Here I Go

The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast.

Hey, everybody, welcome to the Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast.

Mine is Yorma, who's currently in Finland, and it's probably 6 a.m.

in Finland right now.

I think it's 2.30 a.m.

So it's not his fault.

And I know a lot of people who listen to the pod just want to unload on Yorma for his inability to make the pod.

But I mean, he's really pulled a fast one because there's just a lot of promo going on for for his movie he's shooting in Finland that nobody has to pay for.

Each week is basically just a long live ad for his Finland movie.

That's right.

This is my fault, though, because I went away for my movie and we had banked so many episodes that they just rolled on by and I got by scot-free.

It's true.

And now Jorn, there's no banking.

But you guys were not just.

finding time to do this podcast.

You found time to go back to SNL and do your second new digital short.

And nobody expected this when the podcast started that there would be new digital shorts certainly not no certainly not and i sort of expected post doug emhoff's relevancy

was that a good way to tip what happened on november 6th but uh andy i didn't think you would go back out to new york so how did this one come across uh i wasn't really scheduled to but i was so in the rhythmo of being there.

And then they announced that Charlie was going to be there and we're huge fans.

And we had a couple songs, frankly, that I was like, Charlie might be D-O-P-E on these.

And I asked if it was cool to reach out and ask.

And they said, Yeah, go for it.

So I got put in touch with her and I sent her this song we ended up doing.

Here I go.

And she was like, I'm with it.

Not those exact words, but she had clarity on it.

Let's just say that.

Yeah.

And we were off and running, shot back out of the cannon across the country.

There's been something on my mind a long time, a special passion of mine.

I do it every chance that I find.

So, next time you walk past and throw away your trash, I'll pick up the phone and then do what I do best.

Now, here

you're ready to go.

I'm reporting you to the cast.

So, you said there was a couple.

You picked this one for Charlie, obviously, out of a few.

What was the reason you were like, this is the one for Charlie?

She was musical guest and host.

Yeah.

And we knew in this one that she wouldn't be in the duration of the video and the song.

Gotcha.

So you needed somebody to do one verse at the end.

Lower time commitment from her.

Obviously, we would have loved her to be, you know, all over it.

But I had a feeling energy-wise.

Comedy-wise, and time commitment-wise, it was a nice Venn diagram.

She heard too, though.

She did hear too.

We gave her a choice.

Oh, you did?

Yeah.

She would have been on the other other one more.

Yeah.

But she, regardless of that, just

in terms of the premise, she just much preferred the one we did.

Yeah.

And I should say, even though she obviously is in less of it, she does feel like she's all over it.

Correct.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

Yeah.

It does feel like a two-hander because she, you guys finished together.

And so it's very well done.

When did you guys write this one?

Strike.

Right?

During the strike?

Yeah.

I wrote it.

It's a beat by Jorm's brother, Asa Tacone.

And he was in there with me and helped me a little bit.

Yeah,

this isn't all Andy, though.

I mean, I will say, I got to, we obviously changed the stuff for Charlie that I did help with, but I got to walk in, you know, however long, let's say that was nine months ago and just get to come in from the other room and be like, and hear, you know, in stages as it, as it progressed.

But yeah, yeah.

It was awesome.

What would you say?

What is the style of this song?

Like, what is this supposed to evoke?

Who's making a song like this that is not a comedy version?

I mean, once again, when we got to the video, I was aiming at K-pop stuff.

Yeah.

And when me and Asa were recording, I was asking him to help me record and stack vocals and do vocal turns and things like that that would be pure pop in that way.

And I asked him to like add strings in places to make it more like some of those songs that I really like.

But then it's my voice, so it's it just feels like its own genre yeah but the style of music is like i don't know what you call that it's what asa's band electric guest does and i don't know what you call that style of music it's also what like the portugal the man song that asa co-wrote the 1986 boy whatever that one is that that has the same style what do you call it where it's like it's a band with with like funky band instrumentation it's like retro funk pop yeah there you go retro Retro funk pop.

But I would say that we steer when we started working on Akiv, like,

it was more that.

And then we, we raised the tempo a ton and added other elements to it to, in my opinion, in my hope, to make it more current pop.

Sure, but it's still, it still holds on to that as its core genre, I would say.

as a outside listener.

Well, sign off in the comments.

When Charlie listens to it, who's singing her part when she first hears it?

There was no wife when I sent it to her, but I told her that if she wanted to do it, that that's the pivot we would make.

And I'm so glad that she was down because I like it so much more now.

It was just the journey of this one snitch.

Oh, his wife joining us the best.

His wife joined us the best.

So we flipped that one line.

It was, you know, going to sleep like a motherfucking baby tonight, night, night.

And then I just went into now, hold up, wait a minute.

But instead, we added, make way for my wife.

And then she took those lines.

And then we added a whole breakdown that we had Asa make.

In this crazy world, I can't believe we found someone like you who shows love the way we do by calling the cops instead of sex.

When my grandma binocularos see you through them, the night guys not rough.

This was on Wednesday.

This is on Tuesday and Wednesday, by the way.

On Tuesday and Wednesday.

