Flags of the World

Summary

The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast

Episode: Flags of the World
Date: November 4, 2025
Guests: Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone (The Lonely Island), Seth Meyers
Special Guest: Jonathan Krisel

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Seth Meyers and The Lonely Island crew take an in-depth, often hilarious, occasionally digressive look at the SNL Digital Short “Flags of the World.” With writer/director Jonathan Krisel joining for part of the discussion, the group explores the origins, comedic philosophy, and audience reception of this singular short. Along the way, they reminisce about SNL memories, share behind-the-scenes stories, and indulge their signature blend of word-nerd bickering, self-deprecating anecdotes, and playful one-upmanship.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Warm-up Banter & Comedic Chemistry

• The episode opens with trademark riffing—playful teasing about a spelling bee, obscure words, and dictionary disputes, all displaying their improvisational rapport.
  • Memorable moment: Andy, Akiva, Jorma, and Seth dive into a debate about whether “a taint” is a legitimate word, quickly riffing into jokes about American Pie (03:27–05:32).

2. SNL Digital Short “Flags of the World”

Main Theme: Celebration and skewering of mundane, arbitrary national symbols, juxtaposed with pure joke density.

• Creative Origin:
  • Krisel shares his comedic philosophy—finding joy in the mundanity and arbitrariness of things like flags (49:03).
    • "To me, I'm always inspired by mundane things that should not be celebrated. And flags are unsung in the world. They're just funny." – Jonathan Krisel (49:03)
  • The idea was hatched collaboratively, with emphasis on piling up as many jokes as possible in quick succession (48:39).
• Execution & Content:
  • The short is praised for its relentless joke-per-second pace, visual gags, rhyme chains, and variety (48:47–49:49).
  • Andy and Abby Elliott's dancing is playfully referenced as delightfully “loose and undirected” (51:18–51:39).
  • Playful analysis of specific jokes—e.g., the “bread flag” as a “red flag on a date,” cankle flags, and a cameo of Jennifer Lopez on a flag getting the only real audience applause (54:00–55:23).
  • The bizarre juxtaposition of obscure pop culture references (“hottie and the naughty flag”) with hyper-specific puns.
• Reception:
  • Noted as an "evergreen" sketch due to the non-topical nature of the humor (58:10).
  • Cited as a favorite among critics (including New York Magazine) and lauded by the group for its originality and stickiness.

3. Process & Collaboration

• The team reminisces about the nuts and bolts of assembling digital shorts on SNL:
  • The musical bed was likely written by someone in the SNL music department, possibly Asa Taccone (51:01–51:14).
  • Closet Organizer and Bar Sketch as rare “two-parters,” detailing how such sketches are spaced out and interleaved in table read and air order (65:33–65:54).

4. Guest Highlights

Jonathan Krisel

• Offers insight into creative risk—defending the artistic choice of breaking the 180° rule in the short “Sergio” for emotional effect (18:11–19:16).
  • "Sometimes filmmakers know the rules to break them. And in this instance, I think it was done more for the emotional reason." (18:11)
• Combines an unaffected, dry delivery with a willingness to indulge both pseudo-serious and straight-up silly sides of the work.

5. SNL Deep Dives & Favorite Sketches

• Discussion of sketches from the Ashton Kutcher-hosted episode:
  • Deleted Short: “Tudor” (39:18–44:00)
    • A spoof of Twitter called “Tudor,” communicating flatulence via social media, starring Ashton Kutcher, with cameos from Questlove and Them Crooked Vultures.
    • Group consensus: “More solid than some things that made it to air, but the week’s other sketches were stacked.”
    • Fun fact: Demi Moore was present during its filming and pitching jokes (60:06).
  • Burn Notice Game Show and Crisis of Conformity: Both called out for their lasting impact and structure (61:02–63:39).

6. Community and Fan Engagement

• Segment “Keeve’s Peeves” is officially named by a listener (16:51).
• Shoutouts to SNL and The Lonely Island’s fans, with several segments devoted to reading and reacting to YouTube comments and fan email (24:25–28:00).
  • Notable: The story of Olivia’s “I Can, I Will” foundation supporting Seattle Children’s Hospital (24:36–25:38).

7. Podcast In-Jokes and Running Gags

• Ongoing debates about the Spelling Bee, inside jokes about dictionary editors as “gods,” and recurring bits about “name dropping” vs. just living as a celebrity (03:00–04:14; 06:20–06:27).
• Joke about everyone being an “Alvin” (of Alvin and the Chipmunks) on the podcast—“We’ve always been Alvins. We’re just different kinds of Alvins.” – Jorma (29:30).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On “Flags of the World”

  • “I just love that it’s about something so stupid.” – Akiva Schaffer (49:18)
  • “It’s a unique little thing that hadn’t… it wasn’t like any of the others.” – Seth Meyers (57:56)
  • “It’s so evergreen. Like, it doesn’t have the band from the Tudor one. It’s just flags.” – Krisel (58:11)

• On the Creative Process

  • “Sometimes filmmakers know the rules to break them… I wanted to capture the craziness of that.” – Jonathan Krisel (18:11)
  • “You know what I notice about us—our response to Keev’s complaints is ‘shut up, nerd.’” – Andy Samberg (29:41)

• On SNL Table Reads and Airing Sketches

  • “You try to give the same experience that the viewer would have at home. So you definitely would have one then let other sketches play.” – Seth Meyers (65:17)

• Fan & Community Moments

  • “Keeve’s Peeves. Jump in the line willy nilly.” – Jorma (16:57)
  • “Shoutout to Olivia and her great organization. It does chap me a little bit that the first time I mention a charity … Yorm has to immediately pile on.” – Seth (26:00)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Spelling Bee banter / wordplay warm-up: 01:37–05:32
• Emma Stone SNL memories: 06:08–07:53
• Clothes shopping and Pretty Woman riff: 08:06–13:12
• Keeve’s Peeves section: 16:51–17:14
• Krisel’s “Sergio” defense (voice note): 18:11–19:37
• Introducing and discussing “Flags of the World”: 47:13–52:03 (main viewing & breakdown)
• Audience/fan reactions and engagement: 24:25–28:00
• Watching and discussing “Tudor” (deleted short): 39:18–44:00
• Discussion of SNL sketch structure (two-parters): 65:33–65:54
• Recap and praise for “Flags of the World”: 58:02–59:47

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Tone & Style

Light, freewheeling, absurdist, and playfully self-deprecating—sticking to the group’s signature voice of seasoned comedy writers riffing with affectionate irreverence for their own work and each other. The pace is loose, welcoming tangents and interruptions, with affection for the craft and for “dumb jokes done smartly” shining throughout.

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Conclusion

This episode is a loving, laugh-packed dissection of “Flags of the World”—illustrating how a simple, silly concept can be elevated by relentless joke density and formal originality. With illuminating input from Jonathan Krisel and copious SNL deep-cuts, it’s a must-listen for SNL fans, comedy writers, or anyone who loves to peek behind the scenes of one of comedy’s most iconic institutions.

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For Further Listening

• “Sergio” (with Jon Hamm and Jonathon Krisel’s infamous 180° rule “break”)
• “Closet Organizer” and its rare continuation into the “bar scene”
• “Tudor” (the lost Ashton Kutcher digital short, possibly on YouTube)
• “Crisis of Conformity” (Fred Armisen/Dave Grohl sketch)

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End of summary

Transcript

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[B]

It's the Lonely island answer Myers podcast. You know what I'm going to start today. I'm going to really do you dirty Andy. Okay, Jack Black, take it away. Spelling D.

[A]

Spelling be.

[B]

Whoa.

[C]

And what's the answer?

[D]

Fire theme.

[B]

It's a fire theme. But don't get distracted because what we need now is to know how it went today.

[D]

I fucking needed one hint.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

What a fucking loser.

[D]

Ask me what word?

[A]

Keith, turn in your Mensa card, dumbass.

[E]

Okay.

[A]

What was the word?

[C]

What was that?

[D]

Frou frou, man.

[B]

Frou Frou.

[A]

How do you spell frou Frou?

[B]

So really, he just missed one word twice. Because it's F R. F O U. F R O, U.

[C]

In a way, I feel like you're a classier guy for not knowing that.

[A]

That's English, that's not French. I mean, I mean we say it.

[D]

I've gotten it before. Let's say that you.

[B]

You would have got it on the spelling bae.

[A]

You just didn't do they allow words that have become, you know, American English, but are actually other languages words?

[B]

I mean, again, the long promise. Probably never going to happen pod with Sam Ozerski. We're gonna come at him hard for this.

[D]

That attaint. What happened to a taint?

[B]

A lot of words. I'm keeping a list now of Andy. Of words that used to be accepted, that aren't.

[A]

A taint. Is a word a taint. It was for a while.

[D]

It's not what you think.

[A]

Yeah, no, obviously.

[C]

Wait, hold on. You think that Sam Isursky approves every single word on the spelling bee? Every time.

[B]

It's his B. He's the only name on the bee. They could say, like, from a team of YHorm.

[D]

In that world, he's a God, okay?

[B]

In this world, he's like the Will Shorts of the spelling bee, okay?

[D]

He's the thanos of the spelling bee.

[C]

You don't think he uses a generator?

