meyers]

Like the comedy.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Correct. It's. It's more fun that way. Probably.

[Andy Samberg]

It is half Sex.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, the mind's eye doing all the work for you guys in a way that like just have sex was, you know, obviously kick ass video.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, I mean, certainly. I mean, I guess we're back is extremely self deprecating as well. Well, but what? Also self deprecating.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's also just a really different tone. Right. We're doing like aggro.

[Andy Samberg]

I think it's more that. Yeah. Like, it's a nice tone shift.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We're being fake aggressive in we're back and then we're being fake aggress. Well, I just had sex is different too.

[Andy Samberg]

So.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. Anyways, it's just all the different elements of each song trying to create a balance. Yeah. So. Yeah. So that's mama. So I just had sex. And next we'll skip that till we get to snl.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay.

[Keith]

Same Jack Sparrow.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Jack Sparrow. After that we'll skip that. And then we have attracted to us featuring Beck. Shall we?

[Keith]

Sure.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, man.

[Keith]

Okay.

[Andy Samberg]

Let's go right to the show.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This is a minute and 52. I just like to set a runtime and expectation here.

[Jorma Taccone]

Here.

[Seth Meyers]

How long is it again?

[Akiva Schaffer]

One minute, 52 seconds.

[Seth Meyers]

Sorry, you dropped out. That's it. Just checking. Okay, great.

[Keith]

Because we're not in a car.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes.

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No.

[Seth Meyers]

And I'm just so happy that Jeff hasn't jumped on to give me for the fact that I'm doing this in the car. And I just feel like that's a lot of growth from Jeff's perspective, honestly.

[Keith]

Your audio's warm and round and nice.

[Andy Samberg]

It could be that he's. Except it could be that he's just giving up at this point.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, that's true. He was. He always said he would be. He would care for the first 99.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. He was like, it's fine. It's. It's fine.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right, here we go.

[Keith]

Can we stop, Keith?

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Keith]

So this is a beat that Beck made.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes.

[Akiva Schaffer]

For us.

[Seth Meyers]

Sounds very Beck.

[Keith]

Yeah, for us. From scratch, Right?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. So we had met Beck, but I don't remember why or where. Was it through our management or was it just.

[Keith]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

And we went out to his house and like saw his whole operation, which was real cool. Like, he has a lot of. Of talented producers working with him and they're always making shit. Like it's an extremely creative house that he was working out of, which I don't think was actually his house. Right. That was just where he worked out of.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'm not sure, but it was out in Malibu and we were big fans and he Kept being, like, asking us for styles of things to make. Like. Like, what. What's. What's the vibe? What are you guys trying to do? And we're like, we have zero ideas. We have no clue what we're trying to do.

[Andy Samberg]

We were such a mess compared to him. He's just, like, constantly making stuff.

[Seth Meyers]

We're like, ah.

[Keith]

We just, like, want to work with you. Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And just our approach to music is so high concept that I think a normal musician might come in and be like, what is this? Oh, you know that feeling you have when you just broke up, but all you want to do is eat ice cream? Like, that's a feeling, you know, Like. Whereas ours are like, we need a full high concept here. If we had had one, we could be like, oh, make us something like this because we have an idea that needs a. But we had nothing. But eventually he just started making goofy stuff, and I think sent us an outline of this, and we figured out what we wanted to do vaguely enough that we.

[Andy Samberg]

We did.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We did.

[Keith]

And it was actually the first time we worked that way. We were like, oh, and then can you put, like, a bridge part here? And da, da, da. And. But we were like, it should be really, really short.

[Seth Meyers]

I like, by the way, that you guys, like, your hero invites you over. You don't come up with any ideas first, and then you just keep having him make you stuff.

[Andy Samberg]

That's a very good way to.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. Nope, that one didn't inspire anything. Try something else.

[Jorma Taccone]

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. We will run you into the ground.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That one didn't make our. Didn't make us. Our brains pop.