And then Akiva helped me write the breakdown part, which is, you know, piggy piggy through the like space setup with all the stars.

And then it comes back out.

And it used to be just me, but then we did trading off for binocularos.

Binocularos.

Yeah.

All right.

I have a question.

Or I have an observation.

Okay.

When I heard Sushi Glory Hole, and Andy, you were with me, so you can confirm this.

I laughed the minute it started till the minute it ended.

Like deep seizing laughs.

I think, and I love this so much.

I don't think I would have laughed as hard at this one without the visual element.

I feel like this is a perfect one that the video and the song worked so well together in concert.

I would agree with that.

Yeah.

I mean, also, Sushi Glory Hole, we say the the hook premise joke punchline of it the second the song starts.

Yeah, it's a funnier song.

It's going for funny right away.

This one's telling a story.

I think you need to see what this singer looks like.

Right.

Because the minute it starts,

you're such a happy dickhead.

And your house, everything about you, the first look at you, just that little gray streak in your hair, the shittiest pajamas, that robe and the way you're just delightfully dancing it's just perfect and then you and you can't get that without by listening to song true absolutely true i got the smile on your face by listening i will say that like you can there's a smile in the singing but it is

i mean both of them are strengthened by the video that's always been the thing with all of the amount of people we played i'm on a boat for they went oh yeah good what else you got and then the video came out and they were like whoa and we were like it's the same song.

Like, and now they liked it.

Our stuff just, it's hard for people to picture audio jokes

the way that the video just spoon feeds you.

It's this, it's also a lot of these are, you're learning who the character is in a different way when you see them.

You know what I mean?

Whereas the way that it works when you have no video is you're waiting to find out what the joke is, especially on here I go.

And even when there's the first chorus when you're just listening to it, we always found, and it was true in in the video as well, but less so, you laugh at the first chorus, but then you don't really laugh until we tell you that it was a white person and you are allowed to relax literally in the song.

It's so funny.

It's such a good, the same thing where you enjoy it because you're a shitty guy.

So you know, you're not the hero of the song, but it still makes you a little sad if it's about race.

Yes, and it's certain, it's just not.

It's not.

It's just, it truly becomes a, it's like the anthem for, I feel like every single person I talk to grew up in a neighborhood where there was one fucking jerk on their block who was always calling the cops on people.

And the people in the neighborhood don't like him and the cops don't like them.

And it's just a universally reviled neighborhood character.

Yeah.

And it's, uh, it's delightful his lack of awareness.

Although later in the song, there's a little awareness because right in the beginning, he does say that his neighbors really, they like him for it.

Yes.

Then we see that the neighbors don't.

Yes.

But again, you got to see that in the video.

Yeah.

or else you might believe if you listen to the song you'd be like i don't think his neighbors actually no i know i know it was very new for me the way he looked in this video except then i realized i do think maybe this is a continuation of the guy from hero song who after

because he looks a little bit like that like after he got the shit kicked out of him and he gave up being a superhero he just kind of went to the suburbs and now this is the way he fights crime is just calling the cops and not putting himself in danger oh my god that i didn't think i didn't think of that someone else said that they thought it might have been the guy from Great Day who

act together.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I was going to say that one too.

So those are the two.

There's one of two prequels for this guy.

Yeah.

Musically, it's more connected to Great Day, I think, just in terms of like the fast cutting and the music.

I think he's exhibiting kind of ex-addict energy.

Yeah, like he's got to put that.

that what used to be cocaine now has to be just calling the cops.

Yeah.

I'll be honest, that's not the intention.

He's getting the same high.

Uh, I think we've learned a lot about how, if there's a long internal rhyme from doing this podcast, that Andy wrote it, and obviously, we've already established you wrote it, but itching to do some stitching in my kitchen.

Like, even if I didn't know you had written it, I would say that was definitely an Andy line, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.

It reeks, reeks of me.

This is Andy all over it, but yes, I've been itching to do some snitching.

I'm in my kitchen, listening to my conditioning, and then picking up that

It's really a funny dance the whole way through.

The track really moves me, you know?

It does.

Well, that's the thing.

You actually look like you're having a lot of fun.

And then it is also a lot of fun to listen to.

And then it's a lot of fun to watch you.

And sometimes I think that there's a mistake in comedy, which is to make people look like they're not having fun.

And the reality is it's really, it's just a good time.

This whole thing is a good time.

Well, good.

Good, good, good.

I mean, we had fun.

It was a psychotic schedule because of how late it came together but um i'm really glad it happened and exists what was your shoot day

friday we we didn't we were still in la thursday morning jesus so we lost all of thursday flying and traveling and then got there andy got to do some wardrobe fittings at like eight o'clock on thursday night right

and then so again big shout out to mike diva because these would not be at all possible without him because he's able to get on the zooms also can i say andy wrote the treatment i for the first time in our uh

in our long long career here he wrote the treatment for the video well alone yeah first time i've ever done yeah yeah you always contribute to the treatments and we always work on them together and whatever but i'm usually the one that goes like oh here we go and then we talk about it and stuff but because i'm too busy he he he did who came up with the uh hands through the wall holding the phone that was my idea i had that idea when we were writing the song it's beautiful it's really great i mean diva and then the production designer and the people at SNL brought it to life even cooler than I was imagining.

