Great Day

hey everybody welcome to the pod this is so exciting i can't remember the last time it was all four of us hey hello hello andy you're under the weather and uh like observably so and uh now i feel a little bit bad about the way i talked about how you were sick because you're so sick and i'm really sorry it's a it's a throwback sick to like the snl days where i just can't shake it Do you think talking about SNL in the pod is just getting you sick again? It's like soul cancer. I don't know. I got really sick and my ears get stopped up. Yeah. And I bought a thing. I was really excited about it at CVS, which is supposed to help you pop your nose after airplane rides. Pop your nose? No, pop your ears. Sorry, pop your ears. I think you're just talking about poppers. and then you get like super you have this moment of like just euphoria yeah and then uh and it's fun in a club yeah you were down on christopher street yeah an airplane there was this guy you're talking about doing poppers and watching euphoria no it makes you feel euphoric and then you watch euphoria yeah yeah but you stick it in your nose and you you uh by the way like you know i bought it at cvs this isn't like you know high-end medical warehouse stuff but you stick a thing your nose and you press the button you have to plug your other nose with your finger and it basically just like creates all this pressure in your head and you're supposed to then have a mouthful of water that you then swallow and it pops your ear and i can tell you that not only did i not get it to work but like when i swallowed the water like nothing popped and instead i just like spit the water out it was like what what is it pushing into your nose air air to just like fill your head like by the way the minute i started it i'm like this isn't what you're supposed to do i thought you were gonna say like you did it it didn't work you spit the water out and then a little like thing rolled out and it said fooled you you look like an idiot it was a little a little uh tiny tiny little gnome a tiny european gnome a gonk a little lord who said fooled you and then he jumped into the sink and i haven't seen him uh also andy just we do want to let you clean it up we fed back to my podcast with a guy named connor who uh about to be deployed talked about like what a huge fan of yours he is and wanted you to wish him a happy birthday and we basically just kept saying that we had reached out to you and you said no no happy birthday connor so it wasn't there's no we seth don't rope me and yorm into your meanness. Yeah, it was pretty much mainly Seth on this one. I appreciate you also assuming I did not listen to the ones I missed, which is the case. Oh, we were certain. Happy birthday, Connor. I'm sorry it took me so long, buddy. Yeah, there you go. I guess Andy is a good dude. I also just... Wait, Yorm, is Connor engaged or not engaged yet? He is engaged now because of my encouragement for him to pop the question. This is the week where he did it. So congratulations, guys. uh andy to fill you in on the podcast you're a host i was gonna say i feel like someone just starting to listen to the pod from like the fuck is a quaid what is a quaid do you know that there was here's here's one of the takeaways of last week is that uh we think the movie venom should have been called venom colon spider-man with teeth that was like seven minutes that was about seven minutes of our digital short rewatch it does sound a lot to me like a conversation i would have enjoyed being a part of we checked in with with reuben fleischer he did say that he had seriously considered it so oh good and then the hours would be now uh jeff either jeff or kevin it turns out it was connor's girlfriend's birthday So are you saying there might be a problem with answering Q&A questions three weeks after they're asked? I just think it's great that they got engaged on her birthday. So do I need to say happy birthday to her? And we don't remember Connor's girlfriend's name. She had as a name. Let's say Lauren for this week, and then we'll clean it up next week. Happy birthday, Connor's girlfriend. Fiance. Fiance now, per Yorm. That's the only way. That's the only way we see her. Only through the lens of Connor. Let me to the wedding, guys. I'll be there. Andy is, here's how sick Andy is. He started taking off his sweatshirt and just stopped. I ran out of gas. One arm out. I ran out of gas. I'm like actively dizzy and out of my body right now. Oh, it's so sad to look at him. Thank you for jumping on here, though. Yeah, look. That's commitment. You fell off a roof or something, so I figured I should try. It's true. I showed up in the hospital. Andy showed up to this and fucking, yes, nicely done. Yeah, and you couldn't tell. You didn't skip a beat. I had never seen the back seats, man. so i do want to thank our there was a q a about the backseatsman andy so just watch that yes back seatsman was a me and chester joint yeah and it came up i haven't seen it in 20 years did you guys even help us at all with that i don't know if does it hold up is appropriate because it never held up i feel like it was just me and chester right yes yeah me and he did not want to be blamed for that one yeah it's delightful but i might have had to hold a camera at some point or something jonah helped us a lot jonah oh jonah jonah yeah never mind jonah goldstein Hang on, I've got to take off my headphones so I can take off this sweatshirt. Part two of that saga. It has to get over your head. This is my version of the Odyssey. What's interesting, though, because Andy's getting ready for his movie, so he has gotten like a haircut. So he actually looks more put together than he usually does. Oh, this isn't that one. It's this one. With the director of Venom, a.k.a. Spider-Man with Teeth. Yeah, directed by Spider-Man with Teeth himself. Ruben. Is it really? Ruben Fleischer is directing it? Ruben, Spider-Man with Teeth, Fleischer. is going to be known from here on his birth name. She's in the junket. It's so crazy they asked me to do Venom because it's my middle name. He had it before that predated. He was like Tom Holland going into his Spider-Man audition showing pictures of himself dressed as Spider-Man when he was a little boy. But he went in and was like, and I'm the one that's always been called Spider-Man with teeth since I was a little boy. Guys, I don't want to overstate it, but look at my license. i'm british or i'm your man uh so the