The Zac Efron Episode

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast – The Zac Efron Episode

Release Date: June 24, 2025
Host/Authors: The Lonely Island (Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone) & Seth Meyers
Description: In this episode, Seth Meyers joins The Lonely Island to reminisce about their time on Saturday Night Live (SNL), focusing on their iconic Digital Shorts. They delve into the creation, reception, and lasting impact of these shorts, sharing behind-the-scenes stories and personal anecdotes, including encounters with celebrities like Zac Efron. The conversation weaves through their creative processes, favorite moments from SNL, and the enduring legacy of their collaborative work.

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1. Recollections of SNL and Digital Shorts (00:01 – 01:24)

The episode opens with casual banter among Seth Meyers and The Lonely Island members, reminiscing about their SNL days. They discuss the nostalgic charm of standees (cardboard cutouts) in movie theaters, highlighting how such tangible memorabilia contrasts with the digital age's ephemeral content.

Notable Quote:
Seth Meyers (00:35): “I really like, in this era of streaming and AI and all the sort of things that are upsetting media as we know it, there's still a big old cardboard cutout in a movie theater. That's pretty exciting.”

2. Trailer Release and Studio Excitement (01:24 – 04:27)

The conversation shifts to the excitement surrounding a new trailer that has garnered significant attention from Seth’s writing staff and fans alike. They express enthusiasm about upcoming projects and tease guest appearances, notably Pamela Anderson, discussing her career reinvention and her appearance on Seth’s show.

Notable Quote:
Akiva Schaffer (02:35): “She was well into that, but had not yet kind of done this style of acting...”

3. Studio Culture and Inside Jokes (04:27 – 06:00)

The group delves into the humorous aspects of their studio environment, sharing stories about quirky signs like “the butt” sign above their studio door. They draw parallels to the “Believe” sign from Ted Lasso, emphasizing their playful approach to workspace decor and how these elements foster a creative atmosphere.

Notable Quote:
Seth Meyers (06:24): “It's still up in our office. It says the butt above the door to the studio.”

4. Promotion and Discussion of 'Digman' Animated Series (06:00 – 10:00)

Discussion turns to their animated series, Digman, now in its second season. They talk about the challenges of animation production, especially post-writer strikes, and the strategies Comedy Central employs for airing episodes. They humorously speculate on internal decisions at Paramount and tease potential content constraints related to political humor.

Notable Quote:
Akiva Schaffer (09:49): “I think that's fine.”

5. Beastie Boys Tribute and Influence (10:00 – 19:00)

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to celebrating the Beastie Boys. The group shares their favorite songs, reminisces about attending performances, and discusses how the band’s energetic style influenced their own work. They recount memorable moments like witnessing live performances and integrating Beastie Boys elements into their sketches.

Notable Quotes:
Seth Meyers (11:28): “Real easy British crime. Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Tom Hardy.”
Andy Samberg (17:34): “I wouldn't even call it a cartoon, guys. I would call it an animated series. That's how respectful I feel about it.”

6. Unaired Sketch: 'Balcony Songs' (19:00 – 36:00)

The hosts delve into an unaired sketch titled “Balcony Songs,” sharing their disappointment over its exclusion from airing. They dissect the sketch’s concept—a romantic song set across multiple balconies—and critique its pacing and execution. This segment highlights the creative challenges and editorial decisions involved in selecting SNL content.

Notable Quote:
Akiva Schaffer (26:19): “It keeps going to more and more balconies and different weird characters and stuff, and they all start joining into the song.”

7. Personal Anecdotes: Seth's Encounter with Zac Efron (36:00 – 57:00)

Seth Meyers shares a personal story about meeting Zac Efron during his honeymoon in Peru. He narrates the encounter where Zac was accompanied by his father and the overwhelming presence of fans when they returned to their hotel. The group humorously reflects on celebrity recognition and the unexpected nature of such meetings.

Notable Quote:
Seth Meyers (37:33): “And then we went back to the hotel, and there were, like, a hundred Peruvian girls standing outside the hotel just, like, lining up.”

8. Behind-the-Scenes Anecdotes and Future Plans (57:00 – 60:48)

As the episode nears its end, the hosts share light-hearted stories about their work experiences, including Andy’s past role at Company 3 and Jack Quaid’s early job responsibilities. They discuss future projects, the integration of humor into their scripts, and brainstorm ideas for enhancing their podcast's unique flavor.

Notable Quote:
Andy Samberg (55:29): “Yeah, we're sound mixing at the same time, even though he shot a calendar year after I did.”

9. Final Thoughts and Creative Taglines (60:00 – End)

In the closing moments, the hosts entertain the idea of evolving their farewell phrases and playful sign-offs, such as “bonnet in your bee” and humorous references to their creative processes. They wrap up the episode with camaraderie and mutual appreciation, leaving listeners with a sense of their enduring friendship and collaborative spirit.

Notable Quote:
Akiva Schaffer (15:22): “Yeah, we're just in a super good mood about the fact that you Queen bead.”

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Conclusion

This episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast, titled "The Zac Efron Episode," offers an engaging blend of nostalgia, humor, and behind-the-scenes insights into the creation of SNL Digital Shorts. Through candid conversations and memorable anecdotes, the hosts provide listeners with a deeper appreciation of their creative journeys and the enduring impact of their collaborative work. Whether discussing favorite Beastie Boys tracks, critiquing unaired sketches, or sharing personal stories, the episode captures the essence of The Lonely Island’s comedic genius alongside Seth Meyers’ sharp wit.

Transcript

[Seth Meyers]

Let me tell you about the thing.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I know the moment out of Jack Box podcast show. Kevin was just showing me a very cool standee that I was excited about. A standee is the thing when you walk in the movie theater. That's the big cardboard cutout.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And he saw one up in New York in Lincoln Square.

[Seth Meyers]

Lincoln Center.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Lincoln Center. There you go.

[Seth Meyers]

You've been gone so long, you forget, is it a center or a square?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, what's the square called there where there's the big fountain? Columbus Circle.

[Andy Samberg]

Columbus Circle, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

So again, still no square?

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, we've got a circle. We've got a center.

[Seth Meyers]

Madison Square Garden.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's it.

[Seth Meyers]

By the way, I really. I like, in this era of, you know, streaming and AI and all the sort of things that are upsetting media as we know it, there's still a big old cardboard cutout in a movie theater. That's pretty exciting.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's the most exciting.

[Seth Meyers]

You got the standee.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But is that because of our generation and it's bringing back memories of the past?

[Seth Meyers]

I think it's still exciting. I think what you walk. Yeah, I know it's hard as I'm like, no, it's not us is. There's literally no one to rebut whether or not it is just us.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, we're right. My kids, when we saw Inside out too, in the theater, they wanted a picture in front of the big standy where they're like. With the characters.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, it's an Instagramable. It's an Instagramable IRL thing.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, he took a picture of it. Kev did. So we can just share it. And that's not promotion for the movie. It's about just cardboard and how we like cardboard cutouts.

[Seth Meyers]

I do want to talk about the trailer because everybody in my office, the writing staff is very excited. Keev, about the trailer. Good.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, I'm happy they are.

[Seth Meyers]

But here's the thing, Keev. Like, multiple writers have come to my office and said, have you seen it? Like, people are so desperate to know more about it, having seen the trailer.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, these two guys have seen it, but they've already said that on this pod.

[Jack Quaid]

I'll keep talking about it, though.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I loved it, but I'm glad that they're excited to see it. And I know you have. I don't know if you announced guests this far in advance, but I know you have. At least Pamela's coming to be on your show.

[Seth Meyers]

Pam's coming. So excited that Pam is coming.

[Jack Quaid]

And Keith, do you say Pamela or Pam to her.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I switch it up. I switch it up to her. I usually say Pam, but I like to be formal in formal settings like this and say Pamela.

[Jack Quaid]

Like, if you're cross with her, do you say Pamela? Like when you say, call me Andrew?

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes. I go, God, yeah, I do. Pamela. Hit your Pamela.

[Andy Samberg]

Back to one. Back to one. Pamela.

[Jack Quaid]

I actually think, Keith, you've never once called me Andrew, but Yorm definitely has.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, yeah, yeah, Andrew. Now, Pamela must have been so excited to get a part like this.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I mean, she had just come off of shooting the Giacoppola last showgirl movie.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So she was in. And then she had the documentary that her kids had helped make, and then she had her cookbooks, and she was firmly in this new phase of her life and, you know, not wearing makeup on red carpets and kind of becoming a fashion icon in that regard. So she was well into that, but had not yet kind of done. Done this style of acting, I would say. And not.