But yeah, that was my pitch.

Where did you shoot the exteriors?

In Ditmus Park, Brooklyn.

It was nice to be outside.

It was a good, a nice day and we were just

having fun.

Got joast out there for a couple of minutes.

Exactly.

I also like, there's a detail early on that you're mad just that he used your trash can.

Yeah.

Oh, for sure.

Yeah.

But he, because he also, there's a nice detail that he is actually using the right trash can.

Yeah.

He's doing, that's right.

But it's those belong to Andy's household.

It's not even that he's putting the wrong thing and recycling.

He's recycling a coffee cup in the neighborhood.

Yeah, but that's that guy's thing.

That's not for others.

Can I say that I bring in my bins faster now?

Because sometimes I would bring them in and there'd be little bags of dog shit in them from like people walking their dogs and going, oh, I don't want to carry this.

I'm going to put it in there.

And then if I, and then it would rain, but they were left open because when the trash truck does it, and then I would have floating bags of dog shit in the bottom.

Is this interesting?

It is interesting.

I do think it's interesting.

I've experienced the same thing, and I think people who throw their dog shit into strangers' bins need to hear it.

Yeah.

Well, I think that it's important to know, too, that if you had pitched that, Keeve, it would have been a terrible thing for the video because you might have actually been on Andy's.

It's on the side.

Yeah.

Too relatable.

And then this guy, you're literally like, why is he even calling?

Are you supposed to tip over your trash can when it has rainwater in it so all your trash isn't getting wet?

And then you let all that bag dog shit.

After a big rain, I will hand-dry my own trash.

Yeah, you climb in there?

I like it.

Piece by piece.

Yeah, piece by piece.

I bring out my hair dryer.

Yeah, just like, you know, look, you think the trash guys want to pick up my wet trash?

We're part of a community.

You pitch in.

That's exactly right.

That's exactly right.

Real shitty arm folding, looking out the window.

Just to watch the cops.

And then the way when you dance up to Joe's, great.

When you put your head right next to him on the hood of the car.

fantastic.

Thank you.

How did you settle on Joe's to ask Joe?

I, by the way,

asked Joast to record a voicemail about getting the request, but in his defense, it was only 12 hours ago.

Yeah.

The thing you're pointing out was a concern when we cast him.

That he might not show.

Is he going to show?

Or will it be just at such the wrong time that we're like completely not set up for it?

The idea for it to be Joast was actually my wife, Joanna's.

So funny.

she was like you know who would actually be really funny for the white reveal and as soon as she said it i was like i love that it's really good it was really nice to get to ask him you know i've been seeing josty a lot coming back so much this season and we're obviously old buds we got hired the same season and it was cool to be like oh we're gonna i don't think we ever have put him in one before no I don't think so.

Yeah.

And he now, he does like his comic persona on the show is representing that white.

Yes, exactly.

It's such, it's like a shorthand.

The response isn't just to that.

It's a great joke in the song.

It's, I believe, a ghost recognition response.

Yes.

And I wanted that font to look like white clouds.

That's been in my notes app for a long time.

Oh, it's great.

Also, the having the cake, eating the cake, like that's very,

I would have enjoyed listening to that on a sonic level, but like the fast cuts of the different ways you're having the cake, like just so funny.

That's that's Mike Debo.

Yes, although that was part of the treatment and then he just made it better.

Right.

Connecting Connecting them in a really nice way where your head goes down and then being like, you should drop out of frame here and then come into frame here so it feels all kind of like that's what I mean.

He pre-vised the kineticness of it.

Yes.

He always knew you'd be baking a cake and eating a cake.

And then you talked about laying over multiple tracks.

There's that great moment at the table where you say, hell yeah, motherfucker.

And then six of you do it.

And Shoemaker was saying, I can't believe you haven't done that before.

And you were saying, not technically possible back in your day?

We could have probably pulled that off.

It would have been a little harder.

Have we ever done it before, Keeve?

I feel like I'm going to be wrong and we forget where there's multiple of us in a thing i feel like we have i feel like i don't feel like that was a new move but it was motivated by your song the fact that you put yeah one motherfucker into a bunch of motherfuckers um diva sent a voice note do we want to listen to it yeah let's listen to diva and then i want to go through because i have a bunch more okay this is our buddy mike diva who directed the video Hey guys, so stoked to be on here.

I love the pod.

I love all you guys.

So the Here I Go shoot was truly so long ago.

I barely remember half of it, but it was kind of, from what I remember, like the total chaos you'd expect from a shoot that came together super last minute.

I scouted the house on Thursday and planned all the setups while Andy and Keeve were literally mid-flight to New York.

We had two performance setups in this super musty old church a few blocks away.

Andy came up with this awesome idea for the phone wall performance setup where hands would stick out of the wall holding phones doing this light choreography.

But when we got to that set with like an hour left in our day, we still had to figure out where the dancers could stand behind the wall to fit their hands through the holes at different heights.