[B]

He snaps his finger. Words disappear.

[C]

Lexicon is.

[E]

Is.

[A]

Can I really ask, is a taint? Like, if you tainted something? Like you stuck your finger in the pie, you tainted the pie. Is that the version of it? Is it?

[C]

You think you're using a. Like, I tainted that pie with my thumb?

[A]

Yeah, that's my question. These guys don't know. They don't even know what words mean. They just type in the letters.

[B]

I think we really need to stress Keev is we don't care about what the words mean or how to use them in sentences, okay? We just. We're just trying to fill out the B.

[A]

How excited were you guys? Just if we're doing, like, Morning Zoo Crew. Anyways, how excited were you guys that was chosen as Dictionary.com's Word of the year?

[B]

That seems crazy to me.

[A]

No, it's just two. Two numbers.

[D]

I'm pretty bummed.

[C]

That seems like clickbait. But for word of the year, here's.

[B]

Another word that used to work, guys. And don't ask me what it means. Tontine.

[C]

Oh, that sounds French, too.

[B]

T o n T I, n e Used to work. And then at some point.

[A]

Isn't that when you have a ton of creatine?

[D]

They don't accept that anymore.

[B]

I mean, I wrote used to work next to it on my notes.

[C]

I used to do a ton of creatine.

[D]

This absolutely rocks. Seth, to circle back, you're kind of my spelling bae.

[B]

Thanks, bud.

[D]

Also, a taint is effect or infect with disease or corruption. That's the second definition on the.

[C]

That's right. Then. So you Tainted that pie with your thumb is correct.

[A]

That's right.

[B]

I corrupted spending a lot of time on this hypothetical pie.

[D]

I know someone else who did something to a pie with not their thumb.

[B]

Are we talking about American Pie? The movie?

[C]

Great, great movie.

[A]

Yes, brother.

[B]

Can you remember?

[A]

Do you remember that? Can you imagine if the mom came in and was like, who attainted my apple pie?

[D]

Okay, imagine this. You're in high. You're like, what does it feel like?

[C]

You're like, look, I want to attain something, but I don't know what to attain.

[B]

I went to see a movie in whatever, late 90s. When did that movie come out? American Pie. 97.

[A]

That's a good guess.

[B]

All right, so I went to see American Pie with my good friend. Oh, no, I didn't. I went to see a movie with my good friend Peter Gross. The trailer for American Pie murdered harder than any trailer I think I've ever seen.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Because I think pretty much the pie fucking was in the trailer.

[D]

Yeah, it crushed.

[B]

Crushed the next trailer because we were, like, at an independent.

[A]

1999.

[D]

Yeah, I thought it was. I thought it was 99. I'm not even joking.

[B]

All right, so 99. But we were at, like, an independent movie theater in Chicago, like the Music Box or something, or Piper's Alley. And then the next trailer was, like, a coming of age, I want to say, like, gay film about two young men. And it was, like, very serious and playing very somber. And my friend Pete Gross screamed, more pie fucking. Oh, huge laugh.

[D]

Yeah. So he was already piggybacking it off the trailer.

[B]

The trailer. Because it was just. It was very unfair for the second sort of serious movie which had, like, real, like, Wuthering Heights vibes to have to follow the American Pie trailer.

[C]

Yeah. You know what?

[A]

America agreed with him.

[B]

Yeah. Emma Stone was on the show tonight.

[A]

While we're talking, they say hi to her in the past for us.

[B]

What do you think? I brought up to her and showed an arc card of.

[C]

Can we say that Seth.

[E]

Name.

[C]

Name dropping. When his whole career is, like, meeting people every day.

[B]

No, it's right. It's not name dropping. It's just my life. Just your life. All right. Yeah. It's my job.

[E]

But for every.

[C]

All of us, though, he didn't go.

[D]

Out of his way to bring it up. And it's pertinent to the cast because he's going to say that. He brought up I broke my arm, her digital short or Wish it would rain.

[E]

Come on.

[B]

I brought up I broke my arm.

[A]

I wish it was Rain. It was the assistant with the giant butt.

[D]

I caught myself as I was saying.

[B]

Yeah, let somebody else bring up. I broke my arm.

[A]

It could have been. Turn up the beef, Andy.

[D]

Yeah, it could have turned up.

[C]

So, Seth, how'd it go when you brought it up?

[B]

It went great. She basically explained how talk shows worked because she goes, it was so funny because. Because I talked to a producer first, and literally the first thing the producer said was, seth will probably want to talk about. I wish it would rain.

[D]

The thing no one knows about, and.

[A]

There'S nothing you can do to stop it.

[B]

And by the way, nobody loves SNL more than Emma Stone. Nobody loves digital shorts more than Emma Stone. She definitely was like, I think I've only watched it that night.

[D]

Yeah, if.

[E]

Then.

[C]

Yeah, if that. If that. She was probably doing a costume change when it was.

[A]

We should send her the dress version, the long one.

[B]

I mean, I can't wait. I mean, we're gonna probably do two episodes, and I wish it would rain.

[C]

I mean, here's what's fair. We should. We shouldn't talk about this now. But she was only on set for, like, I don't know, 20 minutes, maybe.

[B]

Well, that's what I stressed to her. I'm like, I'm not busting on it because you're in it. Like, you had very little to do with it. And then I showed the picture, and she said it was the only time people didn't edit out her real butt.

[A]

That's actually the real one.

[B]

She's like, that's my real butt. And they always, like, take it out in digital effects, but they finally.

[C]

Yeah, that's why it was so. That's why we were so quick to shoot, because we were just like, oh, this is perfect. You know, no notes.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

In and out, 20 minutes. Usually there's an extra hour built on. For butt removal.

[C]

Yeah, for butt. For butt addition.

[D]

That's right.

[B]

So. Such good vibes. Emma Stone.

[A]

Andy took me shopping this morning, probably right when you were talking to Emma Stone on national tv. We went to a clothing store.

[C]

I thought he had good vibes right now, because I feel like there's great vibes.

[B]

Oh, it's great vibes right now. I mean, maybe. It's probably like, you know, we've cut a tail of Emma Stone vibes. But now he took you shopping. Does that mean he picks you up? Keev?

[A]

I drove.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

And we went to breakfast. That was the actual destination. Yeah.

[D]

You remember when Julia Roberts picked up Richard Gere in Pretty Woman so he could take her shot at him.

[A]

I didn't know how to drive stick. And so I was like, Andy, you gotta get in here. I was grinding the gears.

[C]

So you like, chick hunch. Chick hunch.

[E]

Chick hunch.

[C]

Lobbed up to his house.

[D]

What is this technology?

[B]

Andy, was breakfast sort of just like a ruse to then say like, hey, should we get some clothes?

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

He just took a place next to.

[C]

Look at that red dress.

[D]

I'm gonna straight up brag. We went the soft opening of Phil Rosenthal and Nancy Silverton's new diner in la.

[B]

Oh, wow.

[A]

Yeah. It opens in a couple weeks, but this was a friends and family morning.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

What is Phil's Netflix show? Feed Phil.

[D]

Somebody feed Phil.

[B]

Somebody feed Phil. So I would imagine a diner of his is a really good situation.

[D]

It was fantastic.

[A]

They've been threatening to open it for a few years and it's been on our calendar of like, oh, that's going to be so good. Well, and then that chef is a very famous chef who has that restaurant, Moza. So if you just pictured this most standard diner menu, where every diner item is just done perfectly.

[D]

And we're not just saying that because they gave us a free bottle of their signature hot sauce. Seth, I'm not for fucking sauce.

[A]

These taste buds don't.

[D]

Are not for sale.

[B]

Yeah. It would take a fair amount more than one bottle of hot sauce. Perhaps a case.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

Or even like two.

[A]

Or just another reservation in the next couple weeks. But next door, there's a store that's my exact style, where everything inside I would wear.

[D]

Keith was literally like, this is my real life. Dan Flashes.

[A]

It's true.

[B]

And did you know and did you have any expectation about that this store was going to be pro key.

[A]

I knew it was there. And when we parked, I was like, oh, we're in front of a store. When we're done eating. We're. I'm taking. We're going in there.

[C]

Wait, before you get to what your style is, can we guess what your style is? Because is it all Rocky related shirts and like. And like. Basically. That's fair. And friends. And friends related sweatshirts.

[A]

I did at some point years ago discover the merch store on Sylvester Stallone's website. And it became 50% of my entire closet within. Within weeks. Those were like six shirts, five tank tops. Just had all kinds of stuff from just.

[C]

It was. It was a fun one for us because I so wanted to get on board and encourage you. But, like, I always. I was always slightly bummed out by it.

[B]

Yeah. Can I say Something that's really fun about knowing you guys. Like when yhorm said Rocky shirts, I sometimes think Rocky might be like BAE area slang that I missed. And I'm like, hmm, I wonder what Rocky shirts mean. And I love when it's just literally.

[E]

It'S the way you think.

[A]

It was Rambo and Rocky.

[C]

And when I said Friends, the show.

[A]

Friends, he's got deep cuts. Like you'd have just a tank top with a drawing of a tiger on it. Oh, that you wouldn't know. But it's from Rocky ii and it's what's embroidered on the back of his jacket.

[B]

Gotcha.