[Seth Meyers]

This kind of completes a bit of a hat trick, which is a serious role, documentary and comedy, like, kind of knocking them out. One, two, three. I'm very excited for her.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Her reinvention of this new phase of her life and career. She talks about it very openly. And there's the people that were paying attention to that and the people that weren't. So there was some people where I'd say, oh, it should be her. And they'd be like, what? Cause in their minds, they're like, that's somebody from Baywatch that they haven't thought about in 20 years. And then there'd be the people that are like, oh, my God, that's so smart. They're the ones that have been following her recent career and personal path.

[Andy Samberg]

How did you feel, Keev, about her? Just the cynicism of her using you as a way to, you know, complete a trifecta and.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. To further her own goods. I felt gross. Yeah, I felt used.

[Seth Meyers]

I see. I thought. I thought you cold. Called her and was just like, hey, you ready to complete your new phrase?

[Akiva Schaffer]

I've been watching what you're doing.

[Andy Samberg]

Listen here, I've been clacking you.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I called her kid. Is that weird? On set, I would always be like, no hitch. A mark, kid.

[Seth Meyers]

Pam, Pamela, Kid.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I kind of was doing a Clint Eastwood. I would be like, hey, hey, kid, get over here. Hit your marks. It's not that hard.

[Seth Meyers]

Hey, you know, again, letting people behind the curtain. We're actually recording this one at a healthy time, and usually we record it so Close to when it comes out that there's more comments about the previous episode. But the previous episode just came out, so I don't have a lot for you guys from the comment section today, except one gem that I think you'll enjoy. Andy, you said you were in the stude.

[Jack Quaid]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Meaning in the studio. But the closed captioning on YouTube said you were in this dude.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, that's just great.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's.

[Andy Samberg]

That's terrific.

[Seth Meyers]

So I feel like. I feel, like, really good.

[Andy Samberg]

So thank you, YouTube.

[Jack Quaid]

Do you think moving forward, it's copacetic for us to say about to go in. In this dude when we're going?

[Seth Meyers]

That's, like slang for in the studio.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. All right.

[Jack Quaid]

I'm about to go in this dude.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I think it's fine.

[Seth Meyers]

I actually. Andy, just. Let's see. Because I do believe we're dealing with, like, AI closed captioning. So just for the next video, go back and forth a few times, fast saying, in the stewed. In the stewed.

[Jack Quaid]

And so I was in the stood. I was in the stude. So I was in this dude. So I was in this dude. So is in the stood. So I was in the stude.

[Seth Meyers]

That's great, buddy. Thank you.

[Jack Quaid]

Okay, great. Yeah, don't let me keep going. I'll just keep going and going. Because I love a lot of takes.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I know.

[Andy Samberg]

I mean, we did have that sign that we put up over the studio at our office that says the butt. Because we. When we were taking phone calls, we would say, I'm gonna take it in the butt.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That is true.

[Seth Meyers]

Really?

[Jack Quaid]

Sorry. I'm getting a call. I'm gonna just take it in the butt real quick.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, it's still up in our office. It says the butt above the. Above the door to the studio.

[Jack Quaid]

It's funny. Cause sometimes we'll have people come in for a project that's, like, a little more serious to our office, and we'll be like, oh, yeah, ignore that sign that says the butt over the studio. And then also that painting from High Rod where I'm getting fucked by a horse.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, my God.

[Jack Quaid]

We do serious stuff, too.

[Akiva Schaffer]

There's some air between the hors.

[Seth Meyers]

You.

[Andy Samberg]

There is.

[Akiva Schaffer]

There is air. And. And the MPAA would agree there was some air between you and the horse. I think we talked about it on.

[Seth Meyers]

The H. Now, hold on. So you guys have the idea that when a phone call comes in, you're going to say, I'm going to take this in the butt. But somebody has to make the sign is this A professionally made sign or did somebody just sort of.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, it's just drawn by your.

[Andy Samberg]

I drew.

[Jack Quaid]

It's a little. Yeah, great.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's not a drawing of a butt, by the way.

[Jack Quaid]

It's just a. I mean, Yorm's very artistic. It's very professional.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

It's a. It's kind of graffiti style a little bit.

[Jack Quaid]

He's got styles. He's got styles on styles on styles.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This might not have been the first time Sede did this, but I remember being in Sud' and he was talking about, you gotta use your Sundays, you know, meaning our one day off of the week, use your Sunday. And he made a sign on a piece of paper and put it above his door that said, use your Sundays.

[Jack Quaid]

That you kind of tap it on the way out.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And you could tap it on the way out and then on in Ted Lasso, of course, his believe paper is exactly that. Right Now, I don't know if the use your Sundays was his first or if putting a sign above a door that you tap on the way out was just a move he always did.

[Seth Meyers]

I will say at Boom Chicago. Yeah, I put up a sign before you walked on the stage that said, perform like a champion today, which was a ripoff of Notre Dame's play like a champion today. So you would tap that. We would all tap that as we went on the stage.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So do you deserve a residual on Ted Lasso's belief sign?

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, they sent me a jersey, so I feel pretty good. I feel taken care of.

[Jack Quaid]

It does make you wonder what this show would have been like if it had said the but instead of the leave.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, yeah. And they all tapped the butt on the way to the soccer field. The pitch, if you will.

[Jack Quaid]

You could apply that to a lot of signs also.

[Seth Meyers]

Never, like, never explained.

[Jack Quaid]

I mean, if you think about that, for any common sign, really, like if stop signs just said the but, it'd be confusing for sure.

[Seth Meyers]

The best. I think if I could go back and remake Ted Lasso and obviously the success of it, I wouldn't touch it, but it would be fun if there were two signs. One that said believe in, one that said the but, and different players just hit different ones on the way out.

[Jack Quaid]

Right.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, if they had to go to the bathroom, then I think that we know what they would choose. We're gonna go over here, guys.

[Jack Quaid]

Seth, your big guest starring role. The trailer came out too, this week. Great. Digman season two.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm on Digman this year, guys, and it was so much fun.

[Jack Quaid]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, that's exciting.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'm excited.

[Jack Quaid]

I got to push it.

[Andy Samberg]

What's the name of your character? I hope it's not a silly name. Do you remember the name of your character?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Seth.

[Andy Samberg]

I don't, so I guess we all have memory problems.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Hey, wait. We've done a lot of really nice promoting of Naked Gun over the months, but we haven't done Digman. And Digman is such a funny cartoon. And it comes out actually July 9th.

[Jack Quaid]

That sounds right.

[Akiva Schaffer]

The second season. So it has a whole first season that is now on Paramount, I believe, and anywhere else.

[Jack Quaid]

Andy, Comedy Central.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Comedy Central. Yeah. You just get your rabbit ears on your tv, plug it into the coax.

[Jack Quaid]

If you haven't cut your cord yet.

[Seth Meyers]

I would dare anybody to watch the first. The sort of cold open of the first episode of Digman. I laughed really hard the whole way because Andy's playing sort of a Nic Cage esque archaeologist. And it is a fantastic action sequence to open the whole thing. It is. If you want to hear Andy sound a little bit like Nic Cage while it's a comedy. Raiders of the Lost Ark. I feel like it's right up your alley.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

I wouldn't even call it a cartoon, guys. I would call it an animated series. That's how respectful I feel about it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, bless you.

[Jack Quaid]

I honestly would call it a comedy above all else. If you like a million jokes just zapping at you, it's pretty funny.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It is rapid fire and they're very funny. And so it did a whole first season and they ordered a second.

[Seth Meyers]

Great.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, you finished it all Locked up, Andy. All color corrected, all mixed.

[Jack Quaid]

Oh, yeah, we're locked and loaded. I mean, I noticed that people were excited about the show, were like, whoa. I didn't even know it was coming back. And a big part of that is because there was such a long break because of the writer strike. Right.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And because it's Comedy Central. First it airs one at a time and then they all dump somewhere like an old school real show.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, that's cool.

[Jack Quaid]

I think it's the P. The power of the.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So they all dump on the P. Yeah. Now you had a poster. Sorry, sorry, Seth, one last thing.

[Seth Meyers]

No, no, please keep Digman.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Just to tie it into what's really important, you had a poster and trailer drop the same moment day, which was yesterday for when we're recording this on Monday. Yeah, the same day Naked Gun did. Even though we both have Paramount as the company, there's no synergy there.

[Jack Quaid]

Do you think the head of Paramount Was like, no, wait. But it was too late.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, no, no, this is all wrong. Oh, we filled up the Internet, Gary. Yeah.