And it was such a puzzle that it turned into this situation where guys were very loudly sawing holes into this wall while I was shooting Andy performing on a different set just a few feet away.

And we managed to squeeze that foam wall scene in with like truly 10 minutes left in the day.

And I just got to say, our DP Lance Koons did a fantastic job.

Like it gets dark in New York at around four, and pretty much all the interior stuff was shot at night, but you would never know.

Andrea Prasigliati, the production designer, and the rest of her team, did an incredible job bringing this all together.

Jill Bream absolutely crushed it with the wardrobe.

Shannon Lewis, the choreographer, fully eight, as they say.

Emily Genender and Gina Moles produced the hell out of it and helped make what should have been a kind of impossible day relatively smooth overall.

And that's it.

Okay.

Love you guys.

Bye.

Nice.

Great.

So good.

There was a lot of debate about how high my shorts should be.

Yeah.

And I kept being like, well, Charlie's are going to be pretty high because that's how she rolls.

So I should really have mine high.

And I was like, should I be in the exact same outfit at her?

And then I was like, well, no, I don't think anyone actually wants to see that, despite what they may think.

And then I was like, okay, so just cut them higher.

And they cut them higher.

And I was like, I don't know, maybe I should go higher.

And then as soon as we started like like really dancing i really almost flopped out i was like oh no

i was like oh thank god we did not make it any higher because it would have been really bad i thought it was just perfectly perfect height for that dude yeah it made sense for his his character that's what that dude wanted everybody to see Yes, but yes, the other thing Diva mentioned there, which was really funny, was we were doing a full performance on that cool setup he thought of with all the people peeking through the blinds in the background, like light wall.

And it was right behind the cameras was the wall they were building for the

hands coming through the other wall.

And he was like, Hey, we gotta, we gotta stop, we gotta stop the noise.

We're about to roll.

And I was like, How much time do we have?

He was like, Honestly, like 30 minutes left in the day.

And I was like, Just tell them to keep going.

I can just lip sync to this fucking song, just turn it way up.

So the whole take, you can just hear them going like,

It was just pure chaos.

But you know, you do what you got to do.

It is very funny that it was not originally written to have a wife in it because it is so perfect.

I love the reveal, just knowing that Charlie XEX was standing behind you.

It's just really funny to think about like a giant musical superstar at that level, like agreeing to do something like this.

And then her reveal is just sort of like crouching behind Andy.

Oh, welcome to show, Biz.

It's the best.

Just the best.

She came in having just recorded it Thursday afternoon, right?

Evening, yeah.

The amount of times we've made one of these songs and the pop star involved does not know any of the lyrics because they recorded for, you know, half hour and never thought about it again.

She came in, she knew every word and she had little

like choreographed things, not by anybody else, just herself.

Like she knew how to present the jokes and pantomime and do things that would make them play and be in the spirit.

And she kind of was the character, that blonde lady that's your wife.

Like, it wasn't her, it was this character.

And she fully, from very first take, was better at this than almost anybody I would say we've worked with.

There's other good ones.

I don't want to disparage it, but I want to give her her props that she was very good.

She was as good as anyone we've ever worked with, certainly.

I made a note about that, Keith,

because that, you know, because basically she's.

It's a close-up of her doing that piggy piggy babe in the city when I smell bacon.

I won't won't get it right but the way her face on giddy yeah is such a performance agreed and there's no cuts in that stuff when most people we'd have to do some cuts and on the driveway line she destroyed it i mean oh yeah when she's creeping down with a tape measure just perfect she has full takes where from start to finish it would be usable if you wanted to use it as a full take where it's she's hitting moves and is perfect on all of it i was really impressed all of this to say heading into it we were expecting to really like her and we liked her even more than we expected.

She was super good at the jokes, but also was super fun and just a good hang and delightful.

Agreed.

My favorite bit of writing in the entire thing is the extra syllable in invented.

That's ADD as well.

Invented it.

Yeah.

Oh, oh, oh.

Yes.

Yeah.

Wait a minute, because I'm about to snitch like I invented it.

Yeah.

I'm about to snitch like I invented it.

Yeah.

It's because you feel like you

think you heard it wrong or a mistake was made.

And then you're like, no,

it's just the funniest way to say it.

Yeah, I was doing a lot of just taking liberties with syllables.

It's same on when I grabbed my binoculars.

You know what I mean?

Like, it's not for any reason.

It was just making Miguel, I just said it that way.

And Asa was in there just being posi vibes.

Like, yeah, dude, just do that shit.

That was fire.

I'm just like, doogie-doogie.

That's a great diva shot of getting, like on the porch, getting you guys dancing.

Of the whole video, I mean, he shot the hell out of it.

That shot was all him, truly.

And the choreographer who he just gave the shout-out to.

That's right.

Shannon, the choreographer, she helped him with the little moves.

But he heard that part of the song and just saw it.

It's always weird to talk about these things so soon after they've come out.

People haven't even decided if they like it or not.

But it is

weird.

That shot is super cool to me.

So I feel good about giving him props on it.

Like, it's a moment in it where you're like, I could just be in like a real Sabrina Carpenter video right now.

It just feels so slick and in control.

