Ras Trent

Summary

The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast – Episode: Ras Trent Release Date: March 11, 2025

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Introduction

In this engaging episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast, host Seth Meyers sits down with The Lonely Island members—Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer—to delve into their iconic SNL Digital Short featuring the character Ras Trent. The trio reminisces about the creation, reception, and lasting impact of this memorable sketch, offering listeners a behind-the-scenes look at their collaborative process and cultural inspirations.

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The Ras Trent Character

Origin and Inspiration

The conversation kicks off with Andy Samberg reflecting on listener feedback regarding his portrayal of Ras Trent. He humorously admits, “[00:42] I held our listeners in higher regard than they have revealed themselves to be...” This sets the stage for a deeper exploration of the character's roots in reggae and dancehall culture.

Akiva Schaffer provides insight into their inspiration, sharing a personal anecdote: “[07:19] We went out to this city called Petaluma to see a show with this band, the Itals...” This experience was pivotal in shaping the authenticity and nuances of Ras Trent’s persona.

Cultural References and Missteps

The trio discusses the challenges of accurately representing Rastafarianism and reggae culture. Akiva remarks, “[10:31] Rastafarianism is connected to the music. It's like being goth but with deeper cultural significance.” They candidly acknowledge their limited expertise, emphasizing their respect for the culture while navigating comedic exaggeration.

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Writing and Recording Process

Collaboration with Friends

Akiva Schaffer details the collaborative nature of their writing sessions: “[06:22] We referenced reggae and dancehall songs we've loved throughout the years...” The involvement of friends like Maya Rudolph and Joanna Newsome in background vocals added depth and authenticity to the recording.

Music and Production

A significant portion of the discussion centers around the musical composition of the Ras Trent sketch. Akiva explains, “[22:00] We received unused tracks from Sly and Robbie, perfect for creating an authentic reggae vibe...” Seth Meyers adds, “[22:21] The first time you put the CD in and listened, every track was perfect.” Their dedication to musical authenticity underscores the sketch's enduring appeal.

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Behind-the-Scenes Stories

Interaction with True Rastafarians

One of the most enlightening moments comes when Akiva shares an encounter with genuine Rastafarians: “[46:07] We showed our script to real Rastas who were super nice and nailed the accents perfectly.” This interaction not only validated their efforts but also enriched the sketch's credibility.

Recording Anecdotes

The team recounts various humorous incidents during recording sessions. Seth remembers, “[19:41] The horns coming to life... Simon Rich is in the center.” These stories highlight the camaraderie and creative spontaneity that fuel their projects.

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Technical Aspects

Detailing the technical side, Andy Samberg notes, “[23:02] Added horns and Spider-Man theme elements to enhance the musical layers.” The deliberate incorporation of recognizable motifs like “[38:38] Roller skates as a nod to classic reggae songs...” showcases their meticulous attention to detail in production.

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Conclusion and Podcast Interruption

As the episode nears its end, an unexpected interruption occurs when Yoram, presumably Jorma Taccone, attempts to join the podcast live. Seth humorously narrates the mishap: “[24:08] Yoram realized he missed the podcast and tried to jump in, leading to an abrupt and chaotic ending.” This unscripted moment adds a layer of authenticity and humor, reflecting the unpredictable nature of live recordings.

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Final Thoughts

Wrapping up, Seth Meyers provides a reflective summary: “[25:35] We did not get to discuss the Jon Hamm episode, but we'll cover it in the next episode.” The trio encourages listeners to engage in the comments, fostering a community dialogue around their creative endeavors.

Notable Quotes:

• Andy Samberg [00:42]: "I held our listeners in higher regard than they have revealed themselves to be..."
• Akiva Schaffer [07:19]: "We went out to this city called Petaluma to see a show with this band, the Itals..."
• Seth Meyers [22:21]: "The first time you put the CD in and listened, every track was perfect."
• Akiva Schaffer [46:07]: "We showed our script to real Rastas who were super nice and nailed the accents perfectly."

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Impact and Legacy

The Ras Trent sketch remains a testament to The Lonely Island's ability to blend humor with cultural homage. Through thoughtful discussion and shared experiences, Andy, Akiva, and Seth underscore the sketch's significance in their careers and its influence on comedy and digital media.

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This summary captures the essence of the "Ras Trent" episode, highlighting the creative journey, cultural explorations, and heartfelt anecdotes shared by The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers.

Transcript

[Seth Meyers]

This episode of the Lonely island podcast is brought to you by our friends at Maker's Mark. We are celebrating Women's History Month by recognizing the spirited women in our lives and remembering Maker's Mark co founder Margie Samuels. You too can celebrate the spirited women in your life with a free personalized label. To go with a bottle of Maker's mark, head to makersmarkpersonalize.com and fill in the details in order to create and mail your custom label. Maker's Mark makes their bourbon carefully. Please enjoy it that Maker's Mark Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey, 45% alcohol per volume. Copyright 2025 Maker's Mark Distillery Incorporated. Loretto, Kentucky.

[Andy Samberg]

Hey, guys, can I just start by saying I held our listeners in higher regard than they have revealed themselves to be? Ooh, I thought we had sort of a elevated listenership. People whose minds were not in the gutter. And yet multiple people commented. Because I talked about how Chris Martin gave me his throat spray when I lost my throat. And maybe I worded it in a way that was a little eggy.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, how'd you word it?

[Andy Samberg]

I said I was just pumping the Chris Martin juice into my throat.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, now I see.

[Andy Samberg]

And the amount of people that took to the comments to say, not only I can't believe that's how he said it, and I can't believe everybody just let it pass.

[Seth Meyers]

But you were saying it to be kind of flowery and funny in the wording, but not necessarily just straight up that he's jizzing down your throat.

[Andy Samberg]

Who would ever say that?

[Seth Meyers]

And I gave it you grace.

[Andy Samberg]

Thank you.

[Seth Meyers]

And you deserve it. And you've earned it. On this podcast especially.

