Just 2 Guyz

Summary

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The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast

Episode: “Just 2 Guyz”
Date: February 17, 2026
Hosts: Akiva Schaffer (Keev), Jorma Taccone (Yorm), Andy Samberg (guest via voice memo), Seth Meyers (partial), Liz (guest/spouse)
Theme: Deep dive into the making, meaning, and legacy of the “Just 2 Guyz” Lonely Island digital short.

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Episode Overview

This episode sees Akiva ("Keev") and Jorma ("Yorm") (with Andy and Seth dropping in for segments) take an in-depth retrospective look at “Just 2 Guyz,” one of their earliest, most awkward, and beloved pre-SNL digital shorts. They reminisce about its DIY production, the comedic philosophy behind its painfully self-conscious characters, viewer reactions over the years, and why it endures as a Lonely Island fan-favorite. The episode includes playful banter, technical insights, anecdotes from the era, discussion of creative choices (and accidents), Q&As from fans, and contributions from their spouses and friends.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

“Just 2 Guyz” Origins and Vibe

• Nostalgia for Early Lonely Island:

  • “Just 2 Guyz” was first created purely for fun in 2004, before SNL, when digital shorts being put online was still novel.
  • The characters channel memories of awkward early adolescence. Akiva sums it up:
    “If I had acted like the just two guys guys, it would have been a more honest representation…I was always at least self-aware enough to try to put on a good face, put on a facade.” (03:17)

• Embodiment of Adolescent Anxiety:

  • Both recall how the characters’ cringey bravado and forced coolness mirrored their own feelings at 11–13.
  • Jorma: “These were like, it feels like the manifestation of like how you felt when you talked to someone you liked. That’s like how I felt at 11 and 12.” (03:43)

• DIY, Low-Stress Process:

  • Akiva: “At worst we’ll just put it on YouTube. It doesn’t have to be on the album. It certainly will never be on SNL because we knew they didn’t want them…never stressful. Which is really nice.” (06:29)

• Their Crew and Filming Style:

  • The videos were shot by three people total (Keev, Yorm, and often friend Jonah Goldstein, sometimes Chester).
  • Most locations: their own apartment, a friend’s pool, nearby street corners.

Creating the Characters and Performance Technique

• Getting Awkwardness ‘Just Right’:

  • “It’s just this little lane they have to be in. It’s delightful, but it was always delightful and never stressful…they’re not that awkward, but they’re not that cool.” (06:29)
  • “Played with our pockets because these guys are so terrified to be on, fidgety…It took us a while always to, like, get into character, be like, is that awkward enough?” (05:29)

• Intentionally ‘Off’ Music & Editing:

  • Jorma composed all the beats, usually riffing on the same file, swapping out instruments.
  • Akiva: “We would go offbeat, and then it would sound intentionally offbeat, and then we would go on beat and it would start to sound slightly too good…just a sweet spot these guys have to live in that is shockingly slightly more difficult than you would think for how bad they sound.” (06:00)

• ‘Madlibbing’ Their Own Work:

  • Each sequel followed a formula to keep the energy identical—music stays same tempo, with minor melody or style tweaks.

Production Anecdotes

• Set Design:

  • Their apartment was “frat furniture, essentially”—with milk crates and donated couches.
  • Balloons were water balloons, repurposed in different shots for anti-continuity.
  • Decoration was intentionally shoddy and inconsistent: “early Lonely Island videos…point of pride to have shit be fucked up looking.” (14:06)

• Location Serendipity:

  • Many shots occurred within 100 feet of their house, except a pool scene at a friend’s place.
  • Graduation scene filmed spontaneously when they spotted an empty setup from their window.

• Costumes & Era Details:

  • Early outfits were their real clothes—later videos saw sarcastic t-shirt shopping at Kmart.
  • “Our outfits are decidedly, like, 90s. Wearing big Patagonia style fleeces…in 2004, of course, stuff you’d have worn in the 90s seemed out of fashion to us.” (35:38)

Reception, Legacy, and Fan Engagement

• YouTube’s Role in Their Rise:

  • “Seeing ‘20 years ago’ is wild on YouTube because YouTube barely existed. When we made ‘just two guys,’ it didn’t exist because it was 2004.” (09:07)
  • The video went from their website to YouTube after Lazy Sunday blew up.

• Audience Confusion vs. Artist Intent:

  • Many viewers couldn’t believe “polished” Lonely Island would intentionally make something so “bad.”
  • “There’s a type of fan that couldn’t wrap their heads around choosing to look bad. They just assumed if you look bad, it was an accident, no matter what.” (16:32)

• Inside Jokes & Notable Comments:

  • Top YouTube comments boggle over the video’s age and joke, “We still don’t know who the hell invited Steve.”
  • The phrase “Party over here!” became the name of their production company.

Recurring Characters and Spouses’ Insights

• Andy as ‘Steve the Cunt’:

  • Voiced-in Andy Samberg: “Not every day you get gifted a cherry roll like Steve the Cunt, but you know, sometimes in life the cards just fall in your favor.” (48:56)
  • Both Jorma’s and Akiva’s wives regard these as their favorite Lonely Island characters.

• Liz’s Involvement:

  • Liz (Akiva’s wife) appears to discuss watching and helping film the video in its original shoot:
    “It reminded me of, like, what I did growing up… just reminded me of me and my best friends, like, having a camera and being like. Like, let’s shoot something.” (43:39)

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Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• On the Creative Approach:

  • “It feels like the manifestation of like how you felt when you talked to someone you liked… Just You Guys was basically like, yes. How I felt inside when thinking about trying to do something cool when I Felt very, very uncool inside.”
    — Jorma, [03:43]

• On Intentionally Low-Quality Elements:

  • “There’s just a sweet spot these guys have to live in that is shockingly, slightly more difficult than you would think for how bad they sound.”
    — Akiva, [06:00]

• On Audience Reaction to Aesthetic Choices:

  • “There’s a type of fan that couldn’t wrap their heads around choosing to look bad. They just assumed if you look bad, it was an accident.”
    — Akiva, [16:32]

• Andy on the Role of ‘Steve the Cunt’:

  • “Not every day you get gifted a cherry roll like Steve the Cunt… In a lot of ways it is the thing that brought me the most joy in all of my entire life.”
    — Andy Samberg, [48:56]

• Liz on Witnessing the Shoot:

  • “It reminded me of, like, what I did growing up… it was really joyful… just reminded me of me and my best friends, like, having a camera and being like…let’s shoot something.”
    — Liz, [43:39]

• Akiva on the Crew:

  • “These videos were shot the way they look, which is that there are three people total. Me, Yorm and one other person mostly.”
    — Akiva, [07:47]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Discussing Channeling Adolescent Awkwardness: [02:32]–[04:18]
• Performance Technique and Getting the Right Level of Awkward: [05:29]–[06:29]
• YouTube and the Video’s Reception: [09:07]–[10:31]
• Production Details (costumes, set, anti-continuity): [12:00]–[14:06]
• Fan & Commenter Reactions to the Videos: [10:29]–[11:18]; [16:09]–[16:40]
• Andy Samberg’s Reflections as Steve: [48:56]–[50:13]
• Liz’s Perspective and Help Filming: [43:17]–[44:52]
• Fan Q&A: [50:40]–[65:19]

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Fan Q&A Highlights

• Are the Just 2 Guyz Still Having a Good Time?

  • “Hard to say… they seem pretty nervous and scared.” — Akiva, [51:08]
  • Yorma pictures them working at different Quiznos.

• Why Two Guys and Not Three?

  • “If you leave, then people are going to do shit without you.” — Jorma, [56:39]

• Tiny Details/Easter Eggs:

  • “We talked about anti-continuity—point of pride to have shit be fucked up looking.” — Jorma, [14:06]
  • Calls to the weird continuity, nervous palm shots, homemade choreography for ‘smoking pot’, the copy of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.

• On Never Pitching to SNL:

  • “I can’t think of anything that Lorne would like less.” — Jorma, [60:07]

• Fan Stories:

  • Listeners share about parrots laughing along, chemistry notebooks filled with lyrics, and finding ways to bond with their kids using “Just 2 Guyz” lyrics.

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Memorable and Funny Moments

• The Anti-Continuity Pride:
  • They actively avoided making the video look professional as “a point of pride.”
• Party Over Here:
  • The phrase goes from video gag to production company name.
• Andy on Meeting His Wife:
  • Joanna’s reaction: “Oh, my God, Steve the cunt.” — leading to his marriage.

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Tone & Style

• Warm, nostalgic, self-deprecating, and improvisational — the episode is full of inside jokes, playful roasting, and unguarded reminiscing.
• The crew makes little effort to sound slick: they openly derail, munch on burritos, and digress into in-jokes and extended fan Q&A riffing, keeping the mood friendly and organic.

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In Summary

This episode is a love letter to the lo-fi beginnings of Lonely Island’s comedy, highlighting both the accidental genius and carefully crafted “failure” of “Just 2 Guyz.” Jorma and Akiva dive into the joy of awkwardness, the freedom of making art no one else cared about (yet), and how these early experiments influenced their later, bigger work. With fan mail, voices from their partners, and Andy dropping in, the vibe is celebratory and self-mocking—a celebration not only of what’s “cringe,” but how it makes us laugh together.

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Transcript

[Jorma Taccone]

Is the Lonely island and Seth Myers podcast, Keev Woo. Here we are.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay, now I'm recording your.

[Seth Meyers]

Hi.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. Oh, Kee, hey. There you are.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Thanks for the energy, Yorm. That's awesome. No problem.

[Jorma Taccone]

Hey, guess what I'm eating, Keith.