backseatsman well we did get right yeah chester sent a voice note yeah chester sent a voice so i texted the voice note from the quaid i don't remember the name who sent in the question to chester so that he could answer it the quaid and was it about the address was that the question like why is it yeah it was about 56 and lennox that everybody wanted a ride and Chester's car was going to 56 in Atlanta. Oh, right. Yes. And so here's Chester's answer. My guess was that it was based on another song. Hey, everybody. It's Chester. I'm here to answer a question from one of your callers. A guy by the name of Edwin called in asking about the back seatsman. He wanted to know why was everyone going to 56 in Lennox? What was happening at that address? Why did everyone need to go there? And I'm here to answer that question. The answer is very simple. I wish it was more complicated and I wish there was more to it, but simply we are not that smart. So when we shot the Back Seatsman, Alicia Keys had a song called You Don't Know My Name. And we all love this song. We're big fans of the song. And for everyone who doesn't know, it's a throwback soul song. And in the song, Alicia Keys sings on it. And in the middle of it, she stops singing to talk to the man that she's in love with. Oh, by the way, played by none other than the mighty most deaf style fresh like baby breath that's right in the video and and in the song she says oh i'm that waitress who works at that coffee shop over on 39th and lennox and at the time we all thought it was hilarious the fact that she said 39th and lennox like we thought the specificity of her saying that in a love song was very funny now when i listen back to it, I don't know if it's that funny. At the time, we thought it was hilarious. So fast forward to us shooting the back seats, man. We all thought it was really funny for everyone to say the same address to where they were going. And Andy said, oh, what's that street that Alicia says in her song? And I blurted out 56 and Lennox. Mind you, we didn't have access to genius.com. We didn't have access to just info. We had cell phones that we just couldn't get access to stuff online. the old days it was all based on memory and we didn't have any scripts because you know who needs a script when you're shooting that the back seats man that just comes from my soul so i messed up the joke and um and then in retrospect i started thinking like had we said 39th and lennox properly would people have gotten that reference would they have also thought that was funny or does nobody think that part is funny in the song and maybe that was just something that we thought it was funny. I have no idea, so maybe it doesn't really matter. Anyway, I hope that answers your question. I hope you can get 20 years of fabulous sleep knowing that there was a joke that was messed up and that was my fault. All right. Thanks, everyone. Love you. Bye. Wonderful. Love you, Chester. Okay. So first of all, big ups to Chester, the fucking fantastic to hear his voice on the pod, and we love you very much uh with the betting thing that we were talking about of like how you can bet on anything now yeah polymarket or the other one do you get credit for half bets or like because i feel like i am right what did you put your money on i said it was like a like from a rap lyric that's what i thought yeah yeah i think you got that one it was from a popular song yeah but i said nas though too so and as you mentioned there was a rapper in the video that's true my most deaf i also really appreciate like chester just owning like seven different flubs beginning with beginning with i now realize it's not even that funny what she said then i referenced it wrong but also if i'd referenced it right nobody would have would have seen it as a joke yeah i mean suffice to say we never thought we would be talking about it on a podcast like 50 years later or whatever i will say the payoff for chester is that last week on the pod like fucking yorm and keith were doing like google earth on that street like i don't see anything yeah that's i was gonna go there i was gonna exist there is a 56 and lennox in brooklyn and it is just residential no no but we got to check out that diner at 39th and yeah really um back seats can i say one thing about back seats because i haven't watched it since then probably yeah all i remember is us making it i'm pretty sure a lot of the stuff with him as the driver was sort of based on collateral i think that had just come out okay yeah and then um just doofing it hard but thinking it was so funny that at the end i had him in the vo go i guess we're all just living in our own teenage wasteland and then smashing that song on when it had absolutely nothing to do with it it made no sense in the voiceover you're like we're not teenagers that's not what it was about in the slightest and that joke to me i remember made me laugh really hard at the time and i don't know if we talked specifically about this when we did our like very first episode of this pod when we were talking about how it came to be but i remember us talking about like challenging ourselves to try to record a video every day and and that really wasn't doable so it became like a one a week or something because we all had day jobs but where it was like it doesn't matter even if the script exists or is good we're trying to put in time yeah you know it wasn't there wasn't the malcolm gladwell stuff yet so we didn't know to say our 10 000 hours but that's what we meant that's that we were trying to like that even the worst thing there'll be like one cut in it that was good and we'll learn something and so we would chester's not lying when he says there's no script like we would just go okay how about i'm a cab driver you're a thing and then let's get the camera and what's your and like we talk for a half hour and then go oh that's enough just start filming and we would start filming and then get to another point and go oh what if i come in and we would just make it up as we go and then go edit it and add music and they seem a little more polished because we were good at editing but there was they were not truly nothing just to try to teach ourselves how to do stuff definitely so seth you you did watch it seth i did watch it it also predates uh the algorithm like you weren't chasing a thing to try to get likes or no there was no version that anyone was going to see it yeah ever And therefore, it's still some of my favorite