Listener Q&A Episode 8

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast

Episode: Listener Q&A Episode 8

Date: December 9, 2025
Hosts: The Lonely Island (Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone) and (in absentia) Seth Meyers

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Overview

This highly entertaining Listener Q&A episode finds The Lonely Island – Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone – answering fan questions, reminiscing about their SNL Digital Shorts days, unpacking recent on-stage antics, and riffing humorously about New York Times Games, pop culture, and the perils of aging. Seth Meyers, though traveling in Europe, still manages to contribute with notes and pre-written answers. The episode is filled with spontaneous banter, ongoing inside jokes, and welcoming “Qwaid Army” fans into their unique comedic dynamic.

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Key Discussion Points and Highlights

1. Pee Wee Herman, Portugal. The Man, and Jorma’s Injury

• [02:45] Jorma recently performed “Killing in the Name” with Portugal. The Man, dressed as Pee Wee Herman, only ten days after regaining the ability to walk.
• Pelvis injury skepticism: Ongoing jokes question the legitimacy of Jorma’s ladder fall and broken pelvis, with references to intervention and sympathy-milking.
  • "First of all, I did fall off a ladder and I did break my pelvis, you guys." – Andy Samberg [02:05]
  • "Getting on stage and singing Rage against the machine dressed like Pee Wee..." – Jorma Taccone [02:45]
• Stage video breakdown: Akiva and Andy watch footage of the performance, with Akiva anxious about potential falls and the group poking fun at the total randomness of the appearance.
  • "It's a strong choice, ten days post being able to walk on two feet for the first time in three months." – Andy Samberg [07:43]

2. Podcaster Rivalry and Podcasting Inside Baseball

• [05:21] Lighthearted mocking of other podcasts, including “Armchair Expert,” resulting in rapid-fire banter about who gets which celebrity podcast guest.
• Inside Jokery: Ongoing self-deprecating humor and confusion over who produces which podcasts, leading to bits about “Jeff” and “Rob” and guest envy.

3. The “Winter Soldier” Analogy for Aging

• [16:06+ recurring] The trio compare their current aches, injuries, and sleepiness to being "activated" as Marvel’s Winter Soldier super-soldiers, only to wake up bruised and exhausted with no memory of the cause, blaming New York Times Games as the trigger phrase.
  • "We're like Sebastian or Chris Evans and we're like muscly and handsome and I'm always like... Are we sleeper cells? Are we winter soldiers?" – Akiva Schaffer [16:59]
  • This joke recurs, evolving into an extended, hilarious metaphor for middle-age malaise and foggy memory.

4. Seth's Absence and European Adventures

• [13:16] Seth is "not here" due to being in Europe (“foggy London town”) and appearing on The Graham Norton Show with Kate Winslet, leading to mock jealousy and imagined best-friend scenarios.
  • "Seth was kind enough to bail and go to Europe." – Andy Samberg [13:16]

5. Audience Questions and Memorable Fan Interactions

• Marriage with a Twist ([33:13]): Fan Beth shares her story about getting married dressed as Macho Man Randy Savage and Miss Elizabeth, exiting to “I Just Had Sex.”
  • "We got married in the ring at a costume party fundraiser… thanks for the idea." – Listener Beth [33:26]
  • The group is genuinely delighted, inventing “top turnbuckle” as a phrase for maximum comedic commitment.
• SNL for Kids and Parental Curation ([53:47]): A young listener, Edie, asks about when they let their own kids watch SNL and lists her own favorite digital shorts, brightening the hosts' day.
  • “Just kill it. Please, please, Edie, just keep sending these, please. That is—it's so nice to hear from you.” – Andy Samberg [53:39]
  • Recommendations for Kristen Wiig sketches, especially "Denise," as kid favorites.

6. New York Times Games Obsession

• [15:55, 55:12+] Banter about recent Spelling Bee, Strands, and Crossword quirks, including Andy’s recurring cameo as a crossword clue and conspiracy theories about NYT editors communicating with them.
  • "Stay tuned because we will be revealing if Andy got spelling bee today or not." – Akiva [15:17]
  • “I was the clue in the main crossword also last week.” – Jorma [15:51]
• Spelling Bee Results Drama ([55:12+]): Discussion of today’s Spelling Bee game; tension gives way to celebration as Jorma triumphs.

7. Behind the Digital Shorts: "Sergio” and More

• [49:01] A fan asks about the origin of the name "Sergio" from the "Curse" digital short. Jorma admits the name just fit the look and wasn't based on anyone specific.
  • "It matched the look. And thinking about Ham saying that… was silly and funny.” – Jorma [50:20]

8. Men’s Wearhouse, “I Guarantee It” and Pee Wee Suits

• [51:39+] Listener story about George Zimmer and his beard; Men’s Wearhouse discussed as source for Jorma's Pee Wee Herman costume.
  • “Oh guys, to tie it back to what we're talking about, the peewee suit that they got for me was from the Men's Wearhouse.” – Andy [52:34]
  • George Zimmer rapport: "What a good guy, though, to be able to, you know, placate a bunch of eighth graders." – Andy [52:09]

9. Akiva’s “86’d” Story

• [63:16+] Akiva tells the saga of being banned (“86’d”) from a UCB-adjacent LA restaurant due to mistaken credit card fraud charges—resulting in his headshot and “86” sign displayed in the window, never having eaten there, and the stubborn owner refusing to take it down.
  • "It's a headshot they pulled off Wikipedia... It has my name huge and then handwritten on it says 86. Like do not serve." – Akiva [65:12]

10. Miscellaneous Banter

• Duvet Insert/Outsert Confusion ([42:03]) leads to a bit about “sandwiching” bedding, with much laughter over innards/outards and whether “duvet” refers to innards, cover, or both.
• Listener’s Favorite Digital Shorts receives host approval and is used to further audience connection.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Jorma’s Reckless Performance:

  • "I'd say that was the most nerve-wracking part. And then I had visions of being like, there's cables on the floor..." – Andy Samberg [08:08]

• On the 'Winter Soldier' Bit:

  • "Do you ever wake up in the morning, and you're like, what did I even do last night? Oh, I'm such a Winter Soldier." – Akiva [17:55]

• On SNL Digital Shorts Origin Names:

  • “I thought of the name Sergio… it matched the look… but it wasn't based on anyone or anything like that.” – Jorma [50:20]

• On Children & SNL:

  • "I just show stuff on YouTube to my 10 and my 5 year old who loves basically anything with Kristen Wiig..." – Andy [54:00]

• Fan interaction, “Top Turnbuckle” as Maximum Commitment:

  • "Let me just say that Beth, you came in Top turnbuckle. And that is the best video that we've seen ever sent to us. I guess." – Andy [34:49]

• On Being 86’d:

  • “It's a headshot they pulled off Wikipedia… It has my name huge and then handwritten on it says 86… in the window… I've never even been there…” – Akiva [65:12]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Jorma's Pee Wee Herman Rock Show Story: [02:45] – [12:57]
• Seth in London, Graham Norton/kate Winslet: [13:16] – [14:32]
• NYTimes Games Discussion: [15:08] – [16:26]; [55:12] – [57:40]
• Winter Soldier Aging Bit: [16:06] – [18:47]; [58:37] – [59:33]
• Fan Q&A Highlight (Top Turnbuckle Marriage): [33:13] – [34:49]
• Fan “Really Rosie” Reference / Carole King Family Story: [35:36] – [38:08]
• Men’s Wearhouse / George Zimmer and Pee Wee Suits: [51:39] – [52:46]
• Akiva’s "86’d" Restaurant Story: [63:16] – [67:04]
• Spelling Bee Results: [55:12] – [57:13]

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Style and Tone

Throughout, The Lonely Island’s signature humor, camaraderie, and read-the-room self-awareness is on display. They’re unfiltered, silly, a bit meta (“Winter Soldier” as a metaphor for being tired and battered parents/artists), but also genuinely appreciative and grateful for their fans’ playful engagement.

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Final Thoughts

A rich installment packed with fan service, nostalgia, personal storytelling, and comedic tangents. Whether reminiscing about SNL, mocking each other's game obsessions, or sharing audience shoutouts and life updates, this episode is a testament to the enduring bond (and comedic wavelength) between The Lonely Island and their fans – and the always-game, if absent, Seth Meyers.

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For more:

• Follow @LonelyIslandPod on socials for fan videos, "top turnbuckle" moments, and more behind-the-scenes content.
• Send in your Q’s for future A’s, and never be afraid to “let your hair down” with this crew—or at least try, if you’re not always putting it in a bun.

End of Summary

Transcript

[Andy Samberg]

Is the Lonely island and Seth Meyers podcast.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right, show of hands. Whose Christmas tree is up?

[Jorma Taccone]

Noticing no one's hand went up.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, no, nobody.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Liz just is doing it downstairs. That's why I thought of it.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, pictures for proof. You gotta give us proof, Keith.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, my God. Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

So, Kee, we were texting you. Me and Andy were texting and we talked about you sending a picture of you shirtless. You never did.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, yeah. You never said.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's weird. To prove that. I mammal. I believe not my words.

[Andy Samberg]

That's right. You and Redman, we. We want to know.

[Jorma Taccone]

Lift up my shirt. All mammal.

[Andy Samberg]

You know, everybody knows that reference on our pod, right?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

Have we talked about it before? Why is that my favorite line of all time? And then Yoram, you also love it.

