Property of the Queen

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast – Episode "Property of the Queen"

Release Date: June 3, 2025
Hosts: The Lonely Island (Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone) & Seth Meyers

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Introduction to the Episode

In this episode titled "Property of the Queen," Seth Meyers engages in a nostalgic and insightful conversation with The Lonely Island—comprising Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone. The trio delves into their iconic SNL Digital Shorts, sharing behind-the-scenes stories, creative processes, and the lasting impact of their work.

Revisiting "I'm on a Boat" and Its Legacy

The podcast kicks off with a light-hearted discussion about their breakthrough short, "I'm on a Boat." The hosts reflect on its creation and overwhelming success.

• Andy Samberg (00:23): "I'm pretty happy."
• Jorma Taccone (02:00): "There's nothing terrible about it. It is totally fine."
• Seth Meyers (03:19): "Reading between the lines, I think Yorm saying anything is possible. Believe in your dreams."

They emphasize the challenge of following up a massive hit and maintaining creative momentum. Andy shares his perspective on viewing each SNL episode with fresh eyes, appreciating the collective effort despite the pressures of a three-day production cycle.

• Andy Samberg (41:15): "It's so stressful. A million things are working against you at all times because it's putting together a show in three days, which makes no sense."

Creation and Collaboration with Musical Guests

The conversation transitions to their collaboration with musical guests on SNL, particularly focusing on performing live sketches with renowned bands like The Roots.

• Akiva Schaffer (11:52): "It felt like they were always touring."
• Andy Samberg (11:50): "They were like, who am I to blow against the wind?"

They recount the process of arranging performances, highlighting the mutual respect and admiration between The Lonely Island and the musical talents they worked with. Andy recalls their excitement in meeting The Roots and the seamless integration of comedy with live music.

Discussing the Digital Short "Property of the Queen"

The focal point of the episode is their discussion about the digital short "Property of the Queen." They explore its conception, execution, and reception.

• Jorma Taccone (40:40): "Property of the Queen."
• Andy Samberg (43:23): "But it is such a...the biggest mistake you can make is thinking the last thing you do is going to be the next thing you do."

The hosts analyze the short's narrative structure, comedic timing, and the collaborative efforts that went into bringing it to life. Seth praises the authenticity and humor that emerged during its production, emphasizing the importance of not resting on past successes.

• Seth Meyers (43:11): "It's never... it's never any easier to do it after you did a good one."

Listener Interactions and Anecdotes

Engaging with their audience, The Lonely Island addresses various listener questions and shares personal stories related to their work.

• Listener Jace (21:19): "What kind of job does Andy drink?"

  • Andy Samberg (21:31): "For a long time I was a Tay guy. Tays all day, me and my wife, then girlfriend."

• Listener Nikki (30:00): "My son Cohen, now 13, huge Brooklyn Nine Nine fan..."

  • Jorma Taccone (33:58): "She said it was cute as hell."

These interactions highlight the podcast's blend of humor and heartfelt connections with their fanbase, demonstrating how their work has influenced listeners' lives.

Behind-the-Scenes Stories and Creative Processes

The hosts delve into anecdotes about their time on SNL, the creative challenges they faced, and the strategies they employed to produce memorable sketches.

• Akiva Schaffer (32:03): "We used to have a whole code system. But I can't remember now for half dibbles."
• Jorma Taccone (33:07): "This is from Nikki. She even says, not a question story."

They discuss the meticulous planning behind sketches like "Classroom Instruments" and the improvisational elements that contribute to the shorts' success. The trio emphasizes the balance between structured creativity and spontaneous humor.

Reflections on Influence and YouTube's Rise

The conversation touches on the broader impact of their Digital Shorts, particularly how their innovative use of the internet played a role in popularizing platforms like YouTube.

• Andy Samberg (42:24): "They're the meat of the thing. Because it's what they already had done and what they wanted to do."
• Seth Meyers (43:19): "In my mind, that's what it was."

They reflect on how their content reached global audiences beyond traditional television, pioneering the integration of comedy and music in the digital age.

Concluding Thoughts and Future Endeavors

As the episode wraps up, the hosts express gratitude towards their collaborators and listeners, reaffirming their commitment to creating innovative and entertaining content.

• Andy Samberg (55:25): "It's the Lonely Island and Seth Meyer's podcast show."

Their final remarks encapsulate the camaraderie and shared passion that define The Lonely Island's enduring legacy in comedy and music.

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Notable Quotes:

• Seth Meyers (03:19): "It's arduous to do. Maybe that's what people are talking about."
• Andy Samberg (41:15): "It's so stressful. A million things are working against you..."
• Jorma Taccone (18:31): "Nikki. She even says..."

This episode of "The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast" offers listeners an engaging blend of humor, nostalgia, and insightful reflections on The Lonely Island's journey from SNL Digital Shorts to their influential position in comedy and digital media.

Transcript

[Andy Samberg]

Hey, you guys. Andy here. I'm recording.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, what a pleasant guy.

[Jorma Taccone]

What a nice guy who just showed up.

[Andy Samberg]

I'm pretty happy.

[Jorma Taccone]

So who does our wonderful theme songs? I know you've mentioned Greg Chun.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, Greg Chun.

[Jorma Taccone]

I have requests for Greg now you're doing an apple.

[Akiva Schaffer]

The loudest foods.

[Andy Samberg]

Want to get into it, son? You want to get into it? 9:30am Here. Had to get my kids out the door for school. Have something after this. Had to take a shower. This is what I'm eating.

[Jorma Taccone]

Gosh. 9:30 for our listeners. They're just going to be blown away that you're at work at 9:30 in the morning.

[Andy Samberg]

I just stated everything I did before.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, that's true. Do you take your kids to school every day?

[Andy Samberg]

No.

[Jorma Taccone]

Okay. Just on days. You have a morning pod.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh my God. We did one yesterday. What do you want from me? My blood.

[Seth Meyers]

By the way, this is two days in a row for us. We're fucking killing it.

[Jorma Taccone]

Wait, so Greg Chun. I'm going to. I have a request. Can you guys get to him? I would like a song if he's willing to inspired by the Frasier theme.

[Andy Samberg]

Ooh, I love that.

[Jorma Taccone]

Just a little nice little Lonely island jingle.

[Seth Meyers]

I feel like we should just give you his number and make you touch talk to him.

[Jorma Taccone]

I don't know. It feels like that was a pretty easy ask.

[Andy Samberg]

All three of us know him pretty good though.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, by all means, have the person have a stranger ask. I think he'll like it.

[Andy Samberg]

Hey.

[Jorma Taccone]

Hey.

[Andy Samberg]

It's the Lonely island podcast and sometimes Seth Meyers hangs out too. He's busy. And there's that one guy who's always late sometimes. Don't show him it all. I think you know who I Finland. But it's all good, sir. It don't matter as long as they got you. Them boys got a whole army of queens.

[Jorma Taccone]

Quick little notes. Cause I will say I came in prepared today.

[Seth Meyers]

Ooh, this is gonna be a different Seth.

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, part of it is. I felt as though if we just winged it with this short, it would be a pretty dog episode.

[Seth Meyers]

I think it's Wong did, right?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. We have to look at other stuff. We don't have a lot to say about this.

[Jorma Taccone]

And again I rew it's. How would you describe it via text?

[Andy Samberg]

Andy totally ellipses fine.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, I think that's right. There's nothing terrible about it. It is totally fine. Did not make the final 64. I think it's interesting anytime I watch one where I don't actually Remember what's going to happen, because I don't think you guys made many that were forgettable.