[Akiva Schaffer]

A burrito from the same place or a different. You don't have to give them the promotion this time. But is it the same place or a new place?

[Jorma Taccone]

It's the same place. I. I'll give it up to Buddy's Burritos. Brooklyn.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's the perfect name. Buddy's Burrito. If you want to get that burrito Brain Brain. Go to Buddy's Burrito.

[Jorma Taccone]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, I think so.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Say chicken burrito slash island. When you go into Buddy Burrito and you want a burrito brain, I stick.

[Jorma Taccone]

It right in my head.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's pretty good ads.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, I think so.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right. Hi. So it's me and Yorm. Only Andy finally, you know, is working on his movie. I don't know what Seth's doing. What's Seth's excuse? Do we know?

[Jorma Taccone]

I think he's on vacation or something. That's how I like to put it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Must be nice. Yeah, those old February vacations. I get it. He's taking like a ski week or something.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. I think we should post some pictures of him skiing, even if he's not on vacation.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That sounds good.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. But this is finally the two of us.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

And we're going to talk about Just Two Guys, right? Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It was suggested to us to do a Just Two Guys episode. We've already talked about it a teeny bit, Yoram. I think in our early. In our early stuff, like the early episodes of this. But I don't know what we said, so we're just going to repeat ourselves. I think we just make a disclaimer that if we say something we already said, it just is what it is.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's not old age. Guys, this is. Yeah, it is.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, it's been a couple years since we recorded that, so we don't even know what's going on.

[Jorma Taccone]

I mean, we're going to do some watchbacks, though, which we did not do last time, I don't think. God. Jesus.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, we certainly wouldn't have. So Just Two Guys is a video we made four of. It's a. What's. What's a trilogy. That's a quad. Quadrilogy.

[Jorma Taccone]

Quadrilogy. That's correct.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Is it?

[Jorma Taccone]

That is.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right. And the first one was in 2004.

[Jorma Taccone]

Wait, what did they say for Fast and the Furious? Like when you're up to like 10.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. When it goes.

[Jorma Taccone]

There's got to be names for every single. Yeah, yeah, they're good. They're working on it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's so sick that Fast and Furious went diamond certified diamond. That's fucking dope. All right. Just two guys we made in 2004 and this was just for fun, something we just made around the house. And we were channeling our, our like 13 year old selves and we were.

[Jorma Taccone]

We were cooler than this at 13 sort of thing.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But the feeling we had inside, I guess for me, I can only speak for me personally. For me personally. You know what, 13's a little too old too because I'm thinking of like seventh grade, which was 11 and 12.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yes.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'm going to my 11, 12. And honestly, let's just 13 year old self and the feelings, how I felt like I was and how I kind of vaguely feel if I see a, like a video, a home video of myself at that age, like I. Or the picture.

[Jorma Taccone]

I feel like you were always more judgmental of, of how you were in old home videos because we were friends at the time and we definitely have old like skate videos of the two of us hanging out. And granted, like we weren't the coolest guys in the world, but no, no, I feel like you're cooler than you're giving yourself credit for.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, that's very nice. But again, no, it's like a manifestation of the insecurities I felt at the time. And even thinking of myself now back at it, I can like bring back those feelings of just I felt like I was. If I had acted like the just two guys guys, it would have been a more honest representation I think of myself. But I was always at least self aware enough to try to like put on a good face, put on a facade.

[Jorma Taccone]

These were like, it feels like the manifestation of like how you felt when you talked to someone you liked. That's like how I felt at 11 and 12. Like freaks and Geeks was like an exact replication of like how I felt in like those particular years of junior high. And like whenever like a dance would come up, I would be like, this is a nightmare. Like I'm supposed to go to this thing, but people are going to be freaking and slow dancing. And just you guys was basically like, yes. How I felt inside when thinking about trying to do something cool when I Felt very, very uncool inside.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This is fast forwarding many years later, but one of the reasons we really related to and liked the idea of pen 15 when they came to us with it, was because it just seemed like a version of this.

[Jorma Taccone]

Years of awkwardness.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

And when we've talked about this before, but. I'm sorry, I got burrito in my mouth.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, no, this is fine. There are different rules. When it's just me and you, you can just go nuts.

[Jorma Taccone]

Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, I don't have Andy's judgment. Well, okay, so what the fuck were we just talking about?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, guys, the burrito brain's already kicked in. We're fucked. We're like two minutes in and this guy's fully brained.

[Jorma Taccone]

What do you want to talk about, Keith? We can talk about anything.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He just. He just. Because he's pounding it. The burrito's half done. The burrito brain. This fool came in.

[Jorma Taccone]

I am housing it. I'm like, really shoving it in there.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Came in half cocked here. God damn it. We're fucked. Guys, it's just the two of us. And half these are already. Brain is like one and a half fully. Bb.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Anyway, it looks so good. Honestly, the burrito, I really wish I had one here.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, I'll send one to you. No, like, we talked about this before, but whenever we would do just two guys and maybe we should just start with the first one.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

We would have to get into character and we would, like, you know, whenever we were recording, we were, like, playing with our pockets because these guys are so terrified to be on the fidgety.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, they're scared.

[Jorma Taccone]

It took us a while always to, like, get into character, be like, is that awkward enough? Like, like, fully a line and stepping away from the mic as we do it, just because we're so nervous, we would.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It is funny. There was no cameras on us. You're talking about when we're recording the song.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, we're active.

[Akiva Schaffer]

If you watched us do it, we would be in fully in character.

[Jorma Taccone]

You had to be.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And then. All right, so I've done the disclaimer that we might have talked about this. So I'm going to stop with the disclaimer. But we would go offbeat, and then it would sound intentionally offbeat, and then we would go on beat and it would start to sound slightly too good, if you can even believe that. And so there's just a sweet spot these guys have to live in that is shockingly, slightly more difficult than you would think for how Bad they sound.

[Jorma Taccone]

It happened every time we did a new one. It would always be like a 30 minute period of like us being like, that's not quite right.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And they're not that awkward, but they're not that cool. And it's just this little lane they have to be in. It's delightful, but it was always delightful and never stressful. Because I think for a few reasons, I mean, the first one we're doing, we know is just for us because we don't even have jobs and we're doing it for fun. And then the rest of them, we kind of always knew was still that. At worst we'll just put it on YouTube. It doesn't have to be on the album. It certainly will never be on SNL because we knew they didn't want them. So it would be the thing we would fit in the cracks when Andy was busy and just. I don't remember a single stressful feeling around these four, which is really nice.

[Jorma Taccone]

They were a joy and a joy to shoot the videos for as well. That feeling continued like all through video shoots.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes. So his name will come up a lot and we've talked about him before, but our friend Jonah Goldstein, who was at NYU with Chester and Andy, who came out to la, he was our go to guy when we had something goofy like this because he just is a great guy and has good energy and was just down to come be the third, just two guy in terms of. If it's a shot of the two of us, he can be behind the camera. And I think maybe did somebody else ever help us or was it. My memory is it's the three of us, but I think Chester might have helped on one or two.

[Jorma Taccone]

Chester helped out, I think on We Like Sports, I believe. But it was, yeah, mainly Jonah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But these videos were shot the way they look, which is that there are three people total. Me, Yorm and one other person mostly. Maybe the crew expanded to four people at some point and just.

[Jorma Taccone]

I mean, so the first one we did all in and around your house that you. You and Andy were living off of Melrose at the time.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And yeah, this was me and andy's apartment pre SNL 2004.

[Jorma Taccone]

Do you. Do you remember the impetus for the very first.

[Akiva Schaffer]

First one?

[Jorma Taccone]

I mean, like, we just love the idea of like, you made the beat.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So the beats are all made by Yorm. Yeah, every time. And.

[Jorma Taccone]

And by the way, every single time though, I would just take the reason file that we had, swap out the instrumentation was almost always the first one.

[Akiva Schaffer]

The first one you're saying was a genuine a piece of art. And the other ones are just derivative crap.

[Jorma Taccone]

They're derivative. And I would swap out instruments and then I would change the melody slightly. And I think only one of them has a, has a slightly either faster or slower tempo. But almost all of them you can go back to back and they're the exact same tempo.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, it's maybe the most SNL mad libsy we've ever been with ourselves in terms of being like, oh, let's do that sketch again. Because we wanted to keep the energy the same and giving them too different of music. Just didn't feel like in these guys skill set.

[Jorma Taccone]

I think we need Love is the only one because it's a little bit more R and B which is like a little slower.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Hey guys. Akiva interrupting from later in the podcast. We're gonna be really stepping through just two guys here and reminiscing, me and Yorm. So if you are the person that listens on audio, that's fine. But it might be more fun if you're on YouTube where you can glance up because then you'll see the video as I am playing and pausing it. Okay, back to the past of us from 20 minutes ago. Woo. So if you go on YouTube and this is 20 years ago, which the very first comment says seeing 20 years ago is wild on YouTube because YouTube barely existed. So when we made just two guys, it didn't exist because it was 2004. And of course lazy Sunday is 2005. So this was just on our website when we did it. And that's why It's. Because it's 2026. So this thing is actually 21 years old. 21 and a half years old, maybe 22.

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, so we. And I would imagine because you were so up on game with YouTube because obviously your brother like was the first person to like hip us to like this website is up da da like and then Lazy Sunday appears on it through like third party post. And then like very quickly, I, I.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Assume our back catalog, we made our channel right after that because 20, it's 2026 now. 20 years ago is 2006. Lazy Sunday was December 2005. So we basically made our channel the next month or two months or you know, just somewhere right there, right after Lazy Sunday. And this would have been one of the first things we would have put up on it because we were like, oh, what do we have?

