Shy Ronnie

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast

Episode: Shy Ronnie

Date: September 30, 2025
Participants: Seth Meyers, Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone

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Episode Overview

This episode centers on the behind-the-scenes creation, filming, and legacy of the SNL Digital Short “Shy Ronnie,” featuring Rihanna (or, as the group discusses, "Rihanna"). The Lonely Island—Andy, Akiva, Jorma—and Seth Meyers reminisce about working with Rihanna, the chaos of the shoot, comedic anxieties, and how the short nearly didn’t happen. Along the way, the show’s signature, exuberant, tangent-filled banter covers award show inside jokes, comedy process, fan responses, and plenty of SNL lore.

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Main Discussion Points & Insights

Warm-Up Banter & Awards Comedy

• [00:09–08:50] The gang opens with riffing on Jorma's trophy shelf, joke awards, and the business of industry accolades.
  • Notable Quotes:
    • “You have to pay for these awards—what a racket.” (Seth, 04:14)
    • “If you’re gonna win any, get the Peabody.” (Seth, 05:12)
  • Jorma shares about being at Rusk Rehabilitation, pitching Daniel Radcliffe, and pissing in a bottle during Zoom calls.
  • Banter about “crystal butt plug” shaped trophies, paying for physical Webby Awards, fake competition with other podcast hosts.

Fan Interaction & Community

• [13:10–16:35] Jorma gets sentimental about receiving supportive mail from fans during recovery, interspersed with the group’s usual irreverence.
  • Quote: “I’m just now going through the stacks. I’m not gonna cry when I say this…people have written such nice things…It really means the world.” (Jorma, 14:20)
  • Also, shout-outs and jokes about peculiar fan messages (“penis” on a postcard).

Nostalgia & Comedy Collaboration

• [17:01–24:24] Discussions veer into SNL trivia, memorable collaborations (e.g., Phil Collins & Bone Thugs, Nelly & Tim McGraw), and “Two Worlds Collide” moments in pop culture.
  • SNL supporting cast sketches get some love, e.g., Roger Brush, Kristen Wiig’s recurring characters.

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Main Segment: The Making of "Shy Ronnie"

Genesis & Creative Process

• [28:00–31:14]
  • The crew recounts the week they wrote “Shy Ronnie,” originally struggling with less-inspired ideas ("Planet Ear"), then writing and demoing "Shy Ronnie" late Thursday night, right before the deadline.
  • Anxiety over reusing the “Sax Man” sketch structure but decided to roll with it.
  • Quote: “We wrote and recorded it—I want to say in less than an hour.” (Andy, 29:27)

Booking & Collaborating with Rihanna

• [31:17–34:13]
  • Early week excitement at Rihanna’s real enthusiasm (“She was the perfect audience for us”—Akiva, 31:22).
  • Revealed the correct pronunciation (“Rihanna”) and her unbothered attitude about being mispronounced.

The Infamous All-Nighter & Near-Disaster

• [34:12–41:39]
  • Production chaos: Crew waited 8 hours for Rihanna to arrive.
  • “At 8 o’clock, the crew has been sitting on their hands for eight hours…and we have to very nicely go upstairs to calmly record the song…” (Akiva, 35:32)
  • Her team sets up an atmospheric, candle-lit recording session in their office. Rihanna nails her vocals in one take, copying Andy’s demo inflections perfectly.
  • “Nobody can say lines the same way…but she perfectly did.” (Akiva, 37:22)
• Filming Constraints:
  • Shooting began at 10pm with only 45 minutes of Rihanna’s time.
  • Kids cast were shot after her; minimal coverage.
  • “I was so convinced we hadn’t got it…I just went home and went to bed.” (Akiva, 41:21)
  • The lack of footage made editing easier: “It cut together so fast—because I had no choices!” (Akiva, 42:57)

Premise and Performance

• [41:58–47:21]
  • The group admits they were certain it would bomb. Their embarrassment as the cut came together and got big laughs (“Our faces just fell…we sucked, but it worked!” Andy, 45:56).
  • “You almost feel like the character she’s playing would only give Shy Ronnie one location.” (Seth, 47:49)

Reflecting on Rihanna's Star Power

• [50:02–51:34]
  • Universal awe at Rihanna’s subtle physicality, on-screen charisma, and acting instincts.
  • “She’s just so magnetic. As soon as we started shooting, we were like, Oh god.” (Andy, 33:54)
  • “I believe this is the best a human being has ever looked on film.” (Seth, 33:37)
  • “There’s a lot of truth in Shy Ronnie for me and in all of us.” (Andy, 50:46)

Mini Watchalong & Technical Talk

• [53:10–62:34]
  • Running commentary on the short’s best moments, sync errors, and editing perfectionism.
  • “She again heard this song for the first time an hour ago, recorded it 45 minutes, and has to now remember all the things to say…” (Akiva, 54:47)
  • Jorma, Andy, and Akiva swap jokes on frame-accuracy in music video editing; contrasts with classic musical films.

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Notable Quotes & Segments (with timestamps)

• On Creative Stress and Breakthroughs:
  • “We tortured ourselves through the week…finally we’re like, should we just record [Shy Ronnie]? And then we recorded it, wrote it and recorded it in less than an hour.” (Andy, 29:27)
• On Rihanna’s Professionalism:
  • “Her people came in, lit candles, took over the office, and in 30 minutes, she had a finished comedic vocal, in character, with every inflection.” (Akiva, 36:05)
• On Group Doubt:
  • “I was so pissed. You’re like, fuck it, who cares? I was so convinced we didn’t get it.” (Akiva, 41:58)
• On Realizing the Short Worked:
  • “As soon as the reveal happened…the crowd laughed really hard, we looked at each other and our faces just fell—we were humiliated. It was gonna work.” (Andy, 45:56)
• On Comedy Craft:
  • “Maybe we don’t need as much—being stuck in one place is kind of the comedy…sometimes all you need is a strong setting and the cast.” (Akiva, 47:00)
• On Awards & Recognition:
  • “If you’re gonna win any, get the Peabody.” (Seth, 05:12)

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Fun Tangents & Running Gags

• [00:50, 10:45] Production war stories about Zooms from hospital beds, trophy nonsense, awards as "crystal butt plugs."
• [25:00–26:30] Mock debate about selling homemade Lonely Island shirts and the mechanics of Shopify.
• [58:05] Seth’s “Logic Police” catch: “If Shy Ronnie hadn’t choked, it was a wildly inappropriate song for those kids.”
• [67:19] On performing Shy Ronnie (or Just Two Guys) live—audiences still go wild for the awkwardness.
• [69:04] Jake Tapper’s weird fan art (“You got cubed!”).

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Episode Structure & Timestamps

• Intro & Trophy Laughs: 00:00–11:00
• Community, Comments, Tangents: 13:00–28:00
• Shy Ronnie Deep Dive: 28:00–49:00
  • Includes creative genesis, Rihanna stories, production chaos, and lessons learned.
• Watchalong & Technical Breakdown: 53:10–62:34
• Live Legacy, SNL Sketch Lore, and Next Episode Teases: 66:32–73:41

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Closing Thoughts & Next Time

• The “Shy Ronnie” sketch is recognized as a high point in the Lonely Island’s SNL roster; its creation involved both disaster and unexpected creative serendipity, and Rihanna’s star power looms large over the memories.
• The team teases upcoming discussions about other SNL favorites and less-remembered digital shorts, promising a "cleanup episode" with deep dives into sketches they didn’t write but love.

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Essential Takeaway

"It was a real lesson...maybe we don't need as much. Sometimes all you need is a strong premise, the right people, and just let comedy happen—even if you think you've blown it."
—Akiva Schaffer (47:00)

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For SNL and comedy aficionados, this episode is a masterclass in both backstage anxiety and the accidental alchemy of comedic gold. And for those who love “Shy Ronnie,” it’s all the proof you need that sometimes panic, exhaustion, and luck are the secret ingredients.

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Transcript

[A]

It's the Lonely island and Seth Meyers podcast.

[B]

Rolling.

[C]

All right, we're fucking back, guys.

[B]

I'm gonna pop off first. This is rare for me. Yorm, you're sitting up and clothed and looking like a normal, great dude in your home.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And, Andy, I clothed myself.

[A]

Whoa, brother.

[D]

I wish I had enough point news to my music.

[C]

It took a while to put on the underwear, but.

[D]

Oh, I was.

[A]

Damn it.

[D]

I was trying to hit a Plaza one.

[B]

You gave him a Debbie Downer.

[A]

You accidentally Debbie Downer him.

[D]

It was also accurate.

[C]

Yeah, it works.

[D]

It works.

[A]

I. I'm also enjoying that Yorm is sitting in front of his wall of trophies. Oh, it's a little show. Better.

[C]

I didn't realize that.

[D]

Is that where your Zoom is set up for meetings right now?

[C]

Yeah, this is a new shelf, so I'm. I apologize for this. But, like. But this is also Mari's trophies, which are. There's a lot I didn't get any. Rotten Tomatoes. Certified Fresh trophies, guys. None of that.

[A]

Gotcha.

[C]

That doesn't happen to me.

[B]

I didn't know you could get those.

[C]

Yeah, I would say it's the ugliest of the awards.

[D]

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

[B]

Is that something you need to, like, order, like the Peabody?

[C]

It might be.

[A]

You probably do have to order it. You've got a. I mean, Palm Springs. Certified fresh.

[B]

Certified fresh.

[D]

A lot of them are certified fresh. But I wonder, is it. Do they just give you an award if it's over 95?

[A]

Sorry, Andy. That. I'm like, I'm sure there's one, Andy. Let's start with top star, Pop star. Certified Fresh. Are you subconsciously, Norman, knowing that you're taking Zooms? And a lot of people, before they get on with you, are like, I think he's basically dead. That you want to kind of frame yourself in front of your past successes?

[C]

No, no, no. So when I was doing Zooms, I was doing them at a place called Rusk Rehabilitation center in New York. Shout out everyone there and all the nurses who were unbelievable, and thank you so much for everything. Seriously. And. But no, I was doing Zooms in my hospital bed because I was like, this will show dedication. So, like, I. And the funniest one I did was another name dropping story. I was doing a Zoom with Mr. Daniel Radcliffe and a bunch of other people. And then I ended the Zoom and was like, you guys, this is the first time that I've peed during a Zoom and I held up my bottle of urine.

[D]

Oh, you showed them. You did that for us? Last podcast and I didn't like it if you had asked, should I do this on business Zooms? I would have been, wait, have I.