[A]

And then there were some that just said Rocky. One said Rambo and as if I had been on the crew of the latest of the second to last Rambo. That was like in Burma or whatever.

[D]

I just want to reiterate. Keith paid full price. He's not on the take here.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

When he went on the website.

[A]

Exactly. I just went to the merch store and put it up. Put in my credit card.

[B]

This wasn't like, buy six Rocky shirts, get a free bottle of hot sauce situation.

[D]

If we're doing unsolicited plugs, I think people need to know.

[A]

Also, I bought everything today at the clothing store that I bought. Andy sat there like we were in a clothing montage. He sat in the little chair. It's a very small store.

[B]

So now, now Pretty Woman is doubled up. Your second Pretty Woman moment of the day.

[A]

Exactly. And then I would come out wearing a new button up shirt and go. And he'd go. And I was like, yeah, that's good. By then, Keev, what did I say.

[D]

When you came out in those pants? Not the good ones.

[A]

Yeah. I don't remember your exact wording, but you told the truth.

[D]

I said, no, you can see too much.

[B]

Was there a Jason Alexander type working at the store who was a little snooty? Maybe thought Keef didn't have the scratch to pay for all the clothes?

[A]

Jason Alexander is the friend. He's not the snooty.

[B]

Oh, you're right.

[A]

People that work there. He's the friend that propositions are later.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[D]

I think that's being generous saying propositions.

[B]

He's a little.

[A]

He's like the co worker.

[D]

He's a little aggresso.

[B]

Yeah. He's the one who is. Who just gets misunderstood.

[C]

Right.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

No, I was just saying it was a different time.

[D]

So it's not that kind of podcast.

[A]

No, no, Hector. Now Kevin's typing in with Hector Alonzo Elizondo.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

He wouldn't be rude.

[A]

No, he's not. He's the guy that works at the hotel who is like the incapable of being rude. Yeah, he's like, Kevin, you humiliated yourself, dude. He's the concierge who always has a soft spot for her and actually like pulls strings to make her help her fit in and is like the fairy godmother of the thing.

[B]

What this is now, this isn't like a rewatch podcast about Pretty Woman. It's a podcast about people who need to rewatch Pretty Woman.

[D]

Yeah, that's right.

[A]

That would a dream. Gary Marshall's classic.

[B]

Gary Marshall.

[D]

Can I just quickly ask a question? Yam. How's that pelvis?

[C]

I. I have nerve pain all down my left side that I haven't had for a little while, so that gets me a little nervous. Andy. But besides.

[B]

But is that. Is that good news? Like the. The feeling, nerve pain means they're coming back.

[C]

I think so. But I had this like very like my feet are in lava kind of feeling for like a week. A couple weeks back, that's gone away and now it's back again. Seth. So it's a little hard for me to say that that's good, but every time I somehow describe pain to a doctor, they're like, right on. Yes, that's great. I'm like, okay, well, not great for.

[D]

Me, but is it Dr. Spaceman from 30 Rock?

[A]

It's better than numbness, which I guess is the alternative.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Wait, Keev, what is your style now, though? I want to go back to what your style.

[A]

Is it similar, norm?

[D]

Is it Dr. Kevorkian?

[A]

Andy did say what it was. I came out in three different things. He liked them all. And then here's what your style is. And he said, and it works because it's true. Do you remember what you said?

[C]

Yeah, what is it?

[D]

What did I say?

[A]

You said like a middle aged man who used to skate.

[D]

Oh, yeah, yeah. No, you're a grown man who used to skate and is still pretty cool.

[C]

By the way, if you watch any Epically layered. Vice magazine's epically layered. Every single dude dresses exactly like that because they're all X skaters and they're pretty cool.

[A]

There you go.

[C]

Where's the store? I gotta go. It sounds great.

[D]

Oh, we're not doing free plugs.

[A]

Oh, well, yeah, yeah, I'm gatekeeping this one. I don't want a bunch of people coming in there.

[C]

Got to find that diner.

[D]

Let's just say it's very close. To Phil Rosenthal's new diner, which we love.

[C]

Okay, great.

[A]

Yeah, that. That one's easily googleable. Listen, if I thought they'd give me free stuff, I would.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

Wait, can I say something real quick?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I shared the photo with you guys, but I had. I mean, again, I think we all like sharing our stories about getting the Kuwait Army. I was at a fantastic event. It's to support the Headstrong project, which is an incredible organization that provides mental health services to our nation's vets.

[D]

How much they paying you to plug that?

[B]

Seth 2 hot sauce.

[A]

So.

[D]

No, it sounds wonderful.

[B]

One cholula, one sriracha. Not good stuff.

[D]

It sounds wonderful. I'm sorry, I interrupted to do a.

[B]

Joke, but then a gentleman walks over to me, full dress, you know, full military dress, and walks over and it's the dream to have a guy from the actual military, say, Kuwait army, and then to be able to say to him, righteous kill. And his.

[A]

I believe if your allegiance is to an army above the United States, that's considered treason.

[E]

But.

[C]

But, you know, it's approvable. Treason. Gotcha on this part.

[B]

Yeah. So I believe Teddy, who's is a name who's currently also a New York City fireman. I just want to give a shout out to Teddy.

[A]

Oh, this guy's a hero.

[D]

Bless your heart. That's the greatest.

[A]

Many, many layers.

[B]

Over and again, we have blown up a spot. He does. He is serving two masters by being in both the US And Kuwait army.

[D]

And sorry, if we get you in.

[C]

Trouble now, he's gonna get court martialed for treason.

[A]

Now, hopefully there's not a conflict of interest. Hopefully our goals stay aligned.

[B]

Yes. That is not a tribunal that we will be appearing at on your behalf. You could have taken this path on your own, Teddy. Anyway, I met him and his wife. They were awesome.

[A]

Anyway, I mean, I'm sure you've maybe combed through the comments of last week, Seth already, and I might be stealing this one from something you planned later.

[B]

I haven't actually, so go nuts.

[A]

Well, there was one specific one, but there were many good ones. But there's one really specific one that I thought, and it applies to me. It says, first Seth's Corner, then we got yhorms Thorns, and now we have Keeves Peeves.

[B]

Oh, wow.

[A]

And I thought that was pretty good.

[C]

That's pretty accurate.

[A]

Keeve's peeves.

[E]

Keeves peeves.

[C]

This is the part of the show where Keeves complains.

[D]

Keeves peeves. Jump in the line willy nilly.

[C]

I feel like Andy should definitely sing that song.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Whenever you got something to complain about.

[D]

Keeves Peeves. If only he hadn't said them out loud, I could sleep at night.

[A]

Again, I apologize for that.

[B]

Do you? I also, just to let everybody know that the Keeves. The Keeves Peeves were, like, deep seated. He went after Krysel. We know he loves Kreisel.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And then we reached out to see if Krystle wanted to send a voice note in. And Andy wrote, this is on the text chain. Did he listen to last week? So he knows how to clap back. Hashtag clapback. And then Keith wrote, or take the L.

[D]

Yeah. He won't back off it.

[A]

Did he write back?

[D]

He sent in a voice note. Do we want to start there?

[C]

Yes, please. Let's start there.

[E]

Hi, this is Jonathan Krisel. The director of the SNL digital short called Sergio. It's called the Curse Got Back to me that. I guess Akiva Schaefer was saying that there was some 180 line breakage, which I'm sure he explained thoroughly.

[A]

He didn't listen.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

I don't know if he's familiar with some of the filmmakers, like director Bong All Greengrass.

[A]

I'd love to show the parasite line break. It's so meticulous. I know the exact one.

[D]

Don't talk over him.

[E]

Countless others. Sometimes it's an artistic choice. Artistry is part of the filmmaking process and it's not always a quote, unquote mistake. Sometimes filmmakers know the rules to break them. And in this instance, I think it was done more for the emotional reason. When these people see Jon Hamm exploding Jon Hamm, Sergio breaking through the wall. Easiest lie with a saxophone. Their world is turned 180, as they say. So they're completely thrown off. The audience should feel thrown off when they look there, they're like, where is this? I feel discombobulated, as do the people in that scene. Imagine yourself sitting in a conference room. A man explodes through a wall playing a saxophone. I guess that's normal to certain people, but to me, I wanted to capture.

[A]

The craziness of that.

[E]

You know, And I looked up. Yeah. So, you know, I want to start.

[A]

A beef, but really good.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Thank you, Kreitzel.

[A]

That was excellent. I can't. I have no. No comments. No notes on that voice note.

[C]

Lovely.

[B]

My only comment is that if Kreitzel had been here saying that live, he would have reacted the same way to our reactions, which is to quietly ignore them and just plow ahead.

[C]

Just Continue on. That's the best way to deal with.

[B]

It, is the best way to do it.

[A]

Very good.

[B]

I texted Kreitzl to say how wonderful it's been hearing his voice in the pod and in one of those moments where like, I hope he still has the same number because it's been forever and he did and it is the best.

[C]

What's his number? Say it out loud.

[B]

I don't want to tell you guys.

