The Heist & Ka-Blamo!

Summary

The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast

Episode: "The Heist & Ka-Blamo!"

Release Date: March 10, 2026
Hosts: Seth Meyers, Andy Samberg (voice notes), Akiva Schaffer ("Keev"), Jorma Taccone ("Yorm")

Episode Overview

In this episode, Seth Meyers and The Lonely Island’s Akiva and Jorma (with Andy Samberg chiming in remotely) look back at their formative pre-SNL music/comedy projects. They give a deep-dive into their classic early songs “The Heist” and the homemade video for “Ka-Blamo!,” sharing inside stories, creative process insights, and the scrappy technical details behind these cult favorites. Throughout, the group riffs on friends, fan interactions, SNL memories, and the ways that nostalgia and creative evolution intertwine.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Opening Corrections, Listener Comments, and Sports Humor (01:15–07:48)

• Seth admits to two sports mistakes from the previous episode, receiving playful roasting from Keev and Akiva.
  • “It does speak volumes about you guys that I'm the jock of the group.” (02:41, Seth)
• Fans write in with corrections and nostalgic shout-outs; “Quump” is coined as the “Quaid bump” for when they mention a fan video and it gets more YouTube views.
• Discussion of Andy's handsomeness in old content, and his status as the real athlete of the group.
• Andy’s voice note: he clarifies the soccer story, sets the record straight (everyone in the game were comedians, not semi-pro athletes), and expresses excitement about “Digman!” moving to Netflix. (07:48, Andy)

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2. Digman! News and Media Distribution Realities (07:48–09:15)

• “Digman!” season 2 is heading to Netflix after previously airing on Comedy Central, a move all the guys are thrilled about.
• Akiva pops in with a random fact from his exercise bike: “Netflix has 325 million paid subscribers globally.” (08:42)
• Andy emphasizes how proud he is of “Digman!” and encourages everyone to check it out on Netflix (premieres March 17).

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3. SNL & Early YouTube Era – Fan-Made Videos and Animations (09:41-13:09)

• Shoutouts to early YouTube animators who made videos for their pre-SNL songs, such as Aaron/E-Ron.
• The group reflects on the surreal feeling of encountering creators who idolized them as teens and how those connections persist.
• Introduction of "House of Cosby" (old animated webseries) and The Lonely Island’s uncredited voice appearances.
  • “Both very funny and very haunting to watch through the lens of the changing American viewpoint on Bill Cosby.” (11:07, Seth)
• Reminiscing about other Channel 101 projects and comedy pilot opportunities, such as “Yacht Rock,” “Pen15,” and “I’m Sorry.”

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4. Behind-the-Scenes: Comedy, Budgets, and All-Star Pilots (13:10–15:32)

• Anecdote about filming pilot presentation videos with high-profile friends (Jack Black, Maya Rudolph, Randall Park, Ryan Phillippe) in “Yacht Rock”-style comedy projects. (13:39)
• The camaraderie of calling in pals for oddball, one-day shoots that might never see the light of day.

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5. Drummer Comedy, Obscure SNL & Movie References (15:04–17:01)

• Seth and the crew praise Fred Armisen’s hyper-specific “standup for drummers” comedy.
• The panel swaps love for deep cuts and routine non-reactions from audiences (“the movie Dave”, Steve Martin plumber jokes).
• Akiva and Seth give an impromptu plot synopsis and political angle on the movie “Dave,” poking fun at each others’ political “leanings.” (16:07–17:09)

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6. Pre-SNL Songs, Digging Into "The Heist" (24:08–33:44)

• “The Heist”: Akiva and Jorma’s beloved pre-SNL track gets thorough analysis.
  • “Arguably the best song we ever did prior to SNL.” (24:22, Akiva)
• The group listens to a fan-made animated video of the track, picking apart favorite lines and the song’s self-aware, comedic approach to ‘hardcore’ rap persona.
  • Notable bars:
    • “Yo, we should start a book club.” – (26:34, Yorm)
    • “Chamomile, motherfucker… it’s decaffeinated, 'cuz.” – (27:47)
• Technical notes: The beat sampled The Beatnuts, later clarified by Andy to actually be ELO’s “Tightrope.” (33:44, Andy)
• Andy’s extended voice memo gives history:
  • The song’s “Ghost & Rae” back-and-forth inspired by Wu-Tang, Akiva “doing full-throated yelling RZA.”
  • Never officially released due to sample clearance costs.
  • Comparable early track: “Stork Patrol.”

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7. Transition to "Ka-Blamo!" — Their First Music Video (37:47–53:19)

• Context: “Ka-Blamo!” was the group’s very first attempt at a music video, filmed in their LA apartment after moving from college.
• “We knew we’d made something special [with ‘The Heist’], but didn’t think we could pull off a video.” (38:43, Akiva)
• Technical deep-dive: Jorma explains how all these tracks were assembled using a digital 8-track recorder (BR8), breakbeat vinyl, and later, early DAWs (Cubase, Reason).
• Video was shot with borrowed equipment, mostly for their own amusement and practice, with no real expectation that it would reach an audience.
• Set on the roof at UCLA, using thrift-store wardrobes: “It is immediately—could not be more Beastie Boys.” (44:31, Seth)
• Discussion about reference points: early attempts to emulate “Nice & Smooth,” Beastie Boys, and Wu-Tang, even though what comes across visually is “pure Beastie Boys.”

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8. Live Listening and Self-Critique of "Ka-Blamo!" (46:28–53:44)

• Panel listens through, pausing to comment on technical features (makeshift digital FX, use of LA rooftop settings, cameo from a real EMT friend).
• Self-deprecating awareness:
  • “The guys who made this—you can see another path where they suck.” (52:32, Seth)
  • “Luckily we also grew from there. You don’t necessarily watch that and go, ‘Oh, I see all the promise that’s here.’” (53:19, Akiva)
• Highlight: Multiple moments where the hosts realize their “nonsense” approach foreshadows their later success.
• Fun detail: Footage from "Ka-Blamo!" appears as young-band flashback in the Popstar film.

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9. Closing Voice Notes from Andy & What’s Next (54:16–56:21)

• Andy rates “The Heist” above “Stork Patrol” for its influence on their signature style; calls out their pure love for Wu-Tang and the “Ghost and Rey” dynamic.
  • “When I first heard it, I was incredibly geeked and inspired... It kind of cracked open what we could do as dumb comedy guys.” (33:44, Andy)
• Brags about his Spelling Bee streak, noting, “It makes me feel validated in a way I can’t express… it’s my purpose, my why. With apologies to my kids, and family, and friends…” (54:16)
• The crew hints at future episodes focusing on other “deep cut” tracks like “Stork Patrol” and “Nintendo Cartoon Hour.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On their “jock” status:
  “It does speak volumes about you guys that I'm the jock of the group.” – Seth (02:41)
• On Andy’s handsomeness:
  “He has such a—like a thick neck. Really goes up into his head.” – Keev (05:45)
• On sample clearance woes:
  “We even were like, should we just put it out in an official way...but I don't think we can afford an ELO sample.” – Andy (33:44)
• On “The Heist”’s legacy:
  “I remember feeling incredibly geeked and inspired and happy and laughing so hard... it kind of cracked open what we could do with the form.” – Andy (33:44)
• On youthful experiments:
  “You can see another path where they suck and went nowhere.” – Seth (52:32) “Luckily we also grew from there.” – Akiva (53:19)
• On networking in comedy:
  “One of the best things about this industry is calling your friends cold and offering them, like, the most ridiculous roles.” – Keev (13:52)
• On relatable rap references:
  “When you hear Beastie Boys or Wu-Tang and they're talking about New York things we don’t know, it never stopped us from enjoying it.” – Akiva (48:53)
• Andy’s Spelling Bee obsession: “It just makes me feel validated in a way I can’t express... it’s my why. With apologies to my kids, and family and friends and career.” (54:16, Andy)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Listener Corrections, Community Shout-outs: 01:15–07:48
• Digman! + Netflix News: 07:48–09:15
• SNL, YouTube Era, House of Cosby: 09:41–13:09
• Pilot Projects, Celebrity Cameos: 13:10–15:32
• Fred Armisen’s Drummer Comedy, SNL Movie Deep Cut: 15:04–17:09
• Deep Dive on “The Heist” (Song + Story): 24:08–33:44
• Technical Breakdown of Early Song-Making: 37:47–41:27
• Kablamo! Music Video Breakdown: 44:31–53:44
• Andy’s Voice Notes & Pod Sign-Off: 54:16–55:58