[C]

Already told this story? And I'm already forgetting because I'm back to.

[D]

No, he did it to us.

[A]

I think he also told us.

[C]

Jesus Christ, guys.

[B]

Well, you definitely showed us your piss.

[D]

No, I think he just did this.

[A]

This is now. This is now. We've reached the part in the movie Awakenings where everybody just goes back to normal. Like, Norm had a moment.

[D]

Like he had, like, too sad.

[A]

I can't even post ladder where his memory was just sharper than it's ever been. Yeah, that's.

[B]

Homer took the crayon out of his brain.

[D]

Yeah. Yeah.

[C]

Well, back in, guys.

[D]

Back in Yorm. What's the. What's the crystal, for lack of a better word? I hate saying this, but the crystal butt plug.

[B]

You hate saying that.

[D]

Sure you do. Keith. It pains me to say this, but what's the crystal butt plug?

[B]

It hopefully pains me to say this.

[A]

But something that pained you. It came out real smooth, Keev.

[B]

Yeah, hopefully it pains me just a little bit, but not too much.

[D]

He picked up a crystal butt plug. But what's funny is it's not even the crystal butt plug I was looking at. There's multiple.

[C]

Oh, there's multiple.

[A]

A lot of these awards are crystal.

[D]

Yeah. What's that one you want? The one you're holding?

[C]

This one is S I yff eyes of award. It says it's from Korea. I don't know how she won it, but it was from Seoul and it was for international feature or something. It was Diary of a Teenage Girl.

[D]

Okay. And then what's the one right next to it? That also.

[C]

The super sharp one?

[D]

Yeah, I guess. Maybe it's. But it also looks like a see through diamond.

[C]

This guy.

[D]

Yeah, there. That's the crystal bump look.

[C]

I was looking at Monclair Film Festival.

[D]

Yorm. Does that Certified Fresh award say on it, like, for getting 95% on or something? Does it say something specific one second?

[A]

No, it's.

[C]

It's very basic.

[D]

Maybe that was just a long time ago. They do that.

[A]

I used to have an animated show called the Awesomes on Hulu. Andy did a voice. Andy played a Aquaman character named Seaman.

[D]

Yep.

[A]

And the jokes were what you think, But I remember we got nominated for some animation award, and this happens a lot. For anyone who's listening. Andy alluded to the fact you have to pay for these physical awards. I remember they were like, hey, you didn't win. But you guys want to buy the nominee awards. It's literally like, what a racket. And so anyway, I have two of them.

[D]

Okay, good. Congrats.

[C]

Yes, sir. Sign right here.

[B]

Yeah, 10 grand well spent.

[A]

I'm going to go very far away. By the way, definitely got paid less for the awesomes than 10 grand.

[C]

Well, by the way, didn't we. We all got Peabody's because we were at SNL when I do.

[B]

I did buy my Peabody.

[A]

I like my Peabody.

[C]

And what is yours say on it?

[A]

Because I also, by the way, I am in my childhood home. I brought my daughter to visit my parents this weekend, and my parents have the framed Peabody certificate. It actually, like, looks like a proper thing.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

Yeah. Well, the Peabody Award, I think, is actually quite nice. It has this little penny guy.

[A]

So if you're gonna win any, get the Peabody.

[C]

But check out what mine says.

[D]

Oh, it says you're a genius. It says, Yormon Tacone, writer genius.

[C]

You could put anything you wanted on the Peabody. Which seems erroneous to me to.

[D]

Yeah, they shouldn't.

[A]

Well, I think they were like, nobody's going to take advantage of it. And they did not account for Mr. Yormoteconi for sarcasm.

[C]

I wish I had spelled genius incorrectly. No, that's not.

[B]

That would have been more of a Y move.

[D]

Kevin says we are Webby winners. If you recall, we won the I believe the audience award for best ensemble hosts Ensemble.

[B]

And we're nominated for hottest web hosts. We got sent that by someone in our text thread.

[A]

Yeah, People magazine. Hottest. Hottest podcast hosts.

[B]

We're up against Bowen and Matt.

[C]

Oh, fuck. I hope you win. Fuck.

[D]

That is actually tough competition. But my. But his question was, I noticed you.

[B]

Were fraternizing with the competition online this week.

[A]

Oh, yeah, I was. I didn't know, by the way, I was fraternizing. Before we knew that we were head to head on the Hot podcast.

[C]

Oh, you would never do it again.

[B]

Was I missing an r? Fratronizing fratress.

[A]

You wanted me to be fratriciding.

[B]

Yeah, I'm always. I always want you to fratricide.

[D]

For those that don't know, Seth did a daytime drinking special segment with Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers, the podcast host of Las Culturistas.

[B]

Yorms Ladder tried to commit frappercide.

[D]

Oh, that's good.

[C]

Frapper.

[B]

I was just trying to get it in there. I didn't wanna interrupt you, Keith, but I had it in the hopper and I just. I needed to get it out.

[C]

He did wanna interrupt you.

[A]

By the way, between Andy said in that he's been sitting, like, slowly going cross eyed.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

I have a pained look on my face, like, oh, I gotta say this bad thing.

[C]

By the way, I. For the last, like, minute, I've been like, is there an award for unsung on somme? And I was like, no, this isn't funny enough to say unsung on. I think that would be a fun award.

[B]

Give me an example of an unsung ensemble.

[C]

The cast of Taxi.

[D]

Yes.

[C]

Nobody liked that show.

[B]

I think they're pretty sung, though.

[A]

I think they're pretty sung back in the day.

[B]

I like where you're going, but they're fairly sung.

[C]

Oh, yeah. There are no.

[A]

There are, of course, no lyrics sung in the theme song to Taxi, except for the time that Maya and Keenan sang.

[D]

And then he sang this song is in Detax.

[C]

There's also a really good Souls of Mischief song, Bside Underground song, where they use that as a sample.

[B]

Oh, my God, you're wrong, Seth.

[A]

Yeah, Akiva. There's already like, seven tangents I have to return to, but I do believe that Akiva was starting by wanting to ask, did we have to pay for our webbies?

[D]

That is what. That's what the captain question really was.

[A]

And the answer was yes. We had a resounding yes in the chat.

[D]

That's why I do not have one. So I'm assuming. I'm assuming that's because I didn't pay for it.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Did any of you pay for yours?

[C]

What a prude this guy is.

[A]

I don't know if I have one.

[C]

I don't either.

[A]

But the webby, I will say for what the webby is. Looks nice. It's like a spirally coil. I think it's pretty good for those. I do want to say that I went day drinking with Bowen and Matt. It was delightful.

[C]

You whore.

[A]

Not the drunkest I've ever been. By the way, this does tie into today's short because the drunkest I ever was was with your co starring in Shyron. But I will say that I walked out and I was like, I'm feeling pretty good now. Don't get me wrong, I was very drunk, but I'm like, I'm feeling pretty good about this one. And then got a text from Kimmel being like, I'm suspended in the future. Looks dark.

[B]

Oh, God, it was.

[A]

This is bad timing. During that shoot at the end of it, as I literally walked out the door.

[C]

Oh, God, that's horrible.

[B]

Well, at least it wasn't during it wasn't during.

[A]

That's true.

[C]

What happened with him? Did he get back on the air?

[A]

We don't want to tell. We don't want to spoil it for you.

[C]

Okay. I've been catching up on South Parks.

[A]

Guys, hey, this is completely off topic, but can I just say, and maybe, by the way, knowing you guys and your connection, you might be. Haven't already gotten a taste of it. It is palpably exciting when there's a new Paul Thomas Anderson movie.

[B]

Oh, man.

[C]

Oh, my God. I'm trying to see it, dying to see it.

[A]

Okay, so nobody here has seen it?

[B]

No.

[D]

No.

[A]

Okay. I mean, but isn't it just, like, a feeling that we used to have a lot more and now it's very rare? And it's so cool to be like.

[B]

There'S a movie coming out I'm actually excited to see.

[D]

Yeah, well.

[C]

Well, there's that, but, like. But for me, it goes double because I'm just. I've just been excited to see which places in my neighborhood are wheelchair accessible. Like, add. Like, what is it? Ada. ADA accessible.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

So I'm just excited to go to a movie and actually be able to sit in the wheelchair seat. You're gonna have lots of room, by the way. Not a lot of places in Brooklyn. Super weird, chiller, accessible.

[D]

I'm surprised, actually.

[C]

That was the word I was trying to say.

[B]

I also think you might want to see if they have ADHD accessible theaters.

[C]

Yeah, I'm not taking my pills for that, by the way, Andy. Right now, because I'm taking so many.

[B]

Pills, it stifles my true vision.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

When they. When they listed off what I was taking at Rusk, I was like, oh, wowzers. And they were, you want to put.

[A]

This ADHD medicine on there?

[C]

I was like, no, thank you.

[A]

That might be. Wow.

[C]

No, don't put that in the cauldron. We haven't got a bunch of shit to do. Magic.

[A]

Do you think Mari was like, hey, if you're putting together a pain cocktail, could you slip a couple of these in there? Because I love to get that, dude.

[B]

Like, the kind of shit that, like, makes them schedule better.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

The first thing I did the minute I got home was go to the Dominican barbers right around the corner, and just, like, I had to get forced in the door. And then the guy was, like, trying to cut my hair on the wheelchair, and I was like, no, thank you. I know exactly what I'm doing. Like, hobbled over to the chair, and then. And then my wife was like, Please. Why? This is exactly how this happened in the first place.

[A]

The best is like, how's your arm doing? It's like, good. He's fallen off a couple of ladders during recovery.

[D]

It's not helping.

[B]

He said he'd much rather that than accept help from anyone.

[A]

Yeah, I'm gonna race through because this is a big one and I wanna get to it. I'm gonna race through some notes that I enjoyed. People did think it was just a preempt, though.

[B]

Seth, I enjoy you. Okay, go on.

[C]

Sweet.

[A]

It was definitely. People thought it was very cruel that Yoram had to read a life insurance ad right after he almost died.

[C]

I wanted to, though. I requested that.

[A]

Hey, you did a read, by the way. Look. Look at this. Like old school notes. What a sweetie. If you did a fish read and people said, I'm surprised you did not say shockingly high grade fish. Felt like it was right there for you.

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

One must prepare.

[D]

I didn't even make the connection as a bit of a fishmonger myself.

[B]

Keith, you wanna just do it acapella, Me and you right now?

[D]

The whole song?

[B]

Hey, sushi glory hole. Imagine that. Ready?