stuff, because it's truly for us and no one else. Some of our very, very first stuff has lines I still quote. Yorm going, whoa, my beer's gone. And Chester going, look around, Yorma. The world is a beautiful place, Yorma. I think of them often. There's another one, which is, well, they exploded. They exploded. now it's just you me and paradise yeah we've got a lot of them oh my god but yeah we never thought anybody would see any of those because they weren't and i think we would have it's good because it made us not give a shit when we were making this they were just for us i'm i again now that we've established you know there were times where you couldn't get rap lyrics and at the tip of your finger uh but are kids doing that now is any kid like filming something like just without that burden of like you can get it out in the world right now and you do want everybody to see to be i bet you there is some kid that we'll talk to in 25 years that's like oh yeah i would make videos and everyone be like put it online and he'd be like no right there's probably somebody out there doing it yeah you don't have to post stuff yeah well i hope kids know that i'm making an epic adventure with my daughter that's truly for no one right now zero people i bet you're gonna make us watch it we've seen it it's pretty good it's pretty good i have seen it and it's it's very daughter plays two different characters so she's doing dialogue with herself with herself i have seen clips it's very good yeah and but it's got yorm's production level of iphone footage in his house shot from his hospital bed yeah she's clumpsing it oh she's clumpsing yeah clumpsing yep she's she's also the old jewish guy at the barbershop she's very good though she does it very tastefully i uh i posted i did put it uh on my instagram because i sent it to you guys first but there was it was very funny the other morning where independent of the pod both my sons dressed up in uh captain america outfits and walked into my bedroom at like 6 a.m that's nothing better than Because it really did feel like they were making sure that I wasn't too burrito-brained a winter soldier. Those are top-notch costumes. Did they yell something? Hey, did you winter soldier last night? Bucky, answer him. Bucky, yeah. Bucky, wake up, Bucky. I'm bringing you in, Bucky. You're like, oh, man. So burrito-brained. See, now these are jokes I know. They're like, why are there black beans in bed? What else did Andy miss? Anything else we need to clean up with him? or do we just get right into this uh this this one uh well quick thing but do we talk about most deaf and uh his actual name like his birth name we have talked about it on this pause right oh mostel defries no i don't know if we've ever talked about mostel defries that's what we used to call most deaf yeah but that feels like it's in a response to yassine bay which it is not this this was back before way before when he first was on deaf juxt doing his stuff and we're the hugest fans and black star with him and talib quilly and we were just loving it loving it and we would call him mostel deaf oh did you know it's actually short for it was uh it was also before we started telling people that t-pain uh his real name was trent painovich which i believe we said to his face oh he likes it yeah just for kids out there that only know the words most deaf short for most definitely in real life And people would say oh most deaf But for him it was just a weird coincidence because his real name was Mostel Deferes Not to explain the joke, but it feels when it's 20 years old. 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Not the most abusive dude on the planet. In that meeting, that's when the shit is hitting the fan. Exactly. It was notable. Just in case you're wondering, here's a line. Alec, did you say your name was Starfish? I thought I heard you say Starfish. Also, it makes me really happy. This is the line that was added between dress and air. The first time this line was said was on air. Oh, okay. Did you say your name was Starfish. I thought I heard you say Starfish. I got that name when my parents made me when my dad had gone inside my mom at Myrtle Beach. I just shot a commercial in Myrtle Beach for a conjoint and joint pain product. Last time I was there, I guess I was in my mom's belly, so I was just a little worm with no eyes. Hold on. I want to see what happened to Elaine. uh yeah she the reason she's in is elaine got hit by a frito lay truck her legs are all bent they twist curled up under that truck like a calamari god man oh man god love it um all right also uh in this show was a sketch called uh swim team awards do you remember swim team awards andy i'm certain you were in it as well i don't remember alec was a mad swim coach who was giving out awards at the end of the year to a terrible swim team and it was just a really funny baldwin sketch because he kind of had a boston accent and i just want to show if you guys can see can you guys see that a little like i don't know what was going on between dress and air but every sketch had like massive rewrites oh like everything between dress and air was like we're gonna do this sketch but we just none of the jokes worked interesting so scary so scary the idea of like reading shit for the first time while it's being broadcast it's quite common though yeah yeah i was trying to explain it to my son when i was taking him around as an elf here were some of the things he said about the people that were coming out to get awards this kid couldn't float in outer space he swallowed more water than the filter i call this kid instant drowning victim just add water um and then fred came up luke summers the kid has two things in common with Greg Louganis. He hit his head on the diving board, and I'll let you figure out the second thing. Anyway, and then John Lutz, it was John Lutz's last show ever as a writer on SNL, and he wrote a sketch called Time Curave, which was a microwave that was also a time travel device. And over the course of the commercial, a bunch of paradoxes started happening. And it was a really fun sketch, and it was kind of in the five-to-one spot. Wow, that looks delicious. But where did that food come from? The future. Come on. I'm serious. Later on when I'm done eating the roast beef dinner, all I have to do is take a roast beef dinner out of the freezer, put it in the time crow wave, and send it back in time to the exact moment that I pulled out the hot meal