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Takeaways

• The episode is a goldmine for Lonely Island fans and comedy/music nerds, offering a vivid look at how their early, self-made work provided both raw material and foundational confidence for SNL and beyond.
• There’s deep, playful nostalgia—but also sharp self-awareness about what worked and what didn’t, and how taste, technology, and audience have all shifted.
• The “pre-fame” shorts and songs are both a testament to youthful creative freedom and a lesson in luck and persistence.
• The group teases more deep-dive episodes on "deep-cut" Lonely Island tracks (like “Stork Patrol,” “Nintendo Cartoon Hour,” and “Thuggish Ruggish Bone”).

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Recommended for:
Diehard fans, comedy/music creators, and anyone nostalgic for the wild west of 2000s internet videos—and those curious how the Lonely Island’s offbeat humor and technical hustle helped rewrite what’s possible in TV and viral comedy.

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Endnote:
As always, the episode is injected with the off-the-cuff, affectionate banter that defines both The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers’ comedic ethos—never too reverent, always collaborative, and self-aware in the most endearing, creatively instructive way.

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[Yorm]

It's the Lonely island and Set Myers Podcast.

[Seth]

Hey everybody. Welcome to the Lonely island podcast. Well, once again, once again without Andy, who is going to, I'm sure send us in a couple voice notes based on what we talk about today. There was something. There's a few things I want to start with. First of all, I'm so embarrassed. I made two sports errors in the last episode and I'm the one who knows about sports.

[Keev]

What were they supposedly?

[Akiva]

Supposedly.

[Keev]

I mean I caught them both by the way.

[Seth]

So I shamed you guys for holding up a jersey. In football town people do hold up jerseys at the NFL draft when they get.

[Keev]

I was actually shocked that you said that cuz I. I did think I had seen that before.

[Akiva]

I did bite my tongue going well he's the sports guy.

[Seth]

Y so you think that I don't know what happened there. That was short circuiting. The other mistake I made was I mentioned Philip Rivers and said he was the San Diego Chargers quarterback on the fridge in. Great day. It was Ryan Leaf which We even talked about during that.

[Akiva]

Yeah. When you said the name, I did go, that sounds like a different name. But I didn't know the name, so I could.

[Seth]

But I like that the problem in both cases was you guys are so, I don't know, trepidatious about your sports knowledge, that you just stood back and you were like, you take this one, Seth.

[Akiva]

Because I didn't immediately have proof otherwise. I just was like, you know, let you hang yourself with your own rope kind of thing.

[Keev]

Yeah, Also, also, Seth, I always picture you as the kind of the jock of the group that comes by and dumps Slurpees on our heads with, you know, a varsity jacket on.

[Seth]

It is really. It does speak volumes about you guys that I'm the jock of the group.

[Keev]

At one point, Rashida Jones was talking about and she said, makes the Lonely island look like jocks. And I was like, oh, interesting.

[Seth]

I think you should do everything about that story, but the name.

[Keev]

Okay, beep on the name. Yeah.

[Seth]

I'm just gonna go through some comments real quick before we. To the episode at hand.

[Keev]

Wait, Seth, does everyone just write in? Is it the same as your show where everyone just like, oh, the mistake. There's a mistake.

[Seth]

I think because I have opened that up about me.

[Keev]

Yeah, yeah.

[Seth]

They feel like we can beat corrections.

[Akiva]

You think there's a fair amount of Jackal crossover?

[Seth]

Yeah, I think there's some Jackover crossover with the Jack Over. Oh, this was very exciting.

[Keev]

I think there's some Jack over getting all over us.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Akiva]

Oh, yeah, there's some Jack Over.

[Seth]

There was a user named Aaron Cosmic who wrote Absolutely Insane to see my old Ms. Paint Windows movie maker. So she was the. She made the art that we were watching during.

[Akiva]

Oh, great.

[Keev]

Yeah.

[Seth]

So when we talk about crossover, the pod. I like that somebody who made that animation to one of your old songs pre SNL is listening to the pod. So shout out.

[Akiva]

Yeah, I wonder if she was listening or if someone tipped her off, but I'm curious.

[Seth]

Interesting. Let us know. Let us know in the comments. Are you actually Quaid army or did you get tipped off?

[Akiva]

But also 20 years ago, however young she was when she made that, she probably was like dreaming that we would see it. I don't want to pat ourselves on the back, but I don't think she sounds like she cares that much now.

[Seth]

Right.

[Akiva]

20 years ago, she was probably quite young and was like, whoa, I'm going to make this. I wonder if they'll see it. And it just took a long time. You just have to stick around.

[Seth]

Yeah. Now is that a rewarding thing when your dream comes true 20 years later, or is it just embarrassing, like, you know, we outgrow our dreams, like, you know what I mean?

[Akiva]

That's right. That's right.

[Seth]

Probably.

[Keev]

No way. I love that thing. I think she's very proud.

[Akiva]

That's my guess. She's so into it. She probably cried when she heard blue.

[Seth]

She's probably crying now.

[Akiva]

Yeah.

[Seth]

I mean, this is like just continuing a week of sobbing with gratitude.

[Keev]

Yeah. We love you. We love you very much.

[Seth]

New new portmanteau for the Pod Quump. A quump is the Quaid bump when a YouTube video gets more viewers after we mention it. So football Town got the Quump.

[Akiva]

Oh, of course it did. Yeah. That must be so nice for football too.

[Keev]

We're definitely using that. The Quump.

[Seth]

The Quump Quimp.

[Keev]

Great.

[Seth]

A lot of comments. I'm sorry he's not here. A lot of comments about how handsome Andy was in an old football town.

[Akiva]

I remember at the time even just being like, oh, some of these shots. Because like, like us slowly realizing, like, oh, if you put on clothes to try to look attractive and you make attractive looking faces and you have wind in your hair and you kind of shoot it knowing, like, you're supposed to be the hunky star, that somewhere it does make you that.

[Keev]

Yeah.

[Akiva]

It happened on Connor for real a bit too, where it's like, now you're going to dress like a guy who thinks that he's attractive. And then everyone's like, Andy's really attractive in this. And you're like, right, you got to

[Seth]

be really attractive to pull it off. When, when you're doing it ironically, you're trying to be comedy. Handsome people are like, hold up.

[Keev]

Yeah, wait, I don't, like, I can't get over Andy's neck in football Town. He has such a. Like a thick neck. Really goes up into his head.

[Akiva]

It's important for tackling.

[Seth]

No, I mean, again, for our listeners. Truly, Andy is the jock of us. Andy's the one who actually played sports at a level that lapped all of us collectively.

[Keev]

I played. I played soccer with him. He was playing on Sundays with a bunch of guys and gals. And right before this was when Mari was shooting her movie out in la and I went one Sunday because I was very excited. And then I was doing the calculation right after. He was like, by the way, everyone's ex college players or semi pro. And I was like, oh, okay, cool. And then I was doing the calculation I was like, the last time I played soccer was 35 years ago. And then played 10 minutes was like slide tackling people on because I was so excited on Astroturf, which you shouldn't do. And then 10 minutes in, I was like, well, there goes my hamstring. And then I was in PT for the rest of the summer. So there you go.

