Listener Q&A Episode 11 aka Snow Day

Summary

The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast – Listener Q&A Episode 11 aka Snow Day (January 28, 2026)

Episode Overview

This “Snow Day Edition” finds Seth Meyers, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone holding down the podcast fort while Andy Samberg is absent, snowed out and sick in L.A. The trio banters about weather chaos, SNL table read snacks, childhood SNL memories, listener questions, infamous SNL sketches that “almost made it,” and plenty of deep-cut Lonely Island/SNL anecdotes. Sprinkled throughout: their signature irreverent tone, nostalgic reminiscence, and a running thread about the realities (and absurdities) of remote podcasting in a blizzard.

As a special Q&A episode, they play and respond to several listener voice notes, riff on inside-joke lore, and meander through memories both meaningful and random, giving fans an especially behind-the-scenes look at the group dynamic.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Snow Day & Andy’s Absence

• Akiva: Andy’s family has a cold; plenty of chaos. The show must go on despite the snowstorm hammering the East Coast.
• Seth: “I abandoned my family to come here. I was supposed to come back Monday morning and then I started panicking that I was not gonna make it back because, as of this minute, we are gonna tape tomorrow.” (01:19)
• Jorma broadcasting from his friend’s house, kids screaming in the background (“Mario Party” theme audible).

2. SNL Weather War Stories and Office Life

• Old-school SNL blizzard memories (Jorma: “Do you guys remember, like early days of SNL? There was a blizzard our second or third year…people…cross country skiing in Times Square.” 01:35)
• Seth recalls the “saddest” in-house afterparty when Paul Giamatti hosted in a blizzard.
• General consensus: working through chaos is classic SNL alumni behavior.

3. How They Handle Missing Group Members

• Podcasting reality: When one can’t be there (now Andy, sometimes Jorma), the dynamic changes but the show continues.
• Akiva: “Every time one of us misses it, we kind of get the experience…it's just hanging out for an hour and when I’m in the car alone, it’s way less lonely to feel like, oh, I’m hanging out...” (04:32)

4. Music Deep-Dives & Family Anecdotes

• Banter about song/album search algorithms sparked by “Mama’s Gun” (Erykah Badu reference).
• Akiva: “When I type in Mama’s Gun into Google, it’s the only thing that comes up. The critically acclaimed second studio album by neo soul singer Erykah Badu.” (05:48)
• Spotify sent the guys “wrapped” awards labeling their listening personas, leading to endless jokes about who fits which label.
• Jorma: “This is the only eternal optimist award you're ever gonna get.” (06:55)

5. Listener Q&A – Highlights

Listener: Dee Dee from Baltimore

• Question: When did you know you wanted to be on SNL? Favorite recent host?
• Seth: “It was my favorite thing by far…my bedroom has so much SNL stuff…There’s no way I thought SNL was a possibility, but I loved it growing up.” (31:26–32:05)
• Jorma: Shares SNL was “never on my radar as a possibility,” but childhood love ran deep.
• Akiva: Remembers sneaking to watch SNL on a locked TV with Jorma.

Listener: Edwin Allen Richards IV

• Asks about the Lonely Island’s ancient short “The Back Seatsman” and curious references to “56th and Lennox.”
• Also: Were those really their moms dancing in the “Awesome Town” intro?
• Jorma (39:29): “The one thing we can answer is about our moms. And those were me and Akiva’s real moms. And then Andy had a fake mom, I believe is the joke in Awesome Town.”
• The 56th and Lennox reference theorized to be a New York or hip-hop nod, but it’s mostly still shrouded in mystery.
• (Followed by classic Lonely Island “look it up” confusion on geographic details.)

Listener: “Little old Jewish grandmother from Tampa”

• Simple message of love and fandom.
• Seth: “Can’t ask for much more than that right there.” (42:16)
• The group marvels at their unique multi-generational fanbase.

Listener: Erin (Daiquiri Girl callback)

• Recounts calling in about loving “That Gray Girl,” pokes fun at “comedy jail.”
• Seth: “Do not let us or anybody else put you in comedy jail for believing your own truth.” (55:14)

Listener: Chip ‘n Dale Movie Love

• Appreciative parent wants an episode about the Chip ‘n Dale movie (Akiva directed).
• Akiva: They’ll get there when the podcast chronology catches up.

6. SNL Table Read Snacks—A Deep Dive

• Listener asks about the famed spread of snacks at SNL table reads.
• Seth: “I would just stress eat during the table read…not a hierarchy, but there’s a logistical issue if you’re not at the main table.” (17:28)
• Lorne Michaels’ ever-presence with edamame and popcorn: “Most iconic thing…Lorne is just slowly eating the largest plate of edamame.” (18:15)
• Akiva/Jorma speculate on when edamame was introduced (tie it to Nobu’s opening in early ‘90s).

7. SNL Sketch Lore: “Manny Manimal” Saga

• Legendary tale of a sketch written by Colin Jost and rejected over three separate decades by SNL.
• Seth: “He resubmits Manny Manimal for me. Once again, enough time has passed that everybody forgets…we take it to dress in my show…My show, like, not a house on fire. It wasn’t like, oh, it was a great show. It was hard to get through, like, fucking eight shit. Address not even considered. So you would think that's the death of Manny Manimal resubmitted it for Finn Wolfhard went to dress.” (61:39–62:25)
• Akiva: “We should watch all three dress and see how he changes.”
• They read out the absurd “Manny Manimal” sketch cold open, classic SNL escalation (“He briefly died, but then he was given CPR by a radioactive parrot, but not before a radioactive gorilla had sex with his body.” 67:31)
• “Everything about it is good until it starts.” (68:20)

8. The “Bone Patrol” Running Gag

• Jorma references seeing a (likely fictional) wild movie called “Bone Patrol”—which spins into a full-on “review” full of graphic humor about zombie anatomy, exposing the whiplash between the ages of their listeners and their own off-color riffing.

9. Podcast Process & Merchandise Brainstorming

• They poke at themselves for never making “Lonely Island” t-shirts, despite constant listener suggestions and a deluge of fan-submitted designs.
• Akiva: “No conversation about T shirts will take place between podcast recording. This is—no work will be done. The next time we talk about it will be the next time anybody talks about it.” (28:01)

10. SNL Dinner Stories and More Old Friends

• Classic “Colin Jost plans a group dinner, but never shows” anecdote. (55:52–56:44)
• Akiva describes spending a rare, cherished moment alone with Andy, having a drink in Beverly Hills before the group dinner.
• Seth shares a beloved “Vince Vaughn disappears while buying drinks” story.
• Recurring theme: Even ultra-successful comedians are just chaotic, messy, normal people with weird friends and worse communication skills.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Jorma: “If we get our challenge coins, I’m definitely gonna keep mine. And you better fucking have it out or you’re paying for a round of drinks.” (13:10)
• Seth: “Working with the Lonely Island…one of them’s always a little sick. And they were like, oh, no, I meant the music. I’m like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, the music too.” (03:30)
• Akiva on SNL table read snacks: “It’ll mostly be talking about watching the guacamole go from green to brown. That’s how you know when the read is over.” (16:39)
• Seth, on the fanbase: “As long as most of the audience is seven-year-olds and grandmas, we’re doing just fine.” (47:25)
• Seth: “Everything about it’s very good until it starts.” [Ref: “Manny Manimal” sketch] (68:20)
• Jorma: “I'm just always going to remember everything about it's good, except for the results.” (69:07)
• Akiva: “No conversation about T-shirts will take place between podcast recording. The next time we talk about it will be the next time anybody talks about it.” (28:01)
• Seth on SNL dream: “When I went back for my 10 year high school reunion, I was on, I think I’d been on the show for a year and the amount of people at my reunion were like, I knew it. And it was just like, oh, that’s so great. Like, you had a far higher estimation of me than I did.” (31:26–32:05)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 00:23–03:24: Snowstorm logistics, Andy’s absence, and sick house commentary
• 05:48–07:00: Spotify “personality” awards riff
• 11:47–14:03: Movie night picks (“A Knight’s Tale,” “School of Rock,” “Moonlighting”)
• 16:39–18:07: SNL table read snack traditions, Lorne Michaels and edamame lore
• 31:07–33:44: SNL childhood dreams origin stories (Listener: Dee Dee from Baltimore)
• 39:24–41:51: “Awesome Town” moms and “Back Seatsman” inside references (Listener: Edwin)
• 42:15–42:45: Grandmother’s call-in appreciation
• 47:04–47:36: The age and appropriateness of the audience (“seven-year-olds and grandmas”) vs. podcast content
• 53:01–55:26: “Daiquiri Girl” saga and validation by Questlove (Listener: Erin)
• 61:36–68:20: Full “Manny Manimal” explanation, backstory, and read-through

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Tone & Takeaways

The episode is quintessential Lonely Island/Seth Meyers: playful, rambling, heartwarming, and profane in equal measure. Fans of SNL and The Lonely Island get an honest, self-deprecating window into comedy life: missed connections, dream jobs, weird inside jokes, and the absurdities of aging as an adult fan of taboo and tepid comedy alike.

Listeners come away with a deeper sense of how the group’s history, inside jokes, and audience engagement fuel the show—and how, despite their fame, the hosts remain fundamentally old friends swapping stories. Even as they argue about sandwiches, zombie movies, and spelling bee rankings, the vibe is that of a chaotic, loving, and uniquely creative “virtual hangout.”

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Closing

Seth: “I’m just always going to remember everything about it’s good, except for the results.” (69:07)
Akiva: “Later, Arnold. Later, Quaid.” (71:00)

Transcript

[Seth Meyers]

All right, can we start?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Sure.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Let's start off.

[Jorma Taccone]

Get ready to hack the. This is what you want, right?

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'm assuming the explosions are going way longer now.

[Seth Meyers]

Let's see.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, I wish, I wish.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Nope, same amount.