[Seth Meyers]

You not.

[Jorma Taccone]

Best of Beck.

[Andy Samberg]

And then we made this song out of everything we could have made with him.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But, yeah, I do think before we went to his house, we had the concept and the idea, and we're like, okay, now we can come over to, like, fashion it.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay, great.

[Andy Samberg]

Got it.

[Keith]

I didn't remember that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I don't think we just sat there

[Keith]

cold being like, honestly, my brain is pulling a YM on this one. Just the cupboard is bare.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. I'm like. I'm like. I thought we did, but.

[Keith]

Okay.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay. Well, I don't even think we recorded the lyrics over there. Right. We just got all the elements of the beat we needed.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, I think. I think it was elements we. We don't record over there. Yeah.

[Keith]

Anyway, hit us in the Titus. What did we know and what didn't we know?

[Akiva Schaffer]

We could ask Beck for a voice note.

[Keith]

Never that.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. Let's waste this time. More.

[Jorma Taccone]

White girls.

[Keith]

Got to start with white girls.

[Jorma Taccone]

Black girl. You are attracted to us.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Come on, come on, come on.

[Seth Meyers]

You are attracted to us. You are attracted to us.

[Jorma Taccone]

Attracted to us. But you're never gonna get it. Never, Never gonna get it. No, you're never gonna get it. Because we're shy. We're shy. We're shy. We're all so shy.

[Keith]

We're shy, Seth. That's the joke.

[Andy Samberg]

That's the joke. Okay. What was the original version of this? And we were a little confused.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I mean, we're. We're doing a version of no Matter What. Like, we always talk about how we were fans of. And we might have talked about this on incredibad. Like, songs that sound like a party.

[Keith]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And there was a lot on the Far side. Bizarre Ride to the Far side, or a few that. That had that feeling where there's just yelling in the background in a fun way that just feels like you're. You're in a party. And there's Beastie Boy songs that have that vibe.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

So we recorded full tracks of us just fucking around as if it was a party. We would layer those tracks, and then on several songs, I would reorder those party tracks and just put them. And I had them from old, like, party Andersons and things like that. And I remember taking old files and stacking them and just using it as, like, a base layer party track.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And just the ad libs on here feel like we just, like, put the song on loud and yelled along to it and stuff.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Keith]

Honestly, Keith, the first one I can think of is Marvin Gaye. They don't got to give it up. It's in the background the whole time.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

It just gives it a vibe. It's great.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And then there's all kinds of braggy songs about liking all types of girls. Yeah.

[Keith]

You got Girls by the Beastie Boys. You got Cream, Wu Tang. That's just two out of, like, let's say thousands.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes. But do you guys remember this wasn't. Originally we thought we were saying different things when we were talking about doing this. And it wasn't attracted to us.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I remember there was an attractive to us.

[Andy Samberg]

Attractive to us.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Is that what it was?

[Andy Samberg]

You were attractive to us.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. There's one that's, like, the same lyrics. Like, white girls. You are attractive to us. Black girls. So it was more about what we like, but we were going to name every.

[Andy Samberg]

But then when we were doing it, it sounded more, like, attracted.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

And then we switched, like, I literally heard a different thing. I thought we were saying attracted to us. And I feel like.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But it was funnier bragging being like all types of ladies like us. But then of course you're never going to get it. Cuz we're shy little guys.

[Keith]

We are a little shy guys.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. Tiny little Alvin.

[Keith]

So you need not apply.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right, let's hear Beck's part. Fake French from your.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes. And I think that the inspiration for that was Latigra and they had some old like French thing. And I had an old record that was like French samples or whatever that was like scratching up, like learn French. And I remember like the Que l Ratille was part of that. I don't even know what it means. What time is it?

[Keith]

Obviously love getting Beck to say we're more the introspective.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It actually. And it fits. It fits with his vibe.

[Keith]

It's probably my favorite line of that song.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right, let me keep going though.