[Seth]

Yeah. So you ran through every red flag and it ended with couldn't hang with the semi pros. Somebody asked when season two of Digman was going to be released on Paramount plus. I don't know the answer to that. I do know season two has aired on Comedy Central, but I will say there was very exciting news, which is it's going to be on Netflix.

[Akiva]

Yeah. It's honestly speaking for Andy, the dream scenario. Because when they, you know, they go out and pitch the show, they're very excited and grateful to Comedy Central for saying yes, but with the knowledge that Comedy Central barely exists.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Akiva]

So it was kind of like, well, we're going to make this show and people are not going to see it. And sure enough, they made a really funny show. But people don't really see it.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Akiva]

And the dream kind of is like, but then once we get a little library, does Netflix buy it When Comedy Central finally realizes they don't have a network? And it's literally what has happened.

[Keev]

So how many subscribers does Netflix have?

[Seth]

They.

[Keev]

They have a lot, right?

[Akiva]

It's like 100. It's like 175 million, maybe.

[Keev]

I was going to say over a million, but.

[Seth]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you were going to Dr. Evelyn.

[Keev]

I mean, I was right.

[Seth]

Yeah, you were.

[Andy]

I was right. Hey, guys, Andy here. I'm just going to jump in real quick. Our original thought there, Keev with Comedy Central was not that no one would see it. It's just in the past few years, things have changed so much, what with Paramount business changing, streaming changing. We're not even sure what's happening with Comedy Central. But, yeah, it is very exciting that Digman is moving over to Netflix. The first two seasons. Can't wait for people to check that out. If you haven't seen it now, it's easier than ever if you didn't have Paramount plus or Comedy Central, as Keeb was kind of alluding to. It's a real proud of me and my buddy Neil Campbell and a whole bunch of really talented funny people worked real hard on it. Please check that out. It's one of the things I'm most proud of in my whole life. Also, Yorm. None of the people playing in that game were semi pro. Like, not even close. It was like, Nick Kroll and Rory Scoville and stuff. Mitra Jahari. These are just comedians. None of them are semi pro. I'm not even sure if any of them played college, so I think it was more just that you were in horrible shape. I'm going to chime in more later.

[Akiva]

Thanks, guys. Hey, guys, this is Akiva interrupting from the exercise bike. Netflix has 325 million paid subscribers globally. Thank you.

[Andy]

Oh, and also Digman premieres on Netflix March 17. Put it in your ical or your practical calendar with a pen and or pencil. Got to get that quump. We like them clicks. We like them qualms. Thanks for saying such nice things about my neck. I'm assuming that you meant it in a nice way. It sounded like you meant it in a nice way, like you were maybe, like, slightly horny for me, which has always been my dream, and I think everyone out there knows that.

[Seth]

Okay. Also, just, you know, I'll do it because he's not here. It's so funny. If you're quite army, you're definitely going to be Digman Army. So.

[Keev]

Yeah, it's wild.

[Akiva]

I think it'll be the thing where the old seasons go up and then a new season gets made for Netflix.

[Seth]

This is just a request. Somebody wanted it clean so they could use it as a ringtone. Yoram, will you give us a platinum in New Zealand?

[Yorm]

Yeah, Platinum in New Zealand.

[Akiva]

Okay.

[Seth]

Thank you, Yoram.

[Akiva]

People can just use that, like, Maybach Music now.

[Keev]

Yeah.

[Seth]

We talked about House of Cosby, which is on YouTube and could really use a quump because it's very funny. And I went back and watched it because. Did we talk about you guys being voices in House of Cosby?

[Keev]

Maybe we did.

[Akiva]

I think I forgot that we even did it.

[Seth]

Yeah. You play three Cosbys. Your superhero Cosby is called the Tri Osby. And the reason I bring it up is somebody pointed out. I'm like, that can't possibly be true. So your Cosby Yorm is like a superhero Cosby.

[Akiva]

Oh, God.

[Keev]

I don't remember this at all. I know you're surprised.

[Akiva]

Well, I'm sure we were there for five minutes, and Justin was just like, say this, say this, say this.

[Keev]

Yeah, well, you would go over to his house just recorded in his, like, kitchen.

[Seth]

So, yeah, not credited. I feel like I'm strongly confident that Chester is a voice in it as well. I'm sure he was not in the credits, but you, Yorm, you get crushed by a dinosaur, all your bones get crushed. In the next episode, you're literally in bed exactly the way you were for your recent.

[Keev]

Oh, so maybe it's.

[Akiva]

If we dig back into this old stuff from 20 years ago, we're going to find everything. We found the winter soldiering.

[Seth]

Somebody was like. And also you. You in bed have a revelation that you're going to go into comedy now that you can no longer be a superhero.

[Keev]

I wonder. I wonder if Justin was into voodoo stuff. And I was being like, you know, House Cosby.

[Seth]

Both very funny and very haunting to watch through the lens of the changing American viewpoint on Bill Cosby. Why?

[Keev]

What happened?

[Seth]

Oh, no, right. I forget. You're behind on stuff.

[Akiva]

No, he's just on the other side.

[Seth]

You haven't read the news since Netflix had 1 million subscribers.

[Keev]

No, no. Well, I was. I was in the hospital, so.

[Seth]

Oh, somebody wrote. The Channel 101 show was called Acceptable TV on VH1.

[Akiva]

Oh, I totally remember that. As soon as you say it. And VH1. Yes.

[Seth]

And then just the names of Yacht Rot. So was Yacht Rock a group?

[Keev]

No, it was the name of a series.

[Seth]

Okay, gotcha.

[Akiva]

It was the equivalent of the Boo, but it was Yacht Rock and it was like a fake VH1 behind the music. And so they would dress up and it would be these stories that they were just completely inventing where it's like the day Michael McDonald wrote, you know, sailing or whatever, and then this Kris Kristofferson would stop by and be like, hey, brother, what are you working on? You know?

[Seth]

And like, I see.

[Akiva]

And they would. They would just dress up as I do.

[Seth]

I'm going to shout out the makers of Yacht Rock because their names were sent in. JD Risner, Hunter Stair, David Lyons and Steve Huey.

[Keev]

Oh, yeah, big ups.

[Akiva]

I'm sure those are all on YouTube too. They were really fun. We actually, when we had a little bit of a budget in our production company to make short presentations to try to become real TV pilots, and ultimately the show Pen15 came out of that. Like, first it was a 10 minute pilot presentation from that money that became Pen15. We did one with JD Risnard trying to kind of take the format of Yacht Rock and turn it into a Comedy Central drunk history style show.

[Keev]

How many did we do? Because we did one with Emily Heller too, right?

[Akiva]

Oh, we did. We did like probably 20 or 30 of those pilot presentations over the years when we were doing it. Yeah, tons of them. There was a show called Alone Together that went on Freeform for a couple seasons. That came from one of those pilot presentations. And there was a good show, Andrea Savage's show called I'm Sorry, that was on. I forget, was it true TV or something? But it was a good comedy show that was written and directed by Andrea Savage and that won a couple seasons as well.

[Keev]

We had like a slush fund for a while. It was pretty awesome.

[Akiva]

Yeah.

[Keev]

Then it went away.

[Akiva]

But real shows worked and got on tv. But point being, we did one with Riznard that did not. But we shot up at that very famous house from the Big Lebowski that you see in things all the time.

[Keev]

Right.

[Akiva]

And it was Jack Black as Giorgio Moroder and Maya Rudolph as Donna Summer.

[Keev]

That was really funny.

[Akiva]

And they were doing the. I need love, I need love, I need love. It was like the story behind the music of how that song came to be. And Randall park was a robot that Giorgio Moroder had. That's right.