[Jack Quaid]

Or do you think it said they were like, what the fuck is going on with the Skydance thing, man? Are they going to pay off Trump?

[Seth Meyers]

We're so fucked.

[Jack Quaid]

The industry's in.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Do you think Sherry Redstone watched every episode of Digman before it gets approved for the air to make sure there's nothing that could mess up the deal? Like, there better not be a Trump joke in here because he won't approve. He'll get the SEC to block the merger.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, they're worried, right?

[Jack Quaid]

I mean, animation takes so long. And then when you throw the strike on top of it, like all these jokes gotta stay evergreen, baby. Nothing topical.

[Seth Meyers]

Nothing topical.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Nothing topical. That's nice. Opposite of sexuality.

[Seth Meyers]

And Sherry called you. Sherry Redstone called you and said, you know, I'm cutting and coming at me from all sides. And the fact that you got this nice, safe show, I can't thank you enough.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I have 60 minutes. Bending the knee. When you gotta come with Digman and take potshots at the. At the potus, you're gonna up my billions. That's how it went.

[Jack Quaid]

I'm gonna say on the record. No, that is not how it went. However, we are very grateful to the good people over there for letting us make a hilarious show full of jokes to get our goofs out.

[Andy Samberg]

Well played.

[Seth Meyers]

Now that we've promoted Digman, I'd just like to promote Paramount plus and say that I watched Mobland. Anybody watch Mobland?

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, yeah, I watched all of it very quickly.

[Seth Meyers]

Super, super fun times.

[Andy Samberg]

Enjoyable. He's fucking great.

[Seth Meyers]

Real easy British crime. Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Tom Hardy.

[Andy Samberg]

Tom Hardy's fucking murdering it.

[Seth Meyers]

He's great.

[Andy Samberg]

Just like, if you like a guy who mild manneredly like, murders people and takes care of business, then that's your show.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. But there was a moment and I really, genuinely, highly recomm. But there was a moment that made me laugh really hard because it was Pierce Brosnan. Somebody killed a family member of his. It's about a mob war. Yeah. And he goes, this isn't war anymore, it's nuclear war.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, that's good.

[Seth Meyers]

And I was like, oh, man, that's really. And it was a real long pause. And there is that thing where you kind of. I loved it as a line of a thing a dumb guy would say to like, really like try to hammer home how bad things are.

[Jack Quaid]

Wait, but did you say nuclear or. Or nuclear.

[Seth Meyers]

Well, he has an Irish accent, so you never know how they say it.

[Jack Quaid]

Was that part of the joke?

[Seth Meyers]

I don't know, man. Look, let's not.

[Jack Quaid]

Okay, sorry, sorry. I haven't let it slide.

[Seth Meyers]

I don't know, man. Look, I'm just. You take it up with Cavalry all over again.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Listen, man, he's already done taping for the day. He had the Negro in my head.

[Seth Meyers]

About doing the Irish accent.

[Jack Quaid]

You know what, Seth, while we're on the subject, yes, I did get queen bee today. Thanks for bringing it up. You forgot. Fucking piece of shit.

[Seth Meyers]

You're just so happy because you didn't yesterday.

[Jack Quaid]

No, I was one short yesterday.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You know how when you open a YouTube video, it has the little graph at the bottom that shows you, like, when people are watching and where the spike of rewatches are?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

If you go into ours for this pod. Not joking. Whenever Andy announces if he got queen bee, you see this huge drop off right after because there's so many people that just are waiting for that moment.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, so they're not bummed, they're just only waiting for it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, they're like, wait, but did he get it? Fucking say if you got it, dude. And then they do, and they're like, he got it again. All right. Next week.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, it's like a drinking game. Almost like he's like, the minute it happens, it's like, well, I'm spent.

[Seth Meyers]

We should do a second, like a companion pod that is just Andy announcing the bee, but it has double the ads.

[Jack Quaid]

Oh, my God.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, that's smart. Well, honestly, because people are just tuning in for it. It's actually the way we're doing it is smart, which is peppering it randomly, because if they always knew. And at the end, he does it like Andy Rooney at the end of the old 60 minutes, they can just fast forward to it and get it just where they want it.

[Andy Samberg]

Can we do an episode where. And he starts doing the B at the top of the episode and we see if he can do it by the end of the episode? I would really like that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, and periodically goes three words down, eight words down and just lets us know how it goes.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, he doesn't tell me.

[Jack Quaid]

I mean, I could easily do that on one where I had nothing to do with the short. That might be fun.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, let's do that.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, okay, we'll do that, Andy. But I guess my question is, how much are you thinking when the pod starts? Are you already thinking, when's a good time to tell everybody I got B or do you. Does it just, like, occur to you at some point?

[Jack Quaid]

It depends what time of day we're recording.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Jack Quaid]

If it was, like, right after I got it, I'd be like, frothing at the mouth, chomping at the bit.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Right.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, obviously I already knew you got it. Cause you sent it.

[Jack Quaid]

You knew. Cause I texted you hours and hours ago, but you didn't bring it up. I noticed.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, it's a really nice surprise for the two of us, though, so thank you.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, I had a hunch just based on your general lightness.

[Jack Quaid]

Right.

[Akiva Schaffer]

There's a. I was like, this guy looks like he got Queen V earlier.

[Andy Samberg]

It wasn't that he finished Digman.

[Seth Meyers]

Also, there was a fair amount of eye contact on the zoom. And you can tell when Andy's still grinding away at the beat. Yeah, Just like, glances up at every now and then.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. And it wasn't as grumpy because he's not. The bee is. A rejection is. Every five seconds he's being rejected. So we're on here being wisey grumpy, but he's looking down and being like, fuck, fuck, fuck.

[Seth Meyers]

Should we? Because again, this. Basically, this podcast has just turned into, you know, way to coin new slang. Do you think we should say that when you've got a bonnet in your bee, it means that you're just in a super good mood about the fact that you Queen bead. Oh, sure.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, a bonnet in your bee.

[Andy Samberg]

Taking it back.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Not a bee in your bonnet. You got a bonnet in your bee.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

We could be like, oh, Andy's looking pretty good today. He must have a bonnet in his bee.

[Jack Quaid]

Bonnet in his bee.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Because he's.

[Jack Quaid]

Yeah, like, the bonnet is the prize.

[Andy Samberg]

All right. Owning the phrase.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Do you think. Would you say it's a bonnet on his bee and it's the bonnet? The queen's tiara.

[Jack Quaid]

Crown tiara. I was going to say that same.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Thing because he's queen bee.

[Seth Meyers]

He's got a bee with a bonnet.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, he's got a bonnet on his bee.

[Andy Samberg]

Me with a bonnet. That's good.

[Jack Quaid]

Me likey dat.

[Seth Meyers]

I had the best thing happen on Father's Day. My middle axel basically carried our Sonos speaker outside like a boombox and then danced to the Beastie Boys for me.

[Jack Quaid]

Oh, my God. What song?

[Seth Meyers]

Shake your rump Interesting.

[Andy Samberg]

Because he knew you liked the Beastie Boys and he was like, I'm gonna do this for dad.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. I mean, I was. Sorry I was playing it. And then he said, like, basically, let's go Outside and dance.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, my God.

[Seth Meyers]

And here, let me just.

[Jack Quaid]

Can I say something that you will probably be surprised about?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Jack Quaid]

I think the Beastie Boys fucking rock here.

[Seth Meyers]

Just enjoy this for a second.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We can see him dancing.

[Jack Quaid]

Oh, he's jamming.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, he's shaking his rump. That's very cute. And I like that that's prepared for you. Like, this is what dad likes.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, this is what dad would want.

[Jack Quaid]

I wear a Beastie Boys T shirt often. Cause we got it when they did their book tour. And both my kids, at one point or another, when they were first learning how to talk, would say, beastie Boys. There's never a moment where they're acknowledging the existence of the Beastie Boys that it doesn't make my heart sore.

[Seth Meyers]

We. You know, that book has a picture of them. Washington Square park, you know, under the arch. And, you know, we go through Washington Square park on the way to school. And when my boys ride their scooters to school, they literally just. They're New York kids, and they just, like, zigzag in, like, people, and they get way far ahead of me, and they like. It's just pure mayhem. And in my head, all I'm ever singing is Sabotage. Like, it's just. That's. That is the theme song of my kids going to school, and it makes me very happy.

[Jack Quaid]

Real quick. We have a lot to talk about. Does. Do you. Each of you have a favorite Beastie Boys song? Like, first one that pops in your head that you would say is your favorite.