[A]

Support for the Lonely island and Seth Meyers podcast comes from Airbnb. I wish I roped Liz into this because it's her parents. When her parents come to town, you know, we have a guest room but it's, it's quite small for two people to stay in and then they're in your kitchen, stuff like that. And they're lovely, but you know, it's nice to have a little extra space. So she has taken it upon herself to find them their own space on Airbnb nearby. And they love it because they borrow one of our cars or rent a car and they live over there and they can watch their TV as loud as they want and they can do what they want. But then when they come over to us, they're cheery eyed and bright because they aren't invading our space and feeling bad about it.

[C]

Well, that's what you refreshed from parents to be able to.

[A]

God, you're here. You scared the shit out of me.

[E]

Sorry.

[C]

I was here the whole time. That's what you want from parents or parents in law for them to be bright eyed, bushy tails. You can just hand them your kids and be like, there you go, get gone.

[A]

Well, I love staying in welcoming homes that I book on Airbnb, but it's got me thinking my home could do the same for someone else. You've been to my house, Yorm. What would you pay for my house?

[C]

$1,000. I'm not good with prices.

[D]

Sold.

[A]

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[A]

Hi, I'm Jenny Slate and believe it.

[D]

Or not, someone is allowing us to have a podcast.

[C]

I'm Gabe Wiedman.

[B]

I'm Max Silvestri and we've been friends for 20 years. And we like to reach out to.

[A]

Kind of get advice on how to live our lives.

[C]

It's called I need you guys.

[B]

Should I give my baby fresh vegetables?

[A]

Can I drink the water at the hospital?

[C]

My landlord plays the trombone and I.

[E]

Can'T ask him to stop.

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[B]

Now or visit palmolive.com all right, so were there any other comments? Did you see anything else, Keith, worth talking about?

[D]

I mean, I just wonder how the Quaid's felt about Akiva's coming in so hot, you know?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Did you find some good ones, Andy? I mean, there was lots of them, but I didn't collect them. Because you've been doing such a good job of collecting.

[B]

I know. I will say it's tough.

[C]

Well, I have one thing that I do want to say. Just because this sort of piggybacks onto Seth's, I just wanted to say that I got a wonderful letter and note from a woman that we all met and her daughter years ago in 2003. We did a Make a Wish zoom with a girl named Olivia.

[A]

You mean 2023, I think.

[C]

Oh, sorry, what did I say?

[B]

2003?

[C]

Oh, yeah. Definitely not 2003. And I keef peeves I've got. I got an unbelievably sweet note from Olivia, who she's had a degenerative disease for a while and she's gone through so many different things in her life. And she has an organization with her called I Can, I Will that benefits the Seattle Children's Hospital. And I zoomed with them again for like an hour the other day, and they're just the sweetest people. And I wanted to give a shout out to that particular organization.

[A]

Nice.

[C]

Because they just raised a hundred thousand dollars for this fun run that they did.

[D]

That's wonderful.

[B]

That is awesome.

[A]

That's awesome. I remember that zoom well. And she was very sweet and she had really funny questions that she had, I think, worked on with her dad.

[C]

She's a really funny person. Olivia's hysterical kid.

[D]

Yoram, I want you to know how badly I wanted to call you out on name dropping, but I didn't.

[C]

With Olivia.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Named Yarbing. Olivia, the coolest kid.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

You can call me out, shout out to Olivia and her great organization. It does chat me a little bit that the first time I mention a charity I'm involved with.

[A]

Right.

[C]

That's fair.

[B]

Like Yorm has to immediately pile on.

[C]

That's fair. Like clap back.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was just like I kind of thought this would be like my GoFundMe episode.

[C]

Well, I donated to the organization and you can too. Will provide a link and maybe Seth can do that too, but I don't know if he is even that involved in the organization that he was.

[B]

I think Headstrong gets the note to go straight to hell.

[A]

Here's a comment I like. It's on YouTube. It's from a to Z Farm. I would like Jorma to know that my dogs occasionally take gabapentin. But also, I used to have a miniature horse that took 1600 milligrams of gabapentin per dose.

[C]

Beat me.

[A]

He never fell off a ladder, but he did occasionally climb stairs that became problematic cause he couldn't easily get back down. There you go.

[C]

Okay, first of all, the doctors told me that I maxed it out and there was no more to take after that. But I guess you can just take as much as you want, right?

[A]

Well, if you're a horse.

[D]

And second of all. And second of all.

[C]

Oh, that's it.

[D]

And second of all, second of all.

[C]

I'm jealous of that horse.

[D]

Great.

[B]

As a reminder that I think it's really important for everybody to listen to every episode. This was a comment Keev based on an ad. Read something I said in the ad about our good friends at Viori. Somebody wrote, wear the clothes that Keith's wife Liz wears when she plays tennis. What does that mean?

[A]

Oh, that was a quote from you. That's what you said on the Viori rat. Yeah. Wear the clothes that Keeve's wife wears.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You gotta listen to everything, even the ads. You're gonna get left behind.

[B]

This is an interesting note. Please bring back the original prerecorded Seth's Corner theme song. It's painful listening to your mad love.

[C]

That's fair. I agree with that.

[A]

Oh, no, Me and Andy keep requesting. Cause he ad libs it and they used to replace it with the pre record. And then we were like, no, he makes it up every week.

[B]

Yeah. You know what? Hey, can you do one for me? I have a weird little corner of Seth's Corner that I'd love to talk about real quick.

[C]

Okay, so we'll fuck that person and then just fuck that person.

[D]

Seth's Corner.

[C]

This is the part of the show where Seth talks about what he did that week. We think, go, Seth.

[B]

Hey, you know, Polar hosted snl and I wrote a sketch and submitted it to the table and I heard. I didn't embarrass myself. Obviously it didn't make the show, but I did want to share that I wrote a sketch where she played a doll, a haunted doll at an inn. And every time the innkeeper left, she asked the person who was staying in the room if they knew what the WI fi was.

[A]

She's like an Annabelle or.

[B]

Yeah, she was an Annabelle. I think her name was Beth. Annabelle. I named Beth Annalee. Beth Annalee.

[A]

She's stuck in a hotel. She needs to get on that WI fi.

[B]

She Needs a wi fi.

[C]

That's an evergreen sketch, you know.

[B]

Yeah, it's one. You know, it is a classic. Gets a laugh at pitch, and actually is unsustainable as a sketch.

[A]

But this person said Keev really tapped into his inner Simon for this voice note.

[C]

Oh, they think you're Simon?

[A]

Yeah. That's so weird, because we're three Alvins.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

I mean, and then three Alvins.

[B]

So before the Lonely island, you guys were gonna be called the Three Alvins?

[A]

Yeah. Were we just three Alvins?

[C]

Three.

[A]

Three leaders.

[C]

Three Alvins.

[D]

It's tough to know who's Alvin. Cause Yhorm's character on the pod really has been coming up the ranks.

[C]

Yeah. According to the fans.

[D]

Look, I can't control what people. Like he said, he's rising up the ranks. Forget about the part where he says his character. The ranks are just us four.

[B]

Yeah. So would you say you fell a Theodore but landed in Alvin?

[C]

Oh, no, I was never Theodore. Seth, Seth, Seth. You don't get it. We've always been Alvins. We're just different kinds of Alvins. It's different ways to be irritating.

[A]

This one says. I love how their response to Keef complaints is, quote, shut up, nerd.

[D]

Keev, did people agree with you, though, or did they when they hit us in the Titus, or did they think you were being a jerk?

[A]

I would say most of them that responded about me at all were positive, like, agreeing with me, but not at the cost of the short. They were just either saying, like, oh, that was so interesting. Some were even giving saying I was a little disoriented, and now I know why. Some were saying it didn't bump me. But I do see what he's saying. There was one guy that I saw that actually said that he didn't mind the jumping the lines, but as somebody who has photographed, he did agree that the whole thing looked like it was raw footage and he knows the look.

[D]

And you expect me to believe that?

[A]

Well, there's receipts.

[E]

They're pretty easy to find.

[B]

Someone did. Right. The number of dads on this podcast who thinks babies are born covered in placenta was alarming.

[A]

I just didn't. I. I noticed that on my. Listen.

[C]

We just were saying words and.

[D]

Yeah, I didn't want to be a rude. I didn't want to be rude to our guests.

[C]

We didn't clean it up because we were. Because we were moving forward.

[B]

We know.

[A]

Oh, was that. Was that our guest? That's. I mean, I remember hearing it when I was listening, and he's the only one that's not a dad, so.

[B]

Although, by the way, he jumped down my throat because I said impeachably instead of unimpeachably.

[A]

Yeah, right.

[B]

Everybody's real proud of old John Ham for grammar policing.

[A]

Let them know about amniotic fluid.

[B]

Well, don't.

[C]

Don't you say that like, that. It's after birth. And technically, placenta is a kind of afterbirth.

[A]

Yeah, but they're covered in amniotic fluid. If they're covered in the placenta, then something went wrong, I would assume.

[D]

No, what you want to do is snag that placenta and make it into the capsules.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[D]

To help with postpartum.

[A]

What are we even doing, Norm? That's what your legs need. Four gabapentin, one placenta pill.

[C]

The amount of people who have told me that I should fly to, like, Colombia or to Tijuana and get stem cells is alarming. Like. Like, it's always, like, super jacked. Friends of mine who are like, you.

[E]

Know what you should do?

[C]

And I'm like, I'm not. I'm not flying to Columbia.