He was evoking something we all remember and could not remember what it's from, where it's a bunch of women in like an old school beauty salon with like the hair dryer things over their heads.

And they're doing choreography while they can't really move their heads because they're sitting in a beauty salon.

But I can't.

None of it.

We thought maybe it was Little Shop of Horrors, but we weren't sure if that was true.

Could have been Hairspray too.

I mentioned Sabrina Carpenter does have that like new pop song thing too, where it's like very like bubblegumy sounding but also a little hard like you know having the motherfuckers in there like catches you off guard because you thought it was a different kind of song yes i do feel like that's a thing that like these really great new monitored pop singers are doing where they kind of trick you in with like a i don't know like a softer sound and then they like it's really funny and fun drop on motherfucker and that juxtaposition when they're doing it is intentionally funny and it is funny yeah it's great motherfucker is just really like with a big smile on your face.

I'm glad we were finally able to have people hear without the bleeps as much as I love being on the SNL, you know.

I was very excited to hear without the beeps, bleeps.

The bleeps, the sweeps, and the creeps, baseballs.

Bleeps, the sweeps.

But even with the bleeps, I heard motherfucker.

Oh, good.

That's good.

You knew it was the right word.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's good.

Did you always know it was going to be handcuffs on white guy, white lady, Girl Scout, dog?

No.

I had a list of dreams for others getting arrested, and I had a feeling we'd keep cutting back to it and have it escalate as it went.

But baby dog handcuffs, I believe I requested Thursday night.

And I was like, Diva, is that,

do you think that'd be cool?

He's like, dude, there's never a bad time for little fucking doggy handcuffs.

So, yeah.

And once again, props too.

Well, frankly, props for making them because they were funny.

You know, obviously everybody, I don't have to tell the whole world that I do a digital only thing on my show called Corrections, but I last Thursday at like 11, not even like at noon, wrote the head of our design department and said, I need three limp ferrets

and like tiny circ and a tiny like circus setup you would have for like trained dogs.

And they managed to get it in like three hours.

Like the ferrets were like limp stuffed animals?

Yeah, they were like limp stuffed animals.

I was like, they don't have to, she was like, do they need to look like taxi dermid ferrets?

I'm like, no, for this joke, it's fine if they're like stuffed animal ferrets.

Oh, by the way, Seth, congrats on all your success.

Yeah, love corrections.

Yeah, not just corrections, the show, too.

Congrats, man.

You know, it's so nice.

I feel like when Yorm is not here, a door is open for me to receive a little incoming.

Yoram and Keeve and I spoke earlier today when it was not an ungodly hour in Finland.

And after we've been chatting about something else for a while, he goes, you guys, can I actually tell you something?

I was drunk last week when I called in.

I was actually pretty drunk.

And we were like, no shit.

Have you guys read comments?

Were people enjoying that one?

Is it a fun, loving, is it a fun thing?

Are we hiring?

My only feedback is from Shoemaker, who enjoyed it a great deal.

But also said that at one point, Yorma said something that made no sense.

I mean, you can't go wrong with all the font.

I think it's very funny, like, that the core of Yorm is such sweetness that he both believes he got away with it.

And also, because he didn't tell us in the moment, we had faith in him that he wasn't drunk.

Also, like

for all three of us, but especially for me and Keeve, who have spent so much time with him since literally junior high and high school, we're like, we can tell.

The moment he opened his mouth, we were like, oh, boy,

it's this version of him.

We know exactly.

I was actually, I have a good Yorm story I was thinking about this weekend, which is I was in Pittsburgh this last weekend with my parents and my brother.

We go to a football game once a year.

And we one time did it when

Mari, Yorm's wife, was shooting the Mr.

Rogers movie.

So they were living in Pittsburgh.

And I reached out to Jorm.

I'm like, hey,

we're all going out to dinner.

Do you want to join us?

And he was like, ah, yeah, blah, blah, blah.

And so he came to dinner and I told him it was my mom's birthday.

Now, Jorm has never met my mom or like met her in passing, but he brought her a birthday present that I still have, which is, what's it like when they make paint t-shirts in the mall?

Airbrushed.

Airbrush.

Airbrush.

He had gotten a picture of my mom and he got a giant, like an XXL white t-shirt with an airbrushed picture of my mom's face that just, and then it said, geez, move in silence.

Yeah, that's good.

And the best part part of it was just my mom, who was so sweet and like couldn't believe someone got her a gift, like trying to process what the reaction to it should be.

G's moving silence is so fucking funny.

Oh my God.

And then my mom was like, what is G for?

Is it for grandma?

I go, I don't think it's for anything, mom.

It's for gangsters.

It's for gangsters.

But I'm like, I don't think like, don't think that this was like your thinking about what would fit for Hillary.

Oh, yeah.

Gammy.

It's just what's the funniest.

it's so funny, and it's so big, it's like you could fly it as a flag on a ship.

And I remember at the end of the week, my mom was like, Do you maybe want this?

And I did,

but frankly, yes, I'll frame that.

That's very good.

Put it in the Louvre, as Akiva likes to say:

trip planner by Expedia.

