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So, Keeve, you noticed something, which is we have been receiving and not using some really fun different jingles for the pod.

Oh, yeah.

Well, Greg Chun, who makes all our little jingles, sent me a few, and I was delighted, But it was like a month ago, and then I was surprised to see that they weren't used yet.

Well, I think, you know, maybe we thought it would be more fun to wait for you to be back.

But for our listeners, this is a new little, what would you call it, an Easter egg, an earwig?

What would you call this little amuse bouche for the ears?

Yeah, that's definitely the first thing I would have said in a muse bouche for the ears.

So are you mad that I took it?

Yeah, you snatched it right out of my mouth.

I tried to think what would keep saying.

That was what popped into my head.

That's me.

Hey, Yarm, what's up?

How do I sound?

Do I sound all right?

Yep.

You sound great.

I can't really wear them because they're reading, but I did join the glasses squad finally.

Hey, brown hair glasses.

Yeah.

You just need a little bit of scruff on your face.

Yeah.

Fucking Andy, you look like you got out of a rainstorm.

Washed my face.

Wow, congrats.

Good.

Hey, Cuve, can I say something?

Yeah.

Really good to see your face.

Hey, thank you, ma'am.

Really good to see your face.

Your hair, let's see the, can you shake it out, please?

Well, it's nice.

I did a big preamble to let's look at my glasses, and I don't want to just move on to Keeve's face.

Okay, whoa, whoa.

I didn't know there was a reveal about to happen.

Look at these.

It looked like they were a little warped there.

They were a little bit.

The headphones are making them uneven a bit.

Yeah, they are.

Let's ditch the headphones for one second.

Let's get them nice on there.

Oh, there it is.

So they're kind of a tortoise shell, I'd say.

Yeah, you can say that.

They're very attractive.

Thank you.

You've made a choice instead of brown like the three of us, so it does distinguish you.

Yeah, I feel like like that's the key you know when you've got your full christian name in the title of the podcast as opposed to your made-up band name it's really important to distinguish yourself can i rip on maybe your choice though a little bit yeah rip away that's kind of what this is okay i have a theory that as you get older and your personality dwindles that you have to get louder and louder glasses and by the time you get by the time you get to clear red you're like a real new york artist you're just like this is what's the production design department yeah i like that you don't see that as someone letting their freak flag fly, but rather just their personality dwindling.

I know.

What?

You got to show that you're still young.

What does that mean?

What does a personality dwindling mean?

It means that people don't want to have sex with you as much.

So you're just like, no, I'm getting more interesting with my classes.

Oh my God.

That was such a reveal.

Yeah.

That's right.

I'm going to be clear red next week, you guys.

Let me tell you about singing on no for the own time

podcast show.

We're back, guys.

I'm so excited to be on the Zoom with the three of you.

A quick shout out to Mike O'Brien, who joined us last week.

Oh, yeah.

Thank you, Mike.

It was a full delight to talk to him.

Mike O'Brien, knee Pat.

Nay, Pat.

No, nay, Mike.

Pat O'Brien.

No, I think he was born Mike O'Brien.

We should, now we got to get him back on the prod.

He was born.

It's nay, because it's French, right?

Either that or you're a horse.

That's exactly what I was thinking.

All right.

As I understand

Mike was born Mike O'Brien.

And maybe probably, I'm almost certain his middle name is Pat.

Got it.

And then he moved to Chicago and decided I'm going to be Pat O'Brien now.

Yeah.

And so he told everybody in Chicago.

And when I was introduced to him, he was Pat O'Brien.

And I've met people that knew him from Chicago.

They're like, oh, so you work with Pat now.

And I'm like, I don't know who the fuck you talking about, dude.

Liz calls him that, too.

Wow.

And then the crazy thing, though, is he came to SNL.

I knew him.

I was so excited.

And the first writer's day, I said, hey, it's one of our new writers, Pat O'Brien.

And he said, oh, actually, it's Mike.

And so he decided he was going to switch back in New York, but forgot to tell me, the head writer who hired him right before I introduced him.