earlier. Sounds simple. Now what happens if you forget to send your meal back in time? Well, Penny, if you forget to send the exact meal you ate back in time, you'll create a paradox where small differences may start to occur in the space-time continuum. Oh, boy. I think there's something to be said where sometimes everybody writes a five-to-one sketch and then Starfish is like top of show. By the way, our short being that high, it's all about being an insane cokehead. Yes. A little surprising for Top of Show, for sure. And then Lord's like, no, we got to do it right away. We do have a voice note from Lutz. This is the week of the writer's party where you made the Crisis to Conformity shirt. Yeah. I'm just going through the photos. That's why I texted a few good photos from it. I'm just seeing that the show is May 15th. The writer's party is May 13th. And I think we were shooting this that day. Oh, wow. I think we shot this all day and then went to the party. You thought we shot Thursday, not Friday? If the date on the photo is right. Hard to say. It probably is. Oh, no. I mean, well, I don't know. One of these says May 11th, but that's not even possible. I think we did. I think we should do that. I asked Lutz for a voice note, Andy, and he did say, like, I feel like he was a little upset last time you gave a voice note. You were very critical of his energy level. Oh, okay. So is he going to come in hot? I haven't listened, but that's going to be my expectation. Hello, Lowly Islands. It's John Lutz. And if I'm correct, Andy Samberg just went, ugh. Seth asked me to come here today on the pod to talk about one of my signature sketches, Time Curl Wave. Now, Time Curl Wave was a sketch that I think it started off as a fake pitch. I think it didn't have anything for pitch and just went, what are two words that I can combine? Time and microwave. Time Curl Wave. And so I pitched it and got a bit of a laugh, so then I was like, oh, I should write that up. So the basic idea of Time Curve is that when you're hungry, your food is ready right away. Take it out of the microwave, you eat your food, but then you have to put your food back in time after you're done eating it to the exact moment when you sent it to yourself earlier. And then if you don't do it exactly, paradoxes start and things get crazy. So I originally, I did some research on this. I think I originally pitched it or put it to the table for the Tom Hanks show in 2005, and it was not picked. I held on to it for a while, continued to bug Seth about it. I think I brought it up every once in a while where it's like, I think it's a week for Time Crew Wave. And he would always be like, no, it's not, because Lauren gets mad when you resubmit things too much. But I did eventually resubmit it for a perfect host. And it was in 2007, I believe, that I did it for, you guessed it, Jeremy Piven. Because if there's anybody who's like Hanks, it's the Piven. It was not picked again. And so just held on to it and held on to it and kept bugging Seth about it. And finally, on my last show, the host was Alec Baldwin. I went up to Seth and I said I think this is the week this is the one for Time Crew Wave to Seth and he was like I just want to make sure that you are writing it so that it can be live and I'm like it's all mapped out in my head of how to do it live so you can assure Lauren that I've thought this through and it got picked and so I was very excited about it one of the most fun things about it is things kept changing because they ended up putting the wrong they sent the chicken dinner back in time instead of a beef dinner and so the hosts kept you know like they would have a mustache in one shot and then the next shot they'd have horns uh well in one shot uh alec turned into dr zaius from the planet of the apes because things had just gone horribly wrong and uh the person who was playing dr zaius was mike o'brien so mike O'Brien had to be dressed as Dr. Zayas all night long from dress rehearsal on because it got picked. And I have a great picture of him giving notes to Nassim in between dress and air, and also him sitting on the floor in Lauren's room while we're getting notes dressed as Dr. Zayas. And it really just made me laugh. And then the scene went on the air, my final show, and it went fine. it got some laughs uh but uh you know that's the time crew wave story as andy knows all my stories end with a yeah so i hope you enjoyed the story of my time crew wave sketch goodbye lonely islands oh i feel like we're saying goodbye to lutz since that's his last show yeah you know oh he'll be back he'll be back let's be honest um all right great day kick it off guys so great day was an idea that i had for a while it was this one and people getting punched before eating were two ideas i had that were just like one sentence in my notes app or whatever blackberry equivalent of that was and i had pitched it to akiva a few times and he's like okay tell it to me and i told him basically the first shot i was like exactly the shot it ended up being and me popping up with coke all over my face and going I don know why and he like and that what he why and he was like okay and then what and i was like i don know and he was like it seems like a really funny shot and beginning and i don't know where it goes and i was like okay and then it just sort of got pushed aside because of that and then this week i brought it up again and everyone feel free to disagree but this is my remembrance my recollection i brought it up again and keep said the same thing and yorm was like let's just start writing it so i was like okay i'm down with that and so i went to katrice who is in charge of all the music and i sang her the first line and basically the melody that ended up being she made us the track i actually just went through the old folder and it was there's the original one we could even play a snippet of it if we'd like here yeah why don't we just do that right now. I don't know why, but I think it's gonna be a great day. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do and we'll shine. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do in every way. And it was way too slow. It's so, you know, Catrice tragically passed away and it is so beautiful and sweet and and sad to hear her singing one of your dumb songs yep yeah for sure we worked with her a lot she's such a talent she was so yeah she really she really was and she helped us with so many things and it was we were lucky and it's very funny too that like her instinct of course would her first instinct was to always make it a great song yes and so and the funny song is too fast but like her first version you're like oh this is a great song the I would pop that on you. So I realized in the folder, my great day folder, I had started organizing by this time. There were like seven versions of it going faster and faster and faster and faster and faster. And I'm sure me and you are both being like, no, no, it has to be like fucking crazy fast. Yeah, he's like, go. And also just, you know, like halfway through, it has to go double time that. So she made it and we loved it. And we just started recording in the office. my main memory of it was me and Yoram were like locked into the manicness of it and I had written out a document with a bunch of ideas in it that I also sent but we kind of just started doing it stream of consciousness like line by line and and it took us where it took us and it was really fun which I think is a lesson I don't know if I can pinpoint like and that's when we learned the lesson but now when we are brainstorming songs if one of us has a really strong first line that matches with music that we either have or have made yes that's all we need now we never we never overthink that now sure you don't go where does it go like we go well that's funny can we add another thing on top of that yeah like where does what's the next sentence all right well we have three great sentences now what's the fourth sentence like we go and that's like when you described it andy i was like right we didn't know that necessarily at that time but that became like our process i would say i would agree especially in the last like 10 or 12 years a lot of that has led to some of the songs i like the most it's hilarious to call that a process but it is a process it's how by the way it's how it's not most but it's how a lot of people make music now like i just saw like a whole like punching in exactly call it in on pro tools where you just do a line until it sounds good and then just go all right what's the next line yeah exactly as opposed to knowing a whole song and recording yeah exactly it's it's a way to do it especially now that you have such access to great recording equipment that's not as expensive and blah blah blah so anyway we we had a blast doing it and i remember i we got like halfway through and and keeve i don't know if you were there the whole time keeve or if you like check back in on us and you're like it's good like to your credit like always super like oh yeah it's working you guys did it great job like it was always very posse and i don't think it took very long i think you guys got a little deeper in to where i was like oh oh yeah this is rad and then i helped and then i helped with i mean i clearly hadn't mapped out the rest of what i saw being but it was basically just like what if this guy whose life is falling apart was singing a super upbeat musical song we were always very good about that like if two of us saw something then the other person would just extract themselves until they got it and then whatever notes came in afterwards would always make it a much much better process with the three of us and also uh like every uh one of your great songs there's like 12 different moves like everybody knows what the premise is the premise is so clean everybody knows what it is and nobody in the audience can guess what the next move is going to be like it's never and so it's everything is a delight because it also you never betray the premise yeah it's just like really great uh leaps also i think that thing with you walking and then looking at camera like you walking ahead but looking at the cameras it tracks along with you is one of my favorite andy moves and i feel like uh was like your emmy uh song we have reproduced great day energy in my estimation a few times since the emmy emmy opening song for sure honestly the hellman's commercial i just did that just came out for the super bowl which is great very much so um and it's fun i love playing that energy it's like a way to be like full tilt like chasing jim carrey energy within the context of what we really know how to do and control which is the songs and the the fast cutting and all that stuff it just makes me happy to see something move that fast honestly yeah and it's not so fast that you can't understand it well we found out this time that it wasn't yeah there was discussion about that though of like fuck this thing is breakneck it's breakneck but i do think that the like the style of the song and like and And there's enough openness to Catrice's inspiration, too, and the crispness of your being very – it wasn't overwritten in terms of like there was no wordplay. And it was also like the diction was very clear, I felt like. Good diction. Which helps. Good diction. Oh, he's a big part of our – He's a businessman. Yeah. Two days ago, I was walking down to 30 Rock and bumped into Bobby Moynihan, who is, I think, in the new Tracy Morgan show, right? Yeah. and so he was doing press for that who i think is in the nude he was like you couldn't tell but he was he had a big bag yeah so it's hard to tell like a big like carrier bag but he uh i was like oh i was literally just watching great day and you're so funny as the mailman and obviously we'll get into it but like he is very good i re-watching it i was like first off you guys shot the shit out of it it looks so fun gorgeous vibrant the camera moves all rip the cutting is so good the study in this is great and again it's your it's your cherry lane corner yeah one of our favorite streets in all of new york city and it's may i don't want to talk about the weather every time we get to may but you feel it you do feel it oh yeah and is this your farewell to that corner do you ever shoot there again i don't think so tbd on that put your uh bets in polymark but i kind of feel like this was your best i don't know it was like it's kind of a love song to that corner as well it looks like a musical yeah that street is perfect but you can see the i ran so far stoop for sure oh yeah yes i will say in terms of like the very beginning of this i always knew i wanted it to be there because it looks like a studio lot city you know what i mean totally yeah it's perfect it looks fake it looks fake exactly yes if we could have shot it on a lot i would have been stoked there's a very hard to get into restaurant there now called wild