We Like Sportz

Summary

The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast

Episode: We Like Sportz (May 13, 2026)

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone—two-thirds of The Lonely Island—dive deep into the making and legacy of their SNL Digital Short "We Like Sportz." Seth Meyers is notably absent, leaving Akiva and Jorma free to indulge in behind-the-scenes stories, technical banter, and reflections with friends and collaborators. The episode features voice notes from filmmaker Daniel Scheinert, actor Jonah Hill, and others, blending affectionate nostalgia with signature irreverent humor. The hosts break down the short's development, share memories of their creative LA house era, and reflect on the youthful, DIY spirit behind their viral comedy work.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Nostalgia for the SNL/LA Era

• The Encino House: The duo reminisces about living and working in a large house in Encino, LA, in their early SNL days. The house, now torn down, became a hotbed for creativity and legendary hangouts with future comedy greats.
  • "It was like an incredible house. And I couldn’t believe you guys were fucking renting this house… There was a barn in the back. There was a full basketball court. There was a huge swimming pool." — Chester Tam (23:23)
• DIY Filmmaking: They detail the gritty labor of producing early shorts—digitizing video from MiniDV tape, editing in a “hot and stanky” room, and shooting across the legendary property.
  • "It sucked way... since it’s how we had to make all the old stuff." — Jorma Taccone (22:58)

The Origin and Substance of "We Like Sportz"

• Creative Process:
  • The characters are “cul-de-sac kids” embodying awkward masculinity, dad issues, and longing for normalcy.
  • The video was filmed with minimal crew, mostly in and around their house. Jorma and Akiva detail prop choices (Kmart “cool guy” shirts, sports plates, the infamous pool floaty) and the evolving dynamic of the "just two guys" shorts.
• Character Backstories:
  • “It feels like it's getting right to the core of who these guys are and what their issues might be. Like, they definitely have dad problems.” — Jorma (12:47)
• Meta Observations:
  • They dissect the lyrics and comedic tone, emphasizing the in-jokes, reference layering, and themes of arrested development.
  • Voice note from Daniel Scheinert, lauding the podcast for breaking down technical factors like theater seating ("rake") and reflecting on watching his own films in IMAX.
    • "[On theater rakes] I never put... I could never put it into words what had happened until you and Jorma went into theater rakes." — Daniel Scheinert (03:10)

Running Gags & Moments of Self-Deprecation

• Networking Stories:
  • Jorma and Akiva recall fanboy moments with comedy heroes like Jack Black and Matt Stone, and the anxieties of networking (or failing to) as young creatives.
  • Daniel Scheinert shares an anecdote about being too nervous to network as a Tim & Eric intern, now looking back with humor and gratitude. (05:20)
• Embarrassment:
  • Jorma remembers feeling “slightly embarrassed” performing the characters in front of friends— a touchstone for how deep into character the duo would go for comedy.

Guest and Collaborator Contributions

Daniel Scheinert (Director, "Everything Everywhere All at Once," "The Daniels")

• Provides thoughtful voice notes on theater design, audience laughter, and his early run-in with The Lonely Island at the Encino house.
• “...I was too nervous to give you a compliment or say anything. And afterwards, I was like, wow, I sure am bad at networking. I think my career is not gonna work out. But luckily other Daniel helped save me years later.” (05:20)

Chester Tam (Lonely Island collaborator)

• Shares memories of shooting the "We Like Sportz" video, coming up with “lame shots,” and commenting on how Akiva got “pissy” digitizing video tapes post-SNL.

Jonah Hill (Longtime friend & actor)

• Sentimental about the era: “...it was like, right as we were able to, like, be funny for our jobs. But you guys were smart enough to get, like, a really fun house. We could all hang out at and swim and be stupid.” (37:07)
• Jokes about always wanting to be in their videos and reminisces about the energy, humor, and “hot” working conditions.

Liz Cackowski (Writer, performer, former SNL writer)

• Delivers an acapella “diss track” as a female response to "We Like Sportz":
  • “Oh, you talking sports and let me get in the game.
    You think sports are cool? Well, I think sports are lame.
    ...Game, set, match. I feel like the original had an extra verse, but we couldn't remember it, so there you go.” (51:05)

Technical and Anecdotal Deep Dives

• Editing Woes: Akiva and Jorma rehash the tedium and frustration of digitizing analog/digital hybrid tapes, and how SNL infrastructure spoiled them.
• DIY Continuity Errors & Inside Jokes:
  • Commentary on “cool guy” outfits, sports plates as set dressing, why some props/wardrobe choices made it in, and visual jokes like the hot tub in white T-shirts.
• Font Fiasco:
  • An unexpected discovery that different versions of the video use the wrong font due to Final Cut Pro not warning about missing fonts across computers. (43:09)
  • “I remember some kid at the time commenting somewhere that I saw and going, I wonder why they changed the font. And me going, what? We didn't change the font. And going back and looking and being like, why the fuck is the font different?” — Akiva (44:32)

Legacy and Live Performance

• Onstage Moments:
  • The duo relishes clips of hundreds or thousands chanting along live:
    • “We sound perfect...We’re probably able to perform this song live, the best of any.” — Akiva (46:28)
    • “It was always the most incredible thing to, like, have people interact with that and be like, wow, people like this level of stupidity.” — Jorma (48:12)
• Full Circle:
  • Discussing callbacks and running jokes, including Jonah Hill’s long-running prank recommending Chappelle’s Show to them as if it’s obscure (41:10).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On being intimidating:

  • “Keith, you are so intimidating. And it makes sense that why he would be walking with you and being like, this guy is so cool and his house is so cool.” — Jorma (06:38)

• On the genesis of their characters:

  • “They definitely have dad problems...And the fact that we want to emulate our dads because then like, when like we smoke cigars, smell our cars, I’m like, that’s also some dad issues.” — Jorma (12:47)

• On digitizing old video:

  • “So to get it off the tape, you can’t just say, like, put it into the computer. You have to plug the camera or a deck...shot by shot, like, log them in, kind of go, okay, here’s where this shot starts, here’s where this shot ends. Record it. Then it plays in real time into the computer while the computer is digitizing, meaning recording.” — Akiva (22:33)

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Key Timestamps

• [02:59-05:12]: Daniel Scheinert’s reflections on theater rakes and his early Lonely Island fan experience.
• [10:12-11:06]: Jorma’s story about giving a VHS tape to Sacha Baron Cohen.
• [12:00-13:18]: Deep-dive into “We Like Sportz” characters’ dad issues and embedded childhood trauma.
• [23:22]: Chester Tam recalls the unique shoot at the LA house.
• [28:12]: Jorma’s embarrassment performing as “just two guys” in front of Jonah Hill.
• [37:07-41:09]: Jonah Hill’s warm voice notes about the hop-happy, creative LA house era.
• [43:09]: Discussion of the infamous font mishap in video versions.
• [46:28, 48:12]: Reflections on the live energy of performing “We Like Sportz” to festival crowds.
• [51:05]: Liz’s acapella diss track, a female counterpoint to the song.