[D]

That was. Yeah.

[B]

Let's do the whole song acapella. And then people can put their own beats under it. I had a little bit of job right before this. I have to confess to my three.

[D]

Bros that I had a little bit of job. Just a pitcher job to get me through the cast.

[B]

I wasn't looking forward to it, but now maybe it's my favorite great.

[A]

My favorite moment of maybe all the pods was you getting super shitty with yourm at the end of last pod about brick breaker and then immediately having to do a 180.

[C]

I did like that. I like that. Live. When I heard it live, it was wonderful.

[A]

Live it was because it was the truest 180. Like, you did not try to grab it.

[D]

Oh, wait.

[B]

Oh, wait.

[C]

Oh, wait.

[B]

Sometimes you're wrong.

[A]

You did not make any excuses.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, Seth. I'm famous for my great apology.

[A]

Somebody said, these are two comments that I just. I'm gonna read them without editorializing and then. Andy, you can respond. Akiva's daughter has officially done more ad reads than Andy.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Oh, that's a burn.

[A]

And then another one. I love that Yorm literally cheated death and still did an ad read instead of Andy.

[C]

Andy loves that too.

[A]

All right. Sorry I made. I did promise. Addie, you want to say hi real quick? And I'm going to say. You know what? I'll just have her Say something nice about pistachios so this can count as the new ad.

[B]

Oh, that rips. Just further shaming me.

[A]

Say hi to my friends. Hi.

[D]

Hi, Addy.

[A]

Hey, can you say bye pistachios, everybody?

[C]

Bye pistachio poop.

[A]

Every time you come over.

[C]

Oh, you improv'd it.

[B]

I still think it counts and I think it's a good marketing strategy.

[A]

You have to say bye pistachios.

[C]

Bye pistachio poop.

[A]

Oh, these are unusable. We're never gonna get paid.

[C]

Oh my God.

[A]

All right, bye.

[B]

Who would make me buy pistachios?

[A]

Bye. See you tomorrow. I don't think you will see him tomorrow.

[B]

See you tomorrow.

[C]

It's hard enough to figure out Fridays.

[B]

Man, oh man. The job might be wearing off.

[C]

Wait, Seth, have you gone through all of your comments?

[A]

No, I've got a few more, but please jump in, Yoram. I've got a few more.

[C]

I only wanted to say that, like, I'm just now getting through. Since I'm home finally. I'm just now getting through like the stuff stacks of.

[A]

Oh yeah.

[C]

It's so overwhelming, honestly to me. I'm just gonna not. I'm not gonna cry when I say this, but like, but people have written such nice things. I also had somebody on a postcard just write the word penis and I thought that was very funny. The only thing that they said.

[B]

And I'm gonna try not to cry.

[D]

On a card.

[A]

I mean, I think it was penis. The end got super smudgy from what.

[D]

I cried all over. That's just genius.

[A]

Could have been pesky.

[B]

It might have been the penitentiary that he was from, but.

[C]

But now people have gotten just such nice presents and cards and letters and I really. I'm not going to be able to write back to all of them, but thank you guys so much. It really means the world to me. And I've definitely teared up quite a few of them. So anyway, thank you.

[A]

I, you know, we set up a P.O. box because we have one for the show. And so the stuff comes to us first. And so I'm seeing like bags of it. And it's genuinely touching to me as well, Yoram. And I get choked up. Not because of that. I choked up because right next to it is the stuff they take out of my P.O. box. And it's usually like one postcard with like a moth flying around it.

[B]

You get choked up cuz you're sad.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Cuz I'm like, nobody got me.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Cuz it's just like By. By the way, this hat was also a present. I don't know if you guys can see.

[A]

Oh, yeah. Solid. He got the queen. Be solid.

[D]

Queen be solid.

[B]

Yeah, I needed two hints today. We can get that out of the way so people can log off.

[D]

So not a. Not a quibby.

[A]

Do you know another way to say solid on queen B? What? I completed the New York Times mini.

[B]

Now that is some fucking puzzle humor.

[C]

That is so deeply nerdy.

[A]

Wait, I'm going to go.

[B]

Seth. No exaggeration. I'm here for it.

[D]

Shocking.

[C]

Oh, my God, Seth.

[D]

All told. All told, it's giving me life.

[A]

Speaking of giving me life, somebody read a comment under the YouTube comments for Two Worlds Collide. Somebody said, this brought me so much joy, especially when the world is a dumpster fire. And the comment underneath it was like, just remember when the world is a dumpster fire. Check in the dumpster and you might find a wig.

[C]

Oh, my God, I love everybody.

[A]

You know what? I'm gonna give you a task, Yorm. I do feel like I would like to see your first approach at a Not a gonk T shirt. Not a gonk.

[C]

Okay. Yeah. Thank you.

[A]

I mean, right? Like, just let's. We, as the other three of us, would love to see what your balance is on that.

[C]

Okay. Okay.

[A]

A couple other real life two worlds collides that have been brought up to me. Nelly and Tim McGraw.

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

That was maybe the truest, maybe closest to this.

[B]

Yeah, that's a fucking.

[C]

I forgot about that one.

[B]

I had forgotten about it entirely.

[A]

Phil Collins and Bone Thugs in Harmony.

[B]

Is that's not real. That's AI.

[A]

I think it is real.

[B]

Nah, bro, that's AI.

[A]

I googled it because it didn't seem real to me.

[B]

It's just the Tarzan soundtrack.

[C]

And is it real Tarzan?

[A]

That's fresh on my mind because it's called home and it's a Bone Thugs in Harmony song.

[B]

And is sampling him or he's singing a new part for them.

[A]

I don't know. He's in the video. I literally just pulled up the YouTube thugs and harpoons.

[B]

They sampled him and he's in the video. Like Bob Dylan in the Gone Till November video for Wyclef. Or like, he's like collabing on the track. I need to know, Seth.

[A]

All right. It says featuring Phil Collins, right?

[D]

But that still could just be that.

[A]

They sampled, you know what? Samples from Take Me Home.

[B]

Thank you.

[A]

Gotcha.

[C]

But maybe he could have re sung it. He could have resung it.

[D]

But he's in the video.

[A]

He's in the video. They said there was a day where they shot in one airport, and it was a lot of rap acts, and then the iconic white musicians would sit in the airport waiting area, like Bob Dylan. And that's what. Bob Dylan's in an airport and gone till November.

[B]

Yeah, he's in an airport. Almost as if it happened on accident.

[A]

You think it happened on accident? He was.

[B]

Oh, shit. There he is. I can't believe he's not in the lounge. Get him, get him, get him.

[A]

He didn't know. Do you think Bob Dylan. Hey, Andy, you're here. You're auditioning for Bob Dylan. Not knowing he had lounge access. We're so excited. All right, well, I guess this is, like, complete unknown, but we wanted to take even a smaller slice of Bob Dylan's career.

[B]

Right, Right. Hey, Andy Sabre greeting you for Bob Dylan, not knowing that he had access to the lounge and ended up in the white Clef John Gone Till November video. Should I just start? Yep. Okay, I'm going to stop. I'm going to just take off. Thank you so much for your time. And I know whoever you choose is going to crush it. And if you need help, like a side character, maybe sort of like an engineer guy who was in his life.

[A]

Sure, sure.

[B]

Or I don't know, if you want me to play Wyclef, I could try that.

[A]

Or just maybe somebody in the lounge.

[B]

Keev, you have a good Wyclef, right? Hit us.

[D]

Yeah, it's gone till November.

[B]

Oh, exactly.

[A]

Somebody said, hey, while you're making. While you're talking about making Lonely island shirts, if Yorm makes a pair of Lonely island pants, I think the butt should be a Dennis Franz butt.

[C]

I don't know how you do that, but.

[D]

Yeah, yeah. I'm not sure what that would look like.

[C]

Just be a hot butt.

[A]

Wait, here's my favorite, though, also, somebody said it was. They literally go. I think I learned about what happened with Kimmel and ABC because you guys talked about how NYPD Blue got taken off the air for Franz, but, like, they, like, felt like that was, like, an intro level as far as that.

[D]

Was their entry point to understanding, like.

[A]

Free speech censorship, like the power affiliates have. Yeah, yeah.

[B]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, that was kind of an inflection point.

[A]

Yeah, it was an inflection point.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You always say, from Franz's butt to Kimmel's butt.

[D]

Oh, it was from that TV critic that you're friends with that wrote you an email around Steppenwell. Yeah.

[A]

Alan Sepulp. What's Alan watching? Is it.

[B]

I feel like you guys both just miss Seth. Saying. Saying. I always say, from Franz's butt to Kimmel's mouth.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Which, of course I do. Thank you for reminding me.

[A]

Of course.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

My last. The one that, like, really made me, like, slap both palms on my desk because it made me laugh so hard. Yeah. Because I believe it to be true that there are people in this world who. Their first introduction to Reba McEntire was that video.

[B]

Oh, no, that's not good.

[A]

And then maybe literally, somebody wrote, today I learned Reba isn't black. Cause, like, that part's never explained.

[D]

No. They might just think, oh, it's some country singer. I don't know.

[A]

They might think it's, like, a black singer. But, like, that was. They were like, oh. Oh, wow.

[D]

Yeah. And just much older than him. Just.

[A]

Yeah. I think there might have to be a special, like, catch up episode on some sketches that we have kind of not had time to get to. Because I was going to say we.

[B]

Have kind of been dipping out on the episodes and the Seth's Corners, and I do enjoy that.

[A]

Well, I'm keeping a list.

[C]

Is it because the shorts are better and so we're talking about them more?

[A]

It was a robust hour talking about two worlds collide.

[D]

I think we're also just goofing more, guys.

[B]

Yeah, there's a lot of goof. There's a lot of talking about, like, say, People's Wives awards and whether or not they would or wouldn't make good butt plugs. Akiva.

[C]

They would. That's the answer.

[B]

I hope it doesn't hurt, Akiva. They do.

[D]

Fine.

[A]

So we can decide. There were two in the last episode, which was Joseph Gordon Levitt, Joe Golev, first, Roger Brush. Do you guys remember who Roger Brush is?

[C]

No.

[A]

Roger Brush is a long intro of Naseem hosts, like, a Woman's Issues, a Q and A show where she engages with the audience. And then it just cuts to Fred as her producer. He's like, I'm Roger Brush. And it said he's filling in for this woman because she's sick. And it's like Fred having to answer very embarrassing personal questions from women in the audience. And he basically. He can't hear them. And then he gives them bad advice.