[Keev]

I was like, Randall was in it, but I was like, what was his role?

[Akiva]

He's a robot. He was Giorgio Morodo's robot. And then Ryan Phillippe came in as Bowie.

[Seth]

That's right.

[Keev]

That's right.

[Akiva]

Like, we got an all star cast for the most fuck around thing. And it was just this stupid, you know, fake behind the scenes documentary thing about them making the making of.

[Keev]

One of the best things about this industry is calling your friends cold and offering them, like, the most ridiculous rules. Or like being like, hey, do you have this prop?

[Akiva]

But that'd be weird. Hard cast to get for a movie. Everybody would have to be really block out the time and there'd be a lot of money. But for something that's in LA for one day, that is just nonsense and no one's ever going to see.

[Seth]

Sure, yeah.

[Akiva]

Everyone showed up.

[Keev]

Yeah.

[Seth]

Those are the fun things that show up for. I know it's Diana Ross and not Donna Summer. Have you seen Fred's bit where he's the drummer playing? I'm coming out for the first time.

[Keev]

Yes.

[Akiva]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Keev]

It's really funny.

[Akiva]

Just hitting those. Those random drums and then just learning

[Seth]

the song in real time.

[Akiva]

Yeah. Catch it up.

[Seth]

It's really amazing to watch Fred do drummer comedy in front of the Roots.

[Keev]

Yeah.

[Seth]

I mean, I think, like, for, you know, Questlove, who obviously has a great sense of humor, he must be like, this dude is like everything I've ever

[Akiva]

wanted, combining all my interests.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Keev]

I think Fred is the most specific person I know.

[Seth]

I mean, I stand up for drummers. Like, shout out To Netflix Special Stand up for Drummers where Fred.

[Keev]

Oh, my God, it's wonderful. Just check it out.

[Seth]

Most granular jokes that work for everyone, but it is really funny.

[Keev]

Do you remember that joke? Like, it was an early standup of Steve Martin and he does this joke. He's. He's like a lot of plumbers in the audience. And then he tells the plumber joke. And then he's like, oh, you know what? That must have been a different night, because nobody got that joke. I said socket, not sprocket or whatever.

[Seth]

I referenced the movie Dave this week in a Closer look, and it was so. And I had written it in, and it was just like, the absence of a reaction.

[Keev]

Oh, I saw it, Seth. That was really funny.

[Akiva]

Since I'm a major Dave, the movie head, do you think I've led you to believe that movie's more popular? Because I reference it? Because I like.

[Seth]

I mean, I love the movie Dave. We were actually saying Dave would be a good movie to show the kids because I think it's probably just a fun idea about. And also like a good message.

[Akiva]

Agreed. What is Dave? What's Dave about?

[Keev]

What is it?

[Seth]

It's.

[Akiva]

Ivan Reitman directed it. It's Kevin Klein and Sigourney Weaver starring. And it's that there's, like, a Republican president played by Kevin Klein, who is everything you would think of in terms of, like, corrupt and just playing politics and does not care about people. And he basically gets in an accident and is in a coma.

[Seth]

Doesn't he have a heart attack? Like, having an affair maybe? Maybe having.

[Keev]

Like he's having an affair. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I do. I'm remembering this.

[Akiva]

Something like this where he is now incapacitated. But then the chief of staff and vice president get together and go, what if we don't tell the public because we don't want, you know, and then finally we can run.

[Seth]

And then Kevin Klein plays a presidential impersonator who looks like him.

[Akiva]

Yeah, that does. Like birthday parties.

[Keev]

Oh.

[Akiva]

And so they go and find him, and he's obviously amazing at it because it's Kevin Klein again. But he shows up as just kind of a riding my bicycle around town impersonator, fun guy. And kind of like starts to learn, like, wait, everyone thinks I'm the president? Like, why don't I try to fix some stuff? And starts actually, like, trying to balance the budget and try to fix things. And, like, Sigourney Weaver figures it out because she's the wife that he hasn't shown interest in. In, you know, Years.

[Keev]

But now, now he's a good husband.

[Akiva]

So it's a little bit of a romcom as well.

[Keev]

Wait, is it. Is he left wing then or. No. Like, what is.

[Akiva]

Yeah, yeah, he's clear.

[Keev]

I don't like it. I don. I don't want to see this movie then.

[Akiva]

Yeah, I don't think you'll like the

[Seth]

politics of the movie spectrum stuff. Oh, yeah, Yorm. You won't like.

[Keev]

No, I'm very right wing and I don't like that lib. That sounds like lib.

[Akiva]

Yeah. It's propaganda.

[Seth]

It is funny, Keith, how you were like, you know, and obviously he's great at it because he's also played by Kevin Klein. It would be funny if the Originally the producers were like, well, the problem with the movie is we got to find somebody who looks just like Kevin Klein. Play the other part.

[Keev]

Exactly.

[Akiva]

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[Keev]

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[Akiva]

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[Keev]

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[Seth]

My brother does a knockout Gavin Newsom impression. And he did it on Jimmy Kimmel this week with the actual Gavin Newsom.

[Akiva]

Oh, he had the moment. The SNL moment.

[Seth]

He had the moment. The SNL moment. He came out to present an award to the actual Gavin. And Gavin Newsom did that really smart thing where Gavin Newsom started leaning into my brother's Gavin Newsom impression. Like he started doing. Started stealing bits from Josh, which is like almost ally.

[Keev]

Oop. The. The joke.

[Seth]

Yeah, it's a very affable move. The bad move is like, I don't talk like that. The good move is you start like doing the actual gestures and play the heightened version of yourself.

[Keev]

That's great.

[Seth]

Yeah, Very fun. One last thing. And then what did we decide? The heist.

[Keev]

Oh, yeah, let's. Let's listen to some old shit.

[Seth]

Oh, wait, I have one last thing to say, but a last thing because you did an ad read for good chop yam.

[Keev]

Oh, I did, yeah.

[Seth]

Oh yeah.

[Keev]

I got some good chop stuff. For real.

[Seth]

So somebody wrote pretty ironic that Yorm is doing an ad for good chop when he hasn't managed to schedule his good chop. Parentheses vasectomy.

[Keev]

Oh, that's really good, Seth. Like, hopefully later on I'm going to be on your show and I was hoping to actually schedule the vasectomy for that day so we could talk about it.

[Seth]

Not on the show.

[Keev]

You want me to get the vasectomy on the show?

[Seth]

Well, no, I'm saying not on the show. I know. I was when you said scheduled and on my show.

[Keev]

Well, you know, like, you know, Jimmy does all those bits. I feel like maybe you could do a fun one.

[Seth]

I mean, I feel like it's probably a. It's local anesthetic. I mean, if you were, like, covered with a sheet.

[Keev]

Yeah, that's fun.

[Seth]

And we just. We just had your head poking out, like, I don't know, magician assistant style.

[Keev]

Yeah, totally. Sounds good.

[Seth]

All right. The heist.

[Akiva]

All right. So last week, we. Since we don't have Andy with us, we went into the deep cut stuff and we tried to do. I mean, Football Town's heavy Andy, but trying to do things that don't involve Andy. And we have another. That's actually arguably the best song we ever did previous to snl, I would say.

[Keev]

Yeah.

[Akiva]

Any of us. And it is a Me and Yoram special. And it's what inspired. We talked about a little on the Lazy Sunday episode.

[Seth]

By the way, we're gonna send a copy of this to Andy with no qualifier, and it's just gonna end on you saying, arguably the best song we ever did.

[Akiva]

Let him know.

[Keev]

I think you would agree. I think you would agree it's a great song.

[Akiva]

Let's see if he does. But let him know it. And we did cannibalize it a bit for Lazy Sunday, where we were like, oh, kind of the tone. And you'll see there's a. A chamomile line that is snack attack. Verbatim, basically.