[Jorma Taccone]

Nerdy Girl, you are attracted to us. Oh my God. Girl, you are attracted to us. My hippy dippy Girl, you are attracted to us. Girl, you are attracted to us. Space girl, you are.

[Andy Samberg]

A fade out rare fade out.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. Well, the party's gonna go forever and

[Andy Samberg]

it goes into infinity.

[Keith]

The Beck singing is the best part.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I mean, very clearly the harmonized, like layered, very beautiful.

[Andy Samberg]

It weirdly has some slight touch of emotion to it, kind of.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. Well, he found an actual beautiful melody.

[Keith]

I mean, I guess the question, the real question coming at it of this for me guys, is are all those types of girls attracted to us?

[Jorma Taccone]

Hit us in the Titus.

[Keith]

And then you guys couldn't see it. You guys listening? Couldn't see it. But I ducked out of frame after I said that. Hit us with a Titus duck. But you can't see the frame. But just if you could, you would know I was ducking out of frame. It's kind of like a.

[Seth Meyers]

He immediately removed his Titus from the frame. Did not get hit before you could hit a minute.

[Andy Samberg]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

You look great. You're.

[Andy Samberg]

Thank you, Keith.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Fits you wonderful.

[Keith]

Mmm.

[Andy Samberg]

Snug as a bug in a rug. But it's not a rug. It's a beach fleece crew. It is.

[Akiva Schaffer]

People would have been confused like, ah. They would have got on Vori and searched. Hey, can I buy that bug that Yorm's been wearing?

[Andy Samberg]

It's the ideal fleece to wear as the weather starts to get chilly. It's even made from 71% recycled fabrics.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I got you beat. Cause I got the stratotech hoodie which is so soft it wicks moisture. So f yours Yorm.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, you think you have me beat because for exercise I wear my favorite core shorts, the one short every sport. So what do you think of that, Keev?

[Akiva Schaffer]

And you look good doing it.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, you know what, Keith?

[Seth Meyers]

When mom wears her viori tennis skirt,

[Andy Samberg]

she looks like she's ready to play.

[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

You know, I did get some stuff. I did get the sweatpants that are the beach sweatpants. I forget the exact name. And they're very cozy, very comfy and they are pretty good. I can imagine that if it was a little chilly beach walk, it'd be pretty great.

[Andy Samberg]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes.

[Andy Samberg]

Like I got all kinds of ideas, right? I mean, I have that wine that we've talked about, dog humpers that like flew off the shelves. And my new one is I'm just going to collect rocks and make those as like little bookends for bookshelves. What do you think?

[Akiva Schaffer]

You're always scheming and I like it.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

I feel like Andy used to wear a lot of that.

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[Akiva Schaffer]

I love that.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Fuck yeah. Right, Keith? Oh, you can't say fuck out.

[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

I know, but that's your outer body. I'm talking about your burrito brain and you need to not forget about it. I know you're forgetful.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, oh, we're talking about like my mental problems.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Exactly.

[Keith]

Oh.

[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Andy Samberg]

Oh, bing bong all over the place. Thank you so much.

[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Keith]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Andy Samberg]

I think that's like the main thing you talk about, right? Yeah, yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Seth Meyers]

I will say, like, that would be a fun song to, like, scream along to at a party. Like, it is a great, fun jam.

[Keith]

So here's the question. Is it overrated or underrated?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Keith it's not rated.

[Seth Meyers]

It's not rated, I guess.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Underrated.

[Andy Samberg]

I don't think it's rated at all.

[Keith]

It's unrated.

[Akiva Schaffer]

If something's unrated, I think, and you like it, then it's underrated. Sure.

[Keith]

Well, you know what unrated means.

[Andy Samberg]

X O. I think that's. That one's a neutral to me.

[Seth Meyers]

This one, though, is like unrated. Like a movie where the. The MPAA was just like, we don't care.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Keith]

Just. No one's going to see it. Go with God.