You were made to outdo your holiday,

your hammocking,

and your pooling.

We were made to help organize the competition.

Expedient, made to travel.

I have a voice note.

Guys, Jorm here.

Big compliments on the short.

I watched it in Finland.

I showed most of the people on set, and everybody loved it.

Big fabes were obviously seeing Colin Joes.

the little dog getting his handcuffs put on,

the going up an octave, or

whatever Andy loves doing doing at the end of the song when the song goes up.

Fantastic.

One question I had,

which is

when in Andy's overly written line, I'm in my kitchen listening to my conditioning.

What does that mean, Andy?

Like I'm sure you have a logical response to this.

So I would like to know, what is listening to my conditioning?

Obviously, there was no visual to go along with it because I don't think it actually makes sense.

But I'm sure you have a response.

Okay.

Great job, guys.

Love you very much.

And it was lovely to see on the other side of the world.

Okay, a couple things.

First off, he's directing a movie.

That's the best sound quality he could get.

Second, Keith also had confusion around this line.

Seth, do you know what I am intending?

You know what?

I feel as though the best thing to say here is honesty.

It was the one thing I did not understand as well.

Fascinating.

A lot of other people I asked did, which is social conditioning, which to me is a shorthand thing.

Ah, like there's even that sample on the Blackstar album that's from like an old movie where they're like, it's my conditioning, you know, you're just listening to your conditioning or whatever.

It's not rhyming on theirs, but

it's something I've heard often, but sound out in the comments.

Maybe I'm alone in that.

I will say the first time I couldn't hear it, Andy, the mix was so

demo-y

that I literally didn't understand the words you were saying.

Oh, I see.

Now it's very clear because our mix is so good.

Agreed.

And so

I wonder if I would have figured it out on the first time.

Because my first time, I was just going, what are you saying?

I see, I see.

And then you got Yarma's phone guy in to do a sound pass.

Exactly.

He's got a phone guy living with him in whatever apartment he's in in Finland.

The one that doesn't have any beers.

A couple of other things I enjoyed.

I like just the sort of indictment of a certain kind of clothes in this quilted vest

and salmon pants.

i think did not did not do well

uh i also like that she had flowers on her raincoat at the end like that her coat sucks so much yeah and yet i love that outfit i mean yeah

i mean it's charlie she could pull it off she could pull it off i can say things like it's charlie now because we're like best friends we're best friends we're all best

i also really like that you in your head everybody knows it's you but they can't prove it because you are always anonymous.

Report anonymously.

It's that's like the final shitty detail about you is you won't even put your name on it.

Yeah, but I will show up for that court date.

I think there were a lot of great cameo glances from the cast in this, but I liked Devin Walker's look at you when you said they all know it's me.

Like, that is a cop who has come to that house too many times.

That was what our intention was.

So I'm really glad.

We were like, How do we make it that the story is that they're his neighborhood, you know, officers?

And he's called them a million times.

And those cops definitely know know it's easier just to arrest a dog than to hang up on you

the both of us they're like we don't want to deal with that couple they're bad news i also it just it's so funny to me too that you guys clearly hate you know everybody you're calling the cops on but you also don't really seem to respect cops that much

Because we keep calling them pigs.

That was the funniest, in my opinion, when Andy played me the an early version.

That was the moment for me.

All the different like coppity cops.

Yeah, the fucking pigs.

He He had the coppity cops.

And you're like, wait a second.

He loves this.

It's his favorite part of his day.

He's calling the cops on people, but then he's also calling them pigs.

I'm just so excited.

That's how I read it.

That's why once I got my...

Once I got my grubby hands on the song and there was a new bridge to be written, opening it up for a Charlie bridge there, I was like, oh, it's my contribution.

Here's what I like.

That's why she starts her verse with, piggy piggy, page in the city.

When I smell bacon, always makes me feel giddy because i was like that's all i want calling them bacon she's giddy for bacon she loves it but she's still because she loves them yes no one's ever like the fucking pigs are here when they're the ones who called them yeah they're like yay the fucking pigs are here oh thank goodness the fucking pigs are here that i called oh my god it's a fucking cops uh that guy officer um

when you guys are started dancing in the stars i like the additional detail that i feel like tells me everything i want to know about the couple that you guys never have sex correct this is is how they get off.

Yeah.

So it's not just that it's like also sexual.

Yeah, which wasn't in the song originally.

That was something that we added.

That was part of the new bridge.

But I think it does explain it and give it a nice backstory now.

It ends in a way that having watched it a couple times made me laugh each time a little bit more.

It kind of

lands like hell, it ends like, hell yeah, motherfucker.

Oh, like it goes up at the end with that O.

She added that.

It's so good.

It's kind of like a hell yeah, motherfucker.

Ooh.

Yeah.

It shocked us.

Yeah, we were were like, I've learned to love it.

We got Charlied.

Wait, Seth, you skipped something pretty important.

Yeah, something important you skip, Seth.

A cameo.

Keeve, you're in it.

Yeah, there's our guy, little slimy snake snuck in.

And so you're filming it, Keeve.

Your character is filming it.

Yeah, I'm a neighbor.