[Andy Samberg]

I guess I thought I deserved a little bit more grace from our listeners.

[Seth Meyers]

Why is Andy squinting at his screen so hard? He's just squinting at the computer screen like it was like, what the heck is happening here?

[Akiva Schaffer]

I was just, you know, doing research for this episode of the pod.

[Seth Meyers]

Got it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But I will say, Seth, I didn't blink at it because I assumed you just meant the Chris Martin gist in your throat.

[Seth Meyers]

Right.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Down your throat, into and down your throat.

[Andy Samberg]

I see.

[Seth Meyers]

And you always refer to them as your juices, so I got that. It was his juices.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

I mean, reading it back, it is kind of. I wish I had written it. Oh. You know what I mean?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

It's the combination of doubt. I mean, you look at it now, and it's a very short line. But to have pumping juice and throat all in one, it was kind of.

[Seth Meyers]

Asking for it Wait, can I ask, did he tell you what was in the spray?

[Andy Samberg]

No, he just kept saying it's high in protein.

[Seth Meyers]

Right.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You teed him up, Keith.

[Seth Meyers]

You.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You teed him up.

[Andy Samberg]

The Lonely island and Seth Meyers podcast show. And I apologize to Mr. Martin, who is nothing but an absolute gentleman.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. He's your cool jacket inspiration. He got you through update.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. By the way, this is the episode Ross Trent is.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Is the epaulette episode.

[Seth Meyers]

It's a cool jacket.

[Andy Samberg]

It is the epileptic.

[Akiva Schaffer]

The epaulette. The epaulettisode.

[Andy Samberg]

The epoletzisode.

[Akiva Schaffer]

The epaulettisode. Let's go with the epiletisode. The epletesode.

[Andy Samberg]

Epolettisode.

[Seth Meyers]

This is it.

[Andy Samberg]

This is. Amy does not make it to this show. In the Josh Brolin show, which was the week before, she does her very pregnant hardcore rap as Sarah Palin. One of the great moments for my money of SNL history. Andy, you're in it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I helped Amy write one line of that rap, and it was the least funny line in the whole thing.

[Andy Samberg]

That's very nice of you to admit.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I tried to make it like a good rhyme, but it was not a good laugh. And then I felt guilty afterwards.

[Andy Samberg]

Amy did a lot of. I think wrote most of that by herself, and it's a real killer.

[Akiva Schaffer]

She did a great job. And it played hot H o t.

[Andy Samberg]

Hot in Wasilla we chill baby chilla but in the bedroom, it's drill, baby drilla. I believe some version of that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Wow. The Memory Steel Trap.

[Andy Samberg]

I mean, it's real good. But were we recording when we talked.

[Seth Meyers]

That yhorm's not here this week or was that. I mean, I know Seth said we were starting after that.

[Andy Samberg]

We should establish. You guys tell me, because I feel like I don't know why he's not here.

[Seth Meyers]

He's shooting a commercial.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay.

[Seth Meyers]

I saw that. It's with Beck Bennett because they sent me a photo. I don't know anything else.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, he's a sellout.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's a reunion. Because they did all those other commercials together, right?

[Seth Meyers]

They did all the AT&T ones before Beck was on SNL, all the ones where he was with children talking about cell phone plans or something. If he was here, he would talk about. He's very passionate about products. That's why he does the ads a lot.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. He said he. He can't make the pod, but he is going to. They are going to pause the commercial shoot so he can jump on and do the ad. Reads.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

And I guess he's like yelled pretty hard at the actual, you know, the commercial. The client, as they call him in the ad world.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

And he's like, you're going to tell me I can't go do my ads while I'm doing your ads.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

I directed a MacGruber ad on the Super Bowl.

[Andy Samberg]

A Super Bowl. A three parter. They only aired one part. Yeah. So there you go. Yoram's not here, in case everybody's wondering. But he's. He's not here. But this is. I'm just going to say off the top. We're talking to talk about Ross Trent today. Ross Trent, I have nothing but great things to say about is in the body of one of the best shows I think we ever did in and Golden Era. It's really. I think it's a Mount Rushmore and Golden era show.

[Seth Meyers]

Who is the host?

[Andy Samberg]

Ham. First John Ham.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, ah, yes.

[Andy Samberg]

First Jon Hamm. And it's kind of crazy because the show is so good, you know, in no small part due to Jon Hamm. But then we have this lovely Ross Trent, which of course he's not in. And I think that adds a great deal as well.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. And Ross Trent played good.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And we were happy. But we also knew going into it that Ross Trent was like brimming with references that a normal SNL crowd might not immediately go crazy for.

[Andy Samberg]

Now is as good a time as ever to jump in and say, I love Ross Trent. And I still. I rewatched it today and realized I'm still not even halfway there in the references.

[Akiva Schaffer]

A lot of the fun of it for us was just referencing reggae and dancehall songs we've loved throughout the years.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And doing it through the lens of so many people that we actually would come across growing up in the Bay Area and going to UC Santa Cruz for college for two years and going to the Reggae on the River Festival in Northern California and et cetera, et cetera. It was definitely like this is a character in our lives and in our world. And it was our hope to sort of make this sort of the quintessential that guy song.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Rastafarianism.

[Seth Meyers]

Yes.

[Andy Samberg]

I Ross Trent.

[Seth Meyers]

Ding, ding, ding. Whoa. Who dam.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You know, one Test me Champion sound.