[Seth Meyers]

Just whatever. Just do whatever you want.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, it's fine.

[Seth Meyers]

Do whatever.

[Andy Samberg]

If you like it, you like it. You don't.

[Keith]

It's not going to see a. I'm

[Seth Meyers]

gonna say I'm a little surprised more people don't remember it, myself included, because it is super catchy and fun.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, that's nice.

[Seth Meyers]

Well, yeah, you made a lot of songs.

[Andy Samberg]

I was just at a baseball stadium today and I was reminded that no one plays. No, I was just reminded that no one plays we are a crowd and I feel like that's a similar kind of fun vibe. Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. We did another that's in the next album.

[Seth Meyers]

It would have been funny if Jorm is like, I was at a minor league baseball game and it was two different Players walk up music.

[Andy Samberg]

Who dice.

[Keith]

Well, Seth, I think I did tell you this, but when me and Keith put out Bash Brothers, they did play it at the Oakland Coliseum and all three of us were celebrating for like a month.

[Andy Samberg]

We were like, we fucking did it. Badass. By the way, this is a general out to any MLB player. If you want us to do your walk up music, Kiva will do it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'll do it. Yeah, gladly.

[Andy Samberg]

Moving on.

[Keith]

The guy swimming in free time.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, he loves it.

[Andy Samberg]

He loves it. Do whatever you want.

[Seth Meyers]

I would like. I think the most fun thing to walk up to would be yorm song from Everyone's a Critic.

[Keith]

Oh my God. If you want to be our favorite

[Andy Samberg]

athlete, I mean, that's baller. If you. If you play that and then hit a ding dong home runner. Oh, yeah, dude.

[Akiva Schaffer]

The. The pitcher is going to be his pants. Hearing that while you're walking up to the plate, the pitcher's not going to know what to throw.

[Jorma Taccone]

Did we talk about this before?

[Keith]

Somebody just reminded me of this this week that a couple years ago, Josh Allen did the ancestors Protect me celebration on a touchdown with one of his teammates.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

Wow.

[Andy Samberg]

Heaven. Nothing fucking cooler.

[Keith]

Heaven.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I don't know that we talked about it, but someone sent us like the video of it. It was rad.

[Seth Meyers]

That's outstanding.

[Keith]

Congrats on all your success, Joshua.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, yeah. He's an F ball player.

[Keith]

You and a lordy. You're doing great.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Those are the two.

[Andy Samberg]

By the way. This next song is one of my favorite faves and my. My kids love it.

[Seth Meyers]

Andy's gonna start doing a bit on the pod where he confidence builds guys who need it the least.

[Keith]

Glen Powell, you're crushing it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So next up, Andy, is a track called Rocky.

[Keith]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Tell us the inspo, Andy.

[Keith]

Well, this is an interesting one. The inspo is. I think I could beat Mike Tyson. Fresh Prince, right?

[Andy Samberg]

Well, yeah, yeah, but.

[Keith]

But it's also not. Not that different from that song.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But it's also Aaron Carter's the Day I beat Shaq.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, right.

[Keith]

Which was based also on. I think I could beat Mike Tyson.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes. But because he had done that one which was so the same, I felt like, well, what if I made a third? I think it took the. Like I'm just copying another. I mean, yes. You know, gj, Jeff and the Fresh Prince are funny on purpose, so it would maybe be a comedy crime to just take their song and make another version. But there was something about Aaron Carter having done a second.

[Keith]

Agreed.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That kind of felt like it Opened the door to like, oh, I'm gonna do sarcastic.

[Keith]

Another one of those.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes, another one of those.

[Keith]

And also the beat, which is a Newmark beat, inspired it. And we were like, we have to use this beat. It's so fucking awesome. In like Jurassic 5e and throwback. But yes, I think when we. I mean, let's listen to it and then we can talk about it.