I'm seeing a little dog being arrested by the police.

And I'm like, I better get this in case anything, I don't want to see any funny business.

And I'm just going to record it just in case.

Yeah, he's recording it.

He's like,

someone's going to have to see what's going down over there.

We were happy to get Keith's shot in there.

He was ready to bail on it.

I was like, no, no, no.

You'll be in it, dude.

You'll be in it, I promise.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

My man Keeve must be represented.

I was ready to not be in it.

So they know it's a TLI joint, as Seth says.

How many takes did they give you?

You know, one.

No.

Woner?

You did it a bunch of times.

I mean,

I stood up there for like, oh, you're right.

I went back in.

Never mind.

Yeah.

He just never cut.

That's the Diva.

Yeah.

I mean, we had one day to get it all, you know.

How many hours of shooting start to finish?

I know the car picked us up at 7 a.m.

and we got back at 11 p.m.

It's a long day.

Right.

I think they started shooting very shortly after we arrived.

So probably a little after eight, started shooting and we wrapped at, I want to say 10.30 p.m.

And then you started editing at what time?

I actually left.

the set before the last setup at the old church that he was talking about.

I skipped that one so I could get back and already start editing.

So I had been editing for maybe an hour and a half when Andy joined me at like 11.30 p.m.

And we went to maybe 1.30.

And then we're like, sleep is going to have to happen between now and 23 hours from now.

So it might as well happen now where we'll feel better about it than staying up till 6 a.m.

and then trying to sleep.

So we went to sleep and then I got back in there at like 8.30 a.m.

And then we just went straight from 8.30 to

midnight, 11.30.

We were changing it after the show started.

We were still working on a few last shots.

And we get to double team it, which is also nice with Diva and his whole crew of great VFX people and all their infrastructure they have now.

So I'm in there doing kind of the core edit that tells the whole story and kind of does the lonely island, makes it feel like one of our videos.

And then in the other room, they're able to, he's able to put together the cake thing and put together the stars thing and put together all the touches that are.

his things.

He's making sure they're all really working.

And then he's also able to take my edits and go, what if you use this shot?

And this, like, I'm laying down the base coat so that it feels like it's our video.

Just because I think people would be curious to hear it, do you guys laugh at all in the edit or is it all just like the most workmanlike construction?

No, we definitely laugh.

That's how we gauge if we're, if we think it's working.

Okay, great.

And when you pull off a moment, you know, who knows what anyone thinks outside of that room, but for us, it's the same as when we're writing.

When you reach a moment in the video and a certain cut.

gives you that feeling and you it makes you laugh again for like as if it's a new idea, even though you've been living with it for a while.

It's super exciting.

It's like the whole fun of the whole thing is those moments.

I really loved it.

I have a question.

Yeah.

A theory.

Okay.

Did you guys do this short just to push off Daiquiri Girl another week?

We're going to keep going back.

What if we did a short every episode?

Did you know that if you did a new short, it would buy you one more week before you had to talk about Daiquiri Girl?

Daiquiri Girl.

I can't even wait to get into Daiquiri Girl.

It's going to be heat.

I would imagine sometimes this is the case.

You guys don't have to talk about it, but I sometimes think when you have a musician of Charlie XTX's caliber, that the party and the after party have a different feel to it that's a little bit more rock star.

Definitely.

100%.

Good time.

There were lots of some lots of fun folks at the after.

Okay.

I don't know.

Is that speaking out of school to talk about it?

I don't even know how that works.

I mean, I think you can.

You can say, I mean, you know, use your best judgment, but I don't think so.

Well, we saw our old buddy Julian, Casablancas.

Oh, fantastic.

We hadn't seen him in a while.

A treat to see him.

What a treat.

I met Kurt Vile very briefly.

Big fan of his.

Good one.

Yeah.

So Charlie is engaged to this dude, George, who's in that band in 1975.

So he was there and the lead singer of that band was there, who we said hi.

And

he was there with that.

comedian, Alex Edelman, who was very nice.

I met him for the first time.

It was Lauren's birthday.

Wow.

It was Lauren's birthday.

We sang happy birthday and brought out a cake.

People brought out a bird brought him a cake

and sang to him, and he seemed absolutely miserable.

We know that.

Well, he also was probably worried because I know he said to me, like, I hate when they bring out a birthday cake that everybody thinks they're going to get some because it's my birthday.

Oh.

Yeah.

And so

he's always like, where's my cake?

He ate it like in a prison movie when there's, when they're like have that one elbow in front of the cake so people can't eat it.

And then he's eating it with his left hand, like holding the whole fork fork with his fist and it's too much cake and you keep saying you're gonna have a tummy ache tomorrow

maybe

i'm 80 i can do what i want he doesn't let anybody leave the party till the cake's gone

i mean that keenan was the one holding it when they carried it out but it does seem like a missed opportunity to not have had mikey day you know oh yeah is it cake because then just

like

that might not be cake exactly do they ever do ones that look exactly like a birthday cake and then you cut into it and it's like a tire or something

is it ever is it ever i don't know i think it only goes the other way i think it's a non-cake and it's either a cake or not they should do ones where it's just a cake yeah and they go is that a cake and then you're like well it looks like a cake and they're like yeah it is a cake it's dog shit with icing on it it'd be a great episode if all of them were just cakes that were cakes

why would you not think this is a cake it has literally icing and sprinkles on it yeah

You don't think that's a cake?