[Seth Meyers]

No, it wasn't. I do remember this one, but because the singing is so high, it's almost impossible to hear what the lyrics are.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. And they're not bad songs, but. I agree. But let's get to that.

[Andy Samberg]

I mean, are we jumping right into it? Because I can tell you how it all came together, and I'm guessing Keev remembers pretty well too.

[Jorma Taccone]

I would like to not jump into it because, again, I came in with a plan.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, okay.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, let's stick to the plan.

[Seth Meyers]

All right, Seth, take it away. Finally prepared for your job, Seth.

[Jorma Taccone]

We were saying, you know, you can't untoss a salad. And Keev and I could not come up with a similar expression, which is the one people use. A couple of listeners. You can't unring a bell. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.

[Andy Samberg]

That's a classic.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That one's a really classic.

[Jorma Taccone]

Alan Sewell, friend of the pod.

[Seth Meyers]

Can I just say you can do that, though. You can do it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

You can push out the air part of the toothpaste and then suck it back in. It's just very difficult to. To do, but you can do it.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's arduous.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, it's arduous to do. Maybe that's what people are talking about. Like, you can put the toothpaste back in the tube, but it's arduous.

[Andy Samberg]

Reading between the lines, I think Yorm saying anything is possible. Believe in your dreams. Is that right, Yorm?

[Seth Meyers]

That's right, Andy.

[Andy Samberg]

We are so simpatico. I love doing this.

[Seth Meyers]

We're fucking killing it today.

[Andy Samberg]

You and me, bro. Another bite of my apple.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'm just happy to take a backseat for this. I mean, this is exciting stuff.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. The Venn diagram of people who are super into our podcast and people who are also super into the minutiae of NYPD Blue lands firmly on Alan Sepinwall, television critic who reached out to me. Oh, he's very excited. NYPD Blue backstory facts, if you care.

[Andy Samberg]

We do.

[Jorma Taccone]

They were allowed to show rear ends inside boob, but no more. That used to be able to show on tv. Steven Bochco and Bob Iger literally drew sketches that they passed back and forth to figure out what was and wasn't allowable. They could say asshole but not fuck. And it was only a brief window where they were allowed to say shit. Then something changed the game, which has a nice little tie into the podcast. Then Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake happened at the super bowl halftime show, and suddenly the language and the nudity got dialed way back.

[Seth Meyers]

Thank God.

[Jorma Taccone]

Wow. I got more. And yes, Sylvia is giving Sipowicz a handy thank you. As Dennis Franz says, his line is, that's sure gonna be clean.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, exactly.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Wow.

[Seth Meyers]

I really, really want to think that he punched up the scene. I was like, guys, what if.

[Andy Samberg]

What if I said that you're gonna be clean?

[Jorma Taccone]

By the way, David Milch, NYPD Blue writer, went on to do Deadwood, so one of the great tape view writers of all time. Also, Sipowitz was a native New Yorker. On the show, they never bothered to explain his Chicago accent.

[Andy Samberg]

Steppenwell coming with the heat.

[Jorma Taccone]

And you can read. Steppenwell did write a fantastic book, and I feel like it's only fair to plug it. It's no ifs, ands, but plenty of buts. The NYPD Blue story.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, my God. So he's well versed.

[Jorma Taccone]

By the way, I made up the title. That's not the title, God damn it.

[Andy Samberg]

But is it too late to change it?

[Jorma Taccone]

You just leave it at on. You bid on that harder than you chow down on that apple, Sam.

[Andy Samberg]

Did someone say apple?

[Seth Meyers]

Delicious.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, apologies to all our listeners. This is to punish Seth.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Maybe 9:30am is our time.

[Jorma Taccone]

Maybe we.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Maybe we are early, guys.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, this is so good.

[Andy Samberg]

I'm running on fumes.

[Jorma Taccone]

7 well, did write a great book called the Revolution was Televised that I highly recommend. So I do want to give a shout out another thing that somebody just in the comments said. Have you guys seen the Eurovision song from Finland?

[Andy Samberg]

No.

[Jorma Taccone]

This year?

[Seth Meyers]

No. But the one from Estonia by Tommy Cash is really good. I highly recommend to all parents. It's called Espresso Macchiato and it's really, really good.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's from this year.

[Seth Meyers]

Espresso Macchiato. Macchiato. Macchiato, por favore.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Should we watch the Finland one right now?

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. I'm going to ask Jeff to screen share and show it because there's a couple things. One somebody said. First of all, it's three dudes. Looks like it could be the lonely island from Finland.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh.

[Jorma Taccone]

One of them fully looks like the creep. Like he's dressed from the music video the creep. And also again, tie into yhorm's time away from us. It's called Barabada Bastu, which means just sauna.

[Seth Meyers]

Wow.

[Andy Samberg]

Does it really?

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Well, they do love it.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's basically a lonely island comedy zone.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, wow.

[Seth Meyers]

They really do look like us.

[Andy Samberg]

This is for your set.

[Seth Meyers]

Transformed into a sauna.

[Akiva Schaffer]

The fact that he's playing an accordion is. They're bringing some Weird Al into here too.

[Andy Samberg]

It's literally about sauna.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

So what does barabara bastu mean?

[Jorma Taccone]

Just sauna.

[Andy Samberg]

It's basically I'm on a boat about saunas.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This feels very Finnish. But when I just googled Yahoo called them Sweden. Are they Swedish?

[Jorma Taccone]

I have answers.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay, great.

[Jorma Taccone]

Sauna. They are from Finland. They're part of the Swedish minority in Finland. So they are Swedish dudes. But they were the Finnish entry for Eurovision.

[Andy Samberg]

Sick.

[Jorma Taccone]

And they finished fourth overall. The song has gone number one in both Sweden and Finland.

[Andy Samberg]

Fuck, we got to go there.

[Jorma Taccone]

And the video, which is from two months ago. Yeah, that video I just sent has 16 million views.

[Seth Meyers]

Wowzers. All right.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Wait, so that wasn't from Eurovision because Eurovision is now. So that was maybe their entry at the competition.

[Jorma Taccone]

No, I think that wasn't.

[Seth Meyers]

That looked like Euro.

[Jorma Taccone]

That's Euro. They finished fourth.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But was Eurovision two months ago or right now?

[Seth Meyers]

No, it was. It was very recently. It was like.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But then I'm saying. You just said that video is from two months ago.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, maybe it's two weeks ago. Maybe I miss. I think that's from Eurovision, though. Sorry if I.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Because the finals of Eurovision are May 19, which was four days ago.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, all right. Well, here's just a. Kevin sent us a translation. The clock strikes now is the time all worries will soon disappear the best cure for body and soul Four wood paneled walls A little on the nose we're going to have a sauna sauna Steam up and release all stress today Sauna brothers We're the ones who glow 100 degrees. Well, then just having a sauna sauna Throw water on so the sweat just whirls around. Oh, sauna bathing yeah, we're gonna have a sauna sauna Steam up. You know, a lot of these lyrics would tie in very nicely to the Dennis Franz shower scene.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, yeah, that's a mashup I'm interested in.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm just glad that they mentioned 100 degrees because when my brother was out in Finland, we checked the temperature. Nobody was in the sauna, so people weren't going in and out. So it was the hottest it was ever. And it was 104 degrees Celsius, which I don't know if is even possible because that seems like it'd be wildly illegal in the United states. That's over 200 plus degrees weighing on the Comments? I don't know what it actually is.

[Jorma Taccone]

K A J is the name of the band.

[Andy Samberg]

Nice work, guys.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, really fun.