[Seth Meyers]

Was this on the pod already, Andy, that you told the actual that there was a person that said like a very patois line to you? I feel like it's. Do we. You already did.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I think I talked about it in one of those SNL docs. But. But the story was me and my friends in high school. We went to Berkeley High School in the Bay. We're really into dance hall and reggae, as we've said a million times. But we went out to this city called Petaluma to see a show with this band, the Itals, who are, you know, roots reggae. Not household names in the States, but we were obsessed with them. And it was so cool that they were playing this tiny venue out in Petaluma. And we went all out there together, and it was incredible, and they sounded great. And after the show, it was in this, like, old movie theater, almost like old theater. And it had, like, stairs in the lobby that went up to the bathrooms. And me and all my friends were sitting in the stairwell. And this dude who had been at the show walked out dressed like he was, like, straight out of office space, you know what I mean? Like, khakis tucked in, button up and glasses. And he just walked up to us and clearly needed to get by, and he just went, excuse I. And we all were like, whoa, what? And we were just like, oh, of course.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, man.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Like, went to the side and he walked over to the bathroom, and we were all just like, oh, my God, I can't fucking believe he just said. We were like, is he actually a Rasta? Or was he, like, thinking he was talking to us in a way we would understand? Because we were clearly just like young, scrubby white kids and not Rastafarians, you know what I mean? But I guess maybe some of my friends a little bit. I really. We still, to this day, don't know the answer. It was a big mystery. But that quote became like a running joke with my friend group for the next, like, 20 years or whatever, where we'd see each other and go, excuse I. The most, like, businessman voice you could come up with, basically.

[Andy Samberg]

I've got a few years on you guys, and I don't think the hyper specificity to Rastafarianism was anything I'd seen before. But we definitely had guys I was in college with who looked exactly like Ross Trent.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes.

[Andy Samberg]

So I enjoyed it on that level. But I was always aware there was, like, a second and third level that was beyond my reference point.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I had so many white dudes we knew, and some of them we knew from, like, elementary school, you know what I mean? Growing up in Berkeley and in the Bay Area. And then, like, all of a sudden. And by the way, this was me for about a month and a half all of a sudden.

[Seth Meyers]

Big of you to admit that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

They have Dreads, you know what I'm saying? And are like. I'm like, we're all smoking a little bit of weed, but, like, all of a sudden. And I never did this level. But there would be people, you know, that were just speaking in patois and like, basically saying they were Rastafarian. And you're just like, what? Like, our parents hang out. Like, it's not. You can't do that. You can't just do that.

[Seth Meyers]

I want to say disclaimer that we are not experts on any of this either. Like, we just were fans of the music. And so, yes, we. But we could just sense, like, it's not like we're masters, like, know what it much about being Rastafari, but we know they're not. We know enough to know that.

[Andy Samberg]

So your hyperspecificity is not like a deep observation about Rastafarianism. Your only observation was about the dudes who were pretending to be Rastafarianism, Correct?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes, yes. Who were adopting it as their personality as like a quirk in high school.

[Seth Meyers]

And college, while also saying they didn't know much because they probably knew about as much as us.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Right.

[Seth Meyers]

So we're also. That they're adopting it as a personality trait, but also don't know even exactly what they're saying or adopting.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But also, like, because it's connected to the music. Music for them. It's like being like, now I'm goth, you know what I mean? But I'm like, yo, that's a religion, though. Like, that's really crazy. You shouldn't be doing that. There's a lot that's a perfect way to put it.

[Seth Meyers]

Being grunge or being goth or being Rasta. That's how they're thinking of it. And it's not that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes. And also just anytime a person, like, comes back after summer break and talks completely different, it's like a hilarious and sad thing.

[Andy Samberg]

And this is so much worse than an accent because it is a truly different way of talking.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, my God. Yeah. The first time your, like, white friend, you know, from elementary school is like, I and I, we're going to go. And you're just like, nope, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[Andy Samberg]

Because it's not even a foreign language. It's the language, you know, just like, in a different order.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And it's all just ripped from the records we like. You know what I mean? Like, we all love that music. It's so fucking dope. And there's a million great records and we were. It was like we listened to hip hop, we listened to old soul and funk, we listened to reggae and dancehall, we listened to grunge, we listened to everything. And there was a stretch of time where we really got deep into that and stayed into it and it just stuck a little too sticky, I think, for a couple people.

[Andy Samberg]

I do think your idea is right, Keev. We should do a rewatch together in pieces. But before we start it, Trent is really just the perfect name. Just shout out to the choice of Trent.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Thanks. I mean, it seemed like it's just.

[Seth Meyers]

Going with that Eddie Murphy white guy voice.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, exactly.

[Andy Samberg]

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[Seth Meyers]

Hello. Hi.

[Andy Samberg]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

That was my idea, actually. These guys were thinking about not doing it and I was like, we should.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. You are in many ways as trailblazing as Margie Samuels. Yorm and I often said that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Seth Meyers]

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[Andy Samberg]

Way to land the plane, buddy.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Thank you.

[Seth Meyers]

Thank you.

[Andy Samberg]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Seth Meyers]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Seth Meyers]

Ke. Can you share?

[Andy Samberg]

Let me.

[Seth Meyers]

Let me. Let me share it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

J. Rastafarianism.

[Seth Meyers]

Yes.

[Andy Samberg]

I.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean right away what was that college we went to? We went to a real college and those are real students who were sitting in a real college. One of our interns maybe went there or maybe somebody's niece went there. Yeah. And was just like.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Let's just someone connected to the crew.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. And we just went into a real college class and shot with real.

[Andy Samberg]

It was very nice. Over the course of this. How many. I mean obviously there's some cast in it. But I really did like how it was. College students.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. Had to be. We had to be on the quad.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. And it's great.

[Seth Meyers]

Ja. Rastafarianism. Immediately off the bat, he's on the wrong foot. He's not.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He's betraying the entire thing right out of the gate by saying for those.

[Seth Meyers]

That don't know it, it's usually JA Rastafari in the normal song that Wants to say it. And I like a Capleton song that's one of the artists or.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Or Bob Marley. Even like any live concert you ever heard of. Any, like, Rasta reggae artist.

[Andy Samberg]

So you. Your. Your first joke is really just for like nine people, you know, and the.

[Seth Meyers]

Entire country of Jamaica.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. Okay, so that's fair.

[Seth Meyers]

And a lot of people in London.

[Andy Samberg]

You are making a joke that you can have zero confidence is gonna play with the SNL house.