[D]

Who are you hanging out with?

[B]

I know. It's so funny. That's immediately what I wanted to know.

[C]

MMA fighters.

[D]

MMA fighters that are super jacked. Until you do.

[C]

It's Keith Jardine that's in there.

[A]

Oh.

[D]

And then he. And then he stood up and walked away. Did he actually fall off a ladder?

[A]

Yeah, he just.

[B]

He really did just fully stand up and walk away.

[A]

Eric, Andre might be onto something. His wheelchair's there. He's gone.

[B]

He got up.

[A]

He forgot the car.

[B]

He got up fast.

[A]

Totally. He forgot the grift, and he just got up like, oh, hold on one second.

[B]

He was like, hold on, the food's here. Yeah, he just, like, jumped up.

[E]

He was like, what the.

[A]

This is some dirty, rotten scoundrel happening.

[B]

Fully cartwheeled over to the door.

[A]

All right, now he's, like, making a point to show that there's crutches down slowly.

[D]

I'm such a liar there.

[A]

Hey, welcome back.

[C]

Did I get a name drop after I said Keith Jardine and then just dropped the headphones?

[A]

Yeah. And just got up and just skipped away on two working legs.

[B]

You were more taken with how quickly you jumped out of your chair with two working legs.

[C]

Oh, yeah. You know what? It's funny is that people get really freaked out. Like, the. The sympathy just drops off so fast. The minute you're in a wheelchair, pop up. People are like, that guy.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

It's like cheating.

[B]

Yeah, I agree. I'm a little worried. You don't realize why I went from.

[C]

The chair to the crutches, guys. And then I came back in the chair. The chair's very comfortable.

[D]

Okay, so.

[B]

Oh, I have one more before we move on, because again, I think we're just kind of dodging moving on to these shows.

[A]

Another great EP of Yorm and the gang. Righteous Kill. That's one of them, right?

[B]

My character, obviously. We talked about one of the denser sketch structures that we all adore, which was Closet organizer.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Into the bar scene that calls back. Closet organizer.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Very rare. I reached out to our friends Will Forte and John Solomon with the question of, like, tell us everything about the process, you know? Cause I was so fascinated as to what they remembered about what they came up with first when they realized there would be a callback to it, how they felt about it. And so here's a voice note from Will Forte with the instruction, tell us everything you remember.

[C]

Oh, dear.

[A]

Is it 15 minutes, gentlemen, I have such a huge apology to give you.

[C]

You had reached out for me to send a voice memo, and I was.

[A]

Was going crazy at work, and I totally spaced.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

And so the information that I was supposed to give you about the Closet.

[D]

Organizer from last week, I have to.

[A]

Give you for this week's podcast.

[C]

So I apologize.

[A]

But here is everything I remember about.

[D]

That week with the Closet Organizer.

[E]

Great.

[A]

Already.

[C]

I don't really remember anything.

[D]

Yeah, I mean, like, you know, I.

[A]

Remember stuff getting thrown at me. I remember sitting down on stage in.

[C]

This setting, a bar setting with Jon.

[A]

Hamm, and that's about it. Yeah, I remember we were Tarkey Fensington.

[D]

I think, and Resden Boner Bonheur Bonaire.

[A]

And I still don't know which one was which. Like, I think I'm Tarki. And John was rest. And every time we see each other, we ask each other who was who, and then I think that's what we came up with.

[C]

And that's it.

[D]

That's all I remember.

[A]

I do.

[D]

I do kind of seem to remember.

[A]

That we thought it was kind of a big deal because Lauren let us.

[D]

Do a two parter, which didn't seem.

[A]

Like there were a ton of two parters back then, so that was exciting. And the fact that they stayed in.

[D]

For the live show was fun for us, but that's about it.

[A]

Okay. Sorry again for.

[C]

For this kind of pretty shitty voice memo.

[A]

Coming a week late.

[D]

I'll probably go to hell for this.

[A]

I really enjoyed being Here with you. Love you.

[C]

Wait, what are the other two parters that they're. Obviously, the McGregors were reoccurring, but are there other two parters that happened in our era?

[D]

There's the one Seth wrote with Zach, right?

[B]

Yeah. Daryl's House is my two parters that I have a lot of affection for. I will say, it's so fun to find out that he has recall of. That is the same that we have for the film Pretty Woman, which none of us were in. And none of us were.

[C]

I think I was darky.

[D]

Just the casting element.

[B]

Yeah, that's true. All right, you guys, so real quick. First we have. The Ashton Kutcher show has tudor, which is a sketch that does not air. A digital short that does not air.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

Right. And we talked about this a little at some point in the past. Right.

[B]

I feel like we discussed it. I feel bad because, you know, obviously Questlove is quite army and it is not righteous that he has a cameo in a digital short that could not make the cut.

[A]

Right. Yeah.

[B]

Apologies, I think, are owed.

[D]

Do we wanna watch it or.

[B]

No, not really. There's not much. Well, we could watch it.

[A]

Yeah, let's watch it.

[B]

Let's watch it. Will you do the honor, Steve, before.

[D]

We play it, I just wanna. The setup was Twitter was just coming out as a thing and Ashton Kutcher was like the spokesman for Twitter. That was how they launched it.

[A]

Yeah. He might have the most followers of anybody at that point.

[D]

They gave him a huge amount. A huge amount of points in it to be the spokesman. I might be misremembering that, but that was my understanding. And then he was hosting. And when Twitter was first a thing, I remember all of us being like, what you just constantly like. We were basically like the whole concept of social media, we was like, that sounds really annoying, but he obviously was great in game. And the other part of it was we didn't have a short. And it was one of those weeks where they really told us we had to. And so this is what I came up with. And I wrote it and Krystle directed it and then they cut it. And I was so pissed. And it wasn't because I loved the short so much. It was because they had forced us to make one and then cut it. And then, you know, the next day I was fine.

[B]

I think you will watch it now and think this is okay, that it got cut right.

[D]

Again, though, it was not about the quality of the short.

[B]

It was just being forced and then having a cut.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

It was a. I told you. But as we've mentioned, we kind of ran out of goodwill when Shy Ronnie happen.

[A]

But also, I'm gonna make a guess here. Vaguely remembering this is that it's better than a lot of things that do air, like from us not even talking about the rest of anybody else, but like, the ones of ours that we're like, oh, why did that air? Cause in that episode, he needed it. And this one, I remember being more solid, potentially, than some of the other things we've done that did get on tv.

[C]

Well, I can't wait to watch it.

[A]

Let's check it out. All right. Is it. It's not playing for me. Is it playing at all, though? Is the time code moving? No, no, there it is. But why?

[C]

Maybe it's working on the singularity.

[A]

Let me unshare.

[D]

And maybe it's working on the singularity.

[C]

Or that's. That's my. That's my joke for any. Any technology that's not working.

[B]

Sorry.

[C]

Working on destroying all of you.

[D]

Hey, this subway door is jammed.

[C]

Oh, yeah, circuit's busy.

[A]

Over the past year, I've gained a.

[B]

Lot of attention from my involvement with Twitter.

[A]

But recently, I started to feel like Twitter just wasn't enough. Wasn't enough. I wanted to give my followers total access. They knew what was coming out of my mind, but not what was coming out of my body. And that's why I developed the first flatulence networking system tutorial. It's really ingenious. Every time Ashton has a gaseous emission.

[D]

Or gishin, as we call it, then.

[A]

It'S broadcast to his millions of followers around the world. We're then alerted with a distinctive ringtone. The process is simple. First, I attach the receiving pad to the flesh side of my undergarments. Then I run a non toxic wire.

[C]

Up the middle of my seat, lodging.

[A]

It in place and plugging it into my mobile device. Then I pretty much kick back and bust some ass.

[B]

I have to say, when Ashton first.

[D]

Told me this idea, I was against it. But now I'm still against it.

[A]

It was a good system, but it still wasn't quite capturing the essence of Ashton. And a big part of that experience is smell is smell is smell.

[D]

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[C]

Well, there's a couple things I did enjoy about that. I was in Led Zeppelin, ending strong with.

[D]

Director extraordinaire Jonathan Kreisel has joined the pod. Fight, fight, fight, fight, fight.

[A]

I said no notes on your voice note. It was very good, Kreisel. We already listened to it.

[B]

I mean, like a Stanley Kubrick backdrop.

[E]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[C]

Well, he's a cinephile and he knows his Dempsey Escher.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

Three dimensional.

[D]

Krystal, did you pop on in time to see Tudor?

[E]

I just watched it. I was trying to find it earlier. I couldn't even find it.

[A]

Well, it didn't air.

[E]

It didn't air well. Oh, they never put it out at all.

[C]

No.

[D]

All right, guys, thoughts on Tudor. Tell me everything. Don't hold back.

[C]

Well, how are the eyelines? First of all, Keith, the eyelines were perfect.

[A]

I thought. I mean, that is a fully realized idea maybe, you know, not the best one of all time, but it is all there. And you've got the Them Crooked Vultures cameo and the Questlove cameo. It is thorough.

[B]

Ashton's being a super good sport.

[C]

Oh, my God, he's so scared. Akiva is so scared that you're on the pod, that he's just gushing.

[A]

It's disgusting. Krystal, did you hear my voice note last week?