[Jorma Taccone]

Same one.

[Seth Meyers]

Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Lonely island and Seth Meyers podcast, Snow Day Edition. It's a snow day edition. So we're supposed to be recording Great day. Yeah, we might actually record it tomorrow. It is Sunday. It is. A crazy storm has hammering the east coast. Yoram and I, who live on the east coast, have managed to work our way to podcast studios just through like driving sleep.

[Jorma Taccone]

I'm not at a podcast studio. I'm at my friend Jake's house. There's like four kids downstairs screaming and playing Mario Party.

[Seth Meyers]

That's great. Yorm. I was doing a bit and I was gonna eventually get to the fact that Andy couldn't make it. Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Cause of the snow.

[Jorma Taccone]

You look like you're in a studio though, Seth. You look.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, well, I'm. My office. Because it's better podcasting. But at least andy gave us 30 minutes warning that he couldn't do it.

[Jorma Taccone]

For me, it was last because I just checked the channel.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Wait, so Seth, Seth, so you still traveled from your apartment to your studio even though it's a Sunday?

[Seth Meyers]

I was coming in from north of the city. I abandoned my family to come here. I was supposed to come back Monday morning and then I started panicking that I was not gonna make it back because as of this minute, we are gonna tape tomorrow. And I was just worried I was not gonna make it back to the city to do my late night show.

[Jorma Taccone]

Do you guys remember, like early days of snl? There was a blizzard our second or third year. I can't remember what it was, but like. But people were like cross country skiing in Times Square. And that was like one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

[Seth Meyers]

I remember the only show which I was worried was gonna happen for SNL last night. It did not happen for SNL last night, but when Paul Giamatti hosted, which was before your time, the weather was so bad that the after party was just in 30 Rock. That's conference room where they just had like bad wine and beer.

[Jorma Taccone]

That's such a fucking drag.

[Seth Meyers]

Which is also like, Giamatti's the perfect host to have that happen too.

[Jorma Taccone]

Thousand percent.

[Seth Meyers]

Just like the saddest after party. Like somebody would write a movie about him hosting snl. Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And that's what it.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Wait, so wait, the storm, right now is it supposed to get worse?

[Seth Meyers]

It is supposed to get worse. It's supposed to basically go all day. It's almost, it's pretty white out conditions.

[Jorma Taccone]

It looks like there's about eight inches down.

[Seth Meyers]

But I think the roads are going to get worse tomorrow because it's going to stay cold and everything's going to freeze.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So there's worry that like your audience doesn't show up.

[Seth Meyers]

I think people in New York are going to be fine. I just think that if you were out of the city, getting into the city will be hard.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, we, we walked over here and my 5 year old daughter did not enjoy like block 7 of getting over here, I'm sure.

[Seth Meyers]

But, but things must be pretty harrowing in LA as well, Keev, if Andy couldn't make it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You know what? They're, they're. Their family's been passing around a little bit of a cold of some sort. And so there's a lot of chaos right now.

[Jorma Taccone]

Now don't you feel bad, Seth, you dick.

[Seth Meyers]

I also have a cold.

[Jorma Taccone]

That's fair. Seth, how often, how often did you come into our office at SNL and Andy was on the couch feeling a little under the weather?

[Seth Meyers]

I would say passing around a cold is what I would say. You outside of making really funny songs, that is what the Lonely island did.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, the, the three of us just the same cold. Just by the time the first guy was good again. Yeah, he would just get it.

[Seth Meyers]

They would say like, what is what? Working with the Lily Lion. And I'm always like, well, you know, one of them's always a little sick. And they were like, oh, no, I meant the music. I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, the music too.

[Akiva Schaffer]

There was a small room, so. Because Great Day is a short that we're, you know, proud of and it's one of our main ones in our minds. Criterion in our minds. We can't do it without Andy is.

[Seth Meyers]

What we were talk.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Is what our text throw was talking about. And we agree. But what is this podcast if we are just always like, Andy is going to go shoot a movie soon. This is public information. You know what?

[Jorma Taccone]

I shot on movie too. So we fucking Yoram.

[Seth Meyers]

You have to stop jumping in.

[Jorma Taccone]

You passed the baton railing.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We all know you did miss a fair amount of episodes during.

[Jorma Taccone]

Exactly.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And Andy will too. But you know.

[Seth Meyers]

Well, these are, these are, I guess the test episodes.

[Akiva Schaffer]

How many Qs and A's can we do, you know?

[Seth Meyers]

Well, that's the question. Yeah, we can also. Well, let me start With a Q for you, Keev.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

How do you think Yoram and I did without you guys?

[Jorma Taccone]

Solo? Solo doo.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, well, I really enjoyed it because again, I gu. Every time one of us misses it, we kind of get the experience of what somebody might like about this, which is that it's just hanging out for an hour and when I'm in the car alone, it's way less lonely to feel like, oh, I'm hanging out.

[Seth Meyers]

Hey, somebody made this comment because Yoram and I each accidentally called the other one Keev at some point during the list.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I appreciated that.

[Seth Meyers]

And someone did suggest that the next time Yoram and I do an episode together, it's called two Keeves episode.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That makes sense to me.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, yeah. You're just the. You're the guy, apparently.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Keith, there was not a lot I felt like to follow up on, except for there was one moment y where you were just telling a story about your life and you were saying that one of your kids like to find interesting music on Spotify or whatever. You just throw out two words and he said Mama's Gun.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yes.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And that was how you found something.

[Jorma Taccone]

But I don't know why he said that. That's a crazy two words to put together.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But that's a very famous Erykah Badu album. I think it's her second album.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, Mama's Gun. You're right, you're right.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But he didn't know that album. Shocked that you're. I was shocked that Apple Music or Spotify or whatever you're using over didn't immediately play Erykah Badu.

[Jorma Taccone]

But maybe it does song first rather than album. Like, does song take preference over album?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Like, when I type in Mama's Gun into Google, it's the only thing that comes up. The critically acclaimed second studio album by neo soul singer Erykah Badu.

[Jorma Taccone]

It is crazy that I didn't think of that or mention it because it is. Yes, like 100%. It should be that. And I don't know why that came up and I don't know why he said it. He was just yelling out words, I don't know. And they were not a huge band at the time.

[Akiva Schaffer]

A music thing should just immediately play Derek Abadu Spotify work on it.

[Jorma Taccone]

Let's not prioritize Mama's Gun, the song over Erykah Badu.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Guys, speaking of Spotify, I got my award.

[Seth Meyers]

I got my little award too. I feel like I forgot to read what mine said.

[Akiva Schaffer]

What's so interesting about what Spotify sent us is that the award itself is substantial. Like they made real awards that they probably gave to real people. And then they had extras and went, what if we give some more away.

[Seth Meyers]

As goofs and we got goof words.

[Akiva Schaffer]

What does yours say, Keith, the eternal optimist. But I think, you know, when you get your. Your end of the year Spotify wrapped email.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And it kind of labels what kind of a listener you are. I'm sure this is one of the labels. People, if they listen to, like upbeat music, can get this label. So I think they just assigned one of them.

[Jorma Taccone]

I gotta say, Keith, this is the only eternal optimist award you're ever gonna get.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. It's not fitting of my personality. It makes me think they don't actually listen or it's sarcastic.

[Seth Meyers]

I feel like if I. The award I should have received from Spotify is the Age Gap award. When all you listen to is stuff that's like 50 years apart. So it's like K Pop and like Fleetwood Mac.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, it's. You're just doing the 70s and the. And the. And the 2000s.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, there was a lot of. We did mention it. Yorm. A lot of our listeners were enthusiastic about the idea of an episode called Oops All. Yorm.

[Jorma Taccone]

You know what?

[Seth Meyers]

People were mad that Jeff. Basically.

[Jorma Taccone]

I got shut down. I got shut down by Jeff. I think Jeff just knew better. Like, let's not do that. You know what I mean?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, Jeff. I think Jeff knows that the loudest people who leave comments maybe aren't the best reflection of our total listener base.

[Jorma Taccone]

And that 2%. Yeah. Love you guys. Love you guys.

[Seth Meyers]

Connor is our service member who asked for a message from Andy. And I said, Andy didn't have shit to say to Connor. Obviously I do want to hammer home that that was me doing a bit.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, did some people misunderstand?

[Jorma Taccone]

I was worried about it when we.

[Seth Meyers]

Were doing it, but I want Connor to know that he's not out of our heart. We're still thinking about him. And eventually Andy is going to be on the pod and we'll probably have something nice to say 1,000%.

[Jorma Taccone]

And I want to say congratulations on your eventual nuptials, Connor and lady.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You're hoping they're not engaged. If you listen to your own episode.

[Seth Meyers]

You'D realize they're not engaged.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That you guys had misspoken.

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, Connor, time to pop the question. Connor.

[Seth Meyers]

I like that Yoram has a good memory for stuff that didn't happen.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, well, in my mind. In my mind, you should have already asked Her. Connor and I.

[Seth Meyers]

Why are people I didn't listen to. I don't tend to listen to these with ads. Yoram, a lot of people had words about your chime ad. What did you do on the chime?

[Jorma Taccone]

You know what? I was saying this to. To Akiva, because he was very sexual.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Or it was asmr. It was very deep voice and it was very smooth.

[Jorma Taccone]

It was like the best part about it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

But the best part about it was then the quantifier came on at the end. The little, like, super fast talk. What do you call this disclaimer?

[Akiva Schaffer]

It seemed like a disclaimer from a female voice. That's none of us. That. That was at, like four times speed. So Yorman taking his really sweet time talking about whatever that product was. And then at the very end, so, like, everything he just said is a lie. Do not listen to this guy at all. He is a idiot. Like, it was the polar opposite of him. It was very funny to discount everything yman said.