[Keev]

Verbatim. I. I will say, like, just before you play it, like, I love the beat, and I made the beat for this, but I can't remember the samples that were used. There are live guitars at the end of it, too, which my friend played, which is more detailed than most of our songs ever got. But if anybody out there can tell us the sample, that would be great.

[Seth]

And no. No video. Correct. For the heist.

[Akiva]

No video. But for fun, I bet you there's a bunch online. Do you want me to play this off YouTube instead of this? I mean, no one's made by others.

[Keev]

Yeah. Get another person some shine.

[Seth]

Let's see if there's something out there. Also, Arty Party was a real earworm for me this week.

[Keev]

Yeah, I heard that. You couldn't get it out of your head.

[Seth]

I really couldn't.

[Keev]

Oh, and Andy wrote in and say that he woke up thinking of the remix of Arty Party as well.

[Akiva]

I will say the Kid Icarus remix is the one that sticks in my head for whatever reason.

[Keev]

Yeah, totally. I actually thought it was that one. By the way, the man who made that, my buddy from who I met at Guitar Center. His name BR Dempsky. And don't dox him. What is it?

[Akiva]

Yeah, yeah, Docs him, dox him. All right, so I got one from 20 years ago with 96,000 views. That's a liveaction. One somebody made, you know, like shooting it with their friends. But look who's back.

[Seth]

Watch Aaron with another with yes, please.

[Keev]

Aaron. Already Funny. Eron changed her name.

[Sampled Character Voice]

5 o' clock in the morning, I hear the phone ringing. Yo, what up? Done.

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What up, son?

[Yorm]

Sorry, boy. You sleeping?

[Sampled Character Voice]

Nah, just finished reading this ill ass novel.

[Yorm]

Not the one about the girl who left the family up in Cobb?

[Sampled Character Voice]

That's the one. That shit was sad. Had me crying on the pages.

[Yorm]

Yo, I read that motherfucker had me sad as fuck for ages.

[Sampled Character Voice]

Yo, we should start a book club.

[Yorm]

Yo, son, I hear you talking. How about Sunday afternoon right after speed walking?

[Sampled Character Voice]

That's a date. But I know that ain't the reason for your calling.

[Yorm]

No doubt. You're so observant. Must have noticed I was stalling.

[Sampled Character Voice]

Yo, best friends gotta tell each other their secret.

[Yorm]

I just came from Pam's work and she dipped my heart and shit, yo.

[Seth]

What?

[Sampled Character Voice]

That's Baskin Robbins, yo.

[Yorm]

Yo, you know the spot where you order frozen treats and they rip your heart apart?

[Sampled Character Voice]

Yo, I got what you need at the house. You cool to drive?

[Yorm]

I'm pretty broken up. I might not make it there alive.

[Sampled Character Voice]

Don't talk like that. Now you're making me want to cry.

[Yorm]

Yo, it's cool, son. I'm fine. I'll be over there in five.

[Seth]

What's that?

[Akiva]

Sample Y.

[Seth]

Do you remember?

[Keev]

It's mob deep.

[Yorm]

Yo, son, your house looks beautiful. Did you redecorate?

[Sampled Character Voice]

Nah, kid, the French lighting really opens up the place.

[Yorm]

Well, it feels so spacious.

[Sampled Character Voice]

It's an optical illusion.

[Yorm]

You did not knock down a wall.

[Sampled Character Voice]

Nah, son, it's like the Fusion.

[Yorm]

My girlfriend Pam and I were planning on doing some home remodeling.

[Sampled Character Voice]

Yeah, she borrowed all my copies of Better Homes and Gardening.

[Akiva]

Yo.

[Yorm]

I mean, ex girlfriend. Can't believe this shit is happening.

[Sampled Character Voice]

Have this cup of tea, man.

[Yorm]

You'll never see those magazines. This tea is delicious. What you say it was?

[Sampled Character Voice]

Chamomile, motherfucker.

[Yorm]

It's a caffeinated, cuz.

[Sampled Character Voice]

Nah, I'm trying to cut down.

[Yorm]

Me and Pam were gonna too. Thought we'd always be a couple. Not the one, but the two.

[Sampled Character Voice]

No doubt. Even when I would see my abusive Relationship. I would look to you and Pam and know that true love could exist.

[Yorm]

Yo, for real? God, I never knew you felt like that.

[Sampled Character Voice]

No doubt, Dunny. I thought you were a perfect match. Hey yo, it's ill when I'm heated Now my heart stay cold now my heart stay cold now my heart stay cold hey, yo, it's ill when I'm heated Now my heart stay cold now my heart stay cold now my heart stay cold. Yo, kid, this red wine's got me feeling fucked up.

[Yorm]

Watching you just knocked some right out of my cup.

[Sampled Character Voice]

Oh, fuck, that's my bad. It's all over your slacks.

[Yorm]

No doubt, son. I'm soaked from the front to the back.

[Sampled Character Voice]

Oh, shit. You're getting naked.

[Yorm]

Course I am. Bet we gotta get these in the wash before the stain set.

[Sampled Character Voice]

Ah, fuck, Ben, you just got wine all over my vest.

[Akiva]

I'm wearing a vest down to your chest.

[Sampled Character Voice]

Yo, kid, we're both buck naked. Are you uncomfortable?

[Yorm]

Nah, kid, we're two grown men that will both extra sex.

[Sampled Character Voice]

Word up, son.

[Akiva]

Hold on.

[Yorm]

Yo, did you just hear something?

[Sampled Character Voice]

God damn, it's fucking Pam. She must have let herself in.

[Yorm]

What up, Pam? How's it going? What an awkward situation.

[Sampled Character Voice]

No, if you didn't know better, this might look incriminating.

[Yorm]

Yo, what wacky circumstances to lead all of this to happen.

[Sampled Character Voice]

Yo, just like I'm fucking Seinfeld or Curb Enthusiasm.

[Yorm]

Those were both by Larry Davis.

[Sampled Character Voice]

No doubt, Johnny.

[Keev]

That's true.

[Yorm]

Wait, Pam. So go. If you leave right now with groove.

[Sampled Character Voice]

Yo, I'm sorry, son. Damn, what a tragic way to end.

[Yorm]

The important thing now is that we're naked and we're friends.

[Keev]

Naked friends.

[Seth]

It's fantastic.

[Keev]

I was. I was wrong, Keith. It is not Mobb Deep as from a beat nut song called do youo

[Akiva]

Believe that's what the. It's ill how I'm heated when my heart's like cold the beat. Nuts. Yes.

[Seth]

Shout out to Aaron again. Who went by E. Ron back then.

[Akiva]

Yes, yes. Crossed out.

[Seth]

Very fun to watch naked stick figures. I think my favorite detail about your breakup with Pam.

[Keev]

Yeah.

[Seth]

Is that you guys were both about to cut back on caffeine together. Like that tells me more about the kind of couple you are, the kind of dude you are, and how you really must be heartbroken.

[Keev]

We also do this a lot in a lot of songs where one person says something super lame and then the other person strongly agrees with it. Like, I am also that way you're like, I was gonna do that too.

[Seth]

Going back, if you have an Unlimited budget.

[Keev]

Yeah.

[Seth]

And this is a song that's going to be on an album. Do you record Pam saying a line? If you could rewrite it. Do you think you want to hear Pam?

[Keev]

No, no, no.

[Akiva]

I think it's more these guys just telling you the story.

[Seth]

Gotcha.

[Akiva]

I mean, we had access to female voices, as is proved by Arty. Party with Arty. You look good with that dump in your drawers.

[Seth]

I guess that's maybe because that was the last song we listened to. And I enjoyed that so much. I was kind of. I. I will admit I was a little hopeful.

[Akiva]

Oh, to hear. To hear a Lady.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Keev]

I think I would have taken the air out of it because there's so much tension between these two guys that I think.