[Seth Meyers]

That's my favorite. Shake your rumpa.

[Jack Quaid]

Shake your rumpa.

[Andy Samberg]

Really? Shake your rump.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

It's probably still Paul Revere. Like, just that killed in third grade when I first got the cassette, and that's how old I am, guys. I was, like, fucking blown away. Reading about how they made that, too, was, like, the best.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That was definitely my favorite. I was going to say Slow and Low, though.

[Jack Quaid]

Slow and low. Ghost.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But Paul Revere was definitely one of the very first songs I ever memorized every word and would single and would rap along to.

[Seth Meyers]

Great. Shadrach. I love that song, too.

[Andy Samberg]

Yep, man.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, there's many, if you're going to list them. Many, many.

[Seth Meyers]

What about you, Andy?

[Jack Quaid]

The first one that popped into my head, even though I asked the question, was Car Thief from Paul's Boutique. I just love that beat and I love how they go on it, but I like these guys. Also memorized and filmed myself with friends performing Paul Revere.

[Seth Meyers]

It's a fantastic. We've been watching Old videos with the boys because they're just so fun to watch. They just, like, look like everything you. If you've listened to the songs with your dad, you're like, this is. Even that. They, like, look and act like this and, like, walk towards the camera and trade off lines.

[Andy Samberg]

They look like three friends that you're like, oh, I want to be like these guys with this much energy, jumping off of stuff.

[Seth Meyers]

The one they love the most. Do you remember when they were in Letterman and they came up from the subway?

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a fucking. I just watched that one. It's fucking.

[Seth Meyers]

It's unbelievable. So they are filmed live on the street coming up the subway. They're basically just, like, doing a classic live Beastie Boys of, like, trading lines and moving in and out of the camera. And then they walk through the stage door of Letterman and out on stage to finish.

[Akiva Schaffer]

What song was it?

[Seth Meyers]

Do you remember? It's Later Beasties.

[Andy Samberg]

Look, I just watched it, too.

[Seth Meyers]

Pass the mic.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Intergalactic.

[Seth Meyers]

No, it's way post intergalactic. It's like the.

[Jack Quaid]

I think we maybe have mentioned this before, but we saw them rehearsing and performing at the MTV Movie Awards, right?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Jack Quaid]

When we were writing for it, they did Intergalactic. And I remember I had seen them in high school, like, at the Oakland Coliseum, but I was trashed. But so, like, getting to, like, sit in there and watch them, like, do their rehearsal and their sound check and just being like, fuck. They're actually so good live. It goes without. It should go without saying when you're actually seeing someone performing and they're trading off so fast, and you're like, right, They've been doing this for so long, and they're just exceptional. It was really cool.

[Andy Samberg]

Also, when we were rehearsing for our live show, there was a coffin, which is the container for turntables, not an actual coffin. And it had in it at the studio a laminated set list of the Beastie boys from, like, 1994. And I was like, can I keep this? And it's. It's framed now.

[Jack Quaid]

In my house, they let you have it.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. Because Bill had brought that coffin for some reason, our tour. Like, he was amazing.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Tour manager, right? Is that what you call it?

[Jack Quaid]

Overalls Bill?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, Overalls Bill did those Beastie Boys tours.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. So he had that coffin for whatever reason. He was like, yeah, sure.

[Jack Quaid]

He's like, I know how to handle you guys.

[Andy Samberg]

Buy you off with training.

[Seth Meyers]

It was. Check it out. That was the song they did on Letterman.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, yes, it is killer.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right. I can't wait to watch that.

[Seth Meyers]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Seth Meyers]

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[Andy Samberg]

Oh, we get out the calculators.

[Seth Meyers]

Get out the calculators. You have that old sort of antique sewn change purse that you love so much. Cause you like to get it to the penny.

[Andy Samberg]

I like to take my time because I think that you're gonna pay eventually.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So that's.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, is that what's going on?

[Andy Samberg]

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[Seth Meyers]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Seth Meyers]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Seth Meyers]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Seth Meyers]

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[Andy Samberg]

I like to add funny little quips to my payment.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Text, stamps, backgrounds.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. For backrub. You know, stuff like that.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

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[Seth Meyers]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Seth Meyers]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Seth Meyers]

A Vori weorier. Good diversion to go to the Beastie Boys. So much fun to talk about them.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, I just liked when Yorm said like it was a surprise. Like I just wanted to be those guys. Like anybody looking at the three of us wouldn't be like, yeah, obviously they modeled their entire lives. They made whole like fake other. They're comedians who made a whole other Persona.

[Andy Samberg]

Do you think it's obvious?

[Jack Quaid]

We literally are modeling ourselves after them.

[Andy Samberg]

On many songs from third grade. That's who we wanted to be.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Like an older version of the Swedish band that raps about saunas.

[Jack Quaid]

What's our. What's our most one to one Beastie Boy song? Is it me? Like you, dad?

[Akiva Schaffer]

I mean there's a incredibad. It might be.

[Andy Samberg]

I would say. I would say Brass Monkey though, with Santana dvx. I think that, you know.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, but we're not. We're doing the coup on that.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, that's true.

[Jack Quaid]

I mean we literally are doing them on.

[Akiva Schaffer]

On a couple. And then me and you. Uniform on from Bash where we're just doing it with the big 808s and we're just trying to make a licensed tail song.

[Jack Quaid]

Yes. A lot of moments on Bash.

[Seth Meyers]

Which song is that one?

[Akiva Schaffer]

The. She says she want to me with my uniform on.

[Seth Meyers]

Right, Right.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, that's full on.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And we're doing the Shouts and It's a straight up.

[Jack Quaid]

I cannot do it. I cannot do the hypes.

[Andy Samberg]

But also, also the beats on that too, are entirely.

[Jack Quaid]

She grabbed me by the bat. Now it's going, going, gone.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We are doing slow and low.

[Jack Quaid]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Every fan of. Well, do you guys want to talk about Zac Efron cut for how much.

[Andy Samberg]

Time we've just wasted?

[Seth Meyers]

Well, let's watch it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'm also looking at the cut after dress, and there's a sketch called Balcony Songs, which I'm sure sucked, but we thought it should air.

[Jack Quaid]

I loved Balcony Songs.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And it was one of those times where it played in dress so late that you guys were already in your meeting. Cause you already had so much to go through. I believe, Andy, stop me if I'm wrong, but I believe it was one of those times where there's two more sketches at dress and Lauren goes like, I've seen enough. I have to go make some decisions. Like, I forget what other sketch it was, Seth, where you were like, you were tapping him on the shoulder going, you should be looking at this. Something that almost didn't.

[Seth Meyers]

That was Betty White Scared Straight.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Exactly. It was that same thing where we're under the bleachers being like, our sketch is literally being performed for an audience that's laughing and he's not even here. He's gone. And we were like, but they're laughing. Why isn't he? And it was just like, we were like, I guess we're not in air because it's not even being watched.

[Seth Meyers]

What was Balcony songs?

[Jack Quaid]

Do you remember Balcony Songs? I was very proud of the writing of. I don't remember how it actually went and how it looked. I think my takeaway after Balcony Songs did not get picked was that we should have done it as a pre tape, shockingly. But the gist was that it was like a, you know, let's say American Tale or Aladdin. Kind of a vibe of like two people on their balconies looking up at the same sky or something. But then it keeps going to more and more balconies and different weird characters and stuff, and they all start joining into the song.

[Seth Meyers]

I believe I remember that. And I think that that was maybe an unfair standard that Lauren held you to as well, which is he was probably watching Balcony Song. I guess in this case he wasn't watching Balcony Song, but he probably had seen a rehearsal.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Sure.

[Seth Meyers]

You know, rehearsal. And he was like, bro, it doesn't pop the way like their pretty filmed, quickly edited shorts do. And I don't think he treated Other people. Or held other people to that standard.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Ooh, that. That felt about right.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Jack Quaid]

Should we watch it, though, and see if it actually.

[Andy Samberg]

Wait, Seth. Is that why Mugless didn't air then?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, bud.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay. Let's watch balcony songs.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, that's it.

[Seth Meyers]

Here we go.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Now, I might be wrong, but I do think someone pisses on somebody from a balcony. Don't.

[Jack Quaid]

Don't spoil it, Akiva. You always spoil it.

[Seth Meyers]

Don't spoil. I wish it would rain.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, yeah, we've got some time.

[Jack Quaid]

It never aired, you know.

[Andy Samberg]

High above the rooftops in a city all alone.