[Seth Meyers]

Yes. This is kind of like Natalie rap, right? Where we have so many nice deep cut rap references, but for your lay viewer, they can just go, ha, ha ha. It's that girl who's in Star wars, but now she's doing a hardcore rap. And this has the basic joke that I think everyone got, which is the stuff we just discussed about cultural appropriation when you don't really understand what you're appropriating. And about that guy who's, you know, looks like Ross Trent in your college. And then there's just other things happening underneath it that are for just us and Rihanna. Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Now, wait, did Rihanna ever bring this up to you guys?

[Seth Meyers]

We played it for her when we were making.

[Andy Samberg]

So she had not.

[Seth Meyers]

Wait, had she seen it?

[Akiva Schaffer]

I think it was when she came back to do the second Shy Ronnie. She said that she had friends that had, like a rhythm shop in Manhattan somewhere and that they loved Ross Trent and that she had watched it with them or something.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, that might be. That's why I'm remembering it not being right away.

[Andy Samberg]

By the way, could you ask for a better way for it to come across her radar?

[Akiva Schaffer]

She said what they wanted to do, and it never came about. But I was so fucking hyped. To do it was to have Ross Trent be like the dude who's yelling out over like a mixtape throughout the whole time. You know what I mean?

[Seth Meyers]

Yes, I. Yeah, exactly. New Rihanna.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. Yes, exactly.

[Seth Meyers]

New Sizzler. Oh, over a real mixtape? Over a mixtape.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's what they wanted. That's way funnier with actually cool songs. But have me be like, you know, the. The like funk Master Flex or whatever.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, doing the. That's really funny. I wish they had asked you to do that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes.

[Andy Samberg]

All righty, so let's keep going here with the establish.

[Seth Meyers]

All right. We got roller skates. He says roller skates later, but right away. Roller skates are a reference to a really famous Steel Pulse song called Roller Skates.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yep. Love roller skates.

[Seth Meyers]

That's why he's on roller skates.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes.

[Andy Samberg]

Ross Trent. Ding, ding, Whoa.

[Seth Meyers]

So bada ding ding ding ding whoa is Barrington Levy.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And he does it in lots of songs, but most famously to us at least, and I would assume to everybody, is a song called Here I Come.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Here I Come. Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Now, I will say that is a perfect example on the Natalie's rap parallel, which is Bada ding ding whoa is just very funny coming out of Andy's mouth, even if you don't know that that's an actual famous moment.

[Seth Meyers]

Yes. It works for both things.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes.

[Seth Meyers]

Barrington himself would certainly agree. Okay. It's kind of funny when he does it. It's awesome.

[Andy Samberg]

It's basically, what are you holding, Andy, at this point in the song? What is that?

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's just like a staff. Yeah, like a walking staff.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay, great.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's standard, Ross.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm sure there's a name for it in Patwa that we don't. All right, do you want to talk about that? Background vocals there, Andy.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Background vocals. We got Casey Wilson and Wig doing the background vocals, but the actual recording is Maya Rudolph and my wife, Joanna Newsome. Really? Yes. So we were obviously all living together in the Valley, and Maya would come hang out a bunch because her and Paul were close by and Joanna was there.

[Seth Meyers]

It was one of the most fun recording sessions, I would say, because we had done, like, fake ones, and they came in and had to kind of like, stay on the rhythm and feel the vibes and do it. Do it for reals.

[Andy Samberg]

Did you say who dem here? Who dem?

[Akiva Schaffer]

So wait, so Joanna and Maya were the i3, but they were an i2?

[Andy Samberg]

They were the i2.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And they. They obviously made it sound a lot better than what we had and wrote their own harmonies and sounded fantastic. Like, if you isolate those tracks, they actually sounded fucking fantastic.

[Andy Samberg]

And were they having so much fun doing it together?

[Seth Meyers]

Yes.

[Andy Samberg]

Great.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Absolutely. They're buds, so. Yes. Who dem Is Capleton, who's a dancehall artist.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, wait. So before, when Andy has his idea and we're like, how are we ever going to get an authentic sounding reggae.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, my God, music?

[Seth Meyers]

And we were very fresh to this thing that we're on a label. So we went, hey, you know, Universal Music Group, which Republic is under, also owns Def Jam, and they also own island, which is the Jamaican music label. And so we just asked, do you guys have any? And they sent over. You know, at that time, it was still CDs. A CD of unused Sly and Robbie tracks. Yes. Sly and Robbie is one of the most famous reggae production musician duos of all time.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Like Full Tilt Legends.

[Seth Meyers]

It's like if you were just dabbling in, I'm gonna make a fake rap song. And they're like, well, here's a bunch of beats by Dr. Dre. Do you want to use one of these?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes.

[Seth Meyers]

It was the craziest thing. We could not believe it. It wasn't like we had gotten a bunch of other ones either.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And we were like, what?

[Seth Meyers]

The thought of it was Sly and Robbie made Ross. Trent is so funny if you know who Sly and Robbie is.

[Andy Samberg]

And you knew right away. And was it exactly what you wanted it to be? The first time you put the CD.

[Seth Meyers]

In and listened, every track was perfect.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes.

[Andy Samberg]

But we.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I think we immediately started vibing to the one that it was.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But the one thing I'll say is we added horns. Keev, do you remember I sang. I hummed this. The horn part.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. You went.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. It's basically Spider Man. Basically the Spider man theme song.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But I wrote it.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay. We were. We're 16 seconds in. Going great. Ready?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

God, that is something. But who is that by?

[Akiva Schaffer]

The Champion Sound? Well, there's Super Beagle, but.

[Seth Meyers]

Right.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I. I knew Champion Sound by by. Of Super Beagle first because it was on a Smith and Wesson song called Sound Boy Burial, which was one of my favorite rap songs in high school.

[Seth Meyers]

Right. It was sampled on that.

[Andy Samberg]

I'm already so heartbroken. How much more you guys know about rap music than me? And this is just. Everything about this so far has been just heartbreaking because part of what I've. You know, the bargaining I've made in my own head is. Well, of course they know more about rap than you, Seth. It's all they listen to.