[Andy Samberg]

Wait, wait. Little, little backstory on the beat. This sample cost us a bunch of money. And we looked at each other and we were like, it sounds so rad. And we paid for the fucking sample. And then Newmark was going to use this same sample on his album like a year later. And he called us and he was like, yo, did you pay for that sample? And we were like, yeah. And he was like, no way I was going to pay that. And we were like, holy shit.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You know, I mean, it is funny how with the sample stuff, it always was this. Not always, but it felt like it always was. The songs that we knew were not the big songs that would like, generate revenue that cost the most.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And we'd always have to have that moment where you're like, oh, so we're gonna pay blank for I Just had Sex and then pay triple blank for Rocky.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes. Because we just, we like, we put our money where our comedy was.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. We're just like. Cuz we want to do the album and that's what that song costs and we're not changing it.

[Andy Samberg]

And.

[Keith]

Okay, but it's about the beat more than the quality of the song. It was just. We musically liked them so much.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, they hold hands like.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I know, but it's funny that, like, when we're shooting the videos, we'd want to make the budget of the video kind of commensurate with what we thought the potential upside was of the song.

[Keith]

We did not exercise that restraint on the beats.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes, we were more discerning on video,

[Akiva Schaffer]

but on the beats, we're not like, this song's not worth it. It's not a hit. We're like, yo, it's worth it. It's a 50 second interlude with us shouting, it's fine.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes.

[Keith]

We're never going to recoup anyway.

[Andy Samberg]

Come on, let's be honest with ourselves.

[Keith]

Although on this album, we knew that we would.

[Andy Samberg]

This one. Yeah, this one. This one is promoted correctly.

[Keith]

Well, not new. We thought we would.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'm going to pose a question because Rocky, I always was like, is it different enough from those other songs?

[Keith]

That's what I wanted to talk about after. Because that's my concern with it too.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, and I had it at the time. So let's see how we feel now.

[Jorma Taccone]

Here's a little story that I think you'll like. It's not about Jack or Iron Mike so buckle your seat belts, it's gonna get choppy. And listen to the tale of the time I fought Rocky. One day me and all my friends were hanging talking about which of the

[Keith]

girls was most bangin.

[Jorma Taccone]

Then one friend says, you know who's really tough? Rocky hit me home, the boxer man. I said, yeah, no, what about him? He said, he's really tough. No way, man, I'm calling you bluff. I think that I could take him in to prove my point. I'll challenge him in public. So the very next day stayed true to my word and I snuck on TV so I could be heard. I said, rocky, if you're out there I think you're a nerd and I'll lick you and bury you like a dog herd. I got kicked out but the candle was lit Cause the people had to know if my claim was legit it made the headlines. Then I got the call it was Rocky and he wanted a brawl. We negotiated terms and set the date. Then I went into training to add some muscle weight While I punched on in a rickety shack he was sipping on wine Having models rub his back at the weigh in boy, the tension was high. Me and Rock toe toed it toe and eye to eye I talked some trash. We got pulled apart. I shot him one last hit to strike fear in his heart Skip ahead, the big night was finally here. My body was ripped and my mind was clear. We entered the arena to the roar of the crowd People chanting my name. I never felt so proud. Faced off once more in the center of the ring. Touched gloves, then a prayer, then the bell went. He hit me with a left and shattered my face. Then a right. Set my teeth all over the place. Then another great punch caved in my eye socket.

[Akiva Schaffer]

A great punch.

[Jorma Taccone]

My trainer yelled, stop it. But nobody heard him and he crushed my wrist. Blood sprayed off my face and onto some kids. They yelled out and Rocky obliged. I had to think of some way to turn the tide so I leaned back to hit him with all of my mighty. Took a swing but he caught me with a sucker punch right. Then a sucker punch left and a sucker punch right. Then 22 consecutive sucker punch right. He tore off my arms and beat me with them which obscured my vision.