[Akiva]

What are other references? I feel like we're doing a little. Trying to do a little bit of like Wu Tang style back and forth, like Ghostfacey stuff. I feel like there was a little bit of warning by Biggie, but there's other things being wrapped up in that that were. I mean, overall, obviously we're just, you know, poking fun at how self serious a lot of certain genre of rap was.

[Keev]

I mean, we're each giving like 110% on each line. Like we're just scratching and then up

[Seth]

to 120 when you start getting naked. Keith's fully in. 125%.

[Keev]

Yeah.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Keev]

And we're yelling as loud as possible.

[Akiva]

We're just screaming. We are just screaming.

[Andy]

What's up chumbos? It's Andy chiming in again. Let's see the sample. Yorm is Yellow Tightrope. The Great Electric Light Orchestra. One of our faves. I'm surprised you didn't remember that because years and years later we loved the heist so much. We even were like, should we just put it out like in an official way or like rerecord it or clean it up? And we were like, I don't think we can afford an ELO sample, even given some of the samples we did pay for. And that kind of squashed it at that point. So we never put it out in official capacity because of that was my recollection. But hit us in the tittis. Tell us if you disagree with that account. And then influences on the heist. I would say it's very much a WU tag in my opinion. And interestingly, you guys are doing Ghost and Rey. Cause they would do the back and forth story songs the most, I would say. And I think that's probably what you had in mind. I mean, I can't put myself in your shoes, but that was my guess, but a distinction in my opinion. Re listening to it, Akiva's really doing rza. Like it's full throated yelling rza. Almost like grave Diggas rza, which did bleed into many early Wu Tang recordings before he kind of smoothed it out. Although sometimes he would bring that back. Look, he contains multitudes. Anyhow, as to whether or not it was our best pre SNL song or pre album song, it's definitely one of the best. When I first heard it, I remember feeling incredibly geeked and inspired and happy and laughing so hard. The only other one that I would maybe even put in the conversation with it is Stork Patrol, which is also 100% referencing Wu Tang, not surprisingly, because that was some of our favorite shit around that time. And still obviously Stork Patrol gets a little gross in spots in ways that I think we wouldn't do now, but the flows are kind of impeccable. And that is another one of my favorite early Yorm beats. It goes as Keev likes to say. But yeah, gun to my head, I'd probably take the heist and obviously the blueprint for Lazy Sunday and kind of everything we did from that point on, it kind of cracked open what we could do with the form as dumb comedy guys. And also sounds good and bro and you guys put time into the rhyme. So yeah, I'll give it the crown and you know, I'll be back.

[Seth]

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[Akiva]

All right. Do you want to kick another one, Seth?

[Seth]

Yeah, I feel like kablamo. Can we Kablamo?

[Akiva]

Yeah. But then we should just watch the video to it, probably.

[Seth]

Yeah, we should.

[Akiva]

So we had been making songs obviously, like the ones you're hearing. I'm not sure what order they came in, but at a certain point we made one and went, let's make a music video to it. And it was our first attempt at a music video ever. I would say say. So this was. This is shot in the original Lonely island apartment. And we made it pretty quickly after we moved to la. Yeah, like, we moved here. We all were in that. That we've talked about, you know, getting temp jobs and hanging out. And we borrowed a camera and we were like, what would it be like to make a video? I don't know why we didn't make one for the heist. Because when we made the heist, we were really proud and we knew and like, just the amount of people doing fan videos, like, we knew we had made something special, but maybe we thought we couldn't pull it off. I don't know why we never made one for that.

[Seth]

It's weird because it seems. I mean, again, who am I to speak to what your sense of yourselves were then? But it seems like easy enough to pull off.

[Akiva]

Well, in hindsight, I would have given us the advice to make a music video to every one of these tardy party, because why wouldn't we have?

[Keev]

Well, it would have been nice to just see our young faces, you know, etched in time.

[Seth]

And when we eventually do our Noodles in the Pot episode.

[Keev]

Oh, yeah.

[Akiva]

Yes.

[Keev]

Yeah, exactly.

[Akiva]

This is what it's all building towards.

[Seth]

You know, let's try to get a quump on that Noodles in the Pot video.

[Akiva]

I would say Kablamo is. Is our noodles in the pot for sure.

[Keev]

Yeah. Well, just. Just to talk about the beat of how this was made. So a. There was plugged into the BR8, which is a eight track digital recorder. Basically, I would find a speed that I liked as the loop of it and then record and just try to keep recording until I got the exact loop, loop it on the BR8 and that would be one track. Then I would take drums, listen to it, match the speed of the drums to that sample. You know, like on techniques 1200 you could like go back and forth on plus and minus and then just get it to the right volume. So you'd pick breakbeats from like a breakbeat album. So like that's how these were made. And then after you would get all of the samples for the song, get like the, like the timing right for everything in the bra, which is a ridiculous way to do it kind of. But then you would compress that all down, then that would be on one track and then we would do all of our lyrics with the remaining seven tracks, if anyone's interested in that type of shit.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Akiva]

And to your credit, Yorm, what you're also explaining is that we were using the wrong piece of equipment.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Akiva]

Like there was a keyboard. I'm forgetting what it was called, but I think it was made by Rol that my cousin used. That was like a sampling keyboard, like a synthesizer where it was made to make. You could make beats on it. Or there was a thing called an MPC that was very popular that you see anytime you watch old producers working on. That looks like a drum machine with a bunch of square pads.

[Keev]

Yes. I did have an MPC at one point. We had a little control. The thing it keeps talking about is a little controller and it would actually trigger digital sound effects in like later on when we were making. We were making stuff in. I was making stuff in Cubase. Making stuff in Reason. And those are computer programs. Yes. Yeah, yeah. And these, some of them still exist.

[Akiva]

Like this thing, just an eight track recorder is not the way you should be making beats. It. It does work. If you're making like Nebraska, you know, you're just.

[Keev]

You're just making it by sound. Like there's no. I mean, obviously it has a tempo, but like. But that tempo is like you're just. I'm just doing all of this by sound.

[Akiva]

You're doing it like a band would though. Like where you would lay down a guitar track and then lay down some drums. You were doing it like live musicians would.

[Keev]

Yeah. All right, wait, wait, Can I say one more thing about, like, just music in general, because this is sort of interesting, is that we would also usually just do a either two or four bar chorus and then you do a 16 bar. Because that's just sort of a standard hip hop thing. So usually we would just sort of do that and then find our lyrics within that 16 bars.

[Seth]

Wait, before we move on, do you guys. Were you at the table read where Fred. I really think it was about, like, the fall of Gaddafi. And Fred played Gaddafi at the table with a guitar and a sampler and he just kept. He made a song like he, like, they were like, hey, they're closing in. And he just like thoughtfully walked over and like. It was just that Gaddafi was writing a song using, like, making his own music samples like Reggie Watts would. He just did a full Reggie Watts while, like, his inner circle was like, watching him wondering what he was doing. But the joy of it at the table was like. It was amazing to watch Fred in real time, like, actually make the samples and make a song.

[Keev]

Yeah. So like, ours was like that, except for over the course of many hours rather than like two minutes and not

[Akiva]

a joy in any way.

[Seth]

I might have to ask. Ask Fred what the inspiration was behind that. And if I'm remembering it correctly, also topical. Yeah.

[Keev]

Yeah, it is.

[Seth]

Time is a flat circle.

[Akiva]

There's some reflections in modern times.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Akiva]

Fred could bring it back.

[Seth]

I used to bring that be recurring if it was occurring. He.

[Keev]

Yeah.

[Akiva]

Now it's this guy.

[Seth]

Lauren would have. Lauren would order it up. Should we get Fred in to do a.

[Keev]

Do another Gaddafi Fall?