[Jorma Taccone]

13 million views? Not too shabby for.

[Akiva Schaffer]

There you go for what this is. Yes. What's you know what's funny? The top comments right now. So the 20 years ago is wild. Is from a month ago.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Then the next one says the fact that music's been this high quality since the eighth day of YouTube is legendary. So clearly somebody was also looking at how long. The third comment is. 18 years ago is extremely upsetting. That was from a year ago then.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's not being watched quite that much.

[Akiva Schaffer]

The next. These are not, you know, the most recent comments. These are just the highest ones that have come up. The next comment is, it's been 15 years and we still don't know who the hell invited Steve.

[Jorma Taccone]

No one is the answer on who invited students.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This is not about how old it is. But I just realized they were just two guys having a good time. That's a great comment from six years ago. So this guy, it took him 14 years to realize that that's what they were.

[Jorma Taccone]

Should we watch this first one? Just.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. So I. So yeah. So it's me and Andy's apartment that we shared after the original Lonely island apartment. That was the three of us plus Matt that we've talked about from Radio Silence, who directs all the screams and Ready to Knots.

[Jorma Taccone]

He's about to do Mummy right now.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Then Yor moved out and Chester moved in and it was us four. And then they raised our rent and we all moved out separately. And me and Andy ended up living together at this place right off Melrose.

[Jorma Taccone]

I mean, we shot so much shit at this house. Like.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes, exactly. So we're on the second floor of this little thing right across from a high school. All right, let's just hit play here.

[Jorma Taccone]

First of all, you're looking real cool off the bat.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, I'm in some sort of a Unabomber T shirt that looks like a Marlboro ad.

[Jorma Taccone]

And this is before we. We actually purchased clothing for it. So this is our actual real clothes, but just us looking dumpy.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That was some sort of skate brand shirt.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I don't know why I had it. We styled ourselves. I did not wear jeans with a cuff and leather shoes. No.

[Jorma Taccone]

In terms of the beat, we had a band. It was called the Party Andersons. And the premise was it was Dennis, Philip and Arnold Anderson, who are all three brothers from Florida. They drive around in like a Subaru Brat. Their brother has died. This is the backstory of it. It was like sort of like a agro rap party band, but were kind of pricks, basically. There's not really much more to the joke.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It alter egos so that we could try making some.

[Jorma Taccone]

It was pretty hard.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Crazier stuff.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, it was pretty hard, but also stupid as shit. And then we made like a five or six song, like back to back. Just like it had transitions in it, but it was like a medley of crazy songs. And actually Rock Roll Skate, which is in Pop Star.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's a Style Boy song. Yeah, yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

Style Boy song is a Party Anderson song. So Rock Roll Skate. Eat a bag of shit. It was the vibe of the praise. So came to the party. The little sample is from the Pari Anderson's. I chopped that up. And like that is the first thing you hear in this song.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Now yorm, do you remember did we actually buy the party here banner that's on the front door here? Like, did we actually bother to go get something? Because we must have gone to a party store to buy balloons. We wouldn't have owned balloons.

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, I mean a lot of shit was up on Melrose, so maybe we just went up the street. We didn't try. I think we just walked up, we put these balloons.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I mean those balloons are clearly water balloons that we blew up because that's all we had. So we're doing great so far.

[Liz (guest or spouse)]

Hello.

[Jorma Taccone]

Welcome to the party. Same balloons?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We definitely took the balloons shooting in one direction and then put them behind you in the other direction. It's great.

[Jorma Taccone]

I remember we may have talked about this before, but like early Lonely island videos. I remember like we were so keen on having like anti continuity. Like it was like it was a point of pride to like have shit be fucked up looking.

[Seth Meyers]

You know what though?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yhorm to do anti continuity, you have to really understand continuity. You know, to break the eye lines. You must be. Be almost a master violence. Some people might say to paint outside, you know, to do a Picasso, you have to be able to paint a normal portrait.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. That's a true art.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I've never met you before.

[Jorma Taccone]

I know.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Just two guys.

[Jorma Taccone]

Go back, go back, go back. There's a. It just says I never. I don't think I even noticed. It says Danger. Andy's room. That is Andy's room right there.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, yeah. I forget why we had. Why someone bring that once for him or did we buy it?

[Jorma Taccone]

Somebody must have like given that sarcastically, by the way, 20 years ago. You really see it on both of our faces. We look much, much younger.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, well, that makes sense. It's half our lifetimes ago. You would expect some. Some changes.

[Jorma Taccone]

Just a few.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We're much closer in Age to the characters we are playing. Okay, but actually, Yorm, you bring up a great point, which is, as we continued to make these, we very quickly were making them after things that were successful. And the amount of people that couldn't wrap their heads around these. Like the fact that we made I'm on a Boat and then chose to make Will Kill youl. The amount of comments or even people we knew being like, oh, that old video. Like, they would believe that we had made it, that they had just come to it for the first time, but Obviously it was 10 years old. Like, why would they choose to look so bad and make some of that sound so shitty when they are clearly capable of I just had sex or Jack Sparrow or, you know, I'm in a boat. They would never. Why would they make themselves look this way all the way through? So in a way, it was complimentary because by the end, we're much older and people still somewhere were buying that these were videos from the past.

[Jorma Taccone]

I loved when you first brought this up. Cause it's such a keen observation to be like, you have fucking helicopters and a giant yacht, and I'm on a boat, and it, like, looks slick as shit. And then, like, why would you ever. And you're in tuxedos looking badass. And then to, like, do this to yourself.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes.

[Jorma Taccone]

Like, we're on a freeze frame of Akiva's face. That is so whack.

[Akiva Schaffer]

There's a type of fan that couldn't wrap their heads around choosing to look bad. They just assumed if you look bad, it was an accident, no matter what.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yes.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That was delightful. Anyways, all right, just two guys, and we're having a good time. Having a good time. Having a good time now. We haven't really. I haven't really watched this video in many, many years. So I just actually am just curious to even just see our apartment here. So we cleared out a couch, but we didn't have much furniture. Everything we had was, you know, like, taken from a parent's house or, like, frat furniture, essentially.

[Jorma Taccone]

Like, we actually got a lot of, like, at least all my furniture was donated from writers from Spin City, which is a TV show that both me and Andy worked on. And, like, all the writers were obviously much wealthier than us. And when they would get rid of stuff. So it might be some Spin City writers stuff, too.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Maybe that plant you can see on the left, like, milk crates. That was definitely our, like, what our TV was on. And the shelves were all milk crates. See them over there? Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

Totally.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But you do have that 1200. We had our priorities straight. That's where the money went.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's a DJ turntable, by the way.

[Jorma Taccone]

Though, we did set design this. I mean, like, you know, there's a lot of balloons. We had to sit there. Yeah, yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We move stuff around and we put the sad plant and we got all these fucking. Taped a bunch of balloons to the wall. Yeah. And then this is our party. We've got a picture of a lemonade and some. One solo cup and.

[Jorma Taccone]

And a hummus. Hummus dip that you brought over.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, there's the fucking worst. All right, you guys. That we're having a good time. Oh, wait, my shoes changed.

[Jorma Taccone]

Great. Well, also, the. The conduity of the balloons is not matching either, which is great. Dude, they're just falling through frame.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But I'm wearing patent leather ones now. I was wearing brown ones. Good time.

[Jorma Taccone]

We'll burn the roof off.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This party's going off. Dude, the orange T shirt with the orange pullover fleece is dope. Just. Just orange on orange here.

[Jorma Taccone]

I gotta say, that does look pretty good. I also like the move of me trying to put a hand over you when I start rapping to be like, hey, move back. I'm about to set it. But, like, I'm not moving forward at all. It's like, this is the entirety of, like, getting into character, of speaking the most awkward.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But you're also maybe afraid that I'm gonna do it and you're somewhere looking for me to, like, hold your hand on something.

[Jorma Taccone]

I'm immediately jealous.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And it's like, it's my turn. But it's also like, oh, don't leave me. There's fear in it. Let's watch that again.

[Jorma Taccone]

We'll burn the roof off. This party's going off.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You think that we're soft, you get tough. And then I'm clearly, like, trying to count, like, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, four. And also trying to like, so I don't miss when I come in. Like, I'm revving up. But I'm also slightly mouthing your lyrics. I think, look, you get tossed. Guy number one. I love to dance. Fancy feet moves, putting you in a trance. It's a friend thing.

[Jorma Taccone]

Friends are everywhere.

[Akiva Schaffer]

In the kitchen, there's no friends.

[Jorma Taccone]

There's something so funny about your non blinking. You're just, like, really staring it down.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I just zoned in.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's really funny.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And then you're pointing about. I mean, the whole premise, obviously, not to explain the joke, but we're just two guys who are having a good time by choice is kind of the main idea here.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, and then we're having a.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Clearly, they don't have a friend in. They don't have a friend in the world.

[Jorma Taccone]

This is basically like a video representation of the phrase thou doth protest too much. It's like, oh, what is the problem here? These guys clearly have no friends and don't know any women.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, they didn't want to come to your party anyways. All right, they're having their own party, but there's nobody in any of these places.

[Jorma Taccone]

Friends are everywhere. In the kitchen, the den, hanging out on the stairs.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Spinach dip. Real hot chicks. You're so mad I put my hands that close to your face. But basically I'm reaching over into Jorma's frame, and it just cuts the close of Jorm when it shouldn't with just my arms over his face.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's also really funny thing because then you're like, these guys edited this. Like, why did we leave it in?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, that's. That's. Well, that's where we've stretched reality. I don't buy that you put in this shot. Hot chicks. Spike the punch and take a sip.