[D]

This does ring a bell.

[A]

Great. It's a lot of, like, you gotta speak up, baby.

[C]

Oh, gosh.

[D]

A lot of really condescending stuff.

[A]

Yeah, Honey, I can't. I can't hear you, hon. A lot of that really good. There's a picture of him in the chat if you forget what he looks like.

[C]

I feel like that's gotta be based on somebody who worked at 30 Rock.

[D]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

There's no way I remember.

[D]

Yes. It felt very true to that, to the crew. Yeah.

[A]

There was a lot of, like, people like. And very well acted by, like, Abby and Jenny. And just like, I am not, you know, I can't have an orgasm with my boyfriend. And he's like, all right, here's what you gotta do, young lady.

[D]

Here's my advice, okay? You go home and you put on.

[A]

Some lipstick and you put on some.

[D]

Eyeshadow, and you get your hair done and you come home to your boyfriend and you say, I'm sorry, baby. I'm sorry. For what, honey? I don't know what else to tell you.

[A]

He's constantly like, I don't know what to tell you.

[D]

Just worst.

[A]

I will say, like, he does think he's being helpful. Oh, yeah. Which is the Good Fred thing. And the other was. I think her name's Mindy Grayson. It was that wig sketch a secret word where it was like that old sort of password game where the premise is wig's character is sort of this old Broadway actress who always says the one word you're not allowed to say.

[B]

Oh, yeah. Secret word.

[A]

Yeah. And the best thing about it is it's like, as a premise, it's very easy to get ahead of it. Except wig has a different funny way to say a word. You know she's gonna say. Yeah, time and time again.

[D]

Yep.

[A]

Which makes it incredible to watch.

[B]

So anyway, it would crush too. I remember every time just being like, okay, we're doing it again. And then it would just destroy.

[A]

Yeah. Just her being like, how.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Wig characters that want to say something are always gonna work.

[A]

That's such a funny move. You're right.

[B]

Yeah. Like, you're not supposed to say something, but you wanna, like, surprise party woman.

[C]

What is the name of the surprise?

[A]

Linda.

[C]

What is the name of Linda?

[A]

Oh, no, that's Aunt Surprise Party Lady. I can't remember her name, but yeah, same.

[B]

Oh, there's gonna be something. Something you can't say.

[A]

Alexi still sometimes will just go here at Takasawi's because there was a. They tell her late, there's gonna be a surprise party at a sushi restaurant. Support comes from Vuori. Oh, my God. Now, has Vuori reached out to you, Keev, and said, you know, your wife Liz is now basically our international spokesperson.

[D]

You know, they haven't yet, but I'm, I'm standing by the phone.

[A]

I'm expecting that call because that was. I mean, it's almost an insult to Vuory for it to be you and I now without Liz. But let me just say I've never met a person whose life has been more positively affected by a new line of clothing than your wife, Liz, by Vuori.

[D]

You put a huge smile on her face. And I think our ad among Quaid's, if you looked at the graph, there's a big spike in Vuori sales after that ad.

[A]

Yeah. Now, if I see somebody walking down the street, like head to toe in Vuor, it's almost like 95% they're going to say Quai.

[D]

Yeah. Are they the ones that whisper it kind of as an aside, or are they the yellers?

[A]

They're the yellers because, let me tell you, the people who are Vuori, they got a lot of energy, you know what I mean? Because these are workout people. They're core short. You know, that's one short every sport. Soft, lightweight, breathable boxer brief liners. You can go from the gym to hanging out without changing the Sunday performance. Joggers are another favorite moisture wicking thing.

[D]

Words right out of my mouth. I am. Yeah, I've taken them right out of here. Like I was going to say moisture wicking fabric and five pockets. You didn't join me. I thought you were going to.

[A]

It is fun hearing how you talk when you think someone's going to join you.

[D]

Yeah. Three with zippers. So your stuff stays put. Yep, you got it, Seth. God, hanging me out. Too dry.

[A]

You know what? You don't have to hang out to dry the moisture wicking fabric of the Sunday of the tech polo. Because they're tag polo.

[D]

Oh, we were gonna get that one, you guys.

[A]

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[D]

Yeah. And I've been quilting and that's just exactly how I want to sell it. But I've been worried about like the details of trying to become a small business.

[A]

I don't want to bring a big old change box and say, and I'm cash only. I don't want to. I certainly don't want to be dealing with checks.

[D]

No, I need people to be able to pay with their phones and whatnot.

[A]

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[D]

You know, I do. I get jazzed, positively jazzed because I know it's going to be seamless.

[A]

You'll text me a little picture of you standing next to it with a thumbs up.

[D]

Yeah, it's crazy because I have to open my laptop, get the self facing camera out, hold up my phone because otherwise you won't see what I'm taking a picture of.

[A]

You put a lot of work into those photos.

[D]

Yeah. I use the photo booth app on the laptop to photograph me with the phone with the Shop Pay purple logo and I go for our future business.

[A]

There you go.

[D]

I'm just lighting a little fire in you to like, let's get it going. We've been talking about it for so long.

[A]

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[D]

I didn't remember. We did Reba and Shyrani back to back.

[A]

I certainly didn't either.

[D]

There's an off week because this is December 5th. The last one was the 21st. So. So we're a couple. We had a couple weeks there, but still back to back shows fucking heat.

[C]

Bringing the heat.

[D]

So yorm, you weren't really here this week. This was a MacGruber edit week.

[C]

Yes.

[D]

And I know that because I remember as me and Andy tortured ourselves through the week with nothing and had a few. Andy, do you remember what our stopped attempt was? There was one that we went down the road on.

[B]

We had a whole song written that she approved.

[A]

Really?

[D]

Yeah. And then we were like, it's not good.

[B]

It was a theme song for Planet Ear.

[C]

Oh, right. Yes.

[B]

And it was to the same beat. And it was all basically being. It started off just like, sort of as a riff on, like, when people are repping for their city.

[D]

Yeah, yeah. Like, but I'm from Earth.

[B]

And we were like, what if somebody did one of those for Earth? And it kept going into how all these snooty astronauts keep trying to go to the moon and leave Earth. Is it not good enough for you? And it was pretty funny, but we knew it was like a B and wasn't quite making us laugh. But we had had the idea for Shai Ronnie before that, and we kept not doing it because we were like, it's too similar to Saxman, and we don't want to blow that in case we ever did a Saxman video. And then finally we got to the point where we were like, should we just record it? And then we recorded it, wrote it and recorded it, I want to say, in, like, less than an hour.

[D]

It came so fast, but it was late Thursday night. Oh, yeah.

[B]

It was like, four in the morning.

[D]

And I remember, like, calling Yorm because Saxman is a Yorm joint, and he wasn't even there. And we're like, we hate everything we've been doing. We have to go on some Rihanna. It's Thursday night at, like, midnight or 1 or 2am we're fucked here. We're trying. One, we acknowledge it is ripping off your Saxman structure.

[C]

Premise. The premise. Yeah, exactly.

[D]

A different character, but it's the format of Saxman.

[C]

No. I remember being very pleasantly flattered that we were basically doing, like, within our group, like, comedy on comedy crime. Like, hey, is this okay? I was like, yeah, man, this is. This is all right.

[B]

I mean, certainly wasn't the first time, it wouldn't be the last, where we were like, we know that there's a little bit of crossover, like, structurally.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

But it was also just like. I think we had maybe talked a few times about, like, it would be great to do a video for Saxman. And worrying that if we did Shy Ronnie, that it would make it. That we wouldn't.

[C]

It's funny because they seem like such different worlds to me. I feel like it'd be fine.

[D]

Yes, you could. You could definitely do that.

[C]

I mean, we did a lot of overthinking.

[B]

I feel like I think we still could do a Saxman video anyway. Would still be super funny.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

The funny thing would be how Lauren would have responded if you said, like, in between dress and air. It's too close to Sax Man.

[D]

Pull it.

[A]

We gotta pull it.

[B]

He would have slapped me with the back of his glove.

[C]

Okay, this is the. Wait, this is a dumb question, but again, I'm on Geva Pentanton right now. Right. This is the first Shireni that we're talking about. We're not talking about this again. So, Keev, like, yes. I just remember that I was there at the beginning of the week and we met with her. I don't think I recorded her at all, though. Like. But no, we met with her and I remember, like, there being like, oh, we were feeling each other out and da, da, da. And then we played her Ross Trent.

[D]

Yeah. This is the Ross Trent that we talked about a little bit during the Ross.

[C]

Yes. Yeah, yeah. But I just, like, remember being so geeked at how watching her laugh at that.

[D]

She was the perfect audience for us.

[C]

Oh, my God. Just every reference got. Everything was, like, looking at her people like, these motherfuckers. And I was like, oh, my God, this is great.

[D]

It was the audience we had been waiting for for Ross Trent since. Since we had made it. Somebody from the Caribbean who would understand everything that was in it. It was the only person we had ever looked in the face who knew what we were.

[C]

I was just like, how did you know that?

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Also, if it's not implied, we were huge Rihanna fans.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Which, by the way, it's Rihanna.

[D]

Which we learned also that week.

[B]

She told us it's Rihanna. And we were like, why don't you correct people? She's like, I don't care.

[A]

I also know it's Rihanna, and I still say Rihanna because it feels like, one, I know she doesn't care. And two, it seems like you're saying it wrong.

[B]

It's almost like Rihanna is her stage name.

[D]

She had already recorded on the song because we did our temp, which was Andy, as usual, our Thursday 2am temp. And Andy went Rihanna and shy Ronnie. And then she was so great at recording exactly Andy's inflections to get the jokes perfect. And she did that. And then it was like either just before or just after I heard her Say her name to somebody else out loud. And I went, why did you just say Rihanna? Wait, is your name Rihanna? She's like, it's fine either way. And I'm like, what does your mom call you? And she's like, rihanna. And then I was like, and by the way. And it's Robin after all that as well.

[C]

Yeah, but it's always funny to me when people say that. Cause you're like, well, then there is a right answer. Like, you answered it. It's like, no, the other one's wr.

[D]

Person who knew it first, who named you.

[C]

Yeah, Like, I think it.

[A]

But like, look, her vibe is very much. Like, it's all good.

[D]

No, it's the best. It was the best. The fact that she was repeated Rihanna in the song, it didn't matter at all. By the way, I relate as a Schaeffer. Shaffer. Yeah. My mom is die hard Shaffer, but her parents said Schaefer.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

And that's why I'm not a stickler when people get it wrong, quote unquote.