[Seth]

Fall of a leader.

[Keev]

Yeah.

[Akiva]

Sad fall of a leader. Fall of a tyrant. Okay. Yeah. So here is Kablamo. You know, you'll really hear us just. We're just like, experimenting with our voices of like. Well, what does it sound like when I record my voice? Should I try to be this guy or that guy?

[Seth]

That's very fun to realize. These are the building blocks that you guys did not. So you didn't even have your, like, the many different Personas that we've heard yet. These are all just like, first time.

[Akiva]

All of these is us. Like, even when we were listening to arty party like YHorm's trying to do Greg Nice from Nice and Smooth. Do you remember that smooth guy? Duo. Hip hop Duo Seth.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Akiva]

I think you'd remember what was there. Is it nice and smooth?

[Keev]

Nice and Smooth.

[Akiva]

There's like two songs you'd recognize. Even if you don't think you did that, you would know From. There's one with Gangstar that you would definitely know from just going to nightclubs in the early 2000s in New York where they would definitely have thrown it on. So that was what you were trying to do, right, Yoram, when you were

[Keev]

like, yeah, big time. Yeah, I love that, too.

[Akiva]

And I'm doing 50 cent on that one part that Andy pointed out, where all of a sudden, I'm sure, just, like, talking to my teeth for no reason.

[Keev]

But it is funny. It is funny to say this. Of all the references we were making. And then when you see it, you're just like, oh, the Beasty Boys.

[Seth]

Exactly.

[Keev]

That's what we look like.

[Akiva]

This. This. I don't know what we're doing. I think we are just trying to do Beastie Boys is on this one. Okay, here you go. Listen, listen. I'm going to pause for one second. So when we were making Pop Star, we were like, oh, why don't we put in footage from this? And so there's a shot in it that's from Kablamo that. I don't know if it's from the video or. We found the Hi8. You know, whatever mini DV tapes this was shot on and redigitized the original dailies of this and found, like, the moment we're standing on the roof. And I think that's in Pop Star. Cause it was footage of us young looking, like we're trying to be in a band.

[Seth]

It's, by the way, immediately could not be more Beastie Boys. Like, the first shot is like a Paul's Boutique shop, a thousand percent. And you're immediately. I feel like that's the roof from that sample.

[Keev]

Well, that roof is at ucla. You know, this was not that long after I graduated. And it's right next to the theater department. There was an art building. I'm not even sure if it's there anymore. But you could go to the roof and, you know, any place like this, where we were like, cool. That's a cool location. We knew about. Like, we drove over to ucla, got this shot. And then this is. Some of this is in Pop Star as, like, a throwback to what our band of stubborn.

[Akiva]

It's also wearing thrift store clothes, but that is really what we wore to some degree.

[Seth]

And, Kee, I did notice Yoram just said a thing that you had just explained.

[Keev]

Oh, yeah.

[Akiva]

I don't know where he was. He was out to lunch. Because I didn't.

[Seth]

It was. I just didn't want it to. I didn't want you to start thinking you were crazy.

[Keev]

Oh, the rooftop thing.

[Akiva]

You just said that the reason I paused was talking about pop star.

[Keev]

You know what's.

[Akiva]

The whole reason we paused?

[Keev]

You know what's funny is that I was thinking about something entirely else. I know you're surprised by that, but the sample. The sample for this, I had all these, like, old. Like Danny Kaye and Spike Jonze records. Not Spike Jones, the filmmaker, but the original Spike Jones. And I think that that is one. One of those two gentlemen. But I. I had probably several hundred records that were around this time doing the laughter.

[Akiva]

The. Listen, listen, listen.

[Seth]

I was worried that when you paused the video, Kee, you also pause your.

[Akiva]

Oh, it was.

[Keev]

That's a really.

[Seth]

That's how.

[Keev]

Take.

[Seth]

That's how taken aback I was by. You think it was a click.

[Akiva]

Kind of a click situation.

[Seth]

Oh, you clicked them.

[Keev]

The reference to an Adam Sandler movie.

[Seth]

Click them.

[Akiva]

They know. Click. All right, here we go.

[Keev]

Do they. They don't know any upsets references.

[Akiva]

Listen, listen.

[Sampled Character Voice]

You just won the lottery. That's kablam. You can shit in D. You joined

[Yorm]

us around that Kablamo.

[Sampled Character Voice]

You lied about the lottery, not kabamo. You met Fred Siegel at a debutante ball.

[Seth]

You gave him your number.

[Sampled Character Voice]

He gave you a call. He told you to meet him at the corner at 8. You met him at 9. That's right.

[Yorm]

You were late, you stupid idiot. You don't know what you missed.

[Sampled Character Voice]

Fred Siegel's a star. And you called this his pimping ass. Grueling ass.

[Keev]

Smack ass.

[Yorm]

Billy Diggity. I be on the wall, but not around the lettering.

[Sampled Character Voice]

Spread seagull. And everybody knows you're not Kab the dog. Fix your artery. That's kab.

[Yorm]

Your mouthwash is gargly.

[Sampled Character Voice]

That's kab. Your water is watery. That's. I majored in pottery. Not.

[Yorm]

You're chilling with your dudes and they

[Sampled Character Voice]

stab you in the face all the way to the hospital. You're bleeding all over.

[Keev]

Wait, how did we get this. How did we get this ambulance shot? I can't remember.

[Akiva]

That's Evan, right? That's Evan.

[Keev]

Oh, right. Cuz he was actually an emt. Right.

[Akiva]

He's an emt.

[Seth]

Yeah. Where? You had a friend who was an emt.

[Akiva]

Yeah, our friend Michael Black's friend. Evan had just become an emt. And he was our friend too, at the time. And he was like, that's fine. Like, if I don't get a call, I'll just drive over. And so he was just waiting on a call. And we just. We just shot him.

[Keev]

Yeah, that's great. Yeah. High quality.

[Akiva]

So, Fred Siegel, for those that don't live in la, Fred Seagull was a very famous clothing store, but we had just moved there, and we had no money. We had never been inside, and we were just. It was just nonsense. It was just us, like, looking at it.

[Keev]

I don't know why that even came about as the writing process. It's so crazy.

[Seth]

It was. It was sort of iconic signage, and it was like. I think for everybody in showbiz, there was a little bit of aspirational. Like, I didn't even know what was in Fred Siegel, but I knew that, like, you needed money to go in there. Yes.

[Keev]

When we finally went in, I realized it wasn't my style.

[Akiva]

Yes.

[Keev]

At all.

[Akiva]

But it's just nonsense. And it's just us being like, that's a thing. Like, again, we're making it for ourselves on some level, and we're just goofing it. I don't know what. I don't know how to explain, but I do know that I still have friends that are like Iggity Ivy on the wall, but not around the lettering, for whatever reason. But I also think it's us. Like, when you hear Beastie Boys or Wu Tang or whatever, and they're talking about New York things that we don't know, it never stopped us from enjoying it. Like, we don't have White Castle on the west coast, but I knew all about White Castle. Or.

[Seth]

I mean, there's still things in Beastie Boys that I have to Google. But you just love them.

[Akiva]

Exactly. And they would talk about random people that are just in their studio, like George Jacrulius and stuff, and you're just like, I guess that's a guy. And so I think we were also just kind of doing a version of, like, it doesn't matter.

[Keev]

It's a little bit like. Like, you know, I mean, Santana DVX was our brass monkey, which I believe is a real drink. Just. That's really fucking hard to get. That is like, you know, malted wine or something. I can't remember what the fuck it is. But I. I do want to say that our. Our lyrics feel painfully dry, which is something later that we would add reverb. We would always add reverb. And it makes you sound much better. It blends you into the song.

[Akiva]

Yeah. Cause we had no clue. We' just. Yeah, we're just saying the words into a mic and it's recording. We didn't even know that, like, every song you've ever heard has a little bit of EQ making them brighter and a little bit of reverb, minimum.