[Jack Quaid]

Sounded good.

[Andy Samberg]

Looks good.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Sounds good.

[Andy Samberg]

I like the profile shot, too.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He nailed that. Through the clouds I see the stars My heart skips a beat.

[Jack Quaid]

We wrote this.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This is what I write when I'm not trying to be funny.

[Andy Samberg]

Like the slow burn.

[Seth Meyers]

Very patient.

[Jack Quaid]

Yeah, I was gonna say maybe a little too patient.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, I thought I was gonna switch there.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Me with love Sweet as a candy bar. Okay, I'm another separate dude on another balcony. Can I just follow? So it was Abby Elliott. It was Zac Efron looking very handsome on one balcony. Abby Elliott looking very beautiful on another balcony. Just, you know, very nicely. Both of them. And then it cuts to Andy. He's in a white tank top. He's got glasses and long hair, maybe in a ponytail, kind of stringy hair.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, a loose pony.

[Akiva Schaffer]

A loose pony. So it's all floppy and, like, ratty. And he's got binoculars. Okay.

[Jack Quaid]

It's like if Kenny G's hair lost all the curls.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. And like a wife beater.

[Seth Meyers]

And this is a real Andy writing move of the minute. You start talking, you're like, I'm a. I'm a different dude.

[Jack Quaid]

Yeah, well, sketches, you know, I wonder if they'd let me watch and grind upon this land.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay. Got a laugh.

[Seth Meyers]

Ish. Does she know that I exist? That I see her every day?

[Andy Samberg]

And if she let me hold her hand I love you I would.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Cupid pulled back with its bone could use some editing.

[Jack Quaid]

Too slow. I wonder, will they be as one? His ribbed abs against her chest Exploring tender love in bed Me lurking in the shadows My slacks aflame with carnal rage the Twilight soundtrack blares.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He's holding it up tonight I wish.

[Andy Samberg]

I might see her Wish I might.

[Seth Meyers]

See him I paint my body like.

[Jack Quaid]

A skunk and hide inside their hedge I've heard tell of a giant skunk.

[Seth Meyers]

Who'S been seen round these parts all.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Right, so it's Forte dressed like a hunter with A With a, like, hunting rifle. Binoculars as well. And he's heard about this giant skunk.

[Jack Quaid]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

I just moved here to try my.

[Jack Quaid]

Luck and kill him for his skunk belt.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Hunter is so manly. Makes me feel like a wig. I remember this as a fancy lady.

[Seth Meyers]

As a fancy lady.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Very beautiful.

[Seth Meyers]

Also with binoculars.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Like lavender cocktail evening dress with a martini.

[Jack Quaid]

Martini with a twist. KE style.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yep. O. And I mean, you just got me thirsty, bro.

[Seth Meyers]

Somebody's coming out the door behind her. I wonder who this is going to be.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay. And then she's her tale of this. She's here for the hunter that she's into. Okay.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Jack Quaid]

The bathroom is too crowded here.

[Andy Samberg]

So I'll pee off this ledge.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay. So they're at a fancy cocktail party, cuz Sedeikis came out in a tuxedo. And now he's gonna pee off the ledge.

[Andy Samberg]

This is a good misdirection. You think that he's gonna be related to her in some way?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Jack Quaid]

The wig immediately looking down with the binoculars at him, taking his wang out.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Keenan.

[Seth Meyers]

Ever since I was a. What is that?

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right, so this is an applause break. And that was the moment when I went, what the.

[Seth Meyers]

He's not even.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Is he hearing them applauding? He's upstairs on nine talking. Is he hearing that the audience is. What's the point of the show? Is applause and laughter. The point of the show. I forget what's the point of the show?

[Seth Meyers]

And it is a well earned, well crafted applause break. Like they're basically saying, thank you for.

[Jack Quaid]

The credit craft for having a. A long game with this one.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Jack Quaid]

Slow build. If we were to redo it today, I mean, I know there's more. I would definitely cut a lot of it in half and speed it up.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Just the setup stuff.

[Jack Quaid]

Yeah, exactly.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Setup stuff. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, but again, part of it is it's picking up pace. Also the way Keenan sang.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes.

[Jack Quaid]

Singing the words Ever since I was a child brings me. Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He's ready to do a long verse. He's got his lungs. You feel how much air is in his lungs. And he is pushing it out. He's ready to go.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

It's also just the voice of it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes. Yes. Just this operatic one comes in.

[Seth Meyers]

Ever since I was a child. What is that?

[Akiva Schaffer]

The furthest thing from yelling. It's very high opera. Very low.

[Jack Quaid]

You didn't know he was underneath.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Broke into this house. House tonight.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right. But Bill entrance already breaking. He's nice. Having trouble getting past because he was in the bushes next to Kenan. Watching Kenan's performance at point blank range. And it affected him.

[Jack Quaid]

Well, also, Bill tells us every time we asked him to sing in our full seven years there. Please don't ask me to sing. I can't sing and I hate singing.

[Seth Meyers]

And not like wig's don't make me sing character. No, no, don't make me sing like he really didn't want to sing.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That was based on hater.

[Seth Meyers]

Also haters burglar. Always don't make me sing. Not as bad as he let on. Always. Perfectly fine.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes.

[Jack Quaid]

I mean, this is pretty good.

[Seth Meyers]

It was never dreadful.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, yeah, but this is because he's coming out laughing. So he's dressed as a classic cat burglar with like the skull cap and all in black and internal neck and whatever. All right, here he comes.

[Seth Meyers]

Broke into this house tonight. The owner came home, so I hid, but then I saw him get whizzed off.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So things are looking. So we also wrote him one that doesn't rhyme, which didn't help him at all. With no discernible melody.

[Seth Meyers]

Barbecue. I'm having a barbecue.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right, so this thing should have aired number one. Yeah, I thought I was gonna see something and go, oh, I see why they didn't air this. No, fuck that.

[Jack Quaid]

This is good.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It just got to Bobby and he just did that little ditty on another one.

[Seth Meyers]

Grill. He's grilling some steak.

[Jack Quaid]

Yeah, he's just a happy barbecue.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Big old, old, big old T Bone on there in a barbecue. Just super normal. He's in a completely other melody.

[Andy Samberg]

It's like a bridge. It's like a.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He's just another balcony guy.

[Andy Samberg]

I'm having a barbecue.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He sells it so hard.

[Seth Meyers]

Right there.

[Andy Samberg]

Is she out there right now thinking of me too?

[Jack Quaid]

Efron's shredding, by the way. Truly.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Just like me in you.

[Seth Meyers]

We're all just people.

[Akiva Schaffer]

People wanting love.

[Jack Quaid]

It's like renting people dress like skunk.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, he's got the skunk hat on.

[Seth Meyers]

People craving skunk meat.

[Jack Quaid]

People whizzing freely.

[Seth Meyers]

People getting wisdom. I am cooking skunk meat.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's a three. It's like a Brady Bunch split screen. Six way split screen. Fireworks on top of the superimposed over it. Listen to this. Applause. Seth, what's the show all about?

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, this is. Yeah. Really? No. Excuse me.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I would say one of our better live sketches. And it didn't even air. No wonder we were salty.

[Jack Quaid]

I mean, the real question is, like, should we be saving it for when One of us goes back. You know what I mean?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, I think that's fine. For the Quaid army to know that they're finally gonna get to see it, it's like a second chance theater, which it could still be as well, Seth, on your show. I don't think this burns it.

[Seth Meyers]

No, I think that'd be a great second chance theater.

[Jack Quaid]

It'd be fun to trim up the top. Just feel that relief.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm gonna say one of the things I love about the hater part is, again, everybody was sort of forced to do stuff. Like, you were already out of cast.

[Jack Quaid]

Right.

[Seth Meyers]

You know what I mean? Like, and it's super fun. And going back and watching it, it's a blast. That hater's in that as well, because.

[Jack Quaid]

Out of his comfy zone, Kevin says it looks like dress ran super late. So many sketches cut. And this aired after 10pm but that's what I mean.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He looked at his watch and went, okay, done watching. And you're like, right?

[Jack Quaid]

But, yeah, they just picked too many things that week.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's not fear.

[Seth Meyers]

It's not fear.

[Jack Quaid]

And we're mad.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Can I say something about how Zac Efron singing. It's a little trivia, but, you know, well known, if you watch the first High School Musical, it's not his voice. They overdubbed him the way you might do if you were making a Disney Channel movie that you didn't know was gonna grow, become iconic. And you have people you cast who are kind of out of oblivion, as far as I know, just Disney kids or whatever. And you're like, I don't know if his voice is strong enough. So he doesn't sing on the first High School Musical. And then he does sing in High School Musical 2 and High School Musical 3. And he's talked openly about how he was annoyed by that and thought he could sing good enough. And you watch this. He's carrying the tune the best of anything. He's really good.