[A]

You know who sticks a little for you? Liz.

[D]

Yeah, your.

[A]

Your wife will.

[D]

She'll correct people.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Which I. Which I. Yeah.

[C]

Well, Liz doesn't fuck around.

[D]

If someone asks me, I tell them Shaffer, but I don't care.

[A]

I try not to be prone to exaggeration. I believe this is the best a human being has ever looked on film.

[C]

And that is Andy.

[A]

Diana. That is not Samra, but truly cannot take my eyes off her no matter.

[D]

How many times I've watched it.

[B]

Yeah, it's Starship. She's just so magnetic. As soon as we started shooting, we were like, oh, oh, God.

[C]

Will you guys. We guys talk about the shoot a little bit?

[A]

Yeah, we should talk about it, because.

[C]

I remember seeing you the next day, and it was a very funny way to see both of them.

[D]

I think we've alluded to this or maybe talked about a teeny bit in the past about how this is our.

[C]

I think we have.

[D]

Where we've lost all credibility with our peers and bosses at SNL was on this one.

[C]

Oh, my God, I love it.

[D]

As judgers of our own work, of having any perspective on what we're doing.

[C]

Well, to be fair. To be fair, you were fucking exhausted. I remember, like, just looking at you and being like, oh, shit. Like, I actually got to edit MacGruber, and I got to go home sort of on time. And then just seeing you and being like, oh, that's what my life is like. Just looking at a man who's Just, like, beaten and like, fucking. What the fuck is this shit?

[D]

We knew that Rihanna was down to do a short all week, so we were not going to stop. And as Andy said, we had made a whole other song, so we had stayed up all night probably Monday night, definitely Tuesday night, definitely Wednesday night, and definitely Thursday night. So we were. Yeah, we were crazy people.

[C]

Oh, my God. You were basically finished with editing.

[B]

We were shot also in the middle of a stretch of shows, but ended up being worth it. Yeah, well.

[C]

But no, but here. Let's talk about it, though, because honestly, what happens a lot at the show is that we're waiting around for the host to be able to be available, and oftentimes that conflicts with the rest of the show. And so she was unable to make it. And, like, it got shorter and shorter and you're gonna burn out. Yes.

[D]

We built sets. We built a set for the mountaintop. From the mountaintop down to the boys and girls. So we had a mountaintop set. Did we have a third set, Andy? Obviously, we had the classroom set that the short is in.

[B]

We had three sets. There was a mountaintop and it was fire and ice. So it was like a snowy mountain and then like a fiery, like.

[D]

Yeah, I can't remember what it was.

[B]

Volcano set or something.

[C]

Yeah, it was at least three. I thought you had four.

[D]

So we had three sets. We had a noon shoot time planned, and she showed up at 8pm and we hadn't recorded the song yet. At that point we had our version, but not hers. Right. And so at 8 o', clock, the crew has been sitting on their hands for eight hours being paid. Nothing has been shot yet. And then we have to very nicely go upstairs back to our office with her to calmly record the song. Yeah.

[C]

By the way, we only have 15.

[D]

Minutes, so we're like, okay, let's get started. And we.

[B]

But by the way, this was a first for us, too, is they kicked us out of our office.

[D]

Yes.

[B]

Her team came in. They put, like, silks over all the lamps and dimmed all the lights and lit candles. And then her and her engineer got on Yorm's computer at his desk.

[D]

His name was Marcos, and he's lovely.

[B]

Super nice.

[C]

Fucking awesome.

[B]

And they were like, okay. And we were like, you don't want us to, like, talk you through? She's like, I got it.

[D]

Yeah. Because she had heard our demo.

[B]

So we were, like, sitting outside on the couch like little kids. And then we could sort of hear it happening.

[C]

Oh, my God.

[B]

And then they, like, opened the door she's like, okay. It took maybe 30 or 40 minutes max. And they played it back for us, and we were like, oh, shit. It's like.

[D]

It was perfect. It was exactly what you heard. She had any little comedic inflection that Andy had put on. You know, whatever the line is, keep up, or whatever it is, speak up. Whereas, speak up. There you go. Speak up. Was perfect.

[C]

Andy. Andy, be honest, because I remember you being very proud. I remember you being like. It was like, exactly what I did. Like, exactly.

[D]

Like.

[C]

I'm just saying.

[D]

But nobody can do that.

[B]

I was proud. I was proud of what I had written melodically, that she was like, yeah, it's good. And then did it, and it sounded good. And I was like, shit.

[D]

Yeah. You're talking about for the choruses.

[C]

Yes, yes. Yeah, yeah.

[D]

In particular, nobody can get the comedic inflections the same as anybody else. And I'm talking about the best comedians. Like in an animated movie, if you do temp and fall in love with your temp and then get the best comedian, they're putting it in their own cadence. People can't say lines the same way other people do. And she perfectly did.

[C]

Okay, Keef. Hot takes. So you're saying that you think Rihanna is talent?

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Payback.

[D]

I do.

[A]

Then I know we're gonna do the watch as well. Cause then you have less time to shoot it.

[D]

No. While we're sitting on this couch waiting for her to record, not knowing how long it's gonna take. The entire crew is still down on, I think, your floor. I think on your stage where you do your show now, just sitting on their hands.

[C]

How long did you guys actually have to shoot? Cause I thought you had, like, 45 minutes to shoot with her or whatever.

[D]

As it goes down to over. As it turns into overtime. Yes. And then again, this whole week started because her team, her manager stuff, came into us before we even met her and said she would love to do one of your shorts. And we were, like, so flattered. But clearly, in hindsight, it was them just saying, like, we think it'd be great if she did one of your shorts.

[A]

Yes.

[D]

Not to say she ever was against it, but it was not clearly something where she was like, I gotta do it. She was lovely. But it was so funny then, because then after showing up at 8 and then doing this, and then we get down there and we're finally about to roll cameras at 10, and they're like, like, how long is this going to take? You can have her for, like, an hour. And we were like, you're. And it was the exact same people who had asked us do it.

[B]

And by the way, we start. They came in. I was standing next to you, Kee, when they said that. Because we had. And I. But by the way, standing next to you dressed like shy Ronnie. And we had been waiting the eight hours or whatever, and they were like, I guess we'll just shoot the one set. No, we didn't even know that yet. We were like, we can still get it all. We're just going to go crazy late.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And they were like, hey, we got to get out of here. We could maybe do, like, 45.

[C]

I think you guys shot for 45 minutes. And, like. And granted, it's all on steady, which is, like, great. It has, like, the sheen of money. It looks super nice. Like.

[B]

Well, yeah, as soon as you cut. As soon as she walks on camera.

[D]

You'Re like, oh, that's all you need.

[B]

It's gonna work.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

But by the way, just imagine me, Seth, dressed like Shyrani after the publicist walks away, turning to Akiva and going, I can't believe this.

[D]

We're out of our minds. We've been up all night for a week.

[B]

Speed freaks. At this point.

[D]

And now. And now we're 11 hours late for a shoot.

[C]

But it was so funny the next morning, because I don't know how much you slept, Keith, but I walked in to the editing room and you were so mad. You were like, it's fucking ruined.

[D]

You don't have to. I mean, that's the end of this thing. So at 10:30 at night, we finally go, okay, let's just do the classroom. We'll just shoot every shot at her and we'll let her leave. So we got every one of her takes really quickly. 45 minutes, and she left. Then I did Andy's. Same direction of Andy's stuff. And I think had. We stole some of the kids stuff during the day, because also, the kids couldn't be there all day.

[B]

I want to say we got the kids after she left.

[C]

Yeah, right.

[D]

Because they're in some of her shots in the wide, obviously. So I think after she left, we got the kids. I don't know how. I don't know if at some point we sent kids home and got a new batch of kids. I have no idea how those kids were there for so long, because you can't have kids that there.

[C]

Anyways, Prague, by the way, I shot a commercial there specifically so we could run that kid into the ground. Shot for 16 hours with him.

[D]

That's horrible.

[B]

In Prague.

[C]

It is. I made them. I. I made them buy him a Wii because I was like, you guys are terrible.

[B]

And they, like, just plied him with absinthe or.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Sausages and, like, rye bread.

[C]

Keep going. Keep. Keep going.

[B]

Seth, that was a Prague joke.

[A]

It was good. I liked it.

[B]

Thanks, dude. I know you're kind of into that area of the world.

[A]

I do want to say that it's shocking, knowing how fast you shot this. That means that, like, her takes are, like. You probably had one or two options. Cause, again, like, outside of how great she sings it, like, facially, she's perfect.

[B]

Yes.

[D]

She's emoting all the things. Yes.

[B]

There's a few moments not to, like, out ourselves. There's a few moments where sync falls out that we normally wouldn't settle for.

[D]

Towards the very end, she has a line that's completely out of sync.

[C]

Can I say something, though? So in seeing you, Kiev, this is just a testament to Akiva. You're so convinced. You are so convincing that I remember looking at it and being confused because I was like, this is really. In my mind. I'm like, this is good. This is really funny. And then looking at you, being like, it's ruined. And being like, maybe it's ruined. Like, I was like, maybe this is bad, but I don't understand things.

[D]

Yeah. So. All right. So we shoot the thing. And it's. So. It's whatever time it is now, 2am or something. And me and Andy are both. Because we had all these sets built, and we never went even shot on them. And we don't know what we have, and we're like, this thing. And it's the only time I ever went to bed after shooting.

[B]

Because you were so pissed. You're like, fuck it. Who cares?

[D]

I was so mad, and I was so tired. I was so convinced that we hadn't got it, that we didn't get the footage we needed, that I just was like, no, Andy, I'm coming home. Like, we're sharing the car. Not like we didn't live together, but I just mean, like, we lived in the neighborhood. And I'm like, no, I'm getting in the car this time. Every other time, I would go ride net. And I was like, it doesn't matter. I'm gonna go to sleep. Everyone else. And so I just went home and went to bed.

[C]

If you know Akiva, that's the most damning thing. Like, him not working.

[D]

And I didn't race in the next day. I slept till I wanted to sleep, and I came in at, like, noon. Usually, if I did ever go home, I was back. Like when we did the last two. Here I Go, Sushi Glory Hole. I was the last one in the building before I went home that night. And I was the first one in the building Saturday morning every time.

[C]

That was both of us, too. On anything we ever worked on.