[Andy Samberg]

I do think that owes a lot to Psy. Also, like the Choreo and the type of song.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. So there's some Gunkum style. Am I saying that right?

[Jorma Taccone]

So anyway, they crushed it. Congratulations. And also thank you for the listener who suggested we watch that, because that was a good time.

[Andy Samberg]

What if it was them?

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, yeah, just one of them. Now that I realize that English was a little wonky, I think you should.

[Seth Meyers]

Check out this new video.

[Jorma Taccone]

His video you should watch.

[Andy Samberg]

We do that all the time.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. Oh, Toad.

[Andy Samberg]

You know what? You should check out this thing that I have nothing to do with.

[Seth Meyers]

Hello, army of Quaid.

[Andy Samberg]

I mean, Jorm's basically from Finland, so he's allowed.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, totally.

[Seth Meyers]

By the way, my last name apparently is also sounds very Finnish. If it was Takonen, then it would be just a straight up Finnish name. Jorma Taconen.

[Jorma Taccone]

Now, I'm. I'm going to choose your own adventure for you guys. Do you want questions we received about I'm on a boat over the course of this podcast, or do you want to move on to the Alec Baldwin episode in the short?

[Andy Samberg]

Boat, Boat, Boat. Let's hit a couple extra boats because Keith had to leave early.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. All right, this is interesting. Greetings from Australia. This is Matt. Big fan of everything you do. I have a question for the lonely island. I just noticed in the video for I'm on a Boat when T Pain sings. Poseidon. Look at me. The portrait of Poseidon on the wall is from the 2002 video game Age of Mythology, which I played when I was a kid. Was someone else a fan of the game or did someone just take one of the first pictures that came up on Google?

[Andy Samberg]

First pictures on Google.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Next. Next question.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Is that cleared? And okay.

[Andy Samberg]

And sorry. I'm sorry.

[Seth Meyers]

It seems crazy that we would use something that would be a copyright issue. Don't sue us. Now, retrospect, guys.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It had to have gotten cleared because UMG was really much more strict than SNL is even about that stuff.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, I'm sure it's fine.

[Jorma Taccone]

All right, here we go. I absolutely love the podcast. I look forward to it every week. I want to ask you to address the two performances on Jimmy Fallon. The full performance in the classroom. Instruments performance. Full performance with the Roots. Jimmy introduces you and says it's your live debut. Please go into detail about what that was like. What was it like performing with the Roots. Had you met them before? How did you decide to go so hard at Yorm?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, great question.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, we were legitimately fucking excited. We had met the Roots a little bit because they were, you know, the band for Jimmy and they knew, I think we were massive fans and had like grown up listening to them and going to their shows. And Keev maybe even promoted one of their shows in Santa Cruz. Am I misremembering?

[Akiva Schaffer]

I did not. But I certainly attended many of their.

[Seth Meyers]

Concerts at that point. And still to this day, they are the band that I have seen more than any other group live.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It felt like they were always touring.

[Andy Samberg]

For me that was true. And now there's a different musical act. I've seen more. Can you guess who it is?

[Seth Meyers]

Oh God. What's her name?

[Jorma Taccone]

Fuck.

[Seth Meyers]

I know, I know this is her name.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, she plays like a trumpet or something.

[Jorma Taccone]

Old timey trumpet. Like it's like a French horn though.

[Seth Meyers]

Celine Dion.

[Andy Samberg]

Keev. Just real quick though, what were a few of the acts that you promoted shows for?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, yeah, when I was like 19 and 20 in college and I was in Santa Cruz and I wanted certain bands to come but they weren't necessarily planning. I would then just reach out and be a promoter out of nowhere to try to get them. So I did the Alcoholics, which was one of our favorite groups.

[Seth Meyers]

Keith, did you also design the flyers? Why do I think you designed.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, I did eventually start trying to design them. The Far side and AC alone, like Freestyle Fellowship, those guys.

[Seth Meyers]

And this isn't. I wouldn't, I wouldn't put this in the hustler spirit camp of things. You just wanted to see bands and that was very cool. But I remember thinking like, wow, keeps doing big things up there. That's pretty cool.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I had no clue what I was doing. In hindsight, sometimes I think about some of the things and I'm like, oh, that was unprofessional. But they also knew they were Talking to some 19 year old college kid.

[Andy Samberg]

Fake it till you make it.

[Seth Meyers]

But do you remember, Keev, do you remember that when we were in high school and we were trying to get free records that you figured out that if we had a publication that we could get free records. So we made a hip hop magazine called up in the Cut and designed it and then put fake articles in. It was like a pamphlet. And then we.

[Jorma Taccone]

I don't know that it really worked.

[Seth Meyers]

I don't think it did. I don't think it.

[Jorma Taccone]

We attempted up in the cuts real good.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, yeah, we tried to make a fake.

[Andy Samberg]

Hey, what's up? It's Keevan Yor from up in the Cut. You think you maybe want to play a show like a dinky ass venue in Santa Cruz?

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, we were trying to get record levels to send us the promo. The promo records that they send DJs.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, I see, I see.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, we were just sending it out as if we had a magazine that we did.

[Andy Samberg]

That's a good gambit.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

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[Andy Samberg]

No, I think we were promoting the album.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You're talking about the classroom instruments or you're talking about when we did it on your show that Fallon used to host.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, Late Night. So that was Album.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, yeah. That would have been right around. What was the date on it? It must have been right now.

[Jorma Taccone]

So you were right, because Fallon was already doing Late Night when you guys were doing that album.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, I'm guessing it was a few weeks after it aired on the show. It was a hit. And so they invited us to come do it live on the show.

[Seth Meyers]

And I think that we did it specifically because we liked that song, but also because you guys wanted, like, publicly shame me. Right?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, we wanted the dunks.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, no, we leaned into that to answer that question because we were like, we're not going to be able to cut around to a bunch of funny shots like in a video. So we need a comedy game here. And obviously there was a clear one.

[Seth Meyers]

And me being mean to me is a game to you.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes. But to circle back, getting to perform that with the Roots was incredible. That's the short answer.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes.

[Andy Samberg]

This is the story of three guys who went on a magical adventure and one idiot who did not. Oh, yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

Get your towels ready.

[Andy Samberg]

It's about to go down.

[Jorma Taccone]

Everybody in the plane.

[Andy Samberg]

Get the jack.

[Jorma Taccone]

How much longer after was Classroom Instruments?

[Akiva Schaffer]

That was for Pop Star Press.

[Jorma Taccone]

Okay, so that said, whose idea was it to do that song as part of Classroom instruments? Who came up with the arrangement? How many takes did you have to do? Was it difficult to sing without cursing?

[Akiva Schaffer]

That was all then I feel like.

[Seth Meyers]

We did two takes. Is that right? I think we did it twice.

[Andy Samberg]

Did we? I thought we did it once.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I think we rehearsed it once and then just did it once.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, maybe it was that.

[Andy Samberg]

I'm on a boat.

[Jorma Taccone]

Take a good hard look at the.

[Andy Samberg]

Mother hump and talk.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And that was all them, because they're amazing, obviously. And so they had worked it all out, except for we figured out what our replacement curse words would be.

[Seth Meyers]

This was a. This was a good opportunity for us to steal credit and be like, we did the arrangement for the Roots. We came in and decided what they would do.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I watched that the other day. The Classroom Instruments. I forget why. Maybe my kids were asking about something. And I was pleasantly surprised that we sounded like the record. Even though it's Classroom Instruments.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, nice.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Where I was like, hey, we could really do it. We sound totally, like, normal. And like the record for the amount. We always talk about faking it. I was like, hey, look at that. Can't fake that it's a single shot.