[Andy Samberg]

It's great.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's just a very. It's very good. But it's. Is it. Is it also just because you're a human, you're obviously a mammal. Taking off your shirt proves it more.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, no, because that's where your nipples are and that's where you would breastfeed.

[Jorma Taccone]

I'm just like, if he's sick, if you lift up his shirt and he was amp.

[Andy Samberg]

You know?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. If he was kind of like in a waterworld sitch with gills or something on his neck. Wait, what?

[Andy Samberg]

What? Amphibians have this. So they don't have anything. Right. They don't have nipples, certainly. Right. Do amphibians have nipples?

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, I don't believe they do.

[Andy Samberg]

Because they don't breath, they don't do any breast stuff.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Listen, whenever we get into things that are just science backed, we get clowned in the comments.

[Andy Samberg]

So let's just know Seth's not here. As soon as we get into talking about science, you know. Seth's not here.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, well, he's anti science, kind of flat earther type.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Anybody who's watched his nightly talk show knows that.

[Jorma Taccone]

And ke. Unintended. That's on God, right?

[Andy Samberg]

And that's on God.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. That's just something I say. It's not because of what you were talking about.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So Yoram had a big. Had something that needs to be addressed because there's been a lot of chatter that he's been faking the whole thing.

[Andy Samberg]

I did see that. That there were some people coming out on Eric Andre's side of things, that I was maybe a fucking goldbricker, as they would say in Big Lebowski. Uh huh.

[Jorma Taccone]

You care to elaborate?

[Akiva Schaffer]

What are you trying to get. Just because you get off on the sympathy.

[Andy Samberg]

First of all, I did fall off a ladder and I did break my pelvis, you guys.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So you have that guy, that doctor you did the whole thing with was a paid actor?

[Andy Samberg]

No, that was my actual surgeon.

[Jorma Taccone]

You know, you're in good shape when you have to clarify that you didn't lie about that.

[Andy Samberg]

You guys. You guys.

[Jorma Taccone]

But it's maybe speaking to something bigger. Yhorm, which is like. I don't want to call it like an intervention that me and Keev need to do, but like perhaps the way your lifestyle is now being conducted is antithetical to. To the amount of sympathy you have garnered for your injury, which is clearly fake.

[Andy Samberg]

I don't know why I thought this was gonna not leak out.

[Jorma Taccone]

Getting on stage and singing Rage against the machine dressed like P.E.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Alright, so let's just back up a little bit. So for those that have no clue what we're talking about. Yeah, you can Google. It's on, you know, rollingstone.com et cetera, anywhere on Instagram, et cetera.

[Jorma Taccone]

There was no Rolling Stone used to be a magazine. All right, go on.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, I met the Rolling Stone band's Instagram.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, it's just. It's on their merch page.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, Keith. Weird Keith is the one that wrote the post. He signs them. If he writes the post.

[Jorma Taccone]

He's always shit posting.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He's like, bro. Yeah, he's like, yeah, he loves shit lasting. Keith loves it. Him and Johnny were, you know, Depp, of course. Anyways, listen back to trying to explain to. Nobody knows what we're talking about yet, but Portugal, the man, which is a band, had a show in Brooklyn and Yoram got on stage.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, I was asked to do this. I didn't just like do it on my own accord.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, we'll back up to that. But just to give the. What the audience saw. They watched an entire show. It's towards the end. Sure Weird Al is there and has done something. I don't even know because the video just has him in the background.

[Andy Samberg]

He's saying live in the moment. He did like. He's done remixes of Portugal.

[Akiva Schaffer]

The man is not a joke band, by the way. They're not a spoof band, they are a real band. But just clarifying that because it seems like we're in some sort of like.

[Andy Samberg]

They did a song called Feel it still, which my brother produced.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, it was a big hit. That's the one that goes. How does it go?

[Jorma Taccone]

I keep my hands on myself.

[Andy Samberg]

It would be so funny if we sang it and Then they sued us.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Hit me with the chorus though.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, that one.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Very good.

[Jorma Taccone]

Anyway, Yorm did the low version at the end.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, well, yeah, I thought we're gonna do it together.

[Jorma Taccone]

Ye sort of resolved.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yoram got on stage towards the end of the concert dressed fully as Pee Wee Herman, doing a Pee Wee impression. Did a speech a little bit. Just talked to the audience as Pee Wee.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, I came out and kind of talked like this for a second. I think people are really into it because people love seeing comedy at rock.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Shows, especially when it's got no connection to the band or explanation. Were you introduced?

[Andy Samberg]

No, because backstage we didn't work out how I was going to come out on stage. So I just came out and was like, wow, that was incredible.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Huh?

[Andy Samberg]

What do you guys think of Pudgy Land? I can't hear you.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So just the weirdest thing.

[Jorma Taccone]

I mean, it is a good peewee.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'll give you that.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, hi. Sorry. Hi. You alright? Got a little yhorm.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I don't know who that is, but you have to shut them up.

[Jorma Taccone]

You have to shut them up.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Dude, this is a perfect recording.

[Jorma Taccone]

The podcast. The most important thing in our lives.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You think an armchair expert, Dax's kid just comes out and starts yapping?

[Jorma Taccone]

No, he goes. No, he's. He snaps at the.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Shut the fuck up. Jeff, you do armchair expo, right? Jeff? Not.

[Jorma Taccone]

Not directly, but I'm familiar.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, I thought your. Your company does.

[Jorma Taccone]

Rob does.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Keith. He wishes. Rob does the other. Jeff and Rob. There's two of them over there. And Rob does it. Touch the nerve. He's like, oh, Rob got that one. And I got this stinky piece of shit.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, that's Rob. I got this fucking nerve.

[Jorma Taccone]

Unlike some people, he's willing to have guests.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And beyond dad. So we got this other pod. Me or Rob are gonna have to jump off. Rob was thinking, jump off. Oh, oh, you want me to jump off? No, that's fine. It was a flip of a coin anyways. It was just I live closer to no Dax. Oh, that's cool. That's cool. Was that it, Jeff?

[Jorma Taccone]

Pretty close.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

No, no, that's good though.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You take that one.

[Jorma Taccone]

You take that one.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You take that one.

[Jorma Taccone]

You take that one. You take that one.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You take that one.

[Jorma Taccone]

You take that one.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'll take one that has like. Brad, you take the Michelle Obama Got me? No, no, no, no. I'll do the one where they get voice notes.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. From Rob Klein and John Solomon. The best writers ever.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I love you guys.

[Jorma Taccone]

Don't let anyone Ever disparage you.

[Andy Samberg]

You're a lucky man, Jeff.

[Jorma Taccone]

I'm happy to be here.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, boy. Anyways, but then to make it weirder, so Yoram's up there, he's doing this whole comedy speech and mostly improv.

[Andy Samberg]

I tried to keep it tight. I tried to keep it tight because I knew people were probably questioning what was going on.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And then the band comes on and starts playing Killing in the name of.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, no, we threw to it. We did throw to it. We said maybe we could do one last song for you guys. And then we. And here's the thing. John had said, this is. The lead singer of Portugal had said that it might be fun if we did Rage against the Machine. Killing in the name. And then we were like, ah. He was like, no, but we don't need to. And. And then as soon as I was doing, like, the Pee Wee impression to myself, just being like, what am I gonna say? I was like, oh, man, it's pretty. It's already weird that I'm coming out. I think we gotta go. Go. Even weirder.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's a nice transition because, well, you know what my fear was, Yoram? I could see everyone's revving up to play.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And I was like, they're going to push on stage. No, I thought they were going to play Tequila and you were going to start doing the peewee dance.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, it was so much better.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And I was like. And I was like, if he starts doing the peewee dance, he needs to be like. Like a werewolf when there's a full moon.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Like, locked in. Like, locked in a cage in the straight jacket.

[Andy Samberg]

I did do a tiny bit of it, but I didn't do any, like, feet movement. But yes, it was a. But regardless, it was a Strong choice of 10 days post being able to walk on two feet for the first time in three months. To dressed up as Pee Wee and do that and play, like, a pretty raucous rock show.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That was your thing.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

Not to overstate it, but just thinking about you getting into the clothes makes me nervous still.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, I'd say that was the most nerve wracking part. And then I had visions of being like, there's cables on the floor.

[Jorma Taccone]

The most nerve wracking part is the getting on stage and dancing to a Rage against the Machine song. That's the most nerve wracking part.

[Andy Samberg]

He's singing it and not being like everything in your body being like, stage dive, stage dive. And then I got a mosh. But then not doing it.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's really cute and ador. And you're very cute, and it's very funny, but also, like, it does seem insane.

[Andy Samberg]

I agree. I agree.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, we're gonna do an intervention.

[Jorma Taccone]

I feel like you're sidestepping it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We are going to chain you up after 8pm when everyone goes to sleep.

[Andy Samberg]

How are you, Keith?

[Akiva Schaffer]

That is pretty good.

[Andy Samberg]

Thank you.

[Jorma Taccone]

All right, well, I guess I'll start writing your eulogy now.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We're not really gonna watch this whole thing, but Andy hasn't seen this part of the thing, so I'm just gonna play it. Huh?

[Andy Samberg]

That's right. It's me, Mr. Peewee Hermit.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, that peewee.