So then

instead of getting away with it, his first day was him being like, well, so I decided to change it.

Oh, God.

Although it's a very good education into Michael Patrick O'Brien to have that right off the bat.

It's also a problem when you're a comedian to make any firm decision, because I'm just like, that sounds like a fucking joke.

You're like, I mean, okay, you're doing a bit.

He's the king of firm decisions, and we should do a special episode of this podcast just talking about the tattoos he has.

Can you just say one of them?

Oh, yeah, what's the funniest one?

I feel like he got

so he wanted to get a tattoo because he'd always thought about getting a tattoo and he was worried he'd get a bad one.

And so he thought it would be better

to get a bad one.

And so he got, I think it was a bucket of chicken that was a Kurt Vonnegut drawing.

Oh.

But then because he's Mike O'Brien or Pat O'Brien, depending on what year you met him.

Tough to know.

Then he did Calvin Peeing on the bucket of chicken.

He added a Calvin Peing on it.

Like a hot rat.

That's good.

I think he did do a full hot rat.

We are lovers of Calvin Peeing.

Liz just texted when I asked her, she doesn't know if it was Pat or Mike as his given name, but they all called him P.O.B.

Yeah.

That's a whole third thing.

Yeah.

I believe he got either a full Dave Dave Matthew lyric tattooed on his full back.

No, he did not.

He did.

I'm assuming Crash.

No, I think it was a different one.

Two-step.

This is real.

We could see photos of this.

Yeah.

And then he also, I think he dedicated one of his tattoos, like on the actual tattoo.

It's like two, and it was like the meanest nun in his Catholic school.

He dedicated a tattoo.

Man, this should have been his intro on the pod last week.

I know.

I can't believe we're going to do it now.

Anyway, but what's more important?

Was it so much to say, Seth?

I'm going to ask him.

All right, right, here we go, though.

Was it too much?

Your first summer.

It was Ants Marching.

Was it Satellite?

Crash into me.

You're reading off a website.

So real quick, first summer, you guys shoot Hot Rod.

Second summer, you react to the release of Hot Rod.

This is your third summer on SNL, correct?

Correct.

Yes.

You rent a house and you make an album.

Is it third or is it fourth?

No, third summer.

Third summer.

He really just outlined it really clearly for me.

2006 was Shoot Hot Rod.

2007 was Put Hot Rod into Theaters.

And 2008 is coming off Writer's Strike.

And then a few episodes.

And then here we are in Encino, California.

When did you decide you were going to do the album that summer?

I think it was during the strike.

Okay.

But I don't know if that's true.

And then for a guy like me who's not in and has never been asked to join the music industry, are conversations happening during the Writer's Strike?

Are people saying, hey, would you guys want to do this?

Well, Monty Lippmann from Universal Republic, hounding.

He was hounding us.

He was like, I love this.

You guys got to release an album.

We were like, no, no, no, no, we couldn't possibly.

And just, you know, he was relentless.

Jorn's tone sounds sarcastic, but it's actually pretty much true.

After Lazy Sunday and maybe Natalie rap, somewhere in that first year, I think we already talked about this on the pod, that a few different labels, Atlantic came to us, and then it was under UMG.

It was a wing of UMG.

I don't know how you describe it, but Republic Records was under UMG.

It is a huge record label.

They have everyone from like The Weekend and Post Malone and Taylor Swift.

And they would wine and dine us a little bit.

I believe we already told a story of one night at the Playboy Mansion, courtesy of Atlantic Records.

I didn't go for the record.

Any highlights?

Yeah, I think we already covered this.

Okay.

You should listen to the pod.

I'll listen to that episode.

The good news is this, Yorm.

If you'd gone, I also think you'd have no memory of it, based on the fact that you don't even remember the last conversation about that.

What makes you think that, Bill, or whatever your name is?

The only thing I really remembered was that there was a whole room that was English tea.

Like little sandwiches and cookies and proper English tea set up.

And I was like, now this is class.

That was a highlight of your memories of the Playboy Mansion.

Yes.

We definitely were like giggling and hiding in corners and stuff.