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Tone, Energy & Dynamic

• Irreverent, affectionate, and deeply self-aware. Akiva and Jorma revel in their own dorky past, ribbing themselves as much as their friends.
• Banter-driven: The absence of Seth (and Andy) lets the conversation sprawl tangentially into technical shop talk and personal anecdotes.
• Collaborative: The inclusion of voice notes creates a multi-perspective, memory-laden tapestry—celebrating comedy “made with friends being hilarious.”

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Summary Takeaway

This episode is a loving excavation of early 2000s viral comedy, a celebration of friendship and the creatively fertile, messy grind behind the scenes. “We Like Sportz” is revealed as more than a silly song: it’s a time capsule of young ambition, low-budget hustle, and the accidental assembly of future comedy legends. The anecdotes, technical details, and warmth from their creative circle make this episode a meaningful listen for comedy nerds, SNL fans, and anyone interested in how silly, small-time projects can become cultural fixtures.

Transcript

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's a lonely island. And Seth Myers podcast, have you heard it?

[Jorma Taccone]

Here we are minus the riff raff. Keev.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, the fans were asking for it after the last one. After the over your dead body one clamor. We heard you loud and clear. No more Seth and Andy.

[Jorma Taccone]

And so, yep, people after over your dead body. After the last just two guys, they were like, we want this pod minus

[Akiva Schaffer]

more fly river country.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So you're chewing gum on the pot today.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. You notice that? You know what? I'm gonna stop doing that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, that's good radio. Did you ever used to listen to, like, recordings of like, the Orson Welles radio shows back in the, like, whenever that was the 60s or 50s, 40s, I don't know. When did Orson Welles do radio?

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, that's. That's how war of the worlds ended. Like where the world scared people so much, they were like, this is real. And then at the end, he's chewing, he started to chew gum and people like, oh, maybe. No, it's probably. Probably not.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's how he let him know.

[Jorma Taccone]

He was just like, just kidding. Just kidding. Yeah, we're good guys. Don't worry about the aliens.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Got you.

[Jorma Taccone]

Brought to you by Wrigley's spearmint gum.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Pat myself on the back. But that was a very good Orson Wells. So yorm, now that it's just us jokers, let's talk about the last time it was just us. You know, we did talk about theater rakes for a little while and of course Seth ripped on us for it. And then I said, hey, don't worry about it. I've been assured that people like shop talk, you know, that they like hearing are you crying?

[Jorma Taccone]

Going back on this? Like, they don't like it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Now I feel like I'm sticking with this, so I'm going to play you a three part.

[Jorma Taccone]

I hope this is from someone who designs theaters.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Whatever your resume, I would love that. But no, anybody who designs theaters, welcome to send in something talk about the right Daniel Shiner, one of the two Daniels from, you know, the Daniel Daniels?

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, the Daniels.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You know, we had talked about him because he was the one I name checked saying he liked it. So then he sent me a voice note last night, not for the pod as like a follow up of, like, how weird it was for him to be in the car listening to the pod on the way home from work from working on their new. Prepping their new movie, and then hearing us talk about him and all of a sudden being kind of like snapped out of the trance of, like, listening passively to being part of the show he's listening to.

[Jorma Taccone]

Is there a new movie? This is just a guess. Is there a new movie? Like a really slow courtro drama?

[Akiva Schaffer]

100%, yes. And we're breaking that news here. If Deadline listens, it's a courtroom drama.

[Jorma Taccone]

Great.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay. But y. It's a three parter because he ends it by telling me not to play it on the pod. So there was stuff out of respect that. That I cut out that was just him talking to me in this voice note. But then this is the part that is relevant to theater. Right.

[Jorma Taccone]

You. You cut out all the courtroom drama stuff.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, exactly. I didn't want any spoilers for his courtroom drama.

[Jorma Taccone]

Great.

[Daniel Shiner]

And then the craziest part is that today at lunch, before I knew I was gonna call you, I brought up the theater rake thing, and I talked about it with several people that I

[Akiva Schaffer]

thought it was genuinely, deeply interesting to

[Daniel Shiner]

me because everybody talks about IMAX as the ideal format to see movies, but I saw my own movie in IMAX once, and I got pretty bored because all I wanted was to hear the laughter, to see how people are reacting. And the theater rake and the seating made it so. And they'll sound made it so. I couldn't tell if anyone was enjoying themselves. And I never put. I could never put it into words what had happened until you and Jorma went into theater rakes.

[Jorma Taccone]

Okay, that's great. And you didn't spoil anything. That's great.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, I just gave you the clip. But also, what's great about it is, you know, it's genuine because I'll play you now the second part.

[Jorma Taccone]

Great.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And that. This is not, you know, me trying to get someone to back up our great theater. Right. Conversation. This is just.

[Jorma Taccone]

You don't take criticism lying down.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, I didn't. I'm saying this just came to it. This is a gift. Here you go. This is short.

[Jorma Taccone]

Okay.

[Daniel Shiner]

I feel like I recorded this in the style of a voice note, as if I think it should be on the podcast. But for the record, this should not be on the podcast.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's how he ended it.

[Jorma Taccone]

I only want to hear voice notes of people who don't want to be on the podcast.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay. But then I. I did. I'll be. All right. Full disclosure. Then afterwards, I said, I'm going to cut out most of the stuff, but I do. I am going to play part of it. I said, if there's anything you want to add.

[Jorma Taccone]

Great.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You can now send that to Me. And that's nice of you.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, you're nice.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This third one after he knows that I've cut up his thing and I'm gonna play something great.

[Daniel Shiner]

Hey, Akiva and Yorm and maybe the podcast, since you maybe are gonna use that voice memo I sent you on the podcast, here's a follow up because you asked if I was talking about everything everywhere I was. And I'm so grateful that they did an up res of the movie in imax and it was really fun. For the record, IMAX is so cool. But thank you so much for breaking down why other theaters are also cool. I have had so many wonderful experiences in theaters that were flat and you finally helped me understand. So just big fan of this rake centric podcast. So honored to be on.

[Jorma Taccone]

We should split up and just do rakes.

[Daniel Shiner]

And also just big fan of we like sports. Did you shoot that at the house y' all rented for the first album?

[Jorma Taccone]

This is a good transition.

[Daniel Shiner]

Funny anecdote I don't think I've ever told you guys. I was an intern at Tim and Eric. Awesome show. They came to that house to shoot. And I think I walked with Akiva down the driveway to help pick up pizza that you had ordered. And I was too nervous to give you a compliment or say anything. And afterwards I was like, wow, I sure am bad at networking. I think my career is not gonna work out. But luckily other Daniel helped save me years later. Anyway, hello. Nice to meet you. Cool house. Those are the kind of things I wish I had said 17 years ago.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Cool house.