[Andy Samberg]

I got a question for you, Brooklyn. What do you think of Portugal Man?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Huh?

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So when I got. Saw this video for the first time too, with no explanation, you can just see Weird Al back here just, like, hanging out.

[Andy Samberg]

You're like, what kind of show is this?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

I'm like, where's your catheter or colostomy bag or whatever.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Exactly.

[Jorma Taccone]

Where is he hiding it?

[Akiva Schaffer]

In the suit? Yeah. This guy's about to shit his pants and no one knows it. That's not part of the bit.

[Andy Samberg]

I'm not incontinent, you guys. What do you think of Portugal Man?

[Akiva Schaffer]

I really can't hear you, so I.

[Andy Samberg]

Gotta just hold on. I gotta tell you, my ears here, it's a little wacky.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right. Okay, so you're doing a bunch of peewee, and then I'm gonna get to the song for now.

[Andy Samberg]

So I was kind of thinking maybe. Maybe we could just sing one more song.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's a good peeweer. You guys ready?

[Andy Samberg]

John, are you ready?

[Akiva Schaffer]

You're ready?

[Andy Samberg]

All right, well, let's do it, huh?

[Akiva Schaffer]

One and a two and a third.

[Jorma Taccone]

Can we stop?

[Andy Samberg]

It is so surprising.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's not your fault. Yhorm. But it was funny that you said a one, a two, a one, two, three, four, pause, and then he goes, one, two.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And the real guy had to do it on the.

[Andy Samberg]

I didn't have the right tempo. I didn't have the right tempo.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I guess me.

[Andy Samberg]

And guess what? We didn't work out any of this.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I know.

[Jorma Taccone]

That's why I'm saying it's funny. I'm not blaming you. It's just objectively funny.

[Akiva Schaffer]

A nice, nice detail.

[Andy Samberg]

Nice detail work.

[Jorma Taccone]

You're already moving way too much for my care.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes.

[Jorma Taccone]

My liking, I should say.

[Andy Samberg]

I mean, I. I don't disagree.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, you're definitely moving your feet, by the way.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, you're dancing I was allowed to.

[Akiva Schaffer]

My doctor said I could bending at the waist.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, I went a little harder later, too.

[Jorma Taccone]

Boy, oh, boy.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, okay, so the. The other part that I really enjoyed about this is that Keith Murray, who is in a band called We Are Scientists. Keith did a music video for them many years ago.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Three, I think.

[Andy Samberg]

Three. Oh, sorry. Three. Was it three?

[Jorma Taccone]

I'm a better friend. I knew it was three.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. Thank you.

[Andy Samberg]

But. But Keith came and he. I gave him my phone before I went on. I was like, hey, I'm gonna get to do a little bit on stage. He's like, what are you gonna do? And I was like, just watch it. And then afterwards, he was like, that was so much weirder than I expected it to be. He was just like. It's like, I can't believe you made me film it. Because he was like, I just wanted to experience.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He was shooting this video. He did a really good job. Yeah, well, great job, Yoram. I'm glad you didn't have to go to the hospital.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. Apologies to all the people that were concerned, including my wife and you guys. And, you know, sometimes you just gotta make choices, you know, or bad choices.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

And so how did you feel after?

[Andy Samberg]

I felt like I was. God, what age would I say I was? 65, 70? When I was, like, hobbling my way into the Uber?

[Akiva Schaffer]

But. But you didn't feel like you had done any. Any lasting damage in any way?

[Andy Samberg]

No, no, no. All of the stuff that I'm doing now is like. It's just that a day later, I'm very, very sore. I don't feel like I'm doing any, like, actual damage. It's just that I'm extremely weak.

[Jorma Taccone]

I do like imagining you checking in with your doctor and your pt, and you're like, all right, so you're four months in your recovery. That means you can do light walks around. You can stand up, walk around your apartment. You could do Killing in the Name of with Portugal the Man and Weird Al, if you want. As Pee Wee Herman.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Of course, it would have to be that.

[Jorma Taccone]

Otherwise, it's not safe.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

Do not do the tequila dance.

[Andy Samberg]

You can do rage, but not do tequila.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay.

[Jorma Taccone]

No tippy toes, because we all.

[Andy Samberg]

No platforms.

[Jorma Taccone]

Once you start, you'll go on those toes, and your toes are not ready. All right, well, I guess we're. I sound like a broken record, but I'm glad you're okay.

[Andy Samberg]

Yep. You got it, guys. No worries.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Here's my advice. Keep pushing it. You'll never know where the line is until you step over it.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, no, I'm fine, guys. Don't worry.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, don't do what I just said is the point.

[Andy Samberg]

I'll try not to. Yeah, no, no, I'm figuring it out.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right, well, so Seth was.

[Andy Samberg]

Seth was kind enough to bail and go to Europe.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. So Seth is in Europe. He's in London. Foggy London town. He just did the Graham Norton show, which is always great when you see clips. He did it with Andy's co star, Kate Winslet.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Some would say my best friend. I think she would say that.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. Why don't we get a voice note from her real quick, Andy, Say hey, just send her one. Explain what the podcast is. Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

You don't think she listens every week?

[Jorma Taccone]

I mean, as best friends, she's aware, but I think I'd probably just like hit up her sister about that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay.

[Jorma Taccone]

Maybe hit the pub, Hit the publicist. I don't want to bug her, you know, I just don't want to bug her right now. She's not about this. Want to bug her right now. You know, she's like, I could do it.

[Andy Samberg]

I could. She's.

[Jorma Taccone]

She goes pretty in depth on set. And I know she's shooting. She's pretty much shooting 24 7, so I.

[Andy Samberg]

Can you not find it on YouTube already? Has it aired?

[Jorma Taccone]

No, he's on today, so it might not have even aired.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, it hasn't happened yet. I was just curious if there's somewhere where you can actually just watch Graham Norton episodes here. Maybe Britbox. I don't know, maybe they want to send us some.

[Jorma Taccone]

I'm just curious if there's a place in LA where that I can go and just let my hair down and be myself for once.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Wow. Do you feel judged?

[Jorma Taccone]

We're talking about things we're just curious about.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Do you feel judged when you go out, Andy? Huh?

[Jorma Taccone]

No. Dude.

[Andy Samberg]

Is that why your hair is always up?

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, I'm always putting my hair up in a tight bun.

[Andy Samberg]

I don't feel comfortable. I told you guys, I don't feel comfortable here.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Why don't you just let your hair down, Andy?

[Jorma Taccone]

It's. I can't do it here. That's why it's coming first. So I gotta let my hair down. Anyway, I think that's a good episode. Should we cap it? I think that was a pretty good app.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Later, Arnold. Later.

[Jorma Taccone]

Wait, no, I say that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay, so here's some of the things that he sent in the notes on one. Circling back to the new York Times games. We're not calling for Jack Black yet for you, Andy, because we need to keep our listeners.

[Andy Samberg]

Wait, are these Seth cheat codes about what we're supposed to talk about because we're children?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. Well, no, it was helping me out. Listen.

[Jorma Taccone]

No, we're clearly all very responsible.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Cool.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay. Go ahead, Keith.

[Akiva Schaffer]

A little teaser. Stay tuned because we will be revealing if Andy got spelling bee today or not.

[Jorma Taccone]

I won't give anything away, so stay tuned.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Spanagrams in strands. The New York Times game strands this week.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

When we were together, Andy, you were like, look at this. It was like a boss.

[Jorma Taccone]

That's right. The spangram.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Now Seth points out in the opposite direction was a few days previous. The spelling bee wouldn't accept doink.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. So that is a counterpoint.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That is a counterpoint.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. So I guess they don't like us.

[Jorma Taccone]

But I was the clue in the main crossword also last week.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes. And was it. That was the Samberg of Brooklyn 9 9.

[Jorma Taccone]

No, that was the Mini. But I have been in it twice recently.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Right.

[Jorma Taccone]

Just. This is all just to the conspiracy theory that they're talking to us.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Right. The November 16th mini was two clues in a row. One was Sandberg of Brooklyn Nine Nine. And then the very next clue was. See what I did there? It was blank. What I did there for the word see? It's a conversation. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

What if they do start actually communicating to us through the puzzle?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

More like kill yourselves.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, it's a Kill something.

[Andy Samberg]

I don't wanna kill yourselves.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's what we're sleeper cells for. They're finally gonna act. They've done years of brainwashing on a high level. We don't realize that we've been. And then they're gonna finally trigger the sleeper cells just for us to just off it.

[Andy Samberg]

That doesn't just jump off a bridge.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, that doesn't seem really worth it. It's usually for something bigger. If you watch Manchurian cannon Bain or telephone or any of those. Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

They sleeper sell us to then just like walk in a little circle in the corner.

[Akiva Schaffer]

For real, though, I always do think we're like winter soldiers or something.

[Jorma Taccone]

The three of us say more about that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's just like we're like Sebastian or Chris Evans and we're like muscly and handsome and I'm always like, why? We're not using these muscles for anything. Are we sleeper cells? Are we winter soldiers?

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, I see. We're like post serum wimps.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. Well, the winter Soldiers are like this, right? Someone calls and reads us, like, an Edgar Allan Poe poem on the phone, and we're triggered into action. We don't even know what we're doing. Yeah, yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

We're like, oh, activated.