[Seth Meyers]

Just wait. So it was a lady chipmunk. It was one of the lady chipmunk.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

[Seth Meyers]

Stephanie. Somebody said that Hot rod was in their family's top five movies. And one of the movies was Knight's Tale, which I've never seen. The Heath Ledger movie.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, yeah, of course. With. What was her name?

[Seth Meyers]

So Shoshana Shannon Sausaman.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Ah, yeah, yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

The Knight's Tale. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

But I feel like having now watched the trailer might be a perfect movie for my boys.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yes.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You know, it's. I have a list in my notes of, like, family movie night. Yeah. And this has been on it for, like, four years and gets shot. I go, all right, is it E.T. i give a list each time of what we can watch. And then people have to choose something when it's family movie. And this one they haven't chosen yet. But I'm. I remember liking it when it came out. I remember seeing it in what year? 2001. Is that it?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And I remember liking it. So I've been trying to revisit it ever since.

[Jorma Taccone]

I love that you watched that in 2001. That's like right when we were fucking around making.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. I think, like, me and Matt watched it at our house.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

There's a lot of Alan Tudyk, Mark Eddy, like, some real friendly faces, Paul Bettany.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This might be totally wrong and I'll get clowned in the comments, but I seem to remember it was doing a thing where it modern songs, but that felt fresh in that, like, interesting you know, combination of it's like medieval times with pop songs.

[Seth Meyers]

Well, it's like. I mean, and it's a nice payoff. The only reason my boys like Led Zeppelin is because of Thor. Like, that was their gateway. Gotcha.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Have you shown them School of Rock?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, recently.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Is it the same Led Zeppelin song in both that they sing in the van?

[Seth Meyers]

I can't remember.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I can't remember either.

[Seth Meyers]

I don't think so. The great thing about School of Rock is ends with just that, like, long musical performance while they're rolling credits.

[Jorma Taccone]

It makes you so happy.

[Seth Meyers]

And it's an ACDC song and that they sing all the time now. They love it.

[Jorma Taccone]

That's an ACDC song. The very last one is that way.

[Seth Meyers]

It's a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll.

[Jorma Taccone]

I was thinking of. We were stuck in the dumb days.

[Akiva Schaffer]

If we had had more than 30 minutes warning that we weren't going to do Great day, then I would suggest we would choose a movie like A Knight's Tale or a pilot like NYPD Blue or I watched the Moonlighting pilot a few years ago. Like that would be a perfect one to talk, you know, and we just choose something and we just make that that We're a podcast for something, but.

[Jorma Taccone]

One of us gets to choose. You know what I mean? Like, it floats around. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

I love it. But again, this is good, Keith, because I think that our listeners just love being behind the curtain and finding out how we talk about just. I think they like knowing we never talk about this podcast outside the podcast.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes. And we barely talk to each other outside of the podcast.

[Jorma Taccone]

We gotta get it in now.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, gosh. I have it. It's in my office, which is not next to my podcast studio. But I did a show in Charlotte, North Carolina on Friday night. Was supposed to do a show in Durham where I was gonna see Emily Spivey for a drink afterwards. Yes. Saw her sister in Charlotte, but then that show got snowed out, so I had to come back.

[Jorma Taccone]

Wait, what's her sister like? Is her sister exactly like Spivey?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. And she's the best. And also she listens to this podcast and she said her favorite thing about the podcast is when we talk, we say nice things about Emily, which was. Made me so happy. That's nice. Yeah. But a cousin of mine, distant cousin, who I've maybe only seen like three or four times, but he Quaid armied me when he came in and he brought a tea. He made a tea. That's A black T shirt that has Quado coming out of it. So it looks like Quado's coming out of a black void on your shirt. And it's even. He said it's bad. It's a bad shirt.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. Quato is bad to look at.

[Seth Meyers]

Quado is bad to look at. I did talk about our Quado challenge coin that I was given and can report back that I mentioned how cool it was, and I think there's a chance you guys are going to get your own.

[Jorma Taccone]

I'm so jealous. If that's a real thing, I'm very psyched on that.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, two more things, and then we.

[Jorma Taccone]

Have some voices when we have dinner. Seth, if we get our challenge coins, I'm definitely gonna keep mine. And you better fucking have it out or you're paying for a round of drinks.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Do you think there's that? Part of what's maybe unique about this podcast is that it's four very, very close friends who really don't communicate very often outside the podcast because we're so busy. So you really don't miss anything when you're. As an audience member. You're not missing things in between. Really?

[Seth Meyers]

Yes.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You're really just living your life, and we're all living our lives, and then we're all, again, to kind of catch. To catch up.

[Seth Meyers]

It's like a virtual world where, like, nothing has happened when you turn it off.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, exactly. Things have happened individually, just like they've happened with you as a. As a.

[Seth Meyers]

We haven't moved the ball forward even an inch since you last heard.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, you've done things in your life. You've gone to work and hung out with friends or family and, you know, done what you've done. And we've all done that, too, separately. And then we all come back together.

[Seth Meyers]

We all come back, and it's good. I wanted to. I. You know, I actually think it was such a hard spelling bee today. I do think there's a good chance that's why Andy bailed on us.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, well, let's at least text him for a spelling bee update. Yeah, we'll text right now. All right.

[Seth Meyers]

We just asked him to say, say also. That's my accusation.

[Jorma Taccone]

What makes it like a hard B? Is it, like, a lot of Q's in it?

[Seth Meyers]

No, a Q would make it easier. It's like letters that. Because it's always when it's, like, a hundred words, not when it's like, eight.

[Jorma Taccone]

I did send you guys this week that I got solid again on one of the yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, we talked about how I should be the spider man with teeth in the Spider verse movie.

[Jorma Taccone]

Is it happening? Is that happening?

[Seth Meyers]

No, but there's a couple of choices. Will you guys. Can you guys Google image this for me? Rec rap. R E K Dash rap. And that's a spider man with teeth from the actual Spider man universe.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay. Oh, yeah, he definitely has teeth. Look at this one.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, that's Rhek rap. And I guess he's like. So that's like a.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He's quite large, very muscular for a Spider man.

[Seth Meyers]

That's a problem. So, yeah, my voice might not be great. It does seem like you want a deeper voice for rec rap. Also. Rec rap is Parker backwards, so that's like an alternate universe. But again, we're into the Spider verse, so it's perfect. Doppelganger. Will you look up doppelganger in the Spider man universe?

[Jorma Taccone]

I think you'd be a great rec rap.

[Seth Meyers]

Also Doppelganger. I can't believe I missed this. If I was doppelganger in both SNL Digital short and Spider Man.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, yeah, he's got, like, Venom teeth. He's scary.

[Jorma Taccone]

I don't think you should be.

[Seth Meyers]

A lot of people said Venom is a spider man with teeth, but we all know Venom's not Spider Man. Come on, guys.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, he's in the Spider man world.

[Jorma Taccone]

I wish Venom had been called that. I think it would have done much better as a movie.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Spider man with Teeth. If it was Venom, colon Spider man with Teeth as the subtitle. That would have played way better.

[Jorma Taccone]

I would have been there in a heartbeat.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We could have Ruben directed that. We could have Ruben send in a voice note about if they ever considered.

[Seth Meyers]

Calling it that last one. Keev Venom. Earth 829482 94. This is Eddie Parker. So that's like if Venom was Spider Man.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, that's a Venom Spider Man.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, so thank you for three of our listeners knew a spider man with teeth. It's pretty nice. I have one Q and A. And then we'll listen to some listener questions.

[Jorma Taccone]

Wait, I got one question, Seth. Did people like the episode with you and me or did they fucking hate it?

[Akiva Schaffer]

I think.

[Seth Meyers]

I think we did. Okay. Okay, thank you. We held serve.

[Jorma Taccone]

You know, you go fishing sometimes. You catch a fish.

[Seth Meyers]

You said it. Question for the next Q and A. In photos of the read throughs, there's always an impressive spread of snacks on the table at snl. Do people actually eat those during the read through or Is it frowned upon? Is there a hierarchy to who can eat which snacks?

[Akiva Schaffer]

I feel like we should get, like 6x cast members on here and do an entire episode on the table read snacks. Go snack by snack. I mean, it'll mostly be talking about watching the guacamole go from green to brown. That's how you know when the read is over.

[Seth Meyers]

If a sketch late goes good, the guacamole turns green again.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. When it goes brown, they will cut off the table read no matter what sketch is being read. If it goes brown, they're like, oh, it's over.

[Seth Meyers]

But, yeah, I will say that there were little sandwiches that I would. I think I said. Just said sandwiches, and that was an accident. There were little sandwiches.

[Jorma Taccone]

Sorry, that was an accent.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I thought that you were being cute because they were lil.

[Seth Meyers]

Nope. I just stumbled and then heard myself and I wanted to correct.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, don't correct that. It sounded like they are little. So they're sandwiches.

[Seth Meyers]

They have my little sandwiches that I would just stress eat during the table read. Now, I will say it's not a hierarchy, but there's a bit of a logistical issue for the Keeves and the Yhorms of the world that were not sitting at the actual table. Cause the writers sort of sat in, like, church seating behind.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. You're like second row or third row.

[Jorma Taccone]

We had the couch in the back.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. It would have been insane if Jorma mid table read had stood up, reached over and grabbed a sandwich. That would have been.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You'd have to reach over a cast member's head or between two. It would be.

[Jorma Taccone]

I would have done that. If we had had a sketch that was doing so badly that. What's the point? I think it would have been a good bit to, like, slowly walk over during the sketch and have a sandwich.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I. I do remember being hungry and watching you guys snack and feeling like, oh, I want. I want one of those carrot sticks.

[Seth Meyers]

Nothing about it was. You were never happy that you ate the table read sandwiches. I can tell you that. And then, of course, the. I would say the most iconic thing that's happening during the table read is that Lorne Michaels is just slowly eating. Eating the largest plate of edamame.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, right.