Like, we shouldn't be here.

Afterwards, that AR exec went back to the group and was like, I think that was the wrong place to take them.

They really liked the small tea sandwiches.

You mean because they giggled and hid the whole time and kept saying, let's look at the zoo.

Yeah.

So to you guys, TNA is tea and apricot scums.

That's right.

The tea is actual tea.

The tea is actual tea.

You were so disappointed.

You were like, TNA, I don't know what the A is, but I do love a warm cup of English breakfast.

This might be repeating last time we talked about, but Jorm, correct me if I'm wrong.

You didn't go because your wife objected because it's a very sexist place.

Correct.

But then your wife did enjoy.

all of or most of the episodes of the TV show that was the reality show set at the Playboy Mansion.

Yeah, let's get Mari to weigh in on that.

Like, what is the conflict there if you're interested in reality television about the Playboy Mansion, but your husband ain't allowed to go?

I mean, come on, I could have got inside dirt.

All right, so at some point, you realize you're going to do an album that summer.

We'll get into the weeds a little bit on the track list, but you rent a house in Encino, which is an insane home.

Yeah.

I feel like the house is very important to talk about because it was huge.

I believe 2.5 acres, the property was.

There was a track in the back that if you ran around it five times, that was a mile.

There was basketball/slash tennis court on it.

There was a little area in the back that me and Keith really loved that we basically turned into a shooting range for BB guns because there was a little like

horse corral.

Yeah, but it was perfect to like put on an old cowboy hat and pop BB guns off of cans.

There was a big pool and a hot tub, right?

Yep.

It was liked if you were making a movie where an orphan was finding out how good they had it now.

Yeah.

You'd shoot it at this house.

Yeah, every morning I came down the stairs and went, I think I'm going to like this.

Yeah.

Well, we got it to be so big so that we could all live there.

But then sadly, the room that we chose to spend all of our time in recording looked like just a shitty LA apartment.

So most of the time, we were in the worst room in the house.

But not sadly.

We did that on on purpose.

I am glad you mentioned that because the actual recording studio was a billion degrees and looked like it could have very easily been a room in the first apartment you guys lived in together, right?

Yeah, correct.

The AC didn't really reach it.

And then we had to keep turning off the portable AC we bought because it made noise and we were trying to be a recording studio.

I still have that AC.

I think honestly, we chose that room because it was carpeted.

I think that's as kind of as simple as that.

And it was far from the like kitchen if somebody else was doing something.

Yes, we did not have an engineer.

We just engineered everything ourselves, as we continued to do, because we don't want to have someone sit there getting paid money and watch us not have ideas 24 hours a day.

Also, saying it was a we turned it into a recording studio is funny because it was a fold-out table with one computer monitor and then a mic standing next to that computer.

Yeah, same rig we've always had, same as in our office, exactly.

Yeah, same as we have now at our office in LA.

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Can you guys explain real quick how record deal works?

Because the house looked like you got paid so much money.

Yes.

But you guys, I would imagine all that money has been gone for a long time.

Basically, we make the record deal and they tell you what your budget is to make the record, essentially.

And that's what people call an advance because they are going to take that money back.

That's why it's not just like, here's your budget.

Like on a movie, they give you the movie budget.

You're not expected to give them back the $10 million to make the movie.

Right.

On a record deal, your budget is called an advance because it's an advance payment that you will later repay through album sales.

And when we started doing the math on the advance and doing it the way they would do it normally, which is renting real studio space, and we knew we would burn through almost all of it in a summer.

So the house, even though it looked very expensive, it was a house that had been used as a shooting location.

Like it was a beautiful big place, but it wasn't like everything worked perfect.

It wasn't a house someone had lived in in a while.

It's in an episode of The Office, actually.

Yes, it is.

The boss guy, not Michael Scott, but the other guy.

Yeah, he goes over to dinner.

Where they have the big party.

All the branches come together for the big party at the house.

You could make it on camera look beautiful, but I will admit that being inside, it did seem a little not thought through.

Yes.