cherry andy yeah in the cherry lane theater i read about that yeah bit of a foodie cherry lane theater still open though as a theater it is it's like a second i read the rags oh you do keep up with new york restaurant get yourself in there oh seth you grease some palms brother oh my god i love that can we go there for the can we go to the our belly that's where you guys can go after the vasectomy dinner yeah exactly there's probably i know it's really hard to get into but weirdly they do have deals for people who had a vasectomy that day if you can prove it fantastic but they're like no i'll get documentation you can't prove it with a doctor's note they make you prove it oh they make you show you have to whip it out is getting a vasectomy the opposite of popping your cherry just curious because that might be cherry yeah wild cherry it is kind of yeah it's the reverse it's the reverse of popping your cherry so you go to wild cherry that makes sense thanks for saying that said yeah Yeah, thanks for asking that really tasteful question, Seth. 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I don't know why, but today seems like it's going to be a great day. Oh, yeah. There's something in the air that makes me feel... Can we stop? I know it just started. No, no. Go for it. I definitely remember us talking about how we want on the first line to have A, light streaming through, and B, a bunch of Coke puff up off my face. The puff is great. So that you really get... You just fucking great. You just did the line. Yes, exactly. And I... I think we shot that like six or seven times. To get it that way. Perfect. It's perfect. That thing of like the saddest thing, because there's like, you know, Chinese food and pizza, the poorly cardboarded over window. I guess. Like somebody was like, no. He's had some episodes in here. There's the cabinets broken. Yes. But anyhow, I'm very happy with how it worked now. Obviously, I think if they weren't getting it, they would just digitally put in a puff. But I love that we got it. We had them actually build us a little set here, which was unusual for us, which is nice. Yeah. That's why I do think it was early in the week, because there's more planning available to us. Okay, my man. It's going to be a great day. There's something in the air that makes me feel like things are going to go my way. The birds are chirping, tweedle-y-deet. What's up? I was so happy to get actual cell animation-looking bluebirds. Really well done. It's so good. They did a great job. And it was hard to get it. Yes. they really did it they drew those and animated and it was expensive and you think it's gonna be so easy you're like yeah they're just like and now maybe it would be but it was but we wanted like those what is it song of the south yeah and i remember being personally very adamant about wanting it that way and then when they did it i was so happy so thanks again many years later for everyone who did that and then this uh immediately into what i imagine is exactly what you wanted on the light on your face. Jorn, we couldn't hear you. What were you saying about the birds? I was saying that there's two little things, just for little filmmaking things, of when Andy pops up, it's a little speed ramp as he pops up, just to make him even more insane as he pops up when you first see him. And then when the door opens, I remember in editing, there's a very subtle sound of sizzling, like it's sizzling his brain. You're saying on the sun shot. On the sun shot. sizzle I remember you adding that It really funny Also just a detail that worth pointing out in the set direction the fact that there are a stack of pizza slices on top of the fridge so there empty p and then you also were like so like gacked out you were like stacking pizza yeah i'm gonna eat these no i'm not i'll put them here nobody else is gonna eat them i'll put them here i'll come back for those i won't forget remind me shining bright they're skipping my step a pep in my path and i don't know why that move dude that move the camera pulling back as i'm like gliding forward or whatever and then landing at bobby right at the right moment for the line it's you watch it and you just take it all for granted because it's telling you the story well but for me i'm just so appreciative of how fucking dope it is it's very smooth i mean again the choreography both actual literal choreography and then the way the camera is moving is as good as you guys ever had it in this and we're clearly on real lenses and stuff so it's it's in our more uh dp based mode here yeah on us and i think the entire thing's on steadicam just i always love that same thing though andy like the revealing foreground shots is always it's a little spielbergy isn't it yeah it is he does do that I don't know why. Hey there, mailman Fred. Any letters for my ex-wife or the kids? No fantastic news. Wonderful day. Makes me feel so happy that my face is numb. My heart is racing along. So many places and people to meet now that I've lost my... Shout out to Danielle, because isn't that her in the waitress outfit? That is Danielle, yes, the choreographer. She was the longtime SNL choreographer who didn't always put herself in the dance, only when she, I guess, thought it was appropriate and which it totally is here. She's in a bunch of like she's one of the zombies in. Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah. Nice to see her on camera for sure. Yeah. I would not have before I watched it. I would not have remembered that line. But when I heard the setup to it, I knew it was coming. There's so many fucking good Andy moves. It's just a genuine, like, just the performance and the glee of the insanity. The first kind of big turn that's about to happen is one of my favorite things. Love the choreography of them all touching their face because their face is numb. It's just a pleasant musical. The dancers are just like, yay! So many places and people to me now that I've lost my job. You hitting a little choreo is so key. it's what like pop stars do where they have the dancers go nuts and then they just hit like three things and you're like whoa they know the whole thing it's great yes yes hey get the f*** off me no f*** no just give me a second get that one ladder shot I don't know why but today seems like it's gonna be a great day blah blah blah blah I should spend more time with my kids today's car for D I've gotta seize the day I'm gonna move spain and run with the bulls and my