[Jorma Taccone]

Is it always edamame? Yeah, he likes edamame and popcorn.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I wonder what year that got. Do you think that that was 1975? Edamame was around that much.

[Seth Meyers]

That's a great question.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I wonder what year that edamame got added.

[Seth Meyers]

I bet it's like early 90s.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, that sounds Right.

[Seth Meyers]

When all of a sudden, like, it's when Nobu.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Just look up when Nobu opened.

[Seth Meyers]

When Nobu opened, Lauren went there, had edamame, and then the next day.

[Akiva Schaffer]

What's this exactly?

[Jorma Taccone]

It's like the new popcorn. It's like the new green popcorn.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Do you think Shoemaker would know that answer? Seth, I'm so curious. If we're right, that is okay. It's such a good guess that De Niro and Nobu opened the first one and exactly what you said happened, Seth.

[Seth Meyers]

All right, question for the pod writing shoe.

[Jorma Taccone]

She like that he got more protein.

[Seth Meyers]

Best guess, this is now. I mean, the content we have for our listeners right now, just fantastic. Anybody who thought this had to be about shorts every week could be about what year.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Wait, what, Seth, is that website now. You know, app, phone thing where you can bet on anything.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, right. Kalshee or something.

[Akiva Schaffer]

There's like two really famous ones.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, but we.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We should probably put. What year did Lauren start eating edamame and then start getting the over unders.

[Seth Meyers]

I said best guess to Lauren. When did Nobu open? Did you. Have you Googled that?

[Akiva Schaffer]

No.

[Jorma Taccone]

No, Wait, so can you propose anything to bet on then?

[Akiva Schaffer]

And then I think you kind of can.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, man, I might lose my whole life doing that.

[Seth Meyers]

All right. But I just have an answer ready for what Shu said.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yes.

[Seth Meyers]

93.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But he's not connecting it to it.

[Seth Meyers]

I just said question for the pod. When did Lauren start eating edamame at the table? Best guess. I said early 90s. So I'm pretty.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. So the original Nobu opened in September. 94. So now at say, are you sure?

[Jorma Taccone]

Do you want to revise your answer based on this information?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Say let him know that and then see if he changes it.

[Jorma Taccone]

I also like that I just wrote randomly to Ruben Fleischer. Did you ever consider renaming Venom Spider.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Man for no reap? Did not give him context.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, just like out of. I haven't texted him in, like a year.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right, well, you're going to get the word.

[Jorma Taccone]

Hey, what's up, man?

[Akiva Schaffer]

You're going to get a very candid answer. Because he doesn't know it's public.

[Jorma Taccone]

I had to sign it Yorm just in case it's the wrong number.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So the original Matsuhisu, which is Nobu's last name and is a restaurant in la. That was before Nobu opened. This was his first one and it's still there. It opened in 87 and, you know, it was the hottest restaurant in LA. So you know Lorne had gone.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

You think he could have gone in?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, I think so. 87. 87. Yeah, he's. He's in there.

[Seth Meyers]

Support comes from Willys. Oh, man, Keef. We used to wake up hungover worrying about what happened last night.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yep. It still happens occasionally.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, but like back in the day when we were really getting after it. In our SNL days, we weren't lucky enough to have Willy's THC infused social tonic.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, that would have been illegal.

[Seth Meyers]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

I know which one it is. Willie Nelson.

[Seth Meyers]

Willie Nelson.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Who did you think? Willie Mays. What was going to be your guess? Willie Mays.

[Seth Meyers]

Willie Mays Hayes from Major League.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes.

[Seth Meyers]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

Hey, what's up?

[Seth Meyers]

Hey, buddy. 2026, that's the year we're going to launch our business. Our business being a lonely island. T shirts. We're really excited about it. We've gotten a lot of great ideas from our listeners.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, absolutely. And me and you are going to head this up.

[Seth Meyers]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

I genuinely would and I'm excited to see various designs hopefully coming in soon.

[Seth Meyers]

And with Shopify, it's going to give us all the tools to easily build our dream store. We're going to choose from hundreds of beautiful templates we can customize to match. Our brand setup is fast with Shopify's built in AI tools that write product descriptions and headlines and help you edit product photos. As you grow, Shopify grows with you. What's that? Last week we sold two T shirts and this week five. Thanks Shopify. Handle more orders, expand to new markets and do it all from the Same dashboard in 2026. Stop waiting and start selling with Shopify. Sign up for your $1 per month trial and start selling today at shopify.com lonelyisland go to shopify.com lonelyisland that's shopify.com lonelyisland hear your first this new year with Shopify by your side. In case you're wondering why I'm pausing, Keev, it's because they're gonna put in Cha Ching sound effects.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, sweet.

[Jorma Taccone]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

Andy replied. He said, I bailed.

[Jorma Taccone]

Don't say it until the end.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay, guys, so once again, go on to the gambling app and put in your bets. Now for. So you heard me say bailed. You know, he bailed. But how many short was he? How many had he not gotten? Everybody.

[Seth Meyers]

He blamed himself for being sick.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, no. One could argue. One could argue it's because I'm sick is what he said.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. So he's so much better than me. And I can. I mean, I feel like I'm still like 20 away, so. Even a sick Andy crushes me.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Jeff, so we know it's under 20.

[Seth Meyers]

Jeff, I got a question. Jeff, when can we just make T shirts? Jeff, can we just start making T.

[Jorma Taccone]

Shirts for that sale? Jeff, every time you talk about T shirts and the. This is a question for Yorm.

[Seth Meyers]

I've been asking him several times to.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Send me a design.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, we talked about this several.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, this week, knowing that we're not going to make any money off the shirts, you know, past his prologue, I feel like we should have more than one design, because I feel like the fun of the Lonely island shirt store is that, you know, there's just shirts that, like, maybe three total listeners buy.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Can't. Can't we just do a revenue share with designers and just have it be open?

[Jorma Taccone]

No.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Anybody that designs one, instead of making.

[Jorma Taccone]

One design, I'm going to make five designs.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Because I feel like somebody, some designer who's listening right now who makes a great shirt can earn the money on that shirt. Fine.

[Seth Meyers]

We get so many designs in the email, so you're just encouraging More people to send in more designs.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But the question is, is there a website that sells shirts that would make it easy to revenue share where it doesn't become, like a headache for whoever's doing it?

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, probably.

[Seth Meyers]

Probably. Maybe.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

Write in your comments, guys. Hit us in the tit us on that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'll take 90.

[Seth Meyers]

And again, here's the exciting thing, everybody. No conversation about T shirts will take place between podcast recording. This is no work will be done. The next time we talk about it will be the next time anybody talks about it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We can promise you that. Can promise you that.

[Seth Meyers]

No, this is no shade on any of the nominees, all of whom are great. Plemons robbed.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, because Emma got a nom, right?

[Seth Meyers]

Emma got a nom. Deservedly so. Plemons. I'm just gonna say it. Top three favorite actors right now working today.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Guy.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And he's so good in it. It's so. It's amazing.

[Jorma Taccone]

And then what do you think of him personally? Like, when you've hung out with him, are you like, this guy is cool.

[Seth Meyers]

I've never met him. Top favorite. If you ask me about, like, actual people, he might be my favorite actor in Hollywood today.

[Jorma Taccone]

Wow.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But he's saying personally, when he comes and sits on your.

[Seth Meyers]

An Oliphant. Sorry, just trying to worry about who might be listening.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Sits on your couch, though. Snore, right?

[Seth Meyers]

No, I'm just kidding, Adora. I'll tell you. Wait. I have a great Jesse Plemons. Every time he comes on, tells me how much his grandmother's a big fan of mine. And then he also told the story about how she has a shrine. She has a little antique shop, and she has a shrine to Jesse. And obviously he's done some really cool things. But the funny thing he said, I think he was on an episode of Grey's Anatomy where he had some weird face disease where he just is barely recognizable as Jesse Plemons. And she just has a still of that blown up and framed, which is really funny. Anyway, Wally had an idea. He goes, hey, we should sign his cue card, that intro to Jesse, and send it to his grandmother for her shrine. Yeah. And by the way, then Wally's like, I'll get the cue card. And so Wally brings me the cue card. Wally's also signed it. I'm like, okay, Wally. So Wally and I send this signed cue card, and then Jesse Blemon's grandmother writes the nicest note. Like, puts in a picture of the cue card on the wall and just writes the sweetest note. And it's just so lovely when a person comes on your talks about how their grandmother's super nice and then immediately the grandmother proves that they're not inflating that at all.

[Jorma Taccone]

That is so.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Where, where is he from?

[Seth Meyers]

Texas.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Got it. He's a real Friday Night Lights. It was.

[Seth Meyers]

He's a real. He's a local cast.

[Jorma Taccone]

Real deal. Now I don't respect his acting as much.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, cuz you like.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He was just being himself.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

I mean, that's cheating.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's what you do every night, Seth.

[Seth Meyers]

That's true. Look. No, by the way, nobody is impressed with my acting. Where were we? I don't even know. Hey, why don't we listen to a voice note?

[Dee Dee from Baltimore]

Hi guys, it's Dee Dee from Baltimore again. Hey, sorry it's been so long. My mom and I are both burrito brained and we keep forgetting. I have two questions. How old were you when you knew you wanted to be on SNL? I was 7 when I knew I wanted to be a writer and eight when I wanted to be in the skits in the sketches. Also, who's your favorite recent host? Mine is Ariana Grande because she's friends with Bowen and I love My Best Friend's House. It's so surprising and gross and it reminds me of digital shorts because it's musical and funny too. Okay, hope you have a great day.

[Seth Meyers]

Bye. Amazing.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I loved it.

[Seth Meyers]

Once again, just amazing.