[Keev]

Yes. Something we added later.

[Akiva]

And, like, if you go into a real recording studio, the engineers putting that on your mic before you even are at the mic. So when you hear your voice through the mic, it's not.

[Keev]

It doesn't suck and embarrass you.

[Akiva]

Okay.

[Keev]

Oh, wait, wait, wait. I just want to say some of the shots that are on the roof in this were actually in Pop Stories Star. Okay, keep going.

[Akiva]

Okay, good. Great.

[Keev]

Yeah, you're welcome.

[Akiva]

I appreciate that. I'm just holding a light here.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Yorm]

You're chilling with your dudes, and they

[Sampled Character Voice]

stab you in the face all the way to the hospital. You're bleeding all over the place. Your leg is amputated. Cause you got gangrene. And then you get cancer and you die in your teeth.

[Yorm]

But then this really pretty girl who you always really like so's up to your funeral, and that's a real mixed blessing.

[Sampled Character Voice]

Your jello is white. That's. You make your br. That's your Harlem Globetro. That's the disorder.

[Akiva]

Like, why is the disorderlies catching strays? Just no need. Like, when you don't think anyone's paying attention and you're this young, you're. We are just writing things. Like, I don't stand by any of these lyrics.

[Seth]

Oh, But.

[Keev]

But can we talk about, like, so. So I'm actually surprised at how many visual, you know, digital effects we did in editing. So there's a lot of flashes that you added ke. Like, I think they'. Polarizations. Like, quick little. And then, you know, like, the picture's moving. We put that magnifying glass in front of the lens just to make it chaotic, which actually is, like. It almost feels like what our DP was doing with I'm on a Boat as well. But, like. But you know, there's. There's a lot of chaos that's been created in this digitally. It's pretty good.

[Akiva]

I. I agree. We spent the time editing and learned a lot of our tricks just playing around with it. Just trying desperately to make ourselves look.

[Keev]

Yeah, look at that on the vats. Kab. You know, detail.

[Akiva]

So we like Gilbert Godfrey, but are not into the disorder. Also, why are we mad about majoring in pottery? That could be okay.

[Seth]

Yeah. I don't know why that's a hit.

[Sampled Character Voice]

When you're mining for coal and you forget what coal is and you're sure

[Yorm]

to be fired, because that's your job.

[Sampled Character Voice]

When a mole's in your ass and you wonder where the mole is, you're screwed, man. A mole is in your ass.

[Seth]

Job.

[Yorm]

The meaning of life is revealed to

[Sampled Character Voice]

you, and all of the drinks are old English brew.

[Akiva]

I think I was trying to be a witch there, people on Earth.

[Sampled Character Voice]

But the whole mole in the ass thing is haunting you when your pooh bodily. That's kablammy.

[Yorm]

What happened to kablamo?

[Sampled Character Voice]

I mean, kablamo good.

[Yorm]

That's better.

[Sampled Character Voice]

That's kablammy.

[Akiva]

Wait, I'm confused.

[Sampled Character Voice]

We said kablamo.

[Akiva]

At least it's on it hard.

[Keev]

Oh, yeah. B switch. Come on. That was great.

[Akiva]

And then awkward ending. Sure.

[Seth]

Really awkward ending. I'm gonna say something with love, which is the guys who made this. You can see another path where they suck.

[Akiva]

Yeah.

[Keev]

And went nowhere.

[Akiva]

That's fair to say. When we were. We were finding it, we were really proud of it, too.

[Seth]

Yeah. I'm not saying that it sucks, but

[Akiva]

we somehow knew which parts to leave in the pat. We knew we were like, okay, that. That proved we could make a music video. And, like, we got that out of our system, whatever it is. But people liked it at the time. Like, our intention of being like, what if kablamo's a word? And people liked saying kablamo to us. So at that age and that time. I don't want to poop on anybody who listens to this who's like, I liked kablamo. Cause I think we were all. Whatever age we were and thought it was okay. But luckily we also grew from there.

[Seth]

Yeah. I don't think anything about it is bad or a bad. Listen. I'm just saying, like, the people who made it could have. Could have taken the wrong messages from.

[Akiva]

Agreed. You don't necessarily watch that and go, oh, I see all the promise that's here.

[Seth]

Yes.

[Akiva]

The way just two guys. I kind of do.

[Seth]

Right. I think there's more cohesion to the idea of just two guys where you're right. I mean, you're just throwing a lot of stuff against the wall. And some of the stuff that didn't hit the wall could have been what you took away from it. Yeah.

[Keev]

I think that when I see this, when. When I think about my father and mother being like, oh, thank God they got snl, that makes complete sense.

[Seth]

Sense.

[Keev]

Like, I'm just like, oh, yeah. You could have thought this went nowhere.

[Seth]

Right.

[Keev]

Right.

[Akiva]

All right, so I'm composing the text. Andy here's his setup for whatever voice note he's going to Give us. Andy, weigh in on Kablamo the Heist. Tell us about Digman News, when is season two on Paramount plus, and the Netflix thing. And I said that the Heist is our best song pre snl. Do you agree? And also tell us about how you did on Spelling Bee.

[Andy]

Thanks for all those questions, Akiva. I already answered most of them in my previous voice notes. Kablamo. Yeah. Full agreement with you guys. I don't. I don't want to be like boring people by doubling down. There's some sloppy stuff in there. Our vocals are all over the road. There's a couple of fun little moments. The beat, obviously is good. And I agree with you, Seth. You know, it's like sliding doors. You know what I'm saying, brother? So let's get to the important part. I got Queen Be clean today. Not only that, and Seth knows that I got it four days clean in a row this week. And it felt fantastic. Just hot knife through butter. It's like. There's no feeling like it in the whole world, you guys. And to me, it. It just makes me feel validated in a way that I can't express. Like, it feels like it's my purpose, it's my why. You know, with apologies to my kids and. And family and friends and career, but it's really the reason that I'm here. Anyhow, there was one day in. It would have been six in a row, but I missed by one the day before. So I didn't miss, actually. I just used a hint. So. In your face again, Seth. I guess. Look, you guys, I'm gonna sign off now. I want everyone out there to know it's not for lack of enthusiasm for the pod that I keep missing it. I'm just in a completely different time zone and it's a brutal switch. So thanks, guys, for continuing to make the pod in my stead. Thanks for enduring these voice note interjections.

[Seth]

And.

[Andy]

And if someone else says, later, Arnold, I'd be pissed. So if you can just take what I'm about to do and put it after whomever says later, Arnold, so that I get the last word. That would mean a lot to me,

[Seth]

I would imagine over at Paramount right now. That's probably top of, you know, top of mind.

[Akiva]

No, it was Warner Brothers people being like, well, Netflix is okay. Cause they feel more, like, stable and it's less. You know, they're not gonna dismantle cnn, but.

[Seth]

Oh, but now they're gonna be.

[Akiva]

They're gonna get Digman.

[Seth]

But now Digman's on Netflix.

[Akiva]

They're like, fuck, we should just waited, right? Yes. Digman jumped ship.

[Seth]

All right, you guys, I gotta run.

[Akiva]

Yep. Next time if we don't have Andy, we can show you Stork Patrol and maybe Nintendo Cartoon Hour.

[Keev]

Great. And Thuggish Ruggish Bone.

[Seth]

I watch Thuggish Ruggish Bone.

[Keev]

It's really. It's really good.

[Akiva]

I'm surprised he didn't show up. Super horny.

[Seth]

All right, love you guys.

[Keev]

Love you too.

[Akiva]

Love you.

[Keev]

Take it away, Arnold.

[Akiva]

Later, Arnold.

[Andy]

Later, Arnold.

[Akiva]

Later, Quaid.