[Andy Samberg]

It would make sense why we're also shredded.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We're not even gonna know when it happens because it's just gonna be like, the eagle flies in moonlight. And then one of us is gonna do something nuts, crazy.

[Jorma Taccone]

Then we get back together and we're having, like, our mojitos and we're like, oh, my God, we're such super soldiers. We're such winter soldiers.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, my God, I'm so such winter soldier.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, my go season.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, my God.

[Jorma Taccone]

I can tell. I'm a winter soldier. I woke up with, like, bloody.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, my God. Just looking in the mirror, I can tell I'm a total winter soldier.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. Should we get some apps?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Do you ever wake up in the morning and you're like, what did I even do last night? Oh, I'm such a winter soldier. I know it. I need to be locked up like jorma, because after 8pm it's like, I'm so tired when I wake up. I know I must have done something.

[Andy Samberg]

I probably assassinated someone.

[Jorma Taccone]

Like, bruises all over my shoulders and chest.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I can't remember anything.

[Jorma Taccone]

Like, oh, I went winter soldiered again last night.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Should we get some apps at brunch? If you catch the three of us at brunch, we're so tired and we don't know why, and we're complaining about our bodies hurting and our cut bodies. Yeah, sure, some people could say it's just because you're getting old or you shattered your. Exploded your pelvis, but it feels extreme.

[Andy Samberg]

But it's definitely not that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It definitely is.

[Andy Samberg]

I can't remember the fall that well.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Because we used to go to brunch and feel fine. And now when we're at brunch, we're like. We feel like shit. And it's like we were winter soldiering at night.

[Jorma Taccone]

For sure. You had the latter Fall incepted Winter Soldier.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, they had to give him a reason. They're like, oh, fuck, he really fucked up himself on his Winter Soldier things.

[Andy Samberg]

He's remembering something.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We gotta implant. We gotta implant some other memory in here.

[Andy Samberg]

Make it something normal, regular, but, you know, a little offbeat.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Anyways, so then, Andy, you're saying there was also in the New York Times main crossword that you did show us? I just don't know what day it was. Another clue.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, it was it was another one where the answer was Andy. But it was. I was very proud, by the way. It was Griffith, Kaufman and Sandberg of television.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Ah.

[Jorma Taccone]

And I was like, damn, that's pretty good company.

[Andy Samberg]

I just like the phrase, like televisions. Right? Like your televisions. Like television owns you.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. You're the Mount Rushmore of television. Andes.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You know who was pissed about that Andy Dick? Cohen.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, Cohen. Yeah. Well, he's got his own thing. I think he's doing fine.

[Jorma Taccone]

He's also of television.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, he would have fit right in. But I guess the other ones that I mentioned were all on sitcoms. That is more in common.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. Beloved classic sitcoms, I guess you could say. I wouldn't.

[Andy Samberg]

No, you're not that guy.

[Jorma Taccone]

Three equally good and beloved sitcoms that will stand the test of time in equal amount.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You would say, where did the Andy Griffith show take place? Wasn't that what the. The name of the Andy bro that.

[Jorma Taccone]

Was on Mars, brother.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Shots fired. Dude, we gotta get a voice note from Andy Griffith, see if he was insulted by that.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, Keith. Oh.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, no, it's fine.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, yeah, I was in Mayberry.

[Jorma Taccone]

Got the cable hooked up. All channels.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right. Anyway.

[Jorma Taccone]

Lift up my shirt, all mammal.

[Andy Samberg]

Got that cable hooked up. Oh, my God. What a fucking genius.

[Jorma Taccone]

Shout out Redman, man. I fucking love that, dude.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Those were the funniest legit albums. Funny on purpose.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, my God.

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

What about the kitchen? It's so nice. Cause hotels don't have kitchens.

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

What?

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[Akiva Schaffer]

Rated pg.

So this was a question Seth had for me. Keev said Groundhog Day. Oh, I don't know if this came from Seth or from a comment, but said Groundhog Day should have swept the Oscars knowing that Schindler's List won Best Picture. Do you stand by that? Were they the same year? I think that's what it's implying because.

[Andy Samberg]

They know you're not gonna go against your boy Liam.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So Groundhog Day didn't win because Schindler's listed. And do I stand by that? When I said that Groundhog Day should have won whatever year it was.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, Liam's gonna hear this.

[Jorma Taccone]

Do you?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, I do.

[Jorma Taccone]

I mean, I can tell you there's one of those two movies that I enjoy rewatching.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. I don't even want to get into it.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's Schindler's List.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Exactly.

[Jorma Taccone]

A quarter of me is not allowed to make that joke, you guys.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right, here's a little bit of trivia. You know we love our bar nights. Right.

Groundhog Day won a bafta. What was the category?

[Andy Samberg]

Groundhog Day won a bafta. Best musical.

[Jorma Taccone]

Best bath to.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, Best bath.

And of course, in England, bath is slang for bath.

[Andy Samberg]

Go take a bath.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And he famously takes a bath.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's cockney for bath.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. One of the days that is just. He goes, fuck it. I'm just gonna stay in the bath all day. That was like one of the thousands of days he lives.

[Jorma Taccone]

Exactly.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And that was the best one then.

[Jorma Taccone]

You know, remember in Lock Saka Do Smoking Barrels, where he's like, I'm going to kill you in the bath.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. All right.

[Jorma Taccone]

So sorry. It won a bafta. And the category. We're supposed to guess what it was for.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. This is just a quiz that Seth set up for us.

[Andy Samberg]

I was going to say comedy screenplay.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Correct. Best screenplay original.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, I got it right.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And yor was wrong, which it definitely deserved.

[Andy Samberg]

Is there a comedy category in bafta, though? I don't know if there is.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I don't know.

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, maybe there is. There might be, like, comedy show or something.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's probably pretty dry and sarcastic. Am I right? That British wit. Does it translate, Andy?

[Jorma Taccone]

It depends on the audience.

[Andy Samberg]

Great answer.

[Jorma Taccone]

I answered earnestly. Do you feel like in England, the comedy category is called drama as a dry joke?

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, yeah, probably. That's probably what it is.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's like drama, the dry joke.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's like drama, but, like, if you saw my face, I was, like, putting my hand behind my neck.

[Andy Samberg]

Like, your eyebrows went up.

[Jorma Taccone]

Looking around like, we all know it's actually comedy. And they're like, all right, now for.

[Andy Samberg]

Drama, I really wish people could see your face because you're doing a very good sarcastic English person.

They'll never see it, though.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right, listen, guys, here's another quiz. Someone commented about the video episode. This is the episode about the yorms doctor. So glad we finally got video. And Seth went full beige. He was just floating eyeballs and teeth, which is true if you look. He had a beige background and a beige sweater on. And so it was just eyeballs and teeth. Now can you guess what the next. This is the quiz part. What the next six comments were after that comment?

[Jorma Taccone]

My Beige.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Nope.

[Andy Samberg]

Alex Beige.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Nope.

[Andy Samberg]

Damn it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's a reference. I'm gonna start giving you clues. It's a reference to something about Seth's appearance that was said on this podcast.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, yeah, his name's Teeth.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Seth has Teeth.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, Seth has Teeth.

[Andy Samberg]

Seth has Teeth. Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

That's how Yorm remembers him.

[Andy Samberg]

I said it and I couldn't even remember it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Somebody was asking for an update on the progress to the Jeremy Allen White bod. Yorm. That's kind of a can of worms.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, this. Well, let me. This. Winter soldier. Summertime for this Winter soldier.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, it's summertime.

[Jorma Taccone]

He.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He's the reverse emotion he packs on the pound.

[Andy Samberg]

Got a summertime vibe on this Winter soldier.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, my God.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Winter soldiers in the summer get all flabby.

[Jorma Taccone]

Let's just say I'm a little more Bucky right now.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

Yeah. No, it's not going good.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay.

[Andy Samberg]

Is the short answer. Yep.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Seth got asked this question and then wrote a reply that he asked me to read on his behalf. So the question was, did Seth record the intro from a closet? So this is in the video one he had at the last minute, I think I requested. I was like, you should tell the audience on audio that this is available on video so they know they can go see it. Oh, and so he tacked it on from his iPhone. It's a long answer. I'm gonna read this on his behalf. No, but I recorded that, though. Okay. No, but I recorded it on my phone because fucking Jeff said, hey, can one of you do an intro where you tell people we have have video for this episode? And I knew right away that it would have to be me. So, yeah, I banged it out quick and with bad quality. It was either that or wait for Andy to find the Fuck Graham and Strand job or whatever the new game he's playing. And we all know that wasn't going to happen.

[Jorma Taccone]

Deflecting, blaming it on others.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That seems crazy.

[Jorma Taccone]

Classic narcissist behavior.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, again, that was not me. That was Seth.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

Keev.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Merry fucker.

[Jorma Taccone]

Kill Winter soldier. Noodle arms before the serum. Captain America or a super hot lady.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay, cute.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I mean, obviously you want to fuck the little skinny bucky.

[Jorma Taccone]

Thank you. I was hoping you were going to say that.

[Andy Samberg]

I have my money so far so.

[Jorma Taccone]

You can feel powerful.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. Yeah. And you want to marry the strong one so he can protect you.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, okay. You're going to kill the Hot lady. What did she ever do?

[Andy Samberg]

Okay, just this answer.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Do we just want to keep doing Q and A's, or do we want to go to the.