[Seth Meyers]

He shreds so hard in this that that's why he's so shredded now, right?

[Andy Samberg]

Yes. The body had to match the voice, by the way.

[Jack Quaid]

He was pretty shredded then.

[Andy Samberg]

He was super shredded.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And his baby blue eyes. I just remember being, like, watching on camera when we were shooting the short that didn't air, being like, jesus, this is the handsomest guy I've ever seen.

[Andy Samberg]

No, we told him to stop. We were like, dude, you need to cover up those baby blues. You're supposed to look like shit, right?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Jack Quaid]

And you know what? A sweetie to boot.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, he's a real sweetie.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Maybe he comes on your show, and that's when the Second Chance Theater comes in.

[Jack Quaid]

Yeah, Seth, either you do it or we murder you.

[Seth Meyers]

I was on my honeymoon. We went to Peru for my honeymoon, and Alexi and I were on a hike with a guide in Peru. And like, no one on the trail. And all of a sudden, another guide came another direction with two men behind him. And as they passed, I went, zach. And it was Zac Efron and his dad.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Wow.

[Seth Meyers]

And then we went back to the hotel, and there were, like, a hundred Peruvian girls standing outside the hotel just, like, lining up. And I'm walking with me and Alexi, and I just say to Alexi, because they're all holding, like, High School Musical things, and I walk by and, like, literally nobody even blinks. And I go, I guess they don't get SNL in Peru. And our guide goes, no, we have have it. He is a real sweet guy.

[Jack Quaid]

They're just not sexually attracted to you is what I'm saying. Yeah, no, I got it. Guide.

[Seth Meyers]

He goes, I think they recognize you. It was just. There is no. What is a spark. They.

[Jack Quaid]

How you say, find your body repulsive.

[Andy Samberg]

They think you were too old and unattractive.

[Seth Meyers]

How you say, they started doing, how you say, in Peru.

[Jack Quaid]

Yeah, I know. I'm way off. Where's Peru again? It's in France.

[Seth Meyers]

Right. All right, what else we got?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Wait, I have something. We have a voice note that I haven't heard yet, and I just realized I wanted to do at the top of the show. But the Quatos, they watched through the whole thing. They listen to the whole thing, right?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Just not the queen bee ones that.

[Seth Meyers]

Turned out the true members of Quaid Army. You know, I would. They better be.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Should we play it? I have it here I'd like.

[Seth Meyers]

So tell us. Set it up a little bit for us.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, I don't know what it is, except for it's from Quaido, number one, the only double Quaid we have so far. We don't know what Dennis and Randy.

[Seth Meyers]

Are up to, Right.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But Jack Quaid, who we've been talking. We've been doing a lot of Andy calling out Jack Quaid because he said he sometimes would get freaked out in his voice note to us about hearing Quaid and going, is someone talking to me? Because his friends call him Quaid or Quato. And so Andy's been doing a lot of random Quato, what you cooking? Because he said he was listening in his Apartment.

[Jack Quaid]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And we also did a fair amount of conjecture into what he was making the music of Jerry Lee Lewis, though.

[Jack Quaid]

As well, whether or not he had, like, young roommates.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, there's been a lot of speculation about that.

[Seth Meyers]

A lot of speculation without any research has been.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. And so he has been listening, I guess. And here we go.

[Seth Meyers]

Hey, guys, Jack Quaid here yet again. I am in my kitchen making Mac and cheese for breakfast. Nailed it. The call outs are becoming more frequent, occasionally more aggressive, but I love them all. My life is a nightmare. I wanted to touch really quickly on Great Balls of Fire, which you guys.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Like.

[Seth Meyers]

What's the significance of this in your life? Actually, pretty significant. I don't know if my parents ever had that conversation of, like, hey, you.

[Jack Quaid]

Know, that song's in two of our movies.

[Seth Meyers]

But if they did and I was alive, I was probably in the other room playing Crash Bandicoot and not paying attention. But Great Balls of Fire was a song that my dad, he had this piano in their bedroom when I was growing up, and he would just constantly be playing it because he learned it for the movie. So the soundtrack to my childhood is just in the distance. Dennis Quaid going, you shook my nerves.

[Andy Samberg]

And you rattled my brain.

[Seth Meyers]

And because of that, I wanted to learn how to play piano. And then I learned. And I learned guitar. My dad had a band for years. I think he kind of became kind of musical after that. And I actually named the band when I was, like, 8 years old. He was like, jack, quick, name our picture band. And I said, the Sharks, because I was really into Sharks as a kid. Anyway, I'm giving you a lot of details, but basically the moral of the story. If you want to have another band besides the Lonely Island, I don't know why you ever would. But just corner your children, catch them off guard, and go, quick, name our band. Maybe something will come of it. All right, guys, thank you again for letting me do this. Quaid, army for life. Take care. Righteous. Go.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, my God.

[Jack Quaid]

CWA do. Bless you.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That delivered.

[Jack Quaid]

Can I just say something? Podcasts are great.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Whoa.

[Seth Meyers]

Hey.

[Andy Samberg]

Full circle.

[Seth Meyers]

Thank you. Cwato got you to finally change your.

[Jack Quaid]

Mind just for that. I mean, I hate them. Don't get me wrong.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, but they're great.

[Seth Meyers]

It would have been great if when he said name our band, he said the Bacon Brothers. He's like, no, it's so confusing. Also, it is interesting that, you know, his dad was playing Great Balls of Fire, and that made Cwato want to learn, which is very similar to what happened with goose and rooster, which is why that song was in both.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's right.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Jackie's rooster.

[Seth Meyers]

He's a real rooster. Support comes from Shopify. If you've shopped online chances already bought from business, powered by Shopify. You know that purple shop pay button? You see a checkout, the one that makes buying so incredibly easy. That's Shopify. And there's a reason so many businesses sell with it. Because Shopify makes it incredibly easy to start and run your business. I know we're going to use Shopify yard when we start selling merch for our podcast.

[Andy Samberg]

First thing, day one, big time.

[Seth Meyers]

You're in the merch lab right now coming up with graphics for the Quaid army T shirt. Correct.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, and I. And I sent you my cool Steve Jobbis image too.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh yeah, you did make Steve Jobbis, which is half Steve Jobs, half Jabba the Hut. And you know, one reason people might say nobody's buying that shirt is nobody wants it. But another reason might be that we're trying to sell it without Shopify.

[Andy Samberg]

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[Seth Meyers]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

Support.

[Seth Meyers]

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[Andy Samberg]

Oh, God. Oh, it's almost summer. It's a tail end of spring into summer, so I don't know.

[Seth Meyers]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Seth Meyers]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Seth Meyers]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Seth Meyers]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Seth Meyers]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, let's watch it.

[Jack Quaid]

Let's check it out. This was a digital short. We made the week with Zac Efron and it did not not air.

[Seth Meyers]

So, I mean, you really got double burned then. Do you think maybe Lauren didn't watch Balcony because he was mad about this?

[Jack Quaid]

I guess we're about to find out.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

I gotta say, I. I love this one.

[Seth Meyers]

It's this.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This one is short but sweet. But I remember thinking this shouldn't air. And the other one should very clearly, guys in sunglasses looking dope.

[Andy Samberg]

First up, we have Bob.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I mean, I already love it.

[Andy Samberg]

I mean, dude, I love this one.

[Jack Quaid]

That's immediately pretty good. Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So it was a title card that was very early 90s, late 80s, I'd say.

[Andy Samberg]

So.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Wow, it's bad. Two bad fonts. Guys in sunglasses looking dope, like over a beach with some Oakleys. Now it's cut to obvious. Green screen of a construction site with Forte with a mesh tank top. So you see his whole chest, some ripped Jeans, a tool belt, and. And is kind of loosely hammering on something like an. Like an AV cart, essentially.

[Andy Samberg]

It's also. It's a bad construction site, too. It's like he's just in front of a trash can.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, he seems like a little. Doing it, like vacant. Like brain dead with some white glass. Anyways, let's see.

[Andy Samberg]

First up we have Bob.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Bob is slowly panning up his 71 pounds and.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, man. Hammering on nothing. Bob's wearing a pair of white ray bands, looking dope, Bob.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay, now, ladies, this is Sean.