[D]

Exactly. And this time. Not at all. Got in at noon and was like, I guess I'll go check out this piece of shit. Went up there. And because we had no footage, it cut together so fast. Because I had no choices.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And so it was a little bit like the movie, the producers. You guys were like. You were in the lobby being like, it's a bomb. And then you just were like, oh, no, it's working.

[C]

It's also funny because I think it actually serves the premise of it. Because you can't escape the awkwardness. You're not allowed to go to any other set.

[D]

No, it's in one set. It's a sketch.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Andy spent the entire early afternoon on set down on 8H, blocking sketches with everyone going, how's the short? You have Rihanna in short. Oh, my God. What's it? And just being like, it's trash. It's the worst thing we've ever done. We got no footage. It's not gonna work. I don't even think it'll be a dress. He was up there looking at it. So he was ruining his reputation the entire afternoon.

[B]

Such a little bitch. Just like, how is it? It's not.

[C]

It's doing the Dave Chappelle. Tee up. I just made this little thing.

[A]

Who gives us.

[B]

We had two other sets for the choruses.

[D]

Bill. Everyone's hearing that. I'm upstairs just being like, ugh. And then there was this moment, though, and it must have been after I talked to you Yhorm. Where like, enough cuts came together in a row. Cause, you know, we always cut it chronologically. And it got to Andy's reveal as Shyrani. And it was so clearly working just on a really obvious level. And I think maybe it was Kenward or somebody was in there. It was Kenward laughing with me. And I was like. And I had been talking shit because people always came into our edit all day.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[D]

And I. And I had been doing well speak.

[C]

On that look because. Because Edit was Matt Yonks's office. And it was basically a breeze.

[D]

It was a hallway.

[C]

It was like how you got through to the other side of things.

[D]

Yes.

[B]

Also. And I'll Say this. This is a little tidbit about Keev doesn't care if there's people all standing around watching him edit. And I would always be like, get everyone the fuck out of here. I need to focus. We need to talk. And he's just like. Like, he just has. Doesn't have a thing in his brain that cares about that in the slightest.

[D]

And they weren't strangers, but I didn't care.

[B]

No, no. But sometimes just randos would be walking around and they would just stop in and be watching, and I'd be like, can we? And you'd be like, what? I didn't even notice that.

[D]

Yeah, I'm in the zone.

[A]

He's in the zone.

[B]

You were just. You were in the tank.

[D]

I'm in a flow state. That's what Seth says. He's like, ooh, this guy's in the flow. He's in the flow.

[A]

They're like, how's he doing? I'm like, in the flow.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

If there's a. If there's a moral to this story, it's like, whatever you need done, Rihanna can get it done in, like, 95 minutes.

[D]

That's probably whatever you think you can. Whatever you think you need a day for it.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And that's why the whole time she's like, yeah, it's gonna be totally fine.

[C]

Don't worry about it.

[B]

Well, so.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

So anyway, jump ahead. Sorry. Just to close the loop on it.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

The funny moment of it, I didn't talk to Keev about this. I was just down on 8, so I still believed it was terrible. He was sort of split, let's say.

[D]

Yeah, I was coming around and getting embarrassed.

[B]

And then, as usual, we met up on the floor at dress rehearsal to watch it play. And, like, I would say Keev, like, the second the reveal moment happened and the crowd laughed really hard, we looked at each other and, like, our faces just fell.

[D]

We were humiliated.

[B]

We were just like, oh, we suck. It's gonna work.

[D]

It was a mix of like, holy shit, it's really good. And oh, my God. We embarrass ourselves in front of everyone we know. Yes, Everyone we know. We've embarrassed ourselves.

[C]

The reason that that's so important is because the show was in so, like, so demanding of shorts. I'm just like, you gotta do one this week. Like, credibility mattered. So to be like, you just do it.

[B]

Yes, you're right. I mean, it was also, like, when it ended, I felt this, like, weird, like, vibrating feeling of like, we just got away with the heist of the century or something. You know, we were just like, oh, God. Like, the relief was so palpable that it was gonna work and we were gonna be okay for that week. But then the whole rest of the night was bumping into people and them going, hey, it wasn't that bad.

[A]

And I remember you guys, even at the after party, you're like, yeah, but there was, like, this mountain set. I mean, can you imagine how cool that would have been? We're like, what the fuck?

[C]

Not really.

[D]

Who cares?

[B]

Everyone's like, just take the fucking win.

[D]

It was a real lesson on so many levels. I think about it often in other scenarios when we're doing something where I go, maybe we don't need as much. Like, even on Sushi Glory Hole, where we're in that pitch room, there were moments where it was like, the whole video could be in this pitch room if we bring in enough profile, like it's a shark tank and we can just be in there. And if we just point to things describing the Sushi Glory Hole and they keep giving us looks and we keep trying to go to the exit, they keep trying to exit and we keep pushing them back, easily that whole video could be in that room.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Also because the two things have a similarity, because there's something about being stuck in one place is kind of the comedy of Glory Hole. And you also feel like Shirene, she's stuck with chironne. And you almost feel like the character she's playing would only give Shyrani one location.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

You know, if you saw them in four locations, you'd be like, why is she still doing this?

[D]

Yeah. It reveals it's a music video, not a scene that's happening in real life.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Keith, will you real quick re edit that video to just be that one location?

[B]

Yeah, real quick.

[D]

Just to. Yeah. I wonder if we got the footage, but we honestly might have. We had lots of good props in there and stuff and lots of footage of them leaving.

[C]

I'll just do it real quick for the.

[B]

There were definitely versions where we stayed in that room longer. Seth, I believe you said the comedy of being stuck in one place is Glory Hole.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Which I just thought was kind of an interesting sentence.

[D]

Something for a shirt, maybe.

[B]

Let's talk about the look. Shyranni. It was based on the sun from a show. Which show?

[D]

Oh.

[A]

Does it bum you out that I think your hair looks better Shyrani than it does in Two Worlds collection? Fine.

[B]

No, and I fully agree. Shy Ronnie, at least is an intentional and complete look.

[D]

Yeah. Right, right.

[B]

I have a lot of love for Shyrani. Like, when I see him, I feel for him.

[D]

God. Where. What show was it? Was it, like, Hung? Was there a kid on Hung? Oh, that sounds right.

[C]

Is that what it was based on?

[B]

He was more like Goth, though. But we were like this, but bright red. And I remember this is the only. Only at snl, I remember us being like. But it can't be too much like Clementine from Daiquiri Girl. You gotta make sure they're different. It's like anyone knew what the fuck that was.

[C]

Anybody watched that twice. You just erased your memory as soon as you saw it.

[B]

Yeah, there.

[C]

Oh, it was. Is that it?

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

What's the character's name?

[C]

We're looking at pictures of Hung, the kid from Hung.

[B]

It was from the show Hungry.

[C]

Oh, my God. I can't wait for this to come.

[B]

We were obsessed with this kid because his look was so dope.

[D]

Trying to get a bigger picture here. It's so good.

[C]

Yeah, that's real good. Oh, that is Shyroni, bro.

[B]

Yeah, a little bit.

[D]

Charlie Saxton is his name.

[B]

Yeah. Shout out Charlie Saxton, buddy.

[A]

I hope you're a fan.

[C]

Hey, Charlie.

[D]

Charlie.

[C]

I hope you're a fan of show.

[D]

I can't believe I pulled. I pulled Hung out of my head. There he is.

[B]

He was funny on that show too, by the way.

[C]

That's a really good reveal. Years later, if he does listen to the pod, be like, shit, that's what it was.

[A]

I do want to give credit where credit's due, Andy. Shy Ronnie 1. Rihanna to the day, does more with small dance moves than anybody. I remember during, when she was pregnant, at the super bowl halftime show, somebody was like, gosh, it's like she's not even dancing. I was like, that was never her thing.

[D]

Right?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

It's always just like. Again, it's like these very subtle. Whatever she's doing you wish you could do.

[B]

I think what you're trying to say, Seth, is Wind. Pondy rhythm.

[D]

Hmm. Yeah.

[A]

That is. You know, you always manage to put it in words that I'm far too nervous to try to say. And the other thing is you have multiple. I'm a shy. Physicality moves over the course of it. Andy.

[B]

Yes. I think there's a lot of truth in shy Ronnie for me and in all of us.

[A]

Yeah. We all have a shy.

[B]

We have a shy Ronnie within.

[D]

It's a bit of, like, just two guys. It's har. Whatever that is.

[B]

Yeah. Your insecurities, your. Well, frankly, shyness And, Seth, I don't mind telling you I'm living for it.

[D]

This short is everything.

[A]

All right, we're gonna watch the short. Also real quick. When I did day drinking, we talked about this, and she has very fond memories.

[C]

That's nice.

[B]

I think I've said this before, but my favorite thing about Rihanna is when I see her at things like an award show or something, I still to this day don't know if she knows my name. She always just goes shy, Ronnie. And I am thrilled to be acknowledged.

[A]

Every time I see her, she's like, dad, the kid from hung. Support comes from Coop. Hey, Keev. There are side sleepers, back sleepers, and even the starfish sleeper. Do you know what that is, Keith?

[D]

Yeah, it's like jorm on girls.

[A]

Oh, yes.

[D]

Only he wasn't sleeping. It is. You're right.

[A]

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[D]

That's right. And you know why I think about it? Because Andy stole mine.

[A]

Did he really?

[D]

So it must be good. Yeah. They sent us some so we could try them.

[A]

Four came to send it to people who read the ads. So Andy didn't get his own?

[D]

No, no, he did. They sent all four. We each selected two we wanted to try out. I had selected the Crescent and something else. The original adjustable one, I think. And all four showed up to the office, and he took all four home.

[B]

On accident.

[A]

Oh, my God.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

On accident.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

But you didn't accidentally bring two back.

[B]

Yeah, but they are somewhere in my house.

[A]

Okay, good.

[B]

They're somewhere in my house.

[D]

They're not on your base.

[B]

One of them is the one that was mine that I wanted. I use it.

[A]

Great.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

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[B]

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[D]

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[A]

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[D]

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[A]

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[D]

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[A]

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[D]

All right, ready?

[A]

From the mountaintops down to the boys and girl and the tree of knowledge grow. Cause we plant the seed, we the teachers of this. And we got just what you need.

[B]

So he does. He does the fitty set.

[D]

Haha.

[C]

I will say that's the longest we've ever in a. In a Watchdown. That's the longest we've ever watched anything. Because I'm like, captivated.

[A]

Captivated.

[D]

Yes. And there's no jokes. She's just doing it. But it's good. She's killing it.