[Andy Samberg]

You know what?

[Akiva Schaffer]

I.

[Andy Samberg]

In the text chain, I made it very clear what I wanted to do. I love Q and A's because I just love the audience. I love you guys so much. These guys. Who knows what they like, but me love you guys.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Do you like when people say that?

[Andy Samberg]

Not pandering, Eddie, because it's when they're.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Gonna do an ask me anything. They go, so give us your cues, and I'm gonna try to do some A. Do you like when they, like, play with the Q and A?

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, man, it's so funny.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, that's very funny. Well, are there other good cues? I guess is the question.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We've got cues. We've got some cues. I've got.

[Andy Samberg]

Dad send you send us some cues.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, Jeff sent me. I've got some ones I could read, and I've got. We've got some audio cues.

[Jorma Taccone]

You are still in character from the show.

[Andy Samberg]

Certainly. I'm. It's. The voice is off now. I'll get it back.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, you went. You went a little SpongeBob.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. Sorry.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, yeah. Give us your SpongeBob.

[Andy Samberg]

Wait, how does he do it.

Too?

[Jorma Taccone]

That's mine.

[Andy Samberg]

Squidward. No, I can't get out that high.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, I'm a little hoarse right now.

[Andy Samberg]

So high.

[Jorma Taccone]

Spongebob. Is this my Squidward?

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's good. Squidward. Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

And then here's my Patrick.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Ready? Hi, SpongeBob.

[Jorma Taccone]

Is that good?

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right, I'm gonna read one here, and then I'm gonna ask you, Jeff, to find the video and photo so we can look at it. All right?

[Andy Samberg]

Okay.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This is from Beth. So grateful to the pod. I was listening to the Q and A episode about two weeks before I got married in the ring dressed as the macho man Randy Savage to my beautiful Miss Elizabeth.

[Guest/Advertiser]

Whoa.

[Andy Samberg]

Really?

[Akiva Schaffer]

And when I asked my bride to be if it was okay if we walked back out after the ceremony to I just had sex, she gave me a resounding yes. I picked a winner. We got married in the ring at a costume party fundraiser for a community health center in our city. Thanks for the idea.

[Andy Samberg]

This kid's awesome.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So I want to see this video and photo of them dressed like a.

[Andy Samberg]

There's another phrase that I want to start getting going.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, you got the video.

[Andy Samberg]

It's also a dressed up macho man. This is so gangster.

[Jorma Taccone]

Congratulations.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, that's. That's what you call top turnbuckle right there. Jumping off the top turnbuckle.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yorm, I didn't hear you, but I was just going to say that's what you call top turnbuckle.

[Andy Samberg]

No, fuck. I was saying. Fuck. I fucked it up and then. God, Andy. No, it's mine. It's actually my friend fr. He likes to say that this dude came in Top turnbuckle. Let's just say when you're. When you're coming in hot. Top turnbuckle.

[Jorma Taccone]

Because it's like the highest point of leaping.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, because you build to that in any wrestling match. You know what I mean? Top turnbuckle is like that's like four minutes in.

[Jorma Taccone]

That's the zenith of the turnbuckles.

[Andy Samberg]

Flying far cross turnbuckles.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Go.

[Jorma Taccone]

You can't get much higher.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You cannot.

[Andy Samberg]

You cannot. It's the highest.

[Jorma Taccone]

The top one. Yeah. That's truly like the acme of all turnbuckles is the one at the top.

[Andy Samberg]

Tippity top. Yeah. Well, let me just say that Beth, you came in Top turnbuckle. And that is the best video that we've seen ever sent to us. I guess.

[Jorma Taccone]

I mean, I don't think we need to rank them.

[Andy Samberg]

That's fair. That's fair. That was. That was cruel.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Hello lonely islands and Seth Meers. This is from Matthew. On the most recent episode. Andy very casually references the 1975 TV special. Really Rosie? It is unremarked on by Seth and Akiva, so I don't know if they understood the reference or not. My 3 year old son is huge into Maurice Sendak books and the TV special and the soundtrack with the songs by Carole King. We have the record and we listen to it. I don't really know anyone else who's familiar with it, so it really caught me off guard with Andi Mae mention.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh well, Matthew, first off, let me just say thank you for that and I'm sorry for what Quentin Tarantino said about you. I thought that was completely out of line and uncalled for. I think you're an incredible actor. Oh my God. So you know, keep your chin up, Keep your head up.

[Andy Samberg]

That's really kind of you.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So you're assuming Matthew Lillard wrote this?

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. Isn't. I feel like that's implied.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, there's no last name so I think your guess is as good as mine. I think we feels like a safe assumption.

[Jorma Taccone]

Have you ever heard of another Matthew? I haven't. Anyway, so really Rosie is something. I have two older sisters and I grew up listening to that Non stop. We were big Carole King family, as I know a lot are. And yeah, you know, I know those songs real well. I guess these guys either were like, yeah, that's such old hat. I'm not even gonna comment on it. Or they just didn't know what the reference was.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, I didn't know. Oh, he has a follow up just question, which is do you listen to it now or watch it now? Because he can't find it in decent quality anywhere.

[Jorma Taccone]

I have not attempted to find it, but I have listened to the music since having kids again.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Got it. So we'll just put this question to the Quaid's because he's looking for the special itself. Somewhere to rent or ship.

[Jorma Taccone]

Hit us in the tittis. Can you hook up that really rosy video little factoid? Guys, this part didn't air, but when I did finding your roots on pbs, at the end, they tell you another person that works in entertainment or in the public in any way that they, through doing DNA testing, have determined that you are. Are whether vaguely or very are related to. And mine was Carole King.

[Andy Samberg]

Really?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Whoa.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. Wow, that's cool.

[Jorma Taccone]

So we might be like 15th cousins or something, but I was like, that's pretty awesome.

[Andy Samberg]

Do you want to hear something more about Carole King? She wrote a song called Been to Canaan, which is about Canaan, Connecticut, which is where my accident happened. Guys, let's not forget.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Was that what it was about? Because you've been there and it made quite an impression.

[Andy Samberg]

No, it wasn't about a pelvis injury.

[Jorma Taccone]

One last thing on Carole King. I will say before being told that I have had people send me pictures of young Carole King being like, this looks like you in high school.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, really? Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. Have you ever actually looked at that?

[Andy Samberg]

I'm looking it up right now, dog.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Maybe someone can make us a nice side by side.

[Jorma Taccone]

I kind of feel like once you see it, Yoram, you'll be like, it's not. It's not like 100% wrong.

[Andy Samberg]

Is it clothing wise as well? Or just face wife here, look at like. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. By the way, she looks great.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It kind of looks like your sister, too.

[Jorma Taccone]

And my hair was long. I mean, I look like my sister if she was a dude.

[Andy Samberg]

That is not. That's not far off, though, man. Wow.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

Anyway, I'm sure we're related. I don't think we're like twins. That would make no sense. But we could be separated at birth. I'm just saying.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, well, Carol hit us up so you and Andy can go out to dinner, get, you know, reacquainted.

[Jorma Taccone]

Big, big, big, huge fan. Love it all.

[Andy Samberg]

Don't forget that I fell off the ladder, guys.

And it's real. And it's real.

[Jorma Taccone]

And don't forget that I actually fell off a ladder.

[Andy Samberg]

I don't believe Eric.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, and if you see me stage diving, ignore that.

[Andy Samberg]

Then that's just what needed to happen.

[Jorma Taccone]

That's AI. The injury is the real thing.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This podcast is sponsored by Naked Wines. Yorm. It's the holiday season. Yeah. Do you sometimes like to just sit by a roaring fire in a cozy, chunky, knives out sweater and just a full, right to the brim glass of red wine?

[Andy Samberg]

You know I do. And the chunkier, the better on the sweater tip. So thank you for picturing me. Whoa. Whoa.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Cool.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, wine alarm.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Uh oh. It's wine.

[Andy Samberg]

It's wine o'. Clock.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Mama needs her wine.

[Andy Samberg]

What is wine o' clock for you? What'd you say, 4 o'? Clock?

[Akiva Schaffer]

I would say 5:36pm yeah. Unless it's W H I N E. Because then it's all day long for this guy. When you're at a restaurant, they pour the glass of wine and they pour it like a fourth of the way up the glass. Do you do what I do and go, hey, don't be a cheapskate. And I go like. And I make them pour it till it's brimming. You know how you can get that surface tension on the top of a wine glass where. Where the wine, the liquid is actually higher than the rim of the glass?

[Andy Samberg]

Yes, yes.

[Akiva Schaffer]

If you pour right to the top, you can get those extra drips. That's what I demand of my sommeliers.

[Andy Samberg]

And then when you're at home by a roaring fire wearing a chunky sweater, do you also fill it to that level or no, you don't need to.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, only for guests. Gotcha. Just so that they know I'm not a cheapskate. It's like when you're at a really good Japanese restaurant and they pour the sake and it's sitting in the glass inside the bamboo box, so they pour it so that the sake overflows out of the glass.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. Quality.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I do it like that, but it just goes on the carpet and you.

[Andy Samberg]

Just throw out carpets just to show how baller you are.

[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

Wow.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Thank you for that information.

[Andy Samberg]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Andy Samberg]

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Support comes from Quince.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Damn.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You hear that voice? This guy means it this time.