[Jorma Taccone]

Guy number two here to chill with you. P A R T Y.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We have to play act everything. Cause we wouldn't spike the punch and take a sip. So it still has to just be our hands being like, spike the punch and take a sip. Because we don't have punch. We don't have anything to spike it with. It's all just. It's all pantomime.

[Jorma Taccone]

We've heard about alcohol at parties. So P A R T Y because we got to was a reference to Beverly Hills 90210, which was a TV show back in the day.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

And I believe Dylan or somebody says it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, I think it was Steve. God. What was his. Ian. Ian.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I always say his last name because we got to. I'm afraid to even pronounce it, but yes, Ian Zierling. But I think it has a different way you say it.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But yeah, Steve. He said it in the episode, and we were like, dude, gotta give a shout out to that guy.

[Jorma Taccone]

So funny. Support comes from Shopify, you guys. You know, when we started this podcast, it seemed like I had to do everything myself because Andy, Akiva, and Seth were just useless. Like, horrifyingly useless. Scripts, setup, recording, schedule. The logos, which I designed as well, with the help of only Atwell. It was overwhelming to me because those guys were just every day seemed to introduce a new decision that they were going to help me with and I needed an answer for. So when you're starting off with something new like this, it seems like that to do list just keeps growing every day. Especially when you have these egg hangers on who don't actually help you with anything. And that list can begin to overrun your life. Don't let that happen to you. Finding the right tool that not only helps you, but removes the burden of these useless turds and simplifies everything can be a game changer for millions of businesses. That tool is Shopify. Replace your friends. Shopify is the commencement platform behind millions of businesses around the world and 10% of all E commerce in the United States. From household names like Aviator Nation, Ooh, Untuck it and Momofuko to brands that are just getting started like mine. I have an idea, guys, for a business that would be like a Boba thing, but the actual balls would be filled with something that actually explodes in your mouth. I don't know if Shopify would even allow this to happen. I don't think they would. But anyway, don't take that idea, guys. Start your business today with the industry's best business partner, Shopify, and start hearing. Sign up for the $1 a month trial today at shopify.com lonelyisland go to shopify.com lonelyisland that shopify.com lonely island cha ching. Oh, that. Actually, I didn't need to do that part.

[Seth Meyers]

Support comes from Helix. Hey, guys, it's cold out. I think we want to spend more time indoors. And when you're indoors and it's cold, just, you know, bedroom under the blankets. Blankets are great, but none of it's going to matter. None of your linens matter at all if you don't have a Helix mattress. Helix mattresses can't tell you how much it's proven. My sleep, and I need my sleep because I'm up all night waiting for the members in the Long island to text me to tell me if we're actually recording a podcast this week. And I wear a sleep tracker. And you know, I'm not going to do an ad for a product that's not paying. But I'll tell you, it's a ring. And that ring the other day just straight up was like, what's your secret? Your sleep is mind blowing. And I said, I got a Helix mattress. And I said, well, what'd you have to do, go down to the warehouse? And I was like, no, Free shipping and seamless delivery. Helix delivers your mattress right to your door with free shipping in the US and then my ring was like, get the fuck outta here. And I was like, you can't curse on a podcast ad. And my ring said, will you curse during the podcast? And I said, no. You know what? That's a really fair point. You guys get your Helix mattress now and you have 120 night sleep trial and limited lifetime warranty. Helix helps you sleep better. A study they ran found 82% of those involved saw an increase in their deep sleep cycle while sleeping on a Helix Mattress. Go to helixsleep.com island for 27% off site wide. This is a special offer for listeners to the Lonely island and Seth Meyers podcast. That's helix sleep.com island for 27% off sitewide. Make sure you enter our show name after checkout so they know we sent you helixsleep.com Island Hey, Keev, bud, how are you?

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'm doing just fine, thank you.

[Seth Meyers]

I have a dream, Keev. One day I have a dream that our families go on vacation together.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That would be very, very fun.

[Seth Meyers]

I feel like my kids would love your kids. Yours are a little older too.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, but they like babysitting and they like hanging out with younger kids and showing them stu and doing things and. Yeah, they'd have a blast.

[Seth Meyers]

They got good vibes. One of your kids does magic tricks. I feel like that would be a real hit.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, they are into all the stuff little kids are into. They would have a blast.

[Seth Meyers]

But, you know what I'd like to say is I don't want to do it at a hotel. You know what I mean?

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, no, we need. We need the full experience. We need a pool in the backyard.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. We need a table that's big enough for us to throw out a big old jigsaw table. You know what I mean?

[Akiva Schaffer]

I love a puzzle.

[Seth Meyers]

A jigsaw table that would.

[Liz (guest or spouse)]

You know what?

[Seth Meyers]

Are we onto something? A table.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You 3D puzzles are pretty cool. And one that at the end of it, you can eat dinner off of.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, well, look, Airbnb is a fantastic platform. I love staying in welcoming homes that I book on Airbnb. They offer us more privacy, more space, better locations. Also check out the guest favorites, which are the most loved homes on Airbnb. That's where I like to stay. They're the highest rated homes. And, you know, when Keith and I take this vacation, we're gonna have space to spend time without hanging out in the hotel lobby. We're gonna have a place to cook and dine together.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Kids can run around and do stuff, and we're not worried about other guests being annoyed by them.

[Seth Meyers]

Not bad. Not bad to have all that off.

[Akiva Schaffer]

What's the destination, you're thinking?

[Seth Meyers]

I think we should go Cambodia. I don't wanna.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, go ahead.

[Seth Meyers]

No, I think that was Cambodia.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay, great.

[Seth Meyers]

I was gonna say someplace with no jet lag, but then you went so far away that I'm like, I think that might just line right up.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yep. It just goes around the horn. You just gotta do it.

[Seth Meyers]

Booking a trip on Airbnb makes for a better trip. You could be traveling with family, looking to discover authentic and local experience.

[Jorma Taccone]

Wait, hold on, hold on really quick. Like, we're looking at a frame of Akiva where your body. You're wearing swim trunks. You're standing in a pool. Cause that' cool.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

We went to our friend's house to get this shot. So we did travel to different locations.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Look at the detail work. I'm standing crazy pigeon toed. I pigeon toad.

[Jorma Taccone]

We did buy these shorts. I do remember that we had to go to, like, Kmart to buy these shorts. So we, like. We did do some costume design.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. So we could have matching shorts.

[Jorma Taccone]

And you are gleaming white.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, that. That didn't have to work on that. That. I just had that pretty great built in.

[Jorma Taccone]

Cool sunglasses, though.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. We were very lucky to have one friend that had a house in the hills with a pool and would let us go up.

[Jorma Taccone]

We knew one wealthy person.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. I like playing games in the pool, but we're not playing games in the pool. We're afraid of everything.

[Jorma Taccone]

Also games. Like, we're so on the cusp of understanding what's cool. I like playing games in the pool.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. We had saw like. Like, jocks doing chicken fights with girls on their shoulders. And we're like, we like that?

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, we would totally do that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We would totally.

[Jorma Taccone]

Just give us a shot.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But then just like any. Any nerd, aggro, nerd, losers, they have to find someone sl. Lower on the totem pole to. To. On. So here comes playing games in the pool. Who invited Steve? That dude's a.

[Jorma Taccone]

Okay.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He comes in with his long board.

[Jorma Taccone]

What was it mtv? Or was it. Or was it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This is Gforia.

[Jorma Taccone]

No, no, no, no. Where did we pitch this show? And I remember watching this video and waiting for. But it was like, a professional. We were, like, pitching it to Paramount or this video.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This video. This might not be the meeting you were talking about because who knows what meetings we took at the time.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But when we went to pitch awesome Town and we went into Fox, that's somebody. I'm sure he was mid level. I don't remember his name. I feel like his last name was Gold, but I don't know. Yeah, he was. He was probably mid level, but to us it was like, whoa, someone higher level. Get him in the meeting.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We were like, wow, he came in. That's really cool.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Because we maybe knew he was the one with power to buy shows. He was probably somewhere in the middle, but at a higher status than other people that would normally be with us.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yes.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And we kind of gave our spiel about what awesome Town would be, which is a sketch show, and try to say why we're different from other sketch shows. Truly. It was probably the same pitch as the Ben Stiller show, if you went back and looked. But we played just two guys in the room.

[Jorma Taccone]

But I remember distinctly being like, here comes the word cunt.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes. And we debated. Do we need to beep it? Like, we were so nude. We were like, that word couldn't be on Fox, so we should take it out instead of one, like, intelligently being like, no, just play the funniest stuff. They just want people who are funny. They know you can take out a bad word.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But it's just this. Like, we were just kids, but we.

[Jorma Taccone]

Did get a laugh. I remember being like, oh, thank God the video killed.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And it's the reason we got awesome Town. Deal.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And. And that was the biggest laugh in it. And it was a valuable lesson about just show them funny stuff and let the chips fall where they may, because you just want them to know you have stuff you can do.

[Jorma Taccone]

And. And this shot that we're paused on right now is like a light tunnel, basically. Like, I think this is where the presenters would come down this hallway or something like that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. So we had done our first year of the MTV movie awards because 2004. Right. So we had done the Lindsay Lohan one. So now we were on that list of like, hey, these guys will write for award shows, for funny award shows. And G4, the channel that was a cable channel that was all about video games. Was this the second year of it? Maybe?

[Jorma Taccone]

I think this was second year. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Was trying to make their own or did make their own award show called G fouria. And we got hired as writers.