[A]

The second. Okay. Which now we know she's just copying Andy, but it's perfect that she fits a second one in.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Oh my God. By the way, her dancing that you were just talking about, I'm like, yep. She's doing a lot with a little.

[A]

Yep. And it's. Yeah. More than any of us could do with a lot.

[D]

Her performance. Acting performance is just perfect. And I remember looking at the monitor just being like, oh, my God. Because she again heard this song for the first time an hour ago, recorded it 45 minutes and has to now remember all the things to say. And they're not like, necessarily rhythmic. There's not necessarily, you know, in terms of when she has to say them, it's very hard to say these things in sync.

[C]

We have been unbelievably blessed in our. All of our careers to work with some unbelievably talented people and making them do stupid shit for the most part. And there's so many dumb moments that you've had. I had it with the McGruber series of just like, looking at Sam Elliott and being like, damn, he's good at acting. And like, just. But like. But same thing. Like Rihanna, you're just like, oh, shit. You see certain people on scre and you're like, wow, they should be famous.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

They should be like, professionals at this.

[A]

Also, she's obviously, she has to match what she's recorded. And some people, me, for example, would be so in your head that you would not be able to have the great acting performance. She's also a perfect representation of someone to whom something is dawning on.

[B]

You know what I mean?

[A]

Like, it is dawning on her that this is bad now.

[B]

Yeah. Like, oh, this is maybe not gonna work.

[A]

Yeah. She went into it with all the hope in the world.

[C]

Well, by the way, shout out to the kid who you got the cutaway of, because him talking about the knowledge tree of knowledge, it grows. And the cutaway of that kid, he's doing a great nod.

[B]

Yeah, the kid nodding is a nice Akiva cut.

[D]

He's taking notes, he's learning.

[C]

She's planting the seed of knowledge.

[B]

Is this a good time to mention that Seth was a clue in the Mini? Okay, let's go on. Let's keep going.

[C]

Keep going.

[D]

I mean, he brought up the Mini earlier in his great puzzler, Joe.

[C]

He was trying to get us to talk about it.

[B]

Yeah, but we didn't take the bait.

[D]

Yeah, he was trying to take it real.

[B]

We didn't take the glove.

[A]

They sent me a little award. I did pay for it.

[D]

It's only 5k mentioned in the Mini.

[A]

It's the Littlest Award. I can't even see it. Fucking rip off.

[B]

She's written on a gum wrapper and Sharpie.

[A]

It's a little stamp, by the way, on the website. When you pay the five grand, he doesn't tell you how little it is.

[C]

He's got a picture of it.

[D]

Five grand for that award you made the Mini. That's how they make half their money now.

[A]

It's next to an Oscar on the website. You're like, oh, it's that big. And then when I called in, they're like, that was a tiny Oscar. Oscar, right.

[B]

It's a little chocolate.

[D]

It was a novelty Oscar, by the way.

[C]

That has happened to us on Amazon before. Mari bought a mirror on and then it was a doll's house mirror.

[B]

Yeah, that happens.

[D]

Yeah. That's a whole. That's a whole. There's a whole, like Twitter threads or whatever about it. Reddit. I forget what it's called. What's the other. The other really cheap website that people buy things online. That's the one that's really notorious for it. Ah, fuck. I forget what it's called.

[C]

Alibaba.

[D]

No, no, no.

[A]

Teu.

[D]

Teu. People get teemu'd a lot.

[B]

Oh, people get te. I heard Etsy got turned. It's all AI images now. All right, let's keep watching.

[D]

It's okay. Okay, that one, she hates her guts there.

[B]

Oh, yeah, we get them rocking.

[D]

Oh, yeah. All hell of uncomfortable. Those kids killed.

[B]

It just says knowledge.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

No.

[A]

From your face.

[D]

Come on.

[C]

I love that line.

[A]

Oh, no. Oh, no. He pissed himself. He pissed himself.

[D]

Oh, boy.

[A]

Age as well. Age is the best of all the jokes.

[D]

They were known for their collabs.

[B]

He's trying to be like 50.

[D]

She's super sister. Suspicious.

[B]

She thought she heard maybe some hard raps.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Oh, my God. It's amazing to me how much I still Love your. Haha. It's like. It's one of my favorite things ever.

[D]

I think we only got her exiting twice, and that's why that last line's out of sync.

[B]

Yes, yes. Well, because we did it all in A one.

[D]

Yeah. And then the exit required the cameraman to be in a different position to be able to do that.

[A]

No idea what a oner is. And I wish somebody would make a show that helped explain it.

[B]

Oh, my God. So lit. Fucking so many Emmys, though.

[D]

That episode is. Is fantastic. And I don't even like you pretending it's absolutely fantastic.

[A]

You kidding me?

[B]

It's cringy, though, like, on purpose, you know?

[D]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Like he's messing things up. He has to put. He puts on the shirt.

[B]

It's wardrobe.

[D]

Let's get Seth the other. Seth's voice note in here for that. That.

[B]

So I noticed. I believe at the time, even he pissed himself. Like, that is how we originally recorded it for her to do, and then she did, and it's literally just don't stop believing.

[C]

Oh, yeah. Well, now. Now we're going to get sued. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Back it up. I want you guys to explain. When you say the lyrics are out, explain that.

[D]

Oh, out of sync just like that. Her mouth is moving and the lyrics are not perfectly.

[C]

Okay, now that you've explained it. Kee. Now, there was a moment we were shooting a music video. I can't Rem. Fucking Kiva comes in. I'm editing. He comes in. He's like, dude, that's way off. That's one fucking clip. It's way off. Way off he goes. We go back and forth, back and forth. Now it's good. I'm like, you know how many frames that was? That was one. It was one frame.

[D]

I do notice one frames off a lot.

[C]

Yeah, I know you do.

[B]

I'm gonna go ahead and join this and say I also notice.

[C]

Yeah, I know you do too.

[B]

For timing sometimes, like cutting out of a joke or something. One frame is the difference.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

The amount I was doing that on the last two on Sushi Glory Hole and the Here I go. Because I wasn't necessarily editing every frame myself. So sometimes we take a chunk from them, and then I would just be like, yeah, but they're all out of sync. Like, nudge that one. Nudge. That diva's pretty good attitude too, once he focuses in on it. But it drives me nuts.

[C]

Once he's been around you, basically anybody who's been around you gets a lot better at it.

[D]

You know what's really impressive, though, when you go watch old movies, musicals, say Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, whatever. I mean, I don't want to name just Julie Andrews ones, but you know what I mean?

[C]

They are Put them on blast.

[B]

Well, you know what? I do? I do just want to name Julie Andrews.

[C]

All right, where was Put them on.

[D]

Black, My Fair Lady, Julie Andrews voice, and Audrey Hepburn's face. They are perfect.

[C]

Oh, they're perfect. I think you're gonna say that they were.

[D]

You know what I mean? Like, you watch Singing in the Rain and they're perfect. And I'm always like, damn, they were editing this analog, and they look like they're singing it. And I'm like, we are cheating stuff with computers doing nudges and stuff that be really hard to do.

[B]

Yes.

[D]

I'm very impressed and confused how they were able to make them perfect.

[B]

Let me jump in, though, because they rehearsed a thousand times and they're running all those in wonders. A lot of that is that the performers were that on point.

[D]

Yes.

[B]

But we're talking about something that we put together in under 24 hours.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[D]

And I mean, honestly, some of the other lines that she appears to be in sync are the reason it's a very shortcuts is because she'd get one line on and then one line would be late, and I would use the different part of it and move it over.

[A]

But, like, ultimately, what you're saying, Keev, is you're a little disappointed in her.

[B]

Oh, that's interesting. Seth. I thought what he was saying is that we're as good as singing in the ring.

[D]

Yeah, definitely.

[C]

Hot take.

[B]

Shy Ronnie is singing in the ring.

[D]

There we go.

[A]

So. Hey, nobody wants.

[D]

Damn it. I was trying to hit a different button. There are four buttons. Two of them are. Debbie.

[A]

That was actually a good. That was a good preamble to what I'm gonna say here, because it's Logic Police, which I've never noticed until today in my rewatch.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

Which is. Had shy Ronnie not choked in his moment. Right. Had he done it at full volume? It was a wildly inappropriate song for those kids.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

You know what I mean?

[D]

But we don't know what he was saying the rest of the time. It was just at the end.

[A]

No, you can hear the lyrics are always about the two of them. And, like, it's very.

[B]

What is the rap.

[A]

It's like a rap song about the two of them.

[C]

It's like a bitch and like.

[A]

Like, hers is all about, like, I Don't know. Like, it seems very, like positive.

[D]

Yeah. Knowledge. And he's cursing power and the world. Yeah, he's cur.

[C]

Well, it's. It's. Yeah, I'm shy running and I'm running this bitch. It's basically like real bravado rap and.

[B]

I'm running this shit. You know, I stay steady strapped because life is a bitch.

[C]

He has a gun. Like, why is he.

[A]

Yeah, it seems like he let her down in a lot of different ways. And it's a mistake to think. It's just that he pissed himself and got the mic too close and wasn't loud enough.

[B]

I do like at the end that he does the classic I don't need no beat.

[D]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

And I don't need. It's like straight at a mile.

[D]

Yeah. That's how confident he is. That's the ultimate confident MC move.

[B]

I don't even know a beat.

[A]

But he's worried. He's worried she's going to come back a second time so he doesn't go full volume.

[C]

Wait, was that also because Nas's made you look had just come out too, in that era. Oh, maybe because I did like the end of that hard ass song.

[B]

I mean, it's a classic thing that happens really, when the beat cuts out and they say they don't need it, they keep going.

[D]

You know what?

[B]

We, not they, we.

[A]

We. Yeah.

[B]

MCs.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

Real life MCs.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

The next time. I'll also say when Rihanna came back and we ended up doing the Ronnie and Clyde one, I felt such pride when she was like showing up to the office, being like, boys, what are we doing?

[B]

And being like, yeah, we earned it.

[D]

Like the opposite feeling on some of these episodes when we're like, we had Tom Hanks and we did one that we felt shame over or whatever, or Steve Martin and we did surf meetings and you kind of have this thing hanging over you of, man, we got a shot, you know, somebody that's a hero or who we're just such massive fans of and we didn't deliver the opposite when it's true. Feels very good too, to have that, like under your belt and they come back and there's a shared history and you feel like you delivered for that person and it feels good.

[A]

Also, Steve Martin, I will throw it out again if we can ever figure out scheduling does want to come on and talk about his memories of surf meeting.