[Andy Samberg]

I mean, at this. But all the other times I've only semi meant it. Just kidding. I always meant it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

What's your favorite part of doing the whole podcast? Yorm? The ads.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, Keith, it's my favorite. It's just great to do with you, man. It's just great to see you in a different context. Context.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Thank you. Yeah. This context, my true self. All right. But this is the truth. You know, sometimes one of the benefits of doing these ads is they send you samples of stuff or they say, hey, pick out something from the website so that you can be genuinely talking.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So this is a true story. We did that. We got some sheets from Quint. We liked them. They were good. And then the truth is, they were good enough that when my daughter was just getting a new bed, Liz went to the Quint's website and paid our good hard earned money at the Quint's website to buy more. And she bought a comforter, I believe is what it's called. You know, like there's a duvet cover and a duvet insert. This is just me asking a real question about it.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, yeah, I'm already stumped on this, but go ahead. Yeah. What's the.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Cause I always used to say a comforter and then a duvet cover. But then you're like, wait, is it the duvet, then the comforter? Are we covering a duvet but then it's called a duvet instead of insert.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, I thought the comfort was the innards of a duvet or. No, right.

[Akiva Schaffer]

The duvet insert.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay. It's a duvet insert.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Agreed. That's what I would have said. But then does that mean duvet is the entire thing? Because it goes duvet insert, duvet cover. What's the duke.

[Andy Samberg]

I'm gonna. I prefer the word innards.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. Well, what is it? So duvet, innards and then an outwards, I guess.

[Andy Samberg]

Wait in the comments, guys.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So when she was just doing her bad list, Bob bought duvet, innards, duvet outwards and pillowcases and sheets, and did the whole bed from Quince. And it's the coziest bed in the house.

[Andy Samberg]

Nice. Nice. And I also benefited from things that have been sent to us from quints. And I don't have any cool story like that, but I'm glad we worked out the whole innards outwards thing.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This is something I wanted to talk about with you, Jorm, for a while. When the nights turn frosty, which quince bedding pieces are your go to to for bringing holiday warmth and coziness into your space? Is it the duvet, innards, duvet outards, or both put together to make one duvet?

[Andy Samberg]

You know, it's the sandwich dog.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, so you're an innards outerds guy. You like both on your bed big time. You got it. It's controversial. They may pull their funding from us. Just kidding. They love, uh.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, no, they love us.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, they love selling innards and outards too, together. That's how it works. That's how you make a complete bed sandwich. A bed sandwich. Listen, their quilts, comforters, and duvet inserts offer pure quality warmth and texture. So it just said comforters and duvet inserts as two separate things.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, yeah. Okay, weighing in on the comments, guys. What do you think? Innards outwards, Duvet, innards outwards.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You weigh.

[Andy Samberg]

I think they should change it on their website to innards out.

[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Jorma Taccone]

Close your eyes.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Exhale.

[Jorma Taccone]

Feel your body relax and let go.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Of whatever you're carrying today. Well, I'm letting go of the worry that I wouldn't get my new contacts in time for this class.

[Andy Samberg]

I got them delivered free from 1-800-contacts. Oh my gosh, they're so fast. And breathe. Oh, sorry. I almost couldn't breathe when I saw the discount they gave me on my first order.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, sorry.

[Andy Samberg]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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Here'S one from Mike. Hello, Quaides. Happy to report that Yorm's Chaka teeth have been officially acquired by the Bay Area's own Gameboys with Z purveyors of pop culture oddities and collectibles. Rest assured, these won't be used nefariously at a crime scene. They'll pair beautifully with Walter White's lobotomy scars. I guess that's something else they have. Or better yet, our 1995 Berkeley High School yearbook. We're like Rip Digman if he only hunted for weird shit. Quaid army and Style boys for life. Love you guys. Mike.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh my God, That's. That's great. Yeah, because on a crime scene, you could use the teeth to bite people and then they'd be like, that's what they meant. Cannibal is definitely your man.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I guess Achaka did this.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yes. That's what they meant. That's what they meant. Yep, that's what they meant.

[Andy Samberg]

Next question.

[Jorma Taccone]

Keev, before we move on, thoughts on the Netflix purchase of Warner Brothers?

[Akiva Schaffer]

It feels concerning, I guess. Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

Okay, I'm not going to ask YM because I know he has no idea it's happening.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, the minute you say Warner Brothers, anytime anybody says Warner Brothers, I just think of E40 saying Warner Brothers at the beginning of one of his albums. Warner Brothers. That's all I think of.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And I think of the Animaniacs up there being kooky in their water tower.

[Jorma Taccone]

Get off that water tower, you scamps.

[Andy Samberg]

Totally insaney. Okay. Hi, Lonely Island. Hi, Seth. So first I want to say that John Lutz seems like a perfectly nice guy who loves the lonely islands. Now onto my issue with him. My family all live in a place immediately north of Tampa that's called Lutz. Spelled the same as Ludz, but pronounced correctly. So please tell Lutz he's been saying his name wrong. Okay, now that I've gotten that off my chest, I have a question for Set. Why do you keep visiting Hillary and Larry but never schedule shows in New England? Also feel better, Yorm. And I'm sorry, Andy, but I'm not just queed army, I'm also Team Frisbee. That dog is definitely worth more than how much you hated her.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay, well, that was a question for.

[Andy Samberg]

Seth, which I love, but because he's so selfish and not here, he can't answer. But go ahead. Daddy, you answered for Seth.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, I'll answer it.

[Andy Samberg]

Good.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Really?

[Jorma Taccone]

That's what you're going to ask me? Thank you.

[Andy Samberg]

I think he's going to have to jump on next week and answer that for real. But that was a great no, Yorm.

[Jorma Taccone]

I'm not going to answer the question.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'm Seth.

[Jorma Taccone]

That's what he sounds like all the time.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That is a pretty good exasperated.

[Andy Samberg]

Pretty accurate.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Thanks.

[Andy Samberg]

Thank you for the well wishes as well. Because of my pelvis.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. Which is not AI. It's real.

[Andy Samberg]

This is a good way to beat the whole jorm.

[Jorma Taccone]

Is your pelvis feeling sora?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. Good.

[Andy Samberg]

Thanks.

[Jorma Taccone]

I'm gonna go walk off a bridge.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Let's hit the next one. Let's see if this one's for us. Hi, guys. My question is about the curse and.

[Andy Samberg]

Specifically wondering how you came up with the name Sergio. Wondering whose idea it was or whether you pitched a bunch of names and that's the one that stuck.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Or if he was just always a.

[Andy Samberg]

Sergio from the beginning or if it's referencing anything. I really appreciated the blast from the past that was this short because when.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It came out, I was studying music in college and it was impossible for a while there to walk through the.

[Andy Samberg]

Halls of the music building without somebody with a saxophone turning around and going, Sergio.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So thank you for that wave of.

[Andy Samberg]

Nostalgia, and I'm a huge fan of the POD and have a great day. Oh, my God, that makes me so happy.

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, thank you very much. It looks like one more person gets added to the list of not being chuffed by the breaking of the line.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We're past this.

[Andy Samberg]

She didn't say anything about that. She didn't say anything about that. She just said it was nostalgia.

[Jorma Taccone]

It almost sounded to me like it was just something that was beloved.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Do you think she said it was nostalgic because it was reminding her of, like, bad home movies they used to shoot or something?

[Jorma Taccone]

I think there's definitely a chance. I think we have to assume that there's a chance.

[Andy Samberg]

Talking about that, like, oh, you know, how things, like, used to suck.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Cause it was so amateurish. It just reminded me of, like, videos we would take when I was, like.

[Andy Samberg]

6 or 7 and how the color correction was bad.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, guys, I said it was good from the beginning.

[Jorma Taccone]

I thought of the name Sergio, and I don't remember why. I think it was just. It matched the look. And thinking about Ham saying that and that being what he yells was just. Was silly and funny.

[Andy Samberg]

Just the guy with good chest hair.

[Jorma Taccone]

But it wasn't, like, based on anyone or anything like that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Great answer.

[Andy Samberg]

We have to say that for legal purposes. That was not based on anything.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, it wasn't based on Sergio Leone, who looks exactly like that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Good job pulling Sergio Leone. That makes perfect sense.

[Andy Samberg]

This guy's so good with words. So, so good.

[Jorma Taccone]

There's a guy named Sergio on my soccer team for a couple years growing.

[Andy Samberg]

Up, I was listening to you guys talk about the Closet organizer sketch with Ham. Growing up in a little place called the Bay Area, my neighbor over the fence in Oakland was one George Zimmer of the Men's Warehouse. My idiot classmates used to come over and torture this poor man by yelling over the fence, say it, George. Say it, George. Until he'd eventually have to come out of his house in his bathrobe and get to the fence and say, I guarantee it, to shut a bunch of 8th grade dummies up. Oh, that's. Incidentally, Zimmer was pretty cool guy. One of the biggest financial supporters for marijuana legalization at the time and also the Oakland Zoo. Anyway, love the pod. Wow.

[Jorma Taccone]

I love it.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, gosh. That was a great thank you for just that. That factoid.

[Jorma Taccone]

I guarantee it.

[Andy Samberg]

I guarantee it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

What was the full thing.

[Andy Samberg]

You're gonna like the way you look. I guarantee it. Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. And he would do these great local, I guess, ads. I didn't know if they were local. They could have been national.