It was definitely a lot bigger than our apartments in New York, though.

Yes.

Certainly it was.

Yeah.

First off, to explain why we did it at all, besides that it's awesome, was that we were in New York and we were like, well, there's no way to record an album here on our budget and the way we do things because we would have, unless we used our office at 30 Rock, which would have been really sad.

We're all in different apartments all over town.

Just getting to a location.

We just knew it would never happen if we didn't all live in a house together.

I would argue that renting that house was like the perfect encapsulation of our joke, which was like sarcastically bawling out.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

Like it was a tacky, massive McMansion that was the biggest place any of us had ever stayed by far with huge property.

Like everyone who came through that we were friends with was like, Jesus Christ, this is crazy.

And we were like, I know, I know, come to the shitty room where we're making the songs.

Like, it was, it was hilarious and fun to us.

We were definitely like, let's do a crazy, dumb thing because when are we ever going to get to do this again?

I think it was part of making the label deal was us thinking, like, oh, if it gives us a summer in LA in a big house, it's worth it to make the deal.

I only reference movies that everyone has seen because this is a populist podcast.

I would say if the kid from a Nora had a house in LA, it would be this house.

Haven't seen it.

What?

Yeah.

Haven't seen it.

That was kind of the irony of my setup, guys.

The assumption that no one...

I was going to let it lie.

I was going to yes and and be like, oh yeah, everybody's getting that.

Anyways, well, let me just say real quick, don't sleep on Anora, which is maybe one of my favorite movies of the year.

I'm excited to see all of them.

You know what I've seen?

What?

I saw Dune 2.

Dune 2?

I saw Dune 2.

You saw Dune 2.

You like it?

Yeah.

I checked out Dune 2.

I like it.

I like it.

Dune 2 came out a while while back.

Yeah, that's why I've seen it.

Okay.

We also, we watched, not together, but Challengers.

Challengers, I'll tell you right now, I think Challengers might be my favorite movie of the year.

There you go.

It's very fun.

But shut out by the Oskies.

Shut out.

I don't understand.

I liked Night Bitch, but, you know.

Yeah, Night Bitch is great.

I sat with Night Bitch's own Amy Adams at the Globes.

Oh, nice.

Do you think when she walks down the street now, people go, hey, Night Bitch!

There she goes.

Night Bitch, sign my glossy, night bitch.

Seth, did you have fun at the Globes?

I did.

But hold on, I have a real good tag to this.

But do you think when she tucks her kids in, they go, night bitch.

Oh,

yeah, comma.

Did I have a fun time at the globes?

I had a wonderful time at the globes.

Thanks for asking.

I sat next to the producer of Andy's movie, Lee, who was lovely.

Yep, Kate Solomon.

I had a lot of nice people.

My table sat next to Allie Wong, who is lovely.

And she, I was with a high school friend of hers who was a delight.

And then Kirsten Dunstan, Jesse Plemons, who kind of might be my favorite Showbiz couple.

Just on vibes and the work and the hang.

That's a good table.

Speaking to three Showbiz couple members right now.

Yeah, but I feel like you guys, I kind of, I could never pick one of you because it would offend the other two.

I see.

I thought you were going to say we don't count because in your eyes, we're not real human beings.

Kind of.

We're just fucking dollar signs floating in a zoom.

Podcast dollar signs.

This job is going to crash and it's going to get so mellow on this cast.

Oh, yeah.

When my job crash hits?

Oh, you're on job?

Oh, sorry.

Was it not clear that I'm fully on job right now?

Wait, did I tell you guys I don't do job now?

Oh my God, what are you doing?

It's a company called Clever that I believe,

who's the guy who wrote Spare?

We please try not to plug a product that's not one of our sponsors.

Prince Harry, his wife.

Yeah.

She's involved in that.

Nobody knows her name.

She's famously

the matcha.

The matcha thing.

Durham ever plugged in.

The guy who wrote Spare, who's royal, his wife as a company called.

The way you get into Prince Harry is the guy who wrote Spare.

Spare, the guy who wrote Spare and his wife, the lady from TBS.