[E]

No.

[A]

It started with apologies and stuff. It was not. It was not cruel, but. But I didn't hold any punches, so you should hear it. But your response was perfect. But, yeah, Tudor is very arable. And. And your effects work is very unintended arable. Because of farts. Yeah, I did. Like when Jenny's, like, gets the burst and it. You guys did like a. You wafted air in her face.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

Like her hair blows back from the phone.

[E]

It's funny to see the phones so data.

[B]

I know. It is genuinely like. It's like BlackBerry stuff.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Miss that Qwerty.

[A]

But the technology was actually more advanced because it could do smells, which we can't do anymore.

[B]

So you're saying phones have gotten worse in the world.

[A]

They can't do air blasts or. Air blasts.

[D]

I think everyone knows our stance on that.

[C]

Wait, you got. You guys. I have to. I have to bounce. I'm very sorry, but I'm very glad.

[B]

That that's all right.

[C]

Bro. We got another shock. Shock to. Yeah.

[B]

Exactly.

[A]

I love you, Crystal. As long as it's always four shock jocks. Then the equation. The boat doesn't tip over.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

The universe keeps its balance.

[A]

Exactly.

[B]

Exactly.

[C]

As I'm still the most popular character.

[D]

Okay. Yhorm. Is there anything you want to say before you go?

[C]

Yes. I think Krystal's right.

[B]

Whatever.

[C]

Just in this particular battle, I'm pro Kyle and anti Akiva. I love you guys.

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That's insane.

[E]

Okay.

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[B]

Do we want to just since we have Kreitzl, do we want to jump straight to flags of the world?

[D]

Well, hang on. Don't we want to Talk for like 17 to 25 more minutes about tutor?

[A]

Well, the audience can't. I can't see it.

[B]

That's true.

[E]

I didn't even remember them. Crooked vultures was a thing.

[D]

Did you like the social commentary?

[B]

I did, I did. Andy.

[D]

I like the moment when he says, I was in Led Zeppelin, that was funny.

[B]

That was great. That was John Paul Jones saying he was in Led Zeppelin. I want to also say it does hearken back to a simpler time where the criticism of Twitter was people just idly telling you what they were doing at any given moment.

[A]

Yeah. They were all just farting around on a thing. As opposed to.

[B]

As opposed to, like, assess, bull, whatever. The worst people in the world.

[E]

Right.

[B]

So shout out like, we're at TUDOR right now. It'd be a little bit better than what it is.

[D]

I want to just remind you, Seth, now that Kreisel has joined us, to tread lightly. If you're going to make any kind of disparaging comment about incels.

[A]

Any politics, we want to tiptoe around.

[B]

You always tell me the things you're like. This is not the Kreitzel you worked with. That's the thing you always say to me.

[A]

Radicalize.

[D]

Let's get to Flags of the World. Chrysalis. So good to see you, buddy.

[E]

Yeah, good to see you guys.

[B]

Good to see you, too. Flags of the World is, I think, has a real Kreisl stamp to it, and I mean that at a high level of compliment. Very different than anything.

[D]

Yeah, it was your idea.

[E]

Yes, it feels like it was, but I don't really remember.

[D]

I think it was. And I was like, ooh, I love that joke bag. Let's go. And then we just, like, hunkered down and thought of as many as we could.

[E]

Yeah, I just watched it. It's pretty good.

[B]

I mean, again, it's relentlessly enjoyable to watch because every second there's a new thing to look at.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

What inspired it? Any setup here, Krystal? Usually before we get into one, we talk about if there was any process or anything. I'm loading it up here.

[E]

I mean, to me, I'm always inspired by mundane things that should not be celebrated. And flags are unsung in the world. They're just funny. Like, there's a flag for a country or whatever it is.

[A]

It's like, yes, it does feel very juvenile when you think about it.

[E]

It is.

[B]

Hearing you give that answer makes so much sense why you ended up directing Portlandias. That was a very Fred answer. It just flags.

[A]

Yeah. Just to notice something that's like wild flags.

[E]

We're proud of them. We salute them.

[B]

Yeah. And they're just weirdly different symbols for different countries.

[A]

Yeah. And people do put all the Is. They're just some fabric, and people put all the meaning on them.

[E]

Oh, yeah. They mean so much. Stars and stripes. I mean, whatever.

[A]

I mean, I love it.

[D]

Yeah. I was gonna say, you guys, I'm right up against the edge of getting offended because you know how I feel about Old Glory. You know how I feel about Old Glory.

[A]

Yes, of course you love it.

[E]

You burn it, you go to jail.

[D]

I love her, Akiva.

[A]

Okay. All right. Should we rock it?

[B]

Yeah, let's rock it.

[D]

American flag, Canadian flag. Danish flag, Spanish flag.

[A]

Brit flag.

[D]

Brit flag. Brett flag. Brett flag. Czech flag. Czech flag. Czech flag. Czech flag, Scotch flag. Scotty flag. Hottie in the naughty flag. Speaker state flag, Steak flag. Just stepped on a rake flag. Wrist flag. Ankle flag. Big old double cankle flag.

[B]

Flag of the world.

[E]

Okay.

[D]

Flag, kite, flag. We love Betty White Flag, so. We love Betty White Flag was so pandering in that moment.

[B]

Hottie. And the naughty flag was not pandering. That was a real.

[D]

I was like, oh, that's a little.

[B]

That's a classic. One for you, one for them.

[A]

Who made the beat? Do we know?

[D]

I don't know. It's enjoyable.

[A]

It might have been Catrice or somebody in the music department.

[D]

Do you think it's like a nice little laid back group?

[A]

Do you think we went and found it, or do you think we asked, like, Asa or somebody?

[E]

I was gonna say Asa, but not positive.

[D]

Dang.

[B]

I like that. The cankles are like baby cankles.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

We weren't, like, trying to go after cankles too hard.

[B]

Yeah, it's like. Like toddler cankles. Also, you and Abby seem to be having very little direction as to what exactly you want to do like. I like that it's kind of a loose dancing.

[A]

Sorry, that's on purpose.

[B]

Sorry, Krynsel. You brought in a full choreographer.

[A]

It might take a lot of direction to get this exactly what you need.

[B]

That's true.

[E]

You gotta say stop. Less. Less, less.

[D]

I like check flag. Check flag. Check flag. Check flag. And the last one just being a flag. That is a check.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

What about the world light Flag, kite, flag. We love Betty White Flag. Moz Flag, Boss flag.

[C]

Scag.

[D]

Flag.

[A]

Jack flag. Flag.

[D]

Flag. Snack Flag, Shag, slag In a flag mag wearing garbage bags.

[B]

Yeah. I can. I also say when we talk about how we love Betty White Flag was really, for the moment. Ma's flag. Boss flag, Skag flag.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

I mean, those are three people that literally nobody in the audience in that given time would have any moment to, like, cheer for.

[D]

Strong disagree.

[B]

Brian Bosworth. Morrissey.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Ricky Skaggs.

[D]

Strong disagree. And they're still all three personal heroes.

[A]

This is on the Jennifer Lopez musical guest and host episode. So it's the J. Lo fans. And there's a lot.

[D]

I remember Goodnight's J. Lo herself going so rad that you shouted out boz.

[E]

No, no.

[D]

Yeah, don't you remember? And then I told you at the after party.

[E]

I've been working with Boz for the last five years.

[D]

Say more about that. Cause I think that's a joke.

[E]

It's not a joke. I've been working with him very intimately.

[D]

In what capacity?

[E]

I bet he's an actor as well as a sports legend. And I do these commercials for Dr. Pepper and he plays like a sheriff. It's like a recurring series. And I gotten to know him well.

[B]

And how do we feel about Baz? Is Baz a good hang?

[E]

He is interesting. He has like a 30 for 30.

[A]

Could I say something? Who is Bob?

[B]

Was Brian Bosworth.

[D]

Bosworth, yeah.

[A]

Oh, it is Brian Bosworth.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

From megaforce.

[B]

He did have one action movie, right?

[E]

No, he has a bunch.

[D]

No, it's not Megaforce though. It's Stone Cold, right?

[E]

He has a 30 for 30. That is very good. Agreed.

[D]

I watched it. Did you like it as much as the Bo Jackson one?

[E]

I don't think I've seen the Bo Jackson one.

[D]

See, more proof everyone that we are not on the team.

[B]

I would imagine they're each in one another's. Because Bo Jackson like famously ran him over once, right?

[E]

Oh, that's right.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

When you first met him, Kreitzl, was he like, hey, I heard word you did Flags of the World.

[E]

He was. We talked about it.

[A]

Oh, Barry Bostwick. That's whose name was in my brain. Yeah.

[D]

Cause Barry Bostwick in megaforce.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

That's your boss.

[A]

That's my boss, yeah.

[D]

Barry Bostwick from Spin City, where I was a fucking writer's pa. That's the guy.

[B]

What was your last year as a writer's PA on Spin City?

[A]

Probably 2003. 2004, maybe 2003? Probably, yeah.

[D]

03 or 04.

[A]

Well, at a certain point he got promoted to be on a desk@SID UBU Sit.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

@ Ubu Productions, where he'd.

[A]

Where he'd answer the phone there. But that's because they produced Spin City. So it was. It was all in the family. All right, are we ready to continue at flag shag?