[Andy Samberg]

They got slicker by the end, they got heavier.

[Jorma Taccone]

He had a perfectly manicured beard. It looked like he, like, used good product in his beard.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Men's Wearhouse is like a suit, a place to buy a nice Suit.

[Andy Samberg]

He got younger over time.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And you're gonna like the way you look. You're gonna love the way you look.

[Jorma Taccone]

I guarantee it.

[Andy Samberg]

What a good guy, though, to like, to be able to, you know, placate a bunch of eighth graders is.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, Jeff's saying they were national, so maybe it started in the bay.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Really?

[Jorma Taccone]

Me not know.

[Andy Samberg]

And then. And then he got bigger. Well, that would make sense why the ads got slicker.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's funny, I never thought about stuff like this when I was a kid. You're just like, there goes that guy who is selling suits. But when you think about that, his name is George Zimmer. And how he looks, you're like, oh, he easily could have just been a rabbi.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, guys, to tie it back to what we're talking about, the peewee suit that they got for me was from the men's warehouse.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh. So they definitely have them everywhere. Really?

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, yeah, in nyc. So, yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

And did you get it in the pee wee section or.

[Andy Samberg]

Yep, there's a whole pee wee section. And if you go there, be sure to look out for that and get your hopes up. That there. That's. That exists.

[Guest/Advertiser]

Hi, this is Edie from Baltimore again. I know the last time you told me not to say that it was my third time, but it is, so. I'm not a liar, jk. I actually am a liar sometimes. Anyway, my question is, how old were your kids when you started to let them watch snl? My mom has to watch every single episode before my brother and I get to watch it. And what are your kids favorite digital shorts? Mine are Sushi, Glory Hole and Ross Chant. And also this is my favorite line from Ross Chan. Did you ever watch my bald heads suck? Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, dong, duck, goodbye.

[Andy Samberg]

Just kill it. Just please, please, Edie, just keep sending these, please. That is. It's so nice to hear from you.

[Jorma Taccone]

Wow, day brightened.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's great parenting watching ahead of you. Because I will say my kids still, they're. And they're older. They're, you know. But when they were younger, I definitely was more concerned with something random.

[Andy Samberg]

I just show stuff on YouTube to my 10 and my 5 year old who loves basically anything with Kristen Wiig. Denise is really big for my daughter, who's 5. And also the oh no sketch if you look up Will forte snl. Oh, no, they love that one. But it's all curated for me. I don't actually let them watch the show in its entirety.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, one of my kids got very into the wig. Penelope sketches and watched every one of them multiple times.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, basically any wig character. Although they didn't really understand the Thomas character that didn't go over.

[Jorma Taccone]

Give it time.

[Andy Samberg]

Great.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I should show them that one.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's wig's blood on the tracks. You gotta put a little road behind you before you get it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right, let me see if I have anything else from Seth here.

[Andy Samberg]

Put some road behind you. Oh, I love it. Is that an idiom, Andy?

[Jorma Taccone]

I don't know of that exact way of phrasing it.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, it sounds like you sort of changed it a little bit, which. So it wasn't an exact idiom. Yeah, that can happen to people, though. They can get it a little off, but people still get it. Oh, man.

[Jorma Taccone]

You're pathetic.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right, Jack Black, let's have the moment.

[Andy Samberg]

Spelling be.

[Jorma Taccone]

Spelling bee.

Well, I'm afraid to say I got it clean, bitch.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, total misdirect.

[Jorma Taccone]

Eve was working, worried.

[Akiva Schaffer]

What a Friday. What a gift going into the weekend.

[Andy Samberg]

I weirdly was worried for a second on that one. I was like, oh, fuck, we're gonna disappoint people.

[Jorma Taccone]

No, I got it clean.

[Akiva Schaffer]

What did you use?

[Jorma Taccone]

I got to within two words and then found out that I was missing a six and a seven.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay, got it. So completely clean. Clean clean. Squeaky clean. But you had checked how many words were in there? Because that's just part of your thing. You go, all right, there's going to be 50 words or whatever it is.

[Jorma Taccone]

Then I found out I needed a six and a seven, but then nothing past that. And then I got them without any other.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Do you check how many words total just right off the bat every time, or do you go kind of deep in.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, I try to go as far as I can before I look.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Got it.

[Andy Samberg]

And then, Andy, how long did it take you today? And what's the average? And this is gonna bum me out, because I'm sure it's.

[Jorma Taccone]

Maybe it's tough because I kind of, like, sometimes, like. I mean, I'm slightly ashamed to admit sometimes if I'm uplifting late, I'll, like, stay up a little longer. And then when the clock strikes midnight, the new one posts, and I'll do it until I finish. And that'll usually be, like, somewhere between 20 and 30 minutes.

[Andy Samberg]

I mean, dude, if you need that dopamine to get to bed, I totally get it.

[Jorma Taccone]

Exactly. That's what Robin was talking about on her new single.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That is true. Have you watched the video for dopamine? It's all spelling. It's all spelling beef. There's like these weird bees floating around and someone. And someone in the background keeps doing the Travis Scott. Solid thing from last week's show though.

[Jorma Taccone]

But other times I'll be doing it sort of periodically throughout the morning and then like, you know, have to stop.

[Andy Samberg]

But would you say 40 minutes, like if you were in a clock?

[Jorma Taccone]

It depends on the day. I mean some days there's like, you know, 60 something words and it takes way longer.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay.

[Jorma Taccone]

And other days it's like the total number of points is like 80 and you're like, oh well, this is not going to take long. And then it doesn't.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay, follow up, follow up. When, when you see like an ing. Are you like oh great or are you like oh great.

Or do you not think like that?

[Jorma Taccone]

I think usually that means it's going to be easier. Or if there's ed, because then you get a word and then you do that word with a D&ED at the end, etc.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Erectile dysfunction, but walked right into it.

[Jorma Taccone]

My last word today was biennia, which.

[Andy Samberg]

Is a word that you knew.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, from the bee.

[Andy Samberg]

Gotcha.

[Akiva Schaffer]

What does it mean exactly?

[Andy Samberg]

It means exactly. Yeah, gotcha.

[Akiva Schaffer]

They don't remember. They don't care about what words mean. They just care that they exist.

[Andy Samberg]

Right.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh my God. It's a specified period of two years.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He definitely just looked it up. I absolutely did not.

[Andy Samberg]

That's like how long we've been doing this pod.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Have you? Exactly.

[Andy Samberg]

This episode feels like a biennial.

[Jorma Taccone]

It feels like a lot more than a biennial.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This episode feels like a biennial.

[Andy Samberg]

Feels like two biennias. I mean, assuming there's no word for four.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Again, apologies for my low energy. I was just winter soldiering all night and I just have no memory.

[Jorma Taccone]

You got to excuse us, guys. We were very likely all winter soldiering our little buns off last night.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Night. Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

That's why our elbows and knuckles are so scraped.

[Andy Samberg]

You should see the other guys though.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, I mean, I don't know what they looked like, cuz I have no idea.

[Andy Samberg]

We don't know. But you. If, if you see them, if you see a bunch of beat up guys. We were there.

[Akiva Schaffer]

The body remembers. Sometimes your mind doesn't remember, but your body will always hold that. That memory.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, honestly, I might just get a green tea, you know, to replenish.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, that's such a great idea. Antioxidants from all the winter soldiering. I might just get some more of that serum if I could find it, you know.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh my God.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

For all.

[Andy Samberg]

All our winter soldiers out there. Gre. Great way to replenish for all our.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Winter soldiers of the Kuwait army. Kuwait army winter soldier checking in.

[Jorma Taccone]

I think generally speaking, what we've learned here is if you're feeling extra sleepy, it is acceptable to tell someone it's because you were very likely winter soldiering the night before.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But you can't prove it, and neither can they, because part of it is that it's very clandestine.

[Jorma Taccone]

They'd be like, prove me wrong. I easily could have been. And when I said very likely, I do believe.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Believe that it's a real. Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, my God. I'm so sorry I'm late. I overslept. I was very likely winter soldier.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I woke up so tired with bruises everywhere.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, prove me wrong. Prove me wrong. Prove me wrong.

[Jorma Taccone]

Still hire me, though. Still hire me. It's a job interview now, but.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And it's interesting that it's the New York Times games that triggers us for our winter soldiering. Like, what is their agenda?

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, my God.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Or are they just a tool of the government? Whoever the. The. The whatever. Black site service, whatever.

[Jorma Taccone]

Who's the puppet master? Is what you want to know.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Exactly.

[Andy Samberg]

That's a hard one in a job interview because it feels like that's a biggest strength and biggest weakness kind of thing. You know, it's like, how do you answer that? I'm a winter soldier, but that makes me late occasionally.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. And also, I don't know what side I'm doing it for, so I have no clue what kind of. I do.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, right. Yeah, Good point.

[Jorma Taccone]

All right, well, I got queen bee if you accept my rules.

[Andy Samberg]

Yep. We got to the end.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, look. Jeff made a side by side of me in high school with a picture of a young Carole King.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's pretty good.

[Andy Samberg]

That's pretty good.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

You're. I always thought of you as handsome in that photo. But seeing Carole King, I think she is a little.

[Jorma Taccone]

I appreciate that, Yorm, but I actually don't think that I look that good in that picture.