[Daniel Shiner]

Okay, bye.

[Jorma Taccone]

Bye. It was a cool house and we shot the shit out of it. Having said that, like, what I really like about that of saying that is just. You never know who is with you. Fucking. He was an intern. Like, it's like, it's the best thing about la, best thing about the industry. Yo. Fucking. That dude is a fucking.

[Akiva Schaffer]

They didn't come with a big crew either. It was like Jonathan Krisel and like three guys and the flight of the Conchords and Tim and Eric and that was it.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. Just a bunch of creative motherfuckers.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. It was not a lot of guys. And he was one of them. Isn't that crazy?

[Jorma Taccone]

That is crazy.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It reminded me. Did we already tell the story Access. Hold on.

[Jorma Taccone]

Can I just say something though real quick? Keith, you are so intimidating. And it makes sense that why he would be walking with you and being like, this guy is so cool and his house is so cool.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, Cool house.

[Jorma Taccone]

He could have said it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Imagine how different his trajectory, the sliding doors of his life. How what door would have opened, probably

[Jorma Taccone]

would have ruined his life if he had started working with us.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Cool house. He never would have met the other Daniel.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh wow. It's like an interstellar. You know what I mean? Like just like so many different options of universes.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This is me and Andy. You weren't there, but do you remember when we first got to la? Me and Andy went to a Baja Fresh on Sunset and saw Jack Black at another table.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh wait, I got a story too after that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And we were the hugest Tenacious D fans.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And he was just by himself. Like if you ever like felt like you would be scared to go up to some celebrity you look up to, like eating a burrito by yourself is a pretty easy way to go up to them.

[Jorma Taccone]

I know you want to say like, hey, cool order.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And me and Andy couldn't think of the right thing to say and we just went, you know, one day we'll meet him because we'll have made something cool and then will have something to say to him. And we just left him alone. And so I guess I'm Jack Black in Daniel's eyes in a way, I guess is my point.

[Jorma Taccone]

Just too nervous to say hello to a really intimidating guy, a movie star like me. Well, can I. Can I say so okay, on the flip side of that, and this is a little toot our own horn, but it's also a very yhorm story. I was on Melrose and.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Wait, do you need like a theme? Like yorm story? Enjoy the madness.

[Just Two Guys Characters]

Go ahead.

[Jorma Taccone]

Okay, great, great. Ok. Okay. So I'm on Melrose and I see Sacha, Baron Cohen and Isla getting into their car and I freak out and I have a kissespeed before Hot Rod. This is before, Before Hot Rod, before anything. Right. And so like so. But I'm right near, near your guys house. I'm with Mari.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Got it. Prius.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, Prius and all this pre everything, right. And so we, we had made White Power, which is a joke, you guys. It was a little pilot episode about us getting addicted to tooth whitener. And it was a little pilot we put all together ourselves probably 20 something minutes. And I had a copy on a DVD.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, we had spent. The only money we really spent was to go to a VHS dupe place and make.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh maybe it was a VHS. Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Was it vapes to make like 20 VHS tapes of it.

[Jorma Taccone]

So I had one in the car. I tell Mario, I'm like I gotta, I gotta go Talk to him. I run over to him. I'm like, we made this thing, da da da. But like, you know, just so nervous. Completely apropos. He was nice, but we didn't know him at the time. And I handed to him and then I talked to you guys like 20 minutes later. I was like, I, I sent him that. Like I gave Sasha this, the thing. And you were like, we have the same manager. He's with Julie Darmody. Like so we actually have the same manager. I was like, oh, that's hilarious.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Because yeah, Jimmy Miller, that big.

[Jorma Taccone]

Same company. Yeah. Oh my God.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But that doesn't matter. It's still different. Like Jimmy probably would never bother him with it, but a kid on the

[Jorma Taccone]

street, it's so hard. Like nobody has 20 minutes for anything anymore. I'm like, I don't know if he ever saw it, but I don't know.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You know what? I don't think I ever told Matt Stone from Trey.

[Jorma Taccone]

I just, I just saw Matt Stone.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Parker and Matt Stone. Where'd you see him?

[Jorma Taccone]

I saw him at Julia Cummings record release party at Public Records in New York and is Edgar Wright's lovely, lovely partner Julia Cummings. And her show was friggin awesome. And I saw Matt Stone and I saw.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's so fun. It was like a, like a Brooklyn concert release party.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, yeah, it was, it was really great, great show. It's a great album if you guys.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But I did that same thing. Do you remember that? I did that to Matt stone. I'm talking 2003. 2002 before.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I saw him in like Santa Monica eating outside with a friend at a restaurant. I was like, oh my God, that's Matt Stone. And I had the tapes in the car and I went and I was super apologetic like, dude, I do not want to bother you. Yeah, I just, we made a funny thing. I don't know, I see you here, I have to give it to you. Like, you don't have to do anything with it. You can watch it if you want.

[Jorma Taccone]

But dude, you know what's so crazy is when I, when I saw him, he was still mad about it. He was like, that makes sense. He was like, he threw it back

[Akiva Schaffer]

in my face and was like, I'll never forget this. I was at lunch with my agent and you interrupted, you piece of. Yeah, that sounds like Matt.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. So don't do it, guys.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, yeah, that's the lesson. It's crazy that we. Those are still two of the biggest legends of comedy of all time. So we did have. Those are good run ins plus Jack black. I mean, it's not like we were seeing famous people all the time.

[Jorma Taccone]

No, not at all. And by the way, Matt's tone ripped. I gave him a hug. Oh, yeah. Like, underneath, you could just tell, like, I would not be surprised if he's Jeremy Allen white status.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Whoa.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, he seemed. He seemed just really fit.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Breaking news.

[Jorma Taccone]

I mean, I really got in there too, guys, because I felt around the

[Akiva Schaffer]

back, he'd be good in a. In a courtroom drama. Oh, I'm just trying to cast a little Daniels film here. We got a ripped mint stone.

[Jorma Taccone]

What you. So you're thinking, like, he's on the stand, he's getting, like, badgered. He tears off his shirt, and he's like, you can't handle my truth? Something like that, yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I love this.

[Jorma Taccone]

This is my fucking truth. Check it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This is my truth.

[Jorma Taccone]

This is the truth.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This is my bible at his abs saying, this is the truth. I don't know. Daniels can use it if they want. Yeah. All right, Yorm. So we're here to talk about. We like sports. We've already done those two guys before we watch it. Would you agree it's the best one of the four?