[Jorma Taccone]

Thank you. Thank you, Edie.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Seth, was it always your dream? Andy's talked about that. It was always his thing since he discovered it after wrestling, you know, tuning in for wrestling. And it wasn't a wrestling Saturday. And discovering SNL as a kid, probably around the same age as her, it.

[Seth Meyers]

Was my favorite thing by far. When I go back to my childhood home where my parents still live, my bedroom has so much SNL stuff. Like there was a 25th anniversary book that came out that my parents like got for me. Like it was a thing I would get. Like SNL stuff for Christmas. I don't know if it was like, I think it was like too big to consider it a dream. But one of the coolest things is when I went back for my 10 year high school reunion, I was on, I think I'd been on the show for a year and the amount of people at my reunion were like, I knew it. And it was just like, oh, that's so great. Like you had a far higher estimation of me than I did.

[Jorma Taccone]

That's very sweet. Yeah, that's very sweet. I put that in the same category. There's no way that I thought Ezonel was. Was a possibility in my life, and I didn't.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Wouldn't have dared to dream. But we did love it.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, taking my son around the hallways recently on like a Sunday and just showing him stuff and still being like, I can't believe I worked here. I can't believe that we made any kind of impression at this show while working here. Like, I'm still surprised I was even able to audition for the show. So it was never on my radar as. As a possibility at all. But loved it growing up. Absolutely. And. And my era of like, Mike Myers, Dana Carvey. That was my introduction, really.

[Seth Meyers]

I remember thinking when they had reached out to ask for an audition tape, the very fact that they had given me their mailing address felt like a total triumph. It's like a coup, you know, a very public mailing address. Of course, it's like 30 Rock and.

[Jorma Taccone]

Whatever the zip code was.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But 17th floor is.

[Seth Meyers]

I was like, oh, 17th floor.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, I better print well on this envelope.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, yeah. So ke.

[Jorma Taccone]

Did you ever, you know, there. No way, right?

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, no. But. But, you know, like, was obsessed with it from the moment I realized it existed. I don't know how old that was.

[Jorma Taccone]

No. I remember sneaking into. Because Akiva had a. His parents had a lock on their tv. So I remember being over at his house, Akiva sneaking up the stairs, stealing the key. Oh, my God, we're going to get in so much trouble. And your mom must. She's going to be so fucking pissed when she hears this and, like, and turning it on. Watching SNL with you and being like, oh, my God.

[Seth Meyers]

What do you mean, a lock on your tv?

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, this is.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This is very bare. For a year or two of our. It wasn't all the time. It was only for a couple years where she was trying different ways to get us to watch less tv. And like, one of the things you could find and buy was a TV lock. And I think it. Basically, it was a, A, extension cord for the TV that had like a little box over the part where it would connect the power. So, you know, you would have to unlock a teeny little plastic box and then you could plug in the tv.

[Jorma Taccone]

Essentially, in my mind, it looked like a kryptonite lock. Like, key. I don't know if it was, but.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, I think the key was that kind of circular little lock.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

I can't believe I remember that. I remember so little, but I remember.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That it only happened in our house for Like a year maybe or something. Like, you know, it's another one of those things you kind of try and go, no, this doesn't really work.

[Jorma Taccone]

It made Waka Ching TV better, though.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Like, yeah, you're like, I unlocked it. You had to work for it.

[Seth Meyers]

It's so funny that all those years ago was the same problems parents have with their kids now, which is like, how do you just get them to look at stuff?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, it's like locking the phone and you're like. And those kids are like. And then I just knew the password that my parents had put. Cause I watched them do it once, and then I would unlock my own phone.

[Seth Meyers]

But, yeah, recent oaths. I will just say that I know it's already happened a few other times, but that first time I saw that Nate Bargettsi George Washington sketch, I was so jealous of it. Oh, I love it. And, like, the best way of like, oh, man, this is perfect.

[Jorma Taccone]

And I can't believe they have a second one that's sort of equally good.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, that's great. I went up. I rarely do this, but I went up to Mikey and Streeter's office once I heard they wrote it to just tell them, like, I had to, like, get on the elevator and come up here to say, like, it was perfect. And the great thing, which I'm sure they've talked about at length at this point, was it didn't really do that great at dressing. Like it was. I kind of thought, who's on the bubble? And I was like, this must be have been a home run from the minute you did it at the table. They were like, no. Everything was a little bit off. And dress was the first time we clicked. Wow. Just goes to show you, Seth, again.

[Jorma Taccone]

I was gonna say the exact same thing. It was Nate. Nate Burgazy for me. And I love that particular sketch, and I've showed it to so many people. And I also love that that one is one that you can show to anyone from any country in the world. And they'll be like, yeah, that's funny.

[Seth Meyers]

And kids, yes.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, my God.

[Seth Meyers]

Like, that great. That way that Nate Bargetzi is good all the time. You can show it to kids.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's hard to do kind comedy and still be funny. And he is that guy.

[Seth Meyers]

He's figured it out.

[Jorma Taccone]

Keev hates him and Andy hates him.

[Seth Meyers]

Andy hates him.

[Jorma Taccone]

Me and ze big fans, I prefer.

[Akiva Schaffer]

My comedy a little bit more tweaked.

[Jorma Taccone]

So demented.

[Seth Meyers]

I feel like I. By the way, I think this is like seven pods in A row I haven't been on with Andy, and I'm.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Telling you, he's about to be shooting a movie and it's only gonna get worse. I don't know what's happening here.

[Seth Meyers]

I think everybody's looking forward to Keev, Yorm and Seth talk about the Moonlighting pilot.

[Jorma Taccone]

But also, Edie, thank you for sending that voice note. It was lovely, and I hope we answered correctly.

[Seth Meyers]

What do we got next? Jeff, do you have another voice note? Hey, Lonely Island. This one's mostly for Akiva, a little bit for Andy, but. But I just showed my daughter the Chip and Dale movie and she. Well, I'll let you. She'll say what she thinks in a second, but I wonder why you guys never bring that up. And I would love to have a full episode just breaking that down because it was. It was super fun and Andy was great in it. And bring Mulaney in too, to talk about his experience. And this is what my. My 5 year old thought of the movie. What'd you think of the Chip and Dale movie? I love dance.

[Jorma Taccone]

There you go.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, well, that's very nice.

[Seth Meyers]

That was great.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, we could talk about it later when we get up to play. Well, I feel like we don't talk about the really recent stuff that just predated starting the podcast because we're not up to that.

[Seth Meyers]

We're just. Yeah, we're going in order.

[Jorma Taccone]

You gotta wait.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But thank you guys for watching. I'm glad you enjoyed it, and I have plenty I can talk about if we. I mean, I'm sure we'd all have to, like, almost rewatch it, and then we could do an episode where I can talk about the good parts and the challenges. Ooh. The things I'm. The things I'm not as happy with.

[Jorma Taccone]

With. Ooh, look at that.

[Seth Meyers]

That's a real tease there.

[Jorma Taccone]

Not the eternal optimist, I guess.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I mean.

[Seth Meyers]

All right, great. What do we got next?

[Edwin Allen Richards IV]

Hello, gentlemen. This is Edwin Allen Richards iv, longtime Quaid first time Qualer, and I have a question that has plagued me for about 20 years now. Back in the day, you all created a short called the Back Seatsman. And in this short, everybody seems to have the same point of interest. And that is 56th and Lenox. And I just am here to ask you what was at 56th and Lenox? It has plagued me for 20 plus years. As I previously stated, I lose sleep over it at night. My girlfriend is sick of me tossing and turning and sweating in the night, wondering what the hell was at 56 and Lenox, if you could answer that, that would be really awesome. Also, Andy, I think your character work with the back seatsman was some of your most actualized and creative and deep character work, truly, that you've ever done. So I wonder if there's maybe any chance of a revival of that character, Maybe a movie, maybe a spinoff series. Yeah, that would just be great. Also, follow up question. In awesome Town, at the very beginning, were you guys actually dancing with your moms? Were those your real moms? Yeah. I don't know. Hit me in the tit me. Let me know.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This guy had two good ones.

[Edwin Allen Richards IV]

Thanks. Love the pod. You guys are great. Sweet. Later.

[Jorma Taccone]

Okay, the one thing we can answer is about our moms. And those were me and Akiva's real moms.

[Seth Meyers]

Right.

[Jorma Taccone]

And then Andy had a fake mom, I believe is the joke in awesome Town.

[Akiva Schaffer]

God, I'm barely remembering.

[Jorma Taccone]

I just remember that I had wanted to do a bit at the beginning of awesome Town where our moms come out. It was gonna be all our real moms. And then somebody in the audience was gonna say, hey, everybody, check out those moms. And then all of the audience was gonna start chanting, moms, Moms.

[Seth Meyers]

Moms, Moms.

[Jorma Taccone]

And then we were gonna be like, why is everyone so excited about moms? Like, we just, like, what? Why? And then they were. Somebody was gonna be like, we're all orphans. Yeah, we're all orphans. And everyone was gonna be really excited because they were orphans. We didn't do it. H. Spilled milk. But back Seedsman. I don't want to be blamed for that at all. And that is entirely out of Andy.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So I wonder if we should even bother addressing this one or just redo it with Andy, even if it's on the episode with Great Day. Be like, before we start, we had a Q and A. That is because Andy and Chester really were the creative people. It's one of the shorts we made before we even made, like, awesome Town. It's like one of the. Like, around when we were doing, like, kablamo and stuff. Like 2002, when we were just making little shorts around the house.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, but it is pretty much entirely Andy and Chester, right?

[Akiva Schaffer]

And it was an Andy Chester joint. I mean, I definitely remember helping shoot an edit, but it was not. I don't think I can answer that.

[Seth Meyers]

We can do that. But where. Where do you think this gentleman saw the back Seatsman?

[Akiva Schaffer]

It would just be on our YouTube channel. But since then, I didn't even know it was still on YouTube, but I'm sure it's right there from 2002.