[Jorma Taccone]

And then was it just us and Jerry Duggan? I feel like it was just the four of us.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes. He was the head Writer and could hire a small staff. And because the three of us were three for the price of one, it was quite a deal. So here we came. And then we worked with him and Jerry Duggan. Shout Out. I think he's a big comic book writer now.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, he's done so many Mike Marvel things and all types of shit. He's dc.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. And we had a lovely time. I believe we're wearing Comedy Central T shirts here because that's how we can could like it was what was backstage.

[Jorma Taccone]

We're wearing shitty swag, basically.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. Stuff they had that we could just put on. And I think the stage only gets built right at the last minute. So it must have been the day or two before the awards. And we were like during lunch, like yelled at the lighting guy, will you turn on the lights for us for one second? And just ran in there and got this as fast as possible.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, early days. Like, if anybody. Like, this is how we met. Name drop, Danger Mound House. But anybody that we met who had a house or any location, we were immediately like, we're there. So, yeah, we had a job. Anything like, cool. We were like, we were shooting.

[Akiva Schaffer]

If we ever do one about the boo, we can point out when we're at Danger Mouse's house. Not his house anymore, but like his first. You know, he had like four roommates.

[Jorma Taccone]

It was like this is pre Gray album with his.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, like four musicians living in a. In a house together. Anyway, so there we are.

[Jorma Taccone]

You look really cool again, just standing still.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We got two guys who are having a good time. All right. So Lazy Sunday, you know, when we had to make those little Beatles esque, you know, the interludes we talked about that Steve Higgins was like, it's too fast. Put brakes in.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, that almost stop motion.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And we were like, what do we do? We definitely lifted from this, which is obviously we didn't invent doing this kind of stupid thing. As I say, it's in like Help or one of those Beatles movies. But we knew it was something we had done before when we decided to do it with Parnell and Andy.

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, you'll. You'll notice all through just two guys like. Like there little movement from us because we're obviously too terrified to be able to like, you know, like we have gestures, but all the gestures are wrong. And then. And then there's a lot of static shots and wide shots just showing how. How few people are with us. Like, this shot is so whack.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Having a good time now. Everyone in the house say, guy number One. Yes. Guy number one.

[Jorma Taccone]

No, everyone.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I can't believe everyone did it.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's just you, you're thrilled. And also I'm impressed that we actually put a bunch of me saying guy number one. Like there's again multiple.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Just to take it to Yoram's technical corner for a second. We didn't make this song on a computer. We made this song on a digital four track recorder. A physical piece of equipment. What was that thing called?

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, I made the beat though in Reason.

[Akiva Schaffer]

On a computer.

[Jorma Taccone]

In Reason. And then that got kicked over to the BR8.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It was.

[Jorma Taccone]

Got a BR8. It was Matt Benelli opens Our Buddy. Yeah. And we borrowed it to record stuff. So it was at our house a lot.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But that means there were only four tracks of audio even available to us. And there's no like audio editing we could punch in. I don't mean we did this in a one take, but it's not like you could go in really precisely to fix things. It's a much more rudimentary way.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. Because the reason. Reason you couldn't add. I mean I think you could add it in a really roundabout kind of way. But it strictly was more of a beat making program. Like the things that were sample based, that were like, you know, came to the party, like you could do that kind of thing in it. We'd have to kick it out to like a different recording.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But then all our vocals were number one.

[Jorma Taccone]

Now everyone in the house say guy number two.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Guy number two. Dude, quit tripping. You're ruining my high. I'm holding the champagne like it might like attack me like a snake. I can't believe I have alcohol.

[Jorma Taccone]

I loved this particular line.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'm so worried. Look at, look at how worried I am.

[Jorma Taccone]

But I love this particular line because it's just for no reason. You get pretty hard.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Guy number two. Dude, quit tripping. You're ruining my high. My loaded gun makes you reach for the sky.

[Jorma Taccone]

There's a knock at the door.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, but I drop off on sky I can't, I can't own the line till the final syllable makes you reach for the sky for the sky, yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

Just pointing a gun at me, A finger gun at me yeah, but you're.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You'Re playing the role.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh yeah. There's a knock at the door. Who can that be? Why won't the cops let our party be?

[Akiva Schaffer]

How would you takes a photo at the end to remember the moment.

[Jorma Taccone]

I mean, here's the thing. Here's the thing. In addition to. I think this Being a very wildly awkward, funny video. There's so many dumb editing jokes in it as well. I mean, like, these freeze frames suck. Ho. Like, that stinks where we're at, where Gakiva's acting out, knocking on a door, and his hand is still in my throat.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And just the amount I'm doing it too. Like, I stop, and then I start again, because it's just this nervous energy that can't figure it out. How would you like to be shot? Me and my friend smoke pot. No shock, no jerk. Just fun with it. So you could see which things that we invented for this that became what we decided once again, in the SNL sequel kind of way. What are the things you change and what are the things that are so part of its fabric that you need to do in each Just Two Guys video? It's much like the puzzle of making a new Naked Gun. You have to decide what comes along from the past, because without it, it's not just two guys and what you leave in the past because you don't just want to be derivative. And we definitely decided that the symbol for pot was are making a circle with our hands for no reason. And realize these guys always have done light choreography that makes no sense.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's like they'd have no clue what pot is.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, no, no.

[Jorma Taccone]

Smoke pot. I feel like that was your gesture. I can't remember, but, like, oh, God. I mean. And all of this was, like, on the day. It was basically like, while we were standing there, like, what are we doing?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Our outfits are decidedly, like, 90s. And it's interesting because it's 2004. So in 2004, of course, stuff you'd have worn in the 90s seemed out of fashion to us.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So, like, that polo jacket, you know, I owned it, and it was not bad, but it was something that I just knew had already kind of peaked its popularity. And wearing big Patagonia style fleeces that pull over. Like, it's interesting. And, you know, just, you know, the bagginess and oversized shirts and stuff, it's all stuff we would have worn, but not in 2004, which is funny because the outfits are less awkward now than they were when we made this.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's also interesting in subsequent videos that we did so much shopping, usually at Kmart, for, like, random sarcastic T shirts. And with this one being just, like, a few outfits also totally works. Like, these guys only have a couple fits they thought were cool.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, this mural. Was this the one that was literally on our corner? Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

We did not Go very many places. For this video, we just walked up the street.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I think there was a smart and final. Which is. Was like a grocery store type place. And it was on our corner and this was the mural on it at Melrose. I think this entire video is within.

[Jorma Taccone]

100Ft except for the pool. The pool is the only thing we traveled for.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, NG40. No jock, no jerk. Just fun with girls.

[Jorma Taccone]

Having fun.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Guy 1. The most fun in the world on the same raft is lovely.

[Jorma Taccone]

Having fun, saying, having fun with girls and then being us being so close together on that raft.

[Akiva Schaffer]

On one raft. Just so the most fun in the world. Just said with the least amount of fun. You could say no acting skill. Can't get up any excitement to. To act out what that might sound like. To have fun. Just.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, God.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right. So again, within 100ft. For the people just listening, it's cut to the shot. Of course, you know this video by heart. Anyone just listening?

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, of course.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I love. It's like a football field with a cheap stage setup and a bunch of white fold out chairs. And it's set up for a high school graduation. And you can see Fairfax Avenue in the background where there's buildings. So we again, like Jorm saying where we just used whatever was available. We had shot a lot of the video already and knew. But we shot this video over weeks too, because we had no production or crew. So if we were like, we need balloons. That's half the day. And then we would be like, all right, let's set up the balloon shot. That's half the day. You do the balloon shot. You're like, all right, we got a setup today. But I guess the joy of it.

[Jorma Taccone]

I was literally just looking out the window and be like, oh, shit, yes.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Is that you? When you're willing to shoot over days, weeks, months, things will just show up. And we looked out on a Sunday morning and saw that they had set up for a high school graduation. And we're like, oh, sick. Nobody's out there though. There was no security. There was nothing. So we threw on outfits, ran out there as fast as we could and just shot these shots.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, I'm surprised we get kicked out of it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

With a giant winter coat with no pants. We definitely were like, this is the finale. These guys have chosen their fancy looks. I mean, like a blazer now all of a sudden. And. And. And like a Kangol hat and like skinny jeans and this guy. Or like, like a boot cut skinny jeans. And this guy's got just a child.

[Jorma Taccone]

I Look like a flasher. I look like. I'm like flash kids or something. So whack.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We're just two guys who are having a good time. Having a good time.

[Jorma Taccone]

Having.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Having a good time. We're just two guys who are having a good time. You look borderline too cool with the sunglasses on for that one shot.

[Jorma Taccone]

Also, the.

[Akiva Schaffer]

The one.

[Jorma Taccone]

The one where it's just me for a second saying having a good. Like, you didn't even say it with me. It's just so. It's so sad. It's great.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I like that you see people running around the track.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's like morning joggers. We're just two guys who are having a good time. Having a good time. Having a good time. We're just two guys who are having a good time. That. That. Having to reset ourselves out of breath. We are having a good time. Having a good time. Having a good time or just two guys? Like, you can feel us, like, swallowing the spit to get. To get to the next round. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. The end. Always end. Ended in the pacing.

[Jorma Taccone]

I will say, another joy about recording this, though, was always that when you would get those things that keeps talking about, like, the breaths and then, like, resets and then like, we were very consciously being like, oh, God, that was. Anytime anything was horrible, we'd be like, that was great. Like, listening to anything back was such a joy.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Having a good time. Having a good time. Just two guys who are having a good time. Oh, yeah. The cutaway of our. So we had been doing those hands the whole time, the one yhorm's talking about. And then we were like, we have to get it in here somewhere because it was our whole character.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's like sweaty palms. Because we're so nervous.