[Jorma Taccone]

I think it's my fave. I. I mean, I think that there's some really, really good stuff in we need love, but I think this is my fave.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Like, when we went on tour, there was no debate between, you know, we were like, we're gonna do a Just two guys song. We're gonna do sports. Right?

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. Which is kind of weird, I guess, like, in terms of, you know, you would always assume that the original would be your fave, but, yeah, I think that we really hit our stride in this one.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. And I like the next two. When we do them, there's stuff that I really enjoy, but we like sports is the winner.

[Jorma Taccone]

It feels like it's getting to Right to the core of who these guys are and what their issues might be. Like. They definitely have dad problems.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, there's a lot of backstory. Kind of character growth. Character. Not really growth, but what do I mean? Like, development.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, there's some. There's definitely some backstory. I feel like you really hit on that too, because it felt like at one point you were like, yeah, they're doing impressions of their dad. It's really in the line. If my team loses, I'll be mean all night.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, that's clearly from the perspective. When dad's team loses, he's mean all night. That's exactly what they're saying.

[Jorma Taccone]

He throws things. Yeah. And. And the fact that we want to emulate our dads because then like, when like we smoke cigars, smell our cars, I'm like, that's also some dad issues.

[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Because just two guys predated it. So we put this on. Incredibad.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yes. And I know we've said this before, but when we rented this house, it was our big expense that we actually, like. We didn't have an engineer. We're just recording ourselves in this shitty room. I'm just giving a little, like, backstory again, everybody knows, but, like, I'm obsessed with this shit. I love. Well, it was a pretty shit room. I'll. I'll send a picture of what it looked like of where we recorded. And then we were all living at the same house and. Yeah. And this was a fantastic place to shoot. I mean, we really shot every part of this house.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. And I remember the guy who owned the house at one point was like, hey, filming now. Of course, we had no crew. It's just me and you and Jonah. And then sometimes Chester.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, I don't remember this.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Jonah Goldstein. And sometimes Chester Tam.

[Jorma Taccone]

Did he come back?

[Akiva Schaffer]

So it's not like you're seeing a production happen and going like, yo, your lease is for you to live here. Like, as we've discussed, this house gets used as a shooting location. Now the house is gone, but when it existed, it was a shooting location.

[Jorma Taccone]

I would imagine the shooting location would have been, like, 20 grand a day. Like, it's a really nice.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Exactly. It'd be way more.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And we kind of assured him it's a home video, which was true kind of at the moment, when you're making something for certain.

[Jorma Taccone]

It certainly wasn't going to make any money. Like. Like, it wasn't going to.

[Akiva Schaffer]

When we made it for $0. And we kind of assumed it wouldn't be on our album. And it was just a goof around, like.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yes.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It'd be like shooting TikToks and then your landlord being like, you can't shoot Tiktoks in here.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yes. But we did push it, obviously, because Tim and Eric definitely didn't pay for the location. And that was on tv.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, that one was pushing it. When they showed up, we were like, yeah, use the tennis court. Then it was like, a little like, ew, if someone came today, that'd be a little weird.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, we would be charged for sure.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So we do have the voice note from Chester, as promised, that he recorded back in February when we did the Just Two Guys episode.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, we have a bunch of voice notes. Do you want to do that one as a kickoff and then we'll watch it?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, sure. Let's see what Chester says.

[Jorma Taccone]

J Dog.

[Chester Tam]

Ooh, just Two Guys. I remember this. We shot this music video at that huge Encino house that you guys rented out after your second year at snl. And this house was huge. It was like. There was a barn in the back. There was a full court, basketball court. There was a huge swimming pool.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It was.

[Chester Tam]

It was like an incredible house. And I couldn't believe you guys were fucking renting this house. And I remember us running around with the camera trying to find the lamest shots on 4 acres of land in Encino and never running out of ideas because all of it was so good. The one shot that really stuck out to me was the shot where we locked off the camera on the front lawn, and Keith and Yoram just kept peeking out of different areas. And then Keefe Layered it in post to make it look like one shot. But that shot stuck out to me because I remember we collectively came up with that idea. And I saw Keef perk up, like, oh, that's a new lame O shot. But usually it's Keef coming up with that lame shot. But the fact that we all kind of did it and he was like, oh, yeah, it's a good one. Was, like, fun to see because I haven't shot with you guys in probably, like, two years. The other thing. And I'm gonna make this podcast sound really controversial now. Keith, tell me if I'm wrong, but I remember editing just two guys or being in the room with you guys. Was that key? Was a little pissy about editing just two guys, at least digitizing it. And I remember that sticking out because I was wondering why Keev was so. Was so upset about it. And I was thinking, was it maybe because SNL had given you this infrastructure where you didn't have to do these menial tasks anymore and you can kind of get shit done if you just ask the powers that be and. Whereas this music video was back to Lonely island shit, where you had to be the assistant editor and the editor and everything in between. Don't even know if you want that on the podcast.

[Jorma Taccone]

I think that's fair.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I just thought I'd make it a

[Chester Tam]

little controversial, add a little edge to it. Keith, tell me if I'm wrong. If not, I just don't remember. You don't have to put this in.

[Jorma Taccone]

Plug it, dude. I think. I think that is actually a really good thing to put in because it was so fucking annoying to digitize shit. And that is one thing that was done for us at snl. And it's not so much that it was like.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It sounds strong, but I'm sure I was just sitting there being like, oh, God, so annoying.

[Jorma Taccone]

Like, going through every shot and, like, ingesting.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So for. For the kiddos out there that don't know even what digitizing means.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Because nowadays you'd shoot. It would go right to a card, and then you would just transfer the footage, would just copy over onto a hard drive, and maybe you'd have to convert it or something.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But back then, you're shooting on cameras that shoot onto mini DV tape. I'm assuming that we, like sports was shot on something. That shot.

[Jorma Taccone]

I believe it was XL. XL1.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Or the Canon one or the one of those.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, it might have been the Sonic.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It might have been the little. Or the little Sony one. But anyways, so it's MiniDV tapes. So even though it's technically digital video, I don't know that. Like, it's not analog, but it looks analog and it's tape. I don't exactly understand, but it's this real moment when it was between analog and digital. So it's technically digital video, but it records on tapes.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yes.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So to get it off the tape, you can't just say, like, put it into the computer. You have to plug the camera or a deck, if you had one, which we didn't, into, you know, the computer. And then one by one, shot by shot, like, log them in, kind of go, okay, here's where this shot starts, here's where this shot ends. Record it. Then it plays in real time into the computer while the computer is digitizing, meaning recording.

[Jorma Taccone]

It sucked way, way, since it's how

[Akiva Schaffer]

we had to make all the old stuff. And then. And then you'd label it and go, okay, that was a clip of this. Put it into a folder, and now go to the next. So if you shot an hour of footage, that hour of footage could take you six hours to digitize.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And I do think at snl, well, number one, we were probably using some cameras that recorded right to SD cards. But yes, we did have a little bit of infrastructure, namely Matt Yonks, who, while we'd be filming those tapes, would get run back to him because there wouldn't be time for us to do it. And by the time we got back to editing, he had already digitized them if needed.