You know, Suits and Spare.

Don't cover your face, Andy.

Just accept.

Accept what's going on.

You're from Mars and you're from Phoenix.

I know that before.

I love you.

I love you so much.

No one on earth has ever said those sentences.

This is the worst advertisement for quitting coffee.

I quit coffee.

And, you know, I feel a lot sharper mentally.

You know, Spare?

I still don't even know what the connection is.

Did he quit in the book or did he put on like a mushroom mud tea?

She has a company called Clever.

They send you matcha.

And it's working great because

I'm sharp as a tech.

I also just want to point out, this is like the fifth time you've said you quit job.

And then we see you and you're drinking.

Or denied it.

Or denied it later when we say you quit.

And he goes, I've never quit.

I did have some job yesterday.

Also, by the way, it's still caffeine.

It doesn't make any difference.

Matcha has just as much caffeine as Job, doesn't it?

I don't know.

Keeve, I think it goes through you differently.

Matcha has more caffeine than Java.

According to the lady, what lady?

Who's married to the prince guy?

Oh, fuck.

All right.

All right.

So the thing, the reason I said, it does feel like what a rich kid would think a cool house is.

Like, he would have his friends over and be like, come, look at the stables.

Yes.

I went there once, and I feel like I got the tour you gave everybody where it sort of ended as you walked way in the back and it was like the stables and you'd show off the track.

And I kind of got the sense you were only back there for the purposes of saying, and look at this.

Yes, although it turned out to be a great location for the entire We Like Sports video.

Well, that I was going to get there.

We like sports is one of the tracks on this album.

It is also a YouTube video.

You guys want to guess how many views We Like Sports has?

20 million million?

25, maybe?

32 million.

That's a lot for what it is.

That's a lot for what it is.

It is.

It is a delight.

And it is, while we're talking about this house, house, it is a really good representation of what this house was.

Yes, it is a full

part.

We used every part of the buffalo.

Because when you're standing in front of the TV, I think that is the best version of what that house.

That tells you everything about the house.

It's like a big TV in a room with kind of a shitty couch.

That's right.

Like, the kitchen was beautiful.

Like, the house had the capacity.

It did sell at a certain point, I think.

And if somebody lived there and made it what they want to make it, it would be gorgeous.

But it just had been a rental for too long.

I did want us to make it like our lab cabin, California.

Shout out Farside Ref, like a lonely island compound would have been kind of cool, but none of us would ever go there.

It would have cost so much to renovate it, too, because it is so big.

I have an update via text.

Okay.

The first tattoo Michael Bryan got was a bucket of chicken from the Kurt Vonnegut book, Breakfast of Champions, and the lyric is Into Your Heart, I'll Beat Again, Dave Matthews, man.

Wow.

And what song is that from?

I don't know.

Oh, my God.

If it's from one of the ones they said, I'm about to

say the line again?

Into your heart, I'll beat again.

It's from Crash Into Me.

Great.

First guest.

First guest.

Yeah.

God damn you, Seth.

Damn you to hellfire.

Oh,

guys.

Yes.

Yeah.

Sorry.

We give ourselves three months to make this album, by the way.

You have three months to make this album, and I want to talk real quick about the fact that you go into it on the track listing, there are three songs that you have recorded for SNL already.

Natalie's Rap, Lazy Sunday, Dick in a a Box.

That felt good knowing we were going into it with three things already done, I will say.

There are six, by my count, that go on to be digital shorts, so I don't want to talk about them too much now.

Fair?

Yeah, because

we will do an app on each one, right?

You can mention them, but.

I'm going to mention the six, but just to give people a sense of what the weight of this album is.

Jizz in my pants, I'm on a boat.

Boom box like a boss, Ross Trent, Space Olympics.

Those are the six that you will record for this album that will eventually be digital shorts.

Now, this is a different process than the way you guys have to work on SNL, where you're under the gun week in and week out.

But what was the process?

Did it feel completely different than when you were writing songs for SNL, or was it ultimately the same?

It was just way more relaxed.

Right.