[Akiva Schaffer]

The sweaty palms just like, why would they ever put that shot in? Get our hands, dude.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. I mean, you can imagine how mad these guys are at their friend who's filming.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Good time. Having a good time. Party over here. Pointing out Party over here. Party over here. Party over here.

[Jorma Taccone]

All right.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So proud. It's over and we made it.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, my God. Got to the end.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right. Well, that was a pleasure. Yorm. Little trip down memory lane.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, my God. And hey, party over here is the name of our company. Production company. And I would say that this is this video and these particular characters are maybe both of our wives favorite characters, which I think says a lot.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And Akita, I don't know if it's Liz's favorite. I'd have to ask her. But here's what's really telling. When Joanna. I think Andy already mentioned this, but when Joanna met Andy, she went, oh, my God, Steve the cunt. So it's her favorite.

[Jorma Taccone]

Love at first sight.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. There's no quicker way for you to be like, I love this lady.

[Akiva Schaffer]

She saw the video, went, this is my favorite. But those guys are too cool. I want the guy that's one rung lower on this, on the social ladder. That's my guy. Steve the C. Oh, my God.

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, speaking of Liz, because Liz was.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We should have got a voice note from Joanna.

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, Liz was around for. Sorry, I'm reading. Briz was around.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, never apologize for that.

[Jorma Taccone]

Liz was around for this video. I remember her on the couch when balloons were falling. I think she was actually throwing some of the balloons. Mari was around as well.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Wait, she was on set? Yes. Yeah. Oh, my God. Right? So we met. So me and Liz and the guys met Liz. I think we talked about this in the beginning, but we met her at the 2004 Movie Awards, the Lindsay Lohan one, when the SNL writers showed up. And I believe Matt Murray and Eric Kenward were two of the others that year. And then the next year, of course, with Jimmy Fallon and them, plus a bunch more showed up eventually getting us snl. And that was the reason we got snl. But this first year, there was only a handful from SNL that showed up, and Liz was one. So we were. I don't even know. She might have come and helped us with this.

[Jorma Taccone]

She came and I remember. I remember her distinctly on that, like. Like muted orange couch that you guys had or whatever.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Fucking.

[Jorma Taccone]

But, like, I remember her throwing balloons as well. So she. She helped out. Mari was making food for us as well, like catering.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Do you think me and Liz had even had a smooch yet at that point?

[Jorma Taccone]

I think if I hadn't, I feel like it was on the verge of that. And I will say this.

[Akiva Schaffer]

A pre smooch list.

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, Joanna. Joanna liking Steve the cunt. So thing like, you cannot be more ride or die. To be, like, looking at you doing this video and being like, yeah, yeah, that's my guy.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, it takes a certain kind of comedy brain to. To. To want that. I forgot she was there. I feel like I should have roped her into this pod to get her perspective. Let me just call down and just see if she tell what her perspective was on that. Okay, I've roped Liz into this real quick. She immediately was like, yeah, I was in the room throwing balloons. For you guys, that's how those balloons are falling.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, Liz.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So, Yorm, you were just remembering, like, that Liz was sitting there looking me and you performing this and was like, that's the guy for me falling in love. I. I think we hadn't even kissed.

[Liz (guest or spouse)]

We'd either, like, kissed already, or it was just, like, crush time. I don't know.

[Jorma Taccone]

I think you guys had made out.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay, but what were you thinking watching us make this video?

[Liz (guest or spouse)]

It reminded me of, like, what I did growing up. Like, it was really joyful because, like, I don't know, just reminded me of me and my best friends, like, having a camera and being like. Like, let's shoot something. Like, I. But I guess we were older than.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, yeah, you were like, this is so cute. Look at these. It's like when you're 10 years old.

[Liz (guest or spouse)]

Yes, that's. But it did feel like that. Like, I was like, this is so cute that there's somebody else out there that likes doing this.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. Not that you're, like, 25 or 24. And why are you guys acting like you're 13 doing.

[Liz (guest or spouse)]

Yeah, like, I wasn't thinking, oh, this is a path to success.

[Jorma Taccone]

No, wait, did I told you guys that when we got snl, both of my parents, like, told me that they were like, oh, thank God. Like, they were, like, they just thought this was going zero places. I couldn't believe that anything good came out of what we were doing.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's really funny.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's nice that they kept it to themselves. I think that's, like, real parenting. It's very.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay, so, Liz, we've went through all of just two guys, but you were just there that day throwing balloons. Marty was there. Jorm thinks.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, she was cooking food. She was Arcader.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay. All right, well, if you think of something downstairs, come on right back up. Okay.

[Liz (guest or spouse)]

Have fun, you two. It's so fun that you have this fun little podcast now. It's so cute. Look at this.

[Jorma Taccone]

Thank you.

[Liz (guest or spouse)]

Just always coming up with creative ideas and just spending time together making each other laugh. I'll come throw some balloons at you while you do your podcast. It's so cute.

[Jorma Taccone]

Twenty years later, still going.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Wow.

[Jorma Taccone]

Still, it's kind of my job, taking.

[Akiva Schaffer]

The sort of supportive. Thank you, Liz. Wait. She's got another thing that's she's coming in hot for.

[Jorma Taccone]

Okay, great, Great.

[Liz (guest or spouse)]

This has nothing to do with just two guys, but it's because the Olympics are on right now. That was reminding me of the Summer Olympics. And just to add to my list of Types. Pummel horse guy.

[Seth Meyers]

I think you.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I think you did say him.

[Liz (guest or spouse)]

Oh, I did. Okay, if I said him. Fine, Just delete this. But. Or. Or just remind.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's fine that it's back on your brain.

[Liz (guest or spouse)]

Or just remind people again.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Like, there's another bespeckled, skinny little white guy. Yeah, I think you mentioned him in your list with Edward Snowden.

[Liz (guest or spouse)]

Yeah, I think it'd be such a good Halloween costume for you. Not that you ever dress up, but if you were pommel horse.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But where does Eddie Vedder fit into that Venn diagram?

[Liz (guest or spouse)]

There's. There's a few that go on the outside of that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay. Yeah. It doesn't have to be one type.

[Jorma Taccone]

I mean, well, maybe we can show this image now since Kevin just looked it up.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Which. Which one is it?

[Jorma Taccone]

There he is. There's pommel hors. Yeah, we do a little side by side.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right. Thanks, Liz.

[Jorma Taccone]

I don't know him holding up that award makes him seem more appealing than you, Keith. Well, yeah, he's a winner.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He's also much younger. Now.

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Liz (guest or spouse)]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay, so we got a voice note from Andy. Let's see what he said. Andy, you're on the air.

[Andy Samberg]

I mean, what to say? Not every day you get gifted a cherry roll like Steve the Cunt, but you know, sometimes in life the cards just fall in your favor. And this was one of those times. Two dear, dear friends. Without me even being there, we're like, you know who should play this part? Our good buddy Andy the Cunt Steve. And you know what? Truth be told, I'm grateful. Big laugh in the video. A recurring character. I mean, how often does that happen? And you know, in the story of my life.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh good.

[Andy Samberg]

Was the first thing that my wife brought up to me when I met her. So in a lot of ways it is the thing that brought me the most joy in. In all of my entire life. So I guess I have quadruple thanks to give to my two dear dear friends for writing a great song and thinking we should have our good dear sweet bud come on in on this part where we call him the C word.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So just.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, just sending so much love.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Love.

[Andy Samberg]

And feeling the love retroactively. I hope this is a really good episode of the pod. I got spelling. Be clean today.

[Jorma Taccone]

I put that at the end.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I quibbed.

[Andy Samberg]

So actually really stoked that I'm able to send in this voice note. In your face, Seth, you piece of dog.

[Jorma Taccone]

All right, love you guys. In your fucking face. By the way, Andy reminded me like the fact that he said C word because I was just told. Did you hear the Jack Jeff was saying that we've said the word cunt. So many times that we're going to get flagged by YouTube. So now we can just say C word so people know what we're talking about.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, but we're British, and so it's fun.

[Jorma Taccone]

That's true.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right, so now we have some just, you guys, questions and answers from the Internet that we asked for.

[Jorma Taccone]

Wait, people gave us answers as well?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, they gave some answers.

[Jorma Taccone]

Great. All right, great. I love Internet answers.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I guess. I guess if we're going to be more traditional, we're responsible for the answers, but we can play pretty fast and loose here.

[Jorma Taccone]

Sure.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay, so. So a common question was, are they still having a good time? Hard to say.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, I mean, I. I pictured both of these guys working at different quiznos.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Also, were they really having a good time back then? They seem pretty nervous and scared.

[Jorma Taccone]

I think that's the better question.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Is thieves still a cunt again? You know, I feel like things have probably mellowed. All right, Kristen has a question. Hi. Hi. I actually do have some questions about Just two guys. What's your favorite tiny detail in that short? People might not notice. I feel like we kind of just covered that.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, I think so.

[Akiva Schaffer]

If Just Two had a sequel, what would the next chapter of their friendship look like?

[Jorma Taccone]

I mean.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, I have great news for you, Kristen. It's got three more sequels. Who really invited Steve? That's a mystery that maybe we'll solve it.

[Jorma Taccone]

Hold on.

[Seth Meyers]

Do.

[Jorma Taccone]

Do you think that last. Do you think that last question was actually about, like, what happens after the fourth one?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Like, no, I don't know. My boyfriend and I listen to the podcast all the time, and we bonded over our love of SNL and specifically digital shorts when we started dating. We love you all. P.S. i used to leave your podcast on for my parrot, and he used to laugh along with you all. It's actually quite funny. I'm attaching a video. Do we have that?