[Seth Meyers]

Wait, I got a. I got a question with that. Do you think it was easier, Keev, because there's less noise when you're doing it? You know what I mean? There was less jumping around and shit. Right.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So certainly easier because you're sitting and not, like, getting out of breath moving around.

[Seth Meyers]

All right, question answered. Thanks.

[Jorma Taccone]

I also just want to shout out Classroom Instruments as a fantastic late night bit.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, agreed.

[Jorma Taccone]

And really inventive and unique and cool.

[Andy Samberg]

By the way, speaking of pop star, it just went back on Netflix.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

Let's promote Shout out to Popstar.

[Seth Meyers]

Check it out, guys.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It was never on Netflix. So it's been nine years since it came out.

[Jorma Taccone]

Where has it been? Where have people streamed it when they've wanted to stream it?

[Akiva Schaffer]

It bounces around like it was just on prime. And for the first four years, it was. I forget where, but it was somewhere where it was really hard to see, except for renting it, which was annoying to us. The moment it came out and people didn't see in theaters, we were like, God, I wish it was on Netflix right now. Because we felt like it could have been maybe big if it had just come to people. Yeah. And then, you know, Netflix just has a reason.

[Andy Samberg]

Relative.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, yeah. Relative to zero.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Bigger than abject.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Bigger.

[Jorma Taccone]

We thought maybe, you guys, your opening weekend really established that big wouldn't have to be much.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. We were not, like, aiming for Suits numbers here.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No.

[Jorma Taccone]

And you were even saying that before Suits Was a hit on Netflix, correct?

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, we were just going for USA Suits numbers.

[Jorma Taccone]

I remember. I go, how is your opening weekend? And you said, it's not suits. And I was like, the USA Show.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, like USA Suits Numbers. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Wait, hold on. Can we just ask? So, Andy. Sorry, what are you eating right now? What is that?

[Andy Samberg]

Well, it's an apple. Still the same apple.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, is it?

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, great. He's to the quiet part of the apple.

[Andy Samberg]

And again, to everyone listening, I apologize. This is Seth's fault.

[Jorma Taccone]

All right? And I also apologize to everybody who has to get to work before 9:30 for the way Andy's behaving.

[Andy Samberg]

Twisting my words.

[Jorma Taccone]

This is great because there's a question at the end of it, but it's a real right turn. It feels like a story with a question. So I'm just gonna read it. This is from Jace. Hey, guys. Huge fan. I actually threw my boyfriend, who's now my husband, a lonely island birthday themed party in 2011. And we all dressed up from our favorite short. The best part was the guys whose house who hosted had a deep sea fishing boat in the front yard because he was from the Mississippi Coast Guard. So of course we all sang I'm on a boat dressed as creeps having threesomes. Anyways, I've got to know, what kind of job does Andy drink?

[Seth Meyers]

What a great turn.

[Andy Samberg]

Thank you for asking that question exactly the right way.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

You know, for a long time I was a Tay guy. Tays all day, me and my wife, then girlfriend.

[Seth Meyers]

Sorry, I don't know what that means. What is that?

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, latte.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, tag.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Tae's all day.

[Andy Samberg]

And you know, in New York, I would get Tays and we would. We would get Tays in the office, we would get blue bottle. I think we've talked about that before. And now I get my beans from. Go get em, tiger.

[Jorma Taccone]

All right. Look at that. That's a really good answer.

[Seth Meyers]

Succinct.

[Jorma Taccone]

Whoa.

[Andy Samberg]

Not gonna burn me.

[Jorma Taccone]

Really? An Alex Bayes esque burn from Yorm.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I have a follow up on I'm on a boat here from my wife. Okay, so, Seth, you reached out to her.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yes. My memory, Keev, was that. She told me that that was the hottest she seen you was in I'm on a Boat and I asked her to record a voice note.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It looks really long.

[Seth Meyers]

For the record, who gives a shit? She's funny.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, she's the best.

[E]

Hi, everyone. This is Liz Kakowski, married to Akiva Shaffer.

[Andy Samberg]

That's right.

[E]

That's how you say his Last name Shaffer. So Seth sent me a text yesterday that said, want to send me a VN saying how hot you thought live was in?

[Jorma Taccone]

I'm on a boat that seems like.

[E]

She recording in an hour. So a few things there, you know, didn't double check. He meant Kiev, but it came up as Liv. But here's my voice note, and I have to say, yes, of course, Akiva looks very handsome. And I'm on a boat. And I bet you remember something of, like, when they did it. Me sort of watching during dress and air and being like, he looks so good. And of course he does. He looks great.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But that's why I married her, I guess.

[E]

You know, it's a bit basic of how he looks hot. And I'm on a boat, like a tux look and all that stuff. And I think I just have different, like, fetishes going on. It's not my number one Akiva hotness for me of the videos.

[Andy Samberg]

Right?

[E]

And yes, I use his full name Akiva, because it's a beautiful name. So I don't shorten to Keev.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Thank you.

[E]

When I met him, heard his name, I think I said something like, oh, that's such a beautiful name for a golden retriever. So, yeah, I had game. My top hot Akiva vids for Lonely island is yolo. That's my number one love. Him in Diaper Money. And then old school, I love him in Stork Patrol. And now that feels kind of creepy because he's so young. But I did meet him, like, two years after sword Patrol, so I think that's okay. He's so cute. And, I mean, I guess I have, you know, a type. And that type's just gonna be a little bit. I'm gonna say, more interesting, more nuanced than, you know, a basic, oh, he looks hot, and I'm on a boat. Cause, you know, I'm somebody. Like, my celebrity crush is an Eddie Redmayne Love a Daniel Radcliffe out of all of the chipmunks, I'm a Simon gal.

[Akiva Schaffer]

When.

[E]

Snowden was in the news, I said, whoa, who's that guy? Google that image if need to. I loved pommel horse guy. You know, there's that. Okay, does this suffice? Is this a VN for Liv?

[Jorma Taccone]

Jesus.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I guess we should let her watch those. Finished Lonely Island. She might find three new hugs.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, she might have a new crush also.

[Jorma Taccone]

I'd love to go back. Were you bummed Keev when she was like, I think Keeve's hot now I'm Gonna do a list of other people I think are hot. Were you like. No, no, no, no.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I knew it was gonna be burns. I knew. But honestly, not lies.

[Andy Samberg]

Just burns.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, yeah, it just burns.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But it is the true Burns. Yes. But also not even. Not just true that I look like them, but true that she is attracted to them.

[Andy Samberg]

She didn't specify this, but I assume she meant Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking.

[Seth Meyers]

Of course. It's so weird that I did know that about Liz. That Eddie Redmayne was.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That only came up for the first time. She mentioned something like weeks ago and I was like, what? And no offense to Eddie Redmayne.

[Seth Meyers]

She's told me.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I was just shocked.

[Jorma Taccone]

I thought Eddie Redmayne. I thought very handsome.

[Andy Samberg]

And with Jackal haven't seen.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's good.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'm a. I'm the original the Jackal movie guy, so I couldn't just watch this one.

[Seth Meyers]

Ke.

[Andy Samberg]

I thought your favorite Jackal was Alison Janney's performance in the West Wing.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That is my favorite Jackal. I do have a website if anybody wants to check. Sorry, can we promote side things? It's about my. It's like my listicle and it's like favorite Jackals is like the number most popular one on there.