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Flag snack. Flagshack Slag in a flag mag, wearing garbage bags, taking tracks from a fag flag. That's what they Call it in England.

[B]

Turkey chili.

[D]

Wales flags.

[B]

Yahtzee Flag.

[D]

Ratzi Florida flag. Neo Nazi po. Neo Nazi pod flag. Confused fan of lost a flag. Sag flag. Gag Flag. Girlfriend on the rag. Flag. Can't do that. And a halo made of play.

[A]

D'oh.

[D]

Flag. Stag flag. Freak flag. Can I get a peak? Flag. Lap on flag. Clap on flag. Little naughty strap on flag. Bread flag. Red flag.

[B]

Flag of the world.

[A]

A bread flag is. Is a red flag on a date. When you. He stuck his, like, chopstick through a piece of white bread.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

That might have been the red flag.

[E]

I'm glad you got that.

[B]

I like that. When they showed. Speaking to the lack of applause for the Skaggs flag. And the boss flag. And the boss flag. When we did show Jennifer Lopez on a flag, the audience did get behind it.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

Did they?

[B]

Yeah, they had a moment where they're.

[A]

Like, yeah, they woot her.

[D]

Let's see. Let's see it again.

[A]

For sure. Like four people counts.

[D]

Oh, I see. Bread flag is tied to a character who's clearly a little off.

[A]

Yeah. And he's a red flag. It's a red flag.

[D]

It's a red flag. When he raises his bread flag.

[A]

I want to see the bread flag, but I gotta pause. Oh, it's you in a wig.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah. I feel like I connect with the guy raising the bread flag.

[A]

Yeah, there he is. He's got. Got rainbow suspenders.

[D]

Dressed like mor.

[A]

Yeah. A crazy, like, dark hair wig.

[D]

He's mor.

[B]

He's mor. He's full. Morgan.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

They've got a bunch. They've got a nice vase full of tulips and some food, and it seems like they're maybe on a date. Yeah, they're on date.

[D]

It seems like red flag. The bread flag for me.

[A]

Red flag, exactly.

[D]

I think it makes perfect sense and is good.

[A]

It wasn't a chopstick. You had an actual bread flag. It's on a normal flag pole.

[D]

Yeah, man. It's airtight like Sergio. All right, let's keep going.

[A]

No, you didn't.

[D]

Flag. Yes, I did.

[E]

Flag.

[D]

Biggie flag. Baggy flag. Maggie dressed in draggy flag.

[B]

Ziggy flag.

[D]

Zaggy flag.

[B]

Flaggy flaggy flaggy. Flag. Flag of the world.

[D]

Yep, that was it.

[B]

I have a lot of affection for flags of the world.

[A]

90 seconds.

[E]

Seconds?

[B]

Yeah, 90 seconds.

[D]

How many views, Seth, on YouTube?

[B]

What do you. What do you got there?

[A]

Do you want to guess first or you want me to tell you?

[B]

Take a guess, Andy.

[D]

70 million.

[A]

It went up 12 years ago. So that's after it aired. Right. Because this is. We're in 2010, so.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So it didn't get on here right away because it was still not doing YouTube.

[E]

Because that's when people missed in that time.

[A]

That's what I mean. Those first three years is when all the views normally happen.

[B]

That was when, like, everybody was watch. If you had Bosworth and something, people were watching it.

[A]

That's right. 727. 7,000. I would actually say that's not bad.

[D]

That's more than I was expecting.

[B]

Not bad for flags, especially for getting.

[A]

Posted three years later.

[E]

I remember. And I'm not. This is true. Like, in New York Magazine or something for that year, they were like, this is one of the best SNL sketches of the year. Or not.

[D]

Did they really?

[A]

Fantastic.

[E]

It was one of those older kind of things. I was like, yeah, that's right.

[B]

I. Again, I think it's really important to note that we're, like. We're getting, like, later ish in the run of digital shorts, and it's very impressive to do one that doesn't feel like anyone that came before it.

[D]

That's my favorite thing about it is it's a unique little thing that hadn't. It wasn't like any of the others.

[B]

Yeah. Nobody was ahead of it. Nobody, when it started, was like, oh, I know what this is. Like, it was really fun.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

Evergreen and really fast.

[D]

It doesn't ask for more than it gives.

[E]

It's so evergreen. Like, it doesn't have the band from the Tudor one. It was very topical at that moment. Right. Vultures.

[D]

Them crooked vultures.

[E]

Crooked vultures. Yeah. Right.

[D]

This one's evergreen. It has the hottie and the naughty in it.

[E]

They use it in schools, this one to teach kids about. But we have it on another YouTube site that's for educational purposes.

[D]

Got it. It's on an edu.

[E]

Yeah, Right.

[A]

I might have been at this episode. This might be when I returned. I have this memory of. Of, like, coming into the edit when you're working on this. Is that true?

[E]

This is around the time next week.

[A]

Is the Zach Alifianakis one you did. And I know I was there for that at some point, but this might have been when I came back and added, like, all the best jokes at the last second. Oh, my God. Just like you guys were gonna do it, and it was half the speed. This is your brother.

[D]

You're both in the dga.

[B]

You.

[A]

We are.

[B]

That's true.

[E]

That's true.

[A]

All right, well, I. It's. It's a Delightful little morsel.

[B]

I'm heartbroken about something right now.

[D]

Okay.

[B]

I have found on Vulture, did Alexi dump you? Yeah. Podcast. That was the one rule. Let's not talk about our relationship during podcasts. But here she is leaving a note on the fridge. I found a article on Vulture which is the best sketches of the season from 2010.

[D]

Okay.

[B]

But it's a slideshow that's not loading.

[A]

Oh.

[B]

So I'm gonna have to. I'm gonna get. I'm gonna do some.

[A]

Hit me with the link in case. Just hit me with it real quick.

[B]

All right, I'm gonna send it over.

[D]

Yeah, Hit Keeve in the tit.

[B]

Less fun.

[D]

That was sort of. It was an abbreviated version of what I normally say.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

Oh, Andy, did you tell them about Tudor? I was telling Andy that. I remember when we were filming it, Demi Moore was there. Oh, right.

[A]

Oh.

[E]

And. But it's kind of like this voice from out of the darkness. Because, remember, it was like we were doing those talking head interviews, and she was like, asian dude, Liz. I'm like, who is that? It's like, oh, Demi Moore.

[D]

Well, she was pitching jokes. You were saying she was pitching jokes.

[E]

Because she was really into it. We were very nervous that, like, is he gonna find this funny? Is this, like, too close to home? Because he was the king of Twitter at that point, and she was loving it.

[D]

Rules Jezebel. Remember Jezebel.com said it was one of the highlights of the show. Flags of the world. I miss Jezebel. I loved that site.

[B]

It was a good time. There was a real optimism in the Internet. And by that, I mean a lot of websites of people we liked who were snarky about things, but funny about it. Yeah, but funny. And like, good writers who then you'd want to work with later on.

[C]

Exactly.

[D]

And I think you probably did.

[B]

Can I run through a couple things worth noting in the Ashton Kutcher show?

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Yes, please. Kreisle's there.

[B]

So this is pertinent, a couple of sketches that stayed with me for a long time. There was a Solomon Sublette Klein sketch called Burn Notice Game Show. Do you remember that?

[D]

Oh, yes. It's so funny. It tees it up as Burn Notice Game Show. And then the only question they ask is, what is Bird Notice? Right.

[B]

What is Burn Notice?

[A]

That really stuck with me.

[E]

But isn't it when they're saying it's a sunglasses commercial.

[B]

Yeah. They're trying to guess. Nobody knows what Burn Notice is. And the best is. Cause again, it was a very Popular show on usa.

[D]

It was.

[B]

And that's what Sudeikis as the host kept being like. It's the eighth most popular show on cable.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

No, no, no.

[D]

They're giving props.

[A]

Who can tell me literally anything about.

[B]

This immensely popular television show?

[E]

Yes.

[A]

Is it a reality show about sunglasses?

[B]

No.

[D]

Is it kind of like ncis?

[E]

Okay.

[B]

In what way?

[A]

I don't know.

[B]

And there's a really nice moment where late in it, Ashton Kutcher says, does it take place in Miami? And there's a ding, ding, ding. And Sudeikis, the host goes, oh my God, we've never heard that noise before. Judges. And you think the judges are going to say like. That's right. And it cuts to three judges who also don't know anything about Burn Notice. It's a really nice move. There's also a. I mean, I would say a perfect 10 to 1, which is band reunion at the wedding.

[D]

Oh yeah, Fred.

[B]

Which is Fred, Bill, Dave Grohl. Right. Are playing at Fred's daughter's wedding. And they used to be a punk band called Crisis of Conformity.

[D]

This got a lot of play in the Questlove doc, right?

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

About the music stuff, which was awesome also.

[B]

I mean, it starts with a very dorky Fred being like, these guys used to be in a band with me and we wanna do a song. And then you don't realize until they start that it's a punk band called Crisis of Conformity. Cause he sort of introduces the band and then the song is Fist Fight in the Park. Get. And it's kind of a perfect sketch. Cuz it's just like a real hardcore, like unironically great punk song.

[A]

That was the five to one. Huh?