wife and boss and kids and parents will say we're wrong about you dennis that's my name are you really gonna run with the bulls why would i do that because you said you're gonna come on man that was like three days ago or was it what i remember about that shot is chrysal was still with us for the whole season with snl working with the show and we gave him the eyeball shot am i remembering correctly yes yes yeah like he did that on uh what was the program he was used probably after effects maybe yeah exactly and then uh i think this was one of the first no it can be in the first times but like but that we do a little pop in close-up and those were all digitally done i remember him being like oh yeah we have like high enough quality you and him uh when no when andy's walking um like oh just to keep it lively yeah yeah well we're just popping in on the same footage popping in and out because we were at Such high derf. Yeah. High derf. Just because we mentioned, Danielle, all those dancers do a great job because there's no cuts there. They have to actually act through the entirety of your rage. And they're all really great because then they have to pop right back into the high energy just like you. Definitely. And none of them get – really, you watch it again. I'm like, oh, yeah, none of them get caught acting there. They're all so natural. It's really great. That's true. And then we come back in and the tempo's faster, which is delightful. And it's like halfway through. Just the cooking. he's recharged also it is i mean you talk about how like they built you a set you got a dp it's on steady cams like this is like this is fat city times for lonely island up to and including like kreitzel was just like on retainer to like make like a guy who fully could do a short on his own was like yeah i'll do eyes they found other stuff for him to do at the show yeah no i know but it's is like so awesome we know you're his greatest defender keeve we're starting to have a team of people we can count on which is great and then somebody in the vfx people did the matrix stuff for us at the end but i'm not gonna remember their name sure that was art jail i think that's i think that's grandma or too got it yeah that's my name are you really gonna run with the bulls why would i do that because instead you're gonna come on man that was like three days ago or was it really good legs and arms yeah just back in the again a different iran so far location the roof right yeah up of the roof come on man that was like three days ago or was it very happy to be reminded of that joke yeah oh god really good also very good casting on the uh on the family like everybody is like and it sort of looks beautiful like all the portraits sitting on Can you hear? That's our wardrobe. Yeah, Brian Hemiseth. Oh, yeah. I did not notice it. I believe Brian works for Sesame Street now. Yeah, he's for many years now has worked for Sesame Street doing their wardrobe. But he was our – that's another sign that we were more of a mainstay. We had our dedicated person that would come in late in the week to handle our stuff. He would still be within the SNL infrastructure and wardrobe, but he would do our – Brian was my – I mean, the easiest job at SNL. He was great at it. That was why he also had time for you guys. He was my dresser. On show night. Yeah. So he would like put your jacket on? Yeah. Nicely done. And sometimes the pants if I wanted to. You wore shorts. No, I'd wear like jeans. Like sometimes I'd put on the full suit pants. Oh, I see. Yeah. Seth, be real. Bermuda shorts. You ever wear Bermuda shorts? I was, I went to Adam Sandler's warehouse. So it was a lot of like long basketball shorts. This bench that we're paused on as well. One of my favorite photos of the three of us is on this bench that we will have shared before some shirts on the internet but we can put it on our instagram because i'll post it once a year if we want because i just like it so much yeah that's great i love it but it's a very good picture i think rachel lynn took it i get up in this tree now i'm over here now i'm over there now i'm under this dude now i'm back in the tree now i'm hanging out backstage with my very best friends ellen Baldwin and tom petty get the out of here what now just floating through that shit insane full tux i mean this at this point we're inside his mind yeah oh it is zooming it's fucking i love that any any memory of where we shot this i'm just curious the audience doesn't give a shit i think that this was uh like maybe seth stage i think yeah but you need seth stage yeah it might have been down on one of the news stages remember we do that sometimes on like three or something yeah yeah yeah like where we did boombox rachel then will know rachel tell us also saying homies in this song is so wrong it's the best definitely does not fit oh i love it it's so lonely island that nasally we added of just someone just trying to suck the shit out of the nectar out of that rose. This guy snorts stuff. He's a snorting type. Any problem is solvable. We can't be the hungry at cure disease, but all of that would be a huge waste of time because we live in the Matrix. What is wrong with him? He's on drugs. Oh. That Matrix was hard to get, too. I mean, the little spit at the end is just perfect. Do you guys remember how hard it was to get that shot? It wasn't going to work. It was going to be fucking $10,000. And then it just got talked down into, like, no, we can get that Matrix shot. It's fine. They did a great job. Yeah. It was awesome. Did you guys know we're actually living in the Matrix, IRL? Oh, shit. Oh, yeah. I heard about that. Yeah. Wasn't there something about the end shot, Keeve? With this bit? you can see the water on the ground from a different take or something oh yeah i think you can see take one is in there and we just nowadays you would easily yeah there it is right there right yeah nowadays you would just easily erase that yeah in five seconds how embarrassing but in it was the beginning i think of people being able to like because of everything being online and repeat viewing and stuff and getting videos dissected more of people being able to notice something like that whereas in the the elden times you would have just aired this and no one would have thought the the diffy oh i'm tailing off yes but your point is well taken but it is there oh and then it's gone oh there you go yeah so it is dry at the end it does appear correctly at the end yeah