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, my God. That's fantastic. Please.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, my God. We're gonna get to see a parrot laugh along to the podcast.

[Jorma Taccone]

He's laughing a lot.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He's finding it hilarious.

[Jorma Taccone]

I feel like our demographic is growing here, like, because we now have, like, some older ladies, 9 year olds and parrots.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Dude, we're killing.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, this is doing very well. We do very well.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Thank you for that amazing video. Dude, that parrot might be our number one fan.

[Jorma Taccone]

Can you. Whoever wrote that, can you please tell us the name of the parrot, please?

[Akiva Schaffer]

That was Kristen. And I mean, that parrot might be Quaid army, like, Lieutenant Spokesperson. Okay. Hey, this is from a Liz. Not my wife, presumably. Presumably. Hi. What's up? In this video, you very meanly call Andy's character a. I was wondering what he ever did to the two guys. Love you all forever, Liz. I mean, I think we covered it. It's just that he didn't probably deserve it at all. He's just the only person we can pick on, and we have a lot of untapped rage from getting bullied.

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, back backstory, too, is that I think that he probably has nicer stuff at his house. So that's. And he is a snake. We'll find out later. Later. So I think that we're probably just insanely jealous. That's my interpretation.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes. Yeah, later. He's obviously a little actually cooler than us, but somehow we've decided we can fuck with him. All right, Melissa says, hey, Alvin. Alvin. Alvin and Dave. Jk. I know it's you, Kevin. My question is for Yorm. Is this exactly what it was like hanging out with Greg Chun? Based on the cute little baby faces on Keev and Yoram, I assume this was shot before the infamous Greg and Yoram six pack boxing hanging. We might need a voice note from Greg on this one. Yorm is probably too burrito brain to remember. Oh, my God. Okay, first of all, played army forever. All right? So be careful. Probably winter soldiering. Love you guys. Melissa. So, yeah, so we had that great voice note from Greg Chun where he mentioned inviting Jorma over to, like, watch a big pay per view fight that probably cost $75 that he paid for. Yhorm shows up with a six pack and Greg's there alone, which is so fucking funny and weird. So, Yoram, what was your. You didn't get to tell your side of that story?

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, no, no, no. I mean, I. It and.

[Andy Samberg]

And.

[Jorma Taccone]

And loved it. Sort of just for the pure awkwardness of it, I would say. Yeah, that's like almost exactly like the. It's like the real life, just two guys was me and Greg alone. And, like. And I picture us just standing still watching the fight too, attempting to. To have conversation. There was like, I did have an exchange with Greg. Speaking of my poor memory, though, where I was like, oh, yeah, Kiva. And he was like, no, no, you were the one that, like, really, I think I hounded him a lot to like, like, do a whole bunch of work for us in the. In the future. And I was like, that makes. That makes a little bit.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, you're much. You're. You're much more the hounding guy.

[Jorma Taccone]

Exactly. But yes, exactly right. That's exactly right.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's really funny. You guys just kept being like, this is fun. This is fine. We're happy. We're still having fun watching the fight. Hey, get me another brewski, bro. This is fine that it's just us too.

[Jorma Taccone]

We probably said the word brusky.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We're having a good time. Yeah, we're probably having a better time than if a bunch of friends had shown up.

[Jorma Taccone]

Man, these brewskis are cold.

[Seth Meyers]

Cold.

[Jorma Taccone]

I know they're cold.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's better to put two is better because we can really hear each other talk and get to know each other. This is better. Elise says after back seatsman. Just Two Guys was my first experience with all three Lonely island boys. Even though Steve the cunt was a short appearance, but he was still there. So she. So her introduction was the back seatsman. Fast forward to now. I have a 10 year old daughter. Sometimes I'll call out in the house, spinach dips and real hot chicks. And she'll answer back, spike the punch and take. Take a sip. I prefer this over yelling. Lorelei and her yelling. What? What is this good parenting? Unsure. Okay. Anyways, I don't have a question. Just want to say hi, I love you.

[Jorma Taccone]

That's.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I think that is good.

[Jorma Taccone]

Fantastic parenting. I can't remember what, what comic said it, but it was that yelling what is basically the equivalent of love of what happens to all of us. I just scream what? All through my ass. So I strongly agree with you. You I approve.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, that's a better. A better call and response.

[Jorma Taccone]

Very much so.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Sebastian says. Dear Seth, Lonely island and other members of Quaid Army High Command, as appropriate, thank you for the opportunity to learn more about Just two Guys. This is very formal and nicely written. One. Why was it two guys and not three guys? Well, it was because me and Y just started. It was kind of the out of the room rule applied very early with us, I guess, which is that it was Y made the beat and we were home and we started doing it. I don't think Andy was. Was there.

[Jorma Taccone]

That is, that was absolutely. There were two things in Lonely island which was democracy rules. Usually like you get outvoted. If two guys understand a joke and the other one doesn't, that person can bounce until they do understand the joke. And then the other one was if you leave, then people are going to do shit without you.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. And if it's a song that. That needs three people. They can leave places for you and write for you and be kind or if it's just two guys having a good time, then that's what that is.

[Jorma Taccone]

I love the other one that we wrote for for Andy was on Perfect Saturday and he basically plays a dude named Ned who shits his pants.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That was another one. Oh, yeah, we're going to get to that soon, I guess. Well, I guess. No, that's in our third album. Never mind. All right, second one, number two. The on screen title reads Guys with an S rather than Guys with a Z. What is canicle? Oh, I think Z is. But that is interesting that we didn't put it in the. Is that the YouTube version?

[Jorma Taccone]

I love that comment. Did we change it for the subsequent ones? I think we did.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, right, the on screen title.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, so we spelled it right.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So it's just two guys on YouTube, but if you watch the video, it's guys with an S. Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I wonder if we. I. You know what? It's the kind of mistake these guys would make. And I like it.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, exactly. I'd like.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I love that it's wrong, but I think Z is. When I type it in an email, I do it with a Z. So there you go. Did Akiva and Jorma already have the matching swimsuits? We've covered that. We did not. Is Steve Objectly truly a cunt? Yes, obviously. Thank you for these great questions. All right. He said, thank you for your attention on any or all of these matters and hope you're having a good time. Having a good time. Having a good time. Sebastian. All right. Sam writes, Hi, Two Guys, Seth and Steve. The Two Guys trilogy is my favorite repeated characters in the Lonely island canon. And for a long time it was my litmus test for who was an actual fan of the Lonely Island. Wait, you've never seen Two Guys or. We like sports. Don't tell me you've never watched the Boo. Do you even know who Richardson is? It was a slightly obnoxious gatekeeper, or I was a slightly obnoxious gatekeeper, which I hopefully have shed. I appreciate this.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, it's great.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You know what? But to be fair, also, you know how when you meet people that like your work, often they try to bring up something slightly off the beaten track to prove to you right away.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, It's a quick deep dive to be like, hey, I was. I was from Jump, you know?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, yeah. Like, to prove, like, hey, I really know your stuff.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. Which I. Which I appreciate, obviously.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. And so it does get brought up to us in that same regard. That same.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. The ones where we look like.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Here's the questions. Whose copy of the Spy who Came in from the Cold? That's the book you're reading. The John Lecar is that he says novel. Was it and was it significant or a random book? It was definitely random.

[Jorma Taccone]

Random book. But the fact that it was in your house, like, I have to.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, I have no idea. And is there an intentional nod to the COVID of Oasis's 1997 single do you know parenthetical what I mean with the blue jacket worn by Jorm on the graduation stage. Liam is wearing it on the COVID See attached pictures. No, we were not thoughtful enough for that at all. It was just what we.

[Jorma Taccone]

Please do a side by side on that one, though. Yeah, because I know exactly what he's talking about. About.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Also, thank you for never putting the guys on snl. They've always been a special treat for those of us who are early believers. Righteous Kill, Quaid, Army Sam, Assistant Principal, East Quitta Middle School.

[Jorma Taccone]

Look at you. All right, we got some educators.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So first off, we never even tried because we just knew it would be a non starter to put it on snl. But if they'd ever asked for it, we would have been like, oh, yeah, here you go. So I can't. Really, really can't. It's hard to take the. Thanks for that.

[Jorma Taccone]

I can't think of anything that Lauren would like less.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Exactly. All right. Carrie asks how much of the behavior acting of the guys was rehearsed or planned. When Keith points in front of Yorm's face and he does a weird blink. It's very kid in the kindergarten play who's pissed off that his scene partner overstepped him but has to play it cool because his whole family's in the audience. And it is stunning. Well, I mean, we paused at that moment just moments ago. And I mean, thank you for appreciating that detail. I think the only thing planned, anything planned was not planned before it. It was planned like we would be doing a performance, kind of come to something and go, oh, that's great. Let's do that every time. I don't think we would really, like, talk about it much ahead of time, but like the circle for pot, we definitely worked out pointing over your face. We were like, oh, let's make sure we get that.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

The fact that we pace at the end on the final, just two guys back and forth from each other. I know we either did it once or one of us brought it up and then we repeated it every time.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, it's it's all. It's all on the day. I mostly. I mean, like, yes, but.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But once we come to something, we end up, you know, when you do a music video, you do it over and over and over. So we end up, you know, then it becomes part of the performance.