[Seth Meyers]

Well that's good then. People could use this time to go and watch the back seatsman.

[Jorma Taccone]

No, but here's. Here's the thing. We can bet on this. So my guess is 56 and Lennox. It's an and Chester. My guess is that it is a reference to some sort of hip hop album and somebody like Nas mentions 56 and Lennox or something like that. That's my guess. Keefe.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That that's a great guess. And. And Chester's from New York and they also met at NYU and were in New York a lot, so. Yes, but it does sound like cuz Lennox is not in Manhattan. Right, right.

[Jorma Taccone]

56 and Lex would. Makes. Makes more.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So maybe it's made up or maybe is that in?

[Jorma Taccone]

Look it up.

[Seth Meyers]

Let's put it on CI let's put it on CI and see what comes up.

[Jorma Taccone]

Look up lyrics 50 so far the questions have been not for us as much or you can't talk about it in the future.

[Seth Meyers]

All right, do we have another question?

[Jorma Taccone]

Jeff, hey, this is Rachel in Tampa. I don't really have anything great to add, but I just wanted to tell you that I really enjoy your podcast. I'm just a little old Jewish grandmother, but I'm a big fan. Keep it up. Oh my gosh, thank you so much.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That was so nice.

[Seth Meyers]

Can't ask for much more than that right there.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, we've got some pretty good grandmas on this podcast.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I think you added plenty today. I think you added a lot, honestly, to my day and to this pod.

[Seth Meyers]

That was great.

[Jorma Taccone]

Rivaling Jesse Plemon's mom so far.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, what a nice, what a just nice time that was to have her drop in.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Kept it nice and short.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Didn't overstay her welcome. Just I also, you know, really wasn't like sometimes people like, I don't have much to say and then they ask like three questions. She really like.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Stuck with her premise.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, she just wanted to share a little. So Yoram, hold on. There is a 56 in Lenox that just looks like east of Prospect park, kind of near like. How do you say Utica Ave. How do you pronounce that?

[Seth Meyers]

Utica.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Utica.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, I was going to.

[Akiva Schaffer]

To guess that it was and which street is the. And is the 27A freeway or is it just a big street?

[Jorma Taccone]

Dude, I'm just like that I am in the Bay Area where I'm like, oh, 580. Is that a thing? Like I know. I get on the beach here.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Clarkson Ave and Utica by NYC King City. The hospital.

[Jorma Taccone]

How about this? I'll go there. I'll tell you what it's like and why they probably. You know what I mean? I think that's the only way to solve it with.

[Seth Meyers]

That's the only way to do it.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, like, oh, there's a. There's a Popeye Chicken there that. Like, that, like, they used to go to. Actually, you know what? It would probably be Round Table if it's Chester, because he was big into Round Table.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm pretty. Oh, yeah. So a couple of things. Dale was in the New York Times Mini.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, yeah. As in Chippendale. As in Andy's character from Chippendale. So, yep, we can. We can chalk that up as another.

[Seth Meyers]

Nigiri was in the spelling be. And somebody thought that that could be a illusion.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I don't think that. That. I don't think we can claim nigiri at this point.

[Seth Meyers]

I got a Q and A from my audience. Somebody said in my Q and A, they said, hey, I have a question. Is Sushi Glory Hole based on a restaurant the Lonely island went to? And I. No, like, it took a long time. Cause it seemed like a genuine question. I was like, yeah, like, it would be so much less impressive if you guys.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, no, that happened.

[Seth Meyers]

No, we went to it.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's a real thing.

[Seth Meyers]

We went to one that had that.

[Jorma Taccone]

By the way, I like that song so much. And when I was thinking about, like, oh, if we ever made an album, would you ever want that as the title? And then like, nope. No. Thank you.

[Seth Meyers]

Have either of your kids seen Zootopia 2 yet? Have we asked?

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, they just saw it last week.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We watched it as a family. Okay, great.

[Jorma Taccone]

And I saw 28 years later, bone Patrol instead.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Whatever it's called the Bone Patrol.

[Seth Meyers]

It's not called.

[Jorma Taccone]

I know it's not called Bone Patrol, but it's something like. It's something like that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, I love that one. Bone Patrol. Sean Williams Scott and Oh, my God.

[Seth Meyers]

Wife sent me out to the video store to rent Bone Temple. I came home with Bone Patrol. Let's just say awkward. Pretty awkward. At the slumber party. I mean, we watched it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We watched it, but there's a bunch of ski bunnies on the slopes, and they're.

[Seth Meyers]

They watch Bone Patrol with kids.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Civil War burial ground. They're skiing over it.

[Jorma Taccone]

And by the way, you guys are making up random shit here. But it's very similar to what actually happens.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right, here's the thing though. So can I Google maps real quick? I'm just gonna show you my.

[Jorma Taccone]

Jesus Christ.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'm gonna show you 56 in Lennox. Check it out.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay. Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

See the sign?

[Jorma Taccone]

Lenox56 didn't allow me to go there. Huh? You just wanted me to.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's just houses.

[Seth Meyers]

Just houses. Houses. Interesting. Wait, how was Bone Patrol?

[Jorma Taccone]

Bone Patrol is so buck wild. I haven't. I didn't see the one previous which I was excited to see that were you?

[Akiva Schaffer]

And you were showing up for the famous, you know, dick swinging dicks.

[Jorma Taccone]

It was. I. First of all, I didn't know about that. So that was a fun surprise. Didn't know about anything about that. And I know I'm late to the party, but yeah, there's a lot of big dicks in the movie and zombie dicks. Zombie dicks.

[Seth Meyers]

In case anybody's worried.

[Jorma Taccone]

Although when you see the movie, I don't want to ruin anything for everything, but debatable, you know, like there's things are happen and it. There's full on.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So is that what the Boneyard goes into?

[Jorma Taccone]

Like music videos and like it's just Buck Wild, that movie, you know, Bone Patrol.

[Seth Meyers]

That seems like. I feel like Buck Wild is a good review from Yorm.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, for sure.

[Jorma Taccone]

By the way, it got a like 93 and 90 on rotten tomatoes. Bone Patrol. You got to see it.

[Seth Meyers]

It gave it two grades.

[Jorma Taccone]

Audience award audiences.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So there's tons of male frontal nudity and it's called Bone Patrol. All right. It might be the same one I rented.

[Jorma Taccone]

I will say. I will say. If you're going to see. And this is a spoiler. Spoiler.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

He never gets erect. And I do feel like that. That's a slight on the movie.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, so the title is kind of like sarcastic and maybe that has to.

[Jorma Taccone]

Do with the eating, the brains and everything like that.

[Seth Meyers]

I just think zombies are famously like not turned on by humans.

[Jorma Taccone]

That. It could be that. It could be that. But there were other zombies there that were all so naked there. So.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, so he was just.

[Jorma Taccone]

Didn't get turned on by anybody. But having said that, lot of blood. It would require a ton of blood to get that thing hard.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, we're not talking about the gore in the movie. We're talking about now. We're talking about the science behind getting it around.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, with those massive hogs. So cool. What a great conversation.

[Jorma Taccone]

Thank you. Anyways, next caller. Next caller, Go ahead.

[Akiva Schaffer]

As long as most of the audience is seven year olds and grandmas, we're Doing just fine.

[Seth Meyers]

I know. By the way, I was like, come on, this is a. It's an adult podcast. And then you listen to our callers. It's like. I don't know if it is.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's a seven. It's either seven year olds or grandmas. And then we're like, how much blood would it take in a zombie's day? Do zombies have blood in their bodies? Can they still get the Bone Patrol going?

[Seth Meyers]

It's.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This is. This is a mess.

[Seth Meyers]

This is not a thing that, like, we could be like. I forgot, literally, our last two calls were a child and a nice old woman.

[Akiva Schaffer]

By the way, she's not seven. She was seven when she liked SNL for the first time. She's older than that. That's why. It's a lot older.

[Jorma Taccone]

Anyway, Edie, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

[Akiva Schaffer]

What the. Well, it's. Cuz you're seeing those movies. I mean, it's crazy. Why are you seeing that? Y. You can't infect your brain.

[Jorma Taccone]

I didn't want to watch Zootopia 2, like, as much as I. You know, I don't know. I just. The. It was called Bone Patrol. Like, fucking. You gotta see it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

First off, it's not called Bone Patrol.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, Kiva, it does.

[Jorma Taccone]

The semantics. Fucking. Next caller, please.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We Talked about Zootopia 2 already. It's great.

[Seth Meyers]

I agree.

[Jorma Taccone]

They all loved it, by the way. Also, if you guys recall, Edie's mom.

[Seth Meyers]

Doesn'T let her listen to the podcast. She just tells her about it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh. Oh, good. Thank God.

[Jorma Taccone]

Thank you, Edie's mom. All right, shut up.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, thank you, Edie's mom. Although I do feel like it's kind of crazy. She. She's like, all right, you want to.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Leave another voicemail for a thing? You can't. Maybe. Maybe. I mean, she plays our answers, I'm assuming.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, that's true.

[Seth Meyers]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

No, no. I mean, I hate it.

[Seth Meyers]

I've signed up for some real dumb subscriptions over the years. Keith. Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's you. That's.

[Seth Meyers]

That's me. And. And if you think I remember to go and cancel things, I signed up for things that renew every year. If I don't cancel them, I don't.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You know me, Yorm, Andy. Have a shared credit card for business expenses. It's like an Amex that we're all on.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And there will sometimes genuinely be, like, another subscription to Audible on it.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And I'll see it in our bank statement. I'll go yorm. Oh man, another audible. How many audibles do you need, Alexi?

[Seth Meyers]

You know, basically one time was like, I think we pay for cable seven different ways.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Right.

[Seth Meyers]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

Hey, what's up?