[B]

That was the five to one.

[A]

It was right at the end.

[B]

And it was a great use of Dave Grohl. And then that was the era where I was making a T shirt every year for the show that was like the writer's party. And it was.

[E]

Do you remember?

[B]

It was a concert T shirt for Crisis of Conformity.

[A]

Yeah, it was a great design.

[B]

It was a great design. And then the back of it was the tour days for Crisis of Conformity were all of our hometowns.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. I remember because Berkeley was on there like three times.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

Did three nights at the Greek.

[B]

They did three nights at Berkeley.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Oh, that's nice. Seth. I didn't remember that. That's very thoughtful.

[A]

I wore that shirt for years until something weird happened. This like started shrinking, I guess because it was just getting tighter and tighter. I Don't know if you want to talk to the manufacturer of it or something.

[D]

I think it has to do with the manufacturer because that happened to me too.

[A]

Oh, my God. Well, that's actually proof because it wouldn't. It couldn't possibly happen to both of us.

[D]

It's weird because I never washed it. Like it just started shrinking.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

I was like, this is tighter than.

[A]

It was by a lot. I have. If you're ready for a comment. I found it's a question that I think is a good one about last week. When there's a two part sketch like the closet organizer and bar sketch, do they get submitted and read at the table as one act or do they get split up at the table read? The answer is split up, split up. You try to kind of at the table give the same experience that the viewer would have at home. So you definitely would have one let other sketches play. And at this point, was it Shoemaker who would choose the rundown order of the table read?

[B]

No, Shoemaker's gone now.

[D]

So Kenward.

[A]

So then Kenward. So then he would be, you know, actually thinking of it like putting on a live show and thinking like, how many. I don't want people to have forgotten about it and try to give it a shot at, you know, I don't know how many sketches later. But it is a thoughtful process.

[B]

There's another crazy thing about the Kutcher show, which I already loved.

[A]

What's your question, Krystal?

[E]

Well, he's looking because like that was such an anomaly to me that, that recurring thing, like I don't even remember that.

[A]

No, we. We were talking about it earlier, before you got on that they are so rare. And then that one, to me, like, there's the MacGruber kind where it was surprising the first time, but they also feel self contained. This one where it was like building on a character where you would have no idea would come back and then it was in a new genre. But bring, you know. Cause the first one's in an ad and the second one's in a sketch. I'm sure there's other examples in the 50 year history, but there's very few.

[E]

I loved it.

[D]

Hit us in the tit us if you know an example.

[B]

The other thing I want to say about the Kutcher show, well, two things. This is the fattest update which has four features. Andy was the kid who just woke up.

[A]

Liam.

[B]

Liam the teen who just woke up. Do you remember? I texted with Mulaney today to verify. Do you remember your other name that you wanted to have for him.

[D]

He loves talking about this because you.

[B]

Came in and you said, I either want to do a character named Liam the teen who just woke up, or Bedhead Jones.

[D]

Which he always brings it up as if I'm some sort of buffoon. And I'm like, I don't know, man. I think Bedhead Jones is pretty sticky.

[B]

I don't think he does bring it up like your buffoon. I think he was like, this is the funniest fucking thing that he had two names for it and the second name being Bedhead Jones is really funny. But here's in one update. Bedhead Jones. Jean K. Jean Bill as Elliot Spitzer and Garth and Cat. Five cast members came out. Wow, that must have been like a 20 minute update.

[A]

Those are good ones, though, if I remember them with no. No coaching to remember it, then those are all good ones.

[E]

Yeah. I guess that's why Tudor got cut, because that was so long.

[B]

Yeah, that's probably.

[A]

Honestly, we started this also, Kry. So I was saying, like, part of. I think what was making you guys annoyed about it getting cut is that things that we have made that are much less polished and less good than that have aired and how it's the unfair luck of the draw of what the whole rest of the show is.

[E]

Is in terms of that because you're backstage watching. Like, this one's long. Come on, come on, get it over with. Praying there's like 30 seconds.

[A]

Here's. Here's not to backtrack, but I just have the comments open. Here's. Earlier, I was looking for comments that either got my back or your back. Krysle, here's one. Team Akiva, here's the very next one. Keev is wrong. The disorientation was the point. It heightens the terror of what isn't terrifying. So, you know, it can go either way.

[E]

I. I think cinephiles know what's up.

[D]

They. Veer Kreisel. Yeah.

[E]

Regular people are just like, huh, what's happening? No, I'm telling you, I was watching Parasite, which is a masterpiece.

[A]

I know.

[E]

And there's a scene where you're like, why is this shot?

[A]

He moves them over when she's pretending to be rich or whatever, but the camera does this beautiful dolly move over the back of the other person's head and then they're both. Both facing the exact same direction.

[C]

Exactly.

[A]

So it's completely bizarre, but it's like so controlled that it's like you have to notice, like, Sergio, like, Sergio.

[B]

Hey, can I just. The Jennifer Lopez show, there was another great ten to one. Er, well, there's two things. One, the actual last sketch in the JLO show is Closet Organizer again. Lauren sort of ran it again as a commercial pair to like fill the last two minutes where obviously the show was short.

[A]

Oh, just the videotape of. Yeah.

[B]

Which is a reminder that Closet Organizer, the first half can stand alone.

[A]

And you know what you don't see very often on this rundown. So Closet Organizer, as you say, played at the end because clearly he needed something to fill out the show at the very last second. And we weren't ready with another live sketch. Right. It's also in the cut after dress. So clearly Closet Organizer was used as a videotape and dress as like filler just to get between things. And then it got cut. So it's in the cut after dress. And then it's also in the air rundown. Cause at the last minute it got re. Put in.

[D]

I find that interesting, Akiva.

[A]

It's on the added on air section as well. You just don't see that that often.

[E]

Agreed.

[D]

A good tidbit to throw in.

[B]

And then there was also. I'll just say that in the JLO show there was a women's curling from the ESPN Classic, guys. And I'm only going to say it so we could just throw in one line from.

[D]

Okay, perfect.

[B]

And we'll throw it in now.

[D]

Now, why don't we meet tonight's competitors? Up first we've got Helga Birkenstock. Now it looks like she's inspecting her teammates brushes. Very important thing to do. Greg, I gotta ask you, what is.

[B]

The purpose of those brushes?

[D]

Oh, no idea.

[B]

Well, I mean, if you had to.

[D]

Take a stab in the dark.

[B]

Oh, I'd probably kill someone. Well, no, no, no.

[A]

I wish I heard.

[D]

Yeah, I bet it was fun.

[A]

The audience just got to hear that. But we didn't. And that's good because we've been doing the thing where we tell things and then beep them out because the audience.

[B]

Isn'T allowed to hear.

[A]

And this time I didn't. We didn't get to hear it.

[D]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

Hey, Quaides, let us know. Was that a good clip?

[B]

Was it a good clip?

[A]

If only there was a way for us to hear it.

[B]

Well, we'll listen later. Boy. What? So nice to see you, Kreitzel.

[E]

Yeah, same. Same to you.

[A]

What do you need to plug?

[E]

Well, I don't want to get into that.

[D]

There is something I Forgot set.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

How did you do on spelling bee?

[B]

I mean, I quibbied, but I quibby with a bunch of hints and stuff. So it doesn't really.

[D]

So you didn't Quibby.

[B]

Correct. Yeah.

[D]

Yeah. How many hints? As a reminder?

[E]

I had one.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

So how many hints?

[B]

Like, 14.

[D]

Like, 14 hints?

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah, probably.

[A]

Andy, Quibby's clean most days. That's the whole thing, really.

[B]

He gets them all with that inhale.

[A]

He gets queen bee and he doesn't use the hints.

[D]

I had a crazy streak recently. It's my third longest streak where I believe I got eight straight days clean. And then after that, I had one hint, and then two or three more days straight, I had to quit.

[E]

It just was taking over my life.

[D]

No, same exactly. It's such a waste of time anyway. My longest streak is, I think, 17 days. I'm very impressed.

[A]

Thousands of hours.

[D]

It's a time suck crisis. I completely agree with you. It's ruining my life. It's getting in the way of my ability to connect with my kids and my spouse. Isn't that funny, Akima?

[A]

I mean, half the audience won't even get to hear this part because they turned off this podcast in the first 30 seconds when we told them. Right at the top.

[D]

Right? Yeah. They were like, I got what I needed.

[A]

Bye, Chrysal. Just let a lot of people tune in just to find out if Andy quibbied or not. And so the moment we let that out of the bag, they're like, bloop. They're off.

[B]

Got it.

[A]

And we did it. We always hold it to the end to kind of tease it along, but today he talked about it right off the bat.

[B]

Oh, wait, wait. Kev just shared something which should maybe be our new bee clip. Ready?

[C]

What?

[B]

Not the bee.

[D]

That's when we don't. Quibby, Kevin. Yeah, that's for the tough ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I had to use one hit today, so. Yeah, not the bee.

[B]

Not the b.

[D]

All right, Kreisel. Thank you for hopping on, buddy.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

Good to see you.

[B]

Love you, Kreitzle. Love you guys.

[D]

Love you guys.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Love you.

[A]

Later.

[E]

Bye.

[D]

Later, Arn. Later, Quaid.