[Seth Meyers]

It was high school, and we would just listen all the time when we'd be rolling around when you had nothing else to do. We didn't have smartphones, you remember?

[Akiva Schaffer]

This is also what we filled our brain with while you were learning about politics and history and stuff.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. Well, guess what? I made the wrong choice.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I think it's worked out pretty good.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, I guess that's true.

[Seth Meyers]

Guys, Yoram's calling me. Should I loop him in?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Is he gonna be like, come to dinner?

[Seth Meyers]

All right, caller, you're on live. This is the Lonely Island Seth Meyers podcast.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, shit.

[Seth Meyers]

Fucking hell.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Ah, I. I just was. He forgot. I knew he forgot. I forgot to wear. He forgot.

[Seth Meyers]

What a bunch of it actually timed out good. You said, I forgot, and they yelled. He forgot. It was like you could hear Him.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, it's even better that he can't hear me. Slandering. Well, I just wrapped, but I don't.

[Andy Samberg]

Have my recording equipment.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Are you at the house?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, I'm at. I'm at home. And yeah, we're right in the middle of it, but all right, we're gonna. We're gonna get back to it, but okay, goodbye.

[Andy Samberg]

Goodbye.

[Seth Meyers]

All right, see you.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, my God. If yhorm's life was a movie, he'd be like, I pulled off the heist, got away with the murder. It was the perfect crime. Now I'm gonna walk to the police station and confess.

[Andy Samberg]

I mean, the fact that he called and then it couldn't roll with it. He said, you're calling into the podcast.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I forgot. He could have pretended like, oh, I'm busy, but I'm calling in as contribute.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, like, that one is a perfect time to adjust and say, hey, guys. So proud of you for doing it. Love you. No, he is too honest. He is too honest.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He's too honest. Slash forgot.

[Andy Samberg]

All right, here we go back to Ross.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Firepawn. Babylon is something that is said a lot. I think that's Cableton again. I was listening to a lot of Cableton at this time, Bobby Dawn.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, I don't have the right. I'm going to say it wrong, but it's like basically the. The western system of capitalism and everything, right?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, sorry. Yes. I'm skipping steps.

[Seth Meyers]

No, but that's fine. But. And so they don't. Rastafarian. They don't like that capitalism stuff.

[Akiva Schaffer]

They don't like Babylon.

[Seth Meyers]

They don't like Babylon. So they might say, fire upon it. Okay, here we go.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Rude boy living in the shanty dorms. My roommate.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, rude boy. How would you describe it? Rude boy. And once again, we are not experts, but rude boy is like gangster kids, like, in the streets, Right.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Shanty dorms suck so hard.

[Seth Meyers]

So he's making his own.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Like, it's so fucking disrespectful.

[Seth Meyers]

He's making his, like, struggle story instead of being, like, in the slums of Kingston.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes.

[Seth Meyers]

He's this rude boy who lives in these shanty dorms.

[Andy Samberg]

It looks like a pretty normie dorm.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's pretty nice, honestly. Yeah, it's a nice dorm.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

My roommate Nick is an ignorant bald head.

[Seth Meyers]

So that's Rachel's bald head.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Bald head is like a way of describing, like, a devil. White devil, basically. Okay, gotcha is how I would describe it.

[Seth Meyers]

Clearly just a nice guy doing his homework.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. And yes. This is Rachel Lynn, who helped us with all our videos. Brother Joe.

[Seth Meyers]

He might have really been the college student still. And been the one that got us into it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, he might. This might have been his actual dorm room.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. And then he went on to work in the accounting department at snl. And still does.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Still there. Shout out Joe. We love Joe.

[Seth Meyers]

So there he is.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And we love Rach sire at the 50th.

[Seth Meyers]

So he's an ignorant, bald.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Ignorant bald head. Chant down Babylon midterm essays.

[Andy Samberg]

Then puff from the chalice.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I be made from a sprite. Okay. I mean, Chant Down Babylon is a Bob Marley song. Everyone knows that. Yeah, Great song. We all made a pipe out of a soda can.

[Andy Samberg]

Yep. Sprite can. Nice choice.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. Just mixing college stuff.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. But he calls it a chalice because that's just what they would do.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Still makes me laugh.

[Seth Meyers]

Guys. He's admitting. He's admitting that it was just last week this transformation happened. Bumba clot's like one of the. As far as I understand, it is one of the. You know, it means period blood. And it's one of. It's like motherfucker. It's one of the more offensive words you can say. And I. They did not make us censor that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Didn't flag that one.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, yeah. Seemed pretty psyched when you were telling your parents. Definitely did not seem to understand how bad that word was.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. And we're loving these. We're loving. Casting on these parents also is loving.

[Andy Samberg]

When you were reading the book a week ago, Andy, you're reading by the docks, it seems. Or you're on, like a piercing.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. It's kind of a dick in a box location. Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

But you have a moment where you sort of hit the book with the back of your hand as if everything just made sense.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Everything finally makes sense. Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

You're a real. Oh, there's a cat kid.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes.

[Seth Meyers]

So here's a.50 seconds in, we get your catchphrase. Excuse I.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Excuse I. Yeah. Which I also had when I. By the way. I mean, I auditioned for SNL and did Ross Trent in the audition.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Wow. And it was a totally different version of it. Cause it wasn't a song. It was like the way that you would have done it if it was a character in, like the late 90s where it had a jingle and he was a guy who worked at an office and said excusae. And it was these exact same jokes, but just with way less energy and a lot more space in between them. Oh, hot stepper you do so many.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, hot Stepper. That's. That's one of the songs that crossed over. Any kamozi?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, any kamozi.

[Seth Meyers]

Here comes the hot stepper. That's. I got American radio play. You would recognize it, do you, Right. Do you know what we're talking about, Seth, or.

[Andy Samberg]

No, no.