[Seth Meyers]

You're a huge Vuori fan. Or I should say your wife Liz is a huge Vuori fan.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, but I did between the last time we've done a Vuoria, I did get an actual item for myself. That is great. Which was some sweatpants. I wish I remembered what they're called though.

[Seth Meyers]

They are called Sunday performance joggers.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, but that's not the one I got. I got ones that were a little baggier because I prefer baggy sweatpants. And they were called like beach hanger out, hang out on the beach kind of joggers or something.

[Seth Meyers]

All right, great. Well, I think, you know, obviously that's enough information, I think for anybody to go to the website and try to figure out what you're talking about. And I think it shows a real authenticity to the ad read. Yeah, you didn't do the work ahead of time.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, well, it's. But it's genuine.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, it is genuine.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'm not reading copy right now. I don't even have copy in front of me. I'm just in these beach sweats. Just fucking chilling. It's cool to curse in the Vuoria ads, right?

[Seth Meyers]

Totally. And I'm also gonna just speak off the top of my head to say, for exercise, hey, wear my favorite corset short, the one short every sport. They're stylish and comfortable enough to wear all day. They're soft, lightweight, four way performance stretch with a breathable boxer brief liner.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Thank you for just saying that. From the heart. It's like when someone gets up to make an Oscar acceptance. And they rip up the paper and shove it in their pocket and go, you know what? Yeah, I'm just going to speak from here.

[Seth Meyers]

Look, I have a lot of respect for the people of Vori and the ad copy they've read, but I had to speak from the heart there.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, it meant too much. You were like, this feels rote. And I'm going to just. It's like the end of Wedding Crashers when Owen Wilson keeps pointing to his.

[Seth Meyers]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

Alright, give us another one.

[Erin, longtime listener]

What's up? Three Alvins and the Dave. I'm Erin, longtime listener, second time caller. I doubt you guys remember me because my last voice note was from all the way back to the third listener episode. So it's been a while. Probably too Winter Soldier to recall that I asked about if loving that gray girl was a crime. Which I guess makes me the daiquiri girl. Girl. Hold for laughter. Okay, great. Andy said it wasn't a crime, but it might be a comedy crime. So yeah, that's why I haven't Called in a while because I just got out of comedy Jail. It was not as bad as I thought.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay.

[Erin, longtime listener]

And now hearing the new Criterion episode, I'm just glad I have somebody like the Questlove to be on my side about that Gray girl. And that made me very happy. That's all I have to say. Really. I don't actually have a question except for how are you guys anyway? You probably won't hear from me again after another year. Love you guys. Later, Quaid.

[Jorma Taccone]

You're definitely not gonna be in Comedy Jail after that. Don't worry.

[Seth Meyers]

I like it. I mean, it is for the daiquiri girl believers. I mean, the Questlove thing was a huge breakthrough.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. They felt really vindicated.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, and ultimately it had to be somebody like Questlove. It could be like, like, you know, Back Bennett, you know.

[Jorma Taccone]

No, you wouldn't trust that.

[Seth Meyers]

It had to be somebody unimpeachable.

[Jorma Taccone]

I, I, I thought Quest's response were so well thought out and interesting. Like his take on as with everything, like, he always has an interesting take on stuff, but it was just so enjoyable to, to hear him speak on that. I really love Jackery Girl, too, but you knew I would like, that's, that's.

[Seth Meyers]

A gimmick you liking it means nothing to any. Exactly.

[Jorma Taccone]

Fair.

[Seth Meyers]

It would be like if somebody said, like, if you were on trial for murder, and then they were like, don't worry, we gotta, we got an eyewitness who can vindicate you. And you're like, oh, my God, that's great. Who is it? They're like, yoni. You'd be like, oh. You're like, ah, I'm going to jail.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, I'm a dead man.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm a dead man.

[Jorma Taccone]

Or, or woman. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Wake me when he falls apart on cross.

[Jorma Taccone]

How dare you, Seth. You know what? If you get on a murder trial, I'm not going to come to your defense now.

[Seth Meyers]

I'll miss you. It'd be nice if you did. That was a, that was a lovely message. And yeah, do not, do not let us or anybody else put you in comedy jail for believing your own truth.

[Jorma Taccone]

Thank you.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right, just in terms of us catching up over a week, what's happened since last time I think we were on here is that Colin Jost came into town. I'm not sure why, but it was Golden Globes weekend. I don't know if it was related to that. He sent a group text to everyone in LA saying, want to go to dinner? I'm going to be in Town for the weekend. How about Friday night? You know, the people like Tim and Zach and. And Michael Bryant. All the people. All the people.

[Seth Meyers]

Solomon.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, exactly. Klein. You know, everybody you would think that we talk about on the pod all the time. Just the LA based Xs and L writer guys.

[Seth Meyers]

And I was in LA the night before. Just. I flew in for 24 hours to see my brother for his birthday.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's right.

[Seth Meyers]

And I was so jealous this dinner was happening.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes. And some of those people I just mentioned couldn't make it. But you know, we got like five or six of us and we're like, all right, we can do it. This is the thing. And we have so much trouble getting him to then follow up on his own idea to like name a time and place that ultimately Andy has to make the reservation because he's so bad. Jose is so bad at texting, even though it's his idea. And then as we. The night is, you know, like.

[Jorma Taccone]

Trying.

[Akiva Schaffer]

To think of the best way to put this, but I'll just skip to the end. Jost can't come. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

But Joe spailed like within an hour of a dinner he organized.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes. And to be fair, he was under the weather. He was in la and he was hoping he'd feel good enough to go. Hoping he'd feel good enough to go. I'm basing it just on his text. I didn't follow up with him after, but basically did not bail until we were already there. And we would have gone with or without him anyways because it was an excuse to have a dinner. And it was still five of us. It's not like we were all there for Joe's.

[Jorma Taccone]

We're for each other gangster and great. That's a.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Then he was. It was like maybe 10 minutes before, like we. Some of us. I had already gone to this hotel because I saw. Did you guys see. I did that a little video with Pamela Anderson because we won a rotten tomato award. So I had already just randomly. Cuz she was host. She was presenting at the Globes the next day. So she was at a hotel in la. And I was like, oh, I'm gonna be leaving the house anyways. Pam, will you do this thing with me? She said yes. I texted her, I went to her hotel and we recorded. And then I was like, wow, I have two hours to kill near the restaurant. So Andy came and met me. And that was honestly my favorite part of the night was me and Andy got a drink outside at this empty hotel in Beverly Hills, which is so rare. That we got together and had a drink and then. Yeah, and then the other guys met us. And then I think we were already at the actual restaurant by the time it was like, he's not coming. Well, that's it. Yeah. Oh, the other, the other detail was that just maybe three hours, two hours earlier, it was maybe the Bears game was that night.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And he texted being like, yo, I'm going to this. Like, it's kind of like a Soho house. I won't even bother name dropping it. But a place in LA that's very like members only club to watch the Bears game if anybody wants to meet up there before dinner. And then maybe an hour before dinner said, hey, I'm gonna call the place and see if we can make the reservation. Instead of six, make it 12. Like, he's bringing six more people from, like some act, you know, I don't want to name drop. His name drops. But there was actor people that had hosted SNL that he was meeting there to watch the Bears game. Nobody knows who the extra five were or whatever. Or six. And then 45 minutes later is like, actually, it's all off. And I never actually. And then we're like, but you went. You're sick. But you went to that club to watch the Bears game. And he's like, no, I actually never went to that. I've been in my hotel room the whole time. I just. I thought I was going to go to that. And then I thought I was. I kept waiting to feel better. Like, so all of went from making it 12 people to not coming.

[Seth Meyers]

He's the best.

[Jorma Taccone]

I mean, the only thing that would have been better is if he invited all those people and then didn't show up.

[Akiva Schaffer]

If all five of them had shown up also within, that would have been amazing. Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

So work on it. That jost. Can I tell you my favorite. This is not my story to tell, but a friend of mine met Vince Vaughn for the first time. And Vince is the greatest guy, obviously. Akiva, you've worked with him. And he's just like a pistol of a person. And Vince is on fire. He's at a. Like, they're at a bar. He's killing it in the conversation that my friend's, like, psyched to, like, meet him. He's like.

[Seth Meyers]

He's like, oh, what.

[Jorma Taccone]

What are you drinking?

[Seth Meyers]

What are you drinking?

[Jorma Taccone]

Like, and it's him, his friend, and he's like. He's like, Roman Coke. And. And you're. You're an Avak Tonic, right?

[Seth Meyers]

Great.

[Jorma Taccone]

All right. Never Saw him again. He's just, like, took their drink orders. He's going to go get them drinks. Never saw him again.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Such a great way to leave a conversation.

[Jorma Taccone]

I'm sure he meant to, like, but.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'm like, gets you out so fast, and it's like, you're the hero.

[Velveeta Ad Voice]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And then you're just gone. Oh, wow. If that was on purpose, that's a genius move.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's a great move move, and I. I think we should all employ it.

[Seth Meyers]

Here's my Joe story that has happened since the last podcast.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

What year did Taylor Lautner host SNL? Kevin Miller, I want to say, like, 2006 or seven, maybe. Yeah. Okay. Taylor Lautner hosted SNL and Jost wrote a sketch called Manny Manimal. Do you remember Manny Manimal? Manny Manimal was the man of many animals. And it was basically like, that started with, like, cartoon type opening, like, of a superhero cartoon where he was bit by a radioactive spider. But then he, like, fell backwards into a tank that had a radioactive octopus. And he just keeps getting bit by different things. And so he has the power of every animal. December 2009. And then it cuts to him, like, stopping a bank robbery. And it's this crazy costume where it's got, like, a scorpion tail and, like, you know, falcon wing, and it's a nutty costume. That was amazing. Like, the SNL project. And it was all about, like, how he just felt really sick all the time. Cause there was just, like, too much stuff going on. But the thing about it is, the audience is super psyched by the premise. And then they're super psyched when they see the costume. But then it's like the diminishing returns of, like, just like, oh, Oh, I think I might throw up.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Did this air or was this just the dress?