[Jorma Taccone]

It was also, I think that for. For. For us too. It was always nice when you were like, oh, I know what I'm gonna do do at this part, which is make this stupid symbol.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes. Well, the. The beauty. And this goes for good music videos, too, in quotes, is if you figure out a little move or choreography you're going to do, and then you do it in multiple setups. Sometimes it can be a cool edit when you go from one edit, one location to another location on the same actor, and they're completing a move that they started in one and finish in the other. And so it's actually useful sometimes when you're shooting a video to repeat movements.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, there you go. I mean, yeah, we have some R8 editing in this.

[Akiva Schaffer]

The last thing Carrie says is also, I think my friend and I sang this song every day in high school. We spent all of chemistry class writing it on each other's folders. And yes, eventually I did need to get a chemistry tutor. Makes sense. Thank you, Carrie. Hannah says, I've always wondered, how did the just two guys meet? They see each other for the first time when guy number two comes to guy number one's party. So I guess my question is, who set them up? Right? Because we do say, I've never met you before. And then. I know.

[Jorma Taccone]

I think I thought she meant the backstory about. Because, like, all of my body just had this, like, reaction in hearing that, of being like. I think it was exactly how I met in seventh grade. I'm just, like, looking across the room in Spanish class and being like, I'm going to be friends with that guy. But yes, in. In terms of, like, the. What we're saying in the video. Fucking God, I've never met you before. What? I mean, I think all of the intros to all just guys are like, are the most awkward, bizarre, like, setting the table in the most bizarre way possible.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But also, like, why did these guys. They're at a party. Why did they have to not know each other? Why wouldn't they be buds again?

[Jorma Taccone]

The way we're making these things is just making ourselves laugh of just being like.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But maybe if they're strangers, they think it makes it more credible. Like, yeah, we know all kinds of people. Like, hey, look at this. We're. We're strangers and we're partying together as opposed to like, we're best friends and that's all we need. They're like, no, we're just like random loner guys. It's fine.

[Jorma Taccone]

Like, everybody, everything is based on something they saw on television or what they think is normal.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Hannah also thinks, she said, I think you rushed too quickly through the Lonely island beginnings. And I would love to hear you watch your old videos, especially considering Seth has probably never seen them before. Football Town is an Oscar worthy picture. Hannah devoted Quaid from Poland. Well, that's awesome. Hi, Hannah. It might be Hannah. There's no H at the end, but I think it's Hannah. I agree. And honestly, I wish Seth was on these ones right now because it's fun having him, him as an audience member see these through his eyes as somebody that had nothing to. It was not there.

[Jorma Taccone]

I would love for Seth to weigh in on Thuggish Ruggish Bone.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes. We should take him through all those. He's definitely not seen them. That's a great. That's a great idea. We could be like exposing Seth to early Lonely island videos as an episode.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, we will definitely do that. Force him to watch those.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay. Kate says, please don't do another Q and A episode. This is a sorority girl who listens to every episode, regardless of the content. Kate, I apologize and appreciate. Appreciate it. So whenever we are doing one, we always have the debate of, like, do we skip a week or just do a Q and A this week, luckily we thought of something else, which was it's me and Jorm and we have these videos, but we don't know what to do when we can't do one. Like, are we supposed to just not do one?

[Jorma Taccone]

It's a hard writing with suggestions. I love that we're responding to that particular annoyance with a question and an answer period. So thank you. Thank you.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But this isn't it.

[Jorma Taccone]

This is.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This is. People could just turn this off. We gave nor a normal one and now we're answering questions about that one. That's okay. I think the Q and A is, is just because we go it's when it was Great Day. You can't do Great Day without Andy. That's crazy.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, exactly. So then you know what? We'll. We'll try our best. We will try our best. And if you have any, if you have any other suggestions about what episodes should be, just write in and we'll take. Take them.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Exactly.

[Jorma Taccone]

We don't know we're not PB Blue, here we come.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I know we seem like super professional that this is, like, a really professional thing.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, yeah, we're killing it on the professional.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We heard people like it when you keep it loose. And there's no other option here because we show up cold. All right, well, we answered a lot of questions on Just two Guys. Seth wrote something here. Let's see. Oh, Seth got a dm. All right, last thing before we go. This is on. On other business.

[Seth Meyers]

Yes.

[Jorma Taccone]

I knew this was gonna happen. Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Seth got a DM from the Klondike team. Guys, big news for those who stuck to the end of the Just Two Guys episode. The Klondike team wants to reach out and get in touch. Let us know how we can reach out. Looking forward to making some cool magic happen from Klondike, bro.

[Jorma Taccone]

Okay, I want to say something about Klondike. If you guys want to sponsor the pod, we got room. We got room for you.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So they reached out to the pod's Instagram, not Seth. That's great. Doesn't matter.

[Jorma Taccone]

Okay, well, I will say this, like, good on. I loved this part of the pod last week. It was a wonderful memory of us having.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, yeah. Did you have anything you weren't on last week?

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, I'll just talk about Klondike for now. I will say I requested Klondikes after we were even at SNL at one point, and they did actually send me some. So, you know, maybe it's on us that we didn't actually bre up.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, well, we had them at the SNL fridge. We didn't bring those from.

[Jorma Taccone]

No, no, no.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I mean, yeah, they. They, they.

[Jorma Taccone]

But you know what? We'll take more. And I guess again, we got room for sponsors.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Guys, I'll have to. I'll have to buy a new fridge. I'll have to buy a new fridge. All right, well, thanks, everybody. Thanks for letting us do this. I hope it was entertaining for the Just Two Guys fans. And we thought we were going to get through all four, but we're not. We just Two guys filled it in. But I bet you the next ones won't take as long because we kind of covered all the. The basics.

[Jorma Taccone]

Say that, but as soon as we're going through it, you know what?

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's going to make Kate happy because it gives us something to do Besides Q&As. And when we do the next one about we like sports. You know, if people want to send in their questions about. Sending questions about. We like Sports. Send in questions about We'll Kill youl. Send in questions about we need love, and we'll hold on to them. Jeff will organize them, he'll keep them. And when we touch on each one, I also want to thank Jonah. Goldstein. Did send in a voice note, but it was about We'll Kill youl, so we'll have that for next time. And I want to thank Chester because he sent in one, but it was about we like spring sports, so we can do that one next time we. Next time we do one of these.

[Jorma Taccone]

Maybe we can have some of those guys on, too.

[Akiva Schaffer]

The email address is the lonelyislandpod Gmail.com. thelonelyislandpod Gmail.com. you can also always use that to send a question. And I know we don't say that often, but that way me and Yorm and we can rope Seth into it. Can have a little backup plan when we can't do the next short.

[Jorma Taccone]

As long as. As long as there's some Q and A's on these, you know, like just a little split spice.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I don't think Kate would complain about the Q A being about the topic that you're talking about.

[Jorma Taccone]

I don't know.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I think it's.

[Jorma Taccone]

Maybe she doesn't like questions in general. You know what I mean? But then why would she ask?

[Seth Meyers]

That's true.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

So.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, she really didn't. She really didn't ask a question. Yorm. To her credit, if I go back as a.

[Jorma Taccone]

More of a comment, I guess to.

[Akiva Schaffer]

To Kate's credit, it was just a complaint. Please don't do another Q and A episode from a sorority girl who listens to every episode, regardless of content. So she was letting us know she'll listen to. She'll take the Sl. If we're going to give her slop, she'll slurp it down. But she was asking politely enough, but letting us know.

[Jorma Taccone]

I think we did have, like, four in a row, so that was. Yeah, fucking bit much.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, but it's hard. We could go on hiatus.

[Jorma Taccone]

You know, here's the thing, Keith. I will do the fucking NYPD Blue with you at least one episode. So then.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, I mean, we owe it to everybody. We should watch the episode that we watched the clip of where Dennis Franz is in the shower. We get all the context around it.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, it's going to be hard for me not to just rewind that part over and over again.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So we should do a polymarket bet. Does watching the full episode make the Dennis France scene more sexy? Or less sexy. Like when you have full contents. The shower scene. Oh, and then everyone on the pod can just take their guess and at the end of the pod, we'll declare which way it went. We won't bet, cuz that'd be illegal. That's insider trading. But every someone that listens to this can set up the bet. Will the Lonely island think the shower scene is more sexy in context of the scene?

[Jorma Taccone]

This is a great bet.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Or less, you know, sexy. No insider trading allowed. We promise not to tell anybody. This is.

[Jorma Taccone]

This is great because I. I don't even know what I'm going to think here, you know, so.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Exactly. And so on a scale, I guess we'll have to just rate it and go like, all right, were you more titillated when you saw it and got to know the characters a bit? Or were you more titillated by the YouTube clip? We will much.

[Jorma Taccone]

I think that depends on, like, whether you're into foreplay or not. You know what I mean? And I think we all should be. So fingers crossed.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, is this confusion about, like, wait, I usually wash that part myself. Is that more endearing when you know his character or like, less that you think he's like.

[Jorma Taccone]

You're like, oh, I understand why he's brain dead. Right?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Huh.

[Jorma Taccone]

I usually wash that myself.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's my private part that I watch.

[Jorma Taccone]

My body, not your. Yours.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Exactly. But now you're washing it standing in the show.

[Jorma Taccone]

Wait, whose hands are these? Oh, my God.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Chicago. We don't do it that way, but I guess I'm in New York now, even though I never mention it. Okay. Anyways, I think we'll have a lot to say about it. Is this is. This is a show? I guess this is what, a podcast?

[Jorma Taccone]

All right. Yeah, let's. Let's wrap it up.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I love you. Do you want to take it? Can you remember what to say at the end?

[Jorma Taccone]

Take it away.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right. Love you.

[Jorma Taccone]

Later, quits. I mean, later, Arnold.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Later, Arnold. Later, Quaid.