[Seth Meyers]

If we were fast enough to edit this, where we played it right now for you, you would go, oh, I've heard that at, like, nightclubs.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.

[Andy Samberg]

But do you guys remember, like, Tom Harkin? He ran for president from Iowa.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. The hot stepper. That was whenever he came out of.

[Andy Samberg]

The conventions, it played Tom, the hot stepper.

[Seth Meyers]

Here comes the hot stepper. Murderer. Here I am, Tom har.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Excuse me, Mr. Officer. Many duty crimes.

[Seth Meyers]

Uha. Stepper. You do so many dutty crimes. Dutty is just dirty. Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Also, I like you're doing a little. Just juggling a soccer ball is very nice.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's some Bob Marley. Everyone had the Bob Marley playing soccer poster in college.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Featured prominently in the film.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes, I appreciated that.

[Seth Meyers]

Now, in my mind, nyabingi is a type of drum, but I think it also is a sect of the religion. I don't really know.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I think that's right. I knew there was a time I knew this a lot more.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. You're asking us 20 years after we did that or how many years? Not 20, 18, 16.

[Andy Samberg]

A lot.

[Seth Meyers]

All right, here we go. And you're fully skylarking all the time, Andy. Skylarking. I'm trying to remember a good way to put what skylarking means.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Skylarking is from a song, isn't it?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

From multiple songs.

[Andy Samberg]

And the visual now is you're just smelling your dreadlocks, and even you are having a hard time with the odor.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes. That's a moment of him, like, getting his dreads right and then realizing he's making his head smell bad.

[Seth Meyers]

Real dreads do not have a bad odor. You would have to be very dirty. And it would be. It's like almost a stereotype that they're dirty dreads. Like, it could be offensive. So I want to clarify that we do not think dreads are dirty or smell his do, Ross. Trent's do. Because he's doing it wrong. He's dirty.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's white. Like, white boy dreads traditionally are not well, well kept and are funky.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. I don't even want to make any generalizations.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'll just say, Ross, I'm sure There are white men out there who have nice dreads. I'm sure that exists.

[Andy Samberg]

But Ross Trent.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But wait, so skylarking, obviously. I can't believe I forgot this. It's Horace Andy, my main man.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh yeah, yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Your name song called Skylarking. But the, the, the phrase skylarking is moved in, used in many, many songs all the time. Ooda look ya now Unalooky now is more Capleton. He has a song called Ja Ja City which is one of my favorite dancehall songs ever.

[Seth Meyers]

All right, we've got your horns coming to life here that you hummed. And I mean we see Simon Rich in the center. His show is on Broadway right now.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes.

[Seth Meyers]

And then the other two guys, I'm sad to say I don't remember their names, but they all, both were behind the scenes, SNL tech guys and you know, crew guys. They were all just cast by their collegiate look.

[Andy Samberg]

And I love the look that like Ross Trent's horn section is the guys who are just like band guys.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It actually looks small on my screen and I can't see their faces. Kevin, can you help us out?

[Andy Samberg]

Matt Finkelstein, worked in talent, still has a big job at NBC.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh yeah, Finkelstein.

[Seth Meyers]

Now we got a very important cameo coming up.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay.

[Seth Meyers]

Bald heads suck.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, bald heads suck. Now you're playing three extras like bongos and then Kevin Miller.

[Seth Meyers]

Kevin, do you want to just come in and talk about this experience of holding a deck?

[Andy Samberg]

It was wonderful. I remember getting wardrobe and being on for not even a second. But you guys were looking for bald heads.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. You're the number one of the top four.

[Andy Samberg]

And you had your own duck. That helped. I did, yes. You brought it to work with me that day.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This is Ross Trent taking the phrase crazy bald head literally. There's a song by Bob Marley called Crazy Bald Head. We're going to chase those crazy bald heads out of town.

[Seth Meyers]

He's also the first one that's ever noticed because he's like, have you ever noticed that bald heads suck? This is an observation.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I just made his own. He has no reason to dislike bald heads other than he keeps hearing it.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, he's just trying to separate himself because God forbid someone thinks he's a bald head. Yeah. All right.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But that was. That would be like a self deprecating joke. We would do.

[Seth Meyers]

Me and my bald heads are gonna go get some malt liquor and drink.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, don't mind me.

[Seth Meyers]

Just.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, a bunch of bald heads coming through. Don't mind us.

[Seth Meyers]

Well, Bobby Lot is what pays my bills, so I'll keep enjoying the tunes, fellas.

[Andy Samberg]

So there's two of my favorite shots are coming up here. One, you guys walk up to what just looks like a giant bong coming out of the street. I don't even know to this day. You still see it in New York, what it is.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. What's the purpose of that?

[Andy Samberg]

It's like. It's like a thing you put over a manhole cover. I guess when the earth is leaking.

[Akiva Schaffer]

If you know there's gonna be like. Yeah. An exorbitant amount of steam.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. So it's just not to have the steam pouring out. I guess it's from the subway. Yeah, it's from the subway. But it's a giant orange cone that Ross Trent goes over and it looks like he takes a bong hit off it.

[Seth Meyers]

So amazing.

[Andy Samberg]

That just got lucky. You guys saw it and we're like.

[Seth Meyers]

It'S a giant bong in the middle of New York street. Go over and smoke it. And it just is incredible.

[Akiva Schaffer]

How did I blow out smoke? It was just so cold.

[Seth Meyers]

No, you, you have a. You lit something. Look, you definitely. You smoke some.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, anyway, yeah, we were walking down the street and saw. I think we were driving past and you were like, stop.

[Seth Meyers]

Stop the fucking car.

[Andy Samberg]

And then the next time we see Rouse Trent, he is behind the counter of a cold stone creamery. An actual cold stone creamery, which is a wonderful place to find out. He's toiling part time.

[Seth Meyers]

Dude. This is back when they would just. You could just. We were so low rent. You could walk into a cold stone creamery and be like, hey, can I get behind the counter? For God.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It is a real cold stone.