[Jorma Taccone]

What was like Lazy Sunday in those? Because those were.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We did that ourselves. We had.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, I mean, like, this was a huge part of our lives, obviously, like, when just, like, was so much time.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Honestly forgot about it until he said it. And I don't remember being pissy, but it makes. Pissy is such a strong word. But I guarantee we were whining, oh, it sucks.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's like, it totally sucks. And if you also see the picture of the room that we were in, it was just hot and stanky.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That was the real problem is that when we'd be recording in that room, and I'm sure we talked about it, but you couldn't have the Academy, the ac, the central AC in the house. You know, when you have a room in a huge house that's really far from the central ac, it doesn't reach it.

[Jorma Taccone]

No. We bought an air conditioner. You remember that?

[Akiva Schaffer]

So then we. Yeah, so we had to buy one of those cheap ones. That, like, goes through the window. Not the kind you install because we didn't own the house, but the kind that's, like, a little R2D2 with a tube. But it's crazy loud. So we would turn it on and off between takes.

[Jorma Taccone]

We would, like, jam it when we weren't recording, and then, like, just immediately, like, it would turn off, and it would get super fucking hot. And then I had that thing for years. It somehow made it to New York, I feel like. Or it made it to.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Did it when we, like, shipped everything.

[Jorma Taccone]

Dude, I don't know.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That thing making it to New York is crazy.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. I might genuinely have it in Connecticut now.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right. Shall we?

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. Hello.

[Just Two Guys Characters]

Hi.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Do you want to go to a party with me?

[Jorma Taccone]

No.

[Just Two Guys Characters]

The game's on.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I mean, I'm just going to stop it constantly. Ready? So for those who are just listening to the pod, I mean, they'll grab what I'm sharing. And if you want to watch on YouTube, you can see where I'm paused. But I just wanted to pause here because it's literally the AC thing we were just talking about.

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, also, can we talk about that cell phone? Because it says guy number one is calling. And I'm just glad that we were able to have a cell phone that fucking could do that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes. Pretty fancy shit.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's so whack.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. So there's the house.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, we look good.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Gone now. Torn down.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

There's the kitchen with the hang space. This is where we spent 99% of our time.

[Jorma Taccone]

The passage of time here. And also, like, I know we talked about this before, but, like, right to. Kmart bought out the whole section of the cool guy shirts. So every one of our shirts is pretty badass.

[Akiva Schaffer]

What is this one? Like a cool.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's like a neon skull or something like that. Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Fucking sick, dude.

[Jorma Taccone]

Hardcore. Hello.

[Daniel Shiner]

Hi.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Do you want to go to a party with me?

[Jorma Taccone]

No.

[Just Two Guys Characters]

The game's on.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, I almost forgot. I'll be right there.

[Just Two Guys Characters]

We like sports and we don't care

[Akiva Schaffer]

who knows we hung. We've got some plates of sport teams from the Kmart and hung them up.

[Jorma Taccone]

We put sports on in the background. I think we waited till there was sports on. Yeah, Like, I think we, like, had

[Akiva Schaffer]

to find a channel around because that couch is facing away from the tv just to make the shot. Look up.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, yeah, look at that.

[Just Two Guys Characters]

I'm shooting hoops to the Super Bowl. We like sports so we don't care who knows Football, tennis, hockey, golf. The game is starting. Everyone Is here. I got my snacks, my friends, and a beer. Just two normal guys hanging out, having fun. Right, Guy number two. Yeah. Guy number one.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I like what Chester said about how, like, we were just looking around this place and never ran out of ideas. It's true. Like, what a jackpot to have this house. When we came up with this concept,

[Jorma Taccone]

we always sort of described these kids, that they were like, cul de sac kids. And this house was perfect. It felt like it wasn't even la. It felt like it was like the suburbs.

[Akiva Schaffer]

One of them definitely has rich parents.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. Well, now they do. Yeah. Because the location. Oh, my God. On the shot of the couch, did we put up plates on the sides that were like.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's what I'm saying. Plates at Kmart and taped them to the wall?

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. Look at that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And then later, we used those in the BB gun shooting range for ourselves as targets.

[Jorma Taccone]

So cool.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Very cool.

[Jorma Taccone]

ET they asked. PTN is maybe the shot that Chester was talking about, but maybe we'll have

[Just Two Guys Characters]

to see to the end. It's all I watch.

[Jorma Taccone]

Cause I'm the man.

[Just Two Guys Characters]

If my team loses, I'll be me.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I mean, that floaty. We didn't buy it for this. We had already bought it. Right? For real life.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. Oh, no, we love that thing. That was a lot of drinking was done on that floaty.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I mean, we have great photos of Chester and us and Jonah Hill and everybody on this floaty.

[Jorma Taccone]

I feel like Jonah. So Jonah sent a bunch of voice notes, which we'll get to after this. But, like, I feel like Jonah was there this day. And granted, we are lame characters. We're obviously meant to be as lame as possible, but I do remember being even slightly embarrassed doing this because we look so busted.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But what's funny is if, like, you look at this shot right now, like, that's just us.

[Jorma Taccone]

Like, we know there's nothing. Yeah, we're not really doing.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We're just like. Yeah. We're just in matching swim trunks. It's like we just look busted. But that's. Yeah, I guess we are. You know what I mean?

[Jorma Taccone]

Great, man.

[Just Two Guys Characters]

If my team loses, I'll be mean all night. If you tell me to relax, we'll get in a fight. Watching sports with girls.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Hot tub with white T shirts, soaking wet white T shirts is the whole vibe. You know what I mean? We knew that. We knew we really were hitting on something with that vibe.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's definitely a little surprising that they would ever take their shirts off.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. I like that these guys put on White shirts for the hot tub and took them off for the floaty. But let's just, you know, I guess there's some logic gaps happening.

[Just Two Guys Characters]

Watching sports with girls is a pain. They don't know the rules. There's no time to explain. Single, double, triple, home run for the celebration. I'll shoot my gun. I like my friend. He's a real guys guy. He's not a loudmouth like that cunhole Steve.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Steve has a Chinese yo yo and devil sticks.

[Jorma Taccone]

Why is. Why is Steve willing to be in these videos?

[Akiva Schaffer]

I don't know, but he's. But he was.