[Jorma Taccone]

Alice. And that is a. I mean, that maybe is a deeper cut that like Sipowitz in the shower.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, I know about it because of Keev and Liz. They love that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But the Jackal. The Jackal's also like a passed around. It's like Kim Cattrall doing her jazz. You know, it's like a passed around web clip where people. People know the Jackal that haven't even watched the West Wing.

[Andy Samberg]

Seth, are we ignoring the fact that there's another kind of Jackal?

[Jorma Taccone]

You mean the people who comment on my YouTube page, Grammar Jackals.

[Andy Samberg]

I feel like if you ignore them after talking a lot about Jackals that it might be a bad move on your part.

[Jorma Taccone]

I kind of wanted to like maybe teach him a lesson that like somet people are going to talk about Jackals and it's not about you.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. So take that, Jackals. I would take a big bite of my apple right now, but it's done.

[Jorma Taccone]

Jackals, everybody. Corrections. Watch it on YouTube. It's the favorite thing I do in my late night talk show and it's not even on tv.

[Akiva Schaffer]

There's also the Jackals from the Lion King and there's the Jackals from the Lion King liveaction computer animated remake.

[Jorma Taccone]

They're hyenas, right? Aren't they?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, they're hyenas, me.

[Andy Samberg]

Erase that.

[Seth Meyers]

Go get them, jackals. Correct him.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's by far the most humiliating thing I've said on this pod.

[Jorma Taccone]

Delete it.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, my God.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Keep the stuff about me looking like Edward Snowden, though.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Keep that.

[Jorma Taccone]

Hey, can you go back to the. Just when Liz says Daniel Radcliffe? Cause I do feel like she puts.

[Akiva Schaffer]

A T on the end. She says Radcliffe. Radcliffe. For someone calling out Liv so much in AutoCAD.

[Jorma Taccone]

That's what I mean.

[Akiva Schaffer]

She definitely said Daniel Radcliffe, which is.

[Seth Meyers]

Well, she could have been talking about a different guy. Yeah, maybe there's a Radcliffe, like, an even nerdier guy.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, oh, she knows somebody else.

[Jorma Taccone]

She was like, oh, she's into Kiev. So, like, the regular Daniel Radcliffe is way too ripped for her.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, it's his stand in Daniel Radcliffe.

[Andy Samberg]

Hey, if you're out there and your name is Daniel Radcliffe and you're listening to this right now, all apologies, Nirvana. Ref. Quaid, what are you cooking?

[Jorma Taccone]

What's on the stove? Quaid?

[Seth Meyers]

I got one last little thing about Liz's voice. Note, for all of our listeners out there. If you can guess there is a right answer to this. If you can guess who is the Theodore and who is the Alvin out of the rest of us, you win a prize.

[Jorma Taccone]

It is really crystal clear.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

What?

[Jorma Taccone]

It is really crystal clear who's who. I kind of like that. I want to think that, like, years ago, you guys weren't put together because you grew up together, but a manager put you together, and he was like, look, here's how it works. What do you use an Alvin? What do you use, a sign? Want to use a theater? That's how it works. You can't. If it blurs, nobody likes it.

[Seth Meyers]

And I was like, who's who?

[Akiva Schaffer]

We're all three Alvins.

[Jorma Taccone]

You guys all thought you were Alvin.

[Andy Samberg]

Can I say one other thing, Seth?

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, keep going, man.

[Andy Samberg]

I will say on the Alvin and the Chipmunks thing, it's an interesting process getting older, and I would argue, maturing. I know that's hard to believe right now, but when I was a kid, I'd be like, man, you want to be Alvin?

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Front and center. He's the guy.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

And then now, when you watch Alvin Chivmics, you're like, oh, this kid is annoying.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

You know who I like? Theodore and Simon. There's some nice, thoughtful guys.

[Akiva Schaffer]

One of them's sweet and one's. One's smart.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. One sweet one's smart. The Other one's just like, look at me.

[Jorma Taccone]

Is it bad that I'm like, you know who I. You know who I associate myself with? Dave. Dave.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, Dave.

[Seth Meyers]

Now, come on, you guys, you guys, you guys, you gotta listen. You gotta listen.

[Andy Samberg]

Is anyone listening to me? Alvin, I'm gonna strangle you to death, you piece of. Oh, am I not allowed to say that now? Modern parenting. That's Dave saying, oh my God.

[Jorma Taccone]

The amount I will sometimes say to my kids. But you hear me, right? You hear me? I just am now. I'm like checking on your ears and they're like, yeah, we hear you.

[Seth Meyers]

There was a moment that I gave up. There was a video of me and my friend chasing our kids into an elevator. And the amount that I was like, there's no point Timmy talking. Just watching it back, I was like, there's no. Why do I open my mouth?

[Jorma Taccone]

I want to shout out Jeff, who's not a member of this pod and will not get a five way split with us, but he's been compiling I'm on a boat questions over the course of this pod. And so it's been very helpful. All right. Stephen wrote this comment in September of 2024. As a 47 year old adult, I have always called them flippy floppies. Post I'm on a boat. To me it's one of the biggest cultural phrases the group you put out there to the masses. Any other examples come to mind that people say while you are walking around foggy London town or heading to the Indigo Girls? I feel like, I mean, I know that flippy floppies is impossible not to think when I see a pair of flip flops now I like that.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, well, there's one that I mentioned earlier, but I think I've mentioned it on this pod that me and Andy in particular and also Keev used to call coffee crawdad, but that didn't really spread.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, I would say that's the opposite of what Steve.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I mean, he's asking for other Quaid's, right? Because Quaid is one of them that now has caught on.

[Jorma Taccone]

I mean, weirdly, Quaid army is like top three right now.

[Andy Samberg]

I know.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. But also righteous kill. So he's saying what else is in the righteous kill? Quaid.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, I see. Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Is that the question or is he saying what other things from our.

[Andy Samberg]

From our stuff that people say to us?

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, he's saying, is there anything else from your stuff that is go.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I would say Double True and Crazy Delicious both caught on from the very first thing from Lazy Sunday.

[Seth Meyers]

But there's probably a bunch more.

[Andy Samberg]

I mean, I once had a thing on the street where a guy was walking with his daughter and she was like 10. She's like, hey, Andy, I just jizzed in my pants.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, no.

[Andy Samberg]

And I crammed the opposite direction. Like, I'm so sorry. That did actually.

[Seth Meyers]

God bless her.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Wait, I got. I have one more. Righteous kill.

[Jorma Taccone]

Great.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This came from Yorm, I believe. But we say me likey that a lot.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, yeah, that did become.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We made the song. We don't say it because of the song we made for pop star. We've said it for years and made the song because Yorm said it for years. So much so in, like, editing, when we're working with an editor and we go, okay, we like you that we would go, mld.

[Andy Samberg]

We do. We text mld.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay. Mld.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, mld. Mld. And then my editor recently started saying, nld for no likey dad.

[Akiva Schaffer]

For no likey dad. There you go.

[Andy Samberg]

So you implemented it.

[Seth Meyers]

Yes, Jeremy.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We used to have a lot of things in mixing with decibels, with DBs, with dibbles.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, dibbles.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And we would have a whole. We had a whole code system. But I can't remember now for half dibbles. It got really complicated, though, because at a certain point, half a dibble meant three dibls. Right. Remember where it was like a code.

[Seth Meyers]

System where it got really weird?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

But I remember that a peg. If you were going to take something down a peg, it was four dibbles.

[Akiva Schaffer]

See, that's what I mean. We had a hole and a dibble was just a db, meaning a decibel for mixing. And we'd be like, ooh, I'm way too loud on that line. Take me down a peg. And then we'd be like, well, take me down half a peg. And that meant 2 dibels, which is 2 dbs, which is 2 decibels.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes.