[Andy Samberg]

Wait, really? This was not prearranged. You just got behind the cold stone screamery like that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I don't know if anyone called ahead, but we definitely just walked out.

[Seth Meyers]

If it was. It was like Nick Malardi or Dina just calling and being like, hey, can we come by today? It was like they would have had no warning. It was pre arranged. And he was like, oh yeah. The one on this one said we can go back there. Maybe, maybe it was. We'd have to ask them. Let's ask them for a voice.

[Andy Samberg]

That's like when people are like, you know, before 9 11, you could just walk on a plane. Like that's how this feels now the idea that you could just walk into a gold creamery and shoot something for us.

[Seth Meyers]

You know what? Let's, let's, let's make sure Dina listens and she'll. She'll have the receipts on that.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, great.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But this is maybe my favorite line in the song.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, you toil.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Me toil part time at Jack Coldstone Creamery.

[Seth Meyers]

Just, just combining the most mundane.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Every single part of it is wrong. Yeah, it makes me happy.

[Seth Meyers]

Dub dub is like a instrumental style of reggae. Again, I, I, somebody that listens to this is going to know more about reggae and correct us. But I know when you buy like a dub plate, like essentially a lot of times the people that make rhythms, which are their beats, will actually let many different reggae artists do a song on the same rhythm. So you might hear 10 different songs that all have the exact same music and then one might become a hit. But you could do a whole DJ set for 30 minutes where the music never changes. Just different artists come on to do their song on top of it. And then dub style is basically those, you know, like instrumentals and you can buy whole albums that you've liked and now it's in dub style. And sometimes they will put in very quietly the lyrics that used to be there or just like the, the ad lib hypes. So you might be listening to a song you've known and then every four bars it just goes like, like an echo of the last syllable. And then there's people that just made whole albums of just vibe albums that were like, King Tubby was probably the most famous one to us at least, where you would just buy whole albums. And it's just the music with very little lyrics.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I feel like Lee Scratch Perry did a lot of dub.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But yeah, it's like real stoney stuff where it's a lot of like echo on everything. And roller skates.

[Seth Meyers]

Roller skates again.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Now a DVD of Cool Runnings is one of two things that Jost pitched great. And here's what happened. We wrote the song in the summer when we were making our album and then we started putting it together to do the video at snl. And we ourselves said this could use a few more SNL audience friendly jokes. And maybe even took it to the table or maybe just played it for Jost and a few people and they pitched us a few ideas. One of the things he pitched us was a DVD of Cool Runnings, which we were like, yes, perfect. Something that everyone watching will know what it is. And it's also incredibly off base, so it fits the character.

[Seth Meyers]

Did we have a different joke there? We must have had something there.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We did. I don't remember what it was, though. And then we'll talk about murder. She wrote in a second. But the other one is the biggest laugh in the audience by far, which is when Ross Trent walks past the real dreads and lowers his voice for Bike Path of righteousness. And that was the other thing Joh pitched. And I remember after it aired, going up to him and being like, thank you. That was such a great pitch.

[Seth Meyers]

And him going, oh, it's like the linchpin of the entire video. It's the moment, the whole point of the whole thing comes across to everybody.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Which is even Ross Trent is incredibly obtuse. But even he knows not to be full Rasta in front of those dudes.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes.

[Andy Samberg]

He's walking down the street. And so obviously. Yeah. When you recorded in the summer, you didn't have a moment. It would have made no sense to have you just mumble.

[Seth Meyers]

No. On Monday of this week, it went. It was loud, right? Bike path of righteousness.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. Please guide me upon your bike path of righteousness. And then I think it still. Is that on the album, right? Or no, did we go with the, like, lower version?

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, I don't know. That's a good question. I know. We debated that.

[Andy Samberg]

And what is it? It's just like four or five actual.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Here.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, let's.

[Seth Meyers]

Let's get to them real quick. But, yeah, so Murder She, Rose Shakademus and Pliers have a very famous song called Murder She Wrote.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, yeah. You know that one, Seth?

[Andy Samberg]

I do.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I do know. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

You actually do. Yeah. There's. There's a bunch of these dance. All ones that you have heard in your nightclub days where it would do a dance. All set.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So, Seth, I was gonna say, will you sing Murder She Wrote real quick?

[Andy Samberg]

I do feel like I remember it, but I don't feel like I'll be able to sing it. I do remember Jessica was on, like, a bike. I feel like it was instrumental. And she was going through a little New England town where all the murders happened.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, okay.

[Andy Samberg]

Are you talking about the theme song, the Murders writte.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, I like that. You said Jessica. That's right.

[Andy Samberg]

Murder she Wrote. How did it go?

[Seth Meyers]

That's close.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Murder she Wrote.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Murder she Wrote.

[Andy Samberg]

No, I wasn't. That's it. I do. I do remember that song.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

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[Seth Meyers]

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[Seth Meyers]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Seth Meyers]

What part of the deer is the stick?

[Andy Samberg]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

Yaga yaga yaga Yow.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Who's Yaga yaga yaga? Yeah. Is that Anthony B? I think that might be Anthony B.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, it's dance hall for sure.

[Seth Meyers]

It could be Beanie man, but I think it's Anthony B. Again, our listeners will clearly put it all. Correct me and let me know.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, it's Anthony B.

[Seth Meyers]

We got that whole class, so to say. Are you there, Jah? It's me, Ross Trant. They were great. It was definitely Rachel's brother's class.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I can't believe I don't know where they all are now. But thank you. It was perfect.

[Seth Meyers]

And of course that's the famous reggae book are you there? By Judy Bloom, Margaret by Judy Blume.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But again, that is something Ross Trent would have in his. In his wheelhouse, you know.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, he definitely knows that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But that's a reference for him.

[Seth Meyers]

Hoping his boobs come in.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You know, there were about five seconds where we debated calling the song Are you there, Ja? It's me, Ross Trent. And then we were like, what are you talking about? It's way too long. Oh, new location for our horn section.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, we went to the real library and played and fake played the horns. I wonder what college this was. It's somewhere in, in Manhattan.