[Jorma Taccone]

So. It's like we invited him over.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He's showing up. Look at his face when he's walking up. At first, he's so excited. Hey, guys, look at his little face. I'm so excited to be here with my devil sticks. You guys want to play with this? And I guess what we're implying here is that when the cameras aren't rolling, we are happy to play with the Chinese yo yo and devil sticks. He's. He looks like he has reason to believe showing up with these with a big smile is gonna work out, and I think it does. And then. And now we know people are watching, and we're like, fuck off.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, they hang out with Steve and they just need. They're so picked on at school. They just absolutely need someone to be lamer than they are. But I think that they probably do hang out with Steve a bunch. He just seems like he's the neighbor who has. Yeah, cool gear.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I mean, we'll get into it in the next video, but he's got us when we do it, you know, he's got a snake pet. Snake. This guy's really cool.

[Jorma Taccone]

He's got it. He's got it all. And a girlfriend.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, yeah, that's in the even next one.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, there's progress being made like that, Steve.

[Just Two Guys Characters]

We like sports and we don't care who knows from Wimbledon.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I wonder what high school we went to for that show.

[Just Two Guys Characters]

We like sports and we don't care who knows football.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And yeah, you can really get the scope of how much land there was here.

[Jorma Taccone]

I do like that we had the wherewithal to have me throw a frisbee and then joining shot as if I hit it, but then I'm hitting it with a baseball bat and it's a different sport.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Look at this. Hockey shot at the high school that we must have went to.

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[Akiva Schaffer]

You're just by a trash can. No hockey stick. I'm pretending like how did we get the helmet, I wonder?

[Jorma Taccone]

I don't know how we got that. Something was a brought that.

[Just Two Guys Characters]

Now when I say sports, you say nuts. Sports, nuts. Sports nuts. When I say cheating, you say sucks. Cheating sucks. Cheating sucks. I drink whiskey cuz I like the taste. You think it's bitter, but I think it's great. I also drink whiskey and we smoke cigars. Don't believe me? Smell our cars.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But real men just drove around parking lots till we saw a bright colored wind.

[Jorma Taccone]

We, we didn't go very far, dude. I think we walked up the street. I think that's the parking lot on the corner.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, yeah, I do think that that is on the corner of where the house was.

[Jorma Taccone]

Uh. Look at these fucking sharp shoes.

[Akiva Schaffer]

They're so stiff.

[Just Two Guys Characters]

If you say that we're not, then we'll see you in court. I'm team captain and I choose you. I'm the other team captain and I choose you too. We steal the ball and we're off to the races. Then scare the other team with our mad dog faces like what, what, what what what what what what what what, what, what, what?

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's a Nori song.

[Jorma Taccone]

Nori. Yeah, it's a Nori song.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Noriega.

[Jorma Taccone]

I feel like, I feel like nobody ever got our references. Like all the hip hop references.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, I mean they're not that deep, but they're deeper than your average price.

[Jorma Taccone]

No, but I do, I do like that every time we did one I would have to match the drums of the song. So like that little bum, bum, bum, like however it builds. I did have to go in and build those things. So it was.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, you had to listen the other

[Just Two Guys Characters]

team with our mad dog faces like what, what, what what what what what what what what what?

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, yeah. So anytime we did like, you know whether it was the pong pong, you

[Akiva Schaffer]

had to make the wackest recreation of a cool song.

[Jorma Taccone]

Which is also the way that. Oh God, which song was it? It's like. I think it's a steady B song, but the on Cool Beans when it goes to Cool Beans, I think that's a rip off of a steady B drum pattern. And I can't remember what song it is, but weigh in the comments on which one it is.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And we talked about how when we did our live show, we did 21 Savage.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yes. Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

How many you got? A lot.

[Jorma Taccone]

A lot.

[Just Two Guys Characters]

From the pre game jokes to the wrap up show. We like sports so we don't care who knows.

[Jorma Taccone]

Tennis, hockey, golf.

[Just Two Guys Characters]

Throw me the baseball now toss Me the pigskin now feed me the rock now give me the rock.

[Akiva Schaffer]

One of my favorite shots. I'm sorry, I'm so mad that you took it from me. Like I just like, yeah, I know you have to for the song but I really want to hold the basketball. I just taking it back.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's so perfectly petty. I do really like saying things like pass me the pig spit, give me the pigskin. Or pass me the like. It sort of points out how ridiculous words are. Even like pigskin, give me the pigskin. Oh shit. Here's some of the comments. What's the most recent comments?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Some comments. 5 years ago Someone wrote these guys really had it all. Friends, sports and a swimming pool.

[Jorma Taccone]

And it's surprising that they had a pool.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Watching sports with girls is a pain. They don't know the rules. There's no time to explain. Is another, you know, you really understand the fantasy that they're in of like why there's no.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's. It's why they don't have girlfriends. It's like, oh God, it's just too much like we have so much going on that we could never believe me

[Akiva Schaffer]

girls would like to be here.

[Jorma Taccone]

They'd like to like and we just can't tolerate it. They're always talking over the game. Ugh. The pre game jokes, the wrap up show. I also really like.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, they like it all.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, that's definitely dad's thing. He's like, he can't concentrate even through the wrap up show and we're gonna be just like him.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Inviting someone to smell our cars. That's fucking yeah. Try to call our bluff. Dude. Get in our car and smell it. Wow, these guys must really smoke cigars because it smells in here.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh my God. Also the whiskey's being bitter with that's clearly. We both like dared each other to drink whiskey and we hated it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But also like when one of us would clearly write a lyric like I drink whiskey, the other one would be like, I also drink whiskey. Like they can't, they have to be included.

[Jorma Taccone]

Like, why the other, the other one that kills me is the I'm team captain and I choose you. Like you're like, oh, these guys have never been picked first for anything. And like they're poor guys.

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[Jorma Taccone]

I have some Jonah notes.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, I also have a Liz voice note, too, but.

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, and this is Jonah Hill here. We should get one from Jonah Goldstein, because he was.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So we asked Jonah for one, and he had a good memory for We'll Kill youl and the Snake, which we'll play later. But he didn't have one for this, even though he was there the whole time. So then Yorb thought it'd be good to ask the other Jonah who was not there.

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, no, he was. He was definitely at the house for some of this.

[Akiva Schaffer]

For some of us filming it.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, because.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, right. You said that you remember being embarrassed. So that. That really happened.

[Jorma Taccone]

That really. That really happened. I remember distinctly, like, him. And he said that it was, like, one of his great. Let's see what he says. Here, let me. Okay, great. Throw it on here,

[Jonah Hill]

Andrew. I believe it's set.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Myers.