[Andy Samberg]

My favorite one, my shin, the bones

[Jorma Taccone]

splinter shot right out of my skin. People barfed in the crowd. They were going insane. Then Rocky punched my nose bone into my brain. I was quivering and twitching when I soiled my shorts. Then Rocky. Rocky pissed on me. Customary in sports. The doctor came out and pronounced me dead. And that was the night I fought Rocky.

[Andy Samberg]

Some pretty amazing scratching by Newmark at the end.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I was gonna say the best scratching we've ever had on any of our albums by DJ Newmark.

[Andy Samberg]

Where.

[Seth Meyers]

What is that sample from?

[Akiva Schaffer]

From?

[Andy Samberg]

We can ask Newmark. I'm not sure. I mean, he is a crate digger. So he goes deep.

[Seth Meyers]

Great. It's.

[Keith]

I mean, he digs deep in the crates. It was James Brown.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. I'm gonna say, like, that may have been, like, very, very James Brown.

[Seth Meyers]

Greatest Greatest Hits, Volume 1.

[Akiva Schaffer]

When you look at the, like, writers on Wikipedia, when you look at the writers of the song, there's, like, four other names of people that we've never met that must have been the writers of whatever that song was.

[Keith]

Beat goes. Still goes. I love that beat.

[Andy Samberg]

It's great.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, it sounds great. I know. It's partially why we were just like, ah, let's just put it on there. But you.

[Keith]

It.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It also is just crazier than any of theirs. But also, Rocky's a fictional character. That's a splitting hairs difference. But he's not a real person.

[Keith]

Oh, didn't realize you had a studio executive on the pod.

[Seth Meyers]

Is that the same turn in those songs?

[Keith]

I think it's. It's definitely the one in the Fresh Prince one where Mike Tyson knocks him out.

[Seth Meyers]

Got it.

[Keith]

And our. Our escalation was Jessica.

[Andy Samberg]

But he doesn't piss on him, though.

[Keith]

To be fair, he doesn't piss on him. And the bone splinter doesn shoot.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Right. Even though it's customary in sports.

[Andy Samberg]

I mean, my favorite. My favorite line is to, like, threw acid in my face, which obscured my vision.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. It's just a minor inconvenience.

[Keith]

Also, like, 22 consecutive sucker punch rights.

[Seth Meyers]

I know it's early, but they threw a great punch. It's just like, that. You're being so. I don't know. You're being such a good sport about it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

I mean, like, also, they barfed in the crowd. They were going insane. Like, he's really excited for the crowd. Like, it's like, this is just entertainment,

[Akiva Schaffer]

but, like, they were going insane. Yeah. You're so happy. Happy.

[Keith]

Just happy to be there. Yeah. You know, I think it's like a solid B. Hit us in the tit. Us.

[Seth Meyers]

Yep.

[Andy Samberg]

Wait, Keith, what Was the song that you made before this, though? That was that same vibe we like.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, right. I think I might have killed the President.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes.

[Keith]

Can we talk about that song?

[Andy Samberg]

Yes, please. And can we find that fucking song?

[Akiva Schaffer]

I forgot about it.

[Keith]

That's one of my favorite things you've ever done, Akiv.

[Andy Samberg]

Keeva went like, rogue and just made this song with, like, out us.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I wasn't avoiding it, Yormi. When you were saying. And there was something else. I honestly had. No, no.

[Keith]

Yes. But we talked about putting that song out on our previous record, Keev.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It was a fake Will Smithy kind of happy ass song. And I don't remember the. Maybe one of you remember better than me about, like, what the.

[Keith]

It's about getting Winter soldiered.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And I wake up and I'm like, I think I might have killed the President.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, you're just like a happy. Go lucky fucking dude. And you're laughing and. Oh, it's a beat I made too. Right. I think it's like, real shit.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. I mean, this was like 2003, 2004, like, we made. When we were making Kablamo, Stork Patrol and the Heist.

[Andy Samberg]

I think I was mimicking it off of Fresh Prince stuff and, like, made a similar sounding beat. Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And it's. It's like the only song I've ever done on my own where I just was like, I will record a song.