[Andy Samberg]

It's very fun to see these, these three. I mean, I say with love, these three nerds rocking it out.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, leaning into that. Leaning into being nerdy.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, they know what they're doing. All right. So we just watched, you know, him walking past six real Jamaican Rastafaris and Nick Malardi who worked with Dina and would help out on the shorts when we were like, hey, how can we find people that are not background actors who then we dress up and it's going to look like A fake SNL version. How do we. And he was like, oh, no problem. And I forget if he lived in the Bronx or Brooklyn. He's like, there's a store right by me and there's always a bunch of them hanging out. I go there sometimes. I forget what he said he bought there. He. He knew exactly where to go and he went there. I don't know what conversation they had, but he immediately had six real Rastas who were super nice. And we told them what the bit was and they're like, yeah, but they had thick as. I can't. I'm not even gonna pretend to be able to do it. The thickest true Jamaican accents and were super down for it and thought it was funny and did it perfect.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I remember them. Them being like, yeah, we're cool. It's funny. But then after we did the first take of it, them really laughing. Cause they like fully understood that. They were like, we know this guy.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

It was a little bit nerve wracking and embarrassing on our end because it was happening in real life. And here they are and we're like, we're gonna be walking by and playing this reggae song and he's gonna do this and. And there's no.

[Akiva Schaffer]

They were great.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. And they were wonderful. And it was. Yeah. Props to Nick.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Stanahoy. I think is Michael Rose from Black Uhuru.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, I think that's right.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. I can't remember at this time exactly, but that's my memory of it.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, fuck. Because I also almost picture Barat and Levy doing it in black roses.

[Andy Samberg]

But no quick thing. In the most played section of the song. It is on YouTube. It is definitely you walking by the. The real.

[Akiva Schaffer]

The real ross.

[Andy Samberg]

The real McCoys.

[Akiva Schaffer]

The real Ross. Dudes.

[Andy Samberg]

And this is from Kevin Miller. I texted Dina and she said Joe Lynn got permission to shoot in his classroom and in his dorm room. Fordham University.

[Seth Meyers]

There you go. And shout out to Joe.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

And you guys just rolled up to. You just rolled up on stone cold stone in Times Square and asked if you could shoot and that you guys were real cowboys.

[Seth Meyers]

There we go. It's a important line in the song. But I guess we had our backup plan, which is that you would just stand on the street and they can't stop us on the sidewalk. And you were just going to point to the sidewalk.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, it was going to be a magnolia. Siz.

[Seth Meyers]

It was going to work no matter what. But the fact that we got to just go behind because there was a bunch of teenagers working there. They're like, sure. Then, yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

I wonder about the Times. The Times Square. Cold Stone does not have the head of corporate on site.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I wonder if we got a shot of me outside of Cold Stone first Keev and probably as our back. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Red Stripe is of course, Jamaican Beer just doing another. That's another Cool Runnings, basically. Mm.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And fussing and fighting is a song.

[Seth Meyers]

Shabba is Shabba Ranks. He's just a famous artist.

[Andy Samberg]

I'm a ragamuffin and culture.

[Seth Meyers]

Now you're on the Judy Blume book. That's a nice. Made it a call. A visual callback to a joke from a little while ago.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And so this line is two songs. We're just smushing them all together at the end here. All stuff we love. Night Nurse is a song by Gregory Isaacs that we love. Plant. Plant the Corn is a Anthony B song, I think. Is it called Plant the Corn or is it called Raid the Barn? But nobody want to plant the corn. Everybody want to raid the barn. And that's a fucking great song.

[Seth Meyers]

It's a great song. No one wants to do the work, but they all want to eat the food. You know, yours kind of makes it sexual that your nice nurse, your night nurse never wants to plant the corn.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's just. He doesn't know what he's talking about. He's just quoting something stuff. Which is also, admittedly, what we were kind of doing.

[Seth Meyers]

Skiddy wo back to Baron Levy.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, yeah. Sk wo is Baron Levy. I mean, there's a. There's a hint of e mouse throughout the song, but no, like, overt reference in that same way. But if you. If you thought eouse, you're not off.

[Seth Meyers]

I think there was some yellow man like zunga, zunga, zunga, zang that we were debating on the time and just couldn't find a place to put it in. Yeah, like. Like all the people that did good, scatty nonsense stuff.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So there you have it.

[Seth Meyers]

All right. That was it. I think we've been waiting however many years to. To tell people what was actually in it. I'm sure on genius rap, genius.com or whatever. I'm sure they have some of that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes.

[Andy Samberg]

It is a very ship in a bottle construction. It's a very funny idea. Very nice of you to share with us all. It is a real credit to your knowledge of the genre. I know you love when I say stuff like that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It makes us so happy.

[Seth Meyers]

Jorm. Jormy just came. Here he comes to your house. Yes.

[Andy Samberg]

Hi, guys. Hi, bud. What's up?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yoram.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, that was an abrupt ending. Hi, everybody. This is Seth, and what I'm doing right now is called a post record, where days after I return to the podcast studio to leave some final thoughts. We got a little off the rails at the end of this episode. Basically, what happened is Yoram realized he had missed the podcast and then drove over to Akiva's house. He then came into Akiva's house, and Andy and I, needless to say, were relentlessly busting on him for that choice, but he couldn't hear us because he didn't have headphones in, so Akiva would have to hear our burns and then repeat them to Jorma. The reality is, it was a lot of fun as it was happening, but it did not make for a very good podcast. It was an abrupt end. So I'm here to tell you that, yes, we did not get to any of the Jon Hamm episode, which is an golden episode from that era. So we're gonna talk about that in our next episode. It's gonna be a standalone episode about everything else in that marvelous 90 minutes of television. We did not discuss if Ross Trent was a Criterion episode. We'll get to that as well. But you know what? Sound off in the comments. Why not do that as well? Thank you, everybody. We love you too. See you soon. Next week. Why not?