[Seth Meyers]

No. So here's 2009. Does not air. I host October, I want to say, 2017. Eight years later, he resubmits Manny Manimal for me. Once again, enough time has passed that everybody forgets, myself included, why it didn't work. We take it to dress in my show.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Wait, same script.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, I'm sure Jost would say he fixed it.

[Jorma Taccone]

And now you're Manny, man.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Go back into the computer, watch dress rehearsal and go, okay, what went wrong?

[Seth Meyers]

Yes. So then basically, I do it at dress. By the way, my show, like, not a house on fire. It wasn't like, oh, it was a great show. It was hard to get through, like, fucking eight shit. Address not even considered. So you would think that's the death of Manny Manimal resubmitted it for Finn Wolfhard went to dress.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, no shit. I wonder if. What he changed again. We should watch all three dress and see how he changes.

[Jorma Taccone]

I hope nothing.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I hope nothing in a month. We just gotta get him on, which will never happen. But, like, in a mondo butts way, see how this thing, how this thing grew.

[Jorma Taccone]

It feels very mondo butts.

[Seth Meyers]

So. But by the way, I think that's crazy. So kind of like an 8 year gap and then a 9 year gap to submit a sketch that then I cannot tell you.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We're talking 16 years from the first one. That's amazing.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Good for him.

[Seth Meyers]

But also the amount of people from snl. Cause I, you know, I still work on the eighth floor, right? So I'm constantly running into people like, just like old script supervisors, people being like, manny Manable's back. I'm like, I can't believe it. They're like, neither can.

[Jorma Taccone]

We gotta build that costume again.

[Seth Meyers]

So then I go down. I've never met Finn Wolfhard. And it was Thursday. I finished my show and I walked down and I was like, oh, I should go say hi to this dude. So I just go to his dressing room, knock on his door, and he comes out and I'm in the hallway talking to him and his parents and his brother, just the most lovely people. And then Jost comes down the hall and he, you know. I know. So he, like goes like. He points at both of us like, ah. And then I say, does he know? And Joe says, yes, but I don't know what Jost thought I meant, because then I said, so, you know, Manny Manimal. And then Jost's eyes go, like, wide with fear.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He's like, that's not what I'm saying. He knows.

[Seth Meyers]

And he literally just gives me a hug and goes, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[Akiva Schaffer]

What did Jost mean? We don't know.

[Seth Meyers]

I don't know, because that was like the. That was the end of our interaction.

[Jorma Taccone]

That's like. That's like a sitcom way of dealing with the problem. It was the best hugging someone and saying, no, no, no, no, no.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It is, it is. You brought up an interesting dynamic, which is with the resubmits, which famously can. Can be. Can yield great results in the most famous being cowbell.

[Seth Meyers]

Cowbell Spelling bee is another one we talk about all the time.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, those are resubmit. So it's not that it's tainted material, but you could spook a host that it is like, oh, that one is a failed sketch. And now I'm doing it. Why am I doing a failed sketch?

[Seth Meyers]

Yes.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And that's why the no's are there. That's why it's like, don't get in his head that this has been tried twice and failed both times.

[Seth Meyers]

You should leave the building. It was so funny to me, like, the way he backed off it. But the other great thing was then Finn says to his parents, like, oh my God, he wrote this sketch called Mandy Manimal. And then Finn's describing it to his very sweet parents and just it is playing to silence with his parents. It was like every. There was every bellwether was an ominous omen.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's just their response to just what else is in the show.

[Seth Meyers]

And then it was so delightful. Cause about halfway whatever, like 10:45 on, or actually it would have been earlier, like 9:45 on that Saturday, I started getting texts from people who were watching the show being like, it's not going to make it.

[Jorma Taccone]

Gotta wait another eight years.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We really gotta see those.

[Seth Meyers]

I know. Wait. Kevin said, do we have a picture.

[Jorma Taccone]

Of you in the Manny Manable outfit?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, that's what we want. I want pictures of all three of you wearing your outfits.

[Jorma Taccone]

Who wore it, by the way?

[Akiva Schaffer]

The first guy that they had, Taylor was like in Twilight and had tons of muscles and could do backflips. Like, he would make sense as like a spider. So it was going off of that seed of like, this kid looks like he should be cast as Spider Man.

[Jorma Taccone]

And then Seth is same thing. And then doesn't make any sense for Finn.

[Seth Meyers]

Well, that is the three graph points of Taylor Lautner, Seth Meyers and Finn Wolfhard. I think tells you that it might never have worked with anybody.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We've tried it every version.

[Seth Meyers]

And again, it's very good writing. Like, Jost is a very good writing writer. And he's also crazy and he's also stubborn. And he also cancels dinners he arranged and organized when they've already began. Too late for people to not.

[Jorma Taccone]

God, I love that.

[Seth Meyers]

Wait, I'm going to share. Man of Manny, man.

[Edwin Allen Richards IV]

Real quick.

[Velveeta Ad Voice]

Manny Emanuel was an ordinary janitor at Seaview Radiology when one night an X ray machine mysteriously malfunctioned. Manny was bit on the hand by a spider. Spider that had been exposed to radioactive rays. He was then bitten on the other hand by a radioactive rat which was trying to eat the spider. Then a hawk flew in the window right into the X ray machine and bit him in the face. Manny screamed, waking the owner's pet German shepherd, which bit Manny on the leg, then ran through the X ray machine, then bit him in the ball. Disoriented, Manny fell backwards into a fish tank, where he was bitten by a zebrafish, a box turtle, and several jellyfish. He was then ambushed by a hyena, a rabbit, a horse, some fleas, a scorpion, a butterfly, and three squirrels, all while a crab watched. He briefly died, but then he was given CPR by a radioactive parrot, but not before a radioactive gorilla had sex with his body. Now he's Manny Manimal.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Whoa. That's the end of Mondo Butts.

[Seth Meyers]

That's true. He wanted to get some of that good luck from Mondo Butts on this thing.

[Akiva Schaffer]

From the original Mondo Butts from the.

[Seth Meyers]

First iteration before it got too safe.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. You have the turtle shell on your chest.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, I have a turtle shell on the wrong side. It's a really good costume. And this also. Did you notice what my actual name was before I got bit?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, no. What did it say?

[Jorma Taccone]

Manny Emanuel. Yeah, it's really, really good.

[Seth Meyers]

So I was a janitor named Manny Emanuel who then got bit by many animals.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Spider Man's real name was, like, Speedro.

[Seth Meyers]

His name was Spyderman.

[Jorma Taccone]

I. I gotta say, my favorite part was briefly disoriented.

[Seth Meyers]

Everything about it's very good until it starts.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, you know what that's kind of a version of, but not. Not in a bumping way, but just in a way is O.J. simpson's death in the. Or almost death in the very beginning of Naked Gun, when he goes into the boat and then he's getting shot and he's falling into the wedding cake and then onto wet paint and. And then into a. Steps into a bear and then. Yeah, exactly. A bear trap, rather. Sorry.

[Seth Meyers]

Of course, that scene pales in comparison to what we just.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That was a great, great intro.

[Seth Meyers]

It's the best.

[Jorma Taccone]

So then this is just you having stomach troubles and, like, all pain in your body, basically, for the rest of this cast.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, just everything. It turns out when you have all those animals in you, just your insides are a mess, like the butterfly wings. Everything about it's good, except the results. Well, I think that's a great place to wrap it up.

[Jorma Taccone]

I'm just always going to remember everything about it's good, except for the results.

[Seth Meyers]

We're going to. I mean, I will ask Jost for a voice note about Manny Manimal.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Ask for a voice note about Manny Manuel and what happened with the dinner and with the five extra guests yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay, that's great. And that will. Maybe that'll help flesh this out. He'll weirdly be our fourth guest.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And what he thought you were going to say to Finn Wilf. He thought you were saying Finn Wolfhard.

[Seth Meyers]

I hope he lets us keep that. All right, you guys, great talking to you.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, wait, we have one last thing. Oh, right, we got to circle back. Do we want to ask Jack Black to sing us into this?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, I guess so. Well, I mean, we already talked about it, though.

[Jorma Taccone]

No, no, we don't know. We don't know. I stopped it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'm on Poly Market right now, and it's. I gotta say, Whoever put in 12 short, you made 100 bucks. All right? And he bailed. 12 short.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, my God.

[Seth Meyers]

Spelling.

[Jorma Taccone]

So fucking embarrassing.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Polymarket's on fire, boys.

[Seth Meyers]

Wow. All right, well, by the way, wait, I don't know if you caught it, Keev, but it was Shur's favorite part of the podcast. Mike Sh. Original Criterion Collection judge who just was so delighted that when I teed up Yoram to say, later, Arnold, Yorm said, take us out, Arnold.

[Jorma Taccone]

Take us out, Arnold.

[Seth Meyers]

He was so delighted that YM couldn't remember, later, Arnold.

[Akiva Schaffer]

What do we say?

[Jorma Taccone]

Wait, what do we say? Say anyway, I know he's.

[Akiva Schaffer]

When we're in the soup of recording, it's hard to sometimes remember anything.

[Seth Meyers]

And then, by the way, Yorm sent us a voice note because YM tried to claim it was cuz he was on drugs. And then you admitted you read this text chain to Mari, and she was like, yeah, that's not drugs, that's you.

[Jorma Taccone]

She knows me well.

[Seth Meyers]

All right, love you guys.

[Jorma Taccone]

All right, love you. Later, Quaids.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, that's his line.

[Jorma Taccone]

No, love you, you guys.

[Seth Meyers]

Keith, will you do it?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Later, Arnold. Later, Quaid.