[Andy Samberg]

I do. You're wrong.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, you're Yoram's type there. Everybody's got a type.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, you're big time my type.

[Jorma Taccone]

I feel like I look like someone that I wouldn't really enjoy, I guess.

[Andy Samberg]

Sergio.

[Jorma Taccone]

But for the record, they provided a bunch of different weird bow ties at the photo shoot. Like, I didn't choose that bow tie.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, gotcha. You went in their sans bow tie and they were like, oh, God, we gotta fix this.

[Jorma Taccone]

I can't remember. I Think I went in there and they had clothes that they put on you.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, they did. We all did for our senior portraits at Berkeley High.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, like no one in high school owns a tux.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It was like if you were doing a quick change into a tux on a. Like, SNL where it's Velcroed in the back and they've made a complete.

[Andy Samberg]

You made it into our yearbook. Right. Though you weren't going to our school.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'm in. I'm in the senior. I'm in the senior yearbook.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, but he wasn't. He wasn't at the time going to our school, which is particularly impressive.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, that's how big and disorganized it was that no one even cared.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, a lot of our friends were working on yearbook, too.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, that's true. I think Josh got me in.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right. Two last things before we get off. One, there's a book called. I guarantee it. Colon. The untold story behind the founder of Men's Warehouse by George Z. Zimmer.

[Jorma Taccone]

The untold story.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's told for the first time in this book.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, my God. I hope it's like a Goodfellas level. Violent.

[Jorma Taccone]

I guess you could say that about anyone that has never had their story told before.

[Akiva Schaffer]

The subtitle above the title is, you're gonna like the way you look.

[Andy Samberg]

I wish it was read.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, it is like the way you.

[Jorma Taccone]

Shut up and let him finish you. He's in the middle of telling you is what you want it to be. Just relax. Relax, dude. You're not on stage doing rage anymore.

[Andy Samberg]

Sorry, Andy. Good question, you kid.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It says you're gonna like the way this reads, but this reads as in handwriting. Like if someone crossed off you look and wrote it on there. It's a lot like the.

[Andy Samberg]

You're right. I should have just shut the original.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Naked Gun poster, which is. You've read the poster now see the movie.

[Andy Samberg]

By the way, Kiva. Just so many people who think I'm. You just keep complimenting me about the movie.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, good. They might as well just say thank you.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, I do. I do. It's like in high school.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You're not going to congratulate me today, guys?

[Jorma Taccone]

On what?

[Andy Samberg]

Your birthday? Congratulations.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, it's got a Critics Choice nomination for Best Comedy Movie.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, my God. I didn't know that. Congratulations.

[Andy Samberg]

But also, happy birthday.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Palm Springs won that, right? That's that award we have up in the office.

[Jorma Taccone]

Palm Springs did win that, and I hope that you also win it. It would be well deserved. I don't know what else is nominated, but they. I'll eat and die.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's right. Friendship is Jesus Christ. But I'm telling Tim and that you said that right now.

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, Tim is our friend and I do love him a lot.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It would go so nicely next to our other one.

[Andy Samberg]

Wait, what does that award look like? I can't remember.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's like a shooting star. But it's a shooting star.

[Andy Samberg]

I don't mind that one.

[Akiva Schaffer]

The. Oh, the last thing. There were some questions about me getting 86 because it came up in an ad read with my daughter when we were talking about one the of our sponsors being something that protects you from fraud and tell a story about being defrauded.

So just to give a. A little more explanation, I. I don't want to say the name of the restaurant, but I don't know why I don't want to say it. I just don't want to make an enemy with someone unbalanced because I found the owner to be unbalanced in the things. So it is a restaurant in Los Angeles and I'll just say it's near ucb because that's part of it.

[Andy Samberg]

Just say it and then we'll bleep it out.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, well, it's called Beep and it's next to UCV and saved a buck. I've never. I've never been there to that restaurant still to this day or before. I'm in Atlanta shooting Neighborhood Watch and I finally look at one of my credit card things. Cause I'm so busy shooting a movie and I'm not using credit card at all. And I look at the receipt and there's tons of charges at Target, at gas stations. And then interestingly at this restaurant, restaurant that I'm like, wow. I just feel like when your credit card starts getting used for fraud, it's usually at places you've never even been or aren't even near where you would have been or have ever heard of. This was like somebody using it in the neighborhoods in LA that we are in. I noted it. I called American Express, they wiped the charges. You never think about it again. What I didn't know is they take that money back from those places.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, yeah. Where do you think they get it from?

[Akiva Schaffer]

I thought they ate the charges because they're the ones that let their credit card be used erroneously. But they take it back from the retail Taylors. I only know this because two months later or a month later, I got a text from Jake Johnson from the film Self Reliance. Or from New Girl. I believe at the time he was.

[Andy Samberg]

On New Girl or maybe Jurassic Park. He was in.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes. But I think this was New Girl era. Jake Johnson. And he was like, what the did you do? Did you, like. Did you, like, get drunk here and like, tear the place? Because it's kind of badass.

[Andy Samberg]

It's pretty cool.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's on the Instagram for lonely Myers pod. So you can go see. See it. And it is. Yeah, it's a. My. It's a headshot they pulled off Wikipedia. You can still see that it says Wikipedia on the top. It has my name huge. And then handwritten on it says 86. Like do not serve. And it was in the window, so like the inside of the window, but.

[Andy Samberg]

Pointing also, it was next to the ucb. So, like, a lot of comedy people.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. So anyone walking out Franklin would just see it right away.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And. And I thought it was hilarious and that it was kind of badass. And Liz was like, no, you can't have it there. But of course, I was being egged on by Jake and Nick Jasanovic. Just shout out to Nick. I haven't seen him in 12 years, but that's who he's with. So Liz was like, no, come on, we gotta at least find out why and get it taken down. That's crazy. You've never even been there. So she calls the owner, and the owner, first thing he says is. Cause she left a message as Liz Kakowski. And the first thing he said is like, why are you Liz Kakowski? I thought you said you were Akiva Shaffer's wife.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, so he's a patriarch.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes. Couldn't understand the idea of her having a different last name. He was like, wait a minute. And immediately was like, this. This con is continuing because this lie. I never heard of this before.

[Jorma Taccone]

The con's back on someone keeping their name.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This is someone lying to me, saying that this is his wife when they have a different last name. That's impossible. Yeah. So clearly a great dude. And then refused to take it down. Was like, nope, he did this. I recognize him. I'm sure he goes to ucb. He's definitely. The waiter said they recognize him.

[Andy Samberg]

Him.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Even though I had never been there. And he wouldn't take it down.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, my gosh, that's great. That's great.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That was it.

[Andy Samberg]

I mean, the only thing KE is that if you believe in karma, then I just feel like maybe you. You did deserve it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Some. Somewhere, like just karmically.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But I'm taking The high road and not saying who this guy was that owns a restaurant that doesn't believe women can keep their last name.

[Jorma Taccone]

Look, we can just say it. It's.

[Andy Samberg]

It's a really good. It's so baller.

[Akiva Schaffer]

They just hate Spaga, though.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, it's. Fuck those guys.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. Yeah, it was Wolf. I got Wolfgang on the phone. He kept saying, in Austria this would never happen or something.

[Andy Samberg]

What the heck?

[Jorma Taccone]

He was just like, if she really loved you, she would take your last name.

I guess. I don't know if she really loved you. It's just Arnold. He's Austrian.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, the schnitzel. You ordered four orders of schnitzel and did not pay. Is that pretty good?

[Jorma Taccone]

I do not pound all the schnitzel for her to not take my last name. You know what I mean?

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's a dead on Wolfgang Puck. From the Wolfgang Puck on Franklin next to ucb.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, you guys, I'm laughing so hard, but if you're not from la, you don't know why, but it was very funny.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Imagine if they had a spa go on Franklin. They would never.

[Jorma Taccone]

I suppose hell would have frozen over.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, the last thing I'll leave you guys with is I hope if I Winter soldier tonight, I don't kill either of you guys.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, likewise. Thank you. That's a really nice sentiment.

[Akiva Schaffer]

On the other hand, I'll never know it was me.

[Jorma Taccone]

True. So you won't be guilty at least.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. Hey, there's the picture Jeff put in the chat.

[Andy Samberg]

And you know what? If you're a good Winter soldier, we'll never know either. We'll just be kaput.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And you'll never know because you'll never see me coming. I'm that good. Yeah. It says Akiva Shaffer. No, sir. Service 86th Management.

[Jorma Taccone]

The sweetest little picture of you.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I know it's me just smiling.

[Andy Samberg]

Although if you look at the picture, if you look at the picture, you do look like you're getting away with something.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. Yeah. He's happy. He's like, hehe hee hee.

[Andy Samberg]

I didn't pay my bill. Moolah for you.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, hey. Late Night with Seth Meyers. Also nominated for Creator's Choice.

[Andy Samberg]

Cool.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right. That's it. Fine. Andy.

[Jorma Taccone]

Way to go. Late night with Seth. I wish you had been here to bask in the glory. But now we're going to say that it's a fake nomination.

[Andy Samberg]

All right. Well, I hope I don't kill either of you guys, too. Love you.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Love you guys.

[Jorma Taccone]

Love you guys. Later, Arnold.

[Andy Samberg]

Later. Quades.