Way more pleasant.

Much more pleasant.

I almost say way more fun.

Not that SNL is not fun, but it was like.

Part of it was this dream of like, when we were roommates in LA before we got SNL, we would say things like, wouldn't it be incredible to make an album?

You know,

and then it actually was happening.

So there was like a whole level of wish fulfillment for us.

We were acting like little kids living in this stupid, dumb mansion.

And every day you wake up whenever you feel like, some people later than others, looking at me, looking at myself.

And you go in and you're like, what are we going to do?

Whatever we feel like.

And our label and our manager, Steve Barnett, like procured tons of real beats from real rap producers for us.

And we just sit there and flip through the beats and like star the ones we liked and be like, ooh, we should do something to that one.

That's awesome.

And it was just a fucking dream.

I feel like at any given time, I would just wander in there and listen to beats and write down ideas and nothing else.

There was no other commitment.

I think maybe the job is wearing off.

Oh, no, it happened mid-think.

We saw the job go out of his eyes while he was talking.

The job wore off.

I'm just going to take a quick five-minute nap.

Did you see the sad thing is you watch the job light go out in the one eye first

and then you see, oh, he's out and he's out cold.

There was a moment I remember when we were making the album where I actually got a ton of anxiety, woke up one morning and was like freaked out, probably because of SNL and the stress that that had caused.

And Mari was like, what's wrong?

And I was like, I'm not working.

I haven't been working.

She was like, you're making an album right now.

And I was like, I know, but it doesn't feel like work.

Because we like it so much.

You can't like work.

Well, and again, when I say nine to five, this is judgment-free zone.

I think that's noon to eight for you, Andy.

If that, yeah.

But you had people over as well.

At night, you could socialize in a way that you can't at SNL because you feel that giant ticking clock.

That was the best part.

We had so many fun parties and invited so many people over to swim the pool.

We would also work till 2 a.m.

a lot, but it was still you're like, just the freedom to know that if the thing you're working on sucks, you'll just throw it away and no one will know.

Yes.

And that just feels so good.

Right.

There were moments all the time where we'd go, all right, and I think I'm done thinking about that and I'm sleepy and I'm going to stop.

And the difference between that and how it is at SNL is the whole difference.

That was it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We would do a song where we started it and then just ran out of steam and then came back to it weeks later, months later.

Yep.

And we'd go like, well, you know what?

There was something to that.

What if we try to fix that?

And then just head to the Target and buy pool toys, you know?

Or we went to the Kmart a lot.

We bought a lot of pool toys at Kmart.

Kmart's where we did the entire We Like Sports video.

It was just a gold mine of amazing t-shirts.

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We were texting last night about whether or not, and I have ruled in favor that it is not name-droppy to say the friends of ours that visited you guys that summer because you would have parties.

And it was a real snapshot of the sort of late aughts comedy scene.

Yeah, oh, yeah, it was so fun, and people would come through and they'd bring friends because it was like, Hey, you want to go to this big-ass mansion where those dudes from SNL were

making an album of those dumb songs?

And people would be like, Yeah, what the fuck?

It's the summer.

Let's go.

So, people would roll through and we'd be like, Whoa, yeah, and you know, these people, you know, obviously collaborate with friends of ours now, but you know, yes, Rudd, Hayter, Danny McBride, Tim and Eric, you were saying Janine Garofilo, Danger Mouse, Flight of the Concords guys, right?

Like, yeah, Concords came through.

I remember sitting with Jermaine and Brett and them listening to our songs and being like, wow, you guys really just go straight at the joke.

Yeah.

Like for us, we kind of like walk around it for a while.

I remember, too, it was Jermaine.

We played them jizz in my pants, and he was like, there's no like dancing around the joke.

You just really say it and then just say it a lot.

And we were like, yeah, that's the difference, I guess, between our songs.

so funny but it was he said it lovingly like we were laughing about it yeah there was a day when um tim and eric and bretton jermaine came by with chrysal who later on we got hired at snl as a director who then went on to co-create portalandia with fred and carrie uh but they came to shoot a sketch on our tennis court for tim and eric show but do you remember how that happened like how when they came over it was like for a barbecue and they were like this place is great and we were like yeah if you guys ever want to shoot anything it was like two days later that they showed up with a camera track.