[Andy Samberg]

Sean is wearing some snazzy jean shorts and a mean pair of oakley sunglasses.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Hey, Sean, way to stay here. They're all doing like. Like just two guys, Virginia horses level. Like, awkwardness. Like as if they were plucked out of a. A mall in Ohio. And yeah. Dressed and placed here and said, just look cool.

[Jack Quaid]

Also, hater. Hater. Putting so much stank on the word dope.

[Andy Samberg]

It's really also sadega's really underplaying it in a wonderful way. Just small blinks. Really sad.

[Jack Quaid]

Right down the middle. Easy peasy.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, who's this little guy?

[Seth Meyers]

Why, it's Hank.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay, so it's Fred, and he's in a house, and he's hiding behind a hat rack that has some clothes, you know, a jacket hanging on.

[Andy Samberg]

This one's shy, and he's shy, and.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He'S hanging out behind it.

[Andy Samberg]

Hank. Hank is wearing a pair of black sunglasses. Don't be shy, Hank.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You look dope. Every time the camera flashes up, he says it the way word dope appears on screen in freeze frames.

[Seth Meyers]

Also, when the camera flash happens, it freezes Fred, and he's not. It's a bad freeze. His eyes are half open.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, it's always bad.

[Andy Samberg]

It's a bad freeze. It's not even the right freeze.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He doesn't look up. He's in a leather vest and no undershirt, by the way. Okay, now it's kind of Andy here, and I just want to say he's a house painter, but we're at another construction site right away.

[Andy Samberg]

Here we have.

[Seth Meyers]

Whoa. No sunglasses. Not dope, pal.

[Andy Samberg]

You need to take a hike. Okay. Okay.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Big cross out.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, yeah. That's more like it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Bobby. As kind of an Indiana Jones explorer type, super awkwardly, like, confused where he is. The vest is open in the front. No undershirt, so just full chest and belly out. And a whip.

[Andy Samberg]

Watch out, ladies.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Here comes Josh.

[Andy Samberg]

Josh is ready for adventure, Wearing a.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Sporty panning up his shorts and matching vest.

[Andy Samberg]

I don't need a compass to tell.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Which way is dope.

[Seth Meyers]

Look at dope Josh.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, look at this joke.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He's at the pool. Say, quit horsing around. He's a jokester. Cuz he's got a pair of novelty like ginormous sunglasses on. It's Zac Efron. He was too handsome. So we put a bunch of body hair on his shoulders to make it look like he had just like Robin Williams level shoulder.

[Jack Quaid]

Also a wig that makes it be like. Is this Teen Wolf?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, it's very. It's early Teen Wolf.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes. A gross wig and sideburns and ash wash jeans.

[Andy Samberg]

Cool tattoo. Yeah. Two lower back tattoo.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, yeah. With that horseshoe tattoo on his lower.

[Andy Samberg]

Back, he'll be your lucky charm. Looking dope, Paul.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This has been guys in sunglasses looking dope.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. And when he dipped his sunglasses and we saw the blue of his eyes.

[Jack Quaid]

We were like, put him back on.

[Andy Samberg]

Put him back on. So you do it him for this joke.

[Jack Quaid]

I mean, it's clearly that the show had too much stuff in it. Y like couple of homies aired.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. That's way better than a couple homies.

[Jack Quaid]

This easily could have aired a different week. Yes, but is it. It's not like our best.

[Seth Meyers]

I do believe Lauren didn't like it so much that he punished you with balcony song Walk down.

[Andy Samberg]

We should probably send it to him and see what his actual thoughts are.

[Akiva Schaffer]

They could still air both of these. Still air. Maybe we just resubmit. Not even resubmit to the table. Resubmit to the control room.

[Seth Meyers]

It is interesting because it doesn't have that next move.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No.

[Jack Quaid]

What do you mean? What do you mean?

[Andy Samberg]

Well, it has a shy guy.

[Seth Meyers]

It has a little tiny.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's got twists and turns. It's got twists and turns.

[Andy Samberg]

It has a few.

[Seth Meyers]

It has a little tiny, you know? Yeah, they're not big s like curves. It's more like a. Like a little squiggly eye.

[Andy Samberg]

Still made me laugh pretty hard.

[Akiva Schaffer]

If you know what it is, then I think it delivers. If you're waiting for something else, then it does.

[Seth Meyers]

Can I have 30 seconds in Seth's corner.

[Andy Samberg]

This is Seth's corner. At the end of the show, Seth is gonna take it away and talk about what he did that week. Oh, Seth.

[Seth Meyers]

There was a High School Musical sketch where he went back and gave a. He was a graduate and he came back and basically gave a speech about how nobody sings outside this high school. And like, if you break into song, people are gonna just wail on you. I'm here to talk about what happens after you leave East High.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Think this is a good idea, Troy, back off.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay, here's the deal. No one sings at college.

[Akiva Schaffer]

What?

[Jack Quaid]

What?

[Akiva Schaffer]

What? No.

[Seth Meyers]

And from what I can tell, this is America's only singing high school.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I've watched that in the last two years, Seth. Because my kids got so into High School Musical, all three of them, that they started just wanting to know what else he had done. I was like, well, he hosted some of the times I was there. There. And so we would go on YouTube and pull up sketches.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And especially ones that relate to High School Musical, of which we also wrote one at some point when the third movie was coming out. Is that in here somewhere too? No, it might have been a. Did he host twice or maybe it was for a different house?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. I don't know.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Might have been a different host.

[Andy Samberg]

Did you play him Neighbors and all that sort of stuff too? No, Neighbors is rated R. Yeah, well.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And we're in Neighbors for a second. And Liz is in Neighbors a lot, so their parents are also in Neighbors.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, yeah. But no, I was supposed to be in Neighbors too, playing Hitler, but I got cut out.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Your go to role. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

You've played Hitler a lot.

[Andy Samberg]

I know. I know my go to role. Yeah.

[Jack Quaid]

Can I just jump into this rundown?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Jack Quaid]

Since we're calling it pretty soon I was in a sketch, I don't remember exactly the premise, called Cool Bar. I'm pretty sure I was in that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Jack Quaid]

It says it's written by Klein and Mintz. I think it was a Dan Mintz guest writing.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, yeah, Dan Mintz. A very funny guy who guest wrote.

[Jack Quaid]

Yeah. Mintz is hilarious. This is, I believe, where it's like they let such young people into this bar and there's like little kids and babies in the bar.

[Seth Meyers]

I think you're right.

[Jack Quaid]

Super fun. Super fun times. And then the one that really stands out to me running through this is I Am youm Mother written by Fred Armisen Obama.

[Akiva Schaffer]

My kids have watched that one a bunch. Found it. They found it. Cause of Efron. But then they've watched it more times because they like it.

[Seth Meyers]

Is it a pizza rolls commercial?

[Jack Quaid]

It's a commercial. Fred's playing the mom and he can't do it. He can't say the line casually.

[Seth Meyers]

The line in a pizza roll commercial is him saying. Saying, I am your mother.

[Jack Quaid]

Yeah. But instead he keeps going, I'm your mother.

[Seth Meyers]

I am your mother.

[Akiva Schaffer]

What do they say? It's something that's like a little bit of a goof off on mom. Because it's Efron and Andy being like, can we have more pizza rolls?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Like, come on, Mom. And it's like, hey, I'm your mother. Like, don't talk to me like that. And yeah, but he says it, like.

[Jack Quaid]

Really worked up an appetite.

[Seth Meyers]

Me too. I sure could use a snack.

[Jack Quaid]

Gino's pizza rolls to the best. And now they're made with 20% more real cheese. Awesome.

[Seth Meyers]

Plus, it's way better than what she usually makes.

[Andy Samberg]

Hey, I am your mother.

[Jack Quaid]

Like, okay, so. Oh, we're gonna want to take it down a little bit there.

[Seth Meyers]

And I think just Fred. Very amenable to the note. Like, didn't fight the note. Like, got it, got it, got it, got it.

[Jack Quaid]

Yeah, yeah, of course.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes, yes.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, leaning over the counter, swiping things off the counter.

[Jack Quaid]

Classic sketch.

[Seth Meyers]

Classic Fred. I have the smallest observation. And I will play it out to a thousand.

[Jack Quaid]

And then the other thing of note for me is yeah, yeah, yeah. As musical cast. Which was so, so rad.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Maps and Zero.

[Jack Quaid]

So it must. It was. That's the first time they were on. It had to be. If they did maps.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But is 0 from their second album. And then they did Maps as, like, a popular request. Ew.