[Andy Samberg]

It was really funny.

[Keith]

It's very good.

[Andy Samberg]

I think I might have Killed the President. Wow.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'd love to find that.

[Keith]

By the way, it's. I like it way more than Rocky comedically.

[Andy Samberg]

I do remember loving it.

[Keith]

Yes.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'm sure it's. I'm sure it's less tight now, like, joke, joke, joke. Because we weren't worried about the audience or having as much discipline. Yeah.

[Keith]

But it was for sure the tin template.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. God, I forgot all about that completely till now. I wonder. It's on a drive in my closet somewhere, I bet you.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, my memory is like a steel trap, guy, so anytime you need to lean on me, I'm here. Notoriously, I'm here for you, Barry. I'm here for you, Allan. And I'm here for you, whatever the last guy's name is.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right, so we've talked about a lot, guys. Seth's still driving, so I guess New York traffic's no better than it was when last time I was there.

[Andy Samberg]

One pod equals JFK home.

[Akiva Schaffer]

By the way, I listened with commercials to last week's episode, and I, you know, I Never heard. There's a lot of talking going on there. A lot of dorm talking about us. Some Seth talking about us. And it's interesting. Maybe I will do a commercial this week. We'll see. We'll see what happens.

[Andy Samberg]

We're just using it as ways to get back at each other.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm gonna say I actually. I find it. It really moves forward the narrative of the pod and I found myself not skipping because there was so much fucking. So I don't know. I think it's a very nice choice.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. Yeah, I liked it. It's getting one person's perspective where nobody can correct them.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, exactly. They finally get to speak their truth.

[Keith]

So, like, are people talking shit about me, Keith?

[Andy Samberg]

No. You're the only one that they don't talk about.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes. Yeah. It's all of us.

[Andy Samberg]

What did I say about Andy? Did I say some shit?

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, it was just all of us. You're like, these other guys don't do shit, and I'm all alone.

[Andy Samberg]

Ad prompted me to kind of go there. You know what I mean? It wasn't my fault. Yeah, it was the copy.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It was fine.

[Keith]

I liked it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It was the copy. They had written it. It was so weird. Helix Mattresses.

[Jorma Taccone]

The copy said that I should, like, disparage you guys.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. Talk shit about your fellow potters. We're potters, right?

[Andy Samberg]

Sure. Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Bunch of Beatrix Potters. Nice.

[Seth Meyers]

By the way, I want people to go back. And I think Andy was fully quiet for four minutes until Keith said, Beatrice Potters.

[Andy Samberg]

Beatrix Potters.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He' he's looking off to his phone.

[Andy Samberg]

He's a queen being Right now, he's staring.

[Seth Meyers]

The minute it goes over an hour, he just stares at the clock.

[Keith]

I mean, I do feel. I do. I feel a little pooped.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay, let's do these last two. Let's do these last two real quick.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right, well, let's just. No, let's just do this last one. Yeah. One.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay, fine.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So this is a 23 second song, so I think we could probably keep our attention. Sure. It's an interlude. It's called My Mic. Here we go.

[Keith]

Me a level.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay.

[Jorma Taccone]

My mic sounds nice.

[Andy Samberg]

Check 1.

[Jorma Taccone]

My mic sounds nice. Check 2. My mic sounds nice. Check 3. My mic sounds nice. Check 4. My mic sounds nice. Check 5. My mic sounds nice. Check 6. My mic sound nice. Check 7.

[Andy Samberg]

Great way to get to the title

[Akiva Schaffer]

track of a Turtleneck.

[Keith]

And do you remember how this came about? I feel like this is a bit we would do and then we decided to just do it.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. I mean, I. I remember being obsessed with doing this, and I can't remember how many we were gonna do, like, how many guys we were actually trying to do. But it ended up being that, like, you know, seven. I think we wore out our welcome at seven. And then my friend Will helped us out with the harmonizing at the end.