Like, yeah, for sure.

So, there is another way to see how we lived because there's a tennis sketch with the four of them.

There's that Laurel Canyon documentary about that music scene, and it's so crazy when you see pictures of, say, Jackson Brown and Joni Mitchell and Eric Clapton all in a backyard with guitars.

Right.

It was like that.

It was exactly like that.

It was like that.

I mean, it's like a less, you know, a lesser, you know, version, but it was that.

I mean, if you loved the comedy that you guys were making as much as people love that music scene, you sort of look.

I mean, you guys were sending photos.

The comedy that would be in one hot tub at a given time.

The stew.

The comedy stew.

You could tell just from the upper body strength that it had to be comedy.

From the Muppet arms in there.

There were so many Muppets.

It was just like noodle.

It looked like noodle soup.

Just arms.

Just pool noodles.

Oh, this is a segment of noodles in the pot, isn't it?

Oh, we had such a good time.

We did, just to jump forward, two years later, when we get to Turtleneck and Chain, we were like, could we rent the same house?

And we did.

We went back two years later and repeated the summer and had just as good a time.

And I will say, looking through the photos last night that I texted you guys a bunch of from 2008, I realized like half my memories are from 2010.

Definitely went to that house a few times, nowhere near as much looking back as I wish I had.

I don't think I was in LA much that summer.

I don't quite know where I was, but because obviously I would have been over there all the time.

But as you guys were sending those pictures around, I really had this pang of, I don't know what I was thinking.

The idea of like, oh, I'm sure every summer, the rest of my life, my friends will be making an album in a giant house with no responsibility.

Who else was in the pictures?

John C.

Riley, Maya.

PTA.

But also specifically to Seth, there was a nice picture of Josh, his brother.

Pashi, Pashi and Speedman.

And there was a nice picture of Neil Brennan.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And Speedman.

And from those photos last night, I was like, yeah, this is all of Seth's.

These are Seth's homies.

Yeah, it was great.

And then musicians were like, Ben Gibbard was there, right?

Yeah, Ben

Gibbs.

Goodbye.

Tommy.

So I listened to the album last night.

And I realized I hadn't listened to the album all the way through since it came out.

And then, you know, lost to my memory were the ones that weren't in the end.

shorts.

Right.

And it was so fun to listen to those again.

It's 19 songs, 42 minutes.

Nobody's going to complain about that yield.

That's outstanding over the course of a summer.

I don't know if I would call them all songs, however.

There's not.

There's a couple of skits, but I would like to, with your permission, talk through the ones that we will not talk through later as shorts.

Oh, my God.

Yes.

Yes, please.

Right off the bat, and it's a real statement of intent.

Who said we're whack?

Who said we're whack?

By the way, I think if my ear is correct, that's Chester in the beginning.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He kicks it off.

And this is a beat that I made.

I noticed, I noticed in the on the Wikipedia page, Jorm, you get a lot of credit.

You produced quite a few of these.

On this album.

Yeah.

On this album.

And then I was relegated to only things like We Like Sports Guys, the Just You Guys guys.

Relegated, you stopped making beats.

Yeah, we would happily have accepted it.

Well, yeah, but we also upgraded.

We upgraded a little bit.

I love your beats, and I stand on it.

Thank you.

Who said we're whack is a great beat?

And it's a very funny song about Chester tells you that somebody said you guys were whack.

And you are, it's very aggressive, like who said we're whack, But it's immediately clear there's a great deal of insecurity, yeah, and it's really spinning you guys out that someone called you whack, yeah, for sure.

We think they might be right.

You just want to know who it is, we're not gonna be angry.

Very clearly, very clearly, we're maybe in agreement.

Yeah, there's a real, I think this really hammers it home.

Keeve, you have one of my favorites, which is, I am not whack no matter what you say.

What did you say?

Question mark.