[Jonah Hill]

It's Jonah Jonas Hill, your favorite. And yomi asked me to talk about the time that I came by the house when you guys were shooting. Just two guys. And he had a vague memory of me being there. Obviously it was more memorable for me being that I got to watch the freaking Mona Lisa get painted right in front of my eyes. Like, I was in Leo da Vinci's art studio, but it was in a house in the valley, and I was watching two little Michelangelo, their little hearts out, pretending to love sports. That whole period, which I went over earlier voice notes, was like, the best period of my whole life. It was like, right as we were able to, like, be funny for our jobs. But you guys were smart enough to get, like, a really fun house. We could all Hang out at and swim and be stupid. And I, you know, like, it's much more where the guy's like, I always want to be in one of your fucking sightless fisheries. Like, I just always wanted to rap on your goddamn songs. But it was just so cool to watch what you guys were doing. It was like, these guys are besties and brilliancies and they're making stuff that is going to be like. I was like, this is genius. You know? And all jokes aside, it was like, those memories to me are very sacred. And they also are inspiring to be like, that's how stuff should be made with friends being hilarious in. Please excuse Paw Patrol in the background. My son is watching Paw Patrol. But yeah, dude, I can't wait to show my kids the every one of them on the island videos. Anywho, it was so cool. It was hot, you guys. Like, hot with like the temperature. And you guys were just hilarious. And I was just like, this is such a cool scene. You know, this whole thing is just amazing. And I'm lucky to be year round it doing bits with these guys. Having fun, spending my twenties around this kind of energy. Love you, boys.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Love you, Jo. That was very sweet.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, that was very. It was very nice. Thank you, Jonah. And. And here's a second one that he did.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, he sent two.

[Jonah Hill]

I also want to say, very underrated actor in the Lonely island is Mamima Shaffer. His weird body language in this film in particular is just Daniel Day style to me.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's very kind of him. He calls me Mamima, by the way, in case I was confused what it is.

[Jorma Taccone]

Great. I'm glad that we have another nickname

[Akiva Schaffer]

for you up on Neighborhood Watch where he started going mamima.

[Jorma Taccone]

I did not know that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I forget why. I mean, obviously it's Akiva. The syllables are Akiva. But I forget when it became Mamima.

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, and then when AC Alone had the song Makeba, we started calling you.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, exactly. Unrelated, but they're very similar.

[Jorma Taccone]

I love Making Love to Mama Keba. You guys know the song.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, that was very nice of Jonah as well.

[Jorma Taccone]

Hold on, he's got one last one.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, a third lot.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, it's a lot. Lot of Jonah. Here we go.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, I like it.

[Jonah Hill]

Oh, one last thing. It's so funny, man, because I just had this last memory. We went to this Mexican restaurant that you guys would always go to. It was so good. It was like one of the best Mexican restaurants I had ever been to. And the waiter was like, dude, when you Guys, get home. You gotta turn on Comedy Central because tonight there's this.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, no, God damn it.

[Jonah Hill]

Show on where one of the guys from Men in Tights is like, stand up, does stand ups. But he also does like, stand up yours racial and sort of like the norms, you know, just what the waiter told us. Yours, it takes. Makes a torch to it. Torches it. Yeah. David wasn't Mel Brooks. It wasn't Richard Lewis. It was David Chappelle from Tights.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Jonah Hill]

And it's. It's out of this world, dude. You guys have to watching it. We were cracking up. We were just like in stitches. Anyway. Yeah, just two guys. Very funny.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, gosh damn it.

[Jorma Taccone]

Cut it off before ending.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I should have expected that we were going to get Rick rolled into David Chappelle show. For those who didn't catch Jonah's earlier voice messages or back on earlier episodes of this pod, it's been an ongoing joke for almost 20 years now that Jonah tries to turn us on to this little known show.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, my God, he does it. I fall for it every single time.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I spent the first half of that voice note trying to remember what Mexican restaurant he could be talking about until I realized it was a big old lie. I just chewed on that bait.

[Jorma Taccone]

David Chappelle from Men in Tyranny. You know him from Men in Tights.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It wasn't Mel Brooks or Richard Lewis. It was the other guy, David Chappelle,

[Jorma Taccone]

the guy who does stand ups. Anyway, thank you, Jonah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Thank you, Jonah. All right, I'm looking at the lyrics here just to see if there was anything else that. I mean, we do say that we're two normal guys hanging out, having fun. Which of course is one of our favorite refrains. To insist that we're normal probably inspired Normal guy.

[Jorma Taccone]

Honestly, an even less normal guy.

[Akiva Schaffer]

If you tell me to relax, we'll get in a fight with the second half of the being mean all night, which is also clearly has happened where someone was like, hey, relax. And then like, the fight happens.

[Jorma Taccone]

I mean, it's clearly his mom. Their moms are desperately trying to keep their family together. I think dad's always ready to throw down.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We don't like cheating. It sucks.

[Jorma Taccone]

By the way, I love that font. Like, that font is like clearly like one of those, like, first thought fonts. Like, yeah, that'll work.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You know what? Getting into our shop talk. Because again, without the buzzards around, we get to just play. Thank you. I can't remember if that's the wrong font or if in another version of it maybe on the dvd. So when the albums would first come out, they would do a bonus version that had a dvd. And what happens is Final Cut Pro doesn't. Maybe now it'll warn you. But back then, you know how some. You'll be on one computer, it'll have a bunch of fonts.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And then you might go to another computer that doesn't have all the same fonts.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yes. Is that what happened?

[Akiva Schaffer]

We chose a font?

[Jorma Taccone]

Yes, it was a better font.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And then we were like at SNL on a different computer and they were like, hey, we need an output for the dvd. Or vice versa for the website. I can't remember. And we loaded it up and everything connected. It looked perfect. So we're like, great output at the right settings. Done. And it didn't warn you that, like, hey, because we were just using, like, if you were doing this professionally, you would never just be typing the words on. You would do it in like Illustrator, create, what's it called, a PNG file or whatever, Some sort of a see through file, transparent file that has the words. And it would be locked in because it's just a graphic. Like if Tara at SNL had given it to us.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. And then you don't have to worry about this because it would never change. It's a separate algorithm.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We were doing it the way kids would, where you just are pulling up the typing thing and typing right into your video. And so when it opened on a new computer, it went to a default font. And we had always chose a lame font. Like, I think the YouTube one is the correct one. But I think if you watch on the DVD that came with it or potentially, then that means the one on itunes or on Apple Music might be the wrong. And I remember some kid at the time commenting somewhere that I saw and going, I wonder why they changed the font. And me going, what? We didn't change the font. And going back and looking and being like, why the fuck is the font different?

[Jorma Taccone]

So the one we just watched though is the correct one.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I think the one we just watched is correct. I know it was a bootsy font either way.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yes.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But it was a font we had chose.

[Jorma Taccone]

The fact that whenever it gets gets to that point though, I always clock it and it maybe is the wrong one because, like, I always remember it like, you know, you have that sense memory of, like, I feel like we chose something different.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes. And. And so there is two versions of this video out there by accident.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right. I was looking through the things I think we've Kind of covered it, but it is my favorite, and I love doing it on stage. So let's just see. And maybe we won't include this, but maybe we will. Let me just go on YouTube here and see if I can find one of our we like sports lives for us to just look at and see.