[Seth Meyers]

Can you imagine how irritating?

[Andy Samberg]

And it starts as a bit. And then you find yourself in these moments where we're like. I'm actually thinking at that moment. And then all of us together go, half a dibble. Yes. I was also thinking just half a dibble. Just a little nudge a roo.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Can you imagine how irritating that is for our mixer?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Just like.

[Seth Meyers]

But then he would start talking like us.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He'd be like, yeah, I'll take this down half a peg. We're like half a peg. Right?

[Jorma Taccone]

So good.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

This is from Nikki. She even says, not a question story. My son Cohen, now 13, huge Brooklyn Nine Nine fan since he was seven or eight. He knows more about Brooklyn Nine Nine than I've ever met in grade four dressed like Jake Peralta every day for months. Hot Rod is his desert island movie. Anyway, about four or five years ago I told him Andy was part of the Lonely island and they had songs he could listen to. He's beyond jazz. Lazy Sunday was the intro as I felt it was the most PG listened to repeat and I mean repeat. I love you guys. But it was brutal. Then he found a radio edit version of I'm on a Boat which was cool because hearing my then nine year old singing about fucking a mermaid just wasn't in the cards. I'm on a Boat became the new lazy Sunday number one song on Spotify roundup, whopping 300 plus listens.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh my God.

[Jorma Taccone]

But then a few years ago when he got a bit older, he came to me and laid out his case saying he was old and mature enough to handle the unedited version. Impressed with his moxie, I led him later that night while he was having a shower and singing along to I'm on a Boat uncut version. And the part about the mermaid was nearing. He sang right up to it, paused and then continued when it was over. So he did not sing.

[Andy Samberg]

Ah, good boy.

[Jorma Taccone]

She said it was cute as hell. Anyway, just wanted to pass along how much love of Lonely island and to a greater extent comedy for her kids.

[Andy Samberg]

You guys have been a part of how nice.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Very nice.

[Seth Meyers]

Can I add onto that just note for parents. Both the first two albums are on Spotify Censored. You just have to look up the name of the album and then you will find a censored version. But it's a little harder to find it.

[Jorma Taccone]

We were looking for I'm on a Boat Censored and it's harder to find. That's a good tip.

[Seth Meyers]

I don't know why the third album isn't because we did make a version of that, but yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Jorma Taccone]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, I don't want to point fingers as to whose blame it is, but I've heard a lot of talk about it.

[Jorma Taccone]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

I like the sound of that.

[Jorma Taccone]

Do you even know what Rocket Money is, Keith?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Can I take a wild guess?

[Seth Meyers]

Guess.

[Jorma Taccone]

Take a wild guess. But don't be ad speaky about it. Just in your own words.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I mean, if I was gonna guess, it sounds like it's like a personal finance app that like helps you find unwanted subscriptions and then if you do, you could like cancel them and. Or it could pay attention to what.

[Jorma Taccone]

I'm spending money on and monitor it even.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, yeah, exactly. And it could help lower my bills and help me grow my savings.

[Jorma Taccone]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

That's horrible.

[Jorma Taccone]

That's a dumb guy thing.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

I mean unlikely.

[Jorma Taccone]

No sir mix a lot's Photoshop making the butts big.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He makes butts big.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

See you underestimated yourself.

[Andy Samberg]

I mean also we were there. So there's maybe subconsciously that I don't.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Remember it but that's.

[Andy Samberg]

I definitely don't.

[Seth Meyers]

That's a layup.

[Andy Samberg]

Sounds like a tuck.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's actually. It's a jost and someone it says.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Kenan but as we know these are wrong a lot.

[Jorma Taccone]

Right? I will say it gets a little off in the beginning but by the end it's pretty delightful. Like just cause he's singing lyrics new lyrics to the song. They also early on rhyme fonder with rounder which hits my ears pretty bad.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, it's unacceptable. Ho ho. Somebody's back in the game. And here it's our mission.

[Jorma Taccone]

Photoshop.

[Andy Samberg]

We put every photo through a rigorous evaluation process to ensure that the butt is large enough. I show each and every photo the sniffles, my pet anaconda. Because you see my anaconda don't want none unless you got burnt hun.

[Jorma Taccone]

Jerry and Carl return. I kind of forgot that post fart face. They would do another one.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, and what's this?

[Jorma Taccone]

That means I also forgot that Forte can hear an audience and think that things are going to any way other than how it's going in his brain.

[Seth Meyers]

What was the phrase this time?

[Jorma Taccone]

It was still Carol, hold my calls. There was not a phrase. It was all about that. It was him. Bill and Alec were trying to schedule a meeting and I would say the comedy was about what they had planned, that they couldn't all meet on those days. It's a little bit. You know what, you should watch it, Andy, because I think it'll really plug into your frustrations on us scheduling the pod.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, wonderful.

[Jorma Taccone]

Will comes out with a tiny tuft of hair on the front of his bald head. And then way later in the sketch than you think they would address it, he says, well, Tuesday's no good for me.

[Andy Samberg]

I gotta get fitted for a new toupee. This one just doesn't quite give me the coverage I was hoping for.

[Seth Meyers]

What? Patience.

[Jorma Taccone]

I wouldn't say it plays, but there's some really good writing in it. At one point they say, how's Saturday for you? And Forte says, oh, that depends. How long does an autopsy take? And Bill says, I don't know, about four hours. And he goes, goes four times. Five. No, Saturday's not going to work.

[Seth Meyers]

It's like a Simpsons joke.

[Jorma Taccone]

Then though, there's a nice little call Forward to Sushi. Glory hole.

[Andy Samberg]

Next Monday's bad for me. I'll be at a gas station bathroom in Queens. They have a glory hole there that I really, really enjoy. I'm volunteering at a glory hole on Monday, 11:30. 11:30? No way. Where? 73rd and Broadway. I'll see you there.

[Jorma Taccone]

No, you won't.

[Andy Samberg]

It's a glory hole.

[Jorma Taccone]

And I will say, based on the reaction, I feel like maybe it does prove the point that not everybody knows.

[Akiva Schaffer]

What a glory hole is.

[Jorma Taccone]

And then we got a real quick. Seth's Corner. Jorm.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Seth Corner.

[Seth Meyers]

Here's the part of the show. It. Seth talks about some bullshit that he did that week.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Just kidding.

[Seth Meyers]

Seth, I love your stuff.

[Jorma Taccone]

Fourth Jonas brother. Alec played the fourth Jonas brother. It's about his. Down the middle is Sir Mix. A Lot's Photoshop. We'll leave it at that. All right, here we go. What is the name of this digital short again?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Property of the Queen. Property of Property of the Queen.

[Seth Meyers]

Because that's the name of the band.

[Jorma Taccone]

I just want to start by saying. And then I'll turn it over to you guys. The really funny thing about this short is that it's the first short after I'm on a Boat that is really funny. Like, I'm On a Boat is so big and beautiful and an immediate hit. And it is such a. I mean, I really kind of want everybody who writes comedy to know that the biggest mistake you can make is thinking the last thing you do is going to be the next thing you do. Like, it's never. It's not any easier to do it after you did a good one.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, it's also like, I try to remind myself this now because I still watch SNL every week, and when I get in the, like, viewer mode of, like, man, I wish that had been this, this and that. I'm like, who knows what circumstances led to this existing? Who knows what else was at the table? Or if there's, like, any laughs? I'm just like, great. Everyone did a great job. It's so stressful. A million things are working against you at all times because it's putting together a show in three days, which makes no sense. This was an instance of the Jonas Brothers were coming in. They were red hot. We didn't know much about them, but we knew it was, like, a thing they wanted to do. A short, which we were happy to do. We met them, and they were absolutely lovely. And they had all these songs already written. Written pretty much. They're like, when we're like hanging out and goofing around in the studio or on tour. We write these glam band songs and we have them all done.