What's wrong with you?

We don't have to include this at all, Seth.

I'm just want to tell you that four episodes, five episodes ago, I was talking about how I discovered, you know, was like just reeling about Sweden and about how fart is in Sweden and how it really shook up my world learning this and why didn't I know it this whole time.

And then since then, I've gotten fed on Instagram and Twitter.

somebody's tweet saying I was today years old when I learned this and it has pictures from it and it keeps popping up on my feed as a comedy person and it was posted eight hours after our podcast went live.

And then the ultimate insult to injury was D.Va going, oh yeah, I figured you you had, because he had been fed it.

And he's like, oh, yeah, I figured you had seen that tweet.

And that's what had made you talk about it.

Unbelievable.

Really burned me.

Yeah, really burned me.

Also, the fact that your buddy Diva

thinks that you're using this podcast to tell us recent memes you've seen.

Yeah, that I just saw a meme and was like, I got to talk about this and not give the meme any credit.

Hey, have you guys seen this thing?

It's Dancing Baby.

Yeah.

I took it back.

That's the first meme.

That's meme one.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Ground zero for memes.

Here's a comment I want to close this episode with, because I do really want to get to Daiquiri Girl, and, you know, you can't stop it.

Somebody commented, I love that after years of nothing, Lonely Island starts filming videos again as soon as Yorm leaves the country.

Not on purpose.

Oh, sure.

It's probably a phony movie you guys set up just to get them over there.

I thought it was a triumph.

It's Criterion Collection for me.

I know it's a little too early for that, but

that's very kind of you.

Uh I a little BTS.

Yeah, I was I was actually sweating it slightly after dress rehearsal.

Oh, I think the audience was a little lackluster in general at dress.

I think we had a theory, maybe they were a lot of people that had camped out to see Charlie do her songs, which makes sense to me because they were dope.

Or maybe they just weren't feeling it that hard.

Other people told us they thought it played great, but for me, wherever I was standing on the floor, I was like, uh-oh, did that not actually totally work?

And then we finished it.

And then on air, it went immeasurably better, in my opinion.

And I was hugely relieved and happy.

There was also a technical issue not to throw the sound team under the bus because they corrected it.

And at air, it was wonderful, but they, for whatever reason, didn't realize what volume it was going to be at.

So it played incredibly quiet.

Right.

So it was very difficult to hear the first 30 seconds of the video in the room.

We were suspicious maybe they hadn't heard the words of the song also.

Yeah.

Which is the last thing you ought to be on the record saying when people don't laugh they played it really loud because you couldn't hear it probably yeah because i will say i feel like this one definitely would work as a song works even better as a song with visuals just visuals i wouldn't have enjoyed it at all

that's right i would have been i would have thought i don't know why they think i can follow this i don't like it

one last thing

Just another Charlie compliment, really.

I went out to the floor to watch both her songs and

they were so fucking dope.

And I ended up on Sympathy as a Knife.

I went out and was just watching and all of a sudden just started dancing.

This is not a joke.

I just, it's been a long time since I spontaneously just started dancing.

And when that chorus came in and those fucking massive synths dropped in, I was joking that I like, suddenly I was like,

like neo dancing in my duster.

Like head down, just vibing.

And it was, I felt very free and happy in that moment.

And it's one of those magical things that happens at SNL sometimes, just being in that studio is so fucking cool.

She had been a guest on my show with Troy Savon.

They were fantastic together.

Also, she was on my first week or two of shows.

Oh, you mean in the very beginning, 10 years ago?

Yeah, with Eggie Azalea singing on.

Oh, fancy.

Yeah.

And it's so funny when you realize how young someone like she started yeah because that's so long ago and she's still so young now yeah she would have been like 22 or something at that point yeah our producer just said something really nice Jeff and I want to read it to you guys don't let it go to your heads should probably move on to the next app guys

you know what Jeff

like wrap it up fellas

all right everybody uh thank you so much mostly to you two uh and everybody over at SNL for giving us a fresh new short.

For 10 years, we'll do it again.

We'll talk mad shit.

We'll give you all the real dirt.

So, Seth, are we going to talk about the episode itself in 10 years when we do that episode again?

Oh, we review this episode.

We're going to talk about this.

Yeah, we're going to talk about this podcast episode.

No, the SNL episode, man.

I know, but I wasn't.

Yeah, there's no Seth's corner.

It's weird for me to talk about one that I

only saw.

Right.

Then we're just a fan podcast.

That's why it would be fucking hot tea, brother.

I'm really really desperately trying to end this now, and you're doing that thing.

That's why it's getting spicy.

Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, Don.

Sorry.

When it gets to the midnight hour, we get spicy.

All right, we're gonna stop.

We're gonna stop.

All right, goodbye, guys.

I love you, and I'll see you next episode.

All right, love you, bud.

Love you, bye.

Bye.