but the the shot of you matrix arming was clear yeah but we easily could have even just using our rudimentary skills done a little mat and just grabbed that piece of cement from the other shot but we didn't notice you know because we're like if that's what they're looking at we've lost i think we honestly didn't know so we were in the zone dude we were so fucking zone now that's it's often what's said on set especially when you're moving particularly fast and usually a scripty will say uh like hold on like we need to make sure that this and you're like if people are paying attention to that then we've already lost is a phrase that i often and that script supervisor what name was starfish she was starfish when starfish says that that's a nice full circle moment there had been a water in the previous shot starfish starfish wow full circle on starfish that's perfect so shot list on thursday panning down to find a street early in the morning i think yorm you type these up is my guess yeah i don't know like dancers come in on so many places and people to meet i thought that you were like were you doing something this week why did i think that we weren't around as much i don't know i was there maybe just from those first few hours that you guys crack the song without me i think it was just that because i was there the whole time yeah i have memory of every shot more than most because again springtime that's when the memories really are made for akiva i'm gonna buy a plane ticket to new york city on may 10th of this year and i'm gonna come out and just fucking vibe out the guy just walk down cherry lane oh god he likes to take it its majesty schedule that vasectomy and i'll be there we get okay you heard it here for you guys akiva's in get your wild cherry and i'll be there you know when you don't want to be there keith right now no gray snow six degrees it is brick i thought about you guys today when i was outside because it was 80 degrees and it was so nice and clear and i was like wow oh this is when you don't want to be in new york andy all right like andy's fading uh this is criterion collection 100 percent uh i can't wait for the next people to vote for it i do want to say we talked about uh manny manimal a lot last episode andy i don't know if you even remember manny manimal it was a sketch that joe wrote for taylor lautner where he was like a spider-man but got bit by a lot of different animals so he was the man of manny manimal that sounds manny manimal yeah then he resubmitted it for me in 2017 then he resubmitted it for finn wolfhard uh last week it got cut three times and uh then we talked about it on the pod and then i had to get permission from him to tell the story got it and he called me and uh laughing very hard he was very happy and he wants to come on the pod and talk to a whole manny manimal episode because he his argument is that he has made it better every single time and like it definitely hasn't worked what we want to chronicle through Mondo Butts style. He's like, it hasn't worked, but he's like, it is very different. In his mind, it's a Mondo Butts. He is a Mondo Butts. Also, the thing that I had forgotten was that the man of many animals, Manny Manimal, also in the beginning voiceover, he was a janitor named Manny Emanuel. I told Joe that I had forgotten that. He goes, believe it or not, it's a huge part of the Finn Wolfhard version. And I'm like, oh, and nobody cared. He's like, nobody cared. He zeroed in on a funny detail and was like, oh, why don't I make more out of this? This is what it is. Where people are like, wait, your name is Manny Emanuels, but it was before Emanuel Emanuels? And still nobody likes it. No. Did you ask him about dinner, though? I know. I didn't. I talked to him about Manny Manimal. I didn't talk to him about dinner. But, well, I mean, obviously we'll grill him. I just want to know about the five people he was going to invite to dinner an hour before. Are you talking about our recent thing? Yeah. Well, because we were talking about Joseph, and I'm like, he invited us to dinner, and that didn't come. Oh, my God. You put him on blast. I thought it was fucking gangster. I love it. Well, it's funny. It's extra funny that he invited. He said, actually, can we make the reservation for 12 people? I'm bringing five more people an hour before. And then was like, actually, I'm not coming. It was way less than an hour before. It was like 20 minutes before. That's when he told us he wasn't coming. It was crazy. It was crazy. We love him. Hey, just circling back to a great day for one second, guys, if you don't mind, I'm looking at the shot list. It was shot on Thursday because it says shot list Thursday. on friday it was the stuff in the stage of alec and tom petty and the dramatic lighting stuff about you being dissed with the rose with the tux and the family portrait stuff wrong about you dennis um i'm gonna say one last thing because i meant to say when we watched it also fucking rad that tom petty was in this yes yeah truly and that was not lost on us we couldn't believe when he came in and sat down for a minute and was super nice and we did it and i there's a really nice photo of us with him that even somebody printed out black and white copies of yep so yeah it was great i mean that's the snl thing you just like meet legendary people you love in passing super quickly and they're like okay great thanks you're like hey that living legend was really cool yeah hey guys it's andy um i realized we never got to whether or not i quibbed which i think we can all agree is unacceptable because it's the most important part of the entire pod i think everyone feels the same and is on board and is in agreement about that. Anyhow, the day we recorded, I needed two hints, but as fate would have it today, I did it clean. I got a full-on clean quibi, and there were 80 words, and I felt so proud, and yeah, I think proud enough to pop in a little voice note, right, a little snuggler, a little duggler right at the end, just for all the heads. uh it was an annoying long one but i persevered and i made it up yours seth um it's criterion and uh i love you guys and andy i hope you get better soon and uh buddy let's do it again in the near future love you guys take it away arnold no oh no sorry love you quids love you quids take it away arnold and he goes boom boom boom hey there he doesn't respond to that oh he doesn't So you tell me what he responds to, Andy. Later, Arnold. Later, Quades.