Did you say I'm whack?

That's a guy.

We can't even stand our own guy.

He can't even, yeah, he can't even like back away from it.

It doesn't matter what you say.

No matter what you say.

But that being said, what did you say?

Yeah, I might be wrong i might be wrong i just had a memory of this song go into my head which it was the very first time we ever performed live in front of an actual real audience was tenacious d was doing a festival down at the santa monica pier it was the first year of it it was an all-day festival that tenacious d would be the final act and they asked us to come on and i don't know what year it was it was well after this but we reenacted that live like jack black started talking shit about us on stage like fake stuff

and then calls us whack festival supreme and then all of a sudden what was it?

Festival Supreme.

Yeah.

And then we were a surprise.

And it was so fun, too, because they have a whole band.

And we went and rehearsed with them for a week beforehand and came up with a medley that they helped us.

Spiker, who is their director of music, also became ours when we did finally go on tour.

And he helped put together this whole little medley.

And it was like 10,000 people.

And it was our first thing ever.

And we got to come out there with their whole band.

And we started by coming out, who said we're whack?

You said we're whack.

And it was, I mean, it was an amazing moment.

Do you remember, Keeve, that that we started with that song because Jack insisted because he was like, no, don't play those songs that they all know.

Yes.

My favorite one is Who Said We're Whack?

That's what we're doing.

And we were like, All right.

And then it was so fun.

And if he could tee it up like that, I mean, what a great way to start it.

I forgot that was 10,000 people.

Anytime we performed, it was always like, hey, let's just do this on TV.

We're like, you've never done this before.

Do it for 10,000 people.

We're like, no, God.

We're so nervous.

We were shitting our pants.

There's also a a lot of rhyme.

The rhyme scheme is everything rhymes with whack.

And a lot of times, whack is rhyming with whack.

But then you have a real great four-liner Andy.

How could a person up and call a person whack?

How could the devil turn the blue sky black?

How many babies born will ever reach their dreams?

And how could a person call another person whack?

How many babies born will ever reach their dreams?

Yeah.

Which is just threw me so threw me for a loop.

And then how could a person call another person whack?

Back Back on topic.

These guys are spiraling.

They can't get away from it.

I think we're going into a new direction.

But the other really nice moment is that it ends with you guys having all the ladies putting their hands up, all the guys putting their hands up, everybody call this whack, put your hands up, and then everybody else put your hands down.

So you do, in the end, find the guy.

Yeah, you catch the person.

We're detectives.

I feel like this was also one of the first songs we wrote when we got out there.

Yeah.

I do believe that's the case.

I think so.

Possibly the first.

Yeah.

I mean, I understand it does not,

it was never going to be an SNL.

Short.

No.

Way too much the three of you.

Yeah.

Especially at that time.

But I'm assuming your heart is warm for this song.

For sure.

I do like a song, yes.

You know, one of the things we wanted to make sure of that I am remembering now is that this was a real album, meaning like not just something that felt like, hey, they had some hits on the show.

Just put them in a compilation and send it out.

That if you bought it, you felt like, because when you sell it to buy an album, that you felt like you had bought something new that stood on its own.

Yeah.

And so like you said, it's a declaration.

But I think it also, by being about the three of us and us using our names, it like separates it from SNL in a way that lets the album be its own thing, I think.

The next thing is just fantastic.

Santana DVX.

That's the second song of the album.

That's the second song of the album.

Now, I feel like if the first is a parody of what one of these albums is going to be, the sort of aggressive statement of intent.

This is now, you're letting the comedy fans know, like, also, we're going to get super granular and weird.

Yeah.

You know, even on this podcast, people have asked us what video do we wish we had gotten to make for songs.

And we always say it's always semicolon in Japan, but this should be actually in that top three of

wished videos.

I was about to say, I think I speak for all three of us when I say it's one of our personal favorite songs that we ever got to make.

Definitely.

Hey, everybody, this is Seth.

We are going to split up our Incredibad episode into two parts.

This was the end of part one, and we look forward to joining you again in a week for part two.

Thanks, everybody.