[Seth Meyers]

God, I didn't remember that part.

[Jorma Taccone]

Cause they were good. They're like, good. I was gonna compliment you guys and now I'm very happy that I can give it to someone else.

[Andy Samberg]

They're the meat of the thing. Because it's what they already had done and what they wanted to do. And we were like, who am I to blow against the wind?

[Akiva Schaffer]

I think partially cause of I'm on a boat too. Like just being like. Well, we've made our personal statement last week. We don't need to say we can take our egos completely out of the short now and just do something to help service the musical guests.

[Andy Samberg]

I mean, it's also. It's not like we had some idea for it. We were like, great. So I think they had the songs and we kind of backed into the premise based on those songs. Cause they were clearly like from another era. And that's why they thought it was fun and funny and that they were doing it specifically. Cause their real music was pop and not like those songs.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. It is a slightly weird thing in rewatching it that. That we sort of introduce the idea that they're highlanders and this is gonna be them going through all eras of music. And then it just sort of sticks with big hair jams. Right. Like, I mean, kind of.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, yeah. I think a different version of this where maybe they don't come in with this catalog of music you write through the years. Different styles.

[Seth Meyers]

In my mind, that's what it was. And then rewatching it, I was like, ah, didn't.

[Andy Samberg]

There's like a funk band and a disco band and then there's like an old timey band and then maybe, you know, like 80s electro thing.

[Jorma Taccone]

So you come in, they say, hey, Andy, what's up? And you say, the jig. The jig is up. Cause you've caught them dead to rights. We don't know why. You take out a VHS tape and then there's a very nice laugh where you lean down and there's only DVD player.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Now we got texted this. Is this one not online?

[Jorma Taccone]

I don't think it is online. And I don't quite know why.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I wonder why. Because that's their music.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. I don't understand.

[Jorma Taccone]

It would be fun to see how many less views it has than the finished Sauna Song.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So I'd like to find it in my text thread. And because it's not online. Do our.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, yeah. Do Stop Start. I will say a lot of compliments on Stop start in the YouTube comments.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, well, this one, I mean, I wouldn't have thought it needs it because it doesn't have that many moves or things to talk about necessarily. Especially because we didn't make the music. But because they literally can't find it then I think it's actually kind of necessary.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, let's do it. You're right. Gosh, Keev, you know what?

[Akiva Schaffer]

I just always have the Quaids in mind.

[Jorma Taccone]

You are. You think of Quaid's first first as.

[Akiva Schaffer]

The Simon of the group. I try to think about the Quaid's a lot.

[Seth Meyers]

And remember guys, we don't know who is who for the other two characters. So yeah, way in the comments.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It could be either.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh my God.

[Seth Meyers]

We don't know right now.

[Andy Samberg]

Please let me be Theodore. Just to be free like that. Not have to think about anything or worry.

[Jorma Taccone]

I'm so tired. I'm so tired of being the Alvin. I can't fucking do it anymore.

[Andy Samberg]

Just put me out of my fucking overacting misery.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Three Theodores. Oh, we're all begging to be three.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, y' all. I forgot to mentioned we all took truth serum at the top of this. FBI loaned us some truth serum. CIA? FBI who?

[Jorma Taccone]

I literally thought FBI was slang. And then I was like, oh, no, he means the FBI gave him truth serum.

[Andy Samberg]

Doesn't FBI have truth serum? Or is it CIA? Seth, you're the guy.

[Jorma Taccone]

I don't know. I don't think there's such a thing as truth serum.

[Seth Meyers]

I bet there is.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's probably like a version of Ecstasy or something. Okay.

[Jorma Taccone]

All right, who's going to play this for us?

[Akiva Schaffer]

I got it right here.

[Seth Meyers]

Merciful 235.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right. Dressing room on nine.

[Seth Meyers]

Hi, Andy.

[Andy Samberg]

What's up, Andy? Horrible lighting. What's up? The jig. The jig is up. What are you talking about? I'm talking about your secret. I know what it is. And I have the VHS tape to prove it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So a little joke here. He takes out the VHS tape and then it's a DVD player that he's trying to get it to go into the little. What's that? Little discs. The disc tray, I would call it.

[Jorma Taccone]

Did you guys also find it haunting when you realized, now that's a DVD player? It was as old as a VHS player was when you made this.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

People still wouldn't understand what that other machine is either.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He's gonna have to try to Push em all into a router.

[Seth Meyers]

Now, slight tangent on DVD players. A friend of mine used to get really drunk in high school. Don't drink underage guys. And he would wake up at night and open his DVD player, his five disc DVD player and then pee into. All right, keep going.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, like sleepwalking. When you first saw the three of them on the couch, were you like. Oh my God, it's the Finnish group that sings about saunas.

[Jorma Taccone]

It does. They do look a little bit. Now knowing that maybe they are Highlanders.

[Akiva Schaffer]

In terms of the trios of white guys. Jonas Brothers does fit firmly into the Lonely Island Workaholics. Everything sunny in Philadelphia.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. And then the name of. Hold on, I gotta look it up again.

[Akiva Schaffer]

The finish, the finish line.

[Jorma Taccone]

Wait, no, I wanna. There was a good song. I wanna give them their shout out.

[Akiva Schaffer]

As Rolling called him the Swedish Lonely Island. Where's your guys vcr? All right.

[Andy Samberg]

Seven hours later he. You turds got anything to say before I play this?

[Akiva Schaffer]

I appreciated that you try to slam the tape, the VHS tape into it. But it's got the thing that stops it from being able to be slammed.

[Seth Meyers]

I do like this song.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We got Keenan on the keys, Bobby Monahan on the drums.

[Andy Samberg]

Bobby, Keenan and Forte doing really good work here.

[Seth Meyers]

I got struck by lightning, but I'm not dead. I think I just liked the line. I got struck by lightning and it really hurt. I don't know what you're talking about, Andy. No.

[Andy Samberg]

This tape is from 1983.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Crazy.

[Andy Samberg]

Shall we watch another one?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Some Space Olympics effects there.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Some good. Yeah. Effects.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Forte. Forte is looking like, Like Richard Simmons.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

I like commenting on the sort of mini trend of writing songs about Africa in the 70s and 80s.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, that I did think that was. And again I, I if it's credit to them. Impressed.

[Seth Meyers]

It is mercifully short, that one.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, yeah, it is.

[Akiva Schaffer]

For sure.

[Andy Samberg]

That's from 25 years ago.

[Jorma Taccone]

Really holds up.

[Andy Samberg]

That's not the point. What are you? Highlanders?

[Seth Meyers]

Come on, man.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay, let's just watch another one then. Just as fans.

[Jorma Taccone]

Little extreme right? Is that what we're doing here?

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, a little more than worse.

[Seth Meyers]

The name of the song is Our Secret in Life.

[Andy Samberg]

Busted. Just admit it.

[Seth Meyers]

None of that stuff proves anything.

[Jorma Taccone]

One more.

[Andy Samberg]

I do like that joke. Didn't get a laugh though.

[Jorma Taccone]

No. Bill's a very good wizard. Shut up, Nick.