[Jack Quaid]

Was it a. Marcy asked them to do Maps because it's the best known song. Like how the Shins did the Garden State song.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's what I'm wondering.

[Jack Quaid]

Mayhaps. Mayhaps be Keith. Mayhaps be.

[Seth Meyers]

I remember we went and saw them in New York. Keev. We were. We saw. Yay. One time.

[Jack Quaid]

We did Fun Factoid. Karen O and I went to college together.

[Seth Meyers]

Get out of town.

[Jack Quaid]

Yeah. Didn't really know each other there, but had mutual friends.

[Seth Meyers]

Still very cool.

[Jack Quaid]

She's the coolest.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Also, Andy. At another MTV Movie Awards. Perhaps the one you hosted. Perhaps. Not that we worked at. They did Maps.

[Jack Quaid]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And so we got to watch them rehearse Maps a bunch. And Spike Jones did the, like, art direction. And it was really dope. I don't remember exactly what it was. Maybe falling flowers on an LED screen or something. But it looked amazing.

[Andy Samberg]

But there was also, like, grass. And it was like the whole stage was alive kind of. It was pretty rad.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. The whole stage was taken over. It was really dope. And. And yeah. And that was really cool. Getting to see that over and over.

[Jack Quaid]

Was it when I hosted. I. I think I hosted in 09, which is this season.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It might have been. Or. Yeah. I don't know. But yeah, but I just know we. There's those people that you saw that were at those. That there'd be three musical performances at the movie awards. And so you got to watch them rehearse over and over. And it was, it was pretty rare before we were at SNL and saw it every week and became just about it.

[Andy Samberg]

I. I have to go because apparently these guys have been waiting to go to dinner with me for an hour.

[Seth Meyers]

Who's that? Your family?

[Jack Quaid]

Who's these guys?

[Andy Samberg]

I met a Company three, met my prod in.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, you're in. You're in Toronto?

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, I'm. I'm at Company 3.

[Jack Quaid]

You're Company 3 in Toronto or New York?

[Andy Samberg]

Toronto.

[Jack Quaid]

There's a Company 3 in Toronto? I used to work for Company 3 in the vault in LA.

[Andy Samberg]

It's all over the world now, apparently. I think there's one in London. There's.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, they're owned by Technicolor.

[Jack Quaid]

Hey, Company three. Great color correcting. Company three. I made it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Andy would have to work nights in the Vault pre snl, where you stay up all night when things are still on film and as the dailies come in, you like are in terms of charge of like running them around. Not like he was touching the film, but like literally, like in the mail room of the vault where you like accept them and sign them in and out. Is that fair to say?

[Jack Quaid]

Yeah. It was a ton of data entry into this super weird old system that's antiquated, but it was the only thing they used. And you just were entering reels of film that had come in to make sure that they were all logged and nothing got lost. So that then you were accountable or not accountable.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Because they wrap shooting at, you know, 9pm and then it comes in at 1am and then it's got to be in there.

[Jack Quaid]

Yep.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And that, that was one of Andy's jobs.

[Jack Quaid]

My first, my first real job in.

[Akiva Schaffer]

La and the first time we did a big music video where we went and color corrected at Company three. It was a full circle moment for you. I remember being like, this is so awesome that now I'm the client.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Jack Quaid]

Felt so good. I was like, could I get a sandwich?

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's what Yorm's doing all the time right now.

[Andy Samberg]

Yep. Just like more coffee, more water.

[Jack Quaid]

That sounds so Yorm.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You know, my friend used to work in the. In the vault and now I'm getting more coffee.

[Seth Meyers]

Yoram's very bad at, like being big time. My friend used to work here. More coffee, please.

[Andy Samberg]

I don't Even want it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Y. We can't. We're not really promoting your thing yet because it's not, you know, we don't have a release date or whatever. But he's there mixing the movie that. The movie he shot in Finland.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's how fast he moved compared to me. His movie's already locked, and I'm. We're sound mixing at the same time, even though he shot a calendar year after I did.

[Andy Samberg]

I will be locked tomorrow.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, exciting.

[Andy Samberg]

It's pretty. Pretty crazy. Pretty fast.

[Jack Quaid]

But, you guys, if you watch one thing this year, make it Digman on Comedy Central.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. And Paramount plus. Yeah. And you know what? Even Trump can watch it because there's no political jokes.

[Jack Quaid]

He can. He can. Yeah. I mean, we need them clicks.

[Andy Samberg]

Take them. Click.

[Seth Meyers]

I bet he doesn't know his Paramount plus password. But again, I don't want this pod to get political either, so.

[Jack Quaid]

Right, right, right.

[Seth Meyers]

Anyway, you think they give him a.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Free one like Paola to try to get. Try to nudge.

[Seth Meyers]

Nudge the deal ahead, do you think? Yeah. Do you think Redstone was like, how many you want? Two?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

That way Melania won't fuck up your likes. Your algorithm. All right, I love you guys.

[Jack Quaid]

Love you, dude.

[Andy Samberg]

I love you too, Seth.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Love you guys.

[Seth Meyers]

Wait, do you remember your tag, Keith?

[Akiva Schaffer]

I remember the words. I don't know if I remember how to say it. Later, Quaid's.

[Seth Meyers]

That's really good.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Close.

[Andy Samberg]

That was pretty solid.

[Jack Quaid]

Later, Quaid.

[Seth Meyers]

But wait, I took what you did. Keev and I have a version. Can we play that real quick?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay.

[Jack Quaid]

Oh, later, Quaid.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's literally legit. That's legit. He was on your show this week, right? Yeah.

[Jack Quaid]

Is that for real?

[Seth Meyers]

He was on my show.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, wow.

[Seth Meyers]

We made it. He was on my show, so I had him on my show for two acts.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Wow.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, my God. That's fantastic.

[Seth Meyers]

And so you do the first half of the interview, and then you do a promo where you're like, hey, I'm Seth Meyers, and tonight, Arnold Schwarzenegger. And then usually it goes right into the next act. And I go, can we hold for a second? And I was like, hey, we got this podcast, and we call the people who listen to Equator army, and would you just say, later, Quids? And he's like, I always say it. Which camera? I'm like, it's just audio. He's like, later, Quids.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Fuck, yes.

[Seth Meyers]

And then he goes, I hope I will make so much money from this.

[Jack Quaid]

Well, he will not.

[Andy Samberg]

We don't so you won't legitimately.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Let's end every episode after we say goodbye with Arnold Schwarzenegger saying, later, quiddies.

[Andy Samberg]

That's fucking great.

[Jack Quaid]

I mean, it's a real devil's bargain because we lose Akiva saying it in his really neat way. But I do think, well, maybe we.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Spice it up in some. Sometimes it's that and, you know, like, our opening themes always change. Who knows?

[Andy Samberg]

We'll see if people know the difference.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. See if you can tell.

[Seth Meyers]

I put a lot of thought into. Do I want him to say, like, this is Arnold Schwarzenegger? Like, I was like, just like, I'm going to try to give him the easiest ass possible.

[Jack Quaid]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

But the one other thing. I will tell you the funniest thing, which I want everybody to do. I showed him an art card on TV of you as Quado.

[Jack Quaid]

Really?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. And he did the funniest thing, which is I held it up and he goes, there he is. And he pointed like, as if the question was going to be, do you know which one of these is Quado? Like, you were. You were in Total Recall. So let me do a little quiz.

[Jack Quaid]

Who in this picture is the Quado?

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, he's the one in the stomach.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Fuck, that's great.

[Jack Quaid]

Did he say my name at any point? Did he go like, andy Sat?

[Seth Meyers]

No, I don't think so.

[Andy Samberg]

Fuck.

[Seth Meyers]

But he was awesome. I will say this, you kind of can't believe. When I think about the amount of, like, sleepover hours I spent watching that guy in movies.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, you guys, back to Hitler. You know, I got to fight him in Kung Fury. I got to fight him because he was playing the President of the United States. So we had like a. Like a fight.

[Akiva Schaffer]

If you watch the leaked Kung Fury 10 minute sizzle reel, right now, you can see a little bit of Y, right? You're you. There's a little bit of you as Hitler and him fighting, right? So you see the President and Hitler fighting, and it's Arnold and Y.

[Seth Meyers]

Great. All right, so we'll play it one more time at the end, all right. After I say the thing that I need you all to hear. I like, love you guys.

[Jack Quaid]

Love you, buddies.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Love you guys.

[Andy Samberg]

Love you too, Seth.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Later, Quaid.

[Jack Quaid]

It. It's pretty.