[Akiva Schaffer]

The check. Seven. That's him.

[Andy Samberg]

But, yeah, I remember just being obsessed with this idea.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Was there a specific reference we were doing? I mean, obviously, in hip hop, you know, Dayla has all their plug one, plug two stuff.

[Andy Samberg]

I mean, I mean, it's in everything, Right?

[Akiva Schaffer]

My mic sounds nice. Check one, I feel like, is a direct quote of something.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. What is it from? Is. I mean, you know, it's like turning my snare, basically.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I mean, microphone checker, you know, dos effects. There's a lot, a little factoid about my mic is my dos. When she was probably 8, she had, like, a speaker in her bedroom, and she would always go to sleep listening to music, and it'd be whatever she's into at that moment. So it'd be like the Descendant soundtrack or the George Clooney one. Olivia Rodrigo's first album.

[Seth Meyers]

That Faxon.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, the soundtrack that just Hawaiian. Hawaiian vibe.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, just the whole soundtrack.

[Akiva Schaffer]

George Clooney, Alexander Payne. Right.

[Andy Samberg]

So tense between the family members.

[Keith]

Instrumental musical score.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, it was.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It was that she had played out the Citizen Ruth soundtrack, and she kept saying, but I want to stay in the Painoverse. And I kept going, not about Schmidt, Dad. Yeah, yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

You know what? You know, Sorry. She was seven.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It was just the painoverse is such a thing to her.

[Keith]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Not a fan of About Schmidt. Thank you for pointing that out, Andy.

[Keith]

You're welcome.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And I would occasionally play songs of ours in the car or whatever, and they never gave a shit. But my mic stuck with her, and she put it on the mix that she had for bedtime that she played for maybe a year, and it was on every other song. So it would play like a song from Moana, and then it would play my mic, and then it would play a driver's license, and then it would play my mic, and then it would play. And she was like, do you make money from this? And I'm like, no. It's 23 seconds. This does not rack up Apple music. You get nothing.

[Andy Samberg]

But this is a good point, though, of my mic. This is what I love about it. It is so beyond stupid. But it is a pretty awesome buildup to the drop of any song. I think it Has a good. Like, oh, what's coming next? And clearly she got that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, yeah. It was teeing up all her favorite tunes, but she probably listened to it. Like, if there was a. You know, if she had gotten a Spotify wrapped, it would have been like, your favorite song's my mic. By far.

[Andy Samberg]

Good times.

[Seth Meyers]

This is very fun. And we have what? We have a whole, like, half an album or a little bit more than half.

[Keith]

Yeah, like a back half to go.

[Seth Meyers]

That's great.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, back half. Minus the creep and Mother Lover and through.

[Keith]

We'll do those with their respective episodes, right?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

[Seth Meyers]

I think it was a very strong content. I'm really happy we're doing it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It was nice to hear them. I hadn't heard of some of them in a while.

[Keith]

Yeah, so you heard it here first, guys. You just listened to some strong content.

[Seth Meyers]

It's Deep Cuts. You're welcome, Deep Cuts.

[Andy Samberg]

You're welcome, America and the world.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I always said episode 100, we'd get to Falcor versus Atreyu, but we didn't, so that's on me.

[Keith]

We didn't quite make it. I don't know if we even want

[Andy Samberg]

to do that one and then just drop the mic.

[Keith]

Hey, guys, it's Andy. I realized after we finished, I never said what I did on the spelling bee. I got it with one hint. I don't feel, like, super stoked about that, but, you know, I can live with it. The word was neural. K N URL. Again, I'm not thrilled, but also, I'm not going to beat myself up over it. And we can be for damn sure it's better than what Sus did. Okay, back to. To the pod.

[Seth Meyers]

All right, I love you guys.

[Keith]

Love you, buddy.

[Andy Samberg]

Love you, sir.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Love you.

[Keith]

Later, Arnold.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Later, Quids.