[Jorma Taccone]

It felt.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So we did a. Like, a test show in Pasadena, so this would be our very first time doing it. That was a good show on a very. In a very small venue.

[Jorma Taccone]

And by the way, low ceilings, good rake. That was a popping show.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, great rake to that. So this is just someone's iPhone footage of Bonnaroo 2019. And we are doing we like sports. Let's see how it feels.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, my God.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So the intro starts doing flashes with lightning of photos we took from that when we were dressed. So just the wackest shots of us with dramatic music that you're hearing, but it's just like as if you're about to reveal Batman or something.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, this is fucking dope.

[Akiva Schaffer]

As if the coolest guys are about to get on stage, but we just look terrified in those photos.

[Jonah Hill]

Hello.

[Just Two Guys Characters]

Hi.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Do you want to go to a party with me? No.

[Just Two Guys Characters]

The game's on.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We sound perfect.

[Just Two Guys Characters]

The game is starting. Everyone is here. I've got my snacks.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We're probably able to perform this song live, the best of any. Because it's like, we're like. We're dead on it, dude.

[Jorma Taccone]

We're so tiny.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right, so I'll fast forward

[Just Two Guys Characters]

now. When I say sports, you say nuts.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Sports. Sports. That's fun. Hearing 30, 000 people say sucks.

[Just Two Guys Characters]

Drink. I also drink whiskey and we smoke cigars don't believe me?

[Jorma Taccone]

Smell our cars we're people are singing along

[Just Two Guys Characters]

I'm team captain and I choose you I'm the other team captain and

[Akiva Schaffer]

I choose you too.

[Just Two Guys Characters]

Steal the ball and we're off to the race Then scare the other team with our mad dog Bust down thought Bust down thought Want to see the buzz down? Pick it up no break, break it down Speed it up now slow it

[Akiva Schaffer]

down how much money you got?

[Just Two Guys Characters]

A lot how many problems you got? A lot how many lawyers you got? A lot how many times you got shot?

[Akiva Schaffer]

A lot hey, with me and get

[Just Two Guys Characters]

some money with me and get some money hey, with me and get some money hey, with us and get some

[Akiva Schaffer]

money oh, God, that sucks.

[Jorma Taccone]

Jesus Christ.

[Akiva Schaffer]

With with us and get some money

[Jorma Taccone]

oh, what a perfect performance. I feel like I had fucked up that little one part, but, man, besides that. Wow. 30,000 people having to watch that and

[Akiva Schaffer]

go nuts, nuts, nuts.

[Jorma Taccone]

Cheating again. It was always the most incredible thing to, like, have people interact with that and be like, wow, people like this level of stupidity.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You know what? I will go to we like sports Live again for one second, because I feel like Pasadena was a full year earlier because that was the practice show for Clusterfest.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, and we probably switched it up

[Akiva Schaffer]

at the back half, so I feel like if I fast forward to the end, we'll have done different songs.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, for sure. Bust down, Tatiana.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I forgot.

[Jorma Taccone]

I want to see you bust down. This is a real time capsule with us and get some money. These guys definitely are gonna fucking change your life.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right, so I'll fast forward through this one.

[Jorma Taccone]

That's Chester.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's also because we knew we were prepping for Clusterfest, which was in San Francisco.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yes.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So we're like, let's do some bay, too.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, God, I love it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Wait, I'm wearing a these hose Ain't loyal shirt. What does your say? Can you see it?

[Jorma Taccone]

I can't. Okay, we're.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I didn't say.

[Just Two Guys Characters]

Hey with us and get some money.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Is yours say built by swag or something? Something, something by swag.

[Jorma Taccone]

I. I just. It. It's funny because I think it's the same shirt.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Right?

[Jorma Taccone]

Like, we. We're, like, costumed out now.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. We were ready for our first big show, so this is technically our first show ever, because we. This was the practice show for Clusterfest.

[Jorma Taccone]

These hoes ain't loyal.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right, well, that's a treat. I mean, blow the whistle and tell me when to go are still great choices. Toot, toot, toot, toot, toot, toot. And then you said, everybody, and you can hear they start to go, toot, toot, toot. Oh, those are the dumbest things. All right.

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, golly.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, wait. So. I can't believe we waited this late for it. So we're in the house in Encino. All our girlfriends at the time. Maybe yours is a wife, probably Joanna and Liz, our girlfriends are all there with us doing their own thing things. And Liz has heard it and goes, hey, I wrote something. Will you record me? And I can't find. We'd have to go find the original hard drives from the incredibad sessions, which we don't know where they are. So I asked her if she could remember it, and I remembered some of it. So this is an acapella version of a female response to we like sports.

[Jorma Taccone]

That she did. It's like a diss track Right. Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

At the time. She just. She recorded this when we were doing the Just Two Guys episode a month ago. A couple months ago. And I've been sitting on it. Here we go. Oh, you talking sports and let me get in the game. You think sports are cool? Well, I think sports are lame. You never listen when the game is on, and when you throw a pass, you think you're Don Juan. I'll give you this. You made a nice catch when you met me.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Game, set, match. I feel like the original had an extra verse, but we couldn't remember it, so there you go.

[Jorma Taccone]

I do remember her recording and then. And then me being like, I would love to have. Have had a response, like, three person dis. Like Mari, Joanna, and Liz. There's still time, guys.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's very, very cute. And it's in the tradition of, like, you know, Roxanne. Roxanne or something. You can't play with my. Yo, Yo. You know. Remember that one?

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, yeah, totally.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yo, yo, Ice Cube. Back and forth. There was a kind of a trend of.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Men and women like, talking shit to each other.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. Ladies taking. Yeah, taking it back.

[Just Two Guys Characters]

Bag.

[Jorma Taccone]

That was great. Thank you, Liz.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right. I've loved talking to you today, Yorm. Shout out to the quades. Shout out to Seth and Andy. I know we ribbed you guys pretty hard, you know, but you can take it.

[Jorma Taccone]

You leave the pond, you get a little ribbon. It's. It's all in good fun. It's all joshing around.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right, Yorm, you want to do the honors? I love you, bud.

[Jorma Taccone]

I love you, too, Kee.

[Just Two Guys Characters]

Take it away, Arnold.

[Jorma Taccone]

Seems so loud I wish that we

[Akiva Schaffer]

could lose this crowd maybe it is fierce it this way we put each other with the things we want to say we could have been so good together we could have lived this dance

[Jorma Taccone]

forever but now it's time to dance with me. Oh. Oh.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Thank you for taking it away, Arnold.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, that was taking away my heart.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oo. All right. Later, Arnold.

[Jorma Taccone]

Later, Quaid.