[Andy Samberg]

Shut. Nick.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He knows.

[Andy Samberg]

I'm not gonna throw it all away. I don't want your money. I just want to know how you stayed so young.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This guy.

[Jorma Taccone]

What up dude, how are you?

[Seth Meyers]

It's crazy, right? Yeah, punchy, punchy end.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, yeah. I mean, Bill, not a lot to work with and just exceptional delivery and gets a nice laugh.

[Andy Samberg]

Basically one of his old buddies from Tulsa in a wizard costume with a beard.

[Seth Meyers]

That's exactly what I think. I'm just like, that's what it was growing up for Bill.

[Andy Samberg]

I like the Bill reveal. I like the, the song saying the exact episode we are currently in is when they were going to rock on snl. Ask the wizard is a song that I like hearing.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, yeah, that one's good.

[Jorma Taccone]

I think you're. It's so funny you said that you. When you're like, well, how does somebody like Bill Hader turn out to be Bill Hader? And I think the answer is like, he's from Tulsa and his best friend was a wizard. Wait, just like a laid back wizard. All right, so, you know, it is what it is.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. It's not Criterion, it's not Kim's video, but it's nice and we like them and they did a good job.

[Jorma Taccone]

And it also is a very nice host service. I'm sorry, not host service, musical guest service. And I think it was a show where people were really excited to see them. I mean, it's kind of weird. They were, you know, in a sketch and then also in a short and then also had two songs credit to Alec for making room for that.

[Seth Meyers]

Did we record with those guys at their studio? I feel like we went to a very high end studio and met those guys. And I remember being like, these guys are really sweet young men.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, it was a nice New York studio.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And they're real musicians. They really just do it, which is awesome.

[Jorma Taccone]

Also, Jack McBrayer is in the monologue because the monologue is about 30 rock. And I believe that's when Jack met the Jonas Brothers. And they are all friends to this day. In fact, they're such good friends that we did a day drinking with the Jonas Brothers with me, my brother and Jack McDonough.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, right. I remember that.

[Seth Meyers]

It's so funny that I think of them as so young that I was like, that's inappropriate. They shouldn't be drinking.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, now they're fine.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, it's fine now.

[Jorma Taccone]

At the time, not. Okay. Well, I mean, I feel like that's about as fast as we're ever going to go through a. A short. But I feel like there was some real meat on the bone before that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You know what? I'm looking at the rundown and an interesting just Tidbit Is that hot air balloon number one plate again? Yes, that's Virginia Horson. It was just whatever length it was that was so short. They just kind of kept it handy when they needed it for. I'm sure just rotation commercial break reasons.

[Seth Meyers]

I have a follow up on the dibbles thing. I remembered that a rung was three dibbles. So you know, if you need to use that in mix guys.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, a rung. Like take it up a rung or take it down a rung.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, rung was three dibbles.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Take it down a peg. Take it up a peg. Take it up a rung. Wow.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, we didn't use rung that much. It was usually half pegs.

[Andy Samberg]

I remembered another Jorma ism that he says a lot that we say in our circle, which is when things are awesome, he'll go, oh, it's like an AM PM situation.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Right.

[Andy Samberg]

Then people go, what? And he goes, too much good stuff.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. I should make a shirt, honestly. Uses it constantly.

[Jorma Taccone]

Wait, what is. Why is AMPM too much?

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's their slogan.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, AMPM Mini marts. That was their slogan for a really long time.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Their cash prices.

[Jorma Taccone]

That's too much good stuff.

[Andy Samberg]

Too much good stuff. Right. AM pm.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, Andy. Andy has one about Taco Bell too. Just talking about being breakfast defectors.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, yeah. I have gone on long, long stretches of time where I like to talk about being a breakfast defector.

[Seth Meyers]

And I do legitimately, without any humor anymore. Say, let's think the bun.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, that is.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, you do say that. That one I don't like. Cuz other people say that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And just anyone witnessing us knows we live moss.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

So we do live moss. We're not afraid to live moss. But like when you're doing something crazy edgy Seth.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

You're like, I guess I'm just a breakfast defector.

[Jorma Taccone]

You're remaking the Robin Williams movie a Moscow in the Hudson, but you're just defecting from breakfast.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's right.

[Seth Meyers]

If you're loco.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We're not afraid of fourth meal. Seth.

[Andy Samberg]

That's right. Bring it on.

[Seth Meyers]

Anyway, Taco Bell representatives are out there.

[Jorma Taccone]

We already made a hit ad for dorit. We like doing ads. We don't get paid for the.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You don't see this on the run. On the rundown often, which is under the cut for dress section on the right where it tells you everything that was cut after dress. And sometimes there's cut at air or whatever it's called. This is an added on air, meaning it wasn't a dress. It wasn't even part of the plan. And that is hot air balloon. So it wasn't even like they had in their back pocket for when they get screwed, basically. Because it's a live show and they look at the time and wait, are.

[Seth Meyers]

You saying that it hadn't aired and it aired this one time or it aired more?

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, it didn't.

[Jorma Taccone]

It only aired before.

[Seth Meyers]

Wow.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Is an emergency situation. Because they looked at how much time left was in the show.

[Andy Samberg]

Commercial parodies used to air like three times a year. The same ones exactly.

[Akiva Schaffer]

They. They saw that whatever first coughs is, which was the final, you know, five to one sketch wasn't long enough to get you to the 1am and they.

[Jorma Taccone]

I remember now that you mentioned it, Keith. They realized last minute they needed horsens and nobody could find it. And Lauren was like, I'll get it. And he was like, running down the hallway. It was like Joan Cusack in Broadcast News. And he had to, like, just like dodging people. He's like, I know where it is. I've got a backup horse.

[Seth Meyers]

It's got to be in here somewhere.

[Jorma Taccone]

And he just. I mean, I remember he made it. And it's maybe the happiest I like, second to the 50th. It's the happiest I've seen him. Like, he was like, I can't believe I got it.

[Andy Samberg]

You've been saying stuff ever since. I'll get it. But I've been laughing at that the whole time.

[Seth Meyers]

Did you see how fast I was booking?

[Andy Samberg]

I'll get it.

[Seth Meyers]

I was just booking down those halls.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, my God. You see how fast I went?

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, my God. And then the elevator didn't come. I was like, fuck. I mean, Andy, come on. The morning pod worked out well for you.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This is it.

[Andy Samberg]

This is great.

[Seth Meyers]

Let's always do it this early.

[Jorma Taccone]

This is great.

[Seth Meyers]

It's working out for me, I'll tell you that.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

New York, 1:30.

[Jorma Taccone]

I feel like Andy was in such a good mood about this Lauren bit. He forgot he was on a pod for a second.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And then you brought him. Don't say it.

[Jorma Taccone]

I said it.

[Andy Samberg]

And I.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And I.

[Jorma Taccone]

The light just went out of his eyes. He was like, oh, right. That's what this is.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, right.

[Seth Meyers]

Fuck you guys.

[Andy Samberg]

That's right.

[Jorma Taccone]

It was like the end of the movie Brazil where you think Johnny the praise escaped. And then you're like, oh, spoiler. Yeah. Come on.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, it was a pleasure.

[Jorma Taccone]

That was really fun. All right. Love you guys.

[Seth Meyers]

Love you. Love you.

[Andy Samberg]

Take care. Take care out there.

[Jorma Taccone]

Be safe out there.

[Andy Samberg]

Be safe out there. Be good. Be well. Hey.

[Jorma Taccone]

Hey.

[Andy Samberg]

It's the Lonely island and Seth Meyer's podcast show.