[D]

I mean, we should just ask him for some times and then just make it happen.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, just make it happen.

[B]

Seems like nothing could possibly go wrong with that.

[C]

Yeah, absolutely.

[D]

Like, we'll embarrass them again, drop everything in.

[B]

That's the kind of joke that people who don't know about the 7,000 texts and phone calls to get this scheduled.

[C]

Hey, can I say something, though? Can I say something from those of us that are bedridden? I'm available, like, a lot of the time.

[D]

I like how it's kind of turned you into the ladies, man.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's ready whenever you guys want to get on the mic.

[D]

I got a text from Tim Meadows the other day. That was a photo.

[C]

He was sending photos on set for some. Whatever TV show he's doing.

[D]

Yeah, but what was great about it, I'll just hold it up, see if you guys can see it.

[C]

Timmy.

[D]

So it's him, Leslie Jones, and that other actress that. I forget her name him, Leslie Jones and another actress. And then underneath it, it says by mistake, but enjoy. Yep. Just a great photo. That was not meant for me, by the way.

[C]

I got the same photo. So, Tim. Meadow.

[D]

Well, maybe he was trying to send it to you. That would make sense that it was. Maybe it was to you, though.

[C]

So maybe he confuses us.

[D]

Yeah, well, that would make sense.

[C]

I know it's. I don't know. It's one of those guys with a beard. He says, hope your PT is going swimmingly. It is. Tim. Thank you so much.

[A]

This one had, again, a long tail. You guys got to do another one. It's very special. Definitely. Definitely sweet 16 all time. Definitely Criterion for me.

[C]

Look at that, Andy.

[D]

You did. You did it on stage once, but it was not with her. Right? You just came out on stage as her. I mean, obviously at our concerts, you guys.

[B]

No, it was Santi. Santi was doing a show in New York and she was like, do you want to come do something at my show? And I was like, well, this isn't something that we did together, but do you want to bring me out as shy Ronnie? And she was like, oh, my God.

[D]

Fuck, yeah, that's right.

[C]

Wait, I know we went to that show, but what was the bit? What'd you do? I can't remember.

[B]

The bit was, I met someone who wants to. Cause she has the. I think she still and definitely at that time had her two friends that were her, like, full on, just dance.

[C]

For her whole show.

[B]

And they were so good and awesome. And so I pitched in. She liked that I was auditioning to be her third backup dancer. I can't remember exactly how it went. But it went well. It was super fun.

[C]

That was at that huge hall, Right. Like the one in Manhattan, right?

[B]

City hall.

[C]

Yeah, city hall.

[D]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And at our concerts, it was always a treat to hear the audience go wild when Shai Ronnie would come out. Cause he's the opposite of somebody that you should go wild for. Just the opposite.

[B]

But it was same for. I came out with you guys as just two guys. Cause we're in that same spirit.

[C]

It's basically the same crew.

[D]

At the end of our Just Two Guys set, where we did a medley, we would always go into hits of the day, me and Yorm. So it'd be like, we've talked about this before. But it would be like the. How much money you got? A lot. How many bitches you got? A lot. Which is a 21 savage song or various other ones. But then how did we transition? It was because we transitioned to the Drake.

[B]

God's plan.

[D]

God's plan. And then Shyrani would come out and do God's Plan. God's plan. God's plan, man. How did he. What. But what was our transition?

[A]

Do you remember?

[D]

Because I know me and Yorm would have to go. Oh, now for a special treat, ladies and gentlemen, Shy Ronnie and I just.

[B]

Come out in pain on my face.

[D]

Like, I'm, like, wincing at the light. Yeah.

[C]

And then we were. And then we were. We were cooler than you.

[B]

Yeah, exactly.

[C]

We were really mad.

[D]

Oh, yeah. We played Rihanna. We were the ones that being like, you're messing it up, dude. Messing it up.

[B]

Say the words. Say the words.

[C]

Oh, my God. This guy.

[B]

He doesn't even know them.

[D]

And then we would. Yeah, we would kick you off stage, basically. And then when we would leave, and.

[B]

Then there would be a hard rap when you guys.

[C]

It was a 69 beat that came in. Before he snitched. Before he snitched, though.

[B]

Before he snitched, we didn't know snitching.

[A]

Jake Tapper made this and was mad that I hadn't shown you guys. I kind of forgot to. But that's.

[C]

Oh, my God.

[D]

He drew that.

[B]

Oh, my God.

[A]

Yeah, he drew that.

[C]

He's great.

[D]

Oh, he's a good artist.

[A]

Yeah, he's a. It was state of the cartoonian. Do you remember? We used to do that on his show. Only Me. I'm the only one that watches the Sunday news show.

[B]

No, we remember Wink.

[D]

Wait, who's. Obviously, it's the three of us.

[A]

I'm the lady, and it's your faces.

[D]

Why are you a lady?

[A]

Well, I'm the woman with the three breasts in total recall.

[D]

Got it. So you have her hair.

[C]

Yeah, I think that that might be T shirt material.

[B]

Wait, why do I look like Mark Cuban?

[D]

Oh, yeah. Why are you so furiously Mark Cuban?

[A]

Yorm looks a little chubbier than I think yhorm.

[C]

And so does Keev, but it's clearly at least Yorm.

[B]

I identify Keev and Yorm as themselves. And then also Mark Cuban is with them.

[D]

Shark Tank.

[B]

That's gotta go. That's gotta pop up. We gotta show that to people because that's fucking. That's awful.

[A]

So Tapper, I think now is probably regretting that I've followed through and showed it to you guys. But that's.

[B]

I mean, Tapper, thanks, but no thanks on the Mark Cuban.

[A]

Yeah. You got cubed.

[D]

I disagree.

[C]

I'm very impressed with your side hustle.

[D]

It could be worse. Mark Cuban. Cuban's a handsome rich man. Congratulations.

[B]

Never thought when I woke up this morning, I was gonna get cubed.

[D]

That is what that is.

[A]

Hey, this is great. We're gonna put a pin in a couple other things.

[B]

Yeah. Cause we're long.

[A]

We're long and we're not gonna look. We're not in this to. If we got content, we need to chop it up, keep it small.

[C]

Yeah, Chunkable.

[A]

But I do wanna talk about. And I got a voice note from o' Brien that will play the next episode. I'm sorry, Mike. Cause they did text him midway through this one and he had to down scroll because Underground Music Festival, which is one of my favorite sketches, had its first airing.

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

Oh, it's good.

[A]

Yoram, of course you were the vo. I said, why did you pick Yorm? So we'll find that out the next episode. I did Potato chip finally airs.

[B]

Oh, fuck. This was a good app.

[A]

This is a crazy good app.

[D]

And ladies bowling.

[A]

Ladies bowling. That's a second of the espn. And, guys, a cold open cess corner that I'm perfectly happy to talk about. And so those are all things we're going to do.

[C]

Can we do a cleanup episode then? This is great.

[A]

Yeah, we're gonna do a clean episod, talk about some stuff.

[D]

Well, maybe we'll have a dud next. I'm gonna guess next episode is a dud just based on having two good ones in a row.

[A]

Well, I'm saving. I'm backlogging some really fun sketches that we had very little to do with because we do, like, talking about our colleagues and how brilliant they are.

[D]

We don't Have a shy Ronnie or a Two Worlds collage.

[C]

Yeah. Tune in next week. It's gonna be a dud, you guys.

[D]

Yeah, we doing a dud.

[A]

Kevin, which one's next? What's the dud?

[D]

Yeah, what is. Kevin?

[A]

What is the dud?

[D]

What's the guaranteed dud?

[B]

Name that dud.

[C]

I was doing that a lot when I was getting X rays in the hallway at Rusk and people didn't appreciate it. I was doing, like, wind down selector. And then I was, like, playing reggae hell of loud in the hallway because my dude who was. Who was pushing me around was like, I'm from Jamaica. And I was like, oh, have you heard this? Here we go.

[B]

No woman, no cry.

[C]

No woman, no cry. Have you heard?

[B]

Oh, my God, I love reggae. Have you heard Legend.

[C]

Wind down selector. Wind down sound selector.

[B]

Tizzle whistle's a goodie.

[D]

Tizzle whistle's good. So we were on a bit of a run here, Seth. All right.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Tizzle whistle show. I have no memory of Tizzle whistle.

[D]

It's very solid. It's a very solid.

[C]

I love that one.

[B]

I thought you were a friend, man.

[C]

Didn't make the 64.

[A]

Okay, how about this?

[B]

Yes.

[A]

I bet I'm gonna like Tizzle Wizzle less than you guys think I'm gonna like.

[D]

Oh, for sure.

[C]

I know you will. I know you will.

[A]

And I'm not saying I'm in the right or anything. I'm just saying, like, I. Ones I don't remember are often.

[C]

Yeah, it didn't make your top 64, clearly.

[B]

Well, we're gonna find out next week. And, Seth, I swear to God, I mean this when I tell you I'm living for it.

[A]

I mean, I would love to say bumm me out, but I liked it all three times.

[D]

I like it because it's not making fun of current slang. It's just old enough that I'm ready for it again.

[A]

It's like a classic tweener. Nobody's calling it back. It's not retro yet, and it's not fresh. It's just like, in the dead middle.

[B]

Seth, how long have you known me? Would I ever. Bullshit.

[A]

No, you would never go shit.

[B]

Okay, so here's the truth. I'm obsessed.

[D]

Oh, I like it a lot.

[A]

All right. So nice to talk to you guys. Also, can I tell you guys something? When I came home to visit my parents, I met him at a restaurant. I had a big old Guinness, and I've been a little bit drunk this whole time.

[B]

You son of a gunder.

[D]

Whoa. You had just. Just from one pint of Guinness just kind of did you up.

[A]

I don't know. I think it's because I woke up really early to get our travel day started, and I just hadn't eaten enough, and I'm pretty lightheaded, and. Fuck, I've just loved this last fucking 90 minutes so much.

[C]

Oh, Seth.

[D]

Seth.

[C]

I didn't tell you guys, but I'm on 10 different painkillers right now.

[B]

No, you told us.

[C]

Oh, I did?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Oh, that's crazy to me.

[D]

Oh. Anyway, tune in next week when we.

[C]

Have a dud of an episode.

[B]

Dud.

[D]

Dud. That's the dud sound.

[C]

That's the Prometheus sound you got.

[B]

All right, I'm calling it. Love you guys.

[A]

Love you guys.

[C]

Love you, too.

[D]

Love you.

[B]

